[smart~]

((Aww, makes me feel like I'm not doing a good job being your RP buddy ;_; ))

(( Eek! Kaine I didn't mean it that way! I love rping with you! I just said I miss them because I never really got a chance to know them.

I have responded to your previous post too. It's on the previous page. ))

"Ha!" Ludwik laughed about her comment about being hungry, "I'm famished dear. Let's go."

The two then walked out of the room and out of the hotel. The outside was very odd though to some people. In today's world people were use to seeing cars going through traffics and people wearing business suits going to their work and such. But in where the two were, none of that didn't seem to..exist. The town that they were in was based on an old country like style where instead of having tar roads they had dirt paths. Instead of busy people walking about, their were a few townsfolk walking around wearing traditional clothing. Instead of cars there were horse carriages transporting people around. This place was practically had no technology that modern citizens like Tellyah was use to.

"Welcome to Travis," Ludwik said with open arms to her, "we'll be sticking here until everything is confirmed with the organization. So you better get use to their culture here, alright, dear Tellyah?" He smiled to her wickedly as he guided her by holding one of her free hands as they explored around the town.

"Now, what would you like to eat?" He asked her.

(Zelda's not answering my char request so Imma go ahead and post for her even if I get kicked out. Also, this is a pic forSam since his appears to not work)

Rachel panted as she pumped her legs as fast as she could. Being a scholarship student, she couldn't have afforded a car, not even a bike. "Ack! Stupid El! He sent the email too late...what if I don't get to the kids on time!" she cried, spurring up her speed before falling back into her old pace again. Finally running into El's long driveway, Rachel smiled with relief as she saw several figures seated in a car that was parked there. Running over to the open window, she stuck her head in. "You guys..are the chosen ones right? Hi, I'm Rachel. The wind element and El's old intern." Awaiting to see their reactions, Rachel pulled out to give the kids some space.

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Sam was surprised like hell. Whoever this Rachel was, why couldn't she knock? Rolling up to window to a halfway point, Sam leaned away from the stranger before realizing that Justin was also one and sat back into the middle of his seat, squirming a bit. "What do we do?" he whispered to Justin.

Justin looked at Rachel weirdly,"You what now?"
Ink landed on the top of the car,"Wind huh? Nice to meet'cha Rachel!"

Tellyah laughed at the little town in wonderment. She felt like she had just walked into a fairy tale; a modern day ghost town. "It's wonderful." she said, "Did you grow up here?" She felt a bit envious that he had lived -was living- in a town as special as this one. She squeezed his hand lightly, and smiled. "Seeing as I am new to Travis, I wouldn't know of any place to eat. Didn't you think about that?" she shrugged, "I thought someone as smart as you would have." Her gaze was caught by a shop front; its large window showed of a display of fine clothes. The one that caught her eyes the most was a sapphire blue ball gown. Something a rich woman - perhaps a Duchess - would wear.

Trinity sat obediently next to the Duke's side. Her head was bowed, her eyes focusing on a spot on the floor. "Girl." A woman in a blue dress sneered. Trinity stood and she said, "Yes, My Lady?" she plastered on the smile she had been taught. "What may I do for you?" The woman cleared her throat, and glared at her. Trinity wanted for her orders, but then realized that she had misspoken. "Duchess, forgive me. It's been so long since I have seen you." The Duchess raised her hand and slapped Trinity's face. The girl had to fight to hold back her tears. "Scum. You best remember what you are. Nothing. You were born nothing, and you'll die nothing." The Duke hadn't moved from his sitting position. He hadn't lifted a hand to stop the problem. Now, as Trinity looked at him, he nodded. Trinity smiled, picked up the knife from the table, and thrust its blade into the Duchess's laughed chest.

Tellyah squeezed Ludwik's hand tightly, digging her nails into his skin. "First, I think I need some medication for this headache though. Sorry," she said releasing his hand and taking a step back. She shrugged. "I guess I don't know my own strength."

"Well dear Tellyah," Ludwik responded back to her rude comment, "If you recall I said, 'what would you like to eat', not 'where would you like to eat'. I think you should think before you speak before you call someone dumb, young lady."

Suddenly Tellyah's grip began to squeeze harder, as if she was trying to stab her nails into Ludwik's flesh. He looked over to her checking if she wasn't trying to do anything wrong but she began to give off this off expression as if she was thinking something deep. As her grip became unbearable, he was about to snap at her so that she would regain conscious but her colors began to show back.

As she apologized Ludwik respond, "Well, the best medicine for now is to eat something for yourself. Ah, how about here." Ludwik pointed to a simple looking town restaurant. The two made it up into the restaurant and was served by a well dressed waiter. He almost looked like a servant for a high class rich men. He guide the two to their non-smoking tables and served their brunch menu.

Tellyah sat quietly in the seat across from Ludwik and picked up the menu to hide her face. She felt embarrassed that her memories were getting the better of her. Had she not tried so hard to suppress them all these years? She shook her head, sighed and focused on the list of food. An omelet? A bagel? Pancakes or waffles? Maybe a small sandwich? The thought of eating till her stomach burst made her laugh. She recalled the mountain of food that El had offered the orphans when they had awoken. She had, of course, declined to eat anything. She put her menu down and said, "Toast is fine. I'm not that hungry." As she spoke, she felt a pain in her stomach protesting her. She was glad it hadn't made a sound.

Trinity crept through the dark ally not making a sound. At 9, her small body could easily move unnoticed. She was dressed in complete black; she had a hand gun in a holster tied to her hip. She smiled, and hide behind a group of trash cans. All she had to do now was wait.

Tellyah groaned and picked up the menu again. She had to take her mind off of her past. She scanned the list of food twice before she spoke. "So, Ludwik, how is it you found the Organization?" she shook her head and placed her menu down again. "Sorry," she smiled, "I guess I shouldn't ask you that. You probably don't trust me enough to tell me about yourself." she had to say it, no matter if it was a lie or not. "I trust you."

Ludwik peeked through the menu but kept an eye on Tellyah again. As she announced that she wanted to eat some toast, he eyes wandered off again as if she was remembering something. This was going to annoy Ludwik more than ever if she continued to do this. The waiter came back afterward while her mind was off to lah-lah land.

"I'd like to get the house sampler for the two of us," Ludwik began to order, "two fresh orange juice, and as for a main course I'd like to get an omelet please. As for the madam over there... Get her the house special."

The waiter bowed and took Ludwik's menu away. As he was about to take Tellyah's, Ludwik waved his hand at him saying it was fine. The man then dismissed himself and left the two alone. Tellyah finally came back from memory lane and spoke about how Ludwik met the organization and how she trusted him.

"Haha, well, I'm flattered, dear Tellyah," Ludwik smiled to her, "I trust you too." -He smirked at bit- "Now, I don't care about you wanting to know how I found the Organization. Well, actually, it was the Organization that found me first. And, little of this happened, and a dash of that...Then I decided that they would be completely useless without me." He praised himself without explain one bit of good information to Tellyah on how he allied with the Organization.

The waiter then returned with their orange juice and left quickly to check on their food. "Now, dear Tellyah, since we're trying to play the trust game, why not tell me about the rest of your little ring friends?" He asked her while slipping his drink.

Tellyah rolled her eyes as Ludwik order for her. That would get annoying; if he kept treating her like a child. She smiled and said, "I told Reaver everything I know about the others. No matter who they get it from, the Organization is getting that information. I wouldn't be surprised if they already know everything." The waiter returned and set a glass of orange juice in front of her. She smiled at him as he left and had the sudden urge to tell him that she and Ludwik were only friends; but now was not the time or place. She looked at Ludwik who was staring at her impatiently. Needing something to do, she too a generous sip of the orange juice and suppressed a moan of delight - although she was sure it had shown on her face. She decided to continue, only only to keep up the appearance of friendship. "In fact, it seems your job is only to watch me. Kind of lame if you ask me. You could be attacking them right now. It's a pity that the 'O' would waste your... talent." She took another sip of juice, then set her glass down. She hoped the waiter would return soon, and look in the direction he had walked in. After a few minutes she sighed, and attempted to relax - something that she had never really had the time, nor the drive to do. This was going to be a long day - or however long she had to stay with the man who didn't seem to appreciate her company.

"Oh come now," Ludwik spoke up snickering to himself, "What could possible be more than trying to surpass child like yourself who has the ability to go berserk and kill all of these innocent people here if you were to do something wrong. Besides, who said we weren't going to do anything? I am still going to try to help you with maintaining your powers." He slipped the orange juice again, "You should be thankful for my generosity and grace to even let you dine with me. Well, actually, it's nice to have company than eat alone."

He then leaned onto the table as his hands supported his head. He gazed into Tellyah's eyes and smiled, "Besiiiides, if my 'talent' were to be let off to find the other ring bearers then, ho ho ho...You really might not be able to see them again."

The waiter came back then with the appetizer that he ordered a moment ago. The tray was filled with a variety of foods that the two can pick from. Hush-puppies, biscuits, toast, and of course some jam, butter and maple syrup for the meal. Without hesitation, Ludwik reached for the Hush-puppies and picked one up. He then dipped it into the syrup and placed the delicious food into his mouth. He then expressed this child-like smiling as he enjoyed eating his first piece of food of the day.

"Oh yes!" Ludwik says outloud, "Oh my goodness, this is definitely something I wanted today! Come on now, you get yourself something. I recommend the hush-puppies~"

Tellyah's eyes narrowed. "If you're going to be rude, Mr. Zabuerei, I'll leave." She stood, fully intent on seeing if she could leave him. Her eyes measured the distance to the door, but she knew he would be able to stop her before she got there. She groaned and walked to the one place he couldn't follow her: the restroom. Once she was in the room, she locked the door and looked for a window. "Damn." she said when she couldn't find one. She figured she only had a few minutes to think before Ludwik would send in one of the employees - or came in himself. She began to pace and -needing something to do with her hands- formed her whip. She let it crack in the air a few times before swirling it back into a ball. She froze the sphere in her hand and let it crash to the floor; it made a quiet thud, when it made contact with the tiles. Without turning the knobs on the sink, she splashed her face with water. She guessed she had over-stayed her welcome, but she didn't want to sit another minute with Ludwik. "He's treating me like I'm a child." she said to no one, "I mean, he must be what? A year or two older than me? That idiot." she couldn't help but smile when she thought of him though; he was her friend now - whether she wanted him to be or not. She then remember the cute smile he had let slip. "Cute?" she laughed. "When did I start to think of him like that?"

"I'm a hottie now," Rachel replied jokingly at the driver and reached up with her hands outstretched to the girl with mechanical wings. Judging by the white hair, this must be the Ink orphan that El had emailed a picture about. Light element, nice. "A pleasure to meet you too Ink! I assume you guys are waiting for El right?" she asked brightly, peering into the inside of the car to check on it's inhabitants. "Let's see, this youngster in the front must be Sam, and you must be Zen," Rachel said confidently, their photos were inside her backpack after all. However...the water one was missing. Either that, or the guy in the driver's seat must be the water element. Wow, didn't expect El to pick out the wrong kid at his first try. "And you must be water," Rachel added before berating herself silently for pointing the obvious out.

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Sam sighed in a resign fashion. More people to the party. Oh well, nothing he can do about it. "Yeah...I don't know how ot put this to you but El's sorta..." Sam couldn't bring himself ot say the words even though he admittedly had such a short relationship with the old man. "He's napping," he finished awkwardly.
"Oh," came the stranger's, er, no, Rachel's naive reply ",in that case, you stay here and I'll go wake him. I remember there's a place that he left a spare key for me...besides, the sooner we find the artifacts the beter. El's losing his touch these days.""NO!," Sam hurriedly blurted out, reaching out of the door tograb her upper arm. However, due to Rachel's inoppurtune decision to turn around, he managed to grasp her mamaries. Oh no.

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Rachel assesed Sam calmly. He must have some kind of mental disorder. Poor thing, maybe it's because he had no proper parental figure to take care of him. He was hiding something from her, Rachel realized. Glancing back up at the girl on the top of the car, Rachel asked with an unsure smile ",what's going on here? Also, better get off the car or the neighbors might see it and freak."

Ink rolled her eyes,"Before I say it, our water orphan got captured and this is my friend who was going to drive us around,"
Justin, who was staring at Rachel, snapped out of his trance,"I'm Justin, earth and dark is my thing."
Ink nodded and got off the car, she looked at Rachel straight in the eye and said,"El's dead, he died helping us and was killed by the fire dude who I will be killing sometime later."
"Oh, and even if I'm 13, I can kill people without mercy." She put on her hat more securely and sat back on top of the car.
"Which is why I'm trying to get Ink to join the Black Ops with me." Justin added.

(( Hey Sezumie and Lenge!! ***Looky Here!*** [POINTS TO SELF] I talked to Zelda today and he said that you both can god-mod Zen to get your part for the rp going. (He said you can for Rin too, seeing that she hasn't been on.) I just wanted to pass along the message. He's been really busy with school work and might not be on for a few weeks. <3 Tell misses arguing with you both, XP. (but is quite content on staying with Ludwik for the moment. I mean, he did get her 'free' food! And what girl doesn't like being taken out to brunch?) Anyway, enough of my ramblings. Talk to either of you sometime down the road. ~Wren))

((lol really? but i cant play zen well......ill just do rin......))

(( It's funny how something work out like this. But yeah, He also says that he is "really sorry for not being online." and yes, that was quoted. With air quotes. :wink: I'm sure you and Len will be fine. You two seem just as into moving the story along as Kaine and I. I wonder where everyone else disappeared to... ~looks around for "the rest" of the O~ ))

Rachel took the news in silence. It was a bit shocking but she didn't feel the urge to cry at all. Strange, how could she be so heartless toward's her mentor's demise? Not bothering to wipe the grimance from her face, Rachel shook her head. "I'd never expected this...but we still have to move on to get to El's goal. Which is reaching the artifacts before they do. Of course, rescueing the water orphan is an priority so we should try to find her along the way."
Zen rolled down his window ",if you want to join this party then give us some proof that you knew El."
Rachel unzipped a pocket of her backpack and drew out a bent photograph of her standing with Professor El in front of a archeological dig site in Ireland. Zen accepted it and scrutinized it. After deciding that it wasn't a work of photshop and looked real enough, he opened his door to let her in. Rachel climbed in and pulled Ink in along with her.
"So," she said to the young man in the front with a laugh to push El from her mind ",you're a black operative in some secret organization?"
Zen looked over Rachel. "Ink," he said ",close the door and no, there's no point in attacking any ambushers in the air. They might be able to take you down alone from above."

Sam was still sitting in a stiff pose but was able to move his jaws to insist ",we still have to wait for Rin". Then he started leaning away from Justin. A black op from an unknown organization? This sounds like the plot to that series on cartoon network. This meant that he must be a bad guy who disguises as a good guy. Unfortunately, Sam had no proof of this yet and decided that the moment he got his hands on some evidence, he was going to run like buggers away from this guy.

"You don't know what you're missing out~" He said as he watched Tellyah stomp off away to the restroom. Ludwik didn't bother to be concern if she was going to leave or not since escaping here in this town might be a bit harder since its an area that is not like how modern people were raised. Best thing she could try to do is get away by horse, but the thought of that is just silly. Ludwik chuckled to himself as he thought of the girl trying to mount one and get away when he can just wave his hand slowly to pull her off the horse.

He sighed wondering how the rest of the day was going to go on. He felt like a father trying to take care of his rude daughter by spoiling her with food and clothes. Eventually he would have to do some sort of teaching to her. The only thing he had a problem with is what would happen if she were to perfect her talent. Her betraying Ludwik is still very high; it is unlikely that she will ever join the organization with open arms and help find the other ring-bearers so that the organization can do who knows that to them.

Ludwik smirked again as he took a sip of his orange juice again. What could the organization want with them...Will they use there power to conquer lands? Will they sell them off to someone for money? Or will they create something out of them? What if...Ludwik were to take that plan away from them?

He chuckled out loud again as the waiter made his way back to his table. "You're omelet sir," He said as he placed the food down in front of him, "And the madam's meal." He placed her food in front of her chair.

"Oh I hope she comes back soon now," Ludwik said as he picked up a napkin and flatted it onto his lap, "The food will get cold if she decides to hang around in the restroom all day."

She had been in the restroom for almost ten minutes and still no one had come to retrieve her. She looked at her reflection in the mirror and laughed. It was she who was making Ludwik treat her as child. After all, he was only responding to her actions and her actions as of late had been those of a child's. The door opened making her turn in alarm - and excitement. But her joy at seeing who walked in was stopped when she saw it wasn't Ludwik, it was merely an average woman. The woman who was dressed quite nicely held her nose in the air and sneered at Tellyah before walking into the open stall. Tellyah chuckled and waited.

She'd waited for nearly an hour before her target had made himself known. He was a man in his mid to late 40s, balding, overweight and severely drunk. He stumbled down the dark alley straight toward where she had hidden herself. She chuckled quietly, then sprang from her crouch, hit the man, and wrapped her arms around his thick neck. Due to the sudden shift and the level of his drunkenness, the man fell over giving Trinty the opportunity to pulled out the gun she had. The man began to cry and scream, because even he could sense how close to death he was. She place the barrel between his eyes and pulled the trigger. The alley became quiet as she wiped the blood splatter from her face. She stood above him and laughed with a grin on her face.

The woman emerged from the stall, and walked over to wash her hands in the sink. Tellyah walked up behind the woman and wrapped her fingers around the woman's neck. The woman began to let out a scream, and Tellyah threw her into the wall. She watched as the woman tried to call for help again in a murmur - she wouldn't have been heard. "'Form a blade.' he said. Alright." Tellyah said as the weapon formed in her hand. She crouched next to the pleading woman. There was already blood on the floor from the wound on her head. She looked into the woman's chocolate brown eyes - they were full of fear. Even so, Tellyah asked, "Are you afraid of me?" The woman began crying louder as Tellyah slide the sharpened icicle blade into the woman's stomach. The woman's eyes became frozen in terror. Tellyah pulled out the blade and stabbed the woman again, and again - a sickening grin on her face.

Once the woman drew her last breath, Tellyah made the weapon in her hand disappear. She felt something sticking to her leg and looked down to the floor. The pool of blood on the floor had already begun to stain the hems of her pants. Blood covered her hands and arms - the white shirt she was wearing was covered in red splatters. As if she was in a trace, Tellyah stood, walked to the sink and washed the blood from her hands and arms. There were spots of blood on her face, but she either didn't them, or didn't care. She looked back at the woman before opening the door and walking back into the restaurant. Faces of people she didn't know looked at her in horror and several other women shrieked, some even fainted. Tellyah looked over to the table where Ludwik was sitting and laughed.

As Ludwik was halfway done with his meal, the scent of blood began to wrap around the smell of his food. As he peeked up to see who it was, Tellyah stood looking at him with a smiling, laughing to herself as she displayed her gore-ish looking self to the people around. As if the audience was looking at a horror movie, some yelled, screamed, and began to head for the door. Ludwik sighed at what he was looking, just when he was getting into the mood of eating. He quickly wiped his mouth with a napkin and stood up from his seat. He then shot out a card from his shirt pocket at the door were the costumers were trying to escape. The card landed just in time before any of the costumers and began to harden then door into a steel like material. As people began to push and pull at the door, they noticed that there was no budge and that they could not leave the restaurant.

People now began to freak out on Ludwik as he began to make his way toward Tellyah. His calm look began to turn stern, his smile turned into a frown and his emerald eyes glared down into Tellyah's eyes. He then threw two cards between the two again ready to make another pod to get out of the restaurant.

"You disappoint me dear Tellyah..." Ludwik began to talk to her with a different tone, "You have much to learn from your actions...But-" His frown quickly turned into a wicked grin, "Something tells me you're going to grow juuuuuuust fine."

He then threw four more cards across the room, hitting onto each corners of the building walls. He then snapped his fingers, activating the cards on the wall causing them to make a tremor, slowly making the walls and ground shake. The building began to crumble as Ludwik's earthquake began to shatter the walls and the ceiling fell down onto the costumers. He snapped his fingers again to let the pod that they were in to shut on them again and submerge into the ground. As the pod shut, Ludwik grabbed both of Tellyah's hands and pressed them against the pod wall. The wall then began to wrap around her hands, arms and feets, ceasing her from moving or able to touch him. As the two left the building all they could hear was the restaurant fall apart and the screaming people within it getting crushed by the heavy debris.

Later that day, Travis informed that a sudden earthquake came and killed over 50 people. A tragic accident.

Tellyah's head fell forward; her energy was completely gone and she felt as if she would soon die. Her whole body ached, and she couldn't move it. She painfully raised her head and looked at Ludwik – he was looking at her in clear disgust. "What did I do?" she muttered and tasted blood on her lips. She let her head fall again and closed her eyes. Her head was throbbing and her heart pounded in her chest. It was silent in the pod - as silent as it could be - and she let out a ragged breath. She tried to think about what had happened, but her mind came up blank. She remembered walking into the bathroom, and walking out - other than that, nothing. She opened her eyes and looked at her clothes. "This isn't my blood. Whose blood is this?" She looked up at Ludwik and asked again, "What did I do?"

Years had pasted, and Trinity - no, she was Tellyah now - was sitting on her cot waiting for her next mission. She held the bottle of 'Control' - the medication the infirmary had given her. She shook the container making a few of the pills fall into her hand. She reached for the glass of water on her bedside table and took the dosage. Almost instantly, her headache was gone and she didn't feel any trauma. She laughed and tried to remember what she had done last - and to no surprise she couldn't. The medication had done its job. It had suppressed the effects of what the Factory had done to her. The buzzer in her room rang and she stood as the announcement came through the speaker in the wall. "Code name: Tellyah. Report to the Duke's office. I repeat, report to the Duke's office." She smiled and walked out of the room.

((Kaine, if you hadn't already guessed, Tellyah has a split personality. XP))

Ink rolled her eyes,"Don't boss me around Zen, I've done this before."
Justin pointed to a figure in the distance,"Is that Rin?"
Rin was jogging over there, waving at them,"You guys left me there! What the hell?!" She turned to Rachel,"And you are?" Then she looked at Justin,"You too,"
Justin chuckled,"I'm Justin, thank you very much."

"It's not what did you do," Ludwik began to talk to her, "but rather what do you want to do. Do you want to have a brunch in a peaceful town where you can forget most of your problem? Or would you like to go on to your bloodlust quest and kill innocent people that had no reason to get killed by your hands?"

Ludwik continued his trivial questions, "Do you want to see your family again? Do you want to kill someone? Do you want to be around your friends again? Do you want to go on a killing spree? Do you want to find a way to control yourself so that you can gain something out of yourself? Do you want to go berserk instead?"

His face then came in closer to Tellyah's face, as if they were about to kiss, "Do you want to be you? Or your other self?" His cold emerald eyes stared into the confused ring-bearer's eyes.

The pod all of a sudden came to a stop and opened up quickly dispatched the two of them. The area that were in was just like the forest where they first met accept the land was more stretched out and a pond was nearby. Ludwik then pushed Tellyah down to the ground while she was still bound to the wall. As she crashed down to the ground the whole wall broken as if it were made of glass, freeing Tellyah. Ludwik then backed up from her and pulled out his deck of cards in his shirt pocket.

"It's time for a test my dear Tellyah," He said as he hand began to glow onto the deck of cards, "Either you fight me with your sane self right now or let your dark self reappear to take away your innocence once more."

The cards then began to levitate, turning into a sharp edged throwing weapon. The cards then started to circling around Ludwik giving him some protection in case of any attacks coming at him.

"Survive." Ludwik said simply and smiled to Tellyah as he shot off ten cards directly at her non-vital areas on her body.