corheim: year one

Episode Pet

~~~Episode Five: Embrace the Monster~~~

"...COME TO ME, IGNEUS!" Ryoji bellowed out the words through his voice and Igneus's,  his eyes had shined a scintillating light, his mouth burned with smoke...The horror of everyone.

No one has seen a Cor-Embracing before. Another person in Surwick Academy possessed the ability to be a Cor-Embracer, and her name was Donatella Saccomeno.

All except one person watched horror, as one girl was amazed by seeing a Cor-Embracer in action. Astra Willoby had heard myths and tall tales. While Donatella Saccomeno, her eternal tormentor, was one, Donatella had never Embraced before since she was too lazy to do so.

And she could tell that he wasn't lazy. He was...hard-working and kind, but there was so much she didn't know about the person who had saved her. Astra wanted to know more about Ryoji Rukavina---As she saw him as a light in the darkest times in the S.S.N.A.

Cor-Embracing.

A lost art, a tasteless tactic between a Corheimr and any specimen from any realm. Humans were normally the ones that made a contract with a Corheimr to receive their |Traits|. It wasn't every day that these phenomena happened, as it was myths. Even Donatella didn't believe in Cor-Embracing.

Relations between Corheimr and any specimen from any land or realm were strictly forbidden, as Corheimr had once granted passage to all the cognitive realms. History became history, as Corheim decided to cut ties with their ally realms...Some discussions needed not to be said and sins to reclarify. It wasn't like this thousands of years ago when Corheim did not carry its extreme xenophobic, ultra-nationalist agenda.

Many of these Cor-Embraces were violent, as two individuals were synchronizing their entire souls and merging into one. They could even result in death if it was incorrect and unjust.

It was as liberating as it was destructive.

He was as tall as 5'10" and weighed heavier than cold iron, the boy became something out of a fairy tale if it was dark and morbid. Hands where talons were swift and deadly from each swipe. A smooth hide of onyx as his skin and the Corheim Rune engraved in the middle of his blood-red chest burned quite brightly now. A stubby yet strong tail that could cleave concrete brick with ease. Six, small thagomizers that were sharp to the end, and at them sat one flame on each of them. A face red as blood, forehead a small yet magnificent horn sat on top of it with immense pride. Teeth black like coal, eyes shaped like a wick flickering in the white specs they inhabited in. Jagged, rocky horns that pointed to the sky like an antelope and were sharp to the ends of them. A scarf of flames wrapped around his neck, flames that could burn skin completely within 25 meters. A dragon shaped like a devil and a man. Threat Level: Omega-Level?

The first Cor-Embrace in a long while. The first one to appear in the S.S.N.A. The first.

And his name is Ryoji Rukavina.

The crowd was silent, and that frightened Yusuke terribly. The only audible sounds that were made were the sound of rain falling and the crackling and popping from the flames of Embraced Ryoji's. The Cor-Embracer stood there, erect and patient as he waited for Yusuke to regain his footing. Some mannerisms from both of them were mixed up, with Ryoji's honor and Igneus' violent nature concocting a deadly mix-up.

The fight had just escalated now, with Ryoji Rukavina being Embraced and Yusuke Hanshin needing to be pinched. He must have been dreaming, and that all of this was just some bad dream.

This had to be a horrible nightmare for him. It had to be.

How in the hell--No way am I seeing this?! He couldn't have done that just now!! No way... Yusuke dreaded it before calming down and trying to figure things out better. He smiled cockishly. So, if Rukavina embraced now---then that means he's desperate!!