Fuzzy Earthquakes

["Parker!"]

[rawr! it can only be---!! *agast* .... rahin only. xD]

What a scary place. No really. A plain, vast area of solid rock. It reminded him of a battle feild. A battle feild...

The cat strode among the ruble of rocks and whatnot as his eyes were barely open. Just slightly slit. Even though he could still see perectly, his cat vision far advanced. And what more was there- rocks...rocks...and oh wait-- rocks. It was acually a pretty cool place. Yeah. A battle feild. The cat yawned warily, wondering why he had came here in the first place.

He wasn't sure. Maybe the wandermage's presence had given him the sence of..um...wandering?

He snorted at his own stupid thought. Wow. He hadn't seen the man in a week and he was still thinking about him?! Well...not him...but... Yuli. The cat slid down beside a large boulder, his head tilted down, his arms folding over muscles flexing.

Oh yeah...back to the battle feild. His eyes drifted slowly down, his mind becoming scrambled with dream and reality. Men were running thoughout the place, guns attatched to their chests. Fire cracks sounded off every second. Explosions made the rocks crumble to the ground. This made the sixteen year old male smile. War. He loved it, hated it, and wanted to be part of it.

[random, i just picture him as a soilder.]

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The dream must have been filled by slow rumbling because far from him, on a stone with a flat top, Yuli was sitting, and closing her eyes with an expression of pain. The rumbling got louder and boulders were crashing. The girl screamed, and threw herself down on the rock, cluching it tightly, sobbing. It was awhile yet until she, and the tremors had calmed down enough to stand straight. Every once in awhile the earth would shudder again, but not quite as violently. She was still crying though, silently, letting the dust get caked to her face, her wavy hair thrown across her back and the rock, her jeans and t-shirt getting dirty.

Neil had gotten hurt again. Badly. She knew he always bounced back, but every injury he got... and healways refused to tell them what it was from. She squeezed her eyes shut again and another tear trickled down, the earth rumbled. People were after him. Of course people were after him. He was powerful. Important. He changed things. Everywhere he went, nothing was the same. He had a sense of justice, but he bedded Queens and their maids alike... Angry husbands, entire nations...wanted him dead.

And now he was injured. They'd practically severed his arm off. When she'd found him he'd said 'It's...just another cool scar for later, Yuli. Could you c-call the hospital?' She'd done it immediately. He was so brave. But he was never serious! Just a cool scar! 'Don't worry about it, sweety. I did it to myself.' When she'd asked him who had done it. No! Why were they after him! Why were they after her dad! She didn't want him to get hurt anymore! And at the hospital they hadn't let her see him...He never took pain relievers, she knew. He liked to stay awake, to watch and learn... and every scream that came from the room wrenched at her heart. Rorr had been silent as death, his eyes on the clock, counting... Janine had been crying non stop, and Yuli had run...

She always ran. She'd run to here, where she could let her power loose without harming anything but old dusty memories of war.

["Parker!"]

Oh yes! The battle feild was amazing as well as terrible. Enemies were killed. Allies were killed. Scars, wounds, the pride to serve for your people. It thrilled him. To have pride. To know he could do something in return for a stanger he didn't even know. Cries of terror and greif erupted. The scence was complete. And with tremmors too!

Wait... tremmors? The boy flashed his eyes. Earthquakes?! He wasn't in his dream anymore. Oh shee-- Wait. The earthquakes had stopped, only light shakes barely noticeable. But the cries still broke the scilence. It wasn't the cries of men... just a girl. The cat stood erect looking around the boulder to see...

Yuli. She was hunched over, crying so hard. How could...Why-- Yuli. Natural instict made him run over. Natual instinct made him kneel beside her, taking her shoulders, his eyes in dispair.

"Y-Yuli...?"

He'd known it was her. He kneeled gently infront of her, raiseing her up at her shoulders, just to take a peek at her face-- why she was so upset. His cat eyes became large concerned, his hands gripping her gently.

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Somebody warm next to her, picking her up, saying her name. She looked up, sweeping her bangs away from her good eye. Garath. She didn't say anything, threw her arms around him and held him tightly, almost painfully. Yuli started crying all over again, and the earthquakes got larger. Rocks were falling all over the place, crashing with loud booms and kicking dust up. It wasn't a long time until she calmed down, and she still held him even then. She needed somebody, anybody, to keep her anchored to the world. To keep her safe.

Finally she relaxed, and let him go hastily, getting up, she sniffed, "S-sorry. I-- my da'--" her throat closed up. No...don't think about it. Talk about something else. "What are you doing here? Don't you know it's dangerous?" she asked him softly, facing away from him, looking out into the vast desert of rocks and sun. The wind blew her hair back and she cluched her arms, still cold despite the heat of the day. "You probably...shouldn't be here." she whispered, another earthquake. Yuli was prepared for it, though, and she held her ground. Another large rock crashed to the floor, making the world echo with the crushing sound.

["Parker!"]

[omg poor garath!! *points to first paragraph*]

Well. She didn't even say anything. She wrapped around him and-- OW...OW OW OW shiiiitt!!!!!!! Garath's eyes went wide as the girl hugged him tightly his shoulder getting a massive amount of pressure on it. Though he tried to shrug it off, having his first opportunity to comfort Yuli. Jesus christ his shoulder. Though in the admist of earthquakes and whatnot, he snuggled Yuli protectively, unsure why...

And then she pushed away from him and he sat on the ground, looking exasperated. Uhhh.... He cleared his throat getting up, slightly confused by this whole thing,

"People are annoying, so this is where I 'get away'. And I should be asking you the same thing...so I will. ... What are you doing here-- and why are you so upset?!"

On his last word a rock fell and with an agile body the cat dodged the debris of the rock. What...she was...making the earthquakes?

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"I-- I came here because...nothing can hurt me here..." she murmured, "...Usually. Now you're here..." Would you hurt me? She looked at him, her eyes asking the question, and then she looked away again. "My..." she paused, breathing in shakily, "My da' got hurt today...he--" Yuli closed her eyes, another earthquake shook the ground, "He came home today with half of his arm torn off...I c-could see the broken bone, and there was blood everywhere..." She sucked in another breath, feeling faint.

"He's...gotten hurt like that before...but every time he does..." she shook her head. "Everybody thinks he's invincible...Ooo he's the wandermage...He's so powerful!" she said in a sarcastic voice, "But so many people want him dead, it's not even funny...and every once in awhile, he comes home...and he's got this look on his face... You wouldn't believe it's the same person you met. Like somebody just gave him the death sentence. He tries...to hide it... but we all see it there, behind the smile."

Yuli rubbed her temples as they pounded, "I-- I'm just so worried his time is running out. I don't...I don't know what I'd do without my da'... He's the center of our whole family... And I mean...all of it. You think it's only me, Janine and Rorr?" she let out a light snort, "There are almost twenty of us, all over the world. And we all love him. All of us. He's...our center. If he left us..." she let out a short moan and fainted.

["Parker!"]

Garath watched and listened to Yuli with no expression. She looked wetched. Terrible. Not physically-- but inwardly he knew she was being torn appart by this. Yes- he'd heard of the wandermage's doings... He wouldn't critizise the man if thats what he felt like doing. But with wifes? That was another story. It got him hurt. And obviously when he got hurt...everybody was affected. Garath was lost in her deep expression. Poor...poor girl.

And at the momment he opened his mouth to speak-- she dropped to the hard rock.

....

"YULI!"

The cat roared and bolted over, sliding on the rock as he scooped the girl to him. Dead-no. Fainted-yes. The cat moved his hand to her cheek, then brushed her hair out of her eyes, looking at both her eyes. Jesus christ...what should he do...?


[horribly short and pathetic. >_> i gotta go.]

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She woke up a few moments later, blinking blearily, "G-garath? I-- what? Oh...I must have fainted..." she got up with a groan, "Sorry...stress makes me faint..." she murmured, sitting up and cluching her head. The migrane was slowly going away and she was feeling better, though. "I'll be fine. I'm sorry...I...should go...I'll just...rest for a few seconds..." Yuli leaned back against his shoulder, her face still weary. "I'm sorry for laying that all on you...I...usually don't do that."

She sighed, "I was just so worried, though... I still am... He's made life so much better for so many people. You know he went back to Africa where he was born, and he stopped the drought that had been going on there for 10 years? And before I was born, he was in the army...he whiped out entire armies, you know. So many people...want him dead. But he's...such a good person...you wouldn't believe how much he's done... for everybody." Yuli shut her eyes tightly, "The last time he got a bullet in the stomach...he hadn't been watching...and then bang...he froze his stomach to keep it from bleeding and they took him to the hospital...he almost didn't survive that one..."

Garath was very warm against her, very real, and she turned her head into his chest, breathing in his scent and closing her eyes, relaxing in spite of herself. "...no no, I'm just being silly...He'll be fine...he always is...still...I can't help but worry..." Trailing off, Yuli simply breathed, loving the feel of his warmth on her cheek. It was comforting...she barely realized she was doing it, and if she hadn't been so stressed she probably would have been mortified.

["Parker!"]

"I don't really think your in any positon to leave...."

The cat eye'd her carefully, sitting infront of her as she clutched her head. It was terrible to see such a little girl in stress of this amount, but somehow she could just barely cope. He knew she'd done this many times brefore she had said that he was alright. He always got though things. Garath understood that he probably couldn't understand the exact positon she was in. The wandermage was highly famous. Of course he was on everybody's hit list too. Terrible thing for so many children of his, but still he always seemed to get out. He nubbed off the stinging as she still again rested on the bad shoulder. He nodded gently agreeing with her. He'd hear'd many stores (not sure if they were true or false) about her father and his many near death expereinces. Of course he wouldn't know straight hand like she would. As she got closer to him, he watched her carefully. She only wanted to be close to someone, to know that she wasn't alone. He hesitated then wrapped his thick arms around her his fur nuzzling her carefully.

"Yeah...it's...it'll be okay... He's a strong guy..."

He spoke comforting her as he lowered his head gently resting his cheek on top of her head lightly images of battle slowly fading away to the rock.

[soo...tired.... =_= no muse]

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When he put his arms around her, Yuli almost jerked away-- but she held herself. Chill out! It's just a hug! Friends to this all the time, right? Friends do this? Do they? Am I thinking too much? I'm thinking too much! Stop thinking! But how can I stop thinking?! I can't stop thinking then I'll stop working and-- and-- SHHhh! She forced herself to relax against him, feeling his head reast on hers. It was a little frightening, but it felt nice...And once she got used to the idea, Yuli didn't want to move. She felt like the lizards on the rocks, simply warming her blood up in the sun.

What seemed like ages later, but was really only five minutes, Yuli stirred. "I-- I'm sorry I'd... better get back to... see how he's doing..." she murmured, stretching herself away from him and getting up. She sighed, seeming much older than she was, and smiled at Garath, "Thanks for...you know...being there...I guess I'll...see you later..." she murmured, digging her toes into the burning hot sand.

["Parker!"]

This was alot more comfortable. Eye's slit wearily, breathing lightly. Almost...almost 'prrr' ing. You know how some humans (especially males) snor when they sleep. Well cat's 'prrr'. Simple as that. But of course with the sudden stirr under him he blinked yawning, his arms unclasping from around her as he raised them, stretching. Woo. That was nice. He squinted up at her as she raised, the sun just barely hitting them. Aww- she had to go already? He looked up at her as she gave the intention to leave. But he blinked up at her. She was so weird. Older in a way. Like her body didn't match her brain. He nodded merely giving a weary smile,

"Yeah, eh, sure. Tell your dad I said hey-- and hope he gets better soon."

Sure, he wanted to follow her. But maybe the mystery of letting her go would make him even more intereted the next time they met. Hopefully soon...

[short thread, much? *doesnt feel good at all*]

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((D: What's wrong?))

"Yeah I'll...I'll tell him that..." she murmured. "You uh...might want to take cover for a second..." she added, and shut her eyes. The earth literaly opened underneath her in a jagged line, and swallowed her, snapping shut a moment later. Her way of quick transportation. Neil used Lightning, Janine used tornadoes, Rorr used Fires... and she simply let the earth swallow her. Still, it was rather shocking, and the ground let out a few more rumbles before it settled down again. The echo of falling rocks remained for a little while, but soon there was silence again.

["Parker!"]

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((XD I know, right? FOOOMF! And she's gone!))

[ßlue]

((OMG >_< Neil has Jamie dammit! SHE WILL MAKE HIM HAPPEH!!!))