-- Pearl | Location: Beach | Tagged: Angela and Reinhardt (nearby) --
As Pearl gradually awoke, she was greeted by a breeze, carrying with it the scent of the sea. What--... What the heck...? When she opened her eyes, she had to squint, as she was lying on her back with nothing to shelter her face from the sun. Pushing herself up into a sitting position, she took a quick look around. She remembered falling asleep at Marina's house, where she and Otome had been invited after Off the Hook had finished an electrifying concert that evening. The three had been watching movies and munching on squid rings, and by the time it was all over, it was late enough to simply spend the night. Now she found herself on a strange beach, with no indication of how she even got there. Where am I? ... Is this some kinda joke? Just then, she recalled her dream. She had met a strange child--who appeared to be human--on a beach exactly like this one... almost. The beach in her dream felt perfectly pleasant; the one she had awoken to find had a more unsettling atmosphere.
Just then, another troubling thought entered Pearl's mind: where was Marina? Did she somehow end up being brought here as well? Pearl couldn't see any sign of her from where she was at the moment... What if something had happened to her? On that note, what about Otome? Now driven by an urgent need to find the others and make sure they were alright, Pearl sprung to her feet. Just before she could begin searching, however, something sitting in the sand nearby caught her attention: something black with touches of gold, gleaming in the sunlight. Quickly, she scurried over to investigate, and found a set of Enperry Splat Dualies just sitting on the beach. Wait, how'd those get--... Never mind. There's somethin' up with this place; I can feel it. I should just take 'em and not waste any more time wondering about stuff, she thought to herself, quickly reaching down and grabbing the weapons, then giving them a brief dusting-off. Finally, she began quickly moving along the shore in search of her friends. "Marinaaa? Otomeee?" She called out their names over and over as she moved along, the tension in her squeaky voice building up more the longer she went without hearing a response. "Marinaaa...?! Otomeee...?!"
After some time, Pearl eventually stopped in place, then took a deep breath in preparation for a particularly loud call. "MARIIIIINAAAAAAAAAA?!" she called out at an absolutely deafening volume, clenching her eyes tightly shut as she did. She was so preoccupied with her search that she didn't notice the two figures drawing closer and closer to her location.
(EDIT: The "backstory" stuff here used to be different before Otome's RPer and I combined ideas and came up with the "movie night sleepover after a concert" thing~)













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