Characters: Warriors of Light (FFIII crew)
Progress: Ongoing
Summary: The last one has arrived! THE SET IS COMPLETE
Location: Fossil Roo entrance on the Mist Continent
Date: June 1803
Warnings: Enthusiasm, that should be all
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Not exactly what she expected )
"They're just toads, Refia," he told her, but he stopped his chocobo and chased a few toads into the water so she wouldn't have to look at them until they found what they were looking for. And speaking of what they were looking for, Luneth needed a bit of a reminder. He turned to Arc, the cleverest of the bunch, and began to tote his chocobo again.
"What is it we're looking for again, Arc? A cave, right?"
The grass was very tall, and it looked to get taller.
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He flipped to the appropriate page, checking what he'd written. "Right, yes. There's a cave deeper into the marsh, um, it should be obvious, from what I've read." He paused to glance up at their surroundings and frowned. "...It doesn't seem very obvious."
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Fortunately he had stocked up on rations and curatives before heading out. The Mist spawned many monsters and made visibility very limited, so his adventure hadn't been an easy one. Not that any of the adventures the three had been on proved to be easy.
Thankfully the fights had been less within Fossil Roo, it then became a task of coercing Gargants to take him where he needed to go. Eventually Ingus saw light ahead and, after discovering that he thankfully hadn't been turned around, he breathed a sigh of relief. A little break outside the entrance wouldn't hurt, and if the other three found him before he found them all the better.
Honestly, he was exhausted and just needed to sit for a while. Hopefully without getting attacked by giant man-eating
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The grass was definitely growing above her head, making her basically useless for navigation on foot, so she put her foot back in the stirrup and hoisted herself up to stand on the saddle as a makeshift lookout post, hoping her bird didn't startle easily. "I... think there might be rocks in that direction?" she offered, pointing towards the north and vaguely west. "It's kind of foggy, but it looks darker over there."
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Arc was right, though, the grass seemed to occlude anything "obvious", and when Refia had indicated that she'd seen something in another direction, he came beside his chocobo and up on his toes to see over the grass.
"I say let's go! If Ingus is there, we shouldn't keep him waiting."
He hoisted himself back up onto the chocobo's saddle, and gently snapped the reins to accelerate his feathery steed. Ahead of them, he called back.
"Come on, you guys!"
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That was much better.
From the elevated position, he could see the outcropping of rock that Refia must have been referring to. He urged his chocobo to follow Luneth's, and the three of them were off, hopefully to reunite with their friend.
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Chocobos! And some familiar figures riding them, excellent! His friends had very good timing. The Jump should give them a good idea as to where he was as well.
He landed and waited for them to come to him, no sense trudging through the grass to get himself trampled on accident after all.
That and he was still pretty tired.
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And Refia flicked her chocobo's reins to speed it up, weaving around the grass and dodging a strange little hut at some point before coming - finally - up to the rocky outcropping, with Ingus waiting on the ground before it. And it was probably no surprise what happened next: she tossed the reins over her chocobo's head, ground tied it, and then ran the last ten feet to the dragoon to grab him in a hug, armor and all. "Ingus!"
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He hopped from his chocobo, but waited for Arc. He wanted the very last group hug mauling process to be a great group thing; maybe with their combined force, they could knock down the fierce dragoon knight that Ingus had become on his arrival. He even made it a point to go at him extra hard.
"Come on, Arc! It's Ingus!!"
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He didn't really want to rush Ingus and knock him down. He'd been on the receiving end of that already, and it was slightly unpleasant. But Luneth's urging was inarguable, and so Ingus got rushed, if a bit reluctantly.
Either way, it was nice to have all of his fellow Warriors of Light together again, after having been here by himself for so long.
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So all Ingus managed to do was look mildly surprised and slightly brace himself for impact before he was indeed flattened by the three Warriors of Light. This was far from dignified. Ingus tried his best to scowl and look annoyed but it really didn't come off as sincere, and a small laugh did escape him.
"Are broken ribs a new form of greeting?" He asked quietly, in a rare joke. Evidence enough that he was quite glad to see them.
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Refia didn't do too much better, though, considering she got squished between one set of armor and two red mages, and her initial laugh as she barreled into the dragoon was cut off as all of the breath was forced out of her body. It took a second to get it back enough to go "L-Luneth! I can't breathe!" and start pushing at him. She didn't want to be even smaller!
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Again he offered Refia and Arc his hands to help them up, Ingus able to get up on his own, and knowingly would deny Luneth's hand anyhow. Ingus was chilvaric and self-sufficient like that, or so he had always thought.
"Hehe, hi Ingus," he greeted the mostly flattened knight, "I always thought you looked good as a Dragoon!"
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That taken care of, he smiled up at his friends and said, "Oh, yes, that's fortunate! Things might get rough if we had a party solely of mages. But, ah, that aside - It's very good to see you, Ingus."
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Thankfully the others weren't too far off. He cast a concerned glance over all of them. "You are all well, I trust?" Recently being smushed not withstanding. Noting that they were indeed, all mages of some type he was glad that he'd found himself in the armor of a Dragoon. Someone had to be able to take the hits should they find themselves in a situation where that were necessary.
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"You haven't been taking care of yourself again, have you?" You should be familiar with this look, Ingus. It is not a pleased look, and clearly you're going to have to come under her personal supervision until you can take care of yourself better. "You're too thin! And your armor is all banged up, I thought I taught you better than that!" Her eyes narrow and look carefully up and down - also not a comforting look.
"...You didn't bring enough supplies, did you!" It's not really a question. "You didn't think to ask how long this tunnel was and how many days you'd need to consider when you bought your food. Oh Ingus." Sigh. "You're absolutely hopeless."
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