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It was a normal night in the Garden, apart from the starless sky. Amamiya wandered the edge of the Wild Places, unable to sleep. Some nights were worse than others, and this was a bad one. Hopefully, the night air would clear her head.

Suddenly, the air split above her, forming a set of flat, glowing hexagons. And through them emerged a woman, a woman with short blonde hair, strange eyes, and an odd, futuristic outfit. Despite the physical alterations demanded by the Garden, Amamiya recognized her immediately. How could she not? You don't often forget the face of someone who effortlessly defeated you and killed two of your friends right in front of you. Amamiya drew her sword, glaring up at her.

"Well, well, well," Shiner said, smiling down at her, condescending as always. "It's you! I'm so glad I didn't have to look very hard after all."

[ooc: Shiner has extremely potent teleportation powers that make her very dangerous to engage. For example, one of her favorite tricks is teleporting people a couple of hundred feet into the air and just letting them fall to their death. So...just bear that in mind.

As for what she represents? Amamiya's fear of being unable to protect people. So yeah, she's gonna be trying to murder people.

If you have a specific place you would like to encounter them, you can just mention it and we'll assume that Shiner teleported them there while they were tussling.

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[Zenobia had been running for some time. She stops, catching her breath, tears rolling down her cheeks.]

[I think I lost him... her... it. It couldn't be my father... but it looked the same as the mural in the ruins...]

[Zenobia wipes her eyes, and sees something strange in the distance. Did someone just... teleport in? She makes her way over just in time to hear Shiner's words.]

What... what's going on?

Shiner's eyes flickered in the direction of the newcomer. She smiled. "Oh, look at that. The other thing I was looking for showed up too! My lucky day."

She vanished in a burst of light, and reappeared directly behind Zenobia, one hand already reaching back to strike with two fingers. Amamiya was already running towards her at her (very impressive) top speed, sword gleaming through the air, shouting out a warning.

"The... other thing you were looking for?"

Zenobia is caught completely off guard. Shiner will be able to strike her easily.

Shiner's fingers, strengthened and accelerated with her Rise abilities, dig deep into Zenobia's back, boring holes through flesh and muscle.

Amamiya gets there a moment later, swinging her sword horizontally above Zenobia's head, but by then Shiner's already vanished again, reappearing a few meter away.

"Ugh-!" Zenobia falls over, surprise and pain painted on her face. "What is she!?"

"She's dangerous," Amamiya said. She wanted to help Zenobia up, but she didn't dare take her eyes off of Shiner for a moment.

She also couldn't say anything more than that, without risking sudden and unavoidable disintegration, but fortunately Shiner was quite willing to speak for her.

"My name is Shiner, Third Star-Commander of the WISE," she said, floating impassively above them. "I'm surprised you're still able to hear that, though. Most humans would have already passed out by now! Perhaps you'll be able to entertain us, after all."

Zenobia nods at Amamiya's words, and tries to stand, moving slowly.

She glares at Shiner. "I'm only half human." Her wound was already starting to mend, one of the last remaining benefits of her demon blood. But what could she do? Zenobia's powers were gone. She couldn't do anything against an opponent who could defy both gravity but also space. But she refused to cower before Shiner. "Why are you hunting her!?"

"Oh, I'm not," Shiner said, floating upwards. "I'm hunting you. And anyone else she comes across. I'll get to her eventually, though, never you fear."

Amamiya sent a web of Trance wires up at Shiner, but Shiner didn't even need to teleport to avoid them, just weave back and forth as she ascended. "Much too slow," she quipped. She turned her attention back to Zenobia, framing her in a rectangle with her thumbs and forefingers.

Amamiya had seen this before, and was moving before the Hexagonal Transfer System activated. That was the only reason she got there in time, shoving her out of the way in the instant before the air burst into brilliant energy, vanishing everything in the area around her, including the ground and a tree.

And Amamiya.

"No!!!" Zenobia is stunned. "You- You killed her!?"

Shiner looked away from Zenobia, up into the sky. "She's not dead yet," she said, her voice souring with annoyance. "I'll have to retrieve her. It's not her turn yet."

She turned to Zenobia, giving her an unsettling smile.

"Don't go anywhere!"

And then she vanished.

Meanwhile, a hundred feet up...

I'm going to die.

The air whistled past her as she fell. She could see the ground, far below her, and a dot she was pretty sure was Shiner. The view was spectacular, but it hardly mattered. She was dead. Asaga had managed to survive this, but he was a powerful Burst type. Amamiya was dead.

I don't want to die!

She'd cry if the air resistance on her face wasn't preventing her. She still had so much to do...so many threats to fight, so many people to protect. A whole future to save.

And now she'd never get to. Terror gripped her heart as the ground came rushing up towards her. And then a second voice spoke up in her mind, overpowering her own thoughts:

Oh, just let me out, you big baby. I'll handle it!

She tried to fight it, but with her thoughts in such a panicked disarray, Abyss stepped out of the prison Amamiya had crafted in her mind, and took over the driver's seat. Amamiya's skin darkened, and despite the mortal danger she was still in, her face split into a childlike grin as her second personality took over.

At that moment, Shiner popped in behind her, a flicked of irritation crossing her face. "You know, that was an entirely pointless ges-"

She was cut off as a bade flew out of Amamiya's back, attached with a black tether, and sailed into her chest. Shiner had time to gasp in pain and shock before suddenly and abruptly poofing out of existence.

"Awwwwww, that's no fun!" she said, pouting even as the Garden came hurtling towards her at an alarming rate. "No fair dying so easy."

And then there was just the matter of surviving the fall. Facing the earth, Amamiya built up a big reserve of Burst energy and then released it in an explosion right before she hit the ground. The result was that it slowed her descent enough that she broke bones instead of dying.

Zenobia grits her teeth, but doesn't run. Where could they have gone? She curses, feeling so completely useless.

Then Amamiya hits the ground. Zenobia staggers over towards the explosion. This girl saved her life. She didn't even get her name, not here or back at the beach, but that doesn't matter. She had to do anything she could for her.

"Please be alive!"

Amamiya pulls herself out of the pit, her skin abnormally dark, a grin spread across her face despite the arm dangling at an unnatural angle from her shoulder, or the broken leg, or the blood freely gushing from the wound on her forehead.

"It feels so good to be the dominant one!" she says to nobody in particular. "No wonder she's so greedy about it! If I felt like this all the time, I wouldn't wanna give it up either!"

[Zenobia's face is a mix of surprise, horror, and confusion.] You're hurt bad! I can't do healing magic... We have to get you to someone who can, right away!

...Dominant one? ...And your skin... What happened?

Amamiya's head rolls, looking her straight in the eye. The smile on her face can only be called Manic.

"She let me out, that's all! And it is so good to be out! Even if this leg kind of sucks.

Amamiya, that's creepy. You are definitely making Zenobia uncomfortable. "...I... I'm glad you're out, I guess. Can I... help you? Like you said, your leg... not to mention your head and... Are you sure you're okay? This all seems very strange."

Amamiya shakes her head vigorously, sending droplets of blood every which way. "I'm fine, I really am! I've never felt better!"

Of course it was obvious that she wasn't really, but apparently Abyss was too hopped up on euphoria to notice.

She looks Zenobia dead in the eyes. "Saaaaay, you're the pretty lady, aren't you?"

Wait, there was a way to heal her, Zenobia remembered. If they made a pact, Zenobia could transfer this girl's wounds to herself, and then her regeneration would take care of the rest. It'd still hurt like hell, though. "If you're sure you're okay, I'll drop it, but I do know of a way I can heal you. But you probably don't want to." She can't exactly undo a pact, after all.

Even after everything that's happened, Zenobia can't help but smile at the comment. A compliment like that, even coming from a possibly deranged person who's ignoring the damage to their own body, still touches Zenobia. "Pretty? Me, really? This wing doesn't offend you?"

Amamiya nodded vigorously. "It's kinda weird but we've seen weirder! She thinks so too, even if she'll never admit it, the big baby!"

Zenobia is still a little taken back by this girl's lack of consideration for her own body. But this is interesting. "She thinks I'm pretty, too? Who is she? Have we met?"

She rolls her eyes. "You know! The other me!"

"Oh, I see. No wonder you're acting differently. You certainly seem more open and feisty than before. Did you change over to fight? Are you her fight-y side?"

I wish! She just keeps me locked up, all the time, like I'm some kind of dirty secret! So not fair.

[Zenobia may notice that she's pouting like a child whose age is still counted in single digits.]

[Zenobia's just going along with her, curiosity overriding everything else.] That really doesn't sound fair. Why, how can you have any fun if you're locked up all the time. Hey, maybe I can talk to her for you?

[Amamiya's face lights up at that.] Aww, that's so sweet of you! [She bends in and gives Zenobia a big, clumsy kiss on the lips]

But I'm never letting her have control again. I'll keep her locked up just like she kept me! And then I'll...I'll...

[Her vision begins to blur, and she passes out as the blood loss from her head wound catches up with her. The dark tinge of her skin fades to it's usual shade as she goes under.]

Mmmph! [Zenobia is totally taken off guard by the kiss.]

No! [Oh shit oh shit! Zenobia looks from here to there, not sure what she should do. Then she remembers: magic dirt! She has a little in her pouch! She takes it out, and crafts an elixir from her world. She holds it to Amamiya's lips, proping her up and tilting her head back.] This should heal you all up. I hope!

[She forces her to drink the elixir.]

((OOC: Let me know if this is too easy or if you need her to stay injured. I can rewrite if need be. ^_^ ))

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Shiner is still there, right? If not, I will change this.

yes she is also wow this is long

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