Way Past the Outskirts

[Yolanda Riona]

Posted by Nokame on Aug. 14 2008,21:21
Gloomy. The sky was gloomy today. The smell of rubble and distruction made the day look dreary. Way away from the peril and destruction however stood one figure. With a simple bag of art tools. Sat and painted the sky.

He escaped the peril and dismay of the attacks. He wasn't a target really but a bystander. Stuck in the warfare of earth and space and heavens. The thought of it made him ill.

With a puff of smoke and a sigh, the turtle streches his arms behind his azure shell. He wasn't bored but rather his intresst to keep this terrible image into shape gave him enough excitement to finish and paint harder til his arms nummbed away. It wasnt a matter of sadism he'd paint this but rather the pure bliss of colors, sounds of misery, and smells of death was like heroine.

He dabs some more red onto his canvas and streaks a huge assortments of red streaks, in attempts to imitate the smoke from down below...
Posted by Akeso on Aug. 14 2008,21:53
[ENTER AKESO]

She couldn’t help but look at the sky. It wasn’t exactly normal to see after all. Granted, there was that one day in Station Square….

But she wanted to forget about it.

A brown rucksack was slung over her shoulder filled with as much medical supplies as she needed. Granted, she could heal, but the problem was there was not going to be enough healing for everyone. She would only use it for the most seriously wounded.

Either way, she was on a mission and nothing was going to stop her from doing so. Not even a messed up road that was going to make her go on foot.

‘Wow, I didn’t realize things were so bad…’ she thought quietly to herself as she placed her right hand on the bag’s strap.

She was staring at the ground thinking of other things before she looked up and saw a bit of an usual sight.

‘Is….that a tall Turtle…..painting?’

She began to walk up close to the person in question.
“Um, excuse me?”
Posted by Nokame on Aug. 14 2008,21:57
He continued to paint, his strokes grew streaky, lacking in paint substance. So he dabbed some more from his palatte.
Skrtskrtskrtskrt.
"..me" the words crept out of his attention. He broke his gaze at the sky and store at the voice. Blond, Short, Thin with clothing that looked bizarre to him.

He puffed more out of his smokes and store at discontent at her. Not saying a word but rather giving her a stare in attentive fashion.
Posted by Akeso on Aug. 14 2008,22:03
She looked back at him like a deer in the headlights.

‘Um….why is he staring at me like that?’

She blinked twice as she tried to get a hold of herself from being creped out.

She glanced at what he was painting at and then at the scene before her…and then back at the painting.

“That’s a nice…painting….it looks….scary. Kinda like what’s happening over there.” She managed to spill out, pointing over to the scene.

She wanted to slap herself for saying what she said. There goes a good first impression.
Posted by Nokame on Aug. 14 2008,22:17
"Its sort of a hobby i guess. Life doing as what i paint on my canvas," He retorted quickly. With a nother puff, he finally spits the near dead cigerette to the ground. Whether or not it burns out is not his concern.

He takes his larger paintbrush and bites on the edge of it. He's alittle concerned. Who is this person doing here? And with what care does she have for my painting anyway? There is a general figuration with Noka that nobody appreciated his artwork back home he grew use to that his art was just never really any good.

"Is. Is there something you want with me?" His voice alittle less determained as previously. Twitching in his left brow. He continues to stare at the girl, while rapidly glancing at the sky. It grew a shade of darker red..
Posted by Akeso on Aug. 14 2008,22:25
She stared at him with a bit more of a scared look. She grew a little tense, as she wasn’t exactly like being stared at.

“Um…I was just…wondering if you have seen some…people…around…….injured….possible.” She tried to stay normal all the way through her sentence, but as it got closer to the end it got quite.

“Because….the city is being attacked…and all….” She added on, saying it a little quieter than before. She closed her eyes and gave a nervous smile, taking her Index finger and began to make them poke at each other.
Posted by Nokame on Aug. 14 2008,22:32
He pondered about this. "I heard them, their constant screeching was sort of annoying. So i kept going." He light a new cig. and blinked for the first time in a while. He rubbed his eye with his free hand. The other holding the cig and the paintbrush now.

He took note of the darker sky, quickly fumbled through his belongings to bring a purple painttube, with a mixture of red and purple, he put his focus back to his painting. Taking every instance and detial in a color that was slghtly off from the true color.

"I sorta use to live there too. Guess you can say im a hobo now huh?" He laughed disgustedly for a second itching his eye some more.

"What would you want to do wasting your time down there in that big mess? I doubt nothing is going to thank you for saying hi to it..." He remarks, puffing again into his smokes.
Posted by Akeso on Aug. 14 2008,22:39
“But…that’s not why I’m here.” She said quietly.

And the freaky factor was just increasing with him. Granted, most people would of probably looked down on him for just leavening people behind, but she knew despite that, it was just how they were and there wasn’t much to do about it. After all, it might of not exactly be there fault for their own thinking…

“I just came here to help….though; it looks like it might be a little late….” She started going into a mumble. She bit the end of her right thumb as she tried to decide what to do.
Posted by Nokame on Aug. 14 2008,22:49
The truth be told, even if he dd help those people. Being around THAT many people would slowly irritate the tall giant. He sighed for a moment and pulled on his long messy green hair. He hated crowds. It was interesting he figured this out AFTER leaving the desert. It was with no remorse or reason, it just one day he almost grewviolent towards the city crowd.


"What is it that you'd do? I mean.. You want to help but how? You're just alittle kid.. They have those cops for those sort of things to HELP people out." He wasn't exactly bitter about the discussion. He finally dropped his brush. He felt sort of accomplished with his painting. It lost its true color scheme but he had a sense of approval at it. Its like he sort of lost focus on the girl in the first place..

It was a second til he figured out she was still around. He was idly amusing himself with his movements forgetting her prescence

"Oh."
Posted by Akeso on Aug. 14 2008,22:58
“Well I can heal…..and stuff…..” she glanced the other way, slightly embarrassed. She felt as though she just lost to a very SHORT argument.

She looked back towards the city in curiosity. There where plenty of aircrafts, and it seemed as though they were leavening, but….who knew? Maybe a few of them are still there?

…But also there might be some people in serious need of help.

Her mind began to spin. She knew that if she ran into any of those thugs, then she would be gone. She couldn’t fight, and she refused to. But if there was someone left down there that needed help.

She moaned in dissatisfaction. She didn’t like the idea of leavening people to die. But, this was reality, and she knew that things like this happened.

“….I guess there’s not much I can do….” She stared at the ground looking to the left as she muttered the line to herself. She scoffed her shoe a little against the ground. There had to be a way that she could help….
Posted by Nokame on Aug. 15 2008,07:50
Noka turned away and spit his cig again. Sort of disgusted with the girls disgusted response.

"If you're that desperate to see dying things go right ahead. Use your pixie magic or whatever to save the day. Like whoever is supposed to do it around here anyway." He retorts, cleaning off his paintbrush from all the paint. He'd occassionally take a whiff of the toxic paint thinner while he did so.

He slowly begun to put his paint tubes into his bag, one by one. Til he noticed he was all out of red.
Posted by Akeso on Aug. 15 2008,20:42
Strangely enough, she didn’t seem to get mad at this response (unlike how most people would). Instead she seemed a little down hearted by what he said. She wanted to say something back, but it would seem that it would pretty much be like talking to a brick wall.

It wasn’t going to help her and no matter what she said it wouldn’t affect it.

So with a sad look that looked close to a pout, she began moving of the direction of the city. It was risky, but at least she didn’t come out there for nothing. She did so hate wasting things.

“Well, then goodbye.” She said silently, as she began to walk towards the desolate city.
Posted by Nokame on Aug. 15 2008,20:51
He looked at his empty red painttube. Slightly ignoring what she said. With a grunt he stands up, a towering 6 feet to the air. With a lift of his bag of supplies he walks towards the wasted city. Speedly walking off.

In sort ignoring what she said.
Posted by Akeso on Aug. 15 2008,21:03
It took her a little bit to notice that the large turtle had just past her. She blinked twice as she watched him speed by (though granted, he was slow, but he was moving faster than her own walk).

‘What….the?’ she thought silently to herself as she began to run to catch up to him, which coincidently didn’t take too long.

“Umm…I thought you were –not- going back into the city.” She managed to say, wanting to know exactly why while he seemed like he wasn’t going to go anywhere near it, then suddenly starts walking towards it.
Posted by Nokame on Aug. 15 2008,21:09
"I need paint." he replied hurridly. He was distracted, and felt the urge that he needed to find that paint.
Posted by Akeso on Aug. 15 2008,21:13
A small sweat drop formed on her head as she looked at him dumfounded.

She wasn’t even going to ask. She just kept walking at her own, fast speed and looked forward, getting closer and closer to the now destroyed city.

“Well, at least if any paint survived.” She added on quietly, looking at the damage the city has took on.

Posted by Nokame on Aug. 15 2008,21:41
Noka felt sort of paniced. The first time he left it wasn't already in rubble.

Its interesting to notice how from afar he's alright with the chaos but upclose Noka cannot handle the stress.

"this this is no good! ... No good!" He flustered, "there wont be paint anywhere... ergh." he twitched a bit, he looked alittle confused and lost slowly losing his calm demenor.
Posted by Akeso on Aug. 15 2008,21:57
She looked at him with an even more dumfounded look before she began to keep her distance. She looked around and was slightly afraid as she couldn’t believe that the place that she was standing in was once a city. It was scary how much destruction had happened here, and the fact that no one was in sight.

Which was good and bad in her sense.

Good because there weren’t any goons around, bad because no one was around at all.

Either way, she hoped her turtle ‘friend’ wasn’t going to pass out on her or anything like that.
Posted by Nokame on Aug. 15 2008,22:05
He coughed once and bent over. He coughed twice and released a vile noise from his mouth.

He hunched over holding his head, he had grown too tense and nausueas in a quick moment that it caught up with him
Posted by Akeso on Aug. 15 2008,22:20
She noticed what was happening.

“Oh dear.” She said quietly as she noticed what was going to happen.

She walked over slowly, getting a little close to the towering giant of a turtle. She was careful not to touch him as her hand hovered somewhere in the middle of his back. She concentrated on putting the healing energy through to her hand as a white light with a tiny bit of a yellow tint came from it.

[Small HEAL spell. Hardly using any energy]

(OOC NOTE: Just to say, NO, SHE CANNOT CURE SOMEONE THAT IS ILL, all she is doing is using a bit of her energy to make him RELAX so he isn’t all nauseated and throw up and stuff. It relaxes both nerves and muscles so, he’ll general be mellow, but I will say I forgot to mention that this is a natural side-effect from getting healed since it is supposed to make you feel better. But, if you got a cold, it wouldn’t sure you of it, all it would do is make you feel good and relaxed and all that sort of stuff. :/)
Posted by Nokame on Aug. 16 2008,08:21
[Its magical valium.]

A strange feeling came to him. His once stiff limbs felt weak and relaxed. Clearly the pain was still present in his cranium but a sense of calmness came to him.

He kneeled over and sighed heavily before finally hitting the ground. He sat in idle calmness thinking over nothing
Posted by Akeso on Aug. 16 2008,08:49
“Umm….are you okay now, sir?” She asked him, as she was a little concerned about him since he fell on her (not actually on her, just the fact that he fell) and she wanted to make sure nothing was wrong. She was standing next to him, keeping her distance, as she looked at him waiting for an answer.
Posted by Nokame on Aug. 16 2008,10:10
He looked up, that girl again.

"You- You did this?" He sounded disbelieved. He never really beleived healers, or magic in general really, there was none of that from the desert..
Posted by Akeso on Aug. 16 2008,10:21
"Uhhh....yeah, I kinda did. Heheh..." The nervous smile appeared again as she closed her eyes and rubbed the back of her head. She was starting to get near to a normal tone of voice now, than her quiet shy tone.
Posted by Nokame on Aug. 16 2008,10:26
"I never thought you things existed." He rubbed his temple, "I always thought it was just hospitals that did all the kinds of medical nonsense."


"You know. what is your name? So i dont have to keep calling you Kid or that girl." He quickly states
Posted by Akeso on Aug. 16 2008,10:34
“My name is Akeso.” She answered back in a chirpy like matter. It was obvious by now that the tension was going away around her as she seemed much happier now.

[ OOC:Can't seem to say much elese for now. xD]
Posted by Nokame on Aug. 16 2008,10:42
"Akeyso? Ah Key So? Ahekyso?" He tried to pronounce the name, it felt alittle to out there for his understanding. "AHKAHSO.."

"How long have you done this healy thing Ahkeysa? "
Posted by Akeso on Aug. 16 2008,10:45
“Since I was little…and it’s A-K-SO. There isn’t a ‘y’ in my name.” She replied back, hopeing he would pronounce her name right.
Posted by Nokame on Aug. 16 2008,10:47
"So its AKSO.. right?"
Posted by Akeso on Aug. 16 2008,10:48
“Close enough.” She replied back.
Posted by Nokame on Aug. 16 2008,11:43
"Is this something you learn or what? This magic whatever is new to me." There was a change in his personlle. His speech while still conjumbled and confusing it was no where near as cold as it was previously.
Posted by Akeso on Aug. 18 2008,15:32
“It was sort of natural for me….granted, I had to practice to learn how to use it better like using small amounts for smaller thing and that sort of thing.” She answered back cheerful. “Though, it does appear I’m the only one that can do this. I haven’t meet anyone else that can do the same thing as I can.”

Posted by Nokame on Aug. 20 2008,07:42
[meat snrk]

"Id guess that'd make sense." Noka pondered, "Something like that should be rare or we'd have medics running around smacking people with holy hands and crap..."

Nokas attention left from paint and onto other things, like looking around the rubbled city
Posted by Akeso on Aug. 24 2008,10:11
" Umm....perhaps we should leave." Akeso started out looking around worrying about her turtle friend thinking he might get sick agian. "It doesn't look anyone's here anyways."
Posted by Nokame on Aug. 24 2008,10:38
"if that is what you want." he quickly replies getting another cigerrette from his pocket and lighting it up.
Posted by Akeso on Aug. 28 2008,20:41
She paused, stareing at him slightly. She wanted to tell him that smokeing wasn't excatly a good thing...

But, then again, it wasn't her life so she decied not to mess with his.

"If only I was able to help in some way..." She mumbled as she began to turn away starting to go back towards the outskirts.
Posted by Nokame on Aug. 28 2008,20:52
He took a few puffs from the light cigerette. He looked down at Akeso, she really and truely felt sad for these people.

"So why?"
Posted by Akeso on Sep. 20 2008,23:31
She looked at him in confused way.

“Because….I just…..” She looked down. She couldn’t seem to say what she felt about it in words.
Posted by Nokame on Sep. 21 2008,07:52
Noka said nothing but continued to walk onwards, he grew sort of detatched from the girl, even after what she had did. He took a nother puff of his cigerrete and continued to walk onward.

Distracted he walked further and further away from the outskirts and more into the city. a humming noise he heard detoured his attention towards the heart of the city
[to streets]

Posted by Akeso on Sep. 22 2008,19:11
She blinked, watching him move on. Here eyes closed a little in saddness before she began to turn the other way.

But she too heard the humming, which sparked her curiosity.

'Maybe...'

She soon began to follow the turtle, staying behind him at a long distance.

[to streets]