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Is Your Love Strong Enough? Part 2 - Personal Interwoven Soulcatchers

Following you awakening and talking with a few of the members through the communication systems by way of the three kind people who had awakened her, Nezaitben realized how the crew was stuck in a terrible mess.

So many of them felt sad and depressed. Considering the entire ship, it wasn't too hard to see why. The next day, there had been an unusual amount of magical flowers spreading all over the ship. Nothing that damaged the controls (she might be naive in the way humanoids were, but Nezaitben was no fool either) but they were found in the most unexpected of places. Her own awakening area was now blooming in a flower paradise, the wooden palace standing proudly on top, the smell and pink cherry blossom strong enough to carry through most of the central city area where most people resided.

Yet the ship was still sad.

This would not do.

That night, or what passed as a night for in the ship, Nezaitben took to the 'sky', letting pieces of her own essence fall on top of the sleeping populace, or those that were not sleeping finding themselves feeling the need too. Enveloping the ship into a peaceful slumber, she searched their dreams. The powers granted to her by the pantheon of gods in her homeworld allowed Nezaitben to weave a series of dreamcatchers giving her the ability to see those whose hearts connected true.

These noble souls would do. Lead by example had always been her philosophy. She would give them a great gift - communication with each other in a single body, allowing them to share everything together. Their two soulcatchers were woven together that night into a single, grand ones, hanging in the garden's trees.

A few minutes later, the empty husks of the bodies that weren't being used showed up at her palace. With a smile, she welcomed them like her own children and began to dress them for their task.

That morning, some of the crewmen would wake up to a strange surprise...and that would just be the beginning of a long, strange misunderstanding and young gods trying too much to please everyone.

[OOC - Just a few rules. Keep in mind the listed rules. You can all start your own threads of waking up in the bodies of others. If you feel like leaving a 2nd post for other people to intact with them, start a reply to your own first post with OPEN header. That way everyone else will know where to post and if you don't feel like having an open interaction post right away, you won't have to!

There will also be another post for all the soulless characters to go around spreading joy and love, so look forward to that too!]

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Ruffnut squirmed and Mindy would have the distinct displeasure of feeling a wave of embarrassment while some unfiltered Nordic curses ran through Ruffnut's head. She was busted and she knew it.

"You um...have a relaxing face..." She tried to explain watching herself in the mirror, her face contorting between embarrassment and confusion.

"Helps me wind down when I'm too buzzed to sleep." She added while in her thoughts Loser...totally lame. She's gonna start locking her door.

Oh, she figured there would be embarrassent on her girlfriend's part: who wanted to admit that something they were doing sounded vaguely creepy? Not that Mindy hadn't had worse shit to worry about though: someone watching her sleep was only enough to really raise an eyebrow.

Not that that line didn't deserve some laughter. "A relaxing face?! Shit, that's news to me! Must be because I don't have the mask on r something. Stupid deceiving childhood looks!"

Of course, there was one other thing she might as well admit. I only probably had that look since living here, Ruffnut. Everywhere else I only got a little bit of sleep, and it was all uncomfortable. I didn't feel like the ship was my home, so I never liked sleeping in teh same place. At your house, its just different.

She let Ruffnut process that a moment before throwing a lightning bolt in the air.

"Fuck, that's neat!"

Ruff laughed relieved to be away from the subject of her watching Mindy sleep "Yeah totally! So wait...you can just, use my body whenever you want?" She braced herself to see if she could stop Mindy from using it.

"We're about to find out!" Mindy said, figuring she could use this as a way of making Ruffnut feel less awkward. She looked up at some of the nearby wall sconces right above them. "Ruffnut went back a few steps, then ran toward the wall, moving fast enough that she ran UP the wall and grabbed the sconce!

Unfortunately, with the added weight of Ruffnut's helmet, not to mention the added weight PERIOD that Mindy wasn't used to, she crashed down immediately and to her surprise, got up quite easily.

"Man, these limbs are springy!" She said, grinning. "If Id done that in MY body, that might have bruised!"

Ruff was laughing so hard neither of them could move much "D-dude, this sucks you didn't even slow down." Which was to be expected because between the two of them Mindy had infinitely more willpower then the impulsive viking girl.

"Speaking of your body..." Ruff began and her thoughts finished it Where is it? If you're in here who's in there?

"Of course I don't slow down," Mindy replied. "And with this body, I actually feel a lot more of a spring in my step! I've never tested out exactly how flexible you are though, now might be a good time to..."

And she was stopped short by a girl who had her hair in pigtails and had a very shiny gold clothes and put a crow of flowers around Ruffnut's neck.

"Spread the word: love rules the day on Stacy!" She exclaimed, giving the viking a hug and leaping away.

"Oh shit, what a..." Mindy started to say, the paused. "Wait a second. That girl..."

If Ruffnut was laughing hard before, this was falling apart. She was doubled up laughing so hard she had tears in her eyes "W-what-" she couldn't finish her question The hell is that?! It's a good thing Mindy has control.

Mindy, however did not respond quite so favorably.

"WHAT THE FUCK?! NO! NO! NOT FUNNY, NOT CUTE, HELL FUCKING NO! I AM NOT SOME LITTLE HIPPIE TWAT THAT CARES ABOUT PEACE AND LOVE! RUFFNUT, SHOOT ME WITH LIGHTNING! I'M NOT GOING AROUND THE SHIP LOOKING LIKE THAT!"

But if Mindy wanted to stop her happy go lucky counterpart she'd have to take charge, because Ruffnut was too busy laughing so hard neither she nor Mindy could breath.

It was just lucky they were sharing the same body, or Mindy would have beaten the shit out of Ruffnut on principal of laughing. Right now though? Her entire focus was on running down the girl that was impersonating her and making her look like some prancing fruitcake. She ran toward the girl (hard to do when Ruffnut herself was still laughing so hard) took aim and landed a lightning bolt dangerously close to the imposter. The girl shrieked and ran off quickly, fast enough that it would have given Mindy a hard time to catch up.

But Mindy was already thoroughly irritated anyway, and just rolled her eyes in disgust.

"What the hell is going on here anyway? Fuck this, we're going to the Overlord. If he's still mad about the Halloween stuff..."

Ruffnut had finally calmed down, "It's a good thing you missed." She wiped a tear from her/their eye. "If you messed that body up where would we send your uh...brain?" She stretched a little and admired the new burn mark in the floor.

"That's just not fair. You've had lightning powers for like five minutes and you're already a better shot then me." Which wasn't saying much.

"If I was a better shot than you I wouldn't have missed!" Mindy replied, glaring at the retreating back of her doppelganger. "But I wasn't going to kill her, just fry her so she didn't cause anymore damage. Fuck, peace and love. What would dad say if he saw this?"

A flash of him in her mind came, and she closed that as soon as she could. If Ruffnut saw into her mind, she would see THAT too, and she wasn't about to let that happen.

"Anyway, just be glad that isn't you. We still have to find out how the hell this happened."

Ruffnut was now actively reeling in her mirth to keep from upsetting Mindy further. "Love ain't so bad..." she remarked blushing a little in reflection and pulling up the memory of their first kiss.

Something they wouldn't be able to do again if they didn't sort this mess out.

"Oh." Mindy stopped the anger dead in her tracks, not expecting that memory to surface so quickly. "Well, no, not...I mean, you know, not all dumb and stuff, like that girl. Ours is...well, you know. It makes me happy, not like this situation."

She was glad it was Ruffnut blushing right now, not her. I was sorta worried you'd be grossed out the first time, honestly. I know vikings don't usually do what we do.

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"Yeah well..." Ruffnut shuffled her feet sheepishly "I just kinda...roll with it." She grinned at no one in particular.

She started at a trot after the hijacked body of Mindy. "I'm sure we can get it back and figure this out. Just try and have some fun." That was the Ruffnut way of life.

"Rolling my ass," Mindy said, snickering. "You don't roll into shit: you JUMP into it, with both feet forward, and then just hopefully land on them both but usually don't. You're fucking out of your head, and that's coming from someone who knows they're crazy. But that's what I always liked about you. It's why I know you'll make a kick ass overlord someday."

She frowned. "Fun huh? Well, as long as I have this body, might as well use it."

"Ruffnut" rushed outside, taking breaths. Then she took a long breath, and let loose with a furious lightning strike that seemed to light the city for a brief second.

"Ha ha, sweet! Morgan's training applies here too!"

Ruffnut was leaning back and letting Mindy take the lead, laughing as she watched Mindy experience the same rush that she felt every time the lightning burst from her skin.

And Mindy would not be done here, no sir. She used her speed (which was lacking unfortunately, since Ruffnut was all limbs and less muscle mass) to find a nearby building. What Ruff lacked in strength she made up for in flexibility, and combined with Mindy's understanding of balance and trajectory, they were up the building in no time.

She grinned, charging up her energy again and letting loose another bolt that blew away an abandoned building.

"Ha!"

This is awesome! Ruffnut encouraged. You can use the lightning to make me stronger too!

She didn't really understand the science behind it, she couldn't even really explain what it was in words, so instead she took control and charged up her limbs with electricity, flexing and pumping her muscles, making them burn with energy from the inside out.

Mindy grinned, though it was still Ruffnut's grin. She had always admired how the older girl had been able to learn lightning so quickly despite not having powers beforehand. All right, here we go!

Mindy closed her eyes, remembering how Morgan had instructed her to take breaths: here Ruffnut could feel her concentration, how she channeled her essence into this act of strength, filling herself with raw power. When she let loose, it was less wild than before, but much stronger: in fact, it was enough to knock them off the building.

"SHIT!"

Aw crap! Instinctively Ruffnut struggled with Mindy for control throwing her everything into the fall. Instead of falling straight down they flew across the way and slammed hard into a wall.

It hurt, but it slowed them down as they tumbled off the wall and landed hard on the ground. Cutting their speed down mid flight had probably saved their lives...though from the pain now stabbing through each limb and their chest they probably needed a visit with the Overlord...or the med bay.

"Ow." Ruffnut groaned feeling the familiar buzz of adrenaline numbing some of the pain as her heart raced. The lightning strength trick had made each muscle sore and tender like she had just done some weight lifting which wasn't helping matters either.

Her vision swam and blurred...possibly another concussion but it wouldn't be Ruff's first.

"You still alive in there Mindy?" Ruff groaned not yet rising off the unforgiving sidewalk.

"Ugh, fuck, that was stupid," Mindy groaned, barely able to walk in place. "What you did and what I did was stupid. I'm so glad your body is so fucking supple, or we would be dead right now. Thanks dude. I'm really sorry I almost killed you."

It sounded more than genuine: Mindy actually sounded close to tears. While she would usually never be this way, this stupid stunt had almost killed the both of the, and the idea of Ruffnut dying, even if the Overlord could bring her back, was fucking unbearable.

And that sucked hard enough she didn't mind leaving that thought open for Ruff to process.

"I'm good, thanks to you. Fuck man, let me get us up." She rose slowly, gingerly, wincing at every step. "BALLS."

Heh, what are girlfriends for? She thought, because she was too out of breath to use her mouth at the same time as Mindy.

The fear and anger that Mindy felt at having almost died...no, having almost lost Ruffnut was not lost on the viking though and as they hobbled along she mumbled...thought quietly, I'm not going anywhere.

Beats me, Mindy answered predictably. I'm still finding out, like you, remember? All these feelings and emotions and stuff: they're pretty new to me. This is what happens when you live almost alone.

Almost being the key word.

And hearing that, despite trying to keep a good face and all, Mindy smiled. Good: you're too awesome to die in such a retarded way anyway, right?

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That made Ruff's chest swell with pride...only to deflate as a broken rib scratched at her left lung.

Heh heh, damn right. It's gonna be a blaze of glory for me. and after a beat she added, But not for a long damn time.

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