KNIGHT TIME. hurr [ closed ]

[saeptuose]

Who: Lioriley and her knights.
What: MEETING TIMES.
Where: Outside Lior's new place of solace. Aka; a fucking badass forest.
When: Day
Warnings: SWEARING. cause Ichigo and Shiro and Kanji will be there.
Notes: SWITCH TO FIRST PERSON BRACKETS IF YOU WANT. IDGAF. also go crazy kthnx

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[daienkai]

In the distance, not too far but just far enough for it not to be indistinct was an orange glow that seemed to float in the air, much like the little balls of light that floated about. In actual fact though, the orange glow was the left hand of Portgas D. Ace, transformed into flame so he could actually see where the hell he was going.

As he made his way through to wherever Lior was, one of the little fairy things landed on his hat and he smiled, greeted it (someone had to be polite at all times) and let it ride around, making sure to keep his hand away. Didn't want to singe the poor little thing.

At the voices, he approached, ready to call out a greeting as he ducked beneath a branch, his other hand steadying his hat with the fairy. If he strained his ears, he was sure he heard whispering but it was hard to make out the words over the sound of his feet and his breathing. When he caught sight of the others in the forest, he stopped and waited, hand held out far enough to make them more easily seen.

"What're you doing?"

It looked like pouncing and the thing chilling on his hat wasn't happy about it.

[daww_punk]

Kanji's entrance is much less... well, it was a lot louder than the others, even with Shiro yelling about fairies (and Kanji had to remind himself that, considering the forest, Shiro was probably talking about the magical creature). Never exactly the picture of grace any other time, when matched with a dark forest and his shield, the teen was more or less crashing through the underbrush like a bull elephant.

On the bright side, he hadn't fallen flat on his face yet.

Waving once he caught sight of the others, though he wasn't sure if they could see him or not, Kanji (wisely) decided to ignore the potential food shenanigans in favor of going to stand by Lior and getting some leaves out of his hair. "Not even gonna ask..."

[saeptuose]

Lior had heard them coming long before they actually arrived, but still was fiddling around with her PORTAL, or idly chatting with the Fae that had come flittering over to her. In fact she was rather engaged in conversation with one when Ichigo finally showed up, and casually excused herself so she could stand up and promptly go over to him. Luckily, while the forest was dark, she herself was pretty damn near bright enough to illuminate most things around her, and the fae were doing quite a good job as well.

She hadn't been entirely sure if Ichigo was going to show up, but she was glad that he had even after their little spat a week or so prior. She smiled, raising her hand up to give a light wave and then finally moving to hug him. Afterward she sat back down on one of the nearby rocks, propping her chin in her hands, "I'm glad you came, Ichigo. I wanted to say sorry for getting so upset before. I know you weren't feeling well." Hopefully that would suffice.

She opened her mouth to say something else, but was interrupted when Shiro blurted out something about the Faeries. She just laughed, assuming he was just amused by it instead of wanting to eat the poor thing. So she didn't notice him looking ready to pounce just yet, and was even more preoccupied because Ace had shown up right after. She got up again to hug him and by the time she was sitting her happy ass down, Kanji had come barreling through like a rhino.

"Looks like everyone is here!" she grinned, "I'm glad you all came. I wanted all my knights to finally meet each other--" she trailed off a bit. Guess who just noticed Shiro.

[savior_n_black]

That hugging thing never ceases to catch Ichigo off guard. He almost stumbled back a step when Lior through her arms around him, but it coaxed an honest smile nevertheless. Ruffling Lior's hair a little, he casually thwaps Shiro upside the head, not even looking. At least Lior's glowy lights up the area around her enough for him to see Shiro stalking after some of those lights.

"Uh, heh. No, I was a dick. Don't worry about it."

And hopefully that would be the end of it.

"Don't mess with her stuff, man. This isn't your place, and you can't just go around scaring the...uh, whatever-they-are."
They seemed to be alive in a weird way, but since Ichigo's only experience with faeries is Inoue's Shun Shun Rikka, he's not entirely sure what these glowy little bug-critters are.

...Wait, what? Lior just said something about bringing her collection of "Knights" together, didn't she?

[holeheart]

Meanwhile, Shiro had pounced on and missed about three of the little things, but finally manages to get one.

And was putting it in his mouth.

But then Lior and Ichigo were staring at him, and the little bug was rattling around angrily inside his mouth, illuminating it from the inside out.

"Mrrmm-mpph?"

Shiro looks like he;s just going to swallow the thing, but then he makes the mistake of biting down ever so slightly. Fae are VERY BITTER, who knew? So he then he spits the poor thing out, covered in Hollow slobber. The poor fae is still alive, somehow, and is currently chewing Shiro out in its own unique little way. Meanwhile, the Hollow is spitting. "Bleugh!! They taste terrible!!"

[daienkai]

Ace had known he'd recognised the voice of one of the strangers from his PORTAL conversation but this was Lior's meeting and he seemed less angry with the world in general so he let it slide and instead watched with a weird sort of detached fascination as the other guy ate one of the things. He'd like to say he was surprised but really, Luffy might have tried that too. The fae that had hitched a ride in Ace's hat flew off to help the one that had almost become a meal.

"That's why you don't eat weird things," Ace said sagely and with the air of someone who had said that sort of shit a million times before he was even a teenager. Luffy raising prepared you for pretty much ever possible eventuality.

"Hey Kanji," Ace grinned because the meeting on the beach that one time had been fun. And yes, because Lior had hugged them all, Kanji was about to have a sexy half naked pirate hugging him. Roll with it.

Oh and while Ace was busy doing the hug thing, something started nibbling on his hat. Seeing as there were four virgins in this forest, it was pretty easy to guess what was nibbling away at his accessories. The horn was probably a giveaway.

[daww_punk]

"I think most things that glow usually taste terrible." Not that he's ever eaten anything that glows, other than accidentally ingesting some glow-in-the-dark paint during arts and crafts time, but still. That shit could be radioactive.

Returning Ace's hug, albeit a bit awkwardly, Kanji laughs a bit nervously. "Hey--"

And then came the most beautiful thing Kanji had ever seen. It was so beautiful Kanji was forgetting to be awkward about Ace hugging him.

It was, in fact, a unicorn.

"Dude! Dude, you guys, everyone shut up! There's a unicorn!" Now he's letting go of Ace, but only because he's utterly enthralled by the unicorn and offering his hand for it to sniff.

[saeptuose]

That was indeed the end of it. So long as Ichigo was all right she didn't really care. Everyone had their moments, and he wasn't being a dick at the moment so whatever.

Now she was a bit preoccupied with Shiro, and there was a mild look of horror on her face when he captured one of the poor little Fae in his mouth, "S-Shiro! Don't eat them!" good lord what was he, five? She visibly winced when he bit down and then spit the creature out, going over to see if it was all right along with the one that had been sititng on Ace's hat. Needless to say the little fae weren't very happy about this whole ordeal. And a few other ones were probably going to be buzzing around Shiro's head and chattering angrily at him.

Once that was settled, she sighed, glancing over just in time to see Ace and Kanji hugging. Yes. Bonding was amazing, and she was happy about this--though Ichigo and Shiro should have totally gotten in on that. Too bad they wouldn't, and too bad the hug was interrupted by another inhabitant of the forest coming by the chew on Ace's hat.

She stood up again, standing beside Ichigo for the moment with her hands on her hips. Honestly, it was as if Kanji had never seen a unicorn before or something. His reaction was probably one of the best things she had ever seen though, and it had her giggling, "You don't have to yell." well, so much for trying to introduce them all right now. Not that it couldn't wait while they uh...admired the unicorn. To which said creature ceased chewing on Ace's hat for the moment and then bumped its nose against Kanji's hand.

[savior_n_black]

Actually, Ichigo is seriously wondering if Kanji was secretly a girl right about now. The guy sews as a hobby, and flips his shit over unicorns. I mean, granted seeing a real live unicorn is weird, and warrants a moment of consideration, but come on. Surely he's not the only one that's seeing the girly-ness here, right?
Oh, yeah, and slapping Shiro in the back of the head again, too. This time actually watching what he's doing so he'll connect. Stupid hollow.

"Uh...so does anything else live out here, Lior?"

Because if she says something like magical rainbow kittens, or fluffy talking bunnies, Ichigo is so out of here. Too weird for him.

[holeheart]

Shiro growls and bats at the angry fae, snapping his jaws at them, "Ok, ok, I'm sorry! Geez! Buzz off, you little bugs!!" Swat swat! But the fae are too fast for him, and Shiro's heart isn't really in it.

He huffs and then watches Kanji.

And the unicorn.

SO he articulates what Ichigo is thinking.

"Jesus Christ, Kanji, are you a fucking woman? Hugging and sqealing over a unico-- HEY! Ow!" He smacks Ichigo back, "Don't hit me! Go hit Kanji! He's the one ga-ga'ing over a damn horse!"

He folds his arms, "This place is sparkly. ... Anyway, I know Kanji. Who are you, hat-boy?" He tilts his head towards Ace.

[daienkai]

So when the unicorn dipped its head forward, it was a damn good thing Ace was a logia because the horn? Right through him but the animal didn't seem to mind and he carefully moved away from it because right now, he was still a touch sensitive to having things go through his body and a phantom pang shot through his chest. He lifted his hat off once he was free of the unicorn, checking to see if it was damaged but outside of a little dent and some slobber, it seemed fine and he put it back on his head.

He had been going to haul the two others into a hug because knights meant nakama and you could always hug your nakama but after the white-haired guy spoke, nope.

"Oi, there's no need to talk like that. You're the one that tried to eat a fairy and there's nothing wrong with liking unicorns." Ace folded his arms and scowled because yeah, wow, no need to be so damn rude about things, especially if they were all meant to be knights together. "But the name's Ace, Portgas D. Ace. You?"

[daww_punk]

The unicorn dipping its head to sniff his hand was, in Kanji's mind, a cue for Kanji to wrap his arms around its neck and hug it. Sorry, Ace, but your fellow knight didn't even notice you were impaled for a moment there.

He was just fine with being ignored while he and the unicorn bonded (clearly that was what was happening), but being called a woman? That stepped on some buttons Kanji had been trying to work out for the past year back home, and without Souji there to calm him down, well...

"Hey! Take that back! I'm not a fucking woman!" Not that there was anything wrong with being one, but he was a man. M-A-N. A true man, even, because he was himself and did everything to the best of his ability, 100%.

[saeptuose]

"Chimeras," She said in response to Ichigo's question. They're very dangerous, but I should be able to hear them before they're even remotely close to us, so there's nothing to worry about." That and the Fae that were still around would tell them -- well, they would tell her if they saw anything.

She rolled her eyes. Honestly, she was kind of insulted that Shiro was so damn disrespectful while in her place of solace, but then again...she wasn't surprised because, duh, it was Shiro. That comment was pretty uncalled for though because she knew what would happen next.

Kanji would yell.

Yup, called it. Why couldn't she just have a meeting with her knights without something stupid happening? That would be like asking the world to stop being round or something. Either way, she just fell silent for the time being, folding her arms over her chest and glancing away from the rest of them.

Eventually, once whatever yelling that had been happening subsided long enough for her to be heard, she spoke, "You shouldn't hitting each other anyway, first of all. Second, I brought you all here so all of my knights could meet and get to know each other, but everyone is just being rude." which upset her, if that wasn't blatantly obvious now, "If Kanji wants to hug the unicorn then he can. It's not like he's ever seen one before, and that doesn't make him a woman. And stop yelling." she shot both Shiro and Kanji a look before sighing and leaning back against the tree again. Stupid boys.

"Can we please just get along?"

[savior_n_black]

Ichigo, on the other hand, saw Ace getting impaled by that horn, and was about to say something when Lior started fussing at everyone. Instead, he's caught with a stupid look on his face, and pointing at Ace while the guy checked his hat.

"Did...did that really just happen? Seriously, who else saw that!?"

And since he'd already smacked Shiro for being an idiot, Ichigo is much more concerned with what Ace is exactly. Oh, it wouldn't matter much, as long as Ace was a decent person, but unicorns, faeries, and now apparently invulnerable pirates are all weird things Ichigo's never seen before.

[holeheart]

"... What the... what the hell?"

Shiro approaches Ace, completely ignoring both Lior and Kanji and his damn horse, and eyeballing the pirate suspiciously. He would have to apologize to Lior later. For now, this was more important. Much more important.

"What are you, Ace?" He tilts his head. The guy certainly did have a strange aura about him. What was it...

[cardcrush]

... He usually never arrived late. Being punctual was just a part of him. But an errand here, a delivery there had lead him all over the city, and his reward wasn't even an s-link. To be honest, he just wanted to go relax in the Velvet room. Converse with his soul. Try to piece together objects of the mystery, and...

... then he remembered what Lior asked of him, and he had to head over.

Just a little bit late, and almost entirely confused.