Completed [Training Gallery] I'm Not Your Servant! (Mamuro)

[Soshakuakamamushi]

Training Gallery, 12th of Bell, 15th of Summer 513 A.V

"Aka do this... Aka do that..." The sight of a grumbling viper in her human form could be seen in the training gallery, facing three training dummies. A couple of unneeded rocks on the right side of her body, these rocks were the leftovers from the usual work of clearing and repairing the tunnels in Zinrah, rather than throwing them away, Aka supposed it could be used as training bullets; it was less taxing to gather mundane elements than creating it with her own res after all.

Aka flexed her hand and concentrated, manipulating her Djed and generated some Res in the shape of a slimy reddish ball. She then put her hand near one of the rocks and manipulate it so it was floating near her hand, Aka took aim at one of the training dummies and imagined it had Mamuro's face. "Idiooooot!!!" She then held her right hand towards the dummy's head and launched the rock, it crashed beautifully to its... chest. In her outburst, Aka's aim became a bit off. "Aaaaaagh!" She groaned in annoyance and used the res to pick up another rock.

Aka was annoyed at this place, at that Senka the bully, at the stares she got from these giants, and especially... her new 'master' Mamuro. He treated her as some kind of servant... no, more like slave and Aka was beginning to get annoyed. Sure, he helped her to get here but that didn't mean she had to become his servant! Aka thought it was only the matter of time before Mamuro asked her to... provide him with sultry services, she shuddered at the thought.

"GAH!" This time, she flexed her leg muscles and leaped to the training dummy with the rock still floating near her hand. "Take this!" She then used the rock as a makeshift blunt weapon and slammed the dummy's head with it "And this! and this! and thiiiiiiiiis!!" *THUD* "Ha... ha..." after a good four strikes, her res dissipated and she dropped the rock to the ground. She wasn't satisfied yet... sure beating up lifeless dummies were rather fun, but nothing beats smashing Mamuro's face and showed him that size did not matter.

[Kalesserimamoru]

Somewhere in the dept of the nest, the trickster was getting in a workout. In his human form, a form he didn't take often, Mamuro stood clothed in a simple white pants and black sandals. His arms raised above his head, the Dhani squeezed his fingers around the body of the pole above and lifted himself up as far as he could, before lowering down again. He wasn't in the training area, it was somewhere else where he was afforded a makeshift pull up bar to use in his exercise. He lifted himself up again, both hands holding tightly to the pole. Mamuro kept his legs together and his chin lifted as he continued on.


Once he was done, the Dhani simply let go and allowed himself to drop back down onto the ground. Standing up, he popped his neck and back and sighed in pleasure. Mamuro took in a deep breath and released it while he rotated his shoulders and worked around his hips. He was hungry now, and being so reminded him of the useless Dhani that he had rescued in the jungles. She had potential, or so he thought at first, but every since he brought her to the nest, she was nothing but trouble.


"Where are you thisss time, little Aka?"


Mamuro pondered the though as he reached for his shirt and Naginata and left the area. It was his own fault however, thinking that a Reimancer could be anything other than crazy. He too used the flow of res, but not as much as others, and even then he was considered..different. But Aka on the other had was still very childish, and spent much of her time whining and complaining. The Dhani imagined that once she came to the nest, she saw how many of the other women were treated and thought that she would be treated as nicely, even though she had done nothing to deserve such praise.


"Are you somewhere pouting my dear Aka? Sshall I come for you?"


Mamuro had a good idea where she was, that was one thing about Reimancers, they were always throwing their res around as if there was no tomorrow. Which was another reason they were all crazy. The trickster made his way to the training area and looked around. It wasn't hard to find her at all. She was, and would always be the Dhani practicing alone while the rest were else where. There was truth in the saying as it were, "crazy was only good in the mind of the crazed." In this case, it was Aka the Viper.


But unlike many, the challenge of taming the crazy was a challenge that Mamuro would except with ease. After all, it was he who brought her in, and it would be he who would teach her a lesson. It didn't matter how much fire or earth the young Viper could create and use, she could not defend her mind from him, and that's where he looked to strike. Mamuro stood in the entrance and watched her for a moment. Just as he had expected, she was whining and complaining like a snakeling, which gave him an idea.


The trickster began to work his djed to crawl from within his form, and coat upon him like a second skin. Mamuro's body twitched, his features slightly changing as he put his djed to work on creating his new look. This morph would be on the easier side of those he had chosen. The model he used was a mirror image of himself. He wanted to torment Aka and show her how her tantrums weren't cute or smart, and so he morphed himself to appear as he had when he was only 100 years old. A smaller and younger Mamuro, who would appear even younger than Aka.


Once the transformation was complete, the Dhani stood in his new splender, his clothing set baggy due to the difference in size. Lifting his arm, he slowly twirled the Naginata around in front of him and off to the side. A devious grin spread across his thin lips and finally, Mamuro stepped onto the training ground. " Aaaaaagh!" he yelled as loud as he could, mimicking the sound that he had just heard her make.The little Dhani began to cackle and paused just enough to make another familiar sound. "GAH!"

[Soshakuakamamushi]

"Grrrr..." Groaning in a rather childish annoyance, Aka fixed her twintails and flexed her fingers, generating more reddish slimy res on both of her palms. She held her hand outwards and concentrated, the res reacting to he will and pulled two rocks, one on each hand, one that hit the dummy on the chest and other one that she used as a bludgeoning weapon earlier. The two rocks kept floating, suspended by her res, near each of her hand. She lifted them up and was about to slam the rocks into the poor training dummy's head when...

"Huh?!" She shouted in annoyance and confusion when she heard a shouting that was... eerily similar to her, except it sounded a bit off somehow. It didn't happen once, another shout akin to what she did earlier also echoed in the caverns. Aka turned around and found... "What?" she cocked her brow in even further confusion at the sight of this... child version of Mamuro. He looked adorable and cute, yet still had that annoying mug of the adult Mamuro. Aka looked like a mid-teenager but this Mamuro looked even younger than that.

"M-mast-... Ah!" She stopped herself, Aka had enough of calling him 'master'. She frowned her brows in childish anger and shouted at him "Mamuro! What are you trying to pull this time? Reversing time to get younger? To get on my good side, huh? With your cute boyish face... but tell you what? You still look ugly and annoying!" She then aimed the rock in her left hand, concentrated, and then willed her res to launch the rock to Mamuro, it was not too large yet big enough to cause a bloody bump if it hit the right places.

Since this happened in the training gallery, the other Constrictors just shrugged and let this crazy duo do their 'sparring'. Some of them who knew their history just couldn't find on why Mamuro would bring this whiny, grumbling, and complaining small fry to their nest; but Senescaaspia, the master Reimancer and boss of Sitria, liked her enough, no matter how strange it seemed. Maybe it was because she was a reimancer as well... weird attracts weird that's for sure.

Aka wasn't done yet, after launching the rock, Aka prepared her legs and launched herself to Mamuro, zig-zaging left and right to charge safely at him, her movements somewhat confusing to the eye. It was not that hard though as she was still a beginner. The rock would reach Mamuro first and if he got disoriented by it, Aka would leap at him and bash his skull with it, hopefully putting him in his place.

"I'm not your servant!"

[Kalesserimamoru]

Mamuro cackled lightly, lifting up one of his legs and slamming his boot down onto the ground as if he were going to have a tantrum. "Gah!!" he repeated and raised his arms up and shook his fist into the air. " Aaaaaagh!" he repeated again. If she didn't understand what he was getting at, she would before the night was over. He cackled again when she called him ugly and annoying, thinking how fitting it was that she thought so, being that he was imitating her. The trickster knew little about where she came from, but he did know that the Dhani in the nest were cruel, outspoken, and short fused.


"Oh Aka, are you still sso unhappy? Didn't you know? Thisss, issn't the home you know. You..are in my world now. Sso, unlesss you want to be treated asss a snakeling, you'd besst fall in line."


The other Constrictors looked on, some fairly entertained by the scene, and others just watched. For those who knew Mamuro, also knew that he was always up to something, and while some of the time they couldn't prove it was him they had their suspicions. Mamuro was about to speak more, when he noticed a rock flying towards him. The small Dhani, slid his hands down to the lower end of the shaft of his weapon, gripped it tightly and swung at the floating rock and knocking it away.


"You've gotta do better than that!!"


The Dhani howled just before he realized that Aka was already upon him with another rock? Mamuro's eyes widen and he lifted his arms up just in time to protect his skull, before he felt the impact of the rock slamming against him. Mamuro stumbled backwards and almost fell, but after catching himself in a flurry of windmill arm rotations, the trickster was back. "Now, it's my turn!" He cackled loudly.


Mamuro moved towards Aka, lowering his Naginata in his hands so that the blade pointed towards the ground. He raced at her, tapping the blade against the ground as if he looked to chop off her toes. " Aaaaaagh!" Once he was close enough, the Dhani dig the blade into the earth and lifted himself up an inch or two off the ground and sent a very wild kick towards Aka's shoulder.

[Soshakuakamamushi]

"Haha! How do you like me now, Mast-... Mamuro?" Aka smirked and did a front flip to soften her landing after slamming the rock into Mamuro's face, the rock fell down from her hand and dropped to the ground near him. She saw him flailing around to get himself back together and Aka put her hands to her waist, leaning her body forward, making a mocking expression "Iiiiidiot~" She said as she winked and stuck out her tongue.

She shouldn't have given Mamuro time to recover though as he didn't fall and raised his strange-looking spear, charging at her. "Woah woah woah!" Aka was taken by surprise but thankfully there were some distance between them, she flexed her fingers and created more reddish slimy res on her palms for another strike. "Hyaaaaah?!" Aka's high-pitched scream echoed in the training gallery when Mamuro tapped his naginata on the ground, Aka lifted her feet barely in time before the blade hit her toes and she back-flipped to gain some distance.

When she landed and was still recovering, Aka's scarlet eyes widened when she saw Mamuro's feet closing in fast to her... well, he seemed to be aiming for her shoulder but Aka's body was a bit hunched after her landing so his feet hit her square on the forehead. "Urk..." She saw tiny little black spots staining her vision as her poor head shuddered on the impact. Aka fell back and staggered, her lithe body couldn't take much direct physical impact.

"Y-y-you! I hate you, Masteeeeer!" Aka forgot to correct herself this time and called him like how she used to call him ever since she got her. She cupped her hands and point it towards a nearby rock, willing her res, the rock got pulled to her cupped hands. Holding the rock in front of her, Aka faced Mamuro and injected the res near her palms into the rock. She gritted her teeth and with her command, the res disintegrated the rock apart from the inside. The rock was still being held together by her res, it was now actually multiple small blunt and sharp pebbles instead of just one big rock.

She then aimed the fragmented rock at Mamuro and with a shout the rock began shooting little fragments of itself towards her master. A hail of blunt (and sometimes sharp) pebbles raced towards Mamuro as the result. Aka would keep doing it until she ran out of "bullets" as in until all of the pebbles in her hands were all launched.

[Kalesserimamoru]

Now the others in the room were starting to get a bit annoyed. The continuous screaming between the both of them was distracting and getting, already grumpy Dhani pissed off. Mamuro landed on shaky legs after his boot connected with Aka's forehead. The sudden stop in movement after he launched his foot into her face, also took him off balance. Luckily he didn't fall, and after a hop and step backwards, he was ready for more.


"Iiiiidiot~" he countered with a wicked smile.


The trickster was already in her head, screwing with her emotions and inflaming her soul. He did all this, and hadn't even used hypnosis. A sinister chuckle slipped from his lips as he watched her, and tilted his head ever so slightly. "Bring. It On."


The young Viper Dhani did exactly that, using her res to once again move the rocks around her. Mamuro saw this, being a Reimancer he knew the hand gestures and motions that one went through when getting ready to perform an attack. The trickster slowly spun his weapon in his hands and raced towards Aka. He wasn't fast enough however, and had to quickly stop when she fired the earth spikes at him. Turning the Naginata outward, Mamuro held it out in front of him and twirled it about to block the incoming rocks.


"Worthlesss!!"


Or so he thought, until the rocks easily pushed passed his weak defense, smacking him in his chest, shoulder and even his gut. Two viscous looking spikes darted towards his head, and the Dhani had to drop down to his knees to quickly duck them. For the time, adrenaline drove him, but later he would realize the cuts and bruises that were slowly forming. Aka was showing off as she usually did, and Mamuro would have none of it. The gnosis on his neck started to glow and suddenly, the fog from the waters below started to rise up and cover the floor of the training area. Soon as the ticks rolled by, the fog would be thick enough to hide in.


"Oh little Aka, still playing big bad Viper, hmm?"


Mamuro slinked off into the distance and started to make his way around the girl to keep her confused of his true location. He also took this time to allow his burning chest and arms to cool from the earth spike attack. The trickster moved on the tips of his toes, lightly moving in a half circle around her as he planned his attack. "Haven't you realized it yet? You're out of your league!" The dhani suddenly dashed forward out of the illusion of fog and raced right up to her face. He held his weapon by the lower end of the shaft and took a wide swing at her body. " Aaaaaagh!"

[Soshakuakamamushi]

"Huff... huff..." Aka was really, really annoyed now. Mamuro was doing those 'things' he did, seemingly able to manipulate random stuffs, like creating giant fake fireballs, transforming his body... in not a Dhani-like way, and now... manipulating the fog that came from the steam baths in the Training Gallery. Her scarlets eyes darted left and right to find her opponent, she used the moment to create more Res, the slimy substance oozing from the eye-shaped mark on both of her palms.

She concentrated, held out her right hand, and willed the res into a rough shape of a dagger. Aka willed her res and pulled small pebbles and rocks to it, they attached themselves together, covering the "res" dagger until it was replaced into a stone dagger, with zero aesthetics whatsoever. It looked black and ugly, but also sturdy and sharp.

She also shaped the res in her left hand into a ball, concentrated to ignite the outer layer and then some of the res inside while keeping the core still in res form, creating her usual fireball. The ball of fire floated closely near her left palm. Sweat began to trickle at her forehead, whispers of power ringing inside her mind, urging her to do more "big" and "flashy" spells, Aka shook her head to get rid of the addictive thoughts, Galbern had warn her about that, once you give in, there's no going back and you would die... or worse.

Then he came, the ugly mug of Mamuro charging from behind her, Aka was taken by surprise and tried to dodge by swiveling her body to the side, but it failed, she was slashed by the naginata at her left waist and it tore her sash and her dress, revealing her pale white skin which would soon be stained by fresh crimson. "W..waaah!" She screamed in pain and lost her balance. As she was falling backwards, Aka gritted her teeth and aimed the fireball at Mamuro, she launched it and when she felt it was quite near, Aka snapped her fingers and the res inside the ball's core ignited, exploding the fireball. Aka could only hope it got Mamuro and turn his ugly mug into a singed ugly mug.

She fell to her back and clutched her wound with her left hand, there was no holding back now. She injected her res into her stone dagger and heated it, slowly turning the blade into piping hot stone. She kept the blade from overheating so it would not fully turn into a molten rock, still solid but hot enough to cause burn wound. She stood up and faced her master once more, face wincing, left hand clutching, and a glowing red stone dagger on her right.

[Kalesserimamoru]

What a wicked Dhani he was, toying with the little Viper as he did. But perhaps he wasn't as sinister as even he thought. The swing of his blade had only been to scare and possibly knock her down. His intent wasn't to kill or seriously cut her up as it were. But Aka was Aka, reckless and out of control as always. The sudden ball of res flying towards him was more than alarming to say the least. The Dhani gasped and brew himself backwards just in time to dodge the flaming orb of doom.


"Flamess!!"


Mamuro landed flat on his back with a thud, but he was glad that she had missed. Or so he thought, a tick later smoke and burning cloth rush into his nose and he also felt a burning in his chest. "Fire!!!" Mamuro started to roll around on the ground patting his chest and back to try and put out the fire. He panted loudly as he sat crouched on the ground, he couldn't believe it, the little pissy Viper had almost burned him to crisp. Now it was time to take things more seriously.


"Fine...Let'sss see what you can do."


The Dhani stood up, ripped off what was left of his shirt and raised his weapon above his head. It was time for another illusion, the Dhani smiled and just as he lowered his weapon replicas of his morphed form started to appear around Aka closing her into a circle. Mamuro didn't say anything however, his limited use of power didn't allow his voice to carry, and doing so would have lead Aka to which of the many were the real him. But he wanted to, he wanted to laugh and curse the girl from what she had done to him.


"Game on.."


The group of little Mamuros all lifted their weapons at the same time, all smiling evilly. They didn't move from their spot and instead, launched their weapons into the air, aiming them at the Viper. "What will you do now Aka, how will you react?" Within a moment, a hail of sharp weapons would descend upon her, but only one was real.

[Soshakuakamamushi]

"Kuh... ah..." Aka was getting dizzy, she had been training today and combined with the blow she got to her head, her use of remancy, and most importantly, the cut on her waist that was rather deep or not... Aka didn't know, the important thing was it's starting to hurt. "No... no, I won't lose!" She gritted her teeth, she wouldn't stop her consciousness forcefully left her body.

Come on! Cast more! Burn him into pieces! "W-what?" Voices much like her own was speaking to herself inside her head in the form of a whisper, she sure it was Mamuro using his hyno-thing to mess with her mind again, he was trying to goad her into tiring herself! The nerve! Little did she know that it was not Mamuro's doing.

She saw Mamuro standing up, his eyes full of determination, and he removed his shirt. *Gulp!* Aka gulped, both in intimidation, and awe at his toned body, sure it's the younger version of Mamuro, but she could only imagine what the constrictor in his normal adult body could do should he tried to force himself on her... well it was rather rude of her to be thinking that, but you could never know.

"Wha- wha- wha- wha- wha-?!" Shouts of bewilderment erupted from her mouth when she saw Mamuro literally duplicating himself, now she was surrounded on all sides by these younger Mamuros. "Aaaah!" She didn't know on what to do, she just randomly picked a target, flexed her legs, and leaped to him. She then slashed one of the Mamuros with her lava-like dagger. *WOOSH!* It went through him like air, the fake Mamuro shimmering like a ghost. "No... no no! Aaaagh!" Aka shouted in anger and opted for an area attack, she flexed the fingers on her left hand to create more res, but she was stopped dead when all of the Mamuro launched their weird-looking spears.

Oh crap... A look of shock upon the small Viper's face as she found herself dumbstruck and just stood there in shock. A second later... *SLICE!* "Aaaaaaaaah!" She howled in pain when the naginata, the real one, whizzed pass her left shoulder and slashed her there, it was a definite hit and she fell down to the ground, wailing in pain. The hot stone dagger fell from her hand and stabbed the ground and the res on her left hand dissipated. "No... aaaaaah! It hurts! It hurts!" She curled herself into a ball, both of her hands clutching each of her wounds, she desperately tried to keep her tears from falling, her dignity would be completely crushed if she did that.

[Kalesserimamoru]

Mamuro watched the scene unfold in front of him with a sinister humor. The Dhani enjoyed watching Aka flail around as she freaked out at the scene he created for her. Once the little Viper had fallen, bruised by his weapon, Mamuro released the illusion of the many tiny Mamuro's and also released his own morphed form and return to his normal man shape.


"I hope that you have learned your lessson Aka. You don't thorw fireballsss at thosse who help you. And you don't stand against thosse more powerful either."


The trickster slowly walked closer to the fallen girl and wrapped his arms around her, making sure to catch both of her wrists so that she couldn't attack him again. Mamuro hugged the Viper into his arms and cuddled her in a way that would suggest that they hadn't been trying to kill each other. A smile rose upon his thin lips, and he flicked his tongue out as he planted a kiss to her check.


"There there...shusssssss."


The Dhani started to work his djed again, pulling it forth from within him and using his mouth and hands to express the actions that he wanted. Mamuro started to gently rub his fingers across her wrists, his chest against her back warming her, and his lips lurking his beside her ear. The trickster started to push his thoughts towards her, suggestions of their friendly nature that had never been. "Shusssss.." he whispered again, trying to calm her and take her mind off the pain that she felt.

"My sweet Aka.."


"Aka...."


"My friend.."


His voice was low, calm, and mostly pleasant. He continued to feed her friendly suggestions just as he had on the night when they first met. He wanted her to full relaxed and calm, just as she had been before which would make it easier for him to get through to her. Next the flashes started, tiny glimpses into a possible future and past they may or may not have happened.


"We don't want to fight do we?"


"We're a team..."


"I brought you here to help me, to sstand at my sside."


"We fight as one.."


"You remember...don't you? You wanted thisss?"


"You belong to me.."


The trickster smile widen, and he hugged her closer, even planting another kiss to her forehead. More flashes were created, images of them working together and their bond growing stronger.