The two girls are walking in the dense streets of Ket, Zhal occasionally uses her wings for training while they both chat.
Aza “so how proficient are you at your element?”
“Well, I have started to move smaller particles of dirt-like dust in the air, but it difficult” She says as she hovers and swings a bit in the air carefully
“Already? you must train really hard, I dont want to sound like I am bragging, but I can make needle sized air blades” Aza says as Zhal moves some dirt and Aza immediately moves her tail and cuts like her tail is in two places “I might be able to help you since it not that different”
Zhal is amazed by the small clean cut “Spooky action at a distance” she says, Aza nods.
The girls do a bit of mock training, Aza creating wind walls that Zhal has to damage, Zhal creating dirt walls for Aza to damage, while laughing and talking.
Eventually they stop at a shop called, ‘The Amazing World of Offense and Defense’ they go in.
This place is big, dull colors of white and gray with red, with images of different items, their performance, versions, what they are good/made for, some items are smaller than Zhal hand, while others are almost as big as her, or at least based on the measurements.
Zhal speaks “I want an offense that is short ranged, does focused damaged, semi-automatic, physical bullets, while defense I want lightweight that can absorb blows and a shield that can move the attack of its course”.
Aza looks a bit surprised and Zhal has a questioned look “what, I have been planning this for ages and have been doing my research”
Aza giggles, “sorry, I can buy it for you, see it as an investment”
Aza goes to the clerk, who is another species quite common on Ket, but not nativ, an Enru.
Six legged, furry beings, with a snout that could range from short to long, long tail with a sharp stinger, four of their limbs are short and quite small, with four fingers, but their middle legs are what makes them stand out.
The limbs are long and thick, but the four fingers are as thick and long, with claws that have a a flat end, the fingers can either all point at the sides or opposite of each other, (two facing front and two back) and when the Enru are not using them the limbs go to the back and look like eight extra tails.
Their average height is 140 cm, their fur ranges from beautiful blues, reds, to green, some have stripes, some blotches of different colors.
This one had yellow fur, with blue blotches, with three red eyes facing forward and one back.
Aza speaks to the clerk “hello Eurenius, this is my neighbor Zhal who recently moved in and we are getting along very well, I would like to order some equipment for her”
The Enru Eurenius nods “sure, a friend of Aza is a friend of me” he says happily and takes out a code. “I do however need your friend Zhal to write her information in this website”
Zhal is fine with this, “yes” she writes down her personal details and its done
Eurenius looks happily, “alright, it gonna take a few hours for the smiths to puts the parts together, I will report to you once it complete, want anything else”
The girls say no not right now and go off, Aza then goes to a clothes shop ‘Clothes of the Nostalgic age’ buys some stuff, they then go to the store where Aza did her surgeries, they talk to two beings who have been changed like Aza.
A orange male Kisk who completely changed his head to where he has a neck and jaws with many crushing teeth, and a black and red striped Enru who has big strong arms and big wings instead of the normal strong arms, really nice beings.
While walking Zhal asks Aza about the world under.
“How far can you go underground?” Aza focuses her face on Zhal
Zhal continues “Have seen and heard that the first miles deep are fine but deeper than that is when there is risk of danger from collapsing ceiling, to criminals, degenerates and forsakens”
Aza nods “yes that correct, it becomes more dangerous due to restraint in resources, the risk of getting lost, etc, its fine as long as the walls or ceiling dont start to bend from the weight above or if it start getting empty”
“Okay, that good” Zhal ends
Aza tells Zhal that she has to go and meet friends and says she will meet Zhal at the apartment complex later, they say their goodbyes for now and Zhal starts to explore.
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She sees an ad that is interesting ‘Go to Yuurm shop, interesting trinkets and things’ with colorful colors and cords.
She types it in and it goes underground, quite deep, but she is not worried.
Zhal uses her wings to fly downwards, she swirls around, the density of beings start to go down and then the underground seems to start to bend, but she is sure she can quickly escape.
She goes to the cords and nothing, just empty desolate tunnels and rooms of what was once the surface long ago, with the occasional light.
“haha, very fucking funny, piece of shit, at least it wasent anything dangerous-” Zhal turns around and sees, an Angel with a weapon pointed at her, the mood turns from ironic funny to complete serious tension that you could cut.
‘OF COURSE IT HAS TO BE AN ANGEL’ Zhal thought, Angels are light elementals who are from Angel island in Anleon. Weird things.
They stand upright on two legs, which is stupid you could easily be pushed and fall, like if you lose one leg you are fucked, two arms, one head and two huge feathery wings.
Four eyes, velvet pale skin, quart color wings, this one had serious modifications on him and he has extra two arms.
Now why angels are bad news is due to their reputation of being paranoid as fuck, if one falls in love with you and you don't notice they will knock you out, kidnap you and interrogate you like you have committed genocide towards their species.
While most angels can control or remove their paranoia, there will always be news that involves these fuckers.
And this one has the expression like you are fucking their partner.
The Angel speaks “Finally, we are alone, you fucking bitch, you types always nose into stuff that not your business” Zhal interrupts
“I'm sorry if I offended you in some way, we don't need to escalate, I will talk” maybe Zhal can get this motherfucker to calm the hell down
The Angel points the gun at her face “OH NO NO, YO- YOU SHOULDENT HAVE COME OR TALK WITH THAT WHORE, you where gonna go around and ASK DUMB QUEASTIANS!” His voice breaks and he starts to shake and even tears roll, she realizes that he must be one of the neighbors that Aza mentioned.
Zhal stamps her foot in fear, she needs to somehow calm this guy “Please don't, I will leave just please don't shoot me” she says with as much fear and pity while her stomp moved some particles, she lifts her other foot while talking
The Angel steps forward shaking like a leaf “Don't- worry I wont, k-kill you” Zhal calms down, until the Angel finished “yet” time slows down she focuses her foot and a small close cluster of material is in front of her face, she starts her wings.
The Angel shoots with his long gun, ‘it's a projectile type thank god’, Zhal focuses the dust of dirt and a small ball is formed, the bullet hits and breaks the ball of dirt and the foot that was holding it, the bullet breaks and some shrapnel destroys her face and eyes and also does small damage on her wing.
Pain soars, she is happy that her ancestors moved the brain from the head to the chest, she turns around and flies, while the angel screams in profanities, another shot is heard and hits her wing, she flies with her only wings and turns some corners, but then a dead end due to a collapsed corridor.
‘fuck fuck fuck, how, no time to get help, I can hear the mutherfucker flying towards here’ Zhal tries to think of anything, anything that would get the bastard away.
She thinks, maybe something can scare him, but how, WAIT my vocabular, the setting of changing the voice, wasn't there reports of forsaken being in this general area, what type was it, think, oh yeah forsaken type screechers, I need to remember, I have heard their sounds many time while preparing for Ket.
This can go in so many different ways, but don't have any better way, she adjusts her modular, focusing only on the sound that she has heard.
Here goes nothing, she inhales and screams, a screech only god could possibly imagine, a loud ear piercing scream of bloody murder and complete agony, that for a moment echos on miles on end, she makes sure it sounds like multiple individuals, she cant hear anything but continues to screech and slowly in increased intensity, like they are comming.
It seems like an eternity but in reality it only went on for a few minutes.
She stops and realizes she closed her eyes, she opens them and waits until her hearing is back.
She listens and waits, nothing, dead quiet, she realizes she is still bleeding and needs care, she can still fly with one wing, but its gonna be a challenge, especially with her lost eyes, she messages Elina and Aza, after moving a bit she decides it better to just wait and she suddenly falls asleep.
Zhal wakes up, bound to a chair, panic hits but she immediately sees Aza and calms down.
“Im sorry, I shouldn't have left, can you speak, what the heck happend?”
Zhal retells the story of what happend, Aza has a complete mortified face,
“Fuck sake I should have warned you of that guy, but I dident because he has been isolating himself recently, until I think I saw him while we talked, but I wasent sure it was him, im so sorry” Aza breaks down in tears, normally Zhal would be mad, but she cant, she is just happy Aza is fine and Zhal herself survived.
A door opens and Elina comes in “I saw your text and came as fast as I- Jesus fucking christ, I am gonna give the fucker hell” Elina immediatly gets more angry when she sees Zhal state and shouts.
Zhal smiles “glad you came”, Elina calms down and sits
“Well of course not only because I care but also business, I cant have a crazy angel killing new beings, I have already locked his apartment and sent a report, the best I can do right now is kick him out and his items frozen until further notice”
Zhal asks, “Where is he now?”, Elina does a annoyed groan
“Investigation on the crime is being done, but it will take time” Zhal nods and thanks them both, the restraints are losend and she starts to stand up.
Aza changes the topic a bit “so you were able to form a small ball of dirt using the particles in the air, even I would have struggled if I was a dirt elemental” Zhal appreciate that Aza tries to change the tone of the conversation, but want to asks about the cost of her damages.
Aza responds “the doctor would want your report on the event as payment”, Zhal agrees and talks to the doctor that comes in and her species stuns her a little.
Its a Trixtops.