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Don't get Fell wrong, the boy LOVED to travel. But he had to admit, there was no better sleep he ever got than when he slept at the Lion’s headquarters. Not only was it a nice place, and an extremely comfortable bed, but something about just being at that headquarters and understanding the prestige and power it held made for a nice roof above your head. But at the end of the day Fell didn't care to stay cooped up in the house all day, so he left to wander around the capital. A new feeling to Fell though for this day was that he actually didn't feel like leaving the capital, traveling had grown to be a little much of a burden on his body and too be honest, it needed a rest from constantly traveling and taking in entire city layouts.
So instead he decided to go to the market in the capital after his longest night in awhile, he rarely slept more than a handful of hours traveling around but had slept a good 10 hours last night. Needless to say he felt even more tired after waking up, and realized he just needed a break. Oh he was in for a treat. Fell wandered past the prison near his headquarters, it was odd to live next to a prison in the boys eyes, such a weird place to create a home let alone a headquarters for a magic knight squad. Though I guess at the same time it was rather practical as if anything happened at the prison there would be knights nearby ready to pounce like the lions they were at any moment. Fell was sure that was probably a good reason for the prisoners to never really try anything, after all the Lions captain and Vice captain were both rather scary and intimidating. Fell never planned to be on their bad side.
It was a nice day out, the sun was shining halfway through clouded skies and there was a nice breeze underneath that rippled through the boy's hair. Dressed in the usual dark black and essential lack of any style he wandered around rather aimlessly, until he saw an individual. Recognizing him quickly he walked up to him “Hey Valo, nice to see you again.” Fell said as he stuck his hand out. The average greeting for the semi-awkward boy. He had liked Valo the first time they met, and was surprised when the guy didn't pester him more on his dark side during the beginning of that fight. Fell hadn't thought much of that time since, instead deciding to push it out of his mind and relax as best as possible. He knew he would deal with it sometime, but sometime was not today.
It was finally time for a day off thought Valo, after his first job with Artemis he's been going on job after job and training session after training session. While he did feel somewhat accomplished by what he able to accomplish in short time, he felt tired and strained at the same time. And before he go on another mission all tired and weary he figured it was most likely time for a day off, so thats what he did. His morning consisted of his daily meditation, he had neglected for so long he could hear his mother's shouts all the way from Kikka. And the mediation served him well, easing his mind of all negatives and doubts that dwelled within it. His combat teacher back home told him that meditation could be used to purify and increase one's mana while not substantially of course, after his meditation he did feel rejuvenated and anew. Taking the time to realize he did grow a bit stronger than when he first arrived here. He couldn't be upset at progress, from his one true goal seeking power.
Valo got dressed this time more excited than usual, all because he didn't have to wear that hideous green mantis cloak over his clothes this time. Until he made the proper modifications to it anytime he could get away without wearing it he would. Today he would wear a white notch neck shirt, slightly oversized with a long black shawl cardigan sweater over it. For pants he wore some light brown slacks, rolled up the ankle as always with black boots on his feet to match. He decided to put on not one but two silver chains, one of them being a brand new one. His other accessories including matching sliver bracelets on both wrists, and pinky ring on his right hand to match it. Once he was all dressed he summoned his brand new broom that the old man in Kikka finally finished for him. He hopped on using both feet and started to take flight, deciding he would finally pay a visit to the Royal Capital.
Valo had never been to the capitol before, but he could imagine what it looked it like up close. Upon his arrival he was not disappointed large castle like structures, heavy with design, arts and things of that nature. He brought his broom close the ground and hopped off, going through the front gates entrance. As he walked through his mouth near watering from the sheer amount of shops and stalls he saw. But unlike other towns this market place was on another level, Valo had an eye for expensive lavish things. This market was full of them, clothing, jewelry, accessories, colognes all things Valo loved to get his hands on. He started to think how much he would be able to steal if he was still apart of gang, but now not only was he trying to be better he actually could. All the jobs he was taking did in fact pay handsomely well, Valo had quite a bit of money to spend so spend it he did. About two hours had done by, and he already had two bags full of clothes and things. Valo was at another accessory stoll looking for more gold ring pieces to add to his collection. But suddenly he heard a familiar voice that caught his attention, he looked to his side and saw Fell holding his hand out.
"Fell! I thought I would run into you here!" Valo said happily. He grabbed his forearm with a semi tight grip. Valo was in a very good mood, a day off and he was shopping for new stuff. So running into what he considered a new friend Fell was quite welcoming. Of course he remembered Fell's actions when they went patrolling, but Valo wasn't a judgmental man not in the slightest. Growing up in Kikka having to rob, steal, fight to survive Valo ran into a lot of people who had to very vicious things. His own past was very shady with some of the things he had to do. So Valo bared no ill will towards Fell, but of course he would keep a watchful eye on him. Plus he knew Fell honestly bad for what had happened, it was almost as if he snapped out of a trance when Valo stopped him.
But before Fell could say anything else, Valo reached to one of his bags and pulled out some new cologne. "Fell smell this! Tell me what you think! Doesn't it smell amazing! Pretty sure the ladies would come in running after getting a whiff of this huh!?" Valo said as sprayed some cologne in the air near Fell's nose. It was easy to tell Valo was indeed having a good time in the Royal Capitol.
Fell was quickly taken off guard by Valo’s actions, a spritz of something coming directly in front of his nose as he shook with the man. Coughing slightly that would appear more like the clearing of his throat with how much he kept it back as some of the spray went directly into his nose and throat. Valo was not wrong though it did smell rather nice, maybe it was time Fell started to wear some in an effort to actually be semi presentable….nah that's too much work.
“Smells good Valo” Fell chuckled at the guy who was clearly having way more fun than the last time he had seen him. Valo reminded Fell of the first time he had given a girl on the street money for something and her eyes gleamed with satisfaction. Valo just seemed to be in his element shopping around and spending all his money. Meanwhile Fell pretty much spent next to none of his money, he didn't buy clothes or colognes, only food and more food pretty much. The essentials was how Fell lived, he didn't care for or need much more outside of that. Maybe one day.
It also seemed that Valo was or wanted to be a ladies man by the comment, Fell wasn't entirely sure. Fell after all didn't have much of any experience with the subject, only ever really spending much time with his mom and Rat. Outside of that the next closest was people from the exam, and all they did was mutter a few words back and forth.
Fell just didn't have the same acuteness for women that he did for traveling, he wasn't attracted to men dont get him wrong, he just didn't have the experience that someone like Valo may have. Fell was too busy staying inside all of his childhood to ever really go anywhere or do anything, let alone figure out the mystery of the world that was women. Fell hardly even knew how many girls resided in his village back home that were of a similar age, maybe sometime upon his return he could find out. Oh great, now Fell was actually thinking about dating. This Valo guy just had it out for changing Fell, first the demon, then clothes, now dating. Fell didn't mind.
“Women may indeed come flocking to you with that on, either that or run for the hills though” Fell said joking with the guy. “Came to the capital to shop then? It's a nice place with a lot of nice things. Indeed, should try some of the food stalls. There's this one where they cover all kinds of fruits with chocolate and it's amazing, coming from someone who finds chocolate okay at best usually.” Fell did indeed think outside of the Lions base that the best thing the capital had to offer was its market.
The quantity of things being sold was enormous, but it didn't take away from the quality of certain things either, after all it was the royal capital. Fell thought back to the time the two had first met, and their only meeting so far remembering now that they were close to the castle that Valo had seemed almost slightly perplexed about when Fell mentioned the Lions Headquarters. “Hey, you wanna see the castle.” Fell said with a smile, offering the man a sight not many people would get to see in their lifetime. The castle itself was amazing, and even now Fell still was amazed himself walking in and around the building, it was never going to get old.
Post by Valo Stark on May 14, 2020 21:13:16 GMT -5
Valo started to laugh out loud just a little after seeing Fell cough it was obvious he wasn't used to intense smells, and Valo may have sprayed it a little close. Valo put the cologne away in one of his bags. It was enough with torturing the guy, he had his fun. Valo heard Fell's joke and he couldn't' help but chuckle as well. They could indeed run off for the hills, Valo had to admit he hasn't had that much luck with some females since becoming a magic knight. There was the older aristocrat female he met on that one mission he took to find her cat. But Valo quickly shook those thoughts away, when he heard Fell mention food. He didn't grab a bite to eat yet, and some chocolate covered fruits did sound like pretty delicious.
"Haha they could indeed run for the hills. But I highly doubt it." Valo said with a slight smirk, "Call me odd but I do like my share of...expensive things." answered Valo holding up a new gold ring. "I don't see the harm in wanting to look your best." Valo finished his purchase of the gold ring, and placed the case in his bag with a big smile on his face. "But I could use some food now that you mention it."
There wasn't much delicacy for food back in the Green Mantis squad base in Hage, there was a nice bar to grab some food. But nothing like chocolate covered fruit. Valo started to think just how different the Royal Capitol was from other lands, while Hage wasn't bad not in the slightest it wasn't like this. There was definitely a stark difference between the two. Since Valo had no intention of leaving Green Mantis for another squad, he did think if there were ways he could change it. Of course not change it completely but a castle or two wouldn't hurt. Valo's greedy mind started to spin again being lost in thought, until Fell asked if he wanted to see the Castle. An opportunity Valo couldn't pass up.
"Ok ok! So food later! Castle now!" Valo said excitedly tossing his bags over his shoulder and gesturing for Fell to show the way. Of course no one could miss the castle from afar, but seeing it up close was probably a sight.
Fell noticed the man began thinking slightly at his joke, wondering if maybe it had caused the man a little thought. For all Fell knew the man was crazy good with women, or the exact opposite. Valo seemed nice and cool enough to be able to get a woman if he really tried, though he also seemed too free spirited to ever be tied down. But that was all just opinion what did Fell know. He had barely even known the guy after all. Fell felt better when the guy remarked back at his joke and was playful about it, showing the earlier chuckle wasn't out of nervousness or any other sort of emotion, if Valo even got nervous Fell had yet to see. Of course Fell and Valo were opposite but he didn't think he was odd or anything for liking expensive things, if anything Fell was probably the weirdo for not caring.
“Nah you are the normal one, most people like their expensive things.” Fell said also thinking of how the man said he could go for some food. Fell looked around knowing the stall he had mentioned was near. Though the remark as well after Fell had mentioned the castle the man seemed okay with abandoning food even just to see the castle. But what kind of host would Fell be not too feed the man. Fell spotted it. “One moment.” Fell quickly ran over to the stall and addressed the lady, she knew him by now with the few times he had been there. After all he lived near and had the rather noticeable Lion mantle.
“Hey dearie, back again today?” The old lady said to Fell as he approached.
“Yup, got a royal capital newbie thought I would give him the best.” The boy said with a smile to the lady.
The old lady smiled and thanked him as he purchased the variety choice that she offered, it was pricey but big and amazing. Fell showed back up to Valo now with an assortment of 2 dozen identical foods that looked much like a popsicle but were instead various fruits covered in a nice smooth milk chocolate. There was strawberry and banana, peach and blueberry and more. They were incredibly great to snack on, and crazy good on a relaxing day especially when you didn't live around the capital and couldn't get them every day. Handing one of the dozen to Valo Fell began to walk towards the Lions headquarters and the prison. “Just follow me this way while you eat, My favorite is the Banana personally.” Fell said wandering off expecting him to follow.
The two would walk for a while until just the roof of the building was in sight as they passed the prison and grew ever closer to the castle, as they approached the massive building really began to come into perspective. The amazing steps alone were proof to the building elegance, the giant banner of the Lions hanging and it was all just….amazing. Fell let Valo take it all in himself for the first time.
Valo was ready to go, but stopped when Fell asked for one moment at first he was confused as to why. But once Valo took a few steps in the direction Fell went he saw why. Valo stood back and smirked hearing his interaction with the stall lady selling the chocolate covered fruits Fell mentioned. The stall lady was much older but Valo noticed the slight interaction they had. The idea of Fell being a ladies man himself started to form in his mind, he seemed more shy and reserved. But sometimes the lone quiet type really worked on women, plus considering Fell's features he could probably really get away with it. Valo made a mental note of this thought, one day he would have to test this theory of his.
Fell returned with an assortment of the chocolate covered fruits two dozen of them to be exact. They did look quite delicious Valo had to admit. "Woooooaaahhh thanks man!" Valo said some excitement in his voice he instantly started snacking on the treats. The taste did not disappoint, such a simple but yet genius idea he thought. He had to figure out a way to get some of these over at Hage. He started to follow Fell's lead around the royal capital.
But after taking a few steps away from the stalls, Valo started to nudge his arm. "Aye so I see you and that old lady getting along pretty well." Valo started to tease Fell. Obviously there was no connection between the two, but Valo liked to joke when he could. "You already got women flocking over you huh?" Valo continued to tease.
But Valo's teasing started to come to an end, when he saw started to see the castle up close. His mouth hung open for a bit, till he finally composed himself. "It's freaking huge!!" Valo shouted out loud. "Even your banner is huge! It's so not fair!" Valo continued to shout.
"We gotta get one of these in Hage, I'm gonna speak to my captain we need a castle!" Valo said starting to walk closer to the castle, but he noticed two young women coming down no crimson lion cloaks so they probably weren't wizards. But Valo decided why not try and talk to them. He approached them still snacking on his chocolate fruits the banana one specifically that Fell had mentioned. He gestured with his head for Fell to come follow.
As smooth as possible Valo was in front of them he removed the popsicle from his mouth. "Hello ladies how you two doing today?" Valo asked with his best charming voice. But both girls looked disgusted and waved Valo off. "Ewww how bout you clean yourself up first, before trying to talk to us." one of them said before walking off. Valo looked confused and relatively unbothered as he turned toward Fell shrugging his shoulders. He removed his popsicle again revealing a mouth covered in chocolate. "Usually that kinda works." Valo said to Fell looking confused.
Fell was happy when Valo seemed genuinely excited about the treat Fell had bought. Mostly due to him wanting to do nice things, but partly so he didn't waste his money as well. Though the teasing from Valo had Fell blush slightly. The lady at the stall was far older than Fell personally would ever chase if he decided he wanted a woman in his life. However in the end maybe Valo saw something in the boy, maybe he didn't. Fell sure didn't understand. Fell sucked with women, at least Lydia had taught him what flirting meant and since then he had come to understand a little more about the whole relationship thing, but in the end he was a newbie.
“I have no clue what you are talking about, she sees me alot since I pass by here so often, and I have been there a few times. But women flocking, not even close I am far too shy to seek out women. And plus I don't think I am the most desirable type.” Fell would comment back, he didn't mind the joking he just didn't see himself the same as Valo was joking. It wasn't long before the pair approached the castle and Fell heard Valo freak out. It was incredible. “Don't get too excited, it has its downfalls as well. Takes a while to get from one side to the other for instance, the beds are nice though” Fell commented thinking back to his wonderful sleep the night before.
It wasnt long before Valo’s attention was taken by two rather beautiful girls in the area, personally Fell wondered what the two were doing in the are considering the only things nearby was the Lions castle and a prison. At the same time though the area was beautiful so he ignored the thought and watched as Valo failed to notice the chocolate on his face as he attempted hitting on the two girls. Listening as the boy failed he came back to Fell with his excuse. “Well if you noticed the chocolate you would probably understand why” Fell said as he took out a piece of cloth and wiped the man's face clean in a quick swipe.
Fell had come to learn one thing about the young women in the area, they loved knights. And if they were this close to the Lions castle Fell had an idea. Personally he didn't care about the two girls, but Valo seemed to so he was willing to put in some effort. Fell ran up behind the two girls and tapped their shoulders, fluffing out his Lions Cloak just before doing so.
“Hey, sorry about my friend, he's sort of new to the capital. He’s actually a knight though, pretty strong and good with money too be honest.” Fell said, rubbing his head. The girls chuckling slightly, one pointing at the cloak quickly and whispering to her friend, the two giggling again.
“What about you, is that a Crimson Lion king's cloak?” The taller one of the two asked, arguably the prettier one.
“Yeah, I am a part of their squad. If you want I could show you the castle, it's pretty neat.” Fell said, working to make the girls interested. “I was just going to show Valo too, he has his own castle but we wanted to see the differences,” Fell said, turning and winking at Valo. It wasn't long before the four of them had made their way up to the castle, Fell motioning the three of them inside before following and spreading them. “Welcome to the castle of the Crimson Lion Kings!” he would say bowing slightly. Noticing one of the two girls staring fondly at Fells newest friend.
Post by Valo Stark on May 16, 2020 16:00:19 GMT -5
Valo looked pretty shocked when Fell wiped the chocolate from his face, he had no idea and he probably should be more embarrassed. But he shrugged it off without a care in the world. It would take way more than that to shake his confidence in anyway. But what Fell did next really shocked him, perhaps Fell wasn't as reserved as he let off. He went over to approach the two girls that Valo failed to charm. The act put a small smile on Valo's face, he made sure he close enough to hear what was happening.
Fell apologized on Valo's behalf he felt he didn't really need to do so, but perhaps the guy was on to something. Valo waited patiently though just to see how all this was going to turn out. After hearing a few of Fell's words Valo caught on to what he was doing. Valo had a slight chuckle in his voice, not to much to be noticed though. He saw Fell wink at him, and that shy reserved guy had almost disappeared. Perhaps Fell really did have a way with women.
"And he said he was shy." Valo whispered to himself, making sure no one would hear his comment as he made his way over. "Hi apologies for earlier ladies, I didn't realize all the mess I had." he said laughing at himself.
Eventually they started to walk with Fell leading showing them the entrance of the Crimson Lions castle, it was quite a sight Valo had to admit. Valo had a smirk on his face from Fell''s introduction. "Thank you Fell. This castle is quite nice I cannot deny that. I would like to see more and see how it measures up to my own." Valo said with a more sophisticated tone of voice than usual. He turned and spotted one of the girls looking at him, he simply smiled back in response and waited for Fell to continue the tour.
Fell smiled realizing that Valo had quickly caught on and took full advantage of the opportunity he was given. Fell himself personally didn't care much for the girls, they were by no means unattractive he just personally was not quite into many girls, and if he had to say it out loud, would probably only ever be attracted to someone with a little more ability magic wise than the three girls. Though for now they were okay company even if they were shallow enough to love the castle and the Lions so much they ignored their entire first impression, Fell let it go though it simply was how people were in the capital and he had grown to just accept that. Fell was on Valo’s side, and quickly followed up the man. “Well of course, just wait till you see the bedrooms, the beds are quite massive.” Fell said with a slight smirk to the man, though also with a crackle in his eyes showing Valo that if anything happened in a bed he would kill him.
Fell motioned on, even sticking his arm out for the girl nearest him to grab onto, and she did. Clutching inwards and pressing into Fell. “This castle is so cool, i've never been into something so massive and impressive Fell, it's incredible.” she said as she almost seemed to be drooling at the mouth. Fell began walking to the room to the right which was essentially the living room of the castle, a room larger than the first though not quite as high reaching with the ceiling. Looking around would be beautiful red couches and chairs, the chairs lined in lovely leather. Red flowers about the room with other foliage and painting hanging about, a large stone fireplace and multiple beautiful chandeliers hung about. “This is where we hang out sometimes, the fireplace is quite nice. Would you do the honors lighting it Valo, while I grab some treats” fell said to the man in order to let him show some magic.
At the same time Fell would lead his girl to a seat and let her sit before running off into the kitchen and taking a deep deep sigh of relief and stress. It wasn't easy for the boy to be acting so nonchalant around the girls and was taking all of his brain power and effort to give Valo the best chance at making anything out of it. Nonetheless the boy whipped up some hot tea and grabbed crackers and some sort of fancy spread before making his way back into the living room and sitting it all on the table. “Here ya go, Crimson Lions finest chef here!” Fell said jokingly as he sat down and looked towards the fireplace, the girl clasping on his arm again as she pushed into him again while grabbing and sipping on some tea.
Valo had to admit he was having his fun wit this little game him and Fell were playing. Of course it was a harmless game. Valo did his best to hold back the laughs coming out as they walked through the Crimson Lion base. Especially since the girls seemed pretty shallow and probably only accompanied them because they wanted to look inside the castle with some knights. Valo kept his calm though, he was used to games like this back in Kikka. He would continue play the role of fancy rich magic knight looking for a new castle to compare to his own. One of the girls grabbed his free arm, and clenched it rather tightly as they looked around. Fell mentioned the bedrooms and the size of the beds, which caused Valo to nearly laugh out loud but he hid it behind some fake coughs. His eyes widened with the thought though, and quickly caught the gaze Fell gave him with the crackle in his eyes. It was more of a warning signal he gave to Valo, telling him to don't get any wise ideas. Valo quickly looked away though with a very sly look on his face.
Eventually they made it to what Fell called their living room which was also huge and looked completely magnificent. This time though Valo had to hold back his initial reaction, and his face made it looked like he was moderately satisfied. He walked around the room some getting a good look at all the fancy furniture and accessories. Just for a moment the little kid in Kikka came out of him, and put the thought in his head to just steal some of the stuff no one would miss it. But Valo quickly shook such thoughts away. Valo heard Fell's request to light the fire place, giving him the chance to show off some magic. Valo smirked at Fell and took a few steps towards the fire place. He extended one index finger and pointed it at the fire place, but instead of just letting out a typical old fire ball. Valo had a refined control over his magic, despite his aggressive fighting style. In an instant small little butterflies made of pure fire came gliding out his finger, after Valo extended all five his fingers making the fire made butterflies swirl around in front of him and gently sly towards the fireplace lighting it. The two girls clapped at the small but entertaining display, all Valo could think was how that always worked even back home.
Eventually Fell went to make some tea, and Valo took a seat with one of the girls. Making small talk with her was easy since now he had her full attention, while nice and attractive girls they were indeed a bit shallow. But for the time being they made for some good conversation. But while he was talking, his mind was elsewhere. He noticed Fell's effort on this little game of theirs and started to laugh to himself. It was pretty clear at least to Valo that Fell was sort of new to this, but he sure was doing a good job with it Valo admitted.
Fell made his way back to the room, Valo had shared his chocolate covered fruits with the two girls. He noticed that the one girl he was talking to had moved closer to him and rested her head on his shoulder. While Valo sipped some tea and used his magic and fine control to make the fire in the fireplace dance and take multiple different shapes likes twirls, twists, and dances. Valo was more than careful enough to make sure nothing got burned or even singed. The little act kept the girls entertained. Valo turned to Fell though.
"Fell any games to play? or other sights to see?" he asked with genuine interest.
Fell was content sitting around the fire talking, he had grown used to being alone for the large majority of time anyway so whether or not they actually did anything was fine by the boy. Plus this was mostly for Valo as Fell had little care for the girls and knew nothing was ever going to come from it for the boy. Though he had a thought Valo felt the same way and probably knew this was nothing more than some entertainment for the two.
The four had been sitting for a little talking about their lives and such. As anyone could suspect the girls were extremely interested in the two and what their lives were like. Fell and Valo told the story of when they fought the bandits the first time they met, leaving out the part of Fell raging. Fell told the three about the castle, a lot of the ins and outs of it, as well as about his traveling and how he had visited almost everywhere in the kingdom up to this point even most of the minor villages that were laying around, though he still liked the capital the most behind his home. Which was true, his home was his home and contained his only family of course. But after that the capital never seized Amazing Fell, with the massive amounts of crazy and beautiful things and that vast quantity of things to experience left for a great place to live.
Valo seemingly growing bored proceeded to ask Fell another question, too which a quick reply and a smirk came from the boy. Fell knew another of Valo’s talents was his fighting, more so hand to hand compared to Fell. Fell had seen his magic but it had seemed to be more of the reinforcement type and less of the flat of attack magic that Fell mainly used. Nonetheless he knew Valo could show off if he wanted to where he planned to take them. “There is actually a really cool training area out back, come on I’ll show you.” Fell said standing up and helping the girl he had sat next to as he led the three out into the main hallway that extended past at least half a dozen big rooms before they got to the place Fell was mentioning. Opening the door he ushered them in before following them. As the four would now enter the training area outside. An enclosed space that was almost an open field outside of some resting places here and there with chairs and the like. There were even dummies that laid about that Fell taught the three about briefly. “These are magically imbued, they show damage but are impossible to fully break and they reform rather quickly, example.” Fell told them before quickly placing his hand on a dummy's chest and leaving a hole in it as he shot lightning out of his hand. The girls would clap and Fell would simply watch as the hole would quickly patch up. Threads extending out from one side of the hole to the other until the dummy looked new again. The whole process took less than a few seconds.
“It's quite nice for training, Give it a whirl Valo.” Fell said taking a step back after placing the dummy as well as another upright for the man to show off on.
Valo's ears twitched when Fell mentioned the training area. He jolted back up to his feet like lightning. "You must show us noowww!" Valo nearly demanded at Fell with pure excitement in his eyes. The sudden burst of eagerness would catch the girl he was sitting next to off guard. Valo noticed that he may have looked a bit to eager, and in order to keep up appearances he should tone it down. He patted the arm of his sweater elegantly and continued. "I am very much interested in a training area in my own place. So looking at the training area here will serve as a quite a nice example to pull from." Valo said picking up his bags, and helping the girl to her feet. But deep inside Valo was bursting with energy and excitement.
Valo listened to Fell's explanation of the training dummies Valo thought it was pretty interesting. Since they didn't have these dummies at the Green Mantis base Valo really wanted to give these things a whirl and test them out. He watched Fell blast a hole through and seconds later it started to repair itself in seconds. Valo was pretty impressed. The overall act got Valo even more excited to try it out. He walked over to the free benches, placed his bags down and took off his long cardigan and placed that down too not wanting to get it early. Valo wasn't really in fighting clothes but that wasn't going to stop him from showing off a little. "Oh I'm definitely going to test this thing out." he said towards Fell
He was now a few meters away from the training dummy, he would wave for the two girls to move back so they wouldn't get burned by his attack by accident. Valo started off with a light hop leading into a jog, he picked up speed just a bit and that momentum lead into a high hop. While in the air Valo did a 360 twist and on his way down he lead with his right foot igniting with fire about to perform one of his favorite spells Blaze Arc. An arc of flame was shot forward towards one of the training dummies, not splitting it in half but burning it too. Valo landed on his feet and did a bow, to complete his demonstration. Valo did not hold back to show off, while he bowed he had a smirk on his face. The two girls clapped excitedly after the move, Valo raised back up satisfied with his little demonstration.
Fell stood watching Valo as he took his turn with the dummies, thinking back Fell chuckled slightly by his eagerness to try the things out. Almost giving away his rather, un royalty mannerisms. But the girls were basically in a trance anyway so them not noticing made sense, nonetheless Fell was happy for Valo. He had done his job to make sure his friend was enjoying himself and it seemed that was the case, and now he could sit idly by and enjoy making his friend happy. After all Fell was by no means selfish and in the end the day's activities had benefited him only in being around Valo, Fell cared little for the girls knowing they basically were just high class pawns in a game of chess. They were nice company though, any sort of malice had quickly disappeared, and while they were not going anyway like Valo and Fell success wise they didn't exactly lead incredibly boring lives.
Fell watched the man run to the dummies doing a flip and release an arc of fire, it was definitely flashy. Much different than what Fell himself had done, both had effectively killed something if it were alive, just one flashy and cool looking getting more applause compared to Fell. Though it sort of just reflected the two people, Fell after all clearly cared less for looks than Valo. It could be seen in their shopping habits, though Fell admired the man. It was clear he wanted to be strong and be known as strong, there was nothing wrong with that. But Fell did want to have fun with the man, so he did.
Walking up to Valo Fell patted his back, once, twice. “Nice job, looked cool and did some solid damage, not bad.” Fell said. “But the problem with these dummies is they don't show off your reaction, that where you shine as a fighter.” Fell said backing up away from the man. Turning to the ladies he said “Valo here is actually rather crazy at reflecting magic.” Fell said to the ladies, turning to Valo muttering ‘go along with it’.
As the two got further apart, Fell used his own magic to quickly send out a shadow spike towards his partner. By now Fell had full control over his own shadow and as long as Valo’s showmanship proved good and flashy, he could make a real impression on the girls. He just needed to make it look like he reflected Fell’s spell who would of course make sure it never hit his friend.
"Haha Thank You, Thank you." Valo continued to bow satisfied with his little showy display. He thought he could have made it really simple, but that was never his style. When given the opportunity to show off Valo would never fail to make the most out of it. Especially since they had a little audience, being the two girls. Valo wasn't really getting attached to them at all, they were pretty typical girls but why not entertain them If he was going to have some fun at least.
Valo heard Fell speak though saying that he was rather crazy good at reflecting magic, initially it left Valo very confused reflecting magic at this point wasn't really his strong suit. If anything he was gonna dodge an incoming spell or just power right through it. This little thought did linger in his head though, perhaps he needed more options on the field so he could properly reflect some magic. But Valo came back to the moment when he heard Fell whisper to just go along with it. Valo assumed that Fell had some kind of idea to make Valo look like he could reflect some magic. Valo was still a bit confused but he was going to go along just because.
Fell had created some distance between the two and started to manipulate his shadow creating one of his shadow spikes, having a shadow spike coming towards Valo at decent speed. Now having a good idea of what Fell was planning since it looked like he had a very good control of his shadow spike Valo was all in and he was going to try his best to make it look convincing. He activated another spell of his this was just merely for visual effect though, his grimoire flashed red for a few seconds. He started to position himself as if he really was going to reflect the spell, widening his legs getting lower he twirled his arms in as they started to glow red and had some smoke covering them. When the spike got close enough he put his full trust in Fell, he thrusted both arms forward right before the spike would hit him awaiting for what Fell had planned.
Fell watched as Valo played along and hit the spell back towards the man making it as much of a show as possible as he made his arms all smoking and what not. Just as it looked like Valo hit the magic, Fell 180ed the magic back towards himself. At the same time ramping up the speed as much as he could. Sidestepping his own magic that had been reflected he watched it slam into a dummy behind him, creating a massive hole. “Oops, I guess I forgot to say he makes it stronger too, anyway its quite impressive.” Fell said to the girls who had begun clapping.
In the end though Fell was growing rather bored of the ladies and the show the two knights were putting on for them, and Fell took it upon himself to usher the two out. He did so nicely saying that it was simply getting late which was fairly true as dusk began to set. Just for added effect he made an excuse that the two men needed to discuss business as he ushered them out.
Once the two were gone, Fell turned to Valo and asked the man for some help “So, I was thinking right. I noticed you are rather good with combat, outside of magic and was wondering if you could teach me. I'm kind of lacking in the whole hand to hand combat area and was thinking maybe you could help? And sorry for ushering them out, to be honest they grew boring.”