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Yuna frowned slightly as Caius went more into detail about the man who had killed his family and followed him to Zephon. She wasn’t entirely sure what a daemon was, but from the earlier story he had told when they had first left Torensten, she assumed that they must have been similar to fiends. Especially if people could turn into them.
“I see,” she commented when he clarified that Cortez and Ardyn had no relation. “Sorry for asking. I know that must have been hard to tell just on its own.” Yuna decided that she should probably let the topic drop after that. She appreciated deeply that Caius had confided in her, but she didn’t want to go probing into the personal relationship he had with the man who had ruined his life. They should know each other better before she asked too many deep questions.
Caius didn’t seem surprised by Yuna’s admission that she didn’t remember much before Zephon, so she gave him a curious look when he acted like she had just said something entirely rational. “Is that...normal?” She asked a bit hopefully. Everyone that she’d come across so far had seemed to remember everything about themselves. But if it was common to lose something in the transition, then maybe that meant there was a way to get her memories back.
Yuna gave Caius a grateful smile when he commented that there was no pressure to come up with a story. Still, he’d told her several good ones, and she felt a little embarrassed that she had so little to contribute with her memory problems. Pausing, Yuna took a moment to try to piece together her thoughts on what she did remember.
“There was the day I became a summoner,” she finally settled on, glancing up at the night sky above them. The smoke from their fire drifted up lazily towards it before disappearing into the darkness. “I had studied at the temple for years. Ever since I was a child. It’s supposed to be this big, solemn occasion. First, you have to pass a trial to even reach the altar. To prove your wit and dedication. Then the summoner enters the altar alone and prays to the fayth to earn their favor. And sometimes they’d accept and you’d become a summoner.”
Yuna paused before laughing softly into her hand. “There are so many rules around it. Everyone I’d ever met before saw the trial as sacred. Only summoners and their guardians are even allowed to approach the altar. But then this boy came to our island after I’d been inside the altar for over a day. He...told the priests that they could stuff their rules and burst inside.”
She laughed again, smiling slightly as she glanced to the side over at where her staff was lying by their things. “I can’t even remember his name. But I wish I could thank him. He taught me that not everything needs to be so serious. That even a journey to defeat Sin could still be full of laughter.”
Yuna was suddenly aware that she had been talking for a while, and she felt her cheeks flush a bit as she glanced back up at Caius. “I’m sorry. I suppose it’s getting late if you wanted to sleep.” They still had a delegation from Torensten to find after all.
Post by Caius Dragelion on Apr 28, 2019 13:41:47 GMT -6
Suppose this world isn't so terra-ble.
Yuna Word Count: OOC: Feel free to take the reigns on setting up their morning if you like. I need to try and remember the plan for what's next lol. Dialogue Color: 196fd1 Party Sprites Credit
"No, no, it's okay!" Caius would remark sheepishly, scratching his head in turn. "I uh... It's probably best I got this out anyway, you know? I've learned a lot lately that... Well... Holding it all in isn't good for you. Trying to barrel the brunt of something by yourself, holding it all in, shouldering it all singlehandedly... Especially when there's people to talk to, people to support you, people to listen and help you learn. That's what being around Celes has taught me. But it's still up to me to abide by that lesson. Even if, well... Even if that lesson is hard."
It was a story difficult to tell, but telling it told Caius that he didn't have to keep his burdens to himself. And Yuna had proven thus far to be someone that he could trust with those burdens if need be. Something he very much appreciated, and admired her ability to do. Though the subject changed when she would ask if the memory loss was normal, and he nodded his head. "It is" He would admit. "I've traveled far and wide and many of the people I've met that came from other worlds have all said the same thing. Some know where they came from, but events are hazy. Some lose everything. Some when making the transition don't know they're from another world at all... But well, if they have amnesia, and nobody recognizes them... Well, you get the idea. It's happening a lot. I just got lucky."
With that, he would relax back alongside the sleeping Vordun and wait to see what kind of story she had in mind. Her story was short, but he'd told enough long stories to last the night so that was alright. She talked about the trials to be a summoner, something that interested him. So not just anybody could pull that off... She must be something extraordinary indeed, he noted.
But honestly?
He already knew that.
He couldn't help but laugh when she said a boy barged in and said kark it to all their traditions and bullshittery to save someone's life though. It was exactly what Caius would have done. Practicality over tradition. Sense over religion. Caius would not sacrifice a life just to appease some and such. It was stupid to believe in something that would willingly sacrifice lives like that, for something unnecessary.
"Not everything needs to be serious..." He repeated, at the lesson she had learned. That was a lesson he could learn himself, he supposed... Hmm...
Yuna seemed to be under the impression the story was long, and he laughed a bit. "Please. I talked your ear off for two stories in a row that were longer than ten of what you just told. You're fine. But I suppose you're right. We'd best be ready for tomorrow."
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Caius confirmed that he’d met several people who had memory loss, and Yuna let out a slight breath at the confirmation. She wasn’t sure if it was a relief or not to hear that. On the one hand, it was nice to know that there wasn’t anything wrong with her and that it was just a common piece of the transition. But on the other hand, Caius hadn’t said anything about people recovering their memories over time, which is what she had hoped for.
“But well, if they have amnesia, and nobody recognizes them...” Yuna got the picture without Caius finishing his sentence. Would she be like that? Wandering Zephon and forever stuck at the beginning of her pilgrimage because she hadn’t been able to find anybody who knew her? She didn’t want to think about it.
Yuna felt her cheeks grow a bit warm as Caius teased her for acting like her story was long. “Well I don’t mind that yours were long. I enjoyed them,” she protested with a faint smile on her lips. “As for mine…” she hesitated slightly, remembering his words from earlier about learning to trust people with his burdens. “I’m still learning. Like you. That I don’t need to shoulder everything,” she admitted, glancing at the crackling fire between them. “So…next time. I’ll tell you one that’s a little longer. Until I can do it as well as you.”
Yuna smiled at him, nodding when he suggested that they turn in for the night. Pulling some supplies out of her bag, she got more comfortable until she was curled up in a blanket a little ways away from the dwindling embers of the fire, her pack under her head as a makeshift pillow. It wasn’t the most comfortable of set-ups, but something about sleeping close to a fire felt both familiar and comforting. Yuna took a moment to appreciate the smoke drifting lazily up towards the clear sky. The rented chocobos curled up together nearby. Her staff propped against a rock outcropping near her head. Her traveling companion and his very sleepy baby dragon making up their own bed across the way. It was all peaceful in its own way, and at that moment, Yuna wouldn’t have traded it for a comfortable bed.
“Goodnight Caius,” she murmured, drifting off as she watched the constellations above them.
Yuna awoke because she was cold. Opening her eyes with a displeased noise, she blinked slowly at the morning light shining into her eyes. Slowly, she became aware of the birds chattering above her and that the fire had died out sometime in the night while her blanket had slipped down to around her waist. No wonder she was cold. Pulling the blanket back up to her shoulders, Yuna sat up to consider her surroundings, grimacing at how stiff she was. The worst part about sleeping on the ground was always how she felt the next morning.
Glancing over to the side, Yuna fought a smile at the sight of Vordun still curled up next to Caius. They were going to be quite the pair when Vordun was older.
“Good morning,” she murmured to wake them up. She hated to do it, but they needed to be on their way. “Do you have anymore of those…cup noodles?” she asked like she was saying the name of a spell. “We should eat breakfast. It will be a long day I think.”
Yesterday had been a lot of fun between the stories they’d told and the hunting they’d done with Vordun, but Yuna expected that today would be more serious. Today they had a delegation of people to find. She just hoped they weren’t too late.
Caius would let out a groan, not used to being abruptly woken up by other people. His eyes would shoot open, ready to summon his weapon before he realized his waker was Yuna. "You're bloody lucky I remembered you were here. Last person to wake me up lost an eye" Caius would mumble as he sat up, rubbing his eyes. Realizing maybe he should correct himself, he would elaborate. "Granted the last person to wake me was a bandit holding a knife to my neck in order to steal the car I was sleeping in. I was half asleep when I struck out so I stabbed him in the eye" He explained, perhaps a bit too honest about it. But his tone indicated he was still half-asleep. So that might be the explanation there.
He looked to Vordun, but when Yuna asked if he had more cup noodles, he figured the smell would wake him. Nodding his head, he would hold out a hand and launch a Fire spell at their campfire, lighting it once more with what wood was still flammable. Sifting through his pack, he would get to work...
Some time later, it seemed they would be having cup noodles for breakfast just as they did for supper. Which wasn't a problem for him, it was his favorite dish after all and one that he had survived many moons on. He knew they'd need to get moving soon, though. They had people to help.
As he would pass her the cup full of noodles, water and Behemoth meat, he would set down a smaller cup for Vordun as well. Vordun had already woken up at this point, having been able to smell the cup noodles cooking easily. While they ate, Caius had decided to occupy himself with a book. It was the romance novel he had picked up from the inn after realizing there were many things he didn't know about this world's culture. It was an educational read, in his eyes... Though he really didn't understand a whole lot of it.
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Caius certainly didn’t seem to be much of a morning person. Yuna laughed when he informed her in a half-groan that the last person who’d woken him up had lost an eye. However, as he expanded on that, she quickly realized that it hadn’t been a joke, and she pressed a hand to her mouth in reproach. Well, at least it had been a bandit. She supposed that she couldn’t blame him for that too much.
Caius set about making their breakfast, and Yuna watched the cup noodles intently this time, hoping to figure out the trick to it. But all Caius did was add water to it and set them close to the fire until steam was escaping the lids. There didn’t seem to be anything more to it.
“You say this isn’t magic, but I find a hard time believing that,” she murmured, giving him a smile of thanks as he passed her a cup when it was finished. Blowing gently on the broth, she carefully took a bite of noodles as Caius settled down across from her and buried his face in a book. She didn’t want to bother him too much while he was reading, so Yuna took her time eating in comfortable silence before eventually setting her empty cup to the side.
“What are you reading?” She finally asked, taking the time to lean forward and put out the fire since they were getting ready to be on their way. Standing afterward, she stretched upwards, still sore from sleeping on the ground, before making her way over to where they had left their bags last night. Collecting her staff, she dug some of the gysahl greens out of her bag that the chocobo rental place had provided them with before heading over to the birds and giving them their breakfast as well.
“So,” she began, turning towards Caius as the chocobos dug into the greens. “I guess we should be prepared for anything, since we don’t really know what would have stopped them from getting back to Torensten.” Her mind jumped between the possibilities. Bandits. A storm. Monsters. In any case, she just hoped that they wouldn’t be too late. “Whatever we find, I’ll trust your combat abilities if we need them,” she said with a slight smile. “And I’ll support you however I can. I have a pretty wide range of white magic.”
After the chocobos had finished, Yuna proceeded to saddle hers up before climbing on its back and settling her staff across her knees. “Ready to go?” She asked, taking a last look around their campsite. She had enjoyed their brief time here. But now it was time to finish their job.
"It's not magic, I swear" Caius would respond with an amused snort. "It's just a recipe. Nothing more. I'll walk you through it sometime, if the opportunity comes about".
He hadn't given much thought to the fact they had made no plans to actually see each other again after this. Would they have a reason to? Well, he supposed cooking lessons was a start. "I got the batch when I traveled to Sonora last. Though they were something I was able to get back in my world as well" Caius explained. "By what I know, the water and noodles are insulated using the cup. The fire boils the water and noodles, and the meat adds texture to both. The water even adds a bit more juiciness to the meat, so it's just this big combination of foods that prop each other up and enrich each other, know what I mean? It's like a well put together party of combatants. A warrior, a ranger, a black mage and a white mage, for example, is a well put together party that each have their own strengths that compliment each other... Well, in this case, meat, boiled water and noodles are that complimenting party... Or as we like to say back home... Perfection in a cup."
He had about finished his noodles when Yuna would speak up and ask him about what he was reading. Poking his head out a moment from his book, he answered calmly. "Educational reading. There are aspects of culture in this world that I am unfamiliar with. My partner wasn't very happy with me when we met, due to some... Choice words misunderstood due to my ignorance of social culture here. So by reading fiction written by people that live here, I hope to get an idea of how these social norms work."
Once they were finished and Yuna had fed the chocobos, Caius would get up and begin to pack up. Soreness was the norm by now. Caius hadn't slept in his own bed since he was twelve. It was either barracks, hard ground, or a different bed every night. Still, he couldn't help but yearn for that comfort sometimes. But not as much as others.
Yuna would begin to explain her capabilities and that they should be prepared, which he appreciated. As he would finish packing things up and saddling them on the chocobos, he would nod his head. "I've worked with a woman that used white magic primarily. So I should have a pretty good idea of what to do for us as a unit" He answered as he would mount his chocobo and Vordun would climb aboard with him. It had been a pleasant nice, and he couldn't deny that he had enjoyed Yuna's company in an environment where they weren't constantly fighting. But all things had to come to an end, and they had to get back to work.
As they were off, he would turn to her and try to speak up, once he was sure that Vordun was secure. "How are you as an offensive combatant? Just in case we're separated."
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Yuna glanced curiously at Caius’ book as he packed it away. “Well it must be working,” she said with a faint smile as he explained that the purpose was to prevent further misunderstandings. “I haven’t found you offensive at all.” Truth be told, she could probably use something like that too if it was helping him understand Zephon’s culture. She didn’t understand it very well herself yet, and she’d hate to offend someone on accident. Maybe she’d ask Caius if she could borrow it when this was over. They’d have to plan a time for her to give it back to him, but she didn’t think she’d mind seeing him again.
“Really?” Yuna perked up on her chocobo’s back when Caius said that he’d worked with a white mage before. “That’s perfect then. I’m used to working with heavy hitters. At least two of my guardians were back home.” At least Kimahri was. She wasn’t entirely certain if Wakka counted or not, but he could certainly do damage with that blitzball of his.
As their chocobos started to make their way out of the clearing where they had settled down for the night, Caius asked about her offensive capabilities, and Yuna hesitated slightly in her response, feeling as if she was missing a few pieces as usual. Hopefully more and more memories would come back to her the more missions like these that she took.
“I have my aeons. Ah...My summons, I mean.” She hadn’t yet had reason to summon anything on Zephon, but hopefully Valefor would answer her call here as clearly as on Spira. Yuna’s thoughts flickered to the fire that she’d started in Yazoo’s hearth the night that she'd arrived, and a slight frown crossed her face. “And a small amount of black magic. Fire spells and that sort of thing.”
That one was still unexplainable to her. Lulu had mentioned that she might teach her some spells near the end of their pilgrimage once the fiends got more dangerous, but Yuna was positive even with her spotty memory that she hadn’t learned any black magic before setting out on her journey. But then how else could she explain why she could use some of those spells here? Lulu had to have shown her. She just couldn’t remember when.
“Anyway, the man who hired me thought the delegation must have been stopped not too far from here. That was the last they heard from them at least,” Yuna explained in an effort to change the subject away from herself as she glanced towards a dark blur of trees on the horizon. “Hopefully we don’t have to go all the way to the headstone forest though,” she said with a faint smile. “I’ve heard some unpleasant things about it. Have you ever been before?”
Caius laughed a bit when she would point out he hadn't been offensive yet. "The related topic that I've primarily studied so far hasn't come up. But I guess my speech patterns have probably changed a little, after reading so much modeled by dialogue regularly spoken by people here. You get used to it in a way, being engrossed in stories for so long."
Once they were getting on the move, he would elaborate. "At the moment, it is the subject of intimate relations that I'm primarily reading on. To clarify... I had no idea that a date was not a team chemistry building exercise. When I proposed such a thing to Celes, in hopes of better working together for practical reasons - she... Well, she didn't respond very well to that. And I am quite surprised she didn't attempt to set my head on fire for it, considering her initial reaction before she realized that my offer had been spoken from a perspective of ignorance."
He shrugged his shoulders. "To put it bluntly, it is likely she thought I was hitting on her. Which I am aware of what the term means, when it comes to seeking means of procreation... Why she would mistake me for wanting to shoulder such life-changing responsibility with a relative stranger, I was not aware of until I started reading."
And by that, he meant he had found a rather... Interesting book, while reading. One he found he couldn't finish, for the... Details of the matter left him feeling a little uncomfortable.
"Either way, it appears there are gaps in my knowledge, likely stemming from long-term solitude in my own world. Gaps that have already made getting to know one person... Difficult. Once I'm more knowledgeable on the topic I am presently studying, I will likely move on to another. What that is, I am yet unsure of. But I'm sure it will come to me in time."
He looked to Vordun, then, and scrunched his face a bit.
"Would be real bloody nice if there were books on raising a dragon though."
With the topic moving to combat, he nodded his head. It seemed she had practice in working with heavy hitters, which worked just fine with him. They would likely gel quickly, then. It would make the job that much easier, he noted, since they were more familiar with similar styles. Granted, Caius' style was rather unique... She'd need to get around that. And vice versa... Considering Yuna's whole thing as a summoner. "Describe to me what you can about the summons you have verified you can use in Zephon. As well as what black magic you think you have, if there's any beyond fire."
Caius thought about his own qualifications a moment. "I use my swords in combination with the Power of Kings - letting me warp around the battlefield and deliver quick, precise strikes. I have access to a limited amount of what you call Black and White magic, as well. A bit of elemental magic, and a healing spell is the extent of what I can do there. I'm no "Mage", as you lot call it, but they compliment my abilities enough I think that I can get by."
As the time went on, Yuna would explain that they likely weren't too far from their destination. He listened to her briefing in turn. She mentioned the Headstone Forest briefly, and he nodded his head.
"I'd burn it to the ground if I had the stomach for it" He remarked bluntly. That was all he said on it unless pressed.
As they would continue on, though, he noted that they still hadn't found anyone. "Hmm..." Caius would muse as he would pluck Vordun from his jacket. "Vordun. Scout. People" He spoke in a two-word command, putting a hand to his snout as if using it as a visual and sense based indicator of what he was looking for. While Vordun was still learning to fly, Caius knew that he would return if he was getting tired, as he was taught to. The tiny dragon would take off - albeit a little shakily - into the air and disappear into the horizon. He hoped that with how small he was, Vordun wouldn't be shot down if it came to danger, and that he would just be mistaken for a bird or something. Eventually Vordun would return and land. "You find something?" Caius asked Vordun, as the small dragon would begin to take off. It was much like the hunt before. "It looks like he found something" Caius commented toward Yuna, as they would head off until Vordun would lead them to the edge of a cliff. Below was a small encampment, with cages scattered around. Caius quickly noticed there were people in them, and judging by the ramshackle nature of the camp and the armor of those wandering it...
"Bloody bandits" Caius would remark with a sigh. "Good job, Vordun" He praised the small dragon, who cooed and then cooed even more when Caius would pull out a bit of meat to feed to him, which he snapped up quickly. "Considering this is likely the only sign of humans that Vordun found, there's a good chance those are our guys."
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Yuna felt her cheeks warm a bit as Caius said rather nonchalantly what he was reading about. “Oh!” Laughing lightly, she pressed a hand to her mouth for a moment. “Poor Celes. But if you didn’t know, then that makes sense.” It looked like she wouldn’t need to borrow that book after all. Yuna didn’t think that dating was in her near future, and the idea of reading about it made her feel flustered anyway.
She was almost grateful when the topic switched back to their fighting styles, though she faltered a bit when he asked about what aeons she had verified that she could use here. "...I haven’t verified yet,” she was forced to admit. “To be honest, I’ve only been in Zephon for a few weeks. But if I do summon, it will be Valefor.” Or she assumed at any rate. By her current memory, Valefor was the only aeon whose trial she had passed so far, but she’d had more than a few flashes in recent days to make her question that. But that was too complicated to get into with Caius now.
“Valefor looks like a cross between a bird and a small dragon,” she described, glancing over at Vordun as she did so. “She has the power of flight so she can carry me, and her attacks involve wind.” Yuna missed Valefor just talking about her. Hopefully she really did appear in Zephon. “As for black magic...I’ve verified fire. It’s possible I’d also have thunder, water, and blizzard. More than possible, really. I don’t know why she’d only teach me one of the four…” Yuna mused almost to herself before shaking her head. “Then my specialty is white magic of course. Healing, curing status ailments, nullifying certain types of magic damage…”
Yuna nodded as Caius went on to describe his own abilities. He sounded like a fairly balanced fighter, and she was pretty excited to see this “warping” that he’d inherited from Noctis from his earlier stories. After he’d finished, Caius sent Vordun ahead to scout for them, and Yuna fought a small giggle as the baby dragon struggled a little on getting airborne.
“That’s too cute,” she said with a slight smile, settling back against the chocobo as they waited for Vordun to come back. When he eventually flew back, it turned out that he had found something, so they quietly followed the dragon to a small cliff. Frowning, Yuna flattened herself to the ground to take a quick peek over the side, letting out a sharp intake of breath at the sight of the cages.
“That’s cruel,” she murmured, pulling back from the edge as she wondered what the bandits' plans were for them. Would they kill them? Surely not if they’d gone to the trouble of locking them up. Maybe they planned to ransom them against Torensten?
“What do you think?” She murmured to Caius. “There’s a lot of them down there. Maybe one of us could try to distract them while the other tries to free the people in the cages? I don’t mind doing the distracting since you can warp.”
Either way, they could use some preparatory spells, so Yuna took the time to cast Protect and Shell on both of them while she waited for his response. “To help with physical and magic attacks against us,” she explained quietly. She'd hate for their voices to carry down to the bandits after all.
Caius made notes as Yuna would identify her magic and the one summon she could confirm that she could use right now. "A dragon type creature? You'll have to educate me a little on how you handle him in battle. It might give me a few ideas for working with Vordun" Caius would point out. "He's hit his growth spurt, so he'll likely be much bigger before too long. I'm going to have to change up his style as he grows, so I'll take any cues that I can get. There's no Dragon Handbook after all, as I've mentioned. I'm winging this as I go."
Then it came time to form a plan. Yuna suggested having one distract them while the other attacked, preferably Caius using the Warp Strike. "Good plan. And I have just the way to do it" Caius would admit, a devious grin beginning to spread across his lips as the plan began to form in his head while he scanned the camp. With that, he turned back to Yuna.
"Call Valefor" Caius would request, looking her in the eyes to indicate this was very much a mandatory part of the plan. "I want you to ride them over the camp and attack from above with their wind abilities. While they are distracted and trying to defend themselves against the initial assault, Vordun and I will begin to pick them off from the ground in quick succession and I will attempt to take out as many in the second surprise attack as possible before the real battle starts. This way, we can take them by surprise not once but twice... Offsetting our numbers disadvantage by quite a bit. It's the best chance we have, I would wager. It will also reduce the chances of their trying to leverage their prisoners as they will be too busy scrambling to fight on two fronts once we've pincered them... And once we're free to it, then we can free our friends without risking them. If we try to free them sooner, then that risks their being in the fray and we will lose our advantage."
He would motion that this was the time to give her input if she had any other ideas, or suggestions.
