utopiamods: (pic#696269)
Rakuen Moderators ([personal profile] utopiamods) wrote in [community profile] rakuen2011-02-05 10:32 am

Round 1 [beta characters here]

And then you woke up and it was all a dream.

Or... was it?

You don't know. The details are fading. Some of it seems as clear as if if had happened minutes ago, whilst the rest is as hazy and vague as a long-lost memory. You remember blood and screams; a girl with a bright smile. Need to get rid of you, someone said. For a little while. Sometimes you were running, fighting, facing dark shadows with red eyes and mocking smiles. Sometimes you were hunting yourself, hurting people, feeling the power of your weapon coursing through you as you headed towards your prey. Sometimes you were watching your friends die, or your family, or your enemies.

Your shadow is you, and you are your shadow, and its voice is all around you.

Free us. Free them.

Static. More images, some you will remember and some you will not.

...but, your shadow whispers, the Demon King always returned. Didn't he?

You are outside, and the sky is blood. The towers glow, humming atonally as a star lights up the sky. The campus blazes with its light; the lines of the symbol span the horizon, and a tiger smiles.

Once, the knight despaired and sought a sage...

The tiger smiles, and the world is consumed in fire. You're falling, falling, and the shadow's voice falls with you.

There is a story everybody knows.

Light streams through the windows of your room. In eight different rooms, in four different buildings, thirty-nine students wake up with a start, and find their campus as picturesque and empty as it was the day before.

The day before? What...

A cheery voice breaks through the fog of confusion, loud over the speaker system.

"Good morning, students! Please be at the lobby by midday for the week's announcements."
summerstars: (hmm)

[personal profile] summerstars 2011-02-05 04:05 pm (UTC)(link)
So the 'dream' had been shared. Rubbing her face and still feeling uncertain whether her left arm was there or not, Grenn sighed.

"No... Shared dreams can't be... dreams. There was something..." Frag it. how had she forgotten? It was important. It had been obvious and now she had forgotten.

She needed to do something. Something... Well. Maybe Koharu and her friends couldn't hack the real Utopia's system when they got home, but maybe she could hack this Utopia's system. She was not outstanding at hacking, but anything would be better than nothing. Especially after this shared 'dream'.

"I hope... nothing like that happens again. I can't even... sort everything out..." But she remembered her own death very well. Very, very well.
princesspowerful: (WHY!? /hit)

[personal profile] princesspowerful 2011-02-05 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Molly's eyes were wet and her body sore when she woke up. The realization that she really couldn't do anything here, that she was useless without her power had really hit her hard. She couldn't be a hero. It was impossible. Usually Molly wouldn't bother herself with what is possible and what isn't, but she couldn't help herself.

She didn't remember a lot of her dream, but it still affected her. Soon, of course, she would disregard it as a dream and move on but for now she was going to curl up in her bed, cry a bit more, and listen to Kallen and Gino talk because at least they were alive.
allurprincess: (yeah just be yourself)

[personal profile] allurprincess 2011-02-05 04:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"Ah, that's not--" Sora slumped a little, watching him comb his hair without really seeing it until her bed creaked and Yuki sat against her. She started, then relaxed. She was here, and they were safe. It was just a bad dream... She closed her eyes, and leaned against her princess. And, most importantly, managed a smile.

"Good morning, Yuki."
hairwag: (So whats up :()

[personal profile] hairwag 2011-02-05 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Tomoko woke up with a start, and sat straight up, a look of terror spread across her face. Both her hands were held firmly on top of her head, as if to protect herself from some deadly, incoming blow. And before she could stop herself, she called out to the first person she thought of in a situation like this.

"H-Himoto-san?!" As soon as the name spilled out of her lips, she began to realize what was going on. She began to realize where she was, and that it was all just.... a dream. No. A nightmare. A very bad nightmare. She was in this strange, frighting place that was her school but not still. She let out half a breath, half a sob of relief.
willbeurprincess: (are you sure that's proper to say)

[personal profile] willbeurprincess 2011-02-05 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Koharu woke, hands clutching at the bedspread, taking deep breaths. Her heart wouldn't stop racing and she had killed someone. Dark hair, pushing Sora aside but why--Oh, it was Tsuki. Her head swiveled and she looked over at her with wide eyes.

"I--I..It wasn't just a dream?"
chainedbyred: (listening)

[personal profile] chainedbyred 2011-02-05 04:32 pm (UTC)(link)
His hair finished, Russel began to change as the two girls greeted each other. He unbuttoned his pajama top to reveal a decent amount of thin, trailing burn scars. An alchemist would recognize them as wounds caused by rebounding transmutations, but to them it would just look like he'd burned himself oddly. He was also built strongly for a 15 year old. But all of that disappeared under an undershirt, then the uniform shirt as he quickly got dressed.

RED 1-B

[personal profile] idkmybffxiao 2011-02-05 04:32 pm (UTC)(link)
There was blood everywhere... it had hurt so much... w-why was.. why would he do that? Why?

And then she was awake, safe and sound, in a bed. Mei clutched at her chest, but she found it whole. No blood, no gaping wound that should be there, but the memory remained. Parts of it were a muddle. There had been something about the announcer and then somewhere in it, she had been dragging someone around. Who that had been, it escaped her, but Mei wouldn't be worried by those. When they had gone to save Grenn and... and...

That stood out in her mind's eye, down to the very last detail.

The girl pulled the blankets back over her and curled up under them, trying to muffle her sobbing from the rest of the dorm room. Just thinking about it, she couldn't stop herself from crying. Her dying was too vivid. It hadn't been a dream. It hadn't, but, oh, how she wishes it were, so it could just fade away like the rest.
isur2ndprincess: (worried)

[personal profile] isur2ndprincess 2011-02-05 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"Morning Sora" Yuki whispers back to her, leaning back on her knight. She knows Russel is there but chooses not to react to his presence. While usually she would be a bit tense around him, today was a special case. It was just easier to lean on Sora and try to calm down. Sora is alive. The others must be alive as well.

Re: BLACK 1-B

[personal profile] leftthesafetyon 2011-02-05 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hey which one of you turned off my alarm clock?"

She looked at her clock before proceeding. Something wasn't right- her alarm was set for five, and yet, here she was, much later in the morning. That weird dream about getting shot? It can wait until she finds out why she slept in.
allurprincess: (but I'm not that helpful really)

[personal profile] allurprincess 2011-02-05 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"I had a really weird dream last night," she ventured, as Russel tugged on his shirt. "What about-- um, did you sleep okay?"
isur2ndprincess: (worried)

[personal profile] isur2ndprincess 2011-02-05 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
She leans into Sora's shoulder and shakes her head no, "bad dream" she mutters after a few seconds.
trollofthree: (you make NO SENSE AT ALL)

[personal profile] trollofthree 2011-02-05 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
"You're gonna have to stop apologising eventually, you know." Because she wouldn't look at him, he watched Molly instead. She'd woken up as they talked, but it looked like she wasn't ready to get up either; he could see her shoulders shaking under the blankets. Must've been a bad night for everyone.

"Not that I don't appreciate it. You've been kinda uptight," he grinned, briefly, "Bu~ut I guess I could've helped out a little more, huh."

He'd already fallen silent in anticipation of her yelling at him when Tomoko woke up, and he blinked over at her as she shot upright. His grin reappeared, and he waved to get her attention. "Ah, Tomoko, good morning!" And another towards the lump of blankets that was their fourth roommate. "You up yet, Molly?"
queenscheckmate: we are young (this was never meant to be; heartache)

[personal profile] queenscheckmate 2011-02-05 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
"It's not your fault," Kallen said before sitting up. She still faced the wall, away from Gino. Kallen was and always has been a good listener and knew someone in the room was crying. "But this isn't the time for joking or for fake smiles and kindness Gino," she said quietly, "Something's not right here."

She motioned to the ones behind them, Tomoko and Molly. All three girls (Kallen included) had been crying at some point. She wiped the dried tears off her own face. She wasn't crying now, but the other two girls were. The result of that you couldn't chalk up to some 'pudding' or PMS. Something wasn't right here. Tomoko had called out Sora's name while Molly hid under the covers. There was no way all of them would just cry at the same time... unless it was all connected.

The ex-pilot finally turned around to face the male, even if her face was directed towards the floor for the moment. She knew she probably looked as if she hadn't slept in weeks and when she decided to wake up, a bus hit her, backed up, and ran over her again. How she felt and how her appearance weren't going to exactly align with each other. For now, she looked acceptable and brought her head up to look at him. Her eyes were still watery from the nightmare and her face looked heavy. "Don't say anything," she warned.

She moved out of her bed and knelt down next to Molly's bedside. "Hey..." she said quietly. She wasn't going to ask if she was all right. She wasn't.

No one in this dorm was.
Edited 2011-02-05 17:15 (UTC)
chainedbyred: (finally breaking through)

[personal profile] chainedbyred 2011-02-05 05:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Once his pants were changed, and his shoes on, he scooped up his vest and swept it on as he left the room in a hurry. He left his clothes strewn on the floor, and closed the door with rather more force than was necessary, but not an alarming amount.
princesspowerful: (choosing)

[personal profile] princesspowerful 2011-02-05 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
She heard Tomoko yell out for someone and she heard Gino ask if she was awake but besides shifting a bit she didn't answer. Maybe if she went back to sleep then she would have a good dream where she saved the world and everyone was happy and she was super strong. Even if she had that dream, she doubted it would feel as real, she doubted it would wash away the previous dream.

As Kallen moved to her bedside, Molly peaked her head out of the blanket to look at her. Her face was tear stained, nose running, and maybe a bit puffy, but she didn't really noticed.

"Hi" she mumbled at her.
defender: (shock)

[personal profile] defender 2011-02-05 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
For his part, Shoujou has been awake since daybreak. He simply hasn't felt the need to do anything since then; he can't remember anything clearly, nothing truly coherent, but there is one phrase he can't forget.

God is dead.

Staring at the ceiling, that is the one phrase Shoujou can't get out of his mind: God is dead, God is dead, God is dead. Which means -- El is dead. But that's impossible; El cannot be dead. El simply cannot be dead. So then what?

God is dead.

He is pretty damn sure Nietzsche has nothing to do with it.

When Sherlock stirs, Shoujou rises from his own bed to blink blearily at his dorm mate. "Sherlock Holmes."
allurprincess: (wangst wangst wangst)

[personal profile] allurprincess 2011-02-05 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
She didn't ask if Yuki wanted to talk about it; just freed her arm from the covers and held her, fingers still shaking slightly on Yuki's shoulder.

"Do you mind if we get everyone else before..." The idea of going to the lobby made her stomach churn with fear again, and she trailed off.
trollofthree: (pic#704763)

[personal profile] trollofthree 2011-02-05 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
No one answered when he knocked, so Gino assumed that it was safe to enter. That would normally be a dangerous assumption to make, but, one, it was Mei's room and they were used to him by now and, two, the only thing audible through the door was crying. He huffed, but pushed the door open and padded over to the bundle of covers that was his ex-Player.

"Oi, Mei..."

[personal profile] idkmybffxiao 2011-02-05 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
She hadn't heard the door open.

His voice startled Mei and she immediately tried to stop crying. That made too much noise! She buried her face against the mattress under the pile of blankets and thought desperately about how she wasn't there. Not here, not here, not here. If she thought hard enough, maybe he would forget she's there and just go away. That can work, right? It can't? She'll try anyway.

The bundle of covers doesn't move or acknowledge Gino at all. It's too busy trying to think itself invisible.
trollofthree: (yeah but Lelouch's weapon sucks)

[personal profile] trollofthree 2011-02-05 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
"Man..." He'd think she was acting weird if he didn't remember running her through in perfect detail. Then again, he remembers her slitting his throat with just as much clarity, so he doesn't claim to have any idea of what's going on. Everyone's dreams matching up. It's just plain weird. He frowned down at her for a while longer, then sat on the end of the bed and prodded the pile where, logically, her head would be.

"You had bad dreams too, right? Wanna talk about it?"
bitofafiction: Looking straight ahead: calculated neutrality. (>= with his dignity on maximum)

[personal profile] bitofafiction 2011-02-05 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hello," he says evenly. "Did you by any chance dream of a massacre?"
defender: (empty)

[personal profile] defender 2011-02-05 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Shoujou suddenly finds his throat dry. "I... I might have."

Swallow. "I think so. Maybe... yes," he concludes suddenly, the inquiry triggering a better recollection. The shadow... he remembers firing a gun. "Why do you ask?"

[personal profile] idkmybffxiao 2011-02-05 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Whyyy wasn't he going awaaaay and now he was sitting on the bed, what was she going to do?! The prod managed to get a reaction, though a cringe and her further curling away from him probably wasn't what he had hoped for. After that, a long silence is drawn out after his questions.

Bad dreams? Had it been just a bad dream? It had seemed so real. Mei finally pulled the covers back just enough to peek out from them, wide, teary eyes watching him. The kid looked terrified of him, the way she was staring.

"...y-you aren't going to kill me again, are you?"
bitofafiction: Looking down, pensive, unsure or regretful. (== come all the same)

[personal profile] bitofafiction 2011-02-05 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
"Because I did the same. And I did not wake up in the same place I went to sleep."
isur2ndprincess: (worried)

[personal profile] isur2ndprincess 2011-02-05 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
When Sora put her arm around her, Yuki leaned a bit heavier on her, taking comfort in the fact that Sora was there. She knew that Sora would want to check on the others, Yuki wanted to also, but at the moment she wasn't ready to leave the bed.

Page 2 of 7