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Admittedly, Rachel had noticed a while ago-- it was something hard to not notice after all-- but she'd been dealing in her own way. Maybe there was a bit of denial, a bit of grief... but now, she was mostly just trying to work out her frustration. Tobias, Cassie, Jake-- all three of them had disappeared on her. She was angry at Stacy for having taken them away, and... well, she missed them, obviously.

But at that point? She was mostly just frustrated.

Fortunately the sensoriums were a good place for blowing off steam, and working off anger. Rachel was kind of growing to like them for that-- it was easy to just sort of be angry at things, and let it out. Less people to bother her too-- but she didn't really bother with locking the door either.

The African Elephant stomped around the Zoo that she had conjured up in the rooms. Normally one wouldn't be out of place-- but this one was trampling abandoned candy stalls, and occasionally prying apart cages.

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Yet another simulation in which the owner had apparently simply left things midrun. Curious. As before, the setting was on Earth, though this time it appeared to be the site of one of the old zoos. The park was almost entirely abandoned, save for a large, irate elephant that seemed intent on destroying whatever it could reach.

This made considerably less sense than the dolphin scenario. He lifted an upturned cart back onto its wheels, setting it down easily. Nothing much he could do about the spilled popcorn, though.

"Are you one of the crew?" he asked of the elephant.

Rachel's elephant was unaware of his presence at first, carrying on its dismantling. She was pulling apart a cage when she heard a voice within the room. With a solid tug on the bar she had, she turned her eyes to the one who had spoken in a recognition that wasn't very elephant-like, probably. It wasn't someone she recognised, honestly-- though he was pretty upfront about asking if she was a crew member. Did he know, somehow, about their abilities?

She decided to not answer, since she didn't know for sure what he knew. Instead, she rose the bar above her head momentarily, before turning and using it to take a whack at the remaining portion of the cage.

Well, it hadn't answered him, but that didn't mean the answer was necessarily no. After all, he'd be able to use the Sensoriums earlier to drastically change his own appearance. And there didn't seem to be anyone else around.

Zouichi found it odd that it had ignored him and returned to wrecking cages -- surely a living, breathing potential thing to destroy was more interesting than something that just sat there. He approached it, stopping a few yards away to observe its behavior a little more closely.

"Why are you destroying the zoo?"

Rachel wasn't a big fan of smashing innocents, fortunately-- bad guys? Sure, why not. But physical destruction was pretty cathartic for a situation like this, so that was fine on its own.

She turned the small elephant eyes onto him again, almost wanting to answer a simple 'because' to his question of 'why.' She didn't want to get into why she was angry at all, let alone to someone who she couldn't explain it to without giving away the whole thoughtspeak and identity thing. Instead, she broke another part of the cage and then trumpeted in reply instead.

Hmm. No response, other than the trumpeting, which could have been coincidence. So maybe it wasn't a crew member after all.

It seemed that the purpose of the dolphin simulation was to engage in play. Was the purpose of this one to destroy the nearby structures? Perhaps some additional clues would present themselves if he followed the animal's lead.

Experimentally, Zouichi tapped at the bars of a nearby medium-sized cage, bell-shaped: probably for housing birds of some kind, but now empty. Metal, probably some kind of steel. He drew his fist back and struck it hard enough to simply snap the metal supports right off the sculpted rock the cage was mounted on, sending the metal enclosure flying backwards and rolling backwards until it impacted another cage.

...actually, that was strangely satisfying.

Rachel's elephant morph trumpeted again, when the man literally punched a cage into the air. Now that's what she was talking about! She reared back, and stomped on another cage, nearby, sharing in the pleasure of breaking some stuff. See, it was fun?

And Rachel really wanted to have some fun right now.

It was pretty fun. And since the zoo wasn't real, there wasn't any point in preserving the environs, anyway. He lifted up a nearby planter box, hurling it carelessly to the side, where its wood splintered, sending a flood of lackluster geraniums spilling out onto the sidewalk on a tide of dirt.

Take that, geraniums.

Rachel was pretty pleased to see this guy taking part in the destruction. Clearly he was a fighter. That was something she could appreciate.

Rachel trumpeted her pleasure, and turned to uproot a nearby tree. She waved it for a moment before throwing it ungracefully toward another one of the unoccupied cages.

Out of harms way the spectacle left Astrid gawking - and not just at the destruction, but mainly the exotic, four legged grey giant she has never seen before wreaking havoc on everything in it's path.

What the Hel kind of beast is that?

Edited 2011-04-07 03:57 (UTC)

Rachel was in the middle of tipping over a souvenir cart, scattering stuffed animals across the concrete ground of the zoo, when she noticed a blonde girl staring up at from a distance. The tiny elephant eyes fixed on her, trying to recognise her, but it was a useless attempt. Instead, she lifted her trunk in the air and trumpeted in greeting, before kicking some stuffed animals around. Maybe she could get some fun during her destruction, too.

Fun? If you want to call bullying inanimate things that looked like small animals fun, sure. She felt somewhat sorry for the little toys...

Astrid flinched at the odd trumpet noise, but stood her ground, talking to herself aloud, "Oookay. Definitely not a dragon - at least not any dragon I've heard of..."

Unless it could fly with those enormous flaps on the side of its head.

Edited 2011-04-07 10:19 (UTC)

A dragon, huh? She liked the sound of that, actually. Obviously it was impossible (until she came to the ship anyway), but having a dragon morph would have been pretty awesome. And the destruction would be something else, for sure. She made another, quieter trumpeting, before she moved a bit farther away, to smash up a peanut stand as well.

If Rachel were a dragon, Astrid would have to call in her scrawny expert. But she thinks she's got this.

"Hey, I don't know what you are, but don't you think you trashed this bizarre place enough?" she chuckled lightly.

What did those peanuts ever do to you?

Rachel trumpeted again, since she wasn't going to risk her secret by actually answering, still. Her answer, in short? No, she definitely had not trashed it enough. She was trying to work off some aggression and have some fun, so there was still more smashing to come.

She kicked up the peanuts, and lifted the debris, looking for something to throw the shattered stand at something else.

An unlocked Sensorium door and the sounds of something reasonably large stomping about within was enough cause for the dragon who made her way within. Taking in the unfamiliar scene with a rather bit of interest, a leap and small flap of her wings landing her atop one of the closed top cages for a better view.

Seeing no other obvious occupant she watched the rather large creature stomping and trampling over abandoned stalls and prying apart cages, with something of a purpose. Curious Celena watched on for a few moments, wondering just how the other would react to the presence of what may well be considered a large predator, or would it react with some manner of sentience. Had someone left a sensorium running unattended or was the large creature the one whom had summoned the situation up.

Rachel heard and felt the presence of Celena pretty quickly and, turning the elephant's head towards her, the animal's brain did react kind of negatively at first. It didn't like the unknown look of the dragon, especially not when it could possibly be dangerous. But Rachel was more than experienced at keeping the animal's instincts at bay.

Instead, her trunk was waved in something almost like a greeting-- for only a second, before she rose her front feet up and stepped quite dramatically on the next nearest stall.

Ah so it was sentient, or at least it seemed reasonably so, if that trunk wave was any indication. A wing opened and waved in return as the other stomped rather dramatically on that poor innocent stall. Celena tilted her head with some interest, if this was indeed a member of the crew it was either one she had never seen before or one who had taken the form of the creature that currently seemed to be making quite a mess of the stalls, the latter was not an unfamiliar concept for her in the least. After all many of her own kind took other forms during their duties, not to mention her recent times taking on an elven form with Aibghalien and he a dragon form likewise.

She watched on for a moment before tilting her head and commenting to the other experimentally, "Blowing off some steam? Or a bit bored?" After all, what other reasons would one have to trample over otherwise empty and harmless stalls other than to stave off boredom or release some frustration on inanimate objects.

A part of Rachel almost wanted to answer Celena-- but no way was she going to blow the secret. Not now, not at all. The answer, though, was a bit of both-- working through some frustration because of her friends leaving, but also trying to occupy herself. She'd be fine, anyway-- her friends were just in the pods. They weren't gone forever, right?

Instead, she trumpeted again, and turned to smash another cage, nearby.

Ruffnut had never seen such a creature before, and it's ability to destroy was as impressive as how goofy it looked.

"YEAH!" She cheered as one of the stalls exploded into splinters and colorful paper.

Rachel turned the large head and small eyes on the girl who had entered the room and begun to cheer for her. Actually, it was kind of cool in a way, having someone into the destruction. It was a way to take out some anger, but still.

In response, she let out the elephant's trumpet, and kicked up the debris from the contents of the stall.

Ruffnut let out another cheer. THIS was an awesome creature. Time to play along. She dashed down the street after the creature and hurled herself into one of the cars slamming her feet into it sending it rolling and crashing into pieces.

Rachel trumpeted again, agreeing with the girl and cheering, in her own way, with her joining the destruction. She liked her already, that was for sure.

Rachel moved a bit closer, to help her destroy the cars. So having someone to keep her company and join in was pretty cool.

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