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Post by gersemi on Jul 9, 2009 17:09:28 GMT -5
Everything seemed so calm in the mountains. The echos of the rock bounced on to Gersemi's ears, and she felt truly at peace. It was cold, so Gersemi wore a thick gray jacket and heavy dark green pants. Her pistol was kept in a shoulder holster, and she carried a burgundy duffel bag.The hard ground beneath her boots made her feel steady. The air was clean, and it felt almost like paradise.
If only there was a good pub, thought Gersemi. She reached into her pocket and brought out a small pipe. She puffed on it lazily as she walked up the mountain path. her contact for her next job was in these mountains. She just hoped she wouldn't get lost.
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Post by cherry on Jul 9, 2009 17:26:17 GMT -5
Daxter flew through the mountain trails on his zoomer. Xander Tricker, his friend and mechanic, had just fixed it for him. It was hard for him to reach the pedals, but he managed. Being an ottsel, this was the quickest way to get around.
Daxter cheered as he rounded a sharp turn and hopped a trail that went up the mountain. He closed his eyes and felt the wind on his face. When he opened his eyes, he was a few inches away from a girl "Whoa!" Daxter screamed as he jumped off the zoomer and fell to the ground. He heard a crash as his zoomer ran into the girl. Daxter got up and brushed off his tail.
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Post by gersemi on Jul 9, 2009 17:44:18 GMT -5
All Gersemi heard was the roar of the zoomer and it's drivers scream before she was flat on her back. She laid there for a moment. She was a little bruised on her side where the zoomer hit, and her head hurt quite a bit, but otherwise she was fine. She'd managed to move out of the way enough to save herself. As she started to get up, she didn't think to much about the pain. All that mattered to her was the other person.
"What the @#%$ do you think you're doin'?" she began to shout, "Are you nuts? You could of killed me, you @#%$^&! I outghta &^%< %$& *&%!!!!!!"
She kept spouting foul words until she got to her feet again. She was built sturdly enough to withstand the damage. She was bleeding only from her left hand, which had a scrap across the back of it. She finally looked at her assailant. Her curses stopped and all she could say was, "Whoa. You're short."
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Post by cherry on Jul 9, 2009 17:51:11 GMT -5
"Hey, I'm an ottsel." Daxter told her in his scratchy voice. "I'm supposed to be short." He pulled his goggles off his eyes and brought them to rest on top of his head.
"Listen, buddy! I didn't mean to hit you. It happened. Who goes hiking in the mountains anyway?" Daxter asked. he sighed. "Let's just put this all behind us, and go on with our lives." He walked toward his zoomer, which was hovering off the ground near a tree.
Xander heard a scream and a crash. "Oh great." he muttered to himself. He quickly assumed Daxter had crashed his zoomer...again.
With his sword on his back, he walked up the mountain trial where Daxter had gone, and followed from where he had heard the noise.
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Post by gersemi on Jul 9, 2009 18:10:51 GMT -5
Gersemi took out her pistol and pointed at the ottsel. She shoots left hand, so she couldn't hold it too steady in her now wounded hand.
"Well, then, 'buddy'," she said smiling, "How about you 'lend' me that zoomer in repayment for my damages. No one pulls a hit and run on me."
As she stepped forward, she noticed that her right knee hurt too. Damn, she thought, first my shooting hand and now my knee? She began forming a small layer of quartz on her knuckles, in case things escalated. I hope he doesn't realize how hurt I really am, she thought.
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Post by cherry on Jul 9, 2009 18:17:27 GMT -5
"Whoa whoa whoa..." Daxter said, taking a few steps back toward his zoomer. He put his hands in the air. "We don't want anyone hurt now." He said. At these times he wished he had a weapon. "We um.....we just....." he didn't know what to say. The woman looked dangerous.
Xander ran up the trail. He found a woman pointing a gun at Daxter. "Whoa!" Xander exclaimed as he stepped in sight and the gun was pointed at him. He put his hands in the air like Daxter. "Um..." He didn't know what exactly to say. "Hi, I"m Xander...what happened?' he asked. He started to edge toward Daxter. He saw the zoomer by the tree and the woman hurt. Great, he thought, leave it to Daxter to get us into trouble.
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Post by gersemi on Jul 9, 2009 22:42:06 GMT -5
Good, Gersemi thought, they think I'm armed. She cursed herself for not loading it earlier. With caution, she pointed the guy from the man to the ottsel.
"You're buddy here tried to kill me," she snarled, "That's what happened! Now hand over the zoomer. I got places to be."
She took a step closer to the ottsel, then her knee caved under her. She fell to the ground, gripping her knee. The unloaded gun fell from her hands. Her eyes watered and all she could think of was what her brother told her long ago: "You are never beat until you say so." Well, Gersemi thought, I'll never say I'm beat, at least not by these punks.
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Post by cherry on Jul 9, 2009 23:16:37 GMT -5
Daxter saw his chance to get away and took it. He jumped on his zoomer and sped off the trail and down the mountain. He remembered Xander. "Save yourself, Xander! She's crazy!" He yelled back.
Xander quickly ran and got the gun. He checked and saw it wasn't loaded. He chuckled. "Really? Go out in the Waste, without a loaded gun? Not smart. Not smart." he chuckled.
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Post by gersemi on Jul 9, 2009 23:25:55 GMT -5
"Mother always said I was the dumb one," Gersemi chuckled. She looked up at the man who called himself Xander. "Mother also said good boys should help hurt girls out when they fall."
Blood continued to pour over her hand and onto her rock encrusted knuckles. She leaned up and made a swing with her right hand at the man's stomach.
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Post by cherry on Jul 9, 2009 23:34:57 GMT -5
Xander caught her hand before it hit his stomach. He started to crush her hand in his. "And why should I help you?" He asked, with a chuckle in his voice. He threw her hand away and started to walk away. He sat a little ways away on a rock.
"So." He said looking at her gun. "What is this a late mode blaster? No." He corrected himself. "Ah well." he gave up with trying to guess the gun. He put the gun on the ground. He closed his eyes and picked up a large rock with his mind. He opened his eyes and navigated the rock with his mind and placed the rock over the gun. He stopped it. Then let it drop. The rock crushed the gun. "And now....you have no gun." he smiled, sarcastically.
Daxter was afraid. He zoomed across the base of the mountain and passed Xander's dunebuggy. He raced passed it and headed out to the desert. He just hoped Xander was okay.
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Post by gersemi on Jul 9, 2009 23:42:31 GMT -5
Gersemi raised her head and her eyes grew wide.
"You broke my gun. YOU BROKE MY GUN! You can break my knee but NO ONE BREAKS MY GUN!"
Gersemi got to her feet quickly. As her anger built up, so did the rock layer on her fist. The quartz crawled up her fore arms and she lunged after the man.
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Post by cherry on Jul 9, 2009 23:52:14 GMT -5
Xander moved out of the way as Gersemi lunged for him. He started to laugh even harder. He unstrapped his long sword form his back and gripped it in his right hand.
"I just didn't want you loading it and killing me." He told her. Just in case she had ammo on her. He twirled the sword in his right hand. "Listen, I'm sorry that my friend hurt you. And I'm also sorry for breaking your gun. But you gotta see it from my point of view. A) You threatened to kill my friend. B) You wanted a very expensive zoomer, that took me hours to fix. C) You threatened to kill me. And D) You're really funny when your angry." he laughed the last reason.
Daxter jumped off his zoomer and ran into Xander's mechanic garage. He ran over and jumped on the table. He started the com-link. He had to get ahold of somebody to help him.
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Post by gersemi on Jul 10, 2009 0:03:23 GMT -5
Xander's jeering only made Gersemi angrier. The rock climbed further up her arms. It took energy to build up her rock armor, but she didn't care. She wouldn't let this tall punk make a fool out of her. Lunging again, she punched with her dominate left, then a quick right. Hand to hand combat was her main forte. but who was this guy who seemed to doge her every move?
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Post by cherry on Jul 10, 2009 0:13:26 GMT -5
Xander quickly grabbed both of her hands. He sighed impatiently. "Please stop." He droned. "This is really starting to annoy me." He kicked her away. He picked up his sword again and slid the tip of it under her chin. "Now, stop." he smiled, sarcastically.
He walked away again, hoping she wouldn't try to attack him again. He swung his sword around. He was enjoying toying with the girl. But somehow wanted to help her. he leaned against a tree. "Okay, I'll make a deal with you." he told her. "If you promise not to kill me or my friend, I'll drive you back to the Outlanders City, get you a vehicle of your choice and a new weapon. This is my only offer. Take it or leave it." he took a cigarette out of his pocket and lit it up with his a lighter. He puffed a ring of smoke and held it in his mouth.
"Come on! Come on!" Daxter yelled at the com-link. It wasn't connecting. "Dammit!" He yelled. He ran out of the garage and jumped on the zoomer. He started back to the mountains.
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Post by gersemi on Jul 10, 2009 8:53:02 GMT -5
Gersemi fell to the ground again, time time right on her bad knee. She breathed heavily and craddle her knee in her rock laden arms. Tears welled into her eyes, and a few escaped onto her cheeks.
"A new gun!" she exclaimed, "That was my gun! My one and only gun! My brother gave me that gun..."
She met his stare with her bloodshot eyes. "And you think you can replace it? Drop me off at the Outlanders City? I have a job to get to in these mountains, a job I can't have now because I'm WOUNDED!"
She lowered her head again and looked at her shooting hand. The blood stopped flowing through the cracks of quartz. maybe she'll be alright.
"Why the %$#@ would you want to help me now?" she asked in a quieter voice.
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Post by cherry on Jul 10, 2009 12:48:40 GMT -5
Xander scratched his head and pulled the bangs out of his eyes. he sighed. "I wanted to help you because I felt sorry for you." He admitted. He lifted the rock with his mind. The gun seemed a little broken...but fixable.
Xander walked over. He took the gun in his hands and started to play with it. He finally got it fixed. "Okay," He said, turning around. "It may lock up sometimes, but it'll work." He sighed. "Have a nice life." He sighed. Xander threw the gun down to her. He started to walk away.
Suddenly Daxter came busting into the trail on his zoomer, he jumped off of it with an over-sized gun in his arms. "Okay, don't move!" He pointed the gun at the girl.
"Daxter," Xander sternly said. He picked the gun out of Daxter's hands. "Go, I was just leaving." he said, looking at the girl.
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Post by gersemi on Jul 10, 2009 19:59:48 GMT -5
Gersemi grabbed quickly for her gun. She examined it, and it seemed alright. She held it close and said under her breath, "Thanks."
She began to stand up, her knee hurting more than it did before. The rock on her arms began to recede. Growing the stone took up so much energy, and she realized how tired she actually was. The old people of her community used to say that growing using their rock powers not only took up energy, but also a little bit of your life; Thus why so many of her people don't reach the age of fifty. Gersemi was only 19, but she could feel the effects. She didn't expect to see herself reach 30.
She barely noticed when the ottsel came back. She just kept limping off. She had to find her pipe that she dropped when she got hit. She really wanted a smoke. Where the hell's my pipe, she thought. Where's my....
And then she fell. Then she couldn't get back up.
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Post by cherry on Jul 10, 2009 20:08:17 GMT -5
Xander sighed and looked down at the ground as he saw Gersemi fall again. "Why do I like to help people?" He asked himself, quietly.
Daxter started to walk back toward his zoomer. "Ha, leave her. Ungrateful bimbo." Daxter muttered. As Daxter tried to jump onto the zoomer, it hovered out from under it. "hey!" he yelled as he crashed to the ground.
Xander walked toward Gersemi, pulling the zoomer behind him. He stopped in front of Gersemi. "So...do you still want the zoomer he asked. He wondered why he felt sorry for this girl.
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Post by gersemi on Jul 12, 2009 17:29:55 GMT -5
Gersemi looked from the ground to the zoomer. She didn't like taking charity from others; She was too proud to take it. but right now, she didn't feel proud of herself at all. She raised a hand and put it on the zoomer.
"I'll bring it back," she said quietly, "I'll come right back here. It's not that far."
She tried lifting herself up again. She managed with great difficultly.
"I still don't know why you'd want to help me now," she added.
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Post by echo on Jul 12, 2009 18:01:36 GMT -5
Madison Jenner sat in the middle of the forest in the Darsor Mountains. She was practicing controlling her fire power. Fire came up form her palms as she released fireballs into the sky, and then pulled them back into her hands. She smiled.
She picked up her jacket from the ground and made sure her throwing stars were inside the pockets. She picked up her sword from the ground and put it through a loop hole in her skirt. She started to walk back to her tribe. A little town in the deep forest on the south side of the mountain. No one has ever had the guts to venture to the south side. Too many animals, which her tribe easily hunt and kill. They make good food.
She started to walk next to one of the main trails. People were on it. "Oh my..." She breathed when she saw them. Not many people usually come to the mountains. She saw a man, an ottsel....and a girl. But the girl looked different. Her knuckles had rocks in them. Could she be...a rock spirit? Madison asked herself. Her tribe thought that they were extinct.
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