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 Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 10:40 am
"Oh, you can set that cookie down where ever you want. A little bit of dirt didn't hurt anybody!" It was probably that philosophy that got her so dirty in the first place. Yet, he'd probably need his hands for the next thing, and if he was still holding the cookie, that meant there could be a delay in being able to eat said cookie.
"No no no... I am not mistaken Arian. This is something that is yours. Nobody else's."
With those words, the cat padded away slightly, only a few steps in all honesty before popping up into the air all of a sudden like a spring-loaded toy. It wasn't an overly high jump or anything, but it was just enough for her to do a simplistic back flip. Over the spot she had jumped over, two objects just appeared, then clattered to the dirt.
"There we go... these are yours..." The cat padded away from the two objects and made her way back to the cookie, letting the boy get a better look at the two objects. One was definitely some sort of cell phone, and the other seemed to be more of an overly large pen.
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Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 2:42 pm
“But we’ve only just met...” Arian began, looking quickly around for something that was at least cleaner than the dirt on the ground. He eventually settled on setting the cookie in his hand down on a nearby small rock – hey it was marginally cleaner than the dirt) – before glancing back in ********* direction just in time to catch the tail end of her back flip.
Although maybe part of him shouldn’t have been surprised – after all what was one more strange thing – Arian couldn’t help but stare for a few moments at the items lying on the ground. Despite the fact that it seemed to have been created by talking cat, the first item seemed to be normal enough – a mobile phone of sorts. It other item however – well it kind of looked like a pen. Arian reached for it. An over-sized golden pen, complete with... He gave it a closer look. Some sort of symbol engraved in the large sphere thingy on top.
Reaching over to carefully scoop up the phone, Arian looked over towards what seemed to be his best bet for any answers. “Miss *********?” He held up the golden pen. “What is this?”
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Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 1:42 pm
Cookie, cookie, where had you been all of ********* life? It wasn't difficult to tell the round little manx was a bit distracted, since there was a cookie at her level which needed to be devoured.
Alas, it was not exactly going to be a job of her strictly eating and ignoring the poor confused boy. She had a mouth full of cookie when she mentioned "Ooo dohn nee du caw ee ish" (translating roughly to "You don't need to call me Miss." She paused to chew a little more and swallow, then moved onto the actual question.
"That is what is called a henshin pen, Arian. It does something pretty amazing when you shout out 'Athene Power Make-Up!'... needs to be shouted with feeling and energy. You should give it a try!" It seemed as if the cat winked for a moment, but then she went back to cookie.
Cookie was the love of her life right now.
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Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 3:15 pm
The first set of words from ********* received a puzzled look as Arian tried to work out what ‘Ooo dohn nee du caw ee ish’ was supposed to mean. He was wondering how to politely tell ********* that he hadn’t understood a word of what she’d been saying in the pause afterwards when the cat started to speak again. Henshin pen? He’d never heard of a henshin pen before. Arian stared at the golden over-sized pen, absently brushing his fingers over the engraved symbol as he did so. A quick glance over in ********* direction showed the cat once again eating cookie. Arian looked at the pen... No henshin pen – ********* had called it a henshin pen. He guessed it wouldn’t hurt to try. “Athene... Power... Make-Up” he spoke the words hesitantly. Arian waited. Nothing happened. He stared at the pen and waited some more, but it didn’t look like it was about to do anything particularly amazing any time soon. He bit his lower lip slightly – maybe it was the words – maybe he hadn’t said them with enough feeling. A second try wouldn’t hurt. Gripping the pen Arian said the words again, this time trying to put as much feeling as possible behind them. “Athene... Power, Make-up!” For a moment, no more than a split second nothing happened and then sudden the pen was glowing. Then came lights – lots of lights. Lights that surrounded and wrapped around him. He had just enough time to have the thought flit across his mind that the lights looked kind of like beads and then it was fading away leaving behind a teen who was the same but not staring wide-eyed at the golden pen. “What...? What just happened?” The newly awoken Sailor Athene sounded and looked more confused than ever.
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Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 12:01 pm
With a mouth full of cookie, the cat glanced up at the second mention of the henshin phrase. The first one had been weak and didn't create any sort of effect. The second one was filled with the right amount of energy to cause what seemed like a chain reaction.
By the time he had finished with this transformation, the feline's mouth was empty again. Which meant she was able to answer his question without him having to try to haphazardly translate her cookie-speech.
"You just transformed into Sailor Athene, Senshi of Beads." Normally, it was considered a blessing to awaken a senshi without the threat of any sort of youma nearby. However, somewhere in the back of her mind she knew this would make it much more difficult to teach the boy about his magical attack. The Blue Beads of Nazar was not as straight forward an attack as something like Iris' Rainbow Ribbon.
Despite the slight temptation to turn back to her cookie (it was hers now, nobody else's), ********* eyes remained firmly on the boy, as if she was expecting him to start blurting out more questions.
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Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 2:21 pm
“But my name’s Arian!” The newly awoken senshi bit his lip slightly, feeling a sense of awkwardness over the words he’d blurted out.
“What I mean is um.” Athene hesitated. “I don’t even know what a senshi is Miss *********. How can I be this Athene person, when I’m Arian?” Athene felt like cringing – to be honest in his ears, that had come out sounding even more stupid. He briefly contemplated trying to re-phrase the question, and then gave up – the way his luck was going at the moment, he'd come up with something that sounded even more stupid.
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Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 10:10 pm
Ah, so this one was a classic "disconnected" senshi. One who didn't quite fully embrace becoming a senshi upon transforming. ********* had seen all sorts of varieties of senshi upon awakening. So despite how silly it seemed, the cat didn't make a fuss about it.
"When you are in this form, you should go by Sailor Athene. Otherwise, you somewhat lose that 'secret identity' thing super heroes have." She winked at him.
"However, since you seem so adamant about being Arian, just think of yourself as how you were prior to this senshi uniform... and you will change back." Curious to see if he'd change back so fast or not, she just looked at him with big kitty eyes.
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Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 3:01 pm
“Oh kind of like the Incredibles” he’s seen the film during an end of term school fun day at his old school so ********* words made a kind of sense. “So I’m not um” a pause as he gestured at the outfit “stuck like this. All I have to do is think about not wearing all this?” More gesturing at the outfit.
Despite ********* words the newly awoken senshi didn’t make the connection between the words superhero and himself – he didn’t exactly see himself as one after all. As he waited for an answer he noticed that the cat seemed to have finished the cookie from before so after rummaging in the bag of cookies he broke off another bit and offered over another piece.
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Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 12:22 pm
Most times senshi when they had asked about changing back usually changed back. Not that she didn't mind Athene staying in his fuku. She also didn't mind when he offered her more cookie.
Like before, there was no hesitation as she approached the offered treat and began to gobble it down. For now, she didn't even seem to notice the fact the boy's eyes were now on her, seeming to wait for an answer. She was too busy tasting cookie in her mouth. Yet once her mouth seemed to find there was no more cookie, she did finally notice the glances she was getting from the other side of the senshi's glasses.
"Oh... sorry about that... um... let's see... that is correct. You are not stuck wearing your fuku all of the time." The manx could only imagine if being a senshi was a full time job. Sailor Iris would have a field day complaining.
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Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 3:43 pm
********* confirmation was a relief. Athene wasn’t sure that his current costume was something that he’d be able to explain away to the councillors back at camp, especially since he hadn’t been involved in any of the drama activities that had been available.
********* had said that to change back all he needed to do was to picture himself not wearing his current get up – well okay she’d called it a uniform – Athene wasn’t sure he wanted to call the current combination of clothes a uniform... Especially not the poufy shorts, but before he attempted it he had another question.
“Miss ********* before I try turning back what is a senshi?” he couldn’t remember her answering the question when he’d asked it earlier. “And um what are they for?”
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Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 6:43 pm
Since there was no more cookie, her responses were definitely faster now. She was looking to the boy's glasses (since his eyes were a bit harder to see at this angle) and already had a pretty prompt response to his questioning.
"I insist, you do not need the 'Miss' when addressing me, Athene. And... judging by your accent, I also can forgive you for not knowing what a senshi is. I am personally curious how long you have been here in Destiny City?"
She nodded her head, then actually responded to the real questions.
"A senshi is a defender of justice. The senshi protect those who cannot do that for themselves. There are people from a place called the Negaverse, and they have been causing many problems in the city. They have been known to kill people just so they can have their starseeds... essentially... a person's soul. All people have a starseed... without one, a person's body will wither. The Negaverse like to claim they are trying to save the Earth, but they have been known to do things that are very contradictory to such beliefs. I cannot imagine killing a person for their starseed if I was claiming to save them."
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Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 4:49 pm
"Okay... *********." There was a slight hesitation between the two words, the pause long enough for him to bite back the almost automatic 'Miss'. Don't use Miss... I can remeber that. At least he hoped he could remember that. He thought over ********* question. "I've not been in Destiny City that long - I guess long enough that I'm not just off the boat, well um plane anymore but not much else."
Starseeds, souls - whatever this Negaverse thing was didn't sound good at all. "Aren't souls supposed to be invisible or something?" Athene was finding it hard to picture people being able to take other people's souls away, much less wanting too.
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Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 11:44 am
"Some believe souls are supposed to be invisible, but that is quite frankly not the case. It's a strange crystal like object that looms close to a person's heart. Everyone has a starseed. However, the starseeds can have much more potential than just being a person's soul."
The cat began to nudge the boy's ankles, as if to let him know that she wanted to be picked up. "The Negaverse takes the starseeds because of the vast amounts of energy they hold. After all, the starseeds essentially work like the battery for a person, right?"
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Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 2:48 pm
At ********* words Athene couldn’t help but picture heaps of glowing batteries and collapsed over Duracell bunnies. At least momentarily he did. It was a disturbing thought, one he only became distracted from when the cat nudged at his ankles.
A second nudge had him taking the hint and carefully picking up the cat. “So senshi have to stop this Negaverse from taking these crystals.”
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Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 7:57 pm
Once the cat was in the boy's arms and close enough to touch his chest, she placed a paw over where his heart rested under his ribcage. For a brief moment, there was a faint warmth would seem to spread from his heart, outward towards his limbs as he stood there holding the feline.
"...yes... the senshi are here to defend those who cannot defend themselves... if not... they will die."
It went unspoken that the new warmth the boy was feeling had something to do with his starseed.
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