it's not a cry you hear at night (backdated to the 21st)

[egotrigger]

Characters: Hallelujah (possibly Allelujah) and anyone.
Setting: Floor 39 (gymnasium) (day), Floor 75 (tower) (night)
Format: Either.
Summary: Hallelujah has grown frustrated with Allelujah's silence, and has taken to trying to beat out his frustration on anything and everything.
Warnings: Talk of Richtofen which itself is a warning, mentions of vivisection, character death, gore. Also heavy swearing and violence warnings as per usual with Hallelujah.


[Floor 39]

[Every goddamn day he comes here, and every goddamn day he trains. All the details are fuzzy, but he's still determined to get even stronger than he already is in order to kick that guy's ass. He can't explain how that horrible experience made him feel - upset, angry, afraid. The last one is an emotion he's never supposed to feel. So how does this even work? He's not a person. He's just part of one.]

[He punches the punching bag again and again, the fabric starting to split. He has some fabric wrapped around his knuckles but they're also starting to grow red.]



[Floor 75]
[A Chocobo zooms out of the darkness, making a line for Hallelujah. He doesn't care. The birdlike creature is met with a roar, Hallelujah reaching out to grab the thing by the neck and twist, breaking it. He kicks the body, over and over.]

Dammit, just answer me! Stop fucking hiding!

[A Bullfairy flies at him, interested, but he grabs it from the air and squeezes, crushing it.]

Say something!

[He carries on like this for a while, not caring if anyone comes up the stairs and hears him. He's already thought of as crazy, so who the hell cares?]

Comments

floor 75

[kami_korosu]

[Fortunately for Hallelujah, Hibari had been climbing the stairs and had heard the Chocobo screech in pain. His facial expression does not shift. Herbivores would die eventually.]

... hmph.

[Truth be told, he's been itching for a fight, but he isn't about to commence one without anyone else coming at him first.]

You are breaking the "indoor voice" rule of the vicinity. [He doesn't really care that his edicts at Namimori School had no power within the tower.]

[egotrigger]

[Hallelujah turns to face the voice, eyes narrowing.]

One - no one gives a fuck about your rules. Two - fuck you.

[kami_korosu]

[Hibari isn't phased at all.]

Shall I bite you to death, then?

[egotrigger]

[What.]

Seriously? Biting's all you got? That's a pretty damn weak threat.

[kami_korosu]

... you truly are an herbivore.

[It doesn't seem to actually bother Hibari that the tower's residents haven't caught onto his manner of speech. He's actually a little surprised that Hallelujah was under the impression that he intended on... literally biting the man to death.]

I do not associate with herbivores. [He makes the turn to leave.]

Because I am evil

[swordofzero]

Suzaku sees a monster rushing for someone he knew and moved before he thought, cutting the monster down and blinking at Allelujah.

He hasn't seen the man in a long time, not since Suzaku's run in with Hallelujah during the glamour failure, the memory would have made him pause, but his worry for Allelujah out weighs his fear.

"Allelujah?" He hoped it was him...

hell yes

[egotrigger]

"Wrong."

Hallelujah growled a little, angry that someone stole his kill. "Allelujah's not around right now. I'd say leave a message but whatever. He's being stubborn about coming back."

Re: hell yes

[swordofzero]

Suzaku frowned in concern, he had no idea still, despite Allelujah explaining it, how having two people in one body worked. "How long has he been gone?" He asked, ignoring Hallelujah's anger as best he could, watching out for more monsters.

[egotrigger]

"Two fucking weeks."

He was the one who was allowed to disappear for a time, not Allelujah. He'd been stuck dealing with all of these stupid emotions that shouldn't be his. Fear and anxiety weren't emotions that someone like him had.

[swordofzero]

"Two weeks?" He sounded worried, though it was for Allelujah's sake and not Hallelujah's. "Did something happen? Specifically to make him go away?"

Floor 39

[forhislegacy]

Woooow, you seem pretty angry.

[Anise is sitting off to one side, and up until now it had probably been pretty easy to ignore her. She's good at staying quiet when she doesn't want to draw attention to herself, but with the punching bag starting to split, now seems like a good a time as ever to speak up.]

So what happened? Someone you know get sent home?

[egotrigger]

You don't fucking say.

[He punctuates the sentence with a powerful jab to the bag, which is now starting to leak sand. He rolls his eyes and unlatches it. He'll look for a new one in a minute.]

[He turns to face the girl, rolling his eyes.]

No. He's still here, he just won't fucking talk.

[forhislegacy]

[She doesn't seem intimidated - mostly, she just seems curious. She watches, her chin resting on her hands, as he takes down the punching bag; her gaze follows the sand that's leaking out before she looks up at him when he turns to her.]

Do you always get this mad when someone gives you the cold shoulder?

[egotrigger]

If they're the one supposed to be controlling our body, yeah.

[forhislegacy]

Uhh, what?

[Did she hear that right? She can't have heard that right. Anise stares at him with an expression that is equal parts curious and perturbed.]

What do you mean by that?

conveniently appears in the cafeteria after he talks with Anise

[seekinganswers]

[Everyone has to eat sometimes, and mind readers are no exception. Hallelujah may recognize the girl seated at a table near the entrance to the cafeteria as the girl who had broken into his mind the last time they met here.

There's a half-finished bowl of fruit salad in front of her, but she seems to be ignoring it in favor of a milkshake. Many milkshakes, actually; there are two empty glasses in front of her, and she's just starting on a third.

She supposes if nothing else, she'll have to thank the administrators for introducing her to this. Hopefully they'll get to have them again before... her expression flickers as her thoughts start to wander and she shakes her head, taking another large sip of the milkshake to distract herself.]

clearly he tripped the plot flag

[egotrigger]

[Exactly who he was looking for. Hallelujah walks behind her and reaches out to grab her by the collar.]

Hey you! I need you to do something.

i laughed, not even gonna lie

[seekinganswers]

[ASDFGHJKL -

The sudden grab to the collar immediately puts her on the defensive. She shifts to look back - she swears to god, if this is Saturos..! - and then pauses when she recognizes him.]

You could have just asked... [She sighs, and once she sets her milkshake down - thankfully, she'd managed not to spill it - her expression becomes a little less hostile, though it's still somewhat wary.] What do you need?

yes good

[egotrigger]

But this is funnier.

[He chuckles briefly, and then his expression becomes more serious. ... Well. About as serious as he can usually get.]

I need you to use your freaky mind reading power thing. Allelujah hasn't talked for two weeks and nothing I do is dragging him out. He's shut me out and I can't get to him.

[seekinganswers]

[Sheba just sighs again. Arguing with him isn't going to get her anywhere, and there are more important things than his playing around at hand here - namely, Allelujah. Her expression becomes concerned as he details what he needs from her and why.]

You want me to try and get his attention, then? [She's not really surprised that someone is asking - she'd let it slip that she could read minds before. That it's Hallelujah asking is what surprises her. He hadn't really seemed to like it much, if at all, when she'd accidentally overheard him.] If you're really sure you want me in your head, I can try it. Come on... sit down and we'll get started. Unless you want to do this somewhere else?

39 - if he needs something more to start let me know!

[warriorscribe]

*So you know that whole crazy thing the retrieval units are doing? One of them just dumped Enoch onto a rack of dumbbells and walked off.

The rack wobbles as Enoch shifts his weight, of as uncertain quality as any other piece of equipment here, and, despite his attempts to stay balanced, topples over with a crash, sending him to the floor.

He's starting to really hate this glitching, even if it means his stalker's gone off somewhere, chasing who knows who.

He has probably also interrupted Hallelujah's training. Oops.*

It's cool. o/

[egotrigger]

[Definitely. Hallelujah looks over and scowls at the back of the retreating unit.]

Stop doing shit like that, you bastard!

[He looks down at Enoch, snickering a little.]

Having fun down there?

[warriorscribe]

*The initial response is a pained little noise as he sits up and shakes his head a little. He looks up at Hallelujah.*

If you consider being unable to go where you're trying to go "fun". *He is getting tired of this shit, he can't get back to Doc and Waver and the others; this is the second time he's been caught and just thrown somewhere.*

[egotrigger]

Heheh. You're strong, right? Pick 'em up.

[He kicks the bag again, not caring that the fabric is starting to rip.]

[warriorscribe]

*He only moves the ones in his way. He's not moving a whole rack of the things. It doesn't even have to have weight anyway, it's all film.*

You'll destroy your practice target.

*He doesn't know what a punching bag is, so he just goes for the obvious.*