1005/Hard Times, New Friends!
From MahouMUSH
| Hard Times, New Friends! | |
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| Date of Scene: | 07 February 2016 |
| Location: | Mitakihara - Infinity University |
| Synopsis: | Haurna chases down the dour girl, Greta Legend, she met the other day. Turbo Cure Befriendment, Go! |
| Cast of Characters: | Greta Legend, Haruna Kurosawa |
- Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa has come along with her 'pet' seagull, Corvus on her shoulder, and carrying a box of donuts from Karou's Donut stand. They're donuts with a heart shaped hole. These are what Haruna refers to as a 'Coruvs special', they've been double glazed and sprinkled. They're like mini frosted cakes at this point! She's tracked down Greta to her dorm and takes a deep breath.
She may have used the powers of the Detective Precard to do this. It's handy for finding people.
That girl was awfully sad and now she wants to investigate!
She knocks on the door, knock knock knock. She politely waits with a smile with the box of donuts!
- Greta Legend has posed:
There's a knock on the door, and for a few moments there's sounds of clattering on the inside, before the stepping on over to the doorway, and it opens up a crack to look outside, an annoyed glare on her face, "Oh. It's you from the other day."
There's the distinct smell of kitchen smells that would indicate that she might have been cooking, but the door isn't open enough to give a clear picture of her situation.
"How can I help you?"
- Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa raises a box. "I got donuts!" she pauses. "I mean-- I got you donuts! Because. I wanted to come over and talk." she says softly. "...because something seemed to be bothering you the other day." she says with soft series of matter of fact nods. "Corvus has been worried too." she says. Corvus nods his head not talking.
She nods.
"I know you may not want to talk about it but---" she says softly. "---that's okay!" she says. "I just want to make sure you're okay! And-- feed you donuts for now, okay?" she asks with a smile.
- Greta Legend has posed:
Greta narrows her eyes a little bit more, before saying, "There's nothing to talk about. I'm fine." She's totally not fine, but she seems way too colds in anycase. She looks at the box of donuts, then looks to the bird, before saying, "I'm not interested in donuts, and I'm cooking."
With that, she attempts to close the door.
- Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa watches the door shut. Click! Greta successfully closes the door. Nrg-- she had a box in her hands and her foots still in a splint and she didn't want to hurt that foot. Nrg-- She sighs and lays her head against the door, forehead pressing against it...
"Hey... I think you can hear me in there.." she says softly.
"Look... when.. I thought my sister died two years ago. I sort of hid from everybody and I told everyone I was okay when I wasn't and I pushed everyone away that even cared and chased them off...." she says softly. "--and she was the only friend I really had." she adds.
"--and I became resentful and no one would talk to me after that and I became the weird girl with the raven feather hairclip. Ask anyone! They'll tell you about me, it wasn't that long ago-- weird quiet Haruna! No one really calls me that anymore though now I am just oddball.. or featherhead!" she says cheerfully.
"But..." she says.
"I made some really stupid mistakes because of my feelings and I hurt a /lot/ of people and I made some pretty terrible mistakes my sister wasn't particularly proud of when I found her uh... in the coma alive." she says softly.
"All I'm trying to say is--" she talks through the door still. "--is that you may not want to talk-- but.. if you find the courage to.. sometimes. Sometimes it helps! I know I wish I had someone who didn't give up on me, ya know?..." she asks.
She just looks down at her box of donuts and stands there. Corvus sighs a bit as he places a wing to his forehead.
- Greta Legend has posed:
Greta never actually stepped away from the door, instead having slumped to the ground and wrapped up around her knees, softly crying, and trying not to let it be heard. She finds herself listening through the door to Haruna's story, and though not at all responding to anything she says...
After Haruna goes quiet, there is still no response from Greta. Perhaps she's decided to ignore the girl entirely. She just wants to be left alone, after all.
However, eventually the door opens back up, Greta hanging her head just a little in a way that her bangs sort of hide her eyes, "Why are you trying to help me..? You hardly know me... You don't have any reasons, and it's not like I'm going to be here for long anyway. Knowing my dad, I'll be pulled out of this school too... So why bother?"
- Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa is about ready to sigh... she goes to say one last thing--to tell her dorm number and who'll be there-- but instead, the door opens! And she smiles again. "Well why not?" she asks. "It looked like you needed a friend and---I used to look like that too." she says softly. "--and just because you might not be around doesn't mean we still couldn't talk... or be friends even!" she says.
"Anyways... um. The donuts are still on the table.. if you'd still have me in- and we can talk-- or we can just eat and talk about nothing important but---"
"It's up to you now, Greta-san!" she says softly.
- Greta Legend has posed:
Greta continues to to 'not look' at Haruna for a little while more, as though contemplating what to do. It's easy to see on her cheeks that her tears are just starting to dty up. Finally, Greta turns and gestures, "Alright, come in..." She walks in and gestures, "Sit where you want. I was cooking."
With that, she steps on over to where she was working in the kitchenette. After a bit more inspection one might notice the cooking apron she's wearing, as she gets back to the cutting board and returns to cutting some vegetables.
"I was working on my cooking club assignment.."
- Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa walks in and smiles. She places the box of donuts down and softly sniffs, as if trying to figure out what it smells like. Vegetables? She watches. "Oh, do you like cooking, I do, too. I've learned how to cook for... someone special." she says softly with a matter of fact nod.
She opens the box of donuts and places Corvus down near the box and gives him a donut. He gives a 'thumbs up' with his right wing, Haruna smirks and gives his head a preen. She turns around to face Greta. "Thank you." she says with a soft bow.
"So what are you cooking?" she asks. Start it easy, she thinks. She can work up to the issue at hand.
She looks at Greta softly, she might had known she was crying, but if she does, she doesn't mention it.
- Greta Legend has posed:
"What am I cooking...?" Greta pauses a moment, finally brushing her bangs out of her eyes enough to look at Haruna with, before looking back to her work, and taking stock of what she's already prepared. "Let's see... The leeks are meant to be cooked in a broth, intended as a side for my roasted chicken..."
Then she goes lively as her eyes go wide, "AAAH!!! The chicken's still cooking!" She dives into her stove and with oven mitts she pulls a tray of chicken breasts out, poking at them with a fork and groaning, "Oh no! They're overcooked! Now they're too dry to be served!!"
For the first time she seems to be actually fretting about something like a normal person.
- Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa nods. "Oh.. so----" then Greta leaps towards the stove and opens the stove and ack, the chicken is overdone. "Is it burned?..." she asks. She softly looks at the bird. Corvus seems unphased by cooked bird. She looks at the bird and hrmms. "You said it was meant to be served with leeks in a broth? Well-- turn the broth--- into a sauce! A little thickner some herb spice and it'll fix the dry chicken really good!" she says with a soft smile. "Don't worry. I overcook my food all the time! I'm still learning!"
"Just relax-- and make sure the oven's off for now-- okay? I'm sure we can fix this!" She insists.
She looks at the vegetables and hrmmms.
"The best way to fix dry chicken is to add liquid though." she says with a nod.
She keeps her hands off though.
"So.. Greta-san." she asks. "What has you so sad...?" she asks softly.
- Greta Legend has posed:
Greta considers the advice, hrmming a little, "Turning it into a sauce... Yeah, that should work.." She turns and begins to pick out various herbs that she knows works for thickening sauce while not overloading the flavor.
After a little bit of re-focusing on salvaging her work, before finally sighing at the question being asked, and mumbles, "I... I had a friend... I met her not long ago... She was the first friend I've had since coming to Japan, and... The first person I tried to make friends with in years..." She turns the heat down on the stove top and then turns to lean against the counter. "I was just opening up to her... It was the first time I'd really... Let myself opened myself up to anyone..."
She then closes her eyes, "Then the storm happened... And now she's gone..."
- Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa listens softly , gently and tersely. she softly steps forward and gives Greta a soft hug. It's soft. She can escape or push her away easily enough, but it sounds like Greta needs one to her. "I'm sorry." she says softly.
"It's the worst... isn't it?" she asks. "That feeling? That someone you care about isn't there anymore." she says softly. "It feels like you want the world to end- but it doesn't- it keeps going." she says dissapointedly.
"What was her name Greta...?" she asks softly. "Who was she, what was she like...?" she asks softly.
Corvus hops back up to Haruna's shoulder. She pets Corvus softly.
"Talk to me about her."
- Greta Legend has posed:
Greta doesn't try to escape the hug, and for a little bit she trembles, before closing her eyes and leans into the hug, "It's funny... I didn't really know her for very long, but for that short time she meant the world to me..." She brings her fingers to her mouth, sort of lingering there, before shaking her head. "And then the world was gone... I don't know why it felt like that..."
She then looks up and smiles, "Then I remembered that she had a little sister... She was all alone now... Without her big sister to take care of her, so... I found her and am going to take care of her..."
She sighs a bit, and mumbles, "Anshi Hayakawa... That was her name."
- Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa merely listens because that's the best she can do right now as she listens intently. "That's okay... time isn't really... a factor in friendships I find. Most of my friends I'd only.. met in passing once but-- when I needed them most, they were there for me." she says softly. "All of them!" she says softly.
She nods. "Anshi Hayakawa." she says softly. "I'm sure that Anshi-san would rest easy knowing you're taking care of her little sister, Greta-san!" she says softly. "Expcially since you trusted her so much." she beams.
"The important part is that you should never forget-- but-- also understand that she cared about you a lot- and- if she was here right now- I don't think she'd want you holed up in your room... alone... not trying to make friends... not trying to move forward." she says softly.
She pauses. "You said she died during the storm. Was she... caught by something falling? In a building..?" she asks, and then asks in a roundabout way. "Or--- was she with the others in downtown...?" she asks softly.
- Greta Legend has posed:
Greta freezes up a bit when Haruna mentions details about the night of the storm, a couple of them that she's aware of, before shaking her head, "She fell into the river, and didn't come back out..." She squeezes her eyes shut, "I don't want to talk about it..."
- Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa tugs Greta into another hug, this one less light. "You don't need to talk about that if you don't want to." she says softly. "...but I am glad you are talking." she says softly. "I know it hurts a lot right now." she pats Greta's back and releases her hug. "Here..." she says scooping up Corvus, she places Corvus on Greta's shoulder. "Corvus-chan is good at protecting me and being a good friend. I know he'd like to be your friend too." she says with a matter of fact nod. Corvus also nods, beak up and down.
She softly offers a hand. "If you'd let me..." she smiles. "I'd like to try to be your friend, too Greta! You seem like a nice person and-- we both like cooking! And I know some others that could use some friends, too- and--"
"Even if you do go someplace else- I have ways of visiting no matter where you go!" she winks.
- Greta Legend has posed:
Hugs are good. Hugs feel safe. Greta leans into the hug and sighs, just sort of losing herself in thoughts for the period of closeness. It just felt nice, you know?
The hug inevitably ends though, and Greta was going to resign herself to just trying to cope while cooking when she notices the gull being placed on her shoulder. She blinks and narrows her eyes as she looks into Corcus's eying his reactions.
Then goes wide eyed and tries to shove the gull off her shoulder, snapping and grabbing at the gem she's wearing around her neck, as she snaps in a growl, "ALRIGHT, I'VE HAD IT!" She growls and jumps backwards to put space between herself and Haruna, "I don't know what kind of game you're playing, but no lousey birds, cats, rats, or whatevers, are going to trick me!"
Suddenly hostile!
- Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa blinks and leans forward and steals Corvus back quickly.. she places him on her shoulder. She looks back at Greta. "Eh...?" woah. "Calm down Great-san okay...? Corvus.. isn't like that." she says softly. She frowns and looks down and back up... "Can I... tell you the story about how I met Corvus...?" she asks softly.
"It's a little troubling. I'll understand if you don't want to hear it but---" she says softly.
"I trust Corvus implicity." she says softly.
- Greta Legend has posed:
"You would, wouldn't you?!" Greta yells out, still not buying it, "It's gonna be so easy to just trust a cute fuzzy creature that gives you super-powers, isn't it?!" She now glares at Corvus specifically, "You're just like that little rat, aren't you!?"
She squeezes at her gem in hand as she points at Corvus, "A little monster that grants wishes and gets people to fight monsters, until they can't handle it anymore?! Is that your plan with Haruna?!"
She does appear to be describing the MO of a certain little rat. Greta growls and screams, "I know you can talk! You can't fool me with the quiet bird schtick!"
- Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa shakes her head. "Corvus isn't the source of my power. My power comes from the Happiness inside me, as granted by Blue-sama." she says softly. "Corvus is merely my partner who detects dark signatures and dispenses me PreCards." she says softly.
"You seem to be in the know so I'll be straight. I'm a magical girl called a 'Pretty Cure'. My power comes from the mirror inside my heart." she says.
"But you mention wishes, so I'll tell you the story anyways."
"Corvus was a raven once. A raven demi-god. He resided in a trapped tablet. He reached out to me on a school trip." she says. "This is after two years of....."
"Being alone and--letting my sadness and despair fester. It's true. He took advantae of me. He promised me a wish. I wanted desperatly to have my sister back." she says softly.
"My sister was never dead. But I'll get to that later." she says. "I had to free him from his tablet by collecting souls. So he granted me to make my darkness manifest, as a 'Priestess'." she says. "I did this. But it was revealed to me he was lying. He could never grant wishes to begin with."
Corvus looks kind of shamed.
"Then.. another group took advantage of me, and brainwashed me to continue his work. Corvus was freed--- do you remember when it rained feathers a few months back..? Yeah."
"Blue-sama--- the deity guardian of Earth at the moment-- explained to me that my sister wasn't dead. She was a magical girl called a Pretty Cure. She'd be captured after expending her energy to save people from the fire I belived she died in-- and this group, the Phantom Empire took her away."
"All my friends came together and gave me hope though I had none--- and I was able to use that to activate my 'love seed'." she says. "So I became a Pretty Cure, like my sister had. Corvus took a large portion of who I was with him--- and for a moment I saw into his head. He was just sad too. Someone very important to him was taken from him too, a very long time ago. In a way- we were both upset and terrible things happened to us both. I used my powers to purify the despair out of him--- because..."
"Because no one gave up on me when I was doing terrible things. Because everyone did thier best to save me, though they had no reason to. I couldn't turn around and watch someone else in as much pain I was get destroyed for it. So I protected him."
"He'd been stripped of his god hood. Blue-sama made sure he was okay-- and now he's with me."
"Do you understand Greta-san...?" she asks.
"Corvus is a seagull because he died once protecting me already from a man called 'The Pretty Cure Hunter', Phantom, who would see me sleeping forever in a dream of despair. He was brought back as a seagull through one of the final acts of another good friend of mine who gave his life so I could rescue my sister from the Phantom Empire."
"For him to turn around and hurt me... I think it'd hurt him more." she says softly.
- Greta Legend has posed:
Greta gives Greta a moment to explain her situation, and for that while she's silent and stil glaring. It's a lot of information to process... However, she sucks in a breath, closing her eyes for a bit as she loses herself in thought. "That..."
She then very bluntly glares, "Is the sappiest story I've ever heard."
She points at the bird oncee more, "So you're telling me that this guy doesn't give wishes, doesn't make contracts to make magical girls, doesn't make you fight witches and doesn't force you to use the gems they drop to keep you alive... And most importantly..."
One more glare, "ISN'T A WHITE CAT-RAT THING CALLED KYUBEI!?" Huff, puff, huff.
- Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa nods. "It is sappy. But it all happened, Greta-san!" she smiles. "I've made a lot of friends... and I lost some too." she says looking down. "But... it's imporant to know these people loved you, and everyone else, and continue that forward." she says softly.
She sits down and crosses her arms. "Is that what this about? The white rat?" she asks. "I know of him. He tricks girls into making wishes. I work for an organization trying to figure out how to undo what he's done. It's a process. But..."
She looks down and shakes her head. "Corvus isn't Kyubey, no. He can't grant wishes unless my wish is for donuts and to have bird cuddles and to watch him play MMOs in his free time." she smiles as best she can... "And-- you know. He's a seagull, not a tiny white rat."
"So... Anshi..." she says softly. "She was one, wasn't she? A Puella Magi..?" she asks softly. She frowns and looks down. "I'm sorry." she says softly.
- Greta Legend has posed:
Of course, the blatantly obvious is pointed out to her, and Greta huffs, "I knew that!" Before turning about and leaning against the counter, now going back to quiet, and sighing a bit. "Yeah... Yeah, she was..." She wraps her arms around her chest to hug herself.
"And the worst part is... The real reason she died isn't because of fighting a witch... Sure, she nearly died, but that isn't what killed her..." She grits her teeth, "She died because she fell to despair... Despair because she got exactly what she wished for..."
- Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa nods a little. "Puella Magi, they need to hunt witches to keep thier soul gem clean." she says softly. She looks down. "I know they can wish for pretty much anything, and the rat can just make it happen." she says softly.
She closes her eyes. "What did she wish for, Greta.. do you know?" she asks softly. "I know some Puella won't talk about it. It seems personal between them." she says gently. She sighs a bit.
"Wishes...." she says. "...Blue-sama has advice on wishes he gave me. Wishing for a particular someone... for someone to dissapear... or for personal power, always makes misfortune in the end." she says.
- Greta Legend has posed:
There's a bit of quiet, as Greta closes her eyes and mumbles, "I'd rather not talk about it... All you need to know is that Anshi's dead because of it... And her little sister's all alone now..." She shakes her head, "Kyubey is my enemy. He's as much a monster as all the others we fight, and it's worse because he comes in the form of a fuzzball to trick people who don't know better." She grits her teeth, "The Puella's are all his victims... Though I don't like that Homura..." She grumbles....
- Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa nods. "Akemi-san? She's a real piece of work. But she means well. She's just been through a lot herself, Greta, I'm sure." she says softly.
Corvus nods his head. "Sometimes..." he finally talks. "People will act cold, because it's how they protect themselves." he says. "--and it's hard for them to connect with people due to thier experiences. Haruna used to be like that. I used to be like that."
"I do agree with that. The Puellas /are/ victims." she sighs a bit and closes her eyes and stands up and walks over to Greta.
"So---"
She asks. "You're a magical girl too." she says. "Do you have a name?" she asks. "I'm Cure Gull. I'm okay telling you that..."
"Everyone who would hurt me already knows who I am. So. What's the point of hiding?" she smiles.
- Greta Legend has posed:
Greta rubs her eyes a little bit as she tries to warm herself up, and finally makes her way to that box of donuts and grabs one, picking out a glazed donut and nomming on it. "Yeah, I suppose. I never found a tiny animal creature though. Just this." She holds up the green gem she'd been hanging onto.
"This is Tri Soul, my intelligent device. I don't really have special name or anything... But I did come up with something the other day..."
She arches an eyebrow, "Cure Gull? Oh yeah, you were there with that Ice Cream monster, weren't weren't you?" She grins, "That guy was such a pushover." She tilts her head, "Didn't you recognize me?" Confusion. "I walked around a corner, and walked right back and threw the tomahawk at that guy."
- Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa shakes her head. "Magic is weird." she giggles. "We don't recognize one another some times and yeah that was me. I use wind magic and feathers!" she says.
"Oh! An Intelligent Device!" she says. "I know a few users. Is yours friendly? I know each one is different." she says.
She grins. "Those donuts are good. Karou makes the best donuts." she says.
"I have a friend kind of /like/ an Intelligent Device, named 'Unity Loop'. She was the part of some sort of collection of 'Lost Logia' that form to make some sort of powerful weapon that was being controlled by a grief ridden AI copy of someone." she says sadly. "I won't bring her out because she'll just be loud and probably start pinging your device repeatedly." she giggles.
"She's hyper friendly though." she says. "She likes working together with others." she nods. "She's my morale partner!" she beams.
"So how did you come upon Tri Soul?" she asks. "Most people I know... they find them by accident."
- Greta Legend has posed:
"Tri Soul is... Strange..."
And on cue, the device speaks up, its voice scrambling into three different voices, "/IT TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE./" "-AND YOU ARE STILL ALIVE, MASTER.-" "~TRI SOUL THE BEST THING TO HAPPEN TO YOU, LITTLE LADY.~"
To which Greta gestures, "See what I mean?" She shrugs, "I saw something fall into the pool of my last apartment building from the sky. I fished him out and then got jumped by a monster. He got damaged in the fall it seems, which is why the three voices."
- Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa listens and ohs! "Oh! There's three in there! So-- 'Tri' Soul-- okay I get it." she smiles. "Hi! Hello! Heya!" she says three times, one for each voice. "You should listen to your partners there Greta-san!" she beams.
"It has your best intrest at heart! Devices don't choose thier masters willy nilly!" she says.
"So you're someone special!" she nods.
She leans forward and smiles.
She also offers Greta another hug. "Greta-san. If... you need help, taking care of Anshi's little sister, you let me know, okay? I have contacts that can help with things like this." she nods matter of factly.
"What's the plan right now?" she asks softly.
- Greta Legend has posed:
Greta was in the middle of nomfing down her donut when she recieves yet another hug, bites her lip before nodding to Haruna, "Right... I'll try, I guess." She sighs before scarfing down the remains of the donut.
"What's the plan now? I dunno... Just... Keep fighting monsters, I suppose.. And keep Sachiko safe... Anshi's last thoughts were about her... If I didn't take care of her, I don't think I could forgive myself."
- Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa nods. "That's important then." she says. The girl softly closes her eyes. "So-- your cooking assignment." she motions to the food. "I think you'll do just fine on it." she smiles. "And I can help you with that too I think, but-- I admit. I've not had much experience cooking vegetables." she thinks a bit.
"Maybe I should try some simple dishes tonight..." she ponders.
She shakes her head. "Regardless..." she smiles.
"Thanks for talking with me, Greta-san. I know things are hard right now, and it's brave of you to talk to me about them." she smiles.
"Because some of our battles aren't even fought against monsters..." she says with a series of soft nods.
- Greta Legend has posed:
Greta glances back to the broth that she had simmering away into a more thick sauce, before shrugging, "I don't really need that much help. This time I botched the chicken because I didn't pay attention." She now turns the heat off of the stove and lets it sit a bit. "Besides, I'm not going to become a master chef from not making mistakes. As it is, though, I think I've done pretty well for myself."
She then points to a shelf that she's got off to the side, upon which there's a little less than a dozeen awards from various cooking contests, several of them first place. "This is perfectly acceptable for a day to day dinner though." She grins.
Then she nods and says, "I know... Thank you."
- Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa smiles and peeks at the shelf and her eyes go wide. "Woah!" she says. "I don't think I could ever win an award for /my/ cooking." she says. "and I just started but I'm learning! I'm learning how to cook American and Japanese and a little fusion of both! But...I need to find the right things to mix." she says softly.
She smiles wide and nods. "You're welcome Greta-san. Okay if-- you need someone to talk to-- my dorm is just down the way it's----" she gives a number here. "--and Corvus or Aki or I tend to be home. Corvus can talk to you but if you don't feel comfortable talking to him, Aki should be there sometimes- she's my big sister!----" erm. "Well she was my big sister. She kinda... spent two years... frozen in a mirror. Because that's how The Phantom Empire keeps it's captives..." she says. "BUT she's still my big sister even if we're the same ages now." she giggles. "She can talk to you. She's a veteran and has been at this stuff longer than I have."
"Oh-- right." she digs through her pocket and pulls out a slip of paper. "I keep a few of these slips handy because people ask for my number a lot. You haven't, but here it is." she offers.
"You can have the rest of the donuts, I brought them for you~ So-- I'm going to let ya be now, but-- we should talk again soon- maybe do something fun!" she says.
"Or maybe I can have you over to my place with dinner?" she asks. "We always love company!"
- Greta Legend has posed:
Greta finally smiles a bit, and nods, "Hai." She takes the number and grabs another donut.
