"I guess you're right, it's definitely not safe for any of them to walk back right now. I mean, what if those other three people show up again..." Marcel had said, agreeing with Tosh when she told him her thoughts. It would have been better to make sure they all made it home safely.
"Okay then, I'll stay with her so she can speak to Sakura, and then we'll try to get back safely. You just make sure the rest of these kids don't give you any trouble!" He said, laughing a little. "I don't want to be the one to bail you out!"
After waving goodbye to Sakura, Sandra went on to leave, passing by Marcel and Tosh.
"Er... just, thanks I suppose?" she then proceeded to walk out.
OH GOD WHY AM I A CAR!? - ForzareToshiko laughed. "You got it." She said, giving Mercel a grin. "I'll take care of them. You two just be careful." Waving goodbye to those staying back, Tosh broke into a job to catch up with the kids who were leaving, transitioning back into the real world when they did. She was a surprised at how easy it'd had been - although she had to admit she missed the sight of the castle.
"Ok guys, we should probably stick together as far as we can." She said. "None of us want to be caught alone by those other three, right?" That said, the girl move on a head a little, falling into step beside Alouette.
"How are you holding up, Alli?" She asked, her voice tinged with concern. She'd seen enough people trying to "walk it off" to recognise it here.
"Y... yes, I think so," Hikaru answered the spirit, her voice somewhat doubtful.
Not that she had any other better option at the moment, since going home right now would probably mean bearing many unanswered questions and a confused face to the dinner table at home. Last time she did that, she could swear her parents pestered her throughout the evening, fearing that their dear little girl were having difficulties at school, or, god forbid, a boyfriend. She could only hope she would not return home too late to run into even bigger problems.
As usual, Michal Wolodijowski was completely and utterly oblivious to her very 21st-century-schoolgirl concerns.
"No problem on my part," he said. "I might have something I wish to work out with our pagan benefactor myself."
"You keep using that word..."
Hikaru blurted, annoyance piling onto her confusion.
"Ah, okay," she answered Toshiko when she said goodbye. "I'll be okay... right?"
That last word was uttered with her cheeks again turning luminescent. Of course, putting a dreamy teenage girl next to a nice guy while both were on some sort of mission tended to have that kind of effect.
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Support Taleworlds!Natsuki smiled faintly as she approached her fellow Dark Magical Girls. The Ruler wasn't satisfied...that was too bad. They wanted to make her happy, after all. She stopped some distance away from the other girls; the smell of sweat and battle was not a particular odour she wished to smell right now. She could not stop herself from sniffing a scented handkerchief before talking to them.
"Mmmm, so you lost? Why?"
Join us in our quest to play all RPG video games! Moving on to disc 2 of Grandia!"Well, my parents probably won't be home by now but my older sister would probably worry in their place." Although Tom was a bit curious of how things would turn out for Hikaru...he didn't want to suffer from his sister's nagging.
Focusing his way back into his world, Tom caught sight of Alouette, seeing the girl around his age was not in optimal condition, he couldn't help but wish to help her. Unfortunately, the only method that appeared in Tom's mind was not one he was so happy to take. The boy had the feeling he could use healing magic...but only as a puppy.
Tom gripped on his arm tightly so he could pull the offer out of his mouth. "Alouette...maybe I can heal you...if I transform back..."
Some people say I'm lazy. It's hard to disagree.Takeshi looked up to see Natsuki approaching them, fulfilling her need to smell. Natsuki and him were similar in the way that he had a need for pressure. His rope was comforting to him. However, her detached personality made it difficult for him to interact with.
"There were too many of them," Takeshi explained, trying to not let the down of defeat leak into his voice. "The Master should've send us all, or we should fight them in smaller groups."
"They were an unexpected factor in what was supposed to be an easy conquest. And that filthy spirit used way more power than we expected. And we did not lose... We merely retreated when victory seemed uncertain in a situation that was from what was planned"Hazuki defended herself, her expression one that dared anyone to disagree with her.
"Right in that case let us move somewhere more comfortable" Sakura said right before she started marching towards the castle. The girl stepped into a little open wooden corridor and then knelt to open a sliding door into a nice room with table that had some green tea and snacks served.
"Shall we discuss your guest over a cup of tea?"
"Mmmm...today you fought other magical girls. Our power has been enough to take all other opposition in our way until now...and these are stronger than us. Uhmmm...so if we want to fulfil our mission, we need to find a way to take them out besides fighting them openly..."
Join us in our quest to play all RPG video games! Moving on to disc 2 of Grandia!"We fight them by cornering them." Takeshi said. He continued tugging at his rope, his frustration boiling up. Natsuki's perfume made his eyes water. Such a strong scent, yet it didn't drown out their sense of defeat. "Maybe if we find one of them and convince her to come to our side, the master would be pleased."
A gust of wind made Takeshi shivered. He should've brought a jacket for after the fight. Heat didn't carry over much from the spirit world.
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Hagane listened in silence as one of the others appeared, the one obsessed with scents. She did not really care that much what the plan was, one-on-one she could take any of them. Thats how a fight should be, pitting skill against skill. She rose to her feet, eyes still closed as she said "If there is nothing left for us to do then I am going home." She started to walk off.
Sergei had fallen silent, just quietly absorbing what had happened. Perhaps when he got back home, he could try something his father had spoken often of: "sitting on the road", an old Russian practice that consisted of sitting in a circle* in silence for a few minutes. Apparently, it was meant to bring good luck. Before this, he would have scoffed at the idea that something like that could have any effect at all on the trajectory of someone's life, but now that he had learnt that magic was real, he was far more inclined to try it.
Hearing Tosh, he nodded. "Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. I just hope that those three don't come back to finish the job."
Locking you up on radar since '09"Ah, yes, as you wish."
Hikaru said awkwardly, following the deity. She would have tried to find a place to sit down, but realized that her wooden wings were working very, very much against her when it came to kneeling down on a mat in the traditional Japanese style.
"Err... Mr. Worodi, what am I supposed to do about the wings?" she whispered desperately.
"But of course," her unlikely advisor said. "Hang on - I will take care of it in an instant."
With a flash, Hikaru's incredibly restricting pair of wooden wings were replaced with a much more comfortable, and yet much more environmentally unfriendly, coat of red velvet and leopard skin, draping snugly over her shoulders. The loss of weight on her back almost knocked her off balance, but she managed to recover in a quite timely and not too inelegant manner.
"T... thanks" she muttered, nodding quietly.
With that done, she stood politely behind the goddess, waiting for any further instruction...
Support Taleworlds!Marcel had followed the two into the room where they were going to talk, or rather Sakura and Hikaru since he was only there to make sure the latter made it home without any problems. It was ultimately the easier option he could have taken, and he certainly wasn't going to complain about it.
"Right...I'll just have some tea and sit off to the side." He had said. "I'm the extra here, so unless you two don't want me to hear this conversation and want me wait outside, just pretend I'm not here."
"Here" Sakura said, handing the both of them a cup of tea. After that she grabbed her own and took a little sip out of it. She left it up to Hikaru to let Marcel listen or not.
"Ahhh~ Just what I needed... Alright then... Hikaru, it seems like you have a little guest inside of you. These things tend to happen every once in a while... though I'm not exactly sure where he came from"
"Oh also, I'm sorry I couldn't answer your question good guest, but I didn't know what you were talking about. It's been a long time since I've been awake"
Alouette glared at Tosh as the older girl walked up to her. "I'm fine," she snapped. "I'm not a wimp. I can handle a fight. I've probably fought more than you have, anyway. You look like a suck-up." She began to walk a little more quickly, before hearing the other child speak. Spinning around, wincing slightly as the effort of doing so caught up to her.
"How many times do I have to say I'm fine? I'm not a baby. I can look after myself-" She winced a little more loudly, legs crumpling for a moment before she angrily recovered herself. "I'm fine," she repeated, turning to continue walking away.
Anyway here's BlackwallToshiko seemed unfazed by Alouette's glare and irritated response. Ah, so that's the way it's gonna be, is it? Insisting would just make the younger girl clam up even more, she'd be better off trying a different tactic.
She nodded her head, holding up one palm placatingly. "So I see, you're certainly tough." She said nonchalantly, before putting her hands in her pockets. "I have to say, though, If I went home injured my parents would probably ask me all sorts of questions, make a fuss. Pretty annoying, right?"
For what seemed to her like the longest time Hikaru hesitated, fiddling with her fingers while looking at the floor - a task that was thankfully made a world easier owing to her new, lighter back ornament - unsure whether she should just let Marcel stand there. On one hand, shoving guys out of her "girl's conversation" had always been the norm in her mindset. On the other, after everything that day, which could best be described at the very back of her mind as a not-very-classy orgy between her greatest dream and her worst nightmare, she was desperately in need of some acquaintance around her.
"P-please do stay," she muttered quietly to Marcel.
She turned to the goddess.
"I... I am not sure how this happened actually..." she began, her voice filled to the brim with confusion.
Again her eyes changed color very quickly before either the goddess or Marcel could notice. At the same time, her voice simultaneously dropped several octaves in pitch and gained several orders of magnitude in attitude.
"I, too, have no explanation aside a good bit of coincidence," 'she' continued. "A fortunate coincidence as gifted by the Almighty Lord to the faithful that both of us can make use of."
"Let me introduce myself proper. My name is Michal Stanislow Wolodijowski * , a Szlachcic * and Towarzysz Husarski * under the command of Grand Hetman of the Crown Jan Sobieski and a humble servant of the Almighty Lord and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth," 'she' said. "At least, that was what I used to be, before my eventual demise in a battle that will remain nameless, against the godless, ruthless Turks from the south."
Then 'Hikaru' glanced across the room, as though to gather attention before continuing.
"Today I am here, waken from my rest solely as an agent of the Lord and the Commonwealth, caught into this war of yours solely owing to a particular twist of fate I would rather not mention yet," 'she' said. "The nature of my mission is a matter military secret. Though you can rest assure - I bear no ill will against you, your people or your mandate. On the contrary - our missions do run parallel to each other, at least for the moment."
Having finished what he had to say, the voice released his grips from Hikaru for the moment, returning the girl to what she was... for the moment.
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Support Taleworlds!Alouette snorted. "No need to tell me that. They won't notice, though. I know how to hide a bruise." She'd come across people like Tosh before; do-gooders who thought they could make her do what she was told by pretending to be reasonable. Like they thought she needed help. She was perfectly fine on her own; she didn't need anyone else babying her.
Still...
"I am pretty tough, though," the girl admitted proudly. "'S why I can handle my family. I bet Grandma will distract them before they ask too many questions, anyway. Grandma always distracts them."
Anyway here's Blackwall

Tosh stood up and bowed to Sakura again, pleased that the spirit had managed to cheer Tom up. "Thank you, miss sakura. We wont let you down." She said confidently. She looked down at her Blessing for a moment, then pinned the silver brooch to the lapel of her uniform.
As everyone began to leave, the older girl noticed one figure in particular - Allouette, limping away with what looked like some difficulty. Tosh frowned, glancing back at Sakura. The spirit had asked Hikaru to stay back, and she didn't want to leave the young girl to walk home on her own either.
After a moment, Tosh quickly walked over to Mercel, giving him an apologetic smile. "It looks like we're going to have to get some of the kids home, doesn't it?" She said, gesturing to Alli and Hikaru. "I don't like the thought of any of us going alone tonight. One of us should stay with Hikaru, don't you think?"