#optare-modus

[b-raypokemontime]

Good Morning Starshine

(Continued from HERE )

All around her was dark and cold. Too cold to shiver. A figure outlined in red light was beckoning to her... but something told her that was not the way to go. It was not where she needed to be. Sluggishly her senses stretched out into the darkness. Like hounds searching for a scent to follow they trolled the inky blackness. Balia however could clearly see herself despite the darkness that pressed in all around her. She'd look down at her hands and limbs and they were glowing. With a soft light that kept the frigid blackness from fully seeping into her. She waited, and waited. Thinking over what had happened and regretting many things. She was so tired and so frustrated that sometimes she just wanted to let the darkness take her. It would be so easy to do.

But that was not who Balia was. She was made of laughter, song, and above all fire. She burned bright with life and with the desire to live. So she waited. Till her psychical senses found the way she needed to go. Away from the beckoning form that felt distinctly of suffering and malice. She was sure that thing had something to do with the curse that was put on her. But for some reason it wouldn't... or couldn't just reach out and take her.

With a clarity she understood that it could not. It wasn't strong enough.

Not yet at least. Time was short and if she could find no help to rid her of this blight on her, she would have to BE her own help. Like it had always been.

But first there was something she needed to do. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Quiz was laying across the end of the hospital bed. Whiskers twitching as the small child that had been coming to visit for the last week walked in again. Miri was greeted with licks and a wagging tail from Aragh and a sleepy cooing hoot from Sorrin. Duchess Ava gave a chirp and sparks waved sleepily from a chair. Aragh was circling Miri as he wagged his tail. Begging for pats like the big goofball he was when it happened.

Balia's hand twitched, and then her mouth. Her eyes fluttered open only to close again like they weighed a metric ton. She fought to keep them open un-noticed by most in the room but finally they stayed open. Darting around the room as she didn't know where she was. Almost in a panic she breathed in sharply, alerting those in the room now that she wasn't asleep anymore.

[b-raypokemontime]

Parasitical Predicament pt2

(Continuing from Part 1 )

She lay there on the kitchen floor un-moving. And as the two men quickly moved to her side the air around her was rife with energies. Buzzing around her like swarming bees. The lights in the kitchen were starting to flicker and dim, and as they dimmed it was apparent that Balia was glowing softly. The glow seemed to be concentrated around her head and shoulders. There was a sudden rushing sound and Kai and Koma watched as her hair grew rapidly right in front of them. It surged across the floor as if alive; in curls and waves around their feet.

Then the lights when out completely. The only light in the room was coming from Balia herself. And then the soft white glow around her head faded and all was left was an angry ominous light surrounding her left forearm. It burned with a sickening radiance and a malicious pressure settled heavily on their shoulders. Quiz could be heard hissing angrily in the kitchen and a moment later there was an explosion. Sickly light burst from Balia's wrist and the scar there. Greens, purples, and black; dark and oozing like something from a nightmare surged from the strange eye shaped scar. It quickly formed a hulking monstrosity. Shifting and pulsating with malice and greed as it pulled itself into a shape they could understand. The creature ‘s main bulk was held up by many arms some gross cross between a squid or a spider, but with very human like hands on the ends. Several monstrous green eyes glared at the three in the room as it crouched over Balia's prone form. It’s fanged maw opened to reveal glowing teeth in fearsome rows. One of it's arms bore a grey chain that stretched tautly down to Balia's arm. And the parasitic nature of this abomination's bond with Balia was horribly apparent. Not to mention how deadly it was to the poor woman on the floor if it was to remain attached to her. It was only a matter of time before it broke free and consumed her whole.

The creature screamed at everyone in the room in defiance and frustration, for as it tugged at the chain, the chain was tugging the monster slowly back down to the mark on the woman's arm. It scrabbled to find some sort of hold in the kitchen but it did not have a corporeal form yet so it's hands just passed right through things. And so with nowhere to go and nothing to hold onto this monstrosity was sucked back into the scar Balia's arm. Letting off one more angered scream before disappearing for now.

The lights flickered back on like nothing happened. And Balia still lay there, hair covering the kitchen floor, looking like she wasn't breathing. In this moment she had never looked more fragile and vulnerable.

[b-raypokemontime]

So... My arm caught on fire today. I didn’t tell anyone though. Because I didn’t want word to get back to Koma that I was in possession of an 

UNLAWFUL FIREARM!

Didn’t wanna get arrested. ;D