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Aida Mana ([personal profile] abundantlove) wrote in [community profile] high_seas2014-01-03 06:04 pm

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Who: The Crew of The Shepherd
Where: Various locations
When: Month of January
What: General crew log
Warnings: None at the moment; EDIT: attempted homicide, violence, and all around insanity, in accordance with the new event
Style: Whichever you feel like
Status: Closed to crew members

And so, at the beginning of January, the Shepherd set off from Isle Impieze back to Green Breeze Island, intent on revisiting what they'd discovered there; there were new crew members after all (in fact, the crew was almost completely different at this point), so there was more than enough justification for it. It would take some time reaching it, but the ship's supplies were well stocked so that wouldn't be an issue at all.

That wasn't the only change, however. The crew had since elected a new captain, and as such, this voyage was a proving grounds for the new status quo.
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[personal profile] rosettawall 2014-01-11 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
[She closes her eyes, and nods quietly.]

It's the only way to stop her suffering... so long as she's here, others will use her... hurt her...

[She looked up, a darkly intent look in her eye.]

...and after we save her... everyone else...

They'll all die, as well..
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[personal profile] diamondlight 2014-01-11 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
[They won't have to look very far. She's... pretty much been expecting them, the way they've become gradually less stable over the last week. And so she's standing right out on the beach of Green Breeze Island, waiting for them out in the open, Raquel floating next to her head.

Just because she expected it doesn't make it any easier to seem them coming toward her like an execution squad, and it's a huge effort not to start shaking. Or running, for that matter. But as they approach, she takes a defiant stance against them.]


I guess it's going to come to this after all. I was hoping... I wouldn't have to stand against you. But there's nothing for it now. [She holds out a hand sideways to her partner.] Raquel... it's time.

[The plushie obediently turns into a Lovely Commune, and Rikka starts the motion she knows like the back of her hand.] Precure... Love Link! [A flash of icy blue issues, and when it clears, she's transformed. Not that anyone expected anything different. And she takes the pose the other girls are more than used to seeing by now.]

The light of wisdom... Cure Diamond! [And after she finishes that, she brings her hands up in front of her, forming... wait, that's not her announce...] It seems you've lost your love, Mana... Alice. [She brings them up into a heart, sliding it aside her, fighting to not cry at them. It'll be a problem in about five seconds if she does.] I, Cure Diamond... will get your heart-throbbing excitement back!

[...Nope, those are definitely tears in her eyes, and her voice definitely cracked. Oops.]
Edited (lol words) 2014-01-11 04:39 (UTC)
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[personal profile] rosettawall 2014-01-11 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, it's the only way to make certain you no longer suffer, Rikka-chan...

[Rosetta, meanwhile... as evidenced by her red, bloodshot eyes had indeed already cried a lot in the past week. At this point, even if she tried, it would be difficult.

Instead, she gives a steadfast nod in affirmation of Heart's words.]


They're going to keep making you suffer - the people and beings in this world won't rest... I thought if I kept you safe, I would be able to keep Mana-chan safe, because then she would not have to be hurt or put herself at risk to save you, but...

I see now... They've turned you against us... Against me.

[Her hands balled into fists, her body shaking.]

Henry-san tried to use you against me... It was his magic that made you scared of me, wasn't it?! He's corrupted you! Probably others, too... He'll be next...

[Her eyes narrowed, body still shaking.]

But you... we have to free you, Rikka-chan!
diamondlight: ([D] This looks bad...)

[personal profile] diamondlight 2014-01-11 05:57 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh God oh God oh God they're coming they're going to kill her- no, no, no! Can't give up yet... but boy, it is really tempting.

There's really not much else to be said, is there? They could take for a long time, and they wouldn't get anywhere. That would be pointless. So... yeah.]


I... I refuse to believe that. I'm... I haven't been suffering. I've been scared, and alone, and worried, but I've been waiting for the day this all ends, and we can go back to how we were. I'm... waiting for that day. And if there's anything I can do to make it come... I want that. With all my heart.

[She sighs heavily, then lets out a loud shout for no apparent reason except to do it, and maybe a lot of frustration she couldn't really vent. Not that she'd have told them that.]

Fine! I don't think talking to you is going to help... if you're going to free me, then you're going to have to do it the hard way. I'm not going to give up. Not even for you! I don't want to do this. But if this is the only way, then...

[Diamond shakes her head, before settling into a battle stance, saying nothing more.]
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[personal profile] rosettawall 2014-01-11 06:16 am (UTC)(link)
[Rosetta, infuriated, bursts forward at the same time, sand flying around her as she erupts towards Diamond.

No, no, no. She KNOWS she's right. Rikka was being manipulated, she was being controlled... But she knows - knows - its not as easy as simply having Heart purify her. No, there's only one way to release her, one way to stop her from hurting...

She slams her foot into the ground as she nears, sending up another burst of sand. While Heart's fist goes for her torso, Rosetta falls low, sweeping one leg out for Diamond's.]
diamondlight: ([D] Are you serious!?)

[personal profile] diamondlight 2014-01-11 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh God oh- no, stop that. Panicking isn't going to get anything done... except those are definitely still Cures coming at her, and one's Rosetta, which means she's at a disadvantage on the ground and in melee. Except the other one's Heart, which means she's at a disadvantage in the air and at range... um. That's kind of everything...

...well, the first priority is not to be "saved". Diamond dives off to the side, springing off a hand in the sand and cartwheeling aside, barely sticking the landing onto her feet and stumbling back a step. There's really no way to take control anymore... and the moment she tries to spring forward and counterattack, her legs refuse to move. Damn her good intentions. They work enough going backward, though, and she leaps backward onto the strong leaf of a palm tree.]
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[personal profile] rosettawall 2014-01-11 06:53 am (UTC)(link)
[Already, Rosetta was up and scrambling after Diamond as she flipped away. Her strong legs carried her quickly, and she took a flying leap... not at Diamond, but at the tree she'd landed on.

As she did this, she also flung out a hand.]


LOVE HEART ARROW!

[It was just a precaution for now, as she gripped it in her hand and otherwise sent a boot smashing into the tree, causing it to literally explode into large, splintered pieces.]
diamondlight: ([D] Prepare yourself!)

[personal profile] diamondlight 2014-01-11 07:02 am (UTC)(link)
[Mentally, Rikka wants to shake a fist at the traitorous laws of physics that are going to get her very, very killed. Externally, she frowns, and waits for the just the right moment, putting her hands on Heart's outstretched leg and pushing herself up and out of the way, and pushing Mana down enough to get herself away from danger.

She wants to take up her Love Heart Arrow, like Rosetta already has and probably intends to use soon, but... she kind of wants her hands free... choices. But no, she'll need that sooner rather than later. Holding out a hand above her head as she sails, she calls, "Love Heart Arrow!" The weapon coalesces into light above her, and she reaches out for it, gripping it with her right hand, and already realizing she's got a problem; that stopped her momentum dead in the air, and she's just hanging there for a second. A second she doesn't have, more than likely.]


I can't... I can't just keep defending, but...!
diamondlight: ([D] Ugh...)

[personal profile] diamondlight 2014-01-11 07:23 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh, yes. Yes, she did, and Mana had somehow moved faster than she'd expected, almost faster than she could perceive - one moment she was on the ground, and the next she was just there, and there's a fist coming and no time to dodge or block or freeze it or panic-

It connects, and Diamond flies backward at terrible speed, flying what must be a couple dozen feet before bouncing once, twice on the sand and rolling a distance to a stop. While she files, she's screaming, but she's trying to force her head to work through the pain - and the betrayal. Whatever else this looked like, Mana just punched her and meant it, and she was forcing herself to rethink how to handle this. She couldn't just defend. She had to... she had to do something, or she really was going to die.

Forcing herself to her feet slowly, pushing off the ground with Love Heart Arrow- not in hand; when had it flown ten feet away? Nope, she needs that. She breaks off at a run to retrieve it, diving and hoping she'll grab it without getting knocked out of the way first. Without that, she's sunk. Twinkle Diamond won't stand up to Rosetta Reflection, and Mana's anger - righteous anger, as far as she was concerned - was probably enough to power through, to say nothing of her sheer stubbornness.]
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[personal profile] rosettawall 2014-01-11 07:27 am (UTC)(link)
[As Diamond scrambles, Rosetta lands, and levels her Love Heart Arrow in the direction her other best friend and love is headed.]

Precure... ROSETTA REFLECTION!

[The large, clover-shaped energy shield bursts to life before her... before she just gives a hard push forward, launching it like a wide, energized, battering ram across the beach.]
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[personal profile] diamondlight 2014-01-11 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[The dive just isn't fast enough. But she might... she's got to get it, or she's sunk... she's going to...!

Diamond's hand closes around her Love Heart Arrow just in time to be blown thirty feet into the air and a long, long distance away. There's a long moment where she doesn't seem to react at all, but she forces her body back into motion, one arm jerkily bringing her weapon in front of her.]


Precure... Diamond Shower!

[A hit on the tambourine, and ice spreads out in a curve behind her, like a ramp she slides across, and she builds it with enough of an incline that it bleeds her momentum, leaving her standing in midair on a platform of ice quite some distance away. From here, she can just make out Heart and Rosetta - this form helps her vision quite a bit, otherwise she'd have lost them quite some time ago. Taking stock, her right arm isn't moving quite right, and she's got bruises everywhere, even through her amazingly tough Cure costume. There's a big one on her stomach she's trying not to think about, because it's going to be there for a week or three; her left hand goes to it, and she winces. Everything hurts, and they'd only been fighting for maybe a minute, including flight time. This was a whole different league from what they did at home; another big hit like that, and she'd probably pop out of her form.

She needed help. As much as she wanted to keep this her problem, as much as she didn't want to trust anyone else not to hurt her friends... she couldn't do it herself. Reaching for her journal she'd kept behind her back since she transformed, she opened it briefly to share a simple message:]


Please, help me...

[In the heat of the sun and the stress of combat, that's all the has time for - Diamond feels the ice starting to give under her, and she hastily returns the journal to its nook at her back before freefalling toward the sand.
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[personal profile] havesomedeath 2014-01-11 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's a good thing that Henry's been keeping a close eye on his journal after everything that's happened. He hears Rikka's message immediately and wastes no time in heading out to find her.

And oh boy, is it an interesting situation he sees when he does. After what Alice had said to him, he was afraid that this'd happen, but he'd been hoping it wouldn't. Still, nothing to be done about that now. He needed to make sure that this wouldn't go horribly wrong.

He decides to to let himself be known in the most direct way possible.

By taking out his Ruin tome and shooting a blast of dark magic at Alice.

He's toned the spell down a lot, since he's not intending to kill or seriously injure her, but with how powerful his magic is, it's still going to hurt a lot if it manages to connect.]
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[personal profile] rosettawall 2014-01-11 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[Rosetta, right then, is focused completely and totally on Diamond. Nothing else in the world, besides Heart alongside her, seems to matter to her. In some twisted effect of her twisted desires mixed with her actual love, nothing else DOES matter to her right then.

So, she doesn't see the incoming Ruin until it's almost right on top of her.

She reacts quickly, throwing up a free hand and generating a Rosetta Wall from it. But it's a small shield, and she barely has time to direct it. It absorbs a portion of the attack, but otherwise... She screams as the REST hits her.

Unable to keep her concentration - or perhaps once again feeling that bit of uneasiness flowing through her powers, powers that are supposed to vanquish evil and dark thoughts - the Wall shatters and she's flung back, slamming into the beach.

Only a moment later, though, she's rising up again, murder in her eyes.]


You, again...! I warned you, Henry-san! You will not take her from me!
diamondlight: ([D] After all that...?)

[personal profile] diamondlight 2014-01-11 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[As she falls, Rikka tenses and waits for something to hit her. When it never comes and there's shouting in the distance, she chances a look over... and sees the darkness cross Alice, and she knows her backup has arrived and painted a big target on his damned face. On one hand she's glad for the covering fire. On the other... he's not going to last without her help.

As she hits the ground, Diamond lands in a three-point crouch in the sand to not stress her legs any more than they already were, before pushing off in a dash for Henry.]


Hold on... I'm coming!
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[personal profile] jadethenecromancer 2014-01-11 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"O maddening gale of the spirits of the earth... Stalagmite!"

[The ground before Mana ruptures and towering sharp boulders burst from the sand, forcing her to either stop or get skewered. Henry isn't the only one who's been watching his journal.

Jade had hoped he could use Rikka to force the other two to stand down, but it seems they're too far gone for that. There's nothing to do but take them down by force.

Though, with Rikka injured and Henry being a spellcaster... Looks like Jade may have to get more physical than usual.]


I think it's about time we bring this farce to an end. I really hate this sort of drama.
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[personal profile] rosettawall 2014-01-11 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[Even as Jade arrives, Rosetta's focus shifts back to Diamond as she lands, and calls out to Henry. Fury explodes in her fractured mind again, and she gives a shout as she throws herself in the blue Cure's direction.]

No, NO! You stay away, they'll only hurt you more!

[She says this, of course, even as she lunges out with her free hand trying to grab Diamond by anything. Arm, hair, neck. Whatever she can her her hand on as she nears.]
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[personal profile] havesomedeath 2014-01-11 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[Henry grins as he spots Jade. Normally he wouldn't be that grateful about having to share his opponents with more people, but considering that he wasn't trying to kill anyone for once? Yeah, he wasn't going to say no to some reinforcements.]

Ahaha, it sure is getting busy here.

[He glances over at Alice, as she lunges for Rikka. No way is he letting that happen, not if he has anything to say about it.]

Hey, hey, that's not nice. You shouldn't try to hurt your friends, Alice!

[He fires off another blast at her, hoping to intercept her before she gets to Rikka and, at the very least, push her back some.]
Edited 2014-01-11 23:06 (UTC)
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[personal profile] jadethenecromancer 2014-01-11 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[Jade can't risk casting an arte on Alice yet; she's moving too close to Rikka, who is in no state to take any friendly fire.

His focus remains instead on Mana. She may be stunned, but if the girls are as durable as Rikka said, he's not going to count on her staying down that easily. The colonel dashes for their captain in hopes of restraining her before she can recover, prepared to summon his spear when he gets there.]

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