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 Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 7:35 pm
Ellie was not fond of the idea of powering up at home. Especially with the notion that Psyche would be doing the same thing, making it doubly dangerous. So instead things were taken to the park. ********* had assured her that Annie would know what she was walking into, though the tomboy was certain this was not going to be the case. It was harder for those on the outside looking in to understand how much impact the visits to one's homeworld could have.
As a precaution, the blonde had downloaded a translator application to her own personal cell-phone.
And now she stood under a tree in the middle of the park in the middle of the evening. She hadn't transformed yet, but that was because the cat needed to do one more thing.
One thing that the guardian had noticed in all the time that Anemone had been with Ellie was how little she had. She legitimately had the clothing on her back and that was about it. After all the time that she had been living with Ellie, it became painfully obvious that Anemone did not have a henshin pen.
This was a problem that had to be fixed and quickly.
"Okay, Anemone... it is time for a magic trick!"
The chubby animal scampered forward just enough for her to hop up in the air and do a relatively mechanical looking back-flip. When she landed, two other objects landed beneath the space she had flipped over.
One was a phone, the sort that all senshi had, decorated in a sort of pink-butterfly trim.
The other was a henshin pen. However, it had a much different shape from the usual ones she created for senshi when they awakened.
She trotted behind the two objects and nudged them towards the silvery haired foreigner. "...these are yours!"
From her spot against the tree, Ellie was already starting to type up a message to translate.
The cat nudged the items again.
"Take these! And then call out 'Psyche Asteroid Power, Make-up!'"
Once she had her message typed out, the blonde pushed a button, then made her way over to her teammate. With a tap on the shoulder, the blonde held out her phone.
Repeat what the cat said loudly
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Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 8:51 pm
What was Anemone walking into? The park, of course!
Arms crossed and a subtle hunch of the shoulders, Anemone was a little apprehensive about being outside. Ever since her purification on Valentine's Day, she had spent a great deal of time inside. It was a complete 360 from what she did as Theodora and she wasn't adjusting, not even slowly. Her English was still as terrible as ever, probably in great deal thanks to the translator usage the three of them relied on, and Anemone wasn't in great spirits.
A small smile spread across Anemone's face as she heard ********* voice call her name but it didn't remain long. Her body's weight shifted from the left to the right as she watched ********* speak words she did not understand, probably one of the key reasons for her discomfort and unhappiness here. She didn't know what to expect but watching such a fat cat do a back flip at least caused Anemone's arms to uncross and her hands to clap together as if it was the end of a good show.
"Unnn?" Anemone's lips parted slightly as she leaned over to inspect the items that ********* was nudging toward her. Hands spread toward them before recoiling back toward her with hesitation. She looked to ********* for affirmation before she slowly scooped the two of them up. Once again, she looked to ********* for a reaction and when she didn't see signs of doing something wrong she held the items north, south, east and west for examination.
Nothing.
Psyche Asteroid Power, Make-up! Huh? Her face probably read the situation best, a bit void of expression with a mouth sort of hanging between open and closed. What was that? Grey eyes looked at ********* and then around a bit. She didn't even have a guess for what ********* was saying. Thankfully, Ellie came to the rescue with a translation on the phone.
"Mm?" She questioned, looking at the phone again to make sure she understood.
"Take these! Umm... Call out Psyche Asteroid Pow... er? Make-up?" She said, although frankly it was more of a question. Clearly it was enough for the heavens, possibly pitying the senshi of breath, because in a wonderfully fast and not so dramatic flash of butterflies and air, Psyche appeared again after two months.
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Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 7:19 pm
Step 1 complete! Ellie might not have seemed overly excited, but she couldn't help but grin a bit as she brought her phone back to her side. *********, on the other hand, was so excited that she was now circling about Sailor Psyche's ankles, rubbing herself up against the pale leggings covering her pink boots.
"Good, good! Ellie, you going to change yet?" The feline didn't really stop from her celebratory course, but mid-rubbing her cheek against a calf she did spare the blonde a look.
The tomboy had apparently given the evening quite a bit of thought.
"....Considerin' how tricky th'next part is... it might be better if I don't... wait til we're on her world before changing. Don't need t'have extra energy lingering about while she works out th'kinks..." She ran some fingers through the longer strands of hair laying against her shoulder, pushing it out of her way.
The manx hadn't gone on too many visits to other worlds, but she did have to nod. It might be for the best, since some senshi had a more difficult time than others. "Alright... ball's in your court then, Ellie!"
The blonde walked up to the newly transformed senshi and made sure to address her with her senshi name. "Sailor Psyche..." she said while settling a hand upon the silvery-suited senshi's shoulder. Ellie wasn't a fan of relying on a translator, so she decided to give part of this a go without her own phone.
"...so we're gonna go t'space... up there..." With a pinky she pointed up to the sky. "...and we're gonna have t'use yer phone..." The same pinky pointed towards the butterfly-accented magical phone.
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Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2013 9:50 am
There was a small moment of surprise when her outfit changed into her sailor fuku, her eyes sliding down her arms before looking down at her new shoes and then right up to her skirt and butterfly bow. There was a slight shimmer of light off the silver arc of the brooch that caught her eye. This wasn't the first time she'd powered up but adjusting to one whole new life had been rough enough so experience with the other had been off the scale.
There was reassurance though. The feeling of a cat rub around your ankles is surely one of the most reassuring and relaxing things you could have happen, and it was probably the glue that kept this lost girl together in all those times of doubt and disbelief. Over the course of the weeks following her purification there were a lot of them, although most of them remained bottled up rather than exposed to the cruel world, and simply knowing ********* was there was a great weight off her shoulders.
She had been so used to the name 'Annie' that when she heard the name 'Sailor Psyche' she didn't even respond. However, she didn't need to understand that because Ellie came right over to her and got her attention. Her hand gesture brought Sailor Psyche's attention to the sky and there her neck craned up to the sky with interest. It took her a moment to follow Ellie's hand back down to the phone, and with a head tilt, Sailor Psyche looked back to Ellie with an expression that said 'How?'
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Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2013 9:20 pm
Ellie was no master of dealing with foreigners. However, she seemed to be putting forth extra effort to pay attention to the Super Senshi before her. So far she seemed to be following in theory, but she still didn't know how to do everything.
It probably had a lot to do with the fact Ellie had yet to explain the actual procedure.
"...I'm gonna help ya with this..." She reached out to Psyche's hand that had been holding the phone. Without even removing the phone from her digits, she guided a gloved thumb over a certain button.
"...That's the button yer gonna want to hit..."
Ellie was pretty sure most of this wasn't even getting processed. Either way, she stood up again and pointed to her eyes. "Yer gonna want to close yer eyes..." She did such to show by example.
"...ya gotta clear yer mind, which shouldn't be too hard fer ya... and once ya hear somethin' that sounds familiar to ya... ya hit th'button on yer phone..." With her eyes shut, she pointed in what she thought was approximately where the phone was.
Instead she was pointing at Psyche's elbow.
"...a little to the right, Ellie..."
The blonde fixed her pointing to the new coordinates which was approximately in phone proximity.
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Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 6:24 pm
With all the words that were being spoken, it was no surprise that Sailor Psyche had a bit of a blank expression on her face. However, Ellie's efforts were not entirely in vain. If she could learn anything out of the whole experience, it was that there was a button and it needed to be pressed! So, that's exactly what she did.
Press the button, press the button, press the button, press the button...
It was as clear as her mind was going to get considering her whole life was erased from it. Good luck everyone riding the Psyche Train tonight.
Grey eyes opened to find a strange place around her, and the shock of that literally knocked the senshi off her feet. She landed on a plush grass with a view of a lake, a very large villa just off it surrounded by untended gardens of flowers, and mountains around every side of her. It might have been a familiar location for Ellie because this was Psyche's actual home on the asteroid but it was completely foreign to the foreigner.
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Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 6:50 pm
The blonde firmly planted a hand upon Psyche's shoulder after all the pantomiming. ********* had still been lingering at the Super Senshi's feet, so when the silvery haired girl managed to pull off connecting with her home world, all three were transported to the asteroid.
It was only once the trio had appeared upon the grassy knoll that the blonde finally called out "Iris Eternal, Make-up!" With that cry, she soon enough was suited up with wings upon the back of her uniform.
The cat did not need to sit and watch Iris henshin up, but she soon enough found herself looking about the area. Her green eyes were open wide as she tried to take in everything.
"...oh wow... there's still plant life here! What a view!!!!" she practically cooed as she seemed to hop about like a kitten.
Eternal Iris didn't seem nearly as invested in exploring. She had done such another lifetime ago. Instead, she looked to Psyche. With a gesture of opening her arms towards all around them, she said it as simply as possible.
"...this is all yours..."
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Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 7:27 pm
Sailor Psyche remained on the ground even after Ellie powered up into Sailor Iris. She glanced over to her but she was still a little shocked about the whole situation that instead of getting up to meet her tall comrade she simply sat there on the ground and looked around them. Between the crystalline lake and the ancient villa in the distance, Sailor Psyche looked at everything in between. The gardens of flowers were of particular interest to her so eventually she stood up and walked over to them.
"Mine?" She asked in a strange tone. There simply weren't a lot of things in this world that she could call her own and to suddenly be told this was all hers was a roller coaster of emotions.
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Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2013 7:48 am
"Yes," was the simple answer back accompanied by a nod. It wasn't nearly as simple as that, since there were some other details connected to the senshi-and-world bond. However, the next part would take a bit of time to type into her phone for a translation, so the blonde wasn't about to rush into shoving out an explanation full of details which the translator would probably screw up on 30% of it.
Either way, she had to take out the phone anyways and start typing.
The manx had to pause and bat at a stray piece of grass that seemed to be calling out to her.
She might have been a Mauvian, but she still had very feline instincts at times.
"...I wonder what it was like here when there were still people living here...?" Unless Iris was willing to share the information, it was unlikely that ********* would ever get an answer.
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Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2013 11:51 am
'Yes,' was the only answer Psyche needed and the nod really accompanied it well. She gave Iris a huge grin in reply and begun to spin around to really take it all in. There were high top mountains all around them, and while the air here was still safe enough to breathe without complications, it looked like getting here from anywhere else in the asteroid would have been a real challenge with the high peaks that were around them.
Inside the protective barrier of mountain peaks, it was hard to believe what this place looked like at the turn of the century 1000 years ago. Secondary succession was an amazing thing and with 1000 years to succeed what had been left in the destruction, the plant life looks very similiar to what it had in the past... although much less tended to than it had been. Sailor Psyche didn't know but Sailor Iris might find familiarity in that.
This land had been the sacred land of Psyche, and only Psyche herself was allowed here. It was punishable by death, usually by a hanging at the gallows of Svartalfheim, the Prison of Saturn. Exceptions had happened, obviously, but only exceptions granted by Psyche herself would be permissible. Not even the Court of Elders or Holy Priests would have been able to dispute any claims over it. It was simple to say that because of this, and the amount of work it took to get here, very few attempts were made. It made this place fairly lonely but Psyche made things work in her own way.
The villa may have been big back then but most of it was nothing but ruins now with only a few sections of the original structure remaining. It was enough to draw Sailor Psyche's attention to it though, her grey eyes falling on it as her body moved. Step by step, Sailor Psyche filled the footsteps of the past. It was like deja vu and eventually the senshi's hands rose to her chest where she stopped in her footsteps. Between the lake and the villa, Sailor Psyche turned back to Sailor Iris and ********* view she seen here at this moment was something reminiscent of time long ago. What was it? It felt familiar and it ticked away at Sailor Psyche's mind but she couldn't place it. There were things on the tip of her memory but memories are so fickle. Figures dancing gracefully across her memory, there were things her heart yearned to remember from far away, long ago.
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Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2013 8:05 pm
The manx noticed when Sailor Psyche turned back to the pair. Her eyes seemed to silently ask questions which the manx did not have answers for. It was one of the few subject matters that the Guardian could not truly guide a senshi about.
It didn't take long before a second pair of eyes were upon Iris, who was still fiddling away with her phone.
"...why do I feel like I'm bein' watched?" was the casual question as the tomboy seemed to chisel out the final details to her message.
"...because you are..."
"Oh..... jus' checkin'!" She hadn't even looked up.
After another awkward minute, the blonde finally looked to Sailor Psyche, holding out the screen of her phone towards the girl.
"...Psyche... read this..."
The message was something that the silvery haired girl would be able to read. It loosely translated to:
"This is the asteroid of Psyche. Another lifetime ago, this was your home. You will be able to visit this place approximately one time every two weeks if you would like. When you visit, there is a chance you might remember more about this place and what it was once like. It will all be very confusing at first, but there are lots of things to learn by visiting this asteroid."
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Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2013 10:59 pm
In the time it took Iris to finish typing into her phone, Psyche had wandered a little off from the villa and toward the lake. Curiously her hands fell to the surface of it, not worrying as much as maybe she should have about how safe it was, causing a light ripple effect across the surface of the water. It was gentle enough that Psyche could still see her reflection in it but just rippled enough to obscure the image of her slightly.
In a moment frozen in time, the image reflecting back was not the exact image Psyche had seen moments ago. Instead of the present, she was seeing a vision of a past event play across her eyes. She had the luxury of seeing what she looked like thanks to the fact her past self had also found herself gazing at her reflection. At first Psyche wouldn't have been able to decipher things between the two but small details soon pointed themselves out to her. Instead of the fuku she had powered up to, she was wearing something very ornate and beautiful. However, she didn't have time to inspect it further before she heard voices behind her.
She couldn't make them out but past Psyche recognized them and turned to have her gaze meet them. However, present Psyche never got to see the faces of those who called out to her. Instead, Psyche found herself meeting the awaiting gaze of Iris holding out her phone. Was it Iris who called to her just now? ********* maybe? She wasn't sure. She couldn't distinguish what had just happened as a past event because it had happened so similarly to what she was already experiencing.
It took her a couple moments to meet the luminescent light of the phone screen. On it, text she recognized was displayed for her. It was just boring old information but one particular area of text caught her attention. She could remember things? For a girl without memories, this tidbit was particularly alluring. If she had known she had a small vision of the past just now, she might have been excited but thanks to the similiar set up she didn't quite grasp it as something that had happened in the past and it had been too short for her to acknowledge any major differences from then and now.
She opened her mouth to say something but instead it hung open in silence as she considered her words.
"Thank you?" Was that right?
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Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2013 11:18 pm
With a grin, the eternal senshi replied back as properly as she could.
"Yer welcome!"
From ankle-level, the Mauvian couldn't help but interject. "You know, it might be a good idea if you enunciated a bit better, Iris. That way she can learn English... not whatever bastardization you tend to speak usually..."
The tomboy was still grinning as she easily replied back "Screw you, cat!"
She glanced to the area around them. "...seriously... this sh*t looks so much nicer than what mine looks like..." With a subtle ruffle of her hair, she asked "...so... should we stay longer, or... ya think we should head back now?"
The feline soon enough was weaving herself about the silvery haired senshi's ankles.
"...well... I think that is up to Psyche at this point, right?"
And it was at that very moment that the cat's stomach gurgled quite loudly.
"...I guess I should have eaten before we left..."
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Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2013 7:48 pm
It didn't take a genius for Sailor Psyche to know what the sound coming out of ********* stomach was. She laughed at first and then her face became more serious as she leaned over and scooped ********* up into her arms. They need to go home right now and feed ********* before something terrible happened. She didn't know what to expect because ********* always had food hidden somewhere or hunted somewhere and that's exactly why it was she didn't want to find out what happened when ********* wasn't fed.
Maybe... just maybe... ********* was the anti-Mogwai. Could you imagine the horror?! Sadly Sailor Psyche didn't understand this reference but her mind imagined something just as terrible would surely happen if ********* didn't get food right now.
"Need ********* food. Home," she said as she looked to Sailor Iris.
Now, just how did they get back?
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Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2013 10:01 pm
With a single finger, the eternal senshi signaled for the girl to wait a moment. Quite quickly her fuku faded and her fingers attempted to type out another message. It didn't take nearly as much time as before, and when the screen was turned back to Psyche, the instructions were spelled out.
"You need to take out your phone again. Do the same thing as before, but this time think of where we were before we left for this place."
With that, Ellie firmly planted her free hand upon Psyche's shoulder.
From her current place, the manx merely snuggled into the super senshi's chest. She didn't really speak up, perhaps from a subtle sort of embarrassment.
"...let's go..."
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