Event || Once Upon A Dream

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Who: All characters who signed-up!
When: May 31st - June 04th
Where: The Dream Width (+ Curti Center & Airships)
What: Event log for the Once Upon A Dream Event! Should your character have their own memory, start your own top-level with said memory. If not, then tag around in other characters's memories! Furthermore, feel free to use the Mingle threads at the Curti Center and in the Airships for non-memory related CR. Please refer to the OOC Post for details and plotting. Plot Memories and the second Airship Mingle will be unlocked on May 25th.
Warnings/Notes: Memories with specific warnings will be marked as such by their players.

Please use the following form for your memory's title line:
CHARACTER'S NAME | MEMORY TITLE | WARNINGS (IF ANY)
We will add links to your memories here as the event progresses!

Mingle: Curti Center | Airships #1 | Airships #2
Plot Memories: The Dream | The Nightmare | The Premonition
Holographic Messages

Adrien Agreste | Then and Now
Aqua | Thorny Pathway | cw: spoiler for kh 0.2
Castor | Lord of the Inferno | cw: fire, mind control
Ena | Zera Hamlet, Reprise | cw: mutilated corpses
Futaba Sakura | Early Days | cw: references to verbal abuse/neglect and auditory hallucinations
Ignis Scientia | For The Life of the Chosen | cw: spoilers, violence, death
Irhya Pendhula | The Parting Glass | cw: violence, amputation
Johnny D'Amico | United Earth Prisoner
Kanji Tatsumi | You're a BOY, you know! | cw: bullying, mild homophobia
Lelouch vi Britannia | Julius Kingsley
Monika | Just Monika | cw: spoilers, possible horror, possible deletion
Nanamo Ul Namo | A Good Memory
Noctis Lucis Caelum | Light of the Crystal | cw: chapter 13 spoilers
Okuyasu Nijimura | Lending a Hand | cw: blood/injuries
Prompto Argentum | I'm not one of your experiments! | cw: episode prompto spoilers
Selphie | The Answer | cw: gore/death
Takashi 'Shiro' Shirogane | The end of the beginning | cw: end of season 2 spoilers
Tidus | A Broken Dream | cw: death, bullying

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[spaceforged]

The level of power coming from Noctis isn't the most worrying part of the whole situation. Noctis looks to be getting closer and closer to an enraged state. The moment he reaches it he'll be blinded by it. He doesn't know him well enough to snap him out of it.

Shiro transforms the bayard into a shield. It holds up to demonic assault a s the world fades out and fades back in. He lowers his weapon. Silver blue light washes over it shaping it into a sword over his right arm. He comes up to Noctis right side and touches his arm. "Easy. This is a memory and we need to talk to him to discern why you can't wake up."

He stares at the man unable to shake how he'd looked when blackness had oozed down his face. Shiro breathes in. "This world shaped from memory...What do you really represent in it? You're not in the next part. Yet you're conscious."

[warpstriking]

"Why, what awaits, of course." Ardyn's smug grin does not budge as he speaks, waving the arm with the black wing-like shield as though it were a dismissal. "After all, we are so very alike..."

Both were chosen, but one rejected and the other ordained. Noct's hands clench into fists. "I am nothing like you," he mutters darkly. "Unlike you, I still love our people. Knows what it's like... You are blinded by your own spite, a slave to the dark."

"And yet, it is you who are trapped." Ardyn points out, eyes glowing with malice despite his bored expression. "A prisoner of fate destined to die for the sake of thousands upon thousands... I wonder how many will be left by the time you are ready and- ah, but that would mean being capable of leaving, would it not? And you are so very trapped by more than the Draconian's game."

"Shut up!" Shiro may want to let go of his arm, so he doesn't get shocked. "Quit screwing with my head!"

...What was that little chirping noise that accompanied the groan from outside?

[spaceforged]

He narrows his eyes and takes a step forward. Shiro releases Noctis's arm as his voice cuts through the air with the ring of authority. "Alright, so you're just going to repeat something similar to last time. Good to know." His temper is set lower than his friend's but it's still there in his darkened eyes.

It would be a mistake to get close to someone that could stab him with their blades from a distance. Even with the bayard's protection.

He pauses, raising an eyebrow. "Did you hear that chirp?"

[warpstriking]

"That is up to Noct," he replies with a shrug. "After all, it is his-"

Noctis blinks, pulling out a phone from his pocket. Blinking at the screen a few times.

"What are you doing?" Ardyn inquires, but a tiny little growl and yip answer in response. A small fox...thing? appearing in front of the two of them, ruby lights forming around him as it yips again. "-'buncle?" Noctis' mouth opens slightly, but he looks at the phone screen again. Two more messages popping up on the screen.

I've got you, buddy!
Don't worry, Noct. You aren't alone.
You have friends here who will help where I can't.

"Carbuncle!" he cries out as the little devil charges and lunges at Ardyn's face, buying time for the Big Guy. It brings Noctis to his knees as he clutches his head with one hand, eyes glowing the same red-violet they always do when-

Little blue lights form in the air around them, separate from the light of the Crystal. Thunder resounds from outside, and with the speed of a lightning strike, a large staff with the head of a strange unicorn slams through the catwalk between Shiro and Ardyn. The resulting lightning storm seems to do nothing to either of them, but with a final chirp, the memories fade into space.

Let's play together again soon!

[spaceforged]

Things happen so fast Shiro barely has time to stuff his bayard back on his hip before it all goes to hell. He turns on the catwalk as something small appears. He puts it out of his head when Noctis sinks to his knees. He drops to his own, reaching out to brace him when...

there's really no way to describe it. One moment lights are rising around them like sparks. The next a staff so vast it could pin the Black Lion to the ground slams into the catwalk and cuts it half.

He breathes as they return to space, and is inwardly grateful for his armor. It will make what he has to do that much easier. He grabs for Noctis shoulders and shoves him back towards the ship in one fast motion.

He can feel the nebula forming already. He's worried what he'll see. What memory will rise up? But he still smiles. "Don't worry. Space pilot, remember?"

[warpstriking]

The moment they find themselves free of the nebula, he realizes the hand that held the phone now holds another, smaller item. Tiny and pale blue, red little crystal on its forehead.

"Carbuncle," he mutters quietly, but before he could bring it to his chest, he feels a pair of hands pushing him away. In an instant, he recalls what brought him into his memories in the first place.

Relief flashes in his eyes as Ignis opens his, smiling faintly. But, he knows it wouldn't work. That they could both die if they're exposed to the Dream Width too long without the protection of memories—

He'd pushed him to the safety of an airship, too. Told him he'd see him again soon... Panic sparks to life in his eyes as he sees the nebula reforming around his new friend, as he flails against the momentum to reach him. No... No!

"Damn, sonova-" He doesn't finish that thought, reaching out with his free hand as if to grab him from the nebula before it fully forms, but his fingers touch nothing but empty matter. Not again. Not again—! He can't see this again even if it's with someone he barely knows in comparison...!

His back soon hits the floor of the airlock on the airship. Noctis hisses, grimacing as he takes hold of the side as it automatically closes and begins to pressurize. "Shiro- Shiro!"