“So... if that's a statue that can come to life, it's horn could heal my leg?”
“Well,” Touya snickered, “I guess so...” He dragged the last word out. “But that's assuming two things. One that it's alive and not a statue. And two, that one of us is a virgin.”
“Like you are.” Basil shook his head. “It's obvious that I am.” He smirked proudly.
“No. No, you aren't.” Touya lowered his eyelids, looking at the blond entirely unimpressed. “You're about as much a virgin as I am a tomato.”
“How about I make you red as a tomato?” Basil shouted at him indignantly with his mouth wide. Each word he spoke sent a blast of air into Touya's face strong enough to force the young man to close his eyes tightly.
“Would you stop that?” Touya shouted back, still not opening his eyes. “I'll end up dropping you if you keep that shit up!”
“Then drop me up!” Basil shouted, more wind blasting him.
Irritated with the stubborn response, Touya released the blond. Basil yelped, swinging his arms out to grab at the other as Touya took several steps back. Basil hobbled toward him, now shouting curses at him.
“You stupid flamboyant ardvark! You're useless! Useless! You hear me?” He kept shouting, his words and now his arms stirring up winds. The rocks around them shook from the wind; small bits of dust, drying mud, and water in the puddles, were lifted up into the air and started to spin around. The circle of wind surrounded Basil, getting larger and larger as his arms flapped about trying to steady himself in the wind as he couldn't control it to keep himself upright.
“Stop that! Stop moving!” Touya shouted at him. He held his arms up to cover his face and opened his stance to ground his feet on the ground. “You're going to do something you'll regret!”
“I don't wanna hear it!” Basil shouted at him, still angry. “I came out here to keep you from getting lonely and all you do is whine and complain and run off at the first chance you get with any–”
“Basil! Stop!”
“–stupid floosey that comes your way like they're some lost little lamb!”
“When did I do that!”
“I don't care! Useless! Mindless jerk!” Basil swung his left arm up in a way that if Touya was closer, he'd have gotten hit in the shoulder. Instead, that distance between the two of them was covered by a blast of wind.
“Shield two!” Touya shouted just as Basil cursed him. He swung his arms to his right and his lightning formed a hexagon shield just in time to stop the wind from hitting him head on. It was still strong enough to cause him to slide across the ground several feet and into the pedestal of the strange beast.
“Shield none!” Basil barked.
He swung both his arms up into a crossed pattern over his chest. The swirling wind around him reacted by sending two gusts along the floor straight for Touya. It hit the young man and sent him up into the air several feet. Yelping, Touya grabbed the nearest thing: the head of the rhinoceros beast.
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