[hr][center][img]https://i.imgur.com/OLdw0ys.png[/img] [img]https://txt.1001fonts.net/img/txt/b3RmLjEwNi5lMTEwN2MuV205bWFXRWdTM0xEczJ3LjA/future-thor-trial.regular.webp[/img][/center] [right]Interactions: The nope dog and an ancestor [code]In the room where it happened[/code][/right][hr] [color=FF00FF]“Oh fuck.”[/color] Nora felt the color drain from her skin as the pedals she created fell to the ground. A second later, she felt a force of nature swat her away, and she stumbled backwards and nearly fell. While she was not hit by the strike itself, she could still feel the power behind it. It was strong. It was far stronger than anything that she had felt, but it lined up with various enemies that her favorite anime characters would often face. That big, imposing, brute-like monster that the group would face early into their adventures, which they would need to defeat to grow stronger. But could one grow stronger when that was the monster the show threw at the party in the first fucking episode? At least it missed her and missed everyone. Nora turned to ask Ella what she planned to do, but she gasped when she saw her friend on the ground. Her eyes trailed up from the ground and saw the cracks spreading across where Ella had hit. They slowly returned to their friend, and a loud ringing soon filled the air. Nora was stuck, both physically and mentally. She screamed at her legs to move, but she could not manage even a step. Even as Valor drove a spear straight through the beast and marked its flesh, Nora could not break from what she saw. All she could hear was that damned ringing, her own heartbeat, and nothing more. Please don’t be dead. No matter what else happened tonight, she could not lose her best friend. Please don’t be dead. She didn’t care about starting a training arc, working with her power, and growing as a wizard; all she cared about was lying on the ground. As long as she wasn’t dead, the world hadn’t ended. [color=#eac6ae]"Nora—Nora, talk to me—please, are you okay?!"[/color] Nora took a big breath in. Kari. Kari was okay, and she was here. She would know what to do to help Ella. Nora opened her mouth right before the beast sent Valor flying right past her body, passing far too close for comfort. It dawned on her, in that moment, that this was scary. Really scary. And Nora needed her friend. She ran without thinking until she slid into the wall and nearly fell on Kari. She quickly grabbed Ella’s arm and tried to pull her off the ground but she completely lacked the strength in her tiny, noodle-like arms. [color=FF00FF]“I-I am okay, Kari, is she alive? Is she going to be okay? Kari, what is going on?”[/color] The sight of a new person stepping through the door caught her eye, and she gave her a quick glance before returning to Kari with tears welling, [color=FF00FF]“I”m scared.”[/color] [hr] [CENTER][img]https://txt.1001fonts.net/img/txt/dHRmLjExNi5lNzA4ZjMuUlhabGJIbHViaUJCYm00Z1UyVnlaVzVsYkdsbmFIUSwuMA,,/georganodemo.regular.webp[/img] [img]https://i.imgur.com/VlWrvIO.png[/img][/CENTER] [right][code]Current day Interactions: Mars bar Outfit: Normal[/code][/right][hr] Lynn couldn’t help but softly, yet firmly, mutter a [color=8A2BE2]“what the fuck,”[/color] as Daniel pulled his hand free, only to pray away the pain of what he had seen. Sure, putting the impossible in the higher power was a compelling action in the moment. Everything that had happened thus far did more to push her back towards that chapel than even the death of her parents. A giant werewolf-looking monster felt more like a demon than a creature, and if demons were real, that would indicate that the big guy upstairs was real. And if the big guy upstairs was real, did that mean that Lynn would be heading the wrong way if this monster killed her here tonight? Lynn knew she did not want to find out. She wanted to go out on her terms and in her own time, and not end up as puppy chow for a monster. She took a quick step towards Daniel. While she had only met the boy, she needed someone to run with her. The world around them was unfamiliar and scary, and if Lynn got lost, she would die. And he was far too nice to leave to his fate outside, where the monster would go next. She took another quick step towards him, and she found herself just outside what a modest person would consider their personal space. [colour=SkyBlue]“Thy kingdom come; thy will- will be done on earth. As it is in Heaven.”[/colour] [color=8A2BE2]“Party boy, Daniel, listen to me, we need to run,”[/color] Lynn paused as she looked past Daniel and saw another person die. Her breathing became quick and frantic, and her heart began to skip a beat. She was just a girl, standing in front of a boy, trying to break him from his religious psychosis. [color=8A2BE2]“I don’t know what the fuck is happening in there,”[/color] she paused, [colour=SkyBlue]“I pledge myself to Your mercy. I give You honour. I leave room for You to do what Your wisdom knows is… is…”[/colour], Lynn offered a weak smile as it sounds like Daniel was snapping out of it, [colour=SteelBlue]“[b]JUSTICE.[/b]”[/colour] Lynn took a stuttered step back, nearly tripping over her own foot as she did. That was not Daniel. Her breath was once again stolen as a blue light covered his eyes in a way that screamed it had happened, but her mind raged at the impossibility of it. Did the good lord smile down on the plight of his faithful? Or was this some other thing altogether? Lynn did not know, and when Daniel looked at her with that completely emotionless look, she knew that something else was now present. Call it a sense, or a vibe, but that was not the same boy she had just met. [color=8A2BE2]“No, no, Daniel, don’t go back in there,”[/color] Lynn muttered, standing still. What she meant to say was “please don’t leave me alone out here,” but she did not want to see him die. A moment later, the once pleasant boy had transformed into something out of fiction, and drove a spear through the creature's body, and for a second, Lynn hoped it was over. Yet she watched as the body adapted, twisted, contorted, and evolved. The next second the holy warrior of god was sent flying across the warehouse. Lynn’s head jerked down as the chaotic crash of concrete and metal filled the air. There were still so many people inside who were going to die soon, and Lynn wished she could see a way that she could help. A second later, her eyes once again turned into jade. She found herself quickly transitioning from reality as she knew it to that strange garden once again, standing on a large branch of the impossibly large tree. The branch itself wasn’t too large, and Lynn soon found herself off balance. She swayed too and fro before she ultimately went to fall, but caught herself by grabbing a branch. In an instant, she experienced a possible future where she saw everything. She learned more about the monster, even if it was not really more than what she already knew. She learned about her new classmates and what they could do; she learned the names of every last one of them, and she felt terrified as each last one of them died in an incredibly painful way. As she let go of the smaller branch, she fell and wrapped her arms around the bigger one she stood on and screamed. The vision had ended once again with Lynn picked up, body crushed, and dead. It felt real. It felt like the life was completely crushed out of her body, and her current body remembered the feeling. Was that the future? She looked back to the branch she had grabbed and let her eyes linger for a moment before they looked further up the tree and saw a branch she could almost reach. Lynn shimmied forward, reached out a hand, and grabbed the next branch. Once again, the vision started as soon as she had grabbed it. In this possible future, the same scenario began to play out, yet the actions the others took were slightly different. The attacks were more varied, the lineup a small bit different, and yet it counted for nothing. Everyone died, and Lynn released the branch as tears streamed down her face. The monster did not end her as quickly this time. Instead, it had adopted an almost childlike curiosity as it pulled an arm off here, a foot off there, and examined the pieces as if she was nothing more than a toy. The memory of the pain lingered, and Lynn could not do anything except wallow in the pain. The two visions that the branches brought were of interest to her, and as the memory of the last one began to fade, she began to see the puzzle board laid out before her. These did not seem like certain things, and if her first use of whatever magic this was an indication, they were a possible future that did not, or would not come to pass. The actions that everyone took in it were different, and that changed what happened dramatically. Lynn was also an active participant in these possible futures, able to act and change outcomes as they were happening. Yet she was learning that there were truths to the possible future that no action could change. She shimmied forward again and reached for another branch. She wondered if she kept this up if she could save the party boy and the others? She grabbed the branch and tested her first theory at once. [hr] A second later, back in reality, the jade fell from Evelynn’s eyes, and she took a deep breath. In an instant, tears welled and fell within an instance running through her makeup with a fervent intensity, bringing streaks of black onto her cheeks. Her body radiated with pain all over, even if this was false pain her mind thought she should feel. By her count, she died fifteen times building the puzzle up before the garden sent her back to reality, and each time was either as painful or more painful than the last. She doubled over and fell to the ground, bracing her fall by stretching out her arms. She did not find the missing pieces to how to kill this monster. Each death, each pain-filled moment was in vain in that regard. That was not to say she did not gain an idea that might work. In the last three possible futures, she had managed to get a few of the magic users inside to attack in one attack together, and this caused the creature to adapt to each attack at the same time. This gave them a window, but not the window that they wanted. Lynn was going to see what would happen if she could convince them all to work together. There was also the possibility that this was not her fight. She could run, like many others before her. There was no shame in seeing death and electing to live. Whatever this power which was thrust upon her, truly, she could spend time mastering it and learning to wield it better to help some other group defeat the beast later. Lynn cried even harder at the thought. If she ran, she knew deep in her heart that she would be running from even more deaths that she could have prevented, just like her family. Could she live with herself as the ghosts of those who died by her action, and inaction, circled her soul? Lynn slammed a fist into the ground as her tears mixed with the dirt. Would she live with herself? Lynn knew that answer, and she did not need to visit the garden to know that answer Evelynn pushed herself onto her feet. She wiped her cheeks with the palms of her hands and took a deep breath. She lingered at the threshold for a couple more seconds before she stumbled through the doors of the warehouse. She quickly scanned the scene and found the woman she was looking for. [color=8A2BE2]“Kari,”[/color] Lynn spoke as she looked at the monster, watching it stalk towards a woman she thought was named Lexi. It just hit her that she did not know for sure if Kari was the right name, as she only heard it in the garden anytime she died, the name screamed out by two idiots named Nora, or was it Zofia, and Ella. Lynn gritted her teeth as she saw that the Sailor Moon cosplayer was down, and the two others were around her already checking in. She needed to check. [color=8A2BE2]“If that’s your name,”[/color] Lynn paused as she pointed to the monster. Her voice was much calmer now, far too calm for the scenario in front of her. Yet she found a certain strength in experiencing it all before. [color=8A2BE2]“I don’t know what the fuck is going on, but I do have an idea on how we can run away from it. If we get everyone, and I mean everyone, to hit that thing at the same time, and hard, we can slow it down while it adapts to the different attacks. We could run. I don’t know you, any of you, but I know what I saw. I know that we will all die here, together, if we try to fight it or if we don’t work together. Will you help me?”[/color]