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[The feed comes to life to show a young boy with glasses made dusty by the building he's woken up in. He doesn't particularly seem to care about the dust, though, instead glancing around as though someone might pop out from the shadows any moment.]

Hello?... Um, I'm not sure where I am, but it's really dark and scary and I don't know where my friends went... [He takes his glasses off, wipes them with his shirt and hurriedly returns them to his face.] And nobody else is around! Are we playing a game? It's not a very fun one... I don't like it.

[Tenatively:] Ran-neechan? Kogoro-ojiisan?

[And now he'll leave the Blackberry on video as he waits for someone to fill him in.]

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[decadetooearly.livejournal.com]

[He nearly trips when she pulls his hand and starts running, but manage to try and keep up with her.]

N-neechan, I can't run so fast!

[pallasthetennyo.livejournal.com]

[ She pauses and with just a blink another shot of pink light appeared and she was her taller and older form again. Her hair was blue and her eyes were gold.

Too scared to think of anything else, she picks him up. Her hands are shaking. She hated ghosts and monsters.

Seeing the Lying Figure still --- coming closer --- she screamed and shot up to the sky. ]

I'm not scared ... I'm not scared... that is not scary...

[decadetooearly.livejournal.com]

[The light caused Conan to look away, only to let out a startled gasp when Chidori's feet left the ground.]

N-neechan?

[Upon hearing her terrified words, his voice softened and he didn't push the matter of her apparent flying.]

It's okay, neechan. Someone's just playing a trick on us.

[And then I guess several large crows dove in for an assault.]

[pallasthetennyo.livejournal.com]

[ This was not a trick Conan. And she had seen enough to know it isn't.

The crows weren't helping at all, she was scared too scared really to focus fighting back using her powers. Instead, she instinctively hugs Conan tighter and surrounds them in a pink sphere that served as a shield. This was the best she can do for now. ]

I'm not ... scared ...

[ She bursts out crying. ]

I want to see my mama! I'm scared!

[decadetooearly.livejournal.com]

[The crows couldn't seem to get into the sphere, but were still determinedly butting it. Conan's mind whirled as he tried to think of the possible reasons how it was possible- Was it all some crazy dream or hallucination? It certainly felt real.]

Chidori-neechan, it'll be fine... It's not scary! Look, you can fight off the scary birds!

[Conan gestured vaguely at the area around them, and then awkwardly patted Chidori's arm. He really didn't know how to comfort people at all.]

[pallasthetennyo.livejournal.com]

[ Still shaking, she hesitantly looks around them. The crows were stubbornly trying to get through.

She wasn't sure if she could do that. Lately --- he powers weren't like they used to be. She needed --- to stop being scared and get mad --- pretend --- that these were just any Mikage henchmen. ] I can try...

[ She closes her eyes and tries to concentrate despite the sound of crows. ] Go away... go away... GO AWAY!

[ The sphere becomes bigger and pushes the birds back. Some of them even vaporized in the blast that followed. ]

[decadetooearly.livejournal.com]

[Conan's eyes widened as he watched a few of the crows die. Unfortunately, the remaining few seemed to feed off Chidori's underlying fear and were insistently trying to get to them, causing more deaths.]

[Conan decided not to say anything yet, aware that Chidori was trying to concentrate on what she was doing, and focused instead on how she was doing it. Some kind of force field?]

[pallasthetennyo.livejournal.com]

[ A lot of concentration is needed to do this. So she is just being quiet. And she also knew she had to hurry because she had to save a lot of her energy if she was going to survive this week.

She was sweating and getting more and more tired. ]

DIE!

[ With one last blast of energy, she finished up the remaining birds.

But when she was done --- she was panting tiredly. ]

[decadetooearly.livejournal.com]

[Conan was still pondering about Chidori's powers, but her fatigue worried him... especially since they were still in the air.]

Neechan, you should land and take a break...

[pallasthetennyo.livejournal.com]

[ Shaking her head. She doesn't want to go down. Too scared to see what else was down there. She was staying up there where it was safe. ]

No no no! [ Still hugging Conan. ] I don't wanna!

[decadetooearly.livejournal.com]

Chidori-neechan, you're going to get tired if you don't land! [Conan thought of a compromise.] What about on a rooftop? We can see if anything's coming and you can take off easily from there.

[... He doesn't even want to think about the many things wrong with this scene.]

[pallasthetennyo.livejournal.com]

[ She pauses and thinks about it. After a while she nods and finally chooses the nearest rooftop to land and as soon as her feet touched the ground --- she puts Conan on the ground before transforming back into her child form and drops on her knees. ]

Sorry... I was never good at scary stuff...

[decadetooearly.livejournal.com]

[Conan smiles in an attempt to reassure her, but he can't resist the questions all the same.]

Neechan, how did you do what you did just now?

[pallasthetennyo.livejournal.com]

[ Sits up and gives a pout. ]

Chidori told you. I am part Tennyo.

Do you know the play called, Hagoromo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagoromo_(play))?

[decadetooearly.livejournal.com]

Of course! It's about a fisherman and a dancing angel, right? What does it have to do with anything?

[pallasthetennyo.livejournal.com]

Well --- that is one story about Tennyos. In other stories the men fall in love with the angel. And the marry and have kids.

One of them might be Chidori's great great great great ---[ Pauses and counts how many generations passed. ] --- great grandmother.

[decadetooearly.livejournal.com]

[...So full of doubt here. Even though he just saw you using your fancy powers and flying.]

[pallasthetennyo.livejournal.com]

[ Pouting and crossing her arms ... because she sees that he still didn't believe her. It was frustrating! What did she have to do to get him to believe her? Not only that --- but they were in an eerie town with monsters. ]

Its true!

[decadetooearly.livejournal.com]

I didn't say anything! [Yet.]

[pallasthetennyo.livejournal.com]

[ Still staring. Oh --- but she thinks that he wants to. ]