rakuen | Climb That Tower!

Characters: Mei, Gaara, and... Romeo?
Format: Action, bb.
This log is: Semi-closed; not opposed to a fourth or so person hopping in, just ask!
Location: The humming tower!
Summary: People with mad climbing skillz try to figure out what is up with this tower thing.
Warnings: ...beware the ninja and small things.

[Since there was no requirement for battles this round, Mei found herself alternating between two states of being. A) Plotting everyone's defense against the "sky" and B) exploring the campus. Sure, there were classes, but something about being taught by the enemy was grating. Constantly glaring at the sky that she couldn't properly see with all the cloud cover was a little boring, too.

So!

She had picked choice B for the day. Her wandering took her right past the tower and the hum got her to stop. That was new. She knew none of them had ever made that noise before. Had the blackout broken something? First Mei had tried prying the doors open, but they wouldn't budge. Tenacious as always, the child looked for another route in.]

Ah! The windows! It must have windows! [Mei clenches a fist] No one remembers to lock every window!

[That in mind, she turns away from the tower and dashes back a fair distance. She needs momentum and that calls for a good run up to the tower wall. Mei turns back around.]

Ready!

[She drops into a runners crouch, fingertips against the ground.]

Set!

[Aaaand...]

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[None of the windows opened, Romeo sighed as he slowly climbed to the top of the tower. Not being a ninja, he had been slower than the other two and so was last on the roof, just in time to hear Gaara's words. He gave a small gasp and looked at the other two fearfully.]

It's the star from the dreams, except smaller. [He frowned and looked back toward Gaara and noticed what he was stood next to. He went pale and pointed.]

A tiger.... it's a tiger, and a star just like the dream. [He looked worried, glancing around at the gargoyles expecting them to come alive and eat him, or set him on fire.]

[Well, the first thing to come to HER mind upon looking up was 'THE THING ABOVE US IS CHARGING UP AN ATTACK OH NO'. Thankfully, Romeo spoke up first. This distracted her from the once impending freakout.]

A star?

[Mei looked up. She knew of the tiger, but she had been 'tagged out' of that nightmarish round before it had arrived. Stars, though, well, she couldn't recall any stars.]

What about stars in the dream? I only remember some weird story...

Round Zero... [he hasn't heard much, no one really seems to remember much, or they simply don't want to talk about it. But if the boy - Romeo - knows, then-]

What happened in the dream?

[At the mention of the dream Romeo pales a little again, he doesn't like thinking about the dream but he gathers himself to explain to Gaara, because it might be useful.]

Everyone died, except everyone killed each other, except they killed themselves... and then then there was a tiger and it set things on fire with his eyes.

[He paused, Grenn had said it wasn't a real tiger but a huge version of all tigerness put together. Which sounded suspiciously like there were other tigers with fire eyes out there. Romeo glanced suspiciously at the gargoyles.]

Then there were voices, and the towers were humming like this one, but louder and that... [He pointed up at the star] Was huge, across the whole sky and there was a story, about a knight and a sage and... [Quick pause for thinking.] A demon king.

[It IS still unsettling to think about, but the more time put between Mei and those memories, the more she has been able to pass it off as not possibly real. Even so...

She still shudders just recalling her death during that nightmare.]

Shadows... shadows killed everyone. I don't think I made it to the part with the tiger. [She stands up and folds her arms. Hrm.] Didn't it tell us to find a sage? Except the only people acting as sages are those silly receptionists with these stupid riddles.

[he stays sitting, resting against the side of the tiger statue. Thinking about everything they're remembering]

... They aren't sages. A sage is someone wise. Experienced, teaching and guiding others. [he almost reaches for his memory bracelet, and Sakura's charm, but only almost. He can remember the Lady Chiyo on his own. Lord Jiraiya, too. And less benevolent sages.] Do you know anyone here like that?

[Romeo nods, a sage, he had no idea what a sage was but he didn't think the receptionists were any help, they always smiled and ignored your questions. He listened to Gaara with a thoughtful look on his face, someone eise, experianced. A teacher. Like Doctor Casello maybe?]

Well there's teachers? Do they count? [He thinks again thinking of the people he knows.]

Miss Grenn teaches me things all the time, but she doesn't know whats in the towers either. Mister Sherlock's also really clever but he doesn't know either. [He sighs because they are the two cleverest people he knows and if they don't know...]

No. The teachers don't count. They're the enemy.

[It doesn't matter that they aren't obviously malicious.]

And really dull, at that, so they can't be very wise. Um. [Mei thinks a little longer, then sighs.] I can't think of any really wise people here, either...

They could be in hiding, or disguised. If they know how to escape the academy... [well. He trails off grimly. There is very little chance that their captors would let someone with that information roam free. They could even be imprisoned.]

Or stuck somewhere.

[Mei's thoughts went immediately to the tower. It was impossible to break into it! She looked down at the roof, staring intently, as if she could just will the barriers away and see what's in there.

She can't, of course, but wow, does she wish she could.]

Or... um... one of the other students, but we'd have to sort them all out in that case.

You think they might be imprisoned in the tower? [This is starting to sound like a fairy tale. He thinks as Mei and Gaara debate who the sage could be.]

I don't think it will be one of the students... unless... [He frowns thoughtfully] Unless it is a student and they have had the memory that they are the sage taken from them! That way they wouldn't need to be locked up!

Restoring the memories of every student in the academy will take weeks, and the tower is locked. We won't find an answer now.

Climb That Tower!

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