Killing Intentions - Cirven's Secondary Magic Training (Private)

The blue haired half demon had been walking around the city of Karakuri in an attempt to find anyone who could further teach him something about the arcane or of anything that could benefit  his skills with Irritum. His attempts had constantly lead him to people who were either as clueless as him or really didn't have much to offer him at all. It was starting to get irritating seeing as he was looking for this type of help since joining Eclipse Soul and had not found anything yet.

As he walked the streets his stomach started to growl up at him from all the food that he could smell around him. "Ugh.. This sense of smell is a blessing and a curse.." He mumbled out loud to himself. He then walked to what looked like a newer establishment in the city that he had not been to yet. It had a sign up above the door that read World Ramen. Cirven raised an eyebrow to the name thinking that it was weird for a name. "Maybe they have different types of ramen from all over..?" He sounded like he had questioned himself which would not give him any sort of answer at all.

He walked into the building causing a bell to jingle above his head. A single waitress who was helping a table, looked up to him and waved. She had dark hair and was pretty skinny. Her bust was fairly average though which Cirven took notice of. "Welcome to World Ramen! I will be right with you. Sit where you would like to." Cirven simply gave a nod to the woman and sat down at a nearby table. He felt weird about the waitress as if he knew her for some reason but could not remember who she was.

The waitress walked up to him and smiled while placing a small menu in front of him. "First time here, huh?" She questioned him but she seemed like she already knew the answer. "Uh.. Yeah. I thought this menu would be much bigger with a name like World Ramen. Whats good here?" The waitress chuckled a bit which also sounded familiar to Cirven with how different it was.

"The old man in the back who makes the ramen here thought the name was too cool and just had to use it. He is pretty stubborn with things like that and if we didn't name it that he said he could not work here." She smiled and pointed to a bowl of ramen on the menu. "You look like the pork ramen type. I suggest getting extra pork in there too. The old man can be somewhat stingy with the portions sometimes." Cirven smiled at the waitress and still couldn't help but feel as though she was someone he knew.

"Thanks. I'll have that then with some water. This old man sounds like he can be a pain in the neck, huh?" She gave him a nod as she jotted down his order on a piece of paper. "Yeah but somehow it all balances out. Will have your order up and ready for you soon." She smiled and simply walked off placing the order on a counter that lead into the kitchen. A few minutes later she came back with a glass of water for him and started to walk away when he stopped her. "Hey, so I feel like that I know you or something. I'm Cirven." She raised an eyebrow to him. "Hmm.. I'm not too good at remembering things usually but I think I would remember someone like you. The hair color stands out a bit much." She stood in place for a minute tapping her finger on her cheek while looking at Cirven. "Nope. Can't remember you at all." A tapping sound came from the counter where his order was not too long before. A full bowl of ramen sat on the counter and his order was missing. "Its only been 3 minutes! Theres no way that is done!" Cirven spoke out in shock. The girl laughed. "Most new people are like that with the old man. He is just that fast."

She went over, got the bowl and then went back to Cirven where she placed the bowl in front of him. "Enjoy!" She watched as he touched the soup bowl and what was inside of it cautiously as if it were poisoned or something.

"Dig in already dummy." She laughed at how Cirven was dealing with the bowl of ramen. He then cautiously took his the chopsticks on the table and stirred the ramen while taking in its scent. It smelled very similar to some ramen that he had had in the past. A delicious smell of spices and seasonings with the pork and eggs. He took some of the noodles in between the chopsticks and slurped them into his mouth. His eyes lit up in happiness from the taste. "Whoa.. This is.. Too good.." He then started to eat his way through everything in the bowl as if it were the first thing he had eaten in years of being starved.

The waitress simply chuckled and went back to helping the others in the restaurant. Cirven continued eating the contents of what was in the bowl until there was nothing left. He contemplated even eating the bowl itself from how good the taste was. "Wow. I want to meet this old man and hug him after that..." He leaned back and rubbed his stomach grinning. "You want to hug me, boy?" A familiar voice came from next to Cirven that slightly shocked him. He had not heard anyone coming near him at all. He turned his head to see the figure of an older man that he quickly recognized. "Da.. Dad!?" He jumped up from his seat surprised to see the man. "I haven't seen you since I went to join Sabertooth!" The old man smiled at him. The old man was named Iyato and he was Cirven's foster father who took him in after Cirven's real father and family died in the attack on his village. He was a little bit shorter than Cirven but was not skinny as most older men his age. He was bald too which was something Cirven planed to tease him about later. "I know and it seems like you forgot to write also, idiot." Cirven nervously chuckled and then was whacked on top of his head by a rolled up paper. "Ow! What the hell was that for! We just met after so much time and you hit me!" He rubbed the top of his head over and over from the sting of the pain.

"I already told you, you imbecile! You forgot to write! You know that I worry about you!" The old man yelled back. "Sorry. I just got caught up with things. I found my sister and we were always doing things in Sabertooth together to make up time." He smiled on the outside but inside the memories of what him and his sister did together was hurting him. He still completely regretted what happened. "Oh? So she was alive after what happened to your father and village?" Cirven nodded. "Yeah.. I am still beyond too grateful to you for taking me in after all of that." The old man sighed and raised his hand up again to whack Cirven causing him to prepare for it by wincing but instead of being whacked the old man hugged him. "I am happy to see you even though you are an idiot." Cirven smiled and started to attempt to hug him back but was whacked again after the old man let go from around him. "Stop hitting me you old bag of bones!" The old man rolled his eyes.

"So where is this sister of yours? She is your last remaining family so I don't think you would be too far apart." Cirven was rubbing his head before the old man asked about Aayla but stopped. "Sorry but you won't be able to meet her." The old man didn't need to hear much more than that to know. "Is that so? Hmm.. I'm sorry to hear that." The waitress walked over at this time. "Hey old man Iyato! Are you disturbing one of our customers!" Iyato whacked the waitress on her head too. "I am your father. Do not call me by my name, Lendis." He said sternly as the girl similarly rubbed her head like Cirven did earlier.

"Wait, thats Lendis!?" Cirven's eyes widened as he looked at the girl. "How did you forget me Lendy? I was like your brother for years.." She continued rubbing her head as she looked back up to Cirven. "I'm sorry.. I really can't remember." Her eyes looked to be getting red and puffy but he thought it was from being hit by her father.

Iyato started to walk away from them both. "Boy, come with me." Cirven reluctantly followed remembering in the past that this usually lead to the old man giving him some sort of talking to that he really didn't want to deal with. He followed the old man into the kitchen of the restaurant. The old man stopped in front of a chair and sat down. "This is another of those serious talks that we used to have, right?" He leaned onto the wall near some cooking equipment. "You haven't noticed have you?" Cirven looked at the old man confused. "What do you mean?" The old man sighed again, this time with his eyes closed. "Your foster mother is not here."

Cirven still didn't understand or didn't want to understand. "Like she is away and will be back or something?" The old man shook his head. "She will not be coming back." This cause Cirven to grow angry and slam his fist into the wall near him. He had not used his full strength and was able to withhold the power of the punch even in his anger. He stared down at the floor as he started to speak. "This is why I want to get stronger. I want to avenge those who have been lost to those around me. I want to protect those who are still left."

The old man stood up from his seat and looked at Cirven. "Strength will always come with a cost. A cost that usually comes with loss. Are you sure you can deal with it all?"

Cirven looked up to the old man, looking as serious as he had ever looked. "Old man.. My life has been all loss. It's almost like I'm cursed or something but that is not going to make me give up. It can't." The old man only looked back at him just as serious. "Are you willing to take away from others in order to keep others here?" Cirven opened his mouth to speak but waited before saying anything. "I.. I am not a person who should be able to govern the lives of others but I will stop those who are trying to take away from what what keeps this world well. If that means taking from those people then I don't have much of a choice."

The old man walked up to Cirven and placed his hand on his shoulder and gave him a nod. "You do remember the training a gave you in the past?" Cirven remembered being training by Iyato when he was younger in how to use swords and other bladed weapons. He later was taught a magic to compliment the Kukan but had not used that magic for long with all that had happened. "Transference Magic?" The old man shook his head. "I taught you a lot of what bladed weapons are to people and how to use them. This was the stepping stones to learning a magic that focuses on the user's intent to take away the more precious thing. Life." Cirven didn't remember ever seeing the old man use any magic of his own in the past besides what little he saw of Transference Magic. "A magic made with weapons in order to take lives away..?"

The old man simply nodded and then walked back to his chair and sat down. "I planned to teach you it in the past but you left before I could start any of the training. If you still remember anything I taught you with bladed weapons you will be able to succeed in learning this magic. Maybe later you can even master it yourself."

"More power.." He mumbled out loud while looking at the old man. "I want more power. No matter the cost." The old man nodded again. "This magic does come with a cost but that I will need to teach you after some other things. Meet me here in the morning tomorrow around the usual time." He quickly remembered how early the old man liked to train in the morning. "But that's so early!" The old man threw his rolled up paper and hit Cirven in the head. The paper fell to the floor. "Do not be so weak minded! You want to protect but cannot simply wake up early to get stronger! Pathetic!" He rubbed his head over and over quickly trying to make the pain go away. "Are there bricks in that thing?" Cirven used his left hand to pick up the paper while his right continued to rub his head. "This is just paper?! What the hell old man!?" He threw the paper back at Iyato. "I'll be here! Just make sure to be awake you old bag of bones!"

Cirven stormed out of the kitchen and then the restaurant. Completely forgetting to pay only to come back a few moments later and angrily place money on his table that was way over what the ramen cost and storming back out. He grumbled the whole way back to the guildhall but stopped to think once he was to his room. He laid on his bed and thought of everything he had lost which now included Lisena, Iyato's wife and Cirven's foster mother. He continued to think that he needed to get stronger over and over. He brought Irritum from out of his hair in the form of a hair pin and stared at it for a short time before placing it on the top of a small dresser near his bed.

Cirven ran up a flight of stairs as quickly as he could for what seemed like hours until finally arriving at the top huffing for all the air he could. His mother stood at the top room of the stairs with Iyato, Lendis and all the Eclipse Soul members he knew tied to chairs. His mother let out a wicked laugh and without any word the entire room exploded and sent Cirven back down a flight of the stairs. He managed to get up as quickly as he could but was too late. The explosion had killed them all. Most of the people he had seen or started to see as friends were all gone. Tears swelled up in his eyes and he fell to his knees in complete sorrow.

"NOOOOOOOOOO!!!" He flew up from out of his bed and then fell to the side of landing directly on his face. He grunted loudly as the pain of his face and the embarrassment set in. He didn't even realize he had fallen asleep the day before while he thought of everything but he knew what triggered the dream.

He got up quickly in an attempt to make sure no one saw him and to his surprise no one was around the guildhall or at least up yet. He thought that they were all off in other parts of the guildhall. He looked at the time and quickly got ready to go see the old man. He wanted to get this training over with and gain his new abilities in order to prevent the dreams similar to the one he had, from happening ever. He had already witnessed one horror filled dream come true for Aayla and did not want to have another one come to life for others.

He didn't even have time for food as he was going to be late which he knew would only end up with the old man hitting him again. "I won't get hit again..." He ran out of his room and then the guildhall itself. He waved to some members of Eclipse Soul but didn't stay long enough to see them respond as he took off to the World Ramen.

He arrived at World Ramen within five minutes because of the use of the ring he had. He thought that it was cheating a bit but he really didn't want to get hit by the old man again. He had no control over the old man though which was shown by the fact of when he walked into the restaurant only a few minutes late and was welcomed by a rolled up paper again to the head. "Damn it, old man! You are going to give me a concussion before we even start training!" The old man laughed out. "If a simple piece of paper gives you a concussion you will not be able to even get half way through this training, boy! Now follow me." The old man walked through the restaurant and towards a wall. He placed his hand against the wall and pushed a bit which moved a small portion of the wall in like a button. He placed a small lacrima down in the part of the wall that moved and a portal opened on the wall.

"This is where we will be training. You remember this place, right?" Flash backs of his old training with Iyato came to him. That portal lead to an pocket dimension that Iyato had made for him in the past which was purely for training. It was just an open area of nothingness besides. "The void room.." The old man nodded. "I was able to get this room here through magic. It has helped me keep up with my training ever since her passing." Cirven nodded and watched as the old man walked into the portal. He then followed him in.

The transition through the portal always made Cirven feel weird and queasy when he was younger but he had gotten used to it after so long. Thing was it had been years since he last traveled into the empty realm of space so when he made it through he keeled over from the weak feeling in his stomach. He didn't allow himself to go any further than that though.

After recovering a bit from the queasy feeling in his stomach, he looked up to see the old man simply staring out into the open area. Cirven then looked around it too seeing the familiar scenery. "Things haven't changed much here have they?" The old man silently nodded and turned to his student. "It is not a place that will change in any way. It is completely void of anything that you can hurt and while inside you cannot break your way out due to the magic protecting it. Even the door leading out cannot be broken." The old man took a deep breath of the air around him. "The smell in here.. The smell of pure and endless amounts of training."

Cirven took a whiff of the air and could only smell old man and massive amounts of sweat. "If that's the smell of training, I'd rather not want to smell what success smells like.." He joked and the old man chuckled. "That is a smell in it's own league, boy. A scent that you will find out about." The old man then rushed towards Cirven catching him off guard at first but Cirven managed to summon out Irritum from his hair and change it to its base sword form to block the attack heading his way. The sword gave off a clanking sound as if it were hit by something metal from the old man swinging down his open hand. "What the hell!? I thought you were going to let me cut your fingers off there, you crazy old man!" He spoke out as he jumped back and deeper into the nothingness that made up the room.

The old man stood in place holding up his right hand opened like a claw would be. A swirl of a dark energy moved around his hand that Cirven had not noticed earlier. "I'm guessing that thing around your hand gives you the ability for your hand to cut things like blades would then..?"

"Stop question it, boy! It is your turn to strike! Show me what you can do with that sword of yours!" The old man yelled out as he kept his hand in front of him which that alone beckoned for an attack from his student. "Remember! I am that child you raised that was a prodigy with weapons! Don't get so cocky old man!" Cirven rushed towards the old man and slashed his weapon towards him horizontally but the Iyato's fingers was able to block the attack as if it they each were a blade themselves. Cirven attempted to punch the old man but had to stop as his Iyato's left hand was engulfed in the same color as his right. Cirven quickly jumped back feeling a sort of dread in moving forward with attacking.

"What.. Was that feeling..?" He blinked and opened his eyes to see a dark aura coming off of Iyato. The aura formed into a ghostly thing with red eyes that stared directly at him. The aura caused Cirven to step back cautiously. "Old man... What is that..?" The old man simply smiled at him. "That is the aura of my killing intent that I have against you. It is the base for the magic I will be teaching you. A magic that uses the user's killing intent for power." Cirven couldn't help but stare at the aura and fear more uneasy than he did earlier. It was pretty intimidating to look at to him.

Taking the chance of the aura being a distraction Iyato rushed in again at Cirven and threw a barrage of attacks at the blue-haired mage over and over. Cirven managed to block the attacks even though the aura was slightly throwing him off. He managed to dodge his mentor's last attack and get some distance between them. He looked down to see that he did not manage to dodge everything as his clothes were cut into. "Can't keep playing around with you..."

Cirven caused Irritum to change from its base form into multiple daggers and had all of them attack his mentor in hopes of hitting him at least a few times. "This is for my clothes, old man!" The daggers rushed towards Iyato and all attacked one after the other but Iyato swung his hands all around him to quickly meet them with a wave of slashes that swarmed around him. Cirven looked on as the daggers were all swatted away from his target with pretty much no effort. Irritum reformed back into its base sword form and moved back closer to Cirven who grew slightly annoyed with what was happening. "Old man...!" He gave off a grunt after mumbling and made Irritum change forms into its fire scythe form named Agneya. "Get ready."

The Eclipse Soul member then rushed towards his mentor with the scythe and slashed it down towards him diagonally which was blocked by both hands of Iyato. "Pretty good, boy." The old man spoke out as Cirven started to kick up his leg to attack the man while his arms were distracted. Iyato's leg became drenched in the same color of his hands though and Cirven quickly backed off again with a snicker. "Your legs too?! What will it be next? Your manhood?" Cirven joked but quickly had to regain his composure as his foster father had followed him in his retreat. "Shi-" He spoke out and moved his scythe up defensively against the attack.

Iyato slashed his hands down only to be met by Cirven's scythe's pole but he then kicked up one of his legs for an attack which forced Cirven to jump up his own legs to dodge while still blocking. The old man took this chance to push Cirven back using his own weapon while he was pretty defenseless in the air. Cirven landed on the ground and skid for a bit from the strength of his attacker. He saw Iyato rushing towards him and quickly flipped himself up from the ground just int time to dodge Iyato's hand digging into the ground.

"Old man! I thought this was training?! You are basically trying to kill me here it looks like!" Iyato simply grinned and continued his charge towards his student who took up the defensive again. He blocked the blade-like hands and feet of his master until he finally found an opening for an attack and swung his scythe up in an attempt to cut his master diagonally but his master dodged the attack by leaning his body side ways and swung his left hand quickly down the body of his student diagonally. His master then jumped back from hitting him still grinning from the fighting.

Cirven lurched over using his left hand to grip at his chest as blood stained the white of his clothes along where the slash was. He started to breath heavier from the pain and the amount of blood he was losing. "In order to use this magic you will need to have a great killing intent. Otherwise your attacks will not be strong enough to really use the true potential of this magic." Cirven huffed in air before speaking. "This entire time.. You were trying to.. Kill me..?" The old man didn't respond and only stared at his student. "You crazy.. Old.. Fuck..." He then fell over onto his chest and onto the ground from how bad the gash was across his chest.

Cirven could barely make out the noises around him but could faintly hear the sound of running footsteps coming towards him and a voice. "Dad! You idiot! Don't go so hard on him or you will kill him!" His vision allowed him to see Lendis' feet in front of him until he drifted off a few seconds later. Lendis flipped him over and his back and gasped at the gash across his chest. "Help him before he does die, daughter. There is still much more we have to do."

Cirven awoke some time later with a warm and overall nice feeling over his chest. He stared up to see Lendis had her hands over his body and seemed to be using some sort of healing magic on him. "Thanks.. Lendis.." The girl slightly gasped as she was too focused on the healing to notice Cirven was awake again. "You are.. Umm.. Welcome.. I'm almost finished but just stay still. It has been around twenty to thirty minutes by the way so try and take things easy." She replied as she continued working on him with the magic. "Is he ready yet? We need to continue with his training here." The old man impatiently spoke as he stood not too far away waiting. His limbs still enveloped in the black color. "Don't be so impatient, Dad. Annnnnd done." Lendis moved away from Cirven and allowed him to raise up from the ground. He stood up quickly and felt like he was brand new. "Thanks again, Lendis." He stretched his arms and legs out and then called Irritum back to him from the ground. It had turned back to its base form after he went unconscious but he needed a new way of attack anyways.

"OK, old man. Training wheels off." Irritum then changed into its electric six sword form named Tanka. Two of the blades floated into Cirven's hands while the other four floated around him. "Its my turn to attack, right?" He spoke out pretending as if he had forgotten. "Did I hurt you that badly that you had forgotten where we left off, boy? That is not a good sign for our training." The old man then took a stance with his left arm turned in front of his face while his right was held out in front of him. Cirven got focused and charged in towards Iyato.

Before he reached his mentor, Cirven had the four Tanka blades that were around him rush in before him and attack at his master. They each aimed for one of his limbs to distract them from Cirven's next attack. He moved in quickly as his mentor just managed to parry away all four of the Tanka blades that were on him. Cirven placed both blades he held next to the sides of his head as he hunched over and got closer. His foster father did the same stance with his hands and took a few steps forward also causing both men to take the exact same attack on each other where they rushed by their target and used their weapons to slash their opponent. Only difference was Iyato was able to parry both blades and slashes across his student's chest again in an X-like slash.

"Did you seriously think that and attack like that would work on me, boy? An attack that I taught you? An attack that was made for this magic? Pathetic.." Both men had their backs turned to each other after the attacks and Cirven's chest was reopened again. This time though he stayed standing up from the attack. "You wanted.. Me.. To have.. The killing.. Intent.. to want to kill.. You.." His hair changed from its blue color to black and he turned to his master showing his eyes were now a glowing red color. His demon side was released just for his master to see. "This is what happens.." Cirven's voice was deeper and more menacing. "This is the form I use when I need to get as serious as I can get. Don't be surprised if I didn't warn you.." Iyato looked at Cirven and smiled upon seeing the killing intent that Cirven possessed at this point. "That's it, boy. That is the side of you that you need to channel and bring out in order to use this magic!"

Cirven took on the same stance as earlier and started to sprint towards his master who also took up the same stance. Both men started out at a slow sprint and started to move faster and faster until they got to their max speeds. Both men reached each other and launched their attacks at each other. They both stood with their backs to each other for a short few seconds until Cirven fell to the ground from the newly formed gashes across his chest again. Iyato turned around to face the fallen man and showed that his chest also had a similar slash across his chest. "You did well, boy." Iyato simply fell down to his knees as the black color around his limbs dispersed. "Lendis, help him first."

With her father's instruction Lendis went over to Cirven and flipped him over again to quickly work on him. Cirven's hair and eyes changed back to their original colors as he laid under the girl who used healing magic on him. "Hey... Lendis.. Can you remember me now..?" He forced out the words through the pain. She simply shook her head. He smiled at her. "Is it because it reminds you of what you lost..?" Her eyes widened after he spoke. "You.. You know..?" She stared away from his wounds and lost her focus a bit which lessened the effects of her magic on him and caused him some pain. "Guh..!" She quickly regained her focus and continued working on him. "I'm sorry that I wasn't there for what happened but your brother is here now.." With that Cirven again fainted leaving the girl crying to herself. Her father looked on with a grin across his face from what his foster son had said. "That fool.. I will need to hit him again later for that..." He chuckled lightly.

Both men decided to stop the training for the day so that their bodies could properly rest up and so that they could give Lendis a rest from healing them over and over. "Damn it, old man. I can't believe you were actually trying to kill me there like that. I can't believe you forced me to try and do the same thing to you too." Cirven spoke as the three of them were on their way out of the Void Room. "You will have to channel your killing instincts to use Anima Messor properly, boy. If you cannot control them properly you will not be able to reach the full potential of it. How many times do I have to tell you that?" The old man replied but then suddenly fell down on one knee from a sudden pain in his chest. "Dad?!" Lendis quickly started using her healing magic on him but it didn't seem to have much of an effect on him. "Hey, old man! You OK?" The old man grunted in pain as he then placed his hand on his daughter and shook his head telling her to stop. "I'm sorry, Lendis. I should have told you that this was something I have been dealing with." Iyato panted from the pain.

"What is going on, old man?!" Cirven demanded to know what the issue was. "It looks like I overextended myself in training today with you, boy. I need to rest." The old man went through the portal which him crossing it opened the portal into the restaurant. He then walked out of the restaurant while grasping his chest. Both Cirven and Lendis followed him through and Lendis pressed the wall which released the small lacrima from inside of it and closed the portal.

"He.. He.." Lendis kept her back to Cirven at first but that did not stop him from hearing the cracking in her voice. "He is such an idiot!" She yelled out as she kept her face away from Cirven.

Cirven reached out to the girl's shoulder and placed his hand on her. "He is a strong old man. He will be fine. I'll make sure of it. Just keep an eye on him for me, OK?" Lendis turned around and hugged Cirven practically slamming her face into his chest and was basically using his clothing or what was left of it as a way to rub her tears and snot off. Cirven slightly winced from it all but had been there in the past with Aayla. He hugged her back for a short time and then gave her a few light pats on her back. "You should get going and help him home." She slowly let go and looked at Cirven. "You aren't going to help?" He nodded to her. "I just got something to go do. Don't worry I will be back and it will help that stubborn idiot we have for a father." He gave the girl a wave and left her in the restaurant.

He was never the best with making a good exit and the way he left her there was showing that. His idea was to find something to help the old man out with his problem. With his enhanced hearing he could hear the old man's heart was the problem by how it was beating irregularly. He was happy that his hearing was as good as it was because he knew the old man would not tell him what was wrong otherwise. He went to the part of the city that had medicines for health issues and looked for anything that would help for the heart. He knew the old man was too prideful to go searching for a way to help himself and took it upon himself to find it. He found a shop which sold a medicine that specialized in helping the heart but there was an issue.

"So you mean that you are missing an ingredient for this medicine? What are you missing?" He spoke to the male shopkeeper of the medicine store. "Sorry about this but I am missing the main ingredient which can only be found in the bodies of wyvern in the area. They are pretty ferocious creatures and are protective of their territory and food. They have nest near here but I wouldn't recommend going to try and get any. It is their mating season and they are especially ferocious now." Cirven gave a nod and waved to the man. "Hey! Where are you going?" The shopkeeper yelled out to Cirven. "I'll be back soon with some of the things you need. Don't worry. I'm not a weakling in the slightest." The shopkeeper wanted to stop Cirven but was too late as he was already out the door and running.

"Gotta save the old man.." He mumbled as he ran down the stairs leading to the portal leading out of the city. He then went through the portal and popped out instantly running past the guards near him. "Sorry guys! In a bit of a rush!" He called out as he ran by them. The guards just shrugged being somewhat used to the antics of Cirven.

He later found himself scouring the mountains for any sign of the wyverns the shopkeeper spoke of and it didn't take him long to find them. He saw an area that was uninhabited by anything but saw that they were carcasses of some animals from near by. Carcasses that were not his to go near and this attracted what he was hunting for. Two wyverns flew in from above him screeching out at him and using the claws of their feet to swipe at him. He dodged one of the wyverns that moved towards him but was unable to dodge the other wyvern's claws and was picked up by it.

The wyvern slammed Cirven into the ground while grasping him. It then started to lean in to take a huge bite out of him but Irritum formed from out of his hair and slashed the the wyvern's face causing it to screech out in pain and let go of him. He didn't have time to relax though as the other wyvern quickly moved in and started to slam its claws into the ground at him. Cirven quickly rolled out of the way of the attacks but the wyvern did not stop at all causing debris and rubble to break around Cirven and make a cloud of smoke around him. The wyvern attacking stopped once it could not see its target anymore while the other one had fire swarming in its mouth.

The wyvern shot a ball of fire into the dust storm aiming to hit and scorch their enemy. The fire slammed into Cirven and scorched the area around him but somehow didn't hurt him as it came in contact with him. The flames were then absorbed into his body and he then took a deep breath and launched his own version of a fireball at the wyvern which collided with it and roasted its scales a bit. It was not hurt as much as Cirven would have wanted due to the toughness of its scales.

The second wyvern then attacked again as if not phased by his attack on the other. Its claws swung around him again as he changed the Irritum into its ice form, Kaikias. He waited for one of the clawed legs came down near him and jumped up into the air where he could get close to the wyvern. He then placed Kaikias over his shoulder with both hands on the hilt and slashed it out sending a wave of ice magic at the wyvern which froze its body completely.

His attack took all of the ice magic out of Irritum to do and formed it back to its base form. He had more of a problem though because he was in the air where he had no control over his movements at all. The remaining wyvern rushed him and was able to grab him into its mouth where it tried to bite through him. He screamed out in agony from the fangs starting to dig into him but he had done something. The Irritum was missing and the wyvern suddenly felt something in its stomach bouncing around. The wyvern then threw Cirven to the side sending him into a nearby mountain wall as many daggers shot out of the body of the wyvern which killed it.

Cirven was bloodied and battered after his fight with the wyvern's but he knew that he needed a little bit more energy for one last thing. He let his body slide down onto the floor while his back leaned up against it. "Even though she healed me, I'm still pretty exhausted from all that training it looks like.." He perked his lips together and whistled out weakly for his savior. He then passed out from everything.

He did not know what happened while he was out but when his eyes opened up he saw Zinnath in front of him and then felt her lift him up with her mouth and place him on her back. "Zin.. Get.. The.. Wyverns.. We need them.. For the medicine.." Cirven only had enough strength left to speak basically and even then he could barely do that. Zinnath gave a sad groan to him. "Don't worry... I'm fine.. I can be helped later.. After we get these.. To where they need to go.." Zinnath gave a silent nod and picked up the two wyverns into her mouth and managed to fly with them both. "Thanks... Zinny.." He used his strength to rub lightly on his pet as she flew off.

He used his strength and how his head was basically looking directly down from how he was laying to look for the shop they needed to go to. They were not too far out from the city so it did not take them long to arrive where they needed to go. The giant snake landed in front of the medicine shop that Cirven had been at earlier. She dropped both of the wyvern bodies onto the ground and lifted Cirven up into her mouth. She used her wing to lightly knock on the shopkeepers door who came out completely shocked by the giant snake holding his earlier customer. Then he noticed the two wyverns laying on the ground near them. "How... Long.. Will it take?" The shopkeeper heard the weak voice of Cirven and went over to look at both of the beast bodies near them. "Hmm.. It should only take me until tomorrow afternoon. I made everything up as a precaution for you bringing me these carcasses. Are you OK?"

Cirven weakly smirked at the shopkeeper. "I'm fine... Zinny has got my back after all.. Literally.." He laughed and Zinnath placed him back onto her and flew off into the sky. "One more place, Zin." He spoke out and started to use his sense of smell to find their next destination. Not too long after Zinnath landed in front of a home and knocked on the door with Cirven held up in her mouth again. Lendis answered the door and instantly let out a squeal from the sight. "Hey.. How are you.. Doing..? Was.. wondering.. If I can.. Have some of your.. Time...?" He joked with her while weakly speaking. Zinnath then placed him on the ground near her and let the woman rush up and get him. "You are just as much of an idiot as the old man, you know that?"

Later Cirven woke up in a bed with his wounds healed up from his battle with the wyverns. It was morning now it looked like from how bright the sun was through a nearby window. He stretched his arms up and yawned out as he started to get out of the bed. Lendis then poked half her body through the door and smiled at Cirven. "Good that you are finally up. I have breakfast made and there is enough for each of us. By the way you might want to go say hello to your friend outside." Lendis pointed at the window to show that Zinnath had her head there and was staring in on him. "She has been outside all night watching over you. You both must have a pretty close connection." Cirven smiled at Zinnath and then lifted the window open to let Zinnath poke her head in. "Oh yeah. This is Zinnath. Zinnath, this is Lendis." Lendis moved closer to the snake and put her hand out to pet her which Zinnath allowed the woman to do while sniffing around her lightly.

"She is really kind for such a big animal." Lendis smiled as she pet Zinnath and listened to her moan happily. "Yeah, Zinny used to be my sisters but I had to start taking care of her after things happened." He held in the sorrowful feeling somehow over thinking of Aayla. He thought he was maybe being able to come more to terms with it. Zinnath then moved back to Cirven after and licked at him a few times with her slit tongue. He knew exactly what that meant. "Lendis, her licking like this means that she is pretty hungry. Do you have any fish or anything that you can give her?" Lendis gave a nod to him and walked away for a short time. She came back later with a plate of fish for Zinnath.

Cirven let Zinnath be feed by Lendis after seeing both of them were getting along so well. "Food is in the kitchen, right?" Cirven spoke out as he walked through the door to see the old man sitting at the dining table eating food. "Oh yeah. Dad is there to help you find all you need. I already ate so don't feel bad about eating it all." Lendis spoke out from the bedroom as she continued to feed Zinnath.

"Boy, we will finish your training quickly. You are a quick learner and I was training you for this in the past in hopes that I would be able to teach you Anima Messor at some point. You have had the potential to learn it and be even stronger than me with it with enough practice. All we need to do is have you learn how to transfer your killing intent into your limbs to produce your own limb blades." Cirven gave the old man a nod and grabbed some eggs and some of the meat in the kitchen onto a plate. He took a fork and started to dig in. It didn't take him long to finish but before he did the old man left to go to his own room for a short time.

Lendis came into the kitchen after feeding Zinnath to clean up some but Cirven stopped her. "Len, I am going to need you to do something for me." He then whispered into her ear and the girl gave him a nod then walked off outside where she rode on Zinnath into the sky.

After finishing his food Cirven went to cleaning up the kitchen for Lendis. After cleaning up he went to find the old man for their training. He found him in a room sitting down on his knees and meditating. "Hey, old man. Are you ready?" Iyato stood up from his kneeling position and turned to Cirven. "The question is are you ready, boy?"

The blue haired mage nodded to the old man. "Did you think I would say no to this or something?" Iyato looked at him completely serious still and lifted up the small lacrima in his hand which opened up the portal to the Void Room between both of them. Each man then walked in and were thrown back into the open room with where they would train. "Now I want you to take a meditative position and focus on your want to kill." Cirven was not one for meditating but did as he was told and closed his eyes as he meditated.

His thoughts swarmed with those he wanted to deal with in order to get revenge for his sister. All of Cor Torva, his mother and anyone who aligned themselves with them. They all flashed before him causing a purple and black aura to come out from him. "Channel that killing intent into your limbs now, boy. You did it before with your attack on me. Think of how you did that then. The purple and black aura then swirled around and slowly starting transferring to his limbs on his body." Iyato gave a nod to Cirven. "I'm happy I taught you a lot of this in the past, boy. Now with this control over your killing intent you can do things that others cannot. Remember how you got yourself to this."

Iyato walked a bit away from Cirven and called out his own aura over his limbs. "With this power you can do things that most great swordsman all strive to gain power over. It is possibly some things that you could already do but now to a greater extent." The old man slashed his hands around the air showing that the air itself had become a weapon for him to use. Iyato even showed by using his legs to slash the air that he was able to make the compressed air into steps to climb up on. Cirven simply sat still and learned from what the old man showed him.