Aya-chan 003 [11-25 backdate SORRY D| ]

[stillneedsakiss]

Who: Luffy, Aya Fujimiya (Aya-chan), possibly Ran
Where: Zephry Pointe apartments
Style: Third
Status: open to the above, let us know if another character has good reason to join in?

What are you thinking? You're nuts! You can't do this

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[stillneedsakiss]

Aya had a bad feeling about this.

She could still change her mind. Tell him thanks but no thanks, she'd made a mistake-- sorry for the trouble. She glanced at the locked and blocked door out to the apartment where her brother was. Come on, Aya. A grounding wasn't the end of the world.

The only problem with that logic was, Aya wasn't acting to escape a grounding. She was acting to reclaim her autonomy. If she stayed, she would be implicitly submitting to Ran's authority-- an authority which, as far as Aya could see, he had no right to hold over her. Staying home for one day and missing a couple of dates would have been disappointing but tolerable. Allowing him indefinite power over her every benign outing? To go play outside, to meet someone for coffee, to take a shopping trip? Untenable.

It was a little awkward putting her arms around Luffy, but she did as he said and hugged his back, making sure to have a tight cling around him. He didn't seem quite right in the head, but he had a nice energy about him. Aya held confidence that he was a good person.

Even if he was taking her cat. X(

"Thank you," she said. "I'm ready when you are."

I'm sorry, Oniichan.

[redabyssinian]

Ran had been hearing a lot of noise coming from the room and it concerned him. Going to the door, he'd listened as best he could. When he heard someone else there, he began trying to open the door.

Then to pound on it and try to force his way in. He could feel the panic building.

"Aya!"

[stillneedsakiss]

Aya's hold around Luffy tightened as she heard her brother banging and calling. It pained her to hear him sounding so panicked, but what other choice had he left her?

"I'm sorry, Oniichan! I can't live like this!"

Oh but this escape plan did not look good to her. (Nor did Luffy's solution for bringing the cat along, but at the moment that was the least of her concerns.) She pressed her forehead against Luffy's back and screwed her eyes shut in quiet dread.

The next and only sound from her was an ear-piercing shriek that quickly faded into the distance. Yet somehow, under all the very real terror that she felt as she hurtled through the air, a small voice inside her thought, ‘whee.’

[redabyssinian]

That was...

Aya was screaming. Pounding the door with his shoulder, he winced. This might bruise later but Ran had to get to the other side. Another slam and he managed to get it open enough to see an empty room. Quickly, he ran to his room to grab a weapon (a knife) and then he was at his window to stare down.

"AYA!"

[stillneedsakiss]

Aya's screaming didn't seem to be dying out any as the pair of them sailed through the sky. Tears of horror filled her eyes, so certain was she that she was mere seconds away from death. Had she understood better Luffy's plans for landing, she might have taken far more thrill and enjoyment from the feeling of flight. As it was, however, all she could do was cling to him and repeat a single phrase.

"Don't lemme die, don't lemme die, don't lemme dieeeeeee!"

[stillneedsakiss]

"WHY ARE YOU LAUGHING?!" Aya cried with no less hysteria than she'd held through her screaming. She'd long since given up on trying to watch anything through this traumatic death trap of an "escape," and so when Luffy inflated himself, and Aya bounced off him and hit the ground with nothing worse than a few scrapes and future bruises, she only half-registered what was happening.

After a few seconds of continuing to scream while curled up on the ground, it finally occurred to her that 1) she wasn't falling anymore, and 2) she was still alive to realize as much. Drawing in great gasps of breath, Aya braved to open her eyes and look around. God only knew where they were, but it was solid ground and that was really just about all Aya cared about at that point.

She wiped the tears from her eyes and looked then at Luffy in something approaching awe. She couldn't quite decide if he was the world's biggest idiot or a genius in disguise. He had rescued her, and had found a way to get her far away from her brother-- more than ample distance that his following wouldn't be a concern for a while-- and to keep her from dying in the process. On the other hand, Aya wondered if her heart would ever fully recover.

"Thank you... I'm never going to be satisfied with a roller coaster ever again, am I?"

Because really, after rocketing through the air, freefalling to what you were sure was your doom, then bouncing off a human balloon to a relatively safe landing, even the best roller coaster in the world would feel like the kiddie slide in comparison.

[stillneedsakiss]

Aya supposed he had a point, though why oceans had been singled out she had no clue. It seemed to her an ocean would be safer than the ground. Maybe he had a shark phobia? Except that didn’t sound quite believable; Luffy did not seem like he could have any phobias.

Then again, the idea that someone could stretch his arms up five stories wasn’t very believable either.

She blew out a sigh and let herself flop onto her back, arms falling limply to either side. The experience, vivid as it remained in her mind, was already submitting to the more mundane realization that she hadn’t thought to put her coat on before climbing on his back. And now she was getting cold. For the time being she could ignore it, instead trying to figure out what she was going to do now that she was out. She really hadn’t thought this through at all, had she?

“I’m an idiot...” she observed with a smile as she gazed skyward. “I don’t have any idea what I’m going to do from here. And my brother is going to worry himself sick...” The strangest, funniest thing about it was that now that she was out, she didn’t regret it. She turned her smile to Luffy, warmed a little inside by his exuberant cheer. “You’re pretty amazing to be able to stretch, fly and inflate like that.”

[stillneedsakiss]

The shock of Luffy's unique elasticity had worn off by now, so when he stretched his cheek out enough to fit a dinner plate in his mouth, Aya stared for a moment and then simply laughed. (What could she say? It was a funny sight)

"I do see. It seems like a lot of fun. I bet you can make all kinds of great faces with that ability."

[stillneedsakiss]

Aya burst into giggles at the feline impression. Although she had plenty to worry about at the moment, Luffy's cheer was infectious, and Aya was not a person who liked to dwell on upsetting things in the first place.

"That's fantastic! What else can you do?"