melodiesoflife | Event || The Answer

Event || The Answer

Characters: All characters who signed-up for the event.
Where: South Continent of Balance (Imperial Territories)
When: April 20th to April 30th.
Summary: The Heroes of Light have lost consciousness and now find themselves in the middle of nowhere, without their Moogles and away from everything they know. They will have to get back home, but what awaits them on the path? For more information, please check the First OOC Post and Second OOC Post.
Warning: Bad things.

Group 01: Team Hijinks House
Group 02: Team Brigands
Group 03: Team Discovery Channel
Group 04: Sephiroth's (In)Sanity Squad
Group 05: Team (Bad) Shipping Advice
Group 06: Team Blue-Haired Lords on Fire
Group 07: Team Mom and Late Sleepers
Group 08: Nothing Bad Will Happen
Group 09: The Hellhounds
Group 10: Loftwings, A Working Title
Group 11: Team Oni
Group 12: Team F.N.T.I²
Group 13: Team Name-In-Progress
Group 14: Team The-Mods-Couldn’t-Brain-A-Name
Group 15: Seraphim Shenanigans

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[A red eye glared out at the distant blue and green. Maybe it was pulling back like a slingshot and would come gushing back. She didn't know how this ocean stuff worked.

And never had learned how to swim.]

Feh. Who cares about what's down there, dying fish and already dead things.

[Bartz grins at the red eyed girl.]

Aw, c'mon. You're not even a little curious? I don't mind going first if you're worried.

[Bartz receives a death glare for his kindness, as the redhead snaps back angrily,]

Who the hell said I was worried?

[A fang snaps into a pocky stick as though it were meant to be his head.]

[Minako was different when she was serious as she was already walking on while others were talking.]

I'll go first. Just make sure we all stay close together.

[ As they'd go down the steps, unsurprisingly they'd find aquatic fauna and dead fishes-- Or rather, dying fishes. They were not dead yet for the most part some desperately clung on to life, hopping as if they hoped to fall back into water.

The water didn't stop receding and should they go further ahead, they would find even more- Sunken ships, ruins of airships that had disappeared in the midst of their flights and the skeletons of the men and women that had populated these ships

Even then, the water would keep receding and the moonlight seemed to lead the way to the origin of this strange phenomenon. ]

[Knees bent as a long draw of breath was taken into Luffy's lungs. The single bound from the steps above sent him in an arch that saw him land just short of the path Minako had been taking as the lead. When he stands fully, he turns his head so that only his a hint of his closest eye can be seen.

His voice remains low, speaking steady but with a great deal of weight behind each word.]

I'm going to stay to the front with you. I've seen this happen once before..

[He shifts, shoulders turning so that both eyes now face the small band of heroes gathered together.]

By the way- I can't swim.

[Bartz cheerfully takes up a position right behind Minako and Luffy. He doesn't know exactly where they're headed, but he sure is excited to find out.

He also takes Luffy's declaration in stride.]

Not at all? Hmmm...

[He glances around them, then shrugs.]

Then I guess it's a good thing all the water is leaving.

( the pinch didn't help... and sayaka grasped at her hair in a partially mocking dramatic fashion — ) Aaah, weird stuff is always happening in this place! It's like living in some kind of manga!

( her shoulders heaved forward as she sighed, apparently coming to an easy acceptance that odd things were happening... again.

she stuck close behind the front runners, glancing back behind them every once in awhile, and taking in the... disturbing sights. )

Well it sure is creepy down here... ( those poor fish... )

Feh

[Kyoko stomped down after Sayaka, hardly about to let some rookie magical girl outdo her...even though this was a complete and utter waste.

Not knowing what to expect, her lance appeared beneath the crook of an arm, the sharp tip gliding just shy of puddles. A red eye glances to a flopping fish, it stares back. Mouth gasping pathetically. She grins.]

Looks delicious.

[Minako turned her head slightly, a small smile placed upon her lips. She thought at least for the moment she could go back to her usual cheerful self at least to try and keep up the positives.]

Stuff like this does happen in manga all the time, right? But yet here it is in real life. I think it's fantastic.... Unless of course something bad happens.

[She frowns slightly at the thought of them walking into something bad, before she turned her head back to the front.]

While we walk, should we take note of people's jobs? So if anything were to happen we are at least aware of what we can do.

As they stare to the strange scenery around them, both Sayaka and Luffy would be able to hear the voice once more. It would sound familiar to them, as if it were someone they know but the words are incomprehensible, as if spoken in another tongue altogether.

Should they walk further in, they will find more sunken ships, in ruins and with little left besides the corpses of the former crew members. One of them might look eerily familiar to Luffy in particular, as it looks like the spitting image of the Jolly Roger. ]

( sayaka curled up a lip at kyoko's comment— ) The worst part is, you're probably being serious. ( for once she didn't chastise, having grown a little used to her red counterpart's... eccentricities by now. )

I guess if you're stuck in a good manga it's not a problem but! ( she frowned, then perked again— ) Huh? Did you guys hear...

( looking off into the distance, her pace quickened a little. wasn't that voice... ) A-anyway, I've got Crystal Knight on me, so— ( as they continued deeper in, and the scenery started to go grim, she trailed off... ) that's...

( oh god, were those bodies?! )

[He looks down at Sayaka in concern. She looks really pale. Not that he can blame her.]

Are you okay?

[He follows her gaze too the bodies and then gives her a sympathetic smile.]

This place is sort of creepy... But I think we'll be fine.

[Bartz then turns to answer Minako's question.]

I'm using Time Mage and Beastmaster right now.

[The sound of sandals slapping against the ground ceases to echo across the vast plain of the ocean floor as Luffy stops dead in his tracks. A single hand is raised as his saw begins to hang off a hinge, lowered and ajar without uttering a single sound.

When his eyes focus on the familiar artwork adorning the torn and hold-ridden sail, the pirate can only stare in disbelief and shock. He's only seen one ship carry such a mark before, only one vessel in the entire known world charted across the five seas with the yellow, white, and red standing proud and full attached to the center mast of the Thousand Sunny.

A lump in his throat; it catches and sinks to the pit of his empty stomach like the curse which would have him sinking to the ground he now walks upon. When his voice finally catches up to him, his eyes have gone completely white save for the small, anger filled dots of coal-black that stay locked upon the wreckage.]

WHAT.. WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?!

[He shouts with a lack of concern, more so in a manner that seems fit to seek the person or creature that was to blame for the sight before him. He finally spins around, looking every direction save for the group that is with him, now ignoring the voice which had been drawing him closer.]

JUST WHAT THE HELL IS THIS BULLSHIT?! SHOW YOURSELF ALREADY!

[ No creature showed, nor did anyone answer. He would be able to recognize some of the corpses-- Or at the very least, their clothings. Indeed, there wasn't enough flesh left to recognize their facial feature. As a matter of fact, the voice went silent, for Luffy at least.

For Sayaka's not so much. The voice called her once more, and grew more familiar with each call: as if it were someone she knew, but their voice was so distorted they couldn't be recognized. The voice resounded within her mind, but she would be able to tell it originated from the horizon. ]

[Well....

That escalated quickly.]

Um.... are you okay?

[Bartz approaches Luffy carefully, glancing around in anticipation of some incoming threat. Either something is about to attack them, or Luffy is having some kind of breakdown. Or both. Either way, better be on guard]

What's wrong?

( quite the reaction, indeed. sayaka was pretty uncomfortable with the whole graveyard of ships... and now bodies, but when she looked up to offer bartz a small smile of thanks for his reassurance, that voice caught her attention again.

turning her head quickly in the direction it came from, just over the horizon, her blue eyes widened. ) That's—!

( no way, it couldn't be... ) Wh... wait! Wait! ( she cried, breaking into a run, leaving the group behind — ) I'm coming!

( and off she sprinted, completely engrossed in that unmistakable voice that called to her... )

[Kyoko is watching Luffy with open distaste as he screams out an open invitation for every enemy in the vicinity to find them.]

Goddamn idiot! Why did everyone want to wake this one so bad?

[There's a sharp turn towards Sayaka as the blue haired girl starts calling out -- thinking at first it's for her only...Where the hell is that moron rookie looking?] Oy -- What are you.

Hey!

[Kyoko's quick to barrel ahead after the careless magical girl -- bounding over heaps of rotting lumber and bones.]

Stop -- Sayakaaa!

[Minako had little to no clue what was going on, but she was already sure that people were going insane and needed to be yelled at and chased after as one seems to be needing. Moving to follow, she ran after the blue haired woman.]

Don't run off on your own like that! Who knows what might happen?

[While she ran she was going to stay on guard just in case.]

Man, you guys are hard to keep up with.

[But it is better to stay together, so he runs after Minako even as she's running after them. He yells ahead to the girls in the lead.]

So what are we running toward? Are we looking for something? Or someone?

[Sayaka certainly seems to have some kind of goal here.]

[Paying no attention to those behind him, Luffy remains locked on the ship before him. Legs take off into a run, using the best of his speed to encroach closer to the wreckage he called "home". It was impossible, beyond all thought and reason, that the ship he was seeing was real. The bones of his family, his crew, had to be nothing but mere illusion. His eyes were playing tricks on him, or so he convinces himself, as he can see his nakama spread about the railings as if left to dry under the heat of the Sun above.

He skids to a halt, the voices of the heroes now out of his ears and beyond his current rationale. Beady, black dots rapidly move from corpse to corpse, his mouth hanging open in disbelief as the remaining cloth that clings in shredded fibers gives away the identity of each body.

Fists clench, nails digging into his skin to the point where it punctures the thin layers that keep his boiled blood inside of him. Teeth finally gnash, grinding so hard that his jaw almost dislocates from the anger which swells within him.]

... WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS BULLSHIT?! THIS ISN'T MY SHIP! AND THAT SURE AS HELL ISN'T MY CREW!!

[There's no thought for the consequences. To him, the ship is a trick, a ploy, a means to agitate him to the point of violence. Even with thinking this, the pirate is more than happy to oblige. His blood-trickling fist rears back as he speeds back up into a run, landing into the hull of the ship with everything his momentum, torque, and strength can conjure.]

DON'T THINK THAT MY NAKAMA ARE THAT WEAK!! I'LL NEVER FORGIVE WHOEVER DID THIS!!

[ Most unfortunately for Luffy, it seems there is no one onto whom he can put the blame regarding this, as nobody answers his accusations and he is left with his ship and (former) crew. At least, he's not drawing any enemies to them.

In the meantime, should Sayaka continue running toward the voice, she would eventually see something alike to a hole-- Something alike to a siphon in which all the water is being absorbed. There is also someone standing next to it, back turned to the group as they look down into the hole. It looks like someone familiar to Sayaka, though in the darkness, once again it is unclear who it is. ]

( sayaka glanced back over her shoulder, pausing just slightly, hearing what luffy was yelling about. his ship? his crew? but all those corpses...

it made her run faster, fearing for the voice that called out to her. as she skidded to a stop finally, just a short distance from the figure, her shoulders heaved with breath... wasn't that...? )

Hey! Are you— really... ( the swirling whirlpool was concerning too as her eyes fell on that next. so that explained what was happening ot the sea... )

Just what is going on here?!

[Minako had little to no idea what exactly was causing such reactions. I mean sure, this place is creepy and well corpses were not a good thing, but they needed to focus and keep walking. So as she followed Sayaka she was going to see if she could get them back on track.]

hey! What are you following anyway?

[ As she approached, Sayaka would be able to get a better idea of who the person was-- Even though their back was turned to her, there was no doubt this was Kyousuke. However, something was wrong. He neither moved nor seemed to breath, yet he was standing, staring down at the whirlpool. It was a bit too dark to see his face yet. ]

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