lostcarnival | ⇨ FAERIE TALES

Despite the fact she is losing control of the water in a way that makes no sense to her at all, she can't help but be satisfied by the way that Jasper falls apart. She doesn't even think about grabbing the gemstone this time. That part was worth it.

Besides, the lapis lazuli is the one moving around the water, at the moment. It seems unnatural, but hey. She's always been very fluid when dealing with new circumstances.

Lapis may have the water but that doesn't mean Lapis has her.

She laughs, and then leaps out of the water, using long strands of seaweed to hover instead. She takes the Vorpal Sword in the arm that still remains.

"What do you think?" she asks Lapis. "Two out of two?"

Peridot splashes down next to Lapis as she yanks the water back towards her, landing back on the floor with a splutter in time to catch the tail end of Herbert's narration. Jasper's gem is laying nearby, but she doesn't get the chance to look at it closely enough to realize it's damaged. Besides which, she has bigger fish to fry.

Her face contorts with rage when she sees the fae holding the sword, and then threatening Lapis of all things. She stands up, looking rather bedraggled with her triangle hair all wilted from being waterlogged, and holds up a hand.

"The fae failed to understand that though she held the sword, she would never be able to wield it properly; this was because the sword had come to this fight along with the hero to serve a purpose, and until that purpose was served, it would always resist the fae, and come back to the hero when she called!"

And as she narrates, she attempts to YANK the sword out of the fae's hand with her metal powers. Should've kept it tangled with your hair, dingus.

The swords flies out of her hand. For the first time, the Lady of the Lake is starting to look annoyed. It's not that big a deal, but geez.

"Why do you keep saying everything out loud like that?" she asks, putting her hand on her hip. "It's a bit odd."

It's at this point that Sans looms out of the shadows, his jaw blazing with magical energy. It has take a while to get control of himself after getting seaweed in his skull, but it looks like he's finally had time to charge that laser of his.

He lets it loose on the Lady of the Lake, but this time at MAXIMUM POWER.

Or something.

WHAT THE ACTUAL HECK, SANS.

In an attempt to help, Alphys cups her hands to her mouth and shouts: "AND THE BRIGHT BEAM OF SHINING JUSTICE HIT THE LADY DEAD ON!"

Yeah, no, Lapis is, surprisingly on key with The lady for this. It is exceptionally weird, honestly. But then there's a bright blue laser zooming past her to hit the Fae, and anything Lapis could have possibly said or done is now a moot point.

Instead, Lapis makes a sweeping motion with her arm, and she attempts to gather every single person present in what water she has.

And book it as fast as she can. Like, fast enough that she doesn't consider that MAYBE SOME OF THEM NEED TO BREATHE.

Alphys has her mouth open right as the wave pool of doom hits her. So that's fun. She just sorta flails uselessly as she's carried along.

Herbert, thankfully, drank the total bullshit potion and is therefore safe from drowning, but he's fairly irritated that now he's unable to speak and continue to control the story. He drops the fake sword and holds onto his glasses with both hands.

It takes until his breathing reflex kicks in to notice Herbert's elixir worked, at which point he's going to like... try to swim around or at least use this GIANT SKELETON DOG THAT'S ALSO IN HERE as hand holds so he can get close enough to the surface to try to see what's going on.

Edited 2018-05-29 04:36 (UTC)

Peridot at least has the foresight to zap the vorpal sword back into her gauntlet, so that it doesn't slice a bunch of people in half while swirling around inside of Lapis's crazy water bubble. She does not, unfortunately, have the sense to try and signal to the other gem that some of these guys need to breathe.

While she's at it, she'll snatch Jasper's gem up as it floats past her.

At the speed Lapis is going, it doesn't take long at all for her to hit the carnival grounds.

Literally.

She goes ass over tea kettle, and eats dirt as she slides to a stop on carnival grounds. Where she just lays there, for the moment, dazed and absolutely confused. The waterball thankfully pops when Lapis first hits the ground, leaving everyone soaked, but at least they get a significantly lighter landing than Lapis does.

You're welcome.

A bedraggled Peridot hauls herself back up to her feet fairly quickly. The last part of that fight was so touch-and-go, she's still carrying herself with the adrenaline from that, ready for a fight in case the Lady was somehow the one responsible for making them crash and this thing turns out to not be over just yet.

But no. It's easy enough to see that they're not out in the athenaeum anymore. They're back on carnival turf, and a quick glance around (or, at her hand, in Jasper's case) confirms that everyone in their group is still present and accounted for.

So they did it. They actually pulled it off. The narrative magic worked just like the Scribe and the Curator said it would, and their team staged a successful rescue AND got a bit of payback in against a true fae. She can scarcely believe it?

Her eyes fall on her fellow gem last, and with a jolt, Peridot rushes over to her, clawed feet splashing through the mud and the puddles left behind by the bursting water bubble. Overjoyed and overwhelmed with relief, she calls out to her:

"LAPIS!"

Sans hits the ground with a clatter. It takes a bit for him to pick himself up, being careful not to squash any of the people that were hanging onto his bones. Well, that was some wild shit.

Though it would have been nice to see what actually happened after he blasted the Lady of the Lake like that. He's pretty sure he hit, but to what end?

Getting back onto all fours, he sighs and then shakes himself dry - right on top of everyone else.

Too busy spitting out all that water that potion let him "breathe" to care about getting sprinkled more.

In this trying and wet time, Herbert doesn't even have the sweet fire wings any more to soothe himself. Also, he can't clean his glasses because everything he has on him right now is drenched. He sits up, pulls them off of his face and shakes them furiously by the arms before putting them back on, anyway. May as well make the attempt.

He'll be so irritated if this ruins a second suit.

"We should all, go to the medical tent," he points out, and rolls to shove himself up onto his feet. "Especially Lapis. And Jasper." He squints at the orange gem in Peridot's hand. Is she ok or.... It was just light, right? He assumes she reforms somehow?

Alphys is jammed in between two of Sans' ribs when the water bubble collapses, and his shaking doesn't quite knock her loose, so on top of almost drowning, now she's being shaken wildly. She doesn't remember which way is up.

"Oh my god, am I dead?"

Lapis, for her part, just sort of. Slumps, from her bad landing, into the ground a little more. Idly, she can hear Peridot call her name, and she lifts herself to look in the direction of the other gem.

"Hi."

She definitely seems. A little spooked.

Yeah Peridot doesn't care that she looks spooked. She's going to keep on nyooming over there, not even really acknowledging the water that Sans is cascading down onto everyone, or Herbert's insistence that they move to the medical tent. Lapis is getting that fucking hug that she should have given her a few days ago, after that conversation out in the athenaeum.

She barrels right into Lapis, and throws her arms around her.

Lapis' face kind of scrunches as Peridot launches herself at her, and her skin ripples like water where the contact is made. She doesn't hug her back, but her eyes start watering.

And then she sniffs and makes a choked noise, like she's trying to keep from crying herself. She lasts this way for only a few seconds before she caves, and her arms fly up to cling to Peridot in return, clutching the smaller Gem against her body as tight as she can.

Done scrubbing water from his face and now trying to ruffle the water out of his own hair as he watches these gems cry on each other from a ways away.

"Hhhaah... well, that was almost fun.."

Peridot fails to notice the rippling effect, or the fact that Lapis is presently naked. She's preoccupied with clinging to Lapis, the both of them sitting there crying in the mud together while Peridot babbles at a breakneck pace.

"I'm so sorry, I heard you were in trouble on the radio and I tried to come to you but I didn't make it in time--"

It's just going to keep going on. Like that.

Alphys finally slips out from between Sans' ribs and lands in a puddle with an undignified splash, but she doesn't care, because she's watching Peridot and Lapis with rapt attention. She ships it.

"Can we please do this in the Medical Tent!?" Herbert finally says, loudly. "We have no idea what that Lady did to, those two women and I would prefer to start that examination as well as treat this entire, fighting party while you two reunite instead of all of us just standing here!" He makes a big, sideways shooing gesture with both of his arms. "You can hug as much as you want once we're there."

Sans watches Alphys squeeze out of his ribs, vaguely lifting a leg to accommodate her doing so. He hadn't actually realized she was still there when shaking, whoops.

Most importantly, though, it seems like he has a chance to make everyone shut up, at least for a little while. With a rumble, he moves towards Lapis and Peridot.

Without any interruptions, he'll teleport the gems and Herbert to the med tent. A moment later he'll disappear and then bring the rest with him in a second trip. He wavers just a little bit after doing so.

"Everybody good?" he asks, but he isn't really looking for an answer. "Cool. I'm crashing here."

He loudly flops onto the ground next to the tent, curling up to sleep.

It's a good thing Sans does something because Peridot looks about ready to bite Herbert's head off when he interrupts. Like, she opens her mouth to say something nasty, and then this big ol' skeleton wolf is moving towards them and totally derails her train of thought."

"Wha--"

Bwip. And suddenly they're in the medical tent. ALRIGHT THEN? She's been so worried, why can't you people just let her have this moment!? Peridot clings a little tighter to Lapis, and resumes scowling at Herbert, deciding to lay off Sans and just let sleeping bone-wolves lie for the time being.

"Do you mind just giving us a moment?!" she snaps. "It's not like there's a whole lot you can do for them anyway! Jasper was just destabilized, I have her gem right here, so we can just set her aside until she decides to refor--"

Peridot doesn't finish the rest of that thought, because when she holds the gem in question up for Herbert to see, she finally catches sight of the nick in it, and her eyes bug out in horror.

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