Aeterna - IC

"Yeah, yeah, I'll treat her like a kid then. She's crazy either way." Phenom said with a shrug. He folded his arms and waved his hand dismissively, "Besides. I'm a big brother and my little sister's trapped in the Void. Gotta let me get my brother instincts out somehow, you know?"

His ears perked up at the mention of springs. He hadn't seen them on the way in. They must have been hidden or out of the way at least. Maybe he could take a bath of his own. He was covered in gore anyway. It would be nice to get washed up.

Fissure

"There are many springs in the cavern if you want to clean your crimson scent, you can take a bath freely if you want to Phenom" Kris said pointing at a spring at a 5 minute distance

The huntress walked around the cavern when she heard Seki´s question "Well what do you think would be best Seki?" she said as they reached the spring water. It was a circle-like natural pool that its water came from a waterfall as it flowed through a small river to the bigger lake.

Disrobing her persona calmly to be careful with her scars, Kris entered the water at eace and relaxed into it while while humming a song similar to her whistling "Come on in, it has a perfect temperature and there is no fish" she said joking with the last part

Otori had awaken at last.

"... Hu? Ewha? What?! Jason!"

He regained his senses. He realized that he was being contained. HM walked ino the room.

"Otori, you've finally awaken! At last. I was getting quite bored, though it seems as if it were only a few hours ago that we indulged in lethal combat."

"I sure wonder why. It seems that your personality is the only thing that hasn't changed about you."

"Oh, it's quite hard to lose that about someone, not to mention that I like this personality. It sure reminds me of a very, very old cartoon from what, the twenty-first century? No, it was far earlier than that. It was called Batman. I seem to remind myself of a villain known as the Joker. My, it's so old that even my grandmother wouldn't remember it. That's the perks of being so... Informative."

"Why would you do this, HM? Why leave Neo Vegas when, as you've stated, it was much more peaceful there?"

"Ap up up! Now, Otori, where are we? The questioning room. But see, there's the twist. Only us staff can ask the questions. Not you. Now then, I just came here to say hello. I won't be questioning you just yet, I've still to wait for someone. She's a good friend of mine that is creative with her wind magic. Just. Like. You."

"Your friend? One that uses wind magic creatively like I? That sound's like a replacement to me! What, are you going to find a fire mage to replace Frank?!"

HM immediately grabbed the rods and slammed them on Otori's chest, shocked him. Otori grit his teeth, trying to endure the pain. HM took the rods off.

"What a shame. The questioning hasn't even begun and I'm torturing you already."

HM began walking out.

"But know this, Otori. I'm called by many titles. Immature, unpredictable... Actually, there aren't a lot, now that I think about it. But either way, you will soon find out why one of my titles... Is the torture master."

HM walked out and closed the door. Soon, Otori fell asleep, exhausted.

Fissure

Before Kris turned back around after getting in the water. Seki had already removed her clothing and was airborne falling towards the water from a flip into a a cannonball, splashing wader onto the huntress. She poked her head out of the water and shook her hair from side to side out of her face. She took a quick breath and then answered “But I don’t even know you’re real name. So it’s hard to nickname you.”

Seki winked at the huntress and poked her tongue out at her. A quck observation around the area would have shown it to be hidden by a mixture of vines, levels and other forms of nature. If someone told Seki she was underground or in a cave right now, she wouldn’t have believed them.

Cavern | Outside Kris's Outpost - 9:30 AM

Excellent. A spring close by. And he knew the location of it! The thought of washing up after all of the blood Phenom had soaked himself with slaughtering Tyruss's soldiers was invigorating. He decided, however, to go find Jason first. He wanted to get to know him more before they continued on. He went to search for him and found him not far away, cleaning his weapons.

"Hey... what was it... Jason! Hey! Robin Hood told me where there's a spring nearby. This is gonna sound really awkward, but it's as simple as it sounds. You wanna go get to know each other while we wash off all the crap we've covered ourselves with killing those soldiers? You probably can't tell but there's a lot of blood in your hair and that doesn't come out easy. Trust me. Unless you want to set your hair on fire, you'd be better off washing it out than using speed magic."

Fissure

Once Jason was finished taking in all the sights, he then pondered what to do next.

(Hmmm...... I could go find a place to wash this blood off of me, but there's no way I'm going to risk further embarrassment. I suppose I should practice healing.), Jason thought as he brought his gaze from the ceiling, to the floor.

Jason then pulled out one of his super-compressed, Titanium Alloy knives and opened it up. He then stared at his right palm, then back to the knife in his left hand.

(What the hell am I thinking?... There's no real way of getting better with healing other than to do this.)

Jason continued to alternate his gaze from the knife, to his palm, trying to summon up the courage to start the training. Jason put the blade close to his right palm, but stopped and moved the knife back over to his left side. He did it again, but chickened out again.

(Damn self-preservation.), Jason thought to himself as he sat there with the knife.



All of a sudden, Phenom approached Jason and spoke.

"Ok. Sure.", Jason said as he stood up and quickly put the knife away.

Fissure

"My name? Im called Kris" she answered Sekis question and washed her hair. Soon the huntress remembered the flame magician´s doll since she was keeping it well close to herself

"By the way, who is your friend? does she has a name?" Kris asked pointing at Seki´s doll

Fissure

Seki’s eyes darted over to where her clothes where at the side of the small body of water. She had laid her doll there to rest while she was bathing since rag dolls obviously couldn’t survive the water. “Hm you mean Anna? She’s my best friend… mm… for some reason she doesn’t like talking around you… mm She doesn’t like water.’ Seki cupped her hands around her mouth and whispered to Kris from across the spring. “She’s the one who told me to kill all thoese people.”

Fissure

Kris was impressed that Seki followed the doll´s ideas enough to kill people "We all have our stuff, I suppose you take great care of her and since you told me yours I´ll tell you mine" she said as she took her pendant from her chest and showed it to the flame magician "This is a pendant from my mother, she gave it to me when I was young and have never let go of it, so when I got here, I carved a similar one. It helps me with my dreams" She explained

"Also, you are an impressive fire magician, not many can do big fire attacks and let alone a fire sigil, for your age, that was a great feat, did you learned it by yourself or someone teached you? she asked

Cavern | Outside Kris's Outpost - 9:30 AM

"Well, alright, let's get going!" Phenom said, starting off in the direction of the spring that Kris had pointed him to. He wasted no time in stripping down, as he hadn't had a bath since at least before Spera was raided. Since then he was covered in ash and soot and blood and mud and then more ash. He was ready to just soak and immediately threw himself into the water.

Which was probably a bad idea... He quickly clamored out of the water and shouted across the cavern.

"YOU WITCH! THIS WATER IS FREEZING COLD! IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE A BATH, NOT A POND IN THE MIDDLE OF WINTER!"

He began to vibrate his body to keep warm while he stepped back into the water and proceeded to speed up the molecules of the water in the spring, or at least the ones in his immediate vicinity. He quickly relaxed and leaned against the edge of the spring, enjoying it while he could.

"Aaaah.... this is nice.... So anyway, Jason... Tell me, what's you're story?"