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One thread for multiple things, Mostly OTA

OTA - Father's day storm

Ailyshia's temper was bitingly cold. She had never used a holodeck before, had no clue what one was, but she had been passing one when she heard a familiar voice, one that chilled her to the bone. She stopped, and for once ignored the instincts that told her to just keep walking. She went to the sound of that voice and the man she saw.... he should be dead. Not Demon Dead, just dead. Whatever happened to everyone who bore the taint, he should have gone with them.

She hadn't seen him since she had left home. And now she was faced with him, well away from home. The air around her froze. Theiorn stepped between her and the man, but it little mattered. His whole attention was on her, and she saw nothing but him.

"Well," he said simply. "You've grown up."

The strength of Theiorn's shields were all that kept the room from exploding. As it is, he fell back against them, way from her. He tried to push to his feet, but maintaining his shields against her frozen rage was all he could manage. "SOMEONE TELL ME HOW TO TURN THIS THING OFF!" he roared into the corridors, having a sense that whatever brought whoever this was, wasn't magic.

Ailyshia was snarling, trying to blast her way through the shield that was keeping her from blasting her father to a very fine ash.

OTA - On the Planet

Ailyshia had been in a foul mood ever since she saw her father, and was not allowed to kill him. She was just barely able to tolerate any males at all because she was finally convinced that he had, more or less, been like a tangled web. Not actually there. Just a cruel trick preying on her mind. But after that, she needed time on the planet with the plants.

She would be avoiding any unknown males there, and her work area is shielded around her, so anyone who tries to approach will not be able to touch her. Her gold eyes are filled with angry tears and furry as she works with a single minded determination.

Locked to Raiden (and Minoru if he wants, since that wasn't plotted, but would work!) and backdated to when the planet trip was announced.

The Queen was resting, excited about the upcoming trip, but he knew she was trying to convince herself not to offer aid. Which would destroy her emotionally, since this - even more than ruling the people - was what a Queen was born to do. But spending a week in the sun again so soon might well finish the kill. so after shielding their quarters, he went searching for one of the few males here he could trust. Raiden. If he saw him or Minoru, he would stop them.

"Prince. May I speak with you a moment?"

(OOC, feel free to post for multiple prompts, just in separate replies. TY!!!!!)

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"Rest and a good meal always help. But in a pinch, if you need it." he kept the offer open. Even if they weren't on a planet and his time in Sage Mode was limited to whatever natural energy he had left in his seal, he would still use them to help anyone in need.

At the rate she'd been going, and given how much she wanted to be near to the land, he doubted she was eager to go back to the ship to recoup her energy.

"I promise, I won't hurt you."

"You're male," she said, but more softly than before. A rose shorn of its thorns.

He smiled softly. "I am. But I'm also a good person, just like you."

A small tired short, and a shudder she couldn't stop.

"I am not a good person, Prince. Just ask Raiden."

Raiden may be his friend, but Minoru would decide for himself whether someone was a good person. And he'd already made up his mind.

"I think you are." He came closer. "I've seen and felt what you can do with your powers. You are kinder than you believe yourself to be."

She forced herself to hold her ground, since she was sitting on it and lacked a dignified way to back off.

She snorted. "I am not kind, prince. I never have been. Not to humans."

Minoru sat down in front of her in a vey non-threatening way.

"You showed me your sacred art." He smiled, remembering, as it were, the best moments out of all his encounters. "You were kind then. And you're being kind now. Bringing the people of this planet a source of food for the future."

"My sacred.... you mean poisons?" she asked, giving him an odd look. A very odd look. then she shook her head and waved a hand at the plants. "This? This is selfish. It is fulfilling my duties as a Queen, and getting to spend time with the land."

He meant all of it, really. From the poisons to the blood ritual he observed and the numerous questions he had about her world. She indulged the curiosity of someone not of her Court.

"No more selfish than me accepting food for a day's work or feeling good when someone smiles back with renewed strength." he replied gently. "Not to them. It's only selfish because you're choosing to see it that way."

"It's selfish because of why I chose to do these things, not how they are seen or how they do or do not help others."

Minoru smirked, "Then indulge me on my selfish desire to see you back at full strength, so you can continue doing what makes you happy inside."

He didn't move closer, but a white snake seemed to grow right out of his arm. It coiled around his wrist, resting against the back of his hand. It was through that mechanism that he delivered chakra to others - via snakebite.

"Males aren't healers," she said flatly. "So I'm not sure what you think you can do, anyway."

"I can give you my chakra, my energy, so that you can do more of what you do."

Was it healing? In some ways, yes. In others, no. He couldn't direct the chakra to a specific area, such as a broken bone or open wound, but he could jump start a body's ability to heal itself. He could make a stopped heart beat and keep an exhausted warrior on his feet. He was experimenting on a technique that would allow him to filter bad energy through his own body and return it to the other person, but hadn't quite made a breakthrough on that one.

"H....how..." she asked, eying him warily, hating the hesitation in her voice, the lack of strength.

"Via snakebite." He replied softly. The snake-appendage that grew out of his arm uncoiled a bit. "Snakes are gentle. It won't hurt any more than a pin prick."

Her snake tooth certainly wasn't gentle. And it wasn't for healing. And this was a male.

But it was also an animal who if not Kindred seemed to be enough like. And she had never met a Kindred, even the ones with the worst tempers - yes, even Mistral after his father was butchered - who would help someone do what she... what she feared.

She took a deep breath refusing to show that fear, unaware that she was failing.

"If you or it does anything more or other than what you have said, I will kill you," she informed him, and that did come out clearly, and strongly. HEr shaking could easily have been rage, from the set of her face.

Minoru had his share of surprises with the technique not working on people aboard the Enterprise - Raiden's chakra was entirely natural energy and Kaylin wore a bracer that stopped his chakra from entering her - but Ailyshia was human. And alive. There shouldn't be any surprises here.

And hopefully, there wouldn't be, because Minoru was about to stake his life on it.

"If I've willingly deceived you, that's a fair consequence."

He came closer, but did so on his knees, since they were both sitting on the ground. The snake around his wrist moved, slithering onto her arm. When Minoru found a place along her chakra pathways, the snake bit down gently.

If all went as planned, she would feel a little pinprick, followed by a gentle warmth spread through her body as her own energy reserves were being restored.

If, through her magic, she could sense his energy in the process, it was strong in a way that was more than human. His energy and the energy of the world around him were entwined, blended together in perfect synchronicity. This was his senjutsu, his Sage Art. A Dragon could do to people what a Black Widow could do to the earth.

She was tense, alert, watching him. She clearly was more focused on him than the snake. She felt the small bite and it took all her self control not to throw up every mental and magical barrier that she could, to submit to whatever was about to happen, knowing that there was at least one poison she had no hope of recovering from if she was dosed with it, knowing there were other drugs besides poisons, not knowing what magic connected him to the snake, except by his own words.

And then the energy flooded through her like drinking a healer's brew, though feeling that sensation starting somewhere other than her throat, mouth, or stomach, was odd. But that sensation usually came from what she ate or drank, rather than the kiss of a snakes tooth. And usually what she drank was self contained. It had the power it had.

This....? this was a conduit between her and his power. But his power felt.... wrong. Not twisted, not tainted, but not... anything she could figure out. It felt nothing like her own dark well. It felt nothing like the Jewels, like the Blood.

But her body was parched for energy and was drawing as much as it could, outside her conscious control. She was to bust thinking about the sensation, and trying to figure it out, unaware as her body cried out for more, and more. She'd started doing magic too soon after her Moontime this month, she had unleashed a lot of magic trying to get past Theiorn's shields to kill her father, and then she drove herself too hard physically and magically on the planet, trying to escape her pain and fear. Karla had made it clear that no witch in Kaleer was going to hurt herself that way without repercussions. Since The Hight Lord and Jaenelle backed her on that, no one could argue much.

But even in as much trouble as she'd be if she went home now, in the shape she was in... she'd take the chance if offered it. In a heartbeat.

He didn't feel her energy as much as he did her body's need for it. And no, he didn't consider that selfish either. No more so than being hungry or sleepy. He simply closed his eyes and let her take what was freely given.

Eventually, he was able to feel the pull subside. It wasn't until that point that his snake released and retracted back into his arm.

"How do you feel?"

"Mother Night," she whispered, laying back carefully among the plants, staring up at the sky. "What in the world was that?" she asked, dumbfounded.

"A snakelike healing jutsu." he smiled, happy that it worked on her.

Out of all the senjutsu techniques in his arsenal, this was the one he liked best. It allowed him to use his large chakra pool to help others in ways that others couldn't. He's continually working to improve it as well as develop new justu from it. However, he's no genius, so it's a slow process.

"Males.... aren't healers..." she said slowly. Of course, until the High Lord, and later Sadi. males weren't Black Widows either. But ***s fire, mother night, and may the Darkness be merciful that felt like the strongest healing brew she had ever sipped, without the kick to the gut.

"People can be anything they want if they want it bad enough."

Was he meant to be a Sage? The seal on his chest suggested he wasn't. But he wanted to become a Dragon so badly and believed in his path so strongly, he was willing to do whatever it took to make his dream come true. Was his mother, also a male, meant to carry a set of twins? No. But he wanted to atone for the deaths on his hands that he was willing to do whatever it took to create life, for once, instead of destroy it. Was his brother meant to be Hokage? Yeah, probably. But he still had to work really hard to get there.

She sat up and stared at him. "I want to be invulnerable. Doesn't matter how badly I want it, it won't happen. Heketabah and Dorethea wanted to rule a realm, they worked at it, and wanted it for 50,000 years. And thank the Darkness, wanting it wasn't enough."

"Okay, hard work and help from those around you are a big part of it too. Because they can see and do things that you can't."

He thought about it for a moment as he deactivated his Sage Mode. "You want to be invulnerable... What do you mean by that?"

She already had a pretty good habit of not letting anyone in. And with friends like Theiorn, he didn't think anyone could ever get close enough to hurt her.

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No pressure here, lol

Well, you just confused the life out of her, lol

Better than her killing me!

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