[color=ed1c24][I]So, Zodiark can now stretch his legs on Ivalice’s grounds huh?[/I][/color] Jaakuna figured it was only a matter of time. He didn’t claim to be a specialist when it came to Ivalice and the inner-workings of the mystical, but he did know that, when all of the Espers were released by their shackles in the various locations they were chained to, shit was going to get real - and it didn’t get any realer than Zodiark being able to walk among the Ivalicians. [color=ed1c24][b]“Oh what lovely news.”[/b][/color] The sarcasm in Jaakuna’s voice was obvious. Jaakuna didn’t find anything lovely about Zodiark being able to walk among the people of Ivalice - even worse when he considered the fact that the bastard could destroy it at any given moment. Truly, he was fucking with their lives. Nadeline would soon urge them that they needed to make haste and all that shit, but Lorenzo, thank the heavens for him being her father, convinced her to calm her shit, and take a breather. There was no need to rush. It wasn’t like Zodiark was going to destroy the world this very moment. A little breather wouldn’t hurt.

And thus they did, Grant, Savayna, and Wesley all had finally gotten to the garage only to be rushed off to the other end of the castle by Nadeline. Grant was obviously annoyed, but he followed. Wesley chuckled at his fiance’s never-die attitude. And Savayna looked at Jaakuna. [color=lightblue][b]“Hey, you’re not dead.”[/b][/color] Savayna said smirking.

[color=ed1c24][b]“As if I’d let anything kill me.”[/b][/color] Jaakuna laughed. 

[color=fff79a][b]“Nice to see you’re looking well, Jaakuna.”[/b][/color] Wesley said lowly.

[color=ed1c24][b]“Ayy, Wes! You look like you were put through the ringer.”[/b][/color]

[color=lightblue][b]“You have no idea.”[/b][/color] Savayna said, looking at Wesley.

[color=ed1c24][b]“You’ll have to tell me all about it later, but now I think we’re going to rest up or whatever.”[/b][/color] Jaakuna really didn’t know where they were going, but as Grant and Emiri as well as Lorenzo did, he, Savayna, and Wesley(via Jaakuna and Savayna) followed them around the castle until they arrived at Nadeline’s room.

When they got into it, it was quite the setup. Then again, in the room of a princess, Jaakuna didn’t expect anything less than what he saw with his two, emerald green eyes. They, of course, were led to the guest room, which was fine. Not like they needed to see her actual bedroom, now was it? Jaakuna was pretty sure Wesley was disappointed. If he was, - well, tough shit. He’ll have to make due with the guest room.

As they would settle around a table, Savayna and Grant sitting next to each other, Emiri and Jaakuna sat next to each other, and Wesley and Nadeline sat next to each other, each getting food - or at least the guys were. The ladies, well seemed like they were engaging in conversation. Well, at least it seemed that Emiri and Nadeline were, and the rest were sort of chit-chatting amongst themselves until Grant would ask about Jaakuna and Emiri’s presence in Stigma. That prompted Jaakuna to put down the piece of rabbit breast he had in his hand, about to speak when Emiri got to it first. He continued eating as he would simply listen.

When Emiri began explaining, everyone stopped what they were doing, and listened as well. Savayna, specifically looked at Emiri, unsure what to say. [color=lightblue][b]“Oh wow, Emiri, sorry,”[/b][/color] she said, feeling that’s all what she could offer up as sympathies.

[color=fff79a][b]“You have my deepest sympathies, Emiri.”[/b][/color] Wesley offered up a similar gesture.

It seemed Emiri overlooked the bit about her mother and went straight to how her father was doing. Both Wesley and Savayna found that strange, and looked to Jaakuna. They wondered if he had noticed it too when the news was first received to Emiri. He gave them a look as well. It pretty much told them “yes” without saying anything at all. Then they simply went back to listening to Emiri.

As Nadeline responded to all of that, the answers of the grieving was revealed to Wesley, Savayna, and Nadeline, but then the latter would turn her gaze to Jaakuna, inquring about why he and Emiri left with Lorenzo. That’s when Jaakuna put down the piece of chicken he had in his hand. [color=ed1c24][b]“To investigate the destruction site.”[/b][/color] Jaakuna said, getting right to the point. [color=ed1c24][b]“I had asked Lorenzo to take Emiri and I there, and that’s where we encountered [I]trouble[/I].”[/b][/color]

[color=lightblue][b]“Trouble?”[/b][/color] Savayna asked.

[color=ed1c24][b]“Yes, the kind of trouble that wreaks of fake tits and a purple jumpsuit."[/b][/color]

[color=lightblue][b]“Lola?”[/b][/color] 

[color=ed1c24][b]“Precisely.”[/b][/color] Jaakuna sighed, leaning back. “even though I would have preferred to not fight that crazy bitch, she did give us some interesting information, as well as a little gift.” Jaakuna said, chuckling. “It turns out that Looney Lola caused the explosion with the Midnight Shard.”

[color=fff79a][b]“We know.”[/b][/color] Wesley said lowly but angrily, hands gripping the table cloth tightly.

[color=ed1c24][b]“And you know this how?”[/b][/color]

[color=fff79a][b]“Shion, The Blue Rose..”[/b][/color] Wesley said.

[color=ed1c24][b]“Oh right--WAIT WHAT!?”[/b][/color] Jaakuna nearly fell over in his chair.

[color=fff79a][b]“Yes, during our fight with Ultima, she came in and caused …complications.”[/b][/color]

[color=ed1c24][b]“Oh that’s just fucking great.”[/b][/color] Jaakuna cursed, hands slamming on the table. [color=ed1c24][b]“As if we don’t have enough problems from Zodiark running amok and Lola, but now Shion is doing the same dirty shit she’s been doing. What else are we going to have to deal with? Some kind of war?”[/b][/color] Jaakuna was cursing left and right.

[color=fff79a][b]“Jaakuna..”[/b][/color]

[color=9e0b0f][b]“This is just fucking fantastic! I leave you guys alone to do a simple task, and now the whole thing has gone to shit.”
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[color=lightblue][b]“Jaakuna.”[/b][/color]

[color=ed1c24][b]“Well, I guess there goes are time off, huh? Fucking fuck!”[/b][/color]

[color=lightblue][b]“JAAKUNA!”[/b][/color]

He looked around. [color=ed1c24][b]“What?”[/b][/color]

[color=lightblue][b]“Would you calm your shit? That’s not all.”[/b][/color]

[color=ed1c24][b]“You’re kidding me? Fine, what’s left of this shit story?”[/b][/color] Jaakuna didn’t care who told him. They better talk fast, though. He was one minute away from cursing up a storm again.