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[Octavia's Bow 2,035]

"Unless you somehow randomly pull out of your behind the world's most beautiful cello... I don't know what I'll do! I might teleport home, grab one of Misha's shotguns, and paint some walls! And then deall with consequences after I've gone insane. You'd better have something good, Shaney boy.:

[turndown4whut 9]

Shane thought quickly for the first time in a while, "Excuse me while I make haste to the back room, where we kept our finest cellos!"

 

Shane entered the back room, which in reality was a bunch of pizza scraps and fire wood. 

"Shit."

Moments later an idea from the gods struck Shane's genius mind.

Blood, sweat, tears and 15 minutes later, Shane had crafted the greatest cello ever forged out of nothing but string cheese and hickory firewood. 
 

With his magnum opus in hand, Shane returned to the three ladies of various age groups.

"My fair maidens, I present to you the fines cello ever to grace this humble shoppe. Behold."

With that Shane held the pizello out to Sayaa to try.

[Octavia's Bow 2,035]

"Ni bushi ren. Ni shi he? Wo bugei ni shui yidian. Ni hele ma? Wo bugei ni hefan. Ni sile. Si le ben buren!" she said, in the most monotone, low, threatening voice possible. She flicked both her wrists as if conducting, and the charred battered remains of the cellos levitate. Salvageable parts gravitated towards her as she searched the shop. Finding the glue she was looking for, she began putting it together. Block levitated next to her and, when she was ready, she took the poor doll apart. Inside, a small, exactly proportioned cylinder of wood was pulled. Instantly, the doll fell apart. The cylinder swirled with mana, her dual types coloring the energy its pale green and dark purple. She set it up in the cello and carefully set the face over the new sound post. It shimmered and rippled, becoming a new-looking instrument. Wordlessly, she grabbed a hard case and stood next to Hikari, along with her new cello. "We should leave before I curse the ground he walks on."

[Samurshy 708]

Raiya's first instinct was to jump down and kill Misha herself. It sounded like a very good idea, too. But she knew that if she went back on her word, she would be breaking one of her fundamental morals. 

"Alright, you win. I will lend my support for a siege in Axoana." Raiya said as she jumped down from the building and walked over to Misha and the dead Templar. She snapped her fingers and a pink magic circle appeared under Saul's dead body, Saul's body sank into the circle as if the ground were a viscous liquid. The circle disappeared after the body completely sank, transporting the body the the Crux Hideout for a proper burial. 

Zeke looked over at Misha with a sigh of relief as he was happy that he did not have to become a Crux gang member. 

[Chickey 383]

"Excellent." Misha commented, now face to face with Raiya. "But don't forget the second part my dear. I get very thirsty after a victorious battle. And it would be a shame if I was just looking at a street or the inside of a dull building by myself." He explained as he held his hand out over to Zeke. "Case please." He stated.

[Samurshy 708]

Zeke handed over the case that was still unlocked to Misha. 

Raiya angrily sighed as she walked briskly past Misha ripping the case from Misha's hand. She placed the case, open, on the ground and stood before it. She snapped her fingers, her biker outfit that she was wearing was instantly replaced with the striped bikini in a brief flash of blinding light. Everyone now saw her in the skimpy outfit, and the surrounding gangmembers began to howl and issue cat calls while laughing. Still wearing her deadly stiletto heals, she stamped with her right foot and issued a death glare to the surrounding audience, to which the quickly silenced their actions. Raiya called a few of her subordinates over and told them to fetch a kettle of tea. A few gang members set up a little round cafe table for Misha and Zeke with a couple of ornate chairs and fine-china cups with trays under them. Zeke sat down and waited for Misha to take his seat. 

[Chickey 383]

Before Misha sat down he skipped over to Raiya and pulled out his phone. He put his arm around her shoulders and snapped a selfie that encompassed both of them real quick. The contrast between Misha's giddy expression and Raiya's not so happy one was the first thing he noticed as he examined the photo afterwards on the screen. "That's a keeper." He commented as he sat down and put the phone back into his pocket. He crossed one leg over the other and waited in his seat patiently. "So how does it feel?" He asked. 

[Samurshy 708]

Raiya gritted her teeth and clenched her fists. 

"Like I've died," She spoke through her gritted teeth, "and gone to some form of afterlife."

 

Raiya's subordinate came back with a kettle of hot tea, she spoke briefly with the subordinate and then brought the tea over. 

"I hope you like plantation mint tea, because that is all we have." She said as she began pouring the tea into both the cups.

Zeke grabbed some sugar cubes from the center tray and dropped them into the cup, stirring it with the small spoon that was on the side of the tray. He sipped the tea and was presently surprised with the spearmint flavor. Zeke never had plantation mint tea before, but the taste was unmistakably spearmint.

[Azura 1,107]

Hikari stood there quietly and inspected the pizello from a distance. 'I wonder if it's edible..' She thought to herself. Hikari noticed Sayaa casting some sort of magic, creating a brand-new cello out of bits and pieces from the store. "Now now.. I know Shane has done some pretty outrageous things, but that's what friends do. You just have to learn how to forgive others." She told Sayaa. Hikari looked at Shane and wondered how he felt about this entire situation. "So.. What do you want to do, now that you've got your cello?" She asked Sayaa.

[Chickey 383]

Misha gave a chuckle as he picked up his tea cup. "You hear that Zeke? She said it feels like she died and went to heaven. Must feel reeaallyy good." He said, taking a sip from the tea without any sugar. He usually just liked it plain himself. "Now, I do have one last request of you my dear. Nothing too bad. You see we drove here for quite a while from our group's little base back in Novarius. And in order to get back we obviously need to drive again. But my car doesn't appear to be in... tip top shape anymore." Misha explained as he pointed back over to the burning husk that his car had became. "So I beg of you to let us borrow one of your own so we can all make the return trip back?" He finished and then took another sip of his tea. "If I may add, I'll even let you keep the bikini for a car ride." Misha added.

[Octavia's Bow 2,035]

"Ehheheh.." She laughed nervously as she held Sayaa's hand and left the shop. "I wonder how Misha and Zeke are doing.." Hikari asked before she took out her phone and gave Zeke a quick call. She looked at Sayaa and asked her "What's on your mind, now that you have your cello?"

 

"My death-spell aria. I was taught magic from instrumentation. Effort to save money. My parents wanted me to do Arhu, but western instruments are so much... richer. In my opinion of course." She was starting to tap a pattern on her hip with her left hand while glaring in her current nemesis's direction. Every now and again she slightly shake her no. "Maybe... chicken?" she muttered to herself.

 

"So now what? I really only go shopping for food anymore. And, you know, ear buds."

Edited October 25, 2014 by Nightwing

[Azura 1,107]

Hikari looked over at Shane. "Hey, you wanna tag along? It'll be fun!" She said in a cheerful tone. "Maybe Misha could hook you up with a place to start up your own pizza restaurant so you won't have to burn cellos for the fire." Hikari suggested to Shane. "Hmm.. I wonder how Misha's doing." She told herself before she took out her phone and called him. 'Ring ring..'

[Chickey 383]

"Could almost make some burning Bentley S'mores on that thing now." He muttered to himself as he waited for Raiya. Misha pulled out his phone when he felt it vibrate. And then took another sip of tea when he saw it was from Hikari. He didn't want to take the call right now, so he decided to quickly text back. 

 

"A bit busy right now, almost finished up here in Vertlyn. I'll call back in a bit. So far things seemed to have gone well. -Misha" 

 

After the sentence he attached the selfie he took earlier with Raiya and then hit send. Making it his personal phone background afterward and changing his status to 'diplomatic'. He figured that would explain the situation enough for now. 

[turndown4whut 9]

Shane, presented with this situation, engaged himself in maximum charm mode. "Tag along for a bucket of fried chickey with not two, but three fine young ladies?" Shane slicked back his hair. "Yeah, I think I could fit that into my oh so busy schedule." 

Oh yeah. Nailed it.

[Samurshy 708]

Raiya let out a exasperated sigh.

"I suppose we could take one of our Cadillac Escalades." Raiya said as she pointed to the black suvs parked in the club's parking space. She then snapped her fingers conjuring her original gang outfit back onto her body and the swimsuit back in it's briefcase.

Zeke was wondering what was going through Raiya's head at this point. She did just send her comrade to death, but she didn't really say one word on the matter. Zeke shook his head and snapped back to reality. 

"Sounds good to me." Zeke said. "We might want to head out now, the sun should be setting here soon and we don't want to be driving too long in the dark."

Edited November 7, 2014 by Samurshy

[Chickey 383]

Misha finished up his tea, setting the empty cup back down on the table. "Yeah, that'll do just fine. I gotta hand it to ya though. Your gang has some style." He said as he got up and gave a quick bow to her and the group before walking over to the car and getting in the backseat. He laid down on his back taking up both the seats while looking up towards the roof of the car and pulled out his phone as he waited for the other two to get in and called Hikari like he said he would now that they're pretty much done.

[Azura 1,107]

Hikari looked at Shane with a confused look. "Urmmm.. T-There's only two of us, Shane. Who's the third young lady you speak of?" She questioned him with a slightly worried tone. "Anyway, I'm gonna go get the car. I'll be right back." Hikari left the shop and headed back to where she parked her car. She took out her keys and unlocked the door. After getting in, she took her phone out of her pocket before starting up the engine. She drove towards the shop and parked right beside the entrance of the shop. Hikari opened the window and waved at Sayaa before saying "Lets go!" with excitement. Her phone started ringing, and she noticed it was Misha. Hikari quickly picked up her phone and answered the call. "Hey there Mishaaaa! How's it going?"

[Chickey 383]

Misha continued to lay on his back, humming with the phone up to his ear until he heard Hikari answer. "Oh I'd say it's going pretty swell. We got Raiya help us and we're about to drive back. Hopefully it doesn't take too long." He said with a cheerful attitude. "My car didn't make it though, so we're taking another one back. She blew it up while we were driving around..." Misha continued with a more solemn tone and a comical whimper. This quickly subsided. "Ooooohhh well. Bit of a give and take you win some you lose some kind of deal I guess. I can't say it wasn't an enjoyable trip." He finished with a chuckle.

 

"So, how's things on your end. I presume no catastrophes have gone down in our absence?" Misha ended.

[Azura 1,107]

"I'm just glad you're both safe.." She said in a soft voice. "Anyway, Sayaa and I are just shopping. Shane's gonna tag along with us. We can meet up somewhere later when you and Zeke come back to Novarius and maybe we can all get a drink together." Hikari said with a joyful voice.

[Octavia's Bow 2,035]

Hikari looked at Shane with a confused look. "Urmmm.. T-There's only two of us, Shane. Who's the third young lady you speak of?" She questioned him with a slightly worried tone. "Anyway, I'm gonna go get the car. I'll be right back." Hikari left the shop and headed back to where she parked her car. She took out her keys and unlocked the door. After getting in, she took her phone out of her pocket before starting up the engine. She drove towards the shop and parked right beside the entrance of the shop. Hikari opened the window and waved at Sayaa before saying "Lets go!" with excitement. Her phone started ringing, and she noticed it was Misha. Hikari quickly picked up her phone and answered the call. "Hey there Mishaaaa! How's it going?"

Sayaa carefully get into the back seat with her cello, protectively buckling it in even though she knows it'll probably do absolutely no good in protecting it, before buckling herself in next to it. "Say heyo to Misha for me. Hope he had his fun." She digs through her pockets and snags her phone, playing a rythm game.

[Chickey 383]

"Oh that sounds good. We had a bit of a tea party here, but I could use a big boy drink after the drive back. After all I almost died, but I'm just walking out with a big ole bruise on my chest now. Nothing too bad." Misha added. "Our new friend is a bit rude, gave me a boo-boo and broke my toy car."

[Azura 1,107]

"Maybe you could use those healing spells of yours to get rid of the pain." Hikari suggested just in case he forgot about it. She looked at the time, it was 4:30pm. "I guess I'll see you later then." She finished. Hikari looked over at Sayaa and said "So.. Is Shane coming? I thought he said he'd tag along."

[Chickey 383]

"Aye, usually I only use those if it's life threatening. My body will heal just fine on it's own. And pain makes me feel alive to be honest. Reminds me of enjoyable battles." He explained. "Mkay, we're gonna hit the road now I suppose. Bye bye!" Misha ended with a comical voice as he hung up the phone and put it back in his pocket and continued to wait in the car. 

[turndown4whut 9]

Shane considered Hikari's words carefully. After a few minute's deliberation, he came to the conclusion that it was just his imagination, seeing a third girl with them. "Must have been the pizza fumes getting to my head," he thought to himself. Only then did he realize he had basically stood there for three minutes staring off into space, making him look monumentally stupid.

In an effort to recover, he turned three hundred sixty degrees and moon walked into the car where the two, count em', two girls were waiting.  

Edited November 6, 2014 by turndown4whut

[Samurshy 708]

"Well, you might as well drive, Zeke. I don't know the way back and all." Raiya sighed as she made her way to the passenger seat. 

Zeke didn't object he just got in the drivers seat. The key was on the visor, when he flipped it down, it fell in his lap. He placed it in the ignition, and pushed the button, as it was a push start ignition system. Zeke pulled out of the parking lot, and drove down the road a bit.

"Stop here, Zeke." Raiya said as the drove past a crowd of gang members. Zeke slowed to a stop and Raiya rolled down the window. "Serral!" Riaya yelled at the group. A short, thin young adult female stepped out of the fold. She had a short bob cut hairstyle with bright blue tips. She was wearing the standard biker outfit that all the other gang members were wearing. "You're second in command now, Sarral. I have to go help them, and I may need support a little later, so stay alert and keep your phones charged." 

"Of course, m'lady." Serral said and bowed out. 

Raiya rolled the windows and Zeke continued to drive. Making it on the interstate.