vatheon | Let's Share the Fruit of Fate... again!

Who: The not!bros (Shouma & Kanba) and a kawaii stalker girlfriend (Ringo)
Where: Dat plaza place where people show up.
When: Late afternoon.
Style: First because I'm lazy like that-
Status: Closed!

[ This was alright- he could accepted this. After all, it was their curse to begin with...

"I love you!" ]

Nnn...

[ With a loud groan, Shouma stirred underneath weight of his soaking clothes that stuck against his body. He didn't move a first- just barely opening his eyes with a timid blink. Something about this didn't feel right at all. There was no more pain- nothing. Was he dead? And what about the others?

The more the boy began to think, the clearer his thoughts became... and the more worried he had become. With a gasp (and a cough too man what on Earth was he coughing up) Shouma shot straight up- bewildered eyes abound.

Wait, water? ]

Where...—!? [ He couldn't complete his sentence. This wasn't home, or the fate whatever train, or the weird world he usually got himself caught into in the Survival Strategies. Or was it? Yet among the confusion there was two things he did know. That one, he was alive and two, he was wet.

Very wet. Aka no fire. ]

Oginome-san? Himari...? [ A tiny beat. ] B- bro?

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[ death is usually not a thing people succumb to by choice— especially prematurely. kanba is not those people, clearly. he'd arguably wanted to be a martyr for himari's sake, since he really felt he had no other reason for existing or light to his life as long as she wasn't in the same existence. it wasn't self-sacrificial per se, but it was incredibly destructive behavior since himari was a person who simply wasn't meant to live— in order to change that, it had eventually concluded with a self-sacrifice.

he hadn't really expected shouma to follow his example— he'd been against anything that would cause collateral damage for anyone else, so perhaps it was just his own kind-hearted and level-headedness that would discipline his actions; after all, if you sacrificed just yourself for someone else, you weren't hurting anyone else, right? just saving someone! (unfortunately these boys fail to realize they're hurting the girls by doing this but we can ignore that with a cleverly placed MEMORY WIPE PLOT DEVICE!)

in any case, the afterlife is a lot wetter than he expected it to be— shouma's here from what he can tell... or hear, rather, by his coughing and mumbling. in fact, his talking—panicking—is probably what initially wakes him up. so the both of them really were dead? he wasn't sure if he ever really believed in an afterlife, but seeing is believing, right? and so he opens his eyes—

—and proceeds to hack his guts out. excuse him for a minute. ]

[Her head was spinning. She was disoriented.

'I love you.'

What had happened, and what hadn't happened? It had all seemed surreal - but all she remembered was being on fire.

Then Shouma--]

S...Shouma-kun! [She bolts up, her eyes wide and looking around the area. She was wet, and there was a little bit of a chill coming to her that wasn't just from being cold. This wasn't home - this wasn't even the place where she had been before, with Shouma, Kanba, Himari...]

[...But then she saw them. Both of them. Her breath caught in her throat. Was this really happening? She had literally just seen him disappear with fire - and Kanba, he had disappeared too, hadn't he?

So did that mean that all three of them were dead? Had Shouma been too late? (Not that it mattered to her whether she lived or died - that had been her intention to make things right again, right?) Was his sacrifice...

Before she knew it, her eyes were filling with tears. She made herself stand up, her legs shaking, but she was willing them to support her. She had to make sure they were all right - especially Shouma.]

Shouma-kun! Kanba-kun!

[Did that mean that...possibly Himari was here as well? Had the fate transfer messed up somehow? She moves closer to them, almost not wanting to interfere too much, because what if she did? Would they disappear again?]

[ The voices.

Shouma's head perked up when he heard something to this side, and eyes instantly grew large upon the unexpected sight. Wait, it couldn't be! It was a relief at first, to see the two from a moment's glance, but as it began to register into his mind, the more worried he became. The two of them? Here? But why—

There were too many conclusions running through his mind; what if it didn't work, was he really alive in the first place? And Himari...

Yet the sound of his brother's cough sharply drew his mind back into the real world. If... this was even that. ]

Kanba—!! [ And up he rose, shaking all the while, to stumble his way towards the hacking male. H- he was okay right? Yet his arrival didn't go as gracefully as he had hoped. While sliding next to him with rigid limbs, a hand extends to his brother's shoulder; clenching it desperately. ] Bro, are you okay?

[ His voice stung with confusion. Yet, in that moment, his head rose when Ringo had called out there name. So she was okay, too. Thank goodness... ]

Oginome-san! Are... are you okay, too? [ He had to keep it together, but just catching the smallest glimpse- those tears- made his heart sink. What in the world was going on?? ]

[ i guess he's the only one that thinks they're dead here, huh— of course the dead can't choke, and ringo shouldn't be dead either unless shouma screwed up somehow and killed them both, but that would be really anticlimactic.

in any case, he's 'okay' as far as he can gather, so he holds back a cough and waves his hand in dismissal, attempting to sit up. —he coughs again shortly thereafter, but it's a disconnected cough simply due to how irritated his throat feels right now. so he attempts to answer— ] ... Yeah.

[ no cough afterward. good. taking a deep breath, he lifts his head up and finally manages takes a look at where they are— ]

[Anticlimactic indeed - but somehow they were all together again. The only one that was missing was Himari, but she wasn't going to be so quick to say she absolutely wasn't here yet. Maybe she had appeared here already, or had yet to appear here.

Then she'd be even more inclined to think that something happened with the fate transfer.]

What happened...? [Her voice is quiet; she's still struggling with all those Feelings as well as trying to make sure they're okay. But she does nod at Shouma's question.] I'm wet, but okay.

[That about summed it up nicely.]

[ Shouma watches his brother carefully, and as he sits up, gently tries to assist in the process. It did look like he was going to be alright, and Ringo was doing okay as far as he could see, too. Yet something about this still bothered him. ]

I'm not sure. The last thing I remember, we were on the train and- [ Ah. Well yeah... that. Oops time for a subject change. ]

Why are we wet-!? [ It was then he finally drifts eyes downward to his clothes. Wasn't he just on fire? Clearly something had to be wrong here. And why Ringo was here with him...

ALL THE UNANSWERED QUESTIONS. ]

slow nod

ooh mr. takakura ooh

[ CLEARLY SOMEONE DOUSED THE FIRE—

of course that does not explain why kanba is Among Them, granted he was never on fire to begin with. it's about now that he notices just how weird this all is— the place itself looks strange, and that's saying something considering he's used to ominous weird interspacial bullet trains and that sort of thing. ]

What is this—?

[ he's just kind of staring upward at the city for a moment and brushing off shouma because he can get up by himself— until he feels something hard in his coat pocket. he'll be pulling that out right about now. it's a...starfish...?? ]

What is this? [ asked in an even harsher tone than before since this is really getting on his nerves. ]

[So Shouma remembered the same thing as she did - which is a good yet bad thing. Her stomach lurched at the thought of the train, but she shook her head to clear her mind.]

I don't know...

[But then Kanba pulled out the starfish. She comes closer, blinking down at the object also.]

A starfish? [WHICH WAS OBVIOUS and Kanba already knew that, so--] Are we near the ocean? It would explain why we're wet.

[Close, Ringo.]

Let's Share the Fruit of Fate... again!

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