Rossweisse & Logan Starbright (Eventually)
Norther Cross - Arcade
Christmas Eve
Phase 1 of 3
---Pastries in one hand, and a barely conscious A.I more or less hanging off of your other, the training that has been burned into you as a member of the Rothschild seems to have persisted in spite of the much more relaxed state of the X-Cross Base in comparison to the SLEIPNIR, indeed, the lack of artificial gravity trying to force you to the ground at all times is so pleasant as to feel almost alien, and well...
There's a lot of life around, obvious life, rather than the cold metallic halls of the SLEIPNIR, where -more often than not- everybody was always busy doing their own thing, the rare exception being meal times, where...
Everyone's lust for food drives them to be more social, of course, such things are ingrained in every form of life... Eating is a necessity after all, and with all of the energy Tamers burn doing Tamer things, well...
Of course they love food, even the most stoic, anti-social, bratty Tamer possible... Would still drag themselves into a cafeteria from time to time, hitting it like a natural disaster, and in this regard...
Lexie Davis was no different than anyone else.
Indeed, clad in the usual black and purple hoodie (although still wearing shorts even in this weather for some reason) the rather tall figure of Lexie Davis is one that you are able to recognize from afar, violet hair swaying energetically back and forth as she cheerfully pounds away at the buttons on the Blazred Machine before her... It's a pretty fitting image, even for someone like you, who had only met this girl about two weeks ago, it was pretty obvious that this is where she'd be hanging out, in the cafeteria going insane over videogames, it's an image that somehow feels nostalgic, although...
---She should be shorter.
It's a thought that passes through your head from time to time, like the nostalgia wasn't quite as intense as it should be, because she was a bit too tall, nevertheless, putting those strange thoughts aside, she...
"...Food, huh? Gimme a sec, Hiyori-!"
A questioning voice, but also the voice of someone who was somewhat distracted by the match going on in front of her; indeed, even though she responds to your words right away, it's the sort of automatic response gamers give to passing family members as they move through their space, in other words, she isn't really listening quite as much as she should be, but...
As stated before, most Tamers love food, and...
"Apple fritters?!"
...This one loves junk food; you're not sure how she gets away with eating like she does while maintaining her (basically ideal) figure, but-!
"Ah?!"
When it clicks in her brain, her posture shoots up slightly, an overreaction to the body suddenly realizing that food is both nearby and being offered for basically nothing; it's a small movement, but also one that distracts her just a little bit, and...
"Nonononono-!"
...confirm into Astral, you can hear the music blaring from over the speakers, the guitar instrumental replaced with the theme song of the latest entry "End Gazer," and...
"Skyeeeeeeee-!"
She calls out, over a pair of half-worn headphones, and... You can sorta hear laughter coming back over it...
Or...
Like cackling?
Well either way...
"Astral's me and runs off? That how it is, of course she would, course she would..."
An over-exaggerated collapse on the arcade machine, like she had been dealt some sort of death blow... This lasts for about fifteen seconds, or to put it bluntly, about the amount of time it takes for her to remember that she's being offered food, and well-!
"Ah well, win some you lose some!"
She jumps easily back to life, spinning to face you with a wink-!
"So what's this about apple fritters Rossie?"
---And thus, that's how Logan stumbles upon the group himself, with the violet haired girl sitting down next to Hiyori on a bench; the journey for the boy was quite a bit more simple, lacking the early morning cooking, although the crowd that's gathered in the arcade (gathered around a certain Goddess that is kindly crushing them all in that way only she really seems to be able to do) the sheer noise difference between this and the ship back home again becomes staggering, but...
Eventually, you are able to come across someone you know, Rossweisse and Hiyori, sitting alongside Lexie Davis, an SDCD Tamer who possessed a rather powerful sort of personality, the charismatic dork, the shut-in that willingly leaves the house, a big-sister type who seems to pull in everyone around her in a manner reminiscent of a vortex, yes...
Lexie Davis.
Her name and face were rather easy to remember, although the position you find her in is somewhat... Amusing?
Halfway through her first apple fritter, tearing it apart in a boyish manner that had her cheeks stuffed full, and her eyes turned up towards you almost like a deer in headlights, like she hadn't expected someone other than the two with her to watch her basically inhale her breakfast, and well...
It's not that bad really, you being you, you might not even notice it, but for her, well...
The choked way in which she forces it down, suddenly, seems to imply that she finds her gluttonous behavior somewhat embarrassing? Like she had lost some sort of grace as a person?
Maybe some strange sort of complex you just didn't get?
People were weird after all, Tamers even more so, and the people dragged into the X-Cross most of all-!
That much you had learned over the course of two weeks-!
"Y-yeah that's me, Lexie Davis, at your service!"
Still coughing a bit, but managing to respond to your greeting in kind, the girl pulls herself together after a moment to really study exactly who was talking to her, and...
"Oh, it's Logan."
Somehow, she knows your face right away.
Well, this girl does have a distressing amount of social power for a shut-in type, so that much may simply be expected, but...
"The chronic overwork guy, I could tell right away... Good morning!"
...Even has your habits known too, or rather... It seems she was able to simply see it on your face?
"You here to play Blazred? I just got Astral'd a minute ago so my will to keep playing is a little low, but... Hmm... Sudden new party member, and it's one that'll lock himself away if you give him the chance, can't have that, it's Christmas Eve..."
Muttering this to herself, she seems to come to some sort of conclusion, and...
"So how about we skip Blazred for now, and play some sort of party game, like... I dunno... Tamer Party 12? That's something we could all play together!"
Tamer Party 12?
The Mario Party Spin-off?
Known to many as potentially the most malicious virtual board game of all time?
And her behavior... Was she...
Trying to adopt you into this little circle?
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