Was this meant to be!

Akira looked up at Saito with a frown crossing her face as the ashes disolved in the water and the fish ate the cigarette ashes, "Oh, come now Saito~ You don't have to be a total jerk. At least try to live a little before you go about scowling me because I get ahead of myself at times."
"Although I do see what you mean. The kiddo will be a bitch to deal with, but it won't be that difficult," Akira mumbled under her breath as she looked over at the brunette kid as she looked up at Saito cursing mentally on being a few inches shorter than him, but she blamed her genetics for that.

"As for if I did kill you three right here and now, he probably wouldn't notice if I say your hearts just collapsed, and keep your blood pumping continuously for a pulse. It's easy just to say that you are in a coma. In a sense, it is very easy for me to get away with murder if the comatose patients heart rate suddenly drops," Akira commented a little annoyed with the fact that Saito always feels like she wasn't worth much, but she felt like she did have a place in their little group of mind fuckers.
But the real reason that Akira was pissed at Saito more than usual was for polluting the damn water for her experimental fish with his damn cigarette, but she couldn't do much about it now. She was so frustrated with him that she didn't really pay attention to Saito's last comment, but she just agreed with the bastard just to get him to shut up.

o o o

Sandi winced a little as she heard Sean's dream and his thoughts going into her ears through her headphones as she looked over at the kid. Son of a bitch! This kid is more unstable than I thought! Then again, seeing as how his dad is dying in the hospital and he has a girlfriend somewhere, of course this kid would be freaking out every waking second on the way that he would be spitting fire out like this, Sandi thought to herself as she looked over at the unconscious kid, thinking that having him go to Midori might be the right thing to do.

 

Shuya just stood in the room twirling his sword around and thinking about what to do. "Damn...guess I got no other choice I gotta learn how to control this thing...and Midori knows what he's doing...ugh but I can't stand him !" Shuya finally got up and headed to the room where Rowen and the others were training. "Hey anymore room for another trainee. "I can't believe I'm giving in to that bastard...why is he training us...is it just for us or something a little bit different..." Shuya thought waiting for a reply from the trainers. "I'm gonna crack that case...Midori...I'm gonna solve this mystery...I'm gonna find out what you really want from us..like it or not..." he thought, determined.

 

"Do you want to grab 741 for me?" A scientist said as he wrote down in a folder as two other men in white coats went to a wall with several small doors on them. They opened up the door pulling out a tray in which laid a 16 year old girl. She appeared unharmed but was pale, real pale. One would note her chest did not rise up and down, and no pulse would be felt from the girl's wrist, all the keyfactors to tell if somebody is alive or dead.


Another door a little down from the girl was pulled open as a body was set on the tray that was all scratched up. The stomach was recently cut open from belly-button all the way up to the esophagous.

It was now clear that the wall with small doors was opening to dead bodies, the room was a morgue, the morgue was filled with bodies of victims killed from the chemical disaster on I-87, and the morgue was clearly located in E-Tech Laboratory.

The girl's body had a sheet over the body. The man took a needle and punshered the skin pulling out a blue-purple color liquid. He took it over to microscope examining it.

"Hey, check this out." The man said as the two other men working on the girl's body went over to check and see what the man found.

Completely unaware was a mist like form examining what was happening.

"Ava?" A faint voice spoke as another mist form appeared, much clearer and shape, the face and body of the girl on the table.

"Mum?" The girl mist body looked at the other mist.

"You need to return now, before you are killed." The other mist spoke.

"I don't know how, are you sure I'm not dead?" The girl mist, Ava, asked.

"Yes, just focus-"

"Are those blood cells... alive?!" The men exclaimed. Ava's mist form looked surprised and looked towards the other mist nodding and understanding what she had to do. The mist disappeared and a thin layer of mist surrounded the girl's body on the table before disappearing. The hands clenched into fists as the punctured hole from the needle began to bleed and color returned to the girl's body.

The girl, Ava, or body number 714, opened her eyes and began to sit up despite how much her body ached.

One of the men quickly turned around and noticed Faith sitting up on the table shivering and holding the sheet to her naked body which was preped for an autopsy.

"Shit! Somebody get the doctor!" The man yelled in fear. "We have a tenth survivor who must be like the others... one of the Shuma-6 blood!"

 

Akira looked over as she saw a blue-haired kid walk into the room with a sword on him. What is with all of these guys with these swords? Man, maybe Midori released the Shuma-6 chemical during the middle of a truck carrying people from the mafia, Akira thought to herself smirking at her bizarre imaginative thinking process as she waved her hands as the water 'halo' shaped itself into a bubble.

"Of course my dear boy! You can come with us and-" Akira was cut off as her phone started buzzing in her lab pocket. "Ah, excuse me for a moment," Akira said quickly as she pulled her phone out and noticed that the caller id was from the people down at the morgue. She flipped the phone open before she turned around and hissed into the phone, "You better have not broken the equipment again or I'll swear you'll never leave that area." "N-no, of course not M-miss Akira. It's just that... we found someone." The scientist said on the other line as Akira looked at Saito confused.

"What do you mean by that?" Akira said trying to keep her cool down as the scientist on the other line responded, "We found someone alive from the I-87 incident and they might be-" "Hold your tongue boy. I'll be down there as fast as I can!" Akira snapped as she slammed her phone shut cutting the phone conversation short.

Akira looked at the Rowen, Will, and Shuya for a moment before turning her attention to Saito, "Sorry Saito, but you're handling these three without me. Something came up and I need to get going now."
Before Akira waited for Saito's response, she turned around and opened another security door up before bolting down another open hallway as she made her way to the morgue with her water bubble floating over her head. How is this possible?! They better be damn sure that this.... someone is alive or I'll give them heart attacks, Akira thought to herself as she looked at her phone again to see if Midori had called her at all.

 

"Hey mr trainer person I'm going with her see ya !" he said running over and following Akira. "So what the hell do you think he's up to !" "If he's creating more Shuma-6...I'm gonna kill him..." he said twirling his sword around. "So anyway do you know what your special ability thing is...I'm not sure what mine is. "Pfft...hopefully it's not something emabarassing and stupid...cuz if it is...that's yet another reason I have to kill that son of a bitch..." he said almost dropping his sword as he was twirling it.

 

Ava sat in the corner, the sheet clenched to her body.

"What your name kid?" One of the scientists asked. Ava shivered and looked at the man scared and confused.

"Avalon... where am I?" She asked. Somebody showed up with clothes and set them on the ground near her when the door opened up and Dr. Midori stood there. Ava looked at him sensing something she never felt from him before, it was a terrible gut feeling, it was like a feeling of death, the cause of death.

 

Shit, why did this brat have to follow me this way!? Ok, maybe I can create a barrier between me and him somehow, but I gotta give myself some time, Akira thought to herself as she found herself glancing back at the kid shrugging at his first question.
"Who knows what Dr Midori is doing, but I do know that you shouldn't come this way. Mostly because this area is restricted at the moment," Akira snapped glaring daggers at the kid as she came to a stop.

"I know that out of the others, you are the more aggressive one that is probably more pissed off than the others because of what Midori had... supposedly done. Complaining about everything now isn't going to help, so why don't you just go back since you're not going forward. Well, not from this point," Akira said as she looked at Shuya. Before he said anything, she snapped her fingers together and had a wall of water crash down in between them. She pulled a vial out from inside her lab coat as she threw something that looked like seeds into the water. The waterfall wall suddenly started sparking as if an electrical current was running through it.

"Now, I probably know that you don't want to get zapped by 580 watts of electricity just because of your curiosity. Now just go back and train with the others, I'll be back in a while. This is the only way to where I'm going, so don't try anything. I have to go check on some things," Akira snapped as she turned away from Shuya as she continued down the hallway.
That experimental electrical wall is very unstable as it doesn't exactly electricute yet. It explodes on contact, but I'm just hoping that the fool goes back since that wall will at least be up for at least an hour with my current powers. Now I have to deal with whatever those idiots down at the morgue done this time., Akira thought to herself as she turned down a few hallways until she found herself near the morgue in no time.

 

Sean still laid in his coma, he was displaced from the world due to his unstable mind. in his consciousness Sean sat alone in the darkness. he was unable to distinguish reality from fantasy, he did not know if what he had just saw was real or a dream but he did not care.

that chemical spill did something more to me than it did to the others. My mind is falling apart! I'm becoming some kind of monster! these scientists have to find a way to fix my mind, it's the only way I can wake up...the only way for me to see my loved ones again..... how long have I been like this? a few minutes? a few hours? days? YEARS?!? I can't tell. Time is irrelevant now.

 

BZZZ, BZZZ. Saito's phone began to vibrate in his jacket pocket violently, no doubt someone was informing him of whatever had caused this commotion. He pulled it out of his pocket and pressed the button in the center of the touch screen with his gloved thumb. He sighed, placing the screen to the left side of his face, he looked briefly at Rowen and the other boy, surprised that they hadn't blindly followed Akira as well.

"This is Kimura--" he said with a cold tone. The man on the other end had been yelling loudly. Saito rubbed his temples with his other hand before making his way into his other pocket to pull out and light another cigarette. He flicked his lighter several times as an angry look washed over his face. "Why am I the last to hear about this Onayaka?..." Saito was pissed, and his subordinates frantic babbling wasn't helping. After he had finally lit his cigarette he drew his right side pistol from its holster and checked the ammo. "Do you know what I'm doing right now Onayaka? I'm checking to see if I have any 'real' bullets in my gun."

The man gulped audibly and stuttered. "B-but, Ki-Kimura Sama, it wasn't m-my fa--please calm--" Saito cut him off quickly with a bitter tongue.

"And now, you've only made it worse by claiming that it wasn't the fault of my idiot task force and it's First Lieutenant Seiya Onayaka. Explain how, when the eight of you were charged with clean-up, how you didn't notice this subject was alive before the Morgue squints!!!" Saito growled, his cigarette already half way gone. "Put Major Tatsuhada on the line if you still want to live." The man did so, not wanting to anger his general anymore than he had. A man with a much deeper voice answered.

"Yes, Kimura Taisho?" (Note, Taisho is the equivalent to General) The voice was calmer. Saito put the edge of his pistols barrel against his nose and pushed up his glasses with a huff, smoke escaping his lips.

"Are you both in the lab?"

"Yes, General."

"Then wait for me there and fill out the appropriate paperwork for the clean-up release. The last thing I need right now is Mido Sama riding my ass." Saito ended the call at that and then threw a map at the feet of the guys. "Find your way to the Morgue if you want. Just be warned, you'll have to make your way through four levels of security. Easy for fools with powers they can't control." With that statement Saito vanished and appeared in the Morgue with a bright flash of light. "What did I miss? Onayaka, Tatsuhada! Paper-work, now." He held out his hand and it seemed instantly that his two subordinates had the papers in his hand. He waved his hand and they stood behind him against the wall. He looked at Ava.

"Shit, I'm tired of baby sitting. Fuck Midori..." He grumbled and put his gun in its holster, looking at Akira briefly.

 

Akira looked over seeing that Saito came out of a flash of light. Guess that even the big goof got called over too. Strange, but then again, this is his division that was supposed to clean this mess up properly, Akira thought as she noticed Saito snapping at two of the scientists that were giving him his paperwork.

"Oh, calm down Saito. You don't have to get your boxers into a twist just because Midori stuck you with babysitting the new kittens and your own flock. Besides, he sees you more capable to deal with the new brats since he knows that I would probably fuck with their minds in ways that could make them delerious," Akira said she walked over to him, wondering if he was going to calm down or just act like a total, whiny bitch.
She knew how Saito was feeling since she was a little annoyed that she hasn't had any down time to herself since this accident had happened.
"Now, I know you might not be up to it now since you're more frustrated with what these idiots did wrong this time, but how about you and I go somewhere later. Just the two of us, having nothing to deal with work at all. Just some time to wind down at the least. Now what do you have to say to that, General Saito Kimura?" Akira said with a smile finding a place on her face as she stood in front of him before trailing her fingers up his chest in a cheerful yet playful manner.

She was true to most of her offers she had done with people, but she loved to tease those she hung out with to a limit. But it was all different with Saito with how he acts most of the time.
She knew that Saito was a hell of a ticking time bomb, but she usually knew that there are some things that calmed the man down. Money, cigarettes, his guns, and even seeing blood calmed the man down and made him seem sane compared to the others that she usually got stuck with for work.
At least Saito was calm when he is able to talk to her about things or she would probably not even bother talking with Saito, but that'd be a difficult challenge since Midori makes her work with Saito on occasion. Now with this Shuma-6 incident, Akira was expecting that their work was not going to be far from finished with working with Saito, Midori, or anyone that was involved in the Shuma-6 accident...

 

Sean felt so alone, he could not bear the solitude any longer.

I need to contact the real world. This is my mind, I should be in control dammit! Sean focused his energies into a controlled anger. he thought that even his subconscious could trigger his fire powers, and in this state it would be his only way to gain attention.

_____

In reality, a brief flame shot across Sean's hand, then disappeared.

 

Saito growled as he pulled out yet another cigarette, the smoke filling the lounges of his subordinates. He pushed up his glasses after exhaling and looked to Akira, his eyes a bit softer, although still cold like -most- of the bodies in the morgue. "I'm not wearing boxer's." he said casually as he leaned back into the door way. He flicked the butt of the cigarette, ashes falling to the floor. He was agrivated, sure, but he had really just wondered what act of chemical alteration had brought this girl back from the icey grips of the after-life. The scientists in the labs and morgue were the best in the city, and Sai's taskforce was made up of incredibly talented and heavily affected Shuma-6 subjects. How was it possible that she had been brought in under the precipice of a false death? He took a moment to think on this before Akira's fingers crawled up his torso. Lieutenant Onayaka and Major Tatsuhada both looked at him with separate complecions.

Here we go again... Seiya thought to himself as he folded his arms. He began to lean his weight to one leg and looked down at the ground. He has time to be a lunatic and flirt with crazies but no time to thank me, tch. Seiya was irritated, perhaps a little envious, but that's a discussion for a later date. A piece of the open Morgue lid began to bend before Takeiru placed a hand on his shoulder, signaling him to calm down.

Saito is going to piss off Seiya again, then I'm going to have to put them both in time out. He sighed lightly and then laughed under his breath. They're both such children. He thought as he looked at his nails, they seemed surprisingly sharp.

Sai placed his thumb on her lip. "Perhaps, later." he said with a smirk and then flashed his eyes to the bent steel before Midori beckoned their attention. "No Mido-san, no problem at all." he snuffed out his cigarette against the cold metal walls. "Thankfully, someone gets paid to clean that up, otherwise this place would be a mess." He turned to the girl sitting in the corner. "So, Avalon, was it?" He paused for a moment.

"Avalon, Avalon...That sounds familiar...do you read books?" he says to her, completely abstract in his train of thought before a wave of his hand. "Get dressed and then follow us, no doubt your training partners are at the arena right now." He glanced at Seiya and Takeiru, Seiya seeming very miffed. "What's his problem?" He asked his Major. The man replied with a rub to his temples. "Nothing General Kimura, please leave us to finish the protocol adjustments." Saito nodded with a 'what ever' look on his face.

 

Nothing was working for Sean. he wasn't able to make contact with anyone. just when he thought all hope was lost, another figure appeared before him. it was himself, but the look in this one's eyes was menevolent, and filled with bloodlust.

"W-Who are you?" asked the real Sean.

'I'm the other half of your fractured mind." said the new Sean. "I came into being when you went into that rage."

"My mind is....Fractured???" asked R. Sean.

"Yes, It would appear that the chemical spill is the cause of this." replied the N.Sean. "and because we are separate, we remain in this coma-like state. If we join back up we should be fine. but know this. I am made of your greatest fears and weaknesses.... are you able to join with something like that?" without hesitation Sean grabbed the N. Sean's hand. when he did this the new Sean disappeared, and Sean opened his eyes to reality.

 

Ava got changed into clothes handed to her and sat on a table looking over at the two scientist and the man who came in.

"She was dead sir, she just came back alive." The one explained.

"We didn't even know until she woke up." The other explained.

"We believe she may have powers over death." The first one stated.

Ava sat on the table looking at them all still a little shaken by what was going on. She looked at them all and closed her eyes.

"What's going on? Who are you? Why am I here?" She asked them.

 

Akira's cheeks were starting to turn red as she noticed her face was starting to burn a little when Saito place his thumb on her lip and gave his response to her offer. She immediately tightened her other hand into a fist so that she can slow her blood rate so that her cheeks flushed the color away from her face.
Does that count as yes? Man, I must be on his good side today for sure. Wait, does this mean I just got a date? Wait, well... maybe I shouldn't call it a date. I should call it something where two people just go out and- screw it. I'm just going to call it a date in the light of things, Akira thought to herself as she snapped herself out of her thinking process seeing Midori talking to the both of them.

"N-no problem Midori! We'll get onto to that!" Akira said trying to lighten up her actions in some way, not knowing if Midori was annoyed with them flirting with each other or more mad that no one told him about the other survivor. Akira let out a deep sigh just as Midori left because something about the air around him today seemed really eerie, even for Midori. Then again, he was just told that someone came back to life and supposedly has gained something from the Shuma-6 chemicals, Alice thought to herself as Saito went over to go check on the 'survivor'.

Akira was about to make her way over but she remembered about that blue haired kid. I should probably go check if he's still around there or what not. Then again, I'm hoping that he went back to the others or I'm so going to drown that talkative mouth of his in fish water, She thought getting a little annoyed as she looked up seeing that the fish was swimming around slowly in the water bubble around her head.

She just shook her head knowing she'll deal with the blue haired brat later, as right now, she had some explaining to do to the girl as she started asking questions, and she looked a little frightened.
"Well, to ease your troubles little lady, I guess you do have some right to know what's going on and why you're here," Akira said as she walked over as she put her hands into her pockets as she inspected the girl seeing that she looked frail, but she seemed to possibly be strong enough in some sense to even contain some of the Shuma-6 inside of her.

"You are at E-tech laboratories right now because of something that happened. There was an incident that had happened just recently when one of our lab's chemicals called Shuma-6 has cause a major disaster on I-87. The contents of the Shuma-6 spill have been deemed highly radioactive and extremely dangerous which sadly, has taken a number of lives," Akira said as she beckoned to the rest of the morgue with her shoulder as she didn't want to look in the complete direction of the morgue since dead bodies creeped her out. Even if she knew the body was put away, she can't even look since she knows that the body is still there in who knows how bad of a state.

Akira shuddered a little at the thought of the bodies as she looked back over at Ava, "But there were a few people that were picked up in the spill because they didn't end up like everybody else. A few of us, as well as the man who just left," Akira was trying to go back to Midori, "have found out that you all might possess something, like a ability or some sort which you might have gained because of the chemical spill."
Akira pulled her hands out of her pocket to run them back to her wavy black hair as she looked at the girl smiling, "Before I get off track with everything that's happened and ask if you have any questions, my name is Akira and the man with glasses is Saito. We're pretty much here to help with your powers, abilities, whatever you want to call what you got from the spill. Now, do you have any questions?"

o o o

Sandi suddenly heard the Sean's thoughts stop buzzing in her headphones making her wonder what happened. Her own question was answered when she looked up to see Sean waking up.
"Glad to see you're up. Are you feeling ok?" Sandi asked as she walked over to her side, making sure not to touch him just in case he starts to flare himself up again.

 

"Y-yeah... I feel better. I'm sorry but who are you again?" Sean knew he had seen her but they had never introduced themselves. "It's kinda weird. I feel like my head is so much clearer. like my pent up anger and rage is suddenly gone." Sean held his hand up in front of him and a flame danced across his fingers. I don't even have to get angry anymore to control the fire!"

 

Rowena remembered everything leading up to the moment Sandi grabbed her hand, she rememebred Sean wildly burning, and his eyes full of fear and anger. She even remembered the horrible things she had seen in the future, or past, of Midori. But once Sandi had touched her again, this time at her own request- and the visions started again she couldn't help but to forget all that, if only for a moment.

Ro was standing in a prisitinley white room, clearly devoid of anything hazerdous, or even colorful for that matter. There was a young girl sitting in a chair across from her and a man sat at a table writing down notes, but neither of them seemed to acknowledge her prescence. "So Sandi," The man finally said. "Why do you think you are here?"
"I did somthing bad" Sandi said, looking like an innocent grade schooler despite her apparent high school age. There was a pregnant silence, and then the vison dissolved. Ro was pulled through a strong current, with nothing but darkness all around her, and then she landed in another scene. This time, Sandi walked through the hallways of a school. Other students danced outof her way as she rounded a corner. Ro watched as three of them turned to each ther, catching snippets of their hushedconversation.
"...mental hospital..."
"I heard she-"
"What were they thinking? Honestly."
Ro looked back down the hallway Sandi had walked down. What are they talking about?She wondered, but then the vision dissapeared and she was back in the current once more, turning and twisting roughly until landing in not another scene, but simple blackness. This time only sounds reached Ro as she stood in horror. She heard china plates breaking and large feet stomping around. "Where the Hell has that failure gone this time!!" A mans voice screamed. "She has the nerve to fail us every time and now she dissapears!!" The man screamed and another peice of china broke. Ro stood, feeling scared, as though somebody had switched off her ability to more. Then, finally, the light came. a warm white light bringing her back to reality.

Ro opened her eyes and stared at the floor tiles. She was on her knees with one arm hugging herself protectivley, the other was in the grasp of another human.

 

Will strode forward into the room, eyeing the boy with the sword, the man with the guns and cigarettes, and the girl. He knew the man was their caretaker to make sure they didn't kill each other, but why was the girl here? To watch him and the boy fight? Why would she want to watch something like that? "Sorry, wanted to take a nap for a second." He growled sarcastically. "So when do we start?"