See Jyn Seijin Pt. "Pretty" (B)

The trip had been a bust. As things turned out, the core raid and tournament would have been interrupted, thus allowing Battousai to return to Jun’Jo for the time being. Though they didn’t get to attack the core, it had given the hybrid some ideas on a possible alliance in the future. He had met with a few of the people there, and though they didn’t have business cards to pass out, he felt he networked enough to know what direction he wanted to move in the future. With that settled, however, he would return to Jun’Jo to continue to build up their spot in this world before moving onto grander things.

A few days after leaving Acura, Jyn would currently be manifested and in the process of training in the fields outside of the limits of Jun’Jo. The tournament had gotten him pumped up. He hadn’t had a chance to battle, and if he did, then Battousai would have probably gone into the battle for them, but seeing the others fight gave the effect of watching an action movie. It got him pumped up and wanting to better himself. As such, he would be practicing his martial arts in a pair of loose fitting pants, no shirt and his gauntlets on his arms to add weight to his punches.

As for the atmosphere, it would be a fair day outside with the sun claiming its spot in the center of the heavens amongst the celestial bodies that hung in the blanket of the sky as well. A temperate wind would keep the climate cool and bright making it pretty much a good day for just about anything. In the distance closer to the village, the farmers would be tilling the lands outside the village walls and a few merchants could be seen strolling from the village on their way to foreign destinations.

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Sweat would glisten off of the martial artist’s body as he continued to train. After a round house kick, his foot would come to the ground and his stance would hold before he would pause for a moment. Still in the zone of his training, he figured he needed a ‘punching’ bag of sorts. Thus, he would channel his energy and attempt to create a pillar of light energy in the shape of a pole, aiming to have it about the height of a totem pole. It was something that he could do before the second coming of the dawn, but now, he seemed to be having some trouble with it. As a technique he hadn’t actually learned yet, he found himself focusing light energy in the shape that he wanted, but when he attempted to solidify it, it basically blew up in his face, scattering a light burst in the skies and wafting out. A frown is on the plucky martial artist’s face as he determines that he’s not had enough ki focusing training, so in order to train his ki, he decides to work on his exertions.

In the distance of Seijin would come a soft rumble as a translucent dome of energy would expand about Jyn as the nucleus and spread across the knee high grasses of the fields outside of Jun’Jo.

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Though Jyn would be in training mode, he would turn and notice a lightning horse rushing towards him in a manner described as ‘lightning shooting across the ground.’ Of course as a veteran warrior, Jyn’s first response to this is “oh shit!” as he turns around and lifts an arm unconsciously over his chest to guard from a magic attack of unknown origin. After he gets a second to process, he could see that it wasn’t a magic attack, but a magical horse. This would still give an ‘oh shit’ type response given the fact that magical creatures sometimes attacked. In second number two, he would notice that there was a brunette chick riding on top of the white sparkly horse. This takes away from the ‘oh shit’ and adds to the ‘huh’ as his reaction shifts. Either way, it didn’t seem to be attacking, so he pegged the horse and woman to be benevolent. Lifting a hand, he would greet, “yo! Traveling through this area?”

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So in his initial visual of the priestess, he could tell that she didn’t seem to be a stranger to weapons herself. Still, the armor and weapons mixed with her cute face seemed to contrast pretty sharply. Had she not been dressed as such, he would not have pegged her for a warrior type. Jyn would assure, “no, it’s not that. You just never know when lightning horses go running around.” Looking about at the field around him he would modestly rub the back of his neck before turning his gaze back to the priestess and admitting, “that bright flash was me goofing up a spell.” He explains, “I’m out here training in my fighting style and magic channeling, but I tried to do a spell I hadn’t fully developed yet and it didn’t work out like I thought it would.” There’s a cheeky grin with the explanation, but he recovers, “but the big wave of energy, if you caught it, that was me. That move, I’ve pretty much perfected!” Nodding to her armaments, he’d ask, “so I see you’re a warrior too, eh?”

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“Ooh...” Jyn would hear in the connotation of her voice. With that, he would understand that she wasn’t the type that seemed to like to have to use violence, or at least that would be his first guess. Still, in this world, you needed to know how to protect yourself, or at least that’s what he felt. Still, he was quite proud in his progress so far, so his feelings would be more empathetic than sympathetic. “It’s rough out there,” he would say vaguely in response to her words not really specifying a where, but more or less meaning just all around in general. He would continue, “well, I don’t know if you’re coming or going…” he turns and motions towards Jun’Jo in the background and comments, “but if you’re looking for a good place to rest up, my village here is a pretty good place. You can take a load off. We’ve just built a new inn and a hot water spa.” He figured a girl like her would be able to appreciate such a place. The original idea for the bathhouse had come from Lightning and her crew; it was thought girly at first, but it wasn’t long before the men’s half became just as frequented as the women’s side.

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The martial artist was pleased that he had attracted yet another tourist to his wonderful village. He hadn’t really spoken with a battle priestess before, so he was glad to have this first time encounter to add to his overall sophistication. He instinctively just nods with the bow, not really thinking it cool to just stand there and receive it without acknowledging it somehow. The gaze shifts to the horse during its introduction and a nod is given to it as well, for no particular reason other to really just acknowledge that he had just been introduced to a sparkling mount. “Cool,” Jyn would counter in his response and offer, “well, my name is Jyn’rai Keirosuki. I guess I’m a village architect, map maker and martial artist of Jun’Jo and it’s an equal pleasure in meeting you.” Since he had been working out for a while, he figured he would lead her to the village as he turns to it and offers, “I probably should head back; I can walk you to the village square, show you around and point out the bathhouse for you if you’d like?”

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“Oh!” Jyn’s eyes would light up as she mentioned not being used to the world, “are you one of those relic ancestors, or whatever they’re calling them?” Among the things Jun’Jo had, was a wonderful information gathering network that was orchestrated by Kautuka. Jyn didn’t know everything that Kautuka did in order to gain his information, but they were generally up on the latest gossip in the land. Even in Acura, there were those who didn’t quite fit in, spoke in odd dialects, and claimed to remember a time before The Dawn. Jyn didn’t know, and didn’t actually care until now, if the rumors were true or not, but he wondered if Seijin would solidify the fact for him. He would clarify, “…you know, the people with memories of a world before The Dawn?”

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“Heh, well, yeah…” Jyn would admit, “my parents were in the group of people who woke up without memories… the actual dawn was like twenty five years ago, or something like that.” Motioning towards Jun’Jo, Jyn would begin to take steps as he began to walk speaking as he led, “wow… so you’re actually from before the Dawn and have memories of…” His words are interrupted by the ground starting to shake violently. This causes him pause and look around for a moment as if trying to track something, but not having a good grasp of being able to do so. The rumbling would seem like it was moving beneath them from one place to another and Jyn would quickly explain, “sorry… since expanding the village, we’ve run into a bit of a mole problem that we’ve been trying to clean up…” Though he said it like that, it seemed like something much larger than a mole was moving underground beneath them. Suddenly, to their right side at a distance of about twenty five feet, the ground would burst and a large mystic beast that was basically a two story mix between a mole and a hedgehog would appear as ground and soot rained down around them. “There you are!” Jyn would grin while turning towards it and assuming a crouched fighting stance, “we’ll get you this time!” Though Jyn wouldn’t be able to understand the mole, it would roar out in critter talk something to the lines of, ‘I won’t let you people run me out of my home little man!’

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In attack mode, Jyn almost stumble as he’s asked to halt before he is even started with attacking the creature. The game plan had already been made up in his mind and there were a few moves he wanted to test out since his endorphins had been pumped up during his training. With the call to not attack, Jyn’s gaze shifts to the priestess as he seems confused that she said she wanted to talk to a mystic creature. Land beasts generally didn’t talk, to his understanding; they just got in the way and attacked wholesome people for not good reason at all at random. “Um… okay…” would be the only thing that would come out without having the time to think about a retort or a reason why not to attack. He would return a cautious gaze to the Molehog in a defensive manner switching to it instead of an offense. “Be careful?” he would offer as he figured that Seijin must know what she was doing since she had seemed to tame that large lightning pony that she rode on. In this time, the Molehog would not have attacked, but it would be standing its ground and preparing a strike.

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Jyn’s gaze follows her form as she comes to stand in front of him and he watches, along with the Molehog, as Seijin puts down her weapons and talks to him. At first, Jyn was able to understand her, but as she spoke, the language became foreign to him. Jyn was a bit worried, because he didn’t think that land beasts would be able to understand if you spoke to them, even in gibberish; as such, he knew he might have to get ready to push Seijin out of the way of an attack if needed. Much to his surprise, the Molehog would eventually do something that seemed like it would be speech if it were words, which seemed to be in response to Seijin’s words. The Molehog would have fully understood Seijin’s words and would also be perplexed in the fact that he was able to understand a human and that she had spoke to him. He pauses as she tells him that she does not wish to fight. In his bestial tongue, the same tongue that Seijin matched, the Molehog would counter, “I have to admit, you’ve caught me off guard, Seijin Senkensha. I am Ashen, of the Molehog and you humans are pushing me off of my land. You’ve attacked me for no reason when I am burrowing underground and I’ve had enough! Well, maybe it’s not you since you don’t seem to be like the others, but this is my land. They can’t keep spreading out over it.”

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The molehog liked the fact that she called the human’s ignorant and seemed to get where he was coming from. Bashfully, he would express, “well, I never took the ignorance of the humans into mind…” As she continued to talk, he continued to be on her side. She wasn’t that bad when it came to humans; he didn’t like the others, but this one looked like she might be different. Hearing her experience, he would speak, “oh? You’ve been to the mystical kingdom? That explains why you’re able to speak to me and why you have better sense than the others…” While the molehog spoke this, Jyn would continue to sit on the sides, confused as to what exactly was going on. He figured that she could talk to the creature, but couldn’t really understand what was going on. Still, he allowed his guard to drop since things seemed to be going smoothly. The molehog would continue and ask a question of the priestess, “so how should we go about moving the humans off my land? It looks like they’ve developed a lot of hollow rocks on top of it.”

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A tilt of the head would be given by Jyn as the glance is given to him and then returns to the creature. Murmuring Jyn comments, “if he’s got a problem with me, we can duke it out…” It was more of a mumble to himself figuring the molehog mentioned him, instead of catching her glance as a reference to his people as a whole; still it wouldn’t be loud enough or mention of them to actually hear.

Hearing her logic, the molehog finds it kind of one sided. He frowns, if such an expression existed on the creature and speaks back, “but they have already driven me from my home. How can it be fair to let them continue to live where I used to? I’m not against working together and being friends… I’m actually pretty nice once you get to know me… but I’ve got to have a home too. What will be the compromise? Where will I live?”

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There’s a moment of silence after her words and the Molehog doesn’t say much of anything during this time. Jyn watches, now with his hands behind his head, on looking and figuring that everything should be okay since things seemed to have progressed this far. He had come to accept the fact that he had met someone who could not only talk to animals, but could probably tame them as well; she was like a mole-whisperer… After thinking over her words, the Molehog would agree, but in increments. He would speak and inform that he would agree with those arrangements, but he wanted to see how it might work first. The Molehog looks past her to Jyn and then back down at her. He seemed cautious that the humans wouldn’t be able to let him be underground, but he did understand how his home could be just a little further from the surface than it currently was, and if he had the humans helping him build it, then that might be eventful for him as well. He would of course, ask if she were sure that the other humans would all come to understand and agree with this since he wanted to make sure that he didn’t agree to something that turned out to be a fiasco where he ended up more put out than before. He assured her that if everything was kosher, he would cautiously accept the plan.

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Becoming attentive as he is addressed, Jyn would straighten up figuring that things must have gone well with the creature and that it would be leaving soon having realized its wrong doing. When the question came out, the answer was simple. Long gone were the days of confusion where he would have thought himself to technically be the leader of the village; he was an architect, map maker, and an entity wholly separate from the one that would be in charge of the city. Something like that was the domain of the other and more serious persona. An eyebrow rises as she hears what the actual issue was. The creature was driven from its home? It wanted to compromise? Since Jyn was generally a good guy, he could empathize with the creature, though he didn’t know how Battousai would take the situation. It would go one of two ways; Battousai wouldn’t care, or he wouldn’t care and kill the creature. Answering her confidently, he speaks, “actually my brother, Battousai, is the leader of this village.” He looks over to the molehog and then back to Seijin and speaks, “so… should I go get him and bring him here, or should we go to the village? I’m not sure how the guards would take to him coming to the gates… even though it would be me escorting him…” At that point he was more so thinking out loud. He confirms, “well, you guys follow behind and come to the south gates and I’ll go ahead and let the guards know everything should be fine and grab Battousai at the same time? Sound good?” If everything was good, then he would be off, sprinting towards the village, if now, he would remain for whatever requests were left. Either way, he molehog would remain behind, pending Seijin’s response.

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With Jyn moving towards the village, the mole hog would look questioningly to Seijin as she fills him in on what was said. He didn’t know how he liked to think about having someone check to see if it was okay to tread on land that he used to live, but since Seijin was being so nice, there would be no complaints from the mystic beast.

Upon reaching the village gates, the guards would be informed that there would be a large, non hostile beast approaching and not to engage it. Of course, not only would that be spoken to the visible guards, but word would be sent to the shadow forces that Kautuka commanded with hopes that they would comply with Jyn’s request. Since Kautuka was generally paranoid beyond the realm of normalcy, it was a worry that he wouldn’t want to risk a creature of that size approaching the gates with an unknown stranger who Jyn had met around the same time as meeting the creature she spoke to. Of course, Jyn would not read that far into the situation since he generally was more simplistic and trusting by nature.

Jyn would proceed into the village and seek out Battousai, or one of Kautuka’s aid to fetch him for the meeting. After a bit of looking, he was found near the training area in a meeting with Takeo. During this time, the guards would probably stop Seijin and the molehog as they approached the gates, and hold them there as a precaution. Security would be heightened, but not in an obviously visible manner since they did not want to provoke the beast they knew nothing about. The head guard at the gate would greet Seijin and ask if there were anything she required, like water, since it looked as if she had been traveling before reaching here. Something like getting the village leader, wouldn’t be an immediate thing, which meant that there would be at least a minimal amount of wait time for him to approach, if he decided to come at all.

Luckily things work out, and Jyn convinces Battousai that the situation warranted his attention, though the leader’s only question was inquiring why Jyn just didn’t take care of the negotiations instead of pulling him away from his meeting with the captain. Either way, Battousai was used to Jyn being a certain way about things and a bit over dramatic when it came to things, so as a patient ‘older brother’ he would accompany Jyn to the front gate.

Reaching the front gate, Jyn would motion to the obvious mystic beast which was much bigger than normal things and would also direct attention to Seijin as the one who could speak to it. The approaching Battousai would be dressed in his usual attire of a white haori with the kanji for commander on his back, over a white shirt and loose fitting shorts that fell below his knee covered with the armor integrated into his clothing. A black cloth mask would cover the bottom portion of his face with horn protrusions coming from his head gear.

“Battousai,” Jyn would introduce, “this is Seijin, her horse and a molehog.” Battousai’s gaze would linger on Jyn for a moment as if giving an internal sigh before turning to Seijin and nodding a greeting acknowledgement and speaking, “Jyn says that there’s something you want from me…?”

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