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 Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 2:07 pm
The world he lived in was a small, circular world. The first thing he knew when he came into this world was that his world was small and he had to keep on walking forward in order to broaden it. And so, lantern in hand, was what he did, soon leaving the bright circular sphere of light the other Will-o'-wisps created in order to find his own light somewhere else. Away from the rest of the pack he came to be lonely, but he liked the color of the forest around him and the sky above him. The bright light of the wisps didn't allow him to see the stars, or notice the small things he did now...
Without noticing, he had floated up a small cliff, rising above the forest. From there he could see the lake below him, and the open space surrounding it, then the trees and the forest. This too was a circular world.
"Why is the world formed in a circle? Does it mean that no matter how far you go you'll still end up in that one place?"
He sat on a small grassy patch on the hill and looked away. Everything was so quiet... Until this quiet was startled by a loud sound and he was shot back on his small feet wanting to see. It was just the voices of birds and the violent flapping of their wings...
He watched them rise above the lake, white like the snow. Their flying was fast and how elegantly they dove over the water to snatch their prey! He felt like wanting to fly himself. But he knew it was impossible. He didn't have large feathered wings to fly with the birds...
Tired as he was at the time, he sat back down on his grassy patch and sighed, looking at the sky, the sky looking back down at him with its grey and white eye...
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Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 2:01 pm
If you were out at this time, you would come across a strange sight, a boy floating in the air. But it wasn't a boy, but a ghost on an errand. Said ghost (who liked to be called 'Lavi') glided down the path, a bag floating with him as he thought.
There were times when Lavi felt alone, longed for the old days (even if it meant that forsaken holy war), where it was defeating akuma and getting to see Allen, Kanda, Lenalee, all of the people he had knew in life.
Allen
He sighed, then shook his head. They were gone, most likely crossed over to the afterlife (unlike himself , but that was for it's own story), and after a century and year or so with his new friends, Lavi could safely say he didn't care, and that he was happy for them. So maybe the little whispling he say with the very familiar colors should not have surprised him.
"Hey! What are ya doin over there?" He called out out, making his way toward the little one, it wasn't every day he saw the whisplings about near his home.
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Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 2:49 pm
He blinked at hearing a sound unlike most sounds he heard so long. A voice. Of course it was a voice. He remembered what these where, voices... words... the ability to speak. He was asked a question, and when one of these where asked people usually expected an answer in return.
"I'm watching." he simply replied as he turned ninety degrees to his side to make eye-contact with the person that had asked him what he was doing. "I am wondering why the world is formed in circle... Does it mean that no matter how far you walk you'll still return to that one place where you started from?" he voiced his question out loud. Maybe that person knew the answer to this one, the question that bugged him and to which he could not give an answer.
"And what are you doing, mister?" he asked, tilting his head to one side, while looking upwards at the taller ghost.
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Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 3:36 pm
Leave it to him to find the one with a philosophical streak, Lavi thought. He smiled apologetically down at the ghost. "Can't answer ya that, it's a pretty difficult answer." he sat by the ghost, feeling strangely comfortable doing this, like the whispling was an old friend. "I was out getting something for a friend, so he doesn't freeze to death in the winter." And knowing Rynl he would.
he sat by the whisp for a few more minutes, before finally getting up, noticing how late it was, though a little, wriggling thought in the back of his head said to take whisp with him (though the other side was saying no). "...hey...you got anywhere to stay?" He asked, turning back to the whispling.
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Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 10:30 am
He looked away for a moment when the ghost said he couldn't answer, but the thought quickly drifted away and then dissapeared at the back of his mind. Then he looked up when the other said something about his friend. He just realized that he missed his own friends too... if he ever had any. Truth is... he didn't have any friends and so he couldn't miss them... he had just come to the realization that he was alone and thus felt lonely.
Extending one tiny, stuby limb that substituted for a hand he momentarily touched the other before returning both hands to his lantern as he watched the other get up.
So he was leaving?
And this meant he'd be alone again, right?
Suddently he realized that he didn't want to be alone anymore. He was alone for a long time, away from the other will-o'-wisps that once where the substitute for his family. But then he was asked a question again, and as said when one is asked they must answer.
"Here." he simply answered pointing at the place where he was standing. He always stayed wherever he was for a while, then walked off again looking for the next place to stay.
"Why do you ask?" he asked right after. A question for another question.
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Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 10:19 am
Well, thinking about it, the whisp living in the outside made sense. 'And I called myself a bookman' He thought, making note to never tell that blond friend of his, who would no doubt laugh at him for it.
Lavi shook his head, chasing the ill thoughts away for the moment, and turned back to the whisp, smiling. "How'd you like to come to my house? I know it won't make a difference, but it'd have a...a warmth ya'd feel. Comfortable." He wasn't sure how to describe it really, but he was sure the whisp got it.
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Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:11 am
The wisp tilted his head to one side. Home. He got the feeling that was what the older ghost meant by 'a warmth'. A place where you feel welcomed by its inhabitants which co-exist in harmony, helping one another through thick and thin. Good and bad times. And while he failed grasping the whole concept he found himself nodding his head as he was spoken to.
Even if it was simple kindness, acknowledge for the offer he was made by the red-headed ghost, he felt the need to do it, as if it was something pre-determined, like it was meant to be. The will-o'-wispling picked his lantern up and tilted his hgead to other side as if he was telling the other he was ready to go, that he could walk and lead the way and he'd follow.
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Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 5:37 am
Lavi was just a bit surprised. The little one was really going to come? This was a cause for excitement if he ever saw one. Grasping the whisps 'hand' he glided in what could be considered an excited manner home.
Maybe if he had paid more attention to his bag he'd have known they were also going to have a second guest.
(I'll toss in Rynl and all that next response)
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Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 10:39 am
The wisp didn't understand why the red-headed ghost seemed to be so excited, but seeing him be so he felt something inside of himself slowly taking form. It was still nothing but a mimicry of what it should have been but it was there, slowly, steadily it was shaping itself, changing itself, transforming itself... even if the wisp didn't know yet.
The place where he was taken was this 'home' the other was speaking of, and he was curious as to what it was exactly, even though he knew deep inside himself. He wanted to see. Wanted to learn. Wanted to know. Why, all of a sudden was not known either. There was a question in his mind. One that he wanted to ask, but seeing how they were already there he quickly forgot about it, pushing it away so he could trouble his mind with the things at hand.
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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 1:07 pm
From within the house, one could see two sets of piercing hazel eyes looking out, both as if they were waiting on something, or someone.
"He better come soon, dinner can't wait for him forever."
"You just want ice crea---Oh, I see him, and it looks like he has a friend."
The first pair of eyes looked over to the second, then turned to the direction they were looking to. "I can't see him, are you sure?" The second nodded, moving from the window, the first followed after a few seconds longer.
Finally, they were at his students house, now they just had to avoid--- "LAVI! Your late dammit!" Said ghost looked towards the source, about to scold his student for scolding him (I mean come on, he had centuries over that kid) when he saw the grinning face of a pale cat eared child he knew well. "Casey!? Real funny." He glared at the laughing cat ghost, who sobered up after a few moments. "Sorry, sorry, I couldn't resist." The cat continued to grin, even as he turned to the whisp child. "Oh? You got a new guy?" Lavi nodded. "Yep! I found him down the road, he said he was alone." Casey looked curiously at Lavi, then the whisp, wondering to himself what sort of connection they had, it was rather odd for a person, ghost or human, like Lavi to take home a stranger. Casey shrugged, he'd figure it out later.
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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 1:49 pm
The will-o'-wisp had never been around so many talking people at once. Well he might have had when he was travelling with the pack if the Wisps... but they weren't talking nor were aware of themselves at that point in time. He took a few moments to look up at his new friend and silently wonder if he was the cause that the other was yelling at him for being late. Of course it only took him a moment to snap out of it as his attention was directed at a different object, the grinning cat-child Lavi called Casey. Stepping forward, closer to him he extended one tiny hand in his direction.
"Nice to meet you." he said in a friendly manner and smiled.
It was a gesture that came out so naturally, so... fluently... like it was something he had been used to do for ages. It felt strange but at the same time invoked a sense that -if he knew more- he would call 'familiarity'. Being friendly like this was easy, a second nature, almost. Childish, yet in the same time carrying a rueful note of melancholy hidden in the back of the gesture.
"Are you Lavi's family?" he asked again afterwards without thinking much.
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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 2:11 pm
"No, he's house pet!" Lavi exclaimed with a grin, on immediately wiped off his face with a punch to the head. "Owwwww! Ya didn't have to hit so hard!" The cat ghost ignored the rather childish whine, turning his attention to Allen. "Yes. Your way more polite than that jerk, he didn't force ya here did he? Well, either way, come in." He smiled, taking the little wisp hand in his. "We'll let Lavi miss food." He snickered when he heard Lavi gasp, heading inside before he could complain, Allen in tow.
From the kitchen another blond poked his head out the doorway, this one more obviously alive. "Teach, Casey?"
God, that was infuriating! And he took Allen the moment he saw him. 'But why am I mad about that?' He didn't bother to think more on it though as he heard the familiar voice of his student. "Rynllllllllllll! Your cat is acting up!" He flew pass the two (Whose cat am i!?) And straight to the blond human, who looked down confused, then over to Casey and Allen. "Casey, stop being rude to old people, you know his little old ghost heart can't take it." He got a smack for it, but it was well worth it.
He was not old dammit! Lavi looked away after he hit Rynl, embarassed.
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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 2:48 pm
House pet? The wisp tilted his head to one side and studied Casey for a few moments. Of course... cats were house pets after all... but this cat looked humanoid enough to be a regular person... he wondered if it was okay... to have a human for a pet. As far as he could recall slavery was a crime. And to keep a pet was a bit like slavery, wasn't it?
"He invited me!" he exclaimed while still smiling brightly. And then he was pulled away after food was mentioned. Food... he suddenly came to the realization he was hungry. Up until now he hadn't felt hunger... maybe because he failed to remember the concept of hunger, food and eating as well and now that he had recovered this fragment of instictual memory his body was reacting, demanding food. Thus, the will-o-wisp found out that he had one voracious apettite there. But was it okay to not let Lavi have his meal? What if he was hungry? Now that he understood what this meant he was sure it wasn't a pleasant feeling.
"Maybe it isn't right not to let him eat." he decided to voice his thoughts. Standing up for someone also came to him easily, as with being friendly, it, too, felt like second nature to him. The next thing he knew the human boy was calling Lavi old and he didn't seem to like it very much. This, in turn, surprised Allen, because of what little he could remember old people didn't look like that. On the contrary, one would say Lavi wasn't old but quite young indeed, under normal circumstances.
"You don't seem old to me..." he spoke his mind for a second time within a few seconds. Bit by bit he seemed to be regaining a sense of personality and standards and ideals. It seemed a bit like a revelation, as thoughts as that never occured to him before. He didn't have a need for such things before, seeing how he was always alone. However... meeting people... interacting with people... it woke up things previously slumbering within him and gave him a whole new definition of himself.
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Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 12:07 pm
Lavi looked to the wisp. "Really? Ya mean it?" He hugged the wisp, grinning up at Rynl "This is why Moyashi is the best!"
.....wait....what?
Before he had time to think on it, Rynl laughed, taking the bag from Lavi (he had forgotten all about that). "Whatever you say. Come on, we'll eat and then figure out what to do with your friend." He ignored the shocked look that passed by his teachers, though he had to wonder what that was about.
The blond cat ghost had gone silent, watching the scene before him. 'Moyashi? Such an odd name for a thing he just met.' He stored it away for later, passing it off as a normal thing.
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Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 12:19 pm
The will-o'-wisp blinked at being -literaly- enveloped in that embrace in which he was pulled. He looked up at Lavi with a confused look. Moyashi? he would swear he had heard the word before even though he had no real memory of it. "Ne, Lavi, what's a 'moyashi'?" he questioned blinking innocently.
Before he could ponder on his question at all he was surprised by the blond boy -Rynl- who retrieved the bag Lavi was carrying and moved forward. One could say he got an odd feeling just then... though he wasn't sure what that was about. His mind was occupied by being hungry and studying the new people he was with. "What kind of food is there to eat?" he questioned in an eager tone. He would eat about anything right now.
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