<div style="text-align: center;"><a class="postlink" href="http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e327/steusloffa/Junk/9b4c67d7-5e06-4750-8d35-191de0acc40c_zpsagryk5tp.jpg">[ img ]</a></div><br/><br/><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 200%; line-height: 116%;"><span style="color: #BF0000">I Z U</span></span></span></div><br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #008000">"Izu...?"</span></span><br/><br/>Things began to happen rather quickly, Yehuda storming out and Zoltan grabbing him to say something in their native tongue. It wasn't their words that grabbed Izu's attention tough, it was the way the guards were looking at him. Izu raised a brow and inched his way towards the guards, them stepping back and making way in turn. As if he were some sort of royalty or something.<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">"Well that's different."</span><br/><br/>Izu turned back to watch Alida, observing her curiously as she seemed to be interacting with someone or something that Izu couldn't see or hear. Alida seemed a bit confused as Zoltan procured a strange amulet with a teal-ish gem that matched Izu's hair. In no time at all, Alida was over by Izu making more demands of him.<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #008000">"Izu...wear this,"</span></span>she commanded happily, holding it out to him. The young man looked the pendent over, though made no attempt to take it right away.<span style="font-weight: bold">"Alida, You know I'm not really into jewl-"</span>before Izu could finish his words, Alida was pouncing on him and wrangling the pendant around his neck.<br/><br/>As Alida released him, Izu furrowed his brow while glancing down at the pendant. It wasn't ugly, it wasn't anything intricate either though. As he ran a finger over the gem, it shimmed with a magical gleam that sent a strange howling sound through his head. The sound only lasted a few seconds, but it left this strange warm feeling in his throat that dissipated rather slowly.<span style="font-weight: bold">"Alida Wh---"</span>Izu stopped speaking immediately, the words he was speaking did not match what he was hearing in his head. The translation was instant and seamless, and Izu understood perfectly the few foreign words Alida was about to speak.<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #008000">"Welcome to Euthalia, my home. This is my brother, Prince Zoltan..."</span></span><br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">"Ahem...Uh...Alida..."</span>Alida looked over to her brother, his golden eyes full of regret and sadness,<span style="font-weight: bold">"<span style="font-style: italic">King</span> Zoltan."</span>Alida felt her chest tighten but she willed herself not to react. Her brother sure knew how to choose his timing.<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #008000">"Oh...my apologies,"</span></span>she managed to force out, trying to swallow the lump that had formed inside her throat,<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #008000">"Izu, this is...K..king Zoltan."</span></span>She then gestured from Zoltan to Izu,<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #008000">"Zoltan, this is Izu, my partner...."</span></span>she stated.<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #008000">"Nice to meet you, Prince Izu,"</span></span>Zoltan said with a very intentional grin. It was likely an attempt to distract Alida from his poor announcement of their parents' deaths--and it worked.<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #008000">"WHY CAN YOU NEVER KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT!?"</span></span>Alida exclaimed, swatting at Zoltan in true sibling fashion.<br/><br/>Izu was obviously attempting to process everything, the gears visibly turning in his head as the words Zoltan had spoke were mulled over and over again. Izu began to fiddle nervously with his new pendant, eventually removing if from his neck and wrapping it around his arm and hand, tight enough that it wouldn't budge at all. His unease began to flood into Alida, backing away suddenly step by step.<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #FF8000">"I'm no prince...Guy."</span></span>Izu had forgotten Zoltan's name in his panic, backing past a few guards who made way for him. His back pressed firmly against a large wooden door, it slowly began to open before giving way enough for Izu to quickly slip out and into the hallway.<br/><br/>It took only moments for Izu to break into a sprint, making his way through the foreign building. His mind rushed as he shoved past the natives of the land, offering little or no acknowledgement to them. As he approached a larger crowd, their combined voices only served to make his panic greater, pressing through the crowd before stumbling out of the large building, which turned out to be an exceedingly large hollowed out tree. A breeze carried a strange, magical feeling that penetrated Izu to his core. While it was an entirely new feeling, it still felt natural for some reason, as if the pendant had only unlocked what was already present.<br/><br/>The strange inkling was enough to bring Izu to a halt, forcing him to search for the beginning of the strange feeling. He couldn't pinpoint it though, as if the magic was tied to the feeling of life itself. It filled him with a warmth that radiated his body at an ever increasing intensity. Perhaps by luck, Izu looked down to his hand and happened to see his new pendant glowing white hot, though producing no heat. Curiosity pierced his being, his gaze fixated on the strange pendant that he had been given. As the Pendant grew brighter, the light began to wisp off of the gem and turn into butterflies of light. It was Alida's voice that brought Izu back to reality, though he said nothing in return. Izu had to give his full attention to this feeling, this rising warmth he felt piercing his body. Then it happened, large teal butterfly wings sprouted from his back in a wondrous fashion, tearing his shirt in the process.<br/><br/>His gaze darted to Alida, to over his shoulder, then back to Alida and the gathering crowd. Apparently this sort of thing wasn't normal, or maybe it had never happened before? Whatever the reason, Izu now had a large pair glorious butterfly wings on his back.