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Post by Ladd Russo of the Russo Family on Dec 20, 2007 20:26:15 GMT -5
The man's shoulders trembled slightly, and his eyebrows made a distressed countenance. "I know," he whispered, shuddering. "They are dead inside, and they are an infection," he added almost reverently. He glanced warily at Rain again.
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Post by Jackie on Dec 20, 2007 20:28:48 GMT -5
Rain gave the man an odd look. "You do understand the people you speak of don't exist correct. Rain was bound and determined to push the subject about 'Them' until she understood why Brandon and this man were so obsessed with them.
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Post by demonfire on Dec 20, 2007 20:30:39 GMT -5
"I know! Wow, mister! Are you one of 'us'? The opposite of 'them'?" Brandon asked as he threw his potato chip bag on the ground quite inconsiderately as it was polluting. A breeze picked it up and it concealed a small hole, but still large enough to trap one's foot in it.
In the background, a figure in black quietly stalked the group. That is, quietly before stepping onto the bag and the hole. His ankle was broken and the man was quite disturbed as to the genius of the prey that 'they' were hunting. His gun--silenced of course-- went off and shot him in the other foot. A medical team pulled him out and then poofed to some undisclosed location.
"Damn, one of our best," said the general. Little did he know that his team was being utterly destroyed by random events.
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Post by Ladd Russo of the Russo Family on Dec 20, 2007 20:31:58 GMT -5
"Then how is it that you're influenced?" Friend asked her sadly. "Please, I don't want to see another friend fall..." A few tears slid down his face unnoticed. "You can see it in the back of your eyes; it's there. Aren't you even fighting it?" Now, now, Friend... he thought to himself, she isn't a boxer after all. She would either be in underwear or boxing gloves if she was.
Looking at Brandon, he said, "I don't know if I'm that elite... I just don't want to be them..."
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Post by Jackie on Dec 20, 2007 20:36:19 GMT -5
Rain grew rather puzzled. "Um, ok?.." she replied unsure to whether or not that was the answer to the man's question. Rain was tired, and growing half insane herself, she leaned her head on Brandon's shoulder in an effort to keep from falling.
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Post by demonfire on Dec 20, 2007 20:39:54 GMT -5
Brandon looked a bit alienated as Rain put her head on his shoulder, and so Box summoned a bit of cardboard to make a suitable replacement for his shoulder out of cardboard in the air. "Nonsense! I'm Brandon J. Salvatore of the Fourth Squadron, Ninth Division, New Jersey Sect!" he said, as he did a strange gestation in which he grabbed his nose, went on one foot, and then said the ABC's. "If you're not, a good man like you could be initiated in no time! My dad JJ Salvatore gave me initiation rite rights!" Brandon said, excited about a newcomer joining the crew.
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Post by Ladd Russo of the Russo Family on Dec 20, 2007 20:44:35 GMT -5
Friend started back violently, tripping over a tombstone and falling back onto his bum, his eyes wider than usual.
"Your father... I knew him, I know I knew him..." he said, shaking his head back and forth quickly as if denying his previous statement. "There was so much fire," he said fearfully. His eyes moved to Rain. Was she there as well...? Nothing but haze, he couldn't remember her.
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Post by Jackie on Dec 20, 2007 20:44:44 GMT -5
Rain sighed as her head burned through the cardboard, casing her to fall backwards with a rather loud THUMP! Rain sat back up, and looked around for a moment, then stuck out her lower lip, "What, no initiation for me?" she whimpered. Apparently that fall had bruised Rain's brain.
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Post by demonfire on Dec 20, 2007 20:49:24 GMT -5
"Whoa! You must be a veteran! That happened before I was born!" Brandon said to Friend as he extended a hand to help him up, "But he's still alive. He's in Canada now; much less of 'them' up there." Around his neck, his Sharpie Marker glowed a pure white before a goblin with a large 'pocket' appeared next to him, removing an impossibly thick book from the pocket. "Now, what shall your codename be? Mine is Silent Thunder, just for help," Brandon said with shifty eyes.
"Not until you prove yourself, Rain! This initiation is for Mister Mister here!" Brandon shouted.
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Post by Ladd Russo of the Russo Family on Dec 20, 2007 20:53:35 GMT -5
"You can call me Friend," he said, nodding. He had never been called anything else, in all his memory... except for Tucker who seemed to enjoy making up weird nicknames like 'Krazei', 'Ideyot', 'Fuul'. He frowned slightly in perplexity. "Canada? Isn't that a soft drink? For that matter, isn't Rain as well?" Rain, she was a very odd person, to name herself after a soft drink...
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Post by Jackie on Dec 21, 2007 11:27:00 GMT -5
Rain gasped in a bit of a retarded way, "No sir! I am most certainly NOT a beverage!" Rain paused, "Hey, what happened to calling me Willow?" Rain's grip on sanity was nearly gone by now.
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Post by demonfire on Dec 21, 2007 12:28:42 GMT -5
"No, Friend! Canada is America's hat! Just like Mexico is America's beard!" Brandon said as he flipped through pages in the thick book. Now that it was mentioned, most of the pages were blank, or had insane pictures of random events. "So Friend, I now name you Friend of the Fourth Squadron, Ninth Division, New Jersey Sect!" Brandon said as he handed Friend the book, now on a page with many signatures, ranging back from the 1800s to present day. Yes, apparently 'they' and 'us' have been around for a while.
"And Willow! I shall call you whatever I want you Potato-Chip Thief!" he said to Willow/Rain. Box by his side shook his head to Rain as if in apology for Brandon's actions.
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Post by Jackie on Dec 21, 2007 12:41:02 GMT -5
Rain's eyes got all shifty like. "Potato-chip theif? Me? NEVER!" aye, Rain's sanity certainly was slipping by the second.
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Post by Ladd Russo of the Russo Family on Dec 21, 2007 13:49:44 GMT -5
"What happened to the Old Jersey?" Friend whispered with wide frightened eyes. And if Rain was a Willow, then was Squall a marshmellow? The questions never ended.
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Post by demonfire on Dec 21, 2007 13:57:07 GMT -5
"Old Jersey is in England, Friend," Brandon said. The Cabinet Goblin that was summoned before to get out the book now frantically scurried randomly about as it grabbed many different bones from different graves. Why it was doing it was a mystery.
"And what about the potato chip you stole from me just minutes ago?" Brandon asked with a deducing expression.
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