"You're well informed of how the situation goes," Adleon reacts to how I was easily able to find him, even at my supposed first time. "Mosquito inform you?"
"Love-bite actually."
"Oh lovely. Let us limit the chit-chat to that. You know what this is supposed to be, right, a Death by claw?"
"A special REQUEST, by Adleon himself. Because he is busy."
"When you put it that way… well, sure. But in your case… my absence won't be needed to be showcased, am I right?"
"Fro seemed to say that you hated it."
"Still do. But a king should always rule whatever opportunity shows up."
"You want me to maul someone to death?"
"A second's work. Nothing I would avoid. Unless of course… if someone presents themselves."
"And this is such a case?"
"Could present itself to be. And in an unclear way… I just know it could be more."
"Why me? Sure, shapeshifting… but you don't really care about you having to be out there."
"That's right. But let's just say… I have not much options."
"About Mwah?"
Adleon breaths-in hard. "Maybe. Not to be your concern."
"Alright… then tell me about the details on whoever I need to kill."
"Not kill, per say. I need you to stop her. Her arrival is not needed here."
"Her?"
Adleon looks at me, and hesitantly asks. "Have you heard of… Rem? I hear that her manager is en route."
"Her manager? Why?"
Adleon shrugs. "Part of what you need to find me, while you scare her back. And we get bonus points if you kill her. I hear she is a witness to some case, so maybe hiding. A case which she is responsible for," he scoffs.
"What kind of a case?"
"Whatever kind of a case which puts her with equal dirty hands. Beats me."
"I need information on her route."
"Here," Adleon puts his briefcase onto the table. "And some cash which you could use for whatever is needed. Save it or whatever, your payment is after success."
And this way, I get on a train after travelling all the way across the state – on foot. I find the seat across her empty… obviously had to be, the actual person couldn't make it here.
I throw a smile, while sitting across her. She looks a bit different.
"Something on my face?" she asks.
"Just felt familiar," I clear my throat.
She seems to take it as a compliment.
After she takes a washroom break, I change myself to look like Adleon… harder to do, with the higher moisture, but it still helps me in a way.
The lady comes back, and looks at me.
"Oh," she says, and calmly sits on her seat. "Would be afraid at least if it really was him. And not just some shapeshifter."
"Do reconsider," I say, twisting my hand into Adleon's claw.
"Smaller. But surely something," she nods. "Lesson one, honey, maybe start with the scare… could make it scarier."
"You still are helpless."
"Who me?" she asks, and she shows me my handbag in her hands. "Death by claw," she reads from the card, which she just magically holds in her hand… already. "First time?" she smirks.
***
I watch the two, as Toni seems to portray herself as Adleon – in his normal-form. The lady barely flinches to that, but seems to recognise the face.
"Should have come in like that. Your clothes don't change, Toni. That won't scare no one," I sigh.
How long would I be seeing this? I knew this all would mess up. What was the point?
Author, where the fuck are you?
I feel a little warmth on my coat, and look beyond… no, still-wait… how do I say this?
"Oh," the lady's voice brings me back to here… she just calmly sits there. "Would be afraid at least if it really was him. And not just some shape-shifter."
Exactly what I thought.
"Do reconsider," Toni says, and her hand changes to look like the very hand which tried choking her.
"Smaller. But surely something," the lady nods as if she is enjoying this - as if it were music.
Music… where is this music from? Shit, author, I see you… where the fuck have you been?
"Lesson one, honey, maybe start with the scare… could make it scarier."
"You still are helpless," Toni says, bringing my attention back.
So this wasn't going to stop for a casual interaction with my writer? Shit, wasn't this in his co-
The lady starts moving in a kind of… a daze. I feel time slowing down… I feel my powers activating in this moment. The lady goes ahead to grab the handbag from Toni's side.
Shit, she was a Speedster.
"Who me?" Rem! That was Rem! And she holds Toni's bag up. She then proceeds to look through the bag and finds the card, quickly. "Death by claw," she reads to Toni. "First time?"
I got that reference. You sure you didn't write this, author?
Wait, where did the music go?
The two just look at each other. Toni calmly tells herself to wait until the section would get empty. And slowly, it sure does. But because Rem slowly puts everyone away, into other empty spaces on the train.
Right as the last person is moved and Rem arrives here, Toni pushes into Rem's whole body-with-momentum, with her own momentum.
"You are not your manager," Toni holds Rem's neck with the claw-hand.
"I escape crowds using her… now it was time for me to pay her back."
Rem catches hold of Toni and throws her out of the moving train, as I follow them with my speed.
Toni couldn't perceive all this… so these memories… well, also taking consideration of that cave from before: I was really here. But, was watching this, while connected to Toni and Varon. Maybe I was in that 'Thoughts' plain', which Fro mentioned.
Toni drags her right knee, and the front of her left-fist onto the ground – while cussing Rem out, in her mind.
I should probably close my eyes if she starts masturbating out here, so her seasonal healing clicks in. Who knows, she could even find a man easily with a – she was not a minor right? Let's stay silent either way, cause the writer seems to be back at writing.
I see Rem pounce towards Toni, and Toni slowly raises her fist in her slow-mo. Rem, continues, to want to showcase her upper-hand in this situation, and pushes her fist into Toni's defending… oh no.
Rem falls to the ground, holding her broken fist, and whimpering.
"Right, you're fast," Toni says.
Obviously she had raised her wounded hand to defend. Pressure turns her body solid… especially the part which undergoes such pressure. So, Rem simply punched into some hard-stone… with all her haste.
Toni sits upon Rem's mid-body, sending goosebumps through my body.
She still was a villain.
Rem just tries to put her hand forward, rather than use her speed to get out somehow. Toni simply pushes the hand away, and punches Rem's face. Blood gushes out her nose, with just that.
Why was she helpless?
"Confess!" Toni says, while holding Rem's neck and slapping a punch on her cheek. "Your manager… she did something. Confess!"
"What, you are some kind of a hero now?"
"Far from it. I'm anti of all you retards!"
The third punch lands, knocking Rem unconscious.
Writer… this isn't you. Can't be. What the fuck is happening?
My suit starts cracking in a way… well, the silver gets cracks of purple… and the whole suit gets enveloped in purple.
I find myself standing by a door, as my stumbling-self finds it right behind me. My vision gets clearer, and I find a kind of a bar ahead of me. Zero customers.
"Oh, hello there," a sweet and soft male-voice reaches my ears.
Behind the counter, a guy waves at me. A humanoid-tree. Slim and… brown. Made of clear wood, wood without cracks. It's like this tree-man was young and like… a coconut's inside, the bare shell.
Sharp jaw-line on his cheek, as if it were some goatee, minus the beard. Upside-down Ts of eyes.
Was his eyes closed, or were those his eyes?
One ear shaped like a leaf… but still wood. The other ear seems to be like a knotted-worm… amputation? His nose… seems more like a cursive-l hole on his face. Mouth… it seemes like a hole too, small sharp-edged 'n' hole.
"Done scanning my face?" he asks.
"No, wait," I sigh.
Finally, the top of his head seems to be like… oh! A pomegranate's top! But like, wider. Like a bowl.
"Yeah, done. Where is this?" I ask.
"Welcome to the intersection of worlds, Einya King!" he greets with a larger opening in his mouth… like, happy?
"Intersection of worlds?"
"Yes! You are the first candidate here, of course. You caused this."
"This? I caused this?" I ask, looking around once again. "What even is this, exactly? Like… actually an intersection of… worlds?"
"Yes. When you met lady Tacy, at the edge of universe… which you somehow made it to… you caused this."
"Lady Tacy… the girl with the spectacles?"
"Oh, she doesn't like that to be a defining character of hers."
"Okay… what is she then?"
"Something along the lines of a balance for space… like, space," he says, casually. "When you crossed the universe, she came to the realisation that so could have something else."
"What else?"
"Rahambose. Have you heard of it?"
"I read Prophecy Failure and Phoenix's Prophecy a bit, sure. But how?"
Wow, that didn't get blurred out?
"He was banished… outside the universe. His universe. But something causes him to always come back. But either way… if you being banished into Roach's world had such an affect… Rahambose could have too."
"All the power the universe can provide," I say Fro's words.
"Bingo!"
"But the writer…"
"He tries to make ends meet. But he doesn't always exist. Now that you are someone who can see him… befriend him, in a way. He wishes you make sure if Rahambose really is in your universe."
"And that is why I have this suit, to help me on that?"
"Yes. It was a special request of the writer. And Lady Tacy made it happen."
"And she made you too? Or did the writer do, to inform me?"
"Neither. But my creator is a friend of theirs. She is supposed to be the strongest of all… strongest. Nothing could… nothing she couldn't beat. Nothing could stand in her way and be a hurdle. She can… do it. Anything."
"O…kay?"
"Please find and defeat Rahambose. Before your story becomes a time-mess too, like theirs. You have no limits on knowledge sharing, even when you shall be the Prophecy Hero of this universe – in a way. But do be mindful."
"He's just testing things out, isn't he?" I sigh.
"Yep," he smiles again. "Now, before the audience get confused, and you miss more of the story, off you go."
"Wait, I missed something? What?"
But before I could get an answer… Rem punches towards me, making me step back a bit and watch Toni fall to the ground.
"I can only get stronger!"