fierybluebird | [Action / Accidental Video] In which baby phoenixes flail a lot

[Early Monday morning Marco is finally returned from his kidnapping. A lot tinier.]

[He wakes up by kicking his book open and there's a teeny tiny baby bluebird phoenix cocking an eye at the pages. Hello Luceti. Finally he decides it's just a blank journal so he hops back and goes to take in his surroundings, and checks the area around the fountain very carefully. Wet. Do not want. Well, he's bored now. Time to fly home.]

[That would work a lot better without this creepy added weight. What the hell! NO! HE CAN'T FLY?! So after several jumps, the hand-sized phoenix jumps about and tries to get air. Which much to his dismay, does nothing. With the added new weight of the fake Luceti wings, he can't fly! Eventually he just gives up and starts flailing.]

Pops! Pops! Pops! [There are a few more baby birdie chirps of this.] Uwah brothers! ANYONE! Where are you guys?!

[Walks around and looks distraught.] I must'a hurt my wings. But that makes no sense... because I'm a phoenix. [Sits back down and sulks for now. Oh, look a stranger! He starts to rush to hide behind the fountain, but well, he's not getting anywhere on his own... so he'll have to try something!]

Excuse me! Have you seen anyone really really tall around? Wait. No. What island is this? I don't remember docking? AH! Have you see Edward Newgate; my Pops around? It's really important, yoi! [At which point... he remembers he's a bird. And realizes nothing he said probably came out in human (it all did because lulz Luceti) so just have a deapan baby birdie stare.]

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[He has yet to notice the giant mermaid, though you'd think with the pink hair and such he would.]

Luceti...

I see....

[Turns around and looks at the ground trying to understand what Luceti is.]

Ah! I cannot fly! Miss who knows my name, do you know where my Papa is?

Um, i- if you mean Whitebeard-sama, he's...

[And Shirahoshi starts crying softly, because even though she didn't know him, she knows he was important to Marco, and it's too sad to have to tell him that his Pops is dead.]

He's with M- Mother-sama, watching over us, so you don't have to worry, ok?

[Oh god. He made her cry. He made Robin upset too! AHHH Upsetting all the girls! Whyyyy? He switches back to human worriedly.]

D-don't cry!! [Starts to wibble himself. He's not sure what Shirahohshi means by that... but it's distressing.... and he's got a pretty good idea it means they're trapped and maybe beyond the barrier Robin mentioned, and it's all scary and he has to be brave to protect the ladies and his brother obviously!]

It will be okay. If Pops is watching over us, then he'll make us safe, no matter w-what, okay? Don't cry!

Um.

Um.

[Small voice.] Are you a mermaid? Did you meet Pops before?

[Shirahoshi bites her lip, nodding in response to Marco's question.]

I'm a mermaid, but I never got to meet your Pops. I had to stay in my tower until after he died...

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

Wh-What?

[Shakes his head.]

You're wrong. Pops can't die. He's too strong... I'm sorry about the tower though.

But he was really old and there was a war...

[But she doesn't really want to talk about it. Her father and brothers had watched the televised parts with grim faces, but she couldn't handle it very well at all, and had kept the visual Den Den Mushi in her room turned off. It was terrifying, watching the humans hurt each other so much.]

Don't you remember?

[Trembles and starts crying in full. How can she say that? It's impossible. Pops could never die. Pops promised to protect him until it was time. How could his phoenix fruit have messed up this big?]

You're wrong, you're wrong.... Pops will never die... So long as I have his mark, so long as I keep believing in him, he'll come. You'll see.

[Curls up under his wings in hybrid and hides.]

What about Jozu and Vista and Ray and my other brothers?

[Starts resigning himself to it. He's scared and depressed and hungry and wants to give up on trying to fly because what does it matter if he couldn't protect his Papa?]

What year was it?

[She's crying right along with you, tears spilling over her cheeks and this time she doesn't care. It isn't weak to mourn.]

1522. I don't really know what happened to everybody. Just that Whitebeard-sama and Firefist Ace-sama died and then Red-Haired Shanks-sama ended the war. I didn't... I couldn't watch...

I'm sorry.

It's.... I'm sorry too.

[Curls up into a phoenix baby on the ground. He meant to be comforting, but right now he seriously can't.]

[She'd gather him up and hold him close to her if she could, but she's very far away. So she just keeps the video feed open, in case there's anything else he wants to say or ask.]

Edited 2012-08-13 23:38 (UTC)

How long ago did you lose your Mom?

Ten years ago. [Sniffle!]

I'm sorry....

[Starts crying again... BWAAAAAAH T_T]

Does it get any better? [D:]

Um...

[Shirahoshi thinks about it, how her mother's death has changed in its effect over time.]

A little bit. There are still times when it hurts a lot, but... I'd say they get more and more space between them as you go.

But then maybe it's like letting go of them.

[Wibbling all over. Distressed baby phoenix.]

No, you don't let go of the people you care about. You just learn to let go of the hurt, because they wouldn't want us to always be sad. They'd want us to be happy, and smile when we think of them.

A-aye, he would. [Still wibbly though.]

How'd it happen? [That's not really something he should be told >>;]

I- In the war. You'd have to ask my Brothers-sama or Father-sama. I didn't watch.

I see.

Thank you for telling me, yoi.

You have a right to know, right?

Maybe. I'm not really sure of anything right now. Thirty years is a lot, but I'm not sure if I failed him. Or my brothers.

I'm sorry, little Marco-sama.

[Oh god that's cute.]

It's okay. It's better I know so I can take care of my brothers, right?

[She nods gravely.]

I'm sorry I can't do much. I'm far away, in the ocean.

[Huffs and scrubs his face determinedly.]

That's okay, yoi. I'll protect us both. And my brothers.

I wasn't Pops' right hand man for nothing, eh? [POSES!]

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