genessia | Autumn, October 23rd

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Autumn, October 23rd - Keeping In Touch

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[ Ever since the start of Genessia's latest game with it's citizens, Ayame hasn't been her usual self. Her encounter with her fears in Attleton has driven her into a more distant emotional state. She hasn't been talking to her friends, let alone be her usual mild-mannered self with them. The mornings in Genessia City feels like a nightmare in a way. Every night the city turns into a warzone, and they are expected to go back to their usual grind once the sun rises. It felt off, but a part of her welcomes the night in it's kindness to allow her to let off some steam. She wasn't sure if it's just her natural drive to help people that made her jump into the fray, or if it was the unresolved frustration of what happened to her in Attleton that makes her so angry.

Having cooled off with a long shower at the second floor of her tailor shop, Ayame eyes her phone for a moment and decides to contact her friends and recent acquaintances - the ones she hasn't run into or made their presences known through the network. ]

It's Ayame.

[ There was a second-long pause as she tried to find her words. She lacked her formality and feels stiff and straight to the point ]

I haven't heard from any of you. What's your status?

[ There is one person she wanted to contact as well - Satsuki - but Ayame couldn't talk to her like this and right now. Not after Satsuki had to see her in such a vulnerable state already. Hearing her being like this after that fact just feels too much to bear. She doesn't want Satsuki to see her being weak ]

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[ With what happened to Ayame at the beginning of this strange event, what happens next is inevitable. Shaken by her worst memories and fears taking form, Ayame suffered through a deep state of melancholy before it eventually grew into anger. At herself, at her predicament, and how a mere illusion managed to reduce her into her weakest state yet. Her mind reverted back to her old self as an effort to keep her emotions in check. Cold and single-minded, but lacking the very thing that made her great: her courage.

After a week of introspecting, Ayame channels her emotions into a righteous fury, gearing up and heading to Attleton with one goal in mind. But not before she sends Satsuki a message; saying should something happen to her, should she die in this encounter, she trusts Satsuki to do what she will with whatever possessions Ayame had in this world. Without giving Satsuki a chance to reply or to stop her from facing her fears alone, Ayame goes ahead and enters the Attleton archway.

Hours passed, and Ayame is nowhere to be seen in Attleton. Strange booming noises in the sky travel to different parts of the city, eventually leading to an empty clearing in a forested area of Attleton. A ghostly image of shattered glass appears in the sky, throwing an injured Ayame out and causing her to crash on the ground with great force that it rumbled the earth. Gritting her teeth, she gets up despite the ghostly swords impaling her body. Her furious glare eyes the portal, as a black mass of smoke flows out of it like a tidal wave, howling a shrill wail as it darkens everything it touches.

Ayame's knees tremble as she continues to ignore the pain of her wounds. Pulling the swords out from her own flesh and watching it heal in an instant, Ayame keeps on fighting regardless of how hopeless it seems. She's been fighting this dark entity for hours to no avail, and it's starting to look like a repeat of what happened the first time. But with her rage fueling her to defeat the creature, Ayame charges at it with whatever powers she has left.

Tendrils of black smoke strikes at her from all sides, causing Ayame to stop in her tracks to form a white barrier around herself. A brutal collision of dark energy against the warm white light of her shrinking barrier causes her strength to fade. As she continues to be locked into this stalemate, she musters as much of her power to keep the barrier up, but this black mass gets stronger the more she gets weaker.

Aside from the sounds, the lights of this clash of powers would give Satsuki a location to home in on where her friend could possibly be ]

Edited 2017-10-28 18:08 (UTC)

[As a wise sage once said; 'That escalated quickly'.

Satsuki was in Nova City, trying to keep tabs on the numerous unusual network happenings before she received Ayame's message that actually caught her by surprise.

Ayame was acting normally enough, but in retrospect it was incredibly naïve for her to believe that Ayame had not been effected by the Attleton.. Curse? Was that the best word for it? Regardless, Satsuki had no plans of letting Ayame die- she had experienced the loss of Koishi. Of Gamagori. Nearly Luke. She isn't letting Ayame make that list.

'Tch'

Worry overtakes enough of her anger to keep from transforming; she slips on her longcoat and cap before taking flight from her home, through Genessia, then to Attleton.

With each hour that passes, the inability to find Ayame brings her greater worry, but once she's finally blessed with a visual, that's when the speed picks up. Satsuki races from the sky toward the lights, with a grip upon the handle of one of her blades.]

[ All those hours that Satsuki spent looking for Ayame is rewarded by the clue of where her friend might be. Flashing of white lights in the middle of a vast park surrounded by a cloud of total darkness that rumbles the earth in a thunderous boom. Powerful gusts of wind push against Satsuki's direction, enough to fling rocks and trees with the pulses of energy that pushes the wind outward with such brutal force.

Once Satsuki manages to push through being constantly repelled by invisible forces, the light would continue to shrink, until it gets significantly larger, pushing away the black mass of smoke that's trying to crush it. Ayame is there, at the very center and far away, with wounds all over her body and in a disheveled state that is reminiscent of how Satsuki saw her when she was sick. Only in a much worse condition, as she can be seen catching her breath and struggling to stand straight. Someone so godlike reduced into an injured mess by whatever enigmatic foe she's facing.

But it wasn't over. The black mass wasn't driven away, but rather it retreated only to gather more force to charge in at Ayame's shield like a fierce tidal wave, instantly crushing Ayame's barrier and shattering it to dust. The impact threw Ayame so violently against the trees and the rocks of the forest and would have thrown her at the barrier of Attleton had she not gotten herself together mid-flight. Screeching to a halt and down on one knee, Ayame looks up at her relentless foe, seeing a familiar silhouette in the distance from the corner of her eye, flying above them. ]

Satsuki...?

[ She mutters under her breath, almost reacting too late to the tide's attack. Raising her arms up, Ayame blocks it's continuous blast with difficulty. Shrill wails only grew louder, as are overlapping voices speaking indistinctly at Ayame's, and now Satsuki's minds. ]

[Satsuki, at the moment, can't discern what it is Ayame is even facing, but if it's giving her trouble that's worrisome in itself. But perhaps the solution is as simple as an additional sword hand.

The important thing is not to panic. Move quickly, but not too much so.

'I'm coming.' she thinks instead of saying aloud and, with a greater burst of speed, Satsuki soars toward the duo in a streak of white. Shinkiro is withdrawn, she prepared to strike the mass with a flurry of slashes once she's close enough. ]

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