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 Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2013 2:03 pm
One moment Sailor Columba and Sailor Hypnos were struggling to escape a youma attack with the tables turning against them when suddenly a pile of youma dust sat on the ground nearby their feet. A look of confusion covered the senshi of sleep's face as she looked to her friend. She didn't know what to expect but when she found that Columba was safe a sigh of relief escaped her lips.
"That was close," she said with a soft smile, leaning in to brush her fuku off when the realization finally hit her.
"I... Do I have wings?!" She exclaimed, spinning around and around while she tried to get a good look of the back of her fuku.
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Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2013 5:39 pm
"W-.... what happened?" Columba huffed and puffed before she gave Hypnos a good once over and her brow contorted in an exaggerated frown of raging jealousy.
"You have wings on your butt!" Just like Chaonis. Just like Maia. Just like a grown up senshi. So unfair.
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Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2013 5:48 pm
What happened? It was an excellent question. The late afternoon had been going by splendidly before a youma had found them. Sailor Hypnos hadn't expected it to be as strong as it was, nor as fast as it was, and the tides turned against them so rapidly it was hard to explain things exactly. The end was completely at a loss to Hypnos, and the means in which she got there too. Who had upgraded her?
"I do? I do!" She looked absolutely blissful, content, and satisfied with a hint of oh my goodness the world is spinning (quite literally as her body finally stopped trying to see her butt). All those years and now finally she had gotten buttwings of her own. Questions lingered there though, haunting what should be a celebration. Who, what, how and why?
"Did you... do you see a guardian cat?" She asked, pondering if she had really just been hit and run upgraded by an unseen cat.
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Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2013 5:53 pm
"No," Columba huffed once more and puffed out her rosy red cheeks as she crossed her arms. She honestly hadn't seen a cat, but she also wasn't good at spotting cats, considering she had completely missed her own awakening and had to have Sheena explain how to use her pen later.
"How d'you do that?!" Why was she not badass enough?
She was clearly just one breath away from a complete fall on the ground scremaing tantrum.
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Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2013 6:01 pm
Hypnos looked absolutely piqued. She understood how upgrades happened but she hadn't seen a cat, and Columba hadn't seen a cat either, and it left Hypnos seeking an answer. How could Cora avoid upgrading her all this time only to have some run by cat do it? Of course, there were more pressing matters. It didn't really matter how she upgraded because she'd finally got her wings, but it did still plague her thoughts until finally she gave in to the expression Columba was making.
"What's wrong? Are you sure the youma didn't hurt you? Your cheeks are really red," she said with great concern.
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Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2013 6:06 pm
Columba did her best to contain her temper tantrum until Hypnos asked. Suddenly all the pressure contained behind her balloon face exploded out.
"I'm not hurt, I am mad! Why do you get wings on your butt and not me? I was just was brave as you were. I did a lot as a senshi, okay? I-- is it because I quit for a while? Because that was just for a week! I didn't mean to start all over."
There was no way Hypnos was more of a badass than her, and this was the only criteria for buttwings the grown ups had given her. What was she supposed to think? That this gentle senshi of sleep was more badass than her? Her? Who chipped a tooth going piranha on a Negaverser and doing her very best?
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Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2013 6:26 pm
Hypnos' body withdrew from Columba as if the senshi had attacked her until slowly she recoiled back toward Columba with a softened expression. Columba was jealous? Hypnos had certainly been envious of other senshi who had gotten buttwings before her but the words Columba left her with caused the senshi of sleep to ponder.
"I didn't get them because of my bravery here today, and my upgrade does not discount the hard work you did today. I told you, right? I have been a senshi for years. I had to work really, really hard to get these wings! However, before I got these wings I had to work really hard to earn my stripes."
Hypnos paused, and offered Columba a hug. She understood the feelings of wanting something and being unable to get it in a manner you sought.
"It was my time," she said softly. She believed it had been her time for so long now but nothing had changed. She didn't understand and she didn't believe it was fair but simply wanting it hadn't been enough.
"All the hard work you've done counts and it definitely didn't reset. You will gain them when it is time but first you have to gain your stripes. You've noticed, haven't you? There are three stages of being a senshi: the basic senshi, the rank you currently are; the super senshi, the rank I was ten minutes ago; and the eternal senshi, the rank I am now. You can't skip a stage unfortunately, and you need a cat to upgrade you in a similiar manner as they awakened you."
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Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2013 8:20 pm
Emotions were hard, and they were definitely hard when you were a preteen with whirling feels of jealousy and inadequacy mingling at the pit of your stomach.
She felt like punching something and crying at the same time, but instead she just hugged Hypnos and kept her further 'not fair's to herself. She was stomping on Hypnos' big moment, and that wasn't fair to her either. It took great control and a straining effort to even be mature enough to keep her mouth shut and not insult her friend from a place of jealousy.
"Okay," She mumbled after a moment and pulled away to wipe her nose on the back of her glove. She had managed not to cry, but her temples were still pounding.
Shoulders slumped, she powered down back into plain old Dana Caffrey. Messy new haircut, threadbare sweater, and sneakers. "I think I'm just gonna go home."
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Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2013 8:34 pm
A friend was a friend indeed.
"Dana..." she whispered softly, the surprised look on Hypnos' face shifting to a surprised look on Ainsley McMahon's face.
She shouldn't have been as surprised as she was, not after her own blood turned out to be a senshi, but it wasn't like this was something you simply prepared for. The number of civilians in Destiny City grossly outnumbered the powered individuals but it seemed that birds of a feather simply flocked together.
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Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2013 8:15 pm
"Ains," Dana half croaked and sniffled, wiping her nose in her sweater sleeve. She was surprised, but not enough to be outwardly bouncing off the walls. After all, her sister was a senshi, and who else was keeping secrets around them?
Hopefully dad wasn't a knight, yeesh. Though she could only imagine how many people she passed each day that were keeping secrets. Evie's study buddy was a senshi, and their school wasn't that big, not big enough to contain the four chibis she'd met so far and keep them from ever crossing paths outside their fukus.
She also hadn't quite begun to take the senshi identity as seriously as some people who had been at it longer did. It was more like finding out a friend played the same video game and wanted to go on multiplayer, which was a nice little cluster of butterflies in her cluster of raging sadness and anger.
"I-I... uh..." More sniffles. In fact, her eyes were getting puffy even if there weren't free flowing tears. "I have allergies."
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Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2013 8:30 pm
Ainsley couldn't help it. Boundaries and opened surprised out the window, Ainsley wrapped her arms around Dana for a moment. Warm and comforting, or at least that's what Ainsley attempted to be, she held on for about five seconds before she gave a light giggle and let go of her friend.
"It's okay," she said softly following the giggle. Then she looked around where they stood and she gave a soft sigh of realization. They couldn't just linger here. It wouldn't be long before someone came to investigate the two children standing here, or before they made the previous fight only the first of the evening.
"We should leave before another youma, or worse, attacks us though. Your house is closer so how about I walk you home?" She asked, although it wasn't really a question. A simple look on her face, Ainsley took Dana's hand in her own.
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