For weeks, Luna had been mentally preparing to teleport a friend she’s known through various investigations into her World to finally meet up. And on the morning of December 17, the preparations are complete. Luna, Hinata, and Elara all convene in an alleyway in Central Square and make a few final checks and to make sure The Giga Teleportation, as Krystal called it, was 99.999% foolproof. That said, a 0.001% chance of backfire still persisted. With consent granted, Luna pushed herself into Hyperfocus and began the process to bring her in.
Luna performed her Giga Teleport and Riri was brought into the world, though extremely dizzy as if she spun around hundreds of times in a minute. Luna passes out on a bed Hinata prepared for her. And Elara and Riri immediately bond together.
Luna nods and walks out of the canopy, her entire self still covered in flames. She closes her eyes and searches for Riri's signal. "ꜱᴇᴀʀᴄʜɪɴɢ ꜰᴏʀ ʀɪʀɪ. ꜱᴇᴀʀᴄʜɪɴɢ..." Her voice is an extreme monotone.
Luna mutters, "ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ ᴀʀᴇ ʏᴏᴜ ʀɪʀɪ. ɪ ᴋɴᴏᴡ ɪ ᴄᴀɴ ꜰɪɴᴅ..."
"ＧＯＴＣＨＡ!" Luna smiles, finally locking onto her friend.
At the exact same time, Luna claps her hands together and opens her eyes. her eyes glowing red, blue, purple, and green, "GIGA FAST TRAVEL GOOOOOOOOO!"
[NOW LOADING - ONE MOMENT PLEASE.]
Error. Unknown Life Form Entering World LIMITS. Redirecting... Redirecting... Error. ...ERRROOOOOOOOOORRR.. UNHANDLED EXCEPTION. REROUTING. REROUTING... ERM. OOPS. GOT IT.
TASK COMPLETE. WELCOME TO CAPITAL CITY.
In front of Luna, Elara, and Hinata stands Reverie, who will most likely feel like she had just spun around a hundred times in a minute. They are standing a dark alleyway surrounded by the buzz of neon lights and an intense warmth from one Luna Selene Nightshade. Luna appears to be on fire still, but the flames and the intense light begin to die down slowly. Luna looks over at Riri with a smile before collapsing to the ground onto a yellow inflatable bed Hinata had placed right behind her.
"That... that worked? And... I'm not dead?" Riri is in shock. She tries to ease her nausea by holding her aching head, though she also falls to the ground. Riri might need a moment to rest.
Hinata kneels down next to Riri to make sure she's okay, "You okay hun?"
Hinata is a somewhat tall blond haired woman with a streak of red in her hair and pointy ears poking out of the top. She's currently wearing a blue denim letterman jacket with a sun on the back and blue jeans. Her tail wags a little bit
"I think so, my head hurts but everything else is fine." Riri rubs her eyes with the sleeve of her sweater and looks up at Hinata with a smile. "I have to thank all of you, this means so much to me."
Hinata smiles back, "glad it all worked out for you. Welcome to Capital CIty, Riri. We're glad to have you."
Behind Hinata is Elara, with her bright blue hair and rainbow bunny plushie sticking out of her backpack. "Oh hey!"
Luna is still snoozing, though her breathing is slowly returning to normal.
"Elara! I hope you didn't bring all fifty of your plushies with you!" Riri laughs, seeming super happy to meet her after their talk about the plushie harem.
Elara chuckles and waves, "Nah I don't have a Portal Bag unfortunately, otherwise all fifty of them would travel with me."
Elara holds a hand out for Riri to help her get up, "need a hand?"
Hinata steps back and Luna seems to be nearly ready to wake up.
"Yes, thank you." Riri reaches out to take her hand and finally stands up, though she is still slightly unstable. "I worry about Luna a lot more."
Luna is still laying down and her breathing is calm. Her eyes are still closed, but she speaks. It's a little bit deeper than Luna's natural voice, "oh hey it's Krystal. Luna's doing pretty well. She just need a few more minutes for her mana to recover."
"Thank you." Riri sighs in relief. "All that matters to me right now is that she is safe too."
Krystal nods and leans back into sleep.
"So! Can I get you something? Water? A quick snack while we wait for Luna to wake up?" Hinata offers, keeping an eye on both Riri and her love.
"Yes, please." Riri nods up at her and then leans against the wall to steady herself.
Hinata opens up her Portal Bag, which looks exactly like a normal backpack, and pulls out a couple boxes of food and a couple water bottles, "Made some box lunches for the few of us, here Riri." She hands one to her.
The box lunches have a sandwich, some various veggies, and a cup of applesauce in them. Shockingly healthy but filling all the same.
Elara takes one of the boxes and begins eating, "Thanks Hinata."
"Um, thanks!" Riri accepts and eats with them both, slightly shy as she hasn't had to eat around others in a long time.
Eventually while everyone is eating, Luna opens her eyes. Her bright blue glowing eyes coupled with her long purple mane and pointy cat ears poking up top lean to the side of the air mattress. Then slowly, Luna gets up. Luna groans in pain from the mana usage, but seeing her friends all coexisting happily together causes her to smile and bear through the sore muscles, "oh hey,, glad the spell worked,, Welcome to.. capital city riri.."
"Luna!" Riri puts her food away and sits next to her, trying to contain her excitement. "I have so much to thank you for!"
Luna turns her head towards Riri with the brightest smile she can currently muster. "And you're welcome for all of it Riri. I'm just glad to have people like you, Violet, Spider, and Patrice on my side. Just glad everything worked as well as it did."
"I'll be here to stay. I'll try to help now more than ever before. It's the least I can do for you." Riri smiles back as she starts to drink from her water bottle.
Luna nods and eats one of the boxed lunches Hinata had and drinks down a bottle of water. "Thank you."
"I'm ready for whatever when you all are." Riri stretches to ease her aching arms and then sits patiently.
After eating and drinking, Luna seems to be back to normal. She gets up and stretches her legs a bit. "Right our quest for today. Elara, you said you wanted us to come to the Church?"
Elara nods, "yeah, I know Riri wanted to meet my plushies a bit, but past that, I heard some weird shit last night right before I went to sleep. Something about a Christmas moon doing something or something like that? Mom's been acting really strange lately too."
"You say that like Tsukiyomi is the most level-headed person Elara." Hinata giggles
"I mean a lot more than usual... like talking about some eclipse thing? And the end of the sun and stuff like that. I don't like it. Any of it." Elara shudders.
"I don't like the sound of that either." Riri may not understand what is happening, but she shares the discomfort.
"Right, so first, let's have some fun Riri. Luna, can you handle teleportation?" Elara asks, worried if it's too soon to ask.
Luna nods, "I just brought a friend from another earth to Magical Earth, I can handle a teleport to the Western district."
Hinata puts away the canopy and the air mattress into her Portal Bag and stands near the group. Then Luna snaps her fingers. Elara, Luna, Hinata, and Riri all disappear.