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A/N: I've may have made Major changes to with respect to the games that is based on but more importantly the new female anti-hero character that will replace Roland for this story (and a direct rival to Itsuki Aoi).
Tomorrow Tokyo(21)
Cafe Shady Blues
{Play Streets of Rage 2 (Mega Drive/Genesis) OST - In the Bar}
Inside this find blue neon establishment; business is booming and the sounds of people chatted filled the air as the jazzy house music plays in the background.
Four Mirage Caspers Waiters filled out the orders from the Human costumers (and some friendly Mirage & Demons alike).
The Bar-Keep is a Tall Extremely Slender Sheep-Man with a big balloon like Head, wearing a dress suit with a tie and a gray vest, happen to be cleaning an empty glass cup— His sheep eyes darted to his left at the attractive Tan Haired woman who sat on her stool, drinking her wine.
Her lips curled into a coy smile after she was done drinking her liker and that made the Sheep's spine shiver—
"Oh Bartender~ Another Round if you please?"
The Sheep Bartender sighed, while he approached the Merc Woman in question and refilled her wine Glass— He politely coughed in one hand.
"I believe it's your last round, Boss."
Moza made a soft chuckle, "Noted." She wore a pink strapless nightdress with red jewel earrings and pink gloves that reached her elbows. Maxwell & the Archangels just Promoted her to Marshal and thanks to the money she earn Moza was able to open up her own Cafe. At first she was surprised that they would promote her but then again she was always been a good girl even though she had worked with the Phantom Thieves in the past.
"Gosh~! Its been five years and I still haven't even age a day!" Moza exclaimed as she got up from her seat.
The Sheep Bartender didn't know how to answer that, its true that Human in this world (Well in Tokyo21 at lest) have not aged since Emblia's invasion, thanks part to Lord Cronos and Lady Tiki and among other things.
"Man! Today's that day, Kiria-Chan and Ellie-Chan should arrived at the border at by now!" Moza clamps her hands together in delight- she cheeked her phone to see the time.
"Oh my I should probably get going!" With that Moza rushed off, not before telling the Bar-Keep, "Hold the fort for me~"
The Bartender waved at her as she leves then sighed after she was gone, "Why can't I find a better job...?"
Tomorrow Tokyo(21)
{Switch to Final Fantasy 13-2 OST - Disc Three - 18 - The City Of Academia}
The Mirage Master Valkyries guided Itsuki & company through the bridge to the boarder entrance. Yuffie, leader of the Mirage Master Valkyries, had signaled the Mirage White Knight and the Archangels to step aside which they compiled without question.
Aoi Itsuki looked up and blinked at the perfect blue sky with clouds as if when they preceded through the boarder the ruined Dyson city above their heads had faded in the background of the atmosphere.
"Kinda freaky but cool isn't buddy?" Touma whispered.
Itsulki nodded simply to Touma all he had in his mind is to see Tiki again. He forgot how long its been but he was determined to find her no matter what.
"Meh, not impressed in the slightest..." Takana (aka Tiki=Waifu) said.
Touma scratch the back of his head, "You know were kind on a whole different world you know without any clue to how we can get back."
Eleonora huffed at, "This technically this is our world just messed up at the moment-!"
"Are you sure about that? Because If I recall correctly we all went inside a door with a Time-clock Motif," Touma shrugged.
The short haired blond Actress rolled her eyes, "Well yeah, but you have to remember' what that little ghost girl said to us-"
"Um, could you guys not talk about it? Its... too depressing," Mamori said sadly. Eleonora flinched, "I-I'm sorry Mamori-Chan."
The younger girl nodded, "Its okay Elille-san I just hope Tiki-Chan is alright and also maybe theirs a way we can fix all this."
"Right, next stop Tiki new place!" Touma exclaimed in encouragement.
"Your hopeless," Eleonora muttered at Touma, her Pyro Jack snickered at him.
"What did I say?" Touma said confused.
"I wouldn't worry much about it guys; it didn't turn out as bad as Tiki had thought!" Valkyrie Asami chirped.
Touma, Mamori and Eleonora reacted in shock at Asami's reassurance.
Yuffie shoot a glare at her friend, "Asami that's for Tiki to explain!"
"My bad!"
"Hmmm," Kiria Kurono hummed as she listen to the conversation, she stopped to looked back at the bridge for a brief moment before catching up.
"Hey, Kiria-San, is something wrong?" Oribe Tsubasa asked.
"I wonder if we ever run into Raidou and his partner again?" Kiria mused, had other things in her mind but she rather not talk about it.
"I-I'm sure he'll find his friend," Tsubasa smiled.
Mermaid flout hovered close to Tsubasa's side, her ruby eyes staring at the human girl's ample cleavage with a playful seductive look.
Tsubasa darted her eyes at her Demon Ally, "W-What?"
Mermaid place her right finger on her chin, "You look tired after that fight with that blue haired dastardly women," She lied, "May I suggested a hot spings? I can give you the best massage!" She winked.
"The best massage...?" Tsubasa caught Mermaid staring down her chest, "Nice try you pervert!" face was red as she covered her self with the borrowed suit jacket she was wearing, "Ugh, why did I put on this strapless gown in the first place..."
"Because you wanted to impress Aoi Itsuki," Yashiro stated.
"Shut up! Not true, I just wanted to dance with him that's all!" Tsubasa said indignation. Mermaid giggled at Tsubasa's reaction as she disappeared then reappeared from her Human Master's behind, jumping on her back.
Tsubasa squirms when the Mermaid Demon wrap her arms above her shoulders, and kissed her on the right cheek. Which made Tsubasa flinch.
"By putting on a beautiful attractive white dress that hugged all your right areas for him to ravel in, eh, Tsubasa-Chan?" Mermaid winked.
The raven haired Idol girl squinted, "T-That's because I have too, since I am a Idol after all! Get off of me or I'll kick your tail fin!" just then Tsubasa remembered other reason why she put on that dress; it was hand picked by Maiko and was approved by industry excacs. She honestly think it looked great on her but the fact that she stormed through the Idolaspear without putting on her casual attires made her cringe. She feels like she sticks out like a sore thumb in this dress, like she belongs in a film role.
"Well I think you look fabulous~!" Mermaid let go of her back, flouting close to Tsubasa's side once more.
"Gee thanks..." Tsubasa shot a glare at Mermaid while she rubbed her right cheek. Kiria suppressed a giggled at Tsubasa & Mermaid's interaction while Yashiro decided to not pay no mind.
"Whelp, were here!" Valkyrie Yuffie exclaimed.
They were met with an awe-inspiring sight causing Itsuki Aoi and friends to gasped in astonishment. The last time they were in Tokyo its was a special day for Tiki everyone from the fandom and the industry peeps came to celebrate her birthday, now the whole city has be transformed into a technological marvel with slick beautiful skyscrapers, holographic Billboards and several flying mini blimps that pass by. On the streets has been bristling with Humans and Mirage going about their daily lives.
"Welcome to Tomorrow Tokyo," Valkyrie Asami said.
"Holy crap this did we just went 1000's years into the future or something?" Eleonora blurted.
"Nope, I think this is the Hee-Hoo present," Pyro Jack cheeked his watch- but then he relaze that he didn't have a watch- better to play it cool for his Eleonora-Sama and act like he knows the time.
"Time has been skewed resulting in two versions of Tokyo so it dosen't really matter at this point," Yashiro said. Pyro Jack pouted at him.
"Well that makes since," Eleonora shrugged.
"This City looks sooo amazing! This is like in one of those films," Tsubasa exclaimed. Mirage Ceada appeared beside Tsubasa, "Hmmm I don't sense Tiki anywhere in the City."
"That's because Lady Tiki is presents in the Sky Realm, she cannot leave there with out alerting Veronica's Forces," Yuffie said sadly.
"Tiki?" Itsuki's eyes widen, he turned his attention to the Valkyrie leader, "Do you know where we can get to the Sky Realms?"
{Switch to Jazzy NYC 99 Sunset Remix} (A/N: You can find it on YouTube)
Yuffie was about to answer his question-
"Why hello, hello~!" A loud Woman's voice broke. Itsuki, Yuffie and the rest of the groups attention a woman that walked out of an armored van.
Itsuki insistently recognize her right away as the woman walked up, his mind flashed to the dream he had before.
"Leaving Tokyo21? So soon guys?" said a woman in a taunt tone. The group became alerted to the familiar voice, its Mirage Master & Mercenary Moza. They all looked up to see a black & purple armored Cybernetic Wyvern; it had four wings the two back wings are diagonal wail the front wings a horizontal and two armored rocket jet engines in the back, It's descended down next to the group of Mirage Masters and Persona users.
The rider of the Cyber Wyvern is an attractive tan-haired woman with fair skin, blue eyes, and in her twenty's she wore a pink strapless night dress as appose to her carnage form. The women known as Moza hopped off her pet and walked up to the kids with the smirk.
The Mirage Masters and Phantom thieves became alerted by the Mercenary's presence.
Itsuki gritted his teeth at the woman. Its that woman in his dream, he has a bad feeling about her already.
Kiria and Eleonora gasped in surprise, "M-Moza-san!?"
The tan-haired woman's face brighten at the site of Kiria and Eleonora, "Kiria-chan, Ellie-chan its been soo long~!" Moza rushed to give her two favorite young ladies a hug.
Kiria felt a little bit awkward, "Its good to see you two Moza-san but what are you doing here?"
"Awe you haven't change one bit the last time I saw you!" The blue eyed Moza pouted.
Kiria scoffed, "Yeah, for like FIVE YEARS-"
Moza laughed, "Okay maybe you have change a bit."
Kiria rolled her eyes, "You haven't answered my question."
"Oh, right! I'm the Marshal!" Moza exclaimed.
"Your the Marshal?"
"That's right dear! Isn't that great? " Moza hugged Kirai one more time, "Being a Merc is one thing but being a Marshal is huge!"
Itsuki was surprise at Kiria and Ellie exchange words with Moza, "I take it that you know each other," He cough in one hand.
Moza let go of her embrace as Kiria nodded, "She's been a good friend over the years when I was just starting out."
"Hey don't forget about me," Eleonora smirked.
"And of course Ellie," Kirai laughed.
"Hmmm," Touma pondered for a moment, "Wait a minute! Your Moza Yuze? The same Golden Playhouse Gravure Idol awhile back."
"Moza Yuzu? Golden Playhouse...?" Tsubasa wondered aloud then gasped, "Your the Nights-Owl Succubus!"
"That's right!" Moza said cheerfully.
"Now that I think about it - yea we heard a lot about you from Maiko-san. She said that your a Mirage Master like us," Mamori smiled, "Oh how rude of me! My names Mamori Minamoto. Its nice to meet you!" the young girl bowed.
Anyone in the group made their introduction to the newcomer except for Kiria, Ellie, Yashiro, Yuffie, Asami and Willow, since they knew her before. Yashiro however remain silent during the whole thing and Moza hadn't greeted him yet, a fact the Itsuki took note.
Moza lead to their destination to where Maiko and Barry is at in the futuristic city. Itsuki distracted from his train of thought quikly catch up to the group he then saw Eleonora's Pyro Jack fly up to his side.
"Pssstt...! Keep an eye on that woman, hee-hoo!" Pyro Jack whispered to Itsuki.
Itsuki blinked in surprise, "Um, why?"
"Because I don't hee-hoo trust her," The pumpkin head demon said bluntly, "And since you are Eleonora-Sama's leader its your job to protect her."
"Why don't to just tell Ellie?"
"I-I can't break it to our sweet dear mistress!" Pyro Jack stammered, "Just keep an sharp eye on that Marshal lady hoo!"
Itsuki simply nodded to the demon. Pyro Jack sighed in relief then returned back to Eleonora's side and chatted with her. He clenched his fist, "Tiki... what ever you are... we'll find you. I promise."
{Switch to Persona 5 OST - Whats Going On}
Inside the House of Naga in Valm.
Justine smiled at the group, "Long time no see. Sorry that I'm late, I was just finish with my erren!" the girl warden steep forward to the alter of Naga.
"What are you doing here?" Ryuji ask baffled at the Warden Girl casually showing up in this place.
"Our 'other' Master has assigned me to met you guys," Said Justine.
"Other Master?" Yusuke rises his brow.
"I think she talking about Tiki-chan," Futaba pointed out.
Justine walked up to the alter she took a brief look at the statue in front of her for a moment before she turn on her heel to met the gaze of the group and nodded, "Right as always! I see that almost all of you are accounted for."
Akira looked around, before remarked, "We're all here," with a shrug, "Well technically we had a guest in our party..."
Justine giggled, "Oh, so your missing a certain fire breathing girl sad I was hopping I could met with her," she then gasped in surprise, "Oh how rude of me I hope Mrs. Nah is all right."
"We were actually going to head on out to look for her," Akira said, surprised that Justine knows about the dragon girl already.
"Hold on! You know about Nah?" Makoto ask stunned.
"We tend to know everything," Justine smiled, "The Dragon Blood fought along side the 'Voice of Naga' not the mention the many adventures they had before... I was hoping I can talk to her since I got sooo many questions to ask Mrs. Nah about."
"True Nah dose seem to have lots of stories to share," Haru mused.
Makoto pondered for a moment before speaking, "I didn't knew Nah knew the Child Goddess. All the more reasons we should go out and look for her."
"Couldn't we just wait? That kid told us that she'll come back," Ryuji said.
"But She didn't say when," Ann pointed out, "I'm starting to worry about her."
"B-but Nah-chan said that she was going to stretch her wings," Haru said slightly stammered.
"Then that she must of flew off then."
"I wouldn't count on that Blondie. Keep in mind that a spectacular light show when Nah-chan transformed into a dragon. My sharp eye would of caught wind of it." Morgana rolled his eyes.
"Then that would mean those light would of penetrate the windows at the time and we would know about it..." Futaba muttered.
"Okay then its official; well head on out and look around for Nah," Makoto said.
Ryuji stracth his the back of his head, "Except that we don't-"
*Creeekk*
{Stop to Persona 5 OST - Whats Going On}
The Group's alert attention, except for Justine, was to the main doors opening and everyone ready their weapons, thinking it might be a Shadow or a Mirage. Turns out it not the case as a pink Rabbit with angle wings & a glowing yellow halo hovering above the creatures head-
Haru's eyes widen she was the first to speak up, "Your...! Henry?" she and her friends relax.
Ryuji "What the heck that Rabbit thing doing here?"
"Wanting us to buy more his stuff no doubt," Yusuke crossed his arms.
The shut eyed Angle Rabbit frantically hopping up to the Phantom Thieves, "Its such a long hop but thank goodness Lady Nah is right, I was able to find you humans here!"
"Where's Nah?" Akira asked.
Henry had a tired expression, he took a little moment to regain hiself before answering, "Oh forgive me sir! Lady Nah just left with this guy in black but she ask me to tell you that their going to Naga Temple. I'd go with them but she assisted that I-"
"She is with who now?" Ann shouted.
The Rabbit sweat-drop "Oh, um, a guy in black; he looks like a Japanese steampunk officer. I think he's a summoner like Nah," Henry answered.
"A Guy in black..." Justine quietly pondered while the group was 'interrogating' the stammering talking Rabbit with more questions [Ann, Makoto, Haru and Futaba expressed more consered about Nah well being while Ryuji felt panicky that their would-be guild had left them]. 'Now where did I heard that before... Oh yes, my sister texted me about this strange man...' Justine thought as she brought up a pen to write a couple of notes on her clip board. After she was done she made a loud cough to get the groups attation.
"I belive that I have an idea on where Mrs. Nah may be heading," Justine smiled.
Morgana narrowed his eyes at one of Igor's assistants, "You don't say?"
Justine nodded, "That's right and if I know my history I say that Mrs. Nah may be heading to the Temple of Naga."
"Temple of what...?" Ryuji scratch the back of his head.
Futaba huffed at him, "The Temple of Naga." The blond just simply shrugged which promoted Futaba to rolled her eyes, "Nah said that the Goddess Naga is her deity... so its probably a no brainier that she wants to go their by herself - at lest she an escort apparently."
"Speaking of strangers; if their's a chance of us running in to him I wonder if he is friend of foe?" Yusuke wondered aloud.
Henry shifted his eyes left and right, "I'm, err, pretty sure Lady Nah's guard is not an Unclean one."
Huru blinked, "What's an Unclean-"
"Oh, silly me - I wasn't supposed to say such an Controversial word from the Archangels!" The Angel Rabbit laughed heartily before sinking into self pity, "I'm such an idiot."
"But Nah-chan is heading over to this 'Temple of Naga' correct?" Morgana inquired somewhat indifferent to the rabbits antics.
The Angel woodland creature's expression change to a happier one when given the question, "Why of course!" he exclaimed, "Though its not an Temple per say but a location within the Continent of Valm... Lady Nah told me that she is heading towards the Mila Tree."
"The Mila Tree?" Futaba repeated.
"It is said to be named after the Earth Mother," Justine spoke up, the Phantom Theive and Henry's attention was drawn back to her, "For what I've also seen in portraits the Mila Tree is so big and tall that it can reach the clouds. Lady Tiki used to live in the Shrine at the Top of that Tree. I always wanted to go there myself for site seeing actually."
"Uh-huh..." Futaba then recalled one time when she heard about the Mila Tree from-
{Play to Persona 5 OST - Tokyo Daylight}
"That Mila Tree?! Its got to be the same one that Ninian-chan likes to talk about," Morgana exclaimed. Ninian always has a knack to talk about her people & haratige around people she befriends - well not all the time but Morgana always love to hear a beautiful kind woman like Ninian talk about her day. Man, thinking about Ninian and Tharja makes him miss them already.
"Well you sure know your way of getting information," Justine smile.
"I know my treasure," Morgana cupped his cheeks and twirled around like a in a play as grinned, "Plus thanks to the free time me and Futaba-chan had spend it with those three wonderful dragon ladies~" he said as he strike a disco pose, "they been valuable for helping us with our treasure seeking adventures!"
"Yeah sure," Futaba scoffed at the little anthropomorphic cat, as cross her arms, "lets not to mention Tiki, Fae and Ninian had done a lot more for us then provide us some treasure maps."
He lost his balance and fall on his butt, "That too!" Morgana said sheepishly.
"On the topic of Maps..." Akira said thinking, "Justine do you have a map to where we can find that tree? If Nah is heading there so should we."
"You mean the map of Valm? Sure I can lend you a hand on that front - of course that means I'll have to follow you now." Justine said. Akira nodded in agreement, not sure why would she said that. She and her sister had always been watching him and even though things are different now.
"Great, Lady Tiki wanted me to protect you guys but other then that I just wanted to tag along for the ride~!" Justine exclaimed.
"Thanks, I appreciated it." Suddenly in his mind flash an image of Ayaha standing above a shrine, back turned. Her bloodshot cloak revealing attire unmistakable but then changed into a white dress that she wore during a play as she slowly turn around- he shook it off that image, no way he's going to fall for that trick by some dark force. But deep down he wanted his cousin to be alive more then anything or at lest know if she's alive.
"Aya..."
{Switch to Mega Man Network Transmission OST - T02: Relaxation}
Tomorrow Tokyo(21)
City Hall
Itsuki and company was lead by Moza to the City Hall complex where they saw Maiko and Barry waiting at the fountain in the center the hall. The decor is slick, clean and very high-tech. Plant vases of Trees and flowers where placed & displayed, neatly. A stairway can be seen up north to the 2th floor which lead to an elevator in the middle, the Mess Hall in the right and the Conference rooms in the left.
The City Hall is swarming of people and Mirage, that pass by the a fountain that happen to project three giant holograms of one woman and two girls.
One of them is Tiki in her Utaloid Costume next is a ruby-eyed young woman has white fair skin, long wasted length light blue hair. Her clothing is themed after ice, with see-through silk streamers with sparkles. She has golden bangles and an ice-blue and white mermaid-like dress. Her Dress has lots of hexagonal patterns.
The last hologram showed a green-eyed younger girl with velvet hair she wore a little brown cloak covered a fawn overall sailor school dress and purplish undershirt, her hair a bright raspberry color. Her boots matched the dress, and she had a little green bag tied at a belt around her waist. Tapered ears poked out from her mass of hair, and showing her grin that showed sharp teeth.
"Oh my gosh! That's Fae and Ninian in that huge hologram!" Tsubasa exclaimed. Noticing Tiki, Fae and Ninian doing a group high five in the hologram shot.
"Huh," Itsuki said thinking, "Aren't they just fictional characters from that web animated short not to while ago?"
"Well duh, of course! They where part of Tiki-chan's first concert, remember?"
"Actually... the thought didn't really occur to me," Itsuki said thinking aloud, "I didn't think they where that popular."
"Your hopeless..." Tiki=Waifu rolled her eyes at Itsuki. He blinked at her in confusion- Eleonora then face palmed at him, "Okay lets changed the subject; Hey Itsuki, did you know that Ultaloid Fae and Ultaloid Ninian are Mirage like Tiki?"
"Nani!?" Itsuki said stunned followed by Tsubasa, Touma and Mamori shocked reaction.
"S-Seriously t-their Mirage!?" Tsubasa gasped.
Touma laughed heartily, "Nice one Elly, their just fictional virtual Characters."
Eleonora shot a glare at the redhead, "Do I look like I'm joking? Or maybe you forget about stuff as usual."
"Hey, I've been a Mirage Master before Itsuki and Tsubasa-chan, I believe I would know it from a reliable source beforehand."
"Well this 'reliable source' has been keeping it under wraps up until now," Kiria said simply. Touma's mouth hang open, face drain in color then shouted, "No way!"
"So... that means..." Mamori pondered, "Fae & Ninian are real."
"Its hardly a secret," Yashiro crossed his arms.
"Yeah, because YOU suspected Tiki to be a Mirage all along," Touma pointed an accusing finger at Yashiro.
Yashiro scoffed at him.
"Hmmm, they don't look any different from us, I wonder if they are related to Tiki-chan and Nowi-chan?" Mamori wondered.
Moza made a loud coughed in one hand to get the group attention, "WELL I guess its time for me to split, duty calls! Why don't you kids joined up with Maiko and Barry? Caroline will take it from here!"
"Right," Itsuki nodded, "Thank you for escorting us here Mrs. Moza." he smiled.
"Its my pleasure handsome," Moza winked at him.
The group said their goodbyes to the Marshal as she returned 'to here duty' after that the met up with Maiko and Barry. Maiko was very pleased to see Itsuki & Co made it out safe and was happy to see Tiki=Waifu safe as well, though she dose not express joy in seeing her employer again. Itsuki informed Maiko that Raidou took off to look for his friend at the other side - Maiko frowned at the news but understood the detective's situation. Itsuki also added that Tiki=Waifu has a Mirage Partner of the same Battle Class as Tiki - both Maiko and Barry gasped at the news.
Maiko turned her attention towards Tiki=Waifu, "Is this true?"
Takana Raijin nodded to her boss, "Yup, strange isn't it?" The Fortuna Director sweat dropped, "Well.. sort of but not really- Oh, how am I kidding this is great news! Whats the name of your Mirage?"
Takana blinked in surprised, "Um, well, h-her name is-"
"Nowi~!"
{Switch to Alex & Ken's Stage - Jazzy NYC '99 (Arranged)}
Everyone in the group jumped at Nowi's sudden magical-girl-like appearance. Barry's mouth was open at the site of the little Newcomer.
"T-That's... holy smokes!" Barry exclaimed, "How did you get a hold of an Rare Mirage?" Tiki=Waifu shrugged, "Luck I guess?"
"Yeah right, there's got to more to it!"
"Sure whatever you say Barry," Takana rolled her eyes, "Nowi chased me around, when she was possessed, I used my glowing ball of light from my chest to defend myself after that Nowi was back to her 'normal' self and well you know the rest."
Barry crossed his arms, "Okay, I guess you are telling the truth... But having a Rare Mirage dosen't happen offend so you better take good care of her!"
"Who's the big tubby blond guy?" Nowi tilted her head curiously at the human blond male.
"That's Barry," Takana said, "He's just here to be our mascot or whatever." Touma & Eleonora snickered at Tiki=Waifu's comment of Barry.
"Hey, I do a lot more then act as the Mascot Dog!"
"Oh! So your a Mascot, that's great! Hi I'm Nowi, by the way, its nice to met you Mr. Barry," Nowi Exclaimed. Barry laughed heartily, "Well its nice to met a Young Mirage Dragon Maiden," he said.
"Thank you!" Nowi smiled to which Barry grined at how brightly cute the Dragon Maiden is.
"Your weird..." Takana commented to Barry.
Soon the Mirage Master Valkyries had Joined in on the conversation, Maiko has stated that she had met the trio after Itsuki and Co had left to find Tiki=Waifu. Nowi has express glee at how the Valkyries were during those Demon battle when she and her friends were outnumbered. Yuffie smiled and stated that 'she and her pals are just doing their job, in the name of Lady Tiki'.
"Well be here with you guys as long if you want us around okay~" Asami winked at Aoi Itsuki, "Uh, sure you can still tag along with us, were still fairly new to this place anyway..."
Yuffie nodded, "Okay then, so what do you want to do?"
"Well..." Itsuki crossed his arms and was deep in thought, "I want to cheek up on-"
{Stop to Alex & Ken's Stage - Jazzy NYC '99 (Arranged)}
"So, you made it back," Itsuki jumped at the voice from behind him, he turned around to see Caroline clapping at the group rather sarcastically as if it was a miracle for The Fortuna group to make it back here, alive.
Itsuki's eyes widen in shock, "How long have you been standing there?" The Platinum Blond little Warden girl simply shrugged, "Long enough."
"Okay, that's a bit weird, if not creepy," Touma said. Caroline stop clapping and rolled he amber eyes, "Humph! I can assure you that your aren't worth the trouble unless Lady Tiki commands it."
"Right... of course," Touma sighed.
"Anyway, we're still happy to see you," Mamori said.
"Thank you," Caroline nodded to Mamori, "Though I rather skip the formalities. Lady Tiki wishes for your presence at the Sky Realms"
"The Sky Realms?" Itsuki raised a brow he and his friends looked at Yuffie for an explanation.
"Its a place Lady Tiki currently resided," Yuffie awkwardly explained to the Fortuna group, "I-Its not fare from here."
Itsuki was about to open his mouth to say something-
"So dose that mean that we get to see Tiki-Chan finally?" Tsubasa exclaimed.
"Indeed," Caroline turned on her heel, "But if you want to see her you better follow my lead." and with that she walked to the stairs, Itsuki and Co trailed behind Caroline.
"I still don't trust those horrible twins," Barry muttered.
"Now, now Barry~ no need for you to put on your tinfoil hat," Maiko said, "Caroline-chan might hear you," She giggled.
Barry flinched and kept his mouth shut.
{Play Forbidden Sanctuary (Grima Map) - Fire Emblem Echos: Shadows of Valentia OST}
The Continent of Valm, The Mila Tree
Nah gazed up at huge tall tree, that reached the clouds in the sky, she can't believe that its been that long that she been on top. Last time she's been there is when she was with Chrom, Lucina and the Shapereds, fittingly it now serves as a getaway to Lady Tiki's Realm.
It was breath taking every time she gazed at the Mila Tree and all of her splendor, even though Valm is being invaded by Emlia's Demon Monsters the Mila Tree was untouched.
The Half Manakete ignored Gouto-Douji's snarky comment and took a deep breath, in and out. Raidou walked up to Nah's side, he too gazed at the Tree, "So, is there a way up to reach the Shrine?"
Nah open her eyes, "Yup. A great Staircase inside the trunk leads up to it. But I don't know if we might run into more demons along the way."
"Blockade I bet. Good thing Raidou's Comp is the only thing that's working right now," Gouto said, "He's been good at protecting us, so far."
"Thanks for the vote of confidence," Nah muttered, she grab her Comp from her bag to see if it still works - nope, still dead. She felt insignificant that she had to realie on Raidou Kuzunoha. Sure Nah can transformed into her Dragon form which her abilities are Fire, Wind and Physical Attacks but some Demons they fought before are resistant to Fire and Wind. Who knows if the Staircase is crawling with Demons that are also impervious to Fire and Wind.
"Hey, I'm sure your Comp will start working again and you'll be like a, um," Gouto trailed off, "A tank!"
"A Tank?" Nah raised a brow, "Not sure what that means but thanks, I guess." she put her Comp back into her bag, she took a glace at her partner, "Well Raidou I'll lead the way but in cased of Demons showing up you... take point. Hopefully no dreadful surprises on the way..." Nah said as she walk down the hill to the Tree Trunk.
Raidou nodded, followed her and the black cat to the Staircase of the Mila Tree.