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Character(s): Jade, Luke, Guy, Tear...Florian?
Content: Jade requires...information. Good thing he has test subjects, I mean, friends.
Setting: Iriela Apartments II and behind said building
Time: Afternoon, Week 37
Warnings: None.

Jade set the book he was reading aside and stood up from the desk he had been sitting at for far too long. Arms behind his back, he turned and walked towards the window, the afternoon sun reflected off his glasses. The snow that had been falling had frankly felt a little too familiar...he hated the snow. Malkuth was like a summer paradise after the cold and bleak village he had grown up in. To say he was homesick would be a gross over-estimation, but at the very least, the snow here did little to break his pensive mood.

And there was a lot to be pensive about. Since arriving, Jade had busied himself with gathering information. Bad enough to arrive late to the party, such as it was, but it wouldn't do to go into this mess ignorant and blind. A lot of the information was a little hard to swallow, but Jade believed in rolling with the punches. If they had indeed been transported to an entirely different world -- a world with no Score, no fonons, no fonic artes -- then rather than fighting reality, adaptation was the only key.

Staring into space, Jade frowned. How were they functioning here? Theoretically speaking, if this dimension had no such thing as "fonons," how were they still existing? Forget using their artes, all things considered, they should be scattered into a million molecules without the environmental make-up of their own world holding them together.

"Luke," he suddenly called, his deep voice carrying thanks to years of military authoritarian training.

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Guy looked up from his place on the couch. He'd been busying himself polishing the sword he had with him -- rather content with the way things had been going lately. Since he'd recovered Florian and brought him back, and they'd met up with Luke and Tear again -- it was almost like some semblance of normalcy had crept back into his life.

As normal as it could get these days, anyway...

He watched with interest, and a little concern as he addressed Luke.

In his time here, even Luke had wondered a little about fonons here, or rather, the lack of them--at least so it appeared. Luke's strike artes worked well enough. He wasn't sure about how easy it was to use fonic artes, since Luke had always been incapable of using them, but it seemed like Tear could use hers just fine, from what he'd seen. He'd been yet to even attempt to use his hyperresonance.; he'd had no reason to.

Obviously, most of all, Luke did wonder what had happened to his own fonons. He was here, after all, alive and seemed to be, well, in one piece. His fonons were meant to have scattered to the breeze by now, but he was fine. It was something Luke was very grateful for, but he didn't know if it was a side effect of being in this place. Natalia had worried returning to Auldrant might somehow change that, but Luke hadn't wanted to believe that.

None of these things, however, were on his mind today, as he lounged on another sofa, looking almost like he was half asleep. He wasn't, but he was caught off guard enough by Jade's sudden call of his name to cause him to jerk.

Sitting upwards, Luke peered over the back of the couch, revealing that he had been possibly closer than Jade had realized.

"I'm here... what is it?" he asked, obviously more than a little curious about the sudden summoning.

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Tear's interest was caught also, as she looked from Luke to Jade. After all they had been through together, all the times they had thought they were losing eachother... It was always in the back of her mind, threatening the happiness she felt at being here -- and adding a tinge of guilt for it. The days in Paixao were easy... and even though part of her wanted them to stay that way, she wasn't so flightly as to believe it could last forever.

"Is something the matter, Colonel?"

Florian looked up as well, distracted for a moment from the picture he was drawing. Was Luke in trouble? That was the first thought that came to mind, though he couldn't think of any mischief Luke could possibly have done. Then again, maybe it wasn't anything bad. Nothing too bad had happened so far in this Paixao place, maybe whatever Jade wanted would be perfectly fine too.

He looked back and forth between the two, wondering curiously if something was going to happen.

He turned and smiled, charming and light and full of promise. It was not something that boded well. "I understand you're enjoying some vacation time here and I'd hate to get in the way of quality time with Tear, but I was hoping you'd satisfy my curiosity."

Jade walked towards the others, adjusting his glasses. "I'm interested in seeing how your abilities fare in this world. And not just Luke...all of you. We can even make a game out of it. Whoever bests the others will win something special from me~"

Guy chuckled quietly -- perhaps even a little glad that he wasn't the only one on the receiving end of Jade's trademark brand of affection this time. Pushing himself up from the couch, he replaced the sword into its sheath at his side and placed his hands on his hips. "So -- you want to see us spar? Is that it?" Fonons were tricky things... but if it was going to help to get a better understanding of this place and their role within it... why say no?

As soon as Jade smiled like that, Luke was on his guard and for good reason it seemed. At first Luke flushed. "It's not like that!" he spluttered slightly. He definitely didn't think this was a vacation. On the matter of Tear, it was just embarrassment of that being brought up. They hadn't really even spoken of... things since she'd arrived yet.

"Why are you so interested?" Luke questioned. He couldn't even use fonic artes like the others, but he knew his strike artes worked well enough. They didn't feel any different really. He hadn't tested his hyperresonance, and he was honestly wary of doing so.

"Colonel I think we can all agree this is hardly the time or place -- " Tear defended herself despite the red tinge that her cheeks took. She cleared her throat and shifted the weight on her feet.

"But I admit... I'm curious also. This world certainly doesn't have the same construct as Auldrant. It might be a small miracle in itself that our artes remain in tact... We should test those that we know, so that we won't be caught off guard if something unexpected were to happen."

"...Do we have to?" The jokes were completely lost on Florian, and he concentrated instead on the mention of ability testing, muttering that question quietly to himself while everyone else was talking. Sure, if it was a game he might like it, but...the word 'abilities' just made him think of things like fighting and score reading.

Despite that he couldn't help but ask, "What does the winner get? Is it good?"

Jade smiled kindly at Florian. "The best. But only the winner gets to find out what it is. He turned to the others, specifically Luke.

"I'm interested for a number of reasons. Tear has a point -- it's best we confirm our abilities now rather than have them fail when our lives are on the line. Secondly, by investigating how our abilities fare here, I can likely draw some conclusions on how this world functions." He grinned, crossing his arms.

"Thirdly, you're starting to get a little chubby around the middle. Exercise would do you good." Of course, one glance as the washboard abs Luke displayed with his particular outfit would reveal that as a lie.

"You're all heart, Jade..." Guy's expression measured on the 'mildly horrified' scale, which he tried to brush off with a chuckle.

Taking a step closer to the young boy, Guy placed a hand on Florian's shoulder and smiled. "See? It doesn't have to be all bad, we'll try to make it more fun than it sounds," he winked and gave a thumbs up with his other hand. "Like a fonic game of tag. How's that sound?"

Luke's expression, meanwhile, had quickly turned to one of annoyance at Jade's last comment. "Hey!"

Either way, it seemed there was going to be no getting out of this. Sighing, Luke pushed himself up from the couch, retrieving his sword from nearby. "Alright then. Let's do this," he said, as he fastened the sheath to the middle of his back. The sooner they started, the sooner they would get this over with, after all.

"But don't expect me to show you any hyperresonances," he added.

"That wouldn't be a good idea to begin with, I'd think," Tear was quick to intervene on that topic. If Jade suspected that Luke's fonons might be unstable to begin with... there was certainly no way that she was going to sit back and permit free usage of something like a hyperresonnance. She had already thought he had been lost once...

"Let's regroup outside then, shall we?" she walked towards the door, and picked up her rod along the way.

"Oh, I like tag. Is that how we're doing it?" The idea was enough to make Florian perk up a little, looking hopefully up at Guy as if he could control what was going on here.

The fact Tear was heading for the door was a little surprising--he hadn't thought that they might be doing this outside--but that made sense, now that he thought about it. He took his own step forward.

"Yes, yes, children, off we go." Jade was cheerfully dismissive of any and all complaints, as per usual. But as the group headed out, he lightly touched Tear's elbow to hold her back.

"I'm counting on you to prevent any major damage," he said quietly, the smile gone from his face. Though he'd worked past the block on his power and was effectively in top shape, the one fonic arte he'd never been able to use was the healing arte. It would have to fall to Tear, a task he knew she was more than capable of.

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"I don't see why not!" Guy smiled, walking alongside Florian as they moved to leave. "A little fun never hurt anyone afterall, right?" well, except maybe where Jade was concrned... "And maybe for whoever wins..." he paused to cup his chin for a moment, "gets to pick what we do for the rest of the day?"

Tear, at least, seemed to understand why he was hesitant to use his ability... Guy probably wouldn't have been either if he knew, but he didn't, did he? Luke probably needed to actually talk to Guy sometime.

Meanwhile, Luke led the way outside, coming to a stop in a fairly open and empty area near the building. And there he awaited further instruction, not too sure of exactly how Jade wanted them to do this, although he couldn't say he was any interested in this prize of Jade's.

Jade's response was a curt nod; of course she would keep an eye on things. She half wondered if Florian was really going to take part in the exercise... if it was safe for him to...

She followed behind Luke -- heavy thoughts weighing on her mind. As he stopped, she did so too, near him, and turned to face the others. "This should do just fine," she announced, reaching for her staff.

"If I win then maybe we could all play something else together." Florian liked that idea, though he still wasn't entirely sure what they were doing. It was something to concentrate on, though.

He looked curiously around at everyone when they reached the spot, staying quiet for the moment.

Bringing up the rear, Jade stayed in the shade provided by the building, leaning against the worn brick wall. "Well, Guy...why don't you and Luke start us off? You've sparred often enough that you shouldn't horribly explode in millions of particles once your weapons clash."

He smiled. "...in theory."

"Somehow that vote of confidence doesn't exactly put me at ease..." he chuckled nervously, and grabbed at his sheath at his side as he stepped foward, a little ways away from their gathering point.

"Well Luke, this is as good an opportunity as any to show me all the stuff you learned since we were together last, right?" Trust Guy to try to look on the bright side of things. He pulled his sword out and took a defensive stance -- "Go ahead and take the first strike."

Likewise, Luke stepped away from the others, pacing a couple yards away before turning to face Guy. Drawing his sword from the sheath at his back, Luke stood at a ready stance.

"Heh, alright," Luke replied, mood perking up a little at Guy's words. He had grown a lot stronger since the last time Guy here had seen him fight. The question was, how to start? Jade wanted to see them use abilities right? That would mean using artes... Well, if Guy wanted to see what he could do, there was no point in not surprising him.

Making up his mind, Luke dashed forward, leaping up and flipping over as he then slammed his sword into the ground, sending a shock wave towards Guy with a cry of, "Slag assault!"

Taking a spot near Jade, her eyes were turned ahead focusing on the two and their weapons. "... I'm not sure whether we should be concerned or grateful that our artes don't seem to be affected at this point," she confessed in a lower voice. "While it makes things easier... I wonder if we'll be able to make sense of it."

But as she turned to glance at Florian, it was hard not to smile at the boy. "What would you chose, Florian? If you could play whatever game you wanted to?"

It's easy to get distracted when people are fighting right in front of you, and so it took a moment for him to catch on to Tear's question, eyes darting back to Luke and Guy every few moments.

"Hmm...how about tag? I like tag." It was fun and had simple rules, and--what was slag anyway? Maybe he'd ask Luke when he was done fighting.

"I believe making sense of things is my job," he replied to Tear quietly, a small smile on his face as he watched the two spar. As far as he was concerned, his allies had enough to worry themselves over. Leave the metaphysical implications of their presence here to him.

He held a hand by his mouth suddenly and shouted out to the yard. "Come on, Guy! Don't pull your punches just because there aren't enough ladies here for you to impress! If you'd like, you can think of me as a pretty girl~" While it certainly seemed he was simply antagonizing the man as usual, there was a second motive to this, Jade's fonic-enhanced eyes intent behind his glasses.

Their enemies in this world used far more than just combat to keep people down. Emotional manipulation seemed to be one of their top arsenals, and for all the mental growth and emotional strength this group acquired after everything that had happened, they could still be vulnerable. Especially since they seemed to be from varied points in time.

At the very least, he had to be sure they could stay focused in battle.

Instinctively, Guy moved to use his sheath to shield him from the impact of Luke's attack. He couldn't help but smile at first; proud of the fact that he definitely seemed stronger. He readied himself to return the favour; just as the sounds of Jade's jeering reached his ears.

He nearly faltered, disturbed -- and yet at the same time a little unsurprised -- by his tactics. "Why does he have to say it like that..." he groaned quietly, his agony probably just loud enough for only Luke to hear.

"Moonlight Demon!" he cried -- slicing his sword towards the redhead.

Luke, likewise, cringed at Jade's comment; even if they were being directed at Guy, it was a disturbing thought to him as much as Guy. "Who's side is he on?" he uttered lowly, for only Guy to hear.

After that brief distraction, Luke quickly focused back on Guy as he realized he was moving to attack again. He decided to simply guard against the first part of Guy's attack, then jumping to avoid the last blast of energy that shot low. He then dove forward, driving his sword straight forward. "Sonic Thrust!"

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forgot it was my turn........ orz......

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sorry guyssssss!!! orz...

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