The Watchers, Rise of a new messiah. Options

[Sparrowsmith]

Aldous chimed in, a smile encompassing his face, "Child, you don't live for half an eternity without perceiving age as a good thing." He straightened himself out and looked out into the abyss again, "Though the past few thousand years have been a disappointment, I'm hopeful that the future is good for us oldies." He chuckled, returning to the group. "Well I suppose we should get started. Brothers, child, how shall we begin our return?"

[Nicsp]

Adustio rose his hand as if calling attention to himself and stated. "First things first, no matter how we go about with handling this situation, i think it is pretty obvious little Alaine here will have to fight at one moment or another, as such, i think it would be fitting if we got her some combat training. Even with our powers, she'll need to have practice to use them effectively." Alaine blinked as she heard Adustio speak, she then reminded herself of something important.

"Oh! My uncle can probably help us! He is the guard captain back at the city and he no doubt could teach me a thing or two if i gave him a good reason. He also isn't really satisfied with Livor's reign, of course, he'd never speak up against it since it would get him fired instantly." Alaine frowned and looked down at her feet. "To be honest, me and my brother were alredy on our way towards his home when we fell in the hole and i bumped into this necklace..." She chuckled and scratched the back of her head.

"I guess i should've told you...Me and my brother, we're kind of running away, from an orphanage." She chuckled some and explained it better. "It's a small orphanage which takes in kids whose parents were...Criminals...And gives us "food and shelter" in exchange for work, so we end up spending most of our days crafting bags and trying to sell stuff on the street." Alaine frowned again, followed by a sigh as she continued. "And of course, if no one's adopted us by the time we turn 18, they just dump us in the street...Several of the people at the orphanage have relatives at the nearby city though, it's name is Novus Spes, by the way."

Alaine wrapped her arms around herself as she started to pace. "I know the mission is important but...Since the subject was brought up...Could we try to free the other children from the orphanage?" Adustio put his hand on his chin, thinking. "Our mission should take lots of priority...But then again, from what you're telling me, these children are all in dire need of help...What do you all say about this, brothers?" Adustio turned to the others.

[Sparrowsmith]

Aldous gladly added his opinion, "It seems to me that we want to free our creations from our brother because his reign is tyrannous, and now our creations are also subject to another tyranny. I believe it is only right if we do to all tyranny as he would to our brother. We will pay the child by freeing her friends, testing her abilities and proving our pure intents in the process." he took a breath and looked to his brothers, "Agreed?"

[Ryuga]

"Indeed," replied Mu to Aldous' suggestion. "We are in no position to go after Livor at our present state anyway. Freeing orphans should prove to be more than an effective first test."

[Kratour]

"Go after... Livor..?" A small, dry sounding voice pitifully cracked it's way into existence from somewhere off to the side, in a small niche that was generally left untouched by the others. The air there was thick with dust, and the area had been unchanged for so long that it had long since begun to blend into background. A small, warm bed was the only thing there. And now, for the first time in over six thousand years the from nestled beneath the thick blankets had begun to shift. After a bit of struggling, those blankets were pushed aside and the bed's occupant gave a wide yawn before pushing themselves up into an almost-sitting position. They seemed to be a young girl, her brown hair bedraggled and her large eyes slightly teared up from her yawning. She had a large, ragged cloak draped around her, obscuring most of body from view- though it seemed like the rest of her clothing was just as poorly off from anyone could see. "What... Where am I?" Slowly, she brought her arms up and gave a nice long stretch before swinging her legs over the side of the bed and resting her bare feet on the floor. The girl looked around for a couple of seconds, then gave a confused look in the direction of the others.

[Sparrowsmith]

Aldous looked over to the awakening girl with vivid interest, "Aarutii" he said almost bewildered, "What once was five has become six. This is incredible, I had feared that you would never wake up." He turned back to Alaine, "Child, your presence here has already awoken one of own. In this respect I would say that we owe you a great deal of gratitude."

[Kratour]

"Five, six... Uh..." Aarutii's confusion grew slightly as she pondered what Aldous could have meant, then grew even sharper as she took note of the unfamiliar girl whom her brothers seemed so interested in. "What the..." she began, a curious note in her voice as she made to purse her lips, "Who is that? I go to take a bit of a nap and you've already replaced me!?" She looked angrily between each of her siblings, especially Audistio. "And I heard you talking about Livor- what are you planning, hm? You should know better than to pick on your little brother-" her gaze drifted again, picking out each of her siblings, "All of you should be ashamed of yourselves!" That said she gave a little "hmph", just to emphasize her feelings, and reached up to rub at her throat. It was kind of soar, and her mouth felt dry- how curious. Aarutii shifted herself a little, pointedly turning her head away from the others in a very disappointed and surprisingly (or perhaps unsurprisingly) childish manner.

[Nicsp]

Adustio blinked a few times, staring at Aarutii, it was good that she was back, no doubt, but she seemed not to remember that...Oh...Right...She was one the first to fall, maybe she didn't remember? Adustio let out a short 'uhm' before starting. "We've replaced no one, this is Alaine, she'll be the new Angarius and...Alaine?"

When Adustio took notice, Alaine had alredy rushed her way over to Aarutii and was staring up towards the woman. Alaine waved one of her arms as if trying to call the woman's attention even though they were pretty close. "Hi! I'm Alaine Heros! Nice to meet you, you're a Watcher too, right?" Alaine questioned cheerfully.

Adustio sighed and dropped his head to the side, then clearing his throat and continuing. "Aarutii, i think maybe you should try to remember what happened before you...Fell asleep. Livor betrayed us, we're sealed in this place. Alaine there is actually kind of our only hope for survival, believe it or not." Alaine frowned and let out a short 'hey', but it remained mostly in the background as Adustio continued. "You were one of the first to fall after the seal was put...We've been locked in here for, apparently, six thousand years. The six of us, are the only Watchers "alive" at the moment." Adustio, after speaking those words, waited for Aarutii response, his calm expression never leaving his face.

[Kratour]

For a moment, Aarutii considered her elder brother's wise, wisdom filled words of wise...ness. Then, that done and forgotten, she gave a bit of a laugh. "Livor betray us? Psh- maybe you lot, but not me! And come on," she turned her gaze on the rather happy looking Alaine before her, "Her? Our only hope?" She reached out, pulling the girl into an odd sort of hug, "But she's so cute!" A moment passed, and she released the slightly bigger girl from her grasp. "Sorry um... Yes, I'm a watcher too. My name's Aarutii, but you can call me Aaru- Aarutii's kinda bothersome to say over and over. Alaine's a much nicer name, though, you should be happy with it. I... Um..." The young Watcher trailed off a bit there, before giving a big smile and noting, "Sorry, I kind of forgot what I was talking about." Reaching down to smooth up to run her fingers through her hair, Aarutii gave a less than pleased "hmph", "I hate it when my hair gets like this. When it's all messy like this it just doesn't feel good."

She continued to fiddle with her hair for a bit, running her fingers through it in a futile attempt to try and comb it down some, though she eventually stopped. "So... New Angarius, huh? The old one's not doing as well as we'd meant, then?" She gave a bit of a sniff, rather unbefitting the attitude that she'd displayed so far. "Or is it that he's doing too well?" ... "Livor really betrayed me, then..?"

[Nicsp]

Adustio sighed. "He betrayed us all...Yes. He's sealed us in an enchanted necklace and, from what i gather, has been ruling the world himself using the Old Angarius as his avatar. From what we've gathered from Alaine just now as well, he is taking the role of a tyrant. I know you two had a close relationship, however, i speak nothing else but the truth when i say, and i repeat, Livor betrayed us and nearly doomed us all to disappear. If you still can't believe it, you'll get the chance to see it for yourself soon enough."

Alaine raised her hand as to call the Watchers attention towards her, but just then she noticed, her hand was slowly disappearing. She let out a short scream. "Waaah! What happened!? Why am i disappearing?" Adustio signaled with his hands for her to settle down and explained. "Your physical body is likely waking up, we will still be able to communicate with you once you're awake, you just won't have an actual body in here. We'll communicate with you through that white orb at the center of the temple." Adustio signaled over to the orb with his head.

Alaine nodded in understanding. "Got it! Well! I'll see you guys later then!" With that said, it only took a few more moments for her body to completely disappear. "Follow me." Said Adustio as he headed over to inside the temple. Arriving there, the big white sphere at the center of the temple slowly started making images, showing the world through Alaine's eyes.



Adustio examined the situation, he then spoke up. "Alaine! Can you hear me?" Alaine's voice immediately replied, echoing through the temple. WAH! You scared me! You guys are being like...Voices inside my head, it's disturbing! Adustio chuckled. "Well, you better start getting used to it then. At any rate, from what i see, you alredy know how to get out of this cave?" Alaine's voice took a bit but then replied. Well, yeah, i think so. I mean, you guys did say i would get "powers" by being the Angarius, does that include increased strength and speed? Adustio nodded, even though she couldn't see it and then answered. "Yes, your physical skills have also been boosted, i think you should be able to jump out through that hole with no problems, just aim carefully so you don't bang your head on the ceiling, though."

[OOC: This update will have a few more pages than normal, i'll go updating the rest along the weekend as I finish them. I take, roughly, from three to four hours to make a page if i'm going at full speed and without interruptions, so i'll probably be finishing the next page tommorow by my lunch time (4:00 PM GMT). Then i'll post the last one probably around 8:00 PM GMT or 9:00 PM GMT. And then i'll be taking a rest otherwise my hands will die.]

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[OOC: Since no one posted yet, i'll go ahead and update the second part through an edit.]

You are all really sure, right? Adustio sighed. "Yes." Okay then...



Adustio let out a short 'hmm'. "You should be careful with your new powers, if you are not, you'll likely end up hurting those close to you." Sorry... "Don't apologize to me, apologize to your brother."

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[OOC: Done.]



I...I...Should I tell my brother about this? Adustio shrugged. "Makes no difference in my point of view, i think he'd find out sooner or later." Adustio just then turned once again Aarutii. "Aarutii, i apologize, no doubt you have questions about what has happened ever since you...Slept. I can answer them to the best of my abilities, if you wish."

[OOC: I don't think i've ever drawn so much in so little time before, feels great, to be honest.]

[Sparrowsmith]

[OoC I like how the comics shaping up, it's a more interesting way to portray the story ]

Aldous approached his brother by the sphere, leaning in to talk to their new Angarius, "Alaine, while I cannot imagine a perfect way to explain the situation, I would insist that you try to be tactful. You must assure him that you are still you, and are in no way a threat. People, even family, are often scared by power - We know better than anyone"

[Omnial]

"Hmmmpphh." Garnyti remaind silent, for the most part, follwoing the others into the temple when beckoned, "Our last Angarius would of made a perfect landing, and anyone he was carrying would of had a gentle ride." He crossed his wooden arms, slivers flying as the creaked. "I don't like her. I don't like this situation. I don't like orphans." He finally noticed that their sister had woken up, "Oh...your awake little one. I guess thats good." He went back to his ranting, but it turned more into harsh, bitter mumbling no one could hear.

This post has been edited by Omnial: Apr 30 2011, 01:44 PM

[Kratour]

Aarutii seemed rather deep in thought for the whole of Alaine's little mishap- which explains the lack of incessant laughter. However, at Audustio's prompting, she actually bothered to pay a bit of attention to what was going on. She remained silent for a while, not bothering to comment as the others did. Or at least she was quiet until Garnyti decided to chime in. As the larger, er, plantier man began to speak, she simply smiled. And by the time he'd begun to devolve into griping, she'd begun to laugh. And she continued to laugh for a good bit afterwards before finally letting it trail off. That done, she took a few steps towards the orb, holding her arms out to either side and attempting to walk in a perfectly straight line. "Alaine?" She said when she'd finally gotten close enough to the orb to communicate through it, "You should just tell him the truth. He's your brother, and you love him right? Then he deserves to know what's going on." That said, she turned back towards Audistio and gave a bit of a smile, "It's okay. I was asleep for a while, and I don't want to think that Livor would try to hurt me... Or any of you, I suppose. But I'll get over it. I mean hey, I'm the one who helped give people emotions, right? Pretty sure I can deal with mine." She topped that off with a big smile before leaning over to whisper, in a very conspiratorial manner I should note, to the orb, "And don't worry about greeny- he's like that about everyone!"

[Naridar]

"Telling him would be a bad idea, child", Aphdeagos said towards the orb, "he's your brother, but yeah, he might not trust you if he were to realize your power. Or worse, he could try to take the pendant from you. Actually, you shouldn't let anyone know that you have that pendant, and if I were you, I'd make sure your brother keeps it a secret, too."

[Ryuga]

"Quite frankly, I believe telling your brother is the only option," interjected Mu towards Aphdeagos' comments. "He already suspects the pendant, so he will likely try to take it either way. Though you may want to exclude the part about us watchers. Conversations with the non-physical usually gets one suspected for mental illness. We also cannot have word of our return spread across the lands, for risk of jepordizing our plans."

[Nicsp]

Alaine listened carefully to all of the Watchers comments and then concluded. Judging from all of the suggestions, the overal point of agreement would be to go telling Cain about the whole thing, just not all at once. I'll inform him on a strictly need to know basis for now... She commented, with a bit of a frown.



"That...Went better than i anticipated..." Commented Adustio. I think he's still very curious...But he's just in a hurry to get to Novus Spes. I'm more surprised about him agreeing to go back.



Uh...I don't...

(OOC: I apologize for the lack of consistency in my style throughout this comic.)

This post has been edited by Nicsp: May 7 2011, 11:51 AM

[Sparrowsmith]

Aldous spoke up, "Young one, before you get carried away you should know that revenge is not a part of justice. Your aim is to free your friends, an encounter with the proprietor is hardly even necessary - probably not in fact." He paced around, engaging his mind in the mechanisms of maximizing effects, "Once the children are freed the establishment will be shamed, so the cruelty of the proprietor will be ended forever without need for violent conflict. If there is any part of the building in which the children are gathered during the day, we should go there. Freeing them quickly and at once is necessary to a successful operation. I may also recommend a disguise of sorts, or at least the discretion of your peers. The last thing we need is the whole world knowing of your name and powers."

[Omnial]

"BAH! brother is a fool, don't listen to him child." Garnyti taking an interest spoke, "If you do not squish your problem now, who is to say it wont come back? And what of those kids you free? where will they go? If traggity strikes, they might recieve pitty at the least, if you free them, they will be street running orphans!" Even though she couldn't see it, he talked using his hands, swinging them enthusiastically, "Be the light that lurks in the shadow child." He started to mutter, "And if you can pull that off maybe I'll start to respect you..."

[Naridar]

'This is a bad idea. Anyone who knows about your powers is a threat to you, at this point at least.' Aphdeagos spoke, 'However, if you make sure no one besides the proprietor will see you, then, theoretically, it can work. And the proprietor won't speak against you once dead. You see what I'm getting at, do you? If you can stomach that, then by all means, go ahead. But if you don't, you better turn back, like, right now.'

[Ryuga]

"No one is dieing while I still have a say in this!" boomed Mu, immediately after Garnyti and Aphdeagos had finished making their points. He took a moment to regain his composure before continuing. "The last thing we need on our already large list of problems, is how to deal with a psychologically disturbed child. Besides, why would we have to kill someone when knocking him unconcious will suffice?"
Mu paused again, evaluating how the others felt of his objection. He spoke up again, as if to make one final plea.
"We must keep a low profile, so we might as well teach the girl to be stealthy and cunning now than later."