<span style='width:100%;font-weight:bold; font-size:10px'>Out of Character</span> <table class='ooc'><tr><td>Forgive me if this post is rather boring but I have a rough time coming up with beginning post that are acutally good! xD Enjoy!</td></tr></table> ic: Tria 12, 81379 It was a chilling night over the ruins. Everything seemed to at a stand still. But here that wasn't unnatural since everyday seems like a stand still. Here beneath the depths of the snow and rubble is the anicent storage area of advanced robotics or machina. Several abandon project have been placed here for safe keeping incase other pendragons of the opposite cities tried to come and steal them for their experiments. Amongst the remains of several other machina and machinery lied a sleep chamber. A deep freeze sleep chamber, containing a creature that was damned from the very day it was created. Here it is to remain until someone was to come across the hidden access point into the underground ruins. (hint, hint) The being alone was said to be unstable, unable to be released due to draw backs in the software. After all, merging of brain matter and machina circuits tend to wrap and even cause some damage. The creature was beyond it's earlier counter-parts or counsins, thus making this being far superior to them. <span style='width:100%;font-weight:bold; font-size:10px'>Out of Character</span> <table class='ooc'><tr><td>Okay this is very cheesy for a beginning post but please feel free anyone to post on it. I have to get my new pendragon out and going...or he will have to be deleted. T_T</td></tr></table>
<span style='width:100%;font-weight:bold; font-size:10px'>Out of Character</span> <table class='ooc'><tr><td>Ooooo so joining...You have my permission to beat the shit out of Nekhalla if needed...</td></tr></table> It was cold Oh so very cold, and to a half-breed, it was even worse. Nekhalla was annoyed...She was looking for scraps and anything useful for her current project: The worlds biggest and best space-party ship. It was a wierd idea she had gotten into her head a long time ago. Now she was almost done with it. Nekhalla pushed her way thru the blinding snow, and stepped on something hollow. She bent down and felt around and found a handle, opening the door she jumped down into the chamber. She looked around for a generator using her increased nightvision. She finally found one, after a few curse words and some sparks the whole place started up. She looked around in awe, all these...these weapons...and no one but her to know about them. She looked around. She found a locked door, after staring at the lock for several seconds she procedded to pull down on it, hard. The lock had become brittle in the intense cold and snapped instantly. She walked walked into the room, it lite up with each of her steps. There was a large amount of frost on the freeze chamber in the center. She reached out and brushed some of it off and gasped when she saw the face of a dragon looking back at her. <span style='color:purple'>No one deserves this...</span> Nekhalla went over to the computer, took her hat off, and started typing away. Hacking this antique system was a cinch. <span style='color:blue'>Initilizing...Reversal...Cycle</span> Said a mechanical voice from above. Nekhalla then walked right up to the freeze chamber right infront of it. She knew that a long time in these chambers caused "freezer burn" or temporary blindness, muscle weakness, and temporary paralyisis. She stood there not only to catch the dragon when it fell out but, she was curious... And curiousity killed the cat...
The capsle began to give away as ages of ice chipped off of it causing the glass dome over the chamber to crack. The 'dragon inside remained still for a short moment then moved with the flow of the opening chamber. The 'dragon fell forward out of the chamber coming to crash onto the floor, knocking up vapors of the chilled room. He lied there for the longest time, allowing his systems to activate, to override the damage caused over the centuries of being frozen. He parted his deeep red eyes slowly then shut them quickly once more from the glow of the lights. "Damage to...memory banks...data and time lost." He winced a bit and parted his eyes again and placed his metallic talons against the floor slowly lifting himself up to come and sit on his knees. He reached his talons up and looked towards them for a short moment then lifted his eyes towards Nekhalla. He just gazed upon her with the icy water running off his fine fur and skin. He looked at her seeing...difference. "Status...?
Nekhalla smiled and bent down to see eye to eye with him. She took the towel that was tied to her belt off and wiped his face off. She was oviously had some sympathy for him. <span style='color:purple'>Perfectly fine, a little freezer burned, but nothing that can't be fixed</span> She wrung out the towel and it dripped on the floor, the water hit the floor and froze on impact. She didn't seem at all fazed. Her ears were standing up now, showing her Anubi-ness. She oviously didn't mind, she figured he didn't even know about Anubi, or anything that had happened recently. She realized that he wasn't all dragon...he was part robot. She didn't care, she knew enough freaks that this one didn't seem to be different to her. <span style='color:purple'>You've been here a long time...More then you should have, alot more. I'm not your creator, nor do I know anything about why your here. I just happened to find you, and in my opinion, you needed out. As for any damage done to your systems I should be able to fix them, but we will need to get out of here first...and that has to wait till the storm passes. I should also be able to upgrade your systems too if needed...I have the distinct feeling your antique...</span>
He lifted his eyes up and looked towards her once more giving a light glare before looking away back towards his talons. He gave her a nod and lifted hismefl up off the ground slowly placing his arm against the wall wincing a bit as he stood. He reached his other set of talons down to his thigh and caresses over the cool wet fur and flesh before drawing back and limping along the floor. "Repairs...system upgrades...I'm the most advanced unit of my kind. There isn't anything else out there better than I." He came to a stop at his chamber once more and set himself down on the damp bedding once more lowering his red eyes towards the floor. "I need to have my left leg adjusted once more...I'm having a rough time moving around." He reaches his talon's down beneath his left thigh and slips his fingers over a hidden switch that glowed under his flesh, causing the metal on the underside of his thigh to open up, showing an assortment of wires and everything on the inside. He slipped his eyes closed and leaned his head back relaxing. "I need to have the wires replaced...throughout the back of my leg." He spoke taking his talons along the wires then draws back crossing his leg over for her to view.
Nekhalla smirked, he was cocky and oviously didn't know how long he had been in that freezer. <span style='color:purple'>Yeah...You were the best. Judging from that wiring tequnique and some of the stuff around here...Its been a couple hundred years...Lucky for you I specialize in antique technology repair.</span> Nekhalla looked at the wires then pulled a case out from her bag, there was what looked like spools of thread in them. <span style='color:purple'>These are a special type of wire that I make myself, they are an Anubi glass that is only molecules thick, and also it is wrapped in a very thin sheet of metal and then plastic. They also have a little bit of magic in them so they are self repairing, and can only be cute by my claws or teeth.</span> Nekhalla pulled out the spools with colors matchin the colors of the wires. She then carefully pulled out a blue one and used it as a template to cut the rest of them. After several minutes she start attatching them in using a pair of foreceps. She was done about 10 minutes later. <span style='color:purple'>There, that should feel alot better...those wires will never break so you should never have a problem with them agian</span>
He traced his talon over the wires slowly and parts his eyes as the back of his thigh closed up. He reached his talons up and ran them over the side of his face before moving his leg a bit here and there. "Why would you want to help a broken down model like me? Why wake me into a world that I don't even know?" He spoke closing his talons into fists then opens them once more getting up onto his feet. He walks over towards one of the old monitoring station. He slips his talons over the console. Several images came up onto the screen, several videos with clips of him on the operation table being altered. He shook his head slowly and lowers his eyes away. "Creating into the perfect killing machine, a weapon." He shakes his head and looks back up towards the date, seeing that it was ages ago. He just shook his head again and lashed out his spear tipped metallic tail driving it into the screen, causing it to go bust. He takes his tail back and whipping it around back behind him causing it to slice into the concert ground.
<span style='color:purple'>No one deserves to stay frozen forever, nor be alone. You see, my god mother was in stasis at one point too...and me...I'm supposedly a key to the future of a people who have called me scum. You may be a weapon, but how you use yourself is your choice. The world is changing, the Graders are losing power. The Anubi are dieing, and their leaders are starting to blame the government. Things have happened that should never even be thought of. People are pointing fingers at each other. If this continues the whole world will fall into chaos and then we will be easy pickings for the Rapine.</span> Nekhalla closed her box of wires and slipped it into her bag. There were books and several more simular boxes, along with several motherboards and such. She smiled and picked up a round object about the size of a tennis ball and put it on the ground. She clapped her hands and it turned into what looked like a Macy Kitten. It looked around and moved just like one. <span style='color:purple'>This is my latest AI experiment, it moves and acts just like a real kitten and has over 1000 sensors. I'm hoping to mass produce them someday to give to people who can't afford pet food or are allergic. This model also doubles as a selfdefense weapon, it has a laser in its eyes that if it's owner feels threatened it can give the threat a nice burn. I don't need one of these cause I have my cucu Dos, who I told to stay home this time because he's from the Uhai and not used to cold.</span>
He just listened to her words but none of them meant anything to him. He reached his tallons up and slipped them along a branding on his flesh that contained his name and production number. He winced a bit and shook his head before taking his talons back from his arm. He turns toward the large door that lead into the room and began walking out of it without so much as looking back to Nekhalla. He moved on through the mass production area and gazed upon his other brothers and sisters that was never meant to be. He winced once more and moved over towards another terminal, caressing his talons along the console as before causing the video screen to become active. "Who was I before this? What was my name?" He shook his head and began to cycle through information about himself and his early brothers and sisters. It was a big mystery to him, and he had to find out about it. There had to have been more to his creation becides a killing machine.
<span style='color:purple'>That's a good question, not one I can answer, but a good question...</span> Nekhalla scratched the back of her ears and stood up. She walked over to the consol she had put her hat down on and picked it up, she wrung the water out of it and shook it out. Deeming it dry she put it back on her head. <span style='color:purple'>You were built during a great war, and what ever happened...They didn't use you for some reason...dun ask me, I'm just a kid</span>
Metallica looked over into her direction and gave a lightly glre before turning his eyes back towards the console. "Yeah...but I think that you need to stick around here for a while longer. The storm has picked up by the warning that flashed across this monitor. Winds gusting up to 150mph." He spoke to her softly before turning away from the console and moves over towards the freezer area. He moves through the room slowly then comes to on of the old cots, reaching his talons out and wipes them along it's damp surface removing the frost from it. He then moves over towards one of the exhaust hoses then unhooks it from the wall causing heated air to blast from it. He walked back to the cot then blasted it with the air for a few moments then threw the hose away. "Here...you can use this for the time being...it is dry and warm. There is a few blankets in a chest that's beneath the bed that you can use...if you need one." He turned and moved back out of the room and headed back towards the console coming to a stop in front of it once more, looking over the information.
<span style='color:purple'>I'm fine for now actually, Its getting warmer in here so I'll be good in a few minutes. Being a half-breed has its advantages, you get the stamina without the short fur.</span> She laughed a bit and then realized that he didn't have a clue what she was talking about. She then motioned for him to come over and sit. She pulled up her laptop and then projected a hologram out of a map of the world. She put the laptop down and walked over to were the Uhai was. She tapped a finger on it and it expanded and pictures came off of the sides of temples and Anubi. <span style='color:purple'>This is were I come from. Its a long way away from here, I'm half normal dragon, half Anubi. Those 'dragons with the tall ears in those pictures are Anubi. They have a strong belief in purity in bloodlines, no Machina, an afinity for dark magic, and a secret code they all follow. Me, I'm half so I'm scum to them...Very few of them will even talk to me...</span> She sighed, she wasn't saying everything. Her afinity for building machina and electronics also made her an outsider. Her tomentor, Hathor, made it that much worse too. Then there was always Kyofu who she cherished dearly as her godmother...and Umeoral who was nice to her and helped her when she was in trouble. There were a couple roses amoung the thorns, they were just hard to find.
He came over and set himself down along side her and looked towards the laptop that she pulled out. It was a mini cpu without all the large equipment attached. He looked over as she worked her magic to bring up the holographic of the planet. He turned his eyes away from her and looked over towards the holograph as she pointed out Uhai. He looked over the several images of the dark complexed creatures and primative structures. "I have heard...of your kind...somewhere before." He lowered his eyes down away from her and slipped them closed trying to remember something. Images finally came into his mind, more like flashes. Several of one of these Anubi-dragons holding his hand, but his hand was natural...a normal hand! He parted his eyes suddenly and lifted them back towards Nekhalla. He then lowered them away once more giving a short nod. "I'm product...Metallica...No. 1051."
<span style='color:purple'>Metallica eh? That's the name of one of my favorite bands that my grandpa sent back from during the war on Earth...well my adopted grandpa...I don't know my real parents. A normal dragon family adopted me, well more like found me and decided to raise me. Thats all I know. I have a good feeling we will find out some more about you past once we go thru all this crap in here...I still need to find that one piece I origanally came here for anyway...</span> She was more talking to herself now, then she spyed something out of the corner of her eye. She smiled walked over to it and then pulled out a drawer. There were a ton of files in it. Hard copies of sorts. <span style='color:purple'>I do belive our answer will be found here...</span>
"What if...what I found about whom I was? How would that change me?" He spoke to her as if a lost pup. He shok his head lightly and lifted himself up from the seat moving over into the direction of her slipping his metallic arm about her waist gently minding his talons. He then leans his head on her shoulder and slips his eyes close nudging the coldness of his exposed metal cheek against her neck gently. "I think it best...if I don't remember who I am." He takes the back of his talons and hand then took it up from her waist to her chest then back down once more parting his eyes slowly. He lifted his head from her shoulder and looked over towards the storage area, hearing things moving about from inside it. He drew back all the way from Nekhalla and walked over towards the storage doors stepping into the doorway. He stood there for a short moment until his eyes widened and he flipped backwards at the coming shard of metal from the room at him. It stucked into the wall behind Nekhalla barely missing her as well then came the robotic roar of something inside the storage room. A large bladed arm came from the darkness of the room and struck at Metallica only to be knocked away by him. Then came the thunderous sound of the wall giving away showing that of large elephant/dragon looking machina that wasn't noticed before. It lashed out at Metallica once more before launching several spear tipped chains at Nekhalla. Metallica on the other hand felt somethnig over take him, some sort of programing. He dashed away from where he was knocked down then charged towards Nekhalla scoop her up in his arm then leaps out of the way of the chains. His movements was remarkable! Quicker than the eye. He was protecting her. The elephant Machina roared aloud once more and lashed the chains at Metallica once more only to be dodged by him again. Metallica looked towards the mechinical beast and watched as it moved, seeing everything in slow motion as if. He launched out of the way of another moment without letting go of Nekhalla the entire time then charged at the beast with his right arm straight out in front of him. He extended his talons and caused electricity to course through them. The elephant Machina blasted fire at the two of them, but none of the flame touched Nekhalla nor Metallica as he drove his entire hand of electricified talons through the beast. "You're deleted..." He spoke as he tore his arm from the elephant holding a round blue sphere in his talons. The Machina exploded them causing a large wave of fire and flying metal stards to quake through out the underground structure causing it to collapse inward. The next thing that Metallica came to realize that it was chilly, and he felt cold up about his thighs. He glares a bit at the snow that they now stood in then looked down at Nekhalla which he held against him. His eyes drifted towards the orb and looked upon.
"Thanks..." She smiled and looked up at him. Then realized what the orb was... "If thats what I think it is...Yeah, I'm almost compeltely sure thats an AI sphere, in it contains basically the brain of a defensive creature...It could be reprogramed to do something more peaceful though, give it a new body. I think I know just the place for it." She smiled and took it from him. She had been looking for one to create a robot that would be a playmate for Dos when she was in class. He got so lonely when she wasn't around, and most of the students either were scared of him, or he was scared of them. She also wanted it to double as a DJ or bartender on her ship. That way she wouldn't have to hire out all the time. That would get expensive unless she had people pay to play, but she didn't want to do that either.
Metallica only stood there for a moment before releasing Nekhalla from his hold. He took a few steps back away from her and lowered his eyes down onto his talons, seeing that they wasn't damaged during the fighting or anything. He was free to do as he wished now, but without the programing or ideas to do anything he was just a wanderer. Metallica dropped onto his knees in the snow, looking over the white matter that covered it. He only shook his head looking back up at the burning remains of his former prison...his home. "What am I to do now? Where am I to go?" He spoke turning her eyes back to Nekhalla for a short moment then lowers his eyes away looking towards his nude body. He slipped his eyes closed and slid his feet back up under himself, getting back up from the ground again. He right real leg popping with it's joints and everything. He turned on his heel and started walking off into the direction of wherever that was. Unsure of what to do with himself. <span style='width:100%;font-weight:bold; font-size:10px'>Out of Character</span> <table class='ooc'><tr><td>Oh the self pity! xD</td></tr></table>
Nekhalla quickly ran up to him and smiled. "I think I know someone who would be happy to help you with discovering what you can do. His name is Umeoral Paush, though he kinda is scary lookin at first...he's really nice and I'm sure he can help you. We can go to him now if you want I just got to make a wormhole...type...thingy...whatever..." She oviously had no way of describing how it worked. What it was, was a direct link between one place to another thru Fromina, so it was like a wormhole...but not thru space and time. So it really was a wormhole thingy.
Metallica looked over his shoulder towards Nekhalla and shook his head lightly. "I would, but this a thing that I must figure out for myself. Don't get me wrong...getting help is great and all but you truely don't figure anything out unless you do it on your own." He spoke straiting himself up then moves over towards an old banner that was once a marking of the Machina Fortress, with today would be consittered the ruins. He removes the banner from the metal flag pole and whips it about his nude body then ties it up at the left shoulder. "Of course...it would be nice to have the company for such a journey," he sighed looking over at Nekhalla again, "if you wanted to help me along the way that is."
Nekhalla smiled "I will happily help you with that. You inturn may help me gain my freedom in the end too, though right now I have the distinct feeling that you whould find it best to start in the Uhai...Which happens to be my origan, it will also be a place to test if you were origanaly Anubi or something else." Nekhalla drew a circle on the ground and muttered something, then quickly jumped out of the way. A black swirling vortex appeared and she smiled. "It will atleast be warmer there...I think my toes are going numb." She laughed and motioned for him to jump in. "You have to go first cause I have to seal it up behind me."
