The Red King

[lionhearrt]

Who: Mikoto + Open
What: Ra's Temple exploded, again. (3rd time!)
When: September 20
Where: Ra's Temple
Summary: Izumo is gone. Mikoto didn't take it well. 


a. Amid the rubble lies the god of the sun burning brightly as his namesake. The flames have yet to die down and the black keeps spreading, but it's not blight that mars his skin as Mikoto struggles to get the red aura under control.


b. Mikoto sits amid the rubble looking exhausted as white flames burn brightly from the palm of his hands as the god heals the burn marks.


c. Healing is an exhausting task, if anyone approaches him after he's healed they'll find Mikoto trying to get up and failing. He's about ready to pass out.


d. Wildcard - Go wild. Make up your own scenario. Catch him at anytime before he passes out or after he wakes up! OTA! 

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[sing_for_me]

[Why was he so stubborn?

But she knew he wouldn't just let her keep the burns, even if they weren't serious. If their roles were reversed, she'd be the same way.]

Will you stop after that? Please?

[There were other healers they could ask to deal with his burns.]

[lionhearrt]

[ The flames keep burning. And for a moment, it seems that he won't answer her but after a long moment, he finally does, except it's not what she wanted to hear. ]

Leave.

After this.

[sing_for_me]

[His words do stun her for a moment, or rather, they stabbed at her. The image of a note flashes in her mind, and her gaze lowers to her clenched fists. It took a lot to push her invasive doubts away, but she was determined for things to be different this time.]

I won't leave you.

[lionhearrt]

Then you'll burn.

[ He looks at the burn marks the white flames were busy healing. ]

Worse than this.

[sing_for_me]

I'll still stay.

[It can't compare to what he's got. When it came to bearing pain..if it was for a purpose, for someone she cared about, then it was worth it.]

I'm sturdier than I look.

[lionhearrt]

[ Suddenly, the flames roar to life, obstructing him from view for a moment, two. He uses them freely to heal every burn, every small ailment, anything and everything until at last they start to recede the god unable to keep the intensity. ]

1/2

[sing_for_me]

Wha—!

[That catches her off gaurd, and she brings a hand up reflexiively to shield her eyes. She can feel the sting of her burns subsiding at a faster rate, realizing that he’s exerting way more power.]

Mikoto—STOP!

[Did he want her to leave that badly? To be alone like this?]

2/2

[sing_for_me]

[Alex lunges forward, wrapping her arms around him protectively.]

It’s enough, Mikoto...It’s enough.

[She holds him firmly, but not too hard. It wasn’t meant to constrict, but just to let him know that she’s there with him.There were no words she could give him to make him stop, or to make any of those feelings go away. He’d lost his shinki— his friend. Someone he knew before coming here... And he lost him twice.

All Alex could do was support him while he was down. And she learned from experience that support didn’t always come in the form of words.]

[lionhearrt]

[ Gold eyes widen as the King flinches. The blazing white flames suddenly die down to a gentle warmth until they disappear at their epicenter inside the god of the sun. ]

[sing_for_me]

[She’s relieved when the flames disappear, but her hold doesn’t weaken. Rather, she holds him tighter, her fingers tangling gently in wild, red locks while the other presses against his back.]

[lionhearrt]

[ The dam begins to crack, the agony of losing one of his own cuts through him like a blade. He can feel the magma churning faster, rising higher than the walls he built to keep them at bay. It's uncontrollable power that he doesn't have the strength to fight back, not here. He closes his eyes as his emotions begin to rip him apart and the magma shoots up ready to overflow. ]

Don't follow.

[ Is all he says before he suddenly disappears, using the last of his strength to teleport back to his room dozens of feet beneath the ruins of his temple. It's the one place he cannot destroy, set away from everyone. The magma shooting over coupled with his bone deep exhaustion has him crashing soon after teleporting to his room. ]

1/2

[sing_for_me]

[Her arms give way with nothing to hold on to after he suddenly disappears. She sits amidst all the rubble, looking down at her hands. The burns were gone, but something still stung. There was nothing else to do but leave, and hope this wasn’t the last she’d see of him. Though hoping was something that’s become difficult to do.]

2/2

[sing_for_me]

[But it wasn’t just Mikoto who was affected by this. Alex smacks her cheeks with the palms of her hand. There were others, others she cared about that were close to Izumo.

She pushes herself back up onto her feet, dusting off the small pieces of rubble from the cement off of herself. She pauses before heading out, turning towards the ground where he vanished. Alex opens her mouth, as if to say something, but closes it again.

She’ll save it for when she sees him again.]