PMD: Stargazer Chronicles

Pharaoh- Mean Girl

Audino Agatha drew on her notepad in the evening so much her ideas leaked into her dreams. The Audino tossed and turned in her bed out of annoyance till she woke up in the middle of the night.

She stared at her ceiling and wiped her hand across her face. She didn't know if she wanted to sleep or not, and had to make the decision. Although it took a while, she forced herself to go back to sleep.

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When she woke up again, she felt like the ground swayed back and forth. As she tried to orient herself, rolled and took a surprise fall off of her mattress, landing face down.

Agatha let out a long groan and pushed herself up. She reached with one of her arms to bring her prosthetic feet to her. After she got them in her grasp, she pushed her back against the mattress to sit up and put them on. They were always cold at first.

After checking her phone, she has two or so more hours till sunrise. She could tell she wouldn't be able to get back to sleep, so she decided to do some early morning training instead.

After sneaking past Mightyena Claire as she slept, Agatha went outside for some exercise. She jogged alongside crickets in a wide circle around the trees and bushes, embracing the feeling of freedom from not wearing her cloak or glasses. She had put on some muscle over the months, but it felt gross with all the scars. She never looked in a mirror anymore.

After a short jog, she situated herself in a tiny clearing around the trees near the house. She walked a bit to cool down and start up something still new to her.

Most other people didn't learn how to use moves or abilities that often unless they were competitors in the arena, but Agatha had been working with her body's energy for the last few months to learn them. It became a habit before she realized it. Getting stronger addicted her. It made her a little cocky sometimes; a far cry from what she would feel being weak and having prosthetics.

The first step was to use her body's energy well enough to make her muscles and senses stronger. This step alone could be taken to the extreme, which took a central role of actual fighting. After this, she could focus it differently to use moves. Agatha had to look into books to discover the right way, past all of the internet's crappier ways of doing things. As an Audino, her species had a stereotype of all becoming doctors and healers, but after researching what moves her species could learn, she decided to snap that in half.

Explosions were more fun, and she could learn enough moves to make one look like a rainbow. It was her first goal in mind. For now, though, she stuck to normal type moves since they would be easiest to start with. She chose to start with the move Wish, which she hated since it matched the healer stereotype. But for day to day life, it made sense to learn it. She kept tripping and getting small cuts. It annoyed her enough.

Agatha stood with her metal feet apart and arms curled. Her body glowed white as Wish took effect. It wasn't easy to mistake the feeling as anything else: a calm, invigorating rush that grew stronger from when she did it yesterday and the day before. And just like today, she kept practicing.

She stopped earlier this morning, though. Not having much energy would be bad for school.

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Audino Agatha went back to her home after catching her breath to grab her things and head out. When she pushed open the door, Might Claire was still skulking around. Her eyes were closed and she mumbled to herself.

Agatha heard that Claire would sleepwalk sometimes. When she heard about it, she looked up on the internet what to do. Her heart rate went up a little. She had been wanting to try this.