The Demonic Shard

   Edmair.. She used the shard… She didn’t look anything like she did before. It just kept growing darker..and darker. Everything just darkens. She could see him tip his hat. Things start to blur. The last thing visible was the back of that white mask.. Was she asleep? After all Edmair had given her a wonderful gift. How thoughtful of him! Now he could really do some things! Lazily dragging into a nearby town. There were people staring at this figure. Slowly going across the streets lurking about. Glowing white eyes and paler skin. It looked nothing like a human. Grinding furred claws against the brick buildings. Bystanders couldn’t make anything of it. It was just so amusing to see everyone just stand around. There so helpless looking with their mouths agape. Step after step until.. A girl with a large brimmed hat stood in the way.
   
   “You..your a human aren’t you?”

She had a grin stretch across her face. The girl tugs on her hat and frowns without turning around.
   
   “Leave me alone..please..”
   
   “no no..its alright now..”
 
  Darkwolf crept close to look at her face. This girl was strange.. Her eyes were a faded shade of purple. Darkwolf stretches out a hand brushing her hair away. They went across her face, cold like they were frozen solid in a block of ice. She chuckles slightly. She steps slightly back in fear. Her pale violet eyes locked on Darkwolf. She lunged at her hissing having a displaced crooked grin. She ran having a fear for her life. She could do that much. Unless.. Rima’s eyes lit up with a violate glow. She trusted her hands out sending a wave of purple energy out. Nothing happened, Darkwolf slashes at her. She falls back her hat falling to the ground. With another go she sends out a wave, Darkwolf dodges it, however.. Not before the wave hitting the shard. Darkwolf stopped trying to go at her. There was a piercing crack that echoed out. Darkwolf started panting and gasping looking around. Something just happened. Something very wrong. She tilts her head to look at her. Silent.
 
   “What..just?..”

  Rima stepped back expecting her to come at her once more. Not a word was said from her. It’s like the only thing holding her up, just let go. Her hair losing its whitish glow fading to its normal red hue. Eyes dulling to a pasty grey and her furred hands changing back. Dark horns vanishing. The shard had lost its soft colored glow. A small chip went down the center. It wets up like it was smoke through a breeze. Changing to ash and fluttering away. Everything was quite as a slight wince broke the silence then her dropping limp to the cold ground. There was a slight nudge. A faint voice was saying things. Someone was shaking her arm. There was a faint voice.

   “H-hey!..Are you alright?”

She just softly mumbled.

   “I didn’t think I hit you hard... I’ll take you back with me… My name is Rima.”

  Rima picked her up and took her. Through town to a warehouse. A familiar looking one. A bright flash then the sound of sliding doors. Down a brightly lit hallway was a place quite familiar recently. That one guy’s base. Morphtech. She was taken into one of the large chairs as another pair of sliding doors open. A figure steps out wearing a bright yellow hazard suit. Rima stands up and approaches the person drawing them into another room. Who was that? She hadn’t seen a member like that last time. She calls Darkwolf into a room with a large table.

   “Sit up there.”

  Darkwolf does so. Rima walks around her observing her. After a while they head back into their main lobby. Darkwolf slowly slides into a chair.

   “You had a bad looking burn go down your back.. What was that thing you had?”

   “It was just something I had gotten.”

Rima glared at her strangely and sat in another chair.

  “That’s all? Where did you get it from?”

   “..I can’t remember.”

   “Are you sure about that?”

She coughs looking away, then nods.

    “Yeah..I’m sure.”

Rima only looked at her and frowned.

   “I know your lying... it’s really obvious. Was it that bad?”

   “I got it from.. A Fox member.”

Rima nearly fell back in her chair.

    “You’re a spy?!”

   “No! That’s not what I meant!”

She let out quite a fuss. They sound of footsteps are heard down the hallway.

  “Rima?..Are you hurt?!”

It was that gargoyle from before, Magnus. He looked panicked as he came in. That thing on
his arm was glowing.

   “Magnus?”

   “Darkwolf?.. What are you doing here? And why is Rima freaking out?!”

   “She’s a Fox member!”

   “Let me explain! She heard I got something from them... She thought I was one so she spazzed out..”

   “What are you doing fooling around the Foxes?..”

   “I’ll explain, even if don’t want to but I guess I will.. It started out near this hill. It was calm and everything when I heard some footsteps. It was Edmair one of the Fox members. He came up to me saying something like I’ve got something to show you. With this I guarantee the other members don’t stand a chance… So I took it. I don’t know why now I think on it.. It looked so familiar. So inviting... Like I’ve never felt that power before. When I looked at it a sort of... pain came through my hands. I saw him start to leave. He tipped his top hat and started to head off. Things just started to go dark.. Like the very light was being pulled away.. I couldn’t stand.. I fell to my knees until the darkness overcame everything.. I don’t know much except feeling like I was glancing out a window. Everything was cold.. I didn’t know what I was doing, I heard another voice telling me things. I know I went through a town without wanting to, like I was sleepwalking. Suddenly felt a sharp pain and met up with you.. Rima.”

  “Wow..”

   “Where’s that thing anyways?”

   “I.. don’t know that part. But that thing reminds me of some bad stuff.. Like bad memories.”

Rima gets up from her chair and goes over to where Magnus was standing and hugs his arm.

   “Brother. This is scaring me..”

He pats her head pulling her into a hug.

   “It’s alright Rima..”

   “Brother?”

  “I was animated by her. She used her magic to bring me to life.”

   “I see..”

   “Should we tell Ozzi?”

   “Ozzi? Who’s that?”

  “Hes our leader who owns the HQ and Morphtech.”

   “Oh?”

  “Yeah he’s out right now but he should be in his lab soon.”

   “So he’s like a scientist?”

  “Yes, but nothing like the Foxes are.”

   “Good..”

   “Are you ok now Rima?”

  “Y-yeah.. Thanks brother..”

   “Uhh.. Rima? Im sorry.. About attacking you and stuff…”

She glances at Magnus then back to Darkwolf.

   “I forgive you.”
 
  She sighed and glance around the room. She couldn’t fully lean back in the chair it still hurt where that shard thing was before. It still felt like it was still there in her back. The pain of it keep spreading all over like a vine coiling on a trees truck. It wouldn’t go away. She held her head in her hands and shivered a bit.

   “Hey... Are you alright Darkwolf?”

In a matter of moments she spoke nothing staring off at the two of them, Magnus walked over to her. Just before she collapsed to the floor.