Calling out to his sister, Igris tried to reach for the unconscious Mai. Barely able to reach her, he grabs onto her and prepares to break their fall with his body. Closing his eyes, hoping for the best, he braces for impact as he feels the branches of the trees hit and break on his back. His body leaned to the right and hit a large branch that managed to slow their fall, but in the process also seemed to break his arm. In severe agony, he continued to protect his sister as they finally hit the ground and rolled down a hill.
Laying on the ground in pain, he made a quick decision to try to stand up, not knowing if they were safe. Looking around, he realizes that they were somewhere in a forest. Full of adrenaline with the event that just happened, he quickly puts Mai on his back and slowly walks through the forest, using every tree he passes by for support. Luckily for them, he goes by unnoticed and walks into the unknown.
After walking around for what felt like twenty minutes, exhausted and injured, Igris finally reached his limit. Breathing heavily, he tried to take one more step before he fell to the ground. Seeing his sister next to him, everything started to get darker as he began falling unconscious. As he was about to pass out, Igris felt a faint wind come from in front of him and looking ahead he saw someone standing there. A girl, who appeared to be the same age as him, with silver hair, blue eyes and snow white wings, while wearing a white rag dress. Unable to do anything but lay there, he barely audibly asks who they are, before finally passing out.
The girl standing in front of the siblings took a look at both of them before turning around and looking toward her partner. As everything goes pitch black we enter a flashback, but who's?
Roughly One hour ago…
In the siblings' original world, there was a disclosed facility used by a group of government officials. These officials used the facility to illegally experiment with things related to the realms. Things such as objects, creatures, or people from realms, were studied and tested with.
One of the facilities main goals was to create artificial humans with the ability to use magic. 'Project Veve' was created as a special experiment, it consisted of blood from an ice Phoenix and a fire Phoenix being injected into subjects. The two main subjects of this project were an orphan named Veve with silver hair and blue eyes, and the son of an elf and human, with emerald eyes and golden hair, named Kanjiro.
Through the project, the child named Veve grew wings and attained the ability to fly and seemed to be able to manipulate ice to a certain degree, but was unable to manipulate fire as the officials desired. Kanjiro, on the other hand, wasn't able to manipulate neither fire or ice but was able to manipulate wind, though the most he was able to do was create a small gust.
For years the two were experimented and tested on, until present day, when the scientist who cared for Kanjiro, injected him with a prototype drug that enhanced his ability.
"For the promise I made to those two, this is the only thing I could do. You have to escape no matter what."
After giving Kanjiro the drug, the scientist gave him directions for escape from the facility and then unlocked the door. As the scientist left the room to check if it was clear, she went towards one of the facility control panels and began to hack it. Two minutes later she succeeded and shut the whole facilities power off and gestured to him to run. Kanjiro ran, following the directions given to him, and although he encountered a few scientists in his path he was able to overpower them with his enhanced ability. Continuing on his way, he passed by one of the rooms where he felt his heart skip a beat, as though his blood was resonating with something near him, he looked to his left and in a room he saw the girl with wings he occasionally passed by in the facility, inside of a tube looking towards him. Hesitant for a moment, he ran into the room and quickly broke the tube she was in and grabbed a blanket close by and wrapped her up.
"Quick! We have to leave now, once we make it outside you have to fly us away!"
"Leave it to me!"
The two began running towards the exit, encountering more scientists in the way, but were easily dealt with by Kanjiro. As they finally made it outside, Veve extended her wings and prepared to fly, then Kanjiro infused her and himself with wind in order to fly faster. The two began flying away from the facility and were immediately spotted by agents, who were now on hot pursuit.
After flying for an hour, Veve was reaching the limit of her flying capability and was slowing down. Kanjiro who saw that they were still being chased, was looking around, above the forest they were at, and spotted a bright purple light coming from the trees ahead. Believing it to be a realm he read of in books, he asked her to fly toward it. When they arrived above it, Kanjiro asked her to dive into it, as they entered the realm, it became brighter and released a large energy surge before finally disappearing.
The two, now above a different forest, decide to land in order to rest. As they land on the ground they hear a small thud in the distance, curious, Veve walks toward the source of the noise with Kanjiro behind her, and they soon encounter two people on the ground with one being an unconscious girl, and the other being a barely conscious and battered boy.
The escapists encounter the siblings…
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