Session Start: Thu Aug 26 19:49:50 2004 [mini startu!] * Maya trots along, merrily. Okay, not so much merrily as cheerfully tired, which becomes obvious when she yawns in-between chuckles. "Ah, another day, another lecture from the teachers..." * Minami rubs the side of her face. She looks about as tired as Maya, minus the cheerfulness. Her face is a little thinner than it's been, and she already looks absolutely exhausted. "Yep..." Hey, Maya. ... geez, Mina. Are you sure you're ready to go back to work? You don't look like you're all the way back yet. * Maya shows obvious concern, reaching out to pat Minami on the shoulder. * Minami shakes her head, her forehead wrinkling. "Nah, 's fine. Anyway, I've been away for way too long." I'll be okay, just need to get back in the swing of things. Speaking of which...what all's been going on? I've definitely been out of the loop. Trouble, trouble, trouble, and Leena, which can be worse than trouble. Lemme touch on the needful things. We've had a few more jobs... one to protect Deer. That one... almost didn't turn out well. * Minami groans. Wait, the Deer one I was there for. ... which was the one I was sick for. Figures I'd forget that. Heh. * Maya shakes her head. "In any case, Leena's done lots of stupid, and apparently ruined what would've been a major-league fishstomping, singlehandedly." * Minami groans again. "Gah, that girl..." * Minami rubs her temples. "Did the Queen chew her ass out?" No. Squeegee missed her, but Sakura had enough time with her to try and knock some sense into her head. I'm trying to do what I can, too, but I can't be around her all the time... Hoboy. If she doesn't get some control in her soon.... * Minami shakes her head. "We need to talk to Taki." * Maya taps at her temple. "What else, what else... a job that ended up with us catching one of the assassins. I think they handed her to the Queen, so I feel bad for the guy. And I kinda freaked out a little during that one... no fun there." Ick. I wish I could've been there to help out. We could've used it. But that turned out okay. We've been lucky... no losses yet. And I dunno if you know, but Anzu's Sakura's bodyguard now, which is cool. Makes good sense. I'm glad that we managed to help her at least. Have you talked to Taki about those hand-to-hand lessons yet? ... er... no. ^^; * Maya looks down at her shoes. "I really should... I really don't think I could ever use a gun." You use the one that comes with your transformation, right? Do you really need another ranged weapon? Not really, no. But I can only use it so many times before the wand fizzles... so I might have to consider it anyway. Ouch. Maybe you can learn something else. Like, I don't know, throwing knives or something. * Minami winks. Well, I... guess. * Minami sobers up. "But the reason I want to get some hand-to-hand training for us--from someone at least, if Taki doesn't want to do it--is that I think we all need some help with control. Both of mind and body." Leena especially could benefit. If she could take it seriously enough, that is. * Minami grimaces. No kidding. We'll go crazy from the stress... and you have a point, sadly---OH! What? * Maya raises a finger. "We also have a new teammate. She's... quite unique." Oh, right, I remember something about a new girl. How is she? She's... er. It's hard to explain. She's Lady Make-Believe, and it seems her powers revolve around this whole fantasy magical girl... thing. She's got her own imaginary team, apparently. And a Pet. Norcliff's cute. ^_^ * Minami blinks. "Her own...team? How does that work?" I have no clue myself, but it does. We've seen a couple of them... they're imaginary, but they're... real. You can touch them and they have different personalities and everything. How...odd. How many of them are there? * Maya sighs. "She's apparently on the Queen's Naughty Girl List because she insists on carrying out whatever imaginary mission she has going in her head. Um... lemme think..." ... five. Yikes. So what's she like personally? Is she a good fit to the team? She's as crazy or unusual as the rest of us, but she hasn't seen any combat yet, so no idea how she'll help there. Personally, she's... kinda wrapped up in her fantasy, and we're going to have to crack that nut before she can work on all cylinders. ...maybe. I'd rather not, to be honest. It wouldn't be fun for her, but if she can't function properly... * Maya trails off. Well, I don't know. Depending on how deeply ingrained her psychosis is, cracking it might even render her completely non-functional. * Minami shrugs. "But as I said, I don't know. We'll just have to see if she can hold up under fire as she is." We will, yeah. And if there's anything we can do to help her mental state afterwards...we have to make sure she has one, first. Er, has an afterwards. Sorry, that wasn't really clear. * Maya keeps walking for a bit. "And as for the latest bit... I got a bit of a tip from a Lady, saying she had a weird feeling at the mall where we fought that one Ningyo, Tiara's turf. She thought it was some perverts in the arcade, but it was something else, something mobile. We're scoping the place out, just to figure out what it is." The feeling... it's like feeling Sea magic, but not strongly enough for it to be Ningyo. * Minami frowns. "Huh." That's...worrying. Very. I'm glad Junko worked up the courage to ask me to look into it. ...Junko? The girl I mentioned... I never did ask what her Lady designation was. Oh. Odd that she knew you. I think a few Ladies who are stuck under the inner circle of Princesses have a slight idea what we do. Ah. * Maya shrugs. "It can't be helped, but we need to keep it with just them, so as not to jeopardize things." Well yeah. Understandable. ... but enough about that. Talk to me, Mina-chan. ^^ ...huh? We're going to go nuts if we focus on just work. Oh, heh. Well, a little focus never hurt anyone. * Maya laughs out loud. "Trust me, I focus enough as it." That's true, you do have a lot on your shoulders. How're you handling it, by the way? Aside from that one little break-up with Lady Octane, I'm doing okay. Just need to find a way to relax when I have the time. * Minami chuckles. "What, you mean Leena hasn't been dragging you all out for gigantic parties while I've been gone?" God, no. You don't know how hard it is to do all the stuff Squeegee wants us to do to maintain the Agency. Eep. Anything I can help with? Probably. It would be a big help. Just let me know. Remember, I did tell you, anything you need that I can do to help the team run more smoothly, you got it. * Maya offers Mina a happy smile. "And I appreciate it a lot." * Minami shrugs and smiles. "No charge." * Minami then grins a little more evilly. "Yet, anyway." ... whaaaat? * Maya raises an eyebrow. "I'm afraid to ask what you charge." * Minami taps the side of her nose. "Now, now...that would be telling." And, of course, any good stage performer doesn't reveal their secrets. Right? But of course. Hey, speaking of which, how's Performance Club going? Great. I'm running out of ways to impress them, though. Oh, really? Uh-huh. But I like that, it keeps me on my toes. That's always good. ... I think this is the part where me make idly girly small-talk. * Maya laughs, a bit sadly. "Funny, we're supposed to be enjoying our childhood." * Minami shrugs. "Don't look at me, I've never really been good at small-talk, girly or otherwise." Me neither. * Minami stretches. "How has everyone else on the team been?" Taki's distant, Leena's bullheaded... but I think she's starting to fall for Rin, who's being his usual handsome, gentlemanly self. * Kyouko walks turn out from a side street in front of Minami and Maya, not noticing either of them at first, in her arms she carries a rather large load of papers, as she's been MIA for a few days. Ah, geez. Haruko is Haruko, which means she's kinda spacey and... *well*. Look who else is here! ^^ * Minami grins a little. "Hey Kyouko." * Kyouko turns around. "Maya! Minami!" Hi... sorry I've been out...I was sick for uh....a while. Heh, no worries. Me too. I kind of got pneumonia. Kyouko... and don't worry, we're all rolling with one thing or another... man, does this mean I have to tell the whole spiel all over again? Heh, I can help if you want. If I can remember, that is. Kidding. ^^ I hope so! Heh. That would be nice...I haven't really been in a position to keep much in touch. Did you get to meet the new girl, Kyouko? Well... hum, yeah, have you? I kind of... saw her. When we caught the guy. We didn't really get to talk. D'you know about her powers? Not really. She's her own team... in a way. That's it in a nutshell, but... well, it would be best if we could show you, but she's not here. So she turns into different people or something? There were two girls I didn't really know there. No, she kinda summons them. Sort-of. Since they've got personalities and everything. There's five of them, and her own Pet. ....Wow. Yeah, that's what I said, too. So she's all powerful then...why is she with us? I dunno if she's all powerful or not...she's most likely very varied, but apparently she has some, ah, personality problems. She's... yeah, she's in her own sort of mindset. She's focused on fighting whatever evil she's imagined up. I hope *that* part doesn't exist. Oooooh. So she's kinda crazy. * Minami nods to either Maya or Kyouko or both. :P Did Sakura find anything else out from that guy? What guy? The one Taki captured. * Minami blinks. "Did I miss that, Maya, or am I just confused?" You probably did. We got one of the assassins when we were protecting Lady Octane and brought him in. And... I don't know. I'll ask Sakura when I can. Ohh. Yeah, you missed Leena breaking bits of him. * Minami looks like she's getting a headache. "Gah, Leena." Leena apparently didn't like herself afterwards. She was pretty despondent at school... until she saw Athena. That got her going. ... sad, that being pissed off gets her mind going. * Minami rubs her temples again. "We *reaaally* need to talk to Taki. " You should have seen when Athena and Leena fought. We do, we do. And I think I'd have been better off not watching, after seeing what Athena can do to us. They had *another* fight? No, no, the first time. Oh, that one. Yeah. I hope she doesn't do it again. She's been going crazy in fights. * Minami looks confused. "I thought you said Sakura talked some sense into her, Maya." And hating herself later, sometimes. I don't wanna see her self- destruct." Maybe she did...but she was still pretty bad the other day. Well, not so much sense as in a warning that she'd cheesed off the Queen and company. But...Leena has no respect for the Queen and company...gah. I hope that didn't just make it worse. I think Leena just thinks of herself as being an outcast. She's legitimately powerful, and imagine her attitude and self-control is what's keeping her from Princess status. That and experience... ... definitely attitude and self-control. * Maya nods twice. ...Yeah... * Minami groans yet again. "For all the talk she spouts about wanting to be part of the team, she really doesn't seem to care much about working with it." Then we're just going to have to sit her down and talk it out. * Minami sighs. "I just hope she listens this time." Well, maybe she'll grow up, eventually? She'll have to, or she'll get in major trouble. Or worse... sea-raid duty. I don't know if we have *time* to let her grow up. I mean, with the new girl...if she can function with her personality problems, that's fine. But Leena... So does this new girl....think she's in an anime or something? More or less. How does it interfere with the way she acts? * Maya shrugs. "To the point where she's gotten the Queen mad at her for petitioning for help in her... 'fight'." Or does it completely control her? Uh-oh. It doesn't interfere *too* much at times, but it plays a big part in her life. .....Oh. Oh, dear. Isn't that sort of...bad? Like, really bad? D'we know anything at all about her outside life? Her family, her background, anything like that? I haven't poked that deeply, but it's looks like we're going to have to. We'll just have to see. Yeah. * Maya shakes her head. "The Queen really appreciates what we do, but... I wonder sometimes just how... meh, never mind. Classes!" Well, she doesn't really care about us personally...just that we get our jobs done... Yeah, well, she cares that we do well enough to get our jobs done. And considering what Sakura said the average duration of a girl's stay on this team is, that kind of makes a macabre kind of sense. It does. We're still alive. I imagine the Queen's amazed by this... so let's keep amazing her. Yes. Not getting shot is a good thing. Heh. Good plan. Very good plan! * Minami nodnods. * Kyouko lugs the heavy pile of books and papers higher into her arms ... hey, howabout we spring for a treat afterschool. A welcome-back sort of thing? We could go for ice cream...that would cheer Leena up too. Easily. * Minami rolls her shoulders a bit, adjusting her equally heavy satchel. "I dunno. We do have all this catch-up work to do." All work and no play, Mina. Besides, we can help. They have already done all of it... * Minami shrugs. "I dunno. If classes go okay today, sure, but if I need help, I'm gonna have to put in more time." * Minami blinks at Kyouko. "I don't think a lot of you are taking the same classes as me though...but maybe we just take them at different times." Well, we're in this together... so we do things as a team. Even homework. Riiiiight? Heh. ...Yes. Then it's settled. See you later on, okay? We'll get into the nitty- gritty work details afterwards, Kyouko. Heh, okay. Later. That sounds good. * LordOldman pokes his head out from a classroom. Hey, Maya-kun, could you help me later? * Kyouko looks at Lord Oldman, her books and papers slipping down her torso. ... ah, y-yes, of course. ^^; * Minami snerks quietly. We need to get started on athletic gear selection. [end mini]