Chapter 4: Improved part 2

Viktor woke up in the middle of the day to the sound of glass being broken. He rushed out of the room and headed straight into the lab. To greet his sight was the girl we was augmenting, now fully healed in record time she stood in the fore of the lab like a newborn baby she was nude as her crimson hair hid her breasts from complete view.

Though Viktor felt intrigued that she looked different. Her hair was black instead of red and her eyes seemed to have a bright purple glow. Her body was covered in a blackish aura that to Viktor...seemed to give off a feeling of both rage and fear.

She stood their floating effortlessly off the ground in a beam of black light around her, almost like a black angel. Though when Viktor really studied his feeling and how the energy around the girl reacted and looked, It wasn't that far off from something that he felt around the champion Velkoz or more precisely...the prophet himself. He would eventually look into this when he was finished with her augments. Viktor stepped into the room but stood on a shard of broken glass. As he looked around he realized that the glass came from the rejuvenation tank. The girl heard the glass shift and came out of the trance like state, floating to the ground like a graceful feather. The black aura around the girl seemed to slowly dissipate as she descended.

Her feet touched the almost clean ground as her naked skin hit the cold damp floor. She turned to face Viktor slowly as he seemed to be pierced by her glowing purple eyes. The girl seemed to have collapsed on Viktor's chest after she approached him, her black hair turned back to it's natural red colour as she rested unconscious on his chest. Viktor could tell that the girl was going to be quite tired as replacing human body parts with techmaturgy appliances drains a large amount of natural energy from the subject. Her body now needed to recover the energy it needed to adjust to its new body parts.

Feeling no attraction to her nudity, he simply scooped her into his arms and placed her on the lab table. He would then grab a clean cloth and clean off the excess fluid from the tank then place her in the bed to rest. Viktor then immediately started to work on the final part for augmentation he wanted to give her exoskeletal wings to allow for superior movement.

Seven hours had passed and the girl woke up. As she looked around she realized that she had no idea where she was. She didn't recognise anything, so she got out of the bed and walked around. Realizing she was completely nude after leaving the bed, she grabbed the bed sheet and used it to wrap herself. She opened the door to the hallway, slowly making her way closer and closer to the sound coming from one of the room. The sound resembled that of Metal banging against metal and it wouldn't be long until she reached the open pathway. She silently made her way up to the open path and looked inside. To her eyes she saw several pieces of equipment, a table, metal everywhere a tank that had a broken glass and a man working. Not knowing anything about what's going on she called out hoping that the person is at least friendly.

"Um...hello?" She spoke in a soft yet docile tone. Viktor could hear her though and turned to look at her. The girl jumped back at the sight of him, the mask alone made him look menacing and instilled fear into her.

The man slowly approached her putting down the hammer he was working with. The girl backed herself up against the wall. "Why are you frightened?" He asked her. Viktor looked at her and then said. "What do you think of your arm?"

She looked down at her hands seeing that one of them was completely mechanical. it was more than that, it felt like her own arm, but different, Viktor noticed the expression on her face going from scared to horror and started to explain. "I see you're not to fond of it, though it's not my best work as I had to use whatever I could find in this wreck to bring you back to life."

This caught her attention. "B-bring me back to l-life?" She questioned. "What...what happened to me?" She asked.

Viktor was confused, but interested. "Do you not remember?" He asked.

"No…" She responded. "Was I in an accident? I don't remember." She received a flashing image of a person cloaked in shadow then it quickly disappeared,

"Hmmm…" Viktor went. "It seems that you've lost your memories, what is your name?" Viktor wanted to see how much she remembered.

"Me? I'm R-Reina, Reina Kissryil." She hesitated.

"Are you sure?" He asked in a firm tone.

"Yes, my name is Reina."

"Good. OK now how old are you?" Viktor wanted more results, the fact that she lost her memories was new to him.

"I'm Eighteen." She responded firmly.

"Alright...come into the lab I'd like to run some tests." Viktor guided her into the lab and asked her to take a seat, he then pulled out a flat looking item that gave off a light when he touched it.

"Alright Reina, where were you born?" He continued.

Reina opened her mouth but couldn't form anything to say.

"..." Viktor was silent. "Take your time."

"...I…" She paused. "I don't know...I can't remember."

"Well this is troublesome." He responded as he inputted something on the device in his hand.

"Any friends? Family?" He pried.

"..." She sat silent again for a few long seconds. "Nothing, I can't remember…"

Viktor looked at her then started to explain how he found her and what he did to her body. he also let her know of the power within her that he can't explain yet. Because Reina had nowhere else to go, she stayed with Viktor. Eventually he completed her design and her wings worked perfectly.

Eventually two years passed and Reina learned how to control the weapons in the augments that Viktor gave her. Overtime Viktor would do improvements on them making them much better than they were. Though something in Viktor changed over that time. He grew closer to Reina, started caring for her, thinking of her like the daughter he never had. Though he always denied these feelings, they weren't disliked.

"Father?" Reina spoke to Viktor.

Viktor stopped his work to take a break when he heard her call for him. He put his tools down. Deciding to take a small break and possibly have a conversation with his new companion.

"Something you need Reina?" He asked in his usual firm tone.

"Well…" She paused for a bit. She didn't know much about Viktor even though two years had passed since she'd been living with him, asking about someone's past is always a radical and often a touchy subject. "Well, I've been having dreams…"

Viktor seemed to have perked up at this. He immediately grabbed the device to record her words. He sat down in front of her, it was almost like an interview.

"I need to record this for research purposes." He stated. "Now tell me everything." He encouraged.

Reina explained to him how she's been seeing a weapon dropped in Ionian clothing wielding a strange blade. She explained how it seemed like that woman an herself seemed like really close friends or perhaps even sister-like.

This prompted Viktor to dig deeper. "Hmm...a woman with a strange blade." Viktor had a good idea who she Kent. Seeing as Reina had mentioned that the woman was dressed in eastern type clothes he knew it could only be one person. Needless to say the two of them weren't exactly on good terms.

"There's something else…" She looked at Viktor with sad eyes, but she wasn't crying. "There was man. No...two men." She corrected. "One of them...I didn't get a good look at him...but he wore a hoodie his eyes seemed to glow and his voice…". Viktor listened attentively. The room was quiet, so quiet that the smallest noise would feel like it would shake the room.

"The other man...I don't know why. But whenever I had this dream...and I saw the other man, it felt like I knew him. I cried every time I saw him and in my dream I would reach out to his corpse. It felt like...I can't explain it. Like a part of me was missing, just seeing him there. Lifeless…"

Reina started to hug herself tightly as she tucked her head between her forearms. Viktor held her hand letting her know that he's there and that she's safe. But He wasn't satisfied.

"The voice of the man with the glowing eyes. His did his voice sound?" The moment he asked that question the gadgetry in his mask went haywire as he could see that amount of dark energy flowing from Reina's body. Again just like before he felt pain, anguish, fear and rage. But more rage than usual. It was as if the energy within Reina was feeding off of her own emotions making itself stronger.

"Dual-toned." She responded. Viktors mouth dropped as he heard her answer. What Reina told him wasn't a dream, it was memory. A very detailed and vivid memory of her past before he had found her and possibly a past that makes her, very, very dangerous. Viktor had thought that he had forgotten what fear felt like. But after seeing and feeling her energy up close he felt fear like a human would. Though he felt like he shouldn't tell her about it. He felt like he needed to protect her and he had an idea for it.

After recording her words he placed the device on the table nearby and turned his to back to her. "Reina...I have a way to try to help you remember your past. But it involves travel." He told her.

"Please allow me to try!" She said eagerly.