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9th rise of the phoenix ஜ Voice

[The first thing that Ikki does upon finding himself on Isla Empieza is to throw up. It may be due the feeling of being pulled back and forth through a diminute hole at the speed of light, or it may be due the way his brain is drained and then explodes with memories. It takes him a bit to clear his mind, to get a hold of his surroundings, the memories that had been taken and then returned.

As he recovers, he casts a glance around if only to confirm that this isn't his home. He was sent back only to be returned to this world right away. And that's not the worst part of it. The worst part is that he doesn't know how long has it been here. He remembers from others that months here could have been just a few hours for them back in their worlds, and he wouldn't put it past Davy Jones and Chronos to make it be centuries here while it was just a second for him.

The second thing that Ikki does upon returning is to open his journal and snarl at it.]

How fucking long has it been?!

[Even if that's the first thing that he asks, it's not really what he cares for the most.]

Are the Spades still active? [Do people even know them yet? If they vanished and enough time passed it's possible people wouldn't have heard of them.]

Is Selphie Tilmitt still here?!

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Right, because I did it on fucking purpose. Where the hell were you to help me not leave, huh?

[Ikki's going to ignore the comment about Selphie and Namur. No need to bring back those memories and doubts, thanks.]

I'm on my way back. And I'm warning you, I'm going to kick your face in.

[Because he is sure Marco wants to kick him, he wants to kick himself. But Ikki's not the type to go down quietly and the best defense is an offense in his opinion.]

I'm going to kick YOUR face in, yoi!

The faster you are the less speed I might put into it.

[Likewise. But Marco can't even be COMPLETELY mad, he's just too happy his surly phoenix brother is back -- it does remind him though:]

Did you learn anything useful from it? Even a hint?

[Of how to fix it. How to break time, how Jones does it. The interdimensional anything.]

[Anything they can use to bring Ace and the others to some point they're alive again.]

It was barely a second for me. But it was as if I was being pulled back and forth several times before I was back here. For now that's all I remember of it.

[He may remember something more later on, or figure something, or... Or something, he hopes. Right now he has enough remembering the way to the Nav on Isla Empieza, when was the last time he was on this island anyway?]

How long has it been since we set foot on Isla Empieza?

[His tone softens, subtly impressed.] Selphie said you'd be like that. You refused to let Jones force your hand, eh? Just for that I'm moving the kick from your face to shoulder.

Mah, too long, the Sun is already headed that way. Then we gotta have a Spades conference, Deesuko Ballia, and something I'm not telling you until you can fight back.

Fuck it.

[That's actually mumbled, not said to Marco.]

Marco, draw me a map to the store with the Nav already. Right now all the alleys here look the same to me and I'm two townsfolk glaring at me away from wrecking the place.

[He's not in the mood for anyone but his family. And people he can't hurt because they talk through the journals.]

[Sketches:]

[Plus a zoomed in version with the shop in a bright red circle.]

[All from a bird's eye view of course.]

[Ikki didn't expect anything else. He says nothing nor writes anything as he's busy going up in the sky to check where he is and find the way to Backwater Brig.

It takes just a bit more before the Nav in the Sun activates and a phoenix appears on deck. Where's his kick?]

[He aims for the shoulder, as promised, alerted to the feel of Ikki's return by haki, but he might miss and hit Ikki's face instead. Phoenixes are hard to to be specific on. Fire and all that.]

[Ikki didn't take the downgrade seriously, though, so he's not exactly surprised by the kick on the face and takes it like a boss.

And then he aims to return it, because he said so too.]

[Which Marco doesn't mind in the least, returning that with a taunt.]

Is that the best you've got baby phoenix?

[And aims another kick for Ikki's chest just because.]

I've just gotten back from a round-trip across time and space. What's YOUR excuse?

[Because that didn't hurt at all either. And if it did he will never admit it. He, of course, returns the kick either way. It will take a brown haired girl to get him to stop.]

I'm not trying hard.

[Which is true, because Marco can't bring himself to hurt his family no matter how much he loves them, and the only way he can get serious is by protecting them. Which makes it extra hard to fight them since he'd need to protect them from himself.]

I think that you're just getting too old.

[As if phoenixes can do that. Maybe they can but it wouldn't last for long either way.]

[Laughs and aims another kick for the head.]

Age is strength chickadee. When you're strong enough you'll see.

IIIIKKIII!~~

*Ignoring Marco right now, ignoring the fact they might be in the middle of a fight. All that matters to Selphie right now is that she can see Ikki, and that as she speeds towards him she's getting closer to him too. Whatever move Marco might have been going to throw next will have to be cut short of the mark, or else he's going to hit Selphie.

Because as soon as she is close enough, Selphie launches herself at Ikki, her arms thrown up around his neck so that she can cling herself to him*

[Nah, Marco isn't ever going to let Selphie get hurt if he can do literally anything to avoid it. So he bows out, backing up to let them have a moment, and check on Selphie's food so nothing will burn.]

Age is also senility-

[Ikki's answer is cut short, and so are his moves when he finds himself with arms full of Selphie. Oh, hey there, now this is a kind of welcome one could get used to.

Marco is all but forgotten the moment his attention focuses on her, and he kisses her before he's even aware of it himself.]

Sorry for being late, love.

*On seeing him and hearing him and feeling him, Selphie feels fit to burst. She laughs with the relief of being with him, beaming at his apology and his kiss*

But you're here! You're really here!

*Her hands move from his hair to his face to his chest, and she plants kisses eagerly on his cheek, his jaw, his neck, his kips, and she laughs again at confirmation that this really is Ikki, that she has him back*

I missed you. I missed you so bad.

*Enough so that her eyes blurred a little with the threat of tears, which she then tried desperately to blink back*

[The feeling of her body between his arms, of her lips on his skin, is an alien one. It feels strange, unknown, yet at the same time comfortable and right. It was merely a second, maybe less than that, the time he was back in his world, but it's enough for him to forget all about Selphie and the rest, and for him to miss it all terribly once his memories were back.

He hugs her tightly against himself, maybe a bit too tightly but he can't help himself. It's unnatural how this feels so right, how "at home" he feels right now, after Marco's kick, with Selphie in his arms and after talking to all the others.]

I'm sorry. You know I didn't leave you by my own will, don't you?

[That's all he can say, he can't really think of anything else, so he says nothing else. Just hugs her tightly. Reassuring them both of their mutual existence, that they remember each other and are together now. That's all that matters right now as far as he's concerned.]

*What had frightened Selphie the most, other than the concept of him being at home and having no recollection of who she was, was the fear he'd return to her and have forgotten all about her, about them. She shook her head furiously, looking up at him with a fierce loyalty*

Of course! Of course I know that! Marco. He -

*Then she turns to Marco, still holding onto Ikki, but then realises that he wasn't there. She frowns as she looks back at Ikki*

Marco tried to make it sound like something else. Where is he? He's in serious trouble!

[NINJA!]

[COME FIND HIM!]

[OR GET DISTRACTED BY YOUR LOVER'S RETURN.]

[Whichever.]

[He admitted you were right though, Selphie.]

[He just wanted to be a brat, and was.]

[Ikki arches an eyebrow at that. Marco tried to make it sound differently? He can't really believe that, or rather, he can believe that but can't think that he was being serious. Not more than how serious Ikki is when he thinks that no one gives a damn about him, which today has been proved to be a complete lie, something which still manages to shock him.

So he hums, smiling a bit at the fierce loyalty that shows in Selphie's face. It's still ironic how one can be so blessed in this cursed world, but he won't complain and instead hugs her, burying his face in her hair.]

Hn, he probably was just teasing. Or in denial. Or too angry with me being gone. Or being defensive. Or everything at once. If anyone here knows that I wouldn't go back easily or by my own will alone it's him. I promised him to fight to defeat time and space, after all.

[Unfortunately, on the first round it seems he lost. Unless his return here was something he actually achieved by being stubborn enough. He can't remember any details besides the pulling back and forth, he knows he tried to resist but it's hard to do so when your whole being is basically nothing but atoms spreaded around.]

If you really want to get to him, though, I can sense him on the galley.

*Selphie wrapped her arms tighter around him when he hugged her again, running her hands up and down his back. She sighs softly, just so pleased to be close to Ikki again*

I think he was just angry. He made it sound like you didn't try hard enough to stay. But I said you'd never just leave us without putting up a fight. But it doesn't matter now because you're here.

*She steps back a little to look up into his face and she kisses his lips quickly before grabbing one of his hands*

Come on. Let's go.

*She'd walk Ikki down to the galley, staying close and never letting go of his hand*

Hey! Hey Marco!

Yo.

[Waves, fixing food.]

[Warily ready to duck anything from Selphie, though not Ikki, ironically.]

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