Sakura

[b]OOC: [/b]Sorry I'm late. This post is kinda from before, making up for the time lost with everyone else posting. [b]Attacks:[/b] [i]Wind Strike[/i] - Forms a ball of compressed wind and throws it at the enemy, can come in several forces of power. [i]Healing Wind[/i] - A small wind blows around her or whoever she's healing and their wounds and pains are healed. [i]Hurricane Winds[/i] - Large funnel of wind builds up and causes a lot of damage, she has control of it and where it goes and so forth. [i]Sora no Ryu[Roughly Meaning Sky Dragon/Dragon of the Sky][/i] - She summons a dragon with the power of Wind. [color=Navy]Kai had been awake since very early in the morning, feeling the wonderful breezes of the morning and watching the sun rise. She had no problem with waking up early because she had gotten into a routine years ago. The sun was already up in the sky and had been for a few hours, Kai looked at the time and got back into the house through her window, from her position on the roof tiles. She walked over to her bedside table and opened the top drawer. The four items that had the most important significance were there, a ring and necklace with pendant that were family heirlooms, her goggles, and a mini computer that her parents had bought for her with the Hiwatari emblem on it in the bottom right corner. Kai slipped the ring onto her ring finger on the right hand, clasped her necklace around her neck, slid the goggles on top of her head to sit safely on her hair, and put her mini computer into a special holding case strapped around her waist on her hip. Kai sighed and tugged at her skirt, she hated having school again, because she had to wear the fuku that they used as a uniform, including the skirt. Kai was a tomboy, and proud of it, and she just didn't look right in a skirt in her opinion, but she didn't have a choice. She looked at herself in her full length mirror and frowned, tugging at it again. She shook her head and picked up her bag, and walked out of her room and down the stairs. Kai rest her bag against the wall near the front door and walked into the kitchen where her father was reading a newspaper and her mother was eating delicately. [b]"Ohayo Tou-san, Kaa-san." [/b]she greeted, taking her seat and starting on her breakfast. They responded and they started to talk. [b]"So, a new school year. Study hard alright?" [/b]her father lectured. Kai smirked and nodded. [b]"Don't worry about me."[/b] When she had finished she looked at her watch and noticed it was about time she left, there was half an hour left until school started. She said her goodbyes and went into the hall, putting on her normal running shoes. She picked up her bag and left the house, jogging off in the direction of school. Kai arrived, saying 'Hi' to some of her friends as she passed them, going to her locker. Kai exchanged her shoes for the shoes they had to wear for school and was about to close her locker when she spotted an orange pen. She looked at it strangely and picked it up, shrugging she held onto it and closed her locker. She set off to find her closest friends, especially an old friend that was coming to the school for the first time. She had found them on a bench outside, it was Serenity, Aoi, Hakento, and Meteo. They talked for a while before it was time to go to class, some parted ways in the hall, but several of them shared the same class, and as they were walking, they met up with Kuro, who was also in their class. They all walked into the classroom and took seats all close to each other. [/color]

[color=navy]I hope you guys don't get too far with this RP without me. I'm at school at the moment so I don't have time to post, but I really don't want to get left behind. I'll post ASAP but yeah. So from the posts of the others, I'm guessing that the normal Children are allowed to have 4 attacks? It's so unfair that I've got the stupid time difference in the way. *pouts*[/color]

[color=Navy][b][color=Black]OOC: [/color][/b][color=Black]I'm here, sorry I didn't sign up earlier. The Bio and part of the Personality's the same as last time.[/color][b] Name: [/b]Kaila "Kai" Hiwatari [b] Age:[/b] 20 [b] Gender: [/b]Female [b] Appearance: [/b][/color][color=Navy][url="http://img91.exs.cx/img91/4927/ai9yl.jpg"]Here[/url], keep the goggles but make the shirt longer and white, put a leather trenchcoat over the top and change the shorts to navy blue cargos. She also wears [url="http://img169.exs.cx/img169/8239/rensq0241p028uv.jpg"]this[/url] pendant and [url="http://img169.exs.cx/img169/5079/rensq0247p0101026ez.jpg"]this[/url] ring.[/color][color=Navy] [b] Bio:[/b] [/color][color=Navy]Kai's parents were originally killed in a car crash when she was 3. At that age, she wasn't really aware of what had happened and was sent to an orphanage. She grew up in that small, rundown orphanage, and she had no substantial memories of her parents. When she reached the age of 17, she was legally allowed to leave the orphanage. Many of the children wished that their 17th birthday would arrive, as hardly anyone was ever adopted or even looked at from their orphanage. She signed the release form and then she was free. But then she realised that free wasn't exactly all it was cut out to be. She had no idea of where to go, or even where she could stay. [/color][color=Navy]Kai[/color][color=Navy] had seen a small house that she was sure no one was staying at, because she'd looked through a window. She picked the lock with her home-made lock picks that she'd made when she started getting good at picking locks. She had stayed in that house for a while, and had eaten some food left there and when she was leaving, she took some of their money. She would do that to several houses, as long as they were un-occupied and she had gained quite a bit of money. One day when she was leaving a house, she saw a couple of people in suits that were watching her, she had quickly run from them and climbed onto a roof of a building. From there she jumped over rooftops until she found another place. When she had gotten enough money she actually bought a small cottage that was quite old and run down. Then on another day, she saw the two people in suits. They had arrived at her cottage and knocked. When she opened the door, they said that they had evaluated her and asked if she was willing leave any loved ones and accept a position when all they told her is that it will be dangerous and top-secret. [/color][color=Navy]Kai[/color][color=Navy] decided to take a chance, her way of living wasn't that great, and she didn't have any loved ones anyway. They took her to a place and ran her through many tests. She passed and went through the whole process of learning and got her own partner digimon, Lucemon. She had met a man that was a year older than her, and from what she saw, he was one of the best agents, and she liked to believe that she was too. When not on a mission she's usually in the gym or training room/workout area. After all of the climbing and gymnastic things that she used to do, she's a bit of a acrobatic and gymnastic fanatic, always on the equipment. Sometimes if she's too tired and her muscles hurt, she'll just go to her quarters and read, mainly all fantasy books. And i she's too lazy to do either of those, she'll be in the rec center playing a video game, or watching someone play one.[/color] [color=Navy] [b] Personality:[/b] [/color][color=Navy]Kai is a calm person and doesn't get angry very quickly, unless it's the police. She is strong minded and never admits defeat, even when she's lost. She's a quick thinker and solves problems quickly. She can easily keep a cool head in a heated argument. Kai is very stealthy, flexible, agile and acrobatic and gymnastic and has been since she was a child. She's been trained in many of the Martial Arts since she was a child and is especially good at Karate, Kung-Fu and Judo. But if she doesn't like you, she'll show it, and you'd have to gain her trust because she has a sixth sense with people. But sometimes she can have a quick temper from a case of mood swings, and if someone annoys her for a long period of time, let's just say you won't want to be around when that happens. She'll fight valiently if her friends or family are ever in danger. In her free time, Kai likes to be outside and look at nature and everything that the world has to offer. When not doing that she's usually messing around with something electronic. Mainly the mini computer that she carries around in her pocket. [see [url="http://img169.exs.cx/img169/9809/rensq0227p01027xe.jpg"]here[/url], it's like an organiser kinda thing, you flip it open and the bottom is the keyboard while the top is the screen.][/color][color=Navy] Her best skill is her talent with computers and anything electronic. Though Kai takes her job at the DIR very seriously and thinks of herself as one of the top agents next to Azufe. Kai is also very stealthy, flexible and acrobatic and gymnastic, a skill that she acquired at a young age often helps her, which is her skill of picking locks.[/color] [color=Navy] [b] Area of Expertise:[/b] Anything electronic and she's flexible as stated above with her gymnastic and acrobatic skills which helps her a lot in escape and fighting. [b] Digimon:[/b] Lucemon [b] Digivolution Chain:[/b] Lucemon - Piddomon - Lord Holy Angemon - Seraphimon [/color]

[color=Navy]I'm hoping amgoddess gets back soon and signs up so we can start. Kairi, where'd you get the idea for this? It's very intriguing and I hope this RP survives. [/color]

[b]OOC: [/b]I haven't had much time to sign up for RPs until now. Let me know if I have to change anything. [b][size=2][color=Navy] Name: [/color][/size][/b][size=2][color=Navy]Kaila "Kai" Hiwatari [Hates using her full name] [/color][/size][b][size=2][color=Navy] Age: [/color][/size][/b][size=2][color=Navy]20 [/color][/size][b][size=2][color=Navy] Sex:[/color][/size][/b][size=2][color=Navy] Female [/color][/size][b][size=2][color=Navy] Location: [/color][/size][/b][size=2][color=Navy]Tokyo, Japan[/color][/size][b][size=2][color=Navy] [/color][/size][/b][b][size=2][color=Navy] Appearance: [/color][/size][/b][color=Navy][url="http://img91.exs.cx/img91/4927/ai9yl.jpg"]Here[/url], keep the goggles but make the shirt longer and white, put a leather trenchcoat over the top and change the shorts to navy blue cargos. She also wears [url="http://img169.exs.cx/img169/8239/rensq0241p028uv.jpg"]this[/url] pendant and [url="http://img169.exs.cx/img169/5079/rensq0247p0101026ez.jpg"]this[/url] ring. [/color] [b][size=2][color=Navy] Personality: [/color][/size][/b][color=Navy]Kai is a calm person and doesn't get angry very quickly, unless it's the police. She is strong minded and never admits defeat, even when she's lost. She's a quick thinker and solves problems quickly. She can easily keep a cool head in a heated argument. Kai is very stealthy, flexible, agile and acrobatic and gymnastic and has been since she was a child. She's been trained in many of the Martial Arts since she was a child and is especially good at Karate, Kung-Fu and Judo. But if she doesn't like you, she'll show it, and you'd have to gain her trust because she has a sixth sense with people. But sometimes she can have a quick temper from a case of mood swings, and if someone annoys her for a long period of time, let's just say you won't want to be around when that happens. She'll fight valiently if her friends or family are ever in danger. In her free time, Kai likes to be outside and look at nature and everything that the world has to offer. When not doing that she's usually messing around with something electronic. Mainly the mini computer that she carries around in her pocket. [see [url="http://img169.exs.cx/img169/9809/rensq0227p01027xe.jpg"]here[/url], it's like an organiser kinda thing, you flip it open and the bottom is the keyboard while the top is the screen.] [/color][b][size=2][color=Navy] Bio: [/color][/size][/b][size=2][color=Navy]Kai had been living in an orphanage from since she could remember, to when she was 17. When she reached 17, she was allowed to leave and she filled out the necessary forms. But before she left, she was allowed access to any files that had anything to do with her, so she spent a full day on the orphanage's computer system, scanning for any and all files connected to her. When she found them all she scanned them one by one for information, because the only things she could remember was from the age of 2 when she began her life in the orphanage. She discovered that her mother put her up for adoption because Kai had been born out of wedlock and her mother had still been in school at the time. It seemed that her mother was still alive and was married and had children, so Kai went through the rest of the files before printing some of the information and leaving in a hurry, taking everything she owned with her. When Kai went to the house, she knocked and a lady answered, she looked familiar to Kai. She brought up the topic of a daughter that she had put up for adoption and the lady let her in, shocked. The two of them sat in the loungeroom of her house and talked, Kai showed her the stuff from the files she'd printed out. The lady read them over but then gave them back to her, saying she wasn't her mother and if she could leave the house. Kai left silently without another word, but as she was walking out the door, the lady pressed something into her hand, then closed the door. Kai looked at what she'd been given and saw it was a credit card and a post-it stuck to it. Kai looked at the name and saw it was her own, the strip where one would put their signature was blank and the post-it had a four digit number written on it. Kai went to an ATM and put the card in, keying in the pin code. She saw that there was a lot of money in her account, her mother must have continually deposited money for her over the years. Kai frowned, she should have been happy that she had so much money, but the thing she wanted more, was a family to care for her. She understood that her mother had rejected her because her husband probably hadn't known about the other baby, but it didn't make the pain of rejection hurt any less. Kai bought some things for herself and one of those things was the mini computer she carries with her everywhere, and the goggles which is an accessory item that she likes. As for the ring and pendant, the people at the orphanage gave them to her just before she left, saying that her mother had told them to give it to her when she was leaving. Kai has quickly become a great hacker and trusts no one because many people are out to get her for things that she's done. She lives in an abandoned house in an alley, which looks shabby on the outside, but it wonderful on the inside, mainly filled with technological stuff that she likes to play with and furniture. Her mother still deposits money into her bank account for her, and she still uses it, after forming a signature minutes after going to the bank for the first time. Kai works as a computer programmer and technician, she can handle anything when it comes to computers and anything else electronic, especially her mini computer which she knows all the secrets to. [/color][/size][b][size=2][color=Navy] Greatest Desire: [/color][/size][/b][size=2][color=Navy]To find someone that she can truly trust; A family. [/color][/size][b][size=2][color=Navy] Greatest Fear: [/color][/size][/b][size=2][color=Navy]Rejection of any sort.[/color][/size]

[color=Navy][b] Name:[/b] Kaila "Kai" Hiwatari [b] Age:[/b] 17 [b] Gender: [/b]Female [b] Element:[/b] Powerful Wind [b] Appearance:[/b] [/color][color=Navy][url="http://img91.exs.cx/img91/4927/ai9yl.jpg"]Here[/url], keep the goggles but make the shirt longer and white, put a leather trenchcoat over the top and change the shorts to navy blue cargos. She also wears [url="http://img169.exs.cx/img169/8239/rensq0241p028uv.jpg"]this[/url] pendant and [url="http://img169.exs.cx/img169/5079/rensq0247p0101026ez.jpg"]this[/url] ring.[/color] [color=Navy][b] Personality: [/b][/color][color=Navy]Kai is a calm person and doesn't get angry very quickly, unless it's the police. She is strong minded and never admits defeat, even when she's lost. She's a quick thinker and solves problems quickly. She can easily keep a cool head in a heated argument. Kai is very stealthy, flexible, agile and acrobatic and gymnastic and has been since she was a child. She's been trained in many of the Martial Arts since she was a child and is especially good at Karate, Kung-Fu and Judo. But if she doesn't like you, she'll show it, and you'd have to gain her trust because she has a sixth sense with people. But sometimes she can have a quick temper from a case of mood swings, and if someone annoys her for a long period of time, let's just say you won't want to be around when that happens. She'll fight valiently if her friends or family are ever in danger. In her free time, Kai likes to be outside and look at nature and everything that the world has to offer. When not doing that she's usually messing around with something electronic. Mainly the mini computer that she carries around in her pocket. [see [url="http://img169.exs.cx/img169/9809/rensq0227p01027xe.jpg"]here[/url], it's like an organiser kinda thing, you flip it open and the bottom is the keyboard while the top is the screen.][/color][color=Navy] [b] Bio:[/b] Kai's usually someone that's found outside and playing around. She hates being stereotyped as a typical female, which is why she's a tomboy. When she's at home she'll usually be in their yard, sitting up high in the boughes of their Sakura tree, especially when it's spring when they bloom. It's her favourite place to think, type, write and sometimes sleep on a cool day. She's an only child and loves going kite flying with her dad because she enjoys watching the patterns of the wind by watching how the kite flies. Her parents have normal jobs, her mum's a biologist and her dad's a lawyer. Kai can sometimes have a problem with making friends because of her mood swings, but in the end she actually has a lot of them. Though she isn't a very social person and prefers to keep to herself, not usually hanging around after school but walking home straight away. Kai loves it when her parents buy her electronic stuff so she can mess around with it, configure it, take it apart, put it back together, and then use it. Her favourite is the mini computer that she always carries in her pocket, she doesn't go anywhere without it, her goggles, her ring or her pendant. Her pendant was a gift from her deceased paternal grandmother which was passed down through the females of the family as an heirloom, and her dad was an only child too. She was told that she should eventually pass it to her daughter when she came of age, which was 12. The mini computer that her parents got her was special because they had the Hiwatari family design on it, which came from her grandfather, as it's also on her ring which she got from her father[/color][color=Navy]. In a family with more than one child, it would go to the oldest, and since Kai's an only child, she got it from her father at the same age as her pendant, 12. The winged serpent on her pendant was the Family sign from her dad's maternal side. [To get it straight, the pendant came from Kai's grandmother, who got it from her own mother. The ring is from her dad who got it from his father. And the mini computer is from her parents which has the Hiwatari Family sign on it in the bottom right corner.] To make this even easier because the signs on the items aren't all that clear: [url="http://img230.exs.cx/img230/7116/fma01039qf.png"]Hiwatari Family Sign[/url] [url="http://img230.exs.cx/img230/5792/ouroroboussign4wd.jpg"]Grandmother's Family Sign[/url] [/color]

[font=Verdana][size=2][color=navy]After Kai had left Stella, she had gone looking for Dr Kane, she found him after a long time and asked if she'd be able to leave, he allowed her to and told her that when she wanted to leave, to message him by the comlink inside the cockpit. Kai then left and went back to the dorms where most of the pilots now were. She had told Stella about going out tonight via mind speak, neither of them could wait to go flying.[/color][/size][/font] [font=Verdana][size=2][color=#000080][/color][/size][/font] [font=Verdana][size=2][color=#000080]Kai was feeling quite happy because she'd been introduced to several of the pilots and she enjoyed the meal that Sora had cooked up for them. When she had finished she sneaked out of the room and headed toward the hangar where Stella was eagerly waiting. [/color][/size][/font] [font=Verdana][size=2][color=#000080][/color][/size][/font] [font=Verdana][size=2][color=#000080]Kai climbed up into the cockpit and connected to Stella mentally as the files she'd stolen had said would help her in piloting. She messaged Dr Kane and the door opened, revealing the beautiful night sky and the desert sands. Kai and Stella ran out the door in a birdlike way with her wings slightly opened, when they were outside, Stella spread her wings wide and made a few heavy beats of wings and they soared into the sky. Stella wheeled, screeching loudly, at last, after so long, she was flying again. Kai sat in the cockpit, looking at the sky and the ground beneath her in awe, she'd always wanted to fly. They were both excited and Kai tested different manuvers and some attacks, the attacks were used away from the base. When they finally got tired they stopped and flew back to the base. Kai got out and talked with Stella for a while, just enjoying the company of a close friend, wishing Kari was around.[/color][/size][/font] [font=Verdana][size=2][color=#000080][/color][/size][/font] [font=Verdana][size=2][color=#000080]When it was late, Kai left, saying they'd best get rest for the begin of the tournament. Kai went back to her room and flicked through Stella's files again, hoping to get more information. She was at a disadvantage because no doubt that most of the other mech pilots that would be there would have had more than a day's practise pilotting, she hoped for the best and went to sleep.[/color][/size][/font] [font=Verdana][size=2][color=#000080][/color][/size][/font] [font=Verdana][size=2][color=#000080]Kai woke up at 0800 hours the next day and had a full breakfast so she'd be ready for the tournament. She was pumped and talked to Stella while she ate, she was just as psyched. When Kai finished she washed up and went to the hangar to get Stella, the two of them made their way to the stadium and entered. The sight took Kai's breath away, it was huge. She easily spotted Deviryn and Blayze and walked over, she saw Sayne and Sora were talking to Dr Kane and someone else that she didn't recognise. Kai decided to just hang around for a while until they were done, looking around the stadium and remembering the feeling of flying for the very first time.[/color][/size][/font]

[color=Navy]Kai had been walking with Sora and Sayne when they'd bumped into some of their friends. Kai recognised them immediately as they arrived, they were all famous for defeating the Cylargres during the war. Kai just stood back as she watched all of their different personalities. Sayne didn't talk much, except to Sora, Sora talked to everyone, Lyu was crying as she talked to Ajack, who didn't look happy and Keiji was pretty quiet. They all looked quite stressed, and Ajack walked away, leaving a depressed Lyu. Kai decided to approach her. [b]"Hi, my name's Kai, and I just got selected to be a mechanima pilot today." [/b]she said. Lyu just looked at her and tried to smile. [b]"Hi Kai, I'm Lyu..." [/b]she said. The two talked for a while before she excused herself, leaving. Kai just sighed and walked away, all of the famed mechanima pilots didn't seem very happy. She walked aimlessly through the halls and realised she'd gotten lost. She just entered one of the doors, hoping to find someone that could point her in a direction of something. She gaped as she entered, there were many different electronical equipment lining the walls and there were large computer systems. The room seemed empty so she crept over to one of the large computers. As she expected it was heavily protected by firewalls and passwords. Kai pulled out her mini computer and brought up her hacking programs, choosing the right one she pulled out a cord that was wrapped up in her pocket, plugging it in she let the code run through, biting her lip and hoping she wouldn't be caught, she just wanted some information anyway. After a minute she was allowed access and she quickly went through the files, looking for ones on Stella. When she arrived at the page, there was a very high tech code to crack, it took her a while before she finally broke through, scanning over the files and transferring them to her mini computer. As she was about to get out, she came across a map of the base and downloaded that too so she wouldn't get lost all the time. Kai quickly unplugged her mini computer and put it and the cord away. Just as she got up and walked toward the door, it opened and some personel entered. They looked at her and she explained she'd gotten lost and was wondering where the dorms were, he gave her directions and she thanked him, leaving quickly. Kai made it back and locked herself in her room, going over the files, she discovered how she was built, her attacks, the elements, her specialities etc. Kai was impressed and lay on her bed staring at the ceiling. There was a message blasted through the intercom telling them that the tournament was starting at 0900 hours and to be ready at that time. Kai got off her bed and pulled up the map on her mini computer, she left her room and headed toward the hangar. Kai climbed into the cockpit and practised some controls, using her mind to work the controls, which was easier than learning all of the uses of the buttons and levers, and it made her closer to her new partner Stella. [b]"Tonight we'll go pilotting together. Properly." [/b]Kai promised to Stella. [b]["I have no doubts that you will."] [/b]Stella replied. [b]"I'll talk to Dr Kane about it later." ["Kai, I have something I can do that merge our minds and you'll know how to pilot me to my full extent, though it may hurt because you'll go into your memories. You'll see my worst memories, and I'll see yours."] [/b]Stella told her. [b]"I want to do it, if it'll help me." [/b]Kai said after taking a shuddering breath. [b]["Alright..."][/b] A helmet came from a hatch in the ceiling of the cockpit and Kai put it on, it was connected to a bunch of wires and was really strange. Kai felt a jolt and memories flashed through her mind, these were her memories, memories of the day the war began, losing her parents and friends; memories of her with her parents; her destroyed house; living on the streets; being bullied on her first week living in the streets. Then there were memories that she didn't recognise, realising they were Stella's, the pain of being new amongst the other mechanimas; being tested by pilots that weren't right and other such things. After the memories, she got lots of information suddenly packed into her brain. When it was over, the helmet lifted away and Kai was left with an aching pain in her head. [b]["Are you alright?"] [/b]Stella asked, concern evident in her voice. [b]"I'm fine..." [/b]Kai said, holding her head. [b]["Do you know how to pilot now?"] "Yes...I have the information."[/b] Kai said. [b]["You went through a lot, you should rest. If you need to talk to me, you can contact me through this kind of speech, just think what you want to say and I'll hear you."][/b] [b]"Ok, I'll seeyou later tonight." [/b]Kai got out and went to find Dr Kane to talk about going out tonight with Stella. [/color]

[color=Navy]Sakura was pulling an all-nighter, she had an essay that was due the next day and she had left most of it to the last minute, but it wasn't exactly by choice. Her parents were divorced and she lived with her mother, and she had remarried and thus Sakura had a stepdad. He was friendly for several months, until they settled down. Now he was always getting drunk at bars and coming home angry, taking his anger out on her mother, and she always protected her, getting the force of the bruises, marks and cuts. She still had many of the scars. She yawned and rubbed at her eyes, staring at the gleaming computer monitor which was the only thing that gave light in the dark room. It was 1am and she was only half way done. Sakura brought up an internet window and typed in a URL to a set of chatrooms, scrolling through them she found one she liked and entered. There were already several messages there. She played with her ring as she read them. [/color][font=Courier New][color=#008000][b]Courage_of_Destiny: I don't belong here [/b][/color][color=darkorange][b]Dear_Prudence: Well, I sure don't seem t'belong 'ere, if tha's what ye mean..[/b] [/color] [color=#4169e1][b]H3lt3rSk3l3tr: Pft. All the time...that's normal, though, ain't it? [/b][/color][/font] [font=Courier New][color=black][b]Shadow_Dancer: G'day, Yeah... Sometimes I feel like a roo on the 'roo bars. Where do I belong? [/b][color=Navy][b]Bloom: Feel like your life took a turn for the worst, ne? [/b][font=Verdana]Sakura typed, putting in the little accent she always used when asking for a response, being Japanese she used many little accents and expressions. She leaned back on her chair, stretching the muscles in her back, there was a light and she felt something land in her lap, she picked it up and held it to the monitor, using the light to study the device. It was navy blue and silver and had several buttons on it. She felt a tingling feeling in her feet and looked down to see her body disappearing. Sakura's eyes widened and she made sure her favourite goggles were on her head, her necklace and pendant around her neck, her ring on her finger, and grabbed her mini computer off the table and shoved it into the pocket of her trenchcoat that she was wearing. She put the device into one of the thigh pockets in her navy blue cargos and then she fully disappeared, being sucked into the computer. All that was left that she had been there moments earlier was the heat from the chair she'd been sitting in. [/font][/color][/color][/font]

[color=Navy]Kai hopped off the final bus, she'd used a lot of money just to get to this base out in the middle of no where. She put a hand in front of her eyes to block the sun, the light bouncing off her ring. The place was huge and she was in awe, this was where the pilots had first met their Mechanimas. Kai stopped gazing at the building and walked forward. There was a guard standing near the entrance and he stopped her. [b]"What is your business here?" [/b]he questioned. Kai shifted her sleeping bag and backpack that sat uncomfortably on her shoulder and put a hand into one of her pockets, withdrawing it, holding her mini computer in hand. She flipped it open and brought up the message on screen, passing the device to the guard. He looked at her and took it, reading it quickly. He handed it back and nodded. [b]"Alright, welcome to Syon Desert Base. Go through and go down the hall to the large metal door at the end and talk into the intercom." [/b]he instructed. [b]"Ok, thanks." [/b]Kai smiled, putting the computer back into her pocket and walking through the entrance that he moved away from to allow her in. As Kai walked through the large hall, she looked around, amazed at the design and size of it. Finally she reached the end and saw the huge metal door, and next to it on the wall was an intercom panel with a button. She pressed it and spoke into the speaker. [b]"Hello? My name's Kaila Elric, I got a message from Dr Kane?" [/b]she said unsurely. There was silence on the other side for some time before she heard crackling and a voice. [b]"Ah, I'm glad that you made it Kaila, please come on through." [/b]the voice said, then there was a rumbling and the door lifted. Kai walked through when it was fully open and gaped at the large area, and she finally saw the things that she had dreamed about. Mechanimas. There were several, but the ones that she recognised the most were the Dragon and the Phoenix. She looked to the left and saw a man standing there next to the intercom. He smiled. [b]"Hello, I am Dr Kane. It's nice to meet you Kaila. I'm glad you arrived so quickly." [/b] [b]"Call me Kai, and it's good to meet you too. I jumped at the opportunity when you sent me the message. Ever since the war I've wanted to become a pilot." "Wonderful! Let's see..."[/b] Dr Kane said as he walked off, Kai followed him quickly and they walked past the different Mechanimas. [b]"See if any of them give you a strange feeling." [/b]Kai nodded, not really knowing what he meant but keeping her senses alert. When they passed a bird type mech, Kai felt something and stopped. Dr Kane noticed and looked up at the bird. [b]"Ah, the Eagle. Is this the one that has chosen you?"[/b] he asked. [b]"I think so..."[/b] Kai said quietly, being captivated in its golden eyes. She looked over her two toned plummage, then stared back into her eyes. [b]["Who are you?"][/b] she heard a voice ask, yet it seemed to everyone else sounded like a shriek from an eagle. [b]"My name's Kai. What's your name?" ["My name is Stella. You seem special. I like you."] [/b]she said. Dr Kane told her that she had been chosen, and that Stella would be her Mechanima that she would learn to pilot. Kai, wanting to do anything to learn how to pilot a mechanima was willing to do the hard work needed. Dr Kane told her some things about mechanimas and stuff. When asked, Stella opened her hatch in her breast that allowed Kai access to the cockpit. She was told the basics of the cockpit by Dr Kane and went through a crash course of piloting, catching on quickly due to her good academic abilities. It took a few hours but Kai felt she'd gotten the basics down packed, and Stella could help her with any more. Dr Kane let her go look for her sleeping quarters and headed back to his lab. Kai wandered around, trying to find where she would be staying. She met up with a couple of people in the halls. The male had black hair and icy blue eyes, while the female had fire red hair and gold eyes. [b]"Oh my gosh, you're Sora and Sayne!" [/b]Kai exclaimed. [b]"Ah, yeah, that's us." [/b]the girl spoke. [b]"Good job of beating the Cylargres. Oh! I'm new here, I just arrived today, my name's Kaila, but you can call me Kai. I'm looking for my living quarters and I think I'm lost now." "Yeah.....thanks...." [/b]Sora mumbled quietly in reply to the battle statement. [b]"It's nice to meet you Kai. This place [i]is [/i]pretty big and takes a bit of getting used to."[/b] They talked for a while and Sora said that they were heading for their quarters too and offered to show her the way because they were all close together. Kai agreed and they walked off, she told them that she had just gotten the Eagle mechanima and was slowly learning how to pilot. Sora explained that it would take a while to get used to. They finally arrived at the quarters and Kai found her room, finally dumping her sleeping bag and backpack. She exited to meet up with Sora and Sayne again so they could talk. [b][color=Black]OOC:[/color][/b][color=Black] I think I changed some stuff and added things, but I thought it was the best way for my character to learn and stuff. Hope it's alright.[/color] [/color]

[color=Navy]Kai lay propped up on her pillows with a drawing pad resting on her folded knees and a mini computer on the bed next to her. She was twirling her pen around and picked up the computer, typing in things for the newest art she was planning on doing. She had checked for the right colours that would suit it and the best size without it looking oversized. Kai picked up the drawing pad and looked at it frowning, there was something missing. The picture was of a snarling wolf head, bearing his teeth and his fur was bristled and unkept. The colours were dark and had shadowing. Kai remembered and did a scrawl in the bottom corner which was her graffiti signature, and next to it she put KS for the name of her group, Kaotic Society. Kai got up off the bed and went to a large cupboard, opening it and looking at the array of spraycans all displayed on the shelves. Kai took a while to rummage but emerged with a number of colours that she would be using tonight. She placed them on her table and went back to her bed. She put her computer and pad aside and lay down on her bed, she started to think of when she had gone out alone constantly, and then when she had met Celi. It took a while but Kai had finally gotten her approval and was allowed to join, though there weren't many. Kai smirked and held up her pendant that was on a silver chain around her neck, that sign was one of her other symbols. Then she looked at her ring, she'd had it for a long time, along with the pendant. The Serpent Cross and the Winged Serpent around a triangle were the signs she carried around with her, and the wolf symbolised her attitude. [i][b]'Until tonight....'[/b][/i] she thought as she drifted off to bed. [color=Black][b]OOC: [/b]I didn't really know what to post.[/color] [/color]

[color=Navy]Kai walked along the familiar streets, which was her home that she'd been staying at for about 5 years now. She sighed as she looked around, waving and saying 'Hi' to friends that she'd made while living on the streets. She laughed quietly to herself, ending with a frown, today was Valentine's Day, the memorial of that fateful day when the war against the Cylargres had begun, killing many people and destroying buildings. Her parents had been only two of those people who were killed. Many of the others that were living on the streets were also in the same predicament as herself, though some had already been living on the streets. Kai turned a corner and walked into an alley, she saw the sleeping bag that served as her makeshift bed, the one beside it had a girl of the same age sitting on it. [b]"Not working, Kari?"[/b] she asked the girl, sitting on her own sleeping bag. [b]"Nah, not today. You're back early, no business?"[/b] she asked. [b]"You know it, there's never much business around here, all the business goes to those big companies that have re-built their stores." [/b]The two of them continued to talk. They had known each other since they were kids, and both of their parents had been killed so they decided to go to the streets together, not like they had anywhere else to go. Pretty much all of the buildings were destroyed at that time. Sure, a lot were up again by now, but those that had been/were living on the streets would in no way get enough funds to rebuild. She wished that she could have been part of those people that had gone to become pilots of machine animals, they helped save the world, and if she had been, she could have known that she'd done something to help. Kai sighed and lay back on the sleeping bag, hearing ruffling as Kari lay down too. They both worked so they could have money for food and other things, but as she had said, there wasn't much business in these parts that were known as the Slums, because practically everywhere else had been fixed up. But no one cared about the Slums. They were still talking when she heard a beeping sound and felt a vibration in her pocket. She excused herself and pulled out her mini computer, flipping the lid open and typing through quickly, going into her messages where a new one was waiting. She scrolled through and read it quickly, when she had finished, she had a stunned expression on her face. [b]"What's the message about?"[/b] Kari asked when Kai didn't say anything. [b]"I'm going to be a MechAnima pilot....For some memorial tournament they're having."[/b] Kai replied quietly. Kai explained what the message said and started to pack up her sleeping bag, which was the only thing she didn't always carry with her. [b]"But what about you?"[/b] Kai asked when she'd finished packing. [b]"Forget about me, just go, and win, k?"[/b] Kari said winking. [b]"Alright, I'll come back ASAP. I'll seeya then!"[/b] Kai finished, running off to catch some transport to get to Syon Base. [i][b]'I can't believe I'm going to become a pilot..."[/b] [/i]She thought excitedly as she got onto a bus. [color=Black][b]OOC: [/b]Not the best post, I know, but I'm pretty tired. Hope it's ok.[/color] [/color]

[color=Navy][b]Name:[/b] Kai [rhymes with Pie ^^] Elric [b]Age:[/b] 17 [b]Group:[/b] [/color][size=2][color=Navy]Kaotic Society[/color][/size] [color=Navy] [b]Group Title/Place:[/b] Electronics person, handles anything electronic that they have. [b]Description:[/b] [url="http://img91.exs.cx/img91/4927/ai9yl.jpg"]Here[/url], keep the goggles but make the shirt longer and white, put a leather trenchcoat over the top and change the shorts to navy blue cargos. She also wears [url="http://img169.exs.cx/img169/8239/rensq0241p028uv.jpg"]this[/url] pendant and [url="http://img169.exs.cx/img169/5079/rensq0247p0101026ez.jpg"]this[/url] ring. [b]Personality:[/b] Kai is a calm person and doesn't get angry very quickly, unless it's the police. She is strong minded and never admits defeat, even when she's lost. She's a quick thinker and solves problems quickly. She can easily keep a cool head in a heated argument. Kai is very stealthy, flexible, agile and acrobatic and gymnastic and has been since she was a child. She's been trained in many of the Martial Arts since she was a child and is especially good at Karate, Kung-Fu and Judo. But if she doesn't like you, she'll show it, and you'd have to gain her trust because she has a sixth sense with people. But sometimes she can have a quick temper, and if someone annoys her for a long period of time, let's just say you won't want to be around when that happens. She'll fight valiently if her friends or family are ever in danger. In her free time, Kai likes to be outside and look at nature and everything that the world has to offer. When not doing that she's usually messing around with something electronic. Mainly the mini computer that she carries around in her pocket. [see [url="http://img169.exs.cx/img169/9809/rensq0227p01027xe.jpg"]here[/url], it's like an organiser kinda thing, you flip it open and the bottom is the keyboard while the top is the screen.] [b]Biography:[/b] [/color] [color=Navy]Kai has been a trouble child most of her life and has been hated by all the teachers she's ever had because she likes to cause chaos in the classrooms. She's been expelled from over 5 different schools as she moves from year to year, but she still keeps in touch with all the friends she has from those schools she was kicked out of. They're also trouble kids and caused havoc with her, though they were only suspended. Her parents are divorced and she stays with her dad, who's a failure and doesn't have a job, which is why her mum left him. She had never liked her mum because she was strict and always talked about studying and getting a good job when she was older, which resulted in her rebellion against studies, just to annoy her. Kai doesn't really like her dad much either because he's a deadbeat, and he doesn't care about anything she does anyway. When she tells him that she's been expelled from another school, he just says 'Really? That's wonderful, honey.' Kai doesn't trust anyone in the world, because she knows that anyone and everyone will eventually stab her in the back somehow or another. When she was 12 she began the life of graffiti as a way to express herself. Though being more of a technical person and better at judging the size, width and length of the art than actually being an artist, though she was still good. But one night when she was out painting, she was sprung by an undercover cop that was roaming the streets for any trouble. The policeman caught her and threw her into jail. When her parents were called, her mum didn?t care, and her dad didn?t have any money, so she just had to use her own money to bail herself out. But when she came out of jail she didn?t change her attitude, if anything she developed a stronger hatred toward police and did more graffiti than ever before.[/color] [color=Navy]She mainly likes to paint Wolves on the walls, which is her call sign. She decided to use a wolf because they?re usually thought of to be alone, but when having found the right ?pack? will join and travel together, which is what happened when she met up with Celi. She saw her art and approached them. Celi took a while to decide but finally agreed and she became part of a pack. [color=Black][b]OOC: [/b]Sorry it took so long but I finally finished. I hope it's in time.[/color] [/color]

[color=navy]I love the big descriptions, so we can think of how these places actually look like. Very well done Joko. I bet everyone knows where I'll be living, I wouldn't dream of living anywhere else. Lol, I'll bunk with Methy and Reise and we'll have a wild party. ^_^ Great job, I can't wait for this to come out.[/color]

[color=black][b]OOC:[/b] I've decided to sign up as a different character but will have some things the same as my old one. [b]EDIT: [/b]Finally completed, sorry if the Bio's a little short. Let me know if I should change anything. [/color] [color=navy][b]Name: [/b]Kaila 'Kai' Elric [b]Age:[/b] 22 [b]Sex: [/b]Female [b]Origin:[/b] Earth [b]Appearance:[/b] [/color][url="http://img91.exs.cx/img91/4927/ai9yl.jpg"][color=black]Here[/color][/url][color=navy], keep the goggles but make the shirt longer and white, put a leather trenchcoat over the top and change the shorts to navy blue cargos. She also wears [/color][url="http://img169.exs.cx/img169/8239/rensq0241p028uv.jpg"][color=black]this[/color][/url][color=navy] pendant and [/color][url="http://img169.exs.cx/img169/5079/rensq0247p0101026ez.jpg"][color=black]this[/color][/url][color=navy] ring.[/color] [color=navy][b]Personality:[/b] [/color][color=navy]Kai is a calm person and doesn't get angry very quickly. She is strong minded and never admits defeat, even when she's lost. She's a quick thinker and solves problems quickly. She can easily keep a cool head in a heated argument. Kai is very stealthy, flexible, agile and acrobatic and gymnastic and has been since she was a child. She's been trained in many of the Martial Arts since she was a child and is especially good at Karate, Kung-Fu and Judo. But if she doesn't like you, she'll show it, and you'd have to gain her trust because she has a sixth sense with people. But sometimes she can have a quick temper, and if someone annoys her for a long period of time, let's just say you won't want to be around when that happens. She'll fight valiently if her friends or family are ever in danger. In her free time, Kai likes to be outside and look at nature and everything that the world has to [color=navy]offer[/color]. When not doing that she's usually messing around with something electronic. Mainly the mini computer that she carries around in her pocket. [see [/color][url="http://img169.exs.cx/img169/9809/rensq0227p01027xe.jpg"][color=black]here[/color][/url][color=navy], it's like an organiser kinda thing, you flip it open and the bottom is the keyboard while the top is the screen.][/color] [color=navy][b]Bio: [/b]During the time of the War against the Cylargres, Kai had been staying in the streets, after her parents had been killed on that Valentine's Day. As she lived she saw many bodies littering the streets and rubble from the destroyed buildings. She had been so upset and wished that she could do something to change it all, she wanted to reverse time and save all the people who were killed. She has set dreams and is determined to not fail and never give up. The only dream of hers that she's really had to give up is travelling back in time and trying to save her parents. Kai still wanders the streets, but she still carries her precious belongings, including her ring, necklace, mini computer, goggles and a photo of her with her parents. [b]Weakness:[/b] Failure [i][b]Tournament MechAnima:[/b][/i] [b]Eagle[/b] [b]Name:[/b] Stella [b]Personality: [/b]Stella is her loyal companion and reflects Kai's personality. She will do anything Kai asks of her if possible, unless it's something she can't do, whether immoral or impossible. She's very protective of Kai and can act irrationally if Kai's in danger. [b]Appearance:[/b] [url="http://kaweahoaks.com/html/golden_eagle.jpg"]Here[/url] [b]Normal Abilities:[/b] Stella is a bird of storms and fire, utilising those weather conditions for aid in battle. When a thunder storm is around, she can use the electricity to heal her or give her more energy. She has sharp talons and beak and can use those to scratch and slash at enemies. Being closely related to the Hawk enables Stella to fly almost as fast, but slightly slower due to the fact that the Eagle is a larger and heavier bird. All of Stella's energy attacks use either fire or powers that come with storms (eg. lightning, rain, strong winds) like her attack 'Meteor Wing', which is when she flaps her wings and meteors emerge and attack the enemy/enemies. [I haven't yet decided on other attacks so I've generalised it, hope that's ok. If not PM me and I can change it.] [b]Weakness:[/b] Ground, Failing Kai in any way[/color] [color=navy][b][i]Legendary Mechanima:[/i][/b] [/color] [color=navy][b]Name:[/b] Sol[/color] [color=navy][b]Personality:[/b] Same as above but she's more determined and can be more irrational.[/color] [color=navy][b]Appearance:[/b] [url="http://img92.exs.cx/img92/3548/Eagle1.jpg"]Here[/url] [b]Normal Abilities:[/b] Like the above attacks for the Tournament Mech, I've generalised them in the same way. [b]Special abilities:[/b] [i]Meteor Storm -[/i] Rises high into the air and spins quickly, generating electricity and spreads open her wings, flapping them. A large scratching wind materialises as does a large dark storm cloud, from the cloud comes meteors and lightning. [i]Soundwave - [/i]Releases a high pitched screech that creates a soundwave that stops or can even turn over enemies, which gives her a chance to attack. [b]Weakness:[/b] Becomes more wild and can become uncontrollable.[/color]

[b]OOC:[/b] I decided to add a sign up type bit at the top just for some background info. I finally finished, the death is a little weak but I'm not good at those types of things. [color=navy][b]Name[/b]: Raine (Leonheart) Loire[/color] [color=navy] [b]Age[/b]: Early-mid 20s [b]Eyes[/b]: Deep Blue [b]Hair[/b]: Long rich brown [b]Height[/b]: 5'5"-5'7" [b]Blood type[/b]: AB or A [b]Birth place[/b]: Winhill [b]Occupation[/b]: Bar Keeper [b]Family[/b]: Laguna, Squall, Ellone [/color] [color=navy][b]Picture[/b]: [/color][url="http://pobladores.lycos.es/data/pobladores.com/ri/no/rinoa_26/channels/eternal_final_fantasy/images/2946345prittyraine.jpg"][color=navy]Here[/color][/url] [color=navy][b]Biography[/b]: Raine was born to a simple family in the small country town of Winhill, away from all the hustle and bustle of the city life like Esthar. Her mother worked hard at the bar that the family owned. They always had a lot of customers, but only at a certain time of the day, which was after working hours for the adults. A few of the men worked in construction, other men, including her father, worked the fields for the crops that they grew and sold. She loved her parents dearly and used to love to watch them work busily at the bar. Raine had lots of friends in the small town, some of them were the usual customers that visited the bar on a regular basis but the majority of them were the other kids that were often brought by their mothers so they could play and the adults would talk because there wasn't ever much business during the day time. Raine was a nice child and was so happy and carefree at such a young age, as a child should be. [/color] [color=navy]She wished that they were allowed to wander outside of the bar, but the mothers always forbid them to, saying that there were lots of monsters out there, but all the times they had gone to see other families in the town, they hadn't seen any, so they assumed it was safe and that their mothers were only saying such things to stop them and were making things up.[/color] [color=#000080]One day when she was 7, when the mothers weren't looking, Raine and the group of kids went outside because they wanted to go see some of the flowers that grew in that time of the year. That was when they encountered a Caterchippilar, it sprayed its web on them, stopping them from escaping and it waddled over on it's short stumpy legs. They called for their mothers loudly, some of them were crying. Raine shouted for help and pulled at the web, only succeeding in getting herself stuck even more. Finally after loud high pitched shrieks did the mothers come out in a hurry, realising that the kids weren't in the bar area. They ran over and warded off the Caterchippilar with attacks that the children didn't know their mothers had. After it was driven away, they freed the children from the web and scolded them severly. They were all sent home and to their rooms without lunch.[/color] [color=#000080]After that it was the age for her to start her education and was sent to school. She met up with her group of friends there and they were always the best students in the class, always focussed on doing their work.[/color] [color=#000080]Nothing happened to her as she went through Primary Education, then through Secondary Education. The tragedy happened after she graduated from Secondary, her parents had been sick for some time but were still stubborn on running the bar, but Raine always helped, and had been helping since the middle of Primary. But it got bad, and she called a doctor because they were in bed with a cold sweat. He had to report the bad news to her and let her know that nothing could be done for her parents, it was too late for them...Raine was unwilling to accept the fact and ran out of the house/bar and went to her favourite spot, which was next to the flowers that bloomed differently each season. They had named them the Four Season flowers. She cried there for an hour, it couldn't be true that her parents were dying and nothing could be done for them. She returned to the house and promised to take care of her parents and the bar.[/color] [color=#000080]Her parents lived for another year before passing away. When it happened Raine was 18. She was so grief striken that her friends could do nothing to soothe the pain, even telling her that they knew how it felt didn't help. Because most of her friends' parents had died too. Raine didn't eat anything for an unhealthy period of time, she wasn't even able to be classified as alive because her eyes had gone hollow, lacking the usual vibrant sparkle in them; her skin had gone pale; her lips chapped and dry; her hair messy, opposite of her usually perfect hair; she had bags underneath her eyes, accentuating the sadness and lack of sleep she had; her eyes were puffy, red and bloodshot from the tears she cried day and night continuously. Her friends understanding what she was going through, took care of the bar and would always hear the soft sobs from the house area upstairs. Practically everyone from the town came on a regular basis to see if Raine's status had changed yet. Her friends were sad to make a negative report everytime.[/color] [color=#000080]Raine finally emerged after three weeks looking terrible and her friends jumped from wherever they were and mobbed her, asking if she was alright. Raine just shrugged them off and slowly started to eat again. Her friends were worried that she had a problem that no one yet knew of and decided to call a doctor just in case. The doctor came around and gave her a checkup, though Raine was reluctant to go through the process. She turned out to have a severe eating disorder activated by the death of her parents. But it seemed that she was coming out of it because she had resumed eating. It wasn't much, but was better than nothing at all. The doctor left telling Raine's friends, that if there's any change to let him know.[/color] [color=#000080]It took Raine another whole month before she was back to normal. Her friends were forever loyal and slowly helped her nurse herself back to good health, always keeping the doctor well in formed of changes. When Raine was back to normal, she was abnormally happy, and her friends were surprised when they entered the bar as usual to start work and find Raine behind the counter doing everything. They were worried and spoke to her, she said everything was fine. Raine had come to a conclusion, there was no point in staying in the past and contastantly grieving, her parents wouldn't have wanted that for her, and she remembered that she'd also promised to take care of the bar, and she would keep that promise, as it was the last one she made to her parents.[/color] [color=#000080]A couple of weeks after Raine got better, they had the funeral and all of Winhill went to the ceremony to say their goodbyes to the couple that had made their way into everyone's hearts through their kindness and for owning the famous bar that everyone went to. Raine gave a testimony for her parents and then they buried the bodies, the graves right beside each other. After that, Raine visited the grave with Four Season flowers each day.[/color] [color=#000080]Many of the old occupants of the town died from age and problems and the next generation took over all the businesses, being promoted from their worker spots. There was one particular mother, one of Raine's closest friends who had a child, a daughter in fact, and she decided to name her Ellone. Raine and their group of friends loved Ellone and thought she was adorable. But another death befell Winhill, as Ellone's mother was killed, trying to protect her from a monster that had gotten a hold of her. Soon the young girl found herself without a mother. The group of friends got together again and thought about what they should do with the poor girl. Sending her to an orphanage wasn't even a question, because most of them were in bad condition and the closest was a few towns/cities away. Most of the group were reluctant to take the child in, because a lot had husbands and were already pregnant. Raine loved the child and volunteered to adopt her, everyone seemed to agree with the decision and Raine took Ellone back to the bar, explaining that she was going to live with her now and that she'd take care of her. Ellone asked questions about her mother and Raine just told her that she had to go away.[/color] [color=#000080]Ellone officially became Raine's adopted daughter one week after the incident, when all the documents were signed and approved of. They had a strong bond and was more of a close sister relationship than mother and daughter, besides, Raine didn't want to intrude on her friend's motherly role, or the memories that Ellone still had. Raine sometimes got cross at Ellone for disobeying her, but tried not to be too harsh because she knew how it felt to be scolded strictly, and that made her rebel even more.[/color] [color=#000080]One dark stormy night, there was a loud knock at the door and Raine ran downstairs in her nightgown, she pulled open the door and saw a soldier, holding onto another who was slumped over.[/color] [color=#000080][b]"Please help, he was wounded in battle and this is the closest town and place." [/b]the soldier pleaded.[/color] [color=#000080][b]"Of course, come in out of the rain." [/b]Raine answered, letting them through into the bar.[/color] [color=#000080]The soldier lay the other down on the floorboards and Raine could see the blood stains on the uniform and the slice and holes in it that showed where the wounds were. Raine got towels, handing one to the conscious soldier, then drying off the unconscious one. Raine looked over him and saw that his leg was bent at an unnatural angle. After drying him and stripping him down to his undergarmants she got the soldiers help to carry him upstairs, putting him in the spare bed. She tucked him into the bed to make sure he didn't get a fever and let the weary soldier take a shower and use her bed for the night. Raine took their outer clothes and started a fire, putting the clothes at a proper distance to dry them off. She pulled out a spare blanket and pillow and set up a makeshift bed beside the fire and fell asleep. The next day the soldier had to leave to get back to the battle and thanked her, saying he'd be back for the other one. The day after the soldier left, the other woke and wondered where he was, then he stupidly tried to get out of bed and hurt his broken leg even more. Raine forced him to stay in bed and started to get to know him, discovering his name was Laguna Loire. It took a while but Raine stitched all of his wounds and set his leg in a cast, preventing him from doing much activity.[/color] [color=#000080]Ellone spent a lot of time with him and started to call him 'Uncle Laguna' in a playful way. It took a few months before Laguna was better, Raine just wished that there was another medic other than herself around, since the doctor died as well.[/color] [color=#000080]Ellone would joke that 'Uncle Laguna' and Raine should get married, and even though they knew she was joking, they were always embarrassed by that comment and would blush and one would leave the room, usually Raine.[/color] [color=#000080]Everyday Laguna would go out for 'Monster Patrol' which was the reason that allowed him to remain in the small town of Winhill instead of returning to the military. He carried his gun with him everywhere, everywhere except when he was with Ellone, because he didn't want her exposed to such things.[/color] [color=#000080]But slowly, Ellone's 'joke' pulled through and Raine and Laguna fell in love. They didn't get married yet, but Laguna gave her a ring on the correct finger and promised that they would. Little did they know that that would never come true. For a month later, Ellone was taken away by Esthar soldiers because of her powers. When Ellone was playing in the bar, Raine was cleaning glasses, a group of Esthar soldiers rushed in through the door and spotted the little girl. The one who seemed like the leader shouted a bunch of stuff to the others and pointed at Ellone, some went over to Raine. The group near Ellone picked her up and turned to carry her out the door, Raine let out a cry and tried to rush forward, trying to stop them.[/color] [color=#000080][/color] [color=#000080][b]"Stop! What are you doing? Put Ellone down!!!" [/b]she cried.[/color] [b][color=navy][/color][/b] [color=#000080][b]"Raine!!!!!!"[/b] Ellone cried as she was carried out the door, while Raine had her arms held behind her back tightly. They both had tears running down their cheeks. When the soldiers with Ellone had gotten away safely, the leader signalled to those holding Raine. They pushed her roughly behind the bar and left quickly.[/color] [color=#000080][/color] [color=#000080]When Laguna returned from 'Monster Patrol' about 10 minutes later, he found Raine at the bar crying, he asked what was wrong and Raine told him what had happened. He was shocked and angered, he couldn't believe that soldiers had kidnapped Ellone. Laguna decided to leave Winhill to go find her and bring her back. He promised that he'd return safely with Ellone and then they'd get married. Raine reluctantly let him go, and watched as he ran off into the night with his gun.[/color] [color=#000080][/color] [color=#000080]Raine conceived during the time that Laguna was gone, as soon as she discovered she was pregnant, she called her friends and asked them to be her midwives, since she was the only medic in the town and she couldn't do it on her own. They agreed happily and swarmed her constantly. Most of them already had their own kids and knew what it was like. Raine realised she greatly disliked being pregnant when she constantly had to run upstairs and throw up in the toilet while working. After a month of doing so, her friends made her stay upstairs and not work because it was bad for the baby, as Raine used to tell them when they tried to do work. Raine glared playfully at her friends but agreed, and she sat in bed everyday while her friends took turns taking care of the bar and watching over her.[/color] [color=#000080][/color] [color=#000080]Six months later, Raine went into labour, and Laguna and Ellone still hadn't returned. Everyone including Raine was worried, because she was two months premature. Her water broke and she was soon sweating heavily. All her friends had left the bar and were surrounding her. Raine felt pain that wasn't supposed to be there, it was worse than labour pain. When she had fully dilated, she started to push, taking patterned breaths and pushing. She felt her head hurt and she was starting to lose consciousness. Raine fought to stay conscious and continued to push out the baby. Finally it emerged and Raine saw it was a boy. She looked into his eyes and saw they were a stormy bluish grey and decided to name him Squall. Then she passed out. Her friends at first thought she was just so tired she was sleeping, but they didn't hear her breathing, they quickly jumped and checked her pulse, but it was gone, she was dead, right after giving birth to baby Squall. They were saddened because she had been everyone's best friend, and she and Laguna had never gotten married as they had promised each other. [/color] [color=#000080][/color] [color=#000080]A week later, they conducted another funeral, burying her beside her parents.[/color]

[color=navy]@Junkobakaiba: It's your mother. The ending part is the place to look for the answer. In other words, it's your maternal auntie's husband, whose sister in law has to be your mother since it said 'mother's only sister'.[/color] [color=#000080][/color] [color=#000080]Here's a new riddle for you.[/color] [color=#000080][/color] [color=navy][b] I'm neither here nor there, an in-between place. Bend over backwards, I'm a dance with pace.[/b][/color] [b][color=#000080][/color][/b] [color=#000080]And in case that one's too easy here's another.[/color] [color=#000080][/color] [color=navy][b] The finest performance, in history books I'm found. An authentic copy, I'm an archive of sound.[/b][/color]

[b]OOC: [/b]This is the same one from XionBox that I just editted, hope it's ok. [color=navy][b]Name:[/b] Kai [short for Kaila, she hates using her full name] [b]Age:[/b] 20 [b]Race:[/b] Human [b]Description:[/b] [/color][url="http://img124.exs.cx/img124/2599/tao4eu.jpg"][color=black]Here[/color][/url][color=navy], minus the wings. She stands at 5'2" and is quite light, which helps her in her acrobatic abilities. [b]Background:[/b] Kai has been a trouble child most of her life and has been hated by all the teachers she's ever had because she likes to cause chaos in the classrooms. She's been expelled from over 5 different schools as she moves from year to year, but she still keeps in touch with all the friends she has from those schools she was kicked out of. They're also trouble kids and caused havoc with her, though they were only suspended. Her parents are divorced and she stays with her dad, who's a failure and doesn't have a job, which is why her mum left him. She had never liked her mum because she was strict and always talked about studying and getting a good job when she was older, which resulted in her rebellion against studies, just to annoy her. Kai doesn't really like her dad much either because he's a deadbeat, and he doesn't care about anything she does anyway. When she tells him that she's been expelled from another school, he just says 'Really? That's wonderful, honey.' Kai doesn't trust anyone in the world, because she knows that anyone and everyone will eventually stab her in the back somehow or another. Kai was overjoyed when she finished school, surprised that she'd even made it through with her bad record, and she didn't bother going out to look for a job because of her personal records, she wouldn't have a chance to get one. At least a proper one anyway. Kai stole the rest of her dad's money, which wasn't at all much and travelled to the slums of the city and found a weapons dealer. There she bought her first weapon, her revolver, she had picked out a particular one that had a wolf head etched into the sides and a cherry blossom on the butt of the gun. After that she went out looking for someone that would teach her how to use it well. She quickly found someone from the sound of gunshots ringing through the neighbourhood and approached the area tentatively. When she found the source she saw a hot guy holding onto a gun with his back toward her. There was smoke coming from the barrel of the gun and there were lots of holes in a target painted on the wall several hundred meters in front of him. She had talked to him and discovered his name was David and he said he'd teach her. She spent a lot of time with him and she quickly became skilled with her acquired weapon. He also gave her the katana she carries because he said it was a spare and that it would helpful for close combat if she ever got into a case like that. Kai and David became close and even started to become more than friends. Three months after meeting David, her dad died because he hadn't been eating. So Kai just gathered her things that she wanted or needed and left for the slums to live with David. But when they weren't together sometime, he was killed by a gunshot to the heart. Kai had gone back to the house and seen he wasn't there and that there wasn't a note. Whenever either of them went out by themselves they always left a note for the other. She got worried and went out to search, she saw an alley and police and an ambulance. Kai hoped it wasn't anyone she knew that lived there and got closer to see. When she saw the body lying there, she cried and pushed through the people to crumple beside the body. She was questioned by the police, and she asked the police questions. After that day she swore she wouldn't trust anyone ever again, because one of the police had said that the wound had been up made up close and there wasn't any sign of struggle, which meant the person was someone he had known. There was gossip going around in the slums that there was some crystal with powers that could grant someone's wish if they were worthy. Kai decided she wanted to find it and she would bring David back. [b]Weapon:[/b] Revolver and [/color][url="http://img124.exs.cx/img124/6479/samurai3000ninja7bj.jpg"][color=black]Katana[/color][/url]

[b]OOC: [/b]This sounds strange, yet interesting. Are we going to add an Appearance? [color=Navy][b] Name:[/b] Ohkami [b] Nickname:[/b] Sakura [b] Personality:[/b] [/color][color=navy]Sakura is a calm person and doesn't get angry very quickly, she usually speaks quietly and softly. She is strong minded and never admits defeat, even when she's lost. She's a quick thinker and solves problems quickly. She can easily keep a cool head in a heated argument. Sakura is very stealthy, flexible, agile and acrobatic and gymnastic and has been since she was a child. She's been trained in many of the Martial Arts since she was a child and is especially good at Karate, Kung-Fu and Judo. But if she doesn't like you, she'll show it, and you'd have to gain her trust because she has a sixth sense with people. But sometimes she can have a quick temper, and if someone annoys her for a long period of time, let's just say you won't want to be around when that happens. She'll fight valiently if her friends or family are ever in danger.[/color] [color=navy]In her free time, Sakura likes to be outside and look at nature and everything that the world has to offer. When not doing that she's usually messing around with something electronic. Mainly the mini computer that she carries around in her pocket. [see [url="http://img169.exs.cx/img169/9809/rensq0227p01027xe.jpg"]here[/url], it's like an organiser kinda thing, you flip it open and the bottom is the keyboard while the top is the screen.][/color] [color=Navy][b] Short Bio:[/b] Sakura has been around OB for about two years in March. She absolutely loves the usually peaceful community and has made a lot of friends. She mainly likes to hang around the Arena part of the community which is where she lives and several of her friends do too. Though she does wander around a lot when nothing happens and if not in the Arena is usually found in the Otaku Lounge where she just likes to sit around and chat to the other people there. [b] Starting Weapon:[/b] [url="http://ew2.lysator.liu.se/pic/art/c/h/christian7/aeris_stab_der_himmel.jpg"]Staff on the Right[/url][/color]

[color=Navy]Really? Must of missed it then....oh well. I'm just thinking, is it a sundial? I dunno why it came into my head but I guess it's worth a guess. [/color]

[color=Navy]Sara, I think the word is 'Promise'. Com[i]promise [/i]etc[i].[/i] If that's correct, then here's another riddle. This one may confuse some people, so we'll see.[/color] [color=Navy] A princess is kidnapped by her cruel uncle, who has planned for her to marry one of his two sons. He gave her an ultimatum - she was to make a solitary statement. If what she said was true, she was to marry her elder cousin johans the Vain, however, if what she said was false, she was to marry the younger son Derek the Dismal. What did she say which allowed her to remain a single girl and explain why? And the answer has to have something about one of the sons in it. [Because I've gotten a lot of different answers for it before.][/color]

[color=Navy][font=Tahoma]Sakura walked around, during the time that the illusion of the Winter Tundra had been around, they had all been dispersed. [b]"Hello? Anyone?"[/b] she called, gripping her staff in case there were enemies. [b]"Hello. Welcome!" [/b]a loud booming voice sounded, and a figure appeared. Sakura squinted at it, she made out that it was male, and he wore a long robe with a hood that he wasn't wearing, and he also carried a staff. She looked carefully and made out the colour of her robe, it was red. He was walking toward her, so she held her staff up at a position that could defend or attack with a small movement. Soon he was close enough that she could see him clearly without squinting. [b]"Who are you?" [/b]she asked, glaring at him, she didn't like the vibe she was getting from him, even more since she had a sixth sense about people. [b]"I am your defeat!" [/b]he laughed, before waving his staff [b]"Poison!"[/b] Sakura looked around herself and saw a purple fog surrounding her, and she suddenly felt painfully ill. [b]"Ah!" [/b]she cried out as she slid to the ground in pain. [b]"What did you do to me?" "Figure it out yourself. You're pathetic, and you call yourself a mage." [/b]he scoffed evilly. [b]"You're an embarassment, I might as well just finish you now." [/b] Sakura glared up at him, she looked at her left palm and saw the cherry blossom mark that made her part of a high class of mages, and this guy was mocking her family, even though she didn't know them. She dug her staff into the ground and got up, her left arm wound around her stomach to try to stop the pain, her right hand gripping the staff. [b]"Take that back..."[/b] she growled. [b]"Oh, you got up. Take it back? Never. You're worthless, probably part of a reject family of mages."[/b] he snickered. [b]"Blizzara!!!" [/b]she roared, pointing her staff at him. A look of surprise appeared on his face as he was hit by a full on strong blizzard, blinding him temporarily and freezing him. The ice lasted a few second before cracking, shattering around him. Particles clung to the material of his robe and his hair. He brushed them off quickly. [b]"I wasn't prepared for that. You must be of a high family to have such magic. Who are you?!" [/b]he demanded. [b]"I'm Sakura, the Deadly Flower, I'm of the 'Deadly' clan." [/b]she said, holding up her left hand to let him see the mark. He was completely shocked that she was part of such family of mages. [b]"Looks like you won't be such a pushover after all." [/b]he said smirking. Sakura took her arm away from her stomach and stood upright strongly, even though she felt the sting from the poison after she'd cast her attack. He rushed toward her and they locked staffs, Sakura glared at him and winced as he suddenly put a lot of pressure. She was weak from the poison that had infected her body.They both pushed against each other, the red mage with the upper hand, being stronger. Sakura knew she wouldn't win so unlocked and did a rolling dodge to his other side and whacked him across the back with her staff. He swore as he felt the blow and whirled around to face her. [b]"You'll pay for that. Double Cast!" [/b]he roared. She swore as she saw two coloured auras surround him and his staff. She raised her staff, and as the first magic came toward her, she cast Ice, to null the fire. Then the second blast of ice came, Sakura fought it with her own attack and the two attacks fell away harmlessly. They were both tired from exhausting their magic and Sakura was really feeling the pain from the poison. She only had enough strength for one more strong attack and she cast it, hoping it would do the trick. [b]"Blizzaga!!" [/b]He was caught by surprise and screamed as he was hit by the blizzard and encased in ice. When the ice shattered, so did his body, there wasn't enough strength in him to ward off the attack of the biting ice. Sakura panted and leaned on her staff. It was her first real battle and she was exhausted and in pain. She hoped she could find her other party members and get it cured. So she used the staff as a walking stack and started to wander in search of her friends. [/font][/color]

[color=Navy][b]OOC: There's lots of links in my sign up. Name:[/b] Sakura Hiwatari [b] Age:[/b] 15 [b] Appearance: [/b][/color][color=navy][url="http://img91.exs.cx/img91/4927/ai9yl.jpg"]Here[/url], keep the goggles but make the shirt longer and white, put a leather trenchcoat over the top and change the shorts to navy blue cargos. She also wears [url="http://img169.exs.cx/img169/8239/rensq0241p028uv.jpg"]this[/url] pendant and [url="http://img169.exs.cx/img169/5079/rensq0247p0101026ez.jpg"]this[/url] ring.[/color][color=Navy] [b] Country:[/b] Tokyo, Japan [b] Crest:[/b] Hope [b]Personality: [/b][/color][color=navy]Sakura is a calm person and doesn't get angry very quickly, she usually speaks quietly and softly. She is strong minded and never admits defeat, even when she's lost. She's a quick thinker and solves problems quickly. She can easily keep a cool head in a heated argument. Sakura is very stealthy, flexible, agile and acrobatic and gymnastic and has been since she was a child. She's been trained in many of the Martial Arts since she was a child and is especially good at Karate, Kung-Fu and Judo. But if she doesn't like you, she'll show it, and you'd have to gain her trust because she has a sixth sense with people. But sometimes she can have a quick temper, and if someone annoys her for a long period of time, let's just say you won't want to be around when that happens. She'll fight valiently if her friends or family are ever in danger.[/color] [color=navy]In her free time, Sakura likes to be outside and look at nature and everything that the world has to offer. When not doing that she's usually messing around with something electronic. Mainly the mini computer that she carries around in her pocket. [see [url="http://img169.exs.cx/img169/9809/rensq0227p01027xe.jpg"]here[/url], it's like an organiser kinda thing, you flip it open and the bottom is the keyboard while the top is the screen.] Sakura believes in a lot of things, and people, which gives her hope, that she wishes to also give to others that are in need of it. [/color][color=Navy] [b] Bio: [/b]Sakura's born and raised in the capital city of Japan, the technological Tokyo. Pretty much everywhere is electronics, so that's how Sakura got into meddling with computers and anything else electronical. She's an only child and is slightly spoilt, but she doesn't usually like to take advantage of it, but will use it if she's desperate. Sakura used those 'powers' to get herself the mini computer that she carries with her. Her room itself is full of technological gadgets; including a computer, laptop, printer, scanner, wide screen plasma TV, DVD player and other such things. [b] Digimon:[/b] Fresh - [url="http://ca.geocities.com/digi_josied6/images/Puttomon.gif"]Puttomon[/url] - Divine Hearts In Training - [url="http://ca.geocities.com/digi_josied3/images/Cupimon.gif"]Cupimon[/url] - Angel Ring Rookie - [url="http://ca.geocities.com/digi_josied5/images/Lucemon2.jpg"]Lucemon[/url] - Divine Feet, Ground Cross Champion - [url="http://ca.geocities.com/digi_josied6/images/Piddomon.gif"]Piddomon[/url] - [/color][color=Navy]Fire Feather, Mega Heal, Apollo Tornado, Piddo Speed[/color] [color=Navy]Ultimate - [url="http://ca.geocities.com/digi_josied5/images/LordHolyAngemon.jpg"]Lord Holy Angemon[/url] - [/color][color=Navy]Heaven's Gate, Excalibur, Soul Banish[/color] [color=Navy]Mega - [url="http://cf.geocities.com/digi_josied6/images/Seraphimon.jpg"]Seraphimon[/url] - [/color][color=Navy]Seven Heavens, Full HP Cure, Hallowed Knuckle, Hallowed Ascension, Knee Kick, Slam Down[/color]

[color=Navy]Well for my job, I'd like to be an Illusionist. And I've also already chosen my own element, which is what I spoke to amgoddess about a few days ago. My element's Ice, and I have the Chill Rod which is what you've been seeing in my posts. Lol, I'm trying to keep up with Altron so we stay at about the same level but he just keeps jumping ^_^ Though I agree that we should get more of a clue about the purpose of the crystals and the part we play in it. [/color]

[color=Navy]I'm interested in joining this RP, and as Zidargh said, it was a shame that only Final Fantastic Survivor....survived. It's good that you've decided to limit the number of characters, and I think that having Raine around would be a good addition, since not all that much was known. But I don't remember when she died...I've probably just forgotten though since I haven't played it in a long time. I'm certainly interested in how the story will turn out. I also think that Semjaza's idea would be intriguing because then there'd be like two different joined up teams of the dead. If this gets up and running, you can count me in as a part, I love anything to do with Final Fantasy. [/color]