The Halfbreed's Tale (Ayumu/Invite Only)

The sun's rays were shifting towards the east, signaling its rise to the west. The sky above the three beings was turning a dull shade of violet and blue, with the shadows of the forest becoming a subtle shade brighter.

"I'm doing fine, sir, but I'm just a bit more concerned about you." Celmaru said, looking over Ayumu for injury once again.

Hearing Ayumu praise him for protect him, Celmaru replied, trying to humble.

"Its no problem, sir." Celmaru said, not used to the praise, "Although I hope that tiger didn't hurt you when I may have been unable see you..."

Suddenly remembering that it was likely to be him that woke Ayumu, Celmaru continued speaking.

"Oh! And I'm sorry, sir....I must've disturbed your slumber.....you looked like you really needed it..."

Slightly ashamed of how he disturbed his elder, Celmaru bowed his head as a brief apology. Celmaru didn't think that something potentially dangerous would actually attack the elder either, and he didn't want to shout, yet he did so anyway.

"I didn't want to make too much noise, but I ended up doing so regardless..." Celmaru said, still bowing his head, "But then again, I didn't expect anything to really show that was a threat..."

Celmaru then looked over towards the Hana, feeling a tinge of bitterness. Although the bitterness disappeared when he saw Ayumu and Hana bickering with each other...rather Hana than Ayumu. Amongst their arguing, Celmaru focused on Hana, feeling something bigger than before, her power was greater.

"Did she get stronger?" Celmaru thought, still giving Hana an irritated look, "Does she meditate as well?"

Celmaru also noticed their arguments were oddly in sync, one after another, reply after reply, etc. Deciding not to butt in, Celmaru waited until their bickering ceased.

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The two had finished their arguing, calming down (to an extent, with Hana).

"By the way, sir, Miss Hana," Celmaru said, facing her, "Didn't do anything to protect you, whilst you slept."

"Might regret saying that in front of Hana, but of well, I can tell I'm just a bit more powerful....although that demonic form of Hana's is unnerving...." Celmaru thought.

"And just to inform you, Hana," Celmaru said bitterly, remembering something he never hoped to, "I'm not getting cocky! I can't afford to, not if I'm going to...."

Celmaru stopped himself from finishing that sentence. Celmaru's mind was filled with thoughts of "The Black Death", that heartless Arcosian that casually murders anyone of his race. Celmaru was letting off a hint of murderous intent, still thinking of the Arcosian. Celmaru placed a hand on his face, face-palming out of regret.

"I shouldn't have started that sentence..." Celmaru thought.

Awaiting a possibly mocking response from Hana, Celmaru lowered his hand, his face serious. He would have to explain soon, if he didn't want to concern Ayumu, at least, that's what Celmaru believed.

Celmaru was utterly surprised that the tiger could stand a hit like it did. Although was even more surprised that Hana was practically reading his mind.

Uncomfortable and attempting to ignore the smells penetrating his nostrils, Celmaru tried to think in response Hana's recent statement.

"So...you basically feed off of the ki of those being tortured." Celmaru thought, crossing his arms.

Celmaru only thought this to test his theory, albeit a haphazard one. Somewhat disgusted of the smells, Celmaru let the conversation continue. But when Hana placed a hand upon Celmaru's shoulder, he flinched slightly, unknowing to what she might say.

"...." Celmaru listened, being told of something he never thought of.

Being told that meditation, training the mind, and physical training, honing the body's potential, wasn't the only way to be training, internally flipped a switch inside Celmaru.

"Heh...." Celmaru said, chuckling softly, "Being told that, after only ever being taught of training the mind and body....is almost shocking to me. I guess that's the "pro" and the "con" of having a Saiyan parent. But training whilst speaking to an accepting man and his little Demon female...I find it hard to believe."

Clemaru was tired of letting them speak, without him speaking back in kind. He wanted to give as much information as they did, Celmaru wanted to give the elder something to listen to, rather than him.

"Its only fair." Celmaru thought.

"You know," Celmaru said, almost stammering, "I feel like I should tell you my s-story, rather than let you speak onward.....I'm sure you'll being tired of speaking before l-long...."

Celmaru clenched his fists, before relaxing them. He exhaled loudly, almost like a sigh, and faced both Hana and Ayumu.

"Since my life...well, isn't centuries long..." Celmaru said, "I might as well start from the beginning."

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(Sorry if the 2nd to last non-speaking paragraph was a bit rude, wasn't exactly sure how to put it....)
(Also sorry that the post is a bit short, a ton of exposition is incoming!)

    While both Hana and Ayumu understood that there would be a long conversation, Hana would place her hand on the ground while her arm split off into a multitude of stump like objects for people to sit upon as soon a large canister of oolong tea along with three stone cups were placed on a small carry table that he had placed between them.
Even bringing forth suprise with how quickly he managed to produce all these materials, Ayumu could only smile towards the two sitting nearby him.
willing to listen to the entire story.

    Simply listening to the origin of his birth, Ayumu himself could only feel himself starting to think along to the entire happenstance, remembering when he was born in the mere dumps, His life as a child born under fake insemination brought a disgrace to his entire family bloodline, not having the right eye colour of his father it would have been easy to understand what would have happened if he wasn't as kind hearted as he was.
Unable to bring down his hand towards a mere child,
Ayumu his eyes showed a slight bit of kindness towards him, sipping slowly from the oolong tea with a prominent sound echo'ing through the forest while a gust of wind made a nearby windchime make its music, a constant sound that would be nearby them untill you could see a small ring on the finger of Ayumu, his ring finger that had a peculiar set of holes on it that when the wind passed through it created a distant sound of a wind chime, always filling the area with music.

    Yet the sudden comment of his powerlevel made him simply raise his eyebrows, shocked at the rather big growth he had made in his life, while taking a look at Hana attempting to pay attention to the best of her ability, pouring her a new cup of oolong tea while starting to make a small fire underneath the table, containing it with just the right amount of fuel and a ring of stones while listening, it would warm our lower bodies while keeping this oolong tea warm enough till the conversation would be over, as he simply nodded to react towards your story.
Giving a clear indicator that he was listening to it.

    Hearing the docile nature of this person infront of him made him smirk, holding in a soft chuckle while nodding at the brash part, realizing that blaming it on a saiyan his blood was kind of a easy move, he also started to let out a sigh after drinking his warmed up oolong tea, using it as a masking to not show the detail of him knowing saiyans all too well.
Having grown up with a few he knew how hard it could be, they were constantly shown that they werent truely the human kind of people.
Normal humans constantly warning others to not start fights while trying to stop saiyans who were naturally stronger from killing off the other kids.
A common occurance was even to have the kids enter a deathmatch when there was nobody to pay attention, causing the entire aftermath of having somebody sued to be rather obvious, his head bringing itself down to the floor, a soft crack becoming visible on the cup from his grip strenght.
Yet at the sight of his ki, it was easy to see it wasn't the ki strenght he possesed, he had none in exact numbers, it was the clever use of moves he had in his repetoire that came out even naturally showing how dedicated he was to his training.
bringing himself forwards in life constantly.

    Hana her reaction to this situation was a rather uninterested one yet she did show atleast the respect of constantly bringing herself to stare towards Celmaru.
Listening to his every word, making sure that he would know she was atleast paying attention and showing respect to the way he was made.
Knowing that she herself had not been growing up rather loyally or safe, she would not have the mere choice to even call anybody out on it ever.

    Yet Ayumu would bring himself to simply pour you a new drink, making sure you took a small break after finishing to talk about the ear that was blasted off, making sure you would wet your tongue and be able to speak on without too much of a problem while speaking his opinion.

"Please drink up some oolong tea and think carefully, it is better to speak in good chunks than to dump everything in one sitting"

    Before simply going silent, listening to the next pieces of information while starting to put out that common nod of his again.
Remembering a faint old memory about the tales of this mister satan, it would bring forth a kind smile to his face, one of a memory that he had years ago before simply shaking his head and then nodding as he was amazed at the growth he had performed, it wasn't optimal but it was rather good for somebody his age.
Easily putting him in the ranks of being able to fend off the elites that would bully the others.
Yet the reaction that he gave shortly after it was nothing short of baffling.
Knowing that he was gone for many years he had not known that everybody was this strong, that everybody had become this powerfull and this mighty.
That even somebody of this level was able to perform a strenght of such level and not be able to fight off some simple elite fuckers.
The energy that he supplied to Hana starting to increase while her face formed a small blush from the energy increase as she elbowed Ayumu.
Trying to get him to stop, untill she realized exactly why this was going on as he simply spoke.

"Please continue, we are listening, that is the least amount of respect we can show.
Comrades know that the release of such information will be good for your heart"

    Listening to his adventure on the asteroid, the inn, the Arcosian.
The struggles he had performed to even be able to fight against such a beast, probably even incapable of at that time sensing the levels of power in such a mighty beast he would simply start nodding his head, Hana starting to place her hand on Ayumu his shoulders, slowly leaning forwards before getting a new cup of Oolong tea poured in.

    The attention of Hana starting to become more interested when the details of the fight came out, starting to be able to visualize how you were defeated as the position she was in would easily hide her facial expression.
It would be a shit eating grin, one so wide that she could not contain herself before simply starting to lean back and let out a cough before placing her head ontop of Ayumu and her arms wrapping around his neck in a embrace, nothing too dangerous with the large tiger like creature laying down with his head onto the lap of Ayumu.

    Knowing the pain of having a limb being completely torn off, he would simply start to let out a pained sigh, placing his hands on his bottom half, his legs while a soft glow from his hands would start to show a multitude of tear off points.
The number of tear off points would be easily up to a hundred as the amount of limbs he had lost was immense, making him give you a comforting smile, as if to tell you that he knew what it feels like to lose a limb, even when it was nearly that far before letting his jeans fall down to his ankles again, his sandals firmly planted in the ground with the tiger using his claws to place them down comfortably for himself.
The small waves of his ki travelling through his body revealing many hidden wounds that were hidden up by strong medications and powerfull toxins coursing through his body and not allowing them to be seen.
Yet the mere concept of somebody scarred so badly you were barely able to see his normal skin was terrifying to anybody who had not expierienced hell.
Yet he never became cocky, even when you described your expieriences he listened carefully and gave honest answers.
Although with the moment you brought up the word Zenkai, Hana would glare forwards, it was for a split second yet it was understandable, surviving something dangerous and getting as big of a boost as a saiyan was something most races only could dream off.
Yet it was a normal occurance for their race, something truely blissfull for the power hungry.

    But even with all the information he had brought to the table today, what interested him the most was the occurance known as the black death, something he had heard very little off due to the massive time frame of diffrence and when he rushed towards earth, giving him a sudden realization of why his training was so rushed and exactly how he found himself incapable of ever forgiving this son of a bitch.
Could i disagree with him? No, Obviously not as the simple word of having somebody go after everything you held dear was something way beyond the way that he could have left boiling.
The small ring of force that exploded outwards would be stopped by a intense reaction of a group of plants to prevent too much harm coming to the old man called Ayumu but he simply raised up his body.
Walking towards him.

    For every step he took the impression of somebody with a powerlevel of zero started to dissapear, it was of somebody who would have attempted to bring forwards the smallest change in the world.
A small little wave that would never be able to clash against the titanic waves of true saiyan warriors or humanoid legends.
Somebody who would simply try to bring himself into the arms of those he treated truely dear.
And with this mere concept he would embrace you, he would try to let you know that everything was okay and that you werent alone.
That you had... Comrades, That would strive to be with you and attempt to do their best.
Even when this little wave called Ayumu would go forwards into the tidal waves, you could almost certainly know that it was a stubborn one, one that would never give up.
As such, was he.

    Hana would have simply started to place his hand behind the ear of the tiger, bringing forwards the creature and starting to attempt to coerce it to peacefully calm down while starting to think about the words he spoke, not letting out a single sound in the time of the moment before starting to bring herself to embrace the tiger who simply pinned her down and licked her face.

As you spoke your words, you would simply start to feel his hand starting to brush your head, his words were rather simple.
He was not trying to bring out anything that you had stored within you, instead he brought you something new that you would have probably missed for so long while simply speaking his words.

"You know what she would say while you continiously would train and run from home right?"

Simply listening to the words you started to force out, simply listening to the beating of your heart as he would slowly let his arms lower.
Letting them hang by his side, you could start to feel a large beast like figure starting to walk up from his side, the tiger starting to look upwards to him.
Hana having placed herself on the shoulder of this Old gramps.
Sitting there happily, flailing her feet as she then started to show a brilliant smile.

"Do not thank us!"

"Do not ever back down from a challenge!"

"Never give up or break down from the people who come from the future.
Never ever bring yourself down by the weight on your shoulders, Always strive to become much better than you are right now untill you hit the massive wave of power that is the infernal passion within your heart!"

"As the partner of this bundle of chaos, as the partner of many friends who are scattered in this world who would not be ready to be there to shoulder everything with you!"

"TOGETHER WE ARE AYUMU AND HANA!"

They shouted together, as you realized just how carefree they could be, their burdens were obviously there yet unlike you these two knew exactly that they could move on and believe in the people they knew.
They would never back down, they would never listen to the normal way things woudl go, What they did was follow their own way.
Even if nobody believed in them these two truely were able to take every blow of life and simply walk on!
But it seems your challenge is accepted!

(You can end it to have the next thread be the fight if you want too, PL btw xD)