Malva's Secondary Training. (Private Malva/Decayuss.)

"A wanderer isn't always lost."

This was one of those times of the many times that Deniel had no idea where he was or why he had woken up in that position. He had been snoozing his way through the night, and woke up in the morning long after daybreak. The sunlight managed to hit his entire body and eyes during its entire duration within the sky as the light of dawn, but even then he did not even stir from his sleep. Though an hour or so after that happened, he awoke himself with quite a bit of a startle. His eyes had only slightly opened themselves, as he still seemed to be dozing off, but as his eyes awoke, so did everything else on his body. And on his back he felt a sort of prickly sensation, as if he were laying on something that could scratch his back. After the brief moment of dozing off both of his red eyes lit up and he jumped from where he had been laying down. Tripping over himself as he did so and collapsing down on the ground. Turning himself over he stood up once again, and brushed himself off; for some reason he had been sleeping right on top of a bush, and had been there all night. His clothes had been covered--primarily on the backside--with its leaves and dried up branches. He grabbed a few of them from his hair and attempt to recollect himself with last night, and why he had chosen to sleep there in the first place. Unfortunately, nothing came to mind.

Scratching the back of his head, the answer soon came to him as he took a good look at his surroundings and the distance; not far from where he was standing was the Infinity Hydra Guild Hall. "Right...I was on my way there. Must have collapsed from exhaustion." Yawning to himself very loudly, since there didn't seem to be anyone else around, he stretched his arms up momentarily and began to walk. Luckily for him, he hadn't been robbed; he still had his jewels, his clothes, his cloak, and...that's about all he ever carried on him. "Up and at em'....I need a drink." Sluggishly walking at first, and nearly tripping over himself, he eventually picked up his pace and cleared his head of anything that was a side effect in sleeping in such an uncomfortable position.

Nearing the Infinity Hydra Guild Hall he was back to his normal self once again, standing relatively straight and walking along steadily. Just a few seconds after he had entered and planned to get a drink, though, he was greeted with a very childish and friendly hello, along with a book being practically in his face. It caught him off guard, and from it he took a step backwards, until realizing it wasn't any real threat that surprised him. He managed to catch a glimpse of the text that she had been studying, although the title of it had already summarized what she wanted him to do: Take Over. Wouldn't have been the first time, and certainly the last. Though what he primarily wanted was the chance to at least speak, since from the moment she greeted him to the second she stopped speaking he hadn't been given a chance to say hello back. Scratching the back of his head again, he nodded before walking past her, "Yeah...I can." Going straight to the bar, his initial destination, he gave himself a glass of some strawberry flavored alcohol, a thing that he favored the most. He took a large gulp of it before speaking again, "So where's this training place? And have you got any idea what you wanna' Take Over? Both are equally important."

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"A wanderer isn't always lost."

He downed the rest of his pink alcoholic drink in a matter of seconds, though nearly choked on it given her answer immediately afterwards: "Raging Volcano!?" He seemed very surprised that she would want to go such a place as that. He certainly never had been there before, though had heard of it; a volcano in which eruptions were frequent, random, and seemed to never run out of fuel for doing so. Taking himself there could be a bit dangerous, but having to accompany a little girl and train her in an environment like that was absolutely ludicrous. And the fact that she wanted to keep it a secret from her father, Ardere, meant he was taking an even more risk, too. If his friend managed to find out he had been secretly training a very dangerous Magic with his daughter in a dangerous environment... he shook his head quickly and ordered another drink. "I'll be there shortly, don't worry." His response to her was quite vague, promising to only be there in a short amount of tie rather than stating what method of transportation he wanted to use. "Training with me, huh? It's not really that easy..." Again he gave her another vague answer, mostly because he wanted to answer these questions once they got to the training grounds. The last thing that he wanted was someone from Infinity Hydra overhearing this conversation and telling Ardere all about it. The last thing he wanted to do was get yelled at for attempting to help.

"See you there, kid!" He called to her with a wave, and in a matter of seconds she was gone. He finished off the rest of his second cup of alcohol, and then sighed. "Damn it...I guess I have no choice now." Before departing, all he did was take one last drink inside of his system so that the taste of strawberries was fresh in his mouth, and the energy for the rest of his day would be prominent.

His arrival did not take much longer than hers, although there didn't seem to be a fast way of him getting there since he approached the Raging Volcano walking. At the time both her and him arrived the volcano was not erupting quite yet, but at almost any second now it could all shift. A sigh coming out of him, the expression of Deniel suddenly changed from quite troubled and neutral, to serious. A frown furrowed over his eyebrows, and he crossed both of his arms over his chest, parting the two sides of his cloak in half to reveal the clothes he had on underneath. "Alright. I said back there that training wasn't easy with me because I didn't want anyone to hear. Being completely honest: it's brutal. You might get severely hurt, or you may even die here. Either by my hand, or your own. But if you're still keen on continuing this with me...describe the beast. Tell me in as much detail as you possibly can what it looks like, acts like, and what it's capable of. Go."

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"A wanderer isn't always lost."

It seemed she was still set on continuing this training. Responding very swiftly to his command of describing the beast, she did so in very intricate detail that even Deniel began to imagine what it may look like should she manage to perform a Take Over through this. He circled around her when she closed her eyes, and observed to see if he could picture this being around her current figure. Yes....it fits quite well. Just when he had though she finished her description of the beast that she wished to take over, she began to say more and more about it. Stopping behind her, and curious, he soon started to channel a bit of his own Magic into his arms. At his fingertips began a stream of dark red aura energy, which crept its way up his arms until it reached his shoulders. Along the way any skin or clothing he had was transformed into jet black scales similar to that of a reptile. On each of his shoulders were bits of plated armor that covered the bones just enough, though the right one was a bit more heavily reinforced. Claws marked the tips of his fingers, and on these claws he gathered further dark red energy, known as Unholy Energy.

The vomiting of lava had caused him to worry a bit, though if she could handle it internally and still be alive, surely her face falling in it wouldn't be a problem. "Good. Now keep that thought right where it is. And when you wake up...the beast should be tamed." He brought his fist down straight to the back of her neck, infused with a bit of his Magic so that it could work towards not only knocking her out, but sending her plummeting into a spiritual world in which she would have to face the demon herself. Kill, or be killed...that was the only rule that would matter once she was there. "I sure as Hell hope Ardere doesn't find out..."

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