How long had it been since the albino woman had been standing in the spot that she was currently standing? She had only known this place for fifteen years of this so far short cycle, the last six of them had been within a place that those within it could call 'home', that place made the fifteen years she had been through seem like summer camp. It wasn't because the trials she had been put through here had been simpler, they themselves had been hell but she had six others she could lean on for strength, she had never felt alone due to this. It made everything seem fine, well it wasn't exactly like she knew better anyway, she had been raised here since she was a new born. To be honest now she knew her heritage she wondered how they managed to get her. It wasn't exactly like it was any small feat to enter the void let alone the realm of death and steal one of the primordial's children from their crib. Right now she was wearing a plain black training suit like she once wore, her feet bare on the harsh rock filled ground but it didn't seem to bother her, her hands clenching as did her eyes shaking her head "They still don't trust me..." she said to herself as she now wondered if they ever would, she couldn't exactly blame them from their point of view she had left their side not once but twice. Had she been in their positions she likely would have never forgiven them but as she wasn't in their position she couldn't say one way or the other how she would react in their position.
She didn't know why but she felt a sirens call back to her original home, it was like a need for her to be here. She hated this place, this place that turned her and her family into elite weapons of destruction, they had been tasked with cleansing the world so the new gods would be able to 'create' a new utopia but were normal people would likely be praising and praying to them they would be nothing more than puppets to the powerful, wealthy people who had orchestrated the entire situation. She knew they deserved to die for all the pain, suffering and death that they themselves caused via hers and the others hands, still, she had no real wish to make them suffer other than to make sure that they couldn't do this any longer to anyone else. Shaking her head she smiled weakly putting some loose strands of hair behind her ear as a semi gentle gust of wind moving past her the dust from the ground passing her eyes making them close for a second. Her every fibre was telling her to turn turn and run but that was never hers or her families way they pressed on were others would falter and run. Standing there for a few moments longer she felt the pulling stronger than it ever had been, it was like her old home knew she was there standing just on the outskirts of its domain, wanting to welcome her back into the darkness she was raised within "Perhaps something here will help." she said thoughtfully but then she already heard Cirven calling her an idiot for coming here, especially alone. He had already told her that he knew much on each of them, but she had been separated from them meaning whatever they had planed for her wasn't complete. It was part of the reason she felt pulled here she guessed.
After a few long moments she took a deep breath and started to walk forward, her eyes looking one way and the other, she now remembered why she hated this place it was like a maze designed to mess with her, at least after they figured out she read some of the people's minds to get correct paths and know where they had placed traps. She sighed rolling her eyes for a moment before closing them "Feels like I'm back in training..." she complained to herself "Fine, lets do it your way." she said starting to walk completely blind knowing in this place the others could rely on their eyes no navigate this place but she couldn't, she had to rely on her other senses. Was never an easy task and it would have cost her a few times had she even been a fraction slower, she was actually glad that she was always forced to improve one way or another. She moved through the winding secret paths within the mysterious canyon, several times stopping suddenly for a blade to swing past her before continuing. She stopped suddenly at a point that she never would, it was to dangerous for her to have stopped at this point, they released all manner of spirit and beast at this point and she knew she wasn't able to use her magic it only made the things here that much stronger. Hearing a voice she moved to open her eyes, something she knew she mustn't do but still she couldn't help it. The moment she did she felt a pressure around her body that she had never endured before, with her eyes going around the area trying to figure out where the glyph was for this but she couldn't see one and even with her eyes she couldn't see it even with her unusual vision. 'Crap, novice move...' she scolded herself she could already imagine Cirven calling her out on it.
Before her however she seen a younger version of herself, it was the first time she had been allowed outside the facility that was beneath the guild, she had been given three hours to get from the guild hall to the entrance via the hidden trail and she was failing miserably "I remember this... I was so fragile... afraid of the outside world..." she chuckled a little a gentle pinkness coming to her younger self's cheeks as a blue haired boy who had been several meters ahead of her had seemingly turned back and took her hand the big goofy grin she always remembered him wearing "He was always so strong even if they didn't see it..." she turned her eyes away from the memory "He could have easily have completed the task but he didn't... because he stopped to help me... we failed... he failed because I couldn't keep up with him or the others at that point." she remembered the guilt she felt because of the punishment they had to go through due to it, it was so painful, she remembered crying to him apologising that she caused him to go through this but he had never hated her for it, she remembered how he had told him that he would do it again if it ever happened again. It didn't make it any easier on her but she tried her best from that day on to get stronger and faster so he would never have to go through such things again, she had even started to train within her mind so she could strengthen herself in every way. It wasn't always easy given there were times she was just so tired that she couldn't but she still tried, it was how she ended up finding out she was a telepath in the end, something she tried to hide from the scientists and it had worked for several years but all secrets eventually come to the surface.
"These days are behind me, I no longer hold regrets for the suffering I caused him or anyone else for that matter!" she called out her tone holding conviction, her voice echoing around the caverns, as if heard by some unseen force the pressure over her body ebbed making her cough a little, she really did hate this place her eyes once again came to a close as she moved forward but this time she ran dodging traps and jumping up cliff faces as if her muscle memory had finally clicked in. It had been almost seven years since she was last here but her body remembered everything as clearly as if she had just went through this the day before. It wouldn't be to long before she was at the entrance of the guild, the smell of ash in her nose made her open her eyes, it wasn't something she ever remembered here so was curious as to what was before her. "Can tell he was here... what a mess..." she said scratching her cheek a little before laughing "He always did say he'd blow the place up if he got a chance, seems like he got a chance." she giggled but it still made her wonder as to why she felt a pulling to a place that seemed destroyed at least from the outside, then again this guild was not exactly as it ever seemed at least from what she could remember.
She thought about using her magic or even her scythe but that would just let people know someone had been here of late and it was something she would rather avoid if possible. Moving closer she crouched and squeezed through the hole in the door that seemed to be slightly off its hinges and a jar. Walking into the main hall her eyes looked around the place she once called home, she couldn't help but shake a little, this place was never really held many good memories for her or the others. She managed to cope after her reaper abilities had shown themselves by taking the lives of those who seemed to be suffering or she knew wouldn't make the trials that they had to be put through. She always thought of herself as a kind of angel of mercy, turning what she was to do some good for the world but now she realised even if for a good cause she was just as bad as those who made them kill. The only comfort that she got from it when she realised that was the fact she hadn't been ordered to do it, it was because she wanted to do it, she wanted to save them for additional pain and agony. In honesty it was something she often wished that would happen to her and the others within her unit but such prayers went unheard and so unfulfilled it seemed. She also had to wonder at that age why her touch killed, it wasn't like she was given any information on what was going on with her, all she knew was they took additional care with her to the point they kept ever part of their bodies covered and had her bound as she rested. It was so damned uncomfortable from what she could remember but then she would have taken it over what happened in home, then again people tended to avoid her and she couldn't blame them she wasn't exactly normal, her skin colour proved that but then she didn't think anyone there was exactly normal in all honesty.
She started to walk forward her steps leaving no sound, the dust under her feet didn't move, it was like she had never been there in any way. That trick came in handy when it came to her need to assassinate people, can't track something that doesn't leave prints after all. Her eyes kept looking around the area, she hadn't seen this part of the guild why would she? She and the others were hidden under the guild and only released when it suited the needs of those who controlled their lives. When they weren't doing jobs or what they were made for they were going through harsh experiments, training or sparring it wasn't exactly ideal living conditions but they had rooms that had some things that could keep them occupied, food and clothing. The only thing that was limited was their freedom and the time that they could call their own, it was strange that most of the time she wanted to remain by herself at least at first because eventually she spent times with Cirven. She had no idea if it was because of how they trained or just what they were put through but being near him made her happy, before long she was allowed him to wander her mind and she wandered his in ways that the others would never be allowed. Their was one place in her mind however that she would always prevent him going, the door that now laid in ruins thanks to the very person she fell in love with as a child, she didn't mind to much as keeping that part of her locked away was draining in itself but it she knew now it also kept her weaker.
Her door had been destroyed for around a week she thought but as she needed to sleep she didn't really know for certain. Her reaper sight picked up those who had already passed and so her hand went forward collecting the souls as she went, she didn't want them to remain in this terrible place though she guessed many of them actually deserved it, still she had her duties as a reaper and so would fulfil them as and when she could but that was no longer her main priority as far as she seen it. "If nothing else they'll come in useful for something." she said placing a green and blue orb into a pouch that was on her side. It was after around fifteen minutes moving through the winding corridors she came across doors that she recognised all to well that caused her to stop, she wanted to turn away, her every fibre of her body was telling her not to go even a step forward, she could even feel her body shaking right down to her soul and it was something she would rather not feel again but she couldn't turn back not now. With a deep breath she pushed the white doors forward and walked through her eyes looking over the areas that she knew better than she knew herself. Her left her hand going to the wall her fingertips gliding over the pale blue walls, she stopped as she came to the training room she opened the door and looked to the now damaged room. Another memory was triggered here she watched as herself and Cirven had been training but it was the first time they had every fought seriously with each other, she couldn't remember what had caused it but they hadn't held back like they had before. It was during this fight that her reaper abilities manifested and her scythe first turned up, even with this added boost the fight wasn't exactly easy but she ended up leaving several scars on him and she really didn't care.
At the point this happened she wanted him dead, her killer instinct had fully taken her over her and she truly aimed to kill him. With a graceful twist of her body and elegant movements with the scythe, she had almost taken his head from off his shoulders, it was as if she had been using this weapon for years when in reality it was the first time she had ever used such a weapon. She had been trained in things like kodachi and jian swords before this so she had even surprised herself, when she came back to her senses the scythe had vanished and she screamed out seeing what she had done. She turned her head away pulling back from the door the glistening purple tears had welled in her eyes once more "I thought I had killed him, but luckily his healing factor kept him alive though it though it took a while for him to heal the damage. They really seen me as a threat for that..." she shook terribly even now "It forced me to place the stipulation on their lives that I would be the only one to claim my family, I realised then I couldn't bare to lose them." she said to herself, she shook her head she knew after that fight they wanted them to go at it with everything they had, if they didn't well the alternative was even worse but it forced them to become stronger and they even found fun in it eventually, to them it was like some sort of dance just to see who could get the upper hand. It never went quite as the ones who 'cared' for them expected as they went until they both collapsed out of exhaustion, as far as she could remember it seemed to make their superiors curious about them because they would always hold back on the others, it was like they knew there was no way they would survive the sparring they put the other through. The only one that seemed to somewhat be able to keep up with them was Ves but even he struggled and was taken down in a fraction of the time it took them to tire.
After she came back to her senses and continued down the hallway to a room she despised with a passion, she doubted any of them liked theirs in honesty, these rooms were where they had their 'lessons', even though like every other place in this god forsaken guild told her to leave she moved through the door without hesitation. Looking around she seen souls that died in this room "They really done a number on you guys..." she really couldn't blame them and gave the head scientist a corporeal form for a short time "Wraith!" he called out surprised to see her standing there "Demiari actually" she corrected him "Don't correct me Wraith, it has never ended well for you in the past." the man said aggressively making her glare "Fine... I need your help..." she said knowing for now she had to play along at least until what she wanted was done. "With what exactly and shouldn't you be training?" he said crossing his arms seeming less than impressed "Trase is on a task right now and he was my partner for the day." she explained knowing it wasn't uncommon that this would happen a few times a month for each of them "So what do you need help with then?" he eventually asked watching her "I think I'm falling behind the others, I was separated from them before my training was complete." she said to him, the look she got back was a look as if to say she was crazy "Wraith, you need some rest I think." he said making her shake her head "I've been out of this facility for a while... after I protected Trase..." she explained making him rub his child "I remember hearing about that but didn't think it was true, especially since you're standing before me now." he said making her nod slightly "I guess you're right, I was wondering if I could continue my lessons while Trase was gone... Please, I don't want you to hold back either." she knew that asking for this was inviting a world of pain but the man nodded "Very well, you have missed several lessons and we will do what you missed plus a little more." he said pointing to a capsule "You know the drill Wraith." he explained watching her nod before getting in the capsule her eyes closing before she realised that the machine would have kept a record of when it was last used and would give her training equal to the days missed with the additional of whatever he gave on top 'I'm going to eat that soul after this.' she thought to herself as she went still liquid filling it up knowing this was going to be beyond painful for her in several levels
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She didn't know why but she felt a sirens call back to her original home, it was like a need for her to be here. She hated this place, this place that turned her and her family into elite weapons of destruction, they had been tasked with cleansing the world so the new gods would be able to 'create' a new utopia but were normal people would likely be praising and praying to them they would be nothing more than puppets to the powerful, wealthy people who had orchestrated the entire situation. She knew they deserved to die for all the pain, suffering and death that they themselves caused via hers and the others hands, still, she had no real wish to make them suffer other than to make sure that they couldn't do this any longer to anyone else. Shaking her head she smiled weakly putting some loose strands of hair behind her ear as a semi gentle gust of wind moving past her the dust from the ground passing her eyes making them close for a second. Her every fibre was telling her to turn turn and run but that was never hers or her families way they pressed on were others would falter and run. Standing there for a few moments longer she felt the pulling stronger than it ever had been, it was like her old home knew she was there standing just on the outskirts of its domain, wanting to welcome her back into the darkness she was raised within "Perhaps something here will help." she said thoughtfully but then she already heard Cirven calling her an idiot for coming here, especially alone. He had already told her that he knew much on each of them, but she had been separated from them meaning whatever they had planed for her wasn't complete. It was part of the reason she felt pulled here she guessed.
After a few long moments she took a deep breath and started to walk forward, her eyes looking one way and the other, she now remembered why she hated this place it was like a maze designed to mess with her, at least after they figured out she read some of the people's minds to get correct paths and know where they had placed traps. She sighed rolling her eyes for a moment before closing them "Feels like I'm back in training..." she complained to herself "Fine, lets do it your way." she said starting to walk completely blind knowing in this place the others could rely on their eyes no navigate this place but she couldn't, she had to rely on her other senses. Was never an easy task and it would have cost her a few times had she even been a fraction slower, she was actually glad that she was always forced to improve one way or another. She moved through the winding secret paths within the mysterious canyon, several times stopping suddenly for a blade to swing past her before continuing. She stopped suddenly at a point that she never would, it was to dangerous for her to have stopped at this point, they released all manner of spirit and beast at this point and she knew she wasn't able to use her magic it only made the things here that much stronger. Hearing a voice she moved to open her eyes, something she knew she mustn't do but still she couldn't help it. The moment she did she felt a pressure around her body that she had never endured before, with her eyes going around the area trying to figure out where the glyph was for this but she couldn't see one and even with her eyes she couldn't see it even with her unusual vision. 'Crap, novice move...' she scolded herself she could already imagine Cirven calling her out on it.
Before her however she seen a younger version of herself, it was the first time she had been allowed outside the facility that was beneath the guild, she had been given three hours to get from the guild hall to the entrance via the hidden trail and she was failing miserably "I remember this... I was so fragile... afraid of the outside world..." she chuckled a little a gentle pinkness coming to her younger self's cheeks as a blue haired boy who had been several meters ahead of her had seemingly turned back and took her hand the big goofy grin she always remembered him wearing "He was always so strong even if they didn't see it..." she turned her eyes away from the memory "He could have easily have completed the task but he didn't... because he stopped to help me... we failed... he failed because I couldn't keep up with him or the others at that point." she remembered the guilt she felt because of the punishment they had to go through due to it, it was so painful, she remembered crying to him apologising that she caused him to go through this but he had never hated her for it, she remembered how he had told him that he would do it again if it ever happened again. It didn't make it any easier on her but she tried her best from that day on to get stronger and faster so he would never have to go through such things again, she had even started to train within her mind so she could strengthen herself in every way. It wasn't always easy given there were times she was just so tired that she couldn't but she still tried, it was how she ended up finding out she was a telepath in the end, something she tried to hide from the scientists and it had worked for several years but all secrets eventually come to the surface.
"These days are behind me, I no longer hold regrets for the suffering I caused him or anyone else for that matter!" she called out her tone holding conviction, her voice echoing around the caverns, as if heard by some unseen force the pressure over her body ebbed making her cough a little, she really did hate this place her eyes once again came to a close as she moved forward but this time she ran dodging traps and jumping up cliff faces as if her muscle memory had finally clicked in. It had been almost seven years since she was last here but her body remembered everything as clearly as if she had just went through this the day before. It wouldn't be to long before she was at the entrance of the guild, the smell of ash in her nose made her open her eyes, it wasn't something she ever remembered here so was curious as to what was before her. "Can tell he was here... what a mess..." she said scratching her cheek a little before laughing "He always did say he'd blow the place up if he got a chance, seems like he got a chance." she giggled but it still made her wonder as to why she felt a pulling to a place that seemed destroyed at least from the outside, then again this guild was not exactly as it ever seemed at least from what she could remember.
She thought about using her magic or even her scythe but that would just let people know someone had been here of late and it was something she would rather avoid if possible. Moving closer she crouched and squeezed through the hole in the door that seemed to be slightly off its hinges and a jar. Walking into the main hall her eyes looked around the place she once called home, she couldn't help but shake a little, this place was never really held many good memories for her or the others. She managed to cope after her reaper abilities had shown themselves by taking the lives of those who seemed to be suffering or she knew wouldn't make the trials that they had to be put through. She always thought of herself as a kind of angel of mercy, turning what she was to do some good for the world but now she realised even if for a good cause she was just as bad as those who made them kill. The only comfort that she got from it when she realised that was the fact she hadn't been ordered to do it, it was because she wanted to do it, she wanted to save them for additional pain and agony. In honesty it was something she often wished that would happen to her and the others within her unit but such prayers went unheard and so unfulfilled it seemed. She also had to wonder at that age why her touch killed, it wasn't like she was given any information on what was going on with her, all she knew was they took additional care with her to the point they kept ever part of their bodies covered and had her bound as she rested. It was so damned uncomfortable from what she could remember but then she would have taken it over what happened in home, then again people tended to avoid her and she couldn't blame them she wasn't exactly normal, her skin colour proved that but then she didn't think anyone there was exactly normal in all honesty.
She started to walk forward her steps leaving no sound, the dust under her feet didn't move, it was like she had never been there in any way. That trick came in handy when it came to her need to assassinate people, can't track something that doesn't leave prints after all. Her eyes kept looking around the area, she hadn't seen this part of the guild why would she? She and the others were hidden under the guild and only released when it suited the needs of those who controlled their lives. When they weren't doing jobs or what they were made for they were going through harsh experiments, training or sparring it wasn't exactly ideal living conditions but they had rooms that had some things that could keep them occupied, food and clothing. The only thing that was limited was their freedom and the time that they could call their own, it was strange that most of the time she wanted to remain by herself at least at first because eventually she spent times with Cirven. She had no idea if it was because of how they trained or just what they were put through but being near him made her happy, before long she was allowed him to wander her mind and she wandered his in ways that the others would never be allowed. Their was one place in her mind however that she would always prevent him going, the door that now laid in ruins thanks to the very person she fell in love with as a child, she didn't mind to much as keeping that part of her locked away was draining in itself but it she knew now it also kept her weaker.
Her door had been destroyed for around a week she thought but as she needed to sleep she didn't really know for certain. Her reaper sight picked up those who had already passed and so her hand went forward collecting the souls as she went, she didn't want them to remain in this terrible place though she guessed many of them actually deserved it, still she had her duties as a reaper and so would fulfil them as and when she could but that was no longer her main priority as far as she seen it. "If nothing else they'll come in useful for something." she said placing a green and blue orb into a pouch that was on her side. It was after around fifteen minutes moving through the winding corridors she came across doors that she recognised all to well that caused her to stop, she wanted to turn away, her every fibre of her body was telling her not to go even a step forward, she could even feel her body shaking right down to her soul and it was something she would rather not feel again but she couldn't turn back not now. With a deep breath she pushed the white doors forward and walked through her eyes looking over the areas that she knew better than she knew herself. Her left her hand going to the wall her fingertips gliding over the pale blue walls, she stopped as she came to the training room she opened the door and looked to the now damaged room. Another memory was triggered here she watched as herself and Cirven had been training but it was the first time they had every fought seriously with each other, she couldn't remember what had caused it but they hadn't held back like they had before. It was during this fight that her reaper abilities manifested and her scythe first turned up, even with this added boost the fight wasn't exactly easy but she ended up leaving several scars on him and she really didn't care.
At the point this happened she wanted him dead, her killer instinct had fully taken her over her and she truly aimed to kill him. With a graceful twist of her body and elegant movements with the scythe, she had almost taken his head from off his shoulders, it was as if she had been using this weapon for years when in reality it was the first time she had ever used such a weapon. She had been trained in things like kodachi and jian swords before this so she had even surprised herself, when she came back to her senses the scythe had vanished and she screamed out seeing what she had done. She turned her head away pulling back from the door the glistening purple tears had welled in her eyes once more "I thought I had killed him, but luckily his healing factor kept him alive though it though it took a while for him to heal the damage. They really seen me as a threat for that..." she shook terribly even now "It forced me to place the stipulation on their lives that I would be the only one to claim my family, I realised then I couldn't bare to lose them." she said to herself, she shook her head she knew after that fight they wanted them to go at it with everything they had, if they didn't well the alternative was even worse but it forced them to become stronger and they even found fun in it eventually, to them it was like some sort of dance just to see who could get the upper hand. It never went quite as the ones who 'cared' for them expected as they went until they both collapsed out of exhaustion, as far as she could remember it seemed to make their superiors curious about them because they would always hold back on the others, it was like they knew there was no way they would survive the sparring they put the other through. The only one that seemed to somewhat be able to keep up with them was Ves but even he struggled and was taken down in a fraction of the time it took them to tire.
After she came back to her senses and continued down the hallway to a room she despised with a passion, she doubted any of them liked theirs in honesty, these rooms were where they had their 'lessons', even though like every other place in this god forsaken guild told her to leave she moved through the door without hesitation. Looking around she seen souls that died in this room "They really done a number on you guys..." she really couldn't blame them and gave the head scientist a corporeal form for a short time "Wraith!" he called out surprised to see her standing there "Demiari actually" she corrected him "Don't correct me Wraith, it has never ended well for you in the past." the man said aggressively making her glare "Fine... I need your help..." she said knowing for now she had to play along at least until what she wanted was done. "With what exactly and shouldn't you be training?" he said crossing his arms seeming less than impressed "Trase is on a task right now and he was my partner for the day." she explained knowing it wasn't uncommon that this would happen a few times a month for each of them "So what do you need help with then?" he eventually asked watching her "I think I'm falling behind the others, I was separated from them before my training was complete." she said to him, the look she got back was a look as if to say she was crazy "Wraith, you need some rest I think." he said making her shake her head "I've been out of this facility for a while... after I protected Trase..." she explained making him rub his child "I remember hearing about that but didn't think it was true, especially since you're standing before me now." he said making her nod slightly "I guess you're right, I was wondering if I could continue my lessons while Trase was gone... Please, I don't want you to hold back either." she knew that asking for this was inviting a world of pain but the man nodded "Very well, you have missed several lessons and we will do what you missed plus a little more." he said pointing to a capsule "You know the drill Wraith." he explained watching her nod before getting in the capsule her eyes closing before she realised that the machine would have kept a record of when it was last used and would give her training equal to the days missed with the additional of whatever he gave on top 'I'm going to eat that soul after this.' she thought to herself as she went still liquid filling it up knowing this was going to be beyond painful for her in several levels
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