"You're nothing like her...! You're nothing but a failure wearing her face!!!"
"Are you some savior raised by this magic menagerie, or a freak that they hide from the world?"
"QUIET!!! Not another word from you! Not until I've finished preparing the ritual..."
"You helped me once because I was caught off guard...!"
"How could we have produced such a talentless child...!?"
"I do not need your protection...!"
"You are not my daughter! You're a pest! A ghost!"
"I do not need your help!"
"I'll do whatever it takes to get her back...! EVEN IF IT MEANS OFFERING YOU UP!!!"
"I do not NEED. YOU!!!"
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Shenhe sat against a wall within Cloud Retainer's domain, shuddering in silence as she hugged her knees tightly. Her breaths were low, shaky, and strained with emotion as painful memories tore through her mind.
She had sworn that she would never let herself be hurt like that again.
She swore to herself that she would shield her heart from words that would cause her such pain.
And yet...
Shenhe let out a strangled sob, her eyes locked shut as the image of Wu's scornful gaze seared into her mind. The same look that father had given her when he offered her up to that beast all those years ago.
She had only wanted to help.
She had only wanted to protect someone she had grown to respect.... to care for...
And he had reacted so angrily... tore her down, screaming and fuming, just like father...
Why?
What had she done wrong?
Shenhe's red ropes seared her soul hotter than red-hot metal as rimes of ice bloomed on the floor beneath her, flaky and dewy as it crawled out in a crystalline semi circle.
Shenhe let out shaky breath after shaky breath, her voice laced with anguish. In this moment, she wanted nothing more than to crawl into a crevice and never return. Anything to escape the pain digging into her heart.
After years with Cloud Retainer, distanced from the mortal world, she had deluded herself into thinking that it was something she wanted to be a part of. That it wasn't agony that would greet her should she try to take a step out into it. Not even a taste of it, and she'd been burned once again.
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"This is... a familiar feeling."
CRAAASH!!!
"SKREEEOOOAAAR"
Wu's fist, charged with ki, slammed into one of Osial's heads, crushing it as it was sent reeling back, letting out a horrid, booming screech. Moving in unison, Osial's remaining heads lunged, their mouths wide to snap up the glowing morsel that was packed with elemental energy.
Wu gritted his teeth, spinning rapidly and firing blasts of ki from his hands, becoming a spinning spray of blazing energy, lighting up Osial's heads in every way, making the glowing maws screech, relenting in their attack long enough for Wu to stop his spinning and veer towards another head, slamming a fist halfway down its neck.
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Fury (Saiyan OC x Genshin Impact)
Action"I don't exactly have the best history with gods..."
