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| Topic Started: Jul 21 2010, 12:46 PM (975 Views) | |
| Post #1 Jul 21 2010, 12:46 PM | Kyuu |
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The Soulful Garden, a place where Sabin had thought that would give him further enlightenment which in turn would enhance his Ki using capabilities. He was on a merchant ship with a woman named Rydia because he didn't have a ship of his own, or rather he didn't decide to buy one. Sabin was on the deck, looking up at the sky until they arrived at the island. Supposedly, the merchant was after the delicious foods and vegetation this island had, other than that he didn't know much of the island. Sabin imagined the island as a peaceful place with great wildlife, blissful scenery and a heavenly atmosphere which would be perfect for meditation and a bit of training. He yawned and sat up straight before finally getting to his feet. He approached Rydia, why was such a young girl traveling by her lonesome? It's a rather dangerous place, these seas. Sabin tapped on her shoulder "Excuse me Rydia. If I may be so bold as to ask why you're traveling by yourself? Soulful Garden sounds nice but getting there is rather dangerous." he questioned Rydia. Sabin's personality particularly shows when it comes to women in general, if he sees one traveling by themselves and they look vulnerable, he begins to worry and wants to look after them. |
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| Post #2 Jul 21 2010, 03:15 PM | Bug in a Bag |
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Holiday Leaned against the forward railing of the and searched his vest pocket for his smokes. He had just bought a pack before bartering unto this ship and he hope he hadn't dropped it anywhere. He really hadn't cared where the old ship was going as long as it wasn't where he had already been. Holiday had been searching for the right crew for quite awhile and toured the blues still looking. His next stop it seemed was some backwater island called the Soulful Garden. He noticed a few other people heading to the same destination , but he didn't care what they had to say. As he found what he was looking for he broke the seal and turned around facing the sea. Hitting the pack of smokes he put one between his lips and stroke a match his boot and lit it. He took a deep poof as the ship drew closer to the island. |
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| Post #3 Jul 21 2010, 08:02 PM | 火Isabella |
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As Sabin began to speak to Rydia she turned to him and listened quietly. She really did not know the man too well they had seen each other before once on this ship a day ago once they boarded. "I am traveling alone because my sister was kidnapped recently and people said they spotted her on this island. I have my own reasons to be here other than a vacation." The green hair woman said as she stared at the approaching island. They would hit the shore in just a moment. She smelt the smoke of someones and looks and saw who it was. She really did not mind the smell it reminded her of her time spending at the local bar back at home even though it was rather quiet there. Silent Island was such a bore. "I suppose you are gonna help me then right Sabin?" Rydia said to Sabin looking at him and slightly glancing at the smoking man. "And you Mr. Smoker why are you on this ship while we are all talking to each other?" |
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| Post #4 Jul 21 2010, 09:58 PM | Kyuu |
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Sabin was astonished, her sister was kidnapped and put on the island all by her lonesome. He wouldn't tolerate this, even though the island may be peaceful, or so he thinks, being in the wildlife by yourself is dangerous. "Don't worry, I'm right behind you. As a Blitz fighter, I've taken up an obligation to help anyone in need. I'm also here for a particular reason, I'm traveling to this island for spiritual and mental enlightenment. I need to have more control over my Ki as well as enhance it's power." he replied. He took a deep breath but it was tainted by the smell of nicotine which caused Sabin to cough away from Rydia and into his arm. He turned around to see who it was and it was another person on the boat. The man hadn't stated his name ever since they got onto the merchant's ship "Toxins like these are what taint the mind. So, what are you here for? Adventures, enlightenment? Talk to us so we can all get to know each other." Sabin offered. The boat then suddenly jerked forward, as if they hit the island already. He looked towards the top of the ship to see an island with a lush and healthy environment "It seems that we're here!" he told Rydia and the man who was smoking. Edited by Kyuu, Jul 21 2010, 10:00 PM.
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| Post #5 Jul 22 2010, 10:13 AM | Bug in a Bag |
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Holiday took a long drag off his cigarette just before they hit ground. He wondered why the captain had run them a ground when they could've just anchored off shore either way it was time to leave. As he picked up his duffle bag he heard some voices coming his way. He looked up to see a blond man and a green haired woman looking his way. As cute as the woman was he didn't feel like answering any questions. Vaulting over the edge of the boat he landed on the soft sand below only sinking in a bit. Shaking his feet free he started off toward the lush jungle. Hopefully he could find a crew and maybe the stories of ghosts were true. Where there are ghost there are things that they haunt, where there are things they haunt there is treasure. He started off at a slow pace into the greenery. |
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| Post #6 Jul 22 2010, 10:26 AM | 火Isabella |
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Rydia listened to Sabin and smiled at him softly, but he was a bit odd. "You really do not have to be so formal you know." Rydia said to Sabin with a smile on her face. She was not very big into this formal stuff. She looked at the beach as the other man went off the ship. It was a bit rude the way he did not answer either of them. Oh well, that was she lose. Rydia quickly got off the ship herself, "Sabin if you're gonna come with me, you might as well get off the ship since we landed." She said as she was in a hurry to get on the island to find Tina. She had a extra set of Tina's clothing with her just encase something had happened, like the wilderness of the island had ripped her clothing apart or something. Rydia began to head to the right side of the island. She had seen a opening in the dense plant life in that area, maybe it would give them a good place to start at. "Mr. Smoker, you wanna tag along with us? Maybe you can find whatever you are looking for as well." Rydia said to the man as she continued to walk towards the area on the island. |
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| Post #7 Jul 22 2010, 12:01 PM | Kyuu |
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Sabin laughed, Rydia had stated a good point but it was in his nature to act formally upon making a nice first impression "Alright, I'll try not to be as formal." he chuckled. If he was going to help then he should get off the boat. He went up to the edge of the ship and flipped off. As he landed the sand under his feet made a soft crunching sound, it was a rather satisfying sound since it was clear and crisp, no other external sounds hindered its volume. Sabin took a deep breath, the air that occupied Soulful Garden was clean. So clean that taking a single breath would keep your blood oxygenated for minutes, making fatigue come much, much later. After admiring the atmosphere, Sabin decided that it was time to get to work, after all he had a damsel-in-distress to save. He looked at the other man who was walking in another direction "Hey, we'd be much better off if we traveled in a group. Who knows if one of us needs an extra hand when in a dangerous situation." Sabin offered the man as he took a long, satisfying stretch. The area they were headed to had a small opening in the luscious plant life "This island is so majestic, just as I imagined it to be!" he said before his stomach started to growl. "Ugh...I'm so hungry..." Sabin began to look around and spotted a fruit hanging by a nearby tree, he quickly climbed it and plucked it from the tree. He took a swift bite, it had the texture of an apple but it tasted like a mango "Wow...This is great!" Sabin said before climbing the tree once again and taking whatever fruit it bared. He dropped back down and handed one to Rydia "You hungry?" he asked. |
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| Post #8 Jul 22 2010, 05:03 PM | Bug in a Bag |
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Still not responding to the cries of the other former passengers Holiday continued into the woods. The air was smell kind of dense and stale in the section he had entered though. It surprised him that it would be like this in a lush lively forest like this. He continued forward toward what he assumed was the center of the island. The only sounds he could hear beside the various calls of wildlife were the fallen branches he crushed under foot. About 10 minutes later the forest started getting so dense Holiday had to stop. He sat down on the grassy floor and took out another cigarette as he searched for his pack of matches he wondered how the other passengers were fairing. He finally found the matches and lit his smoke. He looked up into the canopy to see birds flying over head as the smoke from his cigarette floated up into the sky. He was sure to put out the butt when he was done before starting off again. He had to pull a machete out of his duffel bag so he could continue on his treasure hunt. he disappeared into the underbrush hacking and slashing his way toward the island center. |
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| Post #9 Jul 22 2010, 06:37 PM | 火Isabella |
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Rydia smiled at Sabin, it was a good thing he was gonna try to be less formal around her. It would make the atmosphere a lot less heavy and much easier to search for her sister who was definitely on this island. Rydia just knew she was on this island for some reason. Sabin had walked over and handed her some sort of fruit, she wasn't really hungry at the moment, but Tina might be when they find her. Rydia took the fruit with a, "Thank you very much I will save it for later." And started into the plant life cutting through the plants making her own path for her and Sabin to get to the opening in the foliage not to far in this direction. These plants where not going to slow her down at all. She knew M. Smoke could handle himself, or at least he acted like it with his silent treatment. Upon entering the clearing about 20 meters in front of them was a lump on the ground. Rydia looked at it waiting to see if it moved or anything. Then a small gust of wind blew and teal colored hairs waves in the hair. Rydia's eyes opened wide, she knew exactly who it was. "Sabin follow behind me but not too close." Rydia said rushing towards the person laying on the ground. |
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| Post #10 Jul 22 2010, 08:56 PM | Kyuu |
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Sabin nodded "Alright, when we encounter your sister, maybe she'll be hungry." he said while he ate another ango. That's what he decided to call them, angoes which is a combination of apple and mango, a suitable name for a fruit that had the texture of an apple and the taste of a mango. If this fruit had an actual name, then Sabin has never heard of it. The smoking man continued to not reply to their words, at this point Sabin barely cared what he did from this point on since his offers fell onto deaf ears. He looked away from the man and continued to follow Rydia. They ended up at a clearing approximately 20 meters from their previous location. But suddenly, Rydia stopped dead in her tracks, it seemed that she was looking for anything out of the ordinary in the scenery. Sabin stopped as well and began surveying the area until a gust of wind swept over the grass which revealed something that Rydia was interested in. What appeared looked like long, flowing hair. Rydia ordered him to stay behind her but to keep his distance, could it be that they had found her sister? Sabin followed her order and kept his distance while following her. "Is this her? Is this your sister Rydia?" he questioned her. Sabin didn't want to surround Rydia's sister due to the fact that it might surprise her if she were to see an unfamiliar face. |
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| Post #11 Jul 23 2010, 11:14 AM | Bug in a Bag |
| Holiday was starting to think that going alone had been a bad idea. An hour into his forest journey he was already crawling on his hands and knees hacking and slashing his way through. The low lying bushes had turned to vines and thorns about a quarter mile back. They were really thick so his machete could barely cut through them so he had started slashing a tunnel through them so he could still make it to the treasure. It was really rough at this point though and only getting worse. He was getting annoying cuts here and there from thorns he missed and there seemed to be a strange kind of insect living off of them that kept taking bites out of him. Even under all of that pressure he continued on undeterred. |
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| Post #12 Jul 23 2010, 12:57 PM | 火Isabella |
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When Sabin asked if she thought that was her sister, Rydia nodded yes, "Yeah without a doubt! No one else really has that color hair other than our family!" Rydia rushed over to Tina, who was unconscious on the ground. She was nude something must have happened. Rydia propped Tina up and slowly began to dress her trying to keep her out of Sabin's direct line of view. Rydia began to talk back to Sabin, but no words came out of her mouth. Tina's devil fruit ability was still active and she was still breathing so she was definitely still alive. Rydia finished getting her dressed and then laid her down on her back and brushed her bangs out of Tina's face. As she moved her hands off of Tina, "She is alright, sorry I couldn't warn you that she was nude, her devil fruit was still in effect." Rydia said beginning to explain Tina's powers. "She is a Mute Girl, anything she touches is mute and she herself is also unable to create any form of noise. Not even stepping on the ground creates noise when it comes to her." Rydia looked around the area, Tina's weapons where still here and her ruined dress was here along with some ropes. Rydia looked back at Sabin with a hand extended, "Can I have you bottle of water?" Rydia knew exactly how to wake Tina up, apparently Rydia could tell that Tina was actually asleep not knocked out by looking at her. |
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| Post #13 Jul 24 2010, 01:48 PM | Kyuu |
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Sabin's eyes widened "N-Nude? I was expecting some torn up clothes but...She's naked?!" he said in astonishment while he looked away. That was the last thing he was expecting, to find a naked woman in the wilderness, it really made him think about what went down. "What in the world happened here? Were her clothes that badly torn that she had to abandon them? Or was she robbed?" he thought. Sabin looked back to see Rydia's sister fully dressed, Rydia had told him that she was a devil fruit user, she had consumed the Mute Mute no Mi which made anything that she touched silent. On top of that, she can't make a sound herself "Mute Mute huh? That must suck...Not able to speak or make any sound whatsoever...Sounds like a life doomed to be silent forever...How does she communicate?" he questioned Rydia. She then looked back with an extended hand and asked if she could have the water that he had been carrying around around his waist. "Of course, I'd like to help in any way possible." he said before handing her the bottle of water "Is she hungry? Cause we still have some of that fruit that we can give her." Sabin offered as he took another bite out of his ango. But one thing crossed his mind, even though he had stopped caring about the man who decided to wander off, he couldn't stop wondering what he was doing in order to survive. The plant-life here is beautiful but dangerous, Sabin wouldn't be surprised if the man came across a poisonous plant. |
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| Post #14 Jul 24 2010, 08:25 PM | Bug in a Bag |
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Holiday was done. He was done wanting to be on this island. He was done crawling through the underbrush. With his mind full of seething rage Holiday was trying to free himself from the tangled mass of thorny vines that had him suspended a few feet off the ground. Previously he had been hacking and slashing his way through the forest on his hands and knees, but after all that cutting his machete got stuck midway through a vine. As he reached up to pull it free he had gotten his wrist tangled. While he had tried to free he just got more bogged down like the vines were alive. And so there he was trying to reach his blade to free himself but was finding it a bit harder it time he failed. His vision was starting to blur at intervals, and he had a small ringing in his brain. Something was messing with him bad and holiday was starting to think it was the thorns. He had gotten a lot of cuts and scraps. As his head dipped further down into darkness he really wished he had stayed with the group, and hopefully nothing was gonna make a meal out of him while he was knocked out. Edited by Bug in a Bag, Jul 24 2010, 08:27 PM.
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| Post #15 Jul 25 2010, 10:21 PM | 火Isabella |
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Rydia took the bottle of water from Sabin and smiled at him opening it before pouring it right on top of Tina's head causing her to open her eyes and spring up. She made a screaming facial expression equaling that of someone who was suddenly woken up without any form of warning. Rydia began to giggle at her sister's expression of shock, and handed the bottle of water back to Sabin. "Well Sabin, this is Tina Mist, my twin sister." Rydia said before she helped her sister up off her feet and stood next to her showing their resemblance. Tina stood up and smiled at Sabin and said something but no noise came out. Rydia giggled again, "Sorry she forgets not everyone is like me and knows exactly how to read lips. She said, thank you for helping Rydia find me." Rydia said giving Sabin a up date on what Tina had just said. Tina made sure her clothes were all on right and twirled around and looked at Rydia for her approval. Rydia nodded as she slightly looked at Sabin's arms from the corner of her eye. He did seem really strong and touch, he would be really helpful if something big attacked them. Then it donged on Rydia, "What ever happened to Mr. Smoker?" She said as she looked around. "Should we go find him?" As Rydia said this Tina nodded yes as she picked up her equipment, holding his pistol in one hand and her sword in another. She looked at Rydia and lipped something to her. Rydia then looked at Sabin and said, "TIna was in this field because there is very little plant life other than grass which is not that dangerous compared to the rest of the plants on the island. If whoever this man is gets lost in the plants too far he will get overtaken and possibly killed." Rydia said with a worried expression on her face as she grabbed Sabin's hand as she pulled him to follow Tina back to the area the ship was in. |
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