Multiversal Swarm

protecting Sophia part 14

All I could do was hold Sophia as she cried. I couldn't stop crying myself. How could this little girl... Be capable of such power. It scared me that this power could be untapped and capable of overriding natural abilities.

She just continued to sob and look at me. I pulled some tissue from my jacket and wiped the blood from her face. She just continued to cry and cry. No matter what I said she just cried harder.

"Some things ain't able to be changed. She's gotta deal with it on the way to absolon." TJ said as we walked back out the way we came.

I carried Sophia in my arms all the way for almost a full day before we get to a small town with a motel. Sophia was the first to get cleaned up and put to sleep before I knew I could take care of myself.

"TJ, I going to need you to do me a favor. I going to need you to take me to a hospital. I have a large puncture wound in my back that is getting serious. For the last two hours I've been feeling my physical strength sapping." I told him leaning on the counter.

He just looked at me and said:

"You better get onto the bed because I have a way to heal you but it's going to knock you out. So I suggest you lay down, bite a pillow, and prepare for the worst pain you've felt in your life." In a plain voice.

Having known TJ for years... I did just that. He started to chant and a light started to envelope me. I prepared for the pain and as he started to chant... It came. He was also right. This pain was the worst!

I screamed into the pillow to muffle the sounds of my agony. I've been shot, stabbed, blown up, thrown from a building, kicked through a rockface, beaten within an inch of my life, and survived a relationship with shia Labeouf... But I'd relive all that over this!

Forced cellular mitosis hurts like a fucking bitch! I miss the reapers healing. With that it just stings a bit but it feels better as it heals but THIS. How do I tell him to stop when I can't stop screaming.

Finally he stopped chanting but the pain didn't stop, It just stopped increasing. I felt the wave of fatigue. I looked over at Sophia who was still sleeping. I let out a groan.

"Didn't tell me that would be draining." I said pulling my feet to the floor.

"Take a shower. Cold water, if you go Luke warm you'll be cooking your body. Your immune system is absolutely shit right now and if I don't pump a meal into you quick you're gonna die. I'll be back in 45 minutes. Nobody's getting through these walls or doors neither. I've locked em down tight. " He said right before he walked out the door.

I sighed, looked at Sophia, then got up to take the worst shower of my life.

TJ walked down the street and thought about the current circumstances.

He admitted to himself that he royally FUCKED the bed on casting that spell on Sophia. He was giving himself all sorts of hell. He knew that in the moment he made a brash decision, like he always does and he gave powers to someone who wasn't ready for them in the first place and on top of that... She's easily more powerful then he is.

As he approached the taco truck he pondered what she was. He'd been deep in magic for well on 70 years, but he'd never seen purple runes. He was taught a very strict ruleset. There's only a set number of way magic manifests.

As he ordered at least $150 of food he told the man.

"If you make all this fast enough I'll give you a grand right now."

He got it in 20 minutes. He made the complimentary drinks float by him as he walked back to the room. He walked in and queen was watching TV with a towel on her head.

"Finally! I'm starving! What'd you get." She said smiling.

Over the course of 20 minutes, Queen obliterated at least $100 worth of food. TJ sat watching the show as he ate his single order of enchiladas.

"Is it good?" He asked smirking.

He watched as she swallowed and whipped her mouth with a napkin.

"I've never tasted anything better!" She said before stuffing her face again.

"Yeah that spell takes a lot of energy from your body. It renders you into a starving state both spiritual and physical." He said wiping hot sauce from his mouth.

"You mean my Spirit is weaker now?" She said

"Well it was but you eating that should do with how much you're enjoying it. I've found that good food is the best remedy for a weak Spirit.

We're all animals and have built in code to keep us breathing. The ability to enjoy food is one of those things. If we didn't enjoy eating then we'd all starve. So you enjoying food helps build your spirit back up." He said laughing.

She smiled and continued eating. Neither one of them noticed Sophia sit up... Her eyes completely white.

"við verðum að eyða stelpuföðurnum!" She said floating above the bed, in a voice that was not her own.

The two looked back perplexed. Both of them still had food in their mouth and were taken off guard by... Whatever this is.

"þessi stelpa er gríðarmikill kraftur!  en þú fífl þarft að rækta, ekki kæfa" she boomed as she got closer.

"What's going on tj?!" Queen said finally swallowing her food.

"She's speaking icelandic. I caught it earlier. She casts her spells in that language. She saying we need to hurry and... Kill her father?" He said with swallow.

"Why icelandic?" Queen said standing up.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you sweetie. Right now she probably don't recognize you from a hunk of shit. Best to let her do her thing." He said grabbing queens arm before she could move again.

Queen nodded and sat down with a sad look.

"She probably got some kind of heritage from that part of the world. DNA is weird when it relates to magic. Some things are inconsistent as all hell but the only logical solution is that each magic user is completely unique in a certain way. I guess you could compare it to how different brands of the same item are all wired differently." TJ said returning to his food.

Queen watched as Sophia floated back over the bed. Her eyes shut and she plopped down onto the bed. She then woke back up in a fit of screaming and thrashing...

Queen sighed, hung her head, and said:

"Oh he's going to be so pissed when he gets back."

"Yeah you're right about that." A voice said behind her. She actually made a pained face... And turned around to see the reaper standing there.

"I am not impressed..."