Meeting to Change Life

[Crazienous]

(( kind of a 'where it all starts'-thing~ ))

staring at the portal infront of him, not the stablest of warps, but the bleak future seeming to brighten infront of it as he took a leap of faith into the spiraling tunnel of light.

--

a Bright light lit the night sky above the trees for a second, as the small figure fell through the branches of the tall pines, landing flat on the muddy ground with a thud, a long wince of pain wheezing through the otherwise paralyzed figure.
looking more like a robot than human, the silver plated armor covering his body whole save for eyes and lower half of face, tattered brown hoodie draping over him like a cloak from all the torn bits and missing pieces, half of wich were now hanging from the branches above.

after mere what seemed to be an hour, he rolled himself onto his feet, though backing into the nearest tree while doing so, jumping and turning around to stare at the giant tree, in awe.
he'd never seen one before, placing his hand against the trunk of it, making sure it wasn't just one of those holograms he'd seen before, a smile slowly entering his face as he continued looking at the tree.

[cyborgfox]

"Alright, this seems like the perfect place to practice. I hope that grandma won't be mad at me," the girl panted softly as she clutched her violin tightly. Tomorrow was her first day of school and she couldn't sleep, so instead, she decided she needed some fresh air. Lifting the instrument to her shoulder she placed her bow on it trying to mimic her grandmother's posture. A screech came from the instrument as she tried to play what her grandmother did. The notes were off-key but the young brunette tried not to notice. Instead she was focusing on where her fingers placed themselves when she played the right note. Her playing wasn't phenominal in the slightest, then again she was still learning.

After harming her ears with her awful playing she put down the bow and plucked the strings gently. This time, not as bad but the rhythm was off and the beat wasn't steady. Even so she stopped and sat at the base of the large tree's trunk with the violin on her lap, tracing the wood with her finger. Unaware of the person on the opposite side of the tree who quite possibly heard her.

[Dregan]

Sniff... sniff... The nose of a barely concious figure twitched.
Sniff... sniiiiff.... Slowly coming to, the individual's mind first ran to the scent which met him on awakening. It was a rusty, organic, unpleasant smell. Blood...
Grunting, he began to move slightly... before stopping and shouting out as pain shot through his chest, agony spreading like electric through his insides. Slowly, he rolled onto his back, looking down to observe the damage. Over his left pectoral, about level with the location of his heart, was a gaping hole, pumping red out of it. Ah yes... that was right.
He'd been found out. It had took him a while, but he should have known the time spent there had been way too long. It was a clean shot... straight through the heart. They must've dumped him out here in the hopes the body wouldn't be found... Well, made his escape easier.

Moving slowly, so as not to further upset the bullet currently located in the centre of his still-beating heart, he took the torn remains of his shirt, and fashioned them into a make-shift bandage, covering the wound, but by no means plugging it. As he stood unsteadily, liquid red leaked from beneath the binds and dripped down his torso. Still... he looked much less grusome than if he'd left the hole exposed for all to see.

The next priority would be to find a way back to civilisation. Preferably somewhere different to the village he'd been staying in before... he couldn't really tell how far away he'd been taken, and the forest gave no helpful indication.
Almost as if on cue, the wailing screech of a violin made it's way through the forest. Someone else was here...

Sandglass made his way towards the sound.

[Crazienous]

Running his hand over the bark of the tree softly, he examined every crevice of it, muttering to himself about things like 'how magnificent' or 'how could something this majestic have gone extinct', he suddenly jolted out of the trance, looking up at the sky. when was this, how far back did it send me?
though soon looking around as noice started, a violins deathly screeches he'd thought to have been in his head at first, but now it was getting ridiculous. walking just a little around the tree, inspecting where the noice came from, he saw movement. first instinct was to move back, but after seeing what the moving thing was, he jumped forward a little more, a surprised look blastered on his face like he'd seen something glorious, by god, it's a human! a living human! he'd forgotten when he'd last seen a living being this young, not to mention a living being not harmed by the things he'd seen.
he halted before he'd been able to go and pick up the girl off the ground and spun her in the air in joy, having senced something else in the area, turning to the direction of the sent of blood with concern, a flicker of blue light escaping the crevices of his silvery armor.

(( durrrrr~... ))

[cyborgfox]

Hearing a noise she glanced up from her violin, spotting a figure approaching her. A yelp escaped from her mouth before she calmed down from the inital shock to observe the situation. Standing up she held the violin close to her before running over towards Sandglass. Gasping slightly she stared at him, "You ok?" she softly called, keeping her distance. The child was no more than five years old but she could understand what pain was. For her it went away rather quickly, like when she hurt her knees and palms after falling on concrete. It bled for a bit, her mother put water on it, then she was all better after awhile.

"The pain will go away soon," commented the brunette, "water's nearby and it can make you feel better," a bright smile filled her face. She hadn't learned of death or even near death, everything could always get better. Reality was still hiding from her through innocence.

[Dregan]

The man grinned slightly. Considering the two large sabre-teeth, this was probably a touch unsettling, but still, he seemed grateful for the attempted help from the young girl.
"Don't worry," he spoke warmly and encouragingly, though slightly strained through the agony in his chest, "I know I'll be fine." He probably came off a little more sure about that than he neccesarily should be, but right now, he didn't care. Really all he wanted was to get somewhere he could remove the bullet, and hopefully this girl would guide him.

At was at this point, a certain glowing blue light caught the corner of his eye. Looking up from the girl, past her, he saw a secondary figure. A strange one, clad in armour, approaching.
"Oh..." he spoke, "Are you this childs carer...?"

[Crazienous]

Findlay looked at the two, taken in by the whole, listening to the two talk without even a thought running through his head as to disrupt the scene, but soon pointing at himself as the guy spoke to him, but shaking his head soon after, "ney, I'v nevah been good wif kids" he answered, taking a moment to look the two over again, continuing with a slight wave of the hand in the guys direction, "if ye's dun mind, I coul' do something abou' dat?"

(( *flails* now then, lemme cactus before I go out of my way to make Findlay a loony ))

[cyborgfox]

Turning around she stared at the figure in surprise, why hadn't she noticed him? "You're gonna make him feel even more better?" she was unable to supress her squeal of delight and ran towards the newcomer after placing down her violin next to Sandglass. As she approached him the child gave him a leg hug, wanting to physically show her gratitude. While she did believe most of what Sandglass said, it did make her feel better that someone else was helping.

(Yay short post~)

[Dregan]

"Er..." he looked awkwardly between the girl and the apparent stranger. It was vaguely unsettling.
"No, no, I'm fine..." he spoke calmly, "I can see to it myself..." Whilst this was technically true, there was more to it than that. Sandglass did not particularly want to expose the fact his heart was still beating with a gaping hole and embeddd bullet in it, and however much he wanted to fix that, he felt much more comfortable solving it in privacy, rather than exposing to the two present his potential immortality.
"So..." he quickly changed the subject, attempting to deflect questions, "What brings both of you out to the forest?"

[Crazienous]

looking taken back by this sudden action, patting the back of the girl stuck to his leg with a bit of joy and uncertainty, but turning a slightly more concerned look to the guy for a moment, shrugging it off as he replied, "da's gon' be a lon' story, bu' I can tell ye, I didn' plan to lan' in da middle of-... wher's dis place anewaeh?" he added, the though just having come to him.

(( butchering accents since '90... ))

[cyborgfox]

Cy pulled away from the hunched figure and smiled brightly up at him. She then skipped her way back to the mobian and held his hand, "Nope nope! You're gonna get better and get some rest before talking," giggled but her smile quickly vanished from her face as she saw the blood. Her face paled, she'd never seen that much when she was bleeding. It made her stomach turn but she bit her lip, keeping back the sickness. Did he fall down concrete stairs? Is that what caused all that red stuff?

"Um, why are y-you bleeding so much?" she stuttered and felt a lump in her throat, trembling slightly. He probably wasn't feeling the best, she assumed and gripped his hand tighter as tears filled her eyes, "You're h-hurt really b-ba-badly..." cried the brunette as she buried her face in his arm, sobbing.

[Dregan]

"Uh..." Sandglass blinked, gazing at the girl now sobbing into his arm. If he was the one bleeding this much, why was it this complete stranger of a girl was crying so badly? He sighed inwardly... He'd best see to her.
"Um... there there..." he patted her head gently with his free arm, "I'm okay, I'm going to get better... Just need to get to the closest village... do you know where that is? Or a city maybe?"
He paused a second considering the strangers question of their location. He himself really didn't know this.
"Then you can also tell the gentleman here where it is we are..."

[Crazienous]

Findlay had folded his arms infront of himself and nodded agreeingly to the conversation going on, feeling like an on looker as he did, but he couldn't help but agree to both, even if he still felt concerned about the guys bleeding issue. he had been floating half a foot off the ground a while now, the crevices on his legs armor glowing a constant dim flickering blue.

(( *flee* ))

[cyborgfox]

"Well we're in a forest silly," she giggled and sniffed wiping the tears from her eyes but failed since more fell down her face. It did comfort the child when she felt his hand on her head. Though she knew he needed help as quickly as possible, "Um, mister," Cy called over to the other figure, "help him...please," her voice broke slightly as she held back a few tears and tried to think of happier thoughts. Maybe when he was feeling better she'd play her violin for him, then he'd be able to rest. Once he woke up then the three of them could all play together. The thoughts soothed her slightly and seemed to calm her down enough for the time being.

[Dregan]

Sandglass blinked, realising how the conversation topic had circled around. Well that was... unfortunate.
"I-I'm fine... I assure you..." he spoke convincingly - an experience liar, "It looks a lot worse than it is... I can see to it myself as soon as we're in a populated location." He glanced between the two nervously. He REALLY didn't want attention drawn to his unnatural not-deadness right now.
"In fact, maybe if we were to go to that stream you mentioned, I could wash off the excess blood? Then you'll see it's not so bad at all..." he was clutching at straws here and he knew it. Honestly, he just wanted a pair of tweezers and to be done with it.