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 Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 2:06 pm
As the moon hovered over the city's skyline, Sailor Ida paced the park near her house, her phone open and clutched in her hand.
It wasn't that big of a deal... the information on her phone had said all she had to do was concentrate and push a button. As simple as that. But... she had never left the country before (discounting coming here as a child, she had been almost too young to remember that), let alone the planet! What if it were dangerous on Ida?
The flower senshi sighed gustily as she turned and paced back the way she came, slow steps accompanying her thoughts. After reading the entry on homeworlds, she'd been seized by an intense desire to visit hers, but a very real fear kept her from pushing the button each time she tried. It was the unanswerable 'What if?'.
What if it were dangerous? What if she got stuck there? What if she got hurt and couldn't reach her phone to come back? What if there were monsters that attacked her while she was out of reach of help? It made her nervous to think about, but the desire kept nagging at her.
If Ida didn't solve this dilemma soon, she felt like she was going to tear herself apart from the inside out... or at least get an ulcer. What had Tsui done, the first time she visited her planet? She wished she had had a chance to ask her about it.
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Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 6:09 pm
Persephone had barely even touched her senshiphone since powering up. It hadn't seemed like that big of a deal - and there was so much else to worry about!
She was still in the habit of approaching every Order signature she found, because making friends when there were so many enemies in this world seemed like a good idea. When she spotted another Senshi, she approached, waving.
"Um, hey there! What are you up to?"
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Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 2:19 pm
"Oh!" Ida said, startled, as someone approached her. She closed her phone and straightened up as she chided herself on her lack of awareness. She'd been practicing sensing auras, but obviously she needed to plain pay more attention to her surroundings. It was true that it was a friendly signature this time, but it could have been a bad one just as easily.
"Hello." She said brightly as she offered the new girl a smile, clasping her phone in both hands against her middle. "I was just... thinking about visiting my homeworld. I know that sounds super odd, but I'm sure you understand. I read about it on my phone and was thinking about trying it out... Oh! I'm Ida, by the way. I'm Orchids."
The flower senshi offered her hand to the other girl with a smile.
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Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 10:22 am
Persephone blinked. "Um, actually, you lost me. Homeworld?" She tilted her head to the side. She had gotten very little in the way of "How to be a Senshi 101" and she had been too busy making acquaintances and not dying to fiddle around with her senshiphone much.
"Um, Persephone, of Pomegranates." She took the other girl's hand and shook it, looking embarrassed at her lack of knowledge. Her mind was churning with possibilities. If they had homeworlds...Well, first order of business - she would have to see her own sometime.
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Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 11:10 am
"Yeah, um... that's what it says on the database, at least." Ida said as she opened her phone again, pulling up the entry about homeworlds. She offered the phone to Persephone with a shrug, a little embarrassed by her own lack of knowledge.
"It says you just have to focus on it and press the button, and it takes you there. It sounds really exciting... I mean, the only other way to go into space is to be an astronaut, and that's not gonna happen to me any time soon." She laughed as she shrugged, scuffing the toe of her shoe in the dirt. "I'm just... sort of afraid to go by myself."
Suddenly her face brightened and she smiled.
"Hey! I know we just met and all, but... would you like to come with? You don't have to do anything and we don't have to stay long, I just... you know, want someone to watch my back while I'm there.
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Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 8:36 pm
Persephone took the phone, blinking. "...Oh. Gee, I feel silly, normally I play with new technology toys like crazy..." She looked thoroughly embarrassed.
She tilted her head to the side. "It does sound pretty exciting, wow." She had to admit. So there was a "Persephone" out there and that's where her name come from? That sounded pretty neat, and like somewhere she had to visit.
She blinked a little dumbly. "Uhhh....yes?" There didn't seem to be any other appropriate answer. "I mean, I'd love to! I wonder what it'll be like? I hope it's not cold, I've had enough of cold in short skirt and sandals." She joked.
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Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 2:40 pm
The thought of its temperature brought Ida up short for a moment, reaching up to tuck her hair behind her ears as she pondered it. There was nothing to say it would be anything like Earth. It could have a wildly different landscape, though she assumed the environment was survivable, or no one would ever go to their planet.
"I... don't have a clue. I did some research at the library on the asteroid Ida, but since only a space probe has been there, no one really knows what the surface is like." She said as she laughed, a hint of nerves creeping back into her voice. "Well. No way to find up but to try it, right?"
She took her phone back and clutched it tightly, shifting from foot to foot. "Ready?" Ida said as she extended her hand for Persephone to take.
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Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 6:24 pm
Persephone shrugged. "I mean, we'll just have to see, right? No way to know until we get there." She said. "And hey, this means I'll totally have to Google Persephone." She laughed, trying to lighten the mood at least a little bit.
She took Ida's hand, taking a deep breath. "Alright, ready," she said, closing her eyes. What was going to space like, she wondered? Obviously Senshi planets had breathable atmospheres or there was some serious spacemagic going on. that seemed like a given. But would there be plants? Animals?
She was curious, she had to admit.
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Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 9:55 am
Ida giggled as she gripped Persephone's hand tightly, holding her phone to her chest.
"I went the old fashion route and found the information at a library... but google is probably something I should look at to." She said, feeling better for having someone friendly to go with her. She felt like such a baby, needing her hand held... but she couldn't deny that she really did need it.
"Okay..." She said as she drew a deep breath and then let it out slowly, calming herself. The hand wrapped in her own help that a lot and she was able now to focus on the senshi power she felt inside her. It had always been there, but she'd never really stopped to take a good look at it before... She could feel something... almost like an echo, or a tug, somewhere far off...
Gripping her phone and the friendly hand, she concentrated on that and pressed the button in the center. The feeling of travel was something she would never be able to describe, but suddenly they weren't standing in the same place any more.
It was almost a disappointment, the sight that greeted Ida when she set foot for the first time on her planet. Rather than a lush, green world full of plants and flowers that she had been expecting, what they saw before them was a vast area of rolling hills that was more grey than green. The sky was blue and the weather balmy but... there was nothing here. Hardly any plants, just blobs of green grass here and there, a couple of forlorn flowers nodding serenely in a light breeze. No animals... not even the sound of birds. It was... almost eerily silent, save for the sound of the wind and maybe, somewhere out of sight, a stream or something.
For a long moment, all she could do was stare at her world, her thoughts turning over and over in her head. She turned slowly, surveying the land, when another surprise surfaced. Behind the pair stretched what looked like a great forest, the trees arrange oddly and far larger than any tree Ida had ever seen. Maybe those red woods she'd seen pictures of in magazines could be comparable... and oddly, they had strange lumps and holes in them. From this distance it was hard to say if those were normal or made by something else. The one thing they had in common with the rest of the world though... they were all dead. No leaves, no color... like they had been fossilized.
"This... wasn't really what I was expecting." She said softly.
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Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 9:04 pm
Persephone gave Ida her best encouraging smile. This had to be scary, and even if they'd just met, she was kind of glad she was there for the other Senshi.
"Hey, libraries are just as good," she said, squeezing Ida's hand. "This is going to be cool, right?" She had to admit, she was a little scared. What id the other planet somehow...rejected her? As impossible as that seemed. She made sure to keep her grip on Ida's hand tight.
One moment they were on Earth, and the next, she was looking at an alien space, and her heart plummeted.
"It's so...quiet..." So very dead, but she didn't want to say that. It was heartbreaking, because just looking she could see the way it used to be. She could imagine a more beautiful, alive Ida - the remnants left behind had to be jsut the beginning. Was Persephone like this?
Suddenly, she wasn't sure she wanted to see her planet anymore.
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Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 8:14 am
"I thought it would be... greener. I'm the senshi of orchids, for heaven's sake... I don't see any here. I wonder... what happened."
A frown creased Ida's forehead as she spoke, a nagging feeling in the back of her mind telling her this was all wrong, this was NOT how it was supposed to look. There should be... stuff. Something. Her instinct wouldn't tell her more than that, just poke at her with the feeling of something missing.
"I'm going to go look at that tree there. You can come if you like, or you can look around. Just maybe don't loose sight of me, ok?" She said before she started walking forward, picking her way over the soft soil. The tree in question was the one closest to them, a monster of a tree with the same holes and lumps that the others had. It was a little strange when you compared it to an earth tree... The branches were not as spreading, clustered at the top and actually over the holes, like an upside down bird house.
Approaching a hole near the ground, she peered inside and was surprised to see.. well, something that looked very much like a door. Was this... a building? Made out of a tree? Reaching for what might have been a doorknob, she gave it a tug and felt the door resist, but come free at a second tug.
"I think this might be a house or something... I'm pretty sure this is a door."
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Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2013 12:47 pm
Persephone nodded. "It looks like it was alive once..." She said softly, kneeling down to touch the dead grass. This was wrong. It wasn't even her own homeworld but the manifest truth in the idea that this was wrong had settled on her. Trees that large only came in vibrant ecosystems - jungles or redwood forests.
"I'll stay in sight," the senshi promised, as she wandered a bit further forward. Even the soil was a clue that this place had been vibrant once. Soft soil like this was fertile and rich - which made it even stranger that everything was dead.
However, her attention was immediately drawn back to Ida when the other girl announced her findings. Persephone trotted over. "A house? That's...kinda crazy awesome." She said. Yes, that definitely looked like a door to her. "Should we go inside?"
A small part of her feared finding more death, but there had bene no other sign of people, so...
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Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2013 1:35 pm
Ida shrugged as she pushed the door open, making sure it wouldn't swing closed behind them. It was taller than she was, one of a pair, but the hinges didn't seem to be in great shape and were made of something... she didn't even know, something different. They almost seemed part of the door, but she wasn't going to linger on it. There was a lot more to see.
Stepping inside, she was stopped for a moment by a warm feeling of homesickness, like the kind you get after coming home after a decade of being gone against your will. It was sweet and aching, sad and triumphant all at once and it took her breath away for a few heartbeats.
Had she lived here once? Had this been her home? With her hindu mother, the idea of rebirth was more familiar to her than it might have been to others, and this feeling seemed to confirm what she had always sort of believed. This was another plant, across the galaxy from the earth. She could never have been here before, save in a past life.
Wandering in, she made her way around the main room, something that looked much like... well, some sort of entry room. It was huge though... easily as large as the entire first floor of her family's small house. It was furnished comfortably in a strange, fluid or living style, like the wooden furniture were grown that shape, rather than cut or carved.
"I think its safe to say plants were really important here." She said with a chuckle, hoping to lighten the mood of the quiet place. Despite how desolate it looked, it felt... comfortable to her.
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Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 7:26 pm
Persephone had to pause and run her fingers over the door. The longer she lingered here, the sadder she became. There was so much wonder - so much lost.
She stepped inside, still silent, and wandered slowly around the room. Then, she paused and turned back to Ida. "Do you mind if I touch?" She asked. It seemed wrong to do it without the approval of the Senshi whose planet (home?) this was. She blinked, and couldn't help but smile a little.
"Seems like it," she said. "I mean, these are some pretty sweet tree-houses." Which was probably the least clever sort-of pun she'd ever come out with.
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Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 8:19 am
Ida shrugged as she did her own touching, picking up things and turning them over in her hands as she puzzled out their possible uses.
"Feel free. I don't think anyone is going to yell at us if we break anything." She chuckled, setting down what could have been a cup on the table and heading for the back room and the stairs that curved up the side of the room. Some stuff seemed obvious, though with some of the modern art she had seen, she'd learned not everything was what it appeared to be. Others were alien, but had a familiar feel to them, like something she might have used once, but not seen in years.
The hallway the stairs led to contained a variety of doors, each with a plaque that presumably said what the room was for. It was hard to tell, because even though the writing was familiar, it wasn't actually something she knew how to read. The first door on the left, when she opened it, seemed to be a large, sprawling bedroom. If her instincts were right, this was a guest room, designed to house visitors in luxurious comfort. Graceful furniture stood about, most of their coverings crumbling to dust. Across the room, large glass doors opened on a small balcony.
The other rooms on this floor appeared to be more of the same, and for a while, Ida lost herself in exploring the guest rooms, wondering at the little odds and ends she found along the way.
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