Fantasy Anything Goes

[OmegaFang232]

Shinu smiled as she spoke of becoming a star in the afterlife. "Well if you think about it, we all return to nature in some way or the other, when our time comes." He replied with a deep-thinking tone in his voice. He'd been brought up in a very unusual household, and topics such as this had been commonplace in his youth.

 

[MissZoeHatter]

Victoria nods. "But I don't want to be stuck on Earth forever. I want to leave this town, this time. There's nothing here for me. Unless I count you." She nudges him with her elbow. She always wondered what it would be like to travel back in time. Maybe to the American Civil War or the French Revolution. She was never interested in history when it came to reading it from a textbook, but to live it. That would be different.

 

[OmegaFang232]

He chuckled and playfully nudged her shoulder with his elbow. "Well time is a dangerous thing to travel. But I will say this. The world's a very....a very tough place." He said as they gradually found themselves walking through a forest. "There's no such thing as a safe adventure. Sometimes you have to do some of the things I've had to do. Sometimes you have to make deals, like what Hunter was talking about, in order to survive."

 

[Deadly Darkness]

Aileada looked over her shoulder at Tsatsu. "You can read thoughts, why waste the breath?" She said with a small smile. "Hopefully the others weren't too upset with my departure." Her eyes fell to the floor as she began drawing shapes in the fine, powdery ashes. "I'm not really sure what's wrong, just human problems I guess." She scoffed lightly. "More than anything I feel like an ass for leaving without a reason; I probably could've made something up. Hunter probably blames himself," She sighed with a sad glint in her eyes. "But it wasn't about what he said and I hope he understands that."

 

[MissZoeHatter]

"You don't think I've made deals before?" Victoria scoffs. "Most of the time, though, people don't keep up their end of the bargain. Which leads to making some very... drastic decisions." She bites her lip and looks at him. "However, things don't go so well if you are the one who can't keep your end of the deal."

 

[OmegaFang232]

Tsatsu turned to her with a sincere look in his eyes. "So what was it, then? I respect you enough not to pry into your thoughts that deeply." He said as he took a puff from his pipe. "I think it was more the subject of conversation that upset everyone, not your departure."

 

[OmegaFang232]

Shinu's face took on a very forlorn expression for a moment. "I know exactly what you mean. Trust me." He said as he stopped beneath a tree. "Can I tell you a story, without freaking you out?" He asked cautiously.

 

[MissZoeHatter]

Victoria nods. "I attached you as a dragon and you didn't freak out. So yes, you can." She leans against the tree, facing Shinu.

 

[Deadly Darkness]

"I don't know," Shepaused for a moment as if trying to figure out how to word her thoughts. "I suppose it's my fear that I will never accomplish anything, that everything I do is pointless; I'm just another human in the background." She let out a ragged breath she didn't realize she had been holding in.

 

[OmegaFang232]

Tsatsu paused for a moment before speaking. "I'd like you to try something for me. Would you be willing? I want to show you something." He said as he held his palm out.

 

[Deadly Darkness]

"I suppose so," Aileada carefully took his hand, hoping that that was the reason he initially held it out. She wasn't certain on what he planned on showing her, but something in the back of her mind told her it was the exact thing she was avoiding.

 

[OmegaFang232]

Shinu turned his back to Victoria and slowly unbuttoned his shirt, doing the best he could to keep his composure. As the young wolf slowly unbuttoned his sleeves and let the white silk fall to the ground, he revealed pale skin that was covered in scar tissue of all kinds. Bullet wounds, incisions, lacerations, burns, etc. But the most distinct were the ones that ran the length of his back from the base of his neck down past the waist line of his trousers. A set of forty very fine but very deep circular scars could be seen, running parallel down the sides of his spine, evenly spaced and precisely located, as thought the wounds had been made by a machine of some kind. He tried not to remember the details of that day as he spoke. "They kept me drugged and plugged in for three years. I was their puppet." He said, his voice suddenly filled with a somber tone.

 

[MissZoeHatter]

"Who is they?" Victoria asks quietly. She traces one of the scars, barely touching his skin, afraid that she might hurt him. "Why would they do something like this?"

 

[OmegaFang232]

Shinu slowly tourned around to reveal more scars of the same size and style on his chest and the fronts of his arms. "Because it made me numb and obedient. I sold my body to a 'pharmaceutical' company in exchange for someone's freedom." He said in a soft voice as he picked his shirt up and dressed himself once more. "I spent three years inside a special suit of armor, and did as I was ordered without question or hesitation. I've.....I was made to do things, to fight for them. The suit kept me alive, and made me stronger. But it also kept me under their control. Hence the scars. They plug you into it like a keyboard on a computer." He said as he dug into his pocket and lit up a cigarette. "Ever heard of a company called HumaCorps?"

 

[OmegaFang232]

Tsatsu gently took Aileada's hand and spread her fingers open, keeping her palm facing open. "Tell me, what is your favorite element in nature? Water, earth, light; whatever it might be." He said as he examined the intricate lines of her palms, noting every detail with a curious look.

 

[MissZoeHatter]

Victoria shakes her head. "They sound like horrible people, though. Worse than horrible..." She looks down at the ground, suddenly feeling stupid. This made her past look like child's play. "I'm sorry that you had to go through that."

 

[OmegaFang232]

Shinu shook his head and patted her on the shoulder. "Don't be sorry. I made a choice in the middle of a situation I should've walked away from altogether. Someday, I'll tell you the whole story." He said as he finished his cigarette and slipped the filter into his pocket. "But those are the kinds of things you face when you live the way I do. It's fun most of the time, but it does get scary."

 

[MissZoeHatter]

Victoria nods, but stays silent. Small screams echoed in the back of her mind and she tries to ignore them, but they wouldn't stop. They would never stop. They would haunt her until the day she died. But it was too late to do anything now. Far too late. She looks back at Shinu and forces a smile. "But back to happier things." She smooths out the skirt of her dress and takes his hand, beginning to pull him along next to her. "I want to show you something."

 

[OmegaFang232]

Shinu smiled as he held her hand and followed along. The memories gradually faded as she led him along, and he began to wonder what she wanted to show him. "Do I get a hint?" He playfully inquired as his ears twitched with curiosity.

 

[MissZoeHatter]

Victoria thinks for a moment. "This is somewhere I go to get inspired." She continues to lead him through the trees. After a while, the air begins to smell like water. She smiles and stops. "Close your eyes."

 

[OmegaFang232]

He did as Victoria instructed and waited. He could smell water, and he could hear the slow trickle as it moved over stone and something else. There was water nearby, but in which direction?

 

[MissZoeHatter]

Victoria takes his other hand and begins to walk slowly, being careful so neither of them would fall. She leads him into a very small clearing that looked as if it was carved out of a cliff. Between the trees and the rocks, only small streams of moonlight reached the ground, but when they did, they glittered off of a pool of water. A couple of small waterfalls fell from the side of the cliff and landed gracefully in the water beneath it. "Okay. You can open your eyes now." She had always loved coming to this place. Especially at night.

 

[Deadly Darkness]

"Are you going to read my palm and tell me my future?" She teased, before answering his question. "Water, that's my favorite element." She watched his facial expression and light blue eyes as he examined her hand.

 

[kenryuko]

Hunter sighed as he walked down the street 'what was I thinking when I tried to recruit them, I should've waited for a better time to try and say something' he thought as he kicked a pebble down the street.

 

[OmegaFang232]

Tsatsu couldn't resist a chuckle at Aileada's comment. "No, mon cherí, I don't need to read your palm for that." He said as he continued to examine her hand. "Alright, this is what I want you to do. I want you to think of water. Concentrate on that element. Keep your hand exactly as it is, and focus your thoughts on making water appear in your hand." He said as he sat back and watched with intrigue.