"A little shaken, is all…" Xander whispered, placing a hand on his forehead, "So… you did? That was my friend… She… she was killed for poking her nose around in business where she didn't belong, but I don't know why she of all people had to die… The guy… He's also a friend of mine, and her older brother as well as the fiance of one of my older sisters. He doesn't cry very often, but…"
Xander fell quiet.
"Can you control the tone of the memories you pick up? Or do you see things sitting on the surface? C-can you tell yet?"
"the memories just show up right now," Ellie said looking at him in the eyes and started to scan him again.
Xander tried his best to block out negative thoughts and memories, and it worked.
He stood behind his older twin sisters. The smaller of the two knocked on the door, and after several seconds, a woman in her 50s cracked open the door, looked at the two women, then her gaze fell on Xander and she started sobbing. Xander's body went rigid. His sisters parted to let the woman past, and she rushed to him and held him tightly. He wrapped his arms back around her and started to sob, but he was smiling at the same time.
"y….your…..m…mom I think," Ellie said stuttering and holding her arm that started twitching again.
Xander smiled. "Yeah, my first time meeting her… I met my sisters entirely by chance, too. It's just crazy to think after all I went through, something kind of went right."
He opened his eyes and looked to Ellie.
"Are you doing alright over there?"
"Y…Ya I'm fine," Ellie told him closing her eyes again.
Ellie starts focusing really hard on scanning him and the next memory slowly starts showing up.
The memory was of younger Xander holding an older man's hand. The man looked like Xander but older. Young Xander's face was tear soaked. Ellie opened her eyes. "W…What was t….that." Ellie asked Xander as her arm started twitching even more intensely and with a stutter growing.
Xander sifted through his mind again, but he wasn't in very good control. A surge of pain passed over his arm, just preceded by the loud crack of a whip. A scream of, "Xander, no!" echoed from behind him.
A redheaded girl, about his age, looked up towards him where she had been knocked over on the ground. In the moment's distraction, the whip came down on him again, this time striking him over the eye. The eye itself wasn't injured, but as he continued to put up a fight, it had swollen almost shut. By the end, the girl was able to get up and help him finish the fight, but in the process, he had been in a rough situation with one of the guards and ended up with broken ribs. It was not worth looking cool in front of a friend, but at least he had maybe saved her. The pain was enough to make him faint.
Xander felt the pain even though he was just recalling a memory, and he briefly fainted, slumping over onto the tree roots. He was awake again within the minute, but it was still scary.
Ellie didn't notice her energy draining. Her nose started bleeding and she passed out. Her body slumped against the tree. Blood rolled down her lips. Her hair was falling over her face.
Xander groggily tried to sit up. He clutched at his chest where it had hurt before, then glanced over to where Ellie was. He gasped when he realized what had happened and crawled over to her, trying to shake her awake. At first he wondered if she had passed out from his pain, but the blood… she had almost definitely pushed herself too hard.
She didn't wake up when Xander shook her. She groaned after he let go of her.
She’s probably okay… definitely alive…
Xander kept trying to wake her back up, making sure to keep an eye on his surroundings to make sure no one else was nearby.
“Hey, Ellie,” he said, “Can you hear me?”
Name: Arien
Age: 16
Gender: Genderfluid
Appearance: Tall, slender
Personality: Aloof and arrogant
Past: He doesn't know much, but he remembers a fire.
Strengths: He is level-headed in emergencies.
Flaws: He can be bossy
Skill: He can control heat and flames.
(Just one thing, genderfluid is a gender, not a sexuality)
(sorry! It was a copy-paste situation, I didn't pay attention!)
(Ok just change it and you good.)
Khian had been watching from a distance, never really leaving after Ellie went to talk with Xander. When he noticed she'd collapsed though, he hurried over to make sure she was okay. He rested a hand on her arm as he held another in front of her nose, feeling for breath. When he was certain she was alive, he turned to glare at Xander, his expression enough to know he was demanding an explanation. As he glared the other boy down, he focused on waking Ellie up, his powers working with him.
Arien sat in a small clearing. He wasn't sure how he got there, but he didn't want to leave.
Ellie slowly woke up and saw Khian and Xander staring at her. "What happened why is my nose bleeding. Ugh…My head hurts so much." Ellie said holding her forehead.
(I have no clue how to join in this.)
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