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The seeds within the palm of the hand were very wrongfully taken by this cat. They were sacred to only the order of elders within the villiage, and soon it would be known why by Kabuki. The seeds were imbued wit ha power that could only sence their master and creater. The elder's souls being passed down one elder to the next this first elder's soul was still a part of every one of them. The seeds only had a minor fraction of the reaction that a full-grown plant would have had and Damian senced it immediately as he was in the kitchen within a moment's notice, grey beard and all, his eyes narrowed to slits. He was too late hwever for as soon as the seeds had touched the man's hands their reaction began, each seed having a different reaction. One of them would in pulses radiate an insane amount of heat, burning the flesh it touched, the other would pulse out intence cold temperatures, almost having the same effect as liquid nitrogen upon the skin it touched. Then there was one which sent out electric energy throughout the entire body in pulses while the other would suck the moisture out of a body, causing close to immediate dehydration. That was only the beginning though, the first four. There was another six. The effects included: blinding light in pulses, death to the cells in which it was touching, severe motor skill loss, muscle contraction (causing severe muscular pain...es[ecially for those with lots of it), bleeding from your poors,eyes,ears, and mouth, and then the last effect was failure of the nervous system. All these ten seeds had their own drastic effect upon the theif in which desided to touch them. There would have been only a pulse or two from the seeds and only medium dammage from the others in which didn't puilse their heavy damage. Only because before there was a chance for them to continue further Damian snatched the seeds out of his hands. "How did you get these and what in gods name do you think gives you the right to steal from me?" He growled, though he wasn't staring at Kabuki, he was glaring right into the cat-eyes of Geo, knowing it had been him. He also knew that he would understand the creature if it so decided to try and explain itself to the man whom was glaring into it's very spirit.

"Shhh!" He snapped, his finger almost faster then that of Kabuki's hand placed across the creatures mouth. "You did it for youre master, wanting him to have the vary best...I know. But these seeds my young creature are those of which that only elders know the right combinations for the right potions and one small mistake could mean their death. These are dangerous seeds...only a second or two did that to your master." He stated, pointing to his hand and reminding him of what had just happened. "Just...if you had found these seeds you should have contemplated what the conmcequences were and consulted your master before just taking them." He stated with a heavy sigh.

His finger moved from his mouth to behind his ear to scratch it gently. "Young elemental...I ill not harm you. But please...for the sake of you and your master. In the future, think about things a little better." He said with a small smile. He then looked over the seeds. A small smiled came over his face as he looked over Kabuki. "I have a gift for you now." He said with a smile. The blade of blades had been withdrawn with a lightning motion and sliced across his arm, letting the blood flow freely from the deep cut Raven breathed deeply as he placed a material sack under his arm and let it soak in his blood. "My blood is all the seeds need to stay calm and under control." He said with a smile, then letting a cloth be covered in his blood as well. "The cloth is for safe handling." He said with a grin.

These seeds have never been allowed outside of this garden...I want you to keep them as sacred to you as they are to my line." He said, a serious harness in his eyes, but also an overwhelming look of kindness and friendship as he slipped the seeds into the blood-covered bag. "Even when the blood dries it will be fine." He said with a grin. "Don't EVER try making a potion out of those plants you grow...without this." He said, taking a massive book from ashelf behind him and handing him to it as well. There is no other book in the world like this one. All about potions possibly made from those plants and others...but all include at least one of those plants. I wish for you to have it and 1 each of the seeds. An honor bestowed upon no other. Do not try to repay me for this Kabuki. I will not accept any more from you then you have given me." He said with a smile. The wounds on his arm had stopped bleeding nad he wrapped a cloth around them and taped it down with martial arts tape. He smiled warmly at Kabuki, as he handed over the bloody sack, the cloth within it and the 10 seeds as well, and the book.

Damian's spirit left his body, walking over to where Pyro was and it grinned. Damian's body however now stared blankly at Kabuki. The spirit knelt down beside him and tapped his head. "Well...Pyro...I think you need to chill your temper a little bit. Violence is never really the answer, maybe he ould have "taken" me. But what is the point of fighting without a cause or reason?" He asked with a grin as the spirit shook it's head and then walked back right into Damian's body and Damian shook his head looking around for a second.

He listened to ever word Kabuki had to say, even though it wasn't much and he grinned. "Don't worry Kabuki." He said with a laugh. "You are liek a brother to me now, making you somewhat like a member of this line of the family anyways." He stated with a broad grin. "You are also now like my only family member left on this world." He stated, chuckling as he stroked his gray beard and his gray hair. He still hadn't gotten used to the over-night change of his hair color.

He just looked at the big book held under his arm. "Besides, I am not much of a garden person anyways." He said with a laugh, "and I am sure that my elders have all seen ever page of that book before. Since all of their minds and souls are within my own....I should already have that book memorized if I need it anyways. Just be sure to do as I told you, keep the seeds sacred...and somewhere where nobody else will get to them." He said with a smile.

Damian had heard the words that had come from pyro and he smiled as he kept it in the back of his mind to get in his face sometime soon and see wha twas really up with that cat. But she shook off the feeling and went back to Kabuki and he smiled warmly as he could plainly see that he had been choked up over the gift. He went from serious, saying he promised to keep them sacred, then went to kidding about his newly silvery grey hair. "Why yes I did, thank you for noticing!" He said with a laugh. "I thought silver was an attractive color so I used this new formula to just color it that way." He said with a few more chuckles.

After that he beckoned for Kabuki to follow him as he went towards the gardens yet again. "Before you leave, I want you to see the plants that those seeds will grow into." He said with a large smile. "So then you will know exactly what you are in for when you need to get youself a place to put them." He said with a smirk as he opened the doors and the fertile soils of his garden would cause a gentle feeling as if walking upon a cloud as he walked towards the inner-most part of the massive garden. It was like a jungle in here.

As they walked it seemed that Kabuki had been burried within his thoughts and he smiled as they passed through the spiritual enhancing herbs and Kabuki went off into a visionary state. Raven was not effected much by it, since he had been in the gardens regularily and only concoctions to make him enter that state with several different kinds of herbs and plants and such could make him enter it. He just smirked as he continued to walk, making sure that Kabuki did not fall or trip in his state until he came out of it.

He wouldn't ask now what he had seen, he figured if it was meant for him to know, he would know it eventually. He just smiled as the plants that hung from the ceiling got particularily dense and then he slowed down drasticly as he pointed to theblood-red thorns on some vines completely coiled and entagled, making it almost impossible to pass. "You must stay VERY close to me." He said, waiting for Kabuki to get close before he continued. The vines all un-tangled and moved out of the way of the elder, parting and then re-tangling after he had passed, Kabuki was close enough for the deadly plants not to strike.

"A little bit of a defence mechinism to protect the inner garden." He stated, opening his arms to a large wall infront of them with an insanely large gate. He waked up to it and he placed his hand upon the gate, the gate sencing the elder blood slid open with ease and him and Kabuki could enter, but what they saw next would be utterly stunning and amazing, it would be the 10 Sacred Plants of Paraiasis. In which only he and Kabuki held the life form of them for. Each and every one of them at least 14 feet tall and extravagant in look.

The fire plant was a green, leafy plant, though it's leaves held a red edge and red veins, making it a rather interesting spectacle. It's top leaves were also completely red as was the stem of the plant. The leaves were what were used for the potions and concoctions. The cold one was similar to the fire plant in decoration but not design, it was a thick-stemmed plant that grew thick at the bottom and thinned towards the top, leaves the size of two of your head wide and about half a meter long when stretched out were there. They coiled inwards as soon as they began growing outwards and had the blue edges and veins. They as well used the leaves for the potion ingrediants. Next was the shock plant, this one was only half the height, 7 feet tall and was made of thin leaves that sprouted upwards and began to droop after about 5 and a half feet. These long leaves were only a pale yellow but the little pebbles that grew on the inside were vibrant yellow and could be grounded into potions.

The next plant was one of water and it grew into a thin-stemmed plant with a very large plant on it. The thin stem supported a very large, vase-shapped bulbus bowl-type object. Within this living bowl there were plantal fluids and within these fluids floating bulbs layed, within the bulbs would be a gooey substance used for the creation of potions. Then there was the Holy Grebil. This plant was a striking white color and it grew hollow on the inside, a smallcircular base growing into a wider top, all very leafy and it grew oddly bright thorns upon it, even more surprisingly white then the leaves themselves, the thorns were the ingrediants for this plant. The next along the line was the plant of Drahnious. The dark plant was shorter tjen all the others by even more then the shock plant, being only 3 feet tall. It was black as night and it grew in long sharp-tipped leaves, seeming to have a razor edge upon them, sharp jagged points coming out from each of the long leaves. The center of the leave bas bulbus however and if cut open it bled out black ooze that could be used for an ingrediant.

Now it got into the more complicating plants, the ones with nothing to do with just elements. The first of this four of a kind was the loss of motor skills, Plant Of Numbing. It was a viney type of plant. needing to be hung from somewhere. It sprouted in all directions, hanging loosely from ever side of the container in which it rested. The vines were a normal green color but they all split at the ends and had a very small but potent stem inbetween the split, with a small round pellet on the end. This was the ingrediant for this plant. The second of this group was the muscle contraction, Plant Of Flexing. This plant was oddly shaped, still about 9 feet in height it went upwards in a wavy motion and it was a very brittle plant, in need of great care for the slightest touch could break it. This made it difficult to harvest, needing to take etreme care and only break off small peices from the top for it was also very potent. Then there was the Forcefull Bleeding, Plant Of Ebola. Named rightfully after the ebola disease which eventually makes you bleed from many places. This plant was another vine-like plant. It was black in color, the vines. Though they were very curly and it was very unpredictabel in which way they would grow, they had vibrant red thorns upon them and within these red thorns were little round soft and slimey pellets. These were the ingrediants for this plant. The last of them all was the loss of nervous control, Plant Of Failure. It was the most complex of all the plants there, in need of quite the large care for it grew rapidly and wildly. It was a plant that could grow up to 13 feet tall, or grow downwards for 10 feet. It would grow through the ground and then up for ten feet, zig-zag and twirl and then fly right back down deep int othe ground and pop up somewhere else randomly, that is why Damian had it in it's own seperate area. This plant was used peice by peice for ingrediants, and even though it was potent, large ammounts could be used for it grew so quickly. It was a vibrant blue color and it was also a very solid vine-type plant.

"This..." Damian said. "Is the inner garden." He satated with a very proud grin upon his face, looking over every individual plant with pride. "The pride of the Phoenix Elders." He said with another grin as he shook his head. "What do you think?" He asked, turning to Kabuki.

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Damian laughed at Kabuki's dumbfounded expression at first and then him asking the same question over and over again, the same question in which Damian had asked him. He nodded, as he heard him say he would have to carefully design his island to accomodate everything and he laughed. "Indeed you will Kabuki. Indeed you will." He stated. "I suggest a cage for the Plant Of Faliure, a cage that goes underground as well as over so it is possible to keep under control. But don't make it too small of a cage or it will over grow within it and die." He said with a knowing nod.

He then turned to a serrious look as he said "such power". "There is indeed much power locked within these plants, your potions that will be combined and made from them will be small doses, only use one singular dose of about...this much." He stated, showing a square qwith four fingers, each side of the square about a millimeter in size, a very small dose indeed. "You could kill yourself easily by trying to make a potion to cure and using too much of one thing. So...be careful and follow the book to the exact ammount." He said with a nod, the serious look fading as he looked down to Geo.

"Well then...looks like we found out how our little expert of theivery got in didn't we?" He asked with a laugh. "Don't worry little one, it's all good, all tresspasses have been forgiven and you can strol my gardenat your leisure...just be careful." He said with a smile. He then strolled dowards a small hut an auroma coming from it that could knock you off your feet. It was a wonderful auroma of a tea made of just the right mixtues, the recepie not being one within the book that he had given Kabuki. This one was secret and it would stay that way. "Come now, this tea has been brewing since the day before we met. I thought it would be a nice way to end our journy in the garden." He said with a knowing smirk and a twinkle in his eyes.

He grinned as Kabuki pointed out that he figured he was a phychic and he shook his head. "No, not quite. I said I thought it was a good way to end our walk in the garden, not that I had the idea before we met or that I knew we would have this walk in the garden before other specific events or being told." He said with a grin. "My grandfather was phychic, and told me a little about you. Now of coarse I have inherited that ability with his soul and you can say I am a phychic." He said with another chuckle.

"Remember, the reason I knew your name was because of that talkative spirit of yours." He said with a grin. He then sat down at a sdmall table with two chairs and poured the tea into two cups, cups crafted from jade and the tea within grew a green color to match the jade. "Dont even need to add anything, it should adjust to just how you like it after the first sip." He said with a grin. "A very interesting mixture indeed." He said with a grin. He took a sip of the flavorless liqued and as it traced over his tounge, a few drops went to the under-side of his tounge by themselves. The rest went down his throat, with the next sip the drops would send the flavor preference to the liquid and it would taste just right.

"That it would be." He said with a large smirk, taking an ever so small sip of the tea and closing his eyes to savor the taste of it. He smirked as he looked at Kabuki and he nodded slowly. "Everything you need to know about the 10 Sacred Plants will be in there. He stated with a smile as he leaned back in his chair. The walls were all lined with potions and concoctions made by the plants, even infront of the windows, causing odd colors of light to filter through the glass gars and spatter the place. He breathed in deeply and he smiled at Kabuki. "So, you say you want to talk my brother." He said with a laugh. "So go ahead. Talk." He said with a nod. "I will speak when need be and listen when needed as well."