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 Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2018 2:04 pm
It was the first hunt with the general since they had....had the....thing. Since she found out about the general and his affliction caused from the extended disappearance. The issues he had with the corrupt senshi. Dia...and Prissy had been working the hardest with him, both in support and normalizing the not so normal.
In fact, all of the wolf pack was trying their best. It was hard, she thought, when they were all some form of broken brought together, but they were making it work in a way. With Trey and Fafnir as the newest addition, and another corrupt, Adamantine needed to step up her...duties.
That meant facing the reaper at his fullest and not backing away, though every fiber in her body responded with flight. To run away where she was safe from the instantaneous turn of him against her. She was wary.
But she was trying. Her distance was kept a good distance away from him, and she mimicked his slide from shadow to shadow. The goal, it seemed, was to remember that she could and should patrol with her general.
"Where are we going General?" She asked as politely as she could, as city faded away and they were entering empty residential warehouses. The last time she had been this far out, he had shown her how to use her surroundings around her, and use whatever skills at her dispose. Perhaps it would turn into another training session.
Perhaps it would just be talking.
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Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2018 11:19 am
Some days were easier than others.
It was a side effect that Labyrinthite was no longer certain was temporary as more and more time stretched on after his homecoming. He had been working on it, of course he had because over half of his wolves were senshi and he couldn't continue to be a very really and very deadly threat to the people who relied on him, but progress was slower than he would have liked and there were more bad than good days.
Still, there was progress and he had to take what he could get sometimes even as it aggravated him.
Chaos crawled beneath his skin in a manner that left goosebumps along his skin, hidden by the length of his sleeves and the cloak he never seemed to be without even when it hindered him. Up, his hood was drawn, over his eyes as he stepped with his stardust senshi in tow.
"There is no clear destination tonight," he admitted, glance at her from the corner of his eye before he exhaled. He seemed to debate something but then he was shaking his head. "But I used to train others, out here, among the warehouses many moons ago."
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2018 8:12 pm
"We do not have prey to hunt tonight?" That had surprised the senshi more then she had thought, especially since it had been a long time since she had truly hunted with the full might of the pack in tow. She wondered, when they were all brought together, what sort of havoc they would wreck together.
Instead, the shake of the head, noticeable only because Adamantine was watching her general with all the intensity she could muster, she spoke again.
"Not just I, of course, others." She waited, "General, are we going to train?" She hadn't told Dia where they would be going, but the communicator was not far from her hand this time. Should she need assistance from the eternal or even general Zircon.
"Or are we going to talk?" Talk was something rare, even between the two. Once upon a time, they didn't need words to understand. Chase just knew. Now it was different and Adamantine wanted to understand more then ever, the new man and general she was learning about.
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Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2018 9:57 am
Do we not have prey to hunt?
An echo of Adamantine's question was present in his thoughts, growled out by the beastly side of him that he struggled with more than he would ever openly admit. "The night is young," he answered instead, focusing on the sound of his boots against the pavement, "perhaps something will come to us."
If they did, he hoped it was a knight instead of a senshi. His control was a fragile thing these days and he was not keen to risk someone close to him .
"Talking is preferred," he admitted as his steps slowed and he cast a glance back at the senshi. "We are without a mediator, but there are things only we can fix."
Like their relationship.
"Let's start with, what happened as you know it in my absence?"
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Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2018 8:12 pm
She almost hoped that something did, and that at the same time, nothing did. She did not know how to hold herself against the general now, and each step they took was an awkward reminder of the space between them.
She didn't think she could stop the alpha if he decided that one prey was not enough, and to sink his blade into her skin. The gleam of the moon shape blade still fresh in her mind.
Her gaze met his, surprised lingering under the emotionless features before she nodded. She did not nervously swallow, but her gaze unfocused for a minute as she collected thoughts.
"Tourmaline had said you disappeared." She waited, "And that one of ours had turn traitor. The traitor knew what happened, but I could never find him."
She laced hands together, her brow furrowing. "Our pack.....it dispersed. I was alone, but I remember you mentioned someone." She nodded, "Someone that could help me. Alkaid. I stayed with her for some time. Trained. Learned. We looked for you in the rift....."
She sighed, "We found nothing but a youma that spoke riddles and nothing of what had become of you." She raised her eyes to him. "I only knew you were in the rift. I did not know why or where or how."
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Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2018 2:08 pm
He was quiet as he listened and kept his distance. The more space between them the better, even though he knew he could have easily closed it in the blink of an eye if he desired. It was a false illusion of safety, a barrier he constructed to give them both more of a semblance of control.
"Things happened, my departure was sudden and unplanned." But not unwarranted, though he didn't voice that thought aloud.
Shame was something Labyrinthite did not handle and therefore he didn't expose such feelings if avoidable. "If he did not speak, it was because he was following orders." It had felt so long ago and there was a part of him that was weary if he thought about it too long.
They'd been a strong unit, with more passion and impulsive than could be contained without him, and he had feared what would have happened had they'd known the truth.
Pack bonds had been strong things then and now there were barely wisps between them, kept only the loyalist. The ones who could weather the changes in him that had manifested that he couldn't control.
He knew of the youma that she spoke of and it brought the corner of his mouth upward. "That youma is full of lies."
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Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2018 7:19 pm
"Followed orders and then betrayed us by leaving." She didn't know how to express that it didn't make sense to her. What did Aluminite know that she wasn't allowed to know?
When did she not get to know things about Chase and Laby since he knew everything about her? It felt unfair and cruel, and yet she did not feel like leaving his side or the pack they had made anew.
"It did not give us much." She agreed with the youma of lies and then looked away, "But it was the only hope we had to find you. Even Alkaid was...."
She wasn't sure how to describe how the senshi general felt....because Alkaid was a one of a kind senshi.
"Worried."
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Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 9:56 am
Toying with the singular glove, Labyrinthite thought for a long moment before he said anything. "I don't know his motivations," he said slowly, "but Aluminite cared, in his own way about the safety of the team." His tongue ran along his teeth.
"We all make mistakes when under stress or delusion." He was a perfect example of such things, though he was unlikely to bring such things up unless he had to.
He had been young and reckless and then thought himself above others to the point that he wouldn't be held responsible for the actions he was doing. It had been his folly and he had suffered for it.
"Alkaid is usually the one to go missing, I have never been unreachable by her except then." Even when they were at odds he always responded to her call because they were better as a unit, no matter how much of their old-selves they dredged up. "The situation...it shouldn't happen again."
Labyrinthite was certain he wouldn't be foolish enough to make the same mistakes and...now the only one left to pay the prices of them were himself or the very team he'd been desperate to protect. "I never meant to leave you or the others, but some things are better left in the past. I want to move forward Adamantine, will you move forward with me?"
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Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 6:53 pm
"I see." She didn't dwell on it further, If Laby didn't want her to focus on it, she would tuck it away, to disappear into the abyss. It was not her place, she thought, to question the general or former subordinates. It was not her place, she thought, to be anything more then a wolf in the pack.
"If it does." She said, her voice monotone and straight to the point. "I will not be so hesitant or weak. I will find you in the rift, or wherever you have gone." It was a fact. She would not fear the rift any longer, if it housed her general deep within it.
She could feel the change in her soon, something bubbling. The protectiveness she didn't know she had.
"If it means I get to stay with you, then yes." Adamantine looked over at her general. "That's all I ever wanted."
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Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2018 11:16 am
"The Rift is a place that does not make sense," he cautioned. "It is particularly unkind to your kind." There was a swell of pride in his chest from her determination. He appreciated it, even when most of him remained vacant.
"Worry not about that hypothetical, little star," he continued, tongue slipping out to wet his lips. His hands lifted and he pushed back his hood so that he could run fingers through the pink that offset all of the dark colors about him. "My care is not your concern. As your general," he paused, thinking more privately as the alpha, "it is my responsibility to ensure that you are equipped to handle things and that you serve Metallia and our queen properly."
He wondered if he'd view himself as anything other than Metallia's knight.
"If I ask you to leave, it is only for your safety," he reminded her, shoulders rolling as he tried to reorient himself, ignore that gnawing hunger that looked at Adamantine and said destroy. "And it is temporary. You, the others, you're mine. And I, yours."
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Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2018 10:43 am
"I remember." She looked away, "That I could not walk with Alkaid and even then." She crushed a hand in her gown. She hated the limitations she suffered, here and now. She hated that it practically useless of her. Unlike Dia, she couldn't protect herself or others. She couldn't fight others without damage. She would, she thought, turn this around though.
The life given to her by Laby, when he had taken her from the deep pit her father dug for her, was a new life. She needed to start acting like it.
Her gaze drew back to him, and it was a different view of the reaper. The solider of Metallia. She was almost jealous of his devotion to the queen, when her devotion heavily outweighed for him. Perhaps she would talk to Alkaid again, to serve the queen as dutifully as Laby did. Perhaps Alkaid could show her a way to be able to walk the rift as well, should the need ever arise.
His gaze on her sent a small chill down her spine, like she was avoiding the teeth of a monster just barely and she breathed in. "Yes General." She didn't step closer, as it would be a fool's mistake to aggravate the contained beast inside him.
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Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2018 11:00 am
"Even my kind do not fair well in the Rift," he admitted, thinking of the time when he'd joined a group for a venture and things had gone wayward quickly. "I have been around a long time Adamantine," he said, sounding pensive. "No one is like me, despite how they pretend."
Of that he was confident.
"But no one is like you either." Labyrinthite had stopped walking, allowing her to get some distance ahead of him so he could watch. "I would not have picked you if I didn't think that you were worth it."
Even know he didn't know if he regretted bringing any of his former subordinates into the fold. There was one, who was a little more unrestrained than the rest but he had seen potential and that had been enough.
"When I am...better, we will arrange a combat training session."
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Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2018 11:19 am
A small part of her swelled. She had been one of the original members and that stood for something. She had to believe at the end of the night, Laby was true to his words.
It was time, she thought, to put what happened away. She kept walking ahead, and she didn't look back. She knew he was there behind her. Watching and waiting and contemplating.
"I would like that General." She looked over at him now, and while she didn't smile, the small joy he had offered her was all she needed to reassure herself to him.
"Perhaps I will have something new to offer you." She smirked, just briefly, a mirror image of the young pre-rift Chase. With that, she stepped off the building and began the hunt they were meant to do.
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