Blazing Regalia

Chapter VII: Story

Xon and Marc approach a small building, but right before entering, a loud alarm is sounded. Marc looks back begrudgingly before walking away.

Marc: "That's the alarm for the gate, someone is trying to enter illegally."

Xon: "Like me?"

Marc: "Yeah, but your case is a little different."

Marc: "Say hi to him for me!"

Marc darts towards the gate, leaving Xon to enter the building alone. He slowly approaches the two steel doors that seal the small buildings contents from the outside world. He places his hand upon the handle, a slight shock running through his hand. The door gives resistance, but he forces the door open, they swing and glide across the floor while pivoting from their joints, before slamming against the very wall it connects to. Before him lies numerous long tables littered with scientific tools and chemical fluids. In the center of the room he spies a young man, doting in the corner over a potion, seemingly unaware of his presence, but before Xon can speak, the man whips his head around and acknowledges Xon.

A pink aura envelopes the man and he begins walking towards Xon, with a wicked smile on his face.

???: "Hello, young one."

Xon: "Uhh, hi?"

???: "Why are you here? Are you here for a commission? Do you need information? Or are you volunteering yourself to me?"

Xon grows nervous, a slight grin emerging in his face.

Xon: "Marc sent me here, I need to learn about wisps"

???: "Wisps? I can help you with that! What type of wisps? Natural? Elemental? Artificial? Sentient? Mechanical? Ange-"

Xon: "Slow down! Damn, you talk a lot, can we have some introductions first??"

???: "Ah, I apologize.. my name is Vel, short for Veloncinthropolideusincreofatei.

Vel: "I am the newest chemical engineer here at Khameia, I have the ability to manipulate a dispensable aura from my body, it's quite useful."

Xon: "You.. what..."

Xon: "Okay, Vel.. I need to specifically learn about wisps that are formed from human emotions. Can you help me with that?"

Vel: "Perfect timing actually, I just finished my research on these types of wisps."

He turns around and walks deeper into the building as Xon follows, they enter a small library area. He searches the shelves and finds a specific book that he takes off the shelf.

Vel: "Natural wisps.. they are formed without intentional intervention from humans, a natural wisp is typically formed from the intense buildup of human emotions, but they can also be formed from flowers and plants during pollination, i haven't found out exactly why yet though."

Vel: "Is there a reason you ask about this?"

Xon: "Im housing a wisp in my body currently."

Xon: "It originally possessed someone else but it transferred to me while i was unconscious and badly injured."

Vel: "Hmm, a possessive wisp. Do you know how this wisp formed?"

Xon: "Supposedly from betrayal and hatred."

Vel: "What?! That's not possible..."

Vel: "Yes, wisps can be born from an abundance of emotion, but it still takes an extremely large amount of it to even create a small, harmless little wisp, let alone one that can possess people!"

Vel speedily walks towards Xon, exerting his aura across his body, but Xon exerts his own in response.

Vel: "You can manipulate an aura too?"

Xon: "Yeah, I guess, but what are you about to do."

Vel: "Im checking your injuries, to see if there's any lingering physical presence of it, afterwards i'll assess your aura for any impurities and then-

Xon: "Nevermind.. just what you have to."

Xon & Vel follow a set of procedures in which the result brings excitement to Vel's face.

Vel: "You have quite an interesting companion, i've never seen a wisp this intelligent before."

Xon: "Well, it's not really mines, i guess i'm just borrowing it."

Vel: "Right, I apologize for prying into your past."

Xon: "It's alright, it's not much of a secret anyways."

Vel: "Your too kind... uhh.. dude?.."

Xon: "Oh, my name. Im Xon."

Vel: "What a unique name, i'll definitely remember it."

Xon: "Says you.."

Vel is a young alchemic researcher who boasts the unique appearance of messy pinky hair, with a portion of hair on the right side being black. He wears traditional lab wear and blue circle eye glasses with slightly pink tinted lenses. He has 2 mid back-lengthed braids in the back of his head.

Vel: "That wisp of yours, can you show it to me directly?"

Xon extends his hand forward and Seven, not long after Vel envelopes Seven in his aura, temporarily disconnecting it from Xon, he steps back in shock, he quickly glances across the room and dashes to grab a heavily tinted glass and returns to Xon.

Vel: "One more time."

Seven manifests itself once more, Vel releases his aura, surrounding Seven, and with much resistance, it slowly began detaching from Xon. Vel pulled back once more and completely removed Seven. A strong burst of wind rushed about the room and Xon lost consciousness. Vel quickly put Seven in the special glass vial and seals it. Xon wakes up shortly after but barely conscious.

Xon & Vel suddenly hear lots yelling and motion outside. They rush outside to be faced with a cloaked person running towards them, with Marc following them.

Marc: "Catch them!!! He's an intruder"

Xon releases his aura as the cloaked figure get closer, but before they can cover any ground, he conceals his aura and walks forwards. The cloaked person stops as Xon wraps his scarf around their neck.

Xon: "I got this.. for you.."

Silence follows.

Marc: "Do.. you know that guy, Xon?

Xon: ...