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Wielding; Modern Fantasy/Sci-fi
Topic Started: Dec 8 2008, 12:54 PM (2,898 Views)
Oracle
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Alacrity had never felt so rested, as if every care were gone and she was complete. It was during that blissful moment between sleeping and waking, that she realised Thane had never left her. Even as he slept, his mind had remained wrapped around hers. Stretching, her eyes still closed, she chose to revel in the moment, and not break the silence by speaking.

Good morning Thane. Somehow it felt too intimate, she blushed, and her eyes popped open. Scrambling out of the bed, she tried to remember when she had actually removed her shoes and gotten under the covers. Shaking her head, she let it go. She probably just got cold and crawled under the blankets.

Feeling a bit silly about her reaction, and not wanting Thane to pull away, she reached out again, Sorry about that. I suppose this will take some time to get use to. How about we get some breakfast and give James a call. Hopefully he can get his rig geared up before too long. I am a bit anxious about getting them stronger, soon. As much as I want to finish my joining to El, it might be more important to let them have the bliss.

That brought to mind the magic Thane had enthralled her with last night. It had been the same, yet different. It hadn't done anything to bring her and El closer together, nor had it caused her to change physically. Unless you counted being closer to Thane a physical change. This ability to communicate would certainly help during battle. It would give them a decided edge in coordinating their attacks.

Ready for waffles?

(( I am going to assume since Alacrity has let down her barriers, that you should be able to sense her regular thoughts, just slightly less than the ones obvioulsly directed to you the same as you do with Sirl. Until, and/if ever you let yours down, she will only be able to sense the emotions caused by your thoughts, not the thoughts themselves.))
Edited by Oracle, Feb 11 2009, 02:05 PM.

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James had been awake for a while now. An hour before dawn, he awoke, and had been on the phone with the various companies in the city. After some time on the phone, he found one that had a trailer that needed to be hauled to Alaska. Contrary to his usual practice, he didn’t bother to haggle, but accepted the standard rate without question. He would only need to drive over to pick it up. Also, he had been down to prep his truck for the cold environments, making sure he had all the equipment he would need to handle the harsher conditions up north.

He was walking back to the room now. It was about time to go, Alacrity and Thane would be waiting for them soon. He still found it hard to believe that he was involved in a war, things still seemed mundane, another haul, another trip, another paycheck. Just with a few passengers this time. But he didn’t voice his concerns though, lest Golion felt he needed to convince him by messing with his face again. Either way, he wasn’t fighting yet, and he didn’t plan to go to work on an empty stomach. He came to his room and entered.

“Hey, Aizel. You up yet?” James asked, coming into the room. “We gotta get going soon. How’s about some breakfast before we hit the road?”
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Slipping from atop his covers to touch his feet to the ground Thane straightened and stretched. It felt good to be able to sleep so fully for once, it had been a while since he had been that comfortable. The familiarity Alacrity seemed to feel in using the mental link surprised him, but it was much easier for him to cover his feelings than for her. He could feel her thoughts, if he focused clearly it was like hearing the voice of Sirl in the background, yet it was actually Alacrity. Somehow the intimacy of the situation felt wrong, her direct speaking in his head helped him to focus away from her thoughts. Yet he still found himself drawn back to her thoughts. His reply was easy, he agreed with her.
I believe you are right, it is important that they become able to defend themselves so that we do not have to defend them. If we can strengthen them then we can return to our own quest for power, alongside them. As for waffles they sound alright, but maybe we should try talking like normal people. It's disconnecting to speak in our heads.
He would keep the connection with her as long as she was in range, but the speaking in that way was mildly confusing when you were trying not to listen to a person's thoughts.
"I mourn that which may have been but will never be."

"Stupidity is a wound that bleeds forever; Intelligence is a blade that stays forever sharp"

"An armed man will kill and unarmed man with monotonous regularity"

"Nothing adds a little class to a sniper course like a babe in a Ghillie suit."

"You have the rest of your life to solve your problems. How long you live depends on how well you do it."

"Make your attacker advance through a wall of bullets. I may get killed with my own gun, but he's gonna have to beat me to death with it, 'cause it's going to be empty."
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Alacrity stiffened a bit when she realised Thane was struggling with her random thoughts. She did her best to shove them back behind a wall, but there were no more walls. She had nothing to hide from him, but she didn't want to agitate him either. So she imagined a new wall, one that protected Thane. It took active concentration to maintain, it seemed walls were easier to break down than build. Hopefully her thoughts were quieter now, but she doubted she could close them off completely again. Is that any better?

"You're right, talking it is, but I still want some waffles...with blueberry syrup, and bacon. Let's go, I'll call James from the diner." Walking closer, she wanted to reach for his hand, but didn't dare. "Thank you for last night Thane. I'm not sure what happened, but it was remarkable." For a moment she felt uncomfortable, not knowing what to do. It was strange feeling this close to someone, and yet still so far away. To break the tension she gathered the things she had brought in last night, and left the room to toss them in the trunk. The road was turning to slush from the melting snow. She took off across the street hoping to get inside before the icy moisture soaked through her boots.
Before she reached the curb, she came to a complete halt. "Thane, do you feel that?" She pointed down the street in the direction James and Aizel had gone last night. She could barely sense their two new friends, but not far away the others that approached were easy to read. They were anything but friends. Their rage was palpable even from this distance.
Edited by Oracle, Feb 12 2009, 04:41 PM.

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Aizel awoke with a jolt, startled by James's voice. Swaying his head in a seemingly drunken manner, the still hooded teen nodded and gripped the arm of the stuffed animal that caused him so much discomfort the night before.
"Yeah...I'm starving." He replied with a small smile.
To his surprise, the outline of the larger man was obscure and vauge. He began searching around the sheets for his glasses, finally finding them amidst the tangle of cloth on his bed.
"Ahh...right. I almost forgot about today.." He muttered.
When had Aizel fallen asleep?
Nibbling his lip, the boy contemplated on the events from the previous night. It had all been recorded in his mind up until the diner.
Things beyond that were hazed, obscured from even his own self.
It bothered him.
Prodding Calice, Aizel recieved only silence in return. The entity had shut itself off from communication, only sending the teen the vibe it was not upset.
"What are we gonna eat?"
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Known to cling and waste these t h i n g s______
____+P U C K E R up for heaven's sake
There's n e v e r been so much at s.t.a.k.e______+

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James looked at Aizel a moment, something about the boy seemed off this morning. He seemed like he didn’t quite recognize his surroundings, or even James himself. But this whole situation seemed slightly off to him still. Besides, he suspected that James must have had a rough life so far, given his statement last night about not knowing how to trust. James tried to put it out of his mind for now.

“Well, there’s a restaurant in this hotel, I was thinkin’ we’d get ourselves a couple stacks of pancakes before we hit the road,” James said. “You got everything you’ve brought?” He grabbed his suitcase of all his belongings and stepped out of the room. He paused, his feeling of disease persisted. It wasn’t just Aizel, odd as the boy was. He looked about himself, trying to find what was bothering him. Something was tugging at the edge of his perception. He stopped and listened, but it wasn’t anything he heard. He was…feeling something like his link nearby. Alike yet very different. It wasn’t really a link. More like a domination.

James! Possessors! Golion said urgently.

“Change of plans Aizel. We’ve got trouble coming. We’re going down to the truck right now,” James said, suddenly very serious.
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As soon as Alacrity managed to bring his attention away from the joined minds of the two of them Thane broke into a run. He could sense them and he could also sense their allies, the different feeling were so close they were muddling together. It was as if the new enemies were almost right on top of their new allies. Sirl screamed for speed in the back of his mind urging him to fill with the magic even as he ran. Yet Thane held it off, running through a town looking like something out of a fantasy novel would only attract more attention then they needed right now. It was crucial that they caught these people and took them down before they could attract unwanted attention to themselves.

In his mind he screamed the same urgency to Alacrity that Sirl screamed to him. It was as if they were all in the same head, yet separate, some more separate than others. Sirl calmed suddenly and began to laugh, he was enjoying this! The insane fey inside his head enjoyed running about in near perpetual danger, yet he still managed to stress his worry that they needed to save their new friends. Somehow Thane understood him, he would have felt the same way without the mildly crazed laughter in the back of his head.
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((I've got the enemies, that is unless one of you already had plans?))

Three men walked the halls of the hotel, each one garbed to rob the place. They looked as if they had simply been protecting themselves from the cold. The mismatched winter gear hiding nearly every inch of their skin beneath it. Yet the gear hid something much more dangerous than that, and as the men spotted their prey leaving it's room they each shed the clothes like skin.
Each creature had mottled skin, each one a different color. It was almost like scales but not quite, green, yellow and orange. If it were not for that they would have seemed normal, yet for people so barely altered the scented of strong magic. The three of them spread out, one climbing along the high ceiling and the others moving to sides of the moderately broad hallway. Each one ready to pounce upon the emerging pair of Wielder's.
Edited by Silvermourn, Feb 13 2009, 12:59 PM.
"I mourn that which may have been but will never be."

"Stupidity is a wound that bleeds forever; Intelligence is a blade that stays forever sharp"

"An armed man will kill and unarmed man with monotonous regularity"

"Nothing adds a little class to a sniper course like a babe in a Ghillie suit."

"You have the rest of your life to solve your problems. How long you live depends on how well you do it."

"Make your attacker advance through a wall of bullets. I may get killed with my own gun, but he's gonna have to beat me to death with it, 'cause it's going to be empty."
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Billy hadn't been attacked for several minutes. He could only assume that the other attacker had fled the scene, or met with his compadre and they were battling, but he couldn't sense either of them. Billy forced himself to calm down, and draw the energy back into himself. As he did this, alarms went off in his mind. The group he'd been trailing had picked up two new members. "Damn" thought Billy. " There's no way I can match up against four of them." But then he realized something else, they were being stalked by more. He didn't know what the battle would bring, but he knew there would be a battle. He rushed to his bike, hopped on, and sped down the road toward the immenant battle.
"It's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees." - Seneca

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Mind adrift in the sudden feeling that overcame him, Aizel shivered inwardly. Glancing toward the empty streets, laiden with snow, the male cast a sideways glance in James's direction and nodded.
"Possessors. I knew I sensed them."
Calice's voice echoed through the boy's mind, startling him. A shock compared to the deafening silence the entity had given him previously.
"The bad kind I assume.."
"Yes. Since this is your first time encountering them, I want you to be very careful Aizel. They'll stop at nothing to end you."
Physically he nodded, and zoomed past James. While the male would have preferred to wait, his senses were rampaging beyond anything he could control, and a sickening hostile feeling overcame him at the thought of the possesors attempting to do innocents harm.
+ _____s u c k e r love is known to s.w.i.n.g
Known to cling and waste these t h i n g s______
____+P U C K E R up for heaven's sake
There's n e v e r been so much at s.t.a.k.e______+

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One each of the strangely skinned creatures leaped towards the men emerging into the hallway. They moved with ease that was completely possible only in strong mergings and in the case of the possessors. The yellow flew towards the younger of the two, belching forth a thick cloud of yellowish smoke as it did. The orange leaped for the truck driver, simply attacking with hands that had formed into wickedly curving claws. Neither one stopped long enough to wait for their first attack to land before spinning away and out of reach.
The yellow creature continued to spray gas of some sort, while the orange continued to attack at melee range.
The green however stayed clinging to the ceiling, watching for the right opportunity to unleash it's attack.
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Thane kept running, stopping only as he reached the doors of the hotel to try and sense were within he would find his companions. Standing there he finally took the time to listen to Sirl's urgings. As always he was right, it didn't matter if people discovered them they needed to protect their new friends.
Suddenly he was there again every aspect of his transformation shining on his only mildly humanlike body. The markings which had once seemed like tattoos now pulsed as if liquid ran through them, colored streams that flowed across and through his flesh.

He wasted little time before barging through the doors of the hotel. Hoping that he would be in time he simply turned his strange gaze to those he passed. Any who met his eyes simply turned away, their own eyes glazed over as if they had never seen a thing.
"I mourn that which may have been but will never be."

"Stupidity is a wound that bleeds forever; Intelligence is a blade that stays forever sharp"

"An armed man will kill and unarmed man with monotonous regularity"

"Nothing adds a little class to a sniper course like a babe in a Ghillie suit."

"You have the rest of your life to solve your problems. How long you live depends on how well you do it."

"Make your attacker advance through a wall of bullets. I may get killed with my own gun, but he's gonna have to beat me to death with it, 'cause it's going to be empty."
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