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Postby Josie_Arrikanez » 02/19/2008 12:24 PM

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The sea was a beautiful thing, the crystal blue waters that served as a physical manifestation for power's definition. Irises reflecting the magnificent hues observed pensively, the jetstone pupils narrowed as sunlight bounced off of the glistening surface of the foam capped waves. One might call the scene romantic. A lone female staring out at the ocean, perhaps awaiting the return of a long lost love who had set out. Perhaps a fair maiden, dreaming of the fairytale mers that might dwell beneath the sea...but Bonnie was no maiden.
The lucain girl was anything but feminine. He long citrus locks had been pulled back in thick twin braids that suspended themselves from beneath an amethyst hued bandana. To her torso clung a similarly tinted bodice, strapped tight by leather chords that wound about her until ending at the waist. Upon the fabric surface, a lucain skull and crossbones could be seen, the insignia mirrored through the spray flecked attire. The purpose of the outfit seemed to be to conceal her the majority of her lucain likenesses, but her tails could not be contained and traced the splintered dock lazily, reflecting the mood she appeared to be in.
Thrilling as the sea was – there was little yet to do with it. There was little much to do with anything yet, so the girl lowered herself down to sit upon the dock's edge, waiting for fate to throw down a favor - that she might be found some opportunity in this place.

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Postby SpringsSong » 02/19/2008 12:40 PM

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The young male was on his usual patrol of the docks, checking each ship scrutinously and making sure their weren't any less than savory characters about.  That didn't necessarily mean pirates; some pirates were good, like his friend, Aquina; but there were those that were just there to pillage and make waste to villages.  On this particular day, he didn't take his normal route of the major docks, but rather, he strayed to the less used docks--even the empty ones.

To find an empty dock in Jawan was a surprise to him, at least.  Normally, each dock was filled with fisherman and merchants that had come to trade their goods.  So, when he saw the empty dock that Bonnie was setlled on, he took a nimble step towards her, his tails waving slowly behind him and the swords at his belt gleaming in the sunlight.

"Excuse me, miss." He asked.  "Are you waitin' for a ship to come in?" He noticed the skull and crossbones, but he was used to that.  All pirates sailed under some form of that insignia, right?

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Thinking I can see through this to see what's behind
Got no way to prove it, so maybe I'm lying
Take a look in the mirror, what do you see
Can you see it clearer, or are you deceived in what you believe?
Don't ask my opinion, don't ask me to lie
Then beg for forgiveness for making you cry
'cause I'm no prophet or Messiah
You should go looking somewhere higher

I'm only human, I make mistakes
I'm only human, I do what I can
I'm only human, that's all it takes to put the blame on me

Don't put the blame on me

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Postby SirMax » 02/19/2008 2:26 PM

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Shoot. The one empty dock in the whole stupid city and that was the one she ended up in. The girl hiding in a pile of net scowled darkly at the girl on the pier, hating her immediately. Hating her for looking like the hero in the story, hating her for being happy, hating her for having hope in those sea-coloured eyes, and a bounce in that yellow hair.

The girl in the nets didn't have any of that. All she had was a tattered dress, white hair streaked with red- at HER age, she was still young and with white hair!- stupid, ugly, mismatched eyes, and a bump on her head from where she'd crashed into the dock when that sailor had found her and tossed her bodily from his ship.

She looked like the villain of the story, complete with scar bisecting her eye- not on the actual eye, thankfully, but above and below and even on the lid. Even her tails were scarred, as well as matching her hair- an "x" on both of them, after being kicked off a particularly mean pirate's ship. At least her other scar had some amount of meaning- she'd gotten in battle, like a good scar, not tied to a mast and beaten senseless like a helpless kit. Just thinking about it made her blood boil and reminded her of why she was stowing away on ships- she'd find that stupid pirate and gut him.

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Postby Josie_Arrikanez » 02/19/2008 3:01 PM

Bonnie didn't rise to meet the voice. Rather, she leaned back completely on the deck to observe the man, now upside down just as the rest of the world. The fixated optics quickly evaluatted him before she blew a small puff of air in his general direction and smiled. "Yarr!! Of course I'm waiting for a ship. Do ye think I'm just going to walk the ocean?" If that was possible. She'd heard some one had walked on water once, but she wasn't exactly foolish enough to go about trying it herself. Although, fate be it, she didn't really have much else of a choice at the moment - unless he knew something.

The smile developped into a grin as she offered her hand in the air. "Oy! My name's Bonnie and I'm looking for a ship. Where? On the bloody water of course! You don't look for a duck in a desert. You don't look for a ship on land - that's a fact."
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Postby SpringsSong » 02/19/2008 3:15 PM

Marcello chuckled lightly.  "Well, of course one such as yourself would want to find a ship.  You've got the sea in your blood, I can tell." He said, taking her hand when she offered it to him.  "My name's Marcello." He said, smiling.  His hair was longer than most guy's hair, coming down to his shoulders, and it was a curious shade of purple.  It was tied back in a low-set ponytail, and he wore an outfit that most would see as a seafaring outfit.  "Truth be told... I've been wantin' to get out of Jawan for a while now.  Only reason I signed up for dock patrol was so I could... so I could, well, get on one of them one day and get the bloody heck away from here." He said.

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Maybe I'm foolish, maybe I'm blind
Thinking I can see through this to see what's behind
Got no way to prove it, so maybe I'm lying
Take a look in the mirror, what do you see
Can you see it clearer, or are you deceived in what you believe?
Don't ask my opinion, don't ask me to lie
Then beg for forgiveness for making you cry
'cause I'm no prophet or Messiah
You should go looking somewhere higher

I'm only human, I make mistakes
I'm only human, I do what I can
I'm only human, that's all it takes to put the blame on me

Don't put the blame on me

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Postby SirMax » 02/19/2008 3:29 PM

Oh, great, so the hero and the guard wanted to get a ship too. They'd probably end up on the same ship and fall in love. Bleh. They'd probably spit out a bunch of sickly sweet lines, too, while she'd get smacked around by a burly, hairy throwback who'd push her off the edge of a cliff as soon as look at her.

And what was with the stupid pirate talk? She'd met real pirates, and they at least had the good sense to pretend to be a normal sailor when the authorities show up. Or just stab them and throw them into the water. Or pin it all on her and throw her into the arms of the waiting navy so THEY could beat her for a change and lock her in a cell for a few days until it became obvious she'd done nothing wrong, at which point they'd almost apologize and throw her out into the streets to rot. Oh, the compassion of the "protectors of the sea"! Ha. As if.

She was surprised that she still her virginity intact after her ceaseless litany of miserable events that had befallen her since being kicked off that pirate ship. Of course, if she hadn't been throw into the sea after her tails had been scarred, she probably wouldn't be able to say that, being as her dress was thrown in after her. Stupid pirate and his cursed penchant for embarrassment with his punishments.

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Postby Josie_Arrikanez » 02/19/2008 3:54 PM

"Well, Marcello, we're not going to get a ship sitting around like tortoises in the sun. We'd better get to it!" We as in he. Bonnie used his hand as leverage to pull herself up off of the deck. Not bothering to brush herself down or detail her outfit, she tightened her grip upon his hand and began off towards the grisslier regions of the dock.

The dangers there would be greater than the pristine areas ruled by high-end merchant ships and the like, but the chances for highjacking a ship were slightly higher. After all, they didn't have bodyguards upon the smaller vessels - so perhaps they would chance upon the unsuspecting watchmen and thus liberate the ship. The prospect was exciting and sped her pace, tugging her hapless companion along as she began verbal plotting for what may occurr. "Let's see...we'll need weapons, do you have a weapon? I don't - we'll need to get one, sakes knows I'll be better off for it...Do you think they'll be heavily armed? If so, we may need even more things. What sort of things do you propose we get?"
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Postby SpringsSong » 02/19/2008 4:06 PM

Marcello chuckled as his hand was squeezed and dragged along down to the grissler part of the dock; a part of the docks that he generally tried to avoid if there weren't more than two ships there.  "I have a few extra swords back over by the watchman's office.  I generally have no less than three swords bare minimum.  Generally only the captains are heavily armed, and they're usually drunk down at the bar for the whole day, but one can never be too sure.  We'd be wise to get both swords and pistols, seeing as some of the pirates in these waters have yet to steer from the common sword fighting ways." He said, his hand moving to the hilt of the sword on his belt.  His other hand would have found his pistol; that is, if it weren't in Bonnie's other one.

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Maybe I'm foolish, maybe I'm blind
Thinking I can see through this to see what's behind
Got no way to prove it, so maybe I'm lying
Take a look in the mirror, what do you see
Can you see it clearer, or are you deceived in what you believe?
Don't ask my opinion, don't ask me to lie
Then beg for forgiveness for making you cry
'cause I'm no prophet or Messiah
You should go looking somewhere higher

I'm only human, I make mistakes
I'm only human, I do what I can
I'm only human, that's all it takes to put the blame on me

Don't put the blame on me

"Human", Rag'n'Bone Man

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Postby SirMax » 02/19/2008 5:11 PM

"Idiots." muttered the girl, before squeaking and quickly covering her mouth, mentally swearing quite violently. If they'd heard her, there was a pretty good chance she'd be in a whole lot of trouble. And not just the kind of trouble that got you cuffed around the ears and throw out of the docks, the kind that got you beaten and thrown in jail, or even run through and tossed into the sea, if they were really planning to steal someone's ship.

Anathema scowled and reached for her battered sword, one of the reason she'd lived this long, since her sword was special. It wasn't a normal sea cutlass- it was a strange cross between cutlass and rapier, giving her increased speed in sword fights. Tensing up, she was ready to burst out of the nets as soon as they came over.

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Postby Josie_Arrikanez » 02/19/2008 8:34 PM

Bonnie paused, turning back from whence they came. Idiots? She could have sworn she heard it emanating from somewhere in the nearby vaccinity. Arching a quizical brow, she scanned the area whilst seeing what could be gained from whatever it was - be it person or imagination. "Hello? Some one there?" In truth, the girl half hoped she'd been hearing things. Some one referring to them as idiots was bound not to be in high spirits, and should they be a stray crew member of the upcomming ships, their plan could be in jeapordy.
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Postby SpringsSong » 02/20/2008 6:28 PM

Marcello's head also turned, a hand flying to his sword hilt and preparing to draw the sword.  No one was going to stop them in their attempt to get away from this accursed city and get onto the open seas where they could be free and pirates and... stuff.  "Who's there?" He demanded.

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Thinking I can see through this to see what's behind
Got no way to prove it, so maybe I'm lying
Take a look in the mirror, what do you see
Can you see it clearer, or are you deceived in what you believe?
Don't ask my opinion, don't ask me to lie
Then beg for forgiveness for making you cry
'cause I'm no prophet or Messiah
You should go looking somewhere higher

I'm only human, I make mistakes
I'm only human, I do what I can
I'm only human, that's all it takes to put the blame on me

Don't put the blame on me

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Postby SirMax » 02/20/2008 6:43 PM

Oh shoot. The heroine hadn't been sure if there was someone there, but the guard sure as heck was. And he was already pulling out a sword. Well, fine. She could take a clueless heroine and her loyal retainer any day. It was time for them to learn that in real life, the villains tended to win a bit more often than the heroes.

Throwing the nets off, she drew her sword and leapt before either of them reacted, her sword flashing out and flicking sharply, sending the sword flying out of Marcello's hand, the point burying itself in the docks as her blade came up to Marcello's neck, the point inches from his jugular. "Oh, just little old me." she said sweetly, watching Bonnie out of the corner of her eye to see if she'd draw a sword.

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Postby Josie_Arrikanez » 02/21/2008 2:47 PM

Bonnie blinked, taken aback. Had the girl been watching them the entire time? It seemed so, although whether or not she was a threat was questionable. Her attire did not speak of affiliation with any group of pirates, nor of any officials. Rather, it spoke of hard times and little to smile for, explaining her disposition. In a way she was relieved, in a way she was sympathetic. Yet - could she sustain such sympathy when the girl was threatening the life of Marcell?

Bonnie held up her hands unarmingly. "Oy, whatsit with you, gettin so worked up as ya are? We haven't done anything to you, so shove off with that sword buisness."
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Postby SpringsSong » 02/21/2008 3:11 PM

Marcello looked from Bonnie to Ana and back to Bonnie.  When Bonnie put her hands up, he slowly slid his hand free from hers and reached for his pistol.  He did not move to draw the pistol just yet, just making sure that his hand was going to be within reach of the pistol should Ana decide to try and cut into his jugular.  Other than that, Marcello stood perfectly still and looked calmly at Ana.  "I don't think there's a need for you to have a sword right at my throat, young miss.  I was merely escorting my friend here through the docks." He said, trying to appear innocent.

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Maybe I'm foolish, maybe I'm blind
Thinking I can see through this to see what's behind
Got no way to prove it, so maybe I'm lying
Take a look in the mirror, what do you see
Can you see it clearer, or are you deceived in what you believe?
Don't ask my opinion, don't ask me to lie
Then beg for forgiveness for making you cry
'cause I'm no prophet or Messiah
You should go looking somewhere higher

I'm only human, I make mistakes
I'm only human, I do what I can
I'm only human, that's all it takes to put the blame on me

Don't put the blame on me

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Postby SirMax » 02/21/2008 3:41 PM

Anathema snorted. The old innocent routine. Like she'd never seen that before. Who did this guard think she was? After remembering what she was wearing, she realized that the most likely he thought she was some desperate orphan girl who'd stolen a sword. "Well listen up. This isn't some stolen sword-" Despite the fact that it was hardly shining with newness. "-and I'm not some random girl." she puntuated that with a poignant nod to his sword.

"Now I don't think you were just escorting her. I think this is somethin' a bit more nefarious than all that. And in my experience, when people get up to nefarious things, they don't like to have witness hanging around. And I'm not one to let myself be found in tomorrow's fishnets, if you know what I mean."

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