Half-Possessed Peeps UNITE!

[demonfire]

Estrik walked into the majestic Ninth Heaven with nothing in particular interest in mind. Aside from the fact that his psychic powers were growing and he was having difficulty controlling them, things were good. A blue light appeared in random places until it latched upon a chair, in which case it was pulled out as Estrik sat down and put his legs up upon the table. Ryumizu floated in behind him and lay down on the table in a curled up ball, almost like a coiled up snake. He whistled something before going into a whisper-sing of Paradise City. He telepathically said something to a nearby waiter and was soon brought a large cup of Coke, no ice. First rule of going out to eat, never get ice, the drink is already cold when you get it, and ice just takes up space.

[[red].Raven]

In a chair near a table in the farthest corner of the room, there sat a girl. Rei seemed limp and empty in the chair with an untouched soda in front of her. Her short hair had been left down and several strands blocked her eyes from view. When Estrik walked in, the seemingly lifeless body moved. 'Estrik...?' With no shift in emotion, Rei stood, robotically picked up her full glass, and made her way over to the male's table. She paused before sitting and spoke with a voice that sounded slightly dry from either a) simple lack of use, or b) too much use, such as screaming or crying. "Can I sit with you, Estrik?"

[demonfire]

"Sure," Estrik said as he tightened a black, newly gained blindfold around his eyes. "So, what's with your voice?" he asked as his mind searched Rei's giant library of information. So, good ole Damon was up to no good, and so close to Christmas too. Shame. Estrik didn't say that he already knew, because that was rude and he was only rude to those who were rude to him, Rei being the farthest thing from that. Another blue light surrounded the straw of the soda and the soda glass itself as it was raised to Estrik and he sipped on it. He needed some way to expend a whole bunch of psychic energy, and this was a great way to do it. Telekinesis for meaningless tasks, YAY!

[[red].Raven]

Rei thanked Estrik quietly and pulled out a chair across from him, gently setting down her glass. "My voice?" She blinked once or twice as though she hadn't realized what he was asking. "Oh, it's nothing. I suppose it was colder than I thought it was and I caught something the other night..." Did... did she just lie... again? It just... happened. Rei mentally hit herself for letting herself be dishonest, especially with a friend, but said nothing of it. Sighing quietly, Rei stared at the small, melting fragments of ice floating in her soda. "I haven't seen you in a while, how have you been?"

[demonfire]

"Same old same old, although I seem to see that you had a little run-in with Damon," Estrik said smirking. "One little tip, don't lie to a guy who can read your mind," he said with a joking expression plated upon his face. What was needed here was some serious revenge, like revenge that would cause fear in someone that would take root like a weed. They needed...insanity. "What you seem to need here is a little taste of what we call revenge. No one can do that to another Half-Possessed without some kind of strike back." Estrik leaned back on his chair as if he didn't say anything, although he was speaking telepathically with Rei, "Oh and I'm beginning to think we need a club for the whole Half-Possessed gig. It seems to be pretty popular nowadays. What we need for that is a catchy name though..."

[[red].Raven]

Rei looked down at her hands when Estrik mentioned the lie; whether he thought jokingly about it or not, Rei still felt awful. At the mention of Damon, an icy shiver ran up her spine, but she did her best to ignore it. Estrik received a curious look after Rei interpreted his thoughts. 'No, really, I don't want anymore trouble with anyone... maybe if I just forget about it, Da-... he'll forget about me...' "A...club? How many of Half-Possessed people are there?"

[demonfire]

"Err, enough?" Estrik asked with a joking tone, laughing at the end of it. Underneath the blindfold, his eyes seemed to be straining, probably from the blue bubble that was building up behind him. It wasn't very big, a little bigger than one's head, but it was a start. The bubble shrank and then began to expand again as Estrik half talked half practiced. "Rei, you can't live your entire life with fear in you. Use it to do things that you never would have dared to do, trust me." There was an almost angry mental tone in him, mostly because deep down where there was once fear in Estrik, there was now anger. And with the anger, came dangerous thoughts. And with dangerous thoughts came a dangerous person. And with parts of previous sentences used in the next one, there came an ominous tone.

[[red].Raven]

"Oh...... bubble?" Rei idly drew swirls in the condensation on the outside of her glass as she seemed reluctant to even have this conversation. 'Estrik, fear is something I can live with, but more guilt is not... if something were to happen, what would I do, knowing that I went into it willingly?' Estrik's strange tone had caught her attention, but she didn't want to say anything about it. Has she ever seen Estrik angry before? ... If she did, she certainly couldn't remember, which was saying something considering that Rei's memory was the next best thing to photographic. 'I use my own fears to keep myself from doing something I might have done otherwise... things are easier this way... safer...'

[demonfire]

"Bubble?" Estrik asked as if he had no clue as to what was going on. The bubble expanded and contracted until it 'popped'. "Whatever you say," Estrik said with a slight annoyed tone in his voice. He took off the bandanna that was around his eyes, to reveal that they had regressed into the typical 'blind' eyes, that is being misty instead of appearing regularly. He rubbed at them before retying the bandanna around his eyes to obscure them from reality. "So, besides getting mauled by crazy psychopaths, what's new?" he asked.

[[red].Raven]

The muscles at the corner of Rei's mouth twitched with the beginnings of a smile. "Nothing really. The seal you helped me with actual works very well, but grows weak over some length of time... I'll get used to it eventually; it's easy to reinforce." So, finally, Rei leaned over and took a small sip of her drink. "I'm sure you've made much more progress with things in general than I have." She tilted her head to the side. "New blindfold?"

((pointless smalltalk! yay!))

[demonfire]

Estrik twitched at the blindfold comment. He didn't particularly like what his eyes had become, even more when people brought it up. "Why...yes...how kind of...you to notice," Estrik said, struggling to keep up a calm and friendly demeanor. "In general. I don't know, I can't really compare considering that I haven't seen you in a while," Estrik said regaining his cool. The cup floated up again as Estrik took another sip, trying to quench a thirst and burn excess energy.

[[red].Raven]

((*decides to ask Don first* What's goin' on with his eyeballies?))

Rei immediately forgot the eye subject when she heard the slight clip in Estrik's tone. "That's true, but taking into consideration that training isn't exactly my strong point, I think it's safe to assume you're much farther along than I am." Well, okay, so Rei has been training on occasion with Rhyme, but still. She watched with interest when the cup levitated, only now realizing that should couldn't remember him doing that before. She decided not to bring it up though, in case it was related to whatever it was that had annoyed him.

((lol It's almost sad how Estrik is now level 34 and Rei is like... 18 xD))

[demonfire]

((His eyes were 'normal', but they've become the stereotypical misty blind eyes now, and he's self conscience about.))((Lolz! Your right. That just means I have less, if any at all, of a life, XD))

"Well, if you think so I'm not going to argue an opinion," Estrik said as he rocked back on his chair. "So, why don't we just make training your strong point?" Estrik asked inquisitively. ((I've been waiting to use that word >>)) He stopped rocking back on the chair, just as he rocked too far. He began to fall down, only to save his head from hitting the cold, hard floor with a blue light completely surrounding him. As his descent completely stopped, the light vanished, leaving him hitting his head, but not as hard. He got back up and was rubbing the back of his head grinning, "That never happend, caspisci?"

[[red].Raven]

((Aw, that's very sad D: And because I'm not kidding, that also disproves the theory of me having my own life ))

Before Rei could answer, something that never, ever happened didn't occur. Rei's arm just instinctively shot out across the table to, but does that ever help? When Estrik recovered from something he never really did, Rei gave him a curious look. "Okay...?" The smile that had been threatening an appearance earlier was finally visible to the human eye. "I don't know... I was thinking about buying something from one of the shops to help me..." ((*uses Jedi mind powers to summon Vampyra* >3)) Rei sighed quietly. The thought of owning a weapon never really crossed Rei's mind, ever, until the other night.

[demonfire]

((No lives...UNITE!))

"Yeah, weapons are nice to have. But the greatest weapon of any and all people is this," Estrik said as he tapped his head. "You train that perfectly and there's almost nothing that can stop you. But if you want to do that, you've got to overcome yourself. You've got to strip the fear off you like an itchy blanket," he said as he made a strange simile. He was a strange boy indeed.