Bladed Lightning- Shocking Revelations [Skyllon's Secondary Magic Training; Private; Allison]

Brennan stared at the lightning storm nearby. He had come across the most shocking piece of terrain, it seemed to be nothing but a mountain, however, three times a day, there would be a flash at the top of the mountain, and clouds would appear. A few minutes later, the most beautiful lightning would start erupting from the clouds, and occasionally, from the glimmer that seemed ever-present at the top of the mountain. As Brennan sat there, he wondered if this was a natural phenomenon in Tetsukazu, because it was most definitely not natural on earth. Brennan figured that was probably the case, but he couldn't help but wonder, what if it was something more? That would be incredible, but in a sparsely populated planet such as Tetsukazu, it was unlikely that the occasional lightning storms were anything more than a phenomenon, however rare. A.I.R.C. was unfortunately charging using it's solar panels, so it would be of no help to Brennan at the moment. Brennan stood up and yawned, pacing around, his brain racing, wondering what could be causing the electrical storms. He grabbed A.I.R.C.'s unconscious body and started climbing the mountain, he needed to know what was causing the lightning storms. He trudged up the mountains, shifting the earth under his feet to meet his needs. One thing was for sure, using earth magic made it a hell of a lot easier to climb a mountain. Another thing was also for sure, Tetsukazu had tons of strange plant life. After climbing only a few yards, Brennan found a pink tree. A pink tree. Tetsukazu was definitely extremely interesting.

Apparently, Allison's wanderings weren't limited to only the planet Earth, nor those in the surrounding galaxy. Rather, she was able to roam around planets located far, far away, the distance so great that she herself could not even begin to imagine how much magic had been able to accomplish. Fortunately, it wasn't necessary for the fiery haired mage to think about anything philosophical, practical, or logical at the moment; instead, she was simply focusing on the beautiful scene that greeted her as she tumbled out of the sky, landing with a soft thump on an opportune bed of moss. As the girl glanced around her, it was apparent that this place had not yet been effected by magic or technology. It was a beautiful place, something like what one would picture if there had never been humans created in the first place.

Allison took single deep breath, her eyes fluttering closed in the process, and simply lay prone on the squishy green plant for a bit, still holding her breath-- before launching herself upwards, sapphire eyes snapping open as a wide beam spread across her face. "We're going to go exploring!" she decreed cheerfully, springing forwards to land a bit clumsily on her feet. The rose colored cat which had been caught in the portal along with Allison mentally rolled her eyes, but nonetheless Lel Therine followed her companion as the energetic mage began to skip around the planet; or at least, to the degree that she was able to. It was a decent sized place, after all, and even the red haired girl who could wind up anywhere in the entire world felt a bit lost as she traipsed through all manner of undergrowth and twisting trees. So far she hadn't actually caught sight of any creatures of the animal type; Allison felt their presence, but that was all.

After a decent amount of walking, much more than an ordinary human would have been able to accomplish in a single morning and afternoon session, the young mage spotted a strange tree that she hadn't ever come across while on plant Earth. Truth be told, Allison was completely unaware of what species any of these organisms were, and she understood that this was a completely different ecosystem-- but nonetheless, the girl hadn't been overly shocked or surprised at anything she had come across today. That was simply Allison's nature, although it's safe to say that nearly everything amazed her and made her smile and giggle with a bubbly happiness. But this plant... well, it was a pink tree. Allison, upon noticing the rather plain-looking tree (discounting its remarkable pigmentation), immediately made a beeline for it.

Unsurprisingly, she fell asleep in a few of the upper branches-- it seemed that the thing was rather tall and quite possibly ancient-- just a few moments later.

Brennan learned against the pink tree, he decided to take a break, despite the fact that he hadn't been walking for much more than an hour. As he rested the back on his head against the tree, he found some strange. He found a human being, which was surprising, considering that Tetsukazu was sparsely populated, if it was populated at all. Brennan attempted to ever-so-slightly shake the earth beneath the tree, in order to wake up the girl. That was not a good idea on his part. Shaking the tree caused it to rise into the air, and, of course, with Brennan's luck, the tree wasn't actually a tree. As the tree rose, Brennan found a giant dirty... tortoise? It had shocking pink eyes, the same color as the tree, and was at least 5 times bigger than the tree itself, which was already clearly ancient. "Well..." Brennan muttered to himself, "I'll be damned." The tortoise let out a thundering roar and shook it's back violently, it would be a miracle if the girl managed to stay on the tree, and not fly out. Brennan grimaced to himself, despite being blandly colored. the tortoise had razor-sharp teeth, which looked to be made of some kind of metal, and claws, that looked to be made of the same metal. As the tortoise shook, some of the dirt fell off the tortoise, revealing that it was not actually brown, but a shocking, neon green color. It was official, Brennan officially disliked Tetsukazu. The tortoise let out another thundering roar, but this time around, flakes of metal spewed out of the tortoise's mouth. Brennan was astounded, this tortoise seemed to have the most random genome out of any living creature ever. Brennan quickly jumped out of the way of the flakes of metal and hid behind a yellow rock, panting. He peeked over the rock, and the tortoise was now a bright yellow color, was it some kind of chameleon tortoise? The tree on the tortoise's back then began to grow. When it stopped growing, it's branches were each bout 5 yards long, and the tree itself was larger than your average five story building. Brennan had absolutely no idea what was happening, and he had also lost track of the female who had been sleeping in the tree.

Allison was selectively easy to rouse, depending on the situation and whether there was anything interesting going on. Of course, the young mage could make a commotion or create great excitement from anything, but in this case, her subconscious had apparently decided that waking up and increasing the chaos was not worth her time. Therefore, as the overgrown tortoise had gone on a rampage, flattening a few forests and decimating many more, Allison had remained deep in a peaceful slumber, her eyelids fluttering every now and then as the red haired girl began to dream of something new or different. The strange tortoise itself seemed to be rather ornery after being awoken by an unknown source; thankfully, it didn't seem to have noticed the female mage napping within the branches of its equally unique tree. For what reason or even how there was a tree growing out of the creature, no one quite knew; perhaps it was a fungus of some sort, but considering that the tortoise seemed to be connected on a deeper level with the plant, that seemed an unlikely scenario.

After a few hours had passed, the tortoise quieted down and flopped to the ground, tucking its extremities and head back into the obscenely large spotted shell it sported on its back. The shell itself sunk into the ground, as the animal had chosen a somewhat sandy but very moist place, and once again the tree appeared to be relatively ordinary in appearance-- besides the rose colored bark and branches, the significance of which was still unknown. Lel Therine had managed to keep pace with the rampaging tortoise, although she was still wary of coming near to the tree after what had occurred earlier. And Allison, after all of the commotion had passed, finally opened her eyes, reaching up to rub them accompanied by a great yawn.

Her first words proved that the mage's subconscious had a deficit when it came to understanding the importance of events. "...Ehh? What happened? Ahh... did someone swear?" She could clearly recall someone saying a certain word, and the girl leaped to her feet, immediately wide awake. "Ooh! There was a person here! Now, where am I...? I thought there was that giant prairie sort of grassland thing next to the forest where... oh, well, I'll figure it out!" And with that, the red haired mage leaped out of the branches and landed none too gracefully before jumping to her feet and heading off in a random direction. It was as good as any, in Allison's book; after all, why take the time to figure out which way was which if you had no idea where you wanted to go? She knew that there was another person here, and that intrigued the girl to no end... so the mage would find him or her and ask them that question, along with a few others (more like many hundred more).

After a few hours, the tortoise calmed itself down, and descended back into the earth, causing Brennan to breathe easy once again. Brennan saw the girl get down from the tree, none too gracefully at that, and started heading into a random direction, the wrong direction, at least in Brennan's opinion. Brennan stepped out from the rock, and started to slowly follow the red-haired mage, he was also none too graceful. He tripped over a root, and landed on the ground, square on his face. And, of course, since they were on Tetsukazu and not earth, the root woke something up. The yellow rock, which Brennan had been behind just moments ago, started rising into the air, yellow roots attached to the bottom of it. And above these roots, there was a perfectly spherical... head? The head had one eye, a bright cyan eye, which blinked once, and stared at Brennan's fallen body. The tentacle roots flipped around the air, the rock was no long on the ground, it seemed to be... levitating? The levitating rock wrapped a tentacle around each of Sky's legs dragging him underground, to a hole it seemed to have created. "Graah!" Brennan yelled, "Someone help me!" And with that, any further sounds were muffled, as the spherical levitating thing set it's rock hat above the hole, muffling Sky's screams of despair. Underground, the spherical cyclops tentacle thing had detached itself from it's rock, and was floating around the earthy room, which was surprisingly very spacious. Sky's body laid incapacitated by tentacles, his screams unheard by the outside world. The cyclops thing let out a warbling sound and whipped Sky's back with a tentacle. Brennan's noises then shifted from screams to cries of pain, as the cyclops tortured him mercilessly.

Allison had not even been wandering for two minutes when a scream slashed through the unusually silent atmosphere, especially considering that this planet was chock full of life, in every regard of the word. The red haired mage whirled around, her hair whipping across her face as she turned to stare blankly at the empty scene behind her. Blinking in confusion for only a short period of time, the girl shrugged it off shortly and beamed at nothing in particular before continuing on, humming lightly under her breath. She didn’t actually get very far before deciding that it would be best to take a short break to look around for a little bit before moving on to the next area. By this time, Allison was still quite close to the clearing; and her ears caught the anguished cries of agony, just barely audible a little ways underground and behind her.

The girl frowned and immediately sprang to her feet, tipping her head up to stare quizzically at the sky before glancing around, pondering upon where exactly the noise could be coming from. A few moments later it clicked as far as what she was doing wrong, and the ruby haired mage immediately set about reaching out with her aura, discovering that the other magical presence seemed to be located underground. Allison solved this dilemma much more swiftly than the others, by immediately beginning to dig, with all her might. And woe and behold, within just about a few minutes, the young mage was done; she had inadvertently expended her magical energy into digging, therefore speeding up the process exponentially. Blinking with curiosity, the redhead peered into the hole, meeting face to face with a rather large, mustard-colored creature that possessed only a single swiveling eye. The girl promptly jumped headfirst into the hole, landing with one foot atop the conspicuous, bright blue orb.

However, Allison’s attention had immediately been absorbed upon seeing the other human, and she shouted out happily, “Hello! My name is Allison, it’s lovely to meet you! Erm, do you know who this... ehh?” The cyclops had disliked being ignored, evidently, for it picked up the petite mage by one ankle and dangled her in the air, Allison’s expression changing to one of curiosity and puzzlement, but not of fear. The grip tightened until it would have surely been painful for an ordinary mage, but the girl had a high pain tolerance due to her magic; she was not to be fazed by such a thing. Therefore, even after the small disruption, Allison charged on ahead and just kept talking. “So, what’s your name? Do you live here, on this planet? I haven’t seen anyone else that’s mostly human, although I’ve only been here for less than half a day. How about you?”

Allison had fallen underground, and she had been picked up by the cyclops, yet she seemed immune to the pain, and just kept asking questions. "Well, hello Allison." Brennan said, grimacing in pain, "I'm Brennan, and no, I don't live here either." He grimaced once again, "In fact, I've only been here for little more than a day." His golden eye glimmered, despite the lack of light, and Skyllon smiled for a brief second. "Pain, Stop." He said with a smile, "How interesting." Immediately after that, he returns to grimacing, and said, "Just... give me a second." A spike of earth jutted out from the side of the wall, hitting the cyclops square in the eye, causing it to drop Brennan and Allison. He grabbed Allison's hand and jumped through the hole she had made, not paying much attention to the girl at all. After they were a comfortable distance away from the hole, A.I.R.C., who had activated in the midst of the commotion, sighed, and chirped, "That was scary!" Brennan nodded in agreement and looked at Allison "Anyway, what are you doing here, Allison?" Brennan himself was not exactly sure why he was here, he had just felt an urge to explore, an urge he was regretting, at the moment. He sighed, despite his magic, he wasn't very good with nature. "I find this place a bit too... inhabited." He shook his head, "First I triggered a giant chameleon tortoise thing, and then a mustard colored cyclops, honestly, what else am I going to find?! A living pillow?" And with that, a blue cloud, which had ben hanging inconspicuously above them, descending, gaining a humanoid shape. It let out a shriek, and with that, small blue clouds were above the heads of both Allison and Brennan. With that, they each gained their own personal storm.

"Great..." Brennan said with a sigh, trying to get rid of the cloud and being shocked in response. His hair frizzed up, and the cloud still loomed there, however, the humanoid cloud being was gone. "Well... I do believe we've been cursed." Brennan said with a sigh, "How are we going t-" Zap! He was shocked again, "To get rid of this?" He continued bitterly.