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 Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 7:07 am
Zachary checked his wallet.
"I think we have enough." he said, smiling at his sister.
Despite what she had done, he still cared for her, and was determined to help her if he could.
"Come on." he said coaxingly.
They stood outside the grocery store. They needed food and supplies, and this was the place to get them.
"Do come on, Percy, it's not scary at all."
"What the ******** you stupid brat! She ain't scared at all!" blurted out Angry, glaring at Zachary through Percy's eyes.
He didn't hate the kid so much anymore- he was handy- but damn the kid could be dense.
He was, what, supposed to know her, like, really well, right?
Well s**t.
Then he went about saying bullshit like that!
Percy pulled Angry back into her mind and angry let her. Man, that had been stupid.
Zachary frowned, studying his sister.
This had happened before, when she would blurt out something that definitely wasn't her thing to say.
But he said nothing. Simply... observed.
"I'm not scared." she said quietly. She hadn't smiled since the incident, to be honest. She had had a stoic frown creasing her face.
It had been a trying week. She had had to figure out how to live with Zachary on her own, and how to live with what she had done.
She would have preferred just hiding in the shack she had found forever.
But Zachary had pointed out that they needed supplies.
"I'm just worried someone will see us and recognize us, is all."
"I bet they won't" Zachary said, smiling. He gently tugged on her arm and she, nonresisting, followed him in. They grabbed a supermarket cart and started rolling along the grocery aisle.
"Hmmm" Zachary said thoughtfully, eyeing the produce. "What do we need..."
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Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 2:25 pm
Skuld had been ushered along to the grocery store by her father and the newest voice in her head had agreed with him - seeing as Giovanni had stated that the girl needed more interaction with the outside world and less with her home to become more comfortable around people that she had to interact with. Which was honestly true; the girl had become quite comfortable sitting at home and watching the various shows and movies that came on throughout the day and picking up on little things here and there that would give away key moments later on in the show or movie; Her favorite one to do that with was the show called "Game of Thrones".
As the mute colored girl wandered alongside her colorful father, she stopped when she heard something out of the ordinary hub bub that she had heard while meandering through the aisle of the grocery store with the currently oblivious adult she was with. Looking up at Giovanni, she gave him a quick tap on the hand to get his attention, "Is it okay if I wander?" she asked quietly, getting a nod from her father, who reminded her to find him at the registers when a small black bird illusion appeared on her shoulder, knowing the girl wouldn't get into trouble like he did as a kid.
With a quick about-face turn, Skuld walked to the aisle they had just passed to find a girl and a boy talking, the girl was of earthy colors, like mud, who had wings like her father. She stood about 20 feet away before stopping, then walking a bit closer, not wanting to outright frighten the two, but her passive intimidation would quickly notify them of her presence.
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Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 5:16 pm
"Apples?"
An apple a day kept the doctor away, right? And she couldnt afford doctors.
"Good thinking."
Zachary liked apples. Especially with oatmeal. He scribbled it down on a notepad to remember for later.
"Oranges..."
A nice, all-purpose breakfast food...
"Tomatoes..." great for dinner...
"What about these...?" Percy asked, holding up a squash, "What is this..."
I have no idea... said angry, bored stiff. Stupid shopping.
But food was good he supposed.
Well not supposed.
Okay fine, he liked food.
his host and her brother were getting into the stride of shopping (uuuugh) for food (Woot) when he sensed a mane nearby.
Hey. Hey pers. Behind us.
"I think thats... butternut? You bake it. Its the orange mush, remember?"
Zachary smiled at her.
This was nice.
This was like old times without the parents or the mansion.
"Oh. That...." That had been good.
What? she said in her head, trying to look casual while turning around to look behind her.
"But we don't have an oven..."
"True..." Zachary took the squash from her hand and put it back, inspecting some broccoli.
"Some of this, too." he said, reaching for it.
Percy took his distraction as an opportunity to scrutinize the people behind her more closely.
Most were human. There were a few metas, but not many.
Someone was staring at them, a pale, muted dark-haired girl.
Is that what your talking about?
Yeah.
He could sense the mane and it made him pissed and excited.
This could be fun.
What do you think? Should we beat her up so she doesn't tell anybody we're here?
Why would we do that?
She was probably staring because of the wings. Percy doubted that that girl would recognize her.
Knew you'd say that... said angry, dissappointed.
Was the mane enough reason?
Did he have a reason?
DID HE HAVE A REASON?
He retreated back to sort it out. The kid could handle things for now.
"Broccoli is good for you too..." He turned back and noticed his sister staring. "Hmmm?" he followed her eyes to see the girl she was staring at. A little girl. She had to be younger than him.
He leaned out from behind his sister.
"Hello there! Are you lost?" he asked Skuld, smiling in a friendly way.
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Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 5:33 pm
Skuld shook her head, her mane just idly watching the two that it's host was interacting with. "No, I'm not lost. I just found you two..curious." she smiled awkwardly, though her smile came off as rather creepy and strange; her teeth slightly sharper than most humans. Walking a little closer to the two, she stopped about 5 feet away and did a courteous curtsey, "My name is Skuld."
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Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 8:11 pm
"Curious?" asked Zachary, crossing some things off of the list, "How so?"
Other than his sister's wings, of course.
Kid, I'm tellin ya. She pegged us. Bet they have wanted posters everywhere.
So then why were we let in?
...
Percy had a point
Zachary may have been used to strangeness, with a sister like her, but the fallen angel was a bit unnerved by the sharp smile that the girl gave her.
Just a bit.
"Well..." Should I give him our names?
Pfff. Try it. See if they s**t themselves or call the cops. Could be fun
Angry laughed. Nobody could accuse him of being prudent
"I'm Percy, and this is my brother Zachary." she said, introducing them with a smile.
She had decided to be a bit reckless.
"Nice to meet you, Skuld"
Yes, Zachary was used to strangeness. He was more curious than afraid himself.
Clearly she wasn't human. What was she?
He wanted to know.
"Yes..." Although...
"Are you here with somebody, Skuld?"
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Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 10:41 am
Skuld bowed her head, giving the two time to introduce themselves before she spoke again, something she figured would be nice seeing as she probably at least mildly freaked out the two as well as any human near by. "I was curious because I haven't seen a Meta like you before - your colors are different to the ones I've seen before.." she stated, her eyes lingering on Percys wings, wings that made her think of chocolate and Branimir, who was still just idling and leaving her alone for the most part right now, as if it was trying to judge just on the shadows reactions how the two she was talking to would be as friends.
"I'm here with my father, I asked him if I could walk around on my own but he'll call for me when he's done shopping." She managed to half smile, her eyes looking over the one named Zachary, a human... a young human to boot. Skuld never really interacted with younger humans that much due to the nature of her sticking with her father quite a bit and his profession never really had him interacting with kids except on rare occasions.
'The child is not the one that is interesting to you, shadow. It is the winged one.' Branimir stated simply, it's voice smooth but slightly cracked, hints of JegudielÌ› peaking through.
Skuld was about to open her mouth to say something, but she paused, an 'umm' would've been the first thing out of her mouth, before speaking. "I'm wondering if you two have heard about the news going around the Academy?".
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 6:01 am
That was good. Youngsters shouldn't be around without their parents.
In his case, he had his sister.
And he didn't really think of himself as a youngster.
"What news?" asked Zachary, smiling curiously. They'd been in a shack for days.
Percy blushed a little, shyly angling her wings.
"W-well..." nobody had made comments about her wings before. Everybody around her previously had been too polite. She kind of liked it.
"My item is a sparrow. They're very pretty little brown birds. They fly agiley and have a sweet song... I'm not so good at singing..." she did secretly want to learn, though.
She was just starting to relax when...
News?
News... what was she talking ab...
Oh no, did... did she KNOW...?!
Angry did. He knew exactly what the girl was talking about.
uhhhh s**t.
What?
Percy asked Angry, her heartbeat starting to speed up.
Nothin. Lets hear what she's got to say.
Angry wasn't... happy... about the events that were about to transpire. Well, he'd have some action but that wasn't the point. He wasn't given a choice, and that pissed him off.
The girl had a mane in her, and so he was sort of curious what she had heard.
"No, we haven't heard. What news?"
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Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 2:18 pm
Skuld smiled at the mention of a bird, it reminded her of her father Giovanni, "Sparrow... I've never seen one - I've only seen Crows and Ravens..."
"Us Metas either need to stay with our guardians or go onto the grounds for awhile... the Elders of the Academy said that there's something going on that's causing turmoil between the Humans and Metas. My father said it's got something to do with humans being attacked by other humans who have something or some power." Skuld said simply and calmly, her gaze directed at Percy who was the more interesting of the two that she was speaking to. Looking away for a moment, she looked back, this time she said something that Branimir suggested she say.
"If you two don't have a guardian, which is surprisingly common as of late, they have dorm rooms where you can stay. They're pretty nice, but if you two don't want to be separated I'm sure you could ask your respective Elder about it and they can figure something out. Just don't ask the ghost one - he's never there." the shadow frowned at the mention of the one Elder she disliked the most, he never really did anything for any of the Ghost metas and it was something that didn't sit right with her, even though she didn't need that much attention.
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Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 3:23 pm
"No, it's fine, I'm taking care of him" Percy said, putting a hand on Zach's shoulder and looking at him with concern. Humans being attacked? Zach was human! If he got attacked... If he got attacked... She felt rage bloom inside of her once again.
They'd regret it.
Atta girl said Angry, proud at this improvement in his host, There's hope for you yet
"No, its okay, I take care of her..." He looked up in surprise as she said the same thing.
"...We take care of each other. We'll be fine. But We'll consider moving into the dorms..." he didn't like the idea of anybody getting hurt.
Aww, man, dorms? Thats boring! muttered Angry. He hated dorms.
"I'm sorry for asking..." he put the produce in the cart and walked over to stand a bit closer to Skuld, "But who would be Percy's elder? I'm afraid neither of us knows much about the inner workings of that academy. She was homeschooled, you see." He glanced at Percy, hoping that she wouldn't mind.
Percy gave him a look.
Why had he said that.
"He means 'Nonconventionally Schooled'" she said somewhat growlily.
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Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 3:31 pm
The shadow just smiled as the two talked, though as she was asked who the Angelic Elder would be, she glanced up at the ceiling to think, "The Angel Elder... I think her name was Nova. I didn't see her much, but it's hard to miss a very tall, chatty lady in purple garb." Skuld stated with a slight nod, vaguely remembering the ethereal looking Elder from when she was returned to the Academy grounds a couple months back. An event that caused her to have a strong dislike for Tendren and his tendencies to forget his duties.
"You could talk to her or Avon - Avon is the Demon Elder and he and Liliana took care of the ghost children who were returned or those waiting for a home because the ghost Elder didn't seem too fond of his job.." she frowned, crossing her pale arms over her chest.
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Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 4:18 pm
Heh. This Nova sounded like a Snappy dresser.
Nice.
"I'm a fallen angel, so that means... Nova? or Avon?"
She repeated, getting everything straight in her head.
"So you're a...?"
Juuuust getting everything straight.
Angry was still uneasy. What with the whole mane thing.
"... Also you're awfully chatty, aren't ya? Realized we're harmless, did ya?" he laughed with Percy's voice.
Pffff yeah. Like he was.
Percy stuffed angry back down into her mind.
"... because we are...?" she hoped the whole exchange wasn't obvious.
Please PLEASE don't do that...
Zachary looked at Percy for a studious moment, then back to Skuld.
"I wouldn't mind hearing more about them. It sounds like you actually go there. It must be a wonderous place, with people of all sorts..."
Frankly metas were amazing.
He would ask Percy about going to the dorms when they got back. Surely that wouldn't be too bad?
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Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 5:22 pm
Skuld pursed her lips, thinking again, "I think you go t Nova.. I'm a ghost - well a Shadow to be exact. My sister Anastasia is a straight ghost.." she started to ramble, though as the others voice changed she looked up and her eyes narrowed slightly, her own Mane perking up and making her focus more on Percy, though her attention was brought back to Zachary while Branimir kept his attention to Percy for now.
"I don't know a lot, but my father knows a lot more - that is before he moved away when he was a kid." she nodded slightly, glancing back towards the Angel.
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Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2013 5:45 am
"Really? You'r father is a meta? Thats amazing" said Zachary, full of awed delight. His sister's oddities aside! That was just wonderful.
"Would you mind taking us to him? We don't have to be anywhere immediately, so..." his voice practically hummed with excitement.
He'd only met one other meta besides Percy (before Skuld anyway), and that definitely needed to change.
"I'd love to talk to him too!"
Really, kid? Really? Man that kid could get excited when he wanted to.
Yeah. Angry knew he shouldn't have done that. He could feel the mane looking at him. Jerk.
Inside Percy's head, Angry smirked.
He bet that he'd be okay though. He bet that that mane couldn't even take over it's ghosty host. It felt so weak, like a firefly in his hands. He could crush that mane so easily.
Angry felt confident, cocky. Haha!
Oh! Ghosts made sense.
"So... your sister. She is a dead person in a body?" sort of made sense?
She was curious...
No s**t Ghosts=spirits of dead people. ven angry knew that. It was what he was, but he was a malice so ******** yeah.
"So a shadow is a...?" She started, ignoring Zachary for now, though she herself knew that she didn't want to talk to an adult right now.
But she could always excuse herself and do the shopping while he talked to the adult...
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Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 10:26 am
Skuld could only smile at Zachary's excitement, though she had a feeling that someone around them didn't want them to go talk to her father just yet, "Maybe when he calls for me.." she said in a hushed tone before her attention was pulled back by the Fallen Meta's voice. Head turning to look at her, she tilted her head curiously.
"I'm not completely sure what a Ghost Meta really is...we act like ghosts but we are seemingly new people..as for a Shadow... it is a Shade as they are more commonly known..the only difference between a ghost and a shadow is that shadows seem to have fewer people talking to them." the Shadow grinned, knowing that she had her races innate intimidation, seeing as it was what was causing so many humans to refuse to go near the mausoleum she had holed herself up in before Giovanni found her.
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Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 4:13 pm
"Oh. I see."
He frowned thoughtfully.
"I think it would be interesting to find out just what a ghost meta is, don't you?"
If she, one of the ghost metas herself, wasn't sure, then that itself was an interesting piece of information. It teased at him.
Yes. He wanted to find more.
"So, if you don't mind my asking, as a Meta, you also have an item, right?" to hell with rudeness. He was a researcher! A journalist! he had to know.
"What is your item?"
That kid is gonna get us in trouble, you know Angry said with deep affection.
Despite the warning, he wanted trouble to happen. Trouble meant bad s**t happening, and trouble gave him a reason to go apeshit.
Well fine. If a Ghost meta wasn't a ghost in a body, what the s**t was it then?!
Percy thought that that 'Item' comment went a bit too far.
"Fewer people?"
Percy spotted some canned soups on a shelf and grabbed them down. Yum!
"So you're, what, scary?"
Not really
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