end round - deliberate

[mewreview]

blank state end round



day eleven

[The final day, the day the voting is supposed to take place, begins like any other, although the horrible visions in the windows are only getting more frequent. You still won't manage to find the cat, but feel free to enjoy the amenities one last time.]

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Early Morning

[mewreview]

[It's still fairly early on the twenty-sixth day, when, as you're waking up, you may hear the sounds of something happening coming from the direction of the greenhouse. It isn't clearly exactly what is happening, but there is shouting and something that sounds like a struggle.

If you enter the greenhouse, near the back, close to the graveyard, you'll find Kaoru, Maya, and Yuyuko fighting one another. You may not want to come close; the fight looks incredibly dangerous and serious, but all three appear to be fairly evenly matched. Actually, you can't come close - there is a pink barrier blocking the entrance to the greenhouse, and if you touch it, you'll be flung backwards, though it seems weak enough to possibly break through.]

1/2

[volcanoes]

[Iceland yawns, still a bit tired, and nearly walks past the greenhouse before he fully processes the sounds and the weird pink barrier. He stops and looks into the greenhouse...]

[volcanoes]

[...And walks away. Nope.]

[volcanoes]

[Iceland checks in again about the time this is happening, and are they still going at it, this is ridiculous.

Then he leaves again, of course, because still nope.]

Re: Early Morning

[bloomnobly]

[ there are bullets and lasers whizzing around, seeming to radiate from Yuyuko herself. ]

Overdrive: Cherry Blossom Blizzard Hell...!

[ as soon as she speaks the spell's name, petal-shaped bullets start to criss-cross around the field, becoming thicker the closer to her one is. ]

[bigthings]

[Maya - or at least, it certainly looks like Maya, if slightly taller and with slightly larger eyes - leaps back to where the bullets aren't as thick, dodging the ones that come near her. ]

Oh, so you wanna play it like that, asshole? Fine, let's go! [And she'll swing the enormous (familiar) sword in her hand, the blade suddenly lengthening as it gets close to where Yuyuko is, a murderous expression on her face.

...yeah. Definitely Maya.]

[souredsweet]

[Kaoru, on the other hand, moves forward once the bullets start flying. he isn't much of a ranged fighter, after all - but he does have his speed, which allows him to get about halfway across the room before he has to focus more fully on dodging rather than moving forward.

it's his goal to get as close as he possibly can while also steering clear of any attack that yumyum burgers might launch. a sword is easier to avoid than a bullet storm, at least, even if said sword suddenly spans the entirety of the room...]

[psychup]

[Around the time of the timeskip is when Athena stumbles in on this; normally, she would be up for a jog or a swim by now, but she hasn't felt like it. On the other hand, once she does wander down for some breakfast, she picks up the sound of the commotion easily.

She doesn't know what's going on, but she can tell that's Maya in there, so she throws herself at the barrier to try and break it down. Of course, she gets thrown right back at the wall, where she lies somewhat stunned for a few seconds before trying it again.]

Stop! Kaoru, stop, please! [At least she assumes that's who the cause of all of this is, but who cares. She just wants to protect Maya's body from being hurt.]

[bloomnobly]

[ CONGRATULATIONS IT WORKS her barrier skills are so subpar. As soon as she collides with it, it flickers and fades away. Go ahead and enter the murderzone, Athena :V ]

[psychup]

[Well, it would be crazy to charge into this shit, so...

No just kidding, she's charging right in! But she actually does hesitate when she sees "Maya" attack Yuyuko. She trusts Yuyuko not to hurt Maya if she can, and doesn't want to put her in danger by shouting or distracting her.]

Aftermath

[mewreview]

[After a long morning of pretending not to notice or actually not noticing the fighting going on, it's finally safe to come into the greenhouse. It's a complete bloodbath in there, with most of the place destroyed by fighting (though the windows are still intact).

Yuyuko lies dead on the ground in a pool of blood, slashes through the middle. In a corner nearby is the body of Ema Skye, with a fatal wound through her chest, laid out respectfully and protected from the damage. And then there's the body of Maya Fey, stabbed through the stomach, with Kouha having left her body behind. Maya is still alive, but the wound is clearly fatal. And standing in the middle of all of this is Kaoru with a bloody sword. WHOOPS.]

1/2

[courthouserock]

[wanders in fifteen minutes late with Starbucks HEY GUYS WHAT'S UP KLAVIER SURE IS TRYING TO MAKE THE MOST OF HIS LAST DAY ON EARTH








...Jesus Christ what the fuck happened here. It takes him a moment to fully realize what he's seeing, his horrified gaze going from Ema on the ground to Maya to Kaoru--

2/2

[courthouserock]

[And look, Klavier tries his damn best to be a good person. Maybe not a nice person all the time, but he's perfected the act of being friendly and charming and composed because...well, because deep down, he knows he isn't. The one thing that the Gavin brothers share in common aside from hair is that underneath all those layers of calm smiles lies an incredibly volatile temper. And while Klavier certainly doesn't lose his over such petty or awful reasons as Kristoph, finding the bodies of two girls that he was ready to die for and their killer in front of them...yeah, that'll about do it.

Every person has their trigger. Kaoru just found his.]

You son of a bitch!

[He doesn't even remember when he picked it up, but the blade near Yuyuko's body is already in his hands as he rushes towards Kaoru.]

[psychup]

[She's completely in shock over everything that just happened, and there's blood everywhere and she's starting to panic. She's trying to hold on, but she wants to just stop and slip into that place of panic. The emotions she's feeling are overwhelming her, but she still manages to feel his, all of his anger, in time to look and see what he's doing.

And. No. She's done with this. No more horrible things. She doesn't give a damn about Kaoru, but she does give a damn about Klavier, so. No. She's not going to let him be another casualty of that monster, nor is she going to let him do something he wouldn't be able to live with.

Moving with sudden precision she steps in his path before he can reach Kaoru, shoves an elbow into his stomach, grabs the wrist holding the sword and twists until he lets go, and then flips him over her shoulder and onto the ground.

With that taken care of, she turns, walks up to Kaoru herself. Her expression is angry in a way it hasn't ever been before - this isn't huffy, offended, frustrated anger, but cold fury. And she socks him in the jaw with the hardest uppercut she can muster.]

No! Objection! Everyone just stop! All of you are done!

[psychup]

[When Kouha is stabbed, she screams again, and immediately goes running to try to catch Maya when she falls. There's no point, he stabbed her, she's almost certainly going to be horribly injured, but she still tries her best to catch her as much as her heart is pounding in shock.

She doesn't even know about Ema yet.]

[acemedium]

[She'll catch her! Her body itself is limp in between Kouha's spirit leaving her and her own consciousness returning, but a second or so after Athena catches her she'll twitch in her arms, her first reaction upon regaining her own body to.. scream in pain]

[Sorry for your ears, Athena]

[volcanoes]

[Iceland shows up a little bit after all the explosions and laser light shows and swordfights die down. Wow, there's a bunch of bodies and here's Kaoru in the middle with a bloody sword and wow, Kaoru, one out of three, really?

He hangs near the door, though, a little uncertain as to how things are going to continue with the lawyers present.]

[acemedium]

[Right, so Athena caught Maya and lowered her to the ground. She'd screamed and panicked about Ema's safety - but her limited movements combined with Athena's reassurances meant that she thought Ema had gotten away]

[So now she's just on the ground, slowly bleeding out and trembling. It's not a pretty sight. She'd anticipated this for some time now, Ema was safe... so it's not like she regretted anything, even if she didn't want to die. Even though she'd made a promise to Ritsu to live.]

[There's nothing she can do but try her hardest to keep it together in her last moments, so if anyone approaches her she'll offer them a pained smile and do her best to keep it on]

[volcanoes]

[Iceland's approach is cautious, but when he reaches Maya he crouches down beside her.]

Hey.

[He's not really sure what to say. He doesn't really know what happened exactly or how she got involved. He'd really hoped she would make it out okay.]

[courthouserock]

[Once he's been flipped out of his MURDER MODE, Klavier immediately runs to Maya's body, hands trembling as he tries to figure out what to do, what he can do. And yeah, if anyone was ever curious to see what Klavier looks like when he completely breaks down? This is it. He's kept calm and collected these entire few weeks - when he first realized he was one of the possessed, when he tried to save Athena on a desperate bluff, when he signed himself up for death a second time. But as much as he's trying, because Maya has been so brave and the least he can do is reassure before she dies, he can't hide how upset he is at all.]

Maya...

[chiblocker]

[ oh what the fresh hell is going on in here...

It's easy to guess at least a bit of it. Bodies, Kaoru's sword, the shouting; but one of those bodies clearly has life still left, and Ty Lee can't do more than give a strangled gasp at the scene before she heads over, quick as anything.

She kneels down next to Maya, hands twitching - she can't do a blessed thing for the bleeding, or the dying, but - ]

Maya, here, let me - [ For the pain, she might be able to block that out. A little. She just has to locate the right pressure points. It just has to be enough to block out the worst of it, right? If Maya shows no objections, Ty Lee will go to work, at least trying to ease the pain in the only way she knows how. ]

[heyheyimthemonkey]

NO!!

[souredsweet]

[if anyone foR SOME REASON wants to approach the homicidal maniac responsible for this downward spiral of a murder mess, he's retreated over to a far wall after being lawyer-punched, sword still out just in case. he doesn't seem particularly hostile, though, and won't make any move to attack anyone who approaches unless they display aggressive intent. he doesn't appear to be keen on leaving the room just yet, either; he isn't finished here, after all. there is still one massive loose end that he's been fighting to tie.]

[psychup]

[Oh, did you think she was done. Once Maya is gone, she storms right back up to him.]

You must be pretty pleased with yourself!

[And she's not going to hit him again, because there's no sense escalating this to violence now, but she really can't bear to see him survive.]

You monster! How could you! Why Ema, of all people?

[heyheyimthemonkey]

I don't... understand.