Ambitious Marine

[Mr. Moon]

Gabriel #11

When Gabriel intercepted Namkhai´s punch, the heavily muscular wrestler frowned, pulling back two steps to create some space between him and the Professor.

“You know that she is just stalling for time, don´t you…”

He asked on which Gabriel answered with a silent shrug of his shoulders. Namkhai was staring at him for several second, before releasing annoyed growl.

“Fine, whatever…”

He said, turning around to walk back to Danielle, ignoring Sukkari and her remarks completely.

“I don´t want you go. Beast likes you…”

The oversized malamute whined silently as she saw Namkhai getting back, before carefully taking her piece of salmon downing it in one go. Seeing that, the wrestler shook his head with a gentle smile on his face.

“You shouldn´t spoil her like that or she´ll grow fat. Besides, you need that meant to grow strong enough for our next training.”

Hearing about her getting fat, Beast frowned but didn´t say anything and instead poked Danielle with her wet nose in an attempt to get another piece.

Meanwhile as he was watching his lieutenant go back to Danielle, Gabriel shook his head with silent sigh, before turning back to Sukkari who just admitted that she had no chance winning against them.

“Well, for once I am glad you realised that. For a moment I was afraid I will have to really hurt you.”

He offered her a kind smile, while thinking about appropriate answer. Telling a marine officer, that they arrived to kidnap and interrogate someone wouldn´t probably be the smartest idea so he had to put together some cover story quickly.

“Well, it´s nothing special to be honest.”

Gabriel shrugged again.

“I heard that a old friend of mine is now living somewhere on this island so I wanted to pay him a visit. His name is Marcus, Marcus Lang.”

He added the real name just in case she would know him and accidentally gave him some painters about his current whereabouts. The chances were slim, but he had to start somewhere.

[Shisha]

"Marcus Lang..."

Something about that name was ringing bells in her head but, for whatever reason she couldn't Quite recall it. Mind flashing back to her Ships Captain and his boring long winded lectures about the area and its history, people of interest and such. And although she remembered every details about the various threats that had come through the east blue, she was managing to remember little bits of who this Lang character was. Pacing around back and fourth, side to side, every direction possible on the ground, even if she wasn't facing in the right way for it.

"Lang....Marcus...wait is that?..."

She stopped, realizing who he meant, piecing together the muffled "Blah Blah" sections of that lecture. Turning about face she scooted up to Gabriel and took the glasses he wore from him, playfully trying to mimic his way of speaking.

"Ah I see, so this "old Friend", would he happen to be an old gentleman. One who happens to be an expert shot with projectile weaponry?" With a smile she gave back the glasses and proceeded to clap once, beaming a cheerful grin.

"I know where that guy is, he's one of the guys my captain told me was a "Person of Interest" on this island. He prattled on for a Long time, but he's defiantly a resident here." A sly smile formed on her face, mentally of course, outwardly still her cheerful addictively cheerful self. Maybe this terrible and badly executed fight she'd started could be of benefit.

"I can help you find him if you like?... never met him myself though. In exchange for teaching me that blue draggy foot thingy?" Scratching her head, even now she couldn't get the name right. But mostly from being nervous, would this work?

Pausing only to look at the huge canine nearby eating fish, waving at it cheerfully, Sukkari focused on the other members of the group. Walking up to them and stopping. Hand still rubbing the back of her neck as she stared up at Namkhai and the others. "Apologies for the, well, challenge big guy. I'll be happy to square up with you later and stuff, but wait for all this to be done first ok?. I'm holding you to that!" She said with a wink while turning to walk up to the huge dog. At first attempting to pet it, but pulling the hand back when she pictured it ripping off her arm. Just smiling and giving it a thumbs up.

"So Professor, we got a deal?"

[Bobbie]

“I know, Beast, I’m sorry… but you know it will be a while until the time comes.” Danielle smiled back at the oversized malamute once more - it was true that she needed and wanted to get back to Rosalina, which meant she needed to first move forward with her plan to acquire as many riches as possible, but it was also true that she wished to stay close to Beast. 

When Namkhai reached them and had something to say about her feeding Beast salmon, she laughed, “A little bit won’t hurt her… besides, salmon is very good for dogs, it supports their immune system and gives a lot of protein.” With a light shrug, the treasure huntress tore off another piece of salmon and gave it to Beast when she came for more, a bright smile on her face as she absolutely adored the animal. “And she loves it, doesn’t she? You’re not going to get fat with a little bit of salmon, he doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” she continued to talk to the dog, but decided not to offer any additional pieces.

Then her attention went back to the wrestler once more as she started to pack her food again and be courteous enough to wait for the others before continuing her meal. “What makes you think we’ll be having more training?” her question was blurted out a bit more loudly than she intended it to be as she tried to hide her shock at such a notion behind a snarky tone, but was not very successful.

More training with Namkhai meant more being grabbed, lifted, and being hurled around on the deck, it meant another round of her body feeling entirely broken from head to toe, and perhaps worst of all, it would probably mean another session of acupuncture with the professor.

There wasn’t enough discipline within all M.A.R.I. members combined to suppress the shiver that ran down Danielle’s spine as she stared at Namkhai in horror.

As the marine approached them and aimed to fill the man’s attention and then Beast’s, the blonde hoped that it would be enough to make him forget about the exchange they just had. Her gaze was fixed on her as she thought twice about petting Beast, which brought a little smile to Danielle’s face. “Be sure to call off your marine friends too… that backup that you said was on its way.”

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Danielle: #fffd17

[Mr. Moon]

Gabriel #12

“Isn´t it obvious?”

Namkhai responded to Danielle´ question with one of his own.

“Your goal is to get a much money as possible, as fast as possible. In other words, you need either protection or strength, otherwise someone will either kill you in retribution or to get your treasure for themselves. And since I presume you don´t want to travel with us forever…”

He shrugged.

“When it comes to get strong me and Gabriel are your best shots and he doesn´t have that much free time on his hands.”

The heavily muscular wrestler grinned, while the Professor was watching Sukkari with a deep frown as if he was trying to figure something out for himself. One hand, that woman claimed to know Marcus, or at least about his whereabouts, so she could probably make his search for the sniper much easier. On the other hand, her demeanour was really off putting, especially that part when she tried to imitate him. And while Gabriel wasn´t really that much concerned about his public image he was also terribly old fashioned, so when someone wanted to learn something for him, he expected appropriate amount of respect in return. The final nail into the proverbial coffin came right afterward, when the young Marine walked away to the rest of their group, refusing to pet Beast, who was begging another piece of salmon from Danielle with the cutest pair of puppy eyes imaginable. However, when she noticed Sukkari´s behaviour she turned her large head in her direction and howled question, before poking the pink haired woman in the face, with her wet nose.

“Maybe I should have really kill her right away…”

Gabriel muttered for himself as Namkhai chuckled in a response to her challenge.

“Sure, maybe in few years when you´ll grow up a little.”

“Hmmmmm, I don´t want to…”

Gabriel´s voice suddenly interrupted their conversation as he finally made up his mind.

“I don´t want to teach my techniques someone who doesn´t even like my dog.”

It was childish reason yes, but for him someone´s relationship to dogs was the ultimate judge of their character.

[Shisha]

"Oh them? Yeah I was lying, stalling for time and such..."

Sukkari smiled shrugging, it was at least a half truth. They were on the way, but being close enough to arrive in any amount of helpful time, not so much. In fact if they had turned up, she'd be more likely to receive the wrath of the back-up more than Gabriel and his group would be. Her captain, hated her with a white hot intensity nearly all of the time, yet she still had no idea why. But as the large looming man she'd tried to bait into a fight, Boomed a response, she chuckled and flashed him a wink, standing in a Badass pose. Despite his aggressiveness and bad attitude, the sudden attempted punch and all, he wasn't that bad of a guy.

"I like you big guy, But one day this In need of growth Marine is going to beat you, and lock you up herself..."

But when Gabriel commented on her dislike of the large dog, she held back the urge to slap him with shock, she loved dogs. Just not dumb enough to attempt petting a strange dog out of nowhere, especially one who'd previously chewed a pair of solid metal cuffs into a mess before hand. Besides, cute as it was, if it wanted to could probably just Eat Sukkari. She leaned to one side looking over at Gabriel, past the canine with a frown.

"I love dogs thank you...Just cautious"

And with that she kneeled down and reached out to the dog. In her head terrified he'd bite off her arm, or worse. Knowing not to interrupt its meal suddenly, letting the Dog sniff her hand and get used to her scent. She smiled, hoping her infectiously happy self would translate even for dogs and calm any aggression it may have. "He's a big one too, Don't want to end up like my cuffs...Which you're paying for by the way..."

[Bobbie]

Danielle stared at the wrestler as he rattled off his very clever reasoning. It was something that she herself had never even thought of. Her becoming a target for others to focus on and steal her riches was not a possibility that ever crossed her mind but she now realised what a realistic scenario that actually was. Her best chance, if not becoming a better fighter herself, was to seek out some form of protection. She was confident that she had that while she travelled with the Professor, seeing how caring he’s always been toward her, and perhaps even Namkhai, who had the bounty and the physical stature to scare off most predators by name alone if nothing else; however, it was as he said, she would not be travelling with them forever…

As he put forward her two options, and then pitched the better of the two, her gaze fell upon the Professor once more. Whether she wanted to be trained by him or not wasn’t entirely clear in her mind, but she knew for certain that training with Namkhai was extremely intense and she wasn't sure of her ability to endure a second round of that.

“You’re right…” as much as it pained her to say it, he was. Turning to Namkhai again, she sighed in response to his grin, but her hesitation cost her her spot in that conversation as Namkhai now spoke to Sukkari.

Danielle’s attention shifted to the marine as well as she listened to her promise to succeed in her quest to capture the mighty Titan of a man that stood before her, and then she moved to interact with Beast, the most beautiful fluffy massive malamute that the treasure huntress had ever had the luxury of setting eyes on and meeting. The more she thought about it, the more she realised how much richer she had truly become with this bunch, and it wasn’t only due to the amulet or the paintings…

The blonde felt a lump in her throat as she was beginning to get emotional, watching Beast and dreading the day she would have to say goodbye with no way of truly repaying her for all that she brought into her life.

Clearing her throat quietly, she turned her head to look away and hide her face from both Beast and Namkhai, while she assumed Gabriel was not fluent enough in social interactions to pick up on what was really happening. This wasn’t supposed to be so difficult - Rosalina was all that mattered, and her mission to acquire her hand in marriage. This started off as merely two human beings, using each other for their own selfish reasons in a crypt, but that was before she found herself stuck with them on a rollercoaster of emotions and events that she couldn’t have possibly foreseen… and then there was Beast…

Her frown grew as her thoughts became almost intrusive and her sensitive heart refused to do anything but respond to the ache of it all. In a final attempt to dispel her thoughts of departure, she kept her back turned to the others, taking a little step away from them to discreetly wipe away a single tear, then she cleared her throat once more and redirected her focus onto something else. She adjusted the paper bag of their packed meals in her arm and glanced at the Professor as if to ensure a witness to her following statement, then at Namkhai.

“If there’s going to be more training, then I’m setting ground rules.”

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Danielle: #fffd17

[Mr. Moon]

Gabriel #13

So, she was bluffing? Or perhaps she was lying now to keep them around until her back up arrives…the Professor tilted his head to the side, trying to figure out which of these scenarios was more likely, wishing human beings weren´t so complicated.

Meanwhile, Namkhai erupted in laughter in response to that young woman´s proclamation, patting her head as if she was the doggo there.

“Sure kiddo, it´s good to dream big.”

He grinned as Sukkuri tried to convince Gabriel, that she actually loved dogs. However what seemed to be a start of a beautiful new friendship, when Beast sniffed her hand and positioned herself for a scratching under the chin, quickly disappeared as Sukkuri addressed her as he, on which the malamute growled and turned her back to the marine as if offended.

“Oh god…”

Gabriel sighed witnessing the childish behaviour of his dog.

“I am sorry about that, she…she thinks that she is a princess so every time someone address her as a male, she gets offended.”

As if she wanted to confirm his words, Beast turned her head to Sukkuri just so she could snort at her and turn away again.

“Anyway…”

The Professor continued

“True Step is advanced technique, it can take weeks or even month to truly master and I don´t have that time, so let´s change our deal. I´ll show you the basics and will give you training plan to master it and in return you will tell me where I can find Marcus.”

And while both the Professor and his dog were completely oblivious to Danielle´s struggle, although each one from completely different reason, Namkhai did notice, carefully stepping sideways to shield her from the sight of the people around them.

“Sorry, I didn´t want to hurt you.”

He whispered so she would be the only one hearing his words.

“Come on, don´t be sad, it´s not like we won´t see each other again…well if you don´t forget to invite us on your wedding of course.”

He grinned, trying to cheer Danielel up at least a little bit. And his grin became even wider when she turned back to them demanding training according to her rules.

“Sure…”

The Titan of Bokh nodded.

“however, you should remember, that in our line of work we are professionals. When I am training you, it´s not hard because I want you to suffer. It´s hard because it´s the fastest way to make you stronger.”

[Shisha]

"Deal!"

For a decent amount of time she considered the options, before standing straight, nodding and moving her hand out before her for a gold old fashioned handshake. It seemed like a reasonable offer and somehow the idea of getting Marcus in hot water and, to a better point, annoy her captain into a state of rage made her smile all the wider. Shaking Gabriel's hand sealed the deal, which once she let go of him, went right to honoring. She turned about face and promptly walked up the side of a building, soon scaling and standing atop the roof. Peering out over the rooftops, a hand shielding her eyes from the sun.

With a grin she stepped back off the roof and walked back down the building, stopping with a sort of skip in her step in front of Gabriel "Ok Last I heard, he was in the costal villages. Although I've never actually been to any of them, first time here after all. Sorry.."

Once again as she got close to him again, she started focusing on her apparent and soon to be training program. But not asking about it, instead scanning through her music collection for a track suited for it. A montage track of sorts, needing something to help focus her during it. With an audible Click, the track started in her headphones, holding one side up to a single ear to check. Nodding she put it back over her neck.

"Do you know what this guy looks like or anything? there's a lot of houses on the village areas. I know the way since, well i can see it from up there. Maybe teach me as we go? I got to keep an eye on you guys after all..."

[Bobbie]

As Namkhai stepped sideways to hide Danielle from the others, she barely saw him coming up as she was slightly turned away from everyone herself and her eyepatch severely limited her peripheral vision on her right, which happened to be the side he came from.

Caught off guard, Danielle turned suddenly as his voice startled her, having not expected him to notice what she was doing, let alone approach her about it. Then the words he spoke confirmed that not only had he spotted her, but he read her like an open book.

Her first reaction was something of a glare, despising the fact that he seemed to realise her moment of weakness, and this was for a second time, but as he whispered to her, she found that her frown relaxed and she let out a soft sigh. She wished she could deny that she was sad and that she cared for this group of people more than she initially thought she would, but no matter how much it infuriated her that Namkhai always seemed to notice that she was upset about it, she simply couldn’t say that it wasn’t true.

The mention of her future wedding brought a smile to her face and she looked at the large tough guy who seemed to have a significant soft spot hiding somewhere in there. “Oh, I won’t forget. You had your fun while I had to wear a fancy dress, so it will be my turn to watch you sweat in a full tux.” Her smile grew into a slightly mischievous smirk as that felt like some kind of victory, though only a fraction of any sort of revenge she had originally hoped to get on Gabriel for the dance. However, while it wasn't entirely water under the bridge, it wasn't particularly a huge concern anymore. There was the promise of walking away a couple of times richer that would keep her quiet, if not the fact that despite the embarrassment, the Professor was always a gentleman to her. Now that the ordeal was over, she had little to complain about apart from this entire delay in her plan to sell the paintings and make money.

"You know, for such a big..." She started to say, a serious look on her face, but she seemed to decide otherwise before she could finish her thought, and focused her attention on his next comment about their training instead. She found it quite funny that he felt the need to explain the reason why he was so hard on her during training, as if it could have been misinterpreted for any such desire to make her suffer or simply to be cruel. She could think of a few reasons why he wanted to include some of his throws, but not one of them included the wish to deliberately hurt her.

“Of course, how can I forget? And when I state my terms, it won’t be because I want you to suffer either. It would be because it’s the most efficient way to make it a challenge for you as well. Makes you stronger.”

Danielle's cheeky reply that mimicked his own words was accompanied by a subtle smile as she looked away from him as she always did when she wanted to hide something. She watched the marine walk up the wall to the roof, pretending to be enthralled by it to try and stop her smile from growing as she pictured Namkhai's infectious grin in her mind. As Sukkari came back down, Danielle sighed and finally couldn't stop a grin of her own, but this time for a different reason.

"Good, that's settled, can we eat?"

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Danielle: #fffd17

[Mr. Moon]

Gabriel #14

Namkhai grinned in response, obviously happy with Danielle´s answer.

“Good, keep the spirit and I´ll make you into fine warrior one day.”

He laughed. And while the wrestler seemed to be satisfied with the direction this situation was heading the same couldn´t be said about Gabriel, because the more he listened to that marine, the stronger the feeling that she actually didn´t know a thing about the sniper was. But with how obnoxious the young marine already proved to be; it was probably easier to keep her around to prevent her from further meddling in their affairs.

“Yes, we can probably do that…”

The professor nodded, shifting focus towards Namkhai and Danielle. He had a feeling, that something happened between the two of them, but couldn´t really point it out. Was it just his imagination? Or perhaps a wishful thinking? Truth to be told, he wouldn´t mind if she fell in love with his lieutenant as it would only strengthen her bound with them. But right now he couldn´t be sure and so het let it go, pulling out his notebook and pen instead, to write down the instructions for Sukkari´s training. But before he could start the pink-haired marine asked whatever he know how Marcus looks like proving his suspicious beyond any doubts.

“Of course I know, he is an old friend of mine.”

He growled, perhaps a bit more irritated than was necessary. Then Danielle asked if they can finally eat, Gabriel nodded in response.

“Sure, if what she said about the non-existing reinforcement is true you can eat your lunch…”

He paused, looking at the pink haired woman. Strictly speaking he didn´t have to care about her, but there was this nagging voice in his head telling, that she was technically part of their group now and so he had a responsibility for her.

“and you…”

He looked at Sukkari, trying to recall her name, but nothing came to mind.

“marine, if you are hungry, you can take mine. I don´t really eat that much during the day anyway.”

[Shisha]

She stood next to the Dapper professor, watching him pull out his notebook and begin to scribble away in it. Standing as tall as she could to try and peek into the book as he wrote, eventually giving up and going back to just a casually standing next to him. So many questions ran through her head, but from how he acted towards her, he seemed to find her somewhat annoying, irritating. A slight frown at that thought, he seemed to be rather immune to her always smiling and overly friendly personality. That, was a first. The slight frown turning into an Arms folded across her chest sort of stance, but still quite relaxed to hide her thoughts.

"A Friend of his?...Shouldn't he KNOW where he is then?"

About to mention this, raising her hand with a pointing gesture to do so, she was stopped. Gabriel offered his meal to her, which to her was a horrible thing to do, let alone to admit his lack of a daily apatite. With both hands outstretched ahead of her, she shooed away the idea of it.

"You'll do no such thing. It's Your food, someone went out of their way to make that, I couldn't take that away from you. Besides...I've eaten already.." She smiled looking at him with a pointing gesture again, at his mid section this time "..Wouldn't hurt to eat something, get some meat on you"

Smiling again she Hopped up on a short wall nearby and sat waiting, kicking her legs playfully back and fourth, hands on it by her sides. She wouldn't mind tagging along with the group, if only to keep an eye on them. More so for whatever was in that notebook. She'd seen some odd flashes of things in there that, even if she didn't know what they were, made her Oh so curious anyway.

[Bobbie]

While Namkhai’s reaction to her response was better than another challenge, which she was quite glad for as she'd have had no choice but to accept in these circumstances, it wasn’t quite what she expected either. “I’m not trying to become a ‘fine warrior’…” she mumbled, quietly, in something that could resemble a sulk.

When Gabriel gave the order to eat, however, all of that washed away as even her stomach displayed eagerness to devour the delicious food that was waiting for them in their individual boxes, by letting out a loud growl. Pulling the large paper bag open once more to take out her boxed meal again, she somehow managed to juggle everything in her grasp. In one hand, she held her opened box and in the other a disposal fork. The bag that contained Namkhai’s and Gabriel’s boxes was held securely under her arm and it was only after she stuffed a forkful of salmon and a bit of the salad into her mouth that she let the empty fork rest inside her box again to offer the bag to the others with her free hand.

Unsure of which of the two - Gabriel or Sukkari - would be eating his share, she turned to Namkhai instead and held out the entire bag. She hoped he would take the whole thing and not just his own box so that she could continue eating without the extra luggage to carry. “Here… Are you going to eat?” she asked, her voice slightly slurred because her mouth was full, but the contents were safely tucked into her cheek while she spoke, which made it look twice as large.

Briefly, she glanced at Gabriel to see where his attention was as she continued to chew her food, then at Beast. “I’ll give you more when he’s not looking…” she whispered to the hungry malamute after swallowing the flavourful steak and veggies in her mouth. Although she adored the animal, trusting her with food was another matter, so she tried to keep her box far away from the large dog’s nose, just in case.

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Danielle: #fffd17

[Mr. Moon]

Gabriel #15

Namkhai heard Danielle´s response but reacted with nothing but an amused smile, almost as if he was dying to say something funny but knew it wouldn´t be appropriate and so he kept it to himself. Instead, he took the paper bag from Danielle´s hand, reaching for his own lunch, before throwing the remaining box towards Gabriel.

“Master, catch!”

Beast perked her eyes, ready to pretend she heard “Beast fetch”, but decided otherwise when she met Namkhai´s warning gaze.

“Wooo.”

She howled as if offended, as Gabriel caught his box mid-air.

“Maybe…”

The Professor muttered, hard to say if in response to Sukkari´s comment, or if it was an expression of his own thoughts. Probably the later, as he suddenly got up on his feet, hiding his notebook.

“We´ll eat on the move. Lead…”

He nodded to the Marine. While originally, he wanted to give them the opportunity to eat in peace, he realized it wasn´t an option, not for him. Not when Python´s killer was so close, not when the answer to his question was at his fingertips. The answer, which he simultaneously needed and was afraid of.

“Salmon yummy, Beast love you.”

The oversized malamute whispered, when no one else paid her any attention, adding pleading puppy eyes to get at least a tiny bit of Danielle´s lunch.

Letting Sukari lead the way, he quickly finished his lunch, without even paying much attention to it, so he could continue with the training program for her.

“Anyway, as I was telling you before, to be able to use the True Step, you have to be able to walk on the air first. To do that, you have to work on your stomp kicks as the goal is to stop with enough strength and speed to actually compress the air under your feet and to create a platform from which you can jump off. Now the tricky part begins because this is clearly a power move, but to move with the blinding speed you need speed. Precisely, you have to be able to hit the ground ten times in the blink of an eye, to accelerate enough…”

The lecture continued and continued with just small breaks throughout their whole journey. Then they arrived at the right place a small coastal village that wasn´t particular in any regard. Just a handful of houses built in a rough half circle around the pier with the place between them and the sea serving as a square of a sort. The boats were all gone as the men were still hunting for the fish, with just the kids running around. The kids and a single man that was sitting on a bench in front of his house, reading a book. Man of average height in his early fifties, judging by the already grey shock of hair and wrinkled face. He was still too far away from regular human eyes to recognize as anything else but a human figure sitting on a bench but the Professor´s eyes weren´t human.

“Guess, this belongs to you now…”

He suddenly muttered, giving Sukkari several pieces of paper, before turning on Namkhai, who was just sharing a funny story from his past with Danielle.

“Wait here. If the marine tries anything funny, kill her.”

His voice cold and detached, almost as if his mind was already somewhere else, the Professor headed towards the house, leaving his remaining companions behind.

“Well, you heard the boss.”

Namkhai sighed, stepping forward to stand between the village and Sukkuri, his face suddenly shifting from a relaxed one into a reflection of focus and determination.

“Don´t do anything stupid.”

[Shisha]

As she walked with him, actively trying to match his pace with her feet, but even the timing in his steps out of some belief it would help her learning of this technique of his, Sukkari was still trying to figure out in her head this whole walking on air thing. Somehow she'd never even tried to do such a thing with her powers, to her it should be a simple thing to do. In fact as he explained she tried to do just that, using her powers to attempt traversing the air. But to no avail, the best she could do, was like stepping on a tiny bump on a smooth flat surface. The tiniest of reaction to her attempts. But, it was a start of sorts. As the lecture continued she did her best to take the information in, hanging off the dapper mans every word. But something caught her eye, making her pause in her listening. It was him, for some reason he looked kind of amazing in the light, it made her mind wander...

He handed her the Paper with instructions on it, snapping her out of her day dreaming. Panickily she grabbed the notes and nodded, sorting them into a neat little pile, shuffling them against her thigh before carefully folding them up and into her coat pocket. Watching him walk past her she made a sort of half baked attempt at a bow. Only to give up part way through and just laugh it off to herself. Until a certain huge fellow stepped between her and the place in question. She looked up at him and flashed a smile and wink combo at him.

"Come on Big guy, Would I do anything now? I mean I've already made enough of a mess for you guys already right?"

She peeked around the side of him, leaning only to look up at him as his gaze never left hers. Focused on her without distraction. It dawned on her that despite her being as bubbly as possible this giant didn't seem into it. At all. So she cleared her throat and straightened herself up.

"Ok Big guy, Lets try this again. I'm sorry for the trouble I caused you guys before, Just doing my job. Even though at Some point we'll meet again and I'll have to kick you're butt. Hope there's no hard feelings?" Her arm out stretched, offering a handshake to the big looming martial artist. Hoping that her attempt to appeal to him and his light spikey hair would make him relax even if just a little bit.

[Bobbie]

Eating while walking didn’t particularly bother Danielle. Of course, it would have been more comfortable to eat sitting down at a proper table, but she was hungry enough not to complain and simply enjoy the food - which was quite delicious, and free since she wasn’t the one paying for it. She would have offered to pay if she had money on her person, but she found that it really was true what people say, food that you didn’t have to pay for really did taste better, provided that it was from a reliable source.

Throughout their walk, she wasn’t listening to what Gabriel was saying very attentively, though she caught a few words here and there. Most of her focus was instead on Namkhai, who seemed to be enjoying going on about stories from his past, and Beast, giving her bits and pieces of her food while Gabriel was too busy with the marine to notice. Soon, her shared meal was finished and the takeaway box discarded.

The story Namkhai was currently recounting was about how he originally got his bounty, which was interesting to hear, but perhaps it wouldn’t have been as fascinating to Danielle had she not already heard so many different versions of it from her former sword-trainer, Barbossa, the self-proclaimed number one fan of this mighty Titan, Namkhai Monkhbat. During his telling of the story she would point out a few inconsistencies with the rumours she had heard and asked for corrections, some simply being the truth blown out of proportion and others just flat out made up lies. She wanted to know the real version of events so that she could relay this information to Mr Barbossa the next time she bumps into him - for a price. Exclusive information like that can’t be given out for free to a fan who would be willing to sell his house for it. A little bit of her interest was also genuine and had less to do with anybody other than herself wanting to get to know something about the wrestler.

Before she could ask any other questions about it, Gabriel addressed her company, taking Namkhai’s attention away from her and onto Sukkari instead. As he was given the order to prevent her from trying anything, Danielle watched Gabriel, unsure if there was something that she had missed since Namkhai kept her quite preoccupied for their entire walk.

“Wait, where are you going?” She quickly asked, a frown falling upon her face. She had left him to deal with a problem alone before, as she recalled events at the hotel, and refused to let that happen again. Firstly, she felt terrible for it, secondly, it would leave him with no backup though it was unlikely he would need it, and thirdly, the result of it was a very angry marine captain running after them - this very marine walking among them being a result of said captain's experience and how angry at Gabriel she was because of what he did to her, whatever it was. This was also not to mention the giantess rampaging through the village to reach their ship, but that was for unrelated reasons.

“Professor, no! You are going to get another angry platoon after us, or worse!” With a frustrated huff, she rushed after him, making her second attempt to slip past Namkhai. She was more hopeful this time as she presumed he would be busy enough with keeping an eye on Sukkari, who was leaning in all directions around him and apparently keeping him quite engaged.

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