☈ strike #07 (action)

[thestormishere]

[ So. Even though there seems to be an 'experiment' in full swing this week, several days later Lightning still has yet to be affected for some reason. Not that she's complaining, of course, considering she has several new problems on her hands anyway-- namely, the recent appearance of both Hope and Sazh to Luceti. Talk about complicated. Needless to say, Soldier Girl here needs another outlet; therefore, she has decided to develop a new skill:

Knife-throwing.

Because clearly, being a superpowered, magic-slinging former-sergeant trained in the use of a gunblades and bazookas and airships and who knows what else doesn't make her quite dangerous enough. Yeah, she knows the basics of using a knife in hand, and she can throw one fairly decently already, but that... is not enough.

And so she's practicing, outside near the forest and in a particularly snowy patch of ground- this is because not only is she working on her ability to toss sharp objects, but is trying to improve her maneuverability in the snow at the same time as well. After all, you never know when something like that might become important.

She probably makes an interesting sight too, holding a knife out in front of her like she's taking aim, but then turning around completely and launching herself backwards into not just one flip, but two - briefly touching down between them, off-hand braced in the snow - before flinging the knife mid-flight. However, although the weapon hits her target, once Lightning has bounced to a stop and surveyed the throw, she still seems unsatisfied (you know, despite pulling that off at all in the first place).

So she does it again, and again, and again, until finally, she feels like she's gotten a little better and gets ambitious enough to try something a little different. Setting her feet, she picks up a knife in both hands, jumps back again and-- abruptly loses her equilibrium in the air, so that the knives go flying off-course entirely, and she goes crashing down unceremoniously with a bark of surprise. A moment later, she's rolled to her feet, looking bewildered and displeased, and a moment after that, she looks down and notices that she's no longer herself. Again. ]

... Oh.

[ Yeah. "Oh" is right, considering she's suddenly several years younger, with longer hair and a face that's far more used to smiling than frowning-- her little sister, Serah's, actually. Furthermore, despite so many others getting to keep them, for the time being she's been stripped of her powers completely. If you... just got a knife to the kidney, then sorry, blame the Malnosso, and hopefully it didn't go too deep?

Replies will come from strikingusdown. ]

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because they can't ever meet when looking like themselves amirite

[themoonfavors.livejournal.com]

[winged_moon had been lurking in one of the trees at the edge of the forest, contemplating all the things he would love to do to the Malnosso for trapping him in this form (http://download.minitokyo.net/Clow.Reed.405688.jpg), and when the woman arrived and started her practice he'd chosen to simply remain still and not call attention to himself. At least... not until something goes awry and one of the blades comes flying up at the branch where he sits half-concealed. He automatically deflects it with a shield of hardened air, but when he drops to a lower branch with the intention of irritably asking what the woman thinks she's doing he pauses.

Oh indeed.

So here he'll just kind of stare and frown disapprovingly instead of saying anything. If she'd care to notice and/or acknowledge the watcher in the tree.]

it's possible the world may be split asunder if they ever do

[strikingusdown]

[ Well, she doesn't really intend to just leave the knife behind, so after a minute or two of silence and merely standing there, she slowly trudges out to see if she can find it.

And then she notices there's a freakin' man just hanging out there in the tree. Watching. It's a good thing she's pretty hard to startle- instead of that she just frowns and tenses, staring up at him. ]

... What are you doing?

clearly. :|b

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I was trying to think.

[Whereupon his gaze drops to the knife in the snow below him and his frown deepens. Until that interrupted me, it says, and also says he isn't very thrilled.]

[strikingusdown]

[ It doesn't take a detective to piece together a basic idea of what happened here. With a frown, she steps forward, bending to pick up the knife without another word. However, she's very, very wary. Who does heavy thinking in a tree? ]

[themoonfavors.livejournal.com]

[He does. So there. Yue shifts as though about to resume his previous seat in the branches, but pauses to watch the girl collect the knife.]

I presume that wasn't intentional?

[strikingusdown]

I don't make a habit of throwing my things out where I can't find them again and then falling on my head, so no.

[themoonfavors.livejournal.com]

Hn.

Very well, then.

[Meaning, maybe he'll glare at you a little less, since you didn't mean to throw a knife at him.]

[strikingusdown]

[ Yeah, whatever, fine. She briefly looks over the knife, but of course it's not really any more damaged than what being thrown into a tree over and over did. The problem now is... there were two knives that she threw, and only one of them is in her hand.

And also: for the first time in just about forever, she's a little uneasy due to not really knowing if she can protect herself in this body. Needless to say, she keeps an eye on Yue, but is perfectly willing to remain silent until she either finds the knife or considers it a lost cause. ]

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[He waits for a moment to see if she has anything else to say, but clearly she doesn't. Hmph.]

...the other one went that way.

[And with a vague sort of gesture in the appropriate direction, he turns and starts to move back up to his previous seat in the tree branches.]

[strikingusdown]

[ Hey, there's nothing in the Destr-- er, Save the World job description that says you have to be talkative... which is good since she never wanted to take that on in the first place. ]

Hm. [ Said appropriate direction doesn't really look very promising, and so after a beat Lightning just frowns, shakes her head in exasperation, and backs off instead. It's... not like she's paying for the knives anyway, even if this sort of puts her down one in the set.

... Have fun in your tree, weird guy. ]

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[Yue refuses to have fun. But he will put the strange knife-throwing girl from his mind again. Mostly, at least, because something about her seemed oddly familiar. Well, before she shrank, at least.]