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Character(s): Mao, Almaz, and Sapphire
Content: A nice, ~~friendly~~ slavely reunion
Setting: St. Destino Hospital
Time: Early Afternoon
Warnings: None

Mao had, for once, emerged from his lab into the daylight of his own volition. Of course, the arrival of his slaves was a situation that definitely warranted it. Besides, he wanted to see them arrive with his own two eyes. They sounded like the Ex-Fake Hero and the Princess, but how was he to know they were actually here? With all the crap that kept happening in this city and all the suspicious people, it could very well be a trap.

Not that he had any idea how they would know about those two, but they could have just made a lucky guess. Better to be suspicious than allow someone to fool you like that.

It wasn't even original.

He scowled, his foot tapping impatiently on the grass as he scanned his surroundings for any sign of Almaz or Sapphire. He thought he had told them to come quickly... Just how far were they from this place, anyway?

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Sapphire stretched beautifully, the sparkles around her glistened as she stopped walking for a moment to look at her surroundings. This area was so large, she contemplated, there's certainly much to do here. It was fascinating to see a world inside of one large building, the princess never imagined such architecture on this scale was entirely possible. Even so, she had been walking for a while to meet her friends, she was getting tired of it. Oh, she was very excited to see Sir Mao and regroup with Almaz, don't get her wrong- it all just felt... like a dream.

"Sir Mao!" She spoke up quite loudly, hoping her voice would be caught by her favorite Overlord in the world. ♥ "Almaz! Are you there?"

'Eager' was a good word for it. Almaz was very eager to meet up with Mao and Princess again. He wasn't the only one here! They remembered him! Talk about a stroke of good luck. Even if it was a little worrying when Mao said he'd already been here for a month--Almaz could have sworn he was right next to him before ending up here.

He could only hope that Mao hadn't gotten into any trouble. He was the kind of person that... took some getting used to, after all.

And his beloved Princess was here too! Oh, it was both a blessing and a curse. How it was a blessing didn't need any explanation, on the other hand, now Almaz had another reason to worry. Ahh, he could almost hear her voice...

Wait, no. Almaz blinked. That was her voice, wasn't it? Picking up the pace, Almaz hurried forward. The hospital was just up ahead now.

Mao's arms remained crossed as Sapphire approached, but his foot stopped tapping and the scowl on his face softened. Took her long enough. But where the hell was the Ex-Fake Hero? Weren't he and the princess supposed to be joined at the hip? Then again, he thought he had heard something about the two of them coming through different gates... Mao still didn't get why there needed to be four of them, since it seemed only one of them lead somewhere interesting.

Oh, there he was. Good. Now both of them were here. "You two better not go missing again," he warned, "If I have to hunt you down..." He'd let them fill in the blanks. It didn't even need to be said.

But first thing was first. He turned to Sapphire, "Where's my staff?"

"Hmm? Staff? Oh- that?" She laughed as she swayed her body in glee, "Only when I get to see Lady Beryl, Sir Mao." She gave him the sweetest smile possible, Sapphire wasn't one to fall for the tricks of a demon that easily. As much as she loved Sir Mao, there was no point in bending backwards for a favor when he couldn't supply the second half of their agreement.

She looked over at Almaz, that perpetual knot dissolved in her heart as she looked him over well. "I'm glad to see you're okay, Almaz. Are you sure you're still in one piece?" She leaned in close, inspecting him curiously... almost to the point of being just a liiiitttle bit too close. ♥ "Mm, all seems well here!"

The princess turned back to the young boy, "Sir Mao, you should know we wouldn't do anything to leave you alone again."

Miss Beryl, I'm sorry, but please don't show up, Almaz thought. He couldn't believe they would really go through with that deal--well, no, he could. Quite easily, in fact. Why was he still surprised?

Almaz turned his head away from Sapphire as she got close to examine him, mumbling confirmation that yes, he was pretty sure he was still all together, princess, and finding an extreme amount of interest in the buildings over there. Almaz struggled to keep down the blush spreading across his face.

He let himself breathe again when she turned to address Mao. "Y-yes, yes, we won't," Almaz agreed. He straightened himself up and took a quick glance around them. "Has it really been a month for you?"

Edited 2009-11-15 20:32 (UTC)

Mao grumbled to himself. It wasn't his fault Beryl wasn't here. And it wasn't like he wasn't going to keep up his part of the deal, anyway. Kept Beryl out of his hair for awhile (though it was more than a little odd to not have her here butting into anything... he wasn't sure how he felt about it). And what if he needed that staff later on? It wasn't like there weren't a bunch of enemies to fight around here.

And just what were she and Almaz doing? He saw that blush on the ex-Fake Hero's face. Ugh, they weren't going to start gushing all over one another, were they?

"You'd better not. There's enough trouble in this place to worry about without slaves going missing," he muttered. He could have sworn he read something somewhere about someone performing experiments on people, too. Dammit, he was the only one allowed to experiment on people here! At least unless he got a look at some of the results or got to participate.

He nodded at Almaz's question. "Yeah," he replied, though there was a hint of annoyance in his voice. How didn't they notice he was missing?! People didn't go missing for a month without someone noticing! But hadn't he said something about coming in the dimensional gate right after him? That didn't make any sense! "Oi, are you sure you two were right behind me?" he asked, crossing his arms.

"Sir Mao," Sapphire's voice was stern, "You should believe us. We promised we'd always be with you." She took no time to crack her knuckles; her body stood straight as she pounded her fist together. "Do I have to remind you? Maybe you bumped your head here."

Of course, Sapphire truly didn't mean to use force to remind Mao... if she didn't need to. ♥ As a demon, she expected a few quirks here and there from her friend, but to question their loyalty was a bit too much.

"N-now, Princess, don't do anything rash." Almaz meekly raised his hands in front of him, stepping in between the two. Surely there had to be a perfectly reasonable explanation for why there was a one month gap between them... as unreasonable as that itself sounded.

"I'm pretty sure we were all there," Almaz answered. "You were leading us to a different part of the school before I ended up here." The gap in time made absolutely no sense, but Mao sounded serious, so Almaz couldn't pass it off as a joke. When he had arrived at Paixao, Tidus had mentioned that people were sometimes taken from different times, but wasn't this a little different?

Then again, if that was true, couldn't their current situation be possible as well? It was a mess trying to think too deeply about it. Almaz settled on making sure they were on the same page, first--at least that they were from the same point in time. "... Everyone at the Evil Academy was having their things stolen, right?" he asked warily.

"Oi, I didn't hit my head on anything!" And he didn't need her to remind him of that. They were his slaves, bound to him forever. But with all the idiots in here who seemed to have a weird obsession with kidnapping people, he wasn't about to take any chances.

Mao listened quietly as Almaz stepped in, nodding once he had finished. "Yeah. We were continuing our search for that legendary Overlord." At least it sounded like they were on the same page. It still didn't explain the missing month, but it was better than nothing. If only he could figure out how it had happened... Some sort of time travel? That could be interesting.

And that one guy had a time machine. Hm...

Whatever it was, Sapphire smiled. It really didn't matter in the end as long as they were all together. Of course, her heart yearned for Lady Beryl to appear... but that seemed a little selfish. They were brought here against their will, that was not something she wished on someone as adorable as her little lady.

"Say, do you think this is the legendary Overlord's plan?" She curiously tilted her head at Mao, "Are we part of a grand scheme of things now? I really hope that means I get to beat the ever living stuffings out of someone soon! ♥"

She paused for a moment to clasp her hands together and sigh dreamily about it. The thought of the battlefield, how it made her very happy! At that moment, a thought crossed her mind, "You know..."

The princess looked around, it was rather interesting how much they stood out. "Did you notice this is some sort of human world? It's a little weird, too..."

Almaz let out a relieved sigh. This was still weird, to put it lightly, but at least it seemed like there weren't any mixed up memories. What a mess that would have been! "I don't think this has anything to do with what's happening at the Evil Academy. Just what would the legendary Overlord get by putting us here?"

"I mean, I would've expected something a little creepier, not this," Almaz continued, lightly rubbing at his neck. Was this Paixao place another sort of human world? "It's weird, but it definitely doesn't look like any Netherworld I've heard of. The person I talked to at the gate didn't know there were other kinds of worlds, either..."

The legendary Overlord's plan? He hadn't thought about it like that. Though it made sense, what with all the people who seemed to have been dragged here against their will. Maybe it was the place where the legendary Overlord stored all his stolen items? But Almaz had a point, too. He had just been stealing random stuff before. Why suddenly move on to stealing people? Or entire cities if that whole inside-a-castle thing was to be believed.

"It's something all right," Mao said. "And the 'natives' here are useless, so don't bother with them. They can barely see what's going on around them."

He turned toward Sapphire. "Apparently there's this Organization that's in charge of the place. They're supposed to be pretty powerful. Enough to be talked about a lot here. There's also some group in City Hall that's been doing things around here, too." Mao crossed his arms, looking to both now. "One of them probably knows how to get out of here for sure. Tch... doubt they'll actually tell anything."

Things were getting serious, the princess thought. This would do no good for any of them, whoever was in charge here certainly needed a talking to! She placed her hands on her hips as she spoke, "Well then, we need to just ask them nicely at first, right?"

She turned around and began walking towards the streets again, Sapphire raised her hand up to her brow and squinted to get a better look. This city was huge, if she had to turn over every stone to figure out what was going on then she would simply have to do that!

"Sir Mao, which way should we go?"

"Eh? You want to look for them now?!"

There she goes already, he thought, sighing. Not that Almaz could blame her, he didn't like where this was headed at all. This "Organization" aside, there was still an awful lot that didn't add up. It was worrying! And if they really were stuck here--unless the guy at the gate lied, but why would he?--that certainly didn't help the situation in any way.

Almaz turned to Mao, looking a little lost. They just got here! Wasn't this rather quick!? ... on the other hand, sitting around felt a little wrong, too. "Er, well." He glanced back at Sapphire, to make sure she hadn't gone too far. "What do you think we should do?"

He should have known Princess would want to go after them right now. Mao kind of wanted to too, really, and if it weren't for the fact that he didn't know enough about them just yet, he would have already. They knew something that much was obvious, and though they weren't any more trustworthy than Anonymous, they at least had some kind of face.

"I only know where one group is, and their place has a wall of thorns in front of it. People have tried to get past it and haven't succeeded yet." He would give it credit: it was a little original. "We'd need to find another way in."

But... now? Dammit, that question was a hard one. "...Wait a little longer. It's not like they're going anywhere anytime soon." He wasn't going to have them be defeated just because they didn't have enough knowledge.

"Hmrnnnn!" It was a rather un-princess-like noise that came from Sapphire's throat as she turned around and faced both of them, this was certainly no fun! "Waiting around until the enemy loses his defenses? It's not my style but..."

She loosened up suddenly, she smiled cheerfully at both of them, "OK! I'll wait for now. It'll make the blow much more satisfying, don't you think?"

It was rash of her, Sapphire knew. She needed to be more patient with situations like these, but it was such a hassle to be here in the first place! Deep down, she honestly didn't mind so much now that she knew Mao and Almaz were both here, but her heart was set on seeing Lady Beryl. This totally interrupted her normal day activities of sitting next to her Lady and gushing over how cute she was.

"Ne, Almaz? Are we really going to stay at that Hospital?" She looked around at the surrounding buildings and sighed, "I mean, we are a married couple now..."

As he began to think it over, Mao began to almost look a little ill. He'd almost completely forgot about the whole "married" thing. Did that mean they were going to make those stupid kissy faces and gush over one another all the time? Disgusting! Ugh, maybe he should have thought this through a little more. As interesting as "love" was to study, he didn't want it shoved in his face (although it did give him an idea to have Beryl take notes on the two of them and hand them over to him--Beryl liked watching that kind of stuff anyway, right?).

"O-Oi! If that means you two are going to be all mushy at eachother the entire time you're here, you can take it somewhere else!" Mao suddenly cried. "At least two floors away. I don't even want to hear one word of it!"

Was this. Was this a glimmer of hope? Princess was suggesting that they should live elsewhere! As a married couple! And Mao was telling them to get lost if they were going to be all lovey-dovey! Almaz could feel his heart pounding inside his chest. If this continued maybe, just maybe, he'll even get to hold her hand!

Fighting down an embarrassing smile, Almaz needed a moment to let this sink in.

... Princess was suggesting that they should live somewhere else! As a married couple!!

"Oh, you're right, Princess." Giddiness was definitely obvious in his voice now. One could almost see hearts around him. "Where do you think we should live? I'll follow you, no matter where!"

She pondered this for merely a split second, as much as she loved her husband... she loved teasing him much more. ♥ "Sir Mao is right, we need to focus on the task at hand. I guess we'll just have to wait until after we rescue ourselves to get back to our honeymoon, Almaz."

The hospital was an interesting location, she had to admit. As sterile and dank as it may be, all it really needed was a bit of a woman's touch! Yes, yes, that would do. "Okay, so the hospital it is? Just don't come near us with any of those instruments, Sir Mao. I'm sure I can find a chainsaw if I look hard enough."

"So what now? Oh! We should find somewhere to eat! We can think about it over lunch, don't you think?"

"That's not what I said!" Mao protested, but settled down almost immediately afterward. If it meant they wouldn't make those faces at one another, she could phrase it however she wanted. And it sounded like they were going to stay. Good. It would have been a pain to have to walk somewhere else. Now that they were going to all stay in the same area, he wouldn't have to, and now he had someone to send out to get supplies for him if he needed them. Much more convenient.

And it was easier to talk to them, he guessed.

"Geh, fine. But if either of you get some kind of rare disease or mutation, you're all mine," he agreed.

...Lunch sounded pretty good. "There's a cafe near here."

And just like that, Almaz's dreams shattered into millions of tiny pieces. Like someone violently swinging a bat into a mirror. Kind of like how it played out in his head. Princess and Mao, each swinging a bat into his mirror of dreams again and again...

"O-okay," Almaz replied. Whatever they said, he supposed. Things always turned out this way for him, anyway. (Oh, but he could just cry! It wasn't even like the honeymoon was happening back in the Netherworld either!)

"... I. I guess we should head out, then? Where is this cafe?" Maybe it would help him get over- oh, who was he kidding.

Edited 2010-02-03 03:11 (UTC)

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Gah, sorry for my lateness. Been in a weird RP funk lately. DX

Christmas Time is tough!

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