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Codebreaking Conversationalist
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 Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 10:48 pm
So this girl was a senshi? He seemed to gravitate towards them. First it was Sailor McPoofyPants (err, Chronos), and the dim-witted one in a Grecian dress (though at least she was nice), and now there was this one. Sailor Pisces, as the cat-man was calling her. That was Sue, wasn't it? He looked tired. Must've been all of that making random pens out of thin air thing. Ignacio pursed his lips curiously, wondering where the hell Sue could have possibly gotten that power, before Pierette addressed him.
Right, they should get moving. Get moving to safety with the other senshi. They could gather and start a war. Ignacio backed up to join the young woman who had something so likable about her nature before he stopped in his tracks. Thinking on the path of war...
"Wait. Before I go... if you can save me from undeath, can you save from death? From possession? My friend Melody is completely dead, and Riff-Raff was controlled by Nealite last I saw him. Lucas was still a zombie too. And Grayson. And Arastoo, I still have a piece of his journal... Can you fix them?" The list of names came spilling from his mouth like a waterfall. If he could be saved, maybe they all could be saved, and then they could all enact the ultimate revenge.
Yes. Them, the senshi of the Zodiacs (it seemed so, anyway, with the names that were being tossed around), and his resurrected friends. They could wage war against that Neasaw. That bloody b***h who thought she could get away with possessing him, possessing those he knew, killing those he knew; oh no! he would not let this happen, not on his watch.
Especially if obtaining humanity was still possible.
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Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 10:53 pm
Well, Sue never had claimed to be a superman, and the fact that he wore out so quickly - and that goddamn everyone had to notice - was proof of the point. He acted like he always did, though; a shrug, a grumble, some vague promise that he wasn't going to flop over like a pale-skinned princess (no uh, no offense to any princesses in the room.)
But even as Sue worked through the motions of tough-guyness, Serenity said something that captured his attention. Scorpio had survived.
Scorpio was alive?! How had any of the senshi lived, when all others died trying to save their princess? Not just "how" in the meaning of by what means did they survive the attack, but "how" in the sense of were they even there when things go ugly? What sort of Zodiac was Scorpio, if....
No. Those questions had to be for later. The wide, shocked look in Sue's eyes quickly faded to their normal, surly dull. They couldn't afford to stop and chat about what happened Back Then, not when the overwhelming Now would kill them all, given half a chance.
Sue glanced over at Ignacio's questions, and a frown fell onto his face. On one hand, yes, he could understand the need to know - God, could Sue understand it! - but they didn't have time to stop and chat. Sue would have said as much, too, but every single answer that came to his mind just then involved swearing, snarling, snapping, or were otherwise snotty and rude. Not exactly the face he wanted to be wearing with the Queen around.
"I know where the next one is," he grumped to Foramen and Serenity instead, sinking fully back into his usual 24/7 bad mood. It was amazing enough that he remembered his manners to say "This way, m'am," before he began walking - slow enough that Serenity could take a few seconds to answer Ignacio before they moved on, of course, but enough to communicate his desire that they keep ******** going forward. The other senshi - the one he had thought was with Pisces - would be easy to reach. Maybe not as easy as if Sue were fresh and rested, of course; but Kathleen didn't bring up no quitter, and Sue wasn't slowing down now!
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Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 10:54 pm
Foramen scowled at the ungrateful former zombie. Lips pursed, he glared in Ignacio's direction. "Be thankful that you were healed. The Queen is not here to cater to your whims. She does all that she can, though even healing you fully is too much for her, possessing your princess as she is. Resurrection is certainly out of the question. Be thankful for your own life, do not start demanding more than you deserve."
There was worse on the tip of his tongue but Foramen cut himself off with a glance at Serenity-Chronos. "That was gentle," he muttered, averting his eyes back to Sue. Foramen stalked off after the angry cat-boy. It wouldn't do to have Sue collapsing, and Foramen could entirely understand how pissed off Sue was.
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Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 11:01 pm
Serenity had smiled at Pierrette's heartfelt, deep curtsey: it wasn't an affected act, nor one smacking of sucking-up. She had nodded in return, regal in Chronos' skin, and watched as she moved to hurry to Ignacio. Who was asking his own questions. She held up her hand to stop Foramen. "We'll do what we can, and in time," she told him. "A great many people have died here. All's not lost. Go to the others, and see how many they've found -- and then we'll begin."
Begin what?
Then she turned away. "I know," she said, underneath her breath, and Kirin couldn't tell whether she was amused or not. But then they hurried off after Sue, who might have not been a superman but was still burning his candle at both ends. If it had three ends, he would have burnt his candle at three ends. Candles were burning.
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Codebreaking Conversationalist
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Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 11:12 pm
He glared mildly at the girl with the sparkling blue clothing, and muttered, "I was asking if, not would," before the princess caught his attention. The garb was familiar now that he got a closer look, but he didn't spend much time focusing on it since he heard her voice in his ears. Begin. Then they'll begin.
Even if they didn't get Melody, or Azzo, or Arastoo, or Grayson, or Lucas, begin was such a foreboding word.
And considering his determination to stop Neasaw forever (thankfully, the urge to eat her was gone, as was the urge to eat the woman, Pisces, beside him), the sound of beginning was music to his ears. He wasn't sure what the beginning would be, but he liked it. "Thank you, again, a million times." There was no way he could really express his gratitude, and he wanted to make sure of that before they marched off into the sunset.
To find more. To save more. To begin.
"Let's meet the others," said the now human former youma, cheerfully, to Pierette, jokingly offering an arm for her to take. "By the way, I'm Ignacio." In a way, she saved him. And she believed him. Ignacio immediately wanted to be friends with her.
...But they'd have plenty of time to talk holed up in the nearby gymnasium.
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