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 Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 1:22 am
A massive and beautiful palace built of coral and stone on the ocean floor. Think Atlantica in the Little Mermaid. Special barriers have been placed on the windows so that the water won't come in, but even the slightest brush against them will pull you out into the water. Many of the halls, furniture, and even servants have been splashed with various colors of paints as trophies of Dolphin's erratic mood swings.
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 1:37 am
Sherra Grausherra
~The former General~ "Try all you want...you'll never put me back together again..." Maybe she should have gone over to Kurou after all. Sherra lightly bit her inner cheek as she glanced around at the sealed windows, watching as the various fish swam by. She could still remember how much this place had bugged Leviathan when they'd first come here. And he'd been warned. Kurou had had absolutely none. She stayed close to Levi, in case being here unnerved him like before, and tried to spot her son in the group of people. Even though he acted like he no longer needed her, which hurt more than he probably realized, she wanted to make sure he didn't freak out and get sucked out into the ocean.
Xellos waited a bit before heading in the direction of where they would be waiting. Since Zelas and Phibrizzo would be going to the War/Meeting Hall, they would all be staying in Dolphin's library. It wasn't anything like Zelas's; her books were a bit more obscure and fewer. But the one thing he did like were the window, which took up the majority of the walls. Sure you would be doomed to drown should the seal go down, but it did give you a rather amazing view of the nearby ecosystems and schools of fish that inhabited the area. And of course the occasional swarm of sharks, but he didn't think there would be any around this early. They were more of an evening occurrence.
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 1:47 am
Cerras smiled brightly at the sight of all the fish. Even when she had been in a slight bad mood before, she wasn't anymore. It was so pretty! She giggled, almost like a little kid. Kurou just stared blankly from over her shoulder, before walking closer. "That's a bit dangerous Kurou..." She said, having snapped out of her daze when Kurou got in her way. "I just want a better look..." He replied quietly, before growing silent once again.
"So... we can't eat any of these fish?" As she looked to Levi and Kurou. "Too bad for them."
Leviathan noticed Sherra was still staying away from Kurou, "Don't you think you should try to talk to him?' He questioned.
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 2:04 am
Sherra Grausherra
~The former General~ "Try all you want...you'll never put me back together again..." Sherra frowned slightly to herself, thinking. As usual, Levi was right. She should talk to him. But....she wasn't even sure what she was supposed to say to him. She just kept drawing up blanks. "I don't know what to say to him...." she admitted finally, blushing sheepishly. Sherra was almost never at a loss. When it came to military or even diplomacy, she always had the right response. But when it came to her own kid, she couldn't always tell what was the right move to make. Mainly because this was a completely new terrain for her. She'd never been trained on how to deal with children. And she certainly hadn't ever planned to have one of her own so it wasn't necessary info back then. Now that was coming back to haunt her.
"The fish are really pretty, huh?" Lazuli said, staring out the windows. She then glanced over at Kurou. "Don't get too close to the windows, Kurou. If you touch them, it'll suck you out into the water." she warned. She'd almost made that mistake several times the first time she'd come here.
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 2:11 am
[[ ignoring everyone but sherra and zuli i see. = w= ]]
Kurou blinked, glancing back at Lazuli. The small neko frowned, and nodded his head in understanding. "R-Right... I'll be careful I guess." The fish were just so pretty and and-- ok, he wasn't going to say it. He just stared, watching almost every one of their moves.
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 2:43 am
[[I had to cut it short and switch devices or my parents would catch me.]]
Lazuli let out a small nervous laugh as she watched Kurou's gaze follow the fish. She already knew why he was so mesmerized by them. It must be hard to be a cat in a place like this. She couldn't really imagine what it would be like other than irritating.
Sherra let out an exasperated sigh as she sat down in a chair and put her head in her hands. Why did this have to be the one thing she completely sucked at? "I have no idea what I'm supposed to do. I know what I have to do...ugh." she couldn't think straight anymore. Whatever was making her hand disappear was now clearly attacking her mind. When it came down to it, Kurou probably didn't even care. He'd probably slept fine and had forgotten about the whole thing.
Ryuu smirked slightly at his sisters remark. "It probably is difficult for them to resist. But if we so much as touch one Deep Sea Dolphin will flood the mansion. That's what Grandmother Zelas said anyway." he answered. He really hoped this meeting wouldn't take long. He was already starting to grow bored.
"Dolphin?"
There was no answer. Beastmaster scowled irritably in her younger sisters direction. She had her back to them, and was staring longingly out the window.
"Dolphin." she said again, a bit louder. "If you're done daydreaming we need to get this over with. I'd like to return home sometime this century."
Zelas was clearly not in the mood to deal with Dolphs bipolar nature today. Not at all.
"We wouldn't even have to be going through this if it wasn't for you two." Dolphin retorted sadly, sounding similar to how Lazuli was currently. "If it wasn't for you, Grausherra wouldn't be dead right now...and we would only be replacing that traitor Gaav."
"You know why we had to get rid of Dynast." Zelas retorted. "He endangered Hellmaster's priestess girlfriend. We had every right to take him out for that."
"But he wouldn't have done that if you hadn't interfered with his resurrecting of our Lord, now would he?!" she snapped back angrily. "Honestly I'm starting to wonder if I can still call you monsters. You're acting more like humans with all this friendship and love crap." Really it was the most bizarre thing she had ever seen. She then let out a depressed sigh and returned to gazing at the window.
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 2:56 am
"Hey there, calm yourself, Sherra." Leviathan said, "Maybe you could ask some of the others for advice... I know you usually like to do things on your own, but now isn't really the right time for that."
"It's just so weird... " Ayame said, referring to the palace. It wasn't everyday that you were in a palace surrounded by millions or billions of fish. And some of the fish were a very... different. "Sure, it's sort of pretty. But I don't get how some could live here" "I'd like to live here." Kurou commented, and Ayame rolled her eyes. "Because there's fish." " Hn? Well... yeah, a little.. "
Cerras still hadn't moved her gaze from the window. Even when some of the others got bored of it, she still looked at the different fish with interest, finding it very relaxing as well. She had always loved the ocean.
Phibrizzo's eyes immediately narrowed at all of this. Dolphin was being completely unreasonable. There was no way of negotiations with her, it seemed. "Shut your whining mouth, and get on topic." He really didn't care if Dolphin snapped at this point. They had to get something done. He was getting tired of just standing around.
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 12:34 pm
Sherra Grausherra
~The former General~ "Try all you want...you'll never put me back together again..." Sherra scowled; he was right about that too. She didn't willingly ask for people's help. That would mean that she wasn't good enough to do it on her own. Monsters didn't admit that to anyone, especially to themselves. Especially not when they were in the situation she was in. But....technically she'd be doing it for Kurou. The only person she could really go to for this was Cerras. "I don't think getting advice would really help all that much. Cause I would still have to figure out what to say...." They hadn't really parted in a way that left it open for conversation.
"Well, the Lord's name is Deep Sea Dolphin, right?" Ryuu said, glancing over to the window again. Sure it was a more unique view than at the mansion, but there was air in here like the mansion, so it wouldn't be impossible to live here. "Yup. Lady Dolphin loves everything to do with the water. I met her once at this really big aquarium with the others. She was really pretty, but...eccentric, I guess." Lazuli said, smiling slightly at the memory. She glanced over her shoulder towards Sherra and Leviathan, and a small worried frown formed on her lips. "Poor Sherra. A lot of stuff's going wrong for her right now...this meeting probably isn't helping much..." she said. She didn't know that another reason behind the former general's upset expression was Kurou. After all, Kurou loved his mom. He wouldn't do something to upset her.
Dolphin childishly pouted, mocking him while keeping her back to the Hellmaster. She hated everything about this. She hated them. She wished they would both just go away and leave her alone. Dolph wanted nothing to do with all this. That was why she had chosen to sink her palace into the ocean after the Koma War, and had refused to create a new general or priest after her two were killed. It just wasn't worth it to her anymore. The only consolation had been the occasional visits from Dynast. He and her had actually gotten along rather well. Now he was gone too.
Zelas let out a long sigh. She was starting to regret her involvement in Dolphin's descent into madness. A simple prank by her and Xellos had gone wrong, and Dolphin went crazy. No one knew about that though. She wasn't about to tell, and Dolph had been too deranged to point the finger at her. Everyone had always assumed that the stress of war had been too much for her.
"I get that you're not happy with us for Grausherra being killed. But there's nothing we can do to fix that now." she said sternly. "And though you hate it, we have to decide who will take over in the place of him and Gaav." Dolphin turned around to face her sister, scowling; hating how calm Zelas could be despite everything going on. Her ocean blue eyes locked with Zelas's smoldering ruby red for several minutes, before she finally sighed and settled herself down in one of the chairs. "Fine. Let's get this over with. So you two can finally leave me in peace." she said tonelessly.
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 12:59 pm
"But it would still help, wouldn't it? Nothing's going to get better if you take so long to go back to Kurou." Leviathan was only telling the truth, not anything like "only what Sherra wanted to hear", he would never do that, he couldn't lie and say everything would just get better. He hated liars.
"No wonder they're all so annoyed to have to see her. " Ayame shook her head, she could only imagine. "Umm... never mind about living here... I don't wanna live with a crazy lady." Kurou said suddenly, and Ayame smirked. " Good choice." Of course, she would not want to either.
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 1:01 pm
[[ I stopped posting as Cerras cause I'm unsure at the moment. = w=
maybe she got sucked out into the ocean or something. lol. ]]
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 1:14 pm
Sherra Grausherra
~The former General~ "Try all you want...you'll never put me back together again..." Dolphin childishly pouted, mocking him while keeping her back to the Hellmaster. She hated everything about this. She hated them. She wished they would both just go away and leave her alone. Dolph wanted nothing to do with all this. That was why she had chosen to sink her palace into the ocean after the Koma War, and had refused to create a new general or priest after her two were killed. It just wasn't worth it to her anymore. The only consolation had been the occasional visits from Dynast. He and her had actually gotten along rather well. Now he was gone too.
Zelas let out a long sigh. She was starting to regret her involvement in Dolphin's descent into madness. A simple prank by her and Xellos had gone wrong, and Dolphin went crazy. No one knew about that though. She wasn't about to tell, and Dolph had been too deranged to point the finger at her. Everyone had always assumed that the stress of war had been too much for her.
"I get that you're not happy with us for Grausherra being killed. But there's nothing we can do to fix that now." she said sternly. "And though you hate it, we have to decide who will take over in the place of him and Gaav." Dolphin turned around to face her sister, scowling; hating how calm Zelas could be despite everything going on. Her ocean blue eyes locked with Zelas's smoldering ruby red for several minutes, before she finally sighed and settled herself down in one of the chairs. "Fine. Let's get this over with. So you two can finally leave me in peace." she said tonelessly.
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Sherra fell silent after that. She was starting to dislike how Levi always kept coming up with the logical answer. She was sick of admitting that he was right. Mainly because it meant that she was wrong. "Fine...." she said after a moment. She then looked up and called for Cerras through telepathy. She wasn't going to make this any more obvious than she had. She had her pride to think about after all. Hopefully Cerras would be able to give her at least a direction to take with this.
Lazuli let a small nervous laugh at their responses. "She's not completely insane or anything. She just....doesn't have a very stable mood, I guess. It doesn't take much to make her angry or upset...." She'd been able to figure that out from the aquarium. Hell; you'd figure that out after spending five minutes with the Lord.
[[Lol. Well I hope not cause Sherra needs her right now.]]
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 1:27 pm
I-I'll be right there Cerras answered through telepathy, having been way to into the fish, she didn't notice how far she had wandered from the others. She teleported back, and glanced to Sherra questioningly, "Um... what is it that you need, Sherra?" She obviously needed help with something.
"She still sounds insane." Ayame and Kurou both said, having agreed with eachother, at least with this. Neither of them wanted to have to deal with anything more. There was already so much going on, and now they had to be here with a crazy person?
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 1:49 pm
Sherra Grausherra
~The former General~ "Try all you want...you'll never put me back together again..." "Alright then. I'm pretty sure we can all agree that Xellos will be one of the successors. After all, he's the strongest of the Monsters, thanks to Zel-chan's plotting." Dolph continued, suddenly very serious. "So all that's left is to decide which he'll replace, and who will get the other spot." She was trying really hard to be 'normal' so this meeting would be finished as quickly as possible. "Yes, he's been a prime candidate for quite some time now." Zelas said. "It might be best that, since he already has a grasp of fire magic, he be the one to take over Gaav's position. Which would leave us with filling Dynast Grausherra's place." With Xellos eliminated, there were only a select few that would qualify.
Sherra glanced up at Cerras for a moment, and then explained the situation through telepathy again. It was already against her nature to ask for help, so she wasn't going to state the problem out loud for everyone to hear. Hopefully Cerras would catch on and keep the chat in mind link only. So, yeah...I can't figure out how I'm supposed to talk to him after all that...
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 2:09 pm
U-Um... after all of what? Cerras questioned, she was unsure what Sherra was talking about. She hadn't experienced any of this, after all. She didn't know that she was talking about Kurou, or what Kurou did at all.
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 2:19 pm
=_=
"and then explained the situation through telepathy"
She told Cerras everything already. I had to leave for lunch so I couldn't write out every single detail.
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