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Mizuno Ami☿Mercury ([personal profile] waterfell) wrote in [community profile] onepassingnight2012-05-16 08:48 am

What colorful butterfly will fly next?

Cold fog swirls, and makes the darkness even deeper, shrouding everything in a damp, cloying mist. There's a smell of ash in the air. To the side, a single golden pin impales a blue butterfly with black markings, just above the thorax. It struggles with a vain flurry of its tired wings, but for all the writhing desperation, there is little life left in the spasming body. It rests weakly between fits of frantic activity.

Beneath the butterfly, a picture of a blue-haired girl in a tiara and sailor-style collar has been clearly marked 'Mercury'. Nearby, similar displays bear the names of other planets. In some, the butterfly's wings have been pulled off or its body has been singed and scorched or bent to sickening angles; others are fresh and empty, but labeled in anticipation. They stretch into the distance as far as the eye can see in all directions.
one_one_se7en: (Aim)

[personal profile] one_one_se7en 2012-05-17 08:24 am (UTC)(link)
The Spartan keeps his eyes on his reticule and radar as he moves amidst the fog... Oddly, many glows come through it. Not by the glowing silhouettes of his HUD, but by Yuuko's gift. One of them is not so much of a glow, but a darkening.

The area around that butterfly darkens in his eyes. He feels a very familiar spectral presence. And the disturbingly familiar image below it.

Ami. As he turns, he sees many, many more spectral auras in all of the wounded butterflies. Countless senshi and countless planets consumed. By Galaxia.

He walks toward the one of Mercury, and removes the pin. He will have to remove the rest as well, but her... She is important.
one_one_se7en: (War is hell)

[personal profile] one_one_se7en 2012-05-17 08:46 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm here to take you back."

He's spoken those words before to someone like her. The Spartan leans down to her, to begin treating the wound in several procedures he's done so many times he doesn't even think of them. One of them extracting the biofoam from his suit -- The means to both sterilize and seal the wound with an expansive healing antiseptic foam.

"What did this?"
one_one_se7en: (Grim)

[personal profile] one_one_se7en 2012-05-17 09:08 am (UTC)(link)
The Spartan notices it. From what he sees of the wound, in spite of the creeps Ami's aura gives off... It's supernatural. Something part of Mercury. Of the senshi.

He will bring her back across the galaxy if necessary. He has done it before.

Her?

The Master Chief doesn't ask. His helmet still turns to her, wanting to mentally confirm who he thought it was.
one_one_se7en: (Caution)

[personal profile] one_one_se7en 2012-05-22 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
His head tilts up as he mentally registers the name for a possible future -- In the small chance he ever got to see or hear of her. What puzzles him is how Ami is still alive, let alone able to talk, with the wound over her chest...

He notices there is a small lack of supernatural presence in her. Her star seed?

With the wound sealed, he scans for threats, before turning back to Ami.

"We'll get you fixed. Then we get the rest."
one_one_se7en: (Aim)

[personal profile] one_one_se7en 2012-05-26 07:47 am (UTC)(link)
"Not yet."

It's his only reply. Unless either of them are dead, that can be his only one.

The Spartan keeps an eye on his radar and everywhere around him for supernatural threats before trying to help Mercury up, and carry her if needed. With the biofoam sealing her, there would be no risk of moving her.

His eyes continue to look at the rest of the butterflies. If only there was more time to save them all.
one_one_se7en: (In Battle)

[personal profile] one_one_se7en 2012-05-30 10:06 am (UTC)(link)
She is too heavy. The Spartan is strong enough to lift tanks, but he can hardly move her... There is a supernatural force at play.

"What is happening?" The hell she won't. He came for her. He will get her out. Something is preventing this.
one_one_se7en: (Grim)

[personal profile] one_one_se7en 2012-06-01 09:22 am (UTC)(link)
The words remind him of Lethe. She had spoken of a similar realm. Even if it's only in dreams, he's gotten to see places no other human alive before him ever has.

"You said you'd fight it off."

Even if the Master Chief knew it was pride, it was still determination. To get out even from the realms of the dead.
one_one_se7en: (War is hell)

[personal profile] one_one_se7en 2012-06-05 06:24 am (UTC)(link)
She is vanishing. Even now as he sees the spectral energy gathering Mercury, binding her to this place... He doesn't know what to do.

"Will I see you here?"

While dreaming. Perhaps... Not a bad place to rest in for her. Someplace she would be able to find some peace.
one_one_se7en: (After the Storm)

[personal profile] one_one_se7en 2012-06-05 06:27 am (UTC)(link)
"That'd be kind of hard not to."