>>> - My Last Journey

[What could that strange sound be? Wait. The diary, neatly set upright against a nearby wall, just decided it'd be fun to show you: a sunny laundromat filled with smiling Kiseki ladies comes into view. The rumbling of washing machines becomes clearer.]

[Standing in front of a random washing machine are the Karura sisters, eying the thing with both curiosity and disdain. At least disdain from Karura's part]

Curse this complicated mortal technology. Such trinkets seem so unnecessary for washing clothes...

They certainly seem very complicated! Maybe that means that they're very effective?

They would better be. I won't suffer my sister's belongings to be spoiled further than... Ah, what is it doing now?? What is this!?

[Cue the washing machine being overflowed with bubbles: Karura put too much soap in the thing.]

Oh, oh no...! That can't be what it's supposed to do, can it? [ovo;;]

Useless machine! [>w<] Karyou, step back!

We should retrieve our clothes before they get ruined!! [The video stops just as Karura makes a valiant attempt to interrupt the washing cycle to rescue the valuable Tenkai attire.]

[[Blue is Karura, Lighter blue is Karyou. o/ The sisters got attacked by cake on Halloween, so their clothes got stained. Feel free to come to their rescue if you like.]]

[Vertigo may befall whoever watches this video of Kiseki's city center as seen from several feet above. The image circles around a stern Sky Queen, who's staring with a suspecting eye upwards where the diary is suspended.]

Something strange's brewing once more... [¬w¬] Soar further up the skies, Garuda! See what those clouds are up to! Careful not to drop the tr--- [OwO!?]

[She's not done saying this and a shower of candy rains down on her, piling at her feet where she stands.]

[...] [She cups her hands and they're quickly filled with toffees.]

This land... [;;;] So absurd...

[Just as she turns to leave a giant lollipop bounces off her head. The last image the diary records is a ruffled Karura sending a very frightening glare up the sky.]

( Accidental Audio; made private at once )

I have a question for those among you with teaching experience. [~w~]

My sister, Princess Karyoubinga of the Karura Clan, is in need of proper tuition. By this I mean the sort of education a lady of the noblest birth requires and deserves. Is there anyone in this land who has ever been entrusted with the task of teaching royalty?

If so, do contact me and I'll make sure you're fairly rewarded for your efforts.

[So yes, Karura's a snob and wants Karyou to be home-schooled. Applicants will be paid in silver coins from the Sky City. \o/ If she decides no one's up to the task she'll end up taking up the job herself. ;;;]

[Evening is falling and the branches of a very large tree appear illuminated by strange spots of white light. The diary shows us the blurry image of a forest which those who've visited the island may recognize as the one surrounding the hot springs.

Nightingales gather around the place. We're entreated to their musical chirrups as the video image quivers for a moment. Then a content sigh can be heard.]

Acceptable. I believe this is satisfactory enough. Don't you, Karyou?

[As the image becomes clear again we can see, from an awkward angle, both Karura and Karyoubinga perched on a thick branch overlooking the mysterious lights. Karura cocks an eyebrow but the smile she's wearing doesn't leave her face. She looks remarkably content.]

At least this land's quaint magic can serve some useful purposes other than ridicule, from time to time...

[There's a sudden blur of motion. It becomes clear that Karura in holding the diary under her arm. Then the egg-shaped jewel finally focuses enough to show us a lovely edification gracefully perched in the tree. It resembles a small palace more than a house.]

[See that blinding light? It's the impact of a hitenshou demolishing a good half of the Welcome Center. Of course the diary decided this is wonderfully fun to broadcast.

As the lightning recedes we see burning rubble, panicked Kisekians running around and a very tall, silver-haired woman standing in the middle of the wreckage, surrounded by a blazing white aura. Flapping above her on huge wings is a bird which appears to be entirely made of such white fire.]

TAKE ME BACK! At once!!

[Another ki blast sends the diary flying a couple of feet further from the scene. Karura's voice sounds enraged as she approaches the spot where the journal lies, paying no attention to it. We're treated to a view of its owner from far below: Karura's face is filled with both anger and concern.]

I won't suffer such delay this time! This time I will bring this world to ruin if that's what it takes to have me return!!

...Karyou...

[For a moment Karura seems overcome by sorrow, but at once her face is filled with desperate rage again.]

Her time is running out...!



[[ooc: By now Karura and Karyou are reunited, so she'll be in a much calmer mood. Feel free to let me know if you want your thread to happen before or after she discovered her sister's in Kiseki. o/]]

What exactly does this accursed country believe it's doing, turning everyone into~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~?!

[..........]

[some scribbles after a huge gap]

Hey, where...? Is this a part of Toriten I never knew?? It looks too strange! Where did everyone go anyway? A-are those MORTALS walking around??

...Hn. I see. [>w<] Kendappa~! If this is one of your pranks I'm definitely not in the mood! Take it on Yama or Aizen if you want. I'm too busy to play now: Garuda and I have to keep on training!


[There's a very confused little Karura walking around the park right now. She's mostly harmless. Feel free to find her~]

Come this point there's no remark I can make that would alter anything. My hatred for this land grows by the day. To think I was free of its captivity for a while... Even if I didn't get to see her. Not once....

[Private, hard to hack]

This child warrior... Her determination is more admirable than I thought. I wonder if there's something hidden about the two of them. Something Yasha-ou perceived... Could it be that he believes they wield the power to stand against Taishakuten? It seems so unlikely.

[/private]

Kendappa-ou, have you been forced back to this land's imprisonment as well?

[...] ...I suppose it was naive of me to believe this world had had enough of its amusements on my expense.

[Guess who got stuck beneath a mistletoe. Right in the same block where Usyagi is. She was going to see Kohane. ;o; To warn her about the weirdness, ironically enough.]

I refuse to comply to its ridiculous whims again. [>/] I'll stand here until the end of time if necessary.

So I've come to realize one thing about this world. It takes pleasure not only from humiliating us, but from the absurd in itself. I suppose the one purpose of these magic diaries is for our captors to watch as everyone fumbles with their own embarrassment.

Foul. [>|]

It makes me wonder about the kind of people being brought here. Maybe they are picked for being easy subjects to ridicule...

Does this country know no other pleasure than mocking us relentlessly??

HOW DARE IT DO SOMETHING THIS RIDICULOUS!!!

[DDDD<]


[The forest east of the hotels is about to get some big clearing. There's a very angry Karura kinda devastating a large area of it. |D;; And yeah, she has a pretty black & blue heart up her regal head.]

[doesn't give a damn to make this private]

So he IS truly gone. [...] How am I supposed to feel about it...?

Relieved, perhaps. But this is only a temporary release until I'm back to Tenkai and to Taishakuten's thralldom. This entrapment I detest If I could [>O]

If what he told me is true and this land DOES have the power to heal... If she came here now... then we'd both be free of our own prisons at least for a while.

Sister...
What good am I without you?

[written in very furious sweeping script]

YOU, WHO BELIEVE YOU CAN HOLD KARURA-OU CAPTIVE, release me at once. [DDD<]

I care not what devilry is this that shields this dimension so that not even Garuda may spot a hollow in the sky for us to fly away through. I will suffer no entrapment. I must return to the Sky City at once! Karyou... I must see how she fares! [>:] Sister, I will...

[...]

Coward who won't dare show your face: your lackeys here inform me that what I write in this book can be read by everyone in this country. So I tell you, release me or I'll obliterate this palace and whoever stands in my way!

Karura-ou will be nobody's prisoner.

[so yeah, she'll wreak havoc about the WC and threaten the girls until someone explains this is a no-go anyway. |D]