It still stands where it did. A small white building with a window and one door. The sign on the door had changed. Enter if you dare, it is no longer safe inside is what it said. What had happened in Sovelis's house? what horible deeds have come to pass? Do you step inside to find out?

OOC: duh, this is Kasei were talkin 'bout....

IC: Kasei had been enjoying the nice sunset...it had become his favorite time of the day recently, a trait he most likely got from Dogura, even though though the two haven't seen each other as of late. The shiekah mercinary wandered down the streets of Rauru town, occasionally stopping to look at the wares of a merchant, sometimes commenting on the excellent craftsmenship on a sword or how beutifull a vase looked. He started to wander through a side ally that led towards main street, where Sovelis' house lay. It had been over a month since the rebel flame had seen the tempest, so he decided to stop in for a visit. just as he reached main street, however, Kasei saw something that cought his eye and held it; cotten candy! Emeidiatly starting towards the vendor, kasei pulled some rupees out of his bag, and ordered the largest cotton candy they had, the flavor didn't matter. They ended up givving him strawberry, a fairly good taste, he quickly started to bite into the candy, letting its fluffy particles melt in his mouth, oh he loved cotton candy. It was only after Kasei had finished did he realize he came to Rauru for a reason, though now he couldn't remember, but after due thining he knew it had something to do with Sovelis, who ws the only person he knew who lived here in Rauru, so he headed south down main street, having memorized the location of Sovelis' house. Apon arrival he sees that a new sighn has been put up since he was here last, witch was even longer ago than he saw Sovelis himself! The sighn was some kind of warning, apparently, but Kasei didn't care, he knocked on the door, then opened it, regardless of a lock seeing as his newest method of "opening" uses force to destroy the door. As soon as the door was nothing but splinters, Kasei entered the house, and yelled out to whoever may be in; "Sovelis! I'm sorry to bug ya! I can pay for a new dorr, ya know! I hope youre in here, 'couse I don't really like wastiing my energy destroyin' stuff for no real reason, Listen. If ye are here, I need to ask ya somethin! I came to rauru, but forgot what I came for! can ye help me out?" Kasei finished, apparently realizing that if no one came down during his little speach, then no one must be here, he headed towards the exit, dismayed by his memory loss...he looks at the splinters of the door, and decides to leave compesation, reaching once more into his bag, he pulls out two hundred rupees, and places them in a bag on the inside of the door, then takes his leave, walking back out into the streets and to the many night livers that now wandered them, seeing as now it was night...


OOC: Aaaaaaaaannnnnddd....CUT!!!

(cont. the Performance of the Oracles) Will move this back to Performance of the Oracles if necessary.

Arrika entered the Tempest's house with ease, as the door seemed to now be in splinters, courtesy of Kasei a while ago.

"Geez, no one believes in privacy or security any more. Doesn't matter, I guess, as I could pick any lock anyway..." She said aloud. The house smelled of alchohol and empty bottles lay strewn all over the floor. Settling down in Sovelis's comfy chair, she picked up an unopen bottle and took a deep swig. Sighing with contentment, she stood up as she remembered her mission. She found his cloak on the floor, and started to search the pockets...

"Hmm... lantern? Nah, I got one of those already. Scrolls... meh, I can't really cast magic anyways. Rhyss never did offer to teach me, that lazy scumbag. What's this?"

Arrika found a little box that played a haunting melody without her needing to turn it. "Oooh, that's rather interesting... I think that's a keeper!" She cheerfully plunged it into one of the many pockets on her cargo pants. Arrika also took his little wooden flute, but she froze when she saw his Tempest Blade.

"Woah, this is fine craftsmanship if anything! I can't use this, but it looks so cool that I bet even those old guys who collect antiques would be tons for this!! Sweet, but how am I gonna hide it? Not in a tree like last time, I lost all the rupees I'd been saving up. I still think it was Seth that took them..." She ran her hand along the edge of the blade after unsheathing it, marveling how easily her blood ran down. "I'll bury it near Rhyss's house, since I'm the only one that can stand going 15 feet away from it. Then again, Sovelis is a really good mage so he could resist the spells too. Ugh, what am I gonna do? It's heavy, too."

As Sovelis apeared outside his door, He walked over the splintered remains of his door. "I'm gonna need to fix that in the morning...Hello. What have we got here?" he noticed Arrika with his sword in her hands, and one of her hands bleeding from the sharp edge of the Katana.

OoC: You've done your studying on me. Have I got a stalker?

IC: "Well, well, well. I guess Today is full of suprises. What may I ask, are you doing here?" he asked quietly, smiling down at Arrika.

Arrika cursed under her breath, took a step back, and swore again as she stepped on a jagged shard of glass that cut through one of her worn boots. "Nice to see you again, Handsome," she managed to smile, but her eyes remained narrowed with fear and apprenhension. Arrika tried to step to the left but flinched with pain as the glass dug deeper into her foot. She immediately looked for any escape routes, but the only one she could see so far was the one smashed open door blocked by the Tempest.

"Step aside," she hissed, trying to bluff, "or you'll regret it." The theif feinted to the right but quickly to the left, the Tempest Blade clutched desperately in her hands, as she dashed out the door. It was more of a quick limp, and she soon collapsed from the pain into the pile of splinters. Buckling the heavy blade to her own belt, spinning around, and drawing her own daggers, she said harshly, "you wouldn't understand, Tempest. I'm sure you could easily get another one of these."

"Actually, That blade there is one-of-a-kind. Forged eons ago by the first Tempest, it has been passed down amung the High Lords since before this world was even a twinkle in your goddesses eyes." He said, taking a step towards Arrika. " I'm suprised that you could even draw it from the sheath." Sovelis motioned at the shiekan thief. "Be a nice little girl, and hand it back to me. I'd rather not have to hurt a pretty girl." he said, his voice was had gotten rather hatefull. "And anything else of mine that you might have stuffed into one of those large pockets." Sovelis held out his automail hand to Arrika. "Flames of power, hear my command. come forth and obey me." He mumbled as a rather large fireball engulfed the metalic hand, twisting around the finger, licking at his sleave, but not burning the fabric. "I'll give you one chance, then we'll see if your fire-proof."

Arrika trembled, weighing her options. Run, try to fight, or bluff again? What did Kobas always say...?

"Thieves who wisely run away
Live to steal another day."

"Like I can run at the moment..." Arrika muttered under her breath. "But would he really kill me?"

She stared into his eyes, filled with annoyance and hate. Yes. He most likely would if it came down to it.

"Fine. Take it." Arrika threw down the sword and the deku flute, and put up her hands in surrender, watching him intently. "But I must know..." She slowly pulled out a silver pocketwatch that wouldn't open. "Does this mean anything to you? I've seen what you call your "magic" with those drawings called transmutation circles. It's not really magic, is it? I just want to know... can you open this for me?"

Sovelis couldn't believe his eyes. Tha pocket watch in Arrika's hand was a very rare piece, one that only those skilled in a different magic known as 'Alchemy' were given. "Hmm...I do dabble in alchemy, but its more of a merging of the arts. My own Tempest abilities, the magic that eminates from Hyrule, and Alchemy, of another world altogether. All worlds have a different form of Alchemy, as do all worlds have different laws of nature and physics."

Sovelis wanted the watch...the watch of Edward Elric. "That watch belonged to an extremely skilled alchemist I had met once in another world. I could open it with easy, But tell me this. why should i help someone who just tried to rob me?" the Tempest said, a smile on his youthfull face.

The fireball in Sovelis's metal hand faded away, but he kept the power of it in his mind, ready to be cast at Arrika without any hesitation.He wasn't sure what this girl was able to do, or if she had some sheikan tricks that she'd pull. "I noticed that your limping, and that every spot that your foot has been, theirs a little blood. Come inside, and I'll get that glass out of your foot. we can talk inside." Sovelis said as he picked up his sword and his flute.

This day just keeps getting better. Elric's watch, and strange girl. I'm starting to think that I've got rotten luck with women... The Last High Lord of the Tempests thought as he motioned with his free-hand; his automail hand, for Arrika to go in before him.

"Ugh. That makes sense," Arrika muttered. "Well, I can tell you want this watch; don't try to lie about that, I see Glimmer in your eyes. You also most likely want to know how I got the watch in the first place, if, as you claim, you knew Edward Elric. I want whatever's inside it, which I'm hoping there is. What's inside won't be of any consequence to you, so it's... how do you say it? Equivalent Exchange? They say information is priceless, worth much more than the materialistic stuff inside. So you're getting the better deal anyway, don't you think?" (If that makes sense, Sovelis... I coudn't find a better way to put it in words).

Arrika warily hopped on her good foot to one of the chairs in the Tempest's house, her eyes always watching him for any sudden movements. She attempted to pry off her boot, which hurt so much she cried out, and in the end cut it apart with a dagger. "Worthless now, anyway. And I outgrew this trash a year ago," she muttered to herself as she examined the damage.

"That watch hold nothing within it that you would want, unless you want to tell what time it is." Sovelis said as he knelt next to Arrika, and propped her leg up on a footstool. "Yup...some glass from an empty bottle...Sorry about that. But its your own fault, since you DID come into my home uninvited...sort of." the Tempest grabbed onto Arrika's ankle with his automail so that she couldn't wiggle and mess him up. "I will pull the glass out...and bandage your foot. You'll need some new boots..." Sovelis thought, not even caring if Arrika had just tried to rob him of his sword. "Can't have a pretty little thing like you walking around barefoot. And yes. I knew Edward Elric rather well.Nice guy, has a temper problem though. Traveled with him and his brother for about a year before I left thier world, to continue my research on the worlds, and a way to restore my Order to its original place in the cosmos."

Sovelis got up and left the room for a few minutes. When he came back, he had a small, white box that had a red cross on the top, and a small towel, tucked under his right arm. In his automail hand, he held a pair of boots that looked like they would fit Arrika perfectly. "Hold still while I clean the wound first..." he said as he turned the Sheikan's foot sideways, and put the towel under it.

Opening the small box, Sovelis pulled out a glass bottle. "Hydogen Peroxide. It should clean the outside....but I'll need to pur some Iodine on it to clean the inside." he said as he opened the bottle. "This will sting." he said as he pured the peroxide on underside of Arrika's glass-pierced foot.

Arrika flinched and tried to twist out of Sovelis's metal grasp. She beat on his metal arm, practically screaming, "Are you trying to kill me?! What is that? Poison??" Her expression turned more serious. "And there is something inside the watch! I know for sure!" There was a trace of doubt in her voice that she masked almost perfectly, but she was still afraid Sovelis might have noticed anyway. "So you say you met Edward Elric... Then did you meet Roy Mustang too? Rhyss always made them both sound so handsome... But, you know," she said, winking, "I bet their looks couldn't compare with yours."

Arrika immediately shot out tons of questions: "Was Alphonse really a walking suit of armor? Was Ed really that short? Did things like "guns" really exist? 'Cuz that seems like a really lame way to kill someone, at least that's what Seth thinks. Did you ever have to fight a homunculi? Did you meet Dante? Or Hohenheim? Were you there when... Ed died and passed through the gate? And what's this 'Order' you mentioned?" The Sheikah dangled the watch by its chain, catching the sunlight. "Please, just open it. What harm will it do you? It's been welded shut by alchemy, and impossible for anyone but an alchemist to open again. I've tried burning it, melting it, smashing it on a rock... Okay, that was a Goron's head, but what's the difference? Aren't you at least a liiiitle curious to how I got it? And I know you want it." She swung it on the chain, teasing the Tempest and hoping he would pry open the last lead she had to finding Kobas. "Hmm, I'm acting like Seth. Tending towards run on sentences and forgetting to breathe when I talk," she laughed.

"Yes, Alphonse was a suit of armor.Yes, Edward was short, but not as short as people treated him. Yes, guns exsist in Amestris, and where I'm from as well. I fought Lust once, never meet Dante, or the brother's father. No...I wasn't there when Ed died...If i was, he wouldn't have..."

Sovelis wiped Arrika's foot off, and wrapped a bandage around it. "I bet that feels beter." he took the watch and looked it over. "You couldn't open it? I guess Ed must have sealed it shut all the way...I might need to go into my workroom to open it." he said, as he handed Edward's watch back to Arrika.

''Go ahead and try on those boots. They should fit you, and keep your feet safe.'' the youthfull-looking mage said, smiling as he stood up agian.

Hmmm... he pointedly ignored commenting on anything I mentioned about Roy's and Ed's looks... Is he like Rhyss then? Geez, guys these days....

Arrika looked at her foot, and then the boots. They were black like his and the same style; amazingly, they fit perfectly and seemed very durable. "Goddesses, these are the nicest ones I've ever had...." She hugged the Tempest and really meant it. "Thanks... But why are you being so nice?"

"Your a pretty girl. Why SHOULDN'T I be nice?" Sovelis said, hugging Arrika back. "Now that we've started hugging, I'll introduce myself. Name's Sovelis Magalion Le'ano Liadon. Just call me Sovelis." he said. Also...don't be suprised about how many rooms are in this house. Even though it looks like a small two-story house on the outside, this place has more room than the Royal Palace. Oh...and I'm slightly Telepathic...so watch what you think around me. Okay?" the Tempest said, leading Arrika towards another room.

The room that he took Arrika into was a huge workroom, With a large desk, several large shelves of books, and a display case full of drawings, research notes, and several small cube-shaped orange crystals.

"This is my laboratory...so be carefull with anything." Sovelis said, smiling at the sheikan thief.

Arrika was a bit taken back at his sudden forwardness but was awed by the laboratory. Telepathic? I should have guessed as much... Ugh, he'll turn out to be another Seth, I can tell.

"Heh, I'm just Arrika. Don't really have a last name. More room than the Royal Palace? I can just imagine all the booze I bet he has stashed everywhere.... That's crazy, but I guess possible," Arrika said, looking around. "You've got tons of books.... how long did it take you to collect them all? Do you have any about alchemy? I've always wanted to try.... And what's with the shiny crystals?"

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