I COLORED IT!!! First time coloring via computer... but I'll get better with it! (hopefully) I didn't like how it scanned last time, so I colored the Chibi Tea Time via computer. Spoiler: First Computer Coloring
Aria sighed out as she rested on top of her sleeping bag. The tent flap was secured shut, and she changed into a dark blue tank-top for the night. She only felt comfortable slipping off her shoes and keeping on her pants, wanting to be prepared just in case there was an emergency they had to run to all of the sudden. The lantern that was in the tent was set to a low glow to make a comfortable environment for herself. She held the communicator in her hand, turning it in her fingers to examine it above her head. Would it be okay to talk now? What if they were still busy- "Hey. It's Torrin." Aria jumped as it suddenly went off, losing her grip on it as it fell on her face, right between her eyes. "Ow!" The girl fumbled for it and sat up abruptly as she was struggling to get a hold of it. "You there?" Finally having it back in her hands safe and sound, Aria tapped on it like Torrin showed her how. "H-hi! It's me! I mean, it's Aria! Qamar was actually just wondering about you guys. I was wondering too." The girl chuckled nervously and stared down at the glowing light. "How's it going over there? Did you restore the world order yet?"
Midarah nodded to the three of them. "Right then, let's go." ~Timeskip to Arrival at the Magic Council~ The ride to Era was uneventful to say the least. Midarah urged the others to rest on their way there since they returned from a tough mission. An hour nap could do wonders to bring the strength back. "We're here," Master Midarah announced as they arrived at the gates of the Magic Council's building. They pulled up to the place and were escorted by one of the many frog-like employees of the place to inside of the building. As they walked to the Council Room, Master Midarah looked over her shoulder to her guild mates, her eyes serious yet kind. "Be on your best behavior while you're here. Anything we say can tip the scale to whether or not we free your new friends..." Delivery of Cakes- Shawn, Yukyo, Lakoda "My husband is out on a trip. He should be back soon," she answered Shawn. She then thought over the saying and then looked to the cakes at the table. "Vestele, could you look at the cakes? See if there's a symbol of the sun on one of them..." The maid did as she was told, examining the cakes carefully. Towards the back on one of them, there was a small design of a sun done in pink frosting. "There's one here." "Could you slice me a piece of that cake, please?" Lady Erin asked with a kind smile. As the maid cut into the cake and pulled the slice out, there was a small golden envelop in the middle of the cake. The maid's eyebrows widened and looked to her mistress. "It's alright," Lady Erin urged. "Let me see..." The piece of cake was delivered to her and carefully pulled the envelop out of the cake crumbs. She then set the plate aside and opened the small envelope, glancing inside to see what she expected. Her fingers carefully curled around the contents and she then revealed what it was to the others. "This pendant was made by my elder brother, now gone... He made it with an enchantment to protect others. He had it on him when he..." She choked up and the corner of her eyes. "Madam Madeline used to train him long ago... Before he became a mage in the Divine Rose." Lady Erin's eyes teared up as she held the pendant in her hands, smiling down at it as she traced the outlines of the sun. "Thank you so much for bringing this to me." She held it to her heart and looked to them with grateful eyes. "My little brother, he's there in the guild if I remember. Samuel? Could you let him know how proud of him I am and how much I miss him...?" Lakoda was taken aback from the connection. This lady was Samuel's older sister? And Samuel had an older brother? There were so many things that she was learning that she didn't know about her guild before. She knew there was a time before hers within the guild, but she didn't realize how small this world really was. Village in Peril- Conrad, Everette, Samuel Renza looked at the mirror that Everette made with wonder and then she teared up when Conrad mentioned that she could see them in the town where they were at. "I don't want you go!" she exclaimed. She scrambled to her feet and hugged Everette first who was by her bed, wrapping her arms around her neck. "You did so much for us... I don't want you to go..." Tears were coming down her cheeks as she hugged Everette a little tighter before letting go and hugging Conrad. "I'm going to miss you too much..." Samuel rubbed the back of his head and glanced over his shoulder. The chief was standing in the doorway, smiling as he was looking on to what was going on. Samuel looked back at Renza and placed a hand on her shoulder. "Hey... Maybe we can stop by once in a while or something. And maybe when you get old enough, you can come join us at the Divine Rose." He grinned goofily from ear to ear with a tilt of his head. "I'm sure we'll still be around there."
AYEEEEEE!!! I didn't know Aria got in here! x3
I did, that was the part that made me laugh the most too! xD Cause I didn't understand it. It was like "I'm a fool. XEMNAS! You're right." Yes, Xemnas is totally the fool of these games. Actually it's Xehanort, but you know.
xD I remember the "KAIRI! Traitor. SEPHIROH! GOOFY! Sora. Roxas. Axel. Why. XEMNAS! You're right." Intro That was like ten years ago. It's still in my heaaaaaad. Also I am so old, omg
"Maybe I cut myself when I was blasted back," Aria said with a shrug. "I mean, I was knocked out for a while... I didn't feel it when I hit my head either. I just knew it went black, so I assume I hit my head." As much as Qamar was begging for Aria to trust her, the girl couldn't quite do that yet. Not with everyone else's opinion with Torrin and his friend Boreas looming over them. It seemed as if no one liked people from the realm of darkness, and she didn't want that responsibility of Qamar knowing something that could give a bad light to Torrin. Not until the others trusted him and everyone else from the Realm of Darkness helping them now. The fact that Qamar was pushing her to say it was making her want to clam up more about it too, and saying that she trusted Torrin more than Qamar. It wasn't that she wanted to hide what happened to be mean, but more to protect those helping them out from scrutiny. She looked over at Qamar when she asked if she thought Master Thallasa got her communicator back. "Well, she is a master. I think she needs to have something to communicate with the rest of the masters back at the castle." She thought of the one she had, knowing Torrin gave it to her and set it to a specific channel for just the two of them. If Qamar wanted to talk to someone on another world, she could always ask Master Thallasa. Aria rubbed her head and then patted Qamar on the shoulder before standing up to stretch. "I'm gonna turn in for the night. Thanks for keeping me company and for the banana too," she said with a small smile. She then finished up her banana and tossed the peel in the fire before heading to one of the tents.
Aria took the banana, staring at it a moment before wiping it on the hem of her tunic shirt. "Thanks Qamar," she said with a smile as she peeled the banana. The girl didn't mind there wasn't anything to really make hot chocolate with. Maybe she needed to take a break from the sugary drink for a while. Aria took a seat on a rock close to the fire, eating her banana in peace. She nearly choked when Qamar pointed out that it seemed that Aria put a lot of faith in Torrin, recovering quickly by beating on her chest to get the stuck banana down before focusing on the conversation again. "Princes can be corrupt too," Aria said softly, remembering the storybooks her aunt would read to her. "But Torrin seems alright." She looked to the girl as she mentioned the battle during the Quietus' attacks. The glowing eyes were still somewhat unsettling to Aria, but she was getting used to the idea that it was a trait of those from the Realm of Darkness. "Surprisingly, no..." Aria rested her arms on her legs, and then placed her chin on top of her arms. "Torrin stepped in front of me and tried to use a dark shield of sorts. It broke apart so quickly... I just remember hugging him, and then this bright light blinded me. After that, I was ripped away from Torrin and I guess I hit my head really hard. And that's when the nightmare started." Aria adjusted her wrist with the Light Chaser's bracelet on, frowning slightly at it. "I think us not being blown to bits had something to do with this, cause it was protecting me before. Now it's broken. But it won't come off." A memory fluttered in the girl's mind and she stared back in the flames again. "Heh, now that I think about it, there was something similar. When I was a kid, my uncle was attacked by some huge wolf-like monsters we called the wrenfel. I saw it happen. I was around seven years old, and there wasn't much I could do. I just remembered screaming at them to leave him alone, and then... poof. They were gone. Maybe it has something to do with the princess of heart thing, I don't know." Aria took another small bite of banana and then thought to the small communicator in her pocket that Torrin gave her. She wondered if it was night time in the world he was in as well. Still, she wasn't sure if she should disturb him. There was a lot of work to be done in that world after all.
Aria smiled a bit when the girl joked about her to please not slack on the healing job. "There was just one time that someone got in my dreams. When Torrin and I were knocked out from Quietus, he got in my dreams somehow... He was there fighting that thing, or at least trying too, but..." She trailed off as her thoughts went to her abdomen. Again, no one really trusted Torrin as far as she knew, so she changed the conversation a bit. "Obviously it's still around... I don't think it's as easy as sleeping next to me. I mean, this is new territory everyone is going into. Who knows what will work and what won't." She perked up when Master Thallasa addressed the group, and Aria decided to wrap up this talk. "Thanks for letting me talk to you Qamar." She gave the girl a quick hug, and then let go in case she didn't like people touching her all that much. "And thanks for trusting me to tell me what was on your mind..." She smiled a little and then joined up with the rest of the group. "I would offer to make hot chocolate, but I don't exactly have a pan... or the other stuff I need."
Now it rotated back to her. She knew she would have to brave and be able to share her feelings openly at one point. She was used to the fast pace of missions and how her own worries and problems were a second thought to the main threats at hand. It was better that way though, they couldn't be distracted from the dangers ahead of them. Aria walked on, willing to continue the conversation as they were getting closer to the woods to find Hen Wen. "I... feel like I'm getting in the way," she said quietly to the girl. "I'm a princess of heart, and I didn't know I was one until a few days ago... And my master didn't tell me, no... It was the Light Chaser. But Master Choma knew all along that I was a princess of heart, but didn't tell me because I would throw myself in harm's way and be reckless... Still..." She sighed out and rubbed her arm. "I feel vulnerable, but I don't want people to keep protecting me. I want to be depended on, too. All I wanted to do for most of my life was help out in any way I could. I protected my farm from monsters, both human and not. I trained really, really hard with Master Choma. And even when he wasn't training me, I would push myself to do so much more. And now I'm told I need to stay back, let others handle the problems. I don't feel like I'm trusted to hold my own in a fight... and I'm starting to wonder what's the point of having a keyblade if... If I can't help. You know? So far the only one who's trusted me to hold my own, at least openly, is Master Thallasa. And I know I can't run headfirst into every battle and I have to size up my enemy before charging in. Like if I should really right or not. But then I have this thing going on inside of my head that's not really giving me that option right now," she said, pointing to her temple. "I can't sit back, even if I tried. I fall asleep, and I have this demon facing me and trying to kill me the last couple of days. So I'm going to have to fight, even if no one else wants me to or trusts me to sustain myself..." Aria laughed nervously and rubbed the back of her head. "So... that's what's going on with me. And I probably just rambled a bunch... But yeah. There you go... That's kind of why I'm out of it."
This girl had some serious issues. Aria saw the way Qamar’s darkness seemed to flare up more when she looked over at Illiana’s way. She listened closely to Qamar’s plight, taking each invidiual scenario and pieces it together in her mind. “So, let me see if I got this... you don’t like being pushed to the side, you don’t like how some people are treating you and how they’re not putting their trust in you, and you’re feeling guilty for what happened back on the other world...?” Aria rubbed her chin as she mulled over the assumptions and then glanced at Qamar. “I dunno what it’s like having this power crawling under my skin and threatening to take over at any time and hurt people. Well, maybe I kinda do,” she thought aloud, thinking on the nightmare, “but not enough to know your situation. But I can offer some insight... One, it’s good that you’re talking about it now instead of bottling it up. Cause if you bottle it up, then you’ll get a bigger explosion of emotions on your hands.” ‘Pot’s calling the kettleeee.’ Aria ignored the thought and continued. “Two, acknowledging that you’re upset and hurt is another way you’re staying ahead of this. I mean, no one can be happy and have it together all the time, right? I mean, it’s hurtful when people keep pushing you aside whilst you’re dealing with grief and other strong negative emotions. Which leads to thought number three, find a way to channel all of that out of you without hurting others. I like to make things, or go for a run. Give myself some me time, you know? If you wanna beat things up, beat up a pillow, or a practice dummy, or an old tree trunk. Something like that. It’s okay to feel like this,” she added, “it’s not okay to let it consume you completely and take it out on everyone else.” The girl sighed out as they walked, kicking at a stone and watching it roll ahead of them. “And with Illiana, no one’s gotten close to her. I thought I did at one point, but then I got her mad by dumping some tea out she made cause I didn’t want to fall asleep. I don’t think she’s ever forgiven me about that.” Aria forced a smile and placed her hands behind her back. “I found that you can’t force people to like you... or to see your point of view. I just have to work with what’s given to me and make due with it the best I can. If they give me something more over time to work with, great! If not, then I don’t force it. It’ll just make me frustrated and the other person frustrated as well, and then you get an even bigger mess of emotions than you had before. Give her some space, and give her some time... if she comes around, kudos to us. If not, that’s on her... not us.”
Careful? That was a funny way to put it to Aria. After all, she took the iniative to grab Hen Wen first and fight off thugs singlehandedly. Maybe it was just careful about her spirit and mood in general? She didn’t focus on that too long as soon as Qamar started to open up to her. Aria’s looked to Qamar’s hands in time to see the dark wisps flow off of them and her eyes widened. She sort of seen how Torrin handled his darkness, and he seemed to be in complete control of it. On the other hand, Qamar seemed like she was having trouble with it. Aria hummed to herself as they continued on. “Well... I’m not an expert on it, but I’ll see what I can do if you’d like me to have a go at it.” She smiled a little and then went back to the matter at hand. “So... what’s gotten you mad? Maybe we can start there. Unless you don’t want to dive into that right now and that’s okay if so.”
The sudden hand on her shoulder made Aria flinch as she was pulled out of her thoughts. When she realized it was Qamar and she was trying to talk to her, the girl relaxed a bit and smiled sadly. "It's... it's silly." Aria laughed a bit in spite of her herself, trying to lighten the mood. The last thing she wanted to do was weigh anyone down with her own thinking. "Even if you blurt it to them, it wouldn't matter much," she said with a small shrug. "I mean... My life is exposed as it is right now. With me being a princess of heart and such. I don't think anything of mine is really private anymore. Even stuff I don't know about, but everyone else seems to." Aria rubbed the back of her neck as she kept on walking, trying to push her feelings down. "Like I said, it's kinda of trivial. It's nothing anyone should worry about. I'm just feeling sorry for myself, that's all. I'll pull my head out of the sand eventually. Probably more so when we distance ourselves from that weird old castle... What about you? Are you holding up okay?"
Qamar filled Illiana in before she could. Glyde's demise was not given a gentle way of putting it, and she could see that Illiana was upset about it. Rightfully so. "I'm sorry..." she said quietly to Illiana, and then hung back. She could still feel the sadness lingering in her heart from the whole ordeal. They didn't even get a chance to save him or see what happened. Just that his light was floating away. For all she knew, he could have been suffering while waiting for them to come his way. Remembering about Hen Wen, she looked over to Taran. "I had Hen Wen back at the castle, but I was overwhelmed. I got caught outside on this balcony, and all of these thugs were closing in on us. I pushed her into the mote so she wouldn't get captured again. I was going to go after her, but I couldn't with all those thugs trying to attack me." Aria rubbed her shoulder as she walked, keeping her eyes down to the ground now as she fell further behind the others. Usually she was the happy, optimistic one, but she had nothing to give. She felt like she failed in some form in many areas, and it was weighing on her. Maybe she shouldn't have came out on this mission after all to find the other princesses of heart. Maybe she should have been back at the castle with the other masters. What spark and flame she had before was dimming almost to the point of being snuffed out. The fact that no matter how many times and how hard she tried to prove herself, people still thought she couldn't hold her own which made her feel useless. She put others in danger because she ended up on her own and worried others. For the first time in over a year since she left her home world, she wanted to go back to the farm. Things weren't going to be the same anymore, and it was only foolish dreaming.
One point for AP and the other point for HP
"Keep going!" She called out to Qamar. She could see that the girl wasn't doing so hot, but there was nothing she could do to help at the moment. Illiana was holding her own fine, and even Taran was helping out. She went for another attack, taking some out with Vicinity Break. HP: 41/95 AP: 8/(78) [+10 from Watera, +20 From D Link] MP: 5/30 DP: 2/3 Used Vicinity Break! Ability/D-Links Activated: Rainbow Glow Activated 2/3 Turns Master Choma's Link Activated 3/4 Turns Watera 2/3 Enemies Defeated: 5 Enemies Left: 9/40
The android stepped in, but Lydia kept on defense. The alien was definitely a psychopath, and she wasn’t sure if she would hold back even with someone to intervene. “What he said,” Lydia gestured her head at the hulking man standing beside the alien. “Yeah I’m from a scum species, but that don’t make me apart of them. I ain’t heard about no Rami and y’all hating people eating some shrooms. Now I went all over the galaxy with my pa, and I’ve seen all kinds of shrooms from all over. I didn’t know nothin’ about your kind of shrooms. Maybe cuz the higher ups kept it hush-hush. Wouldn’t be the first time.”
A hand was on her shoulder, which made Lydia uncomfortable. There wasn't much time to react to it. One minute she was looking at the android, and then next she was seeing stars. She barely heard the insults the other was throwing at her as her ears rung from the suddenly head trauma. One thing was on her mind at this point; survive. One of Lydia's hand instinctively went up to the wrist that was holding her hair to try to claw it off while she turned in her seat, using the heel of her palm of the other hand to jab at the nose. Not to break it or cause serious harm, just enough pain to throw her off. When she was released, Lydia scrambled up to her feet and dropped in a defense position, eyes trained on the alien. She was going to fight dirty, so Lydia would return the favor some more if necessary. The thoughts of being in a prison and having a shock collar around her neck escaped her mind as all she could see was red.
The sharp teeth threw her off a bit. Lydia reeled back slightly at the sight of it and sat up a little straighter. "Terrorists eh?..." And by the sounds of it, she wasn't a fan of humans either. What a great choice of a place to sit. Then again, she figured she would offend everyone around here. Humans weren't well liked after all. The last question threw her off though. "Mushrooms?" She raised an eyebrow and scratched her head. "The good kind? Or the ones that make ya loopy? Because the latter I steer clear from. Having a good ol' mushroom in stew or stir fry is pretty good though once in a while. I like 'em stuffed and baked too. But I'm mostly a potatoes and beans fan myself-" She was cut off when someone else intervened in the conversation. The way he talked, he was surely not a human like he said. Android probably? Lydia waved a hand at him. "Shure, go right ahead. Intervene all ya want. It's not like there's not much to do 'round here."
I got here as well. o.o
