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Youkai Saint Vice Captain
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 Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 8:48 pm
Ezmeraude rolled her wheel chair through the streets of town, pinning up posters requesting for aid at her house. There was a reward for all those who helped her: 500 dollars each. Though, it was much less a moving job than an expedition.
She made her way home and rolled through her library, looking over her books and wondering if anyone would aid her.
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Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 7:59 pm
A small earth Rabbit youkai was skipping through the outskirts of the human village. She had gotten a few tools she had deemed appropiate to get, and with her oversized glasses tucked in her pocket, her backpack filled with goodies, and a smile,she had decided to head to the Bambo forest to get some bamboo shots.
Now, though, she saw the house in the outskirts. Curiously the rabbit moved over peeking through the windows like the curious little rabbit she was. Of course, she saw nothing but blurry things, those that had illusions went clear in her sight, but otherwise, she begun to fumble in her pocket for her glasses to inspect the inside of the house a bit better without actually going inside.
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Youkai Saint Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 8:11 pm
Ezmeraude noticed an image on the window. Did it have ears? She rolled her way to the door, opened it, and rolled herself outside a little to see who was there. She saw a youkai earth rabbit there.
Perhaps she had seen the papers she had put up. "Hello there. Are you here because of the fliers I put up?" She asked the rabbit, leaning forward to look around the door more.
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Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 8:15 pm
"Wah-?" Startled the rabbit dropped her glasses, thanfully missing stomping on them with her hop of surprise. "Hai! Sorr-sorry for trasspassing I didn-"
"Flyers?" Ochiba blinked,"UH... n-no...I just happened to stroll by, and... A-a house in the outskirts is rare...and I...just got curious...but... what where the flyers for, Miss?"
She looked around squinting, trying to make out th figure of the glasses she had dropped.
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 7:42 am
I had a vision last night. I saw a paper...paper everywhere, in a village populated by humans. Reading one of the papers was a young girl who was unlike everyone else. They seemed to ignore her. Why? But...she was happy, her face was full of love.
I've been to the village before, but I was only passing through at the time. Today I'll revisit the Human Village, and see if I can discover the meaning of my dream.
Oh yeah, another thing...I sensed something else at the edge of my vision. It was a shadow...both distant, and yet, it seemed to envelop everything into its inky darkness. I don't like it, and I don't know what it was...were my nightmares overlapping into my vision? I hope this part doesn't come true...
Lumine wandered through the human village, looking for whatever triggered her vision. Indeed, paper was somewhat scattered across the village; they were flyers, describing help wanted for some physical labor in return for monetary compensation. This mattered little to the Celestial, as she had plenty of coins in a pouch at her hip, traded for things she had brought from Bhavagra - it seemed her trinkets were worth quite a bit to these humans.
No, what interested her more than the temptation of money was finding the girl from her dream. The memory was hazy, but something about the girl's face wouldn't leave Lumine's mind.
She was just beginning to consider giving up her search when she rounded a corner, approaching the village's school...
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Keine had certainly been a loving teacher, guiding little Sabitsuki just as she did all the other human and Youkai children. This week, Miss Kamishirasawa had given all the children a special task to complete: Sabitsuki's was to "perform a good deed for the community". But what constituted a good deed? And how would Teacher know? Sabitsuki pondered these thoughts quietly in her own head while she occupied the school's playground, leaning against a wooden structure meant to be climbed upon. Something in the corner of her eye caught her attention, something she hadn't noticed before. It was a piece of paper, nailed to the school's waist-high fence. She quickly ran over towards the fence, claiming the paper for her own. "H-...elp...w...Wan-t-ed....f-five..um..." Sabitsuki read aloud, squinting as she did so. Reading wasn't her forte yet, and neither were numbers. She was about to give up when a voice called out behind her...
"Hey! You there!"
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"U..huh?" Sabitsuki turned around, finding herself gazing straight into the chest of the taller Celestial. Lumine stood before her, grinning widely. "Hi there! My name's Lumine Mayflower! What's yours?" Lumine asked brightly, bowing with her hat placed over her heart.
"Uh, h-hi! I'm Sabitsuki, Sabitsuki Kaibutsu. I, um, shouldn't be talking to strangers...Teacher said that's a bad thing to do."
"I'm no stranger! I'm a Celestial, a heavenly being from Bhavagra! You can't get much purer than me!" Lumine thumped her chest proudly before replacing her hat. "It looks like you were having trouble reading that. May I?" Sabitsuki nodded, handing the paper over. "It says, 'Help Wanted. Reward: Five Hundred Dollars'."
"Five hundred..?! Th..that's a lot, right?" Lumine grinned, handing the paper back. "You bet! Hey, you look like you could use some money. Why don't we go see about taking this job? I'll even give you my share!"
"R..really?! Woow, thanks! I bet Big Sis would be proud of me if I had that~"
. . .
Time passed, and the strange duo of a Celestial and Mirror Youkai found themselves approaching the house on the outskirts of town, not but a few minutes after Ezmeraude opened her front door for the Earth Rabbit.
((*GASP* Good god, sorry for the incredibly long introduction X x;; I wanted to explain how they both would end up on the Magician's doorstep, and...I guess I got carried away. Super-sorry. sweatdrop ))
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 11:59 am
Ezmeraude smiled. "The fliers were for a little house job I was hoping to get help with. I was willing to pay whoever help me 500 dollars each." She told her. She noticed the rabbit looking around for something on the ground. She gave a gasp when she realized that the rabbit dropped her glasses and couldn't find them. "Oh, I'm so sorry, let me help."
She began to roll herself over to the rabbit, when two more people came. "Hello there. Are you two here because of the fliers?" She asked them, wondering if they really were there for that reason.
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Youkai Saint Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:23 pm
"Oh- I wouldn't mind helping really!" Ochiba looked up from her search as Ezmeraude wheeled herself over,"Oh it's fine, I drop them all the time, I just need to..." the bunny crounched down patting the floor and eventually findinf them,"Here we go." Standing once more she put her glasses back on. They where obviously too large for her but now she could see clearly in time for the two new people joining the crowd.
A small girl, a bit taller than her, and a bigger one with weird clothes. Their host asked if they where here for the flyers. "I am now here to help,Miss!" Ochiba smiled. Judging by her size, she wasn't exactly meant for hard labor, but maybe you could kick her into small tight spaces?
((Sabitsuki I told you not to talk to strangers. Specially not troublesome celestials!, Lol its fine~ ))
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 5:33 pm
"That's right!" Lumine replied to Ezmeraude, whilst ushering little Sabitsuki forth. "We've come to help out! My friend here has a special assignment from the village's teacher, so helping you out would help her, too! Isn't that right...um, what was your name again?"
"I saaaaid, my name is Sabitsuki!" the Mirror Youkai pouted, flailing her arms about. "Oh, right, right! Anyway, Miss, we're here to lend our services and earn that rewar--h-hey!"
Sabitsuki, noticing Ezmerade's wheelchair, made a beeline for the Magician. "Oooooh, your chair has wheels! That's so cool! Can I ride you, lady??"
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Youkai Saint Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 6:02 pm
Ezmeraude clapper her hands together. "That is excellent!" She said to them. "Come in, we'll talk about the job in the house." She said to the group of people.
The small little youkai girl seemed excited by her wheel chair, and even asked if she could ride on her while she uses it. Ezmeraude could do nothing else but smile and nod. "Of course, little one. Hop on." She held open her arm to hold onto the youkai once she got up. Once the youkai got on, she would go inside with the others.
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 6:06 pm
Ochiba nodded, having to push her glasses again before following Ezmeraude inside."Oh...your house looks bigger inside!" the earth rabbit said,"I wonder why my eye didn't pick up the illusion.... Maybe it different sort of magic...?"
She looked towards the new two, the little girl now riding on Ezmeraude's lap. "...?"
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 4:39 am
"Yay!! You're nice, Lady~" Sabitsuki smiled happily while climbing into Ezmeraude's lap, taking care to sit squarely across her legs so as not to hurt her. Lumine stifled a laugh, but otherwise quietly followed the chaired duo and rabbit inside.
Once inside, however, Lumine let out an impressed whistle, looking around the inside of Ezmeraude's home. "Wow, quite the place you have here, Miss...? Oh, how rude of me," She took off her hat and bowed before the Magician, "My name is Lumine Mayflower. Anyway," she straightened up, replacing her hat upon her head, "What do you need us to do? Those fliers weren't too descriptive..."
"Whatever it is, we'll do it!" Piped up Sabitsuki, still sitting in the Magician's lap, absentmindedly beginning to kick her legs back and forth. "I wanna bring home lots of money for my sister!"
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 2:19 pm
Ezmeraude smiled at the young youkai's happiness. "Thanks, little one." She said to her as she rolled inside followed by the others who said they'd help. She rolled into the library part of her house.
The rabbit seemed to be interested in the magic used on her house, and how she didn't notice it. "It's just a spell my parents taught me, that's all." She said to the rabbit. The other one introduced herself as Lumine Mayflower. "My name is Ezmeraude. And my posters weren't very specific were they?" She said to the youkais.
"It's much less a moving job than an expedition job. As you can see, I have a large library, but these aren't all my books." She said to them. "There are more still on the way here, and I don't have room for all of them. So, I need a team of people to go under my house and place these papers which I have added an explosive spell to to the walls underground to make it bigger down there." She told them. "There may be creatures down in the recesses of the underground, so be careful... that is if you are still going to help me." She said to the group. She was hoping that they wouldn't want to run out on her now.
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Youkai Saint Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 3:36 pm
Ochiba followed listening to Ezmeraude,"Its a nifty trick miss! Pleasure to meet you, I am Ochiba!" The rabbit hopped once saluting their host.
'oooh sounds interesting!" the rabbit smiled widely,"How cool, an adventure~"
"So we will use the spell to make your house bigger and fend of monster? we should be fine, really!" Ochib was an old youkai, she knew how to use danmaku just fine, and if not, she was a fast runner!
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 5:27 pm
"That sounds fun!"
"That sounds fun!"
The Youkai and Celestial looked at each other, then laughed. "So," Lumine began, wiping a tear from her eye, "you want us to explore the area beneath your house? That'll be a piece of cake! And even if we come a cross a few monsters, I can take care of 'em!" She said proudly, unsheathing her sword from the backpack. "What do you think's down there? Maybe some skeletons or giant spiders?"
"Or maybe...exploding bushes!"
"..."
"...What? That would be cool~" Sabitsuki pouted, sliding off Ezmeraude's lap. She back towards the Magician. "Thanks for the ride lady! And don't you worry, we'll blow up lots of stuff below your house for you! Come on, bunny lady!" Sabitsuki ran and grabbed Ochiba's hand, smiling brightly at the earth rabbit.
Lumine quietly replaced her painted sword. "Erm...maybe I should hold onto the charms."
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Youkai Saint Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 6:58 pm
Ezmeraude gave a small chuckle. "Thank you, but it's nothing much, really." She said to Ochiba. She then began to adress the group entire. "Now, the way to the underground beneath my house is just down this aisle of books, along the wall. It will be stony down there, I haven't been able to get very far in my construction due to my... predicament." She said, looking down at her legs.
"And the explosives," She said, handing a book full of explosive pages to Lumine. "Won't affect my house up here, but you will want to get some cover when you try to set them off." She said. "Now, to set up an explosive, just rip it out of the book and place it against a wall of the cave, and you can use as many on one wall as you see fit. Get as far as you can with these and I will consider your job complete and gladly pay you." She finished, with a smile.
"And last questions?" She asked the youkai, before they were to set off on their adventure.
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