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 Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 4:01 pm
Cassandra shivered slightly when Merrick mentioned Asmodeus. Oh she would never forget that. "Yeah, I remember," she said slowly with a nod. Unconsciously she had moved a little closer to Lorcan. It had not been a pleasant time coming across that particular adder. She smiled then at Merrick and nodded. "Well let's go then."Merida's face broke into a grin. A nice hot bath would definitely be nice. "Hmm, a hot spring," Constance said with a small nod of her head. "Sounds wonderful." She linked her arm with Merrick's. "Lead the way."
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Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 6:40 am
Kasumi shrugged as she started walking. She heard a soft squeaking sound
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Merrick tilted his head with a half smile. He wasn't fond of that memory any more than Cassandra. "To think, if we'd made boots from that serpent, we could have probably made enough to fill a warehouse," he said wryly. He half turned towards the Abbey, gazing up at it before he started walking as he lowered the hood of the robe; he knew they'd have to go around the Abbey to the opposite wall gate, which they'd be using. He shifted his weight before he gasped sharply as a splash of icy, soapy water splashed squarely onto his head.
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Lorcán chuckled. "It's obvious that the memories of this place you two have are pleasant," he said with amusement.
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Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 4:16 pm
Cassandra chuckled softly and nodded. "Aye, we probably could have." She said with a grin on her face. She laughed more as the soapy water splashed over Merrick's head. She then turned her gaze back to Lorcan and shrugged. "Pleasant memories and unpleasant ones. Just like everywhere else."
Constance gasped as the water that had spilled on Merrick's head landed on her as well. She began to laugh and shake her head. She hadn't expected that to happen.
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Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 8:04 am
Kasumi laughed softly as Merrick looked up, not noticing the molebabes that had dumped the bucket of water on him.
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Merrick sighed as he noticed nothing above his head, though he noticed the handle of the bucket hanging out of the window. He shrugged, then started walking with a sigh. "Hey, it's better than the time that I fell asleep and they dumped that bucket of raspberries and cherry juice on me," he said, referring to a prank that Tansy and Craklyn had pulled on him not long before the former had had a dream of Martin the Warrior.
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Lorcán nodded; he knew what Cassandra meant very well.
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Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 6:51 pm
Constance still had a grin on her face as she walked with Merrick. The water had been very cold, but soon enough they would be in some really nice, warm water. "It seems that there are pranksters all around me now," she said softly so that only Merrick would hear her. "It certainly makes life more interesting."Cassandra walked quietly next to Lorcan, glad that everything was calm at the moment. They surely did need the break. She brushed her hand lightly through her hair with a soft sigh. Amelia hummed softly to herself as they made their way to wherever Merrick was leading them.Nala was quiet by her side, only the pitter patter
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Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2013 6:39 am
Kasumi tilted her head as they reached the six foot tall wall gate on the other side. "I guess we should be glad that Naruto got out of the pranking game a long time ago, otherwise it'd be an all out prank war, and from experience, he's won most of those," she said with a sigh in a quiet voice.
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Merrick inhaled slowly. "There's one song that I know that could very well describe this place," he said quietly. It was also one that he felt people could really learn from as he concentrated, his acoustic guitar materializing in a swirl of misty dust. His fingers started moving over the strings seconds later.
"I'm just a city boy...
But there's a small town side of me...
And I feel it closin' in,
Are we blind to see...
That she's dying more each day,
And she's crying out to you and me...
Changes come and when they're gone,
They curse the fools who wait too long...
So let's take care of what we have,
Before the good we know goes bad...
And the beauty fades and just slips away,
The dirty air, the dying seas...
Will this be the world we leave,
To the wild and young?
I say, just look at what we've done,
And right before our eyes...
Today's yesterday,
Will be tomorrow's goodbye...
Here comes the rain...
And it might wash her tears away,
But it doesn't change a thing...
Like my brother before me,
All I can do is write this song,
And for her I sing...
So let's take care of what we have,
Before the good we know goes bad...
And the beauty fades and just slips away,
The dirty air, the dying seas...
Will this be the world we leave,
To the wild and young?
I say, just look at what we've done,
And right before our eyes...
Today's yesterday,
Will be tomorrow's goodbye...
Do you ever think about
The future or the past?
Do you ever wonder,
How long this world will last?
So let's take care of what we have,
Before the good we know goes bad...
And the beauty fades and just slips away...
The dirty air, the dying seas...
Will this be the world we leave,
To the wild and young?
I say, just look at what we've done...
And right before our eyes...
Yeah, it's right before our eyes...
Today's yesterday,
Will be tomorrow's goodbye..." he sang quietly.
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Lorcán blinked as Merrick spoke, opening the gate as Merrick started playing. A chill shot down his spine upon hearing the poignant lyrics.
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Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2013 6:44 pm
Constance chuckled and glanced over at Naruto. She could definitely see Merrick's uncle as a great trickster. Her gaze went back to Merrick as he began to sing and a small smile spread across her face. He always knew the perfect songs to sing at the perfect time. Not to mention that he had a very wonderful voice. She loved to hear him sing. Cassandra looked over at Merrick as he sang. The song, it had a good message to it. She smiled slightly, glad that Merrick was able to express his thoughts in such a way. Music was what a lot of people listened to. "Hmm, that was beautiful," Amelia said softly as she ran her hand lightly over Nala's head.
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Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 4:13 pm
Kasumi smiled slightly as she walked out of the gate, not that surprised that her brother did the same and immediately took to the trees; she chuckled as her brother moved, scouting ahead of them unconsciously. "He never was able to get rid of that protective shinobi streak in him," she murmured.
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Merrick sighed as he walked through the gate, his gaze flickering around cautiously.
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Lorcán shrugged as he started walking quickly.
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Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 7:14 pm
Constance walked silently with Merrick, a smile still on her face. Her gaze flickered over to Cassandra and she frowned slightly. She felt as if she should know something about the coven leader, but she didn't know what it was. After a moment she just shrugged and continued on her way. Cassandra's head tilted to the side slightly and smiled a little at Kasumi's remark. "That's how brothers are supposed to be; protective." There was a tinge of sadness to how she spoke. She was thinking back to her own brother and how he had always been so protective of her before he left. She wished that her memories of him being her brother had not been hidden away like they had been. She had missed out on so much with him and his wife before he passed. Cassandra didn't know if she could ever forget that. Merida looked over at Cassandra with a frown. She had not missed that sadness to the other woman's voice. Amelia listened quietly to Cassandra. She had a feeling she knew what Cassandra was thinking about. After all, Cassandra's mother had come to Amelia all those years ago asking for help with a spell to make her daughter forget her older brother. Amelia had been hesitant, but in the end had relented. After all Cassandra was slated to be the next Coven leader, and even as a child she had great power. Amelia knew that they would need her, and taking her memories of her beloved brother was the only way to keep her safe. She could only hope that Cassandra could forgive her for the part she played in that.
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Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 7:14 am
Kasumi laughed softly. "I wouldn't really know... I didn't know him when either of us were growing up, so for the first fifty years of our lives, neither of us knew the other existed at all, and his life... was extremely brutal; that scar over his heart came from a shinobi he had once considered his 'brother' in all but blood, and the boy nearly killed him over a lust for power," she said with a soft sigh.
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Merrick frowned slightly at his mother's words; he'd noticed the scar just as Constance had, but to hear the cause of it troubled him. "I guess he doesn't know, then, about our talent," he said in a low voice meant for his mother. She jerked slightly, her eyes flickering momentarily to his as his dark teal-navy eyes flickered crimson with triple tomoe in them for a couple of seconds. He noticed the slightly guilty look on her face and shrugged, already knowing the answer but sparing his mother the need to answer.
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Lorcán tilted his head before he heard a soft crack as a branch as thick as his leg and nearly as tall as he was (6') fell and impaled itself into the ground with a thunk just inches in front of him.
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Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 12:16 pm
Constance frowned as she listened to how Naruto had received the scar over his heart. That must have been terrible, to be betrayed by someone you loved as a brother. She shook her head a little. She was glad that she had not felt that type of betrayal. She could only hope it would stay that way until the end of her days. Constance's eyes quickly shot up as a tree branch impaled itself in the ground not too far ahead of them. Cassandra listened silently to Kasumi as she mentioned what had happened to Naruto. She sighed and shook her head. Yes, brothers were supposed to be protective, but not all of them were. Obviously Rosalyn's brother wasn't, otherwise she wouldn't still be a captive in her father's domain. She would be free and with her daughter. Maybe even Ambrosias would still be alive as well. "Well at least you have each other now," she said with a small smile at Kasumi. She stopped in her tracks as the tree branch fell to the ground near them. Merida stumbled a little as the tree branch fell inches from them. Luckily it had missed them all. Her gaze quickly went up just as Constance's did to see if it was done purposely or if that branch had just given way.
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Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 12:42 pm
Kasumi cocked her head, frowning as a few splinters hit the ground; to her eyes it was clear that the branch was rotten through completely and that it had fallen under its own weight.
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Merrick cocked his head, his hand rising up before pressing lightly against the branch. Its bark flexed almost immediately, telling him it was rotted completely. He retracted his hand slightly before flicking his arm forward. The branch seemed to explode as his fist impacted with a very light strike, splinters scattering over the dusty path ahead of them.
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Lorcán blinked as an idea came to him, one that if it worked, it would prove extremely useful.
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Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 6:14 pm
Merida was relieved to see nobody out to get them. It seemed that the branch had just fallen due to being rotten. She smirked a little and shook her head. They were all so jumpy, but that was to be expected. A lot had happened to them over the last several weeks. Constance chuckled softly and shook her head. Almost immediately she had seen the rotten wood and knew they weren't under any attack. And from the cool way Kasumi and Merrick were acting, they knew it as well. She looked around to see everyone else relaxed as they realized that nothing was wrong. Cassandra laughed softly, "Well we are a bit jumpy, aren't we?" She pushed a strand of hair from her face.
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Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 7:19 am
Kasumi tilted her head slightly though she remained quiet.
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Merrick chuckled as he tilted his head. "That's the best thing about a good hot spring; it relaxes pretty much anyone," he said with amusement.
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Lorcán shrugged as he started walking again, not surprised to see most everyone else doing the same. "Considering recent events, I think we should be very grateful that none of us have PTSD," he sighed, half joking.
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Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 3:51 pm
Cassandra chuckled and shook her head at Lorcan's remark. "I am sure we would have gotten it long before now." She nudged him playfully. "We've always been a little bit on the edge of our seats."Constance nodded her head happily. Just the thought of the hot spring was making her feel better already. They needed just a little bit of relaxation before they moved on to their next stage of training. She slipped her hand into Merrick's, humming softly to herself. Nala darted ahead of everyone, seeming to know where she was going. She swatted playfully at bushes, a happy mewing sound coming from her. Amelia chuckled and shook her head.
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