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Post by Nal on Jul 14, 2021 5:33:23 GMT -8
The infernally hot mountain was once literally on fire. These days, it's full of various tools that help capture the heat and use it in the foundries and facilities of Ox-Corp. One such kind of tool is an inverted dome, looking like the mountain's namesake - a giant frying pan, radiating heat so powerful it was visibly distorting the air. One of those pans caught the eye of a guest to these parts.
Nal has been flying at her usual, ludicrous speed for quite a while. Once awakened from her second sudden nap, the majin had to sense the people she considered friends, to check how they were doing. And without a fault, all of them became far more powerful than before the nap had happened, almost all of them stronger than she has currently been. Zam especially - and despite what the blue man Bass said about her nature, she still was something of a role model for the gray majin, except not in a literal way - but she certainly was a goal. Nal wanted to prove to herself that she wasn't any less of a majin than others - another thing she owed to the blue namekian and his impromptu pep talk, this was something she resigned to never reach before. But now, after this, after the situation with the demon and learning that people were hurt while she slept, the girl decided to try and tap into her nature, but - rather than give in to it like Zam, she would try to control it. To be herself, to tap into the fury, but not mindlessly - her mystical powers could come in handy here, with how calm and collected they were. This power hated violence and she wanted to show it that her majin nature doesn't have to be just that - blind, mindless and devastating. Just one of these things at a time, hopefully the last one. And like that, she also held hope to tame this power of hers, to make it work with her, rather than despite her. Two birds roasted on one campfire.
With that in mind, the majin had to find a decent place for her training. And since the nature of a majin... well, nature has always been fiery, what better place than a mountain that is constantly burning on the inside? Plus, training in this ridiculous heat would help her become stronger just in general, so it was certainly a good place to start. Focused entirely on the plan at hand, Nal spotted one of these faux-pans at the thermal vent of the mountain, for the first time since learning how to fly - she stopped right above it ,exactly where she wanted. Grinning proudly, until the shockwave of her passage caught up, carrying with it hot air and a cloud of dust, engulfing the gray lass and her immediate surroundings, churning in the area before dissipating for the most part, the dust particles floating away in all directions, the cloud thinning and revealing Nal, coughing and rubbing her eyes to get rid of the grains that fell into them. Right... looks like she still had a lot to learn about flying and stopping. But, progress was progress, so after coughing out all of the sand, she grinned again.
"Right! Time to start." - she said, then did just that - beginning the training with a little warm up. A few kicks and punches in the air, slow at first, but then increasingly faster, stronger, from downright gentle swings up to leaving tiny shockwaves of their own as the power used increased. The majin decided to suppress her power at first, releasing tiny bits of it with each punch and kick, until her full power was brought to bear with each push, each swing, each kick and each headbutt that she used against the imaginary enemies in the air. She wouldn't mind an actual sparring partner, but expecting someone to show up in this mountain, especially above a basin emitting this ridiculous heat, was beyond even Nal's hopes, somewhat naïve as she was. But... who knew. She felt the heat, she was sweating like crazy, unaware that majins even could sweat like that before she decided to come to this place, but this was good. Extreme conditions made strong warriors, right?
But fighting wasn't the only thing she came there to do. So after several sessions of punching and kicking, she flew low, right over the awfully hot surface of the heat basin. There, in the air, Majin Nal crossed her legs, clapped her arms before herself, then - closed eyes, expanding other senses, especially the sixth, mystical one. She was going to find the source of fire within herself - and tame it. To this end, she focused, breathing in deeply, then out slowly. The training has begun.
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Post by Majin Zam on Jul 14, 2021 6:45:53 GMT -8
As the gray Majin sank into the serene sea of self-study, her sharpened senses could pick up something familiar. A distant voice quietly called her name. Nal... Naaal... Just a whisper at the edge of her consciousness. However, each call was slightly louder than the last. Naaal...! Wait, no, not only louder. It was... rapidly getting closer? NalNalNalNalNalNal...! And it sounded a whole lot like... “NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLL~~~~!!!”Boom. The entire mountain shook from the force of a sudden impact. It was like a small meteorite had struck. ...Okay, well, maybe that was all just exaggeration and imagination. But a small, pink and very Majin-shaped missile did zoom into the scene at dangerous speeds. If the meditating Majin didn’t get out of the way, she would find herself tackled and hugged with the pent up fury of a thousand nights spent missing a friend. The assailant wanted to spend a long time squeezing and rubbing her cheek against her best buddy. It got pretty lonely out there in the world. To answer some of the burning questions, it was necessary to roll back the clock about... five minutes. Zam had just woken up from a great nap. She had that nice dream again... Where she turned the whole world into pretty fireworks... While munching fruits for breakfast and pondering what to do today, she had caught a familiar tingle. At first, she nearly hadn’t recognized it... But when the lightbulb finally lit up in that messy mind, she had almost burst from sheer joy. A friend had returned~! In her haste, she had collected all the fruits she had carried and zoomed off to meet her! Back in the present, the excited Majin finally backed off and gave her friend some room to breathe. “Hi Nal~! Zam miss friend so so much!!!” Even her language skills had taken a hit from the overflowing excitement. She extended her hands, offering... uh... a snack. “Zam bring yummy breakfast!” All those fruits she had been carrying were now jam. Apple, orange, persimmon... It all had blended together into sweet mush. Buuut it was still fresh and technically edible. Kind of. Finally the overflowing energy began to subside, somewhat. The chaotic creature glanced around curiously. Her speech was becoming slightly more coherent too. “Sooo, whatcha doing here? Is pretty warm.” Sure. Pretty warm. Then again, she was the type to go around in snow with her usual, light attire. Some might say her weird physiology made her highly resistant to extreme temperatures. Others could claim that she was simply too dumb to understand how temperatures worked... Which was mean, but not inaccurate. Words: 436 | 436 Natural PL at start: 46,011 Tags: Nal
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Post by CloudTF458 on Jul 14, 2021 17:09:14 GMT -8
Alaka had absolutely no idea what she was doing in these parts. One moment she was wandering around the northern parts of the world, exploring the wilderness that she usually hung out at with Grenn. And now? Now she was somehow all the way south from where she was a month prior. Truthfully, she did want to explore the world at any cost. And well, it did come at a hefty cost. The plane here was expensive! At least the view was cool, she liked the view! Maybe with enough training she could learn how to fly like some of the people that she's seen. Not to mention, the candies at the plane were just...MMM! Tasty! Honestly Alaka wouldn't mind going on more plane trips just to taste some more of those delicious treats unique to the airline she took. BUT ANYWAY! That was for later, but now? Now she had made her way towards a certain location in the southern lands. Mount Frying Pan, as it's called. She knew this place from stories that her father used to tell her. Her old man was a traveling monk in his time, and whenever she couldn't sleep, he usually sat her down and told of his various travels around the world. One of those locations was this mountain. Yet as she arrived here she couldn't help but notice how different it looked. It wasn't the same fiery hellscape that her old man told her about. It was more like...A resort? Training location? Uh, something like that. She didn't know exactly why it all looked so industrialized. But well, she could see some people here as she took a vehicle she borrowed from someone on the way to get to the...fying pan that was the place. Huh. Weird. But not the weirdest thing she's seen thus far. "One...two..." Alaka hummed to herself as she put her flying car on a stop in mid air, overlooking the location that she had traveled to. She could see two figures, both looking awfully familiar to herslef. Kind of, different skin colors but she could feel their Ki, she knew they were similar to her. "I thought I was the only one..." She didn't know what majins were, but she was VERY curious right now. And so, she drove her car, slowly approaching the flying creatures with her stolen vehicle.
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Post by Nal on Jul 16, 2021 7:40:50 GMT -8
Nal sat in silence, listening to her inner voice whispering. Her name... in a strangely familiar voice tone. And then again, and again, and... it was coming from another area, actually. Opening one eye, Nal took a peek in that direction, her longest tendril tilting that way to sense the incoming energy. The voice was echoing from there and hey, that power reading was familiar too! It sounded and felt almost like-
BOOM.
Nal was tackled into the mountainside by the air-to-surface majin, grinning widely as she were. Zam was here! And she came with gifts! Nal hugged right back, the more or less fluid forms probably contorting strangely in these otherwise bone shattering hugs, luckily, neither of them had any to begin with. "ZAM!" - she cried out joyfully, grinning ear to ear, keeping the tight hug and looking at her friend up close. "It's been a whole lot of time since I saw you last! It feels like almost a week!" - though it was, in fact, longer than a year. This majin was atrocious at telling time. - "You've gotten so much stronger and I came here to train and maybe be as strong as you, and ooh, that looks tasty!" - the gray girl NOMF-ed at Zam's hand, taking the entire thing into her mouth and withdrawing it suddenly, the palm left mercifully intact, though most of the fruit-jam was now gone, swallowed by the hungry, hungry majin. Luckily, there was nobody around within earshot or sight range to get weirded out by it - or to suffer the torment of two majins talking at the same time and somehow making that a workable conversation between one another.
With that said... the gray lass turned her tendril towards the roadside, sensing, her drifting attention lost between that and talking with Zam.
"And yes it's warm here, because we, that is majins, are strong and have tempers like fire, but mine is weird and weak and I want to wake the fire, so I thought being in a really, really hot place would help me with that, right? Training here and meditating on my green power, because it's more for healing and doesn't like being used for fighting, but I know I can make it do what I need it to do, I just need to practice better and... wait... that feels oddly..."
The majin's head tilted, she turned to where a car was puffing over. That energy... it was... similar. Not like Zam's, not like her own, but also very like both of them at the same time. "I think... there's someone else there. Come say hi with me!" Nal said, then wiggled out of the majin hug - mostly thanks to being very rubbery and fluid shaped, then immediately raced off from the crater in the wall, noting a chip in the basin she was floating over. Someone will have to fix it later, but for now, she landed right before the -other- other majin, causing cracks in the road as she did. Still, it was progress - some cracks are better than a crater she usually left.
"Hi! I'm Nal. Who are you? You smell like majin. Are you a majin? Do you want tasty fruit jelly? Zam has some and can bring it here! Probably will soon, she's already here."
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Post by Majin Zam on Jul 16, 2021 23:23:05 GMT -8
It was very fortunate that neither of the squishy creatures had anything important to break, because Zam’s longing was... crushing. She squeezed with all her might, as if afraid to let go. Well, maybe she was... For most bystanders, the rapid-fire conversation might have sounded like nonsensical babbling. “Yeah! Almost two weeks! Super long time!” Like a recording played at high-speed. However, for the bubbly girls, it all made perfect sense. Majins worked in weird ways. The pink girl nodded excitedly and flexed her biceps, when her friend mentioned getting stronger. “Yup yup! Zam nap lots and eat lots~!” Her approach to... uh... training was more in line with traditional Majin methods. Unlike her calmer and more methodical friend, she had never trained in any real manner. It was all fun and games with her. “Zam also learn to fly! Just like you!” Stranger yet, it was highly effective. Somehow, she had gained a whole arsenal of new tricks since their last encounter, flight being one of them. Majin see, Majin do. Zam nodded excitedly along with Nal’s explanation. ...Until the friend called herself weird and weak. Immediately, the powerhouse protested! “Nuh uh! Nal is cool and tough! Like... like... a mountain!” Too bad she didn’t know what a glacier was, because she would’ve definitely called her friend that. Sure, Nal was way different from her and not as strong, but... That didn’t matter! Nobody was as strong as Zam anyway. Nobody! So it was okay. She did ponder what this... me... mee... medithingy meant though... Suddenly, the chaotic creature snapped out of her pondering. A new tingle made her pale horns wiggle. It felt familiar! Kinda. But also new? Very mysterious! With an excited giggle, she zoomed after her friend to greet the newcomer. She flew past them, made a couple of loops and zipped right back. “Hoooooi~!” Of course, she was still riding the wave of excitement. Meeting an old friend and a new friend! Today was a great day~! While Nal socialized with the stranger, Zam tried to, too, in her own way. “Hi! I’m Zam! Zam is a Majin, is what Zam is!” She offered a messy handful of fruit mush. ...To the car. “Uhhh... Do you have hands...?” She looked at the headlights and the hood, very puzzled. Her friends had told her that there were metal people called Andy-boys, but she had always imagined them looking more like... people. Words: 404 | 840 Natural PL at start: 46,011 Tags: Nal CloudTF458
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Post by CloudTF458 on Jul 21, 2021 4:52:29 GMT -8
Alaka couldn't help but somewhat listen in on their conversation while she slowly drove towards their place in the fiery mountain. They spoke so quickly, it was very hard to follow. Sure, she may be a majin herself, but she was raised by a human and around them, so she didn't really know how most of her race were supposed to act. Really, only reason she knew she wasn't like the more common species that inhabit the world was because of her unique properties. And her love for candies. She really loved candies.
Still, she was pretty curious about those two. And how they flew! They were flying! It wasn't too surprising for Alaka since she's been in a plane not too long ago, but still! It would be really useful to fly like that, especially in this area...She only came here to sightsee, buuuuuut if she could learn to fly like that...She could actually train here! She wasn't even sweating much! Maybe it was just hot on the inner parts but not on the surface? She'd have to try that out soon; take a step out of her permanently borrowed vehicle to check just how hot the ground is.
But before she could park her car and get out, THUD! The dimly pink majin nearly jumped right out of the car as the fellow bubblegum-kin landed right near her, leaving some cracks on the ground! "Whoa!" She yelped and focused on who it was, one of the two majins that seemed to be meditating when she arrived! Alaka was prepared to be told to get out or something like that, when instead she was greeted ever so nicely!
"Oh! Hi! I'm Alaka." She responded to the quick-speaking of the fellow majin. It was...going to be hard to get used to how fast they were speaking, and acting, and just being in general. "Uuhh, I, uh, yes I'd love sweets!" She yipped out, somewhat overwhelmed by the sudden arrival of a SECOND majin! Zam! Alaka turned to face her, figuring this must be the "Zam" the first one told her about...Only to just stare dumbfounded at how she was trying to give candies to the car. Huh. Was she not familiar with vehicles? Sure, Alaka barely knew how to use the thing, but she knew what it was.
"Yes, I have hands over here, Zam!" Alaka responded as she lifted her hands in the air, clearly not being TOO smart when compared to these two. She wiggled her fingers a little before lowering them again and then putting them forward. "Here, place the fruit here!" She said, her eyes beckoning to her hands. Cute(?)
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Post by Nal on Jul 21, 2021 22:35:41 GMT -8
Nal grinned, her new friends seemed... odd. She dressed like humans did, and rode in this car thing... it reminded her of Kiryu. He also had a vehicle, one Nal considered getting, but... it seemed pointless. Why bother when she can just fly? And flying was amazing enough as it was.
But those were thoughts for later. Now, there was this one to look at and chat with! And so, the gray majin began inspecting her. Pink like Zam... no horns though, but she was a little taller than Nal and Zam has been (the latter being minimally taller of the two, though Nal blamed the horns for that) - but they seemed... stronger than the stranger here. Alaka must've been new to this whole martial artist thing! That was how Bass called it, right?
"Yeah, Zam! Fruit goes here" she said, pointing at the other majin with a sagely nod. There were so many things about that one Nal felt the urge to... correct. Probably because of her nature as a mystic, which she only now started accepting as a part of something that is truly hers, rather than just the pollution from the green nap-cocoon she spent time in. In her head, she thought that maybe... just maybe... she could teach Zam how to be a better Majin without destroying things all the time. But, that was a long term goal. Short term was to be a better majin herself! And maybe this newcomer could use some of that help too.
"So who are you and why are you here? I came here to meditate and be better at being a Majin, and there is a good place" - she rambled off, pointing behind at the chipped heat basin, which was just absurdly hot, enough for a regular person to be utterly unable to stand that heat. For a person of her power, though, it was tolerable. Zam probably barely even felt it. "But then Zam came and now you are here, so maybe we can -all- work at being better majins. Yeah?" - the idea made Nal grin. This was the best excuse to try and teach them some things! If she was even any good at teaching, that is. Nal wasn't sure about that - her frantic mind definitely made it difficult to explain her way of thinking to other people, but, again, those were her people. It could work!
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Post by Majin Zam on Jul 22, 2021 7:25:02 GMT -8
Much to Zam’s shock and surprise, it turned out her new friend was no Andy-boy -or Android for that matter- but another Majin! A delighted gasp escaped her lips. “Ah~ You’re like us~!” It was a little overwhelming for the small creature. She had spent a lot of time searching for others like her... Especially after Nal had gone missing... Many sleepless nights had been spent zooming across the starry skies. Equally numerous naps had been spent dreaming of other Majins. Most importantly though, this meant they were immediately friends. Because that’s clearly how it worked. Without wasting a moment, the energetic girl zipped over to her new friend. “Nice to meetcha, Alaka!” She slapped a generous amount of sticky fruit goop onto the other girl’s hands. Yep, this had once been a whole bunch of apples. Probably. “Here you go!” The... uh... healthy snack was served with a big smile. She was happy to share her favorite treats with her friends. They were a rare exception for the territorial and frankly violent little creature. Other demons didn’t dare dream of stealing fruits from her secret grove. While the friend did as she pleased with the gift, the curious girl circled around her excitedly. Where Nal actually used her words to probe for information, Zam instead relied on her senses and instincts. Her pale horns wiggled, taking in what eyes couldn’t see. Hm hm... Small. Way smaller than Nal or her. After several rounds of orbiting, she flashed a cheeky grin. “Nyeh hee~ Your fashun is funny.” ...Like she had any room to talk, with her black tube top and puffy white pants. One of them looked like she had popped out of a magic lamp and it wasn’t either of the more eloquent girls. The suggestion to get better at being Majins was met with immediate and overwhelming enthusiasm. “Ooh, good plan, great plan~!” Zam nodded eagerly, unable to sit still. Just the other day, she had taught another new friend the secrets of being a demon and fashun. Now she could do the same here~! They did need lots of help too, in her opinion. Nal needed to learn how to destroy stuff better. And Alaka definitely needed a lesson in Majin fashun. But no fear, Teacher Zam was here! Just like in her favorite TV show, Mister Satan's Neighborhood, she would show them how things were done! Words: 400 | 1240 Natural PL at start: 46,011 Tags: Nal CloudTF458
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Post by CloudTF458 on Jul 22, 2021 9:30:35 GMT -8
Alaka couldn't really help but be super curious about all this. These girls looked veeeery much like Alaka did, and...She could FEEL their presence, their power. It was clear that these two were both stronger than her, as well as the same kind of species, even if they had obvious differences. Her eyes trailed from one ot the other, scanning their features. The left one, the one with the better vocabulary was just like her, albeit gray. And also a bit shorter; actually, both were shorter than Alaka. Huh, must be the result of all that milk she drank as a kid! Haha!
She visibly grinned at her silly thought, so much so that she was caught by surprise as the pink, more energetic one of the two shoved somekind goop into her hands! That's what she was wanting to do!? Alaka just stared at the...snack, that was on her hands. Was she supposed to eat it? She was unsure. Her old man always told her to never accept things from strangers...But he never said anything about people similar to her species that were kiiinda strangers? Like, she could tell that the gray lady was way smarter than this pink one with horns, but she didn't seem all too bad. Neither of them actually did.
And so after she was given the puddin of fruit, she looked at them for a moment and lowered her hands, keeping it there just as to not just...you know, toss that away. This didn't even look THAT tasty, it was just mashed fruit. Very good smelling mashed fruit, actually. Slowly, Alaka brought it to her face, curious as to what it tasted like. She opened her mouth to give it a lick...And froze up. This...
"This is VERY good!" She chirped out! What the hell!? She just assumed this was some roadside smash that the fellow pinkie had picked up not this GOURMET of a meal! Before she knew it, the dressed majin had chomped down on the fruity goo she was given and was left WANTING more! "W-What was that you gave me?!" It was clear that despite the fellow pinkie not looking very focused, she had some good meals!
Still before she could receive an answer, some questions came her way. The surprised majin with a faceful of food finished cleaning herself up before answering. "Oh, Right, Right!" She had forgotten for a moment everything she's learnt about etiquette from her village. And so she took a moment to look away and clean the leftovers off of her fingers before turning back to Nal and offering a hand out to her. "I'm Alaka from Jingle Village up north. I, uh, came here to train." She explained, finding it a bit hard to find words to speak out when both Nal and Zam were speaking so much, so quickly.
Wether she got her hand shook or not, she pulled it back nad took a look to the side at Zam's loud comment. "Huh? 'Fashun'? OH! You must mean my attire." She looked down at her own clothes. Was she out of place? She was sure she was wearing something appropiate, what with her wearing a martial arts uniform that was common to people like her: A sleeveless blue gi top with yellow, baggy gi pants tied together around the waist with a black belt; a pair of blue fighting gloves on her fists and boots on her feet with black cuffs. What was so weird about this outfit?
Then it hit her, Zam was wearing...well, an attire that seemed to be out of a movie. A lamp...a movie lamp...OH GOD SHE HAD PUT IT TOGETHER! "I-I FOUND YOU, GENIE OF THE LAMP!" Oh dear god she believed that Zam was a lamp genie. "You grant wishes to people, don't you!?" Yeah...despite how 'civil' she acted and looked, she was not much smarter than the fellow majins in the area.
For a moment she was thrown off by what Nal had spoken, again going with 'Majin'. "Uhhh, I wouldn't mind actually! I'd love to learn about whatever this 'Majin' thing is. Is it the name of the genie over there?" She asked, her hand moving to point right to Zam. Then she looked at her, back to Nal, and leant over with a 'psst' to whisper to her "She's still got wishes left to give, right?!"
Oh boy.
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Post by Nal on Jul 23, 2021 1:35:19 GMT -8
The gray one nodded, grinning to herself. She wanted to train too! And even Zam thought this was the best idea! Perfect. Professor Nal was in the house and she would teach these two how to be more like her! But... the new friend, Alaka, said some weird stuff. "What's a genie? Is it a weird word for Majin? It sounds a bit similar... but I'm not sure if we give people wishes. I never did, at least!" The girl nodded sagely, kinda contradictory to what she was trying to make a point out of, but... majins weren't known from making sense to begin with. "Anyway! Right. I know we majins are like... some think we are demons, but I know we are summoned from somewhere else and we have tempers like fire and a lot of power. Like Zam!" the gray girl turned to her pink friend, grinning at her. "She can hit hard and her ki thingies hurt a lot." Nal shuddered, still remembering the last time a Bright Buster struck her. She frowned, turning to eye the two, to make sure they were actually listening, but kept talking anyway. "We like candies and they make us happy, and all tasty things do too. And we're really tough! I am very tough, if you just punch me I probably won't feel it at all, or at least not much." Nal nodded, then frowned. Words were hard... what else was important for majins? That was probably all, but... there were other things. Zam had her busters, Nal had her green energy and Alaka... well she felt a whole lot different, the gray one didn't know much about her yet. Perhaps that needed clarifications... "But we are other things than just majins! I am a special majin in that I have some weird green power that can heal people and do a lot more stuff just by thinking about it... I think a lot, too much sometimes, and get distracted and hurt because of it. But I also want to be a Hero! That means I help people... and they sometimes give me nice things and are happy to see me. I think it's better than just taking away stuff, because they later give you more stuff if they like you, and if you take too much, they have nothing to give later."Saying that, Nal plopped down on the ground, grinning, totally ignoring the fact she sat down in the middle of the road. Having little idea of what cars were, or that roads were meant for them rather than the conclave of majins learning how to be better at being themselves, each believing something entirely different about the nature of their meeting. If someone -was- riding by, they'd probably be extremely confused. "I want you to talk about yourselves a little too! Zam first, then Alaka, tell us who you are and who you want to be! Okay? And then we can practice and get better at majinism!"[500|2250] Majin ZamCloudTF458
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Post by Majin Zam on Jul 23, 2021 6:28:52 GMT -8
The pink powerhouse smiled broadly when her new friend praised the tasty snack. “Nyeh heh hee~! I know, right~?” This stuff was reserved only for the most special of occasions. Regular demons weren’t allowed to have any. The little glutton didn’t like to share... Puffing her bouncy chest proudly, she offered the friends her wisdom. “It’s called... apples!” The obvious was declared with bombastic confidence. Folding her arms, she nodded in a sagely manner. “They are round, sweet fruits that come in red, yellow and green, yup yup.” She felt super smart for knowing that. And now her friends knew too! Upon being called a genie, the chaotic creature blinked. Once. Twice. Soon the puzzlement turned back to excitement. “Ooh, you call me that too! Yup yup, Zam’s totally a genie!” ...What? No, she wasn’t. She was just- “My demon friends call me a genie too! And ask for wishes.” -And here we go. The misunderstanding took root like a stubborn weed. Nal would have her hands full with pulling this one out, if she even bothered to try. Well... Maybe she should... Enthralled by Nal’s explanation, Zam nodded along excitedly. She agreed with every point so far. Demons? Yup! A lot of power? Yus! Candies make happiness? Totally! Everything checked out in her mind. The hero stuff sounded a little strange, buuut she approved of her friend’s dream nonetheless. Following the example, she plopped down as well and crossed her legs. ...Sitting still, on the other hand, proved a much bigger challenge. Even while listening, she wiggled back and forth excitedly. When the powerhouse was given a turn to talk, she leapt at the chance. Literally. Bouncing up, she raised her fists to the sky. “Okay~!” Floating in the air, she flailed eagerly. “So! I’m Zam! ...But you know that. And Zam is a Majin, is what Zam is! But you know that too.” Unlike the two more eloquent Majins, she struggled greatly with putting her thoughts into words. “I wanna have fun! And snacks! And and... Maybe some head pats...?” The last thought was muttered rather quietly. It was a secret. But it was okay if her friends heard. As for what the pink tomboy wanted to be, well... “I wanna be a cool, strong adult like Mister Satan and Miss T! And I wanna beat up all the meanies who bully my friends!” When worded like that, her goals sounded innocent enough. Pretty normal even. “And and I wanna make my friends happy! Like... uh... like... I dunno how to say it... Hm hm...” However, then she said something that should’ve set off alarms in the gray girl’s head. She asked an ominous and very familiar question. “Oh, I got it! Hey... Wanna see something COOL?”The chaotic creature floated closer to Alaka. Her cheery smile sharpened to a wicked crescent. “You wanna make a wish, right? So, what do you wanna destroy?” The grim question clashed badly with her bright tone. It only got worse as she actually bothered to elaborate. “When my friends make wishes, they always want me to destroy stuff. Blast this, blow up that... It’s fun~!” She leaned closer... Closer... Way too close. Her golden eyes gleamed with peculiar madness. “So go ahead~ Make a wish~ And I’ll make stuff go BOOM.” This was her Majin way. Words: 555 | 1795 Natural PL at start: 46,011 Tags: Nal CloudTF458
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Post by CloudTF458 on Jul 23, 2021 7:22:03 GMT -8
"OOH! I didn't know apples could be cooked like that!" Alaka smiled widely at the sudden reveal of the trick behind the magic, clearly planing to buy a ton of apples and try out Zam's patented Smash-them-together technique. Oh yeah, that would be a wonderful meal to be sure.
"A genie is a magical creature that grants wishes to those that rub their lamp!" Alaka blurted out to the two new friends of hers, clearly not any smarter than either of them were. "Zam there looks like a genie, maybe she can grant a ton of wishes!" Yeah Alaka already wanted to be granted a LOT more of that sweet sweet tasty meal that she was given. Only for her dreams to be absolutely destroyed once Nal mentioned that she, and by extention possibly Zam, didn't grant wishes.
"W-Whuwha?!" Alaka nearly jumped right out of the car she was in once she got an answer, barely catching herself before she could hit the lava hot ground below. Even as Nal began to explain who they were, Alaka found it hard to focus on it while having her dreams just stomped, kicked, and battered like a stray dog in the middle of a busy work day. Still it didn't take long for her to start finding an interest in Nal's words as she continued to explain, beginning to relate those explanations to her quirks to various events in the past.
"Oooh...That explains a lot actually. Dad could never actually hurt me when we sparred. It was weird, but he just told me that I was like that" She said, already thinking back to when she used to train muay thai with her old man a couple of years ago. Fun times! "And candies. I love candies, dad always feeds me one each day. Uhm, well used to." She wasn't at Jingle Village anymore. Still, she was pretty curious when Nal mentioned each being special in their own way. They were? Huh...
Alaka listened to Nal's special quirk with a smile and a few nods. "Heeey, that sounds really fun! Being able to heal people sounds like a great ability! And be a hero? That's cool too!" Granted Alaka didn't really dig the 'hero' idea too much, she just wanted to explore the world. Still when the 'take stuff' was brought up she tilted her head. "Huh? So you mean the guy I took this car from will give me trouble?" She...didn't seem to know too well the whole idea of stealing and crime. Still, now Alaka had a somewhat clearer idea of what her species was. She stood on her open-roof car and leant her arms and upper body against the steering wheel, completely ignoring any and every rule of road safety while doing so. Uh, of course the car was in full stop...but it's not like any kind of bump would just send it across the road onto whatever other vehicle was in the way.
After Nal finished her explanation, Alaka turned to the side to listen to what Zam had to say. She somewhat remembered her bubbly attitude and so when she spoke up again, she listened. "Uh, yeah I know that!" Alaka responded, a bit too slow to catch on to Zam lacking that critical thinking ability that Nal had. Actually, it took her a while to notice the difference. When she did though, she giggled. Not at teh head pats part but at the idea of Nal being smarter than Zam. As her giggling finished she turned to look at Zam as she spoke about what she wanted to be. A cool adult like..Miss T? "Who's Miss T? Is she a fighter?" She didn't know either name but they sounded menacing.
When Zam began to fade off her words as she thought, Alaka figured it was her turn to speak. "Well, I--" Interrupted by the question. She found it...weird, but thrilling! "Oh yeah, sure!" Alaka moved her upper body to face Zam's direction as she got close, wondering what sort of thing she wanted to show her. "Is it some more food? I like food!"
It wasn't food
"...Huh? But don't us Majin not grant wishes?" Alaka was confused for a moment, Nal said one thing and Zam said another, leaving her poor little head doing spins over and over. "Uuuuhh..." Blow up something? Destroy? Just what--
Oh.
"Uhhh...I'm not sure. Maybe?" She couldn't help but lean back as Zam got closer, beginning to feel pretty creeped out by the sudden change of attitude to the poitn she nearly fell out of the car with how much she backed up. "I-I think I'll pass..." Oh boy.
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Post by Nal on Jul 30, 2021 22:19:25 GMT -8
Nal grinned, watching the two, happy that they were getting along. Well, sort of. The new majin seemed a little intimidated by Zam, but then again, who wasn't? Even Nal was and by quite a bit at that, but she deemed it a job of honour to steer the pink menace's destructive tendencies for something actually useful, productive and good. Like mining, the way she did with the giant she still wanted to see Zam fight one day, or lifting broken building pieces, or breaking doors to bad places where people were imprisoned, or maybe...
The majin jolted, straightening up, her eyes going wide and lips curling, forming a little "o" shape, before spreading into a wide grin. One could almost perceptibly see the lightbulb appearing over her head, and hear the wheels turning in that gray head of hers.
"I have an IDEA!" - she exclaimed, wide eyed and joyfully grinning. This was going to be AMAZING and she knew... or rather hoped, the other two would like the idea just as much as Nal did. Because it was awesome and to not keep the two pink gals waiting, the gray one began to prattle and talk.
"See when I woke up from my weird nap in the desert I found a bag full of weird things, wrapped in ribbons and all, and I had dreams of winter when it happened so I think I got a gift! But in it was a lot of good stuff including one small house that I know is magic because I can read, and I read on a little label on it that it is actually a City! Just small, and I can, or rather WE can since we're all majins and majins are awesome, turn it into a real city! For majins! We can give it a cool name... like... I don't know, make a cool word up or something, maybe use all our names to make a special magic word, like... Zamalakanal or... Nalakazam or something. I like that second one, but that's for later, or we can just give it another name entirely but that's for later too. We can make it awesome, and make it have whatever we want! Like... we can have a candy factory to make all the candies we want! And a training place to practice in, be stronger and stuff! And rooms to live in and for more friends to visit us! And something for me that I think would be awesome, a majin hospital place where I discover all sort of cool things to do! I can heal people by punching them, you know? Maybe I can find more awesome ways for that"
Finally, she stopped and took a deep, DEEP breath. This word avalanche was certainly deserving of a pause in speech, though not long enough for either of the two to say a word yet. "So what do you think? I'd want you two to come along and live in the majintown because you're both majins and I like you, and we could then leave whenever we want to do cool adventure things together or separately, it's okay. Oh! And I also have a special cake. I smell the cake and I feel it is really strong and I think if someone ate it, it would give them a lot of power! So I think Alaka should eat it to be stronger and help us make the city cool." - the gray gal nodded, looking between the two with a wide grin on her face, and a bit of worry in her eyes... what if they didn't like the idea? Or what if they wanted their own homes and awesome places and... Nal grumbled in her mind. Stop fretting and worrying! This is a place to be more majin-like, not overthink in dumb ways. Be more like Zam, care less for a while!
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Post by Majin Zam on Jul 31, 2021 23:59:07 GMT -8
Fortunately for everyone involved, including the mountain, an awesome distraction popped up right then and there. Nal’s excited exclamation stopped Zam in her tracks. She blinked. Once. Twice. Then her lips took on that same, little o shape of realization. She eagerly leaned to Alaka. “Idea is like a headache with pictures.” She helpfully clarified. “Smart people get them all the time, yup yup.” She had also experienced an idea once or twice. Her best one yet was definitely double double chocolate ice cream. It was a big helping of chocolate ice cream with chocolate ice cream on top. Delicious~! Snapping out of the ice cream day dream, the pink powerhouse somehow managed to focus on listening to her friend. The overwhelming pace helped. Yes, helped. She didn’t have time to get distracted with the torrent of words coming at her. Weirder yet, she actually... understood all of it. Erm, most of it. Okay, like, half of it. Sort of... More importantly though, the chaotic creature did get the general gist of it. A city for Majins, by Majins. Various images bubbled from the depths of her imagination. And she absolutely loved it. Finally she could have her own home, with nobody there to tell her what to do! She could set her own bed time! And have candy for breakfast! It was a dream come true for the rebellious, little teenager. During the flood of words, Zam nodded along. She occasionally even chimed in with deep and valuable insight. “Nyeh hee~ Nalakazam~! Is like our names! Together!” Okay, maybe neither of those, but she did chime in nonetheless. Her words came with the same overwhelming speed. “Ooh, I wanna punch people too!” She was more in the business of hurting than healing though. Nal would have her hands full fixing all the people the careless menace... helped. Hopefully any guests visiting this Majin town came prepared... When the gray girl finally reached the end of her spiel, the pink teen was already bouncing in place. “Yes, yes, yes, yesyesyes, YES!” That meant yes. She loved everything about the idea. “And and! We should try to find even more Majins to join us!” Sure, she could invite her demon friends, but they usually liked their caves and huts more. Plus she kiiinda wanted some... distance... every now and then. Cuz some of her friends were messy. And smelly. Zam’s eyes started sparkling at the mere mention of cake. “Ooh, what kinda cake? Chocolate? Strawberry? Cheese?” Her tiny nose twitched, as she tried to pick out the scent. ...And upon catching it, immediately wrinkled. “...Fruit cake?” And one that smelled super weird too. She stuck out her tongue. “Bleh. Nuh. Dun like that...” In her expert culinary opinion, nuts belonged in chocolate or ice cream. Not cake. And dried droopy fruits belonged in nothing! Thus the picky eater was more than happy to let Alaka take care of the yucky cake. Her arm stretched, so she could try to pat the friend on the head. “Nyeh hee, yup yup, Alaka needs all the help! She’s super small!” ...This was coming from the shortest of the trio. Though to be fair, she was referring to something that couldn’t be measured with eyes alone. Words: 541 | 2336 Natural PL at start: 46,011 Tags: Nal CloudTF458
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Post by CloudTF458 on Aug 2, 2021 6:45:32 GMT -8
Alaka couldn't hide her relief once Zam finally gave her some space. She let out a deep sigh, a hand moving up to her own head. She felt like a fish out of water even with these two that were her race. She was much more civilized than them, yet...she still wasn't TOO civilized. At least, not enough that she felt the urge to stop Zam when she began to explain her idea of an idea. Heh.
"I, uh, I know what it is..." Alaka drifted for a moment, thinking to herself that it's just better to let the eager majin speak whatever she wants. She did NOT want to anger her. Even if she wasn't aware of it, Zam had a natural presence around her that just...well, it jut made Alaka know that she'd rather be on her good side than her bad side.
And so after she was, uh, clarified what an idea is, she listened to what Nal began to speak about, ocasionally nodding to show she was listening. A city...For Majins? By Majins? WITH Majins? Build by Majins and ruled by Majins? Majin Majin Majin? That...that was so...so...
"THAT IS SO AWESOME!" Alaka yelled out in a sudden burst of excitement. Whatever presence of civility around her fading in an instant as she, with a childlike glee, began to hop to the edge of her borrowed vehicle and leaning out towards the two levitating creatures. She liked the idea of it, the idea of building a city for people like them! She could...She could build a fighting arena, maybe make rules for freedom of combat! She hated how in big cities you couldn't just walk up to a mean looking guy and brawl with them because of the city's stupid laws and police and stuff like that. "We got to make rules for fighting for sure. Make it normal!"
As the words that she frankly had a hard time understanding came to an end, she smiled and put her hands under her chin, cupping her own cheeks as she hopped on her car. "Yeeees! I like that! Nalakazam is so cool!" She felt so happy right now, it's like she was already these two's best friend despite just having met them less than an hour ago and getting a big scare from Zam. But isn't that how you make friends, right?
Then a cake was mentioned. "Huh? A cake to get stronger?" That sounded WAY too good to be true! "Awesome! I'll take it, I'll--" Then the scent got to her own tiny nose and she, with her mouth wide open in a 'o' shape, just stared at Nal, her little heart(?) breaking for a moment at the sudden realization...If she wanted big power, she'd have to go through a big trial and eat that fruit cake. A trial that she must pass. An ordeal too strong for the likes of many. All to be done to gather a great power so that she could maybe be a bit closer to Zam's. "I, uhh.." She doubted herself for a moment. Was she prepared for this? Was she ready to bite down on a fruit cake with a lot of nuts that she may not even like?
Alaka had a small crisis for a moment as she held her head, almost as if she was getting a headache. "F-F-F-F-FINE! I will eat it!" She called out loud, trying to both psyche herself up and let Nal know she was more than ready to complete this ordeal, eat that special cake and become stronger. She can do this, she can do this, she can DO THIS!
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