SERIOUS: Reconnaisance Unit, Chapter 2: Broken Bonds and the Mysterious Predator of the Valens Mountain Range (OPEN to Shad0w and Cryptic Terror)

"Jade, lovely behave!" Ginji yells, and actually grabs the dumbfounded Chimerah, and with a swirling motion, makes him spin around himself, and get tossed away several meters. What on earth was the insane "doctor" doing, has that attack from before somehow messed up with his lunatic mind even further, to the point of mixing up who is his ally and who is not?! The Chimerah, despite being actually spared from ending up with a gaping hole on his neck, is visibly and obviously confused and surprised by this bizarre behavior, and quickly gets up, flustered. "What on earth are you doing, you stupid bastard, are you mocking me?!!"

"I want leaves..." The goat says, yet again. Actually, for a while, he was asking for that exact same thing over and over again. No one of course cared. But then, Ginji slowly moves something from his pocket, and points it towards Chimerah, slowly walking towards him. The Lion's head tilts in confusion, but the Goat's eyes slowly widen, as a tear drops down his cheek. What Ginji was holding, could it be?
"LEAVES!!"
"There you go, lovely broh .. those mean people didn't got it, did they? That .. you was lovely going to lovely die from a heart break, because .. you lovely couldn't find leaves..." Ginji says, actually with tears in his eyes, he was moved(?)!
"...What the HELL is this now?! And then you think we are insane?!" Brosko actually yells at Jade, this was all so stupid that he ended up stopping in his tracks, and just watching, frozen.

"Dammit, you idiot! Stop messing around, we will kill them all!" The Lion yells, and his right fist tightens, apparently he's about to attack but then... "..Oi, Laiks? Why can't I use ... oi oi?!" "The weirdo is MY FRIEND!!" The Goat head yells, and actually bites the Lion's neck, much to the Lion's surprise and dismay. But then, Ginji approaches, and aims a kick. "Damn right I am, Goat is a lovely nice guy, but you guys .. lovely aren't .. Stay Proud; Brick Prick!!" An explosive, downward kick smashes onto Lion's neck, making the whole body fall down violently, and with incredible momentum, causing a crater to actually form! And, in the middle, the mangled body of the Chimerah was laying motionless, with the Lion's head completely knocked out, bloodied and with foams coming from it's mouth. The Goat was actually cheering, and now had a large necklace wrapped around it's .. nostrils. "WEIRDO-SAN IS STRONG!!"

Jade was obviously cursed. Doomed to confront stupid people, for ever.

Confused and infuriated, the Sphinx turns away from the puddle of unadulterated confusion that just went down before her eyes. No one should have to deal with the stressful amount of nonsense that she encounters every second of her generally miserable existence. Being hounded by a pervert, straight from hell, while the one member of their party looked to be unconscious and the other was conspiring with the enemy was too much for her to process. Her body was sore, her head ached, and she was on the verge of wanting to tear out Ginji's throat along with the rest of those idiots.

In a last act of defiance, she pulls a hidden device from what was left of her garment and hurl it at the throat of that horrible ape. A glint of light dances across the blades of the small star, reflecting the green of the venom that coated its surface. If it it was blocked, its target was still dead. Bastards. They could all die a horrible death full of pain and suffering for all she cared. She was sick of the lot of them. She started to pause as she passed Hawks but there was now a coldness in her eyes as she kept going.

Meanwhile, above in the sky, a creature is seen slowly gliding around the dome, which, due to it's design and building materials, was transparent enough for someone looking from right above to have a relatively clear view of what was happening inside the place. The creature seems to be human, but at the same time, it looks like a rooster. Which, also made little sense as neither of said organisms was known to be an adept flier, or even glider, for that matter.

"Little tricks won't work on me!" The massive yeti, yes, about time to be called yeti as the rest of the nouns to refer to him were indeed too overused by now, leaps backwards and above, letting the small device fly just below his feet. "They should of have let me dress her up, they missed this!" He laments, before he changes size again, to half of what a giant he was moments before, however, oddly, still retaining the same massive arm, which was then hurled towards Jade like a missile, similar to how the creature had previously smacked away Hawks.

And, at the other side, the Chimerah was actually taken out with that single kick after all, however, the snake head had emerged from the crater, and was laughing in a really unnerving way. "You are dead already, you weird crap bag ... when you approached for that kick, I bit your leg ... you will be dead within the next 15 seconds..." Saying that, the snake stares down at Ginji, who blinks as he hears that, and just stands still, the seconds passing. 15 seconds, then 20 ... then 30. "What is this? Did I injected less than I thought?" the snake wonders, sweating slightly.
"Oh, about lovely that, well I have a lovely immunity to poison. Total lovely immunity~ Maaaha!" The madman says, with a really long smile, before he spins around, and towards the baffled snake head, and deliver a vertical kick right on the middle of the snake's head. "GO GO DOC-SAN!" The Goat actually cheers, hitting its teeth hard, thinking that he claps that way.

Jade turns just as the ripple of air from the approaching arm rustles though her hair. A swift flutter of her wings launch her abruptly skyward, narrowly avoiding the the attack for a moment. Her wings wip and slant inwards to allow her to fall down upon the arm -- full of thick, juicy flesh for her teeth and claws to sing into and as them begin to gnaw and tear like a wolf with a bone. To hell with playing predator and prey with this bastard - she'd just eat him. Using the same attach she used on he Ha- ... what?

The goat how is now in some bizarre fight with the rest of his body and befriended by his enemy continues to confuse the situation. He is neck seen with a wig, heat eye-makeup and lip stick and a frilly little fan in his mouth. "Ohhh DOCTOR SAAAAAAAN... " Then something that was probably supposed to be a charming giggle comes out as an awkward, overly soft sort of goat bleat.

"Oh oh, lovely Jade, don't you think you are lovely overdoing it?" Ginji comments, a bit shocked visibly, as the Sphinx apparently attempted to outright begin eating on the enemy's arm! She must have been quite hungry, or quite enraged, or both, to be actually that bold and cheeky to be doing such an outrageous thing!

"What in the-OUCH!" Brosko lets out a scream of agony, mixed with utter shock, obviously surprised by such an unexpected comeback from Jade's side. Almost in a split-second, he transforms into his full size again, and swings his arm around. "YOU BITCH! THAT'S IT, DIE!!" he swings his arm at an extremely fast and powerful pace, and quickly aims to basically smash Jade onto the wall, which would probably be extremely dangerous for her, if he could pull it off. If, that is.

"Two Swords; Humming Lovebirds!" A slashing motion, and what's left are a pair of slashes onto Brosko's large ribcage, as a flashy mass has quickly moved across the enemy and stops some meters away. Putting back the swords in their sheaths as Brosko coughs up blood. "Y-you are..?!"

"That was really painful ... but, you should never underestimate one's own endurance." Calmly, the magician comments. His forehead is gushing out blood, he also has a bleeding lip, cheek and even his left eye seemed to be bleeding, he also had visible bruises on his face and neck, implying that he had sustained damage below as well. Yet, he bravely and defiantly executed his surprise again, whether she needed his intervention or not. "Now we are even, ape." he adds, before he knees down, letting out a soft groan.

This bastard had disarmed her and now wanted to fight her with brunt force.  She could match him in size and ferocity - and as for speed?  She was a cat - a lion, to be specific - a very hungry and a very angry one.  She licked the blood of his flesh from her lips with a sadistic pleasure.  At this moment, she would have crossed her arms, holding them both out to absorb the blow but something out of the corner of her eye changed her mind.  Quite suddenly, her body suddenly shrank substantially, leaving her much smaller human form behind, leaving his strike to pass far over her head.

For a moment she wasn't sure if the flash of steel that caught her eye was only her imagination ... and then the blood came. When her eyes finally fall on the badly damaged magician, she shudders with fury. Picking up a large shard of glass from some of the rubble, she tosses it in the air and harshly kicks it, hurling the dagger-like shard swiftly toward the ape's abdomen. "Rock this down. Bitch." It took all of her will power to leave the scene without gorging herself on the blood of his throat.

Jade rushes swiftly over to her fallen comrade and falls to her knees in front of him.  She was surprised and horrified by the amount of damage he sustained. "You shouldn't..." Her thumb brushes over his lip to remove the blood.  She had always gotten a sick pleasure from his bleeding lips but not this time, even though his alluring factor was devastatingly high at the moment. Her fingertips wipe away the other blood from his face - she could certainly help him but he would not like it ... then suddenly she gasps.  "Hawks ... your eye...." She covers her mouth for a moment to fight back the anger and ... guilt.  "I'm so sorry ... this is all my fault ... I shouldn't have gone out ahead. I wasn't angry I was just -- Hawks I-..."

Her voice is cut short before her mouth gets her in more trouble. She couldn't just leave him this way ... he could barely move. ... those cuts ... those bruises ... calling out for her lips ... er, um aid.  He obviously needed her. ... this definitely was NOT for her benefit ... she would muscle through it like a proper soldier for his sake only. "Please be still ..." She gently tugged him against her, her soft lips finding the bruises on the side of his neck first. The bruise is deep and stubborn one that takes more attention than usual. She felt herself breaking - his skin so close always did such awful things to her thoughts ... she kept telling herself over and over in her head, don't be creepy ... don't be creepy ... don't be creepy ... as she pressed her lips against the injuries along the top of his chest. She somehow held onto the restraint to know better than to try to see what injuries hid under his clothing.

The cuts and bruises of his neck all faded and melted away under the influence of her lips.  She took care of the cut on his cheek before very carefully addressing the cut on his eyelid.  She wasn't sure what was under it and she was terrified to open it.  Instead, she only kept her lips there long enough to stop the bleeding and seal the wound so it could scar on its own. She would finish it when she was sure what damage his eyelid was hiding. She'd never forgive herself if his eye was damaged.

At last the only thing that was left was that cut on his lip ... as tempting as it was, she intentionally saved if for last - like saving the most delicious part of a meal to savor at the very end.  A fresh droplet of blood formed there as if to tease her - it was all she could do to contain herself. His lip could probably heal on its own and didn't really need her help ... would she be a good sphinx or a naughty sphinx? The cut vanishes at the slightest touch of her lips - barely visible but not completely healed ... she almost lingered longer as she was accustomed to doing ... like a special treat for being a good doctor.  This time she didn't - a suffocating guilt held her back - it was her fault that he was in this condition; she certainly didn't deserve a reward. Her eyes were full of lament she whispers.  "I'm so sorry. If you never forgive me, I understand."

"I'm fine, don't worry about-OI OI, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Hawks flails in response to her actions, but is ultimately kept down on his knees for her healing "treatment" to take effect. This ability, despite possessing quite a striking creepy factor, was quite an asset nonetheless. While the blonde was miraculously not hurt very badly, getting healed from the cuts wasn't bad. Well, if you could overlook the method used for this.

Opening his injured eye, it's clear that no damage has occurred to it; it remains as mesmerizing and vivid as usual. "Well ... we will have to talk about how you approach someone to heal him later, but thanks. I'm fine, you can relax now." Ginji on the meantime is giggling like an idiot, and has turned his back at them, supposedly being shy or whatever kind of stupidity he was trying to imitate he was. He was also letting out a really, really irritating soft giggle, one you would expect from a girl being told she is pretty by her crush.

And then there's Brosko, who was witnessing all this, with a hollow look, as he was reverting back to his human form. "You ... this is ... how can you do this in front of me?" he mumbles to himself, before his eyes and facial expression fill with seethed rage. "YOU WILL PAY FOR YOUR BETRAYAL!" at the same time, he pulls out a small control pad, which like the one before also had a red mushroom button. Immediately after he revealed that mechanism, any person conscious was left startled, before a ruckus followed that moment of surprise.
"OI OI BOSS, CALM DOWN!"
"THIS IS TOO MUCH!"
"DON'T DO THIS BOSS, WE ARE ALL STILL INSIDE!!"
Screaming they all desperately try to run away. What was happening?

Even when she behaved, she got fussed at.  The magician hated her so much, that even something that was meant to help him caused an eruptive reaction - despite her restraint. Even though they were hilarious, his reactions always made her a bit sad.  Suddenly his other eye opened, that dangerous and devastating blue that would tie her soul in knots if she didn't look away.  She was so relieved that his vision wasn't damaged the she forgot to finish healing the cut. Perhaps later, if he didn't hide from her.

She was surprised that he actually intended to have a discussion with her about how to properly engage a healing attempt. "Really, Hawks? Are you actually going to tell me how to Sphinx correctly? I can make you bleed again if that will please you - if that's even possible." The dangerous look in her eyes dared him to offer more critique. Maybe she'd leave him to die next time.

"And as for YOU ..." She sauntered over to the yeti creature who was now back to his human form. She slowly pulls his hands around her waist. "... and now you have me -- OH ... but that isn't what you want, is it? I am a means to an end.  Are my abilities to YOUR liking?" She pushes him away slightly, giving him a vicious look. "Do you really think I would believe you would push me to the brink of death and tolerate my hatred if you were really looking for a wife?  ... you were testing my abilities ... making sure i could recover for the worst of things - a full recovery after every inch of my body is bruised and bleeding - but why? You aren't injured -- but someone must be. Who could it be?" She leans in close with an unforgiving and taunting glare, determined to call a bluff.  "So you go ahead with your building self-destruct threats - if you're willing to also destroy the infirmary we both know is next door. I'll wait here."

She walks away from him and approaches Ginji, opening her hand which contained a few purple scales.  "These are from the Achaean Ink Fish, aren't they? - not fit for food, their scales are only used to treat an fatal acute respiratory disease ... but one dose should do, correct?"

"Why is she not-so-lovely conversing with the opponent?"
"I ... have no idea. Look at her, she's too close and adept at talking, too..." Her comrades gaze upon Jade's peculiar behavior and her lack of actually keeping distances and interest to fully talk and interfere with the enemy, unsure if she was actually being serious or was just taunting/trolling him. It was even more perplexing as she just casually walked back to them, to give Ginji some scales. *Well, guess you can't exactly get what's on a cat's mind ...* Hawks thinks to himself, letting out a soft sigh, one that she could EASILY misread as a soft groan of pain.

Some moments of silence pass, with Brosko just standing there still, and the rest just standing around, before the ape-man's teeth grit in anger, same with his eyes. "No matter .. I have already decided that it's over, anyway, might as well burn you to a crisp!!"
"Ack, we forgot, he was threatening us!" Hawks comments, gasping a bit, Ginji going the same, Brosko just doing a dumbfounded face fault, unable to believe some could be as abstracted as to forget such a thing! "Screw you, I'd rather die than ask for your assistance!!" and, with that, he clicks on the button, as the few remaining of his grunts, unlucky as they had yet to exit, were pleading for their lives. Why was that, tho?

The ground quite literally erupts violently, and cracks everywhere, as a reddish, powerful liquid is propelled from all over the cracks, as well as across the frontal part of the walls, and the door. "...Lava? ... Why is there lava on such a freezing place?!

"You would rather die than ask for help, yet you have no problem with forcible kidnapping and brutality? People are things to enslave, not things who can consciously give you something you would have to lower yourself to accept. Interesting. ... but don't worry.  I'm not offering. You should be curious about why a simple, curable acute infection has become a chronic, debilitating illness, however. Good luck with that, you bizarre asshat."

Jade forgets what she's doing and about the danger of her environment - time seems to stop and she can hear the faintest sound of a pin dropping - a soft groan of agony shatters the silence - and the cat, immune to all of time and physics is upon the ailing magician. Her sensitivity to every little noise he made was absurd. "You're hiding an injury from me!" In a split second, she has his shirt completely undone, ready to unleash a flurry of tiny, adorable, feather-light healing kisses all over his entire body - just to be safe. As she leaned in close, a faint but glowing glow from the ground caught her eye.  "GINJI! GET OFF THE GROUND!" Her human form melted away into a winged sphinx as she captured the magician and deposited him on a frozen bit of higher ground.  She darts away to find Ginji, making sure he escapes.

"What madness is this?!"

"This isn't the time for-!!" Hawks tries to, initially, relatively calmly explain and deter the sphinx from her .. easily to be depicted as "amorous" from bystanders that didn't knew about this crew's way of handling such situations, actions those goal were to heal him of any straw injuries her previous "examination" failed to pick up, but, her speed in removing one's clothes was far too great and sharp for him to react in time. "Don't do such things, they look smutty to everyone else!" he yells, usually that statement would go for Ginji's eccentric (borderline psychotic) demeanor and silly puns regarding his and the sphinx's relations, but this time, everyone else in this room was a total pervert!

He grabs her from her arms in an attempt to make her calm down and stop her from potentially attempting to examine his lower region too; it was just like when a kid's mother would humiliate said kid in front of the other kids in the yard, by saying something preposterous, or calling the kid with a way that would make the other kids make fun of him. Except, this was a grown-up, creepy and awkward version of this, well, sort of. But, before he gets to talk, he, once again, realizes that he forgot about the enemy and his threats again. Was she really that eye-catching for him to forget of such a danger .. twice in mere seconds?!

And then, what felt like a series of explosions, all at once to be detonated under their feet, he finds himself in the air, but, with large paws holding him above the now molten surface of flowing lava, which was melting the ice floors faster than you could say "Maaaha".

Ginji, meanwhile, is on top of one of these rapidly-vanishing ice cubes, holding onto Chimerah. "I AM LOVELY FINE, DON'T WORRY~!" He remarks, so casually, as if all this was no problem, at all!

Jade not only got yelled are for fixing the magician's wounds but was also scolded for saving his life. She wasn't even overtly creepy this time - there was no winning with his magically delicious self!  ...and now, of all things, she was being scolded for how her actions looked to everyone else - as if everyone's dirty mind was her responsibility to shield from misreading any given situation.
Her muzzle actually had a slight pout when he grabbed her arms, her green eyes wide and mournful.  All she wanted to ho was help but it just never worked out.  She could not stay out of accidental trouble.  Considering what he had done to the frightened little sphinx not so long ago, he really had no place scolding her for something so inert as administering care - even if she HAD been creepy, it was mild when compared with his own abilities of supreme creepery.

Now she was above Ginji who seemed to be fairly unconcerned with the obvious peril he was in.  Why was he holding the creature?  She could retrieve Ginji but not all ... four of them? Ginji would never abandon the weirdo-connection established with the goat.  This is the sort of thing that would only happen to a creature like Ginji. While the Sphinx attracted weirdos by accident, Ginji actively sought out their friendship.

The Lava in this frozen tundra was odd .. perhaps it was concealing a volcano?  Did he trigger it with an explosion?  The Sphinx searches for the ape who seems to have vanished after the chaos he caused.  She returns to where she left the blue-eyed one to regroup.  "Do we have everything we need from this hell hole? Lets get Ginji and get out of this place. ... and stop treating me like a kitten!" She tried to give an intimidating snarl but as she had already reverted to her human form, it was more of a tiny sort of growl.

"You are going nowhere!" Brosko's voice is suddenly heard, followed by the man's appearance from the skies. Oddly, he seemed to be flying .. was he actually flying?! Yetis were known to be mysterious creatures that the world knew little of, but to assume that they could also spawn large, bat like wings which also happened to look metallic, and just fly around with them seemed to be a bit too much of a stretch. Either way, and regardless what kind of bizarre equipment that was, not to mention where he just obtained this during this mayhem, the enemy was no airborne, and he was going towards Jade and Hawks, who were currently conversing about what they were supposed to do now. "Why is he also flying?!" Hawks comments, obviously getting irritated as well by this constant turn of events (which also happened to be more and more outrageous). "Take this!!" Brosko then shouts, and pulls what appears to be a pair of machine guns, with which he pulls the trigger, for a deafening sound to be released. But, what was fired was no bullets. Instead, a cyan, shining mist is blown away and towards the two of them standing there.

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"This is no bullet .. this mist is ... !!! Seastone?!!" Hawks remarks, the substance, trimmed to the size of dust falling on them. So, it seemed that Brosko had come up with a last-report, paranoid strategy to eliminate them, since he had seemingly confirmed that he no longer wished to use Jade and her healing ability for whatever reason, as Hawks couldn't understand what was going on with these two, and decided to go to such erratic and insane means to take them out.

The whole place was "roaring", the lava didn't seemed to subside or slow down in any way, a sight that this place must have been actually built atop a volcano. Sizable chunks of rocks had also started to slowly break apart from the rocky mountainous walls next to the now breaking down and burned to a crisp facility, the entire site was apparently part of a caldera! "Dammit, he has trapped us .. where is Ginji?!" Hawks comments, and, without much thinking, he grabs Jade from her waist, pulling her against him, and, with a shift, rapid leap, moves towards a block of quickly evaporating ice, only to repeat the same process, as a flying Brosko was on their tail. "Do you think you can try to remove this seastone dust from yourself in time? I doubt I can move fast enough to escape this place on foot ..! I hope Ginji is alright but .. right now this is the best we can do..!"

Jade turned toward Brosko almost too late to see a mysterious finely milled projectile dancing in the fading light of day directly toward them.  Her massive wings erupted from her shoulders to shield them both - only to melt away quickly as the seastone impacted them. Before she could look around to find another course of action the Hawks grabbed her to leap away from the crumbling structure.  Despite the immediate danger of the situation, she still reminded herself over and over in her head, don't be creepy, don't be creepy, don't be creepy...

Every time they paused enough, she would tug at the sash around his waist to brush the seastone dust away from her skin. It looked like come sort of awkward dance - and given her attire, she had a LOT of skin to clean. After brushing her cheeks against his shoulder, she has removed the last of the dust hindering her transformation.  Her wings sprout again as her form twists into the massive sphinx.  She snags the magician and pushing him onto her back so he has a better perspective for searching for the missing doctor.  

Noise of general panic capture her attention.  She can hear the lion and snake worked up into screaming annoyance. More softly she can hear the goat going on about why lava is his favourite dessert and why they need to stay and savour the flavour of it. With the promise of such poorly constructed logic, Ginji was almost certainly nearby and so she moves in that direction. Sadly the goat wasn't the most insane creature on the island, the ape has, apparently, lost his mind.

"You are not going to escape this! My hideout was built under an unstable volcano! All needed was to detonate the bombs I've planned long ago, to cause it to become active again!!" Brosko yells, irrational an idea to built one's main facility over a volcano, let alone to create a mechanism to cause said volcano to erupt. Yet, from his way of explaining this, it seemed that he deemed this perfectly normal. A thing that was troubling Hawks sense of rationally more than .. well, the multitude of other irrational things currently occurring in this precise place.

"Why on earth would you actively decide to stay atop a volcano anyway?!" He shouts at the idiot, and then, holding Jade even tighter, her shoulder rubbing against his torso, he leaps away, to evade another barrage of, this time, actual bullets. While in mid-air, the magician also attempts to strike down the deranged foe, firing off a thin current of pressurized air, with a shift swing of his blade, but to no avail as those robotic wings were giving their mad wielder a lot of space to mobile around the area. And then, as Hawks landed, his eyes widened a bit, as he noticed that this was the sole piece of ice still intact, at least, for some seconds, as it was also quickly melting away. Looking around, he could no longer even spot Ginji or the other weirdos. "Ginji ... well, considering it's you, you may actually have escaped..."

Then he looks at Jade, his eyes narrowing a bit, as he lets her go. "I'm sorry, Jade, seems that we are stuck here. I'm sorry I failed you." he turns towards the ape, coming towards them with a delirious look and opened mouth, and pulls out both swords. "I will at least try to cut him down, maybe with a bit of luck we can steal his equipment.-" his explanation about what he was planning to do as a last-resort action were cut sort, as a soft bumping sound indicated that something had landed onto the shrinking ice.

It was ... a cock. Or a man. Or a hybrid, it wasn't certain. It was there, starring down at Jade, it was actually that tall. But it was still a cock ...

Considering Ginji's general immunity to physics, enemy tactics, and nature, it would be unsurprising if he found a way to actually befriend to lava and so it was pointless to worry about him too much. Currently, Jade was more distracted by the magician's proximity than the bullets and all of the other random deadly things occurring around them. The bullets dancing around the area graze and perforate her wings, making flight next to impossible. She is forced back into her human form so the wounds can heal faster.

Jade blinks slowly as Hawks apologized for failing. It was very difficult to hear as she felt responsible for everything. "No. You didn't fail- I did ... Hawks I- "  The sudden arrival of something caught her attention.  She turned slightly to see the source of the disturbance, and there, in her face, close enough to slap her... was a giant flying cock. Since one thing after another went wrong on this cursed island and she was somewhat traumatized from a string of bizarre experiences, she panicked. "NO! I cant take anymore cocks!" She turned back to Hawks, pressing her hands against his bare chest, her face buried there, hiding.  She was shivering slightly, like a frightened kitten.  Slowly she rests her chin on the top of his shoulder, the smooth skin of her cheek brushing softly against his neck.  "Is it gone?"

"You reactions are too random; why are you scared of a bird-dressed man?!" Hawks bawls Jade, mainly due to the fact that she had pressed herself onto himself, apparently in fear of something that really, shouldn't induce fear. Heck, this sight should trigger an awkward sense of confusion and questioning over the dresser's sanity and taste in costume choice. Also the fact that he was always having a bit of a discomfort around beautiful women, let alone one that was actually pressing against himself, ESPECIALLY considering the fact that probably over 50% of her breasts were exposed and were pressing against him like a pair of soft, warm pillows, too. Probably the reason a blush was apparent on his cheeks. But, outside this, the magician then watches over at the mysterious man.

"You ... are the one from Water 7, aren't you?" He asks, but, the man/cock/creature, instead of replying, grabs them, both in surprise, and flies away from the ice, a barrage of shots heard moments ago. They forgot about Brosko, AGAIN! "Why are you helping us? ... It was you before, right?" Hawks asks the cock, as the silent creature was flying away from the heated fume's radius. What did Hawks meant about "before", however?

Jade still shivered. "As you may have noticed, my run-ins with half-beasts always end up in awful and creepy places - I can't take anymore! The only giant cock I want near me is yours..." She missed that little black chicken he had on Wally's ship ... The high sheen on its soft black, emerald, and cobalt feathers were uniquely beautiful ... She would stoke his soft plumage for hours ... She was never quite sure why he wore an ascot - although his name was Pierre. Always a name of an eccentric creature. Hawks also had a black cat he picked up from water 7 - all of their adventures were much too dangerous for such small and adorable companions, however.
Some things he says catches her attention. Water 7? He helped before? bird-DRESSED? Still afraid she wraps her arms around Hawks just before they're grabbed, burying her face against his neck, her warm breath pulsing against his skin. The friction of her chest pressed against his places additional strain on her awful dress that's losing its battle against gravity and rounded flesh. "What's happening?"

"When I was knocked out from that brute's punch .. just before impact, I feel like something soft was placed across my body, and later I felt like I fell on a large pillow when I crashed on that wall ... no other explanation, but to assume that it has to do with you, since you actually just saved our asses.." Hawks explains the situation, at least, the way he had seen and figured things out, while the two of them were carried away by the large cock-human-whatever-creature. It was really so weird, not only was this a suit that was actually able to give one the ability of flight, it had to be a suit of a bird that is not known of high-leveled avian abilities to begin with!

"I ate the Maku Maku no Mi, I am a pillow man. I can create pillows of all sizes, as well as create invisible pillows created by mere, compressed and softened-up, air." The cock calmly explains, but still startles Hawks as it had never talked through that whole time, the magician had started to believe that he couldn't even talk to begin with; deaf mute or just some weird, actual, hybrid. The cock then glares at Jade, really insistently, with a facial expression that could made one thing that she was unwanted luggage. But, he still carried them both away, only for a scream to be heard soon. Brosko was out of the smoking fumes, visibly burned, and was continuing his chase.

"It talks?!" Jade happened to look back at the creature the moment it was glaring at her... it hated her. She turned back to Hawks, nuzzling her face harder against his chest. Something about this creature was unsettling. She was a sphinx and could easily eat the cock but there was something off ... perhaps he was laced with venom. Something told her to keep her mouth off of the cock.

Suddenly she noticed what the creature actually said. "You - saved him? I am grateful to you. This nonsense seems to be my fault. Have you seen out large, loud and bizarre comrade? He was feeding a goat trapped in a lion and bound by a snake when we last saw him." She still stayed timidly hard pressed against the magician, taking slight comfort from his familiar scent.

"Why did you did that for, however? You seemed to be affiliated with that Edge-Edge fruit user before?" Hawks questions, obviously he is not going to just trust this weirdo. Everything that happened through out the entire day were insane, and there was little to make him be trustful towards anyone not being a part of his team, and, let's face it, Ginji isn't exactly trustworthy either. ".. Is it that .. your boss wants me alive, isn't it?" he then adds, narrowing his eyes, his voice growling some increasing anger with each word. But, at this point, they couldn't do much; try to actually attack him would likely lead to their demise, either get shot to death or be melted in a searing pool of bubbling lava.

"That is an intelligent consideration, but an incorrect one nonetheless." The cock remarks, before it turns towards the approaching fool, who kept on chattering incomprehensible words that couldn't make sense, as loud as possible. "Grab on my fur while I dispatch this nuisance, so we may roost somewhere to speak." a flying cock, with the confidence of beating dangerous airborne opponents, that seems to dislike Jade, judging from that continuous stare, that also happens to roost. Oh, and it also had fur; the costume, aside the feather-covered wings which were somehow working normally, was made with fur coating. What a weird cock! "I'm sure that your little cat can't take this on, let a cock handle what she can't handle, while she holds the cock tight for her life." he adds, before he creates a "seal" with his arms, a pattern that resembled a square. What was he/it/this up to?

It was difficult for the "little cat" to resist the overwhelming urge to sink her teeth into the birdy bastard to quench her unsatisfied blood lust. Now that she was closer, something about the creature was familiar - but unsettling. Cats were slow to trust anyway but this one was more than a little suspicious. There is nothing worse than lies or betrayal - if he was planning to trick or trap the magician, she'd take particular pleasure in slashing him to pieces slowly and methodically. Only after driving him to the edge of death, she would lick the cock to heal him just enough to endure more torture.
No one would guess the bloody trails her dark mind frequented by simply looking at her.For the moment she kept her vicious brooding to herself. She'd nearly forgotten she was clinging to the magician. Her cheek was still pressed lightly against his chest. It was probably better for her to stay there on the chance that bird would decide to drop her. She was trying to restrain her violent tendencies around Hawks as of late ... but resented his presence bringing her from hellcat to kitten. Her green eyes narrowed at the sight of the bird's arm motions ... the next few moments would determine the amount of bloodshed.

"You are not getting away from here!! ... Woman, you ... you ... why couldn't you just let things go with the flow?!" Brosko is yelling, while approaching the flying cock group. And you can tell from the tone of his screaming voice, as well as his widened, abashed eyes, that he was beyond the point where he could be reasoned with. Not that this was an option earlier, to begin with.

The cock is aiming at the approaching menace, while at the same type stopping and staying motionless in the middle of the sky, Hawks forced to basically grab onto the cock's body, an action that the magician was finding a bit uncomfortable, but there was no other option. *What is he planning to do?* he thinks to himself, but then his eyebrows raise, as a puffing sound is heard, followed by the cock's firm call. "Pillow block."

A much louder puffing sound is heard, as Brosko is suddenly blocked by an invisible force, and, while not harmed in any way, the fact that he was using equipments to achieve flight, and that he was abruptly blown backwards seemed enough to mess up with his control over the machines. "Pillow Bottom." A similar sound is heard, and as Brosko snarls, confused nonetheless, the invisible pillow is pushing him upwards. "That won't do a thing, it's just pillows!!"

"Pillow Sandwich." Yet again, another one hits Brosko from above, but this time, a shattering sound is heard, as Brosko yells in agony, blood splashing around, metals breaking. The cock solemnly thumbs down, and Brosko begins to descent. "Bathe, in hell's river." The cock calmly says, as the screaming ape-man falls towards the black fumes. What a reliable cock!

Jade wasn't quite sure if enough of the sea stone dust was removed from her skin to allow her to fly again, but she'd have to risk taking a lava bath to find out. Instead she tried to be fairly calm for once. The bird was either trustworthy or a traitor ... nothing could be determined or done at the moment.
She closed her eyes as her warm breath danced across the smooth skin of the magicians chest. Even if she didn't have an obnoxious habit of invading his personal space, being carried by the same bird made for an awkward proximity issue - she was merely making the best of a bad situation.
She became unusually relaxed and was on the verge of sleeping - which was quite odd given that there was a swirling pool of deadly lava below, they were being chased by a lunatic, part of their crew was missing, and they had just been abducted by a potential enemy - only a cat could sleep in such conditions.

"We are on safe ground, now." The flying creature says, and lets go of the pair. It was true, they had gone quite a long way away, to the point of only seeing the volcano in the distant horizon. They must have been flying for a while, too. Once released, Hawks pulls his sword, and, with a serious, vicious look on his face, aims said blade towards the cock in front of him. "I want to know more ... am still not certain about your interests. Why did you assisted us?"

The cock opens his mouth to speak, but then, as he notices the sleeping cat perched on Hawks shoulder, he tilts his head, still maintaining an emotionless, serious face, which only made him look even more weird and creepy, and then, much to everyone's surprise, lets out a very, very loud squawk. Obviously to awake the cat, which somehow ended up reverting instantly into her human form, thus causing Hawks to lose his balance, fall down, with her atop him, much to his dismay and annoyance. Annoyance which is quickly turned to disquiet. *H-he did that so she falls on me so .. I lose my chance to threatened him? Dammit, I am so stupid...* he thinks to himself, feeling ashamed and bitter that, in his belief, he was outsmarted and put at a disadvantage so easily, but then the cock merely begins talking. "Your father ... he and I were friends."

"What?!" Hawks calls out, and tries to get up, unwittingly grabbing one of Jade's breasts in the process, which only caused him to let out a soft squeal, then let go, slip and fall down again, his blade's tip almost poking his nose, his facial expression that of a hilarious, blushed-up face fault. What a mess!

((OOC: My apologies for callin out myself that she reverted to human again but it's just that ... I found that it would be SO MUCH more hilarious that way ))