Under the Sea: Mission start

[voidtreckermods]

After fleeing the strange shapes in the sky the voidtreckers are perhaps not looking forward to yet another mission and indeed the first few days of Fiddlesticks go by without any strange dreams, no warning that another mission might be nigh. Yet on the morning of day five their SCA's will glow with the colours of the void and a holographic message will appear.

Preperations

The dressing room is open once again, though the clothes this time are simple in choice. A wet suit for each void trecker as well as a pair of flippers, a helmet and a breathing pack. It at least has instructions and there will be a little bit of time for them to figure out how to use them. Apart from that there are some waterproof packs for supplies to be packed in.

They will have a couple of hours to get ready for their mission.

Arrival: Blue and Red

"We are now approaching world #7625000129523. Drop order is Red and Blue, Purple then Orange. Red and Blue team to doors. Arrival in world #7625000129523 in ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one."

The train shudders and lurches as they exit the void, the view from the window goes from the ever shifting void to a beautiful deep blue sky. They fly through the air and swoop down to land on a sandy beach. The doors open allowing those who are taking part in the Blue and Red missions to debark. The doors close and the train swoops up into the air.

The beach stretches from one side to the other, in the distance as the beach turns into sloping green hills they can see a village. Beyond that there is a jungle. Any red team who check their SCA will see four points, the rock pools.

The villagers have noticed the huge train sweeping down onto their island and so contact is made quickly. They will be quite accepting of the help and explain the situation. They will help any of red team to the rockpools if asked.

Red

The rockpools are built up and indeed made so the water will reach a persons waist if they stand in them. The water is cold but not overly so. When the water shoots up anyone in them will shoot up also.

They will find themselves in a vortex of water, with anyone else who enters that rockpool. The water itself seems to be fighting them, tendrils of water reaching out of the whirlpool to try and drag them further into the chaos. It takes a whole lot of willpower to stay in the centre, the water can be fought with weapons, even with fists. They feel as if they are falling or flying, perhaps both. Surrounded by the pure chaos of the ocean.

Blue

Hopefully they spend the day helping with preparations because when night falls the monsters emerge from the sea. Terrifying twisted creatures. The villagers only have simple weapons but will tell them that fire is helpful against these water creatures.

Hold off the monsters and keep the people safe.

Purple

The doors close and the train flies off into the sky, flying over the island to the other side where it lands on a rocky bay, near tall towering cliffs.

"Purple team to doors." The doors open, allowing the purple team to disembark before flying off once again.

In the cliff face there is a large cave entrance, over the entrance there are symbols, translated by their SCA's. Clear mind, clear heart. Come those who seek to serve.

There are six people stood by the entrance, looking quite surprised at the new arrivals. One, a woman with silver hair recovers enough to speak first. "Ah. Void warriors. We are honoured by your help."

Once introductions are made the spiritual leaders will happily accept the escort and their adventure can begin.

Orange

They fly up and out across the ocean, a longer flight than before but eventually they descend and there is a slight juddering before they land, floating on the ocean.

"Orange team disembark, please use luggage or dressing carriage doors only."

They will step out onto an inflated platform that streches around the train. Down below are the depths of the water and their SCA's show them at the point of Bui. It is below them so all they need to is dive.

The dive takes a while, and depends on their swimming ability but hopefully with a bit of teamwork they arrive at the silent city of Bui.

Comments

[flatteries]

His heart is pounding so rapidly with nerves that Inigo is pretty sure he can hear it all the way up in his ears. He has no idea how Yuki might react to the idea, after all. He's mostly afraid the other might think that it's ridiculous, or that it's too soon to say it - but Inigo knows what he feels. There's not a single part of him that feels any reluctance at the idea of moving over to an entirely different world just to be able to live by Yuki's side.

So he waits for Yuki's answer. But then Yuki smiles. And grabs onto him.

And says he would like that. A lot.

The corners of Inigo's lips immediately twitch up into a smile. It shifts back between surprise and a smile momentarily, like his brain isn't entirely sure yet whether or not he's really hearing this.

".. You would?"

He still sounds a little surprised too, but mostly just happy. Genuinely happy. A moment later his arms sneak around Yuki's waist, pulling the other boy closer to him.

"Sheesh.. I already thought that up a while ago, and here I didn't say it all this time because I wasn't sure if you'd like the idea.." Apparently he worried for nothing, since Yuki seems genuinely happy. "Of course I want to go home with you. Or.. well, I have something to quickly finish up in my own world first, but the moment that's done, I'll come to you. You make me so happy, Yuki. I can't think of anything I'd like more than being with you for as long as possible."

[areasontohope]

"Ya..I would." There's a shy sort of smile as Yuki agrees to wanting Inigo to come home with him. He has a big family and while the Sohmas aren't exactly royalty, they're pretty well off. And he wonders for a moment how Haru would take to him bringing a boy home. But before he can get too caught up there Inigo's arms are around him. Did that mean everything was alright? Inwardly before this he thought this whole..adult deal might've been a breaking point.

Pulling back a bit (though he was careful not to break the hold Inigo had on him) gray eyes turned from happy to a little confused. Oh, he was talking about going home. For a moment there he'd thought the other thing but he was proud of himself that this time he didn't say anything.

Did he pull Inigo down for a kiss? Did he hug him? Well he wasn't sure but Yuki felt a tear prick at his eyes so he went for the hold, sliding his arms around the warrior's neck. He let out a small hitched breath at the words spoken, knowing they were from Inigo's heart. And he just held on as if his very life depended on it.

[flatteries]

Argh, that shy smile is too cute! It kind of makes all the worrying he's done up to this point - no matter how useless in the end - worth it, just to be able to see that. Inigo swears he can feel his heart skip a beat at the very sight of it.

But then, before he knows it, there's those arms moving around him so suddenly too. Not to mention Yuki is clinging so tightly.. if anything were to betray the other boy's emotions, it's that. But Inigo sure doesn't mind, and for once he'll let Yuki have his dignity by not mentioning anything about it or that hitched breath. Instead he just holds him as warmly as he can.

"Then.. don't worry about a thing. Even if you'd disappear from this place, or even if I would, we'll just meet back up again in your world." That thought feels so infinitely reassuring to him that he can't help but want to share it with Yuki. "Just wait for me."

[areasontohope]

Gray eyes opened as he heard that they'd meet back in his world. And then his head rested against Inigo's chest as the 'Just wait for me' hit his ears. He kept quiet and simply held on. Who sent this angelic person to him? Sure Inigo had his flaws, hell they both did. But how did he manage to get such a person?

"You know..sometimes I wonder if you're real." Yuki whispered. He was pretty sure they had in fact had this conversation before but they would have it as many times as needed. His arms slid down and he moved them to his warrior's waist and sighed, closing his eyes.

"If you're not real, I don't think I want to know."

[flatteries]

"I'm real," he answers in a relatively soft voice, like he doesn't want to stir Yuki too much now he's made himself so comfortable all leaning against Inigo's chest. Sure, they may have had this conversation before, but no matter how many times they have it, he's planning on reassuring Yuki every single time. As many times as it's needed.

For a few moments he's just quiet, until the train speaks up again about there not being much time left before dropoff. He squeezes the boy in his hold a little.

"Looks like we've got to get going though. You ready to go?" For a moment he almost leaves it at that, but considering the wonderful sappiness of their conversation so far, he can't help but add: "Together?"

[areasontohope]

There was a soft sweet smile that Inigo couldn't see as Yuki let himself enjoy the moment.

As soon as the train made the announcement though, he moved away from the warm safe place he'd been leaning into. No time for anything else, they had a mission to accomplish. He started looking to get everything ready when Inigo spoke up, there was a soft wondering look. And he was about to say something but the words fled his mind when he heard that last question.

So a genuine smile appeared after a nod.

[flatteries]

Ugh, that smile! How could Inigo feel even slightly worried about the upcoming mission when that smile is right in front of him? It feels as if even just only looking at it makes all his problems melt right away. It's not as if Inigo doesn't already smile all the time, but of course he instantly smiles right back at it. There's no other option. Yuki's smiles are too powerful.

And they probably need both hands to grab all their stuff and get ready, but.. you know, sometimes you got to pick sentimentality over practicality. Hence why Inigo still grabs Yuki's hand to hold onto as they move to get their things. (Yuki is more important than anything else he could bring, anyway.)

"Great. Let's go then."

[areasontohope]

He gets flustered as Inigo takes his hand and tries to grab things with it once they move in that direction. And a laugh comes out of his mouth as things they both try to hold onto just won't work with just one hand.

"I think..we're going to have to try this with both of our hands free." And he doesn't want to but it's a thing that should probably get done. After all, the faster they get this done the quicker their hands can link back and set off on this latest mission to..do..something.

Slowly and reluctantly Yuki removed his hand from Inigo's and tried to retrieve some of the items that had fallen when he attempted to get them with only one hand.

[flatteries]

Of course Inigo lets Yuki remove his hand from Inigo's, but there's still a small whiny sound coming from him as the other does so. It's a tiny sound though, just the smallest protest against how cruel and unfair the world is by making it impossible for him to just keep holding onto his boyfriend's hand.

But he does listen to what Yuki is saying, and he also quickly gets to work to shove the things he needs into his bag to take along on the mission. Thankfully it's not a whole lot, so he's done fairly quickly, just waiting for the other.

[areasontohope]

Yuki smiled at Inigo, hearing the small whine. He wanted to stay here with the warrior too and just forget this mission. But he knew the noble part of the other wouldn't agree to it. And besides, what if the warrior got into trouble because he personally didn't go? All of those lessons with Gladio sensei would go to waste really.

There were many things he brought, mainly because he figured Inigo would get into trouble. So he'd been careful to stow away some healing potions and extra rations. Briefly his gray eyes looked over the bundle and he nodded in satisfaction.

Lifting it up over his right shoulder, he smiled. "Ready."

[flatteries]

Honestly, it's such a good thing that Yuki is the practical one between them here. Inigo may be pretty capable in his own ways, and he does his best, but he's definitely not the preparation type - which means he's most definitely not even thinking of bringing along half of the useful things that Yuki has packed.

But he patiently waits all the same, like the good little puppy boy he is, and smiles right back at the other guy.

"Great!" Now they no longer have to pack, there's definitely a free hand ready for some hand holding action, right? Inigo doesn't hesitate, immediately taking Yuki's hand again, and looking excited despite the monster fighting that's in their near future. "Let's go then. We'll do great."