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 Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 9:58 pm
"I just ... I need some air okay? I'll be back soon kitty~" she said quietly as she snuck out the door, leaving Pippin behind the door. Maybe it was a bit mean of her, but she needed some time to think. No team to take care of, no cat shouting loving support behind her. She just needed to breathe.
In the last few weeks, it seemed things had exploded for her. Suddenly senshi like Nunki were looking up to her. To her. She was a freakin' 17 year old girl. She didn't ... This was too complicated.
Sighing, Talia took off down a familiar alley and transformed. As she finished, a smile crossed her face. She always felt best right after controlling. It was like no matter what had gone on as Talia, it all got wiped away as Draconis.
Then she had to deal with Draconis problems, and the frown came back. She wandered down a few alleys, patrolling half-heartedly. Some captain she was. Draconis didn't even know she had a planet until ********* had showed her. Always *********, man. She hadn't even told anyone she was a senshi yet. Truth be told, Draconis was beginning to crush under pressure- a sensation she nearly never felt.
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Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 11:15 pm
Where the hell was that b*tch?!
Eunomia was late. Later than late. And Iris was somewhat steamed about this. If that dark haired pain-in-her-side had stood her up, the eternal senshi was going to have a shouting match with her the next time they met.
However, amidst her bitter and impatient pacing in the alleyway where she was waiting, a senshi began to approach. Judging by the energy leaking from her, it was probably a Super senshi. Based off her appearance, it wasn't anybody that the tomboy could recognize. Despite being around for so long, the blonde couldn't claim to know everybody in this city. She wasn't in denial about these sorts of things. ********* was the busy body, not so much herself.
"...Sup?" she asked in a voice loud enough for the approaching Super Senshi. It wasn't the most eloquent introduction, but this was Sailor Iris. Screw all the formal language!
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Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 9:21 pm
Sailor Draconis prided herself in being rather sneaky (she probably wasn't, but she certainly thought herself so), so when a voice sounded behind her, she was actually surprised.
It was a rather ... colorful senshi- all yellow and rainbows. "Ah, Hi," she said. Looking the senshi up and down, she noted by the white fuku and gentle aura that it was probably a friend on the white moon side. A smile crossed her face.
"Sailor Draconis, and you?" she said, politely. "Are you out for a stroll?" she causally added, with a lilt smile on her face.
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 10:29 am
It might have been human nature to look someone over the first time one met them, but that didn't mean the eternal senshi hadn't noticed the up-and-down this Sailor Draconis had given her. She narrowed one of her eyes and lowered her brown over said eye, looking at the girl quizzically.
"...Sailor Iris..." she said in a nearly tense voice, seeming at odds with the forced politeness coming from the other girl.
And her question was in the blonde's opinion, a very stupid one.
"Why th'hell would I be out fer a stroll like this?! With all th'youma crawlin' 'round out 'ere... they'd be drawn t'me like moths t'the flame! If I wanted t'be out fer a stroll, I'd just stay my normal self!" Iris scoffed slightly before giving a base idea as to what she was doing.
"I'm waitin' fer one of my teammates so we can start patrollin'... dumb b*tch is late..." In agitation, she ran her hand through her hair, mussy up the already messy seeming hair. Shooting the girl a sharp glance, she asked "So... ya 'strollin' t'night I take it? Or ya actually patrollin'?"
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 10:32 am
WOAAAAAAAH. Draconis had simply asked a question jokingly and had apparently opened up a can of bitchfest. This definitely wasn't like any senshi she'd encountered before. Well maybe Chaonis. Chaonis was a bit testy too.
Something about the way Iris called her teammate a dumb b***h irritated her. To her self-righteous mind, one should never call their fellow teammate rude names; nevermind that she'd done it to a few people before and was incredibly hypocritical for it.
Still, that meant Iris was on a team. A little awkwardly, Draconis said, "Ah yeah, patrolling." Draconis sounded a little distracted. She decided just to answer her curiosity. "Did you say ... team?" she asked cautiously.
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 10:58 am
"I suppose I did..."
In all technicalities, Iris had never said team, but rather had said teammate which had the word 'team' in it. The blonde shifted slightly until she was leaning against a nearby wall and crossing her arms.
"...what about it?"
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 11:09 am
Perhaps this had been the help she was looking for, though ... she would have preferred it in a different form. Maybe one that didn't have such a crass mouth? Well, beggars couldn't be choosers. Too bad. She would've begged hard for someone else.
NEVERMIND THAT THOUGH.
Draconis scratched the back of her neck, her gems and stones clinking quietly against one another. Compared to Iris' simple fuku, she felt a tad overdone, but perhaps that was a good thing. She liked being fancy.
"Ah ... sorry I don't mean to pry, its just ... I have a team myself and ..." She paused for a moment to look away. This was getting a little embarrassing. "Well I just ... I don't really know how to-" Errrr. Could she be more awkward?
She decided to go for a different angle. "Look, basically I just ... I don't really get what I'm supposed to be fighting for." There it was out. Laugh your a** off Iris, she was having a real heart-pouring moment here. As soon as she said the words, it all started to tumble out. "I'm the leader of this team, and they look up to me and I don't even feel like I've done anything to earn that," she explained. "Like this one girl- her name was Sailor Nunki- she saw my super attack and looked at me like I was the greatest s**t on the PLANET! And Pippin- oh God don't even start me on Pippin. He keeps running around calling me 'his dragon his dragon' with those big green eyes-" She was ranting now. This was just getting more embarrassing by the moment.
Draconis realized what she was doing and said, "Oh God I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to ... s**t." She should probably just run away now. This was horribly weird of her. Draconis was normally good at holding her tongue.
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 11:43 am
Iris listened without the slightest shift of expression on her face. In all honesty, it almost looked like she wasn't listening, maybe trying to tune the girl's ramblings out. However, she was listening.
Once this Draconis seemed to start stumbling over her own words, the blonde jutted out her hand to signal for the girl to stop. There was quite a pause between getting the other girl to quiet down and for the tomboy to speak up. "...I am going to guess that Pippin is a cat..." she stated cautiously to start. She didn't really even wait for a confirmation that this Pippin was indeed one of those Mauvians.
"...About two years ago... I got told by a cat that I was one of 'her girls'... apparently I belonged to her team even though I had been doin' the senshi thing fer about 6 or so months prior t'that..."
There was a noticeable pause in which Iris straightened up a bit. "...then a bit over a year after that... I was democratically chosen to become the captain fer th'team... I didn't even f*ckin' get a say in th'matter... just 'it's you'... and it wasn't even th'full team that picked me... it was just the five that had been awakened of the full eight."
She pushed herself off of the wall so she was standing up straight at her full 6'2" (thanks to the heels of her shoes). "...so tell me... what's important t'you, Sailor Draconis? I ain't askin' 'bout what ya should be fightin' for... tell me... what makes ya tick?"
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 12:11 pm
Sailor Draconis was a bit irked by the hand that silenced her, but it was well-placed. She was beginning to think she would've never stopped talking if Iris hadn't interrupted her. When Iris made an assumption about Pippin being "the cat," she nodded in agreement. He was most certainly the cat, even if only he thought so.
Unlike Iris, while Draconis listened to the other girl's story with rapt attention. Her eyes were very keenly focused on Iris, her head nodding in agreement here and there. She didn't dare say a word though. Somehow it seemed like Iris was not the type of person you wanted to interrupt.
When she finished and asked her question, Draconis had about five million more questions in response. So she was a captain? Who were her girls? Could they meet up sometime? Who was her cat? The only other guardian cat Draconis could think of was *********, and somehow she couldn't picture happy-go-lucky ********* with this rough of tough Sailor Iris. The image was almost laughable.
"What makes me tick?" she said, her hand on her chin, in thought, "Well I guess ... you know. Friends and family and stuff." It was a typical "popular girl" answer. "Pippin too I suppose," she added, a bit more thoughtfully, "Though I think he winds the clock himself," she added with a laugh.
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 10:48 am
"All cats seem t'wind the clocks themselves... they got their priorities... we've got ours..." Where as Draconis had laughed, the eternal senshi sounded serious. It was as if she understood that the cats had to do their own things.
"...So friends an' family, eh? Those are th'things ya wanna keep safe? Ya ask me... those are some good things t'be fightin' for." The girl shrugged. "Those are things that I fight for. I fight so they don't have t'be put in danger."
For a moment, she turned away, but then soon enough she turned back to this Super Senshi, her gold eyes looking intensely to another matching pair. Her words seemed to grow quite sharp, as if she wanted the words to cut into Draconis to leave their mark. "My advice t'ya... is t'not half a** whatever ya do as captain! Know what ya fight for! If ya make rules, follow them yerself... ya can be a captain, but yer not any better than any of them. Bein' a captain ain't a convenience, so never ever treat it as such! Don't half a** it, otherwise yer not only puttin' yerself in danger, yer puttin' everyone that relies on ya in danger too!"
In a sense, Iris was confessing to all the things she had done wrong a while back, but at the same time, she was not taking ownership to the errors she had made.
Having finished her piece, she paused to crack her knuckles slightly before reaching to touch the crystalline Ewer by her side. "Just because yer labeled captain doesn't make ya a captain right-off... earn th'rank and th'respect, no matter how many people fawn over yer a**..."
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Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 8:58 am
Draconis nodded slowly. It made sense. Stick up what you fight for and all that. Sounded like something out of a cheesy movie, but she wasn't about to reprimand the other senshi for a few cliche words.
She realized the conversation was sort of dragging out, so she said, "Ah, yeah. Sounds good." She was still somewhere deep in thought, but less agonized. Now it was just stressful, because on top of all her previous worries, Iris had adding "fighting for what she believed in" to her plate. While Iris was attempting to cheer her up, and Dragonis would appreciate it later, the advice was stressing her out even more.
Maybe Draconis just stressed out too easily.
"Didn't you have another senshi you were looking for?" she said, changing the subject. "Maybe I could help you look ... ?" Truthfully, spending time with Iris didn't seem like a fun walk in the park, but anything was better than wallowing in her stress alone.
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Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 5:43 pm
Iris snorted (as she was prone to do when annoyed). "Naw... she's doin' this sh*t on purpose... she already gave me grief about settin' up this patrol..." Where as the tomboy's tone sounded confident in her own conclusions, she put one hand behind her back and summoned up her cell phone. She didn't know 100% that the girl hadn't accidentally found some trouble on the way, which meant according to protocol, she'd be calling her. Rather than budge from her spot, the tall girl seemed to settle into place, finding herself a wall to lean against. "So... what's yer group go by? Did yer cat explain why yer team is even a team?" In all honesty, the blonde was only half invested in the conversation.
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Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 6:13 pm
Draconis cocked an eyebrow when Iris continued to badmouth a so-called teammate. It didn't seem very ... captain-y of her, but Draconis wouldn't comment. It just didn't seem smart to insult this chick.
"We call ourselves the zoo," she said promptly, "Animal senshi and all, but I think of it as a temporary name." It was a clever nickname really, not an official title. Honestly though, at this point they'd used it so much that it had pretty much become the staple name.
Why they were a team? s**t, she didn't know that. Pippin always just talked about going to find them, running around and recruiting. There was never any why except "I gotta find my animal senshi!"
Still, Draconis didn't want to look like a dunce. She played it off with cool indifference, and decided to just not bring it up. A change of subjects. "What about you- what's yours called?" Crisis avoided.
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Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 9:28 pm
"'The Zoo'..." The blonde repeated it slowly, as if trying to figure out how well it flowed off of her own tongue. Draconis seemed to justify the name as something temporary, which was hint enough she didn't like the name. However, some bold words interjected.
"...I like that name..."
Sailor Iris wasn't good at hiding her opinion. "It sounds like a punk rock band or somethin'... slightly edgy, but not tryin' too hard..."
With half a shrug, she then addressed the question of her own team. "...'The Asteroids'...'cause... GASP... we're named fer asteroids... oh so clever, right?" In a sarcastic manner, she lifted up her free hand, and twirled one finger in a circle as if to go "woo hoo."
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Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 9:35 pm
Well if it sounded like a punk rock band then they definitely needed a name change. There was no way Draconis was putting up with THAT crap.
"The Asteroids" sounded like another cheesy band name, and Draconis thought Iris should invest in a new name too. Asteroids was just tacky- it sounded like something that belonged in a museum, not the majestic senshi world.
... Not that she said any of this out loud.
"Simple enough, makes sense," she said, smiling sweetly. It was fake, but that wasn't her problem. "We'll have to meet up some time!" she lied. "Anyways, Pippin is probably going to throw a fit if I'm not back soon so ... I'll see you later?"
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