I do not own anything but my characters (Iris, Amon, Axel, etc), the Galileus (but sadly I do not own the creature design) and Cryal.
Quotes and meanings below.
"Speaking aloud"
'Speaking telepathically'
Subconscious thoughts, deep in the mind and cannot be heard by others at all.
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Chapter 19: Ruins
Time passes, eventually I am able to stand again. Axel insisted that I sleep, but I don't want to leave Gabby to go through this alone with the boys.
"What do Galileus babies look like?" I ask him, very curious.
Axel smirks at me, 'One day, you will know.' He responds, rising to his feet after taking a moment to relax next to the couch.
Frowning at him, I scoot off the couch and stand.
Praying my blood didn't get on it, I slowly look behind me, seeing a lot of blood where I was laying.
I let out a groan of frustration, "I'm bleeding everywhere...I need a tampon or something." I tell him, looking up at him.
He looks at me in confusion before realizing what I'm talking about, figuring it will also be helpful with plugging up the intoxicating scent as well. This way he can keep control of himself, and my strong scent doesn't attract unwanted attention.
He nods, 'We will provide you with some soon.'
I smile at him before walking to the door and opening it before going back to Gabby's room.
Inside the room, Amon has pulled a chair up next to the bed and seems to be monitoring her while she lies unconscious.
Seeing her unconcious makes me go into a panic, running over to the bed, seeing her lying in a puddle of sweat while hyperventilating, "What happened..?!" I cry out, looking at Amon.
He looks at me, beginning to seem uneasy "...She is okay. She was out when I got in here, she just fainted and will be fine." He informs me before rising and leaving the room in a rush, closing the door behind him.
My eyes widen when he leaves suddenly, I look over at Axel with my eyes still wide, beginning to laugh, "What was that?!" The words escape my mouth through laughter.
Axel gives me an amused grin, finding his reaction amusing as well, 'Your estrus.'
I begin to feel stupid, remembering, "Oh yeah..." I giggle, figuring the reason why Axel isn't freaking out as well is because he recently mated with me. I can guarantee the smell is still driving him crazy.
Moving my attention to Gabby, I watch her begin to shiver while she continues to sweat, worrying me further.
"Are cold sweats normal as well...?" I ask Axel, looking back at him.
He approaches the bed and looks her over, 'Yes. Her weak, human body is going through a large amount of stress.' He reassures me, smelling over her body to make sure everything is going smoothly from what he can recall his father educating him about long ago.
Watching him smell her, out of curiosity I try to smell her as well to see if my nose can pick up anything, since for some reason it decided to become sensitive.
Axel looks at me and grins in amusement, I look at him, "What? Leave me alone." I tell him, not knowing what to do with the scents anyway even if I were able to smell something wrong. My brain is unable to process scents to the extent his can.
He smirks at me, the door to the room opens and two items get thrown at Axel from Amon before he shuts the door again.
Axel catches both items, a tampon and a wet rag before handing them to me.
I laugh and take them, "Awesome."
Making my way back to the seat, I put one of my feet on the chair and run the wet rag along my legs where the blood has trailed down.
Feeling Axel's eyes on me, I continue cleaning myself up. His sudden purrs grab my attention as I turn my head to look at him, "What?"
He begins to purr louder as he approaches me, he picks me up and places me onto the floor on my back.
My eyes widen, "What are you doing..?!" Within seconds my legs are spread and Axel's head is between them with his tongue slowly lapping up the unique, sweet tasting blood from between my blood-soaked pussy's folds.
The feeling of his tongue causes me to gasp sharply, balling my hands into tight fists in pure bliss.
Axel's breathing begins to deepen as the sweet taste arouses him, fueling the quickly intensifying lust building inside of him.
I look down at him and sit up a little, he opens his eyes and looks at me, his purrs persistent, "...She is sleeping...right there...!" I hiss out at him.
From his eyes I can tell he has begun to grin, in response he plunges his tongue as deep as it can go inside of me, expressing to me how little he cares.
A sharp gasp bursts from my mouth when he does, I throw my head back and spread my legs more for him, my body craving more.
His hot breath warming my sweet spot sends chills through my body, he pulls his tongue out and slowly licks all around my pussy, cleaning the blood off of my skin.
The feeling of his warm tongue running along my folds triggers my body to release more blood, in which Axel eagerly licks up.
Once completely clean, Axel sits back up, leaving my body craving more. He grins at me teasingly while having a pretty intense hard on begging him to go further.
I narrow my eyes at him, "That wasn't very nice."
'I did you a favor.'
"You didn't have to do it that way! I had it!" I tell him while laughing, I sit up completely and he stands, smirking at my frustration.
I snatch the tampon and open the wrapper before inserting it into me. Feeling comfortable with it I stand and cross my arms while looking at Axel, "Go get my clothes, I don't want to give Amon another aneurysm."
Axel grins in amusement before leaving the room and shutting the door behind him.
Taking a moment alone, I walk over to Gabby and look over her before sighing.
.
So far I believe we are somewhere around 8 hours into the transformation.
Within the last 7 hours, the majority of the time has been spent talking to each other in the main room of the basement while Gabby remained unconscious. Although we weren't in the same room as her most of the time, Axel and Amon made sure to keep an eye on her with their senses. Axel left occasionally to hunt, as usual, but while we were all together we got much more comfortable with each other and Axel opened up a bit more to me.
For the past hour, Gabby has been awake, but has been struggling. She is able to stand, but has been begging for a cold drink or some kind of way to cool off. She has reached the body temperature of a Galileus, which is somewhere around 103 - 106 degrees fahrenheit or higher in some instances.
Axel and Amon both strongly suggest I not help her cool down, telling me she could die if I do while her body is trying to adapt and change.
For now she has been moved to the main living room, the smaller room was getting too hot for her.
The only thing she has been given to quench her thirst is Axel's blood. Since he turned her, his blood will help support her body's change.
Her bed has been moved into the main living room as well so she can rest, but the warm bed is uncomfortable for her now, for a while she has been laying on the floor sweating while talking to us.
Axel has finally begun to talk to her as if she is one of his own species.
I watch Gabby lying on the floor spread out, her sweating has been nonstop since she was unconscious.
She begins to itch herself persistently, as she has been doing since she woke up. I learned this is because her human skin is pretty much 'shedding' into her new, darker and stronger skin.
"Lookin' good Gab." I tease her.
She looks at me and sends me a playful glare, "Your hair is 'lookin' good, Iris." She teases back.
I laugh at her, laying on a large couch that faces an old broken TV. Although I am dressed and have a tampon in, both boys can still pick up the faint scent coming from between my legs.
Axel clearly has a better resistance to it than Amon does, since apparently Amon has never officially been with a female before.
I look at Axel, who is leaning against the back of the couch close to me, "See? That is why I need a shower. It's nasty!"
Axel smirks at me, 'Go find one then.'
I narrow my eyes at him in silence.
"Yeah, go find one." Gabby adds, Axel making it so everyone around him can hear his telepathy.
Sitting up I give Gabby a playful glare, "Don't side with him!"
"Oof, well that sucks because, I already did." She smirks at me and sits up.
"Jerk." I call her, crossing my arms.
"Bitch." She responds, my eyes go wide once hearing her and I look at her.
"Woah, watch your mouth young padawan. Before I wash your mouth out with soap." I grin.
"I'm only 9 months younger than you!" She informs me.
"I can't understand you, child. Speak up." I tease, giggling. Looking over at Amon, I realize he is looking over Valkyrie but not touching her.
Axel follows my gaze, watching Amon.
Amon goes to pick her up while propped against a corner.
Oh no.
The moment he makes contact with the weapon a burst of energy repels him, throwing him backwards across the room and into a wall, leaving it with large spider web-like cracks and an indent before he falls to the floor.
Axel, watching the whole thing, became alarmed and almost acted the moment the weapon threw his brother out of concern.
Amon groans loudly from the pain, his feathers sharp out of instinct from being harmed. His feathers go soft and he slowly stands, "What the hell was that?" He looks at Axel.
Axel also becomes confused, as he and Amon were able to pick it up and move it days ago with no problem.
"Uhh, for some reason it absorbed blood from a victim of mine a few days ago...it was also stabbed into my side when the Reaper tried killing me a while ago...I have no idea if either of those things have anything to do with it." I tell them.
Amon and Axel look at each other in confusion, apparently having no idea as they aren't familiar with Reaper weapons.
"I guess it's officially tied to me by blood or something." I assume, giggling while getting off the couch and running over to the scythe and picking it up.
I swing her around a little, smirking at them.
Moaning grabs our attention from Gabby, I put Valkyrie down and run over to her, kneeling in front of her while she has her hands over her mouth.
Her face distorted in pain, she cries out with her eyes closed tight, she pulls her hand away from her mouth and cries out.
Now do I realize what is hurting her, her teeth have grown longer, and sharper. No longer dull and human-like.
The pain slowly fades from her, she looks at me and feels her teeth, her eyes widen in shock.
"Woa-!" She screams out once hearing her own voice has suddenly changed into a higher pitched voice, slightly similar to Priscilla's.
My eyes widen while hearing her, "Woah...".
Without realizing, Amon and Axel have gotten closer to observe her changes, Amon closer than Axel is.
Amon kneels down beside her, putting a few fingers under her chin he makes her look up at him and open her mouth to show him.
Gabby winces a little and moves away from him, moving his hand away with hers, "...I need a minute..." The words escape her mouth oddly, her new teeth making it a bit hard to talk.
Amon nods and stands, "The pain and discomfort will be over soon." He reassures her before walking back over to Axel. I follow Amon's actions, walking over to face Axel.
Axel looks down, beginning to purr quietly at me.
A sharp pain stabs through my head, in the same moment I feel myself fall while my surroundings suddenly change.
I am unable to scream from the pain, until my surroundings settle. The pain subsides and my surroundings tell me I am up on a very high hill somewhere.
The moon is so close, it's illumination is so strong. I feel reborn, so much strength, so much energy.
Slowly I rise to my feet and notice a large tree upon the hill, the leaves on the tree consist of a dark shade of violet, small buds of light blue flowers seem to fight the leaves over the moon's attention.
Looking over the hill, the only thing that can be seen is a sea of trees, no houses, no buildings, just nature for miles.
"Neoma." A sudden deep, unfamiliar voice purrs from behind me, causing me to spin around and take a step back.
A man around my age stands before me, wearing a black cloak with a hood. The first thing that grabs my attention are his shining irises that seem to glow through the darkness of his hood, a deep, familiar lavender.
Taking another step back, I stare at the man in confusion and surprise, "...Uh...who?"
"Neoma." The man repeats, suddenly a pair of large leather wings sprout from the stranger's back. The color the wings consist of is a dark violet, similar to the tips of my feathers.
Taking another step back, my foot slips and I swiftly catch myself before my body has a chance to slip off of the summit of the hill, now realizing I am on the edge.
Looking at the man again, "I think you have the wrong person..." I inform the man, my face full of confusion and slight fear.
Suddenly the man grabs ahold of his hood and pulls it down, revealing his short black hair, and friendly looking face.
The man smiles, "I have made sure that you are the right person, finally I have found you..." The man reaches to take my hand in his, I do not follow his actions.
"I have no idea what you're talking about. My name is Iris, Iris Hale. I don't know who this Neoma is that you are looking for." I correct him.
His smile widens, "That is your classification name, not your true name."
I begin to feel as though this man is unstable, but part of me is curious about what he claims to know about me, I play along.
"How do you know?"
The man withdraws his hand, "Your birth parents named you Neoma, the people who owned you named you Iris. I was there, I was young, but I can recall every detail of the day you were born."
Memories of the missing person flier, the phone numbers, sketchiness of the whole St. Michael's ordeal and confusion over who Emma actually was floods my brain all at once, I begin to get curious, "What people owned me? I don't know what you're talking about."
"What did that girl do to you...?" He wonders in a concerned voice, reaching a hand out to touch my cheek.
I take flight in an instant, landing a ways away from him, "Don't touch me. That is more than a warning." My voice becomes threatening, as does my stance, ready to harm him if he tries again.
He keeps his attention on me, "Why is that? We are the same species after all. You don't trust your own kind?"
I ignore his words, wanting to talk about what he said happened to me, "What did what girl do to me?" I push the subject back into the spotlight.
"That scientist of yours, Emma Matison. You truly do not remember a thing do you?" He steps toward me, causing me to back up to keep him a distance away from me.
My heart drops, scientist. Just like my dream...was that truly a memory like Amon thought it was?
"I remember being adopted by numerous families, always being sent back to an orphanage called St. Michael's. Emma was always at the orphanage, she never got adopted. We grew up together, she was my girlfriend." I tell the man.
The man begins to laugh as if I told a joke, I stare at him and wait for him to speak.
"That is what she wanted you to believe. I guess it was to protect you from all the trauma you went through your whole life, kind of like a sponge she absorbed all those memories and hid them away in your brain, did a little chemical alterations and voila! New memories." He explains with an amused voice.
I stare at him, taking in all the information, Unless this guy is lying and somehow tapped into my nightmare I had, this has to be the truth.
"Why am I here...why are you telling me all this..." I change the subject.
He approaches me again, my claws extend and my teeth grow sharper, he notices this and stops in his tracks, "You wanted the truth, and I wanted to introduce myself. The name's Tod." He bows, giving me a smirk in an attempt to look attractive.
Oh god, why me...
"Well, Tod. I have friends to get back to, and a mate who is probably panicking and will likely skin you alive, so for your own safety, I should probably go..." I exaggerate the last words before taking flight off the hill, without even realizing, my surroundings change to where I am turned around flying right back to the hill.
My eyes widen, seeing the man smirking at me and leaning against the tree. I turn around and try to fly away again but the same thing happens.
"Fabricated reality...nice..." I groan under my breath.
In an instant a force slams into me from behind, forcing me to crash down onto the hill.
I groan, the man approaches me, stepping on my neck to keep me down, "Ah, that mate of yours. I've been keeping an eye on you two for a while, that creature's repulsive scent is all over you. How you managed to fall for such a pathetic creature is beyond me. You were born to be MINE!" He puts pressure onto my neck, causing me to flail my wings and cough hard, struggling to get up.
A force holds my body down in submission, I let out a loud growl between gritted teeth.
"Look at you! You let that thing fuck you, more than once! And now your body has begun adapting and taking on characteristics of that creature's weak, pathetic species." The man hisses out, in an instant I am nude and the blood from between my legs flows freely.
I reach up and dig my claws into his leg, letting out very loud growls through a snarl, my eyes beginning to brighten.
In an instant the man is between my legs and an unseen force holds me down, a finger is inserted into the most personal spot of my body, with a purpose only to violate me.
I let out a loud, inhuman howl out of pure rage, trying everything I can to get away from this monster. Submitting to the risk of using my power, I let out an ear piercingly loud screech and a burst of energy erupts from around me.
The burst of energy was strong enough to overwhelm his own, making the intense illusion of his crumble in on itself.
The moment my subconscious has a chance to escape the threshold of his, it does.
.
A deep gasp fills my lungs and my eyes open, discovering I am on the floor in Amon's basement covered in sweat, quickly I sit up and realize the entire mansion is shaking as if an earthquake is centered right below it.
Once I am sat up arms wrap around me and I am lifted up against a chest, instinctively I wrap my arms around Axel's neck.
The loud sounds of collapsing rubble sounds from all around me, driving me into a panic as dust and dirt fills my lungs and vision behind Axel. The ceiling opens up as the basement collapses in on itself, in an instant we are in the air and out of the basement.
The night sky engulfs us, throwing me off as I remember it was near sunrise the last I knew.
Axel flies in place in the sky, looking down at the mansion.
'Are you hurt? What happened to you?' Axel's concerned voice rings through my head.
Recalling the events that unfolded while I must have been unconscious, I tighten my arms around him and bury my face deeper into his neck.
Axel continues to fly in place, a sudden force flies at us to knock us out of the sky, but Axel was able to sense it coming and dodged it.
'You must fly!' Axel's encouraging yet urgent voice fills my subconscious.
Quickly I flap my wings and release his neck, flying on my own I look around for whatever is trying to get us out of the sky.
My eyes widen when I see the mansion completely caved in on itself, sitting in a large pile of rubble.
"Where is Amon and Gabby?!" I scream out.
The humanoid creature just barely crashes into me before my question is answered by Amon slamming into the creature and holding the male humanoid in the air before us.
My brain immediately thought it was the guy from my nightmare, but my senses correct me, telling me it is a Cryal.
A burst of energy from the Cryal forces all of us away from each other as the Cryal escapes Amon's grasp.
The next thing I feel is the strong force of the Cryal tackling me in the air, driving me out of the sky at an intense speed.
A sudden intense sharp pain erupts from my chest in the same moment the Cryal's now-visible tail forces itself out of my chest from behind, now learning Cryal can make a tail appear in their humanoid forms.
I scream out in agony, the Cryal clearly focusing on me to eliminate the possibility of Axel reproducing, blood sprays out around the tail and the Cryal rips it's tail back out of me, all within a matter of seconds.
The Cryal kicks me hard in the air, sending me plummeting into the ablazed remains of the mansion.
The fire scorches my skin and sharp pieces of the mansion rubble pierce through my body all over.
Axel and Amon watch from above, panic flowing through both of them.
Axel acts immediately, taking flight and diving down to the rubble, the Cryal slams into him in the sky, Axel not paying attention to his senses, only focusing on getting to me.
Axel and Amon then team up to try and get Amon's obsidian dagger into its body using their advanced abilities to throw the dagger.
The Cryal remains elusive before turning into its true form, much larger than the female was.
A sudden burst of energy flows through my body, opening my eyes they glow brightly. My intense emotions fuel the energy and I release a blood curdling scream as I take in the sight of the Cryal, further fueling my raged emotions from the nightmare.
Taking in the image of the Cryal, energy pulses and radiates all around me. My body levitates along with a few pieces of rubble, lifting up and off of the remains as I continue to shriek.
A dark violet fog escapes my body, consuming it as my body begins to change form.
My screams and the large cloud of fog, occasionally accompanied by random bursts of purple lightning throughout the fog finally grabs the Cryal's attention.
Axel and Amon remain in the sky, watching the giant ball of energy grow larger and larger.
The fog fades suddenly, revealing a new familiar of mine, a Cryal.
Standing the same height as the male, my bright lavender eyes burst with energy before I reveal a vicious snarl and let out an intense roar at the true Cryal, even making the Earth beneath my feet tremble.
Axel and Amon watch in shock, quickly snapping out of it to help me kill it.
The Cryal releases an intense roar in response, before it can act my jaws are around it's throat, my teeth piercing it's scales deep as I bite hard.
The Cryal releases a loud roar of pain, exhaling a sub zero burst of freezing air from it's lungs.
I tackle the Cryal, forcing it's head down once I realize it's breath is making the process of killing it much harder for the boys.
Biting deeper, I feel the fins on my cheeks pulsate as a thick green substance comes from the back of my throat, flowing into the wounds of the Cryal's neck and causing agonizing burning pain to it as it begins to flail beneath me, crying out in agony.
Amon and Axel land on the top of the Cryal's head, both wielding obsidian knives.
The Cryal uses its front legs to make them fly off, only for both of them to land daggers into its scales where they once stood.
The Cryal screeches in agony, it slams it's tail onto my back before stabbing it through my heart.
I release a loud screech of agony, the Cryal begins to get affected by the obsidian, becoming incoherent before going limp beneath me.
Slowly I release it's neck from my jaws, my energy completely drained while the tail remains in my heart.
Both boys begin yelling at me to turn back into my true form, but the world begins to become hazy and the voices become echoed.
My eyes close and my body collapses on top of the disintegrating Cryal.
The next thing I see is that I have returned to my normal form, both Axel and Amon panicking to keep me alive.
Amon has begun working to stop the bleeding, while Axel is speaking to me aloud using his true voice, but my brain isn't registering anything that he is saying to me. All I see is his mouth moving with no sounds coming from it, both of his hands are on the sides of my head seeming to be trying to keep me awake.
Darkness fills my vision and my grip on reality slips away.