Killing time... And the queen. [Open]

[Sxaibran]

~(_Sxaibran_)~

I'm not a pain killer!!!

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Sxaibran sipped her tea and yawned, "For a freaking mad house this place is boring..." She was sitting a top a tree in the forest, watching for heartless. After finishing the warm drink she threw the cup behind her. "Doesn't matter, that will probably end up back in my house somehow." She jumped down from the tree and landed on one of the enormous lily pads. A few Blue Rhapsodies appeared near by. Sxaibran summoned her weapon and killed them off in a few blows. Her weapon vanished and she sighed, "Dull, bland, lacking anything interesting." She hummed one of her favorite songs and walked around aimlessly in the forest, waiting for something to happen.

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[Emi]

Sountrack: "Swept Away"- Flyleaf

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"Okay... I thought Deep Jungle was bad, but HOLY CRAP...![/color]"

Wonderland was not Emi's cup of tea. Pardon the pun. It was too weird... reminded her of one of those weird hallucinations she had back in the day.

She stared intensely up at a large yellow flower, drawing her eyebrows together in an ugly expression of confusion and downright hate for this world. She was going to get out of her as soon as possible. She reached up and slapped the flower out of spite... and it spewed pollen (or something) all over her.

She fumed, and coughed, surrounded in a cloudy of yellowish powder. Wiping her hands across her eyes, she turned around and faced the forest she'd already been through. And there was someone there. Experience told her to NEVER approach a stranger in a strange forest. It always led to something bad...

[Sxaibran]

~(_Sxaibran_)~

I'm not a pain killer!!!

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Sxaibran felt like someone was watching her. She glanced to her right and noticed a girl watching her. Sxaibran smiled, They say you should stay away from strangers... Of course that gives you more of a reason to approach them. She casually walked over to the girl, "Hey there," she began in the most normal tone she could manage, "Watcha doing in this mad house of a world?" Sxaibran could easily guess from her clothes that the girl was a traveler, no one in Wonderland dressed that normally.
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[Emi]

Emi squinted. The stranger came closer and Emi backed away. Through the haze of pollen in the air, Emi was able to make out details. It was a girl, younger than her. Skinny as skinny could get, with hair the color of chocolate. When she came closer, asking what she was doing here, Emi actually had to look down at her.

Nobody made social visits in forests. This wasn't a bus stop. There was something up with this chick.

Emi reached into the inside pocket of her jacket. She set her fingers on the shape of her right-hand eskrima stick in the green silk.

"What do you want? Get outta my face, kid.[/color]"

[Sxaibran]

~(_Sxaibran_)~

I'm not a pain killer!!!

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Sxaibran stared at the girl covered in pollen. Did she just call me a.... KID!? Sxaibran wanted to growl, 'I'm probably just as old as you!' But knew better. Instead she replied, "I am simple bored and trying to make conversation. And for the record, I am just small, we are probably around the same age." As the pollen settle Sxaibran noticed the girls hand in her pocket. She said casually, "So, got your weapon in there eh? Must be small but powerful going by the fact that it's in your pocket. May I see it?"

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[Emi]

Emi growled. Literally.

"Yeah, you can see it...[/color]" she muttered.

She was going to attack. She whipped out her eskrima stick. The dark polished wood glinted in a shaft of sunlight. But something stopped her... Despite the girl's protests, Emi still only saw her as a kid. Memories from her past bubbled to the surface, flashing across her mind's eye like a movie played in flash-forward. She couldn't attack a child... not again. Not even if this little one was closer to Emi's own age as she claimed to be. Not after last time, she couldn't...

Instead, she grudgingly...hesitantly... showed the small, talkative stranger the stick in her hand. The butterfly sticker was peeling off... but it wasn't as if those things were terribly easy to come by here in Wonderland.

After a few seconds, Emi got paranoid and shoved the stick back in her pocket.
"How old are you anyways? Like... eleven?[/color]"

[Sxaibran]

~(_Sxaibran_)~

I'm not a pain killer!!!

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She watched excitedly as the girl whipped out an odd stick in some kind of attack technique. She began to think, Alright a worthy-! But instead of attacking the girl reluctantly held out the weapon for her to see. A worth wimp. She probably thinks I'm still a kid! She nodded and muttered, "Nice..." After the girl quickly shoved the weapon back into her pocket she asked how old Sxaibran was. E-eleven!? Is she TRYING to insult me!? She gritted her teeth and replied jokingly, "Ha, only three years off. I'm actually fourteen." Sxaibran fiddled with her long braid behind her back, God I wanna snap her neck, and seeing as she thinks I'm a cute little kid she would probably let me!


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[Emi]

Emi smirked. So she was younger. She got an odd sense of pride, knowing she was older than this twerp.

"Oh, okay, so I was right... you are still a kid. I'll be eighteen soon, myself. Almost four years older than you, so I think that makes you a kid in my eyes.[/color]"

Emi crossed her arms in front of her chest and squinted at the girl, playing with her braid. Rage radiated from her, and it was evident in her fidgeting and grimace. Emi's heart dropped when she realized why this girl pissed her off so much... she reminded Emi of herself at that age. She'd grown up really fast after age fourteen. It was necessary for her survival, but not necessarily for her well-being.

She asked the questions no one had asked her.
"What are you doing out here by yourself? It's dangerous. Don't your parents know where you are? Maybe you should get home...[/color]"

[Dante]

"Actually, you're off by twelve years." By just hearing that phrase, one could already tell what this man was like. His tone was sarcastic, no matter how you looked at it, and seemed to mock the ones who it was directed at. A look around would suggest that this odd person was in a tree, or some secluded place to hide himself, but in all reality, he was walking straight towards the two females, breaking the flow of the conversation. "I'm twenty-three, if you haven't already done the math, which you probably haven't."

The only man who dared come up to two strangers and say something like that was none other than the infamous Tony Lushrion. He was an adult and he still had no regard for others. Many would say he was immature for doing what he does best, but others, like him, say he says only what he thinks and nothing else. His personality wasn't the thing people remembered him by, though. It was his partner, the hulking sack of bones named, fittingly, Mr. Bones. Who else walked alongside a velociraptor, who was five times the size of a large turkey, made of bones and nothing else?

"The name's Tony Lushrion. It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance, ladies." A smirk crossed the baseball player's face as his Guardian came stomping up behind him. "I am Mr. Bones. It's a pleasure to meet you fine young ladies. Forgive Tony if he says anything rash. It's in his nature to do so." Obviously, the aged dinosaur was the one with more sense for another human's emotions.

[Sxaibran]

~(_Sxaibran_)~

I'm not a pain killer!!!

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Sxaibran smirked, "Well well, looks like it's a party now." She held out her hand, "It's nice to meet you Tony, my name is Idon'tgiveacrap!" She put on a smile that said, 'I'm actually glad to meet you!' even though her thoughts where, God who's this know it all? Honestly, I can't see past his Mt. Everest sized ego... She glanced at Emi and replied to her earlier question, "As for my parents, they're in prison as far as I know. And good riddance, from what I remember they where as insane as a human can get." Obviously this new guy had been watching them for a bit, going by his opening words. Wonderful, I'll be ever to happy to kick his but when that time arrives. But not now, it's still too soon...

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[Emi]

Emi looked over her shoulder. Whoever it was, their tone of voice was ticking her off. The sardonic look on her face was replaced by a slack-jaw expression of shock. Emi, having thus far lived a relatively simple (if troubled) life... not much in the way of magic (except for back home, with the Dragoons and such, but that didn't seem to out of the ordinary, since she'd grown up around it) or monsters.

There was a young man and something made of bones addressing her and the midget next to her who introduced herself as "Idon'tgiveacrap". (More and more, this girl was reminding Emi of herself.)

The midget and Tony had a short conversation while Emi stared wide-eyed at Tony's guardian, who had called himself Mr. Bones. No, really? How original. And it was talking...

Emi was incredulous. "How... how is that even possible?![/color]" she shouted, interrupting the conversation and pointing at Mr. Bones. Midget's words about her parents didn't really register at first, but in the split second they made sense, she thought At least you had parents who cared enough about you to at least keep you.

[Dante]

"Pleasure to meet you, weirdo. I can see us getting along very well in the future. Hopefully..." Tony chuckled a bit at his own joke, his hands shoved into his pockets and his head turned to the side by just a smidge. That smirk; it was going to be the bane of the two other's existence. Then the other person spoke, not greeting herself as kindly as the other. Instead, she pointed at his Guardian, awe struck, but in fear. The smirk turned into a slight burrowing of the brow, followed by a statement to counter the other girl's.

"Hey, you! Don't you know that pointing is rude!? People these days; no regard for other's emotions..." That statment was hypocritical at some unknown level. Mr. Bones nodded and brushed Tony off to the side to speak. It was a game between the two; to speak, the other had to assert himself by pushing the other away, or by showing off. " 1-0, Tony. Anyways, I'm a Guardian. I know you see me as a monster of sorts, but I'm not what you think I am. Please keep that in mind. Oh, and I'm able to live like this due to magic. It's a strong force the can be used to do any amount of things, just in case you didn't know about it."

The ball player's smirk returned as he threw something opaque and blue at the aged dinosaur. "No fair, Bones! I can't push you back!" "Not in front of them, Tony. They're likely to become allies if we're friendly and, lately, you're in need of someone else to travel with." "Oh, come on, Mr. Bones! You can't be serious! How am I supposed to make friends with a pipsqueak and someone who can barely stand the sight of you!?" The two seemed to continue their arguement, forgetting about the other two members of the little social club.

[Sxaibran]

~(_Sxaibran_)~

I'm not a pain killer!!!

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Sxaibran stared at the two blankly. "Well that's.... Awkward. I wonder if they realize we're still standing here." She added silently, Probably not... She glanced at the other girl and asked, "Oh yeah, I forgot to ask, what's your name?" Sxaibran wasn't hoping an answer that was any more truthful then her 'Idon'tgiveacrap'. But all the same, it never hurt to try.

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[Emi]

"It's...Emi. Emi DesCoteaux.[/color]"
She didn't bother giving Midget her full name. No point.

She watched as Tony and Mr. Bones squabbled with each other like an old married couple. Finally, she'd had enough. She'd gotten used to the sight of Mr. Bones, and that was all she needed, a few moments to process.

"Shut up,[/color]" she shouted over the squabbling.

[Dante]

"Oh, who asked you," Tony spewed this right after the woman said something. If there was anything he hated, it was being told to shut up. It was a phrase that he loved to say, but didn't like having fired back at him. That camp made him that way, seeing as how everytime he tried to talk, someone had to say shut up. Either way, Tony siezed the arguing and smirked again. That was really getting annoying, more than likely. If he kept running into these two people, they would get used to seeing him with a smug look on his face. It was common place for him and he wouldn't stop until he closed his eyes for good.

"Anyways! I didn't get your name, Ms. Shut up. I'd like to know who I'm talking to." Mr. Bones simply stood there, shifting his eyes back and forth from one human being to another. As much as he enjoyed being around Tony, he hated meeting new humans. Other than his Child, he couldn't stand them. The way they waged war was immature and it caused influences in his own world. If he had a nickle for every time he saw a fight break out, he'd be rich.

Mainly, though, his eyes were set on the nameless girl...