Jay felt the Sapphire flow into him, calmly, slowly. Then it started struggling with the power of a storm, and his finger started breaking apart, only held together by his own mastery of Blood. Amon!

She was already on it, grabbing the sapphire and spooling it out into filaments she started building another lattice with. This one was in a… different spectrum from the onyx lattice, so neither interacted, for the moment.

As she passed through, Jay dove into the Memory he had woven into him. The underlying strands of Memory empowered the onyx lattice and stabilized it. But now, he also had to accommodate the sapphire. And he didn’t have the luxury of another spectrum to weave on.

Jay followed behind Amon, starting at the finger she’d already woven through as she started to work on his hand. He gathered as much Mana as he could, the essence of Change, necessary to work the Memory into something different. He grabbed the Memory with a hook of Mana, slowly feeding the Mana in, changing it. In some places, he had to weave extra strands of Memory rather than simply changing it, in order to accommodate for the sapphire, which Amon put together in a different shape than the onyx.

The going was slow. Amon had weave the sapphire strands in circular, arching paths, storms and weather patterns coming out of her work. Jay had to follow behind, changing and carefully adding to the Memory within him.

The Memory he fed his Mana into changed, turning into something that didn’t just work with the onyx’s strength and unsubtle force, but also with sapphire’s flowing wind and its stormy patterns.

Amon slowed a few times to let him regenerate his Mana, but they never stopped. The sapphire wouldn’t let them, injuring him whenever Amon pooled it in one place for too long.

Eventually, they’d built up his arm, and started to work on his ribs and chest. The sapphire took exceptionally well to his ribs, which he expected its presence were tinging blue, and his heart beat with the force of a storm when he wove the supporting Memory for it. Eventually, they completed his upper chest, and moved on to his right arm, which finished in short order.

Afterwards, they moved onto his legs, which the sapphire imbued with the speed of a storm, Jay quickly filling it in with Mana and extra strands of Memory.

His head was next, and Amon’s deft touch put sapphire through his brain and skull without a problem, even his eyes and the rest of his senses getting the same treatment. When Jay finished building the Memory behind her, he sighed, opening his eyes. He hadn’t even realized he’d closed them.

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Then he stood, taken aback by the destruction all around him. “Drake, what happened?,” he asked, seeing all of the furniture around them broken through with clean lines. “Did I unleash lightning or something?,” he asked.

Drake shook his head. “For once, man, it’s not you.” He pointed at his cloak, which Jay just now noticed was black now, flickers of rainbow from its moonstone heritage running through it every few moments. “My cloak here decided it wanted to explode in darkness and destroy all the furniture.”

Amon’s head popped itself out of his shoulder, making him look like he had two heads. “Why didn’t any of it hit us?”

“I think it recognizes you as friend. You’re the only thing it didn’t hit.” Drake glared at the cloak. “It even hit me.”

Jay shrugged, opening the door. He knocked on the girls’ room and got a quick answer, with Catherine opening the door. “Oh, hey. Drake came over a while ago. You’re the last to finish.”

They walked into the room, and Catherine proudly showed off her hammer. It was still ocean-blue, but now it had a ruby core within, cracks of red running from the core to the outside of the hammer. “Hammy is stronger now,” Crystal said. “Just like my staff over here.”

Catherine was about to chastise Crystal for insulting her hammer, but then she realized she didn’t have any idea of what to say about her calling it ‘Hammy’.

Crystal’s staff still hend the same Amethyst at the top, but now, instead of having an amethyst handle as well, it now had a wooden handle made out of the wood she’d gotten as a reward. She tapped it, waving it around. “Now, what say you we go out and accuse Scott of knowing Onyx?”

“Scott, did you know Void?,” Crystal asked, standing in front of the man in his office.

“Who’s asking?,” Scott replied.

Jay had a pretty good idea of how Scott knew Void, at this point. “Eternity, of the Council of Fools.”

“Well, you took long enough,” Scott accused Jay. “Taking far too long to reincarnate, I say! Know me as Vibrance.”

Jay nodded, Amon popping her head out of him once again, though it was out of his leg this time. “Want to join the new Council of Fools we’ll be making?”

Vibrance nodded. “Hey, man. I was part o’ the old one. I’ll join the new one, no questions asked. Now, commander, ye need me to do anythin’?”

Jay shook his head. “No. Just be the leader of whatever we set up for the Council on this planet.”

Vibrance shrugged. “Easy ‘nough. Now, off with you! Go get stronger elsewhere.”

They graciously exited. Another friend in this world of enemies. Slowly, their allies were growing.