melodiesoflife | Before the storm comes the calm.

Sparks arrives soon after, landing nearby with Mercury. He hops off the rocket steed and takes the letter from his shirt pocket. He looks it over again with a confused frown, and then looks around the area. Who in the world could have sent this thing?

There's a few others milling about the ranch, but Sparks heads towards the one he knows, giving Olivier a nod in greeting. "General. Y'here to pick yourself out a chocobo today?"

Olivier looks around before answering him.

"Yes, and no. Someone wanted to meet, but their letter didn't indicate anything aside from the when and where. I figured I could pick one out while I'm waiting for this mytery guest to show. It's probably someone too shy to admit they need help learning how to handle a sword."

Sparks raises both an eyebrow and the hand holding his own letter.

"Waaaait a sec. You also got an unsigned letter tellin' ya to meet here today? 'N here I was expectin' some kinda trap from Kalki or somethin'. Heck, maybe it it."

Sparks took another look around. Everything was going on as usual, and there weren't even any other Heroes around.

"...Somethin's fishy."

She pulls a letter out of her own pocket and shows it to him, so that they can compare the writing.

"The letter came from a moggle in some sort of costume, so I doubt it's Kalki. I thought it was just another hero with something to hide."

She looks around a moment. "We could stake the place out to make sure it isn't a trap. Watch for the person who sent the letters rather than let them find us here first."

"Now that ya mention it, the moogle that dropped this off to me was kinda dressed up too. Didn't recognize 'em, but then again, there's like a zillion moogles workin' the mail."

He folds the letter up and puts it away. "Reckon it couldn't hurt to take a look around. Hopefully if this is a trap, it ain't the kind that's tryin' to get us away from the city for a few hours. Joke's on them anyway - I have a rocket steed."

It isn't a trap thankfully, just Minako being a nosey busy body and helping someone out. That was all there was to it. Minako herself was planning on staking out and seeing what happens if anything. If she had to get away though, she at least had a plan in mind. But in her disguise she kept an eye out, keeping a distance and seeing if they do anything. If she... she felt like she could give it a little nudge maybe.

"I'm sure the stable has rafters we could use to stake out the place until we are sure it isn't a threat. Or, we could give it a few more minutes, then just go back to town."

She looks around, but doesn't see any signs of threats. Instead she glances at his horse.

"Has your horse always been like that?" She gestures to it's hind legs to mae her question clear.

Considering how it's going so far, Minako may just need to mettle. These two are all business.

"Whoever sent the letter knows we're here, so hidin' ain't much good. But we can patrol, 'n scope the place out."

Sparks walks Mercury along with them while they head towards the stables, so he can tie him up there.

"As long as I known him, he has. Top 'a the line rocket steed, fastest ride on Mars. And this planet too, I reckon. No need to wait for airships with him around." Sparks gives his appreciative horse a pat on the nose.

"We don't have anything like that on my world, but they do have automail with weapons in it, so we're not too far from this kind of technology."

She scans the fields around them as they walk. "While we're looking around I can see about getting a chocobo for myself. I've been putting it off."

Sparks grumbles on Olivier's behalf at the mention of getting a chocobo.

"Yeah, well, good luck. Those things can be real ornery. I'm glad I didn't have to suffer too long with one before I got Mercury brought here."

You guys are doing nothing and Minako doesn't like this at all. Time to actually do something, even if it ends up them going after her. It was better than sitting here and just watching them talk. So coming out of her little hiding place she stood there, disguise in place and hands behind her back.

"Hello lady and gentleman...and...horse.... I think" Yes she thought she might as well add the horse. "I assume you have wondered why this place, correct?"

Olivier turns to Minako, her hand resting on the hilt of her sword. "Why in general, actually."

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"The reason is simple really, hooowever, I'm not so willing as to say." She is not so willing to drop anyone else into this and will just make it seem like it was just her idea. "It will be a fun thing to try and figure it out."

Sparks frowns at Minako in annoyance.

"Fun, huh. Fun for who? Reckon we ain't got a lotta time on my hands to be entertainment for someone I don't even know. Or even if it was someone I knew. Who are you, anyway."

"It's not for my entertainment at all. It's for you two to enjoy yourselves. You just seem one of those types that takes everything too seriously. There are times when one needs to take a break and relax. This is meant to help." Even if it is a couple of extremely stubborn people. With a small frown she placed a finger lightly to her lips.

"I'm just someone who is trying to help."

Olivier lets out an aggitated huff.

"What some may consider fun and relaxing is purely subjective. My type of fun probably isn't your type of fun if this is any idication."

She pauses a moment and looks at Sparks, then cak at the girl. "Setting up a mysterious 'meeting' between two people like us and not telling us what it is about will not result in fun."

"Whaaaaat. C'mon. It's not like I don't know how to have fun or somethin'. It's just. Y'know. Work is, like, really hectic lately. You know, with all the stuff the Empire's up to? Not to mention like a dozen other things. That stuff comes first."

Something suddenly dawns on Sparks, and he looks to Minako, then to Olivier. He raises an eyebrow and looks back to Minako with a sly look on his face, and points between himself and Olivier.

"Waaaaait a sec. This ain't, like. What I think it is, is it."

"What do you think it is?" Minako asked tilting her head slightly. She was wondering if he was catching on or not. But she thought he was a smart guy and probably has figured it out.

"As for the fun thing, sure but if you don't for even like five minutes to chill and have fun then all you get is the stress."

Olivier shakes here head.

"Well, I guess we can stop wasting our time looking for someone trying to sabotague something now that we know this was just a childish matchmaking attempt."

She turns and directs her attention to Sparks. "Before we part ways, I do have to talk to you about something."

Sparks is a bit offended by the idea that someone out there thinks he needs help getting a date, especially someone he evidently doesn't know. But at the same time, whoever's idea this was - either this mystery person, or someone who put them up to it - it wasn't exactly a bad match, at least as far as Sparks's type goes.

He seems lost in thought on something when Olivier turns to him, and he snaps back.

"Oh, uh, sure. I mean, the whole entire reasoning is dumb, but like, we're here and ya said ya needed a chocobo, so we might as well get that done, right?"

She takes that as their cue to leave the girl behind and resumes walking toward the stables.

"Yes, but I also need to speak with you about a mission I will be helping undertake. I won't be here when the fighting begins," she says once she judges they are out of he girl's earshot.

Oh right, business. He almost forgot about it for a moment. "A mission? Alright. What is it ya got goin' on?"

He looks over his shoulder to make sure that girl still wasn't too close.

"Well, we're infiltrating the Imperial City to steal a submarine, and some of us are going to stay behind in an attempt to join the airship fleet to cause some havoc during the invasion."

She's quiet a moment, letting that sink in. "Look, I'm not the type to easily trust people, but you remind me of someone back home, and even if he and I don't agree on things, I can count on him when it's time to pull off something important, so that's why I'm telling you now. We'll do our best to stop the attack from the sky, but our timing has to be perfect."

Sparks folded his arms and raised an eyebrow. At least if he reminded her of someone, it sounded like it wasn't someone totally bad. He thinks.

He mulls over this idea for a moment, and then nods.

"Yeah, okay. I can get behind this idea. We need every possible advantage we can get on the Empire. Though it'll be really dangerous, reckon I don't need to tell someone like you that.

'N of course ya can count on me. I'm the marshal, after all. ...Well, police inspector. Whatever. You know what I mean."

"That's what I thought you'd say." Part of her hopes that Sparks and Mustang never meet. At least Sparks isn't even half as annoying as Mustang. "So, are you sure these chocobos are onery, I've heard other heroes say there aren't half bad? Maybe you're just spoiled by your rocket steed."

Before the storm comes the calm.

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