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 Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2012 7:03 pm
"This is the Shibuya River where Reapers come out to play" the brother answered his sister.
Beat was waiting for either Joshua or Pi-Face to make a move when Neku suddenly hugged him from behind. He was definitely caught off guard, especially when he thought they were in danger.
"For real? He ain't fakin' or nothin'?"
It was a little hard to believe Pi-Face was harmless but Neku seemed to think it was ok. Facing Yoshiya Kiryu, The Composer, Beat held his sister closer to him in a defensive manner. After his explanation, the blonde eased up a bit before looking to Neku, awaiting his answer to Joshua.
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Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2012 8:40 pm
Rhyme felt safer around Beat, and she was glad he wasn't at home, goofing off and being Beat. Joshua's explanation of the situation didn't seem to be safe, no, not at all, but she also felt that Joshua was being a little sincere with his words... and that Beat would be here for her if she needed him.
The girl looked at Shiki, then at Neku, to Joshua, then at her brother. Staying silent, she silently wondered what might be going on. If the River was "where the Reapers come out to play," why were they here? Wasn't it a little dangerous to be out like this? In the UG?
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Jingu Omikami Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 9:09 pm
(Sorry, I don't have a picture of Rhythm yet, I'm still working on it.)
"Oh what a beautiful symphony..."
Standing dead center in the middle of the Scramble Crossing was a solitary Reaper. He looked around with a sense of accomplishment as people in the RG groaned like zombies, as if all feelings of positivity had left their body. This could have only been done by the countless Noise that were buzzing around the Scramble Crossing like an enormous swarm of bees. Some of the people in the RG were filled with such negativity that they became violent; broke windows of random buildings, shouted at and attacked each other. It was utter chaos.
"Where are you, you offbeat Players? Come and meet the welcoming party...Perhaps this song isn't loud enough for you to hear..."
The Reaper's clenched fist loosened to reveal a black pin, with graffiti making the image of a sheep's head.
"Yes you'll do fine."
The pin activated and released the Ovis Cantus into Scramble Crossing, consequently causing flashes of lightning to spark.
"You're the Noise Form of one of predecessors, Yodai Higashizawa, aren't you? It was a real chore adding you to my playlist. Now then, do as I say and make a racket. Let everyone in the UG know that I, Rhythm, want to have a memorable game..."
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Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 9:55 pm
"Well, I'm glad for your cooperation. Neku? Yoohoo? Are you awake? Let's go back towards the--"
Something pulled in Yoshiya's chest - He could feel something breaking. Looking at the sky, He noticed the sky had darkened once more. He winced, and quickly spoke.
"Neku, do you feel something? Something's telling me we should leave the River... That something tells me something is happening, away from the River. Come."
He looked at Sho once, then locked eyes with Neku.
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Akari Ryou ZX Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 5:33 pm
(Sorry for late reply gang, posting now.) Neku could sense it too, he sensed something strong not too far from them, but he couldn't quite tell what it was, suddenly when he heard Joshua say something, he heard him and nodded. Neku rushed along with Joshua, they didn't have much time to mess around. The Ex-Reaper casually followed the others slowly, his arms were off to his side as if he had pockets to put them in.
Neku suddenly came to a halt when the he saw that there was a huge mass of rubble piled in the station underpass blocking their exit.
"It's blocked! Crap, now what do we do?"
Sho suddenly came up in front Neku, it was blocking his way too, and he didn't like it one bit.
"Stand aside you Factoring Hectopascal!"
With his inhuman strength, Sho picked up a badly damaged car, and slammed it against the left wall of the tunnel, breaking a hole in it. Catching his breathe for a second, Sho sat down, it must have been heavy to lift that car the way he did. Neku looked at him curiously, why was he helping them at all?
"Heheheehe . . . Go on ahead, I'll catch up though, there is no way I'm letting you all get away without a better explanation."
Sho glared at Joshua as he moved because there was something about him that Sho couldn't quite put his finger on. He just knew that he hated him for some reason, he didn't know what it was about, but Joshua knew more than he was telling, and Sho didn't like that.
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 6:39 pm
Yoshiya smiled with satisfaction - who knew Sho would come to their rescue? He hated breaking a sweat anyway, so this worked in His favor. He looked at the car for a moment - hmm... It was a lot like the cars He threw and commanded with His phone - then to the exit.
As He broke into steady jog - Of course He isn't running - He noticed Sho's glare at Him. He winked and mused, "Thanks, Sho~ Be a good boy while we're gone, okay?"
Turning the corner through the West Exit Bus Terminal, He noticed Neku's friends were eagerly following through. Hmm. How... amusing. How loyal they were to each other.
The Composer felt the pounding growing harder, like they were closing in on it. Was He getting closer? The heart of Shibuya was the Scramble Crossing; was that meant to be their destination?
How painful this was. He didn't have time for such dilly-dally.
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Akari Ryou ZX Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 7:11 pm
Shiki, personally, had no idea what was going on, even with Joshua's explanation. Mr. H, abducted? Mr. Minamimoto, without his memory? What was going on all of a sudden?
Joshua and Neku were then talking for a little, more like Joshua commanding, and when they all bolt, she's the one left behind. What was this?! She really had to run to keep up.
"Neku! What's happening now? Why are we running?"
Shiki knew that Joshua had said something about feeling... something. He was the Composer, so she felt a little comfort in his deductions. He must be correct, she decided.
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 9:47 pm
 Beat looked around, a bit confused as to what Joshua and Neku were talking about. He couldn't feel anything, well other than his sister latched onto him. Since Neku seemed set on assisting Joshua, he would help too. It wasn't like the skater didn't trust the Composer but after those weeks of hell, he was still a little upset about it, just a little. Following behind Neku, it seemed there was a slight blockade. Beat was about to attempt ramming the blockade down when Sho provided a detour.
"Ok, he really isn't all himself. Anyway, let's move!"
Though he hadn't a clue where they were headed or too much of what they were doing so he would just follow Neku. But he had Rhyme and his friends so it didn't matter what they did so long as they were together.
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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 12:58 pm
Rhyme chased after her brother, which found a tiny bit hard, since Beat ran like an animal. It seemed only Neku and Joshua actually knew what was going on, since Shiki looked unsure and Beat - well, actually, it was a little hard to see Beat's expression, but she found it must be a little hard for any of them to actually understand what was going on.
After Sho had removed the blockade, or at least enough for them to proceed, she could laugh a little at Beat's mood then.
Oh, there was the Moyai statue. She had a slight idea of where they're going now - towards the Scramble?
"No worries... Patience is a virtue."
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Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 2:36 am
(Sorry for late reply. I have made it a rule of thumb, if your ocs can have relevance to this arc, you can bring them in, but only if they can be relevant.) Neku continued towards the Scramble Crossing with the others, minus Sho who was still behind them. Luckily the hole that Sho had made in the wall allowed them an alternate way around through the guard wall, there was another hole that luckily lead back to the usual location. Whatever was going on it seemed that all hell was breaking loose, that was for sure. Neku sure wasn't making it easy for the others to understand what was going on, but they were so pressed on time that he couldn't focus on explaining it to them at the moment.
"Everyone, I will explain more later, right now, we need to focus on getting to the Scramble."
Meanwhile . . .
(BGM- Shibuya plays)
Kenshin
Kenshin suddenly materialized from a wall of code next to Rhythm, he admired the musical performance that Rhythm was putting on with his noise so far. He could barely wait for the game that would liberate Shibuya to start.
"Well Rhythm, it looks like everything is going according to plan isn't it? Mind if I help out a bit?"
Quickly Kenshin slammed his left arm into the ground, this one holding his flash drive. A very weird looking noise came out of the ground, it wasn't massive, but certainly big. A robotic-looking noise forged out of the ground, materializing through digital numbers just as Kenshin had not too long ago.
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Akari Ryou ZX Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2012 5:48 pm
(Sorry it's late, ya'll. It's been pretty hectic for me D: )
Yoshiya could easily note how rushed Neku was to get to the Scramble, and simpered a little. The Composer glanced at Neku before quickly averting His solemn gaze to the path in front of Him. He stopped jogging, resorting to a fast walk, and stretched His shoulders, flipping out His phone and scrolling through the options.
"The Scramble doesn't look like it'll have a pretty scene for us, will it, Neku? Be on your guard - up ahead isn't a cake walk~"
He slowed His pace down even more, now completely engrossed in His phone.
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Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2012 6:23 pm
Beat kept moving forward, making sure not to run ahead of his friends. He especially made sure Rhyme was keeping up by staying behind her. Neku promised to explain everything later, still he could help but wonder. At Joshua's comment, he became alert and raised an eyebrow.
"What? You mean like Noise?"
The human rhino was already pumped and on guard since he got here. Whatever was coming, he was sure he'd be ready for it.
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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2012 3:35 pm
"Well... That doesn't sound good..."
Shiki mused a little about she and Eri staring at Q Floor a little while ago, then thought about Neku and Joshua. The way they interacted must be like them being really good friends! - or something. Neku seemed to know Joshua's intentions just by the ash-haired dropping hints and he seemed to be able to cope with his teasing. Either way, it looked like Joshua was clearly the ringleader of this group, wasn't he?
The seamstress looked at Beat, thinking about his reply. She then wondered, if Noise was involved, were they all caught in a Game? But there was no timer, and no actual mission to be completed - riddles and all. She wondered what kind of situation she and her friends were caught up in.
* * *[Character Change]***
Rhyme wasn't able to run all that fast like all her other companions due to her small size, especially Beat, but when she noticed her older brother staying behind her, she smiled in his direction, wide with appreciation. He was making sure she could keep up with the rest of the group, and wouldn't let her fall behind. Yep. The best brother ever.
Hearing Neku say he'd explain everything later lightened some stress off her young mind. Thinking about Noise now, she mused about if they could handle Noise with their unpreparedness... She didn't know if she had pins on her, and they were too much in a hurry for her to check. Maybe she'll check later. Hopefully they would be ready for such a predicament.
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Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 2:07 pm
Rhythm whistled with a sense of joyous surprise at the appearance of Kenshin's Noise. Their little "symphony" only required as much havoc and discord as possible, and the more chaos the better. The Noise continued buzzing around the innocent people, but to some extent it was organized, similar to orchestra, and arousing certain senses of negativity in people. For each person there was at the Scramble Crossing there were three Noise Sigils. Each set of three Noise Sigils would buzz about in close proximity to one person, and the Sigils determined the kind of negativity that the person would feel. Certain people would get violent, other's depressed, and some would give so little care that they would ignore the discord happening around them. Meanwhile, the Sigil for the Ovis Cantus moved around, as if overlooking all the other Sigils.
"The more Noise, the better. The larger the racket, the easier it will be to signal our audience over here. After all, what is a performance without people to hear it?"
Rhythm was eager to have the Players show up. Honestly, without the Players around, there was little point the chaos they were creating. Players would make things more interesting.
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Jingu Omikami Vice Captain
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