(GS3) Field: Destroyed Shopping District

[NeoBuster]

Neos 6th damage fell and the game was over as Tsubasa had beaten him again.

"Wow, Platina Ezel. Thats Tsubasa's evolution!" Neo said

Neo was happy Tsubasa had evolved into a stronger fighter.

"Now I wait for your evolution" Thats what Tsubasa said to Neo.

At first Neo was a bit worried because is Tsubasa was this strong, everyone else int he circuit is going to be just as strong. But he had confidence in his deck going into the circuit no matter.

"Alright everyone, I had lots of fun today. See you all in New York tomorrow" Neo said as he waved goodbye and headed out the district.

+5 Affinty for Seifer, Haruki, Tsubasa and Hana

[Cipher Izanagi]

Seifer watched the fight quietly while eating his own bowl of ramen. Both were powerful fighters, but Tsubasa was the one that came out on top. After the fight, and the bowl in front of him was empty, Seifer wondered if he'd get to the same point as everyone else in mind set with their clans. He took one glance at Great Nature, trying to hide it from the others but quickly looked up when everyone seemed to be getting ready to leave. Seifer smiled at the friends he made, "I'll see you guys tomorrow. Let's all try to make it to the final sets together though. Great games again Hana, and to you guys to." he spoke to Hana, Tsubasa and Neo, giving a light wave before departing himself.

+5 Affinity for Neo, Haruki, Tsubasa, and Hana

[Hope]

The fight was entertaining. Tomorrow was New York, it was time to fly off. Hana had to head home to make final preparations. She paid for everyone's meal and thanked their server. She then looked at all of them and gave a smile, thanking them as well.

"Thanks everyone, and yes it was a great game Seifer, thank you." She said as she made her way out.

Time to catch that flight to New York!

Affinity:
Minnasan: +5

[OverDrive]

With the exciting fight over the group begins to part ways so they can be ready for the circuit event tomorrow. Regardless of what happens the group will remember the fun events of today.

"I'm glad we all got the chance to have fun today guys, I wish you all luck at the circuit stage." he says, as he begins to walk towards the exit and waving at the gang.

"..Gold Paladins...let's do this!" he thought as he began his way home for final preparations. "...I'm glad we were able to cheer her up.." he thought, as he began smiling as he walked.

+5 Affinity for Neo, Haruki, Seifer and Hana

[Kuro]

As his friends all had fun cardfights, Haruki knew they would have a great time in the World Circuit. They all finished their food and one by one left the shop happily. The young man of justice, the last one in the shop, turned to the exit as he thought of the future at the World Circuit.

"We'll make this great. The New York stage is tomorrow, so I'm off to my flight, but it'll be awesome when we all meet up there again." He had a determined looked, and then smiled as he began to exit the shop.

"See ya then."

Tsubasa AF +5
Neo AF +5
Hana AF +5
Seifer AF +5

[Beryl]

A late-night cafe was the only shop with lights on. It mostly catered to night shift security at the mall, but tonight, it had a different patron sitting at one of its tables, drinking a bit of coffee and looking out at the empty streets. His messy hair would normally be complemented by glasses, but since the year before, he had bought contact lenses on recommendation from an American he spent time with briefly in Hawaii.

Draped with a long coat, slacks and boots, Satoshi Kurosaki looked as though he had left his cheery farmboy persona behind. That was because he kind of had.

In the previous year, he had helped end the War of Liberation and save the sealed clans from eternal slumber with the help of four others, but during the course of it, he had experienced his most crippling loss ever, a loss that briefly sealed his former clan, Neo Nectar. The clan was saved with the rest thanks to the heroes, but Satoshi couldn't bring himself to lose them again, so he requested to Sephirot that they go their separate ways, at least for the time being. Seph wisely agreed on the condition that he still interact with Cray via another clan. This led to him acquiring Genesis, a clan toted as the major security unit of Cray, recently established. Fortuna was his new guardian, and she and him had a lot of time to interact while he was away.

He sipped his coffee, thinking about the trip. Hawaii had been something he had needed. While he was there, he was flown back to New York to accept an award for helping save Cray amongst the other heroes. His fame led to some extra money people wanted just to get his face on their advertisements or something. He knew he should've maybe said no, but the money was good and it gave him a chance to do what he wanted without repercussions. So of course he agreed and got the funds.

Now owning a vacation home in Hawaii and his own apartment in Rinjiku, Satoshi didn't really need a job of sorts, nor did he need to go to school. He had made it, in a way, and all it took was to suffer a crippling failure and accept success and acclamation, just as the other four heroes had.

Well, he wanted to think that, but now that he pondered it over, the four had been relatively quiet. As far as he was aware, he was one of the only ones that got approached for sponsorships and the like. Strange. Jellal's face would've gone well on that bottle of shampoo. He chuckled at that thought.

He nibbled at a cinnamon bun he had bought at the same cafe. Still warm, despite how long he had been sitting around. This place was nice. Hopefully it had good day hours, too, so he could come by with someone. He didn't really know who. Most of his time in America had kept him out of contact with people, even the ones he had cared about the most. Strangely, it didn't bother him, because he assumed that if people were concerned about him or had any interest in spending time, they'd've said something to him over the course of a year. They hadn't, but he didn't let it pressure him. His goal had been to spend time away from it all, and it worked for the better.

Well, sort of. There was still the matter of the voice.

On the night of his award, Satoshi experienced a crippling pain in his head. Fortuna said a dark force shoved her out briefly and that they would check over his brain to make sure nothing was the matter. As far as the scans Genesis did could tell, nothing damaging did, but for some reason, a brief period of a few minutes was wiped from their monitoring of him. It was as though that dark force had shut down their surveillance for the sake of doing something to him. What that was...well, that was a good question.

What Satoshi relayed to Fortuna was a foreboding phrase:

"The preparations are nearly complete. The game will begin soon."

The "game" was something Fortuna refused to comment on. This bothered her champion a bit, but nonetheless, it was on them to worry about Cray at the time, not him. So he kept it out of mind, despite having dreams about the phrase, over and over.

He calmly got up, thanking the staff for having him, and stepped out into the district. Now that he was home, perhaps it was time he did some investigatory work at the card shops he used to cherish so much. Not that they were open at the moment, but it wouldn't hurt to have a head start.

[Hope]

Isabella sat inside the popular coffee shop that was a counterpart to the New York's Starbucks. she was sitting down along one of the corner tables to keep from attracting attention. Waking up to news with the Underground King being hospitalized, she sent men onto the Umano area in order to make sure the war wouldn't get out of hand during his absence. She sipped on a grande caramel frappe while tapping her pen onto the table, creating a catchy beat. Her notepad had some lyrics written down, but it seems that she hit a point in which she had gotten stuck.

"Uguuu..."

If the ocean would rise then I would rise with it.
Do you think that waves could reach the skies?
Or is a mermaid forever stuck along the waters of the world.

The lyrics were actually looking good. There was just one problem.

"Hana-chan, I can fly. I can flyyyyyy. Lyrics are bad. Change pls." Labrador kept bothering her.
"Woof." Then her other Labrador was getting hungry
"Hana, I uh, have to go." Pacifica was too lazy to help.
"YOU GUYS!!!" her sudden outburst had also just blown her cover.
"Haha Hana-chan ggwp." Labrador laughed.
"LABRADOR-CHAN DOUSHITE!?" Isabella asked, as fans rushed towards her.
"Woof."
"Not you! Ahhhh!!!!" Rip.

[Jello]

Coffee. Haruka's answer to every problem. He ended up strolling in through the front door still holding his head, but the fresh scent of royal brew forced Sera to shut up as well. It seemed they were both fans of the coffee flavor and there was no way either of them were missing out on a cup. Haruka needed it so he could relax after a mental smackdown from Sera, and Sera needed it to cool off after mentally smacking down Haruka for his incompetence. His brain was whirring..

Ordering the biggest cup he could, he got himself a royal brew half-and-half, milk and coffee. Mmmm...

Looking for a seat, a sudden rush of people began to swarm a corner area of the coffee shop.. Is that? Yep. Hana got herself into what seems like a huge mess. Haruka was a bit nervous about going in that direction but ended up wanting to help his idol-friend in need. If she wanted it that is.

"Err, excuse me, excuuuusee meeee!" Haruka set his coffee down, pushing past a crowd of people. It was a tight fit, but Haruka managed to get clear eyesight of Hana sitting in a chair with a notepad and a doge.

"H-Hana, over here. It's Harooka." Haruka elongated the middle of his name for emphasis, hopefully grabbing Hana's attention since it sounded weird and that seemed to be the brand Hana had for him anyways. Weird.

[OverDrive]

It was a new day for Tsubasa, he had just arrived to the shopping district in search for some supplies for his apartment. On his way in the shopping district he hears some commotion coming from inside a nearby coffee shop. His curiosity naturally leads him to enter the shop and upon further investigation he notices two familiar faces.

"...Hold on..Haruka...Hana..?" he thought, as he began to get closer. "..Guess all the fame truly does have it's risks...Hana's learning that the hard way..haha"

Tsubasa realizes that the crowd is going insane over Hana, and amidst all that chaos Haruka is having trouble surviving among the crowd, so he takes a deep breath and leaps above the heads of the crowd, landing just in front of Hana's table his back facing the excited fans. With that he turns around and says,"..back...off...all of you." in a stern voice.

After his statement the crowd falls somewhat silent and this makes Tsubasa think,"...Isn't Neo supposed to be Hana's bodyguard...where on earth is he?"

[Cipher Izanagi]

At a new day, Seifer had gotten up, showered and dressed, getting ready to go shopping for food and stuff. Walking along the shopping district however, the male stretched and yawned, rubbing the tears from his eyes that each yawn had brought. He seemed really tired for some reason. Probably the result of a rather restless sleep. In any case, the brunette wandered around looking for a good place to buy groceries, though from memory he'd only been here with his group of friends to go clothes shopping the day before the tournament one year ago. Pushing that thought to the back of his mind, the tired looking individual continued to look around, noticing only Tsubasa and a crowd at first, then noticing Haruka and Hana. "What in the world is going on here... Maybe I should lend a hand somehow..." he stumbled over his words walking toward the group with his hands in his pockets. Hopefully his presence wouldn't start a riot, or a flash mob, whether in his direction or Hana's. Standing off to the side though he sighed quietly. 'What am I gonna get myself into now...'

[NeoBuster]

Neo had heard of the chaos going on here at the district. He may have not been Hana's bodyguard anymore but he was still going to act like one.

"Hey, All of you give the idol some space!" Neo said with a deep voice

Neo then took out his deck and table.

"Or I will fight each and everyone of you and make sure you give Hana her space" Neo said with a determined look.

[RosaliaIzanami]

The following morning, Rosalia was actually refreshed given the new living situation. It wasn't the first night she spent in a house with Seifer in the bedroom next to her's, but it was the first time it was in a house that wasn't her parents'. So yeah. But today was the first official day living together, and after showering like her companion, she was following the male into the shopping district. Compared to his more tired composure, she was that obnoxious ray of sunshine in the morning. "So what do you think we need? Or, what sort of dinners do you want to make, or have me make? I'm okay with mostly anything that has chicken in it~" she asked Seifer, walking by his side with a small grin on her lips. She was about to ask another question, when Seifer started towards the rather large and obnoxious group. "What's going on here?... H-hey, Seifer, don't.. don't do something stupid.." More like, don't leave me by myself...

She then heard a familiar voice booming over the others, the redhead looking both confused and interested. "That sounded like Neo from yesterday... Wait, didn't he mention about something being a bodyguard for... oh what was her name... Hana?... I'm so lost..." Unfortunately, Rosalia sighed to herself, only able to wait outside the range of the potential mob-riot-whatever was going on. There was no way someone like her was going to get involved. The female moved back from the coffee shop, standing across the street just in case with her hands folded in front of her.

[Hope]

There was a good bunch asking for an autograph so Isabella pulled out her pen and started signing away. After awhile, the usual routine changed in to different kinds of request.

"Oh a quick selfie?" She responded with a smile with a quick peace sign, striking a pose. Then she shook the fan's hand as they happily headed off... Or wanted to stay for more. Signatures and pictures, the typical thing. She wss kind of having fun, but it was just the fact that she had to get back to writing her song which kept her from really getting into it. The crowd was basically endless. One guy asked her out on a date which was bold and amusing. He kind of walked off, disappointed when Isabella laughed in response. She thought he was kidding.

On the other hand, the coffee shop's business was booming. Customers came. In from left and right. Eventually Isabella was getting tired out, it was about time to make an escape. The escape route presented itself when a few familiar faces hopped into the crowd, stopping them and coming to her rescure. Sbe stood on a table and gave everyone a wave and blow kidd before jumping over all of them and sprinting into a nearby alleyway. "Meet me there!" she whispered and pointed to her destinstion as she passed by those who came to her rescue.

[Jello]

With a signal from the idol herself, Haruka was the first to make his escape out of there. He was easily the quietest of the group and hardest to spot, save for the ghost-white hair and red marks around his neck and face. Turning on his heels, Haruka was strolling out of shop, sipping coffee whilst pocketing his other hand. Out the door he caught the tail of Hana already down the road and turning left into the alleyway. Sketchy as it was, Haruka had no real reason to just not go.

"Hey." Haruka's voice carried down the alley straight to Hana. It wasn't going to attract much attention, however. Haruka had a really soft-spoken, sort of innocent voice. It's just the fact it managed, no matter how hard he tried, to carry out and hit nearly every wall it could bounce off. Not this time, considering there were only two and it wasn't going back out the way he came. He strolled down the pathway, finishing the last of his coffee and tossing it into a dumpster on the right.

"Good to see you again, Hana."

Haruka nodded to her, giving a small wave with his now free hand.

[OverDrive]

By the time Hana made her getaway from the coffee shop, the fan turned around to find her 'rescuers' had disappeared from sight. Tsubasa was already outside the door of the coffee, waving to his three friends, Seifer, Neo and Rosalia. It was clear that the three got caught up in the mess so he felt it fair to gesture to them to follow him towards the alleyway Hana referred to.

"I wonder what she wants to tell us,...matter of fact why did I jump in like I did that's Neo's job..oh well may as well see what this leads to." he thought, as he took his turn into the alleyway after Haruka and Hana.

"It's good to see you guys after so long,...and I believe we'll have three people joining us in a few." he said, gesturing to the path which he came from.