Coming In Out of the Cold

[f_steak]

The blizzard had struck without warning. If there HAD been a warning, Chie hadn't seen it. The cabin didn't get TV reception all the way out in the mountains. Despite the heavy parka and thick mittens, her teeth were chattering, and her whole body shivered violently as she crunched across the deep white fields. Ducking her head against a swirl

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[usedceo]

Seto had been told to go and seclude himself from work for awhile due to another mishap with his health. So here he was, bored as hell, in a god forsaken cabin on top of a lifeless mountain.

Honestly once this blizzard decided to quit he was heading straight home, this really wasn't worth the effort. He sat on the couch, staring into the fire place, listening to the wood crackle and burn. There was no real power up here, not that he watched TV or anything.

The least Isono could have done was allow him a battery powered boombox for music or something.

[f_steak]

It was as if the gods of entertainment had heard his woes and granted him one of the least boring people in the world to show up on his doorstep. Chie tromped heavily on the front porch, clutching her arms and shivering while getting as much snow and mud off of her boots as possible. Without bothering to knock (it was HER solitary cabin in the wilderness, why would she?), she barged right in, expressing her disapproval of the cold with an overexaggerated "BRRRRRRRR!!!"

...Oh man, that fire felt good. She could feel the warm air washing over her chilled face, and it was amazing. Even more amazing was the fact that the fire was still going, since she was pretty sure it would have died out...by...now

[usedceo]

Seto had been surprised when he felt the cold air rush in, the door swinging open. He thought he locked that...regardless he looked over his shoulder at the young woman who had just stepped in his eyes trying to read just after staring into the fire like that for however long he had been.

Seto frowned when he realized she was just some lost kid from out in the snow, that storm could very well kill her so when she asked to use the fire he shrugged.

"Fine. But only until the storm stops." At least he wouldn't be bored so long as she was here, given she wasn't an annoying over the top wacko like Yuugi and his friends.

[f_steak]

"Thanks! You're a lifesaver." Probably literally at that.

Though Chie was reluctant to shed a single layer, she was pretty wet, and she didn't want to bring in too much slush. So she toed off her boots, then unzipped her coat and hung it up. It probably wouldn't have been so bad if she hadn't worked up a sweat prior, and when her body temperature melted the snow that got too close to her skin, the problem just got worse.

She huddled gratefully next to the fire, as close as she dared, and held out her cold, numbed hands to absorb the heat. "I'm Chie. It's a lucky thing you're here! Did you come out for wilderness training too?"

[doomed_by_canon]

(OOC: Two months later, a new challenger appears! I hope you're still interested in this, because I sure was when I came across it. :x)So there Shinji was, staring at the Dark Hour sky with the eyes of a man who'd already accepted his fate. The decision had been rash, but he knew that the kid didn't deserve to die so early. Neither did he, but life's unfair like that. In any case, he had been ready to die from the get-go, and when its cold embrace finally overtook his senses, he relaxed, knowing that Akihiko and the others would be able to carry on and defeat the Shadows even without him

[f_steak]

(OOC: Absolutely! :D)There was only one way to find out

[doomed_by_canon]

Sometime between that hour or two, Shinji had become quite comfortable in front of the fire, going so far as to make himself a cup of hot cocoa. As he held the Trial of the Dragon mug in his hands, he put some thought into his current predicament.

~I'm alive, but somehow I've ended up on in a log cabin on a mountain... There's no TV or radio, and all I have with me are some suppressants and my Evoker. Hell, for all I know, I could be somewhere far away from home...~Distressing thoughts, for sure, and Shinji would have mulled it over some more if he hadn't run out of cocoa. While he wanted to get up and have another drink, the heat from the fire was finally warming him up, and fatigue he had not yet realized he had was setting upon him. With a yawn, the teen set the mug down in front of him and slumped over, letting sleep whisk him away

[f_steak]

"Well I can see th-that," Chie grumbled, peering at the stranger. Shinjiro. So he was Japanese, then. Or at least, she assumed he was.

For a long time she did nothing more than stare at him, gauging his threat level. He wasn't pulling a weapon, so that was good. He also wasn't making any lewd remarks, or staring at inappropriate places (though considering she was a big ball of coat and winter equipment, what was there really to see?!), and most importantly of all...she wanted to bask in front of that fireplace, and in the end, it won over her suspicions.

She plopped down again, still regarding him oddly. "You can stay, as long as you're not up to anything weird. I'm a kung fu master." And she could Galactic Punt giant robots.

...

The oddness of her own statement suddenly struck her as funny, and the corners of her mouth twitched. 'I'm alive.' 'I'm a kung fu master.'

"We both kind of suck at introductions, don't we?" she grinned. "I'm Chie."

(OOC: Pshaw! Now you can DEFINITELY stay! XD)