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[color=4BE2A3][h3]Naija[/h3][/color]
[color=4BE2A3] level[/color]: 6
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(M)(E)Damage: + 1
(M)(E)Defense: + 2 
Dexterity: + 2
General Ability: Nature form: after singing a tune Naija transforms into a defensive form. Her cape transforms into one woven with leaves and featuring a coif that covers her neck and head. Small bits of wooden armor decorate her forearms, lower legs and shoulders. Her skin loses its slight blue tint going fully green and her belly is marked with a swirling tattoo. The cape part of this form can be used to gran some basic protection, primarily too nature attacks. She can also produce seeds from it that can be thrown. Small seeds will produce only rapidly growing flowers and other small pants however if she charges the seed she can cause it to spround a massive [url=https://i.imgur.com/8JFYZs8.jpg]Thorny cactus[/url] that grows with such speed that it will launch anyone/thing in the path of its sudden growth skywards. These cactuses can then be used as cover or be used to restrict the movement of enemies.
[/hider][color=4BE2A3]day/time[/color]: Day Three early morning to Evening
[color=4BE2A3]Location[/color]: Platform City to Ragnarok
[color=4BE2A3]Tagging[/color]:  [@Dawnrider] [@Zarkun] [@Lugubrious][@Tenma Tendo][@Holy Soldier]
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In the early morning after the attack, as part of the decision had been underway in the lab where Guile had been healing, Dr light had offhandedly mentioned that Mario could be resurrected during an explanation of how pixels worked. Naija, who had not known of this possibility, had more or less assaulted the good doctor while demanding answers, answers she had received once she had been subsequently calmed and detached from the poor man’s lab coat. It seemed that there existed certain items in some of the universe beyond her own that could bring back the dead, including one that she had on her person: the Phoenix Down. The short lived bubble of hope this gave her that she would soon be able to undo her failure burst shortly afterwards when she met up with the returning Kirby and found out they had not been able to retrieve the hero’s soul. Her wings were returned to her as had been asked, but the infected king Dedede had apparently given Mario’s hat to a shadowy figure who had spirited it away long before the team would even have had a chance to intervene and neither they nor Dedede knew not where the receiver of the soul had gone off to after claiming their prize. 

Finding herself emotionally stuck in wanting to both cry her heart out while simultaneously murdering the King she had quickly remove herself from the castle to avoid such a disastrous outburst. The rest of the day had been spent as productively as she could manage. She had wandered the gardens outside Tetris castle to try and clear her head and in the process and rediscovered her nature form. She then spent some time in mama’s kitchen helping out during the busy lunch period while doing a bit of solo cooking on the side to replace the magical dishes she had used the previous day to fight in the smash arena and prevent Guile from dying to the annihilation sword wound. She finally visited the Wikia library during the afternoon proper and there, with the help of the friendly wizened scholar who ran the place named [url=https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/diablo/images/4/4f/Deckard_Cain_D3.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20131015114726]Deckard Cain[/url], had learned a little more about this strange world she had found herself in. As evening was approaching duty called however and so the fish lady bid farewell to the storyteller and returned to the castle, her mental and emotional state perhaps the most stable they had been since she escaped her mother’s clutches using the Lakitu’s letter. 

After returning to the castle Naija was lead through its halls to the [url=https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/finalfantasy/images/3/3b/Ragnarokairship.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20080712123807]Ragnarok[/url]’s hanger by a lemming, and then joined the others to receive their briefing, sitting on the floor to do so while conspicuously wearing Fox’s old jacket over her usual swimwear and stolen belt. As per usual a lot of it went right over her head, particularly the rundown of the ships specs. A scant few hours of study had not been enough it seemed, but they did help a little, particularly because the ship’s attack on the castle was all anyone could talk about out in the city and as a result she had picked up some of the basic nomenclature surrounding such things. Naija subsequently trimmed the briefing down in her mind into a simplified priority list:

1. Get Mario’s soul
2. Don’t get stabbed by the annihilator sword
3. Get/destroy the annihilator sword
4. Get/destroy the corruption bag
5. Capture/Kill everyone inside
6. Loot ship for souvenirs
7. Get ship?
8. Destroy core

The hows where not exactly something Naija focused very much on as she had more or less abstracted the ship into a dungeon with puzzles, enemies and bosses that could be dealt with when they were come across. This was primarily because she was, thankfully, not assigned a leadership role this time. Once the briefing was over the hero's headed for the ship dragon shaped ship. As she traveled towards its boarding ramp, her hip wings hovering her upright just a few cm from the floor, the fish girl took a few moments to take stock of the team, both present and absent.

Fox she knew best, they had fought side by side in the squad she had lead on the first mission, the one in which they, in which she, had lost Mario. Their squad leader was absent however, but she hoped for all their sakes that he would do a better at the job than she had. She recognized Slayer, he’d been on that first mission in a different squad and the two had spoken during Mario’s funeral but that was about the limit of their interactions. The pink blobby Kirby she knew from the events of this morning, though saying she had spoken with the fellow would be a sketch with their inability/refusal to speak English. Cloud and Alicia she had seen before and after the dreamland mission but that was all. King Dedede she did not trust one bit, even if he was now corruption free. Their last teammate she had not seen before however. A dark haired human with dark clothes colored only by a few splashes of red.   

After thinking for a few moments she decided it would be wise to get introductions in order. The woman fluttered to the head of the group and then turned to face them, meaning that she ended up flying backwards. Making sure she was kept herself at head height, as per some previous advice she had gotten from Slayer, she attempted to inject some conversation into the proceedings.

[color=4BE2A3]“So...”[/color] she began, stumbled at the starting block momentarily before continuing [color=4BE2A3]“If we’re going to be fighting together we should get to know each other a bit, right?”[/color] before anyone could respond to her accidental seeking of validation she soldiered on [color=4BE2A3]“I’m Naija. I’m going to make sure you all get in and out in one piece this time. I’ve got a few healing items for light injuries and if your get really hurt I’ll try to get you back to the ship as fast as possible. I’ll probably also be one of the people making sure we get in past the bats.”[/color] Naija explained before continuing [color=4BE2A3]“Now I’ve met most of you, briefly at least, and I’ve been on a team with Fox. He’ll make a good leader, I think. But I don't think we’ve met before?”[/color] She directed this last part at Akira, turning to face him specifically and smiling politely at the teen before asking him. 

[color=4BE2A3]“What’s your name?”[/color]

Just as she did so the spikes of her winged heels clicked against the boarding ramp itself, which the woman took as her que to stop heading up the group. She moved off a little to one side to fly up the ramp beside those ascending it, keeping her focus on Akira as she pulled off this little maneuver in an attempt to avoid coming across as rude.