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A sign was posted above the cave door of the Clarius chamber so that everyone who came would see it.
It read: "All Who Have Signed Up Should Come Check In Here!"
Of course, anyone who had signed up would know what this meant, and if they hadn't, they would be able to sign up at the last minute.

As one walked into the chamber, there was a large number of tables set up. At the center of one of the tables in the middle were some familiar faces. Rena sat with her legs rested on the table, playing her GBA and sipping at a Coke. Next to her, with a bunch of papers in front of her, was Crystal. Perched on Crystal's shoulder was a small red faerie, Heiko, looking down at the rather large Talaye laying on the side of Crystal's chair.

The list Crystal had held all the names of people who had signed up recently for an "event". She had kept it secret for a while, but now it was just about time for this "event" to commence. She couldn't wait much longer...


You may still sign up for the event if you wish. Please provide pictures of the members of your party. If it's just your avatar, that is fine. Jumi don't need a picture either.

Dragging the larger girl, the green-haired Jumi wanted to pull Kira along the crowd faster, though the large girl refused to cooperate.

"Murr, Emarude, I told you not to wake me up so earrly. You know I hate waking up early, right? Right. So stop dragging meee~" Her voice sounded whiney, though that's exactly what she was doing.

Mumbling to herself a bit, she dragged the girl along more and more, until the two stumbled upon the cave door of the Clarius chamber. Pushing it open with all her might, she managed to open it without any help from the girl behind her.

"Hey, woah. Did the sign say there'd be food here? I'm hungry."

Ignoring the fact that her guardian ever spoke, Emarude walked the both of them in front of the two familiar faces; Crystal and Rena-san. In front of the couple was Ying, and her two companions. Both of them were unfamiliar; strangers. Lightly waving at the group, she spoke, "I hope this is the right place?"

Mesmerelda in the morning had not wanted to go to event. Afterall, she was still settiling in her new skin and was mad at Ying but Pink had forced her. But now, oh boy, was she enjoying herself.

"Giddy Up Horsie! GIDDY UP!" She screamed happily through giggles to Dawn, the tala companion Pink insisted take her on her excursion, who was letting her be her rider. Dawn, still young and nieve, giddied up without a word untill the arrived to their destination.

She slowly trotted into the HQ and waited around the lobby. "Anybody here?" Mesmerelda asked, looking around. She suddenly twirled around and there they all were in an ajoining room "Hello Crystal, and Rena, and Two Jumis and owners I don't know and...hey! Wait a minuete. Ying...is that you?" She asked perplexed. If she had made her small, why would she do the same to herself? She wasn't THAT messed up, was she?

Tellah arrived with little fanfare, lugging a snoozing dryad slung over her shoulder and carrying a satchel... Which contained the onyx core. She was worried it might seem a little disrespectful, but considering the core's tendancy to slip out of her hands and roll at the most inoppertune times, she hoped that it could be overlooked.
She hung around the back of the room, and tried to get the little snoozing dryad to either wake up... or at least stop snoring so loud.

Crystal grinned as all the people filed into the chamber. Chewing on the tip of a pen, she scanned over each and every person with her eyes.
"Ying, Eriol, Remus...Check!" She quickly flicked a checkmark next to their names.
She looked up again. "Emarude and Kira...Check!" Another checkmark.
"Tsumi....check!" And another!
"Mes and Dawn...Check....And who's this one?" She turned to Rena looking for some help. "Okasan, who is this next one. After Mes-chan."

Rena looked up and rose her eyebrow a bit, before simply uttering, "Neko" which caused Heiko to gasp a bit.
"Neko-chan?! Ares' guardian?"
Rena nodded and went back to her game.

Crystal smiled and put a check by Neko's name, then looked back up again.
"Tellah and...where's Onyx...oh well..Check! Astral, Maya, and Pen...Check!" She smiled big and looked proud of herself.
"Alright...that just leaves....Arc, Boyan and Melody...Rinsei and Ying...Aelwen and Sly.....FlameKnight....and Tenoh Aiko! We've got such a big group!" She clapped her hands together and sighed.

Ying shrank back in her seat, trying to make herself unseen. "Hi Mes," she called softly, still unsure whether the girl was mad at her.

"Hey," Remus wiggled, "don't move around so much! I've never done this before!"

Still, he wasn't quite as annoyed has he'd been but moments ago. He didn't know there would be other Talaye here...

Eriol's green eyes darted back and forth as the names were called. A couple other people looked familiar... the name Neko was, though he couldn't remember where from... one of the girls that came out of the core the other night... Aiko. He casually turned his head to the side as that name was rattled off, then faced front again.

Wait a second...

"AIKO?" The teen nearly jumped out of his skin, and effectively landed two feet to the side of where he had been standing. "What're ya doin here? Ya jus'bout nearly gave me a heart attack!"

"Woooow." Mesmerelda said, climbing down and off of Dawn's back while she went to investigate the other tala. "So if you small, you couldn't possibly have made me small. I so sorry I was mad at you! Forgive me?" She asked and without awaiting an answer charged at Ying and hugged her. "Are we going to find out who did it or something?" She asked her curiously, hoping Dawn was up for a big ride.

Dawn galloped slowly over to the other tala and poked him in the underbelly with her paw.

Tsumi just decided to sit, and wait, not really a social butterfly in her sighty annoyed state.