Jack turned to Ayers, his aura reducing his headache, "Hey man...Whaddaya think?" He lifted up his arms. Surt and Ymir, in all honesty, looked like shit, they were a set of old bronze gauntlets, ending in hands that had a nightmarish looking set of bolts and nuts to serve as a cestus, the hidden blades were only visible on the top and bottom of each wrist.
Good to be backFlashback
Well, that was disastrous, Lucas thought to himself as he checked his jacket for signs of tears. He had spent so much of the race being dragged on his back that he wouldn't have been surprised to find a big hole on it. Fortunately, there was none. And a good thing, too. He would have never forgiven himself if he had left a whole in his uncle's jacket—
His thoughts were interrupted by the sound of his scroll going off. Probably another ad call. Just let it go to voicemail—
"Hey dude! It's Thaddeus. I posted the video of you and Mom at the three-legged race! You won't believe the views! It's over nine thousand!!!"
...Lucas wanted to smash his scroll on Thaddeus's head.
Now
Lucas snuck away from the cake crowd, hoping that someone wouldn't decide to drag him along when they went to Land of Oz. All the noise and people were bound to disorient him...
Team MIN
"Yes Pius, what is wrong?" She asked, sitting up, placing her hands in her lap and looking at her team leader.
BIRFDAY
"A w-water park?" Ieria asked in disbelief. "W-well...I guess it will give me a reason to wear my swimsuit..." She blushed lightly at the idea of Medus seeing her in her little dark green two piece.
"I am nature's weapon. You are unfit to carry on your species, and I shall ensure that you do not do so!" - Charles Darwin, XCOM SniperDorm Rose
Ieria squeaked in surprise as she jumped from Medus' tickling. "J-just that I'll have to unbind my b-breasts in front of so many people...and I'll be in my swimsuit..." She said, blushing heavily now.
"I am nature's weapon. You are unfit to carry on your species, and I shall ensure that you do not do so!" - Charles Darwin, XCOM Sniper"Damn, that's nice!" Ayers commented on Jack's work. "Diggin' the style there, very janky. Reminds me a some of the stuff we improvised back home. Y'all can see it's made with love."
He nabbed a slice of cake for him and Jack. "Now, that water park... Gregor'd hate that, it'd take hours to dry his wings, bein' a Beetle Faunus and all. Kinda ironic that a guy havin' so much trouble with water's such a wet blanket, y'know?" He grinned. "I love'im all the same. He's gonna lose it when he sees the pictures."
MIN Flashback
I think I could sneak up even with a bell attached. Pius thought almost arrogantly. Then he heard Ieria's reply, and he moved himself so that he was now sitting on one end of the couch, with Medus behind Ieria as he looked at them again.
"It's nothing big," He replied incorrectly, knowing how much the thought itched at him. "It's just that..." He took another sip of his chocolate dairy drink before continuing, staring at liquid mixture in his hand.
"I personally knew her from the 7th to the 14th." They knew of whom he spoke. "I met Dex on the 16th. So tomorrow I will have known Dex for just as long. It's just that..." Again he drank, as if the milk could intoxicate him like his siblings said it did when he had too much. "He's my partner just like she was. I just—"
He paused for a moment, unsure if he wanted to reveal this side of himself to them. They were his teammates, sure, but he hadn't even known them for a month. How could he trust them with something this close to his heart.
"—I don't want her to be forgotten by us, replaced by Dex." He confessed at last, refusing to be alone in this empty feeling.
"Does that...make sense?" He looked up at them after he spoke and put the cup down on the table nearby. His eyes did not shimmer, nor did they shed a tear, but his face told the two all they needed to know about how he felt.
Happy Birthday, Medus!
Pius took his mind away from the news for a moment and found himself staring at a chocolate treat barely twelve hours after his last one.
Someone must have sent birthday boy a cake. He inferred.
The gray-eyed Nobel stood up and took a look at the cake, then the letter, then the tickets, and then the cake again. It was calling to him, delicious, succulent, sweet...
Pius blinked and turned his head towards the happy couple on his team. He gave a small smile at the sight before he returned to more pressing matters.
"Medus, before we head out to class in about fifteen minutes, may I have a slice of this..." He took a moment to stare at the tall pastry again before focus returned and jerked his head back to face his second-in-command. "...cake?"
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Medus gave Pius a look with a raised eyebrow. "Forget about her? How would we even do that? The crater from where her Nevermore landed is still there in front of the school. Besides I don't know if Dex will be around to replace her. I mean Goodwitch got him after the duel and she looked pissed as all hell. Honestly I'm surprised she didn't blow up him and Ayers on the spot."
Birthday
Medus nodded, "Yea sure, man. Its not like anyone else is even bothering to ask." He commented as he moved over to Ieria and wrapped an arm around her waist. "I can hardly wait." The teen whispered in the snake girl's ear before giving her a light kiss on the neck.
-dramatic music ensues-Dorm Rose
Shift.
Groan.
"Muuuuuuuuuuuuugh." Remus muttered as he crawled out of bed. He didn't even bother putting his bandanna on or tying his hair back today. Right now, the only thing he could think about was something to wake him up.
And so he went downstairs, past the crowd of people, and straight to the coffee.
He got coffee, and then calmly started to fry up three of the eighteen strips of boarbotusk bacon his parents had brought with them on parent's day to give to Remus. The aroma would no doubt fill the air, a strong bacon smell with a slight difference, which to some, made it all the more fantastic.
Flash Back
Ieria looked down at the mention of Urujauni. "Impossible to forget friends, even those who leave." She whispered to herself. "It is alright Pius, Dex could never replace her." She said with a smile. "You have nothing to fear in that regard."
Birthday Bash
Ieria blushed as she welcomed the kiss. "I might die of embarrassment from you seeing me..." She said with a slight giggle.
"I am nature's weapon. You are unfit to carry on your species, and I shall ensure that you do not do so!" - Charles Darwin, XCOM Sniper"My, uh, my beau, back home. Real great guy, y'all might see him at the... dance... this year..." Ayers stared off past Jack, at the table.
"Hey, y'all... Mia's here. The girl from..." He swiveled his vision around to Wiglaf Platinum. "Guys, Wiglaf Platinum's haunted. Like, with a gud ghost, but still. Howdy, Mia."
Calypso
Calypso walked in rubbing one eye, a gesture indicative of her current mood if nothing else. She momentarily turned her attention to Medus and Ieria. Was it just her or were those two acting a lot more... intimate than before?
She scowled. This wasn't the dating game, and she sure as hell wasn't a matchmaker. She could care less.
"Put some clothes on Barry, for crissakes," she said, trying to avoid looking at his barely-clothed nether regions. Instead, she watched the news. She hadn't really "been there" for most of parent's day (gee, what a big fucking surprise) but from the sound of things, shit had gone pretty far south again, resulting in an appearance of the infamous Goodbitch. Just another lovely day in Dorm Rose, where the only thing more volatile than the Dust powder were the damn people.
Not that you're much better, the way you freaked out yesterday, she reminded herself. "Oh shut up, brain."
Calypso grabbed a piece of cake with her hands and started eating it, picking up one of the tickets to look at it. "Land of Oz..." She looked confused. Turning to Barry, she asked, "The fuck is a water park?"
Flashback
"I really don't have time for this," Calypso growled. "Barry! Tell her to back off!"
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I've got new mythological machinery, and very handsome supernatural scenery. Goodfae: a mafia web serialMIN Meeting
"Thank you, the both of you." Pius replied, a small half-smile on his face as he took another sip of milk, savoring it for once. "I was worried that—" Then he remembered Medus' words.
"Wait, what?" He asked as he set the cup down again, along with his mood. "Dex got into another duel? With who?"
Please, don't be Ayers, dammit. Not again. Pius made a mental note not to put his Scroll on silent mode ever again for this.
Birthday Present
Pius gave a quick nod of thanks to his second-in-command before taking what he believed was a reasonably-sized piece of the cake. With a spoon held between metal fingers, the gray-eyed Nobel returned to his seat on the couch and returned to watching the news while he waited for time to pass.
I need to figure out something to give Medus for his birthday. He realized, before diving into both the cake and his mental reserves to stimulate his thought process.
Allurand and surrounding world loading, 28%...Jack ooked at Ayers, "Oh, cool. He coming to this school?" He leaned over the table before he jumped up, shrieking for a brief second, he had just got a murderous brainfreeze-then it was gone in a nanosecond. "THE FUCK!?...AND WHO'S MIA!?!"
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Good to be back"Ayers. I'm Ayers." Ayers replied to Mia. "Yeah, Jack, Gregor's prolly coming fer the dance. Boy ain't no Hunter though, he's a doctor. And, uh, much as I'd love to tell y'all about how great the guy is, I figger it's prolly kinda important we address, uh, Mia." Ayers gestured vaguely at the girl. "There's a girl sittin' here on the table, the ghost whut we supposedly put to rest when we buried her. Good to know yer happy, though, I had this doubt, just a little one, that y'all wouldn't want me to use y'all as a weapon, but it's gud to see y'all git me, y'all. I'd have other people put on the arm to see if'n y'all could talk to them, but we don't got no other biplegics here, save Beth, and she don't run off of my Master's basic system fer the arms. Damn shame, you guys prolly think I'm crazy, right?" Ayers smiled and shrugged.
Birthday
"Not completely crazy, Ayers." Pius replied aloud from a short distance, having muted out the news to listen to the others nearby.
"I mean, look who you're living with." He added, the cake taking a little of the edge off of him. "This is probably one of the less insane things that's happened so far."
He tried to stare in the general direction of Mia where Ayers had gestured and grayed over his eyes, confirming her lingering presence with his Semblance before letting his eyes go back to normal.
"Mia, what are you still doing here?" He asked. "We buried you. Did we miss something?"
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"Hey y'all, havin' a good day? Medus's birthday's today, righ—oh, yep." Ayers emerged from the staircase, talking to nobody inparticular as he went down them again, and grinned as he saw Medus's present. "Whuzzat y'all got there, pard? Like, uh, other'n the cake?"
He finished descending the stairs, and flexed his arms around a little. He'd ditched Hrunt in favor of Wiglaf Platinum on his right for the day, and had also finished painting it. Wiglaf Platinum, contrary to its name, was a light brown color existing between Hrunt and Naeg's colorations, covered in Mia's armor plates with the Silver Lion still on the back of the hand. A brace ran down the side of his forearm, the track that his hand used to flip between gun and arm. The scope sat nestled in the top of his wrist, ready to spring out, and a fairly obvious panel on the side of his arm held his secondary blade.