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Bobbi looked over at Dani as the younger girl asked what was wrong. She felt Dani's hand on her shoulder, and reached up to squeeze it with her own, offering a small smile.

"Just thinking," she said, and caught Riku glancing back at her as she turned her attention back to where they were going. She had heard a bit of what the alien commander had said, and responded to Riku's question.

"Mickey had about three armies when I was there, but most of them were out," she said loudly enough for the entire group to hear. "I think I remember something about them being reinforcements, but I never did learn for what. I think one of the armies... the Al-Bhed, maybe? I dunno. But I think at least one of them had airships. If Mickey promised them, they're probably not too far behind me, since I was poofed in by Merlin."

Demyx heard the kids talking, and frowned. Armies? Airships? Reinforcements? That sounded like nothing but trouble.

"Aaaah, what am I getting myself into?" he whined, dragging his feet a bit more as he followed along.

[John.:Hawaii:.Village]

John heard the mention of the Al-Bhed airships and immediately his mind went to one of the more wasted portions of his high school years - FFX-2. A sad excuse of one of the only sequels in the Final Fantasy series. 3 playable characters, a crappy tie-up of loose ends, no Tidus, a pitiful end-boss compared to Sin, and of course, the fact that if you actually finished the game, you were dubbed a lesbian whether or not you were male or female... he thanked his cousin for that last little aspect. The torment he spent trying to justify the game to others. The ridicule he endured by trying to get 100% and having his sister get to it before he... The pains and struggles of trying beat Yojimbo when he has that stupid attack that puts you down to 1 of everything!

However, it was rather interesting the Al-Bhed ships were going to back up the alien forces of Lilo and Stitch...

"Ya know..." John said to no one in particular. "If Al-Bhed really did back up you guys, then you'd have like a hodge-podge of air-space... alien ships with one run by a midget named Shinra... or something... ya know?"

Bobbi's state of thought didn't really phase John much. Everyone had a lot of thoughts, and sometimes they really just needed to sort them out themselves... it was one they didn't organize these thoughts that the darkness would take them over slowly... darkness was a manipulator and a conqueror of the weak-hearted.

[Quina : Hawaii : Beach]

Quina looked at Seymour with a puzzled looked. Executed? For eating? What place were they going to? Everyone knew that everything was edible if prepared right. No one would ever get executed for eating good food. Unless...

"Councilwoman poison? No eat?" Quina asked Seymour, curious, "You eat Councilwoman before?"

[Noelle .:. Jack .:. Gibbs ~ Shipwreak Cove ~ Black Pearl --> Dock]

Jack smiled slightly as Elizabeth seemed peeved and turned away in a just checking, sort of way. He turned his attention back to the mending of his ship but found the person who offered to do it had disappeared. Noelle had somehow already snuck off the ship to do . . . whatever it was that she was doing.

"I'll be along, Hector." He replied to Barbossa's summons. He certainly didn't need a guide around this particular safe haven.

By the time Jack had gone to call on Noelle again, she was down on the dock, descending a side ladder to reach at the sea watter lapping up against the dock supports. The agromancer got close enough to dip a hand in and use it to throw water onto her arms. It took little time for her to feel somewhat clean and more comfortable. When she was through she climbed back up onto the deck, just in time for Gibbs to issue his call.

"Aye, Captain!" He shouted, trying to bring up the earthlings' attention as he left the ship. "You heard 'im! On the way with ye land rats, unless ye be wantin' ta clean this mess of a deck wit' ta crew!"

[[Louis : Black Pearl : Main Deck]]

The arcanist inwardly cringed at the moment their hands touched, something in the back of his mind opposing the thought of prolonged contact with another human being. When she spoke, his grip tensed slightly, "Thank you." He wasn't sure why he was so uncomfortable, in fact, he was sure he should be perfectly fine with this, but something kept bugging him. He did his best to push it aside and move on, nodding in Sayrike's direction as he relaxed, adding, "Lead the way."

((QD, feel free to puppeteer Louis at this point. He'll follow you as long as you continue to hold his hand. There won't be much for me to reply to otherwise, so unless you kick up a conversation with him, you don't need to wait for me to reply. ))

[Maria ~ Can't remember for the life of me .___.]

Maria sat in a plush-looking chair, a pair of glasses perched on her nose. She was staring down through them at a rather large looking tome. It belonged to Kallista originally and she was busy comitting a great deal of its spells and potions to memory. The fae had already assigned a Geist to knowing all the information contained in the many volumes of spells and potions available to her, but she wanted to go through everything herself so she knew what was available. When Ajora entered the room she looked from her reading without pulling her head up.

"Oh goody~" She sang, slapping the large volume shut. A cloud of dust puffed up after she did so, making her cough and wave a hand to disperse it in the air. After wrestling the large book off her lap she stood and left it in the seat, pocketing her glasses.

"You know, I'm glad you've shown up." Maria said offhandedly, sauntering towards the Replica, "I had a visitor earlier--quite an interesting character. You'll have to meet him some time."

[ James ; Ajora : ??? : ??? ]

"Always good to make new friends!" he responded sing-songily as he began to walk over to meet her halfway. James stayed. "Speaking of, I've gotten all of them- every Earthlings and anyone who happened to be with them at the time. Had to get the last three from some slimeball, since he'd gotten them under mind control. He didn't seem to mind."

He began to carefully set them on the table; as he did, there was a slight pattern to them. Earthlings in alphabetical order, then canons in alphabetical order.

"And that's just the ones we've found so far. Considering you'll supply me as long as I get each one I come across, I'll be scouring for awhile- ah, right," he said with a grin before turning to face Nicholas. James then lifted a hand and yanked at one of Nicholas' hairs before walking over to Maria with it. He held it out like a mindless drone, waiting for her to take it.

"Anyway, there's one new thing that's come up that I think would be your specialty anyway," Ajora began, leaning on the nearby table. "Well, would have been Kallista's, but since.. yeah. Anyway! What do you know of things called Trinity Charms?"

[Dawn : Shipwreck Cove : Black Pearl ~ Deck]

Dawn, having been absorbed in her own little moment, jumped a little hearing Kyle's voice. She blinked a little, confused, as he instructed her as to what to do.

"Wait, wha?" she said as she looked at Kyle as he left below deck.

What in the world could that boy forgotten? She looked at the group that had already left the ship. Though she should of listened, and told the others to stay together, but as they say, curiosity killed the cat. Dawn slowly got up and followed after Kyle below the deck.

"May I ask, what in the world you are after?" she asked as she caught up to him.