"What do you mean your abilities are stolen?" Miri asked Demo with a stunned look.
"There'll be time for that later, we need to get you fixed up first Demo" Swor says to him
Referring to the slowly growing nubs that was his arm and leg. They were recovering very slowly, slower than they would prefer. Demo wiggled the stubs a bit to his dismay. They were a sickly gray and wrinkly color, like that of a corpse.
Swor gently ran his hand along the nub of Demo's arm and quickly drew back his hand. As his hand had touched it. The regrown tissue had fallen away to expose dried tissue and bone.
Miri gets up and helps Swor move Demo into the hut. The surrounding area continued to be affected by the battle. The Forest burning away slowly as the fires spread.
They set Demo down gently onto the bed. Swor told Miri what to get and prepare for the trip they were about to take.
They both began to look around the hut gathering supplies and items. Organizing them into boxes and bags. Demo rolled over on the bed he had recovered but they cracked as he tried to move them.
"Demo please try not to move so much, we will take care of everything ok" Miri said as she set a box aside.
He sighed as he tried to relax on the bed.
"How are we even gonna fix this, everyone we know is either dead or missing" he said in a defeated tone.
"You're forgetting about someone" Swor said.
Demo looked to where Swor was standing. He was holding something metallic. As he focused his eyesight he could just barely make out what Swor was holding.
His expression changed to a shocked realization as he figured out what Swor was holding.
"You don't mean her do you? She works for them" Demo said in firm disapproval.
Miri looked up from 3 crates she had been putting together.
"Who are you guys talking about?" Miri asked them.
"It's an old friend of his, I never met them" Swor said in response.
"She's nothing but an asshole who cares only about the progress of her work" Demo started angrily.
"And she doesn't care about what she has to do to get what she wants" he finished his nubs festering in reaction to his anger rising.
His left eye started to smoke a bit and his right eye became brighter. He suddenly clenched the side of his head with his left hand.
*his vision becoming cloudy and his hearing becoming static in his mind*
Stressed he began to try to suppress the buildup. But felt a gentle touch on his shoulder, he looked up. He stopped his gaze and met with Miri, bending over a bit. She was now wearing a cute white blouse with a brown leather corset with a pretty flower pattern. She wore light tan jeans with a thick leather belt with a pouch on it and short brown leather boots.
The blouse showed a bit of her cleavage in a cute way and she had curled her Snow White hair.
The anger and stress he felt had suddenly vanished and the static was gone. He could feel himself get hot while looking at her and his heart beat faster and harder.
Demo turned away quickly trying not to blush.
"A-are you ok Demo?" Miri asked him a bit worried
"You got red all of a sudden" she said as she tried to feel his forehead.
"I-I'm fine, forget that, why were they after you?" he asked quickly, trying to change the subject.
"Oh, well you see because of my ability, mother. I could create any kind of lethal ability in any amount to any strength" she explained.
"They wanted to turn me into the ultimate weapon" she finished.
"Sometimes abilities we get are a variation from our parents. What kind of abilities did your parents have" he asked her, intrigued.
"My mom's ability was Eternal Wrath, one of the rare pure power abilities" she explained to him
"With it she was capable of destroying an entire city up to an entire planet if she wanted to" she added
"Was it an on and off kind of thing like she could activate it when needed?" Demo asked her curiously.
"No, it's like yours. It's always active, like with the hulk always being angry it's constant" she clarified.
"So she would in a sense keep a lid on it" he said in response.
Miri nodded, as she sat down on a crate in front of Demo. She crossed her legs, right over left. Demo tried not to look directly at her while trying to be polite.
"What about your dad?" he asked, flustered still.
Miri sighed, he could feel the change in her mood. She became gloomy in response to his question.
"I-I'm sorry I didn't mean to bring any bad memories" Demo quickly apologized.
Miri shook her head and smiled, she was masking how she felt now.
"It's alright, to answer your question my dad's ability was similar to my own with one difference" she said.
He leaned a bit closer intrigued momentarily forgetting how beautiful she looked.
"His ability was called Father, and it was the Destructive counterpart to my Ability Mother" she said