The Other Road

Chapter 4: What a lovely color.

After a while of thinking, Veto finally got up from the floor and looked over to his trainer. She smiled a little then apologized. "I'm sorry about that, I just had to show you what the creatures after you truly have the power to do, besides their regular combat abilities, they have the abilities to use other abilities to get under your skin." Veto had just had a thought hit him "Why do you have the abilities of a demon? Seems a little suspicious of you ask me." She quickly responded to get rid of any suspicion between the two "Angels and demons have the same powers because we both inhabit the same heavenly bodies, the demons were the ones to actually follow a leader though, your kind knows him as the devil, he was just a powerful angel who decided to band angels together to rule over the humans though, not a fallen angel as you humans like to believe." Veto wasn't very religious, he didn't believe in things like this until today, or yesterday, he doesn't really know what to say about the time that has passed, or if any has at all. "So what about God? Was there ever such a thing?" Samantha laughed at him for these questions "No silly, we don't know what created us either, we just came to exist, like humans, except we are a little more bad-ass." She laughed a little as she said this, she felt she needed to break up the tension in the room. Veto looked around the white room and this made him a little curious about his host's choice in colors. "So why the color white? It's so boring and plain, why not get creative and make it green or blue?" Samantha stopped laughing to answer the question "Well the color white is just very tranquil and doesn't conjure up bad emotions like some other colors, as I don't really know how other colors make you feel, as red could've made you mad or blue make you feel a little under the weather." Veto picked up the stick and got into his combat stance and smiled at his mentor for the moment "Ready for round two?" Samantha snapped her fingers and the sticks disappeared and a table with chairs appeared. "Not now, there are more pressing matters to get to, like the fact there are, how do I put this, others trapped in your dreamscape." Other people, Veto doesn't ever remember what it was like meeting another person who didn't actually only exist as a figment of his imagination. "How does that work, how are there other people inside my brain?" Samantha traced out another doorway and as the door appeared, turned around and looked at Veto to respond. "Well, you aren't the other person comatose that the demons are after, and since you are all being subdued for the use of demons, you are all somewhat connected, we are able to travel to the other's subconscious the same way the demons do because, well like I stated, I have the same powers as a demon." She opened the door and inside was a sword rack and an armor stand, she grabbed a sword and handed in to Veto "I'm hoping you know enough about fighting with stick that you might be able to cover me if things get bad. I was also meaning to ask if you wanted a set of armor, you probably also just want a new outfit, as your current clothes are filthy and actually only exist in this subconscious, therefore they would disappear if we entered someone else's mind." Veto grabbed the sword and a sheathe and looked at the armor stand, which contained a beautiful set of white chainmail, Samantha grabbed the armor and geared up. "Yeah I would like to get a suit of armor, would it be as nice as yours?" Samantha traced the outline of Veto and a suit of what seemed to be a light, white leather jacket that had been reinforced and padded, along with matching leather pants and gloves fell to the floor in front of him. "Anymore questions?" Veto noticed there wasn't any underwear of any sorts with the armor "Yeah I would like some uh...underwear to wear under all this leather" She sighed and snapped and a pair of boxers and a t-shirt appeared in front of him. Samantha drew a doorway again and motioned for him to go in. "You can change in there" Veto did so in the other room. As he came out he was amazed at how perfectly the outfit had fit him, guess that explained why she was tracing his body when she formed the outfit. "Now, let's go off and find Michelle, our first little addition to the group" and with that, she opened the door and they were off.