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Post by Raven on Jan 15, 2019 8:11:11 GMT
As Rei calls out a challenge, several of the odd glyphs on the wall suddenly become animate. Eyes opening within them. A strange 'portal' of sorts rips open in the air in the center of the room and a seemingly endless swarm of those oddly shaped creatures from last time come flying out in all directions. Maaayyybe this was a bad idea.
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Post by lichlord on Jan 15, 2019 8:21:01 GMT
Rei jumps back as they swarm the room, but she has a flash of anger that overtakes her bad judgement.
"Where is she! That woman who taunted me! I came to challenge her!"
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Post by Raven on Jan 15, 2019 10:15:15 GMT
The obviously otherworldly creatures continue to pour out of the portal they made, showing no signs of hearing or acquiescing to her demands. Suddenly, they all freeze mid-air and begin to arrange themselves in familiar patterns.
"We will not comply." Is all it reads. After giving Rei a few moments to read the message, they begin swirling and swarming about the room again.
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Post by lichlord on Jan 15, 2019 17:03:17 GMT
Rei just slumps her shoulders. Of course she’s not here, of course their is another entity more powerful than her preventing her from getting anywhere. Chalk that up to the list of them. This woman was really the only one she could conceivably ‘get’ to in order to fight and see. Maybe feel any better about any of this. Cause any of the poachers are either captured by the crown or in the wind, D’mara would be suicide alone, any of the legends would be suicide alone, the rest of the dark branch are an unknown factor... and the last one is Holly’s sister. Can’t really do that.
She sighs shakily, almost on the verge of tears but swallows it down. She puts away her weapons and starts to leave. Maybe this is a sign that her plans to do anything herself just won’t work out. Everything seems to just hit a dead end. Maybe she should accept a legends help like the other two, even if she hates the so called ‘gods’.
Both Pokémon of hers again give her a worried and confused look, and she just shoots them a glare.
”It’s done, alright. Just... let’s go.”
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Post by lichlord on Jan 16, 2019 1:15:23 GMT
With this farce done with and a day wasted, Rei makes the long trek back to the surface and back to the inn they were staying at. Rei has admittedly been too angry to think about Holly and what she'll probably say for Rei being gone a whole day without saying where she was going.
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Post by Raven on Jan 16, 2019 5:12:15 GMT
No sooner has Rei re-entered the room she and Holly share at the inn than she is tackled to the ground by the aforementioned ghost-girl. Holly flips rapidly between being angry with Rei and crying because she was scared Rei had gone and gotten herself seriously hurt. She eventually settles for practically tearing Rei's clothes off and dragging her to bed for sexy time.
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Post by lichlord on Jan 16, 2019 5:32:28 GMT
Rei is shocked when she is tackled, and it takes her a moment to collect herself but then Holly is trying to take her clothes off already. Rei stands up and closes herself before she can continue.
”Holly stop! So you can run off all the time but I can’t do it once!?”
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Post by Raven on Jan 16, 2019 7:37:57 GMT
"No!" Holly says, continuing her attempts to undress Rei. Even without the empathetic link between them, there is a combination of relief, sexual desire, guilt, and a smorgasbord of other emotions just wafting off of the ghost girl.
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Post by lichlord on Jan 16, 2019 7:42:28 GMT
"Grrr! Stop it! You can't just berate me and then expect me to be in the mood for this right after!"
Rei's struggling against the connection, her anger and frustration not really abating but a growing amount of strong feelings from Holly about to fight hers.
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Post by Raven on Jan 16, 2019 7:53:44 GMT
"Nnng...! Sex now! Talk later!" She whines while trying to use the link to overpower Rei with 'sexy time' emotions.
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Post by lichlord on Jan 16, 2019 8:28:09 GMT
Rei growls in anger and pushes Holly onto the bed.
"Is this what you want? I'm trying to talk to you, and you abuse the connection to get your way? FINE!"
She tears off the rest of Holly's clothes and discards her own.
"I'm still mad at you for that, but if the only way to talk to you is to satisfy whatever took over, then so be it!"
She jumps on Holly, straddling her love's face below her.
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Post by Raven on Jan 16, 2019 10:00:58 GMT
Several hours of angry sex later, Holly is finally satisfied and worn out enough to be ashamed at her actions. More specifically, abusing the emotional connection to get her way.
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Post by lichlord on Jan 16, 2019 10:07:48 GMT
Once done (Even though the satisfaction affects her as well), Rei just sits at the end of the bed in a half-open kimono, staring at a wall. She's feeling the guilt from Holly and it's mixed with her anger and frustration, now directed a little bit at the woman in the room with her. But she stays silent, afraid of what she might say in this messed up state of hers.
Finally after some time, Rei speaks up, not looking back.
"What... in the world possessed you so much that you 'had' to do that?"
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Post by Raven on Jan 17, 2019 1:10:26 GMT
Holly blushes and says that she doesn't really know. Only that it is suspected to be a rare event that crops up during her 'time of the month', and this is the strongest its ever been felt.
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Post by lichlord on Jan 17, 2019 2:01:37 GMT
Rei sighs. She gets that too, for sure, but it's like Holly was in heat, or possessed by something. Although with Rei's athletic background, her 'time' is mostly suppressed with mild annoyance. Maybe the harder it swings in one direction...
But Rei's still angry over everything, so she tosses that thought out.
"Is it over now? Can we actually address whats hanging in the air? I'm sure you have more to say about me being gone all day."
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Post by Raven on Jan 17, 2019 2:49:46 GMT
Holly nods meekly, all her rage and passion seemingly used up earlier. Those feelings of worry and guilt towards Rei come crawling back around this time, with a hint of helplessness.
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Post by lichlord on Jan 17, 2019 2:53:42 GMT
Rei still hasn't turned around to face Holly but gets the feelings transferred to her. She just throws a hand out.
"Then you first, just let it all out."
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Post by Raven on Jan 17, 2019 3:07:50 GMT
Holly takes a deep, shuddering breath before spewing out as many of the things she's been concerned about as possible. Most of this is just the typical re-hash, but today these emotions seem to have frayed her nerves especially bad. When she woke up and Rei was gone with no indication of where she's gone off to, she panicked. If it weren't for fear of missing Rei by running off in search of her, she'd have scoured the city for her love. Instead, she just sat here or paced back and forth with ever-increasing fear that something horrible had happened to Rei. Especially as the distance between them dulled the emotional portion of their link so she couldn't 'feel' Rei either. That was probably the worst part. It may not have been all that long ago that the spell/hex/curse was placed on them, but it's been long enough that Holly has gotten used to it; used to having Rei's current emotional state as a constant background presence. When it was suddenly gone, she was justifiably upset. She loves Rei and would do anything for her, she knows that Rei knows this; and yet it seems like there is this great rift steadily growing between them, driving them apart. She just wants her Rei back. The Rei that was happy all the time.
She secretly wonders if that's even possible anymore...
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Post by lichlord on Jan 17, 2019 3:31:13 GMT
Rei listens and tries her best to answer Holly.
"I knew if I had told you where I was going you would have stopped me. Just like every other time. I went down into the castle dungeon. I went to go find that woman. The one who angered me. I needed someone to fight to solve something in my head I've been fighting for a while now. I've... been thinking about Giratina's offer again. I had hoped a fight with someone who I was angry with would maybe see if I had some sort of 'killer instinct' inside of me, strong enough to take the offer. Strong enough to kill D'mara. Strong enough to save everyone."
She sighs.
"And I get down there only to find she's not there and the creatures just swarm around doing nothing and if I pushed they probably would have just blown me away. So that's a failure. Chalk that up to the pile."
Rei shudders when she hears that last bit.
"There's not a rift between you and me. There's just a rift IN me. And every failed plan and loss just widens it. The Rei 'that was happy' was the one who thought she was smart. Thought she was strong. Was calm. I feel angry, stupid, and half-broken."
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Post by Raven on Jan 17, 2019 5:43:02 GMT
Holly really doesn't know how to respond to this. "You are strong, Rei. More than you realize. I know I probably wouldn't be able to handle half of the things you have." She hesitates a bit before adding. "Maybe, if all your plans keep failing, it's time to stop planning? I know that probably doesn't make a lot of sense, or maybe sounds incredibly dumb, but it's all I can think of at the moment." She falls silent after this, unsure how else to continue.
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