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Creative Arts and Media => Roleplay => Serious RP => Topic started by: Whitepaw Niniichi/Enigir Shosa on December 15, 2014, 11:16:30 AM
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The winds warmed up the cold airborne island as it's occupants milled about. Washing blew in the breeze, furs of all species flitted about. Avian species occasionally disappeared under the grass line to a club carved into the bottom of the island called The Roost.
A black-furred wolf Anthro murred and shut his eyes as the wind caressed his neck and ruffled his meagre head hair. He placed his hands in his pockets and smiled almost sleepily. His golden eyes peeked out from under his lids.
"What a beautiful day," he heaved a satisfied sigh. He was happy. But...he checked his watch. It was a fake Rolex.
Where were they~?
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A small, black airplane flew over the island, it's pilot, a khaki-colored fox, hated the damned thing. It was slow, it was cheap, it guzzled gas, and he was afraid it would break on him at any moment.
But it was the most expensive thing he owned, so he treated it like it was the king of airplanelandia. He landed at the airstrip, and taxied over to one the public hangars. Shane had invited him... And he was late. The fox shook his head, and still in his green pilot's coveralls, rushed over to the meeting spot
"Hey Shane! Sorry I'm late. My plane was a piece of junk, again."
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"Frankly I'm still getting over the fact that you own a freaking PLANE," Shane smiled and clapped his friend on the back.
Once more he seemed to savour the wind. He fixed two beady peepers on his fox friend.
"Don't you think it's been awhile? To be honest, I wasn't sure you'd answer the invitation - let alone receive it. What have you been up to all this time?" Shane smiled warmly and let his friend out of the hug.
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"Hah!" Thomas gave a short, barking laugh "well, it's a piece of junk.... Ain't nothing like the jets I used to fly for the Air Force."
He sighed, the wind buffeting against his green coveralls it just sounded nice, the wind... Calming.
Thomas gave a shrug "yeah... Been a while. But mneh, you guys were some of the best buds I've ever had!"
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"Until you left to fly young...youngest in record, weren't you?" Shane smiled and let his tail sway. The wind was picking up.
"So what do you think of the plan? Sneaking into that Roost place via the tunnels I found a few weeks ago? Ready to get your rave on, boy wonder?" Shane laughed heartily.
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"Yup. Youngest pilot of an A-10 Warthog in the Air Force!" Thomas smiled, beaming with pride
"Tunnels? Ooh, sounds fun! Just...uh... Lemme change out of these...well, this. Left my stuff on my airplane."
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"Yeah man, you could have changed! Anyway we're going tonight - sorry for omitting that. I'm getting food sorted tonight and then we roll out! But change anyway, I'm sure it's against somebody's policy to walk around in that!" Shane slumped into a public bench and faced the wind. The wind in his hair...it felt so good...
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Thomas sighed, walking back to his plane, grabbing up his suitcase, pulling out the first clothes he saw. He got a black t-shirt, and camouflage cargo-pants. He shrugged off his overalls, and slipped on his new clothes. Truth was, he didn't have to wear the green, stained (though it ended up looking camouflage) flight suit of his. He just wore it, because he assumed it was lucky. His plane hadn't crashed on him yet! He chuckled, pulling a wicked looking combat knife with a curved blade, and a double-toothed saw on the back of it. He holstered it, carrying it openly on his side as he went back to Shane.
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"Oh hey - cool new toy." Shane said, pulling out of his stupor and gazing at the weapon.
"Haha, my dad's teaching me some magic cause mum didn't want me getting a sword with my bank balance the way it is - bills, ya know? Good thing he was the Island Guardian for awhile there!"
*Yeah...good thing...* Shane thought.
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"Hehe... I could never get into magic. Didn't have the right mindset, I'm guessing. But I can fix stuff real well!" He gave a short laugh, sitting next to Shane "so... What have you been up to, Shane?" He sighed, closing his eyes and letting the wind wash over himself. Something about this wind... It was so pleasant!
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"Oh, uh...this and that!" Shane rubbed the back of his head and smiled.
"Slaving over a part time job, praying I don't lose it, studying up on my magic composition...budgeting. Just usual life stuff!" Shang half laughed and stated at the knife.
"So come on! Tell me about all your adventures! Saving islands? Rescuing damsels? Fighting monsters? Flying majestically into the odd sunset?"
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He gave a shrug "still in the Air Force! Bombing the hell out if ISIS, all day every day!" He stood, striking a heroic pose "fighting for freedom across all nations, even if you don't want it!"
He sat back down, chuckling
"But in all seriousness, I did almost get shot down once. I tagged the f*cker, that got me , though. nice big Gatling gun right square into his chest. Man, his guts were everywhere!"
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"Great." Shane squinted. "You remember I'm squeamish right?"
He swallowed hard and laughed it off.
"ISIS though, really? I feel like I should just belt out a 'hashtag YOLO swag 2014' and be done with it!" Shane snorted at the stupidity if his own comment and turned to his buddy.
"I hate to sound like I did back then, but don't you wanna choose something a bit less...dangerous?"
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He gave a shrug, rolling his eyes at Shane's comment "mneh. It's what I wanna do. It's fun! A-10's are beautiful things, and I wanna fly em! So, I do." And he was right, his job is dangerous. He was only alive today because that RPG was a dud. But it's what he wanted to do, so he did if!"
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"Deja vu. Well, can't say I didn't try. But come on, surely you've got some riveting tails of action and intrigue!" Shane slapped his tail against the seat a few times.
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Waiven sat on the shore and looked out on the horizon, wondering what he could find if only he had a boat. "i bet there's others"
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Thomas sighed, "well, there was this one time, I was doing a gun run in...Syria, I think. Was going in and out, in and out," he moved his hand in an undulating motion as if to indicate a jet doing a flyby "raining down hell on a hadji bunker that was giving some of our guys some trouble. Then, I see this idiot, with an RPG in his bunker. He goes, shoots the rocket, and the backblast sets his buddies on fire!"
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Waiven lifted his head from his knees and checked his watch, he knew he was late, of course he always was, his social akwardness aong with his good looks and slight charm seemed to have many furs of both genders and all species giving him second glances.
He liked being last in the crowd, least noticed he thought. He hugged himself and rubbed his arms as he started down towards the two furs, he was a bit disappointed at the fact of everyone else falling bend schedule as well. His mood sometime changed him... literally. As he approached the others his figure began to change as well as the rest of him. His hair grew out longer and a much darker from its original blue. His chest started pushing outward forming breasts of good size. His Hips a bit larger. His throat and adams apple smoothed out and his face became much more soft looking. "h-hey guys" he said with a shy wave. his voice like silk
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"Hey... I'm guessing it's Waiven." He looked up to her, giving a comforting smile. Waiven had always been awkward, but in the charming sort of way. Plus, he was pretty cool.
"Sit, man! Er...woman. Whatever. I'm still gonna call ya dude!" He let out a good, hearty laugh, the smile still on his face.
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Waiven gave a slight smile and giggled, "you know you are still the same as ever." he was much more open around friends but in large groups he was silent and shy. He looked to his watch, "so.. is it just us three for now?" Waiven looked Thomas and Shane, blushing lightly. They always looked good... at least to Waiven anyways. of course he was okay with just being friends... it was nice to not be so tense around those who didnt ogle him at all times. He looked out to the horizon and started dadreaming again.
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Thomas sighed contentedly, leaning his head onto Waiven's shoulder and interlacing their fingers
"Yup... Hate to make ya the third wheel, Shane... But it seems that way." He said with a sardonic chuckle
He looked up to Waiven, giving his paw a squeeze
"you know... You always look so damned good!" He gave a short chuckle "but looks don't matter if you're a... Well, looks don't matter."
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"W-W-Wait.... W-What?!" Waiven looked down at Thomas' paw holding his and he went beet red, "U-Umm i... i have to go... use the bathroom!" Waiven pulled away quickly from Rushed to the Men's....No wait womens' restrooms! Sometimes Waiven was so grateful for his gender switching quirk.
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"Goddammit..." Thomas cursed under his breath, mentally kicking himself as he saw Waiven's face. He did this too much, he realized. He sighed, considering following after him a moment. But right now, he was a she, and thomas couldn't go after him without legal trouble. So, he would wait just outside, hoping that Waiven would forgive him.
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"You're a class A moron," Shane sighed. Then he grinned playfully and laced his fingers in Thomas' own and leaned in.
"Do what was that about being a third wheel~?" Shane purred as deductively as possible.
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Thomas gave a loud, long sigh "apparently I am."
He raised a brow when Shane grasped his hand "well... I don't.., I don't know. Maybe... I don't know." He sighed again, not moving his hand away.
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"HAHAHAHAHA!" Shane roared and slapped Thomas heartily on the back. He disengaged his hand and grinned with a wink.
"Soldier work been lonely huh? Might wanna drop
That fact to 'Ven when he comes back out. He, she, is forgiving as ever. Busy since you left Ven and I have been pining for adventure and old times, ya know, so much that maybe some if us forgot some stuff...like your history of coming on to him! Ha! Anyway, this roost place if gonna be great! In fact just two months ago the word was out that anyone that found a way in got a free meal and drink! So far nobody but us three knows about the caves - so let's focus on making up and free food eh? Eh!" Shane laughed and kicked at the air a few times, thinking of the huge, dripping steak he was soooooo gonna order!
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Thomas gave a chuckle through clenched teeth, mentally going over the several ways he could kill him right now "har-de fukin har, you're hilarious." In all honesty, it had been. He was...well, desperate so to speak. Hasty. But he wouldn't make that mistake again. He shook his head as if to clear those thoughts away.
Though his ears perked slightly at the mention of free food and beer "hm... People haven't tried using ropes before? Climbing gear? Cos I think I've still got a set in my plane."
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"The outer layer of the island is barely there for a good few feet. A lot of people found that out as they...plunged into the sea a thousand feet below...as it is the entrance to this Roost place is an add-on, like an extra lower floor serving as the foyer. But the actual club is at the middle of the island. I think the caves are half fur-made actually, like a fire exit - or an ocean exit if you will, in case the island were to sink out of the air and into the ocean." Shane mused. As a friend he both humoured and pitied his buddy's desperation.
"Hey...just keep it n your pants awhile longer yeah? Maybe there's a nice avian chick - no wait, they call their young chicks...a nice bird? Okay that was a pun. But my pint is maybe there's a cute girl you can chat up down there. So...I'm not saying 'watch yourself' but just...remember Ven is our friend. This is a reunion after all." Shane tried, speaking pleasantly but with a certain measure in his tone.
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Waiven peeked his head out of the bathroom with wide innocent eyes, "u-ummm... im sorry..." Waiven slowly opened the door, he had a nice mini skirt and loose tank top on, his face had been worked on with make up obviously. He never liked going halfway when he switched. He stood before the two and gave a small twirl, "is it... alright?"
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"It's fine," Shane said as cooly as if Ven was his own brother/sister. "Anyway you ready to go tonight? We have slime hours to kill so what do you guys wanna do? Chill here or put up a note and hold up somewhere where they serve food?"
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"Ya look good!" Thomas said with a smile, looking her up and down briefly in a way that suggested he wasn't ogling her
"I vote we go food. Food is good, especially when your been having army rations for the past few months." He rolled his eyes, giving a chuckle that he would trademark if he could "there a good burger joint around here?"
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"Food!" Shane said and stood bolt upright, his ears shooting skywards. He turned to the bench and splayed his hand, concentrating.
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Waiven looked to his phone and smiled, "Japanese steak house! Can we please? They have a habachi grill!!!" Waiven bounced a little excitedly, he loved Asain foods and really loved it when he got to see the professionals cook so effortlessly, he himself cooked but he usually didnt say much about it, he wasnt sure what the guys would think if they tried his food. They may vomit for all he knew.
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((Okei is edited.))
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"Hnyg~!" Shane strained, shifting a foot back, his tail raising horizontally and bracing his arm with his other hand.
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Waiven saw Shane straining himself, he smiled faintly and knew what he was trying to do. Teleportation and portal magic was tough. Waiven faked a sneeze and sent a small sparkle out, it landed in Shane's fur and seeped into him unnoticingly. Waiven always was eager to help others. Even if they didnt want it.
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"Grrrrrr come on, f**k ya!" Shane strained even harder. A blue magic circle grew rapidly underneath him.
Blue? That was a -
"Wait WHA -!?"
The earth exploded under him as he lost focus and the magic - as yet unbound by the circle - went rampant on the earth. Shane sailed into a tree and yelped like crazy, hidden from sight.
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Waiven jumped and went full on panic mode, "Shane!" he rushed over to the tree and waved his hand, the tree slowly brought Shane to the ground. "are you okya?! oh of course youarent! oh my god!"
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"Back off!" Shane barked, his tail right between his legs. He had a small cut above his eye and a few lacerations on his arms. He hobbled behind the tree and sat down with his face hidden from view.
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Waiven jumped back and whimpered, "Sh-Shane please... l-let me just heal you..." he reached his paw out to Shane a bit scared. The night had started off so well...
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Thomas rushed over to Shane, unsure of what to do. They were both magic users, and he was sitting here, the lone techie. So, in order to nit intrude, he stood close by, the worry clearly showing on his face
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Shane growled long and low, still sitting hunched by the tree. He fell silent awhile and eventually sighed.
"Mark the seat with a holo-sign saying where we're going for anyone else okay Ven?" Shame said tearily from within his ball of pain.
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Waiven lowered his ears... maybe... maybe he wouldve done it right if he hadnt interfered.
"n-no..." He slapped Shane on the shoulder while his paw glwed a faint green. Shane's wounds disappeared and Waiven grabbed him by the arm, "Again..."
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Thomas was there, quickly offering the best comfort he could "hey, at least you can do that! That's something, no?"
He turned to ven "hey... You did your best. Ain't nithing you could have done better. He's all better now. No harm done!"
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"Urrrrrgh, I don't want to," Shane growled but stood up anyway. He strode heavily into position and tried again. This one a small orange magic circle made itself apparent in the palm of his outstretched hand and was apparently on fire. From it a rotating series of flaming letters floated into a revolving circle around his arms.
On the bench, a smaller circle formed, a plain orange ring floating just above the wood.
"Moyasu!" He snapped in Japanese. Burn. The blazing letters shot towards the circle in no particular order until the message 'gone to eat in food court - Shane Adarts'
Shane fell back from the effort as the tiny circle in his hand burned out. He panted on the spot and stared up at the sky.
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Waiven rubbed Shane on the back comfortingly, "see?"
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"No. I hate magic." Shane grumbled, wiggling his tail at his friend'd touch. He stood and hugged himself.
"Why is it so goddamn hard? I don't even have a magical deficiency!" The black furred wolf cringed. His father could make circles as wide as their house with a single fingertip, effortlessly. So why could that man's en blood not put up a simple freaking holo-sign?
"Time for lunch. Let's hit the food court - we can all eat to our tastes there."
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"Magic is fickle... for some it works better than for others... its nothing wrong with you i promise." Waiven gave Shane a quick hug then slowly he reached into hispocket and pulled out a ring of many keys, he flipped through them until he found a small bronze looking one, "food courts it is then." he went to a nerby door and pushed the key into the lock, the edges of the door glowed, Waiven opened it and on the other side appeared to be their destination, "come on" he said with a smile
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"Those keys," Shane grinned and followed his friend. "Don't shut the door on Tom."
The food court was bustling with lunchtime hungry people and the smells were overwhelming but not unpleasantly so. It was a whole new world in here.
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Waiven looked at the courts and hugged himself. People were here... he slowly made his way in, he saw many furs giving him the eye, he looked to the floor and followed close behind Shane, "stop looking" he whispered low enough for only him to hear
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"You'd think all the locals would recognise you by now, but no, they all stare like you're a new and exciting option on some menu. You gotta get your body checked out, man!" Shans laughed as he looked around at all the franchises and establishments offering various edibles.
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Thomas sighed, stepping through the door. It gave him a weird feeling in his gut, much like riding a roller-coaster. He shook his head, the first thing he noticed was all of the people. A few of them were gazing at Waiven, so tom stood real close, attempting to show off the fact that Ven was his, without embarrassing him too much
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Shane held his head high but inside he screamed and coiled up. In their eyes they said:
Look at him, it's Shane Adarts, the Guardian's son! The expectations if the people were crushing Shane on a daily basis - but he'd never show it.
"I'm getting a sub." He promptly decided, making towards the Subway franchise.
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"Sh-Shut up.... You may be okay with the masses obsessing over you but to me it's so unnerving...." Waiven looked around he ually went straight towards chinese or something of the sort, but he really didnt want to eat alone either, "T-Thomas? Where would you like to eat?" he wanted something to hold onto just for today, he slowly hugged Thomas' arm and slightly hid behind him looking around, they still looked. Waivn however felt a little less nervous. "Is... is it alright if i do this?"
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"Of course you can do this!" Thomas said, a smile played across his lips. In all honesty, there was other things he wished Waiven would do, but that was for another time.
"What to eat...what to eat..." He muttered, looking around at his options. Most of them seemed really good. It took him a minute, but he decided on a Five Guy's burger joint. He walked over to it, Waiven in tow.
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Waiven hadnt eaten at Five Guy's before but heard about it. Of course he never was a fan of burgers. Chicken however.... was a yes. He hugged onto Thomas' arm a bit tighter and thought for a moment, although Thomas was blunt, he was sweet. He cared for him. Wait, was Waiven actully starting to... like Thomas? Waiven realised he was staring up to Thomas.
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Thomas looked down to Waiven with a wide smile, just looking into her eyes a moment
"so... What looks good?" The menu was quite simple; they had burgers, small burgers, and hot dogs. But they were damn good, he knew from experience. The fries were just to die for!
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Waiven blushed and looked away quickly, "t-two hot dogs... one with mustard and one with ketchup... large fries... and diet coke please.." Waiven gulped as his mind reeled
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"Alright..." Hearing the gulp and sensing something was wrong, Thomas said "hey, hey... I'm here for you. No need to be worried, Ven."
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Waiven looked back up to Thomas and nodded, a slight smile on his face. Hearing Thomas say that made him feel so happy for whatever reason, his chest tightened a little. Then bam. He knew he was changing back. From transition of female to male it was always much slower. Which Waiven liked allowing him to change clothes and wash the makeup off. "Thomas... i have to... 'change'" his chest shrunk down a bit more, "ill be back" he slowly pulled away from Thomas reluctantly nd rushed to the Mens room.
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Thomas gave a nod and a smile "Alright.... I'm going to order our food while you're in there." He gave a long, content sigh when he was out of earshot. He may not be the best people person, but he assumed he had just made some advances.
He walked up to the counter, and ordered for the both of them; the two hot dogs, the large fries, and the diet coke. He ordered himself a cheeseburger, plain, with barbecue sauce, along with a fountain drink. The fries, if he remembered correctly, would be good for the both of them.
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Waiven sat in stall and got his clothes out to change and quickly did so when his body would allow it. He came out with short bright blue hair, his face a it more defined and figure less curvy, his voice wasnt as smooh but even changing back to male there were still a few more features left femenine. He was stil looked at as he made his wy back to Thomas and hugged his arm.
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Thomas smiled, using his free arm to pat Waiven on the head "ah. There's out order!" He smiled, walking over to the counter with Waiven in tow. He cursed mentally as he realized that one arm wouldn't be enough to carry the tray. He turned to 'Ven, a small frown in his face
"Uh... I'm going to need you to let go so I can carry the food...okay?
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Harker sat on a public bench on the rooftop of the food court. He shivered a bit with the epic feeling of strong winds of high attitude blowing alongside his head and ruffling his feathers.
He lowered his head and looked at his phone. He was late for his friends' appointment. He saw the magic short message on the ring and arriving here in a hurry, but he is regretting for this decision now, How can he find them? Also, he is not terribly late, as The Roost opens only after dusk.....
A strong wave of dimensional magic wave suddenly swept over below him, making his goggles,which was integrated with a magic wave detector, vibrate slightly.He smiled, it seems that he is not terribly late. he stood up and walked downstairs, and easily see the black furred figure and a smaller figure with strong magical radiations emitting gradually by a counter.
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Waiven lowered his ears slightly, "o-oh... right... im sorry." he let go and blushed realising he actually felt better holding onto Thomas rather than not. He looked around for Shane and also for any other friends that may be arriving late. "i wonder where they all got to..."
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"It's okay... I like it too!" Thomas have a comforting smile, picking up the tray and quickly ferrying it to the table. "And I don't know where they got to... Fashionably late, probably." He sat, pulling a seat out for Waiven right next to him
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"Thank you" Waiven said as he took the seat Thomas had offerend him, he pulled the tray close and set his food onto the table. He scoot his chair slightly closer to Thomas and pick up a fry, "are they really as good as i hear?" he took a bite and gave a small squeal, "oh... oh wow...."
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"You're welcome!" Thomas smiled, plucking a French fry from the huge pile, giggling slightly when he saw 'Ven's reaction "heh... I take it you're amazed? I can't say much for the hotdogs... But the burgers... I would kill a man for these!"
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Waiven then began on his hot dogs, he took medium sized bites and took a swig of diet coke every time, he found they were quitegood but had to admit that he has had better. He didnt touch another fry until he finished his hot dogs, another little quirk he had. He then began on the fries, his paw pressed against Thomas'.Waiven let it linger there for a moment then quickly pulled away blushing. "Right... so what do we have planned for after we eat?"
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Thomas smiled, wolfing down his burger, bun side down because that's where they put the sauce "Hmm..." Thomas said in between mouthfuls of fries, his cream soda completely gone by now "a movie sounds good. Have you seen interstellar?"
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Shane howled internally and directed a few seconds of unadulterated wrath at Ven.
*I HATE THE PUBLIC EYE YOU D--K!* Shane snapped in his head, ugh tyke hurt that after all these years together Ven didn't know his he felt. He just stood in place a bit, among dazedly at an ordering board outside but howling and kicking at the furniture in his head.
Eventually he came back to himself and sighed tiredly. Just...better to just focus in the reunion.
Shane ordered his food and sat with the other two. He didn't say much, just collapsed on his chair and chomped on his meal. He wiggled his tail at the first bite - a well made sub was in his possession!
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Waiven tookanother quick look around for Shane, Waiven felt like something was wrong as they departed. Spending so much time with Shane... well of course he had developed feelings for him but, Shane really was oblivious, Waiven always tried everything he could to let him know with subtle hins and arm hugs like he had with Thomas. But Shane always seemed to act more brotherly rather than mate material, which made Waiven always feel a bit sad, he still hoped that Shane would do something. But Thomas... Waiven let out a small groan without realising it. He took one last look a spotted Shane. "H-Hey im just gonna go see Shane for a sec mkay?" Waiven needed time to think. He didnt know who he should want. What he should want. But he needed to know nonetheless. He stood and walked shyly over to Shane, "h-hey... are you... are you alright?" he had a concerned look as he asked Shane
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"Fine, like always. Why?" Shane smiled, his greatest folly. He took a swig if his iced coffee and another mouthful of his sandwich. He whipped out the Little Book of Magic and went to the fundamentals section - he did this as often as he breathed and blinked, and could do other things while reading it. Perhaps he even read it too much...
"I mean I'm fairly against that tree in the park now but hey, whatever."
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Waiven giggled and sat next to Shane nudging him a bit, "you always know how to get me to smile. So what do you think we should do after food?" He looked Shane up and down in a glance and then rested his head in his paws. "And why cant you just let me help you out? you never want me to teach you..."
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"No. I don't." Shane gave his food a pained expression. He sighed and grinned once more.
"You know what I'll be doing," he said, raising his hand and creating a small orange stability ring. As the crowd gasped and turned it's gaze on him, he had a thought.
Shane started working symbols and bridges up and along his arms as of he were making a holo sign. But he placed the symbols in and around the stability ring.
Soon he had built a simple fire circle.
It was humiliating. Having to build a goddamn spell like this. His father was so much better; so much more powerful. Shane let the circle burn and he stared into the fire as it flamed in his hand. He let his shame burn off along with the magical fire.
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Waiven looked at Shane's circle and gave a soft smile, "there's your problem... you think and focus too hard... im not saying you shouldnt try but... here..." Waiven grabbed Shane's paw very lightly, "magic isnt a single layer to most, sometimes you have to perform it several times before it becomes apparent, after that it should get easier but here," he slowly moved Shane's paw in slow circles, "you may not feel it at first either..... but just let it flow... dont be impaient or it blows up in your face... no pun intended...."
He always seemed ooser around Shane, probably because they have been around each other for so long. "Yes magic is explained in books as well.... but magic is mre feeling and emotion than just words on paper"
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"I know that." Shane mumbled as he focused on the circle. But of course what he felt was complicated - his emotion clouded his raw sensation, and that caused unnecessary destabilisation in the overall flow.
Shane had tried adding extra stability circles...but...a week in hospital in the burn ward had seen that as a failure.
Failure...
Failure...
Failure...
The ring started expanding...
"Sh-t, fu-k, no!" Shane yelped, closing his fingers around the circle as it grew right through them. The circle broke, and fire - !
The fire streamed around and over the heads of everyone and into an Absorption Miltilayer Circle which floated above the single claw of Tarin Adarts. Shane's father.
The huge black wolf laughed and stride past the group.
"It figured I'd find my boy here, about to cause another disaster in public. I thought you vowed never to endanger the general public again, after your big blow-up!" He laughed.
Shane stood up, anger in his eyes.
"Well I've improved a little," Shane said with a smile that spat daggers.
"Good for you," Tarin waved an airy hand.
"Yeah...good for me!" Shane's face twitched.
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Waiven had hung around Shane enough to figure out his angered smiles among other facades, he placed his paw on Shane's arm, he then smiled to Tarin, "Hi Mr.Adarts. How have you been?"
Waiven brushed his tail against Shane's back, he always enjoyed it when Waiven did that.
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"So. What 'amazing' new breakthrough have you come up with this time?" Tarin asked sarcastically enough.
The furs nearby grinned and laughed - what a day to witness some loving banter between their hero and his son.
*I WANT TO KILL YOU!* Shane thought.
"Just something helpful." He smiled dangerously.
"Really? Do show." Tarin picked at his son's food. Shane growled - out loud - and created a circle about the size of his head. Again symbols coursed along his arm.
"Are you going to show me or explain it like a fool?" Tarin sighed, thinking a holo-sign was coming.
Shane built up the spell...
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"Sh-Shane... dont let him antagonize you... " he gripped Shane's arm, "please..." he whispered
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*Now!* Shane thought. The symbols flashed and arranged themselves in the circle.
-Wham! wha-wha-wham! Wham!- five fireballs exploded out of the circle and flew at Tarin, who with an airy wave of his hand had the fireballs dissipate in one of his own huge circles.
"I trust that effect was a mistake, boy." He said with a grin and a sword in his tone.
"No. It wasn't actually." Shane growled.
"Would you like to face off outside, boy? As Guardian and Trainee?" Tarin challenged.
"About time you asked, you relic!" Shane stood up with an air of fury, no longer caring about the public or how they viewed him and his family.
"Hm, eager. What about your previous reunion?" Tarin said with a condescending smile. He expected Shane to back down, however:
"That can wait, don't ya think!?" Shane stood, turned and wormed his drink. Furious, he tossed it into the central waste bin and made to the exit in a huff. Tarin grinned. This wouldn't last long.
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Waiven had made his way outside along with the crowd wanting to see the battle, he looked to Shane then Tarin, "Shane please be careful" he said quietly
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"Back off!" Shane glared at Ven wild-eyed.
Tarin struck his signature pose, bent at odd angles and with a finger in the air. Shane squared off and started building circles in both hands. So far the only thing coming into his head was the Five-Strike Fireball. Tarin grinned and a circle as wide as a football field expanded on his claw.
Shane growled low.
Tarin smiled.
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Waiven winced at Shanes outburst and kept away with the crowd.
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Mean while, back at where Shane, Thomas, and Waiven had met in the first place, stood a very confused looking newt. His name was Niv and he was looking for where his friends were. "Didn't they say to meet here...oh no did they leave without me! Oh no this is bad...hey wait a minute." Niv adjusted his glasses and noticed a blast mark near a public bench. "Hmm..." Niv looked around and saw a security camera on one of the poles. He carefully directed his thoughts to the camera to start hacking. Within seconds he had access, he played through all the footage in his head and saw all the events that transpired, including what his friends did. "So there at the food court. If i hurry maybe i can catch them. Oh man i hate running." With that he cut the connection and began running to the food court.
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"Moyasu!" Shane roared, junking to to the left and loosing a volley. He stared reconstructing a new circle as the old one expired.
"Burn it up," Tarin muttered and sent a column of fire down from a single point in the huge circle to extinguish his child's.
Shane moved closer and loosed another volley, again recreating a circle in his hand. He couldn't keep it up long, his concentration would waver.
Tarin smiled and made two circles with his free hand; one in his index and end fingers. The first blocked the oncoming Fivestrike Fireball and the other returned the favour.
Unable to shoot so accurately Shane turned to dodge. His concentration slipped and both circles he held exploded. The raw magic manifested in two small pressure caves which sent Shane far to the side.
He had wasted all that energy just to lose ground.
And what was worse, more Fivestrikes were coming...
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Waiven gripped his hands tight together, "Shane!" he was worry eyed
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As Harker went downstairs, a strong blast of fire magic power suddenly bursted that filled the whole HUD on his goggle with a bright red color. And he could feel, even without the wave detector, strong powers concentrating towards the previous spot. He could easily see two figures standing, both having magic squares in their hand, and recognizing one of them as Shane, the other, to his surprise, is his mysterious and heroic father, with a gigantic magic circles in hand.
"Oh my, now this is a mess......" He backed off a step subconsciously,with that a glowing white magic square appeared on his hand, expanding quickly to almost one meter diameter."Border......Double Barrier."
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Waiven glanced around feeling a familiar energy, "H-Harker?" he quickly decided to worry about it lter and focuse on the battle, he placed his paws together and bowed his head with eyes closed, "please dont get hurt.... please stay safe..."
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Shane panicked as the fireballs approached out of thin air, no less than seven Fivestrike Fireball spells of varying strength and size materialised before him. They all fired at the same time, engulfing the oncoming strike and moving towards Terin. He simply destroyed them in several columns of fire.
"Come on! Move!" The old wolf goaded. Shane couldn't. He was so tired; the panic reaction had consumed double the required magic and had eaten at his body strength too.
Terin harrumphed, allowing the spell in the air to dissipate. Then he simply flicked a finger upwards. A circle appeared under Shane and detonated, sending him into the dirt on the other side of the crowd.
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Waiven looked to Tarin then to Shane, he wanted to stop this. But he also knew Shane wouldnt appreciate it, "what do i do?" he clutched his hair and teared up, "just stop... please"
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Niv was running as fast as he could and finnally he reached the food court. He was almost competely out of breath as he stood slumped over gasping for breath. Not only that his skin was drying out now. He pulled a water bottle out of his backpack and began pouring it out on his head and all over his body, which got him more than a few weird looks. He finally caught his breath but in the distance he could see some smoke from what looked like...explosions. he saw another security camera and began hacking that with no problem at all. He was often surprised by how easy it was to get through these things. Pushing those thoughts aside he searched through the system till he found the right camera. Through it he saw Shane who was currently in a magic duel with...Tarin. "Oh no. This could end badly." Lennox cut his connection with the system and began to hurry once more to where he saw the magical duel.
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Shane lay in the dirt belly down and his head to the side. His arm was dislocated and the cut above his eye was bleeding more heavily than before. The crowd was cheering Tarin for the lesson he had dealt his trainee and son.
*I can't move...my arm...I think it hurts. I'm too tired to tell. I'm...I'm angry. At him...at those stupid people...at myself...I've ruined everything...thank god...only...two of...them...came...*
Shane couldn't hold on much longer - that magic had taken too much of a toll. Shane was done; he had no control. A tear wet his fur as he passed out and wet himself.
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The square in Harker's hand finally formed completely,two transparent walls raised from the ground,one covered his whole body in a sphere fashion, one divided the two duelers with the crowd.
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Waiven rushed to Shane and sobbed hysterically, "sh-shane... Shane its... gonna be okay ill have you fixed upilll... oh god this is bad these are magic locked i cant... what i dont know i dont... i dont know!"
He stood with a face wet with tears and stood before Tarin, Waiven then looked to the crowd, "quiet" a gust blew though at the crowd strongly. He turned back to Tarin. The crowd had silenced.
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"Mmph?" Tarin asked and straightened up. He tilted his head and phased through the shield separating him from the world. He stared down at his son.
"Looks like he overdid it. To be honest, I'm actually impressed."
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Waiven gave a look of total disbelief and sadness, "you... you dont even care that you just practically mangled your son?" Waiven became mad, he lashed out to anyone who hurt those close to m no matter who they were, "what... what is wrong with you?" A magic circled formed behind Waiven, "go before... before i do something youll regret..."
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Explosion, that's all Harker saw, violent energy threw His friend up into the air and back to the ground, And one of the invisible barriers shattered easily.
“Dammit!” Harker formed another circle, this time light green, filled with healing energy.
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"In case you were unaware, I'm a Guardian-Class Mage. And you're still an untested AND unregistered kid. It is at my grace that anyone casts magic upon the face or within the airspace of this island. Furthermore, when this island was at risk of annexation I - at his age - stood up to the mark when all were jeering or despairing around me. I broke all of my limbs and suffered damage to my core throughout my training. The boy has much more than I did when I began: he has an innate ability to wield fire magic thanks to myself and his mother. He has no need to train hard because people are dying. So in my eyes, and the eyes of everyone present - just in case you can't see - this little incident is not altogether extreme."
Terin placed a foot on Shane's shoulder blades and kicked down. Shane wheezed in his sleep as his arm popped back into place.
"There's my intervention. Try putting a tag on his head before all the controls for his video games leak out."
With that Terin turned smartly in his heel and strode away.
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"Dont you dare touch him!" the space in font of Tarin imploded and distorted slightly then burst out very powerfully
Waiven shook his head, "you.... you sicken me...." the circle grew larger" i dont care what class you are i dont care who you are... you have no right..." images of his past flashed through his mind,
Broken glass....
Blood
Yelling
he never told anyone of his past nor did he want them to. But seeing Shane like this just triggered pained thoughts. He wanted to keep a nice quiet life, but for now he wanted to slip. Unregistered... untested... there was a reason. "No more tears.... I shall shatter the pain..." his words echoed something familiar as if they were said by someone else before long ago.
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A bright green beam of high purity magic emitted from the circle on Harker's hand onto Shane's body, with that wounds and burns on his body cured visibly.
Meanwhile he peered worriedly towards Waiven, which was concentrating on another magic attack.
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Shane gasped and grabbed wildly at Waiven's ankle, the magic kicking him back into the waking world.
"Don't do it he'll kill you!" He gasped again and fell back, writhing a little. He lay still but stared at the circle growing along the ground. It was pretty.
"Save...save your...strength...dancing...we're supposed to be dancing tonight..." Shane huffed.
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"no i wont... i wont let him stand there and make a mockery of one of the only two people i fell in love with!!!!" the circle then shrunk down to nothing for a moment then expanded, it was the size of the island, "i..." he looked down to Shane and teared up, "i hate seeing you hurt Shane... i wanna keep you... i wanna keep everyone from being hurt.from Thomas being hurt... from Harker and.... and" he sobbed and sunk down holding Shane to his chest, the circle dispersed, "you dummy... you know i dont know how to dance"
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"I'm telling you...don't. You'll just bring dishonour to the family...just back off..." Shane gripped Ven's ankle harder. His eyes unfocused a second.
"Hey! I got an idea...why, why don' we all go tale me to hospit - !"
Shane collapsed. Terin had left.
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Waien held him closer and then looked to Harker, Waiven's eyes red and a bit puffy, he sniffled. "ill take him to the medic Mages.... im sorry... we should be back in a few minutes...." a yellow circle glowed below them and slowly lifted upward, they disappeared as the circle passed up them. They then materialised on an ER table, "Medics!!!!" Waiven yelled as he stroked Shane's hair
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A startled female fur poked her head around the corner, ears raised.
...
It took about half an hour to get Shane up and running again. His magic was fully stocked and he was recharged physically was well. Physically he was bright-eyed and bushy tailed when he was discharged from the hospital.
"Well, that was that!" He said as he entered the waiting room on the way out. He had insisted on being alone during the process of getting him healed up. Especially since his clothes had needed washing too.
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Harker, who has just cleaned up the mess the fight caused,flew over and landed on the window of the waiting room.He saw Shane and waved.“Hey, you got better now?Sorry for my reckless actions,I'm really not an expert on healing magics.”
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"It's fine. Thanks, Hark. So you got the invite after all! Where've you been lately?" Shane grinned charmingly and sat, feeling a little sore from all the external magics that had been used on him recently.
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Waiven was asleep on the opposite wall in a two person chair of the waiting room, his fur wet frim tears.
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"Hey." Shane said softly, nudging Waiven's shoulder. He took a step back and held one arm in his hand, looking away.
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Waiven opened his eyes and sleepily looked up at Shane, his eyes instantly shot open as he lunged forward and held onto Shane tightly, "you scared me. i didnt know what to do i..i just.... but you are alrigh right?"
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"Hey, get o - no...I have no right to speak to you." Shane smiled sadly and did his best to return the hug. His tail flopped sadly from side to side as he buried his head in Ven's shoulders.
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"What? why wouldnt you?" Waiven stroked the back of his head affectionately
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"I should've listened to you when you told me to stop...but no, I just stupidly barged in like an idiot and got myself hurt." Shane half laughed and drew away from the hug, as nice as it was.
"So...mate, I think I pissed myself! Um...did...do you think anyone...?"
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Thomas sighed, walking into the waiting room, his hands in his pockets. He had left during the fight; he couldn't use magic, and most healing magics could not be used on him, like a great many other non-Mage furs (which is why medicine exists in the first place) So, he had left, found a shooting range, and shot at little paper targets, pretending they were the source of all if his problems. Right now, he still carried his knife openly, and a .45 caliber pistol in a concealed holster by his thigh.
He walked to waiven, a grim frown on his face "Hello..." He said with a sigh "that sucked..."
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"I'm really sorry!" Shane moaned, clutching his face and turning away in shame. He still didn't know if the rest of the world knew about what had happened to him after the fight.
"Are you guys...still with me? Like, are we all cool to get into The Roost still?"
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Thomas gave a light chuckle, and a shrug "I'm not the biggest fan of clubs, but hey, free sh-t!" He smiled sitting next to him "hey... I can teach ya to shoot, if ya want. I'm quite good at it."
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"No-ho, no, I've done enough today." Shane backed off and grinned.
"But thanks. Anyway, you and Ven gotta live a little! Gotta dance bro!"
Shane grinned and made out the door, gesturing the others to follow.
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Thomas laughed "ha! Yeah. That's for sure." He stood, following Shane to the exit, pulling Waiven along with him "so... Where are these tunnels at? And we might need climbing gear. I wanna use my climbing gear!"
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"Oh, you and your bloody climbing gear! Bring it along but unless the island broke up a bit we shan't be needing it." Shane laughed, unsure about what to make of the 'that's for sure' comment. He tried not to take it personally. He whipped out his book of magical fundamentals and promptly buried his nose in it as he walked.
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"Aww..." He gave a huff "I wanted to be like an adventurer! I'm not gonna bring it if we don't need it."
He meant no malice when he said 'that's for sure.' He was just simply saying that Shane had done a lot, had been hospitalized, and had done enough stuff for today.
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"No it wasnt your fault, youre dad came in looking for a fight with you and he aitated you... i wouldve done the same thing" he gripped a bit tighter, "but please be more careful"
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"Let's just drop it. So are we heading to the caves now or what? All the birds are disappearing and the sun is doing the same! Oh, are we waiting to get Tom's gear or...?"
Shane smiled as he looked back at his friends before once note book-facing.
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"I've a flashlight. That's really all I'll need if it's as you said." He gave a shrug and a sigh "and you're right, we should drop it. It's over now, no need to bring it back up. Let's go get free sh-t!"
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"YEAH!" Shane barked happily, his tail vibrating like crazy.
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Waiven giggled and looked to the two, "so ummm... are you two gonna.. dance with me?"
he said nervously
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Thomas blushed a moment "well... If it's okay with you... Yeah! I'd love to!" He smiled at Waiven, giving a sigh. He felt like he should say something... But that's for later.
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"Jesus H. Christmas just KISS ALREADY!" Shane laughed uproariously as he plodded along.
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"W-what?" Thomas said, jumping slightly, his face turning a deep shade of red "I... I wouldn't...." He looked away, rubbing the nape of his neck
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"shane!" Waiven groaned, there he went again as happy as ever. He looked to Thomas.
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"Oh, too eager for old time stuff? Just wanna jump right in huh?" Shane laughed, skipping back and pressing both of his friends faces closer...
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Waiven blushed hard, he let out a squeal and swung his paw, an invisible force flying with it blowing hard against Shane enought to scoot him back
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"Ow! Hey, no Kenisis magic! Geeze I - I...you two aren't...?" Shane suddenly asked, dumbstruck.
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Thomas gave a sardonic chuckle "we aren't together...no." He sighed "b-but... I'm uh... Single!" He looked to Waiven, smiling nervously
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Waiven looked at the floor, "i-im stilll... im still single too." His mind was drawing blanks. "oh god what do i say? theyre looking at me... say something!" he thought kicked himself mentally as he thought but no words came
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"Huh. So does...that make you guys gay? Cause Ven...but no, Ven can be a girl...but only physically..." Shane trailed off. Then his ears perked right up and he pointed a finger in the air.
"How long have you guys been gay?" He asked, by far more curious than anything else - there wasn't a trace of anger it accusation on his voice at all!
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Glad for the distraction, thomas turned to Shane, the proper words formulating in his head as he spoke "I don't know. Truth is... I dunno. Is it really gay, though?"
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Waiven shook his head, "Shane... you are so rude... and mean" he gave one of those bambi eyed im-about-to-cry faces, his lower lip quivered, "e-ever since i can r-remember... i-ive always found an interest in guys... a-and girls..."
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"Oh, okay. So...is that...bisexual? Yay, Ven is bi! And I dunno if it's gay or not, tom, given Ven does what he does occasionally...anyway if you start dating and the free food thing's a bust, imma pay for you to eat together mmkay?" Shane grinned and grabbed both if his buddies by the shoulders. Dragging them close.
"Man, being grown up is a weird new world huh?"
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"after ll the years we spent together... does Shane... really not like me? i... im so cnfused... i like him... no could i love him? yes... i think..." his thought cut off as he was dragged along, unknowingly he let theat thought slip into Shane's head, Waiven had problems as a child of doing that, it often found him in tight spots and didfficult situations, of course now he only let a thought slip if something really troubled him... and boy did this trouble him
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"Waiven... Could we..." He sighed, shaking his head. 'Screw it.' Thomas decided. He was going to be blunt, damn the consequences. "Waiven, I love you." Thomas said, immediately closing his eyes and giving a sigh "I...I want to be with you, if that's...." He shook his head again, mentally cursing himself. He had lost his steam! And so early on too.
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"i think i love Thomas too..." the rest of that thought remained in his head as he froze and looked to Thomas, "Thomas... i dont know what to say..." he looked up at him and blushed, "i... i do... too..." Waiven fidgeted nervously
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Niv finally caught up to everyone after getting turned around several time. Even when he had seen where he was suppose to go. However the moment he arrived he heard Thomas say "Waiven, i love you." Niv paused and quickly cleaned his glasses which had gotten blurry during his rush here. He put them back on to confirm what he was hearing. Thomas was looking right at Waiven as he said these things. Niv, not wanting to interupt, slowly backed into the crowd. He then tripped on someones foot and fell backwards, landing on top of his backpack which exploded with water. "No! My water!" Niv frantically, while on the ground, tried to salvage as much water as he could but to no evail.
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Waiven turned to the mess of water and Niv, "Niv? is that you?" he said with a smile, he got on his knees next to Niv and helped him sit up, "gosh its been a while huh?" he lifted his paw to the wet mess and made his paw glow a soft blue, the water raised into the air and slowly the conttainer fixed itself, the water returned back inside it.
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"O-oh Waiven, t-thanks for the help, but sorry to interrupt your uh...moment." Niv picked himself up with the help of Waiven and put his backpack back on. He wiped the water off his glasses using his quick drying shirt and blinked a little.
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Thomas sighed, standing there with his eyes closed after a moment, he opened them.
"Hey, Niv." Thomas said, rather curtly. He quickly turned to Waiven
"So...does this...does this make it official?"
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"Its not a pblem Niv, anything for a friend." Waiven looked to Thomas and thought for a moment, "i... i dont know... maybe... let me think okay? its been very chaotic the past few hours and i need to settle down before i make any rash decisons..."
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"Alright." Thomas said with a nod they have had a chaotic past couple of hours, he was right. So he would wait, let him decide. God did he hope he said yes. "to the club, then?"
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Waiven stood nxt to Thomas and nodded, "the club"
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"The club, oh no." Niv looked very nervous right now. Sure he was old enough to drink, but he just had a low tolerance. Plus he hated large groups of people, they made him nervous.
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"Relax, Niv, you'll be fine!" Thomas smiled at him "Now, where the hell did Shane go? He was the one that was gonna take us there."
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Waiven ooked to Niv, "i know exactly what you mean Niv..." he may not be able to drink but Waiven thought of the club, bodies mashed up against each other, a flirtatious no holds bard for anyone on the dancefloor. And they want him to dance... which he also dint know how to do..
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Clubs weren't his thing, either, thomas thought. The music was just too loud for him. The people weren't a problem, they generally stayed away from him when they saw his knife. And he had cut several people that didn't. "Mneh... Clubs are okay. Free stuff, though!"
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Waiven giggled, "yes free stuff and we will all be together right? we an watch each others backs"
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"Yup. There's that." Thomas sighed, patting Waiven on the back "be shall be of stronk like bull!" Thomas said, in his best imitation Russian accent
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"I guess i could go...but don't expect me to do much." Niv was thinking of just finding someplace to hide, but he thought it would rude to do that to his friends.
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Waiven settled into Thomas's side and blushed a bit,"i.. i hope you dont mind..." he was thinking aout yes but it didnt mea he couldnt be affectionate of either guy, Thomas felt warm and safe.
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Niv started to feel a little awkward as they started to get close to one another. He coughed a little bit. "Should we get going or wait for Shane." Niv said a little sheepishly.
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Waiven thought for a moment then decided, "lets go, Shane... well he usually needs a little space to himself for a bit when stuff like this goes down...." He pulled away from Thomas and started to pull out his keys again, this time he picked out a green and purple metal key, he went to the nearest locked door and placed the key inside and turned it, light glowed around the edges and music started booming fro m the other side. Waiven gulped and opened the door slowly.
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Niv began to slowly follow Waiven and Thomas as they entered the door. The music was so load that, if he had ears they would probably be damaged right now. There was also a whole lot of people, which really made him uncomfortable. He held on to Thomas's shirt almost hugging him as if for dear life.
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"Christ..." Thomas muttered under his breath " that's loud." He sighed "hey, 'Ven, I've got some ear protection at my plane... You have a portal to the hangars?"
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(((Meanwhile, thousands of miles away... - LittleKuriboh Yu-Gi-Oh abridged movie reference. Gear)))
Shane walked around the caves, burning a small consistent flame circle which he had looked up on his phone - he had once thumped through his father's guardian class examination textbook and had memorised quite a few circle laws with which he had made a veritable dictionary of flame type circles.
Well, maybe taking photos of his handiwork wasn't a dictionary...or 'looking up' but who knew, let alone cared?
Where was everyone? Did Ven use those keys again? Gosh, where was their sense of adventure?
Ven got to the exit door and gave it a push. Nothing. He gave it a pull.
DOOM DOOM DOOM DOOM went the music as the strobe lights messed with his brain and caused the fire clicked to fizzle out.
Shane flattened his ears and grinned, seeing the others. He waved and called out -
Everything went quiet. Eventually all eyes were on the non-avian group.
"He-heyyyyy...we win, right?" Shane tried. Silence.
Then the area erupted into cheers, whooping and laughter as the music pumped up again. Shane laughed in relative silence as the music drowned him out as he neared his friends.
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Thomas gave a smile, whooping and dancing along with the music. He looked around, and saw only avians...weird. Why had no one used the tunnel that Shane had used? Or used magic like Waiven did?
'Maybe they did...just aren't here to show it.' He thought, his hand on his knife. He saw Shane, pulled him close, and shouted just barely over the music; even people right next to him wouldn't hear him!
"Hey! Shane! Something's off, man!"
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"Oh yeah? Like what? Want me to prod the DJ?" Shane whooped and bounced around, tail flailing. He gave a passing lady avian a quick look over and grinned even wider.
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"Like... If you found out about that tunnel, how come no one else did?" Thomas shook his head. It was probably nothing. But he wouldn't get drunk, he decided. Just in case.
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"Cause it's in the forest, dummy! You used the keys didn't you? Ven's! Well I had to fight of six packs of bloodthirsty wild Draulves just to get here!"
Shane laughed and spun. Of course it was the perfect escape route and a rubbish way out; avo and could fly over the wild Draulv packs but ground-bound furs could not.
For reference, Draulves were wild abominations spawned by magic. They looked like lizard/wolf hybrids with scales and frills - and bad attitudes. They had ugly beaked faces and as yet not a single Anthro Draulv existed.
"You're not going Mitary minded are you, huh tom? Thinking everyone's a psycho killer or something? Come on man, dance! Kiss Ven! Live it up!"
Shane was delighted, and before he knew it he and the avian girl he had eyed off earlier were grinding against each other in some other part of the dance floor.
(((Brb; 20 minutes approx. back in time to post again - Gir)))
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"Draulves..." Thomas muttered. Weren't they avian? He have a small laugh, thinking of bird-hitler, a short robin in the classic nazi-uniform 'HEIL!' It shouted in his thoughts, eliciting a chuckle from him
"Not bloody paranoid man! It's just, me senses an ambush!"
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Waiven was in he middle of the crowd, somehow or another he was sucked into the dancing mass, men and women alike grinded against him, he gave out small yelps and gasps as he was also grabbed in about every place imaginable, eventually an avian guy with pretty defined physique was holding onto him, he was tall and whispered sweet nothings into his ear, the avian then lowered his head and kissed down Waiven's neck tenderly as he wrapped his arms around him, Waiven too shy but too entranced by this guy to pull away,
"T-Tom. Shane someone... anyone... help.." he thought to himself. something was wrong... it was like he was starting to lose focus on everything but the avian hunk, "p-please i... mmfff!" his lips mashed against the birds beak as he hungrly kissed Ven.Waiven went bright red
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Shane sighed and gave his lady friend a wink before twirling off to the scene of Ven's distress. He tapped the huge bird on the shoulder and smiled politely as he made to step between them. He couldn't see if Ven was make or female in the lights flashing around...
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Thomas took a brief look around, spotting Waiven. He was getting grabbed, groped, and grinned upon, but tom thought nothing of it; so was he.
Then, he saw the big mountain of flesh begin to kiss Waiven! So, he stormed over there, a look of furor on his face. He growled, knife drawn, navigating through the crowd behind the mountain.
He took a deep breath, delivering a Heavy kick to the back of his kneecap, forcing him down. He put his knife up to the bird's throat, and said, as quietly as he could "don't you touch him. Don't you ever touch him!"
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"Hey!" Shane hissed, activating a fire magic circle of unknown origin.
"I had it under control, the f**k are you doing!? Just cool it or we'll be kicked out! Just come get some food!"
(((Plot imminent; two of two criteria remaining - Gir)))
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"Sh-t man... Sorry." He released the avian from his grip "it's just...well, you know." He sighed, closing his eyes and pursing his lips "you got the message, yeah?"
((Aww... Almost bedtime for me :( ALL THE COOL STUFF HAPPENS WHILE IM ASLEEP!
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Waiven was weak kneed and shook as he fell to his hands and knees, "s-somethings not... not right..." his breaths short gasps.
Tha avian held himself back from taking on Tom and simply went back into the crowd but not before he gave Waiven a wink.
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"Jeez, who was he anyway!? Hey, you alright buddy?" Shane asked after the guy before turning to Ven.
"Come on. Why don't we all just go the the dining area and eat something. Them we can all get pissed, dance like crazy, maybe throw up and wake up someplace we've never been before. Maybe next to a stranger if we're lucky..."
Shane was no longer sure of what he was saying. He shook himself off and laughed.
"Come on, let's go eat! We're causing a scene anyway!"
(((I'll hold the action back if you like, nai. Sleep tight buddy! - Gir)))
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Harker crashed into the gate frenzily,even with the magic-resist lab coat on. He easily recognized the furred--instead of feathered--figures in the club corner.“Hey guys sorry imma late! Emergency call from the thaumaturgy lab!” He called out.
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Somewhere else in the crowd, Niv was pushed to the ground by a very large avian. "Owww...what was that for?" Niv whined and the Avian and several others laughed. "You know damn well why, lizard boy." The Avian towered over him as he layed on the ground. "I'm not not a lizard, I'm a newt." Niv protested. "Lizard, Newt, doesn't matter. You still bruise the same." The Avian cracked his knuckles and two others looked ready to join in. "Hey look at that girl behind you." The Avians turned around to see what he was talking about and got blasted in the eyes by some of the laser lights. Good thing he hacked those earlier. "Guys help!" Niv picked himself up and ran to find Thomas or Waiven. "Get that bastard!" Said the large avian after clearing his sight and they chased after him.
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Aiven raised his paw and created a clear barrier btween Niv and the avians, they smacked right into the barrier, "go Niv" He was furious... furious about being kissed, that was.... his first... and he didnt even like the guy... he teared up and flung the avians away before falling against Shane crying softly and clinging to him for dear life, "i dont think we shouldve come..."
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Hearing tumult from the crowd,Harker hovered in the air and easily saw the bulky bald eagle chasing the newt he know. He took out a device about the size of a phone from the coat pocket.“Stop it!” He shouted as magical energy begin to concentrate on it.
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((my dad doesnt know it, but im on ma ipad right now! action away!))
Thomas stood there, pained slightly to see waiven clinging to shane. he sighed deeply, laser lights playing across his face as he closed his eyes to avoid being blinded "let's just... yeah... eat." he shook his head, heading tto the bar. he hated clubs, anyways.
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Niv saw what Waiven did and silently thanked him. He ran through the crowd and saw Thomas by the bar. He ran over and sat next to him. "Hey Thomas. I hope your not to busy but i could use some help." Niv said looking behind him, the avians were still looking for him, but it seems they have lost track of him for the moment.
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Waiven soon followed behind Thomas, "i want... i want to talk" he said between sniffles and sobs, he sort of fell against Thomas and kept crying. "Can we... eat somewhere quiet in here?" he looked to the quie rooms made specially for eating without too much of a disturbance. Of course it cost about ten bucks every ten minutes to stay in it
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(((Okay kids enough of this noisy play - time for a real calamity!)))
The lights went out and the music stopped. The babble rose and fell until everyone in the Roost was quiet. Nothing moved.
And then the worst possible sound came forth:
A long, low drone. The Sky Pirate alarm.
An avian rushed from the lower deck where all the windows were to the upper floor where everyone else was.
"It's the Skaila! The Skaila Armada are here!"
The Skaila armada were the most powerful and feared pirate gang in all of ye northern hemisphere. They operated like the military and were large enough to get the actual soldiers running for cover. Their spaceship-like airships were armed to the teeth and generally bladed. What's more, they usually had large bladed wings and accessories on the faces if their ships as well.
A cannon shot - likely from a main gun on a frigate class - rocked the entire island. The dark Roost flashed red as a titanic magic circle that could only be one of Terin's lit up the night sky. A titanic boom rocked the island as an airship exploded.
Then the real party started.
"EVERYONE OUT!" Screamed a hysterical avian as the steady gunfire if at least thirty airships pelted relentlessly into the island, tipping it off balance by several degrees. Everyone knew that in a few seconds enough if the island would be destroyed for it to start sinking.
Because when the Skaila Armada showed up, very few EVER survived...
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Waiven panicked his breathing quickened. He was wide eyed. "Why? why us? why now?" he asked himself as everyone scrambled for the exits.
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Niv began to panic "Oh god we are all going to die!" His skin was drying out and he quickly poured water on his head.
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"I...I...I..." Shane gibbered madly, nailed in place and his mind reeling. His head was full of equations, bridges, arrays, runes, circles and matrices.
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As Niv poured water on himself, he began to calm down a little bit and think. "I am going to get access to the security, maybe i can get an idea of where the pirates are." And with that he began to hack the security system. It was actually a bit more difficult then other systems and he felt a a little strain to get in.
((I may need some help AJ to tell where the pirates are.))
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(((Assuming the cave entrance is south, the DJ table is opposite - north. The stairs to the lower deck and the location of the 29-strong fleet is west. East is the rest of the island above ground, and the eating area... - Gir)))
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"f-ck..." thomas cursed, turning to waiven "hmm... those airships... they proably have reactors. waiven, can you portal us into there? a well placed explosion could cripple one of their ships."
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Waiven had to do something. He snapped out of his self pity daze and flung his paw out, energy swirled and expanded into a dome around him and his friends,"what do we do? this barrier keeps us from being noticed but for only about thirty minutes"
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Niv looked through the system and through one of fhe cameras he saw 29 pirate ships all in firing position. "Oh god." Niv cut the connection, not wanting to see any more. He did however look where the bathroom door was and he knew Waiven had a transport key. "If we can get to the bathroom door and use the key we could get to the hanger and use mine and Tom's planes to escape."
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"hey, ven! i say again; can your portals get us inside those ships?" They likely ran on either nuclear or magic power; both of which could be disturbed by him and his party.
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"...but what about the armed pirates?"
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"KILL!" Shane grinned madly. His fur began to glow a weird black-grey colour. He splayed both hands and magic circles extended out to the length if a standard Airship primary cannon: about 700 meters or so.
His eyes were tiny dots and all of his fur stood in end. The circles blew holes in the earth from the wall to the outside - further dagibg the structural integrity if the island and Roost.
Above, Terin had recharged another super heavy Guardisn class spell. Furry comets rained down on the closest ship to the island as each of Shane's circles let off Fivestrike Fireballs. It was like watching uncontrolled machine gun fire as thousand DS of fireballs exploded fr the long live of circles Shane had made.
This was it! The legendary Break that every Mage experienced.
A Break was like a mage's puberty; a hyper powerful spell cast would suddenly happen, and everything else after that for a month was just pure improvement. From there a Mage would plateau out to his or her natural power level unless they trained to become a higher class of user.
More and more fireballs flew as Shane - !
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...was shot.
The roost exploded as a medium sized gun blew the bottom half of the island to pieces. Only half of the Roost - thankfully near the cave exit - was connected to the island.
The other half plummeted down - and Shane was on it.
All anyone could see as he fell was a large fire magic circle that malfunctioned as Shane's Break expended itself, blowing the falling half of the roost to even smaller fragments.
Shane's screams faded quickly into nothingness as he disappeared completely from sight or sense.
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“Modified class Whirlwind......Magic powered, four double 200mm guns, equals a total mess.” Harker mourned through a project magic.“Those metal beasts' arcane reactor are one of the earlier model and will resonate with right magic pulse then shut down.”
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thomas just stood there, blowing and huffing loudly. situations like these made him wish he had magic. but he didn't, so he would settle for his A-10. at least those damned pirates were getting a what-for. a pretty badass what-for! but he wasnt concious to see shane knocked into the ocean; cannon fire shook something loose, and the next thing he knew, he was out cold on the floor.
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“Dammit!” Harker exclaimed as a pure white magic square formed in a flash and shot out from his hand downwards towards falling Shane, At the same time, a same larger square formed next to him. This is the only type of portal magic Harker can master.
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The rest of the roost flowed red as Tarin made his entrance in a fiery teleportation spell - all of his magic was flame-inclined.
"It figures you boys are in here! Hurry up and get out; get to the airship on the surface before they push further!"
Terin raised a while hand and made a magic circle outside if the island, which speared through an enemy ship, doing little more than charring the structure but overheating and killing a lot if it's crew. It sunk a little, of only a few meters.
"Where's Shane!? Where is my son!?" Terin bellowed, again activating his magic and rage ting the Whirlwind Class airship as it angled itself and fired a few rounds at the island.
The black-furred Guardian looked wildly around. Had Shane cast that spell before? And where in Gaia's name was he now!?
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Niv couldn't believe what he saw. "Shane...they killed him...you bastards!!!" Niv was filled with rage. He directed his mind staight at the pirate ship that blew Shane away. He began to hack their core engine. His head felt like it was on fire, but he got through. He forced the engine to overload itself and the whole ship blew up. Niv held his head in pain, he didn't think he could do that again.
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Harker raised to dodge a volley of ice bolts as he casted a psychic scanning spell through his goggles, Shane was still below and conscious, but how......? Harker dove downwards within a flash of dynamic magic.
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"WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" Terin roared, unaware that his child was down there and stopping Harker with a solid circle.
"You can't run that way! Doing so will only get you killed! Come on - all of you! Run to the escape ship!" Terin barked, grabbing as many of the gang as he could with his hands and magic. He carried them all the way through the caves and out into the upper forest as the rest if the Roost fell away.
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Shane was terrified. He was tired. He was also kind of sad.
*I had my Break!* he thought sadly. *but it wasn't enough...now nobody will see what I can do...I'll never be able to impress my friends like I've dreamed...and now I've lured them to their deaths...everyone I love...is dead...*
With that thought Shane hit something very hard, and very fast. It was a descending Skaila Armada airship. His leg caught on a bladed vane and was ripped clean off as he hurtled - now unconscious - into the bowels of the slowly sinking pirate ship...likely never to be seen again.
(((What a happy tale... - Gir)))
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“No......”Harker pulled up and flew swiftly from as he made a phone call midair,to his former classmate Hirato Satori, the only fur he can think for help,for his diemensional department have the largest arcane teleportation factility in the archipalgo.
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Terin got to the surface and dropped the 'kids'. Buildings were on fire. Furs were dead. Pirates had landed a ship on the island and were starting raids. The sunset only backlit the horror with a blood red sky.
One neared the group and Terin smote him with a flaming sword and shield spell. He was about to turn and bark at the group to run, but a part of the island fell away in front of them as an airship rose with its guns pointed downwards at them.
Terin roared silently and extended his shield.
Gunfire roared like the sound of chains scraping along metal, endlessly sliding along until darkness consumed the group...
BREAK! OPENING ACT COMPLETE.
BREAK! ACT TWO: THE SHARDS OF MY LIFE I HAD - OPEN!
(((Refer to OOC thread for Act 2 - Gir)))
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Waiven had hyperventilated and passed out, he last saw Shane falling... Shane was... No he couldnt cry... not now. His eyes were still shut, he sat up and rubbed his head,his eyelids now open, he scoot back against a nearby wll, "ah... AH.... AAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!" dead furs lay around, Waiven huddled up and held himself tigtly, memories flooded his mind as he felt a twinge of pain nd a shock jolt through him. His eyes glazed over and became somewht empty looking. He shut down completely.
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Thomas awoke to Waiven shouting "W-wai...V-Ven..." He called out weakly. His head hurt like someone had given it a working over with a sledgehammer. He groaned, climbing to his feet to find that his legs didn't want to work, sending him hurdling into a counter. Shooting pains flew up his ribs, and he looked down to his legs, and saw the white of bone, his fur stained red with blood... And he couldn't be healed with magic...great. "Waiven!" He called out, needing to find him, to tell him everything's gonna be okay. Hell, HE needed someone to tell him everything's okay.
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Waiven's ears pricked up hearing Thomas, "T-Thomas? Thomas!" he darted up and looked around for him. He saw Thomas and laid his head on Waiven's lap, stroking Thomas' face with his shaky paw. "Oh god i thought... i thought.." he immediately kissed Thomas deeply. Waiven then pulled away and looked at his legs, "Thomas oh god! what do i do? i cant... it wont work! Thomas im sorry im so sorryy!" he rest his cheek against Thomas' head and sobbed
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"H-hey.... It's...fine." He said, his face screwing up with pain "hey... I have... A tube... In... My pocket... Take It out... Lather it over my leg."
He sat there, smiling weakly up at Waiven.
What he was referring to was medi-gel. It stopped bleeding quickly, acts as a powerful local anisthetic, and also disinfects the wound.
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Waiven carefully maneuvered his paw through Thomas' pocket and felt for the tube, once he had it in hand he pulled it out and unscrewed the top, he scooped up a dallop and applied it to the wound.
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"T-hanks...." He would be stable for now, he thought. He felt around on his head, no apparent wounds. He was most likely concussed, but he wanted to check
"Alright... Shine a light in my eye... Tell me if my pupil dilates."
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Waiven conjured a small light from his fingertip and aimed it into Thomas' eye, "th-they close up when i do it... is that supposed to happen?""
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"They...get smaller?" He gave a sigh. That meant he wasn't concussed. Somehow. He didn't know how he took a hard knock to the head, passed out, and want concussed "are... You sure?"
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+++SYSTEM BOOT SEQUENCE E.T.A.N.D.A.+++
+++LOADING+++
+++BOOT COMPLETE+++
She opened her eyes. All around her, the ancient techno-magic whirred and beeped. The clear glass door opened slowly up with a faint hiss.
Was it time? Surely not. What was the date?
Unpleasant sensations washed her body as the tubes and needles disengaged and removed themselves from about her person. She padded to the metallic, faceted closet and selected some plain robes.
So...everyone was just...gone? That was a sad thought. She wondered if much had changed.
The date read...read...20...15? Quite a few hundred years had passed, then. What did the new world look like?
She yawned expansively and her catty tail curled right around. She made to the dining area of the facility and activated the particle converter. Soon a hot stim-brew sat in front of her.
She sipped at it and stared at the wall. Her eyes were an amazingly beautiful shade of red. They pulsed, and the wall flickered into a clear sheen.
She stood, clutching her brew, and made to the window. An island was gone. No...two were gone.
*?* she queried the system with a thought.
+++PLAYING HISTORICAL OF PAST 500 YEARS+++
Her head was filled with odd scraps of sensory information. The process lasted a few minutes. It was just a highlight reel - much of it she ready knew. It had only been three hundred or so years since her internment in the techno-magic cryo pod.
So one had flown away. And the other had fallen to 'piracy' of all things. She took a sip of her 'coffee'.
The trail of acrid blac smoke rose from the lower earth to the archipelago.
She watched on from the farthest island in the archipelago...the inaccessible iron island...
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Waiven took another quick look, "y-yes... that means somethings wrong doesnt it?" he started panicking again, "just tell me what to do and ill do it we have to keep you safe and alive!!!"
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"No...that's good. Means I don't have a concussion, by some damned miracle. In which case, I'm stable. Just get me to a doctor." He sighed. Maybe he hadn't taken as bad a knock to the head as he thought. Maybe the pain from his leg being broken had made him pass out.
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Waiven sighed and held Thomas close, "if only a doctor were alive...." he looked at the bodies surround them, he then looked down to Thomas, "im so happy i found you..." he leaned down and tenderly kissed Thomas
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He looked up at waiven, smiling up at him weakly "yeah.... I love you, you know that?" He sighed. He was so tired. But he couldn't sleep. He couldn't allow himself to sleep. If he sleeps, he might die. Shock is not fun.
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Waiven smiled back, "i do know that... and i love you too.. before all this happened... at the club when i said i wanted to talk. I was about to say yes..."
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"You... Were?" He looked up to him , wrapping his arms weakly around him, his face pale from blood loss. But he was still seeing color, which was good.
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She blinked. So there were no protectors left in enough regions that she had been awakened. Yet...
She finished her drink and, now awake, made to her chambers. She disrobed and showered before dressing in her outdoors gear: silken looking garb consisting of decorated pants, a shirt and a cloak. She left the likely nonfunctional weapons in their places. Hundreds of years did little for charge. In fact a lot of the island was in disrepair, she found as she once more queried the system. Only her district was functional. Perhaps it was a blessing she was awake now. She might have died with the system in another century.
"Where are you going?" Came a male voice. She flicked her ears and turned.
A black furred make wolf stood before her. She tilted her head.
*?*
+++LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS RETRIEVED BEFORE DEATH. DEEMED BEST SUITED FOR REQUIREMENTS.+++
*...*
"Why...am I here? Is this...are you a...Skailan pirate?" The male wolf asked. She stared at him. At it. Of course...it would take awhile for the stabilising consciousness subroutines to kick in.
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The first thing she saw, was fire. The first thing she smelled was burning aviation fuel. Her eyes grew wide, and she scrambled to her feet. Luckily, the room she was in was made of metal. She checked herself over, noticing no obvious wounds, but that doesn't say anything about internal wounds. But that's what she bought the med-scanner for! She sighed, jabbing the needle into her arm. A three dimensional, holographic image appeared just above a small circle. It was of her, a black furred German shepherd.
"Condition...stable." The thing beeped "minimal bruising, minimal lacerations."
With a huff, she stood, grabbing up her (only slightly) illegal, military grade plasma arc, and went to look for help in another metal-lined corridor.
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The noises of metal vibrating and the bright sunshine pulled Harker from deep unconscious. He got up slowly and painfully, his wings hurts, so does many parts of his body, the last thing he remembered was he turned the head around, and the bright light of an explosive arcane charge......luckily he hasn't been torn apart, maybe the magic-resist coat blocked part of it.
He finally got up with a crack of his ankle coming back to place, he wandered slowly across the dead silence of this town, even the feral birds were torn by the violent energy released from the magic battle. He picked up a magic pulse rifle from a dead pirate and used it as a walking stick, to prevent him from falling and dazing from the view, the view of a hell. Blood tainted the street and the walls, bodies and their parts scattering,smoke rose from various points, ashes, ruins, burnt down cars......He wanted to vomit, but he can't, even himself don't know how long he has been in coma......he touched his goggles on the side as a small amount of arcane energy flows in, and the familiar views of the HUD slowly appeared, which made he felt slightly comfortable. "Shintonori......"A small magic circle appeared around it, the scanning magic wave swept off as a strong pain in his head followed ,forcing him to squat from the pain. obviously he overdrift his mind in the battle that day.
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Else where, Niv woke up but couldn't see anything. "Oh no where are my glasses." He felt around in what appeared to be sand. "When did i get on the shore?" He found his glasses and put them back on, but what he saw horrified him. The Roost was in ruins, the people who lived there were all dead and their bodies strewn about. Niv slowly picked himself up. He saw a security camera that appeared to be in one piece. He began hacking to get into the network. Most of the security cameras must have been destroyed in the fighting, but through the ones he saw he could tell he was probably the only survivor. "I need to get to the hanger. If it wasn't destroyed i can build...something." With that he rushed to the hanger.
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Waiven nodded, "mhm... i love you so much Thomas" he noticed the paleness. "Thomas whats wrong? why are you getting so pale?"
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"Blood...loss." Thomas said simply "I'm fine now, you stopped the bleeding. I just need new blood, is all."
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"Maybe i could help with that... im sure i could find some medical equipment with my magic..." Waiven stood and looked around
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"Yeah..." Thomas said, blowing a noisy breath through his nose "find a blood bag and some IV's. I'm AB positive, so just grab any old bag."
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"Right... accen tenueto Blood bag, syring, IV" with the quick saing of the magic words the specified items all flew to Waiven's feet, he picked them up and carried it to Thomas, "im O negative so i think this could work.."
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"Right... You're the best, Ven." He looked up to him with a smile "put... The needle in your arm." He held out his arm, gesturing as if putting a needle into it.
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Niv had finally gotten to the hanger. Despite some minor blast marks and holes here and there it seemed to be in one piece. He wnet inside amd saw that most of the plains and other vehicles were gone. Execept a busted looking plane that he thought could barely fly and one or two other planes in pretty good condition. He noticed there was a door in the back that appeared to be locked. It must have been emploies only cause it was locked by a card scanner. "Simple enough to hack." He placed his hand on the card scanner and began hacking. In about a minute it popped open. Inside was what appeared to be a workshop as there were parts and machines scattered all over the place. He looked through the clutter and found large suite case. It wasn't locked so he opened it up and it turned out not to just be a suite case, it was was a full fledged, military grade, rigging console. He had only seen something like this in some of the most expensive tech stores on the island, and none of them were military. This could be used to amplify his technomancing to control multiple drones at once, without suffering backburn or recoil. He looked around and noticed most of the parts and stuff that were scattered around were drone parts. He then checked outside in the hanger garage and saw there was a fairly good sized transport plain that had been left there. If he could hack the console he could probably get blueprints on stuff he coulf build and use the transport plain to well...transport his creations. He went back to the console to start hacking. "Hmm...there seems to be a strong firewall on this console. I'll need some time to hack if i don't want to get hurt." He went over to the door and made sure it was locked. He wasgoing to be here for some time.
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Waiven gulped and held the needle he used a visual ability to find a vein and slowly inserted it with a slight yelp a whimper, he then saw as the blood went into the bag, "ow ow ow.... needles..." he waited a bit and let the bagill before removing the needle and healing the injection spot. "So.. what now?"
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"Put...that into my arm. Find a vein, got that? And then once you do that, let it hang on something... Oh, and sterilize the needle first."
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Waiven used his visual magic, he found a vein but used the medi gel to disinfect the needle, he slowly inserted it and used kenesis to hold the bag up, "o-okay..." he layed back and breathed heavily... he felt a little light headed
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"Good... Good job... 'Ven." He threw his head back, chuckling loudly as the color slowly returnsto his face "you... You found a vein!"
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Harker finally made to a place less filled with corpses and ruins, which seemed to be a airfield or sort. He collected multiple arcane crystals from the wands and magic-powered weapons littered on the way here,and time to put it into use......although he is still disgusted for where they are from.
After squeezing a smallest one into his goggles, the results of the scanning magic displayed slowly on the HUD, there are still signals for furries, scattered here and there,like lights in darkness, the nearest one...... No, two, was in the hangar near here.Should he go to meet them? no......
Harker slowly made into a near cargo plane, with one of its wing vaporized by something, Anything valuable inside was taken away, the pilot was long gone. He discovered half of a bottle of water inside a paper box, and scratched its cap off in eager. The water of life flowed into his beak as hope slowly came back into his heart......
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"Damn it, This firewall is tough." After about 30 minutes, he had made little to no progress in hacking the rigging console. "Maybe if I..." Niv stopped as he heard rustling from a nearby scrap pile. He turned around and noticed something had come out of the scaps, but was no longer there. He had the feeling he was not alone. He looked around and didn't see anything until something hit him in the head from above. It was a lug nut, Niv's eyes slowly drifted upward and saw what he had hit him. It was a small drone holding a bund of lug nuts, and as Niv made eye contact it leaped from the rafters and onto his face. "Aaaah! Its on my face! Its on my face!" Niv fumbled to remove the drone from his face. He struggeled and struggled until he finally pried it from his face. As he held it in his webbed hands it stopped struggling. Niv took a closer look at the drone as it looked back. It looked like a fairly large sized metalic beetle with littele hands on each leg. "You are an awfully strange drone. Who made you?" In responce, the drone openef its pincer like mouth to reveal a speaker. The voice of what sounded like an old man came from the speaker.
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"To whoever finds this drone, my name is Roy Berkheart. If you are hearing this pre-recorded message, i have passed away. I'm an ex-military drone rigger, and this is where i have spent most of my years building and fixing up drones and planes. I was the top of my class, and i would hate for all my work to be thrown in some junk yard or sold at an auction. I want someone who cares for my work, and if you aren't that someone then get the hell out. However, if you are interested i have left my rigging console on the desk. It has all my work and blueprints and this little drone has the code. His name is Einstein, an artificially inteligent helper drone. He has been my companion for many years and was one of my first creations. Take care of him and he'll take care of you. The transport plane outside is also one of my creations. It may seem like a normal plane but its armed to the teeth. If you wish to continue my work Einstein will help get you started. Good luck and i hope you come to the right chose."
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The recording ended and Einstein looked up Niv expectantly. "Don't worry little buddy, i will take care of you. If you can help me get started i'm all for it." Niv for once in his life, no longer felt scared. "Now lets show those pirates who they messed with."
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Waiven laid on the ground and sighed, "what now?" he closed his eyes and slowly dozed off.
Two Years Earlier
Waiven looked over to Shane and nudged him a bit, "h-hey ... you okay?"
He and Shane were the only ones to stay behind on theisland while their friends decided to find their own path and leave. That was about three years ago today. "is it... because everones gone?"
-i cant keep you happy?- he thought as he rested his head on his knees as they were pulled to his chest.
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Shane, all those years ago, stated up at the sky with his hands behind his head and sighed.
"Yeah." He said with no finality whatsoever. This was just great. All of his friends were gone, he sucked at magic and he had just fallen out with his patents because he couldn't keep his temper in check.
He blinked numbly at a cloud. Shane suddenly wondered why Ven had asked. Maybe the question was like...a 'talk to me' thing?
"You?"
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"yes but... im kind of glad that it's just us too... i dont know..." he mssed with a lock of his hair and blushed lightly. Waiven never revealed anything about his past, and if anything was asked, he would just change the subject.
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"Right." Shane fell silent as he glared up at the clouds. He whipped out his little book of magic and held it against the sky. Occasionally he'd do this intricate little thing with his thumb to flip the page.
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Waiven looked to the ground and frowned, "you... you dont hate hanging out with m-me... d-do you?" he said with lowered ears
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"Don't say dumb stuff because you're lonely everyone left, Waiven." Shane said flatly, although he was going for the reassuring vibe. He thumbed past another page.
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"im sorry..." he sunk his head down and frowned more, -whycant you realise i want to talk... i love you for god sake...- he thought, just then a small pop was heard, a small rock had instantly jetted out of nowhere and lanhit Shane on the rump hard.
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"Dammit!" Shane barked as he dropped his book on his face. He sat up and grabbed the rock, pelting it into the horizon. Then in anger he flung is book past Waiven and rolled over, curling up and having a quiet sulk.
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Waiven looked at Shane and winced a bit having seen the book flying past him. He relised what had happened and smild a bit before laughing. He couldnt help it, it wasnt completely his fault but emotions sometimes had a ind of their own.
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"What are you so happy about?" Shane asked sullenly, his back to Ven and therefore the world. His eyes were shut for good measure. But he still wanted to know, so he obligingly swivelled an ear around to hear.
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Waiven shook his head and quieted down to a giggle, "im sorry its just... sometimes i see you as this stoic guy that doesnt like showing how he really feels. but if something upsets you you make it a point to show it. Youre blunt and quirky and that what i l... l-l-like about you as a friends..." he turned away and whiped his brow, "its like youve barely changed though. and i dont think id ever want you to change... youre perfect..."
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"Yeah right, like I'm perfect..." Shane scoffed. But he actually rolled back onto his previous position, even if he didn't make eye contact with Ven.
"You're a great friend Ven. If your dream comes along, you take it, though, understand? No matter how much I tell you not to leave me, just...a friend like you deserves to be hap - shut up Ven, you know I'm in a mood."
Shane smiled awkwardly and stared at the clouds. He raised a hand and made to claw one out of the sky.
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Waiven smiled and laid down next to Shane, "i dont think id rather be anywhere else." he said as he stretched out and looked up at him, "besides i dont thik i could leave even if id want to. but you dont know how happy it makes me to hear you say that."
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"Yeah well...we're friends." Shane said as he looked at Ven.
"This is comfy and all, but..." Shane's belly gurgled. He shrugged and laughed:
"You heard the boss."
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Waiven giggled, "youre always hungry!"
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"Alright, finished." Niv was done attaching a speaker system on the exterior of the plane and in his spare time had created several different drones with the help of Einstein. He had created two walkers that could dual wield katanas and fire mounted machine guns, four hover drones with assault rifle attachments and grenade laucher. He also created 6 mini spy drones in the shape of insects, two armored assault drones one with a mini gun and the other with what is know as a Panther assault cannon which fires tank rounds. He loved how fast technomancing made everything. Niv was decked out with all these drones and Einstein, but he knew he needed his friends as well, if they were alive. He got in the transport plane, fired it up.and took to the skies. While in the air he flipped the switch to the speaker system he installed and turned on his microphone. "Attention island of Roost, if there are any surviors, please come to the hangers. I repeat if there are any survivors please comr to the hangers." Niv's voice rang out all over the island through the speakers. He turned off the microphone and turned to Eistein who was sitting in the co pilot seat. "Einstein, lets hope they come." Niv rubbed him on the head and then turned the plane back to the hangers.
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"Ah..." Thomas sighed, the pain hitting him like a freight train as he woke, sending him reeling "he closed his eyes, scrunched up his face and gritted his teeth "ah...f*ck! That... Ah..." He paused a moment, breathing heavily
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Waiven was slung back to consciousness from Thomas' cries of pain, Waiven scrambled to his side and held his paw, "what can i do? is there a way to lessen the pain? i hate seeing you like this..."
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"Yeah... Get some...pills, please." Thomas paused a moment, leaning on a counter and rolling his eyes with a sardonic chuckle "and..I don't like it either!"
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Waiven sighed and giggled a bit, "you know what i mean... i... i love you... and i hate seeing you hurt in any way... oh what am i saying you need pills!" Waiven dashed off and scavenged around, he found a stray meicine cabinet broken open, he grabbed a few bottles of pills and brought them back, "here"
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"I...love you too!" He smiled up at him weakly, looking through the pills, examining each one carefully. He finally settled on a prescription bottle of codeine "thanks, Ven... You're the best." He smiled briefly, downing the pill with a glass of some clear liquid on the bar... It didn't taste like water.
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After a short rest, Harker went out again from the plane, the bright afternoon sun shines on the dead island, he again scanned around with the arcane sensor, that fur still inside the hangar, seemingly static.
He finally decided to etch his name on the elemental rifle's barrel, and put it on the ground in front of the hangar pointing the direction he is heading to: his campus, which belongs to one of the top university in magical engineering, the subject he mastered in.
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Waiven saw Thomas' face scrunch up a bit, "whats wrong?" he went to his side and rubbed his shoulder a bit
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"Ah..." Thomas gave a sigh, shaking his head vigorously "that... Wasn't water! Damn... That's some strong stuff!"
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Waiven giggled and rubbed between his shoulderblades, "hope you can hold your vodka."
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He rolled his eyes "pfah! Of course I can!" He clears his throat, and then, in his best Russian accent, says "I am true comrade!"
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Waiven looked around then back to Thomas, "so... what happened to Shane? he fell... but thats all i remember..."
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Thomas gave a shrug "I was passed out for most of it... I'm probably as good a reference as you are."
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Niv was back at the hanger where he found the drone parts. No survivors had shown up and now he was sad. "Well Einstein its time to leave." Niv commanded the other drones to get in the plane and then started up the engine again. He began to fly the plane away from the island, but to where exactly he didn't know. He decided to take one last look at the island through the plane's exterior camera.For a moment he thought he saw movement on the shore. He zoomed in and saw that there were in fact live furs there. He turned plane around to get a better look. "No it couldn't be...Waiven, Thomas!" Niv could clearly see it was them through the camera. He turned on the sound system and his Microphone. "Hey you guys!" Niv was so excited that he almost started to land there, but then realized how stupid that would be.
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((Thanks that will be needed soon. If people notice Niv's fly by.))
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((*dives in from McKinney* so, I'm assuming thomas and Ven are on the roost?
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((Yes this was mentioned at the beginning of the RP actually. Our next destination is the closest island i'm guessing, Wildil. Now lets get back on track, Niv is doing a fly by with a sound system blaring his voice to Waiven and Thomas.))
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(((Your characters, your destinations! I realise I started this but there's a nice OOC thread just over there, *points sheepishly* - Gir)))
She sat down at the controls of the six-man private airship and wiggled her tail.
Behind her, 'it' sat down. The black wolf, the data extract from the fallen island. It needed a body before it became operational as a makeshift Guardian. Until them it was just a useless living data construct. Not even good for technomancy.
The clasps of the last functioning +++Shi14 15LańD+++DATA CORRUPT+++ opened and the blocky silver airship slid away. In a bluish purple haze the island disappeared, never to be visited again.
The techno-magical micro airship lurched forwards as two magic circles made themselves apparent and increased the speed twofold. It was time to take stock of the archipelago's situation firsthand...
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((But Harker is still on his way to his labratory to find some remnants of their high-tech (or high-magic?) equipmemts, can't just leave him......maybe let he use a radio or sort? BTW,my phone sucks, have a 250 character limit,so I can't type long))
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Thomas looked over at Niv, clucking disapprovingly as he saw him go in for a landing pass. "What the hell are you doing, going to land on a beach?" He shook his head. If he wanted to land at all, and it would be risky landing on the roost, he would use the main road, relatively devoid of cars... The air-strip he used to land himself, was now pockmarked by shells... Or at least that's what he would do if he were in their place. Save the infrastructure for looting, destroy possible escape routes. He looked up to the plane, waving. If he could get him to his plane, if it was still there, he had a plethora of tactical gear he could use. And something to fix up his leg,
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Niv began to pull up to avoid crashing. He then headed to the air strip which he assumed they would meet him at.
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The laboratory building Harker is now standing below seems to be directly hit by a heavy cannon or sort, had a half of it collapsed, Harker climbed in from a window and switched the magic nightvision system on his goggle in the dark corridor.
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The first distination Harker went is the guard's room, and found in disgust the old coyote lain there with the lab keys he wanted in hand which was not on his wrist.
He went directly into the chemistry lab, in order to access to where he really wanted to.
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Waiven looked through the wreckage while listening, he wasnt too far off before he blinked and his sight turned to the bodies close by, they looked like... but no that wasnt possible. But they were... the skies reddened as theyslowly slid across the ground, blood trailing behind, Waiven backed up and then crouched holding his head screaming, his eyes shut tight, as soon as he opened them everything seemed to be fine. "It was... a daydream?" he asked himelf before returning back to Thomas.
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"What... What was a daydream?" He asks, looking to him with concern "ah... Never mind. You're here now!" He winced slightly, feeling the pain flare back up in his leg. He threw a pill of codeine into his mouth , quickly downing it with the vodka he used earlier
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Holding the newly-crafted chemical, Harker stepped carefully out of the room and walked in the corridor. With the aid of the metal detector took from a geology professor's office, He soon found the door hidden behind a completely unsuspected locker inside the biology storehouse and chuckled, the campus tale of a secret national magic energestics laboratory inside the school is real...... but partially, he can't guarrantee what it is, but that worth a try.
The lights on the enchanted steel gate still blinking,It seems that the emergency elemental generator inside is still working. Harker placed the whole flask of nitroglycerin under the lock and then putted a narrow stick of mercury fulminate inside and lighted it with matches. Then he backed off quickly a few steps and jump out of the window and ran as fast as he can-- he is still too weak to fly. After a long minute of wait, The ground-shaking sound of the explosives blowing up rushed out of the building and echoed across the whole island, fire spilled from the window roasting everything near. He slowly walked back to the gate, it was,not too surprisingly,unhurt, but the lock system on it was been destroyed completely, with ease he drew the door open, to his surprise and disgust, multiple bodies lain inside on the metallic floor and all died of oxygen lackness, and a few of them even in military uniforms, it looked like the collapsed building blocked the respiration vent.
He walked near one of the multiple consoles inside, seems to be the only one that haven't been password-locked, tapped it, and a radar-like screen with the map of the archipelago appeared on it. Except that there are glowing points here and there on it, and when he zoomed in it turned out to be furries,and even showed their species. He noticed that a corsac fox and a wolf was on the beach close to each other. Were they Waiven and Thomas? Maybe......
Suddenly a bright red triangle appeared and approaching on the screen, with that he heard the noise of turbine engines. He ran quickly outside and saw the plane circling above. He went back excited and picked up a radio from one of the soldier's dead bodies as well the pistol on it. He fired multiple shots into the air when turning on the radio, and once it finished that Harker immediately switched it to all-channel mode and said into the speaker in both joyment and fear, He doesn't know who's on it, but it worthed a try, again.
"Anyone on the plane......response if heard, this is Harker Sterling, native fur, survivor of the Skailian attack."
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"Harker! Your alive too." Niv was overcome with joy that his friends were still alive. Maybe Shane was alive too. Niv began to come in for a landing on the airstrip. He landed with ease and turned off the planes engine. Einstein jumped Nivs back and the two rushed to meet Harker. "Waiven and Thomas are on the shore. We should go meet up with them." Niv was so happy, now all he needed was Shane.
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Waiven tried to help Thomas by giving him a little support on his side, his paw resting on Thomas' chest. "You doing okay? seems like the meds i got dont last long for you..."
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"Yeah... Some family thing, codeine doesn't last very long for us... But we almost never get addicted to things, so that's good." He grunted "take us... To the airstrip... That's where he's gonna land. My plane also has some good stuff on it."
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“Great......Niv! You made it, and so does the other...s!”Harker paused a bit thinking of Shane. Then he looked at him pointing inside.“Um......Niv? Can you come in here for a while and I will wait for them outside? I means, I've got some tough passwords.”
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"Ok, my skin is getting dry anyway. Tell them i said hi and man I hope Shane is with them." Niv went back into the plane, Einstein still clinging to the back of his shirt.
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“No I means you to come here and help me out with your power for these......fine, you needed relax anyways.” Harker sighed in slight frustration and walked back to the main building to collect anything of much value.
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((Sorry you weren't specific.))
While in the plane, Niv began to pour water on his head from one of his water bottles, while Einstein watched with curriosity. "I can't wait to see everyone together at last. I know we may have lost everyone else but together we can take down the pirates and get revenge for all those who died...some homecoming this was." Niv's face darkened a little. He had never seen combat before, this was his first time ever fighting back. Even when he was bullied he just ran or got help from his friends. This time would be different, he could feel it.
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Waiven followed Thomas' instructions and took him to the landing point
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I groan loudly, gesturing a hand towards one of the hangars "that one... If my...plane's still okay... Should be some loot in there."
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When Niv was finished refreshing his skin, he decided to check if Thomas and Waiven were there yet. He peeked outside the hangar and not to far away he could see Thomas and Waiven approaching. He was about to start waving them over but he noticed something was wrong. Thomas looked like he was in serious pain and Waiven was half carrying, half dragging him to the hangar. "Thomas!" Niv quickly rushed over to them with Eistein in hot pursuit. "Thomas, what happened?" Einstein leaped onto Niv's back, almost making Niv stumble, and peered over his shoulder at Thomas and Waiven.
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Harker returned to the underground lab once again, and started to search carefully after changing off his ragged clothes to the enchant-reinforced grey uniform of the lab guards. But surprisingly he found very few actual products includeing a octahedral device that is probably used to concentrate elemental energy and a heavily-modified arcane pulse rifle. "Seems that really precious thing inside here is the data......I should ve'been dragged Niv here." He murred to himself and decided to get them away too. With ease he found the elemental generator, and plucked the wire off. The light inside the room ran out immediately as he started to wreck down consoles and take the hard disks or anything like these out. He had to take a backpack from the locker room to contain these, and he also took the radio away from the soldier along with several arcane crystals.
As soon he got out, he saw the three in distance, all seems not well except Niv. "Hey! What's wrong? He shouted to them as he started rushing."
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Waiven kept holding onto Thomas. He looked up and saw Harker, he smiled with teary eyes.
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Thomas gave a grim smile, gesturing at the medi-gel on his leg "broken... Should be some stuff to fix it... In my plane." He sighed, gesturing at the hangar "in there. Black one. Should... Be in a black box with a Red Cross on it."
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"Ok got it. You stay here and i'll go get it." Niv ran back to the hangar and found what he thought to be Thomas' plane. "This is his plane? Looks like a deathtrap." Einstein hopped off Niv's back and jumped into the pilots seat. After a few minutes of rustling through some stuff he popped back up with the medkit in his pincers. "Good job, Einstein." Together they went back to the others and handed the medkit to Thomas.
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Waiven looked around for more supplies nearby and was suddenly hit with a wave of diziness, the skies turned red once more as fires burned and bodies were littered around, "Th-This isnt... isnt real..."
"Oh... but it will be... My child" a voice called out as if it sounded from everywhere
Waiven screamed and shut his eyes tight, once he opened them everything as normal once again, "Whats....happeneing?"
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Thomas was in the process of placing his leg in a splint when Waiven started screaming. He immediately dropped the medkit and hobbled over to him, cooing and running his hands through his hair, the other arm wrapped around Waiven in a tight hug
"Hey,hey, I'm here, you'll be fine, you'll be okay."
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Waiven gripped onto Thomas for dear life and softly cried into his chest, "im scared..."
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"Hey what's going on?" Niv said as he returned with Eintein on his head.
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"Shhh... I'm here, you're alright, you'll be fine." He gave waiven tender a lick on the head, as if to emphasize his point
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Waiven shut his eyes tight trying to steady his breathing, he wished this was all a bad dream.
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Niv came back to see Waiven and Thomas hugging. "Oh uh...i'll just leave you two alone." Niv said slowly backing up.
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Thomas continued to hug waiven tight, nodding briefly at Niv before returning to comforting Waiven He had a vague thought wondering what happened, but decided against asking him. If he wanted to tell, he would.
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The island shuddered then, and seemed to tilt. The ocean was advancing further up the sinking land and was turning the trees to a salty swamp. Water began eking up from The Roost. The edges of town were beginning to dampen...
Somewhere, a black wolf opened his eyes.
Somewhere else, a beautiful cat-girl and a false being were speeding through the skies.
Somewhere else entirely from where the story was, the GM was reaffirming his place in the RP, temporarily breaking the fourth wall in the process...
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Waiven yelped feeling the island move and held Thomas tighter
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Niv began to freak out a little bit. Sure he could breath underwater, but not salt water. He poked his head out of the hanger and waved his hand to Waiven and Thomas.
"Come on get on the planes!" Niv ran back inside and got in his own newish plane to get it started, he need to get out of this sudden plot device.
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Harker, who just carried more equipments from the ruins of the lab to the hangar, noticed that something was seeping through the gaps in the enchanted steel floors. He dumped them onto the ground and raised to the salty wind. What he saw was, the coast line was expanding quickly into the now-floating island.
"quick guys the island was sinking!"He shouted to his friends, who also seemed to be noticed somehow and getting onto the plane.
But what he then learned, was Waiven was still wound and immobile in the hangar. He dove into the chamber through a window immediately and saw the two,seems definitely not being well. He leaned and whispered to Thomas: "Thomas, we've gotta go, try to carry him onto a plane, things aren't looking up."
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"R-right..." Thomas went, climbing to his feet "My plane isn't big enough for the three of us... That big hangar over there should have some." He groaned, climbing to his feet, hefting one of waiven' arms over his shoulder and walking towards a large hangar.
He pressed a button on the side of it, and the hangars opened to reveal a large,grey, Military grade HC-130.
"Good..." He said "Should have some emergency supplies... Harker, you think you could grab my plane and taxi it over here while I run some preflight checks?"
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Meanwhile, the Data-construct stated out at the sinking island as the six fur airship sailed to the nearest island. He wondered about it aloud in a garbled sham of speech, his voice yet to be fully established. The cat girl ignored it and kept right on flying.
Elsewhere, a black wolf opened his eyes yet again and sat up. His clothes were torn and bloody. He was trapped somewhere dark and cramped. Far above him a tiny light could be seen.
Noises could be heard outside, and voices. Suddenly the floor gave way, and the titanic Anti-Airship high explosive shell that had just been the floor slid out onto the real floor. Two pirates glared down at the black wolf.
"Looks like we got ourselves a stowaway!" One pirate grinned, drawing a handgun.
The wolf yelped. He remembered...he remembered falling out of the sky. Then...he must have dropped into the barrel of this gun!
He was alive! He - !
And with a crack, everything was gone.
(((Thoughts on the wolf data construct and the pirate ship wolf? In the OOC thread - Gir)))
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A blue jaguar blasted through the clouds on his flying carpet, laying down in a relaxed position. He didn't care where his carpet took him, but the jaguar was in need of a vacation from fighting evil, slaying monsters, and saving people. He hummed to himself as he left the high winds against his fur. He loved every second of it.