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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Frozen Hell of the North
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Spoiler for Blood That Flows - Revolution Start:
Groaning as the light around them faded, Nove stood up and quickly looked around. From what she could see, they were in some sort of grassy plain. 'Very grassy.' She thought to herself as she saw that it wasn't maintained at all and in haphazard lengths, suggesting that local animals grazed there often. Still, at least the grass only came up to her knees. She may have been the tallest one of the group, but Nove was still rather short by anyone's estimation.
"Where are we?" Rio asked, looking around nervously. "...Are we dead?" She yelped when someone kicked her in the rear and sent her falling flat on her face. "Oww!"
"There's your answer." Arashi muttered as he got up after kicking Rio in the butt. "I don't know where we are though."
"Jet Edge," Nove was looking around and nodding as she saw no hostile beings near them, "can you contact a Bureau ship and let them know where we are?"
There was a pinging noise before Jet Edge responded to her. "No Bureau ships within range."
"WHAAAAT?!" Rio and Corona both screamed loudly and Nove sighed as the two of them, Vivio and Einhart all asked their devices to work together to try and boost the signal.
"We're alone..." Rio fell to her knees, trembling. "We're all alone and we're going to..."
"Knock it off!" Nove took a step forward, her eyes narrowed at them. "First of all, you have no freaking idea how huge the universe is, do you?" All of the children shook their heads slowly. "It's huge, okay? The Bureau doesn't have enough ships and manpower to patrol the whole universe, so, it's very possible that we're on a planet that's outside of their normal patrol areas." That seemed to calm the nearly panicking children down. "I'll have Jet Edge keep sending up signals every so often. Eventually someone's going to eventually come across it. It might take a couple of weeks at most, but we'll be okay."
"What makes you think so?" Corona asked as Nove continued to look around.
"Well... I can tell you that despite everything else," Nove pointed to herself, "I'm the daughter of two high ranking ground forces soldiers. My mother is a front line fighter and my father is a colonel," she then pointed at Einhart, "she's my mother's ward on top of that. And Vivio there is a valuable person to both the church and the Bureau, seeing just who she's related to, and Arashi there is related to just as many people as Vivio is, and then there's Ixy..."
"It's Ixpellia," the redhead said absentmindedly as she looked up at the sky and wasn't paying too much attention to the others.
"Right, well, she's a ward of the Saint Church," Nove looked at Rio and Corona, "and you two might not have the same connections as we do, but if you stick with us you should be okay." She then looked at Ixpellia and narrowed her eyes. "Ixy, what are you doing?"
"It's Ixpellia. And I'm trying to figure out which direction is which." The redhead pointed at where the sun was. "From what I can tell, it's either fairly early in the morning or late in the afternoon. So, if this planet is like others that I know of, that way is East or West. Of course, I could be wrong and that way is North or even North-West." She shrugged and turned to the others. "At the very least, we'll be able to watch where we're going, don't you agree?"
Nove nodded, smiling at that. "Good. Now, let's pick a direction and go that way." Ixpellia pointed directly behind Nove. "...Why that way?"
"Because there's no reason not to? Plus I saw some birds flying from that direction." Ixpellia smiled at her.
"Sure." Nove nodded and turned to start walking. "Hopefully we'll find some people before too long."
"How does Nove know this stuff?" Corona whispered to Vivio.
"Her parents work with the Bureau, and she used to be a terrorist." Vivio answered bluntly, much to Corona's shock. "What? Her sister kidnapped me once." Corona stared for several moments before shaking her head and running after the group. She was really thinking about making a golem to travel faster, or at least be able to see further, it sucked being small some days.
Nove sighed and almost rubbed her forehead. Well, at the very least, nothing bad should happen if they were just going to walk in a random direction.
(---)
"Hurry up with that!" A man yelled as several people ran around the village, smashing stuff and tearing stuff apart. He was fairly tall and lanky with white hair and gray eyes. He was wearing black pants and an over-sized blue shirt on his body. If one was to look at him, they would say that he had a pretty face, however, his eyes were incredibly cold as he looked around. "After we're done here, we need to move onto the next village."
"Why are you doing this?" An elderly couple looked at the man, trembling in fear as they watched their home get torn into.
"Well, you have nothing to worry about." The man smiled at them as he turned and knelt down. "You see, my boss recently lost a couple of tools of his and we've searched everywhere back home for them. So, we can only assume that they're not at home and we came here, looking for them." The man chuckled at their confused question as he pulled out a picture. "Yes, these two, have you seen them?"
Looking at the picture, both of them shook their heads. "N...No. We've not seen anyone like that." The male of the two said, his voice shaky.
Sighing the man put the photo away. "Blast, but still, perhaps they were here and moved on a long time ago, we need to make sure that they didn't leave any clues." He chuckled and turned away from them. "After all, who knows where they are these days?"
"Boss!" One of his underlings slid up to him. "Lord Gram, we have found nothing here."
Gram twitched and nodded. "Fine, we'll just move on then. We have more important things to worry about than this." He started to walk away when someone yelled at him. Turning, he raised an eyebrow as one of the younger villagers glared at him. "What is it, boy?"
"You... You can't just come here and destroy our stuff and then leave!" He glared, his hands squeezed into fists so tightly that his knuckles were white. "I won't let you get away with that!" When Gram chuckled at him, the boy grabbed a rock and threw it at him, hitting him in the shirt.
"Boy..." Gram stopped chuckling and walked towards the boy with measured steps. "You're very lucky I wasn't wearing my white suit today. I would have to kill you then."
"Get out!" The boy screamed and grabbed another rock to throw it at Gram. Before he could do so, Gram was in front of him, grabbing the boy's wrist and lifting him up. "Let go!"
"Now, now..." Gram narrowed his eyes at the boy. "Why should I do that? I graciously let you and your village survive. I could just order my minions to slaughter everyone, couldn't I?" He chuckled and threw the boy through a hut. "Next time, stay down, idiot. You don't have a chance to survive anyway."
A moment later, another rock bounced off of his head. Sighing, Gram turned to see who had attacked him this time before blinking. "A bunch of children in weird garb coming to challenge me?"
The blonde girl with mismatching eyes glared at him. "What are you doing?! Attacking people for no good reason?!"
"Oh, he attacked me first, and I was just looking through this village for something, nothing more, nothing less." Smirking, Gram snapped his fingers and several of his underlings appeared around him in almost an instant. "Now, now, if you wish to fight me... I could arrange it, but what guarantee do you have that these villagers wouldn't be caught in the crossfire?"
"Vivio," a redheaded woman put a hand on her shoulder, "let me talk." The blonde girl nodded and the redhead narrowed her eyes at him. "Just what are you doing here?!"
"Like I said, I was looking for something, but it keeps slipping away from me. Though, I suppose if you know where it is, then I can stop terrorizing people and leave with it."
"And just..." The redhead growled at him, "what are you looking for?"
Gram smirked, pulled out a photograph and tossed it towards the redhead. "You wouldn't happen to know where that is, would you?"
The redhead grabbed the picture and held it in front of her, staring in shock. "...This is..."
"Ah! You do know!" Gram grinned at her. "So, just tell me where those two are, and we'll be on our way."
"No, I won't." She narrowed her eyes at him. "Those two are living a happy life now, they're finally recovering from whatever it was that you did to them and you want them back?!" Gram shrugged, chuckling at her rage. "It's not funny!"
"Oh, but it is, you think they're human? They were made to serve my master, nothing more, nothing less."
"Their names..." The redhead growled as she crushed the photograph in one hand and pulled out a green gem with her other hand, "are Amitie and Kyrie Florian!"
"Huh..." Gram blinked and nodded. "I do recall that they were called that, yes. I mean, who can tell what all their tools are called when they're the same thing? It's like knowing the difference between a flat screwdriver and a cross screwdriver. They're both screwdrivers after all." He smirked and waggled a finger at them. "Ah! Ah! Ah! If we start fighting here, we might accidentally hurt the villagers." He smirked at the hesitation that the others showed. "Then again, what do I care? Get them."
His minions let out a scream and rushed the group. Gram raised an eyebrow as five of the group of seven were suddenly surrounded in light for a moment. When it dimmed, the redhead that addressed him was in different clothing, three of the girls had actually changed sizes and clothes while a forth girl changed clothes, but not sizes and the last two didn't change at all. "Might be fun after all."
(---)
"Dammit!" Nove cursed, this was not how she wanted to spend her vacation! Ducking under a swipe at her head, she did a back flip and drove her foot into the creature's head. Her eyes widened as the skull seemed to fracture, before splitting down the middle. "What the?"
"Geeheeheehee!" The creature chuckled at her and punched her in the stomach, sending her flying back.
"Damn, no wonder I was worried!" Nove groaned as she flipped to her feet. "Mazoku!"
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