Completed [Sacred Arch Hotspring]Chilling Hotspring (Kyra)

[Fubuki Kouri]

Fubuki Kouri "What if they come back? Hehehe~ Then I would just scare them again!" Kouri's child-like mind came upon a simple answer. Her eyes wandered to the woman's dagger again. Are you still cautious? Well... hmm.. perhaps I should introduce myself to warm up things... Kouri thought about introducing herself when the woman mentioned that beast's species. "Y-yeah... it was... big, orange with black-stripes... and scary..." She picked up a wooden stick with her tendrils and used it to draw the tiger's monstrous face on the ground. "...." Kouri closed her eyes and tried to not let herself cry again. This time it was working, using the woman's next statement and question as a distraction from her memories. "Ehehe... yeah, I don't look angry of course because... well I'm not angry right now~" It was a simple reason yet true. "Hmmm, leave? Ehm... perhaps I should introduce myself first, Madame..." It would be impolite for her just to leave like that. Kouri elegantly lifted the hem of her dress and bowed slightly "My name is Fubuki Kouri, Madame... if I'm not intruding, may I ask yours?" She tried to sound as polite as she could, using the etiquette her mother taught her.

[Kyra]

The ghost's answer was simple and completely believable. If she could scare them once, why not twice? Kyra had to agree, as she had also went about scaring the same people over and over. It never really got old with her, and even when they would yell and complain, it was still fun. The only difference was that she would stop her antics for the moment, but as soon as they had forgotten, or she grew bored, it was that time again.

Kyra looked on as the ghost prepared a sketch to show her what a tiger looked like. It was a crud drawing, but from what she could tell, the creature looked similar to leopards, like her kelvic side. A thought occurred to her then, and she wondered what would happen if she shifted in front of the ghost. Would she flee, or fight? Kyra was curious, but she didn't want to undress again, and then have to redress all for a tiny prank.

The ghost decided to introduce herself, and the young kelvic saw no reason to act impolite. As it was, so far, there was no danger and no reason not to continue on. But it was strange in a way, how humans went about stating their names whenever they met anyone. Kyra did this when asked, but for the most part she didn't bother. The girl met people day in and out, and never to see them again afterwards, so it seemed pointless to exchange names.

But, if the ghost girl wanted to, then she would as well. "Fubuki... Kouri?" she asked curiously. It wasn't often that she heard names that she liked, but this one was different and even fun to say. "Fubuki... Kouri." she said again softly. "Hello Fubuki Kouri, I am Kyra." she finally asked with somewhat of a weak smile.

"About those men....Perhaps they will return with others. People who can harm ghost..."

The actions of the ghost had called to the kelvics mischievous side and now she wanted to see what was in the mind of her new friend, or play thing. "What would you do then...Fubuki Kouri?" a different, yet innocent smile grew across her lips as she leaned her head to the side while tapping her dagger against her thigh.

[Fubuki Kouri]

Fubuki Kouri Kouri pulled off one of her hair ribbons and fidgeted with it, a habit of hers to ease an awkward silence or when she was nervous. "Uhm..." She slowly darted her eyes to examine her surroundings, there was no one here beside her and the blonde woman. "Eh? Yes?" Kouri's attention suddenly came back to the woman when she heard her name being called. "E-ehm... y-yes?" She wasn't sure on what to say when the woman repeated her name, this time in a soft tone. "Oh! hehehe~ Nice to meet you, Madame Kyra~" Her curiosity was satiated when the woman introduced herself back. Perhaps she was learning on how to say my name... Kouri had always been aware that her name was rather hard to pronounce by the common tounge. Kyra then mentioned about the men Kouri scared the shykes out of earlier, telling her that maybe they will came back and with the possibility of bringing a person who specializes in harming ghosts. "Wha-wha-wha-whaaaaat?!" Kouri's eyes went wide at that, she didn't want to meet with the hooded man anymore! Everything about him was weird and insane. That man could touch her unmaterialized form, that man could... erase her memory? She didn't remember her berserk rampage because of a failed 'Lie' attempt by the Spiritist. Sure she saved his life in the end, but it was out of instinct and she didn't know it was the hooded man. Kyra's tone was rather mischievous when she asked what would Kouri's next action will be, but Kouri didn't notice that in her terrified state. "W-w-w-wha-what w-w-would I d-do?" She barely let out a coherent sentence ravaged by numerous stutters. "I-I-I d-d-don't know! I d-don't want to m-meet him a-again!" She fell down to the ground in a sitting position and hugged her knees, curling into a ball. "N-no! I-I don't want to meet him again..." Suddenly, voices that could be recognized as adult males could be heard from the road, it was faint, but perhaps it was enough for Kyra's acute hearing to pick up the voices. "Heeeey! I told you, Sir! There was a phantom!" A young male voice spoke. "Aaaaah, ya men and yer drunken babbler, are ya sure ya weren't drunk?" Another male, but sounded much older and gruffer than the previous voice, spoke. "Yes! We weren't drunk, I tell you! It pulled my leg when we were bathing at the springs! Here! We're almost there!" The voices were getting louder and louder with each second, signalling that whoever the owner of the voice was getting nearer. "Fine fine, whatever! If ya wasted my time with yer blabbering lies! You owe me five mugs of ale!" The gruff voice spoke again. "Fueee?!" Kouri let out a terrified, but rather cute gasp and looked at the voice's direction. She could see faint outlines of two humanoid figures heading to the spring's direction, one figure was much taller and bulkier than the others. "N-no no no no! Uweeeeeh!" Kouri thought that the hooded man is coming back to get her, so she quickly blinked to behind a tree and 'dove' underground, burying herself up to her nose. In the night, Only her eyes and upper-part of head were slightly visible if one looked very close. OOCKyra~ I don't know if you already know, but just wanna tell you that please feel free to control that man and the squire coming with him.

[Kyra]

Kouri was a polite ghost and Kyra could imagine if they had met years ago, they may have been friends. If the ghost hadn't tried to frighten her... They had been talking for only a few chimes, but the speckles of moister that had covered her skin since she rose from the waters had dried. Her hair was still damp however, long blondish locks turned into curls through out the length.

"Are you..alright?" she asked curiously.

The ghost was now panicking, and mumbling to herself about not wanting to meet him again. "Him? What do you mean?" Suddenly things were moving quickly and Kyra was having a hard time keeping up. But before she could get an answer from the ghost, she heard noises and the smell of alcohol wafted into her nose.

The men had returned...

Kyra was surprised, although she had mentioned that they might return, she had no way of knowing if they would. Normally when she was being mischievous or even sinister, she was sure not to stick around the area just in case someone returned. "Wow..that was fast." she commented to herself. Within a tick the ghost was gone and Kyra found herself turning left then right as she tried to find where she went too.

By this time the men had gotten closer and she could clearly see them coming towards her. One of them she recognized from a moment ago, and the other appeared to be of the order. There was yelling, and talk of phantoms, and even threats. "So much fuss over a ghost? She must have really upset him." Kyra thought to herself. With the ghost gone, she saw no reason to stick around and headed off.

"Hey!" a strong voice called out.

The young kelvic stalled, then turned slightly to glance in the direction the voice came from. She spotted the two people coming towards her. Kyra waited impatiently as they slowly made their way closer and folding her arms under her chest. The squire hushed the drunkard, having decided to see to the questioning himself. "Did you see a phantom near here?" he asked in a demanding tone.

"There is no one here..besides me..unless you think me a phantom." the girl answered while looking from the squire to the man beside him. "No no no!" The drunken man yelled. "She is in the water. In the water!" The squire wasn't pleased, but Kyra found the whole thing amusing. "Fine! I'll show you!" the man said and stumped down to the spring and dove in while still wearing his clothing. Both the squire and the kelvic's eyes widen as they watched the man splashing around in the waters. "What a strange fellow..."

[Fubuki Kouri]

Fubuki Kouri "Crazy man, isn't he?" The squire commented, directing it at Kyra. The young man who Kouri pulled his leg earlier still trashes around in the water, futilely looking for the offending phantom. After a chime and a half of searching in futility, the man emerged from the water surface and made his way back to Kyra and the squire. "She was there, I tell you! She was there! I saw her with my own eyes! It was a little girl with extremely long white hair and that creepy blood red eyes! She also wore a rather strange elaborate dress with bloodstains on it! Bloodstains!" The man desperately tried to make his case believable. "Now, Sir squire, a little girl with a dress living underwater was already strange enough, more so when I saw those... those... ghastly things that were coming out of her back! Those things were the ones who grabbed my leg!" The man's eyes noticed Kyra and spotting the blonde's wet locks of golden hair, he thought she was bathing in the springs as well. He tried to persuade her to take his side. "Right, Madame? Were you bathing in the springs as well? If so, you saw me and my friends, right? Did you saw that I was unnaturally dragged underwater?" "Puh..." The squire merely scoffed, his eyes rolled unamused. "Ya know what I think? I think yer a crazy drunkard who can't even swim correctly and ya were laughed at by yer friends. And to cover for yer embarrassment, ya blame a non-existent 'phaaantom' " He made a double apostrophe gesture with his hands, slurring out the word 'phantom' as he did so. "Ya even had the guts to persuade this lady 'ere in your delusional lies, pah!" The squire crossed his hands across his chest, face full of annoyance. "Now if I'm already a knight, I oughta put you to the tank." The man gritted her teeth, he saw her, he definitely saw an apparition, but it seemed his words couldn't get past the thick layer of dung covering this squire's brain. He looked at Kyra, silently asking for her help in the matter. Kouri observed the spectacle from her spot in the shadows of a tree. Oh... it's not the hooded man... She was rather relieved, but was still worried. M-madame Kyra, please don't tell them about me! She closed her eyes shut in fear, hoping that Kyra would not say anything about her to the men.

[Kyra]

Kyra glanced towards the squire, he didn't look like any that she had met before and she saw that as a good thing. "Perhaps he is just crazy.." she commented though she didn't expect the man to answer. He did respond with a slight chuckle, but she could tell that he was irritated by the whole idea. The drunkard returned to them, soaked head to toe and with his slurred speak, Kyra could only smile to hold back laughter. "At least you're clean now.."

The man didn't like her comment one bit and started to yell and fuss worse than before. He was right in fact, and everything he said about the girl was true. Still Kyra liked secrets, and while this may not have been a big one, she wasn't about to talk. Instead she listened as the man continued to plead his case, and only looked back and forth between them as if she had no idea what the man was talking about.

Finally the squire had enough of the man's blubbering and turned and walked off. He was angry for sure, but only being a squire he didn't feel up to dragging the man back to the city and locking him up. So he left the scene and didn't look back even as the man continued to protest. Finally, drunk and in raged, he turned back to Kyra and reached for her.

"I know you saw her, why do you lie!!"

The young kelvic giggled and slipped out of his arms, as she dropped to the ground, her legs spread open into a slit. The man stumbled forward and as he did, Kyra slammed her fist into his crotch. "Oooooh!" he groaned and slowly tipped over and fell to his knees.

[Fubuki Kouri]

Fubuki Kouri "Oooh... you... killed... my... brother... uurk!" *Thud!* With a pained groan and loud thud, the man fell face-down to the ground, out cold. Kyra had scored a critical strike in the spot only the most hardened male warriors could resist. Watching the scene, Kouri winced with her left eye twitching. That's... got to hurt... Even though she had little knowledge in the matter of genitals and sex, she knew that males have that 'thing' jutting out from their crotch and that 'thing' is really weak and sensitive... That 'thing' huh? Kouri's mind started to wander. =============================== "Papa~ Why do boys have that thingy on their crotch? A dark-haired little girl looking no older than eight years with sapphire blue eyes was sitting on the lap of a man with similar physical traits. Her eyes slowly turned to the color of bright yellow in curiosity. The man with similar physical traits as the little girl sitting on his lap gave an awkward chuckle, his eyes turning grey in nervousness. "W-well... Kouri, it's uuuh... it's what a male's genital looks like..." "Eeeeeeeeeeeeeh? Then why I don't have one?" The girl tilted her head to the side in confusion mixed with child-like curiosity. "W-well... because you're a girl, honey. Girls don't have those..." The man tried to explain as best as he can without sounding perverted. Ooooh, I see I see! Theeen, does it hurt when it get kicked? She asked in an innocent tone with such a sickeningly sweet voice that the rather sensitive question sounded so wrong. The man literally spat out in shock. "Buuuh! W-where did you heard that, d-dear?" He questioned on where in Morwen's name did his little daughter gained such knowledge. "Well~ Nina kicked a boy in the crotch today~ then he fell down and then he... went to sleep, puh! Just like that~" The little girl explained the event in a very childish tone. "....................." The man could only look at his daughter in silence. "Go see your mother..." He avoided his responsibility and shamelessly direct it at his wife. =============================== Oooooooh! I see... Kouri's eyes widen in realization. After all this years... she finally found out. Her attention returned to the scene at hand and seeing that the coast is clear. She rose up from the ground and floated to Kyra. She materialized herself and timidly tugged at Kyra's cloth to gain her attention. "U-uhm... uhm... M-madame~ Thank you for not telling them anything..." She shot a look at the knocked out man near Kyra and let out a giggle. "Ehehe... does that spot really hurt that much?" She asked to herself.

[Kyra]

Once the man fell to the ground, Kyra swung her hips and slid her legs around so that they were both positioned together in front of her. She leaned back, placing her hands over her head, arching her back as she lifted both legs up into the air and kicked off. The momentum of the force from her kick lifted her body off the ground as she landed on her feet, or (kipped up)

Kyra glanced down at the fallen man for a moment, and was surprised that he was sleep now. It wasn't the first time that she had attacked a man in that spot, and before the man had fallen, but he was still awake. She looked away quickly, seeing if the squire had heard the commotion and decided to return. Luckily he hadn't and she was now free to wander off without any more trouble. Suddenly the chill returned and she felt a tug on her clothing.

It sent a shiver up her spine, and realizing what it was, the young kelvic jumped backwards with a light squeal. She stared down widen eyed at the ghost as she waited for her heart to return to it's normal pace. "That was offal Fubuki Kouri, you frighten me." She sighed, and took a deep breath before she tried to speak again. "It is alright, what will you do now?"

[Fubuki Kouri]

Fubuki Kouri OOCKyra, I think this reply will be the last post for the thread. Just PM me to confirm and I will post it for grading. But of course! If you still have something in mind, we can continue the thread. "Funyeh?!" Kouri let out a surprised gasp as Kyra suddenly jumped away from her. Am I really that surprising? then she looked at her own hands. Oh... must be my touch... *sigh* I wish I could be warm again... By now, Kouri already knew that her ghostly touch sent uncomfortable chilling effect to those touched by it, but Kouri's clingy nature kept forgetting that fact. Kouri loved physical affection, both giving and given to. Hugging and holding hands are her most favorite form, other than a kiss on the cheek. "Ah uhm... I'm sorry, Madame..." Kouri bowed a bit, feeling guilty that she frightened Kyra. She really didn't mean any harm, but her frost touch discriminated no one. Kyra then asked her what will her next actions be, Kouri shot a glance a the pained man before looking back up to Kyra. "Uhmm... I think I'll return to my tree, ehehe~" She waved Kyra good-bye, her form slowly vanishing into this air, blinking to the direction of her tree. "It has been fun, Madame~ Thank you and may we meet again..." Her haunting voice echoed in the area.

[Kyra]

Ghost were chilling beings even when they didn't mean to be. It wasn't so much of a mind thing, or some rumor or myth that made the kelvic wary and caused the hair on the back of her neck to stand on end. It was the fact that although she was there..there was nothing. No body, scent, feeling...nothing. Perhaps there were things about the ghost that Kyra wasn't aware of, but from what she could tell it was empty and not human. This made her uneasy and was something that would take time to get over.

Suddenly the ghost girl decided to leave, as if she feared being caught. It didn't matter, Kyra herself had been on the way to the city and only stopped for a bath. Now that she was done, she would move on with her life. "Well...bye. Fu..." The ghost vanished and the air around her slowly rose in temperature. Kyra stood there, looking around for a moment just to be sure the ghost was really gone. Finally she lowered her gaze to the man who was still asleep and knelled beside him to go through his pockets for any coin that she could steal.

"Ah..this will due." she said softly as she pulled a small coin pouch out of his pocket and tucked it into her own. Once she was finished, Kyra returned for her belongings and headed off.