Unilateral introduction - But the future refused to change

[HeadofVecna]

The sound Liliana's footsteps was swallowed by the ground as she kept moving, driven forward by the tension she was feeling, as if it was coming from the air itself. Finally, she could see two figures. Or is it three? However, she quickly saw that they weren't the ones she was looking for - a handsome boy in an odd, tattered uniform and a wild-looking young man were certainly not Mira and Shina. Then again, this was a nightmare. No. Too real.
She wasn't sure, but there seemed to be another presence. A third one? Where? Desopite Valkyrie's inability to speak, its presence in her hand nonetheless felt soothing as she asked again. "Who is there? Who are you?"

Only when his enemy disperses upon being spotted does Masaru realize that this is some kind of dream. "kIntAmA!", he curses, rolling his eyes in dissapointment. But a moment later he hears and sees the tall girl. Was she wearing a military uniform? None he recognized. And it didn't matter anyway; just a dream, a possible future at best.

Masaru lets his form flow, no point in demeaning disguises in a dream, just talking to someone who didn't exude the taint of Order. Unnatural bulges threaten to tear through his torn clothes as his face spits asymmetrically, both sides biting at each other with rapidly growing teeth while speaking in counterpoint. "I aM ThE fISt of AMATSU-MIKABOSHi. AnD yOu CHilD? whO Are YoU?"

[AlterFrom]

The rumbling would have shaken Shina to her feet for sure, if she hadn't been hovering a few feet off the ground. She merely dodge some debris that came loose from an adjacent building, then landed beside Mira who was huddled against a wall with Nietzche.

"Mira...we have to move. We have to find Lili. First thing they taught us, remember? Always stay together." Shina lifted Mira to her feet, being careful to avoid the spines on Nietzche.

"We'll find her, regroup, then...then...something. I don't know what's going on here, but I'm sure we can handle it. Together."

[Agita]

Liliana's eyes widened as the boy suddenly tore apart into an unnatural monstrosity, but quickly forced her face back into a calm, emotionless expression. "Liliana Corolla of the TSAB-" That's right. I've got no business being here. With that thought - or revelation, or whatever one may call it - her form started disappearing from the hellscape before she managed to finish the introduction, or the question she was going to ask.

Liliana bolted upright in her bunk almost immediately after waking up. "Amatsu-Mikaboshi...?" She muttered to herself, as if trying to make sense of a nonsensical joke phrase. Right. The nightmare still fresh in her mind, Liliana leaps out of the top bunk, not bothering to use the ladder, and lands safely on her feet next to Shina's. "Shina?" She bows down to shake at the sleeping girl's shoulder, perhaps a bit more roughly than necessary.

[spoiler]Just making some stuff up and assuming they'd have those Ship Tease-tastic bunks. Not quite NanoFate's Only One Bed, but getting there.

[AlterFrom]

As she stood with Mira, the world seemed to grow tired of existence to Shina. Buildings dissolved into blotches of color; piles of rubble fell into themselves and out of reality.

"Shina?.."

The world came undone before the girl's eyes. Piece by piece, it disappeared into the void. As the last pieces pieces flew away into nothingness, it began to rock back and forth. The last thing Shina saw before awaking in her bunk was Mira, huddled with Nietzche...

"...Mira!" The single word escaped her lips as she awoke to Lili shaking her shoulder. A little too roughly, come to think of it.

"Just...just a dream..."

[veekie]

Mira held tightly onto Nietzche, the world crumbling to sand as she fell crashing into the only real thing there was within reach...Nietzche. A mild, numbing sensation shook her back awake as she scratched herself lightly on one of his spines.

"Ow! It was just a dream...Nietzche, stay out of bed! Oh, you too?"