RP between Asahi Kumoru, Chloe Star, peachymint and Graficcha
Though he had cleaned himself up and thoroughly brushed his hair after his little excursion onto the roof of his house the night before, Kumoru had had to settle for band-aids on each of his palms to cover the scrapes he had acquired. And, finding that he had run out of plain skin-tone bandages, the mage had gone ahead and used children's band-aids instead. Each palm sported a white adhesive bandage decorated all over with colorful miniature dinosaurs.
He discreetly tossed his fare into the collection machine at the front of the bus before disembarking, and immediately balled his hands into fists and thrust them into hiding in the opposite sleeves of his robes. Kumoru kept his arms crossed like this as he walked through the sliding glass doors and into the waiting room at the joint Project X and Lab 305 facility.
"Hello?" he called out, glancing around as he made his way to the front counter. Kumoru squirmed a little as he took hold of the soul bottle and his vial of essence, each of which he was holding in one of the pockets of his sleeves. Hopefully, he could take care of dropping them off right now, and not have to worry about them for a good long while.
Chloe looked up with a blink, her glasses sliding down the edge of her nose. She wore her usual... a stark white labcoat and colorful scarf wrapped about her neck. She gave a small smile as a familiar face entered the Lab.
"H-Hello.. a-ah..." Familiar face but not name. She frowned, biting her lower lip. "A-Ah... Ice Rose.." She looked down at the small yellow sticky notes that covered every possible space behind the receptionist desk. Not finding what she desired there she reached for a notebook, flipping it open and feaverishly looking through it's pages before giving a small exclimation of satisfaction, finger stabbing at someplace on the white lined paper. "K-Kumoru. Hello, Kumoru.." Her smile turned sheepish.
"C-Can.. I help you with something?"
"Hello," the mage replied with a small smile and a slight bow. Careful to keep his palms down, and the silly kiddie band-aids hidden, Kumoru set both the essence and the soul bottle down on the desk.
"There is your essence back, and a bottle, this time with the right soul." He glanced up at Chloe and tucked his hands back into his sleeves again. "Is there any paperwork or anything else I need to do for you right now?" Kumoru asked.
Chloe gave a small sound of pleasure at seeing the Essence and filled Soul Bottle. She lifted them with all the tender care of a mother lifting a sleeping child. She peered curiously into the Soul Bottle, watching as colors swirled perpetually.
"A-Ah.. no papers but.. if I could ask.. w-what soul is in here.. if you k-know."
Kumoru leaned forward a bit to peer at the bottle, too. "Oh, it's an owl. Not exactly sure what kind, since it was a ghost when I caught it, but it had a round face. Like a barn owl, I think?"
He smiled a little. "It's a good strong one, too. It really struggled to get away when it realized the bottle was trying to suck it in."
Outside the Lab 305 doors, Graficcha was very tempted to slink out of her little hideout. She had been observing the man, Kumoru he was called according to her little notebook, for a while now.
Ever since that day, on which the little sociopath had first seen a Raevan, her interest had snatched that spark and caught fire. Something inside her was undeniably attracted to the beautiful creatures, and she had quickly grasped the concept of the Raevan-guardian relationship.
Graficcha had no real intention to ever talk to the owners, though. Well, she might have, but her instinctive ways of avoiding contact and being a 'good, normal person' had her insides crawl at the thought of ever being spoken to.
People told her to 'get real'... to 'just do what you're supposed to do'. It had turned her into a sneaky spy-like person, who didn't realise just how abnormal her behaviour really was.
Standing out in a crowd was her greatest fear, but in trying to lay low, she had buried herelf in the masses. Her skills of dissappearing had an almost paranormal quality, and often, if someone noticed her, she'd desperately will you to forget all about her.
Now, she had been keeping a keen eye on the happenings around the Lab, enjoying that feeling whenever she saw Zavier and Tsu together, when Lazarus and Kyou were arguing or enjoying a moment of 'peaceful silence', and like now, when that 'new' person came in, suspiciously carrying a little something that Graficcha took a great curiosity in.
She blinked, holding the bottle up a little higher with interest. "Oh my.. a ghost owl?" She then turned and placed the essence and soul bottle delicatly in the glass display case behind the desk, scribbling a small message on a yellow sticky note.
Sticky note Wrote:
Kumoru - Ice Rose - Ghost Owl Soul
She then slid the case closed and turned the key in the small silver lock, pocketing it safely. She turned back to Kumoru, bowing her head with a smile. "Dr. Kyou will tend to it as soon as he is able.. there's a limited number of tanks and there might be other Raevens forming right now."
She blinked, looking past Kumoru's shoulder as the doors to the lab slid open but no one entered, they soon closed and she shrugged, someone must have walked too close to the sensors and set them off.
Jae Eun paused in front of the building before her. ....Had she just seen someone in the bushes? She looked instead at the somewhat crumpled piece of paper in her hand, and decided it was worth a shot. She had heard about this place from one of her professors, so it couldn't hurt to invesigate, right?
Slipping the rather crudely drawn map and note back into a bag that hung diagonally across from her shoulder, she smoothed her skirt, and headed for the entrance.
Walking through the doors, she paused as her eyes adjusted to the change in lighting. She could see two people at the reception desk, and well....was it just her, or was there a floating rose made out of ice and a bottle with swirling.... colored...stuff in it sitting on the counter?
Graficcha had hushed past the sliding doors to get a better view. She saw Miss Chloe, one of the Raevan owners and Lab assistants, in an exchange with Kumoru.
With a pang of dismay, the spy noticed how she had missed the female's entrance in the building.
Need to pay more attention!
It worried her that there was still no sign of Roux, the ice Raevan. Graf had spent many an hour thinking about how one could please this pretty, egocentric and vain Frei, and make him a little more conscious about the feeling of the people around him. She had yet to find an answer to that one. The tricky part, in her mind, was how to teach him empathy and tone his ego down, all while being honest to him and still keep in control.
He seemed to need something besides praise and the care he got from his loving guardian, but he didn't exactly make things easier for Chloe.
But now, he seemed to have withdrawn somewhere. Graficcha guessed that that could not be a good thing, and it worried her, but she didn't dare break into Chloe's house to see what had happened to him -or even, what anyone had done to him.
While thinking about this, the girl's brown eyes darkened. No one had the right to hurt a Raevan, those pure beings, completely new to the world, and still unspoiled. Where things were headed with Rivener bothered her as well, but that seemed to work out alright. For now.
When Graf saw Kumoru-san hand over the vial and bottle, the bluish sparkle of the ice rose made her even more conscious of the fact that soon, a new Frei would emerge into this world.
You better take good care of your charge... she thought towards the man.
She started when a girl suddenly decided to turn to the doors of the Lab, and she hastily scurried a few steps back, and silently, Graf clambered up a tree and watched.
"Alright, thank you," Kumoru replied, bowing slightly to Chloe again. "And will he call me or get in touch, I guess, when... things are ready?"
He watched as the doctor locked away the items he had brought, feeling a slight pang of regret that he had not been able to further study the bottle. After a moment, he ventured to ask, "Is there more you can tell me about the soul bottle? How do they work?"
The necromancer had the old one at home, but he was not sure it would still be the same, as it had already captured a soul, and then been taken apart.
Feeling as though he was being watched, the mage shrugged his shoulders ever so slightly, then glanced out the window behind him. Someone else was entering, but he had a feeling there was another person out there, too.
Chloe looked once more over Kumoru's shoulder as the doors opened a second time, smiling as she saw someone entering. She gave a polite nod to her. "H-Hello.. I'll be with you in just a moment.. f-feel free to take a seat.."
She turned back to Kumoru, giving her lip a small bite. "I-I'm sorry.. I don't really know how the soul bottles work. They're Dr. Kyou's invention.. I-I haven't asked him to explain it to me. I'm sorry.."
Hearing the greeting from the receptionist, Jae Eun smiled back and gave a small bow.
She seems like a nice woman! she thought to herself.
Looking around, she saw that there were in fact some sofas surrounding a table not too far from the entrance.
Picking one that would allow her a view of the reception desk and the entrance, Jae Eun seated herself and pulled out her handphone. Setting it on vibrate so as not to disturb the receptionist and her current visitor, she opened it up and busied herself answering text messages.
Chloe gave a small start as her watch gave a series of beeps. She looked down at the time, giving a small gasp. "O-Oh! Excuse me." She stepped back out from behind the desk, gently taking one of Kumoru's hands in both of her's and giving it a polite squeeze. "Please forgive me, I have to go work on something.. I-I'm so sorry."
She turned to the girl who had entered and sat on one of the couches, even more distressed about leaving her behind. "I.. I'm so s-s-sorry! Please forgive me b-but th-there's something of importance I n-need to attend to.. I-If you could come back at another t-time tomorrow, perhaps... I-I can answer what I can of a-any question you have." She gave a deep bow of apology to the other woman before hurrying back toward the doors that lead into the corridors behind the receptionist area.
When the girl entered, Graf could barely contain her excitement. She HAD to know who this was, and the pull of the Lab's inner workings were strong today. Once or twice, she had snuck in, pretending to be a random Gaian coming to check things out, but whenever someone came into the entrance hall, she hurried out, walking calmly, invisibly, following walls to the exit.
This would be a chance to get in, right when Chloe and Kumoru would focus on the new arrival.
It'd be a risk, and somehow, Graf could feel she might be too tense to flick in.
She knew she'd do something wrong, get upset, be noticed, but this was IT. The doors hadn't closed just yet! Thinking fast, she broke of a broadly leafed twig, climbed to the end of the branch and waved it right above the doors, in front of the sensors.
She jumped down from the tree branch into the bushes where she had hidden, timing her jump so that the noise of impact would be drowned by the sound of a passing car.
Keeping an eye on the motion sensor, cursing it after it had nearly betrayed her just a moment before, she quickly inched closer to the entrance, and chose an angle from which the light wouldn't make her too light or too dark.
Their attention's on the girl.. now or never Graf!
She slipped inside an blended into the shadows inside the building, hoping she had done it right.
Looking up from her phone as the watch beeped, Jae Eun watched as the receptionist apologized to the man at the desk and to her.
Standing quickly, she bowed back, not realizing she had dropped her phone.
"Thank you for the kind reception!" she said, not aware that the woman had already gone through the doors and out of sight.
Looking up, she realized she was already gone, and there was no one but her and the man in the room.
Graficcha watched the man and the girl in the hall. Her heart was thumping madly, but she remained quiet.
Now, she began asking herself how the hell she should get out again later. Going deeper into the sacred dwellings of doctor Kyou was out of the question, but taking the chance to take a quick peek at what Chloe had written might be interesting.
But Graf started making a few mistakes. For one thing, she didn't stop to calculate the two people's range of vision, and certainly did NOT remember that there was a light switch placed on the wall she used as a cover.
The lights clicked on when she brushed against the trigger with her black coat, and her eyes widened in shock. She switched them off with a little jab, and dashed for the reception desk, pouncing behind it like a cat, scared out of her wits.
Chloe bustled out of the double doors that lead into the back workings of the lab, heading toward the receptionists desks in a hurry. She'd forgotten something. Again.
She blinked as she noticed an unfamiliar face sitting behind her workspace. She gave a small frown, fretting with her labcoat sleeves. "A-Ah.. excuse me... C-Could you please.. not be behind here? O-Only staff is supposed to..."
She crept sideways past the sitting girl, noting with perplexity how emotional she seemed. Maybe she hadn't intentionally gone back here but had fallen? Chloe picked up her notebook from behind the desk. The girl didn't seem like she was about to move but... well.. Chloe was -very- busy.. and it wasn't too bad, the girl seemed to just be sitting there... She hurried back through the double sliding doors into the back halls of the lab.
The girl's sudden outburst and following reactions left Jae Eun dumbfounded. She seemed okay...and then all of a sudden, she was sitting on the ground!
She watched in shock as the other receptionist emerged, told the other girl that behind the desk was 'staff only', and disappeared again.
o.....kay..... she thought to herself.
Deciding she had had enough excitement for one day, she pulled out a pen and a small sticky-pad with some floral stationary on it. She scribbled a quick note for the receptionist.
To - Miss Receptionist
Hello! My name is Kim Jae Jae Eun Kim.
I came into the Lab earlier today.
I am a student majoring in East Asian Lore at Durem University.
One of my professors mentioned to me that there is someone here
by the name of 'Kyou' who is extremely well-read on mythical creatures.
I would really like to meet Mr. Kyou if possible. ^^
I can be reached on my hand-phone at xxx-xxx-xxxx
I hope it isn't too much trouble!
Thanks~ Jae Eun <3
Leaving the note on the reception desk, she re-shouldered her bag and headed out. She paused when she walked up next to the man.
"It was nice to meet you today! Maybe we will see each other again sometime!" she said with a polite bow before quickly exiting the building.
Kumoru frowned with concern at the strange girl who had been running away and then stopped in the doorway. From the words of Chloe, however, he suspected that she was not supposed to have been behind the counter in the first place.
He bowed again, almost reflexively, as Jae Eun spoke to him again, and turned his attention to her. "Nice to meet you as well," the necromancer replied. "I will probably be back here quite a bit, like when I need to get my daughter out of the house for a while. So maybe we shall see each other."
His business was taken care of for now, as his soul bottle and essence were now locked away. Best he get home as quickly as the bus could take him; maybe he could spend at least part of the afternoon further examining the various pieces of the dismantled bottle. And maybe wash out the scratches on his palms again. Touching the pads of the bandages tenderly, he walked out of the lab's sliding doors and headed for the bus stop.
Graficcha finally snapped out of it when the hall went silent. Everyone had left the perimeter, and the shock wore off.
Even if it hadn't been planned, this 'little' breakdown had been a most welcome evasion manoeuvre, and the girl took the chance to stand up slowly, approach the doors, and finally escape into the outer world again before Chloe or anyone returned.
The fear and the frustration still lingered, but she would definitely come back.
Oh yes, she would.
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Okay, done! xp
hd to figure things OUT to get this popped in here >>
Now to see how this'll continue ninja
This RP started on page 3230 of the Lab 305 thread.
We had to end quickly, simply because we all had to leave at a certain time.
I believe we did a good job on wrapping things up though ^^
Graficcha Community Member 
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