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A bright red streak shoots across the orange sky. Seen by many, unaware of the fate that follows it. Is it a sign of hope? Or the first sign of an inescapable apocalypse?
Maiden of Hope IRyS
The young woman slams into the river, the resulting splash shot water high up in the air, which caught the attention of several people in the area. Irys’s outfit starts glowing in red light before changing back to the dress she had before transforming. She starts drifting along with the water’s current. Her body is limp either from her collison with the water, or the shock of watching her surrogate mother die. She just lets the river drag her away from where she originally landed. A shadow envelops her. She must have just gotten pulled under a bridge. She feels someone's iron grip grab hold of her wrist and pull her. Instead pulling to the river's edge.
Once Irys’ head is pulled out from the water's surface she coughs heavily. Turning to see pure crystal blue water…and on the other side of the river was bright green grass…and further up several people, old and young. She’s never seen so many people at once. Her breath is still heavy and labored.
“What the hell were you thinking! Were you trying to killyourself!” Irys hears a young woman scolding her. Her voice was faintly familiar. The red head turns to gaze at the woman who saved her. Her eyes widened to see…a much younger Kronii, short blue hair and bright sapphire eyes. Irys’ eyes swell up. Overcome with emotions she latches on the much younger Kronii. Tightly hugging her.
“Oh! Uh…alright then! Y-You’re welcome?” Kronii awkwardly stammers not really appreciating the sudden embrace by the strange girl her own age but she just pats her back.
Irys pulls her away to examine the woman. She was so young, it was shocking. She really did go back in time twenty five years. But she was in some form of uniform. Long sleeves and a skirt, both of which were soaking wet. Another young woman poked her head out from the side of the bridge. Short blonde hair and bright blue eyes filled with curiosity
“Is she alright? I hope you fell off the bridge by accident!” the blonde scolds. Irys knew she looked familiar too…
“Yeah! You better not have tried to kill yourself! Next time don’t lean on the railing so hard!” Kronii angrily scolds. Standing up beside the blonde. Irys was speechless…the last hour has been such an emotional rollercoaster. She couldn’t even focus on the conversation the two were having. Kronii complaining how her uniform is soaked or something. Irys glances around not sure how to make of everything. The orange sky cast down a wonderful golden shade to everything under it. People are walking around laughing…
“Hey, you should run home, you’ll catch a cold if you stay in those clothes” the blonde informs Irys. The blonde crouched down to eye level, almost startling Irys out of her skin. The blonde laughs at the red haired girl’s reaction.
“I’m Amelia by the way! What school do you go to?” Amelia happily greets while Kronii starts wringing out her skirt. Irys just tilts her head…
“S-school…?” Irys mutters back. Amelia cocks a brow at the young woman
“You didn’t hit your head when you landed did you?” the blonde askd, quickly glancing around Irys’ head to see if she was bleeding anywhere. Irys quickly stands up and starts moving away from the two.
“I-I’m sorry! I have to get going!” Irys hastily starts running away. Amelia reaches up in concern in a futile attempt to stop her
“W-wait!” she calls out but Irys was already too far away…
“Just leave her for now, Ame. She seems alright for now. Let’s get going, I gotta change and Fauna’s still waiting for us” the blue haired woman informs the blonde…
“Yeah…” Ame unconvincingly mutters before pulling herself off the ground.
Irys runs around. There’s so many people around. She needs somewhere to hide. She needs someplace quiet. She glances up at a building that looks like it was half destroyed…but perhaps since this is a different era it was actually still being built? It was a ways up so it could be a vantage point. She runs into an alley and pulls out her brooch
“Transform!” she shouts out. The ruby heart brooch glows a dark red and soon Irys’ casual clothes glow a dark red, transforming back into her tutu-like dress. The white and black crystals become her wings once again, and she grows her horns back out. At great speed she takes flight out of the aly. Startling anyone who saw her. Seeing only a dark red streak soar out of the dark aly…
She flies up to the half constructed building standing at the edge of a red beam that will eventually make for a foundation of one of the floors. The woman spun around, looking down at the city. He heard all the sounds of the horns honking from cars, the cheerful ads playing from the electronic billboards. Irys takes a seat marveling in the sight of it all…her eyes widened, remembering the notebook! She quickly pulls it out of her pocket…it was slightly water damaged but when irys flipped through the pages, just about everything was still legible. While flipping through the pages a plastic card slips out. Irys almost lets it fall but just manages to catch it. She sighs in relief examining the plastic card. It had her picture on it…as well as her name, and a fake date for her birthday…she glanced at the notebook from where it fell
“This is a fake ID, you’ll need to use it to go to school and get an apartment. Within the pages there's also a document you should be able to enter the school as a transfer student. It’s there where all my friends were, and where everything changed for us forever. I know it may sound odd…but please look after my younger self…I wasn’t as strong back then as I am today. Don’t let me run away from the starting conflict, become not only my best friend, but my friend’s best friend. And whatever you do don’t let -the ink’s smudged from the water damage, the name is illegible- die…it’s her death that kickstarted everything.” This was a lot to take in but it shouldn’t be heard to try to keep someone alive… Irys lets out a sigh, she holds the notebook close to her chest.
“I’ll try my best, Kronii…I’ll protect your world!” She looks out in determination. The sky looked significantly darker! The city before her showed splendid lights. Come to think of it, there were several lights in the sky too. Like the sky was mirroring the ground below it. All joined with a massive white circle in the sky that casts a pale light down on everything.
“Hey! What are you doing up here kid!?” A man shouts from behind her, startling her enough to almost drop the notebook and ID…she quickly gets up, stuffing both in her pockets.
“S-sorry mister!” she looks at the man, a fairly burly construction worker, the worker raises his brow in her attire. Wondering why a cosplaying highschooler would be here in the first place. He sighs
“Just…get going alright, I don’t want to have to report you.” he gestures. However unbeknownst to him a black and pink monarch butterfly gently flaps its wings near him. Irys’ gaze locks onto the butterfly that lands on the muscular man’s shoulder. Fear shoots throughout Irys’ body
“SWAT IT AWAY HURY!” Irys shouts at the man, startling him, he just looks at her confused, not at all noticing the butterfly
“HURRY! GET THAT OFF OF YOU!” she tries to shout again.
“Huh?” the construction worker asks. But it was too late. The butterfly’s wings expand and spread throughout the man’s body. He lets out a cry before stumbling around. The butterfly’s wings start forming into an exoskeleton shell around the man antenna growing out of his head, large compound eyes form on his face, a big like mouth opens in 5 separate ways. Large insect wings sprout from his back, the back of his legs grow spikes…
Just before Irys’ eyes the man became some sort of humanoid grasshopper. The creature lets out a roar that echoes throughout the empty building. A Chrysalis…why was something like that at this time? Irys didn’t let the creature scare her. The crystals floating around her back start to give off a black and white glow. If she hurries, she can purify him before he hatches! Irys stretches out her finger; each crystal fires a thin beam at her fingertip. The thin bean swirls around her finger tip and expels it as a monochrome beam
Twilight Pistol! The grasshopper man jumps over the attack and dive kicks down into the woman. She blocks it with her arm, but knocks her back a little…the magic in her sleeve reduced most of the impact but it still hurt. Still, had she not transformed her arm would have snapped like a twig.
The grasshopper Chrysalis twitches around violently before crouching down! This isn’t good! The keature kicks off the ground launching itself into Irys’ stomach. His head smashes into her ribs, knocking the wind out of her and flipping and landing back on its feet. Turning to the girl who writhes in pain. It advances toward her, swinging its leg up and swinging it back down with much more force. Iryss rolls out of the way but the shock wave alone knocks her away a bit. Not that this was a problem, the distance was to her benefit! She holds her finger up once again, the crystals fire a thin bean into her fingertip that swirls around and she fires at the dust cloud a few times
Twilight Pistolx5! the creature bobs and weaves around the beams but one hits it in the middle of its torso. The creature clasps its chest and howls. Its compound eyes glow a bright red. It crossed its legs and began scraping the spikes behind its legs, giving a chirping sound.
The sound waves hitting Irys make her somewhat drowsy. She couldn’t aim…the creature lunges at her once more, but grabs at the back of her dress and flies up into the air, above the construction building. Irys tried to shake her sleepiness off but it was helpless. The Chrysalis drops her from the air and dive kicks down into her falling body. Making the two fall faster, crashing down through the floor, and the floor under that, and the floor under that! Until the momentum finally died down. Irys was buried under rubble and the grasshopper's foot. The creature cackles in delight, thinking it finished the girl…that is until her fist raises out from the rubble. The eight crystals that made up her wings surrounded her fist. A vortex of black and white energy swirls around her fist.
“Th-thanks. Now that you’re so close…you can’t dodge this one” the creature panics and tries to pull its foot away, but her other arm is wrapped around it.
Twilight Cannon! her fist fires off a wude beam that swallows the grasshopper, it lets out s chreak of terror before its body cracks and crumbles.
The light from the attack dies down and the exoskeleton lumps over and fades into the darkness. The construction worker under it slumps out cold. Irys pulls herself out from under all the rubble and goes to check if the man is alright. But she hears something, people running up the stairs!
The door to the floor kicks down men in uniforms pointing flashlights and guns out
“FREEZE!” the officer shouts but only sees the construction worker slumped over a bunch of rubble…several of the officers come to investigate.
“What in god’s name happened here?” the officers asked, looking up at the hole though all the floors.
Irys on the other hand was already flying away from the location looking back. Her breath is heavy from using so much energy. She slowly starts dipping in her flight. She quickly finds a random aly to revert her transformation, her casual clothes now completely dry. She stumbles out from the aly and plops on the ground. Barely able to lift herself up…
“Hey! Are you okay?” a young woman calls out…she looks up to see a beautiful woman in jeans and a red jacket…when she looks up further however she sees the woman’s long pink hair and piercing red eyes. Irys looks up at her in terror. But she just looks confused…
Back at the construction building a little girl humming to herself, her long pink hair flowing with the night wind, along with her black frilly dress. The girl is surrounded by several pink butterflies.
“Oh boo~ someone came and ruined all my fun…so there are other girls with powers like mine?” she asks herself, the butterflies flutter around her head and hair, like they were nestling her. the girl giggles to herself.
“Thank you guys! You’re right, it doesn’t matter how many ugly girls show up. Because together we’ll make a world where only love prevails…and I love all of you so much” she blushes, holding her cheeks in pure joy just before gazing down at the city in contempt.
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