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 Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 7:39 pm
MuCephi started to answer but instead made a startled sound rather like 'meep' and moments before it appeared, music sounded just off from the rings of Taranis' phone and she reached out to juggle a phone that faded from black to red.
"OH! goodness that felt strange... It works though!"
She opened it and checked. "Oh yes! see? It shows where you are too!" She pointed to a dot on the screen. "So if you needed help we could find you, or at least your phone."
She paused again.. "To me? ... or to my friends?" She asked with a sort of concerned face.
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Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 8:00 pm
Sailor Taranis nodded, glancing down to his cellphone. He'd love to talk to whoever made these. If it was possibly to do some magical manufacturing with technology, he would love to know more. Would Astraea let him pick her brain? From what MuCephi said, it didn't seem like it, but as someone who was perceived as quite disagreeable himself, Taranis was willing to give the guardian cat the benefit of the doubt, at least as much as he was capable of giving anyone the benefit of the doubt.
His eyes flickered back up to MuCephi briefly. "You. Your friends. Both. Give me your worst case scenarios." This was what Taranis focused on, always had been. He wanted to know firsthand what he might be looking at with his new senshidom. He added, "So can I just put out a page to all the senshi in the area with this phone, even if I don't know them and they aren't in my phone?"
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Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 8:15 pm
She took a deep steadying breath and mused.
"My first 'try' at being a Hero I ended up loosing the starseed and being smacked across the library lawn by a giant squeaky hammer, that's... ironically how I figured out how to use my um... powers too."
"..." she stared outward at the skyline for a long moment before saying. "We used to have seven of us on our team, but one of us... sh e left, she left because... because she got hurt once too often I think. If I could have just -been- there for her. Or ... I don't even know." She shook her head and stared down at the toes of her tall boots and rubbed her arms.
"Sometimes, I think the worst of this isn't the bruises, or even the fear of loosing people. Sometimes I think its the feeling that you have never done -quite- enough."
She admitted glancing back up with a sort of 'old' sadness in her eyes, as though that feeling had added years to her.
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Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 4:40 am
Sailor Taranis glanced down at his phone. The dark-haired girl hadn't answered his last question, but he decided not to press the issue. There was something bleak and quiet in her eyes. He didn't want to have a crying senshi on his hands.
It didn't stop him from continuing the line of questioning. "She left? You can choose to stop being what we are? There is a choice?" From where he was standing, it didn't feel that way. Taranis could feel a constant pressure in his chest calling him to go, save, do. It was the same feeling that swelled when Derp had mentioned finding the Moon Princess. Like it or not, that was more than a feeling inside of him; it was a duty.
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Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 12:35 pm
"Hm... " she stared at her phone. "I think so at the page, I haven't tried it, sorry I was trying to recall. But I believe so, it wouldn't be that much help otherwise. But, I suppose we can, I think the question that gets left though is, if we don't do it, who can?"
She shook her head
"She had her reasons, I think for all the changes we've undergone we're still human, guilt and joy and everything else. I don't know that I could leave though, I don't think I'd feel right if I didn't try and help."
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Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 12:54 pm
Sailor Taranis eyed his cellphone, pretended to fidget with the buttons. They'd stopped, and the night was still, quiet. MuCephi knew someone who had left. Senshidom was still new to Taranis, but he never contemplated walking away from it. It was like being given a free car and deciding to walk instead. What could make a person abandon this life?
For all his negativity, Taranis had yet to experience the typical terrible senshi experiences that others already had. So far, he had not lost an innocent or their starseed to a youma. So far, he had not watched a friend die. So far, he had not been put in the hospital. He didn't realize it then, but the Senshi of Sand had a lot to learn.
He toed the roof with his boot. "She just... left Destiny City? Why?" Taranis couldn't let it go. He wanted to know. He felt compelled to find out why a senshi might walk away from this life, what could be so horrible to make someone stop. Under the fuku, Parker could think of plenty of reasons for abandoning something, but in this real life situation, he wanted to know why exactly one of them had made that choice.
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Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 9:27 am
"I'm, not sure of the exact details" She said in such a way that sounded rather like, 'not sure' might have been at least partially "I'm not at liberty to say".
"I... think perhaps, because she lost someone close to her. But one day she just... was gone." She paused thoughtful.
"I heard rumors that she's back in school, but we have no classes together so... I really don't know for certain. If she is I keep missing her."
She folded her arms and hugged herself and then shrugged. "I hope she is, I'd like to see her back... she was Sailor Nerissah, she was there when I first got um... pulled into all this."
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Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 5:58 am
MuCephi seemed intent on keeping mum, but Taranis got something out of it: a name. Sailor Nerissa? He hadn't heard of her. Granted, his experience with other senshi was limited to Magellan. Other than that, he only knew those senshi he'd met before he was awakened in one of the many attempts on his life.
Was it possible that youma could sense the extra pulse of his star seed? Oftentimes, Taranis felt like he had a target on the back of his head. He couldn't go anywhere without risking his life. It made sense, to him at least, that one of the reasons might be because of the energy his own starseed was giving off. Why hadn't Derp noticed it when she showed up to help Sailor Polaris?
At first, Taranis thought the memory was a hallucination brought on from the attack, but after his own awakening, it all came surging back. Aurora Namid was a senshi, and Derp... did something that made her stronger? He still didn't understand what the little girl was that attacked him. She wasn't like any youma he'd seen before...
Lost in his own thoughts, Sailor Taranis almost forgot that he was in the middle of a conversation with MuCephi. He glanced up to the dark-haired girl. Something pricked in his mind and he glared down the alley. "You feel that?" he said, voice hushed. It was a youma. He'd been on the job long enough to recognize the weak negative aura.
Taranis moved quietly to the edge of the roof. "You ready? On the count of three..."
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Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 9:26 am
MuCephi nodded, her expression serious and practiced. You could see it in her face that she had done this before.
"I do..." She nodded and poised with him, hand reaching for the brooch at her neck and on the count of three.
They sprang.
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