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Post by Sayuri Mikae on Jan 4, 2017 2:33:15 GMT -6
"I could never find the right way to tell you;" Have you noticed I've been gone? "'Cause I've left behind the home that you made me." I will carry it along.
This land was almost completely inhospitable to civilization, so she was unpleasantly surprised to hear that a few thieves make Old Veherna their home location so that they can steal any valuables that might have been left after the region's collapse and the destruction and abandonment of places such as this. But this time, she didn't feel it too necessary to fight the thieves or anything unless they were stealing something that someone else presently declared belonged to them. But as an abandoned site with no one wishing to come back and at least clean up the place a little, perhaps anything left behind was free for the taking? Shizuka herself would much rather take anything she found to the lost and found in New Veherna where members of the Republic usually took up residence, but it was also highly likely that even the original owner was no longer around, and no one would claim it except to steal it. Shizuka, though she considered the Republic's ideals the most favorable of the three factions that had developed in recent years in Lyeant, did not really have a residence, even though she wasn't the traveling, gym conquering trainer she used to be, because perhaps as a natural-born gijinka, she felt better just resting in a nearby forest with her pokemon. Plus, she couldn't afford a house. She was considering renting an apartment if her new occupation here afforded it, because it wasn't like she didn't want to fit a little more into human society like.... a normal person, not a wild creature.
Wanting to help the situation in any way she could, Shizuka had found her way to a small spirit exorcising organization calling itself by the fancy title, "Seers." She signed up to offer her abilities to them as a somewhat seasoned trainer, and that is how she ended up on a mission to put to rest the source of some spooky rumors: ghosts of poor pokemon and human victims who lost their lives in the great Imum war that ravaged Lyeant so much. Many of these spirits were full of malevolence towards any living beings who could either be blamable for the region's current state and the spirits' demise, or enviable for simply the fact that they are so privileged to be alive and get to look down upon the dead. She definitely had the will and the skill to complete this task at an effortless level. The sharp irony here is that, however, she was afraid of ghosts herself. And that was the reason why she asked her dear friend Sora to accompany her on her first spirit extermination mission. Shizuka knew that having the company of someone she trusted deeply and also cared for very much ought to be more than enough to give her the courage to do her job without actually getting spooked by the ghosts. They passed further into the inner city, and now half crumbled rubble for walls reared up here and there.
From the details of the mission enlisted to her, she followed the clues through the abandoned city towards where it was rumored several malevolent spirits could be found, attacking anyone who came near. With her keen perception, she was able to sense the spirits' auras without needing her pokemon's help, and though she stayed very close to Sora and kept glancing at him to make sure he kept up, she lead the way as she tracked down her target. She couldn't help but feel an increasing level of nervousness, and thoughts of a horror story scenario where she would turn to look at him only to find he had vanished, perhaps spirited away by the ghosts somehow, or maybe the ghosts had begun messing with her senses, began flickering around in her mind, raising her anxiety quickly. Well, he was a dark type gijinka so obviously he would fare better against ghosts defensively than she, so maybe she was worrying more for herself than she realized, but she shyly wished she could hold his hand just to make sure at all times he was there. "Please stay close to me, Sora. She quietly requested to her companion, but her shakey voice surprised her, and she was suddenly flustered that now Sora could probably figure out that she was very nervous right now.
ooc: yay first post!! words: 725 not bad, not bad c: tags: Sora Kei Adler
Post by Sora Kei Adler on Jan 11, 2017 20:51:01 GMT -6
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LET'S "SAVE"
KEEP FiIGHTING 'TIL OUR WISH IS MADE
--- 'TIL THE DAY I HOLD YOUR HAND ONCE MORE ---
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Sora couldn’t help but wonder what he had done to deserve this, he was here in a horror movie stage where he had basically been given immunity to the evil beings that surround him. Horror films that starred ghost Pokemon never really got to the Umbreon Gijinka, well maybe when he was a tiny little Eevee he was scared since he was never really good at hitting them, but they always seemed to have a horrible time to hit him. What had Sora been deserving of then? Well he walked around Old Veherna with his best friend, this Vulpix gijinka, a women who had saved him from himself. Even if he had gone into Team Imum to find out intel, without much success, he still felt as his hands had been soiled after he left that villainous team. His teacher, someone who had shared some very important values with Sora, his name still brought sadness to Sora’s heart. So how had this lovely Vulpix saved him? Well that perhaps is a story for a better day. Sora just became lost in thought as he walked side by side with the Vulpix gijinka, he had no idea what he would do without her. Well, he would probably lose himself within his work, but the question he asked himself is whether or not he would truly live if she broke contact with him in any way, be it from her getting too busy from this job or other things, so the Umbreon gijinka found that helping her out with her work would be a good compromise. It would probably be more becoming of a Gym Leader that he should pay attention to the situation, but having a team of Pokemon comprised of purely Dark types that he was carrying with him really lightened the situation of being in a well, ghost town. Especially the Dark types that Sora considered his family, a team which he could work in complete sync with, family just like the old Ninetails that had one day taken care of him, Masuyo. Sora felt a slight pang run through his heart as he remembered some of the stories that she had told him as he was growing up. Stories that seemed to be so foreign yet now hold so much weight as he stood close to this Vulpix gijinka. “Please stay close to me, Sora,” the Umbreon gijinka then remembered the present, the only time that really mattered to him now and remembered his self-given responsibility of protecting this Vulpix gijinka and without thought of the future he answered back in a thought that he meant to be within his head, “For as long as I am able to protect you” Sora then noticed that he had made a statement which could have been too forward, he hoped that there would be a motion by a ghost pokemon perhaps that might make the Vulpix gijinka forget what he had just said, or perhaps he would have to deal with Shizuka questioning him about what he just said, or perhaps the best possible outcome for the Sora would be for the statement to fly over Shizuka’s head. It was then that Sora noticed that his friend was shaking and the previous thoughts seemed to no longer matter to the gijinka as he placed his arms in a reassuring hug around Shizuka, blushing a bit more than he would have hoped.
Post by Sayuri Mikae on Jan 14, 2017 1:51:43 GMT -6
"I could never find the right way to tell you;" Have you noticed I've been gone? "'Cause I've left behind the home that you made me." I will carry it along.
Calm down... Shizuka felt embarrassed to show such a weak side of herself to Sora, but she couldn't keep her ears and tails from quivering fearfully. Feeling her face heating up, she lowered her gaze to avoid meeting his and crossed her arms as if protecting herself. "For as long as I am able to protect you." She had, in her fretfulness, almost forgotten to expect a response to her earlier request to him, and her mind briefly blanked as she began searching from scratch for words to respond to him with while reviewing the meaning of what was just said to her. Protect her...? She was immensely touched by her dear friend's sentiment, and knew he always sincerely meant what he said. Shizuka raised her face again to offer him a smile of gratitude, though flushed as it was with emotion, even in the dim light that couldn't seem to brighten up such a somber place as this area.
Shizuka opened her mouth, about to say something when a sharp, but soft crack split the silence from the collapsed roof of a nearby house. With cat-like reflexes, the vulpix gijinka female flinched like she had been shot by a bullet seed, and a tiny "Kya!" escaped her throat as she hopped close to Sora's side, now visibly trembling while she stared wide-eyed in the direction of the sound. As soon as she could voluntarily control her muscles, her eyes began to faintly glow red, and Shizuka's chest rapidly heated up as she prepared to obliterate with fire the next thing that moved from their surroundings.
C-calm down...! She knew better than to lose control of herself through her wild emotions and instincts. How silly she felt to Sora, acting as if she were fighting for her life already when nothing had actually happened yet, and here she was barely keeping it together. Shizuka was an incredibly timid person, but it always took less than a millisecond for her to switch from "Flight" to "Fight" mode when confronting danger, and the more intense the danger felt to her, the more intensely her fighting spirit exploded forth. She had to compose herself though, and her body was halfway between being terrified and being ready to murder. She could no longer keep herself from shaking, but she could at least relax the flames that had fired up in her lungs and eyes. It wasn't like she couldn't shoot a fireball at once whenever she truly needed to, so there was no need to prepare or anything.
She was beginning to pant softly as her adrenaline slowed down, and her gaze flickered around with heightened awareness of all their surroundings, fearing what might pop out next or where the next spooky sound would come from. Shizuka remembered with a small start that she was practically leaning into Sora's side as if hiding from all the ghosts, and was about to move and give him his personal space when suddenly his arms came around her in a reassuring hug. Whether her temperature was rising quickly with the warmth of the hug, the blood rising to her face, or both, most of all, Shizuka felt like all her fears were instantly far, far away, and surrounding her was a great shield of protection. Yet also a multitude of colorful feelings burst from her mind at the realization she was being embraced by this person she considered so fondly. "Ah, S-Sora!?" She squeaked in confusion with a voice barely more audible than a whisper. She couldn't see whether her own face was going visibly red at this point under Old Veherna's dull lighting, and she couldn't see Sora's face either from this angle.
Despite her confused emotions at that moment, Shizuka absolutely had to conclude that she was very happy because of the hug.
ooc: I wanna draw this QuQ words: 648 tags: Sora Kei Adler
Post by Sora Kei Adler on Feb 7, 2017 21:17:14 GMT -6
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LET'S "SAVE"
KEEP FiIGHTING 'TIL OUR WISH IS MADE
--- 'TIL THE DAY I HOLD YOUR HAND ONCE MORE ---
[attr="class","boneshatter3"]
The Umbreon Gijinka couldn’t help but feel extremely warm hearted when he held his best friend close to him, whether it was due to Shizuka’s warm body heat being a Vulpix gijinka or if it would be more appropriate to link it to the fact that her heart was beating so fast from… from the fear of the ghost Pokemon Sora thought, hoping to find a way to help relieve her fears. Until his thoughts were stricken with another issue that seemed a lot more miniscule, but still important to the gijinka at the time. His heart was beating, really loudly, he wondered to himself if hearts could even be this loud, or perhaps he might be drawing ghost Pokemon towards himself and if the beautiful gijinka next to him could hear this drumming of his heart. Wait… beautiful gijinka? Sora soon realized that this thought was probably not the best to calm his beating heart, as sure enough it seemed to get even louder. Sure he always felt that it was fate that he met this wonderful lady in his days of wandering after leaving the evil organization of Imum, on that beautiful day that seemed to change the direction his life was headed. Although that was never a thought he believed appropriate to express towards the gijinka considering how hectic the region seemed to be, although it had been a long time since the war the factions were so polarized it seemed like anything could happen in the next minute. Sora couldn’t help but think that perhaps his thoughts were the more hectic thing at the moment though. Sora thought of two innocent thoughts at first, the protection of his best friend, from the ghosts that haunted this abandoned town and how to keep her happy. Although it didn’t help much when one thought led to another and he realized that Shizuka was a very important part of keeping his life anchored to the ground and not getting caught up into anything that would lead either of them to heartache, considering how radical some of The Republic could get at times. He thought of expressing these thoughts to her as well as something that popped up into his head and stopped him from expressing them. Sora realized, not exactly for the first time but perhaps the most passionately that he cared about Shizuka and how, well he wouldn’t mind spending more time with her as… the Umbreon gijinka became to flustered to even humor the thought. Sora began in an attempt to calm down by doing a quick surveillance of his surrounding and let go of the hug around Shizuka and instead began to hold onto her arm in an attempt to reassure her that he was still here and hopefully would be able to show his proficiency as a dark type gym leader if the ghost Pokemon showed up in an attempt to scare or harm the pair of gijinkas that were walking arm in arm. Sora had thought he was on the right track to calm himself down but with his latest though combined with his Umbreon vision allowing him to see through the darkness so akin to the familiar night and see the person that he cared for the most in this world and an adorable blushing red face that he couldn’t help but let slip a low whisper to himself, “Shizuka is truly beautiful...”