I Fear What I Am Becoming

[leekspins]

WHO: Orihime Inoue, OPEN!
WHAT: After three days of purposefully staying awake, Orihime finally collapses into sleep. Her dream world is not a pleasant one, and there's a definite darkness waiting to attack anyone who dares intrude.
WHEN: May 12, 2014 (Super Backdated!)
WHERE: Pokemon Zone / Dream World
NOTES: This is a multi-user log - no separate threads! If you join, you're likely to meet the other people who have entered the dream. You'll need the help, trust me.


Ever since her Pokemon had been taken, Orihime had searched through the Archway. It wasn't about winning a charm. She'd long since forgotten about the objective for having Pokemon this month. She just didn't want that monster to hurt and eat them, as she feared he might. Isn't that what spiders did when they caught creatures in their webs?

If she could find them by reiatsu, she would have used that to zero in on wherever they'd been taken. But they didn't feel the same way people did, and there were so many Pokemon that she couldn't filter out which ones were hers. She suspected the Pokeball itself might have been partially to blame as well, but really, she just didn't know.

That was the worst part -- not knowing what had happened to them. She'd walked and searched to the point of exhaustion. She hadn't eaten much either, only enough to keep herself going.

Finally, it was too much for her exhausted body to bear. She sank down against a tree, short of breath and pale. She had to rest, just for a moment.

Orihime wasn't sure when she'd closed her eyes. She hadn't meant to. But when she opened them, she wasn't in the forest anymore. There was a familiar presence surrounding her, more potent and powerful than it should have been. She scrambled to her feet, but the blackness was everywhere. She couldn't see a thing. The smell, though, was overwhelming. Blood. Rust. Rot.

It was only a matter of time, you know.

Her eyes widened, just before something gripped her face and pulled her down into the wet, stinking ground.

Comments

[kicks_ass]

Kids these days, having shitty dreams like this.

[ Shizuru replied bluntly, smoking a cigarette. While the girl's face was planted into the ground, she actually managed to lower herself to pull the light haired girl from the ground.

This dream hopping crap is getting really old but she wasn't going to leave people drowned into their own nightmares. ]

Hey kid.

[leekspins]

[What went into the ground was Orihime. What comes out seems to be nothing more than a fistful of hair and a rotten, crumbling skeleton. The jaw falls off of the skull, hitting the ground with a wet smack before blood starts to ooze upward from the cracks and crevices of the caked clay.]

[Shizuru might start to get the impression pretty fast that this is something a little worse, and a little more real, than a shitty dream. There's the sense of being watched by a foreign presence, practically dripping with concentrated malevolence.]

[kicks_ass]

[ having sensitivity beyond a normal human, she could feel all of that and more. It was not a good feeling and it was penetrating her body like needles. The chills she got from it as she watched the fistfull of hair and a crumbling skeleton. Who would dream of such a place really?

It reminded her a bit of things she had seen during the Dark Tournament and when her brother talked about it. She looked around, feeling like something was watching her. She didn't like it. ]

Oi, if you want something, show yourself. I hate playing hide and seek with creepies.

[leekspins]

[There's a low, dark chuckle. It sounds vaguely feminine, but that may be due to the mind the creature is inhabiting.]

Hide? I have no cause to hide from you, child. Look around you. I am there. All that you see, I am.

[kicks_ass]

[ Shizuru doesn't seem amused by the sound of the creature talking. Her expression remains unaffected. ]

Yeah I see some weird shit. Could I get some actual appearance and don't call me a child.

[leekspins]

You are limited. Inferior. Reliant on your sight. Shall I take it from you?

[The malicious and heavy feelings grow more intense.]

It would..."please" me to see your empty sockets bleed.

[kicks_ass]

I don't mean it literally, moron.

[ Yeah, she's still got her senses, so she's not really going to deal with this crap with threats. ]

It would please me to shut your annoying mouth up.

[dramaticals]

[he had entered her dream just like she came to his. when he arrived he felt... disturbed. there was something wrong here. he had arrived just in time to see orihime being pulled down to the ground, and it was a good thing adam was equipped with his wilt and blush.

he ran towards her, not making it in time and she sunk right into the ground.]

Hold on-! [he didn't know why he was here saving her, but... she had done the same for him, he wanted to do this much at least.]

[leekspins]

[Inky blackness seeps from the ground, like an oily mist, and dissipates. There's a young woman not far from him, who seems to be engaged with the unseen entity (in the thread up above). When it speaks, there's a harsh edge to its voice that hints at nightmares and horrors, enough to give any sane person goosebumps.]

[dramaticals]

[enough of this. adam wasn't one to become intimidated that easily, his fears didn't come from any creatures or monsters. no, what he truly feared was much more cruel than that.

in any case, adam eyed the being from behind his mask, his hand already on the hilt of his blade. he was waiting for it to attack, to do anything really, and the time for talking was no more. he would kill this... thing.]