The walk to the meeting room was uneventful, it was stepping inside the meeting room that someone caught her attention and stopped her in her tracks. [color=bc8dbf][i]"Who the-?"[/i][/color] Mai blinked a few times, wondering who the heck this new person was. Somehow she could tell that this person wasn't an enemy, if anything she felt that he was familiar. But she was sure that she'd remember somebody who had hair like his and the jewelry protruding from his face. It looked painful, but he didn't seem to mind. As the girl walked to an open chair on the sides, she couldn't help but keep glancing at the guy every so often. [color=bc8dbf][i]"I feel like I should know this guy."[/i][/color] She wanted to keep scrounging her brain for people, but there was a more pressing matter at hand.

She listened intently on Drake's exposition regarding the Surge Guardians, as well as his own involvement with the group. It was a lot to take in, but she was able to follow what each of them went through and what they can do. Although she had no objections with the partnering of Surge Guardians with them, she felt like she had to raise her hand and opinion. [color=bc8dbf]"I can see how you paired each of us up, but is it too much to ask that I take care of Alice as well? Let me finish what I got myself into."[/color] The little girl certainly left an impression on her. Even though Drake was saying that killing them was the only option, if he'd accept her proposal, she'd at least try and persuade the child to their side. She didn't even want to think about the worst case scenario. Her hand was shaking a bit, but she tried to not let it show.

Whatever Drake's answer was, her attention was brought over to Tocsax mentioning that Taka was out of commission. She made a mental note to drop by the infirmary after the meeting was over.

[b][i]Timeskip[/i][/b]

The next few days, she couldn't help but feel that they were being watched somehow. She had little magic experience, but she had enough battle experience to be able to tell when somebody is there or not when they're not actively trying to hide their presence. The girl didn't bring it up with anybody, thinking that she was probably just paranoid about meeting Alice again.

The wind was blowing hard from where they were standing, and she was barely keeping herself from being blown off her feet by stabbing her Keyblade onto the floor that they were standing on. She suddenly wished that she had left her kimono and hakama behind since the extra weight is making it difficult to keep her balance.

After a round of attacks from Tocsax and Homura, she noticed that somebody had suddenly dropped in and was shouting at them. [color=bc8dbf]"Who are you?"[/color] The new girl looked a few years younger than her, wearing a school uniform that doesn't look out of place for the modern day Japan that she read about in the library some time before. Mai wanted to point her blade at the newcomer, but the strong winds were telling her that that was a bad idea.