Amethyst Genesis: Bleeding Ruby

Azure Ochre

The car has been driving for a bit down a muggy highway, only illuminated by the occasional streetlamp. Jeta turns the radio on, static crackles before a broadcast is played...

"RECENT DRIZZLE AROUND ESSUCHI HAVE BEEN SHOWN TO BE A RESULT OF SKYWHALE CALLS DURING MATING SEASON, THE—". Before the announcement could be finished, the woman dialed the radio to the gentle strumming of guitars of an inexplicable song. "You know its my car my rules...." The woman turns to him as she was saying that, Jeta laid his head back and sighed, there was no point of arguing with her. Jeta rests his eyes for a bit, the gentle tap of rain on the windshield was hypnotic to an extent. "Hey, do you think the kid's alright?" She asks him. Jeta opened his eyes and turned to her in a sleepy manner. "They're a resilient soul, I doubt that losing a limb would kill him." Jeta suddenly went quiet, his eyes shifted to worry. "But I fear its way worse than just a limb..." he turns to her. "But I don't know why." The woman sighs and thinks to herself , "Always the worried insomniac under all those layers of strength." She smiles softly. "Aria?" Jeta asks. "What?" Aria replies slightly irritated that he ended the silent bliss with his voice. "Do we got cake in the fridge?", asks Jeta. Aria's soft smile turned to a glare "We went through all that and the first thing you ask is for sweets?!" She growled. "Fine, we do have leftovers." Aria chuckles defeated. The man smiles softly and closes his eyes..

Jeta sees himself in a field, its warm and sunny the sky was golden, brightly, he sees a tall woman with long brown hair sitting on her knees and a red scarf on her lap. She smiles at him with a warmth that was soothing to him. He steps towards her only to be met by black hands dragging both him and her into the ground. He hears an otherworldly voice whispers to his ear, nothing understandable pure gibberish. The woman shatters into rose petals and the black hands hiss in pain from the petals. Jeta manages to free himself from the hands and holds the woman's red scarf tightly as she fades away. Tears trickle down his face as he tries to grab at those petals...

"Hey, HEY!" a voice called, Jeta was suddenly was taken back to reality, he was in his room, resting his head on the bedside. Hal was asleep, his wounds dressed , Aria was standing behind Jeta, with a plate in her hand dressed in a tan T-shirt and . She sighs and grabs his hand, "You need rest idiot.." Jeta follows her lead and she drags him to her bed, he offers no resistance. He rests his eyes slowly, Aria looks around and decides to sneak in the sheets. She smiles at the sleeping black cat of a man in her bed. She feels his back with her hands softly lining down his spine with her finger tips. She decides to give up tonight's attempt and rests her eyes from the night's exhaustion. "The kid is gonna go far", Aria whispers to Jeta, but he was out cold. She slowly drifted off to sleep from the rain droplets at the window, hugging him tight.

As the hours passed and the rain cleared and the sun rose in all its glory, it illuminated the alley waking up Lyra, she twisted her neck back into the place, forcing her ribs back into place, and twisted herself back together with sickening snaps and crunches all over her body. She stands up slowly and sighs, she notices Hal's dismembered arm lying next to her. She picks it up and like a snake unhinges her jaw and devours it, she gulps the blood from the vessels with a satisfied look. It wasn't for sustenance but rather a sick  fantasy she had.

"You taste so excellent, even if it was just your arm." She climbs the fire escape and enters Hal's room, she notices the numerous sweaters he had, and proceeds to inhale them, her face showed more than just pleasure, her face was ridden with a deranged psychotic look.  Just as she opened his closet, Kara busts in with sheer adrenaline and instinct and yelled, "Hal!, where are you, I've been all over all night trying to find you. I got your messa..." she notices instead of Hal on his bed it was the woman. Both eyes locked, from an expression of concern and worry on Kara's face turned to malicious intent.
Lyra felt the monster in Kara, come out, she felt its claws pierce into her skin, she was just standing there but she felt the presence of pure violence, wanting to tear her limb from limb. Kara grabs her throat and smashed her through the wall with brute force, Lyra coughed up blood and staggered up, "Yes, you got the jump on me, I'll give you that, but its gonna take more than a display of strength to hur—GH!!"
Lyra was interrupted by the sight and sensation of a something cleaving through her chest. Kara's right hand was through her chest, Lyra was sent flying from the force out to the street. Kara walked towards the gaping hole in the wall and hops down to the crater she sent Lyra into. Kara notices that the crater was empty from where she landed, her ears picked up the sound of a blade cutting through air. She moves her neck back and dodges Lyra's thrust and caves her face in with another strike. From Lyra's perspective, Kara's knuckles had glowing pulsating droplets that burnt through her flesh. "Those droplets hurt, heheh...HAAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHHA". Lyra started to laugh maniacally from the sensation of pain. Her mouths stood agape and bloody, as her body was more contorted around the edges of her spine.

Lyra motioned to Kara instantly catching her by surprise, Kara couldn't even sense the speed Lyra went, Lyra smiled eerily at Kara up close. Her psychotic grin unnerved Kara, making her instinctively block up, but she started to black out. She noticed to her surprise, her body slowed to fatigue. "What did you do?.... You bitch...." Kara slowly said passing out, "It was just a trick, a hand flick." Lyra's eyes were of a snake's, she holstered Kara up to her shoulder,  and spread her wings with a magnificent display. With a strong beat from her wings, she flew high and so fast, she disappeared from the site of what just occurred...

CHAP 3 END