#⊰ if miss navia's here‚ our enemies will be blown sky high before they know it! › navia

[mrch7th]

probably isn't smart to just walk through random doors, huh? but march 7th is a nameless for a reason— the strange and unusual aren't enough to dissuade her natural curiosity, and there aren't any more logical voices of reason around to do so. besides, she's had stranger dreams before.

and so, between one step and the next, she finds herself face to face with, uh...?!

march yelps and throws herself backward without warning, nearly knocking into the decidedly more human companions— well, until she squints and realizes one of them is mr. jiaoqiu, another is...some other species, and then a pretty blonde lady that actually looks human.

“ack— sorry!” arms fly out to balance herself as she stumbles the remaining distance between them, then catches herself as friction finally slides between the soles of her shoes and the ground. two-toned eyes glance between the three before her now. “hello!” she chirps shortly afterward. “i'm march 7th, nice to meet you! i guess we're supposed to fight...” a vague gesture in the direction of the weird things she'd just stumbled away from. “...these things?” is what she ends up finishing with. “they don't look very friendly...”

nothing really out of the ordinary for march. no rest for the weary, or something like that, right? if only she had some milk tea, then she could really kick into gear...

jeez, all her training on the luofu really did a number on her cravings.

energy roll◞　3! -3 energy :　march 7th 10/10hp uses master, it's tea time! on navia 10/10hp.

just as she thinks it, a cup of immortal's delight appears in her hands. march blinks down at the sweet temptation in her hands, bemused, before furiously shaking her head. no, no! dream or illusion or whatever this was, she can't have another one! all the milk tea she drank on the luofu was already bad enough. instead, she turns to the blonde lady with a smile and holds it out to her. “do you wanna try this? it's delicious! it always gives me a good boost before a battle.”

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　❅　bubble up like soda pop!

spiral abyss  |  floor one　 ▪  ▪  ▪ 　team five

[mrch7th]

between one blink and the next, the stars seem to shift, as does the ground beneath them. it parts at its center to reveal a grand staircase spiralling downward. and the nameless, unfazed, merely charges forth, one foot already on a step down in the blink of an eye. stranger things have happened in her dreams.

march 7th pauses there, then turns back to her companions. “only one way to go, right? forward!”

the next chamber is barely different from the previous. were it not for the three figures waiting at the bottom of the steps, she might've even thought they'd just been led in a circle. march, tending to be a pessimist these days— and can you blame her?— lets her usual optimism win this time. she raises a hand to wave, smiling. “hello! do you know—”

the rest of the question dies with a flash of green light, a snake-looking thing appearing as it fades to slither protectively before the green-haired lady. immediately, her smile fades with a quiet, “oh,” as water and lightning crackle to life, the lady's companions both assuming fighting stances.

twin blades similarly appear in a flash of pink petals, and the rookie swordsmaster falls instinctively into a battle stance. “come on!” march huffs. “do we really have to fight? don't people do peaceful discussion anymore?”

energy roll◞　3! master, it's tea time! navia is designated as march 7th's shifu.

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spiral abyss  |  floor two　 ▪  ▪  ▪ 　team five

[mrch7th]

“my surname?” march 7th echoes, then shakes her head. “no, not at all. it's just my name: march 7th! it's the day i was found.” but the question has the nameless pausing, contemplative. “you know, i don't really have a surname ... hey, mr. jiaoqiu. do you know what amber era it is right now?”

oh, and his companions ... she wonders about hers too. has anyone noticed that she's missing from the express yet? they'd notice if she didn't show up for breakfast eventually, right?

but mr. jiaoqiu must be talking about general feixiao and that other retainer of hers. “a fellow hiding...? do you mean your friend with the hood?” general feixiao isn't really a hider. if anything, it's kind of hard not to notice her. march glances around briefly, but comes up empty. “i don't think he's here ... but if he's hiding, i guess i wouldn't know. and general feixiao definitely isn't either, or we'd be finished with all this in the blink of an eye!”

her gaze shifts back to him, curious. “were you with them before you got here, mr. jiaoqiu?” a pause. actually ... head tilts, and she turns toward miss navia and miss sedene too. “how did the rest of you guys get here? did you take the weird door too?”

but that will have to wait. lightning and water and leaves  ( ??? )  spread throughout the battlefield as their enemies make their move. march feels a bit bad that she's the only one that seems to have made it out of the assault unscathed, but a small, prideful part of her beams at the thought that her training hadn't just been for naught.

energy roll◞　3! march 7th, the apex heroine! -1hp. electro abyss mage 0.5/5sp 22/24hp roll: 1, imprisonment triggers! my sword zaps demons! roll: 15, hit! -0.5hp. electro abyss mage 0.5/5sp 22/24hp

“hey, don't forget about me! i can fight too, you know!” she shouts, blades aimed for the purple creature with the shield. she should probably break it, right? can't really attack it if it's hiding behind something. kicking into the air as she spins, both blades bear down upon the crackling purple shield until it starts to crack. “now get—” gold start to fill where the shield has begun to crack. “—out of there!”

and with one last spin just as a flourish, her blade connects one last time with a sharp crack! the shield shatters into purple sparkles as the creature hiding behind it falls instead into the embrace of imaginary coils. one fist pumps triumphantly into the air as the other hand points her blade at it, looking smug. “i could take ten of you,” march declares with her head held high, “so don't forget it!”

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　❅　bubble up like soda pop!

spiral abyss  |  floor one　 ▪  ▪  ▪ 　team five

[mrch7th]

maybe march 7th has gotten into trouble with one too many different law enforcements at this point, because miss sedene's innocent question has her bristling, back straightening automatically as she turns toward her. “i— i haven't done anything wrong!” comes the immediate, defensive protest, arms crossing. “come on, i can't get arrested at every planet i visit!”

if she even was still on teyvat. her last waking memory was returning to the astral express to get some shut eye in her room, but march still doesn't have a clue where that door took her and where she is now. were any of the others here too?

... well, aside from caelus, she doubts any of the other nameless would have opened a random door that appeared to them in their dreams. but you never know!

“anyway!” she blurts, hand raising to point at the new enemies that have approached. she still doesn't know what any of these things are, but if the last wave of foes told her anything, they're probably not friendly. “we have more important things to deal with right now, see? if you want to arrest me, you can do it later, miss sedene!”

energy roll◞　3! master, it's tea time! navia is designated as march 7th's shifu.

“psst! hey, miss navia!” march whispers in a voice that isn't really quiet enough to be a whisper as she sidles up to her. “you're don't want to arrest me too, right? i won't cause any trouble, promise!” a hand raises to scratch the back of her neck, an embarrassed smile crossing her lips. “also! the way you fight is so cool! your blade is nothing like mine ... actually, it reminds me a bit of one of my masters'.”

and here head cants, smile turned beaming. “master yunli doesn't have a gun like you do, though. but i use a bow sometimes! do you think i can learn to use them together like you do with your”— hands and arms wave vaguely in the air, miming shooting a gun and explosions— “umbrella ... gun ... thing?”

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spiral abyss  |  floor one　 ▪  ▪  ▪ 　team five

[mrch7th]

an awed march 7th bounces on the toes of her boots, gaze darting this way and that to follow miss navia— that was her name, right? the little one (miss sedene, she thinks to herself) had called her that— with her umbrella gun and her blade and—

“wow!” she can't help but exclaim, eyes all but sparkling as she clasps her hands together. “miss navia, you're incredible!” but she turns her gaze away when mr. jiaoqiu addresses her, attention dutifully tracking toward their opponents at his question. “oh, mr. jiaoqiu! they're just...” a pause, a blink. march falters. “uh, actually, i don't know what these things are. i've never seen anything like them. but miss sedene and miss navia seem to be handling them just fine, so it can't be too challenging, right?”

and the conversation ends there, because the stray bolts of lightning that flick toward her at mr. jiaoqiu's wave of his fan have her jumping and scrambling away. gloved hands ball instinctively into fists, closing around the now-familiar weight of twin swords in each hand.

she's just ducking out of the way of one enemy's swing when another comes right at her.

archangel a attacks march 7th! roll: 2, hit! -1hp. march 7th 8.5/10hp my sword zaps demons counters! roll: 18, hit! -1hp. archangel a 4/10hp

sword raises, swats it away with a disgruntled, “hey!” that her masters would definitely scold her for if they were here. as lightning sparks around them again, another enemy takes the opportunity to take aim at her, earning a pained hiss from the nameless for their troubles.

ranger attacks march 7th! roll: 2, hit! -1hp. march 7th 6/10hp

“if i had my bow right now...” she grumbles, hand rubbing idly where it had connected. but she doesn't. what she does have are her swords, and all the lessons yanqing and yunli spent weeks drilling into her.

her wandering gaze finds miss navia again, entranced by the swing of her blade. it's nothing like march's, more similar to yunli's choice of sword, but a sword is just a sword, right? it's how someone wields it that makes the difference.

brows be smitten, heart be bitten! roll: 5, hit! -3hp. ranger 2/18hp

she hops once, twice, on her heels, then march darts past miss navia with her own twin blades flourished wide, swung down upon their enemy in tandem. it stumbles back, bow clattering from its hand as its gaze swivels toward her instead. any super cool attack name that might have been on her tongue dies as she instead jumps away and yelps, “ahh— miss sedene, quick! please shoot it!”

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　❅　bubble up like soda pop!

spiral abyss  |  floor one　 ▪  ▪  ▪ 　team five

[mrch7th]

“aw, i'm really hungry...” the nameless mumbles as the smell of hotpot floods her nostrils, then furiously shakes her head as she straightens. no, no, no. no distractions! she can think about food after they're done here. after all, the sooner they finish here, the sooner she can eat!

and the xianzhou luofu had some really good hotpot last time her masters took her out in celebration. maybe march should grab caelus and dan heng after she wakes up to go get some...

energy roll◞　3! march 7th, the apex heroine! -8hp. shadow knight: moonblade 84/100hp roll: 1, imprisonment triggers! my sword zaps demons! roll: 10 + 2 = 12, hit! -4.5hp. shadow knight: moonblade 79.5/100hpshadow state! march 7th takes 2 damage. march 7th 8/10hp

argh, you're getting distracted again, march 7th! she brandishes her swords and leaps for their enemy before she can start thinking about food again. “azure dragon, white tiger, delicious hotpot”—hm, not quite how that one usually goes—“watch this!”

but food must make a good motivator because her blades strike true and fast, imaginary power swirling to imprison their enemy in its grasp soon after. march 7th is more than happy to take a free opportunity to get a hit in any day of the week, and her swords swing back down for another strike.

her muscles ache more than they should for doing hardly anything, but march pays it no mind as she takes a triumphant step back. “ha! not so tough now, are you?”

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spiral abyss  |  floor two　 ▪  ▪  ▪ 　team five

[mrch7th]

“just peachy!” and march 7th had been saying it just to say it, but huh. she does feel much better now. how weird. and just in time too, because just as miss navia fells their first wave of enemies, a second is already approaching. this one looks...also human. but she's been scorned once already, and the nameless doesn't soon forget.

both swords raise before her defensively, her gaze narrowing. “...maybe this person is friendly?” she says, not sounding particularly hopeful.

the glowing orange lady answers by dropping into a fighting stance. march takes a few steps back with a frown, fingers tightening around the hilts of her blades. okay. fine. not friendly. why does she even bother asking?

with a sigh, she glances over to the rest of her companions. “hey, miss navia? do you think you can just...” she pauses to mime the motion of her shooting her gunbrella. “...blow this one up too?”

energy roll◞　3! master, it's tea time! navia is designated as march 7th's shifu.

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spiral abyss  |  floor two　 ▪  ▪  ▪ 　team five

[mrch7th]

march 7th's gaze cuts toward mr. jiaoqiu in surprise, two-toned eyes going wide. “huh? wait, you can't—” but the rest of her sentence dies as she cuts herself off with a panicked shout of, “watch out!”

their enemies move in tandem, striking faster than even march can react to. she takes both blade and axe with a cry, grip tightening on her own swords as she staggers back. “that's not very sportsman like...” she grumbles, glancing around at her companions. mr. jiaoqiu and miss navia seem to be mostly fine, but she and miss sedene in comparison...

“miss sedene! are you all right?” she definitely ended up looking the worst of them all. with a frown, march turns back to their enemies and raises to point her sword. “just you wait— i'll show you what i can really do!”

she closes her eyes for a moment, inhales then slowly exhales, and opens her eyes again. yanqing and yunli both took the time to teach her the way of the sword. it would be disrespectful to her masters let them down now!

march is used to her place in battle being on the backlines. with the crew of the astral express, caelus and dan heng are far more suited than she is to take point, and himeko and mr. yang join her to provide cover and support from behind. today, she steps up to the frontlines with her head held high, sword brandished protectively in front of her allies.

“leave them alone!”

energy roll◞　5! march 7th, the apex heroine! -4hp. dendro spirit serpent 19.5/28hp roll: 1, imprisonment triggers! my sword zaps demons! roll: 5 + 2 = 7, hit! -2.5hp. dendro spirit serpent 17/28hp my sword zaps demons! roll: 16 + 2 = 18, crit! -5hp. dendro spirit serpent 12/28hp my sword zaps demons! roll: 7 + 2 = 9, hit! -2.5hp. dendro spirit serpent 9.5/28hp brows be smitten, heart be bitten! roll: 20 + 2 = 22, crit! -14hp. dendro spirit serpent 0/28hp

the snake still stands protectively in front of its master, so march turns her blade upon it first. darting forward, her blades slash at it one after the other. imaginary power manifests with a swirl of wind and pink petals, curling around her swords as she beats the serpent back on step at a time.

planting her feet firmly on the ground for her final strike, march puts all her weight into the final swing of her blades, bringing both down at the same time to hit the serpent back into the lady that had first summoned it, knocking both to the ground.

and just like that, the severity of her concentration shatters, and she glances back at her allies with a bright smile. “hehe, wasn't that great? one down— three to go!”

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spiral abyss  |  floor two　 ▪  ▪  ▪ 　team five