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Radioactive Mysteries (13) : Destiny City has been booming, but with more people you need more power. Recently, an old power plant has been renovated and updated and just opened for business–but now people have been claiming dizziness or fatigue when in the area. Not to mention the animals. So far one shady, blurry video has been posted online of a strange bear-shaped humanoid ‘monster’ in the area. It’s difficult to tell if it’s a hoax or not, but whether or not you believe it, it might be a good idea to keep your eye out if you’re in the area. Especially because if you pass through, you feel like something’s watching you. It doesn’t have an aura so it can’t be a youma, but if you poke around too late at night you might find a strange creature that's built like a bear, covered in fur, but which has a strangely human presence. Something about it is just off--or, maybe it’s just your imagination. Maybe it’s just someone in a costume having a bit of fun at your expense. Still, its claws are sharp and it’s fast. When it runs through the forests, the trees seem to crack upon impact, and if you explore during the daytime you might find strange scratches and odd markings in the grass. The longer you’re in the area, the dizzier you get.
Note: If you choose to encounter the strange creature, your character will recognize that it is not a youma. The creature seems smart enough to understand human words but does not respond and does not seem to listen. It will always disappear before it can be caught or gravely injured. This RP can be used as a battle requirement for a character, separate from your ‘one youma battle’ per stage if there are two powered characters involved; you cannot write a solo and count this as a battle, and your character must be powered and interacting with another player’s powered character for it to count. This can only be used as a battle requirement once per character, but there is no limitation for how many times a player can use this prompt.


Just like last year, Beta Leporis had heard tell of a monster lurking somewhere in Destiny City. And just like last year, she was investigating and hoping that this time was the time that she would find her sister. This time the monster would be that frightened bunny that her sister had become. This time she'd be able to bring her sister home. Maybe.

Beta sighed deeply into the vacant night, feet tired and sore from a full day at work and brain heavy from a full day in class. She wanted to go home and sleep. She wanted to just leave it alone for tonight, but when she had changed into her pajamas and laid down in bed, gnawing guilt drew her up and out the door to search. That was what was doing it now more than hope. Guilt. Duty. A sense that she owed Aura her time and her effort because it had been her fault that she had even been at the hill in the first place. Which, of course, only served to deepen her guilt even more. She should be out with hope in her heart and fire in her veins. She should be tirelessly searching, not slogging herself out because she felt bad...

God, she was tired though. Tired and dizzy and wow... maybe she should have stayed home. She'd be no use to anyone, least of all her sister, if she was passed out in a field at night. Hell, she'd probably end up in the same situation her sister had been in. And wouldn't that just be ironic. Hey Aura, I knew that I said I'd find you, but not like this! So now what? Aura would probably think it was funny. Probably thing it was deeply poetic that things had ended like that. And at least... at least Beta would be with her sister again. Maybe being a youma wasn't so bad...

What was she saying?

Beta scrubbed the heel of her palm into her eye and tried to will away the swimming in her head. Beneath her, the earth spun, like that one time she'd had a little too much to drink at a house party last year on one of her ill-planned outings when she had no business being out and about. Like when she was little and her father would spin them both on his office chair until they were screaming and toppling over each other. The difference was that both of those times had been somewhat pleasant. Now she just felt... well she felt rather sick with the feeling.

Movement in the distance caught her attention, and Beta turned her head too quickly to maintain balance. She stumbled, the world feeling like it was made of sand, but she turned towards the movement nonetheless.

"Alpha," she called out weakly, teeth gritted together to keep herself from being sick. "Alpha, is that you? It... It's me, Alpha! You can come out!" And then she strained her senses, picking up nothing both endless night. Either Alpha was being dampened or... or this wasn't her. Beta cursed lightly, still holding her head as it began to pound.