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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: (Understanding)

[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."
glacial_queen: (I give up)

[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."
glacial_queen: (Serious queen)

[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?"
glacial_queen: (Sapphire-Jeweled Queen)

[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.