Detonation (Shinsou Vaan Osiris vs Felicity Rhyolite)

[Flamebird]

Silence.

In reaction to my outcry, he only gave my silence. In the void room, no voices echoed. There was only silence. Even the candles died out, failing to fizzle as no noise could be heard. Silence. My anger, already intense, doubled.

Stop ignoring me!

I dashed forth, ready to elbow him and follow up with several punches. My attacks only met thin air.

"Huh?"

I heard the shling of a sword behind me. It was dark, but I had to move. I turned, or at least tried to. Had Shinsou moved so fast he was behind me?

I had not even finished turning, my arm was the closest thing to his sword when it sliced past my speed of comprehension.

I felt no pain as my arm was separated from my body. At least, I felt no physical pain.

Shinsou had found me. "It’s clear to see that you are sharp, but you have more potential than I think you realise. I want to help, if I can. Sharpen you up, teach you a few things and hopefully get that form under control. What do you say, Felicity?"

Memories flooded my depleting sanity. The blood flying in the air burned a dim glow, rapidly brightening a sickly red.

Shinsou had not been harsh to me. He praised me. "You did well, today. That beast was as dangerous as they come, and you punched a hole right through his defences. I had to throw everything I had at him to keep the big bastard down. Get yourself checked over, and come to my quarters when the surgeon gives you the all clear."

My veins burned inside my body. Through my clothes my arteries, veins, and heart were visible as my bloodstream glowed. My eyes widened as my mind raced.

I had tried to save him. "I still won't let you kill my mentor and take my town! I won't give into a demon, a monster, like you! Every time you even bat an eye towards Shinsou, I'll stand in the way again! So go ahead! Try to stop me!"

Arius Mephisto stood in the way. "Did you think you were the only one capable of sealing your power? Fool! I'll send you straight to hell!" I had failed.

Putrid radiation spewed from my injury. A deadly poison reflective of my shattered heart and rotted mind.

"I need to go home!" Salvar's bitter winters fluttered around me. All the traveling, all the evading, just to get home. I needed to return to my teacher.

A burning glow emitted from my open wound. The illumination of my blood was brighter closer to my injury. Blood splattered on the boiling floor, steam rising from the crimson droplets.

"Captain, if we ever need some more wind, just put her at the aft of the ship, that forehead of hers will catch enough wind to get us to Corone in a week." Then, oh, I had met Leoric. Even on the ship from Salvar to Corone, he confused and conflicted me so. "Your hair reminds me of when I was a little kid, helping my mom pick oranges in the forest. When life was simple, easy, and I actually felt something."

Brilliant energy swirled around me, from my wound. It circled as it encased my entire body. The red cloak of nuclear power was overtaking me. In the dark, the bright cloak burned like a massive candle.

Leoric and I had been through a lot. We had grown... close... Even when duty to Whitevale called me, I stayed with him. I spent time with him. Ate with him. Trained with him. Fought beside him. Slept under the same roof. I fell for him... And when I finally left for Whitevale, tore myself from that man, I had been too late to save my home.

Searing heat exploded from the cloak of energy. The marble floor itself was changed. White powder arose as it reacted to temperatures more insane than my cloak had ever reached before.

When I returned to Leoric's home, everything I had fought so hard for lost, he had one suggestion. "Hey, I know what makes me feel better when I'm upset. Want to try it?"

Drunk and devastated, I had made the mistake of saying yes.

The marble shattered around me as I saw in red. Through blurry scarlet vision, through the powdering marble, I saw Shinsou. But I also saw the memories, terrible and sweet, replaying inside. I screamed. Like all screams, it was rooted in my enhanced spite. I did feel unrelenting destruction, but I felt something else too. Everything I had gone through had taken its tole on me. Even in my Nuclear Rage, I roared in emotional agony. Tears flooded my intensely enraged eyes, then immediately turned to steam from the heat.

"Felicity!" Leoric smirked, ready to throw another quippy one liner at me. I loved him. I loved him. I loved him. I still loved him. I hated myself for loving him.

I gave into insanity. I gave into the rage. I let the anger flood my brain as my thoughts died out.

I don't know about Leoric, but I know this, Shinsou is just within reach! Reach out! Touch him! Just touch him! Go!

She bolted for Shinsou Vaan Osiris. Her mentor. Her savior. Her traitor. Her only remaining friend.

The blind rage still controlled her, but this detonation was different.