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 Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2015 2:19 pm
Altais vibrated with excitement. He had powered up, found an empty roof and in a spur of moment thought, text Denebola about going to his homeworld. Cause...Cause why not. He wanted to see it! Isn't that what being a powered superhero was about?
ADVENTURE. DISCOVERY.
So he sat on the tallest of the buildings in destiny city, waiting for the dragonfly senshi. Also playing on his phone. Loud sounds emitted from the thing. He was totally an obvious senshi on a rooftop.
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Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2015 2:40 pm
Fiona hadn't planned on going out that night, not when she'd been spending so much time powered after going so long without. But Altais had texted her, begging her to come meet him and show him how to go to his own homeworld and she found that she couldn't say no. So, she'd ventured out of her flat and tromped across snow until she felt like she was a safe enough distance away to power up.
It didn't take her long to reach the location he'd texted her-- Denebola had no problem navigating the city --and when she spotted him, she scaled the building pretty quickly.
"Altais," she chirped when she pulled herself over the rooftops edge. "I get that you're waiting for me, but you're like the bat symbol in the sky. Super obvious."
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Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2015 2:48 pm
Altais only wished he was obvious as the bat symbol in the sky. Really, it'd make all the powered people so easy to find now. Cause they would come to him. He'd make friends! He'd make enemies! It'd be a grand old time.
"Hi Denebola!" He chirped back and then rushed over to help her up, "You found me though! That's all that matters right, here here, come stand here." he pulled her over to the middle of the rooftop.
"I've been playing with the features, and I totally read on how to get to the planet, so you don't have to worry about me messing it up or like...blowing us up into a million pieces on the way up!" His finger hovered over the button for all but a second and then he pressed it, immediately sending the two into space and to his planet without so much of a HOLD ON DENE, or HERE WE GO.
"WE ARE HERE!" He puffed his chest proudly when the roof top became solid tan stone, filtered with sand. Sand everywhere. Sand as far as the eyes could see. "It's sandy!"
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Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2015 4:58 pm
"Of course I found you," she said fondly, letting him lead her to the center of the rooftop. "You asked for me to come, so I did." Denebola hadn't know Altais for very long, but she knew that she'd show up whenever he called for her.
The ginger didn't have very many friends anymore, with a majority of them leaving the city as the war progressed, even as it lay dormant, because they were too weary to keep fighting the good fight. She was desperate to hold onto the ones she had, and Altais was one of them.
She'd been poised to speak when he hit the send button and ended up missing her chance as they were teleported from earth and onto a stony platform. She nearly lost her footing in surprise, grasping onto the front of Altais's fuku to stay upright.
"A little bit of warning next time would be nice," she scolded but it was half-hearted with no heat to it. Her mismatched eyes shifted across the expanse of the sand covered area and she frowned slightly. "I guess a desert planet makes sense," she mused, looking up at her companion. "Come on, let's explore."
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Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2016 10:57 pm
"It's a good thing you did!" he wouldn't want anyone else after all. Or maybe he did. Well either way! "It was surprise poof! Like we did with yours except I didn't want to give you a chance to say no!" He added, mischievously. His gaze wandered down the redhead that held onto his vest before reaching up and patting her head. "But we made in one piece yeah? That's good, I'm glad I could do it!"
The desert scenery was well... Deserty. At first, it was a lot of sand. He followed after her, sand sinking under the weight of his foot and he reached down to scoop it up. it was much like dried minerals found on earth, right down to the yellow golden color.
"It's so quiet." he looked around, feeling much more different then when he went with Dene to her planet. It felt dismal and empty here. Was that his type of planet? Sand? Was it to be never ending?
"Oh...OH!" He took her hand and then pulled them over the top of a massive dune. "There! Do you see? I think that's WATER?" Along with a mass of buildings and foliage. It was, in the massive desert, a sight for the eyes.
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Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 11:28 am
"I would've still come with you Altais, I promised remember?" She couldn't decide if she was irritated that he didn't trust her to say yes or if she found it endearing that he would think she'd say no. His eagerness and desire to have her accompany him in many things was something that tugged on her heart strings and brought about a certain fondness for her younger companion.
Her wedges sunk deep into the sand making it hard for her to walk and she wished that she'd been gifted with shoes better for adventuring.
"Of course it's quiet, we're the only living things here," there was sadness in her voice as she spoke. Her gaze drifted across their surroundings until she saw what he did. Her heart jumped into her throat at the sight and she didn't know why. "You're right, hopefully there are some solid surfaces to walk on there. Let's go."
She tromped off towards what looked like the heart of Altais.
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Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 11:11 am
"Ah yes! I know! I didn't mean-" He rubbed his head, "Maybe too excited? Next time, I will give warning." He smiled again at her, hoping that she really wasn't too upset. In his powered life, she was really the only person he knew. He was mostly just scared that he would mess it up or something.
"Oh...that is the way with all planets?" He looked over at her, something flashing in his mind almost instantly. It was a nostalgic excitement. A garden wall. A ship.
"Do you trust me?" He murmured and then laughed, "Is that memories? They come weird." He couldn't make out the face but it was halo'd in red hair.
"What do you think we will find?" He added, "Well besides water! Ah, maybe we will find objects? Ancient items! Like jewels? I wonder if its different on our worlds?"
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Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 3:31 pm
"Okay," she assented, warm smile spreading across her painted lips. "Your outfit is better suited for this than mine," she huffed, blowing her bangs out of her face. "I'm not cut out for sand, these shoes are the worst." Normally she didn't mind her wedges, but her heels kept sinking into the sand and she could feel it against her toes.
It wasn't the most pleasant.
"I think so? I mean--" she shrugged. "I've never been to anyone but mine, and well, yours." But she imagined they were all wastelands like this, chaos had destroyed everything living save for a few plants here and there.
Do you trust me?
Her heart rate picked up at the question and her head snapped up so her mismatched eyes could search his face. "What did you say?" The words sounded familiar, like a distant echo. "Uh, sorta? I think they vary from person to person." Sometimes hers were just glimpses and others, well she repeated the action like she was living it.
"I think it depends on what Altais had. We could find anything...What are you seeing Altais?"
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Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2016 12:03 pm
"I can carry you if you want!" He bent down, offering his back to her should she wish to hop on. "I like your shoes though. Your legs look nice!" Thats what you complimented on right?
"Oh, I said that I could carry you!" He wasn't sure which one she wanted him to repeat. "Or your legs look nice! Or your heels are nice." He gave her a shrug.
The memory quickly faded though and all he remembered was Trust. Like a bond that would never break.
"A girl!" He offered, "I don't know her name though but I just...It feels..." He waved his hands, "Like she was very important. It's too soon though! I think. Maybe I will see something more in the town?"
What was left of the once booming city was now almost completely sand and ruins. Buildings were ruined or crumbled and in their demise, filled with sand carried from the wind. The only part that seemed really untouched was the large Oasis that was the center focus of the town. It's bright blue waters were like crystal in the hot sands.
"It's just ruins...." He said a little sadly and reached a hand out to take a piece of cloth, most likely from the coverings of a market stall, its once bright green color was a faded wash.
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Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2016 1:20 pm
"Oh, no! That's not what I --" Denebola burst into laughter at how easily he'd offered and she shook her head, hiding her smile behind a gloved hand. "I can walk, it's fine," she assured him, patting his arm reassuringly. Walking across sand in her wedges were not preferred but she wasn't going to have him carrying her.
She had perfectly capable legs, if they sunk in the sand a little-- well it was fine.
"Maybe," she agreed, thinking of the time she'd take Remarque to her planet and she'd experienced flashed of memories with him on the platform. The location and person usually triggered things for her, she felt like it was safe to assume it would for Altais too.
"I wonder who she is..." she mumbled, more to herself than to him. Then, they reached the ruined city and his disappointment made her heart ache. "I'm sorry Altais," she whispered, drawing up close to him in case he needed her. "It's the nature of things. Chaos it...It'd devastated the universe."
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Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2016 11:03 pm
Altais held the piece of cloth a moment longer before letting it go, and watching it catch a breeze away. When he looked over at her, the same smile was plastered on his face.
"No no! I thought maybe...you know, perhaps I would find a whole city..." Not a ruined one, but the memories, literally were there and he just wondered about it all.
"She took me off the planet." He answered, as if it just came to him. "The girl. I think. I was trapped? I feel like I was trapped and lonely." He looked around. "I wonder why that is? Silly! To only have feelings and sometimes flashes." He wandered more before coming to a piece of something. "Oh..." He held it up for her to see. "It looks like it doesn't belong here?"
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Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2016 11:28 pm
"There's a city here, beneath the sand probably."
Mismatched eyes watched as the breeze carried the cloth away, transfixed upon the way it rippled in the air before collapsing to the ground in a heap and sand shifting over it. "Perhaps, with the more time you spend here--" she stopped uncertain about the information she was about to impart on him. She'd only noticed minor changes in her planet's liveliness the more she returns.
"Perhaps it will surface again. Sand is ever shifting, perhaps it will shift away instead of over."
Altais called for her attention and she gave it to him nearly immediately. "The life we lived before, it was complex--complicated." Sometimes her memory flashes filled her with joy, longing, happiness. Other times, she was filled with dread and despair. "Who knows what the expectations of your planet were."
This other life memory thing was tricky and sometimes Denebola despised it.
"What is--" she stopped, crossed the sand to place a palm flat against the worn wood. "There's an inscription--" her breath caught in her throat when her eyes traveled across a familiar name. It was hers, the other her.
The Dragonfly,
A ship named in honor of a dear friend, Elu
May it fly with all of the speed and grace of her dragonflies.
-- Crims
"Altais this ship-- it's...It was named after me."
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Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2016 11:46 pm
"Probably." He hoped that perhaps next time he came, the planet would bring itself a bright storm and whip all the sand away. But he kind of thought it'd maybe bring more.
Her hand laid against the wood, and he went about uncovering more of it. It was a long round piece, snapped a little from wear and tear but still he could make out what it was. "A mast!" he blinked, "For like a ship..." At her exclamation, he came back over and leaned down. There on the worn wood, still clear to the eye was the small inscription.
"You were Elu?" The way her name sounded triggered something and he brought a palm up to his head. A ship crashing, a garden. 'Do you trust me?', Fall into sand, the alley. Marketplace. 'repair the ship'...
Repair the ship? Was it this ship. The memories gave him a headache and he felt like he was being split into two. Just as it came to him, it left and the overlapping image of Elu, to Denebola was fading.
"I know her. She was important." He looked up at her, "She saved me."
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Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 3:12 pm
Her gaze was transfixed on the writing on the mast, something scribbled messily beneath it but with too much sand build up for her to be able to decipher it. Perhaps on their next visit they could bring a few cleaning supplies, something in her encouraged her to find out what it said. "There's something else--" she was cut off by his question and her head turned, hair falling across her eyes.
'Yeah, that was---" she trailed off, concern flooding her expression as she watched him wince from the flood of memories. She knew that look, she experienced it often when home. "I am Elu and Elu was me." Her voice was clear and certain until he spoke and her body seemed to crumple, legs giving out beneath her.
"S-saved you? From what?"
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Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2016 7:04 pm
"Loneliness." He repeated, and rubbed his head, working the knot of tension that suddenly clumped together. If there was more memories to be had, they did not decide to flood him again and allowed him to take a deep breath.
"Back then, I was like a caged bird. I could not leave. I could not see. I was often alone with no real friends." He tried to move over to her, but he still felt swamped with such gratitude and excitement.
Denebola looked shocked.
"I don't know about this ship yet...." He looked at the mast, "But...but we can come back." He came over to her now, holding out his hand. "They hurt. The memories. Is it because they come in such big clusters?" He wanted to understand. Would it be like this every time he came? "Elu, She crashed into the garden." He whispered to her, "She helped Al...Altais escape. He had no name. Just Altais. She called him Al." He smiled. "You saved me back then, and now look at this!" he could only laugh. "Do you want to keep looking? Or should we stop?"
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