Taking the Death Ability (All ze Focus shall be mine) Upgrading Cure to Cura and taking the Apocalypse (Ex-Art) Spending 6 points in HP 4 points in MP 6 points into FOC 5 points into SPD Current Standings HP: 190 MP: 40 AP: Same DEF: Same FOC: 80 SPD: 42 FLUX: Same
Okay, totally not suspicious sounding at all. Come to think of it, he didn't even know where it was that this ship supposed to be heading. They weren't really told much about this ship to in the first place. "Speaking of, where is this ship supposed to be headed to anyway?" He'd put down the recently peeled potato to grab another one just as Karina had walked back in, with Castur eventually making his way back and still not actually doing anything beside lean against the wall. Guess leaning doing that was more productive than moping to him.
Kel continued to peel the potatoes as Karina went off in search of Castur as he was more so hoping that she wouldn't run into any trouble on the way. Partly out of concern and partly cause while Fareed was willing to keep them aboard rather them drop them off in the vast nothingness that surrounded them, he'd rather not do anything that would get them on her bad side until they were near anything really. "Pretty much what she said, not that we had any idea where we were or going beforehand. What about you though, why are you here?"
In seeing Take display his magic for the first time, Chrono was impressed by what he saw up until he saw the mech getting itself up after the first graviga spell. That had been when Chrono considered casting some magic of his own to assist him, but in that that Take had managed to get a hold of the situation with another aeroga spell, thus allowing him to drop down onto the struggling mech. Once he had his balance, he made his way over to where the hatch to the cockpit would be and opened it. As the bewildered pilot tried to make sense of what was going on, Chrono took advantage of his confusion and cast stopga on him. He hadn't completely figured out how long his stopga would work when casting on another person, but he had enough time to knock out the pilot and move them to someplace out of the way. At the very least he would be confused once he woke up and hopefully not realize that he had been jumped by some kids. "As far as everyone else will know it was your first try." Chrono said with a smile as he entered the cockpit of the mech. Alright Chrono, you can do this. It's like riding a bike. A very expensive, deadly and complicated bike. A deep breath later and he willed himself to take control of the mech and pilot it back to the rendezvous point.
Chrono shook his head. "No, that idea sounds good." If worse came to worse, then he could just cast magnet on himself to fix his feet to the mech. The approaching sounds of the mech grew louder until it was practically right underneath them. Chrono got himself ready act as the mech stopped to scan the area directly in front of it. "Ready when you are."
Kel eyed the potato peeler that was handed to him with a raised brow, he may not have known what a potato peeler was, but the action of peeling potatoes actually was something he was familiar with. Typically seen it done with a knife as opposed to this, but couldn't have been that hard to do with a different tool. "I hope potatoes aren't the only thing they expect us to eat." Nonetheless, with a simple sigh, he began the process of peeling the potatoes. He merely gave Castur a mere look as he walked out to presumably gather information. "Good luck moping there Aux."
With Tinarah choosing to partner herself with Chrys, that basically left Chrono and Take as the last group which wasn't a problem. He still had some misgivings regarding Chrys, but she's yet to do anything to warrant him distrusting her fully. He trusted his sister and her judgment. That and he knew next to nothing about Chrys that wasn't something he'd overheard so being partnered with her would've been something. "Let's go see that magic of yours." As much as it unsettled him to see a hulking mech walking around the streets on patrol, it brought up questions of what they were patrolling for even more. It was probably just his paranoia speaking and realizing that kept him from diving further into that topic. Instead, he looked to Take, "How do you want to do this? I could probably make a jump onto it once its stopped."
He appreciated Aux's honestly just as much as he did the fact that the Captain seemed to the opposed to the idea of killing in general and not just killing them. Still not too fond of the idea of being property, but it was better than nothing. They would still be alive after all which was more than enough for the time being. Still, he had no idea what these so-called spaceports were and with the captain gone, he decided against trying to ask anyone else on the ship. Reluctantly, even more so after Aux's display, he followed down to the lower decks. "Long as 'playing the part' doesn't come back to bite us." Any way of having 'fun' while they were here was currently lost to Kel. Castur seemed to be getting on Karina's bad side just by speaking and Aux had put a new meaning to 'finders keepers'. Perhaps they would get lucky with these tasks and it would be a better chance to settle and not get into trouble. Spoiler: Totally a Pirate and not another Tales of Character
This was going to end well for them had been the conclusion Kel had come too due to the varied responses from his friends. Karina's was fine as it was nothing new given what Castur had said about her and what he's known about her. Now he certainly wasn't all too fond of the idea of moping the floor of the ship after being accused of stowaways considering, well, the first thing he said to them. He'd put up with it should that be the case, but he definitely wouldn't do it of his own free choice. Kel could only groan by the end of it. If they were going to lie, tell the truth, or whatever, having their stories straight would be helpful. "I'm inclined to agree with Karina on this one, they were already looking hostile when they were pulling us aboard. Long as we can stay on here, we might be able to work something out later." He sighed, then looked to Aux. "Anything you want to add that could be of some help would be appreciated."
Kel immediately feared for the worst upon hearing the tightening sound around the ship. This really was the end for them, wasn't it? Death by suffocation in a ship while lost in what might as well be the middle of nowhere. The renewed rocking of the ship had ended up with Kel being thrown near the window, allowing him to see the ropes that were secured to their ship. So maybe this wasn't the end as he was so quick to assume, didn't fully make him feel any better about it all. None of the people on the ship looked particularly fond to see them and they certainly were the oddest looking people he's seen. Their treatment had been less than stellar. Pulled out their ship and held as they were poked and prodded while the crab-like man spoke to them. "I'm Kel and last I checked we were pulled onto your ship by your crew. We were just traveling around aimlessly beforehand." He was less so bothered by the captain's question, but more so how they were being treated as if they had intentionally hitched a ride on this ship.
Everyone was in agreement on regarding Castur's random button pressing, but it didn't stop the sound of hissing air sounded through the entire ship as air was slowly being loss. Well, that was just great, they hadn't even gotten to their destination and were already at risk of dying. "Please tell me you remember what button you pressed before we started losing oxygen." Kel could only hope that there was some good outcome to this.
Well Castur was right as the idea of Karina running around using fire wasn't that unbelievable, but the name thing was something that he could only guess at. He didn't though, figuring that whatever her reasons had been she'd tell them if she wanted to and that could easily be never depending on how she felt, so why push it. Speaking of, Karina had called him by a different name too. Did everyone over there have two completely different names? The assortments of beeps coming from had distracted Kel from the idea as Castur attempted to reassure them that his actions wouldn't lead to an untimely demise. "Could you not press random buttons if the risk of blowing up is a possibility?"
"Were you planning on piloting one if we went and grabbed three of them, cause if you think two of us can fit by squeezing I'm not sure how you would fit in there." Chrono knew he wasn't the most physically built person, most of his physical prowess lied with running and climbing stuff after all. He would like it if they could keep any havoc or collateral damage limited to anything Gigas related, which would be something entirely up to them. Chrono then looked to the others. "So, you guys ready to hijack a robot?"
Chrono attempted to recall something that would prove to be of help out of the multitude of notes that he had taken and after a fair bit of mental sorting, he remembered something. "I remember there being some blueprints to what might've been a prototype in there, though I would need to see either a closer look at those mechs or their blueprints to confirm that." That memory might've been a few years old, but there was a chance for some part of it to be helpful. Chrono made one more attempt to try and remember something a bit more helpful but came up with nothing. "Sorry, that's about all I got."
In his attempt to quickly move to the next boat, Kel had lost his footing seconds after taking the first step and crashed into Ignis's back and apparently something else for there were a few seconds before falling into the more mechanical ship. He groaned for a moment as he attempted to get is bearing on what had just occurred. "I don't think so, but yeah. Kel's right, nice to meet you." He shot Karina a quick, just puzzled look. "Kar-Kiar-what?" By this point, he'd floated to a horizontal position and it had been when he started looking around that everything seemed to look weird to him. "This is new." He mused while continuing to float around in various directions. "So we still don't have a clear cut path on where to go, perfect. Still, I'll take convenient timing over being lost...wherever we are." Looking outside did nothing to help unless someone here knew how to navigate the stars. Unfortunately, Kel was oriented sideways when Castur restored gravity and he landed right on his sides. "Ow, definitely felt that one." He got back onto his feet once the pain had subsided. "Yeah, that aspect of this journey hasn't changed at all in the time you've been gone, but at least you didn't nearly drown before waking up on an island."
Kel only looked in the direction Karina had jerked her head toward one of the few new people that he didn't know. Least he apparently knows how to get to Olympus. As for the names that the three mice had mentioned, only a few them rang any bells and some of the ones that did seemed to have already been in a safe place. Considering how they were going on about this, it wasn't a bad track record, to be honest. Knowing the names of these princesses would make the task much easier for them down the road, but first, they needed to get out of this whale. "Great, I was afraid of this happening." The moment that the whale had started to rumble, one of two possibilities ran through Kel's head and neither of them was any good. Thus he quickly moved to the nearest boat in preparation of what's to come.
Kel took a moment to gather himself after that impromptu hug and followed behind Karina just in time to see the three mice return. Have they been with them this whole time? He wasn't sure whether to be surprised to see them or confused as to how they weren't affected by the times they nearly ended up drowning in water. He managed to get the gist of the topic from what the mice were saying and chimed in after Kaida had spoken. "Does anyone know how to get to Olympus Coliseum though? If we go to Central Haven we at least have Kaida who can lead us there."
Chrono had looked a bit more interested when Gladio had implied that he had information that they would need. It would be helpful to have that information, though alternatively they always had his notebook back home. Unfortunately, in lew of recent discoveries, that information might end up being outdated and not all that helpful in the long run. Not to mention the whole thing with his father that he wasn't sure if he could bring himself to face. Both of the magic mentioned were things that Chrono could in fact do and he would've volunteered to do so, but seeing just how excited and proud Take seemed to be had made him reconsider. After all, he didn't want to steal the spotlight from Take if this would've been his shining moment for him to show off some magic, also this would be the first time actually seeing Take use magic so there was a degree of curiosity affecting leading his decision as well. "If Take says he can do it then I say we let him, but how many do we need to get? I doubt we're going to find five of them roaming about in the same area."
Whether it was the lingering darkness still leaking off of her, the look she had given him or a combination of both said look had left Kel relatively shocked. He'd known her long enough to know that she had a fair amount of baggage and has seen some of her worse moments. This seemed different though and as she pushed herself up to her feet, and walked past him, leaving him there as he tried to ponder on what to do. Please don't kill me for this Having found some form of answer Kel moved to catch up to Karina and promptly gave her a hug. It was brief but long enough to which he hoped that had some sort of positive effect. He still felt awkward about it as the faint pink tint to his cheeks implied. "Sorry, kinda did the first thing that came to mind." With a nervous chuckle, awaiting however Karina would react.
Kel couldn't say that he was surprised by how Karina had reacted to his question, partly cause he knew that it wouldn't be the most helpful of things to say in this situation, but he still felt like he should say something. Even if he wasn't sure what exactly to do right now. He only looked at Aux as he walked over and berated Karina. Least that what he thought since it didn't seem like that at first, it was only what he had said at the end that made it seem more like a scolding. Either way, with folded arms he said: "Least you haven't tried to kill us with darkness as he did." He wasn't still holding it against him, but from where he stood she was doing better than he was in that regard. "Still at the risk of sounding like an idiot again, I'll say that you're strong enough to win with or without darkness. Instead of that sink or swim mentality that Aux had, face it head on and make it submit to you."
