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Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2014 7:15 pm
Megrez was getting really frustrated with songwriting recently. She could have gone back to her planet and performed the ritual nearly a week ago... except she couldn't have, because there was the whole fiasco at Avalon. She liked that Gillitie Squire... Wandering through one of the parks as was her custom, the needling of a second-rank Chaos aura made her stop still in her tracks. It was no ordinary Negaverse aura, however; it was that of a Corrupt Senshi. At first she was curious to see what kind of Corrupt was out and about tonight, but when she saw who that Corrupt was, her blood ran cold. Blue hair. Tattoos. A toga kind of fuku. She had seen this one before, and she remembered what he had done to her. She wanted to tell herself that she was slowly working her way to being beyond regret, that her love for the world would protect her and everything else, but a prominent part of her wasn't so sure. If he used his attack on her again, would she be able to take it? Unsure of whether to go confront him or not, she hid behind a tree and peered out occasionally to watch him.
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Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2014 7:25 pm
Kerberos didn't need to see the Senshi to know there was one there. He could feel a Super-level aura - not that bad, in the scheme of things; he could handle a Super. Hell, he could handle most opponents, not a lot of people did well when con fronted with his magic. But he was drunk, and vulnerable, and a little bit hopeful that maybe this would be someone open to a chat, rather than a fight.
"I know you're here," he said, and he shifted just enough to make it easier to take a drink from the bottle of vodka in his hand, "come out, come ou,t wherever you are," the latter part was sing-songed, which seemed particularly clever when he was wasted like ******** class="quote">Sami-Fire
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Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 6:34 pm
Megrez inhaled sharply, trying to steady herself. Her next bout of peering from behind the tree allowed her to see the bottle of vodka in the Corrupt's hands. He was drinking? Drunk? That put an interesting twist on the situation. Would he be more or less volatile? Either way, he knew she was here. She was going to have to face him sooner or later. Maybe she could show him that she had gotten stronger, that she had developed an understanding of the world that allowed her to come to terms with herself. She stepped out from behind the tree and took a few steps closer to him. "I'm here," she said flatly. "Remember me? The senshi you attempted to corrupt? The senshi you nearly destroyed the mind of with your magic?" It was a dramatic turn of phrase, to be sure, but she could think of no other way to describe what his magic had done to her. It had nearly driven her mad, sending her on a crazed run through the city looking for lieutenants to kill, and that had led to her encounter with the tall yellow rainbow senshi.
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Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 7:14 pm
"Don't be so ******** dramatic, it lasts for like thirty seconds and I can't corrupt you any more than you can purify me," he said. "Um, you can't, can you?" Because maybe if the option was literally right in front of him, he might as well take it, because he was pretty done with this whole Negaverse thing. He took another drink, looking her up and down. She was even less intimidating drunk than she'd been sober.
"Wow, I thought my fuku was dumb, those pants are really ********' poofy," he snarked sharply. Was that smart? Oh, hell no, but he was three-fourths of a bottle of vodka away from being able to make good decisions.Sami-Fire her pants are adorable puppy is a butt
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Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 8:20 pm
"It was a painful thirty seconds. Maybe you should try using your magic on yourself sometime and see how it feels." Megrez's tone sharpened. She wasn't quite sure what she was expecting, because if she was expecting this one to be diplomatic at all, she was going to feel mighty silly. The jab at her pants made her roll her eyes as obviously as she could. "Well, gee, at least it's not a skirt like you're wearing. You should be glad you haven't been saddled with a short skirt like some of the ladies have. Just imagine the breeze between your knees and everyone wanting to flip your toga up for fun. Hell, I'd do it, if only for a clear shot at your a**." Maybe we should figure out how to modify male fukus into skirts and short-shorts, Megrez thought, a twitch of an amused smile appearing on her face. "But no, I can't purify you or anyone else. It would make my work easier if I could."
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Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 9:07 pm
"Oh, a little grief, a little regret, god that is literally my everyday life, how terrible," he shot. "Or did you think I was chugging straight vodka because I'm super happy all the time?" Being an a** was getting him nowhere, but it felt nice. "And sorry, I have a boyfriend, he's the only one that gets to touch my incredibly fine a**."
He examined the bottle for a moment, took another long drink, and then raised an eyebrow and offered it to her. "Want some?"
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Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2014 9:07 pm
Megrez gave a short, sharp chuckle. " You have a boyfriend? Really? And no, I'd rather not have a drink if your corrupt cooties have been on it." She wanted to give him a good few rounds of assery to counter him, but when she heard him, she hit on something. "Huh. You know, since I encountered you last. I learned something. You said you have a boyfriend, someone who cares about you... I learned that, as long as you have some sort of love in your heart, Chaos can't truly take over. If you care for your boyfriend, and if he really cares for you... you know, maybe there's a little hope for you yet. Unless something happened with him and that's why you're drinking?" Now might have been an odd time to start getting preachy, but it was starting to hit her stronger than ever: some Negaverse members weren't just ruthless starseed-filching energy-sucking jerkmonsters. Some of them kept their normal lives, were in love, had people who loved them. And if they had love, perhaps they could be spared?
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Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2014 9:42 pm
Kerberos rolled his eyes. "Corrupt cooties are you five." He snarked, and then he took a rather long swig from the bottle. "Yes, I have a boyfriend, and your surprise offends the hell out of me, thanks. I am just as gorgeous powered down as I am powered up and I am a hell of a catch and just because you don't think so..."
But he let out a tiny huff, wrinkling his nose a little. "So, what, you're saying the only way you could see me as human or saveable is because I've got someone I love? Wow, not because I'm a person who'd like a future that doesn't involve selling his soul, no, it's 'cause I'm banging someone. Christ, you know I have sisters and parents and s**t too, right? Like, basic ******** human experience, most people have somebody they care about." Maybe he was being a little too harsh with her, but alcohol made it a little harder to care. "And no, he is not the reason I'm drinking, he is in fact the reason I am not drinking at home, because I would prefer to like, not upset him quite so much? Because I don't actually enjoy watching him be sad and worry over me. I'm drinking because I'm staring down the barrel of a future where I end up as a soulless insane monster and nobody seems to have a good plan for how to stop it except 'believe in yourself!' 'Don't sell your soul to Metallia for power!' 'Don't lose your ******** mind!' Like it's something I wanted to do."
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Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2014 10:15 pm
"It was a joke-" Megrez didn't even get to finish before Kerberos went on his spiel, and she frantically and vainly tried to get a word in edgewise as he went on and on. "No- you're thinking too- specific- oh- geez- hey- wait-" and then he finally concluded just in time for her to blurt out an exasperated " Oh my god slow down for five freaking seconds geez!" She took a breath to steady herself and try and pick apart the massive blob of stuff the corrupt had just blasted her with. "A future... I'm guessing you had a vision, too? Let me go back to where I started. It's not because you're 'banging someone.' It's because you have the capacity to love and care and worry, and you haven't let hate take everything over. Let me tell you something... I nearly got taken over by hate in my vision of the future. I killed many Negaverse soldiers and didn't figure out that things weren't so black and white till it was too late. I've gotten warnings from people in the present, too. When I went to my planet one time, I saw something that changed me. In my past life, I forgave someone dear to me who had done something terrible. I could have killed him and allowed the hate to consume me, but I didn't. I let him live because I loved him and wouldn't let myself be taken over." "I guess what I'm saying is... you're still human, still you. Chaos might not have so strong a hold on you. Maybe that future can be averted." Megrez took one step closer, thought about sitting on the bench next to the Corrupt, but then decided against it. "You know, I don't think I ever got your name. I'm Super Sailor Megrez, Senshi of Eggs. And you are?" Names were humanizing. Perhaps putting names to faces would be a help, if a small one.
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Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2014 10:48 pm
Kerberos wanted to lash out angrily, but she was so earnest and certain that it was hard to get mad so instead he just slumped back on the bench and raked his fingers backwards through his hair.
"That's cute. Really, it is, good for you, I'm glad you've had your little epiphany about not giving into hatred. But the thing is? When I went nuts, I still loved him. That didn't change until Metallia reached in and scooped out my ability to feel basically anything at all. I always loved him - so much that I couldn't bear the thought of living without him. So I begged and bargained and got her to ensure he could never leave, by having him encased in ******** crystal. Love ain't gonna save me on its own, Birdbutt, because crazy obsessive stalker love was sort of part of the problem," he said, and he sounded sort of exhausted. "Unless that doesn't count for your 'love heals' worldview."
"I'm Kerberos. Senshi of Asphodel." He said, "Which basically means I am the senshi of very pretty funeral flowers."
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Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2014 7:09 pm
Birdbutt? Megrez didn't stick to mulling over the strange nickname, as there were more pressing matters to attend to. "Right... that would be a problem, wouldn't it." She slipped into a contemplative silence. Once again, she had not accounted for every possibility. "I... I guess that's not quite it. Not quite part of the principle, I mean. If love isn't pure, if it gets twisted somehow, I guess it won't be the kind that can heal. But you're fine right now, aren't you? I don't know how much it'll help, but try remembering how you feel for your boyfriend every day. Keep a log of it, maybe, and if you notice anything that doesn't seem right, try to get back to your previous state. It's like... mindfulness." Swallowing nervously, she added, "I guess what I'm saying is... stay gold? Stay gold, and maybe you'll end up in the right place."
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Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2014 8:08 pm
Kerberos let out a tiny sigh. "I'm pretty sure keeping a feelings journal isn't gonna fix me, but hey, points for trying," he said. "I think part of the uh, insidious nature of losing your goddamn s**t is that you don't know it's happening." He exhaled and stood up.
"Look, I'm sorry, I don't mean to s**t on you for trying to help fix me, I just...I'm not sure there's anybody who's gonna be able to put me back together unless I do the purification thing and my parents have already lost one kid, they don't need to lose another." And Luka didn't need to have another person disappear on him, and he definitely couldn't just abandon Des...there was too much to lose.
(And only his soul to gain, he supposed.)
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Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2015 3:35 pm
Megrez just nodded, but she froze when Kerberos said that her parents had already "lost one kid." "I... I'm sorry," she said, though at the back of her mind she wondered if the loss of that child had anything to do with the war. A stolen starseed, perhaps? "Can't you still keep in contact with your parents somehow? At all?" She was unaware that purification meant an identity change and a need to break away from their family for the sake of the family's protection. "There's got to be something you can do. It's not easy to just completely drop out of the war... do you Corrupts use Henshin Pens, too? But I bet if you broke yours, they'd make you get a new one right away."
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Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2015 4:02 pm
"No, I can't," Kerberos said, and he pushed himself off the tree he was leaning against. "Purification or corruption means giving up the person you were before. Sometimes it means forgetting the person you were before." He shook his head. "If I broke my pen, they'd fix it - and then I'd probably suffer horrible consequences. Or my family would, or my boyfriend, because the Negaverse will kill everyone you love if they think they can force you to be loyal that way. You get to quit. I don't. That's how it goes."
He started walking off. "Now if you don't mind, I'm going to go home before I knock myself unconscious with booze."
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Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2015 7:27 pm
This young man was a sad, sad case. He seemed to be trapped between a million options, none of which led to a true "good end." Megrez's distress made itself apparent as the frown spread across her face. She couldn't help Kerberos, and that hurt. The only one who could save him through any sort of movement or decision was himself. "Nnn... okay. Get home safe." She paused, and added, "Goodbye, and good luck."
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