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Alternia (Second Timeline)
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-Zembra looked up at the Talon beast and then to her friend. She took off her computer and hoisted herself up onto back. She then tried to gently place her computer over Skvaada’s eye. She smiled and said, “I can hold on, I am fairly certain.” She gripped onto the saddle and the talonbeast, being used to sandpaper skin rather than a saddle or lithe bodies. “Ready when you are,” she said giving a thumbs up.-
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“Alright, then. Please hold on.” Skvaada plunged her hands into the mass of snowy white feathers on her lusus’ neck, until she found a good hand-hold. She gave Tobias a few strokes on the neck before gently urging her lusus foward.
Tobias gave a screech before giving a great flap of her wings and leaping off the landing pad and rocky cliff her ward’s hive was built on. Another powerful flap, and the bird began to rise high into the sky and circle, looking for a thermal current to gain some more height while Skvaada began to check the computer to find their destination.
“Are you alright?” She shouted against the hiss of rushing wind that whipped past as the lusus finally reached a high enough altitude to satisfy the avian creature. Catching a seabreeze, the lusus began to head out across the ocean.
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-Zembra gripped onto Tobias with a squeak as the feathery beast took off. She shook a bit as it went up and up. She nodded her head a bit to herself to assure herself. She then yelled, “THIS IS TERRIFYING!” She gripped harder on and looked out over the lands below. “AND QUITE BEAUTIFUL!” She found herself gazing at everything going past. She was damn sure to make sure she was still holding on though.-
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Zembra’s shout brought an amused smirk to Skvaada’s face, because really that summed up just about everything. “WELCOME TO ALTERNIA!” Then, focusing on the computer, she steered the avian beast towards Zembra’s hive. It took a moment to understand the directions and get used to seeing both the computer and the surroundings, but eventually she got the hang of it.
Tobias spotted something flash in the water and paused for a moment in the air, just barely delaying a wingbeat. The brief moment of change gave the land-dwelling a troll the chance to pull up on the feathers. “Don’t you dare! Hunt on your own time,” she shouted at the lusus. Not only would it be embarassing, given present company but the sudden dive has a chance of accidently dislodging her new friend!
With a reluctant squawk and a slightly nasty glare directed at her ward, the lusus continued flying and approached where the computer indicated Zembra’s hive was.
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-Zembra held on tight and started to smirk. Her eyes noticed when the bird saw a fish. She got nervous and held tighter. She smiled as she listened to her new friend get her bird to go the right way. She then peeked around and said, “You see that metalic boat looking thing sticking out of the water over there? That’s my hive.” She giggled and said, “Also, just hope your lusus doesn’t run into mine. He’s probably furious.” She shuddered before taking a deep breath.-
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“Yeah, an encounter between out lusii would be most unfortunate. Your hive is pretty cool, though,” Skvaada complimented as they began to descend towards the part of the boat indicated. “Did you sink that boat yourself, or just have your hive built like that?” The winged lusus let out a screech of protest against landing so low down and close to the water. With much persuasion, the beast was coerced into hovering a few feet above the highest point of the seadweller’s hive. With an exasperated sigh, Skvaada dismounted, swinging one leg across the bird’s feathery neck before sliding down her lusus’ side to the tip of its feet and then jumping off onto her friend’s hive.
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-“I had it built like that. I needed an outward part for my computers. It stretches the whole way to the ocean floor,” She sounded proud of herself as she swung her leg around. She ended up dangeling from the lusus and then let go to drop to her feet on the top of the hive. “You have a nice lusus.” She then immidiately shimmied to a ledge and began feeling around the wall for a panel. As soon as she found it, she pulled it and the wall opened to reveal the back of one of her computers and her computer room, a metal scythe sitting freshly finished in the printer.-
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Skvaada entered the hive curiously, noticing the flashing computer screens and the printer while trusting that the room would not spontaneously flood or be intruded on by an aggravated lusus. “Oh, that must be the scythe you alluded to earlier.” The troll walked over to the scythe and picked it up curiously. A gentle fingering of the point created a small cut leaking a drop of indigo blood. She hastily wiped it on a corner of her black shirt. “Well, it’s certainly sharp enough to make a good weapon. Mind if I test it?”
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-Zembra made sure to close the door behind them and smiled as she saw her scythe picked up. “Sure. I have a few blocks of Iron you can slice. I will just melt them back down anyway.” She gave a more sincere smile as her fingers crossed a button and a slot opened up, pushing out two blocks of iron. She then looked down at the pexiglass floor and noticed her Lusus charging up a ram. “Brace yourself!” She stood firm and felt the floor move an inch as her lusus rammed it head first at a full swimming speed.-
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“What!?” The startled shout came out as a slightly high-pitched squeak as the plexiglass floor beneath shook with the force of the shark’s ramming attack. The land-dwelling troll allowed herself to skid back from the force a half-step instead of digging in her feet and possibly compromising the integrity of the floor.
“Zembra,” she started taking a gulp of nervous breath as she regained her balance, “Perhaps now is an opportune moment to mention that I am not a particularly STRONG swimmer.”
She risked a look down to see what had just attacked the hive, and whether any cracks had appeared in the floor.
“Please tell me your floor will– oh my!” Skvaada caught sight of the upset shark preparing another ramming attack. “That is not a happy lusus. Will you need your scythe,” she asked, handing over the weapon. -
-Zembra had a challenging smirk on her face and said, “The floor was made to make sure my stuff stays dry. No matter how hard he rams, he can’t get in! But I will teach him a lesson.”
She looked over as the scythe was being handed to her and she gripped it. She ran for the hole down, slamming the door behind her and pulling the above as the floor in the pod dropped out and she flung herself into the water with her lusus. She swam right at him and caught him inches before the glass, smacking him upside the head with the broad side of her new scythe.
The shark tumbled a bit then saw his skilled adversary to be the one he raised, still infuriated with her as he took another charge but this time, right at her. She swung her scythe and he caught it with his teeth. To her luck, and surprise, it wasn’t broken this time. She smirked and kicked her lusus in the snout, causing him to release her scythe and try to swim away for another go. She got the tip of her scythe into his scales and rode on him a bit, not before he bashed her into a wall and made her let go. She was obviously disoriented.-
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“Oh shoot,” Skvaada cursed as her newly found friend was slammed against the wall of the underwater hive by her own lusus, after attempting to assert her superiority. From the disoriented look on Zembra’s face, that last attack had hurt.
“Come on, Zembra! You can not let him get away with that!” At least she could offer some moral support.
Normally, the indigo blood’s first instinct would be to help Zembra, but two facts stopped her. The first was that she was reluctant to get involved in a strife between a troll as their lusus. The shark was very unlikely to seriously injure his ward. The second was that Skvaada was NOT a seadwelling troll. Strifing underwater would be a huge disaster!
“Show your lusus who is boss! You can do it!” Although, she had faith in her friend, Skvaada scrolled through her sylladex until she found something to use as a back-up plan, just in case.
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-Zembra reoriented herself as the shark was right in her face. She grabbed its jaws and held them apart as the shark lusus shook his head back and forth to get her out. She then kicked the top part of the mouth, the lusus’s mouth relaxing enough for Zembra to flip out of the mouth and onto her lusus’s head. She crawled down the back and gripped her scythe, just as the lusus came back to his senses. She held on tight as he bashed back and forth. She finally got her scythe out and ran up to the lusus’s ‘neck’ and swung her scythe to barely touch it. The lusus bled a little bit but calmed down, allowing her to get off his back then for him to retreat into a hiding hole.
Zembra was relieved and went back up into her pod, closing the bottom and getting dried off before the door back to her computer room opened. She stepped out and placed her scythe at the side and said, “Damn that wwas intense! Sorry you had to sea that.”-
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Skvaada gave Zembra a congratulatory grin, “You had me worried for a moment, there.” Still, that was pretty good strifing for someone who was only just breaking in a new weapon, she internally admitted. “So, it looks like you got your answer about the scythe if it can stop a charging lusus! So do you only use scythekind or do you have more than one specibus?”
The troll was eager to ‘hang out’ with another troll instead of just holing up by herself. Oh, they were going to have so much fun dying hair, making jewelry, and just relaxing. She couldn’t help but wonder whether Zembra had any colors of dye other than violet. For an indigo-blood to dye her hair violet would be so…deliciously scandalous and depraved. Skvaada’s pointy toothed grin remained in full force, “Oh and good job by the way!”
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-Zembra smiled and said, “Thanks, I knew the new metal would have possibly held up. Others I would have needed to melt down. If I do some quick typing on the printer I can start cutting out your eating utensils while we have fun!” She did some quick typing in the computer as she thought about the question asked of her using only one weapon type.
“I tend to favor the scythe. It is the only one I carry with me,” She had her fingers move quickly she typed in all the coordinates to make 5 full sets of silver ware, forks, spoons, knives, and sporks. Yes sporks although she didn’t know what they were called, she believed mixing a fork and a spoon would be useful. She entered the coordinates and placed on a fresh block of material then started the print.
She moved to a shelf near her one computer and took out a case, carrying it over and opening the box to reveals dyes of every color. “I got dyes and paints and all sorts of fun stuff we can do,” She smiled and said, “pick a color!”-