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Panic
Mar 5, 2008 2:30:36 GMT 1
Post by Arlaye on Mar 5, 2008 2:30:36 GMT 1
Sheba circled the property, looking for a way in. The walls were high and imposing, topped with spikes. There was no mistaking it: Irina had definitely disappeared over that wall. By the time she found the gate, the number of police sirens she could hear had multiplied. They must be looking for me by now, she thought, looking up at the closed gate. It wasn't locked, but it didn't open easily and Sheba had to use her gift to lighten it. She found herself surrounded by a shady, overgrown garden. It was thick with thorns, tearing holes in the tattered elf costume she still wore. Fighting her way through the undergrowth, she reached a pair of heavy wooden doors. Irina was nowhere to be seen, but this seemed exactly the sort of place she would frequent. Sheba reached up and knocked rapidly, hands shaking with tension.
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Panic
Mar 5, 2008 9:01:52 GMT 1
Post by Hikaru on Mar 5, 2008 9:01:52 GMT 1
Naruko has just returned from his old home, retreiving some of his belongings. He landed just outside the door, it being shut and found a girl that looked strangely like Irina, but Irina wouldnt wait outside. He hadnt met her before so didnt think she was a member. So instead landing loudly behind her feathers falling on the floor from the beat of his wings against the wind and said, " What are you doing here?"
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Panic
Mar 5, 2008 9:36:01 GMT 1
Post by Arlaye on Mar 5, 2008 9:36:01 GMT 1
Sheba jerked in surprise, turned and flattened her back against the door. She'd been expecting to see the police, but instead she saw a strong-looking man with black wings like a raven. He didn't seem friendly. For a moment she just stood there and stared at him, eyes wide with the look of a deer struck by headlights. "Please, I'm looking for Irina. Is she here?" she finally managed to say, trying not to radiate terror. She could hear her own frantic heartbeat, and her whole body seemed to be quaking. Her ears were attuned to the sound of the wailing emergency sirens, trying to determine how far away they were. "Please, sir," she repeated, her throat dry and rasping. "I only have a few minutes before they find me!"
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Panic
Mar 5, 2008 9:43:31 GMT 1
Post by Hikaru on Mar 5, 2008 9:43:31 GMT 1
Irina's twin... He thought when she turned and was shivering and quaking with fear. He sighed and opened the door and stepped inside telling the new girl to wait somewhere different. He didnt even know why he was even going to get Irina usually he wouldnt care weather she got caught or not. Must be that bloody effects of that arrow... He thought before he entered the kitchen and sure enough found, Spike, Mayu, The Sweedish dude whose name he doesnt know, Eolyn and Irina.
"A girl is outside asking for you Irina." He annouced. Leaving his belongings in the Lobby went into the kitchen and got a beer out of the fridge and opening it himself not carring for a opener.
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Panic
Mar 5, 2008 10:03:30 GMT 1
Post by Arlaye on Mar 5, 2008 10:03:30 GMT 1
Irina came to the door and looked Sheba up and down. The girl was wearing a Peter Pan costume, for fuck's sake. "How did you get here, and what do you want?" she demanded, vaguely tempted to slam the door shut in her face. "I followed you - I know what you did!" Sheba gibbered, clearly panicking. Irina's eyes went wide with apprehension. This was the last thing she needed. Backing away, she tried to close the door but it was too late. Her own weight suddenly grew unbearable; her muscles could barely keep her upright. "Let... me go..." she mumbled, unable to speak clearly. Sheba's outstretched hand held her where she was, too heavy to levitate or escape into thin air. "No! I'm not going to pay the price for what you did, Irina. When the police find me, they're going to find you too." Over the sound of blood rushing in her head, Irina could make out sound of police sirens. You brought the police here? IDIOT! she telepathised to Sheba, enraged. Let me go! "Heelp!" she suddenly shouted aloud, with great effort. She felt the pressure on her body suddenly increase. It was lucky she didn't have to breathe, because she would've suffocated under the weight of it.
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Panic
Mar 5, 2008 10:19:43 GMT 1
Post by Hikaru on Mar 5, 2008 10:19:43 GMT 1
Naruko stepped out of the kitchen feeling nosey and watched the scene unfold at the door. Noticing Irina go terribly weak and the others girls hand who had her hand outstreched in front of Irina and he wondered what the new girls powers actually were. Either way feeling for the tenth time that day like he was doing everything in this house he sent his own mind reeling at the girls entering her mind with ease and torturing it creating different illusions inside.
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Panic
Mar 5, 2008 10:40:51 GMT 1
Post by Arlaye on Mar 5, 2008 10:40:51 GMT 1
Sheba's hand faltered, then clutched at her forehead. She shrieked in confusion and stumbled backwards, getting tangled in a thicket of thorns. Once freed, Irina gasped for air (although she didn't need to it was comforting to know that she could still breathe). "Thanks," she mumbled at Naruko, watching him in awe. She didn't know what he was doing to Sheba, but it was clearly something awful. A fierce gladness took hold of her. "Whatever you're doing, don't stop yet," she instructed, knowing how dangerous Sheba could get if given the chance. There were a number of large sticks scattered about the yard, where they had fallen from the trees. Taking up a solid one, Irina cautiously approached the struggling Sheba, who had gotten herself tangled in the undergrowth. Carefully she aimed a blow to the head, knocking the girl cold. "Phew," she breathed, chucking the stick away. "Sorry, Naruko. She's my sister. I just had to shut her up; she's trying to turn me over to the police and we wouldn't want them to find us here." A police car sped straight past the front gate, siren blaring. "Do you think we should take her inside? Only if she wakes up here, she'll just go nuts again and if I dump her somewhere she'll only come back twice as loud."
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Panic
Mar 5, 2008 10:53:37 GMT 1
Post by Hikaru on Mar 5, 2008 10:53:37 GMT 1
Naruko watched as her hand faltered and clutched her head shreiking in pain at the mental torture. He stepped forward and could now hear sirens coming closer. His eyes didnt leave Sheba. When he was firmly in her mind he turned to Irina, "Your welcome." He stepped by the door still continuing his onslaught of mind torture. Naruko watched Irina pick up a sitck... more like a club of a stick and aim it at the girl, "Dont knock her-" Too late. Naruko's mind was forced out of hers when she went unconscious, forced back into his own rather fast, making his head throb momentarily. Rubbing his temples then listened to Irina's explanation, "I knew your sisters. You look almost exactly alike..." He said indicating that he knew. Then he wondered why Sheba was wanting to hand Irina into the police. Curious, he asked, "Why was she wanting to hand you over?" Naruko said smirking, he had plently of run in's with the police and tended never to avoid them, they were quite fun for him.
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Panic
Mar 5, 2008 11:04:08 GMT 1
Post by Arlaye on Mar 5, 2008 11:04:08 GMT 1
"Well, it's a long explanation," Irina replied. "We're twins, in a way. Except that she has a birth certificate and I don't - and that's a story in itself. Anyway I don't even exist as far as the authorities know," she began, reaching down to rip the weeds away from Sheba so that she could be removed from the undergrowth. "There was ah... an incident today. She must have followed me here; I didn't even realise. Anyway, the police are looking for her and she's determined to prove to them that she's innocent. And since I don't officially exist, the only way they'll believe she's got a twin is if they see me with their own eyes." Irina repositioned herself and grabbed Sheba by the ankles, dragging her out of the thicket. Dropping her, she stood and raked her hair out of her eyes. "She's dangerous, as you saw. I don't think she'd kill me, but I know she could if she wanted to. It's a good thing you came when you did, you know."
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Panic
Mar 5, 2008 11:15:14 GMT 1
Post by Hikaru on Mar 5, 2008 11:15:14 GMT 1
He listened in then just smirked at the girl lying on the ground covered in thorns and weeds, "She doesnt look all that dangerous. Still I have no idea what she was doing to you, so she must have a degree of power. Naruko quickly looked at her and couldnt help laugh at her riduculous outfit, "Either way if she got caught. She could probably get out on her own. Its up to you, if you want to take her inside as the caring twin and keep her hidden from the police. Or you could be evil and put her somewhere, where the police will find her. But keep in mind that you might get caught yourself." Naruko said, "I would offer but the police know me all to well. I cant be bothered dealing with any police at the moment." He said streching his stiff wings being carefuly not to hit Irina with them at their full wing span, "Anyway. What is her gift anyway?"
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Panic
Mar 5, 2008 11:30:36 GMT 1
Post by Arlaye on Mar 5, 2008 11:30:36 GMT 1
"We don't get along. And of course she doesn't look dangerous, she's got no dress sense at all." Irina stared woefully at the unconscious girl. "She can alter weight, pressure, density - all basically the same thing. I think you can imagine what happens if she makes your brain turn feather-light. That's why I don't want her here. But as long as she's out there, then we are all in danger of being found. She knows where this hideout is now. She could take that information to the cops, or even the Saviours, and we'd all be in deep shit. And it would be my fault," Irina said sullenly. "I made a huge mistake today. I don't know how to fix it... Vi will have my head, won't he?"
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Panic
Mar 5, 2008 11:38:10 GMT 1
Post by Hikaru on Mar 5, 2008 11:38:10 GMT 1
Naruko nodded at Irina's statement of her dress sense. She looked like green prancing prat. Naruko actually realised the predicament she was in and felt rather sorry for her. He once again damned Hikaru for her purifying abilities that were still taking affect on him, "Cops thats not to bad but the Saviours. You'll be in deep shit if it gets back to them considering we have just moved in..." he said trying to think of a way to get her out of this. Vi would realise that someone had been here, by a faint smell left behind if they had moved her. Then he thought of a way, "Does she have a good memory?" He asked having to know to know what level of spell (for lack of a better word) to use.
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Panic
Mar 5, 2008 11:53:50 GMT 1
Post by Arlaye on Mar 5, 2008 11:53:50 GMT 1
"A good memory? Just your average. If you're hoping she'll forget where we are then you can stop, because she won't just forget something that's so important to her... maybe I should hit her again. If she's gets amnesia then we're in the clear," Irina said. It suddenly seemed like a good idea, but then she realised that she was just desperate for an answer. Suddenly, it came to her. It was so obvious, why hadn't she thought of it before? But the concept of it was terrible. She wasn't used to killing, and she certainly couldn't kill Sheba - it would be real murder this time, and she wasn't sure that she wanted to go down that road. Besides, there was a very good chance that Sheba's death would mean Irina's death too. "I think I'm going to have to face the music, so to speak," she finally said, grinning ruefully. "Vi won't be happy with me, but he can decide what to do better than I can. I don't need to fuck the situation up any more than it already is."
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Panic
Mar 5, 2008 12:03:00 GMT 1
Post by Hikaru on Mar 5, 2008 12:03:00 GMT 1
"I'll wipe her memory when she comes round. If you want me to. If not I'll let you face the music from Vi." Naruko said shrugging. He didnt care which desicion she made. He didnt loose or gain anything from it so he didnt care. However he might get bollocked for just being there and witnessing it. "If you want me to wipe her memory when she wakes up, I'll do it. But you'll have to knock her out straight away afterwards." Naruko said, "Vi would just probably kill her anyway. His solution for almost everything going wrong..."
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Panic
Mar 5, 2008 12:19:16 GMT 1
Post by Arlaye on Mar 5, 2008 12:19:16 GMT 1
"Really? You can do that?" Irina looked up hopefully. "How much of her memory would she lose? Just today? Or everything?" The more, the better, she mused. It would suit her perfectly if she could just turn the girl out onto the streets with no knowledge of who she even was. She would be taken away and locked up, hopefully gone forever from Irina's life. "You have to do it. There's no other way. I'll get the stick," she said, watching Sheba for signs of life.
It was a few minutes before Sheba showed any signal that she was waking up. She groaned and rolled her head to one side, shading her eyes from the daylight like somebody hung over.
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