forum put me back together (one on one/closed)

Started August 10, 2018 by @_sleeby_rat_

tune

Halo gasps softly, gently tracing the designs. He slowly slides off the lid, peering inside.

Inside was a simple but beautiful gold necklace, one that seemed to mimick the Egyptian style as it looked to go around the base of the neck. It seemed carefully crafted, seemingly modern in its construction despite the fact that it was almost 2000 years old

Halo gasps softly and gently reached out to touch it. He hesitates before setting a light finger on the jewel.

As soon as he touched it, the room seems to drop in temperate. There’s a feeling, almost as if the walls are watching him. And then in the blink of an eye, all he saw was black.

Bastian jolted awake, breathing heavily as if he had just had a nightmare. Though as he looked around, his panic only grew. “Halo?” he called shakily. “Halo?”

Halo let only a surprised gasp before everything went dark. He felt a slight pain in his head.

Bastian got up and walked into his room, eyes widening when he found his old necklace lying in the open box it resided in. Halo was nowhere to be found, and he panicked. He reached for the necklace, quickly clasping it around his neck and then teleporting to where Halo had gone.

Halo had been teleported somewhere eerily silent. He was in what appeared to be an old brick building, the walls covered with decorative white symbols. He appeared to be in an abandoned shop of sorts, though it looked like a tornado had hit the interior. There were faint lines running through the floors and walls, almost as if there was old circuitry running through it

Halos eyes slowly flutter open and he slowly sits up, groaning in pain as he clutches his head. Where was he? Where was Bastian? He begins to panic. "BASTIAN?" No reply.

Bastian took a deep breath before focusing. In the blink of an eye he was standing in the very same shop that Halo was now in. He looked around frantically for a moment. "Halo? Oh my god-Halo!" he exclaims as he catches sight of the other. He ran over to him, scooping him up into his arms

Halo gasps as he's grabbed, holding onto Bastian. "Wh-what happened? Where are we?" He whispers, looking at Bastian, obviously filled with fear.

"We're…We're in Lonakke," Bastian said, though he said the name of the place they were as if it were a curse. "Listen, we can't be here, especially not you. There's some bad stuff here, and if…And if the Honoki finds you, were' screwed," he rambled, his voice oddly hushed

Halo clings to Bastian, looking around with wide eyes. His heart beats quickly in his chest. "W-what's going on? B-bastian?"

what are the symptoms for the 'sickness' or what was it called?//

(well he has to be touched by the Honoki or something that the Honoki has killed. it's sort of a giant monster that transmits the disease, and Honuki (what Bastian is) are invisible to it. but basically once he's infected he'll start feeling dizzy, and then he'll start coughing up a sort of blackish-green blood, the area around where he was infected will turn a sickly green and black, and he'll start to become more violent)

"Look, there's a reason that I don't talk about where I come from. And if any of the others find out I'm here, I'm gonna get my ass kicked for bringing you here on accident," Bastian said as he began to frantically look around. His eyes suddenly widened in a sudden realization. "Wait, shit, wear this," he said before taking the necklace off himself and putting it on Halo

Halo holds onto Bastian, fear swallowing him quickly. He felt nervous, tense, his heart beating loudly in his chest. He could barely breathe.

"Okay, let's just…We've got to get to the observatory. This place cancels out teleportation, so I can't just get us there. We're going to have to get there on our own, which is going to be difficult considering we're…I'm not sure where we are," Bastian continued to ramble

Halo holds onto Bastian, whimpering a little. He didn't like how nervous Bastian was getting.

"Uh…Oh! Quick thing. That necklace will keep you from getting infected up to a certain point, but if the actual Honoki touches you, you're screwed. Though if we do see it and you stay stone still, it won't be able to detect you," Bastian said

Halo nods, biting his lip, clenching his eyes shut as he holds onto Bastian. His heart races, not settling down. He burries his face in Bastians chest.

"Okay, observatory time," Bastian said, gesturing theatrically with one arm while he wrapped the other around Luno. He began to walk carefully through the disheveled store, making sure to watch out for anything that might pose a threat to them

Halo clung to Bastian, breathing heavily. He was so scared. He felt slightly better in Bastians arms, but something didn't feel right. It felt like they were being watched.

Bastian pushed the old wood and glass doors aside carefully, wincing at every creak of the ancient material. He stepped out into what seemed like a completely abandoned city, all of it looking disheveled. There were what seemed like strange car-like vehicles overturned and blackened on the streets, all of the roads and buildings appearing to have the same dead circuitry in it. It was definitely odd, considering all the buildings appeared to be inspired from several centuries ago

Halo holds onto Bastian. "I think I can walk now…" He says quietly.

"Okay," Bastian said before setting him down properly now. He looked around, feeling slightly uneasy. It looked eerily similar to his own home. But it was when he caught sight of the damaged theater at the end of the large street that he knew they were in his old sector. And he would do anything to be anywhere but there. So he began to walk in the opposite direction, moving quickly

Halo steadies himself before chasing after Bastian. "This is where you grew up?" He asks quietly. It was so… Spooky. He holds onto Bastian.

Bastian nodded a bit reluctantly. "That theater was where I used to hang out. I had a friend who worked there, and we would all pile in at one in the morning to watch all the new movies that were coming out before anyone else could." There was a gaping hole in the roof of the building now, almost exactly where he used to sit with his friends

He nods, keeping up with Bastian. He gulps softly before looking around. "it feels like something is watching us…" He whispers.

"Yeah, that's normal. Just try not to think about it, it helps when you don't think about it," Bastian said. He looked around, lips pursed in thought as he made his way towards the old trolley station. The city around them seemed like a blend of both 60's architecture and Japanese-influenced construction, always with an underlying feel of something that didn't quite belong in that time period

Halo nods, stumbling after him. "Bastian, slow down. I can't keep up…" He calls after Bastian.

Bastian slowed down immediately, seemingly snapping out of a trance. "Sorry, sorry," he said before making himself slow down a bit

"Thanks." Halo catches up to him and smiles a little. He takes a trembling breath, watching around them.

So how should Halo get infected//

(probably the monster pops up and he's injured or something before they can get away)

Eventually they made it to an abandoned trolley a ways down the road. Though where there was no one to be found before, there were now disfigured corpses lying around the station and in a few of the cars