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Both Lisa and Raven's faces briefly turn into caricatures of shock when Adrainnu starts poking and prodding for Victi's weaknesses. Although her questions aren't that unusual given the circumstances, Lisa never thought she'd hear such things coming from a child. Raven, having spoken to the girl enough to suppose her experiences, shrugs it off and listens intently to Kylarion's response. Her ears prick and she lets out an involuntary chirp as a particular phrase catches her interest.

Lisa listens too, although it may not look the part as her shock subsides and she gets around to thinking, planning.

Within a minute, both ladies' eyes light up with an idea. They exchange a knowing look and start to make silent, frantic preparations while the conversation wraps up. Raven retreats under the table and hauls out an empty backpack, then gets to work opening the main compartment, using a surprising level of dexterity to unhook the clasp with her claws.

Lisa darts to the shelves and gathers all the necessary supplies for a long journey, and then some: bandages, medicine, food for the road, and a handful of small, unassuming vials from her cabinet of poison. She organizes most of the gear in the backpack but places some of those vials into little pockets on her belt.

"Secret weapons?" Raven paws at one only for Lisa to gently smack her away.

But she sighs and answers, "I suppose."

"You've got something resembling a plan, right?"

"Yes."

"Me too!"

They propose their "plans" at the same time.

Raven: "Let's get the vase first and use it to kick her off the planet."

Lisa: "We need to learn if the shards can be destroyed."

Both freeze and gawk at the other like a third eye just erupted from her forehead. "Wait, what?"

"I'll have you know she's not going to be friendly no matter what form we take, and it's just that trespassing Chimerans are guaranteed to set her off, everything else is sort of a grey area." He pauses, not quite sure where to begin.

"Let's see. I don't know that much. She's a dragon that leads a good-sized gang of ruthless pillagers-slash-mercenaries. We've covered the angry and racist deal, and that's the only side of her I've honestly ever seen. I have no idea how to best negotiate with her or anything like that."

"Greeeaaaaat," Victi sighs, "let's get this over with."

Dragon. She's seen the word, and.... yeah, that explained why this one was considered such a badass. Tough, strong, big, fast, agile, naturally magical.... the list went on and on.

Victi walked off toward where she'd left her Shriker, feeling like she had forgotten something. It wouldn't be untill they'd gotten up to speed that she would realize that what she'd forgotten was food.

Alastor let out a short laugh. "Maybe we will! Gotta admit, I'm always excited to meet new people! They can be just so..." Gullible. ".. interesting! And you can never go wrong with treasure!"

Alastor continued to walk alongside Liliath. " So I noticed the cut on your finger. You gave your shard a try, didn't ya? You know, from what I've seen so far, you're a brave one. Ain't many that'd be willing to give these things a go. Most types don't like anything that involves using blood." Alastor gave a chuckle. "It's a weird feeling, ain't it?"

(Since I've been gone for so long I'm responding from past things 😅 to now)

She tilts her head at his comment. Being the oblivious woman she is it took her awhile to understand what he meant. Once she did, her cheeks began to redden. She doesnt get genuine compliments so this caught her off guard. She turns and covers her cheeks with embarrassment.

"Splitting up?" As she turned to express her concerns they were already gone.

She sighs. "How are we going to meet up again if we didnt even set a destination to meet up!?" She rubs her temples then looks at Neo. "You alright?" She asks as she tilts her head slightly.

"No he not alright,he almost wasted all of his energy."Rudra said with a blunt look on his face.Neo just rolled his eyes and slowly got and summoned his shard."Don't you think about it..."Rudra said with a growl.But it was too late.Neo did the same pulse he did,although it was different.The shard let out two pulses of it's own,that were bluish in color,and they came back.He sat on the ground and said,"Too late for what?I was just wanting to use a small-scale version of it.Not as powerful,which is good for me,but they could block it out quicker.Oh,and one of the shards is on the move."

"Well my healing seems to have done nothing..." she heaves a heavy sigh. "Well I guess we can go to it. But you need rest. I fear you're not quite fit for travel right now." She feels his forehead. "How do you feel Neo?" She asks kindly.

"Good,still weak though."Neo said.His arm was glowing less,almost,becoming a grayish blue color.Rudra just had a grin on his face."What now?",Neo said annoyed,knowing what the sword is going to say."This reminds me when she tried to help you by covering your arm.And don't lie to yourself,your enjoyed the company."Neo just stayed slient on that comment

"You enjoyed my company?" She bashfully smiled. Her cheeks that were finally cooling down began heating up once more.

What is happening to me?! I need to calm down. She thinks to herself.

She takes a deep breath to calm herself down. "W-We can rest for a little bit until you feel ready. I dont mind waiting." She smiles finally calming her heart.

"I hope we don't meet bad people, I will hit them with my fist if they try to bother us." She raised her fist in the air "What if the shards are treasures? If we sell them we maybe get alot of money and then we can buy a huge house or maybe a castle!"

"Yes I did, but I still don't know what it does it doesn't work. Can you try for me?" She said handing over her plushie "If this thing doesn't work then i will sell or give it away."

Neo would stand up,looking at Rudra, who still had the same grin."I prefer not to wait,so we can go if you want.""Not wanting to leave her side,I assume?""Keep this up and you end in a lake again..."

"HAH! That's the way! You know how to show people what for, eh? Maybe we should keep the shards though. I mean, if we hold on to them long enough, someone's apparently set to give us a HUGE amount of gold!" Alastor let out his usual wolfish grin. "Something like that would have us set for life! Plus, if that didn't work out I have another idea. Now these shards would probably sell for a good amount each, but you know what'd get us more? The full set. Collectors love being able to say they got the whole lot of something." Alastor let out a slight chuckle.

Alastor took the plushie, taking the shard out from it. "Alright then, let's see what we got here. Now when I first tried out my one, I kinda... sensed around, I guess you could say, for what I could use it on. S'how I figured out mine works on water." Alastor made a slight cut along his hand, allowing the blood to fall onto the shard as he closed his eyes. "I figure the same trick oughta work--" His sentence was cut short as he cried out in surprise, falling backwards. Whatever he had just sensed, it felt like it was everywhere. Staring down, his mind began to race. Magic, maybe? No. That doesn't work. I ain't got even a bit of magic, and I felt whatever it was in me...

"Hey, Monkey? What exactly did you try with this?"

"Yes we will get all the shards sell them and then buy a huge house and we get ourself amazing things." Liliath thought about how her life would change enough food, no angry adults she would have peace "Life would be amazing!"

"I only cut my finger, nothing really happend. Hey are you okay?" When adults asked random questions out of nothing things went wrong. "The shard did something bad didn't it?" Liliath started panicking "Stay alive for now." Liliath climbed in a tree and tried to guess where they where. She didn't saw Jules or Neo anymore and she didn't knew the way back. They were lost.

"Were gonna die." Liliath said jumping down "Last words?"

Alastor wiped some of the sweat from his brow. "Easy there. We ain't dying. I just.. got a little spooked is all. This shard's somethin' else. Wish I knew what I just saw."

Alastor stood back up, dusting himself off. "Alright, well that's what caught me off guard. What's got you worried, eh? Bit of a leap from 'Are you okay?' to 'Last words'.

Liliath shrugged "I just thought we were going to die that's it." "Then try it again maybe we then will know what it is, anyways I can't see Jules anymore." She sighed deep "Shall i try the shard again maybe it haves a better effect on me." Without giving him the change the awnser she grabbed the shard out his hands, she cut open her whole hand. then she closed her eyes just like Alastor "Those things are creepy!" She yelled, she dropped the shard clearly scared to death

"Before we leave, we should find those two."He said walking further into the forest.He wonder the hell why Rudra would say something like,but it didn't matter.After a while of walking in the same direction they went,he found the both,though the both of them them looked shocked.He would run up and pat Alastor shoulder."What happened?"

"Sure." She followed him and saw the pair.

"You guys look like you saw death himself." She chuckles. "And trust me, I would know." She strides over. "You guys alright?" She tilts her head and light taps Liliath

"Oh, hey you two. Jules, you might need to comfort her, if she just saw what I did. Might need to fix up her hand as well, that was a hell of a cut she just gave herself."

Alastor rubbed his temples. "Good to see you up and moving again Neo. We uhh.. just gave Monkey's shard a try. I have no idea what the hell I saw, but whatever I saw it was everywhere, and I mean every-bloody-where."

"It was scary and everywhere and my hand hurts." Liliath started crying "My shard is stupid!"

She wrapped her in a hug then brushes her hair out of her face. "Hey now, everything is going to be alright. I'm going to heal you up okay? Then why dont you let me try to work with the shard. After all, what can be scarier than the things I've seen?" She chuckles as she gently places Liliaths hand in her own.

As before her eyes glow white and her viens glow slightly this time. She mumbles something foreign and hovers her finger over Liliaths palm. She then moves it across the wound. As she does this the wound is healing and as if nothing ever happened.

She opens her eyes. "There. All healed up and ready for anything." She smiles. "Can you let me see the shard? I could always show you mine but it's best I dont show you here. Too confined." She smiles.

"Are you both okay though? You guys were pretty white a few minutes ago." She looks at them both with concern.