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“Starting new….” It was a very nice concept, but those things were always much harder in reality than one would imagine. Judging by Ringo’s sigh she was probably finding it difficult. But she seemed determined and Erika admired that. While herself she didn’t exactly enjoy the concept of leaving behind her gym and pokemon, there wasn’t much use getting upset because of things she had no control over.

“Oh! I’m sorry, I seem to have become lost in my own thoughts.” There would be time to think later. She could see dark clouds in the distance, and more importantly she was being rude to this nice girl. “He is a type of pokemon.” She remembered the confused look on Ringo’s face when she had seen the oddish and began again. “I don’t know if you have anything similar in your world but they are our companions. Some use them to battle and some to help them work, but they are always our friends.” She wondered if that was an adequate description, but was cut short when the girl spoke again.

Erika chuckled at her enthusiasm. This girl reminded her of the young trainers who wanted to become champion, so full of energy. She hadn’t seen such eagerness in a while. “Of course you may touch him. He’s much too lazy to be called a scout though.” She set the small pokemon on the ground where he took a few toddling steps toward Ringo before gazing up at her. “We have been saved? From what?” Her voice trailed off, her mind lost in thought. Tokyo certainly didn’t sound like anywhere she had heard of, although she should have expected this. Ringo hadn’t heard of her home either, and now they were both in a completely different place. And now there was some sort of goddess here. She wondered what could have possibly endangered both her and this girl’s home. It certainly did sound crazy. Erika had heard about the powers of legendary pokemon and experienced them to some extent, but never had she heard about a goddess…

Before she could think any further she remembered a piece of information she should have told the other girl before letting her pet the small pokemon. She hoped it wasn’t too late. “By the way, he has a tendency to drool…”

"I guess it's just easier to think of it that way." Ringo smiled slightly. Since she was so high-strung herself, it had never been easy for her to set others at ease. Though Erika appeared pretty serene, she figured that no one would be completely unshaken after having been torn from their home so suddenly. She tried thinking over the information she'd been able to gather about this place, which was... not much, other than what she'd already shared. She didn't feel like she understood that much more than she had when she'd been in Erika's position. It probably would have been better if someone who felt more at home here had found her, but she supposed that her own help was better than none at all.

She smiled at the little creature, who blinked up at her curiously. "A Pokemon? Kinda sounds like a video game. He's so cute!" She crouched in front of him, holding out a hand for him to examine. She poked a finger near his face, wondering if he could smell her. Did he have a nose? It was hard to tell. She gently pet his head near the leaves, giggling. "He's soft! You're a funny little guy, huh?" She picked him up, setting him on her lap. "I've never seen anything like him! He's like... a chia pet come to life." She scratched at his head, smiling. "We have cats and dogs and stuff. I think it's illegal to battle them, though. They usually just hang out, I guess!" She'd never had a pet, so she wasn't entirely sure what they did. Competitive cat fights sounded kind of exciting.

She looked back up at the other girl more seriously, Oddish still on her legs. "I'm not really sure what we've been saved from, honestly." She remembered that another girl she'd met had said something about "the destruction of your world," but she hadn't really clarified what that meant. When she'd gone to sleep the night she was transported here, nothing had seemed particularly strange or dangerous, and she had yet to meet anyone familiar to her. Did that mean only a few people had been saved from some terrible apocalypse? Or maybe it was a gradual process, since people had been showing up every day. She hoped so. Maybe she'd get to see her family again someday soon.

Right as Erika spoke, Ringo felt something wet on her leg. She looked back down at the Oddish in her lap. "So I see..." At least it was only drool, she reminded herself. It could have been much worse. "That's, um, that's okay. At least he's friendly!"

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Nope they’re not that bad, they’re pretty comfortable, and you can start a fire in the centre of the hut. So you can keep yourself warm, PLUUUUUUUS there’s this spirit guarding each village to keep away any danger so there’s nothing to be concerned about!

She then proceeded to lead the other one out of the forest and taking a walk closer to the villages..

Village of Strength huh? Quickly pointed out at one place where it was located for her to visualize it easily. There’s where we’re going.

While walking around she would glance at the other one every now and then to make sure she wasn’t about to trip on any rock, nor she wanted her getting lost out of nowhere.

Yep, well… I was here when this place wasn’t so primitive, then we were all sent back home, now I’m back here and even when it looks odd, it’s still kind of my second home you know?

"I don't think I even know how to start a fire..." She'd had trouble even lighting matches. Was she going to have to rub sticks together to start a fire? That was seriously not going to happen. Ringo wasn't a fan of menial tasks of any kind. That's what Shouma was for, but Shouma was probably safe in bed right now, without the impending threat of living in practically the wilderness. If she did see him here, he was going to get quite the earful.

What Kotone said next, though, brought her back to the present moment. "A spirit? Like a guardian?" When she was little, her mother had been very interested in protective spirits, probably as a result of Momoka's death. The idea had such an impact on Ringo's childhood that she still tended to think of her stuffed animals as her own guardian spirits-- not that she was about to tell Kotone that! That was silly kid stuff! But the thought of a spirit guarding her in a place like this made it somehow... bearable.

"I guess that doesn't sound so bad, then. I'm glad I ran into you!" She was probably being a nuisance right now, and she was grateful that the other girl was willing to help her. "You've really been here before?" Arcadios... the name still didn't ring any bells. It all felt like something out of a fantasy novel she would have given up on halfway through. "Huh... Isn't it hard, though? Being away from your family?" She'd only been here a day or so, and already she missed hers terribly.

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Erika smiled. “Ringo…..that’s a pretty name…”

She looked around again, eyes lingering on the plants out of habit. There certainly were many interesting species here, and the sheer height of the trees intrigued her, but she couldn’t see anything that the other girl could be looking for. Erika was almost relieved she had arrived with near nothing, searching this forest would be a daunting task. It was inconvenient to have nothing of her home with her, but as long as her oddish accompanied her she figured she wouldn’t be too lonely. Besides, better to have things safely at home than lost - maybe forever- in this forest.

“If you would like, I could help you look…” She knew that it might be pointless to search, but she would enjoy exploring the forest regardless of their success. Nothing threatening had showed itself even while she was asleep and defenseless, and the new foliage was beginning to intrigue her. Besides, the girl had helped her, and now this was a chance to repay her. Doubtless if she had not run into her Erika would still be alone out here.

“He is exceptional at finding things.” She ruffled the leaves atop the small pokemon. The oddish had often helped her trainers find things that they had lost in her gym’s thick ground cover, and more than once he had retrieved rainbow badges that she had sleepily misplaced.

“As for where I am from….it is the Kanto region.” She considered asking the girl where she was from herself, but that would be impolite. If she wished Erika to know where she was from she would say so. She was more interested with where they were anyway. Arcadios… It was not a place she had heard of, and combined with the unfamiliar scenery she guessed she was far from home, or even the other regions.

She was surprised to hear the other girl had arrived in a similar manner. “Is it customary to arrive in such a way?” Erika had assumed the other girl had arrived by the sort of transport that was common in Kanto, she had never heard of travel in such an instantaneous manner except by Celebi or one of the great legendaries, and judging by Ringo’s reaction to her pokemon, that had not happened.

"Thank you!" Ringo said, still relieved by the girl's relaxed attitude-- and a little envious. She'd been here for days, and she had yet to fully recover from her sudden arrival. She'd never handled change very well, and this was a little bit more extreme than transferring schools, or even her parent's tumultuous relationship status. She'd been ripped away from nearly everything that could have comforted her. All things considered, she thought she was doing rather well, but it would have been nice to wake up serene, as Erika had.

She sighed. "Thanks again, but I'm not sure there's much point... I don't think we're supposed to bring too many things with us. Like... starting fresh." Maybe she'd been listening in on too many conversations between her fellow villagers, but she'd really begun to think of it that way. Thinking of all of this as an opportunity made it much easier to deal with. Still, it would have been a real stroke of luck to find a diamond necklace or something out here. She hadn't gotten to finding a job yet- she wasn't even sure how- and she couldn't keep mooching food off of other people forever.

"Hm? Really?" Ringo leaned down to get a better look at the little grassy animal, curious. "He's a he? What is he?"

"He's super cute! Can I touch him?" Wow, not too direct. Sometimes, her mouth had a habit of running off without much input from her brain. Smiling nervously, she took a respectful step back. "Aha, sorry. I get carried away!" And this girl looked so regal in her kimono. If Ringo wanted to impress her, she needed to remember to take a breath before she actually spoke.

Doing so, she cocked her head slightly at the other girl, a little confused. "The Kanto region? Um, me too, I'm from Tokyo! But we definitely don't have any of these little guys." She looked back down at the creature in Erika's arms. "I wish we did, especially if they're good at finding stuff. Like little scouts."

"I'm not sure if this is how everyone shows up, alone in the forest. But I do think that everyone wakes up not knowing where they are." Since arriving, she'd been making good use of her considerable eavesdropping skills, as well as questioning anyone who would listen to her. "I've been hearing a lot about a goddess named Sophia. Supposedly, she saves people from their own world by bringing them here." She'd seen the enormous tree, and heard the story enough times to begin believing it, although she wasn't entirely unconvinced that the Takakura's mysterious hat hadn't been involved. "It's kind of crazy, right?"

#I am sorry sometimes I can be really slow!!#botanyprincess

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Owh, but living in a hut wasn’t that bad, or maybe Kotone was just used to it because she would spend nights using her tent whenever she was out travelling who would know. [shrug]

S’not really that bad you know? I mean, at least they are pretty decent, and everybody has one, so it’s not like you’re going to be living in a hut whilst other people chill in a mansion.

Kotone pointed out in the distance though they were still far away from the places where the Villages where located.

See there’s the Village of Strength, Wisdom and Valor, you have to know which one you’re supposed to be staying and such.

"They're not terrible?" Ringo asked hopefully. She didn't really want to live in some sort of primitive shack. When she had set up her fort under Tabuki-san's house, she'd dragged nearly her entire room there. (Rather, she'd made Shouma do it. But the sentiment was the same.) How was she supposed to survive without her bed, her pajamas, her stuffed animals?! Without a shower?

Now that was a frightening thought. Forget about the centaurs and whatever else might lurk in the darker corners of this world, living without indoor plumbing was the real horror. But that was a bridge she'd have to cross when she came to it. Dear god.

She looked where the other girl pointed, still sort of hoping to see neat, orderly suburban houses, if not an urban apartment complex like the one she lived in. Needless to say, she was disappointed. "Strength, Wisdom and Valor..?" She squinted, thinking. "Strength. That sounds right to me." She looked back at Kotone, smiling as much as she could manage. "Thank you for helping me. I'm really lost. Have you been here for a long time?" She had mentioned how things used to be, so it seemed like a good question to ask.

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Erika yawned and squinted her eyes against the light. She was still quite sleepy, but that wasn’t anything out of the ordinary. It was much brighter than before she had fallen asleep, but no doubt it was the same place. It had been no dream.

Looking around for what had awakened her, she found a young girl standing over her. She was wearing something similar to the lasses Erika had seen before, but something wasn’t quite right. Besides, she didn’t quite give off the pokemon trainer vibe. Erika doubted any trainer would travel without their pokemon, and her pokemon had followed her here, wherever here was. Noticing the girl’s worried expression she rose to her feet.

“Hello. I am Erika, gym leader of…” she paused, taking in the great forest around them. “Well, I guess it doesn’t matter here.” She realized she would have to get used to greeting people in other ways, for it would likely be a while before she was challenged again. She began again “It’s lucky you found me. I’m very grateful, I seemed to have dozed off and ended up here. I’m a bit lost at the moment”

She plucked her oddish from the ground, and cradled it in her arms. As nice as sleeping was, she planned on finding some sort of shelter for the night, and while watching him toddle behind her was endearing, she did not plan on walking in the dark. She might be on good terms with grass pokemon, but she hadn’t seen any pokemon at all since she arrived, and the thought of what replaced them in this world worried her. Before she could go anywhere though, she would need to know about this place.

“I’m sorry, but do you know where we are?”

Ringo looked curiously down at the girl as she stirred, and was relieved when she opened her eyes. She didn't want to have to do anything more drastic to wake her up-- shaking a sleeping stranger seemed a little direct, even to her. She wasn't exactly swimming in friends in this new world, either, so she'd been taking extra pains not to make enemies.

"Ah!" She smiled as the girl stood, taking a respectful step back. She straightened her skirt, a little self-consciously. How could this woman have been sleeping on the ground and still look so put-together?! She'd always envied girls who were effortlessly pretty, like this girl or Tokikago-san back home. She tried to push those thoughts from her mind for the time being. After all, it was a little silly to feel jealous of someone who had just woken up alone in a strange forest.

She blinked when the girl-- Erika-- spoke. Gym leader? What was a gym leader? "Erika? Er, no, I guess not." She let out a small laugh, relieved by her calm demeanor. If Erika had thrown a fit on waking up like Ringo herself had, things wouldn't have gone smoothly. "My name's Ringo, Ringo Oginome. It's really not a problem, I was sort of hoping to find something out here..." She figured she might as well give up on trying to find any of her belongings. The forest was just too big, and she was way too lost.

She looked at the small grass-creature Erika had picked up. She was carrying it like it was some sort of pet, nothing out of the ordinary. Was she from another planet, maybe, like the troll boy she'd met earlier? Her appearance wasn't as outlandish, but that little thing definitely was. It was sort of... cute, though. In an odd way. "If you don't mind me asking, where are you from?

And as for where we are, heh." She scratched behind her left ear, smiling a little nervously. "I'm not too clear on it myself. I only got here about a week ago, the same way you did. All I really know is that it's called Arcadios."

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Yoh nearly fainted at the sudden accusation. He had not expected anyone to be near, in the dense thickness of the trees, and was previously seeking a particular calmness that had been absent since his arrival. Tactfully hiding his impending fury and fear of the brazen little girl, Yoh braced himself and shyly smiled.

“I have no idea.”

Ringo stopped, the finger she'd pointed so accusingly drooping and her arm falling back to her side. After her mad dash through the trees and her dramatic accusation, it almost felt as though she'd been shut down. She'd been expecting at least something of a reaction, anger or fear or... something. What right did this guy have to be so calm?!

"H-hey!" she cried, clenching her hand into a fist, the other still holding her diary tightly. "Don't give me that! If you didn't know where we were, you definitely wouldn't be so calm about it!" Under normal circumstances, she might have found his quiet smile kind of charming. Not so now. "You heard me! I want answers!"

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Erika blinked slowly. Just another afternoon nap, her favorite. She stretched, and then opened her eyes, expecting another sleepy day at the gym surrounded by her trainers, and perhaps young hopefuls aiming for their badge. Or maybe she would take a walk with her pokemon, gathering flowers around Celadon City.

She certainly didn’t expect to wake up in a totally unknown area. Her gym was nowhere to be found, the trainers and pokemon vanished. All that remained was her Oddish beside her and the clothes on her back, tiny against a looming forest. Nothing was familiar to her, there wasn’t a single person or pokemon in sight and not even the trees and rocks looked the same.

Where was she? It certainly wasn’t Kanto, or any of the other regions she had visited. Oh well. Erika wasn’t too worried. Maybe it was all just a wonderful dream she was having. She decided to take another nap, even if it wasn’t a dream it would surely make much more sense after she had gotten more sleep. She curled up again, her Oddish nestling against her.

Who knows, she thought, maybe another person in the same predicament would stumble across her.

Ringo had wandered back to the forest where she'd originally woken up, partly to see if she'd dropped anything-- because really, how was she going to live on just her diary and a few school books?-- and to see if there was some mysterious portal that would whisk her away back home. She'd given up, for the most part, on the diary. And maybe it was only because of everything else swirling around her, and entirely new life in a new land with new people, but she almost felt relieved. Not about the situation in general, but about being able to give up on her D E S T I N Y. Er, destiny. It really was a lot off a girl's chest.

Of course, there was the very real possibility she would starve to death. So she'd decided to brave the forest again, this time in full daylight. If she saw anything frightening, she was confident in her ability to scream bloody murder and outrun virtually any living being. Even if she hadn't been, getting out of Arcadios seemed an important enough goal to take a chance on.

She hadn't really counted on the vastness of Gilneas. When she'd been fleeing it in terror, she hadn't really stopped to take in the sights. It didn't take her very long to realize that finding the exact spot she'd woken up in would be nearly impossible. Still, she had to at least try. Maybe she'd dropped something she could sell...

Instead of her bag, however, she found a girl in much the same position she had been in, curled up in the grass. She blinked a few times, unsure of what she was seeing. The girl looked like she was transported from a fantasy world, delicately lovely in her kimono. Even her sleeping looked graceful. Ringo felt a pang of jealousy. The few times she'd actually worn a kimono, she'd tripped all over herself and had been anything but graceful.

She blinked a few times when she noticed the... plant... thing? by the girl's side, but she took it in stride. She'd seen stranger things since she'd been here.

"Um, miss?" she asked, a little worriedly. If this girl was the princess she looked like, she was bound to throw a fit on waking up in such a barbaric place. (Much as Ringo herself had done, but that was beside the point.) "Are you alright?"

#botanyprincess #hello!!

Tavros tried his hardest not to look as uncomfortable as he felt when Ringo moved closer to him. He let out a small, awkward, laugh and felt kind of relieved that this human girl wasn’t going to die or anything like that. He didn’t know what he’d do if she just dropped dead or something. It wouldn’t look very good to others, and he’d probably be culled. But really, Tavros would be most upset that a potential friend would be taken away from him so quickly. With his luck, however…

“Matters of the, uh, heart…? Like… quadrant issues?”

Suddenly it occurred to him that she probably wouldn’t understand what in paradox space a quadrant was. Tavros mentally smacked himself. If he had to explain troll relationships to Ringo, he’d only wind up confusing her more. He wasn’t the smoothest talker, and didn’t have a vast amount of knowledge like Karkat.

He tried playing it off as coolly as he was capable of (which probably wasn’t very cool at all) and moved onto the next subject with a small clearing of his throat.

“My home’s nothing like that! Well, I guess Tokyo can get pretty violent… But it’s nothing, um, systematic. And my own apartment is a pretty quiet place. Just me and my human guardian! I don’t know if she was much like your lucas, though. She wasn’t exactly awesome.”

“Uh… do you mean a lusus? Heh…” Tavros chuckled a bit. It was pretty awesome that Ringo was using Alternian words. How culturally sensitive of her! “And, uh, what’s Tokyo?”

"Quadrant issues?" That was something she'd never heard before, but she guessed that was to be expected when you were chatting with aliens. "Is that your word for like, romance? Because that's part of my problem!" Again, she was tempted to spill her entire story about Momoka and the diary, but he already looked a little uncomfortable. (She internally congratulated herself for even noticing. She'd been told she could be a little overbearing, maybe she was finally learning how to know when to back off. As such, she took a small step back from him.)

It didn't seem much like he wanted to talk about "matters of the heart" anyway, since he moved on so quickly. Maybe some exotic alien beauty had recently broken his heart, ooh la la. She wondered for a moment if there were more of his kind here. It would be really lonely, waking up on an entirely different planet with no one even remotely like you. She already felt that way, and at least she was among her own species. (Well. Mostly.) "Have you seen anyone from your planet yet? I've actually even seen someone from my hometown already, so I guess it doesn't seem too unlikely." Even so, she made a mental note to talk to this Tavros every once in a while. She didn't want him to feel alone.

"Lusus! I'll try to remember, haha! Sorry if I just said something horrible."

"Tokyo's a big city! On Earth, obviously. You'd think it wouldn't be too hard for me to get back there, but I'm not really finding a lot of options. It's looking a little hopeless..."

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Tsuna offered a shaky smile, brushing off her apology as he waved his hands in front of him. “Er, um, it’s okay… Oginome-san.”

The girl—Ringo—had calmed down somewhat, to his relief. It was a good thing she did, because Tsuna found it hard to keep his cool when others were panicking.

Shadows cast across the ground, scattering patches of light everywhere. The sky was beginning to turn dark, he noted. It was probably around five in the afternoon. He’d been here since… twelve? That made it about six hours since he’d been searching for that troublesome plant.

Tsuna sighed. He’d have to give up on it today, he thought sullenly. Looks like another night of growling stomachs and empty wallets for me.

Eyes swept over the distraught girl across him; Tsuna scratched the back of his head thoughtfully. It wouldn’t be good to just leave her there. She was defenseless and had no idea where she was—like leaving a lamb to the wolves. Tsuna couldn’t bring himself to do that. Though she seemed to be a handful, he’d have to make sure she got to safety. His conscience wouldn’t allow otherwise.

“Um… we should probably get out of the forest, since it’s getting late…” he murmured, mostly to himself. “O-Oginome-san? Do you know what village you’re supposed to be in?”

Newcomers usually knew beforehand their assigned village someway or another. It had been the same way for him, as far as he was concerned. Hopefully, Ringo would know hers as well.

Ringo deflated slightly with relief when he accepted her apology. She had a bad habit of jumping down people's throats at the first given opportunity, and it had gotten her into trouble many times in the past. Unfortunately, when she got scared or angry, the rational part of her brain that told her to stop doing that was effectively silenced. Not everyone was as forgiving, and she was grateful. At least there was some kind of civilization around here.

"Thank you," she said, making an effort to quiet herself down. Thanks weren't as effective if you screeched them.

“Um… we should probably get out of the forest, since it’s getting late…”

Ringo looked up at the sky through the trees, and saw the telltale bright shades of sunset. She felt an unfamiliar pang of fear-- he was definitely right. She didn't want to be left out here with the centaurs and god knows what else. She could smack people around back home, but she didn't really want to find out how she fared in a real confrontation, especially against some unknown entity.

"Yeah, you're right, Sawada-san. I'm just not sure where I can go." She hadn't really given it much thought until now. Where could she go that was safer than the forest? It wasn't like she could just waltz home, as much as she'd like to. She definitely couldn't impose herself on a near-stranger, even though she would really like to. She did have some pride, after all. (At least, usually.)

"Village?" She looked at him curiously. Oddly enough, the word did ring a bell, even though she was quite sure she'd never lived in anything like a village. "Um. I think so. It sounds silly, but is the Village of Strength a place around here..?"

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Uh oh… she didn’t look really happy with what she just said… maybe she should avoid telling her world is going to be destructed, yeah… better not get her in a bad mood telling those things, it was the first time someone …acted the way she did, and that face… yeah she was really not enjoying this situation.

W-well it’s not like… you won’t like it here, well in the past was way better looking, but I’m sure it will soon return to that! If we work hard enough, of course.

Yeah she was way too used to camping to even care about living in a hut, it was more or less than camping permanently to Kotone, therefore it was fun. And well, eitherway the new girl wouldn’t… enjoy… sleeping outside with the animals ,right?

Yup! So you know which one is your Village? My name is Kotone by the way.

Ringo couldn't believe her misfortune. Huts? This had to be a dream. Kidnapping, mythical creatures, and huts all in one day was just too much. Too. Much. She was known to snap into a psychotic rage over much less than this, but for the moment she just felt... overwhelmed. How was she supposed to get by? She definitely wasn't a nature girl. She didn't even like camping.

The girl seemed concerned, and Ringo didn't want her to worry. "I'm sorry, it's just- it's a lot to handle in one day, you know?" She took a deep breath, still trying to process everything she'd been told. She'd been thrown for a loop, but she could get through it. She reasoned she'd been proving herself tougher and tougher lately. "I guess I'll have to find some way to help with the work..." That didn't sound fun, either. But if she ever wanted to live in a house again, it was looking like she'd have to earn it.

"Oh! I'm Ringo. Ringo Oginome. I'm... not sure which village I am. I feel like I should know... How many are there?"

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Tsuna gulped, taking a fearful step backwards. He had no idea who this girl was, but she was most likely a new resident at Arcadios; it was pretty obvious from the way she reacted, which reminded Tsuna a bit of his own first day arriving on this so called ‘Paradise.’

“I—uh—c-centaur?”

Oh, right! He’d forgotten about the centaurs! They usually inhabited the forest, and weren’t too friendly to outsiders, though they were courteous to those polite enough to them. Tsuna himself had never actually met one, but had heard stories. In fact, this was one of the rare few times he visited Gilneas, much preferring the comfort of his own hut to dangers unknown.

“O-Oh,” he said, smiling a little sheepishly. “Er, yeah, they live here. Um… I guess you’re new? Well, this is Arcadios… and I’m Tsuna. Sawada Tsuna. I-I’m looking for a plant for money because I’m poor. Who are you?”

Ringo took a couple deep breaths. It was pretty obvious the boy wasn't going to attack her, so she felt it was safe to let her guard drop slightly. Slightly. After waking up in such a completely foreign environment, she also felt she was entitled to be just a bit suspicious.

"Yes, a centaur!" she cried, reminded of exactly why she was so fearful in the first place. A centaur. How was he not freaking out?! For starters, creatures of myth were sort of a big deal. And of all the mythical creatures she could have happened upon, centaurs didn't have the best reputation. If this boy wasn't terrified, he was either grievously misinformed or in some kind of human-centaur alliance. Oh God.

"O-Oh. Er, yeah, they live here. Um… I guess you’re new?"

I guess we're calm about the centaurs. New? Uh. Were people falling from the sky regularly around here? If so, he seemed a little flippant about that, too. Maybe... maybe being calm was the best way to deal with this. She could force herself to be calm. Absolutely. Just gotta take deep breaths, try to release the tension from her muscles. Easy as pie.

Not really. She stopped yelling, but when she spoke again, she was shaking with remaining fear and the attempt to relax. "Um. Tsuna? It's nice to meet you." As nice as possible under the circumstances? "I'm Ringo, Oginome Ringo. I'm, ah, sorry I kind of jumped at you."

#notamafiaboss #this took longer than necessary i am sorry

Tavros was a little taken aback. A matter of life and death? That sounded pretty serious! He wondered if there was anyone she could talk to that could help her. Like an emperor or something. Or maybe the emperor’s assistant - if that was a thing.

“That is, uh, a most unfortunate predicament,” he replied. What could he say that would even bring Ringo any relief? Tavros wasn’t exactly an expert at talking to people. Cute human girls especially. The memory of how he botched things up with Jade practically haunted him. “Don’t, uh, die or anything… Do you, uh, not feel well? I am guessing there is most likely a health care unit somewhere around here… probably…”

“You’re actually an alien?” she asked after a moment. “This place sure is weird… What’s your, uh, universe like? Do you get dragged off to primitive human planets often..?”

Tavros looked up at her. It was nice that she wanted to know about his planet. Humans, he found, were pretty cool - when they weren’t scarring him for life like Dave had. Though, Tavros couldn’t say he disliked Dave. Dave was a beat poet he rather looked up to in the sense of spitting some ill incendiaries.

“Yeah, aha, I know it might be, uh, kind of weird to see someone like me…”

“Alternia? It’s… definitely, for sure, not as bright… It’s, uh, also kind of violent and discriminatory. But I have some friends I consider to be really most excellent… And my lusus, which, uh, I have learned is the equivalent of a human’s guardian, was awesome,” Tavros explained, hoping he wasn’t boring her. “But, no. This is my first Earth experience.”

He paused for a moment.

“What is your home like?”

That was most likely the polite thing to ask, probably.

"It is unfortunate!" Ringo cried, leaning over him excitedly. She was probably waist-deep in his personal bubble, but that sort of thing had never really registered with her, and she'd had a long day. Having someone sympathize with her, even slightly, was such a relief. She almost wanted to tell him exactly why she needed to go home, how her fate and her diary were at stake, but she held back. Even if he was an alien, people usually found that sort of story hard to believe. The last thing she need was people thinking she was crazy.

“Don’t, uh, die or anything… Do you, uh, not feel well? I am guessing there is most likely a health care unit somewhere around here… probably…”

"Oh no, not like that!" she nearly laughed. His hesitant way of speaking made everything sound a little funny. "It's, um, a little more complicated. But just as important, mind you! Matters of the heart are just as important as physical health!"

"Er. Violent and discriminatory? That definitely doesn't sound like a good time. No wonder you're happy to be here..." When he mentioned his, um, lucas, she realized- she'd hardly thought of her own parents at all. She had in theory, as they were the reason her fate and her diary were so important, but she hadn't thought about them as people. The thought made her heart sink. What kind of daughter was she, if her first thought in a situation like this wasn't of her family? No wonder they'd fallen apart. No wonder she couldn't keep them from doing so.

Oh, but she was still in the company of a young alien boy! So she wiped those thoughts from her mind.

"My home's nothing like that! Well, I guess Tokyo can get pretty violent... But it's nothing, um, systematic. And my own apartment is a pretty quiet place. Just me and my human guardian! I don't know if she was much like your lucas, though. She wasn't exactly awesome."

#tavrosnitram #HAHAHA OH NO #oh well it was clearly your destiny #soz

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No matter how long he’d been here for, Shouma would never be able to acquaint himself with such a vast land. He’d been stuck in this same forest for at least a couple of hours now, and his body slowly began to take the toll. Be it because of fate or otherwise— he absolutely hated his bad luck at the moment.

Not unlike Ringo, Shouma had been spontaneously taken from Tokyo and placed smack bang in the middle of nowhere. Of course, while the whole scenario was absolutely ridiculous and there was no way in hell that any of it happened to be believable - he’d been through worse. Much worse. So, after you’ve met an extra-terrestrial creature that resided within a souvenir hat at an aquarium, some things seemed a lot more reasonable.

Nevertheless, he’d been given much more time to adjust, and he still couldn’t believe it all. With what few days he’d been here, he’d managed to come across a horrible joker, an indecisive girl— even his own sister at one point; it was good to see her well despite the loss of her own home. Every single meeting was as odd as the other - and the same went for each day he spend in this godforsaken land.

Because of this, he could almost take that shrill cry in stride - well, that’d be a lie. Shouma wouldn’t ever be able to reach that kind of insensitivity with the amount of spontaneity each day held in store for him. He stilled himself for a moment, pondering over his situation. If he was in the vicinity, and someone happened to be screaming.. no.

That same fear he had on the first day was actually true! There really were man-eating monsters out here, weren’t there?!

He swallowed the scream that threatened to fall from his lips— he was stronger than that, surely. He wanted to run, but his feet refused to move. They stayed where they were; planted in the earth below him. Oh.. this really was bad luck, wasn’t it? Frozen stiff with complete and utter fear, he went over his options - or, rather, he looked for some. At any moment, the creature could’ve come out from any direction and struck him— oh, the poor boy could see it happening to him now. He’d be stuck between its feral jaws, and—

“You!”

Crap. He’d know that sharp voice anywhere.

“O-Oginome-san?!”

While startled, he seemed much more terrified than he was shocked. He was scared because this person was someone he knew - yes, he was fortunate to find someone else from his own world, but he’d prayed that he’d never have to see the likes of her again. Being an ‘errand boy’ for her implied easy jobs to perform, but it had been anything but. While the job entailed such, he’d been much more like a slave if anything— and no matter how many times he’d done what’d been told of him, she still managed to find something to abuse him for.

Thus, to avoid being reprimanded (verbally or otherwise), he didn’t dare budge from the spot that he stood in. Not a part of him moved in the slightest whilst her index finger still remained pointed at him. He knew very well, of all people, that crossing Oginome Ringo would be the worst mistake you’d ever make in your life— and Shouma had learned very well never to do anything like that again. He thought that even the slightest move would ultimately be his last around her. He had to be careful about where he trod around that volatile timebomb of a woman.

He couldn’t guarantee that he wouldn’t accidentally provoke her while she was in Arcadios, though.

Ringo had dashed through the forest practically blinded by terror, not seeing or caring about the scenery she rushed by, and she'd regarded the person she'd come across in much the same way. It didn't matter what they looked like or who they were, so long as they could give her the answers she wanted. Even if they couldn't, they might be able to comfort her while she had a nice cry. But the second she stopped to actually look, she dropped her bag in shock.

"Sh- Shouma-kun?"

The first thing she felt was overjoyed. After finding herself in a strange fantasy world, she'd been lucky enough to find a familiar face. And of all faces- Shouma! Shouma who had put up with all her abuse, who had been so helpful, who had been willing to do anything to help someone in need. Even if he had only stuck with her as a means of obtaining her diary, it still spoke to his character. She'd been awful to him, most of the time on purpose, and he'd taken it. To help his sister. And what was Ringo now, if not in need? Even if she hadn't been entirely sweet and lovely to him in the past, surely he'd still be willing to help!

But before she could act on this happiness, it was blocked out, overpowered. Overpowered by something that felt more like blind rage.

Shouma Takakura? Out here, so close to where she'd woken up? That wasn't suspicious in the slightest. Who else had been following her all over, no matter what she'd done to him to ward him off? She didn't have to think for even a second to remember all the terrible things she'd put him through. All that, and he'd still been so determined to get her diary. He'd do anything to get it. Now, she hadn't thought that this sort of thing had been in his or his brother's power, but they did have that crazy penguin hat. Ringo's anger only grew when she remembered how that thing had spoken to her.

But above all else, she felt betrayed. For all she'd treated Shouma badly, it wasn't out of any sort of dislike. Distrust, yes. If someone told you they were willing to go to any lengths to get your diary, you'd be suspicious, wouldn't you? He didn't even seem to know entirely why he'd wanted it. But no matter how much she'd wanted to, she couldn't bring herself to hate the Takakuras, Shouma least of all. She loved Himari dearly, she wasn't sure how to feel about Kanba, and Shouma... Well, aside from being the best human punching bag of all time, she'd thought he was something like a friend. Diary or no diary.

And then he turns around and does something like this!

"Takakura!" she all but screamed, lunging at him. "What did you do?!"

It had to be his fault! Who else could it be?! No one else would want to bring her to this place, much less have a way to bring her here. Who knew how far the powers of that hat went? If it had the power to extend life, it was absolutely possible that it would be able to take her and drop her in a mysterious forest. It all made perfect sense.

Well, maybe. Ringo wasn't one to think things through very logically.

#servantoffate #the struggle of shouma takakura continues

Ah, it was about time she asked. Tavros was surprised she went as far into the conversation without asking what he was. It wasn’t every day human came across grey troll people, he figured.

“Uh, well, I think we are on Earth, actually,” he began. “I am definitely seeing more humans than people like me. Trolls, that is. I’m a troll. Uh. From the planet called Alternia. It’s… in another universe so I’m pretty sure you don’t know it…”

How awkward could he get?

“Seeing as I, uh, am unsure of how to leave myself, I can’t really, uh, tell you how to leave either…” Tavros trailed off, scratching absentmindedly behind his ear. “But this place doesn’t seem… horrible. It’s, uh, much more aesthetically awesome than my home planet, definitely.”

On any other day of her life, Ringo probably would have seen the young troll and taken off screaming, as she had during her first encounter with creatures out of this world. Or, really, her world. Obviously they were very much in this world. But that first encounter, no matter how terrifying, and her subsequent meetings with various people here, had desensitized her to sights that normally would have shocked her. A boy in a wheelchair with grey skin and huge horns? Not as big a deal as you would expect.

"Oh. You're not from around here?" Another sigh. "That's kind of disappointing... I was hoping you could help me. See, it's really important I get home soon! It's a matter of life and death!" Maybe that was an exaggeration, but it wasn't much of one. D E S T I N Y waits for no woman!

"You're actually an alien?" she asked after a moment. "This place sure is weird... What's your, uh, universe like? Do you get dragged off to primitive human planets often..?"

#tavrosnitram #/smack

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“Oh..! Uh, well, thanks, I think! Heh…”

Ringo? What a weird name for a human! Not that Tavros would say that out loud. It wasn’t like he wasn’t weird. He was - is - weird.

“I’m, uh, Tavros Nitram. It’s a pleasure to, uh, exchange an Earth meeting ritual with you, Ringo-human.”

What a weird way for someone to talk. "An Earth meeting ritual..? Does that mean I'm not even on Earth?" Was that it? Was Arcadios some kind of reverse science fiction planet where centaurs roamed free and sweet young girls were forced to live in tents? Great. Just great.

She sighed, not wanting to appear too rude. "Tavros? Is that right? I've never heard a name like that. Um, if you don't mind me asking, what exactly are you? Are you from here? Can you tell me how to leave?"

#tavrosnitram #d e s t i n y

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