Amelia/Ferrous stuff

[23:49] <@Flamy> "E-excuse me, miss! C-could I have your um... autograph?"
[23:55] <Tangent> "Eh?" Amelia looks up from her locker, books and papers slipping from her hand. "Um...hi..." The short-dark haired girls looks and sounds confused as she looks at the speaker, folders slipping from her arms. "My...autograph?" She echoes. "Huh? What for?" She doesn't seem quite sure if the other girl's joking or not.
[23:59] <Tangent> *a-autograph?
[00:00] <@Flamy> "I-I um..." The requester, a younger girl seeming to be more... well-developed than Amelia, adjusts her owlish glasses. "I merely think v-very highly of you, miss Amelia! M-my name is Ferrous Argent." She bows politely.
[00:27] <Tangent> "I-ah...Um...R-Really? Thanks..." Amelia seems to be surprised and somewhat taken aback by the praise. Someone- Ferrous- just coming up and telling her she looks up to her, just like that...confusion, surprise, and slight giddiness swirl inside her.
[00:27] <Tangent>  Papers- and classwork- forgotten, she looks at the other girl- those glasses are actually kind of cute on her. "Well...um, you know who I am already... so nice to meet you, Ferrous!" She blurts. Feeling a bit awkward, she reflexively reaches to rub her neck with one hand...and drops her books all over the floor.
[00:27] <Tangent>  "Ack!" she yelps.
[00:34] <@Flamy> "L-likewi-" Smiling back, the other girl's eyes widen as the books fell upon the floor. "Ah! I aplogize, miss. A-allow me to assist you!" Crouching down, Ferrous picks up the papers, sorting them in a neat and orderly manner.
[00:45] <Tangent> "Nah, it's okay..." Amelia scrambles to pick up her books, kneeling by Ferrous. "Thanks." She offers a slightly embarassed grin back at her, and there's an awkward pause as she hastily tries to find something to fill the sudden silence. "So, um...I've never seen you before...We don't have any classes together, right?"
[00:53] <@Flamy> "We... have a science class together, I think," Ferrous manages out, trying to focus more on sorting out the papers than the fact that she was talking with Amelia. Why couldn't she be blessed with great social skills? Why did she have to be blessed with book smarts?
[01:04] <Tangent> "Oh, okay. Cool!" Amelia tries to keep talking. "Well, um...Do you want to do the next lab together?" Amelia blathers. Way to make her think you're an idiot when she thinks you're cool for some reason... "I mean, if you want to..." She adds hastily.
[01:13] <@Flamy> The other girl brightens up with the shine of the sun against polished steel. "I would love to, Amelia!" The papers finally organized by subject, then date, Ferrous hands them to her role model. "Here, I've organized your papers." A bright smile of ideals was on her face.
[01:19] <Tangent> "Ah...heh, thanks a ton...Wait, organized?" Amelia blinks. She was pretty sure she hadn't done that before. The bell ringing distracts her from what else she might have added. "Ack, got to go! Nice to meetcha, got to go, seeyalaterferrousokaybye!" And with a quick wave, a hastily closed locker door, and a blurted farewell, Amelia rushes off with an armful of notebooks and a bookbag swinging from her shoulder.
[01:19] <Tangent> (Want to keep going or call it here?)
[01:20] <Tangent> (and pick up tomorrow?)
[01:20] <Tangent> (Sorry for generic/derpy replies...)
[01:20] <@Flamy> (I can keep on going!)
[01:21] <Tangent> (Sure, want to timeskip after Ferrous reaction if any?)
[01:23] <@Flamy> The bell's ring brings back to mind the autograph for Ferrous, though more pressing matters were at hand for her... like asking that girl about /that/. "Farewell!" With a pleasant smile, she too, ran to her next destination.
[01:26] <@Flamy> (Yeah.)
[01:29] <Tangent> Amelia starts her next class with a vaguely pleasant mood...one that quickly fades when she's the last on inside and gets called on for a question she can't answer...Still, the rest of the lesson's quiet enough, and all too soon, the bell rings again. Checking her schedule, Amelia sees that it's time for science. Looks like she'll be seeing Ferrous again sooner than expected.
[01:32] <Tangent> She's okay with that, even if she's not sure how she got the other girl's attention except for...That. That stuff. The stuff she's not supposed to show off... Amelia frowns thoughtfully. She can always ask her...right now in fact. "Hey again." She spots Ferrous and greets her, cheerfully enough.
[01:35] <Tangent> The classroom's filled with their chattering classmates and gently hissing bunsen burners. Amelia can feel the faint flicker of the nearest flame.
[01:37] <@Flamy> Ferrous smiles at the other girl, waving with good cheer. "Hey there, Amelia!" The autograph seemingly forgotten, it seems that they were... doing more chem labs. Something about seeing how chemicals interacted? Ferrous would know, and would certainly go into an in-depth explanation... maybe a bit too in-depth. "So, I guess we're partners for the lab?"
[01:41] <Tangent> "Guess so!" Amelia rummages in her bag, turning up nothing but scraps of paper. "Ah...can I share your sheet for this one..." she trails off, laughing a bit nervously as she rummages through her sheets. Between Ferrous's ruthlessly efficient reorganization and the rest being jumbled, she can't find her sheet. "Sorry...I keep taking advantage of you...It's...something about solids, right?" She hazards a guess.
[01:44] <Tangent> She's starting to regret going hunting yesterday after school...Her mom thought she was going to drama club...She didn't really like lying but it was for a good cause, right? Besides, it wasn't like she wasn't practicing her acting...
[01:48] <@Flamy> The other girl slides her sheet over to Amelia, smiling. "Actually, it is about how certain liquids interact with each other. Like how- Erm, I-I apologize. I tend to... get too out of hand on topics like these." Now she looks like a nerd... not like everyone didn't think of her as one, since she had glasses and all. "A-and it is alright, Amelia. After all, I
[01:49] <@Flamy> did cause you to drop your belongings."
[01:52] <Tangent> Amelia shakes her head. "Hey, don't worry about it...I can still autograph the handout if you want..." She teases, skimming the handout. "Hmm..."
[01:58] <@Flamy> Ferrous smirks at the very notion of such a deed. "Very funny, Amelia." The handout instructs on what chemicals are added, at what temperature, and how long. There's a few questions and tables to fill out and answer, too. "So... what do you usually do after school, Amelia? Drama?"
[02:01] <Tangent> Amelia's grin back is entirely unrepentant...but falters a bit at the sudden question. "Y-yeah, I'm in the drama club..." She has a terrible poker face. "Um, why'd you ask?" She adds, a bit too quickly.
[02:03] <@Flamy> "Ah, no reason, really. Just curious," Ferrous curses at her not being more subtle with the question. Now she looks like some nosy girl who pries a whole lot. "Sorry."
[02:06] <@Flamy> *herself
[02:07] <Tangent> "...No problem." Amelia breathes out in relief, seeing that Ferrous's letting it drop. She should've been more careful...even if she's not quite sure why she's supposed to keep it quiet anyway. "What about you? Any clubs you're in?" she asks in between helping set up the experiment.
[02:21] <@Flamy> "Oh, me? Well, I..." Quick, Ferrous! Act cool. "I am in the erm... Art Club. Yes, the Art Club." The other girl did not seem so sure that she was in that club. Still, the rooms for the two clubs were somewhat nearby, so she would have known if Amelia went there... and vice versa. Hunting did take a considerable drain in time, one that would need to be
[02:21] <@Flamy> excused with "clubs".
[02:24] <Tangent> "Oh, neat! You...draw stuff, right?"
[02:24] <Tangent> A long pause, in which Amelia realizes just how stupid that makes her sound.
[02:25] <Tangent> "Um...Yeah, stupid question. Sorry." She adds sheepishly, distractedly fiddling with a knob. The bunsen burner starts to hiss alarmingly as she turns the knob further and further but she hasn't noticed yet.
[02:30] <@Flamy> "It's o- Amelia, watch out!" Too shy to take the other girl's hand and turn it herself, Ferrous only could watch in horror as the burner approached dangerous levels. "Please turn it down! You are only bound to burn yourself!"
[02:34] <Tangent> Amelia snaps out of it, just as she manages to unscrew the cap entirely. She jerks her hand back with a yelp as flames surge out from the bunsen burner! "Ah!" Perhaps surprisingly, her hand's unburned as the flames seem to warp around it...though as the teacher rushes over and chews them both out, she might have preferred otherwise.
[02:34] <Tangent> Some time later, after the teaher's admonished them to be more careful, Amelia looks bvack to Ferrous. "Um. Yeah...sorry about that..."
[02:36] <@Flamy> "I forgive you, but..." Ferro's right hand trembles, eyes vividly recalling the flames that flew about Amelia's hand. "H-how did you not get burnt back there?"
[02:38] <Tangent> Amelia bites her lip. She's not supposed to talk about it. "I...I...Just lucky, I guess?" She blurts out, looking visibly unsure.
[02:47] <@Flamy> With a acknowledging nod, Ferrous quickly jots something down on a piece of paper, folding it up and handing it to Amelia. If she opens it, it would read "behind drama". It probably refers to a meeting place! "Well, at least we got good progress on the lab, so we won't get a horrible grade on it..." The other girl smiles at Amelia again.
[02:52] <Tangent> Amelia reads it, and visibly blinks, but folds it back up again- the paper vanishing into her bookbag soon after. "Yeah...Not sure how much I helped, especially with, you know..." She looks sheepish...but distracted by her thoughts as she looks back at Ferrous.
[02:56] <@Flamy> "It's um... a-alright, Amelia," Facing away to pack up before the bell rang once more, Ferrous tries to recollect her thoughts...

[22:45] <Tangent> The bell rings, and students pour out from the classrooms. Amelia's one of them, brushing her way past other students and slipping between clusters of her chatting classmates as she makes her way to her locker. Her thoughts are eleswhere, and a faint frown of concentration mars her sharp features as she absently packs her bookbag. Ferrous wants to talk to her...What about? She's not good at uncertainty, at guessing games.
[22:45] <Tangent> A knot of something between nervousness and anticipation twists inside her as she closes her locker and makes her way over to behind the drama club- she's slightly unfamiliar with it, since she hasn't actually been here all that often since the first few days...
[22:46] <Tangent> "Hey...Ferrous?" She calls out, a slightly nervous note in her voice and voice a bit softer than her usual. "You there?"
[22:54] <@Flamy> Usually, Ferrous was a good girl, and went straight to the art club after school. Today is... not one of those days. The schoolgirl stands alone, her posture knowing that the other girl would have come here. She seems to be in school uniform, though it looks more pristine than it was before when she wore it. "Good afternoon, miss Amelia. I am grateful that
[22:54] <@Flamy> you have come." She walks up slowly to Amelia.
[23:03] <Tangent> "Um...sure, no problem! I mean, you did ask..." Amelia's still in her school uniform as well, her bag slung over one shoulder and arms crossed. She's tugging at her other sleeve with her fingers in an unconscious nervous reflex, offering Ferrous a strained smile that's somewhere between confused and...uncertain.
[23:03] <Tangent> "So..um, what'd you want to talk about? Here, I mean?" She adds, a bit too quickly.
[23:19] <@Flamy> "I was just wanting to ask..." Ferrous readjusts her glasses. "Why exactly did you not burn back there?" A pair of bronze bracelets, one with an invigoratingly carmine ruby and the other with an enigmatically azure sapphire, appear around her left wrist. The sapphire bracelet in particular glows with a strange light.
[23:25] <Tangent> "Ah..." Amelia stalls for time. "What'd you mean? In the lab? I...Like I said, I must've been lucky..." She trails off, chewing her lip. She has plenty of tells and not a very good poker face, and right now, it's pretty obvious even without her words. She blinks as she sees the glint of the light, then stares at the glow. "...Oh." She manages. "Um...So...I guess...You knew about...you know?" She blurts sheepishly, shifting from foot to foot.
[23:25] <Tangent> "...You're a...m-magical girl too?"
[23:25] <Tangent> That phrase still isn't quite natural on her lips.
[23:26] <Tangent> She finally looks up from the bracelet, feeling slightly relieved that she's admitted it. Even if she's just made a huge mistake.
[23:36] <@Flamy> "Just luck, huh?" Smiling warmly, Ferrous extended her right hand to the other girl. "I've... well, it might sound a little weird, but... I've seen you fight those things. I was impressed by how well you did. My name is Ferrous Argent, the Cold Steel Justice. And you?"
[23:48] <Tangent> "I-You did? You were? R-really?" Amelia blurts, a silly, hesitant grin spreading on her face. "I mean...No, it's not weird...Thanks!" She takes the other girl's hand and shakes enthusiastically. "I'm Flaming Ace Paladin Amelia!" She declares enthusiastically...and a bit loudly. "Nice to, um, meet you...again. I mean."
[00:12] <@Flamy> "The 'Flaming Ace Paladin'... quite the name," The glow from her bracelet no more, Ferro's eyes focus onto something behind Amelia. "Much better than 'Cold Steel Justice'."
[00:19] <Tangent> Amelia's gone a bit red, and scuffles her shoe in the dirt. "Ah...You think so? I mean, I just thought it up in a hurry, wasn't sure if it was silly..." She babbles. "It's...something to try and live up to, you know?" She looks up again. "So...um...How'd you become a magical girl, anyway?" she asks. "Did Puuchu find you too?"
[00:29] <@Flamy> "O-of course, Amelia. I mean, a magical girl doesn't what they do for justice, they do it for what's right," Ferrous insists, determination burning in her eyes. "Well, they approached me one day and... asked if I wanted to be a magical girl." The artifact showed that something is going to come out of that spot... so why is she so worried about it?
[00:39] <Tangent> "Oh..." Amelia seems oblivious. "Well, me too, actually...And, hey, nothing wrong with justice!" She gives Ferrous a smile and a thumbs up. "I like it!"
[01:01] <@Flamy> "W-wait, you... do?" The other girl blushes, glancing away... and not seeing the monster leap out from a bush. It is a strange thing, a medium-sized quadruped with black scales and tufts of white fur. Its eyes are stars in a pitch-black night sky, and its fangs stained black. As it sails through the air, a steel chain tears itself out of the back of Ferro's
[01:01] <@Flamy> uniform, flying out to meet the monster. Wrapping around the legs, it drags the thing back down to the ground, away from Amelia! "Wh-what is that?!" Ferrous steps away, eyes dilating in horror.
[01:06] <Tangent> Amelia gasps. "Oh crap!" She reaches for her sword, then realizes she isn't transformed! "...Crap! I-it's a monster! We have...have to f-fight it!" She pulls her sword out of thin air, holdingit out in front of her. What should she do, what should she do... "I...I need to transform!" She yells. "Keep it busy!" And she turns her gesture into a spin, sword held out in front of her. "Justice is a fire..."
[01:19] <@Flamy> Focus... Ferrous just needs to stall for about 15 seconds. As the monster struggles in its binds, metal snakes up the steel girl's right hand, surrounding it to form a gauntlet-like covering over it. "Lawbreaker, Breaker mode!" Running up to the monster, Ferrous releases the chains to punch it! ... The scaled monster did not fly far. Now released from the
[01:19] <@Flamy> chains, it charges hungrily at Ferrous!
[01:23] <Tangent> Hurry up, hurry up... "that can never be put out..." Blue flames wash over her as she spins. "I, Flaming Ace Paladin Amelia..."
[01:29] <@Flamy> Blocking attacks one-handed is an art that the gloved girl did not train herself in! She only read The Art of War, among other books on strategies. At last, the monster passes through the single-handed parries, bearing down on Ferro's left arm. With a shriek of pain, Ferrous begs for someone to save her, blood running from the wound.
[01:40] <Tangent> Amelia falters, eyes going wide in horror as she sees Ferrous's bloody wound, but finishes "burnawayallevilin-" and she lunges, blue uniform and red shawl flaring into existence around her as she lunges with her flaming sword. "-this world!"
[01:41] <Tangent> "HYAAH!"
[01:41] <Tangent> She carves through the air, cutting towards the monster!
[01:46] <@Flamy> The justice easily burns away the monster, a sharp mind cutting more than a dull one. Falling onto the ground, Ferrou is quick to chain it again, the binds being more effective.
[01:52] <Tangent> "Ha! Take that! And that!" Amelia keeps cutting through the air, crackling wisps of fire lashing out from around her and licking away at the creature as she advances. "F-ferrous? You...you okay?" She risks asking, not looking away from the monster. "I'll keep it off you!"
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[23:54] <@Flamy> If Amelia is looking, she could see that Ferrous is by no means okay in any sense of the word, her left sleeve slowly dying a red deeper than the wound the monster made. "I'm okay, Amelia." The other girl's wrist glows a valorous red, slowly but surely healing where it hurts. "Just... gaah, a little... hurt." Thankfully, her right arm was her dominant arm.
[23:54] <@Flamy> However, attacking in melee would prove too cumbersome...
[23:58] <Tangent> "O-okay! Just stay back!" She doesn't dare look, glaring at the monster and feeling a twinge of irrational guilt. It's her fault if Ferrous got hurt... "Sorry I kept you...WAITING!" The last word's a yell as she lunges once again, blade flashing through the air in a chopping pattern focused more on penning the monster in than hurting it or self-defense!
[00:06] <@Flamy> Burning justice sears through vile flesh, the monster howling in agony. It is still alive, leaping head-on at the paladin. Ferrous takes in a deep breath behind the fiery girl, her right fingers now taut and straight. "Lawbreaker... L-Law..." Something is being said! But what is being said is not clear enough to do... whatever it did! Maybe she needed to get
[00:06] <@Flamy> that wound checked out first.
[00:10] <Tangent> She has to keep it busy! Amelia tries battering it aside...and manages to bring her blade around to meet the creature's charge, only for the weight of it to send her sprawling, even as the sword cuts deep!
[00:11] <Tangent> Struggling and giving a surprised shriek, she falls to the ground with the creature's bulk pinning her blade against her.
[00:18] <@Flamy> It takes a serious hit, but it is not deterred. Baring its teeth once more, it goes for the neck! The sight of her role model down spurs on Ferrous to shout clearly, "Lawbreaker, Law mode!" Her right hand fully readied or the like, Ferrous points her right fingers at the amalgamation, and fires rounds... out of her fingers. Wherever the source was, it
[00:18] <@Flamy> distracts the thing long enough that Amelia has an opportunity to fight back!
[00:19] <@Flamy> ... still, though. Who fires bullets from their fingers? It's like firing breast missiles.
[00:29] <Tangent> Amelia's KINDA TOO DISTRACTED to see Ferrous being awesome with fingerbullets. Mostly because she's desperately trying to keep snapping jaws from biting her throat out- if the thought strikes her that maybe she shouldn't be strong enough to wrestle off an angry wolf-thing like that, SHE'S TOO BUSY TO THINK ABOUT IT OH GOD SO MANY TEETH.
[00:30] <Tangent> She hears the bullets, and feels them hit the wolf, though...as she manages to scramble away mostly intact, fingers cut and bleeding from the creature's sharp teeth. She clutches her sword, wincing in pain as she staggers to her feet, murder in her eyes as she glares at the beast. "T-thanks..." She gasps.
[00:37] <@Flamy> Ferrous is quick to chain up the wolf... thing. It gives little resistance, with so little strength. "A-are you okay, Amelia? Let me heal you." She begins to take off the ruby bracelet, about to apply it onto the paladin.
[00:49] <Tangent> Wisps of smoke trail from her fingers...and her wounds seal themselves. Amelia's blood is up, and she looks like she's about to take a swing at the chained wolf anyway. "I'm...I'm okay." She manages to say, breathing returning to normal as she glares at the bound wolf. She glances around. "Y-your arm!" She gasps. "Ferrous, don't w-worry about me, your arm's..." She swallows, feeling guilty and sick.as she sees the injury.
[00:56] <@Flamy> "I'll get through," The weak smile Ferrous gives says otherwise, the bleeding slowing, but not stopping. "Just do the finishing blow. I believe in you." Fortunately, the monster did not attempt to break out, its strength long gone from it attempting to strike back. The bracelet glows still, doing its magic on Ferrous.
[01:02] <Tangent> "R-right!" Amelia nods, still pale, then raises her sword. The blade glows a bright, pure silver as blue flames flare up around it. She raises it.
[01:03] <Tangent> ...She really feels like she should call an attack or something, but she can't think of anything. "You're not hurting anyone-" She snaps, and cuts downwards with all the strength in her arms. "-again!"
[01:11] <@Flamy> The beast that ought not be called a beast... is cut cleanly in two! A bit of chain is permanently separated from its kin, but small sacrifices are sometimes necessary for huge victories. Walking closer to see what remains of the monster (and her chains), Ferrous patted Amelia on the back with her right hand. "And that is yet another thing I look up to you
[01:11] <@Flamy> for now." She grins to the other girl.
[01:17] <Tangent> Amelia looks around. A small, brief smile, but then her gaze's drawn back to Ferrous's arm. "You did most of the work....Sorry I was so slow..."
[01:44] <@Flamy> The arm seems... alright, for the most part. Sure, it still looks like a miniature heck broke out, but it wasn't bleeding anymore at least! Ferro's smile was still rather weak. "No no, the credit is due for you, Amelia. Neither of us could have really seen it coming."
[02:02] <Tangent> Amelia bites her lip, but nods. "Thanks for saving me there then..."
[02:03] <Tangent> She shakes some monster blood from her sword tip. "You...you did great." She adds.
[02:09] <@Flamy> "It... thank you, Amelia," Her smile regaining fully, Ferrous placed her right hand on the fiery girl's shoulder. "We must not slack, however. Who knows what evils lie in wait for us? Or for those around us?"
[02:14] <Tangent> Amelia looks up in surprise. "Right! If we won't keep people safe, who will?" She nods, thinking of her friends...and now Ferrous. She gets it! Amelia's smile looks more natural. "This could be the start of a beautiful friendship." She jokes.
[02:20] <@Flamy> Ferro's eyes widen at Amelia's joke. "W-wait, us being... friends?" Stars shone in her eyes! "This is a dream come true for any fan! I would love to be your friend!"
[02:25] <Tangent> "I.." Amelia laughs nervously. "Wait, you meant it about...being a fan? Really?" Amelia flushes in pleased embarassment, but smiles at her. "Wow, that's...that's great. But...yeah, sure, friends!"