Creativity's running low so fore this post we'll be attacking Pete with something very simplistic. Kel used strike raid on Pete. Thank you for your time and see you on the next post. Pete: 100/300
Welp, he'd lost. That was pretty clearnow. It she had gotten only one 9 then maybe he would have a better chance at victory, but nope. Wasn't going to happen now. Still he had to make an attempt, so he drew back on his bow and fired towards the target.
"Well it has been a while since the last time I shot an arrow, so I'd forgotten where it was." Zwei really didn't want to do this, but he wasn't left with much of a choice in the matter. With reluctance he followed behind Johanna to the training grounds where he grabbed a bow and quiver. Hearing the princess proposal, Zwei replied with, "That sounds fair, ladies first then."
Out of all the sports she could've played it had to be archery. To top it all off, she was challenging him to a contest. Great, just great. "Where do you suppose we have this contest?"
"Well there's archery." Zwei said. The princess really wasn't making things easy for him with these questions.
And the Jonhanna caused nerves had returned with her various hand movements. Whatever she was trying to tell him wasn't working with the hand gestures she was making. Nonetheless he still had to respond to the princess. "Getting excited over someone playing an instrument you like is nothing to be embarrassed about. It's perfectly fine to show your excitement, least right now it is."
"I didn't know that there was a celestial spirit who could play an instrument." Zwei was actually being truthful and not trying to keep his cover as a prince. "I can play the flute, but its been quite awhile since I've done so."
Let's see, what would a prince do in their free time. Was the first thing that came to mind when the Princess had asked him what did he do in his spare time. He could always say painting, but then she might ask him to paint something for her and then he'd be in a pickle. Dancing was out for as far as he was aware, not many princes danced in their spare time. Fortunately the Princess had given him something that he could work with. Music. "I play a bit of music." Zwei answered, now all he needed to do was to think of an instrument and a excuse as to why he wouldn't be able to play should she ask to hear him sometime. Once Leo had a 0 doubts about which direction the prince was in, he look towards the others to make sure that they were ready to move out. That's when he noticed that Silvia was missing. She must've wandered off somewhere while he wasn't looking. "Silvia! Where are you?" The young S-Class had taken a solid four steps forward before something flew out of nowhere and knocked him to the ground. From someone else's perspective it would look like a giant pillow just flew towards him and knocked him into a nearby bush. The reality however was that he was being attack by ravenous...bunnies? Well then, that was definitely not expected. Turns out Zephyr had completely forgotten that someone else was with them and it was an S-Class to boot. When Quinn had spoke, he turned to look at him as he just popped into existence. He seemed to be all for their alternate route plan, thank god someone who didn't want to walk right into a trap, and while he himself went in, it wasn't the equivalent of blindly running in. It was more aiding the ones who had already run inside. Not a lot of time had passed before someone else came running out. It was Alessia. Now Zephyr wasn't an expert on traps, but being able to run in and out as one pleased didn't seemed like a sign of a good trap. Heck it was more likely that there wasn't any trap there at this point. "Well since its not a trap, then there's no reason for us not to help them out." That being said, the mage adjusted the gloves that were on his hands and ran into the building. His entrance was followed by his jumping and kicking one of the assassin's in the face. "You guys must really suck at setting traps. If all you wanted was a brawl with then all you had to do was ask." His words were directed at the members of the dark guild. So long as no innocents were involved, he had no problem kicking someone's ass upon request. Zephyr used Sliding Dash on Dark Guild Assassin Despite being head-butted in the face, X wasn't even fazed nor injured. Whether that was a result of his magic or Beucette's attack not doing much harm in the first place was questionable, but on Cal's count the fight had started so Alisa would be able to find out the answer for herself. Miniature barriers formed around her and she launched herself towards X. After colliding with the man, she flew back and landed in front of Lucia and placed her shield down in front of them in an attempt to guard for them.
Dealing with the princess was one thing, but the side coaching from Johanna was making this whole thing a bit more difficult. Fortunately he kept his nerves under control and extended his hand towards the Princess. "Yes, shall we be off." It wasn't feeling any less weird for him to say any of this, but he was surviving this and that was the most important part.
"I see, well I'd be happy to show you the real me." Zwei said. So long as you don't find out that i'm just a stand in that happens to look like the prince.
"The honor is all mine." Zwei replied. Acting like this was going to take some time getting used to, but all he really had to do was stall until the real prince was found. Then he just needed to get out of these uncomfortable clothing without being caught and/or arrested. For now though he keep up the act and thus he plie'd like he was shown before out of respect to the princess.
"I went for a walk to help clear my head of any lingering doubt." Zwei said. The letter didn't give very many detail to aid in Zwei making an excuse, so he just went with a default one that could easily be explained should he be questioned.
Jewelry, that was in the box that someone had locked. Maybe all of the items in the box were important or something hence why it was locked up as it was. Though seeing some of the other items disappear after one of the others had grabbed a watch was odd. Were they suppose to hand them out to everyone or was it first come first served? No matter which it was, Ken went ahead and grabbed a necklace from the box. "I'd get one while you can." Ken said to Gwen, putting the necklace on. The moderator had made herself known and requested that they go to another room to continue. Ken wasn't sure what was wrong with this room, but shrugged his shoulders and headed towards the door. With the appearance of the moderator and a role call of sorts, it was evident that it was time for the meeting to start. Seven people had already gone through the door and the number increased to eight when Leo did the same. What awaited them on the other side of the door was a mystery for the time being, but the answer would be known soon enough.
Even after X had explained why it would be intelligent for them to fight him, it still didn't seem all that smart. So they requested that they come here and now they could be killed on the ground that they were intruders. If anyone needed a test of intelligence, it would be these guys. Though their hands were tied when it came to the situation that they were in, especially given that Beucette had made the first move by head butting the X. So like it or not, they were going to be fighting. So Alisa brandished her shield in front of her in preparation for what was to come. Zwei walked into the throne room. Happy now?
"Fore!" That and a *whack* and Pete was sent into another wall via Kel's keyblade. The large man went sailing into the wall and bounce off of it. He'd ended up bouncing back towards Kel who once again smacked him with his keyblade towards the same wall. When Pete came bouncing towards him again, Kel did the same thing again, and again, and again until he'd gotten tired of doing and and stepped out of the way and watched Pete fly into the other wall before landing on the ground. Pete: 151/300
Veilen Zwei Alisa Leo Zephyr Even if Rennette hadn't admitted to not knowing which direction that she threw the paper, it was pretty obvious when she changed direction that she was pointing in numerous times. What wasn't quite as obvious was how she knew the exact direction that she threw it in, but why she didn't know which way north was. This girl was a odd one. Another apparent S-Class had showed up and started to fix most of the problems that were going on. He even pointed out which direction was north for Rennette. That should make finding the paper and solving this easier. Though some post body swap introductions were called for. Veilen wasn't going to line up, that much was certain, but he did speak after Bob/Thomas/Edric said something. "I'm Veilen and my body is over there" He started, pointing to his body (Do something you damn cat) "And I'm curious to see what 'Bob's' magic is." Air quote accompanied when he said the name Thomas had given himself as he waited to see what would happen next. A look of shock arose on Zwei's face as he saw just how big the book he was expected to learn from. Samantha may have said that it was easier than it looked, but the moment she said "Commit to memory" he knew that she was lying. There was no way in holy hell he was going to memorize all that in short amount of time. Unfortunately though he still had no say in the matter as he was lead to a table. Not looking confused and bored were another two things that were not going to happen. In fact he was looking confused right now as they continued on with this montage. "The heck is a pliŠ¹?" Somehow he had a feeling that it was something that he would not know about in 100 years. Turns out he was wrong after seeing the demonstration provided for him, she'd just pronounced it is a very odd way. Samantha the proceed to but him in an uncomfortable position all for the sake of looking like the prince. Just how was the prince able to do all this, there was no way that he was going to be able to pass as a prince. The pile of clothes were handed to him and Zwei reluctantly went to change into them. Upon being fully dressed in the regal attire, he attempted to mimic the proper posture and waited for them to say something. "How does fighting your second in command show out intelligence?" Alisa questioned, arriving behind Cal. She didn't know why she'd had pulled out his key shaped weapon, but considering how she carried around her tower shield almost everywhere she went, there wasn't much room for Alisa to complain. Leo shrugged his shoulders at Silvia's question. He wasn't all to sure why they would kidnap Damion as well. He wasn't all that important to the kingdom so holding him ransom wouldn't be of much worth. Though what if they had captured him to lure them out. "They could've kidnapped him to get leverage on us." Whatever their motive was, they would find out when they found the kidnappers, thus with Leo as the guide, they headed towards the princes scent. Doing so had lead them into the forest. Leo gave the air a quick couple of sniffs to make sure that not only were still following the prince's scent, but that it hadn't died down as a result of their movements. The princes scent was definitely still in the air as well as it was it getting stronger. "We're getting closer to where the prince and possibly Damion are being held." So Zephyr did a quick recap in his head on what had happened. First Alessia ran on in despite everything was said. Ander attempted to heal one of the guard as well as telling him/her to go get help. He wasn't sure if that was going to work. Then Ander said that splitting up wasn't a good idea before running in there as well. "There's a different between quickly scouting the area and blinding running in." No wonder Kageyama wanted to punch him. Lastly Jack ran in as well, basically parroting what Ander had said. Since that was everything, there was only one thing for Zephyr to so. Sigh and shake his head. You'd think the guy who brought up the possibility of a back entrance would stay and see if there actually was one. He turned his attention to the only other people out here with him, Aoki and Theirty. Least they hadn't run on in, though the majority was against them right now. "Guess regardless of there being a back entrance or not we'll be going in there." There options on what to do was limited and if it was a trap, someone had to go save their asses.
"There isn't much that we can do for them now, as for blending in that might not work since Caleb and Cassandra already ran in. Of we try that and they recognize us before we accomplish anything, then it would be pointless." Zephyr said in response to Ander. The guard were already down, but they weren't dead. So someone else should call for help once the situation was taken care of, which they would have to be the ones to take care of it. Trying to help all of them would only lessen how much time they had to deal with the real issue. The Dark Guild. Next person to speak had been Jack, who brought up the possibility of there being a way in from the back. It certainly was a possibility. "Hey Aoki, do you think you could use your glider to see if there's a way in from the back?" He remember that they had quickly managed to get to the roof of Everlue's manor with her glider, so flying around to the back of the station to scout it out and retuning here shouldn't take long for her to do so. Then maybe they might have another way into the station.
Zephyr Xross Zephyr's attempt to stop Xander's attack hadn't gone as planned due to Caleb managing to catch his keyblade mid flight and use it to strike at Stratos. His first instinct was to attempt to recall his keyblade back to him before any damage could be done with it. While he didn't know whether or not his if his reaction would be fast enough to stop him, but fortunately a ninja had appeared out of nowhere and stopped him. That was a relief, now it wouldn't be due to his actions that someone else gets injured. If it was just himself that was getting hurt then he would be perfectly with any harm that would be done to him. Now that aside he had another matter to deal with. The man who he'd attempted to stop from attacking had now appeared in front of him and was trying to convince him otherwise. "Not happening. I don't go back on my decisions once I've made them, especially ones that decide the lives of others." Zephyr replied with an equally serious look on his face. His resolve was firm and he had full intentions on standing his ground against him should be be necessary, which it probably would be. "If she needs help so badly, why aren't you helping her then?" Zephyr did not know much about those two, but he did remember that they were together when they first arrived at Disney Castle and left for the safe world the first time they departed in search of the hero. Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed the wall of flames erupt at the mouth of the cave which was proceeded by a warning from a flame person that resembled Akira. The flame embodiment warned them that something was amiss in the cave with the hero before the flame turned blue and vanished. It was certainly ominous, but Zephyr wasn't 100% sure what to think about that. "And what do you call that? If you are right then why did something like that happen?" Xross on the other hand was not even phased by Akira's warning. In fact all it served to do was proved more reason for him to venture into the cave and see this hero for himself. As entertaining all everything going on outside, the hero would prove to be more valuable to him. He'd taken a few steps towards the cave before doing one of the things he did best and opening portal that lead into the cave and walking through it. He had exited his portal inside the cave and continued to walk further into it. There wasn't much of not around him when it came down to it, just various rocks that had formed in the cave that he was walking further into. Eventually his pace started to slow down as he eventually spotted two figured in the distance. As he continued to proceed closer, he noted that one was Akira as well as that she was currently glowing with orange color flames. Her blade was pointed pointed towards the wall, which Xross's eye followed until he saw the chain bound figure against the wall. It was interesting that despite the flames Akira was producing that the figure she was pointing at was still shadowy with the exception of its hair and attire. "So this is the fabled hero, honestly not what I was expecting to see."
Zwei followed the two girls to to whatever room they took him too and it took notice to the lack of knowledge he had when it came t acting like the prince. "I guess so, just how big is this book though."
Upon getting to to Kunugi Station, the group was greeted by it being blocked off. At first it was said that a derailment had closed it, but someone in the crowd claimed that there bad people inside the station. The quickest way of finding out which one was the truth was to venture into the station, which they did. Not only did the situation of the station become clear, but it was certainly an un settling one. Numerous guards in various stages of pain were just sprawled out along the floor. That wasn't a good sign as for what was to come for them. That was when a voice had called out to them, asking them to join them where ever they were. Which Caleb and Cassandra did. Aoki on the hand did otherwise and attempted to keep the ones who didn't run off yet from doing so. "What others was of getting into that room do we have exactly? All I got is digging a tunnel, but that would take much to long for it be a practical solution." With a nod Leo, and those who had chosen to go along with him, made their way out of the castle. Once outside, Leo stopped and took out the handkerchief that he was given. He then proceeded to move it towards his face and started to sniff it. It was definitely a weird sight to see, a man sniffing another man's handkerchief, but it was necessary for him to pick up the scent of the prince. As soon as he was certain that he had the scent, Leo moved the handkerchief away from his face and pocketed it. The dragon slayer then started to sniff the air til he smelled the direction of where the princes scent was coming from. "The prince should be that way." He said, pointing in the direction the scent was coming from.
