Spectacular World

Fate?

"What do you mean you know Hope is alive?" Kyle asked, stumbling back. That had been the last thing he expected the hero to claim. He stared at Sky in shock as the girl's head cocked to the side. "What are you saying?"

"I guess you wouldn't know, would you?"

"Know what?"

The hero reached into the pocket of her lab coat and fished around for something. Slowly, she pulled out a small metal ball barely bigger than a golf ball. "Do you know what this is?" She questioned him.

"No?" He looked around at all the other people that moved around the underground station Paragon had forged into her base, but none of them seemed to be paying any mind to the conversation that was going on. "I'm guessing you're going to tell me that it's something really important, though?" This was just getting weirder and weirder.

Sky raised her hand up and brought the orb closer to her face, staring into it. The thing was extremely shiny and clean, bouncing her reflection back at her. Whatever the orb she held was, it let out a soft humming sound, and a faint blue light seeped out of the metal, flickering several times. "This is... Well, I really don't know what you would call it." She admitted sheepishly. "The point is this thing belonged to Wish. It was how she kept coming back to life. I don't know how much Cinder told you, but Wish respawned no matter how many times she was killed. It was thanks to a connection she had within me, due to me being an offspring of the previous Lord of Life. This Pod sort of works as a connector, I think. It holds the power of the Lords within it, and it used to be a lot bigger, but I guess it shrank when I wanted to carry it around. When a Lord dies, the power has two places it can go. The first is to a descendant. My sister got her power from her great-grandfather. I never met the man, but Mr. Sini had his power passed down to Poseidon. Originally he wanted it to go to my mother, but she wasn't close enough."

"There's a range limit?"

"Yeah." Sky nodded. "I think that's why the Victorian didn't become the Lord when Full Monarch died. When a Lord dies and they don't have someone in their bloodline, they can pass the power down, or the power will instead go into one of these pods, where it will later birth a new Lord. My father wanted his power to go to me when he died but wasn't able to reach me fully. Only a sliver of his energy found itself within me. This is mainly due to the Prettiest Flower, though. She had been looking for a body she wanted to take over for years and used her host, the Emperor, to create me."

"I have no idea what you're talking about..."

"The long and short of it is I was too far away from the Emperor when he died, so I couldn't become the next Lord, and that power went into this metal orb I'm holding that later created Wish," Paragon explained. "When Wish died, though, that power was finally able to fully pass back down to me, and in turn, her Pod now became my Pod. Just as the title of Lords can be passed down, so too can these strange machines." She tossed the orb back up into the air and caught it, repocketing it.

"How do you know all of this?" Kyle questioned with a frown.

Sky gave a sad smile and tapped her forehead. "You've noticed my new hair color, right? Well, let's just say that ever since I gained my title, I've had a new person force their way into my life. One who has a bad habit of not shutting up. She tends to ramble about all sorts of things."

'-the soul is a physical object, able to be mended and changed thanks to our power! Just think what will happen if we truly become one Sky! I'd get my body back, and you-'

Sky went back to tuning the voice of the Prettiest Flower out. With something like this rattling around in her head, she was starting to understand why Wish had gone off the deep end so easily.