Second verse, same as the first! [Active/Extremely open!]

[gyakusatsuhime]

Characters: Everyone ever!
Setting: Eight, eight, eight islands in one!
Time: Night 010, after the Haunting Update
Summary: People flail, other stuff happens.
OOC: Same as the previous post: Separate threads for separate interactions. If you want to tag a particular thread, comment with a placeholder so nobody cuts in line, then edit that comment (

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[omnomnomsweets]

When the rumbling began, Break was on his guard but not particularly alarmed. It wasn't until he realized that the islands were moving that he really paid attention to it. At that point, he abandoned the conversation he'd been in (they hardly mattered anyways) and ran to one of the edges, staring dumbly at the islands.

How were they moving? Why- that's not possible. Not so fast, at least. And what for? This was... this was... he didn't even have words for what this was, but he didn't like it.

[velvetchesstoy]

Ciel stumbled up beside his still master Break. "What the hell is happening now?" He sounded more annoyed then scared, at least this was better then the attacking ghosts. "The ground really shouldn't be doing this."

[omnomnomsweets]

--Familiar voice.
Look down.
"....Ciel." That was about the only coherent thing Break could manage for a minute or two. He shook his head and stared back out at the islands. "Well. It would seem that we are moving. Or rather, they are moving. Towards us." He rubbed his temples; he was really sick of this place. "Perhaps we shouldn't be at the edge here- it might not be pretty when they collide."

[velvetchesstoy]

"I would agree with that." Ciel watched for a second more before he grabbed the Break's arm and lead the man back with him. "We need to be careful... Do you still have some candy on you for food?" That was a very soft whisper.

Misty

[cascade_misty]

"What's going on?!"

The night hadn't been so bad for her. She had Togepi, everything was fine. She hadn't seen the islands approaching, though; she was still focusing on getting her wits together. She screamed and covered her ears when they collided. She couldn't even keep her eyes on Togepi during the quake.

Togepi rolled a good distance away from Misty before standing up and looking around. The quaking had stopped, so the jolly little Pokemon skipped off to one of the islands. Misty quickly gave chase, not caring if she bumped into anyone. "Togepi! Get back here!"

She barely managed to grab Togepi before it wandered straight off the island and into the waters far below. The Pokemon immediately started to cry. "Togepi, don't wander off like that..."

And Mewtwo!

[replicat]

Even though he had watched them approach, the collision of islands knocked Mewtwo off his feet, making him stumble, legs buckling from the impact as he fell. With no powers, he could not maintain his position against such massive disruption, he was no more stable than a human-- less so, even, for he had little experience in this kind of normalcy, no practise with maintaining his footing without psychic strength. He was, however, slowly learning to use the physical strength he had, and pushed himself back up with his thin, scarred arms, seating himself on his long thick back legs and prehensile muscular tail.

It had not hurt, at least not physically--it took far more than a fall to inflict pain on a creature such as him--but the wound to his dignity and pride was deep, and he sat in tense, forced silence, suppressing the futility of his rage and anger.

Misty and Metwo

[cascade_misty]

Misty didn't notice Mewtwo at first, either. Just as when Togepi hatched and mistook Misty for her mother, she too felt a special bond with Togepi. When Togepi was in danger, it was her job to get Togepi out of harm's way before anything bad could happen. When Togepi was in danger, very few people were part of her world.

After she had seized Togepi, though, she turned around and started to walk back. That's when she noticed the Pokemon across from her.

"Mewtwo..."

Misty and Mewtwo!

[replicat]

Mewtwo saw a sudden movement--relatively sudden, at least, for Mewtwo perceived motion more accurately than any other Pokémon, he was designed for it--as a white Togepi run past him out of the corner of his eye and turned slightly, not quite surprised by the sight of another Pokémon.. this distracted him from his thoughts only minutely.

...then he saw a human girl who attracted much more attention. The recognition was surprise enough, but for her to be here--no. He watched as she grabbed the little Pokémon, preventing it from running off the edge, but before he could successfully pull together the strength to lift himself to his feet and leave, she turned--and said his name. Disbelief trickled through his brain for just a second--then he recovered his faculties entirely, narrowing his eyes sharply.

[.... you.]

AKATSUKI

[parousian]

Not too much later, after the rumbling stops, another powerful rumble shakes the island. But this seems to come from a fortress rising from the ground, made out of earth and rock, dominating over everything else.

It has no points of entry. It cannot be broken into.

There seems to be a powerful barrier of energy around it, unseen to the human eye. But those who come too close to the walls of the fortress will be thrown back by some strange force.

[marionettewaltz]

This Sasori took note of, immediately. His eyes flickered from one face to the next, but no, he knew that was a jutsu. It was the feel if it. And so, he approached, carefully. There was no one in Akatsuki who could do such a thing, except perhaps Pain, who wasn't here. Deidara had earth jutsu but did not use it for much beyond his art, and so it was a question of who else was here.

Itachi, Deidara, Zetsu, and Tobi. As far as he knew Zetsu had nothing like this. Though Tobi was the only remaining question, he was skeptical. He rounded the fortress, examining it.

[fourredstripes]

Though Baki was already reeling from the movement of the island (Is that what this place truly was? He felt more exposed than anything) the rise of the fortress was something that shocked him in a more concrete way.

He could recognize the sort of thing that created it. It was an earth technique, with chakra welling up like a bubble so thick it almost blurred his vision.

It reminded him, that sort of technique, or other Earth users he had seen in Suuna. Hell, several of the buildings in the city had been made in a similar manner.
But its appearance on the island meant (not suggested) that there was a shinobi present. And active.
He slowly approached the fortress, his eyes searching for an owner or other activity.

LISTEN UP!

[gyakusatsuhime]

Euphemia was exasperated. Everyone was milling around, panicking; it had been quite a while, and people were going hungry, going thirsty. Somebody had to do something.

She managed to swallow -- her mouth was dry, even after sucking on some of the grass upon the island. She cleared her throat, making sure her voice still worked, and took a position near the center of the milling crowd. Somebody had to organize them, and if nobody else was willing to do it, Euphemia li Britannia would. She placed her fingers to her lips and whistled -- more loudly than she'd meant to, but hopefully it would get the job done.

You have his attention~

[omnomnomsweets]

Break wandered over, not quite bothering to take Ciel with him- the boy would follow, he was sure. He just wanted to get closer. The island was quite crowded, and if the young lady had something to say, he'd like to be sure he could hear it over the buzz of conversation.

Other people can respond too~

[gyakusatsuhime]

Once she was sure people were looking at her -- It's okay, Euphie. You've done this before, she told herself; this was nowhere near as bad as the speech at the museum -- she began, raising her voice so it would carry over the crowd and the din thereof.

"This has gone on for long enough," she called out. "We need to band together and work as a team to figure out a long-term solution. Whether there's edible food or potable water anywhere on this island, or on the ones that have joined together with it, we aren't going to find that out by just milling around like this. We have to be organized."

There were butterflies in her stomach, but she pushed on. This crowd was so much smaller than the one at the SAZ commencement had been. "As of right now... I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm hungry, and I'm thirsty. So please, let's all do our best to get through this trying time, and hopefully..." Could she be so bold? "Hopefully we'll even be able to find a way home. At least we're outside, right?"

[velvetchesstoy]

Ciel, as expected did follow Break, he listened to the girl with both curiosity and annoyance. "I don't think some of these people will be willing to work together with one another." Ciel spoke to Break, not necessarily to the woman, but if she happened to over hear her really could care less. "I think some of them would rather eat the others then work with them."

Kanji, Alphonse

[kickassncrafts]

Kanji was ignoring the chaos around him, slinking with slowly improving skill through the crowds around feet, keeping his eyes on the ground (and away from his hands, what had they done to his hands) and picking his way slowly to an empty corner of one of the new islands. He didn't know what he'd done to deserve this, but he was some sort of monster now, and he didn't know what else to do but hide as best he could. He was all out of rage and tears, there was just fear and exhaustion playing in his mind. His tail hung limply, although he could move it, and the speed at which he was learning to walk on all fours frightened him.

Calling for help was, of course, useless, though he didn't know what they'd done to his throat. So he sat at the edge of the island, as far from everyone else as he could get, and stared down into the abyss of ocean far below.

He didn't know what to do.

Re: Kanji, Alphonse

[flowing_alchemy]

Alphonse was still generally avoiding people - it wasn't that he wanted to be alone, or anything like that, but he still had reason to be uncomfortable around some and...well, he also didn't want to bother any of them. He didn't even know who among (most) of these people that he actually knew or didn't know - he was sure he had met a number of them, but he'd never seen them; never been able to see them until more recently.

Either way - he was staying out of the way for the time being, was near the edge fo the island (though the whole situation was unnerving in the first place)... he paused when he saw - saw something up ahead, from him. He nearly thought monster right away, from the obviously inhuman features...but there were still plenty of human features, too. And considering what had happened before... He shook off that thought quickly: that wasn't the point right now. He hesitated, before calling out, cautiously, taking a step forward.

"Are you...?"

[kickassncrafts]

Kanji wasn't paying much attention to the rest of the island, in favor of staring off into the distance. He didn't know what to do, he couldn't go to anyone to help--he really just wanted to sleep. Maybe forever. Maybe until he could wake up and realize this was all just a fucked up dream.

The voice, however, startled him out of his reverie. His head jerked sharply toward it, finding a boy there and wondering if he would be attacked. He really shouldn't have moved so close to the edge... He attempted to speak, only made a choking noise, and shrank back uncertainly.

What could he do?

[flowing_alchemy]

There was no answer - just a choked noise, and nothing more before - he, of course - shrank away from him. No answer - but...was it fear?

"It's okay..." he said, quietly, taking the hesitation as a sign. He could judge too harshly or quickly in this place, after all, and it was obvious that the other meant no sort of harm, right now.

Alphonse took another cautious step forward.