Servants in Remnant

An 'Observer'

Cinder Fall smirked in victory as she stared into the scared face of Amber, the current Fall Maiden. The soon to be former Fall Maiden was being held by both Mercury and Emerald, her arms secured.

It was unfortunate that Amber had not fallen right away, but she was still pleased with the results. Now the former maiden could look at her and know that she was beaten, and know what would happen to her. She slowly raised her gloved hands, feeling her Aura shift as the parasite woke up and peaked out through her hand.

Amber started panicking, though her struggles were useless, and her captors ignored her pleas. In truth, she didn't expect them to, but she couldn't help it. I wasn't trained for this! She shouted in her head. My predecessor couldn't train me, and I was told to focus on hiding, not fighting! She tried to prevent her tears from falling, she knew that it would only encourage them, whoever they were. I just wanted to help other people... And then the Grimm struck her, and she felt PAIN.

Aura is a manifestation of the soul. A Semblance is the crystallization and focus of Aura. The Maidens power was similar, yet completely different. It went deeper. Separate from the power of a Semblance, it was very much connected to both the soul. As the Grimm sucked the power of the Maiden, Amber felt it, as if something was chewing on her body and eating her. Her power was forcefully activated, which only added to the stress on her body, and she could barely make a sound. As she saw the darkness creeping in on her vision she could barely hear her own thoughts as she pleaded one last time, "Please" she gulped as tears fell, "Somebody save me..." And right before she blacked out, she felt the ground begin to rumble, as something soft pressed against her back.

Unlike the pain that Amber was feeling, Cinder was feeling the complete opposite. She felt the power of the Maiden start to mix with her own Aura and Semblance, and the feeling she was getting from it doing so was unlike anything she had felt before, like a drug. She could FEEL her reserves increase, like a wildfire consuming more and more fuel, and she reveled in the feeling, as well as the look of helplessness on Amber's face.

Her revelry was cut short when the ground started shuddering, and instincts had her leaping backward as fast as she could, with Mercury and Emerald doing the same. Right at that moment, before Amber could fall from the lack of support, a tree burst into existence right underneath her. Cinder could only look in disbelief as a tree, as if somebody had clicked a fast-forward button, grew from the middle of the road, it's branches wrapping around Amber securely as it rose higher. Looking around desperately to see who interfered, all three jumped when they heard somebody right next to the newly made tree. "Well? What do you think? I personally dislike Redwoods, I think they're a little stuck up. I mean, I don't blame them, being the tallest trees in the world I think they've got reason to brag, but I try to give some others a chance to shine when I can, like the Eucalyptus Regnans here." The stranger slapped the tree. "Also, this tree has flowers! That brings it up in my book." He turned to the three of them and shot them a bright smile.

The new man was... Odd. Remarkably unconcerned with having just interrupted a fight. He appeared to be around their age, a little more than 5 and a half feet high, with white hair that looked almost iridescent. He had a strange looking staff in his hand, and royal blue robes with fancy embroidery. For a fraction of a second, she could have sworn his smile was full of mischief, and then it vanished.

Cinder looked at him shock and anger. She had been riding the feeling of euphoria from draining Ambers power, and to have it interrupted right in the middle was not a pleasant experience. Her mood having been soured, she was just about to use her newly acquired power on this new person, and she could see Emerald prepare an illusion with Mercury about to charge in himself, when the mystery man widened his eyes and pointed towards her, now bare, arm.