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Post by Azul Eyes on Sept 12, 2007 20:14:43 GMT
(Selphie)
She looked at Squall with a small smile. "Yeah, until we find them," she repeated, almost to reassure herself. The brunette looked at Squall again before running after Rinoa and her new friends.
"C'mon Squall!" she yelled over her shoulder. "Slow-poke!"
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Ink
SOLDIER First Class
Jashin's going to smite your arse. Smite! SMITE, I say!
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Post by Ink on Sept 12, 2007 20:23:42 GMT
Oooh, that's cool. I think it's a really good idea.
The young blonde wiped a hand across his face and nearly gagged when he felt the slime smear over his cheek. Closing his eyes he tried to overcome the malicious nausea he felt, without success.
"What is that thing?" he squeaked, prying one eye open so he could look at Balthier. When he saw the goo running down the older man's arm, though, he had to turn around to prevent throwing up. Panting hard, one hand over his eyes, the other one clutching his stomach, and still facing away from Balthier, he spoke in a low, nervous and whiny voice.
"Can we... please go now?" He was not one to beg, usually, but this was just too much for him. Of course he was no stranger to blood, or intestines, or even brutally mutilated corpses, but this... he had never seen anything as disgusting as this.
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Post by Captain Wee on Sept 12, 2007 20:40:44 GMT
(Cecil)
Cecil started to approach what looked like a dilapidated coliseum. She's in there, I know it. If anyone gets in my way, I'll kill them. No one will keep me from her. I don't care who they are, I will find you again Rosa...
He ventured inside and soon saw what appeared to be a man clad in red and a teenaged girl. The Dark Knight unsheathed his sword. So they are the ones who have her. I'll make them pay.
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(Reno)
"Ok fine we'll stick together. Want to use the Buddy System too?" Reno teased.
He took out a gil. "Heads or Tails. Heads we go left, Tails we go right."
Reno flipped the coin.
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Post by Dramaya M. Murasaki on Sept 13, 2007 1:01:58 GMT
I think it's about time I started Yuna off, now that I actually have time to make a post...
(Yuna)
To Yuna, standing at the edge of one of the cliffs beyond Besaid's village, the day had appeared to be perfectly normal-- normal, at least, for her days since the end of her pilgrimage. When the bright blue light had begun to arrive, she had thought it was merely the sun shining a little more brightly than usual. However, shielding her eyes from the sun, the supposition was quickly replaced by fear at realizing what was really happening.
Uncertain if anyone in Besaid had seen this extraordinary phenomenon, Yuna had taken to her heels towards the village, determined to warn them before it was too late. She barely had a chance, though; she had only taken a few steps before the light had begun to shine blindingly brilliant from everywhere, and finally grew so bright she fell to her knees. Still extremely dazed and nearly paralyzed, she had thrown her arms over her head to shield her eyes from the light, which now seemed to simply consume her. But, to Yuna's amazement, the light soon ceased to shine through her eyelids, and though it was a few moments before she lifted them again, she finally did to see what devastation this light might have caused.
To her further surprise, everything looked virtually untouched, although Yuna still had a gut feeling something was amiss. For one, it had grown deathly quiet; she couldn't even hear the screeching of the seagulls anymore. Anxiety rising in her heart, she picked herself off the ground and dashed toward Besaid as fast as her legs would allow. Yet, the moment she had set foot in the village, her worst fears were confirmed: there was simply not a soul to be heard or seen.
"Lulu! Wakka!" Yuna finally cried, unable to stand it anymore as she rushed into the village. "Kimahri!"
Her desperate shouts, however, echoed in the uncanny silence, deafening on her eardrums. Nothing stirred in response to her calls, not even a dog. Yuna stood there, frozen, in the center of the village, until she wrenched herself away and hastened rather fearfully to her tent-like hut, where she lived with Lulu and Wakka. Deeply dismayed to see neither there either, she now picked up her Celestial Weapon, the Nirvana, which leaned against a nearby wall along with a myriad of other weapons. If there was any time to be unarmed, this was not it.
Meh, not my best work, but it'll do. Also, I like Fear's idea of everyone who was otherwise obliterated being turned into monsters. By the way, I asked this over in the FAQ thread: can I play Kimahri as well, so Yuna's not alone in reaching the others?
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Post by fearandloathing on Sept 13, 2007 15:57:27 GMT
Sure, yoink anyone you want...except Basch of course he's goooneeee.(Balthier)It was a massive understatement to say that the pirate was a little shaken by this. He was horrified. Nothing had prepared him to see that...that thing. But when Treyia's badgering eventually hit home, Balthier managed to snap back into reality and started to wipe away some of the slime, although he kept hold of the 'potholder', squeezing it tightly in hs fist and wondering what other atrocities this place could throw at him and his new compainion...who he was beginning to value just as another source of life. "Say..." he said upon turning his back to the...' Captain' and continuing onwards, Treyia hanging just a little behind him in case of any more 'creatures' - while Balthier prayed to every god he knew that they wouldn't encounter any more of them, especially not one containing a 'minimalistic' suit of armor...or gods fobid that tiny stretch of fushia fabric that the princess passed off as a skirt. Although he realized that Ashe probably didn't wear that 'enchanting' number anymore, not now she'd become Queen. Which then reminded the pirate that he still needed to return her blasted ring, he immadiately raised his hand and checked that the band of silver was still securely on his finger, which thank Occuria it was. "She can't end up like the Captain..." He muttered forebodingly under his breath, noting the sound of Treyia shuffling the cards behind him, giving off a sinister chuckle from time to time as the cards flicked back and forth in his hands, "I have to give her the ring. She can't be like that...she won't." He began to wonder why he was so concerned for the princess as opposed to his worry for Fran...perhaps, he thought, it was because he knew Fran would be alright: The Viera wouldn't let herself be taken, she just wouldn't. Because if she did he would be likely to lose every bit of sanity he had. "Did you have any others with you, Treyia...I mean, where you came from, is there anyone you... dammit," he muttered in fustration, unable to find the words he sought, "Where are you from exactly anyway?"
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Post by Sylla on Sept 13, 2007 15:59:49 GMT
(Ack! Why is it that everyone posts all at once while I'm gone?!)
--- (Rikku)
Rikku was still looking at the floor and trying to get her face down to just fire flan pink instead of Bomb red when Auron told her he was going to look around. She jumped and made a split-second decision. Well, she thought, kind of a no-brainer anyway.
"Wait, Auron!" she said. "Um... I'll go with you! I mean," she elaborated, "You never know when you'll need an awesome Al Bhed mechanic thief, do you?" She grinnind broadly. He appeared unamused, but then again it was hard to tell when half of his face was covered with a freaking huge stupid collar! It almost seemed as if he knew what he was thinking, though, because he threw at her what she had come to think of as 'the Auron look'. She rolled her eyes, and he turned to march away.
Then there was another sound, and for some reason she was suddenly clutching the back of his coat and trying to make herself as small as possible. Wait, how did I get here? she thought distractedly. Suddenly Auron tensed.
"Umm..." she was about to say something- anything!- when someone stepped out in front of them.
--- (Aeris)
"HEY! HEEEEY! Up here!"
Aeris looked up at the shout, and saw... well, she wasn't precicely sure what it was she saw. It looked like a human, but it sported some sort of tail.
"Zack," she gasped, "What is that?" The whatever-it-was waved jauntily at them from its perch high up in the tree's branches.
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Post by ladyvaltaya on Sept 13, 2007 16:07:55 GMT
Zack looked up at the smiling... creature and then he grinned at Aeris. "How would I know? I've never been here before. I suppose you want me to jump up there and find out?"
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Post by fearandloathing on Sept 13, 2007 16:16:31 GMT
(Zidane) + (Squall and Rinoa)
"Yeah! Hey!" yelled Zidane as he made an insanely proportioned jump and nearly landed on a tall man with crazy black hair. "Thank gods for that...I thought I was the only one here!"
More and more people started to arrive after the woman in pink who'd seen him, there was that spiky-haired guy, a girl in a yellow dress, another girl with black hair (this was obviously his lucky day) and one more guy with a very freaked-out look.
"Um...so where exactly am I?" Zidane inquired, then with a cheeky look at the girls around him added "any of you cuties happen to know?" then the next thing he was aware of was a sword against his throat.
"Don't!" the younger-looking of the two guys stated with a really threatening expression, "Don't even..." luckily the lunatic was quickly interupted by the black-haired girl, who pounced on his sword arm and pulled him away.
"SQUALL!!" She squealed angrily, "Calm down! You can't pull these stunts whenever someone compliments me!" the worked up SeeD turned his face towards the girl, and something seemed to transpire between the two of them that cooled him right down. Then Rinoa reached up on her tip-toes and gave Squall a light peck on the cheek, which caused a slight ripple through the group - as Zidane realized why this guy had exploded on him.
As to be fair...the theif reckoned he'd probably be the same if somone tried to hit on Dagger right in front of him, and he remembered once more that he really needed to get back to her - she would be amazingly mad if he made her wait too long.
"I'm Zidane..." he shakily introduced himself when Squall let the gunblade fall, but gradually noticed that insane guy and his girlfriend, plus the girl in the yellow dress, were all staring at his tail like he'd never seen something like it before, "okaaaay," he taunted while whipping his aforementioned bodypart around like a jumprope, "never seen a guy with a tail before?"
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Post by Sylla on Sept 13, 2007 16:31:07 GMT
"I don't think any of us have," Aeris shook her head and looked at Squall, Rinoa and Selphie. They all looked just as amazed as she felt. "So," she continued, clasping her hands behind her back, "how is it that you have a tail?" she smiled at Zidane. He was such a happy-looking person it was hard not to like him... and it really was a very cute tail, she thought.
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Post by fearandloathing on Sept 13, 2007 16:40:48 GMT
"Heh," Zidane scoffed , he couldn't believe these people were so supprised by the tail...I mean, had they even seen a Qu?
"It's a long story." he sumised cheerily, "lets just say I was created to be the angel of death for my planet, but got lost along the way and ended up being its saviour. All my kind look like this." He explained with a gesture at himself, "although I don't reckon I'm on Terra or Gaia anymore, right?" Zidane turned to see if Kudja was still around to confirm this, but the egomaniac had vanished - not that it mattered to him in the slightest.
"Oh and did I mention I need to get back home a.s.a.p?" Zidane announced pluckily as the new people began looking around the Lifa tree curiously, "I've got a sweetipie waiting who's gonna get real mad if I don't turn up soon."
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Post by ladyvaltaya on Sept 13, 2007 17:09:47 GMT
Zack started a bit and nudged Aeris at the mention of Gaia. "If you are looking for Gaia, then you ought to come with us."
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Post by fearandloathing on Sept 13, 2007 17:22:47 GMT
(Zidane) "Sounds good to me," Zidane announced cheerfully, "I'd go practically anywhere to get of this b*astard tree." Drawing his couple of daggers out and jumping onto the first platform, a distance that none of the others would be likely to make, Zidane mde a 'come on' gesture with his gloved hand and bounded onwards.
"There's nothing here," he told them, "so we might as well move right on. Never got your names," he mentioned as the eyes of everyone seemed to be drawn to his tail, which he obligingly waggled around, making all the girls giggle in some subtle way or another.
---------------------- (Vincent)
He hardly thought it apropriate to put the way they went down to nothing more than luck...but seeing as no one had any better ideas the ex-Turk watched the current Turk flick the coin up with a begrudging tolerance.
It landed on heads.
"Seems we have our leader..." he muttered sardonically, and Tifa gave him a look for even attempting a joke...it must be her influence on him.
To Zanarkand guys? And weres Yuffie? She gets told off for making Vincent worry ;P
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Post by Sylla on Sept 13, 2007 17:27:04 GMT
Aeris caught Zack's gaze and pulled him apart slightly, smiling apologetically to everyone else.
"Zack..." she murmured, "when you were with ShinRa, did you ever hear anything about these 'angel of death' things? It sounds like something ShinRa would do, doesn't it? And... what about this 'Terra' he mentioned?"
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Post by fearandloathing on Sept 13, 2007 17:44:57 GMT
(Squall and Rinoa)
Zidane seemed to always be two platforms ahead of everyone else, and kept waiting up for the rest of them- the thing was he could take them two to three at a time - as Squall remarked to Rinoa as the attempted to keep up with the newest addition: he couldn't half jump.
Everytime the theif held up for the others they always came across him lounged out across the suspended discs, looking like he hadn't a care in the world and wearing an irreversibly mischeivous grin.
"He's a bit..." The SeeD remarked to his girlfriend, holding her hand fiercely should the freak decide to try any more 'charisma' on her again.
"Zell?" She suggessted, and didn't realize how much that stung Squall, because when he thought about it...there were remarkable parallele's between the two. They were both as wired as each other, although admittedly Zell didn't try to hit on his girlfriend.
"I think he's alright," Rinoa continued, keeping quiet that she'd sorta-maybe-probed-his-mind with her sorcress powers: 'Zidane' was a nice guy really, although that was pretty much all she could tell - her powers weren't that good. "I think he's missing someone...that's why he's so eager to go on."
"Hm," grunted Squall, "seems like a bit of a jerk to me...hey OW!" he cried as she punched him in the arm.
"Be nice!" She scolded, "he's a decent guy, I can just tell. I knew you were a nice didn't I?" Squall met her with another 'hmph' and glared a little more at Zidane.
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Post by leafonthebreeze on Sept 13, 2007 18:17:51 GMT
(Tifa)
Tifa smiled slightly. "Left it is then, although I wouldn't call Reno ideal leader material. In fact if anyone should be leader, I think it should be... Vincent"
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