Azure Striker Gunvolt: A different perspective

Chapter 4 : Quinn

I was currently in my room, practicing my Septima, something I only ever did when I was alone. Or, when I thought I was alone.

At the moment, I was completely calm, and so a disaster occurring was next to null, so I was seeing just how lifelike I could make the clones. The first thing I did was disable the clone's
Septima, so nothing would happen.

The one thing that bugged me however, was the eyes. I was thinking, someday, if I was going to use these guys in stealth missions, they couldn't have the wrong eye color.

No matter how hard I tried, they always had unfixable green eyes. I believed that was just a condition of the Septima, it seems. That's too bad. Guess I can't completely scare Joule. Huh....

I dismissed my clone, and after that, began to carefully sculpt a clone of Lumen. For whatever reason, *this* clone had the correct eye color.
"Freakin seriously?" I muttered in disbelief. Maybe because Lumen, the Septima, wasn't a living human. How far could I make this go? Ah, what the heck.

"Who are you?" I came out of my thoughts to see the clone asked me a question. Huh. Wait, What!? Putting a metaphorical hand on the dismissal ability, I answered. "You are a clone, created by me, Ashton, of the muse Lumen." I waited for the clone to digest that. "Okay..." She began slowly, "So who is Lumen?"

She hasn't tried to kill me yet, which is good. Looking up one of Lumen's songs, I turned towards the clone.

"Lumen used to be a preformer. She got on stage and sang her songs, in front of millions of people who came to see her." The clone remained silent throughout my explanation. Then, to my shock, she began to sing the song on the video! You couldn't even tell their voices apart!

One last thing. Maintaining my calm, I released the Septima block. White fire suddenly appeared around my body, and I felt stronger. Way stronger.

I then heard footsteps. Oh, shit....
Wincing, I turned around to face Joule. Without taking her eyes off the clone, who was still singing, mind you, Joule spoke to me.

"That's not Lumen, is it Ashton?" She was more cautious than scared. She was there when I told that story.
"No." I said calmly. "She isn't. I have full control of her, however."

"She won't go crazy?" "No." I reassured definitively. With a flash of light, the true Lumen appeared.

The clone abruptly stopped singing. I knew Lumen was Joule, so she heard what I just told Joule. "Want me to dismiss her?" I was talking to Lumen, not Joule. I knew she would tell me what she truly desired.

"In a minute." Lumen said with an odd calmness. To the clone she said, "Sing again." The startled clone nodded. When the clone began Reincarnation, Joule became shocked all over again. "Her Song is perfect." Joule whispered. The white glow surrounded me again, and I felt the power return.

After a moment, shocking even me, Lumen began singing with the clone.
I let out a gasp as the fire around me turned the color of the rainbow, and my power surged like nothing before. I glanced in the mirror and saw my golden eyes were glowing. Catching something in the mirror, I quickly spun around as the song continued.

Just in time to see Lumen start flickering as Joule stumbled to the floor. "What the heck?" I caught Joule as I turned to Lumen. "Where is GV? I questioned her. "Shopping." I noticed Lumen sounded weaker. "Need to get her to the doctor..." I muttered worriedly.

"She's wanted by Sumeragi." Lumen pointed out. "Where can we take her?"

"I know someone, if she'll listen..."
I looked towards the clone. "Keep singing." Then to Lumen, "To the roof!"