Relaxation in a Sunflower Patch (Maruca)

[akira]

So far his stay on Earth was heartbreaking. He landed near Central City and began his search for his aunt in the city when he got a bigger picture of what was going on. The city was ruined, but there was a restoration and reconstruction effort going on so he lent his skills where needed and volunteered there for a day. He was strong so he lifted and delivered heavy materials and played music when he was on break to motivate the workers. They responded with happy attitudes and increased work effectiveness. It was great for people to enjoy his music, and he would love to do it everyday but he was here to find his aunt, but first he would have to rest. He couldn't find anyone to take him in as the sun went down, so he decided to go to a large expansive sunflower patch a mile or two from Central.

The sunflowers there were huge and he couldn't help but pick one up and sniff one. The smell was sweet and intoxicating... well at least for Akira and decided to take his Aunt here later. Until then... he would have to enjoy his stay here while it lasted for he knew he could not find her just by staying here. He lay back into the flower patch and looked into the night sky, all filled to the brim with bright stars. He wondered which star was his home's and made random guesses but none of them were close of course. Astronomy was just not his thing. His eyes drifted closed and his mouth formed a relaxed smile but he sensed something or someone near, but the power was not hostile, or so he believed.

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Maruca stepped through a large field of sun flowers her feet were soft and delicate as they stepped over the grass buried beneath their tall stalks. She wished not to hurt any of the interesting plants she'd found thus far on the planet she'd landed on. She had no clue what the planet's name was or what exactly inhabited entirely, but the place had tall looking rocks she had come to know during her stay and a cold chilling air.

She shuddered at the thought of the strange white powder that had come down in droves and nearly buried her when she exited her ship in the past. She estimated since then she'd only been on the planet a month and everything was still very strange to her. As she continued walking she heard something lay down against the ground and ducked beneath the flowers. She stilled her breath and waited and listed to what they might do.

"What if the thing was hostile?" she pondered gripping a sunflower in front of her. seeds sprouted from her fingertips and dropped off into the soil around the sunflower. If it was hostile she would catch it using the methods of Amazonica. Surely, it would not expect her movement and the trap she was setting. It had not moved yet, but might at the slightest threat. She had to be careful as she allowed energy to escape her body and travel in front of her knees.

[akira]

The power approached but then stopped moving. Had the person sensed Akira or had the person simply stopped to admire the scenery? Either way he should reveal himself to the visitor to reduce the chance of the non hostile becoming hostile at his presence. After all, he knew the power was very close to his. When he began to get up he felt the power spread out in a small radius around the source, though he hadn't seen it yet. He let his power completely relax itself, allowing no fluctuations of any sort to give the person a bad impression of him.

Akira looked around until he saw her. It was a woman. Why was she out here all alone? Had she not a place to call her own, or at least a place to lay her head? She perhaps was thinking this of him, so he should introduce himself, but he couldn't quite put the words together. He didn't speak much, and that is when he wasn't nervous like he was now. The thirteen year old smiled nervously and waved without a word, hoping she would understand his nervousness around someone knew, the same feeling he felt when he arrived here.

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Maruca looked up from her kneeled position on the rich, earthy soil and saw a boy with black hair and blue highlights standing before her. She rose to her carefully and released her control over the plant seeds. They stopped growing and her power died down. Her sky blue eyes focused on his figure and she noted how tall he was compared to her, he looked to be about five feet six inches at least in her opinion. It was rather freaky considering that she only had a seven inches of height on him so to speak. His body was covered by a black shirt, which hid the fact whether or not he had any muscles or not.

Maruca said nothing and decided to offer a basic Florian greeting to him. She bent over and picked a couple of the sunflowers off the ground lifting their large yellow heads up for him to look at. They were meant to be a calming agent for one's atmosphere and no matter who the person was this tactic had so far worked in her life. But this boy seemed to be a different species entirely from her.

"Ma-ru-ca..." she said pronouncing her name slowly. The words rolled off her tongue in a childish way adding to her desire to lessen any hostile relations. She did not want to anger the first person she just met from this planet. She'd had conversations with planet hunters from her planet Amazonica in the past and none of those had gone well. She remembered at that moment one in particular where a Florian's head got shot off by an energy beam from mispronouncing someone's name. She certainly wouldn't do this to the boy before her, he was quite young looking compared to her, but there was always the possibility he could attack her still.

"Plan-et, Ama-zon-ica. Where is this plan-et; what is this plan-et?" she asked trying to gather information from the boy.

[akira]

He had no idea why the woman was kneeled down, but the fact that the power lowered itself kinda explained it. From his understanding, she was preparing to defend herself, should Akira prove himself a threat. This revelation opened the doors to another one. Perhaps she prepared to defend herself because that was the way she was taught... or it could be that she was attacked herself. Either way, he sympathized with her and gave a reassuring smile.

She had offered him a couple of the sunflowers in a matter seeming friendly to him. He nodded and took them carefully into his hands, slowly sniffing them before bringing his arm down. He enjoyed the smell because it made him.. calmer.. and allowed him to think more fluidly. He smiled and nodded his thanks.

"Ma-ru-ca...Plan-et, Ama-zon-ica. Where is this plan-et; what is this plan-et?"

Akira noted the name, and stored it in his mind for later, yet he lingered on it, nearly missing the rest that she was saying and asking. Maruca... a very pretty name.... and it fit well from what he saw, but she seemed to be confused about something. She didn't know what this planet was. To solve this he knelt down and scooped a handful of the dirt and pouring it toward the ground saying in his soft and quiet manner, "Earth..."

Afterward he placed his hand upon where his heart was indicating himself as he pronounced his name, "Akira" With a smile he looked upon her waiting for her reaction. He had hardly ever left his house on his home planet to socialize with anyone let alone a woman. The whole ordeal made him nervous, despite how calm the sunflowers made him.

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Maruca watched the boy take the flowers from him and smiled slightly. He had accepted her gift. He had smiled and nodded at her too. To her, the answers he gave when he scooped up the earth and touched his chest seemed acceptable to her.

She uttered, "Don't be scared, but I am an ali-en." She decided to say and said aloud. She focused her energy and allowed it to course through her veins from her head to her toes. A bright pink aura began to surround her while bits of it floated off as though they were Sakura petals. It was an amazing sight to behold over anyone watching as the aura caused the grass and sunflowers to bend away from her.

Her body floated into the air and more power built up inside her. Her brown hair billowed around her and the red tattoos on her arms glowed. "Will release power and show you alien form..." she told him wondering all the while if he were frightened or not. He had not seemed too phased thus far.

[akira]

"Don't be scared, but I am an ali-en.Will release power and show you alien form..."

Akira nodded and watched with an amazed look in his eye. Everything about her breathed life. He couldn't help but laugh childishly and smile at her. She was beautiful, making him wonder if her whole race was like this, who moved with such elegance and grace as nature does. He smiled and replied, speaking more than he has had in a long, long time. "I am not afraid M'lady, I would be honored"

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"You have used the words M'lady. How do you know I am royalty?" Maruca asked as she continued to power up her transformation.

During the process, her normal white-tan skin turned green and red rose petals began to grow from her body. The petals first appeared on her wrists slowly pushing up from under skin growing until they were six inches in length and three inches across. Then they grew out of the back of her neck. These petals were much larger and brighter though taking on a mixture of red and pink as they mixed together in a crisscrossing array. They formed a nice tall collar around her neck that was two feet in height. Thus blocking her peripheral vision. She didn't need it though because she sense a many good things around her as her transformation continued.

The green tint from earlier formed into green leaves that sprouted from her body and had soft and rounded edges. The green suit she gained from these clung close to her body allowing for a slim and sleek appearance that showed off the few muscles she had in her arms and legs. She could feel overwhelming power surge from this.

She landed on the soft grass once her transformation was done and said, "I am Queen of the Florians. Perhaps you know who we are? Perhaps you speak to everyone this way?" She needed as much information as she could get from this boy and although she felt she could blast him at any moment she did not want to. She held out her hand instead with her palm facing the ground and voiced, "You are very nice or have been since I have met you Akira."

[akira]

He simply smiled and laughed. She was a queen? He would not have guessed. He couldn't help but laugh at his coincident, though stopped thinking that should would probably take it the wrong way. The form she took seemed royal enough, but he was too trusting of people not to suspect a lie if there was one and often took their word for it. She was elegant like any plant he had seen and gave a respective bow, feeling less nervous now that he was around something more familiar like royalty. At his home world he rarely left the royal family's buildings, feeling out of place any where else.

When she stuck out her hand he kissed it softly out of respect and stood, with a relieved smile on his face. He had trouble finding the right words but.. he eventually got to it. "I did not know you were a Queen your highness... I simply treat everyone I meet with respect, despite the person. It was what I was taught. I am of Royalty too your Highness, being the nephew to our queen.", he said with pride as he continued, "We are of the Wangestu race, divided into two subraces, the Tenma and Tenshi. I am Tenshi.", he said with a delightful and musical tone to his voice.

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"I see, but I don't understand still. What are Tenma and Tenshi?" Maruca asked as she pulled her hand away and let it drop to her side. "Are they strong? If they are I ask that you fight me. I have reasons for this I can explain before or after this if you want. But for now I shall make the first move."

Her lips closed and she focused her energy in her current form. She let the energy flow through her body and allowed seeds to form in her hands before spinning scattering them all over the ground. When she was done doing this, she came to an abrupt halt, kicking up a little pile of dirt as she did.

[akira]

"I see, but I don't understand still. What are Tenma and Tenshi? "Are they strong? If they are I ask that you fight me. I have reasons for this I can explain before or after this if you want. But for now I shall make the first move.", The plant queen said as she spun, concentrating her power and scattering seeds too and fro. That's when Akira realized that her specialty must involve plant life and took to the air, levitating only a few feet above the ground. and perhaps more if he had to. When she stopped he looked upon her with interest, excited about the challenge that lay ahead of him.

She was at least double his power, no... three times his power, meaning the spar here would be quite interesting. He didn't do the usual fighting stance his race usually used to indicate combat for he felt it unnecessary with the other races. He simply floated there, with a face full of competition and anxiety. "I accept your challenge Queen. This will be fun."

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Maruca listened to his response and shrugged ever so slightly. He seemed far too overconfident. She was not that pleased by his attitude. It had a rough edge to it and she felt she needed to put him in his place. Her pink aura swirled around her grazing the grasses at her feet and pushing them and the flowers aside.

She lightly stepped over top of the plant with a heel to toe stride and closed the distance between herself and Akira as he floated before her. Then she raised right hand gently so that her fore arm and upper arm pressed together. She bent her wrist forward and pressed the bottom skin pad of her thumb against the top of the blue nail polish on her right middle finger. Extending her hand forward, she flicked her middle finger out towards him and sent a small ki blast at him. The ki was shaped into a small sphere a foot across and was very dense.

"Show some respect please and know your place boy of royalty, Akira. This is not meant to be a period of playtime. I have come here to learn the ways of fighting so I may defend myself and others." She voiced in the midst of her attack.

[akira]

"Show some respect please and know your place boy of royalty, Akira. This is not meant to be a period of playtime. I have come here to learn the ways of fighting so I may defend myself and others."

"Forgive me then M'lady, you forget im only a child, is it not natural for me to amuse myself? I'm sorry, I'm no teacher But I'll still spar with you if you wish it so.", he replied more calmly as he moved to the side to dodge the attack. He smiled as he threw out his left arm sending a ki blast back at her in return, initiating the spar.

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"You were lucky to dodge that attack. I know you'd like to think of this as a game thanks to your age, but we're messing with some pretty dangerous projectiles." Marua stated as she caught Akira's blast of ki with her right hand, wrapping her fingers around the glowing and dangerous orb, she added, "Your technique needs some work, but you might become quite good if you work at it. Although, I prefer not to use these blasts we can shoot at each other." She threw the ball back at him and wondered how he would react to this now. The speed at which it hurtled was a relatively slow speed, so he could probably block it if he had the guts. Maruca wanted to get to know every inch of this boy's personality and thinking process. It would only help her get the upper edge of this spar and possibly give her insight on the Tenshi or Tenma he spoke of.

[xeplika]

OOC: this is still akira, just posting with this profile this one post. Future posts will be with the proper one


Akira watched as she caught the attack easily and flung it back. Energy blasts loose its power over time so he had no trouble catching it and then taking some of the energy he lost from it back, reducing the size until there was nothing left. He simply nodded at her, taking her advice. She wanted a fight, so he would give her one. He flew at her, as calm as ever, sending a sweeping kick at her left side.

Whether she blocked it or not, she would find another kick to her other side following the first. He planned to land a succession of key strikes to end it quickly by striking what he thought were weak points. He had no idea what they were until he saw and learned how she defended herself. And for that to happen he had to provoke a defense. Although he wore a serious, calmed face on the outside, on the inside he was enjoying this much as he was earlier only now he was taking it up a notch.