Spoiler: Drama Dream/Flashback Mai stood there on the porch, dumbfounded as she looked at her dear friend for nine years.“Lief… Why?” The world was suddenly crashing down on her and she couldn’t control it anymore. She clenched her fist and winced, trying to fight the tears that were coming on. “You can’t leave!” she blurted out, her voice louder than she anticipated. “You just… can’t.” She sniffed, rubbing the tears with the heel of her palm. “What did I do?” she asked, her voice quiet as she hugged herself, turning her head to look the other way. “You can tell me anything, you know that.” Her lip quivered as she forced herself to look at Lief with her chestnut eyes, trying to force herself to be brave and reasonable. “You’re the only friend I have… I don’t know what I would do without you…” Thunder rumbled in the distance and the smell of rain was thick in the air. Mai didn’t care though. Lief’s words had stung her to the very core of her heart. They had known each other since they were kids, and now he was telling her he didn’t want to bother her with his troubles. She wiped more tears away with her fingers, sniffing as she fought down the frustration building up inside of her. “Stay here with us,” she said softly. “We can have troubles together…” Sitting next tot he distraught Mai very the very friend that she didn't want to leave her. Despite his words, Leif's face had an odd combinations of expressions pasted on it. Regret and certainty, those were what could be easily seen from his face. "I can't." The words finally left his throat. "If I do your liable to get caught up in this mess centered around me and I couldn't do that to you, not after how long we've been friends." His reason may have been noble, but it was precisely because that they'd been friends for so long that was making this much more difficult. One half of him truly didn't want to abandon her while the other half knew that he had to for her sake. It was an internal conflict that Lief had been mulling over for some time now and today was the day that he told Mai his decision. "Nothing you did was wrong, I'm the one at fault here." While he hesitated at first, Leif slowly moved his arm over Mai's shoulders to comfort her quivering body. As soon as Lief wrapped an arm around her, Mai turned in his arm an embraced him. This was the friend she made daisy chains for, where she pretended they were both heroes of some kind saving the world, the friend that played hide-and-seek and tag for hours on end, exploring the yard and the neighborhood around them, getting a Slurpee ice drink down at the gas station and seeing who could get the worst brain freeze, the one who she would stay up late with and talk about just anything... And now he was leaving her for problems she didn't know. Lief kept them all to himself all this time. Silent tears rolled down her cheeks as she hugged her best friend, not wanting to let him go. She couldn't force him to stay as much as she wanted to, and she couldn't certainly get him to talk about what was on his mind. She had secrets herself, deep down inside. "Don't stay away too long," her voice cracked, full of emotion. "Okay? When you come back... I have something to tell you too." Now wasn't the time to share it though, or at least that's what she thought. Mai pulled away gradually, smiling at Lief through tears. The image suddenly flashed, and Mai had longer hair, tired dead eyes, thinning facial features, a black metallic like choker thing around her neck, and paleness like a ghost. The image shuddered back to a younger Mai, full of life, but full of sadness because of that last day with her best friend. "Don't forget about me, got it?" Mai's countenance kept shifting from one image to another as if there was some kind of glitch happening within the memory. "I have something to tell you too when things are okay again..." Soon Mai was no longer sitting by Lief as if she wasn't ever there to begin with. The gray neighborhood gradually faded away into some sort of darken hallway with a clear prison cell at the very end. The memory glitched, lagging between the image of a girl in a hospital bed to the beginning of the creepy hallway. Finally the vision focused on the girl, showing Lief who it was. The sickly Mai that has shown herself to Leif earlier was laying there in the hospital bed, hooked up to all sorts of machines and wires. An oxygen mask was fit securely around her mouth and nose as she was taking in one labored breath at a time, bandages wrapped around her arms and one over one eye was visible, but did not cover all the cuts and bruises left on her fair skin. "I have something to tell you too when things are okay again," the words were repeated once more, but the unconscious Mai did not speak. Mental pictures flashed without warning, showing Lief a brief slide show of being betrayed by her parents, to being put through various experiments, to faces of people unknown and machines with red eyes, to being sick, broken, battered, bruise, all alone and crying in agony, to just sitting there staring at nothing, cheeks smudged with dirt and grime. The slide show ceased all together, sending the one watching into darkness. A small voice echoed through the vision, sounding so helpless and desperate. "Lief... Where are you...? Please... Someone... Find me..." The hug from Mai was unexpected, but welcomed nonetheless. This would likely be the last time that they would be able to talk like this for quite some time. In fact, he wasn't even certain that they would ever be able to talk like this again. It truly was a moment to be cherished while they had the time. "I'll see what I can do." When Mai's features suddenly changed from her usual self to a more pale version of her, Leif's eyes widen with shock. Before he could even ask what was wrong he image changed once more, back to the Mai he was speaking with earlier. Leif was at a loss for words at what was taking place before him. Mai's appearance kept shifting back and forth until finally she wasn't even sitting next to him anymore. What followed what the entire environment around them changing to a prison cell with a girl resting on a hospital bed. At first Leif had no clue why he was being shown this and was much more concerned about what happened to Mai. The image of the girl moved into focus and Leif got his answer in quite possibly the worst way possible. Having no idea what could've happened to cause this Leif could only stare out in horror as Mai's voice range out in his head and images of everything that she's been through. Seeing the images cause him to further regret his decision to leave her. Had he known about all this, known that this would've happened to her then he never would've left or at least offer her to come along with him. His fist tighten the more he thought about it as her voice sounded in his head once more, this time sounding pleading and helpless. "Lief... Where are you...? Please... Someone... Find me..." Leif's eyes sprung open as his dream/flashback ended. His heavy breathing gradually slowed down as he came back to his senses. He hadn't thought about that day for quite some time, so why did he suddenly recall it now? Heh, who was he kidding, he knew exactly why. He saw Mai's face on the on the missing people section on the board and if that last part of his dream was anything to go off of, which it likely was, she wasn't doing all to well. To think that this could've been avoided if he hadn't left Mai in the first place. He thought that his actions would help keep her safe, but clearly he was wrong about that. In fact the frustration that he was feeling prompted him to one more punch the wall in his room. This time he actually left a small dent due to his Psionic Strength. Still despite all this it was pretty clear what he had to do next, and so he got up, got dressed and left his room.
OKay, so Kel wasn't sure just how did Pluto find out all of those of those thing that Goofy had translated. It sure was a good thing that Goofy was a dog, thought somehow he got the feeling that that wouldn't have made any difference at all. So they now knew that Mickey was in trouble and, much like Raisor had said, they could deal with any Mickey was saved from his predicament. "Come one then, we don't have time to waste." Kel declared, going on ahead of the others. 2/10 posts done.
Veilen used thunder on Wyrm 4 Zephyr used Quick Blitz on Maid 5
After doing nothing but roasting this sucka, with fire not insults, he decided to up and make a much of wyrms to protect him. Well there was only one thing that he could think do do in a time like this. RAIN DOWN THUNDER FROM THE HEAVENS!! So Veilen's hand was lifted towards the sky, specifically the purple moon that would be broken by him, and charged up a bolt of thunder in his hand before aiming it at the wyrm armada. Since when are maids this tough. Okay there's maid guy, but that a guys and these are clearly woman, ugly ones, but woman nonetheless. Okay, that sounded more sexist then I meant. Since when are fairy tail maids this tough. Moving on just in time for Zephyr to get smacked upside the head with an iron. That did hurt, for fortunately Aoki had casted cure on him so it didn't hurt as much. In returned Zephyr again used Quick blitz on the maid to hopefully end this fight. "Why don't we name him Grif?" Zwei suggested. Partly because he had a feeling that Taylor would lose it if the cat was named mittens.
“Yo.” Kel said in response to the surprise arrival of Steel had joined the crew at north side and since he was the last person out of their group that wasn’t here, that was a clear sign that they were almost done here. What further cemented that thought was how there was a solid one heartless left in north side. It had taken quite some time, but they were finally down to one heartless. It was a time of celebration…once that final heartless was dead and gone of course. Since there was only one heartless left, Kel decided to try and regain his keyblade from the wall it was stuck in for the past two posts. Outstretching his hand, he concentrated, visualizing the keyblade in his mind which had caused the keyblade to start to shake within the wall. His keyblade continued to shake within the wall the longer he concentrated on it until finally the keyblade had vanished from the wall and reappeared within Kel’s grasps. Now that he was re armed with his keyblade, he had no use for the ice that was around his fist. The magic that was keeping the ice around his fist as well as keeping him from getting frostbite had stopped, thus the ice started to vanish. It had effectively dissolved away from his hand, leaving Kel with the ability to clench and unclench his fist to make sure that nothing was wrong with his hand. Just as he suspected, nothing was wrong with his hand. Now it was time to get rid of the last Lance Soldier standing. A quick twirl of his keyblade was made before he was holding it reverse style again. Following that, he positioned his arm, as well as the hand that held the keyblade behind him. To wrap it all up, he flung the keyblade towards the heartless, cutting it two upon impact as the keyblade proceeded to return to him. It had taken long enough, but they were finally finished with his mission. OOC: Words: 337 Exp: 17.5 Total Exp: 300 Munny: 30 Total Munny: 390 North Side: DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *throws confetti*
"I mean if you really want to find a secret place to hide it, I won't stop you." Zwei said, before turning to Amanda. "I don't think anyone's in my room right now, so getting in there should be easy. You could also help me name it" He hadn't really interacted much with the people in his room, but they shouldn't mind him bringing a cat into the room. Especially since he technically rescue it from being left out in the cold on the mountain.[/I]
"Huh, oh yeah. I guess letting the cat stay in whatever room Taylor gets should be fine." Zwei said, snapping out of his yuri induced daze.
"Taylor, your lesbian is showing." Zwei said, not having a single problem with what was going on before him.
In an endeavor to find a room for the cat, Taylor had grabbed his arm and dragged him towards the upstairs. Amanda had tagged along shortly after, offering help to find a room. Three head were better than two after all. "Wait, the griffin was a girl?" Huh, learned something knew today. Now the real question was, how to tell a difference between a male female griffin. Who cares that it was late to be wondering that. "Sure, do you know of a room that we could use?" Zwei asked, directing his question to Amanda.
Name: Alisa Grandbell Gender: Female Age (Min of 14): 17 Description: Alisa Personality: Most of the time she's a sweet caring girl, however if you throw money in the occasion she can be quite the devil Weapons: A tower shield, you know the one thats in the image provided Armor: Disregard the armor in her picture then AS: Barrier Surge, Fire Surge, Blitz, Cure, Quick Blitz Strengths: Money management, Surprisingly strong (That's shield can't be lifted by just anyone), Cooking Weaknesses/Fears: Going broke, Spiders, Raptors History: She was once the owner of a inn, now she plays to join a guild to experience something new. Other: Character Build Chosen: Defense Character Build Weakness: Speed
The downside about not looking around the guild was the lack of knowing of any hiding places. Though given the series of events that had happened prior to the end of his most recent mission, it wasn't really his fault. There wasn't really that much time to actually look around for a hiding spot of any kind. "I don't know of any places to hide it. Also I haven't really thought of a name for him/her."
With Charlotte now freed, it was time for him to resumed his duties as an immovable flame turret. So Veilen held his hand out towards Boreal and fired another fire spell.
"We could try hiding it in a room?" Zwei suggested. The cat had finished surveying its surrounding and thus went back into Zwei's jacket. Hiding it in a room should work, but the real question was which room should they hide it in. One that would have easy access would be good for them to take care of it would be good.
Well the cat was quite literally out of the bag, er jacket. "Simple, I just hid it in my jacket and walked through the front door. No idea what the stance on cats are." He answered, right as the cat had poked it head out slightly from his jacket. Judging from how it was turning its head, it was clearly getting a look at its new surroundings.
Before he could introduce himself to Taylor, Lucia had shown up and did that for him. "I'm not all that familiar with the song." Zwei replied, just as Thomas arrived to 'borrow' Lucia. That's right, he did technically have a date with her. Five bucks says he screws it up somehow. Not surprisingly, he had little faith in Thomas. So those two had gone off to the bar. While Zwei had been standing there listening to the song that Taylor was playing, something unexpected had occurred. Meow~ That cat that he'd had on his person had just woken up and mew'd while still within his jacket. Well hopefully Taylor would be the only one to hear it. Man RNG hated him, still no where near as bad as how the universe hated Aoki. I mean the maid that he was fighting had somehow managed to hit her with her attack form all the way across the library. Geez that was some godly range. So if RNG would cooperate, he just need to finish his fight as quickly as possible so that he could go help Aoki out. Zephyr used Quick Blitz on the maid again. Come on RNG, give me something good. I'll find you if you don't. *cracks knuckles*
Still fighting without the use of his keyblade, the first thing that Kel did was to chip away at one of the Lance Soldiers. You can already guess which one that it was. Bright side was that it would be killed next post. Whether it was a post by Moksha or anyone else that happened to be in the area was up in the air, but more likely it was going to be a post by Moksha. With that obligation out of the way, he was stuck dealing with another issue, fighting with his bare, well they weren’t all that bare given how one of his fist was coated in ice. Fortunately it wasn’t causing him to develop frostbite or anything along those lines. If not for that then well, he would be doing this right now. He could of back to his ‘Fencing’ strategy again. That seemed to work. He stood there contemplating what to do while the 4 heartless left dances around him. It was like they were playing a sick game of monkey in the middle that ended with death. That was when it hit him. Two things actually. First he finally decided on an action to take and second, a lance soldier had whacked him upside the head. Kel briefly rubbed his head where he was struck before turning to face the heartless that had struck him and returning the favor. In short, he karate chopped the heartless on the head, sending it face first into the ground before it vanished. He then turned his attention towards the other 3, excluding the one who had been bonked prior to this; it was just standing around looking around like an idiot, he once again cast stop on the surrounding around. Only this time instead of setting it up so that their attack would hit each other, he simply took both of the two heartless he was dealing with lances, tossed them on the ground, and effectively stepped on them. When time had returned to normal, the soldiers’ part of the heartless had very little time to notice what had happened before they just vanished. Leaving two heartless left. One at full BP and the one that has had its BP chipped away for a good couple of post now. Okay, time for some filler words. And stop. OOC: Words: 390 Exp: 19.5 Total Exp: 282.5 Munny: 30 Total Munny: 360 North Side: 2/35 Lance Soldier: 5/8 BP Left
While Molly didn't give him a yes or no answer, what she did do was go behind the board and try to interact with the other little girl who had been there. Seeing this Ken decided to leave them alone and head back to his room, not before putting his hood back on over his head. Leif didn't see much that interest him so he turned away from the board. Doing do he caught a glimpse of something on the board, but didn't investigate it. He did however make a metal note of it for later.
Whelp it looked like it was time to head out to the world that he'd chosen. So Zephyr got up out of his seat and saw that Rinox had already left. Well crap. There goes one of his methods of transportation. That put the teen in quite the predicament, especially the way that he actually could use himself had was used up when he arrived at Disney castle. So unless he could find another way of leaving, he was going to be stuck of librarian duty. That was when he noticed that there was some else here other than Lucian (and whoever else that I might be forgetting). He'd said his name was Xross. Something about him didn't sit right, but it was still a chance at getting a free ride. So he had to take it. Zephyr then approached Xross and said. "Yo, mind giving a guy a lift to the next world?" Xross cut his eyes towards Zephyr before shrugging which was followed by him snapping his fingers, causing a portal to appear behind Zephyr. Zephyr responded by looking at it. Despite basically being the same thing, function wise, he had a odd feeling about this and he walked through a dark corridor barely knowing anything about it. "Alright, I'll go on ahead then." "Agreed." Xross then proceeded to give Zephyr the boot and kick him through the portal. Why? Cause he thought it would be funny. That said, he soon walked through it himself. On the other side of the portal Zephyr had ended up in a tree on some island while Xross was on the ground. Great, I can already tell i'm not going to like him. Elsewhere on the very same Island Asura was beating down some trees. Why you ask, to get stronger of course and that I not sure what else to have him do other than beat down some tree and walk around.
Before following behind everyone back to the castle, Zwei noticed the cat that was Wenlock's griffin just chilling (pun not intended) in the snow. Now Zwei had no problems with leaving Wenlock behind in the snow, they didn't but if they were two, then he wouldn't have a single problem with it. The cat however was a different matter. So doing the one thing that he could think to do, he picked up the cat and placed it in his jacket where it would hopefully warm up. Zwei had basically done what was the equivalent of Al hiding a bunch of cats in his armor, cept minus the soul of a boy bonded to armor part. ~Convenient timeskip~ Wenlock had been sent to a jail cell, Aidan and Annika apparently had a thing going on and everything else seemed to end well for them. ~Another Convenient timeskip~ By this point the cat that Zwei had liberated from Wenlock had warmed up and was sleeping. Upon getting back to the guild, he saw that a fair amount of people were back save for Team King and company. That probably meant that they were still out on their job. He took another couple of steps into the building and noticed that someone new was here. specifically speaking she was in the corner of the hall playing a guitar. Well that certainly was new, but as per Lar's request for interaction Zwei headed towards the girl and spoke upon getting there. "Nice guitar." At this point Veilen was pretty much and immovable fire turret spitting hot flames, actual flames not sick beats yo, at Boreal. Alone it wouldn't have been all that much, with the others in this fight it was actually doing something of use. Huzzah. After his recent round of flame slinging, Boreal had launched a counter attack, summoning a drake to attack Ra and attempting to bind Dale, which instead caught Charlotte due to her blocking the brotherly angst. So he had tow options, continued flame throwing or assist Charlotte. Drawing his sword, he went to attack the chains and free Charlotte. It was a fairly easy choice to make. Veilen used blitz on the chains? I guess that's what I would attack in this instance. REBORN!!! While there was no orange flame on his forehead, Zephyr's eyes shot open as he looked around. He could've sworn that he'd gotten KO'd by a dishcloth of all thing and was being polish to well, he was being polished. While he cloths were clean, there were no indications of being smacked in the face by a cloth. However there was a maid in front of him holding a dishcloth. Was fate trying to tell him something? Possibly. Did he know what it was? No. He did know that he was in a fight and thus attacked the maid before him. Zephyr used Quick Blitz on the maid.
Ken had stood there as Molly pulled out a picture and showed it to him. He inspected it, trying to decipher what she was trying to tell him when his eyes landed on what he assume to be younger versions of both Molly and Carter. "So he's your brother then?" That would explain how they were connected as well as why she was looking at his picture in particular. "Hmm, what me to look for him for you?"
