lostcarnival | Arrivals and Plenty of Confusion [Closed]

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Arrivals and Plenty of Confusion [Closed]

Who: Yuzu, Yuya and Gongenzaka later on
When: Day 159, before the spell goes off
Where: The carnival
What: Yuzu has arrived in the carnival as the new cashier and a promise of answers. Juuuuust that there may be a few complications...
Warnings: Regularly dopey stuff involving these three?

Yuzu felt a little annoyed. There was a tournament going on and she really needed to go back. But, she couldn't do it now. Mostly because it seemed that it was fine hanging back a little while. Especially with what she had experienced before. Oh, well, it was time to be a cashier. Can't be too hard, can it? And it was essentially payment for figuring out what's going on with everything she's witnessed the past few weeks.

Of course, it's not all that simple. Especially since certain people were out and about as Yuzu mindlessly wandered the carnival, seeing what they had so far.

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Oh, God.

Yuya's head starts to fall apart too when he hears that. It's like when he found Gongenzaka, but worse, because she doesn't know anything. Not about Academia, Synchro, Leo, who they are... she doesn't know about the past few weeks of chaos before walking into the carnival. He knew different timea were possible, but he wasn't prepared for the extreme as it leaves him breathless.

"But..." He furrows his brow. He doesn't know how to begin to explain this. But an entertainer knows how to think on their feet and they now how to respond to their audience, so Yuya just goes with his instinct and just starts talking.

"Aha... You haven't heard how things work here, have you? Sorry! I haven't seen you in months. Because I've been working here."

He'll let that sink in first.

Okay, she lets it sink in first. And her first reaction is to smack him with her trademark paper fan.

"Yuya Sakaki! We're in the middle of a tournament, something's wrong with one of our friends and you decide to disappear and work here? For months?!" she shouted.

Okay, she's working here, too, but her reasons are important, Yuya!

Let that sink in a little too long! Yuya is promptly smacked, his teeth snapping together in on overdramatic reaction. It's also very successful in getting him to let go.

"But I didn't disappear! Time just... stops outside the carnival or something. I go back exactly when I came from. I didn't--I won't miss the tournament."

He absently rubs his head. "Are you just visiting? I don't think performances even started yet..."

The fan is put away as she shakes her head, twin tails shaking as she did.

"No, I'm actually working here." She stated. "Cashier for one year. Though it's going to be weird if you're right about time here."

Yuya sputters with indignance. That's what she just hit him with a fan for!

"Oh, I'm an acrobat." He stuffs his hands casually back in his pockets, like he didn't just have an emotional outburst on her five minutes ago. "What'd you sign up for?"

Hypocrisy, thy name is Yuzu.

"Cashier." She said. "Feels weird, though. Like it fits me..." She can't help but laugh. "Yeah, right! Me and money...!"

"No, I meant your contract!" He gestures wildly. It's absolutely nosy, what Yuzu considers worth a year tilling at a fairy carnival... but he really wants to know. "What'd you ask for?"

"Oh, that...!" Yuzu said. "Well... I want answers. That boy that looks like you and what went wrong with Sora... I just want to know. I hate being left out like this!"

Yuya has all those answers and then some, but they're caught in his throat. He glances aside briefly, pursing his lips.

"Well, did she tell you anything?" How far does he play dumb? Should he? Yuzu deserves to know, but Yuya doesn't have the words to make it easier.

"No, not yet." Yuzu said, shaking her head again. "She said it would take time to figure everything out. I guess it's a lot more than I thought."

Yuya laughs nervously. "Yeah, I guess so..."

That's probably a huge understatement. But he holds up a smile. He doesn't know how he's even going to begin to explain things. "We've got time to figure it out. That's pretty lucky, or else you'd miss the tournament too!"

He points back the way he came with a grin. "And Gongenzaka's here! He's patrol for the carnival."

"Gongenzaka, too?" Yuzu said, surprised. At this point, she isn't sure if she should be relieved or annoyed at this revelation, but at least the three of them were here.

"Yeah, he--" Yuya pauses, staring blankly in the distance for a moment. Before he finds Gongenzaka there's... something to explain. So he turns back to Yuzu. "You've heard about the way the carnival... changes people, right?"

If she didn't know about the schism in time, though, he's going to assume 'no'.

Yuzu shook her head at that. "Nuh-uh..."

And then, it dawned on her.

"Yuya, what happened?"

"Don't worry!" That is absolutely a precursor to something to worry about. Still, Yuya moves to put his hands on her shoulders with a grin. He hopes his ease (or attempt at least) will help settle her as well.

"Being here a long time makes weird stuff happen to your body. Gongenzaka is still the same Gongenzaka as before, he's just--covered in fur."

That is the least alarming part of what happened to him. "And plants."

"Plants? And fur?!"

Okay, this was way too weird!

"Yuya, I expected something like that out of you! How did Gongenzaka get like that?! I...!" She's not leaving either of you out of her sight!

"I think that's something that he should explain to you," Yuya says with a wink. Partly because the reason is horrific and tragic and he doesn't want to tell Yuzu in Gon's place, when Gon had avoided telling Yuya at first.

"But he's been here for a while. I bet we can find him by the lake." Probably meditating or practicing his spell. There's no way finding him isn't going to be weird, is it? Oh well, they might as well get it over with quickly.

He points forward, his other hand grabbing for Yuzu's wrist to gently tug her along. "It's right behind the trailers!"

"Oh, well... alright. Let's get this over with!" Yuzu uttered. She was not going to like this, even as Yuya tugged her along. Whatever happened to just simple happy greetings, huh? What mess did she get into?

Yuya laughs as he leads the way. "Don't say it like it's a bad thing! It surprised me at first, too, but it's really him!"

What mess indeed. Yuya's bright and bubbly, but it's hard to think of Gongenzaka's changes now without thinking of why he's like that. He glances over his shoulder to Yuzu--of course she's still there, if she's signed for a year the Ringmaster won't let her disappear just anywhere. But he takes the reassurance to steel himself.

He turns back forward, because he doesn't know how to school his features to be as comforting as his voice. "He's been here longer, so he probably misses you too and... sometimes things get dangerous. So we should stay close together." His hand squeezes gently for a moment.

To be fair, a lot of Yuzu's freaking out is out of concern - these are her dear friends and they're doing all of this? Of course she's going to be weirded out and yelling at them. Though that gentle squeeze does cause her to calm down just a tad.

"Alright. I believe you..."

[Gongenzaka is, in fact, meditating, which brings an unfortunate number of New Things to the table as the others approach the lake. Had he been practicing his reiraku spell, he would have known they were coming-perhaps he could have...prepared. Instead however, it is energy focus he trains in, an aura of ice blue gleaming off his body like fire as he meditates in the center of the lake...

Sitting on his four legs like a regal sphinx, while his arms hold the proper and peaceful position above forepaws-his ears still, his eyes, shadowed by a dark mask, closed...And his only movement the flowers and leaves of his body, gently moving in the wind of his own soul.

....He changed, just a little.]

Yuya knew it. He's not surprised to see him in the middle of the lake, but he remembers what happened last time he broke Gon's concentration--so he doesn't call out to him just yet.

Instead he steps to the side so Yuzu can see, putting a finger to his lips as he turns to her as if that's at all going to stop her reaction to what a sight he is to behold.

"There he is! He's been practicing how to do that lately. Pretty cool, right?"

Yuzu can't help but gaze in awe at Gongenzaka's form. He's like some sort of dog! And that magic... whatever frustrations she had were put tinto the wayside as she continued to watch.

"Is... is that what may happen to me?" She asked, curiously.

[One would certainly hope not, considering what it took to get there. Gongenzaka doesn't break his full focus just yet, either-but that does not mean the duo is alone. What looks to be an odd pink bulldog on two legs sniffs at them from where she's slipped away from her trainer's pokeball, mossy collar and bow contrasting cutely.]

....Snuh!!

"Uh, I hope not." But now he's absolutely imagining Yuzu as a giant, furry dogtaur, and he just stares blankly for a moment before shaking the thought off. "We can turn into almost anything... even smoke! But nobody seems to be hurting from being changed?"

That's how he reassures himself anyway. He doesn't want to dunk Gongenzaka in water, again, so he holds off getting his attention to show Yuzu the other oddity attached to their friend.

"Hi, Suzu!" And just like he does with his pets, he reaches to pick her up. "This is Gongenzaka's--pet, I guess?" He has little idea what Pokemon are or aren't, but he's definitely assuming 'pet'.

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HERE HAVE SUZU FOR NOW

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