SOUNDTRACK 013 // ACTION

[lukanightfever]

[Today Luka Megurine will be no where to be seen. Besides the fact that all of KAITO's things have vanished in thin air, her room will be found to be a complete mess, apparent signs of a struggle and even drops of her "blood" around. Her journal will be nowhere to be found either and she won't be answering through it

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[dancinghonour]

[Gakupo had come upon the mess earlier, returning from fetching something for himself and KAITO from the store. However, upon discovering the empty room, he’d stared inside numbly for a few minutes, pressed his hand to the doorframe, disbelieving. It was only afterward that he’d gone to Luka’s room, out of some wild hope she’d be back but-

But-it was a mess, obvious that wherever she had gone she had come back only to be taken again. And he’d left in a rush, unable to stay there, not with them both gone again, KAITO for good this time.

How many times would this happen?

A lowly-sung song drifts up from him as he walks through the plaza, eyes fixed on the ground. He doesn’t know how to comfort himself any other way. Gilbert hasn’t been around, and, beside him, it isn’t as though he’s particularly close to anyone else here, other than his ‘family’.

Tiredly, he lifts his gaze as he catches the sound of music, slows to a stop to look at the source. A name escapes him, unbidden.]

…Luka? [But, no-this is clearly a boy, but the

[lukanight_fever]

[The name seems to ping him. Luka, he knows that name, of course he does, he owes her his life basically. Luki looks over at Gakupo, his frown deepening in even more confusion.]

Oi... Aren't you Gakuko's original?

[dancinghonour]

[It's not Luka--that's Gakupo's only thought at the moment as he looks away, numb. The question doesn't even register for a few moments and when it does, his eyebrows furrow slightly in confusion. One of his voice settings...?]

I'm Gakupo. [Is all he says.] Who are you?

[lukanight_fever]

Gakupo. Gakupo Kamui?

[He repeats the name, making it roll in his tongue, as if tasting it or checking how it feels by saying it. He will snort and eye Gakupo with a frown.]

You don't look that better than Gakuko anyway. I'm Luki.

[He sounds a bit defensive at that even. He may be grateful to Luka and all, and he understands that without those originals none of his friends would exist... But he doesn't necessarily like them all.]

[dancinghonour]

[Any other day, he might've been offended and behaved as such, but now he can't bring himself to it. It's easier not to react.

His eyes drift over him, then away and his tone is quiet and low.]

Luki. You've just arrived, then--this is Luceti.

[lukanight_fever]

[Better for him, he doesn't want to get in a fight with him over such a thing. She wouldn't like it, and even if it may be a tempting way to make her return he's not going to take it.]

Luceti? I don't have knowledge of that city, in which country is it?

[dancinghonour]

Not a city--this is an entirely different world.

[lukanightfever]

[Pause. Vaguely timing the reaction, trying to imagine how he would react if he really didn't know this already... Yes, now would be a good moment to talk again.

He tilts his head to a side, a confused frown on his face.]

Haaa? What a fucked up setting for a PV. And I don't even care much about the setting. The place seems big anyway, is this going to be a series or something?

[dancinghonour]

If it was a setting for a PV, I would have said it was a setting for a PV. [He folds his hands into his sleeves, the wings on his shoulders fluttering for a moment.]

This is another world, and that's all there is to it. There's been a guide put together, if you'd like to read it.

1/3

[lukanightfever]

Oi, that's just...

[lukanight_fever]

How can you even...

Done

[lukanight_fever]

[Sighs and scratches his head with a frown. "Another world", "that's all there's to it". Gakupo, you suck at explaining things, really.]

And where's that guide?

[dancinghonour]

[Gakupo barely feels up to explaining things, and breathes a heavy sigh. He moves, sinking down on the fountain a little ways down from him.]

Did you have a journal? You should've had it with you. [Wearily:] I suppose I should tell you now we're trapped here, within a barrier. We were brought by some unknown force. Not to say that people don't go home.

[Curling his hand slightly into a fist with a frown.]

[lukanight_fever]

[Unless they are forced to go back. Luki doesn't blame you for not mentioning it thought, how could he, when his presence there is the result of Luka not wanting to deal with it herself? Hide all you want Gakupo, between you and Luka it's probably you the one who's wounded the most, even if Luki is biased and always sides with Luka.]

You mean that children's book that played sounds? I'm a bit too old for that and I couldn't find how to make it shut up.

[He shows the journal calmly, sure that unless Gakupo went to make a complete inspection of it he won't notice the extra layer on the cover where Luki's name is read, effectively hiding Luka's name from sight and made of the same color as the rest of the cover, put in a way that even with touch it would be hard to pinpoint it.]

Trapped... That doesn't sound like a big change, is it?

[dancinghonour]

[Gakupo reaches into his sleeve, withdrawing his own journal--always kept close at hand--and scribbling a short link into it.] If you turn the page now, you should be able to see the guide. [He doesn't so much look at Luki's journal as pass his eyes over it briefly.]

It's useful for keeping in contact with others [or listening for missing people] but you can just keep it closed if the sound bothers you. There are always plenty of people talking over them.

[Shutting his journal and tucking it away, he pauses, glances over for a brief moment, then away.] What do you mean?

[lukanight_fever]

[Luki looks at the guide and nods, feigning to read it.]

So it's like a cellphone?

[He glances at Gakupo at his question and returns his attention to the journal.]

Well, it's not like we get to do much on our own normally, right? We depend on the Masters' whims. The difference is that the trapping thing is... More visible than usual, isn't it?