thebastion | Day 241 [Open] - The Starting Bell

Day 241 [Open] - The Starting Bell

Who: Takamura Mamoru and ANYONE
Open: Yes
When: Day 241
Where: The Skywalk
What: Takamura found wandering the Skywalk
Format: Will Match
Warnings: Probably cursing.

The relative peace and quiet of the Skywalk is suddenly interrupted when a rather loud yell can be heard a short ways away. Anyone who follows the sound will find a fairly tall man with black hair surrounded by a large group of squirts, some of which are clinging to his legs. He doesn't appear to be hurt. In fact, rather than fearful, the man looks to be enraged as he lashes out with his legs and fists at the small creatures around him.

"Get the hell off of me! Oh you wanna piece of me too! I'll crush every last one of you!"

It's fairly clear to anyone who is from the Bastion that this guy's a new arrival since his face isn't a familiar one.

Will you help him deal with the many small menaces surrounding him or continue to watch the show?

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[Anyone could have heard that shouting from a mile away, a good thing a certain someone was already out on the skyway when it started up. All Takamura would see was someone in a dark hoodie jacket dash in, deftly swiping away the squirts with deft blows from his hands; it seemed that his very presence was enough to make them scurry away in terror once a few of their friends had been popped.

This left Takamura now alone with his rescuer, the sun's position helping to obscure it in shadow as what could only be assumed was a man stared at him, as if transfixed. The voice that came from beneath the hood might sound familiar, if not a little deeper and worn by hardship.]

"Can...this be real...? Are you?"

[A strange question, but the stranger brought his hand up all the same as if to reach out and confirm that Takamura was actually a real person standing in front of him. What do?]

[Once the last of the squirts had scattered, Takamura turned to face the figure whose face was still hidden by shadow. Unfortunately, with the anger still fresh on his mind, that was what greeted the shorter figure as Takamura reached out to grab him by the front of his hoodie.]

Who are you and where the hell am I?!

[Well, that rough grab by the lapels was enough to jostle the hood down; despite the rougher looking cheeks, the longer hair, and the long, thin scar running underneath his left eye, there was still no mistaking the younger man as Ippo. It might have been the tears welling up in his eyes that made the resemblance that much easier to distinguish.

Just excuse your kouhai as he moves through that grip and slams into your chest with the biggest bearhug in Bastion history.]

I knew it...I knew you were still out there...I just knew it...!

[Well, that was definitely the last person he was expecting to run into, especially looking so much different but the look on his face and his overly joyful expression (not to mention the arm strength in the bearhug).]

Ippo?! What're you doing here? Where are we? When did your hair get so long?

[The questioning tone finally snapped Ippo back to reality and quickly realizing who he was in front of, he pulled back and rubbed his face on his sleeve to get rid of the tears.]

Sorry...sorry it's just been a long five months Takamura-san. Follow me, I'll explain everything...your probably not going to like a lot of it though.

[He turned back towards the Bastion, giving his sempai a gesture to follow; knowing him, he'd probably want some food and something to hit once he got the info he was looking for, best to get near those things first.]

[Takamura begins to follow him though one thing he just said sticks out and refuses to wait to be brought up.]

Five months? How have you been here for five months when you just had a title defense a few weeks ago?!

I defended my title?

[Well...it seemed like a logical next step from when he got it, but it was good to hear he'd gotten that far.]

Time here...doesn't work right, for lack of putting it any better. The last thing I remember before waking up here was winning my belt from Sendo-san and then going to sleep after the party.

[A good last memory to have, all things considered.]

What do you remember last, Takamura-san?

Wait....you're saying you don't remember anything after the fight with Sendo? It's been almost two years since then! You've defended the title over half a dozen times!

How can you have forgotten that?!

[Seriously, few people took boxing as seriously as Takamura and Ippo was definitely pretty high up there as taking it just as seriously. Forgetting things like that for him was just....not right.]

Well...it's more like...I never got to those things. This place tends to pull people in from different times I've noticed, strange as that sounds, but I still have the belt as fresh and new as when I got it.

[He framed it in his room and everything.]

I'm glad I did such a good job though! I'm sure you and everyone else helped a lot with my wins.

Different....times...

[It was rather crazy to comprehend. Unimaginable, but Ippo was far too much of a straight arrow to lie about something like this. And he did look like he'd been here for a while so maybe he was right. Damn, things just keep getting more and more confusing by the moment.]

Yeah. Even different universes from what I've seen.

[That part was still beyond him right now, but Colin had been helping him to understand the multiverse theory.]

Nothing here makes any sense...how we got here doesn't make any sense. You didn't see any...statues of people you recognized when you woke up, did you?

Statues? Uh...er...no, I didn't see any.

[More like he didn't think to look since he was too busy being confused and angry.]

Ah...

[Ippo gave a small nod as the two finally entered the Bastion. Takamura might find a wave of calm wash over him the second he stepped over the threshold, though the situation might make it hard to appreciate the feeling.]

The truth of it is...and I don't expect you to believe me on this...

[He turned around, hands in the front pocket of his hoodie as he stared Takamura directly in the eyes. If he had any chance of his sempai believing him, he had to be as direct as possible.]

Our world...and a lot of other worlds were completely wiped out by something called the "Calamity". We don't really know what exactly happened, but we know it originated from here...

[Had this been anyone else, Takamura might have thought they were puling his leg but Ippo doesn't really have much of a funny bone. Especially not the sort of thing that would pull a prank of this magnitude. Besides, they were still on floating landmass. That wasn't something you could exactly fake.]

Wiped out......you're sure of this??

As sure of it as we can be. Thankfully more and more people come in every day, the fact that your hear is more than enough proof that there's hope that more people survived.

[His voice was a little harder when the word hope came out; the syllables carefully guarded as if they might be laced with needles otherwise.]

This here is the Bastion, a safe place from all those monsters out on the Skyway. For some reason, they don't bother trying to get in...not that anything in its right mind would pick a fight with a full grown dragon.

[That's right. The Skyway might have an army, but they had a Dragon.]

Hmm, it's not a bad looking place considering the rest of it.

[He looks around, scanning what he can see from their position. He's so busy taking it all in he almost doesn't fully register all that Ippo says.]

Yeah, I guess having a dragon around does come in handy...............

[Aaaand then it hits.]

Did you say a dragon?

Yup.

[He said, as if it were the most natural thing in the world. Then again, having been here for as long as he'd been, it was rather natural for him at this point.]

He's really nice though, to us at least, so its nothing for us to worry about. It's just everything out on the Skyway that has to worry.

[He kind of wants to freak out a little more, but the fact that Ippo is so completely unfazed has him not wanting to look more upset than his kouhai so he recovers quickly.]

Well then....so long as he doesn't cause any trouble here, then it's fine.

He's actually really smart.

[He said, leading Takamura over to the kitchen area, figuring his sempai would probably want something to eat after everything had happened.]

I hit some bad times...and he really helped me through them. Strange as that sounds, I know.

[Being coached through difficult times by a dragon, how could things be any stranger than that? The answer is they could, and by a large degree.]

So this dragon can talk too?

[Yeah, this place just keeps getting stranger by the moment. And Ippo's actually been stuck here for a while? Poor kid.]

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