Latest revision as of 22:23, 6 December 2015

Naota Uneme has posed:
Naota Uneme made plans to meet with Ataru today. Right now said plans involve him hanging out around the park with a hot cup of tea and looking kinda scruffy: his jacket (dark green, matching his scarf and, yes, bobble hat) looks like it's probably from last year. He'd probably look less shady if he weren't just kind of lurking over by a telephone pole.

Ataru Touya has posed:
Ataru Touya arrives. He is dressed in his usual fancy clothes and looks like his privleged handsome self. He is carrying TWO cups of tea, because todays' hanging out included tea and---

He arrives and Naota already has one. "Oh. I was going to buy it. But I guess you already bought yours. So now I have /two/ cups of Tea." he insists. "I guess you can say I have plen-tea." he says coyly. He raises a brow and looks Naota. "Yeah. Naka-chan needs to get you to the fashion ER stat, soon again, Nao-chan." he says as he sips from the right cup of tea.

Mizudori Teion has posed:
There's a girl with blue-green hair walking up the path, giant headphones over her ears and tinted goggles over her eyes, black fishnets over bright teal leggings and under a black miniskirt with unfastened straps hanging off it, zipped-up formfitting leather jacket with circuitry painted on it, and a lot of piercings. She seems to be completely ignoring everything, hands in her pockets.

With absolutely no warning, as she's passing by in front of the two boys in front of the telephone pole, she reaches for and takes the left to-go cup of tea out of Ataru's hand and immediately sips from it, then lifts it in salute as she keeps walking.

Under her breath, she counts down. "Five... four... three... two..."

Naota Uneme has posed:
Naota Uneme blushes. "It's not THAT bad. My mom bought this one for me." The horrible, awful pun gets a belated groan at about the time the girl walks by and makes off with surplus tea. There's a pause, then... "Hey wait! Come back here!"

Ataru Touya has posed:
Ataru Touya keeps that coy smile. "Don't worry, Naka-chan's a good fashion doctor. Lord know she forces me for a checkup every sunday." he insists. "It'---------"

Then someone snatches the coffee cup and this takes a moment to register as Naota yells out. He looks down to his hand. Then up at Naota. Then at the figure. He gently shoves the cup of tea inot Naota's hand. "A moment!" he says.

He begins to suddenly charge down the road.

He's staring at that coat with the electric circuitry line and piercings and makes a few assumpions. "HEY. ELECTRO JERK." he goes off. Oh yeah. Stuffs about to go down and/or drop.

Mizudori Teion has posed:
There is a moment where it seems, as far up the path as the girl is, and as big as her headphones are, that she must not have heard either the call-over or the shout. She is, after all, drinking more of the stolen tea.

But then she stops, and she turns around, and the shape of her eyes is visible behind the tinted goggles. Her expression is flat.

"DID YOU JUST CALL ME ELECTRO?" she shrieks, one hand in a fist at her side, stance wide, eyes definitely glowing behind those goggles, leaning forward aggressively. "I AM NOT F***ING ELECTRO!!! You-- HIPSTER!"

Naota Uneme has posed:
Naota Uneme stares. He just stares. "Uh... Ataru? Do you need my h-no, I don't think you need my help." The girl's response is equally baffling to him, because apparently this isn't about tea? He stays back for the moment, deciding that maybe he doesn't want to get into the middle of this. Best to be ready in case this gets weirder, though.

Ataru Touya has posed:
So Naota thought he was the one that got into fights all the time. Nope. Someone stole his tea. For his friend. And then was drinking it. He's getting into it.

"Hipster!?" he says. "Hey! I was wearing this before it was----"

"WELL THAT'S NOT THE POINT." he says flusteredly.

"That Tea! Give it back!" oh he's probably gonna get back after this. Probably not in the way he wants.

"That's for my friend!----"

"Even though he already had tea. BUT THAT MEANS--"

"YOU COULD HAD ASKED!"

"FINE THEN! TECHNO!" he calls out making another guess.

Mizudori Teion has posed:
"What, this tea?" Mizudori asks with devastatingly saccharine sweetness, holding it up and wobbling it a little. She drinks a bunch of it at Ataru, then shrugs and gives an ugly smile.

And then Ataru commits an absolutely unforgivable sin, and she draws herself up to her full five feet, eyes blazing behind the goggles. "TECHNO?!" she screeches in offended disbelief. "WHAT IS THIS, THE NINETIES?!"

And yes: Ataru gets the tea back in exactly the opposite way from what he was asking, as she whips the takeaway cup directly at his expensively fashionable shirt and jacket.

And then she yells really, really loud, "FOR WUB AND JUSTICE, BY THE POWER OF SKRILLEX--"

Her small fist raises high in the air and opens dramatically, "--I AM BASS-CHAN OF THE SUBSONIC WARRIORS OF TIME, SPACE, AND DEAFENING BASS, AND IN THE NAME OF DUBSTEP YOU GONNA GET REKT!"

She lifts off the ground and is swallowed by shadow, doing a pirouette about a foot in the air, and glowing circuitry traces itself in blazing patterns up and down the silhouette she's become; her blue-green hair becomes a weightless cloud and her eyes are blank glowing sockets. A bass guitar made of shadows and green lightning appears in her arms and she lifts one glowing fingered hand, ready to slam down on the glowing strings!

Naota Uneme has posed:
Wait, what? No, seriously, WHAT?!?

Okay, staying back is over, because apparently this is a crazy person. Naoko reaches into the pocket of her jacket and quickly finds her mirror, looking into it to see her true self reflected within. "Mirror of the heart, shine with truth! Invincible elegant heroine, Valkyrie Kirin!"

And now there's a dueling light display, a golden glow which masks Naoko until the dazzling heroine steps forth in her yellow dress, silver breastplate and elaborately horned helmet. "It's tea! Tea and music! WHY ARE YOU IDIOTS FIGHTING OVER THIS?!?"

Ataru Touya has posed:
Ataru Touya is getting more offended and then he gets tea launched at him and it is /everywhere/. He scoffs!? "YEAH. THAT TEA AND OH MY GOD...." Naka-chan is going to murder me.

"Fine then..I dunno. Trance!?" he calls out again- yeah this helping and then----

Oh.. Oh /crap/ did this girl just transform into.... /A YOUMA!?/. That looks like a monster. That has GOT to be a monster. Nrg, can he just whip out his mirror shard here? In front of her!?

Oh. It's Valkyrie Kirin to save him. This totally makes him blush just a little as he pushes himself upwards- because he fell back at the shock of sudden transformation. "BUT SHE DIDN'T EVEN ASK. AND THAT TEA WAS FOR Y----" oh right. "THAT TEA WAS FOR NAO-CHAN." he insists. "AND NOW SHE'S A MONSTER! /A TRANCESTEP MOSNTER/." he says.

Oh yeah he's in for it.

Mizudori Teion has posed:
The-- youma?! Whose voice is now this weird autotuned computer vox sort of thing?? Yells out even louder as that hand hovers above the strings of her shadow-bass, "MUSIC IS SERIOUS BUSINESS! And that tea was extra! Don't even lie! DON'T EVEN LIE, YOU IGNORANT PHILISTINE! You started this! With your inaccurate NAME-CALLING!!"

Those glowing eyes, wispily trailing mist that looks remarkably similar to her wispily floating cloud of glowing hair, turn to Valkyrie Kirin, and her expression brightens considerably. "I see you have a champion to fight your battles for you! Awesome THIS FIGHT IS GONNA KICK ASS!"

The hand comes down and slams on the low E, starting a nearly subsonic note which starts to vibrate the ground. Then, as though the bass guitar were a theremin, she waves it closer and further from the strings, making the note literally begin to catch and wub. "IMMENSE FLOOR LAVA DUB!"

Did we say the ground was vibrating? It starts melting, a viscous and catching thing that oozes and shivers in time to the sounds she's making with her weapon.

Naota Uneme has posed:
"Ataru! Get back!" Valkyrie Kirin leaps forward with her scepter raised. "STALWART EMER-what!?!" Her jump lands her into the patch of melty ground, making her stumble off-balance and the emerald light gathering around her weapon flicker out. Fortunately she's durable enough to manage a little hotfoot. "Is that how you want to play it? BRILLIANT TOPAZ!" Glimmering golden motes gather around her and she then sends them flying towards the demented not-Youma-not-electro-not-techno-not-trance-tea-stealing-jerkbox, bursting into a blinding glare when they get close enough.

Ataru Touya has posed:
Ataru Touya has to cover his ears beacause HOLY SNIKIES!

He begins vibrating across the ground and spinning a little comically and the floor is melting!? Crap. Come on Valkyrie Kirin save him! This totally isn't his fault.

"ONLY PHILISTINES THROW PERFECTLY GOOD TEAAAAA!" he yells. You probably can't hear him because it's so loud and he's wet.

"TRACNNNNNNEEEE SUCKKKKKKKKKSSSSSSSS!."

"MIRROR OF THE HEART, SHINE WITH TRUTH, GRACEFUL, PASSIONATE NOBILITY, PRINCE PHOENIX!" he calls out when he vibrates into a bush before the ground actually turns to lava.

There's a transformation sequence but you can't see it because of the stuff happening over there.

Prince Phoenix sort of stands on the ground and points.

"MUSIC SHOULD BE SOOTHING TO HEART AND----OH MY GOD THIS GROUND IS HOT." he leaps up onto a tree branch.

"I SAID---oh I give up..." he says as he just draws the Rapier. He's uh. Never actually used this thing much yet.

Mizudori Teion has posed:
Brilliant Topaz slams into the snippy maybe-youma jerkbox girl, which instantly solidifies the ground as she's knocked back into a tree; her shadow-and-lightning bass shimmers and de-rezzes for a second as she shakes her head violently to clear her vision of the sparkles of magic and impact, and she laughs in bright, autotuned delight as she wobbles back to her feet. Well, for values of 'back to them' that include 'still a foot off the ground' and values of 'feet' that involve 'glowing-bladed skates'.

"YESSSSS!" she crows, skate-sliding to one side and leaving quick-disappearing glowing lines on the air trailing behind her. "Oh man YISSSSS there's TWO of you!! And F*** YOU THIS AIN'T TRANCE WHAT IS EVEN WRONG WITH YOU!" she autotune-hollers, starting a wicked slap-bass driving rhythm. "TRAPSTEP LOW-PASS PERCUSSIVE OVERDRIVE!"

This one is low notes that actually look like glowing sea-green orbs of light that pelt, each beat, well, uh, beating. They're aimed in a wide spray without a lot of accuracy, and each one pops as it hits. They don't hit very hard, but they reverberate, rattling teeth and potentially bruising.

Naota Uneme has posed:
Ow! Hey! Watch it! Okay, this is where she needs to fight smarter. Valkyrie Kirin spins and swings her scepter in an arc: time to try out the new trick. "STALWART EMERALD!" The green comet-head glow appears again, but the spin wraps it around her, giving her a shield to keep the worst of the blasts off of her.

And then! Here comes the fun part: she keeps spinning around, once, twice, a third time... and with one last swing the glowing shroud becomes a blazing shooting star flying right at her new friend the musician. "COMET DROP!"

Ataru Touya has posed:
Prince Phoenix sort of looks wide eyed. "ARE YOU MAD!?" he calls out. He sort of jumps high into the air and-----oh, he can't actually manuever in the air, so he whips his cape around and let's it handle the random blasts around him, which doesn't work as well as he hopes because of how unconcentrated and random the fire is. He lands near Kirin.

"KIRIN. LOOK. I'M REALLY SORRY! I KNEW THIS WAS GONNA BE A YELLING THING BUT I DIDN'T KNOW SHE WAS A MONSTER." he yells over it all.

"SHINING SLICE!" he yells out as he whips the rapier through the air and a blade of red heated energy splashes out towards the 'monster'.

"FINE THEN! BUT CLASSIC IS ALWAYS GOING TO BE THE BEST." he goes as he spins on his foot elegantly despite all the vibration and chaos. Dude's balanced at least right now.

Mizudori Teion has posed:
The combination of the blazing shooting star and the red laser-blade is...

...quite frankly not something Bass-chan was expecting. They both hit, and they hit like a ton of sharp burning bricks, and there's an immense blaze of red-gold light and a concussive blast, and the girl goes hurtling back through the air and lower and lower and then she's digging a deeper and deeper groove into the grass and then the ground, and all the noise stops, and there's a smoking crater about twenty meters away.

All is silence.

All continues to be silence.

And then very faintly, there's an autotuned voice that drifts up from the smoking crater. "Okay classic is cool."

A pause. Then it's just the girl's voice from before, but not screechy. Cheeky instead, even though there's a somewhat pained cough accompanying it. "But I still win 'cause I got you to drop the Bass."

Naota Uneme has posed:
Oh, she's done? Good. Valkyrie Kirin looks into her mirror again and is once more himself. He sighs. "Sorry about that. I didn't really wanna rough you up but, well, that's my friend." Even if the whole fight was over something stupid, but right now he doesn't feel like asserting his love of light music. "I'm Nao..." he blushes: it's not like she didn't see. "I'm Naoko. That's Ataru. I guess you're a hero too?"

Ataru Touya has posed:
Prince Phoenix just stares. "I have no idea what that means." he says as things settle down. He sighs and passes the mirror in front of his face and shoves the piece of shattered glass into his suit's inner pocket and he's back to being Ataru again.

"Classical is the best." he insists. "I'm a ballet dancer. It has a good beat." he insists.

"You can't ballet dance to ----" he pauses. "You know what I don't care anymore. Yes, hello, My name is Ataru. Who are you?" he asks. "And why are you a monster?" he asks.

Mizudori Teion has posed:
The girl scrapes herself up from the bottom of the crater and climbs out, looking pretty scuffed and a little singed and abraded, but radiantly pleased. "Hey no I was lookin' for a fight. If you two weren't magic you'd've just run away probably. I wouldn't have hurt you either way. I was SO EXCITED you were magic, OMG that was sexy AF!"

Once she's out of the hole, feet on the ground again, she brushes herself off and straightens her skirt and jacket and runs her hands through her hair. The goggles get pushed up as a headband and her headphones get hung around her neck, and she bows in greeting. "Mizudori Teion. I'm a Beat Defender. I guess that's a hero? I dunno. We protect the world from the Static. I'm not," she gives Ataru a chiding and deeply unimpressed look, "a monster. And as long as you like music of any kind, I really don't care what you like best. I'll totally fight you again if you try and tell me YOUR favorite is better than MY favorite, though, because that's just being a dick, okay."

Naota Uneme has posed:
Naoko stands between the two, arms out. "Honestly, knock it off, both of you! It's music! I think we can all agree that music's great, right?" She gives a forceful nod. "Good. There, it's settled. Now we can just try to be friends instead." She gives the taller girl a sheepish grin. "Sorry. It's been weird lately."

Ataru Touya has posed:
Ataru Touya s-sexy!? Is that a blush!? Maybe. But This girl probably doesn't actually mean it LIKE THAT.

Also he's like in seventh grade, geeeze.

"Hey, I didn't say that!" he says. But then Naoko has to be the voice of /reason/ and when Naoko- the kid who gets into fights all the time at school IS THE VOICE OF REASON there is seriously something going wrong here.

SO. Ataru relents.

"Fine." he says as he crosses his arms.

"Static? Are you sure that's-------"

His eyes trace down to Naoko. What he wants to say is 'Are you sure that's not just what you were making!?' but he doesn't end it like that. "Are you sure you haven't run into any yet?" he finishes.

Mizudori Teion has posed:
This girl seems to talk in acronyms, cusses, and slang, so it's pretty good odds she did not, in fact, mean 'sexy' like actually sexy. Especially since she was describing a magical brawl. Her hands flutter up. "Fiiiine!" she says to Naoko, rolling her eyes and crossing her arms. "And sure, friends is fine. Also if you want help fighting your own crap I'm down to help."

When she notices Ataru crossed his arms too, she scowls a little and jams her hands in her jacket pockets. "And yeah no we ran into the Emissary of the Static once and she is SUPER EFFED-UP and creepy and basically the way you tell someone's getting taken over is if timing starts screwing up around them and music doesn't work and they get really angry about other people listening to music and being jerks about it all the time and lose their creativity and sense of wonder and sense of humor and it's a bad scene, and I haven't seen anyone with that happening to them lately. Makin' me a little trigger-happy. I keep expecting the bomb to drop, you know?"

She takes her hands out of her pockets again and pulls out a pack of cigarettes and a lighter and a business card, and holds out the business card. "But yo, here, this is my band, okay. Everyone in it's in the magic fight business so you can just give us a call if you need a hand."

Naota Uneme has posed:
Naota Uneme nods, taking in that mouthful of a run-on sentence. "That sounds pretty bad." She accepts the business card with a bow (because business card, don't you know). "We're looking for mirror demons. You'll know them if you see them because they're monsters with big black metal masks. But thanks! If we need help we'll totally call." She whips out her phone (also old and beaten up, a running theme in 'Things Naoko Owns') and dials in the number on the card, the phone making a cute little jingling noise when she's done. "There. I sent you mine."

Ataru Touya has posed:
Ataru Touya takes the card and accepts it, also, with a bow as he gently looks at it, and then pulls out a much nicer smart phone and rapidly taps it in. Ataru bleeds high class it's ridicolous. He also sends a jingle though his is some classical sweep. "Okay so these things hate music. Okay." he says.

"Yeah haven't seen many of those either---at least...I haven't." he looks to Naoko. "I'm pretty sure she's fought at least one though." he says pointing over.

"Don't really know the specifics." he says.

"At least I don't." he says.

Mizudori Teion has posed:
Mizudori's phone makes, twice in a row at the different numbers, a sound like a melodic plane crash. Her phone, when she takes it out and saves the numbers, is stupidly expensive-- most likely on a rich-kid level with Ataru's. "Cool cool," she says cheerfully. "I'll also let you know if I see any mirror demons wearing big black metal masks! But I also gotta go-- that was a lotta fun but I'm actually gonna be late and Keys-kun's gonna be pissy he missed the fight. See you later!"

And then she actually books it out of there, jumping over the trench she drug in the ground with her passage and sprinting out of sight around a bend in the path.

Ataru Touya has posed:
Ataru Touya looks down to the hole. Then back up at the girl. Then back down at the hole.

"Okay so do we just leave this." he asks questioningly to Naoko.

Naota Uneme has posed:
Naoko stares at the whole. "...who would we even tell about it? I'm pretty sure Puchi is the only one who'd believe us, and I don't think think he can do anything about it."