Who Blake and YOU
What Training and tattoos, multiple scenarios
When Afternoon
Where Genessia
Warning n/a, slight mentions of Battler but nothing graphic or trigger inducing - will update if that changes

( Cause my echo, echo ,Is the only voice coming back,Shadow, shadow Is the only friend that I have )

Who: Genos and Priss
What: Just a little friendly, high-speed, high-impact combat between allies.
Where: Genessia and then Attleton - Battle Colosseum
When: Early July
Warnings: Fights, FITES, and shirtlessness.

( ''We can go back in and go another round if you insist on making me want to kick you in the shin again.'' )

 [Takato smiles brightly into the camera. Right now, he was more genuinely happy that he had been in all the months he had lived in Genessia.]

Guess what! I finally found an archway that goes to the digital world. My digital world. 

And I met someone I want everyone to meet.

[He aims the camera at the creature standing beside him, a large red dinosaur-like creature that stood nearly as tall as Takato.]

This is my best friend Guilmon.

Um, does anyone have some spare bread and peanut butter? He's a little hungry.

[Takato doesn't bother to mention that he'd gone running off into his digital world without bothering to tell anyone the moment it had opened. And that that was why he'd been missing for the last few days.]

[Action]

[There's a new arrival, but this wouldn't be obvious to many people - owing to the fact that she's keeping herself fairly well hidden. Being a former 'glitch' with the ability to teleport, she thankfully still has this ability, and after realizing she was in a completely different world, decides to use this to explore her surroundings.

Maybe she's going to startle some people, perhaps she could purposefully scare someone who's particularly easy to do so... or maybe she'll just keep hidden. Unfortunately, she's not aware that there are potentially people here who can sense without having to see, and that her actual method of teleporting isn't exactly perfect, as each time she does so, glitchy particles escape into the air where she starts and finishes. What do?]

[Text]

nice little video introduction thing. guess if I had any questions about this place, most of 'em are answered already. what about time back home, though? I mean if time's passing without us that's pretty bad right? [Especially for her.]

[The video starts really out of focus. Honestly it's hard to tell what's going on. There seems to be a lot of flailing. And something... blue.]

-in the hell's goin' on this time? 'S bad 'nuff I gotta go through all this damn new world shit all over 'gain but this time the shitty Interface stops workin'? Spent years learnin' t' work the damn thing an' now it's broke? Y' shittin' me?

[There is a deep, aggravated moan and the blue thing flops on the ground- as denoted by a lot of jiggle cam and the sound of a thump. Speaking of things that are blue, that's a nice blue sky with some fluffy clouds, isn't it? After a heavy sigh, the owner of this new communicator moves it around to focus more clearly on his face- thick skinned with lots of pores around the nose and mouth, intense black eyes, and yes, if you squint and turn your head you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between this face and an actual shark's. With a tattoo.]

A'ight, who all's this thing jawin' at? Do I know any a y'all?

Can talk back t' me, right? Or's it more like the BBS where y' post shit an' then text all the time? Sheheheh! Don't think none a y' wants t' see me textin'.

[He gets louder, pointing a webbed finger at the camera.]

An' don't gimme none a this man 's got a voice t' text feature shit cuz I already been somewhere where that's a thing an' trust me, damn program's dumber'n a jellyfish with half its umbrella caught in a rudder. For them that don't know, jellyfish is probly the dumbest a dumb shits cuz they lit'rally ain't got no brains. Jus' some guts an' a buncha tentacles an' a hole t' shove whatever poor sap gets tangled up with 'em int'. For eatin', y' know?

Anyway.

[Another beleaguered sigh, and he rolls over onto his side, staring forlornly at the communicator.]

Probly gotta find 'nother shitty job 'gain too. Damn it. Someone please tell me there's an ocean out there somewhere, an' that it ain't gods rotted poison t' live in. Please. 'M beggin'. Seriously.

[He bows his head, so the camera gets a nice sideways view of the scenery behind him and some out of focus shots of his hair and dorsal fin.]

Pleeeeeease let there be an ocean.

[A deep breath, and he regains his composure somewhat.]

A'ight. Okay. 'M good. We're good. Talk t' me guys. Babes. Whoever. How's kicks?

[One last, friendly, toothy smile, and he cuts the feed.]

[ Open Action for All in Fayren, Genessia or Nova City ]
[ It's rare that Lucy ventured out of Fayren, but it was also rare she felt that the guild was suitably protected while she and Natsu weren't there. That wasn't the case now, thankfully, and she was more than grateful for the help of her spirits. Now she wanted to re-familiarize herself with the cities she had visited before, since it had been a long time since she was able to do so. Of course she's rarely without her partner, but she might be this time! Who knows what the future brings, right? In any case, she seemed rather distracted, a notebook tucked under her arm as she wandered about. In fact, she was so distracted, she almost didn't notice until she bumped into someone (predictably you!) at the last minute! ]

Whoops - sorry about that! Are you okay?

[ Action for Virgo - Nova City ]
[ It wasn't the first time a friend disappeared on her, but it was stranger when that friend was her own spirit, Virgo. Of course, she couldn't begrudge the spirit wanting a little personal time, especially with as hard as she'd been working alongside Loke and the others at the guild, and with Lucy herself. Still, the last time she summoned the maid spirit she was behaving oddly, so Lucy had given Natsu a heads up about her plans on finding Virgo - since he would of course come along with her, she was sure - and set off into the other City to find Virgo. Now...where could she be? ]

Video

[She flicks on the screen looking a little more shy than usual. She isn't going out of her way to see people as much, sticking to home and work but this is her way of trying.]

So I don't know if this is a good idea or not but I'm planning to have a writers event at my bookshop in Fayren. Where amateur writers can bring their work and talk about it and maybe get them turned into books to sell at my shop.

I want everyone to come, writers and non-writers. Anyone who likes books.

It'll be funded by me so there isn't any need to worry and I'll have light snacks for those who stop by.

[As long as they keep away from the books.]

It'll be in about a month or so. I'd like to know who's interested so I can have a rough head count or if you'd prefer the venue to be somewhere else.

Action

[Levy can be found anywhere that isn't out in the open: inside her home, behind her home, behind any of her bookshops and generally anywhere out of the way of foot traffic. There is a wooden sword held lightly in her hand and a sad expression on her face. She doesn't know what do to exactly but she wants to try. She'd been practicing with Blaze but now she'll have to start over.

Unless she takes David's offer.

She feels like she's stuck. She wants to take his offer but being injured feels easier some how. Levy isn't one who often runs away, not when it really counts, but it's hard to pick up the pieces of her confidence. She swings the sword down and takes the stance that Blaze had shown her before signing and dropping her arm.

Levy's always had a constant battle with her confidence. The only thing she feels confident about is books which is why she's thrown most of her effort into her stores.]

Maybe I should just stick to magic.

[She doesn't have to learn to use the sword but that isn't really the problem she's having.]