(Set after Castle in the Sky)

Rie, after her experiences in the Castle (which had turned out to be her ancient family castle, hence why it spoke to her), was determined to learn more about herself, and that meant Training! -evil laughter- ... -cough- But in all seriousness, to start off Rie figured (until Hathaway arrived) she'd begin to meditate and so she did. Closing her eyes as she knelt by the small stream that was located at the training ground she focused on her Ki, drawing it out and charging her senses with it.

With Rie meditating somewhere, William himself went to the waterfall up north. The best thing for him was to learn Kankashou. He studied about it in books, but William knew his ki-control was definitely not the best. Throwing himself under the downpour stream, he closed his eyes similar to meditating like Rie. He began trying to channel ki throughout his body. A calm, clean state of mind was the best to learn or start controlling ki.

However, it was said it'd be harder for someone who already knows basic magic, unluckily of course. "Alright, let's do this..." William breathes quietly, trying to continually channel ki throughout his body.

Jess had initially watched them from afar, being the sort to be reluctant to join group activities where she wasn't leader or second-in-command... Finally she told herself to stop hesitating, and went over to them. "Hey William, and... Come to think of it, I've never met you before." She said, trying not to stare too long despite her overwhelming curiosity about this girl... If Jess had met this girl she didn't remember.

Aliidan was sitting under a tree, reading her magic spell book (and dreaming about a certain handsome tall guy that she had met and gotten saved by at the castle), a little bit of drool escaping her and a faint blush on her cheeks at the memory. So mysterious... but with... a feeling... Aliidan focused on her reading. 'Focus Aliidan! Don't get distracted now.' Aliidan berated herself, fighting the blush.

(You totally disappeared in Flying Castle, Jess)

Ashraeh wasn't one to train, so she sat on the ground, watching the others strut their stuff.

(Soz! No muse.)

Ken shot at the tree, his mark was getting better and better, but that's not what he wanted, he wanted to create techniques made out of his ki alone. The destructive force may be improved. He also needed more arrows, he had to create them. Unlike everyone who seemed to be doing physical training, Ken wanted to improve his fighting output, it was the best idea. Cutting down a few trees, he begins making arrows in different ways and forms.

"What're you talking about? You saw her in the castle, remember? And you met Ken in the paintball competition." William replies unsure, wondering why Jess was so unsure of herself. The water was freezing and his clothes were now soaked, but it's not like he could go in naked with those perverted girls around. "Why aren't you training?" He asks Jess.

(Sai will be posting but you guys can just ignore his posts, since they are all in Rie's mindscape (which is a field of flowers :p)

Rie drew herself deeper and deeper into her center, her awareness of the real world diminishing rapidly. Finally, there she was, in the field of flowers. Three very familiar figures standing around her. evenly. One looking evil/cocky, Ryuujin. He was pleased to see her it seemed. Hyoriin as well. And lastly, the spirit of Sai, her third sword... Still kneeling she held out a hand towards Sai, intent on learning about him first. "Let us try and see if we can unlock any new abilities for you." Rie said quietly.

Sai materialised in some sort of... flowery field, and found himself standing near two other beings that he had figured were Rie's two other swords, though he wouldn't have a chance to say anything because a few moments afterwards he was confronted with Rie kneeling in front of them, she must have been meditating or something.. He said nothing, until she held her hand out to him deciding they were going to learn about some new abilities. ”Of course” he said, taking her hand to help her up, though he wasn't sure how this was going to work.. he hoped that Rie had done something like this before. Since that would make the whole ordeal that much easier.

Jess sighed. "Dunno what I want to train, Will..." Then she spotted Ken, and remembered what he'd done during the body-switch incident... "Ken, We still aren't even!" She challenged...

"Wow, what? I didn't even do anything to you. Go away." Ken shoves her off, continuing his arrow-creation project. He wanted to get stronger, not mess with some ugly muscle-brained woman who can't think for herself. Then again, Ken had an obvious advantage than her, not that he'd reveal it.

"No... I insist you damn twig of a perverted archer..." She stated, rushing over to him and kicking at his vitals...

Aliidan pushed the handsome man from her thoughts briefly and focused on the page that she was on in her spell book.
"Formositas, general spell, used to make the user very beautiful/handsome. Excellent for parties.? Well... I guess its as good as any to start with..." Aliidan said dubiously... Everyone were busy with thier own things, Rie seemed to be in some sort of funk or trance or something.
"Guess I'll have to use it on myself..." Aliidan said, having a brief debate wether to use silent or verbal incantations, finally settling on verbal. "Aku-Zuko-San Formositas!" Aliidan chanted, the surge of magic being too quick (and powerful) for her to slow it down. It hit her like a ton of bricks, smashing her innate natural defenses and leaving her in a heap on the ground, staring blankly at the sky.

"With my artifacts tracking abilities, I could..." Rose was studying her artifact and spirits. She needed to extend her range to make things more interesting and give her more battle strategies while fighting to help everyone. She also needed more tarot cards, her offensive abilities were too weak.

Apparently, Daisuke had never met all the Arcadian members as he just randomly took the registration form and joined the group with recommendation from someone and end up here. Was never really sure who the others were other than he himself and his brother, Ryousuke. They walked along the fields of flower where Rie was somehow at meditating.

They ran along the fields wearing clothings of dark blue baggy pants with 4 front pockets and 2 back pockets, inner red hoodie long sleeve with a black short sleeve outer jacket with zips inplaces in the middle and the sides of the sleeves and 2 pockets at the bottom of the jacket.

Their hoods were on their heads so their faces were clear with the light shining upon the area. The windy breeze flow along their hair waving as they ran. Daisuke was running from Ryousuke at that moment as he accidently fell on him just ago after falling from a tree which Ryousuke was below resting. Though being chased by an angry twin brother, he seemed happy and slightly afraid of what Ryousuke may do later.

The explaination was like how Daisuke have mentioned, his clothings were the same as well since they rather like dressng up each other to look alike though Daisuke is the more troublesome type while Ryousuke was the calm type who mostly plans before taking action while Daisuke would be the opposite in that point.

Ryousuke was rather angered from the fall received from Daisuke while taken a nap. He do regret sleeping beneath the tree though as now he knows about it. He had some scratches on his face and dust all over his clothes.
Now chasing after Daisuke with eyes on fire listening to Daisuke laughing while running away "GAH GET BACK HERE!!" He shouted rather loud which probally could've interupted Rie's meditation or maybe not but they didn't quite take notice of her presence since they were busy chasing.

Aliidan was lying on the ground, breathing heavilly. She could barely feel her own heartbeat and her magic reserves felt drained... It was almost as if she was on the verge of death... Aliidan managed to turn over and crawl to a small stream, intent on seeing her own reflection. What she saw made her very, very scared. But also pleased. her features were that of a young, beautiful woamn, with none of Aliidan's normal childishness present... She really didn't know what to say... She'd have to get a second opinion, like Rose... Or Will... Though Will might be a bad choice, he might want to pactio on the spot if she was too pretty D:

"...Hmpf." William continues attempting to learn to how to control ki. He stood under of the waterfall meditating still, standing in front of a boulder, with his ki infused with his fist, he sends a straight jab at the rock, his fist exploding in pain from the punch. A simple crack in the rock, but that was actually just his raw strength. Seems he didn't harden the ki or something, because it it wasn't working.

Rie lost her razor sharp control over her meditation (the level needed to enter ones mind scape) and subsequently her Massive Ki Reserves as well, the Ki that had been swirling around her (and on the verge of lifting her up from the ground slightly Just like a Jedi) surged outwards when she opened her eyes, throwing dirt in all directions around her. Oh dear... Now she needed to start over or Ryuujin would blame Saijun for all this...

"Right, the main part is to get more spirits... I need to focus my fortune telling, or else..." Rose focuses her magic, trying to think of ways to collect spirits. Spirits are used for different things, not just fighting. An example would be when she sees someone's fortune, it's the spirits mystical aid that allows her to project that image on the crystal ball, all lead her way through the tarot cards.

"Or maybe I should learn some other stuff..." Rose thinks, remembering dark magic goes quite well, intertwining with her spirits who use some form of negative magic. She decided-- gravity magic. She would learn how to use it.

William continued to concentrate his wavering ki. Was he not focusing hard enough? It seemed so hard to work with, despite Rie and Ken actually easily showing off their abilities to control their ki. "But they're both busy... I'll have to... a-ask for help... later..." He sighs, not used to relying on others for help. But then again, now that he's met people like Rie and Ashraeh that he hadn't met in his childhood, he has gotten a bit more ecstatic, as well as relying on others...

He remembered back, Rose and Aliidan were childhood friends, while him and Ken got into quite a lot of fights. Man, those times were calm, peaceful and always full of laughter. Though today would be similar, it would seem things changed quite a bit. He also wondered why the two twin brats even applied to be adventurers at such a young age. They should be enjoying life, but oh well... they had potential.

Ashraeh dozed off, sitting against the shady tree trunk. A gentle breeze caressed her as she shuffled cutely in her slumber

Aliidan, her heart beating weakly, made her stumbling way over towards where she felt Rose to be. Her heart rate had always been irregular, due to her panicky nature and other reasons, and this magic spell she had used wasn't helping matters. She would need to rest after she had spoken to Rose or she might just suffer fatal heart failure... Finally she saw Rose, who seemed to be trying to gather more spirits... Which made sense. Loosing her grip on the tree she was holding she fell down the slope rolling to a halt close to Rose. "Onee-sama..." She said weakly, she needed to get her Formositas appearance evaluated and she trusted Rose to give an accurate and honest account.

"Pervert...? You mean like this?" Ken sighs, as he proceeds to flash Jess. "I am not ashamed of my body, you know." He sighs, picking up his equipment in a hurry as he rushes off hiding and creating his arrows at a different area. He added gunpowder to the arrow, making numerous copies of it grinning as he tries to make his final products. With this, he would have so much varieties of different arrows... maybe he could win with this?

William continued to practice working and maneuvering ki around his body, he could feel the tingling surge, but he couldn't control very well. Seems his ability to use magic was far more superior to even be considered close to using ki, however if he could learn both, he may even be able to use the legendary technique he's specifically wanted...

"I better get ready to go back, the sun's setting in." William sighs, the cracks on the boulder were apparent, but that was more or less because of his own physical strength.