The Limbless Legend

Even if Rayman was joking about parties in the Glade of Dreams being better than those in the Melody Kingdom, it stung Noisemaster’s ego a bit. He should’ve been used to being one-upped, considering the Disaster Master from the Space Kingdom did it on a regular basis, but he still didn’t like bragging only to be told something else was better.

“Yeah, sounds wicked sweet, man!”

Good thing he’s a master at acting upbeat when he would like nothing more than to hit Rayman with a shot from the Noise Blaster cannon.

"How unfortunate for them.  I hope it doesn't make their people boring, too."

 ”Thank you. My father taught me how to summon him.” She responds to the boy’s awe over the eel-creature cheerfully resting in her arms. As he speaks, Nautilus would carefully continue to stroke the top of the creatures head, only to pause at Rayman’s next statement.

She’s prompt to correct the limbless fellow when he refers to the eel as a ‘thing’, a gentle shake of her head given in disbelief. Her demeanor had made a significant change, as if offended by it. ”He is not a thing! He is an eel, and my friend. His name is Liquus.” 

Of course, he probably didn’t mean anything bad behind his silly comment, so Nautilus is quick to excuse him for it; judging by how she is quick to change the subject after addressing the mistake.

“Yes, of course. Although, I do miss my friends from home a lot.” Nautilus would pause for a moment, a finger touching the bottom of her chin inquisitively.

At the same time, though, part of him feels a twinge of jealousy.  It makes him feel bad, being jealous over someone else's happiness.  Not very hero-y at all.  Her next question manages to take him by surprise because of this.

"Oh, uhm, yeah."  He tries to keep smiling, glancing away.  "I'm here alone, at least I think.  I haven't seen anyone from the Glade of Dreams here."

"I had a watery blue friend I could use food to summon, too!  He only comes out for foods, though!"  It's meant to be somewhat of a joke, but the boy manages to forget that without knowing anything about him or where he comes from, it probably just comes off as him being serious, with actual talk of a friend he can summon.  In reality, his best friend's a giant blue frog who really, really loves to eat.

Her gloomy thoughts were suddenly cut short as the inquisitive stranger began to ask about her Royal Instrument of Summoning, seeming rather befuddled by the object in general. “A familiar is.. well..” Her sentence would stop short as she gave a tiny, excited gasp. “Oh! I know what I can do!” She said before promptly holding the tiny, pink shell phone into the air.

"I can just show you myself! Liquus!" She called out to no one in particular, her eyes set up on the phone she held highly in the air.

 After a brief second, a light would emit from the screen and as if by magic, an eel-like creature would slither from the phone, coiling himself around the girl’s shoulders. Nautilus would reach up to stroke the top of the creature’s head fondly, shortly before addressing her acquaintance, whom had just witnessed it all. ”This is my familiar: Liquus. My father taught me how to summon him when I was a little.”

It especially made him miss the Sea of Serendipity, or just relaxing on a beach for that matter.  Was there a beach in this place?  He doubted it. 

When the other puts their phone up in the air, he raises a brow, then when the familiar comes out of it, he steps back, as if it could be dangerous at first.  After a second, he's grinning again though, looking at the creature in amazement.  

"Whoa, that's so cool!"  The boy almost asks if she's a fairy again.  Never has he seen anyone else pull a magical creature out of what seemed like thin air like she did, but he thankfully remembers he already asked that question.

"Thanks! Isn’t it a great name?!"

[ She loves her name. It’s the most awesome pony name, after all. ]

"Your name is unique, too! It’s pretty cool!"

[ The mare watches him do the hair-spin thing, and blinks in confusion, quirking a brow. But ultimately, she doesn’t say anything. ]

Rayman’s homeworld actually sounded like a pretty interesting place, Noisemaster had to admit to himself. A lot more interesting than what he’d heard about Earth, to say the least, but then again, that wasn’t saying much. If Earth was basically like Hive City but bigger, Noisemaster didn’t think he’d really want to visit, but this Glade of Dreams place? It’d be loads of fun to wreak a little havoc there.

“Ha ha, you ain’t been to a party ‘till you been to a party at Rhythm Ridge! Place is totally jammin’!”

Rayman says with, of course, the hope that he will be going back home.  Because he still believes he will be, soon, in fact.  Poor boy.

"Though, I gotta disagree with ya there.  I'm sure the parties at the Heart of the World where I'm from could blow yours out of the water!"  

Obviously, he's only teasing.

"It's, like, non-stop party central for a bunch of kings and other workers.  Unless there's some kinda disturbance in the Glade, they have up to 10 parties a day--or one giant never stopping one that could last over a week!  Sometimes, animals even manage to wander in there and they party with them!"

"Yo whaaaaaaaaat… that’s a city Ibuki would totally live in! Free stuff at least— wait, they can fly? Can they even talk???"

"Hope you don't live in a paper hut," he mumbles, then smiles.  

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