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Poultrygeist (10) : As Destiny City is a bustling metropolis, it’s not unexpected that there should be some strange animals running the streets. Sometimes it’s a tiger, sometimes a monkey, sometimes a chicken. Sometimes it’s something worse. Strange egg clusters have appeared in Destiny City’s parks and officials aren’t really sure what they are; these eggs have nothing inside of them. Though it’s an anomaly, they are chalking it up to teenaged pranks. However, they have advised to just leave the eggs as they are. Nobody wants to say why, but if you’re out late at night, you’ll find out. In the darkness, whispered between the sounds of the city: a guttural, rasping cluck. The creature stands on stilt-like legs, rooted to the ground with razor-sharp talons. It wears a cloak of long, oily feathers that drag on the ground with a sinister scraping. If you stare into the darkness, piercing red eyes stare back at you. That’s all it takes for a confrontation: a mangled bird, maybe a chicken in another life, comes barreling out at you. It stands easily as tall as a person, but the proportions are all wrong. The smell of sulfur follows it as it lunges, pecking and screaming and scratching as it attempts to chase you away. Maybe, from the nests full of empty eggs. The battles are fierce, but fleeting; it will viciously try to chase you away but the effects are always the same: at some point, the eggs are crushed. As always, there’s nothing inside of them, but with one final wail, the bird will vanish into a plume of foul smoke.
Note: If you choose to encounter one of these bird-like creatures, your character will recognize they are not youma. It is impossible to tell if it is a single entity or if there are many. The bird does not seem to understand or care to listen to human words. It will always disappear in a malodorous plume of smoke and leave nothing but a foul odor and a clutch of empty, broken eggs behind. This RP can be used as a battle requirement as long as there are two powered characters involved; you must be interacting with another player’s powered character. This does not count as the one youma battle per stage for growth. This can only be used as a battle requirement once per character, but there is no limitation for how many times a player can use this prompt.
Note: If you choose to encounter one of these bird-like creatures, your character will recognize they are not youma. It is impossible to tell if it is a single entity or if there are many. The bird does not seem to understand or care to listen to human words. It will always disappear in a malodorous plume of smoke and leave nothing but a foul odor and a clutch of empty, broken eggs behind. This RP can be used as a battle requirement as long as there are two powered characters involved; you must be interacting with another player’s powered character. This does not count as the one youma battle per stage for growth. This can only be used as a battle requirement once per character, but there is no limitation for how many times a player can use this prompt.
Full moon light illuminated the city, the heat of the day rapidly cooling as those who worked the day traded places with those who strolled the streets at night. Everyone goes about their lives, drifting from place to place in an endless cycle of life…. If only there weren’t things that lurked in the shadows. Preying upon the normal people. The unsuspecting populace. Evil lived in everyone, even she recognized that, but there was a special kind of darkness that haunted this particular city. An illness that it couldn’t quite shake. A plague of chaos and magic. Wrapping its tentacles tighter and tighter into the shadows.
Antares fiddled with the little amber star charm she had as she surveyed the city below her. Night had truly fallen and while there were less people out, the streets were still flowing with movement. Tail lights traced patterns on the road while headlights arched spotlights across the buildings. But nothing jumped out at her that required her assistance. No chaos or magical s**t. There weren't even any more mundane muggings happening. It might have still been too hot out for humans being assholes but Antares didn’t fully buy that. Her eyes narrowed as she scanned the shadows looking for anything that required intervention with. She was itching for a fight but wasn’t in the mood to find anyone to train with. She wanted to feel the rush of real danger. The touch of worry and brush of death that training never gave you. The uncertainty that everything could, and would, go wrong. She wanted the flood of feelings because they would over write the lurking uncertainty she couldn’t shake. Ever since having her homeworld inadequacies shoved in her face Antares couldn’t stop her mind drifting to those half remembered flashes. The emotions that painted her past life, and present dreams.
She wanted a fight to help remind her of the here and now, not of the long distant past that still had her chained in one moment in time. Or at least that was as much as she had been able to figure out after some trial and error after that younger senshi’s visit. Every time she got too close to the gate at her homeworld that led out to the city, flashes backs of what had happened drove her to her knees. Swamping her with the terror and horror from her past life. At least she didn’t pass out again, although the first few times it was a close thing. Antares was reminded again and again just how inadequate she was every time she tried, and failed, to leave her palace complex on her homeworld, so she was angry. She wanted a fight. Something that let her prove she wasn’t some hopeless child. She wasn’t useless.
But for once the city refused to oblige her. It was quiet. Almost too quiet since the city was in the swing of the Star Fest, and that typically meant some magical BS would be afoot. However, in Antares’ little corner of the city, the swath of streets and buildings she patrolled, everything was calm.
Or it was until a strange sound broke the ‘stillness’ that was an average night in the city.
((Word count: 541 / Star Charm: Amber))
elfstar89
Apologies on the delay on getting this started. Also, TLDR: Antares is itching for a fight and a loud noise draws her attention... what kind of strange noise is up to you ^_^
