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 Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2015 6:53 pm
Death for chaos. That was what was needed in this world. Lenka realized it…she knew it. Try as she might, deep breaths just weren’t working out for her right now, she was too stressed out. Too riled up from her encounter with her former friend…with her former ally. With her former…padawan…
Another deep breath did nothing but agitate her even further and the eternal senshi broke into a run. There was just nowhere to go right now, nowhere to hide, nowhere to run. This had happened. Blasted chaos had taken over one of her best friends.
Finally Lenka slowed to a stop, leaning against a wall, trying to catch her breath. She couldn’t run as fast now…she couldn’t run nearly as fast as she used to be able to when she was still a chibi. A weak, useless, idealistic chibi.
Things just had to be changed. Things had to change now. There had to be a way to get rid of chaos, to get rid of it forever…it didn’t belong in the world, and the world didn’t want it to belong…
It was up to her to do something. It really was. Maybe she could even find others who wanted to help. Others who felt this way. There was someone close by now…but at the moment, Lenka was just a bit too worn out to give a damn. But that was only for the moment.
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Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2015 7:19 pm
Ida heard running feet and she looked up from her compact, scanning the area as an eternal signature bloomed in her inner senses. Eternal senshi... there were a handful of them that she knew, and with the effort and work it took to reach that level, they were decidedly more rare than the lower levels. She wondered who it was, if it was one of her friends or someone new... it would be nice to take a little time out of patrolling to talk with someone else.
Her compact made a small snap as she closed the lid, letting it fall to bump against her stomach. The signature was over here... it drew her around and she took off towards it at a light trot. When she saw a young girl break out into the open, the orchid senshi slowed and lifted a hand to wave a greeting.
"Hello!" She called as she approached, dropping her arms to let them hang loose by her sides. This wasn't someone she had met before... She looked even younger than Matthew and her fuku had a decidedly fruit theme. Melons maybe....? Or just fruit? Something like that. The yellow flowers in her pink hair were decidedly cute and it brought a smile to Ida's face. "Are you okay? I heard you running, do you need help?"
She didn't feel anything nearby... no youma or chaos signatures... just the shine of this girl.
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Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 6:00 pm
Lenka sighed. Well. She hadn’t wanted to talk to anyone, she really hadn’t…but now that someone was here…and asking if she needed help? At that the eternal Senshi just looked up, giving the other a look. “Do I need help? No, I don’t need any help, thank you.”
She wasn’t trying to sound rude, but the words did come out rather gruffly. Though...
Lenka looked the other eternal up and down, the smallest of frowns forming on her face. “I’ve never seen you around before. Are you new or something? Why…why are you glowing? Is that something new that’s happening to us now? We glow? Nobody told me about that. What’s the deal with it? Are you ill?”
Her breathing had slowed and she was pleased for the distraction. It was easier to focus on something new and…different rather than something new and…horrible. Like Acubens.
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Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2015 10:02 pm
There was a moment of mental recoil at the return greeting she got from the young eternal and Ida's smile faded. Had she... said something wrong? She had been... friendly, reaching out to help someone else. Was she not supposed to do that?
Tan fingers reached to curl around the compact that hung against her stomach and the young woman came to a stop a short distance away. Enough for conversation, but... she suddenly really didn't want to invade this girl's space if she didn't want the company. Shifting from boot to boot, Ida suffered the once over she got from the other girl, a hand lifting self-conciously to touch the cheek she knew glowed with henna swirls.
"Ah, no, I'm not new... I've been a senshi for a... few years now." Years being a subjective number, depending on what timeline you lived... And suggestion of illness. That wasn't a new thing either, really. Why did people seem to think it was a sickness that made her glow? She wasn't aware of any sickness ever to make someone glow...
"Ah, no, I'm not ill." Ida said as she forced herself to drop her hand and square her shoulders. The questioning was a little... brusque, but maybe this girl was just a more straightforward, curious sort of person. "Its something that happened while I was on my planet, after I finished a ritual I remembered from my past life. Its been happening to other people too. Sailor Ganymede and Knight Babylon also glow, and I heard Sailor Penthesilea does too. Its still a new thing, so I don't expect many people know about it yet. We don't even know all that much about it. It comes with some... side effects, I guess you could call it. But they're more like benefits."
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Posted: Fri May 01, 2015 4:52 pm
A few years, hm? Lenka watched as the other senshi looked almost…uncomfortable when she mentioned the glowing…well. Maybe that really did mean she was sick or something. If you were embarrassed about it…it had to be like…the powered form of chicken pox or…some powered STD. Maybe she slept with someone in the negaverse. At least ugh…so long as it wasn’t with someone from the DMC, she was disgusted, but not completely so.
Honestly, it was time to say something and not just judge…though a silent judgmental look was always a good thing to do…
“How many years? I’m coming up on four myself…I started this stuff when I was ten, so. I’m fourteen now.” She didn’t think she really looked fourteen…or at least she tried not to. Her height helped out with this, and she had started wearing makeup to make her look older. Years of being a chibi had really made her not want to have the baby face that everyone said she had.
She shrugged and listened to what the other eternal started to explain about her glowing…of course claiming that it wasn’t any sort of disease…but…Lenka was pretty sure she knew better.
“What kind of benefits? What are you talking about?” What could powered STD’s do for you…did it keep bugs away? Maybe she was a giant bug zapper now…that was a benefit in the summer time, she was sure.
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Posted: Sat May 02, 2015 8:19 pm
"Ah, well... two years, I guess." Ida said as she nibbled her lip, thinking over it. It felt like forever... but if she subtracted years that didn't exist, it really was only two. Such a short time for so much to have happened. Too short, which was probably the problem. Too much all at once and she couldn't handle all of it.
She gave the girl a look over when she mentioned her age, surprised and a little horrified that she was a full five years younger than Ida herself. Younger than her brother... though not as young as the chibis among her own asteroid family. That feeling was unfair to this stranger and she pushed it down. She couldn't help her age... or how long she'd been a senshi. It made sense though, if she was a little prickly because of it. Ida couldn't say she wouldn't be the same... hadn't been the same. It was just hard to imagine someone who much younger... being so much taller than she was.
"Well, from what I've figured out, I have a pretty deep connection to my planet and I can travel there twice as often as I was able to before. I also seem to have extra energy and I can pass that along to other people to help them feel better. And my starseed is protected now... No negaverse agent can reach into my chest any more, so I'm safe from having it stolen or corrupted." She explained. "I think those are benefits."
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Posted: Wed May 06, 2015 7:41 pm
Lenka wasn’t sure what to say. She listened for the whole explanation of the ‘perks’ of this so called…glowing STD, and she wasn’t impressed. It was something…that trapped your starseed inside of your chest? Well…Maybe that was convenient…but it sure wasn’t…normal. In fact…it was almost…
Did that mean her starseed was trapped forever in her chest? That…was really gross…There were no choices in that…she blocked herself into something…
The senshi crossed her arms over her chest, as though to protect herself from the glowing plague.
“Well. Isn’t that interesting then…So…it’s an unmitigated choice that you can’t get out of…? Doesn’t that…kind of freak you out? It’s…” She shrugged. “I don’t know. I mean…whatever, I guess.”
She was suddenly very uncomfortable with this senshi…this glowing STD was a step in a strange direction that she didn’t have any idea how to process…it was…like being bound into senshidom and it was…really almost disgusting. It was too much, and it really…just felt like too much.
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Posted: Thu May 07, 2015 8:25 pm
The older senshi frowned as the young girl's face changed, paling and closing up. Shutting her out. Ida wasn't sure what she had said to cause it... all she had done since first seeing this girl was try to be friendly, and answer her questions. So why... was she giving her that look, like she was something loathsome and horrible?
"Its... Its not like someone forced me into this." She stumbled, feeling defensive. "And its a good thing. It is! I don't know if you've ever had someone try to take your starseed, but I've actually had it pulled out of my chest before. It hurts, and a starseed is so fragile... why would that be a bad thing? I mean... no one can touch your beating heart without carving your chest open and that's a good thing, right? It keeps you alive and safe... and it keeps them from taking you against your will and destroying everything you love."
Ida wrapped her arms around her chest, wondering if it had even been a good idea to stop to talk to this girl. The way she looked at her... it was every horrible thing Ida had ever thought of herself, put into a person and made to stare back at her. It was so hard to believe she was someone worth something, and then this... justification for everything, wasn't it? Wasn't this just what everyone thought, but were too kind or polite to tell her?
She felt herself go slightly light headed as the blood drained from her own face and she dropped her eyes, her fingers digging into her arms. She didn't want this... She didn't want to look into the face of everything that was wrong with her.
"Look, I'm sorry I bothered you. I should get back to my patrol." Ida said as she backed up a step, dropping her arms away from her chest.
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Posted: Fri May 08, 2015 5:45 pm
Lenka just shrugged. “Hey. It’s your life, live it like you want to, I suppose.” She wasn’t very sorry that the girl suddenly seemed to want to leave…honestly she was glad…this thing…this whole thing was an abomination. It was against...life. It was disgusting.
And she was really hoping that it wasn’t going to be something that spread throughout the ranks of the order aligned senshi. The only senshi worth existing, that was.
“Enjoy your patrol. It was…nice to meet you. You’re…quite interesting. I’m quite sure I won’t forget this meeting very easily.”
And that wasn’t a very good thing…
Lenka gave a curt nod and turned, walking away a moment later. As she walked she realized she hadn’t even asked the other senshi’s name…well. Maybe some things weren’t knowing. But this glowing senshi mentioned that there were others who had the same issue…well. Maybe she would have to go and find them and see why they made this choice…Why would you ever want to be trapped in yourself like that…
She sighed, shaking her head. The war had gotten very complicated all of the sudden…and she wasn’t happy about it…not at all.
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