10th Recipe - The Freezer

[starofpleiades]

Characters: Kazumi and You!
Setting: Floor Sixty Kitchen, Floor One Hundred Memory, any other floors
Format: Either
Summary: Kazumi ends up exposed to the dark mist and loses it... violently.
Warnings: Violence, death

[It was... cold. She'd given up yelling an hour ago. Kazumi was confident though that someone would notice she was taking too long and come check on her. Then she'd be able to get their attention. But for now, she was alone, waiting inside of the walk-in freezer. After all she'd talked about keeping others safe, falling into it herself...

It was just her and... the voices.]

[Floor Sixty]

[Perhaps you came here looking for Kazumi, or by chance, or maybe you just smelled the food burning in the oven and boiling over on the stove. In any case, you're just in time: right as you enter the kitchen, there's a loud noise, followed by a flash of light as the door to the walk-in freezer goes flying off, crashing around the room violently propelled by a beam of pure energy.]

Limiti Esterni!

[As the dust settles, a small, slim figure comes walking out of the freezer: Kazumi in her magical girl outfit, staff upheld in one hand, the other adjusting the brim of her large pointed hat.]

I won't... fail this time.

[Floor One Hundred]

[The normally empty hall is already filled with someone's memories: a large, empty hall, cold and silent, lined with the bodies of tagged girls. In the center is a seal, dozens of dark and sullied soul gems sitting on top of it. And before that seal stands a lone figure.]

[Other]

[After the above two events, Kazumi can be seen rampaging around both in partial and full witch forms on various levels of the tower. Final rights go to eternallilly though.]

Comments

[starofpleiades]

Fog?

[She wasn't even seeing the fog. No, she had to go back there... at that time, if she could have saved them...]

I have to stop them from fighting...

[tohko_amano]

Kazumi, right now, no one is fighting.

[starofpleiades]

Not yet but... it's going to happen. Saki will be here soon and then Satomi...

[Reaching the stairs, she starts to ascend]

I won't let this tragedy happen!

[tohko_amano]

[Tohko ran after Kazumi and tried to put a hand on her shoulder, both to hold her back and calm her down.]

Kazumi, please, calm down! The tragedy won't happen! Your friends are already here..but you can't help pull them out of the fog unless you calm down and rest!

[starofpleiades]

[The girl shrugged her off, violently, but when she turned to face her, there were tears in her eyes]

How do you know!? How can you say that!? Saki, Saki already... if I don't want that to happen again, if I don't want to fail them again... I have to move forwards!

[tohko_amano]

Kazumi..

[Tohko tried to give Kazumi a headpat and a warm smile as she spoke.]

Trust me, you won't fail them. However, you don't rest for a moment and clear your head, you won't be able to think straight and help them. This mist affects people psychologically. You need to calm down if you want to save your friends.

[starofpleiades]

I don't have time for that! I have to go now!

[Turning, she starts to run for the stairs]

[tohko_amano]

[Tohko sighed and bit her lip as she chased after Kazumi.]

Kazumi! Hold on! There's nothing wrong with your friends right now, I promise! I've heard my family members and friends from home in my ears too, but trust me, they're just a..byproduct of this mist!

[starofpleiades]

[It seems she can't, or refuses to hear her]

I can't abandon them... even if it's painful, or scary, I won't...!

[tohko_amano]

[Not that it would stop Tohko from trying to break through.]

You won't abandon them! But..in order to make sure that it's not scary for them, you have to pause and calm down so that it's not scary for you! It's hard to help others when you yourself are scared senseless!

[starofpleiades]

I... I'm not scared!

[When she protests, stomping her foot, there's a burst of magic, enough to make the stairs shake a little and push Tohko like a strong wind for a second]

[tohko_amano]

Waugh!

[Tohko, not expecting Kazumi to use magic to move the stairs, wobbled a little bit and would have toppled over if she didn't manage to grab the wall.]

[starofpleiades]

[The outburst settles down, though Kazumi's still standing there, shaking]

I'm not scared...

[tohko_amano]

Kazumi..

[Tohko sighed and tried to put a hand on Kazumi's shoulder.]

There's nothing wrong with admitting you're scared. Only fools are never scared. The important thing is to know that you're scared and still try to move on anyway.

[starofpleiades]

[She sobs a little, trying to hold back the tears, gripping her staff tightly. And nods her head.]

Mm... but that's why... I need to go.

[tohko_amano]

And where are you going to go? Where do you think your friends are?

[starofpleiades]

Angelica Bears... they'll be there. I'll call them there. And finally put an end to this.

[tohko_amano]

Angelica Bears..?

[starofpleiades]

The place... most dear to us...

[That's all she says before she suddenly disappears, teleporting away - she'll be on floor 100 if Tohko tries to find her]

[tohko_amano]

[And Kazumi suddenly teleported. Sighing, Tohko ran up the stairs, biting her lip. Kazumi had been headed up this direction, and she wasn't going to abandon her friend!]

[starofpleiades]

[By the time Tohko reaches it, the 100th floor would have already taken on the properties of Kazumi's memories, that long hall they called The Freezer...]

[tohko_amano]

[Tohko, being a bit of an idiot, had checked every floor she came across, dealing with the psychological effects and trying to heal on the stairs as she kept heading up.

However, when she got to the hundredth floor, she didn't recognize whose memories were being projected..but called out anyway as she wandered in.]

Kazumi! Where are you?!

[starofpleiades]

[There was no response, but in the middle of the hallway, the girl was clearly standing there, something of an ominous aura surrounding her as she stood in that silent hall]

[tohko_amano]

[Tohko looked around at the holographic tubes of women, both puzzled and a little scared. What in the world..?]

Kazumi..are you alright? What's going on here? Why are all these women in tubes?

[starofpleiades]

Welcome to my barrier. Welcome to... The Freezer.

[When the girl turned, there was a vaguely haunted look in her eyes, an eerie aura about her.]

These girls... are the ones we've saved from becoming witches.