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Fire and Ice: The Ghoul Wars

They weren't lovers again, but she did fall for him again.

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@shylarahNunque slowly, deliberately stood and walked over to the door, pressing his forehead against the glass and gazing at Amuné with bright yellow eyes. He had frightened her? "You See so little." He spoke softly, but she could hear him.

He hit her, not with force, but with vivid, detailed vision. He showed her Tsitua, kneeling in rubble with Lya's lifeless body in his arms as he shouted into the raining sky. Agony, saddness, and regret were all over his face as he lay her down gently and glared across the field of ruin. There stood a figure dressed in a grey, pinstriped suit. Nunque filled her mind with knowledge of that being Kabuto. The pure truth was like a tidal wave. Next he gave her vision of Lya coming back, revived by Gabriel, but she was different. She had no memory of before, only a strong admiration of a now melancholy Tsitua. He shifted the vision one final time to show Zeela, filling Amune's mind with the knowledge of her being Tsitua's adopted daughter. She was a similar age as Amuné... and looked very much like her.

He pulled the vision back and stepped away from the door. "I See you sister... Amuné..."

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@shylarahLya gave Jareth a bright smile. He had said he liked her, not them. His social awkwardness was growing cuter by the minute. Looking back to Amuné as they walked, she answered, "That was Cain. He's on the assault team. A stone cold killer with no feelings." She said with a hint of disapproval. How could someone with no sense of love or caring be trusted? But it wasn't her place to question Tsitua, not anymore.

They came to a hallway of doors, behind which were everyone's quarters. A few doors were open. One had music emanating from it, along with a female voice singing along. An apparantly blind man with long whit dread locks and downward angles tattooed on his face walked past, effortlessly moving between the three of them as if he could see. Amuné with see a staggeringly massive amount of energy radiating off him in all directions. He sauntered down the hall and into the musical room with only a towel around his waist.

"Your rooms are separate, but they're right next to each other. Rooms fifteen and sixteen. They'll open automatically since your DNA is in our system." Lya said, "Let me know if you need anything." She added, focusing her eyes on Jareth. She reached up and lay a hand on his arm with a smile, then let it slide down to his hand and off as she turned and walked back the way they had come. She looked back once, smiled again, and turned a corner.

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Nunque sat in his room. It was in the same hall as everyone else's, but his door was thick and locked with a window. The light was dim, and all the walls were padded and white. White as his clothes. He was carving words in demonic into the back of his hand with one of the fingernails he had ripped off moments ago. The words were near-jibberish, as were the ones he was muttering... until he felt her.

"Amuné..." he whispered after a sharp gasp. He turned slowly to face the window in his door. She was going to pass by it in a moment, and he wanted to see her eyes. "Big sister..."

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@shylarahLya shed her lab coat and draped it over the back of a chair as Jareth made his case about timing. She flirtatiously made a pouty face and made a playful plea, "What? You don't like us?" She asked, switching to a warm smile.

She was caught off guard by Amune's questions, looking to the girl suddenly. "Well, um," she said, regaining her composure, "There was a time when I would've said a lover, but that was a long time ago. Nowadays, he's like a father to us all. He's a mentor, and truly the bravest, most selfless person I know. He saved all of our lives more times than we can count. I would die for him right here and now if I had to."

She looked at the floor, smirking with nostalgia of days when she used to pine over their leader. Those days were gone. She had made peace with the fact that he would never have her. She paused for a moment, then led the way out and into the hall. Cain passed them as they walked. The man was like a living statue. He had no emotions, including fear, and no regard for the value of life. He simply killed whoever Tsitua told him to. If he was geared up, their leader had something serious planned.

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Cain was already fully geared up when their leader sent him a 'ready up' from the hangar. He was headed toward the war room with the faceplate of his helmet in his hand when he passed Lya and two others. A young man and a slightly younger girl. The stone cold killer's heart fluttered slightly and a strange, warm sensation went through his chest. He wasn't able to deduce its origin, as it ceased upon passing the girl. There wasn't time to even acknowledge the feeling, though. He had orders. He placed his face plate when he came to the hangar. It pressurized and locked in place. "Valkyrie, set the bay window to one-way." He stated without inflection. The girl popped up from behind her bike and hit a button on a remote controller.

Cain simply walked through the window as if it were suspended water, pushing off on his last step with enough force to launch him toward earth with intense speed.

[ you can refer to the Artanis thread OOC for the armor look. I believe I posted it there a while back.]

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@shylarahlol your a pro remember-er

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@shylarah

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@shylarahThere are a lot of ways to help patients through blood draws, and Lya had a way of utilizing each person's behavior to determine the best method. For Jareth, she kept her touch light, smiled bright and leaned over just enough to let her shirt drop just enough for him to be distracted. She wasn't sure why Tsitua had allowed him to come, but he could see things that none of them could. She had Jareth stay there so she could make sure he wouldn't get light headed or dizzy and sat Amuné down.

Part of he reason Lya was he medical officer was that she was able to detect physiological abnormalities with her chakras. Amuné had a steady, but slightly elevated heart rate, and almost deliberate breathing. Her hormones were heightened as if ready to enter a state of fight or flight at a moment's notice. She was on edge, but why? When Lya thought about it, she realized that no one could react any other way in the girl's situation. Hell, half the crew had been recruited in such a way. The thing was, the last person recruited from earth was now their leader.

"All done." She announced, removing the needle and pressing gauze to the girl's arm. She allowed Amuné to take over holding the pressure as she took all the blood tubes to the bioscanner, winking at Jareth as she passed. As she placed the tubes in their respective slots, she sent a neural update to her leader and the other lieutenants.

The scanner returned its results in an instant. "Looks like you two are clean!" Lya said cheerfully just as a message reached her neural interface (NI) from Eric.

show them to their rooms. Debriefing starts in two hours.

"Are you guys ready to see your rooms?" She asked seamlessly at the same time as winking a green light to her brother-in-law.

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@shylarahima just go back to the ship and wait for the Orion thing.

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Why can't I post T.T I has no inspiration

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Nah we're backtracking. Covering what happened earlier that day so that these two plots can run side-by-side. This is for a purpose. ( ..);