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noitatnacni) wrote2013-09-14 09:47 am
noitatnacni) wrote2013-09-14 09:47 am
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003 | Action + Voice
[It's pretty easy to spot the differences. The apartment Zatanna shares with Artemis suddenly goes from full to half-empty overnight. Everything, from clothing to weaponry to the tools she'd left in a pile on the table are just gone.
She's heard about it happening before. But like they say, hearing about it and going through it? Two completely different things.
Zatanna tries to find her: message over the journal, a locator spell she's been working on, just walking around and looking around the village. Things don't get any better, however. It's even worse by mid-day, when Zatanna pulls out her journal again.]
Uh, hey. [Zatanna's trying to smile--or rather, she's trying not to cry. There's a reason she's not using video for this, but all that emotion is still pretty evident in her voice.] I know some of you know Artemis and Static. They went home, but it's a good thing. They've got to help save the world and all. Teenage superheroes. The job's never done, right?
[She hesitates, wondering if she should say anything else. In the end though, there's only more silence before she closes the journal. She's going to answer the people who reply, eventually. For now, with the book set aside, Zatanna draws her knees up to her chest and just hides. She probably won't be that hard to find if people know where to look: the rooftop of Community Housing 5. But since she's alone--really alone--she lets some of those tears fall. She just can't keep it in anymore.]
She's heard about it happening before. But like they say, hearing about it and going through it? Two completely different things.
Zatanna tries to find her: message over the journal, a locator spell she's been working on, just walking around and looking around the village. Things don't get any better, however. It's even worse by mid-day, when Zatanna pulls out her journal again.]
Uh, hey. [Zatanna's trying to smile--or rather, she's trying not to cry. There's a reason she's not using video for this, but all that emotion is still pretty evident in her voice.] I know some of you know Artemis and Static. They went home, but it's a good thing. They've got to help save the world and all. Teenage superheroes. The job's never done, right?
[She hesitates, wondering if she should say anything else. In the end though, there's only more silence before she closes the journal. She's going to answer the people who reply, eventually. For now, with the book set aside, Zatanna draws her knees up to her chest and just hides. She probably won't be that hard to find if people know where to look: the rooftop of Community Housing 5. But since she's alone--really alone--she lets some of those tears fall. She just can't keep it in anymore.]
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[After her injuries the previous month, she's had some renewed incentive to train. Zatanna is the one in need of a distraction, though, so Bulla will go with whichever she decides.]
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[Bulla disconnects the feed and flies over there. Why walk, when this is so much faster?]
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But she does know who she’s supposed to meet, and Zatanna at least tries to smile as she lifts up a hand in a wave.] Hey Bulla. Hope I didn’t keep you waiting too long.
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No, not too long.
[Bulla offers Zatanna a smile and a wave in return. Although she does miss Static and Artemis herself, it's entirely different when you lose someone who's very close to you. She knows how that feels from when her mother was sent back. Even though her mom had been from an earlier time, she'd still adjusted to the idea of being a mom to a teenage girl very quickly and been supportive and warm.]
So...I was thinking we could beat up Third Party cultists for training. I can't think of better targets, personally.
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[Admittedly, it had been her father and she knows he pulled his punches with her, but he didn't let her land a single punch or kick that she didn't earn by being fast enough or sneaky enough to fake him out.
She considers Zatanna for a moment. Much like Bulla, Zatanna isn't a very big person.]
I think you'd do well with the moves Saori taught me. They're perfect for using someone's strength against them.
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[Not to mention the physical exertion would tire her out. She really doesn't mind the thought of being too exhausted even to think.]
Black Canary said something like that back home. She was our trainer there, and she would talk about making sure we stayed in control during the fight.
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[Which means she'll have to make sure not to program any of the stronger cultists in, because the stronger ones are a pain in the butt.]
Sounds like she really knows her stuff.
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Yeah, she really does. Black Canary is one of the best fighters in the League, even without super strength or anything like that.
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[Bulla wouldn't worry about toning it down if they weren't focusing on something Zatanna has admitted she needs work on. It's best to see how she's doing and then make it harder if she's doing well. Then there's the issue of being able to keep an eye on her friend. Bulla can't watch and see what Zatanna already knows and what she needs work on if she's busy watching her own back.]
Wow, that's pretty impressive! I bet she'd do pretty well in the world tournaments in my world.
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World tournaments? Sounds pretty huge. Is it like the Olympics or something? [Which yeah, Black Canary would definitely kill in. Considering how she’s tossed Superboy around in the past, Zatanna doesn’t have a doubt.]
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Kind of...like, imagine the Olympics only it's specifically for martial arts fighting matches. It's the most popular televised event in the world. My friend's grandfather became a huge celebrity because of it, but some fighters prefer their privacy.
[Not Mr.Satan, though. That man had one legitimate world championship win and had been depending on people to throw the matches ever since. But people liked and believed in him, and that had only increased when they believed he defeated a major world threat.]