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Yan Wang Sighed. At least it wasn't as bad as some other beaches he'd been to. He undid his Gi top, and tied his Black belt around his white pants, which had no waistband seeing as they were traditional karate attire. He unpacked a picnic blanket, and bought a beach umbrella, as he prepared his things for a fun day of water and training.
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However, if you paid close attention, you could make a mysterious health bar appear above his head, showing HP, MP, Level, experience points, money, and a couple other things.
He was a quester.
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Alexis was not in a happy mood. It was just one thing after another ever since he got to this island. The first problem he ran into was his luggage getting lost. It was inconvenient, but not exactly uncommon or disastrous. They would just deliver it later, or so he thought at first. Then things got worse. The second problem was his phone getting stolen. It probably happened at some moment inside the plane, after he put away his carry-on baggage. That was definitely worse, but still, nothing extreme. Except now his bank card wasn't working either. So he was stuck thousands of miles away from home, with nothing but some small change and a single set of clothes.
"Note to self, never go on vacation. Ever." He joked grimly with himself. While some of the things that happened could have been simple coincidences, his bank card suddenly becoming invalid was not. And thus he began to suspect that the other problems were not, either. Unfortunately, that didn't really change anything about the situation at hand.
Walking around deep in thought, he stopped when he reached some kind of beach. He wasn't really dressed for it, nor was he in the mood for fun and games, so he just took a seat on a nearby bench instead of entering the sandy grounds. What exactly was he going to do?
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Out of the corner of her eye, Vivi noticed a beach. She grinned and jumped up, brushing off her knees, and commenced to dance her way there. The thought that she should be embarrassed by everyone staring never occurred to her, but it wouldn't have mattered even if it did. A simple thought wouldn't have distracted her from her favorite thing in the world. Crashing into a person on a bench, however, would. Vivi slammed to the ground and quickly scrambled, offering the man a hand.
"I'm so sorry!" She grinned ruefully. "I was too busy dancing to look where I was going and I didn't notice you anyways and then I just kinda ran into you," Vivi tended to run her sentences together when trying to explain something, as was the case right now.
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The Karateka was about to tie his precious cloth around his head as usual, when he spotted a young lady with the most bizarre candy pink hair crashing into a young man in a suit with ghostly white hair.
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...Ignoring it, he continued on the hot dogs he was making.
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"You were dancing. In the middle of the street." Those were not questions, they were statements. He did follow them with a question, though. "What are you, six?" There was another word he felt like using, but that would be just plain offensive. He was in a bad enough situation as it was, and making a girl cry would not do anything to better it.
"Never mind that. You don't seem hurt, but do pay attention to where you're going."
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Twisting she giggled, imagining her tiny status bars above her head crashing through all the food, though of course, the bars weren't physical but she liked to think they were. Noticing the man whom the blanket belonged to her eyes went wide. Another Quester! "Wee! Cool mister you'be got some health and mana stuffs too!" She gazed up at the oddly colored semi-transparent meta-physical thingys.. yes thingys. It was not everyday you saw another quester, definitely not every day.
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"I'm terribly sorry." He apologized. "Yeah, I'm a quester. Are you looking to start a group?"
The HP and Mana thing switched to his current question, and the choice of yes or no.
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"Did your parents never tell you not to talk to strangers?" He asked in a somewhat bored tone. He didn't want anyone disturbing him at the moment. Well, actually, he didn't ever want anyone disturbing him, but he was in an especially foul mood that day, and the girl seemed like an especially annoying type. "I'm actually quite surprised they would let you out of their sight for a minute. The bench could have been a speeding car. And with the amount of attention you pay to your surroundings, who knows what else could happen."
Perhaps the encounter with this girl wasn't so bad. He would bring her to her parents. It should be enough of a distraction to 'reboot' his mind and help him solve his current predicament. And who knows, maybe her parents would even help him in some way. He could easily pay them back later.
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A giant, f#cking CRAB erupted from the beachwater. some people ran in fear, screaming, while some just relaxed like it was normal.
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Mia, Vivi, Alexis, and Yan Wang were all launched, and SLAMMED into an invisible wall that separated them from the crab, as they each took turns to move.
The first turn was for Alexis...
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Yan Wang struggled up a second, having no clue what just happened, as he rubbed his aching cheek. Then he saw a Green triangle turned upside down, floating above Alexis' head.
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She suddenly realized that he never told her his name. Vivi pouted and was about to whine about it when a huge crab emerged from the sea. Entranced, she was about to get a closer look when she was flung into the air and crashed into something. Vivi scrambled up, confused, and noticed the guy she'd just been talking to was there as well along with two other people she'd never seen in her life. A green triangle hovered over his head, causing Vivi to get even more lost. But for once, she didn't say anything, instead just deciding to watch and see what happened.
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"What's the?!" She looked around and saw two others, completely somehow failing to initially realize the giant crab, she tried moving again. An encounter, of course. Except this time it wasn't her starting it. Looking over to the center she saw their antangonizer, a giant freaking crab. Great, just when you think being hot, sweaty, and covered in sand couldn't get anyworse, she could very well become literal sea food.
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The young man was about to scold her some more when something completely unreal happened. A huge crab creature just burst out of the water. The next few moments were kind of jumbled and Alexis didn't quite get what happened. But he had no doubt this kind of thing was not normal. Assessing the situation logically, he quickly decided it couldn't have been anything but a dream. He was pretty sure he had no irrational fear of crabs or little girls, so he decided it wasn't a nightmare. And if it wasn't a nightmare... A bolt of lightning jumped off the hand he raised and struck the massive crustacean. It visibly flinched in pain, but didn't seem too eager to just disintegrate.
"This is... peculiar." Alexis commented, looking himself over. His dreams were usually somewhat different. But it had to be a dream, surely, because a giant crab like that could not exist in reality.
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Halfway through, he was slapped back to the others by a pincher. Yan Wang grumbled, and watched the Arrow point now above Vivi.
The martial artist blinked.
"We're doomed..."
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She quickly aimed at one of the crab's pinchers. It would help if they were disposed of first. Her finger pressed the trigger and bullets shot out towards the pincher. Unfortunately, it wasn't enough to completely destroy it, but it was definitely permanently damaged. Another round and it would probably be taken care of. She noticed that the triangle above her head had moved on to the other girl, so Vivi lowered the rifle and grinned again. "Oh, how I've missed this thing."
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Yan Wang was surprised by the girl's ability to use her guns. It was mostly self taught from his guess, but with training, she could probably become a master of Gun Fu. Seeing as Mia would take care of it, he walked over to Vivi, prepared to apologize for what he'd done, as the sand felt funnier now under his toes, and the invisible wall made things so difficult.
"I'm Sorry I doubted you, miss. Your proficiency with a firearm is to be admired. Have you considered learning parkour, acrobatic training, or just plain out Gun Fu? It's a deadly combination, and I'm sure you'd be great with it. Oh, by the way, Name's Yan Wang. Karate dude at your service. I can throw fireballs N' Shit. :D"
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She wrinkled her noise as it fired off, fiddling with her ear, its pincers becoming crippled. She looked over at the girl, the triangle left her head which meant. She looked up sighing. She reached back for her sword and then stopped, the thing was heavy and so far powerless stupid quester that had it. Instead she reached for her short sword, unsheathing it she charged forward, lunging it into the crabs skull and twisting. The weakened creature really hadn't a chance and she felt like that third wheel in the operation. She furrowed her brow as the tightness of the situation seemed to dissolve, knowing it was dead she repeatedly stabbed it laughing, until it simply, shattered, or more or less vaporized. She was dumbfounded.
"What the...." She was ignoring the tidbits of conversation behind her, instead she pulledback her hair and itched her cat like ears. So that was what an encounter was like.
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"It should have taken at least 3-4 more turns, maybe more to kill that thing! D:" He noted, incredibly impressed, as he grabbed the catgirl, and squeezed the ever-loving shit out her from appreciation of her strength, imagining the two of them conquering all who opposed their godly power.
"Fight alongside me!" Demanded Yan Wang. "And Bare My Successor, who will be stronger than both of us combined! :D"
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"Now that that's over with, would someone mind explaining to me what exactly just happened?" No matter how he looked at it, everyone except him seemed as if it was nothing out of the ordinary. Perhaps not entirely common, but nothing to be shocked about. Alexis wasn't satisfied with that. Anyone who didn't have his degree of self-control in this situation would be freaking out, so he at least deserved to know. He had a number of theories about things, all of them related to him not being awake at the moment, but that wasn't satisfactory. Whether he was having a weird dream or actually lying in a coma somewhere, he wanted to figure out the meaning behind seeing something like this.
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"You must have lived under a rock most of your life, friend. These things happen all the time with people and creatures of varying size and shape, and powers, all over the world. It's just the Xian Jie Islands have them more than other places."
Then he got serious.
"But the real question is finding a questing group..."
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"Oh Well! Good Luck!"
And he walked off.
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"Are you okay?" She asked sweetly, reaching out to touch his face as Yan Wang left. She was concerned because not only did he just kick a man who looked like he could break him in half, but also did it seemingly selflessly without fear of reprecution. At that same time she instantly drew her hand back, knowing that if all this unnerved him, talking to a catgirl would probably be just as bad. "Thanks!" She managed to blurt out as she began to turn and walk away as well.
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Her grin faded when he punched Yan Wang, however. Didn't he just see how he had been punching to crab with his bare hands? He must have not thought it through very well. Vivi scowled at Yan fiercely. "You leave him alone!" She was probably so protective since he was the first person she'd met on this island or something. Vivi wasn't worried about him punching her. Even if he did, she had a gun... And someone who could shoot lightening out of his hands. He probably wouldn't do anything if Yan did hit her, but the thought still comforted her. Vivi gave the catgirl a smile. She seemed nice enough. "Are you really going to go with him?"
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"Although if there are more crabs like that around, I probably should stick around. I don't want to be caught alone. You wanna come with?" She asked with an innocent cock of her head. Even though she just met the girl, and she carried a gun around, she didn't seem all that malevolent. Hell, she'd feel safer knowing that she had someone with a gun walking around with her.
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