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 Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2014 7:40 pm
The Corrupt Eternal Senshi was tense, though he was doing his best damned impersonation of someone who was calm and collected, and who had nothing to lose. He was leaning on a light post, the lamp broken and casting no light despite the determined hum it was giving off. There were no other working lights in the area, but that was common around the outskirts of the city. There were often fights, and collateral damage was just part of life now. Soon enough, this area would be fixed up, and ready for round two.
Or three, or four, or whatever it was.
He had his arms folded over his chest, and he watched the dimness around him carefully, his senses straining to feel any familiar auras in the area. There were a few Chaos auras around, but there always were. It was hard to focus on one, but if it were to move toward him he was hoping he would be able to pick it out. He was anxious, waiting for her. Though his arms were crossed over his chest and he was making as bland a face as he could, he was nervous. His muscles were drawn tightly, his knuckles white as he hid fists under his elbows.
If this was the right plan, he had not felt it yet. He felt strong feelings toward Navi, the woman he was there to meet. He knew that she meant well for him, and that she wanted to take him away from all this chaos, literally and figuratively. He could not remember who he was but he was beginning to learn that this, who he was now, was not who he needed to be. He had to find himself again, and she was offering him a way to do that. A chance to break away from his handler, from the Negaverse, and learn about what he lost without any pressure.
Things were never quite that easy, though. His ideal world would never be realized, as people in this city were prone to talking. He was here to meet Navi secretly, but that did not mean someone was not out there looking for him.
She was. And when she found him, she had a few questions for him.
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Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2014 7:58 pm
Navi had never traveled quite this far out towards the fringes of the city. If there were mirrors(and there always were), she wasn't aware of where they might be, and thus they were next to useless for her. She'd traveled as far as she could through the safety of mirror space, but blocks away from where she was set to meet her prince she had to continue on foot. It was nerve wracking, the press of chaos all around her, but she moved swiftly, heels making soft clicks on the concrete as she hurried along the sidewalk. Dainty frame keeping to the shadows as much as she was able. When she'd suggest the idea that they simply leave the city she hadn't been thinking straight, and certainly hadn't expected Chaonis to humor her idea. It was crazy, but what was left for them here? When Painite had taken him he'd lost everything. Not only his family and her, but his home, his possessions. And Navi? What were possessions if she couldn't have him? Though with her abilities, once they'd set upon a concrete plan, found someplace settle, she could n** back to their former apartment to nab what they needed. Even leave a note for his parents... Arms folded tight despite the summer heat, Navi searched the night as she hit the street she was meant to meet him. There, against the light pole, she saw him, and chest tightening she hurries to his side. "Chaonis." It had been awful leaving him that first night, but she'd taken him at his word. Keeping the meeting a secret from Kyndall and Raven had been a challenge as well. No one could know. Not until they were gone.
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Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2014 8:43 pm
"Navi," Chaonis said, moving away from the pole immediately. His entire persona dropped when he saw her, the cool, in control guy of his attitude vanishing as he looked at her and his anxiety flooded his face. He moved toward her and found that the closer he got, the more relieved he felt.
It was all very strange. To go from someone who felt nothing, for anyone, to someone who could suddenly feel so much for one small person. He did not say anything about all the turmoil in his mind, though, even as the headache flared up and his consciousness struggled with all the conflict it was suddenly facing. Having to try to remember things that were lost, while at the same time the Chaos that corrupted him combated those efforts, took a toll on his head.
"I'm glad you came," he said, though of course she would have. Leaving was her idea, and he was doing his best to at least hear her out. This was the only safe spot he could really think of, away from most patrol areas, and outside of Painite's usual haunts. He had been watching her closely, taking mental notes about where she liked to be, and when. Though she liked to think she was unpredictable, he saw patterns in her choices. He was hoping this place was just one she would never think to come to. There was nothing here.
Except him and Navi, now.
"How are you doing...?" It was a simple enough question, but he actually cared about the answer.
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Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2014 9:09 pm
The tough guy melted away as he turned to meet her, and she watched all that conflict and insecurity flood those handsome features. Immediately she reached for him, hands going for his hands, and her grip was almost desperate. A shadow of the grip she'd had on him before they'd parted on the roof of the old community center. As if he'd disappear if she let him go. Snatched away from her into the darkness again. Gone. A smile touched her lips at the admission that he was happy to see her, and she gave tanned fingers a squeeze. "I'm alright. Better now that I'm with you." Impatience had left her an anxious wreck over the days leading up to this meeting, but just that moment she felt better than she had in a long time. "And you?" Pale eyes took him in, tracing the edge of his jaw before drifting lower to search his tall frame for any sign of injury. God help though that touched him. Already the girl had a list. Names and faces of those she'd have anguished to see suffer and end. She didn't have it in her to hunt them, she'd given that up ages ago, but the desire, the hope, the bitter craving was there, buried deep.
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Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2014 9:26 pm
"I'm alright. I'm just glad to see you, and I'm ready to.. to talk about getting out of here. I have nothing left to lose. The only thing I have now is you, and I know that doesn't mean much because I can't remember everything... but it means a lot to me anyway. It means something, and that's more than I had before."
He watched her and finally relaxed enough to smile gently and brush a wisp of hair from her face.
"Now this is just too cute," a voice said from behind them. Chaonis had not sensed anyone approaching, but that was only because she had not powered up until she spoke and called their attention to her. Her civilian identity was gone before they spotted her, and as she stepped out into their line of sight she already had her spear in hand. General Painite regarded the duo with a faux look of amusement and delight. Her eyes, though, were anything but gentle or romantic.
They screamed murder.
"What's this about, then? Planning to steal away, just the two of you? That's so sweet, I might vomit. It's a shame that you're both forgetting something very important. He is mine. And I don't like people taking my things."
She was taking leisurely steps toward them, her eyes glued on Navi. She knew that Chaonis would not be able to do anything to her: he was hers, and she could fix his confusion for him once Navi was taken care of. She watched the Dark Mirror senshi almost without blinking, even her false pretense of amusement melting away to real anger.
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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2014 8:09 pm
Relief hit like a wave against a rocky shore when he voiced his willingness to leave everything behind and just get the ******** out of Dodge. She grinned, she couldn't help it, as he swept a soft curl back behind the curve of her ear, and she turned her head to lay a kiss on the back of his hand, her own coming up to lace her fingers with his before they could drift too far away. They could make new memories, replacing the ones that he'd lost, or reclaiming what they could. They could build a life again, be happy. Everything they'd hoped and dreamed of. The weight of the last half a year lifted from her shoulders as she looked up into his handsome face, and leaning in, she'd rise up on tip toe to kiss him. Only their lips never touched. A voice in the dark, sickeningly sweet, and the sudden crushing weight of a strong chaos aura right on top of them. Navi froze, eyes going wide, and her grip on Chaonis' hand tightened as her head turned to take in the general that was watching them, and she shuddered at the malice that was all for her. Shock was only a temporary state, though. As the sugary smile melted away from, Navi turned to face her, taking Chaonis' arm with her so it circled her shoulders. Having seen what Painite was capable of, the DMC should have been scared, but she wasn't. That deep rooted hate was bubbling up to the surface, and she stared back at the woman stalking closer with cold eyes, and an odd little smile resting on her lisp. "I haven't forgotten anything," she offered back calmly, grip tightening on her Senshi's fingers. "Not how sadistic you are, nor what a raging b***h. And certainly not how you stole my fiance away from me." The last came out in an angry hiss, lips peeling back from clenched teeth. "We're leaving, and if you try to stop us I will kill you." Navi wasn't an advocate of murder, but they wouldn't be safe so long as Painite lived. Not her, not Chaonis, and not the rest of his family. The b***h needed to die.
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Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2014 8:23 pm
Painite could not bear happiness. Now, more than ever, she found it disgusting and it made her stomach turn to see anyone enjoyed themselves in a way that did not also please her. Seeing these two finding one another, trying run away together, was like someone grabbing her stomach and rattling it violently. It was disgusting, and she hated them both for it. For being happy, more than for trying to betray her.
Her dog, her little toy, was deciding to think for himself. She had thought him completely brainless, but he was surprising her left and right. Not only did he have thoughts, but he seemed to have memories, going back to the little senshi he was so clearly enamored with.
"Details, details. You say I stole, I say I claimed. And now you're the one trying to pinch my toys, which I just cannot abide. Stealing off in the middle of the night, like some star crossed lovers! Chaonis, you can't even remember if you do love her, can you? Do you remember proposing to her? What if she's made half of this up?" Fiance, pfft. Painite wrinkled her nose at the whole idea of love and lasting relationships. It was weakness, pure and simple. Plus, it just brought out the worst in her, as if they were daring her to do the most evil things she could think of to them, just for trying to pull one over on her.
She was always game for a challenge.
"You're going to kill me, are you? Well, I'd love to see you try that." She called her spear to her hand, her eyes glimmering like a wild creature in the night, catching just the faintest hint of light and making it burn in her near fathomless gaze.
Any reason to fight back. Any reason to cause pain and to rip them piece from piece. Chaonis stepped forward as if to protect Navi, but Painite shot him a withering gaze. He froze, suddenly torn. It had seemed so clear to him before, running away with Navi, but now... now he did not know what to do. This was Chaos. This was his team. This was his master, the one who he had promised to serve, the one who had claimed him. Seeing her now, he found his budding emotions and few memories were hard pressed to fight the hold she had on him. He took a step back, lowering his gaze to the ground.
"You stay there," she said to him, her voice devoid of any recognizable emotion whatsoever. Even anger was too gentle a term to describe what she was feeling. Her eyes shifted to Navi again, and she leaned forward, moving faster, closing the distance between them quickly now as she pulled her spear back and prepared to start the fight.
"Kill me, little girl! Let me see you try!"
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Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2014 5:15 pm
Navi was livid, but terrified. Here was the woman that had ruined the life she had been trying to build. The general had taken everything. In taking away Chaonis, she had taken everything, because the man had become her whole life. She'd placed him before her own life, before her court, risking everything, just for the chance to be with him, and Painite had come in and ripped him away. He moved, taking a step as if to stand between them, but one withering look was enough to prove her hold over him. He dropped his gaze, stepping back, and the young woman's heart sank with the action. "Chaonis..." Whatever else she might have said was cut off as the general charged her. In that moment she knew; so long as Painite lived, he would never be free. So she had to die. As hat spear came towards her the senshi dove to the side, rolling as she hit the ground and coming up fast. She didn't have a weapon, but she was quick, she was agile, and she had her magic. "Whiplash blast!" Air moved, swirling around her feet and up to toss ginger curls. Wind was her power. She called it, she condensed it, holding that power until the general was very nearly on top of her, and then threw it with everything she had at the other woman's face. Quote: Whiplash Blast Navi calls a ball of swirling wind and bramble branches to her hand about the size of a basketball and can launch it Kamehameha style at her opponent(s).
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Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2014 9:03 pm
Painite was on the hunt. She knew that Chaonis was no longer the ballsy man he might have once been, and his chaos poisoned starseed would not allow him to hurt the woman that had control of him. He was putty in her hands, and she would make sure he understood just how far she would go to keep him.
No one betrayed her, not any more.
She charged after the senshi but was dodged, growling but not looking too fussed. She followed the Senshi's movements, doing her best to compensate for the shift in positions, watching the other as she rolled. Too close. Painite could not bring her spear around the way she needed to. She jerked her arm back but was already face to face with a blast of magic.
With a very angry cry, Painite all but flew backwards, clawing at her face as the wind tore at her. Curse senshi and their stupid magic! She hated them so much, but that hatred just fueled her power in battle.
She was not going to go down without swinging, though, and she gripped her spear almost at its end, taking a wild slash for Navi, aiming for whatever was closest, dragging the blade in a long arch. She hit the ground but she was already moving to regain her feet, banishing her weapon for a second so she could right herself and then call it back to her hand.
"Nice trick, you little brat, but it won't save you," she growled. She charged again, though she was winded this time.
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Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2014 9:24 pm
The attack hit, blasting the general back and away, and it gave Navi the chance she needed to get her feet back beneath. Or would have if that spear hadn't been swung blind, like a club, to tear a painful slice across one freckle kissed cheek. Startled, the senshi cried out, staggering back as a hand snapped up to cover the side of her face, even as blood began to well up, trickling against her palm, and dripping down her wrist. There wasn't time to nurse the wound, the b***h was back on her feet and charging again. Dancing back, she let her hand drop away from her bloody face, arms up and ready to defend. She hated that spear. Hated the range, the deadly point. It came at her, and she grabbed for it, fingers wrapping around the shaft. A yank was meant to pull the general off balance, but it also brought her closer, quicker. Navi was all wide eyes and anger. Unskilled, untrained, but determined, and resourceful. If she could, she'd use that damn spear against it's owner, and with that yank the girl's leg came up, aiming a kick for the general's stomach. It would be so easy to over power the wicked b***h if Chaonis could jump in, but whatever had scrambled his memories seemed to be holding him in place. It was disturbing, but worst yet, it was heart breaking. Quick, fleeting flicks of pale eyes kept turning to the senshi of danger, but he wasn't moving.
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Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2014 10:02 pm
Chaonis watched, desperate to help. There was nothing he could do, though. If he tried to cut in now, he was not sure how he would separate the two without hurting Navi or getting himself skewered uselessly. The last thing he wanted to do now, though before it was all he knew how to do, was help Painite.
He did not want her to win.
Thought it hurt him in a way he could not understand to see her in danger, and his legs buckled under the weight of his need to go and help her, he stayed rooted to the spot for Navi's sake. His conflicted emotions for the senshi somehow trumped his damaged view of the world. Though Painite owned him, it was Navi that made him feel like he was still a person. He trusted her, and he wanted her to help him.
But he still could not move.
Painite, on the other hand, let out a laugh as Navi took hold of her spear and tugged her closer. If she had a dime for every time someone tried to take her weapon from her, she would be able to build a house of dimes. Or perhaps just buy a house. Did they not understand that this was a part of her? She could no easier be separated from it than someone from their arm. Painite felt a kick connect with her gut but she was already teleporting. She vanished before the blow could fully land, reappearing behind Navi, weapon already at the ready. She slashed at Navi's back this time, aiming to let the blade tear through fabric, skin and flesh.
The Royal Knight's aura came out of no where. It appeared in a burst, and Painite knew without taking the time to actively think about it that the knight had been in hiding, unpowered, nearby. She was turning to face it but something very heavy slammed into her jaw and she was sent sprawling to the side, feeling her feet leave the floor and her spear fall from her hand, as she careened out of control and slammed into the ground some feet away.
Camelot stood where Painite had been, his foot on her spear, kneeling and focusing on Navi. He felt the other aura nearby, the potent one of a corrupt senshi, but he dared not look up. He knew who it was, how could he not, but he was not sure he was ready to see his son again. If Painite was here, fighting Navi, then Camelot assumed Chaonis was helping the Nega.
"Are you alright?"
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Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2014 10:26 pm
For one quick instant the young woman thought her kick had really landed, but the pressure she felt disappeared along with the body, and before she fully registered what was happening the general had appeared at her back, weapon swiping down. It didn't hurt as much as she assumed it should. She felt the bladed tip bite into her shoulder, dragging down and across her spine to pull free at her side. It staggered her, tore a startled yelp that was more out of surprise than actual pain, and sent her to her knees. That it didn't hurt was alarming. It should have. She could feel blood in a hot wash soaking into the torn remains of her fuku, and she knew it bad. Deep enough to damage nerves. Deep enough that her shoulder blade flashed pale through the red ruin. Still, despite the alarm she felt, she scrambled away, hastening to get back to her feet. Turning just in time to see something crash into the general to send her sprawling. Now the Royal knight's aura slammed into her, and her breath left in a fast rush as she took in the sight of her potential father-in-law standing over the wicked b***h of the west with his boot on the spear. At first she could do nothing but stare, but then he spoke, and suddenly tears to sliding down her face, leaving trails in the blood that painted the left side of her face. Why was she crying? Was it relief? Or had everything just built up to such an extreme point that there was nothing left. "We have to kill her!" The irony of request could sink past every other overwhelming thing that threatened to crush her. "We have to. We have to get him back. Camelot, we have to-" The more she spoke, the more broken her voice got until all that came out were inarticulate noises. She was shaking now, and her hands were cold. She was losing blood, and she could feel herself getting weaker. "Please!" Why couldn't they have just gotten away? Why couldn't something have just worked out, for once, instead of crumbling around her?
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Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2014 10:42 pm
Chaonis felt like he was watching everything in slow motion. First Navi was hurt, badly, and he saw her blood flowing freely. There was so much of it, so fast. He knew that she was badly hurt, and that he might lose her. Might have already lost her. He managed to take half a step forward before an Order aura burst onto the scene, and he watched as the woman he called Master was sent flying across the street.
He stared at the Royal Knight, not knowing him for who he was but understanding what he had been told about the other. His father. Someone Painite hated with all her being, and someone he was meant to hurt. But he did not have it in him to follow Painite's orders now, watching as Camelot knelt next to Navi and moved to cradle the wounded Dark Mirror senshi in his arms. Snapping out of his daze, the confusion not ebbing but his dire need to be with Navi over coming all else, Chaonis moved forward and heard Navi speaking to Camelot.
Crying.
"Killing her will not bring him back," Camelot said, very gently, his voice shaking with sorrow and loss, yet filled with warmth and understanding. He wrapped her in his cape and picked her up, holding her against him carefully, knowing the injury on her back was dangerous, and they needed to get her some place safe. He finally turned his gaze on Chaonis, expecting the other to be looking for a fight. What he saw, though, almost stopped his heart.
Chaonis was looking at Navi with a pained look, and he glanced up at Camelot looking like a lost dog. He moved closer and put his hand on Navi's arm carefully, standing next to his father. Camelot watched him, and realized that he had given up hope on ever seeing his son again. He thought him lost, considering the fight they had the last time they met. Chaonis was primed to kill his family, because Painite had made it so. But now, he looked gentle, and worried. Camelot was caught off guard at the realization that, though he had been saying it to anyone who would listen, his son was really not lost after all. He was still there, beyond the Chaos that gripped him, and clearly it was Navi bringing him back.
"Can we save her?" Chaonis asked almost timidly, not ready to lose the only thing he had been able to care about so soon. He looked up at Camelot helplessly. "Take her somewhere safe. I'll make sure Painite doesn't follow."
Camelot struggled to say anything. With Navi bleeding in his arms, there was no time to. He felt pride and love burning in his chest, but all he could do was nod, and silently prey that he would not regret leaving his son alone with the General a second time.
Chaonis looked at Navi again, grim but determined.
"I'm going to find you again. She's not going to stop us."
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Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2014 11:19 pm
"Killing her won't bring him back."What was he saying? Of course it would! Navi grabbed for Camelot's arm, jerking on it. "He's not lost. You don't understand!" He didn't seem to be listening though. The cape was wrapped around her, and the world swam as she was scooped up and cradled against an armor clad chest. For a moment she was dizzy, eyes fluttering, but she shook her head to clear it. When her vision cleared again he was standing over her, her prince, her Fiyero. She looked up into that worried face and felt emotion welling up to form a thick knot in her throat. Only a whimper slipped out, soft and helpless, as he lay his hand on her arm, and she reached out to take it, squeezing his fingers weakly. It didn't seem quite as dire to the dark mirror senshi, she heard Chaonis' question, but it didn't seem to register as she clung to his hand. It was just a cut, she was fine. Why wasn't Camelot eliminating Painite? Not until the senshi of danger was requesting his father take her somewhere safe did it sink in, and panic rode in with a fresh rush of adrenaline and dread. "No! No, Chaonis, she'l hurt you." Her grip tightened, but he was slipping away. "Don't face her, run away!" She was struggling now, actually fighting to get out of Camelot's arms, but she didn't have strength enough to push free. "Just kill her! Now, while she can't fight back! What are you doing?!" More tears. She couldn't seem to stop them. "Forget about me for a minute and just end it, kill her!" Don't do this. She reached for Chaonis as he started moving away. Don't throw it all away for me. Don't let her kill you just to save me. That last look, grim and determined, slowed her struggles. Her teeth were chattering, emotion and blood loss, as she met those dark eyes. "I love you." If this was it, she wanted him to hear it. The night was a disaster, and so much could still go horribly wrong before morning found him. "I Love you. Stay alive."
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Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2014 8:16 am
Beejoux I think this is a fin for me!
Camelot watched his son and remained quiet, save to hush Navi in an effort to calm her as he held her to him like he might a child, knowing they did not have too much time to spare. He had to get her somewhere to be tended to or healed.
Chaonis looked at Navi and nodded his head. It was all still very strange, but he believed her when she said she loved him. And more than that, her devotion to him allowed him to understand, if not remember, that he had loved her as well. How could he not? He took her hand for a moment and kissed it, and then offered her a grin that had seemed just as lost as his memories.
"I'll be fine. I'm Danger, remember? I'll find you again. I... I love you, too."
Looking up at the man who others called his father, memories straining to return, Chaonis nodded. Camelot began to move then, running from the scene, to take Navi somewhere safe. It nearly killed him, abandoning his son again, without saying any of the things he wanted to say, to the woman that had taken him from them in the first place. It killed him not to get his revenge on the Negaverse General, who stole his son and killed his step daughter, and left his wife a broken mess. But this was about more than just revenge, more than just him. It always was. His perspective came from seeing the plight of others, and knowing that he needed to bend his will to aiding them, and not sacrificing them in the pursuit of his own vengeance.
Chaonis turned to Painite, watching her as she struggled to get to her feet. Her jaw was broken, and she must have lost some teeth with that powerful blow. Blood was running down from her mouth, but the fury in her eyes was vibrant. She looked at Chaonis with all that hatred, calling her spear to her hand, and he stood his ground. Between her and the direction Camelot had retreated in.
Between her and Navi.
If he was going to die tonight, he was going to make sure the woman who loved him was safe.
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