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"She liked being around me..? I don't know why someone so much more preppy than I am could enjoy how much of a downer I am. I'm strangely am happy to hear it though." His cheeks grew red while he returned the grin, tilting his head slightly. He made a small noise in reaction to Faye's question about Juro's gear. He turned to the VTOL and looked to it with some bad premonitions of what may happen if Faye were to "test" his gear. He shrugged and turned back to her with a curved lip. "I wouldn't try Faye... But I agree with you. We do have a lot of similarities. Didn't know it would make you so bound to me though." He laughed, his torso bending over slightly with his shoulders jumping up in unison with his chuckles. He placed his hands in his pockets and turned away to try and fight off his suddenly flustered cheeks.
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Faye clucked her tongue, not really liked being told she wouldn't be allowed to try it. But then hearing Voli said about how he agreed with her, made her blink her eyes a few times in confusion at that. It took a while, to see him laughing so hard. She scowled a bit, standing straight with her hands on her hips. "Why is it so funny?" When he soon turned his face away, that's when the tomboy came out. Moving forward she quickly moved to stare into his face, and gave him a look. It almost looked like a fish. With her lips pursued, with eyes narrowed, as she stood there with her arms out at her sides like in a stance. She gave him that look for a long while. "So what if I like being around you, is that so funny?"
Faye finally realized what she said, and felt her face suddenly flame. What the hell? Why was she blushing. Yet as she blushed, she didn't look away from him, as she continued to stare up at him with that look on her face. At the same time, she began to feel nervous once more. What is wrong with her? Why was she reacting this way in front of Voli? Being on your own for so long, you never knew about liking a person pass just themselves. Then again, she never had talked to another person before in a long while. Till she met Voli and Enzo.
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Volitaire snorted at Faye's defensive reaction towards his slight teasing. Seeing her lips are perked and her eyes so squint made him laugh even more at her. His torso leaned back while his palm laid upon his forehead. He opened his eyes again to look down at her and he noticed her face was reddened. He had calmed himself and regained his regular posture to return full attention to her. Under his dark hair his eyes glow red glaring down at Faye in curiosity to her switch from tomboy to flustered girl. "You okay?"
It wasn't long until Silver, Volitaire and Faye joined them on the surface. Juro was about to say something when Faye ran past them, straight into the VTOL. Her voice echoed something about messing with his gear. Juro huffed. He really hadn't planned on taking everyone, but he wasn't going to explain, he had help.
Instead, Juro got onboard the VTOL and sat quietly for the others to get on. Enzo went inside as well. He had never been in a VTOL before, but he imagined it was like flying in a regular jet. Sounds of Volitaire and Faye's conversation bought his attention.
Hmm? What's this? Volitaire being seduced again? He smiled to himself. If he spoke about it while his friend was around, there would be tendrils involved.That thought made him wonder if Volitaire was stronger than Enzo. It was something else he'd have to test out as well.
Argo joined them on the VTOL. Unlike everyone else, this jet model was the same used for his escort. He knew were everything was. It was a military edition, so there were a few racks of weapons around, and a large clear space in the middle. "Ey, Enzo-boy. You think you can bring your 'ride' in?"
Enzo turned his head to Argo. His eyes started to wonder off in thought. "That's okay. Eve will drive it back to your house." Juro answered for him. "Eve?" "An A.I I designed. She doesn't bite." Enzo was on the fence about letting an A.I drive his car, but little did they know, Juro wasn't the pilot type, so Eve did all the flying. They would notice if they saw the pilot seat empty.
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Faye would scowl at him, when she noticed his stare. It was his red eyes, glowing slightly under his black bangs, that made the blush worsen on her face. She fidged a bit on the spot, not really staring at Voli anymore as she looked away. "I'm fine....." She muttered out, not really continuing as she didn't want him to look at her face. She had felt it getting even hotter, when she noticed his red eyes glowing. She bit her lower lip, then turned about as she stiffly began to walk away. Of course, as she walked, her leg ended up stiffening up, and she stumbled a bit. Luckily, she caught her balance, but her hood fell back. Her whole face was a bright red, as she continued to walk over to the others a bit.
The fluttering in her stomach was only worst, at the same time, her heart was racing. What the hell was wrong with her?
Seeing how everyone was hoping in Juro's ride, Faye was soon enough making her way towards it. Quickly, she got in, and scooted as far away from anyone else as soon as possible. A frown on her flushed face, as she pushed her hood back on. Hoping to hide the red that was stretched across her face.
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"Odd... She doesn't usually act this way. if it's what I think it is then I've got something on my hands here..." Volitaire had though. He watched her stumble and stiff up after she had turned away. He snorted while covering his mouth; shaking his head and facing the ground with closed eyes. He followed behind Faye entering the overly winged rocket. He already saw the rest of the crew enter and started to get settled. Juro was pretty friendly all around to Volitaire's shock. Not too long ago he was ready to attack him and Enzo over something he found out, which Volitaire still hadn't figured out. He kept his head turned to Faye, finally noticing her dark red face. He made a half smile and turned over to Enzo, clearing his face. "So where are we off to? Captain?" He sarcastically commented.
Enzo raised an eyebrow at Volitaire's sarcastic tone. "I don't know." He answered plainly. "Juro?" "Tokyo. I have a safehouse there."
Silver got on the VOTL not too long after Enzo and the others did. She let out a sigh and sat down, blowing some hair out of her face. It had been a while since she had done anything this exciting, and she wondered if her mind would be able to handle it. The past 5 years she had pretty much been relaxing with her lovely little family, and needless to say, she already missed them. Her son would be turning 5 soon, and she wondered if she would be back in time to see him. Ah well, that's why she had her phone, right? She figured he wouldn't mind. He knew his mother had to see her friends, too. She slouched a bit and rested her hands on her stomach, twiddling and fidgeting with them a bit as she waited for something to happen.
Volitaire narrowed his eyes at Juro wondering what going back to Tokyo would do for them. They were already arrested there... His suspicions were stopped when he saw Silver enter the VTOL and slouched down in her seat. He almost wanted to bug her by pulling some dumb prank just for old times sake. It was mainly the urges brought up by sibling rivalry he guessed, though he had nothing to rival Silver with... Maybe he was just bored. Snickering, a ring of runes formed around Volitaire's hand then one around Silver. She was then hoisted into the air with her own zero gravity field that revolved around her body and kept her airborne over her seat. Holding back all of his laughter, the mastermind sat there and watched with a foolish grin on his face.
Once everyone was on board, the ramp retracted back into a slot within the floor, and the back end closed. The engines on both sides powered up as the entire craft lifted off the ground. The grass and trees were pushed back by the engines. On the ground, Enzo's car turned on and began making it's way out of the forest.
Meanwhile, the VTOL was now safely above the trees. The engines rotated to fire backwards and it took off into the sky. Inside, it was a quiet flight. Despite their angled ascend, it was hard to lose balance.
"We'll be here for a good 30 minutes." Juro announced to the passengers.
Before long, Silver felt herself being lifted into the air. She looked down, making sure she really was being lifted out of her seat, and gasped lightly. At least she was wearing pants. She glanced around to people around her to see if it was just her, and sure enough, it was. Seeing Volitaire over there giggling to himself, she pouted. "VOLI!!!" To be truthful, it was a little fun floating like this. But he interrupted her thoughts, and that was rude. She put her hand over her mouth, hiding a smile and holding back a giggle. "Stop that!" She couldn't help but giggle as she protested, but still she tried her best not to.
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Faye sat there, trying to figure out why her face was so hot. At the same time, trying to distract her mind. Soon enough though, she saw something out the corner of her eyes. Turning her head, she frowned when Voli activated his magic. Then saw it around Silver, and she was soon floating in the air. Her crystal blue eyes widened, and suddenly bursted out laughing when she yelled out at Voli. Holding onto her gut, bending over as she couldn't stop laughing. Shaking her head, she ended up turning a bit, to hide her face against Voli's side. Her laughter muffled by his body, as her form continued to shake. As it was, it was very hilarious. And it also helped distracted her mind from what had been going on with her.
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Volitaire had burst into laughter at Silver's reaction to being lifted into the air. He was shocked she wasn't taking it so negatively which made him laugh even more. She protested him to stop only making him shake his head in his own protest. "Pfft-Hahahaha! No. You're fine. I can see you laughing behind those hands. I was going to do this to you at least once if I was going to see you." He felt a bit accomplished making Silver giggle at least. It was a nice diversion from all the tension back in the bunker; and an even better way to say: "Welcome back."
Lauren almost smirked, raising an eyebrow. "If ya want to leave, fine. Don't approve, but I ain't yer mother." It would have been stupid to try and leave, though. Shaking her head, she held a hand up to halt him. "Leave it off, you'll just hurt yourself again with trying to get it off later. Come on." With that, she waited for a moment to let Eli get his bearings before heading down the hall once more. Needless to say, she didn't like wasting time.
There wasn't a lot of food in the kitchen, but she could probably whip up some eggs. Eggs, maybe bacon. Fast and easy breakfast. "You like coffee, or some juice?" It was probably too late for orange juice, but perhaps some apple juice would be good. Or, soda.
Enzo tilted his head onto his fist, and watched as Silver became an astronaut in the VTOL. It was big enough that she wouldn't hit anything. While everyone else laughed, All Enzo managed was a smile.
Everyone's laughing... A homely feel made itself known inside Enzo. A moment of peace and happiness. He closed his eyes and basked in the feeling.
Silver gave up trying to resist. She let herself laugh, and reached down to try to pull herself into the seat. She buckled herself down, but her hair still floated around, which made her laugh harder. "Voliiii.. Stop it!" It wasn't fair that she couldn't do anything like that back to him. She grabbed her hair and bunched it together, pulling it back into a messy bun. Bits of her hair and clothes still floated up a bit, and she still had a smile on her face, she shot Volitaire a glare, but it wasn't too intimidating considering she still had a goofy grin on her face. Looking back at Enzo, she smiled when she saw that he too was enjoying himself. Hopefully these moments would last.
Eli shrugged as he tossed his shirt back onto the bed. It would be rude to refuse her help as she offered it, so he decided to stay for a bit longer. He followed Lauren to the kitchen, and sat in one of the chairs. Coffee or juice, that was a hard choice. "Coffee sounds pretty good."
His laughing had finally wired down when she had got a hold of her surroundings. He saw Faye had joined into the merriment as well which made it all the more better. He was glad she was beginning to join into their little group and that he was able to make her laugh. Hell, he felt nice knowing he could make anyone of them laugh and bring out that friendship they all cherished together. He took a breather to relax himself and lowered his hand with his spell nullifying. "Alright, Alright.." The zero gravity field fell from around Silver and she was then gripped by the pull of the Earth's gravity. Amusingly her long hair fells strait over her face, covering her entire head, making the joke even funnier now that it stopped. He began laughing at Silver again then turned his attention to the laughing Faye. He shifted the pull of gravity around her so her hood pulls over her face, obscuring her view. He chuckled at her and reclined in his seat feeling victorious. "Alright, I'm done.."
Seeing as he sat down, she checked the inside of the fridge for the carton of eggs. Locating it behind a few other items, she took that out, along with the bacon. Placing them on the counter, she took out a pan and some oil, starting the process to cook the eggs. As she waited for the oil to get hotter, Lauren glanced over to the red-head. Coffee, then. With that, she busied herself with making the coffee.
She glanced over at him again, not breaking the routine. "How'd you get hurt, anyway?" Cracking the eggs in the pan, she threw away the shells, placing bacon strips on the grill for them to cook.
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Faye couldn't stop laughing. Her gut was already starting to hurt by the time Voli had placed Silver down. Yet when he turned to her, and then caused her hood to move over her face, that's when she turned into snickering with a broken speech. "H-Hey! That's n-not cool!" Her form continued to shake, as she pushed her hood back to give a trembling grin on her face, as she tried to look serious.
Two could play that game.
Narrowing her blue eyes at his red ones, she would suddenly push her hand up towards his face, the palm only a few inches away. Suddenly, Voli would feel a sudden thrust at his face, as she forced her energy out to push at him. All it would do, would push him back a little bit. The funny part, was that now his long black hair stuck up high in the air. Like one of those cats out of a cartoon, where their fur stood up on end. Faye was grinning widely, as she trembled, her hand still in front of his face, as tears came to her eyes at the sight of Voli. With his hair sticking up the way it was.
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Volitaire had shrieked at his wild new hairdo, trying his best to force it back down. Even as much as doing his best his hair was still a wild mess when it was relaxed back down. He pouted with a unsatisfied look on his face. His eyes shifted over to Faye who was ready to explode at any given moment. He huffed while moving his hand in a half-circle motion and her chair along with herself was flipped upside down. A smug grin came across the jokester's face.
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Faye let out a shriek herself, when she was suddenly upside down in the air. Still sitting in her chair. Her hood fell down, as well as her long white bangs, as her eyes were wide. Her hands gripped at the bottom of her seat, a little afraid at first she was going to fall. But she soon scowled at Voli. "Oh.....this means war!" She called out, and soon enough she did her next move. Of course, her version of a move, was to have his hair to suddenly go off into different directions. In a sense, his long hair looked like they were in twin spikes, like horns, at the top of his head.
When at the same time, she accidently got his shirt to rip open. Faye grinned a bit at the sight of his hair. But when she noticed what she did to her clothes, she blinked, and suddenly a red blush went over her face at that. "Oops......." Was all she muttered out, while blinking the whole time.
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Eli watched as she went about cooking the eggs and bacon, and then the coffee, almost smirking. She seemed to be very efficient with her routines, and it was kind of refreshing to see. He frowned at her question, and looked down at his hands which were resting on the table. "Well, let's just say I thought I could handle a situation that I couldn't, and ended up getting shot." He let out a sigh. "The things some people would do for money. Really, it was a stupid move on my part. But at least no one else got hurt."
Silver pushed her hair back and looked back to Volitaire just in time to see his new hairdo. She burst out laughing, holding her sides as he panicked and tried to flatten it down again. "Voli, no, that was such a good look for you." Seeing him interact with Faye reminded her of something. She turned her attention to Enzo. "Enzo, where's Sasha?"
With his hair all over the place and his shirt ripped open Volitaire had yipped, attempting to close the tear and fix his hair. (Hehe, it rhymed.) By the time his hair was back to normal, if you could call how long and messy it was "normal", he was blushing badly under his dark hair while holding his shirt closed trying to hide his bare chest. He slowly let Faye back down and remained completely quiet. As old as he was he never got over how easily flustered he could get. His lips were pressed closed, making his red dimples more obviously seen. He looked to the ground away from Faye attempting to ignore everyone else. "Faye you- ...Ugh." He could barely place his words together.
With his eyes closed, Enzo hummed a song quietly. The sounds of laughter and embarrassment filled the craft. Argo was busy enjoying the show. At first, he thought magic users were cultists who sacrificed small girls to a dark lord, but seeing this kind of interaction between the Guardians and fellow magicians gave him a different opinion about them.
All was going well until Enzo's humming was interrupted by Silver's voice, asking him a stinging question. His eyes opened, looking directly at Silver. He took his head off of his fist and his eyes started to drop. An eerie aura was around him mentally. It didn't take him by surprise, seeing as how Sasha was on his mind at least once a day. He wondered when she would return, or if she was even alive after all this time.
"I... don't know." He let out lowly. He spoke in a lowered tone because he didn't want anyone to catch his gloom. "I don't want to talk about it."
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Faye looked away as Voli finally lowered her down to the ground. Her lips thinning, as she went quiet while she was also blushing bright red. At Voli's mutter, she just rolled her eyes, and muttered out. "You started it....." She remarked and soon sighed as she reaches up to pull her hood up and over her head. Already she was starting to feel weird after that incident. At the moment, she just wanted to relax, and try to calm her burning face down. Sighing softly, she then leaned her head to the side. The problem though, she automatically moved her head to lean it against Voli's side.
Faye stiffened, when she realized it, but slowly forced herself to relax while her eyes lowered to the ground. She whispered out while closing her eyes. "I'm going to take a nap.....wake me up when we get there." Even though she closed her eyes, and looked relax, Faye was still fully awake.
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Volitaire huffed as Faye had rested her head on his shoulder. He wasn't bothered by it, he just felt the need to nitpick some more. She looked to have fallen asleep and asked him to wake her when she gets there. Though, it didn't seem that long from now when in a high speed jet. He let her relax on him as he kept his shirt closed and faced the forward window watching the clouds part in front of the nose of the VTOL. He wasn't paying too much to Enzo and Silver's conversation as he heard her mention Sasha. Him and Enzo felt the same feeling when remembering their firsts sweethearts and knew not to play around with those old feelings. For the time being he just waited for this ride to be over.
Silver stared at Enzo as he spoke so softly, it made her frown. What had happened between the two, anyways? Since he didn't want to talk about it, she decided to wait a while before trying to discuss it, perhaps talking to him about it in private would help. The look on his face really made her want to hug him, but she didn't want to tip off to anyone else that something was wrong. Instead, she thought of something else. "Hey, you wanna see my son?" she asked, offering a smile. She looked at Volitaire to see if he wanted to see too.
When Silver turned to him his attention was again caught. He heard her mention something of her son. He had never seen him before and was highly curious as to how he turned out. He sometimes forgot that he was sort of an uncle. "Oh, why of course. I'd love to see how that little one turned out." His face lit up at the proposition of seeing Silver's son. It made him wonder what features he took from his parents and who had the dominant genes in the pair.
Enzo kept his gaze low for a moment. That was, until Silver offered them a chance to see her offspring. He nodded, not in the mood to talk now. Japan was now in sight. That entire time, they had been flying over small towns and mountains. There were patrols flying on the outskirts of the city. Several helicopters took off from the carriers that were visible from where they were.
"They've been getting busy." Juro noted. They didn't need their cloaking. The VTOL was already covered in the military design. All they had to avoid was a direct confrontation.
Silver chuckled, pulling out her phone. She moved a bit closer to the two, so they could both see, and scrolled through some of the pictures. There were a few of him as a baby, and as a 2 year old, then she came across one that was one of her favorites.
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"His name is Seth.. He's turning 5 soon, and he's just like his father. He has my eyes, though. Boy, is he a little trouble maker. He can't sit still for 5 minutes." She smiled at the picture, chuckling a bit as she got caught up in it. She loved her son more than anything, and she enjoyed showing him off to people. However, she snapped back into reality when she realized how close they were getting to their destination. "Ah, I can tell you guys more about him later.."
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