Touch Of The Spirit

[Hazy] It's bee a long few days, the young wild-savant having not said a word since the incident with the Orcs, not even a symbol of a word, not since Flash had let her go and left her coiled on the sandy Courtyard. A flaming haired ghost, bereft and lost as she took to wondering the island, that almost family sensory web's absent as obvious as a cold sun.

Anwyn nods slowly, her red hair picked up and tossed like flotsom on the strong chilled breeze rolling in from the ocean, blind gaze turned towards him, her face tilted upto him, her face painted guilty with the mixture of vulnerability and fear that only one lost can know. For one so young dark frown lines already hew their way about her lips, and mores till hidden by the bandage about her eyes, knuckles white on the stave, if not for the bright warmth of that link they share, the rainbow streamer of her spirit web, she'd be completely adrift "I am blind..." Even her accent is muted, everything seeming to be a poor representation, save the vivid bruise all the more colourful as it clashes with the red of her hair on the pale canvas of her outfit and blanched skin. "Been? I have been, that is all that matters. Is it not..."

Flash_Guardian raises the corner of his mouth in a poor attempt at a smile. He looks to the rock upon with Anwyn now rests ... looks like there may be just enough room for him as well. Flash walks around carefully to find his own seat next to Anwyn, staring out at the sea. "Being is simply the foundation of living, Anwyn," he tells her. A hand reaches out slowly for the cat that is always with Anwyn to stroke its head gently. "Does your neck hurt?"

Heyuka_Seisioko Falls fom rthe sky hitting the ground throught a black portal,as he hits the ground the earth shakes and caves in all around him.HEyuka startsto stand up his blade hitsright next to him he puts his hand on the blades handle.His hair frolics around in the breeze,Stands up fully pulling the blade out taking a step as it caves in more.Scannig the room walking off he cracks his neck swinging his head side to side,Taking his hands punching them together cracking them.Grins a little seathing his blade up as his hair falls down casting a shadow on his face,Walking over to a tree leaning against it looking around happen to sees a young female with him so he doesnt wanna bother them.

Anwyn tenses a moment as Flash sits down, the flash of those bright streamers throbbing for a moment as a hot aura, imprinting his features into her mind so fully as to take her breath for a second or two. The well-formed young woman following his unpercieved gaze to look out to the endless distance of waves, cold breeze still tangling with her hair, sending copper locks across his shoulders and arms as the tension slowly fades from her poise, leaving her leaning against him, her temple to his shoulder as she nods, vocie still hoarse from the vivid wounds, sight still bloody from the sight of the dying orcs "Until we are dead, the foundations of living until we die....or are killed." Her voice leaking bile, fear and rememberance bubbling in it, even as she nods to his question, fingers going about her delicate throat to hide the bruise from sight. Her cat, traitor as he is, climbs onto the Psionic man's lap, purring hungrily for the attention his mistress has failed to give, the little grey beast worried.

Flash_Guardian looks to Anwyn's head on his shoulder as a parent looks to a sick child, hands idly rubbing the cat's fur and scratching a bit behind the ears. His face reflects his remorse, as does his low voice. "I wish you hadn't been there to see that battle," Flash tells her regretfully. "That's the main reason I followed you here, I'm afraid." Flash notices the arrival of Heyuka nearby, sparing him a glance and a nod of acknowledgement before he continues to console the physically and emotionally wounded Anwyn. "I'd like you to tell me what happened back there ... between you and the orcs."

[Heyuka_Seisioko ] ?To Flash_Gurdian Anwyn tenses again, steely bands of tension holding her body up, and emotions so tighly in check as to form beneath her skin like armour. Only the low purr of the cat, and the constant time-keeping wash of the waves on the shore fills the silence for a for moments, the girls sightless face gazing out to sea and the eternity within her own blindness "I felt the battle, the anger, the fear...You, you were surrounded and I was afriad..." Words coming with such difficulty, tripped over like her blind feet stumbling around potholes

Flash_Guardian nods solemnly in understanding. "You reached out," he helps her along. "With your mind ... your spirit ... I could feel you empowering me."

Anwyn gulps back the first waverings of a sob as she nods again against his shoulder, shifting closer still, as if needing the warmth of his side to harbour her safe from the storms of memories that rage in her young, powerful mind "I couldn't help it...Couldn't stop it, you needed me and I needed you to be okay" A moment just to breath, steadying as she pulls air in and out, reaching to ruffle the fur of the still purring cat "I could feel them all, sense them all, the sweat, the rage, the need to harm....The will to kill, all of it was my own until I could see you through their eyes, envision you dying before them as they wished it...I couldn't hold it in, everything...It all went white and I could feel myself choking..."

Flash_Guardian brings an arm around the young woman, the cape trailing from his wrist wrapping about her much like a warm blanket as Flash pulls her closer to him, listening closely as she finishes. Slowly his head begins to bob up and down, becoming a nod of growing comprehension. "Have you never watched any sort of physical conflict, Anwyn?"

rodriguez walks across the bridge slowly looking at the big building. she hoped that his is where she was looking for

Anwyn nods again, her breath coming more rapid, more shallow "Only once, the last time I could see..." Almost a whisper as she curls into his side, shivering even with the warmth of his cloak and his comfort, the lines that radiate from bandaged eyes making the way her face is balled up with memory obvious "I thought they were going to hurt you...And I couldn't let them, I had to stop them...And I did...I did, didn't I? I just couldn't stop..."

[Flash_Guardian ] A note on the front door of the dojo would say 'Out on beach patrols, be back shortly.'

rodriguez goes up to the door of the dojo and reads the note of the door and decides to wait. she sits at the door. she is so tired from her trip that she falls asleep

Heyuka_Seisioko Falls from the sky hitting the ground,as he hits the ground,the ground under him caves in and the earth shakes.Starting to stand up his blade hits right next to him,his hair frolics around in the air as a warm breeze comes from the Island.While his hair frolics casting a shadow on his face his blade falls hitting right next to him,grinning putting his hand on the blades handle pulling it out.Stands up fully pulling the blade out all the way seathing it up.He looks around the Island looking for something to train on,As he walks off seathing his sword up he glances to his side walking over to a tree which is he favorite one.Leaning against the tree he sighs crossing his arms over his chest.Blowing some air from his lips moving his hair around uncasting the shadow on his face,Looks around the island but decides not to trian for right now,GLances over noticing a new female which he hasnt seen before.

rodriguez wakes up at the noise not knowing not of which it cam. she sits still wery

Flash_Guardian raises the hand from Anwyn's pet to brush lightly against her untamed red hair, slowly stroking her own head and allowing her the comfort of petting her cat without his own hand getting in the way. "Indeed you did, Anwyn. You showed a great deal of power by what you did to those orcs, unbridled as it was." Flash's words are gratefully grim. "I suppose, in the end, there was nothing really to worry about, though. I suspect the orcs were summoned magically by the other dark figure accompanying them, based on the way they vanished in flame at their master's whim. As such, it's probably safe to say that none of those orcs actually 'died' during the encounter, and instead were merely 'unsummoned.' Aside from that, I think I was handling them nicely. I've always enjoyed mass melee versus an army of poorly trained goons ... they're so easily dealt with and dispatched." Flash grins, clearly enjoying the memory ... he hasn't had a good time like that since his last endurance match in the pits.

Heyuka_Seisioko Keeps his eye on the new female as he grins a little closing his eyes giving out a little laugher.He flops himself of the tree walking over ot the female near the Dojo Doctor

Anwyn 's mouth hangs loose a moment, the cherubim lushness pulled taut with disbelief, and embaressment "It wasn't real? None of it was real and I could not see the difference..." Shockwaves shaking her shoulders "You did not even need my help and indeed I only hindered....I could have killed myself, couldn't I?" She knew the answer, indeed her voice was stil rough with the injury "This power, it could kill me and those I love...I could have hurt you...."

rodriguez looks up at the incoming figure. she looks at the nearest bushes and wonders if she can make it to them before he gets to her

Heyuka_Seisioko looks around to the bushes stilll looking to thefemale stopping in his tracks,Looks around once more then back to her.Disappears leaving a copy of him behind,the copy fades away as Heyuka is now behind her.Knees down to tlak to her rpelying," So who are you",blowing his hair from his face looking to the female.

Flash_Guardian 's face echoes Anwyn's pain, feeling sympathy for her helplessness. "The creatures were very real and substantial, Anwyn, and their crudely aimed blows, had any of them connected, would certainly have been damaging. I would suspect only an eye trained and knowledgable in the ways of magic, like myself, would be able to tell a summoned creature from one who is not. And as for what you did, I am actually proud of you. You wanted to help, and did the best that you could. But I think you understand now why I did not wish you to join in the fight." Flash pulls her closer into a gentle squeeze. "It was because I knew you weren't ready. Not yet, anyway." Flash's voice trails off, as if his though isn't quite finished ... or perhaps he's hinting that he has something further in store than mere words and advice.

Anwyn , though blind sees more than most who never take the time to look, her expression though still lost and buried into the shoulder of her Sensei, her arms having wrapped around his chest, long limb, still slightly gangly but with the promise of toned power "I felt you kill them, Fvlash, it felt like you were killing me...The connection wsa so real, so vivid. I could see again...Couldn't stop seeing through them." Her brow furrowed as a recently readied field, so needing the seeds of knowledge...So lacking in confidence "I am not ready, I will never be ready...I am cursed, did you not feel it? Cursed and dreaded...."

rodriguez hesitates "my name is rodriguez gbut evryone calls me kelly or rugg

Heyuka_Seisioko Extends his hand slowly looking to her,pulls his hand back then pulls it out more replying." THe names Heyuka or HAri is my nickname,its nice to meet you and dotn worry i dont bite".

Flash_Guardian shakes his head at Anwyn, a gesture that she can likely feel as his chest wobbles with such motions. A bent finger finds its way beneath Anwyn's chin to lift her head from his shoulder as he leans back to take a closer look at her. "No, Anwyn ... this is no curse," he tells her in blatant awe of the potential she has shown, an admiring smile marking his face. "You have been given a great gift. One that, I believe, with proper training and practice in its use can prove to be extremely useful and helpful, not just to you but to others as well." Flash wishes Anwyn could feel his adoration and see what he sees at this moment, the flower that Flash can see this woman blossoming into. Flash takes Anwyn's hand in his own, rubbing his thumb over her palm. "But the path of learning is best taken in small steps, not large ones. Diving into the pool without first knowing how to swim is too dangerous." Flash withholds his secret no longer, a mischievous smirk crossing his lips.

[Flash_Guardian ] "I have a gift for you, Anwyn. I think it may help."

[Lillia ] appears in front of the dojo

rodriguez sits as still has possible looking up at him

[Lillia ] "Why.. Hello Flash. How are you today" A brief smile appeared upon her lips

[Flash_Guardian ] A note on the main doors of the dojo reads: 'Out on beach patrol, be back shortly.'

Heyuka_Seisioko still looking to the female he gets up and starts to walk away raising his shoulders shrugging.

[Lillia ] "oh. he is not here, I wonder why. Hmm ' On beach patrol'.. Maybe I shall check there" And with that she makes her way to the beach in search of Falsh.. Hopefully

Flash_Guardian can be found sitting on a rock beside Anwyn, sharing a delicate conversation at the moment.

[Olol ] i love kitkats

Anwyn 's blushing at just his touch to her smooth skin, the strong line of her chin drawn easily up, the woman as compliant as any at his gentle insistance and kind words, the band of white still starkly cutting her features in half, blanking her expression save the coil of her lips that bloom into a smile just for him. The tangles motes of her hair toying with his, whipped as it is by the breeze to trail as a bright copper flag of flame in the cold sunlight "I will swim..." Confidence just peeking into her tone as those little, scared, webs of her spirit sight slip to touch his cheeks, to read his expression "A gift? But...You have given me more than I had ever dreamt already..."

[Lillia ] "oh I best not meddle in their affairs at this present time. Maybe I shall go for a swim" She walks to the water line and begins to walk into the water, then she floats up to the top, standing on the water's surface

[Lillia ] "Ahh. Stupid Telekenisis of mine. I hate it. I am not normal"

Kade is half surprised he's still registered....

[Abdazour_Sephiroth ] lord of the realm of chaos appears. Hopefully to wind down after a long torturing seesion

[Abdazour_Sephiroth ]

[Abdazour_Sephiroth ] looks at the message and then teleports to the beach... Seeing Flash engaged in conversation he walks to him slowly "Excuse me. May I ask you something?"

Flash_Guardian chuckles playfully, leaning back slightly and arching his chest out as if from pride as his hands move behind his back for a moment. From behind his back he pulls something that couldn't have been there for all this time, or could it? The object in Flash's hands is quite peculiar ... at its most basic, it is a small wooden cube-shaped chest much like the kind one would keep jewelry in, lid closed and locked. Wondrous carvings decorate the sides and top of the box, engravings of stars and moons, eyes and ears, trees and mountains, with strange runic trim. The unusual thing about it, though, is the wooden composition of the box. Each side of the small chest, including top and bottom, seems to be seamlessly separated into nine square sections of differing woods, forming three rows and three columns of ash, maple, pine, oak, fir and redwood.

[Flash_Guardian ] Running your hands over the chest's surface does not reveal any sign of a break between the differing wooden sections, and indeed the box's surface is smooth and seamless at the joints. What is more interesting to note about the box is the sort of 'presence' it gives off. To anyone sensitive to those sorts of things, the box echoes of the past and the spirits of the six different trees used in its creation. The spirits can be felt where their wooden sections appear. This box would almost seem to be a puzzle of sorts ...

Flash_Guardian holds the object out to Anwyn. "Here. This is for you."

Anwyn shys away from it at first, the sensations near overwhelming her, like a child after a touch to a hot stove, overwhelmed by it, blind eyes, underwraps as they are flying to his face with unbridled question. Her fingers going behind her back, wonderment tensing her lips "What....? What in the worlds is it...."

Kade follows a trail up across the island and towards the dojo that he felt like he hadn't used in an age. He was dirty and disheveled, and he walked like a weight was on his shoulders..

[Flash_Guardian ] A sign on the main door of the dojo reads: 'Out on beach patrol, be back shortly.'

Flash_Guardian beams proudly, still holding the object out to Anwyn, and frankly impressed that she can already feel what it is without first touching it. "It's a puzzle box," he tells her. "Specially designed to help new psionics and spiritualists learn to develop and control their abilities. It is highly responsive to the touch of the spirit and other mental urgings. Whatever is inside the box cannot be seen or divined by any means, magical or otherwise. The only way to open the box is to solve the puzzle."

Kade upon finaly reaching the dojo finds that no one seems to be home. He then reached up to rip the sign down but stops himself, and silently turns and walks over to a tree. There he slumps down to the ground under it and waits.

Anwyn 's spiri web swoops on it, tendrils of power and warmth playing over the surface like children over a climbing frame, touching, testing, noting....colours flaring into the arcane symbols of glyphs and moons, filling the litlte reliefs...Her expression enrapt, head thrown back to the skies as her second sight plays unrestrained, unguarded she truly is a stunning young woman, what with the breeze playing with her hair as she does the puzzlebox, forgetting to be afraid for a moment at least, even if that necklace of bruises is still a collar about her neck " Thank you " The breath of psionic speach filled with relief for being refound.

[Flash_Guardian ] As Anwyn's senses play over the box, she finds that the box seems to almost cling to her senses, like a child willing and wanting to be held. Flash releases the box now, and it stays suspended in the air, held aloft by little more than Anwyn's rainbow 'feelers'. As her spirit traces about the box in certain ways, the box seems to react, sections of wood actually sliding along and rolling about the box's surface ... Anwyn can sense the location of the spirits moving to match, the box's physical appearance clearly echoed and match by what her spirit tells her. After such a motion, Anwyn may note that two sections of maple now match, and the spirit of maple seems stronger there. Anwyn might catch a brief glimpse of leaf and branches from the distant past, perhaps a glimpse at once was. The sense is not overpowering in any way, but has a crystal clarity to it.

[Galerian_Project:Ash ]

Flash_Guardian breaks into a wide beaming grin as Anwyn follows the irresistable urge to explore with her senses ... this time in a more constructive, safe, and enjoyable manner. 'You're very welcome, Anwyn,' comes a greatly pleased reply. Then, more audibly and softly, so as not to disturb her focus, Flash warns her, "I should tell you ... this is no easy puzzle to solve. Many have tried, and few have actually done it. As such, I tell you now that my goal is not for you to open the box ... just to try." Indeed, Anwyn will probably find the puzzle to be quite insidious to solve. As wooden sections rotate about the box's surface, previous matches are destroyed as new ones are made, yet there is always a pattern to the movements that clearly follows a certain logic. Flash knows of one other, more mundane, version of this puzzle from his earlier days, a child's toy known as Rubik's Cube.

Anwyn is all but sat on the mans lap, lost to the wonder of it, truly like a child seeing for the first time, little cooing sounds of wonderment as the box twists and turns to her whims, shoulders tensing and relaxing with the movements, feeling each soft reverberation. The matching tiles gets a little hooting smile from her "Fvlash! There is a happy tree...." A happy tree? Don't ask, but she's convinced herself, the wonder of the moment bringing an impulsive warm lipped kiss to the mans cheek, the link they share flaring bright and warm "It is the most wonderful thing I have ever seen..."

[Galerian_Project:Ash ]

[Lillia ] Still stood upon the waters surface, she wondered if anyone had seen her yet, and or if they had freaked out yet. She just stood there, as if frozen from another timef frame or dimension

Flash_Guardian watches Anwyn's wonderment happily, laughing as she manages to match two of the tiles. "Yes, a happy ..." Flash is startled by the kiss and sudden sensation of light, leaning back just a bit and falling silent. Slowly a hand makes its way up to rub the side of his face where her lips touched him. "Ummm ..." Flash begins slightly dazed. "You're welcome." Indeed he is so distracted at this moment that he is hardly aware of his surroundings ...

[Lillia ] "What is happening to me.. Why me" She looks down at the water, she can clearly see fish and other forms of amphibious life underneath her. It all seemed so complicated to her. She looked around to see Flash with another girl, she just broke a little smile, and carried on looking down at the water. Again she saw jeely fish and the occasional eel. Until she saw a very dark shadow, all she did was look at ituntil it jumped out of the water dragging her down, before she went under the water she screamed as loud as she could for help, before plunging under water

rodriguez returns after walking off into the bush. she goes to sit infront of the door of the dojo

Flash_Guardian is torn from his dazed state by another young woman's scream, head whipping about to face the water. All Flash can see amidst the water is a slight disturbance in the rolling of the waves some distance out. Flash locks his eyes on that spot, springing forth from the rock and charging across the sands quickly. Just before the waves begin to lick at his feet, he leaps up off the ground, flying through the air for a great distance before diving into deeper waters, hands and feet propelling him along under the ocean waves in search of the screamer.

Kade lifts his head as he hears another come towards the dojo and listens intently. As he watches Rodriguez sit down in front of the door he tilts his head to the side but remains silent.

[Lillia ] Tries to hold her breat a little longer, being pulled deeper and deeper, the pressure getting the better of her, she lets go of her breath and passes out.

rodriguez senses kade looking at her but just sits there staring at the water where the girl just dissappeared

Anwyn 's still beaming at him, and the box that hovers aloft above their heads, leaning happily into his side, that warmth tingling from her around him, so giving of her emotions this one, no barriers for her as she plays with the cube, even as she looks at the man with a few spare tendrils "Thank you, you're...Wonderful.." The warmth of her words as hot as the colours of her kiss. Squares of wood twisting and swapping with barely a thought, her mind seemingly segmented...Interesting. The movement of her Sensai startling her into movement, but she's too focused to catch herself as she slips from the rock and lands in a jumbled heap, the wooden block falling as a comedy moment in a cartoon, the tendrils of her focus gone, box thudding hollow as it smacks her on the forehead

Flash_Guardian swims through the waters at great speed, the dense liquid not seeming to hinder him quite as much as one would think. In another moment, he reaches the girl's side, grabbing hold of her by the wrist and pulling her close to him to wrap his arms about her, red cape surrounding her ... and suddenly the two vanish from beneath the waves, whisked away to someplace else ... in this case, it happens to be the center of the island, just outside the dojo, where Flash lays Lillia gently upon the grass and now kneels over her.

Kade gets up and drifts off into the trees.

rodriguez gets up from infront of the dojo and walks toward flash and the girl

[Lillia ] .................

Flash_Guardian leans his ear closer to Lillia's mouth to check and make certain that she is breathing. His eyes catch the approach of another who he has never seen. "She was drowning," he tells her briefly to inform her of the situation. Indeed, Flash and Lillia are both soaked and smell of the sea.

[Lillia ] ....................

rodriguez snappeds her fingers and some towel appear in her hand she raps one around flash's shoulders and puts the other over the girls lower body to stop her from getting hypotherema

[Lillia ] finally begins to cough, water mixed with blood begins to pour out of her mouth. She slowly opens her eyes. Weakened and slightly dazed she lays there puffing having lost her breath, she just lays there, she is a little cold as the towel over her waist absorbs the blood from a wound she got from the thing grabbing her. She lays there unable to say a word

rodriguez steps closer to her and puts her hands over the wound covered by the towel and heals it

Flash_Guardian bites his lip, withdrawing his head as the girl comes back to life unexpectantly. Flash does indeed catch sight of the girl's wounds, and is about to summon his own healing energies to aid her when he sees the other young woman beat him to it. He watches and waits to see if her healing works, or if he'll have to try his own.

[Lillia ] shivers slightly, although still unable to urge any form of thanks out, she coughs a bit more. Blood mixed with water pours out of her mouth again. She lifts the towel off of her wound and it happens to still be there. Lillia begins to panic

Anwyn takes a few moments to realise what on earth happened, laying in her ungainly littlly mess, all gangly limbs, box having impacted in the sand beside her with a dull thwack sound. Her cat uses legs as a bridge to climb down and curl on her stomach, completing the comedy of errors as she slowly begins to try and sense her surroundings, again, braver..her lips still tingling wonderously after that impromptue kiss that warms her blood...Searching for Flash after his rapid movements.

Flash_Guardian places a calming hand upon Lillia's arm, his face serene and orderly. "Don't worry, miss. You're in good hands. Try to lie still, and we will do our best to aid you." This said, Flash brings himself to a sitting position, one of meditation. Eyes close and hands rest in his lap as he begins to concentrate. A sharp breath is drawn inward, and his hands are now outlined in a vibrant aura of warm white light. Slowly those hands find their way through the air towards Lillia's wounds, to touch a nearby area. Upon contact, Flash would exhale, sending his healing spirit energy coursing through Lillia, speeding to the wounds to mend her body and make her whole again.

[Lillia ] "Ahh....Head...Hurts....." She passes out once again, as this happens she instantly stops breathing......This is either natural or, something inside of her wants her dead, for any apparent reason

Flash_Guardian continues to channel his healing energy into the girl, beads of sweat forming on his brow, knit in concentrated effort. "Something ... wrong ..." Flash manages to say, his chi energy doing little besides keeping Lillia alive, it seems. "Being ... blocked ... somehow ..."

rodriguez appears out of nowhere

rodriguez has been taken hostage by the anataraus

Anwyn 's little ribbons finally find Flash, wrapping about his ankle as usual, feeling his struggle her face and body goes limp, her mind forgetting the rigmarole of unimportant functions to lend him that untapped well of power, the vastness of it startling.

rodriguez had been taken but the anatarus

[Lillia ] Lillia's body, begins to become invisible, if Flash wanted to keep her alive, he needed to do something quickly

rodriguez steps forward and explains that her soul and mind have been clamed by the anatarus

[rodriguez ] "there is only one way to save her"

Flash_Guardian continues to keep his hands in contact with Lillia as long as possible, feeling another reserve of spirit energy for him to draw from come from seeming out of nowhere, and yet it feels all too familiar. "I'm listening ..." Flash says aloud.

[rodriguez ] you have to summon the creature and fight him if you win she lives if you lose he takes you aswell, they are easy to destroy though all you need to do is aim for the gills with either a firebolt or somethin simlilar or stronger

Valkrus falls from the sky at a high speed, heading for the Redfang_Island. Raiden his pet wyvern would be in a nose dive right next to his master, heading down to land near Flash's Dojo. Moments later a loud 'BAM!' fills the air as he lands, making a crater in the sand....He landed on one knee, then stood up, His wyvern exiting his nose dive to land on his shoulder. He looks around slightly before walking twards Flash's Dojo.

[rodriguez ] yea but she will have to be keep alive o he wins we can keep her in my saccoicus it wil keep her alive aslong as we need to

Anwyn shudders at the bad typing, sorry, but it's painful

[Lillia ] " Flash..."

[Lillia ] " Flash..."