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 Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 12:26 pm
Rehearsal was over, and for once Bell wasn't leaving with extra work to do outside of theatre and school. Bell had been slacking lately with her senshi duties - no big surprise there - and her conscience was beginning to nag at her. Luckily for Bell, the ally beside the Arts Center was deserted. She chose that place to quietly transform into Sailor Bellatrix, Amazonian Senshi of Fortitude!
The sky was that odd color between dusk and true night, and the shadows of the city were long and ominous. There was a fall chill in the air, and the beginnings of a pale moon rising.
There Bellatrix was atop the Arts Center building, hiding in the shadow of a rooftop air unit. She didn't know why they had to be so secretive with their identities, but she had never questioned it. Maybe she would if she ever ran across that cat again, but for now she was acting on senshi instinct.
Now, Bellatrix just prayed for a silent night.
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Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 12:50 pm
Maybe it was proof that the universe had some sort of sense of humor, because it certainly didn't seem intent on answering her wish quite as she had planned it.
Or maybe Jaimie was just really good at ignoring polite requests from the universe at large... since it was far more interesting to try out the powers this whole "Senshi" gig came with.
Granted that wasn't necessarily the most intelligent thing to be doing... but what was life without a few risks? Anyway, he hadn't seen any cops in the area, and if the Bluenette he'd seen the other night had been able to jump from buildings... well, maybe he could too. Besides, all he had to do was get out of sight and turn back...
Worked for Superman anyway... there might be a hitch or two if he wasn't careful. But then he had to avoid getting caught at school anyway.
He'd used a couple trash cans and the fire escape to get up to the rooftops, keeping an eye out for people below... though not having seen any other Senshi than the reclusive, fast retreating Pegasus... it didn't even occur to him he might not have been alone.
"Regulus Power! Make up!"
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Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 12:59 pm
Bellatrix's body stiffened and her eyes grew wide as she heard from behind her someone calling out their transformation. Slowly the fawn-haired senshi turned, only to be blinded by the dazzling lights of a transformation.
"Hey! What do you think you're doing!?" She shouted as she tried to shield her eyes. He only hope was that he was on her side. After all, weren't all senshi fighting against the same enemy anyway? The Negaforce? Bellatrix wasn't really sure what was true and what wasn't anymore...
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Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 1:47 pm
What was he doing? Looking like an world class idiot apparently.
"GAH!" wondering if he'd just transformed in front of a now pissed off civilian, ((and wondering which would be worse, getting arrested or getting punished at Hillworth...)) Jaimie whirled toward the sound of the voice, wide eyed.
His pulse was still racing as he realized it was another Senshi, NOT a civilian, or another Negaverser like the bluenette. Not unless they wore outfits a lot like Pegasus and He apparently transformed into.
"Holy COW. Don't scare me like that!!" He demanded, apparently a bit more (overly) confident that he hadn't run into an enemy. "What's it -look- like I'm doing. You'd prefer I go find a friggin Phone booth?" He asked, trying to recover his dignity. "I'm not Clark KENT."
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Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 2:00 pm
"Well excuuuuse me if I care for the sake of my retinas!" Bellatrix said crossing her arms and rolling her eyes. "besides, isn't it some sort of unspoken rule to transform privately? OR am I missing something?" Actually she wouldn't be surprised if she was. She wasn't all that well informed.
Bell wasn't normally so bratty or so full of 'tude, but It just seems sooooome people just knew the magical mixture, or where the secret button was to get her Bell-atude working. Under any other circumstances their meeting might have started off more civil. IT would take some work to get rid of this little first impression.
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Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 3:01 pm
"Wasn't in the brochure I got... oh wait. Sorry. Didn't get one at all." Jaimie grumped. He -still- wasn't quite over being peeved about the overall lack of information he'd gotten out of the little gray cat. "If you got one though, I'd love to see it."
Damn... she was certainly an entirely different animal than Pegasus. He wasn't sure yet if that was good or bad, but at least she hadn't pranced off yet.
"Besides I didn't see you..." Though now he was wondering how he'd missed the blazing white top. That seemed to be standard fare. "Who are you anyway?"
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Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 11:05 pm
"If the cat can pop out a pen out of no where, you'd think she could pop out a manual too!" Bellatrix huffed, more to herself than her fellow senshi. Her posture relaxed, figuring they were both in pretty much the same boat - not knowing what the hell they were doing.
"I'm Bellatrix. And you?" The fawn haired girl walked over to him, a momentary since of causality in her gait, as if she were simply walking into the kitchen for a drink.
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Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 5:25 am
... Yep. Yep. Sounded like the same damn cat.
"...Yeah but it would probably be covered in hairball." He joked, relaxing slightly as she wandered over. "Let me guess. Small, grey, and extraordinarily attitudinal?" He asked.
He was almost tempted to answer "Jaimie"... but stopped himself. "Regulus." He answered, extending a hand. Pegasus had barely stayed around for introductions, but Bellatrix seemed a bit calmer. Certainly she didn't seem to have the 'omgyouhavecooties' thing that Pegasus had given off about him.
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Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 11:34 am
"Well, if cats go through PMS, I'm sure she was," Bellatrix actually gave a slight chuckle at that.
"It's good to meet another fellow scout who's just as clueless as I am!" At least though, Bellatrix now knew how to control her Chakram attack. It was weird - using pure will power, pure fortitude, to power something so magical, so impossible... Ugh, she had to stop thinking reasonably! None of this was reasonable!
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Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 12:00 pm
"Nice to actually -meet- another Senshi. Last time I ran into one she took off like I was wearing neon that said "I have the plague." " He snorted in irritation at the memory. "She seemed to know what she was doing, she just wasn't really interested in sharing notes."
That had made a bad night worse, given how shaken up he'd been over hurting the girl with the blue hair. Having been reminded twice, both by the cat, and by Pegasus, that the girl had been out to do at least that much or worse...
It still didn't really help. "Her name was Pegasus, if you've seen her." Which meant there were... uh... at least three Senshi total, including him, and one cat.
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Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 7:35 pm
"Hmn, never heard of her. I know Walkure and Iris, but no Pegasus. It would have been nice if she'd have handed down a few pointers." Bellatrix sighed, as if irritated by the situation....which she was.
"Maybe if we got a group of us senshi together we might be able to stay better informed...and if we get into trouble, we'll have some backup. Anything nasty stand no chance against a whole group of us!"
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Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 6:19 am
"Jeeze, so there's at least five of us..." That was interesting to know. Granted it was a fairly big city, so he probably should have been less surprised to learn that there were a lot more Senshi than himself and Pegasus, although so far this girls idea was the best he'd heard.
"I've only run into one 'nasty' so far." He admitted, though he wasn't sure he wanted to explain yet what his powers had done to the subject in question. Not after the way Pegasus had reacted. He already went to Hillworth, he didn't need to alienate everyone in THIS gig as well. "That's not a bad idea though."
The only tricky part would be arranging meetings. I mean it wasn't as though he knew who any of these people were in their day to day lives. He had to assume they had them... unless he was really a freak.
Anyway, they'd have time to work it out if she could actually pull it off.
"I mean jeeze, so far between you and Pegasus I've only run into people on a totally hit or miss basis."
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Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 2:32 pm
"I have a feeling they're gonna get tougher."
Y'know, come to think of it, there's a reason that cell phones were invented. And if we're one big group I don't see why we'd keep our true identities from one another... Not that daddy would notice her getting a second cell phone.
"Whadaya say, should we at least give it a try?"
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Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 6:18 am
... And somewhere Murphy of the infamous "Murphys Law" was rolling on the ground holding his splitting sides as he laughed as that idea occured to Bellatrix, since it would leave Jaimie admitting that not only could he throw the equivalent of small firey blades... he also went to a school where that would probably indicate some sort of pyro issues.
"...Yeah, yeah sounds good." He could kind of see where she was coming from, if for no other reason than he doubted the girl he'd already run into would be quite as unprepared the next time he saw her. In fact he was pretty sure she'd be downright pissed, and probably reaching to club him with a fire extinguisher instead of her hammer. He added with a wry grin. "I wonder if we could spin this as an extracurricular activity."
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Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 1:25 pm
"Ugh," this idea wasn't looking so good anymore. "As if I ever needed any more activities." She had chosen to ignore his initial fit of laughter with a bit of annoyance. Still, it wasn't like she was going to be doing any good on her own. In the end, her first one on one encounter had ended in the police coming to her inadvertent rescue.
But before any more conversation could be had, there was a rumble and a crunch heard coming from below, soon followed by a car alarm.
WROOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHR
"Oh great..." Bell said before runing to the edge of the building they were on to behold the sight of a large sludge youma. It had turned over a street light, and completely crushed one of the cars parked along the street.
"It looks a lot like the one that Iris and I encountered when I became a senshi...." Though it couldn't be. It must have been another of the same type. Oh well, at least this she had seen before.
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