The forsaken (Rainimator book4)

soul of the broken

POV 3rd person 

"Crystal," Razer started, following his sister down the hallway. 

it was the next day after the dragon collapsed and Crystal had refused to speak to anyone about what happened to her during the battle against them. 

"Crystal!" Razer called, grabbing her arm. 

"WHAT!" Crystal snapped turning to him, before her face calmed down. "What is it Razer?" 

"What happened to you yesterday?" he asked. "You were being your normal badass self, then without anything going near you," 

"It was nothing," Crystal said. 

"Sister please..." Razer was cut short.

"IT WAS NOTHING!" Crystal said, her lightning flickering as she pulled her arm free.

Razer didn't flinch. "Crystal, if something is wrong," 

Crystal growled and opened a portal disappearing into it before Razer could follow her. 

Azura took the bottle away from Charlene and started to burp when the door to the lab opened, Azura turned to see Meeps standing there. "One moment please," Azura said before putting the baby down in her cot, she turned back to the short red panda and smiled. "What can I do for you Meeps?" 

"What happened to you yesterday?" Meeps asked. 

Azura's smile dimmed. "right," She said, Azura walked over to her workbench and picked something up passing it over to Meeps. "That's a..."

"Temporal scanner," Meeps finished clicking it on. 

the small green screen lit up, showing a large white dot. "Is that Charlene?" Meeps asked. 

"Yeah, her cells are saturated with chrono energy, that was a side effect from the Controller's time lightening," Azura explained. "it seems to have given her powers, now filter her out,"

Meeps pressed a few buttons and the bright white light disappeared, leaving a much smaller white dot. "Is that you?"

Azura nodded. "Although I didn't know about it, as it turns out the time lightning use radiated my blood as well, not to the same level as Charlene, I've noticed it, small moments when I get hurt, time undoes itself, I cut my finger when cooking dinner, Time undone itself," Azura rubbed her face, she looked at Meeps. "You don't look worried," 

Meeps shrugged. "This is kinda a normal thing," 

"NO IT'S NOT!" Azura yelled. "This...this isn't normal! not here, not for me," Azura said. 

"apart from me who have you told?" Meeps asked. 

"No one," Azura answered. "but I'm going to tell Patrick and Charlie," 

"Well, I can't suggest anything..." Meeps stopped when Daryll burst in. he went to say something but Azura put her finger on the lips. 

"You wake my daughter, you are a dead man," Azura threatened. Daryll nodded. "What do you want?" Azura asked.

Daryll took a deep breath. "I'm hiding from Razer and Andrew, Razer is going on about something to do with Crystal, and it's very very annoying," 

"what's up with Crystal?" Meeps asked. 

"All honesty I don't know and I don't really care, she's a...." Daryll stopped as both the people in the room dead-stare at him. "A very nice lady,"

"Do remember," Azura said getting very close to Daryll. "That poor girl's life makes yours and mine look pleasant, she had shit down to her so crawl that it makes your skin crawl, she's allowed to be hurt," Azura's tone made Daryll's eyes filled with fear. "And I don't care if you're my friend or Patricks, I will hit you with one of my new weapon prototypes if you hurt her," Daryll nodded in fear.