14: Great Water War [Filler]
[11/09/1982] - J'nir's Family Household
(Reccomended: Listen to the Song "Como Nossos Pais" by Elis Regine (Like Our Parents - Elis Regina), you'll like it.)
"Não quer o lhe falar meu grande amor..." (I don't wanna tell you, sweetheart...) Derek held his sister before putting her on his shoulders. Today was Saturday, so him and his family were visiting a fellow family that they were pretty close with thanks to their helpful business - The Janorous, as they liked to be called, were a family of Herbalists and Potioneers that loved to live amongst nature: "De coisas que aprendi nos discos..." (About stuff I learned from records) Having both his sisters each one on one side of his shoulders, he kept walking forward as they kept singing together a song he also liked. Besides them, J'nir and his older sister J'oahnna walked with them to their next resting point. Alongside them were also Derek's friends and his sisters friends, a single vacation day before they went back to their respective lives.
"Quero lhe contar como eu vivi-" (I wanna tell you how I lived-) Alexandra sang, her voice wasn't bad, and neither was Amanda's voice as she also kept singing alongside her sister: "-e tudo oque aconteceu comigo." (and all I've been through) They were going for a swim in a lake nearby in the Janorous property. It was located in the middle of a beautiful and lush forest. The wilderness could be seen everywhere you looked and felt in the pure air and the raw magic in the earth. "Viver é melhor que sonhar~" (Living is better than dreaming~) Derek joined in the singing of his sisters, they grinned as well, because they enjoyed hearing him singing. The friends Derek decided to bring with him were his little merry gang of assholes, Agarothon, Veronica, and Goliad! J'nir was also there because this was literally his house. "E eu sei que o amor é uma coisa boa~" (And I know love is a good thing~) Stepping over a fallen tree, shoeless with his bare feet touching the earth and wearing only these big shorts, Derek and his family began singing a beautiful song.
"Mas tambem sei que qualquer canto é menor do que a vida, de qualquer pessoa!" (But I also know that any song means less than anyone's life). Alexandra held on to her brother's hair as he kept walking forward. She was wearing this pale purple bikini. Her sister Amanda was also holding onto Derek's hair and shoulder as he kept walking forward. He was tall and strong enough to carry them without fear of getting hurt, his skin thick enough for him to even step on nails and not break or hurt himself, his Half-Giant constitution started to develop faster as he reached the age for his Half-Giant puberty, which was really rough on him. "Por isso cuidado meu bem-" (So beware, my darling-) Stepping over a hole, Derek looked inside it for a moment, only to be greeted by a small family of moles, which he ignored and kept walking forward. "-há perigo na esquina~" (Danger is just around the corner~). Uncaring about the world outside of this moment, their song kept going, but the meaning of the song was not forgotten by them, even more so when they lived it.
"Eles venceram, e o sinal está fechado pra nós, que somos jovens..." (They have won, and the lights are red for us, young people...) Agarothon picked up the small J'nir so they could walk faster. Many of Alexandra's and Amanda's friends were Halves themselves. One of them was even a centaur! Centaurs were born with natural affinities to the divine nature of the planets and their properties. She could look at the night sky and tell you if you were going to die choking on soup or broth. Know the difference! "Para abraçar seu irmão-" (To hold your brother-) Derek grinned as he flexed his arms, making his sisters laugh as they also moved alongside his muscles, which were growing really fast. He started to gain weight due to his muscles. Even without working regularly, he was getting built like a bodybuilder! "-e beijar sua menina, na rua." (And to kiss your girl on the street).
"A gente já tá chegando?" (Are we there yet?) Bored, Veronica sighed as she looked right ahead, and sure enough, they were getting close! They just had to take this drop.
"É que se fez seu braço, seu lábio, e sua própria voz." (That's what your arm, your lips, and your voice were made for). Uncaring, Derek kept going forward, and soon, they were dropping down a 25 30 meter drop from a waterfall straight into a large and deep lake. Everybody screamed as they jumped into the lake, a grin in their face - Derek smirked as his own magic flashed out, carefully holding his sisters so as their fragile human bodies would not get hurt from the fall. As they broke through the surface of the waters, smiles, and laughter in their lips, Derek threw his sisters off of his shoulder with a grin as he kept singing because when he begins a song, he has to finish singing it. "Você me pergunta pela minha paixão~" (You ask me about my passion~). Holding a weird stick as a microphone, Derek swayed to himself in the waters as his sister giggled and threw water at each other with their magic.
"Digo que estou encantado como uma nova invenção~" (I say I'm rapt as in a new invention) Derek felt the stick in his hand... wiggle? "Eu vou ficar nessa cidade, não vou voltar pro sertão-" (I'm staying in this city, I'm not going back to the country-) Suddenly, his weird stick microphone didn't look much like a stick anymore, but like a snake. Derek lifted his eyebrows at it for a moment he used his [Link] magic spell, forcing the snake to stay quiet and still under his own willpower. "Pois vejo vir vindo no vento, cheiro de novs estação." (Because I sense blowing in the wind, the smell of a new season.) Under his willpower, the snake curled around his arm and acted like his microphone obediently, making Derek smile as he dodged a large ball of water coming from behind him without even turning to look back, simply sensing it.
"Eu sinto tudo na ferida viva do meu coração~" (I feel everything in the living open wound in my heart) He could hear the guitar playing inside his head, with his eyes closed he slapped the water with his free hand, throwing a wave of water towards his sisters, who all screamed a "Derek!" as they went down, much to his amusement: "Já faz tempo eu vi você na rua, cabelo ao vento, gente joven reunida~" (It's been a while I saw you on the street, windswept hair, young people gathered together~) This time, the attack came from his own friends, with Agarothon challeging his Boss by throwing his own piece of magic! Taught by his parents, he gathered magic on his palms, and slapped the water, sending an even large wave of water towards Derek while also hitting a few other people.
"Na parede da memória, essa lembrança é o quadro que dói mais!" (In the wall of memory, this remembrance is the most painful portrait!) Derek was someone who got lost in song whenever they sang, but he was taught by a sadistic giant who taught him to always be aware of his surroundings, so when he felt the change in magic and water, he gathered his own magic in his fist as if he was going to use [Ice Breaker Fist], but he did not allow his magic to acquire the frosting property it always had whenever he used this technique. When his fist made contact with the water, the wave easily broke, not even making contact with his body. "Minha dor é perceber-" (My pain is to notice-) He quickly lifted his leg from the water, and as it broke through the surface, he sent his magic, making the water droplets fly like bullets towards Agarothon, who laughed as he was hit.
"-que apesar de termos feito tudo que fizemos!" (-although we've done everything we've done!) Holding the tone for a moment, Derek used his magic to pull him down the water, water that was deep enough for him to be completely submerged, successfully so dodging the barrage of water followed by this ring of water that was thrown by Alexandra's Half-Siren friend, who Derek made eye-contact while they were underwater and winked: "Ainda somos os mesmos, e vivemos, ainda somos os mesmos, e vivemos como os nossos pais." (We're still the same, and we live, we're still the same, and we live just like our parents.) Breaking the water's surface, Derek pulled his snake-phone closer as he sang.
'Bem, melhor atacar também.' (Well, better attack as well) Derek grinned as he thought, this time going for the offense! "Nossos idolos ainda são os mesmo, e as aparências não enganam mais." (Our idols are still the same, and the looks don't deceive anymore.) Derek gathered his magic in a small sphere around him, just covering the skin, before releasing it in a very aggressive shove against the elements, seding this wave of magic that pushed all water and air in contact with him, pushing it outward and against the others. He noticed how one of Amanda's friends cried out, "Caralho!" (Shit!) as he raised his hands, a wall of water raising to protect his Half-Goblin self. "Você diz que depois deles, não apareceu mais ninguém ~!" (You said after them, there was nobody like them~!)
"Ah não, ele começou a considerar a gente a audiência." (Oh no, he started to think of us as the audience.) Goliad face palmed, which was followed by J'nir and Agarothon, because they knew once Derek was fully immersed in his song, he'd think of them as the audience, which was a mindset he put himself to not let other people's actions distract him from his son, which was bad for them. Because like this, Derek was fully focused on his son and his surroundings, which stopped them from causing a distraction that could help them win against their big boss. "Você pode ate dizer que eu tô por fora, ou então que eu tô inventando." (You can say I don't dig it, or I'm talking bullshit) With a flourishing movement to the side, Derek used his snake-phone to slap away a small ball of white smoke, which broke the ball and spread out this thick mist around him, making seeing out of the mist practically impossible.
"Mas é você que ama o passado e que não vê - É você que ama o passado e que não vê - que o novo sempre vem." (But you're the one who loves the past and doesn't see - You're the one who loves the past and doesn't see - the new always comes) Sadly for them, Derek didn't need his eyes to see. Minds have a presence in the metaphysical sense, and Derek had a large affinity towards Mind Magic, making him able to easily sense other minds and their intentions, as well as send out this field of mind magic around him in a radius, that if perturbed, he can sense. He's still fiddling with it, but essentially, he's making an Observation Haki of his own. "Hoje eu sei, que quem me deu a idea de uma nova consciência e juventude-" (Now I know, who gave me an ideal of a new consciousness and youth-) Feeling a perturbance in the left side, Derek used his [Body Manipulation] magic, and with his own hands, he pulled off a piece of his ribcage to successfully dodge an attack.
"-tá em casa, guardado por Deus, contando vil metal." (-they're home, guarded by God, counting money.). He just shoved the piece of the ribcage he ripped off, back in place. The flesh and bone fused back to the body, and not even a drop of blood fell on the water. It would've hurt a lot to do this, but hey! He's already in constant, never-ending pain. "Minha dor é perceber, que apesar de termos feito tudo, tudo, tudo oque fizemos." (My pain is to realize, although we've done every, every, everything we've done.). In a spin, Derek used his magic to guide the water to flow in a spiral, slowly but surely creating his own whirlpool. "Nós ainda somos os mesmos, e vivemos-" (We're still the same, and we live-). Feeling the control he had over the water being wrestled out of his grasp, he reached out with his mind and found who had taken it from him.
You guessed it, the Half-Siren guy.
'Bem, desculpe, mas a música está quase terminando.' (Well, sorry, but the song is almost over). Derek linked his mind with the guy and shared with him a small portion of the pain he was going through, immediately he felt the water come back into his control as the guy lost focus on his magic. Once again, his constant pain shows its use! "Ainda somos os mesmos, e vivemos-" (We're still the same, and we live-). Gathering the water, he spun it around him, with him in the center, creating this whirlpool as he kept singing: "Ainda somos os mesmos e vivemos comos os nossos Pais~" (We're still the same and we live just like our Parents~) With the raising of his voice as the song came to an end, so did the whirlpool, crashing and releasing all which it carried.
"Vocês podem aplaudir agora." (You can applaud now.) Derek bowed to his audience, a smug grin on his face - well, until a ball of water hit him.
"Vigilância constante." (Constant vigilance) A voice he knew very well to be his father's spoke from above him, and there he stood, the smug giant looking from above.
Derek just smiled as he pointed his finger at his old man: "Eu vou te derrubar daí." (I'm gonna take you down.)
Thus, the First Great Water War of Oriundos, truly began.