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dreamsofnoah) wrote2008-09-17 08:50 pm
dreamsofnoah) wrote2008-09-17 08:50 pm
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Father~! Are we playing a game of hide and seek? You promised you’d take me to school today! I don’t want the teachers to think I’m skiving off unless I’m doing it on purpose.
Where is everyone? This isn’t any fun!
It’s the first time my door didn’t take me exactly where I wanted to go…Tyki had better come find me really soon or I’ll be so mad at him!
Hee~, I hope he brings Lero ♥ But that stupid umbrella never likes leaving the Duke…
Will someone come and help a lost little girl? ♥
((ooc: sitting by the fountain, kicking out her feet, should anyone (yesAllenthismeansyou) want action, otherwise over the Network))
Where is everyone? This isn’t any fun!
Hee~, I hope he brings Lero ♥ But that stupid umbrella never likes leaving the Duke…
Will someone come and help a lost little girl? ♥
((ooc: sitting by the fountain, kicking out her feet, should anyone (yesAllenthismeansyou) want action, otherwise over the Network))
Action~
You might even be able to play with them for more than one game. The dead don't seem to stay dead here for long.
[He takes the hit without changing expression but, at her words, his look grows faintly puzzled. He touches his hair.]
I haven't cut it yet.
Action~
[Scowling now, she'd told him to keep his hair the way that it was! And then she stops, her own look becoming puzzled at his lack of reaction.]
Isn't it hurting you anymore?
[She uses her fingertip to prod experimentally at where his wound used to be.]
Action~
[Personally, Tyki doesn't see the point in fighting a Exorcist weak enough to lose more than once, but Road has different tastes. He lets her poke away. It's an upgrade from the punching, though he does look somewhat bemused.]
The stomach doesn't tend to hurt unless it's removed, Road.
Action~
[She almost looks concerned now - not that that stops her from poking even harder, just to make sure - it's not like Tyki to pretend something never even happened.
Especially something like that.]
Don't you remember, Tyki?
Action~
Remember what?
Action~
[He really didn't remember, did he? Road can't understand how he could forget that - Allen had exorcised his Noah, after all. But maybe it's for the best. He's family, and more importantly, he's Tyki, and he's not supposed to be able to get hurt.
She stops in mid sentence and throws her arms around his neck, quite happy to dangle there until he gets the hint to pick her up - no, of course this isn't a distraction technique.]
Take me home, Tyki! We do have a home here, right?
Action~
What do you remember?
[Just to annoy her, he walks a few steps with his arms slack at his sides, dangling a little girl from his neck like a cravat. At last, Tyki relents and adjusts his grip around her.]
What's Cyril been feeding you? At this rate, you'll be as heavy as the Earl soon.
Action~
Not again... He's most likely in here again.
Action~
It was. Standing motionless, staring at them, looking exactly as she remembered him.]
AL~LEN~!
[And she's out of Tyki's arms and onto Allen in the blink of an eye, knocking him to the ground as she squeezes her arms around him.
You see, Allen, she missed you. The look on your face when you see her. The way she can feel you tensing to push her off. Everything.
And if you hurt Tyki again she'll rip your friends' bones out and use them to stab you in the eye this time.
She giggles, the folds of her pretty dress creasing as she presses him tighter.]
Action~
...get off of me.
Action~
[For a second, Tyki's expression is nothing but utter shock.
If it wasn't for Road, it would be easy to adjust to seeing the Exorcist. After all, the City pulls people in from all points. Perhaps the boy arrived here before his death. Road's past words, however, mingles with all the little physical clues, and Tyki knows. Time has passed. This is no longer the boy he'd left for dead.
Somehow, he survived.
Further action is in order, then. Perhaps he ought to let the Tease eat the whole heart next time. Tyki sighs, schooling his expression back into faint amusement, and runs a hand through his hair. Then he stands back to let Road
molestaway. There will be time enough for murder later, and he's rather enjoying the day.]How unexpected.
Action~
I'm so glad you're here too, Allen!
[A bright smile and innocent eyes, less than a couple of feet away from him. Waiting to see what Allen will do.]
Action~
When? When did you two arrive here?
Action~
[Result in a fight? As far as Tyki's concerned, the battle's inevitable. If the boy lived, he must have been stronger than he looked, and Tyki wants to see it manifest. Probably there's no way to kill him permanently while in the City, but that's no reason not to gauge his strength.
He saunters forward, still amiably smiling, and doesn't answer the question. The less Allen Walker knows, the easier it is to keep him off-balance. As for this, it's a casual exchange on an open City street - it might look almost normal.]
Long enough. There are a number of Exorcists here, aren't there?
Action~
Nothing out of the ordinary here, just a young girl out for a stroll with her doting older brother, stopped to talk to an acquaintance. The most normal and natural thing in the world.
As if.]
Of course he's surprised, Tyki. Allen never expects to see us. Sometimes I think he doesn't like us very much.
[The last sentence is said with a lilt to it that clearly shows Road knows exactly how Allen feels about them, and cares not at all, besides finding it amusing.]
Are you going to stay and play this time, Allen?
[Her smile is more pointed, hinting at other meanings and another face.]
There are so many people around us who could join in.
Action~
No more surprised than either of you, I suppose.
If you're going to threaten citizens here then hurry up and say it; it'll give me a more than valid excuse to take the measures required to protect them.
Action~
Looking for excuses, now? How low the mighty have fallen.
[The tension's sharpening, running in the air like a current, and Tyki tilts his head back to drink it in. He loosens his grip just enough on Road for it to be a signal: one threatens the passersby, the other fights. Of course, he knows that Allen's special to her, but she can have his next death.
Tyki only wants to see the difference. It doesn't matter whether all or any citizens are killed in the making of his battlefield.]
You should consider your options, boy. How many of them can you truly save? A few? A handful? [That hooked smile again.] None at all?
Action~
Their surroundings rapidly grow darker, the bright light of the sun reduced to flickering flames burning at the tops of floating candles ending in a wicked point.
The buildings are still there, but they're a ghastly mockery of how they looked before - lopsided, broken down, ruined.
The liquid in the fountain has turned a dark red, overflowing down the sides to spread into sticky drying puddles.
And from inside the buildings, shrill screams - but whether there's really anyone there or not, Road's leaving up to Allen to find out.]
This is what you wanted, wasn't it, Allen?
[The line of crosses across her forehead can be seen, stark against her now dark skin.
She knows Tyki wants another shot at the white-haired Exorcist...maybe Road should have given him more warning of what Allen could do now, but she doesn't really believe there's anything Tyki can't survive.
She can't wait to see what Allen will do this time.]
Action~
...what I wanted? Hmph.
Action~
He opens his hands. Tease burgeon from his outstretched palms. A few of them writhe into wings and teeth and take flight, hovering around the makeshift battlefield. Others flare over his arm into a pointed, glowing shield, which he brings up in a narrow parry against the Exorcist's slash. And Tyki feels the difference between this battle and the last thrill through the air. Not only is the boy's Innocence uncrumbled, it's actually grown stronger.
His eyes widen briefly, surprise in a heartbeat. Then his smile sharpens into a wicked grin.]
Evolved, haven't you, boy?
[This might be interesting after all.]
Action~
There's no need for words now - at the end, this is what everything comes down to.]
Action~
You don't remember I see. That's fine by me. I can show you.
Action~
The void bites at him, all teeth and temptation; he wants to know. Now, however, with Allen clearly alive and all too confident before him, Tyki thinks that he can make an educated guess. The Ark, the boy, the way Road had poked at him as if searching for a wound. (That thought is strange; he's been damaged before, but no Exorcist has ever come close to giving him any marks to last.) He'll need the details from Road to make a proper pretense of it later. Until then, surely he can manage enough of a deception to fool a fifteen-year-old. And if it puts him off, so much the better.]
I believe you're the one who doesn't remember, boy.
[Allen's arm goes back and the very texture of the air seems to warp, as if in readiness for what's coming. Instantly, Tease descend in a swarm towards the Exorcist's eyes. Somewhere behind the mirage of wings, Tyki darts towards this opening Allen's given him. Forward, forward, always forward. He's playing in circumstances he doesn't quite grasp, and he doesn't plan to lose his chance to understand them.
Which is why this death will be simple: thrust the hand through, grasp the heart and tear it out. End the matter. He knows from experience, after all, that the boy doesn't play well.
And how much the better to array the death scene and leave him in it to revive.]
Action~
Good luck!
[She's still watching the fight as if it was the most entertaining spectacle in the world - and to her, it is. It's hard to tell who her shout was meant for, and quite possibly in her own twisted way she means it for both of them.
She wonders which of them will draw blood first.]
Action~
You've got to be kidding. You think I'd forget that? You need some new tricks, Tyki.
Action~
Action~