silly people do silly things [closed]

[greenspaces]

Characters: Jade Harley (AU) and Dirk Strider with bonus appearance from Jake English AND Stellaluna.
Format: Action
This log is: Closed
Location: Conquest --> The open tower.
Summary: Jade and Dirk drag the dead!Dirk from Conquest to the open tower. They somehow picked up Jake and Stellaluna, who both wanted adventure time and shenanigans and fun. Things happen (???)
Warnings: THERE IS A DEAD PERSON.

[ This crazy idea had better work, she thought. Bodies were heavier than she had imagined, and Jade was not exactly a weightlifter. Even though she'd been in Rakuen for a little over two months, she was definitely by no means back to normal.

Still, she wasn't about to let that stop her. Holding on to the dead Dirk's legs securely, she nodded at the alive one. ]

Let's go fast! Do you think anyone saw us?

Comments

[greenspaces]

It's okay. I don't think it's going to eat anyone else!

[ Jade is pale, but this isn't going to stop her. She remembers that the top floor is filled with mirrors, so she digs into a pile of Weapons and arms herself with the nearest gun. Then, she runs to the stairs. ]

Let's go check the top floor! I want to know what's going on, and what those things were.

[ And then, without waiting, she begins to run up the stairs. ]

[vespertinity]

[Sleeping people being eaten by shadows was scary (was this normal for towers?!), but Pip was not asleep and the monster hadn't eaten anyone else, so maybe it was safe now.

Jade started running, and Pip peeped out of her shirt. Nope, no monsters here. She started wriggling out, hanging on as best she could, but it was pretty bumpy from Jade's movement.

As Jade went higher and higher, Pip finished crawling out of her shirt...

...and fell off Jade's shoulder and down the stairs. She tried spreading her wings but they still wouldn't work right, only making her tumble through the air.]

[utopiamods]

[ The fall is a fatal one. It's useful, then, that a slim, darkness-shrouded hand shoots from the steps, snatching the small bat deftly out of the air before she can hit the stone, and places her on the top step.

it pauses, swaying slightly, then flashes a casual v for victory in Jake's direction and disappears back into the shadows. ]

[fracturedsoul]

[ Dirk follows Jade up the staircase, and then Pip falls. He reverses course to leap after her and catch her -- And that shadow already has.

He turns to resume his trek up the stairs, running a hand through his hair and staring at the bat. ]

So are these fuckin' La Blue Girl shadows on our side or not?

[goodboybestshot]

[Jake was lagging a bit behind so when Pip fell, Jake made a dash for the little bat just as Dirk did. He nearly has his own tumble when the shadows pop back up again to rescue her.

And ...okay. Jake mimics the gesture back and blinks, clearly confused.]

I-

[Oh god, that reference. Jake turns an impressive shade of scarlet, remembering that particular animation. He clears his throat.]

Good question. I'm thoroughly discombobulated. Pip, are you alright?

[vespertinity]

[After being set down on the top step, Pip stares after the shadow as it makes some gesture and vanishes. She sits up, starting to tremble from residual fear.]

I am.

I don't think monsters usually save people.

[She looks down the stairs and shakes harder - she fell down that! and stones are way harder than... than... those leafy things she lived in - but also notices Jake turning really green. Do humans turn green when they're scared?]

It's okay, Jake. I'll look after you! [Somehow.]

[greenspaces]

I don't think so, either! I wonder if it's friendly?

[ She thinks about this for a second, before she cups hands around her mouth and calls out. ]

Shadows, come back! We want to say thank you!

[fracturedsoul]

[ Friendly, hah. ] Poor things must be lonely. They just wanted a friend and we were nice enough to bring them one.

[ They don't reappear when Jade calls for them; Dirk glances from left to right as he reaches the third floor landing and sees nothing. Though he's holding it together on the outside, inwardly he's trembling like a leaf. It's almost like he can feel those tendrils of shadow around his body, dragging him down to... wherever, but he knows it's just his overactive imagination. Try as he might to shift his attention, his consciousness is still limited to just his dream body. ]

Somehow I doubt we're gonna find anything of import no matter how high we go. I got dragged down, like, into the ground.

[goodboybestshot]

[Pip lsjfsdgs. Jake gives her a grin that's tinged a little with confusion and embarrassment. Oh, did she see his face? He was not about to explain that to a bat.]

Friendly, perhaps for the living. Maybe it has no interest in those that aren't expired.

[He holds a little tighter to the mallet he picked up and sticks closer to Dirk. He gives the landing a once-over himself.]

No sense in going back once we've come this far, though.

[vespertinity]

[Pip crawled up the shirt on Jade's legs - Jake and Dirk had different ones; she wondered why - and clung to it a bit below Jade's knee. She would have tried to go further, but it'd be really hard until the tremors stopped. They were really in the way. >:(]

But... if it only wants the dead, why did it take sleeping Dirk?

[greenspaces]

Pip....

[ She sighs, putting the gun on the ground to pick Pip up and hold her instead. ]

He wasn't sleeping. He was dead. At least, until he came back alive.

[fracturedsoul]

So I'm not the only one who noticed that. Looks like your guess was right after all, Harley.

[ He continues through the third floor, heading for the staircase. If they're heading to the top, he's leading the way. ]

[goodboybestshot]

Wait- he came back? You're sure?

[He hadn't been paying all that much attention. He only cared about trying to pull him back out, not noticing if he was breathing or something.]

[vespertinity]

He didn't look dead to me. [It was much nicer up here than hanging on down there where she might get kicked. Or eaten.]

[greenspaces]

He was definitely not dead, at the end. [ She is going to keep a close eye on Pip! She doesn't want her to fall again. ]

Do you think it's a bad guy? Or a good one?

[fracturedsoul]

We can't begin to guess that without knowing what it took my body for. Or if the entity that tentacle monstered me away is the same being responsible for reanimating the corpse.

[ One hand goes to his chest unwittingly. What was with that spear... ]