paixaorpg | take what you can get [ACTIVE]

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take what you can get [ACTIVE]

Character(s): Rikku, Kid, Reno, Tak
Content: Arrival.
Setting: Niflheim Gate.
Time: Late Afternoon.
Warnings: Nope, none.

Oh, she was calling. Rikku lifted her head just as Yuna and Paine turned to face her. The three shared a look and it was apparent that they all understood. It was never a fieldtrip when they had to report back to Maleficent, especially when there was absolutely nothing to say. Lately there hadn’t been any activity with Leon and his crew, so what were they supposed to do? Maleficent promised them treasure if they completed their secret mission, but that was starting to become a much more difficult task to accomplish then that had originally assumed. Coming back with no news just wasn’t an option for them, and as much as Rikku liked to boast their oh-so-fearless nature, Maleficent was certainly the exception to their courage.

“Yunie, I’ll go first! I can find out if she’s gonna be really mad then come back.” It sounded noble enough, but the other two could most definitely see past this show of bravery. Wringing her hands together was probably what gave it away, now that she thought about it. Before the pair could open their mouths, though, Rikku vanished in a swirl of yellow and orange. They may have known she was nervous, but they would never insult her and refuse her order.

Oh, wait, Paine would. Drat.

All of that seemed to lose its importance the moment she materialized again. Green eyes blinked once, twice, then a third time just to make sure she registered everything correctly. This wasn’t the dark and creepy castle of Maleficent. In fact, it was more the complete opposite, wasn’t it? What a strange place this was. Rikku hung in the air for a moment longer, surveying the area for anything alive when a voice, soft and somewhat cheerful, said, “welcome to Paixao.” The small fairy spun around, floating back a few spaces before getting a good look at her greeter. She opened her mouth to question the genuity of such a welcome, but the mysterious person interrupted with the giving of a weird device.

It was probably the same size she was, and at first Rikku wasn’t sure what to do with it. The person offered it again, holding it out further for her to take. Well, what was treasure was still treasure no matter how weird it looked. Rikku accepted the gift, arms wrapping around as much of it as she could before she was ushered away. “Hey, but I still— Wait, I’m not— Come on, listen to me!”

Well, there was no point arguing after that...

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Kid had thankfully managed to separate herself from Dr. Cid. He had seemed all right at first, but something in her gut told her that it had been a very big mistake to tell the man what she could do concerning time. Okay, more than a mistake; had Kid lost all common sense completely? "Stupid sheila," she muttered to herself, weaving around the crowd, "what the bloody hell were ya thinkin'?"

All right, so she hadn't been. It had sort of popped out of her mouth. She had to get out of the city for a while; at least take a walk to clear her head, away from all of these people. She had chosen a gate on her map and stalked to it, giving dark glances to anyone in her way. She was on her way out when she nearly stumbled into someone who looked like... a fairy?

"Well, bugger me," said the thief, crossing her arms and looking amused despite her annoyance, "I didn't except to find one of you in here."

"Careful, sheila," Kid laughed, crossing her arms. "Ya don't wanna drop one o' those." Not that it'd be hard to find a replacement, but the fairy didn't really look like she wanted to go find one right now. She looked into the fairy's face, noting the odd swirls instead of pupils (hey, Kid was a thief; why wouldn't she notice?) and grinned back.

"Yeah, the guards never wanna say much," she replied. "Cheerful blokes, though, ain't they?" The thief tilted her head, nodding. "I talk when I want," she agreed, "and I'm in a bit of a talkin' mood right now." At Rikku's question, she looked thoughtful. "We all got busy lives outside o' this place, looks like. I dunno how we come here, but people from all sorts o' worlds are brought here."

Kid grinned at the much smaller girl. "Who're you? Me name's Kid."

"It might," came the answer with a careless shrug. "I've never tested it, and I've never been in the mood to find out." She caught the murmur and laughed. "I dunno," Kid continued, "I've found a lot of good treasure that breaks easily." And by 'found,' of course, she meant stole, but this stranger didn't need to know that - even if she seemed to have a couple of things in common with Kid.

She nodded, flipping blonde bangs out of her face. "Yeah. There are lots of people here that aren't native - and I'll bet me bum there's a way back." There had to be; every way in had a way out, however difficult, and Kid intended to find it. She couldn't help but laugh at Rikku's introduction, though. "Nice t'meetcha. Where're you from?"

Well, that was something you didn't see every day. The part where there was some sort of fairy-thing hovering there. Either that or some had been Mini'd and then had had Float cast on them, but he rather doubted that was going to be the case here.

Besides, he'd heard something that seemed right up his alley. 'I'm in a bit of a talking mood right now,' the not-tiny girl had girl said. Something he was almost always in.

And hey, no time like the present right?

"Might be, might not be. Ain't exactly like I've tried breakin' it." Yet.

"Ya know," Kid offered, "I've got a bag I don't need right now. D'ya want it? Maybe ya can carry your journal in it." She untied a small, empty bag, offering it to Rikku. It had been one she'd picked up here; she'd hidden her other bags around her apartment.

She whipped around at the sound of a male voice, her bright blue eyes flickering over the stranger in order to size him up. Her attention, however, was drawn right back to Rikku when the fairy flew into her face. "Male-what? And your world is gone?" Kid had never heard of that happening before. Kid shook her head. "Nah, I've not even heard of Traverse Town."

She looked back to the red-haired stranger. "Who're you?"

Was it worth anything? To be perfectly honest he'd never actually asked. Besides, why would he want to sell something that was so useful? "Never really asked, yo. Everyone's got one though. Lets you keep touch with everythin' that's goin' on in th' city."

Okay, so maybe 'everything' was a little bit of an exaggeration. But really, that wasn't his problem.

"Name's Reno. An' I ain't heard 'f Traverse Town either."

Kid grinned at the fairy, handing over the bag. "No problem, sheila." The bag hadn't really been doing her much good, anyway. She raised an eyebrow at Rikku dodging her question, tucking it in the back of her mind to examine later. Maybe this would be useful.

... And Rikku was supposed to be spying on someone. Somehow, the fairy didn't seem to be a bad person, but one never knew. Kid decided to leave that alone for now and looked over at Reno. "Nice to meet you, mate. I'm Kid."

"Just Reno," he answered with a grin. He didn't need a flashy name to show off what he was. At least, not when he was at home anyway, and wasn't about to bother with coming up with a different name to go by while he was here. Not until he needed to for some reason or another. "You really think I look like a 'Rex'?"

As for things-of-possible value, he had more than a few, mostly tucked into pockets for the time being - the most obvious being his EMR (currently folded up) and a few spare materia. The rest were far less obvious from a simple casual glance but no less potentially valuable for that.

This girl was hiding something, Kid was sure. Mainly because of Rikku shaking her head like that, but there were definitely other clues. The thief noted this with a smile on her face, however, and laughed when Rikku landed on Reno's head. "It's not a bad name, ya know," she chimed in, grinning cheekily at the two strangers, "but yer right, it might scare the little buggers off." Not that she minded kids, of course; that was really an affectionate nickname.

She laughed again, gesturing at the two. "I think it suits ya, Reno." Not that she knew him, but hey, it was funny.

There was a brief blink from Reno as Rikku settled herself in amongst his hair. Then again, no one'd ever used him as a perch before even if it was simply because tiny flying people weren't exactly common in the world he knew.

Come to think of it, there weren't any that he knew of, and Reeve's robot toy thing didn't count. Not to mention it couldn't fly. Not unless Reeve had modified it since last he'd seen it.

"Hey, I go to a lot 'f work t' get it lookin' like that!" Reno retorted. He liked his spikes, and if he'd wanted his hair to lie flat he'd have been able to sleep in longer in the mornings.

"An' 'll be sure t' tell th' boss that th' name in my file ain't what he should be callin' me, then."

Edited 2008-10-13 18:15 (UTC)

Kid smirked as she looked over at the other two - after the way Dr. Cid had acted, she wasn't in a hurry to meet up with him again any tim soon, and this was a more than welcome distraction. "Me, sheila?" she replied at Rikku's question, crossing her arms at a thought. "There're lots o' shops around 'ere, but I'm not sure which ones would have ribbons. Probably one o' th' clothing stores, but I haven't been in any of 'em yet."

There was no point, after all, in getting different clothing when her current set was suiting her just fine.

Ribbons? Who the hell did they think he was, Cloud? He might've been willing to do anything the job asked of him, but as far as he was concerned, he'd leave the dresses and ribbons to someone who was a little better suited to them. For example, Elena. Even if she would kill him for suggesting it.

"Y'know, ribbons might kind 'f jeopardize th' manliness of your chosen war-steed." Besides, he wasn't entirely sure what Rufus would think if he came home with ribbons in his spikes and if they were going to attack his spikes there was no guarantee that his ponytail was going to remain untouched.

"Yep," Kid replied. She'd never really been shopping herself, at least until she'd run into Serge. She had always preferred to steal instead - and clothing wasn't really something Kid ever worried about. Her current set suited her just fine, and Kid wasn't vain enough to care about owning another outfit unless she needed to.

"Oh, come off it," the thief laughed, addressing Reno. "Y'know, there're plenty o' menfolk who wear ribbons, an' they don't seem bothered by it." Then again, those men were what were commonly known as dandies, but Reno didn't exactly need to know that.

[ooc: Sorry I took so long in replying. D: Life decided to sneak up on me and beat me in the face.]

"Do I look like that kind 'f guy?" He had no problems admitting that he was more than a little good-looking, but he liked to think that it wasn't quite that kind of good-looking.

Not to mention that between his slightly slouching posture and the more than slightly disheveled shirt and suit-jacket it should have been fairly obvious that he didn't particularly care about how he looked. Or at least not to the same extent to the kind of guys who generally wore ribbons did.

But since he couldn't see that he'd be able to successfully talk his way out of this, he'd follow along for the time being.

"Not exactly," Kid replied, addressing Reno with a careless shrug, "But you've got to live a little, doncha?" Even if that meant doing something utterly ridiculous that one normally wouldn't do - even Kid had done that on occasion. Before she had come here, it had involved the S.S. Zelbess, a few stray Elements and a ridiculous amount of cats.

The thief laughed aloud at Rikku's antics; she was finding that she liked the girl. "Nah, I've not really got a place," she replied. "Been too busy taking care of me own hide to relax." That, and she didn't really want anyone to know where she had been storing her "findings."

So that's how it was going to be? Ah well, may as well go for the whole chocobo now. Wasn't like it would bother him too much, and it might even improve on his general air of 'this person is not a threat'.

"May as well," he answered with a shrug. He could always take them out again later. And so what if Rufus laughed at him for having ribbons in his hair? It wasn't like he wasn't used to having laughs and smiles turned his way, even if they were interspersed with swears and curses.

"Been hangin' out at one 'f th' hotels," Reno answered. "You'd haveta convince th' boss t' let you stay though."

Kid felt guilty for the sort-of lie, but she really couldn't afford any risks right now. "Tell you what," she offered, smiling at Rikku. "I may not care much about gettin' a place of me own, but I'll help you find one." If Lucca had taught her anything, it was to help people that needed it. Kid may not have followed that lesson all the time, but she did when she figured the person was really in need and wasn't out to kill her.

It looked like her offer was useless, however, when Rikku started rambling about 'not making a peep' at Reno (from the looks of it, she was making more than a peep, but who knew what would happen later).

Well, the comment of his boss not noticing sounded good. But even that wasn't necessarily going to keep Rufus from noticing. Not to mention the fact that even with her word of honor he didn't trust her to keep to her word. Not on a first meeting anyway.

"Pretty sure he'd notice 'f I'm comin' in with ribbons in my hair. But you c'n try t' persuade him."

He'd help as best he could of course, but even then it wasn't a guarantee that Rufus would be inclined to agree.

"An' you'd better not. Gotten pretty good at spottin' when somethin's been nicked, yo."

The fact that all the humans had the same color hair and eyes for the most part went unnoticed by Tak, because humans all looked the same anyway. Because of that, she may have failed to notice a read-had among the crowd, but the sight of a tiny, flying human made her start. It appeared to be a creature halfway between a human and a bee. Had these humans somehow mastered bee-technology? That could make them truly dangerous...

Tak narrowed her eyes for a moment, before moving towards the bee-human. This matter begged further investigation. If this Paixao was some part of Earth, bee-humans could throw a serious wrench into her plans for domination. She walked up to the bee-human and the two it seemed to be conversing with and put on her very best charming human-child smile.

"Hi!" she greeted as she came up next to them. "I'm Tak. I'm new here."

Kid, at Rikku's statement, simply couldn't take anymore, and she doubled over laughing at the thought of the taller, lanky redhead in ribbons. "Maybe some flowers'll do ya some good, Reno." If they could find real ones, that is - all Kid had managed to find thus far were the jeweled (and therefore obviously false) plants.

She smiled reassuringly at Rikku - Kid rather had a liking for fairies, at least the ones she had met. "No worries, mate. We'll find you a real good place." She looked over at the newcomer. "'Ello, there."

"Just when you want me to?" Reno asked with a slight smirk. He could deal with that. Besides, he'd done worse than wander around in slightly embarrassing things before. Not to mention the fact that actually finding something that would embarrass him was easier said then done.

"You'd have t' find ones that don't clash with th' ribbons," he commented at Kid's remark. First ribbons and now flowers? He'd end looking more than a little odd by the time he managed to get back home at this rate.

But any other musings on that thought were neatly interrupted by the arrival of yet another person. "'Sup?"

Tak smiled her sweet little-girl smile at the group and attempted to squeeze glean some basic information. "I'm not really sure where I am. I kind of got here by accident. I'm sure my father's very worried about me." She added a saddened look to the last statement. "A person at the gate told me that this was 'Paixao,' but they didn't seem to know anything else. Actually, they seemed to be an imbecile... I don't suppose any of you would be able to help me?" She gave them a hopeful little smile dripping with sincerity.

"We're a couple a' cute girls. I'm pretty sure we can find somethin' that suits ya," came Kid's cheeky reply. Not only that, but Kid and Rikku were cute girls who knew how to dress. They'd find something suitable. Of course, 'suitable' meant 'potentially embarrassing to the point of ridiculousness' but that was all part of the fun.

Something wasn't right about this girl. Perhaps it was the usage of the word "imbecile," but Kid's instincts were going off. Still, she didn't seem to mean them any harm, and did seem genuinely in need of help, so the thief ignored the feeling for the moment and nodded. "The guards aren't much use around 'ere, but that's not much different from the other places I've been. This place is a mystery to pretty much everyone."

There hadn't been any doubt in Reno's mind that between the two of them Kid and Rikku would be able to find some manner of (possibly slightly embarrassing) decoration to suit him. Not that he minded. He'd suffered worse indignities in the past and would probably be forced to do so at least once more before the end of his life.

Besides, that paled in comparison to the fact that he couldn't help but feel that something was a little off about the girl that had just arrived. He couldn't quite pinpoint what it was, but he'd never been in the habit of ignoring his gut feelings.

"Oh, an' it ain't likely you're gonna be leavin' anytime soon," he added as a sort of bizarre afterthought to what the others had mentioned.

Edited 2008-11-10 04:21 (UTC)

"Oh my," Tak said, her holographic eyebrows knitting together in concern. "Are there no ships off of this island?" she asked, looking slightly frightened. "And, 'Paixao,' is it the name of the island or the city or both? I don't believe that I've ever heard of it before..." She hugged her arms around herself, looking for all the world like a perfectly innocent, lost little girl, and her lip trembled a little. "Y-you said that there are places to live," she looked imploringly up at the bee-human. "I... I don't have any monies though..." She bit her lip for good measure. "... I'm quite sure I don't know anyone here too..."

The thief grinned at Reno, giving a cheerful clap of her hands. "Don't worry, mate, Rikku and I'll take real goodcare of you." She gave Rikku a wink. "Right, sheila?"

Kid looked at Tak again. "There's nothin' leavin' this island, s'far as I can tell," she answered. "From what I've been hearin', lot's of people have been tryin' t'figure this place out for ages with no luck at all." She gave Rikku a questioning look. "What's a gummi ship?"

Well, at least that was something. Not very much of a something, but a something nonetheless. "Good t' know."

"Nah, no ships off th' island, yo. An' as far as I've been able t' figure out Paixao's th' name of th' island and th' city." Not... that he'd actually asked anyone about that. But he hadn't found any reason that had suggested that that wasn't the case so as far as he was concerned, he was right.

Tak considered playing to their sympathies a bit more. A poor, lost, little girl, all alone in a strange place, but then, she might talk herself into a corner. No, better to keep her tale vague until she'd better established how things worked around here. She remembered the handful of information that she had been presented with upon entering and reached back to retrieve it from her pak. It was more difficult than simply having the pak hand it round to her, but humans didn't have paks, and dull as the creatures were, she couldn't risk one of them noticing a metal arm popping out of her back.

She caught hold of the purple journal and brought it round in front of her, looking imploringly up at the humans and bee-human. "Do any of you know what I am meant to do with this? It was rather odd, the man at the gate simply gave it to me..."

The only experience that Kid had as far as traveling worlds went was with her Astral Amulet - at least the only kind she could remember, besides the way she had ended up in Paixao. She grinned again at Reno before giving Rikku a rather dubious look. "That so?" she said, hands on her hips. "I never seen one o' those."

Kid didn't know why, but she didn't like this little girl and was certainly not planning on letting her stay. Rikku, perhaps, but only once Kid made sure her stash was safe and that Rikku was trustworthy - and even then only temporarily. Still, the memories of having to fend for herself growing up led Kid to say something. "Y'gotta think things out fer yerself. Otherwise, yer not gonna last long 'ere." Or anywhere else, for that metter.

The term was still more than a little odd if you asked Reno, but apart from the 'colorful' description, it seemed like a more-or-less familiar concept. "Y'mean like an airship?" he asked. Of course, to be perfectly fair, she could have also been describing some other kind of transport, but he figured he might as well go for the one with the closest sounding name first.

"'Sa journal. Everyone here has one." Okay, so that hadn't answered the question Tak had actually asked, but like he really cared one way or another what someone decided to do with their journal. For all he cared they could ignore the thing if they wanted.

It seemed that Tak's current company was either tight-lipped or ignorant. Tak stifled an irritated frown. If they were really so ignorant, they were useless and if they were suspicious of her, they were dangerous... Either way, Tak had no need of them and good reason to get away from them. She smiled sweetly up at them. "I suppose you're right! I think I'll go explore then. Maybe I'll see you around!" she said with a little nod. They obviously weren't the type to care about letting a small child wander around in a city on their own and so she doubted they would argue.

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