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Character(s): Lightning and anyone who wants to join her!
Content: Fang is restless. That's made Lightning restless. Things are getting beaten up.
Setting: All floors.
Time: All day
Warnings: tba

Lightning settled herself against a column at the front of the old abandoned church. Her weapon was securely stashed in its holster and her arms were crossed over her chest. She was giving them all an hour to get there and then she'd leave. Whoever wanted to come could come, but they'd better not get in her way. Her first thought was that they could make their way up to Spira. She'd heard that floor had a lot of monsters, things they could beat up and get some energy out on. That would be good, especially if Fang was coming.

One hour. And then she was leaving. It'd be easy enough to follow her, though. Not like she was trying to be quiet or anything.

[ ooc: anyone's welcome, let's do this without a tagging order and if you want to branch off and go another way, feel free! ]

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“Well hey, looks like I’m not alone out here,” came a voice belonging to a certain previous street rat, Aladdin. He approached the girl with a smile, not everyday you see someone out here when you decide to go exploring.

Giving a nod, “Doin’ a little exploring or something? I was thinking about checking out some of the floors again myself.”

It had taken Cid some time before deciding that he might as well close up shop for a time. It wasn't like he'd ever had all that many customers, and if he couldn't set his own schedule enough to work in a bit of time to take care of exploration he wasn't at all sure what he could do. So after a moment or three, he arrived at the church, spear resting easily over his shoulder.

"This where the party's starting?"

Lightning looked the first arrival over with a practiced eye, but otherwise made no move towards him. "I'm getting a group together to explore. If you want in, you can join, but you'd better be prepared for a fight."

If she and Fang didn't find some way to let out their energy, she wasn't sure what would happen. Of course, if Fang arrived as beaten up as she'd sounded, it might not be needed.

"Sure is," she offered to Cid, her expression relaxing just a little at the sight of someone familiar. "You coming?"

Aladdin made an “Oh” and gives a nod then a smile when she said that he can join, “Sure, thanks!” He then gave a calm smile as pointed his head toward the sword he had attached to his belt. Pretty confident that he’ll be all right, as he gave a shrug, “Hey no problem, I can fight.”

Looking toward the other guy who joined them Aladdin giving a nod. Well might as well introduce himself to these guys, "Hey there. Oh, by the way the name's Aladdin. What's your guys'?"

"I apologize," an elderly voice said.

Iroh stepped up to the socializing group, which seemed just as diverse as the rest of Paixao. He had hoped his presence hadn't disturbed them, as it seemed the lady of the group had a burden on her mind.

"I was hoping to join a group of some sort. I must admit, I have been bored with tending to the tea shop. Plus, I may have some help coming which will allow me to explore the city's wonders on my own time. If you don't mind me asking, may I join you?"

Colette spotted the large group of people in the distance, thanks to her enhanced angel vision. Breathing a sigh of relief, she ran up to join them.

"Is this the group that's going up the castle? Sorry I'm late!"

"Wouldn't be here if I wasn't gonna be coming," Cid answered, as more people began to filter in. He hadn't really expected more than one or two people other than him to show up, but hell. It wasn't his outing and it wasn't like having more people would make whatever they were supposed to be getting up to would hurt. He might not have been to any of the other worlds himself, but that didn't mean that he was going to assume that they were going to be a walk in the park.

Not if the city itself were any indication, after all.

"Lightning," she answered to Aladdin's question, eyeing the motly group that was now assembling. Not exactly what she'd had in mind when she sent out the call but whatever. It'd work as long as no one slowed them down.

"You all can come as long as you don't get in our way. Does anyone else have powers? Like this."

She mentally switched to Ravager and prepared a blast of ice, aiming it at the wall behind her.

"I need to know what you all can do before we go."

Aladdin gave a nod when Lightening introduced herself. He took a glance over and noticed a few others who joined the party. He gave a friendly wave at them, then glanced back toward Lightening when asked about powers. Aladdin gave a sheepish smile, “Well I don’t have powers but…”

Stepping away enough out from the group facing toward the field, Aladdin took out his scimitar sword and made a swifting flip in the air. Swinging out his sword and slashing out in the air to demonstrate what he can do and landed holding his sword out and away from him. Then gave a grin before he stood back up, “I’m pretty swift.”

One of Lightning's eyebrows rose slightly and she had to resist rolling her eyes at the display. "Tch. Right. Just don't get yourself hurt."

As proof of her words, she pushed off from the wall. Reaching behind her, she pulled out her gunblade, switching it into sword mode with practiced ease and pointing it at Aladdin's shoulder.

"Be ready for anything. The floor I want to see isn't easy."

Which was right about the time a figure in the distance started to close in on the group. Her pace was slow and she might have even been limping a little if you looked hard enough... but that didn't seem to be stopping her from pushing forward. As she came closer into view, there were visible cuts and scrapes along her bare arms. She still carried her spear in her hand.

"Hope you saved room for one more," she joked, approaching them.

"Guess we might have," Cid answered, as he turned to look at the newcomer. The assortment of minor injuries were certainly telling, for all that he wasn't certain that it was going to be a good idea showing up already injured to something that was supposed to be this dangerous. Not that he could do anything about it, really. Cloud had been hanging onto their materia for safekeeping and it wasn't like he'd found anywhere that had been selling them here.

That and he wasn't about to comment on it anyway. Hell, for all he knew, she was able to take care of it on her own.

Fang's arrival got a slight frown from Lightning and she dropped her gunblade's point to the ground. Looking at the other woman, she quickly concentrated. Shifting paradigms in her head, she sent out a volley of Curas with a flick of her left hand towards Fang.

"What happened to you?" she asked, tossing her gunblade back into its carrier with a flick of a switch and her wrist and then leaning against the wall and folding her arms over her chest. She'd known Fang would turn up injured, but she hadn't expected that.

"... Babysittin'," she offered up as an explanation, "Which somehow wound up with me on the wrong side of an ox." She held up her hand before any questions could be shot her way, "I'll save the details for later." As the healing spells reached her, she straightened her back, feeling the effects almost immediately. "That's better." And nodded in thanks.

"Well. Seems like we've got quite the party here," she recognized Cid's voice from the network, "Glad you could join us, gramps." She stepped forward, rejuvinated and renewed, "So, what's the plan?"

Colette was rather worried about the new injured arrival and was about to go and help her out when Lightning started healing her instead. Oh well, the Chosen thought cheerily. At least this woman is now all right.

"Well, it looks like this is going to be a lot of fun!" Colette said cheerily. Okay, it was not that she was oblivious to the possible dangers - Colette just wanted to keep everyone's spirits up. After all, they all wanted to go home, right?

The diversity of the group continued to grow as Iroh watched a few abilities and a few relationships come to light before his eyes. He was not one to intersect himself too far into things he didn't know about, and he could already see Lightning and Fang as being a time to withhold his usually sage advice. As for Lightning's charge to the group...

"Would my having survived for as long as I have count as proof? I assure you, I can protect myself and others if things turn ugly."

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