All he heard was a massive roar as the entire lake alighted with the growling and roaring of 1,000 beasts to wake the entire Forrest. As he stopped scrubbing his clothes he looked up to the sky to see a darkened figure blocking out the sun as a massive lance of flame blossoming from their hand as they fell like lightning. In a panic fearing for a turn for the worse he yelled out with as much volume and intent as he could muster, sending his own ears buzzing with the piercing ringing of a gong." WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING! ARE YOU TRYING TO GET US BOTH KILLED!"while he felt safe under the orderly nature of the nutural grounds of the waterfall this figures appearance had made him fear a turn for the worst.
The figure paused for a moment, freezing in midair as if to say ' what was that, are you talking to me?' As he saw that the figure had stopped for a moment he continued to scream through the pain " YES YOU, WHO THE FUCK DO YOU THINK I'M TALKING TOO!" As the figure stopped to understand the situation, Mori finally got a good look at the intruders face' A woman?' He thought before taking a closer look at her robes, they were a bright orange and yellow, the same color as the man he had robbed when he first arrived. As he saw that all color had drained from his face as a worse case scenario flashed through his mind. 'oh no how do they know, how on earth are they here!' His mind churned with countless possibilities but he couldn't make sense of how he was traced, the man was simply gone he had ceased to exist how.
As Mori was pale faced in sheer terror the interloper finally had stopped to take in the situation. The person shouting at her was the very same person she had thought was being attacked. His clothes were in tatters and quite damaged but he appeared unharmed.' This is more complicated than I thought' she stood still as she processed the situation before responding in a booming voice of her own" Why Should I," she said decisively as she spoke out " What In The World Are You Doing Doing Here Anyway?" She called out as she decended closer to the water to speak. This elicited growls from the stronger beasts by the base of the waterfall, forcing her to realize the severity of the situation.' Those are body destruction ranked beasts mabey even stronger this will be quite a fight.' Her mind rebuilding phaze cultivation base flared up as the growls set her even more on edge as she glared around at the beasts before focusing her attention back on the black robed man.
Seeing the situation was devolving even further he spoke more softly this time his voice much weaker from the strain he had just put it through. "Please just back off, I'll come to speak with you, I'm unarmed but please retract your cultivation base and leave this nutural grounds, you are angering the beasts." Mori spoke with upmost urgency to try and convince the woman.
She was about to respond as the other man who had just arrived behind her pipes up with his loud mouth, " what in heavens name are you talking about angering 'The Beasts. There all just mindless brutes why on earth should we listen to you!" His lips realed up in a snarl that only a aloof cultivator could use to hold something they deemed inferior with distain and spite.
The lady quickly silenced the loudmouthed man with a slap to the back of the head that only seemed to infuriate him before he backed off." Very well but you better have a good explanation..." She trailed off as she recalled her cultivation base making the other man do the same. Just as they were doing that Mori began letting out a controlled sequence of growls and yips that seemed to convey his intent to the beasts. He spoke to them quickly with a hint of remorse in his distorted version of the beasts toung that was practically incompatible with human speech. His execution was rough but the tiger who seemed to be the strongest understood. With a small look of surprise the tiger quickly dismissed him with a wave of his tail as he returned to his lazing by the base of the waterfall. With that declaration the whole lake went silent again as he swam out to the edge of the lake, shaking himself off like a dog before gesturing the duo to meet with him off in a nearby clearing. The duo looked at him in absolute shock as they flew out into the clearing and landed down to meet with him.
The lady couldn't hold her surprise any longer and called out with insistence " what on earth was that!" She almost screamed at that last part as she couldn't even believe what she had just saw.
"What ever could you possibly mean." Mori spoke to the lady with a sly look on his face finally relieved that he had managed to avoid a catastrophe.
"Don't act smart with me what was that with the snarling and growling and why were you swimming in the beast falls. No one should be out here this is restricted territory." She spoke with increasing fervor as she could barely process what she had just encountered.
" well If you must know before you two so rudely interrupted I was talking a bath in this lovely lake. Then you come in firespear in hand ready to start a slaughter." His voice became slightly harsh as if to say that they were the ones in the wrong here.
The large man who had arrived with the lade interjected." Bathing with the beasts, preposterous, those things are animals how could you possibly consider such mindless lowly creatures as equals." The distain sethed through his voice as he lashed out from some prejudice Mori had neither the time nor understanding to unpack.
Mori's face contorted into a grimace as for a moment the red faced man saw the vistage of a long dead monster in the man's eyes, like pearing into the abyss before it disappeared as if a fleeting dream. Mori snarled more akin to an animal as he spat his words at the man" those beasts are more human than you..." He stopped for just a moment to weigh his options before deciding to hell with the formalities" Pig, they are sentient beings with order unlike you lawless monsters that take and lord over land like tyrants." His words were cold and came from somewhere much deeper that he couldn't quite place his finger on but it didn't matter to him.
The man was setheing with rage barely managing to burst out with" why you little- how DARE someone so weak talk to your---" He was cut off as he was about to approach Mori by a swift motion by the woman grabbing his arm. She saw something behind that outburst and inquired more about her curiosity." So you mean to tell me they are... sentient?" The idea was a foreign concept to her and it was completely out of left field.
" That they are though I suppose it won't change much to hear that, we cultivators kill beast and man alike so what does this really change?" His voice was kinder to the woman who seemed the more rational of the two.
" you're right I suppose" she responded with a noble grace that befited her stature." But that doesn't tell me why you're here does it. Why are you on our sect grounds" her eye held a questioning glare seming to try and gage her next actions on how he responded.