Shining In The Sky ★

[starfishlovesyou]

Who: You! Everyone!
What: The Starfish Festival
When: April 14th, all day
Where: All around the plaza
Summary: It's finally here, an entire day dedicated to celebrating the starfish and spending time with friends. Have fun!
Rating: ★ Please accept this!
After months of planning and roping in poor, innocent people to help out with some of the work it's finally done. An actual festival, all for the starfish.

The morning of the 14th mostly consists of people arriving, the stalls being brought in and decorations being put up. It's all about the preparation! Most of the decorating consists of banners and streamers you might find at a school festival, all hung around doors and windows and between the buildings in the plaza. And star shaped pieces of card being stuck up here and there in places too. If the decorations don't tell you what's going on then the banners saying 'STARFISH FESTIVAL' certainly will.

Come midday the festival is in full swing. There's plenty of food at many of the stalls (either prepared by Fuuko and the other girls or brought in by other villagers) ranging from cake, ice cream and different kinds of sweet things, to starfish tea, sandwiches, all sorts of festival fare. There are a few games set up too where it's possible to win starfish related prizes like pins, badges and even plush toys and some stalls are even giving out wind chimes. Finally there's also a little entertainment provided with music being played in the background throughout most of the festival. (You should totally go listen to Kotomi giving her very own violin recital.)

By night time when most of the food is gone there will be a fireworks display to bring an end to the festival. Hopefully the Starfish Festival would be a day to remember!

(You didn't need to receive an invite in order to come, that was just the girl's attempt at getting word of the festival out there. The festival is open to anyone and everyone to come along and have a good time.)

Comments

Morning!

[de_bel_survivor]

Hey, Fuuko! Need a hand?

[Because he's definitely taller than her.]

[starfishlovesyou]

[Sob all these tall people.]

If it's not too much trouble for you then a little help would be much appreciated Kouki-san.

[Hmph. Stupid height.]

[de_bel_survivor]

[Gaze at our height and weep, o small one.]

It'll be no trouble at all. Where do you want to put this up?

[starfishlovesyou]

[All the QQ.]

Just over there on that tree, Fuuko thinks that one looks particularly bare so a little colour will liven it up and get the tree into the spirit of the starfish festival in no time.

[de_bel_survivor]

[Mwahahah.]

Sure thing. Mind handing the decoration over so I can start climbing?

[starfishlovesyou]

Really, you're going to climb the tree? Your dedication to the starfish festival is something to be admired Kouki-san, the decorations are in your hands!

[Mostly because Fuuko just handed over a nice bunch of multicolored streamers, but hopefully the point gets across anyway.]

[de_bel_survivor]

I shall work to never disappoint the starfish!

[Still humouring her or actually believes in the starfish? Regardless, he'll take those streamers and make his way over to that tree.

Time...to climb.]

[starfishlovesyou]

Be careful Kouki-san! If you fall and hurt yourself there's only so much Fuuko can do to make sure you'll still be able to enjoy the festival. If you break a leg then the starfish are not responsible!

[You're climbing at your own risk man.]

[de_bel_survivor]

I can take whatever this tree can throw at me! I'm much tougher than I look, Fuuko.

[Aw yeah, demon king endurance. Once he's up on a branch, he'll start hanging up the streamers.]

[starfishlovesyou]

You're not some super powered soldier infused with mako energy or in secret a really grumpy wizard who teases Fuuko on occasion are you? A lot of Fuuko's friends seem to be a lot stronger than they actually appear to be.

[She'll watch Kouki climb up and start hanging streamers, shouting out pointers here and there for where to put them. It has to be perfect for the starfish!]

A little more to your left, that branch is completely bare.

[de_bel_survivor]

Nope, I'm not a super soldier or a grumpy wizard. Just a guy.

[Technically, yeah. He's a guy. Who is also a demon. He reach out and put up the streamers at Fuuko's instructions.]

How do they look now?

[starfishlovesyou]

Well that's a nice change from all of Fuuko's special more than meets the eye friends.

[Tossing her head left, then right, then left again, trying to look at the streamers from all angles.]

That looks great, keep it up!

[de_bel_survivor]

[Good thing he's rather high up, or else Fuuko might see his smile.]

Lemme know if I miss a spot!

[starfishlovesyou]

Fuuko will make sure you cover ever inch of the tree that needs decorating from down here, you can count on Fuuko! [...] You need to climb higher up to get the branches right at the top!!

[de_bel_survivor]

Got it!

[AND LOOK AT HIM CLIMB! He did put some streamer in his mouth, leaving both of his hands free to climb.

Almost at the top...!]

[starfishlovesyou]

[OH KOUKI YOU SO COOL~ Ew now there's going to be drool all over the streamers. Welp at least no one will really see them that high up...]

You're amazing Kouki-san, Fuuko could never climb that high without getting scared!

[de_bel_survivor]

I've seen scarier things than large heights! So this is nothing.

[You should have seen the demons in his army. Now that he's high up, time to put the streamers here.]

Here and here looks good...

[starfishlovesyou]

Looks good to Fuuko too, a job well done!

[But now she's curious.]

What sorts of scary things have you seen then? Are they the sort of things that would make Fuuko think twice, check under the bed and sleep with the lights on?

[de_bel_survivor]

Monsters! But they're not here right now.

[Because it's peaceful and non-experiment time in Luceti.]

So you can still go to bed without worrying as much.

[starfishlovesyou]

[OH NO MONSTERS But wait.]

So you're just an ordinary guy... Who has seen scary monsters in the past and still calls himself an ordinary guy? Fuuko doesn't know how to say this Kouki-san but that isn't ordinary at all!

[de_bel_survivor]

[Um.]

Ahahah...yeah, it isn't. [Oh shit lies uncovered!?] Maybe I'm not so ordinary.

[starfishlovesyou]

[WHY WOULD YOU LIE TO HER?!]

So you're not ordinary even though you just said before that you were?! Fuuko doesn't know what to believe anymore!

[You're breaking her Kouki. Stop it.]

[de_bel_survivor]

Just believe in...what your heart tells you?

[Good god something, that's rather cliché.]

[starfishlovesyou]

[... At that Fuuko stops freaking out and turns to look up at Kouki.]

Fuuko's heart says a lot of different things though. Did you think that up yourself Kouki-san, or did you take it our of a fairytale? It's like Fuuko has heard something like that before.

[de_bel_survivor]

Probably a fairytale, but...after hearing different things, you gotta take a moment and think. Think until you know you can believe in something without regretting it.