Surrounded by Danger, Blinded by Love
Chp.2
Square Enix owns the Gullwings and many more of the characters. I only own Ignitus, Serene, Farrina, and Valia.
Summary: Ignitus and Serene finally realize they love each other but when something from Ignitus' past returns what will happen to the way Serene feels about him. Rated M for language, gore, and implied lemons. No actual lemons though.
On the Seraph three days later
"Ignitus, have you seen Serene?" Farrina asks as she walks towards him on the bridge.
"She should be on the balcony off my room." I quickly say back making sure to keep the ship on course.
"Why are you two spending so much time together? It is so strange." she asks with a confused look on her face.
"Go ask her, I think she can explain it better than I can." with that she walks off and goes towards my room. When she gets there she finds Serene asleep in the hammock I set up a while back.
"Serene, come on sis you have to get up. It's time we have a talk."
"Farrina, what is it?" Serene asks as she slowly wakes up.
"Why are you and Ignitus so close all of the sudden?"
"Farrina, I told him that I loved him and he loves me back." she says smiling.
"Congratulations sis I'm so glad that you don't have to hide your feelings anymore. If you really love him though there is a talk we need to have."
"Oh god Farrina please don't." she tries to say but gets cut off.
"Both of you get up here right now there is something going on." I announce through the P.A. soon they burst through the door.
"What's going on?" they both yell out as soon as they can. "Take a look at Bevelle." I say bringing up the exterior camera on the ship and on the monitor we all see thousands of machina trying to get into the city.
"Dear god what the hell is happening?" Farrina gasps.
"I don't know but let's get down there."
"We don't have any weapons though." Serene complains as she looks at me with a look of worry.
"Here I made these for just such an occasion." I say handing thief blades to Farrina and a sword to Serene.
The gates of Bevelle
"What's going on?" I scream at a soldier over the roar of the machina.
"Lots and lots of rogue machina."
I nod to the guard and pull out my blade just as a machina makes it through the barrier. It rushes forward and plunges its blade deep into the stomach of the soldier next to me. It stabs him three more time leaving him a bloody corpse and when it stands up I swing my blade and cut off its head. "Come on you two they are machina so they aren't alive but they can kill if we don't stop them." I turn my head towards the barrier and see it fall apart. The machina rush towards us and I take a swing killing a few and I see Farrina take out a few and Serene manages to kill one as well. After three hours of fighting most of the soldiers are dead and I have at least three stab wounds that cut into bone. The two canals on the sides of the bridge are red with blood. There is blood covering anybody that is still alive except for Serene. "Are you guys ok?" I ask as I sheath my blade.
"Yeah we are fine but you aren't." Farrina says grabbing my shoulder and spinning me so she can the cuts on my front. "Oh my god, Ignitus some of your cuts are so deep they cut into the bone." I hear Serene gasp and I see the look of pure horror on her face.
"It's ok Serene, don't worry." I say as I sheath my sword and pick up a piece of a machina. "Can you guys help me gather some pieces, I can use them to make some stuff." they look at me with strange looks and I just start to gather more parts. When we gather enough parts I load them onto the ship and we take off.
On the Seraph
"Ignitus, will you put those damn machina down and come spend some time with me and Serene." Farrina says glaring at me.
"Fine I guess I should probably let this heal." I say turning around and holding up my hand to show her a large cut across it.
"Great, here let me take care of that and then let's go." she says grabbing some bandages from off a shelf and wrapping my hand and then leading me to the bridge. When we reach it she has me sit down and says "Blitzball season starts today." She types something into the computer and the viewing screen comes to life showing the first Blitzball match of the year.
"She knows that she is the only one that likes Blitzball so how about we... Maybe...?" Serene starts to whisper into my ear moving closer to me.
"Sneak off, definitely." I whisper back. When Farrina is distracted by the game I take Serene's hand and lead her towards my room.
"Ignitus I just want you to know that even though I love you I'm not ready for anything this soon." she says quietly looking into my eyes.
"I know that, I just want to spend some time together." I say opening my door and leading her to the balcony. "How about we just lay with each other in the hammock?" I ask smiling.
"Alright." she says as she climbs onto the hammock. I climb up as well and she nuzzles into my chest. "I love you Ignitus."
"I love you too Serene." I say as we both drift off to sleep.
The next day
Serene wakes up and finds a note that say "I will be off ship for a while but when I get back I should be healed up." she starts to cry a little about me leaving without waking her up.
Youth league head quarters
"Nooj, who else is alive from the Crimson Squad?"
"I don't know alright I severed all connections to it as soon as possible." he responds trying to calm me down."You are just gonna have to trust me. Also, you need to stay away for a couple days, we have an operation starting soon and all outsiders are forbidden from being here during it."
"Fine, but I want transport to Djose Temple I have business to take care of there." Nooj agrees and I am soon on my way to Djose temple.
Djose Temple
"E femm keja oui 5000 kem." the Al Bhed man in front of me offers for the machina I built.
"No, sorry, 10,000 kem." I demand wanting more Gil for all my work. He finally agrees and I hand off the machina and collect my Gil. As I walk towards the door a man rushes in and knocks me off my feet. "Watch where the hell you are going!" I yell at him. I stand up and look at him and my eyes go wide. "Your alive, how are you alive?"
"Oh god why the hell are you here?" Gippal asks. He signals for his guards to take hold of me. I see them out of the corner of my eye and when they try to grab me I duck and pull out my sword.
"Well, Gippal, I never thought a hard headed little weasel like you could be successful in anything." I spit out at him.
"Fro oui meddma pycdynt!" he yells punching me in the stomach. My sword drops and the guards grab me forcing me to my knees.
"E femm vilgehk gemm ymm oui frehao meddma pedlrc!" I scream breaking the arms of the guards holding me and grabbing my sword. I feel an Al Bhed put a gun to my head and I freeze. "firega." I whisper trying to use magic for the first time in years. Fire begins to swirl around me and everyone backs away. I start to lose control and the fire soon dissipates but I am gone by the time it does.
On the Seraph
"Serene, we need to have that talk now." Farrina says confronting Serene while she is laying on the hammock again.
"What is it sis because if you are gonna talk about me and Ignitus you don't need to I already know what I am gonna do."
"Fine, just don't do anything you are gonna regret." she says in a typical older sister kind of tone.
Three days later
I sneak back onto the ship with my wounds completely healed. I make my way up to my room and I hear crying coming from it. I slowly open the door and find Serene curled up on my bed clutching a picture of me. "Serene, I am back."
"Ignitus thank god you're back I have been so worried." she cries out rushing to me and hugging me close.
"Please don't cry anymore there is nothing to worry about. Come on let's get you back to your room, I love you but you need your rest." I walk with her to her room and give her a kiss and wish her goodnight. I walk back to my room and get in bed. Three hours later I hear a knock on my door "Come in." I say laying back. In walks Serene in just a short robe and she walks towards me.
"Ignitus I can't sleep can we lay together and talk." I agree and let her under the covers.
"So what do you want to talk about?" I ask as I feel her press up against me.
"Actually, I was just hoping we could do this." she says grabbing my head and kissing me. I kiss back and hold her close.
"Serene, do you think you are ready?" I ask as I look into her eyes.
"Yes my love." she says pressing her body tightly against mine.
The next day
I wake up and see Serene laying next to me with her robe on the ground. "Wow, I guess that wasn't a dream." I say pulling her closer. I give her a kiss and slowly climb out of bed to start my work for the day. When I'm dressed I sneak out of my room and make my way to the bridge.
"Ignitus, where is Serene I have been looking for her everywhere?"
"She is asleep, don't bother her ok?" I say looking at where she was standing but she is already heading towards Serene's room. "Oh no, she will figure out what happened." I whisper to myself as I bolt towards the door to try and stop her. When I make it to Serene's room she isn't there so I run towards my room.
"What the hell is this!" I hear Farrina scream from my room. I run into it and find Farrina, shocked at the scene, looking at her sister with her robe on the floor covering herself with the blankets on my bed. "Ignitus you dumb bastard I'll kill you." Farrina screams turning around and she punches me in the same spot I was hit a few days ago. Serene grabs her robe slides it on under the covers and the jumps up and grabs her arm.
"Farrina, please don't hurt him it was my idea." she begs her.
"Fine but if you hurt her at all I will break every bone in your body, Ignitus."
"I'm ok with that because I would never hurt her." I say smiling as Serene walks to me and hugs me. "How about you go get your stuff and start moving in here while I check on the ship."
"Ok, my love." she says as she walks out of my room and Farrina follows her. I walk to my desk and check the ship to find a message sent to me that says.
"Du, Ignitus
Saad sa eh Besaid.
vnus, cusauha cbaleym du oui." my eyes go wide and I immediately run to Farrina and drag her to my room.
"When did you teach her Al Bhed ,that is something I should have been the one to do?"
"Ignitus, she doesn't know Al Bhed, I never taught her."
"Well then who sent this to me. The only people I actually know are you and Serene."
"Well then let's find out who it is."
Besaid
"Serene lets go you can finish moving your stuff later." I yell from the bridge as me and Farrina prepare to go off ship.
"Ok, ok calm down I'm coming down now." she says and when she sees us with our weapons she says "I thought this was just a small stop on the side not a sphere hunt."
"We are here to meet someone, I don't know what they look like so let's hope they know what I look like." I say handing her the sword I made for her. We disembark and walk onto the beach.
"Ignitus promise me that when we are done here we can spend a day here."
"Deal, because after all I do owe you for dragging you along for this." we all walk towards the village and when we step into the jungle we are ambushed by coyotes. I am taking up the rear and one rushes up to me and bites at the back of my leg. "What the hell." I say in pain as it brings me to the ground. Its jaws are less than a finger length from my throat and I grab it and snap its neck. "Ambush!" I scream to the others as I pick myself up off the ground. Three coyotes jump at them but Farrina pulls out her blades and rips them apart. Serene swings her sword cutting down the third. I catch up to them and say "Ok let's hurry up and get to the village as fast as we can." they agree and we walk slowly to the village stopping twice to rest the leg that got ripped up.
In the village
"Daddy!" we hear someone scream as we enter the village. Suddenly a young girl runs up to me and almost tackles me with a hug.
"Daddy?" I hear Farrina and Serene ask at the same time.
"Valia, is it really you, how have you been. You've changed so much."
"Again, Daddy?" I hear them ask again.
"Oh yeah, Serene, Farrina this is Valia, I knew her a long time ago."
"Ignitus, when we're you gonna tell me you had a daughter?" Serene asks. "You said the only person you ever were in love with was Me."
"Serene, it's not what you think ok. I basically raised her as my daughter but she isn't actually related to me."
"You are still daddy to me." Valia says hugging me tighter. When she does the pressure on my leg is too much and I fall to the ground.
"Ignitus!"
"Daddy!"
"It's ok you two, but let's continue this conversation on the Seraph." I say as Valia let's go and I stand up.
"Definitely." Farrina agrees and we all walk back to the ship.
On the Seraph
"So how long has it been since you two saw each other last?" Farrina asks as Serene sits there glaring at Valia with a look of slight anger.
"I was seven when he had to leave. He took me to Besaid but I ran away to try and find him. I almost did too, I saw you running with him at Home three years ago."
"What were you doing in the Bikanel desert you were only 9." I say looking worried. "Also, why would you leave Besaid, Wakka and Lulu were treating you like you were their daughter."
"I missed you, I was seven and you were the only person that ever showed me any true love." she says hugging me and starting to cry.
"It's ok, you don't have to be alone anymore you can stay with us here on the Seraph." I say looking towards Serene and Farrina for approval. Farrina agrees but Serene gives me a look that shows she wants to talk about it first. "Valia you stay here with Farrina, me and Serene need to talk for a minute."
"Alright daddy." she says in the sweetest voice. I stand up and walk with Serene. When we are in her old room she turns around and says "When we're you gonna tell me about this?"
"Alright I know I should have but I wasn't thinking I would see her again until she was older and she wouldn't need me. Now that she is here she is staying whether you agree or not."
"Fine but where is she gonna sleep it's not like we have any extra room."
"She had really bad nightmares when I last saw her so she may ask to sleep in our bed. I would prefer for her to do so if she wants then to have her be scared to go back to sleep."
"No I don't care what happens she is not sleeping in our bed."
"For now how about she sleeps in here."
"Fine, but I'm only agreeing to this because I love you."
"I love you too and when she is settling in I want to talk to you and Farrina."
3 hours later
"Ok she's getting settled in what did you want to talk to us about." Farrina asks sitting down next to Serene.
"Before I say anything I want you to promise that you will listen to everything I have to say before you respond."
"Why are you saying that?" Serene asks.
"Because what I want to tell you isn't something you will like at first."
"Fine what is it." they both say.
"Back when I was young I worked in the black market smuggling weapons and being a hit man, what I didn't tell you was that I also went to slave auctions." I say looking ashamed. They both stare at me eyes wide. "Every time I went I watched as people that should be free we're sold into slavery. One day I went to one not knowing what was going to happen, when they brought out the slaves it was only girls most of which weren't even 18, they were to be sold as slaves for men to use. The final person they brought out made my heart feel like it was being ripped apart. It was a 4 year old girl that the slavers had been abusing. As soon as I saw her my mind was set on winning her in the auction and giving her a chance at a decent life. Even though it was the first time I had participated I won the auction and they brought me to the back room to get her. She had fallen asleep, I picked her up and she woke up and saw me and called me daddy. I spent millions of gil but it was worth it. I renamed that little girl Valia and I raised her as my daughter." I say as I start to cry silently.
"Ignitus, what you did was not wrong in any way. You saved a little girl from a life of being forced by some horrible man." Farrina says as she brushes tears away from her eyes.
"I knew you were kind but I didn't know you were willing to give up part of your life for a child you didn't even know." Serene says hugging me.
"Now do you understand why she has nightmares?"
"I am gonna go talk to her about something ok my love." Serene says kissing my cheek and walking towards Valia's new room.
"Valia sweetie can we talk?" she says knocking on the door.
"Do you want to talk to me about me being here." she asks looking up at her.
"Valia I was wondering if you would like to spend the night in my bed tonight?"
"I thought I was sleeping in your bed tonight." she says looking at the bed in the room.
"No sweetie I mean sleeping in the same bed as me and Ignitus."
"I would love to." she says smiling. "Serene can I ask you something."
"Sure sweetie what is it."
"Are you and daddy married?"
"Not yet but I hope he will ask soon." Serene responds looking at the small child in front of her and thinking about what would happen to her.
"Ok then and where is daddy."
"How about we go find him." she says leading her along.
"Ignitus, both me and Valia want to talk to you." she says walking onto the bridge.
"Ok but it will have to wait I have to go off ship right now." I say grabbing my sword and all my gear, there is a large bag sitting on the table next to me.
"Daddy I thought you said you weren't gonna leave again." Valia whines grabbing my arm to try and stop me.
"Valia, come on sweetie he needs to do his work but I can guarantee that he will be back within the next couple of days but while he's gone we can get to know each other more." Serene explains and I look her in the eyes with a thankful look. I stop the Seraph above and grab the bag sling it over my shoulder and dive off the ship.
Mt. Gagazet ruins
"Alright you guys I'm on the top safely and I am heading into the ruins I will be out of radio contact for a while. Just make sure you are back within 24 hours or we could have some serious problems." I say through my headset as I check my bag and begin my trek through the ruins. I walk for 5 hours straight until I find what I'm looking for. I set the bag on the ground and begin to unpack it. As I unpack the giant machine I remember using it to excavate ore in some underground ruins in the Bikanel desert. "Let's hope I remembered how to put this together the right way." I say turning it on and pushing it against the wall of the ruins. I let the machine do its work while I set up a warning system to let me know about anything that's coming towards me. About three hours after starting the machine I hear my warning system start and I grab my blade off the ground. "Stop, state your purpose." I yell out to the intruder.
"You are trespassing on the holy ground of the Ronso tribe. Leave at once and take your hellish machina with you." I hear a Ronso say back walking closer to me. As soon as I see him he pulls out a halberd and I hold my blade at the ready. "I am Toron, a warrior of the proud Ronso and you are going to die." he says calmly. I see him extend his arms and feel my body pulse.
"Shift blade." I say as my sword glows and I feel it become lighter but also become more powerful.
"Shift blade." I hear Toron mimic. I realize he had used lancet to copy my signature attack. I swipe at him catching his halberd as he backs away. I feel his halberd come up and slice my face and feel the warm salty blood flow from the open wound. I realize I have to end this now so I grab a knife off my belt and throw it at him. I watch as the blade sinks into his forehead. I hear the machine finish its job so I quickly grab my knife and put it back on my belt. I pack up the machine and remove what I had set it up to retrieve. I run for hours trying to get out of the ruins and as soon as I get into range I start to contact the Seraph.
"Come in Seraph. I need an immediate evac." I scream through the head set.
"We read you loud and clear give us three minutes and you will be back on board." I hear Farrina say.
"No rush or anything but you have about one minute before I pass out from blood lose." I threaten so that they hurry.
On the Seraph
I set the bag down on the table and stand there panting and as I hear the door open I turn around to see Farrina with her medical supplies.
"Where are Serene and Valia I don't want them to see this." I ask as she sits me down.
"Don't worry Valia fell asleep waiting for you and she refused to sleep alone so she is curled up next to Serene and the last time I checked she was asleep too." she explains as she wipes the blood from my face and bandages my cheek.
"Good because I also want to show you something." I say as I pull out the ore I excavated.
"Oh my god that is absolutely beautiful." she gasps as I pull out a stone the length of my sword that has the beauty of diamonds but is twice as strong.
"I have three plans for this. First I'm gonna use part of it to reinforce my blade, then I will use some of it to create a pendant for Valia." I say trying to hide my nervousness.
"What is the third thing?" she asks as she packs up her medical gear.
"I am gonna make earrings for Serene, and I will keep the rest for when I need it." I explain standing up and walking towards the work area in the maintenance bay. Three hours later I walk onto the bridge to see Valia watching Serene and Farrina playing sphere break. They all look over and Serene and Valia both gasp when they see my face. "Valia, come here I have something to give you." I say as she walks over and I kneel down to eye level with her. "I made this for you do you never have to be alone again. Whenever you feel alone or scared just hold this tight and everything will be fine." I say handing her a pendant I made from the ore I excavated.
"Oh, thank you daddy, thank you, thank you, thank you." she says hugging me tight. I stand up after she lets me go and I ask Serene to come over.
"Serene these are for you." I say handing her a box. She opens them and finds the earrings I made.
"Ignitus, they are so beautiful thank you." she says giving me a deep kiss.
"Your welcome. So, what did you want to talk about?" I ask.
"I just wanted to tell you that Valia will be sleeping with us for a couple of days until she gets used to being on the ship." Serene explains.
"Alright, of course she is always welcome. Now, Valia you wanted to talk to me about something."
"Can we talk in your room daddy its kinda private." she asks in a tone that nobody can say no to. I take her hand and we walk to my room and when we get there she sits down on the edge of the bed and asks, "Daddy, am I ever gonna have a mommy to love me too?"
"What makes you asks that?" I ask shocked at her confidence.
"I have seen the way you look at Serene and I wish I could call her my mommy." she says.
"I don't know sweetie, maybe but for now let's just focus on the fact that we are together again." I say holding her close.
The next day
I wake up and find Valia in between me and Serene. I sneak out of bed and land the ship on the beaches of Besaid. I walk back into my room and gently wake them up and say "Serene are you ready for that beach day I promised you?"
"Oh Ignitus good morning, I can't wait I was hoping you would ask soon." she says stretching out on the bed accidentally bumping Valia and waking her up.
"Good morning daddy, good morning Serene." Valia says happily with a tired smile.
"Come on Valia get ready we are all spending a day at the beach." I say glancing over at Serene seeing her grateful smile. I leave the girls to get ready as I pilot the ship back to Besaid.
Besaid
"You three go on ahead, I need to do something real quick." I call out. I rush to the maintenance bay and grab a bag off the counter. I run back to the bridge and jump down to the beach completely skipping the twenty foot ladder. I sling the bag over my shoulder and head over to the cliffs. I jump up and walk along the edge until I see a small private beach. I jump down to it and open the bag setting everything out. When I'm done I follow the same route to get back and see all three of them sitting on the pier. "Who wants to go in the water?" I say.
"Not yet I'm gonna tan first." Farrina says but when I see how close she is to the edge of the pier I can't pass up the chance so I give her a small push.
"Ignitus, I'll kill you!" she yells climbing back onto the pier. She runs towards me so I dive into the water.
"Wait I think there is a sphere down there." I say looking under the pier.
"Really, well go get it." Serene says with a smile as she jumps into the water. I dive under and pick up the sphere. When I come up I toss the sphere onto the pier and climb up alongside it.
"Ok we are gonna check this out later but for now you all earned this day off." I say drying off the sphere and myself. Several hours later Farrina and Valia are splashing around in the water while me and Serene sit on the sand. "Well it looks like I will never have to look far for someone to look after Valia." I joke putting my arm around Serene's shoulder.
"Yeah well you do realize how much Valia reminds her of me when I was young. She told me that last night."
"Well at least Valia finally has something that resembles a family. Actually can you come with me I have something to show you?" I ask taking her hand and leading her to the private beach.
"Oh my god, Ignitus its wonderful." she says kissing me as she sees the picnic I set up. We sit down and eat our meal and when we finish I pack everything up and kneel in front of Serene. "Serene, will you marry me?" I ask nervously opening a box and presenting a ring made of the ore I excavated.
"Of course I will." she says. I put the ring on her finger then stand up hug her and give her a deep kiss. We walk back to the ship and when we get back Farrina and Valia are waiting for us and the first one to notice the ring is Valia.
"Daddy, are you the reason Serene is wearing that?" she asks looking at the ring.
"Oh my god congratulations you two!" Farrina says as she runs to Serene hugging her tightly.
"This is one of the happiest days of my life. Second only to the first time we told each other we love each other." Serene says looking at the ring.
"Not to ruin the moment or anything but I will let you three talk about this while I go check on that sphere." I say kissing her quickly and then walking over to the sphere and walking towards my room. When I reach my room I set up the sphere and press play on the console.
The Den of Woe 3 years ago
"Ignitus, you are the one who set up most of the Crimson Squad. Why did you do this?" Nooj asks holding a knife to my throat. "Paine, Gippal, Baralai, and me. How could you betray us all."
"Hahahaha I am the only one of us that has any actual importance to the Crimson Squad." I say laughing like a mad man. I knock the blade away from my neck and pull a dagger out of my stomach slashing at his face "What's wrong Nooj I thought you were tough?"
"I would die before I let you leave this place!" he screams at me throwing a knife at me. I catch it and squeeze the blade cutting deep into my hand.
"You really think you can stop me with this." I say flinging the blade to the ground. Nooj charges me and I swing my sword cutting off his leg. "You idiotic little weakling why do you have such a misguided notion that you are strong enough to harm me?" I say grabbing his head and slamming his face into the wall. He collapses unconscious on the ground. I turn and feel a blade slice across my face. I see Paine collapse on the ground again. I walk towards the exit and toss a smoke canister behind me. "Good bye weaklings the Crimson Squad never had any use for you and neither do I. Now you will never remember what happened today." I smile watching the gas fill the room and laugh like a mad man.
The Seraph
"The sphere isn't even worth looking at." I lie while walking onto the bridge.
"Ignitus I will be the judge of that." Farrina says grabbing the sphere.
"I said it's useless!" I bark back grabbing it from her.
"Ignitus it may be useless to you because you might not understand it, we might understand what you don't." she yells.
"I said it's useless." I scream reaching for the knife on the table next to me.
"Ignitus, stop this right now!" Serene screams as she starts to cry.
"I will not let this sphere be seen again." I say turning around and looking towards Serene. She sees the look on my face and starts to cry harder running from the room. I look back at Farrina and say "You don't touch this or next time not even Serene will be able to stop me." I turn and go after Serene smiling at Valia as I pass her. "Serene, we need to talk." I say when I reach our room.
"Ignitus, you just pulled a knife on Farrina in front of both me and Valia. It doesn't matter what's on that sphere you shouldn't have even thought of doing anything like that."
"What's on this sphere is something that will make you never want to be around me again." I say, my entire body shaking as I try and keep control of myself.
"If you don't show it to me then I can't marry you, no matter how much I love you." she says sobbing quietly.
"Fine, I will show you and Farrina after Valia goes to bed. However, right now I can't be on the ship."
"Fine, I will come get you when Valia is asleep." An hour later I am deep enough into the jungle to begin my plan. I finally release all the pent up magic energy that has built up in my body. I scream loudly, my skin feeling as if it is being burned off. Finally the pain subside, I grab my sword and feel the ore inside it start to resonate.
"I need to kill something." I say as I walk off in search of a fiend. I wander through the jungle and suddenly a large clawed hand lands in front of me. I swing my sword not even blinking and cut the fiends leg. The fiend turns its head towards me and I feel its teeth sink into my side. I slice the fiend's neck and when I feel it let go I start to walk through the jungle completely ignoring the large bite that covers most of my side. I stumble into view of the ship just as Serene comes out to find me. "Serene, tell Farrina to get her medical gear." I somehow manage to say as I collapse onto the ground. I wake up the next day with bandages covering my wounds and I stand up and walk into the bridge. "You three are gonna have to realize that just leaving me on the table won't keep me there. If you want me to stay laying down you will have to find some other way." I say smiling lightly.
"It was mostly the amount of blood you lost but if you don't stop letting yourself get hurt you won't last long." Farrina says coldly giving me an icy glare after I pulled a knife on her.
"Valia can you give us some privacy. I will come get you when we are done." I ask.
"No daddy you pulled a knife on Farrina and I want to know why. You said you would stop doing that to people." she complains with a look that even I don't understand.
"Fine but I was hoping none of you would have to see this." I say setting up the sphere and sitting down to let them see it. I watch their reactions as they see me almost kill four people.
"Ignitus how could you possibly do this?" Farrina asks with the same look of horror as Serene and Valia.
"Before I saved Valia I was able to use magic more often but whenever I do I lose control and either it dissipates or it grows and grows until it engulfs everything. When I found her I stopped using magic and discovered that I could hold the power of it inside of me. When I do that I am driven more and more insane every day. Yesterday when I left and went into the jungle I finally released three years worth of magic energy. The effect that holding that much energy in had on me was why I pulled the knife. It's also why I was like that on the sphere. I hadn't had a chance to discharge the energy in about three and a half years." I explain.
"Ignitus you will sleep somewhere else tonight and we will discuss this more tomorrow." Serene demands with a look on her face that says she is hurt the most by having to do this. I look at the time and see that it was actually late afternoon.
"Good night to all of you." I say as I set up a cot in the bridge. When everyone is asleep I sneak into my room and grab all of my gear. Putting it on I walk back onto the bridge.
The next morning
"Serene, Valia come here you need to see this." Farrina screams from the bridge. Serene rushes into the bridge to see my belt with my Seraph insignia on it pinned to the table with a note next to it.
"Good bye, your life will be better now."