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 Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 6:50 pm
Maia skin was crawling, she felt like she needed to just soak in the bath for days and days. She looked back happy to be away from the flea circus. She scratched without actually thinking about it. Gah, she needed not to think about it. Yes, she was never going to think about this one ever again ever.
She was 'kidnapping' Vahalla, Hugbell, and Zirconia for a little information powwow. She looked back, "Come on, this way. My car isn't too far from here. We will obviously have to power down and we can head back to my house. That is not a problem is it?"
She stood looking miserable. It was obviously Maia wanted out of the fuku, sooner, rather than later. Her look was a bit pleading and no matter inappropriateness, she would shed boots, skirt and jacket if she was denied. Maia hated being dirty and dirty she definitely was. She knew she would not be able to stop thinking about it this time. Not with her skin crawling.
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 7:18 pm
Valhalla followed behind Maia as she made her way to the car, shaking his head when she asked about their worries of powering down. "No, it's fine." The only one who didn't know who he was of the small group was the Chibi Senshi. He was definitely glad that they got out with minimal injuries.
His arm was a bit bloodied and torn up, there was a cut across his cheek, and he was sure he'd have bruises later, but it could have been worse. Valhalla was the first to power down when they reached the, after making sure no one was around to spot them, of course. "I'll... sit in the back," he said wearily, realizing he was on the driver's side and didn't want to make his way around to the other side. It had been a long night and he was just... going to rest against her car until the others got in. He didn't want them getting suddenly attacked when they weren't paying attention.
"Are you guys okay?" he asked, looking Maia over, before checking on both the little girl and cat once again. He wished he could have protected them all better, but there was only so much he could do.
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 7:33 pm
Hug-bell watched as the others moved she was staying near Zirconia, for the fact the cat was the only one she really knew. She was eyeing Valhalla uncertain about him. Blinking when she realized who it was, "OHHH I remember you, you're that life guard from camp!"
She looked at Zirconia, "So it's okay to power down?" The child wanted to make sure, even though Maia knew Zirconia and she knew Maia as a sailor the child still asked since Zirconia was her babysitter and cousin, well Zia was, Hug-Bell was still trying to figure out what happened there.
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 8:16 pm
Zirconia shifted to Zia Connolly with ease as they made their way to the car, even rotating her arms up to stretch. Lily and Chris knowing who she was was nothing new, but when Hug-Bell asked if it was okay, she gave the other two a bit of a glance.
"They're safe," She assured her. She knew identities could be a touchy thing, and didn't want to seem like she was pushing her to, but Zia was convinced Chris and Lily were perfectly trustworthy people.
"Geez, Chris, are you?" Zia stopped at the car to lean closer to his arm and make a face.
She decided now wasn't the time to raise hell. At least no quiiiite yet, and she stopped when seating arrangements gave her pause. She kind of wanted to sit in the backseat with Istas, feeling like she should, being the babysitter and all. She did wait and check the child over for any bumps and bruises before she figured it was okay to grab the front seat to avoid crowding the back. For her own well being, of course, and most certainly not just because her parents would chew her out if she got their daughter covered in injuries. Zia herself was a little worse for the wear, but it was mostly energy strain and aches from falling victim to youma early on rather than anything outward or obvious.
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 8:29 pm
Maia let her fuku fade away to reveal herself. She frowned at Chris, but turned to Hugbell with a soft smile. "I'm Liliana, but everyone calls me Lily and as you heard that is Chris."
She looked to Zia moving over to the car, "we're all fine. Any injuries I can fix up at my house. I think it would be best to get out of here. And then I have a lot of explanations to hand out. It seems Chris needs a little history lesson."
She looked to Hugbell, "I bet there are some things you would like to know as well. Though I know you know way more than Chris." She opened the back door and held it open for the youngest of the group before getting into the car and starting the car up.
"I moved by the way," she said looking back to Chris, "for the obvious reason."
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 9:12 pm
Chris glanced down at the little girl when she said she recognized him and offered her a small smile. "I figured you were one of the campers there," he told her. After all, he'd seen her there and there was no way they could have made their way from the city in such a short amount of time. They had to have been at the camp.
He wanted to ask her if she knew his brother, and if he was one of them. He hoped Ixion wasn't Peter, but with a few of the young ones being defiant, well... it reminded him of his brother.
Instead, he was distracted by Zia changing back to herself and he tried smiling innocently, as if she hadn't been there during the battle. "You know me. I like getting hurt." Or something like that. She should know by now that he didn't like just standing around. If he was going to do something, he was going to give it his all. And if that meant getting hurt...
"Ah, yeah, you're all more experienced than I am," he mumbled sheepishly, glancing down to the little girl again as well. "Even you... I can tell." Her energy was different... it felt stronger than most of the other young ones.
He got into the car once Mia and the others had climbed in, nodding to her. "Obvious reason...? To protect yourself...?" Ah... maybe he shouldn't be offering his apartment building's roof as a meeting place... oops... At least it was just Ganymede who knew. "Zee's helped me a lot with getting used to everything. But I'm definitely willing to listen and learn," he told them, glad that his friends and the little girl was okay.
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 10:40 pm
"Yup I was a camper," Hug-bell nodded when Zirconia said it was safe and powered down with a yawn. She was tired blinking as Zia checked her out, there were some scraps but nothing, I fell wouldn't cover. "Mmm... I guess I shouldn't've stood so close to Polaris's attack." She murrmurred checking at the spot that was bleeding a little bit before pulling out some bandaids and alcohol swabs from the my little pony unicorn backpack she'd put on before powering up. "I've got it Zia." She said softly showing the older her supplies. It wasn't the first time she patched up a scrape.
"Istas, Zia's being my babysitter tonight..." She added when it seemed the others were giving names and added an explanation as to why she invited herself earlier, before crawling into the backseat after Lily opened the door, "Thank you..." She said as she sat there working on patching up her arm, using the alcohol swab to get rid of any germs. It made her eyes tear up but it'd keep it from getting infected. She placed the badge on her arm and then looked at Chris and his wounds, sizing up if she had anything to at least temporarily patch him up and went to digging in her bag.
"I got my pen around.... uh.... well sorta close to Halloween..." She said after a second. "I think Ixion's been around almost as long as I have." She didn't know about the others, she'd first seen Hypnos in Elysion... "Honestly... I think I was the first chibi..." There was a small pause before she grew quite.
She paused looking at Chris, "Sorry for getting grumpy back there..." She added, after catching his looks, "... I've heard so many senshi doubt us. I mean I know we shouldn't be in the big battles 'cause we could cause trouble... but at the same time.... we can help too, just in different ways." She paused and looked at Zia, "Kinda like Zia kept doubting I knew what I was doing." She whispered looking down. Her own cousin didn't trust her, yeah she'd had to run away from some of the youma and she couldn't handle everything on her own but small things were easy.
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 11:07 pm
Zia sunk into the back seat, her toes curling awkwardly in their bareness. She was still dressed in the same pajamas she had confronted Hug-Bell in in the hallway.
She could stand to avoid freaking out until they got to Lily's place. Plus she was tired. Really, really tired. Damned fleas and their energy feeding. But that could also be partially blamed for her childish reaction when Istas mentioned Zia not believing in her.
She twisted around in her seat to face the back, gripping the headrest with both hands. "I don't believe in you? You tried to leave me at your house because I didn't know what I was doing!" She accused and then made a childish whine and huff before flopping back to face forward in her seat, arms crossed and head sunk low, mostly in exhaustion.
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Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 8:19 am
Lily nodded as she drove, "that explains alot. Funny that is actually exactly how I found out who Ixion was. I was babysitting him and he decided to go after a youma. We made quick work of it though."
She listened to Istas while she talked, but when she said Halloween, she frowned. Halloween had been when things started getting really out of control for senshi with the crystals and all. "Your right. You were the first to be awakened and when my first team found out we were rather worried. We all agreed to keep an eye on you. I even went to talk to ********* and find out the how's and the why's. After that chat I knew it was best to leave it be. I think Ixi and Hypnos can close together, but I'm not sure."
She smiled at Istas when she appologized to Chris, but she frowned at the next few statement. Her townhouse came into view and she pulled up and front of it and she turned around looking to Istas.
"Its not that at least its not for most of us. Istas think about it this way. I was 16 years old when I became Maia and I've kept it from my family, but my brother found out. He was 24 then and he was always so worried for me, still is. To him I'm just a kid and he doesn't want anything to happen to me. Its not that he doubted me and truth be told I did not know what I was doing and sometimes I still don't. It not so much doubt most of the time so much as worry. We as senshi and a knight know anything can happen. That's how it is for me anyway. What about you Zia? You Chris?" Lily had almost died twice and she couldn't imagine, didn't want to imagine that happening to anyone especially a child. She did not say this though.
She got of the car and opened the back door, " Let go inside though. I have a lot to tell you and I am sure we all would like to get some sleep at some point."
She looked to Zia, "when will her parents be home? Should you call and tell them a friend had an emergency or something?"
She headed up the driveway which she did not park in to the front door opening it up and waving for everyone to come in.
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Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 11:28 am
Istas around Halloween... Lily when she was sixteen... Zia during the time they'd been out of contact with one another... He felt as though there was a lot he still didn't know and was probably holding many of them back.
He was a bit relieved to hear that Lily babysat Ixion, because that confirmed that he wasn't Peter. Or at least, he hadn't ever heard Lily babysitting Peter in recent years.
Chris shook his head when Istas apologized. "It's what Lily said. It's not that we doubt your abilities as a senshi... it's that you're precious to us. Seeing you get hurt is painful. You're so young and have so much more to live for. If something happened to you... to any of you," he said, wanting to include the rest of the Chibis as well. "Can you imagine how horrible we'd all feel? We just want to protect you, but in turn you can't start doubting our intentions," he told her, glancing up at Zia to make sure she knew he was on her side in this. "We want you to be safe, but if you don't trust us, then we're once again dealing with disorganization."
It had been horrible to see how poorly disorganized the senshi were... It worried him, especially when up against the militaristic Negaverse.
"Why is it that there's such little organization?" he asked quietly as he made his way up and into the house. "Everyone was running wherever they wanted, they were arguing on what the best strategy was... I thought we were all going to be killed." But somehow they managed to get out alive.
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Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 5:41 pm
Istas shot a glare at Zia, "I didn't know you were a cat. Obviously if I'd known I wouldn't've made such a fuss but you were trying to stop me."
Istas had bug bites on her arms but really they looked like mosquito bites. She was trying not to scratch, it was sort of itchy. She looked towards Lily, "Do you have anything for the itch?" She asked, rubbing her hand over her arm.
Pausing she seemed thoughtful. "Yeah but when you tell us to stay out of the way it's a bit harder to see that as being protective of us." She added as she followed Lily into her house. "My Parents shouldn't be back till morning... however." She pulled out her cell phone and handed it to Zia. "If you want to call them and tell them you can. I have them on speed dial."
She'd gotten that after the Wolframite incident. "Actually... Wolframite did try to kill me...." She paused looking at Lily, she'd managed to finally stop having nightmares about that and come to better terms with it. "If it wasn't for Barnaby and Sailor Iris he probably would've managed it."
The was another pause when Chris asked the question. The child looked at him blankly for a second. "I think because they have a Queen.... and well we have nothing." She said softly with a shrug, "I think Chibimoon's a princess and her dad's suppose to be the prince but uh.... He wasn't very nice throwing Princess Chronos at that purple haired lady with the funny arm." She still called Tanz the purple haired lady.
She looked around and waited to see where Lily wanted to go. "Lily... do you have any gram crackers and milk?" Istas was sorta hungry after that battle hopefully the older girl wouldn't mind her asking.
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Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 6:55 pm
Zia just glanced out the window when Lily went on about how anything could happen. Whether she was in a bad mood from exhaustion or the fight or if she was just channeling Zirconia a little bit extra tonight, but her face was hard and she seemed distant.
Even when they'd shuffled into Lily's place and she was handed Istas' cellphone. She glanced at it, debating calling up Lorenzo, but when she couldn't think of any way to excuse dragging their daughter to a friend's place in the middle of the night, she just quietly handed it back to Istas.
"The senshi are disorganized because there is no overall leader. Your princess is dead," She said, trying not to make it sound so much like a sneer. "And your prince is a fake, I suspected that much in Elysion, and even if he isn't, his incarnation is irrelevant. He doesn't care for your cause."
She just sort of kept on looking unpleasant and scratched at a few bites without thinking. "And even so, without a personal interest, in my experience, princes of Earth care little about the affairs of senshi anyway. Even though Chaos is a concern for everyone," While the rant seemed to have it's own emotional roots somewhere in Zirconia's psyche, it was also, somewhat, trying to pussyfoot around the Wolframite subject.
She was saddened at the information he'd tried to kill Hug-Bell, but even more so, it brought feelings of anger and rage. Wolframite never should've lived to do that damage. That and when you're tired everything seems worse than it is, so she basically found herself gritting her teeth to keep from doing everything from crying to throwing a tantrum.
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Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 7:16 pm
Lily smiled but then slowly frowned at Chris's words, problems with the senshi always seemed to rise from the mouth of the new. The ears of the old seemed death to those worries and even she herself, so caught up in this war she pushed these things aside.
She nodded when Istas asked if she had something for bugbites and started off for the kitchen to find the witch hazel and hydrocortizone. Her parents had given her lots of things for her first year out, however she stopped aburptly spinning around at Istas' words.
She was angry in an instant, but it was also like the floor fell out from beneath her. She felt like it was her fault, in many ways, but she counted to ten and tried not to think about it. She'd explain a lot, just not right that second.
Istas asked her for milk and gram cracker, so she hurried off to get the bug stuff and a snack. She brought back milk, and apples, and chocolate and strawberry sauce.
"I didn't have gram crackers, I hope apples are okay," she said sitting it all down on the living room table and handing the bug stuff to Istas. "Rub the bites with witch hazel, then when it dries by the creme on it."
She jestured to the couch and loveseat, "Sit I will be right back."
Much rummaging and a bit of banging could be heard upstairs as Lily looked for her laptop, but when she found it she headed back down and placed it on the table. She turned it on, put in the password and sat down in front of it.
"This has everything I have seen and learned over the past year on it. I keep it hidden and no one except you three know about it, currently. I'm not really sure why I started keeping it, but its about to come in handy."
She looked around at the other, "Where shall I start? Since we happen to be talking about organization."
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Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 8:02 pm
Chris made his way into the living room, keeping a hand over the cuts along his arm for pressure, although he was sure that it wasn't still bleeding. He would have liked to scratch at his other arm where he'd gotten bitten by the bugs, but he was a little distracted at the moment. He moved to sit down on the love seat, not wanting to take up too much room. And he was trying not to get blood that hadn't dried yet anywhere.
He was sad, and angry, to hear that Istas had almost been killed, but he knew that was going to be the nature of the 'war' they were fighting. That's why he didn't want to fight.
"Who is Chibimoon?? And what Queen? And Princess Chronos and the purple haired lady? And what dead princess??" he asked, confused by both Istas Zia's comments. "I've never heard anything about a princess or a prince. I'm not a senshi, I don't even know what my purpose here is," he told them, sounding tired and confused.
Zia was in a bad mood. He didn't like seeing her angry or upset, so seeing her like this made him nervous and worried. He wished there was something he could do, for all three of them. But what... he didn't know.
"Do we have to have a Queen or Princess or Prince?? We're all free thinking people, aren't we? Look at history. Monarchies are kind of outdated, anyway," he pointed out. Chris didn't know who this dead princess was or why she was so important... but he definitely didn't know why they were blaming their lack of organization on the fact that the Negaverse had a Queen and the senshi didn't.
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Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 8:32 pm
"Apples are fine" She said as she sat down on the loveseat beside Chris before she started rubbing things on her own wounds she dug out a small piece of cloth large enough to wrap around an arm. "Would this help?" She offered butter yellow eyes looking at him.
There was a pause when she noticed the tension in the air from her mentioning of near death experience. "It's okay." She added softly, "I wouldn't be as uh... confidante as I am today if he hadn't done that." She glanced at her hand he'd left a scar on before going to apply the witch hazel as told. "I still need to talk to those that tortured him though...." she mused softly, "I don't think they understand the damage they did by doing that to him."
She was quite until she finished rubbing the witch hazel on her bug-bites. "I like Chibimoon, but I think last time we spoke she pretty much said she wasn't a 'real' princess." The child looked thoughtful at everything being said, "Still Endymion or whatever his name is" She tripped over his name, "Isn't a nice guy, iunno he's chibimoons dad so I guess he's okay but I'm not completely sure about him..."
"You're purpose?" She echoed looking at him her eyes narrowing a little in questioning, why was he a knight if he didn't know his reason for being? "Me and *********... I mean ********* and I have gone over this one so many times, and it's so simple. We're here to protect those that can't protect themselves. We also are here to bring peace." She added with a nod of her head.
The child took a moment to decide who's question to answer first Chris or Lily. Chris' was easier probably at least in the childs mind though it took a longer answer, "Someone like a queen, or prince, or princess, or a king, is important I think... it keeps people from worrying so much. That's why all those storybooks have them. Like Humpty Dumpty, all the kings men and all the kings horses couldn't put him back together again... Without the king I don't think they'd feel like they have a real place to belong. So why would they bother to work together to put Humpty back together? It's like a teacher, sometimes you have to have someone that knows what they're doing so that you can do the best that you can." She looked at Zia and Lily, "Right?"
She paused, "The negaverse I think is more organized... because..... well because... they're...." There she stopped for a moment and her eyes grew a little and in a small awed voice she finished, "They're family...." She looked around like it took a moment, "They said they're family, right? That's what what's his face in the pink said. We're not even that close. Not all of us. We're like those people that come to family re...unions?" She looked at Zia knowing her cousin knew that term better, "There's so many people helping us that we don't know them!"
When she finished her realization, which she hope didn't seem too silly to the older crowd; but if it did maybe the other chibis would understand. She'd have to talk to Hygiea and Ixion! "Start at the beginning?" She offered for Lily's question.
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