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Post by Alex of Santo-Luce on Aug 14, 2009 20:55:38 GMT -5
((Alexes/Miri))
Alex woke, slowly, light hining in his eyes. The sun warmed his face, and water, ocean water, was all around him, like he'd washed up here on this beach. The sand warmed him, and, for a moment, he experienced deja vu, the panicked feeling of remembering nothing. Then, he remembered... everything, and sat up with a start. His wings fanned out, flapping to rid themselves of the excess moisture and salt. Luckily, the beach seemed abandoned. He looked around for King Alexander, his thoughts drifting to the past and future.
Who was that strange girl, who seemed to know so much about him? Her wings... was she just like him? How did she know him? Why was she so angry and bitter towards him? Had he truly done something to her in the past?
He shook his head, trying to rid himself of all the questions, but nothing came. He started to reflect on the first things he remembered - the running, and the darkness he'd been running from. He'd long since given up trying to search the reoccurring nightmare for clues to his true past, but now it just kept bothering him.
What am I? he wondered to himself as he walked the beach, searching for Alexander.
"WHAT AM I?!"
His shout echoed in the empty silence...
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Post by alexanderthegreat on Aug 14, 2009 21:29:29 GMT -5
"Loud, that's what you are!!"
The screaming reply came up from a tree, a rather odd-looking one at that. It had large, fan-like leaves and these hard, fuzzy, brown things growing out of it. The young king looked over them curiously.
"You kind of scared me there, D. I didn't know where you were, so I crawled up here. My head hurts," he held up one of the brown balls, "one of these things fell on me while I tried to climb up. Ya know where we are? I thought we were back in Santo-Luce but dude, I don't remember Santo-Luce looking quite like this..."
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Post by Alex of Santo-Luce on Aug 14, 2009 21:56:53 GMT -5
Alex looked up.
"Milord, please get down before you fall!" he shouted up, slightly embarrassed that his shout had been heard. "If you die, your advisors will wring my neck!"
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Post by alexanderthegreat on Aug 15, 2009 12:40:51 GMT -5
Alexander shook his head. "Pssh, you'd only need to worry about Holmes, and he's only a short old man who'd probably die of a heart attack if you told him I died. I'm just fine, D, see? There's nothing for you to--yu-oh!"
He teetered for only a moment on the top of of the tree, but managed to keep himself from falling on his head to the ground. He chuckled nervously back down at Alex and proceeded to carefully climb down.
"Hehe...okay, so maybe I like being down here a little better. But now what do we do? We gotta figure out where we are...maybe take one of those with us..."
And by "those", he was referring to some beautifully tanned women with grass skirts dancing along the beach a little ways away.
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Post by Alex of Santo-Luce on Aug 15, 2009 12:46:18 GMT -5
"Milord... they may not react well to us... namely, me."
He shrugged his shoulders a bit self-consciously.
"Anway, we need to see if anyone else is here... maybe we weren't the only ones who fell through."
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Post by alexanderthegreat on Aug 15, 2009 17:28:42 GMT -5
Alexander frowned. He didn't want to agree with Alex but...well, he kind of had to.
"Okay, time to get serious," Alexander said, mainly to himself, "we all went through that portal, so you'd expect we'd all be together yet, right? But we're not. You and I are still together, but where is everyone else?"
He paused a moment as he surveyed the area around them considerably. Alexander finally narrowed his eyes.
"Hey! Who else came through that wicked portal?!" he called out, "I kind of hope that cute girl did...but seriously!"
He then took off in another direction, heading towards a pile of plants to dig through. Maybe someone else had come through with them at least but had gotten hurt more than he did if one of those fuzzy ball things fell on them, too.
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Miri, EarthGuard
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Post by Miri, EarthGuard on Aug 15, 2009 18:12:30 GMT -5
"Would you be talking about me?"
SHe was sitting in a tree, having arrived soon after Alex had shouted.
"Amazing... I wonder, could you truly not remember? What you did to us, you pathetic traitor?"
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Post by alexanderthegreat on Aug 15, 2009 18:31:57 GMT -5
Alexander looked towards the source of the voice and gave a small laugh.
"Uh...no. I was talking about that cute girl I saw back in the woods, not the cranky banshee who's out to cut the throat of my best bud here," his grin as well as his tone was snarky, and he tilted his head to the side.
"But seriously, lady. What's your deal? You don't get to get off calling either of us a traitor without a reason, which I'm sure you don't have. I'm just trying to run my kingdom, make sense of the world, and figure out what it is about Trucido you or that other dude really don't like - D here's just doing his job, being my pal and making sure I don't get my ass killed because I did something stupid."
He folded his arms and stared at her. He was serious...uh...for once.
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Post by Miri, EarthGuard on Aug 15, 2009 18:35:08 GMT -5
"How dare you talk to me about reason? This 'D' you speak of betrayed me and everything he believed in, two years and several months ago."
She looked down at Alex. "And you just forgot? I don't believe that in the least. Maybe you have this airhead fooled, but not me."
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Post by Alex of Santo-Luce on Aug 15, 2009 18:43:03 GMT -5
He stepped back.
"I... I don't know... I don't know who or what I am, or who you are, or anything. As far as I know, my name is Alex, captain of Santo-Luce, bodyguard to this man, Alexander Frexton, King of Santo-Luce. I will do this duty to my kingdom and my king to the best of my abilities. If you wish for a fight, I will fight to the death to protect him."
He recovered quickly, taking a duty stance on the matter.
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Post by alexanderthegreat on Aug 15, 2009 19:46:50 GMT -5
Alexander looked over at Alex, a look of horror painted on his face.
"D....no man, seriously. No fighting to the death over someone like me. If she seriously has a beef over something I did, then I'll deal with her myself, but Miri," he looked over at Miri again and frowned, "...I don't know how you know him, but he clearly doesn't remember you. The guy's having a hard time already, why beat him down even more?"
He looked from Miri to Alex, then back to Miri.
"Really, guys? Do we have to fight over this?"
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Post by Miri, EarthGuard on Aug 15, 2009 20:51:41 GMT -5
"I'm sorry, but... my fight isn't just with you on a personal level. You're here to steal something important from my world. I can't jsut let you go without a fight."
She drew what looked like a sword from thin air.
"Your names... they are Alexander Frexton and Alex Darkend, corrent?"
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Post by alexanderthegreat on Aug 15, 2009 21:48:13 GMT -5
Alexander growled.
"I'm not here to steal anything!!" he finally belted out at Miri, "I...I don't know why I'm here, okay?! I'm trying to figure things out myself but dude, I'm just following orders at the moment which is stupid because I'm KING Alexander Frexton, dammit!!"
He whipped out his staff and stood rather proudly. "I'm not here to fight you, I'm not here to pick fights with anyone, alright!? But so help me, just because you're some crazy bogus chick who can't let go of the past doesn't give you the right to trash into other peoples' lives, okay? I'm tired of you trying to tell me what to do and trying to make it sound like you actually have a reason for being such a stuck-up wench! If you go anywhere near me or my best friend, let's just say it'll be nasty, okay!?!?"
He...really couldn't remember the last time he'd been so angry.
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Post by Miri, EarthGuard on Aug 15, 2009 22:18:54 GMT -5
"Tell me, king Alexander," she said, making the word sound like an insult, "does your country have any enemies?"
She stepped forward, holding her blade out.
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Post by Alex of Santo-Luce on Aug 15, 2009 22:21:54 GMT -5
"Why do you want to know?"
He was starting to get angry as well, and he could feel that anger feeding his power.
"It's none of your business, earth-girl. You should stick to your own planet's business! It's obvious you use darkness - we're from the kingdom of light. You're no better than a Nerezzan, so don't talk to me about protecting anything! Everyone knows that your kind only wants to kill!"
Ancestral hatred pounded into him by the military and prejudice mixed with a feeling to the past and his blood began to boil. He drew Brightshine, brandishing it.
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