New Hope Returns [Open]

[world_of_elegance]

Character(s): Urd, open!
Content: Urd's relief shop once again opens to the public.
Setting: Across the street from The Cheap Prayer.
Time: Week 39, all day!
Warnings: None.
Note: This log will be done via "party style" threading! Come in and make your own thread to get Urd's attention, or join into someone else's thread. It's all good!

Urd sat in mid-air, floating casually as she watched the wide shop window in thought. Though she'd opened up the shop for all the right reasons -- new people needing guidance, meeting those with magical skill to help keep Shantotto's curse at bay -- she had to admit it was also a way to hide from everything going on in her personal life. She needed a retreat from Genie and Eden and all the problems therein. She wasn't hiding...she was just...taking a breather.

Smiling wryly, she sighed and closed her eyes. Hopefully people would come by, or this whole attempt to get her mind off her troubles would hardly work.

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[world_of_elegance]

"I don't know who you've been talking to, but anyone can get outside the city if they can bypass the guards," she replied, waving a dismissive hand. "And for a goddess like me? No problem!" She stood up and backed away, arms under her chest and a smirk on her face.

"Now then...why don't you show me your power?"

[trademark_skull]

She was a goddess? A real, actual goddess? Probably skeptic to believe that so easily but if it was true that might explain a lot.

"Oh, right," suddenly he had a staff in hand and got ready. Time to show was he was capable of.

Starting off with something simple first, the wind around them suddenly got a lot more violent before he gave it a little 'whip', lashing it right at a wide patch of dandelions and successfully knocked off each and every seed. Possibly even cutting right through some of the stems themselves.

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"Ooh," Urd murmured, though she didn't seem as impressed as Emi might have wanted. Chin in hand, she floated in a sitting position off the ground. "Not bad...nice accuracy. How about something with a little more firepower?"

[trademark_skull]

It was fine, he was only just barely getting started anyway.

"More firepower huh?" Emizel replied back. Shouldn't be too hard to do, after all it was what he was best at.

First possibly trying to analyze what he should do without making too much of a mess (it seemed pointless to burn up a whole field when this was only just a practice run) and then finally thought of something. Looking at an area that was primarily dirt he waved the staff up and made a staggering column of fire rise up from it. Soon after more flames rose up from the sides and spiraled up the column until the entire thing was compressed into a ball in the air and exploded.

"How was that?"

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"Whoa! Nice!" Eyes wide, Urd straightened out and craned her neck back to gaze up at the sky where the fire had only just exploded. "Now that's what I'm talking about!" Grinning, she swooped down to Emizel and put her arm around his shoulders, her free hand roughly tousling his hair.

"Good job, kid!"

[trademark_skull]

Oh geez physical contact. Physical contact from a woman of all things. Hopefully there was some way to squirm out from this.

"It--.. It was no problem at all!"

Would definitely like to be free right about now.

[world_of_elegance]

If she registered his discomfort, she sure didn't react to it. Instead she gave his cheek a little poke, smirking. "You got a lot of firepower, kiddo, and that's good. But now we need to figure out how we can use that to our advantage." Urd let him go then, turning to pick up a stick in the grass. As she spoke, she began dragging it over the ground in a circle around them, writing something only she seemed to understand.

"You can defend yourself, sure. And you even have some accuracy. But now what we need to do is turn that magic against the magic of another person."

[trademark_skull]

Having some breathing room again was nice. At least the irritation was mostly short lived since he quickly started watching the markings being drawn in the ground, curious what any of it actually meant (probably will find out soon enough anyway), then eventually looked back up at Urd. "... How do we do that?"

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She tossed the stick over her shoulder and walked to the center of the circle she'd just drawn. Smiling a quick smile in Emi's direction, Urd held her hands palm out and closed her eyes.

As if a switch had been flipped, a thrum of power vibrated in the air and the circle she'd drawn began to glow a light blue. She bent forward slightly, hugging herself, and white and black wings unfurled from her back, soon joined by a pale woman with intricate scrolling tattoos over her barely concealed skin. The angel hovered in the air behind Urd, mimicking the goddess' movements as Urd spoke under her breath.

Though the magic circle had been draw on the ground, it now shifted, the runes changing. Then Urd opened her eyes and both goddess and angel smiled at him. "Come closer."

[trademark_skull]

As impressive as it all looked there was a hesitation of going near it due to the angelic flare it had. For once maybe good reason to be a little skeptic about something when everyone knows that light powers and dark entities had a tendency of not mixing well in most cases. However, there was some faith that Urd knew what she was doing and it's doubtful that she would want to cause any serious harm to him either.

Finally he stepped into the circle, not too sure what to do next though.

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Urd's smile was so serene and gentle, she couldn't have looked more like a goddess if she tried. As soon as he stepped into the circle, the color of the runes changed to purple and an audible change in the faint hum could be heard. She bent down, placing a hand on each of his shoulders. Her hair billowed around her even though there was no wind.

Then she planted a soft kiss on the top of his head.

Immediately a rush of power surrounded them, blowing the grass back like a strong wind as their powers melded and combined. He would feel like something was pulling him from the inside, like something was rushing through him, energy and creation and song making up his very existence.

Urd straightened and gasped, still holding on to his shoulders for a moment as the feeling faded and the energy. "Whoa..." She put her hand to her head.

"Just...give me a moment..."

[trademark_skull]

Dizziness was also the first thing Emizel felt once it was over. He still needed a moment to actually process everything that just happened.

"W-what... what did you.." feeling a little too weak to stand anymore he eventually plopped down on the ground, watching briefly what was left of the circle disappear. Head kind of ached a little and yet didn't at the same time, as well as a few other indescribable feelings, nothing he had ever quite felt before or at least in that magnitude.

[world_of_elegance]

She sighed and crouched down next to him, rubbing the back of her neck and looking a little weary herself. "I tried to access your power to see if we could use it in a more concise way against Shantotto, but..." Urd watched him carefully. "I've never seen power like yours before. Not divine, not really demonic, at least not in the way I'm used to. Death surrounds you. What are you?"

[trademark_skull]

'Access his--'hey now, ain't that a little bit personal property?

"T-that would make sense, I am Death," he's not too sure how he feels about someone else snooping around inside him though, even if it was for a good cause. "... but I'm also a demon."

[world_of_elegance]

Urd tilted her head, musing. "Hm...a personification of Death, in demon form?" In her world, that would be trouble. But there was something similar to his power signature, like that of Mao and Laharl. He was surely a demon of a Netherworld, like them.

"Well, so much for that then. The very essence of your magic is no good for the application we need now."

[trademark_skull]

"What? It's no good at all?" That certainly.. sucks. Surely there must be something he could do.

"A-are you sure about that?"

[world_of_elegance]

"I'm sure." She smiled wryly at him, moved by the earnestness he tried (and failed) to hide. "When the Heartless come out of the woodwork and we need a strong fighter, I know we'll be able to count on you. But for now, there's nothing to be done."

Leaning over, Urd ruffled his hair again, her smile gentle. "Thanks for trying, though."

[trademark_skull]

Well, as good to know that he wasn't completely useless, it still doesn't change much. After all if the curse gets worse there's going to be nothing any strong fighter can do.

"But..." that childish nature was even more apparent now, "how are you gonna fix it then?"

[world_of_elegance]

"I'll keep trying," she said simply, straightening and putting her hands on her hips. She looked at the outline of the city on the horizon, far on the other end of the field. "If this method didn't work, something else is bound to. Maybe I'll try a more alchemical approach. The only sure way to lose is to give up, after all." She turned her gaze back to Emizel, smile widening.

"And I really hate to lose."

[trademark_skull]

The expression was a mixed between surprise and amaze. Perhaps a little bit of embarrassment tied in as well.

Loosing only meant giving up, huh. Then he should never give up no matter how dark things were right now either.

"You don't need any help?"

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Urd began walking back to the city. "Not in this, at least not from you. But that doesn't mean you won't be able to help me down the line." She picked one of the white, faintly glowing flowers in the field as she walked, lifting it to her nose. "Can I count on you to help me out when the time comes? You have a lot of power, Emizel. That'll definitely come in hand sooner or later."

[trademark_skull]

He followed right behind her. Kind of confused why she doesn't just bother teleporting back, it would take a whole lot faster than this.

"Sure, I'd be more than happy to beat around the ones responsible for bringing us here." As well as whatever else that got in the way, but that probably could go without saying.