paixaorpg | So... this wasn't Japan, and it couldn't of been the castle... [completed]

Character(s): Mina Hakuba, Luki, ~~others welcomed~~
Content: Mina enters Paixao, dazed and confused, but with the feeling that Soma is here as well. (Soma senses... tingling.) Luki entering, too!
Setting: Joutenheim gate and its inner area ish thing.
Time: Mid-late afternoon, ~~week2~~ weeks no longer exist :x
Warnings: Luki's nuts, how's that work?

Hopefully this wasn't Dracula's castle. Mina stood there, staring at the dome once she'd gotten into line, frowning deeply and pulling at the sleeves of her haori. So, it didn't look like the castle... but... she'd gotten here the same way she had the castle. She was up to the man at the booth not too long after entering line, since people seemed to be going in quickly. For this the young woman was glad, as she had many questions to ask about this place. So, once the shrine maiden was up to the booth with the man behind the podium with his enormous book, she smiled pleasantly and waited for him to address her.

"Name?" he asked, not looking up. "Hakuba Mina," she said lightly, holding her hands in front of her. "Excuse me," she asks as he turns to retrieve something from behind him. "What is this place? It isn't part of Dracula's castle, is it?" she questioned quietly, and them an gave her a strange look. "Dracula's castle?" he repeated, almost boredly but also like she was insane. He pulled something from behind him and dusted it off, holding it out. "This is Paixao, girl." He said in the same dry tone, before waving his hand for her to go in.

Mina almost panicked. "Wait!" she held a hand up after holding the red journal to her chest, frowning worriedly. "Is there someone named Soma Cruz here?" she asked this a little less meekly, concern evident. The man sighed to her, and skimmed his book. People were getting impatient, but Mina had to know. "No, miss. There's no Soma Cruz. At least, not at this gate," first, Mina was disapointed, then... happy. There were other gates? Then Soma definitely was here. She nodded and smiled her thanks, before turning and entering Paixao.

Once she was a few paces in, that was when it struck her. It was like a spring breeze chill, still somehow warm but a chill nontheless. Soma was here. ~~Her Soma senses were tingling.~~ She just knew he was. He had to of been, and she could feel it.

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A game, a game of hide and seek--that's what the oddly-dressed girl thought she was playing! "What a long line," she wondered aloud. Was this an obstacle, or were these people going to play to? Luki looked past the line and through the barred gates. What a fun-looking place! It looked like those inflatable castles. Snickering, weaved in and out between the "customers," jumping over or pushing them aside; then popped up like a groundhog to the booth, carelessly pushing aside whoever was previously standing in her current position. A man? An old man. A chubby old man.

"Eeeeee~" she squealed, slightly appalled. The man behind the cut glass simply grunted and asked for her name in a monotonous voice.

"LUKI! ♥"

"Here, and welcome to Paixao." A black and pink box was handed to her. Her yellow eyes widened and sparkled as she tilted the inanimate device this angle and there. It was s-h-i-n-y~! With a giggle, Luki darted through Joutenheim and into the wide, open vestibule.

Mina turned as she heard people making protest about something behind her, blinking doe eyes a moment and tilting her head a little. She saw an oddly colored girl bouncing about throughout the line, weaving through people and jumping them. She must've been in a hurry to get into this Paixao place. She seemed a little baffled by her behavior and by her clothing... and her period. She was quite the colorful and excited little girl.

Of course, none of that was actually her concern. Though she seemed a little confused about why the girl had no parents with her. Then she frowned a little sadly. Could this girl of been lost? Could people of gotten here without their families and become orphaned? Honestly Mina, you should stop thinking such sad things. But... it seemed possible as she watched 'Luki,' especially as she darted into the dome.

Luki stood at the center of the road, curiously observing the dome's insides. She gasped when the ceiling changed from a sky to paintings.

"SO COOOOOOOOOL!" she sighed aloud. Grinning, she crouched, getting ready to jump, but then she felt a pair of eyes watching her. Surprised, she jolted straight up and looked around. "Heeeeeh~? Someone is staaaaaaring at Lukiiii...." warily, she trodded closer and closer to Mina, acting as if she was moving toward something else. When she finally reached the red-haired girl's side, she abruptly jumped in front of her in attempt to scare her.

Mina observed her for a moment longer, before she was about to pull her journal away from her chest. She liked it, it went with her shrine clothing. Red with white ... stuff. Swirls and the like that would be moderately girlish. ~~God, why did Snow have to get a girly character...~~ However, the girl had jumped up in front of her... and managed to scare her rather well.

"Eek!" she shrieked a little, jumping back from the odd colored girl and clutching the journal to her chest again, doe eyes wide--kind of like when they're caught in the middle of the road, you know?--as she stared down at her. She was wordless for a moment, trying to consider something to say, before untensing a little. "A-ah, hello there?" Marvelous, Mina. Marvelous.

"HEEEEEEEEEEELLO~!" the twin burst out loudly, literally thrusting her face closer to Mina's. With her odd yellow eyes, Luki looked the maiden up and down; then tilted her head when her eyes rested on her face, bored expression dulling the girl's features.

"Are you playing dress-up?" Luki asked in a wow-how-lame tone.

The shrine maiden leaned away from the odd twin when she became far too close for her comfort, giving her a very unsure look. Wow, she was... strange. Mina had never met someone so strange before in her life. And she'd met some strange people.

At the question, Mina looked insulted. These were her shrine clothes! Of course she wasn't playing dress-up! "Most certainly not," she said assertively, frowning down at Luki.

The black and pink bunny stepped back and giggled, hiding a smile with a cloaked hand. "You're funny and weird!" Laughter subsiding, Luki's eyes took a playful and catlike glint. "What's sister's name~?"

The girl didn't plan to stay long after she received an answer from the weirdly-dressed girl (as if she wasn't one herself). She found the shrine maiden less than interesting.

"Sister's...? Oh!" Mina blinked a little bit, baffled for a moment before giving her a slight smile. Well, odd or not, Mina would be polite. "Mina is my name. What's yours?" She might as well be nice...

The shrine maiden was already a little weirded out by Luki, and would most likely not in the slightest bit be insulted if she roamed away to go find more interesting things to do. Like the Nobodies, but they haven't quite discovered that yet, have they? Mina hadn't even noticed that the line disapeared.

"Luki," she said nonchalantly. By this point, her hands were behind her and she was rocking back and forth on her heels. "Ne ne, Mina-nee~ do you like Luki?" A cocky grin overtook the child's face, and her eyes gazed into Mina's almost condescendingly.

Unlike Mina, the bunny-like girl noticed the line's disappearance, and she heard something coming. Something big...and plentiful. ♥

The shrine maiden observed the girl a moment, tilting her head somewhat confusedly at the question. Mina had to think a moment on how she wanted to respond to this, as Luki seemed very strange and had insulted her somewhat. "I suppose so, Luki-chan. You seem very..."

She was probably going to say something involving nice or cute or interesting, but she started to hear something. And that was when she got the natural sense of danger that she seemed to get anytime she was going to be in it. She frowned a little, looking up and picking at some threading on her sleeve.

The teal-haired girl sighed when the redhead broke eye contact with her. She knew Mina was faking it. "Aa~ah~ Mina-nee is super slow. Luki's gonna ditch you. Bye bye!"

As soon as she chimed farewell, she dashed a yard away to search for Noki. Surely she'd have more fun with her, as always. She must tell her sister about the weirdly-dressed woman and prepare for the upcoming visitors of the city!

So... this wasn't Japan, and it couldn't of been the castle... [completed]

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