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 Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 6:09 pm
Blue eyes opened.
Sailor Aster was...alive?
The Senshi of Sunflowers had awoken in an unfamiliar bed, in an unfamiliar room, in an unfamiliar place. She tried to sit up in her bed, but her body ached in pain. Where was she?
The last thing she could remember was sinking to the bottom of that fountain in the pool of her own blood, stabbed in the heart with broken limbs, embracing death. And now she was alive. Or was she?
"Hello?" her weak voice cried. The light of the room was too intense for her rested eyes, blinding her until they could adjust properly. "Is anyone here?"
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Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 10:08 pm
Virgo didn't understand. How had the Negaverse found out about the meeting place? Had someone spread word of what was going on to them, they can't have--not if they were here. Oh, she'd find whoever had told them about the lift point and she would rend them limb from limb, but only after finding the Negaversers who thought it would be appropriate to murder a senshi on senshi turf. It had to be a death wish. She couldn't imagine anything otherwise...
She had lifted Sailor Aster out of the fountain without even a moment's hesitation, gathered her up and ported directly back to the Surrounding. It was only the existence of Virgo Outpost's natural magic that saved the senshi of sunflowers from an ignominious death in the fountain, and she hoped the other senshi knew it. The blonde senshi had resolved to wait, in order to get names or descriptions from the senshi that had been so recently victimized. She didn't leave the third floor of the outpost until she head a weak voice calling out, and then she stepped into the bedroom she'd set aside for Aster.
"I'm here," said the Zodiac Captain stonily. "Who did that to you, Aster? Do you have a name, or a description?"
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Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 12:29 pm
"I...I don't remember if they said their names," Aster started, groggy. She was still trying to put the pieces of the evening together, and add into it the pieces of how she ended up where she was. Seeing Soldier Virgo was able to fill in a few of the pieces as far as where she was and how she recovered go, at least. "Were you the one who saved me?" She paused. The answer was clear. "Thank you. I owe you a lot, man. Seriously. Thanks."
There was a heavy sigh as she knew that her gratitude was probably not the top priority. She still had not answered her savior's questions.
"There were two of them - my attackers," she started. "They were similar to each other, siblings, maybe twins. Both had purple hair, both were short. The boy was a Senshi, the girl was a Negaverse agent with knives. They were horrible people, man. Awful, awful people. I didn't realize there was that much evil in them."
She winced as she tried to sit up straight in her bed. While she had mostly recovered, her body still ached.
"I'm sorry if that isn't helpful."
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Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2011 10:25 pm
She crossed the room and settled gingerly on the edge of the bed, taking the brunette's hand into her own. With Virgo's magic, no blood transfusion had been necessary; the innocence in Virgo had been especially potent faced with the injuries to a senshi who hadn't fought back. Which the blonde had thought suspicious at the time, and in fact still did. She flipped the girl's hand, examined her fingernails. If she'd fought, something should have been caught under there. She'd watched more than enough Law and Order to know that.
"I'll find them and exact full payment for what they did," she said flatly. People always seemed to think that there was more to the Negaverse than the pure, seething evil that had corrupted their hearts. Facts were, there wasn't anything more. Either you were a Negaverser or your starseed was pure; that had been how the world worked for years. "You should have known. Hasn't anyone told you?"
The stern tone faded a bit, and Virgo squeezed Aster's hand. "I'm glad you're alright, Sailor Aster. Death is a frightening thing, isn't it?"
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Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 9:46 pm
"Exact full payment?" Aster questioned with a hint of disproval. Was she talking about revenge? She wasn't sure if she liked that. Sure, she was upset and angry with what had happened, but was an eye-for-an-eye the best method here? "Yes, death is frightening - its more than scary. Its ******** horrible. I can't put even it put to words, man. But I don't want to get revenge or to get even. I want justice, but they don't deserve death. ...do they?"
Her stomach was unsettled by the notion. "I was told that they were evil, but I just...I was naive I guess. I'm not one who is full of hatred, and I'm not one for violence or war. I thought others would be the same, even the Negaverse. I was wrong. They're horrible, they're terrifying. I can't allow other people to go through what I went through, you know, man?"
She was clearly torn between her emotions and her values. "I need to learn to fight back and defend myself - to defend others. Its the only way, isn't it?"
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Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 8:34 pm
Virgo watched the long-haired senshi with half-lidded eyes. "They deserve death," she said, her tone silky smooth. Didn't people ever think things through? She supposed if the Zodiacs had been clearer about what the Negaverse had done to them... about Barren Pines, about the original explosion... then maybe the newer senshi wouldn't think that the Negaverse could be saved.
They couldn't.
"It is the only way," she says, running her hands over her hair. "The day will come when you have to fight. There's no way to avoid it. You have to fight, and you'll have to kill others if you want to live." This, coming from the senshi of Innocence? "Because they won't stop until they've murdered you."
She shrugged, a small twitch of the shoulders, and walked over the window. "They've murdered thirteen-year-olds," she said. "And mothers, and fathers. They are evil. And they need to die."
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Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 4:08 am
Nobody deserves death. That was the belief that Sailor Aster had long grown up with, but perhaps that was foolish thinking. The idea of it was all very unsettling, and the Zodiac Soldier's list of atrocities that the Negaverse had committed did not help to comfort her. She thought - no, she knew that she was incapable of killing. She was incapable of sentencing death.
There had to be another alternative. There had to be some balance between pacifism and death that she would be able to find and thrive on to succeed in this war. But what?
"I'm not capable of killing," she stated proudly. Her values were strong, and even when presented with the reality of the situation, she was not going to turn her back on the values she held so dear. "That isn't a 'I don't think I would kill someone' statement. That is a 'I'm not ever going to kill someone' statement. I will learn to fight, but I will not kill. There has to be another way to stop the Negaverse other than death. As you said man, there's been way too much of that already."
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Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 2:46 pm
She turned back towards Aster, her expression a mix of befuddlement and total disbelief. Why in the world would you be proud of being incapable of killing? It wasn't as if it was murder. Murder implied innocence, and no one who bore a corrupted star seed was. As the soldier of said virtue, she would know that better than anyone. Of course she didn't want blood on her hands any more than any other person did. It repulsed her to know that she'd have to take lives--that she had taken lives, and would do so again. That couldn't be allowed to stop her, though, because for every Negaverser she put a permanent stop to, that was a multitude of civilians, of mothers and fathers and children that would not die. Virgo narrowed her eyes, expression shifting towards disdain.
"I'm a girl," she said, evidently misunderstanding the colloquial use if the word 'man'. "If you want to put the civilians at risk that way, Sailor Aster, that is your choice. But the Negaverse has claimed my life three times, and the lives of my comrades. For that, I will have their lives." They owed it to her, especially that one. She tapped her fingernails against the pillar that made up the side of the window in front of which she stood, and then she turned back to looking outside. "You shouldn't travel alone until you're more powerful. Be more careful next time, Sailor Aster."
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Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 5:02 pm
Sailor Aster fell silent as she thought about Virgo's words. There was clearly an impasse, but perhaps there was a right and a wrong side to it all. It upset her to think such a thing as she turned over in the bed, facing away from the Soldier of Innocence and looking out to opposite wall until she closed her eyes to get some rest. It wasn't the time or place to figure out the right from wrong.
Not there.
Not yet.
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