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Post by Ladd Russo of the Russo Family on Aug 17, 2007 21:08:52 GMT -5
Rell's head snapped back from Duemi's slap, though it didn't really hurt him. He allowed a red mark to appear on his cheek though, just for her satisfaction. Suzume was no longer in range to kick him, however, which seemed unfair. Duemi had stolen her deserved reply from her.
As for Cecil, that was going to become annoying, and quick. As a demon, he was different in the fact that light or holy magic did not affect him in any way. Water was his elemental weakness, and if Cecil started spreading that around, he'd be dodging righteously thrown buckets left and right before long. He could always kill Cecil, but he decided instead to give the child the benefit of the doubt.
Smiling ingratiatingly, the demon bowed at their various taunts and threats. It probably took them a lot of effort to sound as bad-ass as possible, and that kind of thing required and answer. Then he disappeared, as quickly as he came.
Darishan frowned at the stir Rell had caused and tried to calm Suzume. "You are safe, Suzume," he said in his monotone, which she probably couldn't even hear in all the din. "No one blames you."
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Aug 17, 2007 21:20:57 GMT -5
Suzume looked towards Darishan, "What are you talking about! Where mommy and daddy?!?!" tears formed in her eyes as she continued in her attempt at freedom. "Please don't execute me!" she pleaded. Her ears laid back and her feet kicked and spurts of flames bloomed from her hands and feet as they lashed around angrily and crazily. Her body shifted into her much smaller fox form as she tried escaping that way. It was more likely she would since a sudden change in size was awefully disorienting to anyone who was trying to hold someone still. He paws scrabbled at Cecil's arms as she tried to get free, not wanting to die.
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Post by Ladd Russo of the Russo Family on Aug 17, 2007 21:26:16 GMT -5
Darishan tried to help, but she was squirmy. Anyone who has ever tried to hold an escaping animal of around kitten size would know just how impossible it was. "No one is going to kill or hurt you."
Cheshire saw what was going on and thought that maybe he could help. He approached the group and started a slow, sleepy tune on his lyre, specifying it so that it would only affect Suzume. It was a strong lullaby that he had often used to cast enemies into sleep. The elf watched the kitsune as he played, his eyes anxious to help her.
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Post by Kim-la on Aug 17, 2007 21:29:45 GMT -5
Duemi looked over at Suzume, feeling bad for her. She must be so scared and confused... "Neko get you ass down here." Duemi said firmly before going back into the cave where Neko couldn't see her. "Suzume! We're not going to hurt you! You need to stay here. We are your friends. You're ok." Duemi said as kindly as possible to the squirming bundle that was Suzume. She hoped that Neko got his butt down quickly. He would probably know more about her than any of them did.
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Post by Arual on Aug 17, 2007 21:30:38 GMT -5
"SUZUME!" he said with a chilling calmness to his voice as he sternly spoke out, not to scare her- but to get her attention as he continued to keep his grip on her, animal form or not as she squirmed around in his hands. Cecil's black hair was stiff and unmoving form the moment he spoke out. He had to admit that his voice was a bit frightening when he called er name- but it wasnt intentional if he made it worse. He needed her to understand she was alright. He hoped Chesh's music would help as well as he continued to hold her.
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Aug 17, 2007 21:46:54 GMT -5
Suzume looked towards Cheshire with the wide eyes of a caged animal though her thrashing got and calmer and calmer though as the music set in like a sedative. Her eyes seemed to ask for pity and they blinked drowzily, her gaze looked up at Cecil before she limply fell into a forced sleep, whimpering pitifully. Nightmares flashed through her mind, induced of course by the trauma that scoured her mind when she was awake moments before.
She saw herself being hung with her mother and father, just like the others she'd seen be killed as punishment for hiding thier magical powers. Renjiro was not included in her dreams because in this point in time within Suzume's past Renjiro wasn't even born yet. The sky in her nightmare was swirling flames of black and bloody red that seemed to drip down and melt into everything, plauging the earth and burning at Suzume's skin.
Neko slowly began climbing down the wall, nervous and really not wanting to plunge to his death. His fingers stuck into crevases in the wall and he constantly told himself, "Don't look down! don't look down! Don't look down! Don't look down!" Neko really wasn't enjoying this, but apparently something was going on down in the cave.
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Post by Ladd Russo of the Russo Family on Aug 17, 2007 22:16:16 GMT -5
Cheshire's eyes widened with tears at her final pleading gaze. It was so disarmingly pathetic, as if she really believed she and all that she loved were going to die there, and she was begging him not to do it. As if he was responsible for this. Cheshire wished he was, if only he could bring her back to a place where she was safe and without this grief. The elf took a deep breath, his eyes still earnest though stricken. One of his hands halfheartedly moved to push a lock of hair out of his eyes, but it just kind of stayed there on his forehead as he lost himself in thought.
Darishan was uncomfortable, but lacked the emotional range to really feel anything more than faintly sorry for her. He accepted the fact that he really wasn't good at this kind of thing at all.
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Post by Kim-la on Aug 17, 2007 22:30:21 GMT -5
Duemi looked at Cecil with a look that seemed to say 'nice job' but pure of sarcasm. Duemi waited for Neko to get in the cave when a though struck her. "What are we going to with Suzume..?" She asked. They couldn't leave her, but there weren't many places for her to go...
Reggetar was watching with wide fearful eyes. Hearing little Suzume screaming not to be killed didn't help him (still thinking he was a slave). He edged away from the group, further into the cave to hid and perhaps run away. Of course, if mast noticed, he would be in worse trouble...
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Aug 17, 2007 22:43:41 GMT -5
Vana laughed in Suzume's nightmare, the evil woman who would be in charge here- she would order the execution, everyone's expressions and features sharpened and frightening in Suzume's mind. The little fox whimpered, trying to escape from the nightmares which were worse than the reality she had left, her mind synthesizing everything in her nerves as burning coursed over her body. Cecil would be able to feel body temperature rising and if she had been in human form her face would be a deep shade of pink.
Neko reached the mouth of the cave, his fingertips bloody and a few holes now in his jeans as his facial expression dropped from relieved (no doubt from the fact he hadn't died) to one of utter horror and shock, "What happened?" He asked, reading the emotions that were so displayed by Suzume's ears, tail, even how she squirmed about. It was all animal stuff to be honest and he walked towards the group, "W-what happened?" He asked again, this time in more of a whisper.
"Reggetar! Come back!" Terent shouted as he chased after his best friend, it was kinda hard to chase after him with Terent being so short and all. "COME BACK, YE FIEND!!!!" he shouted angrily.
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Post by Ladd Russo of the Russo Family on Aug 17, 2007 22:48:16 GMT -5
"When Ouwashi perished, Suzume backtracked to the age of eight with no memories of anything after that. A person named Rell told her some of the more gruesome details, and now she's confused and delirious. Do you know what we should do?" Darishan summarized, finishing with the question.
Cheshire just watched her disconsolately, his eyes straying to the others, feeling helpless.
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Aug 17, 2007 23:12:21 GMT -5
Neko looked towards Darishan for a few seconds as if he was insane before looking towards Suzume. He's ask to carry her if he wasn't positive that the whole getting out of the canyon would be grueling. Getting down was easy, getting up would be total hell. "I... I don't know..." to be honest, Neko had no clue what life was like for Suzume hundreds of years ago.
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Post by Kim-la on Aug 17, 2007 23:14:50 GMT -5
Reggetar hadn't gotten far before Terent spotted him. He immediately dropped to his knees in front of Terent and began to beg forgiveness. "I'm sorry master! Please find it in your heart to forgive me!" He said desperately. He knew that attempts at running away where punishable by death, and with whatever he had done eariler... His master must be very mad indeed...
"I think that someone should watch Suzume until we find out exactly what happened." Duemi suggested, looking at Neko as she said this. He knew her before she had gotten here, so maybe she knew him when she was this young... It would probably be good for her to see someone she knew.
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Aug 17, 2007 23:48:09 GMT -5
"Everyone seems to have thier own motives these days..." Makashi said, he had been silent a long while, his brown eyes looked towards Suzume with sadness. "Ouwashi had nothing to do with the loss of the memories..." He plucked his granddaughter from Cecil's arms and heald her protectively while glaring at Rell angrily. He then looked back towards the students and Neko, "She'll lose her memory of only this time of Ouwashi taking over once all those who were actively in charge are gone- the only one left is that boy... Israfel, and he seems to have run off with Suzume's memories in an attempt to organize an assasination." Makashi nodded.
Neko looked towards Makashi, "He stole... her memories?" he asked, unbelievingly as he clenched his fist, swearing in his head that he would kill Israfel for doing this to Suzume. Suzume never hurt anyone on her own accord and didn't deserve this kind of foul treatment.
Makashi looked down at Suzume while he let the others process what exactly had happened and he pulled the water from Suzume's fur, "shhhhh, little one..." he whispered to her, "nemuri..." his voice calm and suprisingly calm. He was a dragon, expected to be feirce but he was also the former god of water and so at times he certainly had a frightening temper but he was also normally calm, as he was now. He placed a hand on Suzume's little fox forehead and muttered some sort of mantra under his breath.
A creature lumbered out from the depths of the cave, it carried the semblance of a bear only it's mouth was large and agape, no eyes on it's face but instead they were placed upon the creature's shoulderblades. This beast was known as a Baku and it was exceedingly old for a baku, silver hairs were sprouted around it's maw and paws.
"Feast and take the nightmares away." Makashi asked the creature calmly.
It nodded and it''s eyes upon it's back looked towards Makashi and Suzume before they closed and Suzume became still as the nightmare was taken by the Baku, also known as a dream eater.
The question of how Makashi had just gotten a baku that quickly might have been pondered, the blatant truth being that Makashi had nightmares. They were horrible and real, sometimes making it impossible to fall asleep, so Makashi asked this baku to come and eat his own nightmares. Time had passed and though the baku had grown old it was still alive and glad to help Makashi again.
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Post by Ladd Russo of the Russo Family on Aug 20, 2007 19:40:51 GMT -5
"To kill whom, and should we go after him?" Darishan asked stoically. Milling around here wouldn't do anything. Cheshire looked relieved that she had calmed and that her nightmares had left, but her world was bound to be a nightmare until she managed to come to terms with it. Extra memories might not help her extraordinarily, but at least it would give her the maturity to deal with them. Darishan didn't dream, so the concept of being further tortured in sleep made him even more grim.
Israfel and Rell were likely to receive a lot of hate, but since both had left, they just left a lot of people standing here angry.
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Aug 21, 2007 6:40:10 GMT -5
"It'll be nigh impossible to find Israfel untill he makes a move, he wants to kill Lucifer- I know that much... but how he's going to go about it and where he's planning from I do not know." Makashi shook his head, though there was determination in his voice when he spoke. "Akira." He looked towards the kitsune.
"When she awakens it'd be best if you talk to her- she knows who you are atleast so she'll be most likely to listen to you." Makashi nodded as he spoke.
Akira looked towards the sleeping kit fox and sighed, it still wasn't going to be the easiest thing to do, her turquoise eyes glimmered as she already began to think of what she could possibly say to her granddaughter. It wasn't something she was used to but she'd have to try in the least, because it seemed that things weren't going to be getting any easier for Suzume.
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