"Wow," Ren gasped under her breath at this seemingly advanced technology. She had never seen anything like it. "Thank you...my name is Ren Kurama...as a diclonius, I have these things called vectors...or at least that's what they called it at the facility." Ren demonstrated her vectors by reaching them out and slicing down a tree. "And I have these," she said, gesturing to the horn like protrusions on her head.

As she proceeded to walk with this small creature that she now, despite the fact that they had just met, considered her friend, she looked around at the home he had made for himself among the ruins. "You have a nice place here. So who are you?"

"My name's Zmerr. My people don't typically have last names." Zmerr observed the horns on Ren's head and the now downed tree. "That's quite the ability you have there. I just build stuff and blow other stuff." Zmerr lead her into the main "foyer." He motioned for her to take a seat on a makeshift chair. He sat in another one. He beckoned the golem back to him. "Fetch us some tea, please. Iced for me."

"Yes." the response was emotionless. "Please confirm the number of visitors."

"One."

"What is to be done with the other person?" it asked in a monotone voice.

"Other person? Me? I asked for iced tea." Zmerr gave the golem a questioning look.

"There are three people here." the golem stated.

"Where is the third? I only count two. Unless you are including yourself."

"I am not a person. I am a creation. There is a third person by the entrance." the golem pointed towards the front entrance.

"Well, bring them to me."

"Yes." the golem sounded the siren again and moved quickly and smoothly toward the front entrance.

Ren obediently sat in the make shift chair beside Zmerr and looked around at this home that he had built for himself. It astonished her how a creature that small could create something so elaborate. "Well, its nice to meet you Zmerr!" she exclaimed.

She watched silently as Zmerr interacted with the golem and became increasingly interested as to who the third person might be.Although she should have felt threatened, Ren couldn't help but thinking that this could be another companion.

Seatan heard the siren again, and wondered if it was for him this time. It turned out that it was, as only a couple of seconds later, something that could only be described as a golem came around the corner that the strangers were round.
"You will accompany me to my master." the golem said in a monotone voice.
"Are you sure?" Seatan asked.
"Yes. I am sure." the golem replied. It clearly did not understand the concept of sarcasm.
"Well, I'm not so sure about that myself" Seatan responded, before running back out the way he came. However, before he could even make it 10 yards out of the door, the golem had fired plasma at him, giving him a burn up his left leg, and causing him to fall to the ground.
The golem moved over to him, and began to drag him, -slowly, as Seatan weighed well over 250 pounds - back to the strangers.

The golem came back, dragging the man from earlier behind it. It held him by the arms to ensure that he wouldn't break free.

"I said 'bring him,' not 'drag him.'" Zmerr released a chuckle that carried both sarcasm and surprise.

"He was unwilling." the golem said.

"Stand down. He's no threat." Zmerr told the golem. It obeyed, lights turning blue again. He turned to the man. "I think we're even. A dead deer for trespassing. What do you say?"

Keela’s eyes widened as Blake extended his tongue to sniff the area. Well, he certainly does have some tricks. she thought to herself, tilting her head in curiosity when he mentioned another woman. ”Odd, I haven’t seen…” she started when a faint siren went off as a girl fell into the water near them. The girl and water were on her right, the siren having blared somewhere a few miles to her left. Keela was confused, but luckily Blake took action and rescued the girl from the water. Bringing her ashore. ”Here, lay her down,” Keela instructed, going into healer mode. When she could, Keela listened for the girl’s heartbeat and could hear it thumping slowly in her chest. Keela began CPR, pumping the girls chest and hoping for the water to sputter from her lips before she turned blue from lack of oxygen.

Celest realized she was in a part of the forest she had never been, it was beautiful an serene like a blissful painting "Ahh, This is more like it" she said seating herslef on a large rock. the view was breath-taking. Then suddenly a girls scear was heard and a sound of a plasma gun..? Whoa, am i in the middle of a fight? she scaned the area and found that none was there. Celest was not the least bit amused she sighed "Nope im going to stay here, catch myself a deer or rabbit and leave" she said to herself. Crackling of twigs sounded behind her a large black bear approched her with a snarling face. bears never reasoned with her and there was no way to jump into a tree since this was a clearing and she was in the middle of it. She pulled her daggers from her boots and readied her weapons.

Ren peered keenly at the new man that had come into view and boldly approached him and knelt down to his level. "Hi," her innocent voice squeaked. "Who are you?"

The burn on Seatan's left leg was agony. It wouldn't be fatal, but it sure would be painful for a couple of days. As he was dragged into the room with the strangers, he began to see the girl more clearly. She had what looked somewhat like horns coming out of her head, and had pink hair. Certainly not a human.
"I think we're even," the male said, "A dead deer for trespassing. What do you say?"
"Hi," the girl said, "Who are you?"
Seatan looked at the man, "And what about this burn?" he asked, "How am I gonna farm now?" he turned to look at the girl, "And why should I tell you?" Seatan gestured to the small man, "I'm supposed to trust him to come back to work on my farm, when I'm told he's already killed off most of the females in my herd!?" Seatan's voice had raised to a shout, and he could tell that he had slightly frightened her.

coughing Runa opened her eyes to find 2 people looking at her.
for the moment she did not know what to say, still being in a kind of haze mentally.

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Blake looked at the girl with a smile that she woke up.
Just now did he fully realized that the girl was nude.
a small hidden smirk crossed his face as he thought that he really was lucky today.
after that he turned around and grabbed his shirt, throwing it to the naked girl.
"till we get you some real clothes, this will have to do"
After that he looked at the other girl.
"great job" he said as he nudged his head to the Runa who was quickly pulling the shirt on "By the way, I am Blake and you? are you human or?"

Runa in the mean time started to get up, the shirt was long enough that it barely covered her lower body, but unless she would find a midget or bend over it would cover her enough.
A good thing she was shorter then most males being 1.60 and the average male tends to be 1.80, the angle would work perfectly, trough she was sure the lower part of her but would still show a little, but she was not that concerned about it.

(note: Blake had not heard the plasma gun as he was focused on the waterfall girl)

"First off, I said it was POSSIBLE that I killed SOME of them." Zmerr looked at him through slitted eyes. "Most of my kills are male because they're meatier. Anyways. As for that burn, I do apologize. But perhaps you should have considered that you might get hurt BEFOR'E you trespassed in my home. That one you brought completely on yourself." He motioned for the golem to come to him. "Fetch me the first aid kit. He looked back at the man. "We didn't really strike a deal anyways. I said I was coming by tomorrow to finish sorting it out. There was never a definite agreement for me to do any work."
When the golem returned with the kit, Zmerr came to kneel beside the man. He pulled out a sort of cream and began rubbing it on the burn. "It'll hurt right away, but it'll make the burn heal faster." When he felt that the cream was sufficiently spread on the man's burn, he wrapped it up.
"I don't believe i've ever caught your name. It may not matter for her, but if I'm going to be doing anything for you, I will need to know."

The burn cream hurt intensely, but Seatan suppressed a scream from coming out. He had learn from earlier experiences that if he screamed too loudly, there could be disastrous results. He knew that he had taken it too far by following the stranger home, but he didn't want a repeat of last time... not like when he had been promised something by the last stranger and he had ended up...
Seatan pushed the memory out of his mind. That was in the past. Nobody need know of that event, least of all Seatan himself. He didn't want that side of him to show. Ever again.
Seatan stood up to face the smaller of the two strangers, "My name's Seatan" he told him. He faced the girl, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have gotten angry."
He faced the man again, "If you're still interested in working, I'll pay you. I'll need the help for the next day or two." Seatan began walking out of the door and back home.

Ren stood to the side watching the scene unfold as she toyed with the running streams from her dress. The man seemed strong, yet somehow that didn't intimidate her. It was hard to say whether she was not easily intimidated because she knew the power her vectors had, or if it was due to her outrageous personality.

"it's ok," Ren replied to Seatan's apology.

Zmerr watched as Seatan walked towards the door. "Sure. I'll stop by. I plan on making you a power generator. You're power looks pretty weak. I can make you something taht will last a long time." he stood up and walked over to a table covered in various mechanical parts.

Keela smiled warmly as the girl coughed and awoke, standing and glancing to Blake as he gave the girl his shirt which she thought was very nice of him. ”It’s nothing much,” she said with a small humble blush as he told her good job. ”It’s nice to know your name, Blake.” Keela said. ”I’m a witch,” she explained with a small shrug, ”The humans were just a little scared of me. For no real reason,” she admitted with a laugh before reaching out and placing a hand on the very wet girl’s shoulder. ”How are you? Are you alright?” she asked, knowing she would live, but just wanting to see how the girl felt.

"Well," Seatan replied, "You can drop it round tomorrow"
Seatan returned home, and laid down on his makeshift bed. He saw the picture of his father on the wall in front of him. A tear ran down his cheek, and dripped onto the floor. "I'm sorry, father, I messed up today"
After a few minutes in bed, he fell asleep, and began to dream about that dreaded day.

Ren watched as the man name Seatan left for his home, seemingly disheartened. She then turned to Zmerr. "What kind of work do you want me to do?" she asked. She had no problem with taking orders or doing work in exchange for a place to stay and a companion to share her company. She had always been one for pleasing other people.

Blake was surprised to hear that the girl, Keela was a witch, he had heard of them but never knew they actually existed.
Then he looked as Keela moved from him to the other girl, asking if she was alright.

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Runa looked at the 2 as they talked, the woman was a witch, a real witch.
For a moment she wondered if she was anything like those in the stories, but quickly dismissed that thought, those were evil but this one saved her and now asked if she was alright.
"um, Hai" She said as she nodded her head in the Japanese manner, a single firm nod.
Then she looked at the man behind the witch called Keela.
"arigato for giving me your shirt Blake-sama" she said while giving an other nod.
Then she looked back at the woman Keela and then back to Blake.
"My name is Runa Fukada, Nice to meet you both"

She wanted to ask if Blake was something else as well but this would have been impolite so she refrained from it.

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Blake nodded to the girl and grabbed his other stuff from the ground, slinging the seemingly staff on his back in its belt made holder (dont remember how those things were called, that stuff used to keep a sword strapped to the back), grabbing a belt that he strapped to his waist but not attached to his pants, the short sword medium was attached to the belt's back, hanging on Blakes lower back now while he hang the katars to the belt as well.
"sorry for the gear, I have had my reasons for being armed" he said to both girls in an attempt to calm them as he guessed that a heavenly armed man as him would likely be a bit terrifying.
"So..., I guess you both escaped here for the same reason I did, the humans" the word human had a little edge when he said it, not an edge of hate or anger or anything like that but more a personal note as he was still wondering where he and his tribe belonged, gifted human or something else????

"Well, for one, I will need some help tomorrow cleaning out the storage hut. No offense, but I have no idea what you brought into it. Especially since the door is not properly locked at the moment, who knows what could get in?" Zmerr said, sitting at the table. "Second: are you experienced with machinery? I'll be up all night doing this if I do it by myself." Zmerr pointed at the parts he planned to make into a power source for Seatan.

"Well, I didn't bring anything with me other than my bag," Ren shrugged, gesturing to the satchel over her dress. She then curiously stalked over to the parts that Zmerr had pointed to and picked one up, examining it from every angle. She had destroyed alot of machinery in order to get out of the experimental facility but putting it together would be a whole different story. She slowly looked over at Zmerr, unsure what to say. If she couldn't do the work he had for her, would he make her leave? "Uh...Sure! Yeah, I can help you with this," she lied.