Act 1, Scene 1: Homecoming [OPEN]

Rhuba had flown around the mist, making sure not to get too close to it. After dealing with other magical areas, he'd not want to deal with anything that might be magical without proper knowledge first. Parasitix told him the mist wasn't magical, which confused him, he then assumed perhaps maybe Parasitix had been confused. Tendrils had released out of him to analyze the mist, but since Parasitix had never had to analyze things like this, it had no idea what it even was. Then Kim spoke to him, releasing a mist from their mouth as they spoke. Baiting him into inhaling the mist, they designed it more of a threat, but he took it as a challenge.

As the tendrils that meant to scare Kim retracted, Rhuba became annoyed as Kim brushed him aside so easily for the newcomer. Did they not know who they were talking to? Well, of course not, not many people knew of him. Tossing aside his sporadic thoughts, he'd watch angrily as Kim summoned chairs and a table. Rhuba would conjure his own chair, black, oozing magical energy that billowed out like smoke on one side of the table as well. "Do not forget my seat at the table." He'd say dramatically, before glancing at the darker mist that had came out of Kim before.

"You say this will kill?" Rhuba floated directly into it, inhaling the mist. As he took in a deep breath, he flew higher into the air as he looked down at them with a smug smile. "See? Nothing." Parasitix whom was connected to Rhuba shrieked inside as he could feel Rhuba's Saiyan body react to the chemicals. Rhuba's smug smile slowly began to morph into a pained expression. Parasitix had been able to protect him for a short period as it began to reverse damage the mist was causing. It caught up to him quickly as the black texture that had taken his form dispersed and retracted into his body. Rhuba began to cough violently as he slowly began descending, before losing his concentration and plummeting into the hard ground with a loud thud. The moment he landed, the chair he had materialized had vanished in a puff of smoke.

Rhuba now dressed in his normal city attire with a hoodie and pants, began clutching his throat and chest. His eyes burned now, and his vision began to blur. All he had time to do was breathe, or at least try to breathe through burning pain. Parasitix had been working on fixing the damage, but it had given up realizing it was damaging him faster than it could fix, it had to neutralize or at least subdue the toxins the mist had introduced into his body. It was a complex process, but since Parasitix had a deep connection with Rhuba's body on a molecular level, it had come to understand how he works internally intrinsically.

Rhuba began pounding on the ground, the ground underneath him caving in with each blow. Rhuba out of fear of what was happening, released all his energy and entered his Wrathful state. He couldn't breathe, and when he did it didn't feel like he was getting any more oxygen, it felt like every time he breathed in it became worse. He could hardly see the ground underneath him, tears streaming from his eyes on top of the burning making it hard for him to even keep them open. It took all his effort to even raise his hand and slam it into the ground but it was the only distraction he could afford at the moment. "W-aht id yo do to m-m?" Rhuba said from gasps, his lungs felt like they were being ignited from the inside, and his eyes had not stopped watering and they burned just as intensely. Rhuba's fist hit the ground one last time, this time no loud crack or rumbling, the clenched fist hit the ground in a whimpering thud as his head also fell into the ground in unison. Rhuba's breathing slowed drastically as Parasitix began to shut Rhuba down to slow the spread in his body, so he could do his work.

Though Parasitix saw an opportunity, and they'd definitely take it. They couldn't let Rhuba die, as they were now one entity, but that didn't mean they couldn't take over and become the main operator while he was out.

Rhuba's body began to ooze out with magic, that magic solidifying around Rhuba, changing his shape as it began to rise up out of what now would look like a black puddle that had pooled in the small hole Rhuba had created with his fist earlier. Parasitix now stood before them, featureless, unlike Rhuba. Missing any defining features, but stayed humanoid in shape. It looked more like a Majin than an Earthling or Saiyan, while tendrils slipped out of it's skin, the ki from Rhuba still enveloping this brand new form. Parasitix didn't form a mouth or nose, the only defining feature it had formed was it's eyes, though their eyes appeared more like star-shaped red gems.

Parasitix raised it's right arm to it's waist level, and clenched it's fist twice. Getting bearings on how the body would control, Parasitix would then retract it's tendrils. Tilting it's head toward the two as if it was a creature trying to understand what it was looking at. Parasitix remembered being told by Rhuba that people who don't have any energy are always hiding it. Knowing this, it assumed that Kim whom it couldn't sense was hiding a large reservoir of food. Within that realization, it's head would snap back into position in a very unnatural way. Using the energy Rhuba unknowingly fed it, it would dash toward Kim's form, using it's blob-like body and tendrils to try and grab and absorb whatever it could from Kim, if successful.

Rhuba enters Wrathful state x5!
Rhuba attacks Kim with a non-KP attack trying to drain them for knowledge!

WC:   979
TWC: 1,478

Thread PL: 64,232
Transformed PL: 321,160


HP: 0%/250% (+0%)
KP: 6/6 (+0)
MP: 0/6 (+0)

Traits: Saiyan Pride (Inactive) | Burning Ki (Unused) | Combat Learning
Items: Battle Armor (Unused) | Battle Liner (Unused)

Parasitix had felt the technique Meara had used, before it could be tied around him he'd swing at it with his blade, redirecting the attack once aimed for Kimono. The blade itself went straight through the thread, but did no damage. Being unable to fully manipulate the ki Rhuba emitted could have easily been the reason for the miss, or perhaps whatever technique Meara had slung his way wasn't able to be sliced with ki. The thread pulled him away from his original target, even if he hadn't been moved Kimono had clearly avoided the attack with their interesting dodge.

Sliding away from both of them, making sure there was no more of that thread around him, Parasitix would retreat away from them. Landing on the ground a few feet from where he once stood, a muffled scream began to emit from inside of Parasitix's form. Hands pierced Parasitix's chest from the inside, prying open a hole. Rhuba had finally awoke, being healed of the toxins that had entered his body. Parasitix's chest began to open wider and Rhuba began to crawl out of the newly made cavity, a loud scream of pain and anger booming viscerally from the hole as he clawed his way out. Parasitix stood still, leaning back and looking down at Rhuba and the hole as the connection with Rhuba finally clicked back on once he regained consciousness.

"YOU! THAT FELT LIKE THAT BRAIN MAGIC!" Rhuba grit his teeth as he glared at Kimono, his skin the same texture as Parasitix as he finally floated out of the cavity and Parasitix's form enveloped Rhuba's body again, forming like a suit over his skin. "I. WANT. TO..." Rhuba used his Lightspeed technique to amplify his speed, his legs flashed with ki, his body enveloping a portion of it as well, leaving an after-image where he stood. Using the speed, he would blitz toward Kimono only to stop short of them. "Learn something like that!" He said, his voice raspy as if he had just smoked an entire carton of the most heinous cigarettes, the massive aura he had earlier dissipated as he spoke, leaving his Wrathful form.

Rhuba had came in search of magic. Parasitix felt something here, but it didn't know exactly what it was. That had intrigued him originally, so he followed Parasitix's 'nose.' "I was just going to drain the knowledge from you guys, but from what I have seen from that one," Rhuba turned his thumb toward Meara, "Your magic is... confusing?" He said with a confused look. "Bloodlines tainted and tied. Their lineage of the sanguine sky. The miasma now a family trait... I have to admit, it sounds pretty cool..." Rhuba had no idea if what they did was magic, but it was the only other medium other than ki that he knew, and he never saw anyone use ki in the ways these guys were. Rhuba was angry at the pain he had been put through, but he knew that he couldn't take both of these individuals if they teamed up, and if Parasitix's memories told him anything, it was that they were one threat away from doing such a thing.

Parasitix manifested from a tentacle and leaned toward Kimono as if it had wanted to communicate. Rhuba grabbed the tentacle, and pushed it back inside him. "Weird, it's never acted like that before. Do you know it?" Rhuba was starting to get invested, Parasitix was wanting to communicate with someone else and no longer could he feel Parasitix hunger for Kimono. "Very weird..." He said with a very confused sounding tone, while the raspy part of his injured voice had already cleared up and disappeared as if he was miraculously healed of a bad cold.

Rhuba is no longer in his Wrathful state x5!
Rhuba questions Kim?

WC:   593
TWC: 2,578

Thread PL: 64,232

HP: 0%/250% (+0%)
KP: 6/6 (+0)
MP: 0/6 (+0)

Traits: Saiyan Pride (Inactive) | Burning Ki (Unused) | Combat Learning
Items: Battle Armor (Unused) | Battle Liner (Unused)