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Ross was, at least glad to hear, that there was something that sounded like a city beyond these walls based on what Aurora had been telling her. Of course, it didn't really help her figure out exactly what it was that she wanted to do at the moment, but her train of thought was disrupted as the witch had walked up to her. Ross was fairly certain that, at least in regards to Morgan, she wasn't going to forget that her job was to fight any time soon. The girl did say something interesting in that the city probably had something for everyone and everything. It was like Space New York. After Morgan told Ross to just say what she wanted to do, with some bragging involved as well, Ross said in a flat tone, "well, I did need to get some blood to drink." Her expression didn't seem to change in the slightest as she said this and looked at Morgan, only to then say, "but I haven't actually seen a movie in a long time. Think they're showing we'd know of here?" While Xia had managed to direct everyone out of the arena, her attention was soon snapped towards the figure and the new girl fighting each other. As they were forced to the ground, Xia saw the figure looming over her and felt something inside of herself. Something she hadn't felt in quite a very long time. A feral beating in her chest, an instinctual urge that was overcoming her. As the figure had caused so much destruction, poised to murder someone else here - in her home, Xia felt a rage take over. Clenching her fist, the girl crouched down before rocketing herself towards the cloaked figure. Leaping towards them, Xia punched at them as she passed them by, the figure thought easily managed to jump out of the way. Landing on the ground and skidding to a halt, Xia kept her eyes deadlocked on the figure as she asked the girl on the ground, "are you alright?" The girl stood back up, and without responding to her question asked, "is everyone else safe?" Xia merely nodded as the figure seemed to go on the offensive again. Creating more flames, the figure shot them towards the two of them which Xia merely barreled through. As she made her way through the flames they were hot, definitely much hotter than she was expecting, but her tenacity kept her going and she simply kept charging through the flames, sweeping them away as she went for another punch. As she did though, the figure was longer there, and was simply falling from the sky, spear at the ready to brought down onto Xia. Seeing the spear come towards her, Xia had had a similar experience to this before, and simply reached up and grabbed the spear with both of her hands before the figure's dive had completed. The spear was uncomfortably hot to the touch, but the girl kept her grip on it while the figure did not. Letting go and moving to the side, the figure seemed ready to let loose yet another blast, only to have to dodge out of the way of another energy blast. Seeing Cam join the fight, Xia kept the spear in one hand as she shouted at the figure, "leave this place alone!" The figure didn't say anything, the spear vanishing from Xia's grip and into the figure's as they dragged the tip of the spear against the ground. A wall of fire appeared along the line they traced, forcing the other two combatants to stop their advance towards them. As the wall of flame died down, the figure seemed to be leaving through a window, their hood falling a bit as they did. While Xia was primed to chase, she stopped in her tracks as she caught a glimpse of the face of the figure they had been fighting. Confused more than anything else, Xia merely spoke the name aloud. "Valerie?"

With the talks having been ended, both Edda and Leon looked to Yue with surprise as she made her comment. Both, because they hadn't known she was there until now, though Leon more so because she was speaking up and Edda more so because the entire past 5 minutes had been nothing but confusion for the girl. After letting go of Rona's hand, Edda merely stared at Yue, unsure of what to make of this girl at all, but also seeming even more awkward than before. Leon himself looked to Yue, trying to think of the right course of action. As it was, Yue didn't seem to trust Edda in the slightest. Rona seemed to be wary but willing to work with her. And Layne was the one who had brought up working with her in the first place. With that in mind, it had seemed that the girl was outvoted. And, with past experience guiding him here, the boy felt more inclined to help out the lost and injured Jouran girl. "I understand, but as it is, if she's really just a lost traveler, then it's our job to help her out." Looking back to Edda he said, "we'll be sure to keep you under constant vigil to make sure you don't do anything wrong though. And I can't speak for what will happen if you really are more than just a traveler. Understood?" Her awkward look seeming to get more annoyed as she was being pressed, Edda merely let out a, "got it." Chapter 5 - Poet Date: 24th of Aeis, Year 967, Fall Time: 2:04 PM Location: En Route to Enta, Southwestern Aeora "Our task is simple. We are to escort Edda to the Port Town of Enta. It'll be a long trip, so get ready for more walking than normal." With that brief description the group had moved out at the beginning of the morning. The group had started to make their way through the country side, simply sticking to the road with little barring their path. Despite this, though, Leon still seemed a bit nervous as he seemed to be keeping constant vigil on the road. Edda, however, seemed to be very uncomfortable traveling with a large group of unfamiliar people, and simply kept her head facing down to the road as she walked alongside everyone else.

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Alois had never thought this would be how it ended. Fighting on a rope, over a river, with a giant frog aiding him in fighting against a beaver. Being as close as he was to it, Alois had never felt so validated in thinking that his home really did suck. Of course, he was still safe on the rope and was glad that the beaver was no longer trying to kill him, specifically at least. But he wasn't exactly keen on the razor biting rodent to be within a mile of their rope, and still kept kicking at it all the same. His attention, however, was momentarily diverted as he felt a new weight tug down on the rope. "Wait- what - what are you doing?" Alois shouted towards Penelope, baffled both by her trying to cross at this very moment and also that she had an open tome in hand. There were several scenarios going through Alois's hand as to what she expected to do with that, with probably the best case being her wanting to whack any beaver that got close with all the weight her twig arms could muster. All the same, trying to gesture for her to go back Alois shouted, "rope is kind of at maximum occupancy at the moment." Tsetseg, however, was having quite the rough time figuring out what to do. The easiest shots to take were the beavers across the river with Gunther, but she both felt inclined to shoot them and let them be at the same time, seeing the large man talk to them. Her other options were not too great, either, as everyone seemed to be quite clustered together in dealing with river faring creatures. The young huntress furrowed her brow, and seemed startled as she heard the horse start to go wild and even more so when she started to hear a metallic clang out of nowhere. Seeing the green man walk forward banging at them, Tsetseg figured she'd assist there by getting onto all fours and slowly making her way across the ground. Going around him, the girl tried to slowly and quitely flank the beavers, and if any of them had made a move towards anyone else in their group, was ready to leap and pounce at them.

As Kelsey raised her hand for a high five, Stella met in kind, and didn't seem to pay any mind as she joined hands with the girl. Stella then felt a bit awkward about how she raved about how amazing the feeling of fighting outside was, obviously not able to share in her enthusiasm but just managed to say a, "well, you definitely looked great out there." As Kelsey turned towards the others, Stella didn't really say much, but leaned back in towards her friend as she whispered towards her. Shrugging, she whispered back, "don't know. His name's Arnold." Standing back more straight, the girl then looked to the rest of the pilots. As one of them spoke up, taking a bit to parse what she had actually said, Stella looked back to Kelsey. "Force shield?" As the older woman had also come to repair the mechs as well, Stella began to walk away saying, "yeah, we should probably leave n- " she stopped abruptly, however, as she had inadvertently tugged Kelsey's arm along with her. Looking down, seeing the two interlocked hands, the girl's face briefly went flush as she tried to figure out how long they had actually been stuck like that...in front of everyone. Darting her eyes away from her friend, Stella continued to try and drag her along, unable to actually free her now squirming hand. "So um," the girl started, "how uh...how was it out there?"

Well, I probably wouldn't be interested in either running or joining a One Piece RP given that of the 876 episodes I haven't watched any over the past decade. So, my knowledge and care of the universe of One Piece is pretty low, and no matter how "required" prior knowledge is, it's always a factor in joining those kind of RPs. That being said, the idea of an Open Seas campaign where you hunt a mythical treasure, or do piratey things with a supernatural flair to it isn't that bad of one. It's not something I'd really be interested in running myself, and if you wanted to make it open world with a consistent government and organizations across the whole sea it would probably take a lot of effort. But it still sounds like it could be fun.

Ryia followed Keres outside, before having her brief lesson on what it was she should expect from the other islands. Thinking on it, the girl thought that either of them sounded fine as a next destination to head out to. She wasn't really sure what the difference between the two islands were though, but thankfully their new chosen had come in to help make the decision easier. Where there was lots of fishing to do, there was lots of water. And for no better apt comparison, Ryia knew that in large quantities of water, she would sink like a rock. Shuddering at the thought of having to do any manner of fighting underwater, Ryia simply muttered, "farms sound much better." Looking to Pyrrha and Keres, she asked, "so, should we, um, pick Qresa to go to next then?"

Jacklyn's upbeat attitude was slightly downtrodden as Belle seemed to not want to climb up the stairs, but all the same it was the girl's loss. So instead, she followed behind Ivan with a smile on her face. The two climbed up the spiral staircase, seeing that the lighthouse itself was actually several floors high, with the ground they were walking on getting a bit narrower as they made their way up to the first landing. Traveling, was made only more of an issue as the light from the doorway started to vanish the higher they went. Thankfully, as they reached the next floor up, there seemed to be window like slits to let light through. Jacklyn seemed to be on guard as they made their way up, though, the light also revealing a few Murkrow perched around. The girl walked closer to her traveling companion whispering, "wait up Ivan." Gesturing to the bird pokemon that were around, the girl said, "I've seen specials on TV where birds heckle mountain climbers as they pass them by. Think we should do something about them?"

With the big day having been upon them, Yuuka had been nothing short of ecstatic. On the bus ride to where each group was going, the girl simply swayed back and forth in her seat, humming to herself as they made their way to their destination. As the stopped at their first destination, Yuuka merely waved goodbye to her fellow students and the new hero that had been with them, as the group made their way to the next destination. As she got out of the bus, the girl looked with stars in her eyes to the district they had ended up in. It was run down. It was old. It looked poorly maintained and like it was almost forgotten by the rest of the city. All in all, the district didn't look like a place anyone wanted to live in. Which meant that it was probably the perfect place to find any amount of villainy. And with villainy there was need for heroics. Yuuka was quite thrilled to see both professionals and her fellow students at work, and was even more so to see actual thugs walk up and try to intimidate them not too shortly after they got there. The girl had an almost dreamy smile on her face as Ms. Hitotsume told them to deal with the thugs, and even more so as she saw Hibiki go to speak with Herc about a plan of attack. Yuuka was quite interested to see what they would come up with, but she knew that the two of them also had more up close quirks. The other two in her group probably weren't much more ranged themselves. All the same, the girl looked towards the beetle and the bat expectantly, awaiting to see what they would pull out against the thugs.

Ross looked, humorlessly, at the witch girl as she began her introduction. Likely catty and tactless, Ross could already tell that this Morgan was someone who knew exactly how not to make a good first impression. As the girl mentioned Ross trying to get her into sports, the girl bluntly said, "I don't think you'll have to worry about that too much." Next came the tiger elf - or lion elf as he had corrected her - Cyan. He certainly seemed the boastful type and like he one would expect from the "Lion Sin of Pride," but still seemed to be amiable enough. Her first impression of him was definitely better than that of Morgan's, but that was hardly a tough act to follow up on. Soon enough, two more people had joined the introductions crew. Both Aurora and Gavin, as she had learned their names, seemed to be ordinary humans. Not only did they seem to be regular humans, but unlike the witch they had also seemed to be from a similar time period to her. Granted, she wouldn't have been surprised if she saw someone in the DHG dressing up as a witch, so she instead briefly wondered when Morgan was from as well. This thought was broken up as she looked to Gavin, now confused about her assesment of him earlier. He had a talking virtual person in his watch. And he was a star pilot. That was certainly new. She figured he could've just been really into video games, and confused some kind of starship simulator for real life but the artificial intelligence that accompanied him made that a bit hard to believe. Which only left the white haired girl as the only one she was certain from a similar time as her. And she seemed nice enough at that. Though, she also seemed to be the busy body type, and Ross wasn't too keen on getting into any sort of "hero" work too quickly herself. Ross looked to the two of them, giving a short wave and saying, "well. I'm Ross. The new kid...you already knew that...but nice to meet you." Her attention turned back to Cyan as he had offered to take her around the place, if only to cure his apparent boredom. Still, with nothing better to do herself and this still being part of a "getting to know you process," the girl nodded. "Sure. If I'm gong to live here, should probably get to know what's around here." After a brief pause, the girl looked to the other four saying, "so what is around here?"

Xia continued to watch the match as it seemed to be reaching its climax. She wasn't sure how Cam could hit the ball as hard as he was and still manage to make it go different places each time, and so she simply watched how he played, impressed by the display of skill and strength. The match, however, seemed to reach and abrupt end as the two tennis players paused and looked towards a cloaked figure. Xia wasn't sure who that was, but even she understood that they were up to nothing good as they let loose a torrent of fire around the arena. Confusion was what was on her face most of all as the crowd erupted into panic, with Xia's eyes locked onto the figure that had caused it all. She couldn't fathom why the figure did it. She didn't understand why they would cause such destruction when everyone else was having a fun time. The girl started to grit her teeth and clench her fists, only to then refocus on the situation at hand as someone familiar passed by and told her to help the others. Seeming to snap out of whatever focus she had just had, the girl merely nodded and said, "right!" Looking to the people, she ran through the crowd shouting, "everyone! Follow me! Don't fall! Watch your step!" As she did, the girl tried to direct people who needed direction or doing her best to help those who had fallen or were stuck in some way out as she tried to get everyone out of the arena.

Kiyoko had simply sat there in silence, for the remainder of the time that she and Hypatia had spent there. She didn't talk to the woman, nor did she seem to do much of anything but sit and mull over her own thoughts. This did not break as the food was being set around them, nor the plates being set at the table, though Kiyoko's gaze could be seen drifting towards the food as she sat there. Eventually, the rest of the signers had entered the room as well as Mr. E and, at his prompting, the group began to get their food. Grabbing her own plate, the girl filled it out with an no more or less than what would normally fit on the plate. Sitting down, the girl silently began to eat her food, slowly but steadily as had the rest of her comrades. Not quite looking to anyone else, the girl's expression didn't seem to waver and didn't seem to offer any insights as to what she thought of it. She merely calmly, and silently ate. When she was finished, the girl stood back up from the table, and filled out her plate yet again before sitting back down. Beginning to eat once more, the girl then looked to the rest of the signers. As there had been nothing but silence so far, the girl looked to Zirco and Leiko. "So, how did things go?"

Marie kept climbing down the volcano, and Heatran's continued proclamations that he needed to fight someone did not stop. She did not at all feel spurred to take action, having already sav- kept the kids from fighting the legend. The mountain being on the precipice of erupting didn't exactly inspire her to stay either. However, as she tried to tune out the legend's roars, the girl could not tune out the challenge coming from below. Letting out a sigh, the girl knew who it belonged to, but still looked to confirm that it was indeed Randy scaling the side of the mountain. As he made his way up there, the Incineroar informed them both of the state of the kids as well as his clear intent to go and fight Heatran. The girl looked at him like he was crazy, just saying, "wait. Randy what are you - Randy!" The girl groaned as she hit her against the mountain's side. Looking to Nani she said, "why did I tell him he could do this?" The girl knew that she did stipulate that he could fight unless she thought it was going to be too dangerous, but at this point there was probably no talking him out of it anyway. And, knowing that he was probably going to get himself killed or over do it, Marie couldn't actually just leave him to his devices. "Ahhhhhhhh!" Yelling to the topic of her lungs she shouted out, "fine! I'll fight you, you big hot head!" With fierce, annoyed, determination in her eyes, she looked to Nani. "Come on!" With that, the girl went back to scaling the mountain. Nine was glad to see that Kayla was free from her near execution, and even more so that they wouldn't have to be dealing with anyone as strong as the man before them. He didn't actually know how strong the Enforcer was, but that he was able to keep an entire village wary from attacking to begin with probably spoke enough about it. As such, Nine gave a small smile as the job was given to them saying, "don't worry. When it comes to dealing with legends and legend issues, you won't have find a better group." From there, Nine waited for the others to get their business done before beginning the travels out. The travel itself was, unfortunately, perhaps among the more dull that he had been on. All around them, there was nothing but gray, dead land. The flora was shriveled and decrepit. The wind was but a breeze yet still cold. As such, the travel was boring and almost monotonous from the lack of new or interesting landmarks around them. If anything, Nine was more impressed that two large villages could live and thrive here for so long. As Gwen made her comment about the legend, Nine curiously looked between her and Lok saying, "oh, I thought you guys would've known who it was." Putting his hand on his chin, he said, "well, if it's like its residents there aren't many ghost legends I can think of. Only one that comes to mind is Hoopa, and I doubt people would put their hopes on a prankster to win a war." Smiling towards Gwen he said, "but, we've had a pretty good track record of meeting friendly legends so far. So, I bet we can make good with this one too." Nine's eyes briefly glanced to Kayla, who had seemed troubled, but didn't quite know what to say to the girl. While she had a lot on her mind, he couldn't help but feel that she didn't want to talk about it in front of the ghosts, and so he made a note to ask her later.

Stella was glad to see that the other students had managed to finish off the rest of the bandits. The girl was still curious about the bandits, but as the fight seemed to over and both of her talking companions didn't seem to think much of it, she simply nodded and said, "yeah, you're right." As the boy mentioned going to see the others, Stella simply looked at Bianca as she made her response with no comment, and then turned to the boy. Nodding, she said, "yeah, let's go." As the two began their walk, Stella looked to the boy. Knowing that he was a fellow student of the same grade as her, the girl felt it prudent to get introductions between the two out of the way. And as he was both cheery and an optimistic sort, she felt like he wouldn't be bad company to have around either. "By the way, I didn't catch your name earlier. Mine's Stella." Once introductions were out of the way, the duo eventually made it to the hangar. As the mech's were beginning to dock in the hangar, the girl looked to see her friend getting out of her mech as well. Waving an arm to her, the girl approached towards her and, in a quite level tone she said, "congratulations on your win out there." Her level tone, however, betrayed the actual excitement and relief she had felt for seeing Kelsey come out of the encounter unscathed.

The girl's brief moment of respite as she met with a new friendly face to join their group was interrupted as Lindow and one of the council members seemed to be at odds with each other. The girl just looked between Lindow and Braxus, as the two seemed to have a stare down with one another, nervous about what could come from the two were they to go to blows, yet calmed a bit as they seemed to settle down. She looked to Saleh as he gave his own advice, which the girl couldn't help but agree with. She didn't want to have to go through the troubles of walking over the hot desert stand in armor all over again. While she had this idea, the girl didn't really say much as the rest of the group began to fan out to get their own individual needs taken care of. That left the three of the female chosens just standing there, and with a somewhat awkward atmosphere in the room, the girl felt it best to simply drop out and discuss the issue of where to go next after she had done her own tasks as well. Looking to the new chosen she said, "well, um. Pleasure meeting you." She then turned to the council and bowed again, "if you'll, um, excuse me." And with that, the girl went through another newly opened portal. Once there, the girl was met with the sight of a large draken man manning an impressively large forge. With her mace bent, her shield dented and her armor having taken a chunk out of, the girl simply presented all of her gear to the man for him to repair. Once finished with that, all of her gear now perfectly repaired much to the girl's delight and surprise, she gave a bow and thanks to the man before going to get her wounds treated. When all was said and done, the girl had returned back to the others, seeing that both Reinaan and Lindow had stepped out elsewhere. The girl felt ready to go once again, but didn't really know where to go, mainly due to her own lack of geographical knowledge. Thankfully, there was someone much smarter than her when it came to these things. Granted, she felt like just bluntly asking about the matter was a bit rude and so the girl just stepped over to her saying, "um, Keres. About where our next destination is." Of course, this wasn't really all that better of a way. "I'm um, not really great with maps so I uh, don't know what's similar to here. So, would you um, be able to teach me about them?" The girl simply looked to Keres as she finished awkwardly stumbling into asking for advice.

Stella felt a bit awkward as Bianca had made a point that was all too true. "Yeah, I suppose I am," the girl simply muttered. As her companion n this endeavor made her next comment, Stella couldn't help but think that there was some merit to it. After all, they were just a disorganized bunch of people in mechs fighting an equally disorganized group. As she was about to make a comment, the two were interrupted by a boy who walked towards them. Looking to him, then back to the screen she said, "yeah, I guess we are all amateurs." Looking at the screen, the girl then just said, "but why do you think a group of bandits like this attacked a ship like this?"

Leon was about as confused as Layne was as Edda seemed to insinuate something towards Rona, as the two had finished their talk. The girl, however, looked to the trio with a look that seemed to be filled with its own confusion mixed some manner of condescension. "Trouble like...I'm Jouran. She's Jouran." Gesturing between the two of them, she then gestured to Layne and Leon saying, "last I checked, your kind would gladly kill us on sight." Leon raised an eyebrow at this and said, "that's a bit extreme." Sighing, he looked to the other two and said, "but the general idea is about right." Looking to Edda he asked, "is there anything that you've done to the Aeoran people that would make you more wary of them." The girl simply looked to the side and said, "I worship a dragon. That's about it." Leon looked at her, though she didn't seem to keep eye contact with him, as he simply said. "Alright." Thinking about it for a few more moments he said, "well, if we're going to take your job, we are mercenaries. Do you have some form of payment?" The girl looked surprised and confused at the boy, as she said, "uh, sure- yeah?" Rummaging around in her pockets, the girl seemed to examine a few things in there before pulling something out. Within her hand was a simple red gem, one that the group was quite easily able to recognize as valuable. Her expression returning to its original stoic, if not slightly annoyed, face the girl said, "this." The boy looked skeptical at the gem but from his, admittedly amateur, eye seemed like it was legitimate. While this only managed to raise more questions for the boy, he didn't seem to press further, and instead looked to his two companions. "Do either of you have objections or more questions for her?"

The closer they got to the lighthouse, the more she was sure that Ivan had made the right choice in adventuring area. The building itself was old and seeming to lose out in its fight against nature. Add to that, it was both massive and probably abandoned, which meant that people weren't likely to stop them on their journey up it. Looking at the ladder, it seemed to be the newest thing about the lighthouse, which definitely peaked the girl's interest. However, she was one to go the most direct route first. Looking to Ivan and Belle she said, "well, let's see what this place has for us." Walking over to it, the girl saw there was a metal bar on the door barring her path. Spitting onto both of her palms, the girl rubbed her hands together as she took a deep breath and pulled the bar off with enough ease. The door was another story, as she attempted to brute force her way with it, pulling as hard as she could against the door. Though it definitely took some effort, of which Jacklyn was quick to tell the others to stay back and that she had it under control, she eventually managed to pull open the rusted door. The door itself squeaked loudly as its hinges moved, but once it was fully open, the girl took in a deep breath and let out a, "got it!" Which echoed greatly across the walls of the building inside. Looking in, there was a spiral staircase that lead up, with a ceiling that was about twenty feet high. The air inside was musty and the room itself was dark and hard to see in, with very little light filtering in. All the same, the group was able to see a few pokemon taking shelter in the building, though whenever they were spotted they seemed to be doing their best to avoid the people instead of attack. All the same, gesturing inside she looked to her companions as if waiting for one of them to go in first, she said, "shall we, team?"

Marie watched in horror as the two larvitar began to fall from the mountain. And she could do no more than just watch as the two larvitar passed by her and Nani. Her hands were firmly gripping to the mountain, without any ability to keep them from falling to their doom the girl turned her gaze away as she braced herself for the inevitable hit on the ground. However, as a gust of wind made its way up the mountain, the girl couldn't help but turn her gaze back to the bottom, seeing Trevor with both of the kids in hand as he had managed to fly up and catch them. The girl let out a sigh of relief, figuring that she should apologize to Trevor when all was said and done. However, before she could begin her descent, the legend atop the volcano let out a roaring challenge at them once again. As the legend demanded for them to fight back, Marie couldn't help but shout out one word. "No!" As she did, Heatran let out another bellowing roar, causing the volcano to shake more. "Stop that!" Looking to Nani, she said, "we should probably get down now." With that, the girl started making her way down the shaking mountain. Nine was glad that they were willing to hear them out and not kill the deputy of Juyu where she stood. He was less glad that in order to make sure she didn't, they had to participate in some other village's war. Nine didn't know much about how Alpha and Omega got along with each other, other than that they didn't, but he was surprised to see things between them were truly this bad. All the same, the offer had stood and it wasn't like Nine really had a choice in the matter. Looking to the two he said, "well, if you'll exonerate my companion I'll gladly help you deal with your rivals." Granted, he probably would have said yes anyway even if the circumstances weren't so dire for Kayla. "And, she herself is a woman of peace keeping, so I'm sure she'd help as well." Looking to the Enforcer he then asked, "but just so I know what I'm getting into, how would you say you stack up against what we're against."

Any anger or agitation that Ryia had felt towards the initial scoffing at their curse was immediately replaced with both a strange sense of relief, confusion and concern. The girl couldn't help but feel relieved that they had never actually been cursed and that however callous the council may have seemed, they had not actually done something to them to hamper or kill them. This relief was even doubly so as they learned that the chosen of wind had never actually died, and instead was just an illusion that they had displayed to them. That she was still alive and free from this conflict had at least some comfort to the girl, though the lengths to which the council was willing to go to motivate them unsettled her all the same. Yet despite these conflict feelings, one thing stood out in particular to her. Were they never cursed what was it that affiliated Kha? That there was something else lurking inside of them, or at least just one of them, was enough to leave her unsettled. When all was said and done though, it had seemed that the Chosen of Wind had changed mantles, now belonging to the small dark skinned elf before them. The girl herself seemed bright and earnest, somewhat reminding her of their halfling companion with a bit less of their eccentricities. The whole idea that there was new chosen amongst them had taken the girl by surprise, and added to the fact that her draken companion seemed to be shaking with what Ryia could only presume was a great fury. Feeling greatly awkward, between her companion's frustration, the council before them, and the new chosen introducing themselves, Ryia was starting to feel like it would be best to leave the room sooner than later. All the same, she turned to the new chosen and returned her bow. "Um, a - um - pleasure to meet you. Pyrrha. I'm Ryia Mariote, Chosen of Earth. I look forward to um, working alongside you." Looking back to Reinaan, the girl said, "um right." Ryia looked back to the council and asked, "um, where should we take our friend?" As the girl asked, a portal had opened and a person had stepped out and come to take the halfling. Ryia was a bit surprised at this, but bowed gratefully to them as well for their assistance.

Jacklyn smiled as Ivan asked his question about shopping, saying, "of course Ivan. After all, part of adventure is seeing and experiencing new sites and locations. And the best way to get a feel for where you are is through its shops!" Turning to the side, she said, "or so I've heard." In truth, Jacklyn still was an avid window shopper and she was greatly interested in seeing what it was that every where had to offer. However, as she was ready to start going forward, she was stopped by Ivan's next question. While disappointed at first, the girl looked in the direction Ivan was and her eyes lit up. An old looking lighthouse that, while seeming grand at first, more interestingly seemed abandoned on further inspection. Knowing that a place like this was ripe for the exploring, Jacklyn turned to her male companion. "Good work Ivan! Your adventurer's intuition is really showing." Now excited to go check it out, Jacklyn pointed towards the building saying, "onward team!" And with that, she began making her way over, dragging Belle along with her.

Stella continued to watch out the window as Bianca had asked her about her own mech. Shaking her head, Stella said, "no, I don't think that I'd be much help out there." The girl was definitely worried, as their own mechs had been sustaining a good deal of damage. However, the sight of the dwindling banditos made her think that her decision was the right one to stay behind. That she didn't need to go out there. Even if she did go out there and pilot her mech and come to their aid, even if she could make it out there in time it wouldn't matter. The girl looked at her own shaking hand, trying to calm it, before looking back to the screen. "Things seem to be going our way though, right?"

Adjusting her hat, Jun was already making her way from one end of the campus to the other. Sure she had been bummed not too recently, as classes seemed to have started giving out a great deal of "mandatory readings" already, but that had all changed in light of other recent events. It was the first day of clubs, which also meant it was the first day of their team meeting up. Getting ready to start her third year, Jun was all the more excited to finally feel like a real upperclassman to all of the new members joining this year. And with her becoming vice captain, she could feel like one even more so! The girl's mood then suddenly took a downward turn as she realized what was most likely to happen. They were supposed to have a team meeting today. They were supposed to tell all the team members about what to expect, what to prepare for and then do some practice and advising. Of course, most of this was on the captain and his duty. And it was for that very reason, Jun's mood had dropped. "Knowing him," she started mumbling to herself, "he'll probably go like, 'oh sorry Hattie, but I got a hot date with a coffee machine that gets ornery when I don't brew with her. You can take over right? Hahaha' tch!" The last part came out much louder than the rest as the girl seemed upset, only to seem to level out again. Regardless of the work she'd have to do, Jun was still happy to be able to go and see the new faces there. And so, with a spring in her step and a smile on her face, Jun continued to make her way to the across campus to the team's meeting place.

Leon listened as the two gave their points about it, thinking on the matter more closely. He wasn't very keen on just letting someone leave and wander all their own, nor was he entirely comfortable with handing someone he hardly knew the authorities on the little pretense of her had. All the same, Rona's points were valid and if she were both a criminal and dangerous to them, then he didn't want to expose the rest of the falcons to danger on their behalf. Not to mention Rona's confidence in taking on the Aeoran army was both assuring to him yet also ominous all the same. As the two had seemed to reach a stalemate in both of their opinions, Leon stood up and said, "well, I can't do much about this when I don't know enough about our client. I'll go and speak with her myself," gesturing to those around him he said, "you're all welcome to come along with me and speak with her if you like." With that, Leon moved to the inside of the Falcon's base, where he saw the girl named Edda painting. Looking at it, the girl hadn't seem to have gotten that far in to it, merely creating what appeared to be a dark blue and gray arch towards the top of the painting. As he stepped forward, the girl paused and then looked around. Seemingly startled at the man, he looked curiously at her only for her to clear her throat and take on her sharp expression once again as she asked, "who are you?" Looking at the girl, the man sighed and said, "I'm Leon. Commander of this company. Layne told me that you were in need of an escort, but if I'm going to find you one, I need to know more about you. So?" The girl sighed at the mention of Layne's doing, muttering under her breath before she looked back. "Fine. If you won't let this go, what do you want to know?"

Ross stood there for a bit, waiting for someone to respond to her message. She wasn't really sure how long was a good time to wait, or if she was actually reaching out to anybody. But, she also didn't have anything else to do outside of talk to a doctor about getting blood donations - which now that she thought about it more confused her with the sheer impossibility of how that subject would've been not an hour prior. All the same, the doctor was probably more likely than not going to be at a hospital but her fellow fighters were probably not going to always be in this arena. So she stayed put and waited. Time had seemed to move slowly from then on, as the girl continuously checked her watch only to see that a few minutes had passed by each time she checked. She attributed this to the featureless-ness of the room, not even really giving her something arbitrary to count or pass the time ruminating about as she did so. She supposed that lack of something was its own thing in this case, but even the prospect of thinking on that was boring to her. Thankfully, it didn't really take all that much time, as something new entered the room. Looking at the curious duo - a witch and a...tiger elf? - Ross gave a small wave to them. "Yo." Putting her hands in her pocket the girl said, "I take it you guys are some of the other fighters here?" Taking her hands out of her pocket she pointed to her watch she said, "like I said before, name's Ross. I kind of just, woke up here and met the Boss lady. I guess you're also supposed to give a neat fact about yourself at these things so um, I like to run. That's a thing I do a lot." Shrugging, feeling kind of awkward now that she wasn't talking to what she could only think of was the god of Dream World here and instead regular(?) people, she said, "so uh, how about you two?" Xia watched the game with great intensity, practically leaning off the side of the stands in the arena. With a few "oooohs" and "aaaahs" the girl continued to admire the back and forth between the two. The strength with which Cam had hit the ball was not unfamiliar to the girl, but she was more impressed with how he seemed to keep up with Val even after she managed to hit it back. Feeling all the more riled up to play more tennis, the girl continued to watch their match with great fervor.