A Long Sleep Broken

The girl didn't know how long she'd slept and dreamed. All she could remember was that she was in the lower chambers of the Yggdrasil Generator, looking in at the Filgaia Sample growing in his cylinder. Just then, an explosion rocked the world. Shrapnel hit her, and all went black. Ever since, dreams were the only things the girl knew, mostly memories of the outside world that her body and mind were longing for.

Virginia Maxwell was her name, and she had followed her father, Werner, to his job one day. It was because something told her he wasn't coming home, and she didn't want him to leave her or her mother. A plan was made, to come to his place of work and make sure he returned home that night. But when she was able to catch up to him, after teleporting, he told her he'd only packed heavy because the trip would be a week long. Apparently, their experiment was nearing completion, and he would have to be there for it.

She stayed with him, was there when the boy named Jet had died copying his DNA to the Sample.

She felt sorry for both him and Adam, apparently Jet wanted to be friends with the boy who would be like his twin. Wanting to help her father out, she stayed with him at the lab. The girl had no real friends her own age back home, she could be friends with Adam. Werner had liked that idea, he thought of pushing back the energy sent to the creation of this boy, so he would be born when Virginia was nearly fifteen, his age if you were going by physical looks. That was the topic of discussion the night Duran overloaded the machine that supplied energy to the generator, blowing the whole facility and everything and everyone inside of it.

It was the last dream she most remembered. In it, a woman in a silver gown stood there in front of her. Her blond hair fell down past her legs, nearly on the floor, and her violet eyes shown with intense light. Plenty of golden jewelry was on her body. "My name is Filgaia, the Planet Guardian. Child, listen to me. I need a favor of you. When you awaken, take my spawn, the boy your father called Adam Kadmon, and protect him from this world. You wanted him to be your friend, so now is your chance. Only, don't call him by the name they decided on, what if one of them survived and decided to hurt him? Use the name of the boy who died in the experiment, Jet Enduro. Now, daughter of Adlehyde, return to the world of the living."

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"Where am I?" asked the young woman as she awoke, "This doesn't look like Yggdrasil." Looking around, she saw that she was lying on the floor, wet with the panakea fluid from a cylinder that had broke behind her. Her brown hair needed to be towel dried, right away. Then, as her blue eyes looked down to her body, she saw she was completely naked. Not only that, but two bulges were on her chest that hadn't been there when the eight year old was knocked out by the flying metals from the nearby machines. Years had most likely gone by, and her body was mature. But that wasn't important now, she had to get clothes on.

Virginia ran through the corridors, and found the room of Elliot Enduro. His son had some old things lying around, the boy was the same height as her but only a little broader. These could do until she could get something better to wear at the store. After dressing in a black T-shirt, blue jeans, leather boots, and a leather belt, the girl returned to the room she had woken in. There, in another cylinder, was the boy named Adam, floating peacefully, nearly at the end of his growth. She couldn't go too many places until he awoke, so she just went to town for new clothes. The girl bought a white T-shirt, a leather jacket with tan fringe on the bottom, a skirt of the same make, a black belt with a star clip on it, and some black fingerless gloves with a blue wrist guard. Bringing them back with her, Virginia returned to the facility to check on Adam.

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There, a horrid sight met her eyes. There was a large undead rhino creature with white bones trying to break the tank. Although he was almost done, he still wasn't ready to awaken. If he did, was removed from the power that brought him to life, he would die. And Virginia definitely didn't want that to happen now.

"Hey! Yeah you, I'll fight you!" she called out. That got the creature's attention. It ran at Virginia, who hadn't yet purchased an ARM to help her fight. All she had was her magic, the stuff her mother had taught her when she was a child. Charging up, the girl threw a Saint spell at the monster. It reeled from the pain, but didn't die. She was amazed, all undead were weak to spells of the Light category. What had gone wrong? But there was little time to think, for it was now ready to charge again. This one hit her and knocked the girl back into the wall. The monster then decided to concentrate on killing the boy in the tank.

Virginia screamed, "Noooooooo!" Suddenly, something she couldn't define happened. A pair of wings, green as the leaves on a tree, burst from her back. But somehow they didn't do any damage to her clothes, which was a relief. There was no way she would go into town to get more with wings on her back.

The monster saw the transformation out of the corner of its eyes. Running at her, it hoped to stop the girl who tried to interfere with its meal. But the new powers made Virginia even stronger than she was before. She flew in the air, and her next Saint spell hit home, destroying the creature the second it was hit.

She sighed, and flew down to the ground. "That was close, but you're going to be ok now, Adam, I mean Jet. I'll protect you until you awaken, and then we can be friends. I've always wanted someone my own age to talk to. And with a friend, you won't ever be alone in the world. We'll never be alone again."

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Virginia was on guard duty every day after that, only leaving to eat and use the facilities. When she was confident her wings wouldn't get in the way and scare people, she learned a trick for making them fold and lay at her side, she went into Little Rock to purchase a leather cloak like her skirt. She could now lay her wings on her back, and cover them with the cloak. Also, she got a new set of leather boots and black gloves, this time with green wrist guards, a black T-shirt, jeans, a black belt with a circular clip on it, and a jacket much like her own. As a treat, she also picked up some holders to put her hair in a ponytail or braid, and a red headband. Laying the extra clothes out on a stool, she eagerly awaited the birth of her new friend.

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Teefa's Last Words….

You know how I thought of it? Tossing and turning one night in my sleep. The style of the story is Rutee's fault, she helped form a skeleton story with Evanescence music. I liked that idea. And this was only two out of eighteen songs. There will be at least one a chapter, most likely two, and maybe three. Just because I can't draw this out long enough for eighteen chapters. And yes, the usual Shaman theory will be here, she's already used her magic in battle.