Fantasy Cursed Island

[Darkling0096]

"Yes." Beri seemed to shrink a bit. "I do not know how to control what I took from the phoenix."

"Veo has gone to the pools," Joanne pointed Emil in that direction, assuming he was looking for her. Nobody answered Shuffle immediately, but Nyah appeared and summoned a towel to dry her off.

 

[Fangs9090]

Fia nodded. "First, you need to feel it inside you." She closed her eyes. "Concentrate and focus on your life force. On that flame that keeps you going."

Emil glanced over and nodded before heading towards the pools as well. He could do with getting cleaned off anyway.

Shuffle glanced at Nyah before sitting down to let the djinn dry her head. "I don't remember anything from last night... Er, I remember getting a bottle. And then you gave me a second one... And then it starts getting fuzzy."

 

[Darkling0096]

"I do not know what that means," Beri shook his head. Those were alien concepts to him.

"Do you see why alcohol is bad?", Nyah asked, "You woke up this morning in pain and had to do all this to escape the headache." She didn't mention that Shuffle had only drank juice and cider.

 

[Fangs9090]

"It's hard to explain it plainly. It's something you have to try and figure out for yourself. The fire power is inside you. You just need to figure out how to channel it. It might work similarly to your rage."

"What's a alcohol? Was that the bottles I got?"

 

[Darkling0096]

"Hmm," Beri thought atbout that, looking at his paw. "My rage is a weapon, but what you describe is not."

"Yes," Nyah lied, "That was alcohol. It is great fun at the time, but horribly painful afterwards."

 

[Fangs9090]

"Hm.... Well, you made a little bit of fire earlier. I'm explaining it the way I use it as a phoenix, but maybe it's different for you. Maybe it's connected directly to your rage? I really don't know everything about what happened, but I'll do what I can to help."


"Oh... I do feel like I did something fun. I just wish I could remember it."

 

[Darkling0096]

"I do not know," Beri looked up from his paw. "It is strange, this situation, when I was last this young Adran was not yet a warlock"


"You made a lot of trouble, Erina had to tie you up to keep you from hurting yourself."

 

[Fangs9090]

Fia nodded. "If you have the full powers of a phoenix, this might not be the first time. That depends on how careful you are."


"Oh. I didn't hurt anyone else, did I?"

 

[Darkling0096]

"That prospect does not sound appealing," Beri shook his head. "Have you realized your wrappings were destroyed?"

"No, luckily."

 

[Fangs9090]

"Hm?" Fia blinked and glanced down. "Oh, right... They got a bit ripped up in that fight. I'll have to talk to Erina about that, I guess. I'm not too bothered by it, but most people are."


Shuffle sighed. "That's good." She glanced around. "Why does it look like there was a fire then?"

 

[Darkling0096]

"You may wish to ask for something a but sturdier than cloth bindings," Beri agreed.


"That is because," Nyah pointed at the color-changed Beri and topless Fia, "Beri ate the phoenix."

 

[Fangs9090]

"Well, I don't normally fight like that. And catching fire doesn't effect what I'm wearing like it does for Shuffle."


Shuffle blinked as she looked over at what was apparently Beri. "He...did? Why?"

 

[Darkling0096]

"You have strong talons, you should make use of them more often."


"It got free, and it tried to kill everyone."

 

[Fangs9090]

"Well, it's also that I don't normally fight. I try to avoid it when possible."


"Oh. That's a good reason."

 

[Darkling0096]

Beri shook his head, "You are hardly fragile." He got up and started pacing, he seemed to do that alot when he was nervous.


"It is," Nyah nodded, "Come, do you want something to eat?"

 

[Fangs9090]

"It's not that I can't fight, I just don't like to. Better to make friends than enemies, you know?"


Shuffle nodded as well. "Yeah!" She hopped up to her feet before glancing over as Niudisa fluttered towards them.

"Feeding time, good. I want to check on her while she eats. Maybe I can figure out what happened to her last night."

Shuffle tilted her head.

 

[Darkling0096]

"You have said that several times now. It sounds as though you are trying to convince yourself that you do not fight, even though you do." Beri shook his head, "To fight is not a bad thing. To cause trouble is. If you could internalize that distinction, you would not have that problem."


Nyah made a face and waved her hand over her throat, vanishing into smoke and reappearing as a tiny fairy next to Niudisa, whispering, "I've told her that was alcohol she drank, I'm trying to keep that from happening again."

 

[Fangs9090]

"I know when I need to fight, and fight when I need to. But I try to avoid it."

Niudisa glanced over at Nyah with a raised eyebrow. "By not telling her that regular juice has the exact same effect for her?"

 

[Darkling0096]

"Then why do you feel the need to repeatedly state you do not fight?", Beri pressed. "You have said four times now that you can fight, but prefer not to. If you were trying to tell me you did not like conflict, once would have sufficed."


"Exactly, if fruit juice can get Shuffle drunk, I'm trying to keep her from becoming so again."

 

[Fangs9090]

"Because you keep mentioning it and so I keep answering you."


"Then tell her what causes it. Otherwise she's liable to eat a bundle of fruit and get wasted on accident."

 

[Darkling0096]

Beri shook his head, "This conversation has gone nowhere." He padded off to go wake Adran, whether he and his spider girlfriend wanted to be conscious or not.


"I am trying to solve that problem in advance," Nyah hissed, "If it takes like fruit juice, she's going to assume it will do that to her, and if you tell her something is alcohol, she will do the same! It is not hard to grasp this concept."

 

[Fangs9090]

Fia watched him go before standing up. She was apparently not a very good teacher.


"She still wouldn't know the truth. You should explain the whole thing to her. Baby her too much and she'll end up crippled."

 

[Darkling0096]

Beri snuck into Adran and Erina's tent. He was a bit surprised to not smell the usual result of Adran, a pretty woman, and alcohol, but it wasn't an unwelcome change. What was an unwelcome change was that Erina was on top of Adran, so he couldn't just sneakily pull Adran out of bed without waking his bedpartner. "Wake up," he growled, prodding Erina's carapace to try and move her.


"I will explain things to her when there is no danger of her actions killing us."

 

[Fangs9090]

Erina groaned and flicked a leg to swat whatever was prodding her. She didn't quite feel like getting up just yet.


Niudisa rolled her eyes. "Fine, whatever. I'm still gonna check her to find out what's up." She looked back towards Shuffle, only to find she had moved. She was now sitting directly below them, watching.

 

[Darkling0096]

Beri growled as he was swatted at, locking his teedh around the leg and biting. Not hard enough to break, but enough to apply pressure and get attention.


Nyah changed back to her usual appearance, "Okay, Shuffle, go find a table and I'll make you breakfast!"