Water's Evidence (Ellie, Open)

[shinjihirako]

(Late and short but I've had very little muse due to personal issues.)

Gerard nodded his head towards the witch a small smile floating on his lips. "Very well, Lady Jadis it is then. Now, out of curiosity I was wondering if there was any job you needed done that you'd be willing to part some munny for?" The question was simple and direct requiring a simple yes or no.

Gerard turning from Jadis kept the small smile as the young girl answered. "Well it is a pleasure to meet you Antique. Simply call me Gerard though, I'm not too fond of the word sir, it makes me feel old. The firefox chuckled slightly at the end, though he wasn't old he couldn't say he was truly young. Hearing the words then coming from the older woman he had a slight eye twitch. "Now understand this, I'm no money grubbing mercenary, I'm simply somebody that likes money with expensive tastes. As for the riches thing, I'd like further details on this. Long term plans don't work too well for me." Gerard spoke sharply in a business like manner not rejecting whatever offer the woman had but not going with it by word alone.

[Ellie who has 0%]

"Fortunately for you, I don't act, and maybe you should learn the lesson of keeping your nose, hands, and your goals to yourself," Jadis replied harshly before gripping her hand from touching Antique. The grip wasn't gentle, which could easily break the bone if she willed herself to.

The Ice Witch made a side glance to Gerard, "The access of money is far from a problem for me, so if I may ever need your...services...I can always beckon upon you when deemed neccesary. Personally, I have nothing to do with you two, since my main focus is on the present and future at hand."

[antique]

"Keep that lovely innocence of yours agent pink bunny, at least until the day I make you one with my goals, which may or may not involve getting you better attires"

Antique smiled nervously at the huge breasted woman, eyeing her cautiously, hoping that her approuch didn't involve direct face-to-boobie contact. She flinched when Saga ruffled her hair, squeezing her eyes shut. The attack didn't come, and Antique breathed a sigh of relief. She turned to Gerard, and smiled.

"Nice to meet you as we--"

Then she noticed her Lady's tenseness.

She touched her arm softly. "My Lady," she said quietly, innocently, and smiled. "You're still my teacher."

[raiho]

"You are neither confirming nor denying what i said, and for one who is praised for being wise is quite pathetic how you decide to keep even your most precious follower in the shadows. Isn't that right, cold witch?"

She felt only an insignificant small pressure from the witch's cold and murderous grasp when she made a vain attempt at stopping her from ruffling little pink bunny's hair. Just to show her that she wasn't the only strong woman, she applied a similar strength on the witch's arm and moved it away to continue ruffling the she-knight's hair. Enhanced strength was too one of the advantages of her artificial evolution.

"You seem to be proud of your magical prowess, but to degrade yourself to menace me physically it's a no no for a witch of your wisdom."

Pink bunny also did her part in removing witch's hand from Saga's hand by touching the witch's arm and attempt to tranquilize her. The bunny maid scientist then looked closely at the young girl, her face dangerously close to hers.

"Little pink bunny, someday you should discover the truths this witch attempts to hide from you. Appearances can be deceiving and she's more than meets the eye. Don't expect her to be this gentle with people other than you."

Then she put one of her fingers on pink bunny's lips and winked at her. Having told everything she had to say to the annoying witch and the lovable young girl, she paid attention to the not-so-human mercenary.

"It's nice to think in the present, but you should think in the future as well. Long term plans have greater profit than short term ones. One day you might find yourself without money nor equipment when you need them the most and that could cost you your life. But it's your life and you decide how to live it. As for my plan, if it were to be successful, humanity and other friendly races would progress to a new era where incomplete defects like those heartless are no more a threat. You might think you would end running out of work if those monsters who deserves no mercy are no longer a problem, but you would eventually earn riches beyond your imagination and you would be heralded a hero. But you want a quick cash I can't provide you right now so I shall refrain from hiring you until the proper time arrives. Also you haven't shown me your abilities yet and just like you don't believe in people without money, I don't believe anything unless I see it with my own eyes."

[shinjihirako]

Gerard couldn't help but take a small step back from the trio. From their words a fight between the two could start at any second and he had no desire to be caught in-between. He observed silently not saying a word. If a fight broke out he'd get out of there as fast as he could but he didn't want to lose out on a chance to find some work.

Seeing the woman turn to him again he chuckled slightly at what she said. "I have three talents that I could aid you with, the first is a knowledge of minor to mid level seals, the second is forging and creating weapons and armor, and finally my experience in combat. To show you the last would require somebody or something so I shall have to simply show you the fruits of the first and second." That said Gerard released the three seals he applied to himself as the three parts of Vayne wrapped themselves around his body. He turned his right hand so the back was facing them as the eye opened up observing the area before focusing on the three.

"This, is Vayne." The unique armor cast in the mysterious material he found years ago was his most treasured posession and his most useful tool. "Now as for the deal, I'll be sure to have an answer for you later depending on how things turn out, until then it's a no." Gerard no longer needing Vayne present sealed him once more onto the tattoos under his shirt.

[Ellie who has 0%]

"Like I said I'm not one to entertain you. Also if Antique feels like she's in the dark, she can just say so. Afterall what's between her and I is absolutely none of your concern, since you're only baiting for your own desire which I find more pathetic," Jadis resumed her grip and pushed a distance from Saga and Antique. She would turn her to stone where the tramp stood and break her.

"As for degrading, I think you win in that baiting with treat, trampy clothes, and money, while witholding your self-righteous ambitions, which even now shows your prideful foolishness, and you wish to bring others with you on that route." Jadis wraped her arm around Antique. "Go find someone else to be your pawn; you can keep your damnation and the consequences to yourself."

Jadis concluded not planning to stay, especially with filth making her apprentice uneasy and her irate. No matter let fate bite her in the ass alone. "We can finish training elsewhere, dear."

[antique]

Antique really wasn't liking the vibe that was building between Lady Jadis and the Lewd Rabbit Maid. If the air could get any more tense, she could have easily sliced through it with Clarent. She was going to somehow get these two away from eachother...

Then the Lewd Rabbit Maid put a finger on her lips, causing Antique to freeze. She did pay attention to the words she said, but she quickly pulled away, and shook her head.

"I'm fine. Everyone changes...and no matter how bad someone may have been in the past...they can always change!" she said, thinking about her own former self.

"We can finish training elsewhere, dear."

Antique nodded, and turned to Saga and Gerard, curtsying.

"Goodbye!" she said, pleasantly. She turned around, torwards the exit she had found to the Secret Waterway, and hustled off in that direction.

[Antique Exit]

[raiho]

"Poor silly witch, if clothes made the person, you would be a a barbaric amazon. You can't even make a proper retort, let alone properly raise such pure girl. And someday the world shaped by the hands of those who seek to create a better future will prove that my goals were good and life will be improved for everybody, not only for your group of selected elites and yourself."

As amusing as it was to annoy this self centered foolish and ignorant self proclaimed "wise lady", pink bunny and the mercenary of impressive talent were getting uneasy with the situation. She simply decided to ignore her from now and focus in the mercenary's show of power.

"Impressive. Now I see that you would never have to worry about equipment and nobody could take you by surprise. I do believe both us agree that for now we can't work together. I'll let you know when I'm ready to pay for your services"

As she spoke with the mercenary, the little pink bunny performed a cute curtsy and left to an unknown destination. It was so sad that she was under the influence of that foul and nasty witch, had they meet under other circumstances she was sure pink bunny would've become her apprentice.

"Without my lovely potential apprentice here, I have no more business in this place. Farewell Gerard, I expect to work with you in a not so distant future."

As a final gesture towards the young girl knight, she followed sweet pink bunny and left the waterways using the same path lovely Antique used before departing towards the first district, where she had business to attend, namely being a waitress in the café, perform mad science in her laboratory and find more people to join her in that goal to create a better future for mankind.

[Leaves thread]

[shinjihirako]

Gerard so both woman vanish with a goodbye, one he barely knew, and a possible business partner in the future. He needed to get back to the garden soon enough though, he needed a good bath, some wine, and good food, steak maybe... shaking himself out of his thoughts for a few second he looked to the last person in the room, Lady Jadis. "I do believe it is time for my departure my lady. If you ever have need of my services come to Radiant Garden, or send a messenger on your behalf. So long as the pay is good I'll be sure to do it." Gerard dealt a deep bow and walked out of the water way headed for First District to his Gummis ship. The future held many possibilities, some pleasant and some un-pleasant, hopefully luck would be on his side and let it be the former.

[Exit: Gerard]

[Ellie who has 0%]

[yeeeah pretty much exited yay all done. Adds to journal]