Thirty-Third Reap → Accidental Voice/Action

[black_onslaught]

[Ragna and Noel have moved from their not-so-crowded apartment to an even-less-crowded house, to cover their tracks during all of the resulting backlash that the whole deal with Nu and Yuber might provide to them; given that Nu actually knows where they lived. And despite the fact that this is the second time he's had to move because of Nu, he's

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[Written] if this is okay?

[consultmybooks]

[...Giles knows that tone.

Giles has become all too familiar with that tone over the last month.

Under normal circumstances, he'd laugh to hear Rachel called anything like a pet name. But here, now...

He has to check. So he leaves a message for Ragna for the next time the man checks his journal.]

...has something happened to Rachel?

[Voice] It's all good! /o/

[black_onslaught]

[He'll definitely check his journal, but only after he let off some steam. And damn if he's not the type of guy to write, even when depressed pissed.]

Only the same crap that always ends up happening here.

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[consultmybooks]

[Giles would switch to voice, it's only polite, but...god, he's not sure how he'd sound right now.]

Kidnapping, or [pause - a longer pause than he'd really like, so the rest of the sentence is hasty] is she gone?

[Voice]

[black_onslaught]

Probably gone. [The filter broke and all that jazz, and that usually means the person's up and gone, right? Ragna hopes he's not overreacting, but that gut feeling is telling him that he's right.

There's a short pause after his answer.] You knew her?

[Action]

[paradoxwraith]

[My rest in the small comfort of the interwoven hammock of tree branches was interrupted by a loud, sudden shout. One smoldering eye opened partway, not even close to intrigued to investigate. After a brief pause hovered in the air, I closed my eyes once more. Perhaps it was just an animal, I assumed, like a dog yelping or a hawk swooping down to devour some form of vermin.

More shouts followed immediately after with the shattering of branches and violent rustling of leaves shook the tree beneath me. My claws dug into the bark, eyes now wide in surprise. Gazing down, I did indeed discover it was caused by an animal...a red-black specimen of a beast called man. My mood began to fall like a stone.]

[Action]

[black_onslaught]

[Ragna doesn't notice the being whose territory he had impeded on, instead just growling before planting his right fist straight into the trunk of the tree nearby. He doesn't flinch as he does it, despite the obvious pain he would endure from slamming his fist into it like that. Sorry about the noise. And tree-punching.]

Dammit...

[Action]

[paradoxwraith]

[Hmm, a rather masochistic dog, this one. His stubborn tolerance to pain aside, he was becoming a loud nuisance nonetheless. That was until the branch I was standing upon shuddered, giving away beneath my weight. There was little time to react and I leapt for the trunk of the tree, hoping to find purchase with my claws.]

[Action]

[black_onslaught]

[That's something Ragna simply can't ignore, and the noise and movement sends Ragna into a jump backwards while reaching for the hilt of his weapon. It's just habit to react like that to everything, especially if it was sudden.]

What the hell?

[Action]

[bullet_dance]

[how many threads has it been now. HOW MANY.

Well. Noel heard the fail!filter. Having this happen to her before in the past, she has a good idea as to what happened.

Rachel...

She's waiting for you to return, Ragna, outside the front porch.]

[Action]

[black_onslaught]

[SEVEN?

He gets home. Long after making the entry on his journal, maybe an hour or two, and comes home bearing a few days worth of groceries. He realized that he doesn't have to shop everyday because they now have the full fridge to themselves.

Catching sight of Noel on the porch is something he didn't expect. Was she worried, or did she... tch. It's probably the latter. He should have made more effort to keep his filter failure on the down-low, dammit. At least he got most of his anger out through venting, but his sinking feeling of sadness? Not so much.

He approaches.] Hey.

[Action]

[bullet_dance]

[Ragna with... groceries. Well, now she knows where he's been. But the look on his face tells no lies.

To be honest, Noel's not feeling too good about this, either.] ...I-I heard the message.

[Action]

[black_onslaught]

[Ragna just keeps walking, maybe even past Noel to walk inside.]

Then you don't need me to explain it. [Sorry if that came off coldly.]

[Action]

[threeswordsoul]

[Zoro was in town to check out whatever damage Luffy did in his fight with Nu -- or, really, mainly because he's restless with things on edge; waiting for the retaliation is just...irritating -- but most everything is repaired by now. 8|

So he's just been prowling around in vague hopes that Yuber will attack him as one of Luffy's crew or something, and since he's Zoro, said prowling has taken him all over the place...including this particular batch of forest. Where the air is zinging with furious fighting energy, the kind that draws restless Zoros like a moth to flame.

You're being watched, Ragna.]

[Action]

[black_onslaught]

[Normally, Ragna would notice right away that he had company. However, he was in such a shitty mood that he wasn't even paying any mind to his surrounding or any presences in the nearby vicinity. Of all the times the Malnosso decided to mess with people that Ragna cared about, this was just great timing. All this crap with trying to lay low from Nu, and then this.

With a mighty yell, Ragna just sends up a wave of Soul Eater from the ground and into the air using his right hand. That energy just happens to disperse once hitting its peak, and it leaves him just panting. He's been at this for awhile.] Goddammit.

[Action]

[threeswordsoul]

[Pissed off enough to be that distracted, huh. Zoro's eyes narrow, watching that final abortive move and curse with consideration. ...Hn. Not just pissed. The frustrated tension in the air resonates, familiar, and his fingers itch momentarily for a sword, but he doesn't move from where he's leaning against a nearby tree, arms crossed.]

...So you can fight.

[Given that he'd only seen Ragna more-or-less wrestling Luffy and then hanging out on the beach, he wasn't completely sure. 8|]

[Action]

[black_onslaught]

[Ragna would have definitely tried to kick Luffy ass if it weren't for the fact that Ragna kind of likes some of the other Straw Hats. |:

Ragna doesn't jump once Zoro speaks, but instead just stops his panting and stands up straight. He then turns his head to glance at the voice. One of Nami's crewmates, definitely.] Didn't think I could?

[action]

[cuttingedges]

[Ragna hasn't been the only one badly hit by the sudden wave of departures. Kriz here just lost his first love. He's been alternating between depressed and furious for days; it's in his depressed state that he hears something from the forest.]

[He vaguely remembers this guy... one of the ones he steamrolled during that one experiment. Looks like he's not taking something very well. In the interest of mutual stress relief and a fair rematch, Kriz will approach carefully.]

[action]

[black_onslaught]

[Ragna stops his yelling and attacking of the thin air for a moment, only to suddenly punch the trunk of a tree with his fist. He's too concentrated on venting his anger out to even notice that he has company, let alone company that he wouldn't mind decking in the face right about now. No offense.

Even while Krizalid approaches, Ragna just keeps his attention focused on the tree he just punched, his fist just staying in its position against it.]

[action]

[cuttingedges]

[...Kriz taps Ragna on the shoulder, ready to take some sort of attack.]

Pardon me.

[action]

[black_onslaught]

[Ragna doesn't make anymore of a move than just turning his head slightly. He recognizes the voice, but it's much more calm than the last time he heard it.]

What?