[AQ] Step Up [Minji/Felix]

[Minji]

Step Up
+ Description: A Sports Day is being hosted at the park, offering all kinds of events from individual participation to partner and team events. Perhaps you’re attending alone, or with a friend, or end up discovering a rival you want to win against--or maybe you’re there to help out, or just to watch and take pictures!

+ Compete on your own: +2 Roost, -1 Guardians

+ Compete with friends: +2 Guardians, -1 Roost

+ Spectate or document the event: +1 Faberge, +1 Roost, -1 Guardians

+ Help work the event: +1 Guardians, +1 Faberge, -1 Roost

+ Requirements: None



+ Submitted by Teale

Felix

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Sports day wasn't exactly her favorite day in the year. Normal sports just weren't her thing. They didn't exactly offer the same kind of rush her usual activities did. Although she felt like she didn't really have much of a choice - she'd had Paii yelling in her ear all morning about at least joining in with some of the races. It wasn't much of a surprise, the Pirate loved to win, even if it was vicariously through her human.



Paii was still half yelling in Minjis ears - although she didn't pay too much attention. If she was going to join anything she needed to concentrate. It wasn't like she liked losing either. She'd have to run if she was going to do anything, it was the only thing that really seemed even a little appealing.



She'd never really been to the park before - once or twice she'd quickly skated through the outskirts but she'd never really looked around. Minji actually found it a little strange that the school were having their sports day there, wasn't there a perfectly good, and huge, sports facility that most schools would have just used? But - Minji supposed it was a nice place to move the event to.



Minji wasn't sure where the registration tent was - but Paii apparently did and began tugging her hair. For such a tiny creature she did have a decent amount of strength in her. She must have had huge lungs too because she was yelling again. "ITS THIS WAY. C'MON, C'MON!" 

[Felix]

    Today was the day. One of this sorry boy's favourite days; the sporting events day! How absolutely exciting! If Felix had to be honest, if there was anything he was actually good at, it was sports and he was thrilled. People relied on him and cheered for him and that was more then he could ask for in a day. Practically shinning with enthusiasm, he got ready in almost just five minutes if it wasn't for him making sure his headband he wore for physical activities was on properly. After getting everything all adjusted he waved off Daichi and left early to get some stretching in before the event took the registrations.

    With a swig of his trusty water bottle, the brunette breathed out a sigh of delight when the timer on his cellphone went off. After turning it off and packing his things, he fixed his shoes and started jogging over to the tent where the registering would be held. Normally he would be rather nervous and even avoiding people but after last year, even if he didn't have a lot of friends, running around and getting his adrenaline going was the one thing that really calmed him. Laughing over mistakes, getting pumped about winning and cheering on his team-mates; he wanted to do it forever.

    With a refreshed and happy look on the boys face, Felix was rather absent-minded before the sound of pitched yelling caught him back to his senses. Just then a girl and a very... tiny girl were passing in front of him; the little one was very excited but the student with her didn't seem to be feeling the same way. But then it hit him all at once, "Oh, you have one too!?!" With a shout and a point, he targeted them out rather aggressively without meaning to, gaining a couple stares from others passing by.

[Minji]

Minji almost didn't hear him over Paiis own voice - but the pointing made it fairly obvious he was talking to her at least. She blinked for a few quick seconds and t took that long for her to realize he was talking about Paii. It was a little odd that she hadn't already thrown herself at the new person - as she was often want to. Obviously she really wanted to get Minji over to the registration tent. "Uh - yes?" 

"I mean, you talking about Paii, right?" She waved vaguely towards the fairy who had barely let her eyes flicker over to the boy. She'd obviously heard him, her mouth had fallen into a pout and her pulling was less exuberant. Regardless Minji couldn't just keep ignoring the pirate. If she did she knew she'd lose a good amount of hair to the tiny creatures hands. "A guardian character."

Minji gave him a smile, indicating to the pirate. "You joining in too? Paiis super excited about all this." Minji wasn't exactly excited, but the atmosphere was getting to her so she was starting to look forward to whatever event she'd take part in. It could have ended up being fun.

Minji was a little surprised that she hadn't seen his guardian character already - from the few she'd actually met they'd all been fairly obvious about their presence. Although she supposed they may well have not been there at all. Paii was obviously and had started pulling at her hard enough to get her moving again. All she could do was let out a defeated sigh and finally let the pirate pull her along. "We're heading to the Registration Tent if you're heading that way too."

Paii was muttering to herself - Minji couldn't quite make out what she was saying but it was something along the lines of. 'One of them. Pshh. I'm the only pirate in this school.' It was silly - but she daren't shake her head incase she'd end up pulling her own hair out. 

[Felix]

    If he had to be honest, Felix was rather shocked by himself that he had done that in the first place, 'maybe Isaac is helping him with this fear... maybe even just a little bit?' he thought. Before he wouldn't have even thought of openly yelling at a stranger but here he was... and it was going rather okay! Felix looked between the the student and the guardian she had and felt bad for interrupting them, but she seemed friendly even after that and it comforted him warmly. With a delayed smile, he nodded happily, "Y-Yes! Annnnd yeah I am!" The brunette showed off his very prepared bag of supplies for the day; it mostly just included a couple bottles of water, headbands like the one he was wearing currently and some expensive looking sports shoes.

    "My uhhh- Guardian, Isaac, Doesn't really like these sorta events but I'm sure he will show up soon with some elaborate game plan... he tends to wander off a lot, ha haaa..." the brunette scratched the back of his head with his free hand and let out an almost silly laugh, "He's pretty dramatic, I apologise in advance!" He gave a small bow to the stranger and skipped to catch up with her moving toward the tent once more,

    "Yeppers! I just finished my stretching so I wanted to start as soon as possible!-" Felix was so excited, it basically radiated off him, "Oh! I think Isaac actually told me he would meet me there if I remember correctly-- So, what events are you entering any ways? I'm thinking of entering a lot so I made sure to get a lot of things ready in advance!" The boys eyes were shinning and determined, genuinely curious on what she was planning to see if they would be competing together.

[Minji]

"A few of the running ones probably." She shrugged a little and turned to give the boy a smile. "Not much interested in anything else." She looked back at Paii again, flicking the small fairy and finally got her to let go of her hair, which she promptly flicked out behind her before adjusting her hat, pulling it further down onto her head. She wasn't sure if she needed to wear the schools sports uniform, but considering she was dressed in her own clothes, she really hoped that they didn't.

She sent him another grin - waving at Paii, who had already gotten to the tent and was gesturing for her to hurry up so they could just get on with it. "I can handle dramatic. Not sure if you've noticed how much of a bully that one is." Minji wasn't sure if she sounded like she was joking or not, she'd really meant it - but it if it was taken seriously or not varied from person to person. Irregardless of the fact that Paii was the worst thing that had ever happened to her - she still sent a smile towards the little creature, following after her and soon reaching the tent herself. 

She was starting to get a little more excited now - she pinned it down to the fact that the boy seemed so excited that it was just easily rubbing off on her. It came to her, just as she started writing her name next to a few of the track runs that she didn't actually know his name at all. "Oh, names Fukui Minji by the way." She wasn't sure if she should offer her hand, so stood up straight and waved a little, she knew it was a bit awkward but she was sure just grabbing his hand would have just made it even worse. 

[Felix]

    "Ahhh running ones! I think I'm going to sign up for some of the dashes, too!" Felix smiled gently at the girls response, he was worried in the beginning that she wouldn't sign up for anything at all since she seemed so passive, "I'm just hoping that everything I sign up for is not at the same times... But if I have to miss one or a couple I'll be sure to cheer you on in yours!" Felix grinned widely, 'or maybe even competing against each other!' he thought to himself.

    Out of subconscious reasoning to her words, the brunette found himself looking at the little fairy she called 'Paii', "Yeah, she seems a little pushy doesn't she..." he found himself laughing quietly after that, "Isaac is a pretty huge bully-- hes really mean actually!" Felix showed an upset face but it was more like a playful expression,

    "Who's really mean, Mr. White?" As they entered the tent he had forgotten, again, that Isaac was waiting for him in there and he jumped to face his guardian; his demeanor was perfect as always, as if floating with grace and strength. "Y-You, your mean!" The student blurted it out and covered his mouth but Isaac didn't really care, "You need to make better insults." With a flick of his yellow glasses, the little spirit took a gaze at Minji when she announced her name and bowed in a greeting manner, "Nice to meet you, Ms.Fukui. This moron is Felix White."

    "I'm not a moron!" Felix seemed to pout as he started registering himself to the many events, glancing over every so often, "... but yeah, just Felix is fine... also if you want some water, feel free to grab a bottle from my bag, I got like... six bottles."

[Minji]

"Nice to meet you too." She indicated to Paii, who stands with her arms crossed and a slight glare on her face. "This is Paii, whose obviously not going to introduce herself." She's already too use to Paiis behaviors - that much is obvious because she barely flinches as the pirate drops heavily into her hat and a heavy annoyed sigh comes from the guardian, her eyes are glued to Isaac. Pirates were notorious for not liking suits - or at least that was a fact that Paii liked to make obvious.

Minji brushes it off and turns back to look at Felix, offering him a smile. "Thanks. By the looks of it we're gonna be in a lot of the same things. But if we end up in different sets - I'll cheer you on too." It doesn't exactly sound enthusiastic but she means it. Although she was going to assume that they'd be racing each other most of the time -  it didn't look like the boys and girls races were separated. 

"Considering she forgot to bring just about everything." Paii finally spoke up - shifting about on Minjis hat. "She'll probably have to take you up on that. Super unorganized by blank is." She pats Minjis head - as if she's a child. It would probably been patronizing if it had been done to anybody but Minji who brushes it off easily. Arguing with the pirate would be a pointless waste of energy. 

"Thanks. I was kind of hoping they'd have a refreshment stand." The girl shrugged. Paii had given her zero notice before she'd been dragged from her dorm and to the park. It hadn't exactly given her enough time to get anything prepared. 

[Felix]

    "Thank you!" Felix seemed to get some light back in his face when Minji told him she would cheer him on, "Having a person cheer you on is such a good feeling, it really inspires me to do better." Felix blabbed a little, words basically just coming out on their own, "So it would really mean a lot to me!" Felix looked down at his half completed sheet and was just finishing it up, double -- even triple checking to make sure certain events didn't cross with others; If he saw some that did he crossed them out and scheduled himself to different ones. It had taken about ten minutes before he was completely done but finally passed it in and faced Minji and the guardians once more.

    Felix found himself smiling awkwardly at the spunky little Guardian, Paii, as Isaac only listened calmly and pushed up his glasses cooly, "Feel free to use anything from my bag, If you don't want to buy anything any ways... I think there is some fountains around and I can just fill up the bottles if I get low -- so yeah just take one, on the house!" smiling very friendly, the brunette grabbed into his bag and handed her it, hoping she would take the offer.

    "Maybe we should start to head for our first event too, since I'm all done here." It probably didn't start for a little while but he wanted to make sure he was on time.

[Minji]

"Oh, wow, thanks." She gave him a smile in turn, and carefully took the plastic bottle from him. She didn't have a bag to put it in, so she dropped it into her short pocket - it was deep enough that she could probably forget it was there at all. She thanked him once more before turning her attention to her hat - tilting her head slightly so that the pirate sat on top of it rolled off. She got a nasty glare for it - but if they were going to get moving anytime soon, Paii needed to not be there.

"But yeah - we should probably move. Wouldn't be a good idea to get there late." They wouldn't be, they still had a good amount time before the first event but really, it would be better to get there and warm up first. She was a little worried - she wasn't exactly sure how well people in the school ran - she'd been fairly good in middle school, but she wasn't sure how she'd face against newer people. She could only hope that her after school activities had kept her good and fit enough to actually get somewhere. She really didn't want to lose.

"Might be the first ones there. Pick of the stretching spots." She gave him a shrug and started off and while walking pulled off her hat and lodged it in her mouth. It'd be better to tie her hair up and get it out of the way.