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 Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 12:12 am
"Why do I care what the SHIBUSEN newsletter say is the best place for a hot chocolate?" Dar asked Heidi, following her into cafe Mattel. Heidi shrugged. She didn't really know...She really had just been kind of bored, and it seemed like a good excuse as any to get out of the apartment.
The stood in the line, looking around at the shop. It was bright and happy, not like their normal digs, and there seemed to be a few other students from SHIBUSEN there, but Heidi didn't recognize any of them straight off. She huffed a little, peering around the multiple people ahead of them. The line was moving at a snails pace, and she felt like she needed a chocolate fix.
"The coffee smells good too," Dar said, looking at the menu. Heidi shook her head. Yuck, coffee was gross! And she was defiantly gonna try the hot chocolate, and maybe some cheesecake.
"Hmm..." Dar said, not really paying attention to what Heidi was doing. "Hey, what'd you get for #12 on the homework?" she asked, propping up a book on her arm.
"What? We had homework?"
Dar sighed, rolling her eyes. Of course.
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Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 12:38 am
"Come on Wendell! The line is always long this time of day!"
"We'll get there, just calm down," Wendell sighed behind the wheel of his sweet ride. Well his creepy sweet ride to be exact. The Wendellmobile was one of his family's retired hearses completely redone by the emo/goth teen. Still black and shiney the outside had skull/cobweb/blood designs on it. If the inside could have been seen it would have been beyond impressive. In the back, where a body should be but a caffinee deprived Annabelle sat, Wendell had made it into a rolling bedroom.
A bed was crudely made yet still comfortable enough to sleep on....or other things a teenager may need it for. He had hooked up a small tv/dvd near by and a small cupboard type thing for holding stacks and juice boxes. But none of this matttered to his ill tempered weapon who only wanted her Hot Chocolate.
"Come ON!"
"Look we're here, not stop badgering me!" he sighed and released the rear latch. Climbing out he slammed his door shut and went to help the female out of the back. Wendell was hardly bad looking but had a sad yet poetic feel about him. Medium black hair feel around his pale face, one large lock usually covering one of his bright green eyes. He wore a tight t-shirt, a simple pair of black jeans, and combat boots. His lip ring glinted in the sunlight as well as a few of the earings he wore. Once the rear door was secure he walked into the establishment without noticing the rather eerie stares he was getting from most of the patrons. Wendell had long ago stopped caring about people's opinion of him and Annabelle was too ditzy to think anything of it.
The Crescent Scythe was dressed in her usual manner which hardly made jumping out of the back of a hearse any more creepy. Long white hair flowed around her light tan face as yellow eyes gleamed with happiness and the promise of chocolate and marshmallows. She wore a black turtleneck with a black skirt, but more interestingly she wore a Reaper style hoodie that hung just below her knees. Annabelle ran up to the line, behind two other girls who appeared as frustrated with the line as she was. "Aww maaaaaaan, my hot chocolate is gonna take forEVER!" Her shoulders slumped as if complete and utter defeat had washed over her.
"Go cry emo girl," Wendell walked up beside her.
"Said the kettle to the pot," she stuck her tongue out at him.
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Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 2:59 am
The redheaded girl's eyebrow's went up, as she peered over Heidi's shoulder (not a difficult thing to do, being several inches taller than her older WEAPON). The most ludicrous vehicle had pulled up outside the cafe, and two, even more colorful (or rather, colorless), people had climbed out. She watched them come in, and when the bell on the door rang as they opened it and entered, and when Heidi realized Dar was no longer listening to her, the blond girl turned as well.
"Huh," she said, giving each a once over. Heidi, ever the fashionista, tried to identify where some of their clothing had come from. Unlike other women of 'high fashion', however, she didn't immediately retch at the sight of the black pair. She appreciated when clothes spoke to everyone, and reflected your personality. Like her outfit (not to be self-centered, of course). She wore a Vivienne Westwood brown jacket, a matching plaid brown skirt, which hit several inches above her knees and had buttons up one side, and had a pintucked lay and her beautiful blond hair was done up in a fancy bun, with a few braids leading to the back of her head.
Dar, significantly more low key in her way of dress (which consisted of a white button up, wide-leg pants, suspenders, army surplus boots and a long green trench coat), but possibly more eccentric in her hairstyle choice, that of a rag-curled look, where one takes a section of their hair, twirls it around tightly until it coils onto they head, then ties a strip of fabric to hold it in place. She couldn't help but giggle at the 'emo girl' comment. At least they had a sense of humor about it, right?
The line moved forward, as one person received their order and went to find a seat in the multiple tables around them.
"Gods, we shouldn't have come here after school," Dar complained to Heidi.
"Good thing we skipped last period, huh?" Heidi replied, with a sly smile.
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Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 8:56 pm
"Maybe we should have skipped class. I will never know why we have to learn the Biowhatzitz of Tranformigation Tendencies," hearing the girl in front of her Anna had to wonder if maybe chocolate was more important. Then again she was a stickler for copying everything down she learned in class, everything that kept her attention that is. Up close it was obvious that Anna's clothing was high end brand. Though bearing no obvious trade mark it defiantly spoke of quality.
"Because otherwise you will transform into a waffle, not a scythe," was her technician's smooth answer. He didn't skip class, that had been ingrained into his head that an education, whether you understand it or not, was an important part of life. Hell you never know when you may need the knowledge. Wendell's clothes bore a more noticeable style. Namely Hot Topics or Spencer's trademark. He brushed a lock of obviously dyed hair out of his face before glancing at the girls in front of them. Being a teenage boy, he still couldn't help but check them out a bit. Yay hormones.
If only his weapon were so mature. Then again Anna with raging hormones might signal the end of the world. Currently she was rocking back and forth on the balls of her feet, a rather pouty look on here face then the tongue sticking out at her technician again.
"I would not turn into a waffle!"
"Ok, I lied. You'd turn into a potato."
"Wendell!"
He snickered.
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Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 10:43 pm
"Oh, they give the same transformation lectures over and over, so what if you miss one?" Heidi said, waving her hand dismissively. She knew that neither of the pair had actually spoken to her, but...she was a forward sort of person, and it could make the eternal wait go by just that much faster. Her bun bobbed a little as she spun her lithe figure around and smiled brightly at the two. She had already formed an opinion on them by their appearance (which she did with most people, and, she assumed, like most people did to herself), but it was already changing, when she heard them joking among themselves. She had assumed that like their dark exterior, they would have a rather dark interior as well. Happy goths? Heaven forbid!
"Like you've actually heard that lecture even once," Dar said laughing. "Which is quite funny, what with YOU being the weapon, y'know?" Her British accent was still quite thick, something the redhead prided herself on (and maybe worked at to keep going, assimilation be damned!). Heidi shrugged. She didn't seem to need to hear it, they had a system down, so it all worked out alright.
"You know, a waffle might be more useful in battle than a...what did you say I was again?"
Dar rolled her eyes. Dumb blond had gone all her life thinking she was an oddly formed bat, when in actuality...
"Cricket bat," she replied.
"Right. Cricket bat. Weird sport."
"There's a word for people like you," Dar said, scrunching her nose.
"Heidi!" she said brightly, and it was hard to tell if she really WAS that dumb, or if she was changing the subject. She stuck her hand out towards the two opposite them either way. "I'm Heidi."
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Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 10:55 pm
Annabelle giggled a the two in front of them. The seemed almost like total opposites like her and Wendell. They seemed nice, especially when the blond stuck out her hand. She quickly seized it and shook it firmly, highly trained in the art of a business handshake. Thank goodness for a business savey family life.
"I'm Annabelle Lee, this is my technician Wendell Van de Burg!" she responded with just as perky an attitude as Heidi, "Wow a Cricket Bat! I've seen that game before. Doesn't your dad watch it occasionally?"
Wendell nodded, "That and soccer."
He gave a small minute smile to the girls before stepping back a bit. Personal space personal space, even in the coffee line. The tall 6'3" teen kept quiet now. When it came to socializing, Anna was the stronger of the two. He would only confirm or correct his weapon as she spoke. His bright green eyes glanced around or stayed glued to the floor. Yeah he was an emo/goth kid, mostly in the social aspect.
The much shorter female giggled, "So what are you two here for? I'm here for the chocolate! Wendell just wants a Gravedigger."
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Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 11:11 pm
Heidi shook Annabelle's hand and released after an appropriate amount of time (her family, ever the socialites, had raised her to be like them, and very adept at social situations) and leaned on her TECHNICIAN'S athletic shoulder. "Oh well, I'm here for the hot chocolate too," she replied. "I'm not so sure about Dar here. I think she's aiming for something more mature."
"Ain't got nothing here that I'd REALLY like," She said briefly. Like the boy, she didn't care too much to say anything, or even talk at all. It was true that she mingled well with people and in any social situation, however...she preferred not to. Heidi was one of the few people she had kept friends with for longer than a period of 6 months, and she wasn't quite sure if that was because Heidi was trying, or if maybe she really did like the dumb blond (although she'd never admit it to herself). "Line's moving," she said, shrugging Heidi off her shoulder and taking a backwards step closer to the counter.
"Have you been here before?" Heidi asked eagerly. It was their first trip, usually gracing the bar or club with their presence over other spots of Death City.
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Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 11:23 pm
"Yeah! Here and Deathbucks! Best two places if you want hot chocolate! Though this place is always slower. So you're a weapon huh? I'm a Crescent Scythe! There are some other scythes at the school but I'm the only double bladed one," she said proudly.
Anna was proud of herself. She was different than the other scythes, she was even told she transforms different. Instead of a blinding flash she turns into a dark shadow to transform. She pondered the other weapon, a bat. Boy were they different. Anna was a slicing weapon, Hiedi was a bashing weapon. But both accomplished the same thing.
"Been on any missions yet?" she asked taking her place next to Hiedi.
Wendell kept closer to Dar. She seemed about a quiet as he was but Anna would never let him hear the end of it if he didn't at least talk. He rain a black nail polished hand through his black hair and sighed. He looked to the red head.
"The Gravedigger is good, iced mocha."
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Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 11:58 pm
Dar nodded. She liked drinking hot coffee, and this place's smelled especially good, but she thought that if their coffee smelled so good than everything else was probably good too. "Maybe I'll try that," she said. The TECHNICIAN rocked back on her army surplus boots, wondering if she should thank him for his suggestion. It seemed like the polite thing to do, but she never really cared that much about being polite in general...
"That's neat that you're double bladed!" She wasn't sure what the difference was, but the girl seemed proud of it, and she was happy for her. Heidi nodded. "Oh, yeah! We've been on one so far. We were looking at doing another, but Dar says it can't be food related this time." She glanced at Dar and then kept going. "We went out to DC, and there was some crazy guy making people into Pizzas. So now Dar won't let us go eat pizza anymore, it's sad. But, on the bright side, we bashed the guys head in!" She wasn't sure how excited she was supposed to be about it, but the guy was a sicko, so that made it alright, right? Heidi was also a lot more chipper about death than most people were too, nothing seemed to dampen the bright attitude. "How about you guys?"
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Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 12:21 am
"Yep! We had ours in Indiana! But Wendell hasn't said anything about not doing anything after it. Some guy was going around strangling people because he was down on his luck. Something about how making others die would make them be unlucky too," she shrugged and looked back to her technician with a grin. That first mission had been really neat and eye opening. She turned her attention back to the blond.
"But we weren't scared! Wendell ran at him with me, then slid all baseball style right between his legs!" she seemed to bend like she was sliding as she spoke. "My double blades caught him on the front of his feet and he went down! BAM!" she made a crushing motion. "Then Wendell brought the edge of my blade down on his neck," she made a swoosh motion.
"Then I ate his soul between two cookies. Souls taste weird so I was glad I had cookies with me, she grinned, just as perky talking about death and killing as Heidi was. She wondered if this was how it was for two weapons. Where talking about the people she had killed with such ease and happiness.
Wendell rolled his eyes as his weapon acted out their first mission but he was rather curious at the thought of someone making pizza out of dead bodies. That sounded kinda creepy. He turned to Dar, "Frankly the whole eating soul part kinda creeps even a guy like me out."
Of course death in general didn't bother the Funeral Director's son, which was why he choose those words. Not much creeped him out. He had started helping his father embalm since he was 7 and helping him reconstruct bodies since about the age of 11.
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Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 12:40 am
The blond WEAPON watched with interest as Annabelle recreated the scene in Indiana for her. "Oh sure, that makes perfect sense," she said, giggling a little, about a man killing for luck. "That's totally what I'd do if I started to be down on my luck." She rolled her eyes. "People are so weird!" Heidi held her hands out in front of her. "I smooshed the soul between my hands and absorbed it, she said, snapping her palms together to demonstrate. "That way, I didn't have to eat it." Although now she was a little curious about what it tasted like. Maybe next mission she'd eat it. But she'd have to remember to bring cookies.
Dar couldn't help but give a short bark of laughter, before covering her mouth a bit. She was pretty sure he was being serious, but the way he said it, and just everything else about him, it had struck her as a funny thing to say. "No, yeah, yeah, that is defiantly kinda creepy," she said. Dar watched the two amiably discuss the 'bad people' they had dispatched and leaned closer to Wendell and lowered her voice. "Does Annablle have a pink aura too?" She wasn't sure if he'd know what she was asking, though. Heidi was so happy and bubbly it felt sometimes, to Dar, like she could almost SEE a haze of pink and fuzzy around her partner.
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Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 12:52 am
Wendell leaned next to her ear, "Nope, she's a complete rainbow. Means insanity." He pulled back with a grin on his face and waggled his eyesbrows a bit in amusement. Yeah he knew about auras, working with the dead you kinda learned about it. Also he had a wide variety of books on occult things since becoming a goth.
"Really!! Wow I was told to eat it! I didn't know i could just go all bug squisher on it! I'll have to try that next time, then I can save my cookies for later!" she giggled. She liked Heidi, they should totally hang out more. "But yeah, maybe souls all have like different tastes. Either way I'm bringing cookies.
Anna couldn't help but giggle when Heidi talked about evil spirits. "Yeah I know! Evil souls are just stupid. I mean come on, making pizzas out of people? Who really says, 'hey I'm mad at the world but pizza makes me happy so I'll make everyone in the world a pizza." she rolled her own eyes.
"So stating the obvious you are British huh? What brought you to Death City?" Wendell decided to actually make conversation since the line was STILL going about a slow as a snail pulling a tractor. "My family has lived here since my grandparents came over from Sweeden."
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Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 1:32 am
Dar gave an undignified snort, and tried to pull her face back into it's semi-serious normal expression when Heidi glanced over at her. Nothing to see here. Nope. When she and Heidi had originally paired off, she wasn't sure how on earth it was going to work out, with them being so insanely different (other than, of course, a fondness for partying). But she had been meeting more and more pairs and realized that a difference in personality seemed to help the teams, rather than hinder them. She certainly never got bored, and she imagined Wendell never was either.
The blond girl nodded. "He was delivering them too! I mean like...did these people know what they were getting when they ordered it? When we found him, some eyeballs rolled off the pizza. How do you explain that? Like, 'oh, sorry, our quality guy was out sick today'?" She glanced over her shoulder. There were still 2 small groups in front of them, which seemed like it shouldn't take too much longer...but the person at the counter didn't know what they wanted. She sighed. It was going to be dinner time by the time they got up there! "So," she said, suddenly deciding to change subjects (to her all time favorite one!). "Seen any cute boys around the school?"
Dar couldn't help but groan a little. She was actually surprised it hadn't come up sooner; it spoke volumes for Annablle, actually. There was an attractive male right in their presence, and Heidi hadn't hit on him yet. Although Dar supposed it was for a probable number of reasons. Goth's weren't her type (she liked the runway boys, it seemed), or Wendell looked a bit younger than Heidi or she was starting to test the waters right now to see if there was any previous 'claim' by Anna. She pulled her attention back to said male. "Oh, yeah. From London...well, not London London, but in a small town outside of it that you've never heard of." She paused, considering. She wasn't really sure what had brought her here. The need to explore the world, she guessed. She repeated the thought out loud, adding: "I'd heard of SHIBUSEN and I was curious."
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Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 1:51 am
Annabelle laughed and nodded, "Yeah. I'm sorry you didn't order yours with noses? I wonder if he delivered? I mean really! Well at least you put a stop to that!" She glanced at the front and sighed. She pouted again, wanting her hot chocolate. She turned back just in time to hear the next question.
With the sudden mention of cute boys Anna's normally light tan skin lit up as red as Dar's hair. She almost ducked back into her hoodie, poking the tips of her index fingers together, "Uh...well....I...uh...you....see....um....." For all of Anna's enthusiasm the mention of boys left her speechless. She hadn't even been on her first date yet! Wendell constantly picked on her for it. Especially when she would on occasion walk in on his "dates".
"I've lived here all my life working my parent's business. I turned into a weapon in my sleep during a nightmare so the rents sent me here. Said they were all proud and stuff," he continued then checked on Anna's conversation, glad that she was making friends.
Ah the subject of boys. Wendell looked on in amusement. Oh he wasn't going to get Anna out of this, she would have to explain herself. He had been on many dates, male and female, so he we well experienced with the concept. But poor Anna was nearly asexual he though. He looked back to Dar, "This will be interesting considering Anna hasn't even had her first kiss yet."
"Hey!!!!"
"Well it's true. Only action you've gotten is when you walk in on my dates."
"I said I was sorry!!" her face was completely red. She pulled her hood down to hide.
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Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 2:20 am
"Aren't you a little young?" Heidi asked Wendell, looking down her nose at him, a bit (which was impressive, as he stood taller than her). Not that she was one to talk, but apparently "17" was the magical age where it suddenly became ok. Nevermind she had only recently turned 17. "Dar hasn't had a first kiss either," she added. It might have been more apt to say that Dar had AVOIDED a kiss, rather than she just hadn't had one, because Heidi knew that she had been on dates before. "I'm hoping she'll get one soon, from her, awww, first crush!"
Dar's eyebrows shot up and her eyes widened. "I do NOT have a crush," she denied.
"Ha, you can't fool me. I am, you see, the master of relationships."
The redhead grumbled, something about 'full of it' and 'master of something alright...' and then narrowed her eyes wickedly. "At least I didn't get a nosebleed from seeing two boys kiss," she said.
"Oooh, gonna be like that, huh? I didn't nosebleed, I transformed."
A shrug. "Same difference." Dar turned to Anna, taking a little pity on her. "Now, don't worry about having a slutty partner," she paused, relishing Heidi's protests. "Just roll with it. It makes you look better in some future boyfriend's (or girlfriend, I don't judge!) eyes. You look saner." She couldn't help having a little bit of a go at Wendell, seeing as how he seemed to be on the same level as Heidi as far as attracting "partners" was involved.
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