Vantier a Whateley Tale.....Ancient and Powerful Vantier awakens in a
foreign world, struggling to find her place in it.
In this chapter....Kyley Settles in Whateley and deals with some of her
inner demons
NOTE that this chapter Kyley talks over the subject of attempted
suicide.
So if that subject bothers you? You might want to stop on this one?
He is saved from the death of his race and planet....to start all over
again....but can she survive?
A human high school and being a teenager? Will she remember what was?
And grow in power?
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Friday August 31 2007 6:40 am
Whateley Academy
Poe cottage
Once the morning fully arrives I get up and dress in one of my backless
shirts made for flying! I am just at my door, when Night flies back in
the room and perches on the beds footing.
~"Well you where out all night? Have fun?"~ I ask the old bird.
~"Yes...and you have to get out there and see the area around here soon!
As there seems to be some form of 'grove' with a large population of Fae
creatures in it near here? You might want to seek them out?"~ She
informs me.
~"I will...now back in!"~ I order her.
She vanishes with a pop and I walk out the door. As I leave Poe, I see
the 'flag' is red today 'SHOOT no flying!' my mind screams, me stuck
walking till it changes! Very mad, I then WALK! toward crystal hall to
get some breakfast.
When I get inside and hop in line. My taste today, goes for my standard
'sample box' of food and get 'KK' a large order of pancakes with other
small sides. A swipe for all of it and the check out lady even notes,
that I am getting food for a kid in Doyle without question?
Now with bags full of supplies, I head over to Doyle. Once in I wave at
the nurse on duty and go straight to KK's room. I wave at her, as I come
in "Hey how's the morning so far?" I ask with a grin.
I feel from her not so much 'joy?' but she is good in all counts, no
real sadness comes off her. As she says "So far? its good? I want my own
room....I guess? This place sucks!"
"Well, I will see what we can get done? But here is breakfast for ya." I
announce, as I drop the bags on her table.
She tears open the bag, pulls out the top box and looks inside. "Ohh
pancakes....yummy! I am not even going to ask how you know this is one
of my fav's!"
"I got....evil minions in my employ! That's how" I boast.
She laughs at me "It should be....I have got evil minions.." she then
takes out my box and looks inside it "What gives?....with this?" she
adds somewhat shocked at its contents.
"I don't eat so much?" I say to her, as my hand takes the offered box.
"So? you got some kind of eating disorder?...or something?" she asks.
"I told you.....not human. I don't need food to live...I 'eat' in other
ways?" I say more then embarrassed.
"So....how?"
"Please lets talk of this later....out of hearing?" She nods back to me
her understanding.
I open my box and start to nibbling. She on the other hand, digs in with
gusto "So was last night okay? As my night got disturbed" I ask her.
"Its so boring here" she says between large mouthfuls. I notice that she
is eating like....a male still. 'looks like that part in her, has not
changed much? So we are both in the same boat? I guess' My thoughts
wonder off. "But what happened?" she asks with a large gulp of food.
"Well it seems one of the girls on my floor...let her disguise slip and
it freaked out her roommate? I can understand it...you go...bed
with....girl ten feet away and wake to...dragon hatchling in that
bed...can be a shock for a human?" I say while popping a strawberry in
my mouth.
I feel a wave of shock and confusion come off 'KK' "What?..... A
dragon...here!"
"That's not normal?" I ask her confused, that its not?
She shakes her head 'NO' to me "NOPE!"
"Well it is back home...so I just assumed its normal here?" I asked,
somewhat confused at this new idea.
"No Kyley they are not 'normal' in the least! AND where in the heck are
you from that....that having a dragon in the same room is...normal?" she
asks me, more than confused.
"Home is.....gone" is all I say softly.
"Gone? what....gone?" she asks, putting down her fork and looking at me.
"Just....gone. Its no more....and that was very long ago." I sit there,
just thinking 'What do I say?...'
'KK' moves the table aside and wraps me in a hug "So you have 'loss'
too? But your not trying to 'off' yourself" I hug her back ...but all I
can think is 'yet?'...."So I am going to try to get and do better!" she
finally whispers.
During that...nice hug she says "Hey...I need this and you do too!" Then
she lets go of me.
We just start going back to talking and eating... and what classes to
take when a nurse walks in. She sees me and 'KK' sitting there and I
feel her get mad....at me!
"What is this? You brought in a knife, to a patent in this condition?
Are you stupid?" she asks and yells at me.
"NO! I am far from stupid!" I bark back...'silly mortal...this one is in
my 'care'! drives through my thoughts.
"Well I am going to have to take that" and she starts to walk over to
us.
"No 'KK' is fine, she is eating with it. AND if you take it, what is she
going to use to cut that food with?" I ask her. "Besides its so
dull...it would take one...near forever to kill ones self with it?"
'KK' then says flatly, as she readies a last large bite for her mouth
"Let her have it, I don't really need it. It does not matter?"
"It does to me" I then look at 'KK' "You do need it and they should
trust you with it?"
"Well I need to get that from her" the nurse says and she comes to the
bed near us.
I 'fix' her with a gaze from my eyes and a heavy blast of glamour. As
she stands there deep in its grasp. I shove out my will at her "You will
leave and forget that this happened. Just go about your duties as normal
and don't come in here unless its required to do so."
She then...turns and leaves.
As she goes, GODS! the pain that hits my head! I grab my skull from the
throbbing and rub it all over "Ohhh my Great Gods, I should not do that
again for a very long time! This pain...is near madding! She must have
had a shield on her of some type!"
"You okay? and what did you do?"
"I shoved a little of my 'will' at her and it hurt! But she is gone for
now?"
"You know, I heard an echo of what you said to her 'in' my head!"
I am startled from her saying that "Are you all right? I did not mean
for that to get to you!"
"I think I am okay?....but..I have a sudden urge to empty
bedpans...thou?"
My jaw drops in shock "NO? please say your joking?"
She laughs at my face "Yes I am joking...wow you really fell for it?"
"Thank Gods! But. I am not doing that again, my head is just killing
me!"
"Hey I thought you said your 'brain' was not in there?"
"Haa...its not, but the pain has to be some where?"
"You do know, I read somewhere? What you just did...is against the
rules?" she says to me, as she readies another bite of food.
"So? I did it to protect a friend from stupidity. So I am fine with
it..."
"But Kyley...please don't break rules for me...you will get in trouble?"
"Me trouble?...I have enough of that already! More trouble is
nothing...what....they...do to me? Send me to bed without supper?" I
laugh.
"Its....'what are they going to do'..." she winks at me.
We go back to eating and talk for near two hours. But I have things to
do and I say goodbye to her. As I leave the area, to pass the nurses
station. Doctor Tenent is there and stops me.
"Kyley If I may?" she asks of me.
"Yes?"
"So...it looks like Kumiko is getting better, she should be out tomorrow
sometime. But you have to go up stairs to see Doctor Bellows about a
session and your classes. As he is your advisor."
"Okay? I can do that?" I nod and start off to the elevators.
"AND Kyley?" she asks me, as I turn to leave.
"Yes ma'am?"
"You might want to get that 'ethics in psychics' class....soon?"
"Hummm Why?"
"You know DARN! why....never do that again..." she says, more than angry
at me "But I will forget it...this time! Because of Kumiko. AND I will
see you in magic class or healing? As I teach both..." her voice softens
at the end.
"Yes ma'am, I will see you in class...then?"
As she nods back, I walk into the elevators doors. Then I go up a few
floors and find a map of the building. After a little looking I find the
correct office and go in.
"I am here to see doc Bellows?" I say, to a rather thin kid there.
"Hey you must be Kyley? I am Kelly or Doogie, I am here helping the doc
while I am getting ready for college. But the doc will see you right
now...if you want?" the boy asks me.
"That's why I am here?"
"Well go on in, he is waiting for ya!" he smiles at me.
The door opens for me at a light push and I close it behind me. As I
enter... I say to a man, who is reading a vast pile of files and is
sitting behind a rather nice desk "Hi I am Kyley, I was told I need to
see you about classes?"
"Hello Miss Barron, I am Doctor Bellows or some call me Alfred. Have a
seat and relax, we have some paperwork to do and a small intro session
to get done" he waves at the chairs in the office.
I grab one that is nearest to his desk and get ready to sit "Sir? you
said I can get comfortable?"
"Yes anything? that helps?" he asks with just a shade of wonderment.
"COOL!' I think and out pop the wings. Now that I am more relaxed, I sit
down.
"Humm?" he tones out at me "Feel better? and is that what you call your
more normal form? As I have read your file a little and from in here" he
raises the file off the desk a bit at me "this one and there are others
you can do?"
"Ohh yes...this is much better! and yes this is closer to 'what' I call
normal?" I say back to him, as I scoot about in the chair getting a nice
good 'spot' in it.
"Fine then, lets start on your classes. Here is a list, I got started on
via your enrolment forms and that chat you had with Mrs. Carson" he
says, as he slides a piece of paper at me.
:Class schedule
Kyley Barron
Principals of magic
Intro to Magical Arts
Introduction to Magic Theory (Magic Lab)
Special Topics - Magic--Necromancy - Threat Or Menace
American History
Beginning History-World
Advanced Hyper Dimensional Non-Euclidean Mathematics
Dimensional gate mathematics and magic
Mathematics of Quantum Neutrino Fields
Thaumaturgy, Numerology and Mystic Algebra
Powers Theory and Powers Lab
Special Topics - Powers Theory (with lab): Projective Empaths
Flying 1
English as a second language
Basic Martial Arts
I study the list and find the only issue is the 'flying 1' Gods that
will bore me to death!
"Sir? the list looks fine to me, but the flying class? A girl on the
train ride in she said, I might be able to get flying two? As I was born
to it?"
"Please Kyley...no 'sir's here, its Alfred. But I will look into that
for you? You might have to suffer a few days in it, till they see that
you can actually 'fly'?"
I nod back "I can wait."
"I have to ask? Did you want to add, a class on weapons? For your Axe
skills?"
"No...that would be a bad idea right now. As I have seemed to have lost
some control over it, so that makes it a little too dangerous right now
for practicing with others. I might do that next year?"
"Okay I will note that for later. I want to tell you this, I was chosen
from the staff for a few reasons. One I deal with lots of your fellow
cottage mates. Another is I have dealt with Sara, you met her at
Homestake" he pauses for a little longer than normal "I have to ask
this? I read of your reaction at first seeing her, then your defeating
and killing of what may have been a rogue 'GOO' at Homestake."
"Yes....and?" I ask wondering what he is leading to?
"If Sara shows back up? Will you have any problems with her?"
"No...I do not start fights or kill, I leave that to others. I will only
defend myself. So if she comes back, you might ask her that?"
"I will...'if' that happens? So lets go on? I have little real notes to
what you really are? As you don't fit in lots of the categories we have?
Your explanation that the man who disappeared at the same time, your
metal block showed up. That he became a part or component of your now
being here...makes sense? BUT can you add to that for me? I will not
write any of it down...I just have to know, who or what I am helping
here?"
What I feel off him is that...drive to understand and no real hint at he
is garnering information for others uses....He is telling me the truth,
as he feels it.
I sit there for several seconds, then minutes and I can't think of what
to say to him. How much? How far? Who I am? What I am? Who may or may
not be after me?
After some time, I put my head down in my hands "Alfred, I really don't
know what to say? And for me that's saying allot."
"I understand...I can wait for that answer... if you want to?" he asks
the kid...then Doctor Bellows feels via his small telepathic powers, a
large mass of held back sadness in Kyley. She is hiding
something?....something that drastically changed her life. He has to at
least 'try' to help her out...in someway? "But I can tell your holding
back a wall of ...something. It just flows off you."
I shore up my shields to him "I should have figured that a
fellow...empath. Would do this job best."
"I felt you just....slam that door on me, you know I can help?"
"I know...you offer your word on keeping secrets. But if Sara's dad came
in here and asked about me? Could you stop him?"
"No...that is beyond me."
"Now you see my issue, along with what I feel maybe a threat to me. So
why don't you tell me what to do? As I have no idea?"
"Well talking always helped? But in your case me knowing things about
you....might be a threat to you? So, I don't know...either? You may just
have to as they say....chance it?"
I lean down, start nervously running my hands through my hair and then
flop my long braid to one side. Then stop with my face buried deeply in
my hands "I don't know? All I will say is, I am like Sara in some ways"
I say some what muffled by my hands.
"Okay Kyley...But I still feel you may need more help? Can I ask some
more questions? And you just nod or something, it may help...to let some
of what your holding out?"
I nod to him, as the phone in my pocket rings at us both and disturbs
the near silence.
"Is that your phone? If you want to answer it?"
"I know who it is....its Becky, a good friend. When I shut you out, I
closed her out too. She is just calling ...worried is my bet? I will
talk to her."
As the phone rings on, I open up my mind to Becky and tell her all is
fine.
All I get from her is worry ~'what's wrong!"~ she asks me.
~"Its fine...I am just talking with the doctor here....about issues."~
~"YOUR HURT!"~
~"No my love...bad memories, ones that I don't want to burden you
with...is all?"~
~"I understand...but you can always talk to me?.....please?"~ I feel her
near beg me.
~"Yes I will tell all of this to you...very soon. I have to get back to
the doctor, as he is looking at me rather...funny?"~
I sense some humor at that from her ~"I will be there soon and we can
talk then?"~
And then she fades, as I once again close my shields.
As I glance up at him, he asks me in a near whisper "Is everything
alright? If you need more time to talk to her....I understand."
"No...I told her what is happening. I will talk to her later on" I lean
back down into my hands to think 'This...human is a smart one....he
knows I can mentally 'talk' to others? I guess that could be normal
here...in this school!' I find humor at that last thought.
"Well let me ask some simple questions to help...and maybe a nod or two
from you can help guide me...to helping more?"
I nod, almost unnoticeably to him.
"I am going by what you said to Mrs. Carson a month back. Is some of
your held back sadness or anger...because there is no one like you
here?"
I nod.
"Okay...you also said 'your world is gone and you have to get used to
it' ...is that another issue?" he asks gently.
All I can do is nod...'I start to feel the need to leave...to be alone,
with this.'
"Humm....do you feel any blame for that? Any at all?"
My simple nod gets me to thinking on that issue 'Did I do something that
killed us all?' I try to find that one memory on it....but it keeps
slipping away from me.
"Good some progress...So you think your the only one to blame?"
My head nods so fast, to answer him and I find I can't control it...This
surprises me...'was that an unconscious move on my part? Did I get my
world destroyed?'
"Very good Kyley? Now did you have a personal loss....family?"
My body near jumps from the chair "NEVER ASK THAT AGAIN!" I yell and
demand him. My inner rage is tearing at me now.
"Kyley I am only trying to help you? It can not be your fault? All of
that?"
The tears just roll off my face, I bury my face in my hands and collapse
back into the chair. The sudden shock of what he is saying....opens a
dark memory in me and I start to really sob out at seeing it.
I think inwardly 'I did do all this! I killed them all! I remember
now...I ordered four of my best to come here and help fight the Dark
Ones. When they died, the Dark Ones. Must have surly read their dying
minds and knew where to strike! They knew they had to gather a large
force, to destroy US! We were, far too big a threat to them!'
"Kyley? are you alright?"
I look up and sob to him "I did this..."
"What? you can't be...all the blame for anything?"
As he says that, I see what and why I could not... See that dark
memory..... till just now!...it was buried deep in my head...by NIGHT!
"NIGHT you...backstabbing bird! get out here NOW!" I roar at nothing.
Doctor Bellows gazes at me, more than bewildered by my sudden out burst
"Kyley please calm yourself... its all right?"
Night suddenly 'pops' into the room perched, on a small coat rack just
behind the doctor.
I feel her come out and glare at her in rage. "YOU!...you concealed this
from me...why?!" I point at her savagely.
~"Because till now? You could not handle it...AND even now? I still
don't think you can?"~
"Why...why...why? would you do that?!" I cry out at her, with streams of
tears now flowing.
~"Because of this....this raging outburst of yours! I promised to watch
over you in life! AS MY DUTY."~
"Heck with that! You should have told me!?"
~"AND! have you kill yourself on that first day!...I am no fool...You
would have done it!"~
"I would have never done that?...taking ones life is not the answer?"
~"On that first day...you would have...But now?....you have a 'love'
back in your life. Then there are others to support you and care for
you."~
"Yes I see that now...I do have someone to care for me and I them. BUT
you still kept that from me! It was my choice!.....you...you damned
bird!" I sob out and look for something...anything to throw at her.
Bellows is only getting one side of the conversation, but he knows it
too well to interfere in it. It has to come out. He watches as I berate
the large bird for several minutes. Then he gets a bit worried, when I
look hurriedly about, snatch up a small box and throw it at the large
bird with vicious intent of harm.
He watches as the box hurls at great speed at the large hawk. Then it
abruptly stops midair and lowers rather gently to the nearby table.
~"It was not your fault. Your father or bothers or even the long dead
Emperor. They all would have made the same choice you did, to....help a
friend in need. How could any of us have known, it would lead to our
demise?"~
"But I sent them...I made that choice? A choice that doomed us all to
death?"
~"They came and attacked us...you did not go and find that fight ...it
found US!"~
I sit down and brood over that notion...'They did come and attack us? I
did my job'
"Your right....Night...they did attack us. I did not bring death to us.
It came on its own black wings of death?"
As I fall back in my chair again and all I can do is cry.
Alfred talks to me in very gentle tones "Kyley? I think we are done for
now? I think you should take some time out and process this out. You can
go or stay here...It is always your choice."
My legs stand me up, near not even knowing I am doing it. My mind
twisting in circles and bends over itself. All those thoughts are
forming knots in my head, made of deep dark memories. PAINFUL! ones.
Doctor Bellows watches me, as I walk slowly to his door and start
walking out. "Kyley? Are you all right? Do you need an escort?"
"No I am fine...." I whisper out, not even thinking.
I walk in a daze, right past the kid who greeted me and out the main
office door. My body takes itself on a small trip outside, to an area
and bench that sits on the far off on edge of the forest adjoining the
main campus.
Like a bag of bones....I plop on a small bench, that faces a nice stand
of trees and I start to think. No actually dwell, on what I had done.
Why?
As I sit to ponder, all that happened
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Doctor Bellows starts out of the office to follow Kyley out and ask if
she needs more time? or help. Only to get near nothing in the return
answers.
Doogie watches the freshman leave the office, without one word even
said. She has the look of one in shock and walks past him. Right behind
her, the Doc is there and asks her is she needs help.
"Hey doc? should I go get her?"
"No Doogie....not at all. But could you go and watch her for a little
bit. As she just had a major revelation and what I would call the
biggest shock I have ever heard of." Bellows says to the boy.
"What? If I can ask?"
Bellows shakes his head "Its best you don't know....heck I don't think
even I should know....honestly?"
Doogie gets up form his chair and rushes off to try and keep up. "Doc?
what should I do.....if?"
"Call for help and hope...its all you can do. Do not try and stop
her...AT ALL. Please."
Doogie nods and runs out the door.
Bellows walks back into his office and sits at his desk. He spins his
chair and gazes at the large hawk still perched on the coat rack.
"Well? My friend. I wish, I could ask you what is going on. But I can
guess pretty well what is going on" he chuckles out. "So I guess your
staying for a awhile?" he asks, as he turns back to his work
The bird glares at him. Then Bellows feels a tingle in his head, along
with the feeling of 'yes'....
"Humm?" Alfred looks at the bird again "Was that you?"....then once more
that feeling of..'yes'
"Well then...are you here to talk?"
...'yes' feeling again.
"Okay...I think I know someone who might be able to speed this up a
bit?"
....'yes' the bird blinks once more at him.
Bellows turns to the side of his office "Ohh Louis. I need ya buddy." he
sounds out mentally as well as verbally.
A human form of a middle aged man appears in front of the doctors desk.
"Yes Alfred, how can I help you?"
Alfred turns back around to point at the large bird "This my friend, is
the familiar of Kyley Barron...and it wants to talk. Would you mind
helping me out?"
Louis reaches out with his mind to the bird and hits a wall of
resistance. He pushes just a little more and finds the bird can easily
keep him out. BUT then a small door opens and the bird talks to him.
~"Humm I see your a little like the Dark Ones or as you call them
GOO?....Funny? But for what was once a human, I find your mind quite
ordered....nice. But please let the good doctor in on this?"~ Night asks
the man.
"Alfred? I got through to her. I will act as your 'bridge'... Funny that
a familiar talks independent of its owner?"
Night squawks verbally and mentally at them both ~"FAMILIAR! humph! I am
no PET!"~
Bellows laughs out "Louis? I think we both, just got snubbed by a bird?"
~"Yes you did! But Doctor? I ask you to please...keep talking to her. As
she...found this out today and I did not want her to know this...till
she was better able to...cope?"~
"Yes...Night? she called you?.... I can do that for her? But what are
you and her? If not mage and familiar?"
~"I am part of her and she me. Bound souls in away. I can think and act
on my own ....but she does and will order me at times. But...back to my
and her issues. I closed all those dark memories of what she did, just
before her death...away. As I was sure.....and she still may....decide,
that joining the long dead is a better way?"~
Bellows and Louis look at each other "Should I have her taken into
Doyle?" Bellows asks the Hawk.
~"NO! don't! That would be a large mistake. She would surly...fall into
the Darkness, escape and do damage or kill. Keep an eye on her, let her
mingle and see that...life goes on. Please let her help....Kumiko. As
that will give her mind a project that has...life in it and hope."~
"Darkness? I don't understand the term?"
~"Think of Darkness? as what your worst GOO's are? That they want to
destroy life....that is like one of us, that has fallen to Darkness.
BUT! we are not GOO. But...We like all things......can fall."~
"So? Night...I did get from that one-sided conversation, that you two
just had...That she made a bad choice and her world paid the price? That
can't be true...that one choice, could do all that?"
~"It did....But any of her linage would have done that VERY same thing.
We all value life that high...we would help any that would ask. She made
back then.... choices like that everyday, for most of her long life."~
"~What she did...was long ago, send some of our kind here to help in
your fight with the Dark Ones or GOO. Most likely they died. The GOO
saw, we were a threat. Tracked us down to home and destroyed us all. But
I have to go and sooth that mind of her's ...before she acts rash. As
she has been known to do that!"~ the bird laughs at them. Then vanishes.
Louis's phantom body takes a seat and looks at Bellows "I know my
history...as messed up as this worlds ancient history is?...do you
think?"
"That the butcher's bill...for me and you, even being here? Is her
world? Its too sad to even think about."
"And even worse Alfred, She made that choice? I think....both of us
should just forget about this?"
Bellows nods "Agreed...we will help her, as best as we can...and hope."
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As I sit on the bench, I can hear that boy from the doc's office behind
me. He is trying very hard NOT to be heard. But he is failing....badly.
"Doogie?...You might as well come over here and have....seat. As my
guess that bush....not too comfortable?"
"Am I that bad?"
"As loud, as an elephant walking on peanut shells" I laugh as best I
can.
Doogie gets up from his bushy hide and walks over to the bench. Before
he sits, he lays a small pack of tissues by me "I never leave that
office...without one of these."
"Thanks...but I think I am cried out." I mumble to him.
"I don't know what happened? But...life goes on" he states.
I sit there in my own personal hell of memories "Really? it goes on?" I
sass at him.
"Yes...it does."
"You have no clue, what I did.....or lost?"
"It does not matter....you just go on."
Night 'pops' in front of us both perched on a bench across the path.
~"Listen to the boy...he is repeating exactly what you said to Kumiko.
So heed your own words?"~
"Kyley? Is that your hawk?"
I hiss out at Night "Yesssss for now. Or until I kill her!"
"Humm I guess.." he chuckles "Your mad at her?"
"VERY!"
"I should go get lunch...but I have an idea?"
I glare at him "What?"
"When I am mad, I go over to Eastman annex and pound the crap out of a
practice dummy" he smiles at me.
"Humm?"
"Or if your REAL! mad area 99 is fun!"
I stand up "Lead on?"
"So how mad are you?"
"MAD...."
"Well lets start small and work our way up!"
Fifteen minuets later, Doogie is introducing me to a small, older Asian
man.
"Sensei Ito? this is Kyley...she is a incoming freshman and she just got
done with the doc? But she needs a little 'venting' time. Can you let
her in for a few?"
The small man walks around me and looks me over. "I can do that...but
she has no practice clothes yet?"
"You need clothes to practice fighting in too?"
"Yes..." he laughs "Unless you like to do it naked?"
"Well...besides armor? How would you do it then? As where I am from, its
normal?"
Doogie's eyes are now the size of dinner plates "Fight naked? that's
nuts!"
"Its how I was taught. You don't think of....'kissing' an opponent when
they are trying.....tear your heart out?....unless your 'into' that kind
of thing?"
Ito tones out slowly "Humm that style of fighting is not unheard
of...but Whateley? Likes its students...dressed. I think I have a
bodysuit for you to borrow. AND Doogie my boy, go get dressed. You
invited her....so you will fight with her?"
"Yes Sensei.....Kyley please come with me and I will show you where to
change."
After some fussing, they find me one that has nice cutouts on its back
for my wings to be out. Then I am given a locker and I get dressed. As I
walk out I find the outfit FAR from comfortable!
As I exit the locker room, I find Doogie waiting for me. "All set?" he
asks.
"Yes...but I hate this....thing? Its far from comfortable. My armor is
better" I near hiss out. As my anger has yet to settle.
We both walk back out to the main area and I follow Doogie to a large
mat. he kneels down on its edge and says out to the old man "We are
ready Sensei?"
"Fine, instead of Kyley...just practicing on a dummy. How about a
match?"
"I am fine with that Sensei" says Doogie.
"I guess? I can try your way?" I say, not even knowing what is to come.
I follow Doogie out to the mat and he gets in the center. He guides me
to the opposite of him.
Ito says to us both in a commanding voice "All right, I will keep this
simple. No hits, only grappling to start. And I will command in English
for Kyley to keep up...got that Doogie?" Doogie nods back.
"Grappling? Why? If I am fighting....I hit!" I hiss. I am far too mad to
think right now. Why all this show?
"Well this is practice and you need to learn how to subdue. As well as
hurt?" Ito informs me.
"Okay I can learn this?" I question him.
"Fine...get ready.....and fight!" he barks at me.
With that bark. Doogie leaps at me, grabs my arm and flips me to the mat
on my stomach. Then tries to bend my arm to pin my body. BUT he finds,
that it keeps on bending and bending. My arm keeps on bending till,
until it bends in a most unnatural way.
I smile at the mat "Doogie, if your looking to pin me with my arm, you
will find. I have no...bones to use as leverage and I don't feel any
real pain?" I growl at him.
I start to 'roll' with his move. Then reverse it on him and flop out on
to the mat. As he lets go. I get up to my feet and face him. He then
tries to make a leap at my middle and grab on there. As he does, I grab
him, flap my wings to flip him over on the mat and end up with him on
top of me. I then wrap him in arms, legs and my large wings. Now he
can't budge at all.
"STOP! its over!" Ito barks.
I let go of Doogie and help him up. He leads me off to stand by Ito.
"Well Doogie has been a good student...but you? I have to think hard to
teach one that feels near no pain and 'bends' like that. I have had one
before and if she was still here? I would match the both of you" Ito
looks around after talking to us and goes over to a student that was
practicing by themselves.
"What is he doing?" I ask Doogie.
"He...is finding you a better match?"
"Well...this is not really helping...Maybe I should just beat something
and leave? As I am not.....patient right now!"
After I said that Doogie walks over to talk with Ito and the girl. I
watch them for several minutes talk back and forth. As they go on
talking amongst themselves, I take mental notes on the new girl, dark
skin, thin, athletic, and it seems by her moves...practiced at fighting.
AND she knows it!
The whole group finally walks over to me. I on the other hand I am more
than upset, while they where gone. I have been doing nothing but STEW in
anger.
"Kyley I have found a great student, that can help with your training."
Ito tells me.
"Ito..sir I think I should just leave...As this is not helping at all."
"Nonsense you should stay? Then try to lose some of the pent up anger.
But get at the ready in the center. This student here is, Chaka or Toni
and she is in your building."
I huff out "Fine..."
She leads me over to a new mat, this one is a bit different. It has a
large metal cage on each side of the mat.
As I get to its center Ito yells out the match basic rules to me "In
this match. To win all you have to do is get your opponent into the cage
and close the door. There is a time limit of fifteen minutes. But few
need it? Are you ready?"
I nod and she does.
"FIGHT!"
My body falls into a low crouch. Then I see her run at me, spin around
to leap behind my back and grab an arm. That arm she grabs up, is used
to toss me across the mat to near the far side. I land on my feet with a
small beat of my wings."
She quips at me "So they told me, your all mad because of some stupid
dwelling on loss? You might want to pay attention here, as we are
fighting...not crying!"
"You might want to shut-up?"
"Nope...my mouth and fighting are near one in the same!" she says. As
she runs at me, to slide under my legs and come to her feet at my back.
I make a defensive move with my arm up and spin on my one heel to face
her at the ready. She then chops at my arm to move it. Then tries to
grab my other arm and flip me with it. I flex out of her move. To end up
standing in near the same spot but a few feet back toward the center.
"Humph Kyley...you have skills. But if you would stop with the
boohooing. You might be a challenge! So stop the whining about whatever
and fight will ya?!"
"SHUT-UP child! You have no idea what you speak of."
"KID? I am older than you...I think?" she laughs "But how about
this...for ya to cry about?"
A near ear shattering KIIIIIYA! comes from her, as she kicks at me at
blinding speed an sends me flying into the cage and I land in it with a
crash. She then runs over and closes the door on me.
"Done!?" she says rather happily, as she dusts-off her hands "Your
easy?...you don't think when your mad?"
I glare at Ito, as I stand up and roar at him "YOU SAID NOTHING OF USING
POWERS!?"
"I did not say NOT too? now did I?" Ito answers me.
"OKAY then, I want a rematch?"
"Fine I can understand...Toni are you alright with that?" Ito asks her.
"Yep, lets do a rematch...as she did not understand the rules?"
"IT would? VASTLY help...say them all first!" I hiss at them both "But I
am ready now!" I say as I stand once more at the mats center.
My eyes never leave her this time, I even stop blinking to 'keep in the
game' this time.
"Are you ready?" Ito announces.
"Did the rules change?" I ask more than mad.
"NO same rules. Get your opponent in the cage and use any powers to do
so."
Humm I ponder "Alright I am ready...this time!"
"Ready to beat down a froshie" boasts Toni.
Ito warns her "Keep it civil Toni!" as he hears that retort from her.
Toni moves fast to my right and readies a kick. I know she is faking me,
so I slide a little to the left, but stay in her range to lead her
on...that I am dumb! She moves fast to my rear, but I do not spin to
greet her. I keep my back to her and listen for the move to come.
She tries to cover, her coming move with words and taunts me "So little
girl done crying for that crap? yet!" Then she jumps at me and I side
step her.
"Please shut-up and just fight, as doing this is not healthy?" I tell
her. As she fuels my growing anger at her. I feel I am getting
unbalanced...and that is a bad idea.
"What ever..." then she tries another hit with that ROAR, that tells me
she is using her power....what ever that maybe?
The KIIIYA comes and I shift in to my BIGGER form and armor. Her
incoming hit just bounces off me.
"Owch!" I hear from her, as her hand bounces off my chest armor and then
I hear "What in the heck?!" as she looks up at a Seven foot PLUS! tall
girl.
As that happens, Ito turns to Doogie "Did you know, she did that?"
"Ahhh nope. All I knew about was the wings!"
My chest and its armor takes the blow...BUT Gods it hurts! I yell at her
through my covered face "Did not expect that? Did ya?"
She tries another kick to my head with a KIIIIYA added and it bounces
off me. I am stunned ALLOT! and stagger a little. But not out of the
game.
"SO any witty words now?" I say as I make a grab at her legs.
She easily dodges my move, BUT I see a mistake. She thinks...size makes
me slow?!
"Haa big and slow" she jabs at me "then add a cry baby over what ever?"
"You really need to be quiet...As you have no Idea my loss...kid!" my
anger grows "Ever lose a family member?"
"NOPE and you will not see me moping over it for years!" she boasts.
She then tries a move on my leg, to cripple it. I hear the KIIIYA wind
up. My body moves as fast as I can, grabs her arm in mid swing and I
slam her to the mat.
I wrap a large hand around her neck and keep her pinned. I lean down to,
whisper through my helmet. At her so softly...that she can only hear me
"You...child, have no Idea of loss? I killed a whole world by accident
by ordering my men, to help this world! and MINE DIED FROM THAT!"
Now raise my right arm and my Axe appears in it. She beats on my arm
trying to get lose. I sob at her "Now meet fate!"
AND I swing down, as Ito yells out "NO!"
My arm buries, my Axe deep into the mats padding by her head and into
the spring surface beyond it. I stand up and say to her "You done yet
with that mouth?" I hiss at her.
She looks at the blade buried by her head. Then stands up with ease.
"Hey Ito did not say weapons were okay!"
"Yes...but he did not say NO to them?....or killing?" I say flatly too
her. As I move to retrieve my Axe.
As I take my Axe out of the hole it made. I turn, grab her fighting Gi
and then toss her into the cage. I only succeed because, she is so
surprised and then I slam the door on her "AND I win" I shout.
"What?! the fight was over!" she shouts from the cage and then opens the
door.
"Ito never said, the fight was over.... only...NO!" I shout back at her.
"Hey big girl? We are not done yet!" she says to me.
"If you want one more match-up I need...second." I say back to her, as I
go sit at a bench.
My hand waves over my face and head. With that motion my helmet vanishes
and shows my bruised face. I lean over to a waste bin and spit out a
little of the my blood that collected in my mouth from her last blow. I
spot a bunch of water bottles next to the bench and open one, to clean
out the last of that messy blood from my mouth. As I do, Doogie sees me
and walks over to me, from his talking with Ito.
"Hey your hurt! Let me look at that?" he asks with concern and I feel
its genuine.
"I am fine... I just have to wait a little for my healing to catch up.
As her last blow, to my head. Was more than strong and seemed to get
through my armor a little."
Doogie grabs a towel and wipes some of the blood off my face. Then looks
at the bruising. As he does Ito comes over to us both. "What is this?
Are you hurt?" he asks, as he steps up.
"I am fine just give me...minute" I mumble back to him.
"Kyley I think maybe...you should stop, as an injury like this. It shows
me that Toni and you may have gone a little too far during that last
fight. As both of you are showing a lack of restraint" the small man
informs me.
My hands find that same place that seems to be getting quite common with
me today. They are rubbing and fingering through my hair...nervously. As
I lean my face down into them.
A heavy sigh comes from me as I think and look inward 'I am off balance
badly...all that I have found out today has caused this. The sudden
finding that Night was hiding my decision from me, that cost my whole
world its life...Then add just now I nearly CHOPPED that kid to
death...I came so close! too close!'
I start to stand up "Ito...Doogie, please tell Toni. I feel its best we
stop this match and save it for later. As I am far too off my mental
balance to keep from hurting someone today" I start walking back to the
locker room.
My body shrinks back down, as I walk back to the locker room. With my
armor now gone, all I have on is this 'body suit' they lent me. I am
almost to the door with my head down....when I see, what I really need.
A group of large, long cylindrical bags hangs down from the ceiling. I
saw Toni beating on one as we came in.
I get up to one and START! beating on it as hard as I can. For some
reason I will never know. I wail and sob at it in English....maybe I
just needed others to hear this and understand it.
I yell, as I strike the bag "WHY!...why did they have to come and do
that! WHY! did they have to destroy a whole world? I would have greeted
them in friendship!" I beat on the bag even harder...so bad are the
blows, I am landing. That I am feeling the pain from the them "WHY did I
do that! I sent my kind to their deaths....and caused us all to die!" I
sob even more "THEY took it all from me... I had to feel all that
DEATH!" I am now hitting the bag so hard. I am breaking my own hands
while doing it.
Doogie makes a move to get up from the bench, he was sitting at with
Ito. Ito puts out his hand to stop the boy "No...let her have this. She
needs to let it out a little. Before it eats her."
The blows I hit the bag with are hurting me badly...but I keep going for
several minutes. Then I gab on the bag and slide to the floor sobbing
again "WHY was I saved!? WHY am I here? Someone....Something PLEASE tell
me? ARE they coming for me? IF SO, THEN COME NOW! Take away the pain!"
As I kneel there, Ito and Doogie walk to me. Toni watches from across
the room...not knowing what to do.
Ito asks in a soft voice as he walks up "Kyley? Do you need help?"
"NO!" I bark at him.... as rage still fills my mind.
I stand up and flex my mangled hands. To get them back into shape. From
the beating I just did with them. Then I finish my walk to the locker
room.
Doogie tries to step up to me "Kyley?" he asks and Ito stops him once
again with a gentle hand.
"No let her go...she is fine" Ito says to him.
"But those hands?"
"She is fine...I have seen worse. She will heal fast."
Ito walks off toward Toni, where she is back at her practicing. "Toni?
please come here."
"Yes Sensei Ito?"
"I have a request of you....Please keep an eye on that one for me. You
don't have to get close to her...and its best you don't. But keep an eye
on her, none the less. Then, what you saw and heard here today....forget
it. As I am sure, she let all that out only because of anger."
Ito glances to Doogie "And you, please tell Bellows what you saw and
heard here. As it will be of use to him in her....healing. Now go..get
cleaned up and have lunch?" Doogie nods as he walks off.
"Sensei?" Toni says.
"Yes?"
"Was all that she yelled at the bag...true?" Toni asks.
"Yes...I am afraid it was. I read her file, like I do all of yours. AND
its says they suspect she is older than Aunghadhail was...by far. How
and why she is here? No one knows...I don't think, by that last outburst
of her's? She even knows?" Ito now gives young Toni an evil eye "I saw
and heard you 'egging' her on. A very dangerous game, indeed young one.
She could have cleaved your head!. But she was the one who showed
restraint. You on the other hand? Hit her in the head with one of your
full power kicks....you might have killed her!....Today you learned a
lesson...restraint. The other... keep that mouth in check! Now go back
to your practice!"
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Friday August 31 2007 3:10 pm
Whateley Academy
Poe cottage
My feet pad their way down the hallway from my long shower. I had taken
such a long one...just too think. The day had worn on my mind greatly, I
needed the time it brought me, to relax and dive deeper into what had
happened today. As I get to my room and close the door. I toss off the
robe that covers me in anger 'why I need such a thing....makes me even
madder!' my mind roars at me.
My mind and body finally calm down enough to get dressed. As I toss my
dirty clothes into a bin in my closet, as a knock sounds at the door.
I yelp at it "It's open!"
My door opens and I see a Drow holding the doorknob while she opens the
door. Then I almost jump in fright, the other person at my door is the
'Harvester' I saw here a month back!
My mind jumps to many conclusions 'Did she finally find me and this is
my time?' then actually thinks for a second....'this might be a good
thing? I finally get to see everyone again?'
'But NO? her...harvester blade is not at the ready? AND a Drow, as a
partner...that makes no sense at all?'
So I go with....manners! "Can I do anything for you?"
Then she says to me..."Uhh sorry I just wondered, I kind felt I would
need to know who was living? Inside of this room."
I say back to her...while keeping my surprise and fear in check! "I'm
Kyley. And who are you?"
"I'm Melanie. Sorry for the interruption" is what she says back to me.
Then she leaves the doorway and the Drow closes the door. My knees
instantly give out on me and I collapse onto my bed. Then start crying
again.
Night says in my head ~"Whoa that was close, I thought she was here
to...take us? Why she did not, I do not understand?"~
"Night? I actually hoped she was here for us? As that would end all this
pain...."
~"STOP! THAT! your a fighter and a Emperor! You have to restart our
race!"~
"But it would be so much easier....I should just go out there and...."
~"AND! what? ask her to take you? You after all those battles....know
how they work? You have to be 'called'....THEN they take you?....SO be
strong!"~
"But...its so hard?"
~"Stop that! go and find...life and have fun? Go find that other winged
mutant from the train and fly?"~
"All right I am going?" I sigh out.
At Nights insistence I go and seek out Angel or Mary as she is called. I
hop up the stairs to the floor where they have the sophomores and start
looking around. As I wonder next to the stairs, a boy stops me with a
question.
"Are you lost or looking for someone?" The boy asks me. My eyes look
over the boy, as he walks up to me. Nice looking kid, five foot, eight
and in good shape.
"Yes...I look for Angel or Mary? I met her on the train in and want to
see her?"
"Hey your in luck! I am heading up to her room, as her roomie is my
girlfriend and I have to help her unpack?" he then looks over my
shoulder a bit "I can see why, you and Mary might want to talk! With
those wings and all?"
"Thanks...I am Kyley"
"Glad to meet ya, I am Hank. So lets go?"
He goes to lead me up the next flight of stairs and as he does. I stop
in mid step, when I see a girl down the hallway in jeans and a tee
shirt, with long red hair. I watch her for a second, as I know that
person from somewhere, she turns and I know now!
"Aunghadhail?" is the word I whisper out.
That word stops Hank in his tracks and he turns to me really fast "What
did you say?"
I whisper out again "Aunghadhail? Is that not her name? Then why...she
here?"
He pulls on my arm and leads me up the flight of steps, I go with his
urging and come. Once we are up on the next floor, he stops his pulling
on me and then confronts me.
"Where did you hear or know that name?"
"I just know it..." I stop in my thoughts 'how much should I tell Hank?'
"That's not good enough...please tell me more?" he pleads.
I think for some time as he glares at me, with a look of wanting to
know...for some reason other than his own?
"Okay....Can you swear, you will not say anything?"
"Humm okay...I swear I will not say anything...till you let me?"
"I met...Aunghadhail? When she was a kid....not much older looking than
she is now?" is all I say.
"That makes no sense...but it might? Are you an avatar?"
"No...they kinda say I am, but they also, think I am a reincarnation or
I used a human here as a conduit to come here? I really don't know it
all myself?"
He looks at me for sometime, then asks "How old do you think you are?"
"I was well over Five hundred thousand...when I died? And that death
was...long time ago?"
"Ohh boy! Anything else?"
"They think and its best to use this as a comparison? Think of me as
allot like Sara? If you know her?"
"Ohhh shit, another GOO?!"
"NO!...not GOO! I do not kill to live or feed like she does!" I almost
shout at him.
He puts up his hands to calm me "Okay...I get it. So please for her
sake...don't say anything? As last year..." I can see its hurting him to
say this "Nikki..that girl, lost Aunghadhail as her avatar...she was
killed. That near ripped Nikki in two!"
"Ohh I understand...I know loss. I will stay quiet. But from what...saw
in her? Aunghadhail....still in her...in someway?"
"But she died?"
"Death is not an end....only a change? I know, I have been 'dead' more
than once in....life?"
"Okay...I will take your word on that. But please don't tell Nikki this
stuff? She just got over the death of Aung?"
"I can do that...too bad. I really want and need to talk to someone that
old...I have questions?"
"We do have some kids here that are...old in some ways? Rohanna and
maybe Kayda?"
"Are they like me or Nikki...was it?"
"No...Rohanna is a Drow and old as heck. Then Kayda is a avatar for a
native american sprit, of some sort?"
"A Drow? I saw one today...in my room. She opened my door for a girl to
ask a question of me. She would not be old enough is my guess? Then the
human? She or her sprit will not know this...it all happened so long
ago" After I say that, I start losing my thoughts to why a 'harvester'
opened my door...and what they do?
Hank has to snap his fingers in my face to get me back to the 'now' "Hey
are you alright?"
"Not really, it... been a bad day?" is all I mumble out, then add "Can
we go to Mary's room now?"
"Okay?" and he starts to lead me up the hallway to a room near the end.
He leads me into an open door and hugs a dark haired girl in the room,
he finds there. As I stand there waiting for them to finish hugging and
kissing. Mary comes up behind me and yelps out at my back "Hey Kyley! I
see you found my room and brought Lily her 'bo'..."
"Ya I did...." I said, then watched as she tossed her stuff on her bed
and turned to wrap a hug on me.
After she let go, she looks me over "Hey I can feel you had a bad day?
or something?"
"Yep a little..." is all I get out, as she just set my mind to wondering
again.
"Hey, lets chat awhile?" she then, offers her chair at the desk to me
and I sit on it, as she grabs a spot on the bed.
After I get all seated, Toni from the workout, pops her head in the door
and she must have heard my voice? "Hey Kyley? You better now?" she asks
at the door.
"Ahhh...not really. But I will...cope?" is all I can get out, as she
just reminded me of what I said during that workout and I almost killed
her during it!
"Hey what's this all about Toni?" Mary asks.
"Kyley, she had a bad session with Bellows is all and she needs some
time?"
I glare up at her before she speaks more, that gets her to say softly to
me "Hey what I overheard? I promised Ito, to never tell? But if you want
too? I can listen?"
I give her a nod and she closes the door with "Hey I want a rematch
...someday!" she gives me a evil grin and is out the door.
Mary turns back to me to begin, asking softly a question "You want to
talk?"
"No not really? I would like to...fly a bit? And maybe you....give me a
tour of the campus?"
Mary slides off her bed, goes to the window opens it and stretches to
lookout of it. After a second or so, she leans back in "Well we can do
that, the flag is green"
Hank laughs at her "You did not read the new book on the rooms
here...did ya?"
She studies him for a second and gets a little cross with him "NOPE have
not had the time!"
"Well that panel over your door?" he points to "It has both the flag for
the school and our cottage on it! See the green light is showing on
both! Then add the other there is for the ...ahhhmmm tub?" he looks at
me embarrassed.
Lily looks up and notes it all "Hey its all green and even the tub is
open? Maybe we should go?"
Hank squeaks "Me alone with the three of you?....in...in the tub?" he
then stutters out.
I then feel a wave of embarrassment off him and a load of lust. I then
catch him eyeballing both Mary and me.
Mary shakes her head to him "Nope! not going to happen! You know that I
can barely stand you here...in the tub cave? NO WAY!"
"What is tub? and you can't stand him?" I ask her.
Lily speaks for her "The tub is a hot tub...a rather large one in a cave
next to the cottage. Then poor Mary" she starts sassing her "Can't be
near guys. It makes her a little sick?"
After she says that, I finally notice why Mary is on the bed, as far as
she can get from Hank.
"But its just a hot tub, why is he so embarrassed?"
Lily informs me "Its nude honey!" she then grins at her boyfriend.
I sound more than overjoyed "Nice! Just like at home!"
Mary tilts her head to me "At home you had a hot tub"
"No....well yes sort of? But...home no one wore clothes near at
all...except...very rare events?"
Hank is now totally beet red faced at the thoughts and stares at me,
while he asks "So all of your family?"
"Yes the whole family and...castle I lived in, several thousand or more
at times?"
He gulps "Did they all look like you?"
"You mean wings or beautiful?"
"Ahhhmmm both? I guess?" then Lily slaps his side at the question.
"Yes and some even better than I?"
"Ohh brother! What a place that must have been?"
I sigh "It was."
Mary sees that pain of mine and knows it well...too well of late "Hey we
are all fliers lets go, we can unpack this crud later!"
Then Mary flings the window open and gets in the frame to leap out "last
one to the store buys!"
Then she leaps out, almost the foot she can get out the window and
clears her wing span. She starts to beat them fiercely to gain speed and
keep from falling.
I spring out of the chair, then jump out next and just fall. As I know I
am up over forty feet. So I use the fall to its fullest and pull up,
just as the ground comes up to me. After that fall and my pulling up. I
look back to still see both Hank and Lily in the window, their faces
seemed shocked at my action.
"Hey you better get going? I may not know...store at? But I will beat
you both there?!"
After I used the fall for speed, I pull up to Mary very fast and then
pass her. I look back as I do, to see both Hank and Lily coming out of
the window as fast as they can.
I pull up to gain height, to get my bearing on what is where. I remember
that there is only one real big store on campus and I aim for it. Far
below me I see Mary going for a set of metal rings on tall poles.
She yells up and me "Hey...try this out!"
Then she darts through one big ring, to yet one more in the line of
them. I note one thing? She is going for the larger ones and seems to
stay away from most of the smaller ones that would only fit her body.
"OHHH! a challenge" I yell at her "You think you can fly better than me!
I was born....this!"
My body slides into a quick spin to better line up with the smaller
rings and then I dive at them from up high. As I 'bomb' through the
first one, I tuck in my wings and pass through it, at over a hundred.
Then, as the ground comes up at me, I give one giant beat to them, use
the speed for lift and dart through the next one. A show off spiral to
the next and I am done with the first set, she showed me.
Mary glides around to me and yelps out "Your nuts! Even my teacher, does
not do that crazy stuff?"
"Well then? I guess, I can teach your classes with you?"
"You mean a teachers assistant like me?"
I shrug to her "I guess?"
I then see one of the many flag poles near the rings, fly up to it and
perch on top with one leg. Then wait to see if Hank and Lily do the same
run on the rings and they both do...just a bit slower than me and Mary.
I laugh at them both, as they fly through the rings "So I guess
one...you is buying?"
Hank yells at me, from the last ring in the set "Show off!"
I laugh once more at him and leap off the pole, to go keep up with Mary.
After a few minutes of flight, she lands just in front of me at the
store. Just behind me was Lily and Hank was last. My bet is, he lost on
purpose to be the 'gentleman' that he is.
Hank then opens the door for us, by standing in the automatic door! Then
Mary leads us all over to the ice cream and lunch counter. She points at
the long list of what's available "So what do you want? As it seems Hank
is buying?"
I look a the mile long list! My mind has no idea what to get, there is
just so darn much! "Heck I don't know? I....only had....few of these?"
Lily laughs at me "Don't get out much?"
Mary after she hears that, almost scolds Lily "Hey I know you have not
been told this! But Kyley only came to here...our world, last April. She
has some catching up to do?"
Both Hank and her look at each other and then back to Mary "What?" they
both sound out.
Then Hanks adds "You told me you were an older Avatar like mutant...but
not that?"
I am about to say something when Mary jumps in for me "She was is some
kind of hibernation at Homestake, for One hundred and Fifty years, then
woke up in April? So she told me on the train in?"
I nod at her glance to me "That... about right?"
Mary laughs a little at me "You left out that 'is' again?"
"Thanks? I do need that help"
Hanks asks her "What was that for?"
"She also just got into learning english and has trouble with it?"
I nod back again "I do."
"Well, I will try and help with that? But lets eat!" Hank says, as he
gets to the counter and gets a salespersons attention.
He turns back to me "So what did you want again Kyley?"
"I don't know? Can you pick...good one for me?"
"Humm how about a mint chocolate, then I know Lily likes strawberry and
Mary? ...what did you want?"
"I'll take the fudge brownie!" she beams.
"Okay Three cones of those!" he tells the salesperson.
After we all get served, the group goes outside to sit and enjoy the
day. Hank finds us a nice couple of benches to sit on. I note that once
again, Mary keeps away from Hank, as best she can and sits next to me on
the bench facing the one that Hank and Lily got. Once we are all
settled, we start to chatting.
"So Kyley? What are you studying as a major here?" Hank asks me.
After I get a good yummy lick on that cone, I say "Well I am studying
Magic and the basics, then my major is mathematics... Advanced Hyper
Dimensional Non-Euclidean Mathematics ...Dimensional gate mathematics
and magic... Thaumaturgy, Numerology and Mystic Algebra...Mathematics of
Quantum Neutrino Fields" I spurt out and go back to licking the cone.
After his eyes uncross...."Wow! So I guess your the math wiz for this
freshman class then?"
"I guess? They sent me here to learn...how...be a person here and then I
am to work in the library here?"
"So what's your job there?" Lily asks.
"In the library....I am going to translate most of the Class 'X'
section. Then the one at ARC and the Medawihla tribes."
Lily looks at me in shock, as she stops eating her cone "CLASS 'X'?
that's nuts! It might hurt you?"
Mary shakes her head at Lily, while she licks that cone of her's
"Nope...she can do it. Belle and I met her on the train in and Belle
confirmed it. One of the books she was reading at the time, was Class
'X' stuff."
Hank adds in "I guess Mary has been told what Kyley is?" and she nods
back to him "Well Lily...what Kyley is like in some ways, is a 'GOO'
like Sara. BUT she does not feed like she does?"
I nod my thanks to Hank "Thanks for telling her this?"
He then adds in "She told me, she is or has the memories of a being,
that is or was Five hundred thousand years old?"
"Hank's right for...most part. But I 'AM' that being, not just the
memories. Then I was that old when I died...that was long time ago? I
think? I am still finding out....things."
Mary asks me, after she tosses her trash from the cone away "So what are
your powers Kyley? As mine is easy...I just have the wings. Lily...you
saw fly and has invisible shields of a type. Then Hank here, he can wrap
his body in a shield and is strong."
I drop my trash in the same can, after I get up and then turn back to
her "Well I do magic" as I say that last word. I zap her top clean of a
spot of the ice cream that fell there.
She looks at it, after I am done and giggles out "Well that saves on
wash day! But I noticed you don't say words or use jesters of your
hands?"
"Who needs that? All those are, is a crutch, that some use to help their
mind do what it does naturally? I don't need or use them?"
"Humm I will have to ask Belle about that?"
Hank asks "Well what else!" egging me on playfully.
"I have this.." then I wrap my hand in my life force glow "its
part...me, it can heal or hurt....it hurt some more than other?"
"You mean 'hurts' and 'others' ..might be the better word there, with
the S on both? Then I think you missed a 'of' again?" Mary corrects me.
Hank jumps in quickly I thinks it should be "it can also hurt some
people more than others?.... is what I think would be best?"
I laugh at both of them "With this much help I will get english in
...weeks?"
"in A few weeks!" Mary sings out at me.
"Thanks Mary...but what else can she do? I am curious?" Hanks tones out
dryly.
"Well I can do this!" and then I pop up to full size, as my armor flows
out.
"Holy shit!" Hank yelps as, he goes to protect Lily in a gallant way.
Mary on the other hand, just stands back and says "COOL! Big and with
wings like me!"
Mary then gets closer and feels over my armor a little, as she asks "Why
so black?"
"It....one thing that happened to me. A curse and a gift at the same
time. I am...or was the only one, who had this color...all...rest were a
nice silver!"
I then call my Axe out, for them "Then there is my weapon. My
Axe...I...not going to use it much here at school, as I have seemed to
have lost some control over it of late?"
As Mary looks at it and before I can even stop her..... she touches it.
I am more than shocked to see her still standing there...not laying on
the ground, DEAD or blasted to bits.
As she runs a finger on the flat of the blade, to feel its metal. My
mind races to question my Axe ~"Why does she live....you killed all the
other humans who touched you?"~
~"She has a part of 'us' in her....the wings show that. It maybe
small...near nothing, but its there?"~ it says back.
After I am done 'talking' I shift back to my new normal. Then sit back
down, as I think on this. As I do, Night wants to come out and I let
her.
Night 'pops' out, perches on the other bench and looks over the other
three. she cranes her head about examining each in turn.
Mary is instantly 'drawn' to the bird "Who is this Kyley?" she beams at
me.
As she spoke, that got my attention back "Oh, this is Night...my
companion in life."
"Cool, can I pet her?"
"Go ahead...she seems to be in a good mood today?"
Mary pets on Nights back and scratches her neck. And Night seems to be
loving it all, as she moves her head about, to be scratched by Mary all
over.
~"I like this human...your Axe is right, she has just the smallest part
of us in her? Maybe one of those you sent here..."~
~"What!.... mated with the humans or the elves of here?"~ I ask her.
~"Well they were here for a few months?....before the gates crashed and
fell and trapped all here. So its possible that all of them did...before
meeting death?"~
~"I will have to think about this...more"~....a light of some hope, that
some here might be kin? Dawns on me.
I watch on, as Mary stokes Nights feathers even more and she pets her
even more. Sh