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Chapter 2

"Was it fate or just a calculation?"

Ember – There's nothing else to describe my anger on things rather than getting my sword out, and kicking the hell out of the bitch who thinks she's on the right. No. She knows what the markings on my arm are. And if I to kill her just to know what it is, I'll do it myself without mercy. I'm stuck in an unknown world, and I'll probably won't get back to Char because of what happened. No… I won't accept it.

This girl is either my help, or just another bodybag…

In a construction yard in Liberion… 2004… Nighttime…

Brianna slid back with her arms forward from the force of her adversary's dual swords. She stopped just in time, before she realized behind her was a two-storey fall as she was standing on the edge of the building. 'Damn it, what is this girl even doing?!' She asked in her thoughts before seeing the Neuroi hybrid girl swing both her dual swords, hitting nothing as Brianna recovered from rolling out of the angry hybrid's way. 'Impressive. The two swords are part of the bigger one. She just wants to hit me. So be it.'

Ember then got into proper offensive stance. "Who the hell are you?!"

"I'm a witch like you."

"You are, but you're not helping me!" Ember then charges while leaving a red trail as she raised both her swords and slashed downwards before a shield protects her opponent. "Bitch! Shields, huh?! What happened to not using them?!"

"I stopped using them ever since you let your anger rise."

"I'm only doing that because I'm stuck here. And you know why."

"I TOLD YOU I DON'T KNOW!"

"LIAR!" Ember charged with her dual swords ago before she saw her opponent ready an energy-punch. The swords hit the energized-fist, but it was a full recoil as she experienced her swords were deflected and her whole body was brought by it, thrown backwards. She eventually finds balance and gets back on stance, seeing her opponent with a surprise. 'Damn it, why is the Energy Indigo working for her, but not me? I tried to see if it'll work, but why not now?'

"I'm not going to fight you." Brianna said, now in her defensive fighting stance.

"You won't? That makes it easy." Ember then zipped forward before she horizontally swung her dual swords as she predicted that her opponent will block with her shield. Once the shield protected her opponent, she suddenly zipped behind her opponent to hit from behind. Time slowed down, and Ember saw her opponent turn her head. The dual swords were about to touch her when a shield protected her, again. 'This is crazy… She can shield herself even from behind at that speed?'

Brianna took this chance as she spun and kicked her opponent's gut strongly, throwing the hybrid off. She even saw the hybrid girl stop her slid with her dual swords and properly stood up. "Can't you give it up? There's no gain at what you're going to do!"

"No gain?! What do you know?! I lost my friends during a war! The only thing I'd gain from that is anger towards my enemies. And I find myself having the blood of one sometime later."

"But don't act like one. A Neuroi isn't the evil-incarnate. Since I have my own versions of it, they're two sides separated. And yes… They have good in them, just like you do now. There's nothing more you could ask for." But Brianna's words meant nothing to the hybrid, now grasping tighter on the hilts of her dual swords.

"Nothing I could ask for? Take me back to where I came from, and I can spare you. You're pitiful enough not having swords used."

"Or die? Wish I could help, but even I don't know what to do. So you won't hold back?"

"No." Ember sprinted with no doubt.

"Your loss." Brianna said this, now with intention to kill just to protect herself as she sprinted towards her enemy.

At a sudden time, an indigo-colored portal appeared from the ground as a sprinting 30 year-old long-lengthened haired blonde woman ran from it towards the space between the two fighting figures. 'Time to end this,' she thought just before she slid to stop in between the two with her arms spread and pointing at the two opponents before time slowed down.

Brianna didn't see the figure at such speed until it was too late. Her fist was already charged with Energy Indigo. 'Damn it, I can't…'

Ember was surprised of the same thing. 'Oh, shit!' She thought, who can't stop her own swords at the sudden movement of the woman between her and the hostile girl.

As both the fist and the swords hit the woman, wave of energy shook the building as Brianna and Ember's strikes recoiled as both fell back to stop at what happened. The blonde woman screamed in pain for a short time before she got on one knee, now with both arms pulverized from the powerful strikes.

Jillian panted, aware of what happened to her. 'So this is what it feels to lose arms, huh? Fascinating…' And she chuckled, now looking at the girls she's in between of. "Look at you both… One of you having anger having been taken away from her home, and the other with questions as to where she is." She spoke with an accent that's different, and Ember and Brianna had an idea the woman was Britannian in nature.

Brianna realized however, that the woman was still on her knee after the statement. "No… How are you…?"

"You noticed." Jillian smiled at the curious Brianna.

"Can somebody tell me what the hell is going on?!" Ember shouted, demanding answers.

Jillian then turned her head to Ember, now showing her red vampire eyes to her. "What is God's name is wrong with you?" She got on her feet, before her Vampire Shadows came out from where she lost her arms. She then eased the shadows closer to Ember and extended it, before in the form of her arms and hands strangled the hybrid's neck.

"NO!" Brianna shouted and attempted to run, but was pushed back by the monster woman's shadows.

"Stay back! She won't be hurt unless she asks for it. You have no fault, but I have something planned for the other."

"Who are you?"

"I'm not going to delay. My name is Jillian Victoria. I'm here to give you the information you need. As for your supposed opponent, I'll have to teach her a lesson first." Jillian smirked before the extended arm with a strangled hybrid retracted, as her other arm made of shadows reformed into a human arm. At such speed, Jillian lets go of Ember before her fist hits the hybrid's face.

Ember goes down easily as she spun and lands hard on the cemented ground, dropping her dual swords. "Son of a…" And she grunted, as soon as she wanted to get up since she felt her face hurt, even letting her armor dissipate.

"She asked for it way before I arrived anyway. Hehe…" Jillian said this, while looking at a pathetic hybrid girl holding her face.

Brianna noticed on the hybrid's clothing that she must have come from a time during the 50's. 'The apparel is quite… I recognize it.'

Jillian groaned, looking at her arms formed by her Vampire Shadows. "Nuts… It'll take some time before my real meat is healed and takes over. But this will work out."

"We're really sorry." Brianna said this in apology, knowing what she had done.

"It's okay. I know you didn't mean to do it. And I know neither did your other friend here meant it," Jillian said, now looking at Ember. "As for you, you're quite the aggressive one. You could have simply asked."

"I just can't…" Ember didn't complete her sentence as she was interrupted by the woman.

"Don't try. How does it feel to live a new life and suddenly get sucked into another situation? I had the same situation before I turned into a vampire myself. Not that it matters for now." Jillian surprised both of them. They just heard she's a vampire.

"Ugh…" Ember groaned, just before she got to her senses and got to her feet. "You're a vampire?" She asked this while deploying Xelarion from her scarf and recovering her dual swords before attaching them back. She morphed Xelarion back to its scarf form afterwards. "So what do you do in your world then? Suck blood?"

"Naturally. I can make you relax and knock you out if you like." Jillian evilly smiled and licked her lips, showing her fangs in the process. "Or I could just kill you due to blood loss. Whatever the method, I still get my meal."

"Tch…"

"Don't try that again, if I were you, hybrid." She then looked at the other girl, and the hybrid. "Oh yes… I know both who you are, and why you're here. Those artifacts you once held contained a power that could let you travel to different worlds. But as you can see, it can also enhance your capabilities. I, on the contrary depend on a different power and energy. It's my personal Shadow energy made as a True Vampire back from where I am from. Yours comes only from one source: Goddess Rory. Yes… She planted those artifacts in your worlds to make sure the two of you are fated to wield it again. Countless others were tried but weren't needed in Rory's dealings. They were worthy. They just weren't given the chance to do any task to the agenda of Energy Indigo. Now… You're both summoned by the goddess herself to have that. And this time, it's needed. You won't be discarded by the goddess herself, since there is a dire situation that's preventing that.

"I'm going to let Goddess Rory continue with the details. Perhaps you two are interested, and just follow me for it. It's something you both need to see. Goddess Rory? Now." Jillian's words were met with a forming indigo-colored portal on the ground just near them. "We may as well leave. If you don't want the unconscious fellow over there to become my snack when he awakens, I suggest you both get in that portal."

Ember and Brianna looked at each other, and the hybrid redhead snorted. "Hmph." And she walked towards the portal.

Brianna was surprised of what Ember felt. "Does she still…?" She muttered but Ember heard it.

"Save it." Ember said it and felt a little suspicious of Brianna still. Thus, she entered the portal and faded from it with a spark.

"Ms. Fray, you're up next." Jillian said it as she looked at Brianna, glaring at her. "What's wrong?"

"Can't you tell? The hybrid is pissed. She better have those explanations ready for that girl."

"Goddess Rory doesn't fail telling the details. Some truths can and can't be accepted. You have to believe it might be tested with that girl Ember. Now, are you going?" Jillian asked, now wondering if Brianna is really following. "Oh well. May as well go first. It's up to you if you want this or not. Otherwise, this'll close."

"Won't Rory be angry?"

"She doesn't force it out of those she chose unless it's necessary. What you believe on her is up to you. But it's you who will regret it if you don't see this." Jillian then proceeds to the portal and fades from a soft light within it.

Brianna has to make this decision. She got there for a reason, but is seeing a goddess going to be worth it? What if it's a trick, and the two of them are lured to be kept away from the world. 'Well, whatever the reason, I still want to jump and get a chance for this. I've skulked at the sidelines for too long. Maybe doing this won't make a difference from where I live, but it'll be worth it if I help out. I like to always help out. Yeah… I gotta do this.' And with no other doubt, she started walking until she reached the portal on the ground, letting her vanish from the place before the portal closed behind her…

END