1438/Orange Is a Righteous Color!

Orange Is a Righteous Color!
Date of Scene:	04 May 2016
Location:	Mitakihara/Pikarigaoka - Botanical Gardens
Synopsis:	When Reiko comes across Death Rebel trying to steal heart's eggs, she decides to do something about it. As Prism Keeper Orange, she successfully vanquishes evil! But what became of the boy behind the mask...?
Cast of Characters:	Ikuto Tsukiyomi, Reiko Touyama

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Ikuto Tsukiyomi has posed:
Tlock~

The plucked string of a violin. Pizzicato. The sound echoes out much farther than the instrument should, on its own. The sound carries magic as well, beckoning, luring. It won't be long now. He just has to wait. Wait, and pluck the strings.

Tlock~

He's there, just sort of hanging in the air. How he's doing that is anybody's guess. Has he gotten more powerful? It's possible. Dressed in black, the ruff of feathers rustling in the breeze, face hidden by that gloosy, chitinous, beak-like mask. He has a violin to his shoulder, held with his chin. the instrument glows a bright, malevolent purple as his fingers pick at the strings slowly.

He waits. His call has gone out. Those he seeks will answer. Then he will play. Extract their heart's eggs. And he will take them back to his masters. The whine drowns out all but his orders.

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Reiko Touyama has come to the botanical gardens for what else, but to feed koi. Her own pond is almost finished, and even when it's finished she'll probably still continue to come to the gardens! Koi are koi afterall!- and koi need koi kare!

And also bread.

Yup, she has a big ol' bag of bread as a treat today and she's in fact, all set to go feed koi bread when there's that's haunting meolody in the air.

She frowns and thinks, isn't that familiar?

But nope, it's Death Rebel and she frowns...

"Ugh... here... and alone..." she mutters some to herself.

"Gotta do my best..." she says as she seeks out a hiding place to transform.

"Chroma Prism Orange, Transform!" she calls out as she slips into some bushes.

Out comes darting Prism Keeper Orange! She hovers upwards--- level with Death Rebel, but still a distance away.

"Jerk! Stop doing that! Don't you know what you're doing!?" she calls out.

Ikuto Tsukiyomi has posed:
Tlock~

Death Rebel doesn't immediately react to Prism Keeper Orange's presence. When he finally does, his head lifts slowly from its tilted position, the birdlike visor/mask aiming in her direction. He seems to regard her silently for a moment. She is... familiar. But... he can't think where he's seen her. He can't think at all, really. The first thing that comes to the fore is his orders-- 'Gather heart's eggs. Dispose of anyone who gets in your way.'

She's a magical hero, clearly. And she's demanded he stop. Doesn't take a genius to figure out what she's going to do if he doesn't. Nonetheless, he speaks. "...You would stop me. Wouldn't you." It's hard to tell if that's a question or not, even if it's phrased as such. His voice is dull and lifeless-sounding, like a machine.

And yet he still plucks that violin. Reiko should be able to see it now. There are young people beginning to show up, their expressions lax and their eyes seeming glassy and unfocused.

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Prism Keeper Orange frowns and keeps her wings fluttering, keeping high-- he isn't reacting. Or doing much of anything besides playing and talking in that weird low monotone. Ugh. This guy... doesn't he react, or even care!?

Of course he doesn't.

She raises her hand and gathers up color energy in her palm. "Stop it!" she calls out as the glassy eyed people below gather.

She fires off the blast of color energy, aiming to try to slap it into Death Rebel- to either try to stop his violin playing, or to otherwise harm him-- make him do something else for a bit.

Like try to attack her. Yeah this is a bad idea and she knows it when she doesn't have back up.

Nrg, should had.. called first she thinks. Ugh what an idiot she is!

Ikuto Tsukiyomi has posed:
Surprisingly, the color energy does hit Death Rebel. He lets out a grunt, thrown back a ways. He hadn't even moved to avoid it. But now that she's made her intentions clearer... he follows suit. How does he do that? By arming himself more visibly.

The bow of the violin he was playing, that he still holds, disappears from his hands with a dark purple flash. And then the violin seems to glow more brightly yet. Its shape changes, morphs. It becomes a long-handled scythe, one that he shifts to hold with both hands along its haft. And then?

He darts at Prism Keeper Orange, scythe drawn back. He's fast, but not faster than she is.

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Prism Keeper Orange lowers her hand as she grabs her Chroma Wand with her other hand now as Death Rebel comes in fast.

She moves to get out of the way because she isn't going to sit there and take it--- darting backwards to get away from what she imagines is going to be incoming swipes of either the Scythe proper or maybe 'waves' from it--

That's a thing she sees in animes a lot, afterall! Surely of all the things that are 'real', that's one of the simpler things that is.

She points her Chroma Wand at Death Rebel and fires out and array of homing koi! Little fish swimming out at him, trying to track him!

"Why are you doing this!?" she calls out. "Don't you know this is wrong!? At -- at least that other girl has a reason for it!" she spits out.

Ikuto Tsukiyomi has posed:
It turns out to just be a swipe. As Prism Keeper Orange draws back from the swipe, it all but splits the air where she was. That was not a gentle swing, either. If that had hit her it probably would have done some serious damage!

The koi impacting against him draws him to bring his hands up and cross them before him to try to mitigate the damage. However, after a moment he realizes that's not going to work. So he draws his scythe up again, the sharp edge of the blade glowing with that dark energy, and swings the blade. When he does, a pulse of dark energy radiates out from the blade, pushing the koi back. Also possibly popping them before they can hit him any more.

But... when she speaks, he pauses. 'Other girl'? Who does she mean? Could it be... Utau? A face flits through his mind. Blonde hair. Blue eyes so like his that he couldn't help but see the resemblance. Fiery temperament, unshakeable determination.

"...Utau," he murmurs. So he knows her? Something seems to change about his demeanor. He seems to draw back some, as if confused. He doesn't attack, no. There's something oddly nonplussed about the way he turns his head, as if he's not quite sure where he is...

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Prism Keeper Orange is glad she's quick, she's also glad she can take a few good hits if she's prepared. Luckily, she's able to prevent herself from being hit.

Oh, and NOW he seems to care what he's doing!? Utau? That wasn't the girl's name it was something like... what did Kukai say? Pandora? But that seemed wrong. She huffs.

"Yeah, that's it!" she says with unsuredness!

But still. "Won't you stop this!?" she calls out, maybe-- maybe she can talk this through!

That'd be nice, wouldn't it!?

She isn't attacking, quite yet. Ugh, what she wouldn't do for some sort of purification that wasn't also a powerful attack right now.

She needs to learn, she thinks.

Ikuto Tsukiyomi has posed:
Death Rebel hesitates. Watches Reiko. Tries to think through. But the whine... He emits a quiet grunt, putting one hand to his head. The sound is cut off ruthlessly. He straightens. Holds his scythe more tightly. Is he going to talk it over with her?

No, apparently not. He raises the scythe. "...Dark Night Storm..." And then he swings it down. He's far enough away from her that he won't hit her with the swing. But as he swings it down, he's pointing the scythe at her. And from the end of that scythe a huge tornado of dark energy springs. It's incredibly strong, incredibly fast. And it widens as it grows further away from the scythe.

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Prism Keeper Orange sort of watches with bated breath... is he going to stop? Come too? He seems confused for a few moments... doesn't he? She waits and waits and---

Then he raises that scythe and calls out an attack!

Well- that isn't what she was hoping for, not even a little. She begins to back up and then she turns around into a full on flutter, trying to get away from the spinning torando of dark energy--- but it's a little too fast for her. Ohhhh how she wishes anime was wrong just this one time.

She gets sucked in, there's a yell, and loud screech from the girl of pain and she's /flung out/ across the ground where she skips once like a stone on water and against a tree- which causes it to shake. Well. That could had gone better. She flutters up to her feet as she gets back into the fray. "Gonna take more than that!" she says-- albiet- painedly- as she throws her Chroma Wand out, and fires off a bolt of bright, orange energy at Death Rebel-- and again and again, sending out a flurry of blasts of color energy!

Ikuto Tsukiyomi has posed:
Death Rebel looks ready to call it at that, when Orange goes flying. On the bright side (for her) the young people have already left. So even if that had been it, he'd have had to start over with his egg-stealing. However, it's not. But he's not quite ready for the blasts coming at him.

The first catches him off-guard, and he hits the ground. A second blast hits him too, just as he's pulling himself to his feet. But he avoids a third with a roll.

He gets to his feet again, and suddenly darts quickly at Prism Keeper Orange, twirling his scythe quickly before him to deflect anything incoming as he chases her. The blade is alive with dark energy, but it's not a blast he seems to be aiming for. He's looking to slice the Prism Keeper in half, if his trajectory is anything to go by.

Reiko Touyama has posed:
If there's anything Prism Keeper Orange has, it's tenacity. Not always the loudest. Sometimes a pushover-- she isn't gonna give up so easily at least! Maybe THAT'S why Mei hanged out with her all this time? She just wouldn't give up!

Regardless, she frowns some as she watches her blasts hit---ha! Good! Hits!

Maybe she can do this!

Then the man is flying at her with intent to kill!

Oh god, she can't do this!

She darts backwards quickly--- she draws her Chroma Wand over her head...

"Prism Aegis Power!" she calls out, trying to gather up as much energy as she can.

"Orange Outburst!" she calls out as she throws the wand downwards-- blasting with a large, bright orange beam of purifying orange energy as she aims to try to hit Death Rebel before he can /hopefully/ reach her.

Ikuto Tsukiyomi has posed:
It's close. Dangerously so. If it wasn't for that mask, the Prism Keeper would be able to see the whites of his eyes. She hears his drawn-in breath, can almost see the muscles tensing under his coat, preparing for the swing that would surely separate her top half from her bottom half...

And then that blast hits. There's a cry of surprise, one that quickly turns to pain, as the purifying energy starts to seep into him, to push the whine back. The blast bears him to the ground once more...

And he doesn't get up. The scythe disappears, shifting back into a violin and thumping softly at Ikuto's side; the bow clatters quietly to the ground beside it. Death Rebel himself lays on his back in a crater made by his impact, his head turned to one side. He's not moving. But he's breathing, so that's good. Though the elevated pace of it, the raspy sound of each breath, is probably not good...

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Prism Keeper Orange is shaking heavily. Oh god that was close so very close and she takes a heavy cleansing breath.

"Yeah...! Come on! I'm no-----"

Then the dust and magical sparkles clear from around her and---oh no!

Di--did she do that!? Hw isn't dead, is he!? She wans't trying to do that! Not at all! She zips down and frowns.

"H--hey! Are you okay!?" she asks hovering up and over the boy, but not directly over. It COULD be a trap afterall!

Oh god, what does she /do/ now?

Ikuto Tsukiyomi has posed:
He's still, aside from his breathing. He doesn't look like anything's out of place. Nothing's visibly broken, and he's not bleeding or anything like that. So he doesn't look seriously hurt. But he's not moving. Did something else happen? Maybe he was so dark her purification energy did something to him...?

A black car pulls up nearby, and several people in black suits get out of it. They do indeed have sunglasses. They're heading for Death Rebel, too. Well, some of them are. Some of them are getting between Death Rebel and the Prism Keeper. They're armed, too. Billyclubs, which wouldn't do anything against her, but they're wielding them with intent to use them.

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Prism Keeper Orange sort of hovers a little closer and then.... Men in Black(tm) show up. She backs off... nrg...

Really, what can she do? These just look like guys with clubs. She's /Prism Keeper Orange!/. But--- Well that fight wasn't exactly easy. And if these guys arrived so fast---

Well more powerful goons could come! She doesn't even know if being shot at with a gun hurts yet or not.

Nrg-- perhaps it's for the best. What's she's gonna do with an unconcious Death Rebel anyways!? Take him back home!? ><

She decides to run now--- run away while the getting is good. At least she stopped heart egg theft.. right?

Ikuto Tsukiyomi has posed:
Those that had run to Death Rebel are picking him up now. More precisely one of the larger suited people does. And promptly throws him over a shoulder like a sack of potatoes! Another retrieves his violin, putting the instrument and its accompanying bow into a white case.

Those who had made a wall between the Prism Keeper and the fallen Death Rebel remain so, even as she takes flight away. They retreat behind the others, and then pile into the car. Even before the door is closed good, the car begins to squeal away into the night.

Ikuto is placed between the two agents that sit in the back, still unconscious. The whine is gone, for a little while, and he's going to sleep now. Just get the small bit of rest he can before all the pain comes back...