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Rhone claps and grins from ear to ear.
"Congratulations! You brought back......a fairy."
He kneels down and looks at Eloysio as well.

Zelos and Regal approach Eloysio as well. Regal stares at him with a puzzled expression. Zelos can't stop laughing.

Rhone charges towards Eloysio and stops a few feet from him.
"Hey! Listen! I'm the one that called you a fairy. You should try to shake ME. Leave my buddy alone!"

Zelos couldn't even speak on account of his neck essentially waving back and forth. Regal simply stares in astonishment.

Eloysio abruptly dropped Zelos and twitched again at the word "fairy". scream "Stop calling me a fairy!!!" he raged once more, now sending a giant energy hand toward Rhone to smack him into a tree.

Colette and Sheena finally saw the opportunity to rush to Zelos' aid and help him back up onto his feet.

Kratos sighed, thinking enough was enough now. "Contain yourself, Eloysio," he spoke rather sternly after Platinum as he turned toward him, "To add to that, you sought to live again; you should at least be grateful your request was granted."

Clenching his fists to his sides again, he turned to glare at Kratos, then at Platinum. "But bloody hell, could it not have been more co---"

Knowing that the "fairy" was unwisely about to say something that implied that he thought Platinum was stupid, the seraph drew closer and captured him into his fist. That broke Oscuro out of her stupor. Forget that Kratos had a point... "Hey! I do NOT appreciate you handling Master Eloysio that way!" she scolded, going over to smack him on the wrist. That actually caught him off-guard and made him release his grip on the "fairy".

Eloysio seemed to be fuming now, giving Kratos the evil eye. "Indeed...don't ever grasp me like that again, you...you..." he growled. The energy hands now took the seraph by the ankles, picked him up so that he was dangling upside-down, and dropped him on his head. Kratos merely sighed as he landed face down, keeping his patience. Standing back up and dusting himself off, he continued to carry an unaffected demeanor.

Oscuro snickered, but Chiaro shook her head and facepalmed. Azriel covered her face in embarrassment....for some reason, embarrassment over that happening to Kratos.

Eloysio turned a glare on Rhone once more. The first person to brand such a humiliating title on him. Well...to him it was humiliating. "Hrmph," he grunted, crossing his arms, "Easy for you to say, you're not the one confined to a form so easily ready for such mockery..."

Oscuro made an irritated facial tic while facing away, at how Rhone was addressing her old master, but chose not to express anything further. "Ohh, Master Eloysio, I hear yoooooou~" she fawned, turning to Eloysio with puppy-dog eyes in a crestfallen look, "We envisioned such a glorious retuuuurn..." crying

Sheena just about had enough of this as well. "HEY!" she barked, then pinched her brow with her free hand, "The point still stands! You're back from the dead, at least in an able position to do whatever you need to help Azriel! That SHOULD be enough!"

Finding the conversation going in a pointless direction, Eloysio just gave up with a scoff and fluttered to the top of Oscuro's head, leaning upon one of her horns as he sat.

"Gee...if he's gonna continue living from this point...then maybe we could look for a way to get him back to normal size?" sweatdrop asked Azriel.

Able to hear that through his psychic powers and his connections to the artifact, his spirits lightened and he smiled warmly. "Ahhh. I appreciate your thought, Azriel. But that can be a later priority. I will take care of my word first."

Sighing in exasperation, Sheena concluded, "I guess our work here is done. Are we just gonna head back to the mansion, then, so that Eloysio can elaborate upon his plans?"

((I kinda imagine Zelos hanging on the shoulders of Sheena and Colette right now. whee ))

((Hm. Considering that Natoe's away, Raine needs a ride. ))

"Ishkabi---" All of a sudden, Eloysio found himself surrounded by what he perceived was a dark aura of anger. "...Oscuro?"

She was fuming silently, her fists clenched to her sides as she stared at Rhone flying off. Then she took off into the air herself, chasing after him. Her speed had Eloysio clinging to her horn.

Sheena sighed at both Zelos and Rhone's behavior. "Tch... All right, Colette, help me get this dolt back on th---oh wait. The Rheaird's still stuck in the tree..." sweatdrop

"I'll get that," offered Kratos, going over to the tree where the Rheaird was left behind.

He pressed the button that shrunk it back into a Wing Pack, then took it down to the ground and re-released it. Colette then helped Sheena and Zelos over to the Rheaird, and once they were settled in, she took to the air with Kratos. Sheena started the Rheaird and followed behind.

By now, Oscuro had caught up to Rhone, sailing over him. Looking down, she began a very loud tirade.

stressed "IN ANY FAIRNESS AT ALL TO MASTER ELOYSIO, YOU KINDA STARTED IT WHEN YOU INSULTED HIM AND CALLED HIM A FAIRY!!!" scream

She took off the coat that was loaned to her and threw it right back down to its owner. The point of her explosive rant was that rightness or wrongness aside, she had a fierce loyalty to the man she could technically consider a father, and felt slighted when some of the others verbally ganged up on him.

With a huff, she sped on ahead to the mansion. Kratos and Colette were at a distance behind, and the both of them were able to hear Oscuro's screaming.
sweatdrop "... ..."

Upon touching ground behind the mansion, it was just about time for the sun to rise. Oscuro was preoccupied shrinking back into Azriel before she could go open the back door. The latter could feel the tiny man sprawled exhaustedly atop her head.

"Oh my. Are you all right, Master Eloysio?"

"...Hm? Huh? Oh! I'm sorry, was busy hanging on for dear life up here." He joked, shifting himself up into a kneeling position. After a second, he sneezed. "Not to mention...it was rather cold up there. My, but being confined to this size is such a nuisance." *sniffle*

With a chuckle, Azriel opened the door and proceeded inside. "Kinda sorry we don't seem to be off to a lovely start here. sweatdrop What a way to start a new life, eh?"

"Ah-CHOO! Ohoho, tell me about it..." ¦D he chuckled and lied back down.

((Y'know, let's just say Raine rode along on Regal's Rheaird, eh? OwO;; ))

O_o;; "Wow, you've been that out of it?" asked Sheena, "...Ugh. Well, things are kind of in a foul mood after Eloysio's so-called rude awakening. Who knows how long it'll take to blow over."

Kratos just passed on ahead toward the mansion, but Colette, noticing that Rhone seemed distracted, stopped and hovered over him. "...Hey, Rhone? You all right?" sweatdrop

~

"Aww...you need something to warm you up, sir." sweatdrop

Back in the mansion, Azriel had made her way back to the living room. Eyeing her coat on the coffee table, which Cinkel had just begun trying to fix, she sat on the couch nearby and had an idea.

"Master Eloysio, if you could just get down here...you could use this as a blanket?" ^_^;;

"Hrmph..." He fluttered down in front of Azriel, sat cross-legged on the table, and let his "pupil" wrap some of her coat around him. "That's...cozy, really. Th...thank you." Her kindness regardless of his earlier behavior was beginning to humble him and really let the guilt settle in.

sweatdrop "...Whoa. I know he was shaking you, but I guess it must've been harder than it looked. What kind of magic was that anyway?" Sheena wasn't sure about seeing anything like it before, and the display of power out of Eloysio rubbed off on her as slightly eerie. To think that such a small being held such power...

Colette pouted, her expression turning into a look of concern as she descended down to Rhone's level to look him in the eye. "Aww...cheer up, Rhone. I'm sure it's not that bad. The whole thing looked kind of exaggerated to me anyway, and I think it would be silly of her to hold a grudge over something so little. I'm sure things could be talked out anyway...why don't we go see?" She floated a little bit ahead and motioned for Rhone to follow.

Kratos just about touched ground at this point and reentered the mansion through the front door. He found Azriel already sitting on the couch and waiting for the others. The girl turned her head as soon as she heard the door open, and upon seeing who it was, she let out a yelp, her eyes practically popped, and a blush spread across her face---due to remembering what Eloysio did to the seraph. She sprung up to her feet and ran up to meet him.

"K-Kratos! You're back...where are the others? Listen, I am so sorry about what happened back there..." sweatdrop

"The others will be here shortly. They were right behind me. Azriel, it isn't really a fault of your own..."

As their voices trailed off in the distance, Eloysio looked behind himself to get a good look at the rest of Azriel's coat. "Hm. Thing needs fixing up. Let's see what I can do..." He pulled the cloth over his head, ducking into the coat and crawling deeper into it.

Sheena finally landed her Rheaird within the gates of the mansion and dismounted, helping Zelos off.

Rhone shakes his head.
"Maybe...in a bit....but for now...I'm gonna go reflect upon myself for a little while. I appreciate your concern though. There are many beings called 'angels', but you seem to fit the description the best. Go on back to the mansion. I'll head back there in a bit as well, alright?"

Zelos rubs one of his shoulders.
"No idea...but it hurt. Tiny guy...HUGE power..."