rakuen | [on the platform: attn. all characters]

Rakuen is warm in the noon sun, not humid enough to be uncomfortable but bright enough to make the transition from train to platform momentarily disorienting. The group greeting you is rather large, but also rather uneven - on one side, ten students in black and green; on the other, five in red and white. Whilst the green group are all fairly average, all teenagers other than the tiny, frail woman leading them, the red group are a tad more varied. One of their girls is tiny, the size of a small child, and her wings are beating patterns in the warm air. At the other side of the group, a warlike man looms over his comrades.

When they notice the arrivals, one out of each group steps forward. A lively teenager with ridiculously long red hair is the first to speak.

"Excuse me! Over here!" That's all she's contributing for now, her counterpart steps forward from the red group to continue. He explains, more calmly, that they're all prefects of Rakuen, from the two battle schools on the island. Fortitude - the girl in green waves - and Conquest. They all arrived just like you did, weeks or months before this.

"Please," he finishes, holding up a clipboard. Which seems rather unnecessary given how few names he has to read, "Come forward when we call your name, and we can answer your questions. I'm sure you have many."

As the Conquest prefect, he reads, "For Conquest school: Yuka Kazami," and leaves it at that.

"I'm Sora," the girl adds, "We're from Fortitude. Come ask us anything, even if I don't read your name! Let's see... Asagi, Juri Arisugawa, and Shion."

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Alex shrugged, "I-incentive to fight? F-fighting g-gets you m-money, money g-gets your memories back. W-well, you h-have to get someone e-else ta get it for you, b-but if you ever e-earn the raks, I'd b-be happy to get one for you- e-even if you need help with a b-bit of it!" Alex smiles, even though his stomach was twisting a bit. This was a different Shion than the one he knew, and he felt a little awkward.

Again fighting... Shion frowned, he couldn't fight... Well not properly. He closed his eyes as he saw the bleeding body of the man he shot and tried to calm down. He had to keep thinking, get out of here and back to Nezumi... before it was too late...

It might already be too late. Shion held out the charm Becca had given him, he hadn't activated it yet, he wasn't sure how to. "Becca gave me this, she said it was mine..."

Alex took the charm, "Th-these have m-memories on th-them. S-so, you'll r-remember something when you p-put it on. I th-think it's s-something th-the you from b-before remembered, or s-some of th-that time here." He held it out to put it on for Shion, but would let Shion make the first move. He wasn't sure if that information would change Shion's mind.

Shion looked at the charm in Alex's hand and then at his wrist where the bracelet was. He could see Alex's own, with the charms on it so he assumed that's where they went.

He took a small breath. None of this made sense but he hoped this small charm held answers. He held out his wrist. "How does it work?"

"You attach it, th-then you get a m-memory. S-sorta like when you r-realize where you p-put somethin'." Alex smiles gently, going slowly to attach Shion's charm. Alex just really hoped that it wasn't a horrible memory, like his had been.

Shion nodded and smiled as Alex attached the charm.

All of a sudden he wasn't at the train station at all but at a lakeside, nowhere he had seen before in his life but at the same time he had. He looked out over the lake at the setting sun and then to his side. There was Alex, Becca and the red haired girl that had called his name when he got off the train. They were all smiling.

Shion held a blue bottle in his hand, all four of them knelt down to place the bottles in the water before standing and watching them drift away hand in hand. A feeling of friendship, happiness and warmth and the memory ended.

It was strange, it didn't connect to anything but he smiled at Alex feeling that friendship again. "We were putting bottles in a lake... you were my friends..."

Alex grinned brightly, "Yes!" That precious moment. He was so glad Shion got that back at least. "W-we were sending bottles to people from h-home. W-we had a picnic t-to celebrate! W-we were c-close! A-and I th-think we c-can be again. I m-mean, w-we got along w-well right away the f-first time!"

Alex took Shion's hands in his, excited. "Wh-whatever the s-situation, I-I'm g-glad you're b-back." He would ask if Shion was okay, with that blood on him, but he seemed fine, and Alex was just fine ignoring that he had blood on him.

Shion smiled, holding Alex's hand in his. "I am sure we can be friends again!" It felt strange, and made him sad that he had had such close friends but had forgotten them. He couldn't say he was glad to be here, again or otherwise. Because he should be in the correctional facility with Nezumi... finding Safu...

But he was glad he had friends in such a place like this.

Alex smiled, letting go of Shion's hand with a squeeze. "I missed you. E-even if you d-don't remember things, you a-are still you!"

Shion smiled back, "I am..." Though he wasn't really sure who himself was anymore, and he wasn't sure it was someone he liked.

Alex didn't catch that uncertainty and instead just kept smiling. "W-well, if you need me for anything, y-you let me know!"

Shion nodded and smiled, "Thank you Alex!"

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I thought I replied to this ages ago~

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