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 Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 1:32 pm
-It was almost springtime. The cold days were getting a little less cold, snow dwindling to instead chilly gray days. The long nights were becoming slowly shorter, the sun each day seeming to fight gravity just a little bit longer then the last to stay in the sky. Sure the flowers had still yet to bud, the birds still off on their winter journeys.. but Aitana seemed to be one of the few people wandering around that recalled that these things would eventually happen.
The tiresome nights had taken a toll on everyone. All the sports teams were suffering. More and more students were seen nodding off in class each day. And almost everyone seemed absolutely down in the dumps. Some were grouchy.. others downright snappy and mean.. and then some just seemed depressed and sighy.
It was getting dreadfully dreadful... and boring.. and miserable. And as Aitana watched the calender creep closer and closer to a very special date she realized she just couldn't deal with it anymore. It was almost springtime. More importantly, it was almost Carnival! The time of the year when everyone was supposed to be especially joyous and celebratory. It was the time when you were supposed to let loose and indulge and have fun. Aitana would NOT let the very important day.. no very important week, pass with everyone in their zombie like stupors.
One of those sighy depressed individuals would find herself to be the main target of the Brazilian's attack.
As Allie made her way out of the school after the final bells rang, a green haired figure lurked, sneaking up behind her. Surprise! Aitana's arms whipped around the other girls' torso, hugging so tight that it might have even lifted the pink haired girl's toes from the ground.- "Hallo!!"
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Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 12:45 pm
Coralie would have spluttered and chittered rather like a squirrel in Japanese at her friend had she known Aitana was thinking of her as a 'sighy, depressed individual'. Allie didn't mean to be sighing and depressed it was just...well. She was so useless! Rea had been steadily drawing away since Christmas and while the princess was sure Helios' feelings remained the same, she couldn't be so sure of the redheaded young woman he had been reborn inside of. She also couldn't force the issue one bit because of the fact that well...Rea was much older than her!
Then there was the fact that Sailor Chibimoon was broken. She didn't have the power inside of her like Sailor Moon had, to fire her attack with little more than a window of opportunity. Firing off a Moon Gorgeous Meditation was almost as draining as flexing her crystal power was. That, however, was a whole different kind of draining. Not one she remotely intended to go near for any reason whatsoever. If they needed someone to flex their power muscles, the senshi could always go harass Sailor Nova.
And that was yet a third reason to sigh and be wistful. She was, for the third time in her life, a defunct and unnecessary princess. Not that she would ever tell any of this to Aitana! So instead the diminutive pink-haired girl simply shouted and laughed, looking down at the bronze arms holding her aloft. "Put me down Aitana! You're gonna drop me!"
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Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 11:51 am
Laughter was a good and infectious thing. Coralie's pleasant reaction received an amused chortle from Aitana before she relented, arms loosening in a manner that allowed her to slide back down to the ground.
"Ahhhhh. I am much stronger than you think silly." The brazilian teased, going so far as to flex her tanned arm and induce a tiny bulge. Okay so she wasn't ripped like Don Diablos.. or even like a varsity athlete, but it was impressive for a 16 year old girl, right?
Reshifting the weight of the backpack dangling from her back she quickly resumed her enthusiasm, standing, or more like bouncing, alongside the slightly shorter girl. "I am sooooo bored. You want to come play today?" It was a strange request for a highschooler.. a supposedly responsible warrior in some grand battle. But Aitana looked like neither as she seemed almost ready to drag Coralie off to be park kicking and screaming if she declined or even just took too long to say yes!
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Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 7:35 pm
Ruby eyes narrowed as she contemplated the word 'play'. She had only a few pages of math homework due tomorrow afternoon and there was an essay for English that was giving her quite a lot of trouble. Granted she was in the 'special' class for the kids that did not speak English as their first language but nonetheless it was not exactly easy. But that would have to wait for her dad to get home. He wouldn't be home at least until after five so that meant Coralie had time for play.
Fingers reached up to poke at a muscled bronze arm with a grin as she lapsed easily into the Japanese tongue. She would have gotten a stern look from Perry had he heard her and true that Aitana's dialect was different from her own. But they understood each other. "I'll play if you promise to push me on the swings. I'll even do a playground crawl if you can get me high enough first." The 'playground crawl' was something that Allie had done in her future and had been trying to push as a training exercise under the guise of just having fun.
The idea was to move across the playground going through every bit of the equipment in ways that were somewhat...different. Sure it might get you thrown out of the park. But that was really only if you were too different or kicked someone in the head.
You really had to avoid that.
"But that's only if you want to, really. We can swing all day as far as I'm concerned!" If there was one thing that Black Lady Serenity and her pure human counterpart had in common it was decidedly their love of a good swingset.
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Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2011 11:30 pm
Homework.. blahhh. The teen would have sighed.. very loudly and annoyedly had she known that Coralie had even for a second pondered ditching her for said pastime.
But it didn't matter because in the end she suceeded. "I'll push you soooo high you'll be afraid to jump off" She promised with a grin, already interlocking her hand with her friends. They were going to run there, OKAY!
She didn't give her a whole lot of warning, a very light tug as she stepped once and then twice. The crawl sounded like fun. The kind of energy zapping stupidly giggley fun that made you forget about everything else for awhile. The park wasn't very far at all from the school, they'd be there in no time.
"Just don't you forget your promise"
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Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 9:52 am
Oh no, they were going to run. For any normal person that meant that they would probably do some sort of jog through the crowd spilling out of the school and traffic on the way home from work that was starting to congest the city streets. Not for Aitana. No, that was more like a full-out sprint to get to where you could as fast as you can and unlike senshi form, Allie just wasn't as fast as she'd like.
Well. She'd demanded a playground crawl, hadn't she? Starting a bit early wouldn't hurt anything and if she was being pushed on the swing? Well then she would have time to rest! Fingers reflexively closed on her backpack as her arm was tugged forward, pink tails of hair flying out behind her like streamers as they dodged and dashed through the crowd. Would they get in trouble if she bought a siren to use?
Probably.
There wasn't much time to think and without intending to, Coralie found that she was laughing like an idiot the whole time they ran. It was fun! It was even sort of freeing, to dash around like there was nothing else to do but feel the wind race past your ears.
"Aitana you are crazy!" It was gasped out between giggles, totally affectionate and good-natured.
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Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 4:54 pm
Luckily for Coralie she didn't have to do a whole ton of dodging. They bobbed back and forth a little, but there was more than one occassion in which Aitana's shoulder simply clipped a person obstructing their path and sent them uncerimoniously out of the way. One would never accuse Aitana of being particularly polite. Nonetheless everyone remained in once piece. And Aitana tossed back an amused grin at Coralie's words.
The wind felt wonderful on her skin, her friends laughter like fuel in her tank. Enough so that she was able to keep up the pace for almost the whole trip, only beginning to slow a little as they neared the park. By the time they reached the park and came to a rest on the sidewalk her chest was heaving. She glanced back to check on the girl she'd half dragged for the entire trip.
Swings were in order.. but first a moment to collect their breath. It was hard to do because everytime she seemed to have enough breath a spell of delighted laughter would escape her, stealing all her air again in the process.
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 2:58 pm
Allie simply found the nearest patch of grass, falling face-first onto it and rolling to her back. Breath shuddered in and out of her lungs as ragged gasps as the uniformed teens both struggled to catch breath. The sky above was blue with puffy clouds so that she could count them and look at shapes as her breathing slowed. "I can totally have two desserts today!" That, more than anything, put light into Coralie's eyes.
Finally she crawled up onto her knees before walking over and dumping her bag next to the swings. In a younger age she would have started imperiously shouting demands to be pushed now now now. Being older and preferring to have fun with her friend rather than being the princess she had been, Allie simply started lightly swinging back and forth, no more than a few feet at a time.
"I think it's pretty perfect out today. I'm almost tempted to take my hair down." The grin was wide and a bit mischievous. Going home with tangled hair would be a nightmare for her but feeling the wind in her six feet of pink?
Delicious.
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Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2011 12:10 pm
Aitana snirked a little at the mention of desserts. She was active enough that.. worrying about counting calories wasn't even remotely in her radar. She burned off whatever she piled into her mouth like a furnace. Though.. now that she mentioned it, a sundae with lots of fudge all over it did sound awfully tempting and delicious.
While Allie had crawled Aitana had slowly rocked her way up, seeming to rock back and forth a few times for fun before she finally made it all the way up to a seated position. Allie didn't even have to bother asking because after a moment the brazilian was making her way over dutifully enough settling herself behind the swing.
Her hands grasped the chains lightly, dragging them back and forth to start the motion, though she paused in releasing it to offer encouragement. "It's a day for being wild and crazy and free. No worries, no responsibilities." She grinned. Yeah.. it'd probably come back to bite them later, but later was later and today was for the here and now!
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Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 11:59 am
Aitana's words rang in Coralie's ears like permission to destroy the town. She had been raised under the weight of appearances, responsibilities, that she was a princess and had to be a princess. There was no time for running away, slacking off, doing anything she wanted when she wanted, due to the fact that the responsibilities of being the Princess of Crystal Tokyo were endless.
Coming here hadn't changed that. If anything the responsibilities had grown until the young Allie was all but collapsed beneath the weight of them. Learning English, figuring out what was going on, making amends for what she had done as Black Lady yet again. There was no time to just be free and do what it was that kids did.
Play.
So it was that with those words, in the afternoon sunlight, Coralie threw out her arms and cheered. "FREEDOM!" She swang back and forth, legs pumping lightly as a timeless friend grinned and pushed. It was truly one of those rare, perfect days where everything was going right.
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 11:04 am
Homework. Chores. Crystals. Youma. Pasts and futures intermingling. There was no time for all the heavy thoughts and tasks amid the warm day.
As Allie began to pump her legs Aitana had stepped back a little, waiting for the swing to return to her before her hands pushed low near her friend's hips propelling the pink haired girl forward once again. It did not take long for the swing to pick up a large arch, swinging high and quickly into the sky, feet and trailing hair dragged away from the dirt and up towards the ever reaching blue.
Squinting up against the sun it looked almost like her friend was flying. Amid her laughter it was easy to lose track of time in the mostly empty playground.
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