Consequences [round 4| day 4 midday, open]

[myblueskies]

Characters: Romeo, Dahlia, anyone else who feels like it
Format: Prose, action, whatever
This log is: Open
Location: Courtyard
Summary: OOC note first: I have the mods permission to start this thread, all the announcement bit in this thread was written by Elle, who sent it to me to put in this post. Also the "victim" of the penalty was randomly selected.
IC: Actions have consequences, on day 4 of round 4 as a result of not fighting Dahlia goes into negative tokens.
Warnings: Pain, descriptions of pain, probably angst (when is there ever no angst?)

" At exactly noon on the fourth day of the fourth round the screens across the campus flickered. The usual view of ongoing battles and posts asking for battles or weapons was taken over by the face of the woman all the students in the academy knew very well by now. Her ever-present smile was glued to her face as she began to speak.

"Hi! I hope everyone is enjoying the round and fighting hard! Unfortunately one of the players for this round has past the minimum token value, the penalty will now take place." At that she gave a cheery wave and disappeared off the screen. The camera then panned to the courtyard to one student in particular.

The student in question was Romeo and he was in the courtyard eating an apple when a pain began, it was like the pain he had felt when he had tried to vow with Sherlock except it just didn't stop. It was in his head, like someone was stabbing him inside his mind. Within half a minute he had dropped the apple and was clutching his head. The pain allowed no thoughts and tears of pain ran from his eyes. This was different than anything he had ever felt before, and he couldn't run from it or hide from it because it was inside him.

And it just didn't stop. He couldn't help but cry out loud clutching his head as he curled up on the step where he was sat. To Romeo the pain went on for a long time, so long that he thought his brain was going to explode. In reality it was five minutes, five whole minutes and by the end Romeo was sobbing.

When it was over he lay still curled up in a ball, tight and frightened not trusting that the pain had gone away.

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[myblueskies]

The world was slowly coming back into focus and Romeo saw Theta there, he managed to nod slowly at her question of whether he was alright and was glad that the movement did not bring any more pain.

Romeo didn't really understand Zoro's question, he glanced at the screen and vagualy remembered the smiling lady telling them that someone had done something bad... something to do with tokens...

He sat up with help and though he was trembling the pain was quickly becoming a memory. He did as mister Zoro told him breathing deeply. He didn't think he had broken any rules! He tried his best not to!

"D...did I do something bad?"

[shishi_sonson]

"No," Zoro says, simply and strongly. "No, you didn't do anything bad."

He had certainly asked the question out loud if the boy's sudden subjection to pain had been related to what had been relayed on the screen, but there was really very little doubt that it, the school, the administration in general, that one of these was responsible.

Sitting down next to Romeo, Zoro hunched forward to keep himself at eye-level with the young lad. "Don't even think like that," he added; something in his voice, amazingly, managed to make it sound like a command and a reassurance at the same time. "It was something about this game, not you."

As soon as he was able, Zoro decided that he'd take Romeo back to his dorm and let him rest.

[myblueskies]

Romeo blinked up at Zoro, hoping that he was right, but even though he tried to do as mister Zoro said and not think like that he still thought he might have accidently broke a rule. Or made the school think he had. Still he nodded, recovered enough to not want to make mister Zoro angry at him. He reached up and started to wipe the tears away from his face.

[ergaleomancer]

Theta moved to sit down on the other side of Romeo, frowning deeply as she listened to the quiet conversation between the two of them. She felt out of place, like she wasn't needed there. Still, her first instinct had been to come and check on Romeo, so she didn't particularly want to think that was a bad thing.

She smiled for him, hoping that would reassure him. "You're doing grand, Mr. Romeo. Don't worry about things. It seems Mr. Zoro is going to take care of you, so I'm sure you're in good hands."

[myblueskies]

Romeo blinked at Miss Buckley and managed to give a shakey smile, he was starting to feel better already it had just been scary. He felt safe now though because mister Zoro was there and Miss Buckley and they were his friends and made him feel safe.

"Thank you sir," his voice was stronger as he spoke to Miss Buckley and then looked up to Zoro with eyes still shining with tears. "I think I can walk now mister Zoro..."