RP Log: Beware of guys with musical cannons
Who: Midna and Wild Eagle
Where: the beach
When: yesterday afternoon
Warnings: Eagle's mouth
Summary: A random encounter on the beach.
Midna was walking slowly through the village. She had no where particular to be at the moment, so she was just walking aimlessly, periodically glancing over at the ocean.
Eagle was doing much the same, meandering along the coastline. He spotted the figure coming from the opposite direction and eyed her as she approached, offering a jerk of his head in acknowledgment when she was within range.
Midna nodded to him after he had acknowledged her. "Good afternoon," she said to him.
"Hey," he returned, fairly indifferently.
Midna stopped when they had about reached each other. "I have never seen you around before," she said, the tone of her voice level.
"Never seen you around here before either," Eagle said. "You new?"
Midna shook her head. "I've been here for a little while."
"Hn." The alter shrugged. "Name's Wild Eagle."
Midna nodded once in acknowledgement. "I'm Midna."
"So where you from?" Eagle asked, crossing his arms idly.
"I'm from a separate dimension typically called the Twilight Realm." She gestured towards a black portal with glowing green lines running across it hovering in the sky. "That is my portal home. My world resembles this world at twilight only it is constant."
Eagle glanced up, doing a double-take at the sight of the portal. How the hell long had that been there? He glanced from it back to Midna. "So you can go home whenever you want? Why the hell're you still here?"
Midna chuckled a somewhat dry laugh. "I'm the ruler of my world. Personally it is a rather annoying task most of the time so I guess this could be considered...I think the word he used was...vacation."
"Huh." Eagle's brow lifted briefly in a 'whatever works for you' expression. "What's so annoying 'bout bein' the ruler of your world? Don't you just have people to do stuff for you all the time?"
"You also have to make decisions that your advisors can criticize you on. My advisors are notorious for not making decisions on their own whenever I am around and able to help them, so when I'm there, I'm also doing their work as well."
"Yeesh." Eagle made his face. "Sounds like a pain in the ass."
Midna nodded. "When I returned briefly, I found that more stuff had gotten done in my absence than it had when I was there. So I've decided to limit my returns, hoping they will get the idea of what they are supposed to be doing."
"Huh." Eagle shrugged. "An' what if they don't get it?"
"I can always fire them, though I would prefer not to because they are the best at what they do when they actually do it. I consider this their grace period."
"Hn." Eagle looked contemplative for a moment and then grinned a bit. "Do ya ever, y'know...execute people just for pissin' ya off?" he asked.
Midna chuckled darkly. "Once...but that was a special case," she added, remembering Zant.
"Only once? Man, if I was in charge of my own country, I'd kill every asshole that tried to cross me. Wouldn't mind startin' with a couple'a people here, either," he added in a growl.
Midna chuckled. "I've gotten that feeling about some of the people here. Though if you had had to face the...thing I had to execute, you might not consider others so much of a threat or an annoyance."
"Oh yeah?" Eagle arched a brow at her. "What was so bad about it?"
"I had only recently come to power when he took over control. Even I'm not quite sure how he managed to do that. He corrupted the people of my world. He attempted to take over both my world and the other that it was connected to. And the source of his power came from reviving the worst sorceror that Hyrule had ever seen. Under his powers...he was nothing more than a brat only wanting attention. Even his power was pathetic in the end."
Eagle blinked. That did kinda put things in perspective, he guessed. "...huh," he said in response. "Yeah, that's pretty hardcore."
Midna nodded. "The powers I held as ruler...he took them from me...of course, because I was and still am the rightful ruler, he could never actually use them. He deserved the fate that he got."
"Hn. So bet it felt pretty good to kick his ass, huh?"
Midna nodded. "It did indeed."
"So he's the only one y'ever killed, huh," Eagle said, sounding faintly disappointed, as though she were passing up a great opportunity. "What else d'you do back home, 'sides tell your advisors how to do their jobs?"
"That's mostly all I ever did. But do not get me wrong," she continued, hearing the disappointment in her voice and feeling the need to tell him more. "He was the only person I ever...I would consider it an execution, not the only thing I ever killed."
"So you do a lotta ass-kickin, huh? What're you, like a warrior...queen...amazon-thing, or what?" Eagle asked, looking intrigued.
"Used to was more the case," Midna remarked. "Though if I needed to, I easily could. The ruler of our world is meant to be the protector thus they have the most power. When I lost my powers, I still had an ancient power with me that allowed me to retain what was still considered a great amount of power in that world. My ability to fight comes from my powers, not from physical strength, though even my weakened powers made up for that."
"Huh. So you, what...fling around energy balls or somethin'?" Eagle reflexively thought of Star Maker. "What're your powers like?" he added guardedly.
"I'll demonstrate for you," Midna said, finally having a reason to show off her powers here. She looked around and spotted a rather large rock sitting some distance away in the ocean that probably most people couldn't reach, let alone lift. "Watch that rock out there."
"M'kay." Eagle looked between the rock and Midna, somewhat warily.
Midna aimed one hand at the rock. A narrow black beam it the rock and when she raised her hand, the rock followed easily, raising completely out of the water. With her other hand, she formed a red energy ball which she threw out at the rock. The rock shattered, but didn't blow apart. Only when she moved the first hand away did the smaller pieces of rock fall back down into the ocean.
Eagle blinked, looking impressed despite himself. "Damn," he said. "Better not piss you off, huh."
Midna chuckled. "It depends. Those on my good side can actually get away with more before they make me angry."
"Gonna hafta keep that in mind," Eagle said, raising a brow.
Midna chuckled again.
Eagle shrugged a bit. "So. You enjoyin' this place so far?" he asked, though his tone suggested that actually being happy here was just shy of impossible.
"Only mildly," Midna remarked, folding her arms across her body, effectively pulling her robe around her. "Only really in the sense that I am not dealing with my advisors...other than that, this world is boring. Hyrule was much more preferable with the amusements it offered. Though I do like seeing the wolf here."
"Nnh. 's long's the guy that brought it back keeps track of it, I'm okay with it." Eagle shrugged. "Ain't crazy 'bout the rest of 'em, though."
"I'm only really interested in ones that will listen to me," Midna remarked. "The ones in the jungle have no appeal."
"Puh. That's puttin' it mildly," Eagle snorted. "Wouldn't mind the whole stinkin' pack of 'em dyin' off."
"I don't know about that," Midna remarked. "As long as they stay away from the villagers I have no problem with their existence. Out of sight, out of mind, as they say."
Eagle shrugged. "Yeah...guess so. Any of 'em come after me, though, I'm fuckin' killin' 'em."
"That is your every right," Midna remarked. "Survival of the fittest."
"Damn right." Eagle gave a decisive nod, thrusting out his chin defiantly.
Midna chuckled.
Eagle lifted one shoulder in an indifferent shrug. "So can that portal-thing of yours let you go anywhere you want, or just here?"
"Only between here and my world. If there were two portals both connecting to my world I could use the combination of the two to move to the other portal in a matter of seconds. If there was one to another world I could go there. Currently there is only that one."
Eagle eyed the portal again. "Hn. Too bad there ain't more of those things for the rest of us to use to get outta here."
"Those portals only lead to my world. The design around it signifies that. The only way you'd be able to return to your own world was if there was an opening to your world from mine and I'd have to take you there."
"Huh. Well, that sucks." The Eagle's brow lowered and he sighed. "Can't blame a guy for hopin'."
Midna shook her head. "No, you can't. Trowa initally hoped the same thing, but it doesn't work that way, unfortunately."
Eagle curled his lip. "Y'know, I think if I ever meet the guy that dragged us all here, I'm gonna beat the shit outta 'im. This place sucks."
Midna chuckled. "I know the feeling. If I could choose between the two worlds I have been stranded, I would pick Hyrule."
"Never heard of it. What's it like?"
"It's similar to this one...but it is not an island. It has mountains, a volcano, rivers, lakes, a castle, horses, a crazy old man with a cannon..." She purposely threw that one in, guessing the others wouldn't attract his attention so much.
Sure enough, Eagle blinked and gave her a sidelong glance. "...crazy old man with a cannon," he repeated flatly.
"There was an old man with a cannon that was situated on a raft in the middle of the lake. That was the only way out of the lake until I could use the portals created. He had the wind the cannon with crank and it always played a very strange song."
Eagle stared at her with a distinctly baffled expression. "The cannon...played music?" he said slowly, as though he'd misheard. "Why the hell'd it do that?"
Midna chuckled. "It was part of game thing. The cannon launched you up to another building where you could cuccos...you'd know them better as chickens, you could use cuccos to fly back down toward the lake. Other than that, I don't know why it played music."
The explanation did little to clarify anything for the Eagle, who stared at Midna a moment longer and then shrugged. "Ooookay. Sounds weird, but...whatever, I guess."
"Hyrulians were not known for being the most logical of people from what I observed."
"Yeah, don't sound like it. I seen some crazy shit before, but nothin' like that."
"There were some that were logical, but Link always had the unfornate habit of running into those who weren't."
"Link? That some buddy o' yours?"
Midna nodded and looked back towards the ocean, smiling fond smile that was barely different than her other smile. "He was the man who helped me defeat Zant, free Hyrule, and return to my own world."
"Mn." Eagle shrugged a bit. "The heroic type, huh?"
"I guess you could say that. He was destined to be the Hero of Time."
"Sounds like a pretty tall order."
"He eventually figured it out."
Eagle squinted a little, looking as close to contemplative as he could. "'f you're destined for somethin', wouldn'tcha already know how to do it, like, automatically instead of havin' to figure it out?"
"Apparently not, because he had to learn stuff that he didn't already know."
"Huh." Eagle shrugged. "Well, long's he got his shit together eventually, guess that's the important thing."
Midna nodded.
Eagle sighed and stretched, wincing as some of his more recent, not-entirely-healed injuries made themselves known with faint twinges of pain. "Well, 's been nice chattin' with ya, but I'm gonna head back." He jerked a thumb in the direction of the village and turned, waving lazily. "Check ya later. Enjoy your...vacation."
Midna chuckled. "It was nice talking to you as well."
Where: the beach
When: yesterday afternoon
Warnings: Eagle's mouth
Summary: A random encounter on the beach.
Midna was walking slowly through the village. She had no where particular to be at the moment, so she was just walking aimlessly, periodically glancing over at the ocean.
Eagle was doing much the same, meandering along the coastline. He spotted the figure coming from the opposite direction and eyed her as she approached, offering a jerk of his head in acknowledgment when she was within range.
Midna nodded to him after he had acknowledged her. "Good afternoon," she said to him.
"Hey," he returned, fairly indifferently.
Midna stopped when they had about reached each other. "I have never seen you around before," she said, the tone of her voice level.
"Never seen you around here before either," Eagle said. "You new?"
Midna shook her head. "I've been here for a little while."
"Hn." The alter shrugged. "Name's Wild Eagle."
Midna nodded once in acknowledgement. "I'm Midna."
"So where you from?" Eagle asked, crossing his arms idly.
"I'm from a separate dimension typically called the Twilight Realm." She gestured towards a black portal with glowing green lines running across it hovering in the sky. "That is my portal home. My world resembles this world at twilight only it is constant."
Eagle glanced up, doing a double-take at the sight of the portal. How the hell long had that been there? He glanced from it back to Midna. "So you can go home whenever you want? Why the hell're you still here?"
Midna chuckled a somewhat dry laugh. "I'm the ruler of my world. Personally it is a rather annoying task most of the time so I guess this could be considered...I think the word he used was...vacation."
"Huh." Eagle's brow lifted briefly in a 'whatever works for you' expression. "What's so annoying 'bout bein' the ruler of your world? Don't you just have people to do stuff for you all the time?"
"You also have to make decisions that your advisors can criticize you on. My advisors are notorious for not making decisions on their own whenever I am around and able to help them, so when I'm there, I'm also doing their work as well."
"Yeesh." Eagle made his face. "Sounds like a pain in the ass."
Midna nodded. "When I returned briefly, I found that more stuff had gotten done in my absence than it had when I was there. So I've decided to limit my returns, hoping they will get the idea of what they are supposed to be doing."
"Huh." Eagle shrugged. "An' what if they don't get it?"
"I can always fire them, though I would prefer not to because they are the best at what they do when they actually do it. I consider this their grace period."
"Hn." Eagle looked contemplative for a moment and then grinned a bit. "Do ya ever, y'know...execute people just for pissin' ya off?" he asked.
Midna chuckled darkly. "Once...but that was a special case," she added, remembering Zant.
"Only once? Man, if I was in charge of my own country, I'd kill every asshole that tried to cross me. Wouldn't mind startin' with a couple'a people here, either," he added in a growl.
Midna chuckled. "I've gotten that feeling about some of the people here. Though if you had had to face the...thing I had to execute, you might not consider others so much of a threat or an annoyance."
"Oh yeah?" Eagle arched a brow at her. "What was so bad about it?"
"I had only recently come to power when he took over control. Even I'm not quite sure how he managed to do that. He corrupted the people of my world. He attempted to take over both my world and the other that it was connected to. And the source of his power came from reviving the worst sorceror that Hyrule had ever seen. Under his powers...he was nothing more than a brat only wanting attention. Even his power was pathetic in the end."
Eagle blinked. That did kinda put things in perspective, he guessed. "...huh," he said in response. "Yeah, that's pretty hardcore."
Midna nodded. "The powers I held as ruler...he took them from me...of course, because I was and still am the rightful ruler, he could never actually use them. He deserved the fate that he got."
"Hn. So bet it felt pretty good to kick his ass, huh?"
Midna nodded. "It did indeed."
"So he's the only one y'ever killed, huh," Eagle said, sounding faintly disappointed, as though she were passing up a great opportunity. "What else d'you do back home, 'sides tell your advisors how to do their jobs?"
"That's mostly all I ever did. But do not get me wrong," she continued, hearing the disappointment in her voice and feeling the need to tell him more. "He was the only person I ever...I would consider it an execution, not the only thing I ever killed."
"So you do a lotta ass-kickin, huh? What're you, like a warrior...queen...amazon-thing, or what?" Eagle asked, looking intrigued.
"Used to was more the case," Midna remarked. "Though if I needed to, I easily could. The ruler of our world is meant to be the protector thus they have the most power. When I lost my powers, I still had an ancient power with me that allowed me to retain what was still considered a great amount of power in that world. My ability to fight comes from my powers, not from physical strength, though even my weakened powers made up for that."
"Huh. So you, what...fling around energy balls or somethin'?" Eagle reflexively thought of Star Maker. "What're your powers like?" he added guardedly.
"I'll demonstrate for you," Midna said, finally having a reason to show off her powers here. She looked around and spotted a rather large rock sitting some distance away in the ocean that probably most people couldn't reach, let alone lift. "Watch that rock out there."
"M'kay." Eagle looked between the rock and Midna, somewhat warily.
Midna aimed one hand at the rock. A narrow black beam it the rock and when she raised her hand, the rock followed easily, raising completely out of the water. With her other hand, she formed a red energy ball which she threw out at the rock. The rock shattered, but didn't blow apart. Only when she moved the first hand away did the smaller pieces of rock fall back down into the ocean.
Eagle blinked, looking impressed despite himself. "Damn," he said. "Better not piss you off, huh."
Midna chuckled. "It depends. Those on my good side can actually get away with more before they make me angry."
"Gonna hafta keep that in mind," Eagle said, raising a brow.
Midna chuckled again.
Eagle shrugged a bit. "So. You enjoyin' this place so far?" he asked, though his tone suggested that actually being happy here was just shy of impossible.
"Only mildly," Midna remarked, folding her arms across her body, effectively pulling her robe around her. "Only really in the sense that I am not dealing with my advisors...other than that, this world is boring. Hyrule was much more preferable with the amusements it offered. Though I do like seeing the wolf here."
"Nnh. 's long's the guy that brought it back keeps track of it, I'm okay with it." Eagle shrugged. "Ain't crazy 'bout the rest of 'em, though."
"I'm only really interested in ones that will listen to me," Midna remarked. "The ones in the jungle have no appeal."
"Puh. That's puttin' it mildly," Eagle snorted. "Wouldn't mind the whole stinkin' pack of 'em dyin' off."
"I don't know about that," Midna remarked. "As long as they stay away from the villagers I have no problem with their existence. Out of sight, out of mind, as they say."
Eagle shrugged. "Yeah...guess so. Any of 'em come after me, though, I'm fuckin' killin' 'em."
"That is your every right," Midna remarked. "Survival of the fittest."
"Damn right." Eagle gave a decisive nod, thrusting out his chin defiantly.
Midna chuckled.
Eagle lifted one shoulder in an indifferent shrug. "So can that portal-thing of yours let you go anywhere you want, or just here?"
"Only between here and my world. If there were two portals both connecting to my world I could use the combination of the two to move to the other portal in a matter of seconds. If there was one to another world I could go there. Currently there is only that one."
Eagle eyed the portal again. "Hn. Too bad there ain't more of those things for the rest of us to use to get outta here."
"Those portals only lead to my world. The design around it signifies that. The only way you'd be able to return to your own world was if there was an opening to your world from mine and I'd have to take you there."
"Huh. Well, that sucks." The Eagle's brow lowered and he sighed. "Can't blame a guy for hopin'."
Midna shook her head. "No, you can't. Trowa initally hoped the same thing, but it doesn't work that way, unfortunately."
Eagle curled his lip. "Y'know, I think if I ever meet the guy that dragged us all here, I'm gonna beat the shit outta 'im. This place sucks."
Midna chuckled. "I know the feeling. If I could choose between the two worlds I have been stranded, I would pick Hyrule."
"Never heard of it. What's it like?"
"It's similar to this one...but it is not an island. It has mountains, a volcano, rivers, lakes, a castle, horses, a crazy old man with a cannon..." She purposely threw that one in, guessing the others wouldn't attract his attention so much.
Sure enough, Eagle blinked and gave her a sidelong glance. "...crazy old man with a cannon," he repeated flatly.
"There was an old man with a cannon that was situated on a raft in the middle of the lake. That was the only way out of the lake until I could use the portals created. He had the wind the cannon with crank and it always played a very strange song."
Eagle stared at her with a distinctly baffled expression. "The cannon...played music?" he said slowly, as though he'd misheard. "Why the hell'd it do that?"
Midna chuckled. "It was part of game thing. The cannon launched you up to another building where you could cuccos...you'd know them better as chickens, you could use cuccos to fly back down toward the lake. Other than that, I don't know why it played music."
The explanation did little to clarify anything for the Eagle, who stared at Midna a moment longer and then shrugged. "Ooookay. Sounds weird, but...whatever, I guess."
"Hyrulians were not known for being the most logical of people from what I observed."
"Yeah, don't sound like it. I seen some crazy shit before, but nothin' like that."
"There were some that were logical, but Link always had the unfornate habit of running into those who weren't."
"Link? That some buddy o' yours?"
Midna nodded and looked back towards the ocean, smiling fond smile that was barely different than her other smile. "He was the man who helped me defeat Zant, free Hyrule, and return to my own world."
"Mn." Eagle shrugged a bit. "The heroic type, huh?"
"I guess you could say that. He was destined to be the Hero of Time."
"Sounds like a pretty tall order."
"He eventually figured it out."
Eagle squinted a little, looking as close to contemplative as he could. "'f you're destined for somethin', wouldn'tcha already know how to do it, like, automatically instead of havin' to figure it out?"
"Apparently not, because he had to learn stuff that he didn't already know."
"Huh." Eagle shrugged. "Well, long's he got his shit together eventually, guess that's the important thing."
Midna nodded.
Eagle sighed and stretched, wincing as some of his more recent, not-entirely-healed injuries made themselves known with faint twinges of pain. "Well, 's been nice chattin' with ya, but I'm gonna head back." He jerked a thumb in the direction of the village and turned, waving lazily. "Check ya later. Enjoy your...vacation."
Midna chuckled. "It was nice talking to you as well."