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puppy_fair ([personal profile] puppy_fair) wrote in [community profile] fandomtownies2010-09-17 02:45 pm

The Streets of Fandom, Friday Afternoon

"Alright, guys!" Zack's arms were crossed over his chest as he looked around the streets. Handwavey Messages had been left on the phones of anybody who had exchanged numbers at past Reserve meetings, Martial or Magic, and people had been told to bring whatever they needed in order to go zombie-fish hunting. "This is kind of like the time we had alligators burping goldfish, but this time, there aren't any gators, and the fish mean business. I don't want anybody setting off to face them down on their own, you hear me?"

He casually ducked as a swarm of piranha zipped by, where his head had been a moment before.

Karla sent a flare of Sapphire power after the swarm, dropping them in mid-air. Hello! They were talking here! No reason to be man-eating and rude.

"There's no reason for anyone to keep fighting while injured, or anything like that, so if you get bit or something, head back to the dorms or the clinic and have someone stitch you back up," Karla continued. "The last thing any of us want is some kind of suppurating flesh wound. They're gross."

While Karla spoke, the piranhas had undergone their zombiefication and flung themselves back up into the air, heading back for the group.

"Great. Also, it looks like you have to kill them twice."

A well-aimed Fira spell courtesy of Zack took care of the re-raised fish, and after a moment taken to poke at one of the char-broiled bodies with his toe, Zack shrugged and looked to the group.

"Let's get to it, then, and show these fish that they're messing with the wrong island!"

[This was always in the streets, ssh. OCD-Free and open to all! If you think you got a message, then you totally did, but anybody is welcome to meander on in to check out the action! Co-Written with the lovely [livejournal.com profile] glacial_witch, of course!]
glacial_queen: (Gym-happy)

[personal profile] glacial_queen 2010-09-17 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
"Speak for yourself about no preparation," Karla retorted. "That's why we have the Reserves. Preparation for invasions just like this." She tossed her hair a bit, giving Cloud a smile.

[identity profile] eyesofahero.livejournal.com 2010-09-18 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, of course. "I did go to the Reserves meeting." Once, before he decided to just...stand aside. He was not going to ask Karla to understand, because there were many implcations, him being something of a loner weirdo being but one of the reasons.

"At any rate, I always appreciate a mobile, living target. Well, living." Cloud assembled the hollow blade on the main body, swinging it as he looked for a new group. "I guess this makes for a good drill for the newer Reserves members?"

Always the optimistic, that was Cloud.
glacial_queen: (Conversation 5)

[personal profile] glacial_queen 2010-09-18 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
"It's great for the Support Reserves," Karla said. "More than anything else, they need to get used to working under crazy circumstances like these."

[identity profile] eyesofahero.livejournal.com 2010-09-18 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
"I suppose everyone has to start somewhere." As for himself, he was loking for the chance of going against a real challenge some day. "Are these things going to simply stop coming at one moment?"
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[personal profile] glacial_queen 2010-09-18 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
Karla shrugged. "I'm not sure. I'll probably bow out long before they do. Spending a whole day blasting things with Craft takes a lot out of a girl, even when she's sucking down Ethers."

Which tasted horrible, for the record.

[identity profile] eyesofahero.livejournal.com 2010-09-18 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
For a second, and only a second, Cloud seemed both confused and...frowny? At the mention of Karla + something of his own world, but as soon as it was there, it faded. "Try Max Ethers, or Exilirs...I think I'm carrying something on me at the moment..." A quick stop to check, and Cloud found out he only had a Potion left.

"I need to restock. Badly."
glacial_queen: (Pursed lips)

[personal profile] glacial_queen 2010-09-18 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
"Do your pockets carry 99 of those things, too?" Karla asked. "And are Mega-Ethers and whatever the other one is taste as bad--or worse?--than regular Ethers? Zack gave me one awhile ago and I can still taste it."

[identity profile] eyesofahero.livejournal.com 2010-09-18 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
Cloud still didn't know if Karla did it on purpose, but he had to chuckle at that -he also needed to divert his attention from Zack's mention, but that wasn't the point, really-. "I don't...know? I'm not a magic user type, even when I do have Materia." Yes, he had the most powerful Materia ever and he rarely used it anymore. Go Cloud! "And I usually don't think of the taste...but I guess the more powerful, the stronger the taste? Exilirs are pretty good though."

Now, how did a Phoenix Down felt? He wasn't quite conscious when somebody used it on him. "Small price for easy magic?"
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[personal profile] glacial_queen 2010-09-18 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
"I've got a few that I'm going to experiment on," Karla said, almost bouncing a little in excitement. "See if I can't figure out how they're made. I've been throwing around Craft all day, and I've barely lost a pound!"

It made sense in Karla's world, really.

[identity profile] eyesofahero.livejournal.com 2010-09-18 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
"If it helps, I'm probably the last person that would ever understand how Materia works, and yet I used it a lot in the past." You just didn't leave the Knights sitting around when there was an egomaniac overpowered murderer trying to destroy the world, that was for sure.

"Craft makes you...thinner?" He wanted to add more?, but Karla might have just hit him, for some reason. He didn't want to prove his theory though.
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[personal profile] glacial_queen 2010-09-18 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
Awww! Cloud was learning!

"Wielding Craft requires energy," Karla said with a casual shrug. "That energy has to come from somewhere. Normally, it happens at a reasonable rate--it's why my metabolism runs so high, remember? But when I'm throwing a lot of power around for a long time, my metabolism runs into high gear. So I either have to eat a lot, or I lose weight."

Another shrug. "Everything has a price."

[identity profile] eyesofahero.livejournal.com 2010-09-18 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
Was that a light at the end of the road? And most importantly, it wasn't a train? Hope for Cloud Strife?

"It...makes sense." In its very odd, particular way. Energy had to come from somewhere, as Karla had said.

"And that is a powerful phrase." It meant a lot, at least for him, and he could tell it probably meant even more for Karla.
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[personal profile] glacial_queen 2010-09-18 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
"It's an honest one," Karla said. "My people were imbued with great power, to be the caretakers of the land. But it changed us, even as it made us something greater. Nothing is without cost, especially power."

[identity profile] eyesofahero.livejournal.com 2010-09-18 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
"My way of dealing with power involves rejecting it all costs...it doesn't work so well at times. But I get your point." Better than he would accept. "Cause and effect, all comes back to the knowledge we make choices, and then pay the price."
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[personal profile] glacial_queen 2010-09-18 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
"Exactly. If you can't pay the price, walk away. But power doesn't just go away when you do. And if you don't pick it up, someone else probably will. You may end up paying a different kind of price anyway."

[identity profile] eyesofahero.livejournal.com 2010-09-18 05:55 am (UTC)(link)
"Sometimes running away makes it all worse." A lesson that had taken a while for him to understand. "Sometimes...we have to be powerful, not for us, but for everyone else. That kind of power...I think I can pay that prize."
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[personal profile] glacial_queen 2010-09-18 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
Karla nodded a bit. "And you've just neatly explained why I'm returning home to become Queen in a few years instead of running away to New York and becoming an actress or a lawyer or something."

[identity profile] eyesofahero.livejournal.com 2010-09-18 01:41 pm (UTC)(link)
"Duty calls." To think even Karla was bound by something greater, Cloud supposed there weren't really too many people that didn't need to face such choices.

"You'll do good. Something tells me you have it in you. And...there are always long distance courses?"
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[personal profile] glacial_queen 2010-09-19 05:49 am (UTC)(link)
"Very long distance," Karla agreed with a sigh, before giving a quarter turn to incinerate a swarm of incoming piranhas.

It was very depressing to see some of them rise up again, even if they were mostly charcoal.