Out Shopping!

Allison was only wandering around Magnolia Town, searching for anything to do, when a huge crowd rushing by shoved the girl out of the road and ended up causing her to fall into a puddle from the recent rain. Still smiling, Allison waved from her position and shouted out, "Good luck!" Even though she really had no idea what was going on, it just seemed to be an appropriate phrase for the time. Then still beaming widely, the girl hopped up and shook herself out, nearly like a dog. She was just about to continue walking on her way when the sudden disappearance of the large mob startled her. Allison glanced around, realizing that the people had suddenly dissipated into smaller groups, nonchalantly strolling around the main square of Magnolia Town, trying not to appear too suspicious.

The girl skipped over and poked one of the people that she had seen in the mob as it rushed past. "Ne, what's happening?" she asked, tilting her head slightly to the side. The man replied something about a proposal, upon which Allison clapped her hands excitedly and then ran all around the area, watching for the couple and trying to pick out who was part of this proposal thing, just from how they were acting. Eventually after getting to at least sixty people, Allison gave up and flopped down on a nearby patch of grass. The shade from the tree above her was nice, since it seemed to be a sunny day, rainbows cast in a few places because of the moisture still lingering in the air from yesterday's rainfall.

She stayed in that spot, and watched as the couple soon arrived and the entire mob formed around them in a flash, a pretty girl with blonde hair and shadowy attire singing a song that stunned the entire crowd into silence. It seemed that her skills had been underestimated, since the crew began to lose their formation and gather around the girl, listening to her sing with wide eyes completely focused. Allison glanced away for a second to find that directly after the performance, the girl disappeared into the crowd, and the mage scrunched up her eyes, trying to pick her out as the man proposed to the woman and officially became engaged. Eventually, she caught sight of the distinct blonde hair, but seeing that the girl she had spotted was wearing orange rather than shadowy black as the performing girl had been. Sighing a little bit, but not really disappointed because that just wasn't her personality, Allison got up and skipped away to find some place where she could buy clean and dry clothes.

Eventually, the girl located a small shoppe with beautiful dresses and some casual wear, place some distance away from the ruckus that the mob had caused. Allison hadn't really minded being tossed into a puddle-- but it was still kind of inconvenient, considering that the girl had a tendency to be easily susceptible to catching colds. That was the only reason Allison hadn't just let her clothes dry in the warm sun, since it didn't take a whole lot of time to fall ill. The girl skipped into the shop, deciding not to linger outside and simply stare in since she had spotted a gorgeous dress that she had to have. Someone else already shopping might steal it if she didn't buy it now! Of course, Allison would've given the dress to the person if they really wanted it, but if no one did right now she was determined to have it.

Allison got in line and when it was her turn, pointed to the dress in the window. The woman said something about it being a limited sale dress, and there were only a few left for purchase, but Allison wasn't paying attention any longer. Standing a little bit outside of the window was the girl that had been singing! Allison was certain of it, despite the fact that she was wearing that orange clothing instead of the black attire. The girl turned back to the sales person, measuring the girl in her mind. Perhaps it was a little bit creepy of her, but Allison went shopping very often and had gotten to be able to know whether something would fit her or not just by looking at it. This girl... umm... Allison leaned forward and said something to the sales lady, who nodded with furrowed eyebrows and then went off to the back room to get one of the dresses from storage.

The red haired girl skipped outside, the box resting on her arms. She dashed straight up to the blonde singer and smiling, stuck out her hand for a shake while still balancing the box on the other. "Hi! My name is Allison-- your impromptu performance was beautiful, by the way! Here, a gift. It was really nice of you to sing for that couple." The girl held out the box to the stranger. She had been staring at it for a while, after all.

Allison beamed at the girl standing in front of her, who seemed to be maybe three or so years older than Allison.  That wasn't very much, and she just continued to smile at her as she told her, "You're very welcome!  And your singing was beautiful, I'm one hundred percent positive that I could never have sung like that, so don't say that," the girl said, giggling a little bit just as the woman had done before shaking Allison's hand.  Then the girl introduced herself as Anastasia, which was quite a lovely name.  It reminded Allison of another person she had met a little while ago, but she couldn't remember the exact details.  Oh well, the girl did go up to random strangers all the time, after all.  She nodded at Anastasia, but then realized something.

"It's Allison, not Miss Allison.  Or you can call me Allison-chan or Allie!  Or you can call me Miss Allison if you really want... but I bet I'm like two or three years younger than you, so that's kind of silly, right?"  She beamed at Anastasia again.  The other girl finally accepted the box and immediately began a wide array of various motions that dictated how shocked and pleased she was, which made Allison smile brightly.  "You're welcome!" the girl sang, and then thought to herself, I love giving things to people.  It makes them so happy!  Which makes me happy.  And this is a prize for being such an amazing singer, so I really don't think it's a gift at all!

Next, the girl's smile didn't even falter as Anastasia commented on the dress, saying that perhaps it had to be altered to fit her.  Allison had already fixed any sort of problems like that, so the girl tilted her head slightly, looking at the one who had suggested there be changes to the dress.  "Don't worry, it's practically custom-made.  I measured you from inside, you know-- it should fit everywhere perfectly, so don't worry!  After all, I do go shopping a lot and meet a ton of people, and after buying so many things in other sizes besides mine, you kind of get a feel for how clothing stores measure people.  And even though it's a store dress, there are only a couple of these, and this clothing shop uses magical work to tailor them quickly, so that there's no wait to take them home after the sale.  Fancy, right?  All you have to do is tell them the measurements!"  The girl beamed at Anastasia.

Just then, another woman came up, this one seeming to be straight out of an ethereal world.  Allison looked at her, trying to gauge her age too.  Oh well, it seemed that she couldn't be much older than them at least.  That, or she was immortal!  Like a vampire or something, which was kind of cool!  The girl stuck out her hand and beamed widely.  "My name is Allison!  You can call me whatever you want, though.  Nice to meet you, Tane-san!  I'm jealous too!"  The girl really wasn't but she felt it was appropriate to say something after what Anastasia had said.  After all, just because Allison didn't care about appearances-- well, she did love shopping and clothes, but besides that...-- didn't mean other people didn't care either.

Allison noticed that a blush was forming on Anastasia's face and wondered if she was okay.  Perhaps it was getting a little bit too warm outside, or she had a cold and was sick?  Allison resisted the temptation to reach over and pat the girl on the head or cheeks, since she seemed to be wanting to say something else to the red haired mage.  And she said it, and Allison was not pleased, not a in the tiniest bit.  Well, the girl was always pleased, but she was less pleased than usual, one could say.  "Anastasia-san, you don't pay people back for a gift!  You should know that, you know.  You could offend some people.  But don't worry, I'm not offended!  But you are not paying me back, okay?  I don't spend money on very many things anyways.  Really, most of it is just sitting in a bank account... "

Missions for mages tended to pay very well, and the ones that Allison went on were no exception.  She really just wanted to try to glomp Anastasia, but held herself back a little bit more, since the girl was saying something about getting... !  Allison leaped into the air, squealing in delight.  She loooooved cheesecake.  Actually, the girl really loved any kind of sweets, but cheesecake was probably one of her favorites!  And blood cheesecake... mmm... the girl's smile grew even wider thinking about that.  Maybe it would creep Anastasia and uh... Tane?, out if Allison asked if they could go to this certain restaurant that catered to demons and dark creatures, where they had blood cheesecake.  They also had normal cheesecake there, too, so it wasn't as though they would be forced to eat something that might be disgusting to them.

Unfortunately, the girl could hold it in no longer and burst towards Anastasia in one big tackle.  She reached out to glomp the girl, simultaneously begging, "Can we please please please please please please please please PLEASE go to this resturant that I know?  It caters to people like me... so I can eat this delicious food!  And you all can have normal cheesecake too... I know I'm being selfish, but please?  I haven't been there in ages!  I can always go there later, but you guys might like to try their food some time!"  Allison was part demon dog, and she had no problem drinking blood or eating blood cheesecake.  Hopefully it wouldn't gross them out.  If it seemed like it was, of course Allison would immediately stop.  Her first priority was the comfort and support of other people, and then next was her mission to save the world from all pain and suffering.  After that came petty things, like blood cheesecake and clothes.  Speaking of which... Allison was a little bit soaked right now.

The puddle and singing had been wonderful, but she herself really would catch a cold if this went on any longer.  Suddenly changing from begging and glomping, Allison whirled back into the store.  She had such a wonderful idea, and she rarely got wonderful ideas!  The girl stopped for a moment and looked back, scrutinizing Tane as well.  Hmm... well, she knew exactly what to do!  Allison reached out and grabbed a dark, red and black dress off of a display.  She didn't mean to wreck the store, but this dress would fit Tane perfectly, and it should also suit her fine going by what she was currently wearing.  Then Allison decided to drop in another dress, in roughly the same colours, for good measure, in case Tane didn't like the first one.

Then Allison realized that now Tane had two dresses, while Anastasia had only one, and that wasn't any sort of good.  The girl shook her head furiously, and then went to go pick out a nice blue dress.  Even though Anastasia was wearing orange right now, this dress would complement her eyes.  And if she didn't like it, then that would just be too bad and Allison would go buy another one in orange!  The girl skipped up to the table up at the front and ran off some more measurements, which the woman, who had been gaping at the girl who was rummaging all through the store, quickly nodded to and typed into a computer before printing the sheet out and running to the back store.  Allison was thankful that she'd only had to slip one dress of of a mannequin, since previously she'd had experiences of all of the perfect dresses being only available as the sale dresses being modeled.

Finally, the sales woman came back and handed three boxes to Allison, which the girl immediately took, not even stumbling under the weight.  She had carried a lot more than this, like on that day during the holiday season when she had given out presents to everyone in the square of Magnolia Town.  Bouncing back outside, Allison held out the boxes to Tane and Anastasia, a wide beam spread across her face.  "If you don't like them, I'll get you new ones!  But if you really don't like them, keep them anyways instead of returning them.  Then, you'll always have spares in case the good ones run out.  Strategy, you know?"  And then one last time, she bounced back into the store and grabbed the nearest clothes that she deemed would fit her.  Throwing her entire wallet playfully at the woman, which contained really probably ten times as much money required to pay for this dress, Allison skipped out of the store and out there in the middle of the street, undressed and then slipped the new dress over her head.  It fit like a glove, and then the red haired girl looked at the other two.

"So, can we pleeeeeease go to this restaurant?" was all she said.

(( There isn't really much to say without piloting your characters, since both of your posts left off nearly right after when Alli bought the dresses, so I'm just going to head to the restaurant if that's okay and make a suuuper short post.  Also, the timing gets a little bit funny because Allison buys the dresses in the middle of this post, which already happened... so I'll put that in a spoiler so you don't have to read it again and can skip it easily if you would like.))

Allison beamed happily at the compliment.  "Thank you!  Actually, I'm often told that I have terrible eyes and that I don't notice anything!  The only reason I knew your size all the way from inside the store is because I go shopping so much!"  The girl smiled at the other two.  She hadn't taken offense all those times after being told how scatterbrained and hyperactive she was, ignoring most of the world besides the people, animals, and other living creatures.  Still grinning brightly at Anastasia, the girl nodded excitedly.  "Do you really think so?  I've been told that I would make a terrible assassin!  Apparently I'm too loud, since I skipped in on a target one time... "  The girl babbled away, her eyes still sparkling from the compliment.

Then Tane said something directed towards the red haired mage, and Allison blinked a little bit.  She hadn't caught what it was and opened her mouth cheerfully to ask when she realized that the other girl had probably only been thanking her.  Beaming and shutting her mouth, the mage turned back to Anastasia, who seemed to be apologizing.  Allison's eyes widened before she waved her hands quickly.  "Ah!  Sorry, Anastasia-san!  I shouldn't have lectured you or anything like that!  You can pay me back if it makes you happy!  Whatever you want, I'm great with it!"  Allison mentally reprimanded herself.  The girl seemed to continuously forget that some people didn't feel comfortable with accepting gifts, and she was determined that they were as happy as could possibly be.

The Dress Thing (for reference):

Anastasia replied that she thought that would be all right, and Allison cheered out loud, reaching out to glomp the blonde before realizing that Tane seemed on edge whenever the redhead attempted to make abrupt physical movements toward someone else.  The girl immediately stopped mid-glomp and turned around, bowing to the dark haired girl.  "I am sorry!  I won't glomp anyone in your presence if it makes you feel uncomfortable!"  Beaming at the other girl, Allison grabbed each of their hands and then marched away.  If they forcibly removed their hands from hers, and decided to follow along, that was perfectly fine with the red haired mage.  She even purposefully made her grip the tiniest bit looser than normal, since Tane seemed to have some restraints towards physical contact, and Anastasia had blushed and that usually wasn't a good sign.

Just when Allison had arrived at the restaurant, she had just been about to explain that it looked a lot different on the inside than outside when Anastasia adopted an attitude that the red haired girl usually would have had, grabbing the other two females' hands and dragging them inside of the building. Letting out cheerful peals of laughter, Allison just skipped along and let herself be half-forced through the doors, which Aanastasia some how miraculously opened with all of her hands full. In fact, how was the blonde even holding onto both Tane and Allison, while also balancing the boxes? Tilting her head slowly to the side, the red haired girl was just about to shrug it off when a delicious smell came wafting towards her nose from behind a wall. She resisted the urge to pounce on the nearest patron and rip out their throat-- and it seemed that the waitress, who was bustling towards them, understood the mage's train of thought.

The waitress was rather tall, and had dark brown hair, although not nearly as dark as Tane's. Allison beamed patiently at the young woman, who gave a slight bow and then escorted them to a nearby booth. There wasn't anyone else nearby, and the red haired girl was smiling happily at the fact that Anastasia seemed to be enjoying herself. Allison was especially grateful that she didn't mind that not everyone was completely human... in fact, most of the patrons weren't human, but since many did have the same tastes, regular food was served along with the option for other kinds. The half-demon glanced at Tane, tilting her head slightly to the left and blinking-- wasn't the black haired girl some sort of angel, or celestial being? Anastasia had said something about how she resembled one, and that seemed to be a true statement, given that a few others in here seemed to have the same glow to their skin.

Allison shrugged this feeling off too-- she was sure that there would be options for angels or whatnot, if Tane desired. Focusing on the little fold-able menus that the waitress had handed them, Allison scrunched up her face. She had wanted cheesecake, but now... a bowl of vanilla bean ice cream and sauce sounded so good. Then again, the cheesecake might just be better, so eventually Allison ended up brightly saying to the waitress, who was still waiting there quietly, "Umm, blood cheesecake, please! And Anastasia," Allison pointed to the blonde, "Is human. And Tane," the red headed girl pointed to her black haired acquaintance, "Is a celestial type, I think. She'll tell you if it matters!"

With that, the waitress nodded and then simply turned towards the other two girls, asking in a quiet voice, "And as for you two?" The young woman wasn't sure whether she was supposed to give people with a human-appearance the same menu, but had anyways, and was relieved. However, in her brief moment of relaxation, the glamouring charm that hid her appearance winked out of existence, and a pair of fluffy ears appeared on top of her head. Additionally, her eyes seemed to take on a more cat-like appearance, the pupils becoming vertical slits and the iris turning a more vibrant and neon green.

(( Uh. Well guys, I meant that the waitress's appearance had changed, but since I wasn't clear... even though Allison is part canine type demon, rather than feline, I'm sure she would love to be both, especially since she loves cats more. So wai nawt, I'll just roll with it xD ))

After the waitress left, Allison had decided that she was being a complete lazy, and had let her glamour slip... and apparently, both Tane and Anastasia had noticed, respectively. Tane had simply made a few comments about how Allison's appearance was cute, which the red haired girl appreciated very much, and said so. "Ah? Thank you!" Allison beamed, not embarrassed by the compliment at all. It really wasn't in her nature to become embarrassed, but she did have a tendency to be very emphatic and full of excitement, even when it came to the most boring of things. The red haired mage then blinked and went back to focusing on staring at Tane and Anastasia, since their food hadn't arrived yet, and for some reason their blood smelled so... appetizing. Allison wasn't a cannibal or anything, and therefore the girl had no taste for human flesh, or any for that matter-- she hated meat for the most part-- but nonetheless, there was a certain richness to that crimson giver of life that Allison just...

Blinking, the girl realized that her canines had inadvertently sharpened, and blinked before beaming brightly at the two other mages, not worried in the slightest that they might find her scary. Allison wouldn't really mind, either way-- so long as the two girls were happy and all right, she was perfectly fine with anything. The redhead did doubt that they would mind, though, and she then noticed that Anastasia had caught sight of her change in appearance. The blonde immediately collapsed onto the table, and Allison blinked, completely startled. By the way Anastasia had been acting previously, the mage had been expecting the other to glomp her... oh, here it was. The singer had somehow squeezed into Allison's seat, even though Tane should have been blocking the exit-- well, considering that Allison had seemingly magical powers when it came to glomping, why couldn't Anastasia have them too, plus a few for getting through doors that required a hand when none were available?

Giving up on the entire thought process since after all, going with the flow was basically everything Allison did-- the red haired girl simply counter glomped back and tackled Anastasia to the floor. Her squeal hadn't bothered the female mage at all, and instead it just made her eyes sparkle with delight. Then, gently Allison picked up Anastasia, even though the blonde was significantly taller than the other mage, and deposited her carefully over the table, back into her seat on the other side of the table. Then, the red haired female realized that the staff here truly was exceptional-- she could smell her cheesecake, and what was probably Tane's and Anastasia's, from across the room, and her eyes lit up with excitement. Allison handed a napkin to Tane and Anastasia in knowledge of the fact that they wouldn't know what was coming-- perhaps they would have battle-tuned reflexes, but the redhead had found that even this could often not stop what was coming...

As the waitress moved towards them at a decently quick pace, dodging neatly between others of the restaurant staff, Allison didn't bother to prepare her own napkin to cover her entire dress, and instead just tucked it onto her lap like she did while eating. Perhaps the girl would have on a normal day, but she typically didn't care either way. And then, it happened.

One of the nearby tables of patrons, a young man and a little girl both tripped the waiter as she passed by their booth, therefore stumbling once again immediately after attempting to regain her footing. However, the young woman's expression was a little bit resigned, as though she had known it was coming-- and so had everyone in the restaurant. Allison decided to explain to Tane and Anastasia before they were hit with flying cheesecake. "They do it basically every day! Anyone who sits in this booth has to be either splattered with their food or--" the girl reached out to snag the plates one by one, moving around with inhuman agility and eventually finishing the process. The waitress gave her a relieved look, probably glad that her failure to catch the food this time hadn't ended up with a huge mess and disappointed customers. Allison actually sat in this booth quite often when she came here-- it was much better than other people being upset, especially since the girl didn't really mind at all.

Turning towards Tane and Anastasia, Allison presented a plate to each of them with a beaming smile. "It's very delicious, I'm sure! Even without the blood sauce!" The red haired girl turned away, picking up one of the napkin wrapped silverware sets and fishing out a fork possessing the longest tines possible. Taking a ginormous bite of her cheesecake, Allison beamed at the two females, not realizing that some of the... sauce... was smudged at the corners of her lips and on her pointy eye teeth, granting the girl something like a vampiric feline appearance. "How's yours?" she wanted to know, observing the other mages. Allison was really hopeful that they would enjoy the food-- after all, this was one of her absolute favourite places to visit.

(( Ah, you're perfectly fine. Sorry for this short post, I'm losing my inspiration after writing 4000 words already today, after getting up a few hours ago xD ))

Allison blinked at Anastasia's words before breaking out into a cheerful smile, her eyes closing as the corners of her lips turned up. "Thank you!" was all the red haired mage said as she scooted back into the seat, continuing to eat her cheesecake as though nothing had happened. She began to think about exactly what was happening here-- Anastasia was teasing Tane, but about what? Blinking in confusion, the red haired mage simply listened, trying her best to understand the conversation. Her first time... doing what? Visiting a restaurant, or what? Allison also didn't really have the best of hearing at times, especially when she was distracted by something... for example, this delicious blood cheesecake! Tilting her head slowly to the side, the mage continued to eat, ignoring most of the conversation between Tane and Anastasia.

Typically Allison would have been right in the middle of it all, babbling and beaming, chatting away like the social little girl she was. However, right now the food was simply too exquisite for her attention to be diverted by the current conversation. Allison ignored what everyone was doing until she realized that Anastasia had said something about a milkshake. OH! Dangit, she had ordered one of those, hadn't she? Allison had told the woman that the blonde was a human, but maybe she had ordered it without glancing at the human-specific menu she had been given. The only milkshakes which were sold here in the restaurant contained... well, hopefully Ana wouldn't notice that the taste was different than usual. After all, desserts varied from restaurant to restaurant, and it shouldn't be too bad.

Beaming, the girl went back to eating, scooping up the last bite and then giving a smile to each of the other girls. Anastasia's milkshake should be coming right about now... aha! This time, the waitress had emerged from the other direction, no doubt attempting to avoid any unnecessary acrobatic tricks attempted while catching flying food. After setting the tall glass down, along with three straws, the waitress nodded her head and left. Apparently the others weren't finished with their food yet, or she probably would have collected the plates-- Allison began to glance over to see how far they had progressed. Unfortunately, her attention was caught by the milkshake, which was creamy vanilla as far as she could tell, through the glass. It was topped with a thin spoon to stir, as well as twisting red swirls of strawberry topping, which seemed to give the smooth surface the appearance of that of a latte, in different colors.

But unfortunately, the strawberry was not actually strawberry, and Allison wasn't sure whether Anastasia or Tane would appreciate that fact. Therefore, the red haired mage blinked at the two and leaned forward, touching one finger to the spoon. "Anastasia-san, Tane-san! Can I eat the strawberry off of this?" she asked, with a cheerful smile.

Allison blinked in confusion as Anastasia explained the situation.  Once she had somewhat of an understanding of the situation, the red haired girl's expression switched immediately to a cheerful smile.  "Okay, Anastasia-san!  Sorry that you have to go-- actually, I need to go someplace too!  I'll see you later-- ?"  Just as the girl was calling a farewell to the blonde, who was just passing through the doorway, a moment later she came back inside.  Noting the sheepish expression on her face, Allison was just about to ask what the matter was when the girl carefully picked up the two boxes that the redheaded mage had gifted her.

Smiling, Allison once again bid Anastasia farewell before turning to Tane.  "Bye, Tane-san!  I'll see you later!  It was glad getting to meet you two-- uh, you might see me around!"  And with that, the red haired girl skipped out of the restaurant, headed vaguely in the direction of the Train Station.  Thankfully Anastasia had reminded her that she had an appointment with a client sometime soon... maybe five minutes?  The job was important, she remembered.  Shrugging to herself, Allison beamed brightly up into the sun as she bounded towards another adventure.

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(( It's alright. Sorry Ana, I just got back from my absence and I understand that I messed up everyone who I was in threads with. ))