The portal closes right after he jumps in, the room returning to its original state. Silvia spins in the portal, skidding face first into a darkened room. Silvia slowly stands up, brushing herself off. The pain from the fall flooding her senses, leaving a throbbing sensation on her body.
"Azure?" She asks the darkness, only for no reply. Shaking, she lifts her hand to bring up a light spell. A small orb of light hovers in her hand, revealing a door and a chair and table. Each made of a cold metal that matched the temperature of the room. Lowering her hand, she slowly turned the doorknob, pulling the door out just enough so she could peep her head through. Silvia squinted as her eyes adjusted to the brightly lit hallway, only to find no one outside. She extinguished the light as she closed the door behind her.
"Where the hell am I?" She asked herself. She looked up and down the hallway one last time before taking a left, starting at a sprint. Her heart ran a mile a minute, just like her thoughts. The last thing she remembered was being with Azure and looking at an alternate universe. That's when the spell went crazy.
Was that what this was? The futuristic universe that she had peered into? There was only one way to find out.
She reached a crossroads, where a sign was located. On it showed a layout of the floor, and where she was in location to the building. Labeled at the side were the rooms and who was in them. Silvia stopped to catch her breath, reading the sign. Just as she was tracing the route from which she came with her finger, she heard footsteps approaching. Silvia frantically looked around for a place to hide, but no rooms were in sight. The echoing of the footsteps grew louder, and so was the pounding of her heart against her chest. Suddenly, she remembered her semblance and went invisible, just as the officials walked by. They were both in lab coats, glasses sported on the bridges of their noses.
"Did you hear about A-704?" The brunette male asked.
"No, what about him?" His comrade asked back.
"He's less cooperative than usual. His team was captured and eliminated, as well."
"About time. They were vigilantes who needed to be put down."
Silvia's head popped up at the mention of the team. One of the ladies in the vision had said that about Azure. She carefully followed them.
"Agreed. I think the boss made the decision to put him down as well."
The blonde laughed. "Why? He could give us some well needed information."
"The boss has all the information she needs. Plus, she has her ways of getting it."
Silvia tightened her hands into fists. She needed to know where he was. Using her semblance to her advantage, she snuck up behind the blonde.
"She's crazy. I would never be able to go into those splinter cells and get that info like she does. I don't know ho-" He stopped mid-sentence, gasping for air.
"Are you okay?" The brunette faced him, out of concern.
Silvia's semblance dropped just as the blonde lost consciousness, slumping to the floor.
"How'd you get in here? Securi-" He was intercepted by Silvia's punch to the chest, making him lose his breath. She pushed him against the wall, arm propped against his throat.
"Tell me where this patient is," she commands quietly.
"H-He's in room 598. Please don't hurt me," He pleaded.
"Oh, I won't." She backed away, letting him regain his breath. Right as he turned to run away, she used a spell to knock him out. He barely made it to the floor before Silvia caught him. She dragged both of them into a nearby room and locked it from the inside. Shrugging the stolen lab coat on her body and pushing the rim of the glasses up the bridge of her nose, she hurried back to the map to locate Room 598. Once she found it, Silvia hurried to the nearest staircase and bolted up.
What had happened to this world's Azure? Did he get caught committing some heinous crimes similar to that of her Azure's?
Where was her Azure, anyway? That is, if she could call him her's. Her mind flashed back to when the portal had sucked her in. He tried to help her, only when she called out for help. Did he jump in after her? Or was he still at her apartment, trying to find a way to reverse the spell? Most likely the latter, she thought.
Azure was unorthodox, to say the least. One minute, he'd be laughing about his own jokes. The next, he'd be dead serious about a mission he would be going on. When they had dated, and even now he was prosaic. But things changed. He left her, causing her emotional strife for months. Four years later and he was still the same guy, just more reclusive. He always hid his emotions, and only once had he revealed to her his true emotions, if she could call it that. He could read her like an open book, but Silvia couldn't even skim his opening statement. Did he jump in after her? Would Azure, the somewhat candid, yet unhinged assassin, come after her, just another girl in his life?
Silvia knew the answer, and it was no. Azure never risked his life for anyone, that she was certain about. Sure, he'd give his life for a cause he believed in. But to lay down the life he had little faith in for someone who may or may not have meant something to him was another story. After all the drama they'd been through, she knew he wouldn't trust her again, let alone try to save her life.
Silvia reached the top of the steps, rushing into floor 5. She scanned the map at the top of the steps and kept mental track of where she was before marching her way to the room. Even if he was in another universe, and even if he still wanted nothing to do with her, Silvia would still save him. Every single time.
She reached the end of a dimly lit hallway, with the numbers 598 embellished in a polished silver. Taking a breath that didn't calm her down in the slightest, she carefully opened the door and slipped inside.
In front of her was a girl, probably the one from the vision, with three other assistants. Silvia activated her semblance, sneaking towards the glass wall in the front of the room. When she got there, she had to do everything she could to stop herself from screaming his name.