Welcome to Gaia! ::

She simply waved her hand forward, mumbling a few inaudible words to herself, and with the quick curl of her fingers, Rio suddenly felt a very slight tug from his sword, as he realized it's own shadow had disconnected from his grip, darting at Mandy and quickly billowing forth from the ground, revealing a sword of the same shape and girth as his own, yet colored in pure black. With it's own hilt in her grasp, weight wasn't a matter, as for the time being it was a shadow under her control, and with it she swung it's size to her side, and took off towards Rio's own figure, Once she was in the swords rather extensive range, she easily swiped forward, color suddenly peeling through the blade as it quickly dug into the ground, tossing dirt and such aside before rising forth for a diagonal slash across his arrogant body.

Mandy smirked as Rioushu left the ground, it was at this point she removed her grip from the sword in her own hands, failing to provide Rio with a firm landing spot, and with him in the air, she simply rose forth his own shadow a few feet away. She looked back up at Rio, who seemed to be locked into his aerial pose for the moment, attempting to show off his talents. "You really shouldn't leave the ground when facing me.." She tilted her head, the sword's own shadow dissipated back onto Rio's form..

Mandy kept her shady glare towards Rio's eyes, only to quickly raise forth her arms. Rio felt the ground tremble slightly as the trees surrounding them twitched and moved as though a breeze of wind had shuffled through them.. "I'll try something a bit different" She explained, then quickly dropped her arms with clenched fists, as if gripping onto the shadows themselves. The blackness around them twitched as the tree's own shadows tugged towards Rio, pulling roots from the ground and spraying dirt in the air, and soon there after a number of large tropical forest began to collapse atop of Rio, dust sprawled through the night air, making it even more difficult to see as log after thick log slammed into the ground, hopefully Crushing Rio beneath a wall of wood..

Ryukyn casually strolled down the path to the caverns, wearing nothing but a pair of swimming shorts. Though unlike his brother, he made sure all his clothes showed off his body, and his swimming suit was not different. Reaching down only to about quad length, his shorts also made sure to show off his a** as he walked with a towel over his shoulder. He smiled as he jumped into the hot springs, jumping up slightly when he felt the heat. "Ooh, hotter than I thought, but I wonder, hot enough?" Ryukyn asked himself, putting his hand in the water.

Bleu padded her way down to the cavern, covered only by the towel drapped over her should and the string bikni she had just purchased. Neither piece of fabric managed to covered much of anything--with a few important expections, of course.

"Come on in, Rio!" the blonde called back as she slipped into the hotsprings pool. "The water's great~!"

Steamy. Reeeeeal steamy. Not in the intimate sense either. No, it had to be in the physical sense.

"Well little buddy, we've struck hot springs. Oh joy of joys." Darocche stood in the midst of the well-known hotsprings with a rather neutral expression on his face. He wasn't a huge fan of hot springs. They were soothing and relaxing, which wouldn't be so bad, were it not for his disdain towards getting so lax in any place but home or the hideout. Also, there was lots of steam. Besides obscuring his vision, they also made a few of his bombs much less effective. He was soon reminded of another problem.

"Ow!" Darocche looked over at his little robot, which was now flying around in small circles. It probably poked him by accident.

"Chill and switch to thermal vision. Won't be able to see much here." The little robot did as it was told and replaced its current lens with a red one. No sooner than a split second after did the little robot go crazy. Loud whirring and buzzing sounds came from it as it waved its pincers around and zoomed off into the steamy mist.

"...Right. Thermal. Hot springs. Not a bright idea..." Darocche followed the mad machine through the hot springs, narrowly avoiding any fall-ins. Eventually, he heard a quiet splashing sound. The little ball had gone and fallen right in. Darocche could make out two figures - their silhouettes anyway. For the sake of not intruding (and keeping dry), he called out to them,

"Excuse me! Did either of you see something fall in there?"

Well, forget a map of this place. Can't see anything...

Rioushu entered the caverns for the first time in what seemed to be a very long period of absence. He still wasn't sure why he chose the caverns, but he couldn't find anywhere else he wanted to go. I suppose it's because nobody comes here anymore, well, even moreso then the rest of the island. Rioushu thought to himself as he stripped down to his swimming trunks. He quickly went into the hotsprings lowering himself to chest level and sighing. He still wasn't sure what he wanted to do. He could leave the island in search of more populated lands, but he knew he wouldn't like most of the people he met, or he could stay here and pretty much spend most of his time by himself, just like in the old days. "Well, I guess I'll stick it out for a bit longer..."