Scaredycat Club in: Total Eclipse [open]

[moonlitlove]

Date & Time: November 16th, all day
Location: Housing areas, mess hall
Characters: Usagi and OPEN
Summary: The world is ending. Usagi freaks---and then maybe realizes that other people are scared too. Useless people unite!
Warnings: dramatic teenage wailing, maybe some silliness as she tries to keep busy

[a]

It's dark. The atmosphere can't seem to keep it together---she feels heavy, then light, then she keels over. There's no message from anyone about what might be going on, and she can't call either. Most doors are locked. Sure, the place is dreary, but it's even worse now! There's nowhere to go. The ship is sinking! Or...it would be sinking if they were on a ship, but this is the non-boat version of the same thing.

They're gonna die. Usagi knows that much.

So she can be found curled in a tight ball in one of the few open hallways, making enough whimpering noises to be heard even in the dark. She's shaking, muttering to herself.

"...no, this can't be happening. I can't die yet! No one will ever know what happened to me. We'll just rot up here in this place forever unless we get to be zombies too? Oh, that's gross.

And I haven't even had a boyfriend yet!" she wails, burrowing her head in her knees.

[b - some time later]

Eventually, after hearing the hustling of feet and the mutterings of people who would probably help, Usagi manages to dry her tears. Is she still scared? Oh, of course. But even though she's not a fighter, she has to be brave like Sailor V and the cool people who protect them, right?

Easier said than done. But she tries anyway, channeling her energy into playing with some stray paper scraps she's picked up. Mama tried to teach her how to fold paper cranes once, and so Usagi tries this to calm herself. They're messy and they would look more like sea urchins if she could see them well, but it helps.

If someone who doesn't seem too sure of where they're going passes by, Usagi calls after them.

"Hey, wait! Wanna sit down?"

Comments

[have_hat_will_travel]

"Wait, in where?"

The question, being a bit of a jump in topic from Pidonus' point of view, threw her off.

[moonlitlove]

"Your space thing?"

[have_hat_will_travel]

"Oh. Uh... Well, I have a bunch of fabric. But I wasn't really thinking of pillows - there aren't a lot of beds in the private rooms. Since I didn't have a lot of interest in those..."

[moonlitlove]

"Fabric's nice. I mean...don't you want somewhere to burrow under?"

She does. It's weirdly cold out here, and it doesn't help that it's scary too.

[have_hat_will_travel]

Pidonus paused.

"Erm... Not usually? I mean, this place isn't the greatest, but I'd rather keep trying to improve it."

[moonlitlove]

"How can we improve it now?" she wondered. "Dark and cold and spooky and...whoa!"

There went the gravity. She found herself floating upward, flailing for something to grab.

[have_hat_will_travel]

Almost as if reflexively, Pidonus's legs raised a little, bat-like wings dramatically unfurling out from... Wait, they weren't there a second ago!

But now there they are, stabilizing her. Only once she's sure she's stable does she reach a gloved hand out for Usagi to grab onto.

"Okay, that's not good."

[moonlitlove]

Usagi latches onto the girl's hand.

"This is super weird. I think I might be sick. Uh...but it's neat, I guess?"

She idly watches as the slightest movement sends her pigtails flying every which way.

[have_hat_will_travel]

"... Now we get to figure out what caused this. I'm pretty sure gravity will be stable in the Lounge, but..."

[moonlitlove]

"Do you think we're losing power?"

It sure feels like the end times. More monsters, maybe?

[have_hat_will_travel]

"Nope. The air is stable... I think. So it's something else. Could be the United Earth is up to something..."

[moonlitlove]

"They're the bad guys, right?" She bites her lip. "Oh no. We really need someone to save us now! They said there were heroes here, right?"

[have_hat_will_travel]

"Please. We gotta be our own heroes to stop them. If it's them, of course."

[moonlitlove]

"But I'm not a hero," Usagi objects, shaking her head. "Not like you guys. I mean...when things like this happen, what do you do to help?"

[have_hat_will_travel]

"It depends on the situation, honestly," Pidonus responded. "I mean, I have bardic talents so I can do some neat stuff, but I'm not a direct fighter."

[moonlitlove]

"What about healing?" Usagi asked, still feeling a little queasy. Time to fight that down. "I'm not so good with blood, but I can try to help."

[have_hat_will_travel]

"If you know healing techniques, that'd be great."

[moonlitlove]

"Healing..."

Something about that word pulls at her memory. Usagi can almost see herself standing in light, healing...but it's not quite there. She shakes her head.

"Oh, forget it. I guess I could run news---but I tried that. Crashed into a door."

[have_hat_will_travel]

"... What kinds of talents do you have?"

[moonlitlove]

"...I'm good at video games? And I can eat really fast?"

Usagi at least has the grace to look embarrassed by this.

[have_hat_will_travel]

"We'll have to teach you a few things, then, it seems. Trust me, there's plenty of unpowered types around, but... Well, with the United Earth as our enemies?"

[moonlitlove]

"I'm not cut out for war," is all she says. She bites her lip.

"What could I ever do?"

[have_hat_will_travel]

"There's plenty of ways to learn. It's even possible to learn magic, at least from some worlds. How old are you, by the way?"

[moonlitlove]

"Magic?"

She looks down at the brooch on her bow and wonders. Hmm.

"I'm fourteen. I think? Unless something weird happened before I warped here."

[have_hat_will_travel]

"Not that I know of. Anyways, where I'm from, that eliminates some but not all options. Depending on what kind of power you're up to take, of course..."