[h2][color=MediumSeaGreen]Terra Branford[/color] - [color=ForestGreen]Hyrule Fields[/color][/h2]
Upon hearing that the skeletons would not follow her here the strange girl stopped and turned back towards Terra. Now that she was not moving at high speeds Terra had the chance to look at her properly. She was certainly dressed strangely. Her brown hair was cropped short and what was left of it was tied out of her face in two tufts that stood straight out against her head. She had a pair of goggles pulled above her eyes as they were not in use as well as a grin on her face that seemed to be saying [i]"Show me what you got"[/i]. Stranger than her appearance those was the clothing she dressed in. She wore black and white horizontal leggings and heavy duty boots made for running. She had purple pants that seemed to have been cut off showing most of her legs from the thigh down. Her shorts were held up by a belt that supported a great number of strange gizmos and gadgets as well as a tight blue sleeveless jacket with a surprisingly low cut purple top. 

Her strange dress however interested Terra less than what she could now confirm was indeed a prosthetic arm made of shining metal. Terra had seen the most advance technology the Gestahlian Empire had been able to create and though the arm was not dissimilar to those used in some of their war machines their was no way to make such a thing obey the will of the user like a normal arm would, not without the a power source that could be bent to achieve almost any result. This girl had to be wielding Magicite technology which meant she was one of Gestahl's Magitek Elites.

Why then was she acting so normal? Perhaps she had no idea who Terra was, or maybe with the death of the Emperor she was no longer bound to do his bidding. More than likely though she was attempting to lure Terra into a trap. The esper decided to go along with it just to see how far this Gaige would take things.

The Megitek girl seemed to have mistaken Terra's comment the skeletons to mean that she owned the ranch and had set up some sort of protection around it. She then launched very quickly into a question with a good number of words that Terra likely wouldn't have understood if spoken to her at a normal speed much less the automatic crossbow bolt conversation that was being launched at her. [color=MediumSeaGreen]"You misunderstand. This isn't my property. I took shelter here and noticed the skeletons seem unwilling to cross the threshold. I would guess that the ground is consecrated."[/color]

This Gaige girl however was not the only person it seemed to take cover in this place. A man dressed in red jumped from farmhouse roof and doing an impossible second jump in midair landed before them with a flourish. He was of course showing off and the shameless way in which he flirted with both Terra and Gaige rather reminded her of Edgar back in Figaro. She prayed he had survived the destruction of the Floating Continent and whatever ruin the unaligned Warring Triad would wreck upon the land. This place seemed protected whether from divine spell or simply lucky geography but Figaro might not be so fortunate.

Seconds later another fellow showed up. In fact he was the one that had crash landed outside the Ranch moments ago. He had a formal air to him but everything that came out of his mouth seemed to be completely idiot. He talked about the skeletons like they were friends despite the fact that one had been nibbling on his shoulder a moment before. 

Terra decided to ignore him as she watched Gaige approach the new member inquiring about his ability to augment his jumps. Either he had magic or possessed some steam technology. It was not the strangest thing that Terra had ever seen. Perhaps he was descended from one of the Magi, left with limited arcane ability as their lines diluted and their powers waned.


Terra didn't have time to think about this however as a second later Gaige summoned some form of weapon from the ether and pointed it at an approaching figure. She stowed it after a moment perhaps realizing that the figure may not be hostile but unknown to her the act of drawing her weapon had clearly inspired the newcomer to attack. Gaige was facing the wrong way to see it but the rather large and thuggish man whipped a chain at her, looking to inflict some pain. Before Terra could respond the fast man, Scout, pushed Gaige out of the way of the incoming weapon but that didn't guarantee he wouldn't attack again.

She took a step forward and raised her right hand. [color=MediumSeaGreen][i]"Firaga Ingenium!"[/i][/color] She shouted summoning up a small but very powerful wall of fire that blocked the thug from Scout, Gaige and Terra. Firage was the hottest type of fire Terra could summon and when the chain made contact with it the metal became pliant and melded to itself. Now unable to extend to its full length for the dozen links fused at the end the chain clattered harmlessly to the ground.
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