[Kyoto] Abandoned AT Factory

[Apollymi]

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In the wake of the last great parts war, there was a building which was used for the wholesale research and manufacture of AT parts and specifically Regalia. In Kyoto this factory was nearly demolished and thus abandoned in the wake of some very mysterious circumstances. The skeleton of this building is slowly but surely be reclaimed by nature and is covered in moss and even a sprouting trees. It is the perfect high rise and complicated location for advanced training and an interesting venue for parts wars.

[Bloodedge]

Some time after sunset, a tunnel of wind created by the second generation Sky King, Takeuchi Shoichi, reached and descended upon the ruins of the old Tokyo AT lab. Alongside the first Water Queen, the young man rode inside this wind tunnel, taking it all the way to the support beams of what would have been the second floor of this building. Surprisingly, there was still a decent amount of foothold on this floor; at least where the tunnel landed. "Eh? Did I hit the right spot?" he asked aloud as his ATs made contact with the floor.

[Apollymi]

Jinx the Water Queen of the First Generation found herself in the place she'd been aiming for. An abandoned factory she and her friends and wrecked a number of years prior to this one. It was also the one place she likely wouldn't get in any trouble for being the kind of person she was. The entire ride over, she'd been thinking of what to do for the Sky King's training, knowing what needed to be done she had decided on a training and felt the need to explain it now, even as dusk was settling in. "Fucking hell, Flyboy, I'm kinda jealous, that is one hell of a way to travel." she mentioned rolling her eyes. "And yes, this is definitely the right spot." she finished up having a look around it would serve as a good enough obstacle course to cover the problems made obvious by this young man's run, and make him way better. "Ugh, I got some set up to do, meet me by the front door in two minutes and I'll explain it to you. Go out that way..." she said a devious smirk on her face, pointing out of the side of the building towards the entrance below and to the left where a door still stood. "No peeking." she mentioned before hopping down a hole and into a the space below.

Once there assuming her instructions would be followed she began making torrents of bubbles in various sizes and shapes. These would be aligned at different points around different obstacles and between gaps all over the second floor. Jinx was quite familiar with the layout of this building, she'd once worked here, so a speed run to lay a trap for the man outside was nothing but child's play to her, and even easier given the fine tuning of her regalia by the Second Generation's Pledge Queen. 'Gotta do something really nice for Pinkie Pie. I wonder what she likes...' the girl had a thought. Though her usual motivation would be to do something fun like explode this building from the bottom floor down, took special precautions to make sure none of the bubbles would damage the major structures which held the building up. Once the various bubbles were in place, she pushed out of the front door where she expected to find the Second Generation Sky King waiting for her.

[Bloodedge]

"I don't travel like that. That tunnel was for you," Shoichi replied as he rolled around the immediate area, visually inspecting the venue chosen by the Water Queen. This place was a bit weird to him; he wasn't used to places like this being old enough to have foliage growing around it. No such place existed anywhere in Miyabigaoka, but he supposed Kyoto was a more grassy place to be, so to speak. When instructed to meet the woman by the front door in precisely two minutes, Shoichi looked in the direction she aimed him toward. "Hai," he said casually. A very nonchalant stroll forward followed, ending in the young man hopping into the sky and flipping about with his hands in his pockets, until the time came to meet Jinx again. Right after she opened the door, he was descending feet-first toward the ground. When his wheels met the ground, he looked toward the Water Queen. "What was this place?"

[Apollymi]

The Water Queen seemed to find some humor in the fact that the funnel used to travel here had been created for her benefit. Obviously she could have gotten here on her own, but she could see the benefit in being able to do that faster. Once she came out the door she watched the Sky King's choice of descent and snickered. "Flashy entrance." she mentioned while rolling her eyes. In answer to the young man's question she began answering his question.

"Oh, this place? It used to be a factory where they were working on the wide scale AT research and manufacture of Regalia. And we decided it'd be best if Regalia were only really created by tuners, so we fucked this place up. It was a good weekend." she mentioned with a touch of nostalgia in her voice. But beyond this there was a more important explanation. "But for us, it'll be your training ground, one of the few places, I can't get in trouble for fucking shit up and that has enough variation in it to be useful to what you gotta learn." the Water Queen finished looking at the man's ATs and nodding her approval. "And before you ask, your run lacks fluidity and flexibility. Your reflexes are a bit dull and using two sets of ATs was reducing your capacity to fix those problems." she said. "But it's cool, Pinkie Pie fixed that last bit... so I'll fix the rest."

[Bloodedge]

Soon enough, Shoichi learned the purpose of this building... or at least, what used to be the building's purpose, when it was functional. He could understand why Jinx and the others decided to tear the building down, as Subregalia were quite a nuisance during the last Parts War. In fact, he figured the bothersome ones that were around back then likely came from this very building. He would, of course, aim to get confirmation on this theory. "When you say they tried manufacturing Regalia, are you saying this is where they made the Subregalia from years ago?" he asked. As far as issues with his run were concerned, he supposed he could understand that his riding was shy of fluid motion. "Makes sense, yeah. Alright Teach!" he said, slamming his right fist into his left hand while grinning. "What's lesson one?"

[Apollymi]

Jinx looked at the Sky King and nodded in answer to his question, clarifying for posterity's sake. "Yes, all the Subregalia that were created bar the first one were made here. The first one, was the one which made this facility go up in the first place..." she said looking at the young man and anticipating a question she answered it. "The first Subregalia belonged to Frost Nipper by the way, made by robbing her regalia of an essential piece. She was younger than us, so she couldn't have been one of us. Seeing her run as a kid at not full capacity, let other people know it was possible to create Regalia, and this place was set up so they could try." she mentioned and now that such a situation was cleared up. She went back to the matter of his training.

He seemed to be very excited by this and Jinx couldn't help but wonder what kind of simple thing was going through this young man's mind. As but she was teaching and as such she lifted the toe of her right AT and manipulating her foot with her backwheel being the only one touching the ground she created a series of bubbles in various sizes. "Well, there isn't a lesson one." she clarified. "If the Flame Fox were teaching, and likely how he is choosing to do it with Frost Nipper, he'd do it in stages. But, fuck if I have that kinda patience." mentioned the blue haired young woman as she began pacing and swinging around one pigtail as she did so. "You are going to learn how to run properly without stopping and deal with the things in your way by use of these." she said pointing to the myriad of bubbles in front of her. "Inside I laid out an obstacle course, first run is the ground floor, because it has solid footing. You can consider that the handicap stage, because it only requires you to run. These bubbles are all made a bit differently and are mixed together within the building everywhere. Going from office to office, down a hallway, through a lab, all of it will be a fucking minefield." she mentioned thinking about it made her quite happy inside. "And because of the nature of these, your choice in movements and attacks will be limited. The bubbles themselves are set to go off and explode after they are passed, meaning, if you turn back or you stop..." the smaller set of bubbles exploded but the large one remained. It was the size of a basket ball and had now reached eye level. "These ones are special, they are the only bubbles you are permitted to attack... and you'll have to be quick about it." she mentioned as it floated up she tapped her rear wheel into the ground and caused an explosion which caused a chain reaction in smaller bubbles that had floated upwards as well. "If you fuck up and attack it too soon, you'll blow yourself up, and I am sure you've figured out how lather road bubbles work by now... so yeah." she mentioned. "Oh, and you'll have to be mindful of the wind you toss around... they'll all explode if it blows too hard and I promise you don't want that... the whole floor above could come down on top of you if you fuck up too bad. Anyways, in order to complete today's training, you have to make it up the far staircase and to the second floor. I've made all the other ways up there really dangerous so I would just do what I say and move through the building." she mentioned with a smile. "Questions?"

[Bloodedge]

"Sou ka. Y'know, at this point... I feel like Subregalia wouldn't be too bad. I mean, if people didn't use them as stepping stones to reach for the Sky Regalia, they could have been fine, but... I dunno. I'm probably just talkin' outta my ass." Discarding his previous train of thought, he kept his eyes trained on the bubbles Jinx used for examples in her run-down. Combining all of his lessons into one form of training was an exciting concept to the young Sky King, and he was presently hyping himself up for what was to come. "So, keep moving and attack the big bubbles. Do it right, or get blown up. Don't throw too much wind around. That... sounds... pretty fuckin' sweet!" Of course, Shoichi was already thinking about taking the other paths up, simply to have the extra difficulty, and he was very likely to do exactly that. He did also have one question for the blue-haired woman. "So what do I do when I'm done with this?" As he asked this question, Shoichi toyed around with the air between his hands, forming numerous overlaying miniature cyclones with different swirl patterns between them for some reason or another.

[Apollymi]

Jinx looked at the Sky King and shrugged about his thoughts for the Subregalia. "That would be fine and all, until you got grown ass dumb people jacking ill equipped kids for their gear, in the case of created Subregalia that they bought or won off somebody. Or ya' know, getting a Subregalia and learning how to use it in gravity so they can wait until another tower opens and steal a good one off of a kid before their bodies have adjusted, it'd be a slaughter." she mentioned knowing that such things had happened before.

All that said the boy seemed to understand his training, and what was more seemed to be excited about it. She supposed that was a much better attitude to have about it than defeatism or anger. Beyond this, he seemed to question what would be done after. "Uh? After you finish this lesson, you get a lesson in relaxation, it's something missing from your generation, and the Flame Fox will never let me hear the end of it, if I let you wind yourself too tightly to run properly." mentioned the Water Queen. "Well, unless you mean after you complete the lessons. In that case I intend to increase the difficulty until you can take the entire building without stopping. Once that is the case, I'll teach ya' how to Zone properly."

[Bloodedge]

Jinx's answer to his question left Shoichi a bit bemused. He had come here expecting quite a hardcore training session, but he supposed it would last for weeks, so he couldn't expect any one task to take an incredible amount of each day. While he continued molding the wind in his hands, eventually forming spheres of wind. Once he'd finished toying around with this enough, he dispersed the air. "Got it. Get to the goal, finish the session, relax. I may as well work myself up a relaxing mood then, huh?" he asked in a rhetorical fashion. Shoichi fully intended to take all possible routes to the second floor, no matter how dangerous they may have been, and take the recommended path simply as a victory lap in the end. "One last thing," he said as he turned toward the building. "Those dangerous ways up you mentioned... do they have the bubbles I'm supposed to shoot too?"

[Apollymi]

Jinx found herself looking at the young man before her and was stunned by his attitude. Something about it seemed familiar but not in the way she expected. "Uh-huh." she said not knowing what to make of it at first. Then after a few seconds ponytail still swinging as she thought she had a more concrete way of speaking. "Fuckin' hell get to work already. Patience not a virtue." mentioned the blue haired woman who wasn't at all known for being nice or patience so the idea of her teaching anyone anything was rather foreign though apparently she'd done it before. The one last question made the woman pause. She closed her eyes and opened them, mostly because she'd created the path without thinking too much but also had done so with the intention of making them difficult. Of the paths he wasn't supposed to take he blue ring in her eyes around their normal magenta core would alert the young man to the usage of her special eye. "Fuck, yeah. Some of them do, the danger in them has a lot to do with the placement of the shooters... I could tell you why... but fuck if I feel like being that generous." with this statement made Jinx expected this young man to get to work, but she didn't deactivate her eye. No she fully intended to keep an eye on him this way from the outside, and cause some explosions if he got too complacent.

[Bloodedge]

"Sweet. I'll take 'em all. Check my time," he said while looking over his shoulder at the blue-haired woman, showing a cheeky grin and pupils surrounded by the wings that marked his special eye. When he turned back around, his excitement showed in full. "Osu!" he exclaimed, clapping his hands with his right pointed down and his left pointed up. His hands separated as he began to move, creating a vacuum ball of air betwixt them. The first path he took was the most solid bit of wall on the outside of the first floor, which led to the opening on floor 2. He could see how every bubble disturbed the wind, making it an easy feat to avoid them as he moved. The problem he was seeing was the amount of large bubbles here, and though he swayed to and fro to avoid the smaller ones and their explosions, he could assume the larger ones would create a chain reaction of explosions that he couldn't avoid so easily while being this close. So, Shoichi made an executive decision based on what he saw and gathered of this route up. There were nine larger bubbles here, all close enough to lines of smaller ones that weren't along the same path as him. No, they were instead on a path between the larger bubbles. Shoichi's decision was based on this, and involved him avoiding the throwing of his vacuum ball at any of the large bubbles, realizing before doing so that it would just cause the later bubbles to damage him by the time he reached where they were. He continued moving through the course while holding on to the vacuum ball, choosing not to release it until he'd passed all of them. At this point, he turned around and shot the large bubble closest to him while continuing upward into the sky, clearing the chain of explosions as they occurred. From above, he had a better view of the other routes, and thus the ability to determine how he would approach the next one. "Whew! Think you're trying to kill me hard enough with these things?"

[Apollymi]

The Water Queen began using the timer on her phone while watching the boy work. "This cheeky fucker." said the woman rolling her eyes though this conversation was a bit nostalgic for her. She hadn't expressed he couldn't use his special eye, though she was unsure what it allowed him to see, she could only see good coming from its use. She didn't know what she expected, but at the very least he seemed to respond pretty well, to the kind of training she had in mind. She found it odd that he decided to take all routes instead of just the one he was meant to, but she supposed the less time he spent figuring out how to run, and the more he spent actually running the better off him and his skills would be. Beyond this, at the very least he seemed capable of thinking on his feet, as he took the first unintended route in a way which allowed him not to take damage from all the bubbles she'd left behind there. "Fuckin' hell." she said to herself as the boy got his extra boost and got the lay of the land she commented in a most haphazard way about his apparent thoughts of her trying to kill him. "Naw, fuck that, I obviously didn't try hard enough. One minute thirty seconds, not bad, but that's lap one... keep fucking moving!" the woman outright made this demand, and she was always sort of this way, in addition to her normal antics.

She then had a thought and such a thought made her find a number in her phone and dial it, while the Sky King continued his work. Mostly because she hadn't thought of where they'd stay while here, there was no point going all the way back to Miyabigaoka. And the home she used to keep here, had already been wrecked, with that in mind she found herself phoning a teen of the 3rd Generation. A young man by the name of Hoshigaki Hayato, whose number was in her phone under the nickname 'Spolsion Man.

[Bloodedge]

"Right!" he said when told to keep moving. He aimed himself face-down while holding his hands back to give himself a wind boost toward the ground at a slight angle. He took himself to another wall, choosing to take this one in reverse. There was no perceivable way to overcome this one, but Jinx did stress that the additional paths were dangerous. In this case, the bubbles were all sort of jumbled together in a sphere, and given the radius of the explosions, they would all be blowing up in a chain-reaction this time. This session required the Sky King to think on his feet right out of the gate, but making things up as he went was the way of Shoichi anyway. He quickly descended into the center of this set of obstacles, starting a continuous spiral as he did so. This caused the wind from his hands to sweep up all bubbles, both small and large, on this side of the course. When Shoichi finished spinning, he forced all the winds onto one location above him as he continued falling, causing the bubbles to create one massive explosion in the air. As this happened, Shoichi reached the ground again, moving on to the next lap.

In the meantime, the silver-haired Blast King was sitting in the Tokyo Skytree his team had taken as a base, enjoying his usual gaming session, when his phone rang. He didn't bother checking to see who was calling him, choosing instead to just answer it and tuck his phone between his face and left shoulder, as to not interrupt the session. "Talk," he said as the obvious sound of controller buttons being pressed intensified.

[Apollymi]

'Atta boy.' the girl thought only to go back to what she'd been doing previously. Watching the antics of the Sky King as he adjusted to the danger of the situations she'd laid out with the bubbles her road created. Under other circumstances she'd likely feel bad for doing such things, but now she sincerely figured it was for is betterment. As such she kept an eye on his progress twirling that one pigtail around in her head as she made a phone call.

When told to speak the woman chuckled just a little. "Yo, 'Spolsion Man, I need a small favor." she stated knowing that this favor was none too small but nothing outside of the boy's skill set. "I am kinda hold up in Kyoto for a while training this baby Sky King, and I need a presidential suite or a penthouse room for like a month, with a jaccuzi tub in. Oh and stuff... medical supplies, liquor and smokes. Can ya' do that for me?" she asked cutting straight to the point with no mixing of words in between. While she did this she finished taking in the antics of the Sky King commenting on it, pulling the phone away from her ear for a moment to confirm the lap time and start the next one. "10 seconds. That isn't much progress considering that section was easier. Fuckin' hell." the woman said apparently unimpressed.

[Bloodedge]

"A minute and twenty seconds off, but not much improvement. Heh. Let's see then." Shoichi's next path took him into the building, where he found the first floor littered with bubbles of different types. After entering, he decided to try something new. He'd never been through an obstacle course such as this before, but he found it quite fun. In this case, he sent the gentlest of breezes throughout the building, paying mind to how the wind moved. The best path taken by the wind itself would be the path Shoichi ended up taking for himself. He clapped numerous times throughout this path, creating vacuum balls large enough to engulf the bubbles he threw them toward, preventing their explosion, but small enough to slip through the spaces between the obstacle bubbles.

"Everybody needs a favor. I don't pick up the phone to chat," Hayato replied, listening from then on to hear this favor Jinx needed of him. When he heard the favor, he exited the session he was in, heaving a sigh after realizing what this would require. "If you had waited around last time, you could have gotten a card. Now I have to go all the way to Kyoto and shit," he said. A small grunt would be heard afterwards, as the boy got out of his chair and went about donning pants and the like. "Fine. I'll be there when I can. What are ya' drinkin' and what are ya' smokin'?"

[Apollymi]

Jinx was watching the Sky King and finding his cheeky reaction to her apparent disapproval kind of funny. "Yeah, yeah... fucking do something worth looking at, and I'll be inclined to praise." mentioned the woman who could hear the person she was talking with on the phone getting ready for something.

The young man was much like herself in his general distaste and attitude and she could respect that. "Yeah, yeah, I had something ta' do. Community Service sucks..." she mentioned. When the boy went on to say that he'd be there when he could a huge grin broke across the woman's face. As for the questions of what she was drinking and smokin'. "Drinking tequila doesn't matter what brand preferably gold. And... Camel Silvers.. I need like 3 packs...." she said looking at the young Sky King and feeling both a bit of admiration and annoyance. "Make that four, this kid makes me feel annoyed inside. Thank you~" the woman said, this would be followed by her hanging up the phone on the young man knowing that she didn't really want to be on the phone that long in the first place.

[Bloodedge]

"I'll give ya' something worth looking at alright," the Sky King replied. Once he said this, he darted straight forward, aiming himself at the staircase that would lead him to the second floor. While moving, he flipped himself upside down and created another vacuum, this one to surround himself with for the sake of interrupting the wind caused by his movements, as well as granting him an incredible speed boost. Before stepping inside, though, he fired numerous smaller balls at the other shooters in the vicinity all at once. Though all bubbles on the first floor would be exploding from this effort, his vacuum ball jettisoned him toward the stairs before they even had time to do so. As he approached the next set of obstacles, he created a temporary hole in the vacuum to unleash a laser of wind up the corridor. When the vacuum sealed again, its effect and its speed boost let him travel through the center of the laser, thus forcing it to spread outward while he cleared the staircase. In the end, Shoichi was once again launching himself into the sky after reaching the final checkpoint. A wide grin was upon his face as he spoke to the Water Queen below. "You never said I couldn't move the obstacles out of my way. That counts then, yeah?"

[Apollymi]

"I'll be the judge of that~" the woman said, this conversation was odd to her. She supposed since she was no longer just opposed to the young man the shift in their conversation style made sense. But... she'd expected this whole thing to be more like having a conversation with Roze, but every time he spoke... he reminded her of Kurama instead. 'Wait... wait... what?!' the woman's thoughts were cut short though as the young man found a rather interesting solution to the problems presented by the conditions she'd given for completing the obstacle course.

She looked at the time now recorded on her phone, and it was interesting. Of course, she found it so, because the course in its entirety had taken her two minutes to put together, and it'd taken the boy approximately 3 minutes to clear in all facets considering the stipulations put on it. Even considering the extra skill, she'd expected it to take at least double time... but perhaps, he hadn't been given enough credit for being able to think on his feet. 'Hmm... that's actually respectable.' the woman thought. He'd followed all her rules and even thought of a way to speed around and move through the course she'd set up. "Fuck. I hate to admit it, but that was pretty fucking cute." she said. "So, fuck, I can give a pass on that, and I suppose I'll have to try a bit harder to make sure that you almost die next time... now that I know you can get around it at base level." said the woman. She was quite serious about upping the level of difficulty as she increased the size of his obstacle course.

[Bloodedge]

When Jinx acknowledged the pure, unadulterated badassery, as Shoichi would call it, the Sky King closed his eyes and ran his thumb across his own chin. "Up the challenge as much as you want. It'll be fun. I had a pretty good time running those laps, actually." Shoichi took a deep breath, placing his hands on his waistline while leaning back to stretch. If the rest of training was like this, and steadily increasing in difficulty to boot, this was going to be a very fun month. "So... what's next, teach?"

[Apollymi]

"You say that now, so no fucking complaining when you're all fucked up." she said with a nod. Jinx was a lot of things, and sincere in her work was one of them, not that anyone got to know that in most cases. When asked what was next, the blue haired woman had begun skating backwards in a circle around the Sky King. "I am waiting on a guy to do a thing. This was sincerely last minute so, we'll need a crash pad for the month. Conveniently enough, I got a guy for that." she mentioned with a nod. "So we're waiting for him... also, teach? Is that really what you're gonna call me? Fuck." she said this and the corner of her eye twitched just a little. Normally such a thing would come with an immediate desire to wreck something, but she was still far too relaxed from her earlier encounter with the Flame King to do anything more than take a deep breath and exhale it, letting it all go in that second.

[Bloodedge]

"Ya' won't hear a thing from me about it," he said in response to Jinx's talk about complaints. Finding out that they were now simply waiting for the arrival of someone to provide living conditions for the month, Shoichi scratched the back of his head. He had let it slip his mind that such things would be necessary, what with being excited over the prospect of the exercise and all. But, if Jinx had it covered, he would do what was necessary and simply wait. In the meantime, it seemed a bit of light chatting would be the thing to do until they could move on, and Jinx's obvious issue with what she had been labeled brought a laugh from the Sky King. "Well, if it upsets you, then yeah. You'll just have to deal with that."

[Apollymi]

"Fuckin' right I won't hear any of that shit." the woman chimed in, seeming to affirm her own point. She found it somewhat amusing that this man didn't seem at all stressed about anything that was happening right now. A bit of light chatting was probably the last thing one would think the Water Queen good for, but, contrary to popular belief she actually liked just talking with people and the like, as long as she didn't hate the people she was talking with. "Of fucking course, that is the reason that you'd continue to call me that. Fuck, if I can just start off liking what someone chooses to call me. It's too much to fucking ask for... ew something about this feels nostalgic and I don't fucking like it." the woman had a minor tirade only to pause and exhale. "Shit like this is why I end up doing things that get me put in jail." the woman mentioned. She now knew something would have to suffer a bit for this dumb nickname. It'd been a while since she'd tagged the city of Kyoto... perhaps for fun she'd do it sometime in the next day. "I wonder if that hardware store still carries bright pink?" she said aloud. Apparently used to being alone and amusing herself for extended periods of time.

[Bloodedge]

"What's the matter? Can't take your own medicine?" Shoichi asked, initiating a bit of coy banter to keep the conversation going while they waited. Besides, if it was at the expense of the woman who decided to call him 'Man-Swine' for such a long time, he'd certainly milk this for as long as possible. When Jinx asked aloud about the hardware store in this area, though he doubted she was asking him directly, he provided an answer. "The one in Kita-ku? I'm pretty sure they've got every color you could want. You should put some blue on that shit; it'd really set it off."

[Apollymi]

"Fuck that, I take my own medicine fine. My problem with 'teach' is that I am seeing an old bitch in my head. And while I'll fucking concede to being a bitch, fuck if I'm old." mentioned the woman who seemed to be capable of making a major tirade out of absolutely nothing. "Also, I don't call anyone I respect anything they don't accept. It's a personal rule of mine. And to be fair...." she looked at the young man with a wicked smirk on her face. "I used to call my best friend a Flaming Faggot Fucktard to his face... Man-swine isn't nearly as bad as you thought it was.. and I can think of at least one person who would gladly accept it as a name, not that he'll get it~" the woman finished seemingly amused by what she'd said. Moving on to the thing that she'd mentally asked herself about the hardware store, an answer was apparently provided by the Sky King along with a bit about blue looking nice with the pink she had to agree. "Yeah that's the one. And, actually some blue would be pretty cute with it... I could use it on the background make it a bit three..." the last word she was going to say was dimensional. After all, planning vandalism was one of the many things the young woman did with her spare time. She was also conveniently out of the immediate supervision and jurisdiction of her probation officer. "Wait a fucking minute. Flyboy, are you down for a couple of misdemeanors? 'Cause if so you just hopped up my friend's list."

[Bloodedge]

Of all the things to do, Jinx chose to invite the Sky King along to perform a few minor crimes after his answer to her earlier question. When asked, he shrugged after slipping his hands into his pockets. "Yeah, why not? I spent all my time in school drawing when Chiyo managed to keep me from slipping outside anyway. Besides, I like to make a bit of extra work for Roze whenever it's possible," he said while allowing his ATs to carry him around at a casual pace. "How long's that friend of yours gonna be?"

[Apollymi]

"Fuckin' right!" the woman seemed to be enthused. Thinking about the tiny Ice Queen keeping this young man from fleeing outside during school hours, she found the mental image to be a bit hilarious. "Frost Nipper? Tiny girl with sharp teeth? Managed to keep you from going outside? I knew that girl was a dominatrix and all her little boys were all kinda straight laced, but you too? That's fucking adorable." she said, trying to figure out what happened in her head. Still, if she imagined the two of them without special skills, she couldn't see the small girl known as Chiyo making anyone else do anything they didn't want to do.

When asked about how long her connect was going to be she couldn't really estimate a time. "Uh, I actually don't know. I doubt he rides fast... his road doesn't really lean to that. If you wanted to ask me how long it'd take him to demolish a building, I could probably give you a decent approximation~" she said with a chuckle. Which was true. She also realized she hadn't told the young man where she'd be so he figured he was some sort of magical tuner type person for not asking. Beyond this the woman simply began moving towards the hardware shop in Kita-ku. "Regardless if he needs to find me, he'll let me know so it'll be fine. Come on... we're about to have a pretty good time. I thought I wasn't going to get to do this today. Now I'm all excited again~" the woman said seemingly very enthusiastic about this particular activity. This was likely strange to most, but... things that made her happy made her well and truly happy.

[Bloodedge]

"It wasn't anything like that. She just used to bitch way too much for my liking," the Sky King stated while scratching his head. "Same shit with Roze. Not a problem, just don't wanna deal with it." Moving right along, he joined the blue-haired woman in her journey toward the hardware store. "Think I'll go with something like an orange, or a purple. Maybe both; that might work out."

[Apollymi]

"So... you're saying she didn't kick your ass, she just annoyed you into doing what she wanted? That doesn't make it sound less epic... just sayin'~" the blue haired woman was still amused, as she switched pace and turned to face the young man finding this point of the conversation to be rather amusing. She tried to imagine the scene between her usual run partner and the Ice Queen and it came down to being some sort of massage and a couple of weird conversations and that didn't sound half bad. Well, assuming the young lass, hadn't done exactly what she'd done and thought to get a piece of the man.

Perhaps she was a bit too used to Roze, or knew her from a different time period so the woman didn't seem to bitch too much. Of course, recently enough the woman had lit into her personally for doing unnecessary things... but she also wasn't presently the woman's problem so it didn't seem like it was too much of a problem. "I used to do dumb shit all the time to get her attention... but she never really bitched at me about it, so I wouldn't know. She's my probation officer right now... so she'd probably kick my ass if I did anything stupid... but~" she said of Roze and that was all. "Sometimes I really can't help myself." When moving right along towards both their destination and their form of graffiti she couldn't help but think of the color combination the male offered. "Purple and orange. I guess it could work out, but it'd have to be like a royal purple and a bright orange. None of the pale shit. Brights look better out of spray cans~." the woman seemed to be quite familiar with spray paint and colors and all things having to do with illegal fun.

[Bloodedge]

"You done yet?" Shoichi asked after huffing in the direction opposite the Water Queen. He kept moving forward until such a time that they would be at the hardware store. "Roze is your probation officer? Sounds like shit," he said, thinking about it only in the following moments. At that point, a light chuckle ensued. "But, I guess it's the kind of shit you guys get into. And yeah, definitely those shades. They're the only ones that really count for shit anyway."

[Apollymi]

"I suppose I've teased enough... or maybe not... I get those two confused~" the Water Queen mentioned seeming to find a deep bit of amusement in this moment. Of course, she supposed that this was only because she found Chiyo interesting and found her and Shoichi's interactions oddly nostalgic but this wasn't really the point. As the Sky King mentioned that dealing with Roze was shit she started to protest, but then he went on to say that was the kind of shit she'd get into and a smile formed on her face. When this went beyond this point, it seemed that the young man had a decent idea of how to use color and this made the Water Queen exceedingly happy. "Fuckin' yes. See, now I'm kinda happy... you know how to use color, this won't be a total drag. Fuck, let's go choose some cans~" she mentioned finally entering the hardware shop which was one of those family owned businesses. This meant that the young woman got a greeting from the elderly store owner an old woman who looked in her direction eyes widened. "Kasumi-chan, I am hoping you and your friend aren't getting into trouble. It's been quite a while since I've seen you." she said with a knowing smile as the young woman rolled in and headed towards the back of the store where a great deal of the spray paint was held. "Oh? Obaa-chan still kicking ass I see~ Of course I'm not getting into trouble, but if anyone is looking for me... you got no idea who I am right?" she said offering the woman a wink, which was returned as she went to the back to choose some colors of spray paint and go on about her day.

[Bloodedge]

Shoichi kept rolling along toward painting supplies, where he found an entire side of an aisle filled with spray cans. He grabbed only a single can of orange paint, and multiple cans of blue in different shades. He also picked up a few whites, as well as a belt to carry it all. "Changed my mind. I'm gonna make a motherfucking dragon!" With that said, Shoichi carried his things to the counter and placed them there, pulling his wallet by the chain to remove it from his pocket. "Alright, what's it gonna be?"

[Apollymi]

Jinx looked through the aisle of many colors and decided upon the ones she wanted. Bright pink, bright blue, orange, silver, gray, and a couple of others red and the like just in case. She'd originally just been planning to put her name on something but now she was deciding to combine two of her favorite things into art on a wall somewhere. As the Sky King decided on his apparent dragon, she chuckled. "Fuckin' right, dragons are awesome. Don't think I've done one of those in a while though... today..." she paused grinning as she walked past the counter not bothering to pay for anything just in time to hear the old woman behind the counter as she bagged up the cans Shoichi had placed there. "There isn't any need for that... Kasumi-chan and her friends can always have whatever they want from here." she mentioned letting the young man take his cans and offering the blue haired girl a bag as well. Jinx took said bag and her pilfered cans and headed out the door. "Thanks, Obaa-chan, you should check out the new work. I can't speak for this boy right here yet, but my shit is gonna be fucking awesome~" she mentioned as she headed out. "Come along Flyboy~ We got work to do."

[Bloodedge]

While he was preparing to take the money from his wallet, Shoichi was told by the shop-keep that payment was not a necessity. With that, he returned his wallet to the pocket it belonged in. "Arigatou," he said. Passing on the bag, the Sky King strapped the belt of spray cans to his person, following Jinx through the door thereafter. Where they would be going, he didn't know. But, he had a very good idea as to what his art would look like.

[Apollymi]

"No problem, you kids have fun." the woman said as she waved the kids off. After they left the shop Jinx twisted and turned at ground level, assuming the Sky King more than capable of following along. She was after all, a creature of habits and she was going to a place she as always fond of tagging. She did this mostly because it was always just a little too clean. This would be several boxcars attached to a park the girl liked to have a bit of fun. Besides that it was a place she could go and not be interrupted, mostly because it was nearly underground. Upon reaching the area the girl motioned to one side not knowing how much space the Sky King would need.

"Fuckin' hell this is the best spot ever. I missed this... you can have that side." she said pointing to the prestine right half of the tunnel. "And I'll take this one." she mentioned a can of spray paint already in hand she was shaking it with her right while twirling one of her pigtails with her left. Mostly she was planning but right at the moment she was becoming more calm listening to he clicking sound the can made as she shook it. She'd then rather calmly exhale, it was... a very odd moment to behold... this woman becoming more calm as she found something to do.

[Bloodedge]

"Hai hai," Shoichi said once he was given a side of this location to tag. He chose to start with a can of white spray, and took a few moments to determine the size of this artwork while shaking the can. When he figured out the size and spacing for his art, he smiled at the wall. "Osu!" Without further ado, he hopped into the air and began spraying away. He seemed to be drawing something of an outline with the white paint, and in fact, he was. In a matter of minutes, he had completed the outline of a dragon's head, seeming to have chosen a design with more of a mainland influence. With a satisfactory outline sketched out for the head, he went on to outlining its elongated body, which curved left and right as it trailed down the side of the boxcar.

[Apollymi]

Jinx was soon about her own work, even upon hearing the cry of 'osu' from the young lad, all it got out of her was a bit of a chuckle. It didn't take her long to put the bottom shading and outline of whatever thing she was currently making onto the blank canvas that was the wall in front of her. She was soon enough switching cans with a deft bit of dexterity, like this was something she'd done hundreds of times over. The layers and colors were getting lighter as she worked, making the thing which had the pointy face and nose of a shark with an open mouth and teeth begin to stand out against the background. It had a large body and it was slightly cylindrical beyond this and it was now having glowing orange eyes layered in on top of a stainless steel looking body. She seemed to be deeply amused by her work, pausing only while switching cans to have a peek at the Sky King's work. "Fuckin' hell, mainland dragon~ Pretty cute!~" she chimed as she picked her next color and went back to work. This time a giant splash of orange like a sphere coming out of that intense mouth.

[Bloodedge]

"Innit?" he asked in rhetoric. When he finally got around to finishing his outline, he looked back to see what sort of project the blue-haired woman had decided to work on, and he had to say, he was quite impressed by the looks of it. "Not that I think it's not good or anything, but what's with the fish thing?" he asked. While waiting for the Water Queen's response, he switched over to a pair of blue spray cans, which he would be using to color his dragon very soon.

[Apollymi]

This young man was a tad cocky, but the Water Queen was quite used to that, so it didn't seem to bother her. No she went on about her work highlight and eventually coloring the beast which was quite massive. Upon hearing Shoichi's question she chuckled giving a rather simple answer initially. "Fuckin' hell, I'm calling it Pow Pow." she mentioned a smirk coming to her face as she began work on the fine lines. "And it's a fucking bad ass combination of two of my most favorite fucking things in the whole world. Sharks and canons." Jinx finished her words with a huge grin on her face. She was quite taken with her work already, and if this freakish combination of tech and animal actually existed she'd keep it like a pet.

[Bloodedge]

"Pow Pow?" the young man questioned immediately. "Can't say I would have come up with anything better, I guess." Having nothing more to say about the cannon of Jinx's design, Shoichi went ahead with the coloring of his dragon. He chose to fill it in with a dark blue, and once this was done, he began overlaying the lighter shade to add a bit of depth to the creature's appearance. A few minutes later, he was returning to the white can to flesh out a few details in the dragon's face and the spikes on its back. When everything else was done, he retrieved his singular can of orange spray, using it to accent the dragon's whiskers.

[Apollymi]

"Fuckin' right you can't think of anything better~" chimed the woman. As she'd finished the dark lines of her work, she finally did the thing she'd been meaning to do. Picking up the bright pink spray can she began to shake, knowing what she intended to do. She circled her large shark cannon in this bright pink literally making it the center piece of a target. Beyond this off to the side and under it, she signed her usual tag to it. It looked like an open hour glass but it was actually the letters of her nickname layered atop each other, and with it the words 'wuz here' having finished her work and done so with a bit of well placed sloppiness (including a bit of dripping paint) she enjoyed her work. Now that she was all done she whistled her appreciation. Beyond this the girl's entire body was completely relaxed and her mind was at ease. Which would probably make most people question her sanity. But there she was, plucking at the bullet around her neck and now swinging her pigtail around in her right hand. "Fuck, it's done and fucking awesome~ What about you... Fly Boy?~" she question lifting her toes off the ground so she could spin around and have a look at the boy's work.

[Bloodedge]

"Also done!" Shoichi replied from the other end as he sprayed the last bit of orange on the dragon's whiskers. When everything was said and done, Shoichi put away all of his cans and took a few steps back to inspect his own work. "Meh. I think it's alright," he said before turning around and looking at what Jinx had accomplished, holding a hand against his chin as he did so. "That's some good lookin' shit," he said.

Unbeknownst to the Sky King, there was a silver-haired lad beside him, mimicking his pose with eyes trained on Jinx's art. "I agree. I could make that, y'know?" the boy said. Shoichi's eyes widened, and he hopped away in shock from this lad's appearance. Soon, though, he realized this boy was familiar. "Sup Sky King. Haven't seen you around since the Skytree."

[Apollymi]

Jinx had a look at the young man's work as he had a look at hers. "The fuck? Is that modesty coming from ya'? I didn't know that was built in~" she chimed seemingly in disbelief. Beyond this point, she seemed really interested in his work. "It's pretty fuckin' awesome~" she said of the chinese dragon the young man had created on a dark blue background. Beyond this it seemed the boy was quite appreciative of her Shark/cannon combo she'd named Pow Pow. "Well, I mean... it was my idea so it'd have to be at least reasonably bad ass." she said but before she could continue there was another young man commenting on her work. Actually it was the one she'd called earlier for the favor she'd asked for. "Yo, 'Spolsion Man, whatcha been up to?" she asked the young man only to realize what he said. "Seriously? You could fucking make that for me?" she said a most wicked grin coming to her face, because she was feeling like she was about to accomplish one of her major life goals. "I always wanted a sexy water gun, though I've been expressly told I can't have one..." she said rolling her eyes. "Rather I was told the Angels were forbidden from making me one... but... If you can do it... it'd be rude not to accept." the blue haired woman found this loophole almost immediately as she did with anything she truly wanted. Further to this, it seemed the Blast King was familiar with the Sky King and this was something unknown to the blue haired woman.

"Oh, I didn't know you two knew each other." mentioned the blue haired young woman. Unbeknownst to her... there was a young purple haired girl appearing behind the pair of males. She'd actually been following one of them, for her own amusement and was presently choosing not to say anything.

[Bloodedge]

"Yeah, well... y'know. Been out and about in Miyabi, mostly. Haven't had time to be in Tokyo a lot." The Sky King's response made the young male nod his understanding, though this had merely been brought up for a brief moment of small talk anyway. He rolled toward the art on Jinx's side to inspect it more closely. "Yeah, we met once. My team wanted the Tokyo Skytree as our base, but the Black Order already had it tagged at the top. We challenged it. Anyway, I can definitely hook this up. I'm no Pledge King, though, so it'll take a while." Remembering from this conversation that he'd come with a few choice things for the Water Queen, the boy removed the backpack he wore and held it out to her. "Oh, right! Carton o' Camels, four bottles o' tequila, a med pack. And..." Assuming Jinx was to take the bag, Hayato would then reach into his pocket to retrieve a blank card with no visible serial number of any sort, but with a chip and a swipe line. "This. I only give these to a few people, so don't go losin' it. This can be used for anything that takes any sort of card. I just have to run a few dozen lines of code first. Right now, this baby'll get you into the Imperial Suite of Hotel Okura Macau." After explaining the workings of the card, he held it out as well. "So, how ya' gonna pay me for all this? I don't work free, y'know?"

[Apollymi]

Upon hearing how the two of these youngsters knew each other, Jinx nodded. She supposed she understood that the world of ATs was very different for the kids than it was for her, but at least the pairing of kids though they'd faced each other seemed to be friendly enough. She shrugged it off, soon enough accepting a back-pack full of the things she'd asked the young man for, after he explained that it would take him a while to make the thing he apparently could do. "Well, it isn't like I'm in a rush or anything... Given what I'm doing for the next month or so... take your time, I'm just kinda interested in seein' it." mentioned the Water Queen who seemed to find this whole thing rather amusing. Beyond this the young man explained all the stuff he'd given as well as the use of the blank looking card he'd handed over as well. A grin crossed the Water Queen's face as he went on to explain that he didn't give these out often and that he needed to be paid. "Fuckin' hell, you're a kid after my own heart ya' know that?" she said with a wicked smirk. "Actually, I got this thing, I was gonna use it as a scam to make a bit of extra cash, but I suppose, I can hand it off to ya' instead, I'm also still good for a coupla felonies if ya' find yourself in need of a partner. I'm sure you'll think of the same thing." she mentioned pulling her phone out of her pocket and intending to hand over a certain hilarious picture of the First Generation's Gem King.

"Oh, I was hoping this would be more interesting... but it always comes down to blackmail with you doesn't it?" mentioned the purple haired girl who was finally speaking for the first time. At the sound of the extra voice, Jinx jumped turning her eyes towards the girl and being a bit stunned by her presence. "FUCK! Pineapple Top, the fuck is the sneaky shit? Gonna give me a fucking heart attack." the woman said seeming to be familiar with her. "It's nice to see you too, Kasumi-san~" the purple haired girl mentioned pushing her bangs out of her face only to have them fall flawlessly back into place.

[Bloodedge]

"Then we're golden. I'll be able to finish it in my free time then, so I won't even charge for it. I'll consider it... a fun little experiment, and you'll be the test dummy to see if it blows up in somebody's face when they use it or not," Hayato said regarding the cannon named 'Pow Pow.' Moving on to the matter of his payment for this exchange, though, it seemed Jinx was planning on offering something she had in her phone. The sight of the device in her hand made the Blast King sigh. "Keep it for the scam. There's nothing in your phone that I ain't already got access to. How do ya' think I found you here?" In this moment, the purple-haired lass that Hayato shared a team with made her presence known at last, immediately forcing the Blast King into an upright, and very stiff, position of shock. He shivered from head to toe before formulating a 'proper' statement of reaction to her arrival. "Fuckin'... creepy ass... the fuck... Why..."

[Apollymi]

"Wouldn't be the first time, I was a test dummy. S'all good then~" she said of that. When the boy went on to say that he had access to everything in her phone anyway the woman raised a brow, but said nothing more about it. There was already the Angels doing the similar thing and the boy's question about finding her made her think about it for a second."Fucking hell, it was GPS, wasn't it?" she said after a moment of thought. "That's a bit fuckin' creepy yourself, ya' know. I don't care but pot... say hello to kettle." she said pointing between the silver haired lad and the purple haired girl. "Anyways... I got nothing on hand to give ya'. I'd cut ya' in on the scam, but you don't need that any more than I do, and I was just gonna do it to see the look on Muscles' face. But if ya' find yourself in need of me, obviously you can call me, I'll owe ya' one."

Beyond this the purple haired girl seemed to only giggle. Taking a moment to address the Sky King. "Shoichi-nii, I wasn't expecting to find you here too, hello." she said always one to be polite as the Blast King seemed to go about figuring out how to best question her presence here. She shrugged pushing her hair out of her face before explaining her presence. "Well, I had three choices for the night, Takao and Shutara, doing their, we're not dating but hang out thing. I wasn't all that interested. Yuzuriha doing her queen of the Birds thing, and I saw the afternoon version of that show, and you slipping out of the Skytree in the middle of a regular gaming session. It seemed to be the more interesting thing to do with my night. Besides..." she said seeming not to care about any of this either way. "I figured the ride back would be boring with you not having to stare into your phone screen the entire time." she said explaining her presence away in a way that was most logical, though she had nothing to say about how she'd sneaked up on the group and apparently followed the boy here without his knowledge. Her statement though made Jinx's head turn to the side.

[Bloodedge]

"Yeah yeah," the boy said with a roll of his eyes in response to Jinx's little metaphor about him. While Jinx was talking about owing him one, he was lighting a cigarette taken from behind his ear. After the first drag, he exhaled smoke and gave her a reply with a sly grin. "That's about what I was goin' for anyway." With that said, Hayato returned to the act of shivering through Mizuki's speech, finding it no less creepy that she'd followed him, even with such reasoning applied. "I... Well... Fine! But I don't know what that's got to do with sneaking around behind me and shit."

When Shoichi was addressed, he was quite occupied fighting off a minor panic attack that began the moment Mizuki first spoke. He had to quickly readjust himself prior to giving his response. "Yo! Worked on any new tricks yet? Y'know I gotta see 'em."

[Apollymi]

"Dealin' in favors. Fuck if you wouldn't fit right in with the rest of us..." she started with a grin. "Well, I mean... if you were like 10 years older anyways~" said the Water Queen. Her deal apparently struck she slung the backpack over her left shoulder and began to circle the group at large apparently finding this interaction to be a bit amusing. It wasn't missed by her, that the Sky King apparently also wasn't expecting the rather sudden appearance of the Dream Queen. But given this the woman couldn't help but find his cover for his reaction to be funny. In reply to her peer, Mizuki only had one more very reasonable and sensible thing to say. "Well, I didn't want to break your concentration. And even if I announce myself the reaction is the same, so I figured, I'd do it around others so you wouldn't be the only one." she said pushing her bangs out of the way.

It seemed Shoichi had now recovered enough to properly converse as well. And his question made the purple haired girl look up at him with a bit of a smirk. "I have two new tricks. One is additive and only really works in conjunction with another trick and one..." she thought about how to best describe what was presently her ultimate trick not her infinity atmosphere. "Well, it isn't exactly friendly to anyone involved even me. But I'm sure you know what that is like~" the girl said a small smile appearing on her face. She knew her own limits and figured if she really wanted to she could show the Sky King her abilities without it being a problem. He was always up for the fun of new things anyways so, she had no problem with this either. "Moreover... why are you doing graffiti in Kyoto? Nice work by the way, that dragon is nice."

[Bloodedge]

"Eh!? Two!? Well you've been busy," Shoichi said regarding Mizuki's answer to his earlier question. "And yeah, I might know a little bit of what that's like. I've got a couple of tricks like that, too. You've gotta show me next time!" After expressing his thoughts on the pair of tricks the girl had, Shoichi's attention was brought back to the dragon he'd painted, which he looked at with his head turned at an angle. "You think so? I think I could have made it better. I mean, look at that," he said, turning his gaze toward the cannon painting. "As for why... well... Iunno."

"Yeah yeah, meet an' greet's over. Call me if you need that card changed," said Hayato to the Water Queen while turning away from the group. As he rolled away, he would give no more than a wave over his shoulder to all.

[Apollymi]

"Not busy enough... I have some more time out of school now though, so I'm sure I'll think of a few more." said Mizuki as she smiled at the white haired young man. "Thank you for that by the way..." she mentioned in a rather offhanded way to Jinx who looked a bit surprised with eyes widening just a second. She didn't think it possible for anyone to put together what she and the Flame King had spent a couple of hours this afternoon doing. "Yeah, I will not admit to doing anything, but feel free to enjoy your early summer vacation." said the Water Queen as she turned on her heels seeming not to want any attention. When Shoichi went on to bring attention to the design created by the Water Queen when pointing out the flaws of his own, Mizuki looked at both of them a small smile appearing on her face. She wasn't really in a position to give the Sky King any advice, but she figured... she could offer an observation instead. "I think they are both good, very different. Perhaps the common ground between her skills and yours... would make both of your works better. And I'm sure I'll find an occasion to show you my new tricks." the purple haired girl mentioned only to begin rolling after the Blast King as he'd had quite enough of this particular interaction. "Ja ne~ Shoichi-nii and Kasumi-san. Hayato-kun, wait up." and with that the small girl disappeared to catch up with the Blast King.

"Fuckin' kids. Catch ya' later 'Spolsion Man and Pineapple Top. Don't do anything I wouldn't do." she said as they left. Having officially finished her dealings with the third generation. She grinned towards Shoichi. "Wanna go... have a look at this new place... Never been to the Imperial Suite before but it sounds fucking godlike." mentioned the blue haired woman.

[Bloodedge]

With the parting of the two youngsters, Shoichi rolled over to Jinx's side, placing his right hand on his waist and letting his left hang at his side. When she advised the others not to do anything she wouldn't, he raised a brow and shifted his eyes toward the woman, a half-grin appearing on his face. "Che! Shouldn't you be telling them not to do anything you wouldn't get caught doing?" he asked. Moving right along, though, there was mention of the hotel they were fated to be staying in. Nodding, he prepared himself to take the first step forward. "I've seen something close to one before. Roze took the Royal at the hotel in Miyabi. Never spent a night in one, though."

[Apollymi]

A wide grin appeared on Jinx's face as the Sky King pointed out a more specific version of the things she should have said. She could only laugh a bit as she thought about it. "Uh, but... the things I wouldn't want to get caught doing are more fun... I'm not into giving those kinds of restrictions. They're pretty young... and 'Spolsion Man could clear their records if need be." she mentioned finding it funny. If she'd had that sort of access when she was younger she'd probably be an even more renowned criminal than she already was. That being said, it seemed the Sky King also hadn't seen a place as good as this apparent Imperial Suite.

Moving right along the blue haired young woman skated along backwards seeming to know where this hotel that was mentioned by the Blast King was without needed directions. She found this young man's skills to be exceedingly useful and the fact that she'd get to try something new was even more exciting. "Fucking hell, it's all good then, it will be fun and new for both of us. And I have tequila which will make everything better for me~" mentioned the young woman as she swept the backpack around her front to remove a pack of smokes from the carton. She hadn't wanted this many but she supposed it was better to have more than less.

[Bloodedge]

Shoichi merely shrugged when Jinx explained why she chose to tell the youngsters what she did, in the way she did. He supposed he could see the reasoning behind this, but it mattered even less when she explained that this Hayato individual had the ability to clear criminal records. Onward he went, following closely behind the Water Queen toward the Okura Macau hotel. "Tequila, huh... Oi, you're gonna share that shit, right?" he asked, subconsciously having the Over-Cross Twinkle Eye activate itself for a single moment.

[Apollymi]

Jinx had done the work to pack and open the cigarettes she'd so recently acquired. Once it was open she pulled one and began searching her person for a lighter. She was positive she had one, but right about this moment, she was missing the man who made flames with his feet, after all, she never had to worry about lighting cigarettes when he was around. Eventually she found her lighter, a zippo with a bomber painted on the front of it which she began to flick until it lit. Once this was the case she lit the cigarette but upon taking the first drag the woman nearly choked at the Sky King's reaction to her mention of of liquor. "Fuckin' Hell, Fly Boy a bit of warning before you go switching it up on me, yeah?" she asked seeming to lack a bit of ease at the random shift to the boy's Brain Charger state now that she could see it in his eyes. "And fuck yeah, I intended to force you to drink... but if you're volunteering it's less fucking work for me." she said knowing the young man had a different personality she felt the need to offer something more. "Smoke?" she tapped the bottom extending a single from the pack for him to take if he chose.

[Bloodedge]

"Yeah, why not? Just like old times," Shoichi said. His eye reactivated in this moment, as he seemed to be reliving the memories of Roze... or perhaps another. Either way, he pulled the loose cigarette from the pack in Jinx's hand, then performed a quick twirl and grind at a faster pace than they were previously moving. This produced a rising flame from his outstretched AT. The tip of the cigarette in his hand passed through the flame, catching fire before being transferred to the lad's mouth. When he inhaled, the flame died down, and he kept moving forward. "Huu~. Shit brand. Needs menthol," he said, feeling somehow as if he'd made this exact statement before despite never smoking a day in his life.

[Apollymi]

This switch in personality was about what the blue haired woman expected, until of course the Sky King chose to light his cigarette in a rather odd way. This left the woman stunned by what she was seeing, such a flamboyant show, never came from Roze, no it reminded her much more... of another. 'What the hell was that, Roze never did that...' she thought, seemingly confused while being stunned by what she witnessed, but just as soon as she was sure this show was from the man known as Kurama, the speech was one once heard from the woman known as Roze. And the nostalgia of the moment, made her answer in her old tone and cadence, which would be surprising to the boy if he managed to remember this moment. "Look bitch, don't be knockin' my brand. Menthol is always a me fuckin' thing anyway, if you want the cool, pop the fuckin' cap in the filter." mentioned the blue haired woman who held her own out and pressed the cap until it popped as demonstration. She often found it overpowering, but liked the option, as she was often indecisive enough to be unable to decide to smoke regulars.

[Bloodedge]

"Eh?" he questioned about the cigarette, only to see Jinx's demonstration and then look at the filter of his own. After squeezing it until it snapped, he took another hit, finding there to be an astronomical difference in the quality of the smoke. "Fuckin' black magic is what this is! I might have to pick up a habit," he said. Strangely enough, the first of these sentences was once spoken by one Takeuchi Roze upon being given one of these cigarettes in the past. The latter, though, was said by one Kujo Yoichi some time later in life.

[Apollymi]

Jinx was having a huge problem with her interactions with the Sky King right now. And it had nothing to do with the fact that he was one of her friends, and everything to do with the fact that she was experiencing two very different versions of her friends. Kujo Yoichi and Takeuchi Roze were two of her favorite people in the world, likely classed as her favorite male and female respectively. To have the two of them combined into a single person in front of her was more than her mind could take. 'What the hell kinda fucked up shit to Hashirama-ojii do?!' the woman mentally questioned, because there was only one logical explanation for what she was experiencing here and it was that the Sky King was a bit of both, Roze and Kurama. This revelation played out over her eyes as she forgot to take a drag and the cigarette was just hanging out of her mouth as she stared dumbfounded. She truly just didn't have anything to say to this, it was quite a shocking turn of events.

[Bloodedge]

Shoichi had also taken to holding his cigarette in his mouth, and was smoking it in this way. As he moved, the wind ashed the cigarette for him. He looked toward Jinx after a few moments of silence between them, finding the expression she held to be a rather disturbing one. "Fuck's up with you? You look like somebody just slipped you one in the wrong hole~"

[Apollymi]

It would be the speech of the young man that would bring the young woman back to herself. She'd have to make a note of this, to avoid these random silences, which would happen if this odd combination of people within the Sky King Takeuchi Shoichi continued to speak to her in such confused ways. "Fuck you, bitch. Like I can fuckin' control what my face does... I was just thinking damn." she explained without giving any real details. She doubted it was possible to explain to someone currently in Brain Charger state why it was weird to talk to them, even more so, when they were experiencing things as if they were actually the people who'd lived those lives before. It was such a weird thing to do to someone, and she was most upset on their behalf and felt bad for the little version of her, she'd let them create. She'd ashed her cigarette and spun a couple of times thereafter mostly to clear her own head, 'If he's both of them, I guess... it makes sense why I couldn't figure him out.' the woman thought of her own. "You sure you want this tequila?" she asked seeming to want to talk about anything but what she was thinking about. She'd also soon find them reaching the hotel in question, but she wouldn't go in until she finished her smoke.

[Bloodedge]

"If you're gonna think in my face like that, you may as well sit on it," he replied. As they drew closer to the hotel, Jinx somehow thought it was a good idea to ask him if he really wanted to partake of the tequila. Shoichi, in this state, hardly considered this a question. "You got four bottles, and you think you're gonna have it to yourself for a month? Fuck that," he said. Upon reaching the hotel, he continued forward, fully intending to enter the building with his cigarette still lit.

[Apollymi]

Jinx still just looked a bit stunned, and what fell out of her face next, wasn't really a controlled reaction. "Don't fucking tempt me. I've been really good today..." mentioned the young woman. "Fuck. Nostalgia is far too real... that wasn't for you, Fly Boy... it kinda slipped out. I'd appreciate it, if ya' didn't fucking trick my brain into thinking I'm talking to other people." the girl said realizing she'd just said something that was completely not meant for the Sky King, actually it was more or less meant for the Flame King or maybe her Sky Queen, it was starting to get harder to tell the more she spoke. It was a sentence normally meant for someone else. The Water Queen didn't bother with stopping at the front desk. She trusted her connect to hook her up properly so she headed straight for the open elevator. Upon reaching it, she looked at the buttons to press and found a card-swiper beside the words for the Imperial Suite. With that in mind she slipped the card out of her pocket and swiped it and assuming Shoichi was also on board the doors would shut and take them up directly, as was always the case with these sorts of things. "Fuck, well when ya' say it like that... I suppose I don't have much a of choice. This is gonna be a weird month..." the Water Queen noted as they'd head up to the room.

[Bloodedge]

"Time to be bad then, isn't it?" he replied. Of course, there was then the reaction of Jinx which came with the realization that she was not, in fact, speaking with Roze or Kurama. "I ain't tricking your brain to do shit. If you're trying to flip a few tricks, though, I'm down for whatever." With that said, Shoichi entered the elevator, tossing his cigarette onto the floor while waiting to reach their destination. Jinx saying it would be a weird month was something Shoichi could agree with, this time, in his own words. "Weird, yeah. Should be pretty fun though."

[Apollymi]

"Yeah, yeah, keep talking that shit, you're gonna get me in trouble." the Water Queen said. Such a thing was quite unusual, as she wasn't really prone to having to deal with the bluntness of Roze and Kurama's well, his foxiness for lack of a better term. It was becoming stunning for the young woman and as the elevator went up, it seemed the Sky King was channeling the more direct of these individuals and giving the young woman the opportunity to hop aboard him for whatever reason. "Fuckin' hell opened ended invitations. Ya' know Fly Boy, I don't really take those from anyone. I'm not inclined to take one from you either." she said, knowing that she was almost completely incapable of accepting an offer if she wasn't the one who was the aggressor. It was something odd about the woman, and something she'd unknowingly passed on to the girl who was her mentally. when it was mentioned that the month would likely be both weird and fun, a huge grin crossed the woman's face. Even if these moments of conversation were oddly nostalgic and occasionally awkward, it would be at the very least a great deal of fun. "Fuckin' right!" she exclaimed turning around as the elevator dinged and the door behind them opened into the huge suite which was more luxurious than any she'd ever seen.

"Well, holy fuckin' shit." the woman said nearly giddy taking in the new setup with wide eyes and the appreciation of this layout.

[Bloodedge]

"Trouble ain't the word, doll, and that wasn't exactly an invitation. It was an agreement. Call it mutual when you get tired of waiting for a fix," was the Brain Charger's response. When they finally set foot in the suite, his eyes widened and the Over-Cross Twinkle disappeared within them. Apparently, Shoichi's natural personality was more excited about this room than the others. "Fuckin' ay," he said as he slowly rolled into the room... or rather, one of the rooms. Even for a suite, this place was massive. In fact, he'd say it was massive and extravagant even for an expensive house. Whatever the price was, he doubted it was affordable enough for any single person to stay in for even a night. "So, we're having rest days in this month of training, right?"

[Apollymi]

'Doll?!' the woman's mind shot into overdrive. The only person to ever call her that, literally ever, was Roze. It was her most simplistic endearing term when specific nicknames weren't in use. She was stunned, still but when the young man entered the room, he seemed to immediately return to himself. Upon doing so the blue haired young woman began to circle him. The random shift in his demeanor was kind of frightening. And though she didn't mind the other facets of his apparent personality, she was curious about what he knew of it, because she really didn't know what kind of information the young man had on his changed status. She circled then around the young man seeming to forget the extravagance of the room for just a second. "Fuck, of course, I got a five-day, two-day lineup, assuming you don't fuck yourself up too bad and need some days off in between. But fuck all that for a second, lemme ask you something..." she said not really waiting for permission to ask the question running through her mind. "When you flip off of yourself and become someone else, are you aware of who you're being? Do you remember the shit you just said to me? 'Cause right now, I'm not sure if I should hold it against you for fuckin' with me."

[Bloodedge]

Though Shoichi intended to go inspect more of this Imperial Suite, he was cut off by the Water Queen herself. It seemed she was more interested in discovering things about his personality shifts, which he frankly wasn't aware were any different from the normal him. So, when asked if he was aware who he was being, he had an expression of confusion on his face. He also assumed he had recently made such a shift, and started thinking back to previous moments. "Oh... shit," he said while bashfully scratching the back of his head. "Sorry, that just kinda happens sometimes. I dunno, it's like... I know it's Roze, but sometimes it just kinda... happens, and it feels natural. It's like going on a nostalgia trip, but... with somebody else's nostalgia. It gets a little more confusing sometimes, and sometimes it's stronger than others. Sometimes I feel like I'm just being me, and the thoughts pass without me even thinking about it... and sometimes I feel like there's none of me left, like I just blacked out for a while. I didn't do anything weird earlier, did I?"

[Apollymi]

As the Water Queen circled the Sky King, he rubbed the back of his head sheepishly and explained what the Brain Charger shifts did for him in his head. The explanation caused the woman's eyes to widen just a little and she immediately felt sorry for the young man. She couldn't imagine not having the freedom to completely be herself at any given time, and beyond that, would have probably been driven mad by the inability to remember things she'd said or done. She stopped circling directly in front of the young man, pausing and closing her eyes she took a deep breath and released it, like she was gathering her thoughts, a gesture, seen in the former Fang Queen more often than not. Right after she spoke seeming to be rather calm about it. "Fuckin' hell." she started but it was soft like the start of something not a rant. "You really don't have to apologize to me. You didn't do anything. You fucking said some shit, I hadn't heard in ages, from a mouth of someone not higher up on my favorite's list, but that isn't really your fault... nostalgia is kinda weird from this end, so I find myself answering in odd ways. But, fuck all that." she said extending her hand to the young man the same way she did to all her friends when she was ready to abandon things which were too much for her, also a gesture which the fanged girl had. "I don't really care who ya' are, as long as you're good. So, fuck if I'll accept an apology from you, for being you in any form. Now... Let's explore, this place is as big as a fuckin' house!~" she mentioned a hint of deviousness in her expression as well as a general open acceptance.

[Bloodedge]

"... Sou ka." This was all Shoichi had to say about him saying things, but not necessarily doing anything. This was a good thing, he supposed, but he could still feel some sort of physical impulse making every effort to compel him. Yet, he remained himself at the moment. "I guess... Roze just has a lot of memories that involve you. I dunno, but right now I feel like I should be keeping an eye peeled because you're around... and I've got mixed feelings on the reason I should do that." The Sky King thought over this matter, but shook his head in the end. "Fuck it. I'm still me; I'll get my own opinion about you," he said. Jinx's next words would be taken as some form of acceptance, and with these words, as well as her outstretched hand, he grinned. "Osu!" he said as the palm of his hand slapped against that of the Water Queen. Without further ado, he rolled out into the living room, finding that there was a full kitchen connected to it. Finding the kitchen to be nothing extraordinary in any situation, aside from its pure existence in such size, he chose another direction to move in. Moments later, words of his could be heard from another room in the suite. "Daaaaamn~! This place has a fuckin' sauna in it!"

[Apollymi]

Upon hearing that the young man seemed to feel compelled to watch her a little she could only giggle. After having her hand firmly slapped, she decided that this reaction, belonged to the Sky King himself, neither of her other friends would have done this to her outstretched hand. That being said, she was kind of relieved at the idea that he was himself and not anyone else. After all, if she wanted to hang out with her own friends, she could do that any time. "Yeah, that isn't the first time someone has told me that~ Fuckin' hell, I'm a bit of a loose cannon, and fuck if people shouldn't watch me." the blue haired woman said as she began her own exploration. "Fuck, tell me how that opinion forming goes... I do love to know these things~" she teased. As the young man called out about the sauna in the room, the Water Queen found the thing she was actually in love with attached to their room. "Fuckin' hell there's a fucking pool right here!~" she squealed with a special kind of childish delight. It seemed the Water Queen had just fallen in love having abandoned her bag and the like earlier she took her pack of cigarettes out of her pocket and dropped them before she dived in enjoying the feeling of being encompassed by water and the subsequent splash would let the Sky King know exactly what she'd done.

[Bloodedge]

Shoichi could barely hear the Water Queen's words from where he was at the time, but shortly afterwards, he was close enough to hear the splashing of water. This let him come to the conclusion of there being a pool, but his interest remained in finding other things. Eventually, he found something that very much satisfied him: A Jacuzzi tub near the bed. "Jackpot!" he exclaimed as he turned the machine on and began the filling of it. While it filled, the Sky King finished inspecting the rest of the suite, coming back in due time to stop the water flow and strip down to his skivvies while the water jets started.

[Apollymi]

Jinx stayed out in the pool for a few minutes, gathering her thoughts together. She hadn't had much time to think about what spending this much time with a person, who was also other people she liked would mean, but she also wasn't sure if she liked the idea of liking him based off the idea of who he was other than himself. She made the decision while under water, to get to know and like the Sky King as himself, since she already liked the other parts of him this seemed most fair, and fair was something the Water Queen always tried to be, surprising as it might seem. About six minutes after she'd gone underwater she rose, she'd been holding her breath that entire time but didn't seem too concerned about it, instead she pulled herself out of the water and stripped off her ATs, and belts lest they weight her down too much and after picking up her pack of smokes and twisting out all the extra water began to move though the room hearing a sound which was quite familiar. "Fuckin' hell a jacuzzi too~, best month ever!~" she decided immediately feeling safe with her things around she went and found some shot glasses and a lime and a lemon in the kitchen she chopped up and put atop a tray with salt and tequila to join Shoichi in the water. "So, I gotta ask 'cause you're a bit young, you know how to do this right?" she asked as she set the tray up on the side and slid herself into the water.

[Bloodedge]

Shortly after Shoichi slid into the Jacuzzi, Jinx arrived with a tray containing everything necessary for tequila shots. When asked if he knew how these shots were meant to be taken, he had to admit that he didn't. However, they had so recently addressed the matter of the memories added along with the other personalities, he decided to try something new. He thought quite hard, as if trying to remember something forgotten. In doing so, he ended up slipping into Brain Charger state again, but this time without any major personality shifts. He did, however, show the change in his eyes nonetheless. "... Yes. Well... I know now. Well... I remember. You know what I mean. Memories, like a video. Why did we... I mean, you guys, get all that stuff ready just to do body shots after two?"

[Apollymi]

Jinx had settled into the water, and in asking the young Sky King if he knew how to take shots it became a thing where he looked like he was concentrating more than normal. In doing this he slipped into his Brain Charger state and the blue haired young woman to her credit didn't look too upset about it. No instead she poured the shots as he explained he knew now but when asked the question of why they prepped so much just to do body shots the girl chuckled just a little. "Fuck, that's a weird question. I guess, it's 'cause... I was a bartender for a while, so I always prepped drinks. And with friends... sometimes drinks could or rather should just be drinks." she prefaced. "I mean body shots are fun, but they are also a lot of pregame for us... if they start, I'm often distracted by them and we can't do much or anything else. But I'm never completely sold on fuckin' anyone, so it's best not cross those boundaries unless I am sure. So... they always leave me a bit of room to be sure..." she said not knowing if any of this would make sense to someone not always part of their friend group, but maybe the Sky King had enough background information that it would make sense to him. Still the drinks were poured and she now had a line of salt on the back of her hand and a shot glass in the other. "Bottoms up, this shit ain't gonna drink itself." she mentioned preparing to take her shot just like a champion.

[Bloodedge]

As Jinx went on with her explanation, the memory kept moving forward in Shoichi's mind. As it did, it was becoming increasingly difficult to stop, much like every time he activated as a Brain Charger. He was also beginning to lose himself in whoever's memory this was. When Jinx spoke about the current round of shots, though, he snapped back to reality before falling too deeply into another persona. "Right... yeah." With that said, the Sky King swiftly licked a line along the base of his thumb before taking up a triple pinch of salt and sprinkling it over that very space using his other hand. He then took up the lime and shot glass in unison, strangely holding the glass in the hand which had salt on it; likely something that would give away which individual his memories had come from. "Kampai!" he said while raising his shot.

[Apollymi]

"Kampai!~" the Water Queen chimed as she clinked her shot to the raised one of the Sky King before taking it upon herself to down the contents of her shot, lick the salt off the back of her hand and then follow up with a lemon slice. It was all one smooth and concise motion that she'd practiced likely hundreds of times before this moment. Oddly enough though, the Sky King's method of taking this shot, wasn't Roze's not at all, she remembered this one even more so than any other, because she'd seen it most recently and she couldn't keep the recognition off her face. And once both glasses were down she'd pour another shot for herself and her companion because one shot was never enough. "Fuckin' hell. You ready for the next one? Or are ya' gonna chicken out on me?" she asked as she poured the two shots and let her head lean back... She didn't know where to steer this conversation, but she was peaceful enough just taking shots.

[Bloodedge]

Following the clink of glasses, Shoichi downed his shot with his left hand, gliding the glass along his right cheek while licking the salt off his hand thereafter. Then, he tossed the lime slice into his mouth and used his newly freed hand to prepare another line of salt. Jinx asked if he would be going for the next round, and if his actions didn't answer well enough, then he would give more of an answer with his words. "Well we're celebrating this bad ass room, right? Keep 'em comin'!"

[Apollymi]

Watching this young man take shots like her partner of old made the Water Queen a bit antsy inside. She wondered if the same random feelings popped up in the Flame King when he had to deal with her clone. Though it seemed unfathomably unfair that the Water Queen got it twice over and she began to debate the young man even knowing that he was two other people instead of just the one, given his reaction or lack there of to moments where he seemed to be more like the Flame King than the Sky Queen. "Fuckin' right we're celebrating!~" she chimed preparing her own line of salt before lifting her glass once more. Not that the Water Queen really needed a reason to do anything, if nothing else, taking constant shots was a good way for her not to have to rape her brain with conversation with her two best friends while neither was properly present. "Kampai!~" she mentioned going for the clink, she fell into the pattern that was so smooth with the Flame King she'd nearly forgotten it wasn't him across from her taking drinks at their established pace.

[Bloodedge]

"Kampai!" he said once more as glasses connected. The Sky King then took the second shot in the same way he'd taken the first, returning the same lime slice to his mouth thereafter. He was gradually sucking the juice out of this single slice, and he soon found himself letting Roze's persona slip through for a moment. "Hey, quit holding out on me and give me a smoke."

[Apollymi]

Lemon slice still comfortably in the mouth of the Water Queen, she got some juice after finishing her most recent shot. It was fun, hanging out with her best friend who wasn't really her best friend. With that in mind though, Shoichi slipped just a bit which caused the woman to widen those magenta eyes and she choked just a little. "Fuck me, bitch fine. I'm kinda glad I got a carton now, I wasn't expecting to share." the young woman flipped around a bit, she'd expected to have a smoke herself at some point so she reached back finding both pack and lighter and sitting them on the tray she'd slip a couple out not immediately offering one to the Sky King and instead lighting both in her own mouth and offering one once lit to the Sky King popping the menthol for him for whatever reason.

[Bloodedge]

"Always expect the inquisition," he replied, obviously in one of Roze's moments of random references. When Jinx lit the cigarette along with her own, he thought nothing of it. He simply waited until the moment it was passed to him, at which point he claimed it after nonchalantly sliding his hand from the Water Queen's elbow, down her forearm. This wasn't something he'd put thought into, but merely something which felt natural at the time. "Atta gal," he said as the cigarette reached his mouth, prompting an immediate inhale.

[Apollymi]

The words out of the Sky King's mouth caused the blue haired woman to laugh. "Fuck all that, I never expect anything, it makes it more fun.~" that reply itself was pre-programmed. Like it was simply the way she responded to the random things said by Roze at various points. It was like a trip down memory lane while one of the occupants of the car was missing. She could almost be disturbed by that, but the Sky King's hand moving up her forearm from her elbow caused a widening of this woman's eyes because such an action, was not one which belonged in this moment. Such random familiarity with her body was a thing that belonged to another person. "Fuckin hell, enjoy your fucking smoke, and I'll pour this next round." the young woman said, choosing to only mentally ponder this conversation and interaction in her head. She kept pouring drinks because it was necessary, but she also knew how this much drinking normally ended between them, so... it was her intention not to pour another after this, and she simply left them on the tray as she leaned her head back taking a major drag and staring up at the ceiling.

[Bloodedge]

"Damn right you'll pour the next round," he said between inhalations. "Huu~. Should've picked up some wine. I think I saw a cabinet in the living room. Could be that expensive shit." The next shot to be poured was taken off the tray while Jinx chose to stare at the ceiling. With it in his hand, he looked toward the woman with a raised brow. "Fuck's wrong with you? You taking this shot, or nah?"

[Apollymi]

"Yeah, yeah, I didn't come here to be barmaid bitch. I am so not dressed for that job." said the woman though she'd already poured the drink. The mention of wine let her know that the man had more readily settled into Roze side of his personality. When she spoke next it would be after exhaling rings of smoke. "Fuck, yeah... I'm gonna take the shot, catch a chill bitch... I'm relaxing remember." she reached for the drink taking it up, she'd taken a couple of shots already, salt wasn't required any longer. "Kampai." she said holding out the shot and waiting for the glass to clink before taking it back, following up with the lime while holding her cigarette in one hand.

[Bloodedge]

"Then get dressed for it... or undressed. Whatever tickles your fancy." When Jinx finally decided to take the next shot, Shoichi raised his glass for the third time, and took the shot to the head once more. When it was done, he voiced his response to her previous assertion. "I'm gonna need you to relax better. We don't get to relax properly until that bottle's empty, so pour up so we can get down to business."

[Apollymi]

"You would say some shit like that, but I'm all good bitch." she said pouring the next round after their glasses had met and been returned to the tray again. As she did this, she took a drag from her cigarette and enjoyed that when she did. A smirk coming to her face as she spoke to this man who was using borrowed words and the like against her now. "Fuck you. I know how to relax the problem is... you're not the person who talks to me like that. So, I don't know what business you think we're getting down to Fly Boy... but I think ya' got the wrong idea about how I'm feeling right now." she mentioned with a smirk holding up another glass getting ready to take a shot. This conversation was odd to the Water Queen, she could almost fall in like she fully intended to sex up the First Generation's Sky Queen or the Flame King for that matter, but... this was the Sky King and everything about the young woman felt a tad bit abrasive about letting unknown males touch her. Even if they possessed the minds of two of her favorite people. Or rather especially for that reason... becaue she was used to not being disappointed by those people, and it would be the worst kind of fucked up, if the young man using all their attitude couldn't deliver on the kinds of promises they normally gave.

[Bloodedge]

"As a matter of fact, I am the person who talks to you like that. I just did it. There's no taking that back." When the next round of shots was poured, Shoichi reached beyond the shot glass meant for him, claiming the bottle instead. After another drag from his cigarette, he took a swig directly from the bottle. Then, he tipped it toward the Water Queen. "As for business, we're gonna dust off this bottle, and we're gonna fuckin' party! And I'm not having any of your shit over it; got me?"

[Apollymi]

"In your fucking head maybe." the woman said. She had no problem being snide. This was quite unusual, as Roze herself was something the woman couldn't well deny. This wasn't going to go well, if Kasumi managed to get drunk enough, she might just forget it wasn't her intention to bang the clone of her friends. It was funny, too funny. As the bottle was tipped her way, the woman was mid her previously poured shot. And she went ahead and took the one she'd poured for Shoichi as well. Afterwards she also took a swig directly from the bottle before laughing, seriously and deeply. It was fucking hilarious but the sound of this laughter bordered upon something maniacal. "We're gonna party? And you're not gonna take my shit about it? That's fucking hilarious." the woman said, she wished she was drunk right about now, but instead simply took the last drag off her cigarette and ashed in in the astray set up beside her. "Define a fuckin' party for me Fly Boy, not sure I follow what you're getting at."

[Bloodedge]

"Call it what you want. You could always sit here and entertain yourself; fuck if I give a care." When Shoichi finished speaking, he reached for the ATs he had at the Jacuzzi's side. No more than a glow would be seen from over the edge as he made contact with the Sky Regalia, and in that moment, many of the devices scattered around the suite activated. This included, but was not limited to, the wireless speakers positioned around the area. There was also a dimming of the lights, and something of a creeping mist along the suite's floor, which came from the sauna room. "Fuckin' boring without colors," Shoichi commented as he stood in the Jacuzzi. "I'm gonna go find some colors."

[Apollymi]

Another chuckle came from the Water Queen as the young man mentioned colors. It was funny to her, because she knew the Sky Regalia could control all forms of technology, but she found herself mentioning something specific in reference to the use of color. "Fuck all that, I don't like amusing myself, but I'm not ready to get out just yet." she mentioned with a bit of a chuckle as speakers came on and the like. "Fuckin' hell, you should make the colors align to who you're being... then I'll know who the fuck I'm talking to, I haven't had to deal..." she paused. She realized then that this boy's flucuations in personality were a lot like a different friend. And though she was no super genius she soon put together why it was the case that Shoichi had more than a single person's personality locked into his mind. 'Well, that's kinda fucked up.' she thought as she stood out of the water finally stretching that long body both forward and backward.

[Bloodedge]

"Had to deal...?" he repeated, intending to pull the rest of the woman's sentence out of her. After exiting the tub, he made his way toward the study room, still keeping an ear open for whatever the Water Queen had to say. In the study, he found a small selection of painting materials, and took a few bottles of paint. The Sky King would squirt said paint onto the lights of the chandelier, changing up the pattern enough that the flickering lights would create a colorful strobe effect. "That oughta do."

[Apollymi]

Shoichi's words made the Water Queen remember she'd stopped talking. It was a bit of a bad habit to have, to stop talking because you've started thinking. She supposed she should rectify it, with that in mind she felt the need to fix it. "Fuck, to deal with someone being so fucking bipolar since Bitch Tits woke up." she mentioned of the 1st Generation's Pledge Queen who was herself likely the base of this Brain Charger experiment, an assumption made because that young woman was technically three different people and seemed to work fine without it. Still the rainbow of color coming from the other room, made the Water Queen finally extricate herself, from the tub but not before squeezing water out of her pigtails... lest everything get wet around her. "Fuckin' hell, that's pretty cute..." she mentioned of the lights, before sipping directly from the tequila bottle. She enjoyed club lights quite a bit, which would be obvious given one of the few places she ever went was clubs to dance and party. And given how much she'd been drinking, she wouldn't actually mind dancing right about now.

[Bloodedge]

Shoichi didn't know who this 'Bitch Tits' was, but after a few moments, he jogged the memories of Roze within him, assigning the name to the first Pledge Queen. "Sou ka. I remember when that happened to her," he said nonchalantly while continuing to walk about the area. The lighting was in place, and the music had been adjusted to a hip-hop station in accordance with the desires of Roze. As far as Shoichi considered now that the tequila was starting to take effect, this place was shaping up for the better. "Not too bad. Now we just need the gambling and strippers. Got a deck o' cards and a black book of bitches on ya'?"

[Apollymi]

"Fuckin' yeah. I said the same thing to her and she took it to heart, that is why the colors change~" she mentioned of the lights controlled by the Angels and all their respective personalities. Though she herself, refused to call any of them that. The original Angel was Bitch Tits, and the other two were Two-face and she was fine with this. "Fuckin' hell, gamblin' and strippers. There isn't a pole in this bitch, fuck that I'd hop up if there was..." the young woman said this and meant it, she always enjoyed dancing while drunk, and frequently did so, in cages or on poles in public or private as she just enjoyed doing things. "I could probably find a pack of cards somewhere, But I don't call bitches, they don't interest me like that. What would you want to play and then what would we be bettin' hmm?" she asked as she began searching through drawers. In a suite as immaculate as this one she expected to find what she was looking for and she would, in the last cabinet in the study, along with some poker chips and a few other incidental gaming things. "Fuckin' score."

[Bloodedge]

"Eh?" he questioned, actually believing the Water Queen to be serious in her statement. In case she was, he reached out to the area of the bedroom in front of the bed itself, making use of his Stardust Road with the capabilities of Roze and Kurama to gather and pressurize particles in the air. Thanks to the added skill of two superior riders, he was able to create such a pole, fusing it into the floor and ceiling with further pressurization. "There. Pole." He did this as Jinx was off locating a deck of cards, and though she managed to find one in the study, she posed the question of what they would wager if they played. Frankly, he had no idea, and being at such a loss brought out the more natural side of Shoichi. "Uhh... good question. Haven't got a clue."

[Apollymi]

Jinx had found the cards she was looking for and tossed the pack, going to see what the boy meant when he mentioned a pole she was more than a little surprised to actually find one. Apparently materialized out of nothing. "Fuckin' hell, ask and I receive. I mean..." she said as she tested the durability of this pole swinging around it and flipping upside down while continuing the motion before righting herself all as if she'd done it before. "Fuck, I say whatever the hell I want, but I usually am not provided things I want instantly. Well, actually that isn't exactly true, but... nice job Fly Boy!" she mentioned seemingly amused by this entire thing. The woman liked her hip hop music, liked dancing, and was just drunk enough to not care who was watching her as she swayed her hips to the music as she walked around this pole like she owned it. "Well, fuck if you don't know what you wanna bet, we might have to just use poker chips and drinks... fuckin' hell."

[Bloodedge]

"I was about to say... you totally asked for a hotel room, smokes, and liquor, and you got all of them in under an hour." Shoichi continued walking around, choosing to circle Jinx as she tested the pole. His eyes followed the woman's movements, and it seemed almost like he wasn't sure why this was happening before him. As she walked around the pole though, his gaze fell upon her swaying hips nonetheless. In the meantime, he addressed the matter of their potential gamble. "Meh. It'd be boring if there's nothing to gain or lose. Even betting drinks, we could just... well, drink the drinks."

[Apollymi]

"Yeah, I remembered that at the last second. I'm also kind of already used to getting my way, but it's different when I mention something in passing and it's provided to me." she said her hips still moving she swayed her entire body around the pole not seeming to care that the Sky King was watching her. In fact, she was more than positive that he was watching her and she didn't seem to care much about it, soon enough she was upside down and spinning stopping to stare at the young man as he expressed the let down of not wanting or knowing what to bet. "Yeah, outside my normal friend group, I don't really know... I am not known for appropriate behavior, wagers or anything of the sort." she mentioned sticking her tongue out at the young man before she righted herself. "Fuckin' hell, we'll figure it out eventually, for now... fucking dance with me." she mentioned stepping away from the pole to offer a dance to the young man that was what her intoxicated self seemed to want right now. And relaxing in such a way would be more than enough for her and the Sky King. How they continued this, would be something unknown but some time several hours later, she'd be up after a shower and already moving about heading out to the Factory to set up the start of this week's obstacle course, a bit differently from the previous time. She'd lit a smoke as she hopped off the balcony and headed for where she wanted to be.

[Bloodedge]

"Yeah... I remember that. Anyway, I'm down," he said, agreeing to the dance offered by the Water Queen. The shots he'd taken while under the influence of Roze's personality were taking more and more of an effect on the young male, and as such, he woke up the next day barely remembering the previous night. After waking, he performed his usual morning routine including breakfast and a shower. By the time he met with Jinx at the abandoned factory, he'd be eating from a bag of marshmallows held in his left hand. "Fuck... I'm not much of a drinker. I can't remember shit," he said before tossing a marshmallow into his mouth.

[Apollymi]

The Water Queen was setting up a couple of floors, with all of the same bubbles that she'd used yesterday and something a bit new beyond that. It was the anti-bubble which would bring a bit more variety to the Sky King's choices. They would pop more explosively and much more easily since they were more dense given the weight of water and the ratio of water to gas. But unlike the other bubbles on the course that floated high, these sank impossibly low falling from holes in the second floor down into the first floor and barely missing disrupting the other bubbles. This would add a bit more variety to the young man and force him into some faster paced thinking situations. Upon making her exit, she'd all but finished her cigarette and was flicking the butt away from herself and the Sky King who was already eating marshmallows after what she assumed was his breakfast. "Fuckin hell, I thought you'd be brighter than that... your lack of memory about last night... has almost nothing to do with your lack of drinking ability and everything to do with who you spent most of last night as. At least, your own explanation of the other you... seems to back that theory." she explained with a smirk. "Fuck, and good mornin' Fly Boy."

[Bloodedge]

"Huh? Was I Roze again last night?" he questioned with a marshmallow held in front of his mouth. "I guess that would explain it, too, but... like I said, those moments just kind of feel natural when they're happening. I never think anything of it, even in hindsight. What happened?" he asked. Continuing with his post-breakfast snack, he looked toward the factory, wondering what new challenge was in store for him this day. "Good morning. You want?" To clarify what he meant by his question, the Sky King held the open bag of marshmallows out toward the blue-haired woman.

[Apollymi]

"Fuckin' hell, yeah, you were a little Roze last night... well, not completely but some." she said rolling her eyes. She didn't know if the boy knew of the other piece of himself. It would make sense if he didn't, when the Water Queen thought about it, his base personality was very similar to the Flame King's, but she wasn't sure if she wanted to be the one to tell him such truths. That was a lot of responsibility and she wasn't sure she wanted that at all. So instead she deflected further, choosing to discuss the happenings of the night in earnest. "We had smokes and tequila shots in the Jacuzzi, you made a fucking awesome pole in the bedroom, I'm sure you saw it... and we danced a bit cause we couldn't decide on a card game or stakes." she mentioned of their evening. All and all it was more or less a sleep over, she enjoyed that. When asked if she wanted she looked to the bag of marshmallows and couldn't really turn them down, she reached for the bag and grabbed a couple. "Thank you~"

[Bloodedge]

"Smokes, shots, and... dancing?" he questioned, though he never intended to receive any sort of answer. Moving right along, Shoichi waited until Jinx had finished digging into the marshmallow bag. Then, and only then, did he decide to ask about today's training. "So, what are we looking at today?"

[Apollymi]

Jinx tossed a marshmallow up into the air then tilted her head back to catch it in her mouth, which she did and it amused the hell out of the young woman. She'd chew it up and nod. "Yeah, wouldn't want you doing anything you'd regret while you can't remember." she mentioned. Which was odd, the blue haired woman didn't seem to care about much, but she apparently considered the young Sky King friend enough that she worried about him, or perhaps it was a bit left over from her worries about the other people he was. But the conversation moved right along, and saved her from having to think too much about the details.

"Today is a slightly different obstacle course, sames rules and with the same general sets of things as before, but I upped the difficulty a bit." she said tilting her left foot back as she created what was essentially an anti-bubble it floated up but it was so heavy it only made it just above her hand. It was large, but not as big as the shooters and it was seemingly tensely held together. "This is my Ripple, I'm sure you remember our first run... when I showed you how to move the light~. We'll this is the combat version of it. I don't use it very much... but I figured your run yesterday went too well. You could call it... an anti-bubble." she mentioned with a wicked smirk. To her credit these were even more dangerous than the explosive other ones. "Fuck, how to explain... it's like a regular bubble. But instead of being water stretched out thin by gas, it's a thin bit of gas... holding together a bunch of water. It's really fucking dense, and at this size... very temperamental." Jinx mentioned her very last marshmallow she tossed up into the air before launching herself backwards really hard because the coming explosion was about 5 times greater than a normal one. A delighted giggle escaped the blue haired woman thereafter.

[Bloodedge]

Jinx went on to explain a very interesting and different bubble, which she seemed to have implemented in this course. When she was done with the explanation, she moved back to clear the rather large explosion, which Shoichi found himself being knocked back by. When he recovered, he was smiling at the prospect of this new challenge. "Sugoi! That's a nasty trick ya' got there! This is gonna be all kinds of fun; just point me to the goal!"

[Apollymi]

"Yeah..." the woman said of her trick. It was quite nasty when she thought about it, which is probably why she generally kept them much smaller and only really used them in an illusory manner. But the boy's skills needed sharpening and she figured near death experiences were the easiest way to get the desired result. Beyond this the Sky King seemed pretty stoked on her new trick, it was rare outside of her friend group for there not to be a major freak out about things like giant Ripples being created all over the place. "Fuckin' hell, excitable as ever. Show you something that could just kill ya' and you're like... point me towards the goal." the girl said palming her own face. It was always amazing to her when people were amazed by her destructive potential, as she often times tried not to be too destructive at all. "The goal... this time is about halfway through the third floor. It's a rock with pink paint on it, totally can't miss it. Bring it back to me with your body intact and I'll call it done." she mentioned with a roll of her eyes. This day's course was laced intermittently with these new ripples which would have different timing and much more explosive potential than the normal bubbles. If the Sky King weren't careful, he'd find it very easy to start a chain reaction which could kill him given the strength of the bubbles.

"I'd tell ya' to be careful, but I fuckin' think caution is wasted on ya' and that's a lot coming from me." she said offering a smile. "Go on, my pet rock ain't gonna find himself."

[Bloodedge]

Shoichi was soon given a goal in the form of a pink rock on the third floor. Now that he had a target, he could get started. Smacking his right fist into his left palm, he began a gradual forward roll. "Osu! Get to floor 3, grab pink rock, fuck the caution! Gotcha!" With that said, he tossed his marshmallow bag in Jinx's direction, then darted toward the building. Shortly after he took off, the explosions began. One could see Shoichi continuously changing his angle of approach to slip between the normal bubbles while shooting vacuum spheres at the 'shooters' as they were called. It was only a matter of minutes, though, before the explosion of an anti-bubble caused a chain-explosion of the bubbles near the Sky King. He emerged from this with tattered clothes and arms crossed over his face, bruises forming along his arms and legs. 'Damn... Those are no joke. I'm gonna have to go at this a different way.'

[Apollymi]

She watched as the boy excitedly hurried off. Looking up at the building her eyes had shifted to the brilliant blue around the core of her bright magenta. She was watching this boy's body as he worked and becoming a bit antsy about it. With that in mind the Water Queen began to pace, swinging about that pigtail of hers in her left hand as she chewed on the bottom left corner of her lip. 'Ugh, maybe I went in on the Ripples too early?' she thought as one of them caused a chain explosion that the Sky King was soon caught in. All the training in the world wouldn't do him any good if he died while trying to complete it. "Fuckin' hell, Fly Boy if you die in there, I'll kill you!" she said this nonsensical thing in the face of her own anxiety and it was a threat, but she meant it, he wasn't allowed to fail this way.

[Bloodedge]

"That doesn't make any sense!" Shoichi exclaimed as he darted away from another impending explosion. To be perfectly honest, he had underestimated the increased difficulty of this training, but Shoichi truly believed there was no challenge that couldn't be overcome with the right approach. As such, he didn't shy away from the next part of the course, remembering that this was an exercise in fluidity. This meant to him that he couldn't let himself get worked up over what was happening. Perhaps he could think of the right approach... and perhaps he had just done so in that moment. There was nothing he could do if the anti-bubbles exploded, as they were certain to blow up everything else in the area with them. But...

"That's it!" he said to himself as he began moving specifically around every small, normal bubble in the course. In doing so, he triggered their explosions while still dealing with the shooters and keeping away from the anti-bubbles. This caused things to take quite a bit longer, as he was required by his own decision to make many movements away from his own goal, but doing so would make it so the only thing he had to worry about from the anti-bubbles, was the single explosion they would each cause.

[Apollymi]

"Fuck you it does make sense, don't find out why!" the Water Queen had an interesting habit of fully knowing she'd said something messed up, but not wanting to correct herself. Instead she made it more true. Did this mean, she was going to raise the young lad from the dead and make him suffer... maybe, but she'd learn to do that just to make herself not a liar. Still she watched on, as the young Sky King seemed to adjust to the new challenge difficulty even coming up with a way to deal with her more dangerous traps. 'Oh thank god. Fuckin' hanging out with this kid is gonna give me fucking anxiety.' she thought as she exhaled. Calming down and watching how the Sky King changed up his movements to accomodate the newest challenge. "You had me a bit worried, I didn't think you'd figured it out." she mentioned, it seemed he'd figured out this wasn't about speed, but about movement and handling the small problems before they became larger problems.

[Bloodedge]

Shoichi found that in order to complete this course by the method he understood, he needed to clear the entire thing twice. As such, he spent several minutes dashing, spinning, and flipping around small bubbles on the way to the third floor, only to be led back to square one by the route. This was quite tiresome, but he felt as if it would work out. When he cleared all the small bubbles, though, he still needed to get past the anti-bubbles. Given their explosion radius, he had to move past them quickly enough to avoid one explosion launching him into the next for full damage. Luckily, speed was something Shoichi had always been able to manage... but he didn't think it would be enough, and he couldn't risk using wind. He had to stop and think about how he could get past the anti-bubbles. Eventually, he made a decision to crouch low to the ground, taking a runner's pose while revving his ATs. When he took off from this pose, he did so at a higher speed than his usual take-off could manage. This easily rocketed him out of the anti-bubbles' range before they exploded, and after numerous explosions took place one after another, Shoichi came flying from the third floor to land on the ground by Jinx. "Phew! That was a rush!"

[Apollymi]

Jinx was content to watch the young man complete his run, and he seemed to have taken the approach of clearing out the small fry and then figuring out how to get past the ever so fickle anti-bubbles. Soon enough though, he found a way to rocket himself past them, without having to damage himself. This made the young woman smile. "Fuck! You look like you almost got your ass kicked~" mentioned the blue haired woman as she finally stopped pacing as the white haired young man landed beside her. "Ugh, you're gonna give me anxiety, but at least you did it mostly without hurting yourself." the woman said with both of her eyes still active in their special state and glowing. She saw the bruises forming along the man's arms and legs as stops of flow in the fluids of his body.

"Fuck, lemme fix that for ya' wouldn't want you to end up stiff." she spun on heels causing the middle wheel of each AT to begin spinning, in so doing she was controlling the flow of the liquids in the young man's extremities. To him, it would likely feel as if they'd gone a bit numb, but it was mostly just her pushing a bit extra past all the bruises so the flow could continue on normally. This wasn't really healing per say, but it would help the bruises fade faster and allow his blood not to pool around the points of contact. After a few seconds the feeling would return. "Fuckin' hell that should about do it... you might really enjoy that Jacuzzi right about now~" mentioned the young woman as she popped a cigarette in her mouth to celebrate the boy's victory.

[Bloodedge]

"Yeah, that stung like hell, but it was fun." This was what Shoichi had to say about the damage he'd taken during this obstacle course. He did have a bit of residual aching, but it didn't much matter. Soon enough, though, whatever the Water Queen was doing made his arms and legs feel as if they'd given out. The return of sensation in the young man's extremities came with a better feeling than he had before, though. "Yeah... sounds like a pretty good idea," he said about the Jacuzzi, beginning his roll in the direction of the hotel. "I'll try to stay myself this time around."

[Apollymi]

"Yeah, well, I didn't figure you'd just end up in a chain reaction the first fucking time, after seeing the blast radius on the Ripples. There is a reason I normally make them almost microscopic." mentioned the young woman as she spun around backwards and began moving towards the hotel as well working to light her cigarette. Once it was done she tucked the lighter back into her belt and nearly choked on her first drag as the Sky King mentioned wanting to stay himself. "Oh? Well, that'd be nice." she mentioned only to realize it sounded really friendly and suddenly feeling the need to explain. "Fuck, I mean... I could hang out with Roze anytime... fuck she's my probation officer we have mandatory meeting times." she said. "But... I'd rather get to know you... I feel like I didn't give ya' a fair enough shake the first time." she finished up dragging on her smoke and blowing smoke rings in the wind.

[Bloodedge]

"I didn't think I would either. I kinda just figured I could out-speed the blast on that first set," he replied. Jinx expressed her opinion on his attempts to retain his own personality, and when she did, he found it a bit amusing that she decided to clarify the reason she said this. The Sky King could only grin to showcase his own amusement as they moved toward the hotel. Eventually, he stood in the suite's bedroom next to the Jacuzzi, once again discarding his Regalia and outer layer of clothing while the tub filled.

[Apollymi]

After explaining herself the Water Queen saw a grin on the Sky King's face that denoted his amusement. Something about it, made her eye twitch, it was a feeling she simply couldn't explain at all. "Fuckin' hell, keep grinning at me like that I might headbutt you..." mentioned the young woman. It was a very serious thing for her. She almost never felt the need for direct physical violence, but right at the moment it was something she really considered. Soon enough though they would be back in their room and she'd be standing by a coffee table removing belts and other things which weren't water proof from her person. She could have kept her ATs on, but didn't, and instead got another tray to float on the water, throwing a couple of pieces of fruit, bottles of juice and water on top to place in the water with them so they could snack and chat for this first little bit. She'd then stand at the side of the tub waiting for it to fill, seemingly relaxed by the sound of the running water.

[Bloodedge]

Shoichi watched as Jinx placed the tray of snack-foods and water atop the water in the tub, and for some reason, his eyes remained on it until the water jets began producing bubbles. When this happened, the tub was more than ready. Shoichi inserted himself into the Jacuzzi without much hesitation, having a remote to the TV in his left hand while extending his right hand to the Water Queen. As he waited, expecting his hand to be taken for a lift up, there was a wide grin on his face. "Water's perfect~."

[Apollymi]

After the tub was filled, the Sky King seemed to go into the water immediately. Jinx prepared to do the same herself but the Sky King extended a hand to her to help her in, and to be fair it just seemed rude to not accept it, so she did, using it as leverage to get herself into the water as well. Once she was she had to agree with the young man about the water in the tub. "Fuckin' right! I could sit in one of these all day." she said as she settled in with her head leaned back. Because of how she was offered help in, she ended up sitting beside the Sky King facing the TV which he had the remote for. "So what're we watchin'?"

[Bloodedge]

"No lie. At this point, I don't think I'll be getting out as anything but a prune." Shoichi couldn't help but agree with the Water Queen as he, too, relaxed into the tub. When asked what they'd be watching, he turned on the television and began flipping channels while looking at the clock on the wall. "Ever heard of Rick and Morty? It's this really weird cartoon. Pretty sure they made it to make fun of that movie Back to the Future." Shortly after speaking, he found the channel he sought. Indeed, the aforementioned show was on schedule. "Or would you rather catch something else?"

[Apollymi]

"Even if ya' do prune, that is one of the few things I can fix~" the Water Queen mentioned. She never had a problem with overt water exposure, her skin wasn't prone to losing moisture, beyond that she could very easily restore the flow of blood to tissues thus restoring their plumpness and elasticity without much of a problem. Beyond this the young man seemed to have a pretty good handle on tv schedules and asked if she'd heard of a show, the Water Queen couldn't say she had but it sounded like some good bit of television. "Nope, never heard of it, but Back to the Future was a classic and fuck it, I'll give anything a shot." she didn't have any real preference on TV. And she was the type of person to make extra sure she'd like or dislike something thoroughly. That being said the young woman grabbed what appeared to be a pear from the floating tray and had a go at it. She hadn't had one in a long time, but her time away from her friends meant she could enjoy it.

[Bloodedge]

"That's the spirit; try anything and everything twice!" the Sky King said, sharing a bit of his own philosophy with the blue-haired woman. After settling on a show that was mutually agreed upon, he set aside the remote. Shoichi then reached for the tray to claim an apple to eat while he relaxed. "So uhh... conversation's a bit weird..."

[Apollymi]

A laugh came from the Water Queen and it was genuine from some place deep inside her person that was truly amused by the idea of trying anything twice. "Fuckin' hell, if I did that... my rap sheet would be miles long~" mentioned the young woman as they sat and watched tv. She was fine with this, apparently fine with the silence, but the Sky King mentioned their conversations were weird which made her flick her gaze over to the young man. She'd been devouring her pear, but now that she was finishing up chewing she'd decided to speak. "Fuck, well, it is a little, but... I've definitely had weirder conversations~" she mentioned with a smirk. "It's probably just weird, 'cause we don't actually know each other... well... " she paused because she realized the Sky King was probably more familiar with dealing with the type of person she would have been as a teen, if only because of his exposure to the girl that was mentally similar. She thought about how she felt about that at the moment and knew an activity which would make them friends. She glanced over him, thinking about giving him a bit more time to rest up before she made such an offer... after all, she saw the dark clouds moving in and could smell the rain in the sky.

[Bloodedge]

"I don't mean anything like that, but like... food and stuff like that. Try it twice; the second time to make sure the first wasn't a fluke. If you don't try it twice, you might miss out on something good 'cause of a bad first experience." When Shoichi finished explaining his philosophy, he bit into the apple in his hand. As he chewed it, Jinx explained her opinion of why their conversations were so strange. He had to agree, but it was a bit more strange for him. "Well, yeah, but... I do know you. I mean, since yesterday, I realize I have memories with you. Even though they're not my memories, I see them the same way I see my own."

[Apollymi]

Jinx listened to the young man talk about what he really meant about trying things twice and she pouted just a bit, falling into an old habit she had around her friend which was rarer in her behavior now. "Aww, fuck, I was about to go do a bunch of shit to see what else I actually liked~" she said chuckling just a little. "I suppose it still makes sense, but I can't use it as a justification for the random shit I would do... but for non-criminal shit, I'll try and keep an open mind."the Water Queen said, but she didn't actually need any excuse to do anything. She was the sort of person who would just as well try something because she was bored or left alone too long.

Beyond this, the Sky King seemed to be in agreement that they didn't really know each other but explained that he had memories with her as if they were his own. The thought of someone having someone else's memories and not being able to separate them from their own made her eyes go wide. Now in thinking about it from her own perspective, she often felt like she knew this young man, and assuming that her assumption about his connection to her two favorite people was correct, then she did, it explained a lot about why she'd changed her mind about him, and beyond that why she was relaxed enough around him to be herself. From the other side of that, she couldn't imagine it wouldn't be confusing. "Fuck, that's like... that sounds.... it's just fucked up." she stated bluntly after trying a few times to come up with something nice to say. Staring at the young man and felt a bit bad for the things he must occasionally remember that have nothing to do with him, beyond this... she realized that life must not be easy at all for her own Brain Charger either. She tried to think of what it must feel like to have a conversation with someone like they are your friend, while actively knowing you don't know them, or while not really being able to separate your own interactions from the ones of the past. This made the woman a bit concerned, given who the Flame King would be spending a month with.

[Bloodedge]

"Don't give me that look," Shoichi said while shifting his eyes toward the Water Queen. "It's not really as bad as it sounds, and I've gotten used to it." With that said, he took a few more bites from the apple. He found himself about halfway through the thing by the time he continued speaking on the matter. "Actually, even without the memories, I feel like I know you. You remind me a lot of a very close friend. It's... kind of a freaky resemblance, actually."

[Apollymi]

The blue haired woman scoffed at Shoichi's words. If only because it sounded outlandish to her. "Fuck, totally fine then. Experiencing other people's memories and feeling familiar with people that up to this point you'd never physically met before." her minor tirade finished it seemed the Sky King had more to say, and what he had to say made her chuckle just a little. She already knew exactly which friend he was reminded of when being around her, but she was a bit confused as to why this still wasn't an obvious thing to the young man. "Ya' don't say..." she said feeling a bit cheeky about knowing why this supposed freaky resemblance was the case. "Fuck, don't keep me in suspense, explain.~"

[Bloodedge]

Shoichi was mid-bite when Jinx requested, or even demanded, an explanation for is clause. With a quizzical expression, he pulled his teeth from the apple, leaving bite marks in the segment he had been meaning to take from it, all in order to think and respond. "Well, when I met this friend outside of the tower, she went on seeming to hate my guts for some years, even though we were on the same side... even the same team. It all just randomly changed one day when we were training, but I don't know if it had anything to do with her getting her memories of the tower back or not. Anyway, you both have a lot of similarities. The hard exterior with a show of positive intentions every now and then, the vulgar tongue, the backwards riding... If I didn't know any better, I'd say she was a Brain Charger. Yours, specifically."

[Apollymi]

Jinx waited on the explanation and found the extra information about the Ice Queen's younger self more than a bit amusing, and beyond that, very very familiar. A smirk crossed her face at this moment as it was kind of like hearing about her own childhood, only without the lost memories and separation. Upon his finishing of his sentences about the Ice Queen she couldn't help but look at him and really wonder if he was having that hard a time making the assumption the girl was her brain charger. "Fuckin' hell, you said it I didn't." the woman mentioned. The small girl was obviously her Brain Charger... perhaps the young man would catch up, perhaps she could push him to. "All that sounds kinda like me actually. I get the similarities. When I was a kid... I used to torture my best friend, well before we were really friends and even after for a while. Yelling at him, leaving bubbles everywhere, accusing him of ruining my fun..."

[Bloodedge]

The more Jinx spoke about her similar situation, the more it cemented the idea of similarities between the two women. This, combined with her initial reaction to the theory, made Shoichi stare at the Water Queen. "But that's..." he started. The way she said she treated her now closest friend was, to be frank, exactly like the way Chiyo had treated him in previous years. However, he had a hard time believing this theory could even be the slightest bit factual. "But that's not possible... right? I mean... Subject 002 was someone else, and Chiyo wasn't in the tower then..."

[Apollymi]

It took a few seconds, but it seemed the Sky King soon caught up to what the Water Queen was getting at. Now it was her turn to give the young man, the don't look at me like that look. "Fuckin' hell of course, it's possible. I was there, I would know." she mentioned rolling her eyes. But when it was mentioned that someone else was Subject 002 and it was after Chiyo had already been taken from the Tower, Jinx thought for a moment and realized what the problem must have been. "Look, Hashirama-ojii came and bailed me out of jail, saying that he needed to borrow my brain for a bit..." she said thinking back to that day. "He showed me the little dark haired child and called her Subject 001." the young woman said thinking about why he might have a problem with the information her eyes widened just a little. "You asked that 'cause you assumed you were Subject 001, but... you were a prototype. I don't think you were counted in the normal numbers." the Water Queen summarized. She knew for a fact that the Ice Queen was her Brain Charger. She could also guess at why the Ice Queen had been taken from the Tower she was put in given the personality of her elder brother.

[Bloodedge]

It seemed the thing Shoichi had merely speculated about was true; Chiyo was the Brain Charger experiment of the Water Queen, Jinx. Worse yet, was the matter of him not being Subject 001 in this experiment, but rather being the prototype. For years, he'd known about his existence as a Brain Charger, but he always thought it was a tested procedure. Knowing now that he was the experimental phase of the project was a bit... disturbing, to say the least. After sitting in silence for a minute or so, he spoke again. "Say... let me get one of those smokes," he said. In spite of asking for a cigarette, the Sky King didn't seem to have shifted into a different personality.

[Apollymi]

Jinx was already reaching for a cigarette when the Sky King asked for one. She'd left a pack pressed up against the side of the Jacuzzi along with a secondary lighter. Upon retrieving both she removed from the pack two and lit them both, offering one to the Sky King and keeping one for herself. She didn't feel the need to fill the silence and instead took a moment to pop the menthol cap and enjoy the added smoothness of her cigarette. She wasn't sure what this kind of information did to a person... but she was quite certain if he wanted to talk... he would.

[Bloodedge]

A lit cigarette was soon passed his way. Of course, Shoichi took it, then took a long, hard drag from it. The cloud of smoke he exhaled moments later emerged from his mouth in a long, thick stream before ballooning out at the end. And, though there were back-to-back comedic moments being heard from the television, he could pay them no mind. "So..." he started while ashing his cigarette, which had already been taken down a few millimeters. "How many more levels are there going to be to this training?"

[Apollymi]

Jinx heard the funny moments on tv and enjoyed her cigarette. But the speech that came from the Sky King... his question and his behavior and the way he asked it... made her uneasy. There was only one other person who made her feel so odd at the shift of his moods, and if this was the case, the Water Queen was not going to take that attitude shift. But, she'd also answer his question while shifting in the water cigarette hanging out of her mouth as she stepped out and began squeezing water out of those long pig tails. "Actually, not that many, I introduced the Ripple a week early because you seemed to handle the rest so well yesterday. Today... also went way better than I initially expected. I sort of expected to have to give you that two day break today." she said her hair free of water she stepped out of the Jacuzzi ashing her cigarette as she went over to the table and grabbed her belts, she was getting ready to go out and she intended for the Sky King to join her. "But fuck all that, you don't get to go all emo on me..." she said offering the young boy a smile. "Fuck, it's gonna rain soon and I was gonna just run around in it by myself but... I wanna see how ya' run. So, come on." she said, not making it sound like it was possible to say no to her in this moment.

[Bloodedge]

"Sou ka. I don't think I need any rest days," Shoichi commented on the progression of his training. As he took a drag from his cigarette, Jinx removed herself from the Jacuzzi, claiming he wasn't allowed to become 'emo' as it were. Much like similar cases involving the Ice Queen of his own generation, he didn't believe this was something he'd be able to simply avoid. As such, he begrudgingly extricated himself from the tub as well, moving into the main area of the bedroom. "Fine, fine," he said as he opened a drawer and retrieved a new pair of undergarments. In the most casual of manners, he discarded the ones he wore, replacing them with the new pair before retrieving the rest of his clothes and his ATs. "What's the plan?"

[Apollymi]

"Agreed, your physical condition is much better than the rest of your generation. Though rest is good for everyone... myself included... but I won't need it until later." mentioned the young woman. She rolled on her wheels around the room collecting the other things she'd dropped from her pockets including a pack of smokes and a lighter. It was to be expected that the Water Queen held no sexual interest in the Sky King so she didn't care if he was naked or not, she simply waited for him to dress himself figuring after he got out of the water he'd comply with her wishes to run. When asked what the plan was a wicked grin appeared on the Water Queen's face. "Fuckin' hell, do I look like a woman with a plan? I don't have a fucking plan, I'm going outside to play, it's relaxing. And you're coming too, 'cause it's fucking fun~" mentioned the woman as if it was crazy to her that this needed an explanation. "Normally...we make our own storms to play in... it's been a while since I played in an natural one." she stated as she headed for the balcony. She never went down in the elevator and she balanced on the railings looking up at the sky, feeling the first rain drop fall.

The sensation of water hitting her person, seemed to do something happy for the young woman's mood, cause right after she hopped off the balcony and let herself fall a bit.

[Bloodedge]

"I won't either. I don't get tired," he commented nonchalantly. When he finished equipping himself with clothes and ATs, he followed to the balcony where the hind wheels of his ATs fanned out into wings as he forced wind into the wheel cores. "Riding in a storm? Alright..." he said before taking flight. His ATs carried him downward, toward Jinx's level as the rain began to fall on the pair. "So you two are the reason for the random storms recently. I think I went inside one of those last month."

[Apollymi]

"Oh really?" it slipped out of the Water Queen's mouth as a natural reaction to someone being cocky around her. It was a tad flirtatious but... it really couldn't be helped. When it was stated that she and her run partner were the reason for the random storms a small smile came to her face. "Fuck... well reason is a kinda strong association. A storm... at least a small one, is never really intentional, it's just a consequence of the two of us running together. You were inside one a month ago? It was Frost Nipper's idea wasn't it?" she said this with some form of surety. And to explain she turned hoping on the water and ceasing her fall towards the ground, an explosion of the water droplets would propel the woman upward and allow her to jump off them in a split second. "The first time we made a storm, we were just playing... and it was... inside our tower. We accidentally almost fucked all of us up." she said with a cheeky smile. "But I really wanted to go inside the storm cloud cause it was all dark, wet, and sparky. Fuckin' hell, we'd never properly seen weather or anything... but Roze wouldn't let me. Fuckin' Lamb Chop had to absorb the lightning and Birdy clapped it out of existence. I eventually got into a cloud one day though~. Best feeling ever!~"

[Bloodedge]

"Never have before," he replied on the matter of his own stamina. Shoichi had always been an overly hyperactive individual; the type to run about all day, every day, until he was off to bed. As for the matter of riding through a storm, he thought back to the day this occurred to respond. "Yeah, it was. She wasn't really used to being off the ground, so we ran into a thunder cloud." Jinx's momentum soon changed its direction, sending the woman upward. When this happened, Shoichi changed direction as well. He soon punctured the cloud with his body and ascended above it to look down at the formation of lightning and the like within. "So, you make these. I always wanted to..." His sentence never finished. Instead, Shoichi slowly began moving his hands at his sides, gathering the wind around the clouds to the area around him.

[Apollymi]

Jinx seemed to be rather amused by what she was doing, but even given the change in direction, she didn't expect the Sky King to also follow up in such a way. It seemed he was content to make it to the cloud and she also went up since he broke the cloud with his body. A grin covered her face as she turned and rolled backwards within this cloud of moisture. "Fuckin' hell the suspense... Always wanted to...?" the Water Queen questioned. She looked up as she moved, watching the shifting of the clouds as she circled the Sky King. She knew wind manipulators had a thing for messing with the weather, but at this point, she was just curious about what he intended to do.

[Bloodedge]

Shoichi never verbally answered the Water Queen's question. Instead, he continued his wind manipulation until the clouds themselves fell into the desired pattern of movement. He used these movements to create a twisting tunnel of wind through which the cloud was channeled. This tunnel created numerous loops and curves, forming a virtual roller coaster out of the clouds, from which the rain still fell. When he finished with this extensive roller coaster of a cloud line, there was a gentle smile on his face. "There. That oughta do it."

[Apollymi]

There was no verbal response, which meant that Jinx had to wait and see. Waiting had never been something the woman had been good at but as she watched the clouds shift and change but the rain continue she realized what was being done here. There was excitement of childish massive proportions. "Holy fucking shit this is fucking awesome!" the Water Queen said as she took off towards it with all the vigor her body was capable of, she turned hitting a backward stride she motioned for the Sky King. "Fuckin' hell don't make me have fun by myself though~" she said as she aimed to ride this roller coaster.

[Bloodedge]

It seemed Jinx would not be hesitating before hopping on his cloud creation, which was fair enough, as he intended to provide a bit of a fun alternative to one who'd already experienced a run in the clouds the normal way. When urged to join in, he did so immediately. Shoichi's run through the cloud coaster, as he'd call it, consisted of numerous spins around the tunnel. His Regalia receded from its wing form to one containing segmented wheels which simply allowed him to ride the air surrounding the clouds. In this way, he was limited, as opposed to simply being able to fly around in whatever direction he wished.

[Apollymi]

Upon making it to the cloud coaster, Jinx crossed her legs at the ankles and twisted her body seeing that the Sky King had changed the form of his regalia to just be able to have fun. Interestingly enough, Jinx was having a great deal of fun with the twists and turns her body moving through water and mist bursting rain drops to launch herself further faster, with a great deal of grace and a bit of aggression. She watched his run in this moment, and understood... the light of that understanding shown in her magenta eyes. A flip was next for the Water Queen as she spun and took a curve with a great deal of speed backwards. A bit of praise slipped from the woman's mouth. "Fuckin' hell, Fly Boy this is some a-fuckin'-mazing shit, great job!~"

[Bloodedge]

The Sky King was out ahead of the Water Queen when she spoke, and after taking in her words, he looked over his shoulder at the woman. "Thanks. I wanted to do this last time, but I figured I'd save it for a different scene. Gotta keep things fresh and interesting, yeah?" he asked in rhetoric. Returning his attention to his own movements, he slipped his hands into his pockets and jettisoned himself off the coaster, performing a slow spin and flip with his center of gravity in his chest, leading himself through one of the loops in the coaster to land at the other end.

[Apollymi]

"Hell yes!" this was all the Water Queen had to say, her chiming agreement. Since the Sky King was in front of her, she turned again taking her body much lower to give herself a more compact and ball like shape while she took a few of the loops, her pigtails looking many times longer than her body while she did this so she could watch the Sky King move about. 'His movements are good now. It's kind of strange watching him... it's like... everything he is... comes out while he rides.' she thought to herself her smile becoming softer. She now fully understood how the young Ice Queen had worked into changing her mind about the Sky King. How she'd properly befriended him, instead of just taking on the kind of manic behavior the Water Queen had, and she was happy, that this one had his best friend too. But it would soon be the end of her cloud coaster adventure and by then she'd straightened up and launched herself into the sky. This feeling this sort of flight was always pretty fun to her, though it was rarer that she got to do this with her friends now. Still, she enjoyed the feeling of the rain and wind in her face as she soon didn't have enough momentum to move forward and began to fall.

[Bloodedge]

The next time Shoichi looked back, the Water Queen was nowhere in his immediate field of vision. He looked down, seeing the woman en route to the ground from cloud level. Though she didn't look to be falling accidentally, there was something he had intended to become of this roller coaster at its very end. So, he would now be bringing it to the blue-haired woman herself. Her fall would be accompanied by the rapid descent of a tornado around her location. This tornado consisted of all the clouds he had previously gathered, the rain with them, and even the lightning. He descended within the tornado until he caught up to Jinx's level, and circled her along the cyclone's spiral while looking in her direction. "Oi! You wasted the surprise at the end!"

[Apollymi]

Rainfall, clouds and lightning were now catching up to the falling Water Queen and she was a bit confused and amazed by this, until of course the Sky King caught up to her and explained that she'd missed the surprise at the end of the coaster. "Fuckin' hell, give a girl a roller coaster in the sky, full of rain drops, clouds, twists, and fun, and you still feel the need to do more. You're alright, Fly Boy." mentioned the woman who chose now to right herself and ride the rest of the way down the tornado walls like she used to when she was much younger.

[Bloodedge]

"That's me in a nutshell. Above and beyond expectations whenever possible. Well... when it's something I wanna do, anyway," he said coyly as he looked toward the shifting Water Queen. "It's the only way to have fun." Jinx seemed content to ride the tornado all the way down as well. The two would end up on opposite ends as they moved around the spiral, and Shoichi looked toward the end of the tornado as it touched the ground.

[Apollymi]

Jinx heard what the Sky King had to say from across the the tornado on their way down. His words made her look at him, and she knew given his attitude at this moment her thoughts about him also being the Brain Charger of her best friend, the Flame King, Kurama. "Fuckin' great attitude to have~" she mentioned there was a calmness in the Water Queen that could only come from having a decent amount of fun. "I also only do things I wanna do, too!~ It's the best." she chimed her feet finally reaching the ground again she spun in place, getting used to being at ground level again, but she felt good; very good.

[Bloodedge]

"No point doing anything else, right?" he replied when he, too, reached ground level. Shoichi's Regalia then returned to its sealed form, and he began turning his ankles individually. It seemed he had not yet adjusted to the length of this pair. "Thanks, by the way. I'm still pretty bummed out, but... I needed to stretch a bit. More importantly, I'm just realizing this Regalia upgrade is fly as fuck!"

[Apollymi]

"Fuckin' right!" the blue haired woman said in reply to his statement about doing what you wanted as an individual. When Shoichi went on to thank her, stating his mental status for her but appreciating her efforts to pull him out of the slump he'd been falling into she simply smiled and waved it off. "Fuck that... no thanking me for normal shit. I didn't expect rainbows and sunshine or any fucking thing..." she said which was true for her. She didn't like apologies for people being themselves, nor thanks for her doing something kind... because she was often kinder than her personality let on.

Moving right along, the Sky King pointed out the awesomeness of his new gear and the Water Queen began to circle having a look at him and his new gear. "Yeah, it's pretty fuckin' sweet. And you seem to be better for it, noticed you have no problem activating it at multiple stages~ Should make for some pretty unique combinations later." The Water Queen mentioned. She'd had a couple of runs all on her own to test the work that the Second Generation's Pledge Queen had done on her ATs. "Pinkie Pie is some kind of different, 'cause I've never had a shift quite like this one either. It makes both of my roads work well..."

[Bloodedge]

"Too late~" said the Sky King in a sing-song tone. His eyes were still on the Sky Regalia he wore, and he wondered what it would do beyond its original states. He had always known what the Wind Regalia did, and the Sky Regalia's original form simply allowed him to mimic the former, along with other Regalias and their respective Roads. This, however, was something new, and he felt like there was much more to its abilities than what the two parts had individually. "I've just been doing what came natural with it. It feels so... right. Anyway, what do ya' wanna do now?"

[Apollymi]

Shoichi's sing-song response to the Water Queen's request (or rather demand) not to be thanked caused the woman to turn and raise her middle finger in his direction. This action was reflexive as she generally tended to respond to such cheekiness in that way. Beyond this, the young man stated that he'd simply been doing what felt right since the upgrade of his Regalia which brought a smile to the blue haired woman's face. "That's about right... doing what feels right is pretty much all we can do..." she said knowing that she and those like her, with extra roads and more talent than normal, always ended up doing the things that felt most right. As for what they were going to do next, the Water Queen was surprisingly nice... giving the young man something she rarely did. "Fuckin' hell, I dragged you out here already, I'll let ya' decide what's up for the afternoon..." she mentioned with a sideways glance in the young man's direction.


But days later, the young man would be on his final challenge. The course an entire building leading with the young man heading all the way for the main exit at the top coming out where the young woman could see him. This course had taken her a couple of hours to lay out completely and was what she considered to be the most challenging of any she'd ever made. Beyond this the final part of this course was marked by a bubble. But this was no ordinary bubble, it was huge bigger than she was tall and she was not the smallest person. It was here, made so that the slightest agitation would cause it to burst and thus burst every other bubble and anti-bubble in the building. This would be the final test, and she'd have to see what the young man was capable of. "Fuckin' hell, Fly Boy, today is graduation day. You pass this one... and we can play properly~" mentioned the Water Queen.

[Bloodedge]

On the final day of the obstacle course, Shoichi rolled past Jinx with a pair of dark-tinted sunglasses in hand. Once he'd passed her, he turned around to face the woman, and slid the shades onto her face. "Here. You'll need these," he said as he moved closer to the obstacle course with closed eyes. When his eyes opened, his ocular ability was in place. It had developed over the course of this training. The wings in his irises were now surrounded by lines mimicking those seen during high-speed movement. There was also a deeper shadow being cast inward from his corneas. These evolved eyes gave him all the sight he needed to determine the displacements in the air by every bubble in the vicinity. He saw this through the movement and blockage of the particles in the atmosphere, and these would be collected from around Shoichi as he moved forward. Eventually, there were tiny crystals floating around him, making the lad look as if he'd been blessed by the stars themselves. "I've been working on this all week... my Stardust Road." With that said, Shoichi brought his hands together, along with the "Stardust" around him. "I call it Starlight... Extinction!" Shoichi quickly spread his arms out, commanding the movement of the stardust via the wind. The movements of shimmering lights were so quick, and made so bright, it had the look of thousands upon thousands of simultaneously shooting stars. Beholding this with the naked eye would result in a temporary lack of ability to process light, and the intention of the trick was to then riddle the opponent from all directions with the stardust. In this case, each tiny crystal would target one of the bubbles along the course; the obstacles, shooters, and the anti-bubbles as well, all thanks to his recently developed ocular prowess. When this was done, he pulled back his right leg, then kicked forward with a twist of his foot and a swipe of his hand above his leg. This created a long thorn powered and accelerated by a cyclone which carried Shoichi's stardust and forced its integration. This mighty thorn shot through the massive bubble at such an incredible velocity that the following explosion was funneled through the wind in the thorn's wake, away from where Shoichi and Jinx stood.

[Apollymi]

Jinx was a bit confused as to what the Sky King mentioned, beyond this the young man put a pair of dark sunglasses which protected her vision from what was one of the more amazing things she'd ever seen. As the young man said he'd been working on it all week a small smile came to the young woman's face. "Fuckin' hell, is that what you've been doing when you get up in the middle of the fuckin' night?" the Water Queen apparently knew the young man was leaving, but felt no need to follow him. After all, everyone was entitled to their alone time, and since he never actually woke her up, everything was fine. She wasn't mad, in fact she was impressed. This trick was astronomically better than anything she'd seen from the Sky King, beyond that he seemed so at ease doing it. The effects of it were massive and what she actually expected from the boy who was sitting at the top of his generation. "Fuckin' hell, if I'd known you'd finish it in like five fucking seconds, I wouldn't have woken up early to do the whole fucking thing." the blue haired woman said rolling her eyes behind dark sunglasses. "But even I gotta admit... that's an a-fuckin'-mazing trick, Fly Boy. Riding that newly developed road like a pro, I ain't even mad."

[Bloodedge]

Shoichi exhaled a deep breath following the completion of his tricks. He had been working on refining the principles of this new Road since the second night of being here, and he was very satisfied to see his most recently developed trick proving to be successful in practice. "Alright... no more obstacle training. When's the fun part?" he asked. When he turned around, Shoichi slipped his hands into his pockets. He then made his approach toward Jinx. She seemed to have noticed his constant leaving in the middle of the night. "Hoh? Did I wake you?"

[Apollymi]

The words of the Sky King seemed to ring in the ears of the Water Queen and she began to circle. "Fuck, it starts now. But ya' understand right, the obstacle course was to make sure..." her sentence seemed to trail off as she decided to explain the reasoning behind her original method of testing the young man. "My own run partner, is my partner 'cause we can't hurt each other. If I wasn't sure you could dodge or deal with what I had to dish out... I couldn't be the one to show you how to Zone." Jinx explained. She seemed to care a lot more than her attitude would let on, but the Sky King had noticed this, long before they'd gotten to this point.

Moving right along he seemed to question if she'd been woken by his movements late night. Of course, the hotel only had one bed as big as it was, they still shared it, but a wicked grin came on to the woman's face as she began moving each motion seeming to make her circle wider. "Fly Boy, you know better, if I was awake and didn't wanna be, I would have just attacked ya'." she said as if it was the simplest solution to a problem in the world. Moving right along this place would turn into their battle ground, it was another reason it was chosen is because what happened to it from this point forward wouldn't matter. "Fuckin' hell, Fly Boy, you haven't spent any time in the Zone since the last time... we gotta get ya' a trigger."

[Bloodedge]

"Trigger?" the Sky King questioned as he met Jinx's circling with his own, along the very same path she'd taken. This was how he chose to start things; an old-fashioned stand-off of sorts with both potential combatants on opposite ends of a pace. "What do you mean trigger? Isn't it something that just happens?" he asked. As far as he could tell, the Zone simply came from him letting loose with everything he had, but Shoichi had always been a bit simple like that. He cared more about having a bit of fun by battling the Water Queen before him than he did about going into the Zone. But, if it was something he had to do, he figured he was best to give it a shot.

[Apollymi]

Jinx looked at the young man sizing him up. He seemed to be just as down for some fun, and she was as well, but that being said... the Zone needed to be fully explained to the Sky King before her. When asked about triggers and how they actually worked the woman had a decent if not vulgar metaphor which would likely make sense to the young man. "Fuckin' hell, a trigger is the thing that gets you in the doors. They often open accidentally but... every time it happens it gets harder and harder to do. If you rely to heavily on it just happening, it will never happen when ya' need it to." she said a smile on her face as she turned allowing her motion to continue backwards as if she hadn't done a thing in the world. "Think about the Zone like it's a bad bitch, it does what it wants, yeah? But if you're begging for it, if ya' need it and you're trying to force it... it leaves ya' outside cold. Fickle bitchy mistress not something to be controlled, but if you approach her the right way, she'll let you in ." she concluded coming to a stop she took a deep breath and in her mind she was kind of standing before the doors her hands right up against it, she could just push them apart it'd be so easy.

"Getting there, is about putting yourself in the right headspace. Not beggin', thinkin' or tryin'. You just gotta do it." she mentioned. She wasn't sure if this would make sense to anyone else. But the Sky King was a bit simple, she felt like he'd understand.

[Bloodedge]

Jinx's explanation did indeed make sense to the young Sky King, especially given the metaphor she chose to use. The assertion which followed, though, brought nothing short of a grin to Shoichi's face. "That's a coincidence. Never been the type to think about shit. I've got one gear: Go!" True to his words, Shoichi finally gave up on waiting. He'd seen this woman's Road a few times now, and he couldn't be more excited to be facing it again. It was this mindset of Shoichi's that would put him before the Zone's door and, rather mockingly, force it open for the young man. A grin was on his face when purple streaks of electricity sparked in his evolved eyes. "C'mon. You said the fun part started now."

[Apollymi]

There was nothing but calm in the Water Queen. Beyond this, the Water Queen felt the young man push past the doors and it was an incredible feeling. With that in mind, who was she to keep the boy from his fun. That cool moment against the door was only a split second until she fell deep within and once she did, her eyes opened to show, those pretty blue rings shifting around their magenta cores with that pretty pink lightning coming from the corners of her eyes. "Fuck, I don't know who you think you're talking to... but don't get the wrong idea." she said a grin on her face didn't shift at all while she moved forward bubbles in her wake as she switched her movements this time speedily with the help the small ripples which seemed to flow so much easier from her ATs now. These bubbles would burst in a chain of explosions around the Sky King's person dangerously close to his body as the woman gave herself room to move and create more bubbles and explosions.

[Bloodedge]

"Heh!" Shoichi was given the satisfaction of the battle beginning via Jinx surrounding him with some of the same bubbles he'd seen for the duration of his obstacle training. The Sky King's grin only grew wider as he clapped with his left fingers pointed down, and his right up. When his hands separated, he created a vacuum sphere which grew to surround him in less than a second, and by displacing the air around it, the sphere nullified the explosions happening around him. It also carried him closer to Jinx, then around immediately her to her left, displacing in time for Shoichi to clap again and force a dense sphere of air to appear above Jinx's head, aiming to crash into her from above. The progress of the earlier training showed in these moments, as he continued moving around to Jinx's right side as this occurred, creating stardust around him to begin displacing his image ever so slightly. "Feel free to put the right idea in my head."

[Apollymi]

The Water Queen was watching, not directly but the flow of fluid in the air and in the boy's body, her own more than poised to respond. Even so she couldn't help but feel kind of proud of the progress made by the Sky King as he zipped about seemingly displacing his own image. 'Fuck, I might have done too good a job... fuckin' kid is getting good, I might go too far.' she thought with a smirk as her body shifted. She created multiple water clones from her dispersed bubbles bending them around to take her place for the trick which dropped compressed air apparently right atop her. As the clone dispersed the woman seemed to slip out of a veil of small bubbles. "Fuckin' hell, finally something I think I like... it's mine now." mentioned the blue haired woman as she rolled backwards creating a large thin veil of a bubble mimicking the Sky King's hands for his vacuum ball she pressed it into a solid bubble around the young man, if this was successful she'd then snap her fingers causing it to explode and laughing maniacally. Being caught within the bubble when it exploded would make the young man subject to the pressure of it with the addition of the explosive properties of the Lather Road. "Fuckin' yes!~" she mentioned as that pink lightning seemed to spark even more.

[Bloodedge]

"We taking each other's shit now? Nice," he said when Jinx claimed and altered his trick, making her own version of it to counter him. When the bubble appeared around his person, the Sky King didn't flinch. Instead, he clapped again, creating a Moon Drop which expanded outward from his person. The Moon Drop's effect pushed the explosion outward, but the residual water didn't quite disperse the way it normally did. Shoichi surrounded drops of water in bubbles using the wind to encase it and the remaining gases in the atmosphere around him, basically recreating the woman's anti-bubbles with air shells surrounding them. The interesting thing was that this all happened behind his body, and further yet, behind the light displacement of his stardust. The Sky King darted forward when the air was clear, moving past Jinx's left side whilst being dangerously close to her person, yet doing so quickly. In passing, he looked the woman in the eye briefly, just to give her a bit of warning. "Watch out," he said with a smile. Once he passed, his stardust would follow... and then there would be the wave of anti-bubbles moving toward Jinx, exploding only when Shoichi chose to release the air shells around them.

[Apollymi]

It seemed like the Sky King was on board with the sharing of tricks. But what he didn't know yet, was that Jinx had been borrowing her friends tricks for a very long time. When the boy used his own tricks to get around her first use of her bubble trick she couldn't help but grin. He was so good now, so fluid, quick thinking, and flexible. "Fuck're you talking about, sharing tricks is how everyone gets good. Ya' take what you want and you use it for you... make it yours. Versatility, when ya' get it, you'll be ready to fuckin' party." was what she had to say to the trick stealing. But there was something else coming, as the Sky King mentioned she should watch out, while passing her and doing his next attack she couldn't help but smile. She understood because of the way her eye worked, that the water was trapped within the air and thus couldn't be exploded even by her... but that didn't matter. Instead of saying anything about it immediately she made use of the trick she'd so recently made, because in using this trick in front of her, to get out of explosion, he'd already showed her how to avoid his most recent attack. Her wheels spun and she clapped creating another bubble huge and around herself, and used its viscous surface to absorb the explosion while taking in the water which was expelled. It was thin and soon she turned allowing her to use it to bend the light around it and move it with her. "Fuckin' hell, it doubles as a shield."

[Bloodedge]

"Yeah, it does," Shoichi said about the bubble around Jinx, speaking in a way that implied that he already knew how it would function. As Jinx moved around in her bubble, Shoichi's eyes followed in spite of the light being bent by the bubble itself. As he moved in the opposite direction, he crossed his arms in an "X" formation with his left in front of his right. Moving them outward, he clapped once, only to flip his hands around and clap again while moving his arms in an opposing, yet parallel movement to the former. The first clap would be for the sake of forming a Moon Drop around Jinx's bubble, aiming to force quick and heavy pressurization to make it pop on the spot. The second clap was to create a second Moon Drop in the wake of the first, immediately after the explosion to both force the explosion inward on Jinx, and have her succumb to the pressure of the air itself.

[Apollymi]

Jinx expected the first moon drop, given this she simply caused the explosion herself, choosing to take damage while forcing her ATs to move her forward and causing a large torrent of bubbles as she tried to force herself out of the way. Still, even the Water Queen couldn't fully escape the pressurized air created by the secondary moon drop. She pressure created a dense bit of pain throughout her body but she'd felt worse. When she finally exhaled she spit a bit of blood, but her eyes were still little pink lightning strikes in their watery blue halos around their pink centers. "Fuckin' hell, that smarts... I always hate being on the other end of that shit~" she chimed as she began to move again, this time all three wheels on her ATs were rotating as she started a backward stroke in a wide arc away from where she'd previously been. "Oh, yeah, how the fuck did you see me... that should have made me invisible?" she questioned. After all, figuring out the strengths and weaknesses of her own tricks was sort of important. And while she did this, the blood she'd spit was being trapped within a bubble which was presently moving across the ground in anti-bubble form waiting to explode at the Sky King's feet, hidden in the wind stream of a normal bubble in front of it.

[Bloodedge]

"Hmph," was Shoichi's initial reply to the Water Queen's query. "These are my skies now. Anything that passes through the air, I can see." True to his words, Shoichi was able to see the wind itself, and thereby all things which displaced it in any way. As such, his eyes were drawn to the bubbles moving toward his feet, and a quick bit of wind manipulation shot at the bubbles with crystals to prematurely pop them. It was then that he saw the red bubbles that had made it into their predecessors' slip streams. There was one way he could easily evade the explosion of this second wave, but he had neglected to access his specialty when it came to movement. So, by the time the hind wheels of his ATs grew into wings, the explosions were taking place and blasting him away. The Sky Regalia protected him from the knee down, but after the sensation of pain, he began to feel a constant sort of throbbing in his lower thighs. "Sugoi! Hell of an impact ya' got there!" he said while taking to the air, where he would only become more formidable. "Now we're having fun!" With that said, Shoichi clapped to form his Vacuum Sphere trick again, filling the area with ones larger than his body in a matter of moments. He began hopping into these vacuums one after another, scattering himself all over the battlefield at normally impossible speeds. The wind that would normally be around him as he moved was interrupted by the spheres, allowing such a feat while also concealing his presence by having absolutely nothing around him. "I've never said it before. I love being the Sky. Everything else looks so small, but so big at the same time... and there's so much to see down below!" His words seemed to come from all around the Water Queen. In fact, they did. Since he was rapidly popping out of one vacuum and directly into another, his words could only be spoken during the instant in which he was exposed. As such, every word was spoken specifically during an opening, and from a far different location from the last.

[Apollymi]

"Oh? Through the air huh... fuck, that makes us a bit similar... too bad I know a guy who is absolute." said the young woman. If the boy was watching the way the air moved, it was truly impossible to hide from him, if that was the case she wouldn't bother, it would be a waste of energy. Of course... that just gave a new bit of challenge, her own eyes allowed her to see the flow of liquids, in the air, in bodies of water, in physical bodies. With every beat of the heart she could see the blood moving in someone's body. In fact, she saw the change in the boy's thighs after he was caught somewhat by the Blood Bubble blast. "Fuckin' right, those are kinda dangerous... I don't really like bleeding so... I like to pay people back when they make me." she mentioned watching this boy's next trick with wide eyes. The extra speed was phenomenal but... every time she managed to catch a glimpse of his body, she could see the extra stress, by way of the altering of the boy's usual flow. The Zone itself was a significant bit of stress... but... she was pretty sure hopping in and out of vacuums to rocket yourself around wasn't good for you physically. But she didn't have much time to think about that, as the boy who was the sky made a confession to her which made a smile come to her face. "I don't think I've ever thought about it. At least ya' like it... it's good." she caught up to the rhythm of the vacuum hopping not visually because her eyes wouldn't process it that fast, but simply by virtue of the boy's voice and body appearing randomly within her vision. Her wheels began spinning, because it was about time, she needed to do something about the young man to stop him before he completely wrecked himself. There was a tiny barrage of anti-bubbles because of the use of her other ones, she was aiming at the boy's thighs, the next time he was out, she intended to cross her legs at the ankle controlling the flow of his fluids ever so slightly to throw him off of his final movement. If she managed to either infect him with the small anti-bubbles and blow up his legs or force him to stop doing this trick she would have at least partly succeeded. 'Ugh, I hate being responsible.'

[Bloodedge]

"Oh yeah? Well I've got a bit of a habit. I've gotta pay back double, plus one!" Shoichi was virtually unstoppable at the moment, and he knew it. The vacuum spheres allowed him to be anywhere on the field in the blink of an eye, and even if something was thrown ahead of his path to the next vacuum, his reflexes while in the Zone were more than enough to change his trajectory in an instant. This much was known since the first time he entered the Zone, and he was now only falling deeper into it. At this point, Shoichi's eyes even allowed him to determine how Jinx's Road would evolve, and what possible paths it could take depending on what she faced. He assumed she would go for the explosion of his blood, but there was one thing he didn't know... and that was the workings of her eye. As far as he was concerned, there was no foreseeable way for Jinx to catch up with him to strike with any of her tricks. But, she managed to do so using something the Sky King couldn't predict, and the end result was a chain of explosions in his thighs that caused him to fall from betwixt two vacuum spheres onto the ground, and in quite a bit of pain at that. "Fuuuck!" he exclaimed, having been knocked out of the Zone by the sheer shock of being overcome during a moment in which he thought himself invincible.

[Apollymi]

Jinx looked at the young man strangely when he mentioned he paid back what was dished out to him double plus one. It made sense to double it... but the addition of the one caused confusion to spread across the blue haired woman's face. "Fuckin' hell, why add the one after doubling, that makes no fucking sense." she said aloud though given what was occurring in the moment she didn't readily expect an answer to her question. She knew the boy was in pain and that he'd fallen out of the Zone because of it. Given this, she let her own fall away, though the blue ring in her pink eyes remained as she approached. The middle wheels of her ATs working over-time as she closed in the space between them and stood above him to the left. She was controlling the flow of his legs, allowing them to go numb for a bit and ease his pain. "Fuck, I'm sorry about that Fly Boy, but it was necessary... your flow was too fucked by those vacuum spheres you were using to rocket yourself around. They were stressing your body too much, you'd end up too damaged to do anything." she mentioned seeming a bit sad, realizing of course, that she'd probably stung his pride a bit more than she'd normally like to do. She offered him a hand up as she released her use of flow based water control on her legs, they would still sting but it wouldn't be too bad.

[Bloodedge]

"God damnit!" he said further. "It's not that bad. I just thought I'd be able to win that one, but damn, you were awesome!" he concluded. When Jinx spoke of the damage he was doing to his own body, he nodded hesitantly. Shoichi had felt this occurring, but he was too focused to pay it any mind. He accepted Jinx's offer of assistance, commenting on what happened as he pulled himself up while using her outstretched hand for support. "Yeah, it sucks, but I didn't wanna stop. I'll get you one day; promise!"

[Apollymi]

Jinx looked at the young man on the ground and his words about their most recent match up kind of stunned her. It wasn't very often that she was complimented when she did the sorts of things she normally did, to people. The fact that the boy wasn't upset by his loss and was instead amazed by her skills. "I... uh... fuck." and at this moment something rather rare occurred and the blue haired woman's face blushed. Soon enough though the young man was accepting her help and getting to his feet, under the promise of being able to overtake her some day. "I understand what that's like, but as the person who's had multiple broken bones and had to deal with the fuckin' inescapable boredom of sitting around waiting to finish healing so you can do stuff. Trust me... knowing when to stop... will save you a lot more time." she finished about his injuries. She couldn't really save him if he wanted to push more than he should, all she could do for him if he didn't wish to find the right attitude would be to call her friend to fix his broken bones. But she soon moved along to the last bit of his statement.

"Fuckin' hell, I look forward to it." she said of him one day being good enough to beat her. It was something to come, he was already competing with her at least at the basic level which was amazing all on its own. "Well this has been a fuckin' busy ass mornin', lunch and the Jacuzzi?" she asked.

[Bloodedge]

"Yeah, I guess you've got a point there. It's hard stopping, though... especially like that," he said regarding the feeling of being in the Zone. He tried to move forward, but his legs didn't exactly want to cooperate with him. So, he created an orb of dense, spiraling wind to sit on and ride the rest of the way. "Lunch and Jacuzzi sounds great. You treat, and I won't tell anyone about how I made you blush," he said with a mischievous grin.

[Apollymi]

"Fuck, I know~" she said about the feeling of the Zone. Everyone who could enter it, likely felt the exact same way about it, so it wasn't worth arguing about. Instead she watched as the young man compensated for his legs not really working, by making a sphere of air to ride back to the hotel. He went on to say she should treat for lunch so he wouldn't tell anyone he'd made her blush. That mischievous look on his face, reminded her of someone else, but instead of commenting immediately she attempted to throw herself around his shoulders from the back so she could ride along because it looked fun. "Fuck all that, no one would believe you made me blush, that shit just doesn't happen. But you're gonna show me how fun this air orb is, and I'll get ya' lunch anyways~" she said in compromise while admitting no fault of her own, which was by far one of her better skills.

[Bloodedge]

As he began moving forward, Shoichi felt himself being grabbed from the rear. Jinx then offered a more reasonable solution to him having her treat the pair to lunch. Looking forward, he grinned cheekily. "Oi oi, if you were looking for a ride, you could've just asked. I don't charge. Anyway, hang tight." Without further ado, he pressed his right hand onto the sphere beneath him. In doing so, he used his fingers to force the movement of the wind inside, causing it to take off toward the district in which the hotel was located. "So what're we havin'? If the table's open for suggestions, or you don't have a different idea, I think pizza would be pretty sweet."

[Apollymi]

The cheeky commentary of the Sky King was noted and it made her chuckle, but still moving fast when you weren't in control of it, required some settling in which she did by way of allowing her long legs bent at the knee to close in on either side of his body and getting a more settled grip on the young man's shoulders with one arm while they took off. Pigtails flying in the breeze she seemed utterly amused, by the fun of this method of transportation. "Fuckin' hell this is fun!~" she sang to the sky. Meanwhile, the Sky King seemed to be thinking about lunch. She grinned her face up above the Sky King's head appreciating the breeze. "Fuck, that's fine, I guess... I didn't have any ideas, and I'm not picky about food. Toppings?" she questioned. If there would be pizza she at least needed to know what the young man wished to have. If he chose well, she'd get the whole pizza that way, if not, it'd be half and half.

[Bloodedge]

"Eto... Well, I worked as a pizza delivery guy for a while, and I tried Lasagna Pizza once. It's some pretty good shit," he answered. Shoichi found himself using his left hand to control the orb while fishing out his phone with his right, finding that he now had to maneuver around the Water Queen's legs to operate. When he looked down to realize this, he also realized how unusually long the woman's legs were. "The fuck is with these legs?"

[Apollymi]

"Fuckin' hell and here I thought I had a weird work history. Pizza guy?" she said laughing about it and finding it amusing that the Sky King did a job as simple as delivering pizzas. Beyond this his apparent choice in toppings sounded odd, but she decided to adopt the Sky King's habit. "Never heard of it, sounds like some new shit... I'll try it~" she chimed seeming to enjoy her fun of this ride along. Only the Sky King's questioning of the length of her legs brought her more amusement in this moment, because she realized he probably just hadn't really looked. "Fuck, I've always had really long legs... it's like my best physical trait." she mentioned. Knowing that she was noted as having the best legs in her generation.

[Bloodedge]

"It's got a really rich taste, and like... potatoes and shit in it." As Shoichi explained the type of pizza he had suggested, he used his phone to order said pizza online. The order was done in a matter of minutes, at which point Shoichi's arm brushed over the Water Queen's thigh as he slid his phone back into his pocket. Of course, his gaze was still upon the legs in question as he did this. Jinx seemed to be of the persuasion that having long legs was her most redeeming physical feature. "Can't exactly say I disagree or anything."

[Apollymi]

"Fuckin' hell sounds like I might be rendered comatose by food again~" the young woman said, remembering that she often binged on food right after getting out of lockup all sorts of rich and delicious things, causing her to gain 10 or 15 pounds right after getting out. Though admittedly that was how she grew her nice round bottom so she didn't seem too upset about it. "Fuck, of course, ya' can't disagree, it's a girl trap." she said with a most devious grin on her face.

[Bloodedge]

Jinx's words served as a point of confusion for the Sky King, causing him to look over his shoulder with a quizzical expression after she'd spoken. The amount of time between his order being placed and the food being ready was several minutes, so he had chosen to dilly-dally and ride around on the sphere a bit, but now his focus was solely on whatever the Water Queen meant. "Girl trap?"

[Apollymi]

A smirk came to the young woman's face as they continued to ride around and apparently this young man didn't truly understand what she meant when she used the term 'girl trap'. Of course, being the kind of person she was, she'd explain it. "Fuckin' hell, alright, since ya' don't know I'll let you in on the secret~" she mused thinking about how best to clarify. "A girl trap, is a statement made by a girl that only has two possible answers and both of them are wrong." she said with a nod and seemed to be most sincere in her thinking. "Basically, it's something you can't respond to without ending up in the shit house with the girl of choice." she said with a smile. Using her own recent speech as an example she clarified. "I said, my legs are my nicest physical feature... if you'd said yes, then you'd get chewed out for ogling me." she said with cheeky grin. "But if ya' said no... then you'd hurt my feelings or you'd have to admit you were looking at some other part of me more... still in trouble." she said with a knowing smile. "And that Fly Boy is the fucked up paradox known as the 'girl trap'. Fuck, and guys have one too, but that is a bit different."

[Bloodedge]

Shoichi was given a response that allowed him a reasonable understanding of this 'girl trap' paradox Jinx had spoken of. It was an interesting potential dilemma to be caught in, but he couldn't help but notice that neither of the listed consequences had been triggered in spite of is earlier agreement on the matter of the woman's legs. "I get what you're saying... but what about when neither of those things happens?"

[Apollymi]

A smile crossed this woman's face as the young man in question seemed to understand the girl trap paradox, and given her explanation she was even prepared for his follow up question since her response to him hadn't fallen in either of those ways. Well, at least not to his knowledge. "If you are talking about your case specifically, your answer was a neutral one. Which to be honest is the only out besides silence to the girl trap. You said 'Can't exactly say I disagree or anything.' Fuckin' hell that isn't a ringing endorsement in either direction... so in your case, neutrality kept you off my shit list." she mentioned only to chuckle just a little. "Fuckin' hell, it also kinda helps that I think of you as my friend, so... I don't really have to fly off the handle at every little thing, I'm only really mean to people when they give me their attention while I'm not asking for it." she explained of herself. "Fuck, but that doesn't always work that way, sometimes people are just fickle."

[Bloodedge]

"Sou... ka," was his initial reply. Over the next few moments, he reached the pizza shop. The order surely wasn't done yet, though, so he decided to carry the wind sphere up the side of the building, and onto the roof where it ceased any forward movement. Only then would his retort be completed. "So you wanted me to be checking you out."

[Apollymi]

They floated up the side of a building and she assumed given the signage this was the place he'd ordered their pizza from. Atop the place she began the process of unwrapping herself from the Sky King grinning at his apparent question. "Fuckin' hell, I explain to you what a girl trap is, and you come at me with a guy trap instead." she mentioned, intending to completely dodge the question of her intent for the Sky King, because she wasn't sure if she meant for him to check her out, if she assumed he'd done it to start with, or if she'd just become some comfortable around the young man that she'd simply stopped caring. It was kind of a toss up with the Water Queen.

[Bloodedge]

"Hmm... Yeah, that is what happened," he stated to confirm that he had, indeed, done such a thing in previous moments. Now that the Water Queen was no longer attached to his person, he had just a bit more freedom of movement. He used this freedom, interestingly enough, to turn on the wind sphere until he faced the woman, showing the very same grin of a devious nature that he had several minutes prior. "In fact, that's exactly what happened, right before you decided to change the subject by pointing out the obvious," he went on to say. Apparently, a bit of Roze was simply always within the lad's personality, but... the two were siblings, and such was to be expected in some respect.

[Apollymi]

Jinx looked at this young man on his air ball as he went devious interrogator. She couldn't help but feel a tiny bit nostalgic, after all, such an accusation usually came from the mouth of Roze. Of course, this was the sort of random thing, that simply could have been adapted just by hanging out a bit with one's sibling. The Water Queen stared down at the young man where he sat those magenta eyes of hers seemingly alight from within and grinned rather deviously herself. "Yeah, what the fuck of it? I already said it's a trap... I don't walk into traps." she said, still dodging the question moving right along she couldn't help but still be amused, this was rather close to flirting between them. "Besides, I don't remember sayin' it was cool for you to be this fuckin' cheeky~"

[Bloodedge]

"Who said you had to walk into it? Just... fall." As Shoichi spoke these words, his air ball carried him backwards. He dispersed the sphere once he was off the edge of the building, letting himself fall below. A few seconds later, he hovered back up to roof level in an upright position, hands in his pockets. "Yeah?" he asked of the woman's most recent statement. "That's cool. I don't remember asking for permission. I have a pass that gives me the right."

[Apollymi]

"Fuckin' hell, I bet you're proud of that ya' cheeky bastard." she said as she watched this young boy float himself over the edge and fall. Unlike a normal person, a gravity child, particularly one so loved by the wind, didn't really fall unless they wanted to, so Jinx didn't really have to worry. Within a few seconds the young man hovered in the air with his hands in his pockets claiming to have a pass for his rather cheeky behavior, and that was his explanation for doing it without permission. "Like hell you do, Fly Boy." from the blue haired woman this was all that she said as she also hopped over the building's edge, figuring the pizza should be ready or close to it by now.

[Bloodedge]

"A little bit, yeah," he replied. Jinx expressed her disbelief of the idea that he had a "cheekiness pass" as it were, but her voicing this opinion only made the Sky King chuckle. When he descended alongside the Water Queen, he did so upside-down, cutting his eyes toward the woman when he chose to respond. "I do. This dick," was his retort, and with that, he took off in another direction, choosing to do a few laps around the block and force his legs to start working properly again while Jinx retrieved the pizza.

[Apollymi]

"Fuckin' hell." was the response of the Water Queen, she had nothing else to say, it was still a trap after all. But what he had to know about her, or maybe he couldn't know... was that if he kept saying such things to her, eventually she'd call his bluff. Still, she couldn't help but chuckle, such statements gave her a nostalgia trip, mostly because there was only one man allowed to sass her so seriously while fearing no negative consequences. But to this point, she'd never met another who measured up so it was almost a guarantee that when she called a man on that type of bluff, she'd be unimpressed and get a proper target for the tirade she always had prepared for those who talked trash without being able to back it up. With that in mind she landed on the ground and rolled casually towards the front entrance of the Pizza Shop.

[Bloodedge]

The Sky King rode at ground level, moving across several city blocks in the area while making sure he performed as many turns, flips and grinds as possible. Proper feeling was returning to his legs bit by bit. As he moved, he counted the seconds and kept an estimation in mind of the time frame in which the exchange in the pizza shop would occur. Therefore, he would return to the front of the building at about the time Jinx would be stepping outside.

[Apollymi]

And sure enough by the time Jinx had retrieved the pizza from within the shop and stepped out the Sky King would be standing in front of her. A grin crossed the blue haired woman's face as she handed over the large box with the palm of her left hand while her right was planted on her hip. She used to work at drive in dinner so carrying food and drinks while riding wasn't really hard for her at all. "Here ya' go Fly Boy. Lunch~" she offered handing it off as they headed for the hotel which was less than a couple blocks away from this place.

[Bloodedge]

When he was handed the pizza box, Shoichi clapped into existence a vacuum ball, which surrounded the box itself. Doing so was sure to preserve the heat of the pizza while he carried the ball at high speeds, and within moments, he was on his way toward the hotel with it. "Got my legs working again, and I found a shortcut. This way!" he said while leading through one of many back alleys to virtually cut the travel time in half. In no time at all, Shoichi was setting foot in the suite through the balcony door, lowering the pizza box onto a table and dispelling the vacuum around it. The Sky King preemptively began filling the Jacuzzi before ditching his ATs and returning to the pizza to grab a slice from the box. "It's been a long time since I've had one of these."

[Apollymi]

"Fuckin' right~" and with that the blue haired woman followed this boy on his shortcut with a surprising bit of speed and acuity. Then again, her usual run partner focused speed, so at base level she never had much of a problem keeping up, those long legs of hers stroking easily both forward and backward multiple times until they reached the hotel by way of the back alleys. Now once they were inside she also dropped her belts and the like and listened as the young man filled the tub. "Fuckin' hell, you must have been a strange delivery boy~" she mentioned only to look at the pizza as he took a slice as if confused by its difference in toppings. But hell, she'd try it so she took a slice herself and after a few seconds more of inspection took a bite as if thinking over the flavor and texture of it.

[Bloodedge]

Shoichi carried his slice toward the Jacuzzi, leaning against the edge of the machine as it filled with water. He supported himself additionally with his left hand, using his right hand to bring the slice of pizza he held to his mouth. He took a bite, finding this particular pizza to be just like he remembered from earlier years, albeit with a few textural changes due to the difference in shops. When it was stated that he must have been a strange delivery boy, he raised a brow. "How do you mean?"

[Apollymi]

The Water Queen seemed to enjoy the taste of this new pizza and nodded her approval as she went in for a second bite. "This shit is fuckin' amazing~" she chimed the compliment to the Sky King on his choice in specialty pizza. Moving right along her eyes followed the young man as she went to stand beside the filling hot tub and he seemed to question her statement about him being a strange delivery boy. This made her chuckle, as she finished what she was eating to clarify a bit more. "Fuckin' hell, you just used a vacuum bubble to keep a pizza hot... I can't imagine you showing up at somebody's door like that~" she said, plus this boy was so happy, or rather friendly she couldn't imagine how that ended up for him.

[Bloodedge]

"Ah," Shoichi said, following with a laugh at Jinx's assumption that he used vacuum balls to deliver pizza during his days working at such a shop. "I didn't have that trick until that first day of training. I had a hot box from the job," he clarified. "I wish I did have those back then. This pizza's as hot as it would have been in the store, on the rack." With nothing else to say for the moment, he took another bite of pizza. As he chewed it, he turned around to cut the water flow into the Jacuzzi, and switch on the water jets.

[Apollymi]

"Fuckin' hell, random new trick..." she said in response to the fact that the vacuum ball was a newer trick for the Sky King from his first week of training. She was a bit stunned by that information but it was impressive nonetheless. Beyond this it appeared that Shoichi had been a more standard pizza delivery person but she also just couldn't see it. Just like watching her generations' Gem King eat out of a regular sized bowl, she still couldn't imagine the young man before her with his carefree attitude. A giggle escaped the woman while she finished up her first slice of pizza seeming to nibble on the crust as she headed to the kitchen for drinks and the like. "Uh-huh, still can't really imagine you as a delivery guy... something about that is funny to me." she said as she opened the fridge to grab a drink for herself. "Juice, soda, water, tequila?" she asked from the list of things present she could see.

[Bloodedge]

Shoichi shrugged. "Hey, it was a good bit of money," he said. "Besides, I was fast, so the tips were always rolling out." As Jinx went into the kitchen to fetch beverages, Shoichi found himself relaxing more against the edge of the Jacuzzi. He could feel the water's steam against his back, and he was tempted to hop in right away. However, he had a slice to finish, and he dared not risk sullying the waters with bits of pizza. "Uhh... I'll take whatever you're having!" he responded when Jinx asked what beverage he wanted from the list.

[Apollymi]

"I bet..." she said knowing she'd done something similar she decided to commiserate. "For a while, before my first major stint in jail, I worked at this drive-in diner thing in Miyabi, rolling along on ATs and delivering people's food to their carside. In those cases as long as you weren't hideous and you were reasonably fast, tipping was always a good way to end with some cash every night.~" she said of herself. Moving right along the Sky King decided he'd be having whatever she did, and with that in mind she grabbed a tray setting both juice and tequila with shot glasses and fixings atop it. "Fuckin' hell, fine but no complainin' if ya decide you don't really like what I choose." the Water Queen teased. The juice was for the now, but... she didn't plan to do much else today so she'd have a couple shots and relax as well. After getting everything she needed she floated the tray across the water top and finished her pizza.

[Bloodedge]

"Ehh?" he asked after discovering that Jinx once worked at a diner as a rolling waitress. He was quite sure he knew exactly the one she was talking about, and this made him start laughing at the thought. "You mean the one with the pink miniskirts and shit? Oh man, you must've gotten a lot more than tips working that job." It seemed Jinx would be having none of his trash talk if, for some reason, he wasn't fond of what she'd chosen to drink. "I've got no problem with anything on the list," he said while watching the tray containing tequila and the like float across the water. After finishing his slice of pizza, he discarded his shirt and jeans, dealing with each using a single hand as to get rid of them simultaneously. Once this was out of the way, he casually stepped into the bubbling water. "So we're using the Zone for the rest of our time here? Nothing else?"

[Apollymi]

The grin on Jinx's face didn't seem to fade, she supposed she did get a lot out of that particular job. "Somehow, it doesn't really surprise me that you know what I'm talking about. Fuckin' hell, it was like a bunch of cash, phone numbers, and angry bitches 'cause for some reason bringing your girlfriend along while you plan to flirt with the waitress is an excellent fucking idea." she said of her time spent as the car hop. "It was annoying, but it also caught me my first real assault charge... ya' know, for blowing up some perverted fuck's soda in his face... and then knocking him out in his car when he pinched my ass while I was on shift." she said that was a good day, thinking back on it made her smile. Since the boy apparently had no problems with any of her drink choices she also lowered herself into the water, and once she was there, she reached over the side and picked up a pack of smokes and her lighter, taking this as her moment to relax she'd light it and consider what the young man was saying.

"Fuckin' hell, probably... to be fair, you seem to develop a lot faster with no one interfering, but seeing how you handled your dip into the Zone today, it seems to be for the best to get you used to it, and teach you not to push yourself before we set ya' lose with it, on your friends." she mentioned taking a long drag and then popping the menthol cap. "Why is there something else ya' think I can show you?" she asked genuinely curious.

[Bloodedge]

"Well... to be fair, what did you expect? The skirts at that place are no joke, and with that leg thing you've got going on... there was only one way for it to go." As Shoichi spoke, he relaxed into the tub. Jinx decided to light a cigarette for herself, so Shoichi took the free time to pour a couple of shots. Once they were prepared, he leaned back again until his head was against the rim of the tub. "That's fair. I guess I shouldn't be trying to accidentally get into that state of mind against someone other than you guys. I just... I wanna see it all. Everything under the sky, I wanna see... so I can show my friends."

[Apollymi]

When asked what she expected while at work in the micro-minis that used to be the standard uniform and likely still were she just looked at the young man before her blankly. She figured what she wanted was obvious, "Fuckin' hell that should be obvious. I wanted to do my job without some random fucker I didn't invite touching me. Pretty much... the only thing that actually made me mad, was... when I was being arrested he claimed I attacked him for no reason. That...." she paused not knowing how to explain immediately why her problem with that entire situation had been what the man had said about it. "Fuckin' hell, I have no problem owning the things I do... but I don't like liars. I got revenge for that though~" she finished up. All in all, she only really did things to people when they started it, she wondered if the younger version of herself ever had a similar problem. She was quite young and quite small, but with a personality that likely wouldn't tolerate anyone's shortcomings she had to wonder how the girl hadn't managed to get herself into more trouble.

Moving right along, the Sky King mentioned that he thought that he shouldn't be trying to go into the Zone against his friends or anyone else for that matter and it made her smile. "Fuck, knowing the trigger should make it harder to do accidentally, though given what yours seems to be it might require a bit more fine tuning than that..." she said only to think of a situation that the young man would be most likely to find himself in, which caused her to offer him a bit of warning. "To be fair, if Frost Nipper slips in... you should too, no questions asked." that was fair enough warning she thought. Given that the Water Queen had been there to witness the first time the Ice Queen had made a trip into the Zone. Beyond this the words of the Sky King made her smile... she couldn't help but enjoy his attitude in this moment. "That's a good attitude to have... don't leave them behind, take them with you~ Fly Boy you just earned a shot, Kampai!~" she mentioned as she placed a line of salt on the black of the hand she was holding her cigarette in. Once it was there she picked up the shot glass and her lime slice and prepared to take her with the young Sky King.

[Bloodedge]

"Yeah, but... you put on the skirt. To some extent, ya' gotta consider it a compliment. Not saying you were in the wrong or anything, but... y'know," he said as he reached out for one of the filled shot glasses. As he prepared his own salt, he wondered why it was recommended that he always enter the Zone if Chiyo were to do so against him, but it didn't really matter to Shoichi. Of all the wings he'd seen, there were none he acknowledged more than those of the Ice Queen. So, he was certain to do that anyway. More to the point, he actually had no clue what his trigger is. He merely let himself get lost in the moment of the run, and the Zone somehow came to him. "So, this might sound weird, but... I don't think I found my trigger earlier. I was just kinda... doing stuff." Without further hesitation, he tapped his glass against Jinx's, and took the shot. Only after taking the lick of salt, and popping a lime slice into his mouth, did he speak further. "What's your trigger?"

[Apollymi]

The Water Queen scoffed at the young man's first statement. That was pretty much her out to letting it go. Furthering that discussion was opening up a trap, and she'd already done that earlier accidentally, she didn't intend to do it again. Afterwards she took her shot while the Sky King seemed to think more about his Zone and he revealed in that moment that he hadn't found his trigger at all. She looked at the young man and sighed knowing that she probably expected that to be the case. Even so, she licked the salt off the back of her hand and stuck a lime slice in her mouth, hearing him out right up until he asked what her Zone trigger was. Her eyes widened for a second because for some reason the nature of that question seemed very odd. "Fuck, that question seems really fucking personal when you ask it like that." she said before thinking about it a bit more she felt odd explaining herself, she took another drag from her cigarette and blew a single large ring of smoke upward before she responded. "The mindset I generally need to find the Zone is kinda 'no fucks given'. In order to go into the Zone, I have to not care about what I'm doing or who's around me. It's a fuckin' pain in the ass, 'cause I don't like hurting people accidentally... the Zone eluded me for a while, when I wasn't willing. And when I was... I fell in too deep and it hurt me back, 'cause not caring meant I didn't care about what happened to me either." she explained of her own growth."Fuckin' hell, I expected that you hadn't actually found your trigger yet... I'd have to see it one more time to guess at it... I'd like to be sure before I told ya' anything. Don't worry about it too much though, that's why ya' get extra Zone Practice." the young woman said of the boy's Zone, while she poured another shot for herself and him. Pausing only to ash her cigarette which had been finished.

[Bloodedge]

"I'm a personal kinda guy," he replied. Jinx's explanation of her Zone trigger was one he could understand, though the idea of self-injury due to the Zone, in ways beyond tearing up one's own muscles from physical activity, was a bit cringy to the lad. He was excited when looking forward to the additional Zone training, as he was in any case when he got to give something his all. The Sky King raised his glass and waited for the clink from Jinx, thinking forward to the next day's activity. "Alright! We'll go at it till we pass out!"

[Apollymi]

Jinx understood that the explanation of her Zone trigger and beyond that the things she seemed to do to herself while in the Zone were probably odd for other people to think about, so she didn't press that issue too much. She was also over time finding out the the young Sky King was a lot like the people who made him up, so she should have probably expected the personal questions he asked of her. Her eyes opened wide as she took her next shot after clinking glasses with the young man but as she was licking salt off her hand she heard him say something which she had to respond to. "Fuckin' hell, did ya' not hear what I just said. Going until ya' pass out is like guaranteed you're stuck doing nothing else for a month or more. The Zone's a wicked mistress." she mentioned shaking her head. She'd lean further back and pout. "Fuckin' hell, why do I even bother... it's not gonna make much of a difference anyways... you're just gonna go off like you're fuckin' crazy anyways... and that is a lot coming from me by the way." the woman said in her minor tirade.

[Bloodedge]

"You can say that... and yeah, I get it. Nobody wants to get fucked up. But... There's no fun in limitation," he said while pouring another pair of shots. After pouring both and salting one of his hands, he used the hand which held his glass to hold out a finger for emphasis on his next point. "If it feels right, do it. To be perfectly honest, I'd rather be incapable of riding for the rest of my life than know I ever went a day without giving all I've got. That goes for everything." There was a sparkle and a glow to the Sky King's eyes as he spoke these words. In recent times, he'd found his determination, and he would not be losing it again.

[Apollymi]

If the Water Queen wanted to argue with the boy about his first point, she simply couldn't. She was the poster child for lack of limits and doing whatever she wanted just because she could. With this in mind, she couldn't really try and force the issue home, and so long as they were taking care of themselves she really couldn't worry about the physical aspects of the 2nd Generation as much as she worried bout them in her own. Since another shot was being poured for her, she took the time to salt the back of her hand watching as the Sky King did the same. What he had to say about his determination, his drive and the glow and sparkle in his eye as he did so made a wide grin cross her face. "Fuckin' hell, when you say it like that, even I'm on board enough that I can't argue with ya'. I'll drink to that~" she said offering the boy her glass to clink before she took her shot along with the ritual. In her head though there was a slightly different tone. 'Fuckin' kids, I remember feeling like that all the time... I hope it lasts for 'em.' she though absently sincerely hoping they'd get to keep the fire in their souls.

[Bloodedge]

"Fuckin' right!" Shoichi exclaimed when his glass knocked against Jinx's. A moment later, he was taking his third shot of the night, and beginning to warm up because of it and the heat of the Jacuzzi. "Too quiet. Remote's over there," he said, looking past Jinx to view the sound system's remote on the other side of her. Since it was closer to her anyway, he figured he'd give her the choice of music on this night, as he'd played DJ for several nights thus far. After all, he was given the choice of food earlier this day. "And I'm pretty sure... you'd drink to anything; all of ya'."

[Apollymi]

Three shots down and now Jinx could feel the tequila deep within her person. There was a very special feeling which came along with quick drinking but she didn't mention this. Instead she simply enjoyed the sensation as she salted then limed waiting for whatever was next. It seemed that sounds were next as the Sky King pointed out the overall quietness of this room. She looked over her shoulder and saw the remote placed on a table slightly out of reach from her current positioning in the jacuzzi. "Fuckin' hell, I don't wanna get out yet..." she said, twisting at the waist she turned and leaned out finding the remote to still be just out of reach. "Also, I'd definitely drink to most things, but my friends aren't all so into it, some of us are more than others, specifically while we're hangin' out." she said of the drinking. She reached harder swaying her hips just a bit as she tried really hard. "Fuckin' hell, I'd trade a couple of inches of leg for a couple of arms if I could reach this shit..." she said as her fingers finally pulled the small device close enough to grab. With it in hand she turned back seeming to appreciate her victory. "Fuckin' hell... I'll need another~" she said as she used the remote to find a mix of pop/hip-hop and other such things on a radio station she could enjoy and likely dance to when she was finally ready to exit the jacuzzi.

[Bloodedge]

While sitting in virtual silence, bar the sound of the water around them, Shoichi kept his eyes focused on the out-of-reach remote. That is, of course, until Jinx began reaching for it, at which case her apparently swaying rear end claimed the center of his line of sight. 'Dayum,' he thought in this moment. 'Definitely can't blame those guys at the diner. I gotta chill.' When the woman turned back to her original position, the Sky King averted his gaze and poured another round, assuming it to be the "another" of which she spoke. "Hai hai," he said as he raised his glass, and held the Water Queen's out for her.

[Apollymi]

Having claimed the remote and demanded another drink, Jinx seemed to relax. But in doing so she also noticed the slight shift in the gaze of the Sky King and beyond that. She thought about how best to handle this situation and considered simply teasing. "Fuckin' hell, Fly Boy if I didn't know any better, I'd swear you'd just changed your mind about my legs being my best physical feature~" she teased. Teasing was fun... she could start there... so as she reached out for the shot that had been poured for her she tilted the glass towards the Sky King. It was also a little trap, even so she intended to take this shot without any extras added in, she'd apparently already reached that point in her drinking.

[Bloodedge]

Shoichi took his shot as well, if for no other reason than to fill his mouth while he thought up a response to the Water Queen's statement. He hadn't expected to be caught watching, and usually, he wasn't. This was simply a different story altogether. "Ahem..." he said after clearing the shot. "I was uhh... just making sure, since you can't see back there and all. Didn't want you being misinformed and all. Conclusion pending."

[Apollymi]

A grin crossed the Water Queen's face as she returned her shot glass to the tray it floated on in the jacuzzi. She was having a good time at the moment, picking apart the statements made by the Sky King. And she even fully acknowledged that she was flirting with him, but she kind of flirted with everyone at least a little, so she felt no need to completely exclude Shoichi from this activity specifically. "Fuckin' hell, you're saying it's all for my benefit then, huh?" she asked rhetorically. "But the fucking conclusion is pending... I wonder why?" she was staring at the young man across from her very directly, it was funny to her, his reaction to being caught. It wasn't smooth or anything, but it was amusing in a different way, and the Water Queen felt the need to push at it until she was satisfied by what was said here.

[Bloodedge]

Un-smooth was virtually a determinant factor of Shoichi's very existence, or at least it had been for several years. He knew this for quite some time, but never cared to do anything about it, being the type to wear literally everything about himself out on his sleeve. In this particular exchange of words, he raised his finger as if to point out that he'd been struck by genius. To emphasize this, he then slammed his right fist downward into his left palm. "Yes! All for your certainty! Conclusion pending due to... well... I dunno," he said with a wink and a protruding tongue. "Honestly, I'm just bad at deciding one or the other."

[Apollymi]

Jinx listened to the young man before her try and flirt by way of his justification for ogling her. And to be quite honest, she'd never heard anything as un-smooth as the what was falling out of Shoichi's mouth right now. Even so, it had its own appeal, what with his honesty and fairly straightforward interests, plus there was a lot to be said for the amount of effort going into this boy's work. "Fuckin' hell, all for my certainty? Well when ya' say it like that... it seems like it's worth looking into." she said a grin on her face as she continued to simply nod at what this young man was saying, "Fuck, Fly Boy, you got a plan to rectify this situation floating around in that little head of yours, or are ya' all talk?" This was a small challenge from the young woman, which she seemed to give when having these moments of flirtation with her friends, witty banter was part of the fun of having adult friends after all.

[Bloodedge]

"Eto..." The Sky King said with a hand against his chin. He thought over the Water Queen's words, figuring out what the best way to express his train of thought was. "I've never been all talk about anything, whatever significance that has to this. But... I never make plans ahead of time, either. I just kinda... go with the flow," he concluded with a grin, believing this to be the best way of explaining himself.

[Apollymi]

The Water Queen looked at the Sky King her eyes widening slightly. She heard his words, and they were his own, but they were also like that of her friend, the Flame King. It was then she realized that the Sky King did mention a week ago that he wasn't himself the first night the hung out so he didn't remember. A wicked grin came to her face as she made a decision and rose from the water. Very specifically she turned to the side while she twisted the water out of her hair. "Fuckin' hell, going with the flow huh... it was a question but it was mostly rhetorical because, her friend often said the same thing. A decision was made in the mind of the young woman known as Jinx, "I feel like dancing now." she mentioned in her usual way, her eyes flickering over to the stripper pole and as if on cue an upbeat dance song streamed through the wireless speakers causing the blue haired woman to reach for the remote to turn up the music just a tad. She then exited the hot water and headed for the stripper pole, now the Sky King said he just went with the flow, now she'd get to see if he'd actually watch the show as himself. Instead of waiting on him she moved to the beat of the music every thump of base making her hips sway most rhythmically until of course she reached her destination.

[Bloodedge]

"Pretty much, yeah," he said nonchalantly. The Water Queen removed herself from the tub shortly afterwards, seeming to be moving with the beat of the new song she'd turned up the volume on. The woman had stated her intention to dance, which prompted movement toward the edge of the tub she exited from by Shoichi. However, his movements halted at the edge when it looked as if she was approaching the pole, specifically. 'Oh... That kind of dance,' he thought while leaning forward against the tub's edge which faced Jinx and the pole. '... May as well.' Shoichi would indeed be observing every movement of the blue-haired woman while casually sucking the juice from a new lime slice.

[Apollymi]

The blue haired woman went about the dance on the pole, which was something she did often enough to have a routine for which worked with the beat of any song she was listening to. Right at this moment she was swinging her hips around in a circle as her entire body moved around this particular pole. She'd known the young man with her had been staring at her bottom, with that in mind she abused it in this show. Dropping her hips really low when the bass thumped while using the pole as balance, before she extended the full length of those really long legs of hers. She seemed to be having a rather good time of this situation, but then again, she really just enjoyed dancing, and she was likely an exhibitionist, at least in situations like these.

[Bloodedge]

Somehow, it seemed as if the Water Queen had quite a bit of experience with the pole venue. Shoichi wondered why this was the case, but decided to store that thought away as something unimportant, considering what else he currently had on his plate. There was some reasonable level of almost professionalism within the show he was watching. Of course, with or without this, he intended to keep watching.

[Apollymi]

As Jinx continued her dance she spun herself around the pole without the use of her hands and instead used only her legs, while she was upside down, eventually though she'd pull herself back right-side up. But she seemed enthused. She'd dance until this song ended catching occasional glances at the Sky King who seemed to have gotten more comfortable in his watching of her. And each movement she made seemed alluring in its own right, with special attention being paid to the swaying of her hips and the lowering of her bottom. Soon enough the song did end and so did her show, even so, she spun herself around the pole seemingly amused. "Fuckin' hell, look at you Fly Boy, enjoying the show?"

[Bloodedge]

The further into the show Jinx got, the more intrigued Shoichi became. Eventually, he would be found resting his chin on his arms, having chosen to keep his eyes on the Water Queen until such a time as there was nothing more to watch. It seemed this time would come at the end of the current song, at which point the woman spun around the pole again and posed a question which he could only think to answer one way. "Gotta admit... my bucket list has a lap dance on it, but if I can go out with that in its place, I'll definitely be alright. Sweet moves~"

[Apollymi]

A wide grin spread across the young woman's face as she paused her spin, hanging on to the pole with one leg as she leaned forward for a bow. "Fuckin' hell, when you say it like that, I feel like I was doing more than amusing myself~" she mentioned with a little smirk on her face. Still she didn't seem to want to sit down nor get back into the water, though she'd seen the Sky King move forward and knew he'd been quite captured by the show she'd put on. 'Huh... Well there went all my ideas.' she thought while still moving around the pole. The song had changed and her rhythm changed to match it, but she wasn't really trying for a show right now, she was literally just using the pole in the same way she twisted her pigtails, just to keep her busy doing something while she tried to process her own thoughts.

[Bloodedge]

"Oro?" Shoichi said, subconsciously returning to a habitual phrase which had once existed between himself and the Rumble King, Jun'ichi. From what Jinx said, it seemed she meant to imply that the entire show had been done on a whim for the self-amusement of the woman. In fact, Shoichi was prone to believing this was the case. However... "You're telling me that was for you? Aww," he said mockingly. "That almost hurts. Here I thought I was getting special treatment. Buuut, if it's not, and the thing for me is being saved till later, I'll cash in that lap dance."

[Apollymi]

A wide grin crossed the Water Queen's face. Random use of the word 'Oro' didn't belong to either of her friends, so she could assume it was a habit of the Sky King. Even so, he seemed to immediately fall into another habit, one which belonged to the Flame King who always sought a little something extra from the young woman, and which she was always willing to give him, though he rarely asked for anything directly. "Fuckin' hell, it can't almost hurt, Fly Boy. You got to watch the show, no girl traps or random attacks~ That's a huge treat~" she mentioned with a cheeky smile. Moving right along it seemed that the young man wanted a lap dance and the idea of this made the woman laugh deep inside, but it wouldn't be the first lap dance she performed so why would it matter if she did. A hand came under her chin as she finally let go of the pole and grabbed a chair without sides spinning it into place in middle of the room. She then sat in it backwards shaking her hips for just a few seconds before she danced out of it, all to the rhythm of the new song. "Fuckin' hell, everybody gets one... happy birthmas!~" she chimed her apparent agreement to do what the young man asked while gesturing towards the empty chair.

[Bloodedge]

"Heh. I was gonna think about it that way, but... you said it was for you~♥" he replied. Moments later, it appeared to be the case that the Water Queen's previous words were moot. Why was this? Because, in spite of her implication that he should view the pole show as enough, she retrieved a chair and continued to show off using it, ending this with a gesture toward the Sky King himself. With a wide grin on his face, Shoichi leaped out of the pool, drying himself with a reverse tunnel of wind leading back into the Jacuzzi as he moved nearer to the woman. "Fuckin' love birthmas!" he said. Afterwards, he found himself sitting in the armless chair with his left arm slung over its back.

[Apollymi]

The Water Queen was soon a bit stunned by the method and speed at which the Sky King took to the chair. His cheekiness aside, he definitely got points for earnestness. "Fuckin' hell, birthmas is the best~" mentioned the blue haired woman who didn't seem at all to mind anything that was going on right at the moment. Still she was dancing now, very close to this young man, every movement meant to tease. Shaking her rounded rear really close to his body only to move it out and spin a little. A quick dip would leave her bottom up in the air while her head was low and her back arched, but soon it would be rhythmically moved about. She used the boy in the chair, and the chair itself as a prop, occasionally making very direct eye contact with the Sky King to sell the moment. This was a semi-professional type of lap dance, with only momentary touches her hips brushing against his legs, her ass just barely coming in contact with his lap... those sorts of things. Almost as if she'd been taught to do it, but this wasn't the case, this was simply something she'd picked up to amuse herself and her friends... that she happened to enjoy without unwanted leering taking place.

[Bloodedge]

Shoichi felt as if he'd taken up the perfect position to relax as this dance took place. Though he knew what he was getting into here, he was actually surprised to witness a bit of physical contact from the woman in front of him. Though his right hand was free to touch, there was an air of professionalism which made him think that maybe he should avoid doing so. He did, however, choose to react to what was said. "No lie. I got no complaints about birthmas," he commented while taking particular enjoyment from those occasional brushes of Jinx's hips and arse against his legs. Already, he was beginning to feel professionalism was a rather one-sided mindset among the two people in this room. . .

[Apollymi]

Jinx finished her pole dance and was now in the middle of a lap dance when she remembered something important. She normally did these things knowing what was coming next. They were her working herself up to arousal, much like her days slow grinding in the club with a particular Flame King. Even so, she wasn't sure where this was going, or why she'd even volunteered to dance for the young man before her. Her movements didn't seem to wind down, but much like before she seemed to be moving simply as a way to think. "Fuckin' hell, sounds like a compliment to me!~" the Water Queen said, as she turned looking down at the young man slung across the chair as if she was unsure of him, or perhaps she simply didn't know what to do with herself. Then she remembered something important about the dance she'd been completing and a grin most wicked came to her face, even if it was only distracting for a few seconds, she couldn't help but tease just a little. "Took that lap dance like a fucking champion... and a gentleman... I'm impressed~" she said, but something about it was challenging. She was like that a bit... pushing until people did what she wanted a little indirectly, but she seriously had no intention of taking this any farther...

[Bloodedge]

"It should sound that way," he replied. For the duration of this show, Shoichi's eyes were wandering up and down the Water Queen's body, primarily hovering around the middle for quite obvious reasons. When she turned to face him, she found a roundabout way to address the fact that he hadn't reached out to touch her. To his credit, he had avoided doing so, albeit not for lack of wanting to. "Don't give me too much credit. It was hard as shit just sitting here," the Sky King admitted. Jinx had a habit of working herself toward arousal when performing these dances? Well, it seemed she also had a propensity for causing arousal. Shoichi could undoubtedly attest to that as a certain tingle was becoming prominent beneath his pants.

[Apollymi]

The Water Queen smiled, she was always one to accept compliments even when they weren't actually given, knowing this she could do nothing but be pleased by the complimenting of her skills. Beyond this, the young Sky King seemed to want to defer credit, apparently having found it difficult to avoid touching the young woman at some point. A hint of deviousness came to her face as she thought over his statement. "Fuckin' hell, hard not to just sit there, huh?" she asked this question as she began dancing around him again, by this time the song had switched so her rhythm had as well, her hips moving in tiny circles right in front of the chair the boy occupied. "So, you say that, and I hear... you wanna touch me~" she chimed bringing herself dangerously close to sitting in the young man's lap, her ass so close to him she might have thought she was touching him but now, sensual hip rolling would ensue which would keep the young man just at the edge, which was where her body was placed right at the edge of his seat in full view and with easy access to touch her. Another challenge which would come with the woman looking back into his eyes over his shoulder. "I can't say I'd be mad if ya' did~" she added just the tiniest hint of deviousness in her eyes. At this point she was starting to question her own sanity, but mostly this had everything to do with the fact that she was pushing herself well beyond her original intent... but perhaps this wasn't a bad thing. She was having fun, which was all she ever really wanted to do.

[Bloodedge]

JInx's retort came as a bit of a surprise to the young male. He was already a bit shocked by the dance itself, but this was about the last thing he expected. Of course, this wouldn't stop him from enjoying himself in this moment. He chose to dive right into the moment, and while doing so, react with a bit of the Water Queen's own flare so recently used. "Well, you saying that..." he said while his eyes were pinned on the woman's lowered rear. His right hand had been in the perfect place to reach out all along, and now, he chose to do so and get himself a heaping handful of her right cheek. "... sounds like you want me to touch you."

[Apollymi]

Jinx figured the young man with her would enjoy touching her, even so she didn't expect to actually enjoy this boy's company as much as she did. In fact, his cheeky reply made her smile. "Fuckin' hell... using my own phrasing against me now?" she asked this question like she didn't understand why this was happening. "Fly Boy, that's a bit devious~" she chimed as her dance continued, she pushed back against his hand her hips rotating slowly as the song shifted once more. This was starting to be a problem for the Water Queen physically, because this kind of activity usually led somewhere her body was presently preparing itself for...

[Bloodedge]

"Maybe a bit... but you like it," he said cheekily. The Sky King soon found himself leaning forward just a bit; enough to remove his left arm from the back of the chair. With it available, he used his left hand to grasp the other side of the woman's bottom. This made things much more enjoyable, and after shifting each hand outward by a small amount, he was given maximum viewing potential without breaking contact. "Besides... I'm pretty sure I'm right."

[Apollymi]

Jinx couldn't deny that she found a streak of deviousness to be prime topping on people. Actually most of her friends had this, which was likely why they were all friends. Beyond this, the young man's other hand soon found its way to her bottom too and though she didn't let it affect the movements she was making she knew for certain something was occurring that was stimulating her below the waist. As was the usual case for her when she was dancing and in the company of any of her chosen people. "Fuck, I'm not much of a liar, Fly Boy, so I'll admit you're right on both counts and call it square." the young woman said turning just a bit so she could face the Sky King without escaping his grasp at all. Actually, now she was on to matters of business in her mind because, as the Roze portion of his personality had predicted over a week ago, she'd eventually need a fix. This wouldn't have been such a big deal if she wasn't fresh out of jail, but those first few months after coming out always made it a bit harder for the young woman to control herself.

With this in mind, she leaned forward to the button on the young man's boxers flicking a finger over said button while it came undone. "Fuckin' hell, I thought this would be enough but it's not. So, I need to have a look here, 'cause fuck if I can let this continue if you're not working with enough to even try to get the job done." and with that said and assuming she wasn't stopped the blue haired young woman would have a look down to make sure that she could actually try and find this fix elsewhere.

[Bloodedge]

"That's the spirit," he said while continuing to enjoy all that transpired. It wasn't long, though, before Jinx turned around, forcing the removal of his hands from her person as a result. He thought this to be another phase of the dance, but he was surprised to see and feel her finger swiping loose the button of his boxers. Considering what had been occurring since he sat in this chair, the unbuttoning of his undergarments allowed his stiffened and sizeable cock to virtually eject itself from the opening that was made. In this moment, he wasn't exactly sure what could be said, so he simply sat there with wide eyes to await whatever conclusion the Water Queen was coming to. "Well... err... alright... Bit of a shocker there."

[Apollymi]

Jinx figured her speech would surprise the young man with her. She often flipped switches really easily and knew this to be something her own friends were used to. "Fuckin' hell, shocking is one of those things I'm known for being." the Water Queen said without much thought as her eyes finally shifted downwards to the Sky King's freed erection. And for a second or two she seemed really surprised, as she looked at his cock. 'Gonna have to ask someone about this later...' she thought for a second still she was sort of at a loss, because there was one piece of meat she was quite familiar with and she was almost certain this one was the same size and shape which was about as unexpected as things got. "Fuckin' hell that's surprising..." she gave an appreciative whistle with a cheeky smile. "Nice dick."

[Bloodedge]

Shoichi was quite unsure what Jinx meant by surprising. Either she expected less, or expected more. He would soon receive clarification that the former was likely the case, and allowing this train of thought to go forward was the thing which allowed his ego to remain intact, so he went that route. When the shock of the earlier moment wore off, the Sky King became able to recompose himself and react in ways which were natural to him. "Thanks. Nice ass," he replied in the end, matching the Water Queen's cheeky smile with one of his own.

[Apollymi]

The Water Queen leaned forward just a bit as the Sky King mentioned she had a nice ass. She took that as the deciding fact, seemingly that the boy had indeed come to a decision about whether he liked her legs or rear better and with that little fact tucked away in her head for later, she replied. "Thanks..." before leaning in to kiss him rather soon after slipping her tongue into his mouth. This was a most aggressive act on the Water Queen's part, but this was simply part of who she was at her core, so she wouldn't try and justify it. Just the same her left hand began to travel up the Sky King's leg, heading for that stiff dick so she could further test the vibrancy of it with her fingers. Though internally she was still rather surprised to see one comparable in side to the one she was used to, she could only hold out hope that she'd be gotten to a place of proper relaxation by this one.

[Bloodedge]

"Sure thi-" Shoichi's reply was cut short, specifically by a tongue abruptly inhabiting his mouth. He remembered a similar moment to this... slightly similar, and shared with the Ice Queen. There was admittedly nothing he could or would do in response to this, except meeting the Water Queen's actions with his own. Interestingly enough, his Brain Charger state was active only for a split second when Jinx decided to kiss him. His tongue caressed that of the blue-haired woman as his right hand raised to the left side of her lower torso.

[Apollymi]

The Water Queen was enjoying herself at this moment, and finally her hand reached the Sky King's manhood where it would stroke up his length before flicking over the tip. This was a surprising thing for the Water Queen who was still shocked at the similarity this one bore to the one she was normally with. She'd also heard the Sky King trying to speak, but wouldn't allow this for a few moments more. Her other hand slipped around the back of the boy's neck playing with the hair at the back of his neck as she forced their faces together just a bit, after she was satisfied between the motions of her two hands she'd pull back just a bit a wicked smirk on her face. "Fuckin' hell you were trying to say something..." she left that open ended because she had an idea where he was going and knew she'd probably be justifying herself pretty soon, that being said she was almost certain she intended to do this here and now.

[Bloodedge]

Shoichi remained still for a few moments when Jinx's lips parted with his own. Well... still was a relative word; his cock was already throbbing and twitching to the initial touches and strokes of her hand. He hadn't expected any sort of progress toward a true sexual encounter with the Water Queen, but he couldn't exactly say no... and it didn't seem like much of an option from her end either way. It wasn't until the woman mentioned that he was previously attempting to speak, that he blinked and cleared his throat. "Uhh... yeah. It was nothing. I didn't expect that kind of uhh... friendliness, though. But, hey, no complaints from me. Obviously," he said while gesturing toward his own twitchy cock.