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Before the Dark - A Star Guardian Tale

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"Pizza's late :("

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Location: Song Residential Home.

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"I'm not going to freak, it's defence and all that." Said Ahri, she raised her hands up to her chest, palms towards xayah in a defensive manor. "The only thing you did wrong was delay pizza, I was about to enjoy me some margarita pizza." Ahri then moved next to Xayah and wrapped one of her arms around her neck. "I trust your judgement, if it meant you had to defend yourself like that, then I don't see anything wrong with that... Well maybe you could turn down the brutal murder." Ahri said, she tried to lift up the spirits of the room with that joke. Ahri then moved away for a moment to grab the bag of crisps. "Don't beat yourself up over it, I've had my fair share of... Uh... Incidents." Ahri said with a shrug, she then grabbed Xayah's hand and started dragging her upstairs, "Come on, we're watching like an old movie called wind samurai, Sarah's movie choices are awesome."

As she walked upstairs, she was pretty chill about the situation and she was willing to forget it ever happened as long as it doesn't happen again. "So, Syndra's on her way?" Ahri asked, opening the door to her room, and the scene was Neeko on Sarah's lap, she looked like she tripped, and Sarah was holding the picture that Ahri told Sarah not to touch. "Sarah! What in the name of the stars are you doing?" Ahri exclaimed in an extremely angry tone, rushing over to Sarah to grab the picture. "Sarah, honestly I thought you knew-" Neeko then stopped Ahri "It was Neeko, Neeko is sorry..." Ahri then looked at Sarah then slowly calmed down. "I was just trying to stop her, sorry... So uhh... Wind Samurai?" Sarah asked, Ahri just nodded, then her smile came back on. "Yeah, yeah, I'll go make some popcorn." Said Ahri as she grabbed the butter flavoured one then made her way downstairs.

Sol City Modern Slice of life - Chapter 3 - (all welcome new and old)

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"A date? A date."

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Location: Hyoon's apartment, Food festival

Interaction: @Pyxis

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Aria was already half way through getting dressed, she had just slid her under-cover stockings on and was only two clothing items away from actually finishing getting dressed. Aria then decided if she was going to be a girl today, by that she meant deciding picking shorts or a skirt. Well, since she only ever rarely wears skirts and the occasion is pretty rare she had decided to go for skirts. She pulled up the dark gray skirt up to her waist, and tucked the front of her light gray long sleeved buttoned shirt into it. She grabbed her phone and there was already a text from Lilith asking where she was.

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To: Lily Lily Lily Lily ith
From: Aria Hyoon

I'm about to head out, give me 5 minutes.

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Immediately she slipped on her lucky pair of black boots, these boots were Hyoon's date boots, dates always went well whenever she wore these boots and she is not planning to break that trend this evening. She slipped them on, tied them well and grabbed her brown coat from the coat rack, slipping that on. Before she walked out the house, she looked at herself in the mirror. She looked like she was a star in Korean drama, except for her hair, which was all messy and bed head-y. She didn't mind though, she could just use the wind as an excuse if Lilith asks about it.

Before Hoon left the apartment, she slipped on her earphones and scrolled through her playlist, she ended picking Paris by the Chainsmokers since it was a good chill walk song. With that, she was off; head was slightly tilted down, music blasting in her ears and boy she was overthinking the date like crazy. She didn't want to embarrass herself. The air was cold, again; she let out a sigh and continued to walk, she eventually ended up at the same street they were on the last time, except it wasn't as night lifey as it was back then. The first thing she was Lilith standing there with a really colourful outfit. Aria looked down at her own and saw the contrast between the two. She walked up to her back, and just let out a quick, "Hey," She looked Lilith up and down and decided to apologise for her clothing choice, "Sorry I'm not as colourful, if I'd had known that you were going to be wearing something nice and pretty, I would have worn something more... Uh... Colourful? I only own maroon tops so I doubt it would change if I swapped to maroon." With that long stutter filled explanation, Aria felt like she was already failing at the whole talking and socialising thing.

Are these how dates are supposed to go? It's been like, six years.

references

Before the Dark - A Star Guardian Tale

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"A class S sleep over."

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Location: Valoran Academy, Song Residential Home.

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Ahri heard the doorbell ring from upstairs, before then she was watching Neeko and Sarah argue over bejewled moves and what flavour of popcorn they should pick first. Though the argument ended in Sarah's favour of saving Sour Cream for the last because it is the best flavour. Ahri slipped on her slippers and hurried downstairs. "Coming!" Ahri called out, she opened the door to see Xayah standing there with some food of her own. She looked Xayah up and down, and said "Food, upstairs, room on the right." She then walked over to the kitchen and felt that Xayah may or may not have shown some star guardian prowess within the past twenty minutes. Since this was a relationship built on trust, Ahri needed to ask. "You had to go guardian? Something come up?" Ahri asked, though Ahri could read some nervousness in her eyes, it definitely wasn't because of the question, it was because of the party. The landline then rang, "Actually hold that thought for a sec," Ahri picked up the phone and heard that it was the pizza place, Ahri and the pizza guy started arguing, saying that her pizza is going to be another 20 minutes because the main path to the house was blocked by a crime scene. After that Ahri understood, "Well, Pizza's late, so... Well... Uh... We can eat your crisps for the time being."

Ahri kept her emotions at bay, she wasn't going to let anything out until Xayah spilled some beans. "You wouldn't happen to have anything to do with why the pizza's late? Please tell me that wasn't you." Said Ahri, she was pleading Xayah would tell her the truth.

Before the Dark - A Star Guardian Tale

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"Let's get this party started!"

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Location: Valoran Academy, Song Residential Home.

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Ahri raised her brow, and looked back at the cafeteria, seeing the table they were sat at earlier still empty. Ahri's ears raised up as she bounced in place. "You guys haven't eaten yet? Don't get the cheese pasta, it's like cold pasta with milk, trust me you don't want to eat that." Said Ahri with a laugh.

Time jumps to later at seven, her father was out of town, and she was setting up the house so nothing gets destroyed. She then heard a knock on the door, and it was no surprise that the first person to arrive was Sarah, though right beside her was Neeko since she didn't know where she was going. "You practically live here, don't you." Sarah then just walked in with no warning and dropped a paper bag in Ahri's hands, "Popcorn?" Ahri asked, Sarah was already walking towards Ahri's room. "You know it, I'll be in your room." Sarah said, she had already taken off her shoes before entering the main part of the house. "Don't touch the-" Sarah had already cut her off, "The photo, I know I know." Ahri then turned back to Neeko, "Neeko got colourful bubble drinks!" She exclaimed, holding up a plastic bag of soft drinks. "Just put it on the table upstairs, and take your shoes off." Ahri said pointing towards the stairs behind her, party should start as soon and she is pretty excited. She lead Neeko upstairs and as soon as they entered the room, Sarah was already wrapped in Ahri's covers with Boki and Baki summoned on the bed. "Sup, we watching Wind Samurai tonight, disc is already in your player." Said Sarah as she pointed at the TV across from the bed. "Sarah lives here?" Neeko asked, and simultaneously, Ahri answered "No." And Sarah answered Hah, yeah." which confused Neeko more than it should.

Before the Dark - A Star Guardian Tale

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"A starry convergence."

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Location: Valoran Academy

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"Syndra... You honestly have to announce your arrival or something, my ears are going to be stiff from your surprises." Said Ahri, her ears did flinch when Sydnra arrived, Sarah then interjected after the two vastayans finished their ramblings. "Well she did say she was actively searching for Ahri, so she probably enrolled specificly because of that, guardians are stronger together after all." Ahri smiled after hearing Sarah say that, she was her second in command for a reason and being both a hard headed commander and good friend were two of them. Ahri's ears then drooped down a bit as she said "I'm expecting more info soon... I invited her to the sleep over-" Her ears then went back up as she peaked pass Xayah and Rakan to look at syndra and quickly added, "You can come if you want-" she then continued her thought "Anyway, As much as I want you to come, girls only." Ahri said to Rakan, stiffening her ears to show some authority. She gets slightly taller than Xayah once her ears are fully erect.

"Though if you have any more questions, you're always free to ask her yourself, Neeko doesn't bite-" Said Ahri but speak of the devil, Neeko arrived holding Sarah's phone with both of her hands, "Neeko loses..." She said, offering the phone back to Sarah, Sarah just smiled and patted her head, wrapping her arm around her. "Well, now's the time to ask." Said Srah as she gestured at Neeko.

Before the Dark - A Star Guardian Tale

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"The truth."

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Location: Valoran Academy

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Ahri let out a sigh and just decided to drop the big thing that should explain most of it, "She's a guardian. She's like us, first star chose her and even she doesn't know why." Ahri then turned wrapped one hand on each of their companions and held them like stuffed animals near her chest so if anyone walked by they would think they weren't real. "As far as I'm aware she's a long lost race of Vastayan, Sarah and I read about Vastayans last year and Oovi-Kats are apparently supposed to be extinct, but there she is." Suddenly, Kiko appeared as well, and Ahri just couldn't keep them all from view. "Kiko can you help me, can you convince these two to hide themselves?" She asked, raising the two bird companions up to Kiko who was on her head. As Kiko worked on that, Ahri tried to explain further. "Remember that temple on planet J6-092? The weird green planet with the silver water, apparently she could read the writings on that and apparently it's a prophecy, she can't decipher it all but she's trying her best-"

"Yo." Sarah called out as she walked towards them, "Fortune- I mean, Sarah, what about Neeko-" Ahri was then cut off by Sarah's palm to her face, which then immediately turned into a finger pointing at Neeko who appeared to be more intrigued than before. "I re-installed Bejeweled on my phone while she was sleeping on your shoulder since I knew she was going to ask about my phone again," She turned to Neeko who was making huge swipes on her Sarah's phone " I think she's on level 8-" A loud ding then came from her phone, "Neeko is Shiny master!" Neeko exclaimed as she raised both hands up in the air. "Ur... 10, level 10." Sarah then saw Kiko struggling to keep the Vastayan familiars, so she got Boki and Baki to help out as well. "Anyway, I'm your second in command, so I was hoping to get more insight on whatever's going on." Sarah interjected, Ahri then looked down, and replied "Right, sorry."

Before the Dark - A Star Guardian Tale

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"Star guardians are not usually as discreet."

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Location: Valoran Academy

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As Ahri sat there, letting Neeko rest on her shoulders she was suddenly tapped on the shoulder, she leaned her head back to see Xayah and Rakan’s upside down faces, "Oh, hey." Said Ahri, Xayah said they needed to talk and the tone of her voice made it sound hella urgent. For a second Xayah reminded Ahri for herself about three hours ago by the gate, was it Ahri’s turn to get infuriated and angry? No, Ahri’s life was not as rough as Xayah’s therefore she couldn’t compare. "Hold on a sec," Ahri tapped Neeko’s head and her head immediately was upright again, Neeko rubbed her eyes and with a very tired sounding voice said "Neeko was sleeping soundly, Was Neeko hurting Ahri?" She asked, Ahri shook her head and replied, "No no, you were as light as a feather, I just need to talk to these two." Said Ahri as she pointed at the two lovebirds behind her. "Whoa! Vastayans! Neeko is very glad to meet you two-!" Ahri had to cut her off, it was urgent business so she couldn’t waste any time, Ahri placed her finger on Neeko’s lips and calmly said, "You can talk to them later, I just need to talk to them first about something okay?" Neeko then sat back in her seat and asked "Is it about Neeko’s Shiny?" Ahri then turned to Xayah and Rakan and examined the emotion in their eyes, Ahri was really good at this. "That would appear to be the case." Said Ahri. Neeko then nodded and walked over to Sarah, she immediately started bugging her about her phone.

Ahri stood up from her chair and grabbed both of them by tricep, Ahri was shorter so she needed to be intimidating in some way. She dragged them both out to the part of the hall where not a lot of a students walk passed. "Okay, so this is obviously about Neeko so ask away." Ahri commanded as she opened her arms ready for all the questions that was about to be thrown at her.

Before the Dark - A Star Guardian Tale

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"So that makes six?"

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Location: Valoran Academy

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So that makes six total star guardians that are in Valoran as of this moment. Ahri and Sarah talked as they made their way to the cafeteria with Neeko following them. "You ever had Cafeteria lunch before?" Ahri asked as she turned to Neeko while they continued walking. "Neeko was told that it wasn't good all the time, Soraka gives good advice, or is Neeko wrong?" Neeko replied, Ahri just chuckled and told Neeko to follow and order what she orders since she practically knows the meals like the back of her hand. and boy Ahri is not proud of that. "Your first lunch is on me." Said Ahri, Sarah had already went ahead and grabbed the pasta for herself, while Ahri got her and Neeko a delectable Chicken dish that was pretty good if it was hot; Thank the stars it was.

Ahri sat down and started eating her lunch as Sarah and her started discussing with Neeko about her origins. Neeko told them that she came from this planet but she doesn't know a lot of the human customs, she said she was still trying to get to know that. "We mean't your star guardian origins kid." Sarah corrected, Neeko then smiled and swallowed her food before answering, "Shiny came down on neeko, with little frog creature, Neeko was told his name was Towa." Ahri then turned to Sarah and shrugged "Towa does sound like a guardian name, maybe it was those writings we saw in that temple on that weird blue planet a few months ago." Ahri pointed out, Sarah then remembered, "Oh, hold on, I snapped a pic." Said Sarah as she pulled out her phone and scrolled through her gallery, she then placed the phone on the table and slid it towards Ahri, the writings were of a language they've never heard of before along with five shooting star paintings next to it, with multiple colours. Neeko's eyes widened she almost choked on her food as she saw the writings. "Neeko can read! Neeko can read!" She called out, "It is a prophecy, Neeko cannot read them all but Neeko can read." Neeko stated, Ahri and Sarah shared glances before sliding the phone to Neeko. "It is said that when the first fail, there will be those that take their place, and then another, and another... Neeko cannot read past that, Neeko thinks this means five new guardians." Neeko said as she pointed at a specific part of the writings on her phone. The picture and then minimised and Neeko was shocked, she moved away from it was scared, yet intrigued by it. "What is this... Magic box? Neeko thinks it is evil." Sarah just laughed as she pulled it was from Neeko, Sarah then began showing Neeko the phone, "It's a phone, see, you can touch the screen and it can do a lot of things." As Sarah continued to explain, Neeko got intrigued by the second.

As Ahri watched them, two hands slammed down on the table, "Song, who's the new girl?" Said the girl, two long pigtails redder than the blood moon, it was Jinx Zavan, first year trouble maker. "Her name is Neeko," Said Ahri as she turned to Neeko who was too intrigued by the phone to notice what was going on, videos were weird to her, and a video of a cat eating a sandwich was still making her question life itself. "I suggest you leave her alone." Ahri stated, Jinx smiled and said, "Aww come on, stop being so uptight Ahri, it's just a little fun, look, watch." Jinx then walked over behind Neeko and placed her chin on her head. Neeko confused just sat there, Jinx opened her mouth and closed her mouth as hard as possible. Neeko pulled away and held her head, "Ahh! Neeko's head!" Neeko said, Jinx pulled away laughing, suddenly someone grabbed Jinx's ear and pulled her down, Ow, Ow, ow, stop, stop, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" Said Jinx, It was Luxanna Crownguard, first year, the one making sure Jinx does not cause any trouble. "Ahri excuse us." Lux walked away still pulling Jinx away. Ahri turned to Neeko and rubbed her head, and Neeko immediately melted onto Ahri's shoulder. Sarah just smiled and took her phone back, they just enjoyed lunch, just the three of them.

Before the Dark - A Star Guardian Tale

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"What could it mean?"

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Location: Valoran Academy

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Ahri waved goodbye to Xayah and also apparently Rakan as well since he arrived, since she was going to go ahead to first period because she needs to tell Sarah about the sleepover tonight. Knowing Sarah, she would have her phone on 'Do-Not-Disturb' and would probably not answer at all; knowing this, Ahri had to talk to her in person, in the first period. She made her walk there but something in pocket was slowly getting warmer and she was definitely feeling uncomfortable. She aggressively patted at it and said "Kiko, stop doing that it's starting to hurt." Kiko communicated with Ahri telling her that he wasn't the one doing that nor does he know what it could mean. Ahri's pockets started to glow a very bright hue of yellow and she was getting worried- The gem, it was that gem. Ahri fished it out of her pocket and it was glowing like a light bulb. It was warm so Ahri had to lightly hold it, she didn't know what it meant but she attempted to see what she could do as of this moment. She'll be on her toes just in case.

Ahri made her way up the stairs, but then she walked past someone as she climbed up the stairs, a girl with short hair that was all different colours, pink, orange, green, yellow, it was crazy. She didn't recognise her and that was surprising to Ahri because she knew everyone, she turned to her but the girl seemed to have changed, to have Soraka's exact hairstyle from the back. Confused, and baffled Ahri just assumed it was her, she didn't want to confront her since they weren't close, though she did wonder why she was still around the halls this late, Soraka's usually an early bird.

Ahri arrived at the classroom, first thing she saw was Ezreal and Sarah arguing about maths. "It's a simple truth table solution, why are you making it harder?!" Sarah exclaimed, aggressively pointing at ezreal's notebook. "I told you this was how we did it back in my old school! Come on it's the same answer, get off my back." Ezreal retaliated. "But it takes you like double the length if you don't use the truth table formula, do you want my help or not?" Sarah stated then asked. Ezreal seeing that he was unmatched then just nodded and replied, "Yes... Please help me, Sarah." Sarah then smiled and leaned back in her chair for a second to adjust the way she sat. "Okay, now let's start from the-" Ahri then put her face right up Sarah's and cut them off with, "Hey, you two lovebirds seem to be doing well." Ezreal laughed nervously while Sarah just playfully pushed her away.

Ahri then just laughed but gestured Sarah to follow her to the corner by the windows. She pulled out the yellow gem which was glowing yellow permanently as this point and asked if she knew anything about this, Sarah response was that she didn't know either and they decided that maybe Syndra might know about this. The two then made their way to Syndra who was reading a book and snacking on some oreos as she did, but before they could get to her the teacher walked in and asked everyone to sit down. The two went back to their seats which were right next to each other. Ahri and Sarah quietly conversed with each other through whispers about what it could mean, you could hear Sarah saying "There's no way every guardian just converges here right? There are other planets that need help." and Ahri reply with "I don't know yet okay, I'll look into once I-" but the teacher caught them and shushed them audibly. "Okay class, I'd like to introduce you to a new student." Said the teacher, who gestured at the person behind the door to come in, "Come now, don't be shy." Ahri could sort of make out the person behind the door, she wore a white face mask and her eyes were large and green. Before the girl walked in, she swore she saw her hair change from long and pink like Luxanna Crownguard in the other room to short and blonde like Ezreal's. The girl stood in front of everyone before looking back at the teacher, "Don't be afraid to show your true self now." Said the teacher, The girl then pulled her face mask down and her changed in front of everyone to her normal hairstyle. "Hello everyone, I am Neeko Oovi-Kat, Neeko is very glad to meet you all!" The girl said, introducing herself.

Ahri's eyes widened, that was the girl she saw on the stairs, "You can sit right next to Miss Song." Neeko looked at the teacher and asked, "Neeko sit next to the pretty blonde fox girl?" The teacher then nodded, Neeko then sat next to Ahri and Ahri just looked her up and down. "Neeko is sorry she changed at the stairs, Neeko got scared because Ahri so pretty." Ahri just nodded at that statement and then proceeded to shake her head trying to understand the situation. Neeko then leaned towards Ahri and whispered "Neeko would also like her star guardian shiny. Neeko is was told to come to you." Ahri was more than surprised at this point. Ahri turned to her and whispered back "You're a guardian?!" Neeko nodded, "Neeko is first in a many new!" Neeko's broken english made it difficult to understand her sometimes but Ahri decided to deal with this after first period. But, Ahri fished out the gem and handed it over to Neeko, the gem then stopped glowing as soon as it landed on neeko's hands. "Neeko was told she would be a part of team Ahri." Sarah overheard this and exclaimed loudly "WHAT?!" Said Sarah, but she was immediately shot down by the teacher.

Sol City Modern Slice of life - Chapter 3 - (all welcome new and old)

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"Music will fix everything, maybe, I don't know."

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Location: Swan Songs Record Shop

Interaction: @Pyxis @Tyler Night

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"Because I've never sang for an audience before, I always saw myself as mediocre." Said Aria as she shrugged, she put her guitar next to her and was slowly calming down from the adrenaline, it was quite the rush after all. She does like this person, well not in the romantic way... Yet; Maybe Aria would be able to take her to her music room if she plays her cards right. "A car ride? Those usually lead to those romantic things huh? Right? I... I honestly don't know, does the shit that happens in movies real or they actually just movie things?" Aria asked a bit confused but, that has always been one of Aria's quirks that people love her by.

The man Lilith was with earlier then began clapping for her, it was quite distinct and he was quite tall and relatively hard to miss. He spoke that drinks were on him and Aria definitely wasn't going to pass on that situation, she was planning to have a smoke but now it would appear her plans have change. Guy must have a ton of extra cash, wish that were me. She thought as she then specified what she wanted as a drink. Lilith said he was a cool dude, so needless to say she'll believe her for now, but Aria is usually proven wrong at some point, she wishes that she won't be.

"Totally in." Said Aria.

"Who could say no to free drinks, the only thing that would make it better is if you could smoke in here." Said Hoon as she moved towards Lilith, she gestured to the bar and hoped to get to know her a bit more, she doesn't know a lot about her so this may be the best thing she could think of for the time being. "Dinner's still on right?" She asked, looking up at her as she waited for an answer.