03-13-2010, 03:29 AM
Before Alura could respond she held up her hand. “Enough about me tell me more about you. What is a reptilian? And you have to tell me how you got us from over there,” she pointed towards the fair ground, “to here.” She looked at the woman in bewilderment.
Alura sat quietly in the Ferris Wheel cabin, looking out at the brightly lit carnival in the darkness. Outside of the circus gates was just nothingness - the person who had coded this virtual world didn't feel the need to detail land outside the carnival itself, perhaps to give the feeling of no escape to his captives. It worked.
"Well?" Her pink-haired companion prodded. Alura looked over with rather nervous eyes, not quite comfortable with the idea of sharing her life story to a total stranger. But, in her defense, Victoria had given her quite an emotional and detailed story herself. The girl had a completely different experience that Alura did, but many of the same experiences: forced into servitude, given a belief that she wasn't valuable and not allowed to make decisions for herself. The difference was Alura had escaped, and Tori had chosen to stay. "Alura?"
"I was in a circus," the lizard blurted out. Victoria blinked, having not expected that response. "Like this one. But, you know...real. I was, uh...The Amazing Lizard-Woman."
"That's horrible!" Victoria said with a gasp, seeming to be genuinely surprised by the blatant exploitation of the alien in front of her. "What did they make you do? Act like a reptile or something?"
Alura was going to point that she was, technically, a reptile, but decided against it. She just shook her head and shrugged her shoulders. "They had me fight. I had to beat some of the other circus people and then lose against audience members. Every night. But they were always so...they were like every other human I've ever met. Racist. Mean. I had to do security, too, but I always got spat on by the people there. They treated me like dirt."
The younger girl next to her swallowed nervously, unsure what to say. "So how did you get away?"
"I killed someone," she said. "Kind of," she added quickly when Vicky seemed surprised by the blatant use of murder in a conversation. "This human, a really older man, tried to shoot me but he missed and killed someone else. It turns out he was a police chief and tried to have me executed. So I escaped Earth in a space pod and never looked back. I go back sometimes, but never to that city. Never to...the circus. I never thought I'd end back at any circus, much less one like this. Talking to a human. On a ferris wheel." She chuckles at her own irony.
Tori laughed too, a very light giggle that showed she was still a bit nervous delving into the past of her new-found friend. "Where did you go after Earth?"
"Namek," Alura answered. "I joined the Temple of Guru there. I'm a warrior monk."
"You don't look like a monk to me. No offense."
Alura looked down at herself and let out another smile, something that Victoria seemed to be causing a lot more often. "The event I was just in, uh, left me in pirate clothes. I kinda like it."
"Sounds better then mine," Victoria said, "I was fighting zombies. It was pretty gross." She giggled again with Alura, who hissed out a chuckle in response. Pirates and zombies. What a stereotypical combination to talk about. "I don't mean to be rude or anything, but I've never met an alien, much less a, uh..." She tried to find a polite way to say it, but couldn't think of one. "A lizard-girl. What are you? Reptilian? Is that how you say it?"
The scaly head of Alura nodded in front of the girl. "Yea. I don't really know much about it...I don't remember my childhood. The earliest memory I have is being in the Freakz Circus. I just found this past year about being a reptilian, because they have a shrine of an old hero of my people. Burter," Victoria didn't seem to immediately recognize the name of the legendary reptilian. "My race was wiped out by the saiyans. The planet was recently re-discovered but it's populated by scavengers and outlaws nowadays. I'm probably one of the last of my people. We'll be wiped out soon."
"That's not a very positive way to be," Vicky said, trying her best to be friendly and positive. "You don't know that. Can't you have babies?"
"Apparantly," Alura answered, "I don't know much about it. Reptilians are supposedly able to have 2 kids in a lifetime, without a partner. It happens at pre-determined points of our lives. I haven't experienced anything like a pregnancy."
Victoria nodded. But she still had one thing she wanted to know. The really important question on her mind. "None of that answers why you got us from down there," she pointed, "To up here. In one second."
"I can teleport," Alura shrugged.
"Um, how?"
"I dunno," came the honest answer. Vicky's jaw dropped. "I've always been able to. Usually in short bursts, but I can teleport between Earth and Namek if I try hard enough. I've never been to other planets, but I could probably do that too."
Victoria remained quiet, trying to figure out how Alura could be so causual about the fact she could teleport between planets, just by thinking about it. Not only that, but she couldn't even explain how she did it.
Alura noticed the confusion on the girl's face. "...What?"
Alura sat quietly in the Ferris Wheel cabin, looking out at the brightly lit carnival in the darkness. Outside of the circus gates was just nothingness - the person who had coded this virtual world didn't feel the need to detail land outside the carnival itself, perhaps to give the feeling of no escape to his captives. It worked.
"Well?" Her pink-haired companion prodded. Alura looked over with rather nervous eyes, not quite comfortable with the idea of sharing her life story to a total stranger. But, in her defense, Victoria had given her quite an emotional and detailed story herself. The girl had a completely different experience that Alura did, but many of the same experiences: forced into servitude, given a belief that she wasn't valuable and not allowed to make decisions for herself. The difference was Alura had escaped, and Tori had chosen to stay. "Alura?"
"I was in a circus," the lizard blurted out. Victoria blinked, having not expected that response. "Like this one. But, you know...real. I was, uh...The Amazing Lizard-Woman."
"That's horrible!" Victoria said with a gasp, seeming to be genuinely surprised by the blatant exploitation of the alien in front of her. "What did they make you do? Act like a reptile or something?"
Alura was going to point that she was, technically, a reptile, but decided against it. She just shook her head and shrugged her shoulders. "They had me fight. I had to beat some of the other circus people and then lose against audience members. Every night. But they were always so...they were like every other human I've ever met. Racist. Mean. I had to do security, too, but I always got spat on by the people there. They treated me like dirt."
The younger girl next to her swallowed nervously, unsure what to say. "So how did you get away?"
"I killed someone," she said. "Kind of," she added quickly when Vicky seemed surprised by the blatant use of murder in a conversation. "This human, a really older man, tried to shoot me but he missed and killed someone else. It turns out he was a police chief and tried to have me executed. So I escaped Earth in a space pod and never looked back. I go back sometimes, but never to that city. Never to...the circus. I never thought I'd end back at any circus, much less one like this. Talking to a human. On a ferris wheel." She chuckles at her own irony.
Tori laughed too, a very light giggle that showed she was still a bit nervous delving into the past of her new-found friend. "Where did you go after Earth?"
"Namek," Alura answered. "I joined the Temple of Guru there. I'm a warrior monk."
"You don't look like a monk to me. No offense."
Alura looked down at herself and let out another smile, something that Victoria seemed to be causing a lot more often. "The event I was just in, uh, left me in pirate clothes. I kinda like it."
"Sounds better then mine," Victoria said, "I was fighting zombies. It was pretty gross." She giggled again with Alura, who hissed out a chuckle in response. Pirates and zombies. What a stereotypical combination to talk about. "I don't mean to be rude or anything, but I've never met an alien, much less a, uh..." She tried to find a polite way to say it, but couldn't think of one. "A lizard-girl. What are you? Reptilian? Is that how you say it?"
The scaly head of Alura nodded in front of the girl. "Yea. I don't really know much about it...I don't remember my childhood. The earliest memory I have is being in the Freakz Circus. I just found this past year about being a reptilian, because they have a shrine of an old hero of my people. Burter," Victoria didn't seem to immediately recognize the name of the legendary reptilian. "My race was wiped out by the saiyans. The planet was recently re-discovered but it's populated by scavengers and outlaws nowadays. I'm probably one of the last of my people. We'll be wiped out soon."
"That's not a very positive way to be," Vicky said, trying her best to be friendly and positive. "You don't know that. Can't you have babies?"
"Apparantly," Alura answered, "I don't know much about it. Reptilians are supposedly able to have 2 kids in a lifetime, without a partner. It happens at pre-determined points of our lives. I haven't experienced anything like a pregnancy."
Victoria nodded. But she still had one thing she wanted to know. The really important question on her mind. "None of that answers why you got us from down there," she pointed, "To up here. In one second."
"I can teleport," Alura shrugged.
"Um, how?"
"I dunno," came the honest answer. Vicky's jaw dropped. "I've always been able to. Usually in short bursts, but I can teleport between Earth and Namek if I try hard enough. I've never been to other planets, but I could probably do that too."
Victoria remained quiet, trying to figure out how Alura could be so causual about the fact she could teleport between planets, just by thinking about it. Not only that, but she couldn't even explain how she did it.
Alura noticed the confusion on the girl's face. "...What?"