http://be_my_chum.insanejournal.com/ ([identity profile] be_my_chum.insanejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] slt_archive2010-01-13 05:54 pm

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Who: Hydra, Ikki, Allen, ANY
Where: The Arena
When: Day 98, evening
What: When we last left our intrepid heroes...

[In the arena, there's some decent quality meat burning as a gift to two particular Judges, a comatose member of Hydra and a few guards with torches... and not a whole lot else to explain what's going on.

Well the real interesting part is going on a little deeper anyway.]

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[identity profile] roadtothesky.insanejournal.com 2010-01-15 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
[It's got to be a quiet wait. And a boring one.

. . . well, except for the sound of footsteps some ten minutes in, overlaid with the sound of something heavy dragging through the arena's stone streets.]

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[identity profile] pierrotdetous.insanejournal.com 2010-01-15 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
[aside from all the tense possibility of someone being eaten in there--

looks up, standing quickly from his position. His eye being activated near Fang has him a little high-strung, but his stance isn't aggressive]

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[identity profile] roadtothesky.insanejournal.com 2010-01-15 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
[Drag drag drag thump.

pant pant

scuttle rustle
drag drag drag . . . and that would be purple clothing and a mop of pink hair, and a either a very unconsious, or (more correctly, if one was to judge by the small wounds at the base of its skull) a very exanimate river lizard being unceremoniously dragged into the braizer's light.]

. . . ahh, Allen's here, too.

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[identity profile] pierrotdetous.insanejournal.com 2010-01-15 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
...Aah, I'm waiting. Hey, Feathers.

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[identity profile] roadtothesky.insanejournal.com 2010-01-15 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
Mmm, Scowl said you would be, when he was talking to Hydra.

[Oh hey this is a nice stone slab, drags the lizard onto it.]

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[identity profile] pierrotdetous.insanejournal.com 2010-01-15 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
Did the Judges really ask for lizard sacrifices?

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[identity profile] pierrotdetous.insanejournal.com 2010-01-15 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
Well. . . they're in his heart, aren't they?

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[identity profile] roadtothesky.insanejournal.com 2010-01-15 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
. . . ahh, he said something about that too, didn't he . . .

Mm. It's different. Though it would be right, wouldn't it? If I'm using their space.

[With her hair out of the way, now that the lizard's down, it's easier to see a few claw marks down one arm, and a smear of red on her fingertips.]

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[identity profile] pierrotdetous.insanejournal.com 2010-01-15 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
--It's for something else?

Geez, that looks like it hurts. Aeris isn't here yet, but. . .

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[identity profile] roadtothesky.insanejournal.com 2010-01-15 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
A way home.

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[identity profile] roadtothesky.insanejournal.com 2010-01-15 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
[Covers the scratch a bit self-consciously.]

Ahh, Allen doesn't need to worry, about something like this.

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[identity profile] pierrotdetous.insanejournal.com 2010-01-15 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
. . .[well, considering all the injuries everyone gets, Allen lets that slide :\...]

What do you mean, a way home?

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[identity profile] roadtothesky.insanejournal.com 2010-01-15 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
[Builds up a small fire, lighting it from the brazier.]

Just a thought. For something like this . . . I trust Ikki-kun more than anyone. And for Scowl, and Hydra . . . they won't leave either, unless everything's okay.

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[identity profile] pierrotdetous.insanejournal.com 2010-01-15 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
. . .Yeah, they're all pretty stubborn. . . Ikki, really?. . .

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[identity profile] roadtothesky.insanejournal.com 2010-01-15 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
Mmm. If he and Scowl can work together . . .

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[identity profile] roadtothesky.insanejournal.com 2010-01-15 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
. . . ahh, they really don't match, though.

[Takes out a stone knife, back to Allen as she starts butchering the lizard.]

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[identity profile] pierrotdetous.insanejournal.com 2010-01-15 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
No kidding. But if it's this important they'll have to manage. You like that guy? ...

Ah, shouldn't you clean your wound before you're elbow-deep in that?

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[identity profile] roadtothesky.insanejournal.com 2010-01-15 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
It's not as bad as it looks. Something like this isn't . . . really big enough for elbows,anyway.

. . . we see each other, in our memories. Fang and Raven and I.

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[identity profile] pierrotdetous.insanejournal.com 2010-01-15 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
Ah... from the same place...

Do you two know what's happening to him?

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[identity profile] roadtothesky.insanejournal.com 2010-01-15 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
[Carefully removes the lizard's head, and its heart.]

. . . we're not sure. None of our memories are complete. But . . . I think so.

Scowl yelled a lot, though. And I don't think he'll believe it, until he sees it for himself.

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[identity profile] pierrotdetous.insanejournal.com 2010-01-15 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
[jaded is our society where Kururu can gut a lizard with a scratched arm and it's normal. way more pressing matters than "what're you removing parts for" though]

. . .What is it?

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[identity profile] roadtothesky.insanejournal.com 2010-01-15 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
[It's just . . . disassembling, at this point. And if she tells herself that enough, it might even be okay.]

The 'Fang' in our memories . . . he's not one person.

He's two.

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[identity profile] roadtothesky.insanejournal.com 2010-01-15 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
The one who's missing . . . I think he needs to wake up, now. There are things Fang shouldn't be facing alone.

[Places a bowl under the lizard's neck to catch the blood as it drains, and carries the head and heart over to the brazier.

Her eyes catch the light, reflecting gold, hands red as she places the offering into the fire.]

Thank you. I'll clean everything up, when I'm done.