Disclaimer: You know the drill. I don't own any of the universes in
this tale.
It's My Life
Book 1 Of 3
GP06-SENTIENCE
CHAPTER 6: "What are you playing? Magic?"
"..." Talking
... Thinking
'...' Repeating something Ex. names of places
[...] Authors notes
[Last chapter]
Solaris woke up at that moment, "Where am I? Why does my chest
hurt so much?"
X had a problem, and he knew it.
[This chapter]
"Hey you! Hold it!" The gaurds saw X as he came back out of the
room.
"Oh, shit!" X paniked. Then he heard a dull thud from the room
behind him. He turned to see, and the guards misunderstood his
action. They brought their weapons up and trained them on X.
"Oww! That hurts!" yelped Solaris as she tried to get up. "Why
does it hurt when I move?"
The guards heard Solaris quite clearly, and rushed past X to see
what was wrong. They ran into Constance as he was helping her up.
"Ahh! You freeborn IDIOTS! GET OFF OF ME NOW!" Constance
screamed as he was crushed by the two guards. Solaris screamed in
pain as her already injured body was mauled even further.
X stormed into the room like a hurricane. "That's it morons, get
the hell off of her!" He picked up both guards and threw them into a
wall, knocking them out cold. Then he tossed Constance into the
ceiling and started juggling him in midair.
"Stop it please! Don't kill him!" wailed Solaris when she saw
what was happening. "Please! Just leave him alone!" she started
crying, and X suddenly stopped dead. Constance hit the floor hard. He
looked alot worse that he actually was though.
"Why should I?" X's voice trembled on the verge of losing
control.
"Because he's my father! –sniffle– Just go away! Leave us
alone!" Now Solaris was crying full out. X sensed someone else waking
up and fled the area. Solaris' crying managed to wake up Katelyn, who
was worried about what could make Solaris cry.
"Augh! Dammit! –sigh– I can't get any information outta them
until they wake up! Guess I'd better find something to do until they
wake up." X started walking around aimlessly, letting his feet guide
him. He finally came to a locked blast door, and decided to see just
what it was hiding.
He didn't realise it was so well protected until it fried his
ass. He was flung into the opposite wall and just sorta sat there,
twitching now an' then. Security showed up a few minutes later and
hauled him off to the brig.
A few hours later, X came to. He stayed so still, that even the
monitoring equipment attatched to him could not tell that he had
woken up. When he spoke, it scared the holy shit outta the guards.
"Where am I?" whispered X.
"Who said that?" The guards were very edgy now. They thought
they were hearing voices.
"I said 'Where am I?' Are you really that stupid?" X slowly sat
up, relieving the tension in the air.
"Okay. You are in the brig."
"What's a brig?"
"Like prison, idiot. What were you thinking it was?"
"Actually, I had no idea what a brig was." He started walking
around, examining his cell. When he reached the forcefield, his
curiosity almost got him fried again.
"I wouldn't touch that if I were you. It nearly killed the last
guy in here." The guard was taunting X.
X wasn't stupid. He could feel the energy from the field where
he was standing. So, he decided to play a game to pass the time.
He pulled out two decks of cards, and started playing against
himself. The guards were beyond stunned, "M, m, Magic cards? How the
hell did he get Magic cards?"
The first guard ran to his desk, "Who cares? I wanna Play
dammit!" and grabbed his own deck. Then, he ran over to the cell and
asked, "You wanna play a game versus us?"
X looked up and responded, "Sure, why not? I haven't had a good
game in ages."
Long story short, X whupped their asses. How you ask? His damn
'Soul Foundry' and 'Clockwork Dragon'. [Yes readers, Myself [as guard
1], Ron [X], and Jared [as guard 2] actually played this game.
He only had six dragon copies when he won. And he didn't gloat
over his victory as most people would have.
The guard's shift ended a few minutes later. X asked the new
shift what time it was. Turns out that 'little game' actually lasted
about three hours. [Multiple games in one session]
"Damn. That frikin long huh? Shit man, I still gotta wait three
frikin hours till this place's boss wakes up."
"What do you mean 'boss'?" asked the female who replaced guard
2.
X sighed. He couldn't believe the stupidity of these people.
"The guy who makes all the decisions for this place."
"Oh! You mean Khan Jefferies don't you?" She asked in a happy
voice. "For a second there, I thought you meant the Ilkhan. I'd
really hate to see him." She let out a nervous laugh.
X face faulted. [Or is it vaulted? O? ] Jesus man! This girl
is really stupid! She just gave away the commander's name? He slowly
got back to his feet.
Just then, a door opened on the other side of the room. "What
just fell in here?"
A woman's voice? X was intriuged Wonder who she is?
"Nothing sir! The prisoner just tried a back flip and hit his
head is all."
"WHAAT? Why wasn't I told about this? Who is he? Get the fuck
outta my way you idiot robot!" WHUMP "Aww that's it! Now your dead!"
X just watched in facination as the fight moved into the brig area.
The woman was beating the shit out of the guard bot that stopped her
a minute ago.
Whong, Whing whong, clong. The bot fell to the floor, utterly
destroyed. "Ahh. What a workout!" Her face darkened. "Now about that
'prisoner'." She just stared at the male guard for a few seconds.
"Uhhh, sir the prisoner is in cell two." The guard looked about
ready to pee himself.
"Thank you peon." She held her hand out to the girl, "I'll be
needing the key now Bitch." It dropped into her hand quite suddenly.
She walked over to X's cell and asked nicely, "What's your name?
Mine's Chris."
"I am Xero Mcloud. Please call me X if you don't want to die."
His voice held no hint of kindness in it.
"If I don't want to die huh? Very well then, I'll call you X."
Her voice is beautiful, like an angel's. She doesn't look too
bad either. His face lit up for just a second when the guard bot
finally exploded. "Ow. My eyes hurt."
"Umm, I'm sorry X. That was my fault. I shoulda had it removed,"
X interrupted her.
"Why are you apologizing? I'm not blind or anything."
"Because it's my fault your eyes got hurt! You know, you're a
sorta nice person. Why are you in here?"
"I honestly don't know why I'm in here. Though it might have
something to do with that door that attacked me."
"Oh, so you're the guy that attacked the 'mechbay door. I guess
you've been in here long enough by now." She unlocked the forcefield
control box, then turned it off.
"Okay you're free to go." She smiled.
"Umm I was in a hospital a little while ago visiting some
friends. I think their kids were caught in some kind of explosion.
They didn't really want to talk about it. I would really love to know
how to get back there." He really hoped that she bought the lie.
Well, At least most of it was a lie.
"How 'bout I show you the way?" she seemed way too happy for
some reason.
Mabye she's punch-drunk? ... Nah, she didn't take enough hits
for that. Perhaps she's a druggie? He looked down at her face as she
led him around yet another corner. No, I get the feeling that she's
never touched drugs.
"Ah, here we are. Now then, which room was it?" She looked up at
him for a moment, then noticed his blank stare. She punched his arm
to get his attention
He snapped out of his reviere and jumped about three feet back,
landing in a fighter's stance. He heard Chris' laughter and relaxed.
"What the hell was that for bitch! I could have KILLED you! If you
hadn't been lucky, I might have gone on a killing spree."
Oo "Okay, then I suppose I shan't do it again." Chris began looking
around 'till she found a clock. Her face fell quite suddenly as she
read the time. "Oh no! I forgot my appointment with Katelyn!
Man, she's gonna kill me for sure."
"Who's Katelyn?" X was growing impatient, anyone walking past could
see the frustration rolling off him. I think I've met someone called
Katelyn. But I never caught her last name. God. Is this day full of
names from the past or what?
"Katelyn Greymon is my best friend, and her son was caught in an
explosion too. Mabye she knows your friends?" Chris looked up in
thought, then grabbed X and took off down a hallway.
"Okay we're here." X just barely caught the names on the door
plate. He smiled briefly before heading in after Chris.
A voice could just barely be heard even through the deathly
quiet. "Please, help my children through this, Kerensky. This is the
only thing I ask of you."
Chris cleared her throat and called out, "Katelyn? I'm sorry to
disturb your prayer, but I remembered our appointment." X stepped
closer to the still crying woman.
"This is Katelyn?" he asked Chris, "The Katelyn I knew would
kill anyone for disturbing her prayer."
He directed his gaze to Katelyn. "Hello Katelyn. Do you remember
me? I'm X. We trained together several years ago under master
Graystone?"
Her crying stopped suddenly and she uttered one word. "Stravag."
Chris heard her insult. She turned to X in a rage. "You're a
freeborn? How the hell did you get in here?"
X returned her angry stare, "Yes. I'm a freeborn. Does it really
matter how I got here? What does matter," He kneeled before Katelyn,
"... I was not here as I had promised to be. Because of my absence,
your son was nearly killed. My life is now forfit."
Katelyn rose from her chair. "Get up honored freeborn. 'Twas not
your fault my children were almost killed." X rose to his full
height, "If anyone is to blame, it is I."
Chris was confused. Honored Freeborn? The only honorable
freeborn is Aries. He saved my ass twice and didn't care about my
status. Hell, I don't think he knew my status.
"Excuse me, but am I missing something here? He's a stravag, so
how is he honorable?" Constance interrupted her.
"Would you please keep it down out there? You're gonna wake up
Solaris at this rate."
A muffled thump is heard from the bathroom. "Oww. That hurt."
Another thump is heard just outside the bathroom. "That really hurt."
Everyone just sorta walks to the bathroom door.
"I take it this is Solaris." X is trying to figure out just
whose daughter she is.
"Umm, hello." She starts to get up, "Acck. Can't get up that
way. Man this hurts." X crouched down and picked her up gently,
making sure not to aggravate her injuries.
"Thank you." She looked at his face and nearly had a heart
attack. "Y, y, you! Please, g, go away! Just leave me alone!" Her
arms started to twitch in fear of X.
"X, why is Solaris afraid of you?" Katelyn was really worried.
Her daughter was afraid of her old friend, and she had no idea why.
"Ummm, Solaris, I, I'm sorry I attacked your father yesterday. I
was in a rage after those guards landed on you. I can understand if
you hate me, but I truly want to help you. Your mother and I are old
friends." By the end of the speech, he was kneeling before her bed.
Katelyn looked around nervously, then stiffened as Solaris
spoke. "I ... I don't know what to do." She sniffled for a bit before
continuing. "I don't really like you, but, –sniffle– I'll try to
forgive you. Just don't hurt my family, they're all I have."
"Now now lassie, ye know that's not true! You have friends all
around you, even if they don't come to visit every day." Duncan
walked through the door just before he stopped speaking. He looked
around and spotted X. "And who might you be?"
"I am X. And you are?" He looked over the newcomer for a moment.
Hmm. So he's not a fighter? He's got guts though.
"I am Duncan Gabriel Alexander. So you are the same X I've been
told about?" He too gave X a glance. A martial artist? I thought
only Katelyn and Aries were fighters. He took a closer look. No,
he's more like a street thug than anything else. This should prove
interesting.
"If you really are X, then I challenge you to battle." X's
whole face lit up. Duncan flared his battle aura a little bit, just
enough that anyone who could sense ki would see it.
"A battle eh? Very well then, please set the terms of combat."
Heh heh. This fool has no idea what he's getting himself into.
But Katelyn knew from personal experience just how powerful X
really was. "Duncan! I forbid this battle! If you insist on fighting
him, then you must defeat me first!"
"Wha, What? Defeat you? Ha! I'll defeat you easily." He spoke
confidently, yet was far more upset than anyone would believe. Damn,
now I gotta fight Katelyn too? Man, my life sucks.
He stormed out of the room in a fury, not caring that his battle
aura had flared violently, incinerating the records sheet by the
door.
Aries had woken up right after Duncan's aura flared. He tried to
flare his own power, thinking that his family was in danger, yet
found that he could not. Something was draining his ki as fast as he
could make it. Also, He wasn't awake enough to fully use his ki even
if he had it.
[POV change: shift to Aries.]
Ohhh man. What's that power coming from? I didn't get to find
out as I sensed my father's presence in the room. DAD! I gotta power
up. I soon noticed that I wasn't charging like I was supposed to.
Where's my power going to? I can tell I'm making it, but it's not
accumulating properly. I felt the strange power spike in anger and
turn away.
What the hell is going on here? First I wake up in the middle
of a small dispute, then I find that I can't use my power? Wait a
sec, I tried sniffing the air around me. ... There it is! But why
the hell is it going there? I was really confused at this point.
[POV change: switch to Aries' family.]
"Well, now what?" Constance didn't sound too worried, but
everyone knew he didn't like the idea of Katelyn fighting anyone.
"I'll just have to fight him won't I?" Katelyn smiled ferally as
she answered. She grew nervous for some odd reason during their
conversation. She whirled around when she sensed a rather large ki
building up nearby.
She just about fainted when she saw who it was coming from. "The
demon girl? But, but, how?"
X heard what Katelyn said, but he didn't understand the meaning.
The reason was, he couldn't passivly read ki signatures. He had to be
trying to find them in order to 'see' them.
When he finally saw a dull glow from Kuenai's 'bed'. He realised
what Katelyns words meant when he checked her ki levels.
"There's no way in hell. Kuenai can't use ki!" X was frantic.
Kuenai's body was storing ki, and yet, there's no possible way it
could.
X was still scanning for ki levels, and even though he was in a
full panic, he found one more energy source. He found Aries.
"What the hell?"
[POV change: shift to Aries Greymon]
Huh. Why is she absorbing my energy? It's my energy, so mabye I
can still control it! I tried everything I knew, but I just couldn't
use it. Then something snapped, and I nearly gained control of my
energy. What? My energy just; dissipated? Why though?
[POV change: shift to neutral observer]
"Ahhh!" Kuenai sat up screaming. X nearly had a heart attack.
Solaris was quite upset by this, so she broke down and started
crying. Katelyn moved over to Kuenai's side to try to help, and
interrogate her, but X stopped her, "Watch carefully." he said.
"Why should I? I want to know why my son isn't awake yet!" She
was quikly working herself into a rage. X was barely trying, and he
managed to hold her in her spot.
"Katelyn, your son will wake up in just a few seconds, so please
calm down."
"Don't toy with me you Freeborn jackass!"
The room suddenly became as silent as a tomb at her words.
A new voice pierced the deafening quiet. "Whomever thou are,
release my mother at once!"
[POV change: Shift to Aries Greymon.]
What's going on? I can feel everyone's ki!? Who is that possible?
My thoughts were interuppted as I noticed my mother's battle aura.
Why's mom pissed off? Who the? Aww that's IT!
I awoke in a near rage, quickly locating my mother and her assailant.
I tried powering up, but my ki was acting sluggish for some reason.
"Whomever thou are, release my mother at once!" Suddenly my ki
responded to my call.
And the room detonated in a blinding flash.
To those of you who more than likely hate me for my lateness, I shall
simply state: "I hath never given a specific time for updating. My
stories are updated on a highly irregular schedule. I barely have
time to eat my dinner before I hafta do stuff other than work on the
story.
As to my Avatar's sudden use of slight medieval era speech, 'Tis
because his mind is still adjusting to his new ki signature.
[Remember, he was healed with demon blood. That tends to change
peopl's ki.] And he was taught to speak like that if he was ever
confused. It was so his parents could easily tell when he got
nervous or confused without appearing weak to the Clan superiors.
Later everyone!
this tale.
It's My Life
Book 1 Of 3
GP06-SENTIENCE
CHAPTER 6: "What are you playing? Magic?"
"..." Talking
... Thinking
'...' Repeating something Ex. names of places
[...] Authors notes
[Last chapter]
Solaris woke up at that moment, "Where am I? Why does my chest
hurt so much?"
X had a problem, and he knew it.
[This chapter]
"Hey you! Hold it!" The gaurds saw X as he came back out of the
room.
"Oh, shit!" X paniked. Then he heard a dull thud from the room
behind him. He turned to see, and the guards misunderstood his
action. They brought their weapons up and trained them on X.
"Oww! That hurts!" yelped Solaris as she tried to get up. "Why
does it hurt when I move?"
The guards heard Solaris quite clearly, and rushed past X to see
what was wrong. They ran into Constance as he was helping her up.
"Ahh! You freeborn IDIOTS! GET OFF OF ME NOW!" Constance
screamed as he was crushed by the two guards. Solaris screamed in
pain as her already injured body was mauled even further.
X stormed into the room like a hurricane. "That's it morons, get
the hell off of her!" He picked up both guards and threw them into a
wall, knocking them out cold. Then he tossed Constance into the
ceiling and started juggling him in midair.
"Stop it please! Don't kill him!" wailed Solaris when she saw
what was happening. "Please! Just leave him alone!" she started
crying, and X suddenly stopped dead. Constance hit the floor hard. He
looked alot worse that he actually was though.
"Why should I?" X's voice trembled on the verge of losing
control.
"Because he's my father! –sniffle– Just go away! Leave us
alone!" Now Solaris was crying full out. X sensed someone else waking
up and fled the area. Solaris' crying managed to wake up Katelyn, who
was worried about what could make Solaris cry.
"Augh! Dammit! –sigh– I can't get any information outta them
until they wake up! Guess I'd better find something to do until they
wake up." X started walking around aimlessly, letting his feet guide
him. He finally came to a locked blast door, and decided to see just
what it was hiding.
He didn't realise it was so well protected until it fried his
ass. He was flung into the opposite wall and just sorta sat there,
twitching now an' then. Security showed up a few minutes later and
hauled him off to the brig.
A few hours later, X came to. He stayed so still, that even the
monitoring equipment attatched to him could not tell that he had
woken up. When he spoke, it scared the holy shit outta the guards.
"Where am I?" whispered X.
"Who said that?" The guards were very edgy now. They thought
they were hearing voices.
"I said 'Where am I?' Are you really that stupid?" X slowly sat
up, relieving the tension in the air.
"Okay. You are in the brig."
"What's a brig?"
"Like prison, idiot. What were you thinking it was?"
"Actually, I had no idea what a brig was." He started walking
around, examining his cell. When he reached the forcefield, his
curiosity almost got him fried again.
"I wouldn't touch that if I were you. It nearly killed the last
guy in here." The guard was taunting X.
X wasn't stupid. He could feel the energy from the field where
he was standing. So, he decided to play a game to pass the time.
He pulled out two decks of cards, and started playing against
himself. The guards were beyond stunned, "M, m, Magic cards? How the
hell did he get Magic cards?"
The first guard ran to his desk, "Who cares? I wanna Play
dammit!" and grabbed his own deck. Then, he ran over to the cell and
asked, "You wanna play a game versus us?"
X looked up and responded, "Sure, why not? I haven't had a good
game in ages."
Long story short, X whupped their asses. How you ask? His damn
'Soul Foundry' and 'Clockwork Dragon'. [Yes readers, Myself [as guard
1], Ron [X], and Jared [as guard 2] actually played this game.
He only had six dragon copies when he won. And he didn't gloat
over his victory as most people would have.
The guard's shift ended a few minutes later. X asked the new
shift what time it was. Turns out that 'little game' actually lasted
about three hours. [Multiple games in one session]
"Damn. That frikin long huh? Shit man, I still gotta wait three
frikin hours till this place's boss wakes up."
"What do you mean 'boss'?" asked the female who replaced guard
2.
X sighed. He couldn't believe the stupidity of these people.
"The guy who makes all the decisions for this place."
"Oh! You mean Khan Jefferies don't you?" She asked in a happy
voice. "For a second there, I thought you meant the Ilkhan. I'd
really hate to see him." She let out a nervous laugh.
X face faulted. [Or is it vaulted? O? ] Jesus man! This girl
is really stupid! She just gave away the commander's name? He slowly
got back to his feet.
Just then, a door opened on the other side of the room. "What
just fell in here?"
A woman's voice? X was intriuged Wonder who she is?
"Nothing sir! The prisoner just tried a back flip and hit his
head is all."
"WHAAT? Why wasn't I told about this? Who is he? Get the fuck
outta my way you idiot robot!" WHUMP "Aww that's it! Now your dead!"
X just watched in facination as the fight moved into the brig area.
The woman was beating the shit out of the guard bot that stopped her
a minute ago.
Whong, Whing whong, clong. The bot fell to the floor, utterly
destroyed. "Ahh. What a workout!" Her face darkened. "Now about that
'prisoner'." She just stared at the male guard for a few seconds.
"Uhhh, sir the prisoner is in cell two." The guard looked about
ready to pee himself.
"Thank you peon." She held her hand out to the girl, "I'll be
needing the key now Bitch." It dropped into her hand quite suddenly.
She walked over to X's cell and asked nicely, "What's your name?
Mine's Chris."
"I am Xero Mcloud. Please call me X if you don't want to die."
His voice held no hint of kindness in it.
"If I don't want to die huh? Very well then, I'll call you X."
Her voice is beautiful, like an angel's. She doesn't look too
bad either. His face lit up for just a second when the guard bot
finally exploded. "Ow. My eyes hurt."
"Umm, I'm sorry X. That was my fault. I shoulda had it removed,"
X interrupted her.
"Why are you apologizing? I'm not blind or anything."
"Because it's my fault your eyes got hurt! You know, you're a
sorta nice person. Why are you in here?"
"I honestly don't know why I'm in here. Though it might have
something to do with that door that attacked me."
"Oh, so you're the guy that attacked the 'mechbay door. I guess
you've been in here long enough by now." She unlocked the forcefield
control box, then turned it off.
"Okay you're free to go." She smiled.
"Umm I was in a hospital a little while ago visiting some
friends. I think their kids were caught in some kind of explosion.
They didn't really want to talk about it. I would really love to know
how to get back there." He really hoped that she bought the lie.
Well, At least most of it was a lie.
"How 'bout I show you the way?" she seemed way too happy for
some reason.
Mabye she's punch-drunk? ... Nah, she didn't take enough hits
for that. Perhaps she's a druggie? He looked down at her face as she
led him around yet another corner. No, I get the feeling that she's
never touched drugs.
"Ah, here we are. Now then, which room was it?" She looked up at
him for a moment, then noticed his blank stare. She punched his arm
to get his attention
He snapped out of his reviere and jumped about three feet back,
landing in a fighter's stance. He heard Chris' laughter and relaxed.
"What the hell was that for bitch! I could have KILLED you! If you
hadn't been lucky, I might have gone on a killing spree."
Oo "Okay, then I suppose I shan't do it again." Chris began looking
around 'till she found a clock. Her face fell quite suddenly as she
read the time. "Oh no! I forgot my appointment with Katelyn!
Man, she's gonna kill me for sure."
"Who's Katelyn?" X was growing impatient, anyone walking past could
see the frustration rolling off him. I think I've met someone called
Katelyn. But I never caught her last name. God. Is this day full of
names from the past or what?
"Katelyn Greymon is my best friend, and her son was caught in an
explosion too. Mabye she knows your friends?" Chris looked up in
thought, then grabbed X and took off down a hallway.
"Okay we're here." X just barely caught the names on the door
plate. He smiled briefly before heading in after Chris.
A voice could just barely be heard even through the deathly
quiet. "Please, help my children through this, Kerensky. This is the
only thing I ask of you."
Chris cleared her throat and called out, "Katelyn? I'm sorry to
disturb your prayer, but I remembered our appointment." X stepped
closer to the still crying woman.
"This is Katelyn?" he asked Chris, "The Katelyn I knew would
kill anyone for disturbing her prayer."
He directed his gaze to Katelyn. "Hello Katelyn. Do you remember
me? I'm X. We trained together several years ago under master
Graystone?"
Her crying stopped suddenly and she uttered one word. "Stravag."
Chris heard her insult. She turned to X in a rage. "You're a
freeborn? How the hell did you get in here?"
X returned her angry stare, "Yes. I'm a freeborn. Does it really
matter how I got here? What does matter," He kneeled before Katelyn,
"... I was not here as I had promised to be. Because of my absence,
your son was nearly killed. My life is now forfit."
Katelyn rose from her chair. "Get up honored freeborn. 'Twas not
your fault my children were almost killed." X rose to his full
height, "If anyone is to blame, it is I."
Chris was confused. Honored Freeborn? The only honorable
freeborn is Aries. He saved my ass twice and didn't care about my
status. Hell, I don't think he knew my status.
"Excuse me, but am I missing something here? He's a stravag, so
how is he honorable?" Constance interrupted her.
"Would you please keep it down out there? You're gonna wake up
Solaris at this rate."
A muffled thump is heard from the bathroom. "Oww. That hurt."
Another thump is heard just outside the bathroom. "That really hurt."
Everyone just sorta walks to the bathroom door.
"I take it this is Solaris." X is trying to figure out just
whose daughter she is.
"Umm, hello." She starts to get up, "Acck. Can't get up that
way. Man this hurts." X crouched down and picked her up gently,
making sure not to aggravate her injuries.
"Thank you." She looked at his face and nearly had a heart
attack. "Y, y, you! Please, g, go away! Just leave me alone!" Her
arms started to twitch in fear of X.
"X, why is Solaris afraid of you?" Katelyn was really worried.
Her daughter was afraid of her old friend, and she had no idea why.
"Ummm, Solaris, I, I'm sorry I attacked your father yesterday. I
was in a rage after those guards landed on you. I can understand if
you hate me, but I truly want to help you. Your mother and I are old
friends." By the end of the speech, he was kneeling before her bed.
Katelyn looked around nervously, then stiffened as Solaris
spoke. "I ... I don't know what to do." She sniffled for a bit before
continuing. "I don't really like you, but, –sniffle– I'll try to
forgive you. Just don't hurt my family, they're all I have."
"Now now lassie, ye know that's not true! You have friends all
around you, even if they don't come to visit every day." Duncan
walked through the door just before he stopped speaking. He looked
around and spotted X. "And who might you be?"
"I am X. And you are?" He looked over the newcomer for a moment.
Hmm. So he's not a fighter? He's got guts though.
"I am Duncan Gabriel Alexander. So you are the same X I've been
told about?" He too gave X a glance. A martial artist? I thought
only Katelyn and Aries were fighters. He took a closer look. No,
he's more like a street thug than anything else. This should prove
interesting.
"If you really are X, then I challenge you to battle." X's
whole face lit up. Duncan flared his battle aura a little bit, just
enough that anyone who could sense ki would see it.
"A battle eh? Very well then, please set the terms of combat."
Heh heh. This fool has no idea what he's getting himself into.
But Katelyn knew from personal experience just how powerful X
really was. "Duncan! I forbid this battle! If you insist on fighting
him, then you must defeat me first!"
"Wha, What? Defeat you? Ha! I'll defeat you easily." He spoke
confidently, yet was far more upset than anyone would believe. Damn,
now I gotta fight Katelyn too? Man, my life sucks.
He stormed out of the room in a fury, not caring that his battle
aura had flared violently, incinerating the records sheet by the
door.
Aries had woken up right after Duncan's aura flared. He tried to
flare his own power, thinking that his family was in danger, yet
found that he could not. Something was draining his ki as fast as he
could make it. Also, He wasn't awake enough to fully use his ki even
if he had it.
[POV change: shift to Aries.]
Ohhh man. What's that power coming from? I didn't get to find
out as I sensed my father's presence in the room. DAD! I gotta power
up. I soon noticed that I wasn't charging like I was supposed to.
Where's my power going to? I can tell I'm making it, but it's not
accumulating properly. I felt the strange power spike in anger and
turn away.
What the hell is going on here? First I wake up in the middle
of a small dispute, then I find that I can't use my power? Wait a
sec, I tried sniffing the air around me. ... There it is! But why
the hell is it going there? I was really confused at this point.
[POV change: switch to Aries' family.]
"Well, now what?" Constance didn't sound too worried, but
everyone knew he didn't like the idea of Katelyn fighting anyone.
"I'll just have to fight him won't I?" Katelyn smiled ferally as
she answered. She grew nervous for some odd reason during their
conversation. She whirled around when she sensed a rather large ki
building up nearby.
She just about fainted when she saw who it was coming from. "The
demon girl? But, but, how?"
X heard what Katelyn said, but he didn't understand the meaning.
The reason was, he couldn't passivly read ki signatures. He had to be
trying to find them in order to 'see' them.
When he finally saw a dull glow from Kuenai's 'bed'. He realised
what Katelyns words meant when he checked her ki levels.
"There's no way in hell. Kuenai can't use ki!" X was frantic.
Kuenai's body was storing ki, and yet, there's no possible way it
could.
X was still scanning for ki levels, and even though he was in a
full panic, he found one more energy source. He found Aries.
"What the hell?"
[POV change: shift to Aries Greymon]
Huh. Why is she absorbing my energy? It's my energy, so mabye I
can still control it! I tried everything I knew, but I just couldn't
use it. Then something snapped, and I nearly gained control of my
energy. What? My energy just; dissipated? Why though?
[POV change: shift to neutral observer]
"Ahhh!" Kuenai sat up screaming. X nearly had a heart attack.
Solaris was quite upset by this, so she broke down and started
crying. Katelyn moved over to Kuenai's side to try to help, and
interrogate her, but X stopped her, "Watch carefully." he said.
"Why should I? I want to know why my son isn't awake yet!" She
was quikly working herself into a rage. X was barely trying, and he
managed to hold her in her spot.
"Katelyn, your son will wake up in just a few seconds, so please
calm down."
"Don't toy with me you Freeborn jackass!"
The room suddenly became as silent as a tomb at her words.
A new voice pierced the deafening quiet. "Whomever thou are,
release my mother at once!"
[POV change: Shift to Aries Greymon.]
What's going on? I can feel everyone's ki!? Who is that possible?
My thoughts were interuppted as I noticed my mother's battle aura.
Why's mom pissed off? Who the? Aww that's IT!
I awoke in a near rage, quickly locating my mother and her assailant.
I tried powering up, but my ki was acting sluggish for some reason.
"Whomever thou are, release my mother at once!" Suddenly my ki
responded to my call.
And the room detonated in a blinding flash.
To those of you who more than likely hate me for my lateness, I shall
simply state: "I hath never given a specific time for updating. My
stories are updated on a highly irregular schedule. I barely have
time to eat my dinner before I hafta do stuff other than work on the
story.
As to my Avatar's sudden use of slight medieval era speech, 'Tis
because his mind is still adjusting to his new ki signature.
[Remember, he was healed with demon blood. That tends to change
peopl's ki.] And he was taught to speak like that if he was ever
confused. It was so his parents could easily tell when he got
nervous or confused without appearing weak to the Clan superiors.
Later everyone!