Chapter 2: Goodbye Fuckers
Blood splattered across the forest floor. Kia cackled as the last guy in the clearing fell to his injuries. Grabbing the scruff of his neck in a strong grip to drag the kidnapper towards their camp site, she grabbed more rope to tie him up with the others. The others in their own traps hung above her in fear as they watched her work on destroying their hope and determination.
Patting her hands together to dust them off, Kia sighed happily. Now she just needs to find the last one then she can relax at her house, and life will be normal again. Returning to start her search, Kia summoned her magic to swing the prisoners' cages. She hummed at their whimpers. Walking towards the last trail, Kia hummed her favored tune.
The bushes shuffled behind her. She laughed and grinned. She was having a great time! Turning she faced whoever was in the bushes as they jumped out to attack, she summoned her magic once more in the form of a large hand and captured the man with his hunting knife. He grunted and struggled. Kia squeezed harder until he passed out. She tied and tossed him onto the others.
KIA LV 118 HP 610/852
"Mmm, thanks for the stress reliever guys, now which one of you fuckers wants to die first?"
The captured men whimpered. Kia rolled her glowing crimson eyes and inspected her claws.
"Oh shush, none of that! If any of you had any experience with me, you should know by now to prepare for your deaths in advance when you assholes mess with me or my acquaintances. Now let's see-"
"HALT DT! YOU SHALL DO NO FURTHER HARM! THESE MEN WILL BE APREHENDED AND QUESTIONED AS PER ORDER. STEP BACK!"
Kia sighed in annoyance. She stepped back, to the relief of everyone that showed up and up in the cages. Crossing her arms, Kia pouted. Kai came up hesitantly to her side to see if she was alright. She was covered in bullet scraps, knife scratches, and blossoming heavy bruises. Kia looked away. Her SOUL magic calming down until it disappeared.
"You are always ruining my fun."
Kai smiled nervously.
"Now, now, no need to be testy. Just let the government take care of it. Do you need healing?"
It was obvious she needed healing. The only reason he isn't using his magic right away is because of their history as lab rats and … the trust he had broken.
Kia glared murder at a tree.
Kia was going to refuse. When out of the corner of her eye, she saw one of her captives release themselves from their trap. Only having time to react, she gripped his arm and yanked him out of the way. Rounds of bullets pierced through her flesh as her garnet magic roared to life. The man with the machine gun died in her prison box. His bullets rocketing against the walls within and piercing his own body, the sounds stopped soon after. Blood dripped down her chin and onto her alcoholic smelling crop top she wore to work earlier that night. Her leather short jacket did nothing to protect her. She fell.
Everything was slow and fast. Death, her only friend that she trusted was coming. She landed in a limp thud. Large familiar hands grip her arms. Kai pulled her up to stare blankly at him or the sky above her. It has her SOUL. It was breaking. Even if it was being held together with all the liquid DETERMINATION beforehand, it was already battered and beaten enough it was on its last strings anyways. Kai's green magic was surrounding it, keeping her alive.
Why was he even trying to heal her?
Doing this just prolongs the pain.
Kia gasped and coughed up the dredges of blood in her lungs and stomach. Kai sighed in relief. His magic slowly retreating from her form, it wasn't enough to heal her completely. Bloody bullets in the hundreds were littered around her.
His healing staved off Death for now and again.
She wasn't in the clear just yet.
She was hoisted by the frenzied government soldiers. They started to rush around her as she was transported to the clinic for her kind, SOUL test subjects.
They were currently the only group of people on the entire surface to have regained their magical abilities similar from the older times.
To their knowledge anyways
The town they were living in was actually a facility in a perimeter that surrounds the entirety Mount Ebott base.
Since the reemergence of our magic, they took the myths surrounding Mt. Ebott more seriously, i.e. Monsters. Bing botta boom, first line of defense for Humanity right there after the shit they went through just to feel normal again at the risk of their safety, again. If anything, the real reason they put up with her is that she was the strongest in combat and magic control that came out of the labs she tore down. She was also the weakest. Her SOUL was the most experimented on, so its present state is fragile.
It has been almost an entire decade since the Labs for her.
Older generations of test subject run-aways whom failed to produce SOUL magic prior to her forceful admission were working with the Government to stop the MageScientists, the bastards doing the experiments. Those generations helped the newer run-aways from their old prisons. Using information they gathered, they were able to find her soaked in blood and under the rubble a destroy base. Her group had already escaped before the collapse.
Leaving her for dead
Since then, her group had discovered an almost community like close-nit small town. Families, schools, grocery stores, playgrounds, and clinics. It was normal. It was strange and a relief after being imprisoned for so long. Families of the test subjects could come and live with them if they weren't too horrified or awkward to do so in the first place. Positivity festered. Kids were being born. Some with magical abilities some not, they all had the potential.
Break-ins and kidnappings were not unusual, but they were sparse. Other people wanted what we have. Most of us don't want what we have. We protect our own. No one should suffer as we had.
Especially the children, their children, her child…
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Kia breathed softly into the oxygen mask she was given after her healing. The I.V. next to her slowly, steadily drips her nutrients and painkillers. Her eyes were closed. She was comfortable.
She was not at peace.
Wincing, Kia could feel a weight on her left arm. Fabric rustled. A weight was moving, slow and steady. Kia slowly opened her eyes. Glancing down, she confirmed it was Kai. Kia sighed. She looked over to the spare seat to see Amilea cuddled up with Frisk in an uncomfortable position in her chair. Kia snickered. Kia's SOUL warmed at the sight. She smiled gently.
She was going to miss this.
Kia opened her real eyes to see where the rage was coming in which direction. Apparently, the big boss just arrived. Huge and burly, he crushed the foliage with his large boots. He held someone in his hand. It was Kai.
Kia's garnet magic exploded around her. The soldiers holding onto her mobile cot stumbled at her expressed protective rage. They dropped her to the ground and scrambled to back away from her as she triggered her transformation.
Kia grew to about the same height as the Big Boss. Her flesh was stripped away to show darkened carbon fiber bones. Her bouncer outfit soon disintegrated into her old stark white hospital gown. Her short dirty blonde hair disappeared to be replaced with fiery garnet curls that reached her hip bones. Her teeth sharpened and polished to a silver shine as her grin stretched across her skull with the reflective surface, so her victims could see their last moments for themselves.
Kia glared at the Big Boss with fiery garnet eye lights with vertical slit pupils with in the voids of her eye sockets. Clawed phalanges dug into the earth as she pushed off. Her preferred naginata materialized within her grasp. Too quick for anyone to see did this happen, she flashed up to him and sliced off his hand gripping her former lover.
Grabbing the unconscious man from the stiff grip, Kia took off and rounded everyone she knew to be Friendly. Her magic transport bubble grew as more people in her government uniforms. Soon, everyone was at the edge of the clearing of the roaring and pissed off brute. Kia stood between them ready for the next attack.
They scrambled and ran away.
Kia was left alone … once again …
She grinned hard.
Big Boss cursed. He hadn't meant for this to happen. It was supposed to be an in and out operation with only a little bit of a fight. Now that his 'help' screwed up royally he didn't have much choice than to take what he can and leave. The kid he had planned on taking disappeared in the chaos. He was going to take the bastard who was able to heal the bitch. Easy target until that bastard stabbed his arm. Knocking him into a rock wasn't too hard, but it still pissed him off that everything was falling apart this badly.
He glared at the bat shit crazy bitch in front of him probably thirsting for his death like the Reaper she looks like. He gripped the stump of his forearm harder as he watch her purposely step on his fallen hand and grind her heel into it. He knew that killing him wouldn't take much effort for this abomination. She was going to torture him before he could die at her will.
He doesn't plan to go down willingly.
Taking a step back, he heard her chuckle and watched her follow the same step. She wants a chase.
"Come get me bitch!"
He turned and ran.
She followed with a cackle of glee.
Fear pounded through his mind.
"What's wrong," she cooed mockingly, "You wanted me up here. Why are you running?"
He stumbled in confusion on some vines to the cave he was heading. He didn't want her here. Why would-! Those fuckers he hired! They must have had a grudge on this bitch! They are so fucking dead if he lived through this.
Then he saw it.
A way to live!
He lunged and grabbed the brat with his only functioning hand. They screamed. Garnet glow was intense behind him, but nothing happened. He turned with a nervous grin of triumph. The she-reaper stood there, eye sockets dark. She was unarmed. She wasn't smiling.
That made him even more nervous.
The kid whimpered in his bloody grasp. He was losing too much blood from the stump from his other arm. He was tired and getting dizzy.
She smiled.
He felt the air rushing out of him. He couldn't breathe. He tipped over. His grip lost. The kid landed on the ground. But he wasn't going to be the only one to die here. With all that he had left, he clawed at the ground. The network of sturdy vines uprooting and snapping at his strength and heavy bulk, he fell into the cavern floor. The kid and the she-reaper tripped and tangled in the rapidly disappearing vines down into the darkness.
Kia used her claws to dig into the stone floor under the thin covering of dirt and root networks. Kia turned towards Frisk as they shrieked with Fear. Her sight was filling with Pink around Frisk, overtaking their usual rose color.
Kia let go.
Using her agility and dexterity, Kia side hopped with all four of her limbs over the moving surfaces to cover Frisk with her body. Frisk stared at her with wide open eyes full of Fear. Kia's reflection in them was just as intense with grim Determination.
They slipped over the edge.
A blast of Garnet magic illuminated the cave, blinding everything with its light. It suddenly dimmed.
Frisk was left, safe and sound on solid ground.
Torn vines, dirt scrape trails, and splatter of blood the only evidence of anything happening. Frisk sat in a daze.
"Stay Determined Frisk…
"and be good you brat!"
They didn't really know much about their birth mother, but they didn't really try to in the first place. Silent tears lined their dirty cheeks as their dad stumbled in relief in finding them. They cried into his dusty shoulder. They wish they really got to know her.
Now, it was too late…