Pass this smile: (づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ to anyone who made you smile this year. Thank you for making me smile :) Happy new year!
OOC: THAAAAAANNNNNNNK YOOOOOOOOU! Eeeeeee! All of my loooooove! <3
IC:
“Uh…Thanks Snow…I mean it…”
December 2011
31 posts
Different Times || Reno.Cloud
Cloud brushed by him and Reno could only shake his head in response. He’d get the blond to crack, somehow, he swore it. Hopefully he wouldn’t get maimed in the process. Turning on his heel, the redhead followed Cloud’s lead, heading toward the reactor.
“Yeah, well some of us don’t have the money to use a helicoptor Reno, if you hadn’t noticed the state of the world around you.”
Oh, he noticed. He just chose not to care. After all, as long as he had the Turks and Rufus, that was all that mattered. He still found it amazing in and of itself that himself, Rude, Elena, and Tseng, were still alive after all this shit—and with Rufus still with them. As long as he had them…he didn’t need anyone else—nothing else.
Tilting his head a bit as the blond inspected the hole, his eyes trailed over the edges. In several places it looked like it was just smashed through, others with a claw, and in a few there were bite marks. Whatever came through, there was definitely more than one variant.
“So that’s where they got through, Reno! Do something useful and punch in the security code for the door!”
“An’ ya think I actually know them?” Heh, maybe Cloud gave him more credit than he thought. He could’ve sworn the ex-SOLDIER thought he was an idiot or something. Stepping over to the main entrance, the redhead opened the hatch that hid the keypad and typed in the code, a soft rumbling coming from the doors before they opened.
Reno turned to Cloud and gestured toward the doors. “Ya or me first?”
“Ya or me first?”
Cloud didn’t actually give an answer to that question, he just went right through the doors and shook his head in irritation as the red-head gives him that look, maybe Cloud did give him a little more credit as he was an experienced member of the Turks but that did not make him on the same page as him in the slightest.
Though walking through those doors as a blue smoke started to pour out, he was faced with something that would be a little distubing; there was mako spilling out over the ground from the internal core of the reactor itself, stored in there for years as the relief effort was in full swing but old ShinRa facilities were nothing more than just scrapheaps for now.
“Oh you have to be joking me, this is why there are monsters here! Idiots…”
He says in anger, swinging that sword out to the side as he gazes upon those tracks on the floor, all of them heading for the outside but where could the main nest be? It had to be somewhere out in the wastes that lay before them and he felt so much more anger than he would usually, twitching his eyebrow a little at that sarcasm he faced earlier. Slowly but surely he was starting to crack, though would it be him or Reno to strike the first blow?
“Seems we’re going scouting then Reno, hopefully ShinRa gave you a few skills in tracking without technology as we’ll be here for a while.”
Cloud says whilst shouldering his blade and walking out into the Mako stained ground in front of him, the dirt speared by the metal of a lost age of Midgar and Cloud could not forget that bitter irony of Neo-Midgar inside the old ShinRa HQ which the late President had hoped to achieve but never did and this was the remains of his dying dream in front of him…
Prelude to a Disaster - Rikku&Cloud
(( This took so long I’m sorry! I can’t even -cries- ))
“You could’ve just let me do it myself than try and pull my arm off…Tch…”
Rikku only laughed. “Well, you were taking forever, slowpoke!” It wasn’t the first time she was told that she didn’t need their arms pulled, but she was too impatient to really care half the time. That and some people just were too slow for her liking, especially when they needed to be somewhere or were running away from a fiend. It just became habit for the teenager.
They passed through the arches of the village soon enough, and Rikku waved to a couple people as they passed.
“Okay…Right…I get it but what the heck are Fiends? Considering their name I am guessing they are some type of monster?”
“Pretty much, yeah. There are different kinds of fiends around here. Not exactly sure why they’re called fiends, exactly, but they’re monsters created by pyreflies.” The younger blonde led Cloud to a small hut near the center of the village, just right before a grand temple of sorts. “Oh, wait, you don’t know about pyreflies, huh…uhhh…” How do you explain something that everyone just knew?
((-Hugs- I did the same as well! We’re even I guess and to be honest, it was a great reply so it was worth the wait! I hope mine was too ^_^))
“Well, you were taking forever, slowpoke!”
Slowpoke? The heck was Cloud a slowpoke, he just went at the speed he wanted to at the time and that was always more than enough for him but he was strangely used to people being this way around him and constantly pushing him forwards. Sighing a little, he did pick up the pace to suit Rikku a little more; strangely enough he was taking a little more of a liking to her which was irritating him at the same time because he didn’t just -like- people out of the blue.
“Alright, alright, I’ll be a little quicker…Man I must look odd to these people.”
He says out loud, looking at the bewildered faces around before his green mako hued eyes rest on the temple and oddly he feels a sort of reverence but also dread at the sight of it, one part of him was enjoying the architecture but the other was being reminded of the Cetra temple in which he found his true destiny being forced upon him. Cloud shakes his head, tearing away from that vision before glancing back at Rikku as they walk into the hut and he stops there with his head tilted inquisitively at her but he formed up his own small conclusions.
“So…Pretty much I am guessing that pyreflies are some sort of entity that mutates to create the monsters around you? At least that’s what I am thinking, it works like Mako does on living creatures back home…”
He rubs his arm for a few moments, he could tell the poor girl was struggling to explain everything to him and he stares down at her, those swirled eyes were starting to be a little more bareable now and it helped him keep tabs on the excitable blonde in front of him as he frowns and sighs.
“Well I know what to do if I am going to be staying here…”
OOC:
Right! Whilst my brain is somewhat a little bit more alive than it has been recently, I’ll sort out the replies I owe and sorry to all those that have been patiently waiting for me. I swear winter has not been the best of seasons for me, just a good thing I did have a sort of Snow around.
Hope you all had a great Christmas!
Fenrir Remenant: @Sovereignsteelguard →
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Snow’s grin just turns to a smile as he ruffles Cloud’s hair and lets forth a laugh “I thought you might like it, buddy! It’s the least I could do for you puttin’ up with me, right?” he chuckles quietly and takes the present from Cloud, running a hand through his own spikey hair “You didn’t have to…”
Cloud makes that small growling sound, like a rather irked dog of some kind as his hair is ruffled by Snow but he keeps that smile. “I suppose it’ll do for that actually, so I’ll try and keep the complaints to a minimum.” Cloud shakes his head, looking up at the taller man as his hair just falls back into place and shrugs. “I really did have to and besides, you got me something special, so why not help you out as well?”
@Sovereignsteelguard
Cloud looks down at the sword as he unwraps it, blinking slowly as he sees the restored sword in front of him, returned to it’s former glory. The blade handed down to him from Zack and Angeal before him was gleaming in front of him, a mixture of sadness and reverance in those mako hued eyes. “I don’t one what to say…Sneaking off to Gadot’s just for this? You’re making it hard to keep up this facade of mine…” He rolls his eyes before taking out a neatly wrapped blue present with a purple bow, a perfectionst at heart after all, a flicker of a smile on his face. “Gotcha something too.”
"Cloud! Buddy!" Snow strode over, putting an arm around the smaller, blonde mans shoulders, hovering a nearly wrapped present infront of his eyes. The box was wrapped in a blue ribbon with white and silver paper, thanks again to Serah "Merry Christmas!"
Cloud let’s out a grumpy sound, sighing away for a second as he shakes his head. Looking up at the taller man, he sighs and narrows his eyes. “What’s up Snow? Kinda busy working on Fenrir…” He says, glancing down at the black and gold bike in front of him and incidentally he was just in a dirty white t-shirt and his pants but he furrows his eyebrows in surprise at that present. “Uh…Yeah…You too…” Completely caught off guard as he takes it, starting to pull it open with a small smile…
"Cloud!" Rikku skipped over to the other blond, all smiles. "I wasn't sure what to get you, but here!" She handed him a small green box with a yellow bow. "Merry Christmas!"
Cloud looks shocked for a scant moment at this generosity of that highly excitable girl, his mako green eyes widened as he takes the gift. “Erm…Thanks Rikku…This was a little unexpected, I thought I’d be the one getting you a gift…” He hands her a blue wrapped gift with a silver ribbon, giving a rather rare smile. “Merry Christmas.”
Merry Christmas to you all!
OOC: Hope you all enjoy your days and get everything you desire :) Sorry for being so inactive lately! Flu and other things have gotten to me. So I shall try to do more now I’m somewhat better! Take care all!
IC: Humbug…
fenrirremenant started following you
“Well, none at all I’d say. Just a bit unexpected that’s all, sometimes you can surprise a ‘jack-of-all-trades’ y’know? How have you been keeping?”
“What? Not happy to see me, Cloud? I’ve been pretty well, actually. And hopefully you’ve been the same….?”
“W-well yeah I am happy to see you, just shocked that’s all.” //Takes a deep breath, to calm himself down// “I have been actually, thanks. Just having to deal with a lot going off at once…”
All by itself ont he seat of Fenrir in front of 7th Heaven sits a beat up tissue box wrapped up with blue construction paper and scotch tape. It's not a particularly fancy piece of handiwork, in fact it's quite terrible, but the contents inside -- individually wrapped chocolate cherry drops -- seem to have cost a pretty penny. A slip of paper beneath the box reads, "From Mel. Don't eat them all at once. They're really rich."
Cloud walks out from the bar itself, sleep still attacking his eyes as he yawns slightly and shakes his head. “Geh…I can tell this is going to be one of those days…” Before he jogs down the steps towards his bike and hardly seeing the box upon it as he was about to mount it but stops himself suddenly. “Wait…” He says so himself curiously before swinging his leg back off and then looking down. “Someone was in a hurry…Still…Who left a box on my bike?” A sudden feeling of anger welling up that someone touched his precious bike, though quite unlike him, he pulls open the box carefully and blinks a few times. Unwrapping one in confusion, he pops it into his mouth and his taste buds are suddenly attacked by a truly delicious mixture of cherry and chocolate. Though his mind suddenly sparked up with a small thought: ‘Strife, you just ate something a random stranger left you and it could have been poisoned. What is wrong with you?’ But he kept on eating, spotting that slip of paper he reads it before smirking and shaking his head for a moment.
“Mel, eh? Next time I see her, I’m going to have to pay her back for these. The kindness of strangers…Maybe this’ll be a good day for once.”
Fenrir Remenant: sovereignsteelguard: Fenrir Remenant: sovereignsteelguard: Fenrir…
//Grins// “I got you to smile!”
“I’d say that’s a mission complete in itself, Haha!”
“Yeah, yeah, just don’t get used to it and I know you’ve been attempting for a while…At any rate, I’ll give you a hand clearing this up. Considering I have to cope with this place too.”
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“I guess being a fish is a different insult..”
“It’s usually Chocobo head..”
//Laughs to himself for a moment//
“Okay that serious face is too much Snow, trying to be me? I guess we share that little burden of an insult.”
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“Snow…If your team loses and you end up flipping a table, at least clean up the damn mess…I’m…
“I have a memory like a fish sometimes!”
“Just loosen up, man. Live a little.”
“I have loosened up Snow, I just watched the game with you last night, what else do you want from me? You walking goldfish.”
( “Always is a pleasure to see you on my dash.” :] )
OOC: Hah! Thank you very much and same to you as well ^_^
Fenrir Remenant: sovereignsteelguard: fenrirremenant: sovereignsteelguard:…
“Snow…If your team loses and you end up flipping a table, at least clean up the damn mess…I’m not a maid anymore y’know?”
“Well.. you’re the woman of this bromance, Man! Plus I haven’t made a…
“OH! Oh right. I called you a woman.. Sorry buddy.”
“I swear Snow, sometimes you just let these things out.”
“Snow…If your team loses and you end up flipping a table, at least clean up the damn mess…I’m not a maid anymore y’know?”
“Well.. you’re the woman of this bromance, Man! Plus I haven’t made a mess. Don’t judge me.”
“You’ve left chips and beer all over the floor and woman?! Okay come here and let me explain…How your soon to be sister-in-law would…”
“Woah! Woaaah! Hey” //stumbles off the sofa//
“My who in the what now?!”
“Weren’t you planning on marrying Serah? Or did that idea get knocked out of your head…”
