Fighting Frigid Hearts

[22:25] Nibaki Yuisen says, "eh... why am i so jelous ..."
[22:25] Revan Task asks, "... of..?"
[22:25] Nibaki Yuisen says, "them "
[22:25] Revan Task asks, "... Orca and Lilith?"
[22:25] Nibaki Yuisen says, "i mean i never had a mom "
[22:25] Revan Task says, "... Same."
[22:25] Revan Task says, "Mine.. Died during child birth..."
[22:25] Revan Task says, "And.. Father never spoke of her.."
[22:25] Nibaki Yuisen says, "no one was there for me yet when i see them all it just makes me angry ...."
[22:25] Revan Task says, "I.. Always.. Wanted to know her.. "
[22:26] Revan Task says, "You should.. Be happy for them.."
[22:26] Nibaki Yuisen says, "lucky you ..... i was in an orphanage in huangzhou..."
[22:26] Revan Task says, "... I am sorry to hear that. "
[22:26] Nibaki Yuisen says, "they said mother died at childbirth father was murdered by a witch ..."
[22:27] Revan Task asks, "How did you.. End up a slave in Gehenna?"
[22:27] Nibaki Yuisen says, "traveling there i made coin selling ..flowers .."
[22:28] Revan Task says, "... You bowed to someone.. Didn't you"
[22:28] Nibaki Yuisen says, "some woman demanded an honorduel ..."
[22:28] Nibaki Yuisen says, "because my flowers didnt land her the man of her dreams "
[22:29] Nibaki Yuisen says, "she faught me "
[22:29] Nibaki Yuisen says, "i lost "
[22:29] Revan Task says, "..."
[22:29] Nibaki Yuisen says, "she put a collar on my neck"
[22:29] Revan Task asks, "Why.. Did you.. Agree to such a duel?"
[22:29] Nibaki Yuisen says, "shackles on my wrists "
[22:29] Nibaki Yuisen says, "i didnt agree to it "
[22:30] Nibaki Yuisen says, "i denied it then severalppeople gathered it was fight or be lynched ..."
[22:30] Revan Task says, "I.. See.. What a cruel land."
[22:31] Nibaki Yuisen says, "i lost she collared me and shackled me then sold me to a brothel owner ...."
[22:31] Nibaki Yuisen says, "told me i would learn my lessoons out as being a whore ...."
[22:31] Nibaki Yuisen says, "anyways ....my life ...my entirelife i never had guidance .."
[22:31] Nibaki Yuisen says, "so seeing orca and them "
[22:32] Nibaki Yuisen says, "i dont know i just its something i always wanted ....but never obtained .."
[22:44] Revan would be silent, hearing how Nibaki's life was so tragic, a series of events that seemed to domino and grow worse and worse.. Atleast she had found some happiness in the guild, with Kiri. Though there was something that bothered him.. Perhaps it was because he understood where her jealousy stemmed.

"We want things we don't have.. I.. Didn't know my mother either.. However.. That was a chance I was never given in life.. But life does not give us chances.. So we have to make our own."

Reaching for the excess of bandages, Revan would begin to blindfold himself, letting his senses be filled with the energies around him.

"Fenes.. And Lilith.. They were adopted by Orca because of the love they expressed openly.. Accepting her even though she was an occultist.. I have learned.. By watching them.. If you want love.. You must give love.."

It was something he had never known before meeting them, their unconditional acceptance of him, despite how cold and distant he was when they met initially. They continued to warm that frozen heart of his until it thawed, letting him be able to express how he felt to Lilith.

"People.. like you and I.. Struggle with that.. We've been hurt.. Battered.. beaten and bruised.. We close ourselves off from others, hide our injuries.. But in order to heal.. To grow.. We have to open ourselves up.. To let others into our hearts so they wish to remain near us.."

He could feel the heartbeat of the kitsune before him, the hurt and pain she carried, the jealousy she felt, and even the longing to be beside someone who loved so freely.. It was something he still struggled with, but he was growing with their help.

"And if we wish to protect them.. Their smiles and their hearts.. We must grow strong.. So nothing like the honor duel that enslaved you ever happens again.. So.. Shall we begin?"
(Revan Task)
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[22:56] she would shrug and let out a longing sigh before sitting to meditate on the sadness and sorrow playing in her mind as she prepared to pull out her bow the air and wind seemed to pick up kicking away the stale dusty air of this basement training ground the wind before Nibaki would beging to drop in temperature as she focused a tear of sorrow rolled down her cheek shortly after the tear would begin to freeze leaving a frosted trail on her cheek that was visibly clear

"Perhaps ..but my love and there love is different …..I was raised at sixteen that love was somethin that you could physically do and touch and doin those dispicible thins to make them feel good ….that was my love I ..was beaten and tourtured if I didn't"



the more she focused the more colder it became how cold the world was to her as she seemed to be moving into a trance like state as she focused solely on projecting the same coldness she felt her entire life

"I...don't know how to open up ….the thins ive done ...all I do is hurt every day...hurt others ...kiri pulled me out of that and truth be told I would do anything for kiri and ...that is why I preposed ...I am new to love....true love it broke the shackles of the amnesia that was put there by a witch...."


the air growing colder and colder to the man before her as his breath was indeed visible to him as her icy blue hues glanced upon her foe she would hold a hand out as the water molecules in the air before her seemed to freeze slowly forming an arrow of ice to rest its nock against the string the air around her started to become so frigid the temrature started to plummet further as the air started to mix with her mana she was exuding out of her there seemed to be tiny flakes of snow starting to float and dance within the winds as she listened to his words as he blindfolded him self she sould take a stance morely on a defencive nature as if a blizzard started to fall in over them


"growin stron ...love ….they showed me things ...I just am pained ...plaued by it ...it has been a blessing that kiri came in my life and I have learned that showing her love wasn't all ways making love ...it was more and now I crave it ...like a starving wolf for a meal ….someday I will break it...."
(Nibaki Yuisen)
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[23:32] As the kitsune's bow was drawn, their fight would begin, but the conversation was long from over. This was training, but it seemed that it would be a lesson in much more than combat. As the arrows of ice and crystal would let loose, the air growing frigid around him that reminded him of his childhood, he would keep speaking.

"I know where you're coming from."

He'd shout, sensing as the arrows darted towards him, and in miniscule movements, he would do his bet to dodge them, letting their tips slice across his bandages and armor as he bolted towards her.

"I thought emotions were a burden.. I thought they would hold me back.. But that was only because I never experienced them."

Suddenly she would lose sight of her target, he had appeared behind her, his fist cocked back and ready to unload a barrage upon her.

"It hurt for so long.. I had grown so used to physical pain.. To hurting others.. I never felt the consequences of it.. I never saw how much I hurt those around me by throwing myself and breaking my body.. I didn't understand why it hurt to see Lilly spending time with others.. The jealousy I felt wishing she would do so with me."

Nabiki would be pelted with a flurry of blows, then thrown with a single kick, Revan would stand tall for a moment, giving her a moment of reprieve.

"I shared my burden with her.. How I hurt.. And she.. Just wanted to help me.. She saw.. So much in me I.. Didn't believe was there. Do I miss her when we are not together? Yes. Do I still get jealous when she doesn't pull me in to cuddle, but does so with you, and Fenes? Of course.. But that is part of growing stronger.. For them.. To steel yourself, I know it makes her happy.. And I do not wish to hurt her anymore.. I know her love for me is true."

Beating his fist against his own mithril chestplate, the runes on it would pulse in sync with his own racing heart.

"I go a little without, because I am thankful for what she has done for me so far, and I know she will return my affections when she can. Going without no longer makes me weaker, the jealousy doesn't eat away at me as much.. Because I know there will be a next time, so long as I can make it back to her."
(Revan Task)
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[23:58] the battle was intense her pure cold sorrow filling the area as he made way moving off to the right of her she would focus an arrow to send hurling towards him what appeared to be glaciers and pillars of Ice surrounding the two as they fought in this epic but snowy scenery as her blizzard raged on but something was a miss amongst the blizzard like conditions a tree and his nature magic still striking at her with thorns and vines the battle keeping her on edge


"I wish I could understand these feelings the cold bitter lands of orsana had shown me it was true ….. the pain of being alone hated for what I was ….a simple person with no memories …. the pain ...seeing a families love for each other …. It hurts ...I had nothing therefore I was nothing"


She stated realizing her pain was a sign of weakness as she shouted to him.
Did he understand ...the years of suffering she endured ..she was alone most of her life she lowered .. her bow for a moment to noticehe vanished from her sights to only be attacked from behind taking the hits one after the other she held her hand out to guide in his general direction as a shard of crystal launched out to graze his shoulder king his word in kind before for stomping the ground with her mana of ice as spears of jagged ice would erupt from the ground beneathe him to gain her distance.

"the burden I bore no woman should have suffered ...should have endured the pain....the sadness … All I wanted was to be normal ..a girl with a family to be loved this was new to me I hated it then I met them all it felt different …. I have friends the affection and love …..It scared me ..for so long I just couldn't figure it out … this I have now it still scares me ..im in pain..i cant understand it …"


More tears would flow freezing and breaking as they landed on the ground shattering the sorrow fueling her as the blizzard started to dissipate but it started to rage onward as she pulled out more mana the control of her maic seemed to just be pooling around her emotion her heatrt thawing I someday slowly to this cruel world but was it worth it she took aim and fired a crystal like javeline toward his direction though missing just barely she would move to take aim once more trying to track and predict his next movements settin off magical ice traps to slow his pace



"the pain ….its harder to bare and this new life … friends I just want to be normal the pain and sufferin gone I know the world is cruel but I see something different.. somethin worth clinging to and I feel like with there family bond im just an outsider ….my burden is mine alone …. I want to feel my frozen heart be melted and filled with warmth …. a family that understands my pain ...Lilith and fenes may not see it ...or understand it but you and I ….we are the same ...beast …"



her body aching from the well placed blows as she took a knee trying to gain her breath it wasn't over the ice wouldn't win this round over her this meditation and concentration lasted much longer than before but she could feel it was nearing its end and burning out as an inch of snow may have accumulated on the arenas ground the blizzard she conjured still raging on mid battle before she rushed in to take another shot at the blindfolded man
(Nibaki Yuisen)
[00:01] {Won Restrained RPB against Nibaki Yuisen}
[00:38] His breath only grew more heated, there was a roaring tempest of ice and snow around him that would've blocked his view, but he could see clearly, the mana coursing through her circuitry would act as a beacon towards him. All of her magics would appear before him crystal clear.

He would do his best to work with the frigid winds, dodging and rolling around the glaciers that chased him and sought to encasing him, and a few would collide him with, slowing him, giving him frostbite. Yet his assualt would continue, relentlessly as the Kitsune only grew stronger through her sorrow, the pain she felt. He would grit his teeth, determined to make her see.

"Only through the eyes of others, can we see what our own miss."

He understood the pain she felt, they may not have suffered in the same ways, but they suffered regardless. They were scarred souls, ones who had only known pain, they didn't know how to react to kindness. He could hear how she saw herself as weak, and something about it angered him. His strikes would grow more ruthless, as if he were trying to ingrain his lesson into her.

"The world is cruel, it is unforgiving, and it is full of pain and suffering. Lilith has felt pain, Fenes has felt pain- but they have outgrown it, they learned from it. That is what we must do. Ever scar, every bruise, it serves as a lesson- it is up to you to determine what that is though."

As she stomped the ground to send jagged ice at him, he would be thrown back a distance, impaled in is arms and legs, pulling his fist back and sending a mana filled shockwave forward, turning her own ice into shrapnel at her.

"You have pain? So what! Pain is the body telling you something is wrong, and something needs to change. It is the first step in growth- but you and I.. We are familiar with this pain, a life without such is a life half lived. We cannot appreciate the good times with those we love without some form of sacrifice."

Revan didn't grow up in a loving house hold, everything was a competition, he was constantly beat if he didn't perform adequately enough- even in victory he never came out fully unscathed. He had blood family, but they were not close, not how he is with the others he had found in the Dragon's Tooth.. How could he express how they helped him grow? How he learned to live with the suffering, and use it to empower him, to bolster his willpower?

"If you're in pain- you can't always heal yourself.. It takes the help of others to recover.. To learn.. To grow past what you feel." Letting the winds carry him, he would slide across the snowy ground, sweeper her off her feet with a single low kick, as she hits the ground he goes to throw a finishing punch, stopping mere inches from actually hitting her before it opens into an offering hand.

"If you want to heal.. if you want to stop feeling the pain you do.. You have to find it's source.. And repair it.. If it is a lack of family.. Feeling excluded by the others.. Then voice that.. And they will include you.. You do not have to continue bearing this pain alone." Reaching behind his head, he would undo the bandage that wrapped his eyes, offering her a genuine smile.
(Revan Task)
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[01:06] The cold cruel winds continued as they battled raging on against the epic battle of ice and nature clashing of there strengths hers was power full and cold... as her understandings of the ice how it molded its will around her it was indeed power full these emotions and pain she has felt burrowed within coming out her true heart and feelings buried within an icy grave of her heart …


each word of his chipping away at the cold and unforgiving cold of her blizzard she used to obscure her self obscure her being ..her sadness to be brave more and more tears flowed as the attacks she didn't or couldn't feel it was his word that was cracking her ..barriers ...her mana fading as she would state drawing and firing another glacial wave.


".... I..it makes sence I am not the only that has suffered ...the pain ...I..I hope to out grow it ….some day ..I do not understand but I hope to....does that make me selfish …"


at this pace she kept it up focusing and channeling the ice magic to become one with it her blizzard making her mana fade dimmer and dimmer the feelings becoming more and more apparent sacrifice.. she thought appreciating good times her life filled with none except for recently ….Kiri her fiancé ..she would blush more as her cold cruel litteral frozen tundra seemed to lessen as her mana was fading her arms and legs and rest of her body starting to become frost covered the numbing pain she just added atop it all her sadness starting to fade … his words struck her about as hard as her own ice crystals did leaving ice shards sticking into her skin as the icy grip on her

then the final moment ...she was swept from her feet within his lowkick she would fall to the ground the cold snow crunching beneathe her breaking her fall as that had past the tears would flow from her cheeks as he went to finish her with the punch she would indeed flinched before closing her eyes her ears lowered …..but apon opening her eyes she would see his hand ..the magic she used seemed to cease to leave behind quite a mess of snow and ice glaciers that littered the ground instead of accepting his hand she would pull him to her hugging him ...has his words gotton through to her ...has the preverbial ice cracked around her heart? she would just pull her arms around him sobbing ..a emotion she didn't wish to show to anyone yet he pulled it straight out of her ….
(Nibaki Yuisen)
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[01:18] He was bleeding from the spears of ice that pierced him, frost bite freezing his muscles, he was too focused on trying to help the Kitsune that he wouldn't have noticed how beaten up he was until she pulled on him.

He would fall to a knee, collapsing in her arms as she pulled him into the tear filled hug. A warm smile on his face as he wrapped his arms around her, patting her back.

Soon he would be shaking his head. "No.. No.. That's not selfish at all.. We all wish to learn.. To outgrow our pain and become our best selves.. But trying to do it all on your own? That is selfish.. We all need a hand.. Once in awhile.."

He would shakily rise to his feet, pulling her up with him.

"Now.. Let's go treat those bruises, yes?"
(Revan Task)
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[01:23] Nibaki she would nod moving to help him up he was still frostcovered it was lik holding himself up on an ice cube .... she would go with him to go to lilith and get patched up hopefully
(Nibaki Yuisen)