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The sun was touching the horizon of Radiant Garden, the sun's rays tinged with the initial signs of the bronze glow of the ending of the day. But there were still some hours to spare until sunset, and that was more than enough time for what Novi had on his mind as he ran through the streets of the town, a blazing blur as he sprinted at top speed over the cobblestones and roofs below.
He was on the verge of the beginning of an amazing new page of his opening story - one that he would not have to go through alone. It didn't matter that they'd only met today, and known each other for barely the space of a few hours. It didn't matter that they were from different worlds, with different goals and of different minds - they had made a pledge to travel together as friends, as companions, on a journey that would change their lives forever. And he could taste the adventure on his lips as they drew back in an irrepressible smile.
He was about to leap down onto the pavement below when suddenly, he spotted a flash of blonde braids step from the alleyway onto the path and with a cry of alarm, flung out his hand to grab at the railing of a nearby balcony, his feet stopping just above the pedestrian's head. However, he had missed the railing and had seized a flower tray instead, and after obediently slipping from its position, the tray and Novi fell to the ground, the latter falling cleanly onto the unfortunate blonde's shoulders.
Thankfully, the tray avoided following them and landing directly overhead, but Novi and his victim's suddenly combined weight brought them crashing down onto the pavement in a sprawling heap. 'Ow... woah! Ah, sorry!' he said in a scatterbrained fashion as he leapt off the passer-by beneath him. 'My bad, I should've looked where I was going... are you hurt? Here -'
Summoning up his magic, he cast Cure on the person he had just fell on. As he did so, he got a better look at her - blonde hair tied in a plethora of braids, with fantastic green eyes that held a spiral within (he wondered if that was genetic) and dressed... exotically, to say the least. Or maybe that was at least dressed at all. Radiant Garden had nice weather, but it wasn't THAT nice.
'Sorry again,' he apologised. 'I hope you're okay. I was in a rush to find someone, you see - I'm usually a little better at being aware of my surroundings,' he added with a sheepish smile.
Post by Ellie who has 0% on Jun 8, 2012 0:43:12 GMT -4
(why was I looking for this thread in Twilight Town?)
Rikku as a workaholic could be hard to phantom; working on the Falcon finally had kicked her in the back giving her hard knotted muscle spasms. Since the morning she tried to replaced the engine and was curled around like a pretzel due to a cramp, Rikku officially yielded with risen defeated hands and went outside the enjoy the fresh air of Radiant Garden. It took a while for her eyes to adjust to the brightness of the outdoors, while she looked a bit sickly than the norm with light bags under her eyes. Her hair wasn't as luster as it was before; working straight hours made it dull along with her perky demeanor. Even her attire looked more disheveled. The bikini straps was tied up in several knots in the back,while the rest just tumbled over her shoulders; her half jacket was swaying loosely from her elbows leaving her shoulders rather bare; her skirt was obviously just wiggled on seeing how it was slightly crooked. She was a mess and didn't cared.
After roaming about the markets like a zombie, it took a few sweet donuts for breakfast to put an extra pep in her step. For the first time in the longest, she wasn't roaming the city by gummiblocks, spare parts, or shopping in general. Today she was purely sight seeing, which led her to the silent tranquil gardens. She spent a couple of hours there stretching her muscles: with bends, squats, lunges, and downward doggies, getting familiarize with her dagger, and basking. Even a light snooze made her loose track of time until her stomach unpleasantly woke her up. Sluggishly while slowly waking up, her feet lead the way as she covered her mouths in fits of yawn, "Aaaaaaahmm, I wonder where Yunie is. I haven't seen her all morning."
Raising her arms up to kiss the sun, she groaned, while loosening the kinks from her lithe form, "Maybe she's home- what the..."
A cry caught her curiosity and she almost lift her head to kiss...a shoe, "Uuggh what the-"
Then weight dropped on her like 10 bags of potatoes, and naturally she screamed; she wobbled to left; she stumbled to right, and then....tumbled over like a demolished building, "Ooph..."
She rolled on the floor, while her hands went up to cradle the soreness of her head that her abundance of hair couldn't protect, "Owwie Dryd naymmo rind. Fruajan tnubbat dryd uh sa fyc cusa celg pek uma sayhea rayt?"
'Ow... woah! Ah, sorry!'
"Uv luinca oui cruimt pa cunno oui bay pnyeh oui tnubbat y FRYMA UH SA!" She shrieked look at...wow not a man a boy who was staring at her apologetically. Slowly she stood up feeling a new sensation of soreness; her face scrunched up with a hiss as she caressed her back like an old person. But she was coated in a hue of green, and it all just faded away. To test it out, she wiggled a bit in a light dance. Focusing on him now, she first saw a patch of unruly red hair; for a moment she nearly called him Sora since the messiness was so familiar; it wasn't until she was looking at his entire face did she noticed otherwise.
"Yeah no kidding. I swear it felt like someone threw a sacks of potatoes on me, buuut no harm no foul right?" She shrugged non-nonchalantly before resting her hands on her hips, "But next time give a girl a warning before oui droppy drop on her."
'Hey, woah, what was that?' Novi asked, his eyes lighting up. 'I've never heard that language before. It's got a weird ring to it, but it's kind of got a sharpness to its pitch. Or maybe it's cos you sound angry. It's sort of incisive isn't it? Doesn't sound like anything from around here, so you must be from another world, right? From the way you dress, it must be somewhere with a load of sun - can't be a desert world, you'd have to wear looser stuff to avoid all that sand. Maybe a tropical world or with a bunch of water in it?'
An island world, huh? That kinda rings a bell somewhere...
'Anyway, I hope you're okay now,' he said. 'I really didn't mean that to happen. Things tend to go over my head a little easier when I get excited.'
In retrospect, I've been bumping into a lot of girls recently, he thought. I'm not complaining or anything, but it's always real awkward trying to explain things to girls, especially when half the time I literally run into them. Hm, maybe it's just me.
In any case, since he'd almost flattened her, the least he could do was at least mind his manners and introduce himself so she knew who had slammed her into the floor - actually, thinking back on it, maybe that wasn't a good way to think of it. Just thinking of it as saying hello was fine.
Novi gave a grin as he held out a hand in greeting. 'I'm Novi. What's your name?'
Novi had raced off far ahead of her after their cheer on the Castle's balcony, but Yuna had taken her time to return from their lofty, peaceful spot. Her descent and walk home had been a contemplative one. Her brain seemed to be taking turns wandering from worries about Rikku and her departure, to excitement about traveling with Novi, to rapid reviews in her brain of all the abilities and skills she's obtained over her adventures, trying to figure out how each would piece into a vague and uncertain future.
By the time she reached the main market area again, a furrow had appeared in her brow. Her dressphere set was much more limited, now, and in truth, she hadn't been too good about keeping up with practice since she'd arrived in the Garden. . . .
She hadn't even neared the area she lived in, a small home by a workshop for Rikku's various projects, when she caught sight of two familiar figures. A surprised smile broke the solemnity of her face and chased the excess thoughts from her mind.
"Oh, Rikku!" Yuna exclaimed. "Wow, Novi, you found her fast."
Yuna paused, confused, then spared a second to assess the situation further. Rikku seemed ruffled, but not worked up like Yuna assumed she would be had Novi said anything. . . and Novi looked a bit abashed, but pleasant as can be. Wait, uhm, what's going on here?
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Post by Ellie who has 0% on Jun 16, 2012 20:26:12 GMT -4
Things tended to go over his head when excited, well no shiddle diddle skittles. Rikku had the momentary traumatic experience as proof of it; he must be of some other world to. For the longest she'd been in Radiant Garden she didn't had to worry about raining kids. Being as lithe and swift as she was, maybe she needed to be more attentive and aware with a spice of anxiety and paranoia to not be seated on again. At least this beansprout was being hospitable.
Her hand gripped his tightly and began shaking it, "And I'm-"
"Oh, Rikku!"
She knew that voice precisely and turned her head to meet the eyes of her cousin. A pair of swirled eyes blinked back at mirroring one and a blue, "Yuney?"
"Wow Novi, you found her fast?"
"Wait a tick-tock? You know him, and he knows you, and you had him looking for me when I was going to start looking for you, and...," Wait a minute why would this random beansprout be looking for her, "Is this some kind of intervention thingy or something when you gather your family and friends about talking about a problem?"
She knew she was working a lot but not this much to go to such measures, and they were off by one; Paine wasn't anywhere to be found.
"Hey but I swear I went outside today; I even went to the gardens and stuff, did some stretches, maybe got a cramp or too, then got squash by his BUTT!" She exclaimed pointing at Novi, "but I'm alright. Wait...are you a bit young to be facilitating interventiony thingies anyways? Eeeeh then again I was in a pilgrimage at like...what...15."
Breaking into a broad grin, the Chronicler greeted the gunner as she approached them, 'Hey, Yuna! You sure took your time in catching u-'
"Oh, Rikku! Wow, Novi, you found her fast."
Novi blinked, then his eyes grew wide. 'What, you mean YOU'RE Rikku?!' he exclaimed, turning back to the blonde-haired girl. 'You're Yuna's friend... her teammate from the Gullwings?'
"Wait a tick-tock? You know him, and he knows you, and you had him looking for me when I was going to start looking for you, and..."
Tell me about it, it's gotten so confusing already, Novi thought. So she's the one Yuna's talking about... she doesn't look like a mechanic at first glance, I guess, but from the callouses on her fingers and the scent of oil, it seems she spends a lot of time around machinery. The way she moves isn't like a mechanic at all though - her steps are too light and even though she looks tired, she still has a sense of ease about her movements... an agility-based close-range combatant, maybe?
Rikku's babble brought Novi back to the situation at hand as his brain tried to catch up on what his ears had been hearing. 'Intervention? Pilgrimage?' he said, wondering if he had just not picked up on everything properly of if it was just the way Rikku's train of thought went. 'I'm not sure if I quite follow, but I'm not that young. But hey, that aside - Yuna's got something to tell you.'
He looked at her with a smile, gesturing with his head in a very clear 'go on' fashion.
"Is this some kind of intervention thingy or something when you gather your family and friends about talking about a problem?"
"Uhm, sort of?" Yuna replied lightly, but Novi picked up for her. She smiled at Rikku instead as Novi voiced his own confusions, a bit relieved it wouldn't be upon her to begin, reminding herself Novi had it under control and would reveal their intentions to Rikku much more nicely (he was the one who wanted her to come along, anyway). . .
"But hey, that aside - Yuna's got something to tell you."
"What," Yuan hissed under her breath. With any luck, the glare she was shooting at the boy burned. Still, after a moment and with a sigh of resignation, she began her mental preparations anyway. She supposed it was only right for her to start off. Rikku was her friend, after all, the girl she was, technically. . . temporarily departing. On the walk over Yuna had already shoved 'betraying', 'turning her back on', 'snubbing', and the like to the recesses of her mind.
"Well, Rikku," Yuna told her. "I'm. . . leaving." She tucked a hair behind her ear. "With him."
Well done, she scorned herself a moment later. Way to break it to her slowly. "I mean, we're going to go adventuring for a bit. Um, he's Novi, by the way." The words were beginning to tumble, as if she'd tripped and they were spilling out of the ripped handbag. "I'll come back and visit, of course! You and Paine can tag along whenever you want, we'd love the company. Oh, I'm sorry. This is all a bit last minute. Okay, maybe more than a bit, I just met him, but. . ."
She trailed off. A heartbeat, and her lips managed a small, contrite smile. "I guess it's your turn for an interventionary thingy."
Post by Ellie who has 0% on Jul 29, 2012 13:50:07 GMT -4
//shoots herself in the foot for forgetting this thread...damn\\
"Oh okay you're leaving," Rikku repeated nonchalantly without letting the words marinate in her mind with a light shrug and calm serene look on her face. All Yuney was doing was going off to run an errand right? So no there was no biggy there.
"Mmhm venture about explore the world gotcha," Rikku replied again before hearing the tid bit about visiting. Then after a few seconds the light bulb clicked on, and her eyes widdened, "Waaaaaaait a foot...inches...gaah minute. Yooou're LEAVING LEAVING...like Leaving me Leaving..."
The blonde waved her hands in the air to clear away the mental chalkboard littered with words and confusion. Walking around in the circle, while shaking her hands then rubbing her temples, she came to a halt, then turned to Yuna. Her arms her crossed over her chest, "So you're telling me that you just met him; he just ran...well fell on me to find me for you can tell me that you all of sudden want to leave us to go with him, who you just met not even for an entire day, and...all of a sudden decided that you want to just....go."
Was this seriously some type of joke, but this was stinging the wrong way that Rikku was growing fond of. Was she really that...unhappy...unsatisfied with the Gullwings so much that she could easily pack up and just hop off with some random guy she met? Was that...how much they met to one another now...just dump like a sack of rotten potatoes? How long has this been eating at her? Rikku somewhat felt something was off about her, but presume it was just homesickness had it evolved that badly and quickly to project on her and Paine?
Now Rikku was finding herself staring down Novi. What did he do to her? What did he said to her? What did he have that they didn't? Talk about childish envy, but it seemed for a course of a few minutes...Yuna was more open to him to jump the gun so quick, while her and Paine...was just left in the dark until this was thrown at them. Well...mainly it was Rikku being dumped with the load. Wait did that meant Paine already knew about it, and they just kept it from her until now?
The Al Behd tore her eyes away from Novi, back at Yuna, then she kept her gaze low in contemplation. Her foot began to tap against the floor coinciding with her scatter brain nature along with the frenzy of STUFF crossing through her mind along with mixed emotions, understanding, being upset, trying to comprehend, while trying not to show any irritation. She found it unlike herself to get so flustered and wear it. Unfortunately it was more difficult to mask it, since the news was tossed at her at random. In the mist of thought, she began speaking lowly as if she was talking to herself, "Hmph...Yht E druikrd fa fana silr lmucan dryh dryd. Oui ghuf ev cusadrehk'c pikkehk oui...oui luimt'ja dumt sa. E'ja ymfyoc dumt oui."
Her hands ran up her hair and through her ponytail with a sigh before her swirled eyes looked at Yuna before chuckling at...the irony, "Frah femm oui naymewa oui'na hud ymuha?"
Vydran, Brother, yht E fuimt'ja gethybbat oui...zicd du gaab oui cyva...vnus civvanehk ymuha. The Al Behd ended finding herself lightly laughing to herself, "Oui't drehg dra bemknesyka fuimt pa ahuikr du naymewa dryd...cemmo Yuney...cemmo cemmo Yuney."
Finally she looked up at her cousin, and sighed heavily one last time,"So...when are ya heading out? I'm assuming he got a ship, since I'm still patching up Falcon."
Novi's bright expectant smile withered under Yuna's fiery gaze and his face went through a series of emotions including but not limited to hurt, confusion and a tinge of fear, all rather clearly wailing, 'What did I do?!'. But he figured that it was better that she tell her friend the news rather than the random person who'd just dropped out of the sky to help her nose make better friends with the dirt beneath her feet - not only would that sound bad, but it would also make it seem like he was kind of forcibly taking Yuna away. He knew enough to figure that that particular approach wouldn't go well.
"Well, Rikku, I'm. . . leaving. With him."
Thrown a little by the acutely awkward manner in which Yuna had passed on the message, Novi didn't know whether to wave assuredly or bury his face in his hands - or bury his whole body in a nice Novi-sized hole right underneath him. From the way Rikku was looking at him, it seemed she wasn't too far from reaching that level of thought either.
"I mean, we're going to go adventuring for a bit. Um, he's Novi, by the way."
He did wave this time. He felt it was good timing.
"Oh, I'm sorry. This is all a bit last minute. Okay, maybe more than a bit, I just met him, but. . ."
Novi didn't bury his head in his hands, but he did lower his eyes to the ground and grimace slightly. He wouldn't wish to be in her shoes right now - both literally and otherwise, he'd never been a big fan of girls' obsession with boots and heels. But Yuna sure wasn't doing a great job of making this sound any better than it was.
Now the blonde-haired girl was looking at him, and he held her gaze as confidently as he could. He wanted this for Yuna as well, and even though they might still have been considered strangers, without the great history and friendship that the two young women had shared as teammates of the Gullwings, he felt that this would turn out to be what Yuna needed right now - so he'd stand his ground as much as he felt he should. But still, he felt the uneasiness at having to force friends to say goodbye, even for a little bit, and he wondered if he was being a little too selfish.
As Rikku began talking to herself, he noticed that she'd begun to slip back into the tongue of her home world. He tried to make up some words, but he couldn't draw any connections. From the way her words fell and rose, he could make a guess that the syntactic structure of the language was similar to that of his own, but with a different arrangement of the vowels. The articles seemed to work in a similar fashion (if the words that followed were indeed nouns, as he'd hypothesised through the process of elimination as to what each word was in the sentence), and he'd figured out a few of the words (he could guess 'oui' meant 'you' from the way she'd jabbed his finger at him as she'd said it), so by combining what little he'd garnered from what he read from her facial expression, he could tell that she wasn't angry so much at Yuna but somewhat sad, upset and strangely disappointed in her. Novi hadn't been expecting that, and for the umpteenth time that day, he couldn't figure out what to say.
"So...when are ya heading out? I'm assuming he got a ship, since I'm still patching up Falcon."
Novi gave a smile and held up his Gummi Phone. Finally, something he could explain properly. 'No need! I've got our express ticket right here. This can get you anywhere in the universe, as long as I've got the navigation data. It's not as cargo-friendly as a Gummi Ship, so we'll probably have to use a cache somewhere for all the heavy stuff, but it gets you round.'
The tiny little bubble of hope in Yuna's chest burst, quickly and suddenly, and Yuna became convinced she made the wrong decision. Of course she couldn't leave Rikku and Paine.
Rikku started talking in Al Bhed, then. In the past few years she had tried teaching Yuna the language of the race she shared half a bloodline with, so a few of the words caught in her heart and stayed there. Not enough to understand what she was mumbling to herself, but just enough for Yuna to feel forced to look away from her friend, pained. She caught a gist because it was something she was mad at herself for, too, and knew Rikku was absolutely right. What had come so easily to her while out with Novi would have been tough to say to her sisters of the heart.
Why? Because they were from Spira, her home! Conversing with them, even reserved Paine, would have surfaced unbidden recollections of time spent together there, and she shied away from the foggy memories surrounding those. Thinking of them would scourge away all their newfound happiness in settling in here. The other two somehow didn't seem to have as nearly as much of a problem that Yuna did with making the Garden their new home. For that reason, too, she had been feeling far too guilty to bring anything up, and spoil the future they had been planning, with adventures very similar to the one she was abandoning them now for.
Yuna gritted her teeth in frustration. After all these years of hardships, she was too weak to just chat with people she would give her life for?
No, no. I am not weak anymore. Perhaps this spontaneous movement - running out with Novi – was just a release from pressure. And from Rikku’s expression and next words, Yuna realized her friend knew.
"So...when are ya heading out? I'm assuming he got a ship, since I'm still patching up Falcon."
Novi explained for her - Yuna didn’t really get it herself yet.
When he was finished, Yuna ran up and threw her arms around her friend in an embrace. She thought she would have to fight to keep her voice cheerful, but somehow, it bubbled up naturally in her chest. She knew Rikku was upset, but she wasn't angry, and she was sparing Yuna by not showing it. For that she was grateful. If Rikku had, Yuna's tears would likely have finally fallen by now. “I’ll record some memory spheres for you! Oh, and maybe Novi’s thing can take pictures, like that odd machina you made a while back.”
She withdrew briefly, paused. “You know, I ought to go and pack. I think we were going to leave sometime soon.” Yuna didn't want to push her luck and bring up the topic of the kid staying the night.
Post by Ellie who has 0% on Aug 5, 2012 17:47:31 GMT -4
When Novi spoke, it was difficult for Rikku to shift; she stared at him aloofly; it was the best she could manage that wasn't a full on glare. Right now, she was fond to embrace his presence, since in her spiralled eyes, he managed to do something she could and snatched a precious treasure of hers. Never steal from a skill theif; it was practically asking for a vendetta. In a sense it wasn't his fault, but the Al Behd knew she'd already landed a critical hit on Yuna, and to leave it all on her head, knowing how she'd react (she was surprised Yuna resisted from shedding a tear), it would be cruelty even she couldn't muster. So for Yuna sake and of her own voilition, she casted some of the blame to him.
It was a conflicting matter, bitter sweet. Any other time she'd be happy that Yuna found her own way, but it had recieved a sour after taste when it had to be born like this. She was happy that there was someone (or so she thought) she could open up to. But was hurt that it couldn't be her. What was she chopped liver or just a common roommate one hardly knew?
Before she could whisper a threat, Yuna had her arms around her, and the Al Behd was slow to respond. Her arms were dangling at her sides, before she filled them up with Yuna's frame hugging her protectively and tightly. While Yuna made more promises to band-aide the scratches they opened, blonde brow crinkled into a frown at it, him. It faded away when Yuna stepped away, and she merely nodded at her cousin, "Get to it..."
An arm pushed the summoner ahead for she won't have to hear exactly what the Al Behd was going to mutter next. Her head tilted to the side like a limp doll as she walked up towards Novi. A soft swishing reached her ears once feeling the added light-weight of a dagger.
"Ev cra kad'c rind...E femm bancuhymmo aht oui," her tone loss it light sense of helium and was grounded by a raspy hiss, which was in utter contrast to her newfound smile and a sweet, "Kay?"
As he looked at his new friend throw her arms around her long-time companion, he suddenly wanted to say that she didn't need to go after all. That it had been wrong for him to ask her to go with him, and that she belonged here, with her friends. That what he'd done had been done out of selfishness and that indulging his desires was not something that she should have to leave the warmth and security of her family for. That the choice she had made wasn't made fairly and that he had unnecessarily pressured her into taking a step that was too painful a decision to make. That he would be fine travelling on his own, as he had been doing all this time.
And that their journey was over before it had begun. That they'd never see the worlds together. That they'd stay exactly the same people they were before they had met on the tower. That their stories would fold out apart, in two halves.
Yuna's voice cut through his half-truths and suddenly the chance was gone - he felt that Yuna had made her decision, and no matter what he or Rikku said now, there was something in the way she pressed on with her actions that gave the impression she wasn't going back on it. Rikku seemed to have sensed it too, judging from the tinge of the irrepressible desire to murder that tinted the look that was being hurled his way from her direction. Nevertheless, she pushed Yuna past her, indicating that she should go and pack - Novi's inward sigh of relief was cut off as he saw Rikku advance on him with a truly terrifyingly unmoving expression on her face, before turning into a small gasp of surprise as she moved at lethal speed at him, involuntarily tensing his legs to leap back to avoid a blow... while it was drawn, the dagger didn't slash at him. But if the blade didn't, her next attack was clearly designed to cut him to pieces -
Obviously a threat, and from what had happened, he could hazard a guess at the meaning. 'If something happens, I will relocate this dagger to the inside your face'. But Novi fought to keep his eyes hard, and his mind raced through the past conversation - what could he do to prove that he wouldn't let her get hurt? What could he say?
'E... E ghuf...'
That. What did she say? Dryd naymmo rind. Lmucan dryh dryd.
'Dryd. E ghuf dryd cra... lmucan uh oui... dryh sa. E... cunno dryd e rind oui. E femm...'
Stop. Prevent. Hurt. Eliminate if needs be. Eliminate. Aht oui. Something you. Probably 'kill you'.
'E femm aht... fruajan rind Yuna.'
He set his jaw as he looked back at her evenly, trying to show her that while she was much closer, more than he could ever understand, she wasn't the only one who cared about Yuna. 'So believe in me. If you can't, then just believe in her.'
