[OPEN] Demonbait

[blessed_by_the_world]

Who: Akane and OPEN
Where: Anywhere you like, she's lost so it doesn't matter.
When: After dark
Warnings: Possible injury and I do not have nearly enough appropriate icons for this.
Summary: Akane received a curse from the fortune teller at the cherry blossom festival. For the next few days, demons will chase her at night. Even if her persona appears to help her, it may not be enough...


[She's running through the streets as fast as she can go, looking desperately for a place to hide. Originally, she'd been heading back to the apartment building, but she got turned around somewhere and now she's a little lost.

Okay, completely lost. And only just barely staying ahead of the things chasing her. She can't resist a panicked glance behind her just as she turns a corner and SMACK!

Sorry, she did not see you there. Luckily she's small, so she felt the impact more than you. But now she's scrambling to her feet and giving you a desperate look.]

Th- they're after me!

Comments

[blessed_by_the_world]

Every night?!? Aren't you scared to live in a place like that?

[terra_nullius]

They don't normally come banging on my door after me, though. It's only been the last little bit that changed that...

[blessed_by_the_world]

They didn't chase me either until a couple days ago. Do you think they're chasing everyone now?

[terra_nullius]

I haven't run into anyone else who says they're being chased... if there were, I'd imagine there'd be more hysteria.

[blessed_by_the_world]

But then why are they chasing us?

[terra_nullius]

[He stops to think about how long he's been being chased... and comes to his own conclusion.]

Did you get a negative fortune from the park when the flowers were in bloom?

[blessed_by_the_world]

[She gasps in surprise.]

I did! I did get a bad fortune, but... do you think that's why? That's why these things are chasing us?

[terra_nullius]

I noticed mine started after that day. It was the only correlation I could think of... bad luck is bad luck, and in this place perhaps it means monsters.

[blessed_by_the_world]

[She frowns.]

Well, they could have warned us when we got the fortunes. Someone could get hurt!

[terra_nullius]

I think that's just it. We're playthings, in this place. We're the tools that these two higher power are using. They don't care if we get hurt or die or anything. They just want answers.

[blessed_by_the_world]

Answers? Answers to what?

[This is an upsetting possibility.]

I thought we were here to protect people. And save the city.

[Ah, the naivete of youth...]

[terra_nullius]

We're here in whatever capacity we take away from that dream. Some people choose that path. Some people follow their hearts. Some people question things. I guess you can see where I fall on that spectrum.

[blessed_by_the_world]

But.... why would they give us this power? Unless they wanted us to use it to help people?