Zeferoth trudged through the dense forest of the aimlessly. He had been on the planet for a short time, but quickly found that he had no purpous here. He wanted to come herer and learn to fight, and be strong enough to rival the earth heroes of ages gone by, but was that all there was to him? Just wonder around and get stronger? He wasn't sure. Zeferoth looked up to the sky through the dense blanket of branches and leaves seeing the occasional small animal or bird darting among them.

He couldn't help but smile. His brown eyes leveled back down to the ground ahead of him. He stopped hearing a growl behind him, and to his right. He turned seeing a large saber toothed cat approach from the brush. The large cat was roughly half Zeferoth's height at the shoulder, and large canines gleamed in the sparse sunlight. Zeferoth game him a fanged smile right back opening his arms to push his heavy jacked securely over his massive shoulders inviting the cat to take its best shot. 

In the end it only took one well placed strike to end the altercation in the most anticlimactic style. Zeferoth carried the cat across his shoulders looking for a good place to make camp and make a meal. The smell of a meal already cooking caught his attention, and Zeferoth's stomach growled louder. He figured that he might as well head that way. Zeferoth came across a camp with a pot already on the fire. A young man laid on his back staring up at the sky. Zeferoth approach allowing his heavy foot steps announce him.

"Everything alright?" He asked in a low rumbling voice. Zeferoth stood nearly seven feet tall staring down at the young man. His heavy, sand colored jacket hung around his shoulders keeping his muscular chest exposed. He had an eyebrow raised, and his sapphire colored hair mostly covered by the large cat he carried. 

He was laying down think or rather pondering about life and what to do. It was the steps of the giant that made him look up, once he heard his voice he was wondering how he would go through doors… and even try for fitting clothes.. 'not that they fit much…' he thought towards himself as he laid eyes on his posture. 'Not bad… but not my type.' he thought further before he would reply. "Huh? Ah… don't worry too much, I'm doing fine… what about yourself??" He tried to sound as human as possible, for all he knew this person was too. A lot of people dyed hairs… yet he kind of wondered why this person was this huge for a human… so he did somewhat second guess-- he had no time to second guess himself. A massive crater made impact beside him, only to have his late reaction to stand up… this could have ended so badly… as he wanted to look what had made the crater, he found himself in a shock… a person crawled out and didn't seem to notice any of their surroundings. "ha-!" It honestly surprised the young adult as he fell back on his bum, staring in awe with his eye. "W-what..?" He stuttered for a moment...how was this person fine..?! She looked fine…



"Emergency!!! That definitely wasn't supposed to happen!"



"N-no shit sherlock…." Nao muttered under his breath as he would tilt his head to the side… at least this person knew what to do with fi-- that was electrical wasn't it… 'oi oi… water and electricity doesn't go well togee-- how…' to his mind this very person was defying laws on earth…



"... Note to self, I need to be able to adjust the anti-gravity force on the fly. And uh...Maybe an emergency shut off..."



"..." At this Nao remained silent as he started to stand up once more, looking over them both before hearing the compliment regards the food. He had enough anyways so he made a decision… "so… I have enough for days… why don't you both eat some too?? I just don't have extra platters, just containers and extra spoons… " he said but then started to worry about the other. "I ain't an official… but i know till some medical degree. You alright??" He would, if possible, try his mystical hand to heal her up a bit. Yet he surely wasn't a pro at all. "I'm Nao.." he responded to them both as he would fill containers with the food and reach it out to them.

While it seemed like the elfen girl had been speaking to herself from the perspective of the other two, a couple of sharp taps against a microphone hooked up to the side of her head revealed that she was speaking into that. The true purpose was an audio recording to easily catalogue happenings with this field test, but the other two likely would not be able to figure that out unless they did a little deduction.

"The hover soles don't respond well to blunt force trauma...Consider increasing the density of the alloy surrounding the core casing."

Ayami recorded a particular note to herself, but then took notice of Nao's warning. She could only really scratch the top of her head, giving him a confused look.

"Huh? ... Oh! You mean this canister! No no, this is an electricity-safe foam. KAMI no. I'd never fry my own equipment, I learned my lesson a looooong time ago!"

She perked up when Nao offered to share his curry with the two that had arrived here in his camp. She WAS getting hungry, and...Well she was going to be stuck here for a few hours repairing the hover soles.

"That's pretty kind of ya! Sure!"

And then Zeferoth offered up his own...Meal to share. The elfen inventor shakes a free hand, noting the...Completely unprepared animal that was now just sitting on the ground.

"Uh, I'll pass! Bit thanks."

... She didn't even blink as the tiger jumped back to life and ran for the hills. Although even as odd as Ayami found that whole scenario, her attention was drawn away from that by the Brenchian who was currently showing some concern for her health after that impact.

"Oh, you mean that? I'm alright! It stings a little but I've had worse! One time my whole workshop blew up! My Gramma scolded me for HOURS after that! Said I had the entire village on red alert thinking we were being bombed!"

The much shorter elfen chuckled at that anecdote of hers, clearly not traumatized. Exactly as Nao had observed she was completely unharmed. The only visible damage being a few scrapes and bruises here and there. Although his healing art went a long way towards easing back the bruising.

"Looks pretty good..."

She gave a simple comment on Nao's curry, accepting the container and taking a seat on a fallen log. The two men introduced themselves as Nao and Zeferoth. Ayami grinned and returned the favor, introducing herself in kind.

"Name's Ayami! Nice to meet ya."

She looked over at the man named Brightscales, tipping the container back and drinking the curry.

"So your name's 'cause of those scale things right? You should've named yerself "Goliath"! You gotta be at least seven feet tall!"

Ayami looked down at the fire that had been used by Nao to prepare this meal. She figured they probably had questions... And she had a few of her own.

"So I figure we've all got a reason for being this far in the wilderness. And if neither of you mind me asking...Why're you two here? Is it because of that big tower everyone has been talking about around this region? I don't really have any interest in it myself. It's not scientific at all!"

She glanced over at the crater she made, grimmacing slightly.

"...Sorry about the divot in your camp by the way. I'll fix it before I leave!"

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Nao Zeferoth

Zeferoth raised an eyebrow at the smaller man's question. He would have thought that his sheer size, tail, and scales would give it away, but he mentally shrugged and addressed the man's question, as well as Ayami's comment. "Heh, you wouldn't be too far off, but no, it was my mother's maiden name." He didn't like comparing himself to the full blooded salamanders, but he also knew that there was no denying facts either. "I am on the small side for my race, due to my hybrid biology, as the others are fond of saying." He said the last with a bit of a bitter tone, but he tried to hide it. 

Zeferoth would basically catapult the food from the container into his open maw all at once. He would regret the choice a bit, as it was still warm, but he powered through it and chewed everything in one mouthful. A bit rude, maybe. Terrible manners, defiantly. Worth it, he would say so. He would use the spoon to get the more stubborn bit of food from the container before setting them both down with a contented sigh. That was some good curry. He listened to Ayami's question about being here and thought about it listening to Nao.

"Well, I am more or less a wanderer by nature. I prefer the company of nature and animals, to the large cities." He would turn to look at the tower. It looked important to someone, though he couldn't possibly know why. "My interest was more in the forest surrounding the tower. "I know nothing about it to be honest." He shrugged then turned to Nao to answer his question to them. "I grew up on the planet Lemuria, and spent a bit of time to Hegemon to get to know both sides of my heritage, but got more interested in Earth's history."

He was taken a back a bit on her enthousiasm. One that he didn't meet in these hights yet. He looked at her go, meassuring and taking the time to find whre the were... He really hd to pay attention to this as it was indeed quite handy. But then he saw her taking a glance on a watch too. "oi oi , that is just cheating.." the male muttered under his breath as he finished up the last bits of his stew. Cleaning all this up would be a thing to later. He picked another few containers and started to fill them up and click a lid on them. If you want to, you both can have a container too. I made too much anyways and it would probably spoil before I can empty them in time."

"Oi... an hybrid..?" This was almost like a new world opening up for him right here. He didn't really look for the oddities in the begin... but now he checked him out a bit better. And people could easily see that. "Funky..." He would mutter and slowly remove his bandana and ruffle his hair a little. As his hairs would now be standing a bit wilder, you could see the pointy ears. "I myself are born and raised here too... as far as I can tell at least, but my parents are from -- and I am actually a Brechian... However, I came out a bit colored. My dad was pink in skin and my mom was white... hense why I got the mix in it... But it is funny, that is you are human. That you look different to them too." He would smile soft towards her, as he didn't want to step on too many toes now that he finally met people. "Say... uhhm..." And there he went already, forgot the name of the lizard man. " Lizard...dude... hybrid... I forgot your name.. Do you hunt here often?" He asked in between and would scrath the back of his head after the question, as he felt quite stupid for forgetting the name. Truth to be told he never was good with them. As he had went with his hand through his hairs, he had somewhat tamed them again and they were reaching almost towards his shoulders. Even the eye patch was covered. "How long do you both plan to stay around here? As you area already reffereing to a bean sprout isle... hold up... one like the stories? Planted a bean and it grew? That... .was a childs story right...?" now the male started to confuse himself an he crossed his arms and legs thinking rather hard. "Dunno anymore... hnng...."



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Ayami chuckled as the brenchian mentioned her "cheating" with the use of a watch. She simply shook her head.

"Gotta confirm my findings y'know! That's science!"

She watched the smaller guy gather what was left of the curry into two more tins, shutting them up tightly, he then generously offered them to the other two! The elfen girl gladly accepted this kind gesture, grinning at him.

"Gee, thanks! This'll really come in handy on the walk back! Although I'd PREFER IF THIS DUMB THING WORKED!"

Ayami angrily kicked the hover sole, a jolt of pain coming to her as she did so...

"Ow!!! Why you little-Arghhhh!"

The smaller elfen picked the heavy steel boot up, placing it into her lap and grumbling as she did so. She took a screw driver out and began to tinker with it as she listened to the other two converse. Elfen? Fae...? Why did that all sound so familiar?

"I swear I've heard those somewhere before. But weirdly I don't have any clue where Hegemon is...I've certainly never been there before!"

Ayami watched as Nao removed his bandana, she refrained from commenting out of politeness and instead continued tinkering as she listened to him speak. So he and his parents lived here? Then why was he so lost...? Well...Questions for later. He made a fair point. — He and Zeferoth both did. People could look human and still be something entirely different.

"I've heard that before... But I guess you've both got interesting points. Lots of people can look human. My best friend is an android that looks, thinks, and feels like a real human being! It's incredible what technology is capable of anymore huh?!"

Ayami raised an eyebrow as Nao asked a fair question regarding how long they'd be here. Well, that was an easy one to answer!

"Just until I can get my hover soles repaired. What about you? You're not planning on staying here are ya?"

Ayami chuckled at how impressed Nao was with her home island.

"That's how the story goes anyway. A long time ago a fisherman dropped an enchanted seed into the ocean and it grew into an island overnight! But...I kinda doubt the legitimacy of that story. In actuality it's named after the beans that naturally sprout there."

The elfen girl grinned right back at Zeferoth.

"Well if you ever do, my Gramma can make a pretty good meal too!"

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Nao Zeferoth

'Don't tempt me." Zeferoth said with a laugh. He stood up popping his neck, and started stretching his arms. "I would hate to make an impromptu visit, and scare her expecting to be fed." Zeferoth stiffened when he felt something touching the scales on his lower abs. He looked down to see Nao feeling his scales. Zeferoth didn't say anything at first. He couldn't. No one has ever done anything like this, so he didn't know how to even properly respond to someone just walking up and feeling his scales. It seemed that what thought prompted Nao to inspect his scales had passed and he became aware of the awkwardness of the situation. 

Zeferoth just rubbed his head just as embarrassed. "Maybe, but don't worry too much about it." A blue jay would fly around Zeferoth's body and land on his shoulder. There was nothing special about this particular bird. Zeferoth wasn't sure if he interacted with it before, but he always seemed to be able to attract, and calm nearly any animal. He just chalked it up to some calming aura he gives out. "Hello little friend." He whispered watching it clean itself, and rest on his shoulder.