Event Nine.

[awashmods]

Thus, on Life’s gloomy sea, Heareth the marinere Voices sweet, from far and near, Ever singing in his ear, “Here is rest and peace for thee!”

t's a dark night, and the sounds of feet in the darkness are further dampened and hidden by even more magic, as they are lured away by the soft sounds of dreams that are too good to be true, leaving the Town much, much emptier than when it began. On one side, an island, and a ticking clock to a gruesome death. On the other, the slow realization that those bonds everyone has been forging might mean much, much more than they first thought. Welcome to Awash's ninth event log, everyone! Further information on this event can be found here at the OOC post. You are welcome to start your own posts or logs for this event as well. If there are any questions, please ask them here. Please be sure to very clearly mark where your characters are in your prompts, so people know which they can tag depending on which group they are in. Thank you!

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[oathkeeper]

[Michael is doing all the right things to divert Sora's attention back to real life. There's a spark in his eye and he immediately looks around at the other boats for a flash of red hair and a pink dress.]

Right- The rescue crew! You guys got us out! All of us! Kairi too! We gotta find her and make sure Riku knows that---

[Before Sora can finish his sentence there's a loud screeching noise from the water. Suddenly clawed hands shoot up from the water and dig right into Sora's leg. The Siren is intending to pull him in!!]

Ahhhh--!!

[Holding onto Michael and also trying to stay in the boat!]

[retrobeats]

[ hey @theuniverse why can't they have five hecking minutes to celebrate no longer being in thrall to the supernatural, huh ]

Ahhh!!

[ purely on instinct, Michael's grip tightens and shifts till he's practically clinging firmly to Sora around the middle. he's also trying to find some kind of purchase point on the boat for his legs in this sudden tug-of-war. it'd all look super comical if it wasn't literally life-and-death. ]

Seriously, you are the sorest losers!!! [ trash-talking the Sirens: probably not the greatest course of action when it could capsize their dangerously lopsided boat and drag them both under any second. but: who cares!! ] Ugh-- Sora, I got you, kick it in the face or something!!

[oathkeeper]

[They really are the sorest losers, though!! Sora doesn't disagree with that as he wails and clings onto the boat and onto Michael as well. He's trying his hardest to not pull Michael off the boat with him but if he does start losing his grip he'll let go so Michael doesn't get dragged in too. Those claws in his leg really hurt!]

I'll do--!! Ahuughh!!! Something better than that!!

[Sora grips the boat with one hand and prays that Michael doesn't let him go. Because he's using his other hand to let go and suddenly summon his weapon. It appears with a flourish in his hand and Sora immediately turns awkwardly and smashes the siren in the head with it.

She screams in pain and let's go!! And the two boys are going to awkwardly fall back into the boat the sheer force of the movement. BUT FREEDOM!!!]

Ackk!!!

[retrobeats]

[ Michael yells in surprise when Sora summons a giant freakin' key out of nowhere, but valiantly clings on!! before he's tossed back into the bottom of the boat with Sora, letting out a loud oof as the wind gets knocked out of him.

holy crap. he's just gonna take a minute to lie there and feel the boat rocking underneath them, because they're alive???

after that minute's passed and his heart doesn't feel like it's about to beat its way right out of his chest anymore, he says in a slightly dazed voice: ]

... yeah, that was absolutely better than just kicking it in the face. [ ... and they are still on a boat and that thing could still be coming back, and that thought makes him detangle himself from the pile they landed in and scramble back up onto his knees, just to be safe. ] How did you do that anyway, I mean - what is it?