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 Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2021 10:12 am
Helena had to be better so that the other side would want her. Or at least, that was how she had managed to interpret Mirzam’s words. So now she had a new mission, finding people to fight with in order to make herself a more desirable senshi so that she could go to the other side and live happily ever after in the arms of the woman that she loved more than anyone else.
A good goal.
When she felt the aura in the night, she moved towards it with purpose, eager to truly prove herself, but felt a thrill of delight when she saw that she knew the corrupted senshi that was before her. “Oh! It’s you! Are you warmer today? Will you fight with me? How is your sister?”
She smiled brightly, drawing out a foil covered chocolate shaped like a Christmas tree and holding it out to the male. “Here. As payment. But please. I want to get stronger so that I can be with her forever. She told me of it, you know. But she said that I had to be worthy. So worthy I must be. And I like you, and I know you so I hope you will help me!”
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Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2021 12:38 pm
Of all the things Cleeia had expected from meeting Helena again, this was not on the list. But he still perked up to see her, and smiled, and took the Christmas tree chocolate. Free chocolate was, after all, free chocolate, and frankly Cleeia had no complaints about that.
"Okay," he said unhesitatingly, "I'll help you. What do you need?" He tucked the chocolate into subspace to be eaten later, and stood up. "Just fighting practice? Because I think that should be pretty easy. Oooh, or are you pretending to beat me up?" That could be fun, a little spicy drama.
"Anyway, I'm fine and she's good, and once I got home after you helped me I was able to warm up pretty fast, so no lasting effects!"
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Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2021 1:39 pm
“No! I don’t want to beat you up at all, you’re so nice! I just want to learn my magic better maybe, or um. See how it works on you.” Helena smiled brightly, pleased that her friend was so willing. It was nice, this having friends…and.
“Oh! You and I can be friends too! When I come over, isn’t that how this will work? Would you want to be? You’re very sweet.” And he was the younger brother to her love so…obviously having him firmly on her side would be good when it came to getting gifts for Mirzam, right?
Holding out her hand, the senshi just beamed. “Wit’s End!” Sure, it would have been nice to warn him before she just used her magic, but he had agreed to help! And this was helping! Plus she had given him chocolate, so obviously that was what would forgive all of her sins. Maybe…the magic would get stronger the more she used it? Or should she be…trying to punch him or something…
…Eh. No. That wasn’t dignified.
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Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2021 1:46 pm
"We can definitely be friends," Cleeia said. It was probably good manners to be friends with your sister's girlfriend, wasn't it? He was pretty sure that was how it was supposed to work.
He was hoping for a "get ready," or something, but none came--just an attack that hit him out of nowhere and left him feeling dazed and puzzled. It almost felt like...like the opposite of what his magic did: he gave answers and then took them away; hers made you feel like they were out fo reach.
He wondered, briefly, what the wombo combo might feel like, if they stacked those on some poor idiot.
But he didn't take much time to think--not least because it was hard to do so. His fingers traced out the Yellow Sign almost instinctively, and he called "Dark Inspiration," flinging his magic at her.
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Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2021 2:22 pm
Her face lit up at his agreement to be friends, and then she was hit by his magic, and suddenly…oh. Helena had so many ideas...but she couldn’t…oh there were so many things she could do, she could…she could…
“Oh wow, that…that’s frustrating!” She laughed, but was making a terrible face, clearly unhappy. “There’s so much! I want to do so much but…I can’t get to the end of my ideas…” She huffed and let herself fall against him, sighing. “What are you the senshi of? I’m…The senshi of Wit!” There was a new sparkle in Helena’s eyes. It was so good to have a goal. So good to…finally feel that she was on a path that she could understand.
“It’s good for me, I think…we could really mess people up. If we had to fight someone. We could make them go mad…”
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Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2021 4:07 pm
Cleeia could feel Helena’s magic fading, and once he could pull his thoughts together again, he grinned right back at her.
“Isn’t it wild? Just a bolt of ‘I get it!’ and then nothing. When Mirzam and I use our magic in the same person, they usually get really stupid ideas, because she makes people want to cause chaos—Senshi of Bedlam, you know—so that’s always fun. But you and me….wow.” He grinned, and swept a bow. “I’m the Senshi of Inspiration, but as any artist can tell you….all the inspiration in the world gets you nowhere if you can’t act on it. And with your magic making people confused….oh, that’s devious.”
He started giggling, in a slightly mad way. This was truly wonderful, and at least Helena wasn’t mad at him!
“Would you believe,” Cleeia said, “I used my magic on a Captain so he could figure out how to get out of a bad situation, and he got mad at me because it ended. Because he lost track of what he’d figured out. How is that my fault?” He sighed, heavily. “Anyway, watch out for Captain Arsenolite, he’s a jackass.”
To say the least. That wasn’t even considering what his brother had said about him. He hoped Helena never ran into that particular person.
“Huh,” he tapped his cheek, “thinking about it, I wonder if there’s something Mirzam could give you? That you could show other officers, like a sign of being under her protection? Just in case you run into somebody who’s not as nice as us.”
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Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2021 7:22 pm
She wrinkled her nose, huffing at him. “That was very rude of him. It’s not your fault that he’s uncreative and oafish.” Obviously, Helena didn’t know this person, but if he was going to be angry with her friend, well. That was obviously cause for ultimate dislike.
The thought of Mirzam giving her something…well. She couldn’t just tell him that she had been given a few somethings from the corrupt…though…Helena doubted that she would ever be able to just…pull them out to show anyone else…number one, that would…be awkward. Number two…ah. No. They were private gifts.
“You should ask her! I love everything that Mirzam gives me…no matter how small it might be…” She grinned, pleased, and slightly exhilarated by all of this. It was wonderful that things felt this way…wonderful and different. Like she was growing into herself finally.
Helena drew another piece of chocolate out of her subspace pocket and opened it, taking a bite. “We should all hang out together sometime!”
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Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2021 7:36 pm
"Exactly," Cleeia sighed. "I'm so glad you understand. It was just terrible, the whole thing was a massive mess." He shook his head, and then stood up, stretching briefly.
"I'll pass on the idea. It'd suck if you got attacked by someone on our side when you're looking to join us, right? But I bet Mirzam can come up with something, so it'll be fine."
At least, Cleeia wanted to believe that it would be fine.
"Hey, maybe we can stick together for the rest of the night? Patrol together and see if we find anybody stupid enough to take both of us on."
It sounded like a fun idea, and a good excuse to spend more time with Helena, since he liked her. Cleeia had never had many friends--most people found Constantin offputting and unpleasant, which he usually classed as firmly Not His Problem--so it was nice to just...hang out with someone.
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Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2021 8:00 pm
She nodded, beaming and pulling out another bag of M&M’s, pressing them into his hands and pressing a kiss to his cheek. “They would be very stupid, I think! I’m going to head home and um. I mean.” She flushed. “I need to do some things your sister asked of me, but. We should hang out again! Next Wednesday if you’re not busy! We could meet here! I would like that, and I’ll bring you some more chocolate.”
Maybe she would try to make something with chocolate…especially with it being the holidays and all.
Hm…that was a good idea, and now…
Helena waved. “Be safe! Don’t fall into any more lakes okay? Take care of yourself, Cleeia!” And then she left, hurrying home. She had some research to do.
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