tampered | log; ongoing

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When; Early morning of Sunday the 13th
Rating; PG-13ish
Characters;

brbgonefishin,

bloodygoodluck and

soulofocean.
[Eventually

conductyourself &

kongo_king.]
Summary; A cell gets flooded from the inside before Prison Island sinks underwater.
Log; "...There you go! Now we're talking." Mat's medallion had hardly suffered any damage, far as her fingertips could tell. Though Umi's senses were absorbed by the feeling of cool water dribbling through her hands.

Sweet water, she noticed, feeling grateful her ability to perceive her element was returning to her as she gradually recovered her strength. So it could be that this was a river or lake or some other body of water surrounding them. It'd been the fury of the ocean encircling the whole City that she'd felt, and still could feel. As if the waves predicted something terrible was about to happen and this angered them. That couldn't bode well.

"Can you feel it?" She turned to Shin with the question, as her hand reached in the dark to hand the medallion back to Mat. "It's really happening, isn't it. This place's going to get destroyed with everyone insi--- ahhhh! What!?"

A piercing pain struck her eyes and she had to squeeze them shut. But the moment the pain receded and she opened them again, Umi understood. The blur that was the dark cell and her two companions came slowly into focus. "I can...!"

Her sight had just been given back. So it had to be Sunday already.

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"Light, what bloody good timing." Slipping the medallion back around his neck, he stepped away from the door. "If that's the case, deal with the flaming door."

He was unarmed but he was also lucky. He'd manage.

"Let's get out of this bloody cell and out of here." He didn't like the sound of everything being destroyed with people inside. The sooner they were out, the better.

"Nothing." It was said with a mixture of frustration and anger. "I can't feel Suiko. There's nothing -- nothing there."

He could use some of that luck, right now.

"...That's not good. Not even feeling the water helps?" As Umi's sight became clearer her eyes focused on Shin's face, reading the frustration there. It was almost weird to be able to look at people again after all this time, but needless to say, Umi felt deeply grateful her payment time was up at last. Mat's luck was already helping, far as she believed. "I can try to do this myself. But having your help would make things faster. None of us should waste our energy too much either: we'll sure have to fight our way out yet..."

At least her water magic was slowly gathering now that she'd been left alone for a longer while. What had happened to Shin's own abilities, then? Was it part of his punishment that his bond with this "Suiko" had been cut?

"Mat, can your luck help him?" She asked, wishing she understood much better how both Shin's and Mat's powers worked. "Shin, good luck or not, I'm sure you can overcome this thing!"

Mat frowned and shook his head. "I don't know. I never know when it works or how. But since it's blood unlikely, it should happen sometime."

Stepping forward, he put his hand on the boy's shoulder. "Look, getting frustrated won't help." Then he looked at Umi. "Can you get the door taken out? Maybe if we get out of the cell that'll help."

Light if he knew. Magic or whatever was not his area of expertise.

Shin took a deep breath and forced himself to relax, trying again to feel the armor. This time, whether it was Umi's support or Mat's luck, it snapped into place.

"I have it!" The armor filled in a missing piece of his soul and he almost cried with relief.

Umi had been about to reply to Mat's question and say that indeed she'd try her hardest. But something had kept her attention on Shin. Their companion had seemed really determined to overcome this matter. Who knew. Maybe because Umi herself had been in similarly frustrating situations she'd suspected he'd be able to overcome this if he put his heart into it. Still, when he confirmed he'd managed she was as surprised as she was encouraged.

"Really? You mean... it'll work now?" She asked, though it wasn't really necessary: one look at Shin was enough to notice the change. "This is great! Mat's right: let's test it with that door! If you can flood it, I can freeze it!"

"Burn it all, some bloody luck." He laughed and got out of the way. No point in letting himself get smashed by water. That would only make things worse for them escaping here.

"First person to find a broom or a long stick or anything like that, tell me." Then he'd be more useful than just providing them with a good amount of luck.

Shin nodded and fished the tiny orb out of his pocket. A few moments ~~and some strategically placed wrapping paper~~ later, he was wearing a blue and white plated armor with a long trident clenched in his hands.

It only took another second for him to send a geyser of water crushing into the door.

Recovering from the shock of Shin donning such a splendid armor seemingly out of nowhere didn't take as long as Umi feared it would. It was the need to act fast as the blast of water from Shin's attack hit the door what propelled her into motion.

Focusing on her spell, the Water Knight both drew energy from the rush of her element and burned the strength she'd recovered into her most powerful spell. "Koori no yaiba!"

The stream Shin had sent forth froze along with the door. Seconds afterward, the flying ice blades coming out of Umi's hand tore it apart.

He couldn't help staring in shock at what he just saw. That armor came from nowhere. Light, how did he get mixed up in all this. Scratching his head, he sighed. This was bloody unbelievable.

"Light, you two."

But since the door was out of the way, he stepped into the hall. "We're clear. Let's move."

Shin gave him a sheepish, surprisingly boyish smile.

"Have Shuu show you what he can do with rocks some time."

He let Umi go before him, glancing around at the row of cells. Some of them were empty, but...

"We can't just leave them here."

"I'm with you on that one. I don't want anyone to stay behind if this place is really going bye-bye soon..." Umi stared warily down the hall. They'd made enough ruckus for those freaky jail guards to notice and come over. Knowing that Aya, Ken and Omi were safely out of there was reassuring. But she couldn't bring herself to do nothing for those that were still imprisoned there. And she still needed to find her way to Clef! "Maybe we can't help them all. But we can try to get as many as we can out of those cells! And find Mat a stick while we're at it!"

That reminded her... Yes, she still had her glove on. Thank goodness. She hadn't been able to summon her sword because her will had been as exhausted as her magic, but there she had it now. The rapier came out without problems.

Glancing to one side, he saw a long staff. He paused. Oh, who was he kidding? This was his bloody luck kicking in again. Grabbing it, he held it like a weapon as he went to one of the doors.

They really should get out of here.

"Burn me," Mat muttered as he looked inside. Empty. He moved onto the next one. "You two can handle locks then?"

"Maybe a bit more subtly," Shin said. The prongs of his trident closed, crab like, around the next lock. With an expert turn of his wrist, the metal broke free and he reached out to pull the door open.

"Amazing~!" Umi couldn't hold back an astonished gasp of approval, eyes wide. She needed to try that trident in a match some time after they were out of that pickle! "Like that we won't have to waste more of our magic in helping people break free! Better save it for fighting our way out..."

She turned to Mat with a frown when this came to mind. "Though... which WAY is OUT?"

Without bothering to think about it, he pointed ahead of him down the hall. "That way." His luck better hold out and be right on that one.

If it ran out now, they were done for. He didn't want to die here. As badly as he wanted to protect Rain, he couldn't be trapped away from his own world. There was too much Mat needed to do.

Shin nodded his agreement.

"The ocean falls away. We're water, now. We'll have to go up to get out.

"Alright. We have a plan." Umi nodded and gripped her sword, keeping it at the ready as she started down the dark hall. "We go where Mat says and show whoever tries to stop us that we're not in the mood for kidding!"

"Good a plan as any." It was last minute and could easily fail. And all relying on his luck. How did it always come down to that? Grumbling under his breath, he led them down the dark hall and tried not to think.

Turning without thinking would mean he'd find the right way faster than thinking about it.

Shin followed him, quickly decimating the locks on all the cages as they passed, even the empty ones -- no one else would be held here.

[OOC: bring in Clef and Shuu, soon? What do you guys think?]

Deep inside, a part of Umi almost wanted for there to be some of those nasty monsters in their way. She wanted something to vent her frustration on. Something to fight.

But she wasn't mad enough not to feel happy to find just empty corridors. In all likeness they were moving too fast for the guards to know where they were.

[OOC: Great by me if you both wanna.]

No monsters so far. He was only just more than a little grateful for that. Mat really hated fighting and fighting monsters.

Turning another corner, he looked back at them. Everything was alright so far.

[ooc: Works for me!]

No monsters yet, but Clef was running from something when he turned into the corner and, glancing behind him, ran straight into Mat. Fortunately for the taller man, the magician just sort of bounced off and then glared up at him, apparently assuming he was a guard at first.

He looked like hell - dirty, his (Earth) clothes burnt and torn, and missing his staff. Whatever he had been through had apparently done nothing to quell that infamous temper of his, however, and he had been putting it to good use.

Not far down the hall there was a sound of a wall being, well, smashed through. In a couple of blows no less. Whatever was punching through it was very, very strong if it could get through a solid wall like it was a small heap of gravel.

Shrouded in a cloud of dust, an armoured figure paused, looked around and spotted the group, heading towards them with rhythmic determination. It had what looked like a very large staff slung over its shoulder.

Thankfully, for Shuu's sake, the dust cleared enough for him to be recognizable when he was a good twenty feet away.

"I thought it was you Shin!" He grinned at his buddy and looked to Mat. "Looks like you're here too. And..." He looked bewildered to Umi and Clef. "I dunno. Anyway, this place is set to blow right?"

Shin was about to say something about Surprise Visitor Number One when Surprise Visitor Number Two caught his attention. He was kind of Shuu-centric, that way, and he brightened up visibly at the sound of his buddy's voice. A few seconds later and Shuu was the recipient of one very big Shin-Hug. Only Shin would figure out how to hug in full armor.

"It certainly took you long enough, Kongo," he said when he pulled back, sweeping his eyes over Shuu's armor with a look that said, 'you will explain this.'

First there was a boy running into him and shooting him a glare then Shuu was bursting through the wall. "If this is my bloody luck kicking in then I'm have bloody good day." Mat didn't know and he didn't care.

Though, he'd think about Shuu having armor too later.

"Let's get moving people. I'm not going to die here, thank you."

...There they had a more effective way of getting rid of walls. But Umi got over that astonishment pretty fast.

Clef was there, and looking rather worse for wear at that. Reassured to hear the newcomer was acquainted with Shin, she just devoted her attention to the magician.

"Clef!! So you did make it out by your own means! Mat's luck is really incredible! I can't believe we found each other!" She checked to see if the master mage of Cephiro was severely wounded and in need of what assistance they could provide as best as she could, while she wondered if they had time for anything resembling introductions. "Uhm. These are Shin and Mat. We were stuck in a cell together... But Mat's right. We should hurry..."

Edited 2009-09-14 04:31 (UTC)

He looked back at Shin, and he knew. Knew that look he was getting. Ho boy. What to say without telling the future and causing time to explode in little timey bits all over the place.

"Yeah, let's save the niceties for later, ladies and gents." Shuu switched down to his sub-armour. He could still break through walls, but this allowed him more maneuverability. He'd only really needed it to use Gan Tessai to break in.

"We should be able to get back the way we came. I'm guessing the plan is to get out, and help anyone we find on the way? Er..." He looked at Clef. He wasn't just a kid. He looked the worse for wear. "You gonna be able to keep up? I can carry you."

Clef wasn't seriously hurt, but was very high-strung if that counted as unusual. Umi was here! And she could apparently see! And there was a lot of noise and hurrying around and people KNOCKING DOWN WALLS.

What the hell.

He found himself grabbing one of Umi's hands for some reason (he'll probably drop it as soon as he thinks about it, but for now there you go) before he said or did anything else. And he probably had been going to say something, but Shuu cought his attention first. For a second he scowled at the very suggestion of being carried, but then his rationality got the better of him and his expression relaxed. Shuu was only trying to be helpful, after all.

"... I'm fine," he says quietly, almost muttering. "Thanks."

Edited 2009-09-14 04:50 (UTC)

Shin stayed in full armor, only because he wanted to keep ahold of the jumonji yari. It was coming in very helpful for destroying locks.

"Do you want to split into groups? Five of us roaming the halls seems like it would attract attention. And we'll free more people faster."

Mat frowned at the suggestion. It wasn't that he didn't want to help the people here but there was a disadvantage to that.

"If we split up, someone loses my luck. Sticking together means that we stand a bloody chance of getting out together."

Umi was torn. She glanced up at Mat and understood this was a fundamental factor to take into account: that amazing luck of his had been key to their so far successful escape. What'd happened to the group that lost it? She wasn't the best strategist ever as to have any worthy opinion here, but...

Smiling at Clef reassuringly, she managed to give his hand an encouraging squeeze before they let go of each other. She also nodded quietly to show she understood he could handle things on his own.

"Mat's right. I'm not sure if we should risk that. But if we really do split up..." She considered matters as best she could before she went on, holding her sword tighter. "Then we have to make sure we all get even chances of escaping. The most powerful of us go separate ways. I don't want anyone left behind just because they were so tired they couldn't fight their way out..."

She sighed and looked up as more noises were coming from the hall. "We better decide fast..."

Edited 2009-09-14 05:06 (UTC)

He grinned at Clef. "No problem. You need a lift, just say." Clapping his hands together and letting off a cloud of dust from his escapades of turning the walls to swiss cheese, Shuu made quick note of their surroundings.

"Look, let's not stand around arguing too long. We're going to attract attention one way or another, and like this we can probably beat those guards."

"I think we're better off staying together," Clef offered, looking in the direction of the footsteps and pulling out of his pocket... a taser. It might not look like much, but it was a decent substitute for his staff as far as channeling lightning magic went. "The extra people we'd help won't be any better off if we can't get them out of here."

Glancing over his shoulder, he nodded to Shuu and moved to the back of the group since he knew that he was not exactly as fast as everyone else with their longer legs. He could handle it, anyway. "I'll cover the rear - go!"

Edited 2009-09-14 05:33 (UTC)

Personally, Shin thought he and Shuu were totally capable of covering eachother's backs, but safety in numbers it was. He fell in behind Mat, knowing that with the other man's luck and his connection to the water, they'd find their way out soon enough.

"Right. This way people." His flaming luck was working so far. But with that boy in the back, Mat didn't run. He wasn't sure that Clef would be able to keep up if he did. He was already really tall. Taller than all of them in the group.

He wasn't comfortable with that boy in the back. Glancing back at Shin, he whispered, "Tell Shuu to stand close to the boy. I want to try and not have him get left behind accidentally."

Umi caught a bit of that whisper and had to chuckle despite the circumstances. This was the same impression she'd had the moment she'd met Clef for the first time.

"It'll be okay." She nudged Mat a little just to tell him this. She smiled reassuringly, sending a surreptitious glance in Clef's direction. "I'll keep an eye on him too. But really. I bet he's by far the most powerful of us..."

After that she turned to the small magician, making it pretty clear she intended to stay beside him all the way until they got out of that maze of a prison.

Shuu didn't need to be told to keep an eye on Clef. Even if he had known the wizard was actually quite old and powerful, he still would have been watchful. Shuu was that kind of person.

Falling in line with the group, Shuu kept a watchful eye, ready to fight anything that got in their way.

"Who the hell would send anyone here anyway?"

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I SUCK SO HARD.

I DISAGREE. 8|

I SECOND THE NO SUCKING THING

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orz so late ;A; Net failed me yesterday