The Warped

[Vee Katame: His Wolfy]

Mahi was somehow very frustrated by not being permitted to give Kiral the drink and roughly set the mug down on a table as she briskly walked away. She wouldn't have been surprised if Luna had been right at her heels as she left the place, but she didn't look back to check. Once outside, she just aimlessly walked down the street. Normally, she wouldn't be so easily frustrated since she usually kept a level head so she didn't understand why what the apothecary had said bugged her so much.

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

Kiral growled and roared as the pain became progressively worse. The apothecary merely stood there and watched as the needles started changing color, as if turning clear, all while smoking his long pipe out the window, "If you think this is painful, you have still half left to go. If I don't remove those needles at the proper time, the bones will over expand beyond the void that needs to be filled and tear your arm into pieces like pulling pork, but from the inside." Kiral soon knew what the apothecary meant when the pain gradually got worse and worse. Finally, he just let out the loudest roar he had ever done in his life, being one who was used to pain. "Oh shit, I'm going to need that girl's help since the clinic's doctor is doing a house call."

[Vee Katame: His Wolfy]

Mahi's heightened hearing easily picked up Kiral's extremely loud roar of pain. Groaning to herself, she turned around and headed back to the clinic. Lune skidded to a halt in the dirt before turning and giving chase, only to run into Mahi's heels a moment later. "I really don't want to deal with that guy again, but I should be there for Kiral at least..." She thought to herself grumpily. When she got back to the clinic, she took a deep breath and straightened her face so she didn't look grumpy. After she had finished "preparing" herself, she stepped inside with Luna right behind her again.

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

The apothecary emptied out the remaining tobacco in his pipe and was about to walk out when Mahi surprised him by walking in, "Ah, good timing. Now I don't have to go looking for you. Your friend is about to go through the final stages of the procedure, and I need a second person to help me with this. I need you to elevate his arm off the table and pull it with full tension so I can remove ALL of the needles. If I don't do this in a timely fashion, he could lose his arm."

[Vee Katame: His Wolfy]

Mahi pretty much looked right through the guy as he spoke to her, but nodded when he finished to show that she acknowledged what she needed to do. After waiting for five minutes, she was told that it was time for her to do what she had been directed to. Walking over to Kiral, she elevated his arm off of the table like she had been told to and pulled it so it was at full tension so the apothecary could take the needles out.

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

The next several days were depressing. White barely talked to Mahi and Kiral, keeping mainly to himself, while Kiral concentrated on getting better, and Mahi just doing whatever she felt like doing, but mostly taking care of Luna. After 2 days, they all left and trekked for another 3. Finally, on the morning of the 4th day, when it was time to leave, White refused to move. "No, I'm tired of this. There is no point! For all we know, we'll cease to exist any minute! Besides, having to put up with you two is a nightmare in and of itself!" Kiral was frustrated and hungry, but he did his best to talk White into going on, but he refused. In mid-argument, there came a glow from White's chest and it grew as it consumed his body. Kiral ran over to help, but the light had spread into tentacles and smacked him away. The tentacled light raised White into the air and one ran right through his heart. White's body disappeared slowly, consumed by the light, and it let out a flash as the familiar old chest landed where White had been. A name inscribed on the lid in an ancient language.

[Vee Katame: His Wolfy]

Mahi spent the next several days wandering around and also taking care of Luna. When it was time for them to leave the village, she went along with Kiral and White, trekking for three days. On the fourth day when White refused to go and started whining, Mahi was so annoyed with his depressing attitude that she didn't make any attempt to try to get him to move on with them. She "watched" what unfolded as Kiral tried to get him to go with them. She couldn't see the glow when it came from White's chest so she was greatly confused when Kiral ran over and was somehow smacked away before White was lifted into the air. And then White wasn't there anymore and she "saw" a chest land on the ground in his place. "What the hell just happened?" She asked in a confused and frustrated tone as she slowly moved over to the chest.

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

Kiral was still in shock at what had just happened, and couldn't speak or even move. It would be another minute or two before he was able to talk. "I... I don't know. He... I thought he was just blowing off some steam from being hungry that we ended up arguing, and then his weapons just lit up and attacked him!" Kiral was shaken up, despite the brave facade he's been putting up since the begging.

[Vee Katame: His Wolfy]

Mahi's eyes widened as Kiral said that White's weapons attacked him. "That's crazy..." She said, disbelief and worry in her voice. "It's impossible..." She looked down at her arms, "seeing" her gauntlets. Her arms were shaking slightly. Her knees gave out and she ended up sitting on the ground next to the chest. Luna came over and nudged her arm causing her to automatically lift a hand and pet Luna on the head. She tried to wrap her mind around what Kiral said had happened but it just didn't make any sense and she didn't want to believe that their weapons could attack them.