As Faust Continued on with each lap of the course his body felt more and more leaden as he continued further along. He even felt the aura around him start to fade and flick across him as more pieces of slate started to get through the arcing volts of electricity. During the final stretch just as he was limping towards the finish line at a dying man's pace, he seemed to have tripped over his two feet in his fatigue causing himself to tumble across the line. Stopping in a heap of limbs near where karina and kel were. Looking up at the ceiling panting out slipping slightly back into his old childhood accent “Well Lets.. not do.. that again.. aye just feel like aye did a snatch n grab but lost the goods tha end”
Faust found himself trying to figure out why that Shiro guy had called him “Faustalot”, he really was just Faust the Traveling magician. He knew that sometimes with the world of mouth spreading things around that people tended to mix things up. He had just come to this conclusion as he and the others made it to where this “obstacle course” was, and their teacher explained that they needed to run it multiple times while they seemed to simulate the dead of winter. The winters on the chained isles had felt colder but that might have been just because of the fact he had more rags than clothes though the chunks of ice were quite the nuisance with the sting they left where they hit. Still as annoying as the ice was he tried to figure out how to path the course that Karbine girl seemed to have gotten quite the head start on Faust as she raced off coated in aura. He could only really sigh as even just looking at someone else doing the obstacle looked tiring. He was more of the dexterity sort even when he was growing up so this looked like it would be a total pain, still he plastered his usual carefree smile as he shot a look to Shiro saying “Not the worst chill I had felt since I grew up on the streets, but could make me Slate on the uptake you know.” giving himself a quick stretch before adding “Oh and the names just Faust not Faustalot, Hiro” He made it almost all the way up the rope slanted wall in quick time although it left him all ready out of breath before stepping his foot on a piece of slate causing him to slip on the chunk of ice tumbling back to the base of the wall. Picking himself up another frustrated sigh coating himself in his lighting Aura as well causing small arcs of fractal energy to shatter the slate that came close to him preventing another slip up like that from happening again though it didn’t do much for the cold. Making it across the balancing was easy work even in his exhausted huffing state was simple. His work on the elevated horizontal ladder contraption on the hand was a daunting slow task as he felt his hands and arms tremble and shake. He just glanced at the rest of the course feeling more tired and sore than he had for years and he hadn’t even finished the first lap. This whole thing just felt like he had drawn the shortest straw once again.
It was well into the end of the conversion when Faust had rejoined the others just barely making it in time to receive one of the “gummy phones” that were being passed out. He had spent well into the night trying to find out how the device worked. It wasn’t unlike an advanced radio form back home from what he had found before he turned in for the night though it seemed to have a whole bunch of other features. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Faust had Heard something about training in the morning, but Faust had found himself lagging behind in the morning the next day. They hadn’t really given a time just a general vibe from what he had understood so when he had finally wandered into the training grounds the rest of the gang seemed to have already started. He meandered his way to the group with a yawn “Sorry, it seems i arrived a little late. What did I miss?” He asked giving a quick glance around truing to figure out training they would get.
The Library when Faust found it was filled with ashes and charred books that littered the floor and the few skeletal remaining charcoal remains of bookshelves of the library. He could taste the ash in the air as he started to dig and shift through the different piles to try and get a sense of what happened here. From what little that he could find the further into the library that he got the more burned and unreadable the books were so the fire must have started back there. He vaulted over a burned out waist-height desk holding up two fallen bookshelves careful not touch the fragile remains as he tracked deeper into where he thought the fire must have started, just as he was going to round a corner around a bookshelf His shadow lashed out pulling at the shadow of the desk causing to to fall apart as the shade began laughing. Hearing the cash of the fragile wood Faust could only look over his shoulder and sigh before trekking on finding himself in what he could desire as what had been ground zero for the fire in the deepest section of the library which had to be the history section and if was anything like back in the Chained Isles then it might of had a few restricted books back here as well. While not usually the most common component of his tricks he had used and been burned by flames both magical in origin and mundane and had picked up on a few of its peculiarities. If it was this Noheart that started the flames here then either he really hated history or if Faust’s hunch was right, he took something from here and turned it to ash to hide what he took. He could only really shake his head as he returned to the less charred section of the library. Picking a random book from a shelf he could barely make out ‘deli ies of the wor ’ cracking the book open he couldn’t make heads or tails of the book so with another sigh he tossed the book over his shoulder. The charred pile of paper disintegrating into nothing before it hit the ground Faust Sighed with a bitter laugh out “Whoever this No Heat guy is I have to give him that he's thorough. Even the books on food are toast”
Seeing that he wasn’t needed for the meeting for the different groups and some of the others had started to break off as well Faust could guess that there were better uses for his time than stand around and wait for the meeting to end. He faintly remembered that someone mentioning that whoever attacked this place had set the library aflame before they left so that wouldn’t be too bad of a place to check out. Nodding to himself Fuast wandered off not sure where the library was here but how hard could it be. He waved off to AJ who seemed to be lost in thought saying “Hey if you guys need me i’ll be looking over that library seeing as i'm not needed here.” Faust just picked random turns and paths through central haven till he had found himself in front of the ash filled library.
Faust was quite happy to see that they SOS seemed to have left the Refugee ship behind. That place seemed to stir the wrong kind of memories for him. Although he could understand that the decision might have been harder for others that had family on board the ship, he had heard having a family was like that form others in passing. He spent the short voyage looking out to the space between as he fiddled with his deck of cards. When the Gummi ship had landed at what that DJ guy had said was that this was a temporary pit stop Faust stood up to stretch his legs and maybe see a glimpse of the world they had landed on before they had to leave to retake that main Haven place or whatever. Just then the hatch of the ship had opened to reveal three pretty familiar faces though he just couldn’t place them till the girl of the trio spoke up. It took some time to match the names to the faces as they had been quite a bit younger when they had meet last not too long ago. “Whale huh, oh!” Faust sighed as if still trying to place where they had meet “Your that trio of kids from before the heroic knight, the damsel, and the grumpy knight” Faust replied with a carefree manner as he pointed Sora, Kairi, Riku as he named them off. “Well, it's nice to see you three made it out off that beast apparently no worse for wear. So what brings you guys to meeting us once again?”
Faust was Finding himself Fading back into memories that he would of have left where they belonged, in the past. something about this place just seemed to spark those memories leaving him in a wandering daze as he had been searching the prison block. when he found himself coming out of his thoughts, he had found himself back in the hall that the summit was held in. Finding a mostly intact chair he leaned against it as the two people he hadn't seen before had taken charge of this gathering of the SOS members that they had rounded up. Though from the way that they talked they definitively seemed to be important to the rest of the group. After they Said that the group had an hour to chose to stay or fold their was only one real choice for Faust, and it was to hold the course and see it through to the end. As Faust stood up to stretch and see how the rest of the group seemed to feel about the offer he saw that quill seemed to have made it out fine from the prison and was approaching the group with Beuce. Taking a casual walk over the the pair Faust called out as he waved "Yo Quill, Nice to see that Lady luck seemed to give you another spin on the house instead of rotting in the clink. Guess your part of the SOS now so lets continue to get along friend" Turing to Beuce Faust pulled out the stick that he had given him form under the cloth hanging on his hip with a flourish and lightly tossing it to him "Oh here's your spear back i really couldn't find a use for it in my usual act, but it did make quite a useful dosing rod so thanks."
Faust casts blizzaga x2 Marshmallow uses blizzard breath
As the metal cuff that the guards had placed on him when he had been let out of his cell earlier Fuast had felt both elation and confusion at the turn of events. The next few events seemed to happen in rapid succession the crowd seemed to fall into a panic, the kid he was performing for was sucked into a portal, and some guys he hadn’t seen before had barged in seeming intent on messing with the SOS. seeing that an hostage situation had probably formed quite quickly he really didn’t want to be the one to set off this powder keg that seemed to involve the loved ones of his other members by acting first so he figured waiting for the hostile gunman to act first would be the best option for now. As Faust came to his conclusion he realized that the Baddies had already left with Kel tow. Seeing that the others were gathering up in the center where the world leaders had convened earlier he meandered his way over to the group as he casually explained the slightly ruined hall. In response to Aislinn”s question he could only shrug as he replied “Well this is a ship of some kind right so i Can only really think of two places they could go to to get off from a this kind of ship, Some kind of hanger or possibly the bridge and just take this whole place to wherever they want. Don’t know if that really helps though seeing as they could of just teleport though”
Faust cast blizzaga Faust uses final Ragnarok Marshmallow uses blizzard breath
After handing the kid the coins Faust continued to show off his less noticeable tricks that he had in act. It really didn’t take too much for him to perform his trick. In fact he felt his body going through the motions as he began to think of the day that his master had disappeared after naming him a keyblade master. Faust had walked down to the main room of the tavern that Him and Khan had used for the few years that they had known each other. Instead of finding the old man already in his drinks before the sun had even risen all that he had found was a note and metal engraved flask left at the use table that he would have found him at. All that was on the note was three sentences ‘Your a master now brat. Figure out what to do next for yourself. Till we meet again.’ 30/30
Normally Faust didn't really take time to teach anyone a few tricks, it sometimes ruined the ‘Magic’ of his acts. Though right now it was either that or be probably just as bored as the kid having to sit through bureaucratic nonsense. It took Faust a few second s to think of something simple the first part of his trick required more fine motor control than the kid probably had at his current skill level so maybe the ending of it compressing a coin would be more easy to at least teach the process behind it. Showing Zeke his hand holding a pair of copper coins before turning his hand to his side to better show the movements required. As he clasped his hands he made a big movement of sliding them down the back of his wrist before using his other hand to replace the coins with a larger silver coin. After showing him a few he handed Zeke the three coins. It wasn't that much of his money of his homeworld that he had stashed across his person. 29/30
Being pulled out of his thoughts by the calls of the small child he had entrained Faust just looked back at Aislinn with a carefree smile as he lightheartedly whispered back "Oh I don't mind a magician always needs to entrance his audience no?" he really didn't mind putting on small slights of hand for kids he liked putting smiles on peoples faces its really the reason why he learned how to do this cheap magic.. well that and the small amount of money he might make in his travels. he waved his hand lightly waved a Zeke showing his empty hand before with a small flourish of hand as to not draw anyone else's attention but Zeke's form the summit he made it seem like a card had appeared out of nowhere. another flick sent the card spinning sending the card spinning his thumb and pink each time the card rotated the face of the card changing to a completely different card. stopping the card as it changed forma standard playing card to one showing a pile of coins crushing it in his hand he opened it to reveal inst of crumpled piece of paper it was a small handful of copper coins before compressing it again into a single gold coin. 28/30
Glancing over to the side as he heard a familiar voice a few seats over he noticed that Aislinn girl and was sitting there with Kel. It was a slightly pleasant surprise to see that others of the sos had found their way to this summit. It made it seem a whole lot likely a lot of the others may not be too far. As he began to grow more restless he tried once again to tap into his magic only to find it was blocked by something in turn Faust felt his growing as he sat there. 27/30
The summit seemed quite pointless so far to Faust while he could guess it might be nice to be kept up to date on the apparent war with this not heart individual. All of this seemed to be so far just something that could be addressed on a radio bulletin or propaganda filled newspaper from what he was seeing so far. Although it could just be his bias against most forms of government bureaucracy. He cast his gaze towards the ceiling of the hall as he half listened to the proceedings happening. 26/30
As Faust came out of the remembrance of his past he saw that the summit had already began. He had just caught the tail end of the introductions of what Faust could only guess as the leadership of this refuge world. It had been a little bit of a surprise to see Beuce being a part of the leadership of his world. He hadn’t really thought about the other members of the SOS positions back in their own worlds but he could only guess that the group was a vertebral grab bag of personalities so them coming from different walks of life wasn’t something to hard to believe. 25/30
The old coot of a master Faust had had been the interesting fellow now that he looked back on his memories. The man had alway been seen with a drink not to far from his person. It wasn’t like the man was a horrid drunkard when he had gotten into his cups. In fact Khan seemed to be more lucid and focused in-tune with the arcane mysteries than Faust was currently. Sure the man tended to rant on and on about advice he felt Faust had needed most of which seemed like something you could find form any Luther drunk in a tavern when they would try and say something profound. The occasional helpful peice out weighed to bad not to mention the few times he had gotten him out of trouble with the local guard when a gamble had panned out in his favor had help endured the man to Faust. 24/30
The memory that seemed to constantly come to him as he sat in the assembly hall was one from the first days that he saw his master khan. It had been a sweltering summer day the heat could be felt even in the usually cooler lower levels of the city that Faust found himself in most days. —————- Faust found himself panting out of breath after one of Khan’s more physically oriented training sessions. It was always those lessons that made him almost regret taking the man up on his offer of a keyblade to pay off his debt. Khan on the other hand looked relaxed as always causally drinking from a barrel that he had Faust bring as a ‘payment’ for the lesson. Giving the drunkard a glare Faust could only spit out between gasps “Ya know... when ya said ya would teach me... Ah expected more magical lessons.... then you just whacking me in between turning ma money into booze.” His complaints just seemed to amuse the drunkard as he laughed out in response replied “think of it as payment for having to start for the basics with you. If you tried harder then maybe you wouldn’t have to be paying me for more lessons.” As he finished his current cup for the small barrel he had sat on Khan began to stretch out a amused smirk on his face as he continued “ if your so worried about the cost of the lessons then I guess I’ll train you into the ground today free of charge” 23/30
Mindlessly flipping his coin his thoughts turned to the memories of his master. He still didn't really know where the old man had when to after one day declaring him a keyblade master. He didn’t know why he was thinking so much about the old drunk for the first time in years but it might have been because all the talk of refugees from various fallen worlds that he had heard about throughout the day as he traveled around this place. his free hand traveling to rest at his hip where his last memento form his master rested as he began to reminisce as he waited for the summit to began. 22/30
The idea of a trans world government was a quite a frightening thought for Faust as he waited for the summit to start. The mere thought of a group of worlds trying to enact their own values and laws hampering the freedom of the less developed worlds. Faust began to flip his coin as he thought further on the thoughts spiraling in his head. Councils and groups tended to fail after a while though or at least they did in his home world. As he thought that his mind started to drift off to thoughts of the Chained isles his home world. While he didn’t really care to search them out he wondered if anyone from the chained isles was on this ship. 21/30
