OH SWEET GOD THAT'S BRIGHT! [NR][Amaranth/Invite]

Recently having arrived at Sagure, Himitsu decided to walk along the beach. Why? Because she fucking felt like it. That's why. If Amaranth didn't want her there, then Amaranth would come and confront her and hopefully tell her to leave before she launched some sort of attack, or at least, Himi hoped. The island was back to it's normal hot bright weather, and the markings around her eyes were reacting and altering the amount of light that was allowed to be received by the cones and rods in the back of her eyes, lowering the washed out contrast of the bright sun reflecting off of the white sand.

Ability in use:

Since the fairy ride, she had taken her hood off, the cloak was thick and retained heat easily, and slowly but surely it was making her uncomfortable, and soon she shed the cloak, folding it up and carrying it in her arms. It felt some what nice now that she wasn't over heating.

But she couldn't get distracted by the constant influx of sights and smells going on around her. She needed to ask Amaranth what had gotten the ocean all weird looking, the ocean was a large part of her own city's economy, she had a right to know if something was happening in the ocean because of something that happened on Sagure. Her people, she had to protect her people. Even though she felt like she was drowning, chipping and cracking away mentally.

Over a sand dune she walked only to be greeted by a glaringly bright red cape. Oh sweet god that was bright before her cat sight adjusted once more to dampen the glare of the red. Well, she had found Amaranth.

Amaranth sensed herself being stared at and turned to see Himitsu coming over one of the many sand dunes that the beach contained. She tilted her head a bit, curiously. She could only guess why Himitsu had suddenly arrived: she had to have seen the boiling ocean, let alone the violent hurricane that had been sitting off shore of her island for a good four days before she sucked all of the power back out of the violent thing.

"Hello, Himitsu.", she said softly and politely.

She didn't mind that the female was here; she had kicked her off for her own safety, but seeing as the island was open again, she was more than welcome to be here, too - so long as she didn't cause any trouble, of course, but she doubted that that was what she was here to do. "Welcome back. Something I can help you with?", she asked, even though she was already pretty sure what she was going to be asked.

She couldn't blame her... if she had seen some sort of nasty storm raging off of Himitsu's city she would probably go over and ask about it too. But, then again, maybe she would ask something completely different, and unexpected. Her red cape billowed in the wind as she waited for the older female to respond; arms folding lightly and non-threateningly across her chest as she shifted her weight to one foot comfortably.

"Well Ms. Amaranth, I wanted to ask if you just so happened to have been brewing the world's largest salted fish stew, or if someone spilled some sort of something bad in the water that made it boil like it did. Honestly, I'm worried about my city's lower and middle class economy being effected by some oceanic mishap." She said, her voice soft but cool as it usually was.

"I just can't deal with any more stress, any more blows dealt to my citizens. Cherish the time you have as a youngling. Life only drags more and more as you get older, if I've learned anything. Hell, I wish I was fourteen again." She smiled slightly, her laugh soft and airy. "But that's not going to happen. Eh, don't mind my rambling, it won't be good for whatever sanity you have left." She said when she realised that she was basically thinking out loud.

Walking over to the younger female, Himi sat down by Amaranth's feet, not on top of Amaranth, but only about two feet away. She let her hands rest on her ankles, not a challenge as she was sitting cross-legged. She began to talk, practically whispering at this point, not really caring if Amaranth paid attention to her mumbling or not. "... Maybe it's just been me with a hard life..."

"Oh... no. Let me explain that a moment.", she said in response to Himitsu's first question to her. "Weather tends to respond to my emotions, and I've been dealing with my own stress recently including an incident that involved a now deceased member of my staff... I apologize for that, but I ensure you the fish have returned as I gave them time to flee before the sea began to boil. Interesting creature, animals.. with their ability to sense danger. But yeah, I made sure that I didn't accidentally cause any issues like that, other than my own tourism momentarily coming to a standstill."

She sat herself down nearby Himitsu, having picked up on her wish to be a fourteen year old girl again. She stared off at the sea for a moment in silence, picking at the edge of her red cape. "Himitsu... I want to do something for you, since your training was cut short due to the mass amount of bad events that had been going on on my island. Consider it... a gift of sorts. I want to do something for you that will make you stronger, faster... heck, you'll be immortal, honestly."

She knew beating around the bush didn't work well; especially on something as confusing as this. "If you're interested... I'll tell you more..." She didn't want to add more information if it was going to be pointless regardless.

Himi absently nodded her head at Ama's first response. As long as her citizens where safe, as long as they were out of harm's way... she felt as Amaranth sat down near her.

"Himitsu... I want to do something for you, since your training was cut short due to the mass amount of bad events that had been going on on my island. Consider it... a gift of sorts. I want to do something for you that will make you stronger, faster... heck, you'll be immortal, honestly." Amaranth had had Himi at stronger and faster... But immortal... Could Amaranth really make her immortal? Himi knew that the girl had some serious powers... Amaranth had healed her illness.

"Faster and stronger I understand... But Immortal? How do you plan to do that? You've piqued my interest... Please, do continue." She said in her soft voice. She was currently enjoying the ocean breeze, the subtly salty smell of the beach, the warm smell of the sun... The breeze ruffling her hair gently every so often. When she wasn't getting blinded by the white sand or sudden bright colours, it was rather pretty here.

Amaranth nodded at her curiosity, more than willing to explain since she seemed interested. "I don't know if the rumors have reached your ears or not... but I'm a bit of a scientist I suppose you could say. Since I was in diapers I was creating things, experiments mostly; odd creatures and the like. Recently I've begun to switch things such as genes and DNA. At first I did so in animals: not wanting to experiment on humans. But, when I noticed that it worked, and far better than I expected, I began to do experiments on humans: those who offered themselves up because they were dying, or because they wished to be helpful... or those who were on death row and had nothing to loose and only everything to gain by being rewarded with a more comfortable life while they were in jail..."

"But, that's all besides the point. My point is... I could do that to you. I could remove certain parts of your DNA and put in parts of another... such as an Angel's. You wouldn't be a full blooded angel by far... and you'd still be much yourself, you would be like a half angel, with all of the same abilities, just slightly weaker than a full blooded angel would be."

She looked at HImitsu. "That's if you're interested... it would be a painless process, if you want to do it: an in and out kind of thing, and I've never yet to have an accident while doing so..." She fell silent, giving Himitsu time to think her words over as she looked out to the ocean, enjoying the breeze the island constantly seemed to have.

She sighed softly... This was a lot to take in... "Kanashimu nante tsukareru dake yo?... Konna jibun ni mirai wa aru no? Konna sekai ni watashi wa iru no? Ima setsunai no? Ima Kanshii no?" She was saying the words softly. If Amaranth could understand Japanese, she would know that it translated to "Is there a future for someone like me?... Will I still exist in a world like this? Is this painful? Is it sad?" It was an old song, to her, it had almost lullaby like qualities. The song had been sung to her for as long as she could remember... It fit her situation quite well now that she thought about it, and the thought made her lips curl up into a smile. How ironic life could be.

Remove parts of her DNA.... Wow... This young girl... She was so smart, and kind hearted... To extend her hand in help to Himitsu a third time? Himitsu had done nothing to earn it... Unless... Maybe this was just a trap that Amaranth was waiting for her to play directly into... No... Maybe... No... If Amaranth wanted her to die, wouldn't she have just killed her already? Maybe Amaranth enjoyed playing with her victims? Luring them into a warm embrace of trust before smothering the life from them... Himi shook her head... She didn't know... She didn't... Maybe she could give it a shot... She should give it a chance... Amaranth had done nothing wrong to her thus far... She should trust her... But... This was her life, her DNA... If anything at all went wrong she would be disfigured and defected, most likely even mentally retarded... The risks where high... But at the same time, so where the benefits... If Amaranth could make her half angel? That would make Himi even more able to protect her city, protect her citizens, and the threat of death by natural ways... That would be erased as well, wouldn't it?

She shook her head like a dog shaking water from it's fur before blinking slowly. This was a lot to consider... It would be selfish for her to back down, letting her own timid instincts of self-preservation win over, disallowing her to gain the power necessary to protect the ones that looked to her for protection... She would do it for them... Them and them alone, she would agree... If she died, well then it must have been her fate to die. If she lives, then she'll live to be stronger and faster, mentally sharper... Yes... She would agree for the sake of her dearest citizens...

"If you really can do what you say... Then... I.. I'll do it." She said finally after several minutes of weighing the benefits against the risks and battling her paranoia to the ground.

So, she had actually agreed? With how long she had taken to respond, and the mental ramblings that Amaranth kept picking up on from Himitsu, Amaranth hadn't been sure she was going to, not that she would have forced her or anything. She just really felt that this was something that she had to do to help Himitsu out. She liked helping people, not hurting them; and Himitsu was the first person to truly make her feel obligated to help them - it seemed like life had just been kicking her down, and if this could help to bring her back up, then why not?

She also began to ponder and think about the other thing that Himitsu had brought up in her ramblings earlier; wishing she could be a fourteen year old girl again. Amaranth knew someone who could make it possible, who could help... but she would wait. That would be Himitsu's surprise, even if it was sneaky and slightly wrong of Amaranth not to mention she was going to do it. She was sure she could convince her Uncle Junior to do it, and if not? Well, she hadn't told Himitsu what she was planning, so it's not like her hopes would be crushed on the chance that her Uncle Junior said no.

Her own mental ramblings took but seconds, before she was nodding at Himitsu's agreement; as if a bunch of stuff hadn't just been rattling off in her brain. "Alright then. Well, you can pick the time you wish to do this, I'm not going to rush you into it. If you would rather get it done now, compared to later, then we can. I'm more than up for the task when ever you wish for it to be preformed." Everything was ready in her lab, after all; it was always ready, she was always prepared. It had become habit really, something that her mother had started to teach her when she was very young - be prepared for any and every situation. Amaranth just happened to incorporate that into more than just fighting: she followed those words in every aspect of her life, including having her lab ready for any situation she could think of just like this one.

Amaranth stood up, taking a moment to brush sand off of her red cape she had been sitting on. When she was finished she looked in the direction of her lab, and then to Himitsu, giving the female time to decide, while also thinking of how Himitsu would be the first non-family, or non-close friend to actually step foot into her lab: she kept everyone not super high on her staff list, or related, out just to keep the number of accidents - like the zombie werewolves that Vigilante and Cala had handled for her - to a minimum.

"Can we do this now, while I still have the nerve and will? I also need to get back to my city soon. I trust Re'yoak is managing fine, but I will always worry." The older female said, her eyes closed and her head tilted back as she enjoyed the sun. She'd burn, and then not tan. Eh, at least the warmth felt nice as of this current moment. "No words... No words can express how grateful I am towards you, Miss Amaranth. Three times now you have extended the hand of help to me, for no reason but out of the kindness of your heart. I gave up hope a long time ago, when someone important was taken from me. But your acts of kindness show me that there is still some good left in the crumbling world." Her voice was quiet, sombre and had a wisdom filled tone tainting it's noise.

She could hear the soft sounds of sand falling onto sand as Amaranth stood up beside her. She opened her eyes, periwinkle blue irises looking up to Amaranth's face before Himitsu put her right hand on the ground and pushed herself to standing.

Once Himitsu was up and on her feet Amaranth led the way across the beach, moving slow. Sand was hard to walk on for some people, and while she herself had had plenty of practice and could move with ease and grace across the grainy stuff, she didn't want to risk Himitsu tripping as she tried to keep up with her. She led the way around a few of the huts, heading behind them, and to the somewhat secret entrance to her lab. She ran her finger along the door, which caused the keypad to activate and pop out.

She put in a quick code and the door slid open with a soft beep. She led Himitsu down through the tunnel which led into the ground. Lights overhead and along the walls kept the tunnel lit up, while at the same time they were dim enough not to be harsh on the eyes. A light at the end of the tunnel would show after several dozen feet: the actual lab itself up ahead.

She led the way through what would look like a living room in a giant glass bubble with the sea on all sides of it and several doors and tubes that led off to other rooms, some with curtains pulled for privacy and others without those curtains. She led Himitsu into the lab itself. "Since you wish to hurry this process, please lay down on the white cushioned table and we'll begin." As she waited for Himitsu to lay down and get comfortable on the cushioned table she went around, starting certain machines, and turning valves.

She then went over to Himitsu, carrying what would look like an oxygen mask hooked up to one of many tubes. "I'm going to stick this on your face, breath deeply, you'll be asleep before you know it. And when you wake up everything will be completed." She slipped the mask on the female's face, careful and gentle as she did so. Once satisfied she moved away, pausing to watch Himitsu fall into a deep sleep, and wondering where her Uncle Junior was... she had a favor to ask of him. She went over to the intercom that was hooked up to several areas in the lab, and parts of the island. "Uncle Junior... can you come to the laboratory, please..." Now, she could only wait, knowing Himitsu would be fine asleep.

Across the beach she was lead, even though she had walked across sand before while training here, she still wasn't as good and dainty on her feet as Amaranth. Ehhh she would deal. Around some huts, to what appeared to be a secret entrance to where ever this lab was. She didn't watch as the younger girl put in a code, but she did hear the code pad softly beep and look up to the the door open to reveal a nicely lit hall way. As she walked into the actual lab her eyes widened slightly with immense curiosity. A glass bubble under the ocean... It was... Beautiful to say the least...

"Since you wish to hurry this process, please lay down on the white cushioned table and we'll begin." She walked to the white table and sat her bottom on it... pausing to take a deep breath. Reality was dawning on her... She was placing a lot of trust in this young girl... A trap, it could have been a trap... She felt her heart rate flutter for a second, her breathing picking up slightly to prevent her from passing out from just nerves. If I die here... No one will know what happened to me... Know one will know... I'll die and no one will care... and now anxiety.

Turning she pulled her legs onto the table with her, the little bit of colour that was in her face draining away as she laid her back down on the table. She could hear the very soft clicking of buttons being pushed, things being turned... Then Amaranth came up to her once more, "I'm going to stick this on your face, breath deeply, you'll be asleep before you know it. And when you wake up everything will be completed." She was holding something that looked like an oxygen mask... And now her heart rate was sky rocketing, she was being put under... Would she wake up? Would this be her last look at the world? She breathed out deeply and nodded, letting Ama put the mask on to her face... Oh her nerves were horrible... She was honestly frightened by the thought of death, even when she had come so close to it before while she was sick, and during battles... She didn't want to die... What... What if there was nothing after this? What if when she died, she wasn't reincarnated? Her body would just rot away... All of her knowledge? All of her emotions, thoughts... All of them gone forever. What if that was what death was? What if the consciousness ended with the body? She didn't want to die yet... She Hadn't come to terms with herself... Her life had been so wretched, so horrid... She didn't remember happiness, it had been torn away along with Satoshi's life... She didn't know the feeling of being a mother, she didn't know love... Her life had been shallow, pointless, defeating... Just one fight after another, abuse after abuse... This... This couldn't be it... If there was a god, it couldn't be so cruel to allow her to die before she could experience the joys of life... No...

No... No he... He couldn't...


Her vision grew dimmer... Her pulse slowing down, her breathing slowing as well....


Was she dying? Or was this just medicine taking effect? She could.. n't tell...



Ev...ery... thinnng wash go...ing dim...er... Slow...er... She... could...n't.... thinnn... nk...



The medical gas having taken it's effect, she fell into a deep sleep.

The island was back to normal. No monsters, killer hurricanes, father shooting people in their mouthes, perverts trying to drag little girls into the bushes. Back to sun, blue skies, lounging in various chairs along the beach to take naps in. Jr figured Amaranth was going to level this place if he hadn't went and said something about that stinky Demon he'd killed, which made her laugh and changed her mood. With Flynn not around anymore, he was going to have to step up his game. Not like that guy really did anything while he was here anyway.

"Uncle Junior... can you come to the laboratory, please..."

So while crunching chips, and wanting to avoid having to walk down stair and hallways, Jr stopped his random wandering on the beach to open one of his "Doors" that would lead straight to where he was asked to come, right next to Amaranth. The lab. The last time he was in here it was boiling, not that the heat bothered him being part Phoenix and all, but it was nice to feel that it was cool down here again, and that the fish could be seen swimming outside of the glass surroundings once more.

Void Travel:

That woman Himitsu was lying on one of the cushioned tables nearby, in a gassed sleep. The sound of chips crunching were loud in the lab as red eyes look at the sleeping woman, then to his neice. The door through the void that he used to travel here closed and disappeared."What are you doing?" he asked. "Are you about to cut her open and play around with her insides?"

Amaranth glanced next to her as Junior appeared just like he had the last time, and then turned her silvery gaze to Himitsu as she hooked her up to several machines that would check her vitals, and keep an eye on her while Amaranth was busy working. A soft giggle escaped her at her Uncle's wording. "I'm not going to have to cut her open at all... She's just asleep encase something goes wrong, and to keep her from feeling any pain that might arise."

She paused, having been in the middle of picking up a syringe to draw a small bit of Himitsu's blood, realizing her Uncle didn't know what she was doing. "I had an idea that Himitsu agreed to. Just as I have before with my experiments I'm going to remove some of her DNA, and replace it with the DNA of another being... this time an angel. It'll keep her healthy, young, and otherwise a lot stronger than what she is... but, that's not why I called you here. I have a favor to ask of you."

The tip of the needle poked through Himitsu's skin as she continued to explain, moving the plunger back slowly as the syringe filled with Himitsu's blood. "I... sort of poked around in Himitsu's brain after I heard her wishing she could go back to being fourteen... and there's a lot of hell she has seen and been through. The stress, despite her being as healthy as she is... is going to kill her. I... kind of wanted to give her a fresh start. Everyone needs one from time to time... And, I mean, I was working on some sort of time travel device, but there's no guarantees that she won't be sent back to like.. the Jurassic period, lost somewhere and stuck."

"So... I wanted to know if you could, you know... rewind her body and her mind before I do my experiment on her, turn her back into her fourteen year old self. She was happy back then, and innocent... and nothing bad had happened to her. I dunno.. heck, maybe her and I could end up being close friends, and then I'd make sure nothing bad happened to her like it did..." She withdrew the syringe, and moved over to one of many high tech machines. Syringe and all went into a little compartment, shaped exactly the same, and then she closed the door and pressed one of several buttons. The machine began to hum as she turned around to face her Uncle, wondering what he was going to say.

Jr ate down his chips, listening to the story his niece told her. He didn't really know how to respond to all of this. Fantastic powers and abilities were at his fingertips, but Jr never considered or liked meddling with someone else's life like that, unless, in most cases, he was killing someone. But even that was a rarity nowadays.

"Messing around in somebody else's life like that is kinda cheating and playing God," Jr said to his niece. "God isn't going to put you into something he figures you can't handle. We all get mad and stressed out and have to go through crazy situations. It's all a test. If you can't pass it, and you let everything that happened to you weigh you down and kill you, then maybe you weren't fit after all, you know?"

But she was right when she talked about fresh starts, and Jr was pretty much the authority when it came to time. He'd rather himself being the one that did it instead of having to hear about a crazy mistake that a time machine made because this wire was supposed to go there.

"...But everybody deserves a second chance on the other hand...I don't like messing around with people's lives like this Amaranth, but i'll do you this favor this once. I can't make you any guarantees that a lot of the memories she has now won't echo when she comes of age again either. Are you sure this is something you want to go through with?"

Amaranth stood nearby the humming machine as it did it's work. She listened to her Uncle begin to tell her what sounded like a no: that he wasn't going to help. But then... then her hopes came back up against from the pit they had been falling into. He was going to help her help Himitsu, so long as she was sure about it. "I'm sure this is the right thing to do, or else I wouldn't have asked. And, I'm willing to take the responsibility of helping Himitsu re-adapt to the world as her fourteen year old self... and even help explain some things that might confuse her.", she responded to her Uncle.

She looked back to Himitsu, going through in her head all of the things she had heard in the female's thoughts but backwards as she prepared herself to be able to mentally help Himitsu if she ended up confused or had questions: becoming healed and getting some training, becoming infected while on her quest for revenge, killing her mother, killing her mother's guards, her friends death, her father's death, her father's manipulation, and her and her friend training.

Yes, she would have to probably explain a few things to her... but she was willing to do that, so long as Himitsu was better off. While she waited for Junior to get to reverse her she turned back to the machine, pressing several more buttons to fix the mixture she was going to need to complete her part of the task.

"..."

Jr stopped eating his potato chips and began to stare at Himitsu. He looked long and hard upon the woman lying there; his eyes beginning to glow a soft shade of crimson. Before them, time would begin to rewind around the woman. Watching her would be the same as watching a movie go in rewind. Instead of growing up, she grew down. Down from a grown woman into a teenager and finally into that of a young girl.

Time Manipulation:

When it was over, Jr rubbed his eyes. He'd done it but that didn't mean he had to like it. Jr didn't consider himself a God, or anything of the sort. Everything was the creation of the Gods, and to re-make something he didn't create felt to him like he was meddling with things he had no business.

Nevertheless he'd done what was asked of him. With an even more tired expression than usual, Jr resumed eating his bag of chips, while opening another one of his doors that lead back to the hot tranquility and half dressed loveliness that was the beach. Eat chips, stare at bouncy girls, doze off. That was the plan.

"I'll be around...If you need me, i'll probably be somewhere on the beach, like usual..." He said, stepping through his doorway. it closed and disappeared soon after.

-Exit-

She watched Himitsu begin to age backwards as her Uncle went to work. Her eyes grew wide, mouth opening slightly in awe. She had known what her Uncle was capable of.. but to see it up close and first-hand was a different thing. It was awesome, to say the least, at least in her opinion. "Thank you, Uncle Junior. I appreciate it.", she said to him before he left again.

Now, it was time for her to get to work on her part of this deal to help Himitsu. The machine behind her gave a light beep and she turned back to it. She grasped the handle and opened the thing, removing the syringe. The liquid inside was no longer just Himitsu's blood, but a whole new set of genes to be entered into her, modified by the computer and machines that she had put to work on it; all while keeping the syringe completely sterilized and safe to /reuse/, when she went to inject it into Himitsu.

She moved back over the female's body, her own beginning to emit a smoke-like substance. The smoke came up and covered Himitsu in a thin layer. It was going to work slightly differently then normal: instead of breaking her down completely it would begin to remove parts of her genes while she used the specialized syringe to inject the new ones into Himitsu - even going so far as to use the smoke to manipulate the genes back into place.

The process would take several minutes, all while keeping Himitsu fast asleep under the quick acting gas. The female's body would arch as two bright white wings shot out of her back and grew quickly, ripping through the back of her shirt to do so. A halo would appear above her head, glowing softly in her sleep-filled state. Her body would instantly begin to condition itself to handle this new gene, a process that would take all of about five or so minutes. And then... it was all finished.

The smoke slowly faded away as she moved up to the mask that had been around Himitsu's face, and after turning the valves off, she removed it gently. With the way the gas worked, it would wear off within about a minute, and she would be clear headed due to her own enhanced regeneration within seconds following.

"Himitsu? Can you hear me, dear?"

Angelic Physiology Given to Himitsu:

Genocidal Smoke:

She had felt nothing of any of the things done to her, at least, she hadn't consciously felt the warping of her body and her body's DNA. Though, somewhere in the back of her mind she felt the dull pain of the sudden new weight of two white wings, somewhere in the back of her mind she had the feeling of growing smaller, losing something... But this feelings could be easily brushed off as some drugged up dream senses. As quickly as the feeling of loss began, it was over. She wouldn't remember any of this of course, all of it was subconscious.

The mask was removed, Himitsu's new regeneration already at work on nullifying the gas's effects. The gas was gone from her system, her large eyes sprung open, a deeper blue than what they had been when she had entered the lab. Her face was rounder, her form even smaller than it had been before, her clothes were going to fall off of her, especially with the new rips in the back of her Ao Dai. As soon as she had opened her eyes, she was greeted with a highly unfamiliar setting... Hadn't she just closed her eyes after lying down on her own bed? What was this above her? She was underwater? Weight, a new weight on her back; turning her head to the left she took in the sight of a large glowing white wing... She... What the hell? When did she get a wing...? Maybe this was just another lucid dream? Her head felt large, not physically large... But mentally large... Like she had so much more space compared to when she had lain down last night...

Strange surroundings, bright lights, wings... Machines all around her... She was underwater... She reached a hand out and, puzzled, looked at how baggy her clothes where... This... This was a strange dream... She pinched her extended left hand with her right hand, the pain made her flinch slightly... Okay, not a dream.


Not a dream...

WHAT THE LIGHT WAS GOING ON? WHY DID SHE HAVE WINGS? WHERE WAS SH-

Then, for the first time she took in sight of some red cloaked lady calling her name and asking if she could hear her... Okay, Himi had never been kidnapped before. It had been attempted, but never successful... She looked at the girl with a look of shock and fright. "Who are you? Why am I here? What are you going to do to me, or rather, what have you done to me? Where am I?... My mother doesn't care about me, she's not going to give you a ransom if that's what you're after... But that doesn't matter! Where is Satoshi? What have you done to him?" She wasn't aggressive, her tone carried timidness and fright. Nothing at all like how she would have reacted had she not been returned to her fourteen year old self.

Heart rate was up slightly as she slid herself off the table and away from the red girl, wings instinctively coming in around her form a bit as she landed butt first on the ground, never taking her eyes off of the fellow girl. She was frightened, obviously; more frightened than she was ready to do any sort of attacking.

Angelic Physiology:

Amaranth remained quiet while she had her little freak out. She didn't blame her of course, she would probably be freaking out too had she suddenly woken up in some strange underwater place with no clue as to how she got there - or how to get out. Amaranth watched her fall on her butt, and while she might have tried to catch her if they were under normal circumstances, at the moment she was sure that the girl would likely have screamed or worse had Amaranth got close to her; so she kept her distance.

"My name is Amaranth, Himitsu... and.. hmm. Actually, I think this might explain things more to you." She went over to one of the nearby laptops, and after entering in a code, and pressing a few buttons, one of the many TV's that monitored certain areas of the lab suddenly showed video of the past twenty or so minutes of the labs activities: including Himitsu coming in willingly, being changed into a child, and Amaranth having done something to her that gave her wings. "This is what happened to you and why you are here. You were sad as an adult because a great deal of bad things had happened to you, including the passing of the friend you mentioned... so I asked my Uncle to reverse time so that you could be happy again, healthier than ever before... and I turned you halfway into an Angel so that you would be stronger, and better able to protect yourself."

She fell silent, giving the female time to process this, as the video continued to show everything that had happened. She would let her watch it as many times as needed for her to believe her: even though it was hard to make video lie. But... paranoid was as paranoid was.

"My name is Amaranth, Himitsu... and.. hmm. Actually, I think this might explain things more to you." And the girl turned around, did something and a TV monitor came down to show a white haired older lady come in with Amaranth and lie down on the white table, a mask get put on the lady, then a light haired man come in and did something to the lady on the table which made her body change, morph... seemingly to reverse until the lady became her... Then Amaranth had injected a needle full of something into her while this strange smoke coated her form... That's when the wings and halo appeared...

And then she sat there in silence, watching the video again, and again."This is what happened to you and why you are here. You were sad as an adult because a great deal of bad things had happened to you, including the passing of the friend you mentioned... so I asked my Uncle to reverse time so that you could be happy again, healthier than ever before... and I turned you halfway into an Angel so that you would be stronger, and better able to protect yourself."

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She sat there, trying to let it sink in... So she, older her, had came to Amaranth for help and Amaranth made her this age again and turned her into a demi-angel? Well... Hnnn... She hoped that the video wasn't faked... It would be hard to fake it, she assumed... But she was putting her trust into this girl that had helped her in her future, or was it technically her recent past? Oh dear, paradoxes where never fun to deal with... Not even in logic games.

Then it set in... A friend had passed... She didn't mean Satoshi did she? "A friend passed? I... No... You don't mean Satoshi do you? But... But he was sitting right next to me on the bed, I hugged him good night last nig- Well... In my memory I hugged him last night... How old was I when I came to you for help? The last thing I remember is that I was fourteen years and roughly five months... But... How old am I really? No... No... I still have Re'yoak... I can feel my contract with him... I... I'll ask him... I don't... I don't want to bother you any more... I'm always such a bother... I'm sorry... I'm just... This is a lot to take in... How long has he been gone? How long... How long has he.... Hnnnnn..." She trailed off, holding her face with her hands as she wrapped her mind around it. Her memory was... gone? Altered? She had been changed back to fourteen years old, she had seen that in the video... And the shock of getting this and new powers thrown onto her was a lot to deal with. If he was dead, and had been dead for a while... How... She was confused... This... This was a lot...

"PAUSE!" She exclaimed suddenly, holding both hands up, each index finger pointed up in a 'wait' sign and brought together to look like a pause symbol. "Tell me!" She cut herself mid statement, raising an eyebrow. "Tell me, Misses Amaranth! If I came to you for help, you must know something of this time, what is the world like? How much has changed? Do we have hover cars yet? What year is it?" And now the twenty questions game, yes. Her tone was not rude sounding, no, but it seemed to have a gently hyper edge to it. She was still kinda confused and saddened over hearing that her old brother had passed... But... Death was a part of life no? Why... Why dwell on things if this girl's uncle had given her a fresh start? She couldn't remember his death, so... She had nothing to truly be sad over but the thought of him being gone... But he was with the great Mother now. She was sure of it. She was certain that he was happy... She wouldn't want to disappoint him by wasting this new chance... No... She wouldn't let herself feel sad over it... Even though she was somewhat crying on the inside... Losing him was still sad... She still wanted him here in the mortal realm with her... Even though that was so selfish... No, she couldn't dwell... She looked at Amaranth, eager for answers.

Amaranth watched as she continued to have her little freak-out. But, still she didn't mind, she had known something like this was going to happen; people didn't just wake up in strange places while suddenly looking completely different and be automatically happy about it after all. While she listened to the female's first round of questions Amaranth moved to one of several sets of large double-door closets. Upon opening it she began to sift through the contents which were hanging up.

Thankfully, she had clothing of mostly all shapes and sizes, and quickly removed both a dress that she knew would fit the female, and a pair of shorts and a t-shirt in the chance she didn't want to wear the dress. The dress was blue in color like the blue of the ocean and would be about knee length with a beach-sand colored trim that would go up the straps and along the hem, with a low enough back to comfortably leave her wings free to move. The t-shirt was also decorative in nature with the back down in a deep U shape to accommodate her wings and which was yellow in color, matching the shorts which would go about to her knees.

She walked over and placed them on the white padded table the female had been laying on as she responded, "Unfortunately I do mean Satoshi, but it happened a very long time ago. From what I could gather of your thoughts he died protecting you. You were twenty-seven when you came to me, which would mean he's been passed for about twelve years I believe." She pointed to the clothing she had left out for the female and then to the curtained area as she continued speaking, indicating she could go change into something that would fit her better if she wished. "And I believe you left Re' behind in Shinkai."

"As far as the world goes... it's a pretty dangerous place, but I suppose it's always been. There's no hover cars, yet... but I'm sure there's someone working on those now. And the year is 2020." She wandered her way as she spoke over to the machine she had used, completely shutting the thing down.

"Oh..." Was her only response to Ama's first reply. Twelve years? She had been twenty-seven? That's what she looked like older? Wow... She never would have imagined that her hair would have gotten even lighter, or that she would end up looking so elf like, or covered in so many arcane markings... It was... A curious subject to say the least.

"I left Re'yoak in Shinkai...? Wait... Where am I now? Danger... My dad was killed in front of me, but I wasn't close to him, and Satoshi didn't let me see it either, so... I'm used to danger." She said softly with a sigh, "No hovercars yet? That's surprising to me, haha~ Oh, clothes! Thank you!" She said has she stood and looked over the blue dress and the yellow t-shirt-short pairing... Hnn...

She was fond of the lighter colours. YELLOW IT WOULD BE. Undressing the baggy rags that she was wrapped in, she stripped and proceeded to attempt to put the shirt on. Failing she put the shorts on, then attempted again, but in a different way... her wings where in her way... It was getting annoying... Closing her eyes for just a brief split of a second, she willed away her wings, feeling the weight vanish off of her shoulders. Hmm. So these angelic wings, they were a willed ability? She could just summon them on and off at will without any price to pay? That was... Awesome to say the least. Not that suddenly having wings wasn't amazing or anything... She donned the shirt finally, enjoying the light feeling of the new clothes verse the heavier weave of the overly big old clothes.

Peeking out from behind the curtain, she spoke up once more, "Miss Amaranth, what was my relation to you before now?"

"You are on Sugure no Shima, it was an island my mother rose up from the occean a little while back for me. You can see Shinkai from the beaches. This is my Underwater Lab, my mom also built this for me, too. There's a tunnel in and out, it leads up to the beaches so people can come and go without getting wet." She wondered if there was anything else she was forgetting, not wanting to leave anything out about Himitsu's current location.

She watched Himitsu take the clothing and go behind the curtain to change. She went over to a little fridge and pulled out two juice bottles and placed them on the table behind her. She glanced over to Himitsu as she poked her head out from the curtain. "You were my friend. I had brought you to my island before a whole bunch of bad stuff happened to train you. Then a bunch of stuff started going on and I had to kick everyone off of my island for their own safety... and then when everything cleared you came back to find out what happened."

She slid the juice across the table she had placed it on, towards Himitsu. Then she picked up her own bottle and twisted the cap, opening it, before she took a sip of it. "There's some other stuff you should probably know... you were in charge of Shinkai, the Boss of the whole city... Do you still want to be? I mean, that's a big responsibility... I do it but I have my Uncle Junior, and my dad, and my cousin, and a whole bunch of other people who help me."

"Oh juice~ Thank you~" She said as she took the juice bottle up, opening it slowly as she listened to Amaranth tell her more and more stuff about where she was, there relation to each other... Ama was her friend? She... She had never had anyone but Satoshi as a friend... Friendship had been discouraged in her house...

Boss? She was actually the public and private leader of Shinkai? She took a sip of juice. All those lives on her hands? Oh no no no... She didn't like that. She much liked her freedom... But... But could she leave her people? The people who now looked at her for protection? Oh dear... This was a large decision to make...

"I... I honestly feel like I lack the skills right now to lead a city... I mean, I'm fourteen. I can swing a sword and I have magic and now angel stuff... But that's a lot of responsibility for me... I'd need help and I know Re'yoak won't be of much help... He's such a sad introverted soul. He's been through a lot and he's a Dragon... I don't see him being that much help with humanoid affairs, no? He rather hates humans and anything that resembles them, and I honestly don't blame the male. Humans have done him a great deal of pain in all three forms; spiritual, mental and physical... No... I don't see him being of much help."

"You're welcome." She took another sip of her own bottle before once more screwing the cap back on and then placing the bottle down on the table. She listened to Himitsu detail how she didn't think she would be able to run Shinkai all by herself: and about how Re wasn't going to be any sort of help due to his dislike for all things human. Amaranth gave a tilt of her head and then lightly shrugged her shoulders. "Then don't go back. As far as anyone knows you've just disappeared, and I'm sure Re's not going to tell them any differently."

Amaranth shrugged lightly again. "I can always try and keep an eye on there, I have more than enough cameras I can point in that direction: try and make sure nothing bad happens while I can, at least until a new Boss shows up to take over." She picked up her bottle, picking at the bottom part of the seal that the cap attacked to, making it spin around the rim of the bottle repeatedly.

"No point stressing yourself out about it, after all. Just have fun and enjoy your new life... maybe we could even do some training together. I was born part angel, so I know the basics and stuff, I'm more than willing to help you... if you're interested that is?" She removed the cap from her bottle of juice and drank some more while she waited for the other females response: there were things that had to be practiced - like flying, divine abilities, ect... and sometimes it was a heck of a lot easier when you had someone able to help you then trying to learn it by yourself.