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[warrior_become]

WHO | Adel-Makim-Zalur [OPEN]
WHAT | Adel finds finds humans and their 'amusements' really, really creepy.
WHEN | The night of the Cornucopia.
WHERE | Fantasyland.
WARNINGS / NOTES | None as of yet.

Adel steps carefully through the rubble, her stalk-eyes ever watchful for a rear or side approach. She's ever so grateful to be able to use them in this arena. Well. Mostly. Truthfully, she'd almost rather hide all of her eyes. The scene before her is like something out of some freakish nightmare. She shies away from the twisted remains of a carousel in a mix of confusion and apprehension. The bottoms of the figures were nearly andalite-like in nature, but the upper half... She shudders and continues on.

At least there was grass in this arena. At least she would not starve.

Comments

hope this is okay!

[knifewithnoname]

This was just odd, the little girl hadn't really known what she was expecting when people had spoken about an arena, but this was like nothing she had ever seen, beyond anything she could imagine.

She kicked away broken toys and models as she crept through the remains of whatever these buildings were. She still had her rock filled shoes slung round her neck in case anything tried to attack her.

She was looking for food, all the stuff here was rotten and would make her ill.

She was distracted from her search by the music and crept outside just in time to see the faces in the sky. "What in the name of darkness do they be..." Faces in the sky... Like paintings but more real.

And then she spotted the hoofed creature by the weird dead fake horses and gripped her shoes, eyes narrowing.

It's fine!

[warrior_become]

Adel herself had been watching the faces, her head tilted up with her stalk eyes trained on her blind spots, when her keen ears pick up just a little bit of rustling. The ear closest to Pruna flicks and one of her stalk-eyes turns towards the girl before the rest of her upper body follows, alert.

Had she been followed? The thought of having to fight so soon sent her hearts sinking, but her tail rose into an arch above her head just the same. Ready.

[knifewithnoname]

The girl's eyes flickered, she looked around trying to gauge the distance, the creature would probably follow her though. The girl began swinging one of the shoes and stepped closer.

[warrior_become]

She sees the human child step forward, perplexed by the fact that she seems to be swinging a pair of artificial hooves around. Didn't they wear them on their feet?

<Please, I mean you no harm.> She tries, turning her entire body to face Pruna in case the child should prove unreasonable. How could she kill a child? The answer was simple. She couldn't. She had yet to perfect the torf but if the child insisted on fighting, it was her only option. She could only hope she didn't injure the girl attempting it.

[knifewithnoname]

"How can you be meaning me no harm?" Her eyes narrowed and the shoe kept swinging, this was probably a trap and one she was not planning to fall into.

[warrior_become]

<You are only a child. And that aside, I don't want to kill for the sake of these bloodthirsty humans.> Adel keeps her main eyes on Pruna and a stalk eye on that swinging shoe in case it should travel in her direction.

[knifewithnoname]

Well she had often used the fact she was a child to her advantage, getting close to targets who did not fear such a young person. But for people to actually not kill her in this fight to the death because she was a child, that was incredibly stupid of them, but would work to her advantage.

The swinging stopped though she didn't lower the shoes, this might still be a trick.

"You do be the second person who did be claiming you do no be wanting to be killing." She told her with a sneer. "You do be knowing you will no be having no choice right?"

[warrior_become]

Adel frowns with her stalk eyes. What a rude child. The human spoke strangely as well. <I'll worry about that when I come to it.> She replies. <I don't need to kill you now and I'm not going to.> At least the small human had stopped swinging the artificial hooves.

[knifewithnoname]

Pruna just shrugged, she was glad to not be killed and if the creature wanted to be stupid and not kill others well, it was her who would be dying for it.

She lowered the shoes, "You do be the weirdest monster I have ever been meeting."

[warrior_become]

It's almost ironic how Adel had thought and even said similar her first arena to her traveling companion. Unfortunately, she had not found killing as easy as she'd imagined it would be.

<I-I'm not a monster!> The andalite looks a mix of offended and bewildered. How could she possibly be mistaken for a monster?

[knifewithnoname]

"You do be looking like one." Well actually that wasn't true...

"Well you do no be looking like any monster I did be learning about, but maybe if someone did be not knowing nothing about monsters and trying to think of what one could be looking like."

She tilted her head, "What do you be then?"

[warrior_become]

Adel still looks offended. She frowns with her stalk eyes. <I am an andalite. I am not from the same planet that humans originate from, I am from another planet very far away.> She attempts to explain. Did this tiny human even understand the concept of space, planets, and alien species yet? When did humans typically learn of such things? She had no idea.

[knifewithnoname]

She frowned at that, she had never heard of an andalite. Just as she had never heard of many things, why hadn't she been taught these things, especially if Elina was planning on sending her to this place.

"Another planet? That do no be possible." How was there another planet? How did that work?

Unfortunately for Adel this tiny human comes from a world and time where no one yet understood the concept of space and alien species yet.

[warrior_become]

Adel frowns with her stalk-eyes. <Of course it is.> How do you even begin to explain the existence of space and planets and alien species to someone who has no idea they exist?

<Well, look at those.> She says, pointing up at a star. <That's a star. It isn't a planet, it's actually quite uninhabitable due to excessively high temperatures, a lack of the necessary gases that support the survival of carbon-based organisms, and a lack of liquid water... Your sun is a star too, just much closer than those stars that appear smaller, see?> She looks back at Pruna, hopeful.

[knifewithnoname]

The little girl looked up and frowned, "But they do be so small..." But she understood, they were things in the sky and people couldn't live there because it was too hot and there was no water. "They do all be looking the same. I do no be seeing any planets."

[warrior_become]

<They appear the same from this distance.> Adel explains. <The other planets in your solar system are too far away to see from Earth most of the time. None of them can support life, but some planets outside of Earth's solar system can.> She watches the small human, hoping her explanation is simple enough for her to understand.

[knifewithnoname]

The girl frowned, "What do a solar system be?" She wasn't sure she believed this, planets far away from earth that she couldn't see but apparently had creatures on them.

[warrior_become]

...Right, solar systems. <A solar system is a collection of planets and their moons orbiting a sun.> Adel explains. <For instance, Earth is one of eight planets orbiting your sun.>

[knifewithnoname]

"So there do be more than one sun?" She wrinkled her nose. "Why can earth be having life when the other ones in this solar system can no be?"

[warrior_become]

Adel smiles with her stalk-eyes. <Earth's solar system only has one sun, but there are many suns in the universe. My planet has two suns.> She's completely forgotten where she is. <Remember what I said earlier about certain components being necessary for life? Many things are necessary for a planet to support life. There's certain gaseous mixtures needed and, of course, there needs to be water in it's liquid state on the surface.>

[knifewithnoname]

The girl has walked closer and though she is still wary she is listening intently. "Your planet do be having two suns?" She tilted her head, "How did you be getting here from there?"

[warrior_become]

Her smile takes on a sad nature. <The same way as you, I imagine. I was kidnapped off of my planet. I don't want to have to kill anyone, I just want to go home.> She sighs through her nose.

[knifewithnoname]

"I did no be kidnapped. Why do everyone be saying that?" She rolled her eyes.

[warrior_become]

Adel looks confused. <You've always lived here? Most of the other tributes I've spoken to say they were taken from their respective worlds as well.>

[knifewithnoname]

The girl shook her head, looking even more confused. "There do be other people from different planets?" She raised an eyebrow.

"I do no be from here here, but I do no be from a different planet and I did no be being kidnapped."