I looked to the opening and saw Christopher holding the defeated brothers with one hand as he gripped onto their hair. Whitlock had all of his limbs cut off and Zane looked like many of his bones were broken. They were still using their Volitions so I guessed they still had some life in them.
"Become a Fiend? You want to become one with the Destroyers? No, you are already too much of a criminal."
POV -----> Azur
While my mind felt like it was thumping and throbbing from the repeated scenes of what seemed to be me ruthlessly burning innocent humans.
"Athena, what is this? I-Is this real?" I asked. My voice is still shaky from the memory I refused to acknowledge.
I received no answer, my mind was too foggy and turbulent to even collect my thoughts.
-{Everything you have seen is true.}
I heard a strange voice echoing in my head loudly and painfully, it sounded nothing like Athena's but seemed to originate from the same source.
-{The instincts you are so careful to ignore and contradict, give in to them. I would like to accomplish something} The voice said firmly.
Its suggestion was like a command I couldn't help but obey, my instincts that always screamed out to me in the face of danger that I tried so hard to avoid finally took full control of me.
-{You grew up to be exactly as I anticipated.} This strange voice echoed throughout the area as my consciousness faded.
"As you anticipated!? You bastard!!!!" Madden screamed out and rushed towards me.
I had no idea what attack she intended to utilize but before she could do so Christopher flung one of the rock spheres right at Madden's head and she was abruptly stopped.
"Who is that guy?" Christopher asked openly, it seemed he gained his hearing somehow.
-{You don't know me? You are merely a zygote compared to me, but I expected your father to tell you about me..} The strange voice echoed in reply.
Christopher took what he said as being offensive and without hesitation one of the floating rock spheres flew at me at high speeds.
-{Playing with stones. That's not fun.} The voice said.
My body was then compelled by a strange force, I raised my palm and caught the rock sphere in my hand.
I felt my bones creak painfully as my palm caught the projectile and halted its attack.
-{If you must know, I am Azur. The Azur. I am not sure what title you people attach to my name now, but I am sure my name is unique even in this time.} The voice answered.
"Azur? Never heard of you" Christopher said in reply.
"Zane, turns out you were right." Whitlock said, dangling from the grip of Christopher the Earth Sorcerer.
Madden seemed to have stealthily crawled behind me and with a swift motion she ran her Affinity aided palm through my heart.
-{This body is weaker than I expected it to be.} The voice echoed before my body dropped down to the floor, blood spilling from my wound.
-{Belial. I know you want to crawl out.}
-[You still have not died, you still exist, I don't want that.] Another raspy voice echoed in reply.
-[I shall not heed to your call Madden.] It added before everywhere went silent.
-{You seem to be scared, Belial. You forced me out here for nothing.} The voice that first echoed said before vanishing as well.
For the moment that the two voices echoed it felt like there was a battle between two opposing Auras and no one could stand it.
Christopher walked outside to escort other people on his side into the area we were in so they could apprehend us.
The brothers were incapacitated along with Anastasia, I could barely move and Madden along with her Familiar couldn't even think of what to do next.
The influence over me was lifted once more and I could feel my life slipping away.
I barely could understand any of this. Somehow, sometime ago, I destroyed everything Madden knew and she has come back to kill me and get the power that the guardian of her town wanted.
The power of a Fiend, just so she can have a purpose once more, but she has failed since I refuse to die.
It goes to show how far someone is willing to go in this world for a purpose.
Makes me wonder, "What is my purpose?".
Athena returned to my psyche a few moments after the strange voice was gone, as my allies were being hauled off I wondered what the hell I had gotten myself into.
She was eerily silent as though she was waiting patiently for something.
-{Rebound. I Never Expected You To Start Doing That Now, Do Not Worry About Dying, Do Not Worry About Having A Purpose. All Of That Has Already Been Planned Out By You. What You Should Worry About Is The Rebound From What You Just Did.]
"Rebound?" I asked before the systematic flood of information arrived.
The strange consciousness that took over me a few minutes ago was one that wasn't supposed to be revealing itself this early in my development.
Why?
Because I couldn't even begin to comprehend the power that this Consciousness pulled along with him, even though it had seemingly left, I could feel the unfathomable power welling up within me.
My entire body began bursting with Energy and I involuntarily produced my reality distorting Aura which eventually became crimson, like the one in the memory. My own skin was sizzling painfully.
Madden and the rest had been completely restricted from movement and hauled off, just as one of Christopher's men were about to grab a hold of me, the welling energy all burst out at once as the lethal crimson aura.
While I felt like I was boiling the man was completely burnt to a smoldering crisp because he was in range. To the terror and shock of every one of his comrades.
"He did that with just his Aura!!" they screamed.
I was not just filled with the belated energy of the consciousness but the thoughts and feelings of it.
{Hate}
{Disgust}
{Anger}