Limitless Wandering

"Yus!" Aiko quietly yelled. "Where do we strike first?" she asked them.

Kyoshi stood up, "Shouldn't we first get Haratsu, so we can have an eye on him?" he asked.

Aiko thought for a moment. "M'kay. I'll get him." Aiko sprinted towards the darker end of the forest.

Sartre rubbed his head. "Kyoshi,why'd you let go of the cage?" he lightly punched him on the shoulder.

"Umm, would you believe me if I said my finger slipped?"

"No.."

"Well, my finger did slip."

"And how, may I ask, did it slip?" Sartre questioned him.

"Am I being interrogated?"

 

Serifina flashed Kyoshi a frightening smile. "You know if i were you I would gladly answer him and not risk annoying further the overly stressed and worried girl who may just start blaming you soon..." she suggested, only teasing him.

 

Kyoshi eyed her warily. "Okay...well, as I said, my finger did slip. As we were going through the air, an updraft came over-"

"Came over?" Sartre raised an eyebrow.

"Yes, I don't know how, but it did. The updraft caught me off guard, and sort of...slammed, i guess into the helicoptor, rocking it back and forth. With that, I was knocked back, and I grabbed on a knob to pull myself back up. But as I was getting up again, my hand slipped and it went over the 'claw release' button. And that's how you fell." Kyoshi replied hastily.

"An updraft?"

Kyoshi glared at him.

Sartre shrugged. "What?"

"I'm back!!" Aiko said happily, as she dragged a disgruntled Haratsu behind her.

 

Serifina rolled her eyes. "you are never going to fly me anywhere." she stated, before turnhing to Aiko. "Oh good, you found that thing."

 

"Yes, I think it's still alive, how unfortunate." Aiko laughed.

"What do u want from me now?" Haratsu asked nonchalantly.

Kyoshi got up, and helped Sartre off of the mud. "We're going to hold you hotage, while we take out the enemy base-"

"And then you'll tell us where the main base is." Aiko cut him off.

"Y-you're not serious?" Sartre said, appalled at the idea.

"I'm dead serious, I've lost so many friends..." she stopped mid sentence.

 

Serifina looked around at the small group, a light puzzled expression across her face as she listened to Aiko. "You know... I actually forgot why I'm here." she said after a silent moment. "How odd." she shrugged as though it didn't matter.

 

Aiko appeared in front of her in a flash, placing a hand lighly on her forehead. "Do you have a fever?" she quietly asked.

Kyoshi looked up, worried. "You didn't drink anything with a greenish tinge over at the base, did you?"

Sartre got over and grabbed Haratsu before he could escape. "You're not going anywhere." he growled.

"I saved your life last time, you owe me a favor." he grunted.

"Now's not the time for favors."

Haratsu mumbled something inaudible.

 

Serifina brushed off Aiko's hand. "Freak out why don't you, my God." she looked over at Kyoshi. "I'm just having a bit of a memory blank... that's all." she didn't think it was important to mention that they were all alittle foggy in her memory too, now.

Takeo watched the group from the top of tree out of ear shot. "Well that failed. She inhaled my venom and it didn't knock her out. Wrong mixture..." he shook his head but at the same moment was looking for possibility in this new deveolpment. "Let me see... this one is time reactant... she should forget more as time progresses... I can use that."

 

OOC: Takeo's back :)


BIC:
"Just taking precautions, Saya was the same." Aiko shrugged.

"I thought we weren't allowed to talk about the event. And no she was not." Kyoshi warned.

"I was just saying." Aiko replied hastily.

"Who was Saya?" Sartre wondered.

Kyoshi lowered his head.

Aiko looked away, biting her lower lip.

"She was on our team. We arrived at another base around 3 years ago, and decided to do a little exploring, so we all split up and agreed to meet here around 6." Kyoshi explained.

"Then Saya came back with a dark liquid. She said a kind woman had given it to her as a sample for a new drink the store was making, then we went back to the hotel that we were staying in. She was fine for a while. Then she started acting rather odd. One day, she didn't come down. We went in to her room and..." Aiko stopped and looked away. "There was blood everywhere. Saya stood in the middle of the mess, smiling. She growled and started after us. We tried blocking the door behind us, but she used her nails to claw her way through. We ran out of the hotel, and there were others like her. It turned out that the SES used their newest biological weapon, the Belladonna, or the deadly nightshade. It was in upgrade to the actual belladonna poison. I've said enough."

"How'd you escape?" Sartre asked.

"I managed to escape them by hiding in a cavern deep underground. But Aiko wasn't so lucky. When the coast was clear, I started looking for her. I found her by the side of the road, bleeding heavily. She died as I was bringing her down to a safe place. Took her a really long time to come back to life again." Kyoshi smiled.

"Aah." he nodded.

"That was the best weapon ever..too bad we don't have it anymore." Haratsu muttered.

OOC: Saya's body was nevah found, srry to say. :(

 

Serifina listened, keeping her face carefully blank of her thoughts and emotions so they wouldn't react right away. "So... this is a poison?" she asked slowly. "Why does that seem so bad to me?" she asked the last part mostly to herself. There was a name and face at the tip of her mind that made the word poison seem more omenes but she couldn't pick it up. "Damn it... I'll think of it later. So shouldn't we get going?" she asked, hoping to pull attention away from the tragic story and the fact that trying to remember specfics was like trying to hold water in her hands.

OOC; that's a sad story, very good though.

 

OOC: thnx, :)

BIC:
"Um, yes we should. So, um...what's our plan?" Aiko asked.

Sartre thought for a moment, "Well, as I was being dragged over to the one in charge of the group-"

"You were not dragged...stop exaggerating." Kyoshi whispered to him.

"Anyways...", glaring at Kyoshi, "there's a shed filled with explosives. If we can fire up the shed and get out of here fast, we can blow up the new base."

"How do you know about the shed? It's all the way in the back."

"I heard someone mention that the shed was done being filled with explosions. "

"Yeah, he said that rather loudly. I was suspecting a trap. " Kyoshi mentioned.

"So, what if it is a trap? What object or being uses fire?" Aiko wondered.

"Dragons and phoenixes." Kyoshi coughed.

"Oh yeah..." Aiko chuckled. "But I don't think it can hide in that little shed."

"A phoenix can." Sartre remarked.

"Yeah, but. So, if we really did set fire to the shed, the phoenix would absorb the flames and become stronger?"

"Exactly."

"What if we use a really big bomb that'll blow it up the base altogether?" Aiko made an impression of a really big explosion.

"And where would we get the bomb?" Sartre queried.

"That's why we start thinking..." Aiko muttered.

 

Serifina felt like she should put in her opinion but she had less and less of an idea of what they were talking about as they talked. "Can any of us make an explosion that big?" she asked carefully "Without a bomb i mean, or can we make one? Or maybe just go see what's in the shed... it can't be that dangerous after we just took out an entire base." she strung her words together quickly, hoping they were not random ramblings. Gods this is annoying! I know these things... why can't i just remember them. I sound like a moron.

 

Sartre nodded. "Serifina's right. We should-"

"But the phoenix-" Aiko interrupted.

Sartre glared at her. Aiko looked down. "Fine, we'll investigate the shed, if there is a phoenix, we go with the bomb idea. If not, we explode the shed and, hopefully, the entire base."

Kyoshi nodded. "Alright, there's just one problem. Exactly how are we going to investigate? I doubt they'll let us in there."

Aiko didn't say a word.

Sartre looked up, "That's why we have Aiko on our team." he looked at her.

"What?" she asked.

"Don't play dumb, you know several transformation spells. "

"How do you know this?"

"Umm, well. It was part of our job to find out as much as we can about our targets. And we came across all the spells you use most commonly, and those you use rarely. Then, we spotted the transformation spell. "

Aiko sighed. "Guess, there's no use hiding it."

"But first we need to 'kidnap' some officers..."

"How are we going to do that?" Aiko asked.


OOC: do u want explosives or a fire being within the shed?

 

Serifina nodded in lue of answering anything.

OOC: lets go with exposives