The state and being of a thunderbolt (Natsume thread)

[Anastasia]

"She's...we'll need to go inside," he explains, rubbing his hands together. "Come on...it's warm in there, and Tellu lent me her card." So saying, he heads on towards the entrance doors.

[Midnight Sun]

Natsume gladly follows the cat turned human. The sooner she got out of this cold the sooner she felt like a living block of ice.

"O-on on the phone, y-y-you said s-s-something w-w-with Celcia," Natsume began. "W-w-what exactly h-h-happened? D-d-did she g-g-get loose a-a-again?"

[Anastasia]

A step inside warms your body wonderfully, the heat clearly on. Ah.

"She tried, but Ami contained her...in her own body, this time," Artemis says sadly. "You'll see when we get there." Leading you on, you soon come to a keycard door, which leads you to a quiet part of the school...

[Midnight Sun]

"Oh my god..." she whispers at hearing that bit of news. "Damnit, why did she have to go that far?!"

[Anastasia]

"Celcia was trying to take over her body," Artemis notes, idly rubbing his hand. The very faint remnants of a bruise can be seen there, just visible in the light as you head to an elevator.

"And from here...Usagi gave me permission to take you to Ami, because she is on the Moon," he says simply.

[Midnight Sun]

"Taking...over her body?" Natsume repeats at the first part. "What?! She's on the Moon?!"

She recalled Usagi explaining that there used to be a kingdom on the moon, and there was effort to restore the palace but...

"I'm...actually going to the moon?" she says in disbelief. "Does Mugen Gakuen have a rocketship as well?"

[Anastasia]

"Not quite," Artemis half winces, shaking his head. "Just...come on," he says. The elevator stops, leading you down into the twisted corridors beneath Mugen. On the plus side, it's a short trip this time to a fairly large and empty rooms. Machines surround a circle in the middle of the room, which glows a dull silvery-blue.

"Stand there...this will take us to the Moon," he explains.

[Midnight Sun]

"Ahh, a tachyon-based teleportation system that uses utilizes the breakdown and recreation of waveform quantum states to achieve instantaenous matter transference," Natsume babbles. "At least that's how it was explained in one of Kurumi's sci-fi manga."

[Anastasia]

"Close enough," Artemis shakes his head, as the two of you step in. "If you're really curious, as Professor Tomoe about it." With that, you feel pulled for merely a moment, then...

The bluish light from the great planet above shines down as you stand in a great, marbled hall. Shining with it's own light, the white marble is crafted wonderfully, a lost work of art all around you. Out of the corner of your eye, you can see a vast, ornate throne ahead and double doors out of the corner of the other. It's chilly here, the roof open to show the Earth's glow in orbit.

[Midnight Sun]

"A...amazing...its like stepping inside of a fairytale," Natsume says, mystified. "And all of this was destroyed once? You managed to restore all of this yourselves?"

[Anastasia]

"It's still not completed," he notes, giving you a tug forward so you don't dally. "Gawk later...Ami's this way," he notes, leading on to the double doors, huge doors cut of great stones, yet rigged to open with a single push.

[Midnight Sun]

"A..Ah of course," Natsume says, shaking away the awe thats clouding her brain. "Ami first, sightsee second."

[Anastasia]

With that, Artemis leads you on. A fairytale palace indeed, even if it's half ruined. What is repaired is magnificent, columns suitable for a great Roman temple supporting the roof, tapiestres and frescos of great art showing scenes unknown to your Earth education; even a few surviving worlds of art that look majestic and ancient.

What is ruined is even awe inspiring, fragments of a world long gone. Yet you have little time to ponder it as Artemis makes a fairly brisk clip, leading you into smaller, more private - and fortifiable, your mind notes - passages into a large suite of rooms. Into a large bedroom, namely, showing signs of being lived in and a giant canopy bed. Across from it is an open balcony, Earthlight streaming down on Princess Serenity - Usagi - , a girl with plant green hair who is rather disheleved, and Ami.

Ami lies on a futon on the balcony. Her arms and lower neck are tinted the blue of Celcia's skin as she squirms in her sleep.

[Midnight Sun]

"A...Ami," Natsume mumbles as she slowly approaches her sleeping form. She looked so utterly peaceful, save the moments when her face twisted slightly in what looked to be pain. She notices the odd tint of blue on the bare skin she can see, but the connection to Celcia is not apparent on her face. "What happened? Why is she like this?"

She kneels down beside her as she asks, and moves to touch her now azure skin...

[Anastasia]

New thread after IRC shenanigans.