Dedicated to those in the story!

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The first attempt was easy enough. Not.

DWN024ShadowMan mentally sighed as she looked for the quickest route to Tinted_Memories' room. The Nohrian private quarters wasn't too far away from the Hoshidan's. They were both smack dab on either sides of where the throne in the astral barrier was settled at not surprisingly enough. The quickest way through was to just walk on by there.

"No one's here..." said the ninja.

As she thought about it more, she noticed no one was going to pass on through due to fatigue or work and decided her best bet was to head on straight through with no sweat broken out. Well, she was wrong.

"Hm?"

The girl froze when she heard a voice nearby. Quickly reacting, DWN024ShadowMan ran off and hid behind the throne, staying out and away from the open before the person found her.

Saizo looked around quietly, suspicious when he thought a presence of another soldier was nearby. The ninja was feeling skeptical ever since the last attack broke out. It was now a huge concern to him since it endangered his lord and his siblings if there was another invader breaking in, possibly one of the mysterious invisible invaders this time.

'....'

The female ninja waited until she thought it was safe to get out of the area and get to her destination. Then again, it was never safe with Saizo around. It suddenly went quiet and her best bet was to remain in one spot for a little while longer until it was completely all clear.

'Thank god he didn't look for me...' she thought.

Standing up carefully to continue on with her business, DWN024ShadowMan brushed herself off and took a step out. Arms suddenly wrapped around her upper body and neck tightly.

"!"

She was wrong when she thought he was gone. The man was now glaring at her as he kept her in a tight arm lock.

"U-um... Hello..." she squeaked nervously.

"What are you doing hiding like that?" he growled.

Laughing awkwardly, the female ninja squirmed and twisted herself out of his grip. It only made him flex and tighten up his grasp further.

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After getting the death choke and a long wordy lecture from Saizo-- not Ryoma since he was busy still-- DWN024ShadowMan quickly ran back to base and recovered.

"I thought he was busy..!" she groaned as she rubbed her neck.

Well of course he wasn't if he was there doing nothing. Was he really doing nothing? Oh whatever. The man still caught her anyways, so she assumed he did nothing.

"Did you do it, Shade?" The-Lobster-Queen asked excitedly.

She shook her head in response and stretched out the cramps that began to form in her muscles. It was no easy feat trying to escape Saizo's death grip. The-Lobster-Queen smiled sympathetically as she scratched the back of her ears.

"Saizo caught me. It felt like he was going to kill me..!"

"Well, we should try to walk around normally instead then..." Astrid-chann suggested. "That would've been a better first choice.."

A soft groan slipped out of the female ninja's voice as the beast and the beast rider gave a simple approving nod. They should've suggested it early.

"For the love of me..." mumbled DWN024SHADOWMAN.

"Okay! Plan two!" exclaimed The-Lobster-Queen.

Both she and Astrid-chann quickly walked off out the room, the two excited girls were now even more determined than before. A simple plan as this was bound to not fail.

"Are you coming or what, Shade?" Astrid-chann called back.

She was clearly not trying to hide her wide mischievous when she turned to look.

"..... I'm coming.." she replied.

By now, curiosity was out to get her and she has given into the temptation.

Meanwhile....

"Say what? Hug him? He's kinda scary, so I don't know about this...." Tinted_Memories said.

"Oh come on... We still need to get you both caught up with one more task and then it's back to Lily," UnlikelyKing laughed quietly.

Tinted_Memories whined quietly as she took a quick peek at her target: Benny. He was busy hauling back a ton of ores back into the camp without breaking a sweat.

"... Do I have to..?" she murmured with an awkward hand groping motion.

The dark mage quietly nodded as she motioned her to go take her chance for the task at hand.

"I opt you to go now and get it over with, but it's your choice. Do it at your convenience."

"Oohhhhh.....!" moaned the girl.

She didn't really want to do it, but she had to. She couldn't just back out of it once she was in. Or could she? The mercenary was forced to take these endeavor upon herself by her allies, the bowman and dark mage, after all.

"...."

Within a second later, Tinted_Memories walked off to confront Benny instead. She went against her first choice of leaving UnlikelyKing hanging.

At the moment, the man was busy getting the ores to convoy and because of how heavy they were all together, he was furrowing his brows a lot more than usual. Like at the battlefield. ... Scary furrowing.

Kate stared for a bit as the towering man passed her without knowing.

".... Okay, I'm done.." she murmured to herself before turning around.

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The three girls were still making their way over to the Nohr side of the astral barrier at the moment, but numbers of moving bodies began to increase in the field.

"I hope no one spots us waltzing on by..." DWN024ShadowMan said as they casually made their way over.

Well, that wasn't going to happen anytime soon. In fact, it was jinxed now. The three ninjas of Hoshido were spaced apart from each other speaking to other present allies, but even so, they kept up the guards incase anything goes wrong. At the moment, Saizou had his eyes fixed upon DWN024ShadowMan much to her dismay.

"Gods, why.."

"Takumi, have you seen the salve you often gave me?" LilyBlizz called as she ran around place to place to look for the ointment.

"Lily?" Astrid-chann said as she looked over.

"Ooh! Maybe she can help!" the kitsune suggested.

The group were unaware that she was a part of the said blacklist apparently.

The prince grabbed LilyBlizz after hearing his name called, stopping the female archer from running around any longer and holding her still. He knew she was going to bolt off again if he didn't.

"Repeat? I didn't hear due to you moving all over the place," he replied with a slight frown.

"Pineapple..." she mumbled, staring at his hair awkwardly.

"Excuse me?"

"Nothing. Have you seen the salve you often gave me?" she repeated. "I checked convoy already."

The prince sighed.

"My room. What did you do now?" his exasperated voice breathed.

The tiny girl held up her arm, causing him to flinch a bit. A shallow gash on her arm was revealed after she pulled away her giant sleeves.

"I fell in the hot springs earlier," she laughed nervously.

She didn't want to say the reason why, but the prince was curious. He didn't ask, yet she knew he wanted to interrogate her for answers.

".. You really.. Reaaallllyyy.... Don't want to know, sir..." LilyBlizz said with a shudder.

Understandingly nodding, the male archer dragged her off to his room for a quick first aid. Sakura was still busy at the moment, so they couldn't ask her for anything nor Azama.

"Second thought, let's not ask her.." Astrid-chann suggested.

"She must've slipped before bolting out and away from Niles," DWN024ShadowMan said awkwardly. "Must be one heck of a sight."

The three continued to walk on off as they hoped nothing came across to interrupt their trip.

They eventually made it safe to the targeted girl's room and fortunately for them, no one was there. The hall was quite empty as well.

"Okay.. We made it with little to no problem..." Astrid-chann sighed.

The other two nodded in relief and checked their surroundings once more before trying to break into the room. Well, the thing is, Tinted_Memories locked her room before she left that morning. Rattling the door knob, The-Lobster-Queen frowned as she groaned in defeat.

"Great, it's locked. Now what?"

Astrid-chann began to tap her chin for a moment as she looked around for answers, her blue eyes slowly trailing on over to DWN024ShadowMan.

"..."

Blinking, the ninja wondered why she decided to stare at her while in deep thought until she realized that...

"Oh. Well if I get into trouble, I'm laying the blame on you," she mumbled before picking the lock of the door.

"Yeah, yeah, that's not happening, us getting into trouble I mean," the pegasus knight giggled.

The lock of the door gave off a soft 'click' a second later, indicating that they were now able to access the room freely.

"Done," she announced.

The-Lobster-Queen grinned mischievously when she quickly lunged at the door knob and threw the door open-- not enough to slam it or break it, of course.

Silence suddenly invaded between the girls in every nooks and crannies as they stared at the contents filling the oddly bright room.

"..... Jeez, does she live in a sea of colorful alpacas..????" Astrid-chann said as her brows furrowed with concern. "How does she sleep with millions of black beady eyes staring at her????"

The stuffed alpacas were stood all around in the room-- from her desk, to her bed, all over the floor, on top of cabinets-- facing inwards at her bed. It was like millions of mini black holes sucking at the soul of the person sleeping in that one specific, white bed. A ritual for the one who lay in slumber.

"Let's just... Hurry up and look for that list before we get caught..." DWN024ShadowMan suggested nervously.

Nodding, they all split apart and became one with the sea of alpacas

Extra:

Times passed later, Tinted_Memories was finally able to gather her confidence and face Benny once more. It was her tenth try by now. As she slowly made way to him with caution, the girl began to wonder what she was doing with her life.

"He's going to eat me like what the rumors said....!" she squeaked to herself. "Come on..... This is the last time I'll do it... And it'll be successful....!"

Her pep talk wasn't really helping her still as she tried to resonate her positivity all over her body.

"You can do it, Katie! I'm sure Lily and King could! Astrid too"

"Did you need something?" a gruff sounding voice suddenly asked.

Crap.

"AHHH!! PLEASE DON'T EAT MEEEE!!" she screamed before running off to her room.

"... But I'm not a cannibal..." he said quietly.

"Oh dear..." UnlikelyKing said, marking the list she had.

By the time she got to her room, she was unaware that someone had broken in.

"Someone's coming..!" DWN024ShadowMan hissed.

The three girls quickly looked around for a hiding spot, but settled on diving into the plushies for safety.

"Gods... That was scary..." Tinted_Memories sighed. "Oh hello, Mister Flutterbuttums."

The girl picked up a white alpaca with a giant teal bow around its neck and smiled. Little did she know, The-Lobster-Queen was at the spot where she stood.

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LilyBlizz Pass: 1 Fail: 1

UnlikelyKing Pass: 2 Fail: 0

Tinted_Memories Pass: 1 Fail: 1

IroshadowGL Pass: 1 Fail: 0

The-Lobster-Queen Pass: 0 Fail:0

EmblemEverest Pass: 0 Fail: 0

DWN024ShadowMan Pass: 0 Fail: 0

Astrid-chann Pass: 0 Fail: 0

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