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 Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 9:35 am
"Once the alliance is called, someone will have to be the voice of reason for both sides," Dannin says, "you are the only one besides myself that has lived on both sides. You said yourself Shade cannot be trusted, it was she that proposed the alliance. But I would rather have this alliace and nothing happen than fight Tusuki...
"Tusuki may let you be emmisary, I would have to present you as a Warlord. Since you were on both sides in the last war with Talpa, you are perfect. Then I can work on Tusuki, maybe bring an end to our clan feuds once and for all."
((note, she says she wants to being an end to the clan feuds once and for all as a kid, and that's what starts the whole thing))
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 12:28 pm
Lena nodded at Kaze, saying nothing about the part of he rbeing refered to as hime again, "Of course I'll come, if you will lead the way?"
leaning over, she grabbed up her jacket and stood, never moving the hand Kaze was standing on.
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 12:44 pm
"Hey...I'm sorry for interupting your meditation, Sage," Rowen said as he entered the room a little further. "I just wanted to talk to someone.... I asked Yuki out... and she said she wasn't into guys..."
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Back in Tusuki's castle, Suki was watching Aiko and Kumiko battle. All of a sudden, she jumped and screamed, "I'M BORED!" Aiko and Kumiko stopped battling.
"Suki," Aiko said as she made her way over, "what are you thinking?!" She knew the only option in Suki's mind to get ride of boredom, clubbing. "You know that we are training for a top secret and very dangerous mission. We don't have time to party."
"But I'M BORED!" she screamed again. "I need music and a DJ and ALCOHOL!"
"Look, Suki," Kumiko said as she stepped forward. "I'm bored too. I'll go talk to my mom and see it we can get a couple hours break. Will that be enough time to get ride of you boredom?"
"Probably," Suki answered.
"Okay, I'll be right back," Kumiko answered.
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Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 4:27 pm
Anubis sighed.
"Dannin, the last time you said that, all hell broke free."
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Zephyr came bareling in Lena;s direction as soon as she opened the library door. Kaze peeped in fright and skittered away, fleeing to a distance of several yardsw from the hyperactiveZephyr, who proceeded to blow LEna's hair all over the place.
::Lenalenalenalena inigashiismadat me fornoreasonatall I didn'tdo anythingthistime I swear!::
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Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 3:39 pm
"W-what in the world?! Zephyr! What did you do?!" Lena blinked rapidly, standing up completely before hearing the roar of an angry Inigashi. The fire spirit immediately flew into the room, flitting about angrily as he glared at the wind spirit cowering behind Lena, Zephyr!!!!
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Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 7:19 pm
((Sorry for the Double post! BUt here goes! Joint post between Shade and I! WHEEEEEE!!!))
I dinna do anything, Lena! he SAW me and started chasing me that mad!:: Zephyr continued to blow Lena';s hair all over the place, and at the arrival of Inigashi, Kaze fled in fright.
Lena sighed frustratedly, "What in the world are you two up t-ANd drat! YOu scared Kaze away! Both of you, calm down!" Her voice reached loud levels, clearly heard in other parts of the house as she peers at both of her unreasonable spirits.
Inigashi puffed in frustration and anger as he glared at Zephyr, 'You STILL haven't redeemed yourself, Zephyr!'
B-b-but I didn;t do aqnything to you this time!:: Because he was still nervous, Zephyr was still blowing Lena's hair, but far less violently than a few minutes ago. Then something Lena said seemed to sink in to the ADD wind spirit. ::Kaze? Little sister kaze?::
: Lena smiled wryly with a sigh and a nod, "Aye, her. Yes her!" Reaching up, she pushed her hair back, peering about for her hair tie that she lost from all the wind Zephyr fired about.
Zephyr producied it, he had been toying with it ever since he saw it go flying. He looked at Inigashi, and shrunk back into Lena's hair when the fire spirit puffed at him. The thught that Zephyr called anyone or anything by a familial name was satranger than fiction. ::Kaze's probably scared of inigashi. I intimidate her more than a little, but she's okay with me so long as I hold still.:
Lena blinked, completely dumbfounded as she stared at Zephyr. Even Inigashi was taken back by Zephyr's words, "Calm down? Hold still?"
"You can do that?!"
Zephyr's response was definately said in a defensive manner. "I'm only bad when Inigashi's mad at me or a dozen other things- I hold still for Kaze=chan, otherwise she'd be blown to bits." He drifted free of Lena's hair, demonstrating his ability to hold still by causing the barest ruffle of breezes. Unbenknownst to Inigashi, Kaze was beginning to timidly peek out from behind qa nearby plant. ::Besides, it's not like I do anything ti inigashi ALL the time, sometimes he's just mad at me fro no reason.::
Inigashi blinked, "No reason?! You tease me about Sylph and I, when you know Sylph and I are litterally like fire and water at times! You torture me endlessly for DAYS! ANd you say nothing?! NOTHING?!
Lena groaned, a headache growing in her mind.
Kaze ducked behind the plant again and Zephyr shouted back at inigashi. ::BUT I DID NOT DO THAT SINCE YOU'VE GOTTEN HERE AND YOU'VE SCARED KAZE AGAIN!::
Lena, rubbing her temples, called out in a commanding voice, "Both of you CEASE THIS INSTANT! I will NOT Have you both doing this, you understand?!"
Zephyr nodded rapidly, keeping LEna between him and Inigashi. Kaze was peeking from the side of the plant away from Inigashi, obviously worried by the presence of the flame spirit, and visibly on the verge of running away altogether.
Inigashi growled, moving to go after Zephyr before Lena eyed him almost angrily. Immediately, the spirit backed off, listening to the only person he would ever listen to. Still in bad temprament, he was calm enough to not attack.
Kaze flinched, then began to slowly creep out from behind the plant, though still under a sheltering leaf. Zephyr drifted out from behind Lena, looking at the tiny sprite, keeping very, very still, and for once, not accting hyper.
Kaze slowly drifted free of the plant, drifting backwards toward the door. ::Are you going to help my friend, Lena-hime?:: Zephyr drifted closer to the tiny spirit, who seemed to calm when Zephyr got between her and Inigashi.
Turning her attention to Kaze, she nodded and smiled, "Of course I will, Kaze. Don't you fret, m'dear!"
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Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 7:34 pm
Eyeing Inigashi and Zephyr, she frowned, "I don't know why you two argue so..."
Zephyr whispered, ::It's fun to irritate him sometimes...::
Kaze drifted out the door, leading Lena on a small hike, out to a sheltered lagoon, where Lena could see- Shade, of all people, danging a sword-kata on poles out in the mirrorlike water. The dancelike thing was beautiful, but the emotions in it were so sad, it brought tears to the eyes.
Kaze stopped over the water, watching Shade worridly
Walking through the area, she smiles slightly at the things she sees before spotting Shade. Blinking slightly, she watched the beauty of the dance before her.
Shade stopped, brushing a hand against her face...
"Lena, would you walk with me? I'd like to talk to you like I used to with Celeste ever so long ago..."
Shade takes them both to the beach near her cottage- and she sighs as she looks at the stars.
"If it were possible to change the past, would you do it?"
Lena smiled, nodding, "Of course. I'd love to."
Standing up from her seat outside, she walks beside Shade, quiet but thoughtful.
"What if you really could change the past.... and it meant that someone might not die, but you don't know how it would change the now?"
She seemed incredibly weary and sad, and pained.
"What if in order to not change the past, you had top let something horrible happen?"
"Well, that depends. How horrible is it? I suppose, from my point of view, I wouldn't stop it because it would alter the future. None of us would possibly be here as a result. But at the same time, it's not in my power to time travel either." Lena pondered, standing beside Shade.
"Lena... I don't have any children. I can't have children, thanks to something that happened to me.... at this point in time, it is both in the past and the future. Because of what casn still be stopped... Kaylyn, Dannin's older sister dies. If you could stop something relatively minor from happening thazt would alter major events in the past.... would you, if it might save people you care about pain?"
Lena frowned, pondering to herself seriously. Gripping the jewel of spirits she wore about her neck, she leaned back against a tree, "The question here is, are you willing to risk the future, to save the past? You know what the future holds now. Can you handle possibly destroying that? I don't know if I could."
"...It would mean I'd have my baby.... Kaylyn would still be alive.... but... see, that's the rub. Dannin and Ryo are happy together, and I doubt Ryo would be a Ronin if the past was not as painful as it is... but..."
Shade hugged herself, and Lena could see quite easily this was eating at her, and had been for a while.
"Is it not bad enough that my husband died in my arms, and I could do nothing but watch? Must I stand back and by my inaction, allow the baby we had within me when he died be lost as well... for me, again?..."
a pause, and she shook her head.
"I... I should not be burdening you with this..."
she looked up, haunted.
"But it isn't a decision I can make rationally, and with Anubis hating me, probably Dannin as well now...."
"The older you once told me that events in the past cannot be altered, for fear of change in the future. Dannin found love, if not the saddness of the past. by altering it, you sacrifice that. You also alter what's happened with Anubis, the things he's learned and done. What about all the others? Even with altering the past, you may alter even my being here, isn't that the case? I suppose you could see how it worked out, but how would that sit? It's a heavy responsibility, but at the same time, I don't wish to see the people in more turmoil. What some have learned to be and become, well...I suppose the world right now is nice, though bad at the same time an-Ugh, I'm not making sense!"
Lena looked completely perplexed, similar as to how Celeste would get when things multiplied in her mind without being able to get it out.
She glanced over, and surprised Lena by managing aq small smile.
"You really are just like Celeste... even the way you act when I confuse you. Gomen ne for doing that.... but you were making sense."
She sat down and hugged her knees, resting her chin on them as she looked out across the lagoon.
"I guess what I'm really asking is, do you think everyone would forgive me if I... if I had not condemned others by inaction so very long ago? If it meant that this future never comes to exist?"
Lena pondered throughtfully before answering, "Shade, my thing is this. If you do change it? Why would you look for the forgiveness, for those here may or may not exist in the first place?"
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Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 3:51 pm
Dannin blushes a bit, "Okay, so I got carried away last time. This time will be different, it has to be. Last time I was a kid, naive and prideful."
((shades of the past...mwahahaha))
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Ryo sits in the main room, scratching White Blaze's ears, "This is going to be a long day."
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Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 11:05 am
Dani Hibiki Dannin blushes a bit, "Okay, so I got carried away last time. This time will be different, it has to be. Last time I was a kid, naive and prideful." ((shades of the past...mwahahaha)) ------- Ryo sits in the main room, scratching White Blaze's ears, "This is going to be a long day." "Little sister, you still ARE naieve and prideful." At her growl of protest he laughed. "That's why we all love you." ___________________________________________
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Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 9:59 pm
Dannin's cat ear twitches, "Well, I guess we better make the best of this. You won't tell Ryo, will you, about me and Tusuki? I'd rather he not know before this whole thing blows over."
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Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 6:47 am
Dani Hibiki Dannin's cat ear twitches, "Well, I guess we better make the best of this. You won't tell Ryo, will you, about me and Tusuki? I'd rather he not know before this whole thing blows over."
"Of course not. What good would I be if I did that? Although..... I'm not entirely happy that Shade knows."
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Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 10:01 am
"It is a risk I am willing to take," Dannin says, "she does not know all, and I am not alone. Yuki, the ice princess, is with me. She too is acting and it will help to have two of us instead of just me, and now with you, we cannot lose."
She stands, trying to bury her ears in her hair, "Come, the others are probably waiting to see what is really going on."
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 11:24 am
And so, some time passed.
Shade stayed clear of all others for the next few days...
Lena stumbled across her one late evening.
Cye stumbled across her one dawn.
Anubis continued to all but radiate his loathing of her and made sure everyone else knew it, too, and made a point of subtly insulting her each time they happened to be within earshot- not often, but often enough that Shade often pulled fast exits.
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