Welcome to Gaia! ::

Marlin had thrown himself into shop work after the night where that he’d encountered the two creepy dog monsters that King Arthur Knight (Camelot his mind corrected) had called youma. He’d avoided the library too.

But he hadn’t been able to quite forget the events of the night where he’d ended up fleeing for his life from a pair of ink coloured hound-shaped monsters and found out that apparently he was supposedly something called a Page of Earth. And he’d started to find himself starting to question some of the news reports that he’d been hearing about the terrorist threat that the city was suffering from.

There seemed to be only one way to get answers, which is why after Marlin shut up shop, he had reluctantly taken the walk across town in the direction of the library. He needed more information and Camelot had appeared to know a fair deal.

He had hesitated by a park, not sure whether he should seek out the other as he was now or as the form he had changed to that night and that had prompted the question if he could even become what he’d turned into that night, which had prompted slipping into the park (where there didn’t seem to be anyone around) and trying.

It took a few times, but eventually just he was beginning to think about giving up, the clothes that he was wearing as Marlin faded away only to be replaced by the same clothes he’d been wearing that night.

Falias’ clothes… Falias – it was a name that he knew somehow belonged to him, although the Page still had no real reason to know how he’d come by the knowledge of it.

Falias was new to all of this – so new in fact that he had not yet found out about energy signatures 101. In fact he knew little beyond the fact that his name was Falias, he was supposedly an Earth Page (courtesy of Camelot) and that apparently there were chaos monsters running around that he was supposed to stop (again courtesy of Camelot) and he still wasn’t sure where the mistletoe was supposed to fit into all of this.

A voice calling out a greeting had him automatically, spotting the woman in pinks, orange and yellow approaching in his direction. The outfit was a tad too pink for Falias personally, but certainly flamboyant and he thought the little tri-pointed hat perched on her copper curls suited her.

“Hello” his smile was friendly as he returned her greeting. “Nice to meet you too Aventine” he was puzzled at just how she knew he was a Page, was it something to do with the costume? Something on his face? “I’m Falias and apparently I’m a Page of Earth.” At least that’s what Camelot had called him.

“Dark Mirror Senshi?” Falias queried. “What are they?” He was pretty sure he remembered mentioning something called a Negaverse, in conjunction with the chaos monsters that had chased after him, but Dark Mirror Senshi was a new one on him.

“This is only my second time like this” he admitted at last, most likely sounding as clueless as he felt. “Camelot saved me from some things that he called youma and then I was suddenly like this. You’re the second person I’ve met while like this.”

As Falias listened to Aventine speak, he started to think that this whole thing sounded a whole lot more complicated and confusing than when Camelot had been explaining it – and to be honest the whole crystals and monsters that Camelot had told him about had been confusing as heck.

He'd nodded at her mentioning of not letting them trick him though – then again he didn't intend to have anyone trick him if he could help it.

“So these Dark Mirror people are like the Negaverse people that Camelot mentioned” he said at last and then a thought occurred to him “Wait weapons? These Negaverse guys have weapons?” He was pretty sure that Camelot hadn’t said anything about actual weapons.

It was a strange mix that Aventine listed, but they all sounded better than the piece of mistletoe that he seemed to have been 'gifted' with... Well maybe not the ribbon thing or the pinwheel - those just sounded plain weird.

But even the cigarette sounded more useful than the mistletoe - the mistletoe that seemed to have displayed no magical properties whatsoever - well apart from the appearing out of nowhere.

"So the Negaverse people have weapons," he said at last "And from what Camelot was telling me we're supposed to stop them and their youma things." He sighed "I'm not really sure what good this thing is though."

Summoning his weapon to him, Falias showed Aventine the mistletoe, the bells making a chiming sound as he wondered whether the Dark Mirror people that she'd mentioned had weapons too.

If Aventine was wondering what good his weapon was then she was in good company, Falias was still wondering why he had been 'gifted' with such a rubbish weapon and had the feeling that the fates were probably having a joke at his expense.

"I tried that" he admitted. "Whacking something with it, that is" he added. "Although I'm not sure it really noticed." In fact the trash can he had whapped the dog-like youma thing with had probably done more good.

As he eyed Aventine's perfume bottle Falias had the feeling that maybe he wasn't the only one being laughed at by the fates. "At least yours is heavier than mine" he said with a rueful grin. "Although I'd second you with the axe or even the baseball bat given that these Negaverse people have weapons and if the other youma are anything like the things that attacked me then they probably have claws and things."

He blinked, looking surprised at her mention of a partner "We're supposed to have partners in this?" Falias was pretty sure that Camelot hadn't mentioned partners or anything like that, though to be fair he had been pretty much reeling from the whole being attacked by weird monsters and sudden costume thing.

He wasn't sure about the whole idea of partners either though, preferring to get things done himself - on the other hand Falias also knew he was over his head right now and someone to watch his back sounded pretty good.

Another thing Aventine said struck him "Do you know how to get more powerful?" She seemed to know a fair deal, certainly more than he did and he hadn't had the chance to ask Camelot.

"That's okay," Falias said, admitting "All this stuff is a lot to take in and it seems totally different to the stuff they keep talking about on the news."

The news didn't mention monsters running around for a start.

He quirked a slight smile as he added "You've given me more information than I started off with though."

He now knew that in addition to these Negaverse people and the youma that there were also people called Dark Mirror that he had to watch out for and although he wasn't sure how to tell the difference between them and a Negaverse person it seemed they wore a lot of black - actually it seemed that all the bad guys so to speak seemed to favour black based on what Aventine had told him.

He also knew now that the Negaverse people that Camelot had mentioned apparently had weapons - some of which (like the spear) sounded pretty dangerous - but that the Dark Mirror people didn't - which was probably another way to tell the two groups apart, although Falias wasn't sure he was minded to wait and see if a weapon was pulled or not. He also wasn't sure what Aventine meant by them hurting just as much, but maybe that was something for another night - he'd been left with quite a bit to think on as it was.

So senshi could be good as well as bad it seemed if he was to go on what Aventine was saying.

Although she had also mentioned something called a corrupted. Falias wondered privately if the corrupted was another group that he was supposed to watch out for in addition to the Neaverse and the aforementioned Dark Mirror people. It seemed like quite a lot of people to watch out for and a bit confusing too since two of the mentioned groups seemed to be senshi, although she had also said that senshi could be helpful too.

"Is there anyway to tell the friendly senshi from the Dark Mirror and Corrupted?" He asked. Maybe these corrupted wore black too. Falias wouldn't be particularly surprised if that was the case given the fact the other two groups seemed to.