Found You | Celty

[Mira Starwind]

Mira stayed in step with her master as they walked along, passing different people on their walk through the halls of the Ryuk. Mira's gaze flicked from one person to the next, conscious of the members of her master's crew at work around them. Her step slowed and she reached out with the Force, a new trick her master was teaching her. If you reach out, you can tell who can also use the Force. Mira thought it would be a good test, and she was curious to see if there was anyone else like her and her master aboard. The two had just passed into the cabin of the ship when Mira stopped altogether. Someone was speaking to her, telling her to turn around. She turned quickly, surprised when she found no one in speaking range. Yet the voice still echoed in her head.

The voice kept talking, like a calm whisper that spread through her body. She found herself staring at a man with wild red hair and an eyepatch, and watched him work for a bit. She felt drawn to him, like the voice was leading her to him, but she stayed still at her master's side.

((Note: No idea how finding an FU with the Force is seen to the FU so i made something up))

[member="Romeo Sin"]
[member="Celty Ikon"]

 

[Celty Ikon]

Now... Celty was actually trying to work, for once. Sneaking onto the Ryuk wasn't that hard, in itself. Most of the process had simply involved throwing his last name around. Turned out his grandfather really had been a big shot with the former Shadow King's navy. That was just great. They'd even let him bring his swoop bike onboard. Of course, actually flying a swoop bike into the back of a barely open shuttle had been a consummately stupid thing to do, and now the eyepatched redhead had to fix a few things.

The one thing seriously stopping him from making some of the more delicate repairs was the headache that almost always occurred when somebody was using the Force to sense somebody near him. He'd tried using ysalmiri before, but he liked having access to his own power. But the result was this vague poking sensation. And the poking was definitely directed at him this time. Who in the hell was searching for him?! It was annoying. Really bloody annoying. Finally he'd had enough. He called his hammer from where it was propped against the wall and glared around the room until he saw him...

Bastard Numero Uno: Romeo Sin. Who the hell else would be looking for him on this ship? There was a white-haired girl next to the Dark Master, but Celty's glare was directed at the man himself. No matter how close Sin and his missing grandfather had been, the guy still annoyed the living hell out of him. With an acerbic tone to his voice, he let the head of his hammer fall gently to the ground and glared even harder at Romeo, "You annoying sh- I mean... my lord... What the hell do you want, this time, and why can't I fix my damn swoop in peace?"

[member="Mira Starwind"] [member='Romeo Sin']

 

[Mira Starwind]

((moving Romeo for him. got his permission))((have no idea what im doing im sorry))

Romeo fixed Celty with a glare, but Mira saw light of humour in his eyes as well. "And what were you doing on my ship? Did you sneak on again?" He wrapped the boy in a friendly headlock, scratching his scalp with his knuckle. He continued to tease him, also praising him for fleeting skills when a person named Cross needed him. Mira only stood there and watched them have at it. Something kept telling her there was something about this man, that he was like her in some kind of way. Where she was getting this feeling, she didn't know. Maybe he did. Well if Celty did know, then Mira shouldn't stay quiet about it. "It's you."

Romeo immediately stopped, releasing Celty from his headlock. He stared down at Mira, a quizzical look on his face. "Mira, what are you talking about?"
"I had a feeling. There's something different about you." She stared up at Celty like he would know. "Did you feel it too?"

[member="Celty Ikon"]

 

[Celty Ikon]

Celty's one visible eye widened in shock as the girl who he'd more or less ignored to yell at Romeo talked to him. Of course he'd sensed the two of them. Romeo was a pretty big blot of dark energy, and the swoop jockey had assumed that he'd been the one looking for him. The one causing the buzzing in his head. Apparently not. He leaned back against the wall next to his swoop and sat down with his hammer across his lap. Once he was comfortable, he replied, "Yeah, I could sense you looking at me through the Force, actually. Makes a little buzzing in my ears most of the time. If I concentrate..."

He closed his eye and focused on differentiating Romeo's energy from the girl's, and it seemed almost too easy. Like he should've noticed before. It was both annoying and relieving. He finished, "I can definitely tell it was you poking at my mind. Wouldn't describe it as a ghost, though."

[member="Mira Starwind"]

 

[Mira Starwind]

Mira stared at the boy solemnly as he sat down, her eyes following him down. Well at least he was down to her level. Her neck would start hurting if she had to keep staring up at him. So it was the Force. Her suspicions were correct. "Celty, this is my apprentice Mira. She was a refugee from a raid on a One Sith ship. Mira this is Celty Ikon, another Force user. But you already figured that part out."

After introductions, Mira simply nodded in response. So it was a buzzing in his head, but a feeling to her. The Force must be different for everyone. For her, she was feeling annoyed. The reasons, she had no idea why. She kept staring at Celty. "Why are you feeling annoyed?" She said with a cautious air, afraid that her feeling was wrong and it wasn't coming from him. But then again, if she was right about him having the Force, she'd be right about him feeling annoyed.

[member="Celty Ikon"]

 

[Celty Ikon]

Celty looked at the girl and chuckled quietly. She definitely was something, all right. It didn't take her any effort to sense his emotions, even when they were total strangers. His mouth came up in a crooked smile as he got up to continue cleaning his bike. He sat on the seat and pulled a rag out of his pocket and began wiping grit off the front of it before replying, "Ah, it's just that I couldn't tell your energy from Romeo's until I went and concentrated. When I do concentrate, it was an obvious difference. Just another example of why I stick to swinging my hammer around."

He pointed at the hammer as he looked back to his bike, and finished, "And no, that's not a euphemism for anything. That hammer propped against the wall is the only weapon I like using."

[member="Mira Starwind"]

 

[Mira Starwind]

She nodded, looking over at the hammer. She had to admit she hadn't seen a lot of hammers in the galaxy. Mainly blasters, vibroblades, and her master's lightsaber, but that was mostly it in terms of weapons. No hammers. She took a few cautious steps towards the hammer. Since Celty used the Force, but was associated with Romeo, she could assume he was a Dark Jedi too. And all Force Users wield a lightsaber, so maybe this hammer doubled as one. She reached out a timid hand, running it down the handle of the hammer. "I've never seen a lightsaber like this..." She said, her gaze captivated by the smooth surface of it.

[member="Celty Ikon"]

 

[Celty Ikon]

Celty shook his head as he cleaned more grime off his bike than it had collectively gotten in the ten years he'd had it. What the hell was it about his perfect stowaway plan that had attracted this much grit and weird crystallized gunk to his beautiful bike? He shook himself out of that train of thought and looked at Mira again. It was kind of funny seeing a girl that close to his age so totally dwarfed by his hammer. That was another thought he had to shake out of his head, and he managed a straight face when he actually looked in her face and replied, "Oh... It's not a lightsaber. I hit people with it by manipulating a repulsor drive inside the actual hammer. And, I, uh... wouldn't try to pick it up if I were you. Even people buffer than me sometimes have trouble lifting it."

[member="Mira Starwind"]

 

[Mira Starwind]

She continued to stare at the hammer for a bit before looking over at the bike. "Do you want me to help you clean it?" The sight of the dirt and grime on the bike irritated her to no end. This bike would not be fit to ride until it shone and oiled. Until then, Mira found the vehicle absolute trash. Even without waiting for his reply, she picked up a spare cloth and began to scrub away at the filth. Back on the Sith starship, a brash move like that would earn her a beating, a forceful push away from the bike. But for some reason, Mira wasn't scared. She could feel Celty would not do that to her. Maybe it is what she felt of him through the Force that gave her such courage.

[member="Celty Ikon"]

 

[Celty Ikon]

Spoiler

Celty looked up from the bike, to Mira, and back at the bike. He really hadn't met anybody before who'd actually offered to help him clean the bike. The whole idea was a little bit strange to him, and he simply got off the back of the bike and started scrubbing at the engine. After a couple of minutes, he remembered that she'd actually been talking to him, and looked up at her from the other side of the bike as he replied, "Uh, er... Thanks, Mira. Don't worry about the scratches. I'll buff them out with wax or another coat of paint later."

And he felt the awkwardness of the situation go away. It was his bike after all, and this girl was just helping him get the grime off. It was too much work for just him, anyway, right? He chuckled, "I don't think anybody's been brave enough to try to come near my bike before. Been riding it since I was nine. A couple of years after my dad gave me the hammer."

[member="Mira Starwind"]

 

[Mira Starwind]

She nodded subtly and kept scrubbing. "Without the dirt, it is a nice bike." That was the only thing she said for awhile as she kept washing and listening to Celty talk. Romeo had left them at some point, probably content with her hanging around Celty for him to do his own things. That was fine. He had a starship to run. He would find Mira again later for training. Which reminded her that Celty could use the Force too. Was he a padawan or a master? Would he want to train with her? She honestly didn't know. She also felt the desire to learn how to ride the bike too.

"Are you going to be staying on the Ryuk after we land?" She paused, letting her words sink into the air before continuing. All these questions out of turn gave her little jolts of adrenaline, like she was taking a huge risk to do it. Which she was. Speaking out of turn was frowned upon where she came from. She constantly had to remind herself that it was different on the Ryuk. "Are you going to be training? I'm not very good with the Force. Maybe we could," she glanced up at him, her golden gaze meeting his one green eye. She felt her cheeks warm and she glanced away, ducking her head behind the bike as she scrubbed harder. Hopefully that could hide her flustered appearance. "....Train together?"

[member="Celty Ikon"]

 

[Celty Ikon]

Celty listened absently as he cleaned out all the little tricky spots of the engine. Something about his bike being nice. Well, it was definitely nice. When he finally got up from his spot by the engine, he thought he'd heard her ask if he was training. He was about to say something when he heard her last question and turned almost the same color as his hair. For a second, he wondered if being apprenticed to Romeo would be so bad...

And then just the thought that he'd considered it made him mentally retch. He shook himself and half-climbed over the bike so he could see Mira when he was talking to her. He was still pretty obviously blushing, but he had a crooked smile on his face when he replied, "Well, uh... Mira... I don't train, and I'm never gonna be one of Romeo's students, but... You can watch me hit things at the training room? Maybe sneak something other than military rations together?"

He relaxed a bit and finished, "Honestly, I'm just a kid who runs illegal swoop races for cash. I snuck on here to see if I could find out what happened to my granddad's other friend... Aedan something."

[member="Mira Starwind"]

 

[Mira Starwind]

Mira felt her hopes drop like a free fall when Celty denied the fact that he trained. That was too bad. Mira thought it would be fun to have a training partner other than her master. While Romeo was great, he was a bit too difficult to fight. Mira felt like she needed someone on her level to help her and...the only person she met who was somewhat there denied it. She let her hand holding the cloth drop from the bike. She barely felt it hitting the ground. She must be immune to pain by now. Her eyes were fixed on the floor and she felt her cheeks grow hotter. Not from being flustered this time, but being embarrassed. She had asked a question out of turn, and now she was being punished. While it wasn't the extreme corrections she grew up with, it was still torture.

What were the other options? Watch him hit things from the sidelines? Sneak around behind the crew members' backs? Mira would take a smack across the face any day to this. A smack was instant, the stinging went away before long. This mental pain was dragging on forever. Did she feel like crying? No, she couldn't. She hadn't cried since she was a toddler. Crying was a sign of weakness and would be met with harsh penalties. She wiped away the tears that she hoped weren't there and went back to cleaning the swoop, never looking up from the floor.

[member="Celty Ikon"]

 

[Celty Ikon]

Celty knew he'd done something wrong when he saw the rag drop from Mira's hands. She didn't get it. Of course she didn't get it. He didn't like being tied down to somebody like a master, no matter who they were. But... Romeo had saved her. He couldn't say anything against him. He certainly couldn't explain why he didn't want to train with anybody but himself. And nobody would ever be told why he only used the hammer. Not ever. He pulled himself back to the side of the bike he was on, counted to ten, and sighed as he picked up his hammer and walked towards the room where all the training dummies were.

What could he possibly say? There wasn't anything, really. He didn't feel like crying, and he didn't feel annoyed or even frustrated at Mira. There just wasn't anybody who understood him at all. And, so, when he reached the dummies, he pretended that they were various people who'd done him wrong: His parents' murderers, the nexu who'd blinded his right eye, the people who always bribed the other racers to bring his show down.

He didn't need other people to hate him, but he was so good at making them feel that way.

[member="Mira Starwind"]

 

[Mira Starwind]

She kept cleaning the bike until she heard Celty stand and walk away, his footsteps retreating. Well, that was someone she'd probably never speak to again. He wasn't mad at her, but she felt...like he was. She had done something wrong. If not, then she never did anything right. She should just go back to Romeo and continue training even though it seemed pointless most days. She got to her feet and turned to go, but something stopped her. Celty, with his hammer in hand facing the training targets. Something pinged in her mind. Ping ping ping! It was so annoying, so constant, she dropped her cloth to cover her ears, but it kept pinging.

Was it the Force? Mira lowered her hands and stared at Celty. Was she feeling his feelings again? It was an odd feeling. Not angered or annoyed, but...something. Almost like he was giving up, that kind of dejected air Mira had whenever she felt things to bleak. She wasn't seeing the whole picture. The Force wasn't giving her much, just these little pings, but it was something. She couldn't let this end, not like this.

So she walked towards Celty, her footsteps ever so quiet on the metallic flooring. When she reached him, hopefully before he started swinging that hammer around, she would ever so gently, as if with a great amount of caution, reach out and tug on his shirt. "Mr. Ikon......my most humblest of apologies."

[member="Celty Ikon"]

 

[Celty Ikon]

What Mira hadn't seen was Celty smashing the target dummies to pieces the whole time she'd been on her way up. There were scattered bits of metal and wood littering the ground, and the redhead was panting. When he felt the tug on his shirt, His hands were so numb that he simply dropped the hammer on the ground in front of him. He heard her say something. The words didn't connect. He heard an apology and it didn't register. He just collapsed into a sitting position and looked at the white-haired girl. Stared into her face.

The fog finally cleared, and he grinned sheepishly at Mira before he replied, "You're apologizing for me being an idiot, huh? You really are an impressive girl, Mira."

He let himself fall backwards and he looked up at the ceiling of the practice room. He felt like he should say more than what he had, but he didn't want to... but... he spoke, anyway, "I don't stay in one place for anybody at all. Ever. And Romeo Sin's new flagship is definitely pretty low on my list of favorite places. So, even on the off chance that you and I actually started something, I'd eventually end up running off to the other end of the galaxy just for the sake of making myself feel better."

His eyes tracked back up to hers, and he gently tapped her hand, "You probably impressed me more by accident than most girls manage to by trying, but it wouldn't work out."

[member="Mira Starwind"]

 

[Mira Starwind]

Mira stared at Celty destroy the targets, slightly jealous of the power he had with that hammer. Mira could barely swing her lightsaber around. When Celty turned to her, she took a step back, fear filling her golden eyes. Celty looked so different in the heat of training, he looked mad. Like it was her fault. Well it always was, wasn't it? Then the moment was broken when Celty took a seat on the ground to be at her eye level. Mira relaxed, but stayed standing. "Romeo is a good master for me," she began as she shuffled awkwardly on her feet. She scuffed her toe across the floor. "He trains me well, but he gives me a lot of breaks while he makes sure the crew is doing their jobs. He has a whole starship to run."

She lowered herself to a sitting position after Celty lay on the floor. "I'm left alone a bit. I would like to keep training instead of staring out the window. I would like to get stronger." She stared at the ground in front of her as she played with the edge of her jacket. She didn't know why she was saying this, but it was too late to stop now. "It doesn't have to be forever...or even awhile. I would....appreciate it...if I had....someone to train with while my master was away?" That was hard to get out. She almost never asked for what she wanted. With the Sith, they didn't care about her wants and needs. A request for what you want is met with a slap to the face. It didn't matter what she wanted there, she was only there to serve, so why did it matter here?

[member="Celty Ikon"]

 

[Celty Ikon]

Celty propped himself up on an elbow and smiled at Mira again. It wasn't that he didn't want to train with her specifically, but it was just... He couldn't train around other people. His rather violent, if straightforward, approach to the Force was a pretty limiting factor to the list of people who could hold up against him long enough to train. But, Mira seemed so... lonely. Even with Romeo supposedly being around. He quietly answered, "I can keep you company, at least. Give you somebody to talk to. I miss having friends like I did when I was little."

He sat up and tapped the head of his hammer, and continued, "I just don't train with other people, though, Mira. It's because of the way I fight, with the hammer or with the Force. Simple, direct, and violent. I'd seriously injure or kill somebody if I trained around others."

[member="Mira Starwind"]

 

[Mira Starwind]

For the first time in awhile, Mira smiled. A rather large smile that met her eyes, lighting them up like a pair of golden suns. She had a friend! A friend who wasn't her master or some stuffy officer on the ship. Forgetting herself, she leaped into Celty's arms in a huge hug. Well, as big as she could hug with her short arms. Her arms went around his neck and her cheek rested against his chest, her legs finding a seat in his lap. "Thank you."

Then she broke the hug, leaning back to give him a smaller smile as she tried to regain the tight composure that she always wore. "That would be really great. I've never had a friend before. Well not if you don't include Romeo."

[member="Celty Ikon"]

 

[Celty Ikon]

Celty smiled when Mira suddenly hugged him. Nobody had hugged him since he was twelve and his mother died. He let her pull away when she wanted to, and grinned a bit wider at her as he replied, "Well, nobody's hugged me since I was twelve. That was a welcome answer."

He glanced away, a little bit embarrassed, and muttered, "And, no... I don't count, or trust, Romeo..."

[member="Mira Starwind"]