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 Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 8:47 pm
Despite having entered a youma-killing contest, Sailor Pomona had only killed one youma since its start. One. A licorice youma. The heck was the point of a licorice youma? She would’ve eaten the stupid thing if it wasn’t for the fact that licorice was nasty. Then again, she figured it was appropriate – food vs. food – and was something she could actually handle, so… yeah. She probably shouldn’t complain.
Pomona was out and about again, but not looking for other edible youma. No, she was stopped on a corner, phone clutched in one hand and a small basket in the other. She stared at the phone intently, taking a few slow steps until a ‘blip’ showed up on the phone and she started to head in its direction.
A while back, ********* had gotten a face full of Pomona’s peppers during a battle. It had been an accident – Pomona certainly hadn’t meant to hit the kitty – but she still felt bad. She would have apologized, but, well, she had kinda inactive as of late. She wasn’t slacking! She refused to say that she had been slacking, and she hadn’t been hiding either. No, she had just… beat a strategic retreat. That was it.
As she slowly returned to her old Senshi duties, she figured one of the first things she should do was to apologize to *********, and since the apology was so long overdue, she wanted to have a good present for the guardian cat. She’d heard that the cat had liked baked goodies, so she had gathered some special ingredients and gotten to work. The end result was in the basket, which she hoped to deliver still-warm to the cat. Problem was finding said cat.
On several occasions Pomona had spied ********* with Sailor Iris, so she figured that hunting down the Senshi of Rainbows would be a good start. Thankfully Iris was somewhat easier to pick out then the average Senshi, and soon Pomona was hurrying towards what she hoped was the Eternal Senshi’s energy signature.
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Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 10:57 pm
Sailor Iris was not participating in the youma contest. She had seen what she had considered spam on her senshi phone and simply dismissed it. Was there a cat out there that was working for computer hackers or something? Somehow, the blonde couldn't help but think such was entirely possible.
Despite not participating in such a silly game, the senshi did still take some of her duties as a senshi seriously. One was the youma extermination deal.
Such a thing was now the reason why she was covered in youma dust. Gross smelly youma dust. The tall blonde couldn't help but cough a bit as she tried to wipe the ashy substance off of her fuku. "F*ck that f*cker..." she groaned as she managed to notice something.
Or rather, someone with a small power signature.
Cautiously, the blonde called out quite loudly "Nice weather we got this evenin'... yeah?"
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Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 12:39 am
So Iris felt her presence. Not in the mood to get cut up by a rainbow, Pomona purposely stepped heavy, letting her coin fringe jangle as she rounded the corner.
“ Yes, nice. Very, ah, weather-y.”
Chatty as she was, talking about weather was not something Pomona excelled at. Books, movies, video games, trivia, obscure Internet references; she could talk about those for hours. Weather? Not so much. Then again, she doubted the other Senshi actually wanted to talk about weather.
Seeing the Senshi’s state, Pomona had to repress a smile.
“ 'course, a little shower might be welcomed, eh?”
Pomona didn’t like fighting close enough to get dirty, but she’d been cover in her fair share of dirt, dust, and goo, and it was never pleasant.
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Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 12:59 am
"Summer rain sucks... it jus' feels gross." Apparently Iris wasn't exactly in the mood to get a shower after this youma extermination.
Golden eyes glanced to the redhead as she rounded the corner, glancing up and down in an effort to jog her memory as to who the senshi was. She was obviously a senshi, that much was for certain. And she did remember seeing her before (but there were lots of senshi she had seen at meetings before). It was only human to forget some details, such as names. There were way too many damned senshi to remember. One detail she noticed quite quickly was the object the girl had brought with her.
"...so what's with th'basket, eh?" Loosely, she flicked a finger in the direction of the item with a lazy pointing finger.
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Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 1:21 am
And there went the attempt at small talk. It why she rarely bothered. Iris had noticed the basket, so she figured it was a sign to cut to the chase.
“ It’s a present for *********.” She said, pulling back the blanket cover to reveal a glimpse of some sort of baked treat. “ I owe her an apology.”
Pomona was kinda surprised that ********* wasn’t with the rainbow Senshi. She had gotten the impression that Iris wasn’t overly fond of ********* – at least, not if you believed how she spoke to the cat – but that didn’t seem to deter her. She had hoped that the cat would be hanging around the Senshi today because, well, she and Iris didn’t seem to think on the same wavelength, to put it nicely.
“ Do you happen to know where ********* is? I was looking for her and was hoping she’d be with you.”
If Iris’ opinion of ********* was what she thought, Pomona doubted her questions would be appreciated, but it couldn’t hurt to ask, right?
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Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 12:02 pm
As if trying to understand the girl's intentions, the eternal senshi repeated back what she understood. "So ya have a present... fer th'cat... as an apology?" Iris did not sound impressed in the least. Or sympathetic in the slightest. "She's already fat enough..."
She shrugged her shoulders as the redhead asked ever so politely about the guardian cat's whereabouts. "Hell if I know... I ain't her babysitter!" With her palm, she smacked the nearest wall, as if to emphasize the fact she was not pleased being considered a "go to" person for a cat.
Where that hand happened to smack was a wall that happened to be about 9 feet tall and made of concrete. Along the top of it was a row of bricks. Rather casually, a small animal edged out slightly from the end towards approximately where the girl had smacked against the wall.
"I can't blame her for thinking it is easier to locate you, Iris. You are pretty easy to pinpoint."
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Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 10:06 pm
Iris may not be ********* keeper, but where one was the other usually wasn’t far away. As if to prove her, point said cat put in a well-timed appearance. Saved by the cat! Putting her cell phone away, Pomona smiled and approached the feline on the wall.
“ Hello *********! I’ve been meaning to try to find you. I think you got a face full of my attack back around Christmas. My attack doesn’t affect Senshi, so I just assumed…” she trailed off sheepishly. She hadn’t thought to see if any cats were present when she’d used her attack, so her plan to help had backfired, despite her good intentions.
“ Anyway, I made you an apology gift.” She continued after pulling herself together. “ Do you eat spicy food?”
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Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 11:40 pm
Sailor Iris rolled her eyes a bit as the familiar voice made the cat's presence known. Not being the sort to hold back her thoughts, she simply pointed out "Seems like I apparently need babysittin'... great thing t'know..." Iris was obviously not pleased by this.
Hopping down from the wall onto a nearby trashcan, then to the ground, the manx began to make her way to the red suited senshi. Her little velvety nose was sniffing delicately, already able to smell the treat inside of the basket the girl was carrying. "I will have you know, Iris, that I wasn't watching out for you tonight. However, I managed to catch the scent of what she has in the basket."
The cat smiled and sat her haunches down as she gave the redhead her full attention. "No worries, Pomona..."
Somewhere in the background, they could hear the blonde mumble something along the lines of "Right, that's 'er name!"
"...it was no big deal." At the time, it definitely wasn't comfortable, but it had been an accident. Getting angry over something like that amidst such chaos definitely was not the wisest thing to do.
"I am quite impressed you have been thinking about me all of this time though. It means you are quite a kind young lady." She sat up as tall as she could, eyes upon the girl in an effort to look as alert as she could. "I eat food. I'm not picky."
The blonde senshi looked as if she was trying to not look interested in the mention of the spicy food. However, the word spicy had managed catch her attention.
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Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 12:07 am
“ Kind? It’s just common courtesy. You don’t smack people in the face with magic peppers.” She paused, then amended, “ Well, unless they’re in the Negaverse.”
Or if they were an alien snow witch. Or an evil bird. Or, well, any other sort of thing that attacked Destiny City, of which there were many.
Setting down the basket, Pomona pulled off the blanket with great flourish to reveal a loaf of brown bread dotted with vivid red pieces.
“ Behold, Pepper Surprise Bread! Made with real Pomona peppers.” Pomona made a face and added, “ I used a recipe for jalapeno cheddar bread, but these demon peppers are hotter then any jalapeno I’ve ever had, even after I deseeded them. That’s why I included the cheese.”
She pointed to a Tupperware stuffed full of cheese cubes. Milk was better, but too much trouble to tote around, so cheese it was.
Despite her best efforts, Pomona was able to pick up on Iris’ interest, so she said in what she hoped was an off-handed manner,“ The loaf is a bit bigger then I expected, so there might be enough to share.”
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Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 11:32 am
Jokingly, the feline shook her head at Pomona. "It isn't common courtesy, because people don't commonly have magic peppers in the first place." She giggled partially out of amusement, but partially to let the girl know that it was not a serious comment.
The cat remained where she sat, nodding her head a couple times as the girl explained her current concoction to both herself and Iris. "That sounds quite delicious. However, since I know the peppers you summon aren't exactly something you can use for cooking, I take it you have been doing some extra traveling recently, yes?"
Stubbornly, the blonde turned away the moment she was called out on her interest. Yet, she still replied to Pomona in regards to that bread. "Tear me off a piece before ya give any t'the cat... I don't need any cat germs... or whatever..."
Had Iris caught the underlying meaning to ********* words, she would have probably had her interest piqued. After all, Iris' homeworld sucked a lot.
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Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 7:29 pm
“ Oh, yes! I’ve been to Pomona. It’s very… well, it’s very rustic. Lots of plantlife and a sad lack of space ships.”
Star Wars, Star Trek, Firefly; all excellent sci-fi space shows with spaceships. She got to space travel to a real planet that had really had people living on it at some point and there hadn’t been a single spaceship, laser gun, or light saber to be seen. There wasn’t even any funky, futuristic architecture. No, there was just hills, hobbit-houses, and plants; lots and lots of plants.
Crouching down, Pomona grabbed the loaf of bread and broke it roughly in half, offering pieces to ********* and Iris.
“ So, have you been to your planet?” She asked Iris, hoping it was a safe topic.
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 12:44 pm
Okay, there was no avoiding hearing all of that. The fact she mentioned space ships seemed to go ignored. The mention of plantlife was the main thing that got Iris' attention. This senshi got PLANTS?! Where as Iris got practically nothing?!
It wasn't often that the blonde pulled on her hair, but right now, her hand managed to get wrapped up in her longer strands of hair and couldn't help but tug in annoyance. With one hand free, she snatched up the piece of offered bread rather hastily.
"They ain't planets!" It was one thing that the Senshi of Rainbows was pretty adamant about. "Unless yer talkin' about Earth... 'cause that's a planet."
The manx nodded a thank you to the girl after she set a piece of the bread on the ground for her, bell jingling accenting the movement. In an effort to keep Iris a bit more tame about the current subject, she tried to ease things up a bit.
"Iris, I suspect she means if you have been to your homeworld yet or not."
A plan which backfired.
"I KNOW what th' hell she's talkin' 'bout! Get yer sh*t right then!" She took a rather large bite out of the chunk of bread in her hand, not seeming scared in the slightest of the potential burning sensation that would go off in her mouth at some point. She welcomed the feeling in all honesty.
"And yeah... I've been there. Been there so often I got a f*ckin' sunburn!"
The cat took a much smaller bite in her piece of food, but managed to perk up at that strange confession. "I was not aware you got a sunburn."
"I don't need t'tell ya everythin'... cat!"
It was definitely going to be one of those nights. Rolling her eyes ever so slightly at Iris' antics, she gave her attention to Pomona. "Well, I thank you for the both of us for the treat. Could I be so forward and ask that you maybe set out a piece of cheese for me? Just in case my mouth explodes?"
She giggled a bit, then waited for the girl to get a bit closer while setting the cheese up. In an effort to have Pomona understand why Iris was so touchy about the subject, the feline whispered when the girl drew near enough so that Iris couldn't hear.
"Iris' homeworld is literally a desert... so perhaps we should steer away from this subject...?"
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Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 9:04 pm
Pomona didn’t get what the big deal was, at least not until the cat explained. Sighing mentally – it would seem she was destined to not get along with the other Senshi – she nodded her head slightly as she opened the container of cheese and set out several cubes for *********. Deciding it would be best to switch topics, she went for a lighter topic.
“ I encountered a licorice youma yesterday.” Well, the youma had a root body and the hair was black licorice, but she figured that was close enough. “ Think it got the prize for weirdest youma I’ve ever fought.”
Green eyes flicked down to ********* briefly, searching for some sign that this was a safe subject. Pomona hadn’t fought nearly as many youma as the prickly Rainbow Senshi, so perhaps this too was a bad idea. If it was, she was going to give up and do her best impression of a mute.
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Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2011 12:14 pm
"A licorice youma? That sounds delicious!" ********* licked her maw a little, but then leaned in to take a bite of the offered bread. The first bite didn't seem to affect her. Maybe the spicy flavor wasn't well spread out in the dough? She chewed, swallowed, then proceeded with bite number two. It was mid chew on bite number two that the feline had to attack some of the cheese. She wasn't complaining aloud, but one could tell the bread might have been a bit spicy.
Idly, Iris asked the question which hadn't been answered yet. "Black or Red Licorice?" She took another big bite of her portion of bread, seemingly not affected by how spicy the baked good was, though the Rainbow Senshi's face did seem to be growing a bit more flush as she ate. If anything, she was just good at hiding her reaction to spicy, but not flat out immune.
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Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 1:37 pm
Powerful magic guardian or not, ********* was a cat and cats were cute. Pomona couldn’t help but smile a bit as she watched ********* eat, folding her hands in her lap to resist the urge to reach out and scratch the Manx’s ear. She was a bit fuzzy on the etiquette of interacting with guardian cats, but she knew most normal cats didn’t like to be disturbed while eating.
“ It was black licorice. Well, it’s hair was black licorice, but I think its body was licorice root.” Her freckled nose scrunched up at the thought. “ If it was red licorice I might’ve tried eating it, but I passed on the black.”
That and she didn’t know if the youma had actually been edible. Could you eat a food youma? She remembered a weird cake people were eating during a large battle, but she didn’t think it was a youma.
“ Is it passable?” She asked, eyeing the two’s reactions. The bread had more then a mild kick to it, but not so ridiculous as to leave one feeling ill the way Pomona had after her first encounter with a Pomona pepper. Compared to that then yes, it was mild.
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