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Topic Started: Aug 4 2010, 05:54 PM (655 Views)
Nalani
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It was one of those special days were Hideaki had Sunday off from the warehouses and Nalani wasn't in the doctors for a check up. They had decided to spend it at the beach. It had been a long time since they were at the beach and thrilled Nalani. After they left the changing stalls, she had run up ahead to get to the waterline.

That's when she saw the lighthouse and stopped in her tracks. Hideaki caught up with her.

"Something wrong?" he asked. He had on a speedo and picked some tall grass somewhere to have dangling in his mouth. It waved about as he asked the question.

"Nope," Nalani said, now walking into the water in her school swimsuit. No matter what happened in the dark hour, today was her day with her brother and she wasn't going to let all that shadow business get her down.
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Clarent
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His objectives were simple: observe and make sure they finished what they had started a few nights ago. They knew so little though, so how could they possibly know what comes next? They didn't even know what it was that they were doing, after all, and had no one to explain it to them. On one hand, it seemed stupid, but on the other, it made sure they didn't know enough to start asking the bad questions.

"It wouldn't be so bad if this didn't feel so much like what they call babysitting." Clarent said to himself. His programming told him that the proper posture to take with his current "borrowed" position would be an erect, alert one; however, his overall personality processor translated nothing but boredom. So, he reconciled the competing signals by compromising - he slouched in the Life Guard's chair, but his eyes continuously shot back and forth with intensity. Every so often, he would focus on one particular girl that had just run out to the waterline.

The brother I could see, but her? The other two must be something, or the Group's going to have to release more than just one of me.
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"Hey!" Hideaki yelled after her. "You're forgetting your floaties!" He held up an inner tube

Nalani covered her face with her hands. "Nooooo! I'm too old for that."

He grinned. "I know, I'm just teasing ya. You shouldn't take everything so seriously." As he had approached the waterline too now, Nalani kicked up water at him. He moved the inner tube to defend himself. "That's more like it."

They laughed, splashing around in the surf.
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She awakens to something unheard of by most humans, and yet she's here splashing about with her brother. He rolled his eyes. I suppose complete devotion to their true purpose without even thought of recreation would make them machines. Clarent would have smirked if pretending to show the emotional capacity for such humor. Can't have that.

Becoming rather bored with the "observe" part of his mission parameters, and taking to heart his most recent musing, Clarent decided to depart from his current spot. Despite the great height off the ground his lifeguard's chair was, he had no trouble just jumping from it, and landed in the sand on just his feet. A little boy watched the feat from beneath an umbrella nearby, and merely blinked a few times as Clarent began walking toward the water.

Time to blend... slightly less.

With a small shimmer of light, the artificial pigmentation all over Clarent's body darkened a few shades. He pulled off his shirt and tossed it backward toward the lifeguard chair. The tan he now possessed was flawless, and covered every part of his body that could be seen. He seemed to be walking right toward where Hideaki and Nalani were splashing each other.
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Dougal
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This was one of the amazing things of being your own boss: the ability to look out at the bright summer sky, mutter 'screw it all' to yourself, close shop and go out to enjoy the beach.

Dougal tried to use logic to explain his actions: 'It's an extremely slow day', 'I need some rest to be in peak shape in the evening', 'I might even end up doing some studying on the beach', but, in the end, he was deceiving himself: the simple truth of the matter was that he just really wanted a break.

When he reached the beach, his glasses had already darkened to a shade that made the sun perfectly comfortable. As he walked on the warm sand towards the water line, already dressed only in his trunks, his other clothes a jumbled heap kept under an arm, he let his gaze wander towards the direction of the lighthouse.

'Rumors', he thought to himself. 'This town seems to thrive on rumors. Rumors about that place, rumors about the inhabitants, rumors about the school, rumors about the midnight channel.. hell, if I try looking around, I can probably find a bag full of rumors about me too. Rumors about the disappearances..' Between school gossip and drunken confessions, he had already heard almost everything that could be heard on the topic: every conceivable theory, from aliens to shapeshifting robots, passing through those who saw signs of the apocalypse and of the awakening of Cthulu.

He was starting to get sick of it, but something definitely was wrong in the town. He scowled, placing his beach towel a few meters from the sea and sitting on it. Perhaps it was time to move away and leave these troubles to someone else?

Dougal sighed, stashing away worries for another time and relaxing, leaning back, when something caught his attention. Didn't he see those somewhere already? At school, perhaps: he wasn't good with names, but had great visual memory for faces, and was pretty sure he had already seen the two teens splashing in the water, as well as the boy now moving towards them. He cocked his head to the side, looking curiously. 'Heck, I might even be in the same class as him'.

He considered his options, wondering whether to attract their attention or not: he wasn't sure he was in the mood to mingle. In the end, he opted for a wide wave of an hand: obvious enough to be seen, generic enough to be ignored if they didn't want additional company.
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The splashing war continued. Nalani was deeper into the water, having backed away from her older, college-aged brother's splash attacks. She was looking at the beach, and noticed movement behind Hideaki. There was one boy approaching them and then another waving.

D-d-do I know them? She asked herself in a panic. It looks like they know me. I know that my brains aren't failing me too... Doubt filled her. Nalani was going to fill really bad if she had gotten so caught up in her own situation that she started to forget people altogether in tandem with vanishing on them.

She put on a big smile and waved a bit too much back. It was like she was trying to wave the whole distance between Clarent and Dougal away. Hideaki of course turned around.

"Heeeeeeey!" he greeted; loudly. He turned back to Nalani and said in a voice that was only not shouting, "I didn't realize you knew so many boys."

Nalani would have pulled a face at him, but there were people staring now. Heat rose to her face and her smile strained a bit.
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[I was beginning to think you had ditched us, Nalani :P ]

Clarent's advanced slowed, and his head swiveled quickly. He noticed almost immediately that Nalani's eyes hadn't fallen only on him or her brother. There was some random guy waving, and Nalani was smiling at both the random guy and himself in the same way. He had also caught the playful remark by Hideaki, and began to muse a bit.

She doesn't know me, and she looked at the waving human with the same expression. She must not know him either. His head swiveled quickly again. Identity match: Dougal Quinn. He's that other transfer in my class. Clarent turned back to the siblings. One objective at a time.

"Hey," he greeted finally. It seemed a bit rude to shout across the beach at them, so he had waited until he got closer. "Nice speedo, by the way." The remark had been accompanied by a quick glance before his eyes settled on Nalani.

"Sorry to barge in on your fun, but I'm a part-time lifeguard on duty here." Clarent said. "Just wanted to warn you two that there have been some weird sightings in the water lately; especially around the old lighthouse."

His eyes filled with recognition suddenly, as if something just then clicked in his head.

"You're Kataoka Nalani, a first year at Takanaka, right? I'm Clarent a second-year transfer that just moved in a few days ago. You know Amaya, right? I'm in the same class as she is."
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The girl waved back, with all the frantic enthusiasm of someone who has no idea of who is it they're dealing with, but doesn't want to risk looking bad.
What really struck Dougal as strange was that the guy who was with her was waving with even more strength: he was pretty sure he had never seen him around. Boyfriend? Relative? No idea: the only thing that he knew was that he looked older than her.
Not that that was actually an accomplishment.

A hint of idle curiosity creeped in his mind, but he shook it off with a smile: it wasn't exactly a matter of life and death, and he'd know soon anyway, in just the time for introductions.

Dougal removed his glasses and nonchalantly left them on the towel, considering it safer than reaching the water while wearing them. His eyes were good enough to allow him to function quite well without glasses or lenses, but bad enough to give everything an undefined, blurred appearance when he went without.

He rose to his feet and calmly covered the last meters between him and the water, one hand hidden in the pocket of his trunks; he arrived just in time to hear the last part of Clarent's speech.

'Amaya?' He thought to himself. 'Isn't that the redhead in my class? So I was right, after all'.
Dougal smiled before joining in the conversation.
"..and I'm Dougal Quinn, classmate of his, at your service, here to flee from work in this bright, sunny day.".
At first he had planned to stop there, but he had just heard something interesting, and he failed at restraining his own curiosity. His eyes focused on Clarent, with a slight hint of seriousness tainting an otherwise playful expression.
"The lighthouse? So there is something true in all the rumors around that place? I hope it isn't the tentacled aliens, I don't enjoy uncomfortable probing".
Edited by Dougal, Aug 31 2010, 11:20 PM.
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{I'm just slow to reply}

Hideaki put his hands on his hips. "I can say the same to you. Very professional."

When Clarent first mentioned the lighthouse, she shot a guilty look towards it. Had the gob-shadows gotten out, and during the day? When he mentioned her name, her half-smile froze. How does he already know me? Some of the kids have been there for months and don't know me. I don't think I've even seen him before. A bad feeling was settling in her gut.

"Yeah, I'm Nalani. It's nice to meet you two." she said and bowed. Hideaki stuck one of the floaties on her pigtail.

"You're being to formal; this is the beach! Lemme go get our beach ball." Hideaki looked at Dougal. "You knock off the alien talk. You can't go saying that around girls with the art people put on the internet these days."

Hideaki left the three of them alone and from Nalani's lack of reaction it was obvious that she had no idea what he meant.

"Um..." She tried filling the silence. Her eyebrows raised. "Beach ball?" It was an offer to play with her and her brother.
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The guilty look from Nalani toward the lighthouse was all Clarent needed.

Target Confirmed.

He analyzed the tone in her voice, and then heard Dougal's comment about tentacle aliens. Her anxiety level had risen significantly, and anxiety would lead to paranoia, and paranoia to suspicion. Such things were inhibitory to his mission objectives, so he set about a proactive corrective course of action.

"Hey, don't be weird. Predators in the waters is a serious problem." Clarent elbowed Dougal. "Now she's going to think that all foreigners are weirdos that stalk people and think about tentacle monsters or something." He turned to Nalani, an apologetic expression in his face. "I'm sorry if we creeped you out a little; I can't really speak for this guy, but I like to get the low-down on all the interesting people in school whenever I transfer to a new one. Guess I'm a little eccentric like that."

His social conditioning told him to look as if he was holding back a snicker from the sight of the floaty attached to Nalani's pigtail. Then there was the offer of beach ball.

"I guess I could take a break; there's not that many people out here today anyway." Clarent smiled.
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