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"Hey Kurai! You can't forget about us! Course we barely just got here. So what is going on here?" Wade said as he walked up, slightly perturbed.

"Hiuuu~~ It's been a while Kurai, how is it going with you and Zelos-san over there?"

"Loni....wasn't this girl one of the girls that randomly would glomp people upon first meeting again after a long time, and you were on her list of glomp at high velocities?" He said in a whisper.

"Uhh.....I don't think she ever did....she only just yelled my name out REALLY loud."

"Yoh, give me one," a voice called out from behind a tree. A figure sporting orange hair walked over to Kurai and snatched an extra map from her.

"You can't be serious about going on a treasure hunt," a second voice sarcastically commented, appearing next to the first figure.

"Mieu!" cried Mieu.

"SHUTUP, PIGMONKEY"

WELL WADDAYA KNOW, 'twas Luke and Sarai. Wait, where the hell did they come from? And why do they appear in a sidequest instead of the main plot? Who the hell gives a [expletive]?

Luke froze. Did he smell that b*****d--Rid? "OH SHI-..! It's YOU!" the angry aristocrat screeched, grasping at his hair and pointing at the other red-head.

Sarai, on the other hand, was picking her nose studying the map like any good smart person would do.

Kurai was greatly annoyed at the currently active people, but at least some of them were good looking. She cleared her throat and looked over at Wade.

"Hmm, not sure that I remember you..." The Sage muttered back, pushing up her glasses. When she caught sight of Loni, her eyes glinted. "Loni...LONI. Long time, I haven't seen you in a while." She raised her eyebrows five times and licked her lips.

Zelos waved nonchalantly at Loni. "Hey."

Kurai pointed at the Blacks (so racist), "Wait up, Arieta." She called, raising a hand. "I'll explain everything as soon as the groups have been established. Other than that, is there anyone else you'd like on your team? I'd give you Zelos, but I think he wants to be with Kratos. So...how about Sele--HEY!"

That's when Luke grabbed the X-tra map o-so rudely. She snarled at him, but her humor soon came back--Luke was just too cute to be mad at. "You're a b***h. =D And you're not going to get a map; you'll be coming with me."

She snatched it back from him, and proceeded to kick Mieu in the face. He was annoying. "HEY SARAI."

Rid recovered from his acid trip, noticed Luke and skipped over to him. "HEEEEY =DDDDD DO YOU HAVE ANY FOOD, RID?!"

"You're name IS Rid, RID." Zelos cried, utterly astonished by his friend's lapse in memory.

Rid shook his head, and resumed his serious look: =D. "Hey Sarai. Hey Luke."

Kurai cracked her back; now some blond was talking to her. Hmmm, he was kinda cute... "Hey there, sweetie." She said, grinning. "Yeah, it's a map, a map for TREASURE. I think the opening of the cave is a few feet down that-a-way."

She pointed towards Guy and leaped over to him. "GAILARDIA GALAN GARDIOS. How ya doin', you freakin' sexy man, you?" Kurai quickly reached out and touched his cheek, pulling on it. "You're getting fat. Lay off the sweets, fatass."

Then she made her way back to the middle of the crowd, and became inactive.

"Gulp.....this does seem a little awkward...usually I'd like to get this kind of attention but...."

"Hey, at least you GOT attention! Though I must say, watching Barbatos beat literally the living crap out of that guy is slightly amusing for some odd reason......mainly the fact that he keeps coming back and he keeps trying to destroy him," as he sat to watch the show for a while, slightly saddened by the fact he wasn't remembered.

But he could still sense a stronger magic in her than last time. "If you do need our help, then don't hesitate to ask," he said unchalantly.

((Rutee going on a Rupee hunt? 8D))

Kurai kinda felt bad for Yuan: his teammates/subordinates were all a bunch of freakin' retards. She merely raised her eyebrow at Barbatos' "Like Bura you can't!", and then took a step back. (She also flashed ANOTHER smile--this time at Wade).

"Yeah, alright then," She pointed with her thumb over to another redhead, "Go with Kratos. I'm sure three angels would find whatever the hell is down there pretty quickly. Since you all can teleport and use high mastery magic..."

Seles slipped behind Kurai and tapped her back. "Excuse, but wouldn't that be bad?" When the Sage just gave a raised eyebrow, she went on. "Well, what about the other teams? They may need some magical back up..."

"They do. Seles," Kurai grabbed her collar and thrusted her over to Renji. "You're with Renji. Rid," She grabbed his hair and dragged him closer. "You're with me. Yuan, go with Zelos and Kratos, like I said.

ALRIGHT PEOPLE, I'M ASSIGNING TEAMS. Listen up." She looked around at the whole group, brought out a piece of paper and began writing.

"RIGHT, here's the set up; no, you aren't ALL with your assigned partners. Why?" Kurai grinned before (again) cracking her back. "Well, I'm sure anyone with a tactical mind will be able to figure that out. Rid, go show it to everyone."

It was a pretty cracked-up list:

Renji (and she scribbled right next to his name--Squad 6): Fog, Kenta, Raiko, Tytree, Rid

Arieta: Rutee, Loni, Wade, Guy, Christian, Seles

Avalith: Collet, Mithos, Leon, Dhaos, Ritcher

Kurai: Daruki, Luke, Sarai, Farah, Cless, Aurelia

Kratos: Zelos, Yuan

Barbatos wasn't on a team--he could just be by himself.

"Exsel is the leader of the Remnants team: headed by himself, along with his partners, Tear and also Amanda. They'll take care of anyone else who comes in late. For the most part, our teams are even, and I managed to put at least a few people with their partners."

Rid waved from his spot next to Fog, but Kurai ignored him. He was the reason WHY he wasn't on her team anymore. She also didn't care that she'd put Seles with Arieta and not Renji.

"Kratos' team will go in first. Why? Because they'll deal with all the monsters and traps in there; we'll all come in after them. Arieta and Avalith, once we enter the Labyrinth, one of you go to the right, one to the left. Get the keys, and have one of your strongest people bring it to the lead group."

She pointed at Kratos.

"Now my team," Kurai looked back at her assortment of...members (WOW), and sighed. "Well, we're balanced for the most part. We'll stay in the background and go explore~until we're needed. =D. Then I'll kick you guys with whoever called us."

Kurai could've sworn Luke had given her the finger. She'd just ignore that.

Zelos crossed his arms, "So, then what?"

"STFU." Pulling out walkie-talkies, she threw them at the leaders. "After our first objectives are complete, we'll meet up in room 4, and discuss our plans from there."

"LAME."

"If you guys don't like your teams...well, who cares? I don't like you. NOW, ONWARD TO 35 DEGREES NORTHWEST!" Kurai pointed with her staff and then ran off into the forest. "TOGETHER WE RIDE: WE SHOULD BE THERE IN another one of my posts TEN MINUTES."

Guy ran away as soon as Kurai touched his cheeks.. "AHHH!!!.." HE was in trauma~! "Did I really gain weight?"

He sounded like some teenage girl obsessed with how she looked, after getting over that..

Christian, "Hmm that's cool I guess, on a team with people we don't know.."

Guy calmed down, "I guess thats cool, at least we get to meet people and we go whenever whoever posts soon"

(i tried the strike thing xD)

"Renji's team should be lucky to get a zombie!" Kenta said with most glee.

....which was rudely interrupted by Barbatos' slicing of his body.
"WHY DON'T YOU DIE ALREADY?!" he asked as he threw Kenta's body to the ground and sliced it to pieces.

...only to have it reform.

"BURUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!"

Barbatos finally got miffed enough and just warped over to Kurai.
"Fufufufufu.... GA HAHAHAHAHA!!" he yelled as he looked at the map she had.
"Now that I've memorized this, I'll go on to claim the treasure for myself! KA HAHAHAHAHAHA!!"

Barbatos created a huge gust of wind as he slammed his axe down, making most go back a few feet, and then teleported out. ....cause he could do that too.

....and so Barbatos went to explore the dungeon by himself, not taking Kenta for once. He was miffed at the whole ordeal....

"Heeeeyyy!" Kenta said in a cheery tone.
"LET'S DO IT TEAM!"

....and then his arm fell off.

"I can fix that!" he said.

"Ah," Yuan said as he approached the red-head.
"Kratos, Chosen Zelos. I assume you are both well."

He minded his manners and gave both of them a polite bow and then addressed Kratos.
"Since you are the designated commander of this faction," he said.
"What do you propose we do first?"

He was open to suggestions, but he had some ideas of his own too.