The mysterious woman walks up to Baronia that has the smallest faint well of energy still hovering over him trickling down. As she draws closer she notices rumbling in the bushes behind her. A frail looking shape comes out, fingers that look like they almost crumble holding a bottle in shaking hands as he walks to the lady.
''Move a little faster will you?'' she snarls at the hooded boy. He doubles his slow pace and draws closer with panicked steps, he hands her the bottle and stands by her as she pulls the top off with her teeth and drenches a blade in the bottles contents.
''This should suffice once the fluids have settled,'' she says pleased while pushing the cloaked boy aside as he covers his head in fear of being struck. She walks up to a spot a small distance away where the sunlight reaches her hands holding the soaked blade as she flips it over rapidly to not let the fluids spill too much. Some of it leaks onto the vegetation below making it wither to dust instantly.
The cloaked boy gets back on his feet keeping an eye on the woman to not get surprise attacked as he goes closer to Baronia. He looks at the pale man as his natural color looks to be returning slowly. As his eyelids flicker occasionally the boy feels Baronia's cheek with the back of his fingers, its a faint warmth. Baronia through the contact senses the boys intentions and nature.
The woman shouts, ''GET AWAY FROM HIM! IF HE COMES TO HIS SENSES BEFORE I HAVE A CHANCE TO CARVE HIM WITH THIS BLADE HE WILL SURELY KILL YOU BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, ME!'' Hastily the boy clumsily stumbles into a bush hiding from the woman. As he peeks out of the bushes in terror of a beating he looks at Baronia, whom has opened his eyes halfway and looks at the hooded youngster. Before closing his eyes again.
The fluids on the blade are slowly but surely getting absorbed into the metal. Carefully the boy walks to a spot of a low fire he's been preparing and tosses more greens onto the fire to make the smoke rise up from the trees. The smoke grows darker and thicker as it rises from in-between the trees, a low flying Lavi notices the smoke and doubles her speed towards it. She smashes a tree aside as she lowers herself without slowing down slamming feet first into the ground right next to the fire and its creator. The boy stumbles and falls over as he gets grabbed by Lavi why he's making a fire in the middle of the woods and what his purpose here is. Without speaking a word, his shaking hand points in the direction of Baronia and the wench. Still carrying him with one hand, Lavi walks over to where he pointed.
She pushes aside a big branch and sees what lays before her. ''Well ill be fucked sideways on a morning shift....'' She says with her eyes open and drops the boy whom lets out a yelp. ''You stay here'', she exclaims before she walks off.
Baronia senses the presence and makes a twitchy movement with his torso. Lavi steps past Baronia and towards the woman whom is so absorbed into her work on the crude jagged blade. She snaps the focused woman's elbow blocking all energy circuits. Making her drop the blade in pain as she grabs her snapped arm while screeching loudly.
The boy sneaks out of the bushes, carefully lays his hand on the inanimate Baronia's shoulder and in a raspy voice asks : ''Can you move?'' No response other than eye twitches, the boy reaches into his cloak grabbing a dried up flower, and whispers with a raspy voice ''Can you chew?'' A singular eyelid twitch from Baronia fills the boy with confidence. he opens his mouth with 1 hand while crumbling the flower into Baronias opened mouth.
Lavi sees what's unfolding kicks the angry slender woman against a tree as she dashes to the boy and throws him off of Baronia. As she circles around Baronia she says, ''I cant have him get back on his feet, not after all that setup i had to do to finally have a chance to get that power our oh so generous Zinora bestowed upon him of all people.''
She sits down on his groin facing him and wipes the flower crumbs that got into his mouth out while swiping past a tooth giving her a tiny wound. ''Bastard! even when motionless you still are a pain'' as she wags her finger that leaks out some of her life essence. The angry woman gets up and sprints for the blade with blinded rage. As she picks up the blade she runs for Lavi with the blade raised above her head, Lavi gets up from her living chair calmly as she raises her wounded finger and swoops down leaving a trail of her life essence floating in the air she freezes with her other hand. The woman still running for Lavi with the blade raised and anger in her eyes readies herself for a stab, Lavi grins as she shoots the frozen life energy forwards as it cuts the woman in half.
Falling to the ground, the half holding the weapon rolls towards the boy, as he lays eyes on it he looks at Lavi whom is laughing out of control at the thought of that woman trying to rush her down. The boy grabs the jagged carver and hides it in his cloak, as he tries to make a run for it as fast as he can.
Lavi sees him clumsily move away from her as she laughs even louder and walks to the boy with exaggerated long steps mocking the boys timid walking pace. She moves past him and further along the path he is taking she stops with her arms crossed and wait for the boy to get to her, he readies the blade under his cloak with his hand shaking. Lavi smirks as the boy stumbles towards her and raises his fist to strike her, she catches the hand and lifts him up by it.
''You're a cutey thinking you could take me ou-'' with all his force he plunges the weapon into her throat. She drops him and falls backwards, grabbing at the steel as corruption seeps into her body, blocking her circuits while her entire body turns coal black and her body starts to crumble into dust. The blade falls to the floor, as the body is completely gone.
Getting up, the boy retrieves the blade, and walks up to Baronia. Still motionless, he sits down next to him, grabs the leftovers from the dried up flower as he blows the sand off.
Opens Baronia's mouth and crumbles more of the flower into his mouth. He assists in chewing by pushing the lower jaw into the upper one. The boy says, ''give it some time the flower will stimulate your energy flow to pick up again'' in his raspy voice. Baronia's eyelid twitches once more.
As he stands up looking at the motionless man, the boy walks over to the angry woman's table. And tries to find something to aid the man into swifter recovery but besides tools for damaging and potentially killing nothing helpful is there. He sees a set of bottles however, and opens one up, sniffs it carefully, its a strong aroma that's familiar to the boy, definitely not going to help. he grabs the second bottle and sniffs, a gentle flower aroma enters his nostrils. Returning to Baronia with the liquid, he sits down next to him, this is banfon oil he explains as he pours some of it into Baronia's mouth, ''it has a stimulating effect for your body to start working again.'' The boy assists to get the oil down by lifting Baronias chin, after some time his eyes open again and he is able to move his arms. He reaches to hold the boy's hand, and draws the boy close.
With a faint whisper he tells the boy its too late for him because his body internally is damaged too severely. No energy flow starts anymore, and he feels himself getting weaker. He tells the boy about the gift their god had bestowed upon him, how it has to be passed on or else there's no hope for the war that's coming in 7 years. Overwhelmed by the information he just received, the boy just stares at Baronia.
''You have a kind nature to you, i cant move my body, my energy is not recovering, the damage done is so severe, and im scared of more trying to get to me and this power. I will give the gift of our god, i will die because of this. But it is the only way to make sure it doesn't fall into the wrong hands. Put both your hands onto mine, please, it will not hurt. ''
The boy hesitantly puts both his hands around baronias hand, asking if its the only way. he nods, as he thanks the boy for trying to save him and tells him farewell. Baronia's body lights up and fades away, the last to fade was the hand he was holding, an orb with branching out white twigs of light attaches to the boy's hand. He is scared, but it warms him slightly. The orb's light branches attach to the boy's hand as it slowly goes into his body.
A chain of information rushes into his head, filling him with knowledge of the school, the teachers, the students, his newly found gift. As he comes back to his senses, its night out. He stands up, effortlessly, his energy is flowing and generating better than ever before, he opens up his wings and braces himself for take-off.
With a short jump he shoots into the sky far above the trees, he looks down and is taken aback, he cannot remember the last time he flew. Looking around him, franticly he closes his eyes and finds an energy signal that's familiar to him even though he's never met anyone with such an energy signature.
He shoots off in the direction of the signal, filled with determination and dread.