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 Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 7:54 pm
"On the bright side their all alive." Rip said shrugging. "Niccea managed to make Whym into an app or something on her PDA, and Maria can fend for herself." He looked to the new guy who was now staring intently at him.
"What?" Rip said feeling the eyes burning into his skull.
"Sorry it's just... you're the wolf aren't you?"
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Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 8:32 pm
"I'm glad she could be saved." Thaya felt relief wash over her. She really
liked Whym. "Though I think Whym would be pissed if she heard you call
her an app."
Thaya gave Scar an odd look. "The way you all talked about him I
assumed you'd met this 'wolf' guy before. So how about it Rip? Are you
the Wolf?" She wanted to ask what he knew about fight club, but stopped
herself. She wasn't sure if Nic was supposed to know about it, and she
really doubted that they should talk about it on the surface anyway.
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Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 8:43 pm
Rip shrugged. "I really don't know what he's talking about... I mean yeah, I turn into a wolf, but I don't about THE wolf." He looked to Scar and then to Thaya. "Lets head to my place we can talk more there." He said motioning for the others to follow.
"So, why did you call me the wolf?" He asked as Scar started following him.
"The wolf is the founder of the underground resistance... Without him... you, we'd have died out long ago."
Rip rubbed his temples "Let's just get inside."
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Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 3:44 pm
Niccea smiled. "Yeah, Rip, Whym is more of an OS. Or a micro robot." She turned aside to Thaya. "I gave my PDA wheels and a small motor so Whym could be mobile."
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Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 7:02 pm
Thaya followed Rip unquestioningly, and motioned for Scar to do the
same. She was sure that Nic would tag along too. This almost felt like the
old days. "So where do you live nowadays Rip?"
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Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 7:36 pm
"Hannah's... where else?" He said as they neared the apartment. The doorknob turned black a moment as he turned it. He opened the door to expose the dirty apartment. "Sorry... haven't had guest in a few years." He said walking in and tossing his sword on the end table. "Anyway, I really don't know what you're talking about... sorry." He said to scar.
Scar shook his head. "They say that the wolf only appeared once to build his empire and then vanished so that his people could do what needed to be done."
Rip looked to Thaya. "Okay so now I'm an emporor?"
"So what exactly did this wolf guy do?"
"He saved us all."
"Quit talking in @#$&#xin;g riddles... what exactly do you think I did?"
"You created the training grounds for the entire resistance."
"HOW!?" Rip yelled out getting impatient.
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Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 8:05 pm
Thaya flinched when Rip yelled. She quickly glanced at Scar and back. It
was obvious to her that there was a specific answer Rip was looking for,
and she worried that Scar wasn't going to say it, whatever it was.
"This is nonsense." She said after a beat. "That 'empire' is nothing but a
wrecked subway station, and that was an accident...right?" A horrible
though struck her and she turned to face Rip. "Right?!"
Thaya seriously hoped they didn't put innocents at risk just to make a
training ground.
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Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 8:51 pm
"The subway station?" Rip shook his head. "That is what this is about?" He said with a confused look on his face. "That was an accident!"
"You can't tell me the last four years of my life has been built on an accident."
Rip sat down. "All I tried to do was save some people." He said looking at his feet. "Agents had found a nest of misfit gifted hiding out in the station... I could hear their pleas for mercy from the surface..."
He shook his head. "I tried to save them... then the train came."
((Okay I'm testing out a new way of writing... so just realize this is a flashback, but he's still telling the story.))
Rip stood breathing heavily between the family of gifted and the squad of agents. His wolven qualities had become quite obvious through the fight. His incisors, and nails had grown long and sharp, and his hair was much thicker.
The fight had waged on for what seemed like hours as he fought back the agents attacks. He was afraid for the first time since he had left Harmony. There were too many of them... There was no way he'd beat all of them without help, and it was obvious the misfits behind him weren't interested in fighting.
Rip had aleady nearly died twice during the fight, blood stained his clothes as he rushed towards the enemy in a desperate attempt to hold them back for the others to run.
"Why are you just standing there?!" He yelled out in gasping breaths.
He felt the back of his head cave in as one of the agents caught him with a billy club. As it reformed, the roar of the train coming down the tracks grew louder. One of the agents tossed him onto the tracks.
He did the only thing he could think of. The train turned off the tracks, and slammed the agents into the wall causing a large portion of the station to cave in.
Rip strained himself to get up as he looked over the wreckage. Screams and crying filled his sensitive ears as the misfits dragged him off the tracks onto safe ground.
"Thank you..." One of them said as he sat him into a nearby bench.
Rip was still in shock making it difficult to speak. "No...no problem." He said pushing them away as he stood shakily. "I won't be here to help next time." He said quietly as he stumble down the tracks, and back home.
"After that I vowed never to leave my home again... I didn't want to hurt anyone like that again." He sighed. "After my past with Harmony I thought I was done with that... I guess I was wrong."
After the last bit about Harmony, he looked to Niccea. She had told him if he ever killed innocent civilians again, she'd personally put an end to him. "Sorry."
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Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 7:35 am
Niccea sighed. "Whatever." She raised a hand and the rubbish in the appartment incinerated. "You should fire your house keeper." She sat down on a now clean, if a little singed, couch. "Kid, I knew about the subway fiasco. And I knew you did it. But I didn't care. Still don't. Now it looks like your actions caused cult." Her eyes flashed. "I've been fighting the government for 45 years, and all I got was a bunch of nuciences."
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Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 8:19 am
Thaya was able to accept it being an accident. Innocents were always
caught in the crossfire, no matter how hard you tried. Hell, she'd been an
'innocent' at one point. It was still hard to think of all the civilians that like
had been hurt, or worse, on that day.
"Some days I think it'd be better if everyone just fended for themselves."
She hated herself for thinking that way. The way her power worked
Thaya functioned better as a part of a team. "I hate this."
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Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 9:09 am
Rip looked to Thaya. "Me too. Why do you think today's the first day I've even talked to someone in person for the last four years?"
Scar brightened up a bit. He felt like an unwanted child that finally had a chance to prove himself. "That why we exist! When you said you weren't coming back, they saw it as you challenging them to learn to fight for themselves. That's why the fight club started."
Rip looked to Thaya. "So, did you have to fight in there?" He asked able to smell the odor of old blood on her body. He really didn't know what to say. One event in his life created an entire organization.
((Time for a little knuckle style oddity.
"Fight club? Like the movie?"
"Uhm..."
"Well in that case, you are doing a really bad job of following the first rule."
"Sorry sir."
"Wait... that's really the first rule?" Rip laughed.
"Yes sir."
"Great, they based the entire cult off of a movie I watched the night before."
Sorry... you have no idea how tempted I am to make that an actual post.))
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Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 6:36 pm
Niccea frowned. "Then why haven't you been topside destroying agents?"
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Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 9:23 pm
"We only recently started that part of our plan... That's how I bumped into Angel." Only Thaya would understand how literal his statement was.
Besides most of us can't handle the bot they've been using lately... Almost all of us are either off-brand Telepaths, or healers. We do have a few others, but we all are just lucky enough to not be registered on the long range scanners."
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Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 7:01 am
Thaya shook her head. "Not exactly. Someone ordered me to heal Scar,
and well...I tried at least." She shifted uncomfortably under Rip's gaze. It
was a bit embarrassing to be sweating things that were no issue to her six
years ago. "They were just trying to help me recover my abilities is all. It
just didn't work out the way I wanted.
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Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 11:11 am
Rip groaned "I haven't done it for a while, but if you want, I can heal you." He offered. "Then after that I want to see this fight club."
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