I feel someone shaking me and speaking. As I sometimes do when someone wakes my up my arm swings up and it connects to someones face this time.
My eyes fly open my reluctance to get up now gone. One of the awakened stationed here, a messenger I think, was trying to wake me up. I say way because I had smacked him square in the jaw. He holds it with one hand staring at me dumbfounded. I quickly point at myself
"apologize"
then at him.
"Uh, yeah. I uh forgive you.... Heat seeker...?"
He seems very confused, and even a little disoriented.
"I'll just... go now"
He leaves. I get up summoning my armor. It seems scout slept in again and someone else had to wake me p today.
I stand at the entrance looking up into the sky. It's been about 3 weeks since i got into the second nightmare. It's been going smoothly so far. Well for me, I doubt so much so for sunny, or really anyone else, I got, literally, dropped into a pretty nice place.
As of recent the voice in the mist has been getting worse apparently. It hasn't appeared in the towns around me or in the base. Maybe that's out goal.... although it really does not make sense. How would that have made the crushing?
"Oh I'm so sorry I'm late!"
Scout comes rushing out of the gate with a piece of hard bread in her hand.
As we clean up from lunch I take out my book on PTVs and I shake it. She looks up
"Hmm? Do you want to show me something about that book you've been reading"
I nod my head enthusiastically. I think I'm finally ready. She jogs over to me and I finally create a ice PTV. Its one of the smaller versions, the bike looking one. I take off my helmet and I put it on her, then I make my own.
"Hey- what is that? Is that something from your homeland?"
I nod it is. I sit down and I pull her to sit behind me
"Hold"
She grabs onto me tightly
"I hope this isn-"
and make it move. Wind whips me as I look forwards. I feel scout burry her head into my shoulder is laugh, no sound comes out but, she can tell.
"Woah, we are going too fast"
This isn't even half as fast as a real PTV. I go over hills and I do a little hop.
After some time I finally slow down finally stopping. Scout looks up at me, she looks disheveled to say the least with her massy hair and a shell shocked expression. I silently snicker, when she finally looks up she frowns
"Hey, you could have mentioned how fast we were going to go!"
She finally gets up and she looks the PTV over
"So this is what you where trying to make....?"
I nod quite proud, its not quite all there but it can move like the real thing. I get up letting the ice break apart. She almost pouts
"You could have at least look it over"
I snicker again
"It's not funny!" I do note how the shadows seem darker then normal.
I walk under a large tree and I put my hands up in a wait gesture. I've been thinking this over and.... I've decided to use the memory sunny gave me.
I'm not sure what will happen, but by the context clues it will make me stronger. I reach back grabbing the floating ice shards I lift them up finally summoning singer and flame. Singer bows dramatically and flame huffs and lays down
"Oh my- holy storm god!"
She starts looking them over. I grab her hands and I put them over her eyes
"You want me to close my eyes for a while? I mean I guess"
I summon the drop of Ichor, I may not be able to speak but the spell understands me when I try to say
"consume"
It separates into three and enters my body. I quickly collapse onto my hands and knees, if I could scream then I'm sure it would be horrible. It hurts so much, it's worse then getting a new core! It hurts so damn much I can't take it
"heat see....!"
[You have acquired a new Attribute.]
[One of your Attributes is ready to evolve.]
I slowly sit up, scouts head snaps to me and she runs into me hugging me
"Heat seeker!"
She's crying, holding onto me tightly. Flame is sitting by me and Singer is father away facing away from us.
"I thought you where going to die!"
I pat her on the back, its a little awkward on my part i know but she seems like she needs to comfort. She looks up at me
"sorry"
She sniffles
"Yeah you better be"
she wipes her face off as she sits up.
I leave the base, I go to the small flat field, make a film of ice stone enough to hold me and I start practicing ice skating. Ever since my curfew got lifted a few days ago I've been using part of the night to practice ice skating. It's a pretty effortless activity now. I check my new attributes
[Flame of Divinity]
Okay so a upgrade of what it was before, cool cool I can get behind that. The other one however is... well a little insane
[Whisper of death]
That.... its the lineage of shadow god! How in the good hell did sunny get that memory!? And why didn't he use it? He has a shadow aspect, and frankly that guy is trying to speed run power. Unless he already has a lineage, is that why he was researching the gods?
Its not war god as, now i know that the valor family has that one, prince of war, that little title is obvious now.
Probably not storm god, although he has some affinity to fate, still its probably in the hands of the house of night.
Beast god, thats.... not too bad of a idea but maybe song has that one as that song legacy had the ability to transform into a beast.
Sun god, definitely changing star, its a fire god and well, its her.
So heart god? Maybe. Or maybe non gods also have lineage? But why not still use it, it's a gods lineage.
It seems today we're checking on one of the towns, there's been disappearances, not yet in that town but they could start there too. Me, scout, and that messenger i punched in the face.
It's awkward, I punched him in the face after all. They do the talking I mostly just stand there looking cool, for the equivalent of PR which, the fact I look cool enough to use as that is pretty darn awesome. I do notice something odd. A small heat signature wandering off. A young kid maybe 6 or 7 i think. So i decide to check it out.
A... thick fog is by the edge of town. I follow the small heat signature, judging by it the kids getting scared. I finally find the kid not long after
"Mom? Mom where are you?"
A young boy, smaller in size, about a maybe late 7 is in the fog looking around scared and confused. He sees me and starts crying, I get onto one knee as I take off my helmet.
"I - hic- want my mom"
I offer him my helmet. He hesitate before he takes it, I motion putting it on and he puts it on.
"I'm a- hic- big boy"
I take his hand and I start leading him out of the mist. I have to keep him calm, we are being watched. I can feel the eyes on the back of my head. I try to keep my face neutral, I don't know if I'm failing but I have to try.
It feels like forever but is likely a few minutes before I leave the mist. I hear a woman calling in a worried tone. I let go and the boy runs off. I follow keeping a close watch on the mist as it slowly flows away. There isn't a single heat signature within it.
"Oh don't run off like that again"
I see the boy with his mother
"Its okay, I'm a big boy, the ice person gave me their helmet see?"
She looks up with me. Its a mix of gratefulness and suspicion.
"Why did you go into the fog?"
He takes off the helmet
"I heard a voice calling for me"
The boy ended up giving me back my helmet. The whole thing gave me a lot of credit, but also more eyes on me. I appeared right when.... he did. At least I pretty sure it's prince.
That would explain the feeling of being watched yet my heat sense picking nothing up. He's in the reflections. What should I even do in this situation? Can I hold him off? Maybe with help, but I can't explain the threat, nor do I know if he's taken someone over. I watch the hollow mountains from the walls, this time knowing what's watching, and I'm quite sure he knows i know.