Re: [Altamira] Rain Seraph's Training
She grumbled and unfolded her arms. All who were seated at the table fell into silence as the woman with dark hair pressed her palms against the edge of the table and pushed herself backward, dragging the chair along with her. She glanced over at the man in the bear suit; he tensed up and stood at full attention, sweating and staring straight ahead. The woman then turned to Rain, who still had that silly smile on his face and was standing with his hand outstretched, waiting for her to shake it.
After a few seconds, she turned away and walked past the bear-guy who jumped slightly when her shoulder brushed his.
“Never a moment to relax in this place, is there?” she mumbled.
The messenger looked up at the ceiling and let out a small sigh of relief. The woman stopped walking and looked back at the two before continuing on again. The man gulped before waddling up to Rain.
“Um…You’re…You’re supposed to follow her.”
The Grim Angel turned around and looked at the teacher, who had just moved through one of the exits.
“Oh! Thanks!” he responded as he strolled away and towards the exit. The messenger just nodded.
This particular hallway that he had followed her into was not smooth and white--it wasn’t ‘perfect’, as all of the other rooms had been. This hallway was covered from top to bottom with dark vines and odd, blue flowers, each no bigger than the palm of Rain’s hand. The vines ran parallel to each other across the corridor, creating a dark green floor.
But, you see, that wasn’t the weirdest part about this place…
Rain watched the ‘floor’ that the vines had created ran from the ground to the wall to the ceiling where Ms. Madrigal was standing. This hallway was twisted a dizzying one-hundred and eighty degrees!
I swear, Rain began walking forward, not really taking in the twist of the corridor as he moved along it, if I had no experience of defying gravity by walking on walls or ceilings, I would have freaked out by the time I entered this place.
He put his hands in his pockets as he got closer to the woman, who was still on the move down the corridor.
“So,” he spoke loud enough so that she could hear, “you’re my ‘teacher’, right?”
No answer.
Rain twisted his lips slightly.
“Can you tell me why I’m here?”
Again, no answer. She just kept on walking.
There were some moments of silence as the two continued walking, Cadenza a little way up in front, leading the way and Rain at the back, observing the green architecture. There was a little instant where he heard the vines at the side moving; they parted to reveal a door, which opened. Someone--a man--walked through and closed it behind him. As he moved off, the vines set themselves back into place. Rain stretched his hand out, attempting to part them himself, but he was stopped as another vine descended and slapped his hand. It then proceeded to shake the tip of its vine--like a finger--at him. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Cadenza shaking her head as she continued to walk on.
“So what is this place, exactly?”
“The Dome.” She responded dryly as the vines in front of her parted, revealing another door. She stepped through, but left it open for the person who was supposed to be following her. Rain found himself staring at a plant. Not just any ordinary plant, but a plant that had purposely blocked his way and opened its mouth to threaten him with its six rows of razor sharp teeth. Behind those teeth was a black hole, which a paper-thin purple tongue slid out of. The tongue slithered in between the teeth until it lifted itself to Rain’s face. The Grim Angel raised a hand to slap it away, but another hand got in first, slapping the tongue down instead.
“Bad Stickly!”
It was a small looking man, about half Rain’s height and a little wider than Rain’s waist. He wore a black cap and a blue shirt, with brown trousers and no shoes. He also spoke in a hoarse voice.
“Bad boy!” he scolded while hitting it again, “You know you’re not supposed to taste the new ones!”
The plant-beast whimpered and pulled its tongue back in, closing its mouth.
“Now, leave Mr. new-guy alone and go back to sleep, okay?”
The thing nodded its ‘head’ and pulled itself up through some parted vines in the ceiling. The little man just walked past a perplexed Rain without offering any kind of explanation. Sighing and wondering if he should go on any further in this madhouse, he took a few steps toward the door that Cadenza had walked through earlier.
He appeared in a small garden, the perimeter of which had an abundance of dark green coniferous trees, while in the center had small rows and columns of small flowers of various colours, surrounded by light green, well-cut grass. Above him, there was another garden, but it was on an upside-down platform, with the trees pointing their fingers downard at the platform Rain was standing on. There were flowers there too; set up in the same fashion as the garden he was in.
“Tell me,” Cadenza stood directly in front of him, across the small patch of flowers, “what brought you to this place?”
There was another length of silence between the two before Rain started talking.
He told her his story: how he got here. He told her about the demon on board the flight, the floating door and the words on the doorframe, the person in the bear suit, everything up until the point where he saw her for the first time. The story wasn’t as long as he thought it would have been, but still, it felt like it was a good few minutes before it ended.
The woman made a quick nod.
“Right,” was all she had to say.
OoC: I wonder what'll happen next <<;