Pueltown Outskirts - 27/8/14

Salvador: Fighting in self defence, I have done. Murder? No. My father made me take a vow when I was very young never to take a life, even in self defence. A vow I have respected an upheld to this day.

Pueltown Outskirts - 27/8/14

Salvador exhales deeply.

Salvador: So you came to me to teach you how to murder someone in cold blood.

He walks over towards Lillianna and makes a signal of the mark toward her, before walking off.

Salvador:: Then you should find someone else. I will have no part in such loathsome operations. Though, please do remain safe.

Salvador starts walking away from Lillianna. An Absol who was silhouetted in the shadows pops out and prances around Lillianna.

Siva: <No, no, no~! You approached Salvador all wrong~ There's a snowballs chance in hell that you're going to convince him to tutor you when you word it like thaat~ He takes that "No Murder and no harm unless absolutely unavoidably necessary" stuff pretty damn seriously yannow~?>

Siva sits down.

Siva: <Try appealing to his nurturing nature~ Our missionary man here is quite the bleeding heart~>

Yes. Now we can be a family again. - 27/8/14

-The Auric Avenger stares at Cycle for a moment, then shakes his head.-

The Auric Avenger: ...Nope. Not happening. This isn't real. I'm going to open my eyes in a moment and you're going to be gone and the world will go back to making some degree of sense again.

-He screws his eyes shut. After a couple of moments, he slowly opens one of them again.-

The Auric Avenger: ...You're still here. Why are you still here?

Pueltown Outskirts - 27/8/14

-Lillianna bows her head as Salvador walks off.-

Lillianna: I had already outlined to him the necessity of my task in past encounters... it seems that his beliefs regarding the sanctity of life outweigh any desire to see my father's sins absolved. No matter. I can find assistance elsewhere, though perhaps I shall try to avoid mentioning the bit about killing in future... that seems to make people uncomfortable, for whatever reason...

-She likewise retreats.-

Welcome to Space. - 27/8/14

-The Auric Avenger wheels around to face BreBre.-

The Auric Avenger: No. Don't even. Do not even. My brain can only handle one big revelation at a time. Aliens are bad enough. I'm not ready for vampires on top of that. That opens up the possibility of alien vampires. I'm not the crazy one here. Don't make me look like the crazy one for refusing to acknowledge the existence of alien vampires.

-He turns back to Cycle.-

The Auric Avenger: It doesn't matter. Deal's off. I'm not handing anything over to what I'm dearly hoping is a hallucination dredged up by my guilty conscience.

In Space, Nobody Can Hear You Type - 27/8/14

-As he was still half-hoping that Cycle would turn out to be an intangible figment of his imagination, the Auric Avenger is taken off-guard by the Thunder Wave and knocked onto his behind.-

The Auric Avenger: Oof! Okay, either you actually are real after all, or this is the worst kind of lucid dream. I'm sincerely hoping that the latter turns out to be true.

-He hauls himself to his feet.-

The Auric Avenger: Kaylee, Sludge Bomb!

Kaylee: <You got it!>

-She fires a ball of noxious waste at Cycle as the Auric Avenger quickly scans the ship for escape routes.-

The Auric Avenger: (How am I supposed to get out of here? I don't see any escape pods or anything! That's got to be a blatant violation of intergalactic health and safety laws... okay, now I'm definitely going mad, because I'm entertaining the possibility that intergalactic health and safety laws might actually be a real thing. I could get out through the windows, I guess... but I'm pretty sure this suit can't survive atmospheric re-entry. Ren's good, but he's not that good.)

Space Marines, We Are The Emperor's Fury - 27/8/14

-The Auric Avenger turns to stare in horror at the broken window.-

The Auric Avenger: Seriously? You didn't think to install reinforced glass? That's like a must-have feature on a spacesHIIIIIIIIIIT!

-The explosive decompression combined with the knockback of the two attacks sends the Avenger and Kaylee hurtling through the shattered glass and into the vast expanse of space.-

The Auric Avenger: (...This is it, isn't it? I'm going to die. In about a minute or so I'm going to suffocate, or freeze, or be boiled alive, or be torn apart by atmospheric forces, or some combination of the four. And that's not even getting into what might happen if my eyeballs explode. There was so much more I could've done with my life... I can't believe that after everything I managed to live through, I ended up getting killed by a Space Ampharos. A freaking Space Ampharos. They'd better not put that on my headstone, assuming that there's even anything left to bury...)

-Due to the face that he's currently plummeting planetwards at an alarming speed, he barely notices an Alakazam blipping in between him and Kaylee, looking entirely undisturbed by the lack of atmosphere.-

Maul: ~Now that's a very defeatist attitude.~

The Auric Avenger: Wait, what the- Maul?!

Maul: ~Sssh. No talking. It's a waste of oxygen. Though the fall's more likely to kill you than suffocation is.~

The Auric Avenger: Gee, thanks. Got any more reassuring advice you'd like to pass on?

Maul: ~Actually, yes.~

-There is another blip...-

Fifty feet above the Puel Sea - 27/8/14

-...and the trio reappear here.-

The Auric Avenger: Hang on, where arRRRRRRGH!

-He goes plummeting into the water with a splash, resurfacing a moment later with a spluttering cough. Seeing as Kaylee can fly and Maul can levitate, both are spared from a similar fate.-

Maul: ~A fall from this altitude is much more survivable.~

The Auric Avenger: Yeah, but that *coughcough* doesn't change the fact that I can't swim, you-

-Whatever obscenities he was about to voice are lost as his head disappears underwater again.-

Maul: ~Whoops. Forgot.~

-Kaylee swoops down and grabs the sinking Avenger by the shoulder with her feet, dragging him to shore. He spends a long time simply lying on the beach coughing up seawater and the occasional Remoraid before attempting to haul himself back to civilisation.-

The Auric Avenger: (Well, this is just great... no doubt that Ampharos is going to want this Gaim Rahn thing back, and nobody's gonna believe me when I tell them that I have to stop a bunch of aliens from getting their hands on it...)

Pueltown Outskirts - 27/8/14

The Absol hmphs as he walks over to his trainer.

Siva: <Sal. You should reconsider her offer~>

Salvador: No. It is quite evident that she only sees me as my father during his youth. And I have no interest in breaking my vows to help that stubborn woman kill someone when she won't even trust what I'm saying or acknowledge me otherwise!

Siva: <Weeeell~ Technically your pop never said anything about training anyone who may be liable for murder~ Take that loophole and abuse it!>

Salvador: ...

Siva: <Okaaay. Bad example. But think of it this way - look at all the people you'll be saving if you help her and she succeeds~>

Salvador: What?

Siva: <It's quite evident that her pops becomes as mad as yours was around this times if she is to be believed. If you extend an olive branch and a training rifle at her, hey! That'll be more happy chappies in the future.>

Salvador: She can do that without having to kill someone as I plan too.

Siva: <See, ands that's why she needs you!>

Salvador: Pardon?

Siva: <If you two get all buddy-buddy with each other, you might be able to whip open a Trouillefou brand can of charisma and convince her that's the case~ You'll be happy, she'll be happy~ Everyone wins~>

Salvador sighs and removes his mask to look up to the moonlight.

Salvador: ...You drive a hard bargain Siva.

Siva: <Good! We finish this off first thing tomorrow morning!>

Siva flops asleep as Salvador sighs. Lying down on the rooftop and falling to sleep not long after.

The Next Day (28th August)

In a bit of role reversal, a now masked Salvador is scouting the place for Lillianna.

Pueltown Outskirts - 28/8/14

Salvador holds up his hand, before making the same Y shaped sign at Lillianna as he did last night.

Salvador: χαρίζομαι. Funny you bring up the concept of tutelage, because I have decided to take you up as a pupil after mulling it over.

Salvador points his stave at Siva

Salvador: Thank this little fellow over here.

Siva waves a paw at Lillianna.

Salvador: So. When should we start?

Pueltown Outskirts - 28/8/14

Salvador: -Noticing Lillianna's suprise- From experience, I've found that never being able to forgive and holding grudges is a slippery slope that leads to much personal turmoil. But we are not here to speak of such matters.

Salvador points his stave towards the forest.

Salvador: There is a little pool that I often meditate by, we'll train there. Come, we have to make most of the little time we have

Peril Cliffs - A Long Long Time Ago in a Region Far Far Away

-Titan's meditation would more than likely be interrupted by a very familiar presence-

Cocona Village 29/8/14...Wow that's a weird way to do dates...I prefer 8/29/14.

-Sometime after his chat with Duke, a Reply is sent.-

-And as promised...-

Rasp Cavern

-Blip!-

-An Empoleon themed Hero is here with his Gardevoir.-

Peril Cliffs - Wouldn't a Time Before Time still be Time and Therefore Not Be Before Time?

-The footsteps behind Titan stop-

Jacob: .... Indeed it has, Titan. Quite a while.

-He looks side to side and taps the ground with a cane he borrowed-

Jacob: Meditating? How quaint.