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{ ATE : Good Friend 'Captain Morgan' : 20 }
{ Feather : Disney Castle : Mirage Arena }

"Nawh."

Feather stated out loud even with voice of Kyle in head, sliding into the hallway with the most deadpan expression possible staring at the general group of people on the second floor.

"Can't convert me to your voodoo magic and using my brain for once. You can always make me stop by coming for food and drink yohoho."

Though thinking about it, Feather really should use the brain chat room thing, but at the same time it's giving them flashbacks to horrible jokes of ye youngin Feather. Never again.

[ ATE : Good Friend "Captain Morgan" : 22 ]
[ Luke : Mirage Arena : First Floor ]

Luke nodded to Feather's suggestion to try food. He loved mac and cheese, but would definitely not be eating it if it had bacon in it, so he would have to try everything else to make up for it and not be rude. He had no idea what she meant by "poutine" but he was definitely up for trying a new experience. At that particular moment, anyway.

He noticed that another of their allies was speaking to him, and let out a loud "OH!" before setting down his book and empty glass and following her into the kitchen.

"Sure! I'd love to help. Um..." He wanted to ask her name, but simply nodded at her mentions of food and family visits for now. He had been surviving off of berries and fruits gathered from bushes and trees in the forest for the first week after the... incident. Although he loved fruits and berries, he was definitely grateful to be able to eat cooked food again. "Word," he agreed. He wasn't sure what else to say - would it be rude to ask questions about her family, would it be rude to not acknowledge that she had said a thing? - so he did what he usually would do, and let the music take over. He began to quietly vocalize the melody of the song he had previously been singing as he continued to follow Sayrike's lead.

Deep bass reverberated from a pair of wrap-around headphones clasped over one ear of the summoner, the other resting just below the earlobe as he strode into the hall where the others were gathering. Under his left arm, Steven held a large tome: "Fundaments of Magecraft, Numerology & Geomantic Studies." Over his left palm floated a hologram displaying a number of diagrams and text that shifted and changed when his fingers twitched.

Behind him, taking up flanking positions were two men clad in heavy plate armor. One had olive skin, a mantle made of lion pelt, armor tarnished gold and red, and hair of chocolate brown with a military cut, the other dusky skinned, disheveled, obsidian hair down to his shoulders, and matching black armor with gold etching topped with a dulled copper colored cloak lined in the inside a vibrant red. Each stood a foot taller than their tallest earthling and carried great swords at their sides. Beyond their monstrous height, a ring of spell script that floated above each of their heads identified them as one of Steven's summons passively accompanying him.

Steven made a small smile to Feather and Kyla's direction before greeting the others who had gathered in the hallway outside the living room, "Good evening. I hear something about food and a Captain of some repute."

((Music: liberate me by Syrufit))

{ATE : Old Acquaintances, New Friends : 5}
{Ashley : Paris : Outside Hati’s Mansion}

“She is quite sassy,” Ashley laughed as she sat down in front of Hati. “Told me about how you are ‘saucy lady’ and how I am ‘coming back for more.’ That is not really the reason I am here though.”

Ashley cleared her throat before looking out of the windows and into the garden. “I was instructed to come here as a ‘test’ by someone called the Broker. That was an odd evening for sure. Here I am setting up in a particular part of the world and a cloaked person brings up my pizza. After a long conversation with them, I had to come to you for… advice? Companionship? I am not really sure how to describe it. I feel different then how I did an hour or so ago.”

Ashley slowly faced Hati trying to figure out how to phrase the next part of her long speech. “I feel like a new person. Not connected to the person I was once designed to humiliate. I am not really sure who I am anymore or what I can do. I did however discover I have a new weapon that is mine and mine alone. I can show you if you would like but I would feel rude just making it come to my hand. The only thing that I knew was that you were an ‘ally.' So I figured, since this happened to me and the Broker told me I could trust you, I would just try to talk to you about it and hopefully this will help this feeling.”

{ATE:Good Friend Captain Morgan:27}
[Kyla: Mirage Arena Second Floor Halls> Stairs]

"So it would seem! It sounds like Feather has a good idea in mind. I personally can't say much about the captain but perhaps my partner can indulge, if the first while of this new ' set up' hasn't made her too tired to keep company- that is." The summon replied with that final comment trailing back to her partner who hadn't retreated as first intended. [/colo]
In fact Kyla had lowered her book in time to return Stevens smile and nodded toward him and... his ummons most likely who didn't respond very much. They didn't seem very friendly at first, but then again she couldn't be sure their nature as their likeness was surprising and she was trying to ascertain what summon they actually were.

Meeting the gaze of the rest of them her face softened a littl and her shoulders relaxed. " I guess I could... if yd have me. I can't remember the last time I had such an indulgence."
Not since coming here at least, so she made to follow to where the ' gathering' would take place in the company of the famous pirate.

Cue: OST Trinity Seven - LAST CREST

Dani had been spending a little bit of time wandering the arena looking for no one in particular. She was not entirely sure why she was drawn to the beach but there she was. Before her, she saw someone currently having their face in a book with what to her at the time looked like a blanket. She casually walked onto the beach wearing a black tank top with blue shorts. When she finally stood next to the studying person, she saw what she originally was a blanket was actually the person’s white mage coat. She did the best she could of taking off her own jacket before folding it over across her elbow.

“Do you mind if I sit next to you? I kind of wanted to talk to you and catch up.” Dani spoke quietly as she rubbed her unoccupied arm in nervousness.

Dani put down her own coat next to Joe’s robe before sitting on it. Since her coat was obviously not as big as Joe’s robe, she sat partially on his. “So I have been thinking a lot recently about things that have happened in the past,” Dani sighed before looking over at the water user. ”I figured if there was one person to talk to about this with, it might as well be someone who is considered a water brother at this point.”

She then focused on the ocean in order to calm herself. “I feel like I might have screwed up pretty bad during the last fight that we had with the darkness,” Dani said, curling up her knees into her chest. “A lot went wrong for everyone I assume. That last fight though, everything I did was used against you guys. My water, my abilities. And even then it felt so useless.”

”Do you remember when a bunch of water was raining down on us” Dani inquired. “That is one of my abilities. I screwed up when I was storing water mana into the ground. The darkness used it to do major damage to the party and form clones that even I couldn’t escape from. I also get the feeling that it may have used some of my statuses on people.”

"I got so upset and angry my weapon changed into… something that wasn’t good" Dani whispered. "It has been weighing on me ever since I first found out something that I have not really mentioned to the group. Thankfully my weapon at the time changed back to normal but it just goes to show I am… partially her.”

“I will try to remember it isn’t my fault. This kind of reminds me of when I talked to Louis before he… met his demise so to speak,” Dani spoke before pointing to the ocean. “Fun fact: I briefly talked to him about her down at the bottom of the ocean in my space. It was weird… talking about her for the first time."

Dani finally turned to Joe before speaking. “I guess I never really talked to anyone about her huh. I met her. I just never really got the time before to say ‘Hey I met my replica!’ I was also somewhat scared before of what she did to me. Back in Atlantis was where I met her. It was during the giant battle in the ocean against the army of heartless. I don’t really remember where everyone was but all of a sudden, I was dragged into the center of that army. Finally she stopped and she… ‘chatted with me.’”

Dani’s face turned into disgust as she continued. ”She mentioned some horrible things to me. She played off of my insecurities about this group and then when she said everything and broke me emotionally, she did one thing that has never happened to me before. She took my arm and just broke it. Luckily she didn’t snap it in two but I have never broken a bone. At that point, she left and the heartless started to swarm around me. After that, I mean I tried to fight them one handed but I think I knew and was getting ready to accept death. I guess you can say luck or something told me to hold on because Kyla somehow found me in the sea of heartless and I was able to swim out.”

“Since then, her words still play in the back of my head,” Dani looked solemnly at the sand. “It has gotten better a little, at least until we fought the darkness. I can understand what you mean though that I am partially her. It just sucks that she didn’t just hurt me a little bit physically. She went for emotional damage and succeeded.”

“As for her name, she decided to play off of what my mother did and took my middle name. Her name is Ashley” Dani finally concluded. The weight of saying her name was heavy against her.