Chapter 1: A Mysterious Voice
Hello again, minna! It's Nemuri with another Mario x Love Live fic! This time, it's focused on Aqours (especially You Watanabe), Nastasia, and Dreambert! With that being said, I hope you all enjoy this!
(TW for brainwashing, memory loss, bondage, and inter-friend drama)
Wha... what happened to me? Where am I? Where are Chika and the others...?
You Watanabe awakened in a strange room without any memory of the events that turned her afternoon of camaraderie into... well, this.
[About an hour before]
"So, what did you do for your sundae, zura?" Hanamaru Kunikida asked You at the all-you-can-eat ice cream buffet where the girls of Aqours were enjoying a friendly get-together. "Marshmallow maple ripple with whipped cream, chocolate sprinkles, and custard," she replied. "What about you, Hanamaru?"
"I got a banana split, except no cherry, and with coffee ice cream and vanilla sauce, zura," responded her classmate.
"That sounds really yummy!" You exclaimed, as she began to consume her ice cream after taking her seat between Riko Sakurauchi and Kanan Matsuura. Riko had gotten mango sorbet topped with konpeito, while Kanan was enjoying cookie-dough ice cream in a chocolate dipped waffle cone. Ruby Kurosawa and her sister Dia both got vanilla with rainbow sprinkles. Meanwhile, Chika Takami had a cup of orange Italian ice. And Yoshiko Tsushima and Mari Ohara were both sharing a big slice of ice cream cake.
It was in the midst of all this delicious female bonding that a voice from a distant place beckoned to You, a young man's voice, a voice with a dreamy, soft, lilting air to it.
"Miss You... come to me... I can show you a most wonderful dreamscape..."
"D-did you guys hear that? A voice was calling to me..." You told the others. "I didn't hear niente, You... Did you hear any voices, Yoshik- er, Yohane?" asked Mari.
"No..." responded Yoshiko. None of the others heard the voice either.
"You Watanabe... Your friends will be okay... Just come to me..."
While You had second thoughts, she felt the urge to follow the voice. "I'll be back but maybe not for a while, guys!" she told her friends, then disappeared on the trail of the young man's siren call.