[Taki arrives on the roof of the school with Saki and Izumi Hanagawa. The former's spazzing out; the latter looks very bewildered.] [Start!] (She's spazzing now? I thought she collapsed. o_o) ( I said she was unconscious, not unmoving :P ) (Okay.) * Taki lets go of Izumi. "I teleported us to the school to get away from those ... things. What happened to Saki? Is she going to be alright?" Izumi fidgets. "Um, Um, I'm not sure. I met Ryuji and two girls on my way home, and suddenly all the lights went out, and then Saki collapsed and keeps muttering in I think English and then those things showed up and were attacking us!"] * Taki looks down at Saki. "Okay, this's bad, but at least there isn't anything trying to kill us right now." Then she tries to listen for anything Saki is trying to say. ( Awareness check - linguistics (English) ) [Saki is muttering something about gangs, and Los Angles, and drugs, and Blacks (though whether it's Black Arcana or black people, Taki can't tell). Gimme a mind roll.] [Saki's English is broken. She says every word with a thick accent she doesn't normally have.] * Taki moves her hand from Saki's arm to her shoulder and shakes gently. She also tries speaking in English. "Saki! Wake up Saki. Please wake up." [Saki does not wake up! Dangit.] (I knew it couldn't be that easy.) * Taki switches back to Japanese and shakes harder. "Wake up! We need your help!" [Nope, that doesn't work either!] * Taki lets go of her and looks back up at Izumi. "I don't suppose you and Ryuji tried this very same thing when everything started did you?" [She nods. "I've been trying to find out what's wrong with her, but..."] * Taki nods. "She's probably got The Cup, but that just seems to make people go crazier. Which kinda won't help. Any other ideas?" [Izumi shakes her head.] * Taki sighs and mutters something to herself. Then she leans over so she's looking right into Saki's face, and tries to speak as clearly as she can in English. [Saki doesn't respond! Save to mutter something about guns.] (No signs at all that she's heard anything that Taki said?) ( Nope. ) * Taki sits back. "I'm down to slapping her, throwing water in her face, and just trying for The Cup and trying for the best. You have anything that'd hold water?" ["I could get some beakers from the lab..."] * Taki nods. "... I don't have chem so... I guess I'll try slapping and you can get the water. I hope she doesn't kill me for this again." [Izumi nods and runs downstairs.] * Taki straddles Saki, makes a brief mental note about some people having all the luck with bodies and then starts speaking. "I'm sorry Saki, but this is all I can think of. If Katie was here, she'd know what to do, but it's just me. Please forgive me." * Taki then raises her right hand and then brings it down across Saki's cheek. "Wake UP!" [Taki slaps Saki, who promptly winces and rubs the spot. "Ow."] * Taki blinks. "Saki? You're awake now?" [Saki blinks a few times. "Taki? Is that you?" She sits up slowly, grabbing her head. "Something's not right."] ( Awareness check! ) * Taki scrambles off of her. [From the way Saki is blinking and not focusing on anything, Taki starts to wonder if she's blind.] Yeah, it's me. Do you remember what happened? Anything at all? [She winces. "I'm not.... Something's messing with my head."] ["And my eyes."] The other you, the Black card one, is working with the Black or the Reversed Lovers, I can't remember which. It might be one of them doing it. I... They did a reading and said you're the only one who can fight the other your. (... Taki's version of events are still off. Ha.) (She was ASLEEP on her FEET when this was explained to her.) [Saki stops rubbing her head for a minute. "You've gotta be kidding."] * Taki shakes her head. "There are these demon dog things running around. They were attacking people at the Tokyo Tower and at the construction site you were at. Ryuji said they were after you so they should be okay now." ["Great."] Yeah. It's not a good night. [Gonna end here. End!]