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 Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 8:13 am
Patrolling was getting difficult these days.
Difficult not in the sense that Flora couldn't handle them; she had enough experience under her belt to know how to defeat a youma, or escape from a skirmish from a Negaverse agent alive. Difficult because she was constantly zoning out during patrols, thinking about the Surrounding and other problems. It took her awhile to snap out of staring up at the stars and register dimly, the screams coming from a distance, which usually meant the Negaverse was up to their usual misdeeds.
Sighing, Flora slapped herself lightly on a cheek and ears pricked, attempted to try and find out where the screams were coming from. Once she was sure, she headed into the direction, fists clenched in determination. They had failed in protecting the Surrounding, but they could always protect Earth now, before anything disastrous happened.
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Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 8:28 am
The cry that Flora heard came from a young women cowering in an alley, where Flora was lost in thought Hephaistos was consumed in the moment, at least for now. He watched as the snarling beast of a Youma moved to corner the girl, without a thought he dropped down from the rooftops hands slapping the ground as he muttered his attack bitterly.
Slowly a shining orb of liquid metal would rise up between his hands hovering between him and the Youma.
He didn't see a Youma though, he saw a boy, a boy no older then him with a stupid foam finger. The first Negaverse agent he had killed; he hadn't intended too, but what was done was done. The boy was dead, replaced again with a Youma mouth wide and charging. Shoving his hands out the orb flew free filling that eager maw causing the Youma to stumble and fall, the screams of it's agony filling the ally as its mouth was burned with magical metal.
"Go! Get out of here! I'll take care of... this."
The girl behind him nodded stumbling away as he moved towards the wounded creature, again the same spell, a slight stutter in his step as he triggered it a second time. Slowly he crouched down the hovering orb of metal following his right hand slowly as he shoved it deep into the monsters throat while holding it's jaw wide.
It had to be done. It was the way it had to be.
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Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 8:39 am
From the rooftop, Flora saw the innocent run away, a frightened look on her face, but unharmed, nevertheless. She let out a sigh of relief, and started forward to see if whoever had saved her needed any aid, whether it was a Senshi or a Knight. What she saw next, however, made her freeze entirely in her tracks.
There were screams emitting from the youma, though that wasn't so bad, since she had heard it before when dusting those monsters. It was what causing the screams that bothered her ever so slightly, and Flora hated having those mixed feelings. They were monsters. They could have killed innocent civilians. It was their duty to get rid of them before anything happened...
Still, all she could do was drop silently into the alley behind the metal-clad senshi, hand pressed over her mouth.
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Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 8:48 am
The Youma thrashed weakly as the metal did it's work, it was not pretty, it was not quick. It was harsh, slow, and it worked. Slowly the Youma would stop it's crying and would slowly crumble away into dust leaving only the Senshi of metal craft kneeling alone in the ally. Slowly he would stand up wobbling slightly side to side, he was good for three uses, after that he would surely pass out.
Turning around he spotted another Senshi standing behind him causing him to stumble again, "Oh... ah didn't notice you there... well the girl made it away okay didn't she? Right?" He was tired, and the Senshi in front of him now seemed well, rather shocked considering the look on her face.
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Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 9:16 am
Flora supposed that there was something wrong with her. It had taken a while for the effects of her poisonous pollen to kick into the youma's system as well, although that had seemed to go significantly faster. It was not like staring at the youma frothing at its mouth, slowly draining away from the pain and into oblivion. Or perhaps it was. Her mind was simply all muddled up by worries and trepidation of her place of duty far into the depths of space.
"She's alright." She confirmed, slowly lowering her gloved hand stiffly to the side. "Are you alright? You're a senshi, right?" It seemed perfectly logical to assume from the clues given, and she could have easily whipped out her cellphone to verify this. But Flora did not, wavering from the thoughts that weighed down in the minds of all who served Princess Chronos.
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Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 9:21 am
For the longest time he had simply worked alone, with Lyra gone he had no other Senshi that he personally knew to patrol with, and maybe it was better that way to just be alone. They wouldn't see him cringe as much when he killed a youma.
"Good, good, she was in a rather bad spot there huh?" He shuffled a bit closer shrugging slightly, "Yeah good as I can be, the whole magical attack thing can drain a guy." Slowly he held up a hand offering an erriely familiar smile. "Sailor Hephaistos, Senshi of Metalcraft at your service." Even as he held out his hand the magic started to give out, his outfit slowly peeled away in golden flecks of light, like thin strips of metal rolling off and floating away.
In it's place light grey and black stripes, jeans and a tshirt, the outfit seemed to hang in the air for a moment before dropping down around him proper.
It was the Midsummer Knight, Sorrin, and he looked about ready to pass out.
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Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 10:23 am
"I understand." Flora said, a brief smile gracing her lips. She knew what it was like to be drained when one started pushing the limits to their attacks, and ran into one too many youma during nightly patrols. "Sailor Flora, Senshi of Spring." She introduced in return; it was always only polite to do so, after all. A gloved hand rose up slowly to grip his hand and then froze as he dehenshined. The Super Senshi peered at the face that appeared in front of her after the glamour had faded, a look of shock settling on her face.
"Sorrin?" With this, she too, returned to her civilian form, clad in a frilly pink shirt and white shorts. Eve remembered him from camp as one of the counselors. And wait... hadn't he been at camp when the blob monsters attacked as well, in his senshi form? It seemed as though more and more people she knew were turning out to be Senshi.
Better Senshi than Negaverse.
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Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 10:29 am
While he looked ready to pass out still, his handshake was still firm as he took her gloved hand. Always with the same cheeky smile, though his eyes seemed to go wide as the Senshi of Spring turned out to be none other then the Summer's Eve Queen.
The other thought that crossed his mind was just how cute she looked in those short white shorts. Did this mean she was one of the ones fighting as well? And why her of all people, she seemed to sweet to be doing this kind of work. He would have liked to think about it more but his body was feeling rather heavy suddenly. So he started to slump over as if falling in Flora as he mumbled.
"You can't be the Senshi of Spring, yer the Queen of Summer silly." He said with a grin before practically falling over from exhaustion.
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Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 9:35 am
"Well, I'm sorry to disappoint," Eve said, as she moved forward on instinct to catch him, reminded of when she had to haul Euterpe's a** back to his apartment once, "but my surname's rather misleading. That and the Senshi of Summer belongs to someone else." And it was that of a male too.
"But if you think about it," She went on. "It kind of makes sense because Eve usually means something before. Like Christmas Eve. So I'm the Eve of Summer, see? Sere pointed it out once when we were talking." It had surprised her when that happened, but her Princess always seemed more astute about this sort of things. Eve could only say in return that she thought Serenade's name was really pretty and musical. No hidden meaning as far as she could tell... their parents had just named both of them well.
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Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 9:42 am
Half slumped over he fell into Eve's arms before being put up right again with just a bit of help. Rubbing at his eyes he squinted just to be sure Eve really was in front of him; yep, she was. "Ah, well, names can do that sometimes I guess huh?"
Stumbling a bit he tried to stretch while they continued to talk, "It makes sense, spring before summer. Heh you always did have a 'springy' step about you at summer camp... well till those monsters attacked at least." He stopped mid stretch though eyes going slightly wide.
"Wait you know Serenade? She doesn't... she can't know about us being you know, magical and stuff." His face quickly turned into a worried frown, "Oh god she would be worried sick, and she would think I was crazy and stupid for doing this. Oh god please tell me she doesn't know?" He spun about stumbling ever so slightly in the process running his hands through his hair. "This is bad very bad..."
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Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 9:52 am
"Coincidence." Eve murmured. "If every senshi out there had as telling names, we'd all pretty much have our throats all slit in the night." And starseeds taken, no doubt. The reminder of camp jarred her slightly; it was a time where she had let herself be carefree, only to realize that it was all a lie. They could never rest. It was a never-ending job.
"Serenade?" Eve said sharply, narrowing her blue eyes at him; she hadn't expected him to recognize the casual name drop. "She's my junior at Crystal." She did not mention that that excuse was not really the reason why she knew the younger girl, that Serenade Soriano was actually her Princess. Even if he had revealed himself as a Senshi, Eve clamped her mouth shut upon that. It was Serenade's secret, and she would not be compromising her Princess' civilian identity. Nu-uh. "How do you know Serenade?" From what she knew, Serenade didn't really have much guy friends outside her Court.
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Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 9:57 am
"Well who would think to look for a Senshi based on a clever civilian name? You really aren't that obvious, really!" He could see something was off though, she didn't seem all that amused at the mention of camp at all and it struck a small cord with him. All the fun they had, or thought they would have was ruined just like so much else in the city.
He froze though as her eyes narrowed, "Junior at Crystal? Huh I guess I never bumped into you then..." Shuffling over to a pile of boxes he took a seat as Eve questioned him in turn. "I ah well, I met her like two years ago or so? I saw her around the city and she seemed in a slump so I did the right thing and offered to take her out for a milkshake. Nothing serious! Just something to cheer her up. I spent a good year visiting her off and on just to see how she was doing and do something nice for her. That's not like... a bad thing is it?"
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Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 10:07 am
"Thankfully." Eve agreed. Of course, the name she had been given in her past life was much more obvious, although that was partly because there wasn't exactly the need for secret identities.
"I graduated from Crystal; studying in DCU now." She informed him briskly. Though really, she had never really noticed the green-haired girl back when Serenade had been in Crystal before the whole 'getting killed' incident. It made her feel quite horrible. "Ah, I was just wondering." Eve said casually with a shrug. "Sere doesn't really have many friends in general, really, and there's this rumor that arose from her having older guy friends visit her quite a bit."
Like Alistair McGill. Eve paused slightly, swallowing down a lump in her throat, before continuing in a more light-hearted tone. "Well, as long as you aren't pursuing her. Bo would be quite put out about that."
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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 8:30 am
Sorrin still had no clue about the past lives, for as long as he was a Senshi, he was till pretty oblivious to half of what was going on other then fighting the negaverse to keep people safe.
"Well good on you for that, I got out of meadowview and moved for a year, after that I came back and enrolled at Sovereign." Leaning back on his pile of crates he took a moment to close his eyes and actually rest for a few minutes. "She needs... more friends. Ya know keep her happy and smiling. She doesn't do that enough." He half mumbled as if falling asleep.
Of course that stopped the moment Eve mentioned pursuing her. "Whoa no no no no no it's not like that!" He jumped off the crates waving his hands frantically. "No I mean, not that I would turn her down! She's lovely and one of the sweetest people I know! Not to say that I'm TRYING to get with her I just!" He threw his hands up and frowned, "Can't a guy do something nice for a girl every once in a while and just be doing it out of the fact he has a good heart huh?"
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Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 9:14 am
"She's very introverted." Eve said. A part of her wondered that if it hadn't been for Flora being Chronos' Handmaiden, or the whole senshi business really, she would still have been friends with Serenade. She hadn't really noticed or talked to the younger girl before she had been awakened. And then there had been the whole being dead for a year and Barren Pines... But even besides her obligation, Serenade was obviously a very sweet girl.
"I'm just saying~" The blonde sang teasingly, but fixed a inquiring gaze upon him. "Nice reaction though. I mean, come on, she's the nice innocent girl that guys would go after, right? Though she is fairly oblivious to those who do like her..." Bo came to mind, at that, of course. But it was also partly due to the fact that Serenade's heart was still with Alistair, she supposed. "But if you don't like her that way, that's good, I suppose." She would feel quite sorry if another guy harbored a hopeless crush on Serenade, especially if it was a guy she knew.
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