Playing Outside <3 ((Open to All))

"Thanks for taking me outside, Nightingale!"

"Anytime."

Nightingale had done Aiko a favor, and took her somewhere with more space to play. It wasn't far from the ocean that held Team Dragonstorm; it was only in the forests near the closest shore, and Night had found a meadow for Aiko to romp around in. The grasses were high, up to the tiny Neko's knees, and Aiko instantly flopped down into the grass, too happy to say 'thank you' to Nightingale, and began to coo at a beetle scuttering over a stalk of grass. She poked it once, and let out a squeal of laughter as the bug fluttered its wings.

Nightingale, satisfied with the child's happiness level, began to float in midair. Not too far off the ground, she crossed her legs and watched Aiko play. She kept a close eye on the forest surrounding the meadow, in case a potential threat may wander out into the open.

~~Aiko's P.O.V.~~

Fun. Fun meadow. That beetle is fun.

Fun.

Yuuki stepped out of the bushes, once again in her full Anbu gear. Her tiger mask was in place, and her eyes shone ominously through the eyeholes. Her guard was down (WHICH WAS BAD. BAD YUUKI), and she didn't even realize she ran into something before she looked down, and blinked underneath her mask. It was Aiko. She glanced up, sensing Nightingale's presence near, as well. She then suddenly realized her sais were out, and caked in blood, and quickly put them back into their spot. "Hey Aiko," she said, crouching down.

One ticked lowly from his perch on a branch looking over the meadow. Once again he was wearing his cloak. He had gotten oddly attached to it. Perhaps it was just because he felt more secure with it on. Balancing perfectly on his two feet, he spectated Yuuki, Aiko and Nightingale from above. He tapped his katanas together, their blades releasing sparks each time they collided. One liked watching from the sidelines (unless it was a fight. Then he was all in). It was one of his favorite things to. There was no particular reason why. After a minute or to, he got bored and hopped down onto the ground below. He slid his katanas into their sheathes and walked over to Aiko and Yuuki. "Hey Aiko. <3"

"Hello, Yuuki! Hello One! Yay, now I have two-"

Aiko was cut off as Nightingale sprung to her protective mode out of the blue. A fiery purple arrow darted to the ground right beside Yuuki's feet, and Aiko twisted her head around to see Night floating in the air behind her, armor seeming to fade onto her like a mist cloaking the earth. She was holding a black bow in one hand, with an arrow tipped with lilac fire in the other. Under her hood, Aiko could see burning red eyes.

"Go away," was all Night growled, and the bow and arrow poofed from her hand to be replaced with a whip that was edged with glass and other sharp metals. She used her telekinesis to slowly lift Yuuki off the ground by her feet without using her hands, so Night could throw her across the universe or something.

Armor & Bow:

((No, Night doesn't know that is Yuuki.))

~WAIT YUUKI HAS A MASK ON AND AIKO'S NEVER SEEN HER IN HER ANBU GEAR BEFORE HOW WOULD SHE KNOW?~

Yuuki didn't seem to show any expres​sion(as masks can't show expressions .-.), but underneath, she was raising an eyebrow. She was pretty sure Nightingale had seen her in her Anbu gear before, but... maybe not? She sighed mentally as an arrow was pointed at her, and she was lifted off her feet via telekinesis. Wow, just great. Her own teammate didn't know it was her. Yuuki's eyes glimmered slightly into an icy blue color; the color of Kokuo's eyes. She really wanted to facepalm at this, but her arms were kind of glued to her side because of the telekinesis and all.... She closed her eyes and focused her energy, and disappeared from the spot, and shimmered back into existence, her body looking deceptively relaxed, but tense on the inside, in case Nightingale wanted to attack her again. "Nightingale," she warned. The brown-haired assassin took off the mask. "It's me, Yuuki."

Sly was trailing behind Yuuki. They were in a mission together (I think?) but Sly had the luxury of being stalled by a few bandits. Although they were no problem to him, he had lost sight of his leader. Thankfully she didn't leave much of a subtle track through this forest. Sly inspected every leaf and brush, looking for the blood of her slain enemies. As long as he saw red, he was in the right path.

He found her in an open meadow, but with a few others. For a split second, Sly saw Yuuki hovering in the air, above a little girl, before she disappeared from her spot. Sly thought about forming a rapier in his hand again, but then noticed that the girl was Aiko. One was standing nearby as well, and high above them...was Vixen. She had shot an arrow to the ground, very close to Yuuki's foot, and was prepared to fire another one.

Vixen? Sly said with a small frown as he rushed out of hiding.

((Can i join?))

Guryon jumped from tree to tree. He stopped after a while and looked around. There was not much around him, but trees. He jumped down from the tree and stood up. He started to jog north, but was quickly jumped by a few bandits. After a few minutes two of them were tied up and one was dead. They were all dazed. He contiued north but stopped jogging and began to walk. He began to walk to see a meadow. He began to get closer and Guryon saw a small group of people and walked towards it. He threw a small container of white liquid ((Milk))towards the people. He stepped into the site of the group. ”Whats up?" Guryon asked, hands in his pockets. Slacked face and neutral expression. Clearly relaxed.

Gojira (human form) would be watching from the distance of what was happening. He was alright with his teammates since he knows they wouldn't hurt Aiko, even though Nightgale did almost try to kill Yuuki (He knows it's Yuuki via scent.), he did not really care because the tension would subside rather quickly. The same can't be said about the stranger that just walked up the the group, all willy nilly, like a child almost. Not taking any chances, he would start making his way towards the stranger, teeth gritted as well as hands clenched to form a fist. When he got there (behind Guryon btw), he would tap him on his shoulder. If he would turn around, he would be met with a seriously intimidating death glare from a 7'4 foot tall, muscular man.

A bandit suddenly burst through the woods, his eyes wide and panicked. Seika immediately and literally exploded through after him, her katana, Akiakane, in hand and a feral grin on her face. "Oi!" she called, baring vicious fangs. "I'M NOT F*CKIN' DONE WITH YOU YET!" The bandit, in his terror, tripped over a rock, and fell. Trying to get up, he failed spectacularly when Seika stomped her combat boots onto his shin, effectively breaking it. He cried out from the pain, as Seika stood over him, looking positively like a demon with two glowing red dots for eyes. She lifted up her sword, and with one quick swing, severed his head from his body. Seika's crazed grin immediately went back to her usual happy-go-lucky one. "Serves you right for running away from me!" she laughed, and sheathed her katana, and dusted her hands off. Finnaly taking notice that there were a bunch more people in the clearing, she grinned and waved. "Hey guys!"

Noticing a little girl who was playing in the meadow (and pointedly avoiding the angry-looking Nightingale), she walked over and crouched down. "Hey!" she greeted happily. "Who're you?"

~And no, Seika's never met Aiko before...~

Askyus padded through the forest, carrying a backpack full of goods. He was lucky to have dodged that group of bandits a couple of minutes ago, or the merchant would never have forgave him. Pulling the map from the side of the pack, he looked around.
If he'd been going in the right direction, he should have been at the fallen rock, but he could see no landmark, except for a small a clearing full of people and a little girl. Not quite sure what to do, he approached the group, not realising the majority were wielding weapons.
"Hey, uh, does anybody know where I am?" He hoped they would ignore his metallic outside and mistake it as heavy plate armour.

Nightingale felt a burning fire spreading within her, fueled by anger and her fierce protectiveness of Aiko, but hesitated as a voice came from the intruder, claiming to be Yuuki. Night paused, and realized what she was doing as her friend Sly emerged from behind their leader. She blinked, and her armor slowly faded away to be replaced with her normal everyday-clothes: a dark violet and sky-blue dress. She set Yuuki slowly on the ground to her feet.

Night floated down to the ground, letting out shaky breaths. She had been secretly terrified that she would fail to protect Aiko, and the tiny Neko would have gotten hurt, or worse. But now, it was all safe. It was okay.

She gazed at Sly with a tranquil blue gaze, and blinked slowly. She was alright with being called Vixen, but it was very rare when she was. After a few moments of a poker face directed towards Sly, Vix smiled nervously.

"Erm." She closed her eyes for a few moments, then they snapped open again. "Hello, Sly. And Yuuki. And One." She laughed nervously, and looked at Yuuki. "Uh, sorry about that, Yuuki."

~~Aiko's P. O. V.~~

Aiko was very confused as Nightingale randomly decided to hurt Yuuki. Why was she fighting her? Did she know that was Aiko's big sister? Aiko was about to try to put an end to it, but was distracted as this new guy came in and threw a jug of milk. Aiko was super confused until she heard this girl yelling and ask who she is. Then She heard this guy ask where he was. So much was happening at once.

"I'm Aiko, and I chewed my gum up so that it looks like a brain!" She stuck out her tongue to show the new girl her wore out pink gum. Then, to the guy (that looked like he was wearing armor), she said, "WE ARE IN NEVERLAND! You should totally play with me!"

((She doesn't see Gojira yet. If she did, she'd be like DADDY and huggle attacks."

~Lol, I like how nobody reacted to Seika just murdering a guy in front of an innocent little girl's eyes XD~

Yuuki shook her head exasperatedly, and removed her mask. "It's fine," she sighed. "Although I'm kind of disappointed that you didn't even recognize me. You sure are growing protective of Aiko." She nodded at Seika, who just grinned at her and gave her a thumbs up. "By the way Seika, try keeping the killing to a minimum, at least in front of us. We have a kid with us now."

Seika blinked at the little neko girl. "What?"

Yuuki sighed in exasperation. "That girl, Aiko, is now Gojira's new daughter. She's part of us now." She reached down and ruffled the girl's head, before glancing at the new armor-thing and other person that arrived. She inclined her head a tiny bit. "We're in a clearing, obviously," she stated blandly. "Are you an AI? I don't sense any signature.. well.. living signature coming from you."

One snorted. "Pfft. Nah. I say it's good for the kid." His voice suddenly dropped. "Nobody leaves this place alive without a few scars..." He spoke grimly and crossed his arms. He nodded to Seika. Eventually people just started popping up everywhere as if it were just some family reunion.. Well.. Minus the strangers. He looked around and chuckled. "We havin' a party?" He heard Yuuki mention AI and his gazed snapped to Askyus. He briefly scanned them. The results baffled him.

"No heat signature or pulse.." One mumbled, flexing his clawed hand. "He's a bot." He walked forward reluctantly. To make sure this fellow bot didn't try to do anything funny, he drew one of his katanas from the sheathes on his back. He twirled it in his fingers skillfully and pointed it as Askyus's face. "It's a relief you aren't working for Oak Hollow. He tilted his head to the side slightly and shook it. "Because if you did..." He smirked. "Well... Let's just say it wouldn't end well for you.." He waited a few moments before shoving the katana closer to their face, it's semi-transparent blade glowing violently. "Correct me if I'm wrong...."

((Everyone is ignoring Guryon XD ))

Guryon turned around slowly. Being as calm as possible. He turned to see a man in his face. The guy was a little taller that Guryon, so the guy was looking down. Guryon looked the guy straight in the face and said, “Hello Sir, Are you doing well?” Guryon stuck out his had for a hand shake. He was looking for no trouble and wanted none. He stared at the man and waited for a respone. Then out of the corner of his eye he saw two new people, but didn’t move a muscle.

Gojira would simply let out a small grunt before walking past the stranger and to the other Dragon Storm members, not exactly liking or hating the strange man. He would walk up to his daughter and would pick her up, now lifting her into the air. "Guess who?" the King Of Monsters in human form said in a playful and fatherly tone.

Askyus didn't flinch at the blade that was pointed directly into his optical sensors, although he felt that he should be scared of it, somehow. Somehow the person in the mask had been able to detect his robotic insides, and the man in the cloak seemed... off. He wasn't quite sure how to respond to the question. "I... I'm technically not of an artificial intelligence, I have an organic brain... How did you know?" As far as he knew, humanoid robots had not been developed yet, but now he wasn't so sure. He made a stern expression towards the cloaked man, and loosened the connections on his right hand."You're not threatening me, are you? While your blade seems..." He scanned its composition quickly. "...Unique, I wouldn't provoke me if I were you."

One stepped closer, almost butting heads with Askyus. "Is that so...?" He chuckled sinisterly and poked Asky with the katana lightly, leaving a shallow cut. He ticked and whirled lowly, the shifting of the components in his neck making clicking noises. "Pure plasma.." He was happy that the bot had mentioned his swords. "But this isn't just any plasma. This plasma will cut right through you like you were air." One's hood fell off. "You sure...? I think it's the other way around.."

Askyus almost gasped when the hood pulled back to reveal a robotic head, made of titanium and carbon fibre. He stepped back, feeling the slight irritation as the sword burned through part of his armour. So much for finding his location, this drone looked ready for a fight. "Look, I don't feel like getting involved with you right now. Can you identify the direction and distance of the human village, Nervas?" While he wanted to know about the history of this robot, getting into a fight with him wasn't exactly going to help his errand for the merchant, not to mention forming a grudge would easily block him from discovering where this robot had come from later. These other people around him may have ben mordant, too, but he received little response from them, except for the masked one. "Also... What do you have against Oak Hollow?" He knew about the existence of the city, and how he was not allowed to enter it when he first arrived.

One hesitated, looking away. The subject of Oak Hollow was touchy with him and he preferred to avoid going into detail with it. He made a whirling sound a few times, thinking of something to say. "Lets just say.. they've killed more than a few innocent people to get to where they are now... and they are more than willing to do it again.. He raised his clawed hand and inspected it before firmly closing it. He stepped back. "If you truly don't belong to Oak Hollow.. I suppose I have no business with you.. Now leave.. Leave and never come back."

Nightingale released a sigh and nodded. She watched everyone talk for a while, and, upon finding no place to weasel herself into the conversation, approached the man whom she noticed walk in a few moments ago, but she was too occupied to greet him. ((It's Guryon...))
She looked up at him ((Night is short D:)), and spoke in a calm voice, trying her best to appear docile. "I'm Nightingale. Who are you?" She was about to say, 'and why are you here?' but kept her mouth shut. She didn't want to seem like she was patronizing the newcomer.

~~Aiko's P. O. V.~~

Aiko giggled and squirmed around slightly when Yuuki ruffled her hair, but was scooped up by this person... She didn't know who it was at first until she heard that voice that she loved:

"Guess who?"

Aiko gasped, and exclaimed, "Deeda!" She gave Gojira a daughterly hug while he was holding her, and began to rant, "I just saw the COOLEST thing that looked like it was... ONE." She frowned, and looked back at the robot whom she saw as her uncle. "Are you trying  to be a meany?"

Guryon was just there with his back slumped casually when the girl, who was protecting the child, walked up to him. He answered her with a nod. He didn’t want to give his real name at this moment so he just said, ”Infi, and yours?" Guryon stuck out his hand again for a hand shake, but wondered, ”Do I do this for women too?” He looked down at Nightingale and smiled. The smile was only on his lips. He had no emotion in his eyes whatsoever. But he meant no harm.
((Short post is short post))

Yuuki watched the group carefully, looking deceptively innocent and relaxed on the inside, except with a guarded stature deep inside. The brown-haired assassin walked over to where Nightingale and the new guy was. She nodded her head at the new man, "Infi", but she suspected that that wasn't his real name. "Nice to meet you, Infi," she said.

Seika pranced over lightly, cleaning off her bloodstained blade. "Yo!" she greeted cheerfully. "The name's Seika! How ya doin'?"

Guryon switched his gaze to Yuuki. He sighed and replied, ”Yuuki, nice name..." Guryon said emotionless. He wouldn’t show emotion until that other man would stop sending off angry vibes. Guryon looked at the two and finally sat down. This showed that he was comfortable even when he could be attacked. He watched the two women, like a tiger watching its prey as its about to kill them. Yet Guryon had no intention of attacking.
((Nother short post))