An Incomplete History

Chapter 6 - Decisions

"What are you thinking about Tomasi?" Aquila asks him as they sit on Gales couch in silence.

"I'm scared, everything Ryuma said. We're just humans Aquila, we shouldn't need to be doing this." Tomasi leans forward and hangs his head and stares at the floor. "But I can't let Gale go through this alone" Tomasi follows up. Aquila looks at Tomasi with a pensive expression.

"You know, after everything that happened between me and Gale, I truly believed I was irredeemable. I still do to an extent but if we can help him get his life back together wouldn't that fix what I did?" Aquila gives a soft smile and Tomasi looks up at him. "I can't say how Gale feels about you because I don't know for sure, but Aquila it wasn't your fault, you got taken advantage of, Gale got manipulated to be against you, I'm sure he's aware of that now." Tomasi and Aquila both stare forward. "I guess" Aquila can barely think of what to say. "Gale is my best friend, I need to go no matter what. But you can still stay behind Aquila, you can forget this ever happened and when this is over we can all get drinks." Tomasi looks at Aquila searching for some kind of reaction. Aquila stands up and looks down at Tomasi. "No way, I'm not missing my chance to redeem myself." Tomasi stands up and looks at Aquila. "Well we have to be there at 6 then, it's 11 now. Let's meet up back here at 5, Grab what you might need, there's no saying how long we will be gone for." Tomasi gives a worried smile and Aquila nods. They both head to the door filled with anticipation and fear. "See you then.." Tomasi gives a glance to Aquila.

"Yeah..." They both start walking away from each other.

The lights flicker on and a Lady with a bob cut smiles at seeing Gale. She has black hair with dark green tips and teal eyes, she's wearing baggy jeans with two packs of throwing knives on each side of her waist, 3 being in each pack. She is also wearing a light white vest over-top of a long sleeve back shirt. "Gale is it?" The lady walks towards Ryuma and Gale. "Makya." Makya puts her hand out with a genuine smile. Gale shakes her hand. Another girl comes up from behind Makya. The girl doesn't say a word, she looks about 15. "Oh and this is P, She doesn't talk and we don't even know her name, we just call her that since she kept writing P's when we first found her." Makya shrugs and P looks at Gale with her blue eye filled with distrust. P wears a baggy black hoodie and green sweatpants, she has long brown hair, and a mole under her right eye, her left eye is fully covered by her hair; "That's enough for introductions. We have limited time to get you to be able to control the power the stone transferred into you. Makya, can you grab the bag of stones that we already have?" Ryuma looks displeased. "Sure." Makya walks over to one of the metal cupboards and puts on a leather glove to take out a small bag. Makya brings it over to Gale and passes it to him. "It's the few stones we've been able to get our hands on, My guess is there's around 20 that exist and we have a total of 4 at the moment. I'm hoping that we can get them to leech more power into you." Ryuma watches as Gale opens the bag and sees the 3 purple stones, Ryuma takes one more out of his pocket and hands it to Gale. "So how do you plan on that?" Gale asks. "Well first you need to harness the energy you already possess, it's a destructive force that if not used to destroy other things will destroy you."

Ryuma puts a cigarette in his mouth and starts to light it but Makya grabs it. "We agreed you'd quit, now seriously stop." Makya crunches up the cigarette and throws it out and Ryuma sighs.

"Anyways, the stones should naturally transfer the power to you, but we need to figure a way for you to take the energy destroying you and use it against the arch-demons." Ryuma leans against the wall.

Gale picks up one of the stones and it's almost identical to the one he found prior, he looks into the bag and realizes they all look the exact same other than a small marking on each of the middles. The one he had didn't have a marking on it. "If you're looking at the marks I don't know what they mean either, it's something only a few have figured out, though two of the current Arch-demons currently know." Ryuma stares at Gale, as Gale holds up a stone to the light and it shines right through it. "Alright come on, I have some things I want you to see." Ryuma starts walking down the hallway. "Oh are you bringing him where I think you are? Can I come?" Makya smiles and Ryuma sighs. "Come on." Ryuma waves his hand and Gale and Makya follow behind him, P stays behind and lays on the couch staring at the ceiling. Ryuma opens up a metal door to a giant room filled with different swords, spears, bows and even some explosives.