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Lysithea was walking with her friends, having just come back from yet another trip to that magical place that was their own. It was getting much cleaner now, and each time they went up there, the smell of flowers was more and more strong, more and more wonderful.

The only real issue that she could think of now was the…wand. Staff…thing. With a sigh she held out her hand, summoning it there and brandishing it. “So, really the only big thing I’ve figured out was I can only summon this when I’m with you guys, and when I think about how well we work together…it glows. Pretty, but…not useful…but I just…I just know that it can be useful…you know?”

She paused, feeling both the two chaos auras and seeing the tell tale black puffball that she knew to be Evan, come flying at them all. “Oh Evan!”
Quickly she knelt down, picking up the small youma and setting him upright, brushing some of the dust off of him. “You okay, buddy?” She was so focused on the small creature that she hardly noticed that the wand in her hand had begun to glow again, this time quite a bit brighter than before.

Elpis was rather relaxd as they began returning, still grinning to the others before looking to Lysithea cheerily.

"Maybe it's a magical fla-"

And then, as she prepared to crack wise, the small youma had bolted to Lysithea, and cuddled in. For all of a second, Elpis started, ready to lash, then seemed to relax again, snickering. Was this the youma she'd mentioned? He...

"No nevermind, it's a keyblade and you've called a Heartless. Good job. Good job."Elpis laughed again, before spotting Sanidine. He was... Stronger, like one of the agents she'd duelled at the castle, but his youma didn't saeem hostile, so she merely shrugged at him, deciding to give him the benefit of the doubtyt.

Fpr now.

"And we find Master Xehanort has joined us. 'Llo there. What brings you out? Aside chasing lost tiny pets, I mean?"

She was calm, even sociable, and nodded her head at Sanidine politely.

"Pleasure, by the way."

"So whatever it is...it's basically a group effort?" Because if it could only be summoned around them...The feeling of more than one Chaos aura startled her out of her train of thought, the teenager staring at the little black fluff that had fallen in front of them, that Lysithea had picked up. Oh! That must be the youma-friend Lysi had spoken of! "He's so small and cute! I didn't know youma could be adorable..." She startled at the bigger aura, however, and the General that came with it.

Oh. She stepped a bit behind Adria, remembering the last time she had encountered a General. It hadn't been pleasant. But she waved shyly. "I...I don't think Lysi would let anyone get themselves killed. Especially not a friend."

Evan's ears folded low when Lysithea raised him up high; he tilted his head to the side and kicked at the air like he was trying to get higher but eventually seemed to feel too vulnerable and curled his limbs close. His tiny little tail continued to wag faintly. He seemed oblivious to the words Cambria shared; he wasn't unintelligent by any means, but it seemed like coming out of Negaspace always left him a little extra frazzled. He nuzzled the Wand, trying to scratch a spot behind his ears.

Sanidine's eyes narrowed just slightly as he looked between the group members.

"No offense, but you guys don't exactly look like the type of people I'd entrust my life to. Why should I trust you with his?"

He nodded towards Evan but hesitated and reached up to rub at his eyes.

"...No," he said after a moment. He sounded tense and tired. "Scrap that. I take it back. What I mean to ask..."

He cleared his throat and looked back up. He nodded to all of them-not quite a greeting, but acknowledge Elpis after she'd spoken to him and trying to be polite as he greeted the others.

"How do you think you can fix him? What did you find out?"

His eyes were on Lysithea; it was obvious that, of all of the group, he trusted her most. He might tolerate her allies--if they might seriously be able to help, he'd give them a chance. Even the little one.

Adria didn't quite seem comfortable; the youma Lysithea presented didn't seem threatening, but the general gave him a bit more trouble. He was paranoid, he knew it; but that sickening sense of Chaos being so close just felt smothering. It didn't matter that Sanidine barely looked at him--that his attention was solely focused on Lysithea and Evan, or that he seemed non hostile.

Adria wasn't sure he liked or trusted him.

But he liked and trusted Lysithea, so that would have to be enough.

Forte shrugged wordlessly, and moved back to stand with Subra. Much as they needed to work as a group, this wasn't really a conversation she was a part of at this point - the conversation Lysithea was having seemed mostly private, and she didn't want to butt in with a stupid comment. The little youma really was terribly friendly for a monster, and Lysithea had said he was her friend before the 'accident' (and Lysithea's hesitation made her wonder just what kind of 'accident' that could have been, but it wasn't her place to pry and it didn't really matter since the result was the same anyway: small and fuzzy and not human anymore.) Maybe Evan recognized her from before he'd been changed? That was... kind of sad, now that she thought about it. How much else did he understand, if he knew enough to recognize friends?

Still, there wasn't much she could say or do on her own, so she'd stick by the chibi senshi for now. Subra had a little more experience, sure, but she was young, and she seemed scared. She could probably use an extra body or two with her, just in case... This strange, strong whatever-he-was seemed to want to help the little youma too, but that didn't stop anyone from being afraid - or... well, maybe cautious was the better term, and the whatever-he-was - Sanidine - seemed equally so. Or maybe he just didn't like how they felt any more than she liked how he did?

There wasn't any way to know short of asking, him, and she had no intention of doing that - she didn't trust herself to say the right thing, or even a not-wrong thing. Instead, she placed a hand on Subra's shoulder, then, after hesitating a moment, did so for Adria as well. He looked just as unsure as she felt, after all. She would have tried to do so for everyone but... too many people, not enough arms - and anyway, an entirely united front may have come across as more of a threat than an offer of aid.

Forte had gotten into enough fights over her life to know that you didn't make a threat if you had no intention to follow through with it - and nobody here wanted to fight, they just wanted to help that little black, fuzzy... oddly adorable monster become a person again. So... so yeah. Threats, even apparent ones, were better left avoided.

“Sanidine, apart from that…that one time, have I ever given you reason not to trust me?”

Lysithea placed the youma on the ground before her, scratching lightly behind his ears, and giving his forehead a gentle kiss. “Don’t you worry, Evan. We’re here to save you my friend.”

She glanced behind her looking at each of her teammates in turn. “I need your help for this, guys…this is a group effort…I need you all, more than I can say. You’re my partners.”

Her eyes warmed as she spoke the words, and when each of them had a hand on her, she drew in a breath, concentrating on her power, on their power. There was one thought going through her head, the thought of helping Evan, of bringing him back to the boy she cared so deeply about. Of having one of her best friends back by her side.

This had to work. She could feel that it would…she could.

But if it didn’t, she would be beyond devastated…

But…no. She couldn’t doubt.

This would work.
 

At first, the wand didn't seem to do much but glow. Power began to swell from it and it seemed to be leaking energy. The Court was doing their part--but something was missing.

Cosmos was not an expert in this; in fact, she didn't really understand the message she received. But she understood that she needed to be there. She understood that someone was desperate and needed help.

For a moment, she could abandon her duties.

The light from the wand was bright enough that, perhaps, they didn't see her trail across the sky. Perhaps they didn't see her land behind them. Perhaps, they didn't feel her energy signature from behind them, or see her hand reach forward to help them.

It would have made sense, if they didn't.

After all, a few seconds after she arrived, they no longer had a youma in front of them: they had a human.

Cosmos might have intended to stay, but her power had waned severely. She was drained, and between duties to the Cauldron and trips to Earth, she did not have the energy she desired. She would have to trust that this Court could piece things together.

She faded from Earth as the light from the wand--the light around Evan faded.