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 Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 2:04 pm
Sukai stopped playing.He tucked his flute back into his shirt and stood up.He straightened his glasses and headed for the door.
I heard there was a hotsprings around here.I'll go check it out.
As he walked towards the door his footsteps echoed softly.He grabbed the door and pulled it shut behind him as he left.
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Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 9:59 pm
Syrena sat up quickly. How long had she been asleep? Looking around, she found the place deserted. A psychic probe told her someone had tried to talk to her. She smacked herself for not being able to listen, and headed toward the dorms.
((Kurai Edit: This is a one liner, which is against our Guild Rules. Please extend your posts, thank you))
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 10:28 pm
Cat ran toward Ame, picked her up and flapped her wings, causing her to fly. "I know where it is!" she said as she flew out the door to the arena.
Cat watched as the others followed. They entered the Glass Violin and looked about. She put Ame down. She heard the new genres of cola(pop) and sandwhich (rap), but she loved the Roll and Stone (or Rock and Roll).
She knelt down and looked at Ame. Cat took out a blue and black ocarina. "Here you go Ame. It is an ocarina, a native instrument of my homeland. With it, you can do many things, including water manipulation. I will teach you how to play the ocarina. For example..."
Cat put the mouth piece up to her mouth and played a happy tune. "Ame...look at the plant behind you..." Cat said. She watched Ame turn around to look at the dancing plant that had been still before. "Many things can be done on an ocarina. You take good care of it, okay?" Cat said to Ame kindly.
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 10:38 pm
Ame's eyes grew huge. It was so pretty, the actually instrument. And the melody it played was gorgeous. "Thank you", she told Cat softly. She really was nice.
"Whats your homeland like?" Ame asked her softly. "Hmm. I don't rememebr mine at all, I was found washed up on the beach by a man named Kenjiro. He took care of me." she told the woman, smiling brightly.
She looked around the music hall. It was very vast. The stage seemed as if it needed repaired, even rotted in a few corners. The curtains were a crimson shade, with golden trimmings. There was a grand piano on the left side of the stage.
"How old are you?" She asked Cat. "Lancaster is almost twenty, I believe. Tsuki is seventeen and Bijou is sixteen I think..." she giggled. "I'm sixteen too"
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 10:57 pm
Lancaster smiled as they walked along to the music hall. "All is forgive little one." He smiled patting her head before she ran off to catch up to cat.
He opened the door for the girls, letting himself in last, his head lowered the entire time. Immedately he saw Ame and cat play with instraments and the plants in the room reacting. He smiled, how happy these girls were at even the simplest of things.
He was glad the place was not overly crowded as he looked over the many instraments in the room, flutes, pianos, violin and so much more, what a wonderful and perfect place, so calm and peaceful like the...pleace loving man he was.
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 11:19 pm
She looked back at the child. "Ame, imagine this; a lush, green valley with an occasional hill. Circles of grass srput randomly. A ranch sits in the middle. A busy town with an even busier castle and Royal family stand in the north. To the northeast stands a little town. it has a pat leading to the rocky mountains, where a peace-loving race eat the rocks as a diet.
"To the east, lay a long water channel system. behind a waterfall lay a domain of Zoras, or mermaids and mermen. a large fish is their lord. To the south-east lay where I am from, a large forest. Inside are children who, as folklore says, never dies. They walk and talk and play like regular children. They wear garments similar to my tunic.
"To the south lies a large lake. A large and beautiful lake where you can fish and play. To the southwest lies a dry valley. Inside this valley is a fortress of only women. They guard a desert, which is very large.
"This land is Hyrule, Ame, and it's one of the most beautiful places you would ever see." Cat finally finished and patted Ame.
"Lancaster is twenty? I would've never guessed..." Cat said, blushing once more. "I believe...if I remember correctly, the age of Dodongo. ...or eighteen years as you would call it." She looked at the stage. she sat down on the edge, took out a pure black ocarina and started to play.
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Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 8:59 am
Ame shut her eyes, trying to picture Cat's homeland in her head. She had called it Hyrule. What a strange name. She imagined the valleys and the hills. This was difficult for her. She had never seen mountains, except for in pictures.
She pictured the rock people in her head. She had no idea what they looked like, but it was fun to imagine. She imagined big strong rock men, standing well over twenty feet, chewing on the rocks merrily. That was probably incorrect, but it was still fun to picture.
She then saw the water channel, the ocean. That was what Ame loved the most. It was home to her. She could clearly picture each wave as it lapped against the shore. She clearly saw the merfolk. As for the big fish, she imagined him to be a deep red color. She had no idea why. Red just seemed to contrast brightly with the blue of the water.
Next, were the children of the valley. Kenjiro had told her about this kind. How they forever stayed young. Ame wasn't sure how she felt about this. Sure, it was nice being a kid. However, she wanted to grow up as well.
She saw the lake, another body of water. This one slightly more foreign, do to the fact that it was fresh. Then the dry valley, and the fortess of woman.
"That sounds nice", she said finally opening her eyes. She stroked the ocarina slowly, letting her fingers run against the blue and black instrument. "It was sort of hard to picture, but I did my best."
She stood up, pacing around a bit. "I don't remember where I was born. I was found wandering on the beach when I was twelve years old", she sat down on the bench of the grand piano, looking skyward. "In my species, twelve is equivalent to two." She said this matter of factly, and then continued. "A man found me, he was young. His name was Kenjiro. He lived on a beachside town. It was small, hardly any people. I remember there was this old woman that lived in a hut right on the waters edge. She had a granddaughter my age and we would play together often."
She continued to tell Cat about her hometown. She spoke for several minutes, describing in full detail about the people of the town. She told of her adventures, how once she got into trouble for stealing an ice cream cone, although it really wasn't here. She spoke, and she felt better. She had been keeping the town locked up inside for so long. It was as if it were a caged bird, longing to be set free. Finally it was.
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Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 9:34 am
Cat had paused her playing to listen to Ame's story. Cat nodded while she listened. She could tell that the child was becoming happier because of the now released emotions.
As she finished, Cat scooted over a bit so that Ame could sit on the stage. Cat then took out an ancient textbook. "Silly me! I have described to you the people, but I must show you them in order to fully understand.
"Ame, this is the Book of Mudora, the book that never stops writng down Hyrule's history." Cat flipped a couple of pages. She pointed to the mountain people, who had brown skin and rocky backs. "These people are the Gorons." She pointed to a man that resembled somewhat of a fish. It had webbed feet and human like hands, and a long tail on its head than hair. "These are the mer-people, or Zoras as we call them."
She then pointed to some children dressed in clothes with fairies fluttering near them. "They are the children, in my homeland, we call them the Kokiri." Cat turned the page and shwed tan women that looked like gypsies. "We call them the Gerudo. Only one male is born every 100 years."
Cat then turned to another page. The picture showed regular folk with pointed ears. "They are the Hylians, always busy. I have a picture of the royal family in my dorm room."
She then turned to the last two pages which showed a mystrious looking tribe. the other page showed the same tribe , except they had black wings. "To the left are the shadow folk; the Sheikahs. There are many of them, but are usually very rare to find. And last is my species; The Risheiks. I'm not really sure if there are more. I seem to be the only one. All I know that the Risheiks were trained to portect the royal family and kill the intruders. We were the stronger ones, due to our wing feature. I believe my only other bloodlie are the Rito, for they have wings, but they have beaks and bird feet, something I do not have."
Cat turned to the last few pages, all detailing the different landscapes of Hyrule. She moved the book to Ame so she could see it better. Cat continued to play her ocarina. "Why don't I teach you a song? One that might help you with your water manipulation. I thought of the perfect one!"
Cat smiled kindly at the child. She felt that the child needed a mother or sister figure in her life.
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Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 9:43 am
Ame grinned at the book. "Its nice to see that you have things of your homeland." She sighed, "From the town I was raised in, I have nothing." She said this sadly. She did have many things while living there. They had been destroyed in the water though. I had a doll she thought miserably to herself. It was my favorite doll. But shes gone now. Now I have real friends.... this part of her thought cheered her up a bit.
"However, I do have this" she said, reaching to pull a necklace that she kept concealed in the water like dress she wore. The necklace was on a silver chain and gleamed slightly. On it was a small pendent, a jewel. The jewel was a bluish greenish tone. It looked exactly like the ocean. "I've had it as long as I can remember", she smiled. "Its the only thing I have. That, and a song."
She turned towards Lancaster. "Do you think I'll ever remember?"
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Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 10:11 am
Lancaster continued to listened quietly as the two talked and played. He was deep in thought, what could be going on in that man's head. Such a man of strangeness who knows.
He brushed his hair back as he snapped back into reality. He looked at Ame and smiled as he lowered himself down and patting her head with his winning smile on his face. "I bet you will once the time is right, little nymph. Do not worry yourself too much or you'll give yourself a head ache."
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Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 10:14 am
Im confuzzled Tsuki smirked, as she sat there in a corner kind of poking at a guitar. She was never the instrumental person, excluding the piano, so she really had no idea what these instruments were. She just poked at a guitar until one of the string 'snapped',
"Uh..."
she said in her masculine voice as she went over somewhere else to another instrument, this one being a flute. She kind of pushed it as it rolled out of its case, and kept rolling.
She then ran over back next to Lancaster as she listened to each other's stories, Ame's and Cat's.Yep confuzed still
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Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 10:28 am
"Do not worry Ame. I am sure that you will remembered." Cat said absently.
"Ame, look out the wndow, notice the sun is shining. What I will teach you will help you in the long-run." Cat started to play a song that seemed happy, and yet sad at the same time. The sky darkened and thunder rumbed. then rain started to pour down quickly. Cat played the song again, and the storm stopped.
"That is the song of storms. It will come in handty when in battle." Cat started to teach Ame the fingerings. Cat then turned to Lancaster. "May I ask of your history, Lancaster?" she said, looking at him with curious violet eyes.
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Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 12:44 pm
Bijou smiled as soon as she stepped into the lovely building that was the music hall. It wasn't just for instruments, though she would have loved to play the piano or violin at this moment. Instead she just sang. A song in japanese, so she barely knew what it meant. It was from a TV show she watched a lont time ago...
"Nanairo no kaze ni fukarete
Tooi misaki wo mezashiteta
Yoake mae Kikoeta Merodi
Sore wa totemo natsukashii uta
Higashi no sora e to habataku toritachi
Saa takarajima ni nukeru chikamichi
Nanatsu no umi no rakuen
Arashi no yoru no ato ni wa
Ai wo tsutaerutame
Inochi ga mata umareru
Nanatsu no kuni no Merodia
Daremo ga itsuka wa koko wo
Tabi wo tsu hi ga kitemo
Watashi wa Wasurenai
She smiled as she sang. It had been so long. She loved the freedom she felt when she was singing or playing an instrument. It made her feel at home. Not that she had a true home. She had always been changing between heaven and Paris and now Ria. She was never in one place long enough to feel at home. She continued singing
Yukuri to kumo wa nagarete
Nijino hate ni kieteita
Hoshitachi wa shinju no you ni
Tsuyoi hikari hanachi hajimeru
Minami no sora kara kikoeru kuchibue
Sou otona ni naru tokiga kiteita
Kiseki wa meguru bouken
Yasashii haha no negai wo
Mune ni idaki nagara
Dare mo ga tabi wo shiteru
Hoshi furu yoru no fantajia
Afureru namida to inori
Dare ni mo wakaranai
Mirai wo terashiteru
She finished her song and took a deep breath. She felt like a new person. Her wings fluttered with excitement and she hovered above ground for a few minutes before she sat down and watched the rest of the group.
((the song was Legend of Mermaid from Mermaid Melody: Pichi Pichi Pitch and Pichi Pichi Pitch Pure.))
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Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 1:17 pm
"That was pretty singing Bijou!" Cat said as she finished a song on her ocarina causing another plant to dance. "I like singing as well, but I never felt comfortable singing in public..." Cat then frowned.
"The only language I know is Hyrulian and English. I wish I could sing in the form of the cherry blossom, or Japanese as you would call it."
Cat closed her eyes and thought deeply. "I can still remember the lullaby that my foster sang to me. However, I shall not burden you all with my horrible voice." Cat knew that she had 'given the dissage' as they called it to herself. In truth, she was a great singer. She was just very shy.
She put her ocarina back to her mouth and played a sorrowful song.
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Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 1:24 pm
Ame smiled when she heard Bijou sang. It was incredible. It was odd, knowing that in technical terms the two of them were the same age. She shook her head roughly. She must pay attention to Cat.
"But, I should be able to do water manipulation without an instrument" She told Cat sadly, holding onto the instrument. "I mean, I love it. Its really pretty. Its just...." She sighed, running her her hands against the lush blood red curtains. "I'm a nymph, a deity of nature. An Oceanid at that. I should be able to call upon the sea, and control it. Not wreck havock..."
She sank to the ground, smiling as she did. "I really like the ocarina Cat, I promise. But, I can't rely on it. Someday, I wish do control water with just my thoughts and will, like my mother."
She jumped off the stage then, gracefully landing on her feet. The music hall was huge. Tsuki stood there, watching them all intensly. Lancaster listened as well.
Ame wished she knew about them, but knew it was rude to press people for information. Hadn't she kept the real reason of why she couldn't use her powers a secret? She could use them, a little too well. She could manipulate water, but then there would be another disaster. The only person who knew anything about her past was Tsuki, and Ame had no idea how much the cat girl was really paying attention. They had been in a battle after all.
"I remember one song from my mother..." she spoke. "But, last time I sang it, I blacked out for a while. So...I dunno"
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