a_lone_flame | [fifty-sixth launch -- accidental video]

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[fifty-sixth launch -- accidental video]

[ Even before the camera turns on, something seems to be wrong. Maybe it’s the irritated, bestial growling that gives it away, or maybe the sound of something wet and distressingly fleshy tearing and ripping apart. A talon crunches over the communicator’s camera, marking it with blood, and knocking it away onto its side. Rust-colored hide flickers past, a glimpse of bloodied claws--

There's the sound of someone trying their hardest to not scream, but the pain is maddening and the scream sound vaguely like those of Kai's, if anyone heard him scream. They only quiet down after quite a long struggle. What's left is his clothes torn all up to hell, a beyblade on its' side and a pissed off vermilion bird.

For this attack, she lets out a cry before growling at the attacker, not holding back in her fire assault.

Meanwhile, parts of Kai's body have been flung around. Feel free to find either his arm, leg, or his torso. ]

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[Meryl feels the warmth of his friend against him, and finally sobs. The comfort is something he needs. Something to keep him from going mad from all of this pain. He wants to scream out how he will hurt the one who did this, how he will kill them, or better yet make them wish that he had killed them, and the rage is his natural reaction but somehow he can't keep it up at all now and he shouldn't and the crying hurts, physically, it's so hard. At least it's something other than the pain in his heart. The physical sensations overwhelm the emotional, and for several minutes he just lays there with Gyatso and cries.

Finally he runs out of energy. He has never cried for someone as much as he has for his children. Elysia....Aang....Kai. Med'an.

He reaches weakly for Gyatso's free hand.]

[Gyatso stays with him, a constant presence, and doesn't move away, whispering quietly to Meryl as the mage sobs. It is good, that Meryl is letting his pain out. And as much as it hurts to see his friend like this, or to have seen what happened to Kai, Gyatso doesn't let his own emotions get ahold of him.

Meryl's crying enough for both of them, anyways.

When Meryl finally runs out of stamina and reaches out a hand, Gyatso takes it, squeezing it gently. He's here. Gyatso is not going anywhere.]

[He holds Gyatso's hand tightly, and turns a little so that he can see the arrow tattoo on it. For a little while he has nothing to say. Nothing to do, except lay there with the monk, letting slow tears continue to fall, staring at their hands and at nothing.

Then he slowly comes back...his eyes move to follow Gyatso's arm.]

I told him to be careful.

[It's not really something accusatory as much as just a fact. He wanted Kai to be safe. The boy said he'd be fine.]

[Gyatso lets Meryl turn his hand without protest or without even a word. He simply is letting Meryl take the comfort that he needs. The monk stays close to the mage, staying close in the moment.]

He thought he was being careful in his own way.

[At least Meryl is calmer now. Although that might likely just be because of exhaustion.]

[It is because of exhaustion. Sobbing takes a lot out of you. Especially after you've done it for a few days.]

I don't know what to do.

[He doesn't know anything about being a parent. Not really. He was making it all up as he went.]

[Gyatso pulls away a bit, only so that he can move the arm around Meryl's shoulders to bring his hand to Meryl's hair instead, smoothing out some of the tangles. He doesn't braid it--not now, when the time is wrong for comedy--but he does work on it, gently.]

You will be there when he returns. And you will go from there.

[No matter how much you prepare, you can never know everything about being a parent.]

[It feels oddly comforting. Later he'll remember that his mother would do something like this, in those hazy distant memories of his childhood.]

I want him to be safe.

[Gyatso has been a mother and a father to more than one Air Nomad child, since the boys and girls were separated to grow up in different temples at a young age. He had to be a bit of both to his pupils.]

All parents want their children to be safe.

[He sounds a bit tired himself. It's tiring, watching your friends die and be in pain, but be able to do nothing about it.]

[Meryl closes his eyes. He's never felt like it was difficult to keep them safe...before this. He doesn't know what to do. Should he have done something different? Was this his fault?

He pulls their hands a little closer to him. Stay with me.]

[Gyatso doesn't judge; he gives his comfort freely, just staying with Meryl as he needs him to. There is nothing he can say that can make this better, and so he doesn't speak.

This is the sort of comfort Meryl needs now, anyways.]

[You know how sometimes after a good long cry you think about what you were crying for and it all starts up again? Yeah, that sucks, doesn't it?

It makes him finally move, lifting himself up to a sitting position. Wiping at his eyes with his free hand. It doesn't really help the pain stop, but he doesn't want to fall down again. He won't be able to get back up. His mind is going back to Kai's post, the sickening noises, and he feels suddenly very ill.]

...

[Gyatso sits up with Meryl and makes himself comfortable. He doesn't let Meryl's hand go, as the mage doesn't want to let his go. And when Meryl wipes at his eyes, Gyatso averts his gaze just long enough for Meryl to get a moment of privacy.]

... You should spend the night, Meryl. We have the materials for a makeshift bed now.

[He takes a moment, a few deep breaths. Don't think about those sounds, those images. Don't keep crying, or you'll surely drown in your sorrow.

But - still seeking a lifesaver might be alright. The idea sounds both strange and natural at once.

He'll leave a note over the communicators for Terence. He turns to his friend, tired, lost.]

Alright.

[Gyatso smiles softly, then slowly stands, still holding Meryl's hand.]

Then let us get it ready.

[Gyatso offers it as a distraction. Something physical to do to distract Meryl from the pain in his heart.]

[Meryl follows him in that quiet way a person does when they're too shocked or tired to think of anything on their own. He remembers to message Terence...and then everything goes mercifully blank in his mind. ]

[ This entire event has definitely wracked Suzaku up. She's been mostly sitting on the outskirts of Discedo attacking the sky with fireballs. All she wants is her beyblader, nothing more. She would bring him back to life, but even she can sense something's blocking her from doing that.

So, she takes to the skies and eventually stumbles upon Gyatso's apartment, cawing in sadness. ]

[Gyatso doesn't know Suzaku, and blinks when he hears a caw. It sounds so sad. Just like Meryl is now...]

[Something...a bird? No, not quite. He knows that voice.]

Suzaku...?

[She's at the window, isn't she? Meryl sort of wanders over there, and opens it enough for her to peek in.]

[ Suzaku's eyes widen at seeing Meryl and she anxiously claws at the window until Meryl lets her in. Well, she lowers her head and gets a look around.

She caws as if saying, "Can I stay here?" Her feathers are quite... ruffled. ]

[Gyatso blinks in surprise, then glances to Meryl.]

Suzaku?

[Aka, I don't know what the heck is going on anymore.]

[Meryl is looking vaguely surprised too...or maybe just out of it. He reaches out to stroke Suzaku's feathers.]

Kai's....phoenix.

[The other explanation for her escapes him. All that's important is that it's Kai's....and she must be upset...]

I think she needs....

[Comfort, is the word, but he doesn't get it out. Gyatso will understand him anyway ~~because he can read his mind~~, right?]

[ Suzaku would caw happily at the petting, but it's a morose caw. She's stricken by grief, and would like nothing more than Kai to be alive. ]

[Gyatso doesn't need to hear the rest, understanding what Meryl means. He reaches out to stroke her as well, but with the back of his fingers and hand. The monk speaks quietly.]

It's better for her feathers to use the back of your hand....

Oh.

[Oops. Shows how much he knows...he turns his hand to continue the pettage, looking at her face.]

I'm sorry.

[Not for petting her wrong. For the pain they're going through.]

[ The way that Gyatso is petting her is the way Kai usually does. She caws, but moves to gently nudge Meryl's and Gyatso's hands. ]

Caw...

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[fifty-sixth launch -- accidental video]

Gyatso, you think Meryl is special, right :>

He totally does!

^o^

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/spams raffles post forever

/eats the spam :E

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/interrupts old man bonding time

Yay, the chaperone has arrived! Just in time!

we can still push our beds together, right :>

Yes.

Awesome!

ohohohoho

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