Reiko Touyama has picked up Momo from Roy and Biv, who Momo Akatsuki knows are actually the Prism Keeper mascots by now- a soft wave, a smile and Reiko is taking Momo off to the park for a nice warm spring day. She softly walks to a bench near the playground and she sits down. She pats the spot next to her. "Go ahead and sitdown Momo-chan." she smiles softly. The smile is mostly muted. "I want to talk with you... about the Prism Keeper things." she says softly. "Is that okay?" she asks softly, a little worried.
"There's some things we have to talk about.. okay?" she asks softly.
Momo Akatsuki scoots up onto the bench and blinks at Reiko for a moment. "Okay.". She kicks her feet a little as she sits there, wondering what sort of Prism Keeper things Reiko is going to talk to her about.
Reiko Touyama sighs. "I want to.. apologize. To you. You shouldn't have to be involved in this... but you are now. I'm sorry I didn't... talk up sooner. I should had, espcially when you could see Hoshi's starpals-- and when your friend Sachiko-chan started.. talking about things." she says softly. "Like Waplurgisnacht." she says. "I should had told you everything there."
"but..."
She takes a deep breath. "You know your sister loves you very much, right Momo-chan..?" she asks softly. "She's Prism Keeper Red. She's okay. She checks in every so often." she crosses her arms a bit. "She knew you were Pink. She also knew I was Orange." she says. "Those were the only Prism Keepers she knew of at the time. "She didn't- want to involve us. She feels responsible for all this- because she wrote the story." she taps her foot a little nervously. This is when one of Reiko's koi appears next to her and pats her shoulder comfortingly with a fin and nods nods matter of factly.
"Um.. Sachiko-chan. Is she doing better, Momo?" she asks softly.
Momo had been listening intently until Reiko asked about Sachiko. Her face pulled into a frown, then a grimace, and then to a sad smile. Her pink eyes never stopped looking sad and angry at the same time though.
"Sachiko is... Sachiko is okay but not okay? She is very sad, and I can't make her happy and it hurts.". She clenched her small fist, a camera suddenly floating in front of it. "I want to hurt the girl that hurt Sachiko. I want to make Sachiko happy again. Nobody should get to hurt anybody and especially not my bestest friend.". The lens of the camera twisted, seemingly zooming in and out.
Reiko Touyama leans down and gives Momo a hug. "I can tell you what happened..." she says softly. "What she did is... steal her Heart's Egg." she says softly. "Tadase Hotori leads a group called The Guardians that know a lot about this, and this is what they say about it. They say that, everyone has an egg in thier hearts. Sometimes, this egg can be obtained and it hatches into a Guardian Chara-- a little fairy that represents what that person wants to be- thier dreams and hopes for that, aswell." she says. "--but they can be removed forcibly, and corrupted. They become 'X-eggs' and the person becomes hopeless and sad--- because thier dreams and hopes have been stolen." she says softly.
"But... X-eggs can be healed back into a Heart Egg---and they'll return to the person they came from. Prism Keepers--- like me and you-- can use our Prism Aegis Power to 'heal' them. So-- you might be able to help Sachiko-chan yet, Momo-chan! There's others who can do that too... Amu-chan is really good at it. She's a member of The Guardians, too!" she smiles. "We just need to find that egg. Then.. you--or we-- can heal it!"
She frowns and scowls. "That girl is named 'Miss White'-- she isn't the Miss White we're looking out for-- her name is something like... Kasumi White. Anyways..." she says. "-but she's still bad news. She thinks that if you have power it's okay to push other people around! She really hurt Mei one time and put her in the hospital! But-- that was before I was also a Prism Keeper." she admits. "Else I'd had been there to help." she says sadly.
"But.." she says. "She isn't unbeatable, she's just a jerk. A big white haired jerk!" she huffs. "So we'll do our best!" she says.
"But for now, it's important you spend as much time as you can with Sachiko-chan. She needs a friend most of all-- and even if it may seem like it, what you're doing is helping- I'm positive!" she says.
She does her best to be positive. "But... I'm sure we can figure out a way to fix what's wrong for good!" she says.
Momo Akatsuki leans into the hug, wrapping one of her arms around Reiko. She listened to it all without speaking, her eyes half-closed as the camera turned on them with it's lens focused on Reiko. It's watching her as she speaks, perhaps?
When all of it's said and done, Momo stirs a little and holds her hand to look at it. "But we couldn't stop her, Reiko-sempai. How could we ever get Sachiko's.... Heart Egg back from her? She just laughed at us most of the time and took it away.". She started to cry a little, right there with Reiko. "I couldn't stop her for Sachiko...". Tears streaked down her face and onto the pastel pink summer dress she was wearing, leaving blotchy spots around the collar.
"I can do stuff now, but I can't protect Sachiko. It hurts, and it hurts being with her because I dunno if I'm really helping. The closest to happy she gets is sleeping...".
Reiko Touyama frowns. "We can stop her. We can figure it out..." she softly places her hand in Momo's, tugging it softly. "You're not alone-- we're not alone. The Prism Keepers are a member of a group called 'Virtue' and it's made up of a LOT of magical girls and boys who'll help you if you tell them what's wrong... and just ask..."
"Why... I bet if I go ask Kukai to help with this, he'll be all 'Oh heck yeah!'. Because that's just the kind of guy Kukai is!" she smiles. "Kuaki is a member of The Guardians, he uses his Guardian Chara to become 'Sky Jack'. He'll be a boy on a hoverboard then." she smiles.
"So we'll talk to him soon. I know Yellow, Blue and Purple will help too if we ask!---"
"Yellow is Hoshi-chan. Blue is Kaeru-chan. Purple is Chouko-chan." she says softly. "Just like they were in the game when we used to play it." she softly sighs and closes her eyes.
"It sucks doesn't it?" she asks. "To feel like you can't help. When Mei left, I was alone, left to handle all this by myself. Bad things happened to some of my friends. A friend of mine was hurt very bad by her brother... a sort of magical mad scientist named 'Riventon', and we had to save her-- because he filled with her some sort of 'dark energy' to control her." she frowns.
"So I had to help purify her. Then we had to pass a God's challenges in order to get her back to normal." she says.
"So I know how this feels Momo. But even when my friend was acting hostile... I still kept jerky in my pocket for her-- and it helped, not as much, but it was a reminder that I cared..."
She pauses. "Right she was a foxgirl named 'Ayana'. I'll have to introduce you to Ayana and her girlfriend, Ikiko. Ikiko is a werewolf. But she's a nice werewolf!" she beams.
She says. "And--- if I can help save a friend, and then also meet and face a god to help return her to normal..." she says. "I'm positive we can find a way to help Sachiko-chan." she says.
"You can help her, and we will do it! Okay?" she promises.
The floating pink camera seems to watch Reiko this entire time as she talks to Momo of ways to help Sachiko, and in doing so tells her of many other magical people in Tokyo. After a moment or so the lens flickers and there's a shutter sound or two as if it's capturing the moment for whatever reason.
Momo herself starts to give a hopeful smile as all the information about who could help floods into her brain. The smile only grows brighter with every word, the hope in her heart about everything blooming a new flower, bigger and more beautiful than the last for it's trials. "We can do it then! We can save Sachiko, everyone together can!". She grasps at the hand that Reiko had on her own, squeezing somewhat.
Reiko Touyama blinks at the camera, and just smirks a bit at it. She understands the quirks of the Prism Keeper's maniefestations. "Yes!" she says. "There's lots of people who will help if we asked, Momo-chan. And if they can't, they'll know who might be able to." she says.
She crosses her arms and leans down. "And--- some people might feel awkward. About how young you are." she admits. "But don't let that disuade you. The fact is, you're a Prism Keeper and they need to respect that!" she says. "No different than anyone else who is out there helping people!" she says. "Facing the exact same things!"
She smiles. "So you tell them 'so what!'." she says.
She beams. "That's the spirit Momo-chan!" she says with a grin! A koi appears and throws it's fins up in a silent cheer, before popping away in an orange sparkle... she blinks. "Right..."
"Your constructs.. that appear." she says softly. "Only magical people can see them. If someone can see them, they probably have some sort of spark-- or-- they understand that part of the world-- most people.. they don't see the things. Like Guardian Charas, or a Prism Construct." she says softly.
"The pink cameras, your koi, Hoshi-sempai's stars? Those are... Constructs?". Something clicks in Momo's head. "And blue frogs?". She knew it had to have been weird that Kaeru had said they were rare and then suddenly there was one there.
The camera still doesn't abate, and starts floating around Momo's head as she thinks this over. "We should try that! Maybe someone will know a way to help her that we can't even think of!".
Reiko Touyama nods. "Yup! They come from your feelings and thoughts and emit from your Chroma Prism." she smiles. "If you practice... you can kind of control them without transforming, but it's hard and you need to concentrate a lot-- and you need to be holding and touching the prism. When you transform--- they're entirely at your beck and call. Mostly." she smiles.
"Sometimes my koi still sass me." she huffs. "..and sometimes my koi betray my feelings when I'd rather not." she says.
She smiles. "Yup! I'm thinking we need to talk to The Guardians soon." she says. "They know a lot about this specific thing-- the Heart Eggs." she says. "And---"
"You shouldn't be shy to approach people. Tadase Hotori, Kukai Souma, and Amu Hinamori. Those are the Guardians I know of.. I know there's more, but... I haven't met them proper yet." she says. "They're all cool people. Just tell them you're friends with Reiko Touyama and that you're Momo Akatsuki-- and Prism Keeper Pink. Tadase knew Mei-chan, too. You can trust those three people with 'who you really are'." she says. "But you should be careful with telling people who you really are." she says. "otherwise. But that's up to you Momo-chan. Lots of people know who I am. Including that 'Miss White' that attacked Sachi-chan." she frown. "I met her once when I was catching fish to draw with a net. She didn't seem like a bad person...I admit." she says softly. "She seemed kind of apologetic like she didn't want to had help beat up Red-chan like that. She also warned me to be careful with the fish I'd caught, to make sure it was okay afterwards." she says softly. She doesn't smile, however.
"-- but regardless, what she did NOW is abousultely terrible. Terrible!" she says. "And we're gonna make it better!"
The camera finally dissipated, giving one last shutter sound before it goes. Momo blinks a little when it goes in a flash of bright pink light, turning to Reiko. "They're weird. Iunno if a camera can betray how I feel though... They don't do much.".
"I'll tr-try to talk to the Guardian people, for Sachiko. Sachiko knows I'm Prism Keeper Pink, and so does everyone else that was there when I changed the first time.... So that's a lot of people.". It didn't really matter how few it was, anything over two was a lot at seven.
With Reiko's talk about Miss White, Momo's face pulls into a little look of anger eyes blazing hot pink. "I'll get her for it!".
Reiko Touyama smiles and wiggles two fingers. "It's lens was zooming in and out when you were pensive... and when you got hopeful about help Sachiko and it 'clicked and acted like it took a pictures'." she beams. "So it's not as obvious as my koi making faces- but it was there." she says softly.
She beams. "Don't worry about it, though. Hoshi's Starpals are fun too-- and yeah. Ka-chan has Blue Frogs. They're her favorite-- tropical blue frogs." she giggles.
She nods. "White is powerful..." she admits. "But that's only because she channels jerkiness or something." she insists. "You can beat her, I know it, Momo!" she says.
"Right-- we should... practice flying soon. I've gotten really good at it. But we all start out like... drunk butterflies." she giggles. "I used to crash into skyscrapers a lot-- one time I crashed into an office and scared an office worker who was working over night and I hastily yelled... 'sorryi'msosorrybye!' and flew back out the window quickly. I swear I probably drove that poor woman mad." she giggles a little to herself. "An orange fairy girl crashing through your window then flying away quickly." she laughs!
She shakes her head. "Just take it easy flying. You'll get much better in time!"
Her eyes going wide, Momo just splutters for a moment. She nearly falls off the bench in surprise, secured only by holding Reiko's hand. "Fl-flying?!".
Reiko Touyama laughs. "We have wings, Momo... Prism Keepers have wings. Like we used to pretend. We can use them to fly!" she says with a smile. "Yellow isn't comfortable flying yet. I've been at it for a long time." she grins.
"Would you like to learn? I can help you and Yellow get better at it!" she beams.
Momo Akatsuki rubbed at her nose, realising she hadn't really noticed any wings when she changed. Maybe she'd been too focused on other stuff. "Okay! That sounds fun, and um... A little scary.". She smiles at Reiko.
Reiko Touyama laughs. "It can be, but don't worry, falling doesn't hurt as much when you're a Prism Keeper. I fell almost a Skyscrapers length before and landed straight into a trashcan." she says. "All it did was make me dizzy." she says.
"And you know, I smelled like trash." she laments.
"I met a strange girl who claimed she was a magical girl who saw me land into the can, but she wasn't." she says. "It was strange." she says.
She smiles. "When you get used to it, it'll become second nature, flying about. I don't even really think when I do it---it's a reaction just like anything else." she says.
She gives Momo-chan another hug.
"Now. Do you need someone to take you to Sachi-chan's later?" she asks softly. "Or do you have your own way there?" she asks with a smile.
Momo Akatsuki hugs Reiko and seems to think over her question. "I can walk there. It's not far and it's pretty safe to walk.". She smiles warmly, hopeful once more for her next visit with Sachiko. They'd find a way, she was sure of it.