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Characters: OPEN (Ramza and whoever wishes to join)
Where/When: Starting with the Mognet bulletin boards, then branching out around the city, Oct 18th-the end of the event?
Summary: Something is attacking moogles and making Heroes sick. In an effort to find out what is going on and prevent further damage, Ramza is trying to set up some patrols around the city.
Warnings: Injured Moogles, possibly people dying.

A. At the Mognet Bulletin Boards in your District

The skies around Aqures Ixen seemed unnaturally quiet as Heroes stopped sending their moogles out to deliver messages. Ramza did not know what manner of person or creature was attacking their white winged allies, but he did not wish to allow it to roam the streets freely. With communications down and some Heroes bedridden with various illnesses, it seemed the best way to proceed is to set up a patrol.

Ramza refused to endanger Simon by asking the moogle to deliver the message to the other Heroes. Instead, he wrote out the message on a sheet of parchment and attached it to the bulletin board in the middle of the district. Hopefully, the Heroes who were still well enough to aid in the patrol would see it.

[The message Ramza leaves has a brief explanation of the patrols, a few routes sketched out, and a series of days and times that a hero can sign up for. Most of the routes circle past houses, so that, if a Hero falls ill, help will not be too far away.]

B. On your Patrol Route

Darkness had fallen. The streets were quiet, with the lights from the Moogle's decorations casting a eerie glow. Not knowing what enemy they faced, Ramza tried to coordinate each patrol so that no hero went unaccompanied. There was strength in numbers...he hoped.

[Note: The heroes on patrol will not be able to locate whatever it is attacking the moogles. If any moogles are sent out.away from their heroes during patrols, they will most likely be injured, and if a moogle actively attempts to guide the heroes to the attacker, they will be wounded.]

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It was dark; Spencer was supposed to have been back hours ago. The sickness that other Heroes had mentioned, he was concerned that it had spread to his Hero. No matter how Sephiroth tried to hide it, the congested sniffly sounds he was starting to make were not a good indication at all.

So he'd gone out earlier in the evening to run to a few of the herbal stores that might still be open, to see if he might find something that might offer some relief. Though as he flitted around at Moogle high-speeds, something hard had knocked Spencer out of the air.

He was a small pale puff-ball curled up in the middle of the street, the small pouch of gils spilled all around and a few items knocked out of a bag; a few small lemon-like fruits and a small jar of sweet honey. His small glasses had landed a further few feet away, one of the lenses cracked.

Spencer made a squeak of a pained noise as he clung desperately around the jagged crystal that was his Hero's - he wasn't letting go of that for the world, no matter how he shook.

Hibiscus had been flying for hours, trying to find out what had happened to her hero. She had checked the hospital but there was no crystal. Her actions were getting frantic and when she wasn't staying with Caius, hoping for Yeul's return she was out trying to find out what happened.

She watched as Spencer went tumbling through the air. At first she stopped and looked around for the attacker but nothing was in sight. Hibiscus carefully made her way to the little moogle. "Are you alright, kupo?"

Usually at the sound of another moogle, it would be a sign for Spencer to relax but he was terrified that whatever had knocked him out of the air might be coming back to finish the job. He uncurled his head from around Sephiroth's crystal to see Hibiscus stood over him.

"Is it gone, kupo?"

She gently placed her soft hand on the scared moogles shoulder.

"I believe so, kupo." Hibiscus's eyes scanned around them once before addressing Spencer. "Lets go. Get back to your hero, kupo."

They might be safe now but she didn't know how long that would last.

The contact from another moogle was comforting enough and Spencer at least stopped shaking so much. He uncurled himself from Sephiroth's crystal a little and made a whimper of a noise as the relaxed tension instantly made him aware of how much his paw hurt.

"Yes."

He vanished the crystal away and then rolled back into sitting, holding his damaged paw and hoping the pain would go away soon. Spencer couldn't get himself to stand up yet, the broken bone distracting him.

""Do you think it's broken, Kupo?"

Hibisucs looked down at his paw, examining it. She wasn't a doctor but she could tell that it wasn't in the best shape. She dug into her bag and pulled out a cloth.

"Here."

She slowly wrapped it, taking care whenever he flinched. Hibi tried to be prepared because her hero was so young she kept an assortment of things with her in case they were needed. His wound needed a healer or it would take weeks to heal and might not heal properly.

"We need to get you help, kupo."

Already the paw was starting to swell. When in comparison with the other one it was already noticeably bigger around the wrist joint. Though really, within all that fur it was only something that other moogles would probably be able to tell. Their limbs were that much smaller than that of humans.

He watched Hibi as she wrapped his paw with her cloth carefully and although he did flinch a little Spencer was a brave mog when it came down to it so no comment followed. Once done he rocked himself and flapped his small purple wings to get the leverage to get back on his feet.

"To the hospital for me then, Kupo. Thank you for your help."

Hibi had already helped more than she needed to, and it shouldn't be for any moogle to draw her attention away from helping her Hero, after all.

"Let me go with you." She realized that he might not know that her own hero was gone. So the offer sounded strange, even to her but she felt like it would be better that way. It was logical to stay together.

She lightly flapped her wings nervously as she looked towards Spencer.

"You might get attacked again. At least let me see you to your hero. Kupo." Hibiscus was firm. She didn't want him to say no.

With one paw wrapped Spencer made to start to gather the items that he had dropped onto the floor when he'd been attacked, fully expecting Hibi to be all done now and head off back to her own Hero. It was a difficult task, with only one good paw, since he still hadn't located his cracked specs either.

At her insistence Spencer paused and turned his head in her direction again.

"I have to pick all these things up that I dropped, first, Kupo. If you have time, would you mind to help?"

Hibi smiled and fluttered her wings. "Yes, kupo!" Her little paws began to help him pick up the items. She tried to take as much as she could so that Spencer wouldn't hurt himself further.

"Why are you picking up all these things?" The items seemed odd to the fluffy moogle and it made her wonder if what happened to Yeul was happening to others as well.

All gils were accounted for, and the small pot of honey hadn't smashed so as far as Spencer's shopping for Sephiroth was concerned everything was fine. The small pale mog paused and squinted at Hibi's question. The sharp ache in his paw wasn't going away and with the adrenaline calming down it was getting worse.

"It's for my Hero. Sephiroth. He's-"

There was a light grunt of a pained noise from Spencer next but it was cut-short by a squeak of excitement. Hibi had managed to pick up his specs!

"Oh! Kupo! You found them!"

She looked down at the item in her hand and then held it out to Spencer. Hibiscus wasn't sure what to say, she had never been very good with words but she was worried about Spencer.

"Yes."

She took a minute to finish gathering things and then looked back up at her moogle friend.

"He's?" Hibi wanted to know but part of her didn't want to know. Is it happening to others too?

To begin with Spencer very nearly reached out with his damaged paw but the motion was too difficult. He didn't make another noise though other than to sound a little irritated as he reached for his glasses with his other paw. It was very awkward for him to open them again and put them on his nose once more, he scrunched his mouth up in a pout as the crack across one of the lenses split his vision in two on one side. Something else that would need to be fixed.

"He's-?" It was almost a question but Spencer could be forgiven for forgetting that train of thought; his paw was really starting to hurt.

"Oh Sephiroth. He's developed a cold, Kupo. It must be the quick change in the weather. Though-" Spencer paused for a moment to think, which took a lot of effort with the injury stealing his attention even more. He really wasn't sure if Sephiroth would want him to talk about him to another moogle.

"-do you have a Hero too?" Not all moogles did, after all.

Hibiscus nodded slowly as her eyes searched the ground for something of comfort. "She died and then disappeared. I haven't been able to find her. She didn't become a crystal like the others and I don't even know how she died."

She looked up at Spencer with a determined stare. "She's very young and has long blue hair. If you see her." At this point Hibi had little hope of finding her hero. It has almost been a week since Yeul vanished.

"Oh." Spencer chewed on the bottom of his mouth and looked down away from Hibiscus. "I'm so sorry Kupo, I didn't mean to upset you."

"But Heroes who died before, they were turned to crystal kupo. That means that your Hero can't really be dead, right?" He looked up, hopeful to Hibi - twitching his nose slightly as if it might help to perk his moogle friend up a little.

"I will keep an eye out for her. It's difficult to tell how many others are ill, when the Mognet is such a dangerous means to communicate." Spencer followed with a whine again and looked down at his damaged paw once more, before looking around to see which way would be the quickest to the hospital. He needed it to be looked at and standing around talking to Hibi in the street could be dangerous on it's own.

"It's not your fault, kupo. She hasn't turned up like the others before and with these attacks..." Her voice trailed off as she looked around them once more. They shouldn't be talking here for a long period of time so she fluttered up higher in the air and held out her little paw for Spencer.

"I think something might be wrong but we should get you to the hospital, kupo." Hibiscus didn't want to stay here longer than needed and guiding her friend to safety would ease her mind. She alright felt like she lost to much.

The items that were retrieved from the floor were vanished into the magical place that moogles keep everything and Spencer followed Hibi with a few quick beats of his small purple wings and holding his good paw forwards he took hers as well.

"I think you're right, Kupo."

He was worried about how Hibiscus was coping since the disappearance of her Hero but one thing at a time. When his paw was feeling better he'd be able to help her try to find Yeul.

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