Narukami228

Silvermoon Pier Alliance: SPA.

Roxas was awake and ready to go by 4:30 that morning. He figured no one else would be awake, so he decided to go for a quick run and clear him mind before the battle. It was going to be a tough one, but he had some good people to have his back. Should be interesting to see how everyone would deal with the upcoming barrier that they all faced. When he got back it had only been about 30 minutes. In the mean time he figured he could get a nice shower in and meet everyone down at the buffet. The warm water felt nice against his skin as it washed away the oils and sweat from the run. Surprisingly it was a nice and quiet morning. No having to deal with Ifrit or even having to talk to anyone really. As much as he enjoyed everyone's company, Roxas rally did like his alone time.

After he had got out of the shower, Roxas walked over to the closet. Morthos was out like a light so he tried to be silent and let him sleep in as much as he could. After giving a quick smirk in Morthos' general direction, Roxas pushed the clothes aside in the closet to revile his new battle outfit He smiled at it and slowly put the hat on. After a few seconds of grabbing everything he needed for the outfit, Roxas disappeared back into the bathroom and changed. It didn't take him long to do so and when he came out, he looked completely different from normal. "Oh I like this one." He said in a low voice as he looked in the mirror and checked everything out. A flick of the wrist and everything was all finished.

It was 6 by the time Roxas left for the buffet. When he arived, he grabbed everything he wanted for breakfast and sat down at a small table. He ate the food and took note of the seroundings while he waited for the others. Not much was going on. A man was checking out then a few other people came down for the food. Seemed all normal to him. A few people looked his way as he ate alone, but that didn't bother him all that much. He probably figured it was the hat and decided to take it off and set it on the table alongside his mask. He had to be sure that he didn't forget that today, or all hell might break loose. It didn't seem to take everyone long to get down. Jax looked like she had been up for a while and Morthos, well, Morthos looked like he had his sleep interrupted. That made him laugh a little to himself. Ophelia looked amazing with her battle outfit on, but then again she always looked amazing. He briefly wondered if she was still annoyed at him then brushed that thought from his mind. The had bigger things to worry about right now.

Once everyone got a little closer, Roxas waved them over, figuring that they would recognize him with his new battle outfit on. "Hey." He started off with. "How did you two sleep?" He said to Jax and Morthos. "Today's the big day." He added as everyone got situated and grabbed the food they wanted.

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Welkins took note at Reia's yawn and laughed a little when she asked if he was tired. Yeah he was, but that didn't stop him from wanting to spend time with her. "You're the one who seem to need some sleep." He smiled at her gently. "I can walk you home if you'd like me to." He started to get up and put the food away while he waited for an answer. As he was putting the food away he packed up some for Reia to take with her so she didn't have to cook for a while. He sure as hell wasn't going to be able to eat it all before it went bad. Once it was all packed up or put away, Welkins walked back over to Reia and sat next to her. He really didn't want to keep her if she was so tired. She had had a rough last couple of days and she needed to get as much rest as she possible could.

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Everything Reia said sounded awful. That poor woman and her partner. Welkins couldn't even think of knowing how that felt. All he wanted to do was console Reia. So he did. When she was finished talking about what all had happened, Welkins got up and walked over to hug her tightly. "I can't begin to tell you how sorry I am that you had to go through that. At least you were able to save the woman though." He tried to make it sound like it wasn't a total loss, but he knew that the loss of a child can be hard to get past. So all he did was hug her tightly. "Everything will be okay."

After he hugged her for a long while, Welkins let go and sat on the floor next to Reia making sure she was okay. "Is there anything I can do to help?" He looked up at her, wanting to help the best he can.

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Welkins heard the knock on the door and went to open it. The table was all set and the house was as clean as it could get. He was excited to see Reia and spend some time with her. Even though what happened at the train station still hurt, he moved past it. He would just have to do his best for her to fall in love with him. When the door opened Reia came in then hugged him. He hugged her back and let her go after a bit. "You don't have to worry about what happened. I know whatever it was made you upset and you don't have to tell me. Now is time for the healing process. I've had missions like that too. It'll all be okay in the end." He said gently to her not wanting to make her upset again. The food looked amazing. Welkins really outdid hisself this time. He had hoped that what he made was good wehough for Reia since he knew she didn't eat meat. "Well nothing really has changed for me. The only thing that really happened was what we just had to deal with this morning. I'm sure everything will be okay though. But i swear if I have to deal with Amleth, Felix, and Kalona in one room again, I might scream. They are really difficult to deal with."

Welkins pulled a chair out for Reia to sit down at and pushed it in for her. He went and sat at the opposite side of the table and started to dish up. "I'm glad you're back though. I've missed you while you were gone." He looked over at her and smiled gently.

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Welkins noted as Reia left she was almost about to cry. 'Well now you've done it.' He thought to himself. When she left, he hardly payed any attention to the class. He already knew it all. The only think on his mind was that if Reia was alright or not. It felt like forever until she had returned. It looked like she had felt better and she was blushing. He briefly wondered what happened to make her blush like that. A surge of frustration corsed through him, but went away when Reia asked if they were still on for dinner. "Of course we are." He said smiling at her then watched as she left again. Another boring day at class like usual. Regardless he still did the work.

Once class was over he didn't even bother to go to his fathers study. He knew he wasn't back and there was nothing else for him to do. On his way out, Welkins spotted Kalona talking to Wendy. He didn't really want to talk to him at all so he tried to walk past. Didn't work. Kalona spotted him and started to walk him way. Welkins gave him a bit of an evil eye, but looked away. He was not someone you wanted to get mad. "Welkins." He said. "Good job last night I wasn't able to properly congratulate you." Welkins stopped and looked Kalona in the eye. "Not a problem just doing my job. Say Kalona when can we sign up to be sent into battle or do some scouting at least. I feel like my skills might be better used on the battle field." Kalona just smiled and laughed a bit. "Don't worry Welkins, we already have people on that you don't need to go." This pissed off Welkins a bit, but just left it alone. "Okay thanks." Was all he said and then left to go home. He wanted to get a head start on the dinner and cleaning up his house a bit.

Silvermoon Pier Alliance: SPA.

Roxas knew he wasn't getting around talking about this so he just took a deep breath and laid back down on the bed. "I have the king of hell living inside me. He's chained to me and sometimes I have conversations with him. It's a little messed up I know, but it's been that way for the last ten years so you kinda get used to it." He had no idea why he was telling Morthos all this right now. Maybe it was because of his fight with Ophelia. All he wanted was for someone to understand his situation. So he told it to him. All the nitty gritty details about the battle with his old team and how Celti died. Why Ifrit was chained to him and that the reason why he uses his powers during combat. "You see if I don't use his powers I will die with the build up of energy he causes being chained to me. I don't mind it, but the downfall is that I can hear him and talk to him." He sat up and looked over at Morthos. "That's my story for the most part. 18 year old kid gets in over his head and ten years later is still a ticking time bomb. If I die he's released and everyone here is dead. Think you want to be in a party with me still?"

Roxas get's up to move to the window. "Tomorrow I'll be using his power again. My mask is how I channel it. I rip it off and it releases his powers to me. Hurts like hell when I do it because it rips the skin off my face and blood pours down. You'll see it tomorrow. I have to keep a timer on me though at all times because if I use it for more than 20 seconds I could either go into a coma or die. I really don't get much of a beifet from it at all." He turns back to Morthos taking in the reaction. "If I die tomorrow, I don't care how hard it would be, I need you to take Ophelia and Jax and get the hell out of here." He didn't really wait for a response before he got into his bed and tried to fall asleep. Maybe Morthos would understand everything. If not it didn't matter. The next day was going to be hectic.

Silvermoon Pier Alliance: SPA.

Roxas watched as Ophelia left. Why couldn't she just understand. It didn't really surprise him all that much though. No one ever did. It had been ten years since Celti died and his life changed forever. None of this was his choice. The battle with Ifrit was supposed to go a different way. Celti was going to chain him down to her so she could take him and dispose of him properly. She was the spellcaster of the Phantom Thieves. An S class spellcaster. It wasn't until Ifrit had hit her that the spell bounced off and chained itself to Roxas. There was nothing that could have been done to stop it. Celti was about to die and Ifrit had to be chained so as a final resort, Celti finished the spell and chained Ifrit to Roxas. Since then he has had to live with him chained down. He lost friends because of it thinking he was insane or just didn't want to be around him. It was a rough life, but he got used to it.

Roxas didn't realize it, but Morthos had come back from the hot tub. "Oh hey Morthos."
Was all he got out. It looked like he had just had the best time of his life. That made him smile. At least one of them was having a bit of a good time. Roxas quickly changed into something more comfortable then laid down on the bed. "Hell of a day wasn't it? Tomorrow's going to be even better. I love me a good fight." That was mostly Ifrit talking, but at the same time Roxas too. "Hey, sorry I had to leave suddenly." He sat up and looked over at Morthos. "I have this little problem I had to deal with." He wasn't sure if he wanted to tell Morthos about Ifrit yet. "So how was you're alone time with Jax?" He asked trying to avoid talking about what had just happened with Ophelia.

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Welkins made his way into the class room and saw Reia sitting already. He noticed that she had waved at him and he waved back. Sliding his way past the other students standing around and talking, he finally made it to the table Reia was at. "Sorry we didn't get much of a chance to talk earlier, I had to go see guild master Amleth about something." He looked at her slightly and smiled. "So how was your mission? you look exhausted." She did though. It looked like she hadn't been able to sleep a wink in the last day or so. Something must have happened and he almost regretted asking. If it was bad he didn't want her to have to relive it by talking to him about it. "You know what, don't worry about it. It's your business and you dont need to tell me." He smiled again and took her hand slightly to show that he understood and she didn't have to say anything.

Silvermoon Pier Alliance: SPA.

Roxas didn't realize it at the time, but when get got out of the shower to dry off he noticed he was crying a bit. That sure as hell wasn't normal. Not long after he could hear Ophelia asking him to come out and talk to her. 'Shit she heard me.' The thought went through his head. This was not a conversation he wanted to have right now, but there was no way to get around it. "I'll be right there." He said with a hint of shaky in his voice. He wrapped the towel round his waist the walked over to the door and slowly opened it. "Hi." He looked at her, taking in all her features and noticed that she was still in her swim suit. His face was all red and Roxas wiped away the tear that was forming in the bottom left of his eye. "Didn't think you'd be here so quickly otherwise I would have changed quicker. Sorry for the indecency." His voice was soft and probably a little hard to hear to a normal person, but he knew Ophelia had better hearing and could hear every word. "I hope I didn't worry you. I'm sorry if I did. I just needed a bit of time alone... I.." He stopped the words seemed to get caught in his throat and he couldn't get them out.

Not much made Roxas upset anymore. If anything he got mad during fights, but that was about it. It wasn't a surprise though. The fact that his whole team had been wiped out and then just talked about like it wasn't anything, and his girlfriend just got threatened. Not really a good night since he couldn't do anything about it. Maybe Ophelia wouldn't question him on it to much. He didn't know how much more he could take right now. Normally if he was upset, Roxas would shower, but that wasn't going to work right now.

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Roxas listened intently to the plan. It seemed pretty straight forward. Ophelia would take on the Alpha and he would take on the Beta. Everyone took their turn talking about the plan while he stayed quiet. Not much he needed to say in this situation. While Morthos gave his demonstration of what he would do, Roxas shifted so his arm was around Ophelia's waist. He pulled her slightly closer to him then continued to listen. Not but seconds later, Ifrit started talking to him again. "Okay I've waited long enough. Get out of the hot tub and go so we can talk. You can play with your girlfriend later." It almost sounded like Ifrit was being a nagging mother right now. The thought of that mad Roxas laugh a little. He knew that Ifrit was pissed though.

"Okay." Roxas reluctantly started to shift to leave. "Plan sounds great guys. I gotta go." He knew that sounded odd, but didn't really care to much right now. If it worried her, he figured Ophelia would follow. It didn't take him long to dry off make his way back to the room. Once the door had closed he took his wet shirt off and threw it into the bathroom. "The fuck do you want?!" It was rare to hear Roxas swear unless he was really ticked off. "You know that this is important to me. Just because you 'live' in me, doesn't mean you have free rain or can tell me what to do." Ifrit scoffed. "Boy you know damn well if I really wanted to I could take over your body and kill every last one of these miserable pests. Plus this isn't important to you. You just want to make that vampire of yours happy. You're the one you who won't talk to me in front of them. I don't know how, but you made it so I can't hear your thoughts so we can't talk that way." Roxas walked into the bathroom after his shirt and turned on the shower to mask his voice in the case that Morthos came back. Might as well get in the shower too.

"Okay one don't ever talk about Ophelia like that. She is my girlfriend and you will respect her. Two you can't do shit and you fucking know it. You have Celti's chains and Jax's chains. You're not going anywhere so quit your idle threats." Roxas shut the light off before he got into the shower he knew this was going to be a long night if things didn't get resolved. "Enough of this bullshit fighting. This isn't what I wanted to talk about anyways. What aren't we going to kick some ass tonight like we planned?" Ifrit changed the subject. "You've been doing this a long time now why are you taking orders now?" "Because I'm not an idiot Ifrit. You saw what we're up against and if there was less then five then maybe we could take them. You know I can only use your power for a short time before I either pass out or die. I know you're hopping for that I die so you can escape, but you know that's not going to happen." He starts to wash himself to get all the chlorine off. "Oh so what you're afraid of getting kicked around now? I know what it is. You don't what your 'girlfriend' to get mad at you. You're going soft."

"Yeah well I'd rather that than be dead. Ophelia's the only person to make me feel again since you murdered Celti ten years ago." Ifrit scoffed. "Murdered is such a harsh word. I like released from this world more." Roxas snarled at that. Even though it had been ten years already, it still stung to remember that he is sharing a body with the thing that murdered his whole team and his first love. "Whatever you want to call it it still happened. You're lucky I don't let Jax kill you now. Regardless we are not leaving tonight and that's final. Now get out of my head!" He yelled right as the door to his room shut. The shower was on full blast so whoever it was would have only heard a muffled yell if anything. Roxas thought for a minute then decided that he'd just blame it on the water being to hot.