Looking for the Missing/Stolen Jewelry (Chaotic Dance Party only)

Job Number 1:
The Stolen Jewel

Oh!  Anastasia is excited!  She finally gets to start on her first job as a Blue Pegasus!  While her superiors didn't take time out of their busy days to visit the newcomers, which kind of annoyed her (but at the same time, she understood), her and Axos got along and decided to turn themselves into a new team.  'Chaotic Dance Party' was the name of their team.  Though, she didn't realize the point of the name.  Certainly she sings and people can dance to it, but she doesn't understand the chaotic party part of it.

Making her towards the fountain in the town square; as she approached the town, she gasped and looked at the town with mouth agape.  Every new place she got to visit just opened her mind and broadened her horizons more and more.  First she got to see the time-tested beauty of the guild-hall, now she is witnessing the beauty and magnificence of a fishing/trading town.  The air smelled of salt-water and fish; an organic smell that most people would find abominable.  This smell, however, was a thing of beauty for Ana.  While she wouldn't eat the flesh of a cow or a pig, fish are A-OK in her book.  

Not only was the town beautiful, but the backdrop with the ocean is spectacular.  However, it is unfortunate, but she isn't here to sight-see or take part in the delicious sea-food this harbor is known for.  No, she has a job to do.  But with the job done, the money should net her enough to come here for a nice meal.  Oh!  She wants this job to be done with already so she can make her way here for leisurely activities!

Approaching the fountain, she noticed a large man wearing his usual hat with the jewel embedded into it.  One could easily say that the jewel in his hat could potentially be the jewels they were looking for, but let's not get hasty now.  Upon seeing Axos, she raised her hand in the air and waved it rapidly.  "Hey, Axos!!" she said with a large smile upon her face.   If only Kibo could be here to see this!  But then again, people would react a little strangely to Kibo if they saw a largely dressed girl riding on top of a large lion-dog creature.  

Jumping up and down, she waved both of her hands to get Axos' attention.  "Yoohoo!  Axos!!"

Stats wrote:WC:  404 / 2000
HP:  100%
MP:  100%

Job Number 1:
The Stolen Jewel

"Oh my gawd!  Isn't this town so pretty, Axos?" she asked as the man approached her.  Her eyes went from the pretty looking man to the beautiful fountain and then the beautiful town for a moment.  "This place would be so nice to go out on a date, especially at night," she mentioned for the hell of it, not implying that Axos should ask her out, no no; but in general, this place would look beautiful at night assuming the lighting in this place was more romantic in design than Victorian London.  She put her hands together and (XD) faces.  "And the seafood here would be to die for!"  

However, once she returned to the real world, she noticed the man winking at her, asking if she was ready.  Well, yeah, she was ready.  She threw an arm up with a big smile on her face; positivity is the pavement towards victory -- right?  Well, at least Ana wanted to think so.  "Yeah!  Let's do this!" she shouted out enthusiastically, only to have people stop what they were doing and look in her direction for a moment.  Noticing that there were so many eyes on her forced Ana to blush a bit.  She waved off the newly obtained audience and said in a breathy manner, "Don't mind me, I'm just a tourist," she said with an awkward laugh before the on-lookers returned to their regular lives.  Thankfully, she wasn't a shinobi.  Perhaps she should consider being a tad bit more inconspicuous.  Or perhaps her acting awkward simply added to the flavor of this job?

Having snatched a copy of a picture of the jewels, she zipped around, asking people if they knew anything about these jewels.  Unknowingly, she remained within ear-shot of her partner, knowing that communication is the key.  Besides, if one of them were to get clues, they didn't exactly have a subtle method of communicating with one another.  (Perhaps she should consider having some form of communication device for future jobs with her partner for more efficient job completion).  Throwing different colored mana wasn't exactly subtle.  Besides, the mana she produces is generally invisible to normal people who have no concept of sound magic.  Well, if Axos was a master of sound magic, then he would see a 'grossly incandescent' ball of magic in the air.  But she doubts it.  

Due to Anastasia being relatively new to asking and finding things out, she stumbled and fumbled her words on a few of the individuals she questioned.  Certainly, with those that left, she continued to badger them until she got her point across.  So far, nobody had offered a single clue for accomplishing the mission.  Stopping to look at the picture, Ana sighed for a moment and looked around.  Yes, she normally had a happy demeanor upon her face, but she's starting to grow a bit frustrated and a bit at a loss for the moment.  Perhaps she should have branched off instead of staying within ear-shot of her partner.  One could only be so careful right?

Stats wrote:WC:  914 / 2000
HP:  100%
MP:  100%

Job Number 1:
The Stolen Jewel

And sparkles flew through her hair.  The sound entered her ears, sounding like glockenspiels ringing from the lowest note to the highest note.  Some people may consider this to sound like magical crystals or a chime-like sound, but the sound was enough to tell her where her partner was and at what distance.  Lifting her skirt slightly off of the ground, Anastasia begins to skip towards Axos' location only to come to a full halt.  Perhaps she found someone who may know the location of these jewels?

Walking around the man as stealthily as possible, she appeared directly behind the thinner, more sinister looking merchant.  My, did this merchant look some sorta fierce when compared to the pudgy ball of fluff that the others were.  She sneaked up behind the man and with a loud, booming shout of "Hello~~~ Axos!" the man jumped a bit, this caused the man to be startled for a moment.  

"So!  Does this guy know something about the jewels?  My, they're awfully pretty.  I wonder who would have stolen these jewels," she said as if playing good-cop and bad-cop.  The man turned his shoulders a bit to put the two in front of him, leaving his back exposed and with a way out if he deemed it necessary to flee from the situation.  

"So?  Out with it," the girl said in her usually cheery manner.  The fact that the man was being pressured to saying something from a laid-back man and an over-enthusiastic woman made him feel extremely uncomfortable.  His eyes shifted away from the two.  He took a step back for a moment only to be met with a woman raising both of her arms in excitement.  "Cat got your tongue?  I understand, these are some pretty jewels.  So come on, you know something about these jewels so tell us about it!  If you do, I'll reward you with something nice," she said with a bit of a wink.  Yes, she teased the man using her feminine wiles, but she had no real intention of following through with the task.  She was a decent girl and she wasn't a floozy-flapper-kind-of-woman.

Sweat began to drip down the man's face as he is now cornered.  The man squatted, grabbing the top of his head with both of his hands.  "What the hell is wrong with you people!?  Why don't you leave me alone!  So what if I know about these jewels!?" the man said before clearing his throat and backing up a bit.  Now's the time to make his escape.  With a bit of dust kicked up, the street urchin began to run through the town, using other stalls as springboards for his escape.  

Turning to look towards Axos, she smiled and shrugged her shoulders.  She wouldn't be able to catch up with the man, she had troubles just walking around without getting winded.  "Um.  Sorry, Axos.  Could you catch him?  I tried," she requested with a slight giggle.  "I'd chase after him, but I'm not in that kind of shape yet."

Stats wrote:WC:  1421 / 2000
HP:  100%
MP:  100%

Job Number 1:
The Stolen Jewel

Street Urchin, Rakuya

The street urchin continued to run, using his limited parkour skills as he jumped over stalls, pushing over obstacles to get in Axos' way.  Turning to look back was a rookie mistake as he noticed the man slowly creeping up to him.  He couldn't allow this!  No!  The boss wouldn't allow this to happen!  Nope!  Even if he got caught, he wouldn't let his lips loosen.  He couldn't dime out his boss; he had resolve of stee---.

The man lost track of what he was doing, playing the entire deal of loyalty and 'keeping the family true' ideals in the back of his mind instead of concentrating on running. The man screamed with a loud, shrill shriek.  "Oh my CRAP!  What the hell, man!  Couldn't you have caught me without spraining my ankle?  Geez!" the man said grasping at his leg and howled out in pain.  Perhaps the man was disguising his pain, lying about it to give him the opportunity to run away?  Upon closer inspection, his foot seemed to have faced in the exact opposite direction.  Nope, his foot's really broken.  

"I'll never talk!  There's no way I would talk about my boss being at the pawn-shop!" the man said, bursting out in a deluge of sweat.  He looked towards Axos for a moment and blinked a couple times.  ~Crap!  I hope this brutish idiot didn't catch that!  If he did, I'm toast!  Boss isn't gonna appreciate that very much!~ the man thought to himself.  

"Yeah!  The restaurant!" the man said attempting to cover up his tracks.  He laughed nervously.  As nervously as he giggled and chuckled to himself, he grew more and more racked with pain.  Certainly, while stricken with such a tense situation, one would forget about the pain of wrapping their ankles around itself, but no, the adrenaline ran out and the man rolled around in pain.  "The humanity!"  

It was at this point that Anastasia caught up to the two, huffing and puffing.  She placed her hand upon her knees and turned to look towards Axos with a big smile.  "You looked so cool just now, jumping over stalls and chasing after that bad guy!  If we weren't the same rank, I would so be a fan of yours," she said between each and every huff and puff.  She gave him a big thumbs up though, she was quite impressed with Axos' agility and athleticism.  

"So, did he tell you anything?" she asked before turning her eyes to look at the man before her eyes slowly turned over towards Axos, wondering if that was his doing.  She walked over to the man and placed a hand upon his forhead, attempting to calm him down.  If she didn't have a job to do, she would sing him a song to stop the pain, but she needs to ensure she's combat ready.  

"You couldn't have been a bit easier on the guy?" she asked before looking at the man and bowing her head slightly in apology.  Such needless suffering could have been avoided if the guy just didn't run away.  Not only was it an admission of guilt, but the guy could have and did get hurt because of it.  There isn't much she could do right now, but the guy will live; albeit he's going to be a bit agitated and limited until his injury improves.

Stats wrote:WC:  1982 / 2000
HP:  100%
MP:  100%

Job Number 1:
The Stolen Jewel

The woman smiled as she noticed Axos attempt to fix his roughness with the running-man.  However, with a swift movement, Axos snapped the ankle back into it's original place.  The sound of bones breaking and muscles tearing played clearly in Anastasia's ears.  Turning pale, the woman covered the lower half of her face with her sleeve, biting her lower lip so as to not let her lunch be released onto the floor.  Yes, she had a wimpy stomach that couldn't such squeamish acts of violence.  This is one reason she couldn't get into combat medicine.  On top of this, the man's shrill cries didn't help her cause.

Anastasia was told that the pawn shop was where to go.  She swallowed heavily to settle her digestive tract.  "Alright, but let's make this quick.  I'm not feeling too well," she said as her stomach continued to bind itself into knot after knot.  Her stomach found it's way up her throat with her salivary glands in her mouth activating on hyperdrive, flooding her mouth with spit.  Her eyes focused on Axos as he made his way out of the little alley they found themselves in and turned to look towards the street urchin.  She lowered her hand and bowed at the man before turning and pursuing after Axos.

Keeping in stride with the man proved difficult, being in absolutely horrible physical conditioning.  Just the act of maintaining stride with the man caused Anastasia to heave and ho; breathing heavier than normally people should.  Oh, her folly of being out of shape will be corrected the more jobs she takes part in while in the Blue Pegasus; whoever they are.  While she met some of the newer recruits, she has yet to encounter any of her leadership.  It would be nice if she even met them, to be able to put a voice to a face and a face to a name.  It could easily be stated that she would put a smell to a face, but that's a bit creepy and smell isn't exactly her top scent (at least not one she would normally use for identification).  

She kept behind Axos as the two walked into the Pawn Shop.  More people that seemed as annoyed and brutish as the pompadour-donned ruffian.  She simply followed the man's lead as he examined the diamond on sale.  She leaned in and whispered to him.  "I really hope you don't intend on buying that.  That's a fake," she stated.  The gem didn't seem to have the same appeal as an authentic diamond.  No, it seemed too perfect and it glimmered differently.  It was blatantly obvious just by looking at it.  Who would spend that kind of money on an imitation?  She made sure her voice stayed low enough to not insult the men that worked at the pawn shop.  As they turned to look at her, she only responded with a slight wave and a big smile upon her face.

Then the large, behemoth of a man walked from the back to the front where Anastasia and Axos stood.  Certainly, the man on her team would be more eloquent with his words.  No, he was extremely blunt and got straight to the chase.  Turning her eyes towards Axos for a moment, she looked at him with a bit of disappointment.  She turned and looked towards the large behemoth man and took a step next to Axos.  It was her turn.  Darting her eyes towards her partner for a moment, she had to get in-character for this job.

She leaned in to look over the large diamond, intentionally forming her body into a seductive pose, realizing that ruffians like these guys enjoy getting a view like this.  Her eyes looked at the diamond for a moment and sighed for a moment.  "I was truly hoping for an actual diamond.  It seems this place sells a lot of fakes," she said in a haughty manner, flipping her long blonde hair with her right hand.  "Hm, yes, there's no way this place has anything that would suit our expensive tastes, darling," she stated as she snaked her arm around his, running her other hand through her hair to display the expensive looking headdress that adorns the top of her head.  This should give the men some indication that they had some money to spend.

"Perhaps if we don't see any -real- jewels, perhaps we should go seek out another dealer that wouldn't mind the idea of money not being an obstacle.  We have to, after all, get something pretty for your wife, right?" she asked as she pressed her chest into his arms all the while staring at the men with an air of superiority.  This was, indeed, a role she was playing.  She barely knows this man, but playing this role as the bourgeois would most likely whet these people's appetites for more and more money.  Considering that 'money isn't an object' and that Ana thought everything shown are fakes, this should fish out the real jewels that they were looking for.  

Stats wrote:WC:  2826 / 2000
HP:  100%
MP:  100%

Job Number 1:
The Stolen Jewel

~Crap!  Axos didn't play this the way I wanted it!  I was outting him to be an unfaithful man goofing off with another girl.  Crap crap crap.  Recover, Ana, recover!~ Her eyes went from a wince, trying to think of how to recover back to a big smile upon her face with her nose turned up.  She had to remain in character.

"Oh?  Flowery language not something to your liking?" the woman asked with a single raised brow.  "Perhaps I could speak like your jewelry; cheap and fake," she said before clearing her throat.  She puts on an obviously fake bourgeois voice, one that just spits like a geyser of condescension and arrogance.  She turned and looked towards Axos while remaining in character.  She wrapped her arms around his neck, hanging off of the man.  

"Dah-ling, do you think that if we melt down all of the 'precious' stones in this store, we could make a lot of red cups?  We wouldn't even need to have our slaves wash the dishes.  They could just," she said as she moved one arm away from Axos' neck and makes a flicking gesture away from him.  "Toss them out.  They'd most -certainly- be worth more as cups than fake jewelry.  At least they would be able to sell them that way," she said as she placed a sleeve over her mouth and laughed in an oujo-sama manner.  "oooooh ho-ho-ho"

Her eyes turned back to look at the boss of the pawn shop with a look of mischief in her eyes.  Her voice returned to how it was when she started getting into the role.  The hand the she used to cover her laugh flicked to display her wrists, intentionally moving that hand over the man's body before stopping at his lap.  She made sure to not touch a certain place, because she didn't particularly want to touch it.  This particular act should get the point across without going too in-depth.  "Besides, who cares whether I'm his wife, girlfriend, or consort?  What matters is he gets to see and touch things you can not.  Things you'll never feel, unless of course, your men do it for you.  Is this why you keep so many men around you?" she asked as her pompous role dictated.  

If the man wasn't going to give the information through temptation, she made it her effort to ensure he spoke due to his mind being clouded with anger and contempt.  Perhaps shattering his pride would make it much easier for him to shout out, admitting he knew about the jewels.  Why wouldn't he?  Unless the street urchin told Axos the wrong information to which, well, they'd have to apologize.  Yeah...  The woman leaned up to speak into Axos' ear.  Her words came out as whispers, to where only Axos could hear.  "This guy must know something.  If he doesn't start talking, we should strong-arm information out of him.  Those glass display cases sure look tempting to break, do they not?" she asked, appealing to Axos being a man.  And men want to break things.  Explosions wouldn't work well for this mission, so breaking glass should alleviate a man's desire for destruction on some level.

Stats wrote:WC:  3359 / 2000
HP:  100%
MP:  100%
Status:  Floundering

Total Mobs, including this Post:
Weak:  2
Normal:  6
Strong:  0
Boss:  0

Job Number 1:
The Stolen Jewel

The woman turned her head towards Axos for a moment after their exchange.  She whispered into his ears, while keeping a grin on her face to stay with the facade.  "They aren't biting the bait.  These guys are starting to really annoy me.  Maybe I should sing super off-key until they give in to our demands," she said.  It actually takes a decent amount of effort for her to sing off-key.  While it hurts her ears doing this, it will also really hurt everyone else's ears.  Who knows, perhaps she could summon something 'grossly incandescent'.  Naw, she's trying to get jewels back, not completely blow up a building.  That would only hurt the name of the guild.

Letting go of Axos' hand, she gently slapped the man on the chest.  Looking Axos in the eyes, she mouthed out 'cover your ears' before turning to look at the pawn-shop owner, still bearing the condescending grin on her face.  She stuck her nose even further into the air, looking down at the man.  She grew over-animated with it and laughs at the frustrations of the pawn-shop owner.  "Ooooh ho ho ho!  I see you are all just dying for a killer performance, then you will pay us in the gems we are looking for, no?" she asked before clearing her throat, releasing her grip upon her 'husband'.  "If it is a spectacular performance you are looking for, then a spectacular performance you will get," she said before she cleared her throat and took a deep breath in.  

As she sung, the glass within the area began to shake and quiver under the intense terror that was her voice.  The look of strain was clearly evident on her face as she went to great strides to sing like an absolute mess.  Gods hope they decide to give in through this torture.
 

Stats wrote:WC:  3667 / 2000
HP:  100%
MP:  100%
Status:  Annoyed, Causing a ruckus

Total Mobs, including this Post:
Weak:  2
Normal:  10
Strong:  0
Boss:  0