melodiesoflife | Eat Sleep or Fight

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Eat Sleep or Fight

Characters: Kyoko & OPEN
Where: The Observatory/City Outskirts
When: Whenever!
Summary: Kyoko hanging around, either stuffing her face or fighting, her two favorite things
Warnings: Gluttonous magical girl, possible language, Kyoko can be a huge jerk

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With hands nestled casually into sweater pockets and a pocky stick snug between her teeth, Kyoko bent her knees, the treat tipping around as she calculated her landing just before launching into the sky. Feet hit hard, snapping some ceiling tiles that slither down towards the ground below.

“Ah, crap!” Her glance does not follow the damaged property, rather a hand shoots up as if to catch the snack. The redhead had almost – almost, dropped it in the jump. While the wind whips angrily at her ponytail, Kyoko leaps a couple buildings until she stands atop the observatory, mindlessly wasting precious magic in the process. Climbing to its highest point, she peers down into the oversized lens.

One of the disadvantages of this place was its lack of skyscrapers, the magical girl had always preferred perching up high. With this world’s lack of them – a telescope would just have to do. Plopping down atop the sensitive instrument, her legs dangle askew. Munching joins the sound of the wind as the redhead looks out over the city.

CITY OUTSKIRTS
“Eat this!” Running a jagged pattern, her lance moves in a blur of twirls and slashes. Four geezards fall in the wake of the magical girl. Slamming the butt of the weapon to the ground, Kyoko glances back with a fanged grin. If this was all there was to gathering magic in this world – there would be nothing to it.

A piercing, inhuman scream has the lancer shooting her free hand to an ear, but does nothing to block out the wailing of the mandragora that snuck up. “Uh...Goddamn house plant.” Curling painfully forwards as if the soundwaves were solid punches to the gut, there’s a moment where her footing grows unsteady. In the next, the head of her spear is ripping into the foliage of the creature. That shut it up, but not before three of its friends had joined the party, along with a couple of buers flapping overhead.

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A large bird glided overhead, it's large blue wings casting a long shadow against the ground as she circled up high. Zelda spotted the streak of red against the glinting scope that Kyoko sat against. With a click of her tongue her loftwing began to descend, the wind pulling and tugging at Zelda's small form as she approaches the girl.

Her cheeks are flushed pink, a soft smile pulling at her lips.

"I wasn't expecting to see anyone up here." She smiled, her fingers moving over the bird as it perched on the edge of the observatory roof. "Are you alright?" She assumed so but it never hurt to ask; usually.

Kyoko had tensed when she first noted the bird circling, assuming it was a monster ready to swoop in for an attack. A glowing red glimmer appears in her hand, dissipating a moment later when the magical girl spots Zelda atop the mount.

Cocking her head to the side and peering at the new arrival, a new chocolate snack replaces the old one. Nor had she - unfortunately, that was not the case. There's a prolonged silence before she answers, just the sound of munching - as if the redhead doesn't intend to bother acknowledging Zelda's presence at all. "Feh! I'm fine." No thanks to that devil bird.

"You always so nosy?"

"I am."

Zelda admitted with a smile. She couldn't really help it, she had begun to care about all of the heroes, even those she didn't speak too. They all had homes they wanted to protect, lives that were precious and she couldn't help but care and worry about all of them.

"If you're alright I can leave you be." She makes the offer like a suggestion allowing the other girl to push her away if she truly desires to be alone.

"Tch, what a bother for everyone and a waste of time for you."

The munching never ceases. Legs swaying in the wind, the redhead rests backwards on her elbows, leaning into a truant pose. The repeat question gets blatantly ignored. She's already answered it. Though the loftwing gets a strange look.

"What is with this planet and everyone's goddamn obsession with birds? In mine, they're dinner. Most things are. Bet that's most worlds, even."

There's a grin that reveals pronounced fangs -- at least, for a human. "That's just the food chain."

Zelda laughed softly and shook her head. She didn’t blame the girl’s curt responses and she didn’t appear to be bothered by it.

Her fingers lightly stroked her Loftwings neck, her expression softening into a fond smile. The large bird flapped its wings once and then landed on a section of the roof so that his rider and the strange red haired girl could speak.

“My home is called Skyloft. It’s an island that floats in the sky, we wouldn’t be able to get anywhere without our feathered friends here.” Her smile widened. “They were a gift from the goddess. As for this world’s birds, I do not know.” However Zelda had a soft spot for Chocobo’s as well.

At the mention of a goddess, Kyoko glances towards the castle. The closest thing resembling a church in these parts, so far as she is concerned. There's a moment of silent contemplation. The chocolate wafer gets devoured in the timespan, then replaced.

"Pretty useless way to set up a world, floating around so you can't even rely on your own two feet."

Zelda’s lips remained set in a smile. “Like most things there was a reason. Do you want to hear of it?”

She wasn’t about to begin a long winded story about the goddess and the hero without knowing that Kyoko might want to hear it. She didn’t wish to bore the young girl.

"Stories are for children."

There's enough annoyance in her voice to give off the impression such things were of not interest to her. Yet the non - committal response was not exactly a "no", in the hopes Zelda might still decide to tell it. Fighting with Sayaka again was starting to reminder Kyoko of the tales that made her take on being a magical girl.

Zelda continued to smile at Kyoko, watching the girl with a curious eye before speaking. She realized that the red haired teen hadn’t completely told her no which earned her at least part of the story.

“Darkness covered the land and in order to fight it and keep her people safe the goddess Hylia raised them to the sky. She created a barrier among the clouds and gifted those who lived in this new word Loftwings so that they’d be free to expand their home among the clouds.” Her smiled remained in place, her voice kind and motherly.

“When fighting the darkness a hero appeared. He wasn’t a hero in title like here but a man who knew how to fight and refused to let the darkness take hold of him. Hylia saw his courage and granted him a sword of light to help fight the darkness.” Zelda had every detail of the story memorized now, even the parts she hadn’t know before.

Without realizing, the delinquent's arms moved behind her head as she slipped down the the body of the telescope, as if settling in for a tale.

Ponytail swaying as the girl's head canted a bit towards the Hylian to better listen, even while red eyes continued to look away and disinterested. She no longer believed in stories, they were what made her hope and led to her wish which led to losing everything. Hoping only led to loss.

She shifted, uncomfortable, remembering for a painful moment.

Glancing up at the stars, her sweatshirt rippled in the evening wind as she looked over to Zelda. She figured it couldn't be true, because Zelda smiled a lot, so Kyoko expected a happy ending. But...it was nice.

Zelda didn’t know if Kyoko would consider the ending a happy one. She continued feeling the wind tug at her hair as the air began chilly.

“The sword of light allowed him to cut through the darkness and with the goddesses help they were able to seal the darkness away. It couldn’t be defeated for as long as there is light, there is darkness to match it. Hylia knew that the darkness would return in a time when people only knew it by its legend.” Her smile fell slightly as she continued. “Over time hearts grow weak and weary. In order to protect those she loved Hylia used her powers to be reincarnated among her people. She would awake to find the new hero, should the darkness return.”

Zelda’s expression softened as her smile pulled back across her lips. “Even now we tell the tales of the goddess, for everything she’s given us we will never forget her.”

Not what he'd been expecting, but the scream of a Mandragora was unmistakeable and made him wince. Vincent had been out doing some monster-hunting himself, and despite his lack of desire to get closer to the noise... Moving to a jog towards Kyoko's direction, casting Shunshin from his secondary job, to raise his speed and agility.

A targeted Status-shot at one Mandragora, the crack of gunfire a sharp contrast to the high-pitched scream. Hoping to silence at least one plant, as he purposefully got closer to another and lashed out with the clawed tips of his fingers, left-forearm and hand encased in the tarnished gold gauntlet. The mandragora were the most immediate threat, but the buer would have to be dealt with soon.

As the pierce of the gunfire joins the screams, the girl in red twirls her lance. Honing the end to point towards Vincent as crimson eyes narrow for a calculating moment, her attention split between the monsters and the man.

Skirts ripple as she dodges a confuse spell a buer casts her way. When the hero's claws rip into the beasts and not her, the weapon elongates with a stigmata attack, skewering through the eyeball of the offending flier. Snapping back into its normal size, she slaps off the corpse in the direction of the cumbersome plants with an angry gesture. Carelessly overpowering her use of strength in her annoyance and eating up a lot of the magic she just spent time earning, the body flung in a blur and hit with such a rocket force as to stun the creatures into momentary silence.

"Oy! What's the big idea! Find your own familiars to fight!"

Amusing, that's what she was, as Vincent simply raised an eyebrow. His Gunner-job left him immune to the Buer's effects, even as he kept an eye on it. Careful of her lance and the geezards, Vincent extricated himself from the main fray once more. At least enough to avoid the worst of the Mandragora screams.

"Simply wanted to offer a hand." Pitching his voice to be heard, albeit if she didn't want any aid... Never mind he was still lazily tracking the remaining Buer with his gun, just in case.

Kyoko could have asked around and learned what fiends she might run into. What attacks to expect and been prepared. Only, this was a girl who did not even bother to stay awake in class, provided she ever bothered to go. It just wasn't her way, as adept of a fighter as she was. A slight flush in the cheeks shows that a poison attack has landed, as she blinks rapidly, trying to clear her head of the fever.

Vincent's comment earns him a fiery look, before crucify strikes to take down the stunned plants. That look wants to burn him alive, his intended help had just 'cost' her hours of work. Of course -- it was really her own temper. "Yeah? So why don't you go build a village somewhere, or I'll pound you myself."

A well-timed Stock Break tore through one of the fiends with lightning precision, revealing Sayaka not far off in the distance. There was something in that smile of hers, maybe even a hint of smugness? — as she posed with her hands on her hips.

"These small fry are enough to cause trouble for you, huh?" A fully-levelled Crystal Knight by now, the blue-haired girl had embraced her powers whole-heartedly since the events of the last few months. "Guess you're slipping in your old age. Or maybe this world's just made you softer than you realize?" she was joking, with a light tone, shifting her sword back into position.

"As if -- they just sounded an awful lot like your yaking is all. How is anyone expected to deal with that?!"

With that Kyoko is taring into the buers. Spear thrusting in a crucify attack that one evades repeatedly until a fatal moment before leaping into the sky in a silhouette of red to slash after the remaining one. Leaving Sayaka to slaughter the loud annoying fiends the redhead likened her to, whose chorus begins again in an ironic, ear bleeding chime.

"Coming face to face with you, can you really blame them for shouting so much?" Light on her feet, the low-level fiend was nothing for her sword, which she leapt towards and took down with a single slash. She watched as Kyoko garnished her moves from their shared homeworld, showing off her skills with that weapon she loved so much.

She could almost have sworn her rival was looking... dare she say, happy?

"Come on," she's not even close to being done for the day, "There's more on the horizon. Or maybe you can't keep up?" there's a grin flashed her way, as Sayaka sprints forward.

"Nope, creepers know they're done for!"

No doubt she's slowed without reaching the ability to use the modular compartments yet, but Kyoko hasn't broken a sweat yet. "Oy, You shouldn't talk to your senpai that way,"

What's the use of gathering magic if you're not gonna use it, with a burst of magical energy she catches up to the girl in blue. Long enough to look over, pull out the sucker- offer a hellion's grin of her own and take off into the distance with super speed to get a head start.

Worth it.

A dark, long shadow passes overhead as if of a dark cloud -- only, it moves too fast, and with a purpose.

Ponytail and skirts whip forwards as Kyoko slams to a stop when a wyvern plummets down from the sky to land in front of her path.

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Eat Sleep or Fight

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City Outskirts

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