Triangle Toss Him Selected
Karma Rank: (Still) Bright Runaway
Achievement: "Flesh and Blood...(are the choses you missed)"
With the flesh eater in hand, Nicky thought of Elizabeth again. Even for what that woman did, she let her live, with a good bump to the head. Before performing any action to the man in her grasp, Nicky heard him push out, "Go head,... kill me. Be better… than what… he did to… them…"
Nicky thought of it, but did not choose to kill the man. Instead, she threw him into a wall, where he would end up falling onto his side. Nicky in this new skeleton form walked up to the other conduit, and said in a slightly deeper voice, "I'm not going to kill you. Asking someone to put you out of your misery is both selfish, and nauseating. I'm no murderer, in case you haven't noticed, and I won't start today."
The cannibal conduit lifted his head to sit against the wall in pain. He gasped for air, and replied to Nicky with, "Sorry, but I guess I just have the mindset that this is how it would play out."
"What are you talking about, you suicidal moron?"
"Well… the man, whose bones you usin', used to be a friend of mine."
"Then he took something from you?"
"Yeah, he…" he stopped to gasp for more air.
"Well then, what did he take?"
"He took my family away!"
Nicky hadn't really known Jacob, so it wouldn't be a surprise that she had met a sociopath. Considering the fact that this man in front of her wasn't much of a threat to her now, she decided to question him and listen for the moment. She asked, "What exactly happened?"
The flesh eater replied with, "Alright, I'll tell you kid. He was a friend of mine, the white boy. Been since we was little. The foo came to me one night saying the police were after 'im. When I was looking the other way, he killed my wife." Tears started to drip down from his eyes to his chin. "She was two months from delivering our child! Turned out the cops chasing him 'cause he killed his moma, and went loco! Damn insane puto!"
The young female felt chills up and down her spine as she heard the story. She said to the man, "I'm sorry to hear all this. I didn't realize that…"
"Don't feel sorry for me kid, I went just about as insane. These powers, they can influence all kinds of nasty shit in people's minds."
"Well, I guess I'm smarter then."
"Huh? What are you talking about kid?"
Nicky walked up to the flesh eater and said, "I never let my powers influence my decisions, I only thought of what would be the right thing to do. You're not the first person who could have been killed by me."
The flesh eater took a deep breath, and got up to his feet. He said to Nicky, "Well, I'm sorry you had to be in this kind of crazy stuff kid. If you were my daughter… I…"
He started to cry again, and turned around to hit his head and right fist against the wall. The young conduit couldn't help but join in on the crying, being only a child. Tears did not form on the conduits face while in her skeleton form. Nicky took note of that before she said, "It's ok. Your family would have wanted you to live on, just not like this. But I do understand…"
"No it's not ok. I was gonna try an' throw you out there for the cops or D.U.P to find. I'm just a damn…! You know what?" He stopped crying and turned around to tell Nicky, "You should take this blast core."
As the man walked away from the wall towards the blast core on the floor, Nicky looked towards him in confusion. "What? Aren't those hard to find with the D.U.P around?"
He grabbed it and put it in Nicky's boney hands. "Just take it. Take the others while you're at it."
"Others? Wha… What has gotten into you all of the sudden?"
"Well, ya let me live, and I just felt something snap in my head. Either you gave me a concussion, or you helped me see what I gotta. Either way, the others are in my trunk outside. I would say to get a jacket, but you don't even have skin."
"Ok then, I this is goodbye."
"Hope if we see each other again, it won't be like dis was."
Nicky ran out the door without hesitation, and slammed the door behind her with the blast core in hand. The situation was very strange, how did that man become so nice that he gave up his blast cores? The very things that make conduits powerful with every use of one. Either way, she remembered that he said inside his trunk was the rest of the blast cores. The man left his trunk to his black van wide open like a moron for any blind person to stumble into it. Inside was the backpack Jacob had, only filled with three other blast cores.
Not sure on whether to have a feeling of accomplishment or terror, the bone conduit ran through the woods to get away from the cabin. After a little while of running, she noticed that she did not feel the slightest bit cold, nor did she feel anything at all. Nicky got scared at the thought of staying in this skeleton form, and never being able to change back. She wouldn't be able to go in public without causing a scene, and bringing the authorities attention towards her. She would be nothing but a freak for her whole life if she couldn't control her powers. She thought about it long and hard, trying to figure out a way for her to change back, but then Nicky remembered, she had to run still. That, or else if the D.U.P caught the other conduit, she would be next if she didn't get far enough. While she thought of her next move, there were others planning there's on the other side of the country.
[Switch to Empire City]
The city where it all began those years ago. Empire City, now exists as a wasteland, and the playground of the worst conduits on the East-Coast. A land where power and strength really matter if you want to survive. The weak are treated slaves if they can't find a way out of the this god forsaken place. The city is now ruled by three powerful gangs, the Reapers, the Dust Men, and the Frost Giants. Each gang is led by a powerful conduit, who of which are all led by an even more deadly conduit.
On the top of a tower made out of scraps of metal, are three of the worst conduits to have ever lived. One was a female in her thirties, wearing a tank top and black pants under ice formed as armor on her body. Alongside her in a wheelchair was an old man, who wore a tan colored cloak over dirty clothes, and had legs that were replaced with metal scraps molded into prosthetics. Both were talking with their leader, a very pale male wearing a dirty black jacket and pants. The woman said, "Cole, why aren't we making our move yet?"
The old man said to her, "Patience, damn it?! You know what happened last time we tried to attack their base in Michigan!"
"We're prepared this time, we have more than enough conduit soldiers at our disposal! And I can't quite understand why we have stayed dormant for the past few years!"
The pale man in black formed an angry look on his face, with red and black electricity flowing through his arms. He stared directly at the woman and said. "Kuo, I've told you already, we have to wait for her return. Once she's has gotten enough intel, and brings back some more lost conduits, we'll be able to attack the entire North side of the United States, without any major losses like the time we attacked."
The old man in the wheelchair moved close to Cole, and said, "We'll find that bastard who attacked us. My scouts are hot on his trail, and I've been told he is nearby Las Vegas, in the desert."
"Good, maybe I'll show him a few of my new tricks that I've developed over the years. Now Kuo, have some of your Frost giants the ocean coast. We don't need any more Navy assholes trying to annoy us at the moment."
"Yes Cole." the woman said before she turned to the edge of the building, and changing into a cloud of ice and snow that flew away.
"Now just to wait another god damn eternity,... for her to arrive."
CAJ again, hope you guys like the update to the story. I haven't put in any OC's submitted to me yet, but they're comin'. Short I know, just wish I had more time on my hands. Next one will come out this Sunday, so until then, do the three R's, submit a character, and Peace!