Is This Home?

[animusmods]

Characters: anyone who got sent "home", anyone going to rescue them
Setting: your world?
Format: any
Summary: Post your nightmare world! Travel to other nightmare worlds! Save people from nightmare worlds!
Warnings: general angst/horror warnings for now

There's a bright flash of light and a screech of sound before you pop back into existence in familiar territory. Maybe something's off about it, though...

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[allthefeelings.livejournal.com]

Alternia. Wow he...didn't expect to end up here, of all places. But it clearly can't be his version, due to that one being destroyed. Which means it must belong to someone else in the tower. With any luck, he won't run into the version of himself here, he can pretend to be someone else better, and he can avoid all the stupid shit that goes on in the tower. Good stuff.

He first notices something is off by the kinds of looks he's getting. They aren't fearful, so much as a weird mixture of irritated and dismissive.

The second useful indication is the point where a couple of bluebloods push him into an alley, kick him a few times, and steal all of his rings. Ragged, desperate-looking bluebloods. Attacking HIM.

Clue number three is the point where, after a bit of practise sidling and looking as unassuming as possible, he makes it to the edge of a main area, and sees himself and--oh god--Fef hanging from a gibbet. Holy shit. Okay. He isn't sure what the hell shitty lowblood him could have done, but nobody gets to kill Eridan Ampora, even if it's a different version of him. Except, er, Kanaya.

He finger combs his hair out of its gel, forward over the purple streak, and ties his scarf so it covers his symbol. Now what...

[wwaterboy]

Eridan's too exhausted to cry anymore. He turns his face in towards the gibbet, afraid to look up and see the mess that his wrists must be, and unable to look over at Feferi's corpse. He's unaware of the other Eridan's presence nearby, or anyone else. His back is afire with pain, but he doesn't really feel it anymore over the agony that are his wrists.

He's going to die like this. Framed for the death of his kismesis. Just a piece of trash to be tossed into the water for the sharks.

[isnotagiraffe.livejournal.com]

Though the Eridan who was not being tortured could hide quite well in this world the next people to come through the door would not have as much luck. Taiki, his face tear stained, clutching onto Sanshi's hand. Gohran in wolf form and the little black mage, Vivi.

The smell of blood hit Taiki at the same time he realised they wern't in Tai anymore, "H...hide." He gasped and Gohran and Sanshi did so, disapearing into the shadows, ready to come out if they were needed. Taiki stumbled and reached out to Vivi, the smell of blood and violence was overwhelming.

It doesn't take him long to realise why, he feels dizzy and sick as he stares a the gibbets. He recognised both people, the nice troll he had spoken to, Feferi and...

"Eridan!" That's about all he can take before he has to curl up on the floor, too dizzy from blood. He had to help his roomate though, those around them were starting to notice the strange aliens that had turned up.

[gentle-souldier.livejournal.com]

Vivi felt more sickened by the fact he was so used to the smell of blood that it didn't affect him so much anymore, glancing around the strange surroundings.

He saw trolls everywhere and grabbed Taiki's hand, partly to reassure the boy, and partly for his own comfort. When Taiki's cries out and falls though, Vivi squeaks and grabs the kirin, noticing the strange looks they're starting to get from the trolls. Seeing them begin to move towards them, Vivi released Taiki to swirl his staff in the air, releasing the 'Stop' spell on the trolls, leaving them frozen mid-movement.

"Taiki, come on!" He grabbed the boy's hand and dragged him behind some cover, peeking around to try to gauge their surrounding properly, noticing the trolls quickly come free of the spell and look around them with confusion.

[allthefeelings.livejournal.com]

Eridan, meanwhile, has been using the confusion to sneak around the edges of the crowd, going for any angle he can get on the gibbet. After the Stop spell, he runs forward, elbowing past trolls shaking themselves free of the spell. The moment he gets to the other Eridan and Fef, he fires his rifle dramatically into the air.

"All a' you can get the fuck out a' here," he yells. "I wwon't balk at shootin' all a' you if I fuckin' havve to!"

[wwaterboy]

The highbloods around take one look at a feral sea dweller firing a huge - and illegal - weapon into the sky and scatter, screaming. Within seconds, the square is cleared, though the threshecutioners are likely on their way to take care of the problem.

The distinctive sound of Ahab firing brings Eridan's head up and he looks around, then boggles at the sight of his double.

"Wwhat...are you doing here?"

[allthefeelings.livejournal.com]

"Wwhat do you think?" Eridan sneers, "I'm stoppin' a bunch a wworthless landdwwellers from executin' my double and..." He pauses.

"Is Fef..." he starts, and then trails off and switches back over into confident arrogance. "Either wway, I'm gettin' you dowwn. "

[isnotagiraffe.livejournal.com]

Taiki let himself be grabbed and dragged away mainly because there was not much else he could do. He was pale and dizzy but he struggled to stand. He had to help Eridan. He peeked around from behind the mage, he hadn't known that Vivi had magic, but it had definitly come in useful!

He jumped when the other Eridan fired the gun, Taiki recognised him, from the Tower, so they wern't the only ones to come. However a sound came from the edge of the square, more, scarier looking, trolls were appearing.

"We... have to help," Taiki was still clinging onto Vivi in an attempt not to faint. "Sanshi! Gohran!" He grabbed Vivi's hand and ran out towards the Eridans, Sanshi and Gohran appearing and bounding towards the incoming trolls.

"Eridan!" He choaked back a sob and tried his best not to curl up in an attempt to get away from the overpowering scent of blood, he wouldn't be able to last much longer but he had to help!