Disclaimer: I do not own +anima.
This is the bonus story I felt like adding on. It's the story of Soline's beginning as a +anima. Oh, and it's from her point of view. Enjoy!
–Max
"In Kelmen, there is a diamond mine, where my father worked as a miner. One day, I went to the mines, to give him a message from my mother…"
I looked down the dark cavern. It smelled of musty water and sweat. Where was my father? Where were the men?
I walked further down into the mine, looking for some sign of human life. Finally, my search was justified. I saw a man down at the far end of one of the tunnels. He was sitting down on an upturned bucket, a bottle in his hand. Was it my father? Or was it someone else? The mystery man raised his head.
I snorted in disgust. It was only Harper, the village drunk and idiot, holding a bottle of rum. He stared at me, bloodshot eyes tainted with an emotion I could not read.
He stood up, and screamed "YOU!" Then he began to run after me.
I was not a fit person. My mother had always scolded me whenever I tried to do tiresome work. "Woman are here to be beautiful, not to be slaves," she always squawked at me. So when I tried to run, even though Harper was drunk, he was still gaining on me. I cried out in fear. Then, the strangeness began.
I felt myself getting faster. And my hand and feet were becoming paws, and a tail sprouted from my bosom. I knew what had happened. I had become a cheetah +anima.
In my shock, I tripped over a large rock embedded in the cave floor. At that moment, Harper caught up with me. He fell on me, and stabbed me over and over again with a knife. Oh, how it hurt! Let it end, let it end, my body was screaming to me. And darkness began to envelop me. But there was something else in the darkness, something trying to push it away.
No! That little thing screamed. And then, the second strangeness began.
I felt like I was rising out of my own body and skin. The cheetah paws and tail vanished, but something else came in its place. A supernatural power, a light, glowed from my body. I sat up. Harper was up against the wall in shock. When I looked behind me I saw the shell of my body lying dead on the flood. But if I'm dead, why do I feel solid? Why do I feel whole?
I looked down in a puddle at my feet, and saw a beautiful angel; with wings so white they contained all the colors of the spectrum. She shone brightly like a star, and hovered a few inches above the ground.
That angel I saw was me.
"The anima, which killed me instead of saving me, changed into an angel anima, the only anima that could preserve my soul…"
I then looked to Harper. He started to run away from me. But with the new strength and speed my body gave me, I grabbed him, pinned him on the wall, and threw aside his knife. I wanted revenge.
I used my shining ability to focus intense rays of light into Harper's eyes. He stared at me like a man who was blind seeing proper light. Only this light he was seeing would be the last light he ever saw.
His eyes widened when the light hit them. His pupils began to shrink, along with the irises. His eyes became useless marbles in his head.
I left him lying there, for he had passed out from shock. Then, I pulled in my wings, and deactivated my +anima fully. When I looked into the puddle again, I looked almost normal. I was a little more attractive than before, and not as fat. I walked out of the mine, and one question dominated my thinking.
What should I do now?