ryuu 004 ♠ highway flares make red the streets

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Characters: Ryuu, Philip, Muraki and Shoutarou
Location: Warehouse District
When: Just after this. 
Style: Any!
Status: Closed

Ryuu approached the edge of the warehouse district, his stomach churning and his face still pale.  He gripped Shoutarou's driver belt carefully, all of his senses stretching taut as he stopped, breathless, in the road and turned

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Philip did not visibly react when the belt materialized at his waist. His breathing was steady and his eyes flat, despite the way his emotions raged to a near fever pitch inside of him. Instead, he raised his hand calmly, activating his Cyclone memory before sliding it in the right slot of the DoubleDriver.

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Ryuu gasped raggedly as Philip's emotions swamped him, sweeping him under like a tide. His hands shook as he activated the Accel Memory, and he barely managed to press the Cyclone Memory and his own into place, struggling to keep control against the sucking bog of Philip's panic and rage as he locked the Memories in, spreading his arms as Double's armor swirled around his body and collapsed into place as Philip's body fell.

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"Our synchronization rate is lower than when Shoutarou and I transformed for the first time. Try and keep up."

Double's right eye flashed briefly as Philip spoke. There was no maliciousness behind his words. Crude, perhaps, but not malicious. They were nothing but a simple fact to him. And why shouldn't he reference to the only experience he had.

Terui Ryuu's mind, he thought, slid against his own as fire under wind; anger feeding into anger but always with that danger that they would extinguish each other. How unlike Shoutarou's calming mind. If Terui Ryuu was fire than Shoutarou definitely was earth.

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"Yes," Ryuu managed, trying to center himself in the gale of Philip's tightly-compressed emotion. He drew deep breaths and looked around, fighting to acclimate, the hairs on the back of his neck standing on end.

"Where should we start?"