Welcome to Gaia! ::

Off in the distance she heard a rumble of thunder. Raindrops began to trinkle onto the rusty awning at the front of the shop. "Well, I guess I might as well get a few new mixes ready...not like I have anything else better to do," she murmered to herself out loud. In the back of Twig and Berries was a small kitchen that resembled more of a lab than a place to cook food.
"A little milk thistle bud, mmmm purple. I like purple. Purple is a pretty color." she incoherently mumbled to herself.
She never has company and her only friend is the sheep she keeps in the back. Talking to herself is her only way of staying sane in her lonely world.
She grabbed a large leaf from an aloe vera plant, split it in two and squeezed the gel from within into the bowl with the thistle.
"This is gonna taste like crap. It needs something to make it a little palatable." Reaching into the cupboard above her head she brings down a little bear filled with honey. "Hi Hector. Can I squeeze a little bit of sugary goodness out of you? I didn't think you would mind too much. 'Scuse me Hec." She gave a hefty squeeze until the bottle sputtered. " A few more things....hmmmmmm.....some OJ sounds interesting and maybe a banana to thicken it up a bit."
She poured all of it into the bowl and whisked her little heart out. She liked to whisk. She liked to whisk ALOT! Her eyes got huge and a large crooked smile appeared on her face. "Vrrrrroooooooooooooooooooommmmmmmmmmm," she sang as she spun her arm as hard as he could in the bowl. It was the tiniest things that amused her.
After the mix was fully uniform she measured out 3oz. into little green vials, and labeled them Morning Glory (alcohol detoxifier). She then placed them in a basket and waddled them out to the store front and placed them near the register that was reserved to the week's special elixir sale. The basket had a tag on it which gave the price of buy two get one free or 3 gold each.
"Mmmmm.....tea. Tea sounds good. I want some tea. I'm gonna go make me some tea, and maybe a cookie. Yeah, a nice lavender cookie and tea. Yesssss, cookie and tea." She continued repeating the rant until she went to the back of the structure and made her tea and cookie. She sat in a comfy chair while enjoying her treat and listening to the trinkle of the raindrops. She wondered if anyone would come to the store with such bad weather on the way. Sighing, she layed her head back and relaxed.

Almost dissapointed by the lack of confrontation X turned to Kyo. "Looks like you two have some history, but I really dont wanna know what it is. I'm sorry if in anyway I hurt your pride, but I'm sure you didnt want to wash dishes and I really didnt feel safe letting those girls walk around by themselves and i really didnt want to rangle them to wherever the hell it is they're staying alone. So Lets just save this conversation and attack the problem at hand." X turned toward the door. "s**t, theyre already out the door. Come on Kyo, we best get out there before they get themselves into more trouble." X headed toward the door without waiting for a reply from Kyo, X left 2 more gold coins on the table annonamously. Kyo and him obviously had some past and if X had caused a problem between the two Dealik seemed like the kind of person that money makes everything better. X exited the pub and found the girls scattered about the front of the building. "So where are you all staying because the porch of the pub we just got kicked out of is not a good choice."

“Yo….You’re not okay?” Mitsu was confused. The look on Riyo’s face didn’t suggest that she really meant what she said. At least Mitsu didn’t think so. People don’t normally smile when they aren’t okay, do they? When Riyo turned to leave heading toward the two returning men, Mitsu tilted her head a bit. “Why is Riyo not okay?” Riyo was probably to far to hear her now, but she had mainly whispered it to herself outwardly thinking.

Turning toward Hitsu, Poke, and X as they exited the pub Mitsu gave a smile. Everyone was together now. “Staying?” Mitsu repeated the key word in X’s phrase unsure how to answer. “The forest?” She looked to Yuki questioningly, not certain if that was the right answer.

When Riyo had bounded up to him with his shirt, Neko smiled gratefully patting her on the head as he took it from her. “Thank you, Riyo. It’s good to see you have your own clothes now. They…” Neko looked her over for a moment. He would have imagined Riyo would have looked cuter in a dress or something like that, pants weren’t really what he had in mind. “Suit you.” He finished. Why tell her otherwise? At least she was covered now, not that he really minded the view from before.

Eyeing X curiously as he exited the pub, Neko too stood a little closer to Hitsu and the other girls. He wasn’t sure what this guy had in mind. “No need to worry about it, Granps, we can take care of these girls from here.”

ahha, they had finnaly found them and everyone was here. Although, she hadn't done much of a job watching them, as she said she would.

another thing poke noticed was that yuki seemed to be more banadge then person now. "what happened to him?" she asked neko, whom she guessed might give a better answer, before resting her head against the wall again; the world was starting to spin.

As she tried to make her hewad stop spinning, she watched x come out of the pub yuki's reation to him. And, kyo didn't look to friendly at this time either... Ugh, how long was this achohol effect gonna last?!

Neko gave a bit of a snort listening to X ramble on. He was sure this old man was overestimating his abilities just a bit, not to mention he didn’t trust him. “Something tells me I would be getting exactly what I’m paying for.” Taking hold of Mitsu’s collar Neko pulled her back toward him and the other girls. “Thanks but no thanks.”

“B..but,” Mitsu looked up at Neko and then to X a look of confusion setting in on her face. Why was there tension between them?

Neko only gave Mitsu a small glance before he turned his attention back to X. He didn’t like the look in his eyes. This guy was begging for a fight and that gave him no comfort that he might not turn on them at some point in their journey. “If you care to argue your point further,” Neko edged a finger into the loop of one of the blades at his thigh slowly pulling it from its holster. “I would be glad to prove you wrong.”

Kyo had felt the same pain as X when Daelik withdrew from the room without a fight. He had been practicing his pretend people skills nearly all night. Many-as-One was gnawing away at the back of his mind. He wanted to either move on, or break something. Or both. When X made his appology, moved to the door and beckoned him on, Kyo lingered for a moment.

"History? Nah. He's just the same as me, is all. Same discarded afterbirth." He muttered to himself as he looked at the door Daelik had left through.

Jogging to catch up with X, Kyo pulled his sword off of Rei Ichi and pinned it to his back so that Poke could use the wolf as transport. When he got to the doorway, he arrived just in time to witness the exchange of the unknown male and X. When the newcomer jerked the girl by the collar and drew his knife, the wardrums started pounding in his head.

He dropped both of his hands, palms facing the ground and began to run the runes for a spell through his mind. He wasn't going to make this one lethal, given the proximity of his acquantances (though, this was only barely a concern to him), and he didn't put too much juice into it. That would increase the risk of hitting an innocent. Instead of jumping right in and getting his kill on, he was going to wait silently in the doorway and see what X was going to do. He was more curious than anything else. The monster waited in the entryway, the grin that stretched across his face allowed his teeth to shine in the darkness.

Riyo's transe was broken when she smelt the air thicken with tenseness. She blinked and looked toward Neko, then the man she didn't know as well, then peeked over to the enterence by leaning to the side. Their bodies had stiffened. All on edge. Her ears twitched. Conflict. Over what? She didn't know. She scratched the back of her head. Maybe they were fighting over territory or something. She'd done that before. "M'nyuuuuu.." She pondered for a moment, then looked around after that got boring. She wasn't about to intrude on someone elses fight. As far as she knew, it wasn't her business.

She noticed a large, black bird perched on a barrel over by one of the buildings. It was a raven, but she didn't know the difference. "Nyuu!" With a smile, she trotted over and stared at the bird. The raven simply stared back, unmoving. Her tail wagged. "Nyuuuu? Nyu.." She spoke to it. It just stared. Riyo's eyebrow raised. She'd never gotten a chance to be this close to a bird before. She quietly raised an index finger and slowly began moving it toward the bird, her eyes completely focused on it now. When her finger met with the birds soft feathers, she jumped back, expecting it to fly off. It didn't. It just stared. Riyo's head tilted to the side. "CAW!" It let out. Riyo smiled as she got a reaction. "Caw! Caw!!!" She shouted back.

Shooting a look at Yuki, X paid him little mind. After thinking about it he realized that the chances of this ending without conflict where quickly diminishing. Considering what he was trying to do in the first place this was not working out well at all. Instead of joining together everyone was ready to tear into each other...life as usual. Instead of causing undo stress on the women in the group X decided to be the adult and walk away. Besides the kids just looking after his own.

"Tell ya what kid. You win. I've got better thing to do than trade insults with you. But as an "old timer" let me share one last thing with you before I go. You should really learn to keep your cool. Drawing weapons on complete strangers is a good way to get you or your friends here hurt or even killed. Just something to think about."

X looked over to Mitsu, "Sorry Mitsu, your friend doesnt wanna play nice, mommy says I gotta go home." X turned his back to the group and slowly pulled his hood up over his head and began to walk away from the fight. Knowing the boy would neither heed his warning nor observe the fact that X had his groups best intrest in mind. Instead he would just be the old guy that he backed down in some backwoods town, but thats ok, let him think what he wants. "Huh, maybe I'm making progress." Then as if on cue another though crossed his head. "Besides I dont fight for free." with a small sigh X hung his head, "Maybe not.". Lifting his hand in the air he waved silently and made his way towards the crowd that had began to gather. "See ya Kyo." As he closed in to the crowd he raised his voice,"Go home folks, nothing to see here."