Chakra Nodes

Chapter 2 - Vanet

Skrrr ! Skrrr!! ! Pong !

The sounds rang out one after another , singing into the air. flashes of sparks ran into the world beside them , frantic and sporadic lighting up the evening dark.

“Yea! “

“Faster ! Faster ! Wooooohhhh!!!! “

“Woah! “ Howl leaned low as a torrent of fire rushed above his head along with a cloud of smoke. “Watch it V. Your gonna burn my curls. “

V which was short for Vanet, was a purple haired girl who rode on a board with flames of white painted against black. She giggled viciously as her flames went above Howls head, “Good , if their burned off you can let me dye them, hmmm, I’m thinking purple. “

“Ughhh.” Howl pulled on the collar of his shirt. “My master would throw a fit.”

“Na , I think he would be cool with it. “

Howl was going to respond , except the downwards slope of hills they had been ripping though finally rounded to a turn. It was a slinky kind of curve , one that would have to be slowed down to go through just two days ago.

Now though.

‘Chakra Node 80. Quick Tap! ‘

As his soul filled in the node at the root of his hips , Howl felt his feet gain a fine tuned acuity like never before. How his body should best move came to him naturally .

And so Put one foot under the board and ripped it off the floor, flipping the board and landing only on his front wheel. Just like that he rode the edge of the curve , on occasion ripping the board into a 360 and landing on his back foot. For a couple of long seconds he felt the rough paving of the road return.

Skrrrrrr!!!!!!!!

“Hold up Howl ! Sheesh. You really got faster huh. Sages are total cheaters. “

So says the person who had already caught up to him Howl thought. He said as much as well and V simply looked back at him with her hair splayed sloppily over her grin full of razor sharp teeth.

She didn’t speak on it though. She never really spoke of her dragon heritage.

When Vanet finally did speak it was as of something else intirely . “Hey we’re here aren’t we ? “

Howl looked around at the open pasture . “Yea , I guess we are.”

“Yayyy! Time for a picnic. C’moooon let’s goooooo!“

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Howl placed his board in his left hand and shrugged the baskets off his back. He looked toward the empty field that was hit lightly with sunshine , walking through it with a open eye for somewhere even to sit.

He found a spot eventually , yelled, “right here!” to Vanet who was looking as well and pulled out a picnic blanket.

He layed down the first two corners pretty well and before he could straighten out the other side there was already a person on it, rolled into some sort of comfortable ball.

So he gave up, all to aware that the girl a head shorter than himself weighed a surprising amount more than she looked.

Instead of fixing the blanket , he joined the beetle impersonating girl on its wrinkled folds taking a seat and pulling out loaves of peach encrusted pie.

Howl almost made semblance of order amongst the wrinkles, placing two plates next to each other and putting the pies perfectly in the center. It was then that the beetle impersonator rolled toward him coming to a stop and bouncing off his kneeling knee.

“You’re pretty unhealthy for a sage huh. “

Howl shrugged. “Master says every sage has a fault , its what makes us human. “

“Hmmm , so you’re fault is that you like sweets ? “

“I guess so. “

“Lame. “

“You’re lame. “ Howl curiously rolled his eyes over Vanet. Her dark bluish purple hair splayed messily over her large grey hoodie. Her colorful stockings that lined her legs and pale lashes that shined in the sun.

He had to admit she was pretty.

Vanet on the other hand had missed his gaze , her eyes closed , or so Howl had thought.

“What ya lookin at? “

Howl turned a little red looking away. A blush in full flush. His gray eyes fluttered as he thought of something, anything really instead of being tongue tied.

Then he saw a caterpillar crawl over Vanet’s shoulder. He looked at it carefully and slowly a blue ring popped out at him , bright and solid. Howl knew this creature well for its bite , A blue ringed caterpillar bit ferociously sometimes.

So he reached in ,

“You’ve got a caterpillar on you….”

Then his world was turned upside down.

“Woah. “

Howl was flipped. Fast, so fast that he fult the thud of the floor on his back before he could really process what happened.

On top of him with the light cascading down from her and her face layered in shadow , lay the prettiest girl Howl swore he could ever see.

Vanet eyed him carefully, her green eyes usual shape falling away to be replaced with lizard like slits that were a striking black against here eyes green.

She leaned in to his ear and whispered.

“What’ll you do if I eat you before you eat me?” She smiled and her dagger like teeth glistened.

Howl swore he had never been more horny.

A moment later he was free though, Vanette stood up and passed him a plate of pie and the forks she had brought along. Awkwardly howl covered his groin with his plate and began his pie.

A while passed full of eating. Sweet bites packed with joy ,eventually though a question rolled into Howls mind.

“What’l you do if I try to ya know. “ He wasn’t sure what to say next., his knees were weak and his palms sweaty.

Vanet smiled at his predicament.

“Make a move on me.” She asked.

“Yea.”

A devilish smile greeted Howl,one full of dagger-like teeth. “I guess. We’d find out if you were prey or not. “

Howl wasn’t sure how to take that.