This Curious Catch (Jarick x Aludiana)
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				Title: <strong>This Curious Catch (Jarick x Aludiana)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Cessali</strong> on <strong>29-11-2010, 04:04:52</strong>
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				The process of joining the ranks of of the Bonded often lasted as long as a year to fully complete.&nbsp; Of every hundred applicants, perhaps thirty were judged by the Board to be of the right psychological character; of these twenty, maybe one in three proved to be capable of learning the proper rites and meditations involved in connecting their soul to a Yokai.&nbsp; Of these ten, perhaps eight tended to successfully complete the rite-- and there were always rumors of those who failed horrendously, and came out... wounded, in some way.&nbsp; If there was any truth to these rumors, the Board never acknowledged them, but the Board was always close-lipped about its secrets.<br><br>Thus, among five of the six people still left in the waiting room, there was no small amount of tension in the room.&nbsp; To come all this way and fail was a daunting possibility; the three young men and two young women shared nervous glances amongst each other but made no sounds.&nbsp; This was what they'd dreamed of doing ever since they were young-- the adventure, the prestige and honor, the chance to prove their strength of character in a way that nobody else in the world could do.&nbsp; It was their ticket to relative immortality.<br><br>The sixth person in the waiting room, by contrast, was wishing they would have let him read a book while he waited.&nbsp; For Adam, this was just a stepping stone to other, more important things-- and the easiest one to achieve what he wanted.&nbsp; He'd filed the application with the Board almost as a whim, and when he'd met with success, only then did he begin further research into what he'd have to do to succeed.&nbsp; His parents had backed him the whole way; his own father had been Bonded, and Julie, before she...<br><br>Irritated with himself, Adam dismissed the thought and returned his mind to a pseudo-meditative state.&nbsp; The enforced peace lasted all of a few more minutes before the click-clack of booted feet drew his attention; he didn't open his eyes, though, until he heard a voice call his name: "Stanton."&nbsp; Without further ado, Adam uncrossed his legs and stood.&nbsp; He nodded once to the purple-robed figure, and without a backward glance to the other applicants, set down the hallway after him.&nbsp; Or her.&nbsp; The voice hadn't offered any clues, and the mediator's robe was cut such that it was hard to tell his/her gender beneath it.&nbsp; Something of a tangential distraction on the way in, though-- the figure stopped at an open door and motioned silently for him to enter.<br><br>Taking one last breath to steady himself, Adam stepped inside and immediately found himself wading through a thick haze of incense and ritual burnings.&nbsp; The pungent herbs stank of sulfur and hinted at rose petals in the same breath, a scent that had been terribly disconcerting in the first practice sessions but was almost soothing now.&nbsp; It put him in the right frame of mind for imagining strange mystic sigils and icons, twisting his imagination in strange ways, and otherwise preparing himself to be spiritually connected to a yokai.<br><br>Sitting down in the specially-prepared section chalk circle, Adam crossed his legs beneath him and positioned himself so that he was facing the curtain obscuring the other side of the circle-- and with it, the place where his partner would manifest.&nbsp; The door slid shut behind him, separating the ritual from the outside world; the electric lights overhead slowly dimmed, and the other ritual participants began lighting small candles carefully positioned around the circle.&nbsp; This was his chance for freedom.&nbsp; If Adam succeeded here, he could go on with the next stage of his plans... and all he had to do was concentrate.&nbsp; To every side, the other willworkers rose their voice in a dull, monotone chant in the Old Realm's tongue; in turn, Adam answered their questions and demands with his own memorized words.&nbsp; Slowly, as the binding magic built, he could feel strange tugs at his heart-- something being tied in, something twisting, knotting beneath his guts... and though a brief note of fear chirruped in the back of his mind, he only briefly faltered in the recitation.&nbsp; This was more important than anything else.<br><br>As time wore on, though, his attention started drifting in other ways between call-and-response.&nbsp; What was this thing he was taking control of?&nbsp; What would its strength be?&nbsp; Its nature?&nbsp; Its personality?&nbsp; He wouldn't know these questions for a while, but the strange lights playing beneath the lip of the curtain were beginning to catch his curiosity...
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				Title: <strong>Re: This Curious Catch (Jarick x Aludiana)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Aludiana of the Dusk</strong> on <strong>30-11-2010, 09:56:30</strong>
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				In the waters of the Old Realm, something stirred. At first, it just looked like normal movement of the water, but when the movement happened again it started off a few small fish-like creatures and in the moving water a figure slowly appeared. A pair of long, feminine legs appeared first, followed by long flowing sea-foam green hair. Once the hair was visible the rest of the body seemed to appear out of nowhere; a face with eyes a blue as deep as the sea, curvy female torso with firm, round breasts partially hidden by a mermaid like tail of deep teal. The last thing to be visible were the ears, which moved in a feline manner, but more resembled fins one might see on an aquatic creature. Aside from the ears and tail, she looked as though she could pass for a normal human girl.<br><br>Her nose would twitch as though she were sniffing something on the wind, ears would perk up, then relax and perk up again. She smelled rose petals, and heard the faint sound of jingling bells. She'd shiver as the felt the magic come in contact with her skin. "Someone's calling me." She giggled, swimming off in the direction the magic had come from, until she reached an old underwater ruin. She sped up, swimming towards a large, crumbling altar. Once she reached the altar, she began swimming in an intricate pattern, weaving her own magic as she went, leaving behind her a glimmering trail that looked very similar to the intricate knotted designs of the ancient Kelts. She could feel the heart of the person she was binding herself to and sensed a male presence, well meaning if a bit untrained.<br><br>As she continued swimming the knot pattern, she felt herself being pulled away, into another world. Her mind lost the calm focus that had consumed it, and she wondered about the person she was binding herself to, and the new world she was entering. Were her senses right, or had the magic muddled them? Would she be entering a world with lush forests and large bodies of water, or a barren desert world?
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				Title: <strong>Re: This Curious Catch (Jarick x Aludiana)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Cessali</strong> on <strong>01-12-2010, 23:35:55</strong>
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				The minutes blurred together as the ritual wore on.&nbsp; Adam made every effort to remember the 'meaning' of the words he was speaking and hearing, trying to make sure he kept focus on what he was doing as a strange sense of pressure began to weigh down on him from above.&nbsp; Like swimming, only... longer.&nbsp; Deeper.&nbsp; Smoother.&nbsp; Bizarre rumbles were reaching his ear from the other side of the ritual circle-- still obscured by the tactically-placed curtain-- and while he'd been told that such sensations and occurrences were likely to happen, it was another thing to actually experience the weirdness...<br><br>Then, suddenly, there was a (pop!) and a splash.&nbsp; The heightened, extraneous sensations faded away instantaneously, as though the veil had been lifted from him, and beneath the curtain a trickle of spreading water could be seen in the flickering candlelight.&nbsp; The other ritual-workers sprang into action almost immediately around him, extinguishing candles, turning the electric lights back on, pulling back the curtain separating the other half of the ritual circle...<br><br><em>She's gorgeous,</em> Adam thought blankly for a moment, pushing some of his sweat-slicked auburn hair back out of his face as he took a long look at the girl/yokai in front of him.&nbsp; She could have stepped out of the pages of a fashion magazine and been too out of place...<br><br>Things were apparently done around them.&nbsp; The ritual implements were being put away, most of the other technicians were now leaving the room-- a few staying behind to watch him and the new arrival.&nbsp; Suddenly a little wearier than he'd thought he would be, Adam pushed himself upright and walked over to her.&nbsp; "Welcome.&nbsp; My name is Adam," he said quite seriously.&nbsp; "What's yours?"
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				Title: <strong>Re: This Curious Catch (Jarick x Aludiana)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Aludiana of the Dusk</strong> on <strong>02-12-2010, 00:22:33</strong>
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				The sensation of being slowly pulled away faded quickly, as the magic sucked her and a decent amount of the water she had been swimming in through a portal into the other world. She felt, more than heard the "pop!" that had her landing in the ritual circle of the one who summoned her. She could smell burning candles, though the smell slowly faded as her lungs adjusted to taking in oxygen from the air, and not water. <br><br>Her lungs had just enough time to adjust before the room was suddenly lit up with brighter light and the curtain pulled back. She looked curiously at the one who summoned her, he looked younger than she had expected though she assumed appearances could be deceptive in this case, as he was clearly capable of casting the magic required to summon her who wasn't to say he could make himself appear younger as well? There had been others in the room as well, though most of them were filing out. She noticed the male who had summoned her was wet with sweat, and appeared weary, which made her wonder how long he had been chanting before the magic reached her.<br><br>"Greetings, Adam. I am called Capri, I am a water spirit." She crossed the distance between them as she spoke, unashamed of her nudity and leaving small puddles with each footstep. "I answered your call because your heart is pure, and that means your intentions should be as well." She stopped just in front of him, tilting her head to the side and flicking her tail behind her, sending droplets of water flying everywhere. "I did not expect you to be as young as you are, however."
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				Title: <strong>Re: This Curious Catch (Jarick x Aludiana)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Cessali</strong> on <strong>03-12-2010, 15:40:27</strong>
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				"Capri," Adam murmured, tasting the name for what it was worth.&nbsp; The idle motion of her tail drew his eyes back down and up the length of her figure-- if she was aware of her nakedness, she was completely unashamed of it-- and he resisted the impulse to offer her the overshirt he was wearing beneath the heavy robe.&nbsp; What purpose would she see in it, right yet?&nbsp; Maybe if it got colder...<br><br>The remark about his age brought him back to reality.&nbsp; His gaze flicked to the other black-robed individuals monitoring their interactions.&nbsp; "Just talented, I guess," he said with a half-smirk and a shrug.&nbsp; "Doesn't hurt that I had qualified help, either.&nbsp; I think they want their room back, though-- let's be on our way."<br><br>Reaching over his head, he began pulling the thick black robe up and off his body.&nbsp; Beneath it, he was wearing more conventional clothing-- a dark green short-sleeved button-down shirt over a longer-sleeve tee, dark denim pants, and a pair of hiking boots.&nbsp; The leanness of relative youth, somehow subdued.&nbsp; Handing the robe to one of the ritual-workers, Adam nodded in the direction of the back door.&nbsp; "So have you been summoned before, then?" he asked interestedly, offering his hand to her.
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				Title: <strong>Re: This Curious Catch (Jarick x Aludiana)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Aludiana of the Dusk</strong> on <strong>06-12-2010, 21:29:26</strong>
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				She'd smile as he murmured her name, rolling it off his tongue as though tasting it. It was good, at least in her mind, it signified that their bond was solid, and that his attention was still on her, not on all the riches or glory she could bring him.<br><br>She'd follow him out of the room, her footfalls still leaving puddles almost inexplicably in their wake, for she was no longer standing in water. "Talented, huh? I suppose you must be in order to have made a bond with a water spirit." She said in response to his remark, if he'd look back, he'd see her preening a bit, as though being a water spirit was something she took great pride in. "No, I've not been summoned before, though I've spoken with others who have, they speak of a great many worlds; ones that are consumed by water entirely, others where the sun is so hot and water is so scarce that humans die of thirst, and still others where water and land are in relative balance to each other, with lush green forests and tall trees. If you're wondering about why I thought you would be older, I just assumed you would be from the presence I sensed during the binding ritual." The water Yokai would tilt her head to the side, as though he were an object of curiosity she were examining as she spoke.<br>
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