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 Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 6:39 pm
Halloween was over, but fall was still in the air, since winter hadn’t yet come to Destiny City. Almost, but not quite. There was a small Fall festival going on in one of the larger parks in the city, complete with a wonderful petting zoo in the very middle of it all. There were baby piglets in the petting zoo, so naturally Millicent Lafeu had been there at least four times to see them, holding them and just thinking they were the best things ever.
Of course, if the piglets were cute in the daytime…Millie thought it would be a good idea to play with them at night, as Sailor Lenka…and that’s just what she did.
The Chibi Senshi went to the petting zoo and picked up one of the piglets, smiling happily. They were so cute! And they looked so sleepy! It was so adorable!
She was so distracted by the little animals, that she failed to notice one of the goats…didn’t look…normal. Its horns were much sharper then the horns of a normal goat..and it’s eyes were a glowing red, fangs bared. It was a youma, and Lenka was far too busy to notice this time.
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Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 11:39 am
Tony hadn't been to the petting zoo, as he was a grown man with a grown son, and small animals did not call to him the way they did younger children. He did patrol the area sometimes, just in case there were kids causing trouble, or youma up to much worse than any vandals in a petting zoo might get up to.
He felt an energy signature in the area and went to investigate. The petting zoo was closed, but that rarely stopped any of the people he had run into on patrol before.
Hell, he often broke into his own library.
When he spotted the girl petting the piglets he almost wasn't surprised. His little jedi padawan, the one that had yelled at him for fighting with the pig youma. He remembered that encounter clearly, and it made sense for her to be here now. He smiled.
"Playing with the animals, Padawan?"
His attention was drawn from her, though, when he saw the youma. He leaped into the pen, hurrying over. Did she like goats? He hoped she wasn't going to yell at him for this one too. "Watch out, there's a youma in here!"
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Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 11:51 am
Lenka jumped when she heard Camelot speak, almost dropping the piglet in her arms. Woah! She didn’t even feel him coming, but it was Qui-Gon! A big smile formed on her face at being called Padawan and she opened her mouth to say something then blinked when he ran over, saying something about a youma.
There was a youma and she didn’t even know it? The senshi looked down to the piglet in her arms and swallowed, putting it in the corner with the other sleeping ones. This time she had to protect them! She reached into her sack that she brought with her and drew out a lightsaber.
“If there’s a youma then we gotta fight it! Here, Qui-Gon! I got you a lightsaber, I carry it around in case I see you! Now I see you so here you go!” It was one of the older models, thicker and easier for a grown up to hold. The blade of course, was green and looked…kind of battle scarred. “Sorry, it’s one of my older ones! But I thought you’d like it!”
The goat youma was pawing at the ground, letting out a terrible sounding ‘Baaa’ and getting ready to headbutt the two newcomers, hoping to feast on their starseeds.
Sailor Lenka looked at it. “Oh! That’s the youma! I’m glad it’s not a pig!”
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Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 9:24 am
Camelot came to a short stop, blinking at her. She wanted to what? He took the toy lightsaber and stared at it, tilting his head in wonder at the item. It certainly looked like it had been put through its paces, but it was not going to be very helpful now even if it had been brand new.
He stared at it, then at her.
"Uh, thank you," he managed to say. Not quite sure what to do with it. He held on to it, though, with his shield on his arm giving him a bit more hope in the fight. And there would be a fight, looking at the youma now and seeing the way it was digging its hooves at the earth and readying to attack them.
He focused on that, moving protectively forward, in front of Lenka.
"Yes, goats are much better," he said, though it was only half sarcastic. If she was more willing to fight it because it didn't look like a pig, he was alright with that.
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Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 10:27 am
Lenka nodded happily. “I know! Goats aren’t nearly as cute as pigs, and goats are mean sometimes, like when they hea butt you!” She seemed pleased with herself that Camelot was agreeing with her this time, and she almost didn’t notice when the youma began to charge. Almost.
“Like that goat is trying to do now!” The child gasped and summoned her watermelon rind. “Lenka boomarind!” She threw it, and this time, her aim was pretty close to where she wanted it to be. It hit the youma on one of it’s horns and seemed to confuse it, the creature snorting in a mixture of pain and confusion.
“Look Qui-gon! I hit it! I hit the youma and not you. I did that last time too, but, I was trying to hit you last time!” She seemed so pleased, looking up at Camelot, not seeming afraid in the least.
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 12:40 pm
Camelot nodded his head. He did not want to be headbutt by a youma goat. He imagined it would result in most of his face being caved in, and certainly would do nothing for the squishy brain behind what the youma would find as an easily broken skull.
He watched as the chibi senshi threw her watermelon, nodding his head in surprise and wonder. She had thrown that rather well, better than Camelot could throw his shield most of the time, but he really didn't have time to compliment his padawan.
Not until after the fight was won.
Well. He saw her face, her big excited eyes and the way she was so excited about hitting the youma, and he laughed, nodding his head. It was true, she had missed her real target the last time he saw her use that attack.
"Good job! But don't let your guard down, the youma is recovering already. You have to follow through, or hitting it once will not help you." He smiled at her, holding his shield up. He watched as the goat tried to charge again. He stepped in to defend this time, to prevent the youma from reaching her.
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 4:36 pm
Lenka gave a nod, watching as the creature shook it’s head, letting out an awful growl, once more lowering its head to charge at the two who dared to attack it.
When Camelot moved in front of Lenka, the child hesitated, then peeked out from behind the Squire, “Lenka Boomarind!” She threw it again and it hit the youma mid charge, knocking it to the ground. The creature looked dazed and the watermelon rind vanished.
Lenka however seemed smug and very pleased with herself. “Qui-gon..kick it like you kicked the pig! I think maybe that’ll kill it. You kick well!” Because that’s what knights did. They kicked things with their big heavy boots. They kicked things until they died.
This fight was far too easy! She must just be getting super strong. Like a real hero.
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Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2011 10:51 am
Camelot eyed the youma, frowning at it. The sounds it was making and the way it was stamping its feet, digging at the earth like a linebacker, were not particularly encouraging. Camelot knew what that meant, of course, and he held his shield at the ready.
Though, he imagined that thing slamming its head into the shield would still not feel very good, even if the item was designed to absorb blows.
When Lenka appeared from behind him to throw the boomerang again he smiled and nodded his head, watching as the goat youma lost its footing and slammed into the ground. When she ordered him to kick it he almost laughed, but instead decided to let her lead the fight and followed her orders. Moving toward the fallen youma, he wrenched his armor plated foot back and swung a hard kick for the youma's exposed stomach.
The youma didn't like that, but it didn't have much choice in the matter. Camelot held on to his shield, but kicked the youma again for good measure. It burst into dust soon after, and Camelot sighed. He hoped there were no other goat youma running around, or kids were going to have a terrible time when they came to the petting zoo.
Honestly, someone should at least check that the animals weren't going to try to eat starseeds before putting them in a pen for small children to pet and feed them in. That just seemed like an egregious error. It was worse than if the rabbits or other animals nipped fingers, certainly.
Then something slammed into his backside and knocked him forward onto his face, shield under him, pushing the wind out of his lungs and leaving him smarting and instantly embarrassed. A smaller goat youma huffed at them, and turned on Lenka after butt butting Camelot to the floor.
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Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2011 11:07 am
Lenka let out a cheer as the first youma turned to dust and held a hand out to Camelot, mouth open to tell him how excited she was that they beat it, when Camelot fell to the floor. What? What had…
The child turned her head and saw another youma…another goat youma. She huffed and crossed her arms, seeming unhappy with this turn of events. “I just decided that I don’t like goats. They’re mean and the cheese they make tastes funny.”
She looked at the youma, then moved forward, trying to land a kick on the creature before he could knock her to the ground too. “I’ll protect you, Camelot! We can beat this little guy too! We’re heroes! You just haveta get up!” She pulled out another lightsaber and swung it at the goat when her kick missed, and seemed happy that the plastic blade hit the creature on the face, though just barely. “Come on, Camelot! It’s just a baby youma! A big, mean, stupid baby!”
They were JediSenshiKnights. They could kill a stupid goat. “Let’s saber him to death!”
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Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 11:27 am
Camelot had to agree. Goat milk and cheese was weird tasting. The not liking goats thing was growing more and more obvious to him, even moreso as he was pushing his hands under him and getting his body up. His backside was very sore, and he winced as he got his feet flat and pushed himself upright.
That was one way to make him feel even older than necessary.
He smiled as the young girl tenaciously leaped into the battle. At least she had some gusto, certainly. He was worried, though, that it would lead her into more trouble than she could handle. And that would be his fault, and he could not live with himself if he got her hurt.
"We're heroes," he said, once he was upright again. He looked at the plastic toy near him, which he had dropped, and picked it up. Lightsaber it to death? "I think we'd best use our actual skills and weapons," he advised, though he held the lightsaber with his shield up, like a knight and a sword. He swung at the youma and smacked it on the side of the head, the lightsaber making a sound of protest. It was a toy, the sound said.
Camelot swung his shield next, just to follow up with a sturdy hit.
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Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 3:19 pm
Lenka laughed, nodding as he hit the youma with both his lightsaber and his shield. “That’s the way to do it, Qui-gon! My lightsaber is the only weapon I have now…My rind goes away after I throw it twice…So…”
She stuck her tongue out at the youma, then turned her lightsaber upside down, hitting the creature three times with the sturdier hilt of the saber, laughing as the youma fell to the ground, stunned from all the blows. The child seemed very pleased then ran to the creature, mimicking Camelot’s kick with one of her own, cheering as the youma exploded into dust.
“We did it! We did it Qui-gon! We’re so super strong, nothing can stop us! You and me are the strongest JediSenshiKnights in the whole world.” Notwithstanding the fact that they were the only JediSenshiKnights in the whole world.
She seemed so happy and looked up at the man with a grin spread across her whole face. “We’re just the coolest ever.”
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Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 11:46 am
"Does it? That's no good," he knew that senshi had limits on their magic, of course, and it seemed the smaller ones did, too. Still, at least she had something she could take comfort in, though he couldn't say it was overly effective. Throwing watermelon waste at youma was not the greatest way to defend oneself, but it was still better than what some other senshi got. Even the older ones.
And he'd seen knights with items far less useful than even a watermelon rind.
He watched her as she celebrated the youma being dusted, shaking his head.
"Alright, padawan. There's a lesson here," he said, in a serious, but not too much so, tone. He stooped in front of her, watching her with his keen, sagely green eyes. Or at least, he hoped they looked sagely. It wouldn't do if he looked like he had no idea what he was talking about.
"We defeated these youma, but there are always stronger ones. Never assume you're going to win, just because you won the last fight. That makes you careless, and could get you hurt. And that's the very last thing I want you to do, alright?"
He smiled, though, not wanting to dampen her spirits. She had fought fairly well, for someone her age, and she seemed to be taking to her senshi duties easier than most twice her age.
"But I agree. We are pretty cool." He tilted his lightsaber toward her, as if for a handshake. He wanted her to tap it with her own. Maybe that could be their thing.
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Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 11:04 pm
Never assume that you’re going to win. Well, that was silly advice! She had never lost before, after all, so why wouldn’t she assume. Well, that time with that bad guy didn’t count…she hadn’t lost…not really. She had sort of won…She didn’t get really, hurt, right! That was kind of winning.
The child nodded then gave a little laugh, reaching her lightsaber up, tapping Camelots’. “You really are the coolest Qui-Gon ever. Don’t let anyone ever tell you any different, okay? You know how to give advice without seeming mean about it! I like that about you!”
She laughed again, then retracted her lightsaber. “We should do this more often, okay? I like fighting along with you…” She knew that no bad guys would push her down so long as Camelot was there. He was much taller than the bad guys—so they wouldn’t have a chance. “I hope we get to fight the youmas again soon! We can help rid the entire galaxy of these pests!”
With one last laugh, the chibi senshi hugged Camelot. “Thank you for being nice and stuff, I guess. And watch out for goats when you go home! I’ll do the same! I’m not going to let my guard down..and I’m not going to assume that I’m going to win—even if I always win!” She grinned then waved her red gloved hand. “I’m going home now, so, bye bye, Camelot!”
The little senshi ran, still holding her lightsaber. Killing goats had been much easier than killing that awful pig youma, and for that she was very, very grateful.
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