Well then... this was a bit awkward. Not that he could blame demon girl for being out of it if last night was her first encounter with the Erasals. With a slight sigh, he brought his arms across his front and back and returned her curtsy with a similar bow. Low enough to be respectful, but not much else. Hopefully that had been a smooth enough recovery.
"Let's hope that is the case then."He glanced behind him at the unfamiliar voice and let out a soft,
"Huh..." Meruin, like Iravis, was someone he recognized, but little beyond that. She was supposed to be a rather capable mage that used Bounded Fields, though Runik couldn't recall anything about how she used them in a fight. At the redhead's look he simply shrugged and then nodded towards the shorter girl.
"Alright don't see a problem."Before their group actually went anywhere he wanted to get an idea of everyone's capabilities, but there was something else that had to come before.
"I suggest y'all cover your ears," he warned the three girls around him, giving them a few moments to do so before he took a deep breath.
"ANYBODY ELSE WANT IN ON THIS? I DON'T WANT TO EXPLAIN SHIT TWICE." Alucard winced at the immense shrieking sound behind him, unable to cover his ears and forced to endure the full agony of the two sentences blasted out with the force of a first rank megahpone. He turned around slowly and said haughtily,
"I'd be more inclinced to get 'in on this' if you didn't scream quite so loudly and vulgarly. I'm assuming you mean the special training nonsense. In which case as I have no desire to fight whatever it is alone, then yes." Although it would be more difficult in his suit with the additional challenge of making sure his box and its precious contents weren't destroyed. Still not paying any paticulur attention to the target of his tribute so as not to break the rules of the bargin she had set.
A slight tilt of the head was the sum of Runik's reaction towards the fallen angel before he shrugged and turned his attention back towards the three, or namely Iravis and Meruin.
"Alright, so let's just lay out what each of us can do. I'm a Destructive Class Magician and Warlock Class in Naturalis who specializes in fire, ice, and lightning. Catalyst would be the runes that are glowing quite helpfully." A faint pulse of red seemed to punctuate the statement. His eyes shifted towards Iravis and he asked,
"Given your wording, I take it you have a way of dealing with injuries rapidly? Anything else beyond that?" The phoenix noted that this runed man could both be crude and refined, and was glad about his warning. She covered her ears, a small smile crossing her face as he screamed.
When Alucard walked up in his buttler suit, Iravis was about to become furious, but soon realized that he was pointedly ignoring her. Luckily for the black haired man, the Goddess understood in her omnipotence that there was a such thing as being the fly caught between the hammer and the anvil.
The Phoenix considered lying. She didn't want to reveal her powers, even to an ally. Iravis looked at Lyssa, and realized she had to offer a longer explanation.
"Some say the color of my radiance matches the colors of my powers." She ran her fingers through her hair to make the point.
"I wield that which Prometheus brought to the mortals."Lyssa had mostly been silent as the group moved out of the cafe. Whatever this 'special training' was, she hoped it involved Smash Bros instead of fighting or something. Maybe an eating contest, however unlikely it was, so she might as well tell everyone what she was capable of.
"Hehe, don't mind Iravis. She's a Pyromancer." Lyssa replied with a small smile, despite Iravis shooting the hellion an irritated look.
"I'm an alchemist. Though, I don't uh, really create things. I can destroy things pretty easily if I know what they're made of. I uh, don't really...like fighting a whole lot though."He raised an eyebrow at Iravis' roundabout and not all that cryptic statement, giving Lyssa an appreciative nod at the simple clarification. Humming thoughtfully, Runik did wish she had the flexibility a creator would have allowed the group, but ideally the demon stayed out of the fight entirely.
"And hopefully you won't have to do any of that today..." That left Meruin and, if he had stuck around, the fallen angel to elaborate on what they could contribute. Between Iravis and himself, the two of them likely had the brute force aspect covered.
It was easy to ignore her as long as he kept the box on his shoulder between them. It seemed it was share time in regards to their abilities which meant Alucard needed to speak up. How best to explain concisely?
"I am an adept meele combatant and my magic allows me to increase or decrease something for a poroptional amount." Meruin looked at each member of the group. It looked like she had stumbled across an impromptu hunting party. The truth of the matter was that she actually had no intention of going after the beast - only making it seem like she did. She had approached the group out of intererest for the girl with red hair - Iravis Ustrina, her name was - and her connection with Pheonixes.
That she was a Pyromancer only helped further her suspicion.
Well, it was to late to back out now, and she supposed that this was a good chance to observer from close-up, and to confirm just exactly how Iravis was connected the legendary fire bird.
"I am an Alchemist and a Pythones Mage," Meruin stated simply. She waited several seconds before realizing that they were waiting for her to elaborate more on her abilities. "I can transmute objects quickly and from a distance, and can handle multiple summonings of varying strength."
She paused. Maybe she should tell them about her Illusions as well? She shrugged.
"I'm also a Praestigiae Mage, if anyone wants to know." That should be sufficient for the duration. Meruin looked at Runik; so far, it seemed he was in charge of the party, and Meruin waited for him to make the next move.
Not a bad combination of talents for a group that had been formed at random. It wasn't hard to figure out how they'd be arranged, not that there was any real difference to what Iravis had suggested in the first place.
"Alright then." While tempting to simply address the fallen angel as you and be done with it, he did pause to ask.
"Runik, and I never did get your name.""Alucard." was his flat reply. Hopefully the man, Runik, did not feel the need to do any more shouting. He couldn't cover his ears and carry his box, and setting it down would be inviting disaster to destroy it.
"Righto, then you're up in the front. Make sure to close in on anything we find alright? Meruin and Lyssa? Just keep a couple meters behind the front. Iravis, you want to take up the rear just in case something gets the drop or shall I?" Iravis nodded, heading towards the back of the party.
"I will smite them if they assault here."With all that done Runik checked and saw that there were still some time before the 10 minute mark. Granted the creature could have already arrived and there simply hadn't been another announcement. Depressingly enough, that was hardly unthinkable considering the numerous asshats that ran the school.
'Whatever..' With a minute shake of his head, he focused on the task at hand and motioned for everyone to move along.
Meruin nodded in agreement. A fairly solid plan, at least going by present company. She didn't know enough about them to make an adequate assessment of their overall strength, but she would learn soon enough.
She paused and approached Runik.
"I'm going to set up my territory now." With that as her only explanation, Meruin began walking around, sticking her tags everywhere in a large area. In a few minutes, she was almost out of sight.
After walking for a while Zan arrived in a city.
’It’s quiet for a city, too quiet.’ thought the skeleton as he walked through the city.
’Where is the people of this city’ he asked himself, while looking around and seeing signs of people just been there. Zan stopped walking mused
’Was that a severe weather warning earlier?’ and stared up into the sky to see if he could find any indication of bad weather. His right hand reached up and scratched the side of his head as he thought. Heard what sounded like talking, so he decided to head in the direction of talking.
Given how the two had gone ahead of the others, it was only natural that Alucard and Meruin were the first to encounter the animated skeleton. Maybe a dozen meters around the next corner, it walked forward at a steady pace. Frayed and rotted pieces of fabric clung to the bones, decayed to the point it was impossible to tell what sort of clothes they might have been at one time. Patches of white clung to exposed bone, identifiable as salt deposits by the keen eye and indicating it must have come from the sea. It didn't look particularly different from any other animated bone, beyond lacking the characteristic glow within its eye sockets from the energy that animated these creatures.
Though, it was quite easy to tell that this skeleton was quite large in life. It stood at roughly 6'5" and had wide shoulders. The skeleton looked like it could hold a human skull in its hands with ease. Although it had a slight limp to its right leg, it appeared to walking with little to no problem like a living being would. Another thing that made this skeleton look different was that it was peering into the windows of the buildings as it passed them. When the pair got within twenty meters of the skeleton, they would feel their magic circuitry go haywire. Some of it completely shutting down.
Alucard's appraising eyes turned from the short, black haired girl in front of him to the creature in front of them. Some sort of skeleton monster thing. Presumably the monster they were to train against. Or something. Maybe he could just ask it to leave, he didn't want to chance ruining his tribute box or his suit and fighting with one hand might be rather difficult.
"We don't have to fight do we? I have a date today and I would hate to have it ruined by such a trivial thing." By the nine it was a large beasite wasn't it? What kind of creature had it been before it had become this? Whats more his felt his hands get a sort of tingly sensation, flickering on and off. Some sort of aura around the skeleton? Odd, but nothing serious.
Meruin paused from her routine tagging to look at the newcomer. She looked. Then looked up. And up. And up. And my, that was a very large skeleton. Was this the monster they were after? If so, it stopped at an inopportune time. She was still tagging.
Turning to fully face it, Meruin held a hand up.
"If you are the monster we are after, and are capable of understanding me, do hold off for a few minutes. I'm still setting up my territory and it would be inconvenient if you interrupt me now."As soon as Meruin finished, she felt something go wrong. Her magic, her ability went wild. Her eyes widened as a bit of pain shot through her, signaling the shut down of some of her circuits. She tried channeling a bit of magic and found to her displeasure that about half of her regular circuits were down and unusable. The only good thing was that a majority of her carved runes were active, but that accounted for less than a quarter of her overall magic focuses.
Zan cocked his head to the side for a bit and then straightened it.
'People not running in fear, this looks like it might be the place.' he speculated.
"Children these days have no respect for their elders." scoffed the skeleton as he looked down at the two.
"I would have been smack so hard I'd be drinking food through a straw for a week, just for talking with that tone." He rolled his shoulders for a little.
"Do I look retarded to you?" asked Zan to the obviously younger child.
"Yes I can understand you." It was very obvious from the skeleton's voice he was not happy with the two of them.
Really? REALLLY? It was one of those stupid old people with the 'back in my day' and the whole 'no respect for your elders' deal? He was a fricking skeleton. Nobody cared how old he was, if he wanted respect he should go hang out with his good old pals the dinosaurs. Alucard hadn't even been that rude. Like at all. On the other hand this did give him an angle to play up to avoid conflict. It certainly looked like the monster was ready for a fight, even eager. Though, it was kind of hard to tell what he was thinking in general. Play suck up it was.
"Sorry sir, I don't think either of us have much experience with talking to someone of your standing." Alucard said polity, executing a low bow while carefully keeping ahold of his box.
"We were warned of a monster attack so naturally we are both a little leery of unknown persons." Iravis was looking behind the party when the skeleton approached, so she turned around to the sound of Alucard's voice. He mentioned something about a date, which made the red haired girl wonder who he was taking out. Was the box meant for the girl, or as a tribute? Either way, the man had a right to love.
The Phoenix noticed the signs of discomfort in some of the other members of the group. The youngest girl looked like she was in pain, and the others looked at least mildly bothered. The Pyromancer realized that her fire would be utterly ineffective against a skeleton however, so she didn't bother moving up until she was asked to. The black haired guy had done an adequete job of explaining the situation anyways. And it was also completely possible that this skeleton wasn't the challenge at all, so Iravis focused most of her attention on what was occuring at the parties back.
'A skeleton... really?' As far as creatures went... a lower undead wasn't something that waranted a squad, much less a special training session. Naturally that meant there was something unique about this one, beyond its slightly odd appearance. While Alucard seemed unbothered, Meruin's body seemed to jolt slightly. Hard to tell exactly what had happened, if anything, but a bit of caution couldn't hurt. A glance backwards showed their back was still covered, and he steadied his breaths. In, out, and a fist-sized orb of flame formed. Another breath and this time it was an icicle, about a foot in length.
"Oh now you want to be respectful. Damn kids." Zan told the male. The skeleton opened his mouth farther then a living person could. Zan reached inside his mouth and pulled out a metal container and a lighter. He opened the container and took out a cigarette. The skeleton put the container back in his mouth and slightly bit down onto the cigarette. He light the cigarette and was about to say something when he saw flash of light up ahead. Then his body went into action, he grabbed his skull with his right hand and threw it as hard as he could to where he saw the flash of light.
Meruin ignored the pain she was in. It was negligible. What needed her attention was the fact that the skeleton was somehow responsible for it, as well as sentient enough to respond. Good, that made things easier.
"I agree, you do not look mentally challenged," stated Meruin, brushing of the pain coursing through her limbs,
"however, you do not look very much alive either, so you'll have to excuse my assumption." She crouched as the skeleton threw his own skull towards . . . Runik, who seemed to be readying spells in the meantime. Did that mean he was the challenge? He certainly acted like it, with how abrasive he was. So was it time to fight? In any case, she ought to help Runik.
Her magic circuits were shot, but the ones created from carved runes worked just fine. With a light tap of her foot, mana circulated through the ground in front of Runik and shot up in a straight line, forming a pedestal that knocked the skull off course.
Runik was just barely able to hold onto the volatile projectile as a pedestal, courtesy of Meruin, suddenly burst from the ground right in front of him. The orb of flame whipped over the top of the pedestal and rotated around him a few times before it came to a halt. At the same time he tracked the skull that been knocked aside and fired an ice bolt towards it. The projectile hugged the ground before it rose upwards so as to knock the creature's "head" up into the sky and away.
Iravis by now had turned around and realized that this foe was their challenge. With too many people between herself and the undead to make herself useful, the Phoenix decided to occupy herself elsehow. The Goddess knew there was one thing that angered those who's souls could not pass over to the other side above all else. With the 'head' flying overhead due to the parties' efforts the Phoenix remembered a skill she hadn't used for centuries.
Iravis jumped to an unnaturally high height, and snatched the skull out of midair. When she landed, she started juggling the skull.
"You'll suffer Duat with no head!" A few taps of her feet, and the egyptian found herself dancing as well to taunt the monster. The Phoenix had dreamed of dancing, after all.
Alucard nimbly sidestepped only to find the flung skull was not aimed at him. The skull was quickly smashed upwards by a pedastal from the ground, impaled by an ice bolt, and snatched as part of a juggling act. K. This skeleton was infuriating. Their first reponse was judged inadqeute and rude, his second insincere, and what's more the skeleton had atttacked them for little to no provacation.
"If you can understand then maybe you can not attack us randomly hm?" Alucard asked haughtily. This skeleton was irritating him more and more with every second.
“Yes yes, fighting is bad!” Lyssa chimed in after Alucard. Oh no. Nonono. They really were fighting, which meant people were going to be hurt, which meant there was a very high chance she was going to have to do some fighting. Ugh, she just wanted to leave, what was with this mandatory participation bullshit anyways? This was a school, not fight club!...well, okay actually, maybe it was a little. But she didn’t expect these stupid events to extend outside in the mall.
“Maybe we could all just…I dunno, follow Iravis’ example and dance or something?” She stayed near the back, not doing anything. At this point, unless she was asked to by Iravis or someone else, she probably wasn’t going to be doing much assaulting – she’d have to be on the front line for that anyways, and she’d already said she’d guard the rear.
The group could see that the body brace itself, though why it did it was unknown.
”Kids now days.” Then during one of Iravis’s juggles the skull was ‘pulled’ from its course and started heading back to its body. If someone attempted to stop the skull by grabbing it, they would feel an incredible amount of force pulling on it. It was enough to drag them along with it. When the skull returned to the body, it would spin around a few times and then stop. The skeleton tilted his head to the right and left cracking its neck.
”This is not beneficial to my goals, would this happen to be Liseranna? asked Zan.
"Whatever floats your boat I guess." Runik muttered before he sent another ice bolt towards the skull when it broke free from Iravis. He didn't miss, for all the good that managed to do. The skull only slowed it slightly before it continued onwards and reattached iteslf to the main body.
Unable to hear what was said to the two ahead of him, he kept the projectiles manifested as he slowly approached. The sensation was obvious when he stepped within what seemed to be about 20 meters, and he backpedalled quickly. Several of the projectiles had to be dismissed and he looked at the distance between him and it with a frown.
"Oi, can you speak up? Magic seems to go wonky around ya." Not quite as loud as before, but enough for his voice to carry clearly.
”I’ll repeat myself once more,” the skeleton responded with clear annoyance in its voice.
”Would this happen to be Liseranna?” The skeleton removed the metal container from its mouth again and replaced the cigarette that was lost when he threw his head. When Zan “breathed in” the smoke disappeared never to seen again.
'Hey, if anyone should be annoyed it's us.' Naturally in line with "getting along" Runik didn't voice the thought and simply raised an eyebrow, his expression questioning.
"The school's a bit further, but yes this is the island. What're you here for?" It wasn't unlikely that the skeleton had some legitimate reason to be here, and the Headmaster had just "conveniently" forgotten about it to spring this special training.
”I’m here to find out what happened to me and who did it. Then I’ll go do things to them that would make a serial killer sick.” replied the skeleton, it was easy to tell just talking about it was making him pissed.
Iravis understood cross life vengeance more than most. By now Iravis had moved towards the front, clearly upset that her newest toy had been taken from her midair. Still, diplomacy was an option at this point and the Phoenix would avoid antagonizing the undead further.
"Your heart weighs heavier than a feather." A slight shake of the head.
"A teacher or the director may answer that question for you, but your soul will require another answer besides blood." A dubious stare about summed up Runik's reaction to the skeleton's empty threat of violence. With the same expression he turned to regard Iravis for a moment before he shrugged. The orbs winked out, icicles crumbled, and his tattoos began to dim as he shoved a hand into his pocket. The other pointed towards the school grounds, quite visible, and he said,
"Well that's where the school is. Sure you'll find a staff member or someone once you make it there." Towards the other four he asked,
"Any of you feel like playing escort or guide?" Zan turned his head to Ivaris.
”Hahaha, you are mistaken miss, I have no heart.” The skeleton put out the cigarette on the back of its hand.
”It does not matter what my soul may need. Who did this must pay the price.” He nodded his head when he was given direction.
”I do not need a guide nor an escort.” he informed as the skeleton start walking to the school.
”I am sure that my soul is already lost…” added the skeleton. Iravis looked on, a little disturbed, but did not respond.
A few moments passed and a sweat drop might have formed if this were a TV show, but he just sighed quietly instead.
"Aight... Well, can't really miss it, so good luck I guess. Anyone that was grabbing something to eat before this happened want to join me at Nekoa? Food's pretty good and cheap, and their dessert section's 10/10." Did…did this mean the fighting was over with? Lyssa let out a long sigh. She was glad this didn’t result in any major injuries. Especially of the bloody kind, since she was…well, particularly afraid of that. So she was thankful this was resolved peacefully.
“Did someone say dessert?” Lyssa chimed in again, making her way to the front of the group. Dessert sounded wonderful right about now.
“I’ll take ya up on that offer! I was on my way to buy Iravis a cake anyways." She chuckled.
Iravis raised an eyebrow at Lyssa, a little upset at first but then realizing that the girl was exhausted. The four thousand year old woman could afford to wait another day.
"Go forth and conquer, I have other matters to attend to." Lyssa pouted a little at hearing this.
"Whaaa? I mean, I'm still gonna buy you a cake." She was kinda thinking she was agreeing for both of them there.
Alucard heroically spoke up at this point.
"Please, no need for the two of you to spend your own time and moeny acquiring a cake. I am already well supplied with cakes and other delicious confections and would be more than happy to service you." Alucard hefted his box to draw attention to it and gave Lyssa a winning smile. Of course he had accidently kind of refered to Iravis just then so that might've been a mistake. Hopefully it would be overlooked in the moment.
"I thought you said you had a date later?" Iravis was clearly oblivious to Alucard's intentions, but she was not angry at being addressed.
Oh right. Hm, probably shouldn't have called it a date. How had she heard that anyway? Luckily Alucard was a master of covering his mistakes, which naturally he made very few of.
"That's true, but its more of an evening date, nothing that would interfere with my offering I assure you." Well at least he could talk and look directly at her now, that was a relief.
The Phoenix shot Alucard a playful look.
"Have another box waiting at home? If this is your tribute to me, I would not mind splitting it among those who may have shared the forge with me." A quick look at the Runed One.
"Would he mind us bringing this in?"Meruin just watched the whole thing proceed as it did. She didn't really see a reason to move, especially as it turned out he was
not the monster they were after. Also, her teammates were rather dramatic . . . or at least the red-headed ones were. It must be a genetic thing. Speaking of genetics, Meruin turned to Iravis.
"Before you go out on your date and fornicate, I have a question," said Meruin, completely unmindful of the fact that dating or dates do not directly lead to sexual intercourse,
"what relation do you have to a pheonix?"Given Alucard's contribution to the discussion, Runik had elected to just wait silently for the others to go their own way or whatever. He raised an eyebrow, wondering what had happened between the pair; didn't Iravis almost floor him yesterday?
Putting that aside he was about to answer when Meruin finally decided to speak, and well then... There was putting your foot in your mouth, and then the alchemist's complete disregard for social skills apparently. Disregarding any attempt to salvage this, Runik took a step back with a curious expression. Noticeably, the dimming ceased as his tattoos' glow began to brighten again.
Holy hell, she didn’t knew who this new girl was, but all Lyssa could do was hide a poor attempt to stifle laughter from her comment. Like, no one ever just asked that out in the open. Seriously, what kind of person ever asked something like that? Not that she really minded, she found it hilarious.
10/10 girl, whatever your name was. She had already forgotten it in the time they had been fighting that…skeleton thing.
Of course, from what she knew about Iravis, she wasn’t going to appreciate that so much.
“Aha, uhm, you might want to run.” She said to Meruin, between her loud laughter.
Meruin paused, looking at Runik and Lyssa. They were acting strangely. All she did was ask a question, or was it the question was a sensitive topic? If that was the case . . .
"Oh, I apologize for asking if it was a sensitive topic. Good luck on your date then. Also, for the sake of your future, use protection." Meruin nodded, pleased with her bit of advice; giving good advice was friendly. Which meant she could be friendly when she wanted to, obviously.
Well this could be... bad. From what little he'd seen, and felt, Iravis got angry very quickly and very... muchly? Whatever. He might want to apply Lyssa's advice to himself because he was unsure what form her doubtless rage would take. For the first time in a while Alucard was momentarily speechless. She wasn't even talking to him she it was hard to made it sound like she was talking about something else. Unable to fabricate anything to help remedy the situation Alucard simply stood there, hoping that he wouldn't get hurt too badly.
Lyssa laughed. Runik prepared. Alucard just seemed worried.
Iravis' blood lit aflame.
The street became fire.
When the smoke cleared, Meriun would find herself held down to the ground, talon over her chest. Connected to this claw was a massive winged beast, colored orange with the tips of it's wings becoming first red then leading to blue ends that seemed to dance like fire. Its eyes were sapphires, the deepest blue of the Nile.
A storyteller could spend a thousand other lines describing the beast's majesty, the bird's divine prescence, but Iravis was too enraged allow the time for that: The Phoenix lowerd her beak to just in front of the fourteen year old's eye.
"Does this answer your question, mortal?"Despite the heat, despite the threat to her eye, Meruin's only reaction, impossibly, inexplicably, was to smile. A big, wide smile.
This was perfect.
"Huehehehe," she chuckled, a slightly disturbing spasm of a sound.
"Yes, yes it does. Thank you, Iravis."Still, this was an uncomfortable position. Meruin wondered why she would go so far to simply answer her question. Well, it was of no consequence. If it came down to it, she'd just ask her to get off her. As it was, this was a close-up inspection of a legendary pheonix.
"Another question, then. Can you spare some of your blood? Failing that, some of your fluids would be sufficient. Should be simple enough, as you will no doubt be expelling a respectable amount with Alucard. Unless he's incompetent, then I will wait."Meruin stared dully at the beak near her eye. She wondered what it was made of?
The translucent aura of magic was enough for Runik to whip his hands from his pockets moments before flames enveloped the redhead. Wincing at the sudden rush of heat, he still managed to carve out a space where the fire's effects did not reach.
'God damn.' The sight of her true form was majestic to be sure, but any such thoughts were brushed aside by the fact that she apparently lacked any sense of proportion.
The urge to do something about the pair was quickly tempered by Meruin's response to all this though. Social retarded was one thing, and this was an entirely new tier he wished he wasn't seeing. Granted the alchemist seemed rather unhinged with a focus on her magic that dredged up some rather unpleasant memories...
'Yeah fuck it.' With a shake of his head, he turned towards Lyssa and coughed to catch her attention.
"You remember where the cafe is? I'll see you there if you decide to drop by." That said, he gave crazy and crazier a quick glance before he began to walk away.
Okay, fighting not over with. Way to overreact, Iravis. She frowned a bit, she knew Iravis wouldn’t like the comment, but this was just too much. She was possibly going to hurt that other girl, not to mention she probably could have hurt the others too!
A ball of fear, worry, and uneasiness formed in her stomach. Iravis could seriously hurt them if someone didn’t do something. She looked over to Runik, who only said he’d meet her at the café if she decided to join. She frowned, though didn’t say anything to him.
Alucard didn’t look like he was going to be any help.
….so was she all that was left? What could she do? She could only destroy things…but, well, if no one was going to do anything….
She shook her head. Her heart was pounding like a drum, she was utterly terrified something was going to happen, but she approached Iravis anyways.
“Iravis!” She shouted, looking at the bird.
“That’s enough, it was just a joke! Stop it, please.”Ugh, why were both of her roommates so…violent? She liked Iravis, but if she was going to do this on a regular basis…
The Phoenix prepared to rip Meriun to shreds, reaching her head back to strike.
The Goddess heard the plea of one of her followers. Lyssa. The bird's eyes showed annoyance with such idle pacifism.
It wasn't a joke, fool ... But after that moment's hesitation, murder left the sapphire eyes and the Phoenix relaxed. The glare returned to the young teenager.
"Request this from 'a' Phoenix then. For I have not seen another with a soul like mine in the time I have walked the Earth or soared in the Heavens." A few more moments passed in silence when Iravis returned to her form as a crimson haired girl in a much tamer fire.
Her eyes drifted to Alucard.
"I suppose that counts as me appearing before you. I'd prefer more quiet scenery." The goddess walked off, irritation radiating from her. She gestured for Alucard to follow.
Alucard let out a silent sigh of relief as she calmed down. That was actually rather intimadating, even if that form did have a different kind of beauty in its own right. Rather than speaking immediatly Alucard simply followed her quietly. He should make sure she had calmed down a little before trying anything. Of course he certainly wasn't going to disagree with going somewhere a little more alone...
Meruin frowned deeply. For her to never have seen another Pheonix once . . . did that mean that she was isolated? Did that mean that there was only a singular character among all the legends of Pheonixes in history? Or did it mean that Pheonixes were secluded creatures by nature such that they rarely encountered each other?
These questions and more were on Meruin's mind, even as Iravis returned to her human form.
"That's . . . a fascinating bit of information. Thank you, Iravis."This bore the need to research. Of course, she would still check if she could acquire blood from Iravis, but now she had more important matters to attend to. The way she spoke and her words implied that she was far older than she seemed. That meant she was a veritable gold mine of information. She could do without focusing on her blood for now.
She followed Runik back to Nekoa. She had a meal to finish. Wondering if Iravis and Alucard were also going, she kept a respectable distance behind them. It was better for them to have their alone time, she reasoned. Better to not be a third wheel.
Lyssa sighed in relief, glad Iravis didn’t do anything to the other girl. Maybe she wouldn’t do anything to Alucard, but she honestly had her quota for violence completely filled in the last twenty four hours and she didn’t want any more. So, she followed Runik back to Nekoa. She was going to take him up on that offer of desserts.
She hoped there wasn’t anything else ‘planned’ here. She wasn’t sure she’d be able to keep up if there was.
