chickletpsls | A skipped beat of Awakining

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Kyoko had Woken a few days before, but she had hardly met anyone and still had very little clue what was going on. The person she had met first had been more interested in teaching her this Bending stuff than explaining how she could get home, and before she knew it she was alone in a room in something called a Welcome House. With nothing better to do, she might have spent the night making curse dolls....

But when she woke up to find someone had left something in her room the sight was a mix of relief and dread. Relief because she Woke in Setsu's clothing, and that... was not ideal. The clothing that arrived for her... her gift... she had worn it before. It was comfortable in some ways. In other ways, it was armor.

But...

She reached out and picked up the bright bright pink jumpsuit, so pink that once you see it the colour is forever burned into your retinas. What was the point of being a Love Me member if she was here alone and there was no auditions or studios or work or anything?

She winced, just imagining the president's reaction to that question. Dramatic tears, a long monologue about how she should want to work as a Love Me member to get people to love her, not just to move up in the business. She sighed and looked between the black leather of the pants she was wearing and the toxic pink material she was holding.

Setsu or Kyoko?

Well... Setsu's soul had kind of fled her the moment she had arrived here so... Kyoko. She started to stand and realized there were things in the pockets of the jump suit. As well as undergarments and a shirt and shorts to wear under, thankfully. She reached into the pocket, holding the suit with one hand and...

Pink material so bright that once you see it you nearly go blind fell to the floor as she looked at what had been in the large pockets. Her heart shaped stamp book and stamp set, of course. Corn. CORN! And.... PRINCESS ROSA!

She sat back down, in perfect hostess style and set everything in her lap. Corn first. She opened the small change pouch and pulled out the blue-ish purple stone and held it to the light. "Corn... I think I'm trapped somewhere weird," she told the stone. Then blinked. And blinked again, starting to grin. Corn, the original owner of this stone... he wasn't from Earth. Maybe this was his world! MAYBE!!!!! MAYBE THIS WAS THE WORLD OF FARIES!!!!!

Joy sang through her at that thought and she held the stone to her heart, feeling its warmth. Maybe Corn would be here! She put the stone into the pouch, eager to change now, when the small baggie with Princess Rosa touched her hand. She lifted it. The stone had been from Corn, but the jewel set inside the hand made setting on the necklace in the bag was Princess Rosa, born from the Queen Rose that Mr. Tsuruga had given her for her birthday. Natsu's necklace.

So... she was in the world of Faries, with a powerful talisman from Corn, a necklace that could transform her into Natsu and outfit that could summon Setsu's soul. Her face was going to break if she didn't stop smiling, and she didn't care. She quickly changed into that shockingly pink uniform, with the logo elegantly displayed on the back and to one side of the chest. She put everything but Corn back in her pockets, and grabbed her cellphone from beside the bed, tossing that in too. She wouldn't wear Princess Rosa, not with the Love Me uniform. But Corn... she wanted his stone in hand so he'd recognize her now that she changed.

She stood and looked in the mirror, then winced and took off Setsu's wig and jewelry. She looked like Kyoko again. But it had been a long time since Corn had seen her, and she'd dyed her hair. So the stone might be how he'd recognize her.

Thrilled with the world and all that was in it, she bounded outside, and headed for the woods, singing, dancing, and making a general spectacle of her self. Once she got to the woods, she threw her arms wide, and yelled to the tree tops. "FARIES! I AM HERE! I'M CORN'S FRIEND! AND I AM HERE TO BECOME A FAIRY AND STAY WITH YOU ALWAYS!!!!!" She looked about 16, she was acting about 6.

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From:

younghero

"I...don't think we have anything like that in Hyrule. Or...anyone who is in love with love either." Link wrinkled his nose. "We have a guy who sells masks that he believes will spread happiness, but, he's legit nuts."

From:

chicklet

"So is Takada-san. Don't ever tell him your honest feelings on Valentine's day...." that last was added as a dark mutter.

From:

younghero

"What's Valence-times day?" Link had never really made the connection between the holiday and all of the weird things happening in Nautilus every February. It didn't have the allure of Halloween with its candy or Christmas with its presents.

From:

chicklet

"A miserable holiday," she said darkly, "Perpetrated by greedy candy and card companies preying on young women foolishly in love. Where young women are forced to make homemade chocolates for people they don't even like!" the darkness was emerging again. "I hate Valentine's day! A waste of a young woman's time, effort, and hard earned money!"

From:

younghero

Link waved just the light arrow at her, not threateningly, just to see if it would disperse the darkness like a flare.

"Do they spit in the chocolate? I mean, if they don't like the people they're giving it to, wouldn't it make sense to make it gross?"

From:

chicklet

The darkness gaped around it, moving the hole in its center where the arrow moved. "What are you doing?" she asked, confused, then shook her head. "I wrote nasty things on the chocolate that the stupid beagle made me give him, and then an even BIGGER IDIOT went and got the wrong idea!"

One of the little spirits popped out of her shoulder, and grabbed the light arrow. It winced from the brightness, but held on. If Link didn't fight, it would snap the arrow in half.

From:

younghero

"Trying to see something." When the spirit grabbed onto the arrow Link swapped the light power for ice. "Dark auras usually aren't good for a person. But, if they're supposed to be there and are supposed to be that way, I don't wanna hurt them either."

Thank his "brother" for that one.

"I didn't even know you could write on chocolate. Who reads their dessert?"

From:

chicklet

The spirit didn't seem to care once it turned to ice, and dropped it, bored.

"Of course you can write on chocolate! Food art is, well... an art." She learned a lot from Taisho, and was grateful, and some of the darkness eased. Of course she learned a lot from some idiot's parents as well, trying to please them to please him..." the darkness swelled again.

From:

younghero

"Do you want these guys around?"

Link shook his head, dismayed by the emotional swings. "I only ever had chocolate here."

From:

chicklet

"What guys?" she asked, confused. Then she shrugged. "I like chocolate well enough, just not for Valentine's day."

From:

younghero

"The spirit things? Huh....can you not see 'em? That'd explain a lot. Let me check something..."

Link took a bottle from his belt and attempted to scoop one into it for her to see. Hylian glass apparently was both magic and ghost proof, since he was successfully able to trap Poes and fairies back home.

From:

chicklet

It dodged away. She on the other hand had been staring at him until he did that, then she jumped back quickly. "Don't do that! How can you even see them?!"

From:

younghero

"Oh! So you know they're there. Good. Do you, uh, want them there?"

He calmly put the bottle back on his belt.

"I dunno? Am I not supposed to see them? Maybe it's a Hylian thing. We're supposed to be able to hear the gods because of our ears. Maybe we can see stuff too?"

From:

chicklet

"If you try and capture them to force me to give you chocolate...." she began, threateningly, and more of them popped up, but they huddled around her, as if terrified.

But then she blinked. "Your ears... are magic?"

From:

younghero

"What? No. I just wondered if you liked having them around. If not, I can probably bottle them and store them someplace safe. You wouldn't have to give me anything, that'd be rude."

Link shrugged. "It's what the legends say about Hylians. That our ears are long so that we can hear the voices of the gods. I've never heard 'em."

--A goddess reincarnated, yes, but---

From:

chicklet

"They're fine where they are," she muttered. He was only the second person she'd ever met who seemed to actually be able to see them when they weren't directly affecting that person.

But she pulled at one of her own ears, as if she could make it grow. But then she stopped. "If I had magic ears, would that mean I couldn't see fairies any more?"

From:

younghero

"I don't think so. You'd just be able to hear better."

And look prettier, but, Link wisely kept that opinion to himself.

From:

chicklet

She considered that and nodded. "What magic do I need to find to have magical ears, then?"

From:

younghero

"Probably just practice your Bending. Or maybe Nautilus will decide everyone has to look like they're from Hyrule and do it for you."

From:

chicklet

"Bending?"

From:

younghero

"Will-power-based-magic. If you can think of it, you can do it. But---I'd try making things first, before, uh, changing your looks."

From:

chicklet

"Making things? Magic? I can learn magic?" She dropped to sit seiza style before him, alert and ready to learn.

From:

younghero

Link flashed one of his dorky, nervous smiles. "Yep! You just have to think about what it is you want to make, focus on it, and make it."

Coming from a world where magic was common helped.

"Like, if I wanted to make a bottle of milk? I'd think about the glass, how heavy it feels in my hands, the label and what it looks like, and how the milk smells, tastes, and looks inside the bottle. Then, I just sort of think about all of that at the same time and---milk!" Link proudly held out the bottle of Lon Lon Milk to her.