Daniela was woken up by the sound of a loud boom echoing throughout the forest and upon doing so the first thought that crossed her mind was of Exelirus. She then quickly dashed out of her room and straight to Exelirus's room, hoping to find him there safe and sound only to discover much to her horror, shock, and worry, an empty room. She then recalled the massive boom that woke her and then looked out the room's window to the forest outside and spotted a faint blue glow in the distance. Daniela's eyes then widened with both fear and worry before dashing out of the house at full speed straight to the forest, hoping and praying Exelirus was alright.
She raced through the forest, following the radiant blue glow, hoping that it would lead her to wherever Exelirus might have sped off too. As she roamed through the forest she finally made the source of the blue glow only to find streak of blue lightning racing around a lake as supersonic speeds. Gasped out of shock and worry, wondering what on earth Exelirus doing knowing just how dangerous his speed was. Daniela could see despite the fact the he was moving at speeds blind to the naked eye, kinetrix energy he generated while he ran was becoming unstable as the blue glow that surrounded his body intensified along with blue sparks of kinetrix energy. Daniela knew she needed to stop Exelirus, knowing the kind of danger possessed when his kinetrix energy became on stable to both himself and everything around him. Daniela then sped off, moving just as fast as Exelirus, joining him in circling the lake.
"Exelirus, Exelirus, Exelirus", Daniela called out to him but he did not listen and with his eyes glowing fierce bright blue with blue sparks flowing through them, raced past her, increasing his speed. Daniela was a bit taken aback by Exelirus lack of reaction to her calling out him, knowing how detached and unresponsive the blue haired boy normally was but this felt different, it was as though he was stuck in some kind of trance and his connection to reality was completely severed. Daniela then watched as Exelirus continued to dashing around the lake like a mindless drone, focused and determined to continue running around it circle with the kinetrix energy with him becoming more and more unstable with step he took. Daniela then increased her speed as well, determined to catch up to him and snap him out of whatever trance he had fallen into. Daniela pushed and forced her body to moving faster and faster, reaching her absolute limit, all in an attempt to reach Exelirus. Daniela finally caught to Exelirus.
The two speedsters, circling round and round the massive lake, running and dashing at blind speeds to high for the any to perceive, both were neck and neck with Daniela having to give it her all just to keep up with Exelirus incredible level of speed. Daniela, having caught up to the blue haired boy turned to look at him for a moment as they continued racing in circle round the lake and then for a brief, time around them seem to slow down and Daniela was about to something in Exelirus seemingly dead and emotionless dead glowing blue eyes. It was a mix fear, confusion, rage and frustration, along with lonely and tiredness.
These were feelings Daniela knew all too well, understanding the pain of having to lose a home along with those you loved and cherished, the frustration and anger of being the only one to survive it all while everyone else lost their lives to the chaos and madness. Daniela's mind that began to journey back to the distant past where a young Daniela found herself staring in to the eyes of her scarlet eyed man with tears falling down from her eyes, the sounds of lasers, bullets, and explosions echoing throughout the forest they were in. Little Daniela then looked down at the man that stood before her with her eyes widened with shock and fear having spotted the red stain on his side. Daniela then recalling the man's final words to her being, "Run little Swift, run and whatever you do, don't turn back".
Those final words plagued and tormented her heart as she asked herself for many years, why did she listened, why did have to be a good little girl and obey her father, recalling the massive explosion that set the entire forest as blaze as she dash through the forest using her super speed, escaping the explosion as it engulf the entire forest. Daniela could help but shed a tear, seeing the pain she felt in those glowing blue eyes after losing everything all those years. Daniela then stretch out her hand to grab hold of Exelirus, knowing that he needed someone to be there for him to help make the pain a little less agonizing just a like she did. But just as she was about to grab hold of Exelirus, a massive surge of kinetrix energy erupted out of his body, sending hundreds of blue sparks flying out of his body, striking Daniela along with the surrounding forest and sending her flying before crashing down hard on the grass cover fields.
Daniela then watched Exelirus began zooming around the lake at speed even she with her speed could follow. Moving faster and faster with each step he took until the image of him became obscure and slowly transformed in to nothing more than blur. As his speed increased, so did the force he generated with it and slowly he began sucking all the surrounding air, forming a massive vortex. The winds around him blew like a hurricane and threaten to even rip the trees clean of their roots. Daniela struggled to stay on her own two feet, resisting the massive forest of the wind blowing around her trying to pull her in to the vortex, she had to move swiftly and grab hold of a nearby tree in an attempt to resist the forest of the vortex.
Exelirus, even with the force of the vortex behind him did not stop running, continuing to sprint even faster, increasing the force of the wind even more and causing the vortex to blow even harder. Spark of kinetrix energy then began to fly out of Exelirus body striking all over the forest as he continued dashing around the lake. Daniela held on to the tree for dear, but upon feeling the force of the wind continuing to increase, knowing that simply clinging on to a tree would not save her from being pulled in to the vortex. She then turned her head towards the vortex, seeing past the raging winds and spotting the bright blue ring racing around the vortex showing no sign of coming to a halt anytime soon, with only a single thought coming in to her head at the moment, 'Just what on Earth is that kid'.
Exelirus kept running and running, moving faster and faster with each and every step he took, moving so fast that his clothes burned up and were reduced to ashes scattered about by the raging winds behind him, increasing the force of the vortex as he did so. Daniela could feel her grip slowly slipping as she was being pulled by the force of the raging winds. She could feel it, at any moment her hands would give out and let go, sending her hurdling into the vortex in to her certain demise.
Daniela couldn't help but let out a small chuckle as she thought about how after facing off and surviving against some of the greatest and deadliest evils on the planet, she was about to meet her end in the hands of a kid who looked like he is no older than ten years old. Well at the very least, if she was going to doing she would die laugh at the greatest irony of her life, at least that was what she thought anyway before everything when silent.
Daniela could not believe her eyes, the raging wind along with vortex that were blowing against had disappeared in an instant and there lying on the ground was the blue haired boy that once nothing more than a blur her. Exelirus then slowly opened up his eye which no longer glowed with sparks of kinetrix energy. Exelirus then got up and turned to face the lake, seeing reflection on it and then began to weep.
Daniela upon seeing the blue haired boy weeping before her couldn't bear to just stand there and so she called out to him, saying, "Exelirus".
Then, in a half of the time it took to blink, Exelirus dashed straight to Daniela and embraced her in tight hug. Daniela, although, not expecting such a tight embrace from the blue haired boy, could see he was in distress and really need someone to embrace and so she did not resist and hugged him back.
Daniela, feeling his tears still flowing as the embraced one another, thought of a way she could ease his pain even if it was only for a bit. Then a memory from her past that flashed in her mind of a younger version of herself about Exelirus's age wondering that very same forest, lost, scared, confused, and just wanted to go back to a home that gone. The little scared girl then heard a voice echoing through the forest, calling for here, yelling out, "Daniela, where are you kid". Young Daniela upon hearing the voice, dashed towards the direction it was coming from, racing through the forest before finally finding and embracing its source similarly to how Exelirus embraced her. And just like Exelirus, she wept and cried even while embracing the one that called out to her through the forest as even though she knew she was safe in his hands she still felt scared and alone but her heard something that brought peace to her uneasy heard.