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 Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2024 2:12 pm
Valeria had been trying to get out more, to do more than just gather energy, but it wasn’t always easy, She worked a lot and had family obligations, because with a family the size of her obligation was a big part of life, but she was doing her best to get out and do what she could.
Tonight was a night out to grab energy, and perhaps take a starseed here and there from those she deemed it worthy of, she had gotten past the idea of killing if only because some people should not continue living. Some people were a blight upon humanity and harmed those around them, whether it be pimps or drug dealers, some people simply needed to be removed so others could heal and grow and do better. It was something she’d come to accept after her talks with Wolframite, and remembering past words from Zinkenite, the two had pointed her in this way and gave her the confidence to go this route.
She was, in a sense, helping people just as she did in her day to day life. It was just a different way of helping people…a way to give back to the community and to the city. To remove some of these people so others no longer suffered under them.
Perhaps it was her glamorizing what she was doing, wrapping it up in pretty packaging, but she knew what she was doing and she knew who her targets for starseed removal were. They were people who harmed others and brought the city, and the smaller community, down in ways which should not be allowed. Some of the clients of her victims would hopefully get help, she would find them help if she could, and hopefully some would get well and find their footing in society again. That was her hope now…to help brighten these darker parts of the city.
Heels clicked and long hair trailed behind her, like a banner waving behind her, the corrupt senshi kept to back alley ways as she looked for the dealers she knew lurked. She looked for the pimps and for the girls they controlled, she would deal with them as well, she kept a burner phone in subspace so she could make any calls she might for medical help, cops, or even social workers or anyone else who could help the victims of the people who ruined this part of the city. The drug addicted and the street walkers would get help and the pimps and dealers would find themselves in the morgue. It was what it needed to be in order to help this part of the city.
She was, as she went, grabbing energy here and there, her phone out as she called in someone who looked to be in very bad shape - they needed a hospital and they would get it. She went on moving, grabbing from someone else who seemed to be tripping as they stood there hunched over and rocking in place. She had a feeling it was tranq which they were on, and she hoped that by draining them a bit they might get some sleep. As she helped them to the ground her phone out once more, and in her hand, she was calling for help. She could sense order around…not too far off, let them come if they wished. She would deal with them if need be but she would not give up her set task tonight. She would deal with those who harmed others and she would help those in need tonight. If order stepped in she would deal with them in whatever manner was needed.
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Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2024 2:13 pm
Palmyra was patrolling alone tonight, even though he knew he shouldn't be, but he couldn't patrol with his wife and his brother was having a sleepover for some of the kids. With the kid free night, Mercy was getting some much needed rest and Palm was out of the house, leaving it nice and quiet.
He was honestly wandering and he wasn't even sure how he ended up this close to the redlight district, but it was honestly not a place he really wanted to be. Do many sideways things going on around every corner and not enough police patrol. He knew from Shang many senshi used the red light district for no questions asked healing, but he hadn't ever and likely wouldn't ever need to because of Shang.
He felt a darker or aura and headed towards it, unsure, but realizing it could mean trouble. He just hoped it wasnt another sea monster … youma in the alleyways. He turned down the alleyway illuminated by a flickering street lamp at the corner and light window on the upper floors of the building on either side. It was eerie, but Palm walked down the alleyway making his way toward the aura.
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Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2024 2:21 pm
Valeria could feel them coming closer, too close, they’d soon find her gathering energy and then what? Would they attack her? Order did seem rather keen on ordering people about, telling chaos what they were doing was wrong and lashing out. They seemed to condemn people like herself, to condemn what they did, and then fight them to somehow stop them from doing whatever they’d been doing. Like it would keep them from coming out the next evening and doing it again. It was all comply, do as you are told, or they’ll hurt you and force you to comply. No free will - just their will.
She wasn’t interested in doing what someone else told her to, especially when a threat was looking over head pushing her to do as told. She understood ranks and orders and that sort of thing, as it typically meant the person had experience and knew things, but those orders were not the same as order telling chaos what to do and fighting them over it. Let this one come…she’d deal with it when they inevitably decided to try and strike out at her.
She continued grabbing energy from the group of huddled up homeless people keeping warm near a vent for a twenty four hour laundromat, the place would keep them warm with the air it was blowing out. It made sense and perhaps she’d call to get them help as well - get them someplace actually warm and dry.
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Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2024 2:21 pm
Palm walked up on a scene he hadn’t expected and wondered if the people even noticed the woman. He of course could sense here, but the people in front of her didn't seemed the least bit concerned even though she was clearly touching them. Draining them.
It was honestly the first time Palm had ever seen it done. He’d of course gotten the same explanation from Maia and Shang as his brother had, but he’d been fortunate he guess … he hadnt even come across someone from the other side until this very moment.
“Do you really think that they can really afford what your doing right now? Stealing from them, robbing them of what little they have?”
His words of course drew the attention of the group, as sluggish as they were from the woman’s effort, being potentially pickpocketed was high on the list of things not to be tolerated, so they would now very much protest her being near them, her touching them.
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Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2024 2:22 pm
As the people she’d been draining from roused themselves, some able to get up albeit slowly, the corrupt took a step or two back. Her focus on the knight who had ruined what was a good evening so far. She had been going to call someone to help them, perhaps not even the cops but maybe a group which could provide them things they needed. She had been learning, over time, that many homeless did not like shelters because they didn’t find them safe enough and things were stolen. But some groups rather than getting these people into shelters would provide them with needs, food and blankets and other things.
She hadn’t been entirely sure who she would have called before leaving, though a group to help was more likely to case, but that was ruined as a few started raising their voices and she needed to deal with the knight as well as them. She wasn’t going to run, that wasn’t something she’d be doing tonight, but she did move away from the civilians and moved closer to the knight instead.
“How very amusing. You woke them so they can help you by out numbering me.” She spoke while approaching the knight, not the best of ideas but she trusted in her magic. “You really should be more polite than to interrupt someone working. Mind pause.”
Sending her magic towards them she did hope they’d fail in avoiding it, it was a possibility though, but if they did she had more magic she could throw at them. Something would hit eventually…even if it had to be a fist. She didn’t like the idea of physical violence, she wasn’t so very good at it, but if it came to it she would. Wolframite said she had a good punch…so why avoid it if it was ended.
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Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2024 2:24 pm
Palm frowned and shook his head, the girl was literally stealing and was now mad that he stopped her. It was truly par for the course there. She tossed something at him and whatever it was Palm wanted no part ducking to the side to avoid it.
“Seriously lady, you're treading on thin ice here,” he warned, fully willing to fight the girl if that's what she intended to push it to. Fighting was one of the things he could definitely do well. You didn't grow up having an MMA fighter as a brother and not learn how to fight. Not to mention Hali was likely to make him fight someone again if he got his a** handed to him, when he was younger. Though in Hali’s defense Palm was a pretty angry kid for a while and started much of those fights.
“I hope you dont honestly think I need the help of half drained,” he paused looking at them for a moment, “homeless people? No I can handle you just fine on my own.” He moved closer, wary thought, senshi had magic, all of them. He knew from Maia and Shang to keep an eye out for magical attacks, not that he’d seen any outside of theirs.
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Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2024 2:27 pm
“I may take energy but they don’t die from that, people donate blood and that leaves them tired as well. Homeless people, druggies, they give blood to survive and still manage.” Maybe not well but they still lived, till the drugs or something else caught up to them. But she wasn’t taking blood, she wasn’t jabbing a needle into them, no she was taking energy from them with a gentle touch. She would have even called for help for them, as they deserved, she was trying to help people in need while also gathering her energy quota.
Again she flicked out a bit of her magic, she wasn’t aiming for a physical fight but damn it…if she ran out of magic she’d have to. She still had some magic to go though. “Mind pause.” Again she was using her basic magic, she wasn’t going to use the heavier magic till she needed it, till the first got them, if at all possible.
“If you want a fight I’m more than willing.” She whispered, trying to sound as steady and serious as she could.
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Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2024 2:27 pm
Palm frowned when she tossed the magic at him a second time and he glared at her, “the key word there is donate,” he said dodging the magic a second time very wary of being hit with whatever it was. “Did you ask them if they were willing to donate their energy … no you're taking … stealing and trying to justify it. It might not hurt them, but what keeps you or someone else behind you from doing them further harm.”
He balled his fist continuing to get closer to the senshi before smiling and nodding, “If its a fight you want, its a fight you’ll get.”
He charged and struck out with his right first, aiming for a kidney shot. Being as close as he was, he needed to hit her, because he was worried about the magic he might be able to dodge so close to her.
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Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2024 2:28 pm
So she was supposed to ask? How exactly does one ask for energy? You’d first have to explain things…to homeless people and hope they understood and than were able to even agree. Did this knight for some reason think that explaining everything would actually be believed by anyone? She really was tempted to ask, to question this knight's actual intelligence on this, but instead she was trying to back away from them as fast as she could.
They were suddenly coming at her swinging and while the hit wasn’t solid it did still connect and send her back peddling further. Pressing her hand to where his fist had hit the female corrupt. At least he was doing something other than complaining and trying to convince her of how wrong she was with gathering energy. Kicking at him, since she wasn’t interested in getting too close to the knight, she was hoping to catch him with a heel.
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Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2024 2:29 pm
Palmyra was quite happy to see the senshi chose to fight physically as opposed to throwing more magic, but he momentarily forgot the ranking. This girl felt stronger than him … her aura was more and so that meant, physically she could pack a punch. It caught him by surprise when he caught her heel and made him gasp.
He didn't have time to really catch his breath and he simply pushed through … no pain no gain, so to speak. He stepped forward and swung his leg hard aiming for her ankled wanting to knock her off her feet. He put as much power behind it as he could even though the pain from her kick persisted through the movement. He’d be fine, nothing he couldn't handle.
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Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2024 2:29 pm
Taken by surprise, that he’d recovered that quickly, she felt the ground go out from under her feet - and met with her a** instead, Landing on the ground with a thud, and a yelp, the corrupt was a tangle of hair as she glared up at him. That was not what she wanted, not at all, she was hoping this one would back off. But she was ready to fight this one.
Taking a heel off her foot she decided to make it into a weapon, or rather more of a weapon than it already was, by throwing it right for the knight.
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Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2024 2:30 pm
Palmyra was hit in the shoulder with a heel and he stopped blinking, looking to his shoulder then the shoe on the ground. He started laughing genuinely amused because he was not expecting it and was in a bit of disbelief. “Did you just throw a shoe at me … like a drunken couples argument?”
He was really laughing now picturing it before he kicked the shoe to the side and smiled moving toward her. He was just a page, but he learned to fight as a preteen and had been fighting his whole life. Fighting was something he knew and well.
“You’ll have to do better,” he said, moving to throw another punch at the senshi with a smirk on his face. “Maybe next time you’ll learn not to take things that don’t belong to you, especially from some of our most vulnerable.”
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Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2024 2:31 pm
She might have thrown her shoe at him, hoping the hell would do something, but she also was planning a follow up. She had been holding back, using just her basic magic, but she had him in close enough to perhaps hit him this time. She didn’t need to keep missing and having him avoid her magic. She’d exhaust her magic and have nothing left to use.
“Perhaps you should open your eyes a bit and pay attention more - to think for yourself.” She spoke right as his fist came for her and she was flicking her magic at him. This time she was going with her stronger magic - her super magic.
He was like so many others - blind. He simply saw energy being taken and nothing else. He only cared about that and black and white, right and wrong. Any doubt she’d ever once held for what side she was on, anything which had made her even consider order, was gone. Taking energy from these people was painless, and considering what most of them went through it was a good thing, and it might even give them a peaceful nights sleep away from whatever might haunt them in their sleep. These were druggies and others who suffered from various things…people who needed help and she did give it.
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Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2024 2:32 pm
Palmyra couldn't move, already committed to the action of punching the senshi, so the magic hit him. It mattered very little, his body was in motion, so while his mind blanked out his body followed through. He frowned, unsure what he was doing or why, but he'd clearly been trying to hit this woman. He frowned and tried to shake his head clear. This felt weird, so very weird and wrong. This was wrong and he shook his head again trying to shake this. “What … what … did you do?”
She was going to regret whatever she had done.
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Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2024 2:33 pm
She was in the middle of attacking as well so his fist still struck her across the face, she had no way of avoiding it because she’d needed to use her own magic. The fist to her face sent her head to the side, she would no doubt bruise from it and need to cover it with make up, as she turned back to face the knight.
“That is a gift - from me to you.” Standing, slowly, she moved her hair out of her face and swept it back behind herself.
“You really should think for yourself…” Shaking her head, almost sadly, the corrupt took another step back before teleporting. She’d put distance between them, a lot of distance, and continue on with her night of gathering.
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