User blog comment:Lucy554/Aikatsu! RolePlay Fun Continued: For my Mentor.../@comment-25104896-20170804221905/@comment-29740360-20170804233631

Note: What I'm writing in this comment is a flashback. It happened the night before Lucia's performance.

It's past midnight, but I'm still up, practicing. I'm not even practicing that song that I'll be performing. I've already spent more hours then needed on that. Right now, just to improve, I'm practicing the song "Never Give Up." It's old, and was written about the time when the Star Wings were still a big deal, but now it's faded into obscurity.

I start the song once again, beginning the cycle once more. As I begin to sing, "Never give up! Niver give..." My voice wavers, but I keep going strong, telling myself that I'll get a drink after I'm done with this round of practice. "Never Gi-"

I collapse onto the ground, creating a sound that rattles the room. Or is that a result of my vision wavering? I reach for my waterbottle. Before I can grab it, Cali bursts through the door. "Lucia! What happened here?" "Go to sleeep Cali, I'll be fine," I respond to her worries. I reach for my water bottle, and take merely two sips of the clear, yellowish liquid inside. My chest heats up as the liquid goes down my throat, but I ignore the small amount of pain it causes me. I stand up, carefully, as if I had not just collapsed from exhaustion.

"Lucia. You're up, past midnight, driving yourself to keep practicing by using 15 power advance tablets in your armbands and constantly eating and drinking ambrosia and nectar. You aren't meant to consume that much of that stuff. Any more, and you'll start to hurt yourself. You may be able to consume more of it than most humans would, more than rest rest of your family even, because of your ability, but it's not good for you in such large amonts. You aren't a god."

"I know that Cali. I never will be, and maybe I don't want to be. I don't care for once about what Reesh says my destiny may be. Right now, I have to improve even more." "Lucia. Look at yourself."

"I'm fine." "No, you're not. Your arms are covered in small burns from the ambrosia and nectar, you have the largest dark circles I've ever seen, and you just collapsed on the ground." "I'm fine, Cali!"

"No, youre not!" With that, she runs towards me and throws my water bottle across the room, and then tackles me, holding me down with her pure strength. On a normal day, I could get up just fine, but right now, I'm not strong like usual. She yanks off every one of the tight bands that I had wrapped around my right arm, depriving me of whatever power those tablets in the band still had stored in them. With that, the world goes black. Cali only resorted to hurting me with the best of intentions. She was right. Had I kept going, I would have hurt myself more than she did...