Essence of The World [Favremysabre AU]

Wings?

*Sabre*

When I stepped through the portal everything became a blur. I was back in the watery world standing before the odd crystal once more. Now the two shards were there as well, floating above pedestals. Around me were other pedestals, all were empty.

The watery chains still held strong, however there were cracks appearing. I looked around more, floating blocks here and there, the sky was a bright white.

"Sabre..." My ears twitch and I look over my shoulder with wide eyes. Tired orange eyes look into my dual colored eyes. I step forward towards him, with a hand out; uncertain as to if he was actually here.

"Rainbow?" I question him, and I watch a small smile appear on his face as he comes closer. "Rainbow? Is that actually you?"

He carefully takes my hand in his.. "I'm so, so sorry..." He looks away and I see tears building in his eyes.

"Rainbow...." I lean against him as we sit down in front of the floating crystal. "I miss you..."

"I know..." He says.

"Sabre-" A voice breaks through the silence, neither mine nor Rainbows. "-open your eyes- is- Sabre."

He looks up and sighs. I just continue to lean against him. "Sabre you-" He begins before shaking his head, "I shouldn't have been so foolish- and I was so dumb..."

I open my mouth but nothing comes out

"Here." He gently pulls me onto my feet, he stands in front of me. He taps my chest where a purple crystal lay; the crystal glows brightly. "I will be here, waiting for you. Next time you awake here, I will be here holding you."

I smile at him and he smiles back as my vision begins going black.

"I won't fail you again my blade."

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I open my eyes to see tree branches above me. "What?" I sit up and shake my head. I rub my eyes before taking in my surroundings.

My body burns... Why does it burn?

"SABRE!" I jump as Wisteria runs to me. "You're okay!"

"Er- Yeah?" I lean back a little. Of course I'm okay!

"We stepped through the portal and you straight up fell over." She rambles, "so we got you under some shade to wait for to wake up. But then you didn't and we got worried. Sage wandered off to look for literally anything!"

I wince in pain as a headache begins. "What-"

"You are okay? Right?" Wisteria asks, getting on his knees in front of me; head tilted.

"Yeah I am okay!" I nod my head before holding back a second wince. From where I leaned against the tree my back bursts in pain, and a noise of startle rips out of my throat.

I see Sage running over with Sheepy at his heels. Ah, he seemed to have taken the little fellas with him. My new little friends seem worried as well.

"Sire!" He shouts suddenly, and I'm back to being called Sire... Stop being so formal.

"I'm okay! I am Okay!" I tried to reassure the two guards, neither seemed to be taking my reassurance. Neither did Sheepy and the others. Darn...

"Sire, quit trying to hide your pain. You are literally crying." Sage all so helpfully points out. Ugh, lemon man stop. >:(

"I- I think I'm going to lay down..." I tell them. Pain blossoms across my back, it feels like something is pushing and pulling against my skin. Yeah- I ain't lying on my back.

My shirt itches against my back, making it burn once more. I start taking my shirt off, to the confusion of the guards. I don't care however, I need it off.

OffOffOffOffOffOff

Everytime I try to lift my arms it causes more pain. Sage leans forward and helps me take it off, his hot hands burn me and I wince. He draws back with a frown as I lay down on my stomach.

My bones are shifting around under my skin, I bite into my arm ignoring the taste of iron, It hurts... It hurts so much... I want it to stop...

I'm pulled carefully against someone, my mind was too fuzzy because of the pain that I couldn't make out who was holding. I can hear two concerned voices, my guards, my friends are concerned... I can't focus.

My back starts to feel like it's being torn apart, a screech rips from my throat as the smell of blood reaches my nose. I go limp, too in pain to focus on anything, mind hazy. My heart was pounding, something liquidy ran down my back, eyes unfocused.

My breathing is shaky as something begins fully ripping through my skin, before falling limp against my back. What? I shakily move my head to look just for me to gasp in surprise. Large wings lay against me, blood splatters across them.

"Woah." I looked up to Wisteria who was very tense but looking at the wings in confusion.

Hands comb through my hair making me jump. I look up to see a slightly amused Sage. I bap him in the face.

My wings fluff from where they lay. Oh- Everything finally hits me... I have wings now... 

Okay....

I need to process everything....

I keep going to that strange watery place with the odd floating crystal, then I recently saw Rainbow.... But how can that be? He's dead... And I'm still living. That place doesn't have the same energy as the World Beyond.... So was that just my imagination?

Then when I wake up I am in pain, Wings ripping through my back. Speaking of wings... They need to be washed... Badly.

"Is there a water source somewhere?" I ask the two guards.

"Yes." Sage responds before straight up lifting me up into his arms, being careful with my wings.

"Wha- I don't need to be carried!" I shout.

"No. Don't even try it Sire..." Sage says walking with me in his arms. I cross my arms and grumble.

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We arrive at a fairly large pond and Sage sets me at the edge of the pond before taking the rest of his armor off. Wisteria was already in the water, armor long gone. Ranger peeks out of the water alongside Wisteria. The others were in the water and on the shore.

Sage slides into the water before dragging me into cold water. I squeal as the water touches my body. I try getting out; wings flapping, but Sage pulls me right back in. Wisteria swims over and both guards fingers gently brush through my wings, red dripping off of me and into the once clear water.

Sage lifts one of my wings and freezes, my ears twitch as I look to see why. Once I see why he froze, my eyes widen. The tips of both wings were rainbow feathers that glittered when the sun hit them right.

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Getting out of the water I shake and flap my wings as the water seems to evaporate. Huh, I don't think wings are meant to do that. I stretch my wings to full length, almost tripping Wisteria in the process.

Man, they are long. Twice my size at that, so roughly ten feet. I flap them once, making leaves and dirt fly. I feel like I've had them before. But when? And how could someone forget about having wings?

I fold them against my back, how am I supposed to put a shirt on with these big things? Much to the group's shock, we watch them shrink. Well that helped greatly. Still I should cut holes where the wings go.

I grab my shirt and cut into it before pulling it on, the wings pop through the holes and flutter as a smile appears on my face. I could get used to this....