Fresh off the boat to the island, Manzo proceeded to carry in both his and Alisa's bags into the beach house they were going to share on this vacation they had planned together. But before they could do that, they needed to get settled into their new environment and see what this home they had offered in terms of amenities.

It seemed as though Alisa was still outside admiring the beach front view that this strip had to offer which only meant that it was up to Manzo to start exploring the house. He first found the bedrooms. This one had a large bed, all white set of blankets and sheets as well as a bathtub overlooking the beach. "Yeah that's got Alisa written all over it." He said as he placed her bags down in this room while he went to hunt for a room of his own to call home for the week.

He would find a room at the opposite end of the hall. "This should give us a healthy amount of space." He said to himself as he walked in to find a much smaller bed, with very minimal decorations. "Yeah, this speaks to me." He said putting his bags down.

"I know I didn't have to take your bags, but I wanted to." He said with a pure smile back to his companion. It seemed as though some things never changed, No sooner than they had arrived to the house Alisa had decided to remove her top. She was never great with the heat, if his memory was correct, and it usually was.

Still, it was nice that after all these years of knowing one another that somethings could stay the same. With that being said, what was a bed with the empress in it, and not her body pillow. Manzo walked over to the vacant side of the bed and laid himself down across from Alisa. He removed his own shirt, his body much like hers was desired by many, and had only by few.

He opened his arms wide for her, offering himself to her to rest on if so chose to do so. After all, this trip was about the two of them reconnecting, it was only right to share little moments of intimacy to strengthen those bonds.

With Alisa firmly in his arms resting against him, he did have to admit that the heat was far more noticeable with them sharing body heat. But when in a bind such as this, one could either suggest the removal of more clothes. Which wasn't wise, even if they had been naked with another more than once. It was safer to do the following, with a snap of the fingers, a potted plant that sat on the night stand grew a bit larger. Sporting new fanned leaves, it began to move on it's own and wafted in a cool breeze from it fanning them with a bit magic.

"That festival is going on all week, we've got a lot to do other than that ya know." He said with a smile as he stroked her hair. The cool breeze was nice, and company was even nicer. There weren't many beings that he enjoyed being close with an environment like this. Lisa was never someone he'd complain about.

"Besides that sleepy face is just as cute as the first day I saw it." He said teasing the empress.

The feeling of her delicate digit tracing along his chest sent a shiver up his spine. The game was a foot as they said in old novels. But two could play that game, though he hoped he wasn't too rusty after all this time. A single bead of sweat trickled down his face and dropped onto chest of his companion trickling down to her stomach.

"I lasted a good while before crawling into your bed. Three years is a long time to keep one's self away from you." He said teasing as his hand trailed down her back and traced her spine. landing firmly on the small, pulling the bikini bottom that peaked out above her jeans a little higher until it rested on her hips.

"If you'd prefer I can always make it four years." He said with a teasing tone to his voice before resting his hand softly on her backside giving it a gentle caress.

It seemed that his bold move had gotten the attention and interest of his companion. They would lose themselves in the throws of passion and intimacy for but a small moment in the grand scheme of this trip, though it did fill his heart with joy to know that she had missed him as much he had missed her.

While she straightened herself up, he would button his shirt back up and straighten up his clothing. He exited the room and walked toward the kitchen needing a beverage to quench his thirst. He would open the fridge door and be met with a rush of cold air that made him weak in the knees in comparison to the temperature of the island.

He would take a quick look around and grab a sports drink to help keep himself hydrated, chugging it in attempt to flood his system with fluid. He would let out a loud grunt as he crushed the can in his hands. He would throw it in the kitchen trash can. In that time Alisa had made her way out of the bedroom and down to the kitchen.

She would ask him where they would start first, he noticed her delicate hand placed prominently on her cocked hip. Which of course meant it was time to get this show on the road for the day. "Well we have a few options for today, we can go hiking up the mountain to a waterfall and swim before the first night of carnival. Or we can get plastered on the beach."

He would lean against the kitchen island while he waited on her answer. "I know what I would choose." He added, wanting to see if she could actually guess what it is he would pick, it was a little game they used to play to test to see if they were in sync, he wondered if she would remember that from when they were younger.

"Now that's my girl." He joked as he removed himself from the counter top leaning position he had placed himself in. Now that the choice had been made it was time to set off, but first they had to grab all of the essentials for it. Well probably just him grabbing his essentials considering he was never one to do anything without proper preparation.

He made a quick dash up the stairs of the house to the room he placed his things in and grabbed his backpack. "He walked back down the stairs with his sunglasses and boonie hat on to keep himself from getting horribly sunburnt until they made it to the top of the mountain.

He stepped forward directly in front of Alisa with a smile on his face as he went down his checklist, not even remotely paying attention the fact that her backside was trying to eat the crown molding of the doorway. "Alright, I've got tanning oil, sun screen, plenty of water, and something to smoke for when we do get up to the top. I don't think we are missing anything." he said as he grabbed the strap of his book bag like it was the first day of school and bounced back and forth on his forefoot and the balls of his heels.

He had forgotten all the utility properties her wedding ring had. It was a handy little thing that, something he was impressed the more he thought about it. But he couldn't just stand there admiring her wedding ring. Though he was a sight to behold, and probably one of the finest pieces of jewelry he had ever seen.

He was close behind her, not wanting to lag far behind or be accused of only wanting a better look at her rump and thus was lagging behind. He could only chuckle as she commented on the intensity of the sun. He reached into his pocket and grabbed a spare pair of sunglasses, gently handing it to Alisa. With the two now on their way he couldn't help but take a big whiff.

"Smells nice, I thought it would have a similar smell to hargeon but it's quite different." He said as he put his hands in his pockets. The smell that wafted through his nostrils was that of fruit, alcohol, coconuts, and sun tan lotion. It truly was a resort island, and very different from Hargeon, as long as you didn't come to a Blue Pegasus summer bash. As he looked around he couldn't help but admire the scenes.

Between the couples there on honeymoons, the packs of women clad in bikinis, the volleyball being plaid on the beach, as well as the surfers taking in some big waves. It was truly a sight to behold. He turned his head to the side to get Alisa's attention. "Thanks for coming all this way with me, I don't think I'd have come if someone didn't go with me. I've never been to a place like this before." He said with a smile.

The path they were taking to the mountain was covered in beautiful greenery as far as the eye can see. A dense jungle clad the trail, so many different flora could be seen. Some flowers that were so bizarre he hadn't even thought to make something like them with his own magic. The only issue was all the bees around. That being coupled with the fact that he was a nature based dragon slayer meant he let off plant pheromones to a degree which meant he was all the rage with the pollinators in the jungle path.

"Huh I didn't think about that," He said as he commented on what seemed like a conga line of bees following them around as they made their journey on the trail. "Well if nothing else maybe they can lead us back to their hive and we can get some fresh honey out of the deal." He said with a light hearted chuckle. Trying to make light of their tag along insect friends. He knew they wouldn't bother Alisa, she didn't have what they were looking for, and to be honest, all they'd have to do was land on him to see he wasn't a flower. But he didn't want to be covered in bees, he'd a seen a film where a man suffocated from such a thing and he was in no hurry to share the experience.

He stood in the cross roads for a minute to look at his map to make sure they were on the right path, and thankfully it seemed as though they lost the bees. Well for now at least, they can't stray too far from their queen so it was only a matter of time before another hive came looking for their fix of him as well. "Seems like we are on the right path, good, I'd hate to get lost in this dense bit of green."

"Seems like even the the animals are finding me irresistible today." He said making reference to their moment of intimacy with a chuckle. He had hoped she would find it just as funny as he did. But she was right though, if we did indeed follow the shadows we would be able to get to the mountain relatively quickly. Then again they could never truly get lost, what with her earth magic and his nature magic they'd be able to find their way regardless.

"I always forget that you've been quite the world traveler. I cant say the same for myself, outside of war time, I haven't really been anywhere outside of Fiore." He said with an embarrassed shade of red on his face. He knew she wouldn't think different of him for being married to mainland. They both had shared their long stretches of time there, but this was first time he had taken a vacation outside of guild events. Though he was often times working the bar when he did attend those events, so if he was working was it really a vacation?

"Long hikes like this take me back to all those days on the road we shared when we were kids." He said with a smile, his face returning to it's normal hue now that he's shacked off the embarrassment of basically admitting he was a shut in unless there was trouble on the home front. "Come to think of it, you could never really find us in one place back then, and we slept in the weirdest places." He was having a spot of fun going down memory lane, they were some of his best memories, before they had to say goodbye for some time due to the backlash of everything that went down on their crusades against the cults of fiore.

"I remember a particular night vividly, we had just come in from the rain. Soaked to the bone, we walked into this shady little inn on the outskirts of Hosenka. The inn keeper was a real creep toward you, you said you'd give him a night he'd never forget. Next thing he knew he had been basically cemented to the floor and you took the key." He couldn't help but let out a hearty laugh remembering the look in the inn keepers face.

It was a mixture of fear and disappointment, and honestly just pure bewilderment. "I told him you made guys stiff and stuck in their tracks all the time and he shouldn't feel bad." Going down memory lane like this was making the trip go by quite fast, because the next thing he knew, there they were, taking in the view of the islands tallest mountain, sporting a waterfall at the top with a swimming hole at the mouth.

Manzo took a look around the sprawling mountain side and couldn't help but flash a smile. Perhaps all the green spoke to his dragon instincts given the element of his power. He had always found himself at home in places like this. But that was something he could explore while he was here instead of putting it off for another time. As they began to their journey into the mountain side trail, he couldn't help himself. He removed his shoes, socks and shirt.

His body began to glow a deep forest green as the green scales of his mentor dragon began to spread over his body. His red eyes began to shine serpent yellow, with matching pupils. His nails grew to talon length on his hands and feet, and horns began to poke out of his white hair, which had a tinge of green it was now sporting. He jumped up into the tree and let out a roar similar to that of a dragon in it's intensity.

"Last one to the top is a rotten egg!" He said with a laugh as he began to jump from tree to tree with his enhanced body. He knew Alisa couldn't resist a little friendly competition, even if this was a vacation. The two of them loved to play little games like this with one another. They had for a very long time and it didn't seem to ever die down no matter how long they spent apart from the other.

"My funeral she says, so serious all the time." He said with a chuckle as he keeps hopping from tree to tree. He always felt more alive inside the tree canopies. Probably something to do with his magic. Or perhaps not having grown up with it in his homeland he just appreciated it more the older he got. Funnily enough while he was getting up there in age, he couldn't help but still feel young, he even still looked quite young. Probably something to do with dragon blood.

He dashed through the luscious greenery as he kept a close eye on the other contestant, seeing she was keeping pace with him even with his head start. While this wasn't everyone's idea of a good vacation, he was a bit of an odd duck, and he enjoyed a little one on one to get the blood pumping. He whistled an old song his mother used to sing to him as a child, swinging through the trees to the top of the mountain to see that waterfall.

Oh, she was a fast one, but that was nothing new for him. Time to make things a little interesting. He sent magic to his feet causing vines to spring forth and catapult him forward. Closing the gap as well as giving him the lead in this little race. After all he didn't say magic was off the table. Not to mention when the stakes are high it's always good to have an ace in your sleeve. Though truthfully, they had not made any kind of bet. But bragging rights between the two of them was wager enough to make him go all out.

He couldn't have her thinking that he was going to just give up and give her the win. That would be an insult to his lovely companion, and he'd never hear the end of it if he had done such a thing. So, it was only right that he uses a little bit of mother nature, against one of his favorite mothers. "Wow, you were just ahead of me a moment ago, has motherhood made you go soft?" He teased.

A little trash talk every now and again wasn't so bad. The Ace and the Master are supposed to be evenly matched in some regards. Though to be fair he had fallen down on the job on that one by quite a bit. Though it was hard to hold it against him, she had always been a natural, while he had to work three times as hard as everyone else. Perhaps that's what she admired about him, perhaps that's what everyone admired about him at one point.

"Well well, looks like we are truly making a game out of this now." Since it seemed that all bets were off at this point, he decided it was time to break out the big guns in this little affair of theirs. He let out a whistle loud enough to be heard across the whole of the island. Moments later, a full-grown dragon could be seen over the island. He smirked to himself a bit and launched himself up in the air.

He landed on top of the dragon and sped off toward the summit of the mountain, leaving Alisa squarely behind him at this point. He did wonder how she would react to seeing the baby dragon he had found all grown up now. Viserion, screeched out to the heavens as he dashed toward the summit and made his landing on the mountain, wriggling his head around, screeching in excitement.

"You smell her don't you?" He said as he patted the neck of the dragon he had come to trust for many years now as a noble steed, as well as long time companion. He was almost at his sexual maturing at this stage of his life, almost.

"Come now Viserion, we can't let her beat us now can we." He said as he held tight on the saddle of his dragon. It was hard for him to make out at first, but it seemed a mixture of energies was speeding up behind them. It was Alisa's but also someone else's, or rather something else's. It was hard to tell at first, but with it coming closer and closer it was becoming all the clearer.

"Seems someone has made a deal." He said as he instructed Viserion to climb high into the sky and go into a dive bomb position in order to use physics to their advantage to win this little race.
Climbing higher and higher he was able to finally start the dive, building up ungodly amounts of speed with Viserion's wings tucked in acting like a speeding bullet.

He could see Alisa's form almost reaching the finish line, but he was so close, this was going to be a photo finish for sure now. Hopefully luck was on his side this time.