So this was Fost, the other Master that his sister had fond memories of while in the Mirror Realm. This being the first time that he's actually interacted with the guy, he wasn't completely sure how he felt about him. More important than that though, he didn't know just how he would get back to his homeworld. He didn't know how Tinarah left and how he didn't wasn't the most reliable way from what he learned later on with Atmos. "Some help getting there would be appreciated, thanks." Once again they were given an offer of help from the council and while it was appreciated, Chrono rather hoped that it wouldn't come to that at all. The bigger the mess, the greater the chance that their father would be more involved than he already was. "I'm as ready as I'll ever be." Which was to say, not that ready. Not that he was going to actually say that to Fost at all.
"You're not really going to find them if you're just hiding from them all the way here." Kel said. He wasn't sure what to think of Pinocchio's nose growing, so he just left it alone. If anyone would have an answer to that, it would likely be Gepetto. Kel had started to make his right turn when evidently someone else had entered. "Ignis? Don't tell me you got eaten by this whale too?"
If finding a solution was as easy and Master Kaios made it seemed, Chrono would've done so earlier. He could see that any further mention of this would be pointless, even if Gero hadn't dismissed the meeting. At the very least they were given a backup plan if things really took a turn for the worse. Though bringing their father here would likely add even more questions to the long list of ones he would definitely have if he saw either Tinarah or himself again and that would be an ordeal in itself. "It's about all we can do really." He said with a slight smile. The concerns of his head had started calming down which made him feel a little bit better. At the very least they wouldn't be going through this alone. Take was one of his closest friends here, Illiana he had no ill will against. In fact, he didn't really have much of an opinion on her beyond her tendency to stick to her own goals regardless of the situation. Lastly, there was Chrys, who while he didn't completely trust her, she wasn't Koa or Dentro (the latter Chrono finally got to punch thanks to the mirage arena) which meant there was no reason for him to be anything, but cautious around her. "Hopefully that involvement of ours doesn't escalate any further than it already has. This is already a lot more than I was expecting." Which, in retrospect, made his original intention on doing all alone a lot riskier had he actually gone through with it.
The name given to him had given him something else to focus on, but it wasn't the most helpful of things in calming himself down. "Orichalcum, least what it was and how they were trying to use it." Chrono answered. He looked at those notes and spent enough time both rewriting them into his own journal and trying to make sense of it himself to know that that one word appeared numerous times throughout everything his mother had. The concerns of his sister matched the ones of his own. Their father had been the last person that he wanted to involve in all that, even more so now that Tinarah was pretty involved in this. As Chrono waited to hear what the council would say regarding the deal with their father, not that he had high hopes regarding what some of them would say, he started looking around to find another distraction of sorts. Which lead to him spotting Illiana walking out while just catching what she said before fully leaving the meeting. It was odd hearing that she was going to go with them like, though he supposed it made sense given the other option she could've gone. She didn't seem like someone who would like the realm of darkness and the closest (MoK assumes) he's gotten was that time in the incredible world. Not pleasant, not pleasant at all.
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Admittedly when the Mark of Mastery exams where first mention, Chrono was unsure of what to think of it. Before it would've been a clear lack of interest as he held no real desires to become a master and while that feeling of his hadn't completely changed, now it was at least accompanied by the curiosity of what benefits they would supposedly get by achieving this title. It was a mild curiosity at best, however. The topic shifted to armor and hearing where they would be found left Chrono in a state of visible shock. A swarm of questions and concerned rushed through his mind, most of which was in regards to what if he ran into their father while there and how would he explain where's he's been for him. More so how would he explain Tinarah's current situation to him? Neither of which had an easy answer, if any answer at all, which only added on to the concern building up. The initial shock had faded somewhat but was still noticeable. "What kind of material is it?" He wanted to know, if not just to give him something else to focus on beyond the various concerns
"You sure about that? We don't know where this lead to anyway." Kel said, following leftward. Despite his own doubts he continued to follow behind Marx. Splitting up now would be a worse idea with them not knowing where it was they had gotten separated from them. It just didn't sit right with him at all. For a brief moment, it looked like they would have to go back and search for the others when he spotted the wooden puppet. Kel wasn't sure how to respond to Pinnochio's question and just decided to be straightforward. "No, not right now anyway. Your father sent us to find you, he wants you to come back."
Chrono was surprised to hear how casual Master Stamatis was being with what they had apparently been summoned for and with how both himself and his sister were needed for said meeting. Tinarah was a bit more understandable with the whole mirror realm ordeal she had to endure, but as for himself, he couldn't really think of a reason why he would really be needed. "There's always next time I guess." Not that he knew when this next time would be.
"Well you got us." Kel said. The mood had taken a downhill turn and this was his way to try and lighten it. "Right guys?" The silence that followed was outputting and was even more so shocking when he looked back and saw no one else behind them. "Uh Marx, where did everyone else go?"
Stepping foot into the other chamber Kel wasn't sure where Marx's was going when he had asked him about any other wielders, so the actual question had caught him off guard. He didn't respond right away as he needed to recount just how many people that have come and gone on this adventure. "I don't know, there have been times when someone who's vanished returned later and I don't think it'd be that easy to do so if they were lost to darkness." Considering what they had to do to get out of the realm of darkness, it was a safe assumption.
As they entered the next chamber, Marx's answered his question with a single world name. One that he did not recall ever hearing, which wasn't that much of a surprise to be perfectly honest."No reason, in particular, was just curious. Plus it also helps with passing the time." Walking further into the chamber, Kel took an immediate right and stopped there for the others to catch up. "Sure, let's go this way." Said very much on a whim with no real reason to say otherwise.
He wasn't expecting to hear that the cane he had made was as easy to do as a glider, something that he didn't really consider to be all that easy. It may have been easy now, but that had been mainly cause he's done it a few times. Ask him to turn his keyblade into a cane and he's got nothing but a confused look to give you. "When you put it like that, I'm curious as to what it'll become." Despite the fact that he wouldn't be around in a hundred years. Chrono had begun to drink some of his tea when Tinarah had made her offer as to where Master Stamatis could walk to and was kinda surprised to hear that she could play the piano, but at the same time it wasn't beyond the realm of belief given some of the stories he's heard from her regarding the other Stamatis. "Walking to the library is also an option or just around the castle to refamiliarize yourself with doing so." Spotting his sister's glance, those were the best that he could come up with given the rain and not really know anything about Master Stamatis. He did seem like someone that would be okay with going to the library.
Chrono admittedly had felt a bit more comfortable once Master Stamatis had said that his presence was welcomed. The actual confirmation may not have been needed, but it was helpful nonetheless. "Can all keyblades do that or is it something that just Masters can do?" He had been referring to cane he had made to assist his movement. If it was just another keyblade transformation, then he was curious as to how he could get it to take a form not blatantly made for combat like the ones currently at his disposal. "I've slept better than I usually do." Which was true for the most part. There wasn't a lot on his mind lately so he wasn't waking up in the middle of the night. He did, however, still wake up at least an hour before the sun actual rose, at which point he just stayed awake til it actually did.
As Chrono was about to respond to his sister, he noticed how Enzo just happened to be behind him which prompted him to instead ask, "How long have you been right there?". The follow-up question would've been 'why were you standing there so long' depending on the response, but the response made had made Chrono simple look at Enzo with a clear look of confusion as he proceeded to describe the beauty of outside when it was very clearly raining and cloudy. Unfortunately, Chrono had picked an odd and quite possibly concerning time to tune back into what Enzo was saying. "Excuse me, what!?" Now, normally Chrono wouldn't focus on things regarding his sister's love life as he saw it as 'things that their father would be the one dealing with in an ideal world' which kinda went down the drain when the age gap between himself and her got a lot smaller. This time was different as while he was certain Enzo was spouting nonsense, Tinarah's reaction helped confirm this, he didn't know how serious Enzo was about these so-called 'feelings'. He instinctively moved himself to further obstruct Tinarah after she had pushed past Enzo while the latter soon left to get food of his own. "I'm going to assume I can just ignore what he just said." It'd make him feel better and hurt his head less. He said not a word to this to Tinarah once he caught up to her and just waved to Master Stamatis upon being introduced followed by a "Good Morning." Chrono found himself a place to sit afterward, though he looked somewhat awkward doing so as he didn't want to accidentally mess up anything in the room.
The next area had been as straightforward as the as last one. Thankfully Marx's answered his question which provided a break from the monotonous pattern these chambers seemed to have. "Okay, do you remember what those worlds were like?" It seemed like a fair question, one that if asked to him he probably wouldn't remember quite everything from the worlds he's currently been to. 30/30
In the days that Chrono had spent training, he found himself pushing himself further and further to try and keep up with the new abilities he had learned. It had been more of a physical matter than a magical one, though his magic skills were something that was becoming actual helpful to him. The occasional training sessions from Atmos did help, as did Torrin's assistance though admittedly he was very confused by some of the transformations his keyblade was able to do and in some cases he had no idea how he would use them, but that was something that could be thought about later. His time had not been spent purely training though as there were times in which he interacted with his sister, Take and Aria (and trained with them as well, but that wasn't the point). The point was that he had actually taken time to interact with some of his other comrades. Now however he had chosen to tag along with Tinarah as she was bringing Master Stamatis breakfast. He didn't do much to help out with Stamatis's healing, but there were moments in which he did offer to help her help the recovering master, such as now. "The rain certainly isn't helping." Chrono had said with glance outside. The clouds completely covered the sky and the rain had just started to fall. It left a gloomy vibe overall that didn't sit well with him. "Hopefully it's just the weather and nothing else."
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"Where have you been on your travels anyway?" Kel asked. Marx's did have experience sailing a boat which was helpful for them before they swallowed by a giant whale. The fact that that had happened to them in the first place still bothered Kel slightly, though not as much as the fact that they were currently looking through said whale stomach for some missing kids. So learning more about Marx would be a good distraction from all this until said kids were found. 29/30
"I don't actually." Chrono answered. The last he had seen of him was before they had gone into their respective simulations and he hasn't seen any sign of him since. There weren't that many places that he could think Take would be, the kitchen was one of them. Though that was the only cause of when he had first met it had been in the kitchen back at Atmos's castle. "I can help look for him though."
While it wasn't entirely his intentions to comfort her, he was glad to hear that she was fine. It didn't look like she was just saying that for his sake either as compared to how she seemed to be before they had gone through these simulations she was looking better. "That's good to hear." He said, followed by nodding to her offer. "Sure, I can always lend a hand if you need one." His own battle had gone well, but what was intended for four people ended up being a three-man battle and even then most of the fighting seemed to be spilt between himself and Aria. Then Kaio gave his response to Tinarah and so did she to him and Chrono, Chrono just stood there unsure of what to say and MoK didn't know what to have him say either so...
