The Will to Fight: Conclusion

[voidtreckermods]

The battles rage loud and ferocious at the gates of the city and off in the ruined wastelands of Erda, and on the walls a struggle of a different kind occurs. The team who stayed behind at the towers are small but determined as they move stoically across the walls to right the stones that have become misaligned, even as their friends battle not too far away.

The city begins to hum. It's a quiet hum, not loud enough to be heard out where the others are fighting but it vibrates even through stone. The recovering monks assure them that it is done, the wards are back up and no demon will be able to enter the city.

Eventually the battle is won, all three battles. The demons fought back and killed, a major blow to their gate system that will keep them back for hopefully a long time. Those waiting in the caverns return to the city and by the time they get there the illusions are gone. Everyone can see the world for what it really is.

But despite the ruins of their world the people are relieved, the adrenaline of the fight coursing through their veins and the mood is one of hope. They will build again, their people will survive.

All Voidtreckers please return to the Voidtrecker Express. Departure will be in a few hours

It has landed not too far from the city, cloaked to make it unnoticeable to the citizens, for all the good that does. No one has been particularly subtle this last week. People can begin regrouping, packing up the camp and getting any wounded not already healed to the train.

However roughly half an hour later another message appears on their SCA.

Passenger Persephone has requested we remain on system System #86525656412355 for an additional day to further assist the people of Erda. The Voidtrecker Express will depart on the morning of Day Fifteen of the month of Kazoo.

The train remains where it is, so the voidtreckers can use its facilities. There is definitely a lot that can be done to assist those of this world and the citizens will welcome any helping hands.

After an extra day they finally depart, returning to the void once more.

(OOC Note: Once the wards are up any characters who are demonic in nature will not be able to enter the city either!)

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[happyends]

Madoka hums softly, as if she agrees with the sentiment. The initial one, anyway. It'd be nice if people wouldn't be in danger, but the truth is probably that there's always danger in people everywhere, huh..? Even in her own seemingly peaceful world there had been people in danger all the time - and she just hadn't noticed.

Slowly Madoka stops rubbing his shoulders, instead moving to sit down next to Tidus.

"Hmm.. Do you want that, Tidus? I guess it would suit you." Is Madoka purposefully not talking about herself here? Or is it just part of her natural tendency to think of others before herself? Who knows. "I mean.. Not that you aren't good at fighting! And you're super helpful too! But.. um, I guess I can just easily imagine you leading a pretty normal life instead."

Maybe since Tidus just feels so normal when he's just talking and interacting with people. He's sociable, bright - even easily getting along with the kids here.

[blitzcheer]

"Well, you're the same to me." Tidus looks at her, pulling up a grin on his face before turning back down to the plaza, with the kids below with his ball. Asking, if with a pause separating the question from his remark: "If you didn't have to worry about what's coming, if there wasn't a problem at all - what would you do? Wouldn't you want something nice and easy, knowing everyone didn't have some big problem to worry about?"

He doesn't remember exactly her situation, or rather, the issue; but he also doesn't need to, when he can compare her to Yuna easy, feels the ripples of conversations he shared with her leading him now. It has to be, if there's no problem, if the world was safer. Because he already knows the answer when it isn't, when people choose sacrifices larger than themselves.

'I can't.'

[happyends]

"Of course."

Her voice is a little softer than a moment ago, but there's very little hesitation in her answer. He arms stretch out, hanging over her legs and her knees as she stares too at the kids. At how easily they're playing, totally free of worries, as if their city and world didn't almost get destroyed over the past week or so.

Little kids always forget easily, huh? They just live in the moment.

Madoka looks at Tidus. "Wouldn't anyone want that..? In the end, everyone wants to be happy. If I had the chance to go back home and be with papa, mama and my little brother again.. of course I would. Nothing would make me happier than just having a regular dinnertime with them again."

The thought makes her smile.

Even if she knows that it's not a possibility for her. But that doesn't mean she can't acknowledge how nice the little things seem in retrospective.

[blitzcheer]

It's nice, isn't it?

"You coulda said you wanted to go on an adventure." He looks to her, his smile small but cheery. Playful even, for what he's saying. "Slinging on your bow and arrow, going to all sorts of worlds to save every last one?"

Hah. There were even people like that, a face that easily returns to him, though it's not Drizzt he speaks of. "Allen, from Purple Team? White hair? He says he wants to go around being a performer. Travelling the world, being an entertainer!"

It's not astonishment he speaks with, like it's some desire that's baffling or perplexing to want. No; it's the fact there's something else about it - that it's so obtainable to the ordinary, so against what they do and forced to be here - that makes him want to announce it so, encouragingly. Lifting his spirits, no matter how tired they truly might be.

"I would," he says, sure. "If I had to go around to different cities playing blitzball...that'd be the dream!"

[happyends]

Madoka nods a little. She doesn't know Allen personally, but she recognizes the description. There's not a whole lot of people with white hair, after all. And while she doesn't know him enough to say whether or not it suits him, she still thinks it's nice - having a dream like that.

Tidus obviously does too, judging by the sheer passion he speaks with. It practically sparkles right off his face as she watches him while he talks.

"W-Well, I really would've been okay just staying in Mitakihara forever! As long as I'm with my family, and my friends, then that would've been enough.." Madoka certainly isn't the adventerous type, after all, let alone someone who dreams big. She didn't even have a single idea about what she wanted to do when she'd grow up.

But Tidus obviously has much more of an idea. Much more willing to throw himself into adventure - even if it's the slightly more mundane adventure of blitzball compared to what they're doing here.

"But I could imagine you traveling around, Tidus."