Liberation of Slaves (Job: Daiki, Kamsa, Anastasia)

Job Number 3:
Emancipation

BGM:  
The Gathering of Heroes

The mission description said to meet at the local tavern in Hargeon Town.  It was a good place to lift-off, especially when one decides to spread their wings and fly without one's group.  She grows un-trusting of her guild-mates and she feels smothered by her teammates.  The world was large and since she joined the Blue Pegasus, her world continued to shrink little by little.  What was supposed to be a growing experience slowly became a small world that involved only her guild and her team.  She had to stretch her wings while she was young.

Still bitter from the disappointment that was the Guild's call-to-arms, she hopes to not become a burden during this job.  She was allowed to join the guild to recover some jewels, only to be told to remain caged while the ones with wings took off and did all of the work.  It wouldn't have been bad if she wasn't the one being singled-out specifically by the 'leader' of the call-to-arms.  Of course the guild has no idea of her capability, nor the capability of Axos and Dante.  If they had made an attempt to contact them before-hand, they would know.  But since joining the guild - Anastasia, Axos, and Dante had to flounder and grope the darkness to find their footing within the guild.  They received no help and expected to be proficient professionals the very first time they joined the guild in a job.  Such stupidity makes Anastasia want to go guild-less for a while and do some free-lance work.

This will, however, be a test to how she can handle things with complete and total strangers.  Pushing the door of the tavern open, she is introduced with a very strong scent of urine and booze.  That's fantastic.  Every time she comes to Hargeon Town, she noticed that this town always reeked of something with the main ingredient, somehow, always being urine.  Curling her nose in disgust, she pushed and wormed her way into the tavern and eventually finds an empty table.  She was quickly confronted with whistling and cat-calling from a group of brutish men.  Turning to look over to the men, Anastasia quickly winced, recognizing some of the men that whistled at her.  These were men from her previous mission here in Hargeon Town.

Turning her head to avoid detection from these men, she took a seat at the table, intentionally holding her hand in front of her face.  The men began to stand up to approach the woman only to be interrupted by a beautiful woman holding a lyre in her hands.  She approached the men before giving a wink to Anastasia.  

"Hello, boys!  How about I sing you a song that will soothe your hearts?" she asked the men before they looked at one another and nods, before one of them pulled the woman into their laps.  Wiggling her bottom, she strums her lyre and begins to sing a song.  With a soft and deep breath in, she begins to sing her song.  


Upon hearing the song, Anastasia grew entranced and with every word spoken, she became more and more infatuated with the song.  So much so that she began to memorize the song by lyrics, pitch, and rhythm.  She begins to quickly study the song and thinks of a way to utilize this song.  While thinking of what happened in the guild's job, she instantly knew what she wanted to do with the song.  A little grimace crossed the woman's face, thinking about those pompous freaks in the Blue Pegasus that could fly, ignoring the weaklings stuck on the ground.  Never again will she be singled-out and humiliated like that.  

The song finished from the young woman and the first thing Anastasia could notice around the tavern was that everyone in the tavern, excluding the two of them were passed out.  Anastasia could assume they were simply sleeping.  At least that is what she would like to assume.  Before long, the woman that was sitting on the man's lap brushed aside his hand and stood up, winking once again at Anastasia.  A look of awe was display across Ana's face.  She couldn't believe such a powerful song could have been possible.  The range and selectiveness of the song was amazing, effecting everyone except her.  The woman approached Anastasia, placing her left hand upon the table that she sat at and leaned in, whispering something into her ear.  

"You have good vibrations.  We will meet again." she said before pulling back and vanishing into a black cloud.  Sitting back in her seat, she looked around with the look of amazement still written in her eyes.  Now Anastasia would stick out like a sore-thumb within the tavern.  The other two that she is to do the job with shouldn't mistaken her for anyone else; everyone else was taking a little nap.  It could also be assumed that Anastasia was the one that made this happen.  

"What was her name?  Meet again?  What does that mean?" Anastasia asked herself, bewildered at what just happened.  Was this a fateful encounter or did this person seem to know Anastasia?  

Job Number 3:
Emancipation

BGM:  
The Gathering of Heroes

Turning her head, placing it on a swivel looking between one sleeping drunk to the next.  She noticed even the bar-maids were put to sleep from the soulful song of the woman that was in here.  Trying to put two-and-two together, she tried to recollect the events that just happened.  

Alright, so she noticed some of the men that she had 'stolen' already stolen jewels from and beat up their boss as Axos also killed one of the men.
The men noticed her and recognized her.  That doesn't usually happen unless the plot dictated men getting vengeance right?  Or the main heroine's going to die unceremoniously?  
A woman jumps on their lap and captivates the men and everyone else in the tavern with her song, putting them all to sleep.  
The woman says Anastasia has good vibrations and took off.

After putting that information together, Anastasia drew a blank.  Yes, she was extremely deep in thought as she pondered all of this only to be removed from her thinking gaze with the voice of another person.  She returned to her senses upon hearing 'sh-shelia'.  It took Ashelia's presence a moment to finally sink into Anastasia's brain causing panic to arise.  She began to sweat profusely.  Was this a ploy from the woman to extract information from her about what happened or was she a ghost, not having noticed the sleeping people?  This caused Anastasia to jump back out of her chair and shout.  "I swear it wasn't me!  It's not what it looks like!"  No, shouting wouldn't clear the air and denial only admits guilt according to officials.

After collecting herself, she noticed Ashelia's strange mannerisms.  Ah yes!  Anastasia took a sigh of relief, realizing this one was a tad bit timid.  Well, at least she wasn't a full-blown coward like Anastasia was.  Anastasia shook her head and returned to her chair.  "No, please, have a seat.  But seriously, I didn't make the entire place like this."  She's not going to give that up.  It was a good thing she corrected herself and re-itterated her name a second time, because Anastasia would have looked like a fool if she were to go off of the knowledge she first heard.

Smiling warmly at the tall woman, she nodded her head. "Hello, Ashelia!  My name is Anastasia!  It seems like you and I are going to be doing this mission together," Anastasia said in a peppy manner.  She was hoping the peppiness would be contagious, at least helping Ashelia with her nerves a bit.  "We get to track down criminal scum!" she said as she balled her hands into a fist and moved them up to her face as if to smell her fingernails.  She squealed in excitement.  This seemed like a low-fear mission, so she didn't seem to have a whole lot to worry about in terms of life or death.  She doesn't have to worry about a mass murderer fire-mage or any other terrorists who care not about other's lives.  

"When we catch him; let's break his legs!" she asked as she placed her hands upon the table.  While she's generally a calm individual and rather disliking of killing, she has deemed these slave traders as unfit to live.  She takes things like human trafficking very seriously and feels that it's against nature to own other people so even killing these men didn't bother her in the slightest.  Actually, the world may benefit from their lack of being here.  The scary part, however, was how much excitement Anastasia said it with.

"Who do you suppose the final person is?" she asked before Daiki appeared with a monotonous voice.  What ate this girl's cheerios?  Upon closer inspection of Daiki's clothing, Anastasia's eyes sparkled for a moment and then realization kicked in.  Anastasia couldn't wear something like that due to certain physical features not being as developed thus not looking right in the clothing.  It's like Anastasia attempting to wear a bar-wench outfit.  It doesn't fit right!

"Well, looks like the third one is here.  Seriously though, I didn't do all of this," she said waving her hands in front of her still denying having been a part of this.  After the charade was over, the woman went to a small pouch upon her hip and pulled out a folded piece of paper.  The paper was the contract for the job.  Attached were two sketches of the men responsible.  Captain Scarlet and First Mate Carver what they were referenced as.   They couldn't have given their actual name?  Well, anyway, it's a job contracted by Rune Knights and they are paying a lot.

"Well, it seems we'll have to bring them back alive if we are going to get the maximum bounty," Anastasia said with a sigh.  She didn't particularly like the idea of them remaining alive, but you gotta get money somehow right?  She continued on with explaining or re-itterating the mission objectives to the group until she finished and folded the contract up and put it back in her satchel.  "So, does anyone know where to start?"  She asked because she certainly doesn't have an idea.  

The group could always gather information but that will run the risk of the slaver plot being exposed and the slavers to get wind that someone's looking for them or they could pose as a slave to get close to the group and then tear it apart from the inside.  He laughs a bit uncomfortably to herself as she thinks of both scenarios and how they could eventually turn out bad... Very bad.  "Well, we could pose as slaves and attack this from the inside?" she said as her voice cracked a bit.  This shows her level of comfort with the proposed method of completing the job.

Job #3:
Emancipation

BGM:             
The Gathering of Heroes

Oh..  This is going to be just grand.  The late-comer doesn't like taking orders from people they just met.  Well, it wasn't like the delinquent mage seemed to have much of a forte in guiding people along.  If anything, she didn't seem too adept at working with a team to begin with; which only begged the question of why she took this job knowing she was going to be in a group of other mages.  Anastasia's usually happy demeanor turned sour upon hearing Daiki's words.  

"Look, you signed on this job knowing that you're going to be working with other people.  So we need to work as a team.  We were already given good enough information about where they are.  All we need to do now is come up with a plan and -work as a team-," she simply stated, still a bit sore from what happened in the Phoenix Mountains.  She still had a massive bruise upon her right shoulder when a giant tree was created in the side of a mountain and a pile of earth slammed into her shoulder.  Thankfully, with a little bit of time spent in the Pegasus Hotsprings, she was able to heal the pain and trauma away for the most part.  

"We don't have to go with my plan, but I'm not going to do anything as a split group.  Bad things happen when teams fall apart.  It's not just -our- lives we have to worry about this time either," Anastasia said with an adamant ardor due to how stupid the decision was to split the group in the Phoenix Mountain.   Not only was it a stupid decision, but it was one that even someone of Anastasia's weak caliber of combat knowledge knew not to do which lead to absolute disaster.  

Anastasia's attention returned to Ashe for a moment upon mention of compliance to the idea. "Hold on a moment," she said in response to Ashe's enthusiasm.  She rather liked this Ashelia person and found her shy mannerisms to be absolutely adorable.  But now wasn't the time for adorable-ness.  It was the time to get trash out of the public square and behind bars.  If Anastasia had it her way, the scum of the earth would return to the earth, rotting in a hole in the ground.  Normally, she forbids violence, but when it comes to abhorrent individuals like slavers, she can make an exception with the burning passion of Hephaestus' furnace.  The comment about breaking their legs wasn't a joke, but a legitimate request.

"If you don't like taking orders from people you don't know, then why don't you lead us?" she asked as she tilted her head inquisitively.  Lately, she's grown quite hostile towards people who think they are superior to others.  Yes, she wants them to prove their worth; though she will most likely be disappointed as their pride gets in the way of the over-all mission and their arrogance not standing up to their claims.  If this Daiki person had no intention of taking command when not wanting to follow orders, Anastasia will lose all respect for this individual.  Great first impression, right?

Time is beginning to tick.  While the job needs to be done, the trio needs to make a plan in order to fulfill this job's objective.  But will the group's pride get in their way of getting the job done?  Find out next post in FTRP.

Job #3
Emancipation

BGM:
Gathering of Heroes

D'awww!  Ashelia's adorable!  Well, at least the tall girl introduced herself as Ashelia to Daiki.  Anastasia wants to just hug her face and shake her around like a child asking their parents to keep a puppy.  But then again, reaching up to do that to the much taller female was near impossible without standing on a stool, looking moronic in the process.  It was good to see someone was willing to entertain her idea of posing as slaves.  Ana thought it was a good plan and one worth exploring.  Unless the cardboard cut-out had any better ideas.  

Daiki took the bait to become the leader of the group.  Hope doesn't spring out of Anastasia seeing Daiki's bodacious response.  Anastasia feels like she's speaking to an inconsequential NPC where the voice actor put almost no effort into the role.  A smile was given towards Daiki, though it wasn't a genuine one.  As anticipated, the cardboard cut-out didn't have a good plan and just stuck with their plan.  Since Daiki took command of the situation, it's up to her to wrangle the group and give out the plan.  Unless, of course, Anastasia turns out to be the tactician while Daiki takes all the glory.  

A hand was placed on Ashelia's head as Ana's attempt to keep her calm.  She noticed the nerves building in the green-clad woman.  "Everything will be okay, Miss Ashe," she said calmly with a warm smile upon her face.  After a moment of coddling Ashelia, she turned her head back to Daiki for a moment.  "So, if you are to take the role of the buyer, you need to act the part," she mentioned before looking around at the passed out bodies in the tavern.  She turned her eyes to Ashe and spoke up.  "I know it's bad, but we need to gather as much money as possible from these people.  We also need to draft up 2 'bill of sales' as a receipt for us," she said in reference to Anastasia and Ashelia being the property that Daiki is to sell.  

While it goes against her morals, she went to the table where the men recognized her and began to pull at their pockets, trying to take as much money from them as possible.  She reached into one of the men's pockets and grabbed something.  Bewilderment.  She squeezed it a bit before realizing exactly what it was and quickly yanked her hand out of his pocket with her face turning bright red from embarrassment.  She shook her hands a bit while internally being absolutely grossed out.  ~Oh my god!  i actually grabbed that!  Ew, ew ew~ she shouted mentally before reaching back in and pulling out a large bag of coins.  Exactly what she was looking for.  

Returning with the bag of money, she threw the bag upon the table in front of Daiki. "This money will be used to buy back a slave or two."  Now all the group needs to do now is to draft up a bill of sales that looks legitimate enough to use as a receipt for handing over Ashelia and Anastasia to the potential buyers.  The two don't need elaborate costumes, as someone being sold would be dressed up in a way to make them look marketable.  If anything, Ashelia is dressed too rogue-like for this job.  "Which one of you two have rough looking penmenship?"  That's going to be needed for the bill of sales.  Well, that and some paper and a pen.  Once the set-up is complete, then the charade may begin.

Job #3
Emancipation

BGM:
Gathering of Heroes

Ashelia had a good handle on the bill-of-sales part of her plan.  She watched as Ashelia wrote the bill-of-sales and nodded her head with enthusiasm.  "That looks great!" she stated ecstatically.  And then an awe-struck moment came over her when she saw Ashelia's outfit magically changed to something elegant.  Anastasia really needs to develop clothing like that sometime!  That would be so useful!

"Where can I get one of those!?" she asked as she looked at Ashelia's new outfit with starry eyes.  With that, Anastasia gives her full approval.  Thinking for a moment.  Anastasia lifted a single finger as if to say 'just a moment' with a little wink towards the two before moving around and ascending the stairs of the pub.  Loud clanging and banging could be heard before Anastasia's voice shouted from the top floor.  "Why won't this fit!!" she shouted.  Why what won't fit will be left up to the reader's imagination.  

"Ew!  Oh my gaw!  Do I have to wear this?  Really?" she shouted out before she went silent.  

Anastasia walked down the stairs, wiggling around in the high-heels she's supposed to wear.  Bunny ears twitched upon the top of her head, hiding the Nyanplifiers within the cloth-covered ears.  Her feet wiggled as she tried her best to descend the stairs.  If only she had more practice in these high-heels.  She never had the need to wear them in the past until now.  

"How do people wear these without hurting themselves?" she asked as she concentrated on each step until she found her way to the bottom of the stairs.  "Not quite a maid's outfit, but I found these upstairs somehow," she mentioned before clearing her throat and turned to look towards Daiki.  "Well, now that me and Ashe are dressed for our roles, you know what your job is right?"

She asked before she let go of the handrails of the stairs and took a step forward, wiggling a bit before the heel broke, causing Anastasia to fall forward, only to catch herself on the bar.  "This is stupid," she said as she up-righted herself and kicked the heels off and ran back upstairs to get her shoes back and put them on.  At least they were black so they kinda matched.  

"I suppose a lot of people fall for this kind of niche, huh?" she asked as she looked at her outfit.  "Well, it's about time we head on over, right?  Since you're going to be the owner that's going to be selling us," she said as she looked to Daiki. "Be sure to get a good bargain on us, alright?" she asked in a near-pleading tone.  She didn't want to feel more cheap than she already does.

Job #3
Emancipation

BGM:
Gathering of Heroes

A trail of blood came from Anastasia's left nostril as Ashe changed her outfit to a really short chinese dress.  Noticing the blood coming from her nose, she looked over to the man that recognized her from her first job in the Blue Pegasus and used the sleeve of his shirt to clean up the bloodied mess from her nose.  She also blew her nose on his collar, because screw this guy in general.  After cleaning herself up, she looked to Daiki and nodded her head.

"Don't sell us cheap.  Seriously," she said as her eyes neutralized in expression.  "Do you think we should be sold cheap?  At least make a buck or two from these guys before we bust em up," she stated before clearing her throat and nodding her head.  Before the three left, Anastasia piped up.  "Don't forget to sneak on the boat after you sell us.  Seriously, this hinges on you to save us damsels in distress," she commented before clearing her throat and moving on out..

And then suddenly!!!
Nothing.  There was nothing around.  This caused Anastasia to look around for a moment before a man is seen paddling towards land from the water.  "Oiy!" the man said in a thick british accent.  "Seems like you were here all along!  Sorry about being late.  Captains is kind of a stickler for detail, ya know?" the man asked before looking over the merchandise.  Tilting his head, he looked at Ashelia and pointed at Daiki and Anastasia.  "How much for these two?  You gotta give me half for the flat one.  She wouldn't sell very well." the man stated.

Anastasia bit her tongue to keep her composure.  She got a good look at this man and grumbled, wanting to throw him over-board.  Yeah, the man was still on his dingy when he asked.  "I'll give you...  150 jewels for the lot.  100 for the busty one and 50 for the flat one."

Job #3
Emancipation

BGM:
Rush Forward!

Annoyance was  a difficult emotion to cover up.  While it was nice that they weren't being sold for mere pennies, she also realized that they were being sold for cheaper than the job rewards; assuming the employer pays out.  While it's true that she was quite 'cherry', never having experienced a man before, the fact that it came out in the known just made her blood boil a bit.  She did what she could to remain in-character, turning her eyes down like an obedient slave should.  At the very least, Ashelia didn't show off her rear-end to the slaver like she was a display item, granting her a bit of her pride in-tact.

Boarding the boat, she sat down, crossing her legs while placing her hands under her rear so the slaver wouldn't get a good look at her.  She turned her gaze away, knowing that the slaver was probably salivating as he looked at both of the girls on the boat.  She felt uneasy about all of this; which actually helped her remain in-character.  Nobody, regardless of if they were sold or put up to this, would like this situation.  A sigh was made from Daiki before she eye-balled her.  The sigh didn't seem to be out of disappointment but of annoyance.  If character is broken, Daiki would be the one to give them away.  This wasn't good.  Daiki needed acting lessons.

The small rowing boat finally arrived, Daiki still had her arms crossed.  This continue to catch her eye and irritate her.  Slaves don't take up this gesture and the break in-character was driving her nuts.  This could potentially be disastrous if Daiki was the reason they were found out.  The two were escorted down in the deck where a bunch of other women were.  Most looked emaciated, while others looked beaten to a pulp.  The only thing the same about all of them was they were slaves.  Just witnessing this made a fire burn inside of her, but due to eyes watching at the moment, she had to remain in character.  But the more rage and anger that build up within her gathered, the more and more she disliked these people.  

The two were thrown into a cell and were locked inside.  As the man left, Anastasia simply stated.  "Your damn arms could have blown our cover.   I know this isn't how the original plan went, but you have to be fluid about it depending on the situation, damn," she said in a whisper, loud enough only for Daiki to hear.   "I don't care if you don't like your role in this job.  You signed up for it so you damn better play along."  Her anger towards these slavers already put her in a foul mood, but Daiki's horrible acting could have potentially put the job in a precarious position.  Thankfully, the slaver was too busy looking at Daiki's breasts to really give a damn.

And then Daiki blew open the door.  This caused Anastasia to rub the bridge of her nose as 6 men came downstairs to see what was going on.  "Since you started this, you sure as hell better protect me," Anastasia said as the thought to herself.  ~ Please hurry, Ashe.  Pleaassssssse! ~  With that, Anastasia began to sing.

Song of the Warrior