03-22-2009, 01:29 AM
She was stumbling forward in the grasp of Sage, her mind partially clouded on what exactly was happening around her or even within her. Rose had just left, just like that. She’d bailed on them when she could have so easily helped them. And that dead, cold look that was in her eyes was probably the most painful thing about the entire experience - minus the feeling of her ribs and throat ready to snap. Thankfully, Sage had come to her aid and Ashe’s mind shut down into a fog afterwards. She didn’t care what was happening. Her mind was taking in too much at one time.
Her heritage was pounding at her from within, her friends were abandoning her from without, Kai Demolic was toying with them from on high, and goblins were assaulting them from below. It was enough to leave her wrist aching for the soothing release of a blade. Unfortunately, she would find no such comforts here.
Here, the only thing to keep her sanity intact was the cackling laughter echoing through the ventilation shaft as Sage and Ashe spilled through it, pushing their way through the energy barriers with their newly registered DNA allowing them passage. “Get in,” Sage pressed her, pushing her quickly into the lift before turning to hold her gun forward in case more of them rushed them at the last minute. The doors shut swiftly around the pair, and they were engulfed in eerie silence.
“I need to check your vit-” Sage began, stopping midway as she saw Ashe coughing raggedly and arcing her back as pain shot through her. Setting the gun down quickly, the doctor dropped down and began placing her fingertips against various places on her to check her pulse. “Ashe. Ashe!” she cried out louder, trying to get into the girls mind. ASHE! This time, she had truly cried out into the girls mind, but she received nothing more than a stream of tears flowing from the girl’s sapphire eyes, focused on something miles beyond the elevator’s cold steel.
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“Ashe!”
Sage’s voice cried out into her mind, but strangely, the image that embodied the voice was that of her mother. She struggled as a blue energy field had surrounded her, her eyes falling onto those of her grandfather standing a few feet away. He had a fierce golden aura surrounding himself, giving off a fierce torrent of energy that roared like a lion throughout the room.
Her mother tried to rush in to grab Ashe, who realized that she was strapped against what seemed to be a rack-like torture device, but perhaps that was just the terror that was pounding through her quickened heart as she had been strapped into a hospital bed before this. Dr. Tranfield grabbed her quickly, leaping from his chair in the lab to point at Ashe’s vital signs as they poured over the monitors. “She’s alright!” he yelled, forcing her attention from her daughter to the screens. “She’s not even in any pain, she’s just scared!”
Lily pushed against him in vain, trying to reach Ashe while tears poured from her eyes. “No, she’s terrified! She needs her mother!”
Gensei shot her a sharp glare through golden hued eyes to keep her back. He could not speak, at this moment, but the look was clear enough. Stay back. The old man’s clothing was rippling around him as if it were ready to shred at any moment, unable to withstand the raging energy rushing around them. His muscles were as tight as they could get, betraying any hint of old age.
Ashe looked down to realize that she was topless, but strangely she didn’t seem to mind. She was, after all, only two years old, her core clarified for her. Between her blue field of energy and his gold was a spinning item that seemed to be made of glass, but something told her that it was crystallized ki energy. Focusing on it for a moment, the image seemed almost as if it were a jagged image of the North Star, but each of the five points were rounded off towards the center like teardrops. Each of the five rounded off spikes essentially floated in existence to each other into the shape of a five pointed star with nothing in the center.
The Star’s Tear, as she would later come to learn of it. She stared at it, panic stricken as it slowly floated closer to her. It was then that her mind was washed over with a cooling wave of pacifism, as if all of her terror had been removed and replaced with halcyon incarnate. You have nothing to fear, girl. We are one. Her eyes would have widened if she had not gone into a state of anesthetic sleep, before realizing that the Tear itself was speaking with in her mind. Or was that simply her imagination? Could it have been one of the other’s in the room trying to calm her? Sage, from outside?
Then, in a supernova’s flare of bluish silver energy, she felt it enter into her bosom as if she and it were both made of nothing more than light and coexisting in the same point in space. Her gaze lowered to her chest and she saw through herself, watching her organs all function as her body was a strange transparent blue. Her veins throughout her system were glowing with a blue of wires within a computer, while her lightly glowing heart was beating calmly within her chest. Her lungs, her skeletal system… It was an amazing sight, as if she had been born with the spectral body structure of a jelly fish. The relic was embedded within her chest as it fade, shattering into billions of tiny shards within her before the sparkling dusty fragments clung to her internal body structure, fusing itself with the girl and bringing them together for the journey into life.
She felt calm, unnaturally placid, but it felt as if she had never had a reason to feel worried at all. Even more strangely, she could now feel the very light particles floating within the air around her, a tingling as her hands moved childishly through each spec of glowing dust. She could feel a strange energy moving within her, leaving through her pores to enter the apparitional stream around her before returning through her chakra points to flow within her. She felt hypersensitive enough that she could even feel the pressure within her mind of the other’s presence nearby, feeling a distinct signal pulsing towards her between Gensei, her mom, Dr. Tranfield… She even could feel the other lab workers throughout the building, moving around as they went about their work.
She felt alive, on a level that she had never felt. One with the life stream of the earth itself. She felt…
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“Goblins!” Ashe cried out, coughing. “Coming! Here!” She had no idea how she knew. She was still practically unconscious and as delusional as a acid dropper. But she felt them, so strongly, as if nothing could deny their existence nearby.
Sage was trying to calmly tune out her mad ramblings as she checked over the girl, holding open her rapidly blinking eyelids to look deeply into her eyes. “Still unfocused, ugh,” she grunted in frustration. The blue light around the girl had returned in her sleep, spreading around her like a ki field before pulsing rapidly. It had scared Sage, originally, but she had no time to allow her fear to grip her if Ashe’s fears were true. Sage had already pulled the girl’s hooded jacket off of her body and had begun to inspect her for breakouts, after taking note of how heavy her breathing had become and how feverish she was looking.
She slowly lifted up Ashe’s dress above the line of her undershorts, trying to put aside the fear of Ashe misunderstanding the situation if she awoke so that she could do what she needed. She couldn’t diagnose the problem if she didn’t check for symptoms, and she needed to know if the girl was growing red blotches or rashes near her heart from the blood rush she seemed to be experiencing. “Come on, Ashe,” she whispered, lifting her up by the neck enough to pull her dress up further, looking down at her blue hued stomach as the light enveloping them grew stronger. The dress finally came up over to the girl’s neck, and Sage focused, her eyes suddenly widening as she saw the birthmark on the girl’s chest.
The birthmark was a colored marking in the center of her breastbone, slightly darker than her normal pigmentation in the area. Sage stared at it intently as the mark took a blue outlined appearance, like lines around a tattoo. Could this just be some weird form of body art?
Ashe’s breathing had begun to slow down for a moment as her eyes closed, relieved of the heat release at her clothing being loosened up for her. Sage’s deft hands covered her forehead to find that the feverish sweating had cooled down a bit and gave a quick smile before looking back at the glowing star insignia upon her chest. It was still glowing, but some of the strength of the shifting energy had receded slightly around her into a pale blue hue.
SLAM!
Sage’s vision snapped up at the roof of the sealed elevator to see a small dent appear in the top. Soon after, she heard high pitched laughter from other goblins laughing at their comrade who had fallen down the elevator shaft and struck the roof. She looked back down and saw Ashe’s eyes were once more open, staring calmly back up towards the ceiling herself at the dent. “Don’t worry about me,” Ashe spoke depressively. “I don’t want you hurt,” she breathed, pulling her clothes back into place without asking why they had been lifted up so far.
Did it bother her?
Of course it bothered her that some strange girl had partially undressed her in a sealed elevator shaft, but she held her trust in Sage that the girl would do whatever was necessary to the wellbeing of her friends. The girl was a freaking doctor, timid and yet feisty at the same time. There was no misunderstanding the situation of a doctor checking on someone that had just passed out while goblins were attacking them from every direction.
She grabbed her hoody and pulled it back down, not even realizing that she still retained the faint blue hue around her. Sage was retrieving her gun from the elevator floor and quickly filled Ashe in on exactly what had happened while she’d been out of it, lost in thought. The pink haired girl nodded, quickly hugging Sage in a display of gratitude - feeling the girl tense up in her arms - but releasing her immediately before she could do any permanent damage to the girl’s personal space.
Ashe herself had been accused of having a bubble complex quite often in her life.
The schoolgirl turned and glanced at the sealed shaft door before taking a breath. “Ready?” she asked quietly before slamming the emergency lock back into the open position. Giving them one more moment to prepare as the elevator lurched within the shaft from the creatures landing on it, she hit the door release button, running out into the darkness with only Sage at her side.
Team Red and Blue, through and through.
Her heritage was pounding at her from within, her friends were abandoning her from without, Kai Demolic was toying with them from on high, and goblins were assaulting them from below. It was enough to leave her wrist aching for the soothing release of a blade. Unfortunately, she would find no such comforts here.
Here, the only thing to keep her sanity intact was the cackling laughter echoing through the ventilation shaft as Sage and Ashe spilled through it, pushing their way through the energy barriers with their newly registered DNA allowing them passage. “Get in,” Sage pressed her, pushing her quickly into the lift before turning to hold her gun forward in case more of them rushed them at the last minute. The doors shut swiftly around the pair, and they were engulfed in eerie silence.
“I need to check your vit-” Sage began, stopping midway as she saw Ashe coughing raggedly and arcing her back as pain shot through her. Setting the gun down quickly, the doctor dropped down and began placing her fingertips against various places on her to check her pulse. “Ashe. Ashe!” she cried out louder, trying to get into the girls mind. ASHE! This time, she had truly cried out into the girls mind, but she received nothing more than a stream of tears flowing from the girl’s sapphire eyes, focused on something miles beyond the elevator’s cold steel.
---
“Ashe!”
Sage’s voice cried out into her mind, but strangely, the image that embodied the voice was that of her mother. She struggled as a blue energy field had surrounded her, her eyes falling onto those of her grandfather standing a few feet away. He had a fierce golden aura surrounding himself, giving off a fierce torrent of energy that roared like a lion throughout the room.
Her mother tried to rush in to grab Ashe, who realized that she was strapped against what seemed to be a rack-like torture device, but perhaps that was just the terror that was pounding through her quickened heart as she had been strapped into a hospital bed before this. Dr. Tranfield grabbed her quickly, leaping from his chair in the lab to point at Ashe’s vital signs as they poured over the monitors. “She’s alright!” he yelled, forcing her attention from her daughter to the screens. “She’s not even in any pain, she’s just scared!”
Lily pushed against him in vain, trying to reach Ashe while tears poured from her eyes. “No, she’s terrified! She needs her mother!”
Gensei shot her a sharp glare through golden hued eyes to keep her back. He could not speak, at this moment, but the look was clear enough. Stay back. The old man’s clothing was rippling around him as if it were ready to shred at any moment, unable to withstand the raging energy rushing around them. His muscles were as tight as they could get, betraying any hint of old age.
Ashe looked down to realize that she was topless, but strangely she didn’t seem to mind. She was, after all, only two years old, her core clarified for her. Between her blue field of energy and his gold was a spinning item that seemed to be made of glass, but something told her that it was crystallized ki energy. Focusing on it for a moment, the image seemed almost as if it were a jagged image of the North Star, but each of the five points were rounded off towards the center like teardrops. Each of the five rounded off spikes essentially floated in existence to each other into the shape of a five pointed star with nothing in the center.
The Star’s Tear, as she would later come to learn of it. She stared at it, panic stricken as it slowly floated closer to her. It was then that her mind was washed over with a cooling wave of pacifism, as if all of her terror had been removed and replaced with halcyon incarnate. You have nothing to fear, girl. We are one. Her eyes would have widened if she had not gone into a state of anesthetic sleep, before realizing that the Tear itself was speaking with in her mind. Or was that simply her imagination? Could it have been one of the other’s in the room trying to calm her? Sage, from outside?
Then, in a supernova’s flare of bluish silver energy, she felt it enter into her bosom as if she and it were both made of nothing more than light and coexisting in the same point in space. Her gaze lowered to her chest and she saw through herself, watching her organs all function as her body was a strange transparent blue. Her veins throughout her system were glowing with a blue of wires within a computer, while her lightly glowing heart was beating calmly within her chest. Her lungs, her skeletal system… It was an amazing sight, as if she had been born with the spectral body structure of a jelly fish. The relic was embedded within her chest as it fade, shattering into billions of tiny shards within her before the sparkling dusty fragments clung to her internal body structure, fusing itself with the girl and bringing them together for the journey into life.
She felt calm, unnaturally placid, but it felt as if she had never had a reason to feel worried at all. Even more strangely, she could now feel the very light particles floating within the air around her, a tingling as her hands moved childishly through each spec of glowing dust. She could feel a strange energy moving within her, leaving through her pores to enter the apparitional stream around her before returning through her chakra points to flow within her. She felt hypersensitive enough that she could even feel the pressure within her mind of the other’s presence nearby, feeling a distinct signal pulsing towards her between Gensei, her mom, Dr. Tranfield… She even could feel the other lab workers throughout the building, moving around as they went about their work.
She felt alive, on a level that she had never felt. One with the life stream of the earth itself. She felt…
---
“Goblins!” Ashe cried out, coughing. “Coming! Here!” She had no idea how she knew. She was still practically unconscious and as delusional as a acid dropper. But she felt them, so strongly, as if nothing could deny their existence nearby.
Sage was trying to calmly tune out her mad ramblings as she checked over the girl, holding open her rapidly blinking eyelids to look deeply into her eyes. “Still unfocused, ugh,” she grunted in frustration. The blue light around the girl had returned in her sleep, spreading around her like a ki field before pulsing rapidly. It had scared Sage, originally, but she had no time to allow her fear to grip her if Ashe’s fears were true. Sage had already pulled the girl’s hooded jacket off of her body and had begun to inspect her for breakouts, after taking note of how heavy her breathing had become and how feverish she was looking.
She slowly lifted up Ashe’s dress above the line of her undershorts, trying to put aside the fear of Ashe misunderstanding the situation if she awoke so that she could do what she needed. She couldn’t diagnose the problem if she didn’t check for symptoms, and she needed to know if the girl was growing red blotches or rashes near her heart from the blood rush she seemed to be experiencing. “Come on, Ashe,” she whispered, lifting her up by the neck enough to pull her dress up further, looking down at her blue hued stomach as the light enveloping them grew stronger. The dress finally came up over to the girl’s neck, and Sage focused, her eyes suddenly widening as she saw the birthmark on the girl’s chest.
The birthmark was a colored marking in the center of her breastbone, slightly darker than her normal pigmentation in the area. Sage stared at it intently as the mark took a blue outlined appearance, like lines around a tattoo. Could this just be some weird form of body art?
Ashe’s breathing had begun to slow down for a moment as her eyes closed, relieved of the heat release at her clothing being loosened up for her. Sage’s deft hands covered her forehead to find that the feverish sweating had cooled down a bit and gave a quick smile before looking back at the glowing star insignia upon her chest. It was still glowing, but some of the strength of the shifting energy had receded slightly around her into a pale blue hue.
SLAM!
Sage’s vision snapped up at the roof of the sealed elevator to see a small dent appear in the top. Soon after, she heard high pitched laughter from other goblins laughing at their comrade who had fallen down the elevator shaft and struck the roof. She looked back down and saw Ashe’s eyes were once more open, staring calmly back up towards the ceiling herself at the dent. “Don’t worry about me,” Ashe spoke depressively. “I don’t want you hurt,” she breathed, pulling her clothes back into place without asking why they had been lifted up so far.
Did it bother her?
Of course it bothered her that some strange girl had partially undressed her in a sealed elevator shaft, but she held her trust in Sage that the girl would do whatever was necessary to the wellbeing of her friends. The girl was a freaking doctor, timid and yet feisty at the same time. There was no misunderstanding the situation of a doctor checking on someone that had just passed out while goblins were attacking them from every direction.
She grabbed her hoody and pulled it back down, not even realizing that she still retained the faint blue hue around her. Sage was retrieving her gun from the elevator floor and quickly filled Ashe in on exactly what had happened while she’d been out of it, lost in thought. The pink haired girl nodded, quickly hugging Sage in a display of gratitude - feeling the girl tense up in her arms - but releasing her immediately before she could do any permanent damage to the girl’s personal space.
Ashe herself had been accused of having a bubble complex quite often in her life.
The schoolgirl turned and glanced at the sealed shaft door before taking a breath. “Ready?” she asked quietly before slamming the emergency lock back into the open position. Giving them one more moment to prepare as the elevator lurched within the shaft from the creatures landing on it, she hit the door release button, running out into the darkness with only Sage at her side.
Team Red and Blue, through and through.
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