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Post by Golurkcanfly on Feb 1, 2014 19:58:24 GMT -6
"What?" Arcturus would have done a spit take had he been drinking anything. "But aren't there only like twenty in the world? What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be off training with the emperor's court instead of some school?"
Sweet mother of Cleatia, she's not even lying. Could she destroy Alucard's curse?
"Not a chance."
Smoke began to rise from the tattoo on Arcturus' head, causing him to recoil in pain.
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Post by SwordMasterEX on Feb 1, 2014 20:02:03 GMT -6
Jam glared at Arcturus. She gets in Elia's face looking directly into her eyes she stares for a minute, strengthening her sense of empathy to the point she could see through Elia's eyes. A gasp escapes her lips from what she saw. "How cruel! Jam not know bad men take Elia." Just then she notices smoke coming from Arcturus' death mark. "Master are you ok?"
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Post by Golurkcanfly on Feb 1, 2014 20:06:39 GMT -6
"I'm fine." Arcturus spoke seriously and coldly as his glare sharpened as if he was hunting down food. "I think there might be more to this curse than Arucard let on."
What did you do to me?
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Post by GX1997 on Feb 1, 2014 20:08:25 GMT -6
"Crazy nymph, you don't even know what you're talking about! No such thing happened!" Elia stands up in an outrage ands blurts out, luckily not too loudly.
What? That was completely out of character for me. I'd never say that!
Jacob stood up and supported Elia, making sure he could defend her if it came to that. The look on his face was one of little to no emotion, as he glared at Pearl and Arcturus.
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Post by SwordMasterEX on Feb 1, 2014 20:35:38 GMT -6
After checking on Arcturus, she turns an icy gaze on Jacob and Elia. She grabs her bow and three ice arrows from the quiver. A cracking sound can be heard as the arrows dig into the ground around the two. In an instant the ground freezes and 12 bars identical to the ones that Jam saw Elia trapped in sprout from the ground to cage them. "Jam fine with lying cell girl. Jam not need sense to see scared and sad, but Jam try help and Cell Girl start yelling at Jam?" She grabs one of the bars, crushing it into a clear powder. "Jam not want to see heart cold as ice. If master still want assist then Jam help master, but Jam no longer reach out to Elia or cell girl friend." She grabs the three arrows and continues her meal.
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Post by Golurkcanfly on Feb 1, 2014 20:42:24 GMT -6
"Pearl, that was unnecessary." Arcturus continued in the same calculating tone from before. "We will continue assisting them. After all, that's why we sat here, wasn't it?"
Arcturus gleefully stabbed another piece of chicken with his fork before biting it off of the silverware with a pleasurable look. However, this ended as Arcturus felt a sudden release of pressure from his forehead, causing his expression to turn back to one of sincerity.
Arucard, what were you really trying to do?
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Post by SwordMasterEX on Feb 1, 2014 21:21:23 GMT -6
Halfway through her chicken, she realized just how many people were looking in her direction. Suddenly feeling very red, she turned to Elia and Jacob about to apologize. However, something was going to prevent that from happening in front of an audience. The smoke coming from Arcturus' mark began passing through the ice. It melted the bars into a mist that covered the entirety of the room. When it lifted everyone except Arcturus, Elia, Jacob and Pearl was asleep. Pearl looked at Elia with remorse and said, "Sorry Jam go crazy. Jam not used to being yell at. Jam promise not to look into heart if Elia promise not to yell at Jam, friend?"
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Post by GX1997 on Feb 1, 2014 22:06:48 GMT -6
During the whole ordeal, Elia's eyes were glued to the bars. She knew exactly what they looked like. She didn't move at all, but Jacob tried to get her to snap out of it. When that failed, he leaned Elia's head on his shoulder and deliberately stood between Pearl and Elia.
Even after the cage melted, Elia didn't nove or say anything, although the voices in her head were telling her to keep denying everything. Eventually, Jacob spoke up.
"I think you should control your friend, Arcturus. Elia isn't one to start a fight, and she was forced to defend herself from that... that nonesense. I mean you no harm nymph, but consider what you've done."
By that time Jacob had moved, making it easy to see how stunned Elia still was. Jacob took Elia's plate in one hand and started pulling Elia with him out the door, but stopped to say something else.
"Friends are supposed to help keep us out of trouble, not let us cause it. I assume you agree, Arcturus."
I feel sick... and very tired. All after that outburst. But... why?
"I don't feel well, Jacob. I think I need to rest for a while," said Elia as they were about to leave the dining hall.
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Post by Golurkcanfly on Feb 1, 2014 22:18:46 GMT -6
There's something so much bigger than this, or is there? Pearl could just be disillusioned. Just throwing unwanted stress onto Elia. No no no, that wouldn't make sense, she was too stressed out to begin with. She was ki-no, she's just distraught about moving. Yes, that makes perfect sense.
Arcturus' head felt like it was a watermelon being crushed in a vice.
"Pearl." he turned towards the flustered nymph. "I'm not feeling all too well either, and this feeling is different. It's not the burning from before. This isn't Arucard's curse; this is something else, something different."
He slowly got up and hobbled towards the exit, wincing in pain at his splitting headache.
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Post by SwordMasterEX on Feb 1, 2014 22:44:43 GMT -6
"Grrr, Fine! Don't make promise to Jam, and Jam not keep her promise!" She yells after them. Catching up with Arcturus, she helps to carry him. "Master, how bad Pearl mess up? Pearl just try help, but Cell Girl not want help. Pearl not sure what do."
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Post by GX1997 on Feb 2, 2014 7:46:23 GMT -6
After leaving the dining hall, Elia's condition was worsening. She was even more pale than usual, and was too weak to walk very far without Jacob's help.
"Let's just try and make it a little farther, I'm sure there's somewhere you could sit down around here," he told her as they walked back towards the front of the academy.
Soon they saw a bench, and sat down. Elia immediately put her head in his shoulder and started falling asleep, as she tried so hard to figure out what had happened to her back there.
"Looks like I'lll have to explain why you missed some of your classes..." he said as she drifted off to sleep.
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Post by Golurkcanfly on Feb 2, 2014 9:58:33 GMT -6
"Let's just leave them alone for now." Arcturus told Pearl as they headed to a side exit. "There's obviously something that we're missing, but there's something that's obstructing my thoughts, twisting them. I don't like the smell of this."
To whomever is messing with my head: F*** you, sincerely, Arcturus Galatine.
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Post by SwordMasterEX on Feb 2, 2014 10:12:44 GMT -6
"Ok" She concedes. I'm not lying, but master won't believe me, Elia will keep denying everything, Jacob will encourage it, and I can't reach out to anyone from home... This feeling is awful. "Master, where we go?"
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Post by Golurkcanfly on Feb 2, 2014 10:17:43 GMT -6
"To the courtyard." Arcturus answered her as his headache began to lessen. "You'd like it there. It's one of the few open spaces with lots of grass in the city. Plus, it can help me clear my head and figure out exactly what's going on. I feel like I almost had it, but it slipped away."
I understand that she's a Type-1, but what do they aim for?
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Post by SwordMasterEX on Feb 2, 2014 10:31:45 GMT -6
They continued walking through the exits until one opened up to the courtyard. "Wow, so pretty!" She exclaimed as she put Arcturus up against a tree. She sat in his lap shifting to her water form. She began to explain, "Cool head help master think. Shade and jam keep master cool."
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Post by Golurkcanfly on Feb 2, 2014 10:44:49 GMT -6
"Thank you Pearl." he whispered into the nymph's pointed ear as he hugged her.
So Elia is from a small kingdom on the border of the Cleatian Empire, and was taken here. Judging by her state of being, she is here against her will. She's trying to deny being kidnapped however, so someone must be threatening her to keep quiet. However, it's not so simple as that. She could just ask for someone's help and they would most likely help her. That means that there must be someone controlling her actions as well as my own. Making everyone seem hostile and keeping her shy to keep the truth from getting out. I wouldn't doubt there being a large conspiracy to keep her here, as there are only about 20 in all of Austur. Her friend Jacob knows about this, but he doesn't look like he's doing this just to protect her from punishment. Is he in on it?
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Post by SwordMasterEX on Feb 2, 2014 11:11:05 GMT -6
"Ahh..." His breath brushed by her ear causing her to tense up. Despite being made of actual water, she was blushing. Her legs began to quiver a little. On no! Master might catch on to my condition if I stay in his arms. "Master" She says looking up at him with pleading eyes "Please hold Jam closer." But I can't help it. He feels so warm.
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Post by Golurkcanfly on Feb 2, 2014 11:17:14 GMT -6
"Alright." Arcturus replied softly as he slid her off of his lap and set her by his side. "I think I've figured it out, but that doesn't matter right now. Let's just sit here and enjoy the sunlight while we can."
He put his arms around Pearl and hugged her tightly, allowing her to lean on his shoulder.
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Post by SwordMasterEX on Feb 2, 2014 11:38:55 GMT -6
"Mmm Jam want to stay like this." She contently rest on his shoulder as her body starts to relax a bit. She nuzzles her head onto his chest where she begins getting drowsy.
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Post by Golurkcanfly on Feb 2, 2014 11:44:35 GMT -6
"Shh..." Arcturus told her as he put his head over hers. "Just get some rest before we head off to Silverback Cave."
If only we could idle like this forever. It feels nice, but in one year's time...
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