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Post by Sierra on Jul 19, 2012 23:11:14 GMT
Kina found herself wandering through the holiday forest searching relentlessly for the clearing getting more and more frustrated as what had seemed like hours passed. "Come on," she muttered, "I know it's around here somewhere" Her sharpened axe swung from her hip as she rushed through the trees, moving branches with her hands. The scratches she obtained healed in minutes and were of little concern to her. Kina stopped abruptly, and pulled out a piece of crumpled paper from her pocket. She stared at it briefly before shoving it back into her pocket. Her pointy-tipped ears quivered as a twig snapped in the distance. She peered in the direction the noise had come from and slowly made her way over to it. She breathed a sigh of relief as she came across a small rodent as it crawled through the under brush. Kina turned back and continued her march through the trees when a flash of something brightly coloured caught her eye. She over to it and grinned to herself as she had finally found the clearing containing the doors to the holiday worlds of old.
She turned full circle as she looked for the door she needed for her quest. Today they had decided to send her to into Valentine's City, a holiday she had loathed with passion for centuries. Her reason for being there, she did not know yet, the first part of her quest was to meet up with a creature from the City who would give her the next part of the instructions.
Kina stood tall and took a deep breath before she slowly made her way through the heart-shaped door and into the City she hated.
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Post by Echo on Jul 19, 2012 23:31:28 GMT
Lexi paced the path to Valentine's City, cursing its awful heart-shaped stones. The only thing she knew was that she had been told to meet another Quester here, give them a very important envelope, which she was now trying to find, and accompany them for the rest of the quest. She hadn't even been told who she was meeting. And could it not have been in another place? Valentine's City was the worst! It was just so... Well, gaudy would be the only way to put it. There were pink and red hearts everywhere and everything was heart-shaped! The buildings were heart-shaped, the stones in the roads were heart shaped and Lexi would have sworn that even the rain would be heart-shaped. She didn't like it one bit, she stuck out way too much for comfort. Thankfully she hadn't seen anyone yet, but she didn't relish the thought of having to walk through the city. Lexi hoped the next Quester would hurry up soon.
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Post by Sierra on Jul 19, 2012 23:51:14 GMT
Kina fell through the door quite ungracefully as she had not expected there to be a step on the other side. "Stupid City," she grumbled, as she stood up brushing down her jeans. Kina scowled down at the floor as she noticed the heart-shaped stones that paved the way to the city gates. As she followed the path with her gaze she noticed in the distance someone who looked just as out of place as she felt. Kina hoped this would be the person she was to meet, but was wary all the same. Kina slowly followed the path, keeping a tight grip on the axe at her waist, always ready in case of attack. As she closed the distance between her and the stranger, she noticed that there was a small gnome-like creature hiding behind a bush to the side of the path as it followed the stranger towards the city. Kina grinned as she kept pace with the creature which she named in her head 'Gnomey'. "Perhaps a little sport already", she thought. Gnomey was too focused on the stranger in front to notice Kina as she pounced on it holding one claw against it's throat like a knife as it squealed. The sound alerting the stranger in front of them.
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Post by Echo on Jul 20, 2012 0:00:50 GMT
Lexi whipped her head around, drawing her twin blades as she did so, and spotted the odd-looking stranger. Lexi's Elven eyes saw, very clearly, that she had some kind of small creature in her grasp. "What the hell...?" She moved quickly and was in front of the tiny creature and the stranger within seconds. "Are you the one I'm meeting?" She realised how bad that sounded given the city they were in and hoped this stranger understood what she meant.
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Post by Sierra on Jul 20, 2012 0:10:45 GMT
Kina looked up at the stranger shrewdly, a look of distrust upon her face, then back down at Gnomey as she sighed giving the creature a look of pure menace as she let it go. It yelped and ran as fast as it could in the opposite direction. Kina stood and faced the stranger and pulled her axe tight against her. "That depends", she replied cryptically, "Are you the one with the message?" Kina watched the stranger for a reply and noticed that the stranger was female and seemed to be of elven descent which intrigued Kina, as she had never met an elf before.
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Post by Echo on Jul 20, 2012 0:29:58 GMT
"I am." Lexi said bluntly. Well, how else was she going to say it? She pulled a scrolled-up envelope with the QA seal still firmly in place from somewhere in her tunic and held it for the woman to take. If the Questing Association knew one thing, it was scrolls. No matter what it was, all paper, particularly messages, had to come in scroll-form. Lexi thought it was ridiculous to scroll-up a sealed envelope, but what could you do? Lexi looked over the stranger curiously, her eyes darting up and down, left and right as she took it all in. Purple hair on the stranger, red hair on Lexi; if anyone was looking down on them from above they'd look like they fitted in perfectly with the colour-scheme of this city. Unfortunately, that's where it ended. Pointy ears. Clawed fingers. Tiny fangs, Lexi felt almost proud of hers. Lexi was somewhat surprised to see how similar the two of them actually were, but this stranger was no Elf, and with fangs like that she was certainly no Vampire.
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Post by Sierra on Jul 20, 2012 0:48:32 GMT
Kina took the scroll from the strange elven woman and opened it slowly, using one of her extremely sharp claws to break the seal. Her eyes darted quickly down the page as she took in the information and sighed. It had instructed her to go into the City, something which she had known she'd have to do but had hoped to put off for as long as possible. She was to follow the path through the city until she reached a house unlike the others surrounding it where she would find the next instructions. Kina hated all this messing around, being an impatient person she liked to get straight to the point, get the job done and go home. The message had also told Kina that the stranger standing before her was to accompany her on the quest. She passed the scroll back as the last words written on the page stood out in her mind.
'Play nice'
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Post by Echo on Jul 20, 2012 0:56:29 GMT
Lexi smiled. 'Play nice' the message said. Someone back at HQ knew her too well. Or perhaps they were talking about the stranger. "Well, we'd best get moving then, hadn't we. Long way to go and the faster we get through that infernal city, the better. Wouldn't you agree?" Lexi took a few steps towards the city, testing the stranger's reactions.
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Post by Sierra on Jul 20, 2012 1:07:37 GMT
Kina smiled as she took a few steps to fall in line with the other woman. "You hate it as much as I do it seems" She chuckled as she watched stranger for her reaction. She had noticed that the stranger had fangs, much longer than her own, which didn't seem to fit the elven looks. Kina soon realised that she was staring with a puzzled look and moved her gaze to the city walls ahead of them. "I would suggest we introduce ourselves if we are to be companions on this quest", she stated, not sounding too happy about having a companion at all.
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Post by Echo on Jul 20, 2012 1:14:52 GMT
Lexi had noticed the stranger's puzzled expression and apparent embarrassment when she'd realised. "I'm half Elf, half Vampire" she explained "and don't worry, I don't want to be here either, going on some wild goose-chase for Gods-only-know what, with someone I've never met before; but welcome to the world as the Questing Association sees it. We are their puppets and they'll do with us as they please." She looked to the stranger "I'm Lexi".
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