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Post by Chevron on Jan 26, 2016 5:46:13 GMT
Carter clapped.
"Wow, I knew she was rusty but WOW she hardly even put up a fight"
Mercy gasped.
"Something tells me she didn't know if she wanted to win that fight, but at the same time felt as if she needed to"
Mercy's face twisted angrily.
"I'm going to need that Pearl back"
Carter extended his hand. Mercy simply responded "No". Carter frowned at this, as if he was more annoyed than upset.
"A valiant effort" Carter said as he pulled out hid flintlock and shot.
Mercy didn't have time to react
*POOF*
Mercy blinked, what had happened, she was fine? She looked at the area in between them. Wardite's gem lay flat on the ground. Mercy grabbed it while Carter was still recovering.
"What the fuck? Wardite you bitch!" Carter shouted.
"Now WHERE'S CHEVRON!" Mercy shouted back.
Carter's face was now angry as a Walmart lady who couldn't find Hawaiian Punch. He drew his sword. "Wouldn't you like to know?"
Carter charged her. She barely responded, bringing up her own staff to block the blade. Carter used her inexperience with blades against her, curving his weapon around her staff. Mercy's eyes widened, and she lept backwards to avoid being split in half. Her satchel was caught on the blade and broke open. Carter kicked the satchel with his free leg, pivoting with the fixed one, spilling it's contents. Carter went for the two gems, hoping to kick them back behind him, but Mercy caught on. She brought her staff in and flung Wardite backwards, and accidentally shot Pearl at Carter. Carter caught the gem in his shield arm, and brought his sword down on Mercy. A gash opened and a red streak stained her black outfit. Mercy screamed. The gash was small, because she had managed to create a frame of movement for Carters blade, but she had to back up.
And to this day nobody knows what pushed it to happen. Perhaps it was the sound of a fight, or maybe the sound of Mercy's voice, but Chevron broke through the catacomb doors.
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Post by Altruvolant on Jan 26, 2016 22:20:12 GMT
The meeting disbanded. Rhodonite and Dioptase walked the short ways home together. Rhodonite's gem tingled at the new sensation of a fresh coating glazed over it and an open outlook.
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Post by roselight13 on Jan 31, 2016 6:14:06 GMT
Mercy leaned heavily against the railing, clutching her shoulder. Her eyes blurred from the pain, but then cleared up again. She looked at Carter with complete malice and snarled at him
"You asshole, this was one of my favorite sweaters! And you broke my satchel! Do you have any idea how damn expensive that was?!"
Mercy stopped when she heard a roar from far off in the house. She paled. "...What is that?"
Carter was distracted by the noise, so Mercy quickly, but shakily picked up Wardite's Gem and her satchel, clutching them to her closely.
A large shape loomed in the room connected to the balcony and broke through the doors. Mercy cried out happily. "Chevron! You're Oka-!?"
But then she froze, looking at her friend. Something was wrong, very wrong. She was covered with scars and wounds and her eyes...they were beyond anger, beyond reason.
Mercy teared up and whispered.
"Oh Chev...what did he do to you?"
Chevron roared and charged at Carter and at her. Mercy quickly activated her levitation boots, leaped into the air, away from the balcony and almost floated onto the ground.
She put Wardite in her pocket and she looked up at her friend attacking Carter and yelled, with tears in her eyes.
"I will come back for you! I'm so sorry, Chev. I'm so sorry!"
Mercy started to glide across the grass towards town. She looked back at the mansion and screamed.
"I will come back for you, Chev! I PROMISE!!"
Mercy clutched her satchel to her chest tightly, sobbing in anger, pain and sadness as she glided quickly towards the town and away from her poor friend.
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Post by Chevron on Feb 2, 2016 3:29:42 GMT
Chevron swung her arm in a frantic motion. A crack thundered across the mostly open fields as the tips of Chevron's fingers reached incredible speeds. Carter was caught in the chest and thrown backwards a few dozen meters, he flipped and turned until he came to a stop in the dirt, Chevron stood up fully and made her large figure as big as it could be, and charged into the woods.
Carter tried his best not to die. He was dizzy, he couldn't feel certain areas of his body, he was sure he was bleeding somewhere, but he didn't know where. He tried to stay calm but Chevron could show up any second. Carter was sure she could decapitate him with little to no effort. Carter pulled out his flintlock and scanned, he couldn't see jack shit, but was sure nobody was around. Carter hauled himself back to his house, where he fell next to a newly reformed Pearl...
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Post by Altruvolant on Feb 2, 2016 23:45:42 GMT
Achroite's eyelids slowly tugged themselves open, night's shroud defined his ever glowing eyes. He snuck out of Mr. Crawford's room and into his own.
Achroite stared out his small window, breathing with consciousness. He looked at the shrubs, trees, houses, the occasional squirrel, everything he could see or wanted to see. What was it like over there? He wondered, was the grass softer or the trees treeier? He squinted to make out figures, it was dark but not pitch dark.
Achroite couldn't go beyond the gate which he thought was probably for his safety. His own theory suggested that the plants beyond the gate were poisoness and only humans were adept enough to endure the poison or maybe there were savage beasts that had a diet consisting of gems.
Whatever the reason, it didn't matter. Mr. Crawford knows best.
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Post by roselight13 on Feb 6, 2016 23:40:10 GMT
Mercy got to the town and tried to find a place to hide from Carter.
She glided swiftly through the streets, growing weaker from her wound, dripping blood.
She stopped in a dark alley to get a handkerchief out of her broken satchel to temporarily tie up the wound. She patted her pocket. Wardite was still there.
She continued to glide around until she found a small church.
She turned off her levitation boots and stumbled to the ground. She still held her balance as she walked shakily up the steps
She pounded on the door and spoke loudly. "Is there anyone there? We need help. Please. Help us!"
She fell to her knees, but she still pounded at the door, thinking
"Please....Please let someone be there."
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Post by pearlquartz17 on Feb 7, 2016 0:41:42 GMT
"Hail Mary, mother of Grace, the Lord is with thee," Father Damien Icarus whispered, his eyes shut, his grand body doubled over in meditation. He was finishing up the Sunday homily, and had taken a moment to kneel before the Blessed Virgin and clear his mind. His Ave finished, he went back to his desk and fountain pen. The room in which he sat was well-lit for two in the morning.
The kitschy cuckoo clock ticked away the hours as Father Icarus' fountain pen flowed over his paper. Occasionally he spoke the words as he wrote them. "Today....we ponder those in bondage...."
A knock at the doors of the church stirred him from his rather exhausted state. He rose, a solemn figure with plentiful and majestic beard, and went to the doors.
He opened the great wooden portals to find a young woman on his front step, in evident pain. "Help, help," she muttered before collapsing.
He made the sign of the cross before picking her up and taking her in. He laid her down on the little cot he kept in the back room, and blessed her before treating her wounds with the little first-aid kit he also stored in the backroom.
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Post by Altruvolant on Feb 7, 2016 2:21:35 GMT
Morning came, Dioptase went to fetch the mail. A crinkled flyer caught her glance as it was also caught under her boot. She swiftly picked it up, a watermark of the word "OFFICIAL" and an odd pattern was printed on one side, she turned it over, Sunstone's picture was printed clearly in ink on with the heading "Find and Detain" on the other. _____________
Achroite wore a pink frilly apron, and poured pancake batter into a pan that sizzled when met with the thick consistency.
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Post by roselight13 on Feb 7, 2016 3:07:35 GMT
Mercy's eyes fluttered open, trying to take in her surroundings. She sat up, startled, but then gasped and winced in pain. She leaned back slowly, holding her shoulder.
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Post by pearlquartz17 on Feb 7, 2016 22:46:50 GMT
Icarus met the eyes of a frightened animal caught in a trap: a doe caught in a hunter's snare. "Have no fear, my little one," said the priest. "You're in the hands of Christ now," he said soothingly. "I'm Father Damien Icarus," he said humbly. "It's early Sunday morning; would you like to attend Mass?"
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Post by roselight13 on Feb 8, 2016 1:57:56 GMT
Mercy looked at the majestically-bearded priest. She felt in her pocket and sighed in relief. Wardite was still there.
She shook her head gently at the priests question.
"Father Icarus sir, thank you for your kind offer, but I must keep hidden until it is safe for us t-" She coughed quickly. "Uhmm me, me to leave or until I am well again."
She blushed deeply and thought to herself.
"Shit, I didn't mean to slip up, damn it. I don't know his intentions, but I shouldn't say anything about Wardite until I know. Though his name, "Icarus" sounds familiar to me. Hmmm..."
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Post by Altruvolant on Feb 8, 2016 3:02:04 GMT
"What the FUCK!?" Dioptase yelled.
Sunstone eeped at the loud voice, and turned around. "It was only for a week. I didn't think-"
"Only for a week? They'll look for gems after a day!"
"But I, he..." Sunstone seized her breathing.
"It happens to all gems at some point, you can't just- URGH" Dioptase grit her teeth. "You're not some special snowflake, you know."
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Post by pearlquartz17 on Feb 11, 2016 2:21:24 GMT
"Very well," replied Father Damien Icarus; "I won't force you, my dear. You best sleep until you're feeling stronger. After services I'll come back and give you something to eat. How does that sound?"
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Post by roselight13 on Feb 11, 2016 4:32:56 GMT
Mercy nodded her head.
"Thank you, Father Icarus. I would like that. I haven't eaten since yesterday morning."
Mercy was saying this in a serene voice, but inside she was withering with anxiety, thinking to herself.
"How did he not hear my slip-up!? Is he playing dumb or is he up to something....Ugh! CALL ME OUT, DAMN IT!! Don't hide it from me! If you heard me slip, tell it to my face!"
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Post by Altruvolant on Feb 13, 2016 4:17:00 GMT
"Pack your stuff, we're leaving." Dioptase said.
Sunstone's voice was tight, "What?"
"I'll inform the others, you just have to get to the railroad. Az will be there." Her assertion came off dead.
"I don't get it."
"Listen, this mucky base is going to be found. Everything is already in place so we don't need to stay anyway." she made herself orotund, "Go, please."
Sunstone nodded in compliance and left the now former safe-house. ___________________________
"Very nice." Mr. Crawford spoke as the partially chewed food flung from his mouth. Achroite sat across from him, eating the pancakes to earn a bond higher than master and servant. The glass stood between Achroite and the tossing leaves of a slightly windy day, "When can I go outside?"
"Whenever you like." Mr. Crawford responded.
"Outside of the gates?" Achroite pressed his boundaries. Mr. Crawford didn't respond. "Outside of the gates?" He asked again.
"No." Crawford set his fork down and scratched his scraggly beard.
"Why not?" He interrogated.
Crawford spoke gruffly, "Because I said so."
"That's not a very valid answer."
Crawford pressed his lips together and his face reddened, "You better keep that gotdamn mouth shut, ya hear?"
Achroite shrank back and continued to eat, he scraped his fork against the plate despondently. The clock ticking in the background was heard more prominently.
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