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 Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 5:28 pm
Somehow throwing a knife wasn't Naica's notion of a good idea. But apparently, his reflexes were working a little better than they usually did, and he only got a grazing cut along the side of his hand, trying to bite back a wince as he took a more solid grip on the handle.
Kill it ? He'd never killed... anything before. Well, beside bugs. And spiders. His mother was scared shitless of spiders.
But what other choice did he have ? Really, this thing... Ume had told him they never stopped. Wouldn't stop, until it was killed.
If it was it or them... The knife went down, Naica winced, and the youma exploded into dust.
That was when the shaking took him over again, and he stumbled back, falling on his knee. "Mein gott..."
Good lord. Good... ******** lord. That was way to much for him.
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 6:28 pm
Erk, he hadn't meant for the guy to get cut, himself! But it was better than getting eaten.
Valhalla let out an 'oof' as the youma burst into dust and he ended up on his forearms and knees on the floor. He was quick to scramble to his feet again, though, quickly brushing himself off and stretching out his legs after being squeezed, and reaching up to check his head for any bumps. "Thanks," he said, stumbling a little towards the other knight, his legs a bit shaky. He was sure if he checked in a few hours, he'd have plenty of bruises.
"s**t, you okay? That was great," he told him, trying not to sound too much in awe, but he'd been impressed that he hadn't hesitated at the end. "I'm Valhalla... and-- Ah! Hold on, I have a friend waiting for me," he suddenly said, nearly running into a table as he spun around and staggered towards the bathrooms. He hoped Daniel was okay! He felt bad for leaving him there, but it was the safest place for him.
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 6:41 pm
He was still shaking. He couldn't help it. He hadn't hesitated back then, but now ? Now what he'd just done came crashing down on him.
"I-I-Imfine ? I think ?" The cut singed, but given that Valhalla had just nearly gotten constricted, he didn't think he had a place to b***h about it.
Naica tilted his head to the side, visibly confused. Didn't Chris recognize him ? Wait... He hadn't known that MuCephei was Ume until she'd shown him. Valhalla hadn't seen him power up. So there was... something that protected his... their identities.
But now he was on his way to the bathroom, and Daniel wouldn't be waiting where he'd been left, of course. "Val ! Wait up !" Would he just wait up already ?! It wasn't like he could yell who he was, there were people around !
Damn...
He was up on shaky legs and doing his best to run after the more experienced page.
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 7:06 pm
Valhalla blinked when he heard his name called, and he paused to look over his shoulder at the other page. "Yeah?" He figured Daniel could wait for him a few minutes more. It wasn't like he could sense any other youma in the area.
"Here, you should put pressure on that... I'm sorry, I should have thrown that knife better," he said mournfully as he picked up a rolled up napkin and dumped the utensils onto the table. There was a glass of water sitting at another table, and he stepped over to soak the corner of the napkin and wrung it out before he reached out to gently take hold of the other young man's wrist. "Sorry... That was great, though. I never have luck with them. You saved my butt back there."
He knew he was probably totally invading the page's personal space, but he wanted to make sure the cut was cleaned and taken care of. He used the wet end to gingerly wipe the blood away, and then used the entire piece of cloth to wrap around his hand. "Hold onto that, okay? It doesn't look deep. It should stop bleeding soon..."
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 7:13 pm
He let himself be handled easy - way too easy for a stranger, really - and held out the cloth when asked, through...
s**t, how did one do this.
"It's fine, I... never had to catch a knife before." Through he'd at least gotten him to stop running off. He leaned against the wall, watching at the rest of the waiters ran out.
"Val. Uh." He gave that sort of tentative 'this is gonna end badly' smile, his voice kept low. "...It's me. Daniel. You ran off before I could explain..."
He hoped Chris wasn't gonna flip his s**t.
...Too much.
"There was that crazy lady with red hair a few days ago and she was gonna kill me and-" His voice was slowly rising in octave before he forced it to stop. "Im sorry..."
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 8:03 pm
At first he just stared at him, not knowing if this was a joke or if he was serious. And then he remembered the bits of German that he'd heard the page saying and things were slowly starting to come together.
"Daniel?" he barely breathed, and it came out sounding more like a squeak than an actual word. He was sure that if he looked in a mirror, he would be able to see the blood draining from his face in horror. "Daniel..." he said again, as if he was waiting for the young man to tell him that he was just joking and he wasn't really his wimpy, kind hearted, curious, terrified best friend from high school. This couldn't be his Daniel, could it?? The Daniel that he tutored in math in exchange for essay help?
Golden eyes widened slowly, and probably a little too dramatically. And it was probably good that the waiters had evacuated the area...
"You're a knight?!" he sputtered, unable to believe it. "You, you can't be! No, you're not! Are you?? Holy s**t, what happened?? A few days ago?? You mean your birthday?? Why didn't you tell me?! You should have called me! You could have been killed! Are you crazy?? What are you doing fighting these things?!"
He was just a little hysterical...
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 8:09 pm
Yeah, that went about as well as he expected it to be.
"Val- Just-" Whenever he tried to talk, Valhalla was spurting out something else. "Chris, calm down !" He said in the same hushed tone.
Yeah, this wasn't a joke. Naica went to rub his temples. "Please, calm down..."
He wasn't looking too far away from crying. Why couldn't things go right.
"There wasn't time..." Yes, Chris, Daniel could have totally called you while being kneed by a psycho b***h. Really. "T-This is the first time I... well. Did this. Since. Well, you know. What if this thing had constricted and I hadn't been here ?" No one else had came.
God damn.... "I tried to tell you. Thing showed up, then you ran off before I could tell you. Im sorry..." He sniffled.
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 8:45 pm
Oh gosh, please don't cry...
Valhalla quickly shut his mouth when he realized that Daniel looked as though he was about to burst into tears, suddenly feeling like a jerk for freaking out.
"Sorry, sorry..." he quickly apologized, glancing around to make sure there was no one around and changing back to his civilian self. He didn't want to attract unwanted guests. "Change back, at least... I don't want anyone picking up your energy... You need to be careful, Daniel," he said, frowning at him in worry.
Chris wanted to fuss some more, and he did to some extent, reaching out to turn his friend around to make sure he wasn't hurt anywhere else. "You're okay??" he asked yet again, even though he was told that he was, already. "You... that was your first time since being awakened...?" he wanted to confirm, his heart pounding as he realized how much danger he'd put his friend in. "You really helped me back there... I'm impressed." Ah, that didn't sound very good. "I mean... not that I don't think you'd be able to... I just... I usually have trouble with them. That was really great, what you did... Thanks..."
He paused, biting at his lip as he tried to keep himself calmed down. "Sorry... for freaking out... I'm glad you're okay."
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Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 2:35 pm
It took a moment after Chris requested that he powered down before anything happened - but power down he did, and relief came along with it. The last thing he wanted was another of these.... things popping out !
"Im fine." He was used to that kind of fussing, at least - raising the napkin to look. "It stopped bleeding already." It wasn't so bad. On the moment, with the adrenaline, it had hurt, seemed much bigger than it really was. But now ? Ity was just like he'd accidentally cut himself with an exacto blade, like he used to do all the time in school.
Still, the idea of fighting more of... these things was terrifying. "...I did ? I thought I was getting in your way..." He said with a small, embarassed chuckle. "...But you're my best friend, I just couldn't let you... do this alone, what if something happened ? I just..."
He shook his head. "I just don't know... Why me ?" Surely there were others more fit for something like this.
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Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 3:36 pm
He would like to fuss, he really would, but if Daniel started crying... well, he'd feel like the number one jerk of all time.
"No way, I always need help," he mumbled rather meekly, feeling like an idiot for needing help all the time. He was sure Daniel remembered when he'd shown him he was Valhalla, and then got help from Themis. He couldn't even protect him on his own. "And... sorry about leaving you in the bathroom," he said, shuffling his feet a little. "I didn't want you getting hurt." Because hell if he had to call Daniel's mom and explain to her how her son wound up in the hospital.
"I felt the same way. 'Why me?' I mean..." he told him, taking a few steps away from him to try and find their table and if their food had survived the attack. "But you know...? I think we were meant to do this... I don't think we would have had the choice, in the end. And if we did chose not to, well, I know I'd feel like I was missing something important in my life. Who are you, anyway? Your name? And planet? And... you do know you were wearing heels, right?" he couldn't help but tease, pulling out his wallet to drop enough money to cover the both of them onto the table. "How'd walking around in those? Did you want to just get a burger or something? Fast food seems a bit... safer..." At least then they wouldn't just be sitting around, waiting for something to happen.
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Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 4:15 pm
"You ran off before I could warn you..." There was some amusement in his tone, then - typical Chris, really. And hell, couldn't be worse than having to call his mom to tell her he was in a magical coma.
Right ?
...Mean to do this ? "You mean like... predestined ?" A very common author trope, really. The hero, predestined from birth to lead his life and save the world.
But reality was different.... Right ?
There was much he still needed to learn.
"...Probably, yeah." He could just grap a salad. Their food... Well, he wouldn't risk eating it, really. "Naica... Page of Cosmos." He said, voice low. "Whatever that means. And... I try not to think about it. They hurt." Through, really, when you had a snake-thing rushing at you, it was rather easy to overlook. Unsurprisingly.
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Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2011 10:49 pm
"You're already taller than me... I don't think they're really necessary," he half joked, not sure if he should still be freaking out that his best friend was also a knight... of Cosmos... what the hell...?
He did shake his head, though, not really knowing what he meant. "Maybe predestined...? I don't know. It kind of screws with what I've always believed... I mean, I don't mind the idea of being reborn, but... it's just strange." Chris paused, realizing that he might be wrong about them at the very least. "Senshi are reborn, at least," he said, lowering his voice and grabbing onto his friend's arm to pull him out of the restaurant, not wanting to linger much longer. The cops would probably show up soon... "People like us... we might have ancestors who who did this... and pass it on, I guess," he explained, not wanting Daniel to be confused more than he probably already was.
"Wait!" he suddenly gasped, staring at Daniel suddenly. "There's a Sailor Cosmos! I've heard of her. Apparently she can purify people," he told him, hoping that the information was true and not just rumors. "But that doesn't make any sense, does it...? How could you be a knight of a single person, when I'm a knight of a planet...?"
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Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 4:12 pm
"It's not like I chose them... Trust me. The whole thing is... a little ridiculous." Yeah, obviously not. Had he been given an advance warning he was going to be some kind of magical being, he would have chosen something with less potentially detachable parts.
Naica pretty much looked, and felt, like an accident waiting to happen.
"Hm." Daniel went to rub his temples as they escaped the scene of their crashed dinner. Yep, poor Daniel was very, very confused.
"Maybe they just meant Cosmos in the wide sense. LIke... all the universe ?" He looked vaguely worried at that.
If he was meant to help represent the whole damn universe, then boy had it ever mischosen it's champion !
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Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 12:38 pm
"Knight of the Universe...?" he tried out, making a face that was half amused, half horrified as he lead away from the restaurant. If that wasn't something to make him even more worried about his friend, well...
"Daniel, you'll promise me you'll be careful, right...? Please??" he nearly begged, not wanting to see his best friend getting hurt. He was doing his best not to start freaking out, but if Daniel was going to run into things without a second thought... well... that was very bad.
"If you've got any questions about anything, just ask, okay...? I can't promise I know everything, but I can ask around and get back to you," Chris told him, letting out a sigh as he tried to accept that Daniel was a knight. Great...
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Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 3:00 pm
"I will." He said. Calmly, almost practiced, even - he'd gone though similar loops with Ume. A part of him was still debating ignoring the fact that Naica existed, to simply go on with his life as if nothing had changed.
But Chris had a point. It would be like... denying a part of himself completely. Wouldn't it ?
It was good that he was open to questions, through, because Daniel had a lot. "Do we have... A way to communicate with each other ? A way to call for help ? I noticed I can't get my cell when im..." Well. "You know."
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