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 Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 10:46 am
Dani dries as best she can, taking off everything but her t-shirt and jeans. With the towel around her shoulders, Dani finds a seat near Shade and looks at the tiara.
"Dragon," she says, "interesting. Mom doesn't tell me a whole lot about the Clans, but most were named after animals." She points to her ears, "and for good reason. I don't know all the Clans, opposite, I know only a few. Maybe your Clan had something to do with a Dragon."
She grabs her back, shuffling through what is inside to pull out an old book. She flips a few pages and stops at a child's drawing. There are a lot of animals in the picture, most of the mystical kind. Wildcats, Dragons, Wolves, Humans, even some of the elements were within the drawing.
"My mother made this, when she was a kid," Dani says, "before the Wildcats were destoryed. She won't tell me why she did it, but every time I ask her about the Clans, she says that this picture is an answer in itself."
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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 10:56 am
Shade looked at the picture for a long minute, then back at the delicate circlet she held in her hands.
"Perhaps it is... the environment is connected intrinsically, even the elements effect it... perhaps.... perhaps the clans themselves needed each other to survive? But then, why would a dragon be one of them? Weren't dragons.... evil?"
She paused.
"And if that is the case, then why do I somehow feel...."
Thunder rumbled again,. distracting her.
"Dani.... feel like going on an adventure?"
Her eyes were on the window, and were slit-pupiled, feline-like... except even Dani knew that Shade was no kind of feline.
(In aisian myths, most dragons if not all WERE evil.)
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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 11:00 am
Dani nodds, watching Shade for a minute.
"Uh, sure," she says, "We've got time to burn. What'cha thinking of doing?"
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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 7:19 pm
I have some good rain gear in the closet... I'm almost curious about what it is that has managed to anchor this storm... it reminds me of one that happened in Toyama thirty years ago.... how can I remember something like that...."
She looked at Dani, and seemed, for a moment.... to be *more there* as she spoke the next.
"Beware the Wrath of Holy turned dark... it upsets the delicate balance, ask your mother about that sometime. Dragons are not all evil, least of all those with no memory of themselves."
She blinked, and shook her head, eyes returning to a silvr from the deep, almost disturbing slate grey they had been as she looked out the window.
"Can you feel it? It is like.... whatever is causing this is.... calling."
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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 8:56 pm
Dani shivers, rubbing her arms.
"Yah, I can feel it," she says, "now that you mention it, it DOES look alot like the storm dad told me about when he met my Uncles. Wonder if any other Ronins are in town."
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Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 3:56 pm
Batrias tried to control the storm. He wanted to direct it. However, the storm, like all of his creative emotions, did what they did. He had no control over them, one way or the other. The best he could say was that he could keep the storm from growing. Beyond that, nothing else.
The pink lightning gathered itself in his fist- quite against his will- and he found himself enjoying it. He could no more explain this than anything that happened. Yet, he was tied directly into the power of his armor. Even while he was drawing upon dark powers, his kanji glowed a dark shade of red on his forehead. He was being true to the power of his armor- and the power of his armor demanded destruction. If no one would come, he would start to actively search for things to destroy. He didn't know what pleasure he would get out of it at all; he only knew that he would. Like drawing water from a precious fountain or receiving a blood transfusion, such things had become necessary for him. He wanted to destroy. He craved to kill. Someone would stop him, of course. If they didn't come, if no armor-bearers were left, he would very possibly put on his armor and see just how much power he had.
He had no doubt of it.
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Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 6:46 pm
After speaking with Shade for a moment, Dani tells the other that she is going to investigate as a Ronin for a while, and when all is safe, she will come back for her friend. Clutching the armor orb in her hands, Dani's outfit changes to her Ronin red and white sub-armor. The only difference of the Wildfire armor between Dani and when her father, Ryo, carried it, is her figure seems to be shown with the subarmor.
She grabs her trenchcoat and walks out the door, searching for the cause of the storm.
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Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 6:10 pm
Shade shook her head.
"Be careful, Dani..... there.... is someone powerful behind this, don;t get yourself hurt...."
She put a hand to her head as a migrane began. She got them every now and then, and usually with them came a few more fragments of memory....
***********************************************************
"Anubis gave his life to save them! Why are you so angry?"
"I then pronouce thee both wed, under all the laws of the Clans and elsewhere."
"I'm.... terribly sorry, Kaylyn but... the Armor of the Ogre has been passed on to Anubis.... "
"There arent; any dragons left."
"I'm the last of an ancient race misunderstood because of a few who destroyed all the others."
"Aren;t dragons evil?"
"Most of them."
"Koishii...... I will wait for you as long as I have to."
"Anata.... don;t die....."
"You must do your duty... you must guard those who will follow.... all of us.... aishiteru, shadowsage....."
********************************************************
She sat down, working with the pain.... her heart hurt as well, as though there was someone important to her she had forgotten as well.....
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Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 7:11 pm
Dani smiles as she leaves, her cat-like ears perked up in the storm. She walks along, feeling more than seeing until she sees a man in, what she thinks, is armor. She sheilds her eyes for a moment, then speaks with a voice that holds both the sound of the young leader of the Ronins, and the last heir of the Wildcats.
"Who are you?" she says, "do you command this storm?"
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Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 1:58 pm
Batrias sees two figures he cannot quite define. He allows his eyes to focus, and one of them he recognizes at once. He cannot place the name- he had met far too many people in all his long years- but he knew the face. He responded to the other person who had spoken.
"I truly do not know," He said, exhiliration taking hold of him. "Either I command this storm, or it commands me. But, then, you must ask yourself, which is the storm? Do you believe the rain and lightning to be the storm, or do you see something else?"
Batrias wanted to have an answer right away, but he knew he could wait. These people, after all, were going to be his first victims.
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Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 6:38 pm
Dani closes her eyes for a moment, her cat-like ears twitching in the wind.
"I see three storms here," she says, "a storm in the sky of rain and light, a storm of power, and a storm within a hidden soul. I see all three within you and come to stop at least the storm in the sky and the storm of power. Your personal storm is beyond my control."
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Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 2:43 pm
She was looking at Batrias.... as she caught up tpo Dannin. the rain did not touch her, and the power rolled off her like she was parrying it. Her face was filled with confusion, as was her entire body posture.
Softly, but in a voice that had a knack for carrying....
"Who are you? Why do I know your face, yet do not? why is it.... I can feel a power around us...... but cannot name any of it?"
She took a step closer to Batrias, eyes flushing a beautiful silver again, narrowing in recognition, then deepening again back into a lost look.
"You wear an armor named Holy.... but who are you?"
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Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 1:53 pm
Batrias, in exhiliration, clenched his fist. Lightning poured out of his clenched hand, exploding on the ground, leaving a pothole. "I know you very well. I think, perhaps, I will hold my rage until I find out why you don't remember me. You should, as you remember the name of my armor. Yes, it is Holy. And I am Batrias Kenketsu, of no clan and no age. I am what you see. Surely you cannot have forgotten entirely? Have you?"
He looked from one woman to the other. The storm lessened in strength as his mind set to the problem at hand. Could there be some connection between his anger and Shade's memory? Not that mattered- he wanted to kill them both.
But he would solve the puzzle first. The kanji flickered on his forehead and went out as the problem tumbled through his mind.
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Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 4:09 pm
"Shade-chan!" Dani looks over at her shoulder, "You shouldn't be here. If he has an armor, then it's too dangerous for anyone without one!"
She turns back to Batrias, "And I am Dani, of Wildfire. I don't know what it is you want, but I know your name."
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Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 4:18 pm
Batrias smiled, the grin of a wolf ready to hunt. "My purpose is to destroy you, and everyone who bears an armor. When I've killed everyone, I'll destroy my own armor."
He waited to hear what the other one, Shade, would say. Her reply would matter the most, he knew.
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