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 Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 6:50 pm
Amy hadn't been ready to catch Regina, and so she felt down hard on her knees, giving out a bit of a gasp as it had caught her by surprise. She glanced over at Regina, worried. "Are you ok? Regina!" Oh crap, if she buckled, then Amy probably dragged Joce down too. "How about you Jocelin? Oh, what happened?!"
And then she heard a new voice, one that seem to ring clear above the others. It sent a chill down her spine, but in a different way. Orange eyes peeking between her bangs, she slowly moved her gaze upwards to see something that topped all the others, even the man-cat.
"P-princess?" Now Amy really did feel like she was in some sort of flash game. Mysterious relocation, natives not certain of what to make of it, and the final act before the start of the game, the authoritative figure. Either they were on the road to going back home, or trouble was about to brew.
Amy couldn't hide it, she just blatantly stared at the Princess of the Zodiacs, taken aback at her dress, the vastly long hair, and those wings. "Wow..."
And then the whole place shook. Instead of only being on her knees, Amy fell face first onto the path, loosing her grip on both of her new friends.
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 6:51 pm
"So, they were drinking it too, more the merrier~ Don't be such a Party Pooper Puss. Puss... Party Pooper, whatever." Beta replied with a grin, dancing backwards with the beer before tossing it to Andeon, lifting her hands in an 'I surrender' pose. "See? I don't have any beer, I don't know what you're talking about."
It was only Virgo's 'please' that made her stop, the grin fading to be replaced by a (mildly drunk) air of seriousness, lifting two fingers to half-salute her. "Yes'm," she replied, mirroring the bow the captain gave to the Princess.
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Interesting Conversationalist
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 6:53 pm
The evidence against her hopeful theory of everything being nothing but an elaborate dream was beginning to mount, and try as she might Felicia couldn't seem to hold onto the happy delusion any longer. All the snark and cockiness drained from pale features and left the poor girl looking down right startled and lost. Gilbert had named himself a leader through actions, so it would be him the young girl stuck near.
She did cast a lingering glance over her shoulder at Felix as she moved to stand beside the cop, lips pressing in a thin line as she was struck with the urge to call out to him to follow. She didn't know him, but she had spoken to him. He seemed to be taking care of a much smaller girl though, so Felicia let him go. If he wanted to play the hero as well that was his business, and the little girl looked like she needed somebody to take care of her. Might as well be Felix. He at least seemed responsible.
Not that she could really judge him on the two minutes she'd actually talked to him..
Sighing, Lecia fell into step beside Gilbert, arms still crossed tightly across her chest and stomach. Frowning as she looked up towards the stars above them. If not for the complete feeling of dread and displacement, it might have been pretty. She blinked though as something blotted out the lights. Her frown deepening as she squinted into the darkness. What the hell..
She'd missed the sound the first time around, but they were louder now and seemed to echo through the vast blackness around them. It startled the teen, and she even reached out to catch Gilbert's arm as frightened yelp escaped her lips. Her grip only tightening further as voices rose amid the confusion to question their presence in.. where ever they were. "I think we might be trespassing.."
She couldn't help but stare through the crowd at the new comers, pale eyes widening until there was more white then color showing within ginger lashes. One of the new comers seemed to have ears and a tail like a cat, another great butterfly wings.
If this was reality, it was a very loosely grasped one.
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 6:56 pm
Jett cringed once more as the noise pulsed. He felt as though it was shaking him, right into his core. His headache was fading now that his blood pressure had dropped some after the initial shock of arriving here, but this reverberating noise wasn't helping. A soft sigh fell from his lips; over all of it, he'd heard Raven's sigh and just held her hand a little tighter.
More people had arrived, and Jett, despite all his wits, was suddenly struggling. More people were asking what was going on, and yet he still had no more answers about how he got here or why he was here than when he started.
A rainbow bridge. A strange barrier. Odd people in odd costumes. A talking cat. A princess? Jett's lip twitched into a scowl; he tried to play it off as indifference, but he was now entirely out of his comfort zone, and his eyes wandered to the sky again; for the longest moment, he'd had the sensation of movement out of the corner of his vision, but even now he couldn't spot anything and it was ridiculously frustrating. "We'll have our answers soon, I'm sure. Or be back. And never have to worry about this place again."
...But was that really true? Could you really just forget about a place like this so easily? And if not, what were you supposed to do with such a memory? Of course, you could play it off as a dream if that would appease your mind--but was it really a fluke that they were here? So many people, it didn't seem possible that it could be an accident.
Or maybe that was just a trick his mind was playing on him.
Jett, who had always aspired for great things, had somehow stumbled upon something that really could only be described as amazing--albeit not really his cup of tea. He dreamed of monumentous corperate towers, of owning an empire, writing checks for millions of dollars, being respected and admired--and feared. He didn't aspire to be among the stars, or with talking cats or princesses and guards and 'senshi', but he couldn't deny that whatever this was, for as much as he wanted to get home, a part of him couldn't help but be intrigued and consumed by curiosity. He was quiet, mostly eavesdropping--until the ground rumbled beneath him.
He clung to the girl's hands out of instinct; whenever the sensation of falling occured, it was human nature to cling to whatever was closest. Jett had been hit so hard he'd been knocked out before; he'd had his legs swept out beneath him and been winded to the point of seeing stars, but this was unlike anything he'd ever felt. He couldn't remember if he'd stumbled or braced himself enough, all he knew was that he was on his feet, clutching at Molly's and Raven's hands in his own as he tried to identify the source of the shaking--or, more important--what he could do to assure his survival.
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 6:57 pm
THat noise came again and Natalia, who had just regained her composure, flinched. Then the pathway shook and Natalia went tumbling like a bowling ball into several people with a girlish cry if suprise and terror. The wall-like barrier of the path stopped her from falling off but the pathway itself was still rumbling as she tried to get back up, heart beating a mile a minute.
What the hell!? Nightmare. This was turning in to a full-fledge nightmare! Not to mention she was totally right about the noise being from something bad but now she didn't think she'd be quite so happy to see whatever it is kill anyone here. And she wasn't even going to think about gloating.
She wanted to wake up. She wanted to wake up now.
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 6:57 pm
((******** BED.))
It was getting worse.
Joshua only saw the first of the crumbling before he went down, unable to hold back his scream. Good god ! It hurt, it hurt, it ******** hurt !!!
"s**t !" He hissed, trying to get back on his feet. The cumbling path was a blur, but the noise kept pounding his head like a sledgehammer.
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 6:57 pm
...That's it. He was going to kill that Gemini when he got the chance. She was done for. Over. But later. That outpost could still work with one, right?
"I'm not mad at you." Zue clarified for the girl, for once looking as minutely apologetic as he sounded. "It's just, you are not supposed to be up here, and even worse we don't know why or how. It's more the situation, not yourselves." Was he...was he being nice?! He was! Sound the alarms!
"But it isn't our fault you're he---" The noise, the crash, the rumbling. What he had been about to say was tossed and forgotten as he stumbled, making his next instinct to the happenings to reach out for Chronos, ready to catch her fall if need be.
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 7:03 pm
Alright, Aya liked the cat. Just a little. He seemed more sympathetic than the actual people so far...
And then other civilians had to go and act like the idiots they were, the cat got pissy. Aya didn't blame him, but she still mentally cursed the loss of the one even-tempered magical person (cat) here.
And then the cat went and turned into a cat-boy and Aya had to reassess all over again. God, she almost wished she had a notebook and pen instead of her PDA - she was sure there were going to be a ton of spelling errors and auto-corrected nonsense at the rate she was button mashing to try and get this all down.
Holy crap, a girl with butterfly wings was here now. What next?
A loud slamming noise was all the warning Aya had before the ground shook underneath them. Aya toppled like a bowling pin. A short shriek escaped as she fumbled her PDA, preventing it from being landed on. Which was how she ended up face-first on the ground, but with the precious held above her in one hand. Heaving a sigh of relief, she scooted to her knees.
Again, the loud noise came. Again, the ground rumbled. Still on hands and knees, at least Aya didn't fall again.
"I'm going to guess this isn't normal," she said. Aya tentatively made her way back up to her feet. "You don't suppose it's whatever brought us here, do you?"
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 7:03 pm
Something slammed into the Surrounding, and Virgo immediately moved to tuck the Princess up close. The green-haired royal's wings crumpled beneath Virgo's arms, but with the Zodiac hunched over her Princess's body she knew that no harm could come to Chronos. Her power could do nothing for civilians; she didn't even try to use it yet, concentrating on protecting the one who held the Zodiac Crystal with her own body if it had to be that way.
"Geminis--Neso and Cancer--Try to keep the civilians calm," she ordered, her voice loud as she could make it. "Zue, I need you to take your cat form and see if you can tell what that was!"
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 7:03 pm
Layton had stayed quiet as more and more of these "zodiacs" showed up. Layton liked horoscopes quite a bit, but these didn't really ... Especially the gemini twin. He was rowdy. Not her image of a zodiac at all.
Then a PRINCESS showed up.
Layton just about flipped her s**t. The lady was so pretty. Layton wanted to just pet her hair. Was she a cat? No she looked more like a butterfly. She was pretty though! Layton liked her a lot. The illusion was completely broken though when she spoke. It was authoritative tone, not at all princess-y. More like a queen. Layton wasn't so sure how she felt about this princess anymore. Then again ... those wings ...
At the appropriate time she said her name, Layton. The problem was just that. She only said it. Not yelled it, said it. The zodiac Virgo probably didn't even hear her unfortunately.
Then suddenly the entire bridge shook. Layton let out a very audible wail and clung to both Felix and Callum, which, with their combined weight, completely bowled them over. The threesome was on the ground now. Layton adjusted her big bottlecap glasses and said worriedly, "Wh-what was that?"
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 7:05 pm
Ricky fell to the floor like it was nobody's business, shouting until he hit the rainbow road with a thud, hardly audible over the loud noise. The path was crumbling as everything started to grow dark.
"Aw, ********, Jesus Christ, forgive me for my sins!" he screamed, pretty damn sure that what he was experiencing was the mouth of hell opening underneath him.
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 7:06 pm
Everything was happening so fast. People wearing weird outfits, a talking and now a Princess. Molly couldn't handle it all it felt like her whole head was spinning, the only thing that was keeping her safe was that she was holding Jett's hand.
But before she was able to to regain sight of anything the rumble of this place took over. It felt like the road was slipping right away from her feet. Was she dying, oh goodness she hope she wasn't dying. "Raven! Jett! are you guys ok?" she ask when it slowed down. She was worried, very worried.
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 7:07 pm
"Wh....ah!" As the whatever it was crashed into the road she lost her footing and tumbled over half landing on Regina. At least the other girl was already unconscious so it wasn't like she would really notice she'd been fallen on.
"Amy ... amy are you okay." She reached out trying to grab the other girl again. Her knees and elbows hurt and would probably be bruised in an hour or so but that didn't matter. She wasn't going to loose either of the girls she'd brought with her because the angry weirdos couldn't just send them home where they should be.
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 7:07 pm
Regina was, as she came to, rather glad that she was already seated on the Rainbow Road instead of trying to keep her balance as it began to rumble. Her brow furrowed, one hand coming up to rub at her face before she shifted, reaching out for Amy to check on the other girl. She was real, at least, and so was Joce from what she'd managed to gather in a quick glance up...
But what was also real was the fact that the strange ground that they had been standing on was now taken over by tremors. It was very real that they were in danger, especially if the strange aliens that seemed to know what was going on around here seemed upset by it (still refusing to believe that they were humans just because they were humanoid. She'd seen Star Trek, thank you very much...).
"Amy... Amy, we should get up. We should..." She didn't know what they should do, really, beyond possibly pray to whatever it was they believed in, if any of those around believed in anything at all. "Joce, are you ok up there?" She groaned, shifting slightly beneath the other. "Because if you are... I might need you to get the heck off of me. Jeese."
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 7:09 pm
By the time Ricky swore at Felix, he was already out of ear shot. “Sorry,” he apologized as he found Callum and Layton again. Behind him came a voice demanding why he and everyone else were here. With all of the ludicrous happenings so far, Felix decided to not question why the green-haired girl had a pair of glittering pink wings on her back. There was so much information to take in and grudgingly accept that he pretty much gave up trying to make sense of everything. From now on, he was just going to make sure he kept his cool and what little rationality he had left.
Then something loud pierced the air. Felix didn’t know how to describe it. Instinctively, he held his ground and for a while managed to maintain his balance, but once Layton began to cling to both him and Callum, he tumbled to the ground. He grunted as he unfortunately lay at the bottom of the mini-pile. “I don’t know, but it’s not good,” he responded, pushing his glasses up the bridge of his nose.
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