By the next morning, Tal was sleeping quietly and contently wrapped within the same comfortable blanket. As every morning, Hadez was working out, and this morning it was one-handed push-ups when she shifted within the blanket and pulled it over her head. "Mmmph." When he switched to the other hand he noticed as she rolled over, still buried within the blanket, and her feet poked out slightly. Chuckling, he stopped. He had been working out since three hours after she fell asleep. Walking to where she was lying, he lay down next to her and whispered, "Milady. it's morning."

She shifted a bit and whispered back, petulantly. "Does it have to be.?"

He chuckled, "According to the laws of nature it has to be."

"Heh." She rolled a little bit and bumped into him.

Her head popped out of the blanket and he laughed softly, "Good morning, milady."

She tried to cover a yawn, "Morning to you too." She smiled.

After kissing her lips softly, he spoke, "I apologize. I'm sweating profusely. I've been training since not too long after you fell asleep. about three hours afterward to be more precise."

"Heh." She was still smiling, "You do that a lot don't you?" she smirked and tried to suppress a giggle.

He chuckled again, "Yes, I do. My father is to blame. heh, ever since I was but a young child, him and I would train for long periods of time. He'd always tell me 'Son, keep training and training so that you are always prepared.'" He looked to her smiling, ".Anyway. What do you want for breakfast? The usual?"

Her smile got a bit wider and she laughed lightly, "Sounds good to me.!" He made the usual appear and she licked her lips, "Always cooked to perfection." She laughed again.

"Of course. my mother is to blame for that." He laughed as well and sat up.

She sat up as well with the blanket still about her as he took out his jeweled hair-tie and put his hair into a ponytail. "Mmmm." she smelled the food and picked up a fork as she eyed the eggs. Hadez picked up a fork and instantly attacked the sausages. Tal saw this and stabbed one before he ate them all. He playfully snapped at her sausage and she pulled it away, "Hey, share!" She laughed.

"Grr." He growled demonically then chuckled. She bit into her sausage, he looked over to the eggs. "I'll just get some of this."

He started to feast on the eggs, almost nonstop until Tal batted at his fork with hers. "Hey! You have to share those too, you know.!"

He pouted a bit, "Hey, I conjured this food, I have every right to gorge myself!" He laughed. "Only joking, milady. Go on. eat." He smiled as she giggled a bit, "I need to wash up anyway."

As he walked away she took a bite of the eggs and blushed, glad he didn't know she had seen him last time. She was a bit embarrassed about it. Eating the eggs, she didn't watch as, with a flick of a wrist, his shin- guards and pants disappeared from his body and reappeared neatly set on the ground while he walked into the water. Even as he swam under the water, Tal grabbed her satchel and dug through it after she had finished with breakfast. While she dug within her satchel she saw his surface, and push his ponytail back out of his face, grumbling a bit, but basking in the sun and water. "Heh." She smiled and then found her plain blue dress and her bathing items. "Hmmm."

She watched as he suddenly released a wave of energy around himself and pushed the water aside in a circular curving wave. He landed on the riverbed and looked about for a moment, having thought he saw something there. "Eh.? Hmmm. I guess it was nothing." He jumped up high above the water and let it crash back together before he dove back in with a loud splash.

Tal giggled a little and went into the tall bushes to change into her cloak before she went to bathe. When she came out she saw him swimming a bit upstream.

Hadez was thinking to himself as he went. My dark and holy magic are quite strong. Hmmm, but now that I think about it. I need to strengthen my elemental magic. I'll have to train more on that. She blushed and turned away to crawl down to the lower level when he moved to float on his back. He was relaxing in the water and slowly closed his eyes while she reached the bottom of the waterfall. It took him a moment to look to shore, "Hmmm? .Milady is gone. where.?" he wondered where she went but could sense her at the bottom of the waterfall, "Oh." he shrugged and relaxed again. His mind wandered as he relaxed, and after some time he jumped out of the water and soared to shore. He shook his body to remove most of the water before making his towel appear and began to dry himself off.

Meanwhile, Talciant took off her cloak and set it with the blue dress on shore. After taking care of her hair and body, she noticed that the water was quite deep right after the falls so she decided to do some diving. Upon her first dive, the clear water showed her that there was a cave about twenty feet down that led underneath the falls. Her second dive got her into the entrance where she looked and felt about. After about two more tries she gave up and headed toward shore. It was a narrow cave anyway. She wrung her hair out and carefully put the blue dress on. Before she gathered her stuff up, she combed her hair with her fingers a bit and did not noticed the churning at the base of the falls strangely become stronger.

Hadez decided to go with new attire that day. He made his shin-guards and pants disappear and on his body appeared silky black windbreakers and dark red shin-guards. Upon his forearms appeared tight fighter wraps and matching red gauntlets.

Without her knowing it, a long black tail with a blue spade shaped fin lashed out of the water. "Huh!?" She was caught off guard and the tail wrapped about her and pulled her into the water. She was pulled down level with the cave entrance before the tail unwrapped and a mouth gently clamped on.

Hadez redid his ponytail and looked about again. "Something's. not right." He noticed that she wasn't back yet for such a fast bather. He decided to check on her again and his eyes went wide. "She's in trouble!" He dashed to the edge of the falls and looked down from the ledge. "Hang on! I'm coming!"

As he jumped from the top of the falls, letting his wings glide him away from it before he dove downward, she was pulled along the narrow cave that opened into a cavern where she was tossed up and out of the water. "Ack!" She popped out of the water and fell back in, splashing about. Spooked, she looked about wide-eyed.

Hadez's body sparked with electricity before he hit the water and shot deep within the cave. He used his energy to rocket himself through the water towards them. The creature swam in circles below her giving off a silver glint. It picked her up by the tail once again and it's head surface, proving it to be a lasarus. Tal gulped and looked wide-eyed at it as it set her down on a ledge but did not let go. It shifted then spoke, "Whoooo aaaarrre yooooou.?"