rakuen | Training with friends!

Characters: Yuka Kazami [AU], Sanae Kochiya and Cirno
Format: Any?
This log is: Closed
Summary: Practice makes perfec- Okay no. Makes the fairy a bit better at fighting.
Warnings: Crazyness and Derpyness ahoy?

Cirno sat at the edge of the lake, closest to the forest. She was waiting for her friends to arrive so they could try and practice. She had her rucksack sitting beside her and was changed out of her uniform and back into her normal outfit from home and was trying to read a book that she had brought with her.

She also had a a few small bags in her lap, waiting for the two she was waiting on. She figured it would not hurt to help out with the reason they came here and just brought them both closer to being a Prefect. She wanted to protect them both from what had happened to her so far and was hoping this would help that out a bit. At this point, she did not know what to expect from this. Even though Both Yuka and Sanae seemed to know her, she could not remember how they might know her and why. This bugged her but she shrugged it off so far.

So she sat, looking through the book, waiting for everyone to arrive.

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Yuka was dropping by her room to pick up the two upgrades rings she'd found the previous day. She frowned as she looked at the second ring. She'd since found it's information in the Exaclan manual, and to say she found the symbolism dismaying would be an understatement. But even though the details weren't entirely clear, it sounded like it would probably be helpful. She wasn't inclined to give up an advantage for something so ephemeral.

[...]

As Yuka arrived at the lake, she spent a little while just looking out over the water. It was very clear and pretty. She wondered if there were any interesting plants living in it... She'd have to see about getting a swimsuit sometime.

A moment later, she saw Cirno not too far over to one side. Seeing that the other girl was reading something, she decided not to call out. Instead, she just collapsed her parasol and went over to sit nearby.

[Cirno was completely engrossed into her book, although it was easy to see she was having trouble with it, as there were few pictures. After a few moments of her not noticing and frowned and slammed the book shut in frustration with what could be considered a small growl.

And then she noticed she was not alone. She blushed a bit and put the book back into her bag before waving.]

Hey! You made it! I got something for you!

[She holds out one of the two bags in her lap with a grin on her face, trying to pretend that no one saw her frustrated over that book]

Yuka blinked in surprise. "Ah?" She reached out, took the bag, and looked inside...

A pair of power rings? New ones too, judging by their blank faces. If Yuka remembered correctly, the cost of two of those represented a not insignificant amount of time and effort.

Being a stronger weapon definitely appealed to Yuka, but she still felt a bit uncertain. "Ah, are you sure? It must have taken a while to earn enough to buy these..."

She shakes her head with a grin, "Not really. I've had my upgrades for a while. After 11 rounds of being here, you earn them when you can. Memory charms are more expensive then those are."

She closes her eyes and leans back on her arms, "It's better to have a few of your own upgrades anyways. It gets you closer to whatever it is we have to do all this for. Get your Star pulled and your upgrades and you join the group of Prefects." She pauses and closes her eyes, sitting up and pulling her knees to her chest.

"Of course...it's not all good things when that happens anyways...So maybe that won't be for a while."

Edited 2012-08-01 05:59 (UTC)

"I see. Then, thank you very much." Yuka put the rings on. As she seated each one properly on a finger, an image appeared. The first one, a stylized sunflower, and for the second one, a shield.

She wasn't sure what to make of that next comment. "Star pulled?"

"Yeah. When you get pulled, a big bright star appears in the air." Her eyes stay closed, hugging her knees tighter as she speaks. She was thinking back to that round and gave a soft sort of half laugh.

"I got pulled, hit on instead of Kotaro and knocked out. When we got back to the dorm, I was handed the hat and told to move into the Prefect dorms. And then that penalty...." She stops herself there, trying to compose herself again. "Do me a favor...Don't go below 0 Raks. It's not a good thing here."

Yuka put an arm around Cirno's shoulders and tried to give her a reassuring squeeze. She didn't really understand most of that, but her picture of events was becoming clearer as she learned more of the context of things.

She thought back to some entries in the rulebook she'd read the previous night, as well as a discussion she'd had earlier today. "There are still things I don't understand... but I don't think you need to worry about that. It would take something very, very unusual to stop me from fighting..."

Cirno stilled in the embrace and tries to calm down once more. If she was upset, she wouldn't be in any shape to do anything. She smiles a little bit as she speaks once more, "This place plays dirty. There are times I just want to go home the way everyone else has..and then there are times I just wanna beat the system."

She lets go of her legs for the moment, giving a large sigh. There was so much still going through her head, but she pushed it aside for now. It was not the time nor the place. Besides, others might want to hear it. She tried to muster up a normal grin on her face, one she would wear right before yelling her favorite saying, trying to show Yuka she was okay.

"Either way, I have no choice but to fight. Miss Day wants us to win and I plan on doing so!"

Edited 2012-08-02 05:50 (UTC)

Yuka looked a bit pensive, but nodded anyway. "Some of the things I've thought feel foolish now... but even so, I want to keep going. I want to believe that we can accomplish something great if we don't give up."

"But I'm not doing anything for Day. It's fine if she approves of my actions, but my purposes are my own."

Sanae strolled up to the edge of the lake, lost in the Exaclan manual that she had been reading since she figured out it was there. This all sounded like an elaborate video game to her; still, a lot of it didn't make sense. Maybe if she were to fight...

She looked up from the book as she approached the two, and smiled.

Cirno nodded, "I've kinda heard we get to go home if we beat this. But I dunno...But for now, We just gotta do what they say...Fight a boss when it shows up and go from there right?"

Out of the corner of her eye, she saw a bit of green that wasn't from Yuka. She turned and waved as she spotted Sanae, "You made it!...Eh?...What's that you are reading?"

Edited 2012-08-04 17:11 (UTC)

Training with friends!

Meanwhile, back at Conquest...

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