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 Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2017 2:49 pm
Amazonite stood at the entrance to the Hall of Shadows, hands on her hips, and stared at Fangite. He didn't want her to be here, she knew that, but fortunately they were of equal rank, and so...well. There was nothing he could do to stop her.
"Are you coming with me or not?" She asked, blandly. "Because whether you're with me or no, I'm going into the rift and I'm going to try to find your boyfriend."
It was so much of what she'd heard for the year she had been corrupted. How much Fangite missed Natron, missed Kerberos. One of those, she couldn't do anything about, because the idiot had gone and purified, but the other?
It had taken time, and prodding both Airi and Fangite, and putting together bits and pieces, but as best as she could tell, neither of them actually knew for a fact that Natron was dead. There had been no body, only crystal. So, fine. She was going to take this into her own hands, if he wouldn't help her. It was time to bring Natron (or, she grimly supposed, his crystal-encased corpse, which would at least make a nice doorstopper) home.
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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2017 3:15 pm
In lieu of giving the Captain an answer, Fangite stood there and groaned. Why was he doing this. Why was he even was he even here??? This was pointless. This was all going to end in heartache and disaster. "You're just going to get hurt." He muttered, choosing to not comment on topic at hand. 'Or worse.' He thought to himself.
Between them sat Airitech, whose head bounced between the two as they talked.
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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2017 3:29 pm
Amazonite rolled her eyes and started on her way down. "Gee," she called back over her shoulder, "that would be really unfortunate, wouldn't it?" Part of her was tempted to whistle for Airitech and see if he followed her, but that felt a little insulting. Both to him and to Fangite.
"Of course, you could come with me! Make sure nothing happens! Be there when I drag your pretty paperweight out of the Rift! Or you can stay here and keep being miserable. Whichever."
She knew this was stupid and reckless, really she did, but in her heart of hearts she was also sure it was wholly necessary.
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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2017 3:36 pm
Fangite didn't respond to her taunt, only snorted. He scowled at her retreating form, eyes dropping down to watch Airitech look between them a few moments before getting up to follow after him. The youma's pace quickened some when Fangite's agitated growl rang in his ears.
"So when you get your a** kicked, or you DIE. I don't want to hear it cause Im going to stand there and say you deserved it. Or I told you so.""Probably both." Muttered Airitech as he caught up with the female Captain
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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2017 4:03 pm
"Yes, yes," Amazonite batted a hand in the air and kept walking, down the Hall and into the Rift itself, "that sounds very terrible. So," she turned to face them, "do either of you think you could lead us to where you lost him? We can start the search there, spiral outwards to find this youma's lair, and then we'll probably find him."
It sounded like a really, really, really good plan, too. she was pretty proud of herself.
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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2017 4:28 pm
The Captain continued to stare at her retreating back. This was the dumbest idea he'd been 'apart' of in a while. And boy had he been part of some dumbass ideas... When Ama asked if he was going to tell her where to being looking he snorted, choosing instead to cross his arms and look else where. He wouldn't be the start of this, he wasn't going to watch this all happen again. He's not going to show you. I remember were it is though. Vaguely." Airi mumbled, turning back to look at his Captain. "It might give you the closer you're looking for." Airi said quietly. "Do you really wanna spend all this time wondering what if?"Fangite sneered at the youma behind his mask. "I don't need to wonder about 'what if's'. There is no 'what if'. Gabriel is dead."
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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2017 4:51 pm
"Thank you, Airi, I'm glad that one of us is willing to make progress!" Amazonite said brightly. "Though, honestly, I don't think we should just leave him here."
So she walked right back down the Hall of Shadows and, this time, linked her arm with Fangite's and began tugging. "Come on, let's go, sunshine, don't you want to see for sure for yourself? What if he is still down there, trapped and alone? Don't you want your face to be the first thing he sees?"
She paused. "If that isn't persuasive, I mean, I can just pull you along, that's also possible."
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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2017 5:14 pm
"Progress my a**..." Came the quiet hiss. "This is backwards and pointless and you're going to get yourself killed." Fangite snarled, trying to twist his arm out of Amazonite's grip, before freezing at the pet name. "Don't call me that. Don't call me anything like that again." He growled. "He's dead Amazon. D-E-A-D dead. If we couldn't handle the youma in the first place, what makes you think he survived it? His connection with Airitech broke." He watched as the wolf youma flinched, ears flattening and tail tucking between his legs. With a sigh, Fangite quieted. "I don't want to do this. Mimsy, please... Don't make me do this."
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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2017 6:00 pm
Amazonite tightened her grip on his arm rather than letting go, and started walking forward down the Hall. "Alright, no more pet names, sorry!" She said, and then she exhaled.
"Look. We don't have empirical evidence that he's dead. We don't have a body. We have a broken youma bond, which is suggestive, but not concrete. What if he isn't dead? You said he was crystallized - he could be preserved in some way. And if he's still alive, he's going to need help." Her voice was soft, calming, not pushy or blithe. "Come on, Fangite. We have to do this."
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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2017 6:29 pm
"We don't have any evidence Mimsy. You're doing this on a whim. This is only going to lead to more pain..." And yet... here he was, not stopping here. "No. We don't." He mumbled. But on he moved. "I won't tell you where to go. You can't make me. So if you're going to go, you're going to have to follow Airitech."
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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2017 7:04 pm
"A whim and an insistence on scientifically valid exploration of hypotheses." Amazonite said, and she wanted to pat herself on the back for actually sounding like she had a good reason for doing this. "And I'd like to see you either stop moping or have a, you know, confirmed reason to, so that we can. I dunno. Put him to rest, properly." She shrugged her shoulders.
"Airi?" She said. "Lead the way."
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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2017 7:36 pm
"You're ******** mental..." Mumbled Fangite.
"He's always going to mope. Whether or not we find answers here. Don't forget there's always Kerbero---s**t!" The youma yelped jumping out of the way as a deer horn knife was thrown at him. "Rude..." The wolf muttered, before bounding off towards the caves.
"I should dust you where stand." Fangite hissed. "You better chase after him. He's faster then he looks."
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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2017 7:56 pm
"Yeah, probably," Amazonite agreed. "And look, we can work on the Kerberos iss -- hey!" She grabbed for her knife when Fangite pulled it off her belt, and then grumpily recalled it back to her hand.
"Let's go," she started running, still dragging Fangite along with her.
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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2017 8:07 pm
"No. We won't work on the Kerberos issue." Fangite said, suddenly turning on his attention on her. "I don't care if we're the same rank." He growled out, one of his hidden blades sliding out of his gauntlet and aimed at her. "There is nothing to work with in that 'issue'. You are not to go anywhere near him, do you understand me?" He growled, angling the blade at her throat. "Or else you will find yourself woefully unprepared for what happens next. Keep in mind, your existence in the Negaverse is easily changeable. Do I make myself clear?"
"If we're done threatening each other. We're not far..." Airitech said, turning to look back at the Captains.
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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2017 8:16 pm
Amazonite's eyes widened, and she put her free hand up in defensive surrender. She hadn't expected such a violent flip, but then, she'd rarely prodded about Kerberos - he was Order, Fangite loved him, it was all very tragic and Romeo and Juliet, boring. So, well. Perhaps she ought to have.
"Alright, alright. I'll leave Kerberos alone. Eesh," she shook her head.
It wasn't long before they were finally there, in the spot where, according to Airi, Natron had been lost. She tapped her fingers against her chin and considered the next step. "Alright, so. What direction did it come from? That'll be our next step, and then...hopefully we find its lair?"
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