RP:I'm A Monster!

Summary: Xzavior finds himself pitted against a young girl and her serpents.

The Sage Forest Bell

Xzavior traversed the Sage Forest on an early morning walk before jumping right back into his work at the sick bay in Larket. It was getting tense what with the fermin poisonings. He was wearing a light blue long sleeved shirt and his hair was a slight mess, like he just walked out the door after giving his hair a single brush. Paying very little attention to his surroundings he was lost in thought and his own imaginings he looked straight ahead as he made his way down the path. The forest would alway be his favorite place to be, the overlapping treetops forming a comforting green glow as the sunlight passed through and the soft rustling as the wind stirred the leaves. He would have stopped and taken a nap if he didn't have a shift today.

Revan :: The peaceful setting of the sage forest was always calming and a great place to ease your mind for a while usually when traveling back and forth between Larket and Kelay, however recently this place of serenity had become home to deceit and evil. The silence of the woods is not only broken by Xzavior's footsteps but by the sound of a tightly strung rope twisting and turning as a body hangs several feet off the ground with the contact point being the tongue of the great Sage Forest bell. The pale body has been mutilated with blood trickling down the flesh and falling to the earth in a constant drip as the soft laugh of a child can be heard echoing through the forest around him.

Xzavior had barely noticed the body still deep in concentration nor did he hear the rope that said body hung. The child's laughter, on the other hand, broke his self induced trance. It might have been day and Kelay was a fairly safe place but he didn't think a child should be out alone. Taking a look around to see if he could find them his gaze fell upon the bell which now owned a new clapper. Quickly glancing around wary if who ever had done this was still here he slowly advanced on the corpse. "Who and why would anyone do -this-..."

Revan :: The giggle of a small girl is audible just behind Xzavior and he turns to inspect the source he'll find an adorable girl, no older than six, with her hands laced together in front of her twisting her body side to side in a dance while her cute sun dress swishes with her hair back and forth showcasing the bright yellow sunflower tucked behind her ear. When she speaks her voice is innocent and sweet, "I'm a monster~!" she claims with an emphasis and extension on the end as four thick headed, massive snakes emerge from beneath her dress as an extension to her body lifting her into the air, the reptiles sharing the features of the deadly gaboon viper rear back and lunge towards Xzavior without warning aiming to consume him in one fatal swallow.

Xzavior :: As Xzavior turned to find the girl he shifted to try and hid the body from sight of the girl. He was about to ask her why she was out here all alone and if someone she knew was nearby but didn't get a chance as she made the very unusual statement, "Monster?" His eyes widened as he watched the girl extend herself into the air and had very little time to dodge out of the way feeling the snake's scales brush by his. Once out of the way he shifted into his human form, complete with a white suit, and conjured up a staff of ice. "Let's not have irony conquer the day." He lifted the staff in a defencive position, he had no wish to hurt the kid. Because that is what she still was, monster or not.

Revan :: The girl didn't care for Xzavior's formalities or honor as her serpent 'legs' slithered as high speed towards the naga-human hybrid being and continued their strikes with loud hisses, slapping across whatever brush and trees they may come across until they were right on top of the man and lunging down on him again - it was time to put up or shut up, Xzavior.

Xzavior furrowed his brows as the child advanced towards him, "Alright. If that's how this must be." Using his staff he pull vaulted over the swinging limbs and rolled behind her murmuring quick words of power as he went. Once he was finished e whipped his staff back, trailing a snow like substance that launched at the girl. Wherever the snow would land it would solidify and encase the area in ice. Following through with his swing he used the momentum to carry himself farther from the snake being and prepared for the next assault.

Revan :: The snow manages to contact with the back right snake freezing it's head in place and the surrounding area which causes the rest of them to slip, the force ripping the head of the beast clean off which causes the little girl to scream bloody murder as actual blood spurts out staining the icy ground crimson as her eyes look to Xzavior filled with hatred, "YOU KILLED IGGY!" she declares before the other heads spit a vicious hiss at Xzavior before the back left presses all of it's weight into the ground lifting the girl and the remaining two heads high above the air where the two front legs stretch out like some form of rubber and close in on both sides of Xzavior at lightening fast speed to try and smash him together in a bite.

Xzavior gritted his teeth has he watched the snake get decapitated and swore under his breath. When she shouted the accusation he shook his head and shouted back, "This can only get worse if you keep this up!" It was true, for him and for her. As she made her next attack, now coming from both sides he planted his staff into the ground and a wall of ice shot up from both sides of him. As soon as they either made contact with the walls or missed he would toss up a hand letting loose more of the snow at the closest limb before leaping towards the girl herself staff raised to strike.

Revan :: The thunderous boom of the two heads smashing into the walls is deafening at the force of the blow is enough to knock the snakes out leaving just the girl and the back left beast. Xzavior succeeds in freezing the front left head while charging up towards the little girl who releases a screech like a banshee in frustration, fear and anger while her final leg pulls up to drop the from their heightened stance and hovers just before the flicking his tongue out at the naga before giving it his all in one final strike hoping to knock Xzavior into the bell before them.

Xzavior , for as well as he was doing, failed to realize that the the final limb still had a mind of it's own. When it reared itself to strike he slid to a halt and went to jump out of the way. He was more or less successful avoiding the full force of it but it was still able to knock him back skidding across the ground stopping just before the bell. Giving a grunt with his face twisted n a grimace he came to a stand with a hand on his chest. "There goes a rib or two..." Having lost his other staff from the hit he summoned another one and walked towards her keeping an eye on her still free limbs. "The game is done. Give up before I do something I will live to regret."

Revan :: The girl stares at Xzavior with tears streaming down her face and her chin trembling as she sobs for the loss of her three pets, or well Iggy at least the other two were just knocked out cold. "You're the monster!" she exclaims in a shriek before the only conscious head begins to slither away struggling to pull the weight of the two knocked out and one deceased ones. The girls crying can be heard until she is well out of sight and a thick trail of blood from the severed head is left in her wake. Standing beneath the bell where the corpse still hangs in a man dressed in dark black robes and a white necked raven resting upon his shoulder, he claps his hands together three times in congratulations to the young cryomancer "Well done, Nagakin." he states in a melancholy sounding tone though it is genuine.

Xzavior slumped his shoulders as the girl was dragged away crying muttering under his breath "I've heard that one before." When he heard the clapping he stiffened and turned to glare at the newcomer, "Really? You'll have to excuse me if I fail to agree with you." Shifting back to his naga form he relinquished the staff and crossed his arms facing him with a sigh. "I suppose you know what this is all about, otherwise you wouldn't be as calm as you are. Care to explain what the hell I just went through?"

Revan stares with soft glowing blue eyes from beneath his hood while walking slowly towards Xzavior and nodding to his body after the transformation takes place, "Impressive", he comments off topic before nodding slowly to the man's wishes. "Surely you know more about the topic than I, yes? I mean, you -are- the one who lived it Naga." A crooked laugh is given as the man lifts and drops his right shoulder to send his raven flying after the girl into the woods. "Faced with grave danger, you don't hesitate to react and yet you still show mercy when your foe is ready to be slain. Perhaps if it weren't a little girl upon the circus of serpents you would not have been so kind, hmm?"

Xzavior gave the man a smirk and a dry chuckle, "Somehow I doubt that you are completely in the dark about this." He watched as the bird flew off in the direction of the girl and gave a look of suspicion towards the man. As he started to describe the recent events he nodded but gave a small frown, "I used to live in danger every day, I'm used to it. But I try to make it a habit to not kill on a whim. That could have been a grown man who had done many horrid things and I wouldn't have killed him. Not that I wouldn't have beaten him senseless. But I'm also not an idiot. If that girl truly put me in that position I would have killed her."

Revan :: A smile can be seen filling the man's features beneath that heavy hood as he pulls his right arm out from under his robe sleeve and extends a single white rose to Xzavior, "You're a good man, Naga. A smart man. Take this and return to your reality knowing that you've made a smart decision on this day."

Xzavior took the rose and gave him a questioning look, "A... rose. You mean to tell me all of this was just an illusion?" He looked back towards the man rose still in hand, "I can't say I'm not glad to know this is all fake but I have to know why you did this? And if you have anything to do with any of the other people who had roses."

Revan gave 1 white rose to Xzavior.

Revan snickers at the man's comments and nods to the blood stained ground and then the severed snake head, "Illusion? Fake? Whatever gave you that impression my dear boy?" Then with a wisp of wind the man dissipates before the naga's own eyes the head and blood trail following soon after, leaving him with only the rose to remember the event.

Xzavior frowned as the man left without a trace removing all evidence of the recent events other then the rose he held in his hand, he grumbled and shook his head "Why must people always be so cryptic..." He turned back to return to Larket more awake then he was before. So much for a relaxing walk.