GRAVEYARD 2.0

[retellers]

GRAVEYARD Well, that sucked. But no matter what your death was like—whether it was something peaceful or traumatic, you'll find yourself waking in a completely white room on the floor. Small and empty, there isn't anything else there besides an open door to walk through. But before you do that, you'll probably notice that whatever injuries you may have had, including whatever may have been the death blow, are now gone. That's exciting. Stepping out of the room, it seems that you're in a large... house? with three different floors. Everything from floor, ceiling to furniture is completely white, except for the drawings that are plastered to the walls in each room. These are all colorful, drawn in colored pencils and crayon, and resemble a child's drawing. The other notable thing are the windows. While they're present all around the building, looking out of them only shows TV static. Besides that, everything is furnished with the absolute bare minimum of each room. The first floor is all typical common areas one would find in a house. There's a kitchen, living room area, laundry room, dining room, and a main hallway where the stairs are. There are also helpful drawings in these rooms that show the rooms much more lavishly decorated than they actually are. There's a door that appears to be the way to exit the building, it's locked. The second floor consists of nothing but twenty bedrooms. Each room has one queen sized bed, an empty dresser, and an attached bathroom with only a sink, toilet, and shower. Like the first floor, each bedroom has drawn pictures that show it looking much more lavish than it actually does. Thanks for nothing, artist! The third floor only has two rooms. One appears to be a home office with nothing but a desk and two chairs, one behind it and one in front of it. While there's blank pieces of paper and crayons on the desk, the note that was previously there is gone. The other room is much larger, and it's completely empty save for the many drawings lining its walls— in fact, the walls are covered in them, much more than in any other room. On closer inspection, though, it seems like these aren't actually drawings? The papers seem to be showing scenes from the living area. Everything from inside the hotel to the areas beyond the bridge are visible here. However, when curfew hits on Thursday nights, they revert to being normal drawings! Except for the fact that they're all drawings of stick figures being murdered in various ways. Well. At least there's plenty of things to draw with, if you get bored. Also, a handy link to the previous post.

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[suddenlybees]

[ Sometimes you're so painfully lonely and then you fall in love. You think you've finally attained happiness, allow yourself to be happy, and then God goes "Sike!" and your world crumbles apart.

Sometimes it hurts so much, the kindest thing you can do is put an end to it.

Kano breathes out, reunites with his siblings. The three of them look to the sky, and climb the dragon's tower. ]

[heartablaze]

[Up they climb.

At the top of the castle sits a girl made of fire, ethereal, eyes clouded.

Hikaru's voice speaks directly to them.

Magic Knights, do not let your hearts be overtaken by confusion and grief. To pull you to this task was cruel, and to make you travel this land against your will was even more cruel.

Your final foe lies before you. Take the life of the Pillar, set this world free, and you may go home to the people you love.

The girl slowly rises to her feet, enormous wings of fire bursting from her back, before she shoots off into the sky. The clouds rumble, and the heat of the lightning starts to congregate, a bolt slamming into the top of the castle like an intentional attack.]

[suddenlybees]

[ Oh. Well. Fuck the castle, it deserves that. Kano stands his ground, gaze flickering to his siblings— Kido who was so gung-ho about fighting off evil but hesitates to harm a stranger/anybody else but Kano— and Seto who looks mildly horrified and looks to Kano for whatever reason, as if he knows what to do.

He does, but at the same time, he does not.

He knows that he will be the one to do it, so his siblings will not have to. He knows he can't do it alone.

He asks Seto, who wields water, to douse those wings and bring the Pillar back to the ground. Also, like, keep the rain off them, because he doesn't want to get zapped. Can Seto do that? Kano tells him to do this and then sort of pats him on the arm like "that's your task, good luck" ]

[heartablaze]

[Children, have you forgotten that you can fly? You can still fly. The Mashin are all judging you. I am judging you.

Anyway, off Seto goes all by himself, uncertain? Kano what the fuck are you doing. What are Kano and Kido doing in the meantime? There sure is a lot of lightning going off, and they will probably get fried if they just sit there.]

[suddenlybees]

[ They are normal children with freaky eye powers but sometimes you have to draw the line at flying!! Seto's job is to water gun the Pillar out of the air. Kano takes Kido's hand and they are descending the tower. Thunderstorm safety says you get out of tall structures, thanks. ]

[heartablaze]

[Down goes the two siblings, away from the lightning. If they look above, they can see the occassional flicker of fire through the clouds, followed by the shine of blue from Seto's Mashin.

There's a crashing of lightning, what sounds like an explosion, and Seto is being flung from the clouds with his entire right arm on fire. He is probably screaming.]

[suddenlybees]

[ Seto is screaming and Kido sees him and also starts screaming and Kano is getting a bad headache but he tries to do his healing thing all the way from that distance. Kido tries to take off into the air to catch Seto, but Kano hang onto her wrist; he plays video games, he knows that flying is weak against electricity.

Instead, he and Kido run to catch Seto before he hits the ground. Kano feels for the wind, tries to blow those storm clouds away. ]

[heartablaze]

[He can heal from a distance! You should probably help him not be on fire before you heal him, though.

Kido intercepts him as Kano reaches out to try and manipulate the clouds. The more he does this, the dizzier he will feel, and his vision will start to spot at the edges. But their firebird seems perfectly content keeping a distance, like a wild animal running away at the sight of a human.

The ground rumbles underneath them. The lightning picks up, and large chunks of the earth explode into shattering pieces with every strike. If they do not act quickly, there will be nothing left to save.]