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 Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2013 5:24 pm
She wasn’t sure why she had even bothered to go out. It was ridiculous really that she had, there was nothing but the night, and a handful of small youma. She found herself sitting in the ashes of the last one, trailing her fingers idly through the fine dust that remained, thoughtful, meditative.
“Poor thing.” She whispered. “I wonder if you were ever anything more than that, I wonder if you think, or thought.” She lifted her glove and stared at the dust that stained her gloves.
“You might have been stronger at least.” She whispered. “I would have liked it if you were stronger.”
She brushed a hand over her cheek, the dust mingled with a wet line running down her face and she made a small and surprised sound.
“Stupid, I’m so stupid.” She whispered.
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Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2013 5:33 pm
Leto slowly approached the girl that was sitting in a pile of youma dust- it didn't matter that she would feel her before she saw her, because Leto would always know that she secretly had the upper hand. Her head tilted to the side and she circled her until she stopped in front of her.
"Do you make a habit of crying into youma dust?"
Her arms crossed over her chest, a sense of irritation heavy in her voice. "If a Negaverse agent saw you like this, they'd probably reach into your chest and rip out your pathetic starseed. What are you doing?"
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Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2013 5:45 pm
“Dying… like everybody else.”
The reply was apathetic; her head tilted back enough to look at you, her eyes a deep and vivid red. “Perhaps they should… I think it must be more interesting than waiting.”
“… You’re not one of them.” She said after a moment, a hint of curiosity peeking in her voice. “… do I know you? Did I know you?” She shook her head and rubbed at her eyes. “I used to know everyone, now they are all just…”
She looked green in the gills and shook her head.
“I have no idea what I am doing anymore.” She said more steadfastly. “No idea at all. Rather awful isn’t it?”
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Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2013 6:01 pm
Leto stared at her in silence for a moment. Jesus ******** Christ, what was becoming of the White Moon? "You don't look like you're dying," she retorted in a snappy manner.
It was sort of sad, actually, looking back at the red eyes that matched her own- except the White Moon Senshi's were... Well, heartbreaking. If Ares hadn't saved her, would Leto have been like this eventually? Broken and waiting to die?
"I... Don't think so. Unless we met when I was White Moon. Or if you knew Ares."
Using the toe of her boot, Leto nudged her. "Stop ******** crying. And get up. You are legit sitting in youma guts, that's disgusting."
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Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2013 6:07 pm
“I am the senshi of BLOOD… how much more disgusting could youma guts be?” Her tone was dull, slightly sarcastic but more life in it than there had been a moment ago at least.
“We’re all dying… it’s just a matter of time, everyone I know… has died.” She shrugged one shoulder, too tired or too beaten to raise the other and glanced at the nudging boot.
“I think you’re the only senshi I know with army boots, Even Ares didn’t have those… they would have suited her. But I can’t even find her… she wanted me to join her ages ago… I should have, but I was so… caught up with the idea of the Small lady, I wanted so much for there to be hope that we could just…”
She waved her hand.
“So stupid.” She admitted.
“I am so stupid. What are you? You’re not…”She waves a hand at her chest. “You’re not like Lyra became.”
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Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2013 6:23 pm
Senshi of Blood, eh? Leto could use a Senshi of Blood, if she was as badass as her sphere proved to be.
No one needed to know that Ares was gone. But realistically it was more about that fact that if Leto admitted that Ares was no longer around, that meant that she may no come back and she refused to believe that even for a second. So instead of telling this Senshi of Blood that Ares was no where to be found, she pretended that there was still a chance for her to join them.
If it seemed possible, only then would reveal herself as a Dark Mirror Court Royal.
"It can still happen, if that's what you want. You could be... Reborn. As one of us. A Dark Mirror Senshi, like me." She flashed the other girl a broad grin.
"But we don't take cry babies, I said get up." She nudged her with her boot a second time.
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Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2013 6:42 pm
She gave a sharp intake of breathe at the thought, her head snapping up to gaze with wide crimson eyes, mirrors of your own.
“…Please.” She whispered. “Please, you’ve done it. Does it change things, is it… is it at all a change, please, I need….” She shook her head “I’m a coward, I need… to run away. It must sound so pathetic. Do you…do you forget? Lyra forgot us, all of us I think…I think she forgot everything.” She shook her head. “I really don’t know if that is better or worse, but at least I couldn’t … blame myself for it all anymore”
She shook her head vigorously, a sweep of hair like ink back and forth before she scrubbed at her eyes again.
“I sound more valuable than I am.” She said, sorrow tainting her voice again. “… I’d be more dangerous if my most…prolific attack didn’t have me stabbing my own finger like I needed to check my blood sugar, but… once I make someone bleed, they keep bleeding. I just feel like… it doesn’t stop when I step out of this… this uniform.”
but she stood, she stood and smoothed hands over her skirt, the front of it cut at a bias to make it more practical, the back trailing just a touch behind her when she stood. The white wings gave the odd air of a crane, rather than the more dovelike nature many eternal senshi wing depictions bore.
No matter how feathery they appeared though, they were useless, not like your own, the ones she didn't realize you bore, dark princess of the mirror kingdom.
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Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2013 6:50 pm
"It's not pathetic. Believe you me, if anyone in the Dark Mirror Court gets it besides Ares, it's me. I ran with her and I've never, ever looked back. It changes everything."
Her own red eyes burned with a fiery intensity as she stared the other girl straight in the eyes as she stood in front of her. "But you cannot be a coward if you want this. You can run from your past as a White Moon Senshi but you can't hide from it. It will haunt you forever if you try, because we..."
She looked down at the ground, her cold resolve wavering for a moment. "We don't forget. We don't get that luxury like the Negaverse Senshi do. You will remember everything you've ever done, every person you've ever hurt or killed." Eventually she looked back up at her. "But you will be changed. And you will be better for it. And you can use your memories and your pain to make yourself better when you get your second chance."
And wasn't that what everyone wanted? A second chance to be better?
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Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2013 7:03 pm
“..but it is that.” She pressed. “It is, another chance?”
That it seemed was the sticking point.
“… I didn’t kill them. But … I didn’t …”She shook her head. “They just, they are GONE, some, I don’t know where, I had a sister, we thought she ran away but…” She shook her head, explaining that her sister was… Caucasian, and blond, blue eyed would be too strange and far too revealing. As much a disappointment as she was to her adoptive family she couldn’t say that, not now, not if she didn’t fully trust the camouflage bedecked senshi.
“I want another start.” She conformed.
“Albali… she… she was looking for you I think, but…” She hesitated. “She was talking to an officer, someone powerful, Zinkenite I think it was, but the last time I saw him he was… a captain at best. This felt more like Charonite, but it… looked like him.”
“I… I am MuCephi, named for the Garnet star.”… She worried her lower lip with her teeth before continuing. “…I want a second chance. I need one… I need one or I….” Her head swung side to side again, the long sweep of loose hair that trailed from the twists and knots was like a pendulum.
“I’ll go mad… if I haven’t already. I’ve tried so much, I can’t… I can’t seem to change on my own. Not enough.”
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Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2013 7:15 pm
"Albali..." She sighed and shook her head. "Albali has joined the ranks of the Negaverse. I got to her too late and Zinkenite, as much as I adore him, was a sneaky ******** and stole her. The important thing is that she is on the right side, even if I don't think she's in the right group." Waving a dismissive hand in the air, Leto changed the subject. She would not allow the Negaverse to steal another prospective White Moon Senshi. "Another chance, a fresh start, that's exactly what I-- we can give you. The Dark Mirror Court is a family and we go above and beyond for our own kind. You will never be more loved and accepted than with us and when it all happens..." She offered MuCephei a genuine smile. "You will never feel less lost." Without a second thought, Leto pulled her into a hug and stroked her hair. Mama Leto was going to help this poor girl and she would make everything okay. When she pulled back, her hands held onto MuCephei's upper arms. "My name is Leto."
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Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2013 3:32 am
It was wonderful and terrible at the same time. Part of her wanted to blindly follow Albali, because she knew her, because she had seen what was happening and hadn’t stopped it. But at the same time, would it be any better to forget? Or would she just always wonder what had made her run, what she had wanted so much to leave behind? The Hug was the last straw, as strange as it felt to be embraced by someone who felt so strongly of chaos, the contact, the feel of arms around her and the comforting, surprisingly sincere words that promised that the feeling of being lost and alone would be gone was exactly what she needed to hear. She dissolved into tears, the harder she tried to stop them the more it seemed they flowed. “I’m sorry, I’m so sorry, I never used to cry…” she shook her head feeling so very young and ashamed. “I don’t know what’s wrong with me, there not even all dead, some of them… their just gone.” She hiccoughed back another sob and wiped at her eyes. God bless the fact that henshin magic make up didn’t seem to run, that or it had ‘seen her coming’ and dug something waterproof out of the magical rosters. “How do I…” She started and then stopped herself, drawing back slightly. “I… I should.” She stammered. She should sleep on it, that was the implication that was hanging between them. “I…should I don’t know.” She glanced back towards you, a firmer look in her eyes, a need. “If I wanted to see you again, how would I…how would I reach you? Where could we meet?”
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Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2013 10:17 am
Leto shook her head before ripping off a strip of her sheer overlay, using the soft fabric to wipe away MuCephei's tears. "No need to apologize darlin, I think that if I was still a White Moon Senshi I would be in the same boat." She offered her a smile.
"Maybe... The people that you've lost have actually just been brought into the Negaverse? When they and the DMC take people, they lose their identities. Maybe that's all that happened, maybe the people you love didn't really disappear." While it may not be true at all, at least it was something to hope for. "Or maybe they did the smart thing and just got the ******** out of this crazy city before it was too late for them."
Or maybe I killed them, Leto kept herself from saying. She knew very well that many of the young Pages and Squires she had offed could have been people that she knew. People that had families, and friends... But she didn't dare say that to MuCephei.
"There's no hurry, MuCephei. The Mirror will always be ready and waiting for you, if you decide you want to be a part of our family. Think about it. Make sure this is what you want, that this is what will make you happy. Make sure you're prepared to leave everyone you know in your civilian life behind. Then, and only then, when you are one hundred percent sure, you come find me and I will bring you Ares."
Except she wouldn't- but this Eternal Senshi didn't need to know that there were new DMC Royals in Destiny City, not if she changed her mind about joining them. She thought about her question for a moment. When people wanted to get a hold of Arse, they had to call for her in a mirror... "Call for me in a mirror. If I'm in mirrorspace, I will hear you." She then proceeded to describe to her in complete detail where her mirror in the park was- the one that she almost always used when she patrolled on a nightly basis. "If I'm not in mirrorspace, I will come through that mirror in the park at some point, I do every night."
She knew very well that it could be dangerous to have told her that, if she were to tell other White Moon Senshi. But if this girl had any potential to turn to the Dark Mirror Court, she needed to put some semblance of trust in her. When she decided that there was nothing left to say, Leto turned and left, leaving the Senshi of Blood to nothing but her thoughts and the youma dust that was blowing away in the night air.
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