Meeting of winds[JJ]

The light from the portal shined as she stepped through it, the strange feeling of the transportation flowing through her. Then, it all stopped as she stood there in the room, looking around. A few beds were in the room, and as she stepped in, Skiel's voice surfaced in her mind.

"I wouldn't advise waking that one, I'm getting a strange vibe from them."

She stepped forward, replying to Skiel as she did.

"Alright, I'll try, this place feels a bit eerie to me, let's just find someone else."

She realized too late that she had opened her mouth to speak, Skiel would hear it, but so would anyone nearby. She wasn't even whispering, she didn't have to when talking with Skiel, she usually didn't need her mouth for that. She moved slowly forward, keeping her eyes on the sleeping one, afraid she might have awoken whoever it was. She strained her ears, she would notice any noise that would be made by the being waking up to her arrival, she hoped it wouldn't. She stopped moving, less then a foot from where the portal had dropped her off, waiting to see what would happen.

WHAT WAS THAT?

I-i don't... know...?

The person in the bed's eyes widened, as he threw out his right hand, gripping onto something on a nearby beddrawer, grabbing a patch as he fixed it around his head, sitting up. "FAKU!" He roared, putting the eyepatch over his left eye as a single, slit eye stared at Elisha, examining her with its yellow hues. Around his body was a straitjacket, orange in color, constricting his arms. He was not in the covers, merely using the bed itself; around his white pants were four long belts with hooks on the ends, almost like torture devices.

"What the hell are you doing here?! Don't you know this place is for Nature Iramasha ONLY? FAKU!" He cursed, his engrish absolutely terrible as Nero stared over at the girl , catching her in his sights and holding her their, trying to stun her from the sheer force of his will and make her stand in place so that the could see her clearly and find out what the hell she was doing here... And wondering what the hell kind of cosplayer she was, with those ears...

She jumped at the sudden movement and loud noise, and stayed there, floating about three inches off the ground. One second later the air was pushing her away from the person, her twin blades appearing in her hands. Fear was written all over her face, whoever this man was, his bizarre appearance and sudden shouting had terrified her. She found herself backed against the wall of the building, and she looked at the person, her voice confirming her fear as she spoke.

“Stay away from me! Just... just stay away! Don't come any closer!”

An electric crackling could be heard as her fear caused her to subconsciously create the ball of lightning directly in front of her. Her breathing was quick, but slowing down a bit, and given time she would calm down, assuming that man stayed far away from her. On the other hand, should he come closer, it would likely intensify her fear, and that would probably cause her to attack him.

“I'll hurt you... stay away... just stay away.”

The words were less forceful then the previous ones, but still carried her fear, more of a whimper this time, compare the yelling from the previous statement to keep away.

The boy stared directly at Elisha, the eye in his skull looking straight at her like it would consume her, completely destroy her, so great was the presence and intimidation in his gaze. "FAKU! Answer, the question." He told her simply, as a ball of electricity appeared in front of her. "I hate it when people WON'T GIVE ME A STRAIGHT ANSWER!" He yelled, as he stood up straight, one of his feet lashing out on the bed, nowhere near Elisha.

However, around his foot was a complex... skate? From the skate shot a blast of wind, a condensed amount of the stuff as it flew forwards, colliding into the ball of lightning as it was disrupted, its flow and current dismantled as it fizzed out into nothing, Nero suddenly blinking as he realized that there was no way he could remain in this position with his foot kicked out on top of a bed as suddenly one of the belts lashed out, grabbing onto the floor below and nailing in as he suddenly stopped moving, his body coming to a rest suspended in the air, as he blinked at her.

"What in the hell'd I do to you?" He asked her, looking utterly perplexed. "You look like a scared little pussy cat... Where's your nest, pussy cat?" He asked, still hanging in the awkward position with his foot stuck up in the air above his head. Well, awkward for most people. For Nero, it was perfectly comfortable. His face lost the tension as he saw the thunderball split and fall to the ground, realizing this person was no threat. "Unless this is your nest? Are you a Nature Iramasha? James said that others would be pretty busted too... Faku, guess this is what he meant. Reacting so much to just a simple question..." He looked up at her again, his eye staring right at her with an intensity once more, but more of a passive intensity, impressing upon her that she had his absolute, undivided attention.

"Faku, you failed in the city, didn'tcha?"

She took a few more breaths, calming down as the man talked, not yelling this time. Now that he had lowered his voice, he didn't look like the raving madman she had been freaked out by, now just a docile fellow.

"You... you scared the hell out of me when you got up like that. I guess James had his reasons for telling me to watch out for some of the people I would meet here."

She listened to his reasoning, thinking back to how she had been just a few days before. She floated to the ground, standing there as she looked at the floor.

"Yea... I guess you could say I failed in the city. Wasn't anything more then a thieving scoundrel to them."

She sighed, the blades disappearing, and she looked at the man, curious as to what he was like.

"So.. um... if you don't mind me asking, what's your name? Also, why do you have that jacket on, isn't it uncomfortable?"

She couldn't understand how anyone could enjoy wearing such a thing, and if he was forced to wear it, why had he? The man did seem like he could be violent randomly, it had been what had scared her originally, but still, she couldn't understand what she was seeing.

"What then, are you used to people getting down like that or something?"

He asked her, smiling, his almost shark-like teeth showing from his mouth as he knew very well he was half joking around at this point. "FAKU! ...Don't worry about it." He said simply, as his belt released from the ground, his body falling down from its upright position on the bed as he ended up with his head looking up towards her from about her waistline on the bed. "Sounds like you got out pretty well…" He said, as the smile vanished, replaced by a somewhat hard look. "Poor Aeras on the other hand… Well, let's just say that his body has been abused mentally, physically, and sexually by the rogues of the city before when he went there." He explained with a hard look, before slightly softening his gaze.

"If they thought of you as a thieving scoundrel, then they must not have taken you very far into their groups…" He muttered, as the aggression totally left his body, his eyes now looking up to her, the slit in his eye quite wide as he was not feeling any aggression any longer. "My name is NERO Aeras, or Bagworm." He said simply, hefting up the lower part of his body as he stood up his entire body up on his shoulders and neck, smiling again as he stretched his legs totally horizontal from one foot to waist to the other foot. "I wear this jacket because it was used the first time someone took advantage of Aeras, who is also me." He stated, spinning his legs around. "I proceeded to brutally murder them without my hands, showing just how pointless their imprisonment of us was!" He continued, his spirit beginning to blaze before he suddenly stopped, focusing on her again.

"That's right… Me and Aeras are two different people sharing one body. Aeras is frightened of you… Faku! He's just like you when I think about it. He's a scaredy pussy cat as well… but if he wasn't a pussy cat, then I wouldn't be the shark that existed in his body." He stated, as his legsfell down once again. "I further proceeded to show the rats of the city me and Aeras lived in how WORTHLESS they were by defeating them all… without my hands." He finished, before at last reaching out a skate, almost touching her chin with it, so great was his control over his body that it stopped exaclty where he wanted it to without shaking. "These are my weapons, Air Skates. They have the power of a jet… but are in the size of skates." He finished, smiling once again as he tilted his head.

"FAKU! That reminds me. What the hell are you anyway? You never answered my question. You have lightning and met-… wait, Faku, that's not supposed to be normal. How can you manipulate more then one element?!"

She listened to what the man said, starting to think that he really was insane. She remembered James having to said watch out for one named Aeras Nero, this man. When he asked about her multiple elements, she smiled and answered.

"I guess that's because there are two beings inside my body. I am the original of this body, Elisha, but Skiel, a sky dragon, also inhabits my body, sealed within it in order to stay alive. So in total, there are three elements in play here, Skiel's abilities allow me to manipulate air and lightning, and then I have my own."

She floated up in to the air a few inches, turning over till she was sitting upside down in midair, a few inches above the floor. She felt calm now, along with a strange sense of happiness, and she floated randomly around the room, always staying upside down as she did. She smiled as she did, looking around to see if there was an exit somewhere nearby, and decided to ask the boy some questions.

"So... I was just wondering, how long have you been here?"

"Faku... really now?" He asked, as she began floating all around him. "You think I'm crazy, don't you. Faku...That's hilarious." He commented simply as she finished explaining about her elements. "Aeras is the original inhibitor of this body. I am a creation of the immense stress he went through in reaction to the insane amounts of mental torture he went through." He explained, as without warning an updraft came into the room, as Nero's own body began floating up into the air, his legs sitting indian-style as he rose up into the air himself, his torture belts trailing below him as he came face to face with her.

"Faku... I've been here for a few months now. You just got here, right?" He asked, smiling with that shark-like smile once again. "THAT MEANS THERE'S SOMEONE YOUNGER THEN ME NOW!" He exclaimed, looking very excited as he spun about in the air, before suddenly stopping as he floated downwards. "...Daw." He said simply, as he saw she had a tail, as one of his legs reached out, the knee brushing against it. "Faku, my younger has a tail. With that tail and those ears... Faku, can you transform into your Nature Cells yet?" He asked, looking at her suddenly with a glint of excitement in his eyes, wondering if she even knew what those were...

She giggles as he seemed happy that someone else, smiling as he floated up to her.

"Hey, that's cool, we can both float around."

She shook her head as he asked her if she could activate her nature cells.

"No, James did mention that before, but I have no idea what it is. I've had these ears and tail since I was born, they've always been there. So, what are nature cells anyway?"

She seemed to space out for a second as Skiel's voice floated to her, then she lowered herself down to the floor, her legs folded under her.

"Well, seems like Skiel has taken an interest in you, he wants to talk. I'll lend him my mouth for this, I hope you don't have a problem with this."

She sat there and closed her eyes, half a minute passed before her mouth opened again though her eyes remained closed. This time it was the voice of a male, though one that would be about twelve years old.

"Hello there, hope you don't mind talking to me. I am Skiel, dracolord of the sky dragons, and I want to ask a favor of you. Please protect Elisha for me, I fear she is going through a hard time right now. Also, do not speak to her of this, it will just hurt her more."

Her eyes fluttered open, and she sat there for a few moments, as if coming out of a trance.

"Faku, of course… I'm the Nature iramasha of WIND!"

He told her, as his body seemed to be hit y a kind of draft, sending him spinning around. He linked at her as she asked him what Nature Cells were, before he realized she genuinely just had no idea. "Well…" He spoke simply, as without warning, his entire body began to change, his clothing ripping all the way off of him as bits and pieces of it went flying, before his entire body curled itself around.

From his hair a large amount of blue energy had seeped downwards, cloaking his entire body, until there was simply what looked like a great white shark hanging in the air around Elisha. The shark's mouth smiled wide, opening its mouth to reveal hundreds of teeth. "These are nature cells! They allow you to transform into an animal. MINE IS THE SHARK!" He told the girl, swimming about through the air as she began to lower herself to the ground. His shark form swam downwards as she descended, transforming himself back to normal, wearing only a pair of shorts now. He wasn't as good as James at transforming clothes back, and it would take him a while to re-form his traditional outfit.

The Dragon thing… He thought, spinning his body around as he ended up simply sitting on the ground instead of laying on it, looking at her as she sat there. He began to get antsy waiting, forming a small ball of air and beating it up in the sky like a balloon as he looked at her until finally a voice spoke. He dropped the ball of air right then, looking utterly perplexed. He hadn't expected a Lord of Dragons to sound like a twelve year old.

"That's… a weird request." He stated simply, looking at the girl a bit perplexed. He'd never been asked to defend anyone in his life before; the only person he'd ever done that for was Aeras, who was himself when Nero thought about it, even though they were technically two people. "Fine…. But I won't do it forever." He said at last, looking at her with his very slit eye. "Otherwise she'll stay weak forever. Faku!" He muttered, as she seemed to now be coming out of a trance of some kind.

"Faku, you aren't very strong, are you?" He asked, looking at her directly. He'd never heard of another Nature Iramasha who needed help…. Well, possibly other then in this case of his own "parents", although Inanna was perfectly capable of taking care of herself and James was just overly protective of her. "You're going to have to learn to control your own Nature powers. How do you plan on doing that?" He asked, looking at her with all of his seriousness, as already ideas began to form through his mind.