We Are Our Avatars IX: Act V: The Sabotage of the Scandolous Saurian Scoundrels (Open)

[Zepherus14]

"An oath?" Sophia repeated, wondering if the word meant the same for her as it did for him. "Wow." She nodded slowly. "Maybe the words mean different things where you come from, but an oath is a substantial promise to make. She's lucky to have someone like you." Sophia grinned a little, rubbing the back of her neck.

Sophia then looked behind her to see Samus walking up all robot like. "Oh, that's Samus Aran." She commented back to Caius. "She's a bit rough around the edges sometimes, but she's alright." She replied.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

Samus walked over, then looked at Sophia. "Newcomers." She looked back at Caius, depolarising her visor so he could see her face, though frankly the expression was so stoic it made little difference. "I overheard what you told Sophia."

 

[Zepherus14]

"Ya, this is Caius, and Yeul." Sophia said to Samus as she pointed out the two. "They're that whooshing sound I heard a bit before Dave came out here to shoot his blaster thing at that giant chicken."

"What did he say earlier..?" Sophia asked, not quite following Samus' train of thought as she looked up to Caius and Samus periodically.

 

[Chungus]

Hearing Sophia stating Samus' name, Caius lightly raised an eyebrow, a little suprised to hear there was an actual person inside the armour. "...I do what I must." He stated, looking back to Sophia's direction, but with his eyes slowly moving around as he avoided directly looking at her for a brief moment, even if he had a small smile on his face. "For clarity's sake, that's indeed what I meant by 'an oath'." He stated, looking directly to her again.

Once Samus neared and spoke, Caius turned towards her, his facial expression having returned one of neutrality. "About my being a guardian to Yeul?" He questioned.

 

[Zepherus14]

"I guess the comment about her being lucky to have you isn't so far off then." Sophia replied with a smile of her own, feeling like she'd struck a good cord with the man to make him smile given his regular body language up to this point. "Maybe when there's some more free time I could get her side of the story too maybe?" Sophia passively commented, realizing a lot of people had flocked over.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

Samus nodded to Caius. "An honourable occupation."

 

[Chungus]

"It is my charge." Caius responded curtly, the corners of his mouth raising a little in a tiny smile again, feleing a little overwhelmed by the praise he was recieving.

Yeul excused herself from her conversation with Gwen, starting to feel a little light-headed from being out under the hot sun. "I would prefer to be in the shade, now." She stated as she moved up to Caius, looking up to him. Caius gave Yeul a small nod, then looked back to Sophia. "I see no issue with that." He stated, then looked back to Samus. "You will have to excuse me." He said curtly, then walked with Yeul towards the ship, it being the nearest source of shade with the military base leveled.

 

[Slenn]

Gwen bowed to excuse her from the conversation.

A sparking sound was heard in front of EMily and Gwen. And out popped a paper note that read:
"Appearing in... 5 seconds. Please stand by." The number appeared to count down on its own on the paper.

An even louder sparking sound was heard and abruptly stopped as a bubble popping sound came. Winona appeared in front of them. Much of her attire was influenced by child-like interests. Her hair was lime green, her bell-shaped lolita dress with puffy sleeves and bow were pine green, and her pillow-like apron was a minty green. If anyone were to guess what her favorite color was, it wouldn't be hard at all. She was modestly short, about 4 inches shorter than EMily and Gwen.

<color=green>"Ummmm.... hello. Figured it would be good time to 'pop' in, so to speak, seeing as how this group is getting new arrivals." The tiny voice sounded.

 

[Zepherus14]

Sophia wasn't apprecating the sun all that much herself, but was at least managing. Yeul however asking to go to the shade instantly made her cave, not wanting to deal with the heat any more than she had to. "Finally someone else that agrees with me on this..." She sighed as she too followed along back to the ship. "You have no idea how happy I am that we're going to head somewhere cooler." She commented to the two of them, holding the rag she had over top of herself like a little umbrella herself.

Sophia stopped her approach to the ship as she heard the pop, turning around to see another maid had appeared. "So that's Winona, huh?" Sophia commented to herself as she looked back to Caius and Yeul, seeing they had already started moving again and quickened her pace to catch up with them.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

Samus looked at Caius and Yeul go, then turned as Winona appeared. "Your little sister?" she asked EMily and Gwen.

 

[Chungus]

Hearing the crackling noise behind him, Caius looked over his shoulder to see what was making the noise, while Yeul stopped and turned around fully. Both saw the piece of paper that had appeared, with Caius noticing it earlier. When the crackling noise intensified, however, the duo grew a little more anxious, Yeul taking a few steps back, and Caius reaching for his sword. Seeing how the other two sisters reacted to the noise, Caius figured there wasn't much cause for alarm, but decided to go by the route of 'better safe then sorry'. When Winona finally popped out, Yeul cocked her head slightly, while Caius blew a mute sigh and lowered his arm.

"You will be taking this vessel to travel, I assume?" Yeul questioned, turning around again and looking up to Sophia, continuing walking towards the ship. Sophia might notice Yeul walked with a limp in her right leg.

 

[Slenn]

She made a bright and cheerful face.
<color=green>"Only in size that is. I beat these two suckers out of the womb by three seconds." She said with glee. The other two snickered and shook their heads.

She always says that to people we meet ever since mom told her that fact.

<color=purple>"I like deserts for their geology but this heat is killer. Let's get back to the ship." And the sisters proceeded onward.

 

[Zepherus14]

"Well, yes." Sophia nodded at the girl, finally noting Yeul seemed more mature than her appearance would give her. Maybe it was just the tone of her voice, but it just seemed a little odd. "Since you are coming with us, you will be too. Do you have flying things where you are from?" Sophia asked, knowing first hand that flying was not exactly the most pleasant of things for a first timer.

It would take her a short time longer to notice that Yeul was limping, just the way that her stride went it looked a little funny. "A-are you hurt?" She asked.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

Samus didn't know how to react to that, so she walked in silently with the others.

 

[Knife-28]

Luckily of Sophia, Doug was too busy cleaning himself to hear her chicken comment. The arrival of EMily and Gwen's sister caught his attention though, if only for the loud arrival and the almost eye watering colour of her attire.

"Damn, when can we expect the rest of the Mighty Morphing Science Rangers to show up." He says as he flies over to the nearest perch possible to the ship.

 

[Chungus]

"Airships do exist, bu--" Yeul began to answer as she walked, stopping a few paces inside the ship, but cut off her sentance after Sophia asked if she was hurt, this also causing Caius to look to Yeul. Yeul turned to look to Sophia, her expression looking a little puzzled. It was only when Yeul saw Sophia looking to her leg until she pieced things together. "No, I am well." She answered, momentarily closing her eyes and shaking her head lightly. "I have had this since birth." She stated in a matter-of-fact-ly way.

Seeing all was fine, Caius followed Yeul into the ship, looking around there.

 

[Slenn]

<color=purple>"I don't even know what that was supposed to reference." She said to Doug flatly.

<color=green>"That one flew right over my head."

 

[Knife-28]

Doug shook his head and went back to cleaning his feathers.

 

[ShindoL Shill]

Caius would see Joel sitting inside the ship, staring at his phone.

 

[Zepherus14]

"Alright, that's better than the alternative I guess. I just wasn't sure appearing here hadn't had something to do with it." She said meekly. "But it's good to hear that you have airships... whatever those are, needless to say I'm still not used to this flying thing." Sophia commented, trying to divert the topic of Yeul's limp to something else for now.