idolpro | Flowers of Heaven: Heart Soldier Senshi

There’s a peeping and chattering overhead.

Fluttering down to greet you are a number of small and colorful creatures—almost like fanciful stuffed animals, except definitely fully alive and somehow capable of flight despite most of them not being winged. Cooing in a way that is unarguably adorable, they circle around your heads curiously before heading towards an arched doorway that has opened in the thick brambles, leading to a winding path beyond. They then chirrup at you insistently, waving their tiny stubby arms for you to follow.

Once you cross through, a gate closes behind you, and the voices of your fellow idols fade from your ears. It seems as if you’re on your own, now.

❀ ❀ ❀

Here, the brambles that surround your path seem to hide the distant glitter of stars in their shadows, and some of the thorns have been replaced with colorful plastic.

It seems that the magic creatures are carrying some things for you: a collection of sixteen different flowers, a small lantern of blue flame, and a wreath woven from lotus flowers, blooming Star of Bethlehem, and stems of wild oats.

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[ Regardless of which flowers you placed in the lantern, the following flowers suddenly go up in vivid blue flame:

Vervain
Clematis
Chamomile
Wild Rose
Hollyhock
Mimulus
Water Lily

The fire has an unnatural feeling to it; when it leaps to the roses twining around the handles of the door, they aren't so much burned as unmade.
And the path carries on. ]

[ A searing pain wracks your body, spreading white-hot from the center of your chest—perhaps you clutch at your chest, or double over, and there, over your heart, is a gout of flame, the same unnatural bright blue as the lantern. The faint image of VERVAIN can be seen within the flame, and the pain only intensifies as it curls in on itself, withers, and then catches alight, burning bright before charring and crumbling to ash.

And then it’s gone. ]

[Seto is still kneeling by King when it hits, which is good, because even down on one knee he doubles over as it burns, with a suppressed growl low in his throat.

When the pain finally fades he tries to straighten, but wobbles and tips to the side. He catches himself, but his arm just buckles underneath him and he hits the floor less than gracefully.]

[ His hands go to Seto's shoulder immediately, perhaps just as alarmed as being on the other side of this. ]

Seto-! Are you . . . ?

[ still on this plane of reality cuz if not same hat ]

—I'm fine.

[He tries to push himself upright again and fails, elbows giving out.

He has to brace himself with both of his arms and move very carefully to get his legs under him and sit properly on the floor.]

[ SIKE, King is absolutely catching him before he can fall too far, easing him down. ]

Are you?

[ A searing pain wracks your body, spreading white-hot from the center of your chest—perhaps you clutch at your chest, or double over, and there, over your heart, is a gout of flame, the same unnatural bright blue as the lantern. The faint image of MIMULUS can be seen within the flame, and the pain only intensifies as it curls in on itself, withers, and then catches alight, burning bright before charring and crumbling to ash.

And then it’s gone. ]

[ WHELP. ]

[ grips her chest tight, but manages to stay on her feet. as if she didn't want to get the hell out of here before. sorry hss, time to gtfo. ]

--D.Va! Stop!

[ HE'S... CHASING ]

[ and she's reached her limit. this is all she can take. she never got over her fear of this sort of shit. she did a lot on her own, but... it just wasn't enough. it had never been in the setting of a game. arriving here made her instantly sick, upset, and legit terrified. and things only got worse when she was mistaken for somebody else. the feeling of trapped didn't help either. she's feeling so out of sorts that even though she tries to run she just... she drops to her knees and starts sobbing uncontrollably. ]

[ her transformation doesn't take long and soon this thing is crumpled in a heap, scrambling to get to its feet as king is still in hot pursuit... though perhaps he's stopped to gawk. ]

[ A searing pain wracks your body, spreading white-hot from the center of your chest—perhaps you clutch at your chest, or double over, and there, over your heart, is a gout of flame, the same unnatural bright blue as the lantern. The faint image of CHAMOMILE and HOLLYHOCK can be seen within the flame, and the pain only intensifies as they curls in on themselves, wither, and then catch alight, burning bright before charring and crumbling to ash.

And then they’re gone. ]

[ She screams--curling in on herself reflexively, as if that could somehow save herself. She drops to her knees, whimpering, tears in the corners of her eyes.

It... burned.

Didn't it? ]

[ A searing pain wracks your body, spreading white-hot from the center of your chest—perhaps you clutch at your chest, or double over, and there, over your heart, is a gout of flame, the same unnatural bright blue as the lantern. The faint image of WILD ROSE and HOLLYHOCK can be seen within the flame, and the pain only intensifies as they curls in on themselves, wither, and then catch alight, burning bright before charring and crumbling to ash.

And then they’re gone. ]

[Collapsing to the ground with a scream BAD THAT'S BAD OW]

[ --!!!

BAD BAD BAD BAD ]

Mori!

[Was I just on fire?? It felt like I was on fire it felt like DYING.

Hyperventilating on the ground a little bit before he can respond sorry King]

Mori . . .

[ Carefully crouching down beside him ]

Hey. It's okay.

[ * citation needed but ]

[Looking up at him, wary, shakily pushing himself up]

Mori? Is... is that my name?

[ oh shit ]

. . . Yes, it is.

I know this must be disorienting, but -- we're your friends and we're all here to help. We can explain.

[He's still confused, and he stays on edge even if he seems to be listening.]

An explanation would be nice... Um, what's your name?

What I tell you is going to be alarming. But -- just trust me when I say we'll make it through this eventually.

We're being forced to play a very cruel game. We have to finish one more round before we'll be freed. As a penalty for the last round -- you lost your memories.

. . .

Th. That's a very cruel game, yes.

How do I get my memories back?

There's so many of us here, is everyone else okay? Did you lose anything??

Flowers of Heaven: Heart Soldier Senshi

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