The Kitsune and the Fenghuang [Invite Only]

Katy frowned slightly, but tried to guide Melissa toward the chair Aoife had indicated. "We're in Aoife's dining room, Melissa. It's dinner time, right? Plenty of food and probably plenty of candy too," she said quietly, before finding her own seat. "We'll have some dinner and then you can get back to your nap. Sounds good, right?"

Aoife would first walk ahead of them and whisper something into Imperia's ear, her tail raising to next to her head before she sighed and nodded. Then Aoife would exit to grab a quick stash of candy, Connla moving to sit at the right hand side as his Father, Lilliana leaning and whispering to Aphelion, "Best behaviour, as three of the people sitting down could kill you without a second thought, and the cyborg would kill you just for her master thinking you looked at her the wrong way."

"Huuuh? We'll have some nap and then I can get back to my dinner...? I wasn't having dinner though..." Melissa said, looking very confused. Had she been having dinner? Perhaps... She did remember eating glass? But the glass had been too hard so she had broken her head trying to eat it. Wait... Something seemed wrong with that statement, but she couldn't work out what in her current state of mind.

Being guided to the chair, she sat down, "So where's the nap... Is it fried nap or boiled nap?" She asked in a slow, sleepy voice.

Aphelion nodded, his breathing wavering slightly at the mention of the cyborg before slowing down, forced into a steady pace. He decided to focus himself on one intriguing cucumber slice in the salad and not look at anyone.

Katy gave the other people in the room the briefest of glances before returning her attention to Melissa. Slamming into that window seemed to have really scrambled her brain. "Do you want to take a nap instead of eating some candy, Melissa? I could help you get back upstairs if you're really tired." She figured if Melissa turned down candy in favor of sleep she might be seriously injured, but then again, maybe she really was just tired.

Frowning at the pair joining them, Imperia sighs and makes a small gesture to Milisendis, the cyborg looking over the pair as the female head says to the Green and pink haired people at the table, "Dears, after we have eaten. Would you care to show me how much the bundle of fire has progressed in her training." The Scantily clad Lilliana giving a simple nod as a response, she would get up and start distributing food. The salad going to Aphelion, a variety of fish to Cecilia and the rest of the meat shared between the rest of the living beings save for Melissa, who would instead get a bowl of sweets what had been left in the middle of the table. Afterwards she would just sit down again, even Macha holding off from eating the meals long enough for the entire family to get an aura of a refined family, all saying near simultaneously, "Thank you for the meal." Before starting to eat, using the untensils provided... Except for Macha, because they are an Ursa Major.

Melissa was considering accepting the offer - she did feel really tired and confused and dizzy after all, but as the bowl of candy appeared in front of her she hesitated for only a moment. Pointing at the candy, she grinned, "Food!" She said, though her grin was rather self explanatory. Noticing no one ha started though, she at least held off until everyone else had started before beginning to munch down on the candy.

Looking around as she ate, she noticed some people she kinda remembered. There was the man with the super nice shiny armour, the Faunus with nice ears who was apparently Aoife's mother and had tried to kill her aaaand... Well, no one else.

Mimicking the rest of the people, Aphelion muttered the words after everyone else. Only when others started eating he dug into the salad slowly, chewing quietly.

Katy let out a small sigh of relief. Melissa seemed to be acting like her normal self after all. Holding back from digging into her food, Katy's eyes flicked around the room to quickly take stock of every variable; potential escape routes, known potential threats (listed from biggest to least threatening), then unknown potential threats, then weighing the escape routes against the list in her head. If the situation had permitted it, she would have chosen a seat against a wall, though dining rooms usually weren't good for that.

Once the family had said their.. thing, Katy dug into her food, though she tried to keep her pace at something resembling how a regular person would eat. "Hey, this is pretty good," she commented between bites.

Getting a quick glance from Imperia as the rest of the family is quiet, or at least with the appearance of being quiet, they would all be eating their food methodically and silently, the unspoken commands going on between Faunus and Cyborg as Imperia hands any food what had bones within it to Milisendis to get broken in half with relative ease, passing them back afterwards. However, with the finishing of the carcass in breakneck speed by Macha, only a few bones would remain as it moves over to Connla, nuzzling him with it's bloody and red sap covered face.

Melissa tried to make herself look civil as she ate for a while, eating pieces one by one and properly munching them down into little pieces before starting the next. The whole table was too quiet though, and she couldn't bring herself to say anything - none of the other people at the table looked particularly friendly... There was the shiny armour guy who had brutally thrown Aoife around the first she saw him, Aoife's mother who tried to kill her, and some other woman with a scary look and scary looking robot things (At least she hoped they were robots).

About halfway through though, she got tired of eating slowly, and after looking behind her to make sure no one was watching, she at the rest in one mouthful.

Finishing his salad, Aphelion put down the utensils and sat quietly, staring at the empty plate before him but not willing to strike up conversation, especially since everybody was deathly quiet.

Katy finished the portions of food she had in front of her and sat, contemplating trying to get her hands on some more. She might have been eating at a slower-than-normal pace, but she was still rather quick. Eventually deciding it might seem impolite, she instead busied herself with studying each individual at the table in greater detail, though she occasionally glanced at both Aoife and Melissa. If either of them suddenly got up to leave it would give her an excuse to follow them out.

Most of the others finishing as well, the majority of the food would be gone, with the people all being in their clothing from the pub except the formerly golden clad man and the green haired girl, both in transparent Chiton's and their underwear beneath it. No one else even caring about it as the golden haired man starts playing with his bear, Cecilia would glance at the group of new comers, smiling warmly to them as she states, seemingly more to Aphelion, "You can have more you know, the food can either go to those who need it, or the pets we seem to ha-."  Before letting out a small cry of surpise and blushing heavily, being suddenly intercepted by the male giant with the same facial features of Aoife starting to play with her ears, laughing, "She would be correct, eat your fill as otherwise the food would have gone to waste."

Melissa sat still on her seat, looking down at her lap and presumably playing with her Scroll, or some other electronic device. She sat very, very still, not moving much at all. In fact, she was sitting perfectly still - because she had passed out. Not from exhaustion or anything, but she had just randomly passed out after a brief headache..

"Then if that's okay I'll help myself to some more salad." Aphelion said, adding some more salad to his plate and digging into it.

Katy had been about to lay claim to another small pile of food, before taking a closer look at Melissa. Was she asleep? She had seemed sort of fine just a few moments ago. "Aoife," Katy said to the other girl, motioning to Melissa. "Maybe I should take her upstairs? I think she might have really hit her head pretty badly," she added with an obvious note of concern. Unfortunately for Katy, she didn't really have much experience in dealing with head trauma. She could splint a broken bone or deal with sprains, but she didn't really know what to do about potential concussions.

Aoife not responding due to having a her mouth full of food, it would be the green haired girl who responds for her, the androgynous voice sounding as friendly as she could look in her condition, "Don't worry, I can take her to her quarters and check her if you want, I am used to dealing with injuries." Not waiting for a reply, she would walk over and go to pick up Melissa in a gentle hold. Meanwhile the cyborg and Imperia would get up, bow politely and start heading towards another room, the two deactivated robots coming back to life and following, Milisendis stating in a passive voice, " My lady says she is to set up the training area, miss Cecilia."

As soon as Melissa was picked up, her eyes opened and she awoke, a look of surprise coming onto her face immediately as she cried out, "Heeeelppp!! I'm being abducted by robots! IT'S HAPPENING! The robots are rising up!"

She flailed about, trying to escape, even though escape would probably mean dropping to the ground painfully. But she had to escape from the evil clutches of the robots, before they used her in their dastardly experiments and she was turned into a robot to fight again mankind!

Aphelion held back a chuckle at Crying Girl's Melissa's outburst with considerable difficulty, despite knowing well that his reaction to being carried away without asking for it would be much worse. Simultaneously, however, he started choking on his salad and would lean over the plate, starting to pound on his chest although still hoping to stay as far away from any attention as possible and do it discreetly.

Katy quickly got up from the table to make her way over to Melissa, intent on reassuring the girl. "Melissa, there's no robot uprising happening, don't worry. I think you just hit your head a little too hard, and you fell asleep, so you're getting moved to a nice comfy bed so you can rest up and feel better," she said softly. "There's nothing to worry about, and doesn't a soft bed sound nice? You'll be feeling better in no time," she added.

Lilliana would yelp as the girl starts flailing, barely keeping hold of her from falling as she takes a moment to gather her composure, "Miss, you may able lie down and stay calm, or stay and watch your friend practice." Rest of the table finishing and starting to clear away, Mother would intercept daughter, whispering to each other.

Stopping her flailing, Melissa took a few moments to gather her thoughts through the fog clouding her mind. She wasn't being abducted by robots? What kind of weird dream had she been having? Or perhaps it was a prediction of the future... She would have to keep an eye on those robots, but perhaps for now she had overreacted!

"Sorry! I was just having a bad dream I guess! I'll watch!" She said with an embarrassed look on her facing, carefully trying to push to freedom.

Finally clearing his choking holdup without attracting too much attention, Aphelion coughed quietly and quickly cleared his plate, getting up and moving slightly away from the table in case he was asked for something.

Katy stopped short, frowning slightly before returning to the table. If Melissa was determined to watch, Katy couldn't force her to lie down. "Well," she said with a small frown. "I guess sitting and watching for a bit couldn't hurt." Katy had never actually seen Aoife fight before, so at the very least it might prove to give Katy an idea of what the girl was capable of.

Rolling her eyes and letting Melissa down, she would walk them back to the table and yelling, "Cecilia, Aoife. Preparations are done, we can proceed with the practice." All of the remaining Knights getting up, the two males would evidently be placing bets, Aoife gesturing to the guests as she starts walking down the corridors to a large, open room with a metal ceiling, it slowly opening up to let the evening light in. Taking positions at over sides of the room, both would be going in using their own equipment, spear going out and precision rifle/ Haberd aimed at Aoife. The spectaters going into a specially made room with a live feed via monitors, even detecting their heartrate, aura levels and breathing rate.

Melissa sat down on the ground, lying against a wall to watch whatever was about to happen. Hopefully it would be fun. Or entertaining, at least. She tossed more pieces of candy into her mouth, the sweet, tasty pieces of sugar slowly in fogging her mind. Enough for her to think rationally and stay conscious, at least.

Suddenly stopping halfway into unwrapping a piece of candy, she looked at what was going on, "Huh? Wait, so what's going on?" She asked.