The Calming and Collecting

*Fenri appears in the vicinity of the Pale Forest, quite angry from his meeting with ZK. He was quite stressed and ran his fingers through his hair... It seemed the short lived battle with Mahk-X took more of a toll on his body than he thought. His face grew aged and ragged*

That man... I'll have his head... He dares even show his face!

*Fenri throws a punch to a tree next to him and freezes it through on contact. The tree stands completely still and the frozen leaves begin to fall*

He'll pay for this...

Sayomi walked along, mumbling to herself about the state of the place around her, scowling a bit at illusions that rose up from the shadows to greet her.

"Oh dear, oh dear... Away, foul creatures! I haven't the time to waste away tea time with you today!!!"

Feebly swatting at the illusions with one hand, Hatter curled into a ball on the ground. The illusions slowly started to disappear, and she peeked out from under her arm.

"Are they gone? ARE THEY GONE!?! They better be..."

Straightening, she paused to straighten her suit jacket, before looking around with shifty eyes, not trusting the place. Just then, she heard the groan on a falling tree, and her eyes widened, scrambling off to hide, making quite a bit of noise.

*Fenri turns to the woman hiding in the distance and it doesn't seem to help his foul mood. Although he was angry, he didn't want to hurt an innocent. She was most definitely innocent as he didn't recognize her scent nor did he smell anyone familiar on her. He took a deep breath and spoke as calmly as he could*

You may want to remove yourself from the area woman. I can't promise you'll survive the training I plan to do here.

Sayomi peeked out from behind a tree that she had hidden behind, her eyes wide,

"Not survive? Not survive...? Why of course I'll survive~! I've been doing so for quite awhile now... Numerous years, in fact!!! What's one more day, one more hour, one more minute...~?"

She giggled slightly, but didn't go any closer, yet also didn't flee. She stayed exactly where she was, watching this weird tree-felling person curiously. What made the man so mad...~?

As you wish.

*Fenri turned away from the girl and began drawing on chakra, going ablaze with his own power. He reaches into his pockets and pulls out the ring and box that Valerio gave him. They begin to glow blue and ignite. The ground and forest around Fenri and the hatted woman hiding begins to shake with the amount of chakra Fenri is pouring into each item*

Time to show me your power.

*Fenri puts the ring on and it rages with a blue flame. Though it seems like a flame, it's look resembled more wildly flowing water, raging everywhere. He then notices a hole on the box, matching the decoration on the ring. Putting the two together, he places the ring inside the hole and it opens, revealing a blue wolf standing before him. The wolf is strong and fierce, but it stands in attention ready to move at a moment's notice*



Very good...

Show me your power.

*The wolf howls loudly and it echoes through the forest, sounding as if it were drowned out by the ocean. A distinct blue aura, almost water-like itself, is cast on anything in range of the wolf's voice. The trees shake and their leaves seem to begin to fall endlessly, seeming to rot from the inside out, but they look exactly the same on the outside. Fenri felt nothing on his body, but he felt everything that was happening around him. Everything was weakening*

Yes...

With wide eyes, she watched the man gather his chakra, sensing something was about to happen.

A ring?

She thought as the saw the ring procured from his pocket. She frowned slightly, curious as to why he would have a RING of all things. As the ground shook beneath her, Hatter stumbled comically, falling to the ground and rolling over a few times. She groaned, rubbing the back of her head as a large goose-egg would start to appear. Whacking your head was never fun...

In her slight daze, she looked over to the blazingly bright source of energy, vision swimming slightly.

"Oooh, purdy wolfy.......~"

She muttered, obviously out of it from the hit to her head. As the wolf's howl pierced the forest, her eye twitched,

"Owchies..."

Not liking the aura that started to surround her, she feebly tried to get up. Falling back once more, she pawed at the air, trying to swat away the blue water-like substance. Soon she started to shake, then doubled over in pain as gut-wrenching agony started to lance through her. Her insides were decaying just like the trees. She endured without a sound for the brief time she would have been able to utter a word.

Looking over feebly to the shadows around her, she extended a hand to them. Because of all the falling leaves, shadows dotted the ground, and so it was easy to flit from shadow to shadow, even in her weakened state. Soon she was out of the immediate area, and the aura no longer reached her, though it's damage had been done.

Too weak to move, Hatter lay there, wondering if this time she really wouldn't survive.. Had arrogance been her downfall? Even in this mysssteeeeeeeeerious man's blind rage, he'd tried to warn her... And as usual, silly Hatter hadn't paid any attention. She sighed, closing her eyes. Her internal organs started to shut down, having taken too much damage from just his aura alone. Minutes ticked by for Hatter, her breathing slowing as she thought her life would come to a close.

Then, just then, Hatter had an idea. She still had most of her chakra, so this should be a piece of cake! If she could form advanced weaponry, then temporary internal organs should be okay~!!

Looking over to the shadows, she called them to her and started molding basic shapes though sheer willpower. Then, she thought about what each organ would have to function as, and how it needed to function. What she couldn't figure out, she just sent a tendril of shadow inside her to feel out. Though she gasped in pain at even having to think about the state of herself... Might only have a few minutes to live! sdf;og ;hfcdlb!

So, working a little bit faster, Hatter swallowed the condensed forms of the shadow-shapes, leaving the anti-matter to patch up what was too damaged to leave alone. Now that was an uncomfortable feeling right there. Ewwwwwww.... Oh well, it would just have to last until she could get to the hospital~!

Springing up, she almost immediately fell again. OWWWWWWWCHIIIIIIIIIES! Shadow's didn't take the pain away, but pain sure took Hatter's breath away!!!

Getting up more slowly this time, she only winced as she started to shuffle away, panting heavily. She headed off to the hospital, doubtful that her shadow mock-organs would last long.