Embracing the Faithful, Protecting the Heretic.
A/N: College is nuts... sorry for the wait guys. And I've got this whole INUYASHA, KAGOME! INUYASHA! KAGOME! Thing going on between them where the only thing I can think to have them say is each others name. lol ^_^
Chapter 4: Awakening
"Leona! Leona!" Diana yelled and she struggled with her bounds. She could hear the sweet sizzle into seem as it ran off the woman's brow. "Get up! You can't go to sleep on that floor! Get up, get up you'll roast in that armor! Guard! GUARD GET IN HERE!"
There was no answer from the outside and sound of the door unlatching. Diana could only watch as the last light in the room fade leaving the chamber dark. Only the sounds of Leona's and her own labored breathing and echoing through the chamber.
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Diana had given up breaking her bonds as she let them take her weight off her sore and tired legs. Now she simply leaned back resting on the wooden stock.
Clouds that had rolled in late in the twilight of night blocked the stars and moon from giving any light and leaving the room in complete darkness.
Hours seemed slipped by but the heat in the room had barely started to fade, and while the sweat that dripped from Diana's forehead no longer sizzled into vapor as soon as it reached the metal floor, the temperature of the room still stifled every breath drawn.
"Leona?" Diana's mumble, her eyes still aching from staring at the sun and the sweat that ran into them from her forehead. She opened her eyes wincing at the pain as she tried to look through the darkness. She listened to her friend's staggered breathing trying to reassure herself that Leona was strong enough to take the heat in the armor.
Suddenly pale light bathed the room.
Diana looked up to see the clouds parting, allowing the moon's light to burst forth. Diana drew in a deep breath as the walls of the chamber began to glow again. The Solari symbols on the walls shined brightly, but behind them another symbol began to also glow faintly.
Diana stared wide eyed as the Solari symbol flicked out and the new symbol flashed brightly into full view. A silver shining crescent shape facing upwards cradled an orb. The symbols on the wall glowed with a brilliant garyish silver and gave off no heat like the Solari Symbols had.
Diana looked around her seeing the symbols all glowing before looking upwards her gaze being greeted by a full moon. Diana wasn't sure what it was as a flash burst around her. "What is this..." Another burst of energy surged through her with a flash of light.
Diana didn't even notice as a second pulse of energy left an orb of light around her, a moment later the stock and bounds that held her exploded away from her into a shower of splinters. Her arms dropped to her sides as she stood transfixed by the full moon.
"Morning... Already?" Leona mumbled as she awoke to light shining on her face. Still breathing heavily, she used her hands to push herself to a kneeling position before she lifted her eyes to the center of the room. "Dia... Diana?" Leona's mouth hung open as she stared awestruck at Diana.
Diana stood in the middle of the shattered stock, her eyes shinning like silver and an aura of light flowing around her.
"Diana!?" Leona again called to her friend as she noticed the strange new symbols on the walls. "What is this... What in Valoran is this!?"
The pain and fatigue in Diana's body seemed to ebb away as she reached up with her hand as if she was trying to take hold of the moon. "I can feel it... It's like I can touch it..."
"Diana! Are you alright!" Leona's yelled, her voice echoed through the room as she looked up at the moon. "Is this why the Elders fear the moon... what is it doing to her..." Leona pushed off the wall staggering to her feet and stepping towards Diana.
Diana felt another burst of energy pass through her.
Leona had barely moved towards Diana before a sphere of light struck her in the chest throwing her right back into the wall next to the metal door of the chamber.
"Leona!?"Diana blinked as her eyes, still shinning brightly, fell from the moon to her friend who slammed into the wall. "What is going on?" Diana looked at her hands which also seemed to shine slightly. "I didn't mean too... I'm sorry."
Leona felt her legs buckle and she collapsed to the floor, catching herself with her hands. "I'm so dizzy... I still can't take a full breath... everything is spinning.. I'm going to be sick. I should have taken the stupid armor off before coming here." Leona grabbed the collar of her armor pulling it away from her neck as she tried to catch her breath in the heat. She used her other hand to push herself up as she looked up to Diana. "Diana I'm sorry... I can't help you."
"I'm ok, I don't need help. You do." Diana wasn't even sure what she was doing as she walked to the door of the chamber, leaning her forehead against it and placing her open right hand on it.
"Diana? What are you doing?" Leona stared at Diana's eyes that seemed to glow as if they were an extension of the strange symbols that shown on the walls around the two girls.
"Getting you out of this heat" Diana placed her other hand on the door as she straighten up, pulling her right hand back into a fist. She glared at the door as she slammed her hand against the metal door. She pulled her hand back again, blood dripping from her knuckles as she clinched her hand into a tighter fist.
"Don't, you'll break your hand!" Leona said, her eyes growing wide as Diana's second strike connected with the door echoing in the room. Leona watched as the light around Diana seemed to pulse over and over to a steadily beat. "What the..."
Diana pulled her hand back more blood dripping from the knuckles before she again slammed her fist into the door as the pulses surge out around her in a wave ripping both the door and the wall apart like it was paper.
"..." Leona sat silently watching as the cool night air rushed into the room wiping through Diana's hair causing the robe she wore to flow and whip in the moving air of a night breeze.
Diana knelt as she grabbed Leona's wrist, pulling her friend's arm over her should, before walking out of the giant hole in the wall and towards the stairs that lead down into the courtyard.
Leona continued to stare in silence at Diana's glowing eyes that seem vacant and trance-like. As they neared the steps she saw the light in Diana's eye fade away, leaving her eyes an odd light gray color. "Are you ok?"
Diana didn't respond as her eyes rolled back in her head and she fainted to the ground.
"Hey!" Leona called as she collapsed to the ground with her. She managed to land on her hands and knees next to Diana who lay on the ground motionless.
"WHAT IS GOING ON UP THERE!" Came voices accompanied by the sound of rushing feet on the stairway.
Leona looked up as several guards crested the stairway to glare down at the two girls laying on the ground and the massive hole that was ripped through the wall of the Sun chamber.
"What the hell happened." One guard asked as he walked over kneeling beside Leona to help in whatever way he could.
"It got a little too hot. I needed out of there and there wasn't someone outside the door and..." Leona paused as she looked at Diana who was breathing softly beside her.
"The Elders are going to be furious, you know how 'old' and 'irreplaceable' these relics are." Another guard asked as he walked past them looking at the damage done to the Sun chamber. "You wanted out so you blew apart the whole wall!?" The guard asked pointing with a spear in his hand.
"No... She..." Leona glanced at Diana, then back at the Sun Chamber, and finally turned back to look up at the guard from her knees. "Yes... I did. Problem?"
"Err, no... Chosen One." The guards all looked at one another exchanging shrugs.
"Get her to the infirmary... I'm going to rest here for a bit." Leona said as she leaned back into a sitting position. "I feel like I'm going to throw up."
"Chosen, would... Would you like to be helped there as well." a third guard asked.
Leona looked at the guard for a second before nodding. "Yes. Thank you."
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EDIT: Ok I'm back and OMG the grammar problem in this chapter... I've fixed a lot of them now so sorry if that messed up anyone reading enjoyment. if you find any more plz let me know. as always please review more and I will try and post more... I like long discussion style reviews and if I can get a few more reviews I'll post the next chapter really fast.