[/url]It had been quite the uninteresting day as all that had gone on was school related prospects. She had homework to do, but of course, she would most likely forget about doing it as soon as she exited the building. With her thoughts soon fixated on the outside world around her, she stared in merriment at all the wonders she found. Sure, the world looked ordinary, but to her, everything just continued to look vivid and vibrant. Including the plants. June was quite in tune with the plants and felt some sort of weird connection to them. In the end, she probably would've spent the entire day just wandering around outside, if not for May finding her and dragging her along back to June's place. The two ended just playing games and the like at June's place until it got late and May had to leave. Once May was gone, June got bored and tired and fell asleep not to long after.
[/url]Sal had come to the hotel where the gang was staying at, after landing down from the plane ride. Apparently the pilot wasn't leaving any time soon and Sal thanked the man for his assistance in their return trip there. So, Sal had simply looked around to see before going inside to see two familiar faces standing out and around. It was the angel of destruction, Samuel, and the lion Leon. He was quite curious as to what they were doing, though he wasn't going to exactly inquire as to what it was. He, and the other two of the group frankly, had something important to relay to the group about their trip. Walking over to the two, he said "hello you both, as you can see our group has returned from our little trip at an ancient temple. And boy did some interesting things happen there." Sal breathed in before recounting the entire trip's story. "As you are aware, Adam, Henrik, Kai and myself were recently kidnapped by Temeluchus and sent to a temple in Mexico. Side note, Doctor Grey, or Azrael, was there with her. Putting that aside, Temeluchus apparently wanted to sacrifice the four of us there. What for, I have no clue. Anyway, things were getting last minute, or at least they felt like they were, and so Henrik used his powers to fire an obsidian bullet from his gun, because he had one I guess, and I followed it up by slashing out of my binds with my sword and throwing it straight to her chest. In the end, she blocked the bullet with a mirror but got stabbed by the sword. Unfortunately, she did some sort of body swapping thing, and it turned out that Harbonah's soul was in the mirror and then was put in Temeluchus's dying body. Adam and her had a touching moment, while Henrik focused on keeping the mirror with Temeluchus's soul now trapped in it." He paused for a moment as his expression became slightly annoyed for a bit before reverting back. "However, I was asleep while this happened, but apparently Henrik, or Araquiel possessing his body, took the obsidian knife he had and stabbed the dark angel with it almost the instant he got the chance to. Next day, after Doctor Grey allowed us to use a plane of his, both he and Adam disappeared. I'm not entirely sure what happened to both of them and whether or not we should consider Adam a traitor or not, I just figured I would explain all of this to someone before I went to bed." With that, Sal waved to the both of them and was on his way to go all the way to the rooftop, seeing as he didn't have a room, and slept there.
Twas[/url] a day just as any other. The young girl who had just woken up was busy doing nothing special in particular. It was a day that was as mundane and as trivial just as any other day. The young girl sighed as she looked away from the window as her class had been dismissed. With her usual uninterested expression she had shown throughout most of the day, she continued to walk along throughout the halls on her way to her lunch period. She had nothing special for lunch. Just a regular peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Everything was just so plain and-Oh my god! The young miss walked underneath a light that had absolutely captivated her attention. The light was in the process of breaking and as such it was flickering on and off at such a sporadic and unpredictable rate that how could it not captivate one's attention? She continued to stare at with a blissful face on before it was interrupted by a hand on her shoulder. "Juuuune, c'mon. You're not going to get any eating done standing there." June turned around to see her friend, May, with a face that said 'really?' before it went back into being a cheery smile. June looked towards May and nodded with a soft smile. The two of them ran down the hall until they got to their cafeteria and found a free table. Plopping themselves down in their seats, the two girls brought out their lunches, and began to eat as soon as they could. June was a bit of a slow eater, while May could basically hound down an entire pig faster than a school of starving piranhas could eat a cow. While going through their food May talked to June asking her about her day, to which June gave out various shrugs and "yes" or "no" answers to. May sighed before saying, "you know, you have to learn to talk a bit more in conversations. Who knows when one day you'll just be thrown into a new crowd of people that you have to collaborate." To that point, June stared up at the sky lost in a fantasy of hers, in her own little land of bliss. She thought of being thrown into a crowd, quite like an RPG party and all the different party members and all the roles they'd have. Of course there was the big bruiser, the assassin, the tank, the mage, and they all had to work together to beat the big boss. For whatever reason, in her fantasy, the mage only used fire magic ever, which made her shiver a bit. She was not the fondest of fire. After having May snap at her, to get her back to reality, June simply said "I'll just do what I'm told." May sighed a bit before saying, "that's a pretty shitty approach to that. Ah well," she shrugged her shoulders and looked back up with a smile on her face. "So anyway, after school, you. Me. Your place. We're going to play the shit out of Super Smash Fighters Fisticuffs." June simply looked at her friend and nodded with a smile. After a little bit more of conversing the two bid each other farewell as the bell rang to go to their next place.
First mission world. Check. New keyblade. Check. More magic to use. Checkity check. With everything all nice and ready to go, Stratos felt that he was finally ready to being re-existing and disembark onward to the new wild world of Camelot. Realizing that the other two teammates of his had already departed the Land of said Departure, Stratos felt a tad bit on the late side and hurried off on his key glider. Graceful entrances were not in this man's repertoire. He had done a bit of a botched flying job in his attempt to hurry off to Camelot, and as such had his keyglider disappear far too soon. This caused the man to go hurtling forward at a mildly fast speed until he crashed into the holy blade lodged in the stone. After falling down, he looked up and said, "hey there." Looking at the sword that had not budged at all, he stared at it wide eyed and said, "man, that is quite the stuck sword." He turned around and started to observe his surroundings more, before he realized he had no idea who his teammates actually were. "Oh right, forgot to introduce myself. Name's Stratos." He gave a thumbs up to the two before asking "so, what's with this," he pulled on the blade, "unmovable sword?"
Johnis[/url] was getting quite bored with the entire bar scene, quite frankly. After MANgus did his little entertaining bar fight scene thing, whatever, Marina the newbie stepped in and probably did something to mellow out the entire crowd of Valen. Seeing how boring that had made the situation, it made Johnis have nothing better to do other than down his seventh rainbow beverage in a glass. It was then that people started wondering about the existence of God/King of Aether and what exactly what was up with these games and what his whole deal was. Personally, Johnis thought their god was one of the dumbest people around, simply because he not only created a game that couldn't be won, but because he created a game that he didn't enjoy in the first place. If you couldn't enjoy your own game then what was the point? The title of king of aether was also impossible to claim simply by Virtue of all of their existences. Valen did not have to bet all of their land at any point, and he hardly doubted that any of them were fond of losing. Despite doing it a lot, Johnis quite frankly wasn't that keen on losing when it counted. Furthermore, just looking at Marina the newbie, she was a completely new Valen, a product of the games they were supposed to win all the land ever from. And here she was, with her own land as soon as she comes into being. The entire game was quite screwed up, and he didn't like the idea of an unbeatable one. Nevertheless, once Sang had finished, Johnis figured he may as well chime in. He walked over, continuing to drink more of his beverage, and casually wrapped an arm around Sang with his usual carefree expression and said with a smile, "well, we already compared everything we found together," he said to Sang, then turning to the rest of the group, "but basically we just found a bunch of evidence that their should be people there but weren't. Specifically servants, seeing as the kitchen was filled with servant clothing, and there was a servant's quarter. Not to much we found a skeleton, which is pretty interesting given the fact that we don't die. Guess the big man wasn't entirely happy with his work force. So, what did the rest of you all find?"
Alrighty then. Stratos is equipping Oathkeeper; spending 6 points on Stamina; spending all 20 crowns on magic up (so +4 Magic); equipping Blizzard and Aero; equipping High Jump, Blend and Guard; finally disembarking for Camelot.
After doing his best to try and recruit Alex, Brandon eventually marched himself off to his room and slept, hoping that she would join their crew. ----Meanwhile A Few Miles Away From the Hotel----- "Alright, now that you're here, go back to your room." Maalik was quite serious with his demand on Richard, who just looked at him with a glare of annoyance. "What?" Richard was clearly not content with this kind of thing because Maalik had kind of forced him to go out of his way to jog all the way out to these few miles from the hotel for no specific reason other than, 'special training.' If it turned out that this training was just usual jogs, then Richard was probably just going to put himself to sleep right here where he stood. "I don't mean running, dumbass, I'm talking about using your mist. Listen, you my not realize this, but as the guardian of hellfire, you're one of the two in this group who can reliably use hellfire mist and as such you are a bit of door to literally any location in the world. The only problem with the hellfire portal technique is that it is probably one of the most stressful techniques an inexperienced angel could use. That and Time Freeze, but I'm not even going to go on that whole power thing yet. Anyway, we're starting small, with just a few miles of distance so that you can use it without doing any critical harm to yourself. If you're too inexperienced and you try to over exert yourself and go too far then you'll probably just pass out and be void of any energy for a while, which I guess in your case isn't too different from the norm." Richard was still not entirely sure what to do here, seeing as despite his proficiency with the mist, he had yet to actually use it as a means of travel. Trying to collect it and form a portal, but nothing was really working. Eventually Richard got bored and just thought of going to sleep, which is when the mist erupted and formed a pathway to his hotel room. Walking through it, Richard collapsed on his bed, feeling more exhausted than he had ever been from just doing one thing. That was quite the stress inducing technique. With that sort of training done, Richard fell asleep before Maalik said, "now just get ready for tomorrow."
[/url]So, something had happened. Something that Sal was not too fond of. He felt a familiar Dark Angel's presence, which was pretty easy to deduce which one that was at this point, and felt as though everything halted for a bit. When that odd feeling of halting left, apparently so did Doctor Grey and Adam. Well, that was certainly something he totally wasn't expecting at all. He wasn't so surprised that Doctor Grey had poofed out, but he wasn't exactly expecting Adam to disappear from the scene either. Did something snap in the kid's head that made him turn sides or something? Or was he always working against them? Or was he just plain kidnapped? These kinds of questions were quite pointless at the moment, simply because there was no way to get the answers. Regardless, the plane still surprisingly enough came to the temple and the pilot was still willing to take them to wherever their destination was, despite Doctor Grey not being there at all. Prior to the plane coming, Kai had texted someone from the main group to gain their location, and it turned out that they were in Argentina. With the destination in mind, the trio got in the plane and took off, with Sal going to sleep hoping nothing super last minute drama related would happen while he was asleep.
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Brandon felt there was a bit of intensity from Leo as he was speaking to Alex about their angel duties. Then Leo cut in and continued to relay the facts to her about how people were dropping left and right and the kidnapping and all of that other depressing stuff. Well, Alex did not seem that positively responsive towards that and even seemed like she was going to totally and utterly beat the crap out of the two of them. Not to mention she totally didn't want to hear anything from them anymore, which was just downright being close minded about it. No, he was going to have to tell her just what were the facts of life. "Listen, before you beat my face in, just think about all the good you'd be doing coming with us. You might not be able to have a normal life while this whole thing is going on, but it should be done in about a month and then all of us can return to whatever lifestyle we'd like to have. Not to mention, the world is pretty much gone if none of us don't do anything anyway, and if the world is gone, there's no life for any of us to live anymore. That's about all I have to add." He was kind awaiting for his teeth to suddenly not exist from the comment he made towards her. [DOUBLEPOST=1390105247][/DOUBLEPOST][/url]So the jury was in. The group, for the most part, was completely fine with Doctor Grey existing and journeying along with them. Or, at least that's how he took it. Then Doctor Grey had offered an airplane up for the group to use for transit sake. Well, that was quite useful as well. So, with majority leaning more towards trusting Alistair rather than the majority saying no, Sal was fully confident in accepting the plane from Doctor Grey. "Well Doctor Grey, that Airplane that you've offered up would be quite handy to be able to use and I thank you for it." After that was over and done with, Doctor Grey did a process which Sal could only describe as "calling up his hommie to get them a ride" the gang waited there for the airplane to arrive. Totally nothing was going to happen during the wait period.
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[/url]Sal listened to what Doctor Grey had said and was not liking what he had heard at all. It was quite a bad loss with Hay Sun gone, after all she had been quite the strong angel and they needed all the help they could get. Not to mention he felt kind of like the two of them were friends and so personally it had been a bad loss as well. The news of Jun Tae's death was news to him, and that was quite unfortunate as well. Jeez, what happened that caused him to die? Oh well, that issue would have to be sorted out later. The more pressing issue was that of Temeluchus's bodies death and Harbona's soul's death because it was inside her body when Henrik went and stabbed her in the throat. Sal still exactly wasn't sure what the angel of torment had done and just thinking about it was not going to get him anywhere. He turned to Henrik and said, "now now, that was a pretty poor move on your part. First of all, choosing to kill her when she was clearly weakened and basically at our mercy instead of asking her something was a waste of resources. Normally when you have a hostage and you're kind of blindly fighting your enemy it's a good idea to try and gain as much info from them before you execute them. The second point of her being on our side is something I can't vouch for at all, though, seeing as I've never met the dark angel so I have no idea where her head was at the moment. Granted, I assume I'll never know anything more about her now. Not to mention the total trust issues you could breed when it comes to preforming a brutal act such as that without consulting with your other two team mates when it comes to a stalemate of opinions." He was referring to how, based on that, Adam would want her to live while Henrik, clearly, wanted her dead. He sighed a bit and addressed the rest of the group. "Regardless of the act that had been committed though, that does not change the fact that we are separated from the rest of our allies and need to regroup. As such, we should leave as soon as possible. Though, that does leave the two pressing issues of what to with the body of the deceased angel and what to do with our friend Doctor Grey. I personally have no opinion when it comes to whether we take him along or not, but I would like to hear the opinion of the rest of you." After all, Doctor Grey was still classified as an enemy, and so he just couldn't be treated as if he were just any other fallen.
He had been there in the shadows. He had been there in the wind. He had been there in the walls. He was everywhere, and no where at once. He was quick, one would even say...quick as lightning. While most people were asleep, he was downstairs already. While most people were still trying to count sheep, because that's sleep related or something (in which case one of the members could probably get rich off of wool,) he was eating breakfast. While most people were still doing the thing that most humans do to recover energy after a hard day's work, he was eavesdropping in on a certain Leo and Hotel Clerk, Lady, Person. And when the questions were asked, he silently and stealthily slid in, like some sort of weird cartoon character and was going to answer the questions his own way. This man was... "Well my fine lady, we are indeed angels, and the only reason we'd tell you 'bout something this big is because, you must be an angel as well. Which meeeaaansss, that there are super adventurous times abound." He hopped up a bit and let a tad bit of electricity crackle off his finger tips. He then did an, "ahem," moment and decided to continue on with the conversation. "So yeah, basically what being a fallen angel entails is traveling around the world in search of other fallen angels all whilst getting stronger to allow ourselves the ability to fight the forces of hell who kind of want to take over the entire world, because they aren't nice."He stopped for a bit to take a short breath. "I mean, you could choose to not come along, which is all fine and dandy, but for whatever reason, once you've been found out by us as a fallen angel the dark forces of hell may come after you, so there's strength in numbers when it comes to us. Make sense?" Brandon hadn't explained this situation to someone in quite some time, but he figured that telling her the good majority of the information upfront would be a good idea since it would minimize both questions and posts asking said questions.
Ah[/url], what a wonderful rest that had been from the good old stone walls of the temple. Sure he felt a bit sore from the stone, but nothing a good stretch out wouldn't handle. As he woke himself up Sal took note of some of the things that were going on with himself. Or rather, just the one thing, which was that he and the others were no longer in bounds and not dead at all. This meant that everything went off without a hitch and all was well. No drama that happened while he was asleep happened at all...None at all. Another thing to note was that everyone was all gathering and seemed to be socializing. Well that seemed to be excellent team related things to do. Sal walked over to the rest of the gang and said, "good morning everyone," after waving to them something immediately struck him. Or rather, struck Zachariel which in turn struck him. She pointed out to him that there was a lack of dark angel presence,which made no sense, since even though it was different and weaker by the end of last night, it was still there. Then after glancing around and seeing her limp body with a gaping wound in her throat, he realized she had died. "Something happen to our dark angel friend while I was asleep?"He was quite curious as to how she had ended up dying. After seeing the neck wound it was clear that it wasn't just from the wound he had inflicted last night. Which meant that one of them killed her. He would be quite disappointed if any of them did so, save for Dr. Grey seeing as he had no affiliation with them whatsoever, looking at everything they had just lost from that angel's death.
[/url]So the whole castle thing had resolved itself quite nicely, Johnis had to admit. Well, despite the whole being dragged to Fairwyn thing. He normally didn't dislike people, but these guys were just...ughhh. They were just all about flaunting how better they were then everyone else, and he couldn't stand people who acted like they were bigger than butter...well that was probably a lot of people. Especially a Valen who could make butter. Was there a point to this train of thought? Probably not...Oh right! Johnis disliked the people of Fairwyn as a whole. Despite this...he didn't have anything against their establishments. The bar was quite a nice place to chill out, max, and relax no matter what land you were in and Fairwyn was no exception to this rule. He casually stood by and drank while he heard news about the group who were locked in the castle from the bear, puppet, girl, person. Well that was good to hear. The drink of that was being swallowed at the moment was none other than a skittles vodka. Probably because it had been a favorite of one of his past pawns, he had grown a strong liking to it. Meanwhile, while he wasn't drinking the rainbow beverage, he was instead smoking a stick of celery he had grown on the way in. By negatively accelerating the plants life, it kept regrowing at an equal pace to how fast it was burning out. Ah, plant magic was truly great. Anyway, the big brute of the group, Magnus, then did a rampaging testosterone induced attack at some random bar going Valen. He could only see promising things from this, as more Valen swarmed the guy. While normally Johnis would love to jump in on the fun, he didn't want to get in Magnus's way. The man was like a starving animal on a path to its food right now, and standing in the way of him would probably end up in, albeit inconsequential, bruises.
Sal was rather delighted to see that the entire thing had happened somewhat to plan. To be perfectly honest, he was wondering if there was even a 1% chance of them actually emerging victorious over the chief angel of torment. Again, that's sort of what happened. Temeluchus sounded kind of different and Adam seemed to be locked in a discussion with her. He didn't really know what to make of the entire situation, but regardless he caught Imperium and pocketed it before realizing the strain he had put on himself and realized that trying to do anymore on this situation would be nothing but fruitless. So he walked away from the situation and just put himself to sleep on a nearby wall.
"Oh my my my." That was all Sal had to say as first blood drawn by Araquiel. He had no idea where the angel such as himself came across some sort of obsidian bullet...he also had no real idea what the significance of the obsidian was until Zachariel had explained to him that it was basically the super amazing perma-death material that of course had to exist because without it then these angels would be immortal...or something to that effect. Regardless, this was quite the daring move made by the Angel of Vengeance/World of Distortion/Whatever else his titles were, and Sal figured it'd be time to join in as well. Causing a slight breeze to make his own sword wand appear in his hand. Smirking a bit, he caused his sword, Imperium, to reveal itself and slash his own binds away. This was all going to have to happen in an instant, and due to this basically being a do or die situation, she did something that normally she wouldn't. She gave him access to all of his powers and so he did everything he could as fast as he can. His arm moving way faster than it normally should have, in addition to activating his earth aura to give him an incredible strength boost, he threw the blade at the angel of torment's chest at full force. In addition to this full force throw, he used his wind powers to hit the hilt of the blade so that it would fire exceedingly faster than just the throw would have permitted. With the blade being launched in one straight line aimed straight towards her chest, he was pretty much gambling that this was going to kill her.
After[/url] the creepy servants's quarter thing that happened there, the trio of JVS continued their trek throughout the castle, complete disregarding the trapdoor because hell no were they going down there right now. Not when there was other places to go explore first. That's how games worked, explore every possible area you can before going to the one you think the is most relevant to the situation...or that just seemed like the funnest place. Also, before leaving, Johnis went over to hoist a skeleton around with him and a jar. Why? Because he wanted to see if any of these bio-valen types could get anything out of the skeleton when they met back up. He also carried the jar around with him just in case this substance in them became relevant to fighting off some poisonous gas or something of the like. So anyway, the three of them went back up the stairs and then went through to the second floor set of doors. Sang started complementing Johnis on his businessing risk taking skills to which Johnis simply rubbed his head and said, "it's all just in the name of fun really. Risks often times lead to a bigger gamble, and the bigger the gamble the bigger the payout. And that's just a good time for everyone." Sang eventually told him to split off from her because there was a wine cellar, and getting in the way of a Wine Witch and her alcohol was something no one should really do. So, as instructed, Johnis went over into the study to see if there was anything of note in there. The answer was, not really. Just some papers and the norm that you'd find in a study area. Though there was a coat just lying around, but that only indicated to him that more was just out of place here. After that exploration was done, Johnis grabbed some papers and writing utensils, because one never knew when that could come in handy. Looking fully loaded up on stuff, Johnis walked out into the hall with Sang and Vex and said, "nothing of note in there. Just more clothing lying around that looks like it should belong to someone but doesn't. So, where to next?"
After[/url] getting herself just that much more inebriated, Sang answered Johnis's question. Albeit she didn't seem to know anymore than he did, but collaboration and what not was still good and dandy no matter how fruitless it could be sometimes. However, the castle seemed to be shaking and breaking a bit more now as the ceiling started to look a little less stable then it was before. Anyway, the gang then started on their marry way towards an armory. That sounded really kickass!...only it was really bland and what not. Like, there was barely anything to note at all, and so there was just time to go and search for something else now. They started walking down the staircase towards the servant's quarters of the castles. Again, where were these servants anyway? Once there, Johnis figured his question was probably answered when they walked in. Within the room was not much to note, just a few jars that seemed to have some odd questionable substance in them. Oh and also there were skeletons. Johnis was kinda weirded out by the skeletons, and wasn't entirely sure what they were doing here, just lying about. Or better yet, how long they had been here. The final thing to note was that there seemed to be some sort of trapdoor that probably lead to some sort of dungeon. Well that was quite the find.
OOC: Credit to Hyuge-Calypso-Naomi-chan-san-sama for the banner. [/url]Everything had happened so fast, and yet so painstakingly slow at the same time. First off, there was the game starting for all dem Valens to go around and have their pawns get murdered again in some sort of exploration maze game. Games were always fun. But then a giant bell started to go off. So good old Cressy and Annie went off to explore with Rosy, and then the rest were just chilling out in the foyer. Eventually, the castle started rumbling and a tumbling. Man, this was quite the unique game they were playing. He hadn't ever played a game where the castle got involved. Regardless, most nearly everyone started to go off in search of this bell noise. Eventually, they all found it, it was stopped and then Ambrosia threw himself off the roof of the castle...and did not come back. Man, those sea of clouds were pretty unforgiving. So, after that was over with, the gang then decided to try and think of what to do about the still rumbling and still tumbling castle. First off, Rosy went and restarted the bell because reasons, and then they all decided to go off and explore the castle. Castle exploring sounded like quite the fun activity, especially with the added prospect of the castle collapsing at any time. So, of course they would decide to split off into group and go search with the power of numbers! In addition to that, Mimi ended up making some awesome doll communication thing, one that Johnis really didn't get at all but he hardly ever got her dolls, and then Sang started moving out to go on her own exploration mission. Vex also ended up showing up along the way and so the great team of JVS was formed. The trio started their grand expedition by wandering around the castle until they ended up in the grand castle's dining room. While at first there was nothing interesting to be seen around here, since it was just a dining room, the whole thing seemed like kind of a bust. While the three looked around the room, Johnis eventually walked forward until he found himself in the kitchen. It was there that he noticed something interesting. "Hey guys, check this out!" Johnis yelled to them. What he had found was nothing too interesting, but a pile of servant clothes, like maid and butler uniforms. However, this made Johnis think why were these here in the first place? "Hey, do either of you guys know why there'd be a wide assortment of clothes here? Are there like, regular maintenance staff in this hall or something?"
