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Who: Fox, Ray, Auria, Roxas, Kairi
What: Fox has accepted a Hunt for a White Mousse, but with her lack of offensive magic, she thought it best to ask for help.
Where: The poster reported the quarry hanging around the Crystal Fissure. The crew meets at the bailey.
When: Noonish Saturday
Status: Ongoing

Fox leaned on a wall in the bailey, checking her equipment for the umpteenth time. She wasn't sure if she should bother with the incendiary arrows she'd been playing around with or not, though she'd brought them anyway. They might not be useful against the Mark, but there were other monsters around. Case in point, just on her way to the bailey, she'd fought a friggin' Bandcoeurl. It had escaped... but not before she'd cut a whisker off. She had two options with that: tease Roxas with it since Coeurls seemed to unsettle him and possibly have the loot destroyed, or keep it and find out how much it would sell for. Supposedly, Coeurl whiskers had magic properties.

She was early and she was the one who'd set the time. Which really wasn't that odd. She was generally on time when the departure time was under her control. So... with nothing better to do but wait and keep checking over her stuff... she waited and checked over her stuff.

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Roxas didn't know, and didn't really care either, whether he was late, early or on time, though it seemed fairly easy to rule out late given that Fox was still there and was the only one there. He assumed the seemingly brain dead Refugee had chosen not to meet up early in the morning because she didn't usually wake up that early. He would either if he had a choice, but sometimes it could be helped.

Aerith had let out a resigned sigh when it was mentioned that Ray and Auria were going to be involved in this Hunt. He dared not ask. Not that he needed to since he did know what had happened the last time the two were involved and he considered lecturing Fox about accepting their help, since she had also been there for the Behemoth fiasco. He decided not to. Though there were going to be three people with healing abilities, only two were really skilled with it, meaning they might end up having to watch each other's backs as much they did the others.

He also wasn't sure how he felt about Kairi being involved in this. He knew what Sora would have to say about it, but... well, that was another concern. What was taking them so long to retrieve that ship? Maybe that was a stupid question. There were some parts missing...

His musing were interrupted when Fox greeted him with 'Yo' and a wave and then went back to inspecting her sword. He noticed she had her bow too, but didn't ask after the weird smell coming from the quiver. She had mentioned incendiary arrows that didn't use magic. He assumed she had looked into ways of putting enough flammable substance on an arrow to keep it alight without weighing it down. Either way, this might get interesting.

Ray arrived a little later, grinning in anticipation. She always loved a good fight, and she hadn't had one in a while. She'd missed it. That was the reason she'd volunteered so readily; with the Heartless gone, it was like there was nothing to do but homework anymore, and that was boring. She'd actually been a little happy when the monsters had started showing up. It put her in a good mood now, feeling the weight of the nunchaku and grenades as she walked.

"Hey guys!" Ray called cheerfully as she reached the bailey, pausing to stretch a little. "'Bout time something interesting happened around here, ain't it~?"

Fox heard both of them approach, offered a 'Yo' to both finally decided she'd spent enough time inspecting her weapons. She moved on the making sure her armor was right while waiting for everyone else... actually, they were only waiting for two more people. But they weren't going anywhere until those two showed up.

"Define interesting," she said after a few moments, "I have a funny feeling that the video game wasn't exaggerating how tough this thing is... if it is of the type found in Ivalice. The client said the picture matched when I showed him the Wiki image, but... for all we know Final Fantasy 12 was just the one that got the monster appearances right."

It was early, but the crisp air of the bailey reminded Auria of the home she had just left. She loved the sharp cold filling her nose. This air was more humid, and didn't have the scent of trees in it, but it woke her up and got her brain working.

Back home, she had kept her hammer leaning against her bed. Occasionally as she tossed and turned in her sleep, it would fall over, but its presence had comforted her. Now she took a few practice swings. She settled into the weight easily, all of her training coming back to her. It really was like riding a bike.

As Auria approached, she noticed Ray had already arrived. So, feeling the need to tease her, she cheerfully called out, "Hey Ray! You pull a Leeroy Jenkins this time around and I'll kill you!"

She turned, grinning. "I wouldn't dream of it," she assured Auria, throwing a small spark at her. Leaning against the wall, the pulled out a nunchaku and started spinning it absently. "So where's Kairi? We're not getting anywhere just standing around waiting."

"I'm sure she'll be here," Auria replied, making conversation. "Kairi's not someone to keep people waiting. How martially advanced is she, anyway?"

"I'm not really sure," Roxas said, thinking, "I know she was learning to use a sword, but I have know idea what kind of progress she was making... if any."

Personally, he didn't really think she should be coming along on this. The few monsters actually going into town were no big deal, but all reports indicated that stronger monsters hung around just about everywhere else.

"A sword? So she didn't get her Keyblade?"

"I have it" A voice said directly behind Auria. "I just tend to be more comfortable with my short sword."

Kairi gave a little wave after moving aside from behind. "I'm sorry I'm late. I got a little caught up on something I was working on."

She glanced at Roxas then, frowning for a moment. "There was a reason we were constantly fighting with those wooden swords Roxas."

Auria raised her eyebrows in interest but didn't reply to Kairi. Instead she turned to Fox and said, "So here we go?"

"Bah, he's just being a brat," Fox replied. Then to everyone, "Ok, I think we need a plan. Getting there might not be too tough, but if my information on this monster is right, it's going to be a rough fight. I'm going to reserve my magic for Healing. It may or may not have other Flan varieties around it. The client did say there were a few tagging along with it. Anyway... Any other ideas?"

This was really going to be interesting. If there were more Flans around the Mark, the only one who was really going to be able to deal with them was Roxas, as he was the only one with a wide enough range of spells to account for different elemental weaknesses. It was a little more likely that there would jut be a variety of monsters generally, but Flans were a bigger concern.

"Well, my only spell is Reflect, which covers me and pretty much no one else," Auria admitted. "So I'm better off just beating shit up."

"So, we can just let the one with the effective magic take care of the monsters weak to magic. To be honest, if this Mark is really that bad, we should probably conserve our magic as much as we can anyway."

He pointedly didn't mention that he thought that maybe they should have considered their abilities before agreeing to this Hunt. He and Ray were the only ones with sufficient attack magic and Fox at least could serve as healer. If the information on the monster was right, the damned thing absorbed the same element is could cast, so Reflect could actually heal it. Kairi could help with the healing a little and he supposed she ought to be able to stand her ground, but Roxas had one thought on her presence here and one thought alone: 'Shit, if something happens to her, Sora and Riku are going to kill me!'