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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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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.
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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.
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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.
No pressure here, lol
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.
Well, you just confused the life out of her, lol
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.
Better than her killing me!
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?"
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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.
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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.
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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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"I mean I want no one to ever be able to hurt me again, never be able to touch me without my permission. There is no craft that strong. Even Witch needs to rest sometimes."
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"I'm sorry that you've been hurt so badly..."
The wind whistled as though it shared his empathy.
"The way I see it, there are two ways to be invulnerable. You can can harden yourself, cover yourself in scaly armor that can withstand the pain. Or you can face things with open arms, believing that you're resilient enough to make it through. There's a time and a place for both."
This was literal as well as metaphorical. His Sage Mode did provide such armor, but Minoru only used it when he had to. He allowed himself to be vulnerable first, and to trust in the good of others.
"We can't control what others may do to us. But we can control how we perceive it. The number of times we are hurt are nothing compared to the number of times we hurt ourselves by remembering the times we've been hurt and feeling the same old pain all over again."
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She shook her head and stalked off.
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Unfortunately, it didn't come out that way.
She likely needed some time alone, regardless, to process everything that just happened.
"Take care." he called out.
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