moonstrualcycle | no running in the halls!

[ After a moment of stunned silence, because breaking the branch off like that was pretty badass: ]

They're fairies.

[ And here they come, one big sparkling, sugary pink and purple swarm of small, delicate, and pissed off fairies. ]

Yep.

[nuts, gotta two-hand this like a baseball bat, it doesn't have the right balance, oh well. also Lea please remember, you and Roxas were the ones who went to Neverland and actually saw a real fairy, and the reports you brought back were mostly understood by Saix to have been some sort of high-spirited fantasy you shared from the power of friendship, or something. Isa has zero attachment to even the idea of fairies. come at me, fuckers, it's gonna be like hitting a home run with a bath bomb, i bet.]

[ There's an internal debate going on in Lea's heart. On the one hand, the fairies are dicks and routinely attack anyone who comes here and takes any of the food. On the other hand, she's a Hero now, on the side of Light, and she probably should have a problem with Isa just flyswatting a bunch of food-born fairies to their sugary graves.

On the other other hand, people come back from death here.

She's going to take a crouch and take a seat by the door as the fairies make a bee-line for Isa. They don't have weapons, but they do bite. ]

[Isa bites too, it's okay. the front line of fairies gets absolutely obliterated by some a+ batting form that she may or may not have picked up from watching the keykids, and then she does a much more familiar overhead slam right through the middle of the cloud. it's raining sugar, Lea, are you sure you don't want to be over here with all three of your hands?

that expression on Isa's face should probably be worrying, but at least it looks like she's having fun. "fun".]

[ It turns out the fairies, while rabid, are not stupid — they may or may not have a hivemind, or just an intense mob mentality, but after seeing so many of them turned into pixie dust in the literal sense, they start to scatter. The ground at Isa's feet is carnage. Sprinkles, sugar-spun wings and limbs...

Lea is eating bread, but she's passively mind-blown. Is she horrified? Is she aroused? It is a mystery. Oh, she knows that move.

Best to just let Isa get it out of her system. ]

[nope, you're all getting murdered, c'mere. shit this small shouldn't require so much movement, but now the (remaining) leaves are useful for grabbing those stragglers as they spread out, and it's probably over pretty quickly. without Lunatic or berserking she can't leave cool craters in the dirt but whatever.

the worst part will probably be when she's through smashing things, and has gotten all the fairies she can find, and stoops to pick up a uh. a clump, is all it can be called, and takes a bite.]

[ Lea is impressed regardless, and starts to speak when the initial devastation is over. ]

Well, you did it. Are you feeling be—

[ And then Isa takes a bite of fairy carnage, and really, Lea should have seen this coming. ]

Trying to absorb their powers now too?

No, I'm seeing if they're made of candy. Tastes like... cotton candy, but crunchy.

[not worth gathering up and keeping in the fridge, unfortunately. she'll finish this bit, minus the wings because the texture is weird on those, and then she chucks the abused bacon-branch back towards the tree it came from. her entire demeanor is more like she just chased a couple of seagulls away from a nice picnic and is now getting back to work.]

[ Hmmmmmm still horrified. Maybe a little swoon-y, at the sheer nonchalance in which Isa has just massacred an entire fairy race. ]

I don't wanna say I'm terrified, but.

[Isa dusts her hands off, business-like, and heads for Lea and the door. there's a sparkly coating of dust all over her hair that she's unaware of, even as she's giving Lea the "stop being a dumb baby" look.]

Why? They attacked me, I was just defending myself.

[everyone here knows that's bullshit.]

I think that's what they call overkill.

[ Says she, the most extra person in the room. But hey, who is she to stop Isa from murdering a race of candy fairies and all that. Hang on, she's pulling out her phone to snap a picture. Of Isa. ]

[huhwhat, why photo. she looks confused, then suspicious, but still doesn't catch on to the mess on her hair.]

You're one to talk. That's how both of us work, anyway.

Maybe that's why we're friends.

[ They should get going, now that Isa's committed fairy genocide, but first, lemme take a selfie. She's gonna leave the bowl of food on the ground and hook an arm around Isa to take their first friendly selfie since she got here. ]

I think we're friends because you wouldn't leave me alone and eventually you grew on me, like some sort of fungus.

[at least Isa's familiar with this activity by now, after her several days of being around people with phones. she's trying to look annoyed but it's not working very well, she's got the tiniest lopsided smile.

Hey, I grew on you fast. I'd be one of those little white mushrooms that pop up overnight. Get it right.

[ That's gonna be her phone background at some point and you cannot stop her. Anyway, she detaches from Isa and goes to pick up the bowl o' food. ]

Ready?

Mushrooms are fungus, dummy. Let's go, you said exploring next?

[Isa's gonna be so mad whenever she discovers the state of her hair, probably whenever she's rounding up clothes. also that's not really to-go food, Lea, what are you doing.]

Yeah but my point was that I grew on you immediately. Don't lie.

[ Any food is a to-go food if you're brave enough. Let's just go through this conspicuously placed tree in this candy forest, since it's the door we came in through. This is a good, proper introduction to the weird ass rooms and doors in this place. ]

Did you, though.

[she did, it's true, and they both know it. also that's... weird, but makes sense, kind of. Isa's gonna filch some bit of something from the bowl, to get rid of the candy taste.]

I did, and I still am.

[ She has some cheesy breads in there. Anyway, once they're out and close the door it's just a normal hallway again. Isn't that weird? ]

What do you want to see? We've got world rooms, weird rooms, crowds of teenagers in the main areas...

[mmm cheesy bread. she could make a rude joke about Lea being like an std, but she won't.]

That would go over well, the two of us walking up to some teenagers to stare at them. Let's find a room like you mentioned before, that does animal parts.

[ I mean, basically. ]

I mean, considering the amount of— no, nevermind. C'mon, what you want is a potion room.

[ Should she hook her arm around Isa's to be annoying, though. ]

[plz. what was Lea going to say there, i can't tell.]

Will the potion wear off when we leave, like Halloween Town did?

[there weren't any feathers lying around the apartment, at least. boy, wait until Isa finds out about the naga Axel who lives on the first floor of the apartment building.]

[ That guy freaks her out. Also she was going to say something to the equivalent of "Considering the amount of mes that wanna bang teenagers", but why tell Isa that. ]

Probably not!

[ She's very cheerful about that. ]

[there was just an indignant "hey!" from ninxel, way off in the distance, and then "I'm twenty-five, Axel," from Kai.]

...well. I guess you're lucky I don't have anything better to do.

[she likes to know what she's getting into before she gets into it, is all. if she wasn't like that before they decided to infiltrate a castle full of scientists just to figure out what happened to a guy they barely knew, she certainly is now.]

It's going to be like that most of the time now, at least until we go home.

[ Together, is what she wants to say, but apparently she still has time to catch up. It makes her wonder if she'll be like Riku was, with half-forgotten memories. ]

Not having anything better to do, I mean. C'mon, it's not far. There are a lot of these.

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