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

[justicereigns]

Thanks kid. I bet this will be one everyone will be talking about for months to come.

[starfishlovesyou]

Fuuko hopes so, it should be one of those memories that crops up every once in the while and makes you smile thinking about all the good times. Make sure you remember today as one of those memories and tell all your friends about how much fun you had Smoker-san!

[justicereigns]

I'll be sure to Fuuko. Make sure you do too, all right?

[One day he really does need to take her to the beach to meet a real starfish.]

[starfishlovesyou]

Fuuko will never forget today! The day Fuuko forgets about today is the day Fuuko goes home, nothing will change this memory for Fuuko!!

[Summer is getting closer, it's only a matter of time until she ends up meeting all the starfish there.]

[justicereigns]

[Grins and ruffles.] Good. Now get home and have starfish dreams.

[Oh Fuuko, that will be a lot of starfish all right.]

[starfishlovesyou]

How can Fuuko be expected to get any sleep after a day like today! Fuuko is still much too excited, Fuuko will sooner collapse from exhaustion than go to sleep properly.

[Things probably won't go like that but sleep isn't something she's thinknig about just yet.]

[justicereigns]

[... Now he's just worried she'll drop right there.]

Oh? What are your plans for now then?

[starfishlovesyou]

Save all the poor starfish things people might have left behind and take them home so Fuuko can keep them safe!

[Her house is going to be full of so much starfish related junk. So much.]

[justicereigns]

Hm... that's going to be a very crowded house I suppose. Want help carrying everything?

[starfishlovesyou]

If your sure you can carry so many things at once and you don't mind leaving your post as the Starfish Festival's security guard then Fuuko wouldn't mind a little help.

[justicereigns]

[Switches his arms into smoke with a smirk and shows off several smoke limbs, though he deliberately tries to make it more like a starfish for Fuuko's sake.]

I'm sure I can manage that.

[starfishlovesyou]

[... STARFISH SMOKE THINGS. Excellent.]

Fuuko had no idea you could do something like that! And to think all these years Fuuko has been thinking that smoking was bad for you.

[Clearly she was wrong.]

[justicereigns]

It's a special exception in my case.

[starfishlovesyou]

Fuuko is used to all sorts of special exceptions by now seeing as there are so many people here who can use magic like it's second nature to them. Does this mean you save a lot of money on nicotine patches, or perhaps you get some sort of discount?

[justicereigns]

What's a nicotine patch?

And I guess the cigars can get a bit expensive.

[starfishlovesyou]

They're like sticky plasters and they're used by people who want to stop smoking seeing as it's unhealthy. [...] Not that Fuuko minds that you smoke Smoker-san, Fuuko was just curious.

[justicereigns]

Why not just stop?

[Because we all know Smoker could totally stop if he wanted to :| That's why he smokes two at once nonstop.]

[starfishlovesyou]

It's not that simple Smoker-san! There's a long and arduous path waiting for you when you want to stop smoking! Fuuko wishes you the best of luck should you ever decide to walk that path, fight hard Smoker-san.

[justicereigns]

I don't think you have to worry, because I have no intentions of ever quitting.

[starfishlovesyou]

So you'll never quit? That's very bad for you though, you'll certainly be shortening your life span like that!

[But with the amount of smoking she's seen him doing in the past she can only imagine how long he has left. Oh dear.]

Fuuko doesn't want to be going to a funeral here, even if you'll be back soon after you know!!

[justicereigns]

I ate the moku moku no mi, so if I die early, it won't be from smoking.

[He can explain that better, but he'll have to be asked, since he forgets not everyone knows what that means....]