A Trial in Patience

**Date Ended:**  16th September 2021
**Previous Role-Play**: Dreaming of a White Rabbit
**Next Role-Play**: N/A
**Users Involved:** user: SuddenlyNoodles, user: Gotts114 and user: The ancient terror
**Setting:** Paradise
* **Pirates**: Sitri, Thaddeus
* '*Experiment*: Patient 01: Symbiosis

## Land Adjacent

Onboard a massive Golden Ship, a small young woman could be seen on deck. Sitri was practicing with her Devil Fruit again, this time she was trying out armour and clothing made of Dreamsand. She was currently dressed in a shifting robe of Ethereal Golden sand which was floating about ten meters in the air. While doing so, Sitri was attempting to create as many tendrils of sand as she could and control them each independently. She was making good progress at the moment, with about 50 tendrils each acting independently from each other, they each stemmed from Sitri's robe and were writhing over the side of the ship into the sea. Sitri was using them to grap fish from the ocean one at a time. There was a bait ball happening and she wanted part of the action, in addition to the seagulls and dolphins that were snacking away at the fish.

Meanwhile, Thaddeus was tinkering away, trying to make an even more compact pouch to contain his eggs, he had recently succeeded in reducing the size of the eggs while keeping the explosions just as strong, as well as making adjustments to his Thaddeus Thumper to fit these new eggs. The new pouch in theory would contain the compounds that would be used to make the eggs. Following a set of commands the pouch would create the eggs, casing and compound along with the coloration for Thaddeus to use. This would reduce the risk of Thaddeus running out of time to make his eggs if he runs out. In the meanwhile he still had the supply of his eggs that he had already created that he did not want to waste.

## Meanwhile on an unknown Island

He wants to go out and slay humans. But before that we need to steal their money from that. Nobody needs money. Everyone needs money. Just shut up and get out of my head. What? You shut up and get out of my brain. As we think and walk around the city, coat hiding us from the eyes from others. Why did we hide from disgusting humans, just kill them. You are an idiot, humans produce money and money is the thing that rules the world. If we rule with power we dont need money. As we argue we saw a drunken man. Will he help me to know who I am? Probably not because I can still hear you. Will it help? Probably not. But we are hungry. The man gets killed and devoured. So who we are? Did it help. I can still hear you greedy voice. And I can still hear you bloodthirsty voice. Get out of my head!/Get out of my head!.

## Aboard the ostentatious ship once again

Sitri and Thaddeus had been traveling aboard their brand new ship for the past few days and it was only now that an island could be seen in the distance. Sitri, who was at the helm at the time, stood up in excitement and floated up to the uppermost tower where Thaddeus had made his hutch, it was outfitted with a large training room in the tower itself and that was where Sitri Found Thaddeus. Thaddeus could be seen rebounding off walls and training dummies leaving craters after each jump. Indicating to the rabbit with a series of exclamations and hand waving, Sitri mimed out that there was an island on the horizon.

Thaddeus finished his bouncing by doing a back flip and popping out an egg to catch in the air. A trick he used to test his reflexes and timing. “Lady Sitri, we’ve found an island? Is this the island we’re looking for or just a stop along the way”

Indicating to Thaddeus with constructs of the island she saw and a series of hand movements, that it was likely just one along the way to their destination. Floating back down to the deck of the ship while leaving a constructed series of golden clouds leading to her side for Thaddeus, Sitri began speeding the boat up. The act of increasing the speed of the boat was tiring for her and took a lot of energy but once it was up to speed momentum did a lot of the work for her.

Thaddeus hopped down with Sitri and felt the nice breeze when she was speeding up. It helped cool him off. Thaddeus looked hopeful, optimistic almost at the thought of maybe getting some answers and closure on the way. If not closure, then quite possibly intel on where to actually go next. When the ship stopped Thaddeus wanted to be the first to go down to make sure Sitri was protected, this quest was about Thaddeus, but Sitri was just as if not more important to its completion as Thaddeus is.

Within a a short distance from the island, Sitri slowed the boat before bringing it to a stop just before waves started forming. Picking herself and Thaddeus up with a golden cloud, Sitri flew them both onto the shore of the beach. Landing and dissipating the cloud. Looking around the tropical looking island Sitri started walking toward the treeline.

Making sure to hop off the cloud earlier and landing with a thud much louder than expected for a rabbit, Thaddeus went about patrolling the grounds making sure nothing would pop out, he scouted ahead and then proceeded to thump the ground trying to shake anything to the surface of the ground. When Sitri landed Thaddeus stood by her side and travelled alongside her. He kept his Thumper at his side and his newly constructed eggs in his pouch, to Thaddeus it wasn't much more weight but there was definitely added weight because he was now able to fit much more in there. In his front paws he held a single blue egg ready to use when he sees a threat.

He/He saw them. Coming with biscuit dust. That's sand idiot. Shut up try to think! You can think? But let's collect they are strange especially the rabbit too smart for this species. They also have strange powers. This eggs look strange, but other than that looks not very tough. Still needs to be in guard. Why? Just squish the lady like a bug an the rabbit aswell! You only think with violence idiot. You think only with money you thinking how much money we could earn with them! Now shut up but maybe they could be finally the solution to find out who is the real one. Well worth a try, but need to stay hidden strange powers have possible a lot of other dangers with them. That is boring but I hate to agree you are right. I am always right. Shut up money bitch, but let them deeper I. The forest follow them and then? Sneak attack them, capturing one and consuming them in hope to find out which one is the real one. It didn't help the last 25 times. Any better idea? ..........

No then let's start.

Sitri bemusedly watched as her companion rushed from place to place in front of her, checking for any traps or enemies and then signaling for Sitri to come forward when he found none. Nonetheless understanding his caution, Sitri created a Halo of Dreamsand above her head, the purpose of it was to intercept any attacks that were aimed at her, like a shield. Looking at her companion, Sitri made another protective halo above Thaddeus's head, just in case. As they went further and further into the jungle, Sitri idly watched the wildlife as they moved around, some running, climbing, or flying away from them, some running or flying toward them.

”Lady Sitri…stay on guard there’s something in the trees, animals won’t just run towards us, we’re foreign to them.” Thaddeus loaded a yellow egg into his new and improved thumper. Holding onto the blue egg he says aloud “we know you’re out there…show yourself! The wildlife gave you away. Now to Sitri “we should back away slowly.”

The rabbit can talk? Is it normal for rabbits to talk? Of course not idiot but worse he knows we are here and even the worst his voice is pain for the ears. Need to feast on this woman and rabbit later or other way. Doesn't matter let's spit them up. And how? Simple push one of them to the open rocky part of the jungle. And we have the perfect way to split them up. Agreed.

With this the being runs circles and cut the giant jungle trees on after another and well pushing them in their direction with goal to split them up. Stay hidden for know and throw the trees after one of them is in the open we can crush. Finally!

Seeing that the trees in front of them were rustling and some of the larger ones were falling, Sitri grabbed Thaddeus and shot backwards. Hovering about 10m above the ground she prepared to fire lances of condensed Dreamsand at anything that may have knocked those trees down. She also had placed Thaddeus on a separate floating cloud incase he wanted to move.

They look dangerous. Strange powers with sand. We should just rush at them and crush their skulls. We could take this. No we don't get unessecary injured and we need them alive for consum. Grab the tree bark and throw at them. Rush at them grabbing the rabbit. Sounds good but if it's fails? Then we can crush them. Turning our symbiosis hand with trees and stones and throw so many objects until they fall. Sounds like a plan, you sound surprisingly smart. I am always smart you are just too stupid to realise it.

And with that creature throw the giant bark and then rush behind it hoping to take the vision frtom human and jumping up to grab rabbit.

Not noticing the large piece of bark flying at her, Sitri was startled when an object got intercepted by a small golden tendril from her halo of protection. Looking to where the bark came from Sitri saw some rustling in the bushes so she indicated the spot to Thaddeus via an arrow of sand.

Thaddeus now in control of his sand cloud centers himself, when he sees tree bark being thrown towards Sitri his eyes widen and he almost shouts her name but sees she blocks it with her sand. Thaddeus takes aim with his launcher and eyes up the creatures location. He aims down towards the direction of the rustling and says outloud so Sitri can hear it “Yellow!” Waiting for the creature to appear he keeps his paw on the trigger.

Improvise. Think fast I will not stop. Got idea grab with big arms smaller tree bark try to hit it with it, will be countered with sand, thinner arms free grabbing in the time of counter rabbit. Sounds good.

Grabbing a tree bark the creature jumped up with bark in the strong arms hitting rabbit preparing for the counter to trap it with smaller and longer thin arms.

Thaddeus makes a grim and slightly horrified face at the sight seeing this creature charging at him with tree bark in hand. Thaddeus fires his yellow egg, there’s a small trail of yellow behind it before right before impacting the creatures face it explodes in a bright light, the second the egg is fired Thaddeus uses his ears to cover his eyes from the blinding light, while moving backwards away from the creature. Inadvertently Thaddeus is moving lower to the ground, his skills in sand cloud driving are a little rusty.

Knowing about Thaddeus's yellow egg, Sitri had covered her eyes with her hands. after removing them she saw that the big scary mutant thing was attacking her friend, so she condensed six lances of sand so they were as strong and sharp as steel lances, and shot them at the creature at speeds comparable to a gunshot.

Ahh I am blind! No! I cant hear anything! The shots conected to the side of 01. Ahh! That hurts! Dont be wimp we can take more than that! Why we cant consum this sand, its not normal! No shit sherlock its obviously a devil fruit! We cant reach them if their fly and shoot so what should we do. Dammit it hurts...wait I got an idea, but you need to listen to me! If it gives me a free pass to consum this shit heads, I will listen to the fake one. Lets act to be dead, let the guard down and than if they come near we grab them, physical much weaker than we are. Lets do it!

***"ROOOAAAARR!!!"*** for the first time 01 speaks up and acts like a hurt animal, before falling down, not moving a single muscle.

Assuming she knocked the creature out, Sitri began creating many tendrils of golden sand that she began wrap around and bind the creature, with the intent of incapacitating it from further attacking when it woke again. Each of her Tendrils were as strong as cable steel and which she she regularly used to bind and throw her opponents with so she was well versed in using them. While she was doing this, Sitri indicated to Thaddeus to help bind the creature with any of his eggs he thought worked. She never approached the downed creature, staying at a distance of 20m directly behind the direction where the beast had come from.

Thaddeus sees the creature bound, doesn't attack the grotesque creature and instead follows Lady Sitri's lead. He takes the small blue egg that was in his hand and loads it into his Thumper. "Lady Sitri, what do we do with this creature? It's clearly intelligent and strong, but we don't know why it attacked us. Should we just end it's life now?"

Seeing the creature for what it was, an abomination, and the way it attacked with hatred rage, led Sitri to reply to Thaddeus by creating a plethora of golden lances that she positioned above the creature, ready to impale. She then looked briefly to Thaddeus to make his preparations before she launched her attack. She was also preparing to launch the lances should she see the creature move in the slightest, she was not taking any chances with such a beast.

Thaddeus remained steadfast in his aim and poise although he moved a little bit further from Sitri to get a different angle. Aiming his Thumper at the creature he nodded to Sitri and said "Do what you must Lady Sitri. I'll make sure the beast can be bound again if he is in fact not dead!"

Well that dont work. No shit! This pests trigger me its time to kill them ! Nowadays I would loot them, but they piss me off, so lets massacre them. Symbiosis has one ability to get a symbiosis with any organic matter. They may be restricted, but they body still touches they ground, which send fungus into the ground, fusing with earth slowly as the tendril wander under this two underground waiting for the strike. "Suprise!/Eat this, scum!" as the two tendril shot up from the ground resembling a mixture of fungus and earth, grabbing them.

Not anticipating the surprise attack Sitri could only recoil as her halo of protection hit a tentacle of earth and fungus that emerged from beneath her. In her surprise she released the lances that she was preparing to launch which raced toward the creature at incredible speed. Sitri could not react to the tentacle quite quick enough and only managed to shield her enough that that while the tentacle didn't grab her, it knocked her aggressively through the jungle. Sitri went flying through the brush of the forest and was intercepted by many branches and stones before she hit the ground, hard. Groaning silently, Sitri tried standing up only to wince before collapsing again, it seemed she had hurt her leg quite extensively, it might even be broken.

Thaddeus who noticed the earthen-fungus mix spear towards him realized the attack arriving but only just barely with his animal instincts. His size and legs allowed him to barely escape the attack, he did however sacrifice his sand cloud. Taken aback by the unexpected attack Thaddeus fired the blue egg towards the creature hoping to bind him once again. The attack was intended to hit center mass but instead it would be fired towards the creatures legs. Thaddeus noticed that Sitri was flung from her cloud and immediately goes to defend her while yelling "LADY SITRI!!!". He loads up a rainbow egg in his Thumper while running and prepares a red egg in his paws for rapid fire. As he runs through the trees he takes note of the trees and their positions, as he does this a slight whirring can be heard coming from Thaddeus.

They shot him, atleast he hit them. However its time to get crazy as both mind melting into one. Into one of primal furry. They can get into a symbiosis with any organic matter, and he is not limited only with parts of his body, but can full fuse with the ground.***"I wiIl show youTERROR!!"*** the creature screamed as it sunk fast into the ground in a melting matter as only the lance hit it on the upper body shoulder, as its howled in pain, before vanishing undergrouind, as the tenril stop they movement and fall to the ground.

Seeing Thaddeus, Sitri signaled him and when he got close lifted them both into the air on clouds of golden sand. This time remembering the sneak attack Sitri flew the clouds higher this time, just above the canopy of the jungle. She also flew them above the clearing they were in, looking for the beast. Seeing that the beast was out of sight and the earthen tentacles were limp, Sitri amassed even more lances, numbering in their thirties. She hoped to overwhelm the beast in a bullet hell the next time they saw it. She indicated for Thaddeus to keep watch for the beast. He had the best senses.

***"WEE AReEE SYXMbibossiss. WASA wandte tookonsumm all OFF you!"*** hollowed the voice from 01 as the same tendrils shout out of the ground like tendrils and trying to reach them, as the infection and consumation continues as not only the ground, but nearby trees slowly starting to show black lines aswell.

Sitri was scared, she didn't like this creature and she wanted it gone, it was an abomination of nature. Noting that black lines were forming on the ground and even the trees, she shot up higher with Thaddeus. It was then that tendrils of earth came for them, she managed to maneuver themselves around most of them but some she had to block with barriers and hands of sand. not knowing where to attack the creature, she looked at Thaddeus and indicated if he could pinpoint where the beast was located in the ground or surroundings.

Thaddeus searched and searched around before saying "we need to split up otherwise this is all over for us." With that Thaddeus leapt higher off the cloud and cracked one of his few golden eggs to create a cloud of golden sand for himself. "You need to conserve your strength and I need to move on my own from here." Thaddeus flew even higher and prepared a 10 red eggs and dropped them into his Thumper as he rose higher and higher. "You need to be stopped here and now this strength of yours is clearly not good. I wonder how well you handle fire?" Thaddeus fired his red eggs that exploded mid-air and like napalm would spread and burn everything organic that it touched. He then prepared a combination of 5 red eggs and 5 rainbow eggs. Thinking to himself "you need better die I don't want to have to use THAT egg."

What the. Is this rabbit throwing at them eggs? As they touched however they exploded burning parts of us. Its hurting. We hate fire. However, dont hit main body, so damage managable. Stupod cowards hiding up in the air. ***"ROAAAAAAAAARRRRRR!!!"*** the unholy respond, which comes out of 01, but 01 has a plan. Before they control over tree and earth surface dies of they placed the trees in such a way to make sure to spread the fire to the other trees to make a giant forest fire and well, what goes up to the air, while a fire burns and is "breathtaking"? And who are over the fire? ***"GOoD LLluUkkCC TToo taAKke AE BReathh!"***roared and chuckled 01 as its retreat deeper in the underground to invest in more fire proof armor.

Thaddeus hears this hideous mound of earth roar back with tenacity knowing this means that his fire eggs had an effect. Thaddeus thinks to himself "good thing I made a massive amount of my eggs." As he loads his remaining large rainbow eggs into the launcher for a rapid-fire attack and fires them at the remaining parts of the mound. Around 10 eggs come flying towards the mound, hoping to crack this thing and reveal the creature beneath. Unbeknownst to Thaddeus the creature's main body was not near the outside of it's "shell." Thaddeus looks to Lady Sitri for guidance as this creature doesn't seem to be getting any weaker.

Seeing Thaddeus looking to her for guidance, Sitri did her best to think of a situation to help them while still fending off attacks from tentacles of stone and wood. Finally she created a series of images to convey her plan while still focusing on defense. She 'told' Thaddeus that it would be best if they simply climb higher and away from the island, the creature most likely can't do whatever it was doing for an extended period of time and it most likely couldn't assimilate an area larger than an island, if it could it would've done so to attack them. After saying this, Sitri started lifting the cloud of Dream sand up and away from the island at high speed, she still kept it in sight, to see when or if the creature would tire. after much thinking Sitri added another series of images that conveyed to Thaddeus that if the creature were to continue its assimilation for an extended period of time, it would be best to just use his special egg, this creature was a disease, and was best eradicated, no matter the damage to the island.

They are fleeing! Nobody is fleeing from u-! Dammit i hear you again. Why do i need to listen to you greedy voice. They cost us too much time and energy. We consume enough trees. They are not worth it. They will not help us out to solve who is the real one. Not worth it I agree, even though I want to gut the woman and crush the rabbit in my palm to mash. Later. Maybe later. Right we leave them and just hope, they will not get killed, so we can end their miserable life. With this thoughts, Patient 01 leaves to the opposite side of the island via underground, as the tendrils slowly loose their movement and dropping down to the ground.

Thaddeus nodded to Sitri and loaded up dozens of miniature rainbow eggs into his thumper and let them rain down on the gargantuan mound...or so he thought as the mound had begun to shrink, Thaddeus decimated the earth into rubble and it appeared that the creature was gone. Thaddeus looked around and found no sight of the mound or the creature. Looking to Sitri Thaddeus floats over and says "I can keep an eye out if it comes back for us, we need to take care of this forest fire that I started. Can I ask for your assistance in clearing up the fire?" Thaddeus had a look of indignance as he had no intentions of causing a forest fire with his attack and wanted only to defeat this thing.

Nodding to Thaddeus, Sitri lowered herself and Thaddeus lower and down toward the island. Allowing Thaddeus to keep a look out, Sitri went about creating a thin mist of sand that she let creep along the surface of the island, smothering any fires on the ground. The trees that were on fire, Sitri extinguished by creating even more sand fog at tree level. She actually had to use some of the sand from the ship as it required quite a bit to lightly cover the entire island and extinguish the flame.

Thaddeus who had flown lower to the ground, decided on his own to go separately and scout around the jungle floating around the jungle from a distance. Before that though he says to Sitri "If you need me to knock some trees down please let me know, who knows of the ecological disaster we just caused or how much of this damage could be attributed to us. I just hope that people understand we didn't intend for this." Scouting above her kept a close eye on the tree line for any disturbances out of the ordinary, in case the creature/mound showed up again.

It took about 10 minutes of continued silence and no resolution on the battlefield for both Sitri and Thaddeus that their opponent had left, if it were in fear of losing or just loss of interest they could not tell. Never the less both Sitri and Thaddeus began cleaning up the damage done to the forest, it was a shame that such a number of trees were unrecovered from the encounter, but they did what they could to save as many as they could.
After a few hours of repair, the island was about as fixed as Sitri and Thaddeus could manage, so they decided to gather as much fallen fruit as possible for the journey ahead, and made their way back to their ship. Instead of flying to the ship on a cloud like they had when they arrived on the island. Sitri instead commanded the ship to take to the air, and they watched over the course of about a minute, their massive golden ship slowly rise out the water and start gently moving through the air over the island. Silently willing an action aboard the ship, Sitri and Thaddeus watched as ethereal golden ropes were thrown out the side of the ship and landed in front of them. Picking up Thaddeus, Sitri commanded the rope to curl around the two friends before hoisting itself up toward the ship. Once on board Sitri commanded the golden monkey crew to set the rigging and set sail due forward, marked on a Three dimensional map was the ships flight pattern to which the monkeys adjusted course to follow. It was in the sunset that golden rays of sun reflected off the glistening golden surface of the massive Dream formed vessel, that Sitri and Thaddeus once again set forth toward revenge and to set as many wrongs right as they could along the way.