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Ikiko Hisakata

2015-04-12T05:27:53Z

RachelKazuko: Numerical height added

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! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''Ikiko Hisakata'''
|-
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|-
! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''IC Information'''
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Full Name:
| Ikiko Hisakata
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Aliases:
| Cute Wolf Tsukiko
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Gender:
| Female
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Age/Birthdate:
| 12 (April 24, 2002)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Height:
| 151.7cm / 4' 11¾" (Slightly tall for her age)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Hair Color:
| Dark Brown (Strawberry Blond as Tsukiko)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Eye Color:
| Dark Brown (Cyan as Tsukiko)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Astrological Sign:
| Taurus
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Blood Type:
| B
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Favorite Food:
| Gyuuniku no Negimaki (Beef rolls stuffed with scallions)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Least Favorite Food:
| ???
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Favorite Subjects:
| Phys Ed, and anything creative
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Least Favorite Subjects:
| Anything that involves sitting and studying, like math & language
|-
! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''Dossier'''
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Clubs:
| Animal Care Club; has been known to assist sports/athletics clubs
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Position:
| Cheerful Influence (Animal Care); Reliable Filler (sports/athletics)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | School:
| [[School: Juuban Public School|Juuban Public School]] (Grade 6)
|-
! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''OOC Information'''
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Source:
| [[Curse Hunters]] (OC)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | "Dub Name":
| Isabella Hamilton
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Player:
| [[User:RachelKazuko|Rachel Kazuko]]
|-
|}

First and foremost, '''Ikiko Hisakata''' is cheerful and friendly. She does what she can to help her friends feel better when they're feeling down, and even strangers are greeted with a smile. While she can be rambunctious, she is also not a troublemaker - at least, not intentionally. Sometimes her feisty energy gets her in trouble at school, but she respects her teachers enough to tone it down when they tell her to. In general, she's friendly and polite, not to mention respectful of her elders. Of course, if someone is rude to her, she's usually cheeky right back at them, unless there is a really good reason not to - and even then, she's usually having to bite her tongue to keep her cheekiness in check.

'''Cute Wolf Tsukiko''' ...

(work in progress!)

==Rumors and Common Knowledge==

* Ikiko is well-known in Juuban's ''Animal Care club'' for getting along well with animals, especially canines. Animals are usually more willing to trust her, and even strays will allow her to get close.

* While Animal Care is her primary club, it's not uncommon for Ikiko to ''assist sports/athletics clubs'' when they ask for help. She usually doesn't go actively volunteering; instead, she waits until they ask, then volunteers. The sports/athletics clubs know that she'll play hard and have fun, even if it's just for one game.

* Ikiko has ''lots of cousins'' in a wide age spread. Most (but not all) attend Juuban, so there's a good chance one of them is in your class if you attend that school. These extended families live in an apartment complex converted from an old Japanese mansion.

* Those with knowledge of magic might recognize the ''Hisakata family'' name. A few generations ago, a Curse Hunter by the name of Yuuki Hisakata faced down a werewolf in combat and punched it out with nothing more than raw force of personality. It is known that an Artifact enabled him to accomplish this; however, word has it that the Artifact was rendered unusable during the fight.

* Rumor has it that there's been a rash of nightmares in the vicinity near Juuban, resulting in troubled sleep for many students. Some mention that their nightmares were interrupted by a ''wolf's howl'', after which they were able to sleep peacefully. But there's no wolves in the area… right?

==Backstory==

Ikiko Hisakata hails from a smaller town not too far from Juuban Public School, where she lives with her mother, father, and 10th-grade brother. They live in an apartment complex in the general style of a traditional Japanese mansion, owned and occupied by the Hisakata family - aunts, uncles, cousins, and other relatives, all living nearby but with breathing room for each family. While both of her parents work, their jobs don't involve much travel, so Ikiko and her brother can spend plenty of time with them.

She walks to school, usually with her brother or some of her friends. Some of her cousins also attend Juuban, but they usually travel at a different time thank Ikiko and her brother. In terms of academics, she's modestly good, albeit not much of a standout; her scores usually aren't the top of the class, but they're still decent, and she doesn't mind the classes. Mind you, that's for the more pedestrian classes, like math and language, which mostly involve sitting still and listening. Ikiko's favorite classes are P.E. and the more creative classes, including art and home ec. She usually eats lunch with her friends, and after school she's usually found with the Animal Care club, which helps take care of class/school pets and neighborhood strays. The club is also known for socializing club-member's pets and pet-sitting for locals. If Ikiko finds herself with some spare time, she's been known to help the sports and athletic clubs, but generally only if they ask for assistance.

While Ikiko generally doesn't keep secrets from her friends, she does tend to be rather vague when asked about what her family does, simply mentioning that her parents work for a private library - which is completely true, even if it's not a full explanation. To help keep things vague, she's never had friends visit her house, even though she has occasionally slept over at her friends' houses. The reason for this secrecy is because her family is one of the Curse Hunter clans, and Curse Hunters in general try to keep a low profile in mundane society.

===Hisakata Family History===
The Hisakata family is known among Curse Hunter circles for their skills in fighting lycanthropy, a talent they became famous for about three generations ago. Ironically, the item that was most pivotal in the incident that earned the family renown was rendered unusable by the same incident. That item, unnamed at the time, is now known as the Lycan Locket.

The Lycan Locket, despite its name, does not cause lycanthropy - or at least, not in the traditional sense. Instead, it augments and amplifies the essence of the one wearing it, allowing them to assume a more idealized version of themselves. The Curse Hunter who first used the locket, Yuuki Hisakata (a great-grandfather of Ikiko) wore it when he faced down a werewolf, trusting it to protect him against lycanthropy. The gambit worked, albeit imperfectly: after being bitten by the werewolf, the Curse Hunter's form became more wolflike, but he retained enough humanity to defeat the werewolf and break the curse. The wolflike features vanished when the Curse Hunter removed the locket, but reappeared when he donned it again; it turned out that the werewolf's bite left a lingering curse on the locket.

Yuuki Hisakata tried to remove the curse from the locket, but at best was only able to suppress all of the powers of the locket, rendering it inert. Without the amplification the locket provided, the lycanthropy caused by the werewolf was so faint as to not be readily noticeable - at most, existing hair grows 1% longer during a full moon. While a casual scan for magic won't reveal the traces of lycanthropy, a thorough examination will pick up on its mystical signature. The presence of this "curse" turned out to be somewhat beneficial, however, as it gave the Hisakata family a slight edge when dealing with curses based on lycanthropy or other transformations of similar nature.

As for the Lycan Locket itself, it was placed in a box to keep safe. For many years, the box was kept in visible storage by Yuuki; the better to keep an eye on it. In recent years, however, old age has been catching up with the elderly Curse Hunter, and the box was placed in the family's storeroom with other items from his youthful days.

===Recent Events===
This brings us to Ikiko. Great-granddaughter of Yuuki Hisakata and part of a family active in the Curse Hunter tradition, she grew up listening to tales of her family's experiences as Curse Hunters. While she was well-versed in the basics of Curse Hunter lore, Ikiko had never actually seen the Lycan Locket. One day, her parents told her to clean the storeroom as part of spring cleaning. Ikiko liked cleaning the storeroom, because she had permission to carefully look through any box that was not sealed while she cleaned. Sometimes she found old things that were still usable, like yukatas from a few decades ago, or an enjoyable book a few years old. This time, a locket on a neckband caught Ikiko's eye. It looked pretty in an elegant way, and the locket itself felt good in her hand, so Ikiko put it on and took it with her when she had finished cleaning the storeroom.

That night, after Ikiko had gone to sleep, she woke up with a sense of restlessness. Opening the window to her room, the moonlight of the full moon seemed to call out to her. As if in a dream, she leapt out of her window (on the second floor!), landing gracefully before darting off to frolic in the moonlight. Ikiko danced and sang with stray dogs in the neighborhood, and at one point even chased off a shadowy figure that was lurking near the house of a classmate. Satisfied with what she thought was a fun dream, Ikiko headed back home, leaping into her window (from the ground to the second floor!) and heading back into bed, fully intent on spending the rest of her sleep in bed.

However, when Ikiko glanced at the mirror in her room before heading back to bed, she got a shock: staring back at her was a wolfgirl! With a start, she realized that she wasn't dreaming, and the tales of her great-grandfather's fight against the werewolf came to her mind. Realizing that this was the same locket as from the stories, she quickly took it off and dove into bed, afraid of what her family would do if they found out that she had used this cursed artifact.

The next day, Ikiko brought the Lycan Locket with her to Juuban Public School, trying to keep her family from finding it in her room. She was less cheerful than her friends were used to, but she tried to wave it off like it was nothing. Still, the fact that the Lycan Locket had apparently awoken the faint lycanthropy in her family's blood was weighing heavy on her. That changed when she overheard a conversation between some of her classmates: one of them had been having unusual nightmares recently, but they had suddenly ended last night. The classmate couldn't recall much, but he did remember hearing a dog howl, and after that the nightmares didn't return. Ikiko recognized the classmate as the one whose house Ikiko had fought the shadowy figure outside of, and that it was her howl that the classmate had heard. This made her realize that she could do good things with the Lycan Locket, and that she was in charge of the wolf within her, not the other way around. During a break, she put the locket back on, confident in her goal to help others.

Ikiko still hasn't told her family that she's wearing the Lycan Locket, however - she's still afraid of what they might do, and she's especially afraid of disappointing great-grandfather Yuuki.

==Relevant Logs==
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[[Category:Characters]][[Category:Juuban]]

Ikiko Hisakata

2015-03-18T20:55:09Z

RachelKazuko: Updated age (birthday increment, late by 2 IC months)

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! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''Ikiko Hisakata'''
|-
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|-
! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''IC Information'''
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Full Name:
| Ikiko Hisakata
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Aliases:
| Cute Wolf Tsukiko
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Gender:
| Female
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Age/Birthdate:
| 12 (April 24, 2002)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Height:
| (Slightly tall for her age)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Hair Color:
| Dark Brown (Strawberry Blond as Tsukiko)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Eye Color:
| Dark Brown (Cyan as Tsukiko)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Astrological Sign:
| Taurus
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Blood Type:
| B
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Favorite Food:
| Gyuuniku no Negimaki (Beef rolls stuffed with scallions)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Least Favorite Food:
| ???
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Favorite Subjects:
| Phys Ed, and anything creative
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Least Favorite Subjects:
| Anything that involves sitting and studying, like math & language
|-
! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''Dossier'''
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Clubs:
| Animal Care Club; has been known to assist sports/athletics clubs
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Position:
| Cheerful Influence (Animal Care); Reliable Filler (sports/athletics)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | School:
| [[School: Juuban Public School|Juuban Public School]] (Grade 6)
|-
! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''OOC Information'''
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Source:
| [[Curse Hunters]] (OC)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | "Dub Name":
| Isabella Hamilton
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Player:
| [[User:RachelKazuko|Rachel Kazuko]]
|-
|}

First and foremost, '''Ikiko Hisakata''' is cheerful and friendly. She does what she can to help her friends feel better when they're feeling down, and even strangers are greeted with a smile. While she can be rambunctious, she is also not a troublemaker - at least, not intentionally. Sometimes her feisty energy gets her in trouble at school, but she respects her teachers enough to tone it down when they tell her to. In general, she's friendly and polite, not to mention respectful of her elders. Of course, if someone is rude to her, she's usually cheeky right back at them, unless there is a really good reason not to - and even then, she's usually having to bite her tongue to keep her cheekiness in check.

'''Cute Wolf Tsukiko''' ...

(work in progress!)

==Rumors and Common Knowledge==

* Ikiko is well-known in Juuban's ''Animal Care club'' for getting along well with animals, especially canines. Animals are usually more willing to trust her, and even strays will allow her to get close.

* While Animal Care is her primary club, it's not uncommon for Ikiko to ''assist sports/athletics clubs'' when they ask for help. She usually doesn't go actively volunteering; instead, she waits until they ask, then volunteers. The sports/athletics clubs know that she'll play hard and have fun, even if it's just for one game.

* Ikiko has ''lots of cousins'' in a wide age spread. Most (but not all) attend Juuban, so there's a good chance one of them is in your class if you attend that school. These extended families live in an apartment complex converted from an old Japanese mansion.

* Those with knowledge of magic might recognize the ''Hisakata family'' name. A few generations ago, a Curse Hunter by the name of Yuuki Hisakata faced down a werewolf in combat and punched it out with nothing more than raw force of personality. It is known that an Artifact enabled him to accomplish this; however, word has it that the Artifact was rendered unusable during the fight.

* Rumor has it that there's been a rash of nightmares in the vicinity near Juuban, resulting in troubled sleep for many students. Some mention that their nightmares were interrupted by a ''wolf's howl'', after which they were able to sleep peacefully. But there's no wolves in the area… right?

==Backstory==

Ikiko Hisakata hails from a smaller town not too far from Juuban Public School, where she lives with her mother, father, and 10th-grade brother. They live in an apartment complex in the general style of a traditional Japanese mansion, owned and occupied by the Hisakata family - aunts, uncles, cousins, and other relatives, all living nearby but with breathing room for each family. While both of her parents work, their jobs don't involve much travel, so Ikiko and her brother can spend plenty of time with them.

She walks to school, usually with her brother or some of her friends. Some of her cousins also attend Juuban, but they usually travel at a different time thank Ikiko and her brother. In terms of academics, she's modestly good, albeit not much of a standout; her scores usually aren't the top of the class, but they're still decent, and she doesn't mind the classes. Mind you, that's for the more pedestrian classes, like math and language, which mostly involve sitting still and listening. Ikiko's favorite classes are P.E. and the more creative classes, including art and home ec. She usually eats lunch with her friends, and after school she's usually found with the Animal Care club, which helps take care of class/school pets and neighborhood strays. The club is also known for socializing club-member's pets and pet-sitting for locals. If Ikiko finds herself with some spare time, she's been known to help the sports and athletic clubs, but generally only if they ask for assistance.

While Ikiko generally doesn't keep secrets from her friends, she does tend to be rather vague when asked about what her family does, simply mentioning that her parents work for a private library - which is completely true, even if it's not a full explanation. To help keep things vague, she's never had friends visit her house, even though she has occasionally slept over at her friends' houses. The reason for this secrecy is because her family is one of the Curse Hunter clans, and Curse Hunters in general try to keep a low profile in mundane society.

===Hisakata Family History===
The Hisakata family is known among Curse Hunter circles for their skills in fighting lycanthropy, a talent they became famous for about three generations ago. Ironically, the item that was most pivotal in the incident that earned the family renown was rendered unusable by the same incident. That item, unnamed at the time, is now known as the Lycan Locket.

The Lycan Locket, despite its name, does not cause lycanthropy - or at least, not in the traditional sense. Instead, it augments and amplifies the essence of the one wearing it, allowing them to assume a more idealized version of themselves. The Curse Hunter who first used the locket, Yuuki Hisakata (a great-grandfather of Ikiko) wore it when he faced down a werewolf, trusting it to protect him against lycanthropy. The gambit worked, albeit imperfectly: after being bitten by the werewolf, the Curse Hunter's form became more wolflike, but he retained enough humanity to defeat the werewolf and break the curse. The wolflike features vanished when the Curse Hunter removed the locket, but reappeared when he donned it again; it turned out that the werewolf's bite left a lingering curse on the locket.

Yuuki Hisakata tried to remove the curse from the locket, but at best was only able to suppress all of the powers of the locket, rendering it inert. Without the amplification the locket provided, the lycanthropy caused by the werewolf was so faint as to not be readily noticeable - at most, existing hair grows 1% longer during a full moon. While a casual scan for magic won't reveal the traces of lycanthropy, a thorough examination will pick up on its mystical signature. The presence of this "curse" turned out to be somewhat beneficial, however, as it gave the Hisakata family a slight edge when dealing with curses based on lycanthropy or other transformations of similar nature.

As for the Lycan Locket itself, it was placed in a box to keep safe. For many years, the box was kept in visible storage by Yuuki; the better to keep an eye on it. In recent years, however, old age has been catching up with the elderly Curse Hunter, and the box was placed in the family's storeroom with other items from his youthful days.

===Recent Events===
This brings us to Ikiko. Great-granddaughter of Yuuki Hisakata and part of a family active in the Curse Hunter tradition, she grew up listening to tales of her family's experiences as Curse Hunters. While she was well-versed in the basics of Curse Hunter lore, Ikiko had never actually seen the Lycan Locket. One day, her parents told her to clean the storeroom as part of spring cleaning. Ikiko liked cleaning the storeroom, because she had permission to carefully look through any box that was not sealed while she cleaned. Sometimes she found old things that were still usable, like yukatas from a few decades ago, or an enjoyable book a few years old. This time, a locket on a neckband caught Ikiko's eye. It looked pretty in an elegant way, and the locket itself felt good in her hand, so Ikiko put it on and took it with her when she had finished cleaning the storeroom.

That night, after Ikiko had gone to sleep, she woke up with a sense of restlessness. Opening the window to her room, the moonlight of the full moon seemed to call out to her. As if in a dream, she leapt out of her window (on the second floor!), landing gracefully before darting off to frolic in the moonlight. Ikiko danced and sang with stray dogs in the neighborhood, and at one point even chased off a shadowy figure that was lurking near the house of a classmate. Satisfied with what she thought was a fun dream, Ikiko headed back home, leaping into her window (from the ground to the second floor!) and heading back into bed, fully intent on spending the rest of her sleep in bed.

However, when Ikiko glanced at the mirror in her room before heading back to bed, she got a shock: staring back at her was a wolfgirl! With a start, she realized that she wasn't dreaming, and the tales of her great-grandfather's fight against the werewolf came to her mind. Realizing that this was the same locket as from the stories, she quickly took it off and dove into bed, afraid of what her family would do if they found out that she had used this cursed artifact.

The next day, Ikiko brought the Lycan Locket with her to Juuban Public School, trying to keep her family from finding it in her room. She was less cheerful than her friends were used to, but she tried to wave it off like it was nothing. Still, the fact that the Lycan Locket had apparently awoken the faint lycanthropy in her family's blood was weighing heavy on her. That changed when she overheard a conversation between some of her classmates: one of them had been having unusual nightmares recently, but they had suddenly ended last night. The classmate couldn't recall much, but he did remember hearing a dog howl, and after that the nightmares didn't return. Ikiko recognized the classmate as the one whose house Ikiko had fought the shadowy figure outside of, and that it was her howl that the classmate had heard. This made her realize that she could do good things with the Lycan Locket, and that she was in charge of the wolf within her, not the other way around. During a break, she put the locket back on, confident in her goal to help others.

Ikiko still hasn't told her family that she's wearing the Lycan Locket, however - she's still afraid of what they might do, and she's especially afraid of disappointing great-grandfather Yuuki.

==Relevant Logs==
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[[Category:Characters]][[Category:Juuban]]

Ikiko Hisakata

2015-02-07T08:58:09Z

RachelKazuko: /* Relevant Logs */ Added a year-sort and year-sectioning, and adjusted NoResultsHeader outputs.

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! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''Ikiko Hisakata'''
|-
! colspan="2" align="center" | [[File:404.png|(no image... yet)]]
|-
! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''IC Information'''
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Full Name:
| Ikiko Hisakata
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Aliases:
| Cute Wolf Tsukiko
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Gender:
| Female
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Age/Birthdate:
| 11 (April 24, 2002)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Height:
| (Slightly tall for her age)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Hair Color:
| Dark Brown (Strawberry Blond as Tsukiko)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Eye Color:
| Dark Brown (Cyan as Tsukiko)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Astrological Sign:
| Taurus
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Blood Type:
| B
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Favorite Food:
| Gyuuniku no Negimaki (Beef rolls stuffed with scallions)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Least Favorite Food:
| ???
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Favorite Subjects:
| Phys Ed, and anything creative
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Least Favorite Subjects:
| Anything that involves sitting and studying, like math & language
|-
! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''Dossier'''
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Clubs:
| Animal Care Club; has been known to assist sports/athletics clubs
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Position:
| Cheerful Influence (Animal Care); Reliable Filler (sports/athletics)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | School:
| [[School: Juuban Public School|Juuban Public School]] (Grade 6)
|-
! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''OOC Information'''
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Source:
| [[Curse Hunters]] (OC)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | "Dub Name":
| Isabella Hamilton
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Player:
| [[User:RachelKazuko|Rachel Kazuko]]
|-
|}

First and foremost, '''Ikiko Hisakata''' is cheerful and friendly. She does what she can to help her friends feel better when they're feeling down, and even strangers are greeted with a smile. While she can be rambunctious, she is also not a troublemaker - at least, not intentionally. Sometimes her feisty energy gets her in trouble at school, but she respects her teachers enough to tone it down when they tell her to. In general, she's friendly and polite, not to mention respectful of her elders. Of course, if someone is rude to her, she's usually cheeky right back at them, unless there is a really good reason not to - and even then, she's usually having to bite her tongue to keep her cheekiness in check.

'''Cute Wolf Tsukiko''' ...

(work in progress!)

==Rumors and Common Knowledge==

* Ikiko is well-known in Juuban's ''Animal Care club'' for getting along well with animals, especially canines. Animals are usually more willing to trust her, and even strays will allow her to get close.

* While Animal Care is her primary club, it's not uncommon for Ikiko to ''assist sports/athletics clubs'' when they ask for help. She usually doesn't go actively volunteering; instead, she waits until they ask, then volunteers. The sports/athletics clubs know that she'll play hard and have fun, even if it's just for one game.

* Ikiko has ''lots of cousins'' in a wide age spread. Most (but not all) attend Juuban, so there's a good chance one of them is in your class if you attend that school. These extended families live in an apartment complex converted from an old Japanese mansion.

* Those with knowledge of magic might recognize the ''Hisakata family'' name. A few generations ago, a Curse Hunter by the name of Yuuki Hisakata faced down a werewolf in combat and punched it out with nothing more than raw force of personality. It is known that an Artifact enabled him to accomplish this; however, word has it that the Artifact was rendered unusable during the fight.

* Rumor has it that there's been a rash of nightmares in the vicinity near Juuban, resulting in troubled sleep for many students. Some mention that their nightmares were interrupted by a ''wolf's howl'', after which they were able to sleep peacefully. But there's no wolves in the area… right?

==Backstory==

Ikiko Hisakata hails from a smaller town not too far from Juuban Public School, where she lives with her mother, father, and 10th-grade brother. They live in an apartment complex in the general style of a traditional Japanese mansion, owned and occupied by the Hisakata family - aunts, uncles, cousins, and other relatives, all living nearby but with breathing room for each family. While both of her parents work, their jobs don't involve much travel, so Ikiko and her brother can spend plenty of time with them.

She walks to school, usually with her brother or some of her friends. Some of her cousins also attend Juuban, but they usually travel at a different time thank Ikiko and her brother. In terms of academics, she's modestly good, albeit not much of a standout; her scores usually aren't the top of the class, but they're still decent, and she doesn't mind the classes. Mind you, that's for the more pedestrian classes, like math and language, which mostly involve sitting still and listening. Ikiko's favorite classes are P.E. and the more creative classes, including art and home ec. She usually eats lunch with her friends, and after school she's usually found with the Animal Care club, which helps take care of class/school pets and neighborhood strays. The club is also known for socializing club-member's pets and pet-sitting for locals. If Ikiko finds herself with some spare time, she's been known to help the sports and athletic clubs, but generally only if they ask for assistance.

While Ikiko generally doesn't keep secrets from her friends, she does tend to be rather vague when asked about what her family does, simply mentioning that her parents work for a private library - which is completely true, even if it's not a full explanation. To help keep things vague, she's never had friends visit her house, even though she has occasionally slept over at her friends' houses. The reason for this secrecy is because her family is one of the Curse Hunter clans, and Curse Hunters in general try to keep a low profile in mundane society.

===Hisakata Family History===
The Hisakata family is known among Curse Hunter circles for their skills in fighting lycanthropy, a talent they became famous for about three generations ago. Ironically, the item that was most pivotal in the incident that earned the family renown was rendered unusable by the same incident. That item, unnamed at the time, is now known as the Lycan Locket.

The Lycan Locket, despite its name, does not cause lycanthropy - or at least, not in the traditional sense. Instead, it augments and amplifies the essence of the one wearing it, allowing them to assume a more idealized version of themselves. The Curse Hunter who first used the locket, Yuuki Hisakata (a great-grandfather of Ikiko) wore it when he faced down a werewolf, trusting it to protect him against lycanthropy. The gambit worked, albeit imperfectly: after being bitten by the werewolf, the Curse Hunter's form became more wolflike, but he retained enough humanity to defeat the werewolf and break the curse. The wolflike features vanished when the Curse Hunter removed the locket, but reappeared when he donned it again; it turned out that the werewolf's bite left a lingering curse on the locket.

Yuuki Hisakata tried to remove the curse from the locket, but at best was only able to suppress all of the powers of the locket, rendering it inert. Without the amplification the locket provided, the lycanthropy caused by the werewolf was so faint as to not be readily noticeable - at most, existing hair grows 1% longer during a full moon. While a casual scan for magic won't reveal the traces of lycanthropy, a thorough examination will pick up on its mystical signature. The presence of this "curse" turned out to be somewhat beneficial, however, as it gave the Hisakata family a slight edge when dealing with curses based on lycanthropy or other transformations of similar nature.

As for the Lycan Locket itself, it was placed in a box to keep safe. For many years, the box was kept in visible storage by Yuuki; the better to keep an eye on it. In recent years, however, old age has been catching up with the elderly Curse Hunter, and the box was placed in the family's storeroom with other items from his youthful days.

===Recent Events===
This brings us to Ikiko. Great-granddaughter of Yuuki Hisakata and part of a family active in the Curse Hunter tradition, she grew up listening to tales of her family's experiences as Curse Hunters. While she was well-versed in the basics of Curse Hunter lore, Ikiko had never actually seen the Lycan Locket. One day, her parents told her to clean the storeroom as part of spring cleaning. Ikiko liked cleaning the storeroom, because she had permission to carefully look through any box that was not sealed while she cleaned. Sometimes she found old things that were still usable, like yukatas from a few decades ago, or an enjoyable book a few years old. This time, a locket on a neckband caught Ikiko's eye. It looked pretty in an elegant way, and the locket itself felt good in her hand, so Ikiko put it on and took it with her when she had finished cleaning the storeroom.

That night, after Ikiko had gone to sleep, she woke up with a sense of restlessness. Opening the window to her room, the moonlight of the full moon seemed to call out to her. As if in a dream, she leapt out of her window (on the second floor!), landing gracefully before darting off to frolic in the moonlight. Ikiko danced and sang with stray dogs in the neighborhood, and at one point even chased off a shadowy figure that was lurking near the house of a classmate. Satisfied with what she thought was a fun dream, Ikiko headed back home, leaping into her window (from the ground to the second floor!) and heading back into bed, fully intent on spending the rest of her sleep in bed.

However, when Ikiko glanced at the mirror in her room before heading back to bed, she got a shock: staring back at her was a wolfgirl! With a start, she realized that she wasn't dreaming, and the tales of her great-grandfather's fight against the werewolf came to her mind. Realizing that this was the same locket as from the stories, she quickly took it off and dove into bed, afraid of what her family would do if they found out that she had used this cursed artifact.

The next day, Ikiko brought the Lycan Locket with her to Juuban Public School, trying to keep her family from finding it in her room. She was less cheerful than her friends were used to, but she tried to wave it off like it was nothing. Still, the fact that the Lycan Locket had apparently awoken the faint lycanthropy in her family's blood was weighing heavy on her. That changed when she overheard a conversation between some of her classmates: one of them had been having unusual nightmares recently, but they had suddenly ended last night. The classmate couldn't recall much, but he did remember hearing a dog howl, and after that the nightmares didn't return. Ikiko recognized the classmate as the one whose house Ikiko had fought the shadowy figure outside of, and that it was her howl that the classmate had heard. This made her realize that she could do good things with the Lycan Locket, and that she was in charge of the wolf within her, not the other way around. During a break, she put the locket back on, confident in her goal to help others.

Ikiko still hasn't told her family that she's wearing the Lycan Locket, however - she's still afraid of what they might do, and she's especially afraid of disappointing great-grandfather Yuuki.

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[[Category:Characters]][[Category:Juuban]]

Ikiko Hisakata

2014-10-20T07:11:36Z

RachelKazuko: Updated grade to 6th (end-of-school-year increment)

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! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''IC Information'''
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! style="text-align:left" | Full Name:
| Ikiko Hisakata
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! style="text-align:left" | Aliases:
| Cute Wolf Tsukiko
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Gender:
| Female
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! style="text-align:left" | Age/Birthdate:
| 11 (April 24, 2002)
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! style="text-align:left" | Height:
| (Slightly tall for her age)
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! style="text-align:left" | Hair Color:
| Dark Brown (Strawberry Blond as Tsukiko)
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! style="text-align:left" | Eye Color:
| Dark Brown (Cyan as Tsukiko)
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! style="text-align:left" | Astrological Sign:
| Taurus
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Blood Type:
| B
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Favorite Food:
| Gyuuniku no Negimaki (Beef rolls stuffed with scallions)
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! style="text-align:left" | Least Favorite Food:
| ???
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Favorite Subjects:
| Phys Ed, and anything creative
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! style="text-align:left" | Least Favorite Subjects:
| Anything that involves sitting and studying, like math & language
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! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''Dossier'''
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Clubs:
| Animal Care Club; has been known to assist sports/athletics clubs
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! style="text-align:left" | Position:
| Cheerful Influence (Animal Care); Reliable Filler (sports/athletics)
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! style="text-align:left" | School:
| [[School: Juuban Public School|Juuban Public School]] (Grade 6)
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! style="text-align:left" | Source:
| [[Curse Hunters]] (OC)
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! style="text-align:left" | "Dub Name":
| Isabella Hamilton
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! style="text-align:left" | Player:
| [[User:RachelKazuko|Rachel Kazuko]]
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First and foremost, '''Ikiko Hisakata''' is cheerful and friendly. She does what she can to help her friends feel better when they're feeling down, and even strangers are greeted with a smile. While she can be rambunctious, she is also not a troublemaker - at least, not intentionally. Sometimes her feisty energy gets her in trouble at school, but she respects her teachers enough to tone it down when they tell her to. In general, she's friendly and polite, not to mention respectful of her elders. Of course, if someone is rude to her, she's usually cheeky right back at them, unless there is a really good reason not to - and even then, she's usually having to bite her tongue to keep her cheekiness in check.

'''Cute Wolf Tsukiko''' ...

(work in progress!)

==Rumors and Common Knowledge==

* Ikiko is well-known in Juuban's ''Animal Care club'' for getting along well with animals, especially canines. Animals are usually more willing to trust her, and even strays will allow her to get close.

* While Animal Care is her primary club, it's not uncommon for Ikiko to ''assist sports/athletics clubs'' when they ask for help. She usually doesn't go actively volunteering; instead, she waits until they ask, then volunteers. The sports/athletics clubs know that she'll play hard and have fun, even if it's just for one game.

* Ikiko has ''lots of cousins'' in a wide age spread. Most (but not all) attend Juuban, so there's a good chance one of them is in your class if you attend that school. These extended families live in an apartment complex converted from an old Japanese mansion.

* Those with knowledge of magic might recognize the ''Hisakata family'' name. A few generations ago, a Curse Hunter by the name of Yuuki Hisakata faced down a werewolf in combat and punched it out with nothing more than raw force of personality. It is known that an Artifact enabled him to accomplish this; however, word has it that the Artifact was rendered unusable during the fight.

* Rumor has it that there's been a rash of nightmares in the vicinity near Juuban, resulting in troubled sleep for many students. Some mention that their nightmares were interrupted by a ''wolf's howl'', after which they were able to sleep peacefully. But there's no wolves in the area… right?

==Backstory==

Ikiko Hisakata hails from a smaller town not too far from Juuban Public School, where she lives with her mother, father, and 10th-grade brother. They live in an apartment complex in the general style of a traditional Japanese mansion, owned and occupied by the Hisakata family - aunts, uncles, cousins, and other relatives, all living nearby but with breathing room for each family. While both of her parents work, their jobs don't involve much travel, so Ikiko and her brother can spend plenty of time with them.

She walks to school, usually with her brother or some of her friends. Some of her cousins also attend Juuban, but they usually travel at a different time thank Ikiko and her brother. In terms of academics, she's modestly good, albeit not much of a standout; her scores usually aren't the top of the class, but they're still decent, and she doesn't mind the classes. Mind you, that's for the more pedestrian classes, like math and language, which mostly involve sitting still and listening. Ikiko's favorite classes are P.E. and the more creative classes, including art and home ec. She usually eats lunch with her friends, and after school she's usually found with the Animal Care club, which helps take care of class/school pets and neighborhood strays. The club is also known for socializing club-member's pets and pet-sitting for locals. If Ikiko finds herself with some spare time, she's been known to help the sports and athletic clubs, but generally only if they ask for assistance.

While Ikiko generally doesn't keep secrets from her friends, she does tend to be rather vague when asked about what her family does, simply mentioning that her parents work for a private library - which is completely true, even if it's not a full explanation. To help keep things vague, she's never had friends visit her house, even though she has occasionally slept over at her friends' houses. The reason for this secrecy is because her family is one of the Curse Hunter clans, and Curse Hunters in general try to keep a low profile in mundane society.

===Hisakata Family History===
The Hisakata family is known among Curse Hunter circles for their skills in fighting lycanthropy, a talent they became famous for about three generations ago. Ironically, the item that was most pivotal in the incident that earned the family renown was rendered unusable by the same incident. That item, unnamed at the time, is now known as the Lycan Locket.

The Lycan Locket, despite its name, does not cause lycanthropy - or at least, not in the traditional sense. Instead, it augments and amplifies the essence of the one wearing it, allowing them to assume a more idealized version of themselves. The Curse Hunter who first used the locket, Yuuki Hisakata (a great-grandfather of Ikiko) wore it when he faced down a werewolf, trusting it to protect him against lycanthropy. The gambit worked, albeit imperfectly: after being bitten by the werewolf, the Curse Hunter's form became more wolflike, but he retained enough humanity to defeat the werewolf and break the curse. The wolflike features vanished when the Curse Hunter removed the locket, but reappeared when he donned it again; it turned out that the werewolf's bite left a lingering curse on the locket.

Yuuki Hisakata tried to remove the curse from the locket, but at best was only able to suppress all of the powers of the locket, rendering it inert. Without the amplification the locket provided, the lycanthropy caused by the werewolf was so faint as to not be readily noticeable - at most, existing hair grows 1% longer during a full moon. While a casual scan for magic won't reveal the traces of lycanthropy, a thorough examination will pick up on its mystical signature. The presence of this "curse" turned out to be somewhat beneficial, however, as it gave the Hisakata family a slight edge when dealing with curses based on lycanthropy or other transformations of similar nature.

As for the Lycan Locket itself, it was placed in a box to keep safe. For many years, the box was kept in visible storage by Yuuki; the better to keep an eye on it. In recent years, however, old age has been catching up with the elderly Curse Hunter, and the box was placed in the family's storeroom with other items from his youthful days.

===Recent Events===
This brings us to Ikiko. Great-granddaughter of Yuuki Hisakata and part of a family active in the Curse Hunter tradition, she grew up listening to tales of her family's experiences as Curse Hunters. While she was well-versed in the basics of Curse Hunter lore, Ikiko had never actually seen the Lycan Locket. One day, her parents told her to clean the storeroom as part of spring cleaning. Ikiko liked cleaning the storeroom, because she had permission to carefully look through any box that was not sealed while she cleaned. Sometimes she found old things that were still usable, like yukatas from a few decades ago, or an enjoyable book a few years old. This time, a locket on a neckband caught Ikiko's eye. It looked pretty in an elegant way, and the locket itself felt good in her hand, so Ikiko put it on and took it with her when she had finished cleaning the storeroom.

That night, after Ikiko had gone to sleep, she woke up with a sense of restlessness. Opening the window to her room, the moonlight of the full moon seemed to call out to her. As if in a dream, she leapt out of her window (on the second floor!), landing gracefully before darting off to frolic in the moonlight. Ikiko danced and sang with stray dogs in the neighborhood, and at one point even chased off a shadowy figure that was lurking near the house of a classmate. Satisfied with what she thought was a fun dream, Ikiko headed back home, leaping into her window (from the ground to the second floor!) and heading back into bed, fully intent on spending the rest of her sleep in bed.

However, when Ikiko glanced at the mirror in her room before heading back to bed, she got a shock: staring back at her was a wolfgirl! With a start, she realized that she wasn't dreaming, and the tales of her great-grandfather's fight against the werewolf came to her mind. Realizing that this was the same locket as from the stories, she quickly took it off and dove into bed, afraid of what her family would do if they found out that she had used this cursed artifact.

The next day, Ikiko brought the Lycan Locket with her to Juuban Public School, trying to keep her family from finding it in her room. She was less cheerful than her friends were used to, but she tried to wave it off like it was nothing. Still, the fact that the Lycan Locket had apparently awoken the faint lycanthropy in her family's blood was weighing heavy on her. That changed when she overheard a conversation between some of her classmates: one of them had been having unusual nightmares recently, but they had suddenly ended last night. The classmate couldn't recall much, but he did remember hearing a dog howl, and after that the nightmares didn't return. Ikiko recognized the classmate as the one whose house Ikiko had fought the shadowy figure outside of, and that it was her howl that the classmate had heard. This made her realize that she could do good things with the Lycan Locket, and that she was in charge of the wolf within her, not the other way around. During a break, she put the locket back on, confident in her goal to help others.

Ikiko still hasn't told her family that she's wearing the Lycan Locket, however - she's still afraid of what they might do, and she's especially afraid of disappointing great-grandfather Yuuki.

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[[Category:Characters]][[Category:Juuban]]

2014-08-26 - Shade in the Forest

2014-08-27T06:42:38Z

RachelKazuko: Log posted, cleaned and wikified.

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! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''Title: Shade in the Forest'''
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|'''Summary''': 
''A relaxing day in the woods is interrupted by a Shade from the forest!''
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| '''Who:''' 
[[Mei Akatsuki|Prism Keeper Red]], [[Reiko Touyama|Prism Keeper Orange]], [[Erika Inagawa|Forever Sunshine]], and [[Hayate]]. (GM: Ikiko Hisakata)
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| '''Where:''' 
Tama - Nishitama Park District
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| '''OOC - IC Date:''' 
08-26-2014 - March 4, 2014
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It's an early March day, late enough in winter that the snow is slowly starting to retreat, but still way too cold to even think of being spring. Still, the weather is nice enough for a picnic, as long as you don't mind bundling up for the cold, as scattered handfuls of bold picnic-goers can attest.

Other people, slightly less ambitious but still intent on enjoying the weather, are out walking pets or going on hikes. A few optimists are even out watching the wildlife, on the chance of spotting a returning bird heralding the approach of spring.

Still, it's unlikely that animals will consider this to be anything but winter, as the trees have yet to start growing their leaves for the year. But that's just a matter of time...

Roy is standing on a Fencepost. "No." he says with a scrunched up sour face, the red cardinal looking entirely unpleased. "I won't do this! This is a waste of time, Reiko-chan!"

"Pleeeassseeee?" asks Reiko with wide eyes peering over the edge of her sketchbook, through her glasses, trying to do her best pleading expression. "No birds will stand still long enough! Or get close enough! Can't you ask them to!?"

"It doesn't work that way!"

"Pleasseeeeeeeee?"

"I don't even speak much bird!" insists Roy.

Reiko hrmphs! "Well then. I'm going to draw you! You can sit there and don't move....please?" she asks a little dissapointed as she steps back a bit and begins to draw Roy. Roy long-sufferingly sighhhhhs and stands still, and does his best to look birdlike. He succeeds mostly at this for obvious reasons.

ERIKA INAGAWA

Is walking out of the park carrying some empty bags from a sporting goods store which had previously been filled with some cook stove gear and other things that was on sale. She left them... somewhere. (Heh heh.) It may not be strictly necessary, but it makes ''her'' feel better to know that even if that hidden place is strange, they'll be able to have cookouts and warm sleepovers!

She is also toying with a certain object she'd found, though gingerly. It sits in her pocket. Thus far, it has done nothing much. To all appearances, Erika is just another young woman in a winter jacket, out for a walk, here in this completely terror-free park!

Amidst the bare branches of one of the tallest trees in the area, a shape is perched which is clearly not a bird.

Without the screen of leaves to obscure him, it's not exactly the most subtle perch the Knight of Wind could have chosen from which to observe the park. The dark blue of his uniform, accented in red and gold, stands out against the wintry pallor of the sky, fluttering gently in the chilly breeze that also ruffles at his long hair. Then again, people don't often seem to look up. It's a risk that Hayate is willing to take for the sake of having a vantage point from which to see as much of the park as he can.

So far, the air seems clear... but still, he keeps his vigil.

COMBAT: Hayate transforms into Leafe Knight!

"Stop being so dramatic, Roy. We both know you love it when people pay attention to your handsome face~"

The needling voice comes from a few feet behind where Reiko and her bird friend are sitting, and after a second of waiting, its source pops into sight: a tiny girl with very red hair in two pigtails. Mei Akatsuki is on the scene, a mischievous grin from ear to ear.

"He's right about not being able to speak bird, though. They chirp at him all the time, and he can't do anything about it. It makes Biv jealous," she remarks, plopping down next to Reiko. Roy's bluebird counterpart hardly ever leaves the home, as she still has to play the part of the Akatsukis' mother to little Momo. But she '''does''' sit menacingly on the windowsill sometimes to scare away the cardinals that try to flirt with her husband in increasing numbers.

Spring is going to be an interesting time at their house.

"So whatcha sketching, Reiko-chan? Just Roy's ugly mug?"

(thump)

It's hard to hear, but from off in the thicker part of the forest comes the sound of something large hitting the ground. It's probably nothing...

thump

That also came from the depths of the woods, a bit closer this time. It's a bit more audible, and... did the ground just shake slightly?

'''Thump.'''

That's certainly audible, and much closer. Those with a good vantage can see what looks like a cluster of trees, leaves and all, moving through the forests -- wait, isn't it too early for leaves to start growing?

'''''THUMP!'''''

The tree-like youma knuckle-walks into the clearing, and as it does the colors in area, already dull from the winter, get even more muted. The wood of the Shade looks gnarled and wicked, and it has two sickly glowing orbs -- eyes, perhaps?

So far it doesn't seem to be actively aggressive... well, other than ambiently draining humans and animals in the area, anyway.

COMBAT: Ikiko Hisakata transforms into Youma Form Forest Shade!
COMBAT: Forest Shade has fully healed herself. She is now ready to take on 4 opponents!

Roy suddenly darts his head into the distance with a shocked expression! "!?"

"Roy, I said stand stilllllll." she whines. She look at Mei and blushes. "Well...I'm... I'm thinking about entering this magazine contest in one of grandpa's nature magazines...." she says. She has juuust begun to get the basic shapes in.

"No!...I mean, not that! Something is coming!!!" he says.

And Indeed, soon there is a Shade! "Ah!? Right here!? Did it... sense you?" she suddenly asks worried and shamefully. Regardless. she looks at Mei and looks around. There's not too many around and all eyes are probably on this massive tree and plant like Shade as color drains around it. She dashes behind a tree and...!

"Chroma Prism Orange... Transform!"

Orange Flash. Dress Transformation. Koi tying a bow into a knot. She reappears, Roy has already done the smart thing and taken off. He does however announce. "Prism Keepers! I'll head back to make sure everything remains safe back home!" he says off into the distance.

Orange gives a curt nod. "Right!" she says as she glances at the Shade.

"Hey!... um. Get pruned!" she announces as she fires off a brilliant beam of orange energy into the shade.

COMBAT: Reiko Touyama transforms into Prism Keeper Orange!
COMBAT: Prism Keeper Orange has used Orange Beam on Forest Shade.
COMBAT: Prism Keeper Orange has finished attacking.

THUMP. THUMP.

There is unrest in the forest. There is trouble with the trees. Erika Inagawa looks towards it - and unfortunately, she CAN believe what she sees! It would be nice if it was just an early leafer, but no, she sees a squirrel topple out of a tree.

Erika ducks behind a concrete duck (painted beautifully). A vial of perfume comes out of her pocket. "Forever Sunshine --"

"Splash!"

Forever Sunshine leaps atop of that concrete ducky with a dramatic flourish. "Hey! Whoever or whatever you are, you're providing a false hope of spring! Why don't you make like a tree and -"

thunk

"Leave," Forever Sunshine says, distracted by scrabbling for the compass. "Aaaahhh!" She grasps it -

It opens, revealing that it is not quite a compass, but rather a sundial -

And perhaps it's the orange light in the air, perhaps it's just Forever Sunshine not wanting to faceplant, but there's a sudden gleam -

A sphere of violet-red surrounding her -

And with a loud WHIZZ she streaks forwards, fast as a speeding car, towards the trunk of the tree. A distorted "WHHHAAAA" comes from the magical girl within!

Fortunately, those present do not realize this is anomalous! Probably.

COMBAT: Forever Sunshine has used Sunset Rushdown on Forest Shade.
COMBAT: Forever Sunshine has finished attacking.

The sound of something large and heavy moving through the park draws Hayate's attention quickly, and from his watchpoint in the branches of the tree, it doesn't take him long to home in on the Shade. His blue eyes narrow, watching the way the color drains away from everything around the tree monster as it thumps its way along.

"One of these again...?"

The wind picks up around him and he leaps from the tree into the air, taking flight towards the creature on a descending path that quickly gains in speed. By the time he nears the site of the altercation he's almost a blur of blue through the air, pushed along by the wind that rushes between the trees and rattles their leafless branches. Hayate flies with his arms braced ahead of him behind a shield of swirling air, on a direct collision course with the Shade's back.

He's almost certainly had better ideas, he can't help thinking.

COMBAT: Hayate has used Gale Force on Forest Shade.
COMBAT: Hayate has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Forest Shade fails to dodge Forever Sunshine's Sunset Rushdown, taking 9 Fatigue damage! Forever Sunshine is Psyched!
COMBAT: Forest Shade narrowly braces Hayate's Gale Force, taking 12 Fatigue damage! Forest Shade's Block ability activates! Forest Shade's Parry ability activates! Stagger applied to Forest Shade!

"A nature magazine, huh?" Mei repeats, leaning back and resting her head on her hands, relaxed. "It must be hard to draw a bird and make it look real, though. Like, an actual bird, and not some cartoon." She eyes the posing bird a few feet away from them, and her grin comes back in full force. "Of course, no bird on Earth has as big a head as Roy does, so he might look like a cartoon anyway."

He flaps his wings and squawks in indignation while the girl herself bursts into giggles. Hey, stop pestering her so much about school, and maybe she'll stop pointing out your gigantic ego.

The gigglefit is cut unfortunately short, however, when a few loud thumps shake the very ground, and a wave of grey more grim than winter muting begins to wash out her peripheral vision.

By now, she doesn't even need Roy to tell her what's going on. The change in her attitude is immediate: time to get down to business. Mei is the one who ducks behind the tree, but it is Prism Keeper Red who emerges.

"Ugh, it's been a while since one of these showed up," she complains, wings fluttering just enough to keep her an inch above the ground. "Be careful, Orange. This one looks kinda dangerous." But her companion is away before she can think of any strategy to impart, so the pint-sized magical girl shrugs, then shoots a few feet in the air.

"Hey, Treebeard! Over here!" she shouts to direct his attention away from the blast of orange he's about to take. "The park's grey enough without your help, thank you very much." To punctuate this, Red holds her hands in front of her and shoots a beam of red at its big, wooden eyes.

(She doesn't quite remember who Treebeard is, but she heard it in a movie once, and it seemed fitting.)

COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki transforms into Prism Keeper Red!
COMBAT: Prism Keeper Red has used Paint It Red on Forest Shade.
COMBAT: Prism Keeper Red has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Forest Shade narrowly braces Prism Keeper Red's Paint It Red, taking 12 Fatigue damage! Forest Shade's Block ability activates! Forest Shade's Parry ability activates! Diversion applied to Forest Shade!

While the Forest Shade is big, it's not exactly fast. It blinks owlishly when Prism Keeper Orange appears, trying to think why this person seems significant.

It flinches slightly from the Orange Beam, realization dawning that, hey, this is an enemy. The youma tries to step out of the way of Forever Sunshine's rush, but it's still moving sluggishly. It leans into Hayate's charge, taking the edge out of the impact but still rocking slightly.

By the time Prism Keeper Red blasts it with a red beam, the Forest Shade has finally decided that it's had enough. It flails around with its trunk-like arms, trying to clobber the ones who attacked it.

COMBAT: Forest Shade has used Big Swing on Prism Keeper Red.
COMBAT: Forest Shade has used Big Swing on Hayate.
COMBAT: Forest Shade has used Big Swing on Forever Sunshine.
COMBAT: Forest Shade has used Big Swing on Prism Keeper Orange.
COMBAT: Forest Shade has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Hayate perfectly dodges Forest Shade's Big Swing, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Critical Dodge! Hayate's Fade ability activates! Hayate's Flash ability activates!
COMBAT: Prism Keeper Red fails to dodge Forest Shade's Big Swing, taking 39 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Stun applied to Prism Keeper Red!
COMBAT: Forever Sunshine fails to dodge Forest Shade's Big Swing, taking 36 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Stun applied to Forever Sunshine!
COMBAT: Prism Keeper Orange narrowly counters Forest Shade's Big Swing, taking 7 Fatigue damage!
COMBAT: Prism Keeper Orange's counterattack, Orangella Obfuscation, interrupts, doing 0 Fatigue damage to Forest Shade!

Prism Keeper Orange eyes go wide as this thing draws up and arm to swing at everyone. She raises her hands and a vibrant array of bright and orange koi spin around her like a protective round shield, being absorbed as she pushes back at the fist with all her might, before it gets pushed away, most likely---or the thing just stops swinging. She frowns as her eyes go wide at Mei. "Ah! Red-chan are you okay!?" she calls out, she got hit pretty good. But so did that other Magical Girl that rocketed past almost like she didn't mean to, she frowns. "Is EVERYONE okay!?" she calls out.

She looks at the odd boy. She hasn't seem him before, but she regards him with wonder for a moment before looking at the tree monster. "Nrg....everyone... we can do this!" she calls out as she summons her wand and causes a sparkling orange effect to appear around the heroes, following with koi that spiral up from the feet, to the head, swimming in delight!

Koi should make everyone happy, she thinks.

COMBAT: Prism Keeper Orange has used Orange Optimism on Prism Keeper Red.
COMBAT: Prism Keeper Orange has used Orange Optimism on Forever Sunshine.
COMBAT: Prism Keeper Orange has used Orange Optimism on Hayate.
COMBAT: Prism Keeper Orange has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Prism Keeper Red accepts Prism Keeper Orange's Orange Optimism, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Prism Keeper Red is Cheered!
COMBAT: Hayate accepts Prism Keeper Orange's Orange Optimism, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Hayate is Cheered!
COMBAT: Forever Sunshine accepts Prism Keeper Orange's Orange Optimism, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Forever Sunshine is Cheered!

That worked out great!

...a little too great, it seems. Time to dodge the angry tree branch that's headingrightthiswayomgwingsGO--

'''thump'''

Prism Keeper Red is temporarily blinded as the oaken arm collides directly with her head, her attempt at dodging actually sending her careening into it at greater speed. Following the darkness is an explosion of stars in front of her eyes and a dull throb that fills her skull and intensifies with every beat of her pulse. She also feels herself collide with the ground, but somehow, it doesn't seem quite as bad -- landing on grass from ten feet up is a bit less severe than taking a massive blow to the head, it would seem.

''Ok. It's ok. I've still got this. I just...have to be able to see again,'' she thinks to herself, struggling back to her feet while the lights dance in front of her eyes. For a long, scary moment, she thinks there might have been permanent damage; but then the vague outline of the giant tree comes back into view, and she reasons that she'll be fine in a few minutes.

Probably with a killer headache, though.

"Let's see how fun you think violence is when you're the one getting hit," Red threatens, a shield of crimson energy humming into existence around her. Well, and koi, courtesy of her friend. She can't exactly '''see''' the other Prism Keeper at the moment, but she waves in the direction she thinks she is.

(And is totally wrong, but A for effort, anyway.)

Still, her vision is clearing more and more by the second, and before the Shade can act again, the girl launches herself at bullet speed towards it, surrounded by an impenetrable bubble of her own color.

Hmm, someone else tried this strategy too, didn't they? But her addled brain can't quite place the name or face, so she drops the train of thought, for now.

COMBAT: Prism Keeper Red has used Red Comet on Forest Shade.
COMBAT: Prism Keeper Red has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Forest Shade narrowly braces Prism Keeper Red's Red Comet, taking 4 Fatigue damage! Prism Keeper Red is Psyched! Forest Shade's Block ability activates! Forest Shade's Parry ability activates!

The whirling cloud of light around Forever Sunshine does NOT, it seems, actually manage to protect her from damage. With a meaty THWAP she rebounds off another tree, looking momentarily daized...

And awakens to being gently nibbled by a koi.

Forever Sunshine gazes at the orange light with wonder and surprise, the soreness in her back fading in honest and frank appreciation. She smiles, pushing herself up to her feet, and calls out, "Thanks!!"

She looks at the sundial in her hand, which has closed. "It worked this time... I wonder why it did that to me when I touched it before? Everything just got really blurry and slow, except me, I guess..."

Forever Sunshine hoists up its looped cord and hangs it around her neck. "Well, I have to think about taking out the BURNABLE TRASH before I can worry about my ancient heritage!" Sinking into a ready stance, she breathes in. Sweeping one leg around, she stomps the ground, quite intimidatingly...

And a ripple of tangerine-and-purple light rips through the ground, towards the root of the tree. "Citrus is a good way to clear up what ales you!" she says, mostly to fill the air. "I don't have to get close to beat your butt!"

COMBAT: Forever Sunshine has used Tangerine Storm on Forest Shade.
COMBAT: Forever Sunshine has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Forest Shade narrowly counters Forever Sunshine's Tangerine Storm, taking 12 Fatigue damage! Forest Shade's Reverse ability activates! Forest Shade's Tactician ability activates! Trap applied to Forest Shade!
COMBAT: Forest Shade's counterattack, Leaf Storm, fails to get through, doing 0 Fatigue damage to Forever Sunshine!

The Knight of Wind meets the tree-Shade with a satisfying impact; the shield of wind bursts into vapor, but it did its job and Hayate rebounds away, catching himself to hover in midair. From here, for the first time he gets a good look at the allies who've joined this fight, and his eyes widen slightly in recognition as he sees Prism Keeper Red-- "There's '''two''' of you now?"

But this is no time for conversation, not with the Shade thrashing its powerful arms in all directions. The wind surges up underneath Hayate and he whirls clear of the assault, coming back to the earth a short distance away just in time to be met by the surge of... magical fish?

They're almost like a little flock of orange Tipis. Oddly encouraging, in its way.

In another moment Hayate has leaped into the air again, once more homing in on the Shade. After Red and Forever Sunshine make their attacks, he follows with one of his own, throwing out his arm to slice two fingers through the air and send a blade of shimmering wind flying at the monster.

COMBAT: Hayate has used Razor Wind Slash on Forest Shade.
COMBAT: Hayate has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Forest Shade fails to brace Hayate's Razor Wind Slash, taking 22 Fatigue damage! Hayate is Psyched!

The Forest Shade watches the koi dance across the magicfolk, raising their spirits. All this flow of energy is reminding it of it's primal directive: drain color!

Still, it doesn't get much time to dwell on that. The youma takes a step back as Red slams into it, then launches a volley of leaves to try protecting itself from Forever Sunshine's wave of light. (Fun fact: it takes a lot of leaves to provide shade... and that wasn't enough leaves).

The cutting wind of Hayate's blade of air makes the Shade howl in pain. Furious and more than a little hungry, it unleashes beams of dimness, siphoning color out of everything that they hit.

COMBAT: Forest Shade has used Color Leech on Prism Keeper Red.
COMBAT: Forest Shade has used Color Leech on Prism Keeper Orange.
COMBAT: Forest Shade has used Color Leech on Forever Sunshine.
COMBAT: Forest Shade has used Color Leech on Hayate.
COMBAT: Forest Shade has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Prism Keeper Orange narrowly braces Forest Shade's Color Leech, taking 3 Mana damage! Prism Keeper Orange's Block ability activates! Prism Keeper Orange's Parry ability activates! Forest Shade drains 2 mana from Prism Keeper Orange!
COMBAT: Forever Sunshine narrowly dodges Forest Shade's Color Leech, taking 3 Mana damage! Forever Sunshine's Fade ability activates! Forever Sunshine's Flash ability activates! Forest Shade drains 2 mana from Forever Sunshine!
COMBAT: Prism Keeper Red narrowly braces Forest Shade's Color Leech, taking 3 Mana damage! Forest Shade drains 2 mana from Prism Keeper Red!
COMBAT: Hayate narrowly braces Forest Shade's Color Leech, taking 3 Mana damage! Forest Shade drains 2 mana from Hayate!

Prism Keeper Orange raises her arm as the color drain washes over her. Her bright orange fades just a hue, and you can tell because her wand's crystal remains it's same vibrant orange. She eeks and panics, and shakes her head, trying to get this aboulsute down and terrible feeling off of her quick, she takes a deep breath. "Ah---! Wha---" she shakes her head.

She looks at Hayate with wide eyes. "What do you mean there's two of you....." she says to him. She looks at Red... Mei, for answers on that one. "Do you know him, Red!?" she calls out.

She frowns and slings a school of koi from her hand, it appears as from nowhwere in front of her, and proceeds to rocket off into the Shade.

COMBAT: Prism Keeper Orange has used Koi Rush on Forest Shade.
COMBAT: Prism Keeper Orange has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Forest Shade fails to dodge Prism Keeper Orange's Koi Rush, taking 17 Fatigue damage!

Hayate grits his teeth as the deep blue of his uniform begins to desaturate - he at least knew to expect something like this after his previous encounter with one of the Shades, but it's no less an unpleasant feeling, and far too much like having the leafe drained out of him by a demon larva. It's enough to prompt him to retreat a short space, touching down to the ground near Prism Keeper Orange.

"Stay focused," he tells her. The look he shoots her from alongside is an opaque one, but his voice is matter-of-fact and almost mild, the tone of one who is simply stating a piece of truth. "You're doing well."

COMBAT: Hayate has used The Wind is With You! on Prism Keeper Orange.
COMBAT: Hayate has finished attacking.

A beam lances out and touches the back of Forever Sunshine's hand. Caramel hued skin goes a sudden stark corpselike white in a blotchy oval.

Forever Sunshine looks at it in ''horror''. Her hand comes upwards, her fingers curling - loosening - and then she says, "Is... is this what they always see...?"

But she doesn't focus on it. Her fingers stay tightly curled. Her cheeks puff out with focus, and she looks at Hayate momentarily. He's throwing a wind slash, she thinks. "Oiiii! Handsome guy!! Do you know the Knight of Wind??"

"She also uses wind!!"

"Like you do!!"

Forever Sunshine's eyes flick forward as she focuses up. She then turns around - to flee? No - to climb up the tree she's near, to gain height. "Alright, you big wooden blockhead - you're not talking... maybe you're just some kind of wandering monster. But I don't plan to let you steal any color from the skin of innocent children playing around!"

Another beam washes over a squirrel, who is now an albino; the squirrel, naturally, is dismayed.

"Feel the passion of my beating heart! The warm memories of summertime that you're denying! PINK - PEONNNYYY--"

Forever Sunshine backflips, her right hand extended, fingers curled. Purple-pink crackles of lightninglike energy whips out - and the uncharacteristically summery scent fills the air as it tries to ground itself, much like its visual equivalent, in the tree itself! "OVERDRIIIIIIIII oof"

(Forever Sunshine hit another tree.)

COMBAT: Forever Sunshine has used Pink Peony Overdrive on Forest Shade.
COMBAT: Forever Sunshine has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Forest Shade fails to brace Forever Sunshine's Pink Peony Overdrive, taking 30 Fatigue damage!

"Eh??" Prism Keeper Red cries out as her orb of crimson glances of the towering Shade, leaving only the faintest trace of red behind. "B-But that other guy's attack worked! Why didn't mine?"

"There are '''two''' of you now?!"

"Heeeey, I know that voice," she says, wheeling around in midair as the last remnants of the magic fade around her. It's from a while ago, to be sure -- and she's not completely sure if she heard it correctly, having been a bit involved with charging the Shade when he said it. But after looking around for a second and catching sight of her friend's bright orange, she spots the source of the voice. And her jaw all but unhinges.

"It's you again!" She shoots over to them as fast as her little wings can carry her, then alights next to them, her vision now almost completely returned. "You were there the first time I -- I..."

Her voice fades away as the Shade unleashes its signature attack, and particles of color energy loosen from her outfit and float slowly towards the giant tree. With a burst of red, she's able to interrupt the drain around her immediate area, but the insidious effects of it stick with her, and she can feel the hollow in her spirit where that color used to be.

She'll handle the re-introductions later. Right now, they have to bring this thing down.

"Okay, listen up, everyone! This Shade is gonna keep this up if we don't bring it down, so I '''suggest''' we do it as quickly as we can," the young Prism Keeper shouts, conjuring her Chroma Wand above her head. The big guns have come out. "Let's protect springtime in this park!"

COMBAT: Prism Keeper Red has used Red-Letter Day on Hayate.
COMBAT: Prism Keeper Red has used Red-Letter Day on Prism Keeper Orange.
COMBAT: Prism Keeper Red has used Red-Letter Day on Forever Sunshine.
COMBAT: Prism Keeper Red has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Hayate accepts Prism Keeper Red's Red-Letter Day, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Empower applied to Hayate!
COMBAT: Forever Sunshine accepts Prism Keeper Red's Red-Letter Day, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Empower applied to Forever Sunshine!
COMBAT: Prism Keeper Orange accepts Prism Keeper Red's Red-Letter Day, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Empower applied to Prism Keeper Orange!
COMBAT: Prism Keeper Orange accepts Hayate's The Wind is With You!, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Prism Keeper Orange is Cheered!

The Forest Shade seems somewhat invigorated by the drained color, but it doesn't get time to enjoy it before Orange bombards it with koi. The fish prove to be faster than the forestry, slamming into the youma hard...

...but not as hard as Forever Sunshine's lash of summer. The impact of the energy slams squarely into the Shade, knocking it to a knee and leaving scorch marks. The glow of its eyes takes on a furious tone as it stands back up, eyeing its opponents.

With an inarticulate bellow, the Shade stomps HARD, suctioning the color out of the ground and causing a burst of vines to appear around Orange, Hayate, and Forever Sunshine. A fresh reinforcement of leaves appear in its canopy, dislodging the old ones forcibly at Red.

COMBAT: Forest Shade has used Growth Explosion on Prism Keeper Orange.
COMBAT: Forest Shade has used Growth Explosion on Hayate.
COMBAT: Forest Shade has used Growth Explosion on Forever Sunshine.
COMBAT: Forest Shade has used Leaf Storm on Prism Keeper Red.
COMBAT: Forest Shade has used Robust Growth on Forest Shade.
COMBAT: Forest has not concluded their actions. Reactions are not yet available.
COMBAT: Forest Shade has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Hayate narrowly dodges Forest Shade's Growth Explosion, taking 9 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Hayate's Fade ability activates! Hayate's Flash ability activates! Stagger and Tangle applied to Hayate!
COMBAT: Forest Shade accepts Forest Shade's Robust Growth, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Empower and Withstand applied to Forest Shade!
COMBAT: Prism Keeper Orange narrowly dodges Forest Shade's Growth Explosion, taking 8 Fatigue damage!
COMBAT: Prism Keeper Red narrowly counters Forest Shade's Leaf Storm, taking 6 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Prism Keeper Red's Reverse ability activates! Prism Keeper Red's Tactician ability activates! Diversion and Exhausted applied to Prism Keeper Red!
COMBAT: Prism Keeper Red's counterattack, Rose Darts, partially gets through, doing 23 Fatigue damage to Forest Shade! Stagger applied to Forest Shade!

Prism Keeper Orange eyes go wide, as she tries to get out of the way of the vines---and mostly succeeds, though some tug at her dress and shirt, as she huffs. "Too slow!" she chides the monster as she looks to Mei and nods. "R--Right....!" she says as she frowns. But... she has been giving it her all. She can sure /take/ hits, but when it comes to giving them--- that's Mei's department. That's what SHE excels at. She does, however, try her best, raising her wand again and summoning a rush of vibrant, orange color energy to it's tip as she eyes the handsome knight of the wind....

She kind of feels a little like she did when she admiring that handsome boy in the tuxedo who fought alongside Sailor Moon, but that feeling is ultimately ruined by his subpar delivery, it still helps, her all the same. "Right!" she says with a bizzare expression at the boy, before she unleashes the beam of color energy that had been resting at the tip of her wand in a charge the whole time.

COMBAT: Forever Sunshine fails to dodge Forest Shade's Growth Explosion, taking 9 Fatigue damage! Stagger and Tangle applied to Forever Sunshine!
COMBAT: Prism Keeper Orange has used Orange Rush! on Forest Shade.
COMBAT: Prism Keeper Orange has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Forest Shade narrowly dodges Prism Keeper Orange's Orange Rush!, taking 15 Fatigue damage! Forest Shade's Fade ability activates! Forest Shade's Flash ability activates!

When Forever Sunshine calls out to him, Hayate's eyes widen in surprise - and then he makes the '''world's biggest stinkface.''' "The only Knight of Wind I know of is '''myself,'''" he snaps back in reply. That would probably be a 'no'.

In the next moment, vines burst from the ground under his feet, and Hayate leaps into the air again to avoid them almost too late. A couple of the longest and fastest-growing of the vines manage to grab at his feet, tangling around his boots and bringing his flight up short, prompting him to turn a ferocious glare downwards. Throwing out both hands, he sends a flurry of wind-blades flying outwards, slicing through not only the vines snaring '''him''' but the ones entangling Forever Sunshine as well - and the moment he's free, another wave of his hand creates a soothing breeze that wells up around Prism Keeper Red, clearing the air of any floating leaf matter and giving her a chance to breathe.

COMBAT: Hayate has used Precise Razor Wind on Hayate.
COMBAT: Hayate has used Precise Razor Wind on Forever Sunshine.
COMBAT: Hayate has used Precise Razor Wind on Prism Keeper Red.
COMBAT: Hayate has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Hayate accepts Hayate's Precise Razor Wind, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Cleanse! All of Hayate's debuffs are cleared!
COMBAT: Forever Sunshine accepts Hayate's Precise Razor Wind, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Cleanse! All of Forever Sunshine's debuffs are cleared!
COMBAT: Prism Keeper Red accepts Hayate's Precise Razor Wind, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Cleanse! All of Prism Keeper Red's debuffs are cleared!

"Eh... ehhe..."

Forever Sunshine's will to use a Finisher attack has been broken by embarrassment! Well, that and - "The Overdrive didn't work...?!"

She glances at Prism Keeper Red, nodding once and sucking in a deep breath as she sinks down to the ground, crouching low and narrowing her eyes at the thing. Vines then snap up - "Wah!"

But then Hayate snaps them away. Forever Sunshine's cheeks redden slightly as she steals another look up at the handsome man with command of the winds themselves, for he is now the one who has freed her.

Sucking in a deep breath - she dives inwards. Light shimmers around her hand and her feet kick up plumes of fragrant sandalwood smoke; her plan is to draw close, terribly close, to the thing --

And then smash her fist into it in a tremendous full-body uppercut! Can she break THIS much wood in a single blow!? Maybe it will, at least, give the Prism Keepers an opening!

COMBAT: Forever Sunshine has used Rising Sandalwood on Forest Shade.
COMBAT: Forever Sunshine has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Forest Shade narrowly counters Forever Sunshine's Rising Sandalwood, taking 29 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Forest Shade's Reverse ability activates! Forest Shade's Tactician ability activates! Stagger applied to Forest Shade!
COMBAT: Forest Shade's counterattack, Big Swing, partially gets through, doing 8 Fatigue damage to Forever Sunshine! Stun applied to Forever Sunshine!

You're going to attack Prism Keeper Red with greenery? Fine. She has just the response for it. Namely, a dozen razor-sharpened roses that she summons with a snap of her fingers and sends flying into each leaf that's shaken at her, impaling them before they can even reach her.

Well, most of them. A few cut up her arms and legs, but she's had worse. The young magical girl is ready to fight on despite it when she feels a magical wind encircle her, gently carrying off the pain of the cuts as well as the building ache in her head. Wait...she's '''definitely''' felt something like that before.

Red turns her head to look at Hayate suspiciously. "Are you sure you've never met the Knight of Wind? Because you fight in really similar ways."

Not that it matters too much right now -- she's refreshed, healed, and ready to go. On the heels of the Perfume Warrior's punch and Orange's blast, Prism Keeper Red leaps into the air again, holding the Chroma Wand with both hands just beneath the crystal on its head.

"Let's hit 'em with everything we've got!" she yells, a spark of red glinting off the surface of the scarlet crystal. Steadily, a greater supply of color energy flows into and around her, replacing the magic that was stolen from her earlier and turning her into an impossibly bright speck of red against the backdrop of encroaching grey.

"Prism Aegis Power! Red Rain!"

The gathered light shoots into the sky, focused by her Chroma Wand, and opens a portal just above the Forest Shade, raining down blasts of searing crimson and maroon, all hues and shades of red.

It won't be enough to kill it, not on its own. But it's the signal to start the magical volley that will take down the Shade.

COMBAT: FINISHER! Prism Keeper Red has used Prism Aegis Power! Red Rain! on Forest Shade.
COMBAT: Prism Keeper Red has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Forest Shade fails to brace Prism Keeper Red's Finisher, Prism Aegis Power! Red Rain!, taking 75 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit!

Even in the best of times, the Forest Shade isn't the fastest... and this certainly isn't the best of times. First Orange's beam scorches it harshly, even with its glancing blow. And speaking of glancing blows...

It swings at Forever Sunshine as she does her uppercut, and there's a loud CRACK as her magic-boosted fist leaves visible fractures in its arm. The youma screeches, its eyes widening in pain.

The eyes narrow as Hayate carves away the overgrowth; it spent valuable drained color making those plants! Sure, it was going to reabsrob them when done, but still!

When Red leaps into the air, the Shade bring up its arms to try absorbing the attack that would likely come from the Prism Keeper. When the color flies away, up into the air, it looks with puzzlement... which quickly leads to pain as the crimson rain catches it flatfooted.

Trembling with range, the Forest Shade seems to be slowing breaking apart; perhaps it took more damage than our heroes thought? No, it's growing its outer layer into easily-launched chunks, like a botanical bomb, and as it thrashes around these chunks go flying, shattering into dangerous fragments and raining on Red, Hayate, and Forever Sunshine. While Orange is out of the path of the wooden barrage, one of the Shade's arms happens to flail her direction like an oversized baseball bat.

COMBAT: FINISHER! Forest Shade has used Explosion of Splinters on Prism Keeper Red.
COMBAT: FINISHER! Forest Shade has used Explosion of Splinters on Hayate.
COMBAT: FINISHER! Forest Shade has used Explosion of Splinters on Forever Sunshine.
COMBAT: Forest Shade has used Big Swing on Prism Keeper Orange.
COMBAT: Forest Shade has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Prism Keeper Orange fails to counter Forest Shade's Big Swing, taking 25 Fatigue damage!
COMBAT: Prism Keeper Orange's counterattack, Orangella Obfuscation, interrupts, doing 0 Fatigue damage to Forest Shade!
COMBAT: Prism Keeper Red narrowly braces Forest Shade's Finisher, Explosion of Splinters, taking 21 Fatigue damage!
COMBAT: Hayate narrowly braces Forest Shade's Finisher, Explosion of Splinters, taking 23 Fatigue damage!
COMBAT: Forever Sunshine narrowly braces Forest Shade's Finisher, Explosion of Splinters, taking 22 Fatigue damage!

Prism Keeper Orange opens her eyes wide as the arm comes racing at her and her first reflex is to summon that shield of vibrant koi again! Like last time, they appear, but unlike last time- the attack sends her flying off in the opposite direction and against a tree off in the treeline. The shield shatters dramatically and she falls to her feet, and closes her eyes. "Ugh----"

She gets back up to her feet and wow. She's a bit away now. She proceeds to race back as fast as her tiny little wings will carry her. She's getting better at the flying thing. She at least, flies straight and stops when she apparently wants to.

"E..Enough of this! We have to--take this down! And bring back all the green and spring colors...." she says as she raises her wand, another energy ball forming at the top as calls out. "Prism Aegis Power!" she flingers her wand down and forwards. "Orange Outburst!" she calls out as a brilliant Orange Beam aims to slice through the beast!

COMBAT: FINISHER! Prism Keeper Orange has used Prism Aegis Power! Orange Outburst! on Forest Shade.
COMBAT: Prism Keeper Orange has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Forest Shade fails to dodge Prism Keeper Orange's Finisher, Prism Aegis Power! Orange Outburst!, taking 50 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit!

Hayate just shoots Prism Keeper Red a thoroughly exasperated scowl as he maneuvers through the air for a better shot at the Shade. "I told you--"

The blazing reds of the Prism Keeper's power rain down on the tree-monster; Hayate stays just out of the area of the assault, gathering power. The wind swirls around him, stronger and faster each second, picking up little bits of twigs and other small debris and spiraling it around the Leafe Knight in a column - the explosion of wood chunks and splinters is caught in it as well, not entirely, but enough to keep the worst of the attack from getting through.

When Prism Keeper Orange calls out to the rest of them and unleashes her beam of color, Hayate is gathering the wind between his hands, twisting faster and tighter into a sphere so compressed it's a visible blur--

"--I '''AM''' the Knight of Wind!"

With this shout of declaration he releases the wind in a vortex blast, a tornado funnel cloud in miniature that races toward the Shade with a shape like the head of a dragon forming at its leading edge in the moment before impact.

COMBAT: FINISHER! Hayate has used Dragon Vortex on Forest Shade.
COMBAT: Hayate has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Forest Shade fails to brace Hayate's Finisher, Dragon Vortex, taking 72 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Forest Shade is unable to keep fighting!

She made it squeal! Forever Sunshine feels vaguely guilty about that, and much less so when she's suddenly bombarded with spikes of wood. "Kyah!" she cries, throwing an arm up on reflex alone to shield her face...

Forever Sunshine hits the ground, bouncing, and lands in a half-squat - just in time to see the shining bright orange beam and the dragon vortex behind it. "Ahh--"

"Those are AMAZING!" she says. "Go! Goooo and finish it off! Orange! Knight of Wind! Yeaaaah~!"

The Forest Shade was already looking shaky when it launched shrapnel at the magicfolk fighting it. Orange's beam carves deeply into it, cracking the underlayer and leaving it barely holding together. When Hayate's vortex slams into it, the coherency fails, and the remaining chunks of wood are scattered far and wide, falling apart into dust as they fly.

All that's left is the glob of stolen color, floating and pulsating.

Prism Keeper Orange watches as the Shade explodes into dust and she takes a deep, hard breath. Everyone's okay. Good. She walks towards the glob of stolen color and picks it up into her hands and holds it up the sky and with a thought.... zoop! She knows Mei is okay, and runs over to her though. "We did it!" she says with a wide smile... "I hope... Roy didn't attract them out...." she says again, sounding like this might be her fault.

She looks over to Hayate. "Oh! Hi! Um...Thank you!" she calls out. "Um.... The Knight of the Wind....?" she calls out. That's the only name she's gotten so far out of all this yelling. At least she's prepending it with a 'The'?

In the aftermath of the Shade's destruction, the magical winds die down into the faintest whisper of a cold breeze. Hayate still hovers, however, hanging in the air a foot or two above the ground. He looks at his hands, frowning, not seeming to at all share the others' excitement or satisfaction in the good work they've collectively done.

Then again, maybe it's just that nothing pleases this guy.

When Prism Keeper Orange calls out to him, he shoots a sharp look her way, letting out a sigh. Well, whatever - he already told the red one his name the last time, didn't he. "Hayate," he says crisply, and those blue eyes flick momentarily toward Prism Keeper Red, then back to Orange. "I see you guys have been busy." It's hard to tell if he means it to be approving or judgmental.

Either way, it's clear he doesn't mean it to be the start of a conversation; he's already rising upwards. "Maybe I'll see you again." Once more, the wind picks up, lifting bits of fallen leaves into the air - and the Leafe Knight vanishes in a flicker of bluish light, and peace returns to the park.

[[Category:Logs]]

2014-08-26 - Shade in the Forest

2014-08-27T06:08:37Z

RachelKazuko: RachelKazuko moved page Wiki/08-26-2014 - Shade in the Forest to 08-26-2014 - Shade in the Forest: Followed Help for linkless page creation, but that added "Wiki/" to the pagename. Renaming to BF's wiki naming style.

Wiki/08-26-2014 - Shade in the Forest

2014-08-27T06:08:37Z

#REDIRECT [[08-26-2014 - Shade in the Forest]]

2014-08-26 - Shade in the Forest

2014-08-27T06:06:22Z

RachelKazuko: Initial creation, before end of scene (pre-log)

Ikiko Hisakata

2014-08-22T08:57:39Z

RachelKazuko: Restoring query after delink registered

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! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''Ikiko Hisakata'''
|-
! colspan="2" align="center" | [[File:404.png|(no image... yet)]]
|-
! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''IC Information'''
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Full Name:
| Ikiko Hisakata
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Aliases:
| Cute Wolf Tsukiko
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Gender:
| Female
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Age/Birthdate:
| 11 (April 24, 2002)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Height:
| (Slightly tall for her age)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Hair Color:
| Dark Brown (Strawberry Blond as Tsukiko)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Eye Color:
| Dark Brown (Cyan as Tsukiko)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Astrological Sign:
| Taurus
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Blood Type:
| B
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Favorite Food:
| Gyuuniku no Negimaki (Beef rolls stuffed with scallions)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Least Favorite Food:
| ???
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Favorite Subjects:
| Phys Ed, and anything creative
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Least Favorite Subjects:
| Anything that involves sitting and studying, like math & language
|-
! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''Dossier'''
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Clubs:
| Animal Care Club; has been known to assist sports/athletics clubs
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Position:
| Cheerful Influence (Animal Care); Reliable Filler (sports/athletics)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | School:
| [[School: Juuban Public School|Juuban Public School]] (Grade 5)
|-
! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''OOC Information'''
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Source:
| [[Curse Hunters]] (OC)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | "Dub Name":
| Isabella Hamilton
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Player:
| [[User:RachelKazuko|Rachel Kazuko]]
|-
|}

First and foremost, '''Ikiko Hisakata''' is cheerful and friendly. She does what she can to help her friends feel better when they're feeling down, and even strangers are greeted with a smile. While she can be rambunctious, she is also not a troublemaker - at least, not intentionally. Sometimes her feisty energy gets her in trouble at school, but she respects her teachers enough to tone it down when they tell her to. In general, she's friendly and polite, not to mention respectful of her elders. Of course, if someone is rude to her, she's usually cheeky right back at them, unless there is a really good reason not to - and even then, she's usually having to bite her tongue to keep her cheekiness in check.

'''Cute Wolf Tsukiko''' ...

(work in progress!)

==Rumors and Common Knowledge==

* Ikiko is well-known in Juuban's ''Animal Care club'' for getting along well with animals, especially canines. Animals are usually more willing to trust her, and even strays will allow her to get close.

* While Animal Care is her primary club, it's not uncommon for Ikiko to ''assist sports/athletics clubs'' when they ask for help. She usually doesn't go actively volunteering; instead, she waits until they ask, then volunteers. The sports/athletics clubs know that she'll play hard and have fun, even if it's just for one game.

* Ikiko has ''lots of cousins'' in a wide age spread. Most (but not all) attend Juuban, so there's a good chance one of them is in your class if you attend that school. These extended families live in an apartment complex converted from an old Japanese mansion.

* Those with knowledge of magic might recognize the ''Hisakata family'' name. A few generations ago, a Curse Hunter by the name of Yuuki Hisakata faced down a werewolf in combat and punched it out with nothing more than raw force of personality. It is known that an Artifact enabled him to accomplish this; however, word has it that the Artifact was rendered unusable during the fight.

* Rumor has it that there's been a rash of nightmares in the vicinity near Juuban, resulting in troubled sleep for many students. Some mention that their nightmares were interrupted by a ''wolf's howl'', after which they were able to sleep peacefully. But there's no wolves in the area… right?

==Backstory==

Ikiko Hisakata hails from a smaller town not too far from Juuban Public School, where she lives with her mother, father, and 10th-grade brother. They live in an apartment complex in the general style of a traditional Japanese mansion, owned and occupied by the Hisakata family - aunts, uncles, cousins, and other relatives, all living nearby but with breathing room for each family. While both of her parents work, their jobs don't involve much travel, so Ikiko and her brother can spend plenty of time with them.

She walks to school, usually with her brother or some of her friends. Some of her cousins also attend Juuban, but they usually travel at a different time thank Ikiko and her brother. In terms of academics, she's modestly good, albeit not much of a standout; her scores usually aren't the top of the class, but they're still decent, and she doesn't mind the classes. Mind you, that's for the more pedestrian classes, like math and language, which mostly involve sitting still and listening. Ikiko's favorite classes are P.E. and the more creative classes, including art and home ec. She usually eats lunch with her friends, and after school she's usually found with the Animal Care club, which helps take care of class/school pets and neighborhood strays. The club is also known for socializing club-member's pets and pet-sitting for locals. If Ikiko finds herself with some spare time, she's been known to help the sports and athletic clubs, but generally only if they ask for assistance.

While Ikiko generally doesn't keep secrets from her friends, she does tend to be rather vague when asked about what her family does, simply mentioning that her parents work for a private library - which is completely true, even if it's not a full explanation. To help keep things vague, she's never had friends visit her house, even though she has occasionally slept over at her friends' houses. The reason for this secrecy is because her family is one of the Curse Hunter clans, and Curse Hunters in general try to keep a low profile in mundane society.

===Hisakata Family History===
The Hisakata family is known among Curse Hunter circles for their skills in fighting lycanthropy, a talent they became famous for about three generations ago. Ironically, the item that was most pivotal in the incident that earned the family renown was rendered unusable by the same incident. That item, unnamed at the time, is now known as the Lycan Locket.

The Lycan Locket, despite its name, does not cause lycanthropy - or at least, not in the traditional sense. Instead, it augments and amplifies the essence of the one wearing it, allowing them to assume a more idealized version of themselves. The Curse Hunter who first used the locket, Yuuki Hisakata (a great-grandfather of Ikiko) wore it when he faced down a werewolf, trusting it to protect him against lycanthropy. The gambit worked, albeit imperfectly: after being bitten by the werewolf, the Curse Hunter's form became more wolflike, but he retained enough humanity to defeat the werewolf and break the curse. The wolflike features vanished when the Curse Hunter removed the locket, but reappeared when he donned it again; it turned out that the werewolf's bite left a lingering curse on the locket.

Yuuki Hisakata tried to remove the curse from the locket, but at best was only able to suppress all of the powers of the locket, rendering it inert. Without the amplification the locket provided, the lycanthropy caused by the werewolf was so faint as to not be readily noticeable - at most, existing hair grows 1% longer during a full moon. While a casual scan for magic won't reveal the traces of lycanthropy, a thorough examination will pick up on its mystical signature. The presence of this "curse" turned out to be somewhat beneficial, however, as it gave the Hisakata family a slight edge when dealing with curses based on lycanthropy or other transformations of similar nature.

As for the Lycan Locket itself, it was placed in a box to keep safe. For many years, the box was kept in visible storage by Yuuki; the better to keep an eye on it. In recent years, however, old age has been catching up with the elderly Curse Hunter, and the box was placed in the family's storeroom with other items from his youthful days.

===Recent Events===
This brings us to Ikiko. Great-granddaughter of Yuuki Hisakata and part of a family active in the Curse Hunter tradition, she grew up listening to tales of her family's experiences as Curse Hunters. While she was well-versed in the basics of Curse Hunter lore, Ikiko had never actually seen the Lycan Locket. One day, her parents told her to clean the storeroom as part of spring cleaning. Ikiko liked cleaning the storeroom, because she had permission to carefully look through any box that was not sealed while she cleaned. Sometimes she found old things that were still usable, like yukatas from a few decades ago, or an enjoyable book a few years old. This time, a locket on a neckband caught Ikiko's eye. It looked pretty in an elegant way, and the locket itself felt good in her hand, so Ikiko put it on and took it with her when she had finished cleaning the storeroom.

That night, after Ikiko had gone to sleep, she woke up with a sense of restlessness. Opening the window to her room, the moonlight of the full moon seemed to call out to her. As if in a dream, she leapt out of her window (on the second floor!), landing gracefully before darting off to frolic in the moonlight. Ikiko danced and sang with stray dogs in the neighborhood, and at one point even chased off a shadowy figure that was lurking near the house of a classmate. Satisfied with what she thought was a fun dream, Ikiko headed back home, leaping into her window (from the ground to the second floor!) and heading back into bed, fully intent on spending the rest of her sleep in bed.

However, when Ikiko glanced at the mirror in her room before heading back to bed, she got a shock: staring back at her was a wolfgirl! With a start, she realized that she wasn't dreaming, and the tales of her great-grandfather's fight against the werewolf came to her mind. Realizing that this was the same locket as from the stories, she quickly took it off and dove into bed, afraid of what her family would do if they found out that she had used this cursed artifact.

The next day, Ikiko brought the Lycan Locket with her to Juuban Public School, trying to keep her family from finding it in her room. She was less cheerful than her friends were used to, but she tried to wave it off like it was nothing. Still, the fact that the Lycan Locket had apparently awoken the faint lycanthropy in her family's blood was weighing heavy on her. That changed when she overheard a conversation between some of her classmates: one of them had been having unusual nightmares recently, but they had suddenly ended last night. The classmate couldn't recall much, but he did remember hearing a dog howl, and after that the nightmares didn't return. Ikiko recognized the classmate as the one whose house Ikiko had fought the shadowy figure outside of, and that it was her howl that the classmate had heard. This made her realize that she could do good things with the Lycan Locket, and that she was in charge of the wolf within her, not the other way around. During a break, she put the locket back on, confident in her goal to help others.

Ikiko still hasn't told her family that she's wearing the Lycan Locket, however - she's still afraid of what they might do, and she's especially afraid of disappointing great-grandfather Yuuki.

==Relevant Logs==
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[[Category:Characters]][[Category:Juuban]]

Ikiko Hisakata

2014-08-22T08:56:37Z

RachelKazuko: Attempt to unlink a query-triggered phantom link

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! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''Ikiko Hisakata'''
|-
! colspan="2" align="center" | [[File:404.png|(no image... yet)]]
|-
! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''IC Information'''
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Full Name:
| Ikiko Hisakata
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Aliases:
| Cute Wolf Tsukiko
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Gender:
| Female
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Age/Birthdate:
| 11 (April 24, 2002)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Height:
| (Slightly tall for her age)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Hair Color:
| Dark Brown (Strawberry Blond as Tsukiko)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Eye Color:
| Dark Brown (Cyan as Tsukiko)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Astrological Sign:
| Taurus
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Blood Type:
| B
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Favorite Food:
| Gyuuniku no Negimaki (Beef rolls stuffed with scallions)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Least Favorite Food:
| ???
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Favorite Subjects:
| Phys Ed, and anything creative
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Least Favorite Subjects:
| Anything that involves sitting and studying, like math & language
|-
! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''Dossier'''
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Clubs:
| Animal Care Club; has been known to assist sports/athletics clubs
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Position:
| Cheerful Influence (Animal Care); Reliable Filler (sports/athletics)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | School:
| [[School: Juuban Public School|Juuban Public School]] (Grade 5)
|-
! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''OOC Information'''
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Source:
| [[Curse Hunters]] (OC)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | "Dub Name":
| Isabella Hamilton
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Player:
| [[User:RachelKazuko|Rachel Kazuko]]
|-
|}

First and foremost, '''Ikiko Hisakata''' is cheerful and friendly. She does what she can to help her friends feel better when they're feeling down, and even strangers are greeted with a smile. While she can be rambunctious, she is also not a troublemaker - at least, not intentionally. Sometimes her feisty energy gets her in trouble at school, but she respects her teachers enough to tone it down when they tell her to. In general, she's friendly and polite, not to mention respectful of her elders. Of course, if someone is rude to her, she's usually cheeky right back at them, unless there is a really good reason not to - and even then, she's usually having to bite her tongue to keep her cheekiness in check.

'''Cute Wolf Tsukiko''' ...

(work in progress!)

==Rumors and Common Knowledge==

* Ikiko is well-known in Juuban's ''Animal Care club'' for getting along well with animals, especially canines. Animals are usually more willing to trust her, and even strays will allow her to get close.

* While Animal Care is her primary club, it's not uncommon for Ikiko to ''assist sports/athletics clubs'' when they ask for help. She usually doesn't go actively volunteering; instead, she waits until they ask, then volunteers. The sports/athletics clubs know that she'll play hard and have fun, even if it's just for one game.

* Ikiko has ''lots of cousins'' in a wide age spread. Most (but not all) attend Juuban, so there's a good chance one of them is in your class if you attend that school. These extended families live in an apartment complex converted from an old Japanese mansion.

* Those with knowledge of magic might recognize the ''Hisakata family'' name. A few generations ago, a Curse Hunter by the name of Yuuki Hisakata faced down a werewolf in combat and punched it out with nothing more than raw force of personality. It is known that an Artifact enabled him to accomplish this; however, word has it that the Artifact was rendered unusable during the fight.

* Rumor has it that there's been a rash of nightmares in the vicinity near Juuban, resulting in troubled sleep for many students. Some mention that their nightmares were interrupted by a ''wolf's howl'', after which they were able to sleep peacefully. But there's no wolves in the area… right?

==Backstory==

Ikiko Hisakata hails from a smaller town not too far from Juuban Public School, where she lives with her mother, father, and 10th-grade brother. They live in an apartment complex in the general style of a traditional Japanese mansion, owned and occupied by the Hisakata family - aunts, uncles, cousins, and other relatives, all living nearby but with breathing room for each family. While both of her parents work, their jobs don't involve much travel, so Ikiko and her brother can spend plenty of time with them.

She walks to school, usually with her brother or some of her friends. Some of her cousins also attend Juuban, but they usually travel at a different time thank Ikiko and her brother. In terms of academics, she's modestly good, albeit not much of a standout; her scores usually aren't the top of the class, but they're still decent, and she doesn't mind the classes. Mind you, that's for the more pedestrian classes, like math and language, which mostly involve sitting still and listening. Ikiko's favorite classes are P.E. and the more creative classes, including art and home ec. She usually eats lunch with her friends, and after school she's usually found with the Animal Care club, which helps take care of class/school pets and neighborhood strays. The club is also known for socializing club-member's pets and pet-sitting for locals. If Ikiko finds herself with some spare time, she's been known to help the sports and athletic clubs, but generally only if they ask for assistance.

While Ikiko generally doesn't keep secrets from her friends, she does tend to be rather vague when asked about what her family does, simply mentioning that her parents work for a private library - which is completely true, even if it's not a full explanation. To help keep things vague, she's never had friends visit her house, even though she has occasionally slept over at her friends' houses. The reason for this secrecy is because her family is one of the Curse Hunter clans, and Curse Hunters in general try to keep a low profile in mundane society.

===Hisakata Family History===
The Hisakata family is known among Curse Hunter circles for their skills in fighting lycanthropy, a talent they became famous for about three generations ago. Ironically, the item that was most pivotal in the incident that earned the family renown was rendered unusable by the same incident. That item, unnamed at the time, is now known as the Lycan Locket.

The Lycan Locket, despite its name, does not cause lycanthropy - or at least, not in the traditional sense. Instead, it augments and amplifies the essence of the one wearing it, allowing them to assume a more idealized version of themselves. The Curse Hunter who first used the locket, Yuuki Hisakata (a great-grandfather of Ikiko) wore it when he faced down a werewolf, trusting it to protect him against lycanthropy. The gambit worked, albeit imperfectly: after being bitten by the werewolf, the Curse Hunter's form became more wolflike, but he retained enough humanity to defeat the werewolf and break the curse. The wolflike features vanished when the Curse Hunter removed the locket, but reappeared when he donned it again; it turned out that the werewolf's bite left a lingering curse on the locket.

Yuuki Hisakata tried to remove the curse from the locket, but at best was only able to suppress all of the powers of the locket, rendering it inert. Without the amplification the locket provided, the lycanthropy caused by the werewolf was so faint as to not be readily noticeable - at most, existing hair grows 1% longer during a full moon. While a casual scan for magic won't reveal the traces of lycanthropy, a thorough examination will pick up on its mystical signature. The presence of this "curse" turned out to be somewhat beneficial, however, as it gave the Hisakata family a slight edge when dealing with curses based on lycanthropy or other transformations of similar nature.

As for the Lycan Locket itself, it was placed in a box to keep safe. For many years, the box was kept in visible storage by Yuuki; the better to keep an eye on it. In recent years, however, old age has been catching up with the elderly Curse Hunter, and the box was placed in the family's storeroom with other items from his youthful days.

===Recent Events===
This brings us to Ikiko. Great-granddaughter of Yuuki Hisakata and part of a family active in the Curse Hunter tradition, she grew up listening to tales of her family's experiences as Curse Hunters. While she was well-versed in the basics of Curse Hunter lore, Ikiko had never actually seen the Lycan Locket. One day, her parents told her to clean the storeroom as part of spring cleaning. Ikiko liked cleaning the storeroom, because she had permission to carefully look through any box that was not sealed while she cleaned. Sometimes she found old things that were still usable, like yukatas from a few decades ago, or an enjoyable book a few years old. This time, a locket on a neckband caught Ikiko's eye. It looked pretty in an elegant way, and the locket itself felt good in her hand, so Ikiko put it on and took it with her when she had finished cleaning the storeroom.

That night, after Ikiko had gone to sleep, she woke up with a sense of restlessness. Opening the window to her room, the moonlight of the full moon seemed to call out to her. As if in a dream, she leapt out of her window (on the second floor!), landing gracefully before darting off to frolic in the moonlight. Ikiko danced and sang with stray dogs in the neighborhood, and at one point even chased off a shadowy figure that was lurking near the house of a classmate. Satisfied with what she thought was a fun dream, Ikiko headed back home, leaping into her window (from the ground to the second floor!) and heading back into bed, fully intent on spending the rest of her sleep in bed.

However, when Ikiko glanced at the mirror in her room before heading back to bed, she got a shock: staring back at her was a wolfgirl! With a start, she realized that she wasn't dreaming, and the tales of her great-grandfather's fight against the werewolf came to her mind. Realizing that this was the same locket as from the stories, she quickly took it off and dove into bed, afraid of what her family would do if they found out that she had used this cursed artifact.

The next day, Ikiko brought the Lycan Locket with her to Juuban Public School, trying to keep her family from finding it in her room. She was less cheerful than her friends were used to, but she tried to wave it off like it was nothing. Still, the fact that the Lycan Locket had apparently awoken the faint lycanthropy in her family's blood was weighing heavy on her. That changed when she overheard a conversation between some of her classmates: one of them had been having unusual nightmares recently, but they had suddenly ended last night. The classmate couldn't recall much, but he did remember hearing a dog howl, and after that the nightmares didn't return. Ikiko recognized the classmate as the one whose house Ikiko had fought the shadowy figure outside of, and that it was her howl that the classmate had heard. This made her realize that she could do good things with the Lycan Locket, and that she was in charge of the wolf within her, not the other way around. During a break, she put the locket back on, confident in her goal to help others.

Ikiko still hasn't told her family that she's wearing the Lycan Locket, however - she's still afraid of what they might do, and she's especially afraid of disappointing great-grandfather Yuuki.

==Relevant Logs==

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[[Category:Characters]][[Category:Juuban]]

2014-06-20 - Men's Wear Shade

2014-08-22T08:43:40Z

RachelKazuko: RachelKazuko moved page 02-01-2014 - Men's Wear Shade to 06-20-2014 - Men's Wear Shade: Using OOC date (instead of IC date) to match normal log naming conventions.

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|-
! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''Title: Men's Wear Shade'''
|-
|'''Summary''': 
''A Shade has drained much of the color out of the mall! With Prism Keeper Red nowhere in sight, it's up to the other magical warriors to fight off the color thief.''
|-
| '''Who:''' 
[[Yayoi Kise]], [[Endo Naoki]], [[Ikiko Hisakata]], [[Lingshen Chao]], [[Fuu Hououji]], [[Mei Akatsuki]] (GM)
|-
| '''Where:''' 
Shibuya Shopping District
|-
| '''OOC - IC Date:''' 
6/20/14 - 2/1/14
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It's a bit later in the evening, when the mall is in the midst of closing up for the night. A steady stream of employees and late-afternoon shoppers alike head out of the building's doors, and in the hustle and bustle, it's hard to notice the slowly creeping wave of grey overtaking a small section of shops. At its edges, it's hard to tell that anything particular is happening -- the colors appear slightly washed out, as if through a light cloud of fog. The closer one gets to the epicenter, however, it becomes clear that something is wrong. The bargain-price men's wear store is the most noticeably /off/, almost completely grey and emitting a sort of swirling vortex, into which a steady stream of color is being drained.

This isn't a time of day or week or year when Fuu would normally venture into one of the major clothing-store centers of Tokyo ... but necessity doesn't wait upon convenience or habit, and she's made her way out to Shibuya to track down what she needed.

She almost doesn't notice the fading of colors, except for a well-timed glance upwards at a sign - just at the right moment to realize that the sign's color is not uniformly shaded. And her gut nudges the rest of her as if to say something is not right ...

She turns towards the menswear store, frowning behind her glasses, then diverting her path towards a side corridor which leads, according to signage, to public restrooms and coin lockers.

Yayoi Kise has no reason to be in a Men's shop. She does however, have reasoning to be in a mall, mainly, to buy new shoes. Her current ones are kind of a mess, and her mother decided it was time for her to buy new ones, so thusly, she is there, walking by with her bagged shoebox. She seems pleased with her purchase. She does peer into the various stores as the Mall is begining to close for the evening. She kind of peeks into the Men's wear shop and blinks for a moment. Is the world turning black and white!? That's kind of what it looks like to her and she needs to double take. When something is obviously wrong she walks in to peers what's wrong...

"Hello?..." she calls into the shop in her usual meek voice. She looks at Fuu with a bewildered expression. "I think something is wrong...?" she asks.

Endo is out later in the evening, which isn't an unusual thing for him. In fact, he got an early shift today, meaning that once he's freed from the shackles of the 7-11 he's got time to swing by the mall and see if he wants to waste his hard-earned money.

Coincidentally, cheap clothes are one of the things that he might be willing to part with Yen for. So his path has him winding through the mall, toward that. It takes him awhile to notice the gradual shift toward monochrome. It's only when he's fairly close that he turns backward to peer at the place he'd been, and ahead at the place he's going.

"Does that seem right?" He seems to be talking to himself. And sort of half-looking down at his feet when he does it. "Aaah-that doesn't seem very right." His opinion is only reinforced when he spots the vortex proper, and the other people moving toward it. "This thing here..."

COMBAT: Fuu Hououji transforms into Magic Knight!

Lingshen Chao, GIRL OF SCIENCE, is never actually interested in clothing, because she has tailors for that. (So far nobody has actually successfully, empriically proven that she even has clothes that aren't some kind of uniform). Even now, she's in the Middle School uniform for the Infinity Institute, as she carries a bag of assorted nicknacks from one of the tech stores in the vicinity. The robot club will have all it needs to...not, conquer...anything...yes....

Still, she didn't get where she is by being unobservant, and the washed-out colors catch her eye as she passes by.

Her hand falls to her skirt pocket, and she takes a quick glance around; noting who is here, as much as who isn't, as she nonchalantly slides toward an unobtrusive alleyway. She produces an earpiece - simple Bluetooth. "Hakase," she says aloud. "Get the system warmed up, will ya? I think something's going down."

At the center of the vortex, unmanifested and hungry, is the Shade. It has had such a feast today, draining unnoticed for several hours at the least. Admittedly, much of it had been brown and beige -- bland tasting, without much of the power of more vibrant colors. It hungers fiercely. There must be more out there.

The vortex slowly stops swirling until it collapses in on itself, sending a shockwave through the nearby stores. When the burst of blinding darkness clears, a bizarre monster, at least ten feet tall, stands in the center of the men's wear boutique, amid the collapsed displays and scattered fabrics.

It is a creature of patchwork, literally and figuratively. Its body is composed of several different shirts and jackets, cut messily at the seams and stitched together sloppily with white thread. Giant scissors sit where its hands should be, blades gnashing together a few times every second. Its legs are spools of thread wrapped in denim and khaki, ending in mismatched (but impeccably shined) shoes. A mannequin's head sit atop a spindly neck. Button eyes with threaded eyebrows glance about the store, and a zipper mouth slides open with a /zrrrrrp/, revealing sharp, needly teeth. And, of course, who can forget the dashing fedora, tilted to one side on its head?

This dapper Shade is on the prowl. And if its senses are right...something very colorful, very yummy is about to come its way.

COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki has fully healed herself. She is now ready to take on 4 opponents!

Yayoi Kise eyes the creature..... her eyes wide...

"That is so freaky....!" she says in a shrill voice... "Wuahgh!" and then she begins to tumble away.... then she stops halfway out the door in the hallway and huffs... "No...not.. running away..." she says with as much determination, she peers into the mall's bathroom corridor and dissapears!

In a brilliant display of lightning Cure Peace appears, having transformed in the bathroom corridor with the typical 'Pretty Cure! Smile Charrrrge!' call out. "Sparkling.. Glittering..!"

"ROCK-- PAPER-- **SCISSORS!**" she says throwing the sccisors as she spins and poses. "Cure Peace!" she then pulls her hands out in the typical V for peace sign before she suddenly closes them into determinded fists.. "OoooH... you can't just go...stealing color! Color is... bright and cherry!" she says as she waits for the results of ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORU!

COMBAT: Yayoi Kise transforms into Cure Peace! 
COMBAT: Cure Peace has used Pikarin Janken! on Mei Akatsuki. 
COMBAT: Cure Peace has finished attacking.

COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki perfectly braces Cure Peace's Pikarin Janken!, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Critical Brace! Mei Akatsuki's Block ability activates! Mei Akatsuki's Parry ability activates!

Fuu nods back to Yayoi, "Definitely seems like something is wrong, yes ..." She moves to get a closer look as the vortex seems to subside -

"That certainly doesn't look like a very good marketing mascot for fashionable men's clothing, does it?"

Fuu smiles, albeit a little ruefully, as she gets a better look at the creature that formed out of the vortex; really, it looks more like it should be advertising a crafts or sewing store, but - well, no, not with a mouth like that. Definitely NOT with a mouth like that, and never mind how dapper the fedora looks. She heads down the corridor as well, digging out her glove-jewel and letting her shopping and other stuff disappear into the big green gemstone as she pulls it onto her left hand.

"Belief becomes power ... Winds, guide me!!"

Next to Cure Peace's lightning, the miniature whirlwind of Fuu's transformation into the Magic Knight of Wind seems downright understated - but it does what she needs it to do, and the Wind Knight emerges back into the main concourse, already preparing a spell.

"Imashime no Kaze!"

A whirlwind gusts out to surround the Shade, the Winds of Admonishment conjured to bind the monster in place and restrict its movements to the best extent that the Wind Knight can pin it down.

COMBAT: Fuu Hououji has used Imashime no Kaze on Mei Akatsuki. 
COMBAT: Fuu Hououji has finished attacking.

COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki perfectly counters Fuu Hououji's Imashime no Kaze, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Counter! 
COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki's counterattack, Flying Fedoras, bursts all the way through, doing 22 Fatigue damage to Fuu Hououji!

<DANGER.>

Endo raises his hand a second too late. The shockwave sends him stumbling back, a cry of surprise escaping as he topples over. A hand saves him from bouncing anything important-like his head- against the tiled floor, but it's not graceful by any means.

"A little sooner nex-" His complaints to the Device around his neck are cut short by the sight of the nightmarish patchwork of cloth standing where the vortex used to be. Endo's eyes go wide, and wider still when his head snaps back around to see where both scissors and wind are coming from. This seems like a bit of a mess.

"Hey, get out here!" He doesn't bother to move. He just reaches down and grasps the ring tucked under his shirt, yanking it free. Things get very bright for a second, very purple, and then very sword.

Extremely sword. The huge, rectangular hunk of metal is rushing toward the monster almost as soon as it flashes into existence. "Fast! Too fast!" Endo, now armored and with cape flapping behind, is literally dragged along for the ride as it goes shooting toward the monster.

COMBAT: Endo Naoki transforms into Barrier Jacket! 
COMBAT: Endo Naoki has used Corona Upper on Mei Akatsuki. 
COMBAT: Endo Naoki has finished attacking.

COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki fails to dodge Endo Naoki's Corona Upper, taking 26 Fatigue damage!

What bring Ikiko to the mall today is a sale on fashionable clothes!...

...yeah, didn't think you'd believe that.

In actuality, she's feeding some of the local strays. The fading color catches her eye, so she tells the dogs to head to safety. As the strays hastily depart, she ducks behind some containers and murmurs something.

There's a silvery glow, and then Tsukiko goes bounding towards the source of the grayness. As she gets closer, she recognizes a few people, like the Wind Knight and Cure Peace. The wolfgirl takes note of the foe being targeted...

...what the heck /is/ that?!?

Time for questions later. She darts forward, trying to box the foe in.

COMBAT: Ikiko Hisakata transforms into Cute Wolf Tsukiko! 
COMBAT: Cute Wolf Tsukiko has fully healed herself. 
COMBAT: Cute Wolf Tsukiko has used Herd the Quarry on Mei Akatsuki. 
COMBAT: Cute Wolf Tsukiko has finished attacking.

COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki narrowly braces Cute Wolf Tsukiko's Herd the Quarry, taking 3 Fatigue damage! Mei Akatsuki's Block ability activates! Mei Akatsuki's Parry ability activates! Trap applied to Mei Akatsuki!

Annnd then the vortex collapses in on itself and produces a hell monster. "Need it now," Chao mutters into her earpiece; takes it out, stuffs it back in her pocket, and produces the jeweled bracelet of her ancestors and winds it a few time around her wrist, tightening it until the magic circuitry glitters to life.

There's an outpouring of light from the alley, Chao surmounted for a glorious moment by a vision of the combat system she herself designed. Calling it 'armor' would be a wild mistake; apparently made of an easy, silk or spandex-like material, it is colored a sort of maroon and black. Actually, it looks a hell of a lot like a more full-bodied Chao Bao Zi uniform.

That would be very silly, of course. Chao Bao Zi is a restaurant, not a secret supervil^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h magical girl laboratory.

Regardless, there's a shout of "Now cut that out!" before the powersuited girl bounds across the distance. Creepy scissor hands, that's gonna be fun, she thinks darkly, coming down on the near side of the street with her gloves creaking from the strength applied to them. "If there's one thing I can't stand, it's disrupting commerce!" she declares, and spares no further time before lunging in to swing a straight flip kick to the thing's horrible mannequin head.

"Or creepy mascots!" she adds.

COMBAT: Lingshen Chao transforms into Powered Suit! 
COMBAT: Lingshen Chao has used Midair Machine Kenpo on Mei Akatsuki. 
COMBAT: Lingshen Chao has finished attacking.

COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki fails to brace Lingshen Chao's Midair Machine Kenpo, taking 9 Fatigue damage! Lingshen Chao is Psyched!

Ah, yes. Here the tasty morsels come now.

The first to appear is a positively vibrant yellow girl -- a Prism Keeper? No. Even with its animal-like intellect, it can recognize a Chroma Crystal's energy, and this girl doesn't have a trace of it on her. Oh, well. She'll still make a delicious snack, with all that wonderful color. It watches her, a bit confused, as she throws a v-sign its way, then gives the Shade equivalent of a shrug and shoots a grey bream at her, absorbing all remaining color in its wake.

The next girl is in green, and doesn't look *quite* as appetizingly coloful as the Pretty Cure. Even worse, she somehow conjures a gust of wind and shoots it off! Growling, the Shade removes the fedora from its grey head, multiplying it into five, very sharp hat-discs in a burst of black energy. They swirl around him at dizzying speeds, cancelling out the trapping wind, before shooting off at the attacker herself.

And then, there's a sudden, shooting pain as a sword impales itself into his torso. The fabric scraps tear with a chorus of soft wails, exposing the vortex of monochrome energy underneath. The Shade roars directly into the boy's face, needle teeth just inches from his skin, before pulling the blade out. The shirts knit themselves together again, albeit much more messily, and the Shade morphs his right arm into a menacing, sword-like needle. Growling again, he stabs at his attacker, aiming to damage his pretty clothes just as much as he'd damaged his.

The button eyes on the mannequin face look up just in time to see a wolfgirl heading his way, and though he knocks down a nearby table of starched shirts, he finds himself temporarily trapped behind its wooden legs, up against a wall. And then a maroon-suited girl's kick hits him square in the zipper mouth, knocking his head askew on his neck.

The insolence must be punished.

Out of either arm-sleeve drops a lasso of measuring tape, which he sends flying towards both girls. They will be trapped as he is trapped, and when he is free, they will suffer for it.

COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki has used Color Drain on Cure Peace. 
COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki has used Needle Sword on Endo Naoki. 
COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki has used Measuring Tape Lasso on Cute Wolf Tsukiko. 
COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki has used Measuring Tape Lasso on Lingshen Chao. 
COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki has finished attacking.

COMBAT: Cute Wolf Tsukiko fails to brace Mei Akatsuki's Measuring Tape Lasso, taking 13 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Cute Wolf Tsukiko is Quipped! Trap applied to Cute Wolf Tsukiko!

COMBAT: Endo Naoki perfectly dodges Mei Akatsuki's Needle Sword, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Dodge!

COMBAT: Lingshen Chao fails to dodge Mei Akatsuki's Measuring Tape Lasso, taking 10 Fatigue damage! Lingshen Chao is Quipped! Trap applied to Lingshen Chao!

COMBAT: Cure Peace fails to dodge Mei Akatsuki's Color Drain, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Cure Peace is Taunted! Cripple and Stun applied to Cure Peace!

"Quite right, mascots should look appealing rather than scary," the Wind Knight agrees with the Chao Bao Zi Battle Mascot Girl. "Even if they're meant to be scary, they should still be cute at the same time -"

Incoming hats, with REALLY sharp brims; since when do random monsters rip off British superspy villains? The Wind Knight is distracted enough to take the worse end of the stick when the hats whip past, slashing at her along the way; that could have gone considerably worse - but it still reminds her, rather sharply (no pun intended), to keep her mind on the fight first and foremost.

It's also rather unlikely that this particular monster is going to engage in much in the way of banter, so that's another reason not to waste time or focus on talking at it. And her allies are rapidly looking much the worse for wear ... so the Wind Knight brings her left arm up, calling out, "Iyashi no Kaze!!" even as her sword materializes ...

And between the Winds of Healing and some quick but careful slices, she endeavors to free Chao Bao Zi-tan and the Cute Wolf from their lassos, the soothing breeze helping reinvigorate them to let them move at full speed again - and hopefully, to get Cure Peace over whatever debilitating effects getting the color sucked out of her will have had.

COMBAT: Fuu Hououji has used Iyashi no Kaze on Lingshen Chao. 
COMBAT: Fuu Hououji has used Iyashi no Kaze on Cute Wolf Tsukiko. 
COMBAT: Fuu Hououji has used Iyashi no Kaze on Cure Peace. 
COMBAT: Fuu Hououji has finished attacking.

COMBAT: Cute Wolf Tsukiko accepts Fuu Hououji's Iyashi no Kaze, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Cleanse! All of Cute Wolf Tsukiko's debuffs are cleared!

COMBAT: Lingshen Chao accepts Fuu Hououji's Iyashi no Kaze, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Cleanse! All of Lingshen Chao's debuffs are cleared!

Cure Peace slowly, slowly begins to somewhat have her color drain... eeeee! She jumps back and blinks, she frowns and finds this insanely unsettling on so many levels. "Ah..you can't..." she's immediatly falling into despair and it shows on her face... if she can't be colorful... what can she be!?.....

Then Fuu Hououji uses her cleansing magic and it washes over her. It removes some of that despair, but not a lot. She's so unsure right now, as she swallows and keeps her fists clenched, as she spins, cackling with energy and shoots out a jolting bolt of lightning that arcs through the air, bouncing off the coat racks and into the creature with as must determination as she can muster. It's not a lot at the moment, but...hopefully enough!

"I don't know what you're doing...but if you're stealing color..." she grits her teeth. She can't finish that statement, it probably ended with 'that's unforgiveable!'.

COMBAT: Cure Peace accepts Fuu Hououji's Iyashi no Kaze, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Cleanse! All of Cure Peace's debuffs are cleared! 
COMBAT: Cure Peace has used Morale Defibulator on Mei Akatsuki. 
COMBAT: Cure Peace has finished attacking.

Tsukiko brings up an arm to try to block the measuring tape, but all that does is give the tape a point to pivot around, slapping her head. The Wind Knight's healing breeze loosens the tape, and the wolfgirl gives the Wind Knight a thankful smile.

"If we work together, we can defeat this... thing!" Tsukiko calls to the Wind Knight, Cure Peace, and the power-armor-clad combatant.

COMBAT: Cute Wolf Tsukiko has used Encourage the Pack on Fuu Hououji. 
COMBAT: Cute Wolf Tsukiko has used Encourage the Pack on Cure Peace. 
COMBAT: Cute Wolf Tsukiko has used Encourage the Pack on Lingshen Chao. 
COMBAT: Cute Wolf Tsukiko has finished attacking.

COMBAT: Fuu Hououji accepts Cute Wolf Tsukiko's Encourage the Pack, taking 0 Fatigue damage!

COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki narrowly counters Cure Peace's Morale Defibulator, taking 6 Fatigue damage! Cure Peace is Psyched! 
COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki's counterattack, Noose Fitting Tie, partially gets through, doing 4 Fatigue damage to Cure Peace! Stagger applied to Cure Peace!

COMBAT: Cure Peace accepts Cute Wolf Tsukiko's Encourage the Pack, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Cure Peace is Cheered!

Endo is about as interested in getting his sword out of the mess of clothing as the monster is, jerking it backward and free, gritting teeth when the blade crashes down to the floor. Must be as heavy as it looks. Endo, though, is more worried about the fact that he's got the creatures attention.

Chao smashing it in the face is enough distraction for him to move, though. He does, fast, shooting to the side before the creature makes him a pin-cushion with one of needle-shaped arm. It's a closer thing than Endo would like, the blade leaving a jagged hole in the cape that trails behind him. It's a good thing it never seems to get stuck on anything, or that might have been bad.

<WELL DONE, KNIGHT.> His sword, Fallen Stern, finds this adequate.

"Thanks." Endo breathes. Dark eyes flicker over to his allies-probably allies-, he's at least seen the wolf-girl before. The mess of tape gets a wince, but Fuu seems to be on top of that. So, he takes a second for some consulting with his weapon. "Hey! Remember how I don't listen do you? Tell me how to kill this thing and I definitely will."

<PROCESSING.>

COMBAT: Endo Naoki performs an analysis on Mei Akatsuki! 
COMBAT: Endo Naoki has finished attacking.

COMBAT: Lingshen Chao accepts Cute Wolf Tsukiko's Encourage the Pack, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Lingshen Chao is Cheered!

"See, she gets it," Chao says, jerking a thumb at Fuu.

And then she actually notices what happened to its neck, and she grimaces. "That's really not OK," she mutters, unsettled - and then moreso as the measuring tape wraps around. She moves, but her foot isn't fast enough, and she gets an uncomfortable snare for her efforts. Should she...yes, but is it the right time, she thinks, glaring daggers. Her fists clench, about to start, when those winds come across her, and a sword as well, and she can feel herself moving freely again. And Tsukiko is calling for combined tactics, which seem like a great idea if she's not going to be pulling out her big guns.

She makes use of it ("Thanks!") as she bounds away, getting some distance on the target, assessing the field. Blaster, That Wind Knight Who Seems To Be Everywhere, the wolf girl, and...the other guy's not doing much. OK. She uncoils from where she squats, near the edge of the field, and then blurs in, a few quick, hard steps, as her fists buzz with accumulated electric energy.

Spooky dapperness monster. Well. ...cloth probably conducts electricity, right?

She surges into its guard, shouting a Chinese kiai, and then thrusts her palm forward - a charge of electricity flying into the creature and seizing its, uh, magic...ness, muscles. Maybe.

COMBAT: Lingshen Chao has used Stun Punch on Mei Akatsuki. 
COMBAT: Lingshen Chao has finished attacking.

COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki fails to dodge Lingshen Chao's Stun Punch, taking 11 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Stun applied to Mei Akatsuki!

The Shade gives a mighty kick to the overturned table trapping him, roaring loudly as he does. The wood dislodges a bit, and one leg goes flying off. He is still trapped, without a doubt -- but not for much longer. Then they will feel his true wrath.

He's just about to correct his twisted head when the girl responsible for it hits him again, knocking the soft, grey mannequin head more or less back into place. Despite this, his head rings with pain, and he brings his scissors up momentarily to his face, trying to steady himself before he winds up totally knocked over. Seeing that she has somehow been freed from her lasso, he grabs a black bowtie with his free hand and flings it towards her neck. The slow strangulation from it should teach her to keep her distance.

The Shade looks up just in time to see the insolent sword-boy making an escape, only his cape marred by his needle attack. Furious that his revenge was denied, he roars, conjures another hail of razor fedoras, and flings them in his direction. If he will not fight man-to-man, he will suffer the consequences.

Oh, but it was time to enjoy some of the yellow girl's delicious color. Zipper mouth stretching in a mangled grin, he extends one arm towards the approaching ball of color -- only to have shimmer, quake, and fall apart, blown to bits by a gust of wind. He can only watch as the Pretty Cure's vibrant yellow returns to her. Screeching, the Shade stabs his scissors into the ground several times, denied his prize twice now. Almost without noticing, he flings another tie towards the Pretty Cure's throat, with a clear message: this is not over.

But there was a more pressing target now. His lassos undone, his sword thrown off course, the stolen color returned. The green knight is going to understand what it means to defy his hunger..

He slowly turns her way, gnashing his blades together frighteningly fast. She will /not/ get away with meddling so.

Her green is not as wonderfully bright as the yellow he had claimed, but it will do. With another screech, he shoots the Color Drain at her, looking forward to absorbing her color essence.

COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki has used Noose Fitting Tie on Lingshen Chao. 
COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki has used Flying Fedoras on Endo Naoki. 
COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki has used Color Drain on Fuu Hououji. 
COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki has used Color Blind on Cure Peace. 
COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki has finished attacking.

COMBAT: Endo Naoki narrowly braces Mei Akatsuki's Flying Fedoras, taking 13 Fatigue damage!

COMBAT: Lingshen Chao perfectly dodges Mei Akatsuki's Noose Fitting Tie, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Dodge! Lingshen Chao's Flash ability activates!

COMBAT: Cure Peace narrowly counters Mei Akatsuki's Color Blind, taking 0 Fatigue damage! 
COMBAT: Cure Peace's counterattack, Peace Lightning, partially gets through, doing 16 Fatigue damage to Mei Akatsuki!

COMBAT: Fuu Hououji narrowly dodges Mei Akatsuki's Color Drain, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Fuu Hououji's Fade ability activates! Fuu Hououji's Flash ability activates! Cripple applied to Fuu Hououji!

Tsukiko circles around, looking for an opening to launch another attack -- or perhaps distract this foe enough for someone else to launch an attack. "I don't know what you're up to, but I'm going to unravel your plot!" she yells at the Shade, a fierce grin on her face.

COMBAT: Cute Wolf Tsukiko has used Bark! on Mei Akatsuki. 
COMBAT: Cute Wolf Tsukiko has finished attacking.

Cure Peace has a black beam heading for her head, and she responds by flinging a bolt of lightning blindly into it as she fumbles around. She whews a bit when her purifying bolt of lightning seems to blast through it. She softly smiles just a bit to Ikiko..."You might be right...." she says a bit.

.oO(I hope...) she thinks afterwards in her head.

She huffs and releases a dazzling array of sparkling lights from her fingers that sprarkle and crackle! They're meant to help debilitate the creature as she closes her eyes.... "This....you need to stop, whatever you are! This is vile!" she says with wide eyes.

Endo's weapon gives a report. It's very long, guttural, and Germanic. Whenever it is, Endo seems to get it.

"Hey!" The Knight shouts, in the general direction of the other combatants, "If you have anything that'll kill-" Uh. "Evil stuff? Do that!" He knows that isn't much for advice, but it's the best he's got.

He also decides to do something more proactive to make up for it. The weapon in his hand pulses with purple light before the young man launches himself forward again. Right through the hats. The sword is raised up in front of him like a shield, the fedoras gouging into the metal, some bouncing off, others raking across Endo's body. He grits his teeth, and hurtles further forward.

The knight goes for the trapped monsters side, leaving its front for the other combatants to abuse. Fingers shift their grip of his Device, bringing it around in two broad strokes. High and low in whirling succession, throwing as much force as he can muster behind each one.

COMBAT: Endo Naoki has used Lander Blow on Mei Akatsuki. 
COMBAT: Endo Naoki has finished attacking.

COMBAT: Cure Peace has used Please...? on Mei Akatsuki. 
COMBAT: Cure Peace has finished attacking.

COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki narrowly braces Cute Wolf Tsukiko's Bark!, taking 1 Fatigue damage! Cute Wolf Tsukiko is Psyched! Mei Akatsuki's Block ability activates! Mei Akatsuki's Parry ability activates! Exhausted applied to Mei Akatsuki! 
COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki narrowly counters Cure Peace's Please...?, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Exhausted applied to Mei Akatsuki! 
COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki's counterattack, Noose Fitting Tie, partially gets through, doing 10 Fatigue damage to Cure Peace! Stagger applied to Cure Peace! 
COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki fails to dodge Endo Naoki's Lander Blow, taking 49 Fatigue damage!

Chao's response is swift and sure, this time. This guy doesn't want her in close, but in close is the only thing she does, right now. Anything else involves...complicating, things.

Not an option. So she blurs; the suit's magic power makes it easy for her to juke aside from the strangulating bowtie after her strike lands. She doesn't even leave in-close. He's going nuts on these other girls...She's pretty glad that her own suit is so drab, now! This, too, is an ultimate defensive system developed by the brilliant Lingshen Chao, GIRL OF SCIENCE.

She doesn't really call further attention to herself; she grits her teeth, muttering, "Charge, 80!" as she clenches one fist, and the glove makes a high kwwEEEEN, like an old-fashioned camera flash charging, except more powerful by far.

"Now...BUZZ OFF!" she cries, and swings - a single, hard haymaker to center mass. Another electric blast releases, creating an explosive burst of magic force that might send the Shade tumbling end over end.

COMBAT: Lingshen Chao has used Machine Kenpo Strike on Mei Akatsuki. 
COMBAT: Lingshen Chao has finished attacking.

COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki perfectly counters Lingshen Chao's Machine Kenpo Strike, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Counter! 
COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki's counterattack, Scissor Grab, fails to get through, doing 0 Fatigue damage to Lingshen Chao!

With another mighty kick, the Shade breaks the table in half, stumbling forward as he regains his freedom at last. To the side, he sees the disappointingly uncolorful girl come in for another melee strike -- but this time, he is prepared. Throwing one scissor hand up in a v-shape, he catches the haymaker and dispels the magic completely, pushing her backwards as he does so. He doesn't seem to do much damage with this effort, but at least she didn't get another chance to bang his fragile head around.

Unfortunately, his luck seems to run out after that counter, for the sword-boy comes back with two heavy strikes that slash him across the chest again, revealing his inner vortex before the fabric sutures it up once again, messier and messier still. The Shade cries out in pain, an inhuman rumbling that knocks some nearby shoes off their racks. This boy. This /boy/ -- what insolence!

And then, he is besieged by words from two of the remaining girls, interrupting the pleasant meal he gets from the Wind Knight's green energy. He can't understand them, of course. He is not human; doesn't even truly understand the concept of humanity. All he knows is that he is weakening, and their high-pitched sounds aren't helping.

Roaring again, the Shade decides to shut the yellow girl up with both a noose-neck tie and a tape measure lasso. This is as much to punish her as to spare her. He's saving her for last, and he can't have her interfering with what he's about to do.

He takes both scissor hands and holds their blades in a diamond shape. In the empty space between them, a small vortex appears, shooting out three of the color draining beams that the fighters have already faced. A mass color drain will weaken them nicely for his grand finale.

COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki has used Measuring Tape Lasso on Cure Peace. 
COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki has used Color Drain on Cute Wolf Tsukiko. 
COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki has used Color Drain on Endo Naoki. 
COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki has used Color Drain on Lingshen Chao. 
COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki has finished attacking.

COMBAT: Cure Peace fails to brace Mei Akatsuki's Measuring Tape Lasso, taking 11 Fatigue damage! Cure Peace is Quipped! Trap applied to Cure Peace!

COMBAT: Lingshen Chao narrowly dodges Mei Akatsuki's Color Drain, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Lingshen Chao's Flash ability activates! Cripple and Stun applied to Lingshen Chao!

COMBAT: Cute Wolf Tsukiko narrowly counters Mei Akatsuki's Color Drain, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! 
COMBAT: Cute Wolf Tsukiko's counterattack, Moonlight Growl, fails to get through, doing 0 Fatigue damage to Mei Akatsuki!

COMBAT: Endo Naoki fails to brace Mei Akatsuki's Color Drain, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Cripple and Stun applied to Endo Naoki!

Tsukiko snarls as the color draining beam hits her squarely, the force of her anger weakening the impact of the beam. "I take it you didn't like my pun?" she growls at the Shade. "I might not be good at flippant humor, but I *am* good at facing down evil!" She starts circling around, slowly gaining speed as she sizes him up for future attacks.

COMBAT: Cute Wolf Tsukiko has used Bark! on Mei Akatsuki. 
COMBAT: Cute Wolf Tsukiko has finished attacking.

COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki narrowly dodges Cute Wolf Tsukiko's Bark!, taking 3 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Cute Wolf Tsukiko is Psyched! Exhausted applied to Mei Akatsuki!

Endo is suddently less purple. He flinches when the color-draining beam strikes him, staggers and goes weapk in the knees. The thrum of light from his weapon seems to falter for a moment, bleeding off into a duller shade.

Endo doesn't like to complicate things though, so he sticks with what works. This time he jerks to the side, moving faster than he had before, raising his weapon in a blurry arc. His movement is definitely more sluggish than before, the strikes taking a noticeable effort as he hefts the sword.

COMBAT: Endo Naoki has used Asteroid Vision on Mei Akatsuki. 
COMBAT: Endo Naoki has finished attacking.

COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki fails to brace Endo Naoki's Asteroid Vision, taking 30 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit!

Cure Peace raises her arms to try to take the hit, but falters entirely, being flung back with a oomph..."This is hopeless....this is..." she doesn't finish that sentence as she tries to shake the feeling off, closing her eyes and bringing her hands out to either side of herself as she charges up energy into her hands.... then her body, it causes bits of her hair to stand on end for a moment...

"If you think...we're...going to let you steal the color of this mall.... then... you're... mistaken!" she says through wide, perhaps moist eyes. She's not in the best state right now... before she suddenly vanishes!? Well. less vanish, and moving at the speed of a lightning bolt straight smack dab into the thing suddenly with a burst of electricity, perhaps becoming the bolt itself just for a moment as her body collides with it, trying to knock it down for the others to take advantage of the opening, if she indeed makes one!

COMBAT: Cure Peace has used Flash Tackle on Mei Akatsuki. 
COMBAT: Cure Peace has finished attacking.

COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki perfectly counters Cure Peace's Flash Tackle, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Critical Counter! 
COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki's counterattack, Needle Sword, bursts all the way through, doing 37 Fatigue damage to Cure Peace! Cripple applied to Cure Peace!

Chao's 80-point haymaker does basically jack, the electrothaumic field dispersing with a precision strike. She staggers back from the forces involved, losing a few meters as she shakes out her hand. She's /fine/, physically, the suit's protecting her...but this isn't working out as well as she'd hoped. She's got to work on the suit, it's just not as versatile as it needs to be. She knows WHY, but...

Clenches her fist again, takes a moment to assess the scenario while she sinks into a proper, attack-ready Kenpo stance. "When it moves," she mutters. "Charge 100."

The glove beeps twice and then starts buzzing, while those diamond hands form. The beam comes, and she's off; she jukes to one side, leaping around a rack of polos; the beam narrowly misses. It's not enough to keep some of her colors bleeding off of her. The shirts are long since empty. It leaves her feeling winded, but at least she didn't eat the worst of the hit. She keeps pushing - feet hitting the floor, one after the other, eyes set. "I designed this outfit myself, you know! I don't appreciate your dumb edits!" The glove's buzzing ends, the charge complete.

"Then she roars, "CHARGE 130!"

The glove sparks dangerously, an obnoxious electric buzz filling the air as she plows right toward the Shade. She stops short in front of it - one foot landing, setting; the other coming down, setting; and her charged fist shooting forward, open-palmed, into the gut (such as it is) of the ghastly amalgam.

She makes a cry, a Chinese release. The electric discharge blows out a few lights; the force of the impact is enough to send the thing bouncing through the back wall of the store.

COMBAT: FINISHER! Lingshen Chao has used Overload Punch on Mei Akatsuki. 
COMBAT: Lingshen Chao has finished attacking.

COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki narrowly braces Lingshen Chao's Finisher, Overload Punch, taking 29 Fatigue damage! Mei Akatsuki's Block ability activates! Mei Akatsuki's Parry ability activates!

The Shade lets out a contented sigh as the (admittedly dull) colors rush into the vortex, though it probably sounds less contented and more gravelly. The vortex disappears as his hands move, and though he's not exactly *nourished*, seeing his opposition suffer so brought his spirits up. To demonstrate this, he turns his right arm into the needle sword and /smacks/ Cure Peace as she attempts to tackle him, somehow sensing her presence in the lightning volt. How she managed to move so quickly within the lasso is puzzling, but he doesn't worry. She will pay later.

The wolfgirl is talking at him again -- why hadn't he hit her with a noose yet? Grumbling as she runs about him, he conjures up dozens of needles in front of him, then threads a single red thread through them, making a trap for her ever-so-swift feet. Without a sound, he throws the makeshift net to the ground, waiting to see if the girl will entangle herself in it -- or if she is more capable than he had thought.

Speaking of capable, sword-boy has returned with a vengeance.

The Shade doesn't even manage to produce a guard before the purple sword slashes through him, producing a gaping wound on his chest. Thick, white threads attempt to stitch it back together, but it is all in vain. The cut is simply too wide, and after a second, the needle and threads flop listlessly towards the ground. Some duller colors begin to leak from the wound like blood. Unacceptable. With a cry of rage, the Shade swings his own sword back around, hoping to at last do some damage to this persistent threat.

That's when he hears the suited girl begin charging her attack.

He does not dismiss this one, even though he finds her lack of color unappetizing. This electric energy is unsettling as well -- the metal on his mannequin appendages would not handle it well. In desperation, he begins to knock over shelf after shelf, attempting to form a barricade before--

BOOM!

The girl's fist flies into him, only barely stopped by the toppled display racks. His mangled, patchwork body tumbles into the nearest wall, and his metal neck cracks and leans to one side, its fedora falling unceremoniously to the ground.

He is weakening. It is time.

Walking over slowly to the yellow girl, the Shade emits a very low-pitched growl, a menacing vortex of grey appearing where his sword used to be. It takes in whatever color is remaining in the store as he approaches Cure Peace. With his remaining hand, he stabs the scissor blades in a wide V around her neck before bringing the whirling Color Drain directly over her heart.

He is in bad shape, but this wonderful color will cure him without a doubt.

COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki has used Thread The Needle on Cute Wolf Tsukiko. 
COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki has used Needle Sword on Endo Naoki. 
COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki has used Color Blind on Lingshen Chao. 
COMBAT: FINISHER! Mei Akatsuki has used Ultra Color Drain on Cure Peace. 
COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki has finished attacking.

COMBAT: Cute Wolf Tsukiko narrowly dodges Mei Akatsuki's Thread The Needle, taking 7 Fatigue damage! Cute Wolf Tsukiko's Flash ability activates! Tangle applied to Cute Wolf Tsukiko!

COMBAT: Endo Naoki fails to brace Mei Akatsuki's Needle Sword, taking 40 Fatigue damage! Cripple applied to Endo Naoki!

COMBAT: Lingshen Chao fails to brace Mei Akatsuki's Color Blind, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Blind applied to Lingshen Chao!

COMBAT: Cure Peace narrowly braces Mei Akatsuki's Finisher, Ultra Color Drain, taking 18 Fatigue damage! Mei Akatsuki drains 7 fatigue from Cure Peace!

Tsukiko skitters past the needlework net, one foot landing on a needle and giving her a slight limp. She winces as Peace and the sword-wielder take massive hits, one by the gray vortex and the other by the Shade's sword.

Still, the Shade is weakening, and even with an injured foot Tsukiko can still go fast enough to turn into a blur. The wolfgirl dashes forward, turning into a silvery bolt as she slams toward's the center of the Shade.

COMBAT: FINISHER! Cute Wolf Tsukiko has used Silver Wolf Tackle on Mei Akatsuki. 
COMBAT: Cute Wolf Tsukiko has finished attacking.

COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki narrowly dodges Cute Wolf Tsukiko's Finisher, Silver Wolf Tackle, taking 39 Fatigue damage!

Endo couldn't avoid that sword forever. His own raises to meet it, but too slow. He's paid back nearly in full, one huge gash tearing at his Barrier Jacket, flinging the boy backward. As he groans and tries to push himself up he watches the Youma go in a direction away from him courtesy of Chao's fist. He takes advantage of the opportunity to take a break.

<KNIGHT. YOU ARE WOUNDED.>

"This thing needs to go away." He's very insistent about that. "Get the thing ready." He doesn't pursue the monster this time. He has a hard enough time pushing himself to his feet, using the sword to help him along. While he's working on that he concentrates, gripping the Device tight. Endo doesn't have a lot of mana left to give it, but he does his best to dig up what reserves he has.

<CHARGING.> Steam is leaking from vents in the metal, the device emitting a low hum as it begins to conduct the force necessary for what's to come.

COMBAT: Endo Naoki has used HYPE on Endo Naoki. 
COMBAT: Endo Naoki has finished attacking. 
COMBAT: Endo Naoki accepts Endo Naoki's HYPE, taking 0 Fatigue damage!

Cure Peace raises her arms against the onslaught....feeling her color being drained even more, she's despairing further...she closes her eyes and perhaps, even whimpers. This creature is aboulstely horrible. She hates it. She can't even equate the greyness to one of her black and white, mangas, at least that's enjoyable....and happy... she's slowly draining, almost black and white.... it looks like she might collapse!

BUT, there's Akane again, in the back of her head.... calling her a crybaby again. She keeps her eyes closed, Akane is right. She is one... but... just because you cry... you can still. Do something? Right?

She opens her eyes and raises a hand skyward.... "Pretty Cure.....!" a bolt of lightning rockets from the sky! (Don't ask how it gets through the ceiling without destroying it!), and hits her two fingers like so much of a lightning rod. She sort of ahhhhs! and seems surprised to be shocked so visibily! This doesn't stop her from spinning and charging up energy before leaping forward, throwing her arms out, with those two peace signs. "PEACE THUNDER!" she yells, on the verge of tears, but managining a tough front regardless..this thing needs to be stopped before it sucks all the joy out of this mall.

COMBAT: FINISHER! Cure Peace has used Peace Thunder on Mei Akatsuki. 
COMBAT: Cure Peace has finished attacking.

COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki fails to dodge Cure Peace's Finisher, Peace Thunder, taking 120 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit!

The Overcharge Punch is a pretty decisive piece of work, but it has a problem.

It's been used, now, and Chao stands there, stock still for a moment after the dramatic release of power. It takes a second for the suit's conductive fibers to reset properly after a hit like that. "Tch," she mutters. "Another weakness..." She clenches and unclenches her fist a few times, trying to get the dexterity back into the fibers. "It needs..."

She looks up. "He's still up!" she shouts, possibly unnecessarily; she tries to throw up her hands in a martial block, but the beam doesn't stream off the dispersion wavelength the way they should; instead drinking up the light cream of her uniform, leaving Chao swaying uneasily as the effect fades. "Ugh...how do you even defend against that," she mutters, helplessly. Nothing, except...

She takes a long, deep breath, and mutters, "Last tale...my magic scir magister. Casseiopeia!"

She mimes preparing for a move, and then she's just...gone. She vanishes with a little bip! and then she isn't there anymore.

Instead, she's /right there/ inside the creature's guard, color flowing back into her figure again and her fist slamming hard into its metal skeleton. "You get /nothing else,/" she demands.

COMBAT: Lingshen Chao has used Blink Striker on Mei Akatsuki. 
COMBAT: Lingshen Chao has finished attacking.

COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki narrowly braces Lingshen Chao's Blink Striker, taking 2 Fatigue damage! Mei Akatsuki's Block ability activates! Mei Akatsuki's Parry ability activates! Bind Break! All of Lingshen Chao's debuffs are cleared!

She...somehow resisted his color drain?

Before he has a chance to ponder this, he is struck from behind by a powerful, silver impact, and yet again by a bolt of blinding lightning. He screeches, needle teeth falling out of his mouth as his body slowly comes undone. The fabric of his chest tears away, helped along by the suited girl's continuing blows. His shoes all but disintegrate from the force of the electricity, leaving small piles of dust where they used to be. Finally, his already damaged metal neck snaps entirely, the head falling to the ground and rolling away slightly. All that's left of the shade is a worn, metal skeleton around a vortex of darkness, battered and broken.

But still alive.

Following his sole instinct, the Shade lets loose one last, desperate Color Drain, letting loose all of his power. Unlike before, this is totally silent, for his head sits lifelessly at his own feet, zipper mouth still open and contorted from his last scream.

COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki has used Color Drain on Cute Wolf Tsukiko. 
COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki has used Color Drain on Endo Naoki. 
COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki has used Color Drain on Lingshen Chao. 
COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki has used Color Drain on Cure Peace. 
COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki has finished attacking.

COMBAT: Cute Wolf Tsukiko fails to counter Mei Akatsuki's Color Drain, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Cute Wolf Tsukiko is Taunted! Cripple and Stun applied to Cute Wolf Tsukiko! 
COMBAT: Cute Wolf Tsukiko's counterattack, Moonlight Growl, fails to get through, doing 0 Fatigue damage to Mei Akatsuki!

COMBAT: Endo Naoki narrowly dodges Mei Akatsuki's Color Drain, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Cripple applied to Endo Naoki!

COMBAT: Lingshen Chao fails to dodge Mei Akatsuki's Color Drain, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Cripple and Stun applied to Lingshen Chao!

<READY.> Fallen Stern reports.

Endo straightens, leaning his weight off of the sword, finding balance on his own feet again. His head cranes between the three girls left on the battlefield. Some of them are in better shape than him, one of them much worse. He's not doing great himself, and this thing-this dishrag...

Well. He can't let this go on. The others have done most of the job, but he's going to be sure. He has to do his part.

"Hey!" Because he might as well let the Youma--and everyone else--know what's coming. "Move!"

The muted gray wisps around his sword explode into something close to their natural vibrancy, fighting desperately back against the monochrome wave. It's a huge light; it'd probably light up half the mall if it weren't for the creature's influence. The sword is raised high overhead as Endo leaps through the wave of gray, both hands bringing it down toward the creature's head. Arcane symbols flash across its surface, and all of that mana he'd pumped into it is released in one final stroke.

COMBAT: FINISHER! Endo Naoki has used Planet Crusher on Mei Akatsuki. 
COMBAT: Endo Naoki has finished attacking.

COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki accepts Endo Naoki's Finisher, Planet Crusher, taking 101 Fatigue damage! Mei Akatsuki is unable to keep fighting!

Tsukiko pivots to face the Shade, snarling to try to armor herself against the gray IT'S STILL ATTACKING WITHOUT ITS HEAD WHAT THE?!?!? Unnerved by the weird physiology of the youma, she's glad when the swordswinger demolishes what's left of the scraps of fabric and such.

Keeping an eye on the Shade, just in case it somehow stands back up, the wolfgirl circles over to Cure Peace. "You okay?" she quietly asks her friend, hugging the yellow-clad magical girl.
The super-powered sword finds its mark, and the Shade is, at last, split in two.

Immediately, its metal framework disintegrates, the various bits and bobs still attached to it falling to the floor, returned to their mundane state. Similarly, the mannequin head loses its grotesque face, buttons and zipper dropping lifelessly away. Where the huge monster used to be is a small, imp-like shadow. It makes a few pitiful whimpers before collapsing in on itself, a sparkle of magnificent color erupting upward in its place.

But...not all is right.

The store is still grey-and-white, all color drained away. A look outside into the mall shows that it is in similar condition -- and though the magical fighters were not drained of all their color, they are still faded unnaturally, as though they were faded portraits of themselves. The color energy continues to sparkle in the center of the store, but it does not appear to be rejoining its surroundings on its own.

COMBAT: Cure Peace fails to brace Mei Akatsuki's Color Drain, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Cure Peace is Taunted! Cripple and Stun applied to Cure Peace! 
COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki is unable to keep fighting!

COMBAT: Mei Akatsuki transforms into Prism Keeper Red!

"Quickly, Keeper Red! Or we'll be too late!"

Mei's bird friend squawks at her side, flapping desperately to keep up with the sprinting girl. How -- how had they not /detected/ this?! She would have been completely in the dark had she not seen with her own eyes a portion of the mall go grey. "I'm going as fast as I can! Remember, it's /your/ job to help me find these things. I just hope we're not--"

Several incredibly bright lights and massive impacts from inside a nearby men's wear store stop her in her tracks. She blinks. Apparently someone else took care of it for her.

Cautiously, the bright red girl looks inside, Color Wand at the ready. Sure enough, the place is completely torn up, with four somewhat faded magical warriors inside as well.

Sweatdrop.

Blushing in embarrassment, Red steps inside, gesturing to indicate the cloud of raw color energy. "I...I can fix that."

Chao, for her part, is panicking about having just blown her big trump card to NOT THAT SIGNIFICANT EFFECT THANK YOU and -- then it just does it to her again.

FROWN. But what's she gonna do, the system's at it's limit--!

Cue Endo blowing the thing away, and Chao finally just lets herself limp over to a wall and lean against it, wheezing. She squints at the glimmering aurora of color. "Not returning on its own," she mutters. "That's...new. It usually--"

Prism Red shows up. Chao laughs, raising a weak hand. The suit's getting heavy, that's no good. "You missed the party," she notes.

Cure Peace manages to weakly hug Cute Wolf Tsukiko. "I..I'll be okay." she manages to say in a shaky voice... then this odd red magical girl appears and color is back, even hers! This makes her a little happy, but she does blink..

"What was that thing?" she asks, sort of tapping two index fingers in front of her a moment, she asks to the new arrival.

Tsukiko gives Cure Peace an encouraging smile, then nods a hello to Prism Keeper Red, adding a thankful smile as the colors are restored. "I take it this was a kind of foe that you're familiar with?" she asks the newcomer. Having the colors faded out is rather unnerving, but knowing someone who knows what's going on is encouraging -- if something is no longer unknown, then it loses some of its power over you.

Not by much, but sometimes even just a little is enough.

"Oh, Tsukiko! Hey! Sorry...didn't see you from out here," Red says, a rather weak excuse. Truth is, it's kind of hard to recognize people who've been severely color drained, especially when the backdrop is so completely grey. This Shade must have been around for a while before the other four got to it.

"Yeah, that thing is -- was -- is? Called a Shade," she stumbles over her words, trying to figure out how to refer to a dead member of a much larger species of monster. "I'm sorry. I really should have been here to help. I hope no one got too hurt," the girl says before she sees Cure Peace, who looks /dangerously/ low on color. She lets out an almost inaudible gasp of concern, then holds her Chroma Wand out in front of her. The reservoir of color rushes into the exposed Chroma Crystal immediately, and after a second of charging, the energy explodes outwards, almost knocking Red off her feet. That Shade had gotten a /lot/ of color before it went down.

"Well, everything's back to normal now, though I have no idea what I'm gonna do about all this damage," she trails off, looking around at the toppled shelves and shredded clothing.

Cure Peace ums... "We typically...don't worry about that?" she asks. "Usually...it kinda just...handles itself?" she asks looking over a Cute Wolf Tsukiko. She always found that kinda weird, she doesn't question it. "But we should probably go before too many people come investigating..." she says, she does however, accept more of her color back. Yay, yellow. She still looks kind of overwhelmed!

She's also making a mad dash because... OH NO HER SHOES, WHERE DID SHE LEAVE THEM!? ;_;

Chao nonchalantly sets her suit to record data on this because wowee this is going to look great on the paper she's never going to get to publish or probably even really write. "Don't worry about the damage," Chao says, watching it all flow around. She looks at Cure Peace, jerking her head in her direction. "Most times, when a monster like that gets beaten, things fix themselves. It's weird, usually that includes energy drains..." She hems for a few seconds, briefly considering Red's Wand with the unsettling professional interest of the career Scary Researcher.

Her glove beeps at her, and she looks down at it before her eyes bug out. "That is a single-digit power gauge," she breathes, alarmed. "Uh, good...luck! Bye!"

And then she takes off like a shot before her suit turns off and something terrible probably happens.

Tsukiko listens to Red's explaination, keeping the information in mind for the next time a Shade is encountered. "So drained color is bad, and the heavier the drain, the worse it is?" she checks, making sure she understands the basics. "Anything else special about them?"

Out of the corner of her eye she watches Cure Peace scamper off. Tsukiko makes a note to herself to check up on her later, just to make sure she's fully recovered.

Red nods, her Chroma Wand disappearing in a burst of red light.

"Drained color is very bad. It seems to be linked somehow to the energy that keeps people alive...though I don't think they're exactly the same thing? It's weird. In truth, I haven't been doing this for very long. The Shades only started attacking recently," she explains, carefully leaving out the part where the Shades were all her fault in the first place. "Environments just get grey, but people seem to suffer a lot from it. I've never seen a person get completely drained, so I don't know what happens then. That one girl over there looked kinda close," she gestures to where Cure Peace used to be, only to see that she's already made her escape. Welp. "But I guess she's fine now, so it's no big deal. I don't think there are any extended effects from getting drained as long as you get your color back."

Red shrugs when Tsukiko asks her other question. "I don't know much about them other than that. They really don't like getting attacked by pure color energy, but since I'm the only Prism Keeper..." She trails off, hoping that Tsukiko will make the connection. "I'll try really hard to hunt them down before they get this bad again, promise."
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