Just how things are

[VEN is Back]

Ven wandered through the park, observing the small luxruies he had never gotten as a child, the love that the action of createing a park showed for children, the love he had never been shown, the love he had always longed for throughout his life.

He wandered, occasionally seeing a small puddle in which he beheld his new figure, the one he was still not accustomed too. he so longed to be human again, though he knew it was impossible. he knew that no matter how hard he longed for it he would never have a parent's love or a human form.

For him the time between the first attack on Cassis, and now couldn't have passed slower. he had been trapped in his half recognizable form in agonizing humiliation for so long that every minute ticked by like the count down to a new years eve. This was actually one of the rare time that he ever left the forest which he had now claimed as his own, despite others opinions.

[[S]ara]

The swing creaked noisely under Olive as she gently pushed her feet away from the ground. Head nodded dow nand eyes staring at the ground, she sat in the swing like a small rag doll. It wasnt until she heard another in the park that Olive dully lifted her gaze up. /Hmm..who..no whats that?/ her mind questioned silently and emotionally. Shrugging gently, Olive gripped the chains tighter and leaned backwards causing the swing to pick up in speed and begin to soar.

After a few moments, Olive was pushing the swing to its limit when suddenly the chains gave one last creak and snapped off from the metel poles in mid air. Eye's widening slightly, time seeming to stop, Olive watched asthe chains snaked down to the ground and her body followed. Before she could hit the ground and break somthing, Olive came down into a kneeling positon landing roughly on the dirt. /That could have been wrose../ she sighed and looked down at the small knee bone that stuck out of her knee, pressing her palm againest it she struck the bone back into place and stood up looking in the direction of the man creature.

[VEN is Back]

Ven's attention was caught by the girl breaking the chains. He had delved so deeply into his mind that he barely noticed her existance until the clang snapped him back reality, a loud sour hiss coming from his lips due to the shock.

He walked slowly over to the girl, his good posture making him seem somewhat more human as he took his carefully placed steps towards her. he was somehwat angered that his momement of solitary had been ruined, yet he knew that people valued things such as manners, something he had found useless quite some time ago.

"Need any help there madam?" He questioned, his voice as silky as velvet, and as calming as a bear tranquilizer, over the years he had found that when combining serpentine and human vocal patterns tones like these were very easily plausible.

"Because judgeing by that snap I heard I'd assume that you may not be in the finest of sorts." He forced himself to seem as kind as a priest, holding himself with the air of a busisness man yet as kindly as the pope, all of his actions paradoxical to his shape.

[[S]ara]

Olive watched as Ven made his way over to her, and suddenly she was stunned as such a ma with his looks spilled out with politeness.
Raising a brow she looked him over, "Nah, I dont need any help." she sighed then smirked, "You dont have to be so polite..." Olive murmured.

Looking down at her leg and the scar where the bone had once poked out it hit Olive thats what he was talking about, "Oh," she let out a laugh, "No no no, I dont need any help with this. Trust me, I've had much much worse..." her voice was a bit deranged as she spoke but then ended in a cheerfuly tone.

Directing her attention away from Ven, Olive watched as Kamon approuched them. "Hey..." "Ven.." he had said. glancing back over to the one named Ven, Olive scanned him over again. Turning away from the two, Olive kneeled down and began to gather up the chains into her arms.

[Seaheart]

Seaheart walked through the park. It seemed....darkened somehow. If there was one before the war, it had lost it's former glory. He smiled, looking pale and somehow sadistically happy. He started at the ground for awhile until he heard a voice. A voice he head only when someone he had known had been seriously pissed. But now he sounded....polite. Well, as polite as the man he thought he heard could get. He turned his head toward the voice and changed his smile to a small one. Still happy though. He ignored Kamon and the girl, only Ven his concern now.

He walked toward them quietly, recognizing his old enemy even in demented form. "Hello Ven." He said, looking him over. "So the years have been harsh on you too. Strange though. We both look like we did ten years ago, aye?" He said, making smalltalk as if the creature in front of him was normal. "So what happened to you? Chemical backfire or something?" He said sounding almost thoroughly interested. It was a queer feeling to see your archrival becoming what he was inside after ten years, yet still retaining his former essence and glory as if not much had changed.

[VEN is Back]

All of Ven's attention to everything else was utterly lost. All he now noticed was Seaheart. And he reacted how neither of them would have every possibly guessed.

He walked toward him, taking long dignified steps, a look of cool calm plastered across his face and just when he was about a foot away from his, his arms Fell around the man, bringing him into a light yet meaningfull hug, or rather as the case may be, embrace, as hug seemed far too undignified to describe what this was.

His was next to Sahearts ear now.
"It's been awhile old friend." he whispered a genuine tear slowly gliding down his hardened face. Seaheart had been the closest thing to a friend Ven had ever had, despite their previous and numerous misunderstandings.

[Seaheart]

He gulped, thinking Ven was just trying to kill him with his claws. He braced himself, shadows slinking around trees, coming to their; master's aid, but even they seemed curious as the one they had tried to defeat so many times embraced Seaheart. Seaheart stood still, comprehension running through his mind. He took a shuddering breath, knowing after the war, after all the sappy stories about enemies becoming friends, about a sudden comprehension between gifted and government that fighting for a prejudice and unexplained reason was stupid......well....basically, this only proved that the world was not as hopeless as he took it.

He chuckled a little, but kind of seriously. "Well....you know....'old friend'," He said almost curiously in case Ven was joking."war usually splits even people like us up. Looks like we've both changed in looks haven't we....and you've changed emotionally." He said as he gave Ven a pat to the back, hand coming out bleeding. He sort of knew it would. He rubbed one bloodied finger across Ven's distorted head, then his, and pushed Ven off lightly.

"I never thought I'd see you cry.....well, it's understandable. Though when have you ever admitted I understood you in the least, aye?"

[[S]ara]

Olive stood back up with the chains hanging from her arms, and she turned around and stared at Seaheart and Ven.
"Oh my god." she gasped, eyes widening, and the chains dropping from her arms, Olive ran over to Seaheart and Ven, staring at the two, "You never told me you were gay!" she shouted at Seaheart, a shocked look upon her face, mixed with a smirk.

[VEN is Back]

Ven spoke back to him.

"I don't think that you understand me, though there is that possibility but you represent something in my life. Imagine a speeding car headed for a road bump. that car is either going to slow down or head skyward. We've tried both, yet our relationship has remained the same no matter what. I don't care what happens in the future I just want you to remember this momment and these words. You are my friend. You have been and most likely will remain so. It's your descision as to whther or not you want to send me skyward or not."

he then turned to olive, inside raging at her comment, though on the outside he was calm and collected unphased.

"My dear girl." he said, his voice sounding kind and genuine.
"I assure you we are not homosexual, quite the opposite actually. But once you reach a certain age, and a certain level of maturity you find such limitations like homophobia, to be an irrational, and foolish fear."

[Seaheart]

Seaheart looked at him, almost fearfully. Something had triggered inside him. Something, that he would nevr experience, probably ever again in life. Shock and....surprise. Life could never surprise him. No matter how many deaths, loves, wars, or other drama in his life occurred. This though, this, which he had somehow been waiting for all his life. Two things actually. A friend, which he had blocked from anybody trying to be one, never saying he was his friend, just trying, showing him they weren't firm, and fearful of him. The second, was Ven.

For him to say that he represented something in his life, other than amusement....the connection went beyond what a man and a woman, or two man, or anything else ever experienced. "Well Ven....when the time comes, I will be fully prepared to give you the boost, even if you wish not to give me one." He said, hands behind his back, hands clasped together.

[Mousiemus Prime]

" My, My. Who are those two men I see there? Both sound so very formiliar. I think I heard some names that just magically rang some bells. Oh, but those two would never hug. Unless the lizard that sometime ago stole my beating heart and devoured it whole has gone soft." There was that ever wicked, yet somehow playful laughter that ripped through the air as a young woman stood tall with her clim yet curvatious build. Her green eyes had not changed since the day she was born. They still held that luster and shade that made people think they were more of a very dark emerald than anything.

Maeve Sadima, along with her sick and demented ways and thoughts, stepped into view fully now. Her arms were in their signature position, folded just beneath her bosom, crossed over her chest. The shirt which fit so snuggly over her upper body was of course something that showed off everything that god and her mother had graciously bistowed upon her. The fabric was satin, smooth to the touch, red in color. The front laced up with black string, along with either side's small slits. The bottom hem just barely reached her bellybutton and reveal much of her tone and smooth stomach.

" Hello, Dearies." She said with that playful smile dancing across her reddened lips. Colored only by the slight application of lipstick she wore. She took another step towards Seaheart, Ven and Olive. Well, not exactly Olive as she personally didn't seem to notice the girl. She was too busy watching two old acquiantences. One of which being her last boyfriend, as she was generally too busy to date before. Besides, he told still owned her heart over all ten of those long years.

The manicure-tipped fingers of Maeve fell to her sides, one hand stopping on her hip. It met the very low sitting waist line of a pair of light blue jeans she wore. Yes, right now, Maeve was in jeans. Something she didn't generally wear on an everyday basis. Now she was kicking herself for not wearing the little black skirt that almost had won the coin toss. If she had known Ven would be there, she would have gotten more dolled up. But, the outfit seemed fine for now.

" Ven, My dear, I must say what is I think of the new look. You look more delicious than you did 10 year ago. Though, at that time I wouldn't have thought that possible. How have you been?" She asked with the most serious of faces. " And I do believe I know you as well. As I remember someone with a very similiar voice who always tried to kill my delightful boyfriend." As one could tell, she wouldn't put EX before boyfriend if Ven was said boyfriend she spoke of. As she didn't exactly remember ever actually breaking up with him.

[[S]ara]

Olive raised a brow and the smirk disappeared, "I'm not homophobic." she muttered bending down and picking back up the chains.

Obviously these people all had some connection that was slowly beginning to unravel in front of Olive. /So their friends...no enemys...but it seems they need one another to exist? So confusing./ coming back up with the chains draped in her arms, Olive's eyes widened slightly but her expression remained calmed as Maeve approached. /Uh oh, I have a feeling I'm about to get involved in something that I'm going to regret./ looking to Ven, Seaheart and then over at Maeve, Olive took a weary step back away from the group not sure if she should be here.

/Its going to take me some time to get use to the sudden blast of people in the park. To think, not but 5 Min's ago I was sitting in the unbroken swing thinking about death, and bam, an adventure fell out of the sky./

[Seaheart]

He looked at Maeve and gave a mirthless laugh. He looked at her as if he was a teacher and she just got some very important question wrong. "I've tried to kill him.....two times. The time he threatened to use the love potion on Yuna, and the time he actually did. Unfortunately...or rather fortunately now, I didn't devote my full effort. Either way, we have been in our...scuffles." He said with a weak smile. "Now.....well, with this talk of friendship and you here too....you are the only female that doesn't have Death inside of her," He said, the part about Death casting a glance at Ven "and can match Dementia's sick sense of infatuation and sadisticness. Something to be proud of. Speaking of which, I haven't seen her in awhile. Maybe I'll visit her. Won't she be surprised...." He said quietly to himself. He felt strange all of a sudden. Both in his body, and in this situation. He shrugged it off, and waited for someone to do something to break the tension. He didn't mind it, but found it personal...annoying in a way.

[VEN is Back]

Ven's eyes lit up brighter then they already were at Maeve's voice, almost an invuluntary reaction he still had after all these years. it surprised him how much he still loved her despite never seeing her after the long gap in meeetings. he had always been one to cling to emotions, good or bad.

He was gone in barely a few seconds, the sound of a breeze emnating from where he was, as he seemingly reappeared behind Maeve, he clawed fingers already on her shoulders, his thick forked tongue dancing along the side of her face. He sucked it back in abruptly.

"I missed you." He said briefly his voice sounding almost as though he was panting. His mind drifted slightly to the thin gold band he had around his neck on a chain. he had bought two originally, one for him one for her, beck when he was younger, thoguh the explosions and war had somewhat gotten in the way of him doing anything with them, though he doubted he could have been taken seriously at age sixteen, neither of them had seemed that in touch with their parents at the time anyway, but still, at age sixteen everything can seem foolish.

His tongue lashed down to his neck and pried off the chain, his hands still clasped on her shoulders, he thought he might possibly be ready. ready to ask the first question of the rest of his life.

[Mousiemus Prime]

Oh, he just had to use her weakness against her. That devilishly smart man, Maeve was already about to lunge from the start, but now it was more of a desire she might give into. At the touch of his claws, She shivered a little and smiled even more pleasently than before.The words he breathed into her ears made her feel a twinge of desire and lust rip through her body. However, Maeve behaved herself, fought back those basic human instincts and placed her own hand ontop of one of his.

" You missed me, did you? In this case I do believe the feeling is very mutual. Out of all these years the only reason men were beating me was for information. You cause pain because you know it absolutely drives me crazy, which in the end is something we both want." Maeve said calmly, her fingers stroking his scale covered fingures gently.

" As for Dementia, how is my dear Bones doing? I haven't seen her in a long time. I think I'll have to pay her a little visit as well." Maeve sighed, only hearingthe snap of the chain. Ms. Sadima hadn't turned her head to find out what it had been. She didn't exactly seem to care either, for right now she was busy fighting with her urge to 'attack' Ven and her thoughts of seeing an old friend.

" How have things been, Seaheart? Did you miss little ol' me?" She asked, her voice a little sarcastic. Maeve moved enough to rest her cheek on one of the scaly hands and ran her cheek against it lovingly. Oh if she knew what he might be up to. If she had known those many years ago what he had bought the rings for. Maeve wouldn't have dismissed him. She'd have accepted him whole-heartedly.

" And who pray-tell is the young lady with the chains?" She asked, curious as to who Olive was and exactly what the chains were from. " And what, dear girl, are those chains for? If you don't want them, I'm sure I could come up with many uses for them. Don't you think?" Maeve turned her head a little to catch Ven from the corner of her eyes as she smiled.