Let 'em say we're crazy, I don't care about that!

[lucetimods]

Who: Everyone!
What: The final day. Moonfall. Twenty-Four hours remain. How do you spend it?
When: The 30th, all day
Where: Anywhere
Summary: The last day. The end has come. The moon is coming down and piercing the barrier. Nothing can stop it.
Rating: It will vary.

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Roof of CH2

[cakeblocked]

[His master had told him not to. Luke was told that his power was not strong enough to destroy the moon.

But everyone else was helping. A lot of people were using their own power to try to slow or stop the moon, and he'd be damned if he won't help.

He stares up for a while, a worried frown etched on his face. He won't deny that he's scared: the moon was impossibly close now, and that face was staring down at all of them... That awful face that seemed more like a cringe than anything. The ground shakes beneath him, and it's as he nearly loses his balance that he realizes he should start now.

If he can't destroy it, then maybe he can move it, or at least make it slow to a stop while everyone else beats it back. After all, he was able to do so with the crust of his own world

[offallingsnow]

[Oh...not everyone.

Nephry might have passed right by building two if she hadn't felt like it would be a good idea to look up at it. It, and the moon's leering face. She shudders, shaking her head and catching moving light out of the corner of her eye.

Someone was up there. She squints, trying to make out the figure...and it might just be someone she recognizes.

It takes her only a minute or two to run into the building and up to the roof. She's out of breath when she makes it that far, but there's no time for that, is there? Especially once she confirms the identity of that source of light.]

Luke!

[cakeblocked]

[Luke hears the voice, though he doesn't turn his head towards it. Hyperresonance takes up a lot of concentration, and right now even the slightest waver could make everything he worked for fall apart, or prove disastrous. Back on his world when he did this, he was able to briefly look at Jade, but only because he had Asch helping him. He couldn't do any more than that.

He forces his eyes open and looks up again, stretching his fingers slightly in an effort to stop their shaking.]

Nephry, get out of here!

[offallingsnow]

Not if you're going to exhaust yourself for something you can't stop!

[If she didn't know about what could happen to him, she might not be so desperate to stop him now.]

[cakeblocked]

Maybe I can't, but if everyone else keeps pushing it back, then...!

[It needs to work. It needs to work. Luke can't let everyone here die. He can't. He can't. It - It doesn't matter if he exhausts himself too much; if his power with everyone else can at least stop the moon's descent...]

[offallingsnow]

Luke. [In this Luke's memory she has probably never been so serious with him] The effort could kill you. And all for nothing. I don't think anyone here - everyone here - can stop this if it is what the Malnosso want.

Please listen to reason. No one will blame you for this.

[cakeblocked]

How do you know it won't work?!

[Whereas he isn't sure if Nephry has seen any form of him sound so panicked, yet driven. He ducks his head, plants his feet and squares his shoulders as if to keep himself up; with the moon still moving against his hyperresonance, it's as if he's trying to hold up tons of weight. He can't - He has to - ]

They can't just want to kill us! They've been needing us all this time and now - why?!

[offallingsnow]

If they really wanted to kill us, do you think they would have made plans for us that begin two days from now?

[She keeps her voice calm and even despite the leering moon.]

Luke, if you panic, nothing good will come of it.

[cakeblocked]

Then maybe they're not controlling this!

[He grits his teeth and squeezes his eyes shut again, and he ends up falling to one knee, though he still keeps his hands up.]

Maybe they - want us to stop it... gnngh!

[offallingsnow]

[Forget trying to convince him with words.

She'll walk right over and grab his wrists instead.]

Not at the expense of your life.

[cakeblocked]

[The moment she grabs his wrists, Luke's concentration breaks. He gasps loudly and widens his eyes before she can even get the words out, and his hyperresonance goes awry. A burst of fonons that was meant to feed the hyperresonance flies from his body with enough force to knock her back some distance, and the lines in the moon suddenly light up much brighter than before and waver, shaking from the loss of control. A few of them even strike out from the moon: one hits the barrier and bursts like a firework in the sky, one blows a tree apart in the distance and the others crack in the air, creating pockets of space deprived of any oxygen, though this is fixed in an instant by the air surrounding it.

All he can do now is try to reign in his power and gain control once more, though he tries to look over his shoulder a little to see what happened to her.]

Nephry!

[offallingsnow]

[That was unexpected. She thought that taking his hands would just...stop him.

The burst throws Nephry about as far across the roof from him as she can go, landing hard on a shoulder and rolling once or twice. When she comes to a stop, she'll just...lie there, still, for several minutes. She's never been punched in the stomach before (recently she's been kicked there), but she imagines that is what it feels like. If the fist were the size of a large dog.]

[cakeblocked]

[That's about as much time as it takes for him to finally gain control again. Some of the lines still fly out, though thankfully they still only hit (and consequently destroy) trees and (un/fortunately not destroy) the barrier. The rest, however, slowly recede back to where they started, leaving dark marks in the moon where they imbedded into it. Finally, they fade away, and Luke falls to his knees and just breathes heavily, the autumn air cooling the sweat on his face. He feels lightheaded, and it feels like the world is spinning way too fast beneath him.

Still, as soon as he feels like he can move again, he stands - and staggers, as the world suddenly went off balance again, but then makes his way to Nephry. Oh god please still be alive please -]

[offallingsnow]

[Don't worry Luke, she's alive. In some pain, but alive. When she opens her eyes she's squinting because of it. Despite that, she looks so relieved. That he stopped, that he didn't push himself so far as to-]

L-Luke... [Is that her voice? It sounds terrible. Nephry tries to ignore the feeling of her whole body on fire and at least push herself to sitting.]

[cakeblocked]

[He kneels down near her heavily, as if someone shoved his shoulders down rather than him merely going through the motion. He's a few feet away, though; he wouldn't be surprised if she was afraid of him now. His power can do something like this... And now she's hurt because of him.]

A... Are you okay? I'm sorry...

[offallingsnow]

[But she'll need his help in standing when she gets that far. By herself, she can only sit up against the short rail that surrounds the edge of the roof.]

I'll be all right. [It still hurts. But is that his fault? She interrupted him, and it isn't as though he intended any harm to her.] Are you?