Thread: The Hearts of the Maidens (Skeith Takahata II and BloodRedRomeo)

Jo Harper Age 15 Cold Heart Color Blue Shape Crescent Moon Lizzy Adams Age 17 Blazing Heart Color Red Shape Heart Jeanne Delacroix Age 16 Soaring Heart Color Yellow Shape Star Maxine Williams Age 17 Iron Heart Color Green Shape Cross ------------------------------- The four other Heart Maidens had experienced their own awakening a few months before Alyson. So far as Lizzy Adams knew, she was the first. She was a natural leader, serving on the student council, organizing a literature club, captain of the school archery team, and even the unofficial head of her circle of friends. She exuded confidence and always managed to maintain a positive and optimistic outlook. Despite that, she had a no nonsense attitude that made many find her intimidating. That same intimidation may have been what was responsible for her being single. Not that it mattered, she knew better than to out herself. It could have compromised her various responsibilities to the school. She had woken in the middle of the night, screaming in agony as unyielding heat threatened to sear her flesh. A crimson heart embellished with fire was found the next morning, just above her cleavage. As time went on, and she trained with her gifts, she used her newfound knowledge and new sixth sense to find the others. Starting with her best friend and neighbor, Max. Maxine Max Williams led a busy life. She practiced with an all girl rock group on the weekend, called Max Force. She plays on the school soccer team in the afternoons. Somehow, with both of those things, she finds time to go shopping with friends, play video games at home, and manage at least a passing grade in her classes. She's brash, competitive, and impulsive. In many ways, the opposite of her oldest friend Lizzy. Her own awakening felt like an incredible pressure bearing down on her. Her bones feeling like they all might shatter under an inexplicable weight. A green cross was found on her stomach the next morning. The next, and perhaps the most unexpected, was Jeanne Delacroix. A wealthy young woman who, by all logic, shouldn't have been in public school in the first place. Despite that, she stubbornly insisted on slumming it with the lower class students. Her opulence and arrogance made her occasionally difficult to tolerate, but she was polite and honest to a fault, and true to her friends. She woke the night of her awakening, gasping for air. She felt as if all oxygen had been robbed from her lungs. She woke the next morning with a yellow star on her inner thigh. The last, was the young and angry Jo Harper. Jo was every bit the stereotypical rebellious and angsty teen. She wasn't exactly friends with any of the other Heart Maidens prior to her awakening, and even now, calling them friends would be a bit of a stretch. She woke in freezing cold. Feeling like a thousand icy needles were boring into her body. The painful cold spreading through every inch of her body until finally passing out. She woke the next morning to find a pale blue crescent moon on her pelvis, just below her pantie line. ------------------------------------------ That day, Jeanne was preparing for tennis practice. Afterward she would be expected to meet up with Lizzy and the others, but for now, she could concentrate on her favorite game. She stood in the locker room, wearing nearly nothing, her tennis uniform draped over the bench. She stood in her panties and bra visiting with other girls who had been drawn to the wealthy young woman, desperate to be close to someone they perceived as so important. In truth, Jeanne wasn't interested in any of them. She didn't want superficial friends. She had real friends now, perhaps not counting Jo.