Black Ice (continued from ...Time Gate...)

[warryn]

Fluffy just waved at Magus when he talked to him, not really listening. He was to much in thought to even realize that a spell was being prepared. He didn't even notice when Magus said "FIRE2!" and melted the snow on the stone out cropping. This was her biggest weakness, being so far into thought that someone could pick him up and she wouldn't even notice.

What am I? Why am I? Why don't i know!? WHY!? He couldn't get past that he had no clue to what he was. he knew how he came to be, but not why. She had never stopped to think about it before. Not till now atleast. This was the first time anyone had ever asked him what she was.

[mugenginga]

Magus didn't seem bothered by Fluffy's inner monologuing. He walked over to the outcropping and sat down. The rock was warm as the snow and resulting water had been steamed off it. He glanced at the creature.

"You need to get off," Magus paused. He didn't think the creature would let it rest at that, "If I'm going to get my armor off, you need to get off."

He hadn't spelled it out, but he was indicating that he was going to wrap the bandage around his chest rather than his armor. Well, and check on the wound. He hadn't gotten a chance to get a good look at it.

[warryn]

Fluffy was off balance now from Magus sitting down. When Magus spoke to him he had startled Fluffy and made him lose her balance even more. She fell off his shoulder backwards with a "uhf" sound as he hit the ground. He didn't move for to reasons, the rock was warm and he had just fallen off Magus. He mentally hit herself for going to far into his own thoughts again.

"Hm? When did we get a heated roack out here on death mountain?" Fluffy said, not really knowing what the mountain was called.

[mugenginga]

Magus paused a bit. Death Mountain? The place where Crono had been rescued had been called Death Peak. He shook his head as he pulled his cloak off. Peak and Mountain may have qualified as synonyms, but he doubted they were the same place. They were high enough they should have seen the remains of a Lavos Spawn by now if they were on the same mountain. Besides, that future shouldn't exist with Lavos dead.

He unwrapped the bandaid and pulled off the armor. It revealed his bare skin. It was just as pale as the rest of his body, but it looked like the guy worked out for a living. An uncommon trait for magic users, who tended to physically weak to compensate for magic.

Magus paused to look at the wound. It was damn cold, and the rock was cooling of quickly, but he refused to rebandage himself without being sure nothing was wrong with the wound.

[warryn]

"Want some help with that?" Fluffy asked Magus, eyeing the wound as he asked. Fluffy didn't much like seeing stuff suffer. He'd much rather see them recover, though she would never admit it.\

"And it's probably not to smart to be without a shirt on in this weather." Fluffy might not be able to help with the wound itself, but he could sew a shirt in 3 minutes flat. His personal record of course.

[mugenginga]

Magus looked at Fluffy carefully, trying to discern if it was trying to get close for an attack. He decided that if it had been trying to attack him it would have done so in a less subtle way. He still shook his head as he tied off the bandage.

"I've done it before, I'm fine." Magus picked up his armor without losing his focus on the creature and began to put it back on.

This would be easier of Marle were here. Schala wouldn't even bat an eye over this. Other than harassing me for being an idiot, as the thoughts went through Magus' eyes, so did what looked like remorseful pain, If this is another dimension, what are the odds Schala will be here?

He had ended the conversation with his silence. It was still unclear how he and the fuzzball were supposed to survive through the night. The temperature was dropping fast. Interestingly, Magus didn't seem too bothered by it.

[warryn]

Fluffy eyed him again, but didn't ask again. Fluffy took up his blanket and wrapped himself in it. "Hey I have a question. It's really important you answer to." Fluffy let it sink in that it was a really important question. He eyed him to make sure he understood the importance of the question.

"Do you...... Know how to pitch a tent. I have one, but I have know clue how to put it up." Fluffy took out a family sized tent and put it on the ground next to him. It was blue with yellow on the top, it had all the peices it needed to be put up.

[mugenginga]

Magus snapped out of his own mind, but it took a few moments for what the creature had said to register. It had a point, it was cold out here. He picked up the fabric and eyed it, "I can. But give me a return answer. What pocket dimension do you carry all this in?"

Fuzzy, after all, was small. But the creature kept pulling things out of thin air. It claimed to not like magic, but if that wasn't some form of magic, Magus had no idea what was.

He was a little annoyed he had to do this, but began setting up the tent as he waited for an answer. If none came in the five to ten minutes it took, he would be more than just a little annoyed.

[warryn]

"What do you mean?" Fluffy looked around himself to see if there was something on him. "I don't even know what a pocket demented is." Fluffy shrugged and pulled out a hat he had made with some blue yarn and put it on.

"And if you just said something that was supposed to insult me, I'm going to shave you bald once you fall asleep." Fluffy gave Magus a menacing look to say he would. He pulled out a battery powered electric shaver and set it next to him. She did not like being insulted, even if she wasn't sure if she was or wasn't being insulted.

[mugenginga]

Magus raised an eyebrow, "I wasn't insulting you," He drove a stake into the ground with the heel of his shoe, "I was wondering where you stored all that."

He was about half-way done with the tent. Back in Guardia, he had the Mystics do stuff like that. Usually Flea was more than willing. If a little... risque. Magus rolled his eyes, but was facing away from Fluffy as he did so. And Flea had wondered why people thought he was a flat-chested woman.

[warryn]

"Oh, why didn't you just say that then. Its all in my fur of course, I don't have pockets so thats the only place to put stuff." Fluffy patted his stomach fur and said quietly, "Isn't that right Jeph, aren't you just to cute." Fluffy tightened the blanket around himself to get warmer.

"So........ Why the armor? It looks uncomfortable and it isn't exactly stylish either, so why wear it?"

Fluffy didn't really care, but talking kept him warm and made sure he didn't fall asleep from the cold.

[mugenginga]

Magus paused. Fluffy's fur was... well... fluffy, but certainly not enough to hide a tent. It appeared the best answer the creature had, so he let it slide. As for the name it just called its stomach, Magus didn't notice. If rocks were Tony, why couldn't stomachs have names as well? He turned his attention to the question.

"Protection. You'd be surprised how many people go after the heart. When I come from, lots of people want to kill me," Magus was nearly done with the tent.

"When" I come from. Could be passed off as a slip like it was, but it indicated there was more to Magus than met the eye. The blue haired man hadn't even noticed it. His mission to save his sister and his journey with Crono had made him time hop so much he had gotten used to using when rather than where. He was referring to ~600AD when he answered, but he had given no indication as to why lots of people wanted to kill him.

It was, of course, cause he was considered to be the leader of the force that had tried to overthrow Guardia. Nevermind that it had been Ozzie's ambition and he had just humored the fat creature to go after his own goals. He wasn't one to explain himself to others, anyhow. Magus stepped back. The tent was up.

[warryn]

Fluffy jumped into the tent just as Magus had finished putting it up. Before he had hit the floor of the tent, he had thrown down two mattresses to cover it. He bounced when he hit the mattress and landed on the end of the left one. He said from inside the tent, "Well, it can't be worth much if I pierced it with a piece of wood. Isn't armor supposed to stop that kind of thing?"

He had layed out several blankets as she was talking, three on both mattresses. Fluffy had hand nit the blankets and was proud of her handy work.

[mugenginga]

"Are you aware of how fast that shrapnel was going? It would have gone through me without the armor. And it was covered in jagged ice. That can be quite sharp."

Magus looked in the tent and was a bit surprised. The creature really did have access to a pocket dimension it seemed. He looked at the blankets and his eyes widened. The craftsmanship was as good as the cloth in Zeal. Well, without the magic. It didn't look like an expensive fabric but it felt like it, "You make this?"

Magus lifted up the edge of the blanket to indicate what he was talking about. His normally stoic expression was just different enough to show he was impressed and not trying to insult Fluffy.

[warryn]

"You like? I have many more, it's sorta my only hobby." Fluffy beamed with happiness from being complemented on his work. "I'm best with the needle, but I'm also very good with other kinds of cloth work to." Fluffy patted his stomach fur again.

Fluffy walked to the middle of one of the mattresses and wrapped the blankets into a nest for himself. "Well. I'm off to sleep. Try and mug me and I'll feed you your own toes."

((Don't time jump it yet, I'm going to have Jeph meet Magus while Fluffy sleeps....... Jeph is very lonely without Tony..... Hey, that rhymed!))