Welcome to Gaia! ::

Edit!

That's when the horse ran someone, or something spooked it. It charged, going through the crowd, and he lost sight of it, he only had a glimpse to start out with. Damn, he already lost his first lead, who was he going to ask now?

He was hardly ready for her to grab him, and he didn't even seem to notice as he was being dragged forward. She was talking a mile a minute, and all the while he found himself inching closer and closer to the center of the crowd. By the time he pulled away from her, it was far too late. The audience expected a show, and well...he was stuck.

It shouldn't be too hard, after all, he was fairly coordinated, and if he could get the movement patterns down before the crowd turned on him, well, he might get some information.

"Alright...step back."

He gestured towards the crowd for those that didn't hear him as his right hand came upwards to touch the hilt of his sword. He freed the weapon, launching it clear into the air with a swift motion upwards.

Athan was always a quick learner, but that generally applied to fighting.

Fortunately for him, dancing was a lot like fighting an imaginary opponent. And although the first thirty seconds of his performance was full of awkward steps and pointless head gestures, his sword was coming closer down to the ground. The crowd began to boo as the sword came about five feet above Athan's head. Some of them were probably wishing that it would come and split the horrible dancer straight down the center.

Athan spun once, fingers opening as he stepped back in the process of his spin. The sword fell into his grasp, and that was all he needed. The weapon acted like a five-foot long glowstick, spinning effortlessly within his hand's grasp as his feet set about keeping the audience guessing. A quick motion of his arm and the sword planted itself into the ground. Athan took a couple steps backwards, then jumped towards the sword, inverting himself vertically in the process. His leg hooked around the hilt of the weapon at the knee, his body having enough momentum to complete two revolutions before he finally stopped with his head against the ground, arms crossed in front of his chest.

People were laughing? Oh that was it. Athan pulled himself to his feet, and before he was able to get to his sword, he was swarmed by teenage hipsters and concerned parents alike.

"Dude!"
"That was awesome!"
"Don't you have anything better to do?!"
"He's overcompensating for something with that sword."
"I could do better."
"I dropped my ice cream."

And then there were the kids that were trying to pull his sword from the ground. They didn't really get very far. Particularly since the weapon was a lot heavier than it looked, not like it looked light to begin with. Athan sighed and shook his head, and after the crowd dispersed, he was finally able to pry his sword away from the youngsters and place it upon his back once more.

"Alright, now before you all go and do something stupid with the rest of your day, can anyone tell me if they know of the Petals of Chaos?"

He received a lot of blank stares. A few parents looked pissed and thought he was talking about a new kind of drug.

Things weren't really going well at all.

Bloody hell! "Easy boy, woah! Woah!" People were diving, scattering and screaming in their scramble to get out of the horse's way as Alex was trying to calm it down. Their screaming was not helping.

Soothing voice, radiation of a calm presence, none of that worked. Last resort, another mind rape. She reached out with her own mind, into the horse's. 'Calm.' It was both a command and a mental suggestion. The horse immediately started to slow down, until it finally stopped, looking around in slight confusion.

Alexiel let out a sigh of relief and looked down at Daemon. The bird was still in her lap, quivering slightly. The bell was still in her hand. Everything was in tact and apparently, no one was following her.

"Oi... let's get out of here boys." She turned the horse a bit, urging him southeast through the crowd, towards the residential area. This was not the best place for a horse and she needed to get the beast out of there.

"What should we do now?" Kit asked, knowing that there isn't any point of staying here, except seeing Athan get laughed at, but it doesn't matter. Where were they going to go now, where was there to go?

((I think this might be my last post for tonight.))

Geylkre landed heavily on the planks and lowered his head. Irzael slided off the gargantuan's back and patted his neck, "You fly around for a while. I'll call if I need you." The bird nodded, and then, with three great flaps of his wings, was off and away. "Where to go now..." Irzael thought aloud, as he did so often, "I think I'll hang out here for a while. It's pretty central."

The guy was obviously not a very chatty person, he liked to keep to himself. He hadn't even given her a name when she'd introduced herself. Ah well, she had taken to calling him Devil because of the symbol on the back of his jacket. However, he did look familiar, so she was sure that if given time, she would remember where she had seen him before and maybe what his name was.

Back on the boardwalk again, Alex was having a much easier time controlling the horse now that she was walking him, rather than riding. She noticed that the civillians on the boardwalk also seemed to have forgotten the earlier disturbance involving the beast as well.

With things being calm at the moment, now was a good time to think. She reached behind her, letting her bookbag fall towards her side where she unzipped and reached in to pull out the bell. Zipping the bag back, she moved it back behind her as it hung by one strap. This would be a good time to examine that bell.

Rafe had said that no one could be sure what form the petals would take. So, could this be one?

"I'm searching for a young girl named Sejai, I was told that once the petals were gathered, she would appear..." Alexiel paused for a moment, frowning. "She stays with me when she's not wandering, but last time she stopped by my home, she was worried about the Chaos, she was frightened... She ran off and I've been searching for her since. The search has led me to this game that I now find myself playing..."

Alexiel didn't want fame or fortune. She didn't want power either. Alex was perfectly content with her life, running the pet shop in Latent. The only thing she did want was to ensure Sejai's safety.