2012/Whispers of Grey: Finale!

Whispers of Grey: Finale!
Date of Scene:	10 October 2016
Location:	Uminari City - Shopping Strip
Synopsis:	Griselda does something horrible to color in the Shopping Strip on Juuban Avenue. Can the Prism Keepers and thier friends save Hiroko from herself? Find out! In the Final Episode of Season One of Prism Aegis!
Cast of Characters:	Reiko Touyama, Hoshi Kogane, Momo Akatsuki, Naru Osaka, Eilam Hisakawa, Yuzuki Amemori
Tinyplot:	Whispers of Grey

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Reiko Touyama has posed:
Hiroko Koumoto hasn't been back in school since the Prism Keepers found out she was Griselda. There's been no missing child report about her though, and- it turns out- she is just with her mom apparently. Just. Not in school.

The mundane rumors is that she transfered to Infinity, or Verone- 'where she belongs' according to her usual 'mean girl' group's rumors.

This is false. She's just. Not in school.

It is however, after school-- and that's when Roy sort of 'aiiesss!' loudly as his feathers bristle all over his bird form-- and immediatly chases down Reiko, who chases down Hoshi, and they together- probably chase down Momo.

Griselda is back out. She seems to be draining the world of color all by herself, the color forming into her hand as she does exactly what a Shade would-- color draining from the shopping strip as people begin to become sluggish or collapse all together. The ball of color twists and turns in her hand.

Prism Keeper Orange arrives-- she transformed on the way, because-- it seemed like an emergency. And it is.

"Prism Keepers." says Griselda. "Why do you protect something as worthless as color, and chaos?" she asks.

"The world would be a much better, place, wouldn't it? If everything was gray... and the same. No arguments about who's more...special. or favorites. No worries about... creating better things, when things already exist that do the job well." she says.

She hovers there and waits for answers. Reiko Touyama herself needs a moment to think about this. Maybe someone else has better responses.

Hoshi Kogane has posed:
When Hoshi hears what's going on, she responds, helps find Momo and goes. She's already Prism Keeper Yellow when she arrives, and Griselda's question gets an immediate answer. "If everything and everyone was the same, if nothing was unique? There would be no more joy or wonder in this world." She answers, sounding quite angry, "Look around you? Do you really think painting everything in fifty shades of grey does anything but make everyone depressed? People will still argue about who is better than others, they just will do it based upon their idea of a perfect shade of grey."

And then she adds, with a light huff. "And everyone is special. You are too, Hiroko." She makes a point of using the girl's regular name. "Orange isn't more special than you, she's just special in a different way. Your art is great, but the nature of a competition is that someone must win, and when all the candidates are great they face a tough choice."

Momo Akatsuki has posed:
The call goes out, calling all Prism Keepers! Via the old grapevine at least. When Hoshi finds her, she immediately rushes off, changing on the sly and arriving on scene just in time to hear Griselda's question.

Prism Keeper Pink doesn't actually have an articulate answer for anything the Grey Princess says, because she's still mad. Instead, she puffs up her cheeks, twiddles her thumbs beside them, and blows a raspberry at Griselda. The epitome of mental combat.

Naru Osaka has posed:
After school, and just enough time for Naru to have gotten home, changed out of her school uniform and into comfortable clothes before aiming to head back out for the rest of the day. She's just stepping out of OSA-P, after a quick chat with her own mother, and finds unhappy people and a lack of colour and a Griselda.

Naru goes digging into her satchel for her sketchbook as Griselda addresses the Prism Keepers and she arches her brow. "Worthless? You're calling colour worthless?" Her voice rings out with skepticism on that point most certainly. She's quiet as she finds her book, pulling it out to flip through it as she lets the Prism Keepers answer first. They were, after all, the ones asked in specific.

"Colour is what adds the life, the spice, the extra to the world. There's no less challenge or disagreement in black and white and grey, its just starker." Naru nods at the mention of art brought up by Yellow as she digs out her pencil from her bag, the sketches on the pages of her book almost glowing in intensity. "Art, and colour and the use of colour is personal, but you don't get to tell me how to draw anymore than I get to tell you the same."

Eilam Hisakawa has posed:
    Eilam being here? It was... by chance. He'd been holding with him his little 'color thing' that he'd put together in an attempt to know when something was wrong, and by chance he looked at it and things seemed... wrong. Somehow. He couldn't place it, but it seemed less so. Eilam himself was shopping with one of his assistants, picking up a few splurge items, and he started to see people collapsing. Color draining.

    Finally he saw her. Griselda. For a moment, he was angry, but she started to speak? What was that she said?

    The world would be a much better place... if everything was gray, and the same? It was strange. That... that choice of remark, the question, the statement towards someone about why they are protecting color. He wasn't a Prism Keeper, but unknown to any of them, to anyone but him, really... it brought up a memory that he had tried to keep aside. Tucked away. Reaching into the satchel his drained companion was holding onto, he pulled out an orange. Not Orange. A fruit. A juicy... drained orange, of color. A soft sigh escaped him as he walked towards where she was.

    "No, it would not be. Griselda, is it? Look at this. What do you see? What does it mean to you? Truly... just look at it." Why was he offering fruit towards Griselda? He didn't even seem angry. Eilam seemed incredibly sad. "You would have no way of knowing, and I do not hold that against you... but I want you to know that such a place has existed, and maybe still does. A place where everything is black and white. A place where there is no color. A place without hope, without... any future. A place where an orange is everything. If you truly feel that such a place is what you want? Please, come, and let me give you a hug and apologize to you that something caused you to feel that way. Because no one... should want such a thing. And I do truly think you do not understand exactly what you want."

    Yup. Eilam just offered to hug Griselda.

Yuzuki Amemori has posed:
Yuzuki Amemori is out after school still in her uniform and shopping. That's her story and she's sticking with it and she totally wasn't trying to convince a friend of hers at a store to get her a deal on some amps. When the world starts to drain color and things go all weird and wonky though, she holds a finger up, says, "Just think on it, come oooon." before running out of the store to try and find out what's happening.

That's when she sees a familiar face trying to make the world boring again. Ducking back into an alcove out of the immediate line of sight of anyone, she reaches out and yanks on a red cord that just seems to appear. Instead of her normal callout though, she calls out, "You're not making my armor grey again! It was so drab!" before stepping around the corner so that she can start running towards... a suicidal guy trying to hug her. This makes her charge falter and she just kind of stares at the situation.

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Griselda keeps draining the color. It's forming into that colorful ball, in her hands. All the Prism Keepers have seen a core-like this before- it's the same kind left behind by a Shade, afterall.

"Oh, is that what you think? Color is just color?" she asks. "What /did/ that insuffrable crystal tell you?" she asks. She's refering to Aura. "Surely you know by now, that color just isn't color?" she asks. "But the lifeblood of creation and productivy and imagination itself." she says.

"It is abohorent." the Princess of Grey insists.

She holds out the colorful orb toward's Eilam as he approaches. "I'm Griselda, Princess of Grey--- daughter to Nox. You keep using wrong names. You think wrong too." she says, eyes drifting to Naru.

"People won't fight. They won't have the will to." she says pointedly.

Prism Keeper Orange finally speaks up. "You're wrong!" she spouts. "Hiroko! Griselda! It doesn't matter who you think you are, you're wrong! If---- EILAM-KUN WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" she calls out. Yeah that totally just interupted her justice speech vibe.

Griselda suddenly clutches the globe of color and it suddenly turns 'grey'-- with a 'fohm!' sound to it-- wind expanding from the area- before it shatters outwards, toward's the assembled group-- and mostly centered at Eilam.

Griselda is not playing fair.

Also, she just smashed the color she collected...

As in it's gone.

That's really bad, isn't it?

"N--no!" yells Roy.

Eilam Hisakawa has posed:
    "It's okay, there's always hope. Just... stop, we can show you. Even if you don't..."

    And suddenly the orb of color was smashed, Eilams' breath leaving him as he saw the world around him suddenly seem a lot more grey. Grey, and painful, sinking to his knees and holding onto his chest, no way to hide that it hurt. "...believe me..." Eilam managed to finish what he was trying to say, having decided that he truly wanted nothing more than to help this girl. He thought she was crazy, or evil... but hearing that, now he truly thought she was misguided. No one who believed such deserved hate, just pity.

    But what could Eilam do? Not terribly much, he was busy being as gray as the orange he'd taken to her, which had since rolled towards her feet as he collapsed face down on the ground after his sunken state wasn't enough to keep him upright.

Hoshi Kogane has posed:
Yellow blinks when Griselda destroys the colour she collected. That's not good. Not good at all. "If that's how you want to do this, Hiroko." She refuses, outright, to refer to /her friend/ by this name. She hopes she can get through to Hiroko underneath it all. ... not that Hiroko considered Hoshi a friend, nor that Yellow is Hoshi, but that's not relevant to her right now.

"I have a lot more colour for you." And then, she points her wand at the Grey Princess, and starts shooting stars.

Yuzuki Amemori has posed:
Yuzuki Amemori watches the color shatter and just shakes her head. she plants her sword into the ground and draws her flintlock, using the hilt as an improvised monopod. She's just waiting quietly, no shouting, no nothing. When it looks like she's distracted, she fires an earth spike off and quickly grabs her sword and charges in after the shot to try and capitalized on the distraction such a thing would cause! Especially since some pink haired guy just got what, color eaten? How does that work anyway?

Before she gets there, she takes a running leap, trying to put herself between the fallen guy and the evil grey lady. Once she's there, she takes up a defensive stance and if Griselda is in reach, lashes at her with the sword to force her to keep her distance!

Momo Akatsuki has posed:
Prism Keeper Pink rubs at her brow softly, shaking her head. She genuinely didn't know what to say to Griselda, or even Hiroko. It was painfully obvious that Hiroko was probably not there to a large extent and she didn't know anything about Griselda.

Except that she'd just done something that definitely didn't look right to colours. Pink knitted her face into a frown and drew her wand, waving it and attacking in much the same manner as Yellow, except with a camera that shoots beams of light instead of flashes of blinding light.

Naru Osaka has posed:
"If you think any of us think that colour is /just/ colour, you clearly aren't actually listening to anyone." Naru comments quietly with a slow shake of her head.

Naru tucks her sketchbook into a pocket on the outside of her satchel a moment, moving over to where Eliam has fallen over, and crouches to try and extract him out of the bulk of the messy that's about to happen, with swords and leaping and shooting stars and pink cameras, such that he doesn't get himself stepped on to add to the pain. "C'mon, just over here a bit."

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Hiroko seems 'unreachable' if there's a Hiroko in there at all. Griselda seems to respond to the name, but it seems because it seems like a waste of time to go 'um, actually, it's Griselda'. "Do this?" she asks.

"You act like you have any other choice but to submit to this defeat." she insists loudly.

She seems to pointedly ignore Eilam's outreaching words, but does respond to Naru.

"You still speak of colors as if you don't know thier true purpose, though." she says at Naru.

Stars and Cameras move to impact her.-- and the do! Purifying energy sparking against her--- Griselda isn't as phased by the attacks as much as a Shade or similar creature is. She does finally raise her parasol though, it flips open as she uses it as a shield.

"You already lost this battle. The color is gone. It can't be restored." she says.

--and isn't this the storefronts with OSA-P on it?

Yuzuki draws her sword to make Griselda keep her distance. She seems unintrested in Yuzuki, her attention seems more on the Prism Keepers.

Prism Keeper Orange looks at Eilam hesitantly, and then back up at Griselda with a harder frown. "He's only trying to help you! Like we're trying to help you!" she calls out at Griselda. "You're wrong! Just because you stole the color and destroyed it doesn't mean it's gone for good!" she calls out as she holds her wand forward freverently.

Prism Keeper Orange seems to grow more determined. "We're knocking that out of you Hiroko." she calls out. "I'm really /sorry!/." she spits out as she flings her Chroma Wand forward--- midway in her fling-- it glows a brillant orange, taking on the form of a some sort of staff-- or scepter, taking on a more intricate form, with a molded tip in the shape of an orange fish. She holds it somewhere out in the middle of the rod as she summons a rather large beam of color energy from it's tip that seems vaugely fish shape.

This mostly catches Reiko by surprise as she blinks blinks afterwards and looks at what was once her Chroma Wand. Like she didn't expect that to happen.

It also succeeded at knocking Griselda a few feet back even with her Parasol protecting her, it seems!

"Nrg.. this is..." well, Reiko only has the feintist hint of what this is.

She looks back to the others.

Hoshi Kogane has posed:
Without more words, Yellow follows Orange's lead, and the telescope that is her wand is thrown into the air. Where it glows yellow and shatters into countless little pieces of yellow that twist and turn until they a long bar of countless miniature stars, thicker at the center, and with ribbon-like streams of stars coming from both ends. She waves it towards Griselda, and some of the stars from one end fly loose, growing larger until they get to be the usual size of her stars.

Eilam Hisakawa has posed:
    Thanks Naru! Though Eilam was fairly... out of it? Drained and such. His curse hasn't really done much to return him to his normal state yet, so her efforts to drag him away were probably quite successful, even if he wasn't much help himself. He didn't actually weigh as much as one might think, he was quite skinny.

Momo Akatsuki has posed:
Prism Keeper Pink stares in awe as Orange and then Yellow's wands change. She glances down at her own with a curious tilt of her lips before tossing it into the sky. It pulses like a strobe light of bright pink until it is a ball of pink that shrinks and shapes itself into a bright pink camera. Not as extravagantly fashioned as the others, but the look on Pink's face says it is far cooler to her. She grabs it and holds it to her face, tongue poking out just a little as it clicks towards Griselda. "Say cheese!". A beam of pink fires from the flash area.

Yuzuki Amemori has posed:
Yuzuki Amemori looks down at the drained guy as he's dragged away and asks, "Why did he try to hug her?" Looking completely baffled at the idea, not that her mask makes it easy to see. Now that he's out of the way though, she switches stances, holding her sword back as she dashes forward and swings wide at Griselda in a feint before twisting her grip, steping forward and using the momentum to turn it into a forward stab with the huge blade. She'll get the girl's attention one way or the other! Then it's a trick of keeping it while the others... what, purify her? Definitely not her thing.

The whole time though, her footwork shows that she's keeping both Eilam and now Naru behind herself, so that it's harder for Griselda to decide to go after them, what with her assuming they're the whole non-fighty types.

Naru Osaka has posed:
For all that Naru is rather petite herself, she's strong and capable both. Lifting and carrying Eilam is more awkward than challenging, and she sets him down carefully before putting herself between him and the fight. She reaches back into her satchel to pull out her sketchbook again and she can't help but laugh as she listens to Griselda. "You have /no/ idea anything about me, Griselda. Don't even /try/ and call my art into question."

To be fair, Naru /is/ fairly well a non-fighty type, especially as she's quickly sketching into her book. She might be using a pencil, but the drawing emerging is a colourful one, almost in spite of Griselda and her colour draining explosion. The sketch is moving more slowly than some, more complicated perhaps than her last few have been.

Reiko Touyama has posed:
"Creators are all alike." she says matter of factly. "Wether you're... /Naru/ or /Reiko/..." she says in disdain. She's mostly on defensive right now--- and--- woah. Those attacks--- new abilities weilded at her--- a galaxy of stars whirls into her knocking away her parasol with a 'nrk!?'-- a very surprised one---and the more powerful pink energy flashing into her.

Yeah. That hurt her. Badly, and she hangs there for a moment-- before she explodes forth into dark energy--- it's the same powerful pressure that she weilded when she smashed Reiko's prism. Only it's lasting longer than an instant as she draws her hands up-- apparently billowing in rain clouds around herself. "Do you think some fancy new toys are going to end this!?" she calls out.

"Toys--- always just... a /game/...!" she spits. "/For you children/......"

Mei, Reiko, Hoshi, even Momo, are standing dumb founded at an angry Hiroko- many years back. Everyone is much smaller. "Mother says games like this are for children." she says. "And not worth my time anymore. I think I agree. I think. I'm done playing with children." says a younger Hiroko. But there's something in her tone. She doesn't want to. She's hiding behind the wants of her mother. It's a memory all the prism keepers have, but some remember it more starkly than others. And words like that. They make you think.

"NO!" shouts Prism Keeper Orange-- and maybe also Reiko. "It's not just, toys-- or a game! It's never been Hiroko! It's just been a way for us to all have fun together!" she yells. "-and... you ruined it then! And you're ruining it now! But-- you're still our friend!" she says.

She once again brandishes the scepter again- forward. "Prism Aegis Power...." she calls out. The fish in that crystal- that have been there since Naru recreated them with the help of Aura- swim in antcipation. "...Shine with Vibrance!" she calls out-- not an attack?...

A bright orange glow overtakes Prism Keeper Orange--- and with what might be described as a magical pop.... she grows a little taller. Tiny butterfly wings become larger and regal. Orange hair becomes longer. The dress- becomes elongaged, regal-- and it ends with two koi crisscrossing themselves to form a tiara- with a fish shape. Overall. She looks like an older Reiko. Somewhere in her teens.

"That friend that you think is worthless....." she means Naru. "/She's the one who gave us this power/." she spits before she once again aims that Scepter back down at Griselda. She looks back to the other two and nods once-- (who are probably going through thier own transformations.

"Prism Aegis Power!...." she calls out.

"Royal Rainbow!"

Because of course that is the Prism Keeper's main group attack-- a colorful wave of energy emits from the tip of the wand--- in it's wake, sparkles spread out-- returning some of the color along the ground.

The others will need to join in- to both-- hit the empowered Griselda, and to restore the color, it seems!

Hoshi Kogane has posed:
"Prism Aegis Power, Shine With Vibrance!" Yellow calls out after Orange, and the bow on her head and her waist vanish as she grows taller. The butterfly wings on her backgrow, but that's not all. Stars large and small shine as they take place around her hair like a tiara, and all over her clothes as gemstones embedded in her clothes. It's recognizably the same girl, but older and more regal.

"We know this isn't just a game. If we thought it was, we wouldn't be risking our lives to do this." Prism Princess Yellow adds in response to Griselda, "If this is not a game to you, perhaps it's time you stop underestimating us." And then she points her staff at Griselda. "Prism Aegis Power! Royal Rainbow!" Her colour joins that of Orange in this attack.

Momo Akatsuki has posed:
Prism Princess Pink is once again captivated by awe as Orange changes into a... PRINCESS?! Exclamation points and question marks briefly flash all over above Pink's head before she decides the only thing to do is just do what she do and follow suit.

"Prism Aegis POWER!". Her crystal flashes like a camera going off, a little crystal of pink light as the camera inside *CLICK*s. "Shine with Determination!". She did change a word though.

The glow expands from the crystal encompassing Momo in a much brighter, hot pink light than her usual. Suddenly.... FASHION SHOOT! She's swarmed by cameras as her hair grows, her dress is consumed by lace and frills and becomes longer. Then a camera spins towards her hair, becoming a tiara atop her head.

And then the light fades and Momo looks older as well... Except she just looks the age all the other Prism Keepers actually are for once.

"You're an important friend, Hiroko! You're just a kid too! Even if it maybe could be a game, you can come with us!". She shakes her head and joins the others in the cry. "Prism Aegis Power! Royal Rainbow!" Pink joins with Yellow and Orange in unity.

Naru Osaka has posed:
"I am not a child, Griselda, and I do not play at childish games. This, all of this, hasn't been a childish game for a while now." Naru points out as she gestures with her pencil to the encounter as a whole, the /world/ as a whole.

There is just a bright smile from Naru as she watches the Prism Keepers quite literally grow and change and shift into a new degree of their powers right before her very eyes and she looks down at her sketchbook.

"You say I don't understand colour, Griselda, that creators are ignorant of the power of what they have in their hands. I disagree. We know /exactly/ what we have in our hands." Naru turns her sketchbook towards the woman in shadows of black and grey, the sketch of Griselda herself now in brilliant colours, pulsing with energy and positive emotion, no matter that Naru has been using a plain graphite pencil the whole time, the grey of it transformed as it emerged on the page.

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Color...washes over Griselda in more ways than one. First. There's Naru literarly coloring her in, in braint oranges, yellows and pinks-- and this helps to weaken her for the explosion of the Royal Rainbow that intersects at her location.

There's a guttural scream. Inhuman--- People who've purified beings of darkness are used to that, the feeling of darkness being driven out--- and when it's all said and done...

The Power of the 'attack', if it could even be called that, it barely harms anything not dark, or doing wrong, washes over the world- restoring the broken color. In it's wake.. it also leaves Hiroko-- apparently concioness just for a moment- before she begins to fall from the sky.

They did it! Hiroko is back! They driven whatever that was out of her.

Before she can even hit ground, or Reiko or Hoshi or Momo can even move to catch her...

Something else does. It's a blackbird. A very large blackbird. The blackbird is wearing a tophat. Black and dark as it grabs onto her collar. "Woaaaaah I got cha'boss lady!" says the bird. "Man, /Your Dad is going to be so mad at you/." he says to the unconcious Hiroko. Of course. He's not meaning Hiroko's dad. He means Griselda's dad.

Nox.

"TOOTLES!" squawks the blackbird as it lifts it's hat in a manner of mock respect before it dissapears, along with Hiroko in a puff of black smoke.

Prism Princess Orange stares at this flabbergasted. "But..she was... saved--and!----nrg.....!" she slams down to the ground in some anger.

Roy finally floats down from his tree. "Is.. everyone. Alright?" he asks. He frowns. "As well as they can be?..." he asks.

"Dammit! I ... /FORGOT/ about Slate!" she suddenly kicks a rock and it richochets harmlessly off the side of the building.

"DAMMIT ROY, DON'T YOU TELL US ANYTHING!" she says angrily. Roy seems taken aback by this.

"I--I didn't know... that's.. a first time for me too..." he insists.

It takes a moment for Princess Keeper Orange to calm down a little but it happens. "S--sorry, just..nrg. Tired of stuff... I drew and Mei wrote... messing up our lives!" she spits.

Hoshi Kogane has posed:
Yellow lands after that, and stares as Slate carries away her friend. "I'm going to save you, Hiroko." She promises, and then looks at the others and amends, "We're going to save you, Hiroko." She doesn't have much else to say, Roy's unhelpfullness with regards to providing key inforation before it's too late is by now a familiar pattern, so she's not even going to comment beyond an annoyed stare at the bird.

Eilam Hisakawa has posed:
    With color returned and Eilam finally starting to come back around, he slowly starts to raise up, with a good bit of effort. "Is... everything alright?" he asked, not quite sure what was going on. Looking around, color seemed to be there again, his hair he could see... pink. Light traces of the dye-job he'd had done a while back with the rainbow colors. The others had succeeded, or...

    Who was that? She looked familiar. Reiko? No, older. Eilam was just quietly staring at Reiko as if he'd seen a ghost in some capacity. Who knows what he was thinking.

Naru Osaka has posed:
That scream is enough to make Naru flinch a little, it's a truly awful sound, but the end result is good. Even if temporarily good, when Hiroko gets spirited away by a very large blackbird.

"Okay, who was /that/?" Naru asks as she reaches a hand down to Eilam to help him up, if he wants it. "You okay?" She asks of him, giving him a quick once over.

Yuzuki Amemori has posed:
Yuzuki Amemori hadn't been quick enough to do anything about the bird, which more than a little annoys her. She stabs her sword into the ground, twisting it there for a few moments. Pulling her gauntlets loose, she hooks them on her belt, hefts the sword and with a flourish, sheaths it across her back. This makes it disappear strangely enough. Working her fingers a few times she walks over to Eilam and crouches down to poke him in the head. "Don't try to hug evil unless you've got a death wish. Bad for your health." She smiles to Naru, once again forgetting about her menpo, "Are you okay too?"

Then it's over to the prism keepers. They look older and that's more than a little freaky. "Is that permanent?" She calls out, recognizing the idea at least. Not that it makes sense, but she's pretty sure they the same kids, they were here earlier too after all!

Momo Akatsuki has posed:
Prism Princess Pink rubs at her eyes tiredly. "Did a big dumb black bird just take Hiroko away? That's dumb. No offense, Roy.". She glances at their own mascot bird, blushing a little.

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Prism Princess Orange nrgs. "It's... Slate." she mutters. "Okay. Like. Know how we have bird friends?" she motions to Roy, who is still coming down off his ruffledness of being a scapejay. "She has one too. Just. We never. Really used it. In the story. Or the game." she says quietly. "I forgot. That's my stupid fault." she mutters.

"It isn't your fault either, Reiko-chan..." says Roy.

"Anyways he's a jerk and I'm going to fry his goose next time I see him!" she huffs.

She looks over to Yuzuki and blinks. "What's permenant?" she asks. She looks down at herself. Then back up. And there's a soft blush there. "Oh!" she says.

"I didn't. Even notice. That." she says. A pause. "I feel taller..."

Another pause.

"OH! Are you alright, Eilam-kun are you alright?" she asks wide concerned eyes at Eilam. Yeah that's... definitly Reiko. Somehow.

"I'm sure this'll go away when.. we drop the transformation..." she says softly. "At least. I hope it does..."

"...I have no way how to explain becoming a teenager over the course of the day to my parents. Like. At all." she says.

(It will drop, luckily!)

She looks to Hoshi and walks over and hugs her and then she tugs Momo in too. "I'm sorry." she says. "Right. We will save her! Just. Need to figure out. How..."

Eilam Hisakawa has posed:
    The poke and distraction from Yuzuki caused Eilam to let out a 'huh' sound before staring at her, seeming a bit lost. "She is not... evil. She is confused. No one can truly think such a thing at her age, I'm sure. She needs help, not to be destroyed, or dealt with. Please keep that in mind. But as for offering... a hug." Eilam grunted a bit as he pushed himself to a stand with a bit of effort. "Hugs help everyone." It was true! Even if he made his way slowly towards Reiko before reaching out to try and place his hands on her shoulders, staring at her like she was somehow not real.

    "This is... you are..." He seemed at a loss for words. Somehow both happy, but concerned at the same time. Would Reiko even understand why? She might be the only one here who has a /chance/ of figuring out why he wasn't really sure what to say beyond, "...you have all the luck, you know that? Friends that care enough to save you, and... then you become the most beautiful girl in the world, not long after."

Naru Osaka has posed:
"Traditionally, I think blackbirds get roasted in a pie, rather than fried, but y'know, I'm not picky at this point." Naru's voice is dry as she closes her sketchbook, tucking it back into her bag.

"If you never really used it in the story, then its safe to say that things are solidly off script and there's no guilt either way." Naru points out. "Any thoughts on where Slate will have taken her?"

Naru smiles just a touch at the concern about how to explain the sudden aging to parents. "Even if it doesn't entirely go away, its magic. Parents who aren't in the know won't really comprehend it."

Yuzuki Amemori has posed:
Yuzuki Amemori looks around at the color guard, the art girl, the empty juice box and after some thought, says, "I want to do this group as a music video. We look like we belong in Wizards or something." She pulls her gloves back on, tightening the straps down then bangs on the plates of each arm to make sure they're secure. "Oh if you're blushing now, later's going to be funny. Take pictures!" She holds up her fingers and mimics taking a picture as she says that, then stops. "Or I can see if we can find a place to hide out. Either way."

She hooks her thumbs on her armor's sash and rolls her shoulders back. "He's probably taken her to the Barza place. Maybe we can set up an ambush? Hit her with the purification again, then take the bird down before he makes it all the way home?"

Momo Akatsuki has posed:
Prism Princess Pink hugs Yellow and Orange tightly, looking over their shoulders in the direction that Slate flew with a forlorn look. "We'll get her back. We'll get everyone who's left or gone away back one way or another no matter what.".

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Prism Princess Orange blinks at Eilam and then there's a blush! Huff! "E--eilam-kun!" she says. Yeah she clears her throat because being able to look Eilam nearly in the eye at eye level is super strange and embarassing for some reason-- and looks over to Naru. "I'm sorry we couldn't save her either." she says at Naru. "I know you tried hard. And-- thanks for. Everything. Really." she says softly as she looks back to the others and sighs a bit.

"I guess I should make a report to the HeartNET about this soon..."

A koi appears in a director's chair on her shoulder. Video time!? Video time.

She looks back at Eilam. "Um. Are you okay? Really?" she asks to be sure.

Eilam Hisakawa has posed:
    "Yes. Better than okay. I might have tried to use an orange to make a point towards your... dark friend there, but as it turns out, you're my new orange." Wait what? That made sense only to him, but was corny/romantic enough it was probably good enough for Reiko anyways. "I will bother you later, so, you should have fun with your friends here, right? Not like I'm going anywhere." Though he /does/ lean to hug her rather happily, and... a kiss on the cheek. How scandalous! In public, too! Though he turned after that and started to walk off, in a good mood, looking around for where his shopping companion was to go towards them and try to help pick up his stuff/get back to things.

    Today was a good day.

Naru Osaka has posed:
"Haven't saved her /yet/." Naru corrects Reiko gently. "Progress was made, these things are rarely quick or easy, but it will happen." She sounds just simply confident on that point, optimism perhaps.

There's a faint quirk of a smile at the appearance of the director's chair and Naru gestures. "I do appreciate your video messages." She looks over to the others there and then shifts her satchel on her shoulder.

"Wait.. music video? Barza? Who or what is Barza?" Naru asks of Yuzuki.

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Prism Princess Orange blinks at Yuzuki. "Uh.. Music video?" she blinks. She doesn't.. get it, it seems. "What's a ... right. That. What's that?" she asks.

She looks back to Eilam. who gives her a kiss on the cheek. Whoops! That caught her off guard. Back to being 'Prism Keeper Red' with that blush n' all at this rate. -.-;

She smirks at Naru. "This one won't be as fun, but..." she hugs Momo back with a sigh as she watches Eilam go off. In a good mood! That's good!~

Momo Akatsuki has posed:
Prism Princess Pink nestles against Orange, hiding her face in the other girl's dress as she starts to silently cry for Hiroko. Nobody needed to see that, most definitely not.