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Nectaris, Knight of the Moon

The room was filling up quick, but a few familiar faces caught Nectaris's attention in the sea of everyone else.

"Emain Ablach!" she called out, dodging a few people so that she could skip over to him. Yeah, there were other people around who she knew, here and there, but he got bonus interesting points because he was here back together with his husbands, finally.

It was cute, but this was also a chance to see if they were actually doing okay all together. She had a friend to look out for!

"Imhotep! Promethei. Hi! Welcome to the Moon!" She was a Knight here, so she had to be a good hostess, right? "Unfortunately this isn't my cool butterfly garden with bonus science stuff, since you know, our magic is being weird, but it's still cool here! It's still the Moon! This is the part where the Code lives!"

She loved the Code. It had saved her life, so obviously whatever it was about to ask her to do, she was gonna do. For now, though, some of the other knights seemed to be filling it in on what was going on, so her attention stayed mostly on the guys.

Her eyes shifted to the fourth guy that was standing next to them, and his very pink suit, and then that moon on his very pink suit. Any nerves that Nectaris might have had from the whole situation were gone just like that. She grinned.

"Wait, you guys never told me you had a cool Moon friend." She shook her head at them, since this was clearly very important information. "Hi, cool Moon friend! I'm Nectaris! What's your name?"

Hierapolis, Page of Cybele

As more and more people filed in, Hierapolis could feel himself growing more and more nervous. He worked on keeping his breathing steady; the over seven foot tall man stood rigid and still like any of the room's pillars, frozen in place.

While he was unfamiliar with the others, prior knowledge of planetary symbols helped him guess where some of the knights served. There were a few that he was unfamiliar with, but he was sure he would quickly learn. Focusing on each variety of knight and their similarities in themes and colors unique to each of their planets helped him to not think too much about himself, his awkwardness, and self-consciousness.

Hierapolis was deep in his observations when a knight sporting the Earth symbol and looking like a proper dragon-slayer spoke to him as if they'd known one another for a long time. The familiarity threw him off as much as the greeting itself, and the joke seemed to pass over him as he collected himself during the Knight's swift introduction.

"You too. I'm Hierapolis, of Cybele" he croaked out in his sandy whisper of a voice, which may have been hard to hear with all the other chatter and lost as this knight, Carlisle, motioned for another knight to join in.

Eventually a voice spoke to all of them - the voice of the code - and Hierapolis listened with a grave seriousness. The code said it did not need their concern, but if their powers were derived from it, did that not warrant their concern for its well-being? Hierapolis was not yet knowledgeable enough about such things, not that he was brave enough to voice such a thought, but surely The Code would not say such a thing just to set their minds at ease so Hierapolis would simply take it for what it was.

Others chimed in when asked how their wonders were doing, and reports seemed to all be quite similar - they did not know, for they could not reach them.

Cynthus, Squire of the Moon

“Daddy, you’re embarrassing me,” Cynthus hissed at Poe. “It’s not a thing. It’s the Code. This is why I said you shouldn’t be a knight.”

Well, this, and because he was old, although she supposed it all boiled down to the same thing. He was in disbelief because he was old. That didn’t give him a free pass to be rude! (As if she wasn’t rude. Cynthus chose to believe she was simply passionate.)

When the Code spoke, Cynthus listened attentively. She might be loud and brash, but she could take things seriously when serious things were happening. A pensive look crossed her face, brows furrowed and mouth scrunched into a frown. So something was affecting the Code? It couldn’t be Chaos. She and the others had decided that already. They would have been able to feel it if it was Chaos.

They didn’t know what it could be instead, though.

Many knights answered. Cynthus tried to speak through the din.

“Yeah, we can’t get in. Not from Earth or the moon,” she told the Code. “We even tried coming here. Like, through the Theatre. Did you hear me shouting for you? We tried to get to you, but you were blocked off. So then we walked to Amarynthos, but it’s like everyone’s saying. No bueno.”

Valhalla, Transcended Knight of Jupiter

(Offering transcended energy to the Code. Standing with Bilskirnir and Aragon.)

“It’s nice to meet you like this, Aragon,” Valhalla nodded to him with a smile. It was always surprising to find out how many people he knew were Knights or Senshi, but that just meant they had a stronger force against Chaos and any other unknown threats.

He frowned thoughtfully, lifting a hand to rub at his chin. Something that could give first aid to a ball of light…?

The glow from his palm caught his attention. He didn’t know how useful it would be but--

“Could you make use of our energy?” Valhalla asked, raising his voice enough for the Code to hear him as he frowned with concern. If the Code was having trouble keeping its form, and if it used a lot of energy to get them there, then maybe there was a little something for them to help in return.

“I am willing to bet there are a lot of Knights here who would love to volunteer some extra energy,” he suggested, looking around to see the other Knights among them with glowing marks on their skin.

And if no one else was willing to help, then he was more than capable of doing it on his own.

Aragon, Page of Pluto

(Just observing. Confused and curious about everything. )

“Giving energy?” Aragon asked with curiosity. Everything about this was so strange, but he supposed there were worse things. At least nothing was on fire.

He looked around at everyone gathered. He didn’t know half of the things they were talking about, but he was also very aware of how new he was to…

This.

Well… he supposed he really was in this after all. He hadn’t expected to get any kind of magical powers, but he could feel the heaviness of how important it was to be there. Important enough to draw so many others.

Poe, Page of Mercury

(Doing his best to keep up with everything. )

Poe didn’t know why his little girl was giving him such a hard time. He was just trying to be supportive and protective and make sure she made good decisions! She was the only good thing in his life, and definitely the only good thing that came from his failed marriage.

He frowned, but in a way that made it almost look like a grown man pouting after their favorite lego set was taken away because he had an expense report to compile first.

Maybe he shouldn’t have been a Knight, but he was still proud of Cynthus and how strong and brave and how much initiative she took to figure things out and--

“Who is Amarynthos? Is that a boy?” he scowled. “Are you doing this magical--” he made a gesture to encompass all of her, “--thing to meet boys??”

Necromanteion, Squire of Saturn


Necromanteion wasn't... entirely sure how to feel. All his s**t wasn't working... But in the same breathe.. It wasn't an entirely new feeling. He had dealt with something similar before.. Granted, that seemed like forever ago now. However, in that particular case, at least he knew why he couldn't do some of the things he should have been able to... This time though? He had nothing.

Necro shook his head, trying to rid himself of old thoughts as he glanced about. There were... a lot of people he didn't know. And for a minute, he wondered if he should even be there. There had to have been people far better suited then him right? With more experience, at least...

And then he caught sight of two Knights. Both of which looked tired as hell and just as over it. He waved awkwardly, shyly, at Nile and Lyonesse, hoping at least one of them saw him before disappearing into the crowd...

Okay... if they were here... maybe he could handle this...

Maybe.

Or at least, that's what he wanted to tell himself. His train of thought, however was interupted just in time to watch, in some form of horror, as Lupu throw himself at Michel.

Okay. Maybe he couldn't handle this. Necro had gone against a great many things in his time but he was not about to go and do that. No thanks. He chose life.

"You now.. Coming from someone whose almost died twice... in his life time... Even I know better then to do that to Michel." And honestly, Necro couldn't tell if that was his own common sense... or Michel's sheer intimidation factor. "When he breaks you in half, you get to explain that to E. I ain't saving you."

Promethei, Squire of Mercury

Of course none of them had a better idea of what was going on. His eyes rolled toward his taciturn husband, and he couldn't quite hold back the murmur to Imhotep specifically of, "I'm sure this is important, but," he cleared his throat.

Was he sure? Was there a better way to handle this that didn't involve any of them?

"Lookin' for someone?" Promethei supposed that much was obvious. He could take a couple of guesses who Emain Ablach was looking for, and he would consider trying to join him, but he was fairly sure their equivalent height meant they'd be getting the exact same amount of nowhere.

Well. Until he spotted the little moon knight coming up to them on her own. He lifted his hand and offered a half-salute, but knew who she was there for, so he didn't make any effort to respond to her until he was addressed.

To introduce him to where the code lived. She seemed considerably more concerned with the Code than he did, but to be honest, so did everyone else. "Met it after that alien bullshit. Room hasn't really changed too much." Not that it needed to considering it was a snarky floating ball in space--

Ah. She noticed Tobias.

A little smirk crossed his lips, and his response was a casual, "Oh, that guy?" His gaze ran up Amoris and toward his eyes. That was where his gaze locked, for a moment, and then a moment more. "Recently picked his a** up off the street. Thought he could use some company!"

Palatine, Knight of Venus

A single blonde brow twitched at Paradise’s customary exuberance, then rose into an unimpressed stare at Sessrumnir’s comment about what she may or may not have on her at any given time. Yes, alright, so she kept alcohol in subspace for situations that required it. Now didn’t seem to be one of those times.

Yet.

She nearly sighed over the amount of youth gathered in one place. Not that she had anything personal against youth, it was just a very stark reminder of her age as well as many of the uncomfortable circumstances of the war.

“Wonder why it brought us here instead of Olympus,” Palatine mumbled. She kept her voice low, unwilling to contribute further than their small group. She certainly wasn’t going to admit, in the Code’s presence, that she hadn’t been to her Wonder in… Well, suffice it to say, it’d been a while. “Proximity? How many of the people here even know about Olympus?”

The general vibe was young.

Or maybe she only felt that way because of her own close proximity to Ephesus and Amarynthos. Everything she knew about them said they were good kids, but she couldn’t look at them without remembering that Ganymede had been around their age when the war had come for their family and turned a majority of them into this.