Italics indicate thinking
Bold is for attacks
Liking Radiant so I wanted to write about it
NO POV
There once was a rich noble boy, despite all the trappings of his posh life growing up he always felt lonely after the death of his family.
Then one day a beautiful girl came to his mansion and befriended him. The two grew close and the rich boy wanted to marry the beautiful girl, but then one day a horrible monster attacked the mansion, the boy was scarred hideously and his beloved friend vanished and was never found.
"Haa…ha…ha…"
Heavy breathing echoed softly around the strange figure sitting in a cell. Soldiers walked by in a hurry rushing off somewhere, barely glancing to the curious figure from which the sounds emanated.
"Haa…hoo…."
The figure sitting there was rather tall, but had noticeable muscle tone, covering the clearly male body were long bell bottom pants the swooped over the thick boots, moving up his upper body was covered in a dark black leather vest with nothing but a pair of breast pockets on it. But the most curious thing of all about this figure was around the head, where it more a thick dark green, almost black, gasmask with one filter on each side, the eye lenses were so fogged over it was all but impossible to make out the irritated reddish orange eyes on the other side.
"Haa…." He exhaled again jimmying with the right filter
"HOOO!" he exhaled loudly, the sound of air rushing out like steam in a pipe filled the air.
The man stood up and strapped his bag over his chest and looked around.
"Haa…."
Looking across he noticed a woman being brought in, she was about average height and build, but the thing that stuck out most was her large orange hair tied up and curled in a rather distinctive manner.
"…Haa…" he exhaled loudly and kept staring at her as she was tossed into the cage opposite his.
"Ugh that hurt." The girl dusted herself off "Umm, hi."
"Haa…." The man simply let out an exhaling sigh.
"So uhh you got captured by the Inquisitors too huh?" she asked.
"Haa…" the man stared at her, his breathing sounding more labored.
"Grr…" the girl growled a bit "Listen here you punk I'm talking to you got it?!"
"Haa…" the figure looked off and then turned back to her.
"Creep." The girl sneered a bit and looked off.
The two were in cages on the deck of an airship that seemed to be slowing down. The man in the mask noted a commotion on the front of the deck before the cage holding the girl was aggressively blow open and she reached out to be pulled free by someone.
"Haa…" the man exhaled again and reached out, grabbing the keys that had fallen and unlocking his cage, stepping out in the commotion and grabbing his bag, reaching into it he pulled off the right filter on his mask and replaced it with another.
"HOOO!" air loudly rushed out as he looked to the side and saw another Airship with a pig like appearance pulling away.
Dropping down into a runner's stance the man jumped off the back of the airship prison and landed loudly on the back of the pig ship, grunting and pulling himself up, sitting on the back railing the figure waited for them to pull up onto a floating island and dock.
"I went before Doc to prepare and that's when I got caught." The female voice from before explained.
"Haa…" the masked figured stepped off the ship and looked around locking eyes with the woman, slowly walking over and ignoring the two men with her.
"Great another one!" the man with a thicker build said.
"It's you, that guy in the other cage.
"Haa." The man leaned in and studied her face.
"Umm, do you need something?" she gulped.
"…haaaaaaaa." A long wheezing exhale hissed from under the mask "Belle…"
"I'm sorry?"
He spoke fully for the first time softly touching her cheek.
"Belle why are you here?" he spoke in a bit of a raspy yet mature tone.
"I think you've confused me for someone else." The girl said as a small bat like imp creature fluttered around her "My name's Melie."
The masked figure tilted his head from side to side.
"I see…Haa." He exhaled again "My apologies for not speaking up before, my filter was clogged, my name is Gaston."
"They must have mistaken you and this thing for me and Alma." The horned boy with her pointed at the small creature.
"At first they asked a lot of questions." Melie said "But then my infection acted up and things got out of hand. In any case thanks for saving me sir."
"Seth's fine." The boy said.
"Of course, sir." She nodded.
"Oh hello new comers." A witchy looking girl stepped towards them "Did you come here with a member of the institute?"
"Doc." Seth pointed at the larger man.
"Haa…" Gaston simply exhaled and pointed at Melie.
"Oh that's good you can be under their responsibility until recruitment, it's a shame you just missed the entrance ceremony happening right now on the upper bridge. So you'll have to wait three weeks till the next one."
"Three weeks! He'll kill me in that time!" Doc grabbed Seth and ran off "We're going now."
"Oh boy a ceremony." Melie clapped "We should go too."
"Haa…" Gaston nodded "Very well."
Walking at the back of the group Gaston ended up stepping out to a loud ceremony with some kind of cat like creature.
"Thanks to the work of all you members or Artemis one day we will find a cure for our infections!" the cat said.
"Haa…cure…" the masked man wheezed "If only they could cure this…"
There was a loud boom near him and suddenly Melie was standing in a crater glaring at everyone.
"You again." She stepped passed glaring at Gaston "Just what are you following me around for.
"…"
"No answer huh, well quit being a creep or I'll blow you away to got it." She snarled a bit stomping off.
"Haa…Belle." He watched her leave.
'So…she doesn't remember is that it?' he wondered 'it's for the best if she were to see me in this state she'd simply be horrified…'
Gaston walked off and found Melie again.
"Calm now yes?" he asked.
"Oh yeah, sorry about that my infection is a pain." She frowned "Probably freaked Seth out too."
"Haa…it could be worse." He exhaled before walking off "I need to fix my mask, one of the valves was damaged in my scuffle with the inquisitors, I'm sure you'll be able to find me should you need my help with something, I tend to stick out a bit."
"If you need a quiet place to work you can use my house." She said.
"Haa…thank you." He walked off before looking back "You should help Seth, it seems he's getting stuck in something."
"Oh right!" she ran off.
Melie gave her new friend her address and sent him off, opening the door he looked around at the somewhat messy apartment before closing the door behind him.
"Haa…" he reached back and undid the lower strap and seals on the mask, a hissing noise escaping as a thick smoke seeped out the cracks before he lifted it off.
"I'll need to be quick before they get back." He looked at the reflection in the mirror.
Staring back was a skull smothered in smoke and steam. It was no normal skull either but strangely animalistic, with a feline shape, teeth like a dog, yet tusks of a bore and horns like a goat, truly a terrifying sight, even with skin on it.
"This damn infection." He grumbled "I'm…a freak aren't I Belle, I look like some kind of monster. ACK!"
"I better make these repairs quickly before I suffocate." He wiped his mouth "How is it that some people get off so easy, mood swings, funny smells and more…yet I have this cursed face."
AN
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Oh there'll be more talking less "Haa..." in the future.
Till Next Time!