WEEK THREE EXECUTION

[grigori]

week three: execution interred with their bones

Hopefully you got a long night of sleep? Barring that, you got whatever answers, or closure, you might have needed. Because it's strangely quiet, the following Sunday morning. There's something almost oppressive hanging over the city, the market silent for the day as businesses remain closed and merchants remain indoors.

Breaking the silence, somewhere, much like the song of Friday, there is the echoing, cruel laughter of voices you should faintly recognize throughout the city. It's followed by humming of that newly familiar song. It's strongest, interestingly, close to the outpost.

As time turns to 1 PM, though, there is a change as the voices fade. While there's no compulsion to investigate it, there's a small gathering out beyond the outpost, in the desert proper. Your three Watchers are here with their daemons, and so are... Rin, and his daemon, front and center. All damages and evidence, anything amiss from the weekend, is all gone, and replaced with the state of the city from the week prior.

Nearby, the Watchers stand clustered together. Satariel stands close to Rin, hand gently between his shoulders, though they periodically look back Yomiel's way or around the area with an uneasy dread. Yomiel stands a short distance away from the others, avoiding the others' gaze as well as they can (that is, badly). Their ocelot daemon crouches beside them, fur bristling. Rameel stands somewhere between Satariel and Yomiel to act as some sort bridge between the three of them. Their puma daemon settled by their feet as it keeps tabs on Yomiel's ocelot as Rameel makes sure to not look away.

And then, another party will be compelled to join them. Yukio will find that his feet are carrying him to his destination, Miki sticking close to him as they travel past bones across shifting sands. Once he passes a certain point, opposite where Rin stands, he'll find that he can't go back, and neither can his daemon.

Likewise, no one can enter the area further than where the three Watchers stand, Satariel having been pushed back, stopped only by their daemon shifting to its bear form. There will be no interfering from outside parties, no matter what it is that's about to happen. Any attempts to do so will result in them meeting an invisible barrier, one that rebuffs them with the same amount of force used against it—so take care.

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2/2 CW: SUICIDE

[reflash]

[He gives Rin a second to do that. He doesn't want to look his brother in the eyes for this.

Raises his gun. Speaks.]

After all, I promised dad that I'd protect you.

[He raises the gun to his head and fires.

Yukio Okumura is dead.]

[aono]

[For a moment, while Yukio is standing up, Rin is left remembering how different things were when they were little. When Yukio would jump at every little shadow and Rin would just smile and pat him on the back. "It's okay, Yuki. I'll protect you!" And Yukio would always nod to Rin and try to smile, to show Rin that it was okay. It would be okay, as long as they had each other.

He doesn't close his eyes. He wants to face his own death with confidence, to show Yukio that it's okay. That he'll be okay. Even after all this time, Yukio will still be okay.

Instead he's left staring wide-eyed as he watches his brother's lifeless body falls to the ground in front of him.]

REMEMBER -

[grigori]

remember
and dust you shall become in the end

 

 

The Watchers step forward in unison as the barrier falls, the same as they had with the verdict against Rin. Their reactions vary - Satariel's horror as they cover their mouth with both hands, Rameel putting one hand over their mouth turning their head while the other is clenched in a fist trembling, Yomiel's quiet anger nearly palpable, but it's clear to them that this is the end.

The shot rings out and echoes across the rolling desert sands surrounding the city of Ahnkeen, and Miki shimmers into golden Dust from where she was pressed closed to Rinkou for the entire fight, desperately clinging together, fading on the wind. The gun and katana both disappear much like the bone had after they were chosen, and it seems like nothing will be left behind.

And that includes the executed, Yukio's body turning to Dust like much his daemon - and then there's nothing left.

Yukio Okumura is dead.

The laughter from before returns, echoing, before the unknown but newly familiar voices turn to song again:

there once was a tale of two brothers,
each willing to sacrifice it all for the other.
one is a monster, a danger to all -
though afraid, he stands ready to take the fall.
the other, human, innocent but lacking trust;
his desire to protect will leave the other one crushed.
they've had troubles, no siblings are perfect.
the real sacrifice is their chance to reconnect.
two sons of satan, but only one may survive.
now the monster remains, without even a goodbye.

After the Dust clears, and the song ends with more of that laughter, the Watchers will disappear in a shift of time around them. Rin and Rinkou are left truly and utterly alone in the heart of the outpost.

[aono]

[This can't be happening.

This can't be real.]

Y...Yukio...

[Rin doesn't even bother getting to his feet. He's just scrambling the few feet across to where Yukio fell, dirtying up his hands and knees as he desperately reaches for his brother. But even as he moves, he can already see Yukio fading away to dust.]

No- nonono! You can't- Yukio!

[And by the time he gets there Yukio is gone, and he just. Pounds his fists into the dirt where Yukio just was and screams.

It's like something irreplaceable has broken in him, leaving the pieces to be scattered to the wind.]

[greatdeduction]

[yeah no as soon as yukio disappears he just]

[makes a break for it, wincing, before he bends down to embrace Rin]

[he doesn't have any words. how could he? what could you say to that?]

[aono]

[Hugging is fine, Rin probably needs it.

He's not going to be doing much but screaming right now though. Sorry for your ears, Sholmes.]

[greatdeduction]

[Look, he dealt with raising a kid, he's probably had his fair share of days of an angry toddler yelling in his ears.]

[He's still not going to say anything. Just holding him.]

[lefthandpath]

[Allen Walker is not waiting around, he's been at the barrier ever since Rin went demon-mode and he is immediately sprinting over to where Rin is, quickly crouching down and reaching for him. heart breaking for him, but at the same time--stupid Yukio, you're just asking to get bullied by Allen Walker for this.]

[aono]

[Can you bully someone who's in the graveyard?

Regardless, Rin will lean against Allen, but that's about all he can do right now between his screaming and crying.]

[lefthandpath]

[yes, he will spam message or something! he doesn't know! but he's gonna!!!

for now, Allen is wrapping his arms around him, human hand gently petting at his hair just trying to apply what little he remembers of how people have dealt with him in the past. there's no useless platitudes, but murmured "I got you, I got you"s probably get drowned out by the screams.

Rowan, meanwhile, fretfully curls up around Rinkou protectively in her canine form.]

[booksleeves]

[She's watching quietly while this all happens, but when the gun goes off, she flinches, and her composure breaks. Her shoulders start to tremble, and then she just walks away.]

[uncoincidental]

[oh god

that's... there are no words to describe how awful that is. sheba runs to rin once the barrier drops, and reaches over to put a hand on his arm.]

[winebar]

[Even if van Zieks could say something he wouldn't. But he is watching Rin's reaction, fists clenched knuckle white, his mouth set in a tight but gentle scowl.

He doesn't step in because it's not his place, he's just observing in that grim way of his.]

[sponsoredby]

[ He notices this and... walks over to van Zieks, placing a soft hand on his arm. Finley follows behind, head hanging low in her lion form. ]

[sponsoredby]

[ He's there, but he doesn't rush in like a few others. He looks down. Yeah... either outcome would have been a loss. He doesn't have words to properly give him, wishing he could help, but how do you in a situation like this? ]

[taptap]

[ oh no. oh no. oh no. something inside her shatters at this, the tears that wouldn't come earlier flowing freely. she stumbles her way to rin, following his voice and falls to her knees, sobbing ]

I'm sorry..! I'm sorry, I didn't mean like this!

[ for all her posturing last night, this is the last thing she wanted to happen ]

[aono]

[It's the last thing Rin wanted to happen too.

A-Qing should be able to find him easily, because his frantic sobbing is pretty loud.]

It- it should've been me- it was supposed to be me-

[taptap]

[ thanks to the sobbing she's got a good idea of where his shoulder is and pats her way to his hand. there are no good platitudes for this because honestly, what can she say?

all she can do is understand ]

[burnstrike]

[ Nanaly is in shock when it first happens, but Rin's voice breaks her out of it. Even if they haven't been too close up until now, this is something she can't not be here for, so she's here kneeling down beside Rin with the others. ]

[rerouter]

[...

The gun goes off, and Monika squeezes her eyes shut as Rin starts screaming.

How do you come back from that? You don't. She won't join the hug pile because it's not her place, but to whoever happens to run past her on their way to him—]

... Don't forget to patch him up.

[That hit to the face looked nasty, man.]