More Meteor Showers Bring Even Stranger Powers. (O/A)

[Nova Blancke]

Legio's exterior liquefied for a moment before hardening to the to it's most extreme, forming a shell over him. Fenris's six or rather...duodecuple arms wrapped around him and she detonated. His sense of sight, smell, taste, hearing. All of those vanished as he removed/covered them. He felt the sheer force of the explosion. His newly hardened exoskeleton rattled with the impact. and cracks began to rapidly form. It was impossible to see right now but Legio was excited. He had promised Freya a chance for revenge and now she was growing rapidly in power. Exceeding what she had before. It would be interesting to see what she could do against Eclipse when fully mastered her power.

As the rumbling from the blast stopped, the exoskeleton crumbled. Legio did feel like he was running low on biomass. There was still that pile of bodies back in Valhalla.He actually looked a bit skinnier.

Walking over to Fenris he responded.

"Hardly. Now stop pretending to be in pain. That's all in your mind." He responded before sitting down.

"You do need to pace yourself. Freedom without any form of control isn't freedom. It's Chaos."  

[Rikki Tikki Travi]

Fenris slowly craned her neck in Legio's direction with a simultaneously annoyed, angry, wild, and bewildered look in her eyes. "Oh go eat a giant bag of dicks you fair faced ********! You suck, more now than before, because you had the ******** audacity, to use my memories of my father to get into my head. It was one thing when you just quoted him, that I could kinda appreciate and might've actually thanked you for. But then...then...you had to go and put his face over your smug-a** one! I'd ask if you realize how ******** up that is, but of course you don't!"

She grunted and hoisted herself into a seated position. "And for your information, I couldn't really pace myself if I wanted to then! Whatever that aura is, it responded to you and made me wrong on pure instinct so that there'd be no real pattern to my movement! It paced itself to you! This body is still very new to me, so I don't know it's ins and outs. We, and by we I mean real people, aren't born just knowing how s**t works! I was just starting to get it, but then you..,fu-cking YOU...put my Dad's face on your SMUG-a** ONE!"

She grabbed a clump of soil and threw it as hard as she could at Legio's head. She knew it wouldn't really hurt him, but the act gave her the smallest sense of catharsis. "I'll keep feeling pain if I goddamn want to! It gives me some semblance of humanity. You gave me this body which, again, I didn't WANT...but I will use it as I see fit! I'm not your ward, your student, ******** whatever else! You may have Freya and Okami's memories, you may know their past, but you don't understand it! AUGH! I've never known someone who pisses me off this much, and that is REALLY saying something!"

She brought her knees up to her chest and placed her hands over her face in such a way that allowed her muzzle to still be exposed. She huffed with exhaustion and frustration. Without a shift in her position she growled, "And I swear to GOD! If your say some s**t about throwing a tantrum I will obliterate both of us with the black aura and ******** love it."  

[Nova Blancke]

Theo nodded. Yeah that made sense for as much sense it could make. He still found it strange that a whole flying island was there with freaking elves and beastmen or Baste's that was never detected in this age. But with magic and s**t like that involved he supposed it was to be expected.

What was NOT expected was what happened next. Her crying out was unsettling but what came after that was just unwordly. Quickly using his power to block most of the sounds. This was not going the way it should have. Rydia was not letting go.

He rushed forward to Rydia to get her grasp off of Sil. But damn that spectral claw and her own had a too firm of a grip. Ako joined in and they managed to remove her grip after which Sil wanted to do nothing but bash her head into the ground and Rydia was laughing like she heard the most dark joke ever.

Gidget moved over and....slapped her back to reality.

"Did you not see that one coming Alec?" Theo asked him.  

[PixelMuse]

Trinity looked away from the incident as it was recommended by the princess to not have her mind melted. Needless to say, she couldn't help but feel terrible about having to subject Sil to such agony. To have her suffer so much in a matter of seconds, she wanted to protect her as Sil had protected her but she couldn't. The only thing that gave her some solace was the fact Sil was aware of what she was getting into, she knew it had to be done and that she could bounce back after some time.

Alec and the others managed to pull them apart. There was no question of how these seconds with Rydia's eye had an effect on her. She observed her trying to kill herself she came closer to her, she wanted to soothe her somehow but instead, Sil returned to the shadow realm, and shortly after her wails were silent. She couldn't sense her fully but could sense she was alive but unconscious.

Rikki Tikki Travi

Gidget rolled a chair over to Rydia so the princess could take a moment to catch her breath. She huffed, "Jesus Christ...is everyone okay? Trin, how're you and Sil?"

Trinity took a deep breath then looked to Gidget. "Yeah, I'm okay. Sil... she's unconscious right now. She told me before that she can bounce back but it would take some time."

She looked to Rydia as she pointed out she had a story to tell. Hopefully it isn't as bad as what her initial reaction displayed . Trinity grabbed the nearest seat sitting leaning forward on the back of the chair paying attention to what Rydia would share.  

[BeaMichelle]

Theresa was momentarily distracted from the awful screaming when she felt a gentle hand rub her back. It was another new sensation that she had been starved of. She was taken aback at first, but she settled down a little once she realized the rhythmic rub actually felt good.

Almost as soon as the noise started it was over. She looked up at Kerana and nodded in response to the animal girl's answer to the dark boy. Something new began to bubble in Theresa. It was a sensation that made her face turn read and her stomach twist painfully. She didn't know the word for it, but it was shame. The girl with many names couldn't believe that she'd just clasped onto the closest person to her the moment she felt scared. It had to have been Thea's part of her that caused such a panicked response.

Her lips pursed in frustration until Kerana mentioned having to listen to Rydia. Kerana's kind smile and gesture to sit by her swiftly alleviated any sense of shame Theresa felt. Maybe, she thought, it isn't so bad to be vulnerable...with the right people.

She shuffled over to Kerana and plopped down close enough to rub elbows. She looked down at the food that was still in her hand and felt yet another new desire. Kerana had been good to her. Theresa felt the need to be good to Kerana. With that thought in mind, she broke off a piece of her Snickers into her palm and offered it to Kerana without a word.  

[Rikki Tikki Travi]

Gidget felt a huge weight come off of her shoulders when Trinity explained her and Sil's condition. With how the ancient had been affecting Trinity the last month she was half afraid that her best friend would end up crazy too. She was happy to see that wasn't going to be the case.

She heard the sound of plastic rolling on tile and looked over to see that Ako had offered her a chair. She smiled in appreciation and gladly took advantage of his kind gesture.

Alec sighed with relief when Kerana confirmed that she and Theresa were alright. Then came Theonis' question. At first Alec was annoyed by what he initially felt was an accusation of putting the group in danger by not warning them. That was quickly replaced by confusion and doubt as he tried his best to recall if he had actually seen what had just happened play out in his future vision. Upon further reflection-

"Ah...no. No I didn't. That shouldn't be possible. Now that I think a little harder on it, there was a gap where Rydia started and then stopped. But it's not like there's a black space. It was like a poorly edited video, just a jump. I didn't think much about it because it didn't seem important and we were all alive, but I think that eye actually caused my future vision to, for lack of a better description, glitch out."

Rydia groaned, "That really isn't important right now. Could you please be quiet so I can relay what I saw?"

"Just a moment longer. They should be here right about-"

Heather and Deora stepped through the still mangled doorway and took a second to get a good look at all the people that were gathered and how a few of them looked like they were recovering from a nasty hangover.

"Whoa. Did we miss something?" Heather asked.

"We thought we heard someone yelling in our heads." Deora added. "For some reason we both felt like we should be here."

With everything that had been explained to her, Gidget had a feeling that they felt it because they were part of what Alec had call "The Eight."

She nodded and gestured towards what empty chairs were left. "It's a good thing that you're here, girls. I'm pretty sure what the Princess is about to tell us involves you two as much as it does Trinity, Theonis, Theresa, Alec, and Kerana."

Heather and Deora looked at each other, then back at Gidget and the others. Their sense of dread could be felt by each other and only served to make it worse. They each grabbed a chair and took a seat, their ears ready to take in what Rydia had to say.

Rydia wait a few more seconds after the fire and water metas took their seats so that everyone had a moment to listen up. With a deep breath, a long exhale, and a rub of her temples with her fingers she began to speak in a tone that was both tense and exhausted.

"So...I don't even know how to soften what I just saw, so please don't be cross with me for just telling you exactly what transpired in Silhouette's past...and beyond. What she told some of us yesterday isn't entirely accurate. It's through no fault of her own, not just because of her brother, but because the act of coming to this world caused fifteen of the Ancients to forget some of the most important details. Actually, I think it might just be easier to start from her earliest memories."

"Their world wasn't the Utopia that her mother supposedly told her it was. It was advanced, yes, but it wasn't perfect. She was born into conflict, and it was with the bio beasts created by many Legionesque horrors. Her people, the Primantigua, were being guided by small group of immortal people toward victory, just like we are. Those immortals led eight of them to the moon to eradicate the Hellstar, just like she's doing."

"What they found, though, wasn't a means to destroy the Hellstar, but to reset everything. The immortals didn't know, just like the Silhouette and the other fourteen don't know. When Coia, or Anima as Silhouette would know him, looked into the past of their saviors, he found that the immortals had been lied to as well, but not knowingly. He suspected, just like I do, that this is an event that has repeated itself since time immemorial. At some point, an astronomically long time ago, someone on another version of this planet first encountered the Hellstar, and when faced with certain death, decided to send eight people to an ancient world and try again. But something went wrong, and the process of resetting the world altered their memories."

"It's happened time and time again. Eight people are sent back (some immortal, some not) they forget things, they try and pass on what they know before the coming of the Hellstar, but it results in the same thing each time with a different group of eight people. But there was something different about the parents of the Primantigua, they didn't go back. They knew that their status as the Eight allowed them to use their powers in a way that would grant their children immortality and keep the Hellstar at bay for an extended period of time. They entrusted their knowledge among sixteen children and sacrificed themselves to make sure that they would have a way to recover their lost memories. They imbued the reset planet with their own souls so that there'd be an abstract record of the truth. When Silhouette and the other Ancients awoke in the new world, they'd all forgotten the truth as had happened every time before...all but one."

Rydia took a moment to rub her hands together and steady her nerves. When she was ready they spoke again. "Eclipse was the only one who retained the truth. He knew, but he kept it to himself. Silhouette didn't realize until it was too late. By the time she began to piece together that he was hiding something, he'd arranged a way to corrupt her body and her mind. He then began to systematically orchestrate the death's of the others save for Crosis. She knew this because he'd come to where she'd been locked away and gloated before he'd wipe her memory again. It was then that he told her of his grand scheme."

"As a boy, Eclipse used his power to try and read the memory of the Hellstar so that they'd perhaps find a way to kill. Anima had told him not too, since his own father had been driven to suicide by using his infinite eye to attempt the same feat. But the boy didn't listen, and he did it anyway. He was touched by the unfathomable mind of a creature that'd fed on countless worlds but kept being halted when it came to this one. The creature revealed to him that the world had not been reset as many had been made to understand. Every attempt at starting from zero was actually a jump to another point in time for that world. Each jump somehow resulted in a copy of the creature. The creature was one with every other instance of itself and thus was made to exist in all moments in time. Eclipse saw this and lost his mind. The other's thought he was simply traumatized by the event, and maybe he was, but it was then that he started to wonder if perhaps killing the Hellstar was impossible. Perhaps there was some other way to handle it."

"His momentary connection to the Hellstar allowed him to understand that time is not actually like a branching tree limb, a river, or even an ocean. It is like drawing countless lines on a sheet of parchment and then rolling it into a ball. What he attempted to do today, and what he plans to do in five months, is to break the Hellstar's seal, possess it, extend his consciousness through all of space time, become a god, and use the Hellstars collective power to recreate existence as he sees fit."

No one said anything, but the pallor of their skin and the expression on their faces said everyhing.  

[Nova Blancke]

Bright golden light everywhere. Normal instinct would be to close your eyes but it was impossible. There were no eyes to begin with. There was...nothing actually. Then how did she managed to perceive anything? Slowly everything started to take shape. Golden strands of light weaved together and merged with what was left above her neck. The light reformed the bone, muscle and skin. Working it's way up until everything went black for her until the same bright light pierced her eyelids. It hurt her eyes like they have never seen light before. She raised her arm to try and shield her eyes from the light. Something that was impossible as the light was all around her. Slowly opening her eyes, her baby blues adjusted to the light as best as they could. They were watery but it couldn't be helped. Once it subsided she was met with the familiar golden streams of light around her. There were some strange winged creatures circling her. No arms or legs. There wasn't even a clear neck or head. It was more like a glowing orb of light with wings attached. The bottom of the wings that was the closest to the main body seem to extend downwards to form a sort of translucent curtain. They weren't an unfamiliar sight but she hadn't run into them a lot. When they noticed her movements they drifted off into the Golden Streams. She was in the Light Realm for sure but how did she get here?

Liv took a deep breath. Air traveled through the newly formed nose. Felt odd. It was difficult to piece together how she got here. Last thing she remembered was Valhalla lifting off and talking to Heather about being an actual couple. But what happened after that? It was no use. She couldn't remember. Her memory felt like static after that point. Fragmented even. She didn't like it at all but couldn't seem to figure it out.

She looked into the streams and quickly found the group in Valhalla. As well as...a new girl? No she looked like that kid that followed Theonis around since yesterday. Her girl was there to. Kerena looking...a lot different from what she remembered. Well...no time like the present.

In the room a light started flickering in the center before Liv materialized. The moment she touched ground her legs became jelly and she landed not quite as gracefully as she intended. Seems like whatever happened took a bigger toll on her than she thought.

"Um....hi."  

[Nova Blancke]

Legio took the 'hit' if you could call it that. He listened to Fenris ramble on as he sat down on the ground with his legs crossed. A small smile appeared on his face that grew bigger before he began to laugh. Not a fake laugh, a genuine full blown hearty laughter. After a while it died down.

"I apologize, I didn't know why that happened. Maybe that last line of yours. There's no need for me to say it if you already have.I intent for you to use that body of yours. If it is all over and you are still around and no longer wish to be so....I can take it away." He didn't prod her any further. Legio took a deep breath and the same colorless shimmering aura surrounded him.

"Hmm...it responds to the user and the user responds to it in a feedback loop. It's an interesting ability."  

[Rikki Tikki Travi]

Heather was still trying to come to grips with what had just been revealed to them. It was all just...so huge. Just over a month ago she was a lizard-meta living with a group of runaways and just living day to day with her not so little brother. One month later and she's a dragoness, Lawrence was murdered, and she was awaiting trial for a revenge killing. A week after that she's abducted and forced to assist in the genocide of hundreds of people the day before her new home is attacked by Daedalus and the US military.

Then her eyes caught the shift of the light spectrum. She watched it gather into the woman she adored. Liv. There she was, and every last part of her was intact. Heather quickly forgot about the world shattering revelation and leaped from her seat toward the new arrival.

Just when she got close enough to reach out and touch Liv she let out a shocked gasp and brought her hands to her mouth. The color left her face as she took in what her eyes saw. It was dried, but the area around Liv's jaw and below her neck was covered in what had to be her blood. The front of Liv's uniform was stained in a pattern that suggested blood had pooled under and around her. The smell of blood, carbon, burnt skin and hair still lingered from the kill shot.

Her hands shook and her golden eyes glassed in preparation for the coming onslaught of tears. She shuffled up to Liv, reached up, and cautiously touched the clean part of her cheek as though it would shatter at the slightest bit of pressure. It was real. She was real. Heather brought her other hand up and cupped the blonde's face in her hands. Liv's eyes were both there. Those wonderful baby blue orbs. She started to wonder if she had imagined seeing one on the roof earlier.

Like an out of control freight train the horrors of the last month hit the dragoness and derailed any attempt to maintain composure. The blood from Lawrence's chest. The fire and screaming from the floating island. All the dead citizens of Valhalla that were killed by her father's power. The battle that morning. Finding what was left of Liv Crystalion on the roof.

Heather slipped her arms under Liv's and desperately drew the light-meta close as close as she could. She wept openly and held onto Liv's torso as though there were a danger of the woman floating away. She buried her face where Liv's neck and shoulders met, not at all concerned about the amount of dried blood that was there.

"I was so scared! When I saw! I thought you'd! But then! I wasn't sure! Oh! OH LIV!" was what she attempted to say. What came out was much less intelligible.

Deora stood up and watched as Heather embraced and wept over the woman the fire-meta wanted. Her heart ached, but not for the reason she thought it would. She was glad that Heather wouldn't have to mourn the loss of another loved one, but she knew that eventually things were going to become much more complicated and stressful. She wiped a happy tear from her eye as she vowed to herself that she'd follow Rydia's advice and be the one that Heather needs.

Ako and Gidget shared looks of shock. She'd told Ako not even an hour ago that Liv was one of the vitals that she saw flatline on the monitor. Yet there she was. It was easily apparent to Ako that whatever had killed Liv was powerful and violent. Gidget's sense of smell was improved due to the pregnancy. She only caught a small whiff of what Heather had, but it was enough to trigger a gag reflex. She quickly covered her mouth and nose then burried her face in Ako's Chest. He started to rub her back in an attempt to calm and comfort her as she fought the urge to vomit.

Rydia was confused by Heather's reaction. She was also slightly vexed by the timing of Liv's arrival. She was happy to see the woman her mother had entrusted the complete infinite eyes to was alive and well, but it was at a moment when the focus needed to be on what she'd seen in Silhouette's past.

That's when her animal senses picked up on what Heather's had. Her vexation quickly became concern. She wanted to inquire as to why she looked the way she did and smelled of death, but she thought better of it in consideration of the fact that Liv wasn't the most important thing at the moment. Well, too all but Heather at least.

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Fenris couldn't believe that she'd been laughed at. At least he had the sense to apologize. She pulled her hands away from her face and glared at him petulantly. If she wasn't covered in fur she'd have been beet red with embarrassment and anger.

She watched him attempt to recreate the what she'd decided to refer to as the prism aura. It wasn't nearly as brilliant as hers had been. She couldn't help but grin with a sense of pride. She decided to offer a theory.

"M'yeah, but I don't think it'll be as effective for you. You've got the right idea, but it's still missing something. It didn't really click until I let go of my angst. It felt sorta like this."

She reached between them and drew a straight line with a small triangle bellow it's center. An example of a lever simple machine.

"This plank is my state of mind. This side, let's call it yin, was stacked with all of my hatred, sorrow, rage, and regret. It's heavy, but when I let it go, it became much lighter and allowed it to shift toward yang. It was that shift that caused the aura to replicate itself and act independently from me. It's like Father said. I could be so much stronger if I just let go. He must've known that the beast in Freya, no matter how domesticated, wouldn't allow her to be at peace. But if she...I could channel it toward something positive then the contrast wouldn't be balanced, but exponential. Like releasing air from a balloon. "

She became silent suddenly and wrapped her arms back around her knees. She sighed and stared at the ground in front of her. "I don't know why I thought to share that with you. It's not like I'm telling you something you don't already know or haven't figured out already. I can't think of any other reason why you lecture me after being alive for, what, a little over a month? And then only really fighting for the last two days."

She tightened her grip around her knees. Her eyes seemed to peer beyond just what was in front of her. "But then maybe that's it. Not only are you ridiculously powerful to begin with, but your innate intelligence allowed you to process their experiences better than I ever could. It just makes me feel so...useless."

She rubbed her eyes with the back of her arm and chuckled cynically. "Don't mind me. I'm too dense to actually be deep. That was Teshoumaru's wheelhouse. Freya, and so I, am just an overemotional, stupid, hothead with an inflated confidence that comes from nothing."

But then he already knows that too, she thought.

"Can I ask you for a favor?" she asked with a hint of exasperation.  

[PixelMuse]

Trinity felt overwhelmed at the gravity of the situation Rydia presented. They were going up against god that wants to reset the world as he sees fit. Her brow furrowed, how does someone prepare for something like that? She hoped Silhouette's recovery was quick and that she might have suggestions on what to do on the matter. She thought about this a little more when her thoughts were interrupted by blinding light her eyes squinted in reaction.

Trinity noticed the woman was covered in blood as if she were somehow decapitated? She knew because of the suit's tech Gidget would have access to their vitals. She noticed Gidget looked rather shocked and so did Heather, seemed to be acting as if she came back from the dead. Is she immortal too? Great... yet another reason Theo could spend more time with her, when I die in battle. she shook that last thought off. Despite the evidence on her neck and shoulders she didn't seem to be aware that she was dead. This may be interesting  

[Nova Blancke]

It was strange walking the deteriorated corridors of a decrepit outpost again. She was instantly on guard again. Felt her shoulders tense up for any sign of attack. She was the mama bear of her group and would destroy anything that was a threat to them. Crystalion felt herself biting her lip when she realized. How easy it was to fall back into that mentality. After all...roughly one third of her life was in this hellscape.

Taking a deep breath she continued. It wasn't long before she found Ravan. Her heart ached when she found her. It was painful to watch this skin over bones, frightened and withdrawn child. Even more when she thought that Ravan might actual be from an alternate version of herself.

"Hey Ravan....there you are...why are you all alone?"

Legio listened to her explanation. He would have responded but it felt rude to interrupt her.

"You may."  

[Nova Blancke]

"Ah must have interrupted something."

Heather was the first to stand up. Liv gave her a gentle smile. It was so good to see her again. Confusion ran through her mind as Heather seemed to be.....shocked? Why?
Heather really seemed to have a hard time. She must have gone through some stuff. Better ask her about it afterwards. Maybe it was that strange unpleasant smell. Heather's hands cupping her face was nice though. Then came the hug which was nice. Heather seemed to let all the emotions go. It didn't make much sense but it must have been hard on her. Liv returned the hug tightly.
It wasn't long before Kerana felt the need to jump in the hug. She always did have nice hugs. She had even more tails no. Wait what? Her hair was...white now. Just what happened when she was out? Also what did she say?

"What do you mean?"


Theo was just taking it all in when Liv manifested, completely ruining his train of thought. His own heightened senses picked up on the smell....what was that? Whatever it was...it wasn't pleasant.