ETHEREAL THE 10GEN

Chapter 19

The clicking and writing of a pen annoyed ethereal from her slumber
"I see your awake it's currently 6:24 am" a far too mature and gentle voice exclaimed as the writing stoped, to her disapproval her eyes opened and adjusted to the overly bright room and landed on the female Infront of her.

"My name is misaki, I serve as the second in command to the Noboru and a healer in my free time" she said returning to her pen and bourd

Just hearing her voice was humbling enough  ethereal thought, she sat up and instantly recognized the room as the first place she was in when she arrived at the dom.Her gaze returned to misaki 'dare I ask '
"Uhm misaki, what happened" ethereal questioned as she saw the drips attached and implanted in her wrist. Misaki sighed " as Hana assumed your body wasn't ready to control nor comprehend the power of the art energy you some how managed to unlock, resulting in your attempt to control it failing, but you managed to convert it into a sound wave when it was released"

"Sounds accurate I guess, Thank you" ethereal appreciated her help, really she did, but it's just that her mind was preoccupied.

For the first time she was tired, drained and felt empty, all she wanted to do was crawl back into the covers to think? to sleep? or just believe that if she focused hard enough she would finally wake up from this dream or hallucination. That when she woke up she would be met with the smile of her family whole, that she was normal, and no blood whether by her art or her mere existents because destiny would be on her hands, call her stupid, naive, selfish even but just because she was this powerful person who was destined for God knows what, she still wanted everything to be normal that no weight of the past would be on her and no pressure would be on her to accomplish whatever goal was planned for her. The unhealed wounds of her heart burned at the past 6 years, just forget it her mind,the more logical voice suggested "how could I forget? Forget the fact that I'll never see my parents again? the very same people that daughter tooth and nail to keep me alive?Forget that I gave in and became that..beast to protect what was left and they still held hostility. Forget the innocent and sinned lives that died because of my mistake at the age of 7, forget that because of the time art my kingdom, my home had to burn for me, to what!? For what reason did so many lives have to suffer for?. You want me to forget that if I don't do this right bad thing are gonna happen more lives are gonna be lost, and I just want to go home and be normal, but it will still be my fault"

Her mind was racing as she pinched her temple with her index and thumb "I know it's against a sacred law but I need you to tell me. How does it end?" Ethereal asked her eyes pleasing and misaki new exactly what she meant her own eyes looking sympathetic " I'm sorry but I can't do that and please, please, when you get your visions please , do not change them"this time her eyes were pleading.

Ethereal looked offended to say the least but managed to form a smile, it was fake and stood up making her way to the door, she needed to clear her head "I wouldn't dream of It" and with that she was gone.

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5 hours later 11:48
Everyone in the dom new that ethereal wasn't alright, in the past 6 days they came to realize her poker face was a way to hide her overwhelmed mind, but this was not it. For the past 5 hours her eyes were narrowed into splits, her smile tight lipped and barely talking to anyone.

She was in the art beta focusing on small amounts of energy in her hand while on the ground socking up the sunlight each yellow orb had a few zaps that resembled lightning a row of sweat already forming on her fore head but she paid no mind to, ignoring the outside world only her power and thoughts keeping her active.

" For a person that almost died you sure do heal fast" an easy high pitched voice interrupted her training session, the girl lazily turned around and saw a boy around the age of 21 with long light blue hair that covered one of his also light blue eyes, subtle smile on his face that turned into a grin "well hello there, name's Mizuki" he introduced giving a closed eye smile which was contagious finally bringing a warm genuine smile.

She watched him sit next to her but on the shaded side under a small shade " you good?" He asked a little too awkward "mmh?" Ethereal hummed confused and turned to face him "you look upset" he voiced out as ethereal simply sighed, "it's nothing really I'm fine, I'll adapt" she quickly dismissed "adapt?" "I mean I'll get used to this, this title of the '10 gen' that everyone says I am when I don't see myself worthy, I want to go home but it's I place a can't go, they won't exactly accept me with open arms again after what I've done to and for them, I know that this is that I should move on but there's a naive side of me that thinks I'll open my eyes to see my mother and father's kind smile, but I also want to stay and maybe prove to myself an my family that I am who you say I am and yet am scared that more lives will be lost, women,children will die in agony again because of my doing, because of my presents"

She blurted everything she had been holding inside in one go and yet no tears were shed she simply looked at her lap ashamed "Ethereal, I understand, we all do and we held and grew each other up through the good and the bad, and we made just fine. Sure you'll adapt but it's ok to feel this way and we're here in every corner of the dom to help you, after all I should know no about emotions"

Through everything that one sentence struck out to her, it surprised her to the point that she giggled at someone who could relate "what do you mean about your emotions"she instantly regretted asking as his fell and silent she started panicking.

"I-im sorry I shouldn't have asked it's ok not to tell" she cursed herself for starting but it all went away when he smiled and shifted the collar of his shirt causing ethereal's eyes to widen.

"It's ok, it's ok" he assured as he stretched out the colour to reveal a dark scar which was hidden it began at the base of his neck and swirled around it showing the shape of a collar " happended when I was 12, I was born in Takill to parents they wanted a strong fire art, and yeah they didn't get that from me instead received the arts of air and water and they didn't take that lightly, they were rich so they paid for the strongest AAI resulting in sending me to a science institute to be a lab rat to their experiments"

Her eyes widened at the name, AAI was short for Artificial Art Implication, which was illigal in all 9 arts due to being a drug mixed with the DNA of the art that was to be transferred " when I refused they chained me to a room, for how long, I couldn't tell it had no windows I guess it was to break my spirit but the day came and men in white coats practically draged me away to room and tied me up" he said showing his wrist which had the same marks as the one on his collarbone "I was scared, terrified even that I just, lost control. I know they were just doing their job but they didn't deserve that because of my parents decisions" he looked upset this and almost in a contemplating like manner while he stared at the ground " That's how Nanami found me and I met Hana too and learned a new technique- wait you have control over the water art yeah?"

She looked taken aback by the change of topic "uh yeah" she answered hesitantly, he grinned as he hopped of the ground and held out his hand "come on, I gotta show ya"

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T.A.M

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Author note :
Hiya today I just wanted to let ethereal's frustration out on the world and then be conformed also by a character of my zodiac sign mizuki! Of the art water and air.
But I hope you enjoyed and don't forget.

Please vote,stay hydrated, stay safe and stay ethereal ✨

Bye Tay's 💕