✧ Descending upon the town of clovers that rested upon the depths of a darkened lake was something that typically brought the pink gemstone heavy emotions- there was a certain feeling of dread that would come deep into her stomach when sighting the expanse of dull waters stretch across the rugged terrain, provoked by her sadness of just what resided deep within the water's deepest parts. While Desirée had accepted those fragments of the past for what they were some time ago, it was difficult for her to face just how many failures she had caused due to her absence from the planet's surface. What sat at the bottom of the lake was just another reminder of that, and while she typically wouldn't be able to cast aside those reinforced emotions, tonight was a bit different- a golden hue would twinkle within the optics of the guildmistress as she would delicately walk through the city's alleyways toward the west side, resonating with a glimmer of confidence for what was yet to come. In accordance with an ongoing investigation on behalf of La Mage Maison, a historic museum of magecraft in Rose Garden, Luminous Rose would be requested to recover a series of stolen ethereal statues that resembled old gods, which were last spotted upon the basin of the ruins to the west of Clover Town. Tonight was the night that the pink diamond had arranged for the guild to make their move- having sent each and every member of the guild of pink roses a letter vaguely detailing the request of assistance and information relating to the meeting place and those they would potentially be facing, she had hoped that it would not be too long before the vines of the rose bush could make their way to the suspected angelic hideout and that a plentiful amount of the guild's lovely roses would appear at the cafe on the east side of town.
Raising her crystalline vaporizer to her lips as she would gently ascend the steps that led up to the meeting place, she would inhale the strawberry-flavored contents softly and proceed to exhale them, allowing for the clouds of smoke to thrash into the winds of the night. Nicotine was one of Desirée's newest coping mechanisms for her many anxieties she would experience within her life, which she found to be much more light on her headspace than alcohol- she had not been a smoker since her early adolescence, back when she inhabited the body of a teenager rather than a crystalline construct. "Oracelies let me know that she will be a bit late tonight, apparently the weather in Iceberg was not that friendly on her dragon's wings, ✧" the pink-haired guildmistress would speak to her companions that would climb the steps of the cafe alongside her, her eyes focused on the open arch where the doors would typically be to the establishment, "I'm sure she'll be here in no time, though! ♡ Oh, and one of the detectives of La Mage Maison told me that the heiress of the museum will be joining us on the raid~! ♡ Apparently, she's able to use elemental magic, and she wants to become an official member! We shouldn't keep her waiting for too long, no? ✧ Let's a go-go! ✧" Quickly grabbing onto the hand of her wolf companion Rose, which would take the form of a human girl on this occasion, the party of four would quickly make their way up the stairs and slip through the entryway of the spot- inside would be a rather ordinary mage cafe which would be made of wooden constructs, accompanied by three sets of stairs on each of the walls. Looking up at the ceiling, she would be able to tell that the tallest of the three stairways would lead to the room she had booked to overlook the expanse of the lake the city sat upon, which would serve as the guild's rendezvous point.
Reaching her hand toward the spiraling wooden railing that would line the staircase, Desirée would quickly run up the stairs in determination, allowing her white boots to make tiny thuds with each new step she would take. As she would run up the staircase, it would appear as if magical energy would outpour from her forehead diamond into the silhouette of her body- upon the staircase would blossom winding growths of glistening pink roses, accompanied by similarly-hued petals of roses that would litter the steps. It was quite easy to tell just where the idol finds herself in the moment, especially to those that would be able to recognize the resonance of holy light that would form similar to pollen upon her blooms- hopefully, this would guide the arriving members to take the right stairs to the heavenly upper meeting room. Arriving at the top alongside her trio of floating friends, the guildmistress would smile as her eyes would meet a foreign pair that was sitting on the other side of the room- it would appear to be a rather short looking girl in her early teenage years, accompanied by a brightly-hued outfit that resembled a red and pink rose, fluttering as she would arise from the pristine couch. "Hi, my name is Winona Maison- you must be Desirée Blooms! Thank you for offering the assistance of Luminous Rose to help the cause," the short-haired girl would softly speak to the guildmistress with a smile on her face, "I will help as much as I can alongside all of you." Winona had a bit of anxiety hiding behind her calm and gentle attitude- while she was a mage, it was quite outside of her comfort zone to take on jobs that were not simple and innocent, such as saving a kitten from an extremely tall tree. Taming her summons was the pinnacle of the hard missions she had found herself going on, at least, outside of all of the hard tests that came with her schoolwork. However, the inspirations of the legal guild marked by the pink rose had inspired her to use her magical abilities to the fullest extent she could. It's why she was preparing to bear the sigil of roses, after all.
Meeting the hand of the young girl with her own, the pink-haired idol would smile and nod her head in response to what she had heard the girl say, softly shaking her hand in greetings. "It's great to finally meet you, I've heard quite the things about you, and they were so good~! ♡" she would speak with her usual bubbly kindness, which would allow small refractions of pink holy light to scatter around the two as they would speak, "one of those things is that you're interested in joining Luminous Rose- if that's true, I, by all means, see you as worthy of bearing the sigil, and I don't really wanna wait too long to give it to you! ✧ Even though we are the early birds to this occasion, I'm sure it won't be long before the others arrive one by one~ ♡ And we've gotta make it to the ruins as soon as possible." While Desirée would reach into the opening of a small bag the size of a teacup that would rest upon her gemstone belt and dig around, the Cardcaptor would express that what the guildmistress had heard was indeed true- she did wish to join the guild prior to embarking on their journey of the night, which would make her heart flutter. Within the hands of the gemstone princess would rest a luminous pink rose that would appear to be made entirely of crystalline structures- it was one of the newer styles of guild stamps, custom-made with magecraft for the one and only guild of roses. "Well, where do ya' want it? ♡" the idol would ask, causing the two to giggle as they would pick a spot- it would soon rest on the surface of her hand, chosen so it could always be visible amongst her use of the shiny rod.
Upon giving Winona the stamp upon her right hand and having a bit more conversation with her, it would appear to the guildmistress that the Cardcaptor had been working alongside the detectives during most of their studies and had already been informed of every detail currently known regarding the situation- it was relieving to Desirée that she would not need to tell her guildmates the remaining details they had yet to learn alone, even though it would most likely still be just the same due to Winona's anxieties that she was starting to pick up on. However, the pink-haired idol's focus was now drawn to one of the open windows that showed the room the horizon- her gaze was met by a small glistening fragment that shone ever so gently from the depths of the lake, which would cause her to delve back into her nostalgia of what was down there. She knew that there was only so much time she had until she would need to go down into the dark waters and cause a change for the better- but that would come later, and while it would be soon into the future, it would need to be later. Scanning the horizon that would appear rather fuzzy upon the dark clouds of the nighttime, out of her arisen hand would manifest pulsating glowing shards of levitating crystals that would span across the lake that stretched to the east- upon these fragments would manifest the now visible basin of the ruins the guild would descend into in search of the missing statues and the thieves that took them away. "Winona- when we are facing the cult of angels, we'll need to take certain precautions to ensure the safety of all of Luminous Rose, ✧" Desirée would speak to the girl that would now sit across the room from the guildmistress, who would remain facing out toward the horizon from the colossal window, "I'll talk about it when everyone gets here, but... I don't want any blood to spill on either side if we can prevent it, and while I'm sure there will be fighting in store for us, I don't want anyone to taint their own hands when they don't have to. Hopefully, the people we are up against will have a similar will to keep on living."
"Right," the summoner of card spirits would speak to the guildmistress to affirm her support of that ideal- she felt like it was the best way to ensure a clean victory, which would make her support completely genuine. A certain feeling of curiosity would form within the young girl's mind about the guildmistress- though she was quite bubbly and cheery, it was quite obvious to her that Desirée had a serious side to her as well, which she could see poking out from within her words just like sprouts from the ground. "Now, we wait for the others, ♡" the idol would softly speak as she would continuously keep her gaze at the small speck of the ruins that sat on the other side of the water's surface, "I'll get us as ready as we can be, for now. ✧" Clasping her hands together as if she were praying, the demon slayer would channel her magical energy into all of her body and allow her gemstone upon her head to glisten even brighter into the dark sky- a set of five pink diamond necklaces of all different lengths would begin to twinkle upon her quilted sweater as she would appear to recite an incantation in an ancient language. The language of atmospheric crystalline, upon finishing her short sentence she would raise both of her hands forward and open a pink spinning magical circle in front of her, which would begin to produce a fluctuating magical construct of pink crystal that resembled a bridge. It would shimmer as it would stretch all the way to the other side of the lake from the arch of the window- following the cessation of the magical circle it arrived upon, its gemstone structures would appear to emanate geometrical particles of light into the night sky, bouncing across the surface of the water like a swarm of a million pink crystalflies.
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job link: archangels of the sephiroth
