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Post by IDEK on Oct 22, 2019 19:26:37 GMT
"Don't worry!" Diana saluted with that smile on her face. "We will!"
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Post by Master Psychic on Oct 22, 2019 19:39:40 GMT
"Bye bye!" Zeno waved at the others.
Nephthys looked at Faramond and Iknaa who nodded at her.
She nodded back as she and the Royal Guard followed Izanami out of the throne room.
They walked through the door and went past the two pharaoh statues...except the statue of Darius was now replaced by a statue of a man with long red hair, red eyes, two markings under his eyes, wearing a red robe with a white cape strapped around his neck and holding a staff with a snake wrapped around it, sticking his tongue out at Hikrat's statue.
Dietz quickly noticed that as he turned to the new statue.
"...Guys, either the sun messed with my eyes pretty badly that I'm seeing things or did Darius's statue get replaced by this weirdo while we were in the throne room?" Dietz asked.
"And that matters to you, why?" Izalith asked, without turning around.
"So I can know for a fact that I'm not hallucinating from the heat, duh." Dietz snarked.
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Post by IDEK on Oct 22, 2019 19:49:08 GMT
Diana tapped her own weapon to her lip. "I think I mighta seen this guy before, somewhere."
"In that report you mentioned?" Bacchus asked.
"Hm, yeah, that'd be the place I guess." Diana shrugged, as she continued to move on ahead. "Well, let's get moving!"
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Post by Master Psychic on Oct 22, 2019 20:05:40 GMT
"You know, it's a rude gesture to leave without saying goodbye to a new face you just met..." A voice said.
"Who said that?" Hercule asked.
"Why me, of course!"
The statue then suddenly melted into chocolate milk, revealing the Omnipotent of Mischief himself, Haji, who cracked his neck and moved his limbs around after presumably standing there the entire time they were in the room.
"...How long did you stand there in that pose?" Dietz asked, blinking with one eye.
"Long enough. And I heard everything." Haji said, before coughing some feathers out of his mouth for some reason.
With a click of his finger, he vanished with a *poof* sound and appeared in front of the group, standing on top of his staff with a smirk on his face.
"My, my, what do we have here? Nephthys, it's been forever since our path's have crossed, how is Minkah doing?" Haji asked.
"...I'm not talking to you. Even if you are no longer one of those bandits, I'd rather not see you." Nephthys said as she walked past Haji.
"Hmmm, how unfortunate. Ceygas, that's a nice pirate costume you are wearing, are you going out trick or treating?" Haji asked.
"...Excuse me?" Izanami asked, raising a eyebrow.
"And of course, the disastrous duo from the old Royal Guard, how nice to see you two. And you have new playmates, I see." Haji said, clapping his hands together.
He then appeared in front of Theseus, his hand placed on his chin as he got a good luck at him.
"...Tsk, tsk, tsk, I don't think yellow suits you very much, I believe you would stand out more if you wore a red coat instead. It would match your eyes perfectly." Haji nodded.
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Post by IDEK on Oct 22, 2019 20:09:18 GMT
"I did use to have a red coat." Theseus commented. "It's a shame that it didn't survive. I rather liked it.."
"Hey!" Bacchus called out, instinctively grabbing his scythe. "What the heck is up with you!?"
"Oh!" Diana exclaimed, a mental lightbulb going of. "That's where I recognise you from! You're that mischief Omnipotent, nice!"
"..Nice?" Bacchus asked.
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Post by Master Psychic on Oct 22, 2019 20:25:17 GMT
Haji turned his attention from Theseus to Bacchus.
"Oh, relax, I'm not here to fight so you can put that ridiculous thing aside. I just wanted to see what the fuss was about, it's been awhile since anything interesting has been going on here. You act as if I did a unforgivable crime." Haji frowned.
"Well, now you know what the fuss is about. Now we're leaving so you can go back to...whatever you were doing." Izanami said as she turned around and continued walking, quickly followed up by Dietz who din't want to talk to him at all.
"Really, now? But I have all sorts of tales and secrest I have to share! I could tell you about my unpleasant childhood, or how I created a secret admirer for Kehn who doesn't even exit, or how one of Dyrre and Etanfe's schemes caused a huge blackout in a city from 11 and that angry sergeant chased after them for a entire day, or how I tore a page out of Iknaa's journal where it says she finds that tool Lionel cute, or how I encountered a pale looking man a few days who might be a acquintance of your's, I believe his name was...Koshi, was it?" Haji asked, tilting his head to Izanami's direction.
Izanami froze as she was about to walk out before she quickly turned around with a confused expression.
"...How do you know him?" Izanami asked.
"I don't know him, personally, but he was here a couple of days ago, searching for Kamest's orbs, but since you guys are in a hurry and clearly won't believe anything I have to say, I'll just go and play with someone else since you don't appear to be interested anyways." Haji shrugged as he started to walk away.
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Post by IDEK on Oct 22, 2019 20:28:43 GMT
"Heeeyyyy, wait-wait-wait, Haji!" Diana smiled, running up after him and wrapping her arms around him. "Come on, They're all a bunch of meanie-pusses, I want to hear your stories~"
"Seriously? Are you going to flirt wi?-" Bacchus asked, Erinye placed her hand in front of him as he went to step forwards as well.
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Post by Master Psychic on Oct 22, 2019 20:36:20 GMT
"Diana, you better hope this guy doesn't pull a switchblade on you or something cause I'm not sure what we can expect from this person." Hercule said, ready to pull his sword out just in case.
Izanami stood in front of Haji, glaring him in the eyes.
"Tell us. Now." Izanami said.
Haji smiled.
"Gladly. But first, *ahem*, I need some space, hugs make me uncomfortable." Haji said, side-eyeing Diana.
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Post by IDEK on Oct 22, 2019 20:43:38 GMT
"Aw. You poopy-pants." Diana said, still smiling.
She removed her hands from him, but was still right up against him. "You better not try anything." She said, with that same dopey tone of voice.
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Post by Master Psychic on Oct 22, 2019 21:02:51 GMT
Haji's smirk remained before he sat down with his staff placed next to him.
"Where do I begin? Okay, so a few days, like I said, I found Koshi lurking around in the desert, trying to seek one of the Orbs that everyone is trying to find now all of the sudden. He told me quite a lot of interesting things." Haji asked.
"Such as?" Dietz asked.
"How he and his group want to use the orbs to get rid of the Neonytes in retaliation for what the Royal Guard tried to do with Ragnarok, Morgue who intentionally screwed them over and those monkeys from 5 who wanted to revert everything back into the dark ages, they are quite sick of creatures trying to wage war against them and want to poof them out of existence or throw them into a empty pocket dimension where no one can pull them out, or something like that." Haji shrugged.
"Yeah, that's not gonna happen. What else happened?" Hercule asked.
"I told him that the orb was in the Neonytian princess's possession and she took off with her dragon after she lost both her son and her husband in a tragic manner. Koshi then met up with another man, he had long blue hair with markings under his eyes, kinda like you with the scythe, except he had crimson red eyes. Just by looking into his eyes, hohoho, I felt a sudden chill up my spine, I thought my heart was gonna stop for a second there!...And then both of them vanished." Haji finished.
"Was the man with the blue hair, red eyes and markings from the Chikara clan? Did his name happen to be Aku or someone else?" Izanami asked.
"Possibly, I din't ask him for his name. But it's a good guess, I suppose." Haji shrugged.
"...And you din't do anything to stop them?" Hercule asked.
"Why should I? I don't get involved in fights, my passion is to instigate conflicts, because it's in my element, it's my purpose in life and no one can change that." Haji said, his tone turning from chipper to deep in just a second.
He levitated himself off the floor and just sat in mid air, leaning against his staff like it was a chair as he crossed his legs and placed his arms his neck.
"You see, I did not like my old life that much, but when I got this power, I had a change of perspective. If I don't cause mischief, what reason would I have to live? Especially since your little alliance is about to tie up all the loose ends and cancel any attempts at entertainment, thus rendering my power useless, old hat tricks like getting kids to fight over candy or writing vague confusing messages on walls have grown stale. Yes sir, a long period of good will and boredom is coming soon, and I'm not ready for it." Haji sighed.
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Post by IDEK on Oct 22, 2019 21:10:26 GMT
Bacchus felt at the swirling line beneath his eye.
"It's not here yet, though." Erinye spoke. "There's still fights being fought. Everyone here is fighting one right now. Conflicts aren't going to just fade away like nothing ever happened, so you shouldn't have to worry about that."
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Post by Master Psychic on Oct 22, 2019 21:19:23 GMT
"Yes, but what happens when everything will be solved at the end? It's just a matter of time till that broken orb fragment and those party poopers from the ISP will get what they want. Oh well, might aswell enjoy the show while it still lasts." Haji supposed.
Haji then levitated back on the ground, placing his hand on the snake.
"Well, it's been quite a interesting interaction, I hope you all will have a exciting adventure ahead of you, I know everyone here will be watching. Farewell." Haji saluted.
He burst into silly strings, covering Izanami, Hercule, Diana and Dietz with that stuff. He was gone, for now.
"...That's one unique way of leaving the stage." Dietz noted before spitting some of that silly string out of his mouth.
Izanami stood there, thinking about what Haji said.
"...Are they really gonna go through this? If what he said is true..." Izanami wondered.
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Post by IDEK on Oct 22, 2019 21:23:01 GMT
"If what he said is true, we have even more reason to stop them then we already did. In our cases our very species is on the line." Theseus pointed out.
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Post by Master Psychic on Oct 22, 2019 21:39:11 GMT
"He is right, we need to get into the Absalon and fire off." Hercule said, pulling the silly string off of him as he walked out of the temple.
Izanami kept staring at the floor and nodded before everyone went out of the temple.
Nephthys was standing outside, waiting for the rest as she turned to them.
"Did he say anything bad...at all?" Nephthys asked.
"Well, besides covering us in silly string, he told us something useful about F2 and have an idea about why they want those orbs. We're getting in the ship and start our search." Hercule said.
"Ah, I see...well, let's get a move on." Nephthys decided.
The group of 8 walked through the village, the villagers went back to what they were doing while some were still giving the Neonytes dirty looks.
"*Plah* After stealing our crest and trying to kill us, now they have the nerve to act like they are the good guys, give me a break." One of the villagers with darker skin spat.
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Post by IDEK on Oct 22, 2019 21:48:41 GMT
Diana continued forwards with a smile on her face, while Bacchus gave some of them equally dirty looks in turn, before gruffly turning away.
"It looks like the Cromwell's really messed things up while I was away." Theseus commented to the rest of the crew, before turning to look at the spitting man. He continued to talk to the group as they headed back out."I doubt anything we say to them would be of any merit, we should simply leave for the time being and let our actions show them what we hope to accomplish."
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