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Post by niko on Mar 17, 2009 16:58:32 GMT -5
Atakai nodded as he got the party address from the girls. "No its no trouble at all. I'm use to doing those partys." He looked over what he wrote on the notebook. "So you want me in a policemans costume and when I get there I arrest the wife to be" The other things he had to do did not really need to be said. When they left Atakai sighed he spotted Kit looking back at him.
He did not recognize her at first but he figured it out quick enough. Atakai raised a hand in the air and called out. "Hey kit! Where you going? To good to hang with me now?" A car drove by and some young punk threw out a cupped beverage that hit him in the chest and got Atakai all wet.
"Get a real job man whore!" Atakai seemed to ignore it and started to cross the street to get to Kit. Another car screetched to a stop and a old ass looking women called out. "Watch where your going you stupid he bitch!" That seemed to get a reaction out of Atakai as he quickly jogged the rest of the street over and turned to watch the old women drive off. 'Okey, now that was weird" he mumbled to himself. And truly it was. It was not every day you came across a 90 year old women with the mouth of a teenager.
Now within arm distance of Kit he put a hand on her shoulder and looked her over. "Wow, I almost did not recognize you there. You have" He shot a quick glance at her chest and smiled.. 'Grown out"
'So what brings you to this cesspool of a city?" "you know what, never mind. I know this great coffee shop down the street. Let me buy you something and we can catch up.
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Post by Mai on Mar 17, 2009 17:25:12 GMT -5
Sounds good.
She replied, smiling a hello his way.
And it looked like you were busy. Sorry for being polite.
She responded, to the question he had called out earlier, her smile spreading into a grin. She walked along beside him down the street to the coffee shop, finding herself incredibly relieved to not be alone anymore.
It's been lonely, really. Niko's stuck at home, playing babysitter. Fell and Rylee disappeared to who-knows-where. The other three went exploring time and space, or so they said. I rather think they're simply causing trouble somewhere. Nonetheless, I've been on my own for awhile.
She answered, not waiting for him to ask. Catching up generally meant asking how the other had been, so she found no need to wait for him to ask.
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Post by niko on Mar 17, 2009 23:00:25 GMT -5
Atakai led Kit down the street to a small store with a coffee mug on it. He paid for two coffee's and sat down at a table near magic image that acted as a Tv to show nation and local news.
Right now a reporter was on. "Here in the capital civil unrest has started to brew as former military general ferai Aidid opposes the current actions of the royal administration. Rumors are surfacing of a mysterous group called "The peoples Army"
Atakai watched the news and spoke to Kit. "Well, its nice to know Niko is getting distracted away from politics to care for his sister. Me, well I worked as a firefighter until the mayor abolished it and laid us all off. Said we were a drain on taxpayers dollers and waste of time. So now I work as uh..."
He paused to make up a job. Its not like he could tell the person he had a crush on that he was a male protitute. "I work as a bank accountant downdown" A patron in the shop changed the news to local and a reporter stood in front of a flaming reactor. One of seven that surround the city.
"I am standing here in front of reactor one that provides our city with power. A terrorist has blown up the reactor killing over 600 reactor workers. The death toll for the nearby residential area is currently at 121 and still rising. Footage of the one responsible was captured on a security monitor.
The image changed to a blank and white recording. A man wearing a gasmask and holding two wicked looking swords was cutting down security guards in a hallway. One fired a rifle and Zarza did a quick spin and deflected the bullet with a sword cuasing it to hit and kill the man who had shot it. The security guard fell down with blood spray coming from the bullet wound in his head.
Having finished killing the guards standing in his way Zarza slowly turned his head to look at the security monitor. Electrical strands of energy started to dance over his body. He held up a hand that had the geteway insignia on it. With a flash the image weent away as the camera was destroyed.
Atakai wispered to Kit. "hey, isent that an ancient? Ive never seen gasmasks like those accept when we were in the ancient city"
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Post by Mai on Mar 18, 2009 6:44:05 GMT -5
It must be... But what is he doing here? And where did he get the mark of a rider?
She whispered back, frowning in confusion for a moment, before gulping down the better portion of her coffee, and pushing her chair back to stand up, leaving the unfinished half on the table.
What do you say? Like old times and go help out?
She smiled as she said this, now entirely used to dealing with dangerous things. It would be good to have company, and this was the sort of rescuing she was doing now-a-days anyway.
This can't be much worse than when the magic turned into raw energy at the capital. Only difference being that it's actually caused by someone, not just a random occurrence.
She let a little bit of magic spark at her fingertips in feigned impatience, waiting for his decision.
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Post by niko on Mar 18, 2009 7:25:47 GMT -5
Atakai continued to watch the reporter and answered kit. "Well, if it quacks like a duck and looks like a duck. It must be a duck" In this he ment the ancient probably was a rider. A good and bad thing all at once. Good being as there has not been a rider in alelea in decades. Bad as in this rider looked like another Gabotorix in the making. And that bastard was dead. "The last thing the world needs is another galbotorix. Yeah, I'll help"
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Post by Mai on Mar 18, 2009 7:50:02 GMT -5
Within seconds Kit was outside and, first checking to make sure nobody was nearby, she changed. She stretched her wings out, certain there was enough space, and waited for Atakai to climb up. They would get there twice as fast if they flew, anyway, so she figured that would be how they'd get there. As soon as he was on, similarly to a rider, she rose up in the air, and out of the way of somewhat annoyed pedestrians.
Don't fall off back there! There's some high turbulence tonight.
She warned him, but never gave it a chance to registered before she headed in the general direction, simply letting her eyes scan the reactors to find the one that looked in trouble, which wasn't all that difficult. She picked up speed quite quickly, as she always managed to, though it was certainly a rocky flight. She was tempted to use magic to stabilize the air around her a bit more, but she had no idea how much she'd need when they got there, she was conserved it.
Any idea what to do, or should we make it up as we go along?
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Post by niko on Mar 18, 2009 11:03:14 GMT -5
Atakai climbed onto Kits back and held on tightly as she took flight. True to her words it was a turbulant ride. When the reactor finally came into view atakai looked for options.
Seeing none he told Kit. "I dont know if we can do anything. That ancient blew up the reactor already. Probably some kind of high explosive. All we can really do is to wait for the flames to die down or smother them by creating a magic shield around it. The fire will eat up all the air and pretty much kill itself."
When it was all done and the magic barrier was removed nothing but smoke rose. "Well that is taken care of. That man will try to take out the other reactors that I'm sure of. Its to late to follow him but I would say that man is part of "Neo Terra" Some activist rebel group highly opposed to the local governments complete disregard for nature. These reactors, from what I hear suck the life and magic from the ground. Did you not wonder why nothing grew at all for miles around this city?"
Zarza was not to far away as Atakai had thought. True he did flee the scene. But he was on a motorcyle right now talking to his dragon by telepath. "It is done. Though I really wish innocent people did not die" The sweet voice of his companion came back as she replied. "There is no such thing as innocent people child. You have earned money. Who cares if people died" He shook his head and was about to object but his dragons hold over him turned him to the darker path. "Yeah, your right...."
"You stay out of the city for now. I'm going back to the slums and the Neo Terra safehouse. I'll see how much more money I can milk out of them"
Atakai just realized something. His opoinment with the women who hired him. "Oh man, I'm going to be late for a appointment. Can you take me home?" He gave Kit directions and they arrived in the city slums. Atakai's apartment was in a run down apartment complex with crying babys and fighting couples. All the noise easily heard through the thin walls.
For a highspeed accountant Atakai sure lived in a dump. He unlocked the door to his apartment and Atakai waved Kit in. "I expect you dont have a place to stay do you? Well I would not recomend staying at a hotel. They will rob you blind. You can crash here for as long as you like. There is a spare bed in that room and food in the kitchen. Dont mind the hendersons upstairs. If they start fighting just take that broom over there and bang the cieling with it. They will quiet down.
A white cat jumped onto a wooden table and meowed. Atakai quickly went over to a cuppord and fetched her food. "Oh I'm sorry darling. I totally forgot to put food out for you today. Atakai set the food down and left for his room to prepare his bag for the nessesesary items for the bachelorette party.
Before he headed out the door Atakai added. "Just make yourself at home. I'll be back in a couple of hours.
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Post by Mai on Mar 18, 2009 13:28:30 GMT -5
Kit nodded, and began searching the cupboards. There really wasn't too much, but, then again, Atakai only needed enough for himself and didn't have to take into account what others liked. She settled for grabbing out a box of crackers and wandered around the small apartment. She went to sit on the spare bed, chewing her cracker slowly. The cat leaped onto her lap and she smiled, stroking it.
Well, I've got nothing else to do. What do you say we give Atakai a nice surprise when he comes home? This place is disgustingly dirty.
The cat simply purred, happy to be given attention. Kit picked her up, and held her carefully in the crook of her left arm and began cleaning up Atakai's apartment using her magic. He would come home and find it spotlessly clean, though she had attempted to keep everything in the same relative position. After all, some people complained they couldn't find anything after it was cleaned up and put away on shelves and things.
And then, Kit went and napped, hoping Atakai would at least wake her up when he got in. Of course, if he was courteous to her as he was last time they'd been around each other, he would likely let her sleep. She needed it much more than she realized.
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Post by niko on Mar 18, 2009 16:54:24 GMT -5
A couple hours later Atakai came walking into his apartment with heavy feet. He was back in his normal cloths again for the most part. He took the police cap off his head and tossed it to the side.
He paused to look around. The first thing he noticed was how tidy things were. The second thing was how nice it smelt now. Atakai did not expect Kit to be awake since it was late. But he went over to the spare room to check just in case.
Sure enough she was asleep. His cat keeping her company. Quietly he closed the door and went to his room and collapsed on the bed to fall asleep in his cloths.
Atakai was suprisingly the first one up in the morning and had started to cook some breakfast. Nothing extravagent. Just scrambed eggs and toast.
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Post by Mai on Mar 18, 2009 17:04:55 GMT -5
The smells of breakfast cooking were what woke Kit. She groaned and rolled over, staring at the ceiling for a moment to clear her groggy head. After about a minute, she sat up and ran her fingers through her hair quickly. She blinked, and her clothes, simply made up of light as they always seemed to be, shimmered, and changed to a simple, green t-shirt and beige cargo pants.
Picking up Atakai's cat, who had become a new friend in a manner of speaking, she opened the door and wandered to the kitchen. She leaned over his shoulder to look at what he was making.
Smells good.
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Post by niko on Mar 19, 2009 22:13:07 GMT -5
Atakai smiled. "Why thankyou." The eggs were done and he put two equal portions on a plate and set them down on the kitchen table.
He sat down and took a shaker labeled ginger to start sprinkling it on his eggs. Seeing Kits face he said. "Its perfectly legal here. The alchemists live outside the bounderys of most laws." He shrugged. "And besides its medicinal" So he needed it for his health. Atakai probably had a bad heart like her uncle Vinnie. It was kind of strange how all the draca males were suddenly having heart problems in recent years. Probably because of all the inbreeding. Or probably even something else altogether.
Atakai set the shaker down near Kit so she could put ginger on her food if she wanted. With that he started to eat. "So what do you want to do today?" Atakai asked. "I dont have to work down at the bank and have no appointments
He was finished eating now and drank some water from a glass. "Or do you want to go hunt down that rider who blew up the reactor?" Atakai really hoped she did not want to. He had been turned away from danger and was not so adventurous as Kit. He use to be. But it would probably have to take a special individual to spark that flame again.
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Post by Mai on Mar 19, 2009 22:34:34 GMT -5
I was just planning on passing through, but with him here... It might be better if I stuck around a bit longer than I intended. Not that I had anywhere to be anyway.
She replied, finishing off her own breakfast nearly as fast. She'd stopped taking her time to eat a long time ago. Half the time it was a quick bite to eat here and there when she had the time, and she often went a few days before she had time to eat, between her travels and sleeping. It was common for her to travel too far in a day, and fall asleep as soon nearly as soon as she stopped. Some would say she was pushing herself too hard, and, at first, she had been, but her body had adjusted. If someone laid a feast in front of her, she would hardly be able to eat it now because her body simply wasn't used to so much food. She tried to avoid cases like that, refusing more than she needed.
No need to hunt him physically, though. Psychic scan of the city will do just as well.
She continued, beginning to play with bits of magic. She'd also started daily exercises with it, which had surprised Niko when she visited him, and would no doubt surprise Atakai as well. However, he did have her full attention. She could do this simple stuff in her sleep.
But, for that very reason, it won't take long at all, and I doubt he'll do anything too close to the first attack. Likely aiming to take out the workers who could rebuild the reactor as well as the reactor itself. And, if he was aiming to do it anytime close to yesterday's attack, it's likely too late to stop it now anyway. So, I am entirely open to ideas for what to do today.
She smiled and set most of her magic to work around the floor, in a position conveniently placed where Atakai wouldn't see what she was doing. Of course, it didn't take more than a few seconds for her to finish what she'd been doing anyway, so she needn't have worried too much. She reached down and grabbed the hilt of a sword, which had a dragon head carved in it. She examined it for a moment, then grinned.
There we go! What do you think?
She placed the steel object on the table gently, careful with the blade for very obvious reasons.
Looks like this: i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh197/pieceofshiloh/dragonsword.jpg
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Post by niko on Mar 20, 2009 8:16:38 GMT -5
Atakai nodded his head and stood up. "Okey then, you do what you have to and find him. I need to get ready for today." With that he left to shower and shave.
Zarza was in the hidden safehouse of the rebel group "neo terra'. Standing in front of a seated man at a desk Zarza said. "When you said there would be just a small number of collateral damage I did not expect it to be in the hundreds" The man at the table slid a bag of gold across the table. "Quite your whining mercenary. Innocent people die in wars. This one is no different. Here is your pay as agreed
Zarza weighed the bag in a palm and then tied it to his waist. "Fine. But I wont do any more jobs that kill so many people" The leader of the radical extremists shook his head. "Your a strange mercenary dragon rider. I guess what they say about you all having no honor and loving nothing but money is a myth Zarza frowned and crossed his arms across his chest. "Only the part about having no honor.... what other work do you have"
The neo terra leader slid a rolled parchment across the table. "As you wish, dont worry this time.... there will be no innocent deaths. We have key liuetenents in a prison inside the cidadel. Its a government building with countless soldiers and government officals. But no doubt no trouble for a dragon rider"
Zarza opened the map and then closed it again. "I see there is no reasonalbe way in except that air duct near the top of the cidedal. My dragon will take me there. Consider your officers as good as returned. With that he left.
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Post by niko on Mar 20, 2009 8:26:08 GMT -5
Zarza was flying across the city atop Kira. Her black slender body still was covered in red electrical strands of energy. Though it was unerving at first Zarza got used to it. The giant tower of the city government loomed in the distance. Already a old air raid alarm from the days of wild dragon attacks started sounding and cannons were firing into the air.
"Miserable insects" Kira thought. "They will taste my fire" Tucking her wings in she started a dive towards the earth with incredible speed. Laying waist to a cannone position and insinerating the men manning it she shot back up into the sky only to hover in place. Now sitting still it was easy for the shooter to get a beed on Kira with there cannons. But the rounds just exploded in the air mere inches from there target. Somehow there was a invisible shield of some sort.
Taking in a deep breath and raising her snout to the sky Kira roared and released the energy stored in her. The red tendrils of energy crackled and popping loudly. Everyone of the defenders shooting at her looked at themselfs. There bodys started to flake away like ash until nothing remained but bones.
With the defenders dead and the tower open to attack Kira snorted and turned her attenion to Kit who was in the distance. Her mind reached out and touched hers to say. "Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for thou art tasty with ketchup"
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Post by Mai on Mar 20, 2009 9:38:41 GMT -5
Oh, so you've eaten your own kind?
Kit shot back, growling under her breath. Leaving the sword she had made lying upon the table, she dashed to one of the windows, having pinpointed the position, and blocked her mind for anything more than communication. Kira nor Zarza would know where she was, what she planned to do. If they tried to read her they would get nothing but the blankness that most got from a dead person. But she was far from dead. She leaped out the window, changing in midair, and began flying to the tower, bending the light as she had done to save Zarza in the past. They would not see her coming, nor could they sense her. To any telepathic mind, Kit had died.
Within attacking distance of the other dragon, the pure-blood dragon, Kit threw up a shield and became visible. The red energy bounced off the shimmering protection and she hovered, though her teeth were, surprisingly, not beared.
Stop what you're doing. War is not the only way to handle these things.
Kit began to pray, in a way, silently, in her mind. It was only a form of prayer, though, but also a way to concentrate, to connect with the wills of the three gods of the sky, and to focus her power. It was far from something merely done out of faith.
By the Sun, by the Moon, and by the Stars, shield me from this evil and help me tame its soul if, indeed, its soul can be tamed. If that is not an option, then lend me the strength and power to restrain and bind it, so that you, the gods above, may decide its fate, for it is not the place of a mere mortal like me to decide who lives and who dies.
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