[Celestia a floating collection of islands, supposed residence of goods.]
They (Mystery Sky Ship) head toward the sky, claiming height unheard before, heading to the place where Teyvats good shall be. This area shall be currently controlled by the Heavenly Principles, although they have been silent since the cataclysm 500 years ago. It is said that only mortals who perform great, heroic feats can ascend to Celestia and achieve godhood, where they will watch over their people from above. All Vision wielders [Signature gem of element power users.] are allogenes (ascend candidates) who have the potential to reach godhood."
Travelers get excited by expectations of what wonders or cataclysm, will they meet in the land of goods. Yet as they fly above several areas, one thing become clear. This peaceful place look like a construction site. A one that is on hiatus because all workers are on vacation. Like if you make conduct an expedition onto unexplored far regions. Make a landing on an uninhibited island. Decide to claim it for itself, but then got a call to gather back on ship, because a messenger from home arrived. The material and assets for various buildings was mostly gathered, resting on piles, ready to be used/placed. Yet no one was in sight. This feel like someone planed to build this place, but on certain moment, everything was put on hold.
Where are the goods? Where are the ascended heroes of humanity. Where is anybody? Or anything?
Anyway, as they were soaring around, they eventually noticed something that was like sore eye in this abandoned place, in this serenity. So they decide to land nearby.
With foots on the ground, (Yes, the sarcophagus was with them.), they approached something that look like a mobile house on wheels and a caravan. It give of a feeling that someone parked there, and stay long enough to build around a small yard. Someone gather there stuff and (assets), like material for fences, gardening, furniture and such. As if someone has a big plan to expand this yard, to build a garden, farm or even gazebo and more, indicated the expectation of prolonged stay. The resources were pilled around, resting to be picked up the first moment the handyman will awake at morning. But once again there was this feeling, that the project was put on hold. Leaving behind only a cabin of an architect and area developer. One can though that this place holding all the constructions plans and blue prints.
Or… it was an opposite. The Celestia itself was original build plan, aiming to develop the entire area. Then the ambition was reduced to; (Okay, for now castle first.). But, the objective keep get smaller and smaller, cutting edges on great plan, until only the caravan got see a day of its completion. Say about a massive lost of interest to do a thing.
What happened here? Did this place got a reset from some reason? So people decided to build everything from beginning? But they changed its mind? Or it was like this for a long time? For centuries or even eons/millennia?
Anyway, the Archons were hesitant to enter the yard and try to knock on the door to found if someone is home. So they were discussing what to do, because; as legends says: Its a bad thing when the Heavenly Principles awake.
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And for so, it was Mavuika holding a pizza box with a freshly made pizza, wearing a red cap of food delivery service, who take the challenge. Watched by other Archons from safe distance, (leaning from behind a tree), Pyro Archon enter that yard, and approached the Caravan. She knock on the door with this small look out window covered by fancy window curtain. Now, she spoke the iconic announcement. "Pizza delivery!"
That shout woke up someone inside. It sounded like: Someone was sleeping inside of a bed and that shout make them to jitter, to make a sudden rash move. That scare a cat, who make this reflex jumped away. Panicked cat, crash onto something. On its escape run it was knocking other thing. Something semi heavy fall from shelf. It fall on a sleeper head or face with a dull noise. The sensation of painful shock going through sleeper body from head to toe on feet, was somehow feel even outside of the caravan. Then there was this tired groan of someone who just awaken but is ready to fall to sleep from fatigue.
Maybe that why, we can say to heard a loyal butler pet cat to speak. "My lady, someone is in front of door."
There was this unmistakable unhappy groan of someone who want to stay in bed and fall back to sleep, but duty calls. We can imagine how that person drag itself to the edge of the bed to sit up on it. Then lowering its bare foots on the floor. With a quite effort that person manage to stand up. Followed by the first heavy step, that loudly landed as the person strive to not immediately fall down on face. Then that someone keep making those heavy steps, swinging from side to side, dragging itself to the door. Until we can notice a silhouette showing behind the door curtain. And a hand reach out for the door handle.
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Mavuika was sweating when she stand there with forced smile, as she was watching opening the door. Her heart was definitely beating fast.
What glanced at the Pizza delivery girl was a goddess, that can be described by a single word: pure. The primordial one, know as the First Descender, a First Usurper, a ruler of gods, radiated an immerse hidden power. Yet… … somehow,… the contrast, from a confused stare; of a sleep deprived person who was been harshly awaken from its sleep, as if in middle of night… Plus the simple nightgown and too long unmaintained hairs in a total mess...
One will start think if they are on incorrect address.
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Not knowing what to do, Pyro Archon opened that pizza box to reveal that still steaming food, and repeated the punch line. "Pizza delivery..."
Heavenly Principles tiered stare focused on that food and for a second it seemed that it captivated her attention. Yet it seems that trick was too cheap and she probably saw through that distraction from early beginning. Her gaze refocused on red woman face as if she want to say: (Are you serious?) Then she tiled her head, leaning her body little bit to side, to glance whats behind the delivery girl. Without a slight error, she noticed the group hiding outside the yard. With an annoyed tired expression of someone who don't have energy to waste, on whatever shenanigans the visitor have in mind; she shortly glanced at Mavuika's face, until she make a single heavy step outside the caravan safe zone. Still supporting herself on door frame with one hand, she lean out, stretching her hand at something right outside of the door. There was this pilled up pile of assets and materials for future developing and expansion of area. But it seems that this pile now blocking view at something that was on the wall of the house/caravan, right next to the door. So she press on that pile with her bare hand to move it aside. Yet that pile, lose its cohesion and loudly fall apart on ground, making a mess. Its seems that she was too tired to bother to care about that, and rise her pointing finger to point at something that got revealed in the process.
It was an information board whir a message: "Grand reveal on Update 7.7... Scheduling for Updates 7.0 to 7.7" Then there was a handwritten note: "Until then: Don't bother me!"
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With expression that she will not waste her time on random pedestrians, the Heavenly Principles (slowly) began to returning into the caravan, intending to close the door and go back to sleep.
Camera focused on lover part of Mavuika face as it change onto unhappy expression of someone who had this inner urge to do more that this failed first impression, but cant.
So~, as the door was closing and were already in half way; Mavuika's open hand shot forward. It grab the female wrist of person in front of her.
It was action on impulse, but the rest of Archons watched as Mavuika dashing toward the Mystery Sky Ship in such high speed, that she dragged Heavenly Principles, behind herself who flew through air like a kite. Annoyed and confused that pure woman had an (Whats going on?!) expression of a thug as she was been practically kidnapped from her home.
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Insert here a quest end photo displaying the scene of the line above, plus the rest of Archons join the run.
Then add next photo from onboard of the ship. Pure goddess was siting on sarcophagus while Furina with Nahida were fixing and brushing that long hairs. Ei brought a causal clothing for her to change from that nightgown. And Mavuika tried to feed the pure woman with pizza and warm tee. All this time Heavenly Principles had this expression of: (Whats going on?! Did I oversleep?!)
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Anyway the Mystery Sky Ship taken to the sky. Venti behind the steering wheel discussed with Zhongli where to go next. A bubbles of locations pop on screens, like sightseeing choices on tourist guide. It was mostly tourist destinations like Opera Eclipse in Fontaine and others. But they settled on the idea of a word tour, starting in destination where it all started and Mavuika agreed to that.
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Insert here a few seconds cut-scene, of they ship soaring the sky, traveling between the regions.
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[Natlan a land of flame and competition.]
They arrived at Natlan…
They make a quick sightseeing from high sky of surrounded areas, until they decide to descent above Stadium of the Sacred Flame. Venti tried to land the craft directly onto middle of the circled coliseum in center of the city. After someone noted that it may be a problematic to park something so big there taking the entire space, the bard winked in (Leave it to me!) gesture. As if it was a car on slippy road, the Mystery Sky ship drift slide on vertical angled line and get parked outside the stadium.
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In next scene, they all standing in front of Tavern door. Mavuika introduce the group to Citlali the great shaman, who was heading toward tavern as usual for her evening activities. (Get drunk.) Yet this person had so sour expression as she WTF stared at the traveling companion of her Archon. Especially when certain person was there, in a causal clothes, (pure?) yet bad-ass, and fit the description of Heavenly Principles. She failed to comprehend, why they dragging that coffin like sarcophagus around, like it was a member of they party? Grand shaman risen her hand, get her fingers together, and make a loud finger snap.
The scene flip like it was a play card.
Next moment, inside the tavern, everybody present there are wild. There is fun party and its already a drunken wild. Citlali and Venti having a drinking contest. They stand across each other, between them in middle is a table size barrel with alcohol is. They both holding a quite long straw like soft rubber tube, each leading into that barrel like a pipeline, and they sucking/ sipping/ drinking like for life. So no matter what cool pose or dance move they made, they still can continue to sip. People around them drunk cheer in rhythm. "Drink! Drink! Drink!..."
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Insert here a five seconds scene, where on a single table are Mavuika, Heavenly Principles and sarcophagus (Tsaritsa). Confused pure goddess with a large cup of alcohol starting at hot woman. That glutton devouring in an incredible speed, a hill of Natlan food and delicacy worth for whole group of peoples. As empty plates piling up on one side of the table, there are only sounds of the combustion girl hasty pushing food into herself. *Chomp, chomp, chomp.* or *Munch, munch, munch.*
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[Notes]
-This story, was originally meant to be a script for video, about Mavuika visiting other nations. (A video making competition.) I even start to creating something like a visual novel in Unity3d, to create that animation illusion. But because skills difficulty needed to pull it out, I must to accept to heavily reduce the visuals part of project. (Plus I saw some entries of others...) I was facing to abandon the project as the scripting of story plan was not going smoothly. But because I write "Mavuika" into to do list for the next day; I decide to switch from video record of visual novel, into a text story, opening door to deep narrative I am familiar. (It take a month to finish it.)
-Fun fact: When I was going to write the scene with Neuvillette, I had launched Y2B music collection and its start play: "I yam a candy man." And I heard "I am yours sugar man..." Which transformed into: "I am yours sugar man, a sugar dad." And I imagine Furina and Neuvillette as the duo from that Music-video. It immediately fused with that comic where Neuvillette and Zhongli talk about they girls. "Your daughter?" "No, my boss." "Same here."
-scaredy-cat - someone, especially a child, who is easily frightened
-The glutton eating meme, has its roots in Asterix, cartoon/animated series. During they trip to Egypt, there was one worker who was hasty eating his bowl: *Munch, munch, munch.* Plus there other instances from other works of all kinds of those who had a high caloric consumption, so they mus eat a lot confusing normal people.
-I know that the sleepy girl on coffin is from the funeral clip, but it seems like a fine inspiration to build on.
-My size expectation for this entire story was under 4 thousand, yet until beta version was done it had above 14 thousand. Okay in three hours, I shall be done with check up and have a release version. (Heck no! I am not even in half, is night already a file extended to 16 thousand. I hope, that at last I finish on next day.) Few days Later: (What I had thinking? This project eaten to much time already and still wanting more?! 18 thousand of words. [minus a percentage to stylistic]) Anyway, writing take a long time to do. Its not that you can work on creative writing continuously for hours and days straight. Sometimes, there are obstacles others that different task that are higher priority.
-Anyway this shall be a funny story, combining multiple ideas, mostly memes. I hope you had fun, taking part in this Mauvika's trip across Teyvat and we maybe see each other on another story.