Back from black

[Back to the colored world.]

Suddenly, Amelia awake in a panic mod soaked wet, wide open eyes, breathing heavily and heart biting fast. Until a second ago she was lying in her bed, in her room and now she was in a sitting position. A drips of water are running down on her face and drooping from her soaked hairs. Its nearly looks as if she was forcefully awaken from a nightmare.

Then other person in that room decide to reveal they presence when angry Mori from somewhere on side shouted a complains on Takanashi. "How Ina's method is different from what I suggest?!! From the start I call for the water bucked!!"

But the orange girl baked back at pink and pointed on the bucked in corner of the room. "Look at that water!! Is so cold that an ice boulders is forming at it surface as we speak. Give it a few minutes and it froze solid. Ame is a human, a freezing water can put her in death event danger!!" Phoenix was on right track but then the rapper make a hit heavy (hit her back) argument stating; that the water in Kiara bucket is still boiling.

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Confused Watson look to the side at the arguing couple and it take her a moment to realize that she is in they new dormitory. Then she notice how Ninomae is putting away the empty bucket, realizing that she was splashed over. Only then the blonde glance at Gawr. 

That short girl was focused on Amelia face, observed her from the edge of the bed and looked worried about her. Shark, seeing that the blonde (finally noticing her?), she put her palm on her roommate shoulder. "Ame, are you okay?" That simple question had so much weight in this situation, that even the arguing duo shut up when they heard it, as if they were arguing on purpose for a distraction.

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That simple question was confusing for the blonde girl, who was forced to actually think. She starts to look around the room and her teammates. But it take her a few second to actually calm down her heart. "This is?… The Inn dormitory… at academy?…"

The smaller girl suddenly throw herself on her roommate, hugging her dearly, as if she was worrying that she will lose her. She dint said a word but she radiated a deep emotions.

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Feelings of this bond reached Watson and she lightly hug back the other girl to making a soft smile. "It… it was just a dream. I am okay now."

Then the Ninomae returns and lean onto the blonde girl view, to force the detective attention on her. For some reason, she was exited. "The time has finally come. Its tomorrow!" She snapped her fingers. "Congratulation, you managed to survived to the next day." The purple girl looked like someone who make a great punch-line and now waiting for the applause from its audience.

But because Watson make a confused (Eh?) as she doesn't get it, a slight reaction from Gura force the purple girl to back up.

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Somehow, that line felt to weak for a pun. But the fact that yesterday, Ninomae said something similar just a seconds before she fall into a (trans?), it give off a feelings that this one knew a quite to much more that she was sharing with the rest of the team. For now she accepted Shark feelings to protect the blonde. "I get it, lets put the jokes aside." As if she a skilled person in those cases of insecurity, she turn around and sit on the bed while still looking at the blonde in a gesture that she is not leaving the worrying duo. "Now, lets get a little bit serious. Shall we? Yesterday, we were mostly yoking around, loosing steam by teasing you and between each other. But… I can tell that something about you need an urgent fix. Its quite an obvious, so no excuses! Whats bothering you?"

For some reason a panic rose in Watson. Like if she was a sinner and there was no place to run away from Nominates priestess like (all seeing?) glare.

Takanashi saw that face expression on blonde and step in, sitting next to slender girl, to reduce the pressure on Watson by moving the attention on herself as she look over Ninomae shoulder. "Ame, dint you say yesterday that you don't have a proper tools to repair… that… thingy of yours? That you cant without them to discover what was suddenly wrong?" She was putting ideas together just to keep talking. "When I found you. I mean, if you are worrying about you precious memento: Then, lets fix it!" Next she make (Ups, I overdo it.) expression. "Its true, that yesterday, I got a lite carried away. So... I can wait as long as you need." She was failing to make a sense of what she was talking about, so she shake her head as she was giving up on something. "Sorry Ame, for not taking yours feelings onto an account. You must feel really overwhelmed by all whats going around. You moved from home. You got tossed between the schools like a hot potato. You baby project broke down without a reason. And I still put a more on your shoulders as if you are just some toy-maker who can always make a new one." She winked at Watson in (I understand you.) gesture. "Now I getting, that you wanted that thingy to be that (yours special thing) in life. So I dropping my demeans for my own spy gadget." Whit a smile she turn her glance onto ceiling while swinging her legs nonchalantly. "Hmm. If I think about: Soon or later, the market will bring out something that will caught my attention. Like always. Who knows?... maybe it will have a Watson industry logon on it."

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Mori with crossed hands on [under] her chest was once again correcting the statements, as she step closer to the bed and glance down. "Things don't suddenly broke without a reason." Then she realize something. "Oh no. Don't tell me that this is the fallout of my meddling with Kiara attempts." Suddenly she change the topic. "What was again with that spy gadget?"

Even if it sounded like a revealed planing to directly attacking someone privacy, Takanashi giggled, as it was she, who for now needed to correct some statements. "Calli, for convenience! Convenience!… Anyway, I don't need to spy on you, when you are just a single wall away. I can just close my eyes and bath in you presence. But even that is a downgrade when you are literally next to me. We are teammates, so stop with the separation! Stop walling herself!" Then she also skillfully changed the topic. "Speaking about raising a wall; to prevent me to reach the academy: What you do anyway? Asked somebody to enchant me? To got lost? But even I don't knew about Ame, until I meet her yesterday in town. So how she got hit?" Even if the orange-flame girl look at the pink-haired face, the rapper refused to say another word as she stubbornly avert her face.

Gura backed from Watson a little to look at the trio: "Listen! Yesterday, Ame dint seem to have a slight idea of complex direction. We got lost six times and she dint noticed anything. And we not just got stray by wandering off around. No portals, gates, teleportation, instant transmission, or such. It was more like the anomaly theory about reality changing bubbles, or waves that are spreading in certain range, that can; naturally, abstractly or forcefully; change the personal reality of that place. Also natural position swapping don't occurs around the Academy. Even Sana got curious when it happened once on the way back. By what she noted; it was change on (how the place) perceives reality toward us, (not the opposite), and that caused the moving of the non native object onto they (correct) coordinates somewhere else." Gawr instantly got mocked by Mori that she shall drop the habit of picking a random book in library.

Ninomae gasped for an air as if she suddenly figure it out. "Could it be? She got struck by that magic as an initialization, and that force the artifact manifestation?"

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Watson was like: (What?). Wile the other three girls make this (Oh, I get it now!) noise, that kinda sounded like (We don't get at all what the smart one is saying!).

Ninomae dint seem to be bothered by that detail as she launch her lesson. "Its a new artifact. Artifact are items that received blessing, were enchanted, are born from intense emotions, or are (a response) originating in the world itself. Its all make a sense now." She turns toward the blonde. "Amelia Watson, if its indeed an item that was in you possession for a prolonged time, then you shall turn that artifact onto your partner. Otherwise, the experience like from this last night, will repeat itself again and again. Normally people have a lot of time to figure what to do, because things don't get on this crash course speed. Or maybe you were just oblivious whats around you, and that why they ship you here." Even if she was speaking a helpful wisdom she still got onto the (But,…) part. "Before all that: The main question, you need to answer to yourself, is still the same. Do you wish to enroll on Harp Academy? Even if it means that sometimes you got into a trouble or get hurt? Do you wishing to stay with us, and call this place a home?"

That alarmed Gawr who throw herself on Watson chest. She didn't want to admit it, but radiated from her, that the blonde grow close to her heart, and she doesn't want her to leave. "Will you stay with us, Ame? You promised me a pizza."

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Watson was surprised by all those terminology and theories, but when she got hug and asked to stay; she smiled softly. "I got a nickname..." Then she giggle, giving the girl a poke. "Stupid. Do you know how many version of pizza there are? Even for those witch one I knew by name… it will take a quite number of weekends to try them all."

But the Shark raised her head to look at the blonde face pour her cheek up as she make an insulted expression. "I am not Stupid. I am just to lazy to show how smart I am." Her tail was slowly wiggling form side to side.

While Orange a purple girl were smiling on that cute expression of love, the pink-haired tall girl steeped in with a father like authority. "Okay! That's enough! There was enough of life altering nonsense for this single morning. Now the two of you: Go into a shower! Ame is more stinky that Gura and she is a (fish!), dang it!"

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As expect the girl with a tail take that personally. "Hey, back to you: Stinky! That grave aura from yours scythe can be smelled even from that coffin closet."

If Mori was like a father figure then Takanashi was like mother. "When you two start to bother about a smell? There is more important thing to discuss. Errands! We will go shopping." Then she realized it. "Oh I get it! Calli want us to be representative." Then she got hipped up, lightly slapping her own cheeks in shocking surprise. "Don't tell me!… A diner at luxurious restaurant."

But the rapper was quick in denial. "No! I directly referring to that pile of unwashed clothing over there!"

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The short owner of that clothing complain loudly. "Whats wrong with my bed pile? You also don't have just one sleep position as you copying others. You used to just sit on boulder. And whats wrong with not wanting the bed [pile] to lose the flower scent? It's not the contort part the whole reason of having a bed?"

It was not just Mori who averted her face losing the argue. But even Takanashi do the same with a weird smile as she remembered on what she was used to have for a sleep. And because she was previously marked by Gura as chicken/hen, its easy to imagine a big bird nest.

So a note come from Ninomae. "Are we talking about fish odor or flower aroma as a side effect from fabric softener?"

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Watson remembered that the clothing pile that Gawr had in her previous room was big enough for the small girl to curl on it. Plus while lessening to this obsession discussion she remembers that there was a certain lizards group who liked to sleep on a pile that posses a certain value for the lizard. So she must ask. "Gura, are you sure that you are shark and not a dragon?"

But Gawr hearing that, nearly coughs and she look at blonde with shocked expression. "How dare you?! I am shark."

Speaking about those lizards ignited a curiousness in Takanashi. "Ame do you even see a dragon? Aren't encounter whit those quite dangerous because they are to much territorial?"

As if it was just a distant memory Ninomae correct her. "Nah, those mostly are just chilling somewhere."

But once again Mori was there. "Until someone step on they pride. Then there is just one solution."

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Because everybody look at the rapper with expectation that she will tell more about them; that intense stare derailed her cool and she suddenly loose her temper and yell. "Get to the bath already!!"

At this point the brute practically chased everyone out of that room. Whats more she play chase with them towards the bathroom.

Actually, after a few minutes of group jogging at random, the priestess spoke an obvious question if someone actually know where is the target destination.

(No one knew.)

So, they were forced to stop that game, to start looking for that bathroom. Respectively they needed to locate the bath itself, because at this point, kinda (all?) of them needed it.

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[notes]

I found it curios that some (technical) terms on a single line can consume like a half hour from my time. When you take that line in the perception of the paragraph/text-block, when it give me this (Its not good enough to be left like this!) it can consume like an hours or hours to finally figure it out. Because first, I want it to be correct according lore, wiki, or some other setting or knowledge. Second (BS) are just cheating bellow me. And third it must sound right.

During Marine-Gura AMV the shark was slipping on (self made?) bed [pile] decorated with live flowers. Can you actually imagine her to sleep straight forward like a wood log on bottom of the ocean, mount wide open so the cleaner fish providing a dental hygiene. … Nah it will be probably like: She was been unladylike spread on marble throne, like a can wide open mount so the (maid) can do the teeth brushing.