savetheearth | Tenth feather

Who: Rakka Yoshitoshi and Raye Satterfield/Later on, Isaac and Miria
Where: Random Alleyway, Locke City/The Dians residence
What: Rakka has a run in with the mafia and then she gets saved.
When: August 3rd
Warnings: General violence, mafia shenanigans.

What a nice afternoon for a walk home. Rakka walked briskly down one of the downtown streets, trying to get back to the Dians household following a busy morning of looking up some information in the library. She'd cut though the streets and ended up going down an alleyway. It wasn't the best shortcut, or the first one she'd choose, but it would get her back to the Dians house faster. As she got farther in though, she found her shortcut was blocked by a man, standing in her way.

"....Uh..." Rakka stopped, confused. There weren't usually people here, why was someone here now? Rather than confront them, she decided to turn around and leave. The way, she found to her shock, was blocked by a few more men, each of them slowly advancing into the alleyway towards her. Confusion slowly mixed with fear, and Rakka backed away from them. "Ah.... what... who are you...?"

No reply. They just continued to advance.

Fear turned to panic, and Rakka continued to back away. "What do you want!?"

"To deliver a message." The man that had originally blocked her way replied, he too advanced on her, all of them trying to prevent Rakka from escaping. She looked around frantically, searching for a way out. "Now, this can be easy, or it can be hard."

There was little doubt in Rakka's mind that these were members of the mafia she'd heard about, the ones that attacked Expresso Yourself, And Rakka wasn't going to stick around and find out why they wanted to talk to her. She fled, trying to run around the three men, but one of them managed to grab her by her coat. They struggled briefly, but the thug won out and yanked Rakka back, losing her coat in the process and exposing her wings.

"So she is one of them." One of the men remarked, eyeing Rakka's wings. They stayed away for the moment, hesitant in case she had any powers, but they were still getting closer to her. Panic overtook Rakka, and she grabbed her magic staff, holding it out in front of her. "Get away from me!"

She opened fire, sparks of electricity and sounds of fighting erupting from within the alley.

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SO THE DIANS MISSED SOME BIG STUFF WHILE THEY WERE CLEANING SHIT. AND THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE STILL DOING. CLEANING SHIT.

WELL HOPEFULLY THEY'LL NOTICE RAKKA WHEN SHE STEPS THROUGH THE STORE DOOR.

Her jacket is gone, wings exposed, and she appears to be covered in dirt and bruises. There's a scrape up her left arm too. Generally, she looks like she had been through quite a bit, and it showed on her face.

"Guys...? Are you home?"

"Oh yeah, right here buddy!"

"We're just reorganizing so-

And then they noticed. Panic immediately set upon their eyes as Miria dropped the small plastic doll she was holding and Isaac the broom. They race over as quick as can be, FREAKING OUT.

"RAKKA!"

"HONEY!"

They aren't really. Sure what to do when they get there. If they touch her, will it hurt her? So they just hover over her nervously, feeling kind of useless.

Rakka looked up at both of them, sadness in her eyes and threatening to cause tears.

"I... I was in an alley, and all these mafia guys showed up." She trembled a little, already wiping her eyes. "I couldn't get away, and they started beating me up, and if Raye hadn't saved me..."

Yeah. She's sobbing now. Her afternoon had been very emotional.

Okay, they are totally setting fears aside now to wrap Rakka in the biggest goddamn hug of all time.

"Raye's a great friend like that...."

"She knows how to handle big ol' jerks who probably have no friends..."

"Because they're jerks."

"Yeah."

And you'd better believe Rakka is returning that hug with all she's got. There wont be a reply to their babbling for a while, of course, since Rakka has descended into inelegant blubbering. There will be many tear stains on both the Dians's clothes.

Those were gonna be there anyway. What with the crying the couple has failed to stop themselves from doing.

Damn it. Why is this happening. Why do great people like Jacuzzi and Rakka and Jasmine and Raye and everyone they know keep getting hurt. They've been so nice to the couple, the greatest friends they could ever manage to have. And people keep pulling things like this.

It just doesn't make sense to the Dians.

Their ramblings trail off and they just take a long, long moment to hug their surrogate daughter.

Bad things just kept happening to everyone, it would seem. It never got any easier either. When Rakka had been sent here, she thought things could be better for her, and for the most part, they were.

She'd gotten friends, and even people she really, really cared about. And the Dians... they'd become so much to her.

They were like family. And, as she hugged both of them tightly, she realized that she wouldn't be able to handle it if anything happened to one of them. So, she'd be here for them, their guardian angel who can't fly.

Tenth feather

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