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Aonice smiled.. "Any bathroom is fine, dear. Theres some at the Manor right down the beach. Where can i find Scorpio?"

Jack walked across the beach, still not having anywhere to stay. Not that he could have paid for an appartment if he found one. "Being a wandering swordsman's just not as profitable as it used to be." He sighed softly. "Guess I'm going to be begging cash off the locals... again..." It always seemed to happen on every island that he ended up on so he was getting used to it by now. Of course, not many people seemed too want to hand money out to a 17 year old who carried a katana around. Not that Jack would have ever hurt anyone unless it was self defense.

Pisces snuck into a changing room near the manor. She quickly stripped herself of her dress and underwear. She reached up and pulled a ribbon from her raven black hair, it cascaded down her neck. She looked herself over, glaring at the seal on her stomach. She looked behind her, down her back was the mark of Pisces. "I despise being labled. I'm not some sort of toy or stereotype!" she growled.

The young girl picked up the one piece and slipped it on her body. It was tight like Aonice said, but it made her look slimmer and made her chest stick out more. "Perfect..." she muttered as she admired herself in the mirror. Afterwards, Pisces ran out, her clothes in hand, towards the caverns.

Jack sighed as he slowly sat up, brushing the sand off his cloths. He would have liked to relax a bit longer but he still had to find a place to stay, that, and he was beginning to get bored... Jack set out to explore more of the island, unknowingly headed for the caverns.

Gatz was sitting around reading another magazine as Scorpio walked past him.

"... You *do* realise that there's a dark, shadowy presense that's been trailing you for at least the past 15 minutes, right?" he commented as the young man walked past. Gatz flipped the page of his magazine; he wasn't even even looking up.

"You seem to get horribly upset when I don't or can't tell you about this sort of thing---for some odd reason---so I just thought I'd mention it well in advance this time."

((---As in 'at such time it is convienant to use such a plot device'. xd ))

"Or you could go with some countries' policies, and launch a "pre-emptive counter-strike. Of course, considering how well that tatic has worked out for said countries, yeah, it'd probably be better to just wait," Gatz finished with a laugh.

He went back to reading his magazine like nothing had happened.

"Ah, good question. You want to let you foe know that you recognise their presense, but that they really aren't worth your time to track down and deal with. They will either continue on as they were, or be provked into action by the blantent show of disrespect. Thus you either wind up losing nothing, drawing out your foe, or at least identifying their method of attack. I expect the first, seeing as the one follwing you seems to be patient, but it's always a good idea to be ready to duck anyways."

"I shall now demonstrate one method by which all this may be accomplished," Gatz said, repostioning his magazine so that he could hold it with one hand. "Learn well, grasshopper."

Gatz, still looking at the magazine, proceeds to give the shadowy figure who was trailing Scorpio 'the Finger'.

"Think you've got that?" he asked, taking his hand back down to flip the page. "When you are certain the pursurer is female, cat-calls and wolf-whistles are also very effective---of course, they increase the amount of pain headed your way..."