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The only notion, the only hope that there was truly anything happening aside from the energy that seemed to well from the tears they'd collected was the mechanical sound and shimmering of the tera crystals above that suggested the platform was moving. All of them within the ugly ward had to keep up their fight to not be subdued the longest, and the fight felt as if it dragged on ever lasting until finally the platform breached the ceiling above.[break][break]
Yuina stayed close to
John Sullivan, for even as the willpower drove them all on and what healing he could offer helped, her waking body was still ravaged and weak, and the remnants of her dreaming mind could hardly be called lucid.[break]
The whole of them flooded onto the platform, it was a wonder it could fit so many of them, and as Yuina made her rush for it, fleeing from a group of Megalopolans and the bird that threatened to cleave through them, she felt a surge in the toxic chain that coursed through her veins. The group of megalopolans and the bird itself were caught and looped back in time, caught in the energy and frozen there...[break][break]
Yuina stared at what she had done, her hands held out as she had in fact reached out to inflict the time loop on those that pursued them... And where
John Sullivan's enthusiasm was always there, ever encouraging for knowing her truth, knowing what she had been dealing with every 'night' of their detention... She still couldn't share his enthusiasm.[break][break]
He was off, setting into the crowd of all of them huddled onto the platform, and her admirations for him only grew as cared for each and every individual he could come into contact with. But Yuina stood there, as if frozen in her own time loop, feeling like she was suffocating from the chain that still pulsed around her neck.[break][break]
She never asked for anything that had happened to her, not the last of which being a 'connection to time stuff', being lost to a distortion, that voice calling out to her, calling her an
anomaly... Why was it being forced upon her here, in the waking world now? And what did it mean?[break]
But on the other hand... the toxic chain was giving her exactly what she wanted... It was fueling her desires,
her wants, the desires for her past... She wondered, if she held on, just a little bit longer, gave herself to its influence... Would
she be able to turn back time, before
she was lost, to a time where she could have
her family...?[break][break]
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Yuina blinked away the slightest tinge of magenta at the edges of her vision as Doug called out to her, the platform coming to its final descent. Dust and debris rained down in showers around them from the explosions that took place above, blocking their opposition, but only just... Only for so long...[break][break]
Look for little kids... Yuina blinked rapidly, trying to bring herself back together, though she coughed at the stifling heat that quickly took over the entire area, the bludgeoning monster empowered by a firey orange mask...[break][break]
Chaos erupted just as the fire and flames did, the creature surely meant to kill them all in its final stand were they not able to escape or defend themselves... Yuina glanced around, amidst the panic, the fighting, the smoke that billowed around them... She couldn't find
DESIREE BLOOMS anywhere... She couldn't see
Genevieve Cromwell, did she hear
Andrea Vaneau over the terrible sounds of their struggles?[break]
Less than a moment had passed, Yuina didn't know what she could do, how they could combat the flames that were sure to be their end, but she coughed again as Doug squeezed her hand beside her. Going after the kids?
Hideo Kino,
Eris Halla, and
Lucia Aldrete... That message, it did say to get to the bottom of their prison, it was the only way, right? Or was it some ruse... She wanted to find
DESIREE BLOOMS, she needed to know that her angel was safe, but little did she know that if she did go to find Desiree, she wouldn't be able to stop her from her fight... her sacrifice that could make her into a martyr. But if Yuina mad her way to the bottom of the prison and it turned out that there was nothing there for them except their end... Maybe she could spare Desiree that...[break][break]
'
Be safe my angel... survive... I promise we'll be okay...' Yuina hoped and willed it with everything that she could, with everything that she had left... But she felt like it wasn't enough, she was loosing more and more every passing second...[break][break]
But what she wasn't going to lose was the chance at Doug's promise... Even in the pulsing haze of the toxins continuing to fill her hollow and broken body, in Yuina's deepest desires, she wasn't going to go through any of the rest of this without him.[break][break]
Yuina grabbed Doug's arm before he rushed off fully, sliding down to clasp his hand as she looked at him intently.[break]
"Then we're doing this together," she returned, rushing forward with him and leaping into the unknown depths to take after the kids.
John Sullivan[break][break]
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tnRh_rWY
NOTES
- Ugly Ward[break]
- Rolling with Despairing Disadvantage[break]
- NOT badly poisoned[break]
-
Toxic Chain Ability: Able to set an adversary back in time, caught in a time loop for a handful of seconds[break]
- Yuina is weak in both body and mind, still struggling with the influence of the toxic chain and fighting between the desires of her two halves[break]
- Spends her time on the platform delulu[break]
- Now the bludgeoning monster is on fire? That wasn't on the bingo card...[break]
- Yuina wants to find
DESIREE BLOOMS desperately (But I won't stop Desiree being absolute queen! My angel is flying!!! <3 <3 <3)[break]
- Instead, Yuina will follow the path the message bestowed to them, to get to the bottom of the prison, especially in the off chance that it could all be a lie. Maybe her sacrifice could save Desiree if something happened...[break]
- Sacrifice or not, at least she's doing it with
John Sullivan... And they take the leap into the depths of the bottom floor[break]