Ahri Goes Home [Closed]

"And that's why you never buy celery from a guy with rainbow socks." Snopy was finishing up a rousing tale of "Weird things that happen when you live in a city". He didn't even want to BEGIN talking about the mop salesman. Dude was a lunatic. Some time had passed, and the Arcadian/Cierian border was fast approaching. It's a shame his knowledge in haggling with mop salesmen wouldn't be of much use there. Snopy had been getting stronger, if not overworking himself a tad. Elwyn was not a human. Her knowledge of Anima use could not and did not translate into a Scholar's arcana use. In essence, he was on his own in honing that one. He had made progress. While spells without particular incantation weren't too strong, he could use just about any words to more consistently cause at least some effect. He had a single incantation readied, though attaching it to a spell for a consistent effect was easier said than done. They had just finished eating, and were relaxing. Elwyn's health came into question, at least in his head. More of a mental and emotional health thing than anything else. Snopy had been all work and no play because he just got fucked repeatedly. He was getting a very reasonable feeling that even if Elwyn hadn't been on this journey to find her sister that she would be all work and no play. Even for a leader, that wasn't exactly healthy. Granted, he didn't have a chance to ask her about it.

"SNOOOOPPPYYY!!!" "Pard-OMPH!" Snopy had barely registered it was indeed his name shouted when suddenly he was tackled at a high speed. Suddenly he was on the ground. "OKAY, WHAT THE FFFFFFFFFFF-Nadia?" He got bopped on the head, but couldn't quite make sense of what she was saying he was so startled. That's when he heard it. The an excited little mew he had not heard in awhile. He blinked, he KNEW that mew. As he pulled himself free, he also grabbed a little something out of Nadia's hands. "AHRI!" Snopy immediately pulled the little Felli and hugged her as she made various little mews. She pulled himself out of his arms and...quickly sat on his head. "This again, huh?" She curled up on his head and just stared at everyone. "And Nadia? What are you doing here? I haven't seen you since you disappeared on me. He turned to Elwyn and the group. "That was the day I met you come to think of it. Hmm, small world. And with Ahri? Come to think of it Hacil's never seen you, I think she still thinks ahri is some weird exotic food or something. Who did you? How did you? Wait did you say "We've" brought her back?" Snopy blinked a few times before leaning sideways to see past Nadia. It wasn't that he leaned his upper body, oh no, his ENTIRE body tilted, with the angle being located at his ankle. Therefore, everything ABOVE his ankle was at about a 30 degree rotation from upright, with a little Felli sitting lopsidedly on his head.

Things got...surprisingly tense. At first it was all fine, Nadia was being Nadia. He was only with her like a day or so before, but she seemed so confident in him. It was flattering really. She began to explain about some people named Masa and Drake. He blinked though as she asked if he had powers now. "Well...I mean yes, I do, but how the hell did yo-" He looked down at his feet. "Oh." This was Nadia, he'd have to change his standard pattern of thought to keep track of what she meant cause it was a tad abnormal. "All this takes is a little balance." He spoke as he went back to a standard upright position and some people came out of the trees. "Them right? Or should I be worried by weapons are on the other side of camp?" It was quickly confirmed that it was them. The man put an arm around her, and she hugged him. He raised an eyebrow. The man introduced himself. Snopy extended his arm. "Snopy Saika. I've...never heard of you, and in fact, I'm curious about what Nadia told you. Our time together was...fairly brief." Snopy said with a slight curiosity. One that said "We knew each other for all of 1 whole day, how much could she have POSSIBLY had to say?" That's when Hacil chimed in. She was standing...awfully close. Masamune gave him a thumbs up and an approving nod. "Eh?" Snopy said with a head tilt, blissfully unaware of the feels being felt by some of the ladies around him. Ahri let out a happy little mew as Elwyn welcomed her back.

Nilani was the next to somehow make things slightly more tense. She was...pouting. Snopy was confused. Ahri made a few little mews, as if sensing his confusion. He looked up. "Somehow Ahri, I seriously doubt that." She let out almost a sigh. Over the years, he had learned to basically understand her. It wasn't like how some elves could talk to animals. She just was smart and understood English by now, and he understood her well enough to where he could basically have actual conversations with her. It would look weird to outsiders, but all it was was an understanding that comes with closeness. He just stood silent as the exchange continued, mostly between Elwyn and the man he could only assume was the Drake Nadia spoke of. It wasn't until Nadia popped back to him that he returned to reality. "Really? I'm too nice?" That was funny coming from her. Ahri hopped off of Snopy's head and just started running circles around his feet as Nadia introduced herself to his friends. Yet, the moment Nadia got to "Does it mean something?" They both, Snopy AND Ahri, froze. They looked at each other. Ahri mewed a little. "Yeah...I know." He replied. "So Nadia, I see you haven't yet figured out why your ears are like that huh?" He looked to the other girls. He gave them a look that said "She's not kidding."

Snopy had some trouble understanding that man's accent, but he got the gist of it. Snopy shook his head and chuckled. "She didn't make the saving her life thing easy. And I guess getting lost easily is one way to put it." When Hacil went and threw the word stupid silently into the air, she got quite the glare from Snopy. "Hacil." He said firmly to get her attention before shaking his head no with a look that said "You're kidding me right?" Of course, when Nadia mentioned the memory thing Snopy immediately chimed in. "Oh, so you're aware of it now." Ahri just looked at him. "I saw it happen once, you just completely blocked something out to the point you didn't even know it happened. I didn't have the heart to tell you...though it isn't like I wasn't busy trying to comprehend the whole situation." The others were busy whispering to themselves for a bit. "Well Nadia, glad to see you found people who wouldn't use your...er cuteness to...well..." He bit his lip about. Part of why he was so frantically searching for her was because she was a cute naive elf. Somehow there were about a million ways her off on her own could have gone wrong. "...hurt you." Elwyn went on to explain the memory thing. He actually didn't have a problem with anything she said, so he just nodded. "Some things are best left forgotten. Though, might want to work on not...forgetting things so easily." Snopy went over and knocked on Nadia's head. "Probably a lot of knowledge and experience locked up in that head of your. Though it'd be best to regain that experience just by going out and living...I have a bad feeling if you remember one locked away memory, even if it is useful, you'll remember them all...including ones that need not see the light of day."

Snopy just started to laugh as Nadia tried to imitate him from earlier. He turned to the others, and saw Elwyn. He...wait was she holding back a laugh? Little miss bad with emotions was smiling and holding back a laugh. Snopy started to laugh a bit looking at her. "You know Elwyn, you should smile more often. You look cute when you smile." Well she did. He was being quite serious too. She looked much better when she smiled. The same was true with Nilani and Hacil, but they seemed to smile a tad more easily than Elwyn in his experience. Plus, there was something about the rarity of Elwyn's smile that made it look all the cuter. He turned back to Nadia after a few more moments. "No no, like this." Snopy grabbed onto Nadia's shoulders. "Keep your feet firmly on the ground, now like this." He'd hold her as she leaned to the side, if she let him help, to make sure she didn't fall. "You have to balance." That's when Snopy remembered something. He'd put Nadia back into an upright position and look to Masamune. "Oh right, you asked a question. Sorry bout that. I'm training with them, I got tired of being Taerick fodder. There are other reasons, but..." Snopy turned to the girls minus Nadia. "It isn't my place to tell you their reasons."

Elwyn trying to make Snopy and Hacil stop only made it worse.  She TRIED giving a command, but it didn't exactly sound like one.  It only put an even BIGGER smile on Snopy's face.  "Yeah Hacil, quit teasing your sister."  He was laughing the whole time he said it, like he was teasing Hacil now.  He was being a little goofy to Hacil in hopes of brightening her mood a little.  Yeah, she had spent the last few interactions letting the wrong thing slip out of her mouth, but Snopy at least FIGURED she meant well.  Snopy went on to help Nadia, who thanked him, but she just couldn't get it.  Well it wasn't easy, come to think of it Snopy couldn't even remember what possessed him to figure out how to do it in the first place.  "It's...really not important.  I literally can't remember why I went and learned how to do it in the first place, but I have a feeling it was a pretty stupid reason."  He laughed, then listened to what Masamune had to say.  "Buff?  Really?"  He looked at his arms, actually while they were naturally small due to his frame, they had bulked up a little bit.  "Holy crap when did that happen."  Nadia went to poke them, and then hug him but the still not officially introduced Drake fellow snatched her up.  Snopy looked as he heard Masamune say something about going back to some place called the Noir.

"Leaving so soon?  Well, it was nice seeing you again."  This probably WOULD be the last time he saw her, for a long time at least.  He looked to the others.  "Take care of her, will you?  And Nadia, take care of yourself.  This may be the last time I see you, but when I get married someday, I shall try and invite you to the wedding if I can reach you."  Snopy figured she got him his pet back, and she was sweet as can be, she can be invited.  Snopy turned and began to walk back to his merry band as the groups parted ways.  As he walked by them, he spoke.  "Just gotta meet someone and fall in love first."  Ahri ran up to him and climbed up onto his back and just hung out, top half looking over his shoulder.  It was time to move on.