SanaChan

Harvest Moon: Even More Friends of Mineral Town

Can I post here? XD I want the bartender and the librarian

[Mizos]The Tides of The Past[SanaChan][Take Two]

Hotaru looked at Larel, still dazed as he told her to clench her teeth, yelping when he fixed her arm, holding it close to her as the pain brought her senses in tune quickly. She looked at herself and noticed the blood was gone, something she figured she should thank Alari for. Hearing that Sybil had gotten out and had messed with Mera certainly explained the crack in the floor, "What did she say?" she asked, her voice kind of hoarse after Mera had squeezed her throat, unlike how clear Sybil had sounded. She was curious since Alari was talking about using the information that Sybil divulged. However, he was leaving and making some comment about working in a Kabuki theater. She rubbed her forehead as he mentioned planting seeds and Sybil not being able to take something. She looked back up at Larel when he asked her how she felt, "I've most definitely been better. Can't completely recall feeling worse. My head still feels like its pounding, my throat hurts, though thankfully my arm is numb at the moment. I'm hoping some of those vampiric healing bits will kick in and make it all go away- one good use for it all, I suppose," she mumbled.
She looked around the room again, sighing as she saw the mess, "Well... at least that's over, right? We can at least try and have a quiet rest of the evening... I'm guessing Mary and Mera are alright though?" she looked back to him, her movements a bit slow, lethargic. She was starting to get the familiar sense of her head being underwater. All she really wanted to do right that second was lay down and sleep, but it was a little bright in the room again due to all the damage.

Mera leaned back, taking Mary's face in to her hands, "I'm never going to quit worrying about you," she mumbled, brushing a bang away, "How am I supposed to sleep at night when you leave? Not that I seem to be any good at protecting you anymore anyways," she shook her head.
"Are you seriously trying to blame yourself for the demons nasty tricks?" Mary raised a brow at her and Mera was a bit surprised by the annoyance in her sister's voice, "It happened. Neither of us were prepared for it so it was kinda like we were ganged up on, completely overwhelmed, nobody like us is to blame."
"We've got to figure out how to get rid of them," Mera muttered, shaking her head, "Damn it, Nero," she muttered, wishing their brother could have picked a less lethal way to attempt to be rid of Sybil before. They needed him now more than ever to try and figure it out.
"Then that's where I'll go," Mera looked at Mary again as she spoke, "I'll talk Raina and Eryn and we'll find some of the old elven archives. I'm sure they dealt with more demons than they cared for and so they must have solutions," Mary nodded firmly. Mera still seemed rather hesitant to let her leave, but Mary was too closely related for Mera to have any notion of being able to make her stay once her mind was so clearly made up, "I'll stay for the night with them so we can plan on what we're going to do," Mary stood up, helping Mera back to her feet, "You have your two friends downstairs to protect until we get that solution," she gave her a small smile, trying to make her feel better about it.

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"I think it's perfectly fair," Sybil muttered to Alari when he was first talking to Larel. She grinned a bit whenever he came over, even more so when she saw the glow of his eyes. She bursted out laughing whenever he finished talking, "OH MY! How much I must have done as "a tad nuisance" to make the almighty Wisdom threaten me!" She put her free hand to her chest, "I'm hardly leashed, boy-o, I just loooove to watch people squirm and this one," she tapped her chest meaning Hotaru, "Is dying to just be human again. Her instincts have always been warning her about what would happen if too much blood gets in her system, hence why it turned in to a fear of it in general, so how else to best make her think she can keep me under wraps," she laughed, "I could easily take over while she sleeps if I wanted, but there's no fun in stomping around all the time," she waved him off, "And you lot may forget me all you please when I'm done with you. Lasting memory for you shits isn't really what I care about. So long as I remember the screams and the tears, I'm as happy as can be," she grinned again.
Being reminded of keeping her word, she sighed heavily, "Such a buzzzzzzz kill," she muttered before looking over at Mera, "How bad does it hurt you to know you're so pathetic in the end? You get tugged a hundred different ways to try and protect those who you're close to and in the end you're kinda useless. Even when I go back to my hidey hole in her head, she's still flippin' out on the blood overdose. You couldn't stop that because you're too busy making cloaks as a stupid sentiment to your sister, who you couldn't protect because you're so focused on someone you're not even related to! Not to mention, your beloved older brother sacrificed his life to get rid of me. Or at least that's what it looked like, how do we know he wasn't just damn miserable seeing everyone else move on and be chipper and having to pretend to be when he saw his father murder the woman he loved? Not to mention he was probably aware daddy wasn't daddy a long time ago and no one believed him," Mera was covering her ears, not wanting to hear any of it. Not wanting her poisonous words to get in to her head. Especially since it was things she already felt, "Then again, I'm sure you and Raina remember telling everyone bad things had happened to you and no one believed you. Such foolish little girls, human men wouldn't touch you. Why would you let them?"
"But fine. If you want to try again, I'll put your poor little sister back where I found her and let you have this one back. Too bad I can't give you back your brother right? Except, I'm pretty sure he'd rather stay dead," Sybil shrugged, giving one last grin before snapping her fingers. Her hand dropped and her head lolled forward, stopped by the vine that was still around her throat.
Mera sank to her knees, feeling like a little girl again, who had just gotten lectured for something she didn't do, something she couldn't avoid. She slammed her fist to the ground, needing to strike out, wishing so badly to just rip Sybil to shreds. Hot, angry tears streamed down her face as the floor and wall cracked loudly before there was a thud upstairs. Her head lurched up and she pushed past the guys as she launched to her feet. Mary sat up, holding her head and Mera went to her, pulling her close. Mary frowned as the pain just seemed to roll off her sister and she hugged on to her, knowing she just needed a moment to vent out else she would shut down again.
However, her emotional instability caused the hold on Hotaru to loosen. Her eyes opened again, still red around the outside of her eye, the blue of her eyes seeming quite vivid in comparison, and her eyes shot around the room, trying to figure out what just happened.

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Mera was having a hard tie focusing. Mary was gone and that bitch knew where she was. She clenched her fist so tight her nails dug in to her palms and drew blood. Hotaru gave a wheeze as it cause the vine to squeeze tighter, "Come on out you bitch, I know you want to gloat," she spat, her eyes the most wild they'd probably ever been.
Hotaru eyes rolled back in her head for a second before they shot back, orange in the center, but still blood red, "My, my, cutting it a bit tight are we?" Sybil tapped on the vine, "Can't speak if I can't breathe."
"You're speaking just fine now. Tell me where she is!" Mera demanded.
"Why should I?"
"What the hell do you want?!" Mera's voice came out at a different pitch.
"As if that's an actual question," Sybil's eyes went over to Alari, "You guys forced my hand. Threatening me as if I'm some leashed pet that can be told what to do," she spat before looking back at Mera, "Simple trade right? My continued "freedom," if that's what we're going to call it, for the location of your sister. Decline too long as you just might find a corpse."
"How I'd love to gut you," Mera growled, narrowing her eyes
"If only I were an actual person right? And not shoved willingly in to the head of your favorite little pupil. By the way, this isn't actually hurting her. With the overload to her senses from all the blood, her body is working on overdrive to keep everything in check. She's got surprisingly good willpower, since her whole being is screaming to kill anyone and everyone around her and she could totally bust free right now if she wanted to. I will just have to try harder to send this little vampy on a rampage," she laughed at that and Mera punched the wall behind her, needing to hit something before she took it out on Hotaru.
"Say yes," Mera looked at Alari, "Just say you're not going to do it, we don't have a choice!"
"Of course you do, but I knew the choice you'd make a long time ago," Sybil sneered, "You're too attached to your little sister for it to be healthy. The second anyone so much as threatens her and you nearly fall to bits. What happened to that stonewall I met so long ago? Oh well, I guess when I actually first met you, you were a lot like your sister is now, that was before men tried to defile you right?"
"SHUT UP!" Mera snapped at her and paled as there was a snapping from Hotaru's arm.
"It's fine, it'll heal, but Hotaru's not gonna be happy with you for breaking her arm. I must say, though, you really must make up your mind. First you want me to talk, now you want me to shut up. How rude."
Mera put her hands to her head, trying to get her composure back, feeling like she was about to have a bit of a nervous breakdown if Alari didn't say yes and someone didn't tell her where her sister was.

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I promise I'll reply soon >_<

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The darkness behind Mary was the cloaked Yasu (At least I'm fairly certain that's the name I used for her XD) and she struck Mary when Alari had turned back towards them, hitting her at an angle that knocked her out. Yasu looked at Alari, her face completely hidden in the darkness of the hood, then quickly picked up Mary, dashing for the window, another bloody body dropping out of her cloak, someone who was still alive and gasping for air, several wounds causing them to bleed quickly from their upper body.

"Hotaru," Mera looked at her, "Hotaru, you need to focus, now. Even a second of uncertainty and she's got you," she said, keeping her hands up to make sure she had a good hold on her, but she grit her teeth realizing what color Hotaru's eyes were. They weren't orange which meant Sybil wasn't in control. They were instead a bright red, her pupils in tight slits. The floor creaked at her starting to move, "If it's not one thing it's another," Mera muttered angrily before a vine shot up, wrapping around Hotaru's neck and holding on tight, "Larel!" she called, sensing he was coming back. Hotaru's eyes went up towards her, the floor cracking as she started to get up, "Sheesh..." she wasn't so much worried about containing this, she was worried about Sybil managing to take over with her in this state. There wouldn't be such a simple solution as drawing her in to close range. Mera closed one of her hands, squeezing the vine around Hotaru's neck before she heard a knock at the window. She looked back confused, and her cloak blew up just enough when the window opened to see Mary in the shadow persons arms, "Mary!" The simple second of broken focus was all they were trying to achieve. Mera realized it and turned around to get one of the floorboards she had put on Hotaru's arm flung right in to her face. She quickly closed her hand again, holding the rest of it in place. She put her other hand to her face, grimacing, "Damn it!" she grit her teeth, looking back to see the woman gone. Her heart sank. How was she supposed to get to Mary while holding Hotaru in place. Larel might be able to slow her down, but someone would most definitely get hurt if not killed and then Hotaru would be hard to deal with once she was sane, but Mary was gone. She kept her one hand up and went over to the window, looking around outside, seeing no signs of her. Hotaru was clawing at the vine at her throat, which was starting to squeeze even tighter than before from Mera's frustration

[Mizos]The Tides of The Past[SanaChan][Take Two]

Hotaru gripped her head and Mera frowned seeing that Sybil seemed to have gotten a deeper foothold on Hotaru this time. It irrupted her more than anything that Nero's sacrifice had been wasting by that demon and now she was disrupting what little chance they had at peace. She got that feeling as well that something was off and she stood up, letting her vines finish was she was doing on the other cloak as well before glancing outside, not letting too much light in to the room, "I thought it was a lot busier outside... Maybe it just got later than these folks like to be out for," she mumbled at Hotaru seemed to be calming down at bit.
Hotaru letting out a breath as when Alari left the room, Sybil seemed to have calmed down a little, "Damn, how come she can do that?" she asked, out of breath, her head throbbing. She thought that unless she was in control she could do nothing more than annoy her with talking.
Mary sat up straight and ran out in to the hall, trying to find the source of it. She hurried up the stairs and had to stop at the sheer darkness around her. She put her hand over her mouth at the smell, gagging a bit.
Both Hotaru and Mera froze when a drop of blood came down through the cracks of the ceiling. Both of them looked up, a little bit of panic with them both. Hotaru because the fact Sybil just suddenly stopped hurting her right in time for that dripping to start. Mera was panicking because this meant one simple thing. Sybil was about to try and barge her way out.
"Larel, get back," Mera said sharply, the small vines shrinking in to the floor, hiding the cloaks as they did, more blood drops came down. Hotaru's eyes were fixated on where the blood fell. She wasn't that thirsty, she'd had plenty, but she was having one of those moments where she was expecting the worst. The floorboards close to Hotaru's hands suddenly snapped up and grasped on to her as a blood drop came down and on to her face, "Find what's causing that before it becomes worse," she ordered him as the drips became steady streams. Hotaru's pupils shrank as the blood got on her, trying to focus. Mera reached her hand up to try and close the boards tighter, but she gasped as shadows pushed them open even further and she put her arms up as a large amount of blood poured down in to the room, the steams now leaving large pools in the floor and Hotaru got completely covered, "This is low, Sybil," she growled knowing she had something to do with it in response to them threatening to seal her. The blood stopped and the floorboards clapped back in to place as Mera used more vines to grip Hotaru's arms, trying to prevent her from moving.
As the floor fell back in to place, the darkness upstair dissipated as well and Mary thought she was going to be sick seeing the bodies in the floor that were mutilated to get the most blood out of them. She felt something behind her and turned around to a different kind of darkness.

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It must just have been how pathetic the connection was at that shop building. I had like two spots where I could set my phone to get a hint of signal. Hopefully I won't have to go back there very often T_T

[Mizos]The Tides of The Past[SanaChan][Take Two]

It's the site giving the 502 error during the day or is that just me trying to get on with uber crappy connection?

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Mera focused on her cutting and sewing, seeming to tune them out at the moment so she could do everything to a certain level of exactness. She finished making all of the cuts on the fabric that was supposed to be Hotaru's cloak and some small vines came out between the cracks in the floor and took the needle she had been using, working on finishing the sewing as Mera started working on the different colors she had gotten for what she was making Mary. She had gotten a second needle out and was holding it between her teeth, her head tilting in different directions as she thought about what exactly she was doing as she made the decisions. All the while the vines continued to work without missing a beat, pulling the seams tight so the cloak wouldn't get pulled apart.
Hotaru, however, was listening to them intently, feeling a wave of relief hearing that Alari could make a seal for her. On the other hand, Sybil was raging, swearing that nothing they would try would be able to restrain her, insulted by the fact they had the nerve to even dare try such a thing. Hotaru blinked when Alari turned to her, raising a brow when she tried to figure out what he was doing and looked a him like he was crazy when he asked her, "How is that even a question?" she shook her head, appalled at it, "Yes. If there is anyway to keep her under control and help me keep my sanity, I am 100% for it, I don't care what I have to do," She said and Mera stopped for a second as she looked at her.
"And yet, you fight so hard on drinking the one thing that is actually going to keep you alive."
"It wasn't helping, so your argument is kind of not working," Hotaru muttered at her. Mera rolled her eyes before looking back to the different strips of the different colors she had gotten cut out, "What the heck are you making?"
"None of your business," Mera said simply, glancing at the cloak the vines were sewing to see how far along it was, glad to see that it was almost done.
Hotaru made a face at the fact she was getting told a second time that something was none of her business. She looked back towards Alari, "Why can't it be done before tomorrow morning? She's really loud now that we're talking about this," she muttered, putting her fingers to her temples.
Now you're forcing our hands, to do such a thing! You want to try and lock me up?! WELL! I certainly won't make it EASY!
Hotaru went wide eyed as a ringing filled her ears, unable to hear anything around it and then gripped her head as a splitting pain hit her.

A shadowy figure crept along the streets, having emerged from the alleyway, a black cloak hiding everything about them. It looked around, looking for something. It stopped outside the restaurant where Larel had been eating earlier, spotting a certain female that hadn't decided to show up since before Hotaru had truly been turned.
She had split from her more responsible counterpart and had picked up the groups trail after the massacre at the last village and had gnu in the direction she had figured they would go next. While in the restaurant, she had learned that Larel had indeed been there, and was now enjoying her meal that she had ordered while questioning the waitress.
The shadow seeped in to the shadow near the door, slinking along, from shadow to shadow until it reached her. Her defenses were down, her mind unfocused. And she would regret letting herself relax to such an extent as a black cloak came from her shadow and put itself on her, her body freezing as it did. It had happened quickly and quietly, not even alerting the people across the way from her until someone looked over and noticed the sudden cloak on her.
She put the money on the table as she stood up, the cloak hiding her face as she made her way out of the restaurant. She walked down the road slowly, approaching the inn, stopping outside. She tilted her head before turning to face the crowd lingering around outside, "Understood," she said in a flat voice, drawing her katanas.