"Hey! LET HER GO!" Tobe grabs his Sachi, trying to pull his sword.
💬"Error, you must produce a Harm."
Tobe, thinks to the system, 'I can't right now, he is hurting my mother."
💬"A song-sachi needs harmonized energy to work. There is no workaround."
Tobe has just become a foster. The first confirmation of being a foster is being able to see a person's Harmony. It is like a pillar behind him. Tobe's pillar is maybe eight feet tall. The man holding his mother has a pillar that he can't see the top. While the pillar height is not one hundred per cent, as a person above Exalted can control the height and flickers in it. 'What do I need to do to create harmonized energy.'
💬"The combination of your two skills as before used a resonate connection."
Tobe has heard of this harmonising energy is useful when trying to refine the body, but is usually only trained at the honoured level. The harmony makes many changes to the body, and it takes years to harmonise with all the changes.
💬"While true, the techniques available to you allow training your body and your harmony at the same time. The only thing holding you back in time and effort.
Tobe doesn't care that Ancor outmatches him. He would die for Ana in a heartbeat. Soundlessly he resonates 'OHM!' His internal harmony is in two places: his body and the Sachi.
"Interesting. Did you teach him that?" Ana smiles, she has always thought her boys are special. It is why she poured so many resources into their development. She looks at him relating something that the old man hasn't. That is a Songed-Sachi. Being able to produce one is as rare as giving birth to an Archon. Her people profess to be the strongest in the world. Yet natural Songed-Sachi is extremely rare and is a sign of deep resonance with the world's Harmony. She is sure it has nothing to do with what she left in him. If only she still had her harmony, she could see clearly what is going on with him. The old man's artefact must just be a simply analyser.
"Who are you?" Ana with tears in her eyes for what he was going to see. Ana resolves to save his life at all costs. She hopes the old man still has pride. Tobe, still resonating, hears his mother. Her voice is like on the night his father disappeared. The pain is something that turns his stomach again. With a well of tears forming in his eyes, his energies harmonizing, fuelled by his intense emotion.
"I am your son, Tobe Xha!" Ana has explained that in their family they name children after those who came before. It is a hope for them to become like those great ones who came before him. Xha Ral is a legendary figure, a paragon of power and brutality and his namesake. Tobe doesn't know the full history of Xha Ral.
"HA! You speak of things you don't know, boy. Daughter, did you fill his head with the stories of Gal Ral, or the wrathful tales of Kal Ral. The balls on you to name him XHA Ral! Boy Do you even know why she can herself a Ral. Just like me, she is an exile. We are dead to the family like the ancestors who came before we can use the family name Ral. Xha Ka Gal Emal Ral! These not your ancestors!" That she would invoke his heroes in her children is beyond galling.
"He is of the blood, Xha, tested in the blood halls that your father built," Ana shouts with what little strength she can muster. Ancor is squeezing her neck, causing her to struggle to catch a breath. He lifts her up by the neck like a dead rabbit.
"That is no Ral." They are a pure bloodline. Aladi from the daytime of convergence when the world realised its Harmony. Ancor Ral doesn't actually know what Ana took from the fmily, but she has confirmed she took it. He is hoping that maybe the boy might break if his mother is threatened.
"Who is your family?" Ana asks, crying. The bones in her neck are cracking, but she must do this. Her hopes are in this boy. She didn't just pick up off the street one day. Tobe tries to move. He is stuck harmonizing is creating an odd stiffness in his energy that he can't break out of. The system reassures him it is normal he can't stop yet.
"I am the son of Xha on my father's side. My mother is Ora Sky." This is the name that Ana has taught him. When he asks about her, she describes a woman who was full of life and powerful, beyond anything he could imagine.
"He is sky clan? Fine, if that is how you want to play. Then I will give you one chance to save this woman's life. Bring me what she stole, and her life is yours." Ancor brings, holding his broken blade, ready to remove her head. Tobe who body hums, waves of power coming off him. Ancor smiles even if he is crippled. No one is strong enough to challenge him her not even the king. No matter how much raw power Tobe has, he can beat experience and artefacts.
Tobe's body feels lighter, Harmony filling every part of him, but he still can't move yet. He needs more time. "I don't know what you are talking about. Just tell him what he wants to know mom!." The police arrive being fosters with little to no potential. They quickly hide after the harmony detector explodes in his hand. The people are also afraid, most unwilling to get involved themselves or just waiting to see the show that is about to go down.
Ana can't do that, she wouldn't do it. Losing another child would be too much. This is her time to save that which she loves most. "How is our family made?" It comes as a soft cry that Tobe can hear clearer than anything. His senses growing sharper are one of the telltale signs of fostering Harmony.
Tobe can't say it. He won't. He is a foster, he can save her. She is right in front of him. Tobe hears a voice singing to him. He can't focus on it right now. His heart is pumping, his energy raising.
"How did I make this family?" Ana says to him with a certain finality.
"You took your blood and sacrificed it for us. This is pact bound before Harmony." Tobe burst a black aura around him, a gentle HARMony coming from him. Ancor looks at him Sky clan is old and dead, worthless but he wouldn't want the stress that comes with killing one of the blood. It's why Ana is so hunted even after three hundred years.
Ancor is now at the end of patience while is more than happy to leave Tobe alive, he has to kill Ana if he brings her back alive. One of the others can claim her life and that would leave him with nothing. "This is it, boy. She will die today unless you hand it over."
Tobe pulls his Sachi the black blade humming, he leaps forward, "AH!"
This scene is being broadcast. The video is quickly rising in views, an aide rushes into the king's chambers. A little boy sleeping next to the king is in his arms in tears. "What are you doing! You know I'm not meant to be disturbed."
"My lord, there is something you have to see!" The king sees the ambassador from the Dragon Federation with the prisoner that he handed over on the screen.
"What am I watching?" The king asks, curious. He can see that the ambassador hides his power well.
"That boy is the one, the Calmoire claimed to kill, lf he survived the hole then he must be special." The kings don't need to be told why Tobe is important. The kingdom desperately needs new resonance techniques, they are failing to produce explained more than exalted. He rubs his ring, the oldest artefact in the kingdom. It glows as the child goes limp in his arms, tossed aside like a wet, dirty rag.
"What do we have on him?" The kings ask greed filling his eyes.
"Just his brother, sir." The aide says, watching the king's mind work in that awful way it always does.
Tobe drops in front of everyone who is watching. The resonance pressure caused by Ancor is killing all of them. It is shattering all their harmonies within their bodies. Since he is not holding himself back anymore, Tobe can only watch.
Ancor Ral, cuts off the head of his mother. Tobe resonates as hard as he can, trying to gather any kind of strength, but nothing happens. He watches her grab her head and using her Ana's hair to tie her head to his waist. Ancor Ral looks at him.
Tobe says, "I will kill you, for you are my enemy. I will kill your children, for they are my enemy. I will kill your symphony, for I am their enemy. I swear this." Tobe is fading out...