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 Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 11:25 am
Maenalus looked at the senshi funny. She must have stumbled upon someone being awakened, because youma fights were nothing like fight games or arcade games. It was probably a good thing she was here, she didn't want the new senshi to get hurt. She also didn't want her to do anything stupid that would get ********* hurt. Maenalus looked at her with a worried expression. She'd never been the more experienced party in a fight. Well, here goes nothing!
But... turns? "Uh, not really.You just don't want to get in the other person's way. That's the only thing I can say about turns. But you might want to stand back..." She turned to the treeouma and stared at it. It was such a strange thing. She'd seen some that looked like animals and some that looked akin to humans, but never one that looked like a plant. Well, there was a first for everything.
"Maenalus Mountain Rumble!" The senshi shouted her attack name and made the gesture that went with it, and the ground in front of her began to shake and change with hills and peaks like mountains. Leaves from real trees began to fall as a result of the quaking, and her vision was obstructed for a moment, but she thought that the treeouma was slowed down due to a difficulty navigating it.
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 12:17 pm
The mention of her name had managed to catch the feline's attention. Her ears perked up and she turned to face the one calling out her name. "Oh good! Maenalus is here too, woah!" It was about here that the manx got picked up and stuffed up against the newer senshi's body.
It was quite difficult to get any other words edgewise, but the cat managed to hear a certain attack getting called out.
"Oh goodness, brace yourself!" was the only warning the cat gave.
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 2:11 pm
Oh goodie. Draconis hated games where you had to take turns. Strategy was no fun unless you could constantly change what you were doing. Having turns meant you were limited to a set of skills, a limited time slot- all of it was far too structured. Draconis liked structure, but was far too loose cannon for that.
"Okay I'll stay out of your wayohhhhhaaahhh" Her voice started to waver as the ground started to shake and rumble. Was that Maenalus' doing? Seemed like it. Draconis actually listened to the cat and ducked down behind the miniature dip created by the trees roots. It wasn't the best shelter, but it was all she could do at the moment. The poor cat was sheltered under Draconis' body at least. ********* was probably squished under Draconis' boobs actually ...
Regardless, after the rumbling seemed to stop, two orange eyes popped up from underneath the shelter to survey the damage. After rumbling the ground a tad, it seems Maenalus' attack had also covered the area in little ... bumps? No they were a bit bigger. Like mini anthills.
"Oooh I wanna try now. We're taking down that tree thingy right?" she pointed to the treeouma as she spoke. No sooner had she spoken the words, Draconis was already bolting down the forest floor after the treeouma. It seemed a bit dazed after the rumbling- this was no doubt a weak youma, though Draconis wouldn't be able to tell at this point.
Oh crap, what she supposed to say again? Something about dragons ... dragons dragons ... and fire? Oh! That was it!
Talia darted through a maze of trees and shouted, "Draconis..." Her hands formed the dragon symbol, even as she was running. "Breath ..." She finally stopped in front of the youma, who had only just now noticed her. Her hair flew slightly to the left as inertia caught up with her. Dramatically, she stuck a diamond in front of her with her hands and shouted, "OF" With these words she inhaled a massive amount of air, tumbling into the final word, "FLAME!"
Fire came in a curling spout from the breath that Draconis forced into her hands. As soon as it passed through her fingers, it immediately scorched the youma in the face. The flames licked up the torso of the treeouma, and the entire thing was on fire. She panted a little from the effort, but shouted back to ********* and Maenalus, "Ah ... It's supposed to do that, right?"
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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 8:06 pm
Maenalus was glad that ********* had experienced one of her attacks before. It made the cat prepared and allowed for her to give the even newer senshi warning. Fighting with the newly made scout would have probably been too much of a handfull and killed the both of them.
"Uhh, tree thingy? That's a youma. It's bad news. Don't let it catch you 'cause it'll kill you in a heart beat." Inspiring, Maenalus! Way to go! If she'd not been in the heat of a fight she probably would have reflected on how she should be a mentor to this new senshi, as the older senshi she had come across had done a lot to advance her knowledge of the duties as a sailor scout, and a few had saved her life, too.
When Draconis cast her attack, Maenalus doubted if she had to be that worried about her after all. She stood quietly, a little dumb-struck, but then remembered. Oh. The person she should be most worried about. Talia. She could get killed if they didn't dust this youma fast. And it would be Maenalus' fault for talking her into coming to camp and then for talking her into a stupid nature walk. Stupid Maenalus. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
"You're doing great!" The senshi was filled up with more resolve and she ran towards the youma, who was reeling, and kicked it in the center of its scorch-marked face.
The youma didn't like that, however. It especially hadn't liked the fire attack. It staggered backwards and tried to use its faux-leafy appendages to block the attack but they were only singed as well. It uttered animalistic cries and lashed out at its attackers. The limbs imitating tree limbs stretched out for the girls and swung wildly, intending to knock them back into its real-life counterparts and stun them so it could use its twig-like fingers to pluck out their starseeds. But first. It got kicked in the face.
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Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 11:56 am
********* was squished.
Under boobs.
It was a good thing ********* wasn't a perverted high school boy.
At least when it was all over, ********* had been left behind so that Draconis could get her first true taste of fighting as a senshi. It seemed as if the tag team action was just what was needed to take on such a youma.
Peering out from her spot, the cat called out "Both of you, attack it at the same time... I think that will defeat it!"
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Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 3:49 pm
Draconis gave a confused look at Maenalus. Kill her? Even if it was moving, it was just a tree. How much damage could it really do? Toss leaves at her to death?
Then it hit her with one of it's branches.
Draconis stumbled back a few steps "OWWW!" she said with obvious spite. Stupid trees! She was going to burn down this entire forest for that! Or get her father to bulldoze it or something!! Okay that was a bit dramatic, but still.
Now Maenalus was kicking the tree in the face. Oh no no no, this girl couldn't have the spotlight. That belonged to Draconis, had her name on it, and was signed in blood. Draconis immediately charged into the tree and flew through the air, foot extended.
She kicked it a few more times back and forth with Maenalus. It was quickly becoming a game. Only ********* words brought Draconis back to the actual purpose of their battle. Draconis rushed to Maenalus' side and, with a goofy sort of half smile on her face, she said, "On three?"
It was odd, Draconis actually looked like she was enjoying this. Like she enjoyed having her life on the line. "One ... two ... three!" Draconis rushed in on three to send a punch side by side with Maenalus.
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Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 5:20 pm
Maenalus winced as she empathized with the new senshi. She'd had more than her fair share of hits from youma in her day. Then again it was probably her own fault and most of those hits could and should be avoided by someone more experienced. She'd get there.
With their in-tandem kicking, the senshi felt rather like a lumberjack, but shy one flannel shirt, a mighty beard and a real tree, of course. She nodded to Draconis and waited for the signal.
The youma flailed and swung at them both while they attacked, but it wasn't well-jointed and with the girls close to its side, it couldn't quite land any hits effectively. At that range, its best defense was sharp bark-like skin that would scratch their boots or exposed skin.
On 'three', Maenalus wound up a punch and clocked the youma in its face. The beast fell and on its way down, flailed a few times, brushing limbs and leaves past the girls and making a large, rushing wind woosh past, but before it could crash down, it disintegrated to dust. Good. Now Maenalus wouldn't have to explain the sound of a tree falling to Talia.
Talia!
Her eyes got wide and she snapped her attention back to Draconis. "I, uh... Something suddenly came up!" She took a few steps in Talia's direction, turned back and stammered out, "Uh, great job, team. Maenalus." She pointed to herself, "Draconis," and to the other senshi to reinforce names.
"Oh!" She got her senshi cellphone and snapped a picture of Draconis. "I'll be in touch?" She didn't care if she came off scatter-brained or panicked because she was a little bit. On her way to leave and find Talia, she bent over to pet *********. "Nice work, *********! I'll see you around, too, I guess." With one final glance over her shoulder, Maenalus shouted, "Bye!" and took off.
A good enough distance away from the senshi and cat, she powered down into good ol' Griffin and tried to make her appearance as casual as possible. But what would her excuse be? Though she was eager to find her friend, the girl stood frozen, trying to come up with an idea.
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Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2011 10:22 am
The cat remained in place as the two senshi attacked on three, easily defeating the youma that had invaded the camp-time activities.
Usually, ********* was the sort who would have enjoyed a little bit of verbal celebration after the fact, but then Maenalus up and left. Though she wasn't within sight, ********* could sense when she powered down. It wasn't hard, since one moment a faint sense of power was there, and the next, it seemed to vanish.
This left the manx with only one senshi left, the newer one. Casually she trotted over to Draconis' side. "How you doing, Draconis?" she asked casually, as if checking to see if she was taking this whole senshi thing okay.
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Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 12:16 pm
Draconis let out a sigh of relief as the tree thing disappeared into nothingness. Wait, shouldn't it have crashed to the floor? How did it just-
A tiny cat voice interrupted her thoughts. Looking around, Draconis noticed that Maenalus was no longer in the vicinity. When did she leave? Nevermind that. "I'm ... I ... what?"
It was pretty obvious how winded ... or rather shocked Draconis was. She felt as though she hadn't blinked once in the past twenty minutes or so. Wasn't this the type of thing that only happened in fairy tales and video games? What in the world what in the world what in the worldddd-
Draconis held the sides of her head, trying to focus again. Okay, no more hyperventilating, just clear concrete facts. She had just defeated a tree with fire. Okay, that made sense. She had met a talking cat; improbable, but plausible. Many researchers said that cats' vocal chords could evolve as such. Alright, she would accept that one. She was a senshi. Okay that one was a lot, a lot harder.
She clapped her hands in a very matter of fact way at the cat and said, "Okay kitty. I am going to accept that you are talking. What is going on? Are you like a dream cat? Is this Inception?" She smiled sweetly, but there was something very upset about the smile.
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Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 11:28 pm
Two ears seemed to twitch as the girl clapped her hands together. The feline's haunches had found itself a place against the ground as she listened to what the new senshi was asking.
"I am glad you can accept the fact I am talking... I have actually had senshi not believe that I was really talking to them. De-Nile isn't just a river in Egypt." She let out a small giggle. If anything, the potential "dream kitty" had a sense of humor.
However, despite the smile on the girl's face, ********* could tell something was up. "Draconis... could you do me a huge favor? Pick me up and pet me a bit... I'd appreciate it!" Perhaps it would feel nice for the manx, but she couldn't help but think it would possibly calm the poor girl down a bit. Answers would be given after such a simple task was taken care of.
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Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 11:53 pm
Well at least this cat had a sense of intellectual humor. Draconis was baffled, but did as she was told. She was an obedient child, despite what anyone might tell you. If you gave her an order, she would follow it. At the moment, a little bit of order was probably just what she needed.
So the newly-made senshi sat down on a nearby log and placed the cat delicately in her lap. The cat fur wasn't very welcome (she'd never been fond of cat hair. Dog hair was manageable, but not cat hair), but that wasn't really her concern at the moment. Her concern was that she had a talking cat on her lap and she was a senshi.
Slowly, she began to stroke the cat from the base of the neck to the tip of her little rump. It really was a cute cat, dream or not. "Now what?" she asked very calmly.
As much as Draconis was loving this little cat scene, it wasn't really what she wanted at the moment. She wanted a few answers, not a useless cat. Productivity was always key.
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Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2011 11:24 am
Now that the girl had settled down to having a cat in her lap and was stroking the fur along ********* back, the feline felt she could now answer the questions from earlier.
"Either way, no this is not a dream. And I have no clue what an Inception is...but the short version is that you are a senshi, Sailor Draconis. I suspect the first thing we should tend to is changing you back to your usual self. You don't need to run around in a fuku all of the time." With an airy giggle, she then gave the instructions on how to change back.
"Just think of yourself in your clothing you were wearing prior to this... and you will change back."
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 11:58 am
"Sen-shi," Draconis repeated back dully. The words sounded funny. It definitely wasn't English. Draconis didn't know any languages other than the required 4 years of French she had taken at Crystal. Senshi definitely wasn't French either.
Draconis frowned though. She didn't want to go back. This body ... outfit ... thing was powerful. She liked power, a lot. Unhealthily so.
Yet ... something about it was definitely draining her. Though she felt powerful and confident (when didn't she, honestly) she could tell that some part of it was draining. Not her, but something else. Something far away.
So she did as the little cat told her. Just what was a fuku anyways? A tiny part of her mind was wondering why she was even taking instructions from a cat, but then, this whole day had been a tad wonky. The feline hadn't lied before about the pen either, so maybe she could trust it this time? Draconis tried to imagine her clothes from earlier. Those cute little shorts and th-
Suddenly she felt an immense vacuum of power, and then nothing. Eerily nothing. Talia looked down and found that her body had returned to its previous state of averageness. "Now what?" she asked anxiously.
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2011 12:01 pm
There wasn't anything particularly special about changing back to regular clothing. Where as changing into fuku almost seemed to require a sparkle show and dance, this change was just a mere fade out to civilian clothing. ********* didn't even look bothered by the change.
"Now... hmm..." An ear flicked slightly as she seemed to think the subject over.
"Well, do you have the pen and the phone I gave you earlier? I'd suspect you'd want to keep the pen hidden, but close at all times... the phone is less of a worry, it doesn't look as out of place as your pen."
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Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 6:59 pm
Talia looked down at the cat with incredulity. Seriously, what was going on with this whole thing? She must've been dreaming. Fell asleep in the cabin and never woke up, right? It was all a crazy, crazy dream.
Well if this was inception, she might as well just stay for the moment. No use in waking up when she was this deep in, right? Maybe this cat was her dream object or something, who knew.
"Alright, alright. Pen goes in the pocket, phone goes in the hand. Say, is this like a free phone? Can I call people and what not?" That would be a bonus, right? It would be nice to have a new cellphone. This one looked a little out of date though. Maybe she could upgrade it at some point?
Before the cat could even get a word in, Talia moved on to another subject. "Nevermind, that doesn't matter. What was that ... thing? Why was I even in that weird getup?" Too many questions, too few cats it seemed.
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