smashrising | oh god there's petals everywhere

Who: EVERYONE
What: CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL
Where: Outside on the mansion grounds where there are cherry blossoms that have magically not finished blooming yet this late into April
When: RIGHT NOW???
Warnings: Rated S for SHOJO

Stadiums and tournaments and rankings were all well and good, but they were lacking things that Flurrie felt were far too important to go ignored. Style! Beauty! Grace! Culture! This place needed more of it. Fortunately, with spring in full force, she had a fantastic idea to bring everyone together to celebrate just those things!

And so, a message appears on the bulletin board:

Underneath it was more information, including dates and a request to contact her if the reader were interested in hosting a booth at the festival.

When the day arrived for the festivities, the mansion's inhabitants will find a lovely grove of cherry blossoms decorated with streamers, flower arrangements, and numerous booths waiting for them. Where did Flurrie get all this? It is a mystery.

((OOC: Open mingle log! The booths can be absolutely anything you want- food, games, stuff for sale, magic tricks, etc, and your character is free to host one if they would be so inclined. It's not as big as past festivals obviously, but Flurrie tried.))

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"You're not gonna drink and fly, are ya?"

Who's that? Where's it coming from? The sprinkle of pink petals from a shuddering branch overhead gives a clue, and that clue is the large blue hedgehog perched on it.

"Long time no see, Jet!"

"Who said that?!" Jet squawked as he flailed and looked around for the source of that cocky voice. "Gaww! Sonic! You're here, too?!"

Blast it! He knew there was lots and lots of teasing for him on the horizon.

"Don't worry, I'm not gonna tell the teacher!" He adds, hopping down from his perch.

"There aren't any teachers to tell anymore, anyway. So when did you get here? Not long enough for Wave to find you, I guess."

She'd be squawking at him to put the booze down right now, if she were.

Jet crossed his arms impertinently.

"A few days ago! The Hands gave me a room and it took a while to clean up! No, I haven't seen Wave. I'll find her here, though, I know it. I came here to find her but thought I'd get settled first, that's all!"

No, he was not putting off tracking her down out of fear of a lecture. Not at all. Nope.

"Huh. I thought we wouldn't get anyone new on this island, after the moon destroyed everything."

He eyes the sake himself, but decides against it. Alcohol generally tastes awful to him, and wouldn't do much anyway.

"What? A MOON destroyed the school?! All I found was a giant, black void dome! What the heck were you guys summoning a MOON for? A weird kind of skill training? 'Kick the moon before it explodes the world' sort of thing? That was the point of the school, wasn't it? Getting better at fighting?"

Jet was clearly confused. He remembered the school a little and knew it had a problem with constant crazy situations, but what the heck?

Black void dome? What does THAT mean?

"Whoa, simmer down, squawk box, we didn't summon anything! Actually we did whatever we could to send it back before it hit us! Yeah, we... weren't exactly successful," He amends with a shrug, "but at least we're alive!"

"Wha...? If you didn't summon it, why did a moon decide to hit YOUR school, of all places?"

Because that's really weird. Jet was glad he wasn't there to see it. And he was glad Wave was still alive...

"That's a good question! Our old physics teacher mentioned something about an evil mask behind it, but we never actually found anything like that. I'm pretty sure was just losing his marbles... anyway, we all woke up afterwards with a note from the Hands telling us how much we sucked at saving the world. You can kinda guess how well that went down."

Jet scratched his head as he listened. So weird.

"So let me get this straight: you had a giant moon thing headed on a collision course with the place, you failed to stop it from annihilating you, and now... there is no school but a ragged mansion? Where's the logic in that?!"

"Hey, logic doesn't have anything to do with it. It's just what happened." He replies with a shrug. If he seems blasé about how batshit it all sounded, then one need not look any farther than his own world. If there isn't some batshit apocalypse every other month there, people start to get nervous.

"I'd blame Eggman on this, but he was too busy gettin' married. Heh, now THAT's the point where all logic breaks down."

Jet nearly fell flat back from the impact of the shocking news.

"GYAHH, Eggman?! MARRIED?!? What is in the water in this schoo-- mansi-- PLACE?! This is all so WEIRD!!"

And weird by Mobius standards, too. Eggman... married...

"I know, right? He married Flurrie. Don't worry, she's around, and you'll know her when you see her. Thing is, that's not the weirdest part!"

Jet's contorted expression was a mix of disgust and bewilderment. He closed his eyes and clenched his teeth, bracing himself for the worst.

"What's the 'weirdest part'?"

"I was Best Hedgehog at the ceremony."

...You know what? He WILL have some sake after all. Just saying it sounds a little too weird right now.

The surprise caused Jet to lose his balance and face-fault.

"GAWW!! Best hedgehog?! I thought you were mortal enemies!! How does that even WORK?!" he shouted from the ground.

He finishes the drink, pulls a face, and then leans over Jet's supine form.

"Certain squashing by the moon makes you swap around some priorities. Besides, think about it. Can you think of ANYONE who knows Ol' Egg-For-Brains as well as I do? It's kinda sad, but at the time I was the best guy for the job."

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