1705/Chill, then Netflix.

Chill, then Netflix.
Date of Scene:	07 July 2016
Location:	Mitakihara/Pikarigaoka - King Penguin Park
Synopsis:	The park is clearly not a good location for Naru, but after meeting Mon Fubuki, at least she doesn't care anymore.
Cast of Characters:	Naru Osaka, Taiko Tsume

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Naru Osaka has posed:
It is a beautiful day in the park. The sun is shining, the air is warm with just enough breeze to keep it fresh and not stifling. It's afternoon, school has let out for the day, and there's people walking home, walking dogs (and someone who is walking their cat on a lead), kids playing and generally life being lovely.

Its almost an act of defiance for Naru to have staked out a chunk of grass to sprawl in. There's not a lot of good recent associations with this park, but its lovely and she's determined to reclaim it as a comfortable place in the city.

Ostensibly Naru is laying on her stomach, doing homework as she lays in the grass. In reality, her sketchbook is open on top of her math text book and she's doodling, which has not a whit to do with algebra and everything to do with procrastination.

Taiko Tsume has posed:
    Normally, one would think that a cool breeze on a warm summer day would be a welcome thing. Refreshing, and rejuvenating even. Yet the cold breeze that descends upon the part offers no such revitalization. This chill is unnatural, bitter, and numbing. A gentle mist rolls along the ground, vapors reaching out like claws, sharp talons wrapping around flowers and blades of grass, covering the ground in a thin layer of frost.

    The white-clad lady who glides along the grass, as if she were a ship crossing a very still ocean, is hardly natural either. There is no joy, no passion, no happiness and no pity in her eyes as she surveys the park, and those who would visit it.

    One girl in particular catches her eye, a young middle schooler working on homework. No, someone pretending to work on homework, Mou Fubuki discovers, sliding closer to look over Naru's shoulder at her various doodles. "Tsk. Tsk. Tsk."

    No one else in the crowd seems to even notice the yuki-onna there, standing in the middle of the park in broad daylight, nor do they seem to notice the frost, but one by one they huddle closer, wrapping arms around themselves in order to preserve their heat. An unlikely scene, in the middle of summer.

Naru Osaka has posed:
A twist of her head as the chill settles and Naru looks up. "What /is/ it with this park?" She asks first, rhetorically, it would seem. The doodles of people and dogs and trees are fairly well done, if the truth be told, she's probably better off sticking with art rather than algebra.

Naru sits up and considers Mou Fubuki. "You're not fond of my drawings?"

Taiko Tsume has posed:
    "You came here to work, but yet you're drawing instead," says Mou Fubuki, who is out terrorizing parkgoers and not actually doing her own homework. A lack of hypocrisy is not really a necessary qualification for a villain. "Why bother pretending? If you don't care, then you don't care. Everything would be better if you just admitted that."

Naru Osaka has posed:
"Y'know, the last guy called my art work, and gave me a hard time for that. You're calling it goofing off, and giving me a hard time for /that/." Naru points out, with a twist of a half smile. "I came here to enjoy the sunshine, and the warm breeze and the poeple. Homework was a handy way to not fall asleep, but now I'm drawing for a while too. Taking a break doesn't mean you don't care."

Taiko Tsume has posed:
    Mou raises an eyebrow at Naru's response. She purses her lips. "You know, usually people don't respond to me. Normally they just get into fights with their boyfriends or whatever. Who are you? You're not one of those magical girls I was warned about, are you?"

    Mou looks down at Naru, frowning, calculating. To say that she's confused would be putting it mildly, but she's not really worried. No one's ever given her a reason to worry, yet.

    For once, her cold glare is matched with a toothy grin. "Well, no matter. I don't really care. Maybe this will show you how you truly are" She raises a hand, and a cold wind twirls around her arm, carrying tiny snowflakes that glint in the sunlight and don't melt. The wind is gentle enough, it's certainly not an attack, but when it reaches out for Naru it's very, unnaturally, cold.

Naru Osaka has posed:
"Naw. I'm just a weirdo." Naru replies on the notion that she might be a magical girl. "Boring, not unique, just a weirdo." She pushes herself up to her feet as Mou looks down at her, evening up the height difference just a smidge, as if bracing for something, but possibly just hoping she's going to be wrong.

The breeze is a first clue that this is going to go about as not awesome as she feared, but as it becomes sharply cold, Naru bends to grab for her sketchbook and make a break for it.

Of course the 6am run from hell she's already done today is making running /now/ more of a challenge.

Taiko Tsume has posed:
    Mou 'hmms' at Naru's explanation, of being 'just a weirdo'. 'Boring', even. To be fair, Mou tends to think that people are boring all the time, but they don't usually admit it. Weirdo indeed.

    Naru is running, and Mou is standing there stunned. She's never actually had someone... run from her before. Is she... is she supposed to chase after her?

    Meh, why not?

    The wind picks up behind Mou Fubuki, and she glides forward, picked up slightly into the air by a foot or so. "Going so soon? I don't think so, dear. What is it they always say in cop dramas? Ah yes..." She aims her palm at Naru, fingers spread wide as icicles form around her hand. "Freeze!"

    A blast of cold air launches from her hand, ice crushing and coalescing into volleyball-sized snowballs, each of which flies at Naru. The shots are haphazard, freezing the ground as they miss their target. A few of them might actually hit the girl and wrap her up in ice, if she doesn't do something about them.

    The wind carries Mou Fubuki's chilling laughter. She's enjoying this chase.

Naru Osaka has posed:
This had actually been working out! Naru got her sketchbook, put some distance between herself and Mou Fubuki, even on tired legs, there being sufficient incentive provided.

Naru really is a boring weirdo, who has not even a speck of magic with which to defend herself against a volley of snowballs being lobbed at her. She tries to dodge, ducking away from one of them, but the shotgun method with magical ice is fairly effective.

Caught up, Naru struggles to try and break free of her icy entrapment. "Well /that/ didn't pan out as I'd hoped." She comments with a soft little hrm.

Taiko Tsume has posed:
    Yes! Caught her! Mou Fubuki feels real good about her life right now. As she glides closer to Naru, the winds die down, and she slides to a stop next to her. Well, an almost stop. She's moving ever so slowly, as if friction never fully takes a hold of her.

    "Now, now. I'm not going to do anything so dreadful as to drain your energy, and I'm not here to give you any bad flowers." She leans closer to Naru, reaching out with her pale hands that peak out of long, loose sleeves. A breath of air, in the shape of an ethereal hand, reaches out from her, slowly snaking towards Naru. "All I want to do... is touch your heart."

    The magical, blue white, ghostly fingers reach out for Naru, passing into her, and close around her heart. There is very little physical pain in this process. There's really only a numbness, accompanied maybe by the tickly feeling that one might get if their leg falls asleep.

    More importantly, even after the ghostly hand vanishes, even after the icy prison slowly starts to crack, there is an overwhelming sense of 'meh' in Naru. It's clearly a foreign thought, not her own, but it's like a voice that drowns out competing thoughts. Nothing matters. Nothing is all that important. Why bother with all of this nonsense? Duty, compassion, friendships, love... none of it means anything. It's all just a waste of time.

    Mou Fubuki watches for Naru's reaction, wondering if she'll be surprised yet again.

Naru Osaka has posed:
"I'm getting good at the energy drain." Naru comments. "I'd almost looked forward to adding you to the rankings." She notes as she tries to lean back, away from the hand that's readhing for her.

Reaching /into/ her.

Naru blinks, her expression more thoughtful than paniced, considering as the sensations build. "Woah. That.. that feels weird." She comments as the icy, the tingling, the numbness start to settle.

Everything about her body language slumps a little, shoulders hunched down, her head drooped just that bit. As if standing tall and holding one's head up high is just WAAAY too much effort.

"Woah. You make this hard." Naru comments, as if she's fairly well aware that her thoughts are not entirely her own, but the struggle to gain the upper hand.. er.. thought.. isn't going her way. "What do you get out of it?"

Taiko Tsume has posed:
    Mou Fubuki frowns, thoughtfully. "How strange. Most people don't even know well enough to resist those kinds of thoughts. They just accept them as their own. Well, no matter. You already said you were strange."

    She shakes her head, floating ever so slightly higher into the air. Her ascent is very gradual, but it doesn't seem to stop. "To answer your question... what do I get out of it? Why, nothing really I suppose. Sometimes people anger me and I use this to get back at them. Other times I do it just because I can. It's nothing that I need to do. It's just my own personal little revenge upon the world."

    She floats higher and higher, gliding away from Naru, to the point where she has to raise her voice in order to keep talking. "It was interesting meeting you, Weirdo-chan."

Naru Osaka has posed:
"Who are you?" Naru finally thinks to ask and then shrugs, the vast majority of her brain caring about neither the question nor the answer it might recieve. She glances over to her things, and there's just enough instinct left to wander back that way and shove her books back in her bag. Muscle memory more than /caring/ exactly.

"Enh." Naru shoves her sketchbook in after her schoolbooks, creativity utterly absent, and she couldn't care less.

Taiko Tsume has posed:
    "Mou Fubuki," is the name that the yuki-onna gives, as she floats away into the sky.

    As she leaves, the frost melts, the snow disappears, and any bits of ice that may have gotten on Naru or anyone else are simply gone. Mou leaves the park exactly in the shape it was in when she arrived, with the exception of Naru's new curse.