[center][b][u]SERIOUSLY, THIS ENTIRE RP IS NOW TAKING PLACE ON AN ETHERPAD Floor 13:[/b][/u] [i]Salvation Army Edition[/i]

[b]Summary:[/b] Some people talked, others bantered, and still others turned into a puppy (ok, just one).[/center]

Seven didn't care in what the woman with white hair said he needed to be dry. "Dry..I need to be dry!" He dussed out he continue to lick his skin with his tongue like any cat would. He bent to different position as continuously to lick his skin from the salty sea water. Seven didn't care how weird or odd he looked doing that he just wanted to be dry. 

Cyber continued to cheer on for Alistair until the treasure thingy ended, he gave a sigh of relief as everything was already over and he was starving. He walked over to Alistair for doing a good job even though it was not said who won yet. He found it funny that Alistair brought a girl with him for the treasure thing. 'Did he need a girl or something?' He snickered lightly as he was at the finishing line. "That was very cool performance you did out there Onii chan!" He smiled at him happily and giggled bubbly. Cyber latched onto Alistair arm and battered his eyelashes. "I hope you win too!" He smiled again but more kind and warm than his usual [s] fake [/s] happy smile. He noticed the girl he brought and gave her a mischievous smile. "Well that was a nice race to watch! Lets celebrate!!" He then kissed Alistair on the cheek. 

“Aah, that.” In all honesty, it [i]had[/i] annoyed Ara quite a bit during the event and suddenly being pelted with a balloon at the end with the force of a home run in baseball had been quite unpleasant. But it was a little hard to feel hostile or mad at someone that was apologizing about it. Besides, he had already gotten Ryuu back for the last attack. “It was just water balloons, so no real harm done. As for what really happened… That Crash guy is probably the only one that really has the full story. I was just retaliating for the sudden attack from behind.” Ara was half nodding to himself as he spoke. Well, he did have a pretty good idea of where and why that initial attack came in the first place but there was no need to go over such long and tedious details.
 
Ara then noticed Carmen’s expression as she turned her attention over to him. “Hey, to be fair I completely warned you about this.” He laughed, shrugging his shoulders in a joking manner. In reality, he was actually a bit scared now. Every sensible man knew that there was nothing truly scarier than a woman’s irrational anger. He was just barely managing to keep a joking air about him. “Besides~! You played a pretty big part in ruining the dress yourself didn’t you?”

Darwin's smiley amazing face suddenly froze. "T-there were rules?" He said like someone had just punched him in the stomach. He sighed and put his hand on Kathy's shoulder slowly turning her back to normal. "THANK YOU MISTER CHIBI!" He screamed and went to hug him but then remembered he was too small for hugs. He chuckled and hugged Mercy instead. "THANK YOU MERCY"

Alex blinked, confused by it all. Why had that boy turned Momma blue? Why did he thank him? Alex looked up at Kathy to see that her hair was still blue. He turned back and looked at Darwin again, his eyes narrowed. [b]"Turn it back!"[/b] He said with a serious expression on his face, his voice still small and child-like.

Chris got her paper with relative ease and held the paper in her hand. She looked around, trying to find her target. She didn't really... see anyone she knew was an idiot. Who was she supposed to grab? She didn't really even know anyone here. Then a small chuckle escaped her lips and she walked up to the finish line.

[b]"Can I be my own idiot?"[/b] She asked, holding up the piece of paper? [b]"I feel like an idiot for joining this."[/b] She continued, chuckling.

Alistair smiled at the woman "thank you" he walked out of the way and looked at Little Feather, the mischievous glint still in his eye "thank you for Helping Little Feather, i appreciate it,". Alistair straightened his pinafore with a wink "guess i should get out of this".then something occurred to him, he looked behind her "where's your guardian?", referring to lion. He hadn't been paying close enough attention to remember whether the creature had followed them or not.
Then Miss Cyber walked up "That was very cool performance you did out there Onii chan!" Alistair gave her a thankful nod, and she latched onto his arm and said "I hope you win too!" he patted her hand, then blinked "wait, was 'winning' the point?" then he looked back over at Little Feather "Little Feather, this is Miss Cyber, Miss Cyber this is Little feather"
Miss Cyber said "Well that was a nice race to watch! Lets celebrate!!" and kissed his cheek .
He smiled and said to Little Feather "i'll see you later, Little Feather, thank you again" and started to walk away with Ms. Cyber.

Carmen wanted to laugh at Ara's attempts at excuses and shifting the blame. They were all valid of course, but she could tell he was at least a little bit nervous...anyone could. Somehow managing to keep a straight face, she replied with a continuingly stern tone of voice...at least that's what it sounded like in her head. With a roll of the eyes, she began. "Details, details. We both know that no matter how much evidence you scrounge together I'll still blame it on you," she said, poking his chest. "You should have stayed at the starting line to sacrifice your dignity for the dress...for [i]me[/i]!" she continued with a dramatic whipping back of her head, with one hand inverted on her forehead and one hand on her sternum. It was dramatic enough that, although Carmen acted like this anyway, it provided at least a little insight into the inwardly playful nature of her accusations. She hoped he'd catch on at least slightly, although she would be perfectly happy milking it if he didn't.

Mercy grinned at Darwin when he touched Kathy's shoulder and returned her to her normal state well, except for her hair she noticed it had stayed smurf color, she found Crash's reaction rather amusing snickering at his frown. She jumped as Darwin screamed and dived for the small blue haired student on Kathy's shoulder, fearing the chibi wouldn't be up for the glomp she reached towards Darwin opening her mouth to speak when the unicorn spun to face her chuckling before practically enveloping her in his arms thanking her in a loud voice. "Don't mention it honey" She hummed at him with a small chuckle as she patted his back, once he had released her she saluted the small group and wandered back towards the finish line, koop flew past handing her back her phone which she checked quickly as she ground to a halt by the finish line,one arm folded across her chest resting the elbow of her other arm on it she reached her hand to her face, tapping at her lower lip with her index finger. She was waiting for Koop to return to her with the results, though she was sure there was another contestant that needed to cross the finish line...As if to answer her mind's question, an unfamiliar voice pierced the air beside her, she actually jumped in surprise. [i]Be your own idiot?[/i] She thought walking over to the 'guy' who was subconsciously testing her perception. "Hmm, I don't know...maybe if you were wearing a jesters costume?" Mercy joked though it was rather 'weak' in its delivery, she tilted her head to the side reading the paper between the 'guy's' fingers. "Sure I'll take that as an item" She smiled warmly at the 'guy'. "The results will be announced shortly so feel free to hang around" She added, though she didn't move away she cast her gaze away from 'him' down to the phone gripped between her fingers, allowing herself to return to her previous thoughts looking positively perplexed.

Little Feather had felt painfully aware of Alistairs hand in hers as he spoke to Mercy, hand holding wasn't something she was accustomed to she felt her cheeks color as Alistair glanced back at her with a mischievous glint in his eye, she lifted her free hand to push a strand of hair behind her ear feeling that same bashful awkwardness that she had before. "It's no problem! I'm just glad I could" She smiled at him, retracting her hand once he had released her she watched him straighten his pinafore with an amused expression. "Perhaps, I don't see anyone else getting changed yet though" She pointed out to him, tilting her head to the side as he asked about her 'guardian' she blinked at him with confused pale green eyes before looking over her shoulder. "You mean Lion?" She queried, her smile returning this time with a sheepish edge to it. "He doesn't accompany me everywhere you know...he's not my guardian, he's a friend" She explained to the winged boy, twirling a lock of her hair between her fingers idly as they stood there. To say she wasn't surprised when another person sidled their way up to Alistair would have been a lie, wiping the surprise quickly from her face she smiled at the newcomer her bashfulness receding as she looked at the other 'girl' she must have known the winged boy before Little Feather had met him. She couldn't help but furrow her brow into a frown for a brief moment as the 'girl' latched onto Alistair's arm assuming it was normal as Alistair didn't seem to react to it she relaxed her expression, shrugging her shoulders at the dark haired boys question. "I'm not sure, I would assume so...most races are about winning. Though maybe this was more for fun?" She offered as an answer, pointing at his attire. She smiled at the 'girl' as they were introduced, waving a small greeting. "Nice to meet you Miss Cyber" She politely added. She was rather shocked when Cyber leant up to Alistair and pecked him on the cheek, saying they should go and celebrate 
the young indian girl swallowed a small lump that had formed in her throat, a mixture of guilt and disappointment passing through her as she cast her gaze aside, pulling a small smile onto her face as Alistair bid her farewell. "N-no problem, bye" She stuttered, hugging her torso as she watched the pair disappear. She hadn't realized the winged boy was with someone already, she felt guilty for the way she had been acting...Lion pulled up next to her rubbing his head against her hip. [i]What happened Cub?[/i] He grumbled his face wrinkled with concern. "Nothing...I'm just thinking I have a lot to learn" She answered him vaguely, smiling and petting him between the ears.

Crash had noticed Kathy become tense as he approached, he couldn't quite fathom why though...she didn't usually mind him being near her. He watched her prod Darwin's arm and ask to be changed back, his trade mark grin spread across his face as Darwin complied and switched her back to her normal self...well kind of. She still had blue hair, he reached out towards her with his clean hand the other was paint splattered, scooping a small section of her hair between his fingers he frowned at it before letting it fall back to her shoulders. "I'm not so sure blue suits you" He smiled at her his expression laced with amusement. He raised an eyebrow at Alex as he demanded Darwin turn her hair back to its normal color, he had to admit he would like that too [i]Despite the fact she looks beautiful regardless...[/i] Wait, had he just thought that? Crash lifted his paint covered hand to the back of his neck, his cheeks flushing pink underneath the streaks of paint currently decorating his face, he averted his eyes deciding to make himself busy instead of getting flustered over his thought process, he wasn't sure why he was getting flustered...he'd thought it before. To distract himself he undone the bow around his head and pulled his bunny ears off. "I'm kind of wishing we'd done the dodge ball second, would of helped wash all of this stuff off" He chuckled, wiping at the paint on his chest as he removed his sock cleavage. "Where are my manners...here have some paint" He grinned cheekily at Kathy dipping his finger in a wet purple splodge on his lower arm he lifted his hand towards Kathy's face a mischievous glint in his eye as he playfully attempted to dab it on the tip of her nose. 

Lily had followed Carmen around, unsure as to what she should do. She felt so lost, like a lost puppy trying to find an owner. She didn't know who would actually talk to her and she hated putting herself out there only to be turned down or later on betrayed. She was beginning to wonder if she should even try but then... What would be the point of everything? Without people, she felt so empty and... dead. What was worse? Pain or emptiness? She didn't know. She clutched her arm, her hand on the tattoo as she followed Carmen around. 

A small smile formed on her lips at the interaction between Carmen and one of the males, presumably the one she'd dressed. The dress was tattered and worn, muddy from the course. [b]"Shame on you."[/b] Lily spoke up, shaking her head slightly in a shy but playful manner. Her voice wasn't really loud and she probably sounded like she was mumbling but... she was trying.

Carmen was surprised to hear another voice agree with her as soon as she finished her berating of Ara. Wheeling around on her heel, she beheld Lily, the shy girl from earlier! She gave her a bright smile of greeting and walked over to her, turning back to Ara while putting on a stern face again, barely able to contain her actually-not-serious-ness. "See? Even [i]she[/i] agrees with me! It's [i][b]clearly obvious[/i][/b] that you're the one at fault here."

"This coming from the one that rejected me right before the big event? Hey, I've got no obligations to listen to a mere bridesmaid about how I take care of my own wedding attire." Ara laughed, a cheeky grin replacing the nervous one he had on before. Now he could feel quite a bit more confident that Carmen was just joking with him. “And hey, apparently you have no idea how much my dignity is worth! It’d be enough to fund the entire wedding!”
 
Then seeing an unfamiliar face approach them he pretended to look horrified. “Two against one? Now that’s just unfair.” Shaking his head, Ara let out a laugh and held his hand out to the girl (Lily). Looking between Carmen and her he greeted, “I’d have remembered if I met you. So who is this equally fashionable friend of yours Carmen?”((Finished the interaction with Carmen + Lily, will probably add more when Ryuu’s post is done.))
 
Kathy’s face became a bright shade of red as Crash reached out to touch her now-blue hair. Now that her skin tone was back to its normal shade, it was very easy to see how flustered she was from that simple contact. Which was rather… Odd, considering she herself had ruffled Crash’s hair quite frequently. “Y-You’re just not used to it.” She stammered out, running her fingers through her hair and lifting some of the ends up towards her face so she could take a look at it. She had never even considered dying her hair before so it felt a little strange to look at the unfamiliar blue strands. Kathy glanced over at Alex. Blue hair suited him just fine, so maybe it wasn’t bad at all. “Don’t worry, I think it’ll actually resolve itself over time.” She smiled at the small boy on her shoulder reassuringly. “Darwin did say it would take a little longer for my hair to turn back to normal. And think about it this way, now we kind of match don’t you think?” Perhaps both of them rather liked her natural hair colour? It made her feel quite happy to think that way. Between the warm feeling she got from that idea and the fact that Alex seemed to have more than her share of concern about her hair colour, there was just no room for her to feel uneasy about it at anymore.

“Oh, that’s true. Should I ask Mercy to give me a few more water balloons to help you out?” She joked. Though there had been plenty of time to dodge or run away, Kathy just let him dab a bit of paint on her nose. Smiling warmly she asked, “How’s it look?” While waiting for an answer, she reached over and took the bunny ears out of Crash’s hands before placing it back on top of his head. “Say, why don’t you just keep this one on for the rest of the day? It suits you, though not as much as a pair of floppy puppy ears would.” She laughed at her own imagination of Crash walking around the beach in his swimwear and bunny ears.

Cyber just continued to giggle and smile like the good innocent girl. "Oh sorry it just well I played some games Onii-chan like racing games so I usually think that winning is part of i!" He giggled lightly and said in a sweet, frail and kind tone. "Well see you when I can...Little feather..." Cyber mischievously smiled again then walked off beside Alistair. "Hm.. where should we go? There are so many things I want to see!" He [s] fakely [/s] said as they both walked around a bit. "maybe you should change Onii chan if you want to... I mean look really cool if you wear that like you are super confident but its up to your choice!" Cyber giggled a bit more and battered his eyelashes, at least trying to be flattering which usually works. "Look! An ice cream cart! Oohhh! Lets go and get some!" he cheekily said as he hugged tighter but not too tight on Alistair's arm. 'Finally! food! and after this... well... let see!' Cyber smiled even bigger as part two was a go!

Crash noticed Kathy's face become a rather impressive shade of red as he reached for her, it made the blush on his own cheeks darken he wasn't quite understanding why it had made her so flustered, he was trying to act normal...He tilted his head to the side as she stammered and ran her own fingers through her hair. He watched the exchange between the two blue haired students, he couldn't hide the glimmer of relief as she told the blue haired boy on her shoulder that her would turn back to normal, he grinned as she mentioned matching with Alex it was true quite the pair they made now. Perhaps this would have bothered him if Alex wasn't an adorable blue chibi at the time. He blinked at Kathy as she mentioned asking Mercy for more water balloons. "Only if you're prepared to get very wet" He grinned at her, the mischievous glint returning to his eyes. He was rather surprised when she simply allowed him to dab the purple paint on her nose, noting the warm smile as he withdrew his hand, chuckling at her question. "Perfect of course" He grinned at her, though for a brief moment he allowed admiration to enter his expression quickly flickering away as she placed the bunny ears back on his head, he gave her his best 'unimpressed' look though he couldn't hold it as she burst out laughing. Feeling a smile tug at his lips he shook his head at her. [i]Floppy puppy ears? Really?[/i] He wasn't sure he could get away with those. "Laugh it up but there is nothing you could do to convince me to stay in this outfit for the rest day" He chuckled, running his fingers through his fringe, frowning as he pulled clumps of pink paint from it. 

Mine. Alistair could see little feather's face out of the corner of his eye, he did feel a little bad about leaving her on her own like that. "maybe you should change Onii chan if you want to... I mean look really cool if you wear that like you are super confident but its up to your choice!" Miss Cyber said. Alistair patted her hand "it's actually not all that uncomfortable, but i would like to get out of it eventually"
"Hm.. where should we go? There are so many things I want to see!" Miss Cyber said. Alistair smiled "where ever you wish Miss Cyber, i don't know where or what anything is so i trust your judgement"
Then she pointed something out "Look! An ice cream cart! Oohhh! Lets go and get some!"
"what's ice cream?" Alistair asked "some kind of confection?" He followed her over to the 'stand of ice cream'. 

Looking at Crash’s face, Kathy realized a vicious cycle was going to start soon if she didn't get a hold of herself. [i]‘Don’t blush with me! You’re making it worse..!’[/i] Luckily for her, talking with Alex and the joking exchange between her and Crash was helping her calm down and just enjoy the company. "Hey, I'm not the one that needs a wash-down. And besides, I was pretty dry compared to you last game." She grinned back at Crash, feeling rather confident about the potential challenge. Then referring to the paint he dabbed her nose she added, "Matches my swimming top too. Good choice." Smiling broadly she gave him a thumbs up for the colour selection. Watching him tug at his hair though, she gently took his wrist to make him stop. "Hey, just wait and rinse it off. You don't want to pull out some of your hair with it too do you?" Letting go of him, she pretended to pout. The smile on her face made it rather difficult to pull look off though. "Really? Absolutely nothing? And you don't need the rest of the outfit, just keep the bunny ears on."

Mercy grinned as Koop finally flew towards her, waving a bit of paper around in front of him. She held her fingers up gently taking it from his clutching paws. “About time, thank you” She thanked him. Moving back over to the elevated chair she climbed the ladder up for the third and hopefully the final time that day. “Alright! Listen up the results are in!” She called out, her voice echoing across the beach she did have a rather impressive pair of pipes. “In last place, for copping out of the item hunt is Brako” She grinned. “Following close behind in Seventh place is Crash, Sixth place goes to Ara, Fifth to Alistair and Fourth to Darwin” She announced the runners up, avoiding their eyes as she moved on swiftly to the next lot of people. “3rd place goes to Chris who came in only a fraction behind our 2nd place contestant Ryuu, which means 1st goes to Seven! Who managed to complete the course in record time” She announced, clapping her hands as most of the gathered crowd erupted into cheers as if they knew exactly who these people were, congratulations were thrown this way and that to the contestants. “And that wraps up all of the events for now!” Mercy cut across the chatter. “Feel free to continue using the equipment or go about as normal, thanks everyone!” She chimed before descending the chair her phone still in her hand, having had quite enough excitement for the moment she used this opportunity to slip away for a while, she was sure she could catch up with the others later.
 
Crash chuckled at her as she argued very valid points about the water balloons. “That’s beside the point, if you’re challenging me I can assure you now you won’t be able to say that” He grinned at her, knowing the challenge was unlikely to be taken up but letting her know his thoughts all the same. Of course as she said it ‘matched her swimming top’ his eyes dropped to check which was quite possibly the worst thing he had done, he barely caught the thumbs up as he dropped his gaze to his feet clearing his throat and passing at the ground with his toes his cheeks alight with color. “...thanks” He managed to say with a bashful smile, clearly lacing his fingers into his fringe through a nervous action, he blinked as he felt Kathy’s fingers curl around his wrist gently stopping him from teasing the paint from his hair, impatience apparent in his features it was a small reminder of how bad he was at waiting around like this. Though he seemed to calm down as she gripped his wrist, he smiled apologetically at her reaching up with his other hand to touch the back of his neck. “Sorry, it was just something to do...” He mumbled, rubbing his hands together as she released him, his lip twitching up in mirth as she attempted to pout at him the fact she was smiling as well didn’t help her cause though it was a cute gesture...cue him agreeing to her ridiculous terms. He sighed as he listened to her knowing full well he wouldn’t win this battle...”Fine, I’ll offer you a deal...I’ll wear just the bunny ears until your hair returns to normal” He offered her with a cheeky smile to accompany it. His ears pricked as he heard Mercy beginning to announce something. He remained quiet through her speech feeling rather disappointed at the fact he’d basically been last, he sighed to himself clapping along with everyone else as the winners were announced. “Well done Darwin fourth place” He grinned at the blue haired boy feeling like the odd one out in the group. “So I should.-“ Crash started to s
ay though stopped, his breath hitching as if he were about to sneeze. “Ah cra-achooo!” He lifted one of the socks to his face way before he sneezed but as he did he practically exploded in a puff of purple smoke, the costume he was wearing crumpled to the floor after a few seconds it begun to move as if something was stuck within ita few moments later a little [url=http://cdn.theanimals.pics/pictures/3.bp.blogspot.com/-BdHPuAZiAOE/TelKiKQauCI/AAAAAAAABaU/FMC86pfqC6A/s1600/cute-puppy-pictures5.jpg] gingery/red puppy[/url] head popped out of the material, it wriggled its nose before lurching forward succeeding in face planting the floor before barrelling over and landed on its butt in front of Kathy’s feet. It had to undoubtedly be the red haired shapeshifter in disguise, it lifted its nose looking up at Kathy tiny tail thumping against the sand. [i]Oh fate thou art a cruel deity...[/i] Crash thought to himself.