Chapter Six- Aspects and Thieving

ZUMA

It took mere a fraction of a second but we had gone quite a distance away and into the snow covered forests, we landed in a clearing and as Able took in surrounding, he harrumphed proudly at his handiwork of me.

“This should suffice for training grounds” he said with airs

“Training for what?” I asked in fear “What exactly have you done to me?”

“The time you must have spent in the healing chambers of that wicked woman seemed to have muddled up your brain, there is nor rationality or eloquence to your thoughts and it’s saddening to see, take a mental note of your thoughts, are you not better, stronger, healthier but sadly not smarter apparently, little whelp I have attuned you so you can practice”

Without taking the harshness of his tone into consideration, he was right, whatever he had done to me had given a strength I didn’t know I had, power seemed to be boiling underneath my skin just waiting to erupt.

“If you’re done with whatever discombobulated thoughts are running through your head, I’ll have you stretch forth your hands and repeat after me”

My hands came forth seemingly of their accordance

“Heavenly Judgement blade”

“Heavenly Judgement blade” I repeated after him

The space around us seemed to warp crazily attracting a dazzling light, from his hands sprang a blade and axe which hummed with lethality, on mine however just two twin blades were called forth.

“I guess some augmentation is needed” He sighed and pulled out a glowing white orb and without any warning shoved it down my throat

“Heyyyy-”

That was far as I got before a wave of power washed over me, if the first

transformation was anything to be proud of, this was even better, my skin felt as if it had been lit afire with pure energy coursing through them, the blades glowed brighter and hummed with a need to release power

“Slash!” He roared

The impact of his weapons sent more than a couple of trees flying and a deep crater was left in the clearing still steaming with the might of his power

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“Your turn” he says passively

I tried to mimic his stance and brought down my blades with a silent fury. Nothing happened at first and the breeze blew in it’s normal manner silently.

“Are you sure I did it right?” I said in a near whisper

In an instant space seemed to cave and the wind began to howl with a frightening ferocity, my power arced around bringing utter destruction to the trees ahead, I harrumphed in pleasure at my handiwork.

“It worked!” I almost felt myself cry, if this was one hell of a dream then I did mot want to be bothered with the trivialities of things like waking up, I felt strong and powerful and no way in hell did I feel like letting that go

“That was powerful, but without finesse” Able groaned “seems I have my work-”

He stopped in that moment and I could see his ears swivel about in an inhuman manner, his eyes narrowed for a moment and then he proceeded to sniff the air like a dog

“What’s going on?” I asked “is there-”

“Quickly retract your blades!” He yelled, his weapons dispersing off into the wind “How?”

The question came too late however, a sinister laugh filled the air and that instant a voice that made my skin crawl sounded out

“Deep Black Robbery!”

All the energy I felt in that instant seemed to disperse from me, leaving in the same manner in which it had come, In my despair I had Able loudly curse as he roared something

“Mind Aspect, Disharmony”

The slithering voice let out a cold laugh, like a man on the verge of dying “Too late Able” it snickered as it faded away “what’s her’s has been taken”

The prickly feeling and the voice dissipated altogether and I fell from exhaustion, only to land in Able’s arms.

“What happened?” Fear evident in my tone “why can’t I feel it anymore?”

“That would be the Daystar” He said in a low growl “prowler of the planes, devourer of aspects and from the looks of things, he just took yours, fuck, I’m not getting shit for this and it’s already messed up”

He muttered some unintelligible phrases and the wind came for us again, only this time, my consciousness went along with it.

The spray of salt water dragged me back to consciousness, and I found myself a bit swaddled by a thick black cloak as we stood by the docks while Able stared off into the distance, he had apparently returned to his human form again

“Human aspect” he said apparently sensing my question “works for great disguises and yes you just lost your powers, it’s quite infuriating”

I felt the cold emptiness and the wind played a whistling tune with my shell of a body, I had gone back to being weak and powerless, I had an entirely bad karma and I could not control it as the sobs came out in waves.

“Sob not, it’s demeaning and quite infuriating” Able grumbled “I’d never hear the end of it if I delivered just a useless piece of trash, so we are going to see the four and reverse your rather miserable fortune so quit the bawling”

His tone left no room for arguments or talking back and just continued staring far into the water, time to slip away in slow motion until finally a slow fog began to cover the. banks.

“It’s here” He said simply and got down into the shallow end “This is how we get your powers back, you might want to get in the water”

The S.S Mary-Jean as I later learnt it was called was a ship that looked like it had passed it’s last legs and should have been in a deconstruction port somewhere, but for some reason Able trusted it more than his own life, against my insistence we climbed

up the board and Able dropped a few odd stones into a rickety old machine.

“Make yourself as comfortable as possible it’s going to a long somewhat sickening ride and-“

“Been an awfully long time Pride” A loud voice boomed

A large thickset man sporting the same six arms Able had and a rather crooked somewhat vicious smile on his face

“Long time no see Banban”