Nightshift 24: Cafeteria

[dancingdagger]

[from here]The chaos from the Sun Room slowly faded into the background as Larsa dragged Penelo into the Cafeteria. While this was a wise choice, Penelo couldn't believe it. They had left Protoman and Gabranth behind

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[usoppsenchou]

Chaos? That was funny, he sure looked like a human. But Usopp was willing to give his cool companion the benefit of the doubt--especially after that 'twenty seven who guard the realm' comment. It was probably some honorary title... and it'd still explain why the guy seemed so keen on asking if Usopp was chaotic.

Which he was, of course. Chaotic like crazy.

"Yeah, I thought we could leave them in my room." Unlike Zoro, Usopp had a pretty strong sense of direction, and was fairly sure he could find his way back to the room... although it meant tiptoeing through the Sun Room again, now that he thought of it.

"Uh... although we might wanna peek through the doors and sneak around that fight if it's still going on. I had enough of that crazy vine guy the first time." He hesitated... there were still those busted doors to the side... it looked as though they led outside, but Usopp didn't trust his luck enough to think it'd be a clean way out with no nasty walls... or monsters... or maybe wall-monsters in the way. "Or we could try walking a different route. I don't know how easy it'd be to get back to my room from there, though, and it'll be hard for me to fight off any more terrible beasts like this."

He could always set the baskets down to the side and fight with his frying pans... but he didn't trust Terrible Beasts to be nice and polite and wait for him to finish getting ready for battle. If he dropped his baskets and something in them broke, after all that effort..!

[face_of_chaos]

It seemed to be a logical place to store Usopp’s spoils to be stashed. The matter of fact though was that creature his companion spoke of, the one he’d witnessed in the other room before taking his leave into the cafeteria. He doubted that there would be enough attention given to cause a panic, and yet the desire to cause disorder remained strong inside of him.

Glancing back towards his companion, Yuber’s mismatched gaze trailed over Usopp’s figure, and it was in that moment that the knight had made his decision. Granted the battle which could occur in the Sun Room would be refreshing, he had allied himself with this human for now, and to some extent, Yuber would respect their decisions. Besides after Usopp’s burden was lifted, there was still the opportunity to seek out more Chaos.

“Then we shall attempt a different route.” The knight eventually replied with, as his hand lifted up to point towards the doors leading to the courtyard.

[usoppsenchou]

"That sounds good!" Usopp nodded his head with manly firmness. "After all, the pirate in me can't stand being indoors for too long at a time anyhow!" Especially not when indoors was so dang creepy. And there was a chance he'd find a route of escape outdoors--a low chance, but Usopp'd leave his ally behind to wreak chaos as he liked alone if it meant Usopp got to find his crewmates again.

Sauntering over towards the doors, he carefully stepped out, taking a deep breath of the nice, fresh air. Along with the scent of--what was that?

[heading like a complete moron over to this]

[face_of_chaos]

Following after Usopp, Yuber found his attentions straying over towards the doors leading to the outside. There was a feeling deep inside of the knight, one which caused Yuber’s brows to crease in thought as he attempted to put a name to the rare feeling.

There was certainly something on the air, something Chaotic lurking about, but it left Yuber wondering if it was a reaction to the apparent danger in the Sun Room, or if there was something else they had yet to run into? Either way though, Yuber said nothing as he trailed behind Usopp, and instead found himself curious to know exactly what it was that was causing his guard to rise.

(( Following over to here XD))

[usoppsenchou]

[coming from here]

"Lemme lead. I'll handle this. I fought him before! He won't dare face me again." Usopp declared, having lost his stutter quite a bit the further he got from the Courtyard door. "Just follow me and don't worry."

[going to Sunroom]

[face_of_chaos]

(( re-entering from here))

There was a small moment of curiosity which flared up at Usopp’s sudden bout into bravery, Yuber noted as he calmly walked back into the cafeteria. From what little he did witness from the previous fight, that particular creature had been up against a number of opponents. He had witnessed many times how creatures had been overwhelmed in battle due to such circumstances.

He didn’t say anything in response though, and instead followed along silently behind his companion.

(( Moving on through here))