waterfell: (misc ✫ i am my own enemy)
Mizuno Ami☿Mercury ([personal profile] waterfell) wrote in [community profile] onepassingnight2012-07-08 07:23 am

Where is Endymion?

There's a smell of ash in the air, though there is no crackling of fires or snap of flames. Nothing seems damaged, there is only the reminder carried on the wind. A hush pervades everything, quietly forbidding, mysterious.

At the top of a long set of marble stairs, there is a castle with sculpted columns and domed roofs, a symbol of wealth and luxury - and permanence. It sits against the backdrop of a darkened night sky, where even the stars seem dim and sparse.

Amid all this, at the top of the steps, a girl wearing a sailor uniform trimmed with lace and satin and pearls sits and stares into space as though oblivious to the muted atmosphere or anyone approaching; her face is utterly still. A tiara crowns her blond hair, worn in the signature style of the Silver Millenium royal dynasty.

The princess plays a small lap harp, the only notable sound. Her tune is gentle, but lonely and yearning, a constant ache for a past long gone. A close look reveals that the harp bears the sigil of Mercury.

(ooc: answers coming from [personal profile] nihil_serenitas for icons)
one_one_se7en: (Grim)

[personal profile] one_one_se7en 2012-07-09 10:33 am (UTC)(link)
The figure turns too familiar. He remembers her.

He remains silent. Any answer could not end well. He had never known much about the prince that had sworn his love towards her, nor of his fate in this dream of hers.

He removes the lock of his weapon. His eyes suddenly recognize the instrument the woman was playing. For now, he doesn't know what to think of it.
nihil_serenitas: (don't touch him!)

[personal profile] nihil_serenitas 2012-07-09 10:39 am (UTC)(link)
There is no answer. She notes the lack, and repeats the question, more firmly this time, ready to demand its answer. "Where is Endymion?"

The harp is silent now; everything is silent. There is not even the whisper of a wind, or the sound of any insect chirping in the deep night. Everything hushes, as though holding its breath for the response.
one_one_se7en: (Demon)

[personal profile] one_one_se7en 2012-07-10 06:04 am (UTC)(link)
"He is not here."

His golden visor stares straight at her, weapon tightened around his fingers. He waits for her reaction... Something could have happened to Ami, but her ordeal with Galaxia was finished.

It meant something. He knew it. But he didn't know what. All he knew is that he had to keep his crosshairs over this person.
nihil_serenitas: (not stopping for you)

[personal profile] nihil_serenitas 2012-07-10 06:19 am (UTC)(link)
The meaning of a dream can be very obscure; and to the princess, John's answer means something that elicits a long exhale of breath, almost a sigh. How long and how far has she searched?

"Has Endymion been taken away?" She derives some comfort from speaking his name, to judge from the number of times she manages she use it. But the question itself is the beginning of an agitation.

Fate, once more, has come to thwart them?
one_one_se7en: (Flare)

[personal profile] one_one_se7en 2012-07-11 07:51 am (UTC)(link)
He recalls a little. In this version, this princess made the world end out of spite -- out of her obsession for him. Even if it could mean the end of all lives on Earth.

The Spartan remains solid. He continues to glare down against the Princess.

"He's still hidden. He hasn't woken up."

Still amidst the population, any of them who could become a victim of hers. Not a gamble she would like to take.
Edited 2012-07-11 08:05 (UTC)
nihil_serenitas: (blind to all around me)

[personal profile] nihil_serenitas 2012-07-11 08:26 am (UTC)(link)
No. She will find Endymion first, and spare him, even if she spares only him in the end.

What are the rest, next to him?

"Fate has once more separated Endymion from me," she observes. Does this man in front of her have something to do with it?

Her eyes finally seem to take him in, with a very faint curiosity. "You are not like the humans I have seen on Earth before," she notes. They had certainly not had armor like his.
one_one_se7en: (Side)

[personal profile] one_one_se7en 2012-07-12 08:38 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm not like most humans."

False prophets, fanatics, and brutes often declared all humans 'weak', powerless, and undeserving of any sort of respect.

And yet they called him 'Demon' for a reason.

"I told you where he was. Where is she."

Signaling with his head at the harp.
nihil_serenitas: (one day you will surely do the same)

[personal profile] nihil_serenitas 2012-07-12 09:15 am (UTC)(link)
The princess looks down at the harp almost as though she'd half forgotten she'd been holding it. She? Ah- the sigil. "Mercury."

She speaks the name, and something passes across her face, a vague recognition, but it disappears.

"Endymion must be found before all else," she says finally.

one_one_se7en: (Pistol)

[personal profile] one_one_se7en 2012-07-13 09:20 am (UTC)(link)
"Do you even know where to look?"

This princess knows Mercury. He does notice the brief glimpse of recognition... before it vanishes. He remembers the conversations. The princess was capable of rebuilding planets... Just as well as destroying them, from his Mercury's side of things.
nihil_serenitas: (one day you will surely do the same)

[personal profile] nihil_serenitas 2012-07-13 09:23 am (UTC)(link)
"I had thought..." she begins quietly, "that if I could search this planet, Endymion would be found." Her words suggest this has not, in fact, been the case.

"However, he may not be here." Something in her expression changes. Her jaw tightens.
one_one_se7en: (Direct)

[personal profile] one_one_se7en 2012-07-14 09:08 am (UTC)(link)
"Not in the palace."

In Earth, as it's always been.

"There are a lot of places on the planet. You know it won't be easy."

Delay it, give her no reason to do anything rash. As the saying goes, 'speak softly, and carry a big stick'.
nihil_serenitas: (if endymion is not there)

[personal profile] nihil_serenitas 2012-07-14 09:11 am (UTC)(link)
"If he is not on that planet..." The princess moves to the next step: If Endymion is not in the palace, and not on the Moon, and not found yet, he may also not be on Earth.

Then... where?

"If he is not on that planet, what reason does it have to exist?"

There is no violent movement; but the progress of her thinking is the same as it has always been.
one_one_se7en: (An angry tide)

[personal profile] one_one_se7en 2012-07-18 09:12 am (UTC)(link)
"The chance he might be."

He's faced maniacs before.

"Earth has billions... One of them, could be the prince." Hidden among the populace, so not unlike the senshi of Ami's world. "Would you want to risk it?"
nihil_serenitas: (blind to all around me)

[personal profile] nihil_serenitas 2012-07-18 09:37 am (UTC)(link)
Logic in the face of madness sometimes has effect. The princess seems to pause, as though considering this.

"Surely," she says finally, as though musing to herself, "if Endymion were there, I would know it." How could she fail to be utterly aware of him?
one_one_se7en: (Grim)

[personal profile] one_one_se7en 2012-07-20 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
"Magic is fickle."

That much he has learned. Even with entities clearly with the auras of gods, such as the princess... even as he sees something strangely familiar in it.
nihil_serenitas: (one day you will surely do the same)

[personal profile] nihil_serenitas 2012-07-20 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
"I knew of it, when Endymion disappeared," she counters. She would know the opposite, if he had appeared again.

"Could it be..." she muses to herself, "like in the past?" She has a flash of memory, one of the few stable things in her mind, of a panicked moment and a sword coming at them both.