Of Angels and Demons: A New Generation

Rose

"It's been a while Rose, how's this dimension treating you?" Aziria asks as the woman looks at me. "It has been very good. And oh, how it's been so long since I've seen you too." Rose says as I smile awkwardly. "So how much stronger have you become, Z-" Aziria quickly covers Rose's mouth before she can say anything else. "Rose, you should know it was forbidden to speak of that." Aziria says as black and red energy slowly circles her feet. Rose quickly pulls away Aziria's hand. "So, that must mean that you're." Rose mumbles as she stares at me. Ayumi quickly pushes me to the side as a blade thrusts through where my head just was. I see Rose holding a green blade. "And who are you? You were never around any of us." Rose asks as Ayumi makes a fist. "You will not harm Malick." She says as Rose tilts her head. "Hm, so that is what his name is." Rose mumbles as her eyes dart to everyone else. "My name is Lastis, this is Attira, Fallyn, and Moxi." Lastis says as he points towards the others. Moxi quickly jumps towards Rose and looks at her sword. "This is just overflowing with energy. You are very powerful, aren't you?" Moxi asks, almost sarcastically. "I am, but I could not say the same for you. Your energy seems insignificant." Rose says as Moxi shrugs. "So, do you think you are strong enough to remove the energy tracers on us?" Moxi asks, smiling slyly at Rose. "Of course, I can." Rose mumbles as she cuts the back of Moxi's hand. As Moxi stumbles back, green energy wraps around his hand. He grunts and bites his lip hard enough to draw blood. The green energy unwraps after a second, and Moxi's hand heals. Rose quickly looks at Attira. "Now you." She mumbles as a cut appears on Attira's neck. As Attira holds her neck, green energy once more appears from the cut. It wraps around her neck for a second, then just like before, unwraps and vanishes. "See, that was easy." Rose says as Aziria points to me. "You missed one." Aziria says as Rose stares at me. "That is beyond my strength, short of cutting his arm off and severing his energy pathways, there is no way of removing his tracer." Rose says as she grabs my arm. "From the looks of it, even if I tried, the tracer would just move away from his arm. This one is particularly problematic, the energy used to form this tracer dwarfs anything I could break. I wouldn't be surprised if he was cursed by a manifestation or higher being." Rose mumbles as I grit my teeth. "So, I'm stuck with it?" I say as Rose stares at me. "Yes, you will most likely be stuck with it until someone rips your energy pathways asunder." Rose says as Aziria sighs. "Great, so it's above us in strength. I can only think of a handful of people that are even on par with us for strength. For there to still be people that are beyond us, it's just so hard to believe." Aziria says as Ayumi rubs the top of my head. "So could the creator of the tracer remove it?" Attira asks as Rose presses her index finger against her own lips. "Possibly, but I do not think this tracer was ever meant to be removed. It seems more like an emergency call, for when Malick may be in danger." Rose says as she taps my forehead. "This boy has quite a few blocks placed on his energy. He does as well." Rose says as she points to Moxi. "I asked for Sheeva to put restrictors on me so I would be able to better control my energy." Moxi says as he smiles widely. "That is ignorant, why weaken yourself to have more control. The fun part of combat is losing control and ripping them limb from limb. The more blood in combat, the better." Rose says as a spear appears in her right hand. Several red vines wrap around the spear, and black roses blossom around the blade. "It gets me fired up!" Rose yells as she looks up to me. "Malick, I can feel how strong you are with those restrictions on you, promise me you'll come to fight me whenever you get stronger." Rose demands as I sigh. "Fine, but that will probably be a long time." I reply as she laughs. "You won't die, your energy will come through for you." Rose says as I stare at her. "What do you mean?" I ask as Aziria shakes her head. "I'm sure you'll know in time." Aziria says as she holds her hand out. "I think it's time for us to go back to your base, our reason for coming out has been mostly achieved." Aziria says as I shake my head. "We need to remove my tracer!" I yell as Ayumi pats my head. "Don't worry, I believe everything will work out." Ayumi says as I slap her hand away. "Then the next best thing. I need to get these restrictors removed, that way I can protect everyone." I say as Rose laughs. "Now that, I can do. Or, at least, I can remove one of them." Rose says as I stare at her. "So, you can clearly see where the restrictors are?" I ask as she nods. "So how will y-" A sharp pain shoots through the chest as Rose's hand plunges through me and onto my heart. I feel her fingers wrap around my heart as everyone's eyes widen around me. "Good luck." Rose says as my vision goes pitch black. Echos ring around me, voices I do not recognize nor do I understand. A man's voice rings through me, getting trapped in my bones and repeating himself over and over. "You are very intriguing." He says over and over as I jerk awake. I'm on my bed back in the base, Attira soundly asleep beside me. "Whose voice was that?" I mumble as I start to slide out of bed. "Probably one of the Generals. They all stopped by a few hours ago to see you, they seemed confused about something." Sinneth says as I jump backward, and jump all the way to the far back wall.