Trying to Fly

It's only been a couple days since Prism Keeper Orange obtained her Chroma Crystal and she'd decided she better get used to it! Lots of stuff came innately to her. Flying was not one of these things. She often veered around the sky like a drunk butterfly. She crashed into the ground, various dumpsters and various trashcans around the city for the past hour or so.

Determined every time to get better she retakes to the sky.

She finally manages to fly in a straight line. "Yesss! I got it!" says the orange colored magical girl.

This is when she crashes into a pigeon over a side walk. A trash can next to a bench on the sidewalk puffs some trash out as she crashes into it. She sticks her head out of the trash can. Peek, peek, this landing was more out in the open. Hopefully, no one is staring!

%RAyano Koizumi hears crashing, and she briefly sees... a magical girl hurtling through the air, into a trashcan!? She's stunned for a moment, glances over to the pigeon. The pigeon seems affronted but unhurt, and rights itself and flaps off after moment.%R %RAyano's eyes slowly move back over to that trash can to see someone peeking her head out of it - and yes, it's the orange colored magical girl. She stares at her, mouth wide.%R %R"You... you're not... you have to be...?" A smile slowly spreads across her face.%R %R"You're real!"

Ayano Koizumi hears crashing, and she briefly sees... a magical girl hurtling through the air, into a trashcan!? She's stunned for a moment, glances over to the pigeon. The pigeon seems affronted but unhurt, and rights itself and flaps off after moment.

Ayano's eyes slowly move back over to that trash can to see someone peeking her head out of it - and yes, it's the orange colored magical girl. She stares at her, mouth wide.

"You... you're not... you have to be...?" A smile slowly spreads across her face.

"You're real!"

Reiko Touyama peeks around and locks eyes with Ayano. They go wide in a 'oh crap! someone saw me! what do I say!? What do I do!?' kind of panic. She ducks down into trashcan she tries to furl a newspaper over her head.

"Uh.. nothing here... but us... pigeons--- cooo cooo!"

This is not a very persuasive performance at all- and also just sounds like someone saying the world 'cooo'.

She peeks back up a few moments after. She's still there!

"I.. uh! Guess--I am real?" the young girl says with a embarrased and awkward smile.

"I'm not...good at flying yet..." she murmurs out quietly.

Ayano stares, increasingly confused as Reiko ducks back in and tries to hide in the trash

"Ah, um... talking pigeons isn't really a less fantastic cover story." Seeing the younger girl's discomfort as she peeks out again, she gives her an encouraging smile.

"Don't worry about it, just being able to fly at all is amazing. It's something you need to practice, right?" She reaches out a hand, offering to help the girl out of the trash can, seeming less uncomfortable the more clear the other girl is embarrassed by the whole situation.

"Being able to fly is far more amazing than anything I can do."

Reiko Touyama accepts the older girl's hand out of the trash can and she has to brush herself off. She grumbles. "That's like... my nineth crash this morning!" she huffs. "But.. I need to learn how to fly if I'm going to get anywhere---I can't take the bus to danger!" she insists.

She sort of blushes. "Erm---I guess, anyways..." she says

"I'm still learning." she says with wide eyes. "I wanted my bird friend to teach me, but he's busy all the time. He said soon maybe!" she smiles.

"Um... I'm...uh... Orange!" she pauses, because she is indeed, orange! "I mean...I'm Prism Keeper Orange... so of course.. I'm orange..." she trails off. She blinks at the other girl a little. "Are you okay I didn't... crash into you coming down, right? Just the trash can?" she asks.

Ayano blinks, staring as Reiko brushes the trash off her magical girl outfit. "...Danger? And that outfit..."

She listens as the younger girl explains how her bird friend will maybe teach her soon, and how she's- "-Prism Keeper Orange? You're a new Ally of Justice, aren't you!?" She smiles excitedly.

"I'm Final Mediator Ragnarok! I haven't found much in the way of evil to fight, but I'm doing my best!" A short pause, and she tilts her head to one side.

"...Where did you learn how to fly? It does seem a lot faster than taking the bus...."

Reiko Touyama takes this in, the name but it's the excitment that's infectious at least to her, and she smiles. "I guess I am...I've only.... been able to do this for two whole days!" she says. "Which is important that I learn, because... my friend Red's been through a lot recently and she needs a break!" she says with a curt matter of fact nod.

She turns around to show off her tiny butterfly like fairy wings. "Well.. with these!" she says. "They're wings, and.. I can fly with them! Just... not very well. Because I've never had wings before!" she says with a goofy, awkward smile as she turns back around.

"I guess it's just a thing that I can do as a Prism Keeper..." she says. She ponders this a bit. "We all have wings.. afterall..." she murmurs.

Ayano furrows her eyebrows a little, considering this issue more seriously. "Well, I don't know anyone who can fly, but I... don't think this is the best place to practice. There's lots of very hard things to hit into - I'm surprised you're not hurt. You might want to try a soccer field or a school gym when it's dark. Or a dojo."

Seeing those wings, Ayano's eyes widen, and she steps in closer, staring at them. She blinks as Reiko turns back, and takes a step backwards, nods. "I've never met a Prism Keeper before. Are... are you a human, or do you come from outer space, or...? Was there a... chrysalis of some kind involved in developing those wings?"

Reiko Touyama blinks! "No...I'm human!" she says. She seems a little scared at the suggestion that she could be anything but! "A Prism Keeper's job is.. to protect color from those who want to make the world boring and gray!" she says with a matter of fact nod.

She looks around and sort of blushes. "Well! There's also lots of alleys I can hide in, too! I just... drifted out of one because I thought I finally got the hang of it... then that...pigeon hit me..." she grumbles.

"I guess... my wings are kind of like a fairy's wings! So... maybe... I'm some sort of fairy!" she says with a smile! That's not quite correct, but she's making assumptions anyways!

Ayano nods, taking this seriously. "Human or fairy, color is important for the world. My job as an Ally of Justice is to protect people's lives and hearts, and I think protecting colors falls into that too, less directly. So call me if you ever need my help." She pulls a business card out of nowhere, and hands it over to Reiko.

"This is my phone number for my Final Mediator Ragnarok phone number, if you ever need my help." A short pause, and she looks down at the younger girl, and places a hand on her shoulder.

"If you collided directly with a brick wall after some other pigeon-related mishap, you could be seriously hurt. Your wings in particular look extremely delicate. You've been lucky so far, but you need to be more careful with your training, Prism Keeper Orange."

Reiko Touyama gets a bussiness card--- and Prism Keeper Orange assumes this girl must be a more experienced magical girl of some sort! So she takes it in good faith. She holds up her chroma wand- a magical koi pops into existance, swims around in a circle, eats the bussiness card. Then poofs away into a heart shaped sparkle!

"Don't worry! It's safe!" she says with a smile. "Just no pockets-- So..my koi carry stuff." she blushes a bit.

"Hey!...I can..crash into stuff and be okay! I hit the ground a lot, too!" she says with a huff! "And fighting Shades are like fighting twelve brick walls at once!" she says!

"Like.. the one the other night was made out a toolshed and had these awful shear blade hands and it went all... whiriiririr!" she says, spinning her arms around to demonstrate.

"So..hitting a wall is nothing!" she says.

The 'experienced older magical girl' is kind of gawking at the koi popping out and eating her business card, her hand falling off Prism Keeper Orange's shoulder. And then poofing away in a... heart shaped sparkle!?

She blinks as Reiko talks again, looks back to her, and nods at her explanation. She blinks at the description of crashing and fighting twelve brick walls at once, staring at her with wide eyes.

"Well, I guess you don't have to be careful about walls, then? But /please/ - be careful about fighting Shades." A slight frown. "Especially if they have blade hands! You can never be quite sure how tough you are until you get hurt."

Reiko Touyama thinks.. "You're right, but..I still need to handle it!" she says. "It's.. a big responsiblity! So I need to do my best!" she says raising her wand high.

"I.. um. I should try flying again now though!" she beams. "I'm sure we'll meet again sometimes soon!" she says with a smile. She lifts off the ground, hovers a bit. "I'll.. call if I ever need help!" she says with a beaming smile, as she takes off down into an alley, a little shakily, but at least overal 'straight'. path.

She'll probably crash against a sign of a bussiness turning the corner about four blocks from here.

Ayano smiles down at Prism Keeper Orange. "See you soon!"

She watches the younger girl fly off, her smile fading as she does, a hand moving back to clutch her backpack, reassure herself of it's presence. It's her first brush with the world of magical girls she's been dreaming about since she was a child.

And she couldn't be more worried.