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 Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 12:11 am
 Chronos had barely slept, from the day they had discovered that there were civilians in Surrounding. Most of her day was spent in the Surrounding; Serenade had claimed that she moved back to her Crystal dorms so that the help in her house wouldn't get suspicious of her being missing most of the time. Even as she did relent as the Zodiacs and the Hands convinced her to get some sleep, she barely slept a wink no matter how hard she tried, tossing and turning on her bed.
Sometimes, she was too exhausted to keep up her Princess form, and simply regressed into her Sailor form instead. It was easier to maneuver around with a shorter skirt and a lack of wings, after all, and today, she was carefully stepping through the tall grass that now spilled haphazardly about. When she was done, she looked up to the Temple, a small frown crossing her lips. No matter how much she shoved, or pulled the handles, the doors simply refused to budge, and Chronos had once contemplated throwing her tiara at it in frustration.
She wasn't really about to do that, of course.
She made her way over to the path of rubble between the library and the Temple. They had shut the doors that once opened out to the passageway from the inside of the library, and she had wondered if the Temple had the same as well. Unfortunately, there was no way of knowing yet, because there was quite a bit of rubble piled up on the Temple's end. Steeling herself, the Princess of the Zodiacs picked up one of the medium-sized stones and hauled it out of the way.
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Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 6:54 am
"Need an extra pair of hands?" Holiday called, raking her fingers through her hair. She wasn't much of a cook unless it came to sweets, and there weren't exactly a plethora of the ingredients she could have used around at the moment. She was still sore after her little 'adventures', but treatment had helped, and she was... at least at this point, a little more confident that she could help a bit, even if it was still with smaller rocks. (She wasn't entirely sure that it wasn't possible for her arm to spontaneously pop back out of it's socket in vengeance.)
The girl...senshi...whatever... looked like the Princess, though for all she knew they were just twins. Did senshi change uniforms or did they just have a whole closet full of identical outfits? Dress uniforms? Anyway she didn't have giant Tinkerbell wings anymore.
She'd managed to get most of her own outfit cleaned up a bit, though her slippers were never going to be the same. Their black 'fur' stood up in awkward spikes in every direction still, making them look even grumpier, and her ripped pant-leg just looked... sad.
Of course even aside from being nommed on by magical space monsters, she wasn't sure Senshi didn't all come with the magical power of "Make everyone else look dowdy."
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Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 8:33 am
Grant notice the princess and the girl standing with her and moved in that direction on instinct. They, after all, looked like they could do with some help and, conveniently, he was a man that liked to help people. So it felt like it was something he was supposed to do.
He moved to them, smiling eagerly.
"Hello, ladies," he said with a polite tone, not meaning to condescend but rather simply pointing out that they were, in fact, both ladies. He wasn't sure what the princess was trying to do, moving the rubble, but assumed it was to clear the path. That seemed as good a guess as any, but he never liked to assume. He knew what they said about such things.
"Do you need some help? Are you moving this mess out of the way?" He looked at Holi, then at Chronos, willing to help out though his wrist had only recently been set. It was still feeling better, and his compulsion to help overrode his need to avoid pain.
Not being the most observant guy out there, he didn't seem to notice that Chronos was wearing something new. Or if he did notice, he didn't question it as odd.
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Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 8:46 am
After being brought into the surrounding by Flora, Hephaistos couldn't help but gawk at all the strange new sites. Unlike some of the other Senshi he had never ventured to his homeworld, or knew about space travel till Zue sent out the message guiding most of them here. Considering he was more of a tinkerer then anything he had left his few medical supplies with the other Senshi before venturing about the surrounding.
Ultimately he ended up near the Temple. Something, most likely curiosity, dragged him towards it. He wanted to know what was inside. When he got there he spotted a very small group, one Senshi girl hauling a large stone, and two civilians.
"Yo!" He said with a wave of a gloved hand. His chain mail rattled gently as he walked over to the trio before glancing at all the rubble. "Looks like you could all use a hand actually." He moved past Chronos unaware of who she was grabbing a chunk of stone and hauling it up as well.
Glancing at Chronos again he cocked his head ever slightly dropping a stone aside from the path. "So does anyone know whats in that temple anyway? I've heard of the Zodiac's before but I've never actually met them. Do they like... own all of this?"
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Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 9:18 am
Chronos had paused in the midst of bending down to pick up another rock when a voice addressed her. Or at least she assumed that it was addressing her, since she had seen no other around in the vicinity when she had arrived. Her head swiveled to the side to glance at the girl, offering her a smile. "If you aren't too injured, I would really appreciate the help!" With this, she picked up the piece of rubble and set it right on top of the previous piece she had moved earlier.
Another civilian had approached as well, and Chronos nodded at Grant. "It's obstructing the way, so I figured that it would be best to make everything seem neater." Since they were sort of living in the space now, and she did want to restore the Surrounding to its former glory, or as much as she could. "I'd be grateful for any sort of help, but please don't strain yourself!" She couldn't tell how heavy it was for civilians after all, since the strength of a Senshi was different from a normal person's.
"Well, I don't remember anything." Chronos said carefully, nodding at the Senshi in acknowledgement. "I feel that it's important, but well, I can't just remember exactly what. And the main doors aren't exactly cooperating..." She trailed off slightly, and then managed a smile to answer more of his questions. "Well, yes. we do own the Surrounding, technically. This is the main outpost, and each Zodiac has an outpost assigned to them."
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Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 9:58 am
"Y'know..." Holi noted, as she carefully hefted one of the smaller rocks, and limped a path over toward where Chronos seemed to have been moving hers. "If we're careful, maybe we can make a stone wall or something out of some of this. Like the ones in New England."
Might as well do something productive with random space-castle-rubble after all...other than lob it into space. Besides it would probably look pretty once it had moss and stuff growing on it.
"...That's gotta be frustrating." She added. Like Amnesia? Did magical people get amnesia? "Guess that's one good thing about people being here. Extra hands to help move stuff around."
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Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 10:15 am
Hephaistos continued to move stone and rubble about moving the larger of the pieces that he was able to lift on his own leaving the smaller rocks for the civilians. "Well only one way to try and learn more. We get inside and see if anything jogs your memory." Dropping another stone with a thump he turned to Holiday, "Skip the wall, at this rate we need the space clear, not to mention we'd be here forever trying to make a wall." He glanced around frowning, "Too many of us are kids, we wouldn't have the organization, the tools, or scaffolding to do it..." He shook his head grinning as he realized he was starting to plan a project in his head.
"Sorry, I like to tinker and build in my spare time, your idea is neat, but we really would need a lot more stuff to make it work."
Glancing at Chronos again he cocked his head slightly, "So you're deffinetly a zodiac? You guys don't look too different from the rest of us." Kicking at a rock he paused to offer the other Senshi a hand, "My names Sailor Hephaistos, since we're staying here we might as well all get to know each other." he said with a grin before turning to the two civilians, "And what should we call you two?"
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Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 10:32 am
"Memories will return when they do." Chronos said lightly, lifting up another rock. "I don't make too big of a fuss about it. It does nag a bit, but there are Senshi I know that don't completely remember a thing. You could say that I am lucky to remember what I do about this place and my life here in the past." It was no use being frustrated over it, after all! The gaps would fill in themselves soon enough. Or she could always ask if any of the Zodiac remembered the exact significance the Temple held.
"I am sorry that you're stuck here, though." She told Holly, pausing in her steps to offer the girl a slight bow of remorse. "And we don't exactly know why, but I will try my best to get you all home soon enough."
"I think it's a good idea to make a sort of inaugural wall though." The Princess said to Hephaistos. "Like stacking them up in a neat row." It would be better than just leaving it all in a untidy heap that would be quite an eyesore, even amongst the overgrown weeds. She set the piece of rubble next to the few she had amassed in a corner, then lifted up her hand to shake his. "I'm Princess Chronos. Thank you for assisting my Court, Sailor Hephaistos. I am grateful to all White Moon Senshi who have kindly offered their help to us."
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Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 10:48 am
Themis had been going from outpost to outpost, helping where it was needed. There were many of them now, senshi and knight alike, busying around the surrounding. It was a good thing.
A good thing indeed. He swerved by Chronos' outpost before making it back to Virgo's, and that was where he felt the princess, saw her even, with many already surrounding her.
He had to admit curiosity - Virgo spoke of her with such complete reverence that a part of him simply wanted to know her in turn, in spite of not being one of her senshi. He made his way carefully, doing his best not to end up beaning anyone - especially the civilians - with a pair of giant wingbows.
If anyone else asked him why he had wings on his a**...
"Princess Chronos ?" He asked. "Is there anything I can help you with ?"
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Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 9:44 pm
As they chatted Hephaistos dragged another rock over to the small pile that was starting to grow near them. It was slow tedious work but having others around made it better. "I guess a small memorial would be a good idea... I actually could help cut it in a way to fit better. My powers kind of this metal ooze that eats away at stuff, on rocks and junk it could work well."
When she finally took his hand he could only blink in mild shock, here a princess was helping move rubble like a common person, by all means he would have figured a Princess should be in the castle giving orders or organizing things, not actually working on the ground of it all.
"Er well Princess, it's a pleasure to meet you. It's kinda shocking to just kinda well bump into someone like you." He went back to working for a moment before glancing at the princess again his face working through a series of emotions it seemed trying to decide what to say.
"I don't know... a lot about any of this really. But... if this place exists, and what I've heard is true... can I go back to a world that I'm named after? If you Zodiacs have this... and other Senshi's have said things about homeworlds..."
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Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 8:59 am
"Oh, welcome!" Chronos said, spinning around to face the White Moon Senshi with a smile. She had previously heard that quite a few Eternals had volunteered to come along, and she really was quite gratified about it. To have those with experience supporting them in this time made her feel more confident that they could eventually tide through this. "Well, we're currently cleaning up the rubble here, but you are free to check out the other Outposts as well, if you haven't? Oh, and who may you be?" She wanted to remember as many Senshi names later as the Zodiac Court owed them a debt of gratitude for their assistance.
"That sounds interesting." She told Hephaistos. A memorial. But for what exactly? Eon? But he had a room, up there on the highest floor she could not open, and his tablet was there in the burial room. Still, the Princess was not one to shoot down helpful ideas.
"Well, it is technically the Chronos Castle." She said with a small grin and then shifted tones as their topic got more serious. "And yes, you can. Senshi all have homeworlds, even the Season Handmaidens. Flora mentioned something about pressing a button on her phone." Chronos turned her attention to Themis, not wanting to leave him out of the conversation. "Have you been to your homeworld?"
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Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 9:24 am
Well, just being here, moving rocks that were... well, kinda piddly compared to what the senshi were doing, was turning out to be surprisingly informative. She was also curious though, she knew nothing about Eon, and as far as she knew, no one had died, in spite of the battle with the whale and the bat-creatures. (Though it was still very clear in her mind that they very well could have.)
"...I hate to say it, but the first thing that popped into my mind when you said "memorial wall" was someone scratching in a 'Killroy-wuz-here'... and maybe people's names." She added sheepishly. "...Kinda stupid..." Kinda disrespectful if he'd meant a wall for the dead...
but if it was a memorial to the appearance of the missing civilians, she could almost picture herself, and others, telling their grandchildren. "Well maybe I never became president, but I have my name on a stone wall in SPACE! Beat THAT!"
Still, she was sort of interrupting what seemed to be magical-people-shop-talk, and she fell quiet again. There was no particular cause to fuel her into marching forward with the silly Killroy Wall, so she had no spark driving her to be up their noses about it right now.
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Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 9:55 am
Grant listened as the senshi chattered, not knowing much of what they were saying. Space. Homeworlds. Castles. Senshi. All these things he was surprised to learn existed, and was perfectly happy not knowing. They went against everything he had told himself he believed in.
He was one of those people on earth that believed the news. That told himself everything had a reasonable explanation and nothing was 'magical'.
It was rather hard to do that now, after seeing all this.
But his optimism made it a non-issue. He was simply too busy with other things to try and think about all that. People were hurt or needed his help, and as long as there were people who needed him, he couldn't selfishly think about himself. And who knew? Maybe this was an elaborate prank or some kind of publicity stunt for a new television show.
He wouldn't know until it was over, he supposed.
Focusing on the stones that needed moving, he did what he could to lift them and push them out of the way. He didn't ask why, and he certainly didn't seem fussed about it, humming as he worked.
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Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 2:02 pm
"The other outposts all look pretty well-covered already." He said with a nod, pushing his glasses back up on the top of his nose.
"Im Sailor Themis." He'd missed the start of the conversation, but he assumed that it had to do with the building in front of them, and he also moved forward to start moving rocks.
"I have been, a few times." He said with a nod. "It's mostly... confusing. I get flashes of memory, but not much. Not much that make sense in a greater picture..."
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Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2011 7:42 am
"I doubt Kilroy would come all the way out into space." Chronos joked, cerise eyes turning misty as she brought up the existence of the burial room. "We do have a sort of memorial for the past Zodiac Soldiers, in the Castle. Tablets, actually. Kind of like an ancestor altar." She had went in there and knelt in front of Eon's and Aries', asking them silently to please guide her and the rest of the Zodiacs through this tribulation. She had no doubt that they were watching down on them right now.
"That is a relief to hear." Still, she would want to pop over the outposts just to make sure, as she always did. It was her duty, her obligation to do so, after all.
"They will come to you, soon enough." She told Themis sensibly. "Sometimes it hurts when you realized that you forgot something that meant so much to you, but it never works to worry about it."
"And oh, I never asked you two who you were." The Princess shifted her attention to the two civilians, doing a little curtsy. "Do pardon me for my oversight. I hope you have healed well at Virgo?"
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