For those who enjoy the finer things in life, or just want to soak away their stress and relax, these bubbling hot springs will do just that. Feel like treating yourself to some exquisite pampering? Try the spa on site, or if you prefer something simpler, the open springs is the next best thing. Who knows, you might find a perfectly hidden spot for you and a special someone, just remember to check the temperature first, so you don't boil like a lobster.
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 9:14 pm
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Now this was nice. After all the intrigue of earlier Kiba needed nice hot bath to melt his troubles away. He hardly even knew who Alistor was when he hit that mirror surface. Pulling out some of his special soaps he made a lather of tropical scents which buzzed through the air. Then his head seemed to float on up with them; on a bubble which burst, breaking against the stark cold of the night air and let Yuuto's head fall back down to the warm nebula of aromatics again.
Tomorrow... I'm going to have to do a lot more training.
... And the next day. And the next day... And the next. Until I'm good enough, I'm going to have to train even more. That's a little depressing, that I couldn't do it like this, but that just means I'll have to beat up Xenovia even more.
"Oh, yeah!" Kiba remember he had her number. He was going to try to set up a training session tomorrow.
"Hey... I'd like to train tomorrow," the message read, "if that's ok... It's pretty important." In Kibanese that meant defcon: 4. A buzzing rattled the cement near his shoulder a moment later.
"lol I don't know if I like that sound of that... Of course I'll train with you! Where are you now?"
"Now's not good, I'm in the springs."
"What?? So am I!" Kiba almost leapt out of his skin. Not sure why, but he really didn't expect them to let her in.
"Are you kidding me! Meet me out in front in an hour."
"An hour? uok?"
The correct answer to that was no, but Kiba wouldn't say it. He'd just let himself drift for an hour. He heard footsteps, people coming in, being crazy, but that didn't worry him too much.
Meanwhile on the girls' side, Lilith was having a blast. She and Lamia'd arrived just a moment ago and were already into the cool spring. With all the intrigue, yada yada, the cool waters of a spring can be just as nice as the hot. Yin, meet Yang.
"Mom, we seriously need to do this more often."
"Yeah, I'll just tell the board to have more centennials." A splash slapped Lilith's face.
"Not what I meant!"
"Haha, come on, you were asking for it."
"Yeah, so were you!" That went on for a moment until they noticed the loud clandencsence of some lone texter on the side by the name of Xenovia Quarta.
"You having fun over there?" It took her a second to look up.
"Yeah-hey! Having fun yet?"
"I guess so... My aches are healing nicely, if that's what you mean. I feel tingly. My soul is soaring on the arches of Mercury himself, the essence of glory, yes, it's in the relief I feel now; not in the tasks conquered but the flittering waves of--"
"Whoa there, Corvo. It feels good, yeah?"
"Who is this Corvo? Some sort of Brazilian Jujitsu master?"
"No, nothing cool like that..." ( scream )
"Anyway!" Lamia chimed in. "You sure sound like you go through a lot on the daily."
"Hmm... Yes, but how can you tell?"
"Are you kidding? People with a lot tedious work in their day always do this whole starlit soliloquy thing by night. You need an outlet, girl."
"That's... Very perceptive of you. I wonder if--"
"Yeah, well, we're people people. Right, mom?" Said Lamia denying Xenovia the aforementioned outlet.
"Right. Trust us: you're going to need plenty of chill to balance out all that stress. That might mean--are you ready?--a man." She pointed to the stylishly hipster chic flip-phone in the devil's hand.
"This..?"
"Yeah, that! Who's on the other side, hmm? Oh, I guarantee it's a guy by the amount of blush action. This is the cool pool after all, so there's no way the water's making your head that red... My goodness, mom, look at her! She's gonna explode. Easy! Easy!"
"Now, now," said Lilith grabbing two scoops of Succubus from behind. "You can't be so close-minded. It's the twenty first century. Maybe it's a fine female on the other end."
"Whatever it is, she's totally into it."
"I--I am NOT!" At that moment Kiba was getting the text which said something to the effective of "I want to meet now!"
"Yeah, then who is it?"
"He's a--"
"Told ya"
"--a business associate."
"..." "..." Lilith and Lamia looked at each for a moment and then burst into belligerent laughter.
"What!"
"Oh, man... That's what we used to call our booty calls back in the day."
"Which day? The bronze or the iron age?" Xenovia with wit? Look out... Everything!
"Whoa~!" "Badum-sst!" "But seriously... "
"What?"
"Oh, come on!" Lamia was growing impatient now. "Just tell him! You can do it. Look, you figured out the holy swords Excalibur and Durandal, but not how to talk to guys?" She said the how to part broken like a robot. "The Hell, man!"
"What Rodney Carrington is trying to say--" "Hey!" "--Is that you really should be more comfortable with simple things like this."
"Mmm... I don't know~! What if it's not meant to be, or whatever the romantic novelist, the ones my father used to read as he--" A cough. "Well, you know what I mean."
"Yeah... We do. And if it's not meant to be, the so be it." "That was beautiful! Are you a poet?" Lilith dunked Lamia under and continued.
"I know this is shitty-sounding, but do you know how many guys there are who can make you feel exactly like you do right now? It's ridiculous, rare as rain in the rain forest,"
"That can't be right."
"Trust me: I'm no stranger to the block. Hell, they've named the damn thing after me. So when I say all guys are the same... It's not always a bad thing; you can always find the right guy. And if you don't? Train his a**--who~a!" By this time Lamia'd caught Lilith not paying attention, something only she could do this often. Lilith was in the air only to be in the water again. Elbows, knees, thighs, breasticles. The whole show was flipping and flopping like a sandal convention. Xenovia sunk to be closer to the stars. She couldn't even muse on them.
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After about an hour of soaking, Xenovia was ready to go meet up with Kiba. She would find that while the girls were funny, they didn't offer her any real help. But there was Kiba, waiting outside the spring gates.
"Oh, good, there you are." His face showed a desperation, a loss.
"Of course, I--" She hit that face and fell flat. "... What's wrong?"
"Let's take a walk." Kiba could hardly bring himself to face his friend. Xen nodded and the two did a few laps around the springs. Perfect view, too bad they couldn't enjoy it. And after Yuuto'd told her everything she didn't quite know what to say expect,
"Let's get to work, then." With that smile that friends share when they make it through a certain number of life or deaths she sealed the deal, no matter how distraught Kiba was or unconfident he was in his powers at the moment.
"You're kidding me. I don't... Xen, you didn't see him. It was unreal. He had control, it seemed, of everything." Xenovia was shaking her head long before he finished.
"No, I'm not. Look, you can beat me, a natural holy sword wielder," she said putting a hand up to stop Kiba from protesting her bringing up that last part." That means something. It means you can beat, well, anyone if you put your mind to it. Now come on!"
"What, here? I-I don't know..."
"Come on!" Xenovia summoned Ex-Durandal. "You said in the text you wanted to train... What happened to that?"
"I just meant someplace else that's--"
"You're scared!"
"...What?"
"Kiba Yuuto doesn't run from a fight--"
"I didn't run!"
"But you're running now! The Kiba I know didn't run from a fight even if he knew he was going to lose... What's changed?" Her eyes went from angry to weary and sad. Kiba looked away.
"I... Have more to lose now." He drew he blade reluctantly. "Let's just get start, ok?" And they did. Right there at the springs. Of course it didn't take long for the fight to reach the summit of the foothill they were on. Some people noticed, but all in all it was safe.
"Wh...What was that?" Xenovia was panting, Kiba wasn't. She also had a bunch of small cuts and scratches all over here, and while Kiba did as well, it was plain to see who was dominant in this match.
"Again."
"Are you serious?" Said Xenovia bewildered. "Look, I don't know who you think you're fighting, but it's not God Almighty... That boat sailed a while ago. Besides, look at you, you can--"
"AGAIN." Kiba tightened his grip and came at Xenovia whether she was ready for it or not. His speed, power, stamina, were all incredible, way above what he was normally capably of during training. And it wasn't like they went softly at it; they often times got the cops called on them, ironically enough, with their ruckus. But this was something different: the eyes, the rabid swings, the aura; that's what a true devil looked like on the field.
Yuuto was tired, but he kept pushing, and soon Xenovia couldn't push back. She'd broken. Falling to a knee, she couldn't even lift a hand to tell Kiba to stop. Instead all she could do was raise a defeated eye to him, her hands clutching the sword for support. He snapped out of it, inches away from cleaving her head clean in two. His face went down in disgust with his actions. The sword disappeared only slightly more quickly than the devil himself.
"I'm... Sorry, but that's not enough." And just like that, he was gone, doubtless to continue training.
It was somewhere around midnight now, and all the people were either unaware of how pruny they were getting or had snuggled up with thiers and tea to look at the tomorrow freshly born. Lamia was one of the former.
"Xen! Hey, how'd it go?" She called from the pool. "Wait a second, you look awful! Mom!" Lilith was over stealing some poor guy's dream--too much sake--when she heard Lamia. She ditched the poor guy and came running.
"What happened--Oh my God!" It was a wonder Xenovia made it over. Her arms had fractured under the stress of Kiba's heavy strokes. the cuts in her were so the wind could rip through her with every breeze, the skin on the bottom of her feet had been rubbed off and now every step was a cold searing which shot up through her weak tendons to her back, which had been all but broken by swift kicks from Yuuto. But beside all that there was a defeat in her eyes which could not be accounted for.
"Did he do this to you?" No answer, Xenovia just put her head down and off to the side. "Xen!" There was a mumbling, but nothing audible. Lamia, who'd made friends with a couple of the ORC members since the patrol started, was frustrated now and smacked Xenovia.
"Lamia..."
"Who did this to you? ... Who could?" Of course she'd known the answer. She just needed to hear it so she could hunt down Kiba. The only problem with that was Xenovia would never allow that. And besides, Kiba was far too dangerous for them to deal with right now. She wouldn't have either of her friends fighting or killing each other; it was all she could do.
"..." Lamia growled and went to smack more sense into Xen, but Lilith stopped her hand. Lamia would turn to see her mother shacking her head.
"That's not the way," Lilith said simply. Then to Xenovia, "Xen, look at me--hey." She did, although slowly. "Kiba did this, didn't he?" Xenovia nodded absently. "I'm not going to judge, but this is not ok... Look at you." It was here that Xenovia started crying.
"I... I know ok!" Lamia covered her with a towel. "We always train like this. At first it was fun; I was still better than him, but not by much, so the training was good... But he just kept pushing. There were times when I worried he might die, but he wouldn't give up." A small crowd attempted to form, but Lilith used her hypnosis to steer them away.
"It wasn't long before he was better than me. He even figured out how to overcome Ex-Durandal with his skill..."
"Xen..."
"That's something only he can do. After that, he changed again. Nothing seemed to satisfy him anymore. Somehow, I think he hated that feeling: being so good there were no more hurdles to leap over. We kept training, but it was clear he was just staying in shape while I was giving it my all." She laughed weakly. Soon Asia would be coming as Lilith had sent her familiar to fetch her. "That's the funny thing, though: I didn't improve at all. After Kiba helped me master Ex-Durandal that was it for me. I guess I shouldn't complain, but I'd be lying if I didn't know how Kiba felt."
"I don't understand you guys... Always training," said Lamia.
"We used to train a lot too, Lamia." Lilith was referring to all the illusion training they'd done earlier in their career.
"I guess you're right... Still."
"I... Want to be able to help him." Xenovia said tiredly.
"What? I think you've helped him quite enough." Lilith agreed.
"No. He'd told me earlier he'd lost a fight. That doesn't happen every day to him." But that wasn't what she was talking about; she wanted to protect him from himself, this new demon in his mind who told him to break his body again and again and again until there was nothing left to fight with come the time. This training they had, it was the only thing holding Kiba back from destroying himself trying to reach that unattainable plateau.
"What do you think he'll do?" Asked Lamia providing Xen with the chance to explain all that.
"I... I don't know." She did. "He'll tear himself apart before he loses to an opponent twice. I don't know if he can survive the training he's going to put himself through right now..."
"Oh, Xen." Lamia took Xenovia's head into a motherly embrace. Xenovia started to feel better, if only a little. "We'll check on him tomorrow. In the meantime you get some rest and get healed up. We'll see if you aren't a match for Kiba yet!" There was that confidence. It was like Lamia'd never really aged in those four thousand years, mentally or otherwise.
"Yuuto-kun... What's going through that proud head of yours right now?" It wasn't too much longer before Asia showed up. Xenovia was healed, but the mental fatigue warranted a comatose sleep. Lamia and Lilith knew they had work to do now. No one crosses a Succubus!
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Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2015 8:34 pm
It was always nice to go to the hot springs and just relax for awhile. In the underworld she had to be presentable and proper. In places like this she didn't have to worry about a thing. Stepping out from the changing room with a towel wrapped around her she took a quick glance around to see who all was there. One of her hands moved up to brush some of her short white hair from her face while she started moving into the hot waters. Oh this is nice.
What an idiot! thought Breanna Martin as she marched her frustrated hiney all the way to the springs. It was a little before school let out, and because those helped a lot with the set up got the festival day off from class, Bree had been going to various tents and features making everything was straight--not enjoying her day off, basically, until now. There weren't that many people here at all, just some older folks visiting for their kids' school's big celebration. But there was a younger looking woman there. Strange looking for a high schooler... Except for Kuoh!
"Hi," She said approaching her in the water. "DId you help out with the festival? I'm sorry, but I don't think I recognise you." Really she just needed someone to talk to who wasn't Rai at this point.
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Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2015 9:23 pm
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Domina had set up toward the edge and had her arms resting along the outside of the pool of water with her head tilted back a bit. Clearly enjoying herself there. Hearing a girls voice she perked up a little and brought her attention to Breanna. "No I wasn't around to help out. And I can blend into a crowd pretty easy." She said with a faint smile as she sat upright now. "I'm Luna, and you are?"
"I'm Breanna... Breanna Martin." Forget why she always felt she had to offer up her last name, the facecreeps out there loved it! Suffice to say she had and "old school" upbringing. She got that tingle whenever the strange girl said her name. Luna... She repeated to herself. It wasn't so strange, but it definitely wasn't normal either--in that it was the catalyst for Bree's sixth sense reaction.
"You said you didn't help out...? Oh, then can I ask how you got up here? This place is off limits for most students during the day." She really needed to get that fixed. It was always going off on cats and misplaced plates about to fall, so she really had no way of trusting it save trusting everything the damn thing said was DANGEROUS! Training... Helping with the festival! Come on, Martin, get your stuff together. On the outside her face would no doubt show some of the internal struggle there.
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Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2015 9:45 pm
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"Breanna Martin. You have a nice name Breanna." She smiled sincerely while Breanna repeated the name she had given to her. It had been awhile since she actually heard someone use her name. Domina held back a laugh at her thinking she was a student; a compliment really. "Oh I have my ways. But I think there's something more important than that. Like the fact something seems to be troubling you, or am I wrong?"
Bree tilted her head a little. She really didn't know what was more confusing: how she got in here and whether or not to turn her in, or the fact she knew what Bree seemed to be thinking. The latter would be easier to deal with, and it did deal with her, so it beat out the former by a slight margin.
"I... Well, I guess you're right." She sighed and tried again. "Do you ever feel like what you're doing is pointless; like no matter how hard you can't change the way things are? ...Or some people." She turned her head away slightly embarrassed.
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Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 12:00 pm
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Well if she did try to she'd only found out that Luna wasn't actually a student or anything. "I have had that feeling once before, yes. I ended up getting into a lot of trouble for trying to hard. Sometimes you just cant change things, and you have to accept it for how it is. Or how they are."
"Oh... Yes, that makes sense." She didn't really respond but out of reflex. "Thank you..." Her distraction was obvious, but a second later Bree snapped out of it and pretended to be fine again. It was more or less that this was the last straw for her, and now she was in a spring nursing a broken back.
"You're pretty smart, you know?"
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Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 12:11 pm
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"Just happy to help." She smiled and took a brief look over of her as she was distracted again. "I just speak from experience is all, but thanks." Luna's eyes shifted behind the girl in thought. "So its just you here on your own?"
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Walking down to the springs, Rai sighed, hopefully she would be alright later on today. He was greeted by the man who was in charge of the front desk. A group followed in after rai. It was the gang of students that treat Rai as a leader."W-what! No i'm not paying for you guys!"He shouted at them, they paid for them selves and the group split off, the females went into the females side, and the males went into the males side with rai. Getting into an isolated spring, he began fading and fell asleep.".".
