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 Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 12:58 am
"Shan't." She replied thickly, under control of the most part. The goodest of the good ones? Well that was...good! Nataki frowned for a moment, her tears forgotten as it was now her turn to try and make sense of what the woman was saying. Yes but no...? Well, she could figure that out later. Finally, she simply seized the name, deciding that was the most tangible response that she had. "Thae it is." She tried to offer a wobbly sort of smile, but that didn't go over so well.
"Oh, of course...I think they're in that--that room over there." The blonde glanced nervously over one shoulder, gesturing helplessly at the training room. "That was where I saw mostly everyone, last time..." Taking a few uncertain steps towards it, Nataki had her arms held close to her chest again, glancing back at Thae. "I...I don't exactly know my way around, but I'll do my best to help out." If Thae came with, of course.
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Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 9:15 am
Kyocho finally returned back from the kitchen, but with a plateful of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Not paying attention to the new fire red haired woman. Kyocho quickly set down the plate, then turned to look at the woman. Resting his hand gently on the bow strapped to his.
"Who are you?"
Kyocho's Elvin eyes began to scan the woman. Taking in all her features... until his eyes met with hers. They looked... familiar. Oddly... familiar.
"Those aren't yours.." The elf quietly mumbled to himself. Slowly the elf sat down next to the kids. Keeping a close eye on Yashi, Zah, Kay, and Oak.
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Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 12:03 pm
"Soh tyrd..." Zasalamel mumbled quietly, idly watching Oak and Yashima. The Drow had gone through so much, his brain couldn't take much more of this. With a slight lean against his friend, the Drow's eyes closed.
He'd been on the verge of sleep when a very, VERY familiar voice hit his ears. The voice didn't come from the room he was in, the training room, but from elsewhere. Instantly, the Drow sat up straight, his eyes wide open and his pointed ears perking a bit, as if to hear better. It was coming from the hallway. He could faintly hear voices now, but the one he recognized was gone.
"..Ilhar?" He said slightly louder than usual, shifting Vana in his arms so he could stand up. Glancing back at Yashima as if begging him to follow, the Drow strode out of the training room and into the main hallway, towards where he thought he heard Ilhar's voice.
What he as met with was the sight of the red-head and the nervous looking woman. As he stared at the aqua-eyed woman though, his eyes grew wide. This woman...looked like Ilhar. The clothes, the eyes, the height, the antennae; this woman's hair was red and yellow-orange, but it was two toned the same way Ilhar's blue and black tipped hair was.
Who...who was this woman?
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"Me neither! I don't have a SINGLE clue as to what I'm doing. First that swift footed fool spirited to me and told me 'Come Quick, now!" Then it insulted me like crazy to get me here faster...Then Miss Sicily gave me something that made me come to life and said "Get inside and get everyone together!" But I don't know WHO she meant by that - well, I guess she meant you and whoever else - but I don't KNOW you or this place or WHERE I'm supposed to gather everyone and AGH." The Once-Spirit Thae was ranting now, and rather loudly. A moment after Thae had spoken, she tapped one of her thin fingers against her chin, a habit Neveah once had. "Long story short, I don't know my way around, either." The red head was speaking as if she had never gone on that entire rant. Of course, her aqua eyes went towards the man with the plate of food; and a sharp pang of recognition hit her.
"Who are you?" She shot back, blinking in confusion. She KNEW that man, yet she didn't. He was familiar, yet he was not. "Oh! But I'm ---"
"...I-Ilhar...?"
This made Thae cut herself off. The voice and that name brought a second pang of recognition through her but...this one hurt. As if this one was more than important to the soul she'd leeched onto. She blinked her angled aqua eyes at him.
"I know you. Who are you?" She pointed at him, unaware that the boy was the leeched spirit's bonded child.
Though Thae was staring at him in impatient expectancy, Zasalamel couldn't answer her. She said so herself, she knew him...but what hurt worst was that this woman, who looked so much like Ilhar to his eyes, didn't have a clue as to who he was. The Drow could only stare at her with a silent gape, his eyes showing his confusion...
...and his hurt.
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Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 1:58 pm
The fretful whisp of a woman looked dreadfully confused at the rants--but fortunately, she was a rather quick, if a bit scattered person, so she didn't seem to have trouble grasping the former spirit's intent. "O-Oh, well, that's quite all right. I don't think you'll have p-problems with--" The man made her jump with surprise, shrinking timidly behind Thae some, as though ashamed at her lack of courage.
The child drew her back out again though, a slight frown set on her tired, thin face. What had he said? It certainly didn't sound English, but that shouldn't have surprised her. However, glancing between them with confusion, Nataki felt a tug on her hearstrings for the poor boy. He looked, well, wounded almost. And there was something about this woman that made her pause to get a better look, confused, curious, but not quite able to figure it out. "Strange..."
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Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 2:39 pm
Of course, Yashima followed his friend. Zah was his friend and, like many things, he had to follow him to make sure he didn't get hurt in the fight of it all.
The woman DID look like Neveah. Enough to make the fox falter in his trek, hand moving to grab at Zasalamels elbow. Worried eyes darted towards his friend and, in his defense, that hand moved to wrap around the tired drows shoulders.
"How could you not know who he is?!" Yashimas voice was all but yelling, the fur on his tail bristling. "You don't know who *I* am either, do you? You're Neveah! Aoi Chou! He's your son."
The last word was an accusation, thrown from his lips much like a spike might fly from a warriors hand. The small fox was angry, and he would take it out with words. He couldn't attack Neveah. Zah would be hurt. His blue ears were back against his skull, lips peeled back in anger.
"And you were DEAD. What happened to your hair? You..." He faltered, blinking in confusion. "You don't..." He leaned over and snffed at the air, letting go of Zah briefly to sniff a little closer at her. She was far away, all things considered, but she was still there and htere was still air moving around her. "....you smell different."
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Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 3:00 pm
Coailiann heard the commotion and being made to sit down was wondering what the hell was going on. Slowly she forced herself up and winced as she put pressure on her foot.
Okay, that wasn't going to work. The sidhe stood one-legged for a moment, looking like a pale and bleeding flamingo before managing to hop to the bars that the weapons had been hung on for support.
Maybe she could pull two of them off and use them as crutches. She tried, pulling hard, and managed to get one off.
However, it caused her to fall smack on her a**.
"Ow! Damnú air!"
With another full out effort, Coailiann managed to stand and, using the beam for some support, started to hobble painfully over to the group.
Where she saw Neveah. With different colored hair and a forehead gem.
"Uh....What's going on...?" She asked, lost.
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Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 3:22 pm
"Ow!" Rubbing the knot that would soon form on her head, Shira gritted her teeth and threw the offending piece of wood that fell form the ceiling off to the side.
"Stupid place is falling apart...."
Recently coming from her failure to find anything suitible to eat for the kids, she stepped inside the room with a hand in the pocket of her hoodie, and the other feeling for any permenant damage.
"Hey, what's all the noise about? I swear if you guys are fighting over-" She paused when she finally looked up to see what the center of attention was. The strange red-headed girl put Shira on the defense. "...and who are you?" She scanned the floor quickly to see where the sword she had been carrying went.
Damn... "Some other spirit?" She couldn't help the accusing tone in her voice. She edged slowly towards the unknown woman.
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Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 6:27 pm
"She doesn't smell BAD," Yashi snapped, his free hand making a fierce slicing motion in the air. "So don't go towards her, you crazy female! She smells DIFFERENT. Different does not mean BAD."
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Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 6:54 pm
Shira glared at the girl for a while longer before sighing and looking away. "Fine.....fine." She ran a hand through her hair. "You can't blame me for being cautious, can you?" She mumbled.
"I'm trusting your nose not to be wrong on this one then." Her shoes made a scuffing noise as she went towards her blade and picked it up. She made a face at the glaring metal and brought it back down towards her side. Lord help her if she actually had needed to use it.
"Still, you didn't tell me who you were. It'd be a big help to at least know why you're here." She kept the weapon down to assure little golden boy that she had no intention of attempting to fight.
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Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 6:59 pm
The bristling fox boy--what had his name been again--caused her to startle, recognizing him immediately. Oh! So that was Zah...that was the one he had been searching for before. "N-Neveah?" But that had been--no, this couldn't be her! They looked so different! ...Or did they? Nataki hadn't known the woman, and therefore had no way of knowing for certain. Hesitantly she stepped forward, clearing her throat meekly.
"E-Even if she isn't Neveah, but I'm not saying she isn't," The blonde stammered nervously, "S-She isn't a bad person. She was sent by...the goodest of the good ones." Nataki finished rather lamely, quoting Thae for that particular title. Her hand had slipped back into that large pocket of her dirty black overcoat again, gripping the hilt of the dagger protectively--and yelping when surprise as she practically cut herself. All right, having a slightly large blade in one's pocket where they could slice themselves open wasn't the smartest idea she'd had today...It went right up there with entering the shop in the first place.
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Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:25 pm
Throughout the entire experiance, fear had been gathering and impressing itself upon the sensitive in between. It was causing the sensitive balance of energy to be disrupted.
The in between fed on it, absorbing it into a new being. A shade. The shadow was creeping along the headquarters now, quietly. The light that had managed to come back on was flickering again as it sucked what it could from it, scrounging around for anything it could find.
The flickering stopped for a moment, the lights steady before completely going out once again, hiding the shade from view and sending the training room into darkness once again.
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Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:31 pm
"....Neveah..." Shira blinked, taking in what the blonde had stuttered. "You mean...this is.....but she-!" She made a flash of different confused faces at every pause.
She'd never really meet Neveah. Only for a little while during the battle with the troll did she even see her, and even then it wasn't for very long. Because then soon she had fallen...
"But...Neveah....she's dead..." She whispered loudly. She didn't mean to say it so blantly but...
Shira guessed from a glance...her eyes...that weird thing on her head....that's all Shira could say she recognized but....was this another one of Jorianth's tricks? Was she being used just like Danny had been? Golden-boy said she wasn't bad but-
The lights had started flickering, startling her. She looked around nervously before letting out a sigh of relief as the lights stabalized. "What the hell was-"
Complete darkness.
"....s**t."
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Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:32 pm
Nataki had been mindlessly, and carefully, wrangling her hands, the dagger handled quite cautiously. She hardly knew how to use it properly, of course, but that didn't mean she wouldn't end up stabbing herself by accident. Like when the lights flickered before going completley out!
The blonde uttered a soft scream, her eyes all but popping out from behind those thick spectacles, the dagger clattering to the floor. Trembling arms wrapped firmly around herself, and, quivering with fear, Nataki took a few uncertain steps forward, kneeling so she could fumble blindly for the dagger. She cut herself this time, crying out quietly and able to feel rather than see the crimson welling up from the paper-thin slice. Reaching out once more, she grasped the blade and rose to her feet, shaken and scared once more.
"W-Why did the lights g-g-go out?" She whispered, trembling, searching desperately around for the shapes of others.
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