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 Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 2:06 am
Edward
"Something? Not someone? ... Al you're not a monkey stop that your going to fall! Please Al." He whined.
Edward jumped out of the tree knowing Al just wasn't going to listen. He winced as he hit the ground, he had been farther up than he thought.
"Hey Al, heads up!" he called throwing his brother's staff to him. "And watch that drop! I don't want you falling on your a**." He stood there waiting on Al to cut himself free, watching just in case something went wrong.
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Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 10:30 am
-Ed and Al- Alphonse watched with worry as his brother dropped to the ground from this distance. then with a bit of interesting twisting, barely managed to catch the spear. He readjusted it to get a better grip, and began feverishly slicing at the rope below his hand hold. While cutting through the last few strands, one of the little flashes of light flew itself right in Al's face. He started at the cute thing in amazement for a couple seconds:  And then the last strands of rope gave away. The sudden drop caused Al to flinch, getting a clean slice through his hand as he fell to the ground.
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Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 10:58 am
[Symph]
"Sweet merciful gods! Why do you insist on torturing me when I haven't even done anything wrong?!" The Lyonell roared with fury as he flicked the small dagger out from beneath the sleeve of his robe and brought it against the net - he was by no means impressed by the sudden attack and he was not going to receive the little whelp who trapped him in such a manner with any graces.
His expression one of absolute anger and his complexion pale as he fought to contain his rage, he promptly slashed the dagger through the net and cast one half aside, sitting up and glancing around for a few moments as he attempted to pick up any signs of life or any indication of who had done this and then he heard it...
His delicate and sensitive ears picked up the tell tale whispers of a being and with a cold smirk he tossed his bags to the side.
"Right." He snarled and launched himself up into the tree, catching his robes on a number of branches to cause them to tear but with no other hinderances. From up within the tree he maintain his silence and very quietly he began to stalk his prey, fingering his own net in the process.
...This really was not his week.
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Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 11:25 am
-Symph and Setara- the little flashes of light returned, inspecting the net Symph had cut himself free from. One stayed still long enough to be seen while the other darted about: 
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Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 11:34 am
[Symph]
The flashes of light were enough to catch his attention and he promptly swung his head round to glance towards them suspiciously, he was prepared for something to attack him but instead he was rather astonished to see the petite creature before him, if that was what he thought it was...
"Vixie?" He mouthed to himself, the colour returning to his face as the initial rage began to wear off, he remained still, balanced carefully upon the thick tree branches as he continued to watch the creature uncertainly - well it was certainly very cute, any girl he knew would have released incomprehensibly loud squeals in relation to it...
He did have one thing to mull over though - why was it so brightly coloured and how had he missed something like that?
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Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 12:19 pm
[Setara]
Setara cursed. She was now without & net & in no way equipped enough to trap the creature. She looked up at the creature for a few seconds, her mind a blur of various thoughts & plans. There was no way that she could surprise it from behind...how about leading it to the cage? No...not that either. Setara paced warily under the tree, not sure what to do. She felt rather unhappy about hurting the tiny little creature, adversed to hurting any creature for that matter. Even if it was wily, it was sweet as honey in appearance.
"What to do now..." Setara thought to herself.
"I dont want to put it in a cage...." she continued to let the thoughts collect in her head. No tame pet was worth catching a wild one & putting it in a cage! The more she thought about it the more cruel it seemed.
She shouted up to Symph, hoping to gain his attention.
"Excuse me!!!! I dont think we should be trying to cage it!!" She called to the lyonell.
"Like he'll listen anyway." Setara mumbled inaudiably.
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Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 12:51 pm
[Symph]
All the anger that had disappeared returned to him in that instance, that voice reminded him of exactly why he was in the tree, hidden beneath the shadows of the great canopy - it was her! The little b***h had tried to trap him and now she was trying to order him around as if he were some kind of animal? His anger grew and he turned his gaze upon her, his eyes flashing angrily as he rounded upon the nomad - the heathen.
"You!" He snarled furiously, uncaring as to whether or not he scared the creature away from him. Readjusting his grasp upon his dagger he calmly sprinted across the tree branch and leapt from it, clasping said branch with his hand as he swung to the ground and stalked towards her.
"Sanctimonious little harlot!" He hissed devillishly, clasping his dagger tighter until his knuckles became right, "How dare you try to order me around whenever you had the nerve to hurl your net over me - If I were in the right mind I would crush you into your accursed cage as it is!" He continued, shoulders hunched tensely as he fixed a glare of utter hatred upon her.
"I suggest you keep your silence heathen - your words are not welcome in the given circumstances." He pointed out snidely as if to indicate he didn't actually have a cage.
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Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 1:01 pm
[Setara]
Setara gave Symph a rather blank look.
"Considering I did not throw the net at you...I would be rather less inclined to point that knife of yours at me....." She said, her tone seeming dull & bored almost.
"Besides...who are you to judge & call me a harlot?" She thought to herself. She looked him dead in the face & answered bluntly.
"I was merely pointing out that it would seem cruel to place such a delicate thing in a cage for the purpose that it may be stripped of its true colors & made into a pet.....but of course...if to be kind & perseverring is not what you church goers teach these days.." She trails off & wanders away from him a little, peering about, drawing her own pair of short swords. More to defend herself against the wily creature than Symph. She wasn't going to argue with him. It would be pointless & a waste of breath trying to even banter with the Acolyte.
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Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 1:04 pm
Edward
Ed rushed over to where Al fell. "Alphonse?" he whispered checking over his brother. "Was that a vixie?" his eyes scanning the area around them.
"Al, your hurt! It hurt you...god damn it I'll kill it." he wrapped up Al's hand. "We'll find someplace to wash that out in a bit. You can move can't you Al?"
Feeling very much uneasy now. He sat there next to Al until he was ready to move or was ready to admit that he would have to drag Al home, seeing how he wasn't sure how bad the fall had been.
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Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 1:14 pm
[Symph]
Symph simply flashed a smirk and shook his head, "Whelp, will not even admit to her own inability to pay attention to her things." He pointed out loudly as he slipped the dagger back into his sleeve and stalked back towards the trees, "All creatures have their uses and you have no grounds to comment on what is cruel and uncruel whenever you also harness the power of captive animals - where did you think they spawned from, flowers? And where do you think your clothes came from?" He chided in the same snide tone before turning his attention back towards the tree he was heading towards, now he completely understood why the church disliked these beings - they never took responsibility for their actions.
The smirk still upon his lips, he found that he soon lost the anger within him as though pointing out the little harlot's faults was enough for him - heck, at least he had destroyed her net...hopefully now she would go away instead of preaching to every hunter she came across, she would end up being killed if she even tried to.
Nevertheless, soon satisfied with the way in which his robes now sat, he made his way towards the tree once more and quickened his pace until he was at such a speed that he could leap back onto the tree branch he had previously been sat upon...
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Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 1:24 pm
[Setara]
She turned her head slightly afore sitting. She knew exactly what Symph meant & had disliked herself for acting towards creatures in such a manner. She wasn't about to argue with him though. He was completely right, but had pointed out nothing that she knew before. She let a slight smile play across her face afore checking the odd looking cage at her side. She looked at her map, discerning the quickest route back to the tavern.
She picked up the cage under one arm & called in a nice, bright & polite manner to the rather short tempered acolyte.
"Good luck sir with your hunt" Afore trudging back through the undergrowth, pulling her train off of brambles, expecting a none too friendly reply, if one at all. She wanted to giggle at how he had tried to make her feel awful & failed miserably, but she kept quiet for the sake of the others hunting in the woods.
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Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 1:43 pm
[Symph]
He didn't reply to her offer of 'luck' - rather he would have assumed it was an attempt to jinx him and to be entirely honest he had enough bad luck as it was, he'd met her after all. Nevertheless, he did purse his lips and rested his head against the trunk of the tree as he sat upon the branch, his gaze fixed upon the tiny creature below him. He was by no means about to commit any suicidal actions in the form of capturing the creature but it didn't hurt to watch it now, right?
Besides, he could do with the rest and all things considered the tree was rather comfortable. Releasing a sigh, he simply ensured that he was balanced on his branch and from then on in he allowed his mind to wander, his tail swinging from side to side in the similar fashion to that of a pendulum just below the tree branch...
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Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 4:29 pm
-alphonse-
He lay there for a moment, waiting for the daze to disappear. he'd dully heard his brother's voice asking if it was a vixie. To this he nodded, or at least attempted to. His body ached from the solid impact, and his hand burned with the pain of the slash, but he was alive and mostly unhurt.
The little glowing creatures still circled overhead, darting about like little fireflies. Then they started coming down towards them in little spirals.
"Ed! they're coming!" Alphonse sluggishly pushed his brother to one side then forced himself to roll the opposite way, back onto his knees. In pain ot not, he wasn't gonna let these things get the best of them.
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-Symph and Setara-
As Setara tried to walk away, yet another trapped had been sprung. The most simple of traps imagined.... a hole dug in the ground with leaves over it. Hardly imaginative, but effective against the unsuspecting at least.
And the two floating below symph scattered when the banter between Nomad and Lyonell ceased. They'd busied themselves doing something mischivious for certain.
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Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 5:05 pm
Edward
Being shoved by his brother was the last thing he'd expected at a time like this. Well at least he landed next to his own spear and not on it. Edward tried to count how many vixies were floating around them, it was hard to tell with their bright coloring and the fact they seemed to glow.
He didn't know if this was just the dumbest idea in the world or if a vixie had smacked him silly. "Hey vixies, could you do me a favor and just get in the cage and leave my brother alone, cause I really don't want to have to hurt you for making him fall." He really felt like smacking himself in the forehead after repeating his thoughts out loud.
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Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 5:35 pm
-Alphonse-
He quickly looked around, assessing the situation. both brother had their spears, their nets and their cages still. he wasn't sure how they'd managed that, but somehow they had. the vixies were quickly swooping down on them... If they managed to lure the vixies close enough and time their net throws correctly....
"Ed!!" He caught eye-lock with his brother, one hand on his net. He nodded slowly. hopefully thr mesage was delayed properly. He tightened his grip on his spear... just a little closer...
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