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3 am, Aveyard Bakery.
Sage standing in her family’s kitchen, mixing up red velvet batter for a clients cake.
”I should really go to bed. Bite me stupid human body needing stupid human needs.”
Almost nodding off, Sage begins to add more red dye.
”Can't beleive people say red velvet and chocolate are different. Its literally just dye!’
Sage falls asleep for a second, dropping the bowl.
”Shit...” She flinches, fearful of waking up her fathers. “It looks like a murder scene.” Sage looks down at her shirt. “And I probably committed it.’
”whatever. It’s an old tank top anyways…’
Sage begins to clean up the mess. Compleatly forgetting about the cake currently burning in the oven.
”ok, that SHOULD be it. HORAY! I can go to bed now….. yay” She yawns.
”what the fuck is burning- OH SHIT-“
The oven is in flames. “WHERES THE FIRE EXTINGUISHER HOLY HELL-“
As the flames begin to creep up the wall and around the kitchen, consuming every flammable object it can reach, Sage scrambles to find something to extinguish the flames.
”Damn this landloard. Shutting off water after 11 pm!”
The flames begin to creep up to Sage, her pant leg begining to char..
Sage snaps her head around to check the flames progress. To her shock, the flames are beginning to glow green and slowly shrink away.
Every thing the flames touched is now being restored in a green glow. Even the chunk of Sage’s hair burnt off is glowing and coming back.
”…” Sage stands there, mouth open like an alligators (because fish suck).
Sage glances at the refrigerators reflective surface (its reaaaaly reflective), and almost her eyes go wide seeing glowing green veins on her arms, now fading away as quickly as they appeared.
’what the hell did I snort for this to happen.’
The veins left desaturated opaque green marks stunning up and down her arms and legs.
”this is fucking sick. It better be a dream though,or im going to strangle myself- and now the weird demon zebra stripes are fading way-‘
The veins were becoming more and more opaque to the point where you could only see it if you looked closely.
*DING!*
”didnt this thing just burn to a chrisp?’
The red velvet batter from earlier was now back on the counter, perfctly prepared, and the cake in the oven was now perfectly baked.
”…”
”i swear if i accidentally made a deal with a demon im going to jump off a cliff.’
Sage put the cake and batter into the refrigerator/ freezer (holy shit im going to have to do research on baking for this.) and walked up the stairs.
”seriously, if these danm demonic zebra stripes are still here in the morning im going to off myself.”
the next morning :3. ~~~
’yup, their still there..’ Sage mutters squinting at her arm.
’this has to be part 2 of some weird hallucination.. right?’
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CHAPTER 2
schooooooooollll :<
Ok so im basicaly going to write one or 2 chapters a day. Today im feeling good so lets do another one!!!” April 29
”class class… line up in alphabetical order, we’re going on a field trip.. or whatever..’ A teacher droned on monotonously, holding a clipboard and slouching. “Jackson.. give Braydon his shoe back..”
’ Stupid aquarium field trip… the school cheaped out and went for the cheaper ‘Basic Ticket’… we cant even see the sharks!” Sage complains bitterly to her partner (not romantically, school partner, for now hehehez), Ocean.
”hey its not that bad.” He yawns “ but this was not worth waking up at 5 am for.”
”why’d you wake up at five? We had to be at school by 7:40?”
”Oh, I-“ Ocean gets interrupted by a peppy older women wearing a red ‘DISCOVORY CENTERAL’ shirt.
”WHOS EXITED TO SEE SOME BIG FISHIES!!’
’us…’ the highschool class mutters lackadasicaly.
”OK LETTS LOOK AT SOME OF MY FAVORETS FIRST!” She speaks through a big megaphone. “These are the tropic fish, they come in many colors such as orange, green (Baku deku fish heh), yellow, purple (nuzi fish hehehe) azure, orange spotted, yellow with black stripes-“
”she’s literally just naming every color of fish in that tank..” Sage mutters as she looks up the the capacious tank. “Come on, give me the paper we were supposed to fill out.”
”Ocean, give me the worksheet. Oceaaannnn? You conscious dude?”
Ocean was staring at the fish zoning out (hehehehehh mildly autistic)
“Hello? Earth to idiot??” Sage snaps in his face.
”what? Oh yeah, here.” He passes over the paper.
”kinda funny your name is Ocean and we’re at the aquarium part of the meusum.”
”yeah..I guess.”
“Oh, cool. We’re going to see the dinosaur fossil area later. Bones. Pity they went extinct”
”Oh really!!” Ocean’s eyes light up like a child’s.
”danm, your really exited about this.”
”Yeah the group home is kinda boring. Dinaours are cool, big roaring lizards from a million years ago.”
“Huh. Your the oldest kid there right? Must suck”
”It’s not the worst. This is my.. what 19th group home?”
”19?!? Danm why do you gotta move so much?”
”oh, some places don’t appreciate older kids for some reason. Also, if you get into to many fights with other children, they might send you somewhere else.”
”huh. Anyways, can clownfish switch genders?” Sage says glancing down at the paper.
”yeah! Clownfish can change their gender based on their needs! Like if the top male dies, the top female will transition and another female willl take the last’s place!!”
”cool. Maybe we should catch up with the group-“
”COME AND LOOK AT MY BITEY BABIES! Ah I know I’m not supposed to show you the sharks, but your such a nice group of kids!”
“HELL YEAH SHARKS!” Ocean says kinda loudly (?) like not loud enough to be heard across the room, but loud enough for a few surrounding people to pick up on.
”Dude calm down… no wonder your parrents didn’t want you” another kid says.
(Ok not true, ocean dont have parrents {vro was spawned into existence, but he dont know that :3} but hoes make fun of him a little and hes kinda obvious and kinda tonedeaf. Most people aren’t extrealy mean to him because if you get him in your group for a project you will get a free A+. This kid gets sad over Bs get him some help)
Sage gives the kid like.. a side eye but more… death glarish? (aint no one fucking with her goofball frfr)
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Chapter 3 grehehehehehehehhehehhehehě
may 1 >:3
Shot of Sage taking notes about some kind of shark and Ocean is drawing little hammerhead sharks and great whites on the worksheet
>:3
“And these are my FAVORIETS! Take a look at my BITEYEST BABIES! Great whites can grow up to TWENTY FEET in length!” The tour guide exclaims happily
(we love her frfr old women with pigtails r so cute >;3)
“If you guys want to, you can play with the whale sharks pups!”
Ocean freezes.
“Dude you good? Hello?” Sage snaps a bit.
”no-nothing.. I just dont like getting wet..’ (half lie but close enough smart boi)
“Oh, really? How the fuck do you shower.?”
”why is that your first question..?”
”i dunno, it’s really ironic a kid named after a massive fucking body of water is scared of water. No judgement though, i get ptsd looking at crossaints”. Sage shudders a little bit
”why crossaints?” Ocean asks, genuinely curious
Sage looks at him like he just said “why is murder morally wrong”
”crossaints are a fucking pain in the ass to make. Bite me stupid customers liking them so much. I will never understand why my dads like making them so much. “Couple activity’ my ass.”
“You really hate crossaints” Ocean says, practically giggling. The group is in the fossil area of the meuseum aquarium compound.
”So painful to make, yet so blissful on the tongue..” Sage is like.. looking up kinda… solemnly?? Like in a jokey way(?) I DUNNOO THIS WRITING THING IS HARDDDDDD
”are you still dating Aimiee?” Ocean asks tenititivley. (he be half hoping that answer is no frfr)
”Yeah! It’s going great! She’s still not letting me sit with her at lunch though. its fine though! I just use the library anyways because it’s air conditioned.”
”you two are dating, why wouldn’t she let you sit with her at lunch? It’s not some elites group..”
”well Aimiee has her boundraies! And I’d be a dick to not abide by them!”
”OK KIDDIES! TIME FOR LUNCH! BRING OUT YOUR MUNCHIES AND GET ON OVER TO THESE TABLES!!” Plastic tables designed to look like bones are on an outside patio.
”JUST REMEMBER TO CLEAN UP AFTER YOURSELVES! AFTER THIS WE’RE HEADING TO THE DINO BONES!!”
Sage and Ocean walk over to a table and put their bags down.
”I’m going to say hi to Aimiee, see you in a minute!”
Sage walks over to Aimiee. Aimiee is surrounded by her friends, who are basicaly glorified assistants practicaly brainwashed into serving her royal highness.
“Hi Aimiee! How are you liking the field trip so far?”
Aimiee gives a coy (?) smile “hello sweetie!, do you have the pastries I asked for?”
”yeah, of course!!!” Sage pulls them out of her bag.
”…. I wanted coconut muffins…” Aimee sneers.
”sorry! You just said you wanted muffins, and you really like the berry ones, so i brought berry! Sorry for getting the wrong one!”
”You BETTER be.” She says it in the same way your mom would scold you in a supermarket/public place when you’ve been misbehaving but she doesn't want to cause a scene.
”now get back to that.. weirdo. I dont know why you hang out with that weird blond when your hot, kind, cool blond girlfriend is right here!" Aimee gestures to herself.
“Well he’s kind of my partner for science, and we sit next to each other in a bunch of classes-“
”NOT an excuse. Or do I have to add cheater to your loooong list of failures to me?” Aimiee says in a kind of… baby ish voice (?)
”s-sorry!! I-I’ll do better next time!!!”
”keep it up like this and their wont be a next time! Now scram dearest!”
“Sure! See you at the bakery later!”
”yeah, whatever..”
Sage smiles and begins walking back to Ocean, who doesent have a lunch (poor dude frfr)
”dude where’s your food?” Sage querys.
”oh, I forgot.. heh..” Ocean scratches his neck.
”well that’s pretty dumb. here, have some. It would be bad for business if my field trip partner died of hunger. We both know that the only reason I’m not being bullied to death is because my family runs the only good bakery in town, and my dads banned someone’s entire family because their daughter cut my fingers in preschool. serves her right… little bitch”
Sage gives Ocean a sandwich then pulls out another one.
”why do you have two sandwiches?” Ocean asks.
”I figured that the pattern on you always forgetting food would continue.” Sage says she begins to inhale her sandwich.
”TEN MORE MINUTES KIDDOS!! THIS WILL BE THE BEST FOR BATHROOM BREAKS, SO USE YOUR TIME WISELY! AFTER THIS, WHAT WE’VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR, THE DINOSAURS!”
“Eat idiot. You like ham, right?” Sage says, sliding the food to Ocean.
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Chapter 4, the dinosaurs and infernos (finally)
The group is walking around the dinosaur fossil area.
“NOW THESE FOSCILS MAY BE IMITATIONS, LEST THE REAL BONES GET HURT, BUT THEY ARE STILL MY BONER BABIES!”
“Does she know what she just said..?” Sage mumbles.
”whats bad about what she said?” Ocean asks
”Nothing..”
The group looks at the bones, Ocean’s eyes lighting up like a child’s on Christmas morning.
Sage and Ocean walk around the dinosaur exhibit, looking at reconstructions of old bones.
Ocean is drawing dinosaurs on the worksheet (the thing is covered in drawings by now frfr).
A plague on the wall says sum “this exhibit has burnt down like 5 times fahhhhhhh’
”Isn’t it funny that this area is so flammable?” Some random npc ass bitch says.
“Huh… strange..” Sage says, thinking about her flaming kitchen from around a week ago (how will i portray this in comic form? Idk)
“Hey where did our tour guide go?” - StudentNpc #2
”Bathroom? Unfair that we’re not allowed bathroom breaks but that old bat is” - student Npc #3
Ocean kinda looks somberly but pissed????? Dispointed I DUNNO (?) at the npcs (im calling backround charcters npcs because i can)
“How about we look over there?” Ocean gestures over to the Jurassic section (bitch idk how museums are organized deal with it)
The pair (sage and ocean) walk over to the Jurassic area and basically mill around a bit.
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Chapter 5, the inferno part.
”hey do you smell… burning..?”- Nearby Npc
”not again…” Sage mutters, meaning both her kitchen and the extremely flammable museum area.
Smoke began to fill the room and people panic, running all over the place. Children cry, yada yada THE MUSEUM IS BURNING THATS ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW.
Sage begins to panic, not because of the fire, but because ‘oh shit, are the demonic zebra patterns going to appear again? Fuck fuc fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck”
The room is emptying out.
”wait, where the hell is ocean?” Sage says. “Shit he was in the bathroom..”
She begins to run to the restroom area. Flames are everywhere, and she’s sweating through her thick ass jacket (gotta cover dem veins)
Sage kicks down the door of the men’s restroom.
Ocean is standing in the center of the washroom, and every part of the room is burning except about a foot around him. Blue veins are glowing all over his arms and his eyes are illuminated.
”You too?” Sage says.
Yay I finally finished this chapter!!! I kinda abandoned it lol- May 27
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Chapter 6, You and I.
May 27. Fuuuuuuuuuuuckkkkk how do i write.
”THE FUCK YOU STANDING THERE FOR? COME ON!!” Sage runs to the center of the burning men’s room, throws her coat on Ocean. Veins snake up her arms to heal burns.
”Wait, why are you giving me your jacket? Don't you want to hide these things too?!?” Ocean says while Sage drags him by the hand.
“Because im the school ‘emo’, i can get away with weird shit on my body, you can’t” Sage says matter-of-factly.
”wait, there’s a dead end? This wasn’t here.”
Grey walls replace what was once a dinosaur exhibit.
”its here because i said so..” Says a familiar voice before all goes dark.
~. ~. ~. ~. ~.
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Chapter 7 Who the hell are you?
A woman with white veins all over her body stand in front of Sage and Ocean.
Its the tour guide. Her sunny dementor has disappeared.
Sage and Ocean open their eyes. Their standing.
And still holding hands.
At this revalation, they both quickly seperate their hands and blush a bit (wow my slow burns are never really slow.)
“hello children. You must be terrified at this moment. Don’t be. The flames are gone.” The woman says monotonously.
“I would like to make a deal. You two seem like nice kids, so make the right decision.”
She reaches out her hand.
“I help train you, your abilities and such. In exchange-“
”where are the others? Theres a blond girl, rather tall, always in pink-“
”DID I SAY YOU COULD SPEAK?” The woman says, their eyes turning white. She relaxes, and continues to speak.
Fun fact! Vail was born in 1989, making her 37! She has a daughter named Rave Zetian. Vail is of Chinese/British descent! She/they (I am definitely going to misgender her oml)
“Did I SAY you could SPEAK?” The woman says, scolding Sage. “The other children are perfectly fine. No casualties. This isn't my first time burning property.”
Sage glares at the woman's glowing white eyes.
“Who are you?” Ocean says timidly.
“Call me.. Mx Vail Zetian” ( Vail is she/they)
“He means what are you idiot” Sage sneers
Vail glares at sage. “I.. am human..-”
“WELL CLEARLY NOT BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE FUCKING EVIL ZEBRA STRIPES OF HELL ALL OVER YOUR DANM BODY? NOW HOW ABOUT YOU TELL US WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING???” Sage lunges for the woman. She gets knocked back by an invisible wall.
‘Oww..”
“You good?” Ocean says, kneeling beside her.
“Shut up..” Sage turns away.
“No need to be so.. violent. And please refrain from the use of such vile language.. Its unbecoming of someone with your potential"
Vail begins to pace around Ocean and Sage.
“You two.. Are divine creations of the gods, referred to as ‘Attack Angels’. You were made for human use. It's a pity so many of you were tossed out of heaven due to.. Malfunctions.”
“The fuck you mean malfunctions? I am a perfectly sane individual. Thank you very much!” Sage crosses her arms.
“Gods..?” Ocean mumbles.
“Different kinds of malfunction. Sometimes we cannot pinpoint what is wrong. Sometimes its not an issue, most times it is. The agency will help you.”
She stops pacing. “If you join us, that is”
“Over my dead-”
“YES! YES PLEASE! I-I-I DON'T WANNA DIE!” Ocean exclaimes, clasping his hands together in begging.
“Coward..” Sage mutters.
“I’m glad at least one of you can see the reason.”
“You STILL haven't answered my question about why the hell you have the demonic zebra patterns?” Sage points at the woman's exposed arms.
“We have developed technology to.. Transfer divine energy from one individual into others. My power is miniscule compared to your full potential.”
“Desaturated colors indicate impurity. My abilities are tainted by a human soul. Yours, however, aren't.”
Help the guys in my class are being gay af. Get yo finger out of aidas’s ass pmo
“Did you basically just admit to being weak as shit?” Sage says more to herself than Vail.
“Hey sage, maybe stop aggravating the scary lady..?” Ocean says quietly.
“I never claimed to be weak. I just said my maximum potential is less than yours. Strength and potential do not always correlate. You have much to learn, Green.”
Vail offers their hand.
“Join us. Join the agency.” Their eyes glow brighter. Their arm goes through the invisible barrier, presenting itself to Ocean and Sage.
“What about Aimiee-?” Sage says.
“You will still attend school. I do not wish to have redundant enlistees. Now take my hand before I decide to just kill you for sport,”
Ocean quickly and shakily reaches out to grasp their hand. When Sage reaches out, another hand sprouts out of Vail’s wrist, gripping Sage’s. She grimaces and continues to hold onto it.
The three of them are suddenly transported to another place in yet another flash of blinding white
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Chapter 8: Welcome to the Agency
The agency compound is a conglomeration of many grey/white square rooms underground. There are
-Staff Living Quarters
-Trainee living quarters
-Solitary Confinement areas (straight jackets, fortified walls, yada yada)
-divinetic testing facilities (specialized equipment for handling the divine)
-training grounds (staff and Attack Angel)
-general testing facilities (everything)
-Weapon storage
-Angelic weapons storage
-warehouse
-mess room
-common rooms
- staff cafeteria
-Offices/Highranking living quarters (of officials and other highranking officers. Vail has one. She a bad bih)
Sage and Ocean land on their asses in the middle of a white hallway. The minimal windows show a dark sky
‘Did we really spend hours in that room..?” Ocean thinks aloud.
‘Get up. I can't stand lazy teens.” Vail says.
“Rude..” Sage mutters.
Ocean stands up quickly and offers a hand to Sage. She snacks it away, and gets up oh her own.
(poor ocean dude lol)
“Hurry along now, we can't be late”
“Late for what?” Ocean querys
“Your retrieval” Mx Vail says
“A what..?” Sage says
Ocean and sage fall in the middle of a long, white hallway.
“I am never going to forgive you for this” Sage mutters to Ocean as they both run to catch up with Mx Vail.
The hall is covered in signs that say things like “FIGHT FOR YOUR COUNTRY!"
Or “WE WANT YOU TO FIGHT WITH US!” In a similar style to WWII recruitment posters put out by the USA.
The three of them walk into a large white.. labratory esque room. Vials and bottles are everywhere, and there are 5 dentist-like chairs in the room, with bondages attached.
“…” ocean and sage stand in silence at the lab, and all its weird objects.
‘Well? Sit down’ Vail says as 3 humans (?), clad in the stereotypical science uniform of a white coat over white clothes, begin to walk over, pulling on gloves and grabbing tools.
‘What if I don’t want to-‘ sage begins
‘I SAID SIT DOWN’, Vail says loudly, but not screaming, like a metso fortee. Professor snaps type shii
Sage and Ocean are lead by staff members into the chairs. The chair’s bondages automatically entrap the two of them.
“The hell you think you think your doing?” Sage says, struggling at the ropes.
“This will be quick, with your cooperation “ one of the staff members say.
A mask is placed over both of their faces, and they go under.
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Chapter 9, Fever Dream, pt 1
Sage opens her eyes. But she’s not in the laboratory.
Sage is in a room with sickeningly bright colors and effects all around. Flashing lights and uncanny creatures are everywhere. (Basically just Madoka Magica witch places but worse)
‘..’ Sage opens up her mouth to say something, but she can’t speak. Black and white human eyes stare down at her.
She looks down at herself, to find her body still wrapped in the laboratory’s tight bondages.
At first, Sage just sits there, knowing this is some kind of anesthesia made fever dream.
Then flames begin to lick at sage’s body.
She opens her mouth to scream but can’t and she can feel her flash melting off.
Nope. Definieny not a normal dream
Sage struggles against the ropes, desperately trying my to free herself from this torment.
Over time, her hair has burnt off, and her bones are peaking out from under her skin.
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Chapter 10, Fever Dream Part 2
Ocean jolts awake on a dry sea floor. Nothing around him except massive human eyes in black and white staring at him, watching his every move. Oh and there’s also decor that one might find in a cheep fish tank.
He gets up without difficulty, the ropes disintegrating as he stands.
Why are those here?
Ocean tries to walk up to one of the eyes, and it seems to move farther from him the closer he gets.
What the.. calm down ocean. What would Sage do?
Probably make fun of the eyes..
He smiles little at the thought
Suddenly, all the eyes blink.
That can’t be good..
Ocean freezes as he feels a drop of water hit his head.
Then another.
Then another.
Then another.
The fish tank begins to fill with water. Ocean desperately climbs up a plastic tower, but it’s no use. His breath quickens. Soon the water has reached to to his tower, and he freezes, accepting his watery fate.
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Fever Dream, part 3 chapter 11
(TW FOR ANYONE READING THIS: CHARACHTER SLITS THEIR OWN THROAT AT END OF SAGE’S SECTION!!!!)
Sage suddenly feels something ripping through her back.
Well shit.
Wings. Large, black raven esque wings tear out of her spine. Sage almost opens her mouth to scream again, but stops.
This is all fake anyways.. what’s the point?
She decides to just lay there, and wait till she awakes.
The wings continue to tear out of her flesh..
The skin on her arms has burnt off to reveal metal parts. I’m too lazy to describe them cus I know what the look like, but eh. Think wonder woman’s cuffs
Holy hell..
Claws rip out of her knuckles, and she grimaces.(I ain’t describing them). Blood everywhere.
Why the hell am I even scared?
Sage laughs. She flexes her claws hand.
This isn’t even real! The damn smoke from the wannabe lab caused this!
Maniacal laughter bubbles up inside her as fire burns brighter, engulfing her entire body.
She simply reaches a claw to her throat, and frees her self.
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Chapter 12, Fever Dream part 4
Water is now at Ocean’s toes. His breathing quickens even more than it already did.
I’m going to die here.
How ironic a kid named after the sea drowns so pitifully.
He looks around, desperately trying to find a means to escape.
Seemingly miles above him, the top of the fish tank. It’s uncovered.
How can I get up there..?
AUGH!
The water is up to his ankles now, and quickly reaching his knees.
Sage would know what to do.. she’s way smarter than me..
He tries jumping, but can only get a few inches up.
The eyes stare at him intensely, as if trying to see what he will do.
The water is up to his torso, and he’s still frozen.
His eyes are are flying around the room, desperately looking for an escape.
Ocean begins to rip out his own hair, and hyperventilates. (Wow Shakespeare over here)
Suddenly a ripping pain appears in his back.
Ocean cries out, arms reaching to his back to try and feel what’s happening.
Wings.
Golden, metallic wings are tearing through his flesh.
He screams in pain (duh)
Ocean looks up, and a pained smile graces his face.
I have wings… although they look too small to achieve flight, I’m in a giant fish tank with human eyes staring at me. Sage would through out all logic and just do whatever..
So that’s what I’ll do!
Ocean winces as he unfurls his wings. Strings of blood drip off them.
He flaps them repeatedly, thinking about the birds he sees on the sky and desperately trying to replicate their flight.
Ocean manages to get about 4 feet in the air, and sighs so hard in relief, one may think his soul left his body.
He flaps harder and faster to try and escape.
Ocean begins to lift off the ground, and his clothes drip with the sickly water.
He’s airborn and cries out of relief.
He’s almost to the top, he can see the end of the glass.
He’s free..
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Chapter 13, laboratory, again
Both teens jolt awake in their dentist esque chairs.
‘Did you-‘
‘Wings’
What-“
‘Eyes-‘
The pair are talking in sync, interrupting each other, curious to weather the other experienced the same thing.
‘You did mediocrely.’ Mx Vail says.
‘You little-!” Sage tries to lunge at her, but ropes come out of the chair to keep her down.
‘How did you know I hated water..’ Ocean says, looking down at his hands.
‘The smoke just generates your worst fears in the form of a hallucination that can effect your real body. Sadly, you weren’t able to retrieve all your parts.. pitty’ Mc Vail says as she gestures to Ocean.
‘Pretty sure your smoke is faulty lady, you seriously thought I would be scared of being burned in a child’s fever dream?” Sage crosses her arms, and her black wings flare.
Unlike Ocean, Sage’s wings didn’t stay in the dream world.
“Your a peculiar one.. but we got the desired results, so no issue. You had a curious way of waking up though..” Mx. Vail says.
‘Funny that they both awake in sync’ a scientist says.
‘Indeed..’ Mx Vail says, arms behind their back.
“That one may need to go through more testing though..” One of the scientists says, pointing to Ocean.
Oceans eyes widen in fear.
‘Nuhuh, you already tried to drown him you are not touching him again.’ Sage says.
Ocean mouths ‘Thank you,’
‘For now, I guess I’ll escort you to the training room’ Vail says then snaps their fingers, and the 3 of them teleport away.
“Seriously, when are we getting that pay raise she promised? A scientist says.
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Chapter 13, Knives
Ocean and sage fall in the middle of a long, white hallway.
Ocean stands up quickly, and offers his hand to sage.
“I can get up myself moron.” And she stands on her own.
“Hurry along, I cannot stand lazy teenagers” Vail is already walking down the hall at a quick pace.
“I am never going to forgive you for this” Sage mutters to Ocean as they both run to catch up with Mx Vail.
The hall is covered in signs that say things like “FIGHT FOR YOUR COUNTRY!"
Or “WE WANT YOU TO FIGHT WITH US!” In a similar style to WWII recruitment posters put out by the USA.
The three of them enter into a spacious room, with padded walls and weapons on a hanging table. There's also a massive bucket of knives.
Sage runs over to the knife box, and begins to grab a bunch of them greedily.
'What do you think you're doing?’ Mx. Vail says. Sage stops, turns around, and begins flinging them at Vail.
The knives are blocked by a pale white forcefield.
“DANMIT”
“I appreciate the vigor, but I'm not the target.” As if on cue, human shaped target boards appear, with markings to show where each vital organ would be.
‘I will leave you to alone.’ Vail walks out of the room, and the door vanishes behind her.
‘Shit.’ Sage looks towards ocean and throws a knife at his head.
Ocean dodges the blade by an inch ‘WHAT WAS THAT FOR?’
‘Why the hell did you agree? Now we’re stuck in this weird compound where we are probably going to be tested on untill we DIE!’ Sage throws another knife. It almost hits ocean, but a blue shield speaks to smack it away.
“WE PROBALY CANT EVEN DIE! WE’LL PROBABLY BE TORMENTED UNTIL THE SUN EXPLODES OR THEY FIND A WAY TO KILL US!” She’s on the verge of tears. Her wings tense up. She accidentally sets the ground around her aflame.
“IM SORRY! I JUST WANTED TO LIVE!! I DONT WANT TO DIE!” Ocean falls to his knees and puts his head in his hands.
‘…’ Sage stares in silence, another knife raised. She lets it drop to the ground.
“Sorry I lashed out, I want to live too…. It’s just, I wish we were alive, somewhere else.. The doctors definitely don’t have any actual credentials, and Vail is terrifying.” Sage sits down beside ocean. Her wings curl around her.
“Their going to get mad at you for not using Mx..”
“To hell with that bitch. I’ll give her respect when she earns it!”
“Wouldn’t expect anything less from you..” Ocean says more to himself than sage.
The fire alarm goes off, and sprinklers begins tumbling water around the room.
Ocean flinches and Sage puts one of her wings above his head to keep him dry.
(We<3 understanding baddies frfr)
(I asked sibby to look over this I hope he likey XD)
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Chapter 14, Fire Hair Dude!
Ocean opens his eyes. Hes in his bed in the Agency provided rooming area for men. Ocean’s bed is on the side of the wall.
Its one bunk bed of many, and hes the only one in the dark room.
The only light is coming from the window slits high on the walls, with metal bars covering the glass.
”guess they really dont want anyone escaping.”
He turns his head to face the wall beside him.
”Boo.”
Ocean yelps and whips his head around to be met with a boy with dark skin and flames for hair. The boy is upside down, similar to a bat. He looks about 17-21 years old. (Go girl give us a shitty estimate)
’Guess the smoke didn't fully wear off..,” Ocean mutters.
”Wow, a glamorous man with cool hair is your greatest fear, huh? How astonishing," He says with false offense.
The man falls to the floor, and gets up. Hes wearing a straight jacket, but it doesn't seem to restrict his movement. This diva be wearing a restrictive device as if it were designer.
Ocean sits up.
”Who are you?”
(I love the fact that im writing for a comic so i can write stupid shit that only i will see and include spoilers that nobody will know about hhehehehehez)
”I’m Theodore, but you can call me Theo,” He says, with a mock bow.
”All you need to know is that I am just like you and I'm your friend in this scenario.” Theo says, examining a ring on his wedding finger. An orange sun and a pale blue moon on a golden band mimicking water.
(LOOOOOOOOORRRRRRWEEEEEEE)
“How about you stop gaping at my head and follow me?” Theo says, gesturing for Ocean to follow him out of the living quarters.
Ocean gets up and follows Mr. Flaming Head.
“What about Sage?”
”We’ll get her in a minute." Theo says as he leads Ocean into the spacious hallway.
(I forgot to mention, but both boys are wearing the agency provided outfit of:
- White shorts (long or short)
- white t-shirt or tank top
- white pants.
Theo’s wearing a tank top underneath the strait jacket and has long pants that fit him perfectly cus he magicked em.
Ocean is wearing an oversized shirt and knee length shorts.
Sage chose knee length shorts and a tank top, which is really ripped due to her playing with any sharp object she can find.
Her shirt has a lower back to make way for her wings that refuse to contract. )
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Chapter 15, introductions
After Sage had been retrieved, the trio are on the roof of the agency building’s women’s living quarters.
Ocean and sage are standing next to each other, and Theo is across from them.
”What the hell are you?”
”Im Theo, pleasure to make your acquaintance!"
”THAT DOESN'T ANSWER MY QUESTION YOU WEIRD FLAMING-HEADDED DEMON!”
”Im no demon!” Theo looks offended, “I used to be part of high class Zaelian society thank you very much!”
Sage pulls out a knife, and stretches out the handle to make it into a long spear. She points it at Theo’s neck.
“Hey Sage, maybe try not to kill the guy who could give us a lot of information?” Ocean mutters to Sage.
Where the hell did she learn how to do that? Ocean thinks.
”ANSWER MY DAMN QUESTION” Sage yells and points the spear tip closer to Theo’s throat.
Theo looks legitimately scared, and uses a finger to move the blade away from his neck.
”Ok ok calm down…” He takes a step back.
‘I’m an attack angel, similar to you two. The only difference is the model.” Theo says.
”The hell you mean model? Are you an Ephone or something?” Sage says, holding the spear in one hand beside her.
”The gods make many different versions of all their creations. You two are newer Attack Angel models. The tricky question is which...” He puts a hand on his chin.
”personally, I am model 57.921. So is my sister, you’ll meet her soon.”
“Why did you bring us here?” Sage says, taking a small step forward.
“To converse with the new victims!” Theo says happily. “Now that you’ve made a deal with the agency, it’s my job to tell you what their lying about!”
“How can we trust you? Your some random dude wearing a strait jacket branded with the Agency logo. Doesn’t exactly scream trustworthiness" Sage sneers.
“What other option do we have? Mx Vail isn't trustworthy, either. At least Theodore is actually an attack angel.” Ocean says or sum idk how to write.
“Who the hell names their kid Theodore? That name has been dead since the 19th century.” Sage mutters.
“Yes I know how glamourous it is! I started the trend of the name! What year was it… 1509? Or was it 1909?” Theo says.
“This guy’s crazy!” Ocean whispers to Sage.
“No need to whisper! We’re all allys here!” Theo says loudly.
“Shut up! Your going to get caught!” Sage whisper screams.
“Don’t worry about silly matters like sound detection! I already made a sound barrier, be as loud as you like.” Theo waves his hand in a eh whatever kinda way.
“this dude is insufferable..” Sage mutters.