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 Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 10:14 am
"I'm not leaving you behind! I'm not going to let you get caught! You're my little sister...Remember?" Hound then started climbing the tress slowly. He didn't want her hurt.
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Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 12:31 pm
"I don't want to run away all my life! I just want to live someplace in peace..." Red growled and flew over to another tree a few hundred feet away. She was upset, that much was easy to tell.
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Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 2:11 pm
((Sorry Mayhem! But yeah, that's perfect xD))
Smoke watched, unmoving, as Hound disappeared from sight, chasing Red. He acknowledged a silent hope that they would find each other and regroup with the rest of them, and then slid back into the front seat and fastened his harness. The keys were still in the ignition, so it was a simple matter to shift the vehicle into drive and head out.
They'd be on the road for a few more hours until they could reach a major, confusing airport. Speaking of which, he needed to explain the circumstances and his plan.
"Okay guys. In a few hours--at most--Hiccadu will be hunting us down. We need to get as far away as we can before then. Preferably, out of this country." He doubted the Chimerae who lived in the slaughterhouse their whole lives could accurately imagine anything bigger than a city at this point, but he continued, figuring they would learn on the way. "My plan is to find someone to fly us out of here, preferably to somewhere in central Asia, Europe, or Australia. Places farther away than 'far away'."
The airports would be almost impossible to travel through. Between the Chimerae's lack of identification, confusion towards the world in general, and the fact that they didn't legally exist, it would be far easier to hire a private pilot. He just didn't know who would fly them competently to another continent yet.
"I don't really know what to say from there. Anyone have any ideas?"
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Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 2:17 pm
"What's central Asia, Europe and Austrailia?" Tobart asked, wanting to know so that maybe he could come up with a plan. Any information helped.
Lonomia stretched his limbs, enjoying the feeling of his knees and elbows unlocking after a lifetime in a cramped cage. He couldn't understand; he might as well just let the others take care of it. Like usual.
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The Amazing Flying Circus
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Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 2:30 pm
"Then stick with me and we'll find a place of peace..." Hound replied. "If you don't like running away, then how come you are still running from Me!? I promised myself That I would never let you come to harm, and I intend to keep that promise. Smoke wants to help us, so let him help us. The longer you argue about this the farther away he and the others get, and the lower my chances are of returning us both to them. I can still smell smoke, but only barely. We must Return to the group! We're not safe here! Mean sister is coming to find us and take us back to that accursed place!"
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Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 3:20 pm
Red sighed softly. "Fine. I'll go." She said as she flew down to the ground. "Lead the way." she said after he was on the ground as well.
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Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 3:28 pm
Hound hugged Red gently before saying, "Thankyou Red..." and turning to sprint back in the direction of Smoke's scent. Hound was slightly proud of himself, He'd managed to get Red to come back. He hoped they'd find a safe place soon, He hated seeing Red upset.
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Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 4:47 pm
((OOC: ...Does John's desertion have anything to do with that tracker they ha-- *shot*))
Apsalar was unsatisfied with Smoke's explanation, but she let it go, however uneasily. It wasn't as though she could force him to tell her, any more than she could have forced John to come back to them.
But he would. Smoke had promised he would, and however reluctantly, she thought she could trust him.
She looked off in the direction that John had gone, before her shoulders lowered slightly and she nodded. All the fire seemed to desert her, however temporarily, and she looked like what she was - a frightened, lost teenage girl.
"Now what?" she asked softly.
She ignored Red's erratic behaviour - she didn't understand what the problem was, but she knew that they couldn't afford any more wasted time. They had to go.
Without questioning any further, she followed Smoke into the jeep. Listening to the man's words, she frowned - but Tobart asked his question before she could gather the scattered mental resources to ask her own. The one John hadn't answered. The one she was still trying to find the words to phrase properly.
Once Tobart had spoken, Apsalar waited a beat and then asked, quietly, "Why run?" The idea had been planted in her mind a long time ago, but it had become more viable when Smoke had mentioned being vulnerable because he was alone in the world.
Now if only she could find a way to explain it to the others. Once again, she wished John were back - he never seemed to have trouble understanding her. Smoke seemed to understand sometimes, just like Tobart, but Apsalar couldn't know if it was getting through.
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Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 7:43 pm
((I'd actually forgotten about John's tracker thingy O.o))
"Australia is a big, huge place somewhere far away. It's warm there, usually, but it will take a long time to get there. Once we're there, though, we should be safe." He would find a map and show them sometime, when he could. Google Earth would be a very useful tool in explaining how vast the world really was; how far away they could really get.
Apsalar's question reached him after that, and he took a few moments to mull it over. She didn't seem to understand a whole lot of English, which was okay since she was still young and would likely pick it up later on, but that still left him wondering how to answer that. "Why do we have to run from Hiccadu, Yani, and TAIS?" he asked, wondering what her question truly was. "Or why do we have to run away from everyone else?" he said, interrupting his driving to gesture briefly at the other cars on the road, and the pedestrians on sidewalks and crossing streets.
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Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 7:51 pm
Lonomia felt a bit of resentment that he could not understand, a bit left out. He clambered into the car and strapped himself in as Smoke had shown him before.
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The Amazing Flying Circus
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Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 9:52 pm
((OOC: XD Shows I should keep my mouth shut.))
Apsalar frowned over the words for a few minutes. "...Yani," she decided, although it could have applied equally well to everyone Smoke had mentioned. "Other way. Smoke." She thought there might be another way to survive out here, one that didn't include running.
Whether it would work was less than likely.
She remained quiet for a bit, trying to piece together the words that would make her thoughts clearer. "Have to...see," she said hesitantly. "Have to see...us. Everyone else. Have to see us."
A little, faraway smile worked its way across her face. "See us. Not be alone. Not...disappear," she murmured, repeating Smoke's words from earlier.
If we're seen, if we're known...if we stop hiding...they can't do anything to us. Yani, TAIS, Hiccadu. We would be in plain sight, they'd know where we were, but it wouldn't matter. They can't take us back there, not if people would notice and care if we disappeared.
Unsure if this was true, or even if her thoughts had been properly expressed, she looked up through her hair to see the reactions of the ones around her.
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Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 10:05 pm
((Sweet. That makes s**t easy.
I'll wait until a few more roleplay hours pass until sending Hiccadu out.
So Anin, does Jared or Yani wanna have any interaction with either TAIS or Hiccadu before it's put into motion?))
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Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 10:28 pm
((OOC: *attackhugmob* Hey. Hey you. Yeah, you. I posted in PR. biggrin ))
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Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 10:57 pm
((Merrrroweeeeer <3
Okay. I posted in Shell Barricade. Lemme go look. :3))
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Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 1:54 pm
((Well, Jared is sulking right now. So not him xD))
Smoke thought it over, beginning to think it would work until the original thought he'd had when considering that course of action for the first time popped up.
"I don't know if there are more Yanis in the world than we've met," he said slowly, mulling over how to explain what he meant. "Yani Vent is not the only evil person in the world. You could be kidnapped, tortured, caged again by different people. Everyone might think you weren't real--that you guys never existed. Everything could go back to the way it was, but every evil, suspicious person will know you exist."
He looked over his shoulder at Apsalar briefly, then set his eyes back on the road. The rough bumps over the asphalt gave evidence of having been there for a long time. They were leaving the city limits. In just a few more hours, there would be nothing on either side of them but trees and mountains as far as the eye could see.
- - - - - - - - - -
Yani was alerted through his PDA of TAIS new plan. It took him a few hours to ponder the advantages and strategies of this new plan, but in the end, he tapped out an acceptance on the screen and Hiccadu was lifted from her state of discipline. The tactic played out in his mind, the various scenarios going through his brilliant head. None of them involved Hiccadu being damaged in any way, which was the main reason he accepted the plan. But, there was the case that the freed Chimerae would enlist her help to destroy the slaughterhouse, and that always made him concerned. The slaughterhouse was an easy thing to rebuild, but the demolition would bring about news casts and publicity--something he definitely did not want. Yet, if Hiccadu refused to help them, they would root her out.
The bad endings were numerous, the good few. The only real worry Yani had was that the Chimerae would be caught on a news station and nationalized. Or worse, someone else would steal and manipulate his experiments for monetary gain, which was outrageous. His only purpose for experimentation with the Chimerae was purely scientific.
He stood up from the couch in the observation room, then paced restlessly down the halls of the facility until he heard Hiccadu's voice answering her supercomputer self.
The Chimera was exactly who he needed to talk with. A few things must be laid down before the hunter was sent on her forged mission of peace.
"TAIS, Hiccadu," he addressed them as if they were separate entities. "We must discuss a few details of this outing before you go."
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