http://watersprout.insanejournal.com/ ([identity profile] watersprout.insanejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] shiningworld2011-12-11 08:13 pm
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First Transmutation

[As the small boy wakes up, dressed in his green jumper and hat, he shivers slightly and notices all the snow around. Standing up, he tugs on one of his ear flaps and slowly looks around the island. Clearly, he was lost. Was he alone?]

How did I get here? Or rather, where is here...?

[He'll be walking around with no real destination in mind.]
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[identity profile] watersprout.insanejournal.com 2011-12-12 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
[He nervously tugs on his sleeve.]

Um...someone brought us here?

[identity profile] upsideyourhead.insanejournal.com 2011-12-12 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
I don't really know much about it. There was just this note in the big house.

[Gestures to the mansion that looms over the island.]

[identity profile] watersprout.insanejournal.com 2011-12-12 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
[He follows the gesture and spots the large mansion. How did he miss that?]

A note? Someone must live on this island then...but, why would they bring people here?

[identity profile] upsideyourhead.insanejournal.com 2011-12-12 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
No idea, kid. No sign of her, whoever she is. But she's around, and she's gotta have some kind of plan.

[identity profile] watersprout.insanejournal.com 2011-12-12 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
Did you come from another place too, miss?

[identity profile] upsideyourhead.insanejournal.com 2011-12-12 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
...Yeah. Some place real far away. But don't you worry about that. It's not some place you need to think about, okay?

[She doesn't want to explain to this kid that she's from the place where dead people go. That's just morbid.]

[identity profile] upsideyourhead.insanejournal.com 2011-12-12 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
....Calm down kid, it's fine. I'm not gonna hurt you.

[She grins a bit and pats the sword and badge tied to what's left of her other arm.]

My job's to protect people! I fight monsters! You don't need to be scared of me!

[identity profile] watersprout.insanejournal.com 2011-12-12 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
You fight monsters? But, isn't that dangerous? You could get hurt.

[identity profile] upsideyourhead.insanejournal.com 2011-12-12 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
[She puases a bit at that. She did get hurt. To the point where she could have sworn she'd been dead just before showing up here. But she shakes her head and puts that grin back on her face. She's a Shiba and she can't let a little thing like dying keep her down!]

Someone's got to. If we don't, then the monsters will hurt people and no one will stop them. If we worry about ourselves, then no one will protect anyone else.

I'm pretty strong though, and I've got plenty of tricks up my sleeve. So I can handle whatever comes at me.

[She means that literally, and to prove it, she lifts up the sleeve that the sword and badge are tied to. Instead of another arm, there is a string of bombs tied up there.]

[identity profile] watersprout.insanejournal.com 2011-12-12 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
You're really brave. But having to fight so much must be hard.

[He sees them and his eyes widen in surprise.] Do you always carry those kinds of things around?

[identity profile] upsideyourhead.insanejournal.com 2011-12-12 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
It's hard, but it's worth it to be able to protect people.

[She laughs a bit and pulls the sleeve back down.]

Of course. I don't feel right without them. They're sort of the family business.

[identity profile] watersprout.insanejournal.com 2011-12-12 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
[He was silent for a moment, like he was lost in thought. But, he shook it off and looked at her.]

Family business?

[identity profile] upsideyourhead.insanejournal.com 2011-12-12 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
We make fireworks.

Of course, I've got this other job fighting monsters, but it was still something I learned to do as a kid and I'd make some whenever I got a chance.

[identity profile] upsideyourhead.insanejournal.com 2011-12-12 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
Making fireworks? Kid, there was nothing in the world that made me happier.

Of course then my older brother decided I needed to do something "productive" and shipped me off for this dumb job. But it was worth it. My friends were there, and I was able to set him up with his wife, and I met a lot of great people.

It was a pretty good life.

[identity profile] watersprout.insanejournal.com 2011-12-12 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
[Smiles] It sounds that way. I wish my brother were more like that, but I'm just glad to still have him around.

[identity profile] upsideyourhead.insanejournal.com 2011-12-12 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Big brothers are complicated, kid. I'm sure whatever he did, even if it was stupid, he had good intentions.

[identity profile] watersprout.insanejournal.com 2011-12-13 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
He did. [He fiddles with his fingers a little.] We wanted to help people just like you, but we should have gone about it differently.

[identity profile] upsideyourhead.insanejournal.com 2011-12-13 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
We all make mistakes. Hell, I made a pretty bad one before I ended up here. A really really bad one, actually.

But so long as he was trying to do the right thing, that's all that matters.

[identity profile] watersprout.insanejournal.com 2011-12-13 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
Um...what happened? [Not that she really had to answer, though.]


...[If she knew about the people that suffered because he was too scared to stop his brother, she might have thought differently.]

[identity profile] upsideyourhead.insanejournal.com 2011-12-13 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
I ran into a fight without thinking or planning. I let my emotions get in the way of what had to be done, and I paid for it and left my mess to be cleaned up by someone who wasn't prepared to handle it.

[identity profile] upsideyourhead.insanejournal.com 2011-12-13 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
[She forces a smile and scratches the back of her head.]

But, if I'm really lucky, Ru will have learned from my mistakes.

She did what I couldn't, and I'm proud of her for that.If nothing else, I went out knowing I trained her right.

[identity profile] watersprout.insanejournal.com 2011-12-13 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
[He looks up, with a hopeful glance]

So, she might be okay?
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