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Momiji has brought his school books to the bar, intending to do some studying. It had crossed his mind to just stay away till all the scariness had passed over, but something kept the kid coming. Hence: the school books. Maybe if he could focus enough on this Algebra, it would feel more like normal.

For a while it even works! The math is complex enough to get him focused on getting it right. Momiji yawns, and puts his head down on his arms for a moment. It doesn't take long for him to fall asleep, just because the math was complex doesn't mean it wasn't boring too!

*~*~*
"Tohru!" Momiji spies his friend standing at the edge of the lake here in Milliways. The scary fog was missing, as was the opressive feeling that had lingered. The rabbits were even back! Momiji doesn't think about this sudden turn of events, and instead runs to the girl he knows so well. She turns and smiles at him, opening her arms for a hug.

Momiji jumps into her arms, and the typical change takes place. But he doesn't mind, It was always nice to hug someone, and Toru was doubly nice. For a moment he just cuddles in her arms, before looking up. "When did you get here Tohru? Why haven't I seen you before?"

"I just got here silly, isn't it nice?" Tohru is walking along the side of the lake, carrying Momiji with her.

"I'm so glad you're here! Has anyone showed you around? I can do that!" The rabbit bounces slightly in her arms, but not hard enough that she would drop him.

"That would be so fun! Could we start over there?" Tohru points at the dark building that had sprung up over night. "That looks like a lot of fun."

A chill slides down Momiji's back, but he shoves it back. Of course Tohru wouldn't know that the building was evil. Something bad is there, even though Momiji doesn't know what it is. "No.... Tohru, I'll introduce you to the bar. She's really nice, especially to kids like us. Sometimes she'll play tricks and they're always really funny. It's weird to think that a bar could play tricks, but she does."

But Tohru doesn't change her pace. She's now walking directly towards the dark building, and Momiji is carried that way. "But I really want to see this building, common Momiji, you aren't scared are you?"

"What's wrong with being scared? That building is bad!" Momiji starts to squirm, she isn't letting him go! "Tohru, let me go! I don't want to go there!"

Her arms tighten around the rabbit. "No, you have to come. It's important." Her voice isn't the nice sweet Tohru voice Momiji remembers. Something bad is happening. Tohru picks up her pace and they're almost at the door to the dark building. Her grip is so hard it almost hurts him.

"Help! You're not Tohru! Tohru wouldn't hurt me! LET ME GO!"
*~*~*

Momiji springs awake, shaking from the fear induced by the dream. He knew two things. One, Toru was NOT in the bar. Two, He did NOT want to go into that building. The boy's hair is messed up and his breathing comes fast.

Man, if that is what Algebra did in the bar, he didn't want any more of it! A wait rat is flagged down and a calming tea ordered. Slowly, Momiji starts to put his school books and papers in order, waiting for the tea to come.

*~*~*~*

Meanwhile, on the other side of the bar, a small dragon is pacing after a dream/nightmare of her own. Though most of her scales have returned to the blue color in the absence of immediate danger, a pink and red tinge remain. It just wasn't right.

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Enzo is on the alert for people exhibiting Slendy-related symptoms. Waking obviously distressed from a troubled sleep is clearly one such. He approaches the boy (and doesn't he look familiar?). "Excuse me?"

Momiji jumps slightly when he hears Enzo, then smiles ruefully. The dream had him on edge, that's all. The waitrat arrives with the tea just a moment later, and Momiji accepts it with thanks.

He looks up at the green (interesting...) person talking to him. "Can I help you?" Momiji replies cautiously.

(ooc: squee! Alright, I'm totally on the way out the door- be back in an hour or so, so I'll tag then.)

"Sorry to bug you, but, well, I saw you wake up and it looked like you were just having a nightmare, and it's cool if you don't want to talk about it but I'm investigating..."

He stops.

"Wait."

He stares. He tries to remember. It's been a few years, but...

"Momiji?"

[OOC: It's all good!]

Momiji blinks up at the boy, and then does a sigh/smile combo.

"I don't think I know you, but you might know me. I guess there was a me here, before, but I'm not him, well, I am him but he's not me. Oh man, it's complicated. But you're right, I'm Momiji. What's your name?"

Talk about slight complexities only available for service in-bar. But this is good, because the Momiji doesn't have to think about the nightmare.

Enzo sighs as well, then forces a smile. "Yeah. We were friends, a while back. I'm Enzo. Enzo Matrix."

Momiji catches the sigh, "It's nice to meet you Enzo. I'm sorry that I'm not old!Momiji. From what I gather he had a lot of friends here. Maybe we could still be friends? Even if it is different?"

"Sure." Enzo smiles more warmly. "I hadn't seen you... him... whatever... around here for a few years anyway. He was older than me," he adds. "Not that that means much around here anyway."

"I haven't been here all that long, so I'm still getting use to the strangeness. Especially all the creepiness that's going on with whatever it is."

Which makes Momiji think of his dream again, which in turn, brings back a frown on his normally cheerful face.

"Are you researching it too, like Liz?"

"Yeah. You mean Liz Sherman?" Not surprising, since Hellboy's on it as well.

"Yeah... I helped her look though some books for that weird symbol, not that it was much help. I didn't find anything." Momiji shrugs slightly.

"I told her I'd keep my eyes open and let her know if I saw anything else."

"I can help you there. A friend of mine found plenty."

He calls over a rat and asks it to bring him a copy of Claudia's papers.

"It's one of those things where information kind of leaks between worlds," he explains while waiting. "In her world, it's an Internet meme."

"That's weird... especially as it's so scary. I mean, everyone I've talked to seems to be really on edge."

Momiji gestures at one of the other chairs at the table. "Would you like to sit down?"

"Oh. Yeah."

Weird awkward situations = forgetting to do that. He takes a seat, stretching his legs out in front of him.

"Anyway, I guess it's fun when you know it's fake. Here..." Not so much.

"Yeah.... I hope nothing too bad happens before everything gets settled. I would really hate if anyone got hurt."

His voice gets a little small as he says that. "Anyway... what was it you wanted to ask?"

"I'll do my best not to let that happen," Enzo says firmly, looking just as big and solid and stubborn and in-uniform as he can. (Also, did we mention he's wearing a sword on his belt?)

"Huh? Oh! Well, since I am investigating, I'm trying to check on people who've had nightmares. It's okay if you don't want to talk about it. But if there were any... important points...?"

Momiji runs his fingers through his hair. "Well, um, I guess it started out normal. Tohru was here by the lake, and I ran to hug her and," He pauses biting his lip. The rest of the dream didn't make much sense if someone didn't know about his rabbit form. But he wasn't sure how much people here knew about the curse and stuff. Akito wasn't here, but Momiji didn't know if that changed because of the bar.

"Yeah?"

Curiously, it never came up before.

"Well, there's this thing that happens sometimes, so it happened," That's pretty vague enough, right? "and so Tohru was holding me and she wanted to explore that creepy house that popped up. When she wouldn't let me go I realized it couldn't really be Tohru, so I started yelling. We almost went inside when I woke up."

A shiver goes down his spine as he remembers how insistent Tohru had been that they had to go into the building.

Enzo nods slowly. It doesn't really tell him anything very new, but still.

"I've been down to there. I didn't go in, but I looked in the windows. You... really don't want to."

"I know, I don't want to, but it's...." Momiji bites his lip and runs his fingers through his hair.

"I don't want to, but it's like I needto. It's weird.

"You mean... in the dream?"

Please just mean in the dream.

"I don't know what I mean. It made sense in the dream, but I knew I didn't want to go there, but it did kinda make sense."

Momiji shrugs, a bit uncomfortable about it.

"I'm not going near it if I can help it! All the rabbits are gone anyway, so that's enough to tell me it's no good."

Ah, yes. Old!Momiji always did seem to have an affinity for rabbits.

"Yeah, well, dreams always make sense when you're in 'em."

The rat brings the papers. "Thanks. See, this is what's in there. I saw him."

"Weird...." Momiji flips through the papers, skimming and his eyes focused on the pictures.

"I guess no one knows why....?" His eyes are fixed on one of the pictures, and his sentence drifts off.

"If they do, I haven't heard yet."

Enzo turns his head to see what Momiji's looking at.

It's just a blurry picture of Slenderman behind a group of children.

He shakes off his reverie, and puts the papers down firmly. "I'm not going near that thing if I can help it."

Edited 2012-10-19 20:37 (UTC)

"Good."

Not much else to be said there.

"If anything else weird happens, I let you know, alright? I hope nothing does though- I don't really want to have anything to do with this guy. I don't think my dream has anything to do with him, just picking up the nervousness that is all over the bar."

Well, Momiji can lie to himself. It makes life easier. He rubs his forehead, it's all starting to give him a bit of a headache.

"Uh-huh," Enzo says dryly, not believing a word of it. "But, yeah, do keep me updated."

Momiji doesn't know Enzo well enough, so doesn't know that he doesn't believe him. Momiji is trying hard to believe it!

He forces a cheerful smile. "I guess I should finish up all this homework, you never know what's going to pop up next."

"Yeah, okay. You can keep this copy of the file, if you want. Claudia brought a bunch."

Momiji looks down at the papers, then shakes his head. "No thanks, I don't think I need any help being scared about the weird things going on, and I think it'll just scare me if I keep it around."

"Yeah, okay. But if you see Liz, let her know about it if she hasn't already got one, okay?"

"Absolutely. I'll let her know that the bar has a whole pile of stuff about this weirdo."

"Thanks."

He gets up. "Well, it was good to meet you... again."

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