-Break-
Location: Great Tree of Anucroí, floor 2; Grasslands
With some dogs chasing after him, Orb runs forward with a cart of wonderbeasts' carcasses, and says, "These aren't for you doggies!"
But the dogs ignore him and move forward towards the fresh meat. As they continue to chase him around, Orb says, " Don't make me attack you guys, I am one of you!"
But the dogs bark and continue to chase him around with silly expressions on their faces, until a loud whistling sound plays, bringing them all towards the source of it.
As Orb stops running when he hears the sound, he turns his head, and there he sees Willow with a whistle in his hands. Looking at Orb, he says, "Did they try to mate with you?"
"You're not funny!"
Giggling to himself, he says, "I think I am."
Willow then blows the whistle, which compels Orb's body to move, and he says, "You really are a dog."
Orb quickly lunges towards Willow and puts him in a headlock, then says, "Do that again and you will see who is a dog, and who is a corpse."
As they start to fight on the ground, the dogs join in, making a giant mess around them until a druid says, "What are you guys doing?"
The druid quickly moves to break them up, and then Willow says, "Shamrock, I was just informing this idiot of his beastly nature."
"If you're going to pick a fight, at least leave the animals out of this!"
Shamrocks himself looks like a giant towering over both Orb and Willow. Judging solely from his stature and muscles, one would think he wrestles animals for a living, and the lion aspects around his body only make him more menacing.
Willow whispers to Orb, "I hear he slammed a tiritrex into the ground with his bare hands."
Orb whisper to Willow and says, "I hear his biceps are so strong he can pop your head off by flexing."
Shamrock puts both of their heads between his biceps and starts to squeeze, then says, "You think you can both just start having a conversation in front of me when I am talking to you?"
"SORRY!" They both say.
Willow lowers his head from the scolding and says, "You're right."
With a smug grin on his face, Orb says, "Looks like someone's in trouble."
But then Shamrock smashes Orb's head into the ground, and says, "You can't go running around the grasslands with giant carts of meat, any number of fauna here could assault you, fool."
Willow starts to laugh at this sight, and Orb says, "Don't worry Willow, I will get you back for that later."
Standing up, Shamrock says, "Come with me to avoid any more issues."
Orb and Willow get on their feet, then follow the man in front of them while keeping the dogs at bay from attacking the cart.
Orb says, "Is Maple or Willow the 2nd on this floor?"
"No, currently they are on the 11th floor; the desert habitat, along with Suzuka the 2nd."
"Will Willow and Suzuka the 2nd be ok up there? They are both from winter and forest habitats respectively?"
"Maple the 2nd is constantly creating water to keep both Willow and Suzuka hydrated, besides, their bodies are far more resilient than we give them credit for."
Willow says, "The tiritrex's all wanted to be together, but Maple doesn't like either forests or the cold. So it seems Willow and Suzuka did what's best for her."
"Just like their real-life counterparts."
Willow smiles a bit, but is quickly distracted by a wonderbeast flying into his face.
As he lands on the ground, he looks up and sees a baby Zterytavis on top of him, and says, "Captain, it seems like you're up."
Looking up Orb and Shamrock see a series of Zterytavis flying through the sky, and Orb says, "It seems they are happier now."
"They weren't able to fly up on the surface due to the snowstorm constantly making it hard, and you didn't allow them to fly around outside of Fimbulwinter for their safety. So they are finally getting to spread their wings and are cheering up."
Willow, sitting up, says, "Though I do wish we would be able to allow them to have more space to fly."
With a smug smile on his face, Orb says, "I happened to discuss that with Síofra, and we might make the top of Anucroí into another habitat for flying wonderbeasts."
Shamrock, with his muscles rumbling, says, "HOW WONDERFUL!" He then flexes so hard that all of his clothes pop right off his body.
Then posing for the Zterytavis, he says, "The joy of the wonderbeasts fuels my muscles, my passions, my instincts. Don't worry, my dear pets, this perfect body exists to protect you from all harm!"
As Shamrock continues to flex, Willow says, "You should get moving on. When he starts this, it takes him a while to stop.
"I will," Orb says as he starts to move away.
But before he can leave, Willow grabs him by his collar and says, "Make sure to rest ok?"
"I promise I will." Orb runs and gets some distance between them, then says, "In a couple of weeks, I will."
"YOU LIAR!"
Orb with a smile starts to run away, and then Willow says, "I'll just draw on his face as revenge when he collapses."
-Break-
Location: Great Tree of Anucroí, Compounding floor.
Beneath the first floor of the great tree of Anucroí is where experiments into the biological manipulation of plants and animals for medical and practical use take place. Every single corner of the area is filled with plants, with the only exception being a special carved out area where wonderbeasts' parts are kept, but during this time, a large group of sick humans rest instead.
As Orb enters the room, he says, "Your food has arrived!"
Hearing this, Fois, the head of the pharmaceutical department, says, "You arrived rather quickly, didn't you, Orb. But you look kind of messed up?"
"Oh, cause I ran from the fourth break room down here."
Fois walking up to me says, "You do realize there is an elevator that you can take up and down Anucroí in the centre of each floor, right?"
"The flow of resources is incredibly large dense due to how much movement is going on right now, so if I joined that line it would take up resources unnecessarily. Besides, it was just some stamina training."
The rest of the beastkin in the room look at Orb like he is some monster, but then he says, "Why are you guys dilly-dallying? we need to get some food prepared for our little patients expressly."
As the other beastkin move to get food prepared from the ingredients Orb brought, he walks over to Fois, and says, "How is everyone doing?"
Fois says, "Come on, see."
Looking at Orb's face, Fois says, "You do realize you shouldn't be here, don't you have a couple of plans going on for the rest of the day?"
"I work up earlier and have already used my advent limit for the day to push snow away. Now I'm just checking up on things I haven't been keeping track of and am making sure other projects I put into place, like construction and the movement of patients, are going well."
"While I want to ask you how long you have been awake, I feel like it would just scare me a bit."
Orb giggles a bit, then says, "But on that note, how are the patients?"
As they walk, Fois says, "I have never seen anything like that excessive radiation, as you guys call it. Not only is their skin burnt, but to seems like the damage has spread to every single part of their body."
"The Basileia crystals by themselves are incredibly rare so it would make sense the symptoms wouldn't be found."
"My issue with that is that I struggle to know where to begin when it comes to treating them permanently. I simply don't know how to reverse the effects of the illness they all happen to be afflicted with, and with the rate at it is degrading their bodies, I don't think I will."
Stopping in one place, Orb says, "Does that mean everyone is going to die?"
"I simply can't answer that question in good faith, as it is above the level of knowledge I currently have Orb. But there is something I want to show you."
Walking through a set of doors, Orb and Fois enter a room full of people afflicted with Basileia radiation, and every single one of them is jumping around full of life. With another group of rather unscrupulous people looking after the patients.
They talk to each other like they are in their youngest day, and they move around like they are in their youngest forms. Seeing this, Orb says, "They could barely move a few days ago."
Fois with a smile, says, "While healing them is currently unknown to us, we have methods to help. The amount of different types of pain relief drugs we can make with beast blood battle arts, has given us a wide range of weapons to use in reducing their pain. So at the very least, they can function as normal, and many of them could go about living life normally if the members of Gaia's sky watch after them."
The kids who are attached to the hip of their now healthy parents run over to Fois and say, "Fois, do the thing."
Fois rolls his little pangolin body into a ball and starts to roll around the children to their amusement.
Getting down to their eye level, Orb says, "Lieke, don't go bothering Fois, he is busy, you know?"
"No one is talking to you, doggy."
As Lieke says this the kids start to laugh in amusement, and the big bad wolf says, "LOOKS LIKE SOMEONE'S NEEDS TO BE TAUGHT DISCIPLINE!"
The kids with smiles on their faces say, "IT'S THE BIG BAD WOLF!"
Orb manifests ice on his face to mimic a wolf face, and then manifests his ears and tail and starts to chase the kids around to their amusement as Fois rolls around them.
But as they play, a man sitting in a chair beside some beds sighs. He holds a book in his hand, and the people beside him, gathering their beds in a circle, all have pens and paper in their hands.
That man, the former leader of Gaia's sky, Sparrow says, "How childish can that boy get?"
A patient in a bed beside him says, "Do you really think a child slaver like you has any right to talk about anything?"
Sparrow has a kneejerk reaction as he is remained of everything stolen from him by Orb and says, "Don't take my advice then, but when you guys little country collpases due to making a fucking child carry all your burdens don't come crying to me."
A woman in a bed beside him laughs a bit, which brings the attention of everyone in the little circle surrounding Sparrow. "What's so funny, Sanne?"
"I just think you are a surprisingly nice person."
"Huh?"
"Well, most of us have gotten used to overly relying on our hardworking king, but you one of his enemies at least understand that a child like him needs a break. Your kind."
Moving his face to the book in front of him, Sparrows says, "If you truly think that on any level it makes sense how you ended up a slave, learn how to read and write before you actually make any claims about who I am as a person."
"I don't worry I still think you;re and abosultly scummy piece of dog turd. So don't worry when I get smarter, I will make sure to use this tongue to destroy all sense of self and pride you have. So get to educating me teacher.
"With your abilities I fucking doubt that."
"Don't worry, I have already started manipulating you. Soon you will be licking my feet and calling me mommy."
Sparrow puts down his book, and says, "Please hand me up your sheets, I will check your spelling now."
The adults hand up their sheets, and when Sparrow looks at Sanne's he starts to laugh to her extreme displeasure.
Orb continues to chase the kids until he corners down in front of a door, and then says, "I am going to blow you all away."
He rushes at them, and they open the door, hoping to escape,e but as they all pass through the door, they see a Pine and Oren hugging each other, both with a happy expression on their faces.
Though as Pine turns to see the children, and they stare back at her, each and every one of them says, "EWWWWWW! SOMEONE'S IN LOVE!"