13th Rise of the Phoenix ஜ Action (Fourth Wall Event)

[uccellodifuoco]

[Apparently, either the Malnosso have decided that around three hundred of people aren't enough for their experiments... Or someone has left open the front door and people thought that the enclosure was a commercial center with a sale going on. Ikki has never been a people person, he has problems already when half of the village gathers for parties, this sudden influx of not-New Feathers isn't something that pleases him.

Specially when his pet, an arctic wolf cub, little over one year old and named Hyoga, decides to start running around to play catch with his owner. Of course, like always, Ikki is the "it" that has to catch the animal. And of course, today the village is so full of people that running around isn't easy, or keep sight of the animal, good thing Hyoga knows how to get back home... Or he should, Ikki had been teaching him that recently. Still he tries to catch the animal, not because he's worried but because it would be troublesome to just let it go and bother people.]

Let me go through, dammit! Hyoga!! Stop right there this instant!! Come back, stupid wolf! I'm not going to chase you forever so come already!

[Of course, Hyoga will at most stop, turn to look at its owner and then keep running away happily. Or bother whoever is next to him if he thinks they smell nice or something. He's not afraid of the angry phoenix chasing him, not at all.]

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[thegoldenram]

Oh it certainly matters for Athena where her humanly vessel goes, does it not?

[ Oh Hyoga, can Shion keep you? At least you can listen to him ramble without complaining and be content with patpattings -- like the one the old man is giving you right now.

Then simply: ]

No. I have my own answers, and I have asked those same questions to other Saints and many other people. It is good conversation fodder, no?

[ Sets himself back up. He wants to keep the wolf. Gently -- ]

Have you ever thought of a life without the burden of the Cloth?

[uccellodifuoco]

[It could be arranged, but Ikki won't allow it, Hyoga is his pet, even if he fails at showing how much he cares and all. He fails at it with his own brother, so it's not really a surprise. Ikki tenses and basically bits his tongue from answering to the comment about Athena's vessels. It's pointless to say what he really thinks of that.]

Conversation fodder, is conversing that important? Actions often speak louder than words. They usually have more meaning than words as well.

["A life without the burden of the Cloth". The answer is immediate and defensive, barely letting Shion finish his question.]

I am the Phoenix Saint.

[And that's final. There's no other life for him, there couldn't be and he doesn't want it, even if he didn't want the Cloth either, it's the life he got and he won't turn back from it. Despite how many times he wishes he could just stop and die.]

[thegoldenram]

There is a time for words, and a time for action. Neither is better nor worse than the other.

[ And with Shion's smile, it is quite evident he is content. Idle looking around. ]

This is a strange but pretty place. I shall be looking around while I am here.

[ Psychokinetic fur-stroking is what Hyoga will be getting. ]

Thank you for entertaining me and my curiosities, Phoenix.

[uccellodifuoco]

[Leaving already? Of course, it's always this way. They come, ask their annoying questions,snoop over others' problems and then leave without having answered any questions. Just get what they want and then leave, see why Ikki refuses to care? It would be useless either way if he cared.

And he's thanked for entertaining the man even. Ikki never wondered about it but now he gets why Saga killed this guy.]

Yeah, I'm sure you enjoyed the entertainment. [So much sarcasm must be poisonous, boy.] Enjoy your visit then. Hyoga, let's go already.

[Hyoga ignores Ikki instead he stands on his two back legs, looking at Shion and whinning, pleading look of "don't go" painted on his face.]