"A clan of legends?"

Clan Shakayi was a fairly sized clan of seven people, each of whom Kayi could identify.

Kayalie was the leader. The love bow hung on her back in the place of her normal, supple bow.

Tifone stood timidly ahead, her Summoner uniform primply fresh and pressed, no matter what condition she had been through. Tifone had been like the mother of the group, and sometimes even to Kayi, always making sure that they had their proper nutrition and changed their clothes everyday. Being a neat-nick, all her equipment was always in pristine condition. her favorite summon was the water dragon-god Levathian, for obvious reasons.

Hopper was grinning madly. The human Thief was looking down at Kayalie, as if considering what he might steal from her. Instinctivly, she held her blade even closer to her.

"Naughty little brat," many adults had called him. Hopper had a nose for trouble- where there was trouble, there was Hopper, and where there was Hopper, there was twice as much trouble. He had been personally responsible for over half of the engagements the Clan Shakayi had fought, mostly concerning Clan Dip and Clan Maple.

A tall human that Kayi reconized as Kain smiled. "Kayi! There you are!" He was probably as old as herself, and Kayi felt herself blush for no apparent reason and her heart beat a little faster. Kain was actually a bangaa/human hybrid, as far as Kayi was concerned. But he was so good with the spearthat his parents changed his name from Torlus, or Sword, to the name of the legendary Dragoon Kain.You couldn't tell that he was human right away- you needed to study his face and his blue-green eyes to see the bangaa blood in him.

Benecie had her hands on her hips. She was what men would have called "sexy" and fought over who got to escort her from point A to point B. The Fencer wore even less than the average viera, as if tying to tempt the enemy to come closer. "Little slut," Morgana had called her.

"Temptress," Carlos had called her, and drooled until Kayi slapped him and Starkin's staff flew through the air a couple of times. Indeed, one of Benecie's pasttimes was flirting with the men and bangaa in the pubs.

"Hiyahiyahiyahiya!" Pedro the Mog Knight called. He waved madly. "Hiyahiyahiyahiya!" Though he was a boy moogle, he wore pompoms and a few ribbons. "It's cute, and you're being sexist," he had told Kayi when she asked why he wore the fluffy hair ornaments. Kayi liked Pedro a lot. He was just as hyper and "immature" as her, but she knew that it was jsut an act, a mask to hide himself under. In battle, he was a true knight.

Lizzo stood, trying to look strong and solemn and failing- it must have been difficult not to laugh. But Kayi saw his hand inch towards the hem of Benecie's skirt. The human Fighter always was a favorite among ladies- he always had something witty to say. Kayi knew many of his secrets, fordespite his attempts to be cool and mysterious, he couldn't help but be bursting with funny, stupid remarks and the such. That was how Kayi learned that he had the biggest crush on Benecie.

Actually, there were seven-and-a-quarter members of Clan Shakayi. The last quarter person spent most of her time unseen and silent, hovering aboveall the worlds, forever smiling and floating freely directly between the Ether and the mudane earth below. She half-appeared now, transparent like a fog, a sweetly smiling viera with the most doll-like, sweetly adorable face you could imagine.

"Hello Irisa," Kayi said. She pitied the viera, who was forever not older than herself for quite a few millenia already. All Kayi knew was that Irisa was a spirit from the beginning of Ivalice and was killed so her body could be used by a necromancer. But her spirit remained, not out of revenge, nor anger or rage. Kayi couldn't imagine the spirit angry or malevolent. But anyways, the spirit was forever between the Ether and the earthen Ivalice,untouchable, almost always unseeable.

Irisa lifted her head in a laugh and disappeared back into the space between Ivalice and the Ether.

"Well, so Kayi, who did you come with again?" Kayalie asked and motioned for the clan to sit down somewhere.

Kayi nodded. She would wait, wait until everyone had emerged from the trees.