Origins

11 P.M. - DAY 1 - 38 hours remaining


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Dawn stared. Now that they were destroyed, they really had no other thing to accomplish. Getting off the islands would be a good start. But what then? She didn't recall her past so she'd basically be lost once she started walking around. The only thing she had to go by was she knew the big tree in the distance was important and she had some job to do with it.

The idea of a raft came up. It sounded like a decent idea. "We should build the raft. Its better than doing nothing." She stated, smiling at the idea. It might have been a joke but it could be possible. Right now the goal was to go back to the tree. That is what Mist felt.

 

A raft sounded like it would work, Anta looked over at the beach and sighed as she stood there between the two girls. Crossing her arms, she spoke once more. "Why would we want to build a raft if we could easily swim to the other side?" she said. Looking around, she tried to see if there was anything they could use to stay afloat or use to get across. Like a boat. A boat would be best and then she wouldn't have to get wet for nothing and possibly ruin her hair. Anta was sure that the others would not want to get wet either, so for now, she looked around to see if there was a way to get across without getting wet.

She walked away for a bit and found a boat that could possibly fit all three of them. It was pretty big, so she began to push it towards the water. It had a rope attached and so she led it back to the other two slowly. The water was rather turbulent tonight, so it had to be led carefully. "I found a boat..." she said, with that same small and weak voice of hers. She stopped beside the two girls and used a rock to keep it in place. "After we get off of this island, whose house would be the closest to here...?" she asked. Standing beside Dawn, she reached a hand down. "Anta." she said, finally. She was trying to help her up, trying to make up for what happened earlier and how she completely ignored her. To be honest, Anta wanted to be friends with Dawn. She wanted to be friends with many people, but she was scared of doing it. This was because of the way people would act if they became friends with her.

 

As Noir had cheerily asked his question, he was immediately yelled at by the one who sported a sword. He was then promptly ignored as that man and one who seemed to have some sort of weird gold eye patch thing began to argue with each other some more. It was there, that he learned that all four of them were actually on top of the world tree itself. Whoooaa. That was something different. He had no idea a building like this existed on top of the world tree. It was then that the purple haired man made some item related puns, only for the one the puns were directed at to get extremely pissy at him. The purple man also jokingly told Noir that they were all in hell now. Aw, but this place wasn't that bad. In fact, as fireballs were being slung at the purple haired man, Noir realized just how much these people hated each other...or at least how much the fire slinger hated the others. Watching these people was totally going to be a fun pass time.

Clapping his hands together, still cheery in expression, Noir said, "now now. I think it would do us all some good to get off of this giant arena first. After that seems like a much more practical time to kill one another. Wouldn't you say so?"

 

"Well shoot, what are we supposed to do now?" Kotone said loudly. She and Rin were alone after they had been scattered. "We are legitimately all alone. What is this place anyway? Looks like a cave. Maybe we should get out..." She looked around. "Right, let's see... Usually, the exit would be in the north, but we may not be in a cave back home. It feels a lot different..."

Rin sighed and looked in the opposite direction, noticing a lit path and a sparkle. She looked back at her friend, who was continuing to ramble. "Koto."

"But at the same time, caves can all be different."

"Koto."

"And if it IS like the ones back home, then maybe-"

"Koto."

"What?" Kotone looked up at her friend.

"Look over there, and tell me what you see?"

"A lit path with a small sparkle. So wha- OOHHHHHHH."

"Yeah, the exit."

Kotone giggled and began running towards the direction of the light.

Upon getting there, Kotone was surprised to find nothing but treasure. "Rin, get as much as you can, we're gonna live in style when this is all over!" She said cheerily, picking up a few things she could fit in her bag. She laughed gleefully at their luck.

Rin examined all the stuff, and saw a bright red jewel. "Oooh..." Rin reached up and touched it, a large rumble following as soon as she did. "Um. Koto..?"

"...Rin. What have we done?"

 

India gave a puzzled look to Dmitri. He stood silent for a moment, his expression as though the answer should be completely obvious. His mind sorted things out like a machine. "Dawn shows no signs of a traumatic experience such as losing a family member. She doesn't remember this other sister. Which could imply that she was either too young to know what happened, and given her age difference to you it's likely she'd have some recollection of it, if extremely slight, or that she arrived into the family after the incident happened. In addition, you and she share no discernable similarities in your appearance. There are siblings who don't look alike, but nearly all share something. A nose, their eye or hair color, but you two share nothing. Also, her name. Signifying the dawn of a new start, perhaps? Viewing these factors simultaneously, the most likely explanation is that she was adopted." India said. He and Dain made a good team. Dain kicked the **** out of them physically, and India did so mentally. Thus their opponent was left utterly defeated. ​

 

Seeing the fireball coming, Dain used one of his older yet more reliable spells. He created a lengthy, vertical gust of wind, acting as a sort of wall, which stopped the fireball mid flight as it fell to the ground and died out quickly. The second he put down the wind wall, he immediately regretted it. Another fireball was coming right at him, and it would take too long to put the wall back up. The flame hit him in the side, and for a brief moment, the axe wielder was unharmed and unaffected. He then immediately burst into flames, and began frantically trying to put it out with gusts of wind. After a few seconds he succceeded, and the flames had vanished, but the memory still seared him. His pride more harmed than his body, he then turned to Noir. "I don't know, I like the idea of just killing him now" he said gruffly.​

 

India'd has his fill of tormenting Dmitri for the moment. Now, he started to analyze the situation as to where they were, and how to escape. He looked over at the front door, the most obvious option. It was wide open, but through the doors was a long staircase leading into a dark and chilling area. He doubted that it would even lead to the same world they were trying to get back to. Looking for another means, he deduced that the dark area was only lead to by those stairs, and any other means of exit would return them to their desired destination. "These will be quite useful." He said, taking down a piece of cloth which had the names of tournament participants written onto it. "perhaps we could form these into makeshift parachutes, then we leap off the side of the coliseum, allowing Dain to keep us afloat with his wind magic. I realize this doesn't sound like the best idea in the world, but we don't really have a lot of options." ​

 

Noir had an amazed look on his face as India had essentially went through some sort of Sherlock stream of consciousness straight towards Dmitri and clapped for the man. "Wow, that was quite amazing." Noir had absolutely no idea what India was actually talking about, seeing as he had literally just met these people, but it still sounded impressive nonetheless. He was most certainly right about these people being interesting to go along with.

After India had thrown out the suggestion of them getting these pieces of cloth to make a makeshift parachute, Noir threw in his own suggestion. "Also, if we were to use this cloth parachute, we have Dmitri here with his fire powers. We can probably use that in much the same fashion that one would use a hot air balloon in addition to Dain's wind powers to help slow our descent. In addition he could even use the flames themselves to apply thrust in the opposite direction from which we are falling." He figured that could work, and thought it would be quite enjoyable to see Dain and Dmitri working together despite their apparent hate for each other.

 

Dain walked over and looked over the edge. Leaping off of that thing, even with his wind magic it would still be fairly risky. Would he do it? Of course he would, he loved just about every aspect of dangerous situations. The adrenaline rush, the feeling of freedom, everything. He rolled his eyes a little at Noir's comment, though. He was probably right, Dmitri's help would make it a lot easier, but working with him? He'd rather the parachute burn up and he fall to his death, and who was to say Dmitri wouldn't do that anyway?

"Gimme that" he said as he walked over to India and tore a portion of the cloth off, just enough for it to function as a parachute. "No way am I working with him, he set me on fire. Besides, his tears over his lost sister would probably soak the 'chutes too much for them to let us float" he said, making sure to throw in that last remark as he ran at the edge and leapt off of it.​

 

After the supposedly heartfelt reunion between the two sisters who may or may not still be existing, Amethyst decided to continue on going with their grand journey in this forest to go and find a way out of here. Like actually, this dumb forest of silver leaves all over the place was starting to get on her nerves. There was nothing here but heartless after heartless, and the entire area in general was just overall not pleasant to be in at all. After all, what kind of person likes trekking through a basically shining forest? Whatever, she was totally going to lead the trio to town so they could be done with this little excursion of theirs.

Only problem with that idea is that she had absolutely no idea where to go from here. The though of burning down the entire forest was quite appealing to her at the moment, however that'd probably just get her and the sisters killed as well by some sort of burning branch falling on them or getting set ablaze themselves or just second hand smoke. Damn smoke. Ah well, still slightly annoyed at the situation, Amethyst said, "alright guys, let's get going now. We're going to go find the exit to this forest if it kills us." With that, Amethyst started the walk to find this dumb forest's exit.

 

India handed the third to Noir, and kept the fourth for himself. "Those two working together isn't going to happen any time soon, unfortunately. However, in theory, the idea was brilliant. I applaud you." India said, complimenting Noir, then leaped off the side of the coliseum. He plummeted at great speeds, the wind sweeping through his hair. It was during this free fall that he realized twilight city was directly below them. He could see the entire landscape from here. All the way to hundred acre silver wood. Incredible...He'd underestimated just how tall Yggdrasil was. About halfway down, he unfurled the cloth, letting the wind catch it. Now, the rest was up to Dain. ​

 

Noir was quite disappointed that the two people who were at each other's throats decided not to work as one, ah but such was life. When India had complimented him for his idea, he simply said, "but in the end it didn't seem to work. Ah well." With being handed the parachute, he watched as India jumped off and figured it was time for him to make his grand exit as well. So casually walking over to the edge he simply plummeted downwards. Everything else now relied on the wind and or fire magic user.

 

Dain watched as the wind whistled through his hair, as the ground came rushing faster and faster towards them. An evil, sadistic grin appeared on the axe-wielder's face, as he did indeed make a gust of wind beneath them, but only beneath himself and India. He slowed his descent and landed lightly on the ground, laughing horribly as Dmitri and Noir fell to the ground with a sickening splat, undoubtedly dead.








...is what he would have loved to do. However, despite everything he wanted Dmitri to survive. He would fight Dmitri, and he would kill him in mortal combat eventually, not through letting him fall to his death. Noir, however, well he could survive for as long as Dain decided. Eventually he knew his bloodthirsty side would kick in, and then bam, no more Noir. "Listen, crybaby, if you think you're going to beat me in a race, you've got another thing coming" the axe-wielder responded. Considering it was Dain speaking, that was almost a friendly way of saying "you're on", in his own special way. He continued flying towards the ground, the wind whistling through his hair as the ground came faster towards him, but rather than leave them all to die, he made a strong gust of wind beneath them. Not strong enough to propel them away, but enough to slow their fall. He landed on the ground carefully and stood straight, turning to look up at Dmitri. "See, I told you. You're way too slow. No wonder you're so weak, things could run circles around you" he taunted.​