I know this is late and all, but I've been busy trying to catch up with my schedule and real life to-do list/personal projects. Happy New Year, guys! I'm really glad to have met everyone here, hahaha! You all are awesomepossums even if I don't really talk to you too often -minus Kate. Kate you're always there(when you can if course) to keep me company when I work LOL THANKS, GURL. Highly appreciate it due to all the stress I build on myself- Feel free to speak with me anytime you need help with anything or to relieve stress! I'm always here to help and listen~

~lilyblizz

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"You know how the Hoshidans wear kimonos or yukatas-- which ever one it was-- to festivals?" EmblemEve asked as she dugged out clothes in a closet.

The mage's voice was all muffled due to being inside the tiny cell as she threw piles and piles of clothes out behind her. Astrid-chann sighed and nodded even though her friend couldn't see it; her eyes continued to record the scene before her silently.

EmblemEve grunted as she went further into the closet for whatever contents that could be laying in there. It was deemed as "ooo, ahhh" worthy to make her reach far for it. To make this clearer, it wasn't her closet in the first place.

"Astrid, where did you store them?" she asked, taking a step back for air. Apparently, the interesting item that caught her eye was just a regular old alpaca plushie Tinted_Memories must have left behind the day before-- Mister Flutterbuttums. It seems like the sky knight was just storing the toy in case someone decided to barge in her room and become intrigue with the inanimate object-- it was really cute to be fair.

"Uh... W-where did I store what?" the blonde reciprocated in confusion. "My traditional clothings for the festivities?"

A grin appeared on EmblemEve's face when Astrid-chann answered her own question correctly without the need for any explanations. "Yep!"

As soon as she threw the white alpaca at Astrid-chann like how one would pass a ball to one another, Tinted_Memories had entered the room in hopes to find her toy.

"Ahhh!!! Mister Flutterbuttums!!!" she squeaked. Her legs quickly carried her over to where Astrid-chann stood, worry etched into her face for the sake of the alpaca in the teal. Just as the host thought, the alpaca was going to be assaulted in some kind of way.

"H-here you go..." said Astrid-chann. Her arms were outstretched towards the mercenary as she handed back the plush to its owner. Taking it out from the sky knight's possession, she tightly embraced it and nodded a quick thank you for babysitting it.

".... Anyways...!" the mage continued, now making wide gestures around her body with her hands. "The yukatas or whatever?"

"Oh, right. Oboro threw them out months ago. For Lily, Shade, and the other Hoshidans as well."

Blinking with wide eyes, her face slowly dropped into dismay only to hear that she wasn't going to be able to wear the silky fabric anytime soon.

"I-it's not like we're not getting then back though!" the girl reassured.

"B-but you just said she threw them out!!"

EmblemEve was beginning to grow whiny when she continued to think about her wishes in wearing the special clothings this following year. They were comfortable, but they were rarely worn by the Nohrians due to being so difficult to put on and take off. And since Oboro had rid the articles of clothings, she. Was more than screwed if she confronted with the young woman-- she still despises her people even though they should be working with each other now instead of quarrel with each other every time they meet.

"I would ask, Oboro.... But she hates Nohrians. And I just hate her attitude," stated EmblemEve.

Astrid-chann smiled at her friend sympathetically and gave her a quick pat on the shoulder. It didn't seem too reassuring by the looks of it, but she meant what she did.

"I don't think she's that mean," Tinted_Memories suddenly voiced. "She's just... a hard to understand person at first."

"'A hard to understand person?'" EmblemEve repeated in doubt. "I don't think so."

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Humming quietly to herself as she finished the last of her project, the spear fighter-- Oboro-- released her breath in content as she held up the fabric to admire her own work. The patterned silk slipped gently off her lap and draped around the floor as she turned and looked for any mistakes for the hundredth time.

"Perfect."

Setting it down along with the completed kimonos she made for everyone else, the woman began to clean up her room before heading off to the hot springs.

"Now those girls won't have to wear those dingy looking attires again..." she mumbled to herself. "Where did they even get them from... A broker?"

Oboro didn't like the clothes the younger girls wore-- the fact that it wasn't mad by her was one of the reasons since everyone in the Hoshidan army owned at least one of her works and second was because she noticed they were badly made. They shouldn't be dressing up badly in front if the royals and it was also a festival day, not the usual "laze-around-and-grill-one's-self-until-they-were-well-done-in-the-sun" day.

No, she wasn't going to have any of it this year. They needed new apparels and that was that.

'I'll go wash up first and then deliver these off to their new owners. They should thank me later,' she thought proudly.

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Where did I... put that kimono....?" LilyBlizz groaned as she searched around her room.

It was indifferent for her to suddenly lose a garb that hung in front of her whenever she woke up in the morning. The archer didn't see anyone take it out of her room either, but it just suddenly went poof from her sights when she was out for a mission one day. That day, everything was brushed off like it was nothing, but ever since then, she continuously searched for it for hours she had spared.

"Is my room cursed like I truly think it is?!?!" the now pale faced girl exclaimed.

Looking around quietly for anything abnormal, LilyBlizz slowly scooted over to her shoji and opened it only to bolt out the room like a mad woman.

"Oh heck no, I'm not staying in there any longer, how am I still alive?!" she told herself.

Her feet swiftly made the decision to carry their owner to a certain dark mage's room for the day.

"King. King. I've confirmed that my room is..." Yhe archer stopped and gulped when she got closer to her friend who was now just staring at her curiously. "H-haunted...!"

UnlikelyKing knitted her dark brows together in a confused fashion before she came up with some to respond with. "Is this about your kimono again? The one you gave me was taken away too remember?"

The archer whined and nodded quickly, her glasses slipping off to the tip of her nose due to how rapid and foreful her movements were.

"Well I did hear that Oboro took them away for I don't know what the reason was," the dark mage revealed. "So none of our rooms are filled with spooky-spookies."

As her friend released a sigh of relief, the dark mage giggled and ruffled up LilyBlizz's black hair. "We should go train for the day and then get ready for the festival! I'd loooooove to get work out of the way quickly."

"That's a good idea! I'm still quite tired with yesterday's mission," said the archer with her now bright grin. "Lots of.... Unique Odin and Katie-ness was going on."

Her grin suddenly changed to a smirk after she revealed the latter result. "I kinda... Ya know... Left them be on their own for a bit..." UnlikelyKing snickered at the thought of what her mischievous friend could have done that very day until she decided to reveal it.

Flashback:

"U-ummmm, Odin...? I think we lost Lily..." the mercenary told him shyly yet frighteningly.

The blonde man quickly became alerted with the news and began to look around carefully for their missing party member who happened to just be sitting in the highest of the high trees.

"Gods, be kind...! For Odin Dark here shall be the prey your looking for and not Light Lily!"

The dark mage was now making his usual flamboyant movements once again in the middle of the woods, shouting at practically nothing. It slowly became more intriguing when Tinted_Memories began to join in the search with actions just as flashy as her partner.

"No, gods! Take me instead for it is I! The Mosaic Hero, Katie of the Night!"

"Mosaic Hero Katie... No, it's too much for you to bear! The gods' punishments are too formidable... I shall be the one to shoulder thy burdens!! Gods!!!! Take me and return our Divine Heaven who we know as Light Lily!"

The two were busy posing and swinging there arms around dynamically while screaming things dramatically instead of looking for the archer. At this point, LilyBlizz believed her to be screwed at the point if she ever did get separated away from the two.

"The woods has swallowed her whole... Nay it has sent her out of this world...! Katie... Quickly, we must escape together alive before we get caught as well and,notify all soldiers for our fallen friend's loss..!!"

"Yes... Yes, you are right! We must! Onwards, we must for this environment is no jest!"

"Guys. I'm right here..." LilyBlizz said.

She was now standing behind the two vivacious Nohrian soldiers with an amused smirk plastered across her lips. "Having fun?"

"Oh... OoooOOOOHHHH!!!" Odin suddenly exclaimed. "THE MAIDEN LIVES!"

By this point, Tinted_Memories had realized what she had done and flushed a dark blood red out of embarrassment.

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"Have you found your kimono yet, Lily...?" Shade asked in a slurred relaxed tone. The ninja was aware of the archer suddenly losing her kimono, but at the same time, she also wasn't updated with the news.

"No, but I was told that Oboro took it. In fact she took yours too."

"Oh, I knew that. She failed to sneak mine out quietly."

"Wait, what."

IroshadowGL looked over as she set her small towel on top of her head. "I guess you were the last to know of it," she said with Sofichan24 agreeing with her. "Poor Lily."

The archer was now sulking as she slid further into the water of the hot springs and began to blow bubbles.

"I heard that Oboro finished making them today thought! I wonder if she'll give it to us soon..." Astrid-chann said, perking EmblemEve's interest.

Mx noticed her interest suddenly peeking high and smiled before she decided to point it out.

"Emblem seems to want to wear one," the outlaw pointed out.

The mage grinned brightly and threw her arms back behind herself to settle in a more comfortable position. It felt nice relaxing in the hot springs at the moment that their thoughts were slowly recovering to their mushed out brains.

"Mandy's right! Hey, maybe I can finally impress Leo with something new on myself AKA the kimonos!" she stated. "I THINK THIS IS FINALLY MY CHANCE!"

But what she didn't know was that the prince himself had entired the changing room for the hot springs only to have his ear twitch to her statement and leave awkwardly.

"What chance? Why am I involved...???" he muttered in a nervous tone as he left briskly.

What then...?