YOU DIDN'T THINK I FORGOT, DID YOU

[forgetbeam]

Who: Everyone ever. It's mandatory or you're banned for two minutes.
What: Fireworks are a little late this year...
When: The night of July 14th
Where: Campus, generally. But you can see them out in the city.
Warnings: Colours and explosions and probably dumb kissy stuff somewhere in here.



It was usually the evening of the second of third; a tradition that began five years prior due to some silly boyish dare, that continued for the sake of sentimentality and tradition. Even if the culprit no longer attended Smash Academy, he made sure his legacy lived on each July.

This year it was a little late, because strange robots were patrolling the city and were in the wrong place at the wrong time. But that didn't stop the mission from being fulfilled! Just... delayed. It was probably for the best, since loud noises and bright lights wouldn't have been well received by the more feral-minded creatures during the whole bake sale debacle. In a way it was a pretty convenient setback.

Anyway, when the night finally came for the tradition to continue, it started... with a bang. Duh.

There was no small smattering of tester rockets to ease into the display. Just a sudden burst of red and white in the sky, Smash Academy's emblem glowing brighter than the stars for a few seconds before petering out. After that it was just burst after burst of an assortment of colours and shapes, each its own unique size and brightness, the resounding explosions echoing throughout the campus like gunshots.

Good thing nobody at all would be trying to sleep, right?

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[hisho]

Oh, goodness, this person is simply adorable. How could they be any more adorable? She can't find the answer to that one.

"Well then, here you go! I have four types," Isabelle tells him, fanning them out to display them all. "They're shaped like stars, hearts, balls, and flowers. Which ones do you want?"

[worldrestored]

He just stared back at her. HOW COULD HE CHOSE?! They were all glowing and probably very silly to walk around with but STARS and FLOWERS and BALLS and maybe not HEARTS but that's okay he could probably stick those on Beelzebub's head somehow.

So he does the logical thing and holds out four fingers, the other hand pointing at all of them.

Lucifer's chosen warrior, everyone.

[hisho]

"Ooooh, you like them all, huh? Isn't it just so hard to choose?" Contrary to unpopular belief, Isabelle is not capable of reading minds. "They're all so pretty! Oh, also, they're powered by solar light, so make sure these get plenty of sunlight, okay? Here you go!"

She extends her paws, handing them over for him to do what he will.

[worldrestored]

Oh so not magical, but charged by light is pretty cool. As long as it's not caused by glowing gods, he's fine with it. So the question now is what should be do with all this free stuff -- he hadn't had stuff just given to him in a while, so at first he just stands with all four of them like they are precious little jewels, before finally raising a hand and causing this Giant ten feet tall monster to appear before them.

"HEEE HOOOO." Oh god, it can speak and it's pretty loud.

Quickly climbing up, Naoki puts the heart and flower ones on each side of the creature's antennae, before sitting down in the middle of Jack's head, the two other pairs on his own.

He then gives her a thumbs up, hope you don't mind suddenly giant appearing monsters, now he does look pretty silly with those things on each side of the head.

[hisho]

"A-Ah... Um...!"

Sweet plumbers in a pipe basket what is THAT.

Isabelle really has to hold back the urge to flee with her tail between her legs, but goodness if the latter isn't already happening. Her knees shake, eyes on the gigantic thing as it stands there, looking both freaky and... a little cute.

"Oh, it's... nice to meet you, hee ho! You- You are friendly, aren't you?"

Her eyes travel to Naoki's, the look on her face nothing short of, "WHAT IS THIS WHAT HAVE YOU DONE."

[worldrestored]

"Are you kidding, I'm the most evil Frost there is, hoo!" It puffed up in pride. "I'm following a demon more powerful than me hoping that I'll become much stronger myself and--"

Tap tap. Naoki gave him a small warning kick on the head. Dude, this dog lady had given you free presents, behave.

"--Ho! BUT I won't be doing anything bad today! In fact I'm feeling festive, hooo!" He extended his giant hand to her. "Wanna see the fireworks a little closer, Hee-ho?"

Naoki for his part was grinning. Look, he was being nice, honest he's not going to hurt you, he's totally got this.

[hisho]

"Um, I... don't know," Isabelle admitted, giving a little fidget as her eyes met Naoki's, his face much more innocent and calm than this other guy. Should she trust this? She wasn't naive to danger when she saw it.

"Are you sure it's safe? Absolutely, positively safe?"

Because, as cool as that seemed, it didn't seem exactly fine.

[worldrestored]

"Nothing is really completely safe, hee-hoo!" the demonic frost answered, trying to help but probably doing worse. Naoki thought about it for a second before he jumped to the front's arm and slid down to left arm, extending his own inside the Jack's outstretched own, offering a rather smug grin.

There see? At least now if anything bad happened, he was right there and not on the giant's head.

[hisho]

A... h.

...

Well, it's either do or don't, and Naoki was being kind of nice. Were they friends? It seemed this one was controlled by his superior in some way.

Darn it, she had to be brave. This was probably the least of her worries when it came to this place. She'd, um... heard stories, needless to say. Therefore, putting on her bravest face yet, Isabelle reached over and grabbed onto his hand with a mighty leap.

"It wouldn't hurt to try!" It. Wouldn't hurt. Right?

[worldrestored]

Naoki for his part had wished he heard about this place instead of just being thrown smack, dab in the middle of it. But until he could find a way home, he was going to make the most of it.

Alright! Hand secured. He pointed towards the sky and the giant creature slowly placed them on its head. It was a pretty nice view, if you weren't too prone to dizziness. The fireworks did show up much bigger! Granted going on top of the school could have dome something similar, but at least there weren't any people fighting for the territory of a Black Frost's head as far as that was concerned.

He turned at her to make sure she wasn't getting sick.

[hisho]

"Oh, wow..."

Thankfully, no, she wasn't feeling even the slightest bit ill. In fact, Isabelle's stomach was doing flip-flops for many other reasons. The sight before her combined with her nervousness was giving her the sensation of butterflies in her stomach, but her anxiety over Black Frost was beginning to ease. Somehow, she felt much more... secure next to Naoki, which was an important, solacing factor in the moment.

Not only that, but the sight was also just stunning. She could never get tired of fireworks. Well, the sight of them, not so much the sound of them. Too much of them could prove far too noisy. Ah, but those were all semantics. The point here was that they were super pretty and she loved it so.

"Aren't they gorgeous? Aaaah, there's nothing like fireworks season, isn't there? Um... heehee," she giggled, turning her head towards him with a shy little smile. "Thank you. For bringing me up here, I mean. I'll never forget this moment!"

[worldrestored]

Fireworks season? He hadn't realized there was a particular season for them, just for festivals. At her last phrase, he raised a single hand in a thumbs up gesture. You were welcome, dog lady!

And the fireworks were really pretty. He hadn't seen something like this even in Japan! This place really was something else, all things considered. Nothing like the Vortex world....yet nothing like the Earth world he knew either.

"You're welcome. It's nothing for a big, amazing guy like me, He hoo!" wait had he talked--never mind, it looked like someone else thought that compliment was directed at him. Even Naoki couldn't help but laugh at the absurdity of it. Laughter! It had been a while.

[hisho]

Oh, here she thought he'd talked for a moment there, but... Wait, what was this? Was that a laugh? Were her cute, puppy earsies deceiving her? They weren't, were they?

Gaaasp.

"It's so good to hear you laugh! Actually, I was wondering," she began, silently hoping that she wasn't prying, "if you're just... very quiet? Otherwise, what if you're... Let me put it this way."

Isabelle cleared her throat, furrowing her brows in hopes that she wouldn't sound rude.

"What if you can't talk? That would be just awful... For you to be in that position, I mean. I don't mind people who don't talk much, if at all! They are still just wonderful company." Brewster, for instance, was so quiet, yet such a nice presence to be around. Blathers, on the other hand, was also great to be around, yet he talked endlessly.

[worldrestored]

Don't worry, Naoki had been victim to much more vicious prying than this. A question like that was actually really simple to answer. Well, after a bit of thought about it, of course.

"Don't talk much." They weren't many words, but his voice was extremely confident, the type of bravery that had scene and aspect of god...and then punched it in the face. Yeah, there's a special type of confidence for that, we're sure.

[hisho]

"Oh! Well, then if it's just your preference, then that's good!" Isabelle idly scratched at her cheek, subtly fluffing up the fur there. "I'd hate for you to be unable to talk when it's not your choice to... but if you just don't talk much, then that's fine by me. I like you either way. Actually..."

Suddenly, she beamed, any and all anxiety over the moment very long gone.

"Would you like to be friends?"