Potential generations of misunderstandings (INV)

Running late

_____Auriel knew she would get a lecture for being late, but the longer it took her to get there the louder and longer it would be considering who was her supervising officer. She did not have time for a full shower, so moving her hair she just washed it over the full detail. "If you want to come along i can’t stop you … but I'll be trying to run to avoid more yelling from my superior. I just hope he is not waiting at the gate for me again…” Auriel spoke as she walked to get a towel for her hair.

_____She was rushing around trying to do a few things at one time, switching to her military uniform, getting her hair dry, and trying to remember who was on guard duty with her tonight. Walking out with her hair still a bit wet and cloths tossed on just enough to cover herself and not fall off while running, she would just have to get them set correctly on her way there. A loud meow would come from the front door as Sparky sat between Auriel’s work boots. Snowy and mike setting them down for the Pallum who smiled at her caretakers.

_____Reaching down to pet each of them before she tried to slip them both on and fix the socks under them in the process. While she might be clumsy she knew how to move in a panicked rush to the base. Looking to Mike as she opened the front door. "Keep them safe, and make sure traveler stays in the bed please… oh and the food is where you can reach it again… sorry i did not have time to get it set out for you guys…” Mike pushed a paw against Auriel's leg, his way of saying ‘yea we know get going’.

_____Hestia would not have to try hard to keep up with Auriel’s running, although it was more her getting her clothing in order as she quickly walked towards the base. Her hands adjusting the top shirt and undershirt as she would occasionally hop on one leg and try to kick her other leg to get the pants to unroll. Turning a corner she instantly froze for a moment, finally remembering who was on guard as a loud yell seemed to shake the area around the military base before them.

_____”AURIEL!!!!!!!!” His voice was deep and by all means not friendly as the Pallum tried to rush her way to get before the eight foot giant that was her supervising officer. He was built like the tower of babel, and it did not help that image be seen otherwise due to the fact he had a scale model of the tower on his back. His dark red eyes bared down on Auriel with anger. ”You're not only late, you are not up to code, reason?” His voice did not seem to be letting up with the loud tone as Auriel ducked her head down unable to face him or say anything, he was just frightening when he was slightly angry like this to her.
@Hestia

 

Scary tall

_____Hestia had drawn the focus of the red eyed monster who leaned forward to look at her closer. His expression was not friendly as he glared before moving away. ”That does not excuse her tardiness, she simple should have started the Falna procedure earlier. After your night watch you will be doing fifteen laps around the gate Auriel, now adjust your uniform and GET TO YOUR STATION!” He shouted the last bit, angered that Auriel was still in his presence with her out of code uniform.

_____Ducking her head down she moved past the guard who stepped to the side afterwards watching the gate with a straight posture. If Hestia followed Auriel she would soon hear a faint exhale from the terrified girl, her hands shaking from the encounter. "Forgive captain Grey tower… i know he is trying to help in his own way… at least i hope so…” Auriel moved through the training field before a flash of blue would slam into her from the left taking her to the ground.

_____Hestia would she a blue tail flicking around and a older girl laying over a flush faced Auriel. ”I could hear Tower from the other side of the base, boy was he mad at you Auri-chan.” The girl’s voice was light and playful, but Auriel was still freaked out that someone was laying on her. It would take the girl a moment to backflip off Auriel and look to Hestia with a smile. ”Did Auri-chan get you in trouble also new recruit?” She tipped her head as her ears twitched around listening for an answer.

_____"That is Hestia, the goddess not a new recruit Charlotte…” Auriel would speak as she stood up only to freeze up when Charlotte flicked her nose with her left hand. ”Char-chan!, if I have to correct you again I'm taking your first kiss Auri-chan!” While she sounded playful it was enough to make Auriel turn red and move away from the cat folk who soon left to get back to her post before Captain Tower came around. Auriel adjusted her uniform fully before she sighed with relief. Looking to Hestia with a slight ‘that is just a glimpse of what I deal with.’ expression on her face before she started going up a flight of stairs.

_____At the top they would be overlooking the slums and the direction they had come. Auriel moved to sit on a bench and tried to fix her hair a bit. "This is the only good part of the job… Getting to overlook the peacefulness this city has to offer… But some days it’s not always worth it considering people like Tower and the rest of my unit…” Auriel leaned against the half wall looking out into the distance towards the Pallum home town she knew. She would not admit it to Hestia, but she also felt this place to be the hardest to watch knowing just a bit of what was going on back where she used to live.
@Hestia

 

Scary tall

_____Auriel would keep her focus on the horizon as she spoke to Hestia. ”Captain grey tower, he has been strict as long as people can remember since his last time he was out on the front lines of a war… Alot of rumors go around about him as to his reasons… Alot of people say the reason he is getting worse and more strict is because of me though…” Auriel would lean slightly over the ledge to check the base of the wall as she normally did, a surprise she had never fallen off the two story high defense around the base while she was on shift.

_____Moving her gaze back to the stars before her she resumed talking. ”As for Char… Charlotte. She is Grey tower’s niece. She also is always trying to mess with me…” Auriel moved herself from the ledge to start walking along the wall. She was the only one set on the side to the slums, mostly because those that should have been with her decided to never show as always. Looking to a torch as she blew the bottom to keep the fire going before speaking more. ”As for wars against other mortals… we are also expected to fight monsters that attack from the outside of the city…”

_____She would stop and look to a small brick out of place at one of the towers. Walking over carefully to check it before she would push it fully in with a sigh. ”Thankfully everything has been calm since I joined… But with the letters I'm getting from my parents… I fear we might have to go deal with something where I used to live… Recently a group has began taking up arms over there, and some say they plan to aim them at the gods themselves… others think they just want to settle the country down so peace can return… And everything inbetween.” Auriel could never make head or tails of things, but it did not change the fact that people had started taking up arms in a country now known for being in a bad place.

_____She would shift her hair slightly as she sighed again and kept moving along the wall, every so often checking over it for someone or something that might be out of place. She was taking her job seriously, although it was mostly to avoid more punishment from Tower, Auriel was not built to do laps.
@Hestia

 

Cat attackl

_____Auriel simple listened to what Hestia had said loud enough for her to hear. She set her gaze out into the slums once more looking for anything that spelled trouble before returning back to re-walk the path she was set to guard. ”Well we aren't exactly in the base fully. This is the outer wall. Plus I'm sure Tower is fine with it since he did not try and hit you away when you entered.” Auriel spoke faintly, if Hestia looked she would see Grey tower passing by the area looking around where they stood.

_____”Auriel!” - ”Yes Captain grey tower!” Auriel fumbled to get standing at attention looking towards her superior. ”Where is the rest of your group that is supposed to be watching that side wall!” - ””I don’t know where they are Captain grey tower!” Hestia would be able to see how much Auriel was trembling, the captain’s focus was on her alone. ”Cover the guard, I’ll drag them out here.” - ”Sir yes Sir!” Auriel would salute before resuming her watch as Tower went inward towards the HQ.

_____When he was out of sight and ear shot Auriel sighed and slouched down trembling in her boots. ”Gaa, they are going to blame me for ratting them out… but he always looks so scary i can’t lie to him…” Auriel mumbled as she tried to pick herself up. The cold air sweeping across the area as Charlotte arrived and began to run over to Auriel. ”Tower giving you more trouble? Should i hit him again for you?” Auriel turned red and shook her head for no looking at the cat folk who offered her hand out.

_____”Sorry Auri-chan is always a handful for people she meets Goddess Hestia. She won’t even do something unless you force her to do it, she always gets all tensed up.” Charlotte poked at Auriel’s face as she kept getting red each time. The girl’s expression told a simple ’see always like this.’ before she stopped and let Auriel get up. As Auriel tried to walk away she followed them along for the patrol causing Auriel to look tense. It was hard to focus on her job with the fear Charlotte might try another one of her little pranks on her.
@Hestia

 

Alert

_____Hestia would like have regretted calling Charlotte by her name. The moment the goddess had finished the young blue cat folk would rush forward standing only a few inches away from Hestia with a calm yet annoyed smile. ”Char-chan! Even if you're a goddess i expect that name to be what i am called. I don’t know you enough to find your weakness but don’t tempt me.~” Charlotte would smile before watching them walk away as she waved, the offsetting thing was the fact she was holding four daggers in her waving hand.

_____Auriel could only hide her face in her hands. ”I’m sorry… our group is rather known for the outcast that don’t exactly seem like real military… But Charlotte there … i know from what she has said was former mercenary, and she has shown just how scary she can be with those daggers…” Auriel was slightly trembling as she recalled the poor training dummies that got ripped apart and stabbed countless times by that cat folk in a matter of seconds. Turning her focus back to the front Auriel would take the moment to look over the wall’s ledge again with nothing to report.

_____While nothing to report was a good thing it only made Auriel more alert. Nothing good came from this silence, it always felt the the quiet before the storm for her. ”Also… try not to mention cooking with my group… It’s something that i can’t do for a lot of people because i fear i’ll mess it up… and i know Charlotte will push me against a wall and mess with me until i cook for her or everyone in our unit…” She kept her focus over the ledge as she spoke before resuming her watch.

_____They would likely go the rest of the way to the stairs in silence unless Hestia spoke to Auriel who now seemed back into a dark mood. She could only fear Charlotte had already planned to get her to cook for them. As they reached the stairs they would hear a loud voice that would likely have become known by Hestia by now. ”Hut, two, three, four, march you work skipping cadets! MARCH!” A small group of people who looked like they had only just been sleeping before getting woke was getting forced to high knee march towards the stairs. Auriel’s expression only worsened with the coming blames once Tower left the group alone.
@Hestia

 

Alert

_____The group of three males marching did not seem thrilled in the slightest, much less when they saw Auriel looking towards them. Her gaze quickly breaking as she started to walk away from the stairs. Hestia was the only person that would be able to see the regret lining the girl’s face for not standing up when she should have to avoid the three being sent out here with her. ”Auriel!” Tower would shout towards the small fleeing girl who would stand at attention and turn to face Grey Tower.

_____’Your squad says you have not been here at the base all day and did not do your paperwork or make your bed here. Reason?” Auriel looked down slightly before she could speak. ”I … I did do the papers i was assigned… and made my bed…” Auriel looked to the smugs each of her fellow cadets had, a dark cloud floating over the base as she realized they had planned to drag her down if she ratted them out already.
@Hestia

 

Alert

_____Auriel already knew what was coming as Tower glared her down, she could almost see the lasers coming out of his eyes to melt her into nonexistence. Then she watched as if time had slowed down the last moments of her life and Tower’s words reached out to her ears as to what she assumed would be the last things she heard. ”When i went and did inspection a moment ago these claims have evidence to be false. You will be doing thirty laps around the base after your watch is over and then your needed papers to be filled, now back to work, and you three get up there also.”

_____Tower’s hand would wave towards the stairs as the three walked up talking amongst themselves about something or another that was unclear as the winds picked up. Auriel could only keep her head down as she walked away from the three to keep doing her task at hand. The sky only darkened more as the clouds grew in number threatening a storm amongst them. But the watch was to be held even with the storm should it fall on them at the time of watching the walls.

_____”Little runt! What did we say about ratting us out like that? You want another lesson taught by myself or was that last one enough and you just need me to restart that bad memory of yours?” The leader of the three would speak up, his fist clashing against open palm as he walked over to Auriel. If Hestia even tried to say something or get between Auriel and the five foot dark elf she would raise a hand to stop the goddess. This was her fight, and nobody elses. Keeping her gaze down she would try to speak her reply. ”I only said … i did not know where you three had been…”

_____She was planning to say more but was forced to close her mouth to avoid biting her tongue as the fist hit her head sending her to the side a bit and close to the edge. The bruise already showing as Auriel kept her head down. ”We said to tell that old fool we just move separately from you.” The leader once more spoke as he and his friends moved to circle Auriel, he only exit was falling off the wall into the base, but no safe place was behind her in the fall range even if she turned and jumped for one.

_____”You should listen to Wick little runt. Unless you like getting beaten up.” The one to Auriel’s left would throw more at Auriel who simply kept her head down and refused to speak to them or make any attempt to get away from the situation. Hestia, if she was looking towards the base would see Tower and Charlotte standing just out of view of the conflict. Each time Tower tried to approach Char would raise a hand and seem to tell him the same thing over and over. ‘If she wants to get out of her depression and this constant beat up sessions she needs to do it alone, you going to help her will only make her rely on others.’ Or things to that nature to keep Tower merely watching his own division’s conflict.
@Hestia

 

_____The two henchmen of Wick would not allow Hestia any closer. The two moving to stop her before she could get to Auriel as they looked her over with annoyed gazes. Wick only glanced over to them before returning his focus on Auriel to see her balling a fist. Even if Auriel was against it, she was not going to allow them to drag Hestia into this mess. Fist tightened before she sent her own punch to Wick’s gut drawing the focus on the two back onto her. ”Your bone is with me not her.” Auriel was shaking in her boots just from hitting Wick, but talking to them caused her to look like even the wind could take her down.

_____Wick slowly returning his focus as his eyes boiled with hatred towards Auriel, his own fist balling up as his friends moved back to surrounding Auriel in a tight circle preventing Hestia another slight chance of getting between them. ”Let me tell you something other runt, We are Noble kids, our parents pay for this military base and the weapons. Auriel barely does anything useful here. So most the Nobles would have no problem taking our side.” Wick gave a twisted grin towards Auriel before he raised his fist and caused her to flinch before he began laughing.

_____”Not to mention this runt here can’t even get the guts to do anything more than cower in fear of getting hit or in trouble. So i doubt she will even show up to show or say her side of the case in this matter. So be a smart runt and get out of here before you get hurt.” Auriel had enough, she did not want Hestia in her problems. She needed to overcome them herself. Looking over to the goddess as she faked a smile. ”It’s ok… I can deal with a few hits here and there... “

_____Wick growled as Auriel tried to speak to the only other person on the wall that could even take her side. Hands moving before he pushed her shoulders and sent her over the ledge towards a pile of crates below. The three moved to block any route Hestia took to try and help until the crashing sound of Auriel’s landing was heard. The three walked away laughing to act like they had nothing to do with anything. Auriel lay motionless in the wooden pile she had made.
@Hestia

 

_____Auriel was still going to be out cold if Hestia did not arrive within the next few minutes. Charlotte running over to check on her as she remained motionless. Her eyes lost in the stars above as she wished the fall was longer, or something heavier had been below her so she did not survive it. All she did was cause trouble for others more than anything else in her life. What was the point she even tried to stay alive each day if it was always the same.

_____”Auri-chan! You better not give up or i’m going to massage that chest of yours until you boobs are bigger than your head!” Even with Charlotte’s comment she remained still outside the girl trying to push her to get some reaction from her. Tower on the other hand had went to go find Hestia in hopes she might know a way to get Auriel back to her feet. A few drops of rain ruined her dead act as she blinked to avoid rain hitting her eyes. ”Dam it Auriel you had me worried!” Charlotte would pick the girl up and hug her likely when Tower returned with Hestia.
@Hestia

 

_____Auriel wanted to keep up her dead act hoping it would eventually be longer be an act. But as more rain fell down and caused her to keep blinking she figured it was a lost cause to try in the current location. ”I’m fine, I just tripped over the side of the wall…” Auriel spoke faintly, her right hand pulling her hair slightly before she tried to get away from Charlotte’s hug. ”You sure you are ok Auri-chan? That was a long…” - ”I said I was fine! … I have to get back to guard duty… if you will excuse me.”

_____Auriel would stand up on her own, her weight was clearly staying off her right leg as much as possible. A piece of wood sticking out below her thigh as she went towards the stairs. Even if they tried to tell her not to move on the leg or to at least wait until the wound was treated it would be met with her shaking her head no and going up to finish her job. She was already being a handful before, and she was not going to continue such if there was a way to work around her current state.
@Hestia