[center][img]https://www.mariowiki.com/images/thumb/b/b2/Koopa_Troop_artwork.png/658px-Koopa_Troop_artwork.png[/img] [h2][color=FD0000]The Koopa Troop in:[/color][/h2][/center] [center][h3]How do you end up getting hurt on vacation?[/h3][/center] [center][b][color=FD0000]wordcount:[/color][/b] 955 (+2) [b][color=DeepSkyBlue]Kamek: Level 10 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=DeepSkyBlue]////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color](115/100) [b][color=FD0000]Location:[/color][/b] Limsa Lominscuttle Town - Kanzuki Beach [/center] [center][i]feat. Link (+2)[/i][/center] [@Zoey Boey] [hr][hr] The sudden arrival of a trio of ravenous ex-prisoners interrupted the calm around the mostly wound down buffet, much to its few remaining guest’s initial displeasure. That they were cute and genuinely in need of sustenance calmed that disquiet a fair bit eventually, but before Kamek could warm to the trio she first had an unexpected patient to attend too. At the sound of their rude interruption the Koopa tilted down the three folded sun mirror she had been using to sunbath (in the reptilane sense of the word) and first glared at the trio before, her eyes drifted back to the person who had invited them, and went wide at the sight of the wounds on the hero of the wilds. She set down her mirror next to a bowl of grapes that sat on a little table beside her, and then pushed herself out of the deck chair she had been lounging in. [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Moons and Stars Link, we are supposed to be having a day off. But noooo, first the young master had to get Mimi hurt and now you are too. Whatever happened?”[/color] she asked as she hurried over, hands rumagin around her replacement robnes till she found her wand. She waved it in the air to produce a quartet of doppe gangers and then got to converting them into healers while the hero explained himself. “There was this glowing dais out in the ocean.” The hero replied, dropping cross-legged on the sandy beach. “So, I went and stood on it. As you do. It took me to a…” He cast his gaze around the beach, trying to find the right way to describe the place. “It was like this beach, but darker. Empty. There was this barrier around the dais I couldn't cross. They,” he pointed to the triplets tearing up the buffet. “Told me it was a jail, a place for ‘losers’. The way you got out was winning a fight with whoever came in. Luckily that was only half true, I think they just wanted to have some fun with me, because after I got [i]destroyed[/i] they were good enough to pull me out anyway. I think anyone getting out broke the jail.” “Here’s the really interesting part.” he continued, leaning in. “They were already free when I met them. No heart needed. Now, what happened to Junior?” The mage resisted making a comment about and meddling with what they did not understand, and instead set to her healing and alleviating any fears about Jr’s situation before discussing this prison [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Oh don’t you worry. The young master and his pokemon are fine. Apparently people who own them have to spar with each other when they meet and so he got into two of those.”[/color] “Oh, yeah.” Link added, relieved. “There was a pair of kids in the Tournament that did the same thing. It’s like a common courtesy with Pokemon trainers.” [color=DeepSkyBlue]”He won the first and made a friend, and lost the second to some bully who I believe his royal majesty is having a word with at the moment”[/color] The mage said, just before a familiar roar rumbled across the beach. [color=DeepSkyBlue]”I believe that would be that talk beginning just now”[/color] the mage said with a slightly sinister smile, before directing her white mage clones to start healing Link and focusing their conversation back on his own escapade. [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Now as for this gate, that is quite a strange thing to just have sitting about on a public beach. Are people just being sucked in and out and no one did anything about it?”[/color] she asked as Link’s wounds were washed away by her magics. “I don’t think so. The way they were acting it’s like I was the first guest they had ever entertained.” He replied as the magic closed wounds and scrubbed out scorch marks. “If Galeem put them away, maybe nobody else can see the jail? I tried asking them, but they were more interested in playing with me.” [color=DeepSkyBlue]”How strange. Yet you said you simply stepped on it and it occurred?”[/color] The mage dismissed her clones and cupped her beak thoughtfully [color=DeepSkyBlue]”In that case we’d have to assume that those under Galeem’s influence cannot enter? Or cannot be trapped? Perhaps that is what they are, traps? Made to catch anyone who slipped the noose?”[/color] she suggested, missing the mark a touch with her theory. “It’s out of the way for a trap.” Link replied, getting back to his feet and rolling his shoulders to check for any lingering aches. “Unless it’s trying to catch free fish. We could go check it out if you like, maybe you’d recognize something I couldn't. I’m pretty sure it’s off though.” [color=DeepSkyBlue]”And yet you stepped in it anyway”[/color] she pointed out teasingly before sighing and saying [color=DeepSkyBlue]”But yes, I suppose I put a magical eye to the situation, see if there is anything lingering to discover”[/color] and going to fetch her broom. She picked it up and mounted it, hovering into the air and beginning to move off towards the gate, before adding [color=DeepSkyBlue]”oh and see if you can get anything more out of those girls once they have stated their hunger”[/color] as she drifted past Link. “Yeah, but I would have stepped into it sooner if it were next to the road.” Link replied jokingly as Kamek gathered her broomstick and set off, giving him one last task. Link waved to the magikoopa. “I’ll handle it. They’re my responsibility, after all. Unless Bowser decides to adopt them.” Speaking of that, Link turned and started up the beach toward the buffet and calling out to their hostess. “Sorry Miss Kazuki, they’re with me and they haven't eaten in a while.”