Former Turk ~Open~

[keller]

It was a lovely day, nothing could of spoilt the day, well almost nothing. The only thing that could was rain yet the sky was beautifully clear. The 23 year old former Turk was sitting alone on the beach. Her long blackish blue hair was pulled back over her shoulder, allowing it to flow freely about her shoulders, though her hair continued to fall before her shoulders no matter how many times she moved it. Her enchanting cerulean eyes took in the beautiful scene before her eyes. She was sat down with some flowers that in front of her, they'd been left outside her bedroom window with a note attached to it, smiling down at the flowers as her fingers traced the petals below them with a gentle touch. She closed her eyes as she gently pulled the petals off and let them blow away in the wind, smiling as she watched them flutter in the wind as she looked around her hometown, how long had it been since she was last home? Years but how many?

Calamity closed her eyes as she brought her hands to rest in her lap. A sigh left her lips, it felt great to be sitting in the gentle breeze but something was missing. A sigh left her lips, she just wanted someone to talk to with, she longed for the company of another human being. Calamity tucked a strand of hair back behind her ear to keep it from her eyes. She was still dressed in her normal clothes, a black tank top with her white ankle length jacket laid out behind her. Her dark combats stood out against the sand as her left leg was in front of her while her right was drawn up to her chest. Her hands were covered by black fingerless gloves, and her feet by black ballet shoes.

She closed her eyes, she’d been sitting here a while, when she first came to the beach not a single cloud haunted the sky and yet now as her eyes closed a single raindrop hit her cheek, rolling down the pale skin as if it were a tear.

The rain started to fall heavier though nothing too bad, her eyes slowly opened as she looked up at the sky, her lips curved into a smile, one thing she loved was the rain. She didn’t know why but she did and nothing would change that.

Calamity smiled, since coming here the former Turk had not received any mind numbing headaches that came with the memories that returned to her. She laid back against the sand as it continued to rain with her arms folded behind her head and her eyes closed.

So many thoughts were running through her head but none were troubling like her usual thoughts, she actually felt very relaxed. Not something she felt very often, maybe it was the fact that she knew she was home. She didn't know but she loved it, this place made her feel safe so she'd felt this way before in her childhood, maybe her mother loved her after all even if her father didn't, that was enough for her.

[Reydaitso]

Reydaitso walked through the streets of the popular vacation site. People were running, with their hands over their heads, for cover. How ridiculous people were, they fled from water. Isn't the big popularity of this place that the ocean is so close? Well of course. Reydaitso pondered on the difference between swimming and walking in the rain. "Well for one in the rain you can't drown, well unless your lacking in basic knowledge. The sun can't usually blind you in the rain because of the clouds. It got cooler during the rain. "Hmmmm." That was three good things for rain, and the only thing he could think of for swimming was. "Well I suppose it is always there."

He took that first step from the stone steps to the sand. He could feel the sand give a little, and make that soft crunchy sound of slightly wet sand. His white lab coat blew in the chilly wind, his white pants, shirt, and shoes reflecting back what light did hit him. His slightly long blond hair blew in his face, but he ignored it. "What great weather." He sounded calm. "I do so hope there will be some lightning."

His hand reached inside his coat and out came a small rectangular box. it was long, not wide or tall, just long. The top of it opened and a lightning rod jutted up from the center of it. "What do you suppose happens to to artificially formed materia if the natural elements strike it?" He smilled.

A flash of light. A deafening boom. It was over. The materia lay in the box, inside its containment space, shattered and useless. Quite the discovery. Reydaitso smiled as he looked up to the clouds.

"You win again Gaia, but I will endeavor to win at least one round." He was talking of course about the game he played with the planet in trying to bend, or break, its natural laws.

[keller]

Noise drew her attention from her thoughts, her cerulean eyes opened, finding the cloudy sky above her head. Calamity pushed herself up so she was looking around. Her hair was completely soaked through and matted to her face. She looked around, searching for anyone else on the beach that night. Calamity looked out at the water, the waves were so calming to watch, they put her fragile mind at ease.

Calamity flipped herself to her feet, stretching and looking around. She could hear someone speaking though she knew that they weren’t being spoken directly to her. The 23 year old turned around, finally seeing who it was that had spoken. Her eyes had caught sight of the blonde and smiled formed on her lips, she was silently happy it wasn’t someone who triggered memories from deep within her fragile mind.

With silent footsteps she approached the man, her cerulean eyes ever observant, watching for any sign of a threat. So far she had seen none. When she was standing a few feet behind him she stopped. “Hello there,” the blue-ish black haired young woman said softly, not wishing to startle him. Her hair covered the right side of her face, her clothes clung to her slender figure but still she refused to hide from the rain.

Her eyes shifted to travel over the town that was her home, that had been her mothers home. She could picture her mother laying upon the beach with a teenager sitting beside her, drawing little messages in the sand.

[Reydaitso]

Reydaitso's hand twitched, but nothing more. He frowned slight, he had thought he was the only one out here. Apparently not. He had been surprised, but the voice was so soft, so calm he found it hard to believe that it could come from someone that meant him harm. There were two guns tucked behind him, hidden by his coat. This was what his hand had twitched at.

"Well hello, I am sorry if I startled you with my experiment, I thought I was alone on the beach. Not many people out with the weather like this." He had not turned around. Frankly, he was nervous. It could very well be a rival scientists trying to take his project, or one of those horrid Shin-Ra lap dogs come to take his work to get rank. He didn't want to die.

"I must say you have a nice voice." He paused, his hands were close enough to reach the only weapons he carried in a instant, "But, how did you get so silent? I didn't even hear you walk up." He smiled. Who could this be? A Shin-Ra dog? No. A scientist? No, they would have seen the failure just like he did. A Turk? He didn't recognize the voice. Then who?

[keller]

“Forgive me, I didn’t mean to startle you,” Calamity smiled sweetly at him, she was used to have silent steps and often forgot this fact when approaching someone. She’d noticed his hand twitch and took a step back, clasping her delicate hands in front of her. In silence Calamity looked him over. Judging by his attire I would say he’s a scientist. Why would he be here? She allowed the thoughts to drift silently from her head, they didn’t need to linger, she had no use for them.

Calamity shook her head. “Not at all, at first I merely thought it was the weather until I heard you speak,” she added the smile for good measure as she looked at the sky again. “People seem like they fear the rain though it’s only water, it can’t eat them yet they try so hard to avoid it,” Calamity laughed shyly, “forgive me, I’m talking drivel.” She bowed her head for a moment in thought before raising her head and speaking softly to him once more. “Did you want to be alone, I can leave if you did?”

A crimson blush covered her naturally pale cheeks, to hide the now present heat she bowed her head to make her hair fall upon her cheeks. “Thank you,” she whispered, not making eye contact. “I’ve had silent steps for as long as I can remember, I was once a Turk, so maybe I picked it up there… ” The last part was mostly to herself. She’d never really thought about it before and now it slightly bugged her. She shook these thoughts from her head, now was not the time. “I’m Calamity Valentine,” she said politely as she held out her right hand.