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Kiyao — RoA Round 1 - Memories.
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Description Round 1-1: Memories.
The night Sophia joined the race, she couldn't sleep, and her excitement wouldn't make her feel sleepy. She sat on a chair in the lounge of the capitol building, wondering, if she will get in the competition, who will be her opponent. There are lots of strange characters in this place, some that looks normal to Sophia's mind. She has always loved cute things, and then she notices two kangaroos-like competitors.
<> She says with adoring eyes, looking at the two contestants. She loved imagining what she could do if she had the possibility …
Sophia moves her hands in the air as she was squeezing something, while drooling. Then she stopped. Her hands became fists. Bad memories came back to her mind.
In the orphanage of Bright Hope, Sophia had a really rough time. The day after she arrived to the orphanage, it was night. When she fell asleep in her bed, she awoke two days after with bruises and scratches all over her body. The children avoided her, the orphanage's director yelled at her, saying: <>. Sophia didn't know what happened that day, but it happened more and more frequently. Every time it happened, she had bruises and scratches on her body, and some children were hurt too. No one explained to her what happened in those days, she didn't know what to think. Sophia cried every time it happened and because of it, she couldn't have any friends and was isolated from every child at the orphanage.
After thinking about this dark part of her past, she went to the room they assigned to her. There were two beds. In one of them, there was someone sleeping, the other one was going to be her bed. When she sat on the squeaky bed, she felt tired, and fell asleep once she lay on the bed.
The day after that, the race was going to begin. The person that was in the other bed was gone before Sophia could wake up. The girl woke up as if she had a nightmare. She looked around herself in search of something, without finding it. She felt a sense of relief. She went out of her room and heard someone speaking.
<>  One said. He was an anthropomorphic Labrador, a very energetic one too.
<> The other one said. This one was an anthropomorphic Grand Bleu de Gascogne. She watched the two individuals have the conversation and then leave. She follows them to the first floor and arrived in a cafeteria where the contestants were eating their breakfast on wooden tables. She got in line and waited for her turn; she put the bat under her arm, and took the plate, where the cook spilled the soup. <> She said, and went in search of a free table. There was a place next to an anthropomorphic dog-like girl. She was the same girl she saw last night in the Capitol Building.
<> Sophia asked.
<> The girl said.
Sophia sat next to the girl, put the plate on the table and the bat next to her. <>
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<> she said. Sophia tasted the soup, it tasted normal to her.
<> Rehn said, tasting her soup. She didn't like it much. A noise came from the speakers in the room and a woman began speaking:
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<<… Well… you heard her. Let's finish our breakfast first.>>
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<> Sophia giggles. <>
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<> When she finished her soup, she stood up and  took her baseball bat. <>
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Sophia went out of the room and started searching the Hall C asking for information to the people she encountered while walking. At the same time, the wound started hurting again. After a few minutes of pain and walking, she found the hall.
She barely kept in balance; the wound was hurting more than before. She tried ignoring the pain and went to the hall. It was pretty dark and she couldn't see much. There were many people in the room, all contestants and she could recognize the ones that she had seen in the Capitol Building and in the cafeteria. She sat on a near chair and rested a bit. Someone after some minutes closed the door and Nah'yair started speech.
<> Sophia started to not pay attention to her because her wound started hurting more and more, she couldn't help not paying attention. Suddenly, after a few minutes, she didn't feel the pain anymore. Nah'yair kept talking. <<… Now, behind me, there are thirty-two teleporters, each one will teleport you into the place where you'll need to find the teleporter that will bring you back here. The first that comes back wins, the teleporter works only once. And now… when I'll call your name, you will go to a teleporter and begin the race. The first is… Sophia.>>
<> Sophia said, and went to the first teleporter in front of her.  The first is… Sophia.>>
<> Sophia said, and went to the first teleporter in front of her.

Somewhere, in the deep of Sophia's soul, a laughter echoes.
<> The woman asked to someone, a shadow that was with her, a demon.
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<Ah, I still remember how I loved to ruin her life in the orphanage, beating up the other children, and sometimes the professors too. Because of me she couldn't have any friend, and she avoided from then to not to become the friend of someone else… except today. It looks like that she forgot about that. I wonder why…>>
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<<… How could someone think to make her aware of us if no one knows? I think that bat-thing will not say it to her, he is enough clever. Only a miracle can save her. Well, now I'm tired. Goodnight.>>
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The demon looked at the woman, with a mad look on his face.
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Comments: 5

DarkTail67 [2011-06-10 16:40:12 +0000 UTC]

Hm, pretty shiny and alluring death for a clifhanger. Melikes x) There'a portion you repeat in here however, at the end of the real Sophia's segment when she's stepping into the teleporter c: There's a few typos I caught too, but I'm kinda sleepy right now (since I haven't slept in over twenty-four hours, haha) so I can't trust myself to give pointers for the time being :'D

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Kiyao In reply to DarkTail67 [2011-06-10 21:04:48 +0000 UTC]

Heh, I'm trying (and failing) to add tension in this story. And... D'oh! I remember I had fixed that! Damn. Well, thank you for making me notice. I'll fix that. And... yes, I know that there could be some typos... but, what can I say? I'm still learning, I tried my best, and a friend of mine also checked what I wrote. Oh well, the important thing is that I don't repeat the same errors. :3

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DarkTail67 In reply to Kiyao [2011-06-11 17:05:52 +0000 UTC]

Hahah, good, and you're welcome c: And hey, everyone makes typos, but only through writing lots and lots and lots do you make that go way xD

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daughterofthestars [2011-06-09 14:19:13 +0000 UTC]

Who is the demon Shujin and what part does he play? I don't remember him from anything else, so he's not written into my round.

Thanks for the extra info about how they switch consciousness and such. I might have to figure out how that effects what I wrote. She could have hit her head after coming out of the teleporter... and I suppose that it was sunset when the avalanche hit and they got trapped in the cave, so she would switch back to Sophia then no problem.

Hmm, but then her mother takes over in the morning. How hard does the hit on the head have to be?

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Kiyao In reply to daughterofthestars [2011-06-09 15:09:17 +0000 UTC]

Heh, I knew that you would notice them. I wrote those informations just to give to the reader more informations, and I also like descriptions. Anyways, Shujin is the demon that Sophia's mother made a deal with. As I said in one of my previous answer ( [link] ), Sophia's mother is a witch. In order to become a witch, she had to sell her soul to a demon. She became a witch when she found a dying demon in a forest, and she made a deal with him on one condition: not selling her soul to him. And the hit must be... a heavy one, like someone hitting you on the head with a bottle with all his strenght.

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