A Book Of Bullshit I Make Instead Of Sleeping Oops

Oh Dear It's Another Largely Questionable Vocab Story Help

"What is the one place where your Protagonist feels the safest? Write a scene where they return to this place... except they find it in ruins."

okay completely disregarded the prompt oopsies

also crossfandom yeet with BSD

As you've proved yourself an excellent detective, your agency has given you a rather unique mission. You're more rational than your mentor, who is notorious for his fantasy of committing a double suicide with a beautiful woman. Despite his demented mentality, he's known for his surgical accuracy with his prognosis on how a situation will turn out. That is the single reason he's given amnesty for never doing his work and showing up late. The unique thing about your agency is the unnatural idiosyncrasies of each member. You're all part of this agency because you have an ability, or in simpler terms, a super power. Your name is Atsushi, and your ability is Beast Beneath The Moonlight. You have the singular ability to transform into a tiger. Your mentor believes you have insular views on the world because you're young, but he also believes that you are the best candidate for this mission. You're being sent to the beach with five people who are related to registered ability users, and these five people are suspected to be monsters.There are innumerable ability users, but a plurality of them aren't threats. Your agency and its rival agency have consolidated information to narrow down the suspects to the five you're about to meet. You're a little nervous, because you're not robustly built, and you're only 18. You fret silently in the duration of the car ride to the beach. Your colleagues tell you that you have great fortitude and valor to take on this mission, but you're just doing your job. The agency provided refuge when you were kicked out of the orphanage, after all, so it's also returning a favor. You're introduced to the five suspects as a young journalist who wants to practice interviewing without taking notes. One of them towers over you, like an immovable mountain. He's definitely the tallest, and has blond hair, blue eyes, and boots that vary greatly in length, as in one reaches his thigh while the other only reaches his ankle. The next suspect is a tiny brunet who your mentor warned you about. Apparently, the sweet looking boy has an alarmingly volatile personality, and has been known to attack the people he's discoursing with. You look to the next suspect, a ginger in a white jacket and generally comfortable clothes. The look you get from the first suspect is filled with enough "back off" vibes to inter you far enough into the ground to shoot you straight through the other side of the planet. You feel your heart rate accelerate in fear and you quickly look away. There's only nebulous information on the fourth suspect, who is male but is often mistaken as female because of his hair length. The agency has a few theories with astronomical levels of questionability. Apparently he might be some sort of celestial being, specifically a demon. The fifth and final suspect is a stellar chemist, but has the humility not to rub it in anyone's face. He could very well be in a pantheon of chemists if he really wanted to. You smile at everyone and they all smile uneasily in return except for the brunet, who growls instead.

"Senbu, he hasn't done anything to you!" the chemist chastises, and Senbu pouts.

"Sorry, Dark."

You know your goal, distract the suspects long enough for your agency to launch a sneak attack on them. Triggering their violent sides will bring out any possible monsters. There are sanctions that monsters have to follow if they do for some reason have a human form, and recently an unregistered monster has been destroying and attacking the city. That's where you come in. Your agency's nontraditional methods are only condoned by the law because of the kinds of cases it gets. In a way, people almost deify the agency for its service in protecting the city.

"So," you start awkwardly. "Do you guys play any instruments?"

The terrifying, tall blond lights up. "Edge has exceptional piano skills and he was a participant in an advanced piano exhibit!"

You figure out that the chill ginger is Edge from the way he's blushing, and he hits the tall man's arm. "It's nothing, Lancer."

So far, your hypothesis is that this Lancer person is the monster, because he's hecking scary. You suddenly realize that Dark, the chemist is consuming some sort of white substance that smells an awful lot like moth balls. You lose your formal composure, terrified because you expect an instantaneous reaction to ingesting the substance. You allege to yourself that he might very likely be the monster, since he doesn't react. If anything, he's invigorated by it.

The long-haired suspect facepalms. "Dark, stop eating paradichlorobenzene!"

You're very confused. "What's... that?" you ask, unable to pronounce the word.

"Oh! Paradichlorobenzene is an organic compound composed of-"

"Shut up!" the long-haired suspect interrupts. "All you need to know is that it's poisonous and Dark should be dead from eating it," he tells you.

You nod slowly, still nonplussed. "And... it's in what...?"

"Moth balls!" Senbu cheers. "Those taste good!" These people are making your job harder and harder.

"He has Pica," Dark explains. "An eating disorder where he sees nontraditional objects as food."

You smile awkwardly, observing them as they walk along the beach. Suddenly, a blade comes swinging down on Edge. The ginger dodges, morphing before your eyes into a dark mass, still somewhat human-like, but covered in black armor that seems to suck in light. The colleague of yours who attacked, Kyouka, looks terrified. You feel yourself scream as Lancer, the tall suspect, throws her with astronomical force into the powdery, gritty sand. She only survives because of your agency's medic, whose ability can bring someone back to full health if they're half dead. At least you know now, Edge is the monster. You call out this information, but your mind changes instantaneously when Dark combusts and Senbu glows red, warping the ground beneath him. The last suspect has grown three times his size, with a katana that glows with an almost purple flame. He too seems to absorb light. Maybe he is a demon after all. Senbu has a strange grin on his face that seems to pierce through you like blades. He's a tiny vessel for immeasurable power, manipulating gravity itself. At this point, Dark smolders as black smoke, now taking the form of a cat which will burn anything it touches. You mentor runs up beside you. He's a nullifier, so if these are just abilities, he can disable them if he touches them. The five creatures close in on you, suffocating you in your own terror until your mentor allows all five to touch him instead of you.

Nothing happens.

You see blinding fire and choking darkness all at once, then nothing.

You wake up and give a piercing scream, because the monster was your own mind all along.