Girls night in! [ Arcadia ]

Taking another couple bites of pie, Arcadia bobbed to the music too. After her next sips of tea, the young slayer got up and began to groove to the lively beat.  Though she didn't know the words,  she still did her best  to lip sync any lyrics... badly lip sync at that. She used her fork as a pretend microphone between bites of pie. The young girl leans over to lip sync both Arielle and Sebby. She does a hop turn, standing straighter to  lip sync back to Nessa, before twirling away with her next bite of pie.

Giggling, she pauses her dancing just long enough to enjoy a longer sip of tea. She grins, ”This tea and honey pretty boss too!” Arcadia took another sip of tea, before sitting down. She shimmied and shook her way back across the room, her dancing slowing or quickening to  the beat. ”so is this song..  My feet for sure agree with you and your mom's taste in music.  

Arcadia would dance her way through the rest of her pie into the next song When her pie was gone, she set her empty plate aside, and kept on dancing, though she did sneak a couple more sips of tea.  "I don't think we had any magic like that lacrima in Dragnof.”

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Smiling, Arcadia nodded, ”Me too! I'm the bakery still had some. Mm next time we'll have to try the chocolate cheesecake. Or maybe tomorrow we can go get some to try. That looked pretty good too.”

Arcadia settled back on the side of the bed, taking up what was left of her tea in one hand and her iLac in the other. The young slayer clearly excited about this idea of going to a concert. She sipped at her  tea, while looking something up, her thumb doing all the surfing. ”Toes we should! Uhhh. I think I saw something  about a Grand Musical Festival sometime soon over in Crocus.  But I think there's some smaller concerts here in Magnolia at South Gate Park.”

Finding the info on the Grand Music Festival, she turned  her iLac to show it to Nessa, Sebby and Arielle.  She took one more sip of tea, before setting her cup aside to free up a hand. Her feed hand scrolled the screen along,  ”The Grand Music Festival looks like a pretty big deal, and something with so many people, normally I'd stay away myself.. But I could def go if we all went together! I bet they're gonna have hella more slaps ta hear too!  There's gonna be all kinds bands and singers there.  I sure hope we can get big brother, Aven to go. Think he can use some of his circles to poof us all the way tehre maybe? 'Cuz I hate trains ...and wagons. Those're worse 'cuz they bounce  more. You or aven don't know any magics for upset tummies do you”

“Anyway, it might be easier to go one of the smaller concerts at South Gate Park, and looks like they have 'em all the ime there, so we just havta pick one we wanna go see.”

Arcadia let Nessa take her iLac if the older girl wanted to look at any of the details of the listed concerts or festival closer. Meanwhile, she turned back to her tea, taking smaller sips.”Maybe Fairy Tail could hold its own hella hyphy music festival sometime."

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Arcadia chuckled and nodded, ”You can bet on it! Hmm... we'll have to decide on what level of tickets to get. They got tickets  for individual concerts and tickets for the whole festival. The most expensive  looks like it offers back-stage access all over.

The slayer slipped her phone back into her pack, and finished off her tea. Arcadia perked up at the news Nessa's dad could possibly offer some relief from her vehicle-borne motion sickness. ”Sweet! And double sweet! Yeah uh I'ld love to meet your Valkyries! Is that another family like the Luxes or Fairchildes?  Either way, it'd be hella awesome. I haven't gotten to fly since the last time I got to ride on my mother's back. I mean, like I was showing Sebby and Arielle earlier, I can glide on my own, but the sights are amazing with real flying.


She moved to settle back on the edge of Nessa's bed. “Hmm.. yeah that would be awesome. I'd love to hear you perform. And I think  it would be way less scary to stand up on stage in front of all those people than to be squished all into the same crowd with them.”

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Arcadia stared off into space for a moment, daydreaming what it'd be like to be up on stage. She laughed and briefly blushed, ”All out... like matching dresses like I've seen in some of those movie lacrimas” She grinned, ”I'm starting to really hope we can convince 'em to let us do that.”

She sat and bounced head a little as she listened to both the music in the background and to big sister continue on about her Valkyries. Her deep green eyes sparkling at the promise of visiting someplace so far afield, it wasn't even on Earthland. Arcadia bounced extra excitedly on the edge of the bed. ”Don't havta think about that  one. I don' think I've ever left Ishgar let alone Earthland. I'm so there.” She did bite her lip thinking over actually meeting the Valkyries. If they were big sister's friends and if she there, Arcadia was certain she had nothing to worry about. The younger mage bounced back up to her feet, ”And any friend of yours can't be too scary, because they're not really strangers.”

As Nessa finished up her cake, Arcadia nodded in agreement, "That bakery might have the best cakes in all of Magnolia, maybe even Fiore.” She paced on over to the air mattress, taking a seat to test how bouncy the inflatable was. ”Oh yeah...it's like the world is closing in all around me, and can be hard to breathe. Least when it gets hella bad, it does. And a kinda panic takes hold... maybe that's why mom still had me training for battle instead of out in it.” She smiled back to Nessa, ”But having friends and family around helps a lot, a lot. Nothing bad will ever happen to me long as you and Aven are around.”

She thought back for a moment,  "Could we go to Valhalla right now?  It's cool if you you think it's too late. I wouldn't wanna make the Valkyries mad because we woke them up.”

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Taking Nessa's hand, Arcadia gladly followed her through the portal. Her deep green faerie eyes sparkling in wonder already.  She laughed and reached out her free hand to run her fingers through the rippling air, the way you would to catch raindrops.

On the other side, Arcadia glanced back over her shoulder to see what Nessa's room might look like through the veil of the portal. It was then; she turned back to take in the otherwordly beauty they had stepped out into.  She breathed the wonderfully fresh air in extra deep. Her deep green gaze growing to saucer size in awe.  "I don't think we're in Earthland anymore, Toto."

Arcadia coughed and tried horribly to hide her smile. "Eh... it's okkay. I guess." That was probably one of Arcadia's worst tries at acting in awhile. She was just too giddy to pull of the straight face needed for that little joke.

Knowing she'd ruined her joke before she finished it, Arcadia laughed and hugged Nessa instead, "Thank you, big sister! This more super hella pretty than I imagined."

She dashed on a little ways ahead, whirling around with both her arms spread out like wings.  Both for the fun of spinning and to take in the three hundred sixty degree view of the eternal sunset. "I can't get over all the colors!" She paused, returning take Nessa's hand again, in case there were secret paths to follow or something. Arcadia wasn't sure how such a different world might also be different in ways she couldn't see.

Glancing back up at the sunset colored skies, she wondered out loud, "If the Valkyries see this all the time, I wonder if they ever stop noticing how pretty their home is. Amd do they live far from here?"

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Arcadia smiled up to Nessa, her voice quieting as it usually did once she noticed the boisterous group of women ahead, ”I will... but you're here with me, big sister. And... I like ta think I've gotten a little braver 'bout meeting new people since joining Fairy Tail.”

She was no less impressed with the inside of threat castle as she was with its exterior or the rest of Valhalla. Rather than rushing ahead though, she slowed down when first passing through the great doors. She looked around, mouth agape for the first few steps inside. Her deep green gaze sweeping around to her left and back to her right. She uttered in quiet awe, ”Hella, hella, hella...hella boss! And all those clouds outside, we def way out in the cuts now.”

The younger mage hung closer to Nessa as they approached the Valkyries. Though when first introduced, the young slayer gave the most formal curtsy she could in her night gown. The imposing nature of great hall around her bringing out an odd mixture of  the manners she was taught to show royalty and her more informal accent. The last time she was  in a castle near this grand was way back in Dragnof after all.

Having Nessa at her side and Tiphanae's warming welcome kept the young slayer from drawing back into her shell. She smiled brightly up the first winged woman, ”And any friend of, big sister, is a friend of mine...uhh Lady Tiphanae!”  Arcadia returned  Tiphanae's bow.

Arcadia turned to face Lucinda, even taking a couple steps closer to the fiery Valkyrie. Offering bright and friendly smile of her own, the ice slayer giggled softly, “You remind me of a dragon my mom told me about. I think his name was Atlas. She said he was made of fire like she was made of ice. I bet he looked just like you... but more dragony.”

Recognizing Elgorea 's shy nature, the young slayer did not rush  the demon Valkyrie, knowing how nervous she would be if a strange visitor rushed up to her when first meeting. Instead, Arcadia offered her the same ritual curtsy she returned to Tiphanae. ”S'up. Very nice to meet you too, Lady Elgorea.” Oddly enough, if Arcadia were to catch glimpse of Elgorea's demon arm, the young slayer would probably think it was 'hella sweet!' and secretly wish she could have an arm like that.

Agatha's rather intense and gruff nature had the young slayer back up a little toward Nessa. Her deep green gaze briefly ducking toward the floor in fear. It was short-lived, because she remembered  quickly how warmly the other Valkyries had welcomed her. Her confidence bouncing back, she didn't approach back closer, but her young face and deep green eyes to tighten half way into one of her rarely seen faerie deathglares. ”I'm not a baby.”

Thankfully, Arcturus happened along to derail Arcadia from riding her boosted self-confidence further into potentially dangerous anger. She was completely knocked back from her souring mood, giggling as she let go of it. Arcadia squeezed the white-haired Valkyrie back. “S'good to meet you too, Lady Arcturus! Thank you for  allowing Nessa bring me here to visit. This is one hella boss... amazing place! Uh but one question. Why Lady Agatha be trippin'? Seriously.” Arcadia stood with one hand on her hip and her pale blond head canted curiously to a slight angle.


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Arcadia frowned thoughtfully, ”Sleeps huh?  Tha' sounds lika long time. I guess even you guys wouldn'na know how long Dragnof disappeared off the map.”

She paused in silence, staring off into space for a moment. That really wasn't a question, but more of musing out loud. With a little sigh, she shook her brief bout of melancholy. Smiling again, she followed Nessa around the big table. She climbed up onto the offered throne, ”This thing's huge.”  Arcadia's bare feet  fell far short of the floor if she sat all the way back in the throne. She absently swung her legs over the throne's edge.

The young slayer smiled on over to Agatha, ”I'm sorry, m'lady. I do hope we can be friends too! Sometime. “

Arcadia was distracted soon after, once again by just dwarfed she felt by the sheer scale of the throne and the whole hall in comparison to her. Her deep green eyes sparkled with inspiration, ”I can fix this..Not really, but at least every one will be able to see me over this table better. I've learned a little extra magic of  my own too. Not so long ago, my mom, Khione Glacier, came to me in a dream, and showed me all the way through all of old Dragnof, down into the caverns that ran underneath the city. There she showed me this totes really old book. So old, it was old when Dragnof was still here. Anyway I woke up in the Fairy Tail library. In my sleep  I guess I found that book right in the guild hall. And the very magic my mom taught me unlocked it, and illuminated notes she had left to help me study that magic inside, which turned out to be pretty good hiding a lotta different things. It works on the play between shadow and light, so it can let me bend light to do do things like make myself invisbile or appear in different places..or look I fit in this throne.”

Arcadia began to distort much like the reflection in a fun house mirror until she appeared to be enlarged enough that her feet could touch the ground. The way her feet cut through the floor, if noted would a sign the phenomenon was merely optical illusion or magnification.  Since her feet were really still dangling above the floor, she continued to swing them, continuing her image's feet t appear to clip through the floor every so often.

She glanced down at her pajamas and over at Nessa's too. The enlarged slayer looking confused, though her voice unchanged by the apparent change in size, ”These are clothes we sleep in. me an' Nessa are having as lumber party. Uh what do you all sleep in if you have sleeps since you last saw dragons?”

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Arcadia flushed to Arcturus's answer. She averted her faerie-like gaze briefly to the side, though she was struck by a curious thought a second later.  She would answer the frosty Valkyrie's questions first, ”Oh ummm slumber parties are parties were you get together with  friends or family and you al sleep in the same room, but before you go to bed you do all kinds of fun stuff together. Stuff like give each other new hairstyles, have fun food like pizza and cheesecake, tell jokes, play games, take silly pictures,  all kinda stuff like that. Oh you all can join us on one of our next games. I got this app on my iLac that lets you see what you look like with other peoples' faces. Umm but don't worry it's not magic that actually switches faces, it just shows you a picture of what it would look like. It's called SnappleChat, made from the best magic in Earthland.”

Then Arcadia's mind returned to the curious thought of just couple moments before, she glanced between Nessa and all the Valkyries, ”If that's the way you sleep, is that why you all are so big and strong? If I slept naked too, would I grow... bigger like you? I'm like the shortest wizard in Fairy Tail now. Maybe those pervy ice make wizards are onto something.”

She glanced on over to Nessa and Elgorea, the young slayer smiling softly. Arcadia giggled softly, blushing briefly and  a little lighter to meet someone as shy or maybe even shier than she was.  The pale blonde slayer smiled warmly to Elgorea, adding, ”I just told everyone here about weird dream I had. I'm not in any real position to judge anyone else.”

While her green eyes did widen at first sight of Elgorea's demon arm, they were immediately filled with awe. ”That's pretty awesome.” Arcadia collected ethernano all through and around one arm. An blade of ice formed around the slayer's limb. She did not wield it with any aggression, simply setting her ice encased arm down next to Elgorea's demon one for comparison, ”Now that I think of it, it's not really the same at all..and mien goes away. But yours still awesome. Reminds me a lot of one of my mother's friends. He was a shadow dragon and covered in dusky scales like yours. He was a pretty nice guy. My mom didn't really have scales that you could see. She was I mighta already said...that she looked made of ice.”

She leaned in quietly, adding, ”It if helps I can tell you a secret I wasn't gonna tell even big sister 'cuz it's kinda embarrassing.  But I totes won a dance competition at the Boomslang. That's a night club in Crocus. That's not the embarrassing part. That's the awesome part. The embarrassing part is. I created copies of  a few wizards in Fairy Tail, including  big sister Nessa... and Aven.... and the guild master too. Their shadow twins were my back up dance crew. But I swear I needed them there. I facing down the greatest dance guild in all of Fiore, the Jets!  There was a couple others  there too, but some stupid fire mage took them out. Point is, with Shadow-Nessa and the others  doing head spins and backing me up, we break danced our way to victory. Well I did  'cuz I'm the one that made them dance. I mean that's kinda silly, right?”

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Arcadia patted down the sides of her night gown until she felt her iLac to pull out. Her blonde head nodding, ”Oh, I know right? They found so many new awesome uses for lacrimas, while I was sleeping.”

She pulled up her SnappleChat app, leaning closer to Arcturus to show the frosty Valkyrie how they both showed up on the screen. ”See, this is us all normal. Then this app has filters you can apply that make it look like different weird things.” Arcadia took a normal selfie with Arcturus, then activated the first filter with a swipe of her thumb, and made a pretty weird face by repeatedly opening her mouth open as far as she could. She'd stick her tongue out a time or two also. ”Bwaaah..    Bwaaaaaaahh! Bwaaaaahh.. See this one makes it look like you barf rainbows.  Bwaaaaaah.”

Arcadia demonstrated the next couple filters: one giving puppy ears, nose and a panting tongue when or if Arcadia or Arcturus  opened either of their mouths; another put the viewers eyes behind jump-scare style ghost; yet another filter did its best to make the viewer look extra dream, complete with soft focus and sparkles.

Finally Arcadia came to the face swap filter, ”Here we go. Each filter does something different. This one makes it look like we change faces.”Arcadia held her iLac toward the both of them just long enough for the filter to take effect and take a selfie. She then went back to pictures  so she could swipe back and forth between the normal selfie and the face swapped one. She giggled,  ”Pretty freaky, huh?”


With Elgorea, she thought back briefly how she might have to try  that trick to see if she'd grow any taller faster. Arcadia didn't dwell on the idea though, quickly smiling back to Elgorea. She glanced over to Nessa, then around to Valkyries. She bit her lower lip, flushing from embarrassment.  “Just remember I did this to win.... and defend Fairy Tail's honor. Boomslang is a night club in Fiore's capitol.”

Arcadia took a deep breath, calling on a little reserve magic power to draw out the shadows around her.  The shadow stuff lowly took on  the silent form and shape and perfect visual copies of various members of Fairy Tail. The was a shadow-Nessa, shadow-Aven, shadow-Arcadia, shadow-Althea, shadow-Rina, shadow-Mura and even a shadow-Sorano. All of them were poised uncharacteristically around shadow-Arcadia as if they were back up dancers in a hip hop music video. No one whoknew them would have believed weren't impostors.

The shadow puppets could not produce sound of their own, so Arcadia had gotten up to vocally replicate the dance music that had been playing best she could. The line up of shadow-Fairy Tail wizards then proceeded to reenact the show down with the guild of professional dancers that had called themselves the Jets. Shadow copies of the Jets appeared also, silently snapping the fingers as they circled shadow-Arcadia and her shadow-dance posse.

The scene played out exactly like something from the finale to a dance-genre movie. Each of the shadow-Fairy Tail wizards taking turns facing off with one of the Jets in a break dancing dance off. Shadow-Nessa was right up there with the rest pulling off  spins on her head and backflips to show up her shadow-opponent. No shadow-wizard was spared. The shadow-Arcadia did take her turn to dance her heart out against the leader of the Jets.

The re-enacted dance off escalated back and forth until shadow-Fairy Tail put the Jets to shame with a show of  dance in perfect unison. The kind of perfection that only comes from the shadow puppets doing exactly as Arcadia had been dancing at the time. The actual Arcadia in Valhalla did her best to vocally recreate the cheers of the crowd as shadow-Fairy Tail took their bows and posed as a group one more time. The dance posse disappeared dramatically  back into the shadowstuff they had been conjured from as did the rest of the young slayer's recreations.

Arcadia  face  turning beat red as she returned to her seat. Her voice going soft, ”Like a said..totes embarrassing secret. But I did win.”The  young slayer was so embarrassed she didn't really say much of anything else on it.

She was a tad grateful when Agatha asked about Nessa's love life Thinking about their earlier talk of boys, Arcadia opened her mouth to answer, but then Nessa  spoke up. As embarrassed Arcadia was stillf eeling she didn't want big sister to feel the same way so she quietly agreed with Nessa, ”Yeah she could meet someone else or no one. She dun havta worry about that until she's wantsta.”

As the conversation quickly shifted onto the two Valkyries she hadn't met because they weren't here, she got the feeling that someone was in trouble that they weren't telling her about. Her mind raced back   over her little demonstration, and immediately guessed wrongly that was why. She may have ruined  the Valkyries opinion of her forever or maybe Nessa too. She hid her reddened face behind her arms and turned invisible.

She rushed an apology, making her voice give away that she hadn't moved from her seat. ”Sorrysorrysorryabouthedancething!”

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Once Arcadia realized there was nothing to be embarrassed over, at least as far as Nessa and the Valkyries might be concerned, she dropped her invisibility. The little slayer did pout though at news it was probably time to go.  She had arrived among strangers, but already felt like she was leaving friends. Strange, battle-crazy friends, but still good new friends to have met. Arcadia still thought of herself as a warrior of Dragnof, and so the Valkyries' mindset was not as strange to her as it could have been.

Taking out her iLac one more time, she belatedly answered Arcturus's question, "Nah, they're not for fighting. You can use them to communicate with anyone else who has one in all of Earthland. Or you can use them to look stuff up, play games, watch kitty videos. All kinds of fun stuff. Mmm though it does have this one health app that can help you track how injured you are or how much magic power you've got left or how many steps you've walked in a day."

Arcadia smiled, "Why don't we take a few selfies together? I mean, next time we see each other, there may not be time to talk. So why not a little momento of the fun we had the first time we met?" She went on to take a selfie with Arcturus, if she agreed, and a selfie with each of the other Valkyries that would pose with the young slayer. She would also try and frame a selfie of Nessa and herself around one of the massive Valkyrie thrones. One group selfie of Nessa, herself and any Valkyries willing to crowd in would follow, and last but least, Arcadia would take a team photo of Nessa and her Valkyries.

She smiled brightly, "I'll have that last one and any of the others you want printed up for tomorrow! I'll just add it to the order when we get back. I'll get extra copies in case you guys want a print too!"

Arcadia slipped her iLac back in her nightgown, and went on to pay each of the Valkyries a hug. "Thankyou! Thank all of you for allowing me a visit to this hella awesome place!"

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Arcadia ran back to the door to the hall and  opened it to peep her head in for one last wave to all the Valkyries.  She giggled and slipped back out, making sure to close the door again. The slayer hurried back to Nessa's side, taking in the incredible eternally rainbow sherbet colored sky  and the cloudy landscape while she still could for now. She smiled on over to Nessa as they neared the portal, ”It'd be pretty sweet to live here, but It think I'd miss the stars.”

The young slayer pulled her iLac from her nightgown and snapped a normal photo of the gorgeous sky, and one more photo of the hall off into the distance. Smiling warmly, she scampered back through the portal. "I think I'll try sleeping like a Valkyrie when I go home tomorrow, and see if it really makes you grow that big. She giggled softly, Do you think Aven or anyone else in Fairy Tail sleeps like the Valkyries? I don't think anyone is really thay tall. Remind me to ask them sometime." On the other side, she went ahead and added all the selfies and group pictures to her previous order of prints to be delivered to the Lux household. She was sure to add a couple extras of each before closing up the app.

Heading back to her things, she slipped her iLac into her knapsack. Rubbing her eyes, Arcadia followed Nessa's  hand to the clock. ”Is it really that late already? I don't feel sleepy at all.” She was truly surprised at the time, but she couldn't hold back a yawn a few beats later. Arcadia moved her knapsack onto the floor beside the air mattress, and pulled the covers back. She laid out over the air mattress, pulling the covers snugly over herself.

Arcadia  turned onto her side, smiling sleepily.  The sleepy slayer sat up, suddenly realizing she her hair was still up in that lovely bow-style bun. She loathed the idea of taking it out, but she wasn't sure it'd survive a full night's sleep intact. She could ask Nessa to put it back in in the morning, so she  leaned over to pull her brush back out. With a small yawn,  Arcadia pulled her bun gently undone. Her pale blonde hair cascaded back down over her back.

Taking her brush, she gathered and pulled her hair around over her right shoulder. She began to brush out and retame her wavy locks, her mind going back over her visit to Valhalla. ”Thankyou.  I've never been to another world before. I think they liked me. I hope so, 'cuz I really liked them.”

Being left-handed, Arcadia mostly reached across to herself to brush all her hair to the right. She turned her brush to continue brushing out the underside of her hair. ”Really hope the other two that weren't there like me too.”

By the time she had finished her bedtime routine of brushing out her wavy hair, her faerie green eyes had grown extra heavy.  She slipped her brush back into her knapsack, giving that stubborn lick of blonde hair that  would never be tamed an amused flick down over her forehead. Predictably that lick bounced right back up, the girl giggling as she crossed her deep green eyes to watch her own hair.

Laying back down, she pulled the covers back over herself up to her chin. The young slayer turned over on her side, smiling sleepily. ”G'night, big sis... nightnight Sebby and Arielle. Love you guys.” She lightly closed her eyes and a few minutes later Arcadia had slipped off to dreamland.

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