the thmgau rewrite

One Rainy Friday

The sound of thunder had awoken Cherry from her slumber. It was Friday, the day after the performance. Their body was a little sore from the Sotry battle, but they'd live.

Rubbing her eyes, Cherry reached for her phone & checked her notifications. There was a weather alert for rampant thunderstorms, & an university-wide email informing students that classes were cancelled. Cherry didn't have any classes today anyway, so they didn't care.

What she did care about, though, was the weather alert. It was the middle of February! It shouldn't be storming, especially not in Ohio. Determined to get to the bottom of this, Cherry opened up the group chat to inform their friends about it. Unsurprisingly, the group chat was fairly active this morning.

Leslie: ya so nat's birthday is today & i was thinking of getting her something :p
Nora: well what does she like
Leslie: ummm she likes cool bikes & punk stuff
Leslie: i think
Leslie: havent known her for very long
Juniper: didnt she try to steal the book from us
Kalani: yea she did do that didnt she 🤼‍♂️
Leslie: well YEA but
Leslie: shes nice. & pretty

Ignoring the current conversation going on, Cherry decided to hop in.

Cherry: yo.
Nora: oh hey
Leslie: gm cherry!
Kalani: wassup 🐎🤹‍♀️
Cherry: yall seen the weather.
Juniper: yea. storms. classes canceled
Nora: since when did you care abt the weather cherry
Cherry: since now apparently.
Cherry: i think this thunderstorm is a little sus if u ask me.
Kalani: lol sus 🟦
Cherry: oh whatever
Cherry: point is it shouldnt be storming in february.
Juniper: are you sayin theres
Juniper: like
Juniper: some kind of villain making the rain
Cherry: all im saying is that these villains tend to be back to back. pim & auctioneer were back to back, & we just fought that sotry dude last night.
Cherry: clealry there's something going on.
Cherry: clearly*
Kalani: clealry
Nora: clealry
Leslie: clealry
Juniper: get their ass
Nora: anyways i thought you didnt care abt the hero stuff
Nora: you even said the outfits were dumb & stupid
Cherry: i think studying psychology is dumb & stupid too that doesnt mean im not a psychology major.
Cherry: also like theres a prophecy or whatever. :/
Kalani: i mean
Kalani: australia has storms in february 🌧⛱
Leslie: oh yeah true
Cherry: that's entirely off topic. also we're not even in australia.
Nora: if we WERE to be in australia though it would be perfectly fine for it to be raining
Juniper: february storms bring march flowers i guess
Cherry: we literally aren't in australia. we're in ohio.
Cherry: & i say we investigate this right now
Kalani: well classes are cancelled so we might as well 💥💥
Kalani: not like i have classes today anyway 🧦
Leslie: but i still have to get a birthday present for nat :0
Cherry: ok fine.
Cherry: we can go shopping afterwards at the mall.
Leslie: yippee :-D
Nora: alright i'll meet u all downstairs

Sitting up, Cherry turned their phone off. "Alright.." she yawned. "Let's do this."

-

The sounds of rain hitting the ground seemed to be unavoidable. No matter which direction you went in this city, the rainfall wouldn't let up. Storm sighed as thunder roared in the distance.

The young Celestial was sitting on her cloud, which was currently a dark gray. As her name would suggest, she has the ability to control the weather (or more particularly, the rain). It's not necessarily controlled by her emotions, but sometimes that does happen, & right now is one of those such cases.