He hated these things. He hated these "youma." He hated that at the worst possible time, they came out. A time when he was just managed to get his teeth around the lip of a Starbucks coffee lid and popped it off to see a still frothy drink inside, behind the alley of the café, when one of them showed. This time of night, only late night drinkers of cafes and bars were about, and none were here but him.
He hated when they found he was nearby, and worse yet, he went out of his way to go to this store that just opened up and didn't have any escapes mapped out. Outside of his normal territory, he froze mid sip when a large, scaled youma turned a corner. It wasn’t massively big compared to some, but it didn't seem fluffy as a stuffed animal either. The scales spread and spiked up, and a curved scorpion tail rose up behind it. 7 eyes opened, 2 already blasted out by some previous encounter with something, as it turned on him. Slowly, not wanting to make too much movement, he leaned down carefully.
..and took another sip of his drink.
Second later, he was racing down the back alleyways as the thing's many legs clacked on asphalt and threw its body through trash cans and turned about dumpsters, following after.
"COME ON! It was a chestnut praline latte! PRALINE!!!" He cried before he scrambled around a corner and raced towards a signal. Something that might help him.
He raced towards it.
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The senshi in white was honestly not sure what caught her attention first. The feeling of a chaos aura or someone screaming Praline at the top of their lungs. Honestly, it didn't matter though because she turned around in time to see a white cat wearing glasses racing towards her. It took a quick moment to realize that it was a guardian cat.
But the second thing that came into her few was no where near as small or as fluffy. Someone watching her face would have seen a look of disgust form over her features. "Do these things just get uglier with time?" Phact groaned but knew what she needed to do.
Lowering her head, she let out a coo as a white form of a bird appeared next to her. Sending her hand outward, the bird flew towards the seven functioning eyes, stalling it for a moment.
"Over here, hurry up!" Phact called out to the cat directing it off the main road and towards the trees and items to hide behind. "That will only distract it and give us a moment to move."
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Cooing Softly Bowing her head slightly, Phact begins to release the sounds of a dove’s soft coo. As she lifts her head upward, the white energy form of a dove appears in front of her. The creature leaves her side and flies into the face of her target acting as a distraction. Duration: 10 Seconds Use: Twice [/spoiler
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Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2015 10:48 am
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Senshis were good in that they fought, and in her attack, he was sure he could be saved. However, her gestures were ignored and he only heard her call. As her attack flew by, a lovely bird that temporarily distracted him and summoned the urge to want to rush at it, he turned and towards her instead. With a jump, he leaped up onto Phact and raced up onto her shoulders, curling his tail in and looking where the youma still was.
The youma, distracted, threw its tail at the bird, throwing its tail this way and that to dispel the bird as it stepped back.
"Go-Go-GO!" He meowed, urging the senshi to run away.
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2015 9:53 am
The sudden weight on her shoulders through Phact off balance causing her to step forward to keep from stumbling. Not to mention cat nails. How did people like these things? She had to wonder as the fluff from his tail brushed her exposed skin.
The spell was holding on for a moment more as Phact eyed it, eyed the cat, turned and ran. "What did you do to piss it off?" She cried out glancing over her free shoulder as new her spell would not last long. "Use it's tail as a toy?
She commented and made a sharp turn off the pathway and towards what she hoped to be an empty area. "Hold on!" Her voice was strong as she quickly used the moment to jump upward into the branches of a low tree before turning to access the situation.
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Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2015 8:09 am
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He clung to her, turning his head to listen as he looked back at the now no longer distracted creature. "I didn't do anything! Do I look that stupid! I'm not blind!" He said, and looked up ahead to where they were going.
"They always go after me! I can't help it!" He meowled as she jumped up. Scrambling to keep hold, he dug his claws all around her, trying to hold onto any fabric that would let him stay.
The youma, done with the bird, turned about and looked for a while. It's many eyes blinked, and it turned about, and then it started to move down the street, trying to sense. Each step of its many legs brought it closer and closer.
"It can sense us." He whispered into her ear, and then pressed his body close and tucked his tail in.
Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2015 4:46 pm
"But it can't see us." Phact whispered back as she narrowed her eyes to watch the creature. Thankfully the feline's nails had only caught her collar and some of her shoulder. Those both could heal quickly though dang, cat's had sharp nails. No wonder people whined about their couches. The little pen-pricks in her skin might hurt worse than paper cuts at the moment. Get out of this, that cat was getting his nails clipped.
Stepping back closer to the tree trunk, she pushed her shoulder the feline was sitting on closer towards it. "Stay here." she whispered, moving to try and make it easier for him to hop off but remain in the trees. "It needs to be taken care of and unless you know a cliff around her..."
Phact was moving back towards the edge of the branch. She was watching, waiting...as it got closer, her stance changed. She was not longer balancing but waiting to jump. When it was close enough, she jumped forward, aiming for its back. She was planning to see if the old moving tricked worked: have the tail smack itself.
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Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2015 3:47 pm
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He clung to her, looking up at the tree and back at her. "But…what if you get hurt?" He asked, not wanting to just abandon her when he brought the trouble in her direction. "Why not run? We can run! That's safe." He said, patting her on the shoulder, He really didn't want her to get torn to bits because of him.
However, he was also not here to fight anyone, and reluctantly he climbed off and onto the tree.
The youma by now had navigated his way over to them. At the fall, Arthur was glad he was no longer on her back. "Are you crazy!" He called out, watching her land rodeo-style on its back.
Hissing loudly, the creature turned in circles over and over like a dog chasing its tail, but its tail was not immobile. It was hitting about its body, striking it's armored sides and sliding off, missing here and there as it tried to pinpoint where the senshi was.
"GET OFF! OFF!" Arthur cried.
Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2015 11:32 am
The armor might have been a solid but it was as slippery as a water slide. This was a trait the senshi had not considered on and thanked whatever god was watching out for her that she had landed just next to the back of the creature's head where the armor separated. This allowed her fingers to slip around and hold on to the bucking bug.
"Not....Yet!" She responded to the crying cat as her eyes fought to stay open against the force of the youma's jerky movement. There had to be a weak point! Everything had a weak point!
It was then it dawned on her where her fingers were. With what strength she could muster, Phact pulled herself upwards and examined the break. Youma or not, still a bug. Now she knew what she had to do.
In between the rotations, Phact let go.
As she rolled with the momentum of the throw, Phact tried to grab anything to stop herself. It was the roots of the tree that slowed her and allowed her to come upright inches from the trunk of the tree her little white friend was hiding in stopped by the root system. It took her a moment to get to her feet but Phact was grinning as she did. "Hey handsome, grab a sharp branch and jump down here." She glanced up, her eyes looking for him to reassure him that something was going on in her mind.
It was timing. Timing to get that stinger stuck in that tree behind her...Timing to take it out.
"Quickly please." Though she spoke softly, there was a tone of urgency in her words.
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Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2015 7:23 am
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She was riding the thing like a damn rodeo girl and each swing and stab of the youma's tail made the guardian's heart stop. He was going to faint. He was going to have a stroke. Did he taste copper? Maybe some heart palpitations?! This all wasn't good for his health.
Clinging to the branch, he whined as he watched her, not wanting to see her hurt but unable to look away. It would have been a better plan to run instead of this.
As she called, he bristled, tail puffed as he watched her fall off (or he assumed she fell off).
At the call, he turned his head just so. Did she say a short branch? How was he supposed to get a branch?
Frowning, he looked around, climbing up to look for something he was able to snap off. He finally found a stick that he could get his teeth around and after some tugging, snapped it off. It wasn't particularly long or thick, but it didn't cause him to fall off the tree with it's weight.
"Thif ifn't good fur me teef." He said between the branch and slowly made his way down the tree.
It seemed he hadn't heard that last part about being quick.
Once on the ground and back in harm's way, he ran over to go behind her and offered the branch. "Mere." He mumbled, offering her a short branch as she had requested.
Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2015 1:40 pm
That tone of urgency must have fallen on death ears as Phact felt herself finally backed up against the tree. The back stopped her cold and she felt her heart sink. Of course she had to have been found by the slowest cat in town!
Phact watched as the youma lifted its tail back and brought it down towards her.
The senshi scrambled. Dropping to her knees, she pushed off the base of the tree and dove straight under the lifted body of the pest. She was quick, doing her best to get out, but not quick enough. One of the legs found her right hip and stepped down. Phact was holding back a scream of bloody murder as slipped out when it lifted. The wound was bleeding down her leg but it wasn't deep. More of a flesh wound tha would leave her with a limp for a few days and painful to sit. Still, she was no happy with the cat as she finally found him at her side.
Even less happy when she saw the stick.
"Really...." She cried out before grabbing the twig and shaking her head. There was no choice now. "You win."
Diving down, the senshi once again scooped up the cat, without warning, and made a run for it. "This is not a good night." She moaned through the pain, holding the stick in one hand and the cat supported in another.
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Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 8:15 pm
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Arthur looked at her and the stick. "Is it not short enough?" He asked, confused. Anything more would be a twig. He was even more confused when she turned away, and with a hmph as he was quickly picked up, watched as she took off and the scorpion turned about.
Not needing to be carried, he scrambled about her before moving up to her shoulders, and looked behind her. "It's still coming!" He called out, watching as the youma raced at them, and just when it was at their tails - it stopped.
There was an unearthly amount of hissing and Arthur beamed, turning to speak into her ear. "It's tail is stuck in the branches. We can escape!" He called before he noticed.
"You're hurt!" Oh no! Oh dear! They needed a doctor. A specialist. They needed a nurse too!
"The hospital isn't too far!" He called out, looking around. "I can show you."
Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2015 7:09 pm
The whisper in her ear over the movement of the cat stopped her. Coming to a pause in her steps, she looked back over her shoulder to see what the fuzzball meant. There was what she needed to see.
Turning completely around, Phact gave a nod. Struggle as it might, it was good and stuck. The thing would either have to yank up the tree or cut off its tail to keep going. Frankly she didn't put it past the youma but she also did not know just how animalistic they could be.
"No fluffy one. No hospital." Phact whispered back as she turned to stumble off. Tonight, she did not want to keep fighting. She needed to flush the wound anyway. "Do you not know how many questions they will ask and the trouble that will be raised?" Glancing out of the corner of her eye towards the cat, Phact again sighed. "I'll be fine. It didn't take anything important. But you on the other hand..."
Reaching up one hand to press against his side. "Are a trouble maker."
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Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2015 8:39 am
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Clinging to her, his ears went up at the accusation. "Trouble Maker?! I am not! It attacked me! I was just minding my own business licking a wrapper. It came to me and I ran." He humped and started to hunch his shoulders, grumpy.
He mumbled a bit. "...troublemaker...me!....some kids just don't know better..."
Speaking which, he looked back down. "You should get that clean. I can clean it for you." If she wasn't going to listen to him about seeing a medical professional, then he'd help clean it for her.
Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 9:55 am
"Kids? Fluffy, I know the mentality of cats and dogs is different than humans but I can assure you I am not a kid." Phact threw back at him, annoyance in her eyes as she cast a sidewise glance towards her shoulder.
But his second comment made her body shiver. "You, a cat, can clean this?" There was disgust in her voice at the very idea. "No thank you. I do not want to be licked clean. I know you all carrying high levels of bacteria in your saliva and I do not trust it."
Her hand moved to apply pressure to the wound. "But if you happen to know a source of clean water around here, then lead the way."
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Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2015 7:08 am
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"I do NOT carry anything!" He said, pausing in mid-scratch behind his ear as a flea moved through his fur. "I happen to be spotless." He grumbled before leaping off her shoulder and turning around at her.
"I happen to be great at cleaning wounds. I do it all the time." He turned, lifting up a back paw were a small scratch was. "See. It's healing just fine."
Setting his paw down, he started walking ahead, looking over his shoulder. "I know a warm place with water. Follow me."
He leapt forward, walking through the snow and into the tree line. After cutting through the trees, Arthur checking behind to make sure she was still following him, he walked across the street where the park ended and through an alleyway before stopping at a door. "This is the bathroom to the dry cleaners up front, but the lock is broken so you can shove it open. I go here when it's too cold out sometimes."
He nudged it open, pushing harm before it popped open. Inside the bathroom was clean but with a heavy smell of cleaning chemicals from the up front business. Arthur jumped up onto the sink and pushed his paws to turn on the hot water. "Gotta let the water run before it turns on." he said.
