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 Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 9:59 pm
Tekkonkinkreet, A new war REVISTED.
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Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 10:06 pm
Pinkfloydsgurl's post
Manic looks around tentatively after coming out of a solid wall. A few years older now Manic stands beside her boyfriend, "Wow....Black it looks like....looks like its still here! This world is still here!"
"Yeah....C'mon White!" he reaches into the wall and pulls out a teenage version of the young boy who had left.
Now 16 White is much more settled in his mind, and looks around, "Hey Black...why are we back here?"
"Because it was time to go back to our roots little brother." Sane too came from the wall adjusting her glasses and the blades that hung at her hips, "Lets see if we can find our old friends in this world..." She looked to her own partner, "You ready? We don't have as much power as we did in the Aeons...nor the Marked Lands..."
"Yee...I know it too..but my feet still work, and so does my flail" she showed off her chosen weapon and laughed openly, "So lets go!" taking off at a run she scaled the wall climbing to a roof top and bolting across it.
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Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 10:07 pm
Oshi sat on a rooftop, now of the age 18 seeing how some years had passed, she wasn't very childish. At least, not as much anymore. She had once been, at one point that she can't remember, cursed with living to be 4 foot 8 and somehow, perhaps by chance or luck, she grew taller to be 5 foot 2. The rooftop was lonely though. It wasn't the same without Ashi though with every good thought of her said sister brought back that painful memory. At some point, however, she became a Dog almost immediately after meeting Snow and Sketch though Sketch still didn't like Oshi being around. As much as Oshi hated to admit it, she hadn't talked to either Snow or Sketch in many years considering the fact she left the city and had gone out to improve her skills and senses and this training didn't just change those things but it created a whole new person in Oshi. This girl, now considered to be a woman by October 31st, had a guilty crush on White though she ignored it and tried to make it work with Ayame until he was randomly murdered. Since then Oshi has been in denial and has been trying to avoid falling in love with anyone because she fears it only leaves a curse on the one she indeed loves.
"Ugh, my arms still sore..Ever since that one night I encountered Kuroshi and really upset her..."
Snow groaned, tilting her head up towards the sky with a frown. The sun shone overhead making her no longer dyed hair shine bright silver and white in its vivid rays of light. She was wearing a white short sleeved T with dark gray angel wings printed on the back which were strangely similar to the tattoo she had that went across her shoulder-blades and the small of her back. She wore loose, comfortable black shorts and black tennis. Snow stopped walking and pulled up the sleeve on her left shoulder and grimaced at the stitches. They were thick and black and rather itchy. The stitches ran across the area where her shoulder and collar bone connected and to the under of her arm meaning that perhaps her arm was either ripped off or cut off.
The slightly younger boy glanced at her before blowing the brown hair out of his face. "Stop messing with it or perhaps your arm will never heal." grumbled Sketch. He was wearing a dark brown shirt with khaki shorts and brown sandals. Sketch had witnessed the attack but knew that Snow couldn't fully remember it and to make things less painful on her, he never told her exactly what happened that night. And he didn't need to. Everything was at a calm, Kuroshi no longer around or perhaps she was dead, Ayame was murdered so he is of course, gone and the Tokko trio were dead as well..How many more were killed? It didn't matter that much to him, after all he had now part in it so therefore he believed it wasn't his job to think about such things. "What do you think happened to the Black Cats of Treasure Town? Ya know, Black and White, Manic and Sane? Did they die off, did they move, what?"
(If you are wondering where the hell Ashi is, I decided she's dead. She wasn't useful anyway sweatdrop )
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Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 8:33 am
.o0(meh, your choice mate. Makes no difference to me either way. Oh corrections to the ages i had listed sorry about that, i was a little out of it cause of those meds)
The challenge was running on the old Japanese roofs. All these years had passed jumping from dimension to dimension, to different types of architecture and materials. It took some getting used to. But like ridding a bike they all adjusted. It was White, with his ever adaptable personality that really found his footing first, pulling ahead from the group and turning his feet towards their old home under the bridge. He came to a skidding halt as he saw a familiar face, though not a familiar body, "Oshi?" his voice held a new air of maturity, and the time he had spent in the company of Hawk and Hunter had done him good. As well as the months he had spent training with Aislin Shymani....the Seer of the Marked Lands. His eyes no longer held their overwhelming innocence and his voice had come into its self, a gentle tenor in the wind. "Is that...is it really you?"
Manic stood at the top of the clock tower and looked around with smile. She'd perched herself on one of the railings and took a deep breath of the scent of Treasure Town. "You think we can take it back? This town I mean? It smells nuffin like it used to...not at all actually."
"Why do we want to take it back? Who knows how many years have passed here..."
"Its your town Black, thats why. Didn't you always say that it-"
"Three years have passed here. Only three." Sane was leaning against the building, polishing the long DREAM blade she'd been given by Neo in the Aeons. She glanced up for a moment looking at the back of Black's head, "And we have to take back the town Black...you were never supposed to leave this place...Its part of the balance. Remember what Nayana sai-"
"Don't speak her name to me." His voice was a growl in his chest as he turned to look at the alchemist, "You know what she'd done to me...."
"Returned the Minotaur to your mind, who also happened to be an avatar of her husband. We know Black...we know."
"SHE PUT THAT DEVIL BACK INSIDE ME!" both Black and Manic said in unision, though the girl was far more mocking.
"Oh come off it mate. Its done and over with, and you need that 'devil' to maintain balance...Even I understand that. Look at me and Sane..."
"Yes look at us. An insane flame prone drunken pirate and a disciplined well educated alchemist. Balance..."
Manic made a face at her and looked at the city, "Think White knows where we went?"
"I'm sure he'll figure it out."
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Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 8:30 pm
Oshi heard footsteps on the rooftops and started to look around a little. She then saw an older boy, possibly a year or two older than she. He had brown hair and a skinny build yet it was still strong and boyish.Why did he look so familiar? She pushed herself up into a standing position and walked closer to the boy and searched her memory for a name. Oshi blinked and then spoke slightly quiet, her voice filled with the scars of misery and the aged happiness from years passed. "..White? Is that..Is that you?" She asked with disbelief, her eyes getting wider.
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Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 12:27 am
White looked at her with a lopsided smile, as her eyes widening as proof of her remembrance of him. He took a few steps forward. "You're....taller...." he said with a blush, "I'm....I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said that. Its just....i remember you always being...not as tall..." He had certainly matured. His vocals were much closer to Black's, though he'd picked up a bit of Manic's lilting melody. A few more steps brought him with in arms reach and without hesitation, he pulled her into a hug. He held her close to him, pressing her against his well muscled chest with arms that had received military training with in the Marked Lands, "Oshi...Its so good to see you! I was hoping you were still here! When Sane brought us through the portal, we weren't even sure we could make it back...But we did...and you're proof that we're here. Really here!" He turned around to look back the direction he had come, "Guys?" confusion touched his face for a moment, then he realized he still had Oshi in a tight hug and released her, "sorry....um..."
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Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 1:49 am
Oshi smiled shyly as White told her that she was taller with surprise. She noted his voice has changed and he indeed had more of a mature understanding. He wasn't so childish anymore, he was much more..aware. But it was not long after Oshi started to ponder this that White had pulled her into a hug, pressing her close to him. She couldn't help it, her cheeks flushed a slight pink color. "..Portal?" She mumbled in question, not sure he had heard her at all. Soon after she realized that White was noticing no one was there and then had let her go, apologizing for hugging her. As she stared at White one question rose to the surface of her mind. "Where have you guys been?"
Snow looked up at the sky once more and scanned out at the rooftops. Farther off she could trace the outline of the girl she once knew to be short standing with a more male like figure. Snow smiled. "Oshi's back..But I think we'll find her again later. Don't want to ruin anything important for her, after all, not after what she did to me and the training she's gone through."
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Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 2:04 am
"We....we went to the Aeons....Manic said you had been around there for a bit, but then...things got...um...." he had to slow down to organize his thoughts, and bring his words together, but was struggling in his excitement. Oshi had become a woman, and he couldn't help but take note. "There was a war between the draco Valen, who had given Manic a blade which allows her to control her fire....And Sane was given a DREAM blade which can cut through anything...Black lost the Minotaur to a man named Virgil. And we met a mage by the name of Nayana...Then another portal opened...and we were dragged to Manic and Sane's world...The Marked Lands....Nayana's whole tower moved in that portal and...." he stopped to catch his breath, "Well...a lot has happened. I...I don't know where the others are though. They will be happy to see you're safe and...to tell you of our adventures. Manic is better at story telling then I am." he gave her a warm smile and hugged her again, less fiercely, but he did linger in the embrace.
"Meh..." Manic had her telelense pressed to her eye, "I think I see him with some chick....looks familiar. What do you think black?" she handed the device to him.
Looking in the direction she had indicated he definately recognized his partner...and then, "Oshi?"
"NO WAY!"
"Did you really think she'd leave, Manic?" Sane came to the railing to stand with the pair, "Whisper and Scream were to watch the town the way Black and White would...nothing more. The fights would continue, but it would never be 'their town'. Not like it was Black's."
"Yeah...well now that the Minotaur is back with Black...and Black is back here....he'll own this town." She rested her head on his shoulder with a feral smile before giving him a kiss on the cheek.
He turned his eyes to her for a moment before shaking his head and jumping from the building to head towards his partner...and his old love.
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Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 2:21 am
Oshi listened intentively, looking into his eyes as he talked. She could tell that his mind was a flurry of excitement, happiness, being overwhelmed, and confused. There were a lot of things she could see in his eyes. "Yes, I was there for a short while..I had come by to visit at random while I was on my way to...well, to what Snow and I call Amegakure..A..ninja like village full of assasins and innocents. The village was 'painted red' from murder..I..chose the wrong path, or what I thought was the wrong path to start with. I had joined probably the worlds largest group of high ranked assasins..They were after..well," She paused, her voice was quieter. She was on the verge of spacing out and seeing the images of the past visit her again. Taking a deep breath she continued on, "I later realized that what they were doing was not only improving the village but the government that ran the small country. Needless to say, I just learned to improve my control in emotions and things..I've learned alot of things you would think bizzarre." Oshi closed her eyes and smiled at him, a soft gentle smile. It seemed so innocent, but as she smiled it was easy to tell that she hadn't smiled for a year or two. "One of my best friends..well, you don't need to hear about that. A good story sounds nice. I sure could use one." Her eyes opened again to reveal the dazzling ruby colored eyes that had barely a hint of brown to them. She had now realized he had hugged her again. Barely moving her arms, she hesitated before wrapping them around him. "I'm glad you're alright..And Black, Manic....and Sane." She had paused trying to remember the other name.
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Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 2:41 am
He held her at arms length and looked in to her eyes. His black hair had fallen into his face, he wore it longer then before, with a more choppy cut, much like black had when the minotaur was all he had left. His eyes were clear though, and that missing tooth had been 'fixed' as Inder had put it, "We should find them then...let them tell you what happened."
Black had gotten miltary training as well. having joined the ranks of the Kings Army while under surveillance of both Nayana Shymani and King Lydon. He felt at least he should get stronger. His legs tore across the roof tops towards his partner and he was just cresting the side of the building as the words, 'tell you what happened' was uttered. "No need to bore her White..." he said landing with a soft thud. He too wore his hair as he used to, long and choppy, now he and White truly looked like brothers. He gave a nod to his partner then looked to Oshi, "Seems we've all got tales to tell." he looked her over. He remembered such a passion for her before, when they would fight side by side against the likes of Dawn and Dusk, along time ago it seemed. He looked over his shoulder towards the clock tower, where he'd left his lover and then back to the girl of his past, "Oshi." he uttered with warmth. While there was no lust there, not any longer, he still felt that pang of love he used to feel for her.
Manic looked at Sane, "Think I should go keep an eye on him?"
The alchemist shook her head, "No. There are other things that need to be taken care of here. Remember Aislin permitted us to come back to restore balance. Neither you nor I are truly apart of that balance, but we're not enough to throw it off either. We've to ingredients to collect for Nayana, a Yakuza style suit to purchase for Inder, and lets not forget Seth and Simon-"
"Ah toss off. Its our first day back, and we've got to re situate ourselves. Those things can wait. Right now...lets just be glad we're here..." she smiled slyly, "Remember the first time? When we met Oshi and Black?"
"Oh God...."
Letting out a wild laugh Manic also leapt from the building letting herself fall a long distance before correcting herself and taking off along the roofs, not going towards where Oshi and the two true Cats were directly, but running across the roofs in some direction only Manic could discern.
Sane let out a sigh. "Well....i better go set up camp..." she headed towards the old location of the train car, in hopes it was still there to move back into.
.o0(all references to characters you don't know can be found in the main part of the Marked Lands thread, though of course the story has gone past what is available to read because....well Kalintria and I broke up but i kept writing....just not on gaia)
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Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 3:15 am
Oshi tilted her head slightly, her black ravens feather smooth hair shifting as she did so. The bangs that covered her left eye mostly had fallen farther to the left to show her face in almost its fullest. Her hair feathered at the bangs and tended to be soft and smooth much like silk or satin. As she tilted her head back to the way it had been, her smile stayed there, gentle and warm. Happy. Then a voice that was imprinted into the depths of her ear drums rang out making her head jerk to the side in the direction of Black as an automatic reaction. Her smile widened. She could still recall the first time he had met him, it was before she had even met White. Oshi and her sister had been living in a rather discrete alley way. Since then with Black and White's help she had been grateful to be alive. She wouldn't have been most likely if it weren't for Black having been so kind. But out of that entire time, she was mostly unaware that he had liked her at some point for she was always carried away with everything else. "..Long time no see..Black." She said, her voice was musical almost, like an unknown celestial instrument that was rarely strummed. But, there was a striking, taunting part to it, almost as if she were barking at him or scolding him.
She turned to face him, as she did so, the strange black threaded necklace that laced her thin and fragile neck, shifted with her so that the center ring of the three silver washer like rings was still in the center of her neck while the other two were closer to the top of where her shoulders and neck met. Oshi raised her fist as if she were going to hit him in the face or something but instead, as she brought it forward, her fist and crimson and silver ring on her fore-finger, tapped his left shoulder and barely nudged it. Her ring was silver, all but the top of it which was crimson colored with the kanji for 'Black' was inked on it in black. When she was in Amegakure, of the ten people in the group, she was assigned to have a ring that best signified her on a specific finger of the ten she had. This happened to be her right fore-finger and the ring 'black'.
As Snow watched she realized how long she had been standing there, staring. She wasn't keeping an eye on Sketch. Snow looked back down and around before cursing. Sketch had disappeared. "That little brat!" She hissed before looking around for him.
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Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 7:59 am
Black had clenched his teeth together as soon as the fist was made, and followed it with his eyes as it slowly connected to his shoulder. Then he looked at her, "Is that all you got?" His arms crossed over his now cut physique, but the smile that played at his lips belied his joy with the situation.
White caught on and laughed. That sound was the one thing that with all the training in etiquette and lessons in school could not break from him. That laugh was still what made White;White.
"So this is you now? Taller? More....feminine? Looks like you got some training as well..." he said and nodded his approval as he looked her over, "Finally grow up a bit huh?" he asked. Remembering her bitter betrayal of their group and of him specifically began to make itself known in his mind. The Minotaur chattering away about her deeds against them. He blocked the sound. Now was not the time for such things. "So...Treasure Town has changed to?"
The pirate stopped on a billboard above the town square and looked down to where Black had killed Phantom. That place seemed so ordinary as she looked at it now. A few flips brought her to the middle, standing where she had that day to witness his brutality. With a shake of her head she looked around, trying to see if anyone recognized her face in such a spot. The recognition would tell her how safe it was for her and her friends to stay in this town.
The train car was just as it was before, a bit more dusty now and full of cobwebs, but it was just as they had left it. The suitcase of chemicals was still next to her makeshift bed, the alchemy circles drawn on the walls and the side of the crates, empty bottles of various alcohols and cigarette boxes littered the floor on Manic's side of the room and at the very end, was where Zero had slept. She let out a sigh and began cleaning up, wishing she had some help.
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Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 11:53 am
Oshi snickered lightly at him. She couldn't laugh, not yet at least. Her muscles would have to get used to being used again for such things. "Believe me Black, it's not even a thousandth of what I got." She remarked at his comment. She smiled as White laughed. In that laugh she could still see the old White. She blushed lightly as Black commented on her appearance. "Yea, this is me...now at least." Oshi smiled and then nodded lightly as he asked about Treasure Town changing too. "It's probably not too much different, after all, when we were younger we saw things..well, differently. But yes, it has changed I suppose." Her eyes began to look around across the rooftops and into open streets and alleyways not too far from them. Crossing her arms she brought her attention back to Black and White. "But what would I know? I only got here yesterday, maybe the day before." She added softly then she returned the comments. "And I see, that you two have also changed a bit..White, most definitely." Oshi smiled.
Sketch had climbed his way up using crates and boxes, onto a roof where the breeze blew his brown umber colored hair slightly, moving his bangs this way and that, giving him the ability to see things he usually wouldn't see without much of a breeze. As he leaned up against another wall sprouting from the red rooftop, he watched the three figures in the distance and then looked down at Snow as she passed in the alleys below. He glared as he thought of Oshi. That stupid cat, who did she think she was trying to become a dog that day?
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Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 12:35 pm
Black's eyes grew wide, "You...just got here? So then Scream and Whisper...they still have control of the town as we'd said it would be..."
"I....i don't think so Black....something feels....Not right." White looked around for a moment, running his hand through his hair. He still had a desire to wear watches, and as his sleeve fell from his wrist, two beautiful swiss time pieces showed. "Something feels off..."
"Off like one of our friends is in trouble, or off like....off."
White looked at Oshi then to Black, "Off like off. I..."
"We should find the others....Oshi, you still able to get around like you used to?" He popped his neck and adjusted the goggles hanging there, putting them atop his head, making his hair go back and flair around, like a mane.
White offered a smile to both Oshi and to Black, seeing the breeze catch the tresses of each of them. Reminding him so much of his new found friends in the Marked lands.
"C'mon White..." he said and went to the edge of the building, adjusting his goggles once again, "Its play time." and with that he took off at a break neck run, going unknowingly towards where Sketch was perched, and Snow walked below.
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Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 1:23 pm
Oshi's heart skipped a beat. Off? Like how? Black had asked her if she was still as nimble as she had used to be. "Better." She said simply before following in the direction of Black and jumping from the edge of the rooftop and landing easily on the next as easily as she knew how to walk.
Sketch's brown eyes seemed to glint as he adjusted his standing position. The figures, they were coming this way?
Snow popped up onto the roof behind Sketch and sighed. "Stop wandering off!"
"I didn't Snow. I stayed here the entire time. You know I obey the TD, you of course."His smile was full of insanity, but you could still trust it despite how insane it was.
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