[Chromatober 2024]

[13: Destruction]

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[Magical Girl]
[Angst]
[Characters: Sabre, Light, Orange Leader, Indigo Leader, and Yellow Leader]
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The kingdom was walled off by a storm, multi-colored lightning zips through the storms clouds, smoke rises up practically merging with the clouds.

The rainbow coloring of the kingdom has been snuffed out, leaving only shades of gray.

What was left of color was the fire that twists and turns, wrapping around support beams, and slipping through the cracks in the brick.

The fire crackles, some supports give out with a loud crack.

Streaks of color rush about attempting to rescue as much as they can, with flashes of white and yellow.

They attempt to rescue whoever was still trapped within the kingdom. But those who are stuck were warned, warned of the chaos that would be striking down the kingdom.

The Yellow Leader pants, tired out, as he slides to a stop beside the Indigo Leader, his ears flicked downwards.

Tail flicking side to side, he waves off the Indigo Leaders worry and concern. He glances over the railings with a frown, "This place won't be standing for much longer."

The Indigo Leader hums, also looking over the railing, "Indeed, where are the others? Have you seen them?"

Yellow shakes his head and his frown deepens,"No. Hopefully they are at one of the outposts."

"Oh!?" The two look towards the door, Orange Leader enters with Light Steve directly behind him, "You two are still here."

"As are you." Yellow responds with a tilt of his head, an arm across his stomach, and a wheeze comes from him.

Indigo glances at him in even more concern, "Yellow Leader, I advise you to leave the kingdom. Yellow Steves don't do well with smoke."

"I will be fine." He responds with another wheeze, the other three can hear how the smoke is affecting him.

Orange Leader shakes his head, walking past the other two leaders, watching as another bolt hits a building.

Light rushes over glancing downwards before looking around the destroyed buildings, searching for something or someone.

"Any signs of him?" He asks, now looking upwards towards the storm.

"No, I can go search for him." Yellow Leader offers, straightening himself up and moving his arm.

"Absolutely not." Indigo responds glaring at him.

Orange Leader turns away from the destruction and walks up to Indigo Leader and leans over a little to look at Yellow Leader, "I agree with Indigo, Yellow you should leave, the smoke is going to do much harm against you."

"And I've already said I'll be fine, I've survived breathing in smoke before, I can handle this." Yellow responds, rearing his head at the other two leaders.

Light practically snaps his head to glance at the Yellow Leader, "That's the problem Yellow Leader, with the amount of smoke, it will likely cause lung damage, SPECIFICALLY, for you."

Yellow Leader stares at the three that were giving him very concerned looks. He frowns and turns away from them, not responding but not leaning.

"I knew someone would be up here. I KNEW you three weren't leaving." The four turns towards the door, Sabre stands there glaring at them.

"How do you four like the consequences of your actions?" He questions, voice practically reverberating.

"Sabre this is needless! All of this was needless!" Yellow hisses motioning towards everything behind him.

"You could've spoken to us Sabre." Indigo tries.

"Spoken? Spoken to you? I've tried! Don't yo see! I HAD TRIED TO TALK TO YOU ALL! I TRIED TALKING TO ALL OF YOU!" He shrieks, voice echoing.

His voice lowers, "I tried talking to you..."

"Sabre." Orange Leader starts, and Indigo side eyes him and shuffles closer to Yellow.

"Do not 'Sabre' me. I've told you about the threats I have received, I told you about how I know, KNEW, what could be done to make this place better, I've told you all so much, and YOU have never listened to me." Sabre tilts his head, putting his hands behind his back.

Yellow leans against Indigo, body trembling. Indigo shifts to be slightly more in front of him.

Sabre walks by them to stare outwards, "There's a unique beauty about all of this."

"People are dying, this place was made with-" Light stumbles over his words, stepping towards the other with worry, wanting to grab his friend.

"The word Rainbow for you all is a symbol of hope, this kingdom was meant to bring unity, to bring hope. The kingdom was made because you all, we, all thought that maybe, Just maybe, together we could be stronger, be able to take care of things easier." Sabre sighs, lowering his head slightly.

"Yet it appears as though the colors should've never been reunited, should've never been put in one place. I'm giving you all a chance to restart. Leave one another, go back to before." Sabre finished, however it did look like he wanted to say more.

"We can't do that Sabre... Our people have made friends with other colors, we have made friends with each other." Indigo responds, stepping slightly forward. Yellow follows, leaning even more into the other, eyes drooping.

Sabre doesn't respond, instead he sets his hands on the railing.

"Where would you go then?" Light asks, stepping closer to him, reaching out to him.

"Anywhere but here, anywhere that doesn't have all of you." He responds, moving out of Light's reach.

Said Steve wilts and steps back, taking his spot beside the Orange Leader.

Lightning strikes the four Steves, and they vanish not without different sounds of surprise.

Sabre looks over his shoulder towards where they were once standing before looking back towards the kingdom.

"Any place where I won't hurt anyone else...."

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