uccellodifuoco | 1st Rise of the Phoenix ஜ Action

Entry tags:

1st Rise of the Phoenix ஜ Action

[Ikki is walking through the village with relative calm, he's not pleased and it's obvious in his body language that he's stressed and annoyed. Who wouldn't be, having found himself in an unknown place, a place where he didn't intend to be?

The fact that no matter how much he expanded his Cosmos, he couldn't find his brothers' Cosmos or the Cosmos of anyone he knew didn't help in the situation. Still, he looks quite sure of where he's going, even if he's not, and only the loose-fitting white cotton pants he's wearing point out that he's new in the place.

Those particularly sensible to spiritual energy may notice his strong Cosmos -full of contained anger and hate, directed to no one but obviously there- constantly reaching out and basically checking everyone he can reach. Searching for something, or someone, that would explain him being stuck in that place. Unable to return to where he intended to go or contact his friends, so far he's not having any luck and the idea he's starting to get doesn't please him.]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ Some members might arrange a trade system in the form of favors - Polka was happy to just hep out. At the offer though, she blinks in surprise, and smiles. ]

Um - sure, but ... [ Well his belongings weren't likely to get away anytime soon. ] Alright, thank you. My house isn't far from here.

[Ikki really isn't the helpful type, but he isn't a rude bastard either, sarcastic, cynical and lone-wolf? Yes. Full of anger and hate? Yes. The type of guy who would just ignore a girl who could use a bit of help with her bags after talking with her? No.

So he reaches for her bags and gets a good hold of them. He doesn't think his Cloth will go anywhere, and even if it did he can sense it. The journal... Isn't a priority.]

Okay, I'll follow you.

Thank you. What's your name? I'm Polka.

[ Full of anger and hate... that sounds like someone else she knew. Still, once Ikki takes hold of her bags, she clutches the journal in both arms, starting along the road. A pause as she draws near the Welcome Center, and she indicates it. ]

You remember when I said that housing was free? That's the Welcome Center. It's primarily a place where new arrivals can stay until they find a place here. I've never me the person who runs it, but I hear she's nice.

I'm Phoenix Ikki, thought Phoenix is mostly a title. Call me either way.

[He's used to it after all. A Saint's connection with his Cloth is close enough for him to be get quickly used to be called by the name of the Cloth. The fact that there's only one Cloth per person helps, and anyway not everyone has the time to memorize everyone's names, so calling them by the Cloth they wear is the fastest way.

He looks at the building and nods, memorizing its location. Housing doesn't bother him thought, he has lived inside a volcano after all. In fact...]

Is there a volcano around?

[ Hm... If Phoenix was a title... wait, was it a title of respect? Ikki must be his name -- oh decisions decisions! AH! She's pulled out of deliberation by the question, looking momentarily startled. ]

I -- um, a volcano? Hn... I don't think so... there are mountains, and there's a desert - I don't know how much of Luceti has been explored, but I don't remember seeing anything about a volcano in the map.

[He notices the light confusion at his name. Serves him right for not wanting to go into full introductions.]

Phoenix is my rank. I'm the only one with that rank so it often serves as my name anyway.

[He hums at her answer. Due his training place and the nature of the Phoenix' Cloth, volcanoes have always felt quite homely for him. Not to mention that staying in one helps him to heal his owns faster.]

I'll go check the Welcome Center then.

[Yes, he asked about a volcano go to live there. There's no misunderstanding, even if it may sound like it.]

Oh... Oh! [ Okay, so ... wait, no, she probably should still address him by rank. ] It's okay to call you Phoenix, then? Or Phoenix Ikki? ... Do you have a preference? [ Sheesh, she has to make it so needlessly complicated!

Meanwhile, over a small bridge, and Polka points to a rather impressive two story building. ] There's my house. [ Looks way too big for one person doesn't it? Also pardon the curious glance - that.. he surely wasn't asking about volcanos for THAT reason. No way. ]

[Congratulations Polka, you have managed to amuse Ikki and make him show something close to a smile.]

I don't really have a preference, Ikki is enough thought. Unless you know someone else called that way.

[Ikki eyes the house, he can't feel anyone else inside of it. He gets a glimpse of the curious glance thought but he decides to ignore it for the time being. Instead he allows himself to be curious.]

Do you live alone?

[ Aww, lookit that, he can smile! Do it more Ikki! ]

Okay, Ikki then. [ She certainly doesn't know anyone else called Ikki or Phoenix. The question though, makes her smile fade a little. ]

I do now. The Malnosso... sent my friends away. Of course Foot is still with me - she's a new arrival just like you. [ It's still way too big for her, but she's not willing to move into someplace smaller. ]

[No, it's expensive and he's broke. His expression turns serious as hers smile fades a bit, even without the explanation he can realize when a question is a bad one.]

So the Malnosso really control everything here.

[Here's Ikki wondering if there would be a way to lure those Malnosso out of their hiding place. Unless they have abilities like Mö's they shouldn't be able to send people anywhere from a great distance, which means they should get out at least for that.]

Foot?

[He has heard his own share of strange names but "Foot" enters a new category.]

[ Awww!~ ]

Yes, I'm afraid so. [ She's silent a moment, and shakes her head slightly, determined not to grump about her missing companions. SHe should be happy for them. ]

Uh-huh! Foot is a cat that was brought in last month. I've been looking after her since her owner isn't here.

So it's your pet? That's good.

[Still the house must feel huge to her. Not to mention that some people seem to not know how to be alone or without friends. He's not going to start snarling at that now, thought. He's not so heartless or enough of a bastard for it.]

Oh, no, heavens no. I would never call Foot my pet. She's my friend.

[ Polka's not unfamiliar with being alone, mind. She's often gone off on her own to be alone and for most of her life it's only been herself and her mother. She hasn't really had friends until she'd left on her journey. ]

Anyway, I don't want to keep you from anything. I really appreciate you helping me bring my groceries though!

A friend? That's good too.

[Well, there are people who will consider "friends" even the ants on their gardens, so he's not going to judge that. He has never been an animal person, then again he isn't very much of a people person either, so, yeah, he's not one to call friends out easily.

He snorts lightly before glancing at her.]

Yes, you have kept me from going to fetch a stupid book, find my Cloth and go find a way out of this place. Certainly things that can't wait at all.

[Sarcasm, he has it.]

[ Polka's never gone so far as to call a bug her friend- that's just weird to her. Still, she supposed ... if they were smart enough to ... ]

Um - - but there really isn't a way out of here. I'm pretty sure everyone would have said so if there was. [ She jiggles the doorknob, and pushes the door open. ] What's so special about a cloth?

I supposed so, but it's not in a Saint's nature to give up without trying.

[Or to give up even after trying. Just because no way out hasn't been found yet doesn't mean that there's no way out.]

Hn. It's called a Cloth but for most of the people it would be an armor. I can fight without it but it's always better to have it on when I do, not only it protects my body but helps to channel my Cosmos' energy more easily.

Saint...? Oh! You're a priest?

[ Wait - armor? Priests don't wear armor. Battle priest? ]

Oh.. I think I understand. I'm not sure what the Cosmos is but I have heard people say that they use other things to use their power better.

[ Like herself. Though why she uses a -parasol- who can say. ]

[Ikki blinks at that.]

No, I'm a warrior who fights and kills the enemies of the Goddess Athena. She protects my world and faces those who want to destroy it, even if that means opposing other Gods of higher rank than her. "Saint" is just the name she gave to her army formed by humans willing to fight for her, it's not related to priests at all.

[Though technically it is, but for Ikki a priest is a man who just does little more than to talk about the God he serves and try to fix things with pretty words.]

The Cosmos is an energy that grows inside us and supports our lives. Athena's Saints are trained to make full use of it since early age, but every living being has it.

Oh. [ Well she feels silly now. ] I've never heard of such a Goddess. She protects your entire world? [ Maybe her world wouldn't be in such a situation if they had a God like that.

... or maybe they do, and that's why she has to do what she does. ] Cosmos... That sounds like astra - a little at least. Back home I mean.

[A dimension without Athena... The thought is as disturbing as intriguing, then again it could be that they have her, just with another name.]

She does, she was left in charge of it by her father, the leader of all the Gods and Goddesses, when he left for a journey. Where and why I don't know, neither I care. Athena is now the protector of Earth and she defends humanity's right to live, no matter how bad the situation gets. She's even willing to sacrifice her own life to protect it.

[And Polka's Cosmos reminds him of her somehow, thought he's not going to mention it, at least yet.]

Hn, it could be the same thing. In my dimension it already has many different names, I don't see how it would be different in other dimensions. What do you refer to by astra?

... [ That ... really kind of pings with Polka. Awkward a moment. ] That's amazing... but it must have to get pretty bad for something like that to happen for a Goddess to sacrifice herself...

[ She hmms. ] Well... mother told me that everyone has a seed inside of them - astra, the light that shines inside of you. It reflects how good of a person you are - I guess it's sort of like a person's soul. [ She chuckles softly, remembering how worried she'd been when she swiped a cookie when she was little. ]

It's different for everyone, depending on their actions in their life.

Not really, in theory she should only go to that if we, her Saints, failed at defeating the enemy. But despite having us she doesn't approve of us sacrificing our lives for her and the world, so more often than not we have actually ended having to defeat the enemy before Athena sacrifices herself. She has even hided information from us to avoid getting us involved and solve it by sacrificing herself.

[Which in Ikki's opinion is really annoying, even if it's something that deserves admiration. For starters Athena is Saori, and despite everything he can't forget that Saori used to be a bitch with them when they were children. Not to mention that because of her they were forced to become Saints and many died in the process. She can't just go and throw herself at the enemy to sacrifice herself and hope that they will just sit and take it. The Sanctuary doesn't have a retirement system.]

And the one time she went to fight and not to sacrifice herself, she still had to die first. She's too goddamn settled on wanting to avoid deaths, except her own of course.

[Ikki growls at that memory. At least this time she's taking Shun with her, thought he's not sure if it's just because Shun got to her BEFORE she went on her own.]

YSo it's basically the same thing, even with different explanation. The idea of the Cosmos is based in that our own bodies store the same potential as the big universe in which we are, and by making that universe collapse and expand we can make use of our Cosmos. It also serves to tell a lot of a person, as each Cosmos is unique and reflects the person's nature and intentions.

[ Ikki growling about someone throwing her life away to protect others makes Polka a little uncomfortable... because she's done the same thing. And would still do the same thing. But saying -THAT- would only make him angry so she shifts her weight awkwardly. ]

We don't have anything like Saints in my world. In a way, I wish we did... there aren't nearly enough people who would fight to protect others. Well, there's Andantino... [ Wait what? ]

The whole universe...? [ That's big. She can't imagine being able to do something like that. ]

[Well, he doesn't have the duty of protecting Polka so it's not the same. And Polka's sacrifice is different from Athena's, Athena sometimes just makes him think that she just loves to have them go after her to stop her from getting killed. He didn't mind that much during the Hades war, except because she didn't told them her plans and went basically alone -and then failed big time by going to the wrong place but that's another matter-.]

Maybe you do and they are just hidden. We aren't of public knowledge back in my dimension either. Which is probably for the best.

Andantino?

[Ikki smirks at her next words, probably she's thinking about the universe being big. Then again he did the same at some point of his life.]

The whole universe. In fact our bodies form a universe of their own in some sense, of course, this means that an universe doesn't have to be something huge. It can be something really small. Just consider than the universe looks big to us, but that ants look small, yet for the ants we are as big as the universe is for us.

[He shrugs, maybe he should just wave off the subject? Shiryu would be better at explaining those things, or Shun. He... Just knows how to explain things in the way he explained them to Esmeralda at times and who knows if she didn't sometimes feign to understand it in order to make him happy and help him relax.]

[ Good thing! Of course Polka can relate to why Athena might have done some things. ]

Maybe you're right. Of course, I never actively looked for anyone like that either. Huh... [ Something to think about! ] Andantino is the name of a group of rebels who were fighting for peace back home. There weren't a lot of them, but they tried their very best.

[ And a thoughtful pause as she considers these universal concepts. She finally glances down at one of the flowers still growing. ] I think I see what you mean. It's all just a matter of perspective for everyone.

I wonder how many universes are out there though. Everyone I talk to here, seems to be from a different one, and each one is so fascinating.

1st Rise of the Phoenix ஜ Action

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

(no subject)

(no subject)

(no subject)

(no subject)

(no subject)

(no subject)

(no subject)

(no subject)

(no subject)

(no subject)

(no subject)

(no subject)

(no subject)