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Post by Muri on Jul 9, 2012 11:00:14 GMT -5
Muri watched Zephel closely as she waited for him to respond. Her eyes widened slightly again as he said her name and she smiled a bit brighter. "You knew it was me!" She exclaimed with a smile, still almost certain that he should not be able to properly remember her. When he finally answered truthfully, she simply stood back straight instead of leaning towards him. "I figured as much." She said, not really seeming too bothered by his loss of memory.
She was about to turn away when he asked her if she wanted him to remember her. Her smile fell partway and she looked at him again with wide eyes, taken aback a bit by such a question. She slowly pushed the smile back on her face as she looked at him. "Ne... Zephel-nii. What sort of question is that? What sibling wouldn't want their older brother to remember them?" She finally replied, the tiniest flicker of a wicked smirk invading her smile for a split second then instantly vanishing to leave behind her cheerful childish smile again.
Hearing Eyami question her about Petra now caused her smile to drop instantly and she turned back around to face him. Her expression then turned into a very sad pout, almost with tearing eyes. "But... It was lonely there without you, Ya-nii..." She uttered quietly then looked down to the side. "And who cares about Petra?" She added in very quietly with disdain towards her older sister.
As Eyami got up to go look for Petra, Muri looked back at him again with a slight glare in her pout. "I can handle myself.." She uttered under her breath so Eyami couldn't hear as he walked away. Muri looked down again then glanced back at Zephel with that pout still on her face.
"I bet that scared clutz of a brother told you horrible things about me." She said after a moment of starting at Zephel. "He just can't handle a little bit of shadow play, though." She said, referring to her illusions.
Muri stared at Zephel, her face turning into a more serious expression as she watched him, thinking about the entity in the back of her mind while trying to conceal her thoughts. Muri wasn't aware of whether or not Zephel had telepathic powers right now, but she has experienced such things from him in previous lifetimes. Because of this, she grew weary over protecting her thoughts around him. That was part of the reason she didn't hang around him much.
Muri moved closer to Zephel again, leaning forward with her hands on the wall behind him on either side of his head as she stared into his eyes. Her eyes widened slightly then turned into a mild glare. 'He must be...' She began to think, cutting her thought off then glanced behind her, seeing Eyami carrying Petra back like a princess.
It bothered Muri whenever Eyami would act so kind and close to their other siblings. She grew incredibly jealous. Muri glared at Petra before turning and plopped herself right next to Zephel on the same bean bag chair with her arms crossed. Muri glared off to the side, away from her siblings, fuming at the fact that Eyami is paying more attention to Petra and none to herself.
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Post by Zephel on Jul 14, 2012 16:48:02 GMT -5
Zephel's eyebrows are scrunched together, 'Why the hell did I just said that?!' He's clearly very regretful of what just escaped his lips, and Muri's rather offended response to it only further made him wallow in guilt.
"I.. I'm sorry, I didn't mean that. That came out automatically..." His words almost seems to be cut off. Eyes widening slightly, Zephel immediately thought the possibility of the entity awakening inside him right at this moment, for him to be spurting out such things without much of a thought.
His widened eyes met Muri's, now genuinely scared if he were to suddenly attack her right in this moment. Clenching the water bottle in his hand, Zephel steadied his breathings to calm down. His heart rate is increasing somewhat, and it bothers him that he has no idea what is going on with him inside.
Beads of sweat began to appear on his forehead, and that is when his telepathy was somehow activated. Zephel could clearly hear now what Muri is precisely uttering based on her thoughts, and his eyes widened even more at this sudden unveiling of malice and hatred within her. Even when she's only directing that sort of contempt to Petra, it uncovers a number of branches filled with scorn and darkness that Zephel could vaguely see the outlines of.
When Muri turned her head to look back at Zephel, he immediately darted his eyes downwards, in an attempt to hide any bit of emotions present on his face. He blinked his eyes while staring downwards, hearing her questioning about Hikaru.
"What?" Her assumption astounded him so much, Zephel flipped his head back up to face Muri. "Hikaru-- Your brother never even uttered out those things about you to me, Muri." Zephel began, sounding a bit stern, "He only said, continuously, that you looked so sad and alone all the time and he felt like he failed you as a brother to be unable to reach out to you."
Zephel paused, only now realizing that he sounded rather strict than he intended, and then dropping his tone down with a sigh. "He is an idiot and a coward, we all know that. But he never speaks bad about any of you to me." Zephel fixed his eyes towards Muri the entire time as he said those things, and then ended his words with something much more surprising, "So tell me..Muri. Tell me about yourself that your brother failed to notify me."
It's like meeting a person he never knew of. He knew nothing of this girl; what interests her, what annoys her, what sets her off. Yet, during that moment when he accidentally uncovers only a faint outline of her real nature, it appalled Zephel so much that he believes he'd be crazy to not notice this about her before.
...Or maybe he hasn't known this before.. More reason for him to scrape more information about the sister he never really knew of. He failed her before, and Zephel is determined not to fail her again, even in his condition currently.
Now when Muri began staring at him, Zephel started to sense interferences within her mind, to the point that he's unable to read her thoughts anymore. It sounded like a buzz, like a distorted noise of a channel on a television bashing out faint voices he can barely hear.
Confused by this sudden disturbance, it surprised Zephel when Muri inched closer to him and trapped him in between her arms against the wall. "Muri..?" He called out in astonishment, pressing his head against the wall, having no where to look now except in her strange void-like eyes.
That moment was cut short when the girl glanced behind her. Zeph followed her gaze to see Eyami bringing in a young woman in his arms, who he can immediately guess is Petra by that short conversation he heard from Eyami and Muri. With being so close to Muri right now, Zeph can immediately sensed how discontent she is by what's happening and made room for her to sit beside him upon noticing that she's readying herself to sit down.
Somehow, this little antic of her made him smirk. It's astounding how she's able to make him feel rather threatened earlier, then surprise, and now she's amusing him. "Oh Muri.." he sighed with an airy chuckle, staring beside him to just look at her hair since she's facing away from him.
"I was told you're a remarkable smoke elementalist," he began gently with a smile, still amused by her, "It would help everyone if you could somehow clear the polluted air here. That way your sister will be fine, and Eyami will be less worried of her." Zephel continued a bit quieter with his next words, "And then of course, you're free to steal his attention. Eyami quite likes that."
He had noticed how Eyami would slightly smile when Muri's name was brought up and figured that she's the only one who can ease his worries. "What do you say?" Zephel used such a kind tone, it's hard to really imagine him even doing so.
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Post by Eyami on Jul 16, 2012 16:23:03 GMT -5
Eyami's concerned look remained as Petra explained how bad she felt due to the pollution in the air. His first thought was recalling the place Zephel worked in that had cleaner air inside. He considered asking for them to return there but preferred the seclusion of being with his siblings only, not around anyone else in public.
Eyami noticed Petra's eyes looking behind him towards Zephel. He wondered for a moment how she would handle the change of Zephel's growth, though that was answered by her bluntness shortly after. The corner of one side of his lips curved up ever so slightly as a short and quick breath of a chuckle escaped him, nothing audible. "I thought you might say something along those lines, Petra. I assure you, however, that is indeed our brother." He responded to her quietly.
A bit after Petra's declaration to Zephel, Eyami heard Zephel talking to Muri. He stood up and turned to face the other two, mindful not to block Petra's view of them either. Unaware himself of just how powerful Muri's elemental abilities could be, Eyami had not thought of asking her to clear the polluted air around them. So, when Zephel asked her that, his eyes opened a bit in surprise at that and began to wonder if she was able to do such a thing.
"Can you really do that, Muri?" He asked her, not wanting to expect such a strong power coming from her little body. He couldn't help but be curious if it were possible. "Are you able to clear the air around us?" If she were to look at him, there was a slight glint of hope in his eyes behind his relatively expressionless face.
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Post by Petra on Aug 3, 2012 13:22:15 GMT -5
Petra frowned at Eyami's response to her strange quirk. "Don't you 'heh' at me.." She tried to glare at her brother but the air got caught in her throat again that she began coughing. Letting it out as much as she could, Petra immediately drank the water again once her coughing had ceased.
Her eyes are watering at the excessive strain and pain in her throat, and she scooted herself near the wall to lean on due to her depleting energy. She took no mind of her siblings' conversation due to how her head is starting throb by the unrestrained coughs.
"Ah...." She sighed through her mouth, letting out a faint sound as she places her free hand over neck in an attempt to soothe the pain.
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Post by Muri on Aug 3, 2012 14:12:46 GMT -5
When Muri is pissed off, she tries to express her anger only in childish manners, despite the true darkness that lay underneath her outward expression; the seething underneath her skin. Although she tries to conceal herself from Zephel's possible telepathy, at these times, she may become a bit clumsy with it as her anger tends to be a bit too strong for her to hide it all so clearly.
When Zephel countered her accusation of Hikaru, she simply stared at him for a moment. She clenched her fists lightly and one of her eyebrows tweaked down when he explained that Hikaru felt like he had failed her. She looked down a bit and away as a wicked smirk grew on her face, thinking of Hikaru's pain and wanting him to feel more. Her smile fell as Zephel went on and her eyebrow tweaked slightly when he asked her to tell him about herself.
She looked back at Zephel for a moment before pulling that childish smile back on her face and changing her posture so she was standing in a cutesy manner in front of him. "I don't usually like sweet things and I especially hate chocolate, but I really like red velvet cake!" She said, failing to express that the reason she liked red velvet was because it reminded her of blood. "I also like stuffed animals." She said happily, rather portraying a cute and innocent character type instead of the more true one that was filled with malice.
After her little stare down with her thoughts on Zied being masked from Zephel and plopping herself down next to him when the others arrived, Muri let out a discontent "Hmph" when he chuckled at her. A light hint of pink crept onto her cheeks as he remarked on having been told that she was a remarkable smoke elementalist. Then, thinking on who must have told him, assuming it to be Hikaru, such colour disappeared and her pouty glare deepened.
She wanted to immediately decline Zephel's suggestion of clearing the air for Petra. Muri herself liked this smoggy air and didn't care at all that Petra was suffering. Her hesitation in declining, however, lay in Zephel's comments about Eyami. She had her arms crossed and her body tensed a bit more as her glare deepened, annoyed that he had already figured out her weakness even though she had unintentionally made it so obvious.
Holding onto her annoyed silence for a bit longer, even as Eyami was inquiring about Zephel's suggestion, Muri began to feel even more pressured by the idea. She grew more angry and a small clouding of smoke began to emanate from her body as her annoyance grew. "Fine!" She finally shouted and stood up, the smoke from before releasing from her body and seeming to disappear.
She stood in front of where she was sitting, facing towards her siblings with her pouty glare, glancing at Eyami then to Zephel. Her eyebrow twitched in annoyance slightly when she had looked at Zephel, then she looked back at Eyami again. After a moment, Muri inhaled sharply and closed her eyes.
She stood with one foot partly facing sideways and the other facing forward with her heels touching, similar to a ballet stance. She slowly moved her hands, parallel, in front of herself, palms down. Slowly, the appearance of any dirty air began to clear from the ground up as she raised her hands. When the smog was finally cleared up to a few feet about their heads and in the shape of a dome around them, Muri paused there a moment to sort of lock in place that shape in her mind.
When she was done, Muri released her hands and opened her eyes, shooting a pouty glare again at Eyami and Zephel then plopped herself beside Zephel with her arms crossed again with a "Hmph." The invisible dome of clean air held it's shape with ease due to Muri's strong abilities and mental concentration. It would only break now if she chose to break it or fell asleep or unconscious.
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Post by Zephel on Aug 19, 2012 5:56:04 GMT -5
It's actually quite surprising. Sure, Zephel had heard tales from Hikaru how absolutely terrifying their youngest sister is, but by the way she acts to his question of describing the things she likes.
"Ah.. That's good, I just mastered baking red velvet cakes." He nodded to himself, finding it rather adorable of her to take an interest of cakes and stuffed animals. "Tell me some things that you hate next time, hmn?" He darted his eyes towards her, seeming like he's beginning to suspect something, but really was just curious of that shocking malice and hatred he managed to caught from her thoughts.
After that whole spiel of Muri glaring down at him, sat down beside him, him suggesting an idea to her and Eyami further stressing on it, Muri surprises him again. He can see slight darkened smoke emitting from her body that he had unconsciously tilted his body sideways a bit. When Muri stood up, Zephel presses his back against the wall behind him in surprise, then blinked at his sister.
So there he sat, watching Muri readying in a stance of sort and slowly, his eyebrows arched up all the way. He can't particularly see all the poisonous air well enough, but due to his air element mastery, Zephel is able to feel the shift of the air as Muri does what she was asked to.
When the young girl opened her eyes and broke her stance, Zephel immediately blinked at her and simply followed her with his eyes as she took a seat beside him again. "..Wow. So Hikaru wasn't kidding around..." He managed to let out after a moment of silence, still staring at the form of a child pouting beside him.
"Muri, I can't even seperate the heavier air particles from the lighter ones. I'm highly impressed." He nodded at her almost unconsciously, then finally turned his head to face Petra, the eldest sister.
"As your brother, I'm asking you this out of pure concern; how are you feeling, Petra?" Only now deciding to respond to her request of earning her acknowledgement of him, Zephel easily uses his telekinesis to picked up the bottle cap that laid dormant on the floor there and twists it to close the water bottle in her hand.
By now, of course one of his pets had awaken. His white dog is still sleeping right near the wall beside his bean bag chair, but due to how stiff the dog is when sleeping, anyone could mistook him as a rug or something. Ryo, his blue fire-lizard, stretched open its small wings and screeched, as if its yawning.
At the sound, Zephel turned his head to Muri's general direction, but his eyes is set beyond her, to the space where the fan is located. "Ryo." He called, and by his voice alone, the miniature dragon craned its neck in Zephel's direction before taking off into the air and glided its way very near in front of Muri and perched itself on Zephel's lap.
The fire lizards screeched again, before closing its wings and settling itself comfortably on his lap.
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Post by Eyami on Aug 19, 2012 21:43:38 GMT -5
Eyami watched Petra with a concerned expression as she coughed, not certain in what way to help her. As she was soothing herself with water, he had turned towards Zephel and Muri during Zephel's asking Muri to clear the air. He was very uncertain of her ability to do such a thing. Although he himself didn't know that much about air because his element didn't really concern air, he was sure that such a task must not be an easy one.
Eyami watched with slightly widened eyes at the smoke emanating from Muri's body, unsure why this request was making her angry. He wondered if she was feeling bad because she was unable to do this requested task and was about to tell her that it was okay and suggest for them to go back into Zephel's cafe before Muri suddenly said she would do it.
Eyami stared at her in surprise at her sudden declaration and watched her closely from where he stood as she position herself and slowly made motions to clear the air. If not for the distinct difference in how the air smelled and tasted, Eyami would not have known for sure that she really did manage to accomplish this.
He stared at his little sister in total shock even as she sat herself back down beside Zephel, then slowly relaxed his face until a small smile formed on it and he turned back to look at Petra to see how she was reacting to the now clean air around them.
At hearing Zephel saying even he couldn't separate the air particles like that when air is one of his own elements, Eyami felt an even strong pang of being impressed by what Muri had just accomplished.
His concentration on Muri was broken at a sudden small screeching sound. His attention turned in the direction that Zephel was looking as he saw a strange, small creature, that then went over to Zephel's lap when he called it. He paused a moment as he stared at it. "Umm.. Aniki.. What is that?" He asked in a somewhat quiet voice but loud enough to be heard by his siblings.
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Post by Petra on Aug 26, 2012 16:22:51 GMT -5
As Petra stays there leaning on the wall, she suddenly found it harder to breath that she actually choked on air itself. Downing more water, she was completely distracted from her siblings discussing and interacting with each other. She can't even take in a breath now without feeling a great itch in her throat that she's coughing so badly, she's nearly bleeding.
Leaning her weak body against the wall beside her, she could already imagine that the side of her arm that's holding herself by the wall will probably bleed soon now that she's getting weaker and weaker. Her vision is blurring again, and Petra knows very well what this means. She's going to pass out.
Then suddenly, the air is breathable. Petra opened her eyes slowly, realizing that it really is much easier to breathe now. She's still weak but the breathable air now made Petra at least liable to keep her organs working. "Wh...what happened..?" She spoke up, her voice dry by the coughing earlier.
That's when Zephel, or the person she sensed as Zephel turned to look at her. At his gaze, Petra cleared her eyes a bit to look at this man clearly. "Uh... I'm...in pain." She answered bluntly, a slight hint of fluster is apparent in her voice in speaking to someone she looks so different than the brother she remembered as. Sensing the movement of an object below her, Petra darted her eyes down to see the bottle cap she had dropped floating back up on her bottle.
At the sight, she looked back at Zephel in mild astonishment, before a screech was heard. Without even seeing what that is, Petra could sense a living creature nearby. She decided that she's too tired to use her eyes, so Petra closes her eyes and just uses her senses to read their movements. It's too bothersome to see now due to her throbbing head, so she just rests quietly near the wall, though aware of what her siblings are up to.
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Post by Muri on Aug 27, 2012 19:59:03 GMT -5
When Zephel responded to her saying she loved red velvet cake, Muri grew happy and showed an excited smile. "Yay~! Then you can make them for me later!" She said happily, smiling at her brother. Her smile faltered then when he asked her to tell him something she hates next time. She managed to stop her smile from falling altogether and looked at Zephel with a slightly wicked glint hiding behind her eyes as she smiled. "Of course, Zephel-onii-san. The first on that list is Hikaru." She truly hated Hikaru and held so much anger towards the light essence for a past event that only Muri could possibly know of now. Her hatred towards Hikaru has always been known to the siblings, although most have only suspected it to be an immature sibling rivalry of sorts unlike the deep seeded hatred it truly is.
After clearing the air and sitting beside Zephel with her arms crossed and an angry pout, Muri's annoyance further grew as Zephel mentioned the name of the one she hated most. At Zephel's next comment, Muri scoffed then glanced back towards Zephel. "That's because you're still an amateur!" She said in an annoyed tone then faced away again.
Muri's concentration on the empty space in front of her was broken when she suddenly heard a strange screech sound. Her eyes opened wide and her arms uncrossed as she looked in the direction of the noise to try to see where the sound came from. Muri almost jumped slightly as she heard Zephel's voice behind her then saw something take flight and fly right past her. At that, she shifted back away from it a bit nearer the wall and watched the strange creature as it rest on Zephel's lap.
"Wh...What is that thing?!" Muri questioned a bit loudly, surprised by a creature she had never seen before. She shifted how she was sitting so that she could lower herself towards Zephel's lap to get a closer look at it. As she examined the strange creature on Zephel's lap, fully entranced by the strange creature, she slowly reached out to gently touch it.
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Post by Zephel on Aug 28, 2012 3:13:52 GMT -5
Zephel nodded weakly at Muri's excitement of him being able to bake her favorite cake, there really is no harm for him to do so. He had missed to see her mood dropped though once he brings it up for her to tell him what she hates, and he was surprised when her answer is apparently Hikaru. Turning his attention to his little sister, Zephel blinked at her. "Hikaru?" He's unsure if she's even joking or not, but settled that perhaps its sibling hatred or the sort.
...Still, after accidentally peeking in the darkness of her malice earlier, Zephel silently wonders how deep this hatred really is.
Once the air had been cleared and he had complimented Muri, Zephel burst out laughing at the girl's scoffing of him being an amateur. "Believe me, I very much am." He admitted with a chuckle to her. "I only have about 3 to 5 years of memory now, I can't remember whatever that I used to know before that, including skills. So excuse me that I'm worst in this than what you remember."
A smile is on his face as he explained so, taking all of this rather lightheartedly. Perhaps it was because Muri's outburst amused him. If he were to face Eyami now speaking that very same thing, he won't take this with a smile at all. He has only 5 years of elemental training, and that's not even a quarter of his age, thus Zephel can't really tell how much he lacks behind with his abilities now compared to his younger siblings.
Once Ryo had distracted everyone and curled itself up on his lap, Zeph wasn't surprised that his siblings would be interested in the fire lizard. "This is Ryo. A fire lizard and obtained from the Weyr near here." He explained calmly and watches as Muri tries to pet it. The blue fire lizard didn't move, simply letting out a sort of draconic purr at being touched.
"You can touch it, it won't bite." Zephel smiled, looking up at Eyami now and then to Petra resting. Then he turned to look at his white dog, that's still sleeping hidden in the shadows like that. "That's Zi-Fi. A friend gave her to me." Pointing at the sleeping white creature, Zeph introduces them. "There's one more... Orphion. He's....flying. He's too big to fit in here, but you will all meet him soon."
There's something calming about animals to Zeph. So introducing his familiars to his siblings is a very pleasing moment for him in a way. He paused for a while to just stare at Muri's hand petting the blue fire-lizard, thinking over everything that just happened, closed his eyes and sighed. "I have a lot to catch up."
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Post by Eyami on Aug 30, 2012 18:00:25 GMT -5
As he looked back to check on Petra, Eyami was glad to know that she was able to breath now. "Muri cleared the pollution out of the air around us to make it breathable." He explained to Petra, with a straight face despite still being surprised and impressed about what he was saying.
Eyami was surprised when Muri suddenly called Zephel an amateur when he was only complimenting her. He watched the two as Zephel responded to her. He felt something inside of him sink as Zephel spoke about his memory and he eventually had to take a seat again before his legs would give out. He carefully sat down next to Petra and stared down for a moment.
It was the screech that then broke Eyami's concentration on the thought and the ground as he looked at the strange creature. Eyami thought Muri's reactions to be cute but remained himself rather expressionless as he inquired. A fire lizard? He thought curiously, not having seen such a thing before.
When Zephel pointed out the fluffy white creature sleeping a bit away from them, Eyami stared at it for a while. He looked back at Zephel as he then spoke about another creature named Orphion. At the word flying, Eyami would have thought it to be a bird of some sort, but he knew not of any bird too large to fit in this little alley hangout.
Although change was not something that affected Eyami anywhere near the extent that it affected Petra, he still felt the sting of the time lost with his brother. He had acquired friends and animals that Eyami knew nothing about. This, the person who was Eyami's closest person before, had many things in his life that Eyami had yet to know about and get used to. The thought made him feel a solemn sort of sadness as he stared at the ground then up at the fire lizard again.
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Post by Petra on Sept 24, 2012 22:21:56 GMT -5
Petra opened her eyes halfway when Eyami explained what happened, then closed it back to minimize the movements of her body. It's one of her tactics to keep her body completely static in order to speed up the pathetic healing metabolism she possesses.
There are certainly moments when she wished Hikaru would be there to heal her when she gets too reckless.
After a moment, she could feel Eyami sat down next to her, perceptive in the energy he's emitting. In a quiet manner, Petra moved her hand to his thigh and patted him gently, pausing her hand there for a short moment before pulling it back.
Petra doesn't talk much unless spoken to, but possessing the ability to sense energies, especially from her family members, she does more or less alluded the fact that she understands them at some points.
The sudden screech did not startled Petra, considering she already knows the existence of those creatures within the perimeters. Her curiosity heightens hearing her siblings' comments and remarks regarding the creatures, but she assures herself that she will see it soon enough after she's perfectly well again and continued to stay static there on her seat.
After a moment, again, she felt the shift of mood of her brother beside her. Unconsciously letting out a sigh, she parted her lips slightly to whisper to him, "It seems we both needed to get used to this strange new Zephel."
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Post by Muri on Oct 20, 2012 0:37:24 GMT -5
When Zephel questioned that Hikaru was Muri's most hated thing, Muri simply smiled a bit more with her eyes closed for a moment. When she opened them again, her smile changed a bit so that there was an obvious wicked glint in them. "Hikaru has done something unforgiveable." She stated seriously, then subsequently thought to herself. The worst part is... That he still smiles as though his soul is completely free of guilt. ...That smile is the thing I most want to destroy.
Muri sat there now, beside Zephel, with her arms crossed. As he burst out laughing at her declaration of him being an amateur, she grew annoyed again. What fun was it to insult someone if they laughed and agreed?
Whereas I have over fifty thousand... Muri thought to herself a bit solemnly as she looked up to the sky away from her siblings in response to Zephel's following comment. Her memories began when the elementals first showed signs of life on this planet. Even from unevolved forms, Muri retained faint memories.
Muri let out another mocking scoff after his comment finished, grinning wickedly again. "The Zephel I remember could have advanced further than you have in only three to five years." She stated, even though she truly had no way of knowing what his current levels were anyway. Whether her statement was accurate or not didn't matter to her as long as her insult hit.
With the small fire lizard now catching Muri's curiousity, her dark mood seemed to shift somewhat. She stared curiously at the creature as she lightly ran her small fingers along the creature's head and back. "Ryo..." She uttered quietly as she inspected the creature closely still, a hint of pink fixing itself onto her cheeks as she thought of Ryo as being incredibly cute.
As Zephel began introducing another animal, Muri quickly popped her head up and glanced at Zephel's head to see where he was looking. She then immediately looked in the same direction to see a small white dog. Muri looked back at Zephel as he explained about another one named Orphion that flew and was too large to fit in the small alley. Her expression showed a bit of confusion at that. "What kind of creature is Orphion?" She asked him, genuinely curious about what manner of beast that could fly would be too small to fit in this area.
As Zephel closed his eyes while stating he had a lot to catch up on, Muri smiled a bit. The only sibling that she certainly hated was Hikaru. She greatly detested Petra, but for other reasons specific to her. Eyami was always her favourite since the beginning. Eyuki was someone she could get along with only when the ice wielder was not close to Hikaru in any particular lifetime, apart from before the incident.
Zephel was someone she tended to avoid in every life time due to her fear of being found out. The only times she had really gotten close to him before perfecting her ability to cloud her thoughts was when she had decided to let him know about her memory recall ability. Still, Muri's opinion of Zephel was more neutral than anything. As such, it was quite easy for her to pretend like he was a beloved brother.
As he sat there with his eyes closed, Muri quickly then snatched onto his arm, hugging it close and leaning her head against his shoulder. She partly wanted to make Eyami jealous with these kinds of actions and also to make Zephel believe that she did care as much as she pretended to about him. Perhaps to make him feel even more guilty or perhaps to convince him to open up to her faster about what's been going on with him and Zied.
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Post by Zephel on Oct 24, 2012 12:45:18 GMT -5
Zephel almost wished that he wasn't looking at Muri so intently when he questioned her about Hikaru, because he could now see with his own eyes how her face changed the moment she spoke of her reason of hating Hikaru.
'...Okay, what the hell was that?' He had to question himself. There was a glint of something resembling vileness just then on Muri's cute face, and as much as he wants to believe how utterly unbefitting it is...it actually looks almost natural on her face, almost as if it belongs there.
'Wait. Stop. No. Don't be ridiculous..' Pulling back his thoughts into a more lighter view, he assured himself that it was just the trick of his eyes. Still, he found himself unable to reply of her reason for hating Hikaru, but he will find out more about this soon enough.
When Muri commented of how the Zephel she knows could have advanced further, his expression fell. "Is that so..?" He forced himself to speak up with an airy chuckle. "Too bad I can't remember the Zephel you remembered.." He said with a painful exhale, but then lifted up his chin when he continued, "But I will try my best to become a better brother than the Zephel you remembered."
Zeph is relieved, for once, that his siblings seemed to be so interested with his familiars. Muri especially, with how astounded she seemed with Ryo. A faint smile tugged his lips, that at least they would get along with his pets, and he's almost certain his familiars would help out here and there with his siblings.
Muri's sudden hug of his arm stirred him up from his trance, so Zeph turned to look at her with a mildly surprised face. He wondered for a moment if she's always this friendly with him, then finding the contradiction there when remembering Eyami said that she doesn't go well with anyone other than Eyuki.
So he chose to do what any sensible person would; ask. "Have you always done this to me before?" His eyes are curious as he stares at the top of her head, leaning against his shoulder. "I need to get used to this if you're going to keep this up." He ended that with a small smile to her.
At Muri's question of what Orphion is, Zephel's faint smile grew in pride. "Do you want to see him?" He asked, almost chuckling. "He can't land here, but he can fly overhead. Look upwards, I'll call him to fly over, just enough for you to see what he is." After he said so, Zeph leans his head against the wall, glancing up at the skies as he contacted Orphion.
A few seconds after that, a large metallic blue dragon flew above Evnae. Zephel could hear some children outside the alleyways calling their friends out to look up at the sight of the dragon in the skies, mainly because it was rare for any dragons to fly over Evnae, with how the polluted air it emits drives off the dragons.
Orphion flies far enough that everyone in the country could see him passing by, even through the small space of the alleyway Zephel and his siblings are. He even did a spiral turn in his flight before speeding off, disappearing in the dark clouds generated by the poisonous air.
"Orphion, get out of the clouds, it's acidic." Zephel said, his voice leveled. He intended to send that as a thought to Orphion, but had unconsciously spoke that out instead, since he's so used to ordering Orphion during his flight trainings with his voice. Realizing this, he sent the same message to Orphion with his thoughts.
Soon after, Orphion reappeared from the clouds and flew off further, now avoiding all the dark clouds in his flight path until he vanished from sight. "That..." Zeph looked back down to his siblings with a smile, "...is Orphion."
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Post by Eyami on Nov 7, 2012 11:45:19 GMT -5
As he stared at the fire lizard on Zephel's lap, he heard Petra's voice whispering beside him. He closed his eyes as he let out a sigh as well. "It seems so." He quietly responded to her.
Eyami opened his eyes again as he heard Muri asking Zephel what kind of creation Orphion was. He watched the two as Zephel responded to her, telling her to watch the skies. Eyami also took that opportunity to look up towards the sky in time to see a large creature. He could hear the word "dragon" being spoken by kids a bit away from them. His eyes widened at the sight of Orphion, feeling rather astounded by such a creature.
After Orphion had flown off, and Eyami calmed himself from the surprise, he looked back towards Zephel again. In his mind, he couldn't help but think about that as amazing. His voice, however, felt like it was being choked up inside him a bit and he couldn't get himself to speak that to him. Eyami simply sat there with his eyes sharply on Zephel, and his posture and expressions completely straight.
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