Spectacular World

A Day In Daffodil

"Alice Ward, on the scenes of Daffodil!"

Violet had required she wear summer clothes, since it was on a small little island where the sun was constantly shining down. Daffodil on the other hand required her to wear a jacket due to the chill that was ever present.

Today, Alice found herself standing somewhere in the middle of the city, posing for her camera. She wore a simple white dress with a red jacket thrown over it and had a hand on her hip as she pointed forward.

"Keep it steady, June..."

"I'm trying." The cameraman grunted. "This stuff is heavy, though, and I haven't rested since the flight of stairs we had to climb up just to get to this spot..."

Alice turned and opened her arms, gesturing out to the surroundings around her. "Welcome to Daffodil! Also known as one of the strangest cities on Earth!"

Daffodil was entirely indoors. The city itself was made up of hundreds of different towers that all branched off of one another, forming into a single massive structure that was all packed together tightly. Everything in the city was inside of these buildings. It served more or less as a bunker to keep the people inside safe from the constant disasters or rampaging monsters that were always around. Daffodil itself was on the edge of where several monsters would always pop up, hence why the city had been built the way it was since that was cheaper than moving every single person to a different part of the world.

Because of this everything inside of Daffodil sort of looked as if it was underground. There was a massive roof above them that had various lights since there was no sun to be found, and it was made up of vast networks of bridges and tunnels that led to some of the other buildings. Large sections of it would form bigger rooms for the people, but for the most part, Daffodil was tight and compressed in on itself. It was sort of like the place you'd see in a post-apocalypse novel.

Everyone in Daffodil had a job to do. Its people were trained at a young age to pick up various skills, and everyone always worked together like a colony of ants to maintain the structure that they lived in. The city itself was also protected by a team known as Sun Eaters, led by the newest member of the Enforcers, Wyvern.

"As you can see, Daffodil is pretty different from Oleander." Alice walked down the many hallways. They were all made out of a silverish metal, and no matter where she went, there was always a tunnel leading somewhere, with a set of stairs going up or down. Various doors were all along the walls, some leading to the common rooms where people had their personal bunkers, others leading to the massive mess halls that offered food. Patrolling the halls of Daffodil were various Hero Branch guards, all dressed in full riot gear, maintaining the peace. "It's quite a stressful place to live in, I think."

"I wouldn't want to be here." June, the cameraman,n nodded and moved the camera up and down. "Imagine being indoors always. Why's a place like this even exist?"

"That's a good question." Alice turned and winked at the camera. "Daffodil was built here to more or less serve as a doomsday bunker. Many of the rich and powerful had it built around the time the Emperor first declared war on the world. Should the planet fall, they all thought they could live out here. When the Emperor finally fell, though, it was too late to get rid of this place since so much of the budget had already gone into it. Not to mention, they needed a place to store several of the refugees who all lost their homes. So, Daffodil was repurposed from a bunker into this weird indoors city. It's not normal, and in some ways, I'd say it could even be a little cruel to live here."

They passed by a section of the hallway that had a window on it, showing off another room. It seemed to be some sort of sports area, and several kids were playing, some riding bikes, others throwing a ball back and forth. Even in a weird place like this, life was still thriving.