Kiana Kaslana finally did it! She's finally found her 'Best Friend' Mei Raiden after so long but something is off….
Disclaimer: None of these characters belong to me, they belong to Mihoyo. Also, my grammar and punctuation decided that it wanted to jump off a cliff. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED… Okay now enjoy!
" " Talking
' ' Thinking
Kiana was chilling in the Helios waiting for an update about how close they were to Nagazora. Also known as the place where Mei was last seen. It has been a few weeks since the events that occurred in Arc City where Mei saved the city from Project STIGMA. No matter how hard Kiana tried to ignore the things that happened after Mei defused the bomb she just couldn't. She thought she was stronger than she was back when Herrscher of Thunder awakened, but she was proven wrong when she tried to fight Durandal to try to save Mei. She fought with every ounce of strength she had against Durandal even without the Gem of Serenity, and Herrscher Of the Void she thought she could keep up with her, but just like when she fought Herrscher of Thunder Mei the battle was over before it even started. Mei was taken away from her again, and the only thing that was left behind was Mei's jacket.
Kiana was starting to beat herself up thinking that if she paid attention in class she would be strong enough to protect Mei. 'If only I wasn't so stupid I would've been able to protect her' Kiana thinks to herself angrily wanting to go back to the past so she can pay attention to what Himeko and Aunt Teri were teaching, and learn stuff.
"Kiana!" A voice called out to Kiana snapping her out of her thoughts. It was Dr. Tesla, and it looks like she was trying to get her attention while also slowly losing her patience. "Oh hey, Tesla, what is it?" Kiana says, wondering if Tesla had anything to update about how far away they were from Nagazora, "We're here." Tesla says…. "Wait what?!" Kiana says confused, surprised at the same time. The last time she checked they were at least 20 minutes away from Nagazora. "I've been trying to tell you these past five minutes, but you were lost in your thoughts, again," Tesla says in a deadpan tone. "Heh, sorry Tessa I was just thinking about something." Kiana said apologizing to for spacing out."Anyway, let's go" Kiana says with a smile.
"Tesla, are you sure Mei-Senpai is here?" Kiana said with a tired expression. Kiana and Tesla have been searching for Mei for 40 minutes, and they still haven't found any traces of her. "She should be this is where the Herrscher of Thunder's activity was last picked up," Tesla says while looking at her tracker. "Are you sure that the device isn't broken or something?" Kiana says "No this device was tracking your Void powers when you're using them against the 3rd Herrscher, so it's not 'broken'." Tesla says a little ticked that Kiana thought one of AE's inventions was broken after A LOT of testing with a certain 1st Herrscher. "Well, then I guess I'll look around some more." Kiana says not wanting to make Tesla rant about how 'the device is not broken and here's why' and all that.
After a while of walking Kiana was about to head back to Tesla when she saw a part of Nagazora both of them hadn't explored yet. There was a possibility of Mei being there, so Kiana decided to go and take a look around… There were a lot of Honkai Beasts that's for sure, no signs of Mei though. Kiana was on her way to leave when she spotted something out of the corner of her eye. It looked like….a child? Kiana decided to go over to the area where the child was lying and started to look at her to see if she was infected with Honkai. Once Kiana concluded that the child wasn't infected she picked her up and carried her back to the Helios where Tesla could get her checked out.
"You found her where again?" Tesla asked, "I was just checking out an area we haven't covered yet and found her lying on the ground, unconscious." Kiana replies, looking at the child for any movements. It has already been a few minutes since she brought the child to the Helios and even though Tesla said that she had no wounds or anything like that, the child still hasn't moved that much. "Well, she should be waking up soon since she's not infected," Tesla says starting to walk away from the room.
Kiana was looking at the unconscious child, still waiting for her to wake up. Kiana didn't stare at her for that long though, every second she looked at the child in her head kept filling images of Mei when she was falling from the sky after defusing the bomb. The way she was sleeping kept reminding her of her pathetic excuse for a fight against Durandal, and how Mei was just sleeping peacefully. It was like the sleeping position was mocking her, reminding her of how weak she was and how she couldn't even save the one person she held closest to her heart. "Damn it," Kiana says as she's hitting her forehead in frustration.
Kiana snapped out of her thoughts when she heard a shuffling noise coming from the bed beside her. It was the child who was finally awake. She was looking around the room, and then looked at Kiana and said "Where am I? Who are you?" Kiana smiled and said "My name is Kiana Kaslana as for where you are, you're somewhere called Helios. I brought you here after I found you lying on the ground." The child didn't say anything and just stared at Kiana with a blank expression. "So…. What's your name and why were you lying on the ground?" Kiana says, trying to break the awkward silence, "My name is Sora, and I don't remember what happened. All I do remember is that I was walking around outside The Roost with Mark II, and now I'm here," Sora says who seemed to be looking for something.
"The Roost?" Kiana said, "The Roost is where everyone lives," Sora said frantically checking the bedsheets. "What are you looking for?" Kiana asks "My friend Mark II, he and I were walking together. He was right beside me… Did you see a small robot when you found me?" Sora asks "No it was just you, but if you want I can go and find him for you," Kiana says with a gentle smile."Really?" Sora says, wide-eyed. "Yeah I know what it's like to lose someone you love, and it's an awful feeling." Kiana says, looking at the ground 'Because I was too weak to protect them' she thought darkly, but quickly pushed the thoughts away and said " Also I want to go to this roost place, and ask around about a friend of mine that's missing." Kiana said with a sad smile, but quickly looked up at Sora, and said. "Yeah don't worry I'll find Mark II for you." "Thank y-." Sora was about to say but was cut off by Kiana, feeling proud. "No need to thank me, I just love helping others." The pride Kiana felt quickly turned into embarrassment when she realized that she had no idea what Mark II even looked like. "Can you draw me a picture or something of Mark II since I don't know what he looks like?" Kiana asks while rubbing her head.
Authors Note: "I'm working on two more stories," I said "Expect them soon," I said. Man, how I was so so wrong because for starters Google decided that it wanted to piss me off and delete one of the other stories I was going to post, and to make things worst I caught Covid, Ain't that just the best? So yeah that explains why this hasn't been posted yet, and before you ask I WILL NOT be rewriting the other story because I didn't really like how it was turning out. I also wanted to say this story will end once it reaches the end of chapter 17 in-game because I don't know how this Fic will make sense in the story especially since (Spoilers) Durandal has been confirmed to be the original Kiana. I currently am working One Deal and I'm not going to say "expect it soon" because I'd rather not lose another story and catch Covid again. Alright I think that's all, I'll post chapters when I can. Bye for now.
