side: hell

[idolpro]

[ The light which spread everywhere intensifies, gaining not just brightness but color. It focuses with its intensity, golden lines swarming your vision. And where the gold coalesces, it leaves space between with a black that opens out like a sea, sweeping across your vision as your eyes adjust until you can see the truth of your new surroundings.

The golden bars are not the gates that welcomed you in.

They're the bars to a cell you've been dumped in with your unfortunate compatriots. A cell that sits in an inky sea of darkness, broken up not by light across objects in your vision but by brilliant colors each so solid that the darkness cannot cover them up. And, in your vision, guarding the cage is a figure, with six wings, each as golden as the bars. Their eyes are a milky expanse of white-blue light, emanating outwards, like they've caught you in headlights.

A jailer's keyring sits at their waist. ]

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[idolpro]

[ Leo can read the menus Intensity has pulled up!

It lets him know you're at a floor with a phone booth. ]

[composeur]

[ if he touches it does it do anything. can he pull up any other locations? ]

[idolpro]

[ no because it demands a retina scan

Also there's a taloned hand on his shoulder

It squeezes fairly hard ]

[composeur]

[ oh. he's been tagged.

takes a deep ... deeeeeep breath and, ]


LI~ O ~ NEL~~ I MISSED YOU☆☆☆

[ goodbye everyone's eardrums and also hopefully lionel's mobility ]

[idolpro]

[ YEAH that works she's temporarily frozen

also rip everyone's ears ]

[composeur]

[ cool. he has no idea how long that's going to work for though. ]

Sorry, Lionel... I really wanted us to get along. [ he's going to push at her shoulder to shove her over. before materializing a sword...

and stabbing it down through her collar bones. if she's able to be stabbed, in any case. ]

[idolpro]

[ She screams, a piercing sound caught in her throat— it sounds the way a blow-torch might feel, hot and concentrated white light meant not to warm but to burn and melt. From the wound splatters her viscous luminescent blood, onto Leo, onto the sword, onto the floor. It pools beneath her as her body, unable to move, falls.

But, when the stunning effect wears off, regardless of the damage done to her body, she begins to rise again. To lunge at Leo, her talons going for his throat. ]

[composeur]

[ ------------- that's so much light.


he barely hears the screaming after a few seconds. it just sounds distant, like he's drowning under water. there's another sound too, like shouting. and his throat hurts but he's not sure if it's because she managed to grab him or if it's because that sound is coming from himself. god only knows if appel would work a second time on this thing.

well, either way, just as she is made of fire, he is made of steel. the sword in his hand slices upwards before he can even think, blade tearing through her arm provided nothing stops it.

whether or not he manages to slice her arm clean off, he takes the hilt again in both hands and strikes again-- this time, to swing the blade across, his body moving more on instinct to slice off her head like some bright and shining medusa. ]

[stakesthesame]

-- What are you doing?!

[ TRYING TO VERTICALITY ?LIONEL? IN PLACE PLEASE DON'T TEAR OUT MOONMOON'S THROAT ]

[idolpro]

[ She had no intention of tearing out his throat. Please, she's a guard, not an executioner.

The verticality doesn't particularly help— with her talons encircling Shishiou's neck, a collar appears there to bind him even once she's levitated.

Removed from the conflict, Leo's blade out of her arm due to the fact she's been moved upwards and away from it, they can see her body knitting itself back together, light evaporating and reforming within her as the wounds close ]

[composeur]

[ oh.

her being able to heal like that puts a damper on a lot of things he can do now doesn't it. ]

Ahhh... I really messed up, huh? [ the collar is. uncomfortable. he tries to get his fingers underneath it, between his skin and the metal, but it's probably too tight for that. ]

I just wanted to take her eyes but I guess she didn't like that. [ is she just stuck up there now? ]

[stakesthesame]

[ i mean she's not letting lionel down yet so, ]

Her EYES? For what!

[composeur]

For that! [ points at the control panel ]

It's super high-tech~ What do you call it? The thing that scans your eyeballs before it lets you in, like in a spy movie!

[idolpro]

[ it's not tight enough to cut off his breathing, but if he tries to stick his fingers in there's little enough space that that makes it hard to breathe if he does that.

the lion angel is twisting in the air, so she's ready to land whenever she's let down and so she can see them ]

[composeur]

[ ...ehhh ]

If you'd have just stayed out of it this wouldn't have happened. [ clearly it's her fault. ]

[idolpro]

This is my job, dipshit! This is your fault for getting caught and getting thrown in here in the first place!

[ She's also down now, because Requeim left to make a phone call

She's round-house kicking him with enough force to throw him back into the cell ]

1/2

[composeur]

[ haha joke's on you has has stability YOU CAN'T KICK HIM INTO THE------------



nevermind yes she can. she very definitely can. it comes as a shock really, is this a glitch in the matrix??? besides that, it hurt a lot! that's not how this was supposed to go at all--!! ]

2/2

[composeur]

THAT HURT--!! That was mean! Lionel...!! [ APPEL-- nope it's just normal shouting. it's just normal leo shouting which helps no one. ]

Eh, what the... [ it's the collar of course it's the collar. ]

UGH, not fair! I wanted to keep fighting-!! You can't just take the King out already! [ TIME TO TRY AND RIP THIS THING OFF WITH HIS BARE HANDS BECAUSE THAT'S. POSSIBLE. CLEARLY. no it's just sad, he's just flailing around on the ground now clawing at the collar like some rabid animal. ]

[iamverybadass]

[ Well that sure catches the attention of--nobody. definitely nobody here!!

But while Leo's thrashing around trying to get the collar off, Talon is just waiting for him to get close enough to the bars of the cage to hiss low under his breath, hopefully loud enough for Leo to hear ]

Come to the bars and get appel ready.

[ Just trust this empty space outside of the cage Leo!! ]

[composeur]

[ well he does stop. and look in the direction of the voice. but he doesn't actually say anything. honestly he's probably just having another one of his hallucinations. even he thinks that might be the case. so... yeah sure, why not, he'll trust this ghost!

time to go... or roll over to the bars! ]

[iamverybadass]

Get both the guards.

[ Just gonna poke his fingers through the bars, braced for it to burn, just for long enough to trigger frog materia and turn Leo into a bug ]

[composeur]

[ getting poked by a ghost is new!

so is... turning into a bug. though apparently the collar is going to start to shrink WITH him, so that's a problem! what kind of bug anyways. is he a gnat. interesting!! ]

[idolpro]

[ There's a slight delay with the collar, taking a moment to react with the inside runes glowing, and then starting to shrink. ]

[idolpro]

[ The bars only burned under the influence of The Harder They Fall. Otherwise they are merely luminescent, solid, and leave golden residue when you touch them.

Talon's hands are now visible, glowing golden in the air if he touched them. ]

[iamverybadass]

[ WELP

He is immediately turning towards the guards and dropping into a combat stance to brace for whatever they might try to do before Leo makes a move. This is unfortunate! ]