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Post by Creator on Mar 18, 2008 16:45:00 GMT -5
Adren landed with a tremor about ten yards away, absorbing the shock with his entire body as he scrunched down, then turned to face Rei. He was wincing in pain, baring sharp teeth as he clutched his shoulder. Letting out a roar, his legs wavered and he fell to his knees. He began to sweat, and not just a little. Semitransparent gray slime oozed off his body like rain, and he began to shrink. Before too long, he was back to his normal self, panting heavily in a pool of gray liquid. He wasn't paying attention to Rei anymore, and might have even forgotten about her. He wasn't too sure what was going on at the moment.
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Post by [red].Raven on Mar 18, 2008 20:32:06 GMT -5
When Adren landed, Rei winced awfully as the tremors spread through the field and right into her body. "Take it easy." she growled out halfheartedly through clenched teeth, moaning as she gingerly cradled her left side. Managing, with a good deal of discomfort, to roll onto her back, Rei rest her head back against the grass and closed her eyes, expression set in a scowling grimace. Without command or instruction, her wings, tail, claws, and talons all returned to her body while her legs seemingly snapped back into proper human limbs. But, there was something different about this change that might be cause for worry.
The tattoos did not disappear or fade away.
The intricate markings remained an inky black against her only minutely tanned flesh; still quite pale in comparison to a normal being, but darker than Rei's norm. Her arms, hands, parts of her fingers, and upper thighs were all still decorated with the eerie designs, though the girl did not seem to notice at the moment. Groaning, she lulled her head to one side to peer over at the excessively sweaty Adren. Her squinted eyes narrowed even more, as if trying to register what she was seeing. "The hell is wrong with you..."
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Post by Creator on Mar 18, 2008 21:21:57 GMT -5
Adren looked up at Rei, scowling as he tried to catch his breath. He was running on empty at this point, and soon stopped breathing altogether, as it was merely for show and wasted precious energy. His mind was a mess right now, left all mixed up as he slowly regained himself. He struggled to his feet, covered in scratches and cuts, but no bruises of course. His pants were torn and he didn't bother forming a new shirt - it would be a waste of energy too.
"You... how are you still... alive?..." He staggered forward, making it just past the pool of gray before falling again. He began to eat grass, though he wasn't moving as quickly as he had been before. He ate steadily, moving gradually toward Rei in the process. His eyes were back to normal, which was a good sign. Perhaps this girl could help him achieve a full transformation someday. That is, if she got strong enough to beat his semi-transformed self into a pulp. It was a conflicting thought for Adren. On one hand, he wanted the kind of power his brother had had. But on the other, he couldn't tolerate the thought of being beaten to that degree.
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Post by [red].Raven on Mar 18, 2008 21:36:14 GMT -5
Rei's mind raced, but raced as though through molasses. The thoughts built up quickly, but it took a while for them to really get anywhere. So, Adren was getting closer. Adren had been, for the most part, a dangerous enemy. Rei wasn't moving to get away, just staring. Hm, perhaps this is bad? Coughing once and then moaning against the pain in her side from said cough, which had come from her weakened state, which could be tied to said side, Rei slowly wiped the blood from her mouth with the back of one hand and stared at it. 'Alive...?' The girl blinked slowly, transfixed on her hand, eyes traveled down the length of her trembling arm and taking in the sight of the tattoos, finally, for the first real time since they appeared. "Alive..." she whispered absentmindedly. "...is that what I am?"
As if breaking from a daze, Rei's gaze found its way back to Adren, who was already a wary distance away; just getting to be a bit too close for Rei's liking after all that had happened. "I told you... you, no one, can kill me." she wheezed out in between deep breaths. The girl struggled to sit upright, using one arm to push against the ground while the other babied her ribs; she didn't get far, needless to say. She released a muffled cry before falling back down onto the ground with a painful thud, wincing. "Stay away from me..." she hissed weakly with as much acid that she could muster at the moment.
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Post by Creator on Mar 18, 2008 21:49:46 GMT -5
"What's the matter?" Adren asked, laughing hoarsely. "Nobody can kill you, remember? Though if I hadn't wasted so much energy before going all-out, I'm sure I could've done a lot worse. But I let attack after attack hit me, just to piss you off, and I didn't have enough left to finish the job." He continued to eat, now having just enough energy to reveal the hunger behind his greedy feast. His pants repaired themselves, and a new shirt formed from his torso, but he didn't risk any more than that. All the grass in this field wouldn't satisfy his hunger, and he knew that. He had to find some place, a forest, or a city. Someplace with a lot of things to tear off or eat alive.
"Face the facts. You're in a worse state than I am right now. Are any of your bones broken? Are you bleeding? What a shame." He stopped to eat a few mouthfuls of grass. "If you pass out now, I can kill you. I can eat you. If I pass out, what can you do? Tear me to pieces? Blow me apart? It may take me some time, but I'll always come back. There's nothing you can do." He winced, then grinned, struggling to keep his eyes open. "No matter how hard you work to quench the fire, something else will start to burn. A leaf will catch a spark and land in a grassy field." He held up his thumb between himself and Rei, and stared. "That's all I need. Reduced to the size of your thumbnail, I will live, however long it takes to restore myself. I may be gone for a year, but I will always come back. You... if you have a cut for too long, you will bleed and die. You're nothing... an insignificant insect. So vulnerable, so vincible." He lowered his head, still eating.
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Post by [red].Raven on Mar 18, 2008 22:10:58 GMT -5
Rei's fingers dug into the thick grass, and for a moment, she was completely still and completely silent. "...where do you keep your soul?" she muttered as though she was a person asking both herself and Adren who had no prior knowledge of the two beings. Then, all at once, Rei cried deep within her throat- but didn't release any noise completely- and heaved herself into an upright position. Not a second passed before she first hung her head low to cough blood onto the grass beside her, and then threw it back sharply and let out the suppressed cry from before. Okay, sitting up, bad idea, but it was too late to wuss out of it now. Eyes hardly open more than pained slits, Rei glared at nothing in particular. "I can break, and I can bleed. I can hurt and feel pain. If I lose an arm, that arm is gone for good. Take my eyes, and I will be forever blind. But..." Rei wheezed weakly, breathing only somewhat healthier sounding, though heavy with unwanted fluids. "I cannot die."
The last words Rei spoke were not vicious or meant to be cruel and arrogant. They actually sounded quite sad, her tone softening with each word she coughed out. But, all at once, the ferocity of her voice returned. "You live like an animal... you are truly thickheaded."
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Post by Creator on Mar 18, 2008 22:27:23 GMT -5
"I don't have one," he said, "and I'm not really a person or an animal. I'm a tool, whose fellow tools killed their master years ago. Now I do what I want." He stood, grinning. "You can lose limbs, you can go blind, and regardless of what you think, you can die. I can't do any of that. In sixty years when you're an old woman, I'll still look like this. Maybe slightly older, but not enough to really notice. Talk all you want. When I'm back to normal..." He staggered over to her, grinning widely. "...I'll feast on your dead body. Or your living body. I'm not picky. I'll open your heart and drink the blood out of your skull." His mouth was stretching as wide as his face, lined with rows of teeth to match his threats. "I would do it now, but we've both had a long day."
He began to make his way slowly toward the building, then stopped. "By the way," he said over his shoulder, "what you saw earlier... that is nothing. The difference in strength between my normal state and that... the full transformation makes that look like a joke. It can destroy anything. Anything at all, no matter how durable. It can destroy everything."
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Post by [red].Raven on Mar 18, 2008 22:46:19 GMT -5
When Adren approached, Rei could do nothing but glare hard up at him from her painful position on the ground, body trembling with the whole ordeal and rigid with stale adrenaline. She was going to make plenty of comments about how his words were nothing but empty, meaningless sounds, but decided she was far too out of it for that. When Adren finished speaking, what had started out to be a round of dry laughter quickly turned into a bout of violent, bloody coughs. "I could say-" More coughs and wheezes constantly interrupted her words. "-say the same to you.... what you saw... was nothing compared to what-" One particularly violent tremor rippled through her. "-to what I could be." Adren had no idea. Not a clue as to what she could've become. Though... Rei also didn't understand why he hadn't seen it already. The fight was brutal and full of injuries on both ends... so why was she still human? Why was she still in control? Was she in control?
"A long day... is that your excuse?" A faint grin tugged at her expression, but she dared not laugh for fear of another coughing fit. "Just leave me..." she mumbled, utterly exasperated "Leave me to what I had before you came stopping into the picture; solitude." Rei's eyes slid shut and she grit out. "Just leave me alone." Why did it almost sound as though she were not directing her words toward Adren completely?
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Post by Creator on Mar 18, 2008 22:48:52 GMT -5
Adren turned back slightly, grinning. "I don't need an excuse. I'm already starting to feel better. No real wounds, and once I eat I'll be as good as new. But by all means, rest. Heal. Take your time. I'll be visiting you again soon." And with that, he walked off dramatically.
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Post by [red].Raven on Mar 18, 2008 22:59:39 GMT -5
Supported by shaky arms, Rei glared at Adren all the way until he disappeared from view. But even then, she remained frozen in time. Her breathes were greedy and deep, but also slow and rhythmic. Things weren't supposed to be this way. Rei was supposed to be at the Academy, reading or maybe just sitting alone somewhere and knowing that everything was okay. Better yet, she should be far away from all of society, ensured that for a time at least, the world around her would be safe. As her fingers dug into the lush grass, a muffled sound escaped her throat; something very similar to a sob. She lifted her arm from her side and stared at it, wishing like nothing else that this bad dream would just go away. These marks... these changes... this pain. 'Make them go away...'
Soundlessly, Rei lowered herself onto her good side and curled up as best she could with the least amount of pain. One wing emerged from her back to curl over her form like a shield while every aspect of her being slowly slipped into a fit of unconsciousness.
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