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Ayumi opened her eyes. Faint, yellowish light poured through them, enough to see, but not uncomfortably so. She sat up, wondering where she was since there was no one in the room.
A girl with red hair opened the door, and covered her mouth when she noticed Ayumi was awake.
"Karen, she's awake!" the girl called into the hallway, which was quickly followed by the arrival of a girl with long blue hair, no doubt Karen.
"Are you feeling alright?" Karen asked her, "you had been captured by a bit of fusion, but some friends of ours managed to get you out before you were swallowed."
Ayumi, not wanting to waste Karen's time or effort, simply nodded, and let her run off to whatever she needed to do.
The redhead walked up to her. "Miss Ayumi, I wanted to let you know you've been unconscious for a couple days. March and Happy brought you here, well, not exactly here, but you're here now!"
Ayumi was already attempting to get out of the rickety bed she had been placed in, but a pain in her leg stopped her.
"Something's wrong with my leg."
The girl walked up next to the bed and lifted up the blanket to partially reveal Ayumi's leg. "Nothing looks wrong with it…"she let out a gasp "It-it disappeared!"
"What did?"
"Your leg!" Ayumi pulled up the covers to look at her leg, and sure enough, everything past her knee was gone. but it hadn't been cut off, because the leg just, faded away at the knee. and her shoe and sock were still there, suspended as if her leg had not gone missing.
"Huh?"
the redhead slowly reached her hand out to see if the leg was simply invisible, and sure enough, when she touched it, the missing leg almost instantaneously reappeared.
the redhead, not wanting to talk about what had just occurred, quickly changed the subject."So, um, I-i'm inori, known by closer friends as 'Buki"'
Ayumi, who was just barely listening, had walked over to the curtains and snapped them open.
Whatever she was expecting, It was certainly not what she got. Outside her window was a wall of dirt, making her unable to see outside.
"Where's the outside?"
Inori looked at her skeptically, before realising what she meant "Oh! We're underground, in a building that was buried during the attack. Some people managed to make a tunnel outside and since then it's become a safe haven for the city."
"wait, we're still in Yokohama? Shouldn't the city have been evacuated after fusion took it over?"
"Yes, well, a group of villains from the bad end kingdom placed a barrier around the city, making it impossible to escape unless we find the Akanbe powering it, which could take anywhere from days to years given the circumstances."
"...oh." her face scrunched into a snarl
"w-well i have some things to attend to, so I'll leave you be." Inori walked out of the room and shut the door, glad to be done with that whole fiasco.
She walked down a set of stairs to her room on the third floor, and pulled a clipboard off her desk
she traced a pencil down to the name ayumi, and replaced the word 'asleep' with 'stable'. she set the clipboard back down and looked at her sleeping roommate. Miki was dead asleep in her bed, purple locks of hair unevenly spread around her head.
Inori sighed. It was so hard being a fill-in nurse, no matter how much experience she had. She was lucky Karen was there to help, or she was sure that no injuries would be healed.
she walked over to her bed, a double with a tacky bedspread and chipped wood, and laid down, slowly drifting off to sleep.
o-o-o-o-o-o-o
The hidden community, as it had become to be known, was cozy, and almost uncomfortably so. This was very true for both Miyuki and Hibiki, who had become closer friends over the past three days. They both participated on all missions that were sent, and both had little experience on living with anyone but their own parents.
They were currently in the "mission room", which was meeting room in the hotel's basement. There were several other girls there, but Miyuki hadn't gotten to know their names, and thus clung to Hibiki, who knew the others better, but not by much.
A girl with messy, short orange hair walked into the room, and everyone immediately became more tense and stood/sat straighter. She was cure Black, and was essentially leader of all the cures, along with her partner, cure white, of course.
Miyuki didn't know her civilian name, but didn't feel much of a need to. she was the boss, and everyone who went on missions knew she was the boss. And they all listened to the boss.
the boss spoke, "Ok everyone, we've got an official count of which cures are inside the barrier and which ones were outside when it went up." she pulled out a list of names and began calling them. "Hikari-Shiny -Cure Dream. Rin-Cure Rouge. Setsuna-Cure passion. Erika-Cure Marine. Yuri-Cure moonlight. Kanade-Cure Rhythm. And lastly, Ellen-Cure Beat. Until the dome goes down there is no way of contacting them. is that clear?"
"Yes!" the girls throughout the room called.
"There are still people working on getting a count of how many fairies are here, so if you have a fairy staying with you, be sure to tell Tsubomi on the 1st floor."
Miyuki looked down into her lap, where her team's pixie, Candy, was sleeping. She supposed a pixie would be counted as a fairy, so she made a mental note to tell tsunami when the mission was over.
She realized too late that cure black had been talking about their mission, and only managed to pay attention during the last part of the speech.
She got that they were going to go outside and do something, and that they had to rescue anyone, especially any fairies, they saw.
"Is that clear?" Miyuki called a firm 'yes' with the others, even though she hadn't the slightest idea what was going on. She figured if they were going as a group she'd be fine, and if they were going in pairs she could ask her partner.
She was hoping they weren't going alone.