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Post by Advix on Jul 16, 2012 20:21:31 GMT -5
After several hours, a caravan of vehicles pulled up to the house of Jormun Vrak. As they stopped, Solala stepped out of her new car with Yuro, and looked at the broken television and broken chair out by the curb. She simply held her face in her hand, shaking it in feeling that could only be summed up as "negative". Malik stepped out of Elengala's limo and walked over to his girlfriend, wrapping an arm around her. "I'm sure he's cooled off," he said to her. He took some deep breaths before he lead to towards the house waving towards the vampires. "Come on, you guys."
Inside the modest one floor rancher, the scent of smoke filled the living room. Jormun was chain smoking at the dining room table, a habit that he had stopped years ago. "By the gods, Dad..."
"I don't want to hear it, Lala. Don't start." He allowed the smoke to come out of his nose as he breathed out. "I take it that you're only here to grab your stuff. It's right where you left it, untouched." He was still angry, though he seemed to have calmed down considerably. Enough to allow Arlin to enter without assaulting him.
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Post by Greed on Jul 18, 2012 12:32:40 GMT -5
Aire, Rerrarie, and Sorel stepped out of their car, as well, Aire looking at the broken TV at the curb, and imitating Solala motion for motion. Well... for the most part, every thing was okay now. Really, that was all okay now, wasn't it? Aire had her parents safe for the most part, as well as Yuro. That was enough... wasn't it? Rerrarie smiled nervously as she entered the house behind Arlin. Arlin... he was a wearing this self satisfied grin, that just radiated how damn pleased he was with the way everything had turned out.
"Ah, hello... Mr. Vrak.... Thank you for looking after my daughter for a few days..." As her mother greeted the lamia, Aire just looked down and away; she really couldn't face him after she and Sorel had walked out on him. And... well, chain smoking didn't exactly leave the best first impression. Particularly, Aire knew this because her mother hated the smell of those things.
"Yeah pops, we're just here to pick up the kids stuff too, hope you don't mind." Arlin seemed completely unfazed, seeing Jormun like this; either he truly didn't care, or he was used to this sort of thing.
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Post by Advix on Jul 18, 2012 18:26:24 GMT -5
"Well, it wasn't any trouble, Mrs. Leerhart," Jormun said, waving his hand in a motion of dismissal. "At least, not for your daughter's meri-" It was then that Jormun finally realized something. Aire had said that her mother had been badly hurt, but she looked completely fine, with but a few burn scars, which were well healed. And as Jormun looked at her face more closely, he noticed that her eyes had become that of a... "...What." Jormun slowly stood from his chair, slithering over to them in bewilderment. "You're a vampire, now? But..." He turned to question Aire, but then he noticed something. The shoulder of her shirt was torn, as if something large bit her shoulder. Malik's eyes followed Jormun's, and as Malik looked back to the retired lamia his brain processed what was happening as Jormun reeled his fist back and struck Malik, knocking him clear off his feet. Solala gasped loudly as her father struck her fiance, but before anyone could react in anyway, Malik threw his hand up.
"It's alright!" the rocker shouted. "This is between me and Jormun. I made a promise, and I couldn't keep it. I had it coming." Jormun then turned to Arlin, his anger returning again.
"Just what the hell happened out there?"
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Post by Tokrochiru on Jul 19, 2012 23:19:33 GMT -5
Two more people stepped out from behind Solala. Those two were Elen and Yuro respectively. It was almost immeasurably awkward for the both of them.
Elen, overflowing with confidence, decided now would be a good moment to intervene for just a short while.
"My good man, I can assure you I was far more startled when I first discovered what was about to transpire. But in the end, I grew to accept the change. Rerrarie's life was hanging by a thread, and so she requested a second chance. Aire saved the life of her own mother. What else is there to say?"
Yuro thought she was a bit heavy on the prose, but otherwise, she made her point well. Aire saved her mother's life with her actions. That was all that needed to be said.
The still speechless Yuro appeared next out from behind the others, his body still staggering and weak, despite there being nothing physically wrong with him. It was up to Jormun to decide if the boy was worth noticing. Yuro wouldn't have minded just staying invisible for now.
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Post by Greed on Jul 20, 2012 0:32:21 GMT -5
"Huh?" Arlin scratched his head, looking back and Aire's shoulder; with a moment of clarity, the lamia put his fist down into his open palm, like he finally figured it out.
"Yeaaaah, that. Turns out an ugly bio-mechanical monster tried to take a bite out of her. Lets just say she gave it some bad indigestion." Arlin crossed his arms, nodding with self-assured confidence, as Rerrarie's eyes widened, looking back at her daughter.
"Aire, you were..." Her voice was trembling; Aire's mother hadn't even noticed it before, what with all that had happened.
"N-No, mom, I'm fine now." Aire was the one who wanted to be invisible now. Sorel just frowned, and decided to say nothing, despite the clear fact that he knew something about it. What he and Solala had witnessed out of her was... shocking, to say the least. The less that Jormun and Rerrarie knew about it at the moment, the better.
"R-Really... all I did was defend myself. Besides... the damn thing came through a wall. Can't really blame that on Malik or Arlin." It was a pathetic defense, but still, it was worth saying.
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Post by Advix on Jul 20, 2012 13:12:12 GMT -5
Jormun stood there with his head in his hand, fighting an incredible migraine. "But they... he... uuuuuurgh... that doesn't change the fact he put Aire in danger! Aaarliiiin... I wish words could describe how much I loathe you. And that you three simply went along with it..." Solala winced as her father scolded them like children. She knew he was right. The lamia took deep breaths before his eyes caught Yuro. "...Wait, is that... But, where's McKensey?" Solala simply gave her father a sorrowful look, he understood immediately. "...Damn it all... I'm too old for this kind of grief." Jormun slithered over to his bedroom. "...Grab what you came for, and leave me in peace." He then closed the door behind him, leaving the room silent.
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Post by Tokrochiru on Jul 21, 2012 7:08:20 GMT -5
Uncouth, disrespectful, and altogether acting liking a horrible parent.
The first two were repulsive, but the third one...
"I don't want to hear it, Elengala. If you're going on a trip, then go. You're a fully grown woman. Learn to make decisions for yourself and stop relying on me to approve of everything you do beforehand."
The young ave walked up to Jormun and gave him a hard slap to the face, respect toward Solala's kin be damned. Sometimes the disrespectful needed to be put in their place. The force of the slap might as well bordered on that of a heavy iron mace with the amount of shock and pain it delivered.
"How DARE you be so disrespectful towards your own daughter! The hostility you hold toward that Arlin fellow is your own private business, as is your opinion on the method used to accomplish Rerrarie's recovery. But when you behave in such an ill-mannered fashion in front of people who have lost almost everything they hold dear, you become something something far worse than a mere blackhearted beaurocrat. You become a horrible example of a father, and you harm several people, including your daughter, as a result. Shame on you, Mr. Vrak. Shame on you."
The ave crossed her arms and walked past the visitors.
"I will be waiting in my limousine," she said on her way out.
Yuro wasn't sure if she had slain a beast, or created one. Only time would tell, he supposed.
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Post by Advix on Jul 21, 2012 11:16:20 GMT -5
Solala stood there in shock as she watched Elengala enter her father's room, and heard the sound of a woman's slap. Jormun stood there for a brief moment processing what just happened, his hands slowly curling into fists. He quickly followed Elengala, and as she opened the front door, Jormun whipped her rear with his tail, forcing her out the door.
"I don't know who you are, or where you are from, but when my daughter and three adults endanger a child who was recently under my care, I'm damn well going to scold them. And as for your little act of bravado, all I can say is "Fuck you!!" Jormun slammed the door behind him, and locked it. As he turned around he looked at Yuro, who seemed just as shocked as Solala.
"...I'm guessing she's a friend of yours. I'm sorry you had to see that, but when you walk into my bedroom, hit me, and call me a bad father, you are out of my house." Solala simply held her head in her hand, unable to believe that that just happened. "So," the retired lamia said. "Anybody else have something to say to me? Before I go back to my room?"
"I think you're a great father," Malik chimed in.
"...Shut up, Malik."
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Post by Greed on Jul 21, 2012 21:56:02 GMT -5
".... well. Can't see I didn't see that coming." Arlin snickered for a moment, before his face turned up in a sick frown, "However... if I hadn't taken Aire and Sorel with us, we would have never been able to save her mother's life."
"... Wait... that's right." Sorel nodded, looking at Jormun, "Notonly did she arrive just in the nick of time to help her mom, we figured out that those abominations were made with humans. They had human blood and it-"
"It tasted like hospital." Aire and Rerrarie said in unison. This elicited another smirk from Arlin. Rerrarie smiled, and looked to her daughter.
"Lets get your stuff, alright Aire?" Aire nodded to her mother, as the two of them entered her room, unplugging her computer and the like, as the pair gathered up her things. Arlin hadn't entirely agreed with the aristocratic ave just then, but she had made some decent parts... and she had certainly rattled Jormun quite a biut for him to be this upset.
Sorel went to get his own things as well, leaving Arlin alone in the room with Jormun.
"Heh... no hard feelings, Jormun. But really... I did do the right thing here. 'Sides, I burned up the guardianship papers. So the whole thing is resolved." The grin on Arlin's face was so confident... it was as if he had planned this from the moment he had brought Aire to the bridge.
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Post by Advix on Jul 22, 2012 16:32:06 GMT -5
[joint posting with Tok of Knockers]
Jormun simply stood there as he heard Arlin, until he slowly shook his head laughing. "Over three hundred years old, and you're still a boy in middle school. You didn't do the 'right thing'. You pulled a boneheaded stunt, took a huge fucking risk, looked danger in the face, and it all just worked itself out so that you saved someone's life. And I'll commend you for saving Mrs. Leerhart, and pulling McKensey's son out of that mess. But taking Aire into the maelstrom, and putting her in arm's reach of one of those things... no. Ain't nothing "right" about that. I'm no saint, I know that, but I'll never understand how someone as immature as you made it so high up." Jormun slowly slithered to his bedroom door, and opened it. "But what do I know?" he laughed sarcastically. "I'm just a retired, washed up, lonely, duped, widowed soldier. Now excuse me. I have a friend to mourn." Jormun shut the door behind him for the second time. A soft sound could be heard as Jormun simply collapsed into his bed, simply exhausted.
Malik looked back and forth between Solala, Arlin, Yuro, Jormun's room, and the front door. But particularly Yuro. Once again McKensey was brought up, and he just watched the girl who saved him get booted out of the house. With everything crazy going on, the poor kid needed company. He walked over to Yuro, and placed his hand on his shoulder. "Hey, do you wanna sit down?" Yuro nodded, a bit shaken. He didn't expect Solala's father to be so...hateful. As much as Yuro tried to resist, he couldn't help but feel a bit disgusted at the lamia for his behavior. Maybe Yuro was just being irrational though. Maybe there was a side of him that he just wasn't seeing at the moment. Malik rubbed the poor boy's shoulder, and lead him over to the couch. "Hey you wanna hear a song? Anything you wanna hear? Or do you wanna hear me play what's on my mind?"
Solala continued to lean against the wall, looking at the front door. She glanced over to Arlin, then to Yuro and Malik, and then quickly slithered to the front door. She undid the lock, and opened it to go after Elengala. She was on the ground, pushed over by Jormun's sharp and forceful whip. Elengala rubbed her rear as she pushed herself back up to her feet. She brushed herself off. The expression on her face made it plainly visible that she was disgusted with her attire, now that it had been dirtied.
"...My... dress. Urrrrrrggh!! If I weren't feeling so merciful, I would sue that man for sexual assault and battery! I'm a Sentreal!" Solala slowly slithered over to her, looking guilty. I should be above this sort of barfly's treatment!" Elengala turned around, to notice the lamia standing not to far from where she was. "...M-my apologies, Solala. I was not aware of your presence."
"No, I want to apologize to you, for my father's... poor anger management. He is... not a happy man. Especially after what happened to Grand Divide, and... everything."
"That much is obvious," Elengala grumbled. "I can not apologize for the way I reacted to his behavior, but I will apologize for only worsening the situation."
"...He was looking forward to taking care of Aire and Sorel," Solala continued. "I think to him, it would have brought some energy back into his life. But the Director... well, he did what he always does, and played by his own rules. And I let him. My father... he's a man of duty, and well, even after he was cheated out of it, he was still thinking about them, and counting on me to protect them. I know my father was right, and I... I deserved to be scolded. But, I want to thank you for standing up for me, and Yuro. Even if what you did was kinda..." Solala seemed stuck on a word.
"Rash? Uncalled for?"
"Just a little," Solala demonstrated the minuteness with her fingers. "Elen, do you want to come back inside?"
"No, I think I will wait out here and brush the rest of this foulness off of me. I would rather not be seen in such a dirty state."
"Alright. I'll see you in a little bit." Solala turned around reentered the house to find Malik playing a song for Yuro, a calm, bittersweet melody. Solala could only offer her boss a worried look before she slithered her way into the dining room.
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Post by Greed on Jul 27, 2012 18:37:53 GMT -5
Arlin raised an eyebrow at Solala's worried expression, wondering slightly what that was all about. He figured she would be mad with him or something for talking to her dad the way he did. And how he made it that high up? It was because he was strong enough to make it there, and that was always the reason. Everything else... he just picked up on the way to the top.
Besides, he had seen the look in Aire's face... if he hadn't let her go, she would have clawed his face off, or at least gone out the window instead. Like telling her no would have really done anything. As he thought about this, Rerrarie and Aire exited her room, carrying just about all of Aire's stuff... which was rather impressive, truthfully.
"Aire, I can't believe this feels so light... did I really get that much stronger?" Aire nodded to her mother's question, thought it was questionable whether or not she could see it behind the her daughter's computer and bedding. The mother and daughter pair exited the house with Aire's belongings, to go place them in their new car, as Sorel exited his room with a small suitcase. The vampire boy's interest was piqued by Malik's guitar playing, but in the end, he didn't really care; he just wanted to be out of there as quickly as possible.
Sorel was much of the same mind as Arlin here, though he didn't know exactly to what extent... if his own mother was in danger, not hell nor high water would be able to keep him from going to rescue her. To keep her from doing so, no matter how dangerous... it was cruel. It seemed at first glance that all three of them were leaving very soon. Zack looked up from inside his own car, before leaning back in his seat, as his family packed their own car.
"... huh. Things are gonna be strange from now on... heh. I've muscled through worse." Zack closed his eyes then, resting his eyes; he was waiting for Arlin, as there were things he needed to discuss with the lamia.
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Post by Advix on Jul 29, 2012 23:05:08 GMT -5
Solala watched as Aire and Sorel walked in and out of the house, gathering their things. It was almost time for them to leave. She got up, and slithered past Malik as he continued to play for Yuro. After preparing herself, she knocked on her father's door.
"Dad?" She waited for him to respond. He seemed to be very reluctant, but finally she heard him.
"What is it, Lala?"
"We're leaving soon. I wanted to say goodbye, and to apologize." Again she waited, though not as long as before.
"Come here, Lala." She opened the door to find her father lying on his bed. His eyes were puffy. Solala slithered over to him, and slowly rested her torso on him, giving her father a hug.
"I'm sorry, Dad. For everything. It all just got so crazy..."
"It's okay, Lala... I'm just too old for these kinds of roller coaster rides. But if you ask me to help you like this again, you know I can't say 'no' to you." Solala hugged her father tighter, resting her head on his chest.
"I'm sssorry for abandoning you..."
"...I know, Lala. I know. You were just trying to help Aire. Just like Arlin was. Sigh."
"I'm sorry it all turned out like this. I should have made other arrangements for them. If I knew that-"
"Slow down, Lala. No one knew that Devoid was going to pull a stunt like this. There was no way to know any of this. And you know me. I'd do it all again if you asked me to."
"...Thanks, Dad." Solala gave him a squeeze, and kissed his cheek before straightening up, and looking down at him. "Bye. I'll call you to let you know when we've settled into our new apartment."
"Don't say good bye yet. I'll come out to send Aire and her mom off."
"Alright." Solala then left the room, soon followed by her father. Malik stopped playing once he saw Jormun come out of his room. Jormun looked to the door as Aire came out with the last of her belongings.
"Are you ready to go, Aire?" the retired lamia asked.
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Post by Greed on Aug 12, 2012 14:27:51 GMT -5
"... ah, Mr.Vrak!" Aire almost stumbled, carrying as much as she was; the vampire looked back at her temporary guardian, and smiled nervously, "Y-Yeah, I've almost got the last of the things... sorry I was such a bother... and uh, sorry I made your fridge....um... stink like blood." She looked a little embarrassed by this, as she packed the last of her things in the car, coming back to speak with him with her arms free. Her mother walked up beside her, placing her hand on her daughter's shoulder... given that her mom was shorter than her, it always seemed a little weird....
"Mr.Vrak, I have to say again, I'm sorry my daughter worried you... I know you meant well, Aire, but..."
"Mom, I can't say I'm sorry for that, can I?" Rerrarie just chuckled at that, looking a bit weary simultaneously. Really, it seemed like both of them had been through quite a lot that since their little reunion. As they spoke, Arlin made his way past them, heading to his own car.
"Yo, guys, I'm gonna show you where Zack's gonna be staying, then where you three'll be stay, aight?" Aire looked to her mom, then to Sorel, nodding once. Arlin just grinned, getting in his car. Aire looked a little flustered, but a little sad about the whole thing as well...
"We'll keep in touch, alright?" Rerrarie flashed a dazzling smile at Solala and Jormun, surprising her daughter...
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Post by Advix on Aug 15, 2012 8:07:21 GMT -5
"Yeah, we'll keep in touch," Jormun smiled back at Rerrarie. "Stop by anytime you want. And Aire," Jormun simply placed a hand on her shoulder. "You got nothing to feel bad about. You take care now." Jormun then turned to Sorel, grabbing his shoulder, too. "You help them with what they need. ...And you keep in mind that Rerrarie is a married woman. Don't do anything stupid." Solala had to do a double take before hugging her father to loosen his mild grip on Sorel.
"Now come on, Dad. They need to get going, so do we. Come on, Yuro." Solala lead Yuro and Malik out of the house. He followed them to the door, waving to them farewell.
"Bye Dad!"
"Bye Jormun!"
"Bye everyone. Stay safe. Except you Arlin. I hope someone puts your smugass in its place."
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Post by Greed on Nov 15, 2012 22:27:52 GMT -5
A grin crossed Aire's face, as she got into the car. As much as they owed Arlin, Jormun totally was right; The guy was waaaay too smug for his own good.
"Hehe... well, I gotta say, its gonna happen someday! Random chance and all that, right?" Arlin's expression never lost his own brand of confidence, and pumped his fist for good measure. If they didn't know any better, they would all think it was natural. As the others got in their cars, he rolled the windows down n his own, as did Rerrarie and Aire...
"Right then, I'll go find someone to put me in my place, Jor-man!" Arlin laughed as he pulled off of the curb, and pulled a u-turn. Aire and Rerrarie laughed oh-so nervously, before they said their own final goodbyes.
"Look, thanks for everything you guys! I could get used to hanging out with you!" Aire waved out the window as her mother made to follow Arlin, glancing back at Sorel in the back seat.
"E-Eh..?" Sorel looked out the window, and waved hurriedly, as they followed after Arlin.
Lastly, Zack pulled around to followed them, but as he did, his eyes locked with Malik's for a moment, and he put his hand in a gesture that had his index and pinkie fingers extended. And with that, the small group was gone from Jormun's front yard, leaving them, for the moment, to their own devices.
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