Three Lost and One Piece

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A paper was pulled from the job board and stared at by a blue-haired man. He used his free hand to scratch his head as he yawned while reading the paper over. It didn't look all that interesting to him really at first. It looked like a typical job to just help someone find a lost item of theirs claiming that is was 'precious' and 'one of a kind'. What did catch his eye was that it was a job where they would be fighting against pirates. His interest was pretty high in these pirates because he had never fought any before and wanted to test his skills against them. It was a typical thing for someone who wanted to be stronger to test themselves against the unknown and he had a good reason to want to become known as one of the strongest, at least in his own mind.

He took the paper and went outside of the Eclipse Soul guildhall to find the two latest additions to his team, the busty royal named Setsuna Arashi and the armored girl named Elise. Both had unique abilities that Cor Torva would literally kill to get from them and in Setsuna's case almost did. He had called them to meet him in front of the guildhall and wanted to take them on a job to get their team working skills more up to par while also getting some cash in their pockets. The two girls were accompanied by his pet giant flying serpent, Zinnath who perked her head up upon seeing and hearing him heading towards them.

"Hey guys, I have a job we can do. It involve pirates. Sounds sort of unique, right?" He yelled out to them as he made his way down the stairs of the guildhall. He made it to the bottom of the stairs and held out the paper. "I had you both get here so we can go and do this job together. You can look it over if you want but it sounds like it could be fun to me. We have to go meet the guy at the docks near the bottom of the mountain."

ELISE stood silently waiting for the approach of the one who had called them to meet in front of the guild hall. The guild hall that was now her home. A place she had only come to quite recently. Her green orb like eyes observed the building in an almost quizzical fashion. Why did being part of a guild feel so natural to her? Had she been part of a guild before her memory corruption? She didn't know. "Affirmative. Unique is an appropriate word to describe it." she said her voice sounding robotic. Her body was not just armor it was her actual body now. Few of her original organs remained. The rest was artificial and made via some advanced lacrima manipulation. Such manipulation she could not explain, but she knew of it and knew how it worked even if she did not know why she knew it or why it was needed in the first place. Due to the fact her body was now robotic her voice had become more robotic. She had attempted in her spare time to make her voice sound more natural and at least now it sounded female and young even if it did sound robotic. It was better than the monotonous tone she had before which had seriously grated on even her own audio sensors. She took the proffered paper and quickly scanned the paper. A strange beam of light seemed to extend from her eyes scanning in the words and taking them all in.

"Information processed. Ready to proceed when you are." she added offering the paper towards Setsuna the final member of their team. She looked at the flying serpentine creature, the pet of Cirven, and observed it. For some reason the creature made her...wistful? Upset? No, empty was the best word to describe it. Did she once have a companion like this? Or just a companion of some kind? She felt like there was something missing whenever she saw the creature. She had been working on a project and that made her a little more fulfilled. Perhaps that would feel the whole in her soul.

The morning sun was more blinding than she would have liked,but what did you expect after being trapped in a ice cold dungeon for months. Setsuna hand was over her eyes to block the strong rays of the sun from directly hitting them. On her return from imprisonment her father and mother were overjoyed to see that their heir was alright. Due to her being saved by Eclipse Soul mages she was now part of that guild to hone and master her magic for good. She was in the middle of the market place with a basket on her arm,with fruits and vegetables for her household. It was her mother telling her she should go out and see the people or at least try to get along with them. Her hand will reach up as strand of her orange hair will be pushed behind her ear in the process. "Crap..."was all she exclaimed as she remembered she had to meet Cirven at the guild for a assignment.

Placing jewels on the counter of the fruit stand she will take off without another word. She totaly lost track of time shopping for her mother,This what happens when you are born in a family of royalty. As she arrives in the guild hall,thankfully she wasnt too late to meet up with them. The first thing she saw was a robot girl,why did this suddenly peak her interest....well duh it was a living robot. Plus Setsuna got distracted by these kinda things quite easily when it came down to it."Oh right...sorry I'm late,had errands to run"she spoke up not liking how late she was to meeting up after the whole her dying for a demon thing. She will be handed the paper as the basket of fruit and vegetables will still be hanging from her arm as she look a gander at the piece of paper....."Wait.......meet a guy at the docks...do this mean were taking a boat?"she questioned it seemed one wild adventure of her life just led to another.....

Cirven had sort of forgotten that the two had not really met yet which he quickly wanted to rectify that situation before things got anymore awkward than it was. "Oh yeah! Setsuna, this is Elise. She is a sort of half human half robot type of girl at this point after an incident happened to her. She doesn't remember much about her past either." He stood next to Elise and placed his hands around her as if she was some sort of item on display that he was wanting someone to buy. He changed positions and started to do the same thing around Setsuna as he continued speaking but this time to Elise. "Elise this is Jugs--errmmm..." He smirked at his own comment as he called Setsuna by the nickname he used for her. "I mean this is Setsuna. She is of royalty and Lumina and I saved her not too long ago from being sacrificed to summon a demon due to her royal blood. She can be sort of absent minded sometimes but is an all around kind person, usually." He continued to tease Setsuna as he finished.

With the introductions finished he then walked over to Zinnath and laid his hand upon her body to pet her. "Well, I honestly don't like the idea of taking a ship to a place where pirates are known to be. I don't know much at all about sailing on a ship so I think it would be better if we went a different way to the island after speaking to the man who put up this job. Ain't that right, Zinny?" The giant, flying serpent let out a short high pitched moan at him and then he jumped up onto her. "Lets get going, ladies. Don't worry too much about Zinny. She is probably the sweetest carnivore you will ever meet." He patted his hand on the serpent's back to signal that the women should jump up on her.

"Processing information." ELISE replied as the introductions were made. Words seem to breifly flicker across her crystalline eyes. "Information processed. Analysing." This form, she was certain it was the reason she acted like she did now. She was sure she had never been like this before. Once, according to Lumina, ELISE had possessed an organic body. Now, she had a robotic one. Her body was hooked up to an organic brain and heart, but the rest was pure machinery. Somehow this seemed to have introduced a filter to her brain which meant she had to process the information in an almost archive magic like fashion. It also changed her outputs from standard human ones to the more technical terminology she used. Perhaps there was a way to fix that in the future, but for now it was not important. "Information analysed. Organism is known as Setsuna, also known as Jugs Absent minded sometimes and punctuality not at 100%. Based on organism Cirven's words. There is a 98% probability that it was good to meet you Setsuna aka Jugs. Do you have a naming preference?" She tilted her head, her eyes flickering as more data was processed.

The next words that were spoken were also by Cirven. It seemed that rather than taking a ship to the oceans they were instead going to ride on the back of the large serpentine creature. "Affirmative. In an area populated by pirates a seagoing vessel would not be advised." she said and then her back opened and from it formed a small device. At its based were two cone shaped outputs and from its side were wings. Without a word the bottom glowed brightly and magic pulsed from it. As this occured she was propelled into the air and settled otnto the back of the large creature that had been identified by Cirven as 'Zinny'. "Is Zinny a pseudonym? Or is it the proper name for your serpentine companion?" she enquired of Cirven.