BZPRPG: Onu-Wahi

IC: [Arkrak]Arkrak followed.OOC: Arkrak to Ko-Wahi.

IC: GravityThe lack of a Kanohi was still effecting me somewhat, making it a bit hard for me to process that statement. I'm pretty sure I said something intelligent like, "Well, duh." but I wasn't quite sure. I was a bit focused on hugging her... And trying to ignore everone else, which wasn't actually that hard.I just held the Ga-Toa tighter once I registered the sadness in her voice, and tried to figure out where it was coming from. "Of course I did."

IC-Raxa:"Eh, it was a half joke and half serious thing on my part," Raxa said, waving aside the first comment, and raising an eyebrow with her question-and seeming to blush a bit deeper."Who wants to know?" Another smile. "And the answer is yes, so long as I don't get in trouble for saying that."

IC-Raxa:Raxa smiled slightly again, bringing up his hands slightly, resting them on Crystalia's waist as she came closer into him-if she could play this game, he could too...and he would learn to play it well."Eh, I don't know that I would call it a ritual," Raxa said, still with his smile, "Moreso just a contest to see who is the best...I don't know that all Toa of Crystal are like that, but every Toa of Crystal I've met...yep." And then he laughed slightly, an uncommon sound for him."So long as it's fun trouble, I doubt I'll mind."

IC: Crystalia"A contest?" she said smoothly. "I like contests." she said. "I usually win." she smiled. Though if she was loosing it wasn't unusual for her to poison or killer her opponent so she won by default. "I'm sure you'd be a winner at that contest." she said. Raxa had said he'd killed before, he seemed to have the drive in him, Crystalia could sense it. She felt him place his hands on her waist now in their close proximity. Crystalia moved her face close to Raxa's. "The only kind of trouble I know is fun." she murmured, before going in for a kiss. She enjoyed killing and assassination work, it made her feel alive, and to her it was very fun.

IC-Raxa:Raxa was surprised for a moment, and was, himself, absolutely sure that the blush he felt was completely and perfectly real...though, as any normal being would do-he hoped, anyways-he pressed back at the kiss, his lips and Crystalia's firmly melded, both Toa seeming one being in that moment, a passion that both had bottled up and were finally releasing.Slowly, they parted, not quite wanting to come apart, though they did-all such moments must end, after all...And Raxa was thoroughly confused at the sudden kiss, though that, thankfully, he didn't show. He had his guesses, but he'd have to test them out later."...Wow," he muttered, his eyebrows raised slightly.

IC: CrystaliaShe smiled at him after the kiss. It was nice, she liked the way he kissed, and she knew that she wasn't bad herself. After they parted she studied his face, "I'm that good huh?" she joked. "I'd love to continue this, but I don't think Bloodstone wants to pay us to smack lips, perhaps we should search for a target." she offered.

IC-Raxa:"Probably, although...what Bloodstone doesn't know won't hurt him, eh?" Raxa joked himself, nodding...though it was easy to tell that neither of them wanted to make the first move away from each other. After a moment of them just watching each other, Raxa pulled Crystalia's hands down from around his neck, before stepping aside to allow her out of the room.Meanwhile, in his head: What. Just. Happened.I need Caige, where's Caige.He could tell me what to do.

IC: CrystaliaAfter Raxa pulled her hands off his neck she followed him out of the room, feeling confused. At first she'd just wanted to see if she could seduce him for the fun of it, to exert power over him. But after the kiss... she had enjoyed it too much. Was she developing feelings for this Toa of Crystal? She shook her head, Crystalia didn't get romantically involved, ever. She gripped the handle of one of her knives, trying to calm herself. "True, maybe once we kill this Toa we would have some time to waste..." she said, not sure what she was hinting at.

IC-Raxa:A small, bemused smile at that comment."You can't waste time, except by doing nothing at all," Raxa said after a moment's thought, continuing along behind Crystalia, when he started laughing a bit, seemingly randomly.

IC: Crystalia"Is that so?" she smiled bemused. "I wonder if there are even any other Toa of Crystal here." she said. "I suppose if we don't find any I could just stab you and drag you back to Bloodstone, stick a different mask on you and he'd never know." she joked.

IC-Raxa:"I'm not so sure I'm a fan of that idea," Raxa said, still chuckling lightly, "But, hey: If you're looking for something funny, take a look at the first seven letters of your name-Looks like I'm not the only Toa of 'Crystal' here, eh?"

IC: CrystaliaShe laughed and then shoved Raxa playfully. "Don't make fun of my name." she said. "Its much better then Raxa, which is a bit feminine if you ask me." she laughed playfully. "Don't worry though if I was going to kill you I would of done it back inside your inn." she said.

IC-Raxa:"My name is not feminine!" Raxa growled, though he had a small smile on his face-he'd heard that joking sentiment enough times that he didn't really worry about it any more. "And I doubt either of us have to worry about taking each other out, so...Stop," he commanded, having noticed something as Crystalia turned away."You're burnt," he stated bluntly. "Second degree at the most. What happened?"

IC: CrystaliaShe smiled at him, "Your right..." she said. When he told her to stop she did suddenly. "What?" she said looking around. When he told her she was burnt, she looked down at her body, noticing the burns. "Oh your right... I am... I seemed to have forgotten." she admitted. "Nothing I can't handle, I'll survive." she said. "Bloodstone had me seek out a Ta-Toa and bring him back alive, so I did." she shrugged. "He just managed to burn me a but before I took him down." she said.

IC-Raxa:Raxa shook his head at what Crystalia said about how she could handle it, when it was obviously blistered a bit, and her armour was well singed."Burns infect quite a bit more easily than most wounds," he said obstinately. "We can't continue until you get that fixed."

IC: CrystaliaShe sighed heavily, "And how to you plan to heal this?" she said, looking at the burns on her arm and then the others on her body. "We don't have time to worry about a few blisters." she said.

IC-Raxa:"Find a trained doctor, get some sterile bandages on, you know the drill. Or one fast blast with a Mask of Healing." Raxa shrugged."Whichever you would prefer, honestly."

IC: Crystalia"Mask of healing." she said after thinking for a moment. "I'm not much on bandages, or spending time with doctors." she smiled. "So where can we find a Mask of Healing user?" she said. "Wouldn't it be ironic if the Toa of Crystal we come across is wearing one?" she laughed.

IC-Raxa:Raxa smiled himself at the thought."It would certainly be the worst payment ever for him, I'm sure," he said.

IC: CrystaliaShe nodded, "Indeed it would be." she said. "Know where a healer is around here tough guy?" she said, training her yellow orbs on Raxa.

IC-Raxa:Tough. Ah, she certainly seemed fond of her jokes. Raxa had yet another thing on his mind, however:...Great. Welp, here goes..."Certainly," he told Crystalia. "There's a small hospital just down the street." Shrugging, he led Crystalia to the clinic, holding the door for her, and studiously ignoring Hound and company.

IC: ZaruthanFunny, I had almost forgotten about Aru, and how she knocked me unconscious. My old life was all growing hazy, memories and events detaching themselves like melting icebergs. I sat down on a rock in deep thought. I wasn't even sure if I was really the same person. My body felt the same, although my fantastic colour scheme was ruined during whatever that Order did to me.I looked over at the icy replacement of Ignotus. He was certainly a secretive one, but at that time I had no idea what was going to come. I won't spoil it for you though, reader. You'll have to wait and see. "Zarnarax." I said, my voice echoing in the cave. "Is there a set time for sleeping or can I just drift off? I feel ill and tired."

IC-Aclaraung:The corpse appeared to still be where it had been left, though by now it was reduced to little more than a few metallic pieces of armour and bones. Aclaraung crouched down so that he could fit within the tunnel leading back to the rest of the complex, walking on all fours due to his size compared to the tunnels, soon enough coming upon the rest of the Mystix."What's wrong, Zaruthan?" he asked, surprising the younger being. "Not a fan of the new you?"

IC: Zaruthan"You could say that. I can feel parts of my life drifting away as if they never happened, and it feels like my body's fighting itself. It's almost like my body and mind are struggling to coexist, because I'm not supposed to be in it, if you get what I mean." I tried to explain, but my words weren't what they usually were.

IC: Zarnarax"That's... unfortunate." The Ice Mystix frowned, having flown over to Zar and Aclaraung. "I hope it's nothing a few hours of sleep won't help. It would be terrible to lose you, Zaruthan. You have no idea," Zarnarax licked his lips slightly; "How much you mean to me. In you flows the very stuff that makes us what we are, and it would be a shame to lose that."

IC: CrystaliaShe nodded and then followed Raxa to the clinic. "How kind of you." she grinned sarcastically when he held the door for her. It made her feel like she was less than a man, or weaker. Which in her eyes she wasn't, she'd killed plenty of men. She stepped inside the clinic. "Hello?" she asked, casting her yellow orbs around.

IC-Raxa:Just like I was told: Girls are fickle creatures, Raxa thought, rolling his eyes theatrically as he let the door close. Thankfully, Hound and the others were all off in another room...except for Gravity. Raxa didn't feel that abnormal extra gravity that those Ba-Toa always exuded, so...yeah. Soon enough, one of the doctors came up to them, a brief flicker of recognition coming to his eyes as he saw Raxa-though Raxa motioned for him to say nothing, from his place behind Crystalia, where she wouldn't see."Well...What is it you need?" he asked, just before he noticed all of the burns on Crystalia's legs. His eyebrows raised slightly, then he shrugged. "Nevermind, I'm fairly certain I can tell. Follow me, please," he said, leading the two farther through the hospital.

IC: CrystaliaShe nodded following him, she'd detected something in the doctor's eyes, and then in the movements of Raxa, but she let it slide. Everyone had their secrets... "How long will this take to heal?" she asked him.

IC: Zaruthan"Let me tell you something Zarnarax," I began, flapping up to the ceiling, where I hung upside down. "You're not very good at sarcasm."With that, I curled up and drifted off to sleep.OOC: I would assume Mystix sleep on the ceiling because they're batmen.

IC-Aclaraung:"I truly can't understand how you manage to do that," Aclaraung growled to Zarnarax, as Zaruthan hung on the ceiling. "It seems so bloody uncomfortable."NPC-Doctor:"Not long at all, with a mask like this," the Le-Toa said, tapping the side of his Mask of Healing. He led Crystalia and Raxa into one of the rooms in the place, gesturing for Crystalia to lay down on a table."Now, how exactly did you get burnt?" He asked, examining the wound.

IC: Zarnarax"That's why I, like most Mystix, lie down. Either this is some silly tradition my brother established or Zar is - if you'll excuse the pun - bat ."

IC-Aclaraung:"Ah. Well, I know I'll never be able to try anything like that-at least not in these caves." He rolled his eyes, looking about."Why do you all have to be so bloody small?"

IC: CrystaliaShe lied down on the table and watched the doctor for a moment before speaking. "A toa of flame inflicted them on me." she said looking at his mask of healing.

NPC-Doctor:"Yes, it certainly seems that way," the Doctor said, activating his mask of healing, hovering his hand slightly above the wounds to help with his focus."Just what sort of fight did you get into?"

IC: Parata - Onu-KoroParata gave another look to Pakaru, raising an eyebrow he sighed before punching his friend in the shoulder. Pakaru had a bad habit of trying to look really serious."Careful now, you wouldn't want to light up the whole Koro with that smile of yours."

IC: Pakaru"Yes, because it would be just awful if we could actually see where we were walking..."Despite the sarcasm in his words, there was a grain of truth to what Pakaru had said. Onu-Koro, while likely considered to be brightly-lit by those gifted with night vision, was rather dark. Granted, it was situated who-knows how far beneath the surface of the island, but that still didn't excuse the general scarcity of lightstones throughout the village."So, which Koro do you want to go to next? This place seems to be pretty dead; I doubt we'll find any clues even if we stuck around for the next month..."

IC: Parata - Onu-KoroParata shrugged, sort of rolling along, a bounce to his step. He stopped, cringing. Pakaru stopped as well a face of confusion seeping through the thick, gooey, seriousness. That face slowly flickered into a small smirk, hardly noticeable past the solemnity sternness Pakaru seemed to have permanently plastered to his face. Parata started walking again. Pakaru gave him another look, this time the smirk lasted longer, and an eyebrow raise.New record.Parata finally stopped, "No, I didn't forget why we were here."He started walking again, checking out the area around them. Pakaru wasn't wrong about the lighting. Although he did exaggerate how poor it was. Then again, Pakaru's eye-sight wasn't the greatest. It wasn't the worst around, but it wasn't the greatest.He sure could hit hard too. Big guy. At least compared to Pakaru. The Toa of iron wasn't quite a tank, but he knew how to take some hits. They both did. Being a slave did that kind of thing to you. Parata quickly shoved that thought away, careful not to let it creep back into his mind."Jaller would've been the first to hear news of the Turaga's disappearance. I'm surprised we haven't talked to him yet."The pair had been sort of lazing around towards a goal of getting to the bottom the Turaga's kidnappings. Some seemed to point directly at Makuta for the root of the occurrences. Parata. He hadn't really decided yet. The Toa of water wasn't too sure about Makuta's existence, nor Mata-Nui's.Mata-Nui certainly didn't seem to exist during-Ssuuurrrpress."Wanna take the trip to Ta-Koro?"

OOC: Dream sequence go!IC: Zaruthan (dream) and Zar (dream)I awoke, seeing I was still on the ceiling and the Mystix below were still going about their lives. Wait a minute...I was on the ceiling, but I was in the wrong cave. The Mystix below were frozen, not in ice, but as if someone had abruptly stopped time. They were locked in a position like they were cheering, and at their head... Ignotus. I suddenly realised where I was. It was the cave we were trapped in before that one-eyed Vortixx freed us. There we were, with no idea of what was going to happen... I don't remember it being all frozen like this though.Dropping down from the ceiling, I marched over to the static Ignotus. Fortunately for him, I was always prone to panic, cowardice and bombastic gestures, meaning that it would have taken exceptional circumstances for me to actually manage to get behind him to shove the knife in. But look where we were. I could change time, remove Ignotus from his position and take my rightful place as the Emperor!At least, I thought I could change time. Heating the frozen Ignotus' body to incredible temperatures, I melted him, which felt extremely satisfying, but it was then I realised how this was too good to be true. I looked over the crowd and saw that there was no rejected individual in the corner. There was no one who wasn't cheering. This was the cave, but it was the cave as I saw it. A huge crowd of Mystix, all the same... Like cattle. I was dreaming.Then everything started to fade out of existence and I was standing in a white place, boundless and empty. "What's happening?!" I asked the place, and my voice echoed off of walls that weren't there. It's response was to make me feel like my body was being ripped in two, and much to my astonishment, when I got to my feet, I saw the only thing I had ever truly loved or cared about.Myself."Hello Zaruthan." said Zar, hunched and looking extremely handsome and vibrantly green. If only the same could be said for me broken husk of a body."You... Look at you..." I got to my feet and gazed in awe at my past self (I mean, come on, I was pretty awesome). "Are you here to help me?""No. I'm here to kill you." A huge blast of pressurised air sent me skidding across the ground a great distance away. "But I'm you!""Not yet you aren't." I couldn't help but think that this might have actually been my past self, who somehow got into my dream, but waved it off, since I'd be able to remember it if it was. Unless...My thoughts were interrupted by past me blasting me away again. Scrambling to my feet, I realised what was going on. This was the internal conflict that I had felt when I was awake. Unfortunately, that only made me wonder what would happen if I lost, and in another dazzling array of elemental prowess, Zar flung me around like a ragdoll before picking me up and slamming me to the ground. Wow I was good.I tried to summon my plasma powers, but none came. On a whim I tried my old air powers as well, but they failed me too. Well, it was worth a try. I was going to do this the way I'd never done anything in my life ever before then: by the book. I charged forward, into the fight of my life.

IC: Crystalia"And intense one." she said. "Don't worry though I came out on top, he didn't stand a chance." she grinned. She began to feel some of the pain ebb as he ran his hands over the burns, his mask activating.