paixaorpg | Like a White Shadow [complete]

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Like a White Shadow [complete]

Character(s): Blue, npcs, Dusks, Bakura
Content: Blue chases a Dusk into the hotel and has a run-in (literally) with Bakura...
Setting: outside to Haja O Que Houver
Time: laterish afternoon
Warnings: -

She was sprinting after it, not quite sure why the nagging in the back of her mind told her to go. Perhaps it her animalistic nature that just sent her parading after it -

... but just what it was, she couldn't figure it out. It was lanky, but not human-like at all. It twisted up and around the walls and took long steps that didn't even move in a way that made sense. It almost reminded her as a shadow; a shadow with a solid form.

"Come back here!" she yelled after it, growling low and crouching down on her legs to push her forward ever further. She may not be a canine anymore, but even in human form she could still move like one.

Eyes glared. It was moving towards a building. Why not pay any attention to her? Like it was determined or something. And then a mixture of thorned light - whites and grays - shot up around it and Blue thought that it had disappeared, but she could see a trail of the energy passing through the hotel's door.

"Tricky..." she muttered and followed after it, throwing open the door and stopping inside. She tried to smell it out, but realized it didn't even have a scent. ... Disturbing.

"We're being attacked!" came a squeak from a boy at the counter. More like under the counter anyway.

A sliver of white caught her eye and she quickly was back on the hunt, meeting up with it in a hallway. It sputtered and rotated and loomed over her, skittering in jagged movements that threw her against a door.

Blue grabbed at the wood behind her, trying to support herself and catch her breath as the creature swam up through the air and ricocheted its way further down the hall. She stared at it.

And then stared harder when more of the mixed energy blossumed up from the floor and more of the creatures slivered out and crashed right through the woods of doors. She heard the scream of a woman and a child from one room and suddenly Blue just stayed stiff and sunken against the door, unsure if she could even get herself to keep up the chase.

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Bakura had spent the morning painting two figurines, attempting to ignore the "orange and grayish-black monsters" he could see from his window spiraling around like Anzu did when she was practicing some dance, after the few people who had been wandering around(his room was on the backside of the hotel, with a view of Vanaheim gate and square). And the screams echoing throughout the hotel of "We're under attack! Help! Save us from the monsters!"

At the moment, the screams and shrieks were just about driving him berserk. It was enough to convince him he had to GET OUT. He threw his blue cloak on, hoping to at least be able to figure something out. It was getting noisier by the second outside his room. He bit his lip, attaching the duel disk to his forearm, spreading out the wings where the cards went. The technology might not work, but it was metal and metal could be used to block monsters and maybe he could attempt whacking the monsters with it. He also grabbed his journal and his room key and shoved both into his empty blue bag, throwing the medium-weight bag with around his head like a moderately tight yoke, so his arms were free. He really wished he was a wizard at the moment. Since all this potential adventure was...a little scary and he'd never actually fought physically in close combat—if anything he was the one that was usually thrown around.

And if he had any sense at all, maybe, just maybe, the voice would do its usual "don't harm him or else" move. Bakura hoped. He started to open the door a crack, when a grayish white thing with something a cross between a beak and the hood of a sweatshirt lined with piranha teeth, flailing straight into the room.

That was a bad move. Bakura realized as the monster entered and started trying to figure out where he was. He moving cautiously he slipped around the door and shut it. He did realize that now he no longer had his figurines or bandages or his release order anymore and would have to make due without until he could stop somewhere. All he had was his deck, which he had slipped into his pocket when he had gotten up, the cloak, the bag with the journal and key, and the duel disk. He hoped he could eventually come back and retrieve them when these monsters were gone. In a worst-case scenario, though he could probably buy more when he had time. Duel disk raised to attempt to shield himself(it wasn't a very sufficient shield though because it was only a crescent-ish shaped shield with little surface area), he ran down the hall, occasionally skidding and almost falling when the monsters started going after him.

At the moment, he was absolutely convinced he wanted out of this storybook world. These monsters...were scary. Scarier than anything he’d created in Monster World. And it didn’t look like there was anyone to stop them. Nor did it look like the voice was going to help him and even he knew he couldn't run forever.

((Check! For a moment I almost thought about apping Yami no Bakura XD lol..))

Duck and cover! That was her sudden action when another one of those things wizzed above her head. She wasn't sure if it was the same one, or a new one, or how many there even were in this place now! It's like they were sprouting up; growing plants. "Oh god..." she whispered.

She was hit by the memory of everyone she met here telling her this wasn't Paradise and now here it was screaming in front of her as the city was under attack. She had to toughen up. She could defend herself to some extent; Blue wasn't someone to go down without a fight.

The small bit of confidence was enough to get her on the move again, at the very least. She set off down the hall again, opposite of where one of the things had gone off. She avoided one of the rooms, not wanting to see what was left from the screams within it, but there were more creatures streaming back towards her and as she turned a corner she gasped at seeing a white-haired boy.

Blue didn't feel as though she had much time to think and quickly threw out her arms on the boy and pulled him down to the floor while yelling, "Watch out!!" and heard the creatures move over head, crashing into walls.

Bakura winced when someone put her arms on him, kind of knocking him off-balance, while encouraging him toward the floor. He did end up lying facedown low to the ground very quickly, but it wasn’t a very pleasant fall. “Ow.” He whimpered, squeezing his eyes shut, waiting for his injured arm to stop hurting, since he ended up leaning his injured arm on his duel disk in the process of getting down.

He wasn't very happy with the nurses. They had said it would feel better by the time he left, but apparently, the way the citizens healed must be quicker than his own rate, which didn’t really surprise him.

He heard the things zoom over himself and his rescuer. Well, at least now he had someone who would help him. He shifted slightly, keeping low to the ground, just in case, “Thank you.” There was a pause, "I'm Bakura."

She sunk back after the creatures went by and sighed. "Sorry about that. Didn't have much time to really... think." She shook her head and looked over towards where they went off. "My name is Blue. Nice to meet you, though too bad it couldn't have been on better... ahh... circumstances."

She caught sight of his flinching and looked over him worriedly. "... Are you alright? Did I hurt you...?"

"It's okay. Nice to meet you too, Blue." There was a pause and he shrugged at the remark about better circumstances. "Any circumstance is okay for me. I don't end up with many 'good circumstances'." He rubbed at his left arm. "I'll be okay. It wasn't you exactly. I've been hurt since I got here. It's just sore still. Going down like that isn't very comfortable.Especially with this on." He raised the duel disk. "What are those things?" He wondered, aloud. "They aren't like any monsters I've invented for my story worlds."

Blue leaned forward and seemed to be intently studying the floor. She let her ears focus on the sounds further off in the distant. Sounded like they were safe for now, even though those things could pop out at any time.

"I don't know what they are. I don't know if anyone knows what they are... I've seen... crazy things before, but nothing even close to being like this." She shifted her gaze from the floor to the disk attached to his arm. "What is it? Can you get it off? Might make your arm feel better."

Story worlds. It was only something she thought about; didn't voice a question about what he was talking about. No one knew what anyone spoke about here. Everyone was from such different places... coming here... alive, dead, human... dog. Maybe this was a story world. She wasn't sure if she wanted it to be or not...

Bakura sighed, sitting up, crosslegged when Blue said she didn't know what the things were either. He noddded about the crazy things being seen. "Me too. I've had crazy things happen to me that no one would believe..." There was a pause, "I thought this place might be a break from what usually happens to me. The people here led me on about it too. But I don't think they knew these things were going to come either by the way they're acting. I think someone has to know what they are though. It wouldn't make sense if they didn't know and they came."

"It's called a duel disk. I put cards in it and I can attack someone else's cards if they have one. It doesn't work here, though. Yeah. I can take it off." He grinned, unlatching it, and taking the bag off from around his neck and shoving the duel disk in the bag and shifting the bag to his shoulder. "Well, what next? Obviously we can't stay here forever, and from what I could see from my window of Vanaheim gate, outside doesn't look very promising either."

"I was hoping this place would be Paradise," she confessed with a sigh. "Everyone kept telling me it wasn't. Now I believe them. But I think you're right," she glanced around before standing up again at last. Seemed safe enough. "Someone has to know what they are. Know what we can do against them."

Blue watches as he put the disk away. She held out a hand to him to help him up while talking more. "I rather take my chances outside in the open then getting trapped around walls with these things coming out of nowhere. I don't know much else to do from there."

Bakura looked at Blue as she helped him up, “The people I met told me the exact opposite. The blonde and blue-eyed people. They said it was paradise. That I would be safe and I wouldn’t get hurt anymore. I doubted that.” He took a shaky breath, “Trouble follows me everywhere. I don’t trust dreams very much anymore. They probably at least partially believe me now.”

He sighed, “I hope you’re right--that someone out there knows what we can do to get rid of these monsters. I hope there’s something I can do. I’m not much of a fighter or anything like that.” Truthfully, Bakura wasn't a fighter at all, and he knew it.

He glanced both ways down the hall. "Well, should we make a run for it?"

"The false Paradise is always the worse," she sighed.

Blue was a fighter... in her own ways. She had a strong will to fight and defend her friends, but everyone had their limits. Their weaknesses. Everyone had a stopping point. She was use to fighting against guards and troops and evil Nobles and a crazed human-turned-wolf. She was not use to fighting things like these...

She smiled softly to him and nodded. "Yes. I think it's a good time for that."

Bakura shrugged as he began walking at a decent pace(not too fast, though since he didn't want to slip again). "Yeah. it's worse. But, I'm used to having what seems safe become dangerous. It's happened too much to say that a paradise will happen ever for me. At least not until I die." Bakura got quiet after that, but he refused to let it make him cry. He was going to deal with this. He wasn't dead yet. It was unlikely he would anytime soon, anyway. Fate seemed to enjoy disappointing him like that.

He glanced at the ring for a moment. Maybe, things were changing now. And that frightened him a little more than the threat of death back home. In some cases, he was a little surprised at this train of thought. Finally being left to his own devices and he didn't like it as much as he thought he would.

Blue stopped walking somewhat ahead of him. Her eyes scanned the hall as she listened to him. It made her smile, albeit sadly. She looked at him from over her shoulder and showed him that same smile, closing her eyes for only a moment as she spoke. "You may not believe me, but I completely understand. I can relate, even. Paradise is never meant for someone like me. It isn't... possible."

She pivoted around to face him. It seemed like most of the hotel's occupants had already cleared out... in one way or another. She wasn't sure she wanted to know, after remembering the previous screams that she had heard earlier. But nothing could be done about that.

"Still. Even if Paradise isn't meant for us, doesn't mean we should stop searching. Or stop pushing to find a way for others. Or try to make the best of the things that we have." Blue was quiet after that, contemplating something, and then the sadness seemed to wash away from her features as she recalled some of the words Faye had said to her in the beginning. "You know, I bet you were a wolf in a... past life. Sometime ago, maybe." Or maybe he was like her; half of a wolf... half of a dog. But she couldn't tell him that that could be the reason that a paradise wouldn't welcome him. It would make her sad again.

Bakura saw the sad smile she gave him and managed to meet hers with a weak one. "It's not that it's impossible...It just...It'll be a long time. My sister..." He cut off the sentence, looking away quickly, putting a section of the cloak to his face to wipe away the beginnings of tears. It wasn't worth it to whine, even though he couldn't get the thought out of his head. No one seemed to like him whimpering to himself. Other people had their own troubles, after all.

"A wolf?" He glanced at the Ring before looking up at her, now that he realized she had stopped and was looking at him, "I never thought of that. Probably wouldn't have been a very nice wolf. All I know is that supposedly, one of my past lives was a robber--a vicious one." He lifted the Ring, "He stole this and used it for his own purposes to try to destroy the world." He paused looking up at her, "Were you a wolf once?" The thought intrigued him...it would make...an interesting game piece to design, if she was. He smiled at the thought. "I hope we find someone we can help around here or who can help us in understanding these monsters."

((I have absolutely no idea where to go XD Maybe we can see if anyone else wants to join up. End of this might be sloppy or rushed. I wanted to finish it before I had to run to class, lol.))

Sometimes Blue wished she had a sibling. She didn't remember. The closest she had to a sibling was the human boy, Russ. So she could only nod and try to keep leading them out, keeping ears open all the while.

"I suppose past lives can be annoying like that then." Her blue eyes locked to the ring for a moment. It even felt a bit strange, but it could have just been Paixao in general... "There's always someone to want to be greedy, or destuctive out there. Unavoidable." She wondered where the person at the counter had gone. Probably better not to think about it. She opened the door to lead out and paused again, just staring out at the city. "Yes, I was once a wolf," she smiled at the thought, "well. I have half a wolf, and half just a normal dog... I don't really know why that all changed when I got here. This place is very unusual..."

She hoped that they found someone, too.

Bakura looked down at his feet as they walked, worried and a little distressed. This place was nice, but it was scary. And he didn't like the scary part very much. he was intrigued by the fact that she said she had been half wolf and half dog. That was an odd mix. He really wanted to make a figurine of an animal person now. Even though that wasn't in the books.

He agreed with her that the place was unusual. "Yeah. It's unusual, but it's nice here. The people at least are nice. I like that a lot." The open door let in a cool breeze. Not freezing, but cold enough to indicate that they were entering into the equivalent of late fall in Paixao. It was different, Bakura decided. "Well, which way should we go?"

((OOC-You can post one last time, if you want. And we have a choice now...we can make a new thread to somewhere. OR Zeth and Infy have said we could jump into the Gaston/Jack thread at Folios. Decision's up to you.))

((Ok. I'll close up after this~ Then we can merge with the other two. *nods*))

Blue supposed that she did like it. Sure, the city didn't seem to have anyone she knew in it, but that wasn't such a bad thing, right? The place was organized, even with this... new development. And it was homey. If the circumstances had been different, she could have made a new life here, and be happy.

"Well, which way should we go?" She pondered the question, scanning the area. Nothing seemed safe. But there had to be a somewhere! They needed it.

Blue closed her eyes. She didn't normally do this... It wasn't really a logical method... Still. She took a moment to gather herself, and then pointed out towards a random direction and opened her eyes to look. She shrugged with a smile and looked back towards Bakura. "A better choice than any? Well then, let's go..."

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