A couple of weeks have went by from when I was brought to the tower, the homebase of Manticore. My powers have grown and now I can control it.
I've changed my name after several days looking, I've settled on Ari/Aria depends on how I feel. I mostly got it off of this really cool game character.
Today was a training exercise. Combat training. It's usually scary but today I'm up against Fynn, the one who I sent flying when I first got here. I haven't seen him at all since then but apparently he's got really strong. I walk in the hall. It's super cool and so high-tech but I can't look around it as the big blast doors slam shut behind me.
I hear someone walking in from the other blast doors behind me. I turn around to see Fynn. He looks very different and also filled with rage. The countdown starts as I get myself ready thinking of what to do.
"3...2...1...GO" a buzzer sounds and the Fynn charges at me. I flip over him with ease, turning around I see him smirking. He knows something I don't, which is scary. No one is meant to know what settings the arena is on. But he does. I sprint at him. Up at his face in a flash. My hand gets covered in a frosty aura as I uppercut him and he goes flying into the air. I jump up and a warhammer made of ice forms in my hand. I spin multiple times before making the blow connect with his back, sending him flying to the ground. As he touches it though. A lot of pillars come up from the ground and smash into the ceiling. I manage to dodge the one that's right below me. Then, the floor disappears.
I've played this mode too many times. I start jumping from the side of pillars to others all while keeping an eye on Fynn who is behind me catching up slowly. A small crossbow forms in my hand, I let off a quick shot and then reload, not aiming cause I can't take my eyes away from what I'm doing in front of me.
My head starts to pound, it hasn't happened in a while but I know this feeling. But this time I didn't black out. I feel claws grow from nails, I feel my ears disappear and then come out my head, a tail grows out my back. I feel my power and speed grow. I feel something else inside me. I ignore it and launch myself back at Fynn, I lift up my hand, almost instinctively and a ball of ice energy forms in my hand, spinning at an incredible speed. I hit him in the stomach and he goes flying back into a pillar. The floor reappears.
Dropping to the floor Fynn is knocked out. I land expecting the form to go back. But it doesn't. I run to my room locking the door, sobbing and mumbling to myself...
"It's not going away... why isn't it going away..."
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Foxtails
FantasyA teen, who had never fit in. Now has a place where they're accepted at least by most. Now they find out more about their past and why they never felt quite right.
