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Post by Kikime on Jun 11, 2012 10:12:23 GMT -8
A girl wearing an elaborate dress and with even more elaborate drill hair pigtails sat down on the grassy training grounds, that were mostly empty now that summer had come around. A picnic basket was by her side, filled to the brim with candies and treats and a large flask of rose tea. Her skirt was spread out along the grass as she gazed up into the clouds, a daydreamy look in her red eyes. A soft pink colored macaron treat hung out of her mouth as she hummed a song, lost in her own world. Sweets and daydreaming were two things on a short list of what Kikime liked. What if the clouds above were the same color as her treat? What if they were also made of sugar? Cotton candy clouds... such a marvelous thought. They would rain gum drops. she thought to herself, snapping the treat into her mouth suddenly, though gave a content sigh as she dreamed of a candified world that would have made Willy Wonka's factory look like a crap factory.
Her thoughts were interpreted by a light smack across the back of her head. "Oh!" she gave a small since and looked behind her, her eyes a little doe eyed. There was a small group who were looking over at her apologetically. "Frisbee?" she caught the word and looked down in the grass spotting the bright orange disk. She got to her feet, picking up her basket and the toy before walking towards the others. "Here." she smiled as she handed it to the girl who was apologizing over and over for hitting her. Kikime gave a light laugh, it was sweet and soft. "It's perfectly fine!" she assured them. "Accidents happen, right?" she said as the looked at her gratefully.
"T-Thanks. The wind caught it." the girl said as she looked at the younger girl. Wasn't she a third year? She could have sworn she had seen this girl in those classes but she looked younger. She looked exactly like a doll, and even had that high, cutesy voice to match. She seemed to have really gotten into the lolita lifestyle thing. Kikime stepped closer to her. "Hey, would you care for a sweet? I brought out far too many. I was supposed to be meeting someone, but they never showed up." she said opening the picnic basket. "They're all homemade."
The group chattered cheerfully and reached on in. thanking Kikime as they grabbed out an array of colors and ran back to play their game. Kikime smiled and giggled and waved them off. While the smile she wore on the outside was quite docile, the one she wore on the inside was quite a different matter. It stretched from ear to ear as she stared after the group as the gobbled down her candy. Now it was all a matter of who Fate loved the most.
"Heehee." she smiled before she realized that once again she was all alone. Oh well, at least this gave her time to reflect on things. Plan a few little harmless pranks to pull on her friend. She sat back down and poured herself some tea out of the flask as she thought about it. "Hey guys... I don't feel so good." the voice from one of the group reached her ears and Kikime grinned into her cup before drinking.
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Post by Cruor & Oblitum on Jun 12, 2012 1:53:28 GMT -8
Cruor watched quietly a small distance away as the girl with the strange dress interacted with the group. As he watched three of the constantly droning choir of voices in his became clear, “ This one’s mind push and pull the world, it’s reach threatens us” one voice hissed, “ In her wake demons follow, they come at her call. Make her bring them out, let us see if their blood bends to our whims as well ” the next shouted, it’s bloodlust clear. The last of the three came in a whisper as all other voices went silent , “ She cuts threads, plays puppeteer with the lives and loves of others, she could take Ketsueki from our heart, watch her closesly, safeguard our memories”, Cruor focused for a second commiting these things to memory.
The boy slowly walked closer to her, trying to focus on the real world not letting himself lose his mind to the constant voices screaming their intetions at him, wanting him to rampage toward every threat nearby, to kill and spill blood so that no one could harm him ever again. As he got closer he decided that the best plan may be simply speaking to her, learning about her or possibly making an ally out of someone able to summon things strong enough to kill any opposition he finds, or better yet, someone to help him weed out any other filthy vampire on this island.
Cruor however was pulled from his thoughts as he got within normal conversational distance as one of his powers backlash became too much. Cruor began to heave and cough blood bursting from his lungs at every cough, thick globs of half coagulated red vitae coating his hands and leaking through them as he hit his knees. After only a few more seconds the blood vessels just under his skin began to burst as well, producing thin beeds of blood leaking out across his body. Just as quickly as it started however he began to recover and at least attempt to speak, only amounting in small sputters for the moment however.
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Post by Kikime on Jun 12, 2012 2:36:02 GMT -8
Kikime gulped down the tea and smacked her lips as she finished the cup. "Ahhh ~ " she sighed happily. Today, things were proving to be eventful. She focused on the faces she had handed out candy to in her mind. She would skip to the Infirmary later on and see if there were any new admissions feeling like their insides burned. Well, it was their fault. she thought as she put the flask back into her basket. Didn't their parents ever teach them not to accept candy from strangers. she wondered. She didn't seem to notice she was being watched by the young man and went back to humming to herself.
"La, lala laaa lalalala lalala laa~" her head bobbed from side to side as she half sang to herself when all of a sudden her sweet voice was drowned out. It sounded like coughing except wetter and heavier... like someone was coughing a lung up. "Hmm?" she looked over her shoulder and spotted a young man. He was on his knees, hacking into his hands. Blood was leaking through them, in fact, blood seemed to be leaking everywhere out of his body. Kikime stared at him with a soft look of surprise on her face as he spluttered to her. Was he asking for help?
She got to her feet and walked towards him without the urgency of anyone who would run to aid those in an accident, stopping in front of him. "Aww, poor thing." she smiled like a child having found a lost little animal. It didn't seem as bad as before. She reached out and petted his head. "It's ok now. Shh shh." she assured him. He was in her care now. "Do you need to go to the Infirmary?" she asked. "What's wrong? Did you drink something bad? You look like your blood is exploding out." she didn't seem at all phased by the sight of it or the fact some had gotten on her hands.
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Post by Cruor & Oblitum on Jun 12, 2012 2:49:25 GMT -8
Cruor stumbled backwards almost immediately after she patted his head, more then slightly startled, " the blood that was around him on the floor jumped to his defence at the same instant, forming a small wall between the two before instantly freezing, covering the area around it in a thin layer of frost. Cruor hyperventilated for a few seconds, gasping air in desperately, his body shaking slightly. " i'm fine," he gasps again, " the blood is normal just," Cruor paused again as the shaking began to settle, his voice no longer panicked he began to speak again, " Just please don't get closer for the moment. i don't do very well with being touched".
As Cruor had leapt back his jacket had been pulled out of place, making the scarred bite marks on his neck and wrists visible. With any passing inspection one could easily tell these were done by what look like human canines. The three voices from earlier began to screech at Cruor again, shaking his head in a vain attempted to dispell them he calmed himself, slowly they began to quiet to a manageable level again.
After a few quite moments Cruor managed to speak again, " My name is Cruor, i'm sorry for the rude introduction but it seems my powers made themselves known at an inconvenient moment., hopefully you won't hold that against me.". Cruor straightened his jacket after that allowing himself to become comfortable, or as much as he could, which coincidentally lowered the temperature of the surrounding air by at least 10 degrees.
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Post by Kikime on Jun 12, 2012 3:20:58 GMT -8
Kikime tilted her head a curious look on her face at the boys quick withdrawal from her head patting. "Ooh~!" she exclaimed as the blood on the ground suddenly sprang up, her red eyes widening a little. She held out hand ready to push whatever attack they were planning back a little with her telekinesis when a a frozen wall formed between her and the boy. He seemed to have gotten a hold of himself, though was still breathing pretty heavily. She withdrew her hands, holding them behind her back as he spoke. "It's normal? You can make lots of blood? I would say that sounds useless unless you were like a tap for a Vampire, but it actually seems rather useful. I've not seen anyone here who can make their blood fight for them." she mused. She took a few steps back as he said not to come close. "I understand." He didn't like to be touched? No hugs or cuddles for him. How sad. she thought to herself.
"Hey!" she said noticing the scars on his neck and wrist. "Was i right? Were Vampires using you as a wine box?" The marks didn't look like they were made by animals. She pointed towards her neck where she had seen the marks on him. She had read lots of books on vampires. Though, with her style, she didn't think it necessary to tell others. They probably guessed that themselves. She found them interesting creatures but never fantasized about being one or meeting one however, always assumed their existence. She had summed all sorts of demons so, why couldn't they exist?
His voice was much calmer once her started speaking again. This boy, Crour, had gotten himself under control. She picked up the hem of her skirt a little and gave a curtsy. "It's nice to meet you Crour. I'm Kikime. It's quite alright." she waved her hand as if nothing had happened. "I'm not going to hold it against you." she promised. "You're not... in Third Year are you?" He seemed to be the same age as her, though, she was certain she had never seen him around the Third Years before. Although, age doesn't really mean youre in a certain year here. she thought. The air around her went cold. She shivered and hugged herself. "Are you doing that?" she smiled.
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Post by Cruor & Oblitum on Jun 12, 2012 3:35:16 GMT -8
Cruor flinched noticeably every time kikime mentioned vampires, when she refered to him as a wine box her replied, " Not exactly, these we're all done by a specific pair, one of which lost his head afterward, the other i left impaled and stuck to the ground." he said bluntly. the small wall of blood melted and then began to creep towards Cruor's feet before freezing again forming a snake of animate ice which then curled around one of his legs and continued upwards untill it was wrapped completely around one of his arms.
Cruor sighed slightly as the chill met his skin, the cold temperature putting him more at easy as it continued to lower, " oh, yes the temperature, that is sort of my fault? i can't really stop it, whenever i'm somewhere long enough the temperatures lower to close to freezing i think its some kind of situation similar to terraforming, except my power does it automatically to make creating ice easier." He then explained trying to show that it was not being done out of malice. just as he said it the cold snap seemed to slow to a halt not making it any colder then say 12 degrees of what it had been. A slight smile showed on Cruor's face after that, " It shouldn't get any colder now, it just takes a bit of focus to keep it from happening.".
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Post by Kikime on Jun 12, 2012 4:07:48 GMT -8
Kikime giggled a little as he flinched. "Oh I'm sorry. I didn't know if it was a touchy subject for you." she said before listening with interest to his story, giggling once again as she heard of the creatures end. "You mustn't be a person who like to pushed around a lot." she said, not seeming to acknowledge that being bitten into and drained was probably a little more serious than how she was speaking about it. "If someone hits you, you hit back harder." she smiled. Hit back hard enough to cause fatalities it seems heehee ~ She watched as the blood melted, and an ice snake formed, slithering its way back to Crour and wrapped around his arm.
"You don't have full control of your power?" she asked. It was something Kikime always found strange, not having total control over ones power. Having it on automatically seemed annoying. She'd hate to be forced to use her powers continuously or, when she didn't want to. It warmed up by a few degrees, allowing her to stay warm without shivering or holding herself. "Ah! I see now. It makes sense for your ice power." she nodded as understanding dawned on her. "Thank you. I'd hate to turn into a Popsicle." she smiled back. "I don't suppose... you would like a hot cup of tea then?" she asked. "I mean. I had been starting a picnic, but i got ditched." she sighed. "Story of my life. Would you like to join me?"
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Post by Cruor & Oblitum on Jun 12, 2012 11:42:28 GMT -8
Cruor smiled when she asked about the tea, honestly tea was a favorite of his but he hadn't had any for a very long time, " Tea sounds nice thank you, sorry people seem to enjoy ditching you." He then said as he waited for her to begin walking so that he could follow to where ever it is she'd begun to set things up. after they began their small walk he shifted his focus momentarily to the small ice snake on his arm, with a few thoughts a pair of wings slowly sculpted themselves out of the ice and emptied the body mass.
Just as the wings finished crating themselves the little animal started stretching them and give them a few cursory flaps. After only a few moments the creature acting as though it were truly alive languidly slithered off of Cruor's arm and took flight. It then began to take a lazy arc around the the small picnic spot that Kikime had chosen watching everyone under its circle, any time someone gave it to long a look though the little creature dove at them getting within biting distance before returning to it's flight path.
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Post by Kikime on Jun 13, 2012 3:23:01 GMT -8
"Good!" Kikime clapped her hands together lightly, delighted by his response to liking tea. "Oh, I don't worry about people ditching me. I mean, I'm sure they wouldn't unless something...um, wait... what could come up here that she'd ditch me?!" her fists clenched as she fumed silently about Secernia's lack of appearance. She walked towards her little picnic, head down and pouting. This was truly unforgivable!! Secernia was going to find a lot of itching powder in her panties for the next few weeks. "Here we are!" she smiled and she sat down in the grass. She looked at the ice snake. It had grown wings. "Wow, you're quite creative." she said pointing to it.
She busied herself fishing out a cup and saucer for her guest and took out the flask. "I hope you don't mind Rose." she said as she poured him some before herself. She glanced back up at the winged ice serpent. It seemed to be watching them closely. I had better be on my best behavior... she thought to herself as it snapped down at an onlooker. She looked down so that her hair covered her face some as she gave a sneer, biting her lip to hold in laughter. "Oh where are my manners! I have treats too!" she said taking out a batch that really, she only would eat herself. "I hope you liked them." she smiled as she took a small cake and bit into it. She looked back up at the serpent. "Can it be venomous?" she asked curiously.
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Post by Cruor & Oblitum on Jun 13, 2012 15:53:10 GMT -8
Cruor followed behind sat next to kikime and thanked her for the tea before taking a few sips. The tea was very good, he wasn't the biggest fan of rose but it was far from his least favorite. he noted the snake's movements and after a small while allowed it to return to him, now simply curling up on the grass nearby, the blood inside it changing pigment so its colors matched the grass.
Cruor smiled at the offer of the treat, and took one after Kikime had eaten one as well. " The snake at best could be considered venomous but in actuality isn't. if i fill the creature with my blood i can have it inject the blood into whomever it bites, and then i could do a variety of things, make the blood freeze and kill them due to a large clot in the veins causing a heart attack, or i could make the blood burst the vessel its in, or even make the whole person explode if there was enough of my blood in their system. The last one I've only done to vampires though." He then responded before beginning to eat the aforementioned sweet. "How about your powers, well assuming that since your here you do have at least one. What are you capable of?" Cruor then asked his curiosity overriding his attention to manners.
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Post by Kikime on Jun 13, 2012 23:15:35 GMT -8
Kikime watched the serpent a little more, seemingly very content to do so as she drank her tea, helping herself to another treat and cup. She 'oohed' and 'ahhed' up at it before watching it curl up near by. Was is happy it's master wasn't in any danger? She clapped her hands lightly as it changed color. "Sugoi*!" she exclaimed in delight, slipping into Japanese, her old native tongue.
She looked back to Crour as he spoke, paying attention. "My, my, you are really creative." Kikime mused, with a sort of look of wonder on her face. Some one dying due to internal explosions. That was something she would never had thought she heard someone do. "I bet they were more than surprise." she commented as he told her that he tried it on a vampire. "My powers?" she parroted. "Oh, they're ok." she said putting a finger to her lips in thought. "One I can show you."
She took a teaspoon and added sugar to her tea, thought twirled a finger to make it stir. "Telekinesis. It's quite a nice power." she said swirling her tea around. "Little things like this are easy, I'm currently practicing making it so i can levitate myself. That's proving to be tiring after a while. Takes concentration, you know?" she giggled. "I can see relationships too. Very useful when you want to know if someone is really your friend or not, but otherwise useless." She kept the other details about the power to herself. "And, the third is just as boring. I can summon ...other worldly creatures too." she yawned at the thought of summoning demons. Doing work yourself was half the fun, though the back up plan was nice to have as an ace in the hole.
*Sugoiu = amazing/incredible/awesome
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Post by Cruor & Oblitum on Jun 14, 2012 0:05:05 GMT -8
Cruor laughed a bit after Kikime had shown her powers. " Not sure why you understated your powers so much, they seem pretty helpful. and at least they haven't caused you any issues." Cruor took another sip of his tea. " I mean, i'm somewhat jealous really, I have control over cold and ice, and my blood, but my third power more then makes up two being helpful by being almost completely useless", he then said in a somewhat bitter tone, just as the sentence finished the voices in his head began screaming at him, insulting him bringing up any painful memory they could to get back at him for calling them useless.
Within moments Cruor's hand gripped at his head as if the pressure would help alleviate the massive headache he had just caused himself. The small ice snake poked it's head up and stared at it's master wondering what had caused him pain.
Cruor decided he should probably elaborate rather then continue on and make himself seem any more insane then he already did, " One of my powers lets me know if there are people with powers nearby, and what their powers could do. However it manifested as voices screaming at me from inside my own head, I think the doctors that i've been sent to called it schizophrenia but unlike other schizophrenics mine can't be treated or even suppressed i just have to try to ignore them and hope i don't lose my mind." he then said as he let go of his head and went back to drinking the tea he had been given.
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Post by Kikime on Jun 14, 2012 0:41:08 GMT -8
"Oh they're helpful alright. I just don't like to constantly rely on them. Besides, doing things by my own normal methods can be fun too. It forces you to think that little bit more. Or that's what i find." Kikime smiled as she was told she understated her powers. "You think so? I try not to overstate them. That would just be big headed." she tilted her head and giggled. "I take your jealousy as a compliment. A useless power?" That could hardly be called a power then.
Her mouth formed a small 'o' shape of surprise as he suddenly grabbed onto his head. Were his brains going to pop out of his head now, like his blood had oozed from his skin? She watched intently. His voice didn't sound all that panicked. She listened curiously. "Aw, a spoiler power." she mused. "I don't know if that's fortunate or unfortunate. I like the surprise of seeing what powers others have." A schizophrenic that couldn't be cured? Good! That was how it should be! How much more fun would the world be if the mad were allowed stay mad? she thought to herself. "You can't control it? I must say, I'd find that quite irritating. I like to be in control of my powers, not vice versa."
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Post by Cruor & Oblitum on Jun 14, 2012 0:58:19 GMT -8
Cruor's head ache subsided. " irritating is putting it lightly, however they are somewhat helpful i suppose. One of them wanted me to try to make you summon one of your demons, just to see if I was capable of it, so maybe not that helpful after all?" He mused half to himself half to Kikime. Cruor got himself another of the small cakes and took a bite before stretching his other arm out.
" I have to say the picnic was a nice idea, its actually quite relaxing here, or at least in so much as it can be for me with people that have powers around." Cruor then said as he looked up at the sun, after a second he shied away from the direct sunlight. not a second a tree of solid ice shot up from the ground next to him and branched out to cover him from the sun, it lowered the temperature slightly but not so much that it would cause Kikime any discomfort, as soon as he had the shade Cruor sighed happily and poured himself some more tea.
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Post by Kikime on Jun 14, 2012 6:29:38 GMT -8
"Oh did they now?" Kikime said raising a brow, a small side smirk on her face as she was informed of one voice in particular. "That voice sounds rather pushy and rash. I mean, there's no telling what might pop out if i even was to summon something." she gave a soft scoff but looked amused more than anything. "Besides, it would be a rather big waste of both our time. I'm under no great threat so, my summoning is limited. The big guns don't bother much in coming for little scrapes. I know, how rude to leave a lady fighting by herself." she gave a small laugh.
"Why thank you!" she beamed. "It's better out here since so many students went home for summer. It's been rather quiet around school." Too quiet for her liking. "Though, you possibly enjoy that more." she pointed out to herself. She watched as a crystal-tree shot up from the ground, and covered Crour with shade. Kikime gave a small hum. "You can make all these amazing things. Can you make it snow? It used never snow where i lived in Japan." she explained. "Whenever i saw it here, i always found there to be something... refreshing about it."
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Post by Cruor & Oblitum on Jun 14, 2012 19:18:34 GMT -8
Cruor looked a bit skeptical when she mentioned the big guns not coming in unless very threatened, " That does seem very rude, but yes the voices are often very rash, half of them want me to constantly defend myself the others always want me want me to run it can be very annoying." He laughed a bit when she called it a waste of their time . " Yes i suppose it would be quite a bit of a waste.
after she asked him if he could make it snow cruor placed one hand out in the air, testing the humidity, most of the water here had been used up by his tree so he doubted it would be easy, looking up he noted that the sky was mostly cloud free as well. " Well i think i might be able to but i've never tried before. I will need more water, perhaps if we went to the beach i could use the water there and see if i could manufacture some snow for you" Cruor then said as the snake and tree both melted, the water in the snake separating from the blood before each the two water pools began freezing again and becoming a flock of what looked like sparrows before flying straight up into the sky so that they could become mist and create more clouds. " Shall we go then?" Cruor then asked Kikime as he put away his tea cup and dusted himself off.
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Post by Kikime on Jun 15, 2012 1:31:05 GMT -8
"Do you give into them often?" she asked. "I would think the best thing to do would give them the finger and tell them we are doing what I want to do." she said with a nod, agreeing with herself. Voices in her head, or voices of others around her, Kikime seemed to be happy to do things her own way in any case. She smiled when he laughed. "I'm glad you understand."
She watched as he tested the airs humidity. "It's a lot more complicated using your ice power than it looks." she noted, rubbing her chin. "There's so many things you have to take into account. It's so strange." she began to pack up the treats carefully, and put them and her own cup into the basket. "To the beach it is." she smiled. When she looked up, she noticed the tree and snake had melted. Her eyes widened as it turned into a flock of sparrows and they darted up into the sky. "How pretty ~" she commented, watching them as Crour put his own cup into the basket. "Alright, let's go."
Kikime got to her feet and something odd occurred. She felt weak at the knees, dizzy and nauseous. Oh no way... she thought as she looked back down into the basket, a calm look on her face. "Hey, I might have to take a rain check..." she said with a light voice. "I remembered something i have to do. My friend will be very upset if i don't do it. I remember now why she wasn't able to come to day. She was making a stop by the infirmary. Someone close to her got in an accident. I should be back at the dorms to make tea for when she comes back. Excuse me." It wasn't a total lie. She gave a small bow. This was hilarious! What were the odds of her slipping up like this?! It was taking everything she had to hold herself back from bursting out with laughter and rolling around in the grass. She'd served both herself and this boy a batch of the poisoned treats. Nothing lethal, but, not exactly safe either. "I'll come find you soon." she promised as she put the basket over her arms and ran towards the school. She couldn't wait to get back to the room and laugh until she got sick.
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Post by Cruor & Oblitum on Jun 15, 2012 1:39:55 GMT -8
Cruor shrugged, " ah well, perhaps later then." He called after Kikime as she ran away. Cruor himself would most likely never notice the sickness as he body purged out any such things due to the rapidly reproducing blood that circulated his veins often being purged through his skin or lungs, no poison could really stay in long enough to affect him in any meaningful way. After he shrugged Cruor simply began to wander his way toward the beach creating new ice sparrows every so often and sending them into the sky to begin creating his snow storm.
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