Cerdic was starting to slow down a little bit. So many heartless, why were they going down so slowly? It was almost painful at how slow it was all going, but he couldn't stop. Even as his limbs ached, asking for a break from the tedious work, he would not stop, not until he was able to break through the wall that separated him from the real battle. He was not going to just sit there and let other people steal his glory, when a little hard work would be all it took to eventually break through, even if hard work meant sweating. He could still look good sweaty, not as good, but he was sure he would pull it off somehow. Just his aura, in nature of being him, Cerdic was automatically attractive to woman... and perhaps some men. If that was the case he wouldn't judge. He wouldn't go for it, but he wouldn't judge. If he met another guy like him, he might have troubles claiming he was straight too. Ranting aside, the heartless decided to be little pests again by picking up and carrying someone else off. "Ha! Great job your guard dog is doing. Where is he now? He left you for someone else!" Cerdic called after Relli as they were taken away. It wasn't actually anything against Relli, it was more supposed to be another hit at Alder. Cerdic did actually know if Alder could hear him, but it didn't matter that much to him. His world didn't revolve around that dog or anything, though it was fun to pick fun at him when the chance presented itself, like it had. All joking aside however there was still the issue of the heartless. While thankfully none were coming back as they defeated them, but there was still a lot to deal with, and that was not overly fun. He would much rather be taking it easy and letting the others fight, but if he did that then they would think that gave them power over him, and he couldn't have that. The hole he was trying to create had been filled in with more heartless. Unfortunately, unlike inanimate objects, heartless were living, breathing things, meaning while they might not have been all that smart, they could figure out the basic, fill in holes if we can, technique. Well that was annoying, he supposed he had to start from scratch and work faster this time. However since he was beginning to tire out, Cerdic didn't actually go much quicker at all. If anything he was making less progress now than before. He was still killing heartless, and a small hole started to form again, however it almost seemed to be filling more quickly in his eyes. Perhaps the heartless were just learning, to Cerdic it was unimaginable that it could in the end be his fault, it was never his fault. That was not allowed. At least in the end he did kill some heartless, even if it wasn't many. Word Count: 505 BP Spent: 20 Heartless Killed: 4 Heartless Remaining: 105
Yep, this was definitely going to be a long day. For such a small person, the man, Battousai, seemed to have a big mouth. "To answer your question properly Veilen, when magic disappeared my brother was trying to sneak out." There was a tone of bitterness when she spoke louder talking about what he did. "I am sure he planned to fly out of the castle window instead of going to bed like he was supposed to. The wave of power hit, magic vanished, and he was unable to transform back. At least my sister was caught in her human form" Aeradel explained her awkward family situation, which only lead to her sister shrinking further into the shadows, acting all shy like usual. Then there was the other matter, and surprisingly Battousai had a pretty good idea. "Right, if you sneak in and get us some information, at least we will have a more solid foundation for a plan." Aeradel told him. "Before we do that however I think we need a few more people as back up. I know a tribe in the southern mountains of Hality, we will travel there first to try and recruit more people. After that we will head to the demon tower in Hality and see what we can discover." Aeradel suggested. "We will remain here, and prepare for the night, and tomorrow morning set out, so make sure you take the time to eat and do whatever needs done, because it will be a long journey on foot." Aeradel instructed the others, taking a moment to glance at her siblings and make sure they were alright. They were both fifteen, so they could look after themselves, but that never stopped Aeradel from worrying.
Masquerade Rosaline lead Blake into a room and shut the door behind her, taking a seat on a large sofa. "Sit, lets talk matters such as, what sort of equipment you are looking for. You must be aware that I offer a wide range of equipment." Rosaline motioned to a chair across from her and crossed her legs, folding her hands in her lap. For a weapons dealer, she seemed very graceful and elegant, not at all what you would pin for a kishin soul.
Kiara paced over to the tablet and read it still holding her whip, letting it curl on the floor over winding it back up inside the handle. She looked over at Lea then as he spoke and gave him a bit of a smile. "Interesting. I never have cared much for magic, but if you are challenging me to a battle, so be it. I have a bit of steam I need to blow off anyways. One can only pretend to behave themselves for so long. As much as I said I would change, it doesn't happen in a day and there has been a lot of sh*t lately that I had to hold my tongue." She stated. There was an edge to her voice, like there was a lot of suppressed emotions that she had been holding onto for a while, pretty much since she had beaten Steel to a bloody pulp. "I was told I needed to find a new punching bag." Kiara shrugged. "So does this mean you are the challenger? What is the challenge then? I am curious what you have up your sleeve." She stated as she fidgeted a bit with her whip. It came to her attention that she actually didn't really know much about how to use her weapon. She had only ever used a keyblade, and a lot of her strength she gained while using it was gone. Her heart was reset and she couldn't stop it or reverse it like the others. Meanwhile Lea was a keyblade master who reminisced about old times that he seemed to use his weapon a lot. He already obtained the power of fire and she was to face him? How was that fair at all. She didn't really have a choice though. This was already a last resort with no where else to go, if she backed down from that then she would really be stuck. Besides so far Lea didn't seem like one to set her up for failier, so at least she could take some comfort in that.
Well all seemed to be going well. He came out of the horde unscathed, his teammates weren't totally annoyed that they didn't get the chance to play the epic hero before he had save himself, and the heartless numbers were slowly decreasing. That was good, it was all going well. Cerdic took a moment of the peaceful time to fix his hair and jacket which got slightly displaced thanks to his epic moves. He wasn't totally upset but it, after all he still got to show off, and that was all that mattered. Soon enough everyone would be swooning over him, not just the desperate one. Fix his hair... perfect. His coat.... perfect. Awesome pose... definitely perfect. Okay now he was goo- "Hey what is the big idea?! Why are you giving them the chance at all the glory? I deserve it far more!" Cerdic shouted as he noticed that heartless separated him from Ria. On top of it the he-she thing, and the dog were the ones in a position to be the epic hero. "I already got the epic part down." He shouted out after Ria through the heartless like it would actually make a difference. Cerdic seemed not to be happy about it at all. He wanted to be the hero of his own story, and being stuck on the sidelines didn't work for him at all. "Let me through and face me like a real man! Stop being a coward and hiding behind your wall of black creatures. You are pathetic!" Cerdic shouted as he charged forward, not worrying about wrecking his perfectly grouped self this time. This was personal now when he got left out of a battle. There was a battle cry as Cerdic charged forward and started to slash at the heartless wall to see if he could make an opening big enough to dive through and join the battle on the other side. Soon the heartless started to drop off, two... then four... then he stepped back, examining the the hole that he was creating to see if it was big enough to jump through yet. Well maybe it was best that he took a little more time before breaking through the hole. It wasn't that he thought he couldn't do it, but he would throw the dog a bone, so to speak and give those two a chance to pretend to do something before he jumped in and did all the real work. Word Count: 412 BP Spent: 20 Heartless killed: 4 Heartless remaining: 126
Aislinn is Equipping the following abilities: Spoiler High Jump Guard Dodge roll Combo Item Boost EXP Writer II Magic Lock-On Aerial Sweep Combo Plus Air Combo Plus Cheer Cover Aerial Sweep Damage Syphoon Second Chance Battle Cry Blend Second Wind Lucky Lucky Equipping the following Skills: Spoiler Zantetsuken Aerial Slam Cura Break Time Equipping OathKeeper (+4) Purchasing and Equipping: White Gloves White Fang Munny remaining: 9,230 I am going to spend my crowns on: +2 Strength- 60 Crowns +1 Resistance- 10 Crowns total of 70 crowns spent 3 Crowns Remaining After all that Aislinns stats should be at HP- 58 MP-8 Strength- 62 Speed- 11 Defense- 22 Magic- 16 Resistance- 16 AP- 30
"I would rather forget who I was, where I came from, nothing good comes from it." Karina replied in a rather grim voice as she faced the weapons that opened up in front of her. "I have never fought with anything that wasn't a keyblade. The weapons were always kept under lock and key, and no matter how much I begged to learn, I was never allowed." Karina said a little absentmindedly grabbing onto the first sword. She swung it around a little, but it wasn't the same as her keyblade, and just reminded her of the loss of it. The next one was a hunting dagger. She held it for a moment and realizing that Lea never did answer her request to find a place for clothes and hair, she decided to take matters in her own hands. She flipped the dagger around and brought it up to her hair, slicing through clumps of hair until her hair fell just at her shoulders. She then replaced the hunting dagger as if she hadn't done anything at all. Karina moved past the blades now. They all reminded her of her keyblade and she hated it. The spear she picked up felt too big and clumsy. The mace was too heavy. The claws were too close range for her. Finally her eyes fell on what at first seemed like a short rod. Upon picking it up she hit a button on the side and a whip studded with blades fell to the floor in front of her. She looked at it for a moment, wondering and thinking, before facing the wall where there was no one to hurt and flicking her wrist letting the whip fly. She did that a couple times and twirled it around a little bit, smiling. "I think I found my weapon... and my new identity." She said softly, looking up at Lea with her much shorter hair and new weapon in hand. She tried to give him a smile and failed so spoke instead. "I guess it is time to work on the inner change now." Spoiler
Aislinn listened to the conversation going on. She didn't like the fact that this girl, Yue was forced to work for these people just to do the test, but she agreed so willingly, so she supposed it wasn't her place to argue. Aislinn honestly hated seeing other people get hurt, or paying a price, especially when it was for someone else's sake. Still there was only so much to do, this was their ticket out after all. Aislinn forced herself to step back and listen as the negotiations came to a close and things were explained to them. After that came the partners. Aislinn looked around trying to figure out who her partner was, not really knowing anyone by name. Thankfully he seemed to have an idea who she was. Perhaps that was just because she was one of few people he didn't know and was able to figure it out on his own. Looking at the boy she smiled. He had been the one that she had helped up a few times during the battle. "Pleased to meet you. I am Aislinn." Aislinn shook Stratos's hand as she introduced herself. She wasn't quite sure if there was much else worth saying, so for the time being she would focus on their task. "If that is what you want, I don't mind." She told him before looking a way a little worried. "It isn't that I don't think you can take care of yourself... It is just, some of you are so young. To go into something that you have a two percent chance of winning and if you don't win you die. Even I don't want to die, but at least I have lived long enough to see my sister get married and have two wonderful kids. If I died now at least I had that. You guy probably haven't. That is why I worry." Aislinn explained softly.
Masquerade "You must be really desperate that you want to find an excuse to talk to me. Generally there isn't a good reason to talk to me." The man replied but didn't go to shoo Kuro off too much just seemed to not care if he was or wasn't around. "That is quite the distance you need them shipped. For that it will cost you extra... but I think we could work something out. Come I already have a meeting room set up here." The woman said as she turned on her heal and starting to walk off towards a set of doors that lead to a long narrow hall lined with rooms, one of which was the meeting room
Aislinn will be spending the following Crowns She will spend: 470 Crowns to gain 41 Strength, bringing her strength up to 52 70 Crowns to gain 7 defense, bringing her defense up to 20 40 Crowns to gain 4 resistance, bringing her resistance up to 15 105 Crowns to gain 7 HP, bringing her HP up to 60 Total Crowns spent 685 Total Crowns remaining 14 Stat totals HP- 60 MP-5 Strength- 52 Speed- 11 Defense- 20 Magic- 10 Resistance- 15
As Cerdic sat there trying to hide from the bird when the girl who bumped into him before, stepped into the circle. Was she trying to show off? To him? The nerve that this girl had. No one talked down or showed him up. He was already the best there could be even if he slipped up sometimes, no one was perfect, but he was pretty damn close to perfect. Better than any of these losers at least. Finally Cerdic got to his feet and looked like he was about to thank Daeni, but instead he shoved her out of the horde. "I don't need help from some kid." He shouted after her as he put his force into pushing her away. One would think it was nice having people literally falling all over you, but when it happened so often, one had to pick and choose how often it was allowed. This time the person was too young so he decided that it was not allowed. There were plenty of other more appropriate people out there, and less desperate ones. She was just too desperate and that would also get annoying. Now alone stuck inside the horde, Cerdic looked around. With the bird gone he could focus a little more. Heartless were circling him, and while there wasn't much he could do, he just watch Daeni come in and out of the horde. He could probably just kill a few and dive out. Thankfully it didn't take much effort to strike out around him, hitting one heartless then the next. As they circled it just took one swipe in any direction to hit the heartless. He was able to kill four in close proximity creating almost a bit of a break in the swirls of heartless. That was where he would exit from. Standing still for a moment, Cerdic prepared himself. He watched where the hole circulated and tried to time it, when the time was right, he dove and somersaulted through the heartless, coming out of it with his keyblade extended to the side of him, his hair whipped to the side as sweat gleamed on his forehead. Oh yeah, he looked hot. He shot a charming smile at the group as he got to his feet acting like nothing happened inside the swarm, just strolling to his place near them Xen as he prepared to fight again. Word Count: 400 BP Spent: 20 Heartless Killed: 4 Heartless remaining: 154
Aelin #0057 Since everyone else is posting their discord I will make it easy and use it too. I jump between both discord and skype easy enough.
It doesn't matter too much to me. I am around tonight and tomorrow afternoon.
"Okay Luna." She said, finding that saying the name out loud to help her remember it. Then Luna asked if she was taking the Mark of Mastery. "I have always dreamed of becoming a master..." She went to continue but something seemed to catch Luna's attention. "It is fine." She told Luna when she asked to be pardoned. Aislinn took a step back as she watched Luna run to the girl who had been trapped throughout the battle. Knowing she had no place in anything to do with that, Aislinn turned back to Yue to see what was going on there. At first there was not much going on with her, then after it seemed that the girl and Lea moved on, something happened. Yue was ready to move on and start the exam, but the man in white started talking over her, offering gifts. The first was a little orb like thing that upon touching it filled her with a strange sensation as she learned a new magic. The other gift she didn't quite understand, but was sure she could learn over the time she was here. After that a few talking mice were handed over to Yue, apparently they would be of help later but Aislinn wasn't sure what was going on with that. After that mass amount of confusion however Yue pulled out a card, tossed it in the air and a light blinded her. So much confusion, no answers, but Aislinn went forward anyways. As the light faded she found herself standing on a street, as in a proper civilized street, and not just a path in the Realm of Darkness. She took in her surroundings while waiting for everyone else to gather their barrings. So this must be the place they were to take their exam, the entrance to thing thing that was called a reapers game. She had expected with such a name it would take place in the Realm of Darkness, this seemed almost civil.
The entire way there, Karina couldn't help but think of the group that she had left behind. She had not thought herself close to any of them, but still there was fond memories with them, even when she acted like she didn't enjoy anything that happened. Arriving at the location, Karina looked a little confused. It looked like nothing more than a cave to her. Why had he brought her to a place like this? Lea started to sprout off about something but stopped. A normal person would have wanted to know what he was saying out of curiosity, but Karina didn't much care, she had too much on her mind to care about this organization thing he was speaking on. Watching as the rock lowered and torches lit, Karina observed the spiral stair case that lay in front of them. She supposed the location was starting to make more sense, but nothing was more cliche than a hidden cave hideout. Regardless she followed Lea onto the first step, trying not too look down too much. It wasn't that she was scared of heights, but stuff like this did make her at least slightly uncomfortable. Then he asked her about her name. She was going to save that until she changed her appearance, but she supposed it would be easier just to ask for his help for the supplies and such. "Kiara... I was thinking I would go with Kiara. But... I don't think changing my name is enough. Is there a knife, or scissors I can use? I want to cut my hair as well, and maybe find some new clothes for under my cloak. I just want to leave my old self behind in any way possible." She admitted.
Karina had not wanted to say any goodbyes. She let the short words that were being said, echo in the background as she started to make her way away from the group to rejoin Lea. For the most part there was nothing personal, nothing major or worth reacting to, that was until Steel spoke up again. Karina stopped moving but didn't turn back to him as he spoke. Just more stupid attempts at him trying to belittle her situation. Trying to tell her it wasn't that bad because they were all going through stuff. Karina clenched her fists beside her trying not to react too harshly to his words. In the end she knew he meant well and for once was giving him the benefit of the doubt that he was trying to be good. He didn't seem to understand where the limit was with her, what was okay and what she found not acceptable. Still he was trying to make up for what had happened before and at least that was something. "Don't decide what you are doing on what I am doing. It would be your choice to make and my path shouldn't effect that." Karina said over her shoulder at him. She was not worth basing a future of what they were going to do around. "And if you were smart I would stop rating everyone's pain as equal. I don't know about you, but I don't know many people who's family is hunting them down to kill them because she couldn't shut up and act like a slave like she was told to." There was a cold edge to her words as she spoke to him. With that she continued to walk not addressing Steel any further. She definitely wasn't going to make a comment about the punching bag thing, in all honestly she didn't really feel sorry about it. Taking a few steps forward, Karina tried to keep moving before she got stopped once more, this time by Luna. Luna, unlike Steel ran right up to her and stood in her path, forcing Karina to pause for a moment as she began to ramble. Karina cocked her eyebrow as she listened. It was an awkward ramble that she didn't know what to do with besides waiting for Luna to exhaust herself. Finally when she did Karina spoke. "You are stupid. So very stupid. If you looked up to me for my strength than you are as bad as the rest of them. I am not strong at all, it was all an act, there was nothing to look up to unless pain and cowardliness is appealing to you, then there is more wrong with you than I originally thought." Karina said before putting a hand on Luna's shoulder instead of shaking her hand. "Lets just hope that if we meet again I will be able to say the same.... about resolving things." It was the closest thing to accepting the apology that Luna was going to get, and Karina still refused to apologize for her actions. Dropping her hand Karina turned around once more. There were no more goodbyes to be said. Finally approaching Lea, Karina gave one last glance behind her, and actually for the moment looked a little sad. "Alright.... I am ready to go. Lets get out of here before someone else decides it is time to make a lengthy goodbye. I hate goodbyes." Karina said pulling her hood up and dropping her head down. "By the way... I think I am taking your advice. I can't be Karina anymore. I can't be that person who hid behind others pretending she was strong. I think... I think I want to be someone different, someone that deserved that keyblade." She admitted to him. She had a name she wanted to go by in mind, but until she got to the point that she could start making a real change, she wasn't going to go past that. Just admitting that Lea was right was a big enough step for the time being.
From the corner he could see a figure enter the main room, it wasn't until she took her helmet off that he was able to confirm who it was. His eyes lingered. He couldn't bring himself to get up and approach her. He kept his head down for the most part, but John was still keeping an eye on Kathi, trying to remember more of those times when they were children. It was fuzzy, but he wanted to remember, wanted to have someone familiar in this strange place. Everything felt so out of wack for him. Too long had he spent in such dark, cruel places. His hands were shaking as he glanced up once more. He wasn't sure what to do, what to say, but it was too late to figure that out now. She turned and noticed where he sat in the corner. When Kathi approached, John got to his feet to face her. "No Kathi... medical didn't lose me. They let me out. Doctor Cartwright seemed to think I am fine, or at least well enough to leave. I am not hiding Kathi..." John tried to explain before hesitating for a moment. He thought about how he much approach things from here, he didn't know what to say, so he said the first thing that came to his mind. "Kathi, I remember you. I remember the sick little kid that never failed to bring a smile to my face. I thought.... I thought you were dead. I thought that everyone I ever known was dead, and yet you are standing here... I..." No words felt like enough. "Thank you. You saved me. I don't think I could have lasted another few years in those conditions...." It has been a long time since he had spoken that much. "Kathi, I...." He was going to continue but he started feeling a little dizzy. His head pounded slightly as he looked at her. While he wasn't physically sick, he didn't have an illness. There were aspects of his mind and body that weren't so easily fixed with physical healing. Simple things as the stress this was bringing started to bother him, and with his body working on healing and the sudden amount of medicine that he never had access to, it seemed to be having a hard time processing it all. He reached out to Kathi, looking for support but collapsed before he was able to grab onto her, passing out on the floor of the engineering room.
Well his previous attack might not have been the most graceful thing in the world, but hey he got his keyblade back and that was all that mattered. He could be awesome again with his keyblade and... ow! Something hard hit the back of Cerdic's head, and it didn't even come from the direction of the heartless. He turned around to his own party. "Okay who threw something at me? I know you all want my attention but you should at least wait until after the battle. You will all get your turn in time. I promise. And yes, even you Alder." For once Cerdic called him by name. Perhaps if he was that desperate for attention he would have a "Senpi noticed me" moment and stop throwing rocks for his attention, at least until the end of battle. Just as Cerdic was flashing his cocky little grin at the group, a horde of heartless surrounded him, and he let out a little "eeK" sound as some hit him and then trapped him. He cleared his throat and spoke up in a deep, manly voice. "Damn you fiends! I will destroy you all. You cannot stand up against my might!" He puffed up his chest even though he doubted anyone could actually see him. "Take that!" He said slashing forward at the horde. The light coming into the horde of heartless suddenly darkened and a blue bird flew over him. As it glanced down he could see those piercing yellow eyes, he shrieked. "Stay away heathen! Give me my memories back while you are at it!" He shouted at the bird, putting all his force behind throwing his keyblade directly up at the bird. Laws of physics state that what goes up, must come down. That is exactly what the keyblade did. Down on his head to be exact. The Keyblade hit is head and Cerdic found himself ducking down holding his head. "Curse you evil one!" He shouted at the bird as he practically hid from it the best he could. As the heartless circled him he picked up his keyblade and slashed out at them one more time, but didn't move from the spot in which he was hiding. It was safer that way. He could fight the bird again later when he was better prepared. That was the only problem, he wasn't ready to fight on two fronts. Next time he would do a lot better. Yes of course he would, he was Cerdic Zoric after all, and by default that made him awesome. Word Count: 427 BP spent: 20 Heartless Killed: 4 Heartless remaining: 220
A low chuckle came to Tharados's throat as smiled, raising a glass of wine. "Here is to a glorious future that awaits. Succeed in this and more rewards await you. Perhaps even rulership over that pesky kingdom of theirs. You would still answer to me of course, but I can't be everywhere at once after all." A fair trade, Tharados thought. He got his queen and Lyphos was given more power than he had. Seeing the way he took control over the gifts he had given them, Tharados knew he could have more. An entire kingdom of people to play with how he would like. Tharados had not spent to much time tormenting the people as a whole, they were still allowed to live their lives the way they wanted, but that was because his kingdom was not perfect yet, once he had his queen then maybe he would be satisfied enough to hand Dondra over to Lyphos and Hality to Yana. As for Purra, that territory was his. He had pretty much run everyone out of Alcart, the capital over run by demons now. He would need somewhere to turn his attention to and have fun when things fell into place and he wasn't needed for the day to day ruling of things. "Now on to bigger issues. Rumours are getting out that those brats are alive. I thought I killed that thought years ago, but they are coming back now. Put an end to it. Kill the kids, bring the other to me. Silence anyone who dare believe that they are alive, I don't care what means you use. They will use that hope to break out of the fear that keeps them in line right now, and that cannot happen. I have sent Yana out already but I need you to take a break from your little toys to help out as well. This world runs off fear, there is no room for those stupid brats to give anyone any reason not to listen. If you fail me again you will regret it. I will make sure you are in worse shape than those you seem to adore tormenting." He threatened and meant it. For the most part he acted nice and buddy buddy with Lyphos, but when a job needed done, there was no room for that. Well this was going fabulously... A big mouth and one who hardly spoke. That was going to be her army to stop the demons. As a child Aeradel often wondered how her parents managed to deal with running the kingdom. Now they seemed even more like miracle workers. This was going to be a long journey, but she prayed it would still be successful, even if she hadn't heard back from some of the letter that she had sent out. It was barely a start that she had but it was better than just her and her siblings. "Well I suppose we should take a seat and I will share what I know so far." Aeradel motioned to the table, leaving her siblings at the other table away from her which they seemed to prefer, or at least Rayen did, but she had always been a shy girl. Taking her seat at the head of the table, Aeradel glanced from the very small man, Battousai, to the red head, Veilen. "I have been doing some investigating over the years and came across a few interesting facts. Each kingdom as you both should know, had sacred sights, that have been long abandoned. Places to worship the God and Angel that created us. Apparently there were gifts, offerings left at the sacred sights of Dondra, Purra, and Alcart within the week leading up to the loss of magic. No one thought anything of them, just crazy old lady who still worships the old gods. I have a theory however. There was nothing mentioned about one in Hality, but that is where Tharados appeared from. The demon towers were later built on the same spots. My theory is the demon temples, and those offerings are related to the loss of magic. I think we need to get a closer look at them. Even if they aren't, they are clearly important to the demons. Destroy them and destroy their moral. Either way, I think we need to get close enough to one of those towers to investigate further." Aeradel explained before her eyes ran over the two to see what their thoughts were on it all.
John laid in bed for quite some time, awake. He couldn't sleep though he probably needed it. He had spent so long with so little sleep, it was odd to get into normal habits again. There was a young man, in and out checking on him a few times before he finally reported back to the main doctor who had treated him before. 48 hours. For the damage that seemed quick, but then again the Everlasting had outdated equipment and the slave ships never gave him proper medical attention. Sitting up, he was feeling better already, though he looked terrible. The doctor came to talk to him, saying that he was okay to leave the medbay. That was good news, but he didn't know what he would do if he left. Simon didn't stick around for long after that. He ended up leaving for a while, leaving him in the nurses care. Well care was a loose term since apparently there wasn't much to be doing with him. He was for the most part okay. He was not totally better but he was well enough not to need constant watching. If anything went terrible he could call Simon over the intercom, so basically he had to take care of himself now. It wasn't that he minded, it was weird to have someone fussing over him. It was a long time before John finally got up from his bed and grabbed the nurse. He didn't want a tour of the ship but he did ask for one thing, he asked to be brought to Kathi. When the arrived at the area that Kathi worked, John was informed she went outside the ship for the time being. He decided to sit down and wait until she she returned back to the ship. He was anxious he realized as he sat on a random box at the back corner of the room. He didn't actually know what he would say to Kathi. Thank her for saving him... then what. They were kids together, but did she even remember? Did he even remember properly. Memories from that time were a little foggy, but Simon had confirmed it was who he thought it was. Did that even mean anything? Probably not but he had to at least say something. Dania sat quietly considering all that Emma had to say. "The maps provided are rather recent, less than a year old. The asteroid belt does move, however it seems to be a uniform pattern in which it moves, making your job at least a little easier." She said pressing a play button on the remote in front of her. The map started to move, showing the rotation of the belt. "The speed on this is increased 5 times. They do not move fast, but they move. I will send you the files so you can study them before we set off. I will help with navigating but I will be refer to April before I return to help you. I want her thoughts on the matter." Dania informed Emma sitting back in her chair a little bit. mulling over Emma's next words Emma had brought up a good point about being attacked. Dania was holding on to the idea that it was a dangerous area to travel and that most people wouldn't dare. Finally she spoke up. "This is why I brought it up. It is going to be a risk in several aspects. There is only so much we can do to prepared. We will move forward with the mission if everyone approves of it regardless of the risk. The deflector shields should help provide a protection against any possible attacks, but we will have to be vigilent when it comes to monitoring the surrounding area." She looked around at some of the other members that would help with that. She then looked at Cadmus. "It will be very helpful if you manned the engineering department. We will need all hands on deck ready for anything. I will leave you in charge of that. Commander Cartwright, you will be in charge of a landing crew as will as manning weapons if we come across danger. I will run the bridge." Dania rattled off a quick set of commands. Standing up she looked at everyone, studying their faces momentarily. "You are all dismissed. We will set off in twenty four hours. In the meantime get some rest. I will be in contact with the captain and commander, setting up roles and schedules for everyone. Lieutenant Commander White, I will contact you shortly. Thank you all for attending." She said with a slight bow of her head before walking out of the conference room, planning to head straight to visit her friend April and steal some cuddle time while she spoke of navigation. Dania doubted that she would ever have a child of her own, so this would have to do.
