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|Date of Scene=2023/10/04
|Location=Radiant Heart Academy
|Synopsis=Noire Okana/La Crima Takae offense to Hinoiri Kirara. Like in general. And shoots her with a heartstealer rifle. Cat Noir, Yellow Pearl Voice, Onihime take offense to this.
|Cast of Characters=131,150,59,30,55,94
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|Poses=:'''{{#var:131|Hinoiri Kirara (131)}} has posed:'''<br>Hinoiri Kirara was... well... a tiny bit more snippy than normal. One might say. One might say she was also... well, there were probably a lot of things people might say about her lately that were innacurate. Honestly? She was just in a foul mood lately.<br><br>Sometimes she'd apologize.<br><br>Sometimes she was just snippy.<br><br>In this case, she seemed to be having a headache of some kind. As Adrien and Naru had gotten... trapped... in an angry Hinoiri cycle. Because she had been put into a group project with... shudder... other people. In her club.<br><br>"Whoever thought these were a good idea was insane. So after thirty minutes I just told the two of them to beat it and I'd deal with it myself. Seriously, how does she even WALK without lighting herself on fire? I'm honestly surprise the whole thing didn't erupt into fire the moment she grabbed the wrench. WE DIDN'T EVEN NEED A WRENCH! Did she even LOOK at the worksheet? What's the point of HAVING the homework if you won't LEARN FROM IT?!" she snapped, before taking another drink of her coffee.<br><br>Wasn't enough of it in the world.<br><br>But hey, that's what long, relaxing walks on the school grounds were for... right? Eh... heh... maybe being near the garden would be... nice? Or make her less... grouchy?<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:150|Adrien Agreste (150)}} has posed:'''<br>Adrien Agreste walks alongside Hinoiri listening to her complaints about the group project. He'd been lucky in that he didn't seem to have issues wtih group projects--Other than sometimes girls fighting over who got to work with him on them. That was something he was kind of used to by now? Kind of. Her complaints seemed a little valid if insulting toward the other students.<br><br>Occasionally he glances to the cup of coffee that she's sipping wondering if perhaps he should start stocking a supply of Decaff beans so that when he makes her a cup it's not going to add to the 'edgey stress levels' she seems to be riddled with lately. "I've heard that there are different learning styles for people, and that some just can't understand written directions. Maybe she's that sort and was just afraid to admit it? No one likes to admit they're bad at something," he offers trying to play devil's advocate a bit.<br><br>His own thermos of coffee is sipped at a bit more lightly. "I can see how that would be frustrating though. Some fresh air should help you relax, hopefully."<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:59|Naru Osaka (59)}} has posed:'''<br>There really is a special sort of hell where group projects live and die and are reborn to live again in horrific undeath haunting their members. Clearly Hinoiri is caught in one of those cycles of hell.<br><br>Naru has been there.<br><br>"I mean.. if she manages to light herself on fire with a wrench, I /totally/ want to see it." Naru comments with a flash of a smile. She also has a coffee, because if Adrien offered coffee, she would have to be dead to refuse.<br><br>"It is a nice day out. It's finally not quite stupid hot anymore, just nice out." Naru gestures a little. "The leaves are starting to turn and it's really pretty out."<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:30|Kureha Senkenzan (30)}} has posed:'''<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Kureha Senkenzan was, in the time when she was still sickly and frail, forbidden from joining clubs. Not that she would have anyway. There's still a natural, strong distrust of people to contend with even now. But she does, occasionally, have reason to stay after school! In this particular case, it's an item she forgot at one of her classes. Having retrieved it, the princess of the Chikafuji walks at a steady clip, heading past the garden towards the front of her school, where a vehicle is theoretically waiting for her.<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The sound of nearby grousing does briefly draw a glance, but she doesn't do more than that.<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;There isn't a glance of recognition at Naru. Absolutely not. Not even a little.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:55|Coco (55)}} has posed:'''<br>Coco is walking through the school ground when she hears Hinoiri's complaints, and the yellow-haired girl quickly inverts her route, making her way over there. "Hello, Hinoiri!", she greets, friendly smile of course attached to her face, looking between her and Adrien. "How are you two doing?"<br><br>She is a bit curious. They didn't seem like the kind to hang out with each other, but then she was wrong, of course. She would be much less surprised if she knew Hinoiri was in Yearbook, instead of having this impression of her as a biker.<br><br>She also turns towards Naru, whom she is actually unsurprised to see here. "Hello, Naru, how is it going? Have you feeling well lately?" With how accident-prone the last weeks have been for everyone, her sense of loyalty and protectiveness towards her friends is a bit sensitive. "I will miss summer, though", she gives out her own opinion freely. "If I wanted to get rid of the heat, I could just go for a swim. Can't really do that with the cold." Distracted as she is with the trio, the mermaid doesn't notice Kureha passing by.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:94|Norie Okana (94)}} has posed:'''<br>Norie Okana feels ''slighted''. So Hinoiri Kirara has come under her gaze from afar. She stands on top of the nearby Club Building and has been waiting as 'La Crima'. So many people made fun of her candor. It was not her fault that she had limited emotional capabilities. Or misplaced ones. And so she waited, heartstealer rifle under her arm and as she say Hinoiri, from a distance, with others...<br><br>Oh she didn't care if there was others right now.<br><br>She trained the gun, heard the little sound that indicated it was pointing at something and there was a sudden pang of dark energy as a pulse from the gun shot at from behind Hinoiri trying to hit her in the back as she waited.<br><br>"If she has a 'pure heart', I'll eat this gun." she said with a ''snort'' after the gun shot, ignoring the others around her, already jumping off the building and moving towards the group.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:131|Hinoiri Kirara (131)}} has posed:'''<br>Hinoiri Kirara opned her mouth to call Adrien an idiot... but he made a point. She just sighed. "Ugh..." she muttered, pinching the bridge of her nose. "If she can't read the worksheet then she should just ASK someone to go over it with her. Not try to figure it out in the middle of the project. It wasn't even a big one. It took like, five minutes to memorize. If she can't do it, she should try and find something she is good at and do that instead." There was almost a glimmer of good advice there under the anger and vitrol.<br><br>"Considering how much oil she spilled on herself it might not be as impressive a show as you're hoping," she said with a light snort. "But yeah. The weather is nice. The fresh air after being stuffed in that workshop is great." She gave a small nod to Coco. "Good enough, getting some fresh air after dealing with group project idiots all day. The leaves are going to start changing color soon, huh? Back home they'd already be planning a big celebration for..." She trailed off. Looking annoyed. Home. She mentioned it every so often. It rarely made her mood get better. It--<br><br>Then suddenly her coffee dropped from her hands and she stumbled forward. A shot in the center of her back... And... Then a crystal appeared in front of her. Made of little shards of what looked like glass, it had four points in the cardinal directions... And it was dim.<br><br>But the strange thing about this one was that it had a weird bubble around it. The bubble was easy to see because of the sheer amount of *dark energy* swirling around it. The bubble looked like any other bubble, different colors seen depending on the angle. But it was small. While it covered most of the crystal... the four points that stuck out the furthest? Those weren't covered by the bubble. And they were turning black from that swirling mass of dark energy, the only thing preventing the rest of it from turning was that weird bubble.<br><br>Hinoiri stared at it, a hand reaching towards it. "W-what... it..." Then she just *dropped*. Like a puppet that had its strings clipped, she dropped to the ground, over her spilled drink. Her heart crystal cludging onto the ground besides her, the dark energy swirling along it like oil, making it almost stick to the ground.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:150|Adrien Agreste (150)}} has posed:'''<br>Adrien Agreste lifts his coffee in a light not-quite-wave when Coco approaches in greeting. "It's still a nice night at least," he begins as the talk of the weather picks up again. A little chuckle comes while adding, "I guess I've been lucky with group projects so far..."<br><br>His words trail off as an instinctive shiver ripples up Adrien's spine causing the hairs at the back of his neck to prickle with the sudden surge of dark energy. There's no time to react to it or even glance around as Hinoiri just DROPS with that crystallized (heart?) now out of her chest.<br><br>For a shocked moment he glances across to Naru as it looked familiar. Hadn't she been the one to warn him of some kind of gun that could do this, too?<br><br>The thoughts in his mind are pushed aside in favor of reaching out to snag an arm around Naru's waist to spin her away and behind a decorative planter holding a tree and some other items with a cry of, "Get down!" for everyone else.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:59|Naru Osaka (59)}} has posed:'''<br>"How did she spill?" Naru starts to ask about the nightmarish group project and then shakes her head. She doens't want to know. "I'm good, thanks for asking, Coco. I personally love autumn, the change of the leaves just makes me happy. The colours and textures, it's just gorgeous. There's something about the light.."<br><br>Naru is still chatting about light, and perspective when things all start to go pear shaped. She catches just the edge of the falling of the coffee cup, and then Hinoiri slumps down and there's a crystal.<br><br>"Godsdammit! Not /again/!"<br><br>Naru swears brightly and with enthusiasm, all the more so as shes twirled back behind a decorative shrub. It's a perfectly nice shrub. Well trimmed even.<br><br>Naru isn't staying behind the shrub, nor following the very reasonable advice. "Get the gun! I'll get the crystal!" Shouting out one's tactics to one's companions is not the best plan for not letting La Crima know their plans, but psychic powers are lacking.<br><br>There's just a glance over, to see who is coming towards them, but La Crima is still too far away to notice.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:30|Kureha Senkenzan (30)}} has posed:'''<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;As disinterested as Kureha is in the plights of others, something about the series of noises nudges at her. Something doesn't sound right. A weird sound, followed by a girl sounding shocked, or wounded; at the very least, her instincts push her to take a glance.<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In the next heartbeat, her hand is shooting up to the strings of a pendant tucked into her uniform. She has no clue what the hell is going on, but someone's been injured somehow, and it already looks like some kind of weird magical girl thing. "Tch..." But now that she actually cares about doing this, she's got to start putting in effort to cover up her identity. She can't just transform in the open. Crap, crap, there's nowhere to- wait! That will work!<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;About the time Adrien yells about 'getting down', Kureha spots a particularly tall bush, and dives behind it. About half a heartbeat later, there's an outpouring of heat and a billow of flames from behind that very same bush.<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;On the other side, a kimono-clad girl with large oni horns comes strolling out at a brisk pace, flipping her hair and trying to assess her next course of action quickly. This time, she doesn't hide her recognition of Naru. "You, girl from the juice stand. Call me Onihime. Precisely what is all this commotion?"<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:55|Coco (55)}} has posed:'''<br>Coco is quick to catch Hinoiri as soon as she sees her collapsing. "Hinoiri, how do you feel?" is what she would say, suspecting tiredness or lack of food, but with the heart floating out of the yellow-red-haired girl, her question is answered before she can ask it.<br><br>Unlike what she learnt from last time, however, her worry right now isn't about pushing it back in, but about the dark energy that is mixed in with the heart. "Naru, is that like what..." 'happened to you', is how the sentence would have ended if not for La Crima approaching.<br><br>She lowers Hinoiri the rest of the way down before glancing around at her surroundings. There are only bushes around here, which don't grant her the most cover. Still better than nothing? Maybe the villain would be more focused on the heart than her?<br><br>A quick jump in and out, and Yellow Pearl Voice is back to Hinoiri's side, preparing her song, mostly focused on purification, given the worrying dark energy swirling around Hinoiri's heart, and that would hinder La Crima too. Surrounded by the Live Stage, she declares "<span style="color:#FFFF00">Ever Blue: Pichi Pichi Voice, Live Start!</span>" she chants, singing softly of the feeling she gets that on the other side of the seven seas, someone is crying, squeezing her heart and causing her loneliness. But under the guidance of the stars in her heart, the destiny of the ever blue sparkle of the ocean she loves is calling to her and letting her gather the power to protect the future in her hands.<br><br>She sings for the fight the corruption of the dark energy, the melody expressing her feelings of cherishment towards the mysterious blueness of the ocean, prettier than heaven, seeking to hinder both La Crima and dispel the darkness surrounding Hinoiri's heart.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:94|Norie Okana (94)}} has posed:'''<br>La Crima stops in her track when someone yells to 'grab the gun' and she frowns a little, a tentacle lashes out for the gun again and an strangely wraps around the bottom end. Then she sees what happened to Hinoiri and she stops and gets a strange expression on her face.<br><br>She looks bewildered at first, but then.<br><br><span style="color:purple">She starts to smile....</span>.<br><br>It's all wrong, this smile, it's... strange and weird and awful and then she starts ''laughing'' and she doubles overs and points. "Aahahaha.--- OHOHOHO..." she goes, arm pointed outwards, just full oujo style laugh as she just...<br><br>Laughs. Into that song Yellow Pearl Voice starts to sing even as it hurts her... as others arrive. She doesn't even make moves towards the Pure Heart.<br><br>She just. ''laughs'' in something that isn't merriment.<br><br>"Ohohohohohoho!..."<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:131|Hinoiri Kirara (131)}} has posed:'''<br>Hinoiri Kirara was uhhh... out. Like a light. A light that got shot by an oversized magic super soaker looking thing. So she wasn't moving at all when she was moved. She... looked like she was in pain, though, her face scrunched up.<br><br>However, the song of Yellow Voice's certainly seemed to be having an effect. While there was a LOT of dark energy surrounding said heart, the purifying spell seemed to be do a good job of purging it. More, that little bubble protecting it? Seemed to be getting a liiiiittle stronger from the song, pushing out just a tiny bit more.<br><br>It'd likely take a while, but it could be cleaned.<br><br>Assuming La Crima didn't eat it, probably.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:150|Adrien Agreste (150)}} has posed:'''<br>Adrien Agreste finds himself behind the shrubbery, er, foilage of that planter only to be alone as Naru sprints out again immediately after. "Right," he mutters to himself realizing that was possibly not the best move. It was just the instinctive one to get his friend to safety since she had been close enough to try to do that. Of course, knowing Naru, she was reacting as well. Sure enough her words about getting the gun come to him as he looks back out at the fray.<br><br>At least he was behind cover and no one was looking toward him. Good enough for hero work in a pinch. Plagg flies up out of the bag slung over his shoulder to peer out. "This doesn't look good, Adrien, maybe we should get help?"<br><br>"We are the help. Plagg, claws out!" <br><br>His transformation isn't super flashy at least, it was easy to do in a pinch while hidden in a small space. Rather than run out immediately in a supicious manner Cat Noir reaches behind himself to withdraw his extendable staff. It's smacked into the ground as he vaults up into the air--Coming down in an arc to land behind La Crima in a superhero crouch.<br><br>"Hasn't anyone told you not to point that thing at people? You could put someone's eye out!" <br><br>Quip aside that laughter was... unnerving. Also were those tentacles? Eesh! Before he can think too much on that he swings out with his staff trying to knock the gun away from those grippy suckers.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:59|Naru Osaka (59)}} has posed:'''<br>"Hey Onihime." Naru greets the fresh arrival as she heads towards getting her hands on that crystal. Dark energy and all, she clearly has zero qualms about touching it with bare hands.<br><br>If she has it, then La Crima does not have it.<br><br>"Gun that shoots out souls, not ideal. I'm going to hope that you're on board on helping to stop that." She gives the shorter than elevator pitch as she watches Yellow Pearl's song work some of its magic on that darkness in that crystal. "Good good. Thank you Yellow Pearl."<br><br>Naru looks as if she's going to be epic protective over this crystal while the purification is going on. It'll hurt less if Hinoiri is unconscious for this part.<br><br>"La Crima.. what the actual hell is going on here. What is /with/ the tenticles and the laughing." Naru yells over at the tenticled girl. She probably actually wants the answers, but hey, bonus of distracting her while Cat Noir sneaks up from behind.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:30|Kureha Senkenzan (30)}} has posed:'''<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;There's a familiar singing voice. Kureha's head whips around to the sound of Yellow Pearl Voice lifting her voice up in healing song; there's a brief stare, a look of recognition, but she decides she doesn't have time for more words than she's already offered to Naru.<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Far more concerning is that evil laughter, and the girl with... some manner of tentacle clutching a really strange gun? That looks ''astoundingly'' suspicious, even before Naru says the words 'gun that shoots out souls'. Those fiery eyes narrow slightly. "Had you asked last time we met, my answer would have been quite different, but..." The magical oni reaches up, gives her hair a casual flip-<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And then takes an almost lazy hop a good four or five meters in the air, coming down directly between La Crima and the victim of her weapon. "Allow me to introduce myself. Youkai Musume, Onihime. I suspect that I'm wasting my breath, but nevertheless I offer you a chance to surrender. Hand over the... 'soul shooting gun', and we shall have no further trouble."<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:55|Coco (55)}} has posed:'''<br>Coco doesn't really say anything to La Crima, as busy singing as she is. She merely continues working on her purification of Hinoiri's heart, also using her song to coat the Live Stage with a repelling effect, blocking unwanted entry and exit.<br><br>The mermaid princess keeps singing and dancing, giving a quick wave to the heroes that showed up to protect Hinoiri's heart. The determined stare she gives La Crima is clear: we won't let you have her heart.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:94|Norie Okana (94)}} has posed:'''<br>La Crima has to forcibility stop herself from laughing. She snorts several times trying to stop this, but.. finally manages some manner of speech. "That jerk has a pure heart!? Can you believe it!?" she snorts and giggles as she finally 'has' and 'breathes' and has to force herself to stop laughing still. She's still smiling up to this point, but that fades away, not slowly, when folks start asking for the gun.<br><br>"aha---this again..!" she manages to snort out. She's still. giggly at least, as she says. "I told myself. If she had a pure heart..." she says. "I'd eat this gun...!" she snort giggles as she wraps more tentacles, exploding from the side as some are swatted away by the staff.<br><br>"As for the laughing... ahahaha..! I don't know!" she lies, snorting and finally. Finally starts to calm down to her normal demeanor, she's coughing.<br><br>"Oh that's better." comes her monotone.<br><br>"No, you may not have the gun. Give me her pure heart. She's obviously not using it anyways. In general." she says more sharply. More normalized than before.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:131|Hinoiri Kirara (131)}} has posed:'''<br>Hinoiri Kirara was still unconscious, but... one thing? Naru might notice, as she held it? The dark energy was... very, very active. Even as it was going around, the purification slowly driving it off. But underneath that dark energy, that bubble? It felt surprisingly solid. Warm, loving. Like a hug, and the dark energy seemed to be unable to penetrate it.<br><br>But if she touched the crystal, the parts sticking out from the bubble? The crystal was... cold. There was just a hint of warmth there, but it felt a lot like an actual cold, unfeeling crystal.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:150|Adrien Agreste (150)}} has posed:'''<br>Cat Noir finds his staff swatted away. He's quick about it, swinging the other end around and trying to get in there, so it just becomes a flurry of swung staff motions that are cut off by an equally quick tentacle creating an impasse between the two as neither make any real progress.<br><br>The staff smacks down on the ground so he can lean on it a bit with a scowl cast toward La Crima and the gun when she declares they can't have it. A quick shrug comes instead. "Okay, I don't really want it to be honest. Naru and others! Get that heart to safety!" He suggests loudly.<br><br>The cat-eared hero then grins broadly with teeth glinting. A clawed hand draws back declaring, "CATACLYSM!" At the tips of his clawed fingers a dark crackling energy forms. Not evil, not tainted, just... Destructive. Pure destruction, a force of nature, for those who can tell.<br><br>Rather than try to free the gun he lunges inward seeking to grasp it with his hand while the other lifts to try and fend off any tentacles that might come his way. At the very least? He'll be a decent distraction while the others tend to Hinoiri---He hopes.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:59|Naru Osaka (59)}} has posed:'''<br>"Pure is a bit of a relative term." Naru cant' help but reply back to La Crima. "But of /course/ she does."<br><br>"I mean, I won't stop you from eating the gun though." Naru offers back. "You may not have the crystal." She sounds just as certain of that point as La Crima is about not giving up the gun. "What do you want with the crystal anyhow?"<br><br>There's a brief glance down at the crystal she's gently holding, evaluating the state of blackness and how it all feels. This one is not the same as the last crystal she held. Fascinating. If she's being affected by the lingering dark energy that she's holding, Naru gives no sign.<br><br>She looks back up to watch Cat Noir and Onimime keep La Crima busy. Ideally.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:30|Kureha Senkenzan (30)}} has posed:'''<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;One of Onihime's eyebrows arches, but other than that, her expression remains neutral. "I haven't a clue what a 'pure heart' is, but it couldn't be more plain that losing it would harm this girl greatly. That you've convinced yourself she somehow 'deserves' this..."<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;For a second time, the Youkai Musume reaches up, and gives her hair a casual flip. But this time, she uses the movement as a preamble for sliding back into a ready stance. "I suppose that I can assist that gentleman in attempting to pry it from your fingers." The ground under her feet cracks a little as she suddenly pushes off. As Cat Noir is grabbing for the gun, Onihime darts in to begin pulling at those tentacles; she's helping to fend them off so that the cat-eared fellow can have more freedom to pry it loose. And those tentacles will very quickly discover that, whatever she might lack in speed, she makes up in positively ridiculous strength.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:55|Coco (55)}} has posed:'''<br>Coco is quite surprised when La Crima sprouts tentacles and she repels Cat Noir's attack. 'You won't come here', is what she is thinking when the vampire advances. Cat Noir and Onihime are going all out, but she should probably lend them a hand too. The sooner this is over the better.<br><br>Love for the seven seas and the miracle of friendship in her voice, the mermaid princess keeps singing of the ever blue splendour of the seas, keeping up the purification that is working on Hinoiri's heart. At the same time, the magic of the Yellow Pearl summons another Live Stage which the mermaid princess orders go at speed against La Crima.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:94|Norie Okana (94)}} has posed:'''<br>La Crima says in a matter of fact monotone, finally, "She does deserve it. Hinoiri-san deserves every little bit that is happening to her right now...!" she says. That much she does deserve. She uses her name. "Every. Little. Bit."<br><br>So it's personal? It's personal.<br><br>A bunch of things happen at once. the first to hit is Onihime grabs at her and ''pulls''. THE GOOD is that there's resistance but it isn't strong enough to stop her tentacles from being pulled off. THE BAD is that direct contact with the vampire means an energy drain that comes in the form of dark energy crackling. Not something that even La Crima can control. Contact means energy drain is all.<br><br>This leaves an opening for Cat Noir's Cataclysm to get through as he moves to touch the gun and---<br><br>It starts falling to pieces and this makes La Crima ''gasp'' as she moves to grasp at pieces in it in mid-air.<br><br>This process is interrupted when she gets smacked with a live stage, flung at her. She's too caught up in the destruction of the gun that the live stage smacks her body and causes her to be flung backwards, and to the ground.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:131|Hinoiri Kirara (131)}} has posed:'''<br>Hinoiri Kirara is still unconscious... but... her heart is actually getting there. The singing, the longer it goes, seems to be making the purification faster. That warm glow. The bubble can now be fully seen as more and more dark energy melts away. Only a little more and it'd be cleaned entirely. Naru's hands were even able to go through it now, holding the crystal and... would feel... just how cold it was inside the bubble too. While that bubble was warm, her pure heart? It was... luke warm. At best.<br><br>Eh, probably nothing to worry about.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:150|Adrien Agreste (150)}} has posed:'''<br>Cat Noir twists to the side to avoid accidentally hitting one of those tentacles. He didn't mind so much if it touched him, unaware of the vampiric drain as he was, but he was concerned about making certain that Cataclysm didn't hit anything that might be La Crima.<br><br>He had never, ever used it on a living being. Preferably he would avoid that at all costs.<br><br>It's an easy swipe of claws at the gun which crumbles away in the fashion he's accustomed to. The power spent, he darts away again laughing at the reaction from La Crima. For all of a split second as his eyes go wide behind the mask at the oncoming stage.<br><br>"SHOOT!" He yelps dodging to the side to avoid the oncoming collision that he was about to be a part of unless he MOVES NOW. His leap ends up taking him into a pine tree that shakes with impact. From within the foilage comes a small groan and assurance of, "I'm pine."<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:30|Kureha Senkenzan (30)}} has posed:'''<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It's not until La Crima responds that the oni girl starts to look irritated. Her mouth draws into a faint grimace; her teeth grit just slightly. "This level of self-delusion... it vexes me at home, and it vexes me here." She seems irritated enough to just power right through the energy drain; little flickers of flame even dance along her hands briefly, tiny little wisps as if to declare the oni heroine's use of her strength and durability to their full effect. The downside is, La Crima is probably getting a very nice (and slightly spicy) meal of energy out of this.<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It all stops when a stage comes hurtling in. Almost casually, Onihime takes a hop back, only to stare at the disassembly of the gun and the hurtling stage alike. There's a brief pause, and a faintly baffled expression. "...Well. I suppose that solves that issue neatly enough." Slit-pupil eyes turn towards La Crima. "Well, your toy is broken. Are you satisfied? If you continue attempting to harm this girl, I shall have to forcefully object."<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:59|Naru Osaka (59)}} has posed:'''<br>"I don't care how cranky you are with her, La Crima, she doesn't deserve to die." Naru's voice is firm on that point. She's not yelling, she's just informing on how it is going to be.<br><br>She's not mad, she's just disappointed.<br><br>The state of the crystal in her hands draws Naru's attention away from the fight to focus more fully on it. Sure the dark energy is receeding and that's a feature, but it's different than the other she's held and that's still concerning. She crouches down next to Hinoiri's body, keeping a hold of it while the purification continues, but ensuring its closer to where it belongs.<br><br>The pun.. that /pun/.. makes her roll her eyes. "You're gonna get shot by our team for that one, Cheeky Kitty."<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:55|Coco (55)}} has posed:'''<br>Having reached the end of this song, Coco picks another one, singing of a lost star that disappeared with no witness, hope still enduring in her heart, pushing her to travel and find the the seven lights despite the rain beating down on her.<br><br>An exhortation to keep thrusting erupts from her mouth, knowing that the serene smile of the moon promises salvation and that the sea all around her won't ever betray her, allowing her to endure, a wish she harbors deep in her heart, shouting it to the wind under an emerald rain.<br><br>With these magical notes, the purification shines bright still, and any fatigue her companion may feel starts leaving their limbs.<br><br>She reserves Cat Noir an apologetic stare for accidentally causing him to crash into some trees, even as his joke causes her smile to get all the wider.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:94|Norie Okana (94)}} has posed:'''<br>La Crima fights with Onihime, draining energy the whole while. Even if she doesn't want it to happen nominally, it's happening now and she's thankful for it. Still... she got bowled over and has no gun. She has an angry expression now. Anger. One of the few feelings she had left. "You broke it!" she says angrily to Cat Noir, before pointedly looking to Onihime. "That was a ''tool'', not a ''toy''." she says. Ugh there's... too much going on here...<br><br>That dumb... catboy destroyed her gun.<br><br>This oni-girl is just too strong and and... this songstress won't stop singing her music that makes her entire being ''itch''.<br><br>"UGH. FINE. YOU ALL. WIN OR WHATEVER! While that...jerk gets to continue to hurt people!" she says.<br><br>Before duskporting away.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:150|Adrien Agreste (150)}} has posed:'''<br>Cat Noir clambers out of the tree as quickly as he can. There's a few scrapes on his cheek from the needles, and part of an old abandoned birds nest dangling off one ear. YET. He's whole, and together, and ready to fight again if needed...<br><br>A little beep noise comes from his hand causing him to glance at the ring there with worry. "I'll survive ay PUNishment that comes my way. There's nothing wrong with being a little catty." Absently he knocks the bird nest off with a flip of his hand, and he starts to jog over to the felled Hinoiri, Coco, and Naru.<br><br>Onihime causes him to pause though to cross one arm over his chest dipping his head toward her formally since she was dressed formally. "Thank you so much for your assistance. I wouldn't have been able to do much without your help against her." Giving credit where it's due he totally ruins it by winking at her while standing again. "I'm Cat Noir. Lovely to meet someone of your caliber. If you'll pardon me, I'm on a time limit at this point."<br><br>With that he continues toward the others. "Is she going to be okay? How... what do we do with that crystal thing?" He doesn't mention the darkness he'd seen.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:59|Naru Osaka (59)}} has posed:'''<br>"A dangerous weapon." Naru corrects on the topic of tool vs toy just before La Crima vanishes away. She shakes her head a little. Dark side and their teleportation.<br><br>"Thank you for destroying it. Getting one is top priority, but second best is destroying it." Naru replies as she gently nudges the crystal back into Hinoiri. "She .. should be okay. All the others who have had their soul.. pure heart.. essence.. whatever you want to call it returned have recovered, usually really quite quickly."<br><br>Naru doesn't comment on the potential effect of having removed quite /that much/ dark energy from it before slipping back in. Call it dialysis or something.<br><br>As the crystal leaves her hands to settle back into Hinoiri, she cant' help but rub them together, as if someting doesnt feel quite /right/ on her skin.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:30|Kureha Senkenzan (30)}} has posed:'''<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Though the fighting comes to a pause, Kureha doesn't relax her stance until La Crima vanishes entirely. Only then does she relax, feet drawing back together and hands clasping in front of herself. "...if she is hurting people, that is a problem to be dealt with in and of itself," she says softly; the shadow tentacle girl isn't here to listen, so she's mostly speaking to herself. She opts to turn and face Cat Noir afterwards, though; just in time to be greeted, at that. "Onihime. I am but a recent initiate to..." She gestures vaguely with her clawed right hand. "...all of this. But I shan't tolerate open attacks in broad daylight such as this. You made the correct choice in destroying that device."<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Then, for just a moment, the oni turns her fire-colored eyes on Yellow Pearl Voice, and utters a simple, "The creature responsible for the attack at the river. We've dealt with it, if you haven't heard. It is no longer a concern." She shifts to look over her shoulder at Naru and Hinoiri, then turns to just... start walking away. As if she weren't a horned girl wearing a fire-patterned kimono. "Well, if you'll all excuse me..."<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(She's looking for somewhere she can quietly de-transform, shhh)<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:131|Hinoiri Kirara (131)}} has posed:'''<br>Hinoiri Kirara groaned, her eyes slowly opening and... she stared up at Naru. "Oh... what... what happened?" she asked bleerily. "One moment... then... ow... and... now..." Blink blink. "Oh... actually... I... I feel really good. I feel... incredible. Oh... ohhhh..." And then her cheeks went redder when she stared up at Naru. Was... was this hotness? Cause she definitely felt something. She started to sit up and...<br><br>She dropped back down. "Ohhhh... my everything hurts... but... other than that... I don't think I've felt this good in months... what... happened? Did... did I get run over by the school band or something?"<br><br>She leaned up and looked at Cat Noir and onihime. Stared at him for a few moments. Blink. Blink blink. Blink. Just... dropped back down.<br><br>"... I'm... not sure I wanna know now. Eh... whatever... feel too blissed out right now to care... you do you, weird cat pervert guy... and... red girl... Heyyyyy... Naru-chan... where'd... Adrien go? He cool? Cause... hee hee... I... think something might have been off about that coffee... hee... that music is really nice..." she said, a slightly glazed over tone to her voice.<br><br>"... See if Adrien can make another one... I think that's the best coffee I've ever had... past the first kick..."<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:150|Adrien Agreste (150)}} has posed:'''<br>Cat Noir clasps a hand over his chest looking truly stricken. "I'm no purr-vert," he drawls out only to click his tongue to the roof of his mouth. "Not the time for puns, right. Anyway! I'm a friend of Naru's," he greets with a waggle of his fingers down at the waking Hinoiri. "Glad to see you're feeling better." Talk of Adrien though doesn't earn a response. He could say he saw him running off, but that was fishy.<br><br>Instead he glances down to the alert of another beep on his ring which was slowly losing paw-pads on it's design like something ticking down. "I'm glad you're all right, all of you. Unfortunately I'm almost out of time so I need to high-tail it." That pun was not intended. Really.<br><br>A thumb is hooked over his shoulder while he starts to step backwards. "Cat you later! ... I swear I didn't mean that one!" He blurts out again with a sigh before turning to bound off with a few quick leaps leading away.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:59|Naru Osaka (59)}} has posed:'''<br>"Yeah.. You've had a bit of an adventure." Naru watches Hinoiri's reaction and tries not to giggle, offering her hand out to keep the other girl from falling over where she's sitting. "Adrien had to step away." Naru comments easily enough, glancing over her shoulder as both Onihime and Cat Noir vanish off, with or without puns, to recompose themselves into less .. conspicious forms. "But he really does make truly /amazing/ coffee." She smirks a little. "C'mon, let's get you back home."<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:55|Coco (55)}} has posed:'''<br>Coco looks at the rest of the group after La Crima vanishes, most importantly Hinoiri. Seeing her so carefree and euphoric is certainly a weird sight to get used to, but if nothing else, it doesn't seem like she will be having any of the debilitating effects Naru had to experience. "I'm glad you feel well, Hinoiri. Just to be safe, wait a little bit before standing up, is that good?" the mermaid suggests, uncertain if she even is in a condition to accept her ideas.<br><br>She turns to look at Cat Noir, whom time is pressing on and who has given a question. "Just like Naru showed, you push it in, and the person should recover. It's not a good idea to wait too long", she warns, referring what Naru herself told her. "They usually aren't this euphoric when they come back, but getting rid of that dark energy may have been quite a stark difference in the condition of her heart", finishing waving at him as he runs away.<br><br>"I don't have time constraints, but I better go too. Lots of things to do yet." She nods towards the rest of them, telling them to take care and thanking them for the help, before running away too, looking for somewhere isolated faraway from the school so she can come back from another direction in her everyday guise.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:131|Hinoiri Kirara (131)}} has posed:'''<br>Hinoiri Kirara nodded. "Yeeeeah... home sounds great. And a shower. A nice... warrrrm... shower... hee. It's a really nice day, you know that? Air smells... great... ung..." She uhhh, had some trouble standing. But you know what? Life was pretty great. She felt pretty great.<br><br>She couldn't remember the last time she felt like this. "What... were we even talking about earlier? Huh... I think... maybe I should tell that girl I'm sorry. I think I made her cry.... but that can wait until later. You know what I want right now? Something... sugary..." Yeah, she was gonna need some help getting home... Poor Naru and Adrien.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:150|Adrien Agreste (150)}} has posed:'''<br>Adrien Agreste jogs back carrying of all things a fire extinguisher, and a first aid kit tucked under his arm looking a bit red-faced from the run. Or maybe from carrying a heavy fire extinguisher. His steps slow when he sees things are apparently better and calls out, "I uh, I guess I won't need any of this. Is everyone okay?" His hair is a mess and he looks around worried only to finally settle his gaze on Hinoiri. "Yeah, maybe we should get you something to eat at least. To recover."<br> <br>
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