Summer Festival

[thalassino]

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- Station Master

◣ Summer Fair ◢

If anyone actually wanders up there, they will find the whole village decorated with strings of light, fish shaped lanterns, streamers, and kelp. Just past the North edge of the Village was a fair.


Events


✗Baking Contest on Tuesday
✗Pie eating Contest on Wednesday
✗Three-legged Race on Thursday
✗Karaoke Contest on Thursday
✗Chocobo Race on Friday
✗Host Club Date Auction on Friday
✗Concert by Marceline on Friday
✗Lanterns on Saturday

There was a large stage in the center of the fair, rides, a fortune teller, contests, games, a petting zoo, a fish exhibit, stalls, booths and everything else you can find at a fair.

Comments

[croceamors]

I can't be jealous. Besides, what was there to be jealous of?

[yes he was totally jealous and is still in denial of it, sssh]

[coolerthansora]

Having friends?

[He at least half-believes Saix because it's Saix. But hey, he just found out the guy likes dogs, so maybe he does feel things besides lineface and berserk.]

[croceamors]

People who call themselves that can't be trusted.

[His mind, without a fail, wanders to a stupid little glow up star thing that's now in his house. He really should just get rid of it. Maybe another dog will want it.]

[coolerthansora]

Yes, they can.

Sometimes they screw up is all.

[croceamors]

After a certain number of mistakes, of screw ups, they don't deserve anymore chances.

[coolerthansora]

I don't know what happened with you guys, but- Axel's a good friend.

[croceamors]

[Just a moment of silence as he crosses his arms.]

...He's a good liar, as well. Something to keep in mind.

[coolerthansora]

I kinda figured that one out on my own.

[croceamors]

Then you're quicker than most of us gave you credit for.

[Well, this certainly has been a conversation. Saix doesn't look like he's going to say much else, but then-]

Twenty five.

[coolerthansora]

[Roxas gives him a flat look that melts into confusion.]

Twenty--?

[Oh. Oh. Yep that sure is the color draining from his face.]

Y-you're kidding, right? [Does Saix know how to kid?]

[croceamors]

Ah, so now I am capable of engaging in jokes?

[Ignore the brief sadistic smirk that flickers across his face. Roxas, question why you helped this guy out again]

[coolerthansora]

[Because he's been spending too much time with Sora. That has to be it.]

S-sure. But maybe you're just... really... bad at it.

[croceamors]

Fair enough.

But I still have made a bid.

/scuttles in

[ninthserenade]

<sub>[Was that--Oh hell naw, he thought he recognized that hair from that booth. It probably wouldn't have set him off the way it was right now if it hadn't clicked that he was by Roxas.

Things didn't really go too well with those two if his memory served him right. Oh jeeze, what if something starts up? It couldn't hurt to investigate, right? It's not like Saix could scare him anymore, right? He wasn't really his superior anymore!]</sub>

What in Light's name are you doing up here? Rox, you okay?

_{[He's dead. He... Is going to die. Faris, take care of Athena when he's buried up to his eyebrows in the sand!]}

[coolerthansora]

[Roxas doesn't know if he's more relieved or worried to have Demyx there. He has no idea how Saix will react to him. But, Demyx wasn't a traitor, right? Maybe he'll be kind of okay with him?]

Y-yeah, I'm okay.

[Aside from the fact that...]

Saix bid on me.

[croceamors]

[The biggest problem Saix has with Demyx is that he is a slacker and he wrote the worst reports out of the entire Organization, so, really, not as bad as it could be. He is the third person to ask why he's at a festival, however, and Saix is starting to look faintly disgruntled.]

Recon. I'll have you know we were having a perfectly civil conversation.

[About dogs and festival and maybe Axel. No comment on the bidding thing. What, it's true after all.]

[ninthserenade]

I'm not talking about the festival, Saix. I mean what're you doing here?

<sub>[...Wait. Did he just hear that right? Saix bid on Roxas? During a date auction?

Okay, just breathe, Demyx. Breathe. It's nothing to go all Triton on.]</sub>

...How much did he put down?

[flared]

[He's got himself a slushy and a bag full of toys from his dart game, so he's having a lovely time right now, he'll have you know. Well, as much as he could be having before he ran into a certain someone.

... And now here he has to go running into him again.

At a date auction.

With Roxas and Demyx.

... Pay no mind to the Axel standing here with a dumbfounded face, pausing mid-slurp as he tries to make head or tails of this situation. Wh– Why.]

[coolerthansora]

Twenty-five...

[You have more than twenty-five, right, Demyx?

And... Ohshit, is that Axel? Can he just... go into hiding... or something... He doesn't have much more to contribute himself right now than deer-in-headlights staring.]

[croceamors]

I assumed being brought here was not a mandatory event.

[He plays it considerably more coolly than everyone else over the whole mess. He doesn't even glance towards Axel although he's more than aware that he's there. Saix just waits.]

[ninthserenade]

...Put me down for seventy-five.

_{[HE'LL SAVE YOU, ROXAS.]}

Mandatory or not, seeing you here still kinda ticks me off. 'sides, what're you doing bidding on Roxas? Y'know this is for a date, right? I didn't think you the type to go for kids.

_{[But something doesn't feel right... Almost like someone was staring. One glance over his shoulder confirms it, and he almost shrinks in on himself. This was getting messier with every second, wasn't it?]}

[flared]

[He knows that Roxas is a part of the Host Club and all, so this isn't too much of a surprise, but to see these two here is just beyond him.

Axel takes a second to drink a little more before he finally says something.]

So we're all having a party without me, are we?

[coolerthansora]

Uh...

[Saix is new, and he can't have been playing that many games. Seventy-five should do it. But does that mean he's going to have to go on a date with Demyx?

No, he just talked about hanging out. It'll be a friend date. Sure.

... He's definitely frowning at that "kid" comment, but that's not important right this second.]

It's- not any party I'd throw. Y-you know it's a date auction, right? [Are date auctions a thing people do or did Angelo just make it up? He has no idea.]

[croceamors]

I don't recall doing anything in particular to antagonize you this much, Demyx. Or have you grown close to him in your time here?

[A nod to Roxas.]

[Axel's presence is willfully ignored, as if he doesn't even exist. Saix won't give him so much of a glance. That much he's decided on.]

[ninthserenade]

I've been here for over two years, what do you think?

_{[And then he's pointing at Saix while focusing on Axel with a near-desperate look on his face.]}

Axel, he put a freakin' bid on Roxas! You know that's fishy, right?! C'mon, tell me I'm not the only one!