"What did you say?" Right now, in the school's rooftop two people stood in front of one another.
And Ashton is going through a procedure many boys his age go through, break up.
But he actually has a hard time believing what's going on, because as far as he knows, several days ago everything was okay... surely women aren't this volatile, right?
"I said that we're finished, Ashton... I don't like you anymore... I want to finish this relationship... tell me how much it was for the repairs of last week, I'll pay them and we will go about our business..." With her hands in her pockets, Sarah put an end to everything.
She tried to be as polite as she could, knowing full well that regardless of however everything ended, it was her fault... she's the one that was headstrong enough to call him even when she knew the two of them weren't likely to beat up Morpheus.
In fact, she was headstrong enough to try to kill Morpheus...
"Are you mad, Sarah!? what did I do!?" Ashton felt outraged, he really likes Sarah, they have been together for a month now and have a lot of fun together, she's quite sexy and overall a good catch, this came too suddenly.
"It's not you, it's me... I just... want to change, I think I have been wrong for a long time and want to fix it. That's all, please... don't waste both our times."
"You have to be kidding me, what about this? you don't want this anymore!" He took out something, something that looked like a cylinder!
!!!
Drugs, or more specifically, ecstasyIV a version that's injected and potent enough to make you dream with dragons.
Just with a single sting of that, even if you're the most broken of bastards, you will forget all your problems, she has been consuming that drug for three years... almost on a daily basis.
This, together with sex, kept her on at all times and ready for whatever threat she had to face... ready for the rough and disgusting like that being in this world represents.
He even approached her with it, surely she must want this, they're in the same ship here, they're both helpless addicts!
*SLAP!!*
With a wavering will, she slapped his hand away and held the man's collar with her bionic arm.
"I don't want it! if you're not going to tell me how much it is, then get lost, Ashton! I won't take that thing anymore!" She said so, but her body was shivering... she hadn't had some for a few days now and seemed to be doing well until she saw it...
The memories of that stack she has forgotten underneath the bed resurfaced with a vengeance.
Perhaps due to her sudden infatuation or due to the change she went through, she had forgotten it but now, it would be difficult to take it out of her head.
"You! Do you think you can say that you're going to leave and that's it!? what about the gang?! do you think they're going to let you leave!? I will just say it one time, Sarah... come with me and everything will be okay... we will have some good hallucinations, a rough fuck and everything will be okay, alright?"
*BAAANG!!*
What he received was a punch square to his face, breaking his renewed nose and throwing him far away, she had directly used the hardest set-up of her enhancement.
"You're a piece of shit... granny was right... she's always right." She tried to be polite, but eventually what was fated to happen, happened and he looked for it.
After blasting the boy away, she departed the school's roof, they're finished... it had been a waste of time, worse... now she remembers something she didn't want to remember.
"..."
'Sarah Sarah... you're looking for it...' he cleaned his bloodied mouth, there is no way he's letting that piece of ass go away.
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"I'll see you tomorrow, Mary..." The classes had finished and the weakened sun was about to drop down to the horizon.
'Roses are red, the ocean is blue... what are you doing, Morpheus?'
She rolled her eyes in annoyance, she hadn't been able to think of anything else today... aside from that stack of ecstasy beneath her bed.
'I have to get rid of it...'
"What are you going to do?" Mary who had been playing with her chips' interface asked before the two of them went each on their own.
"I'm going to granny's shop, perhaps I can still help her." It's already this late, it should be two hours before she has to depart, perhaps Morpheus is also there already and finished whatever he was going to do.
"Oh, okay... I'm meeting Brice, when are we selling the next stack?" Mary whispered, she thought it was odd for her to suddenly care about her granny's shop, but well... to each their own, what she cares about is the money the drugs can be, several thousand pounds a week!
"About that... Mary, I'm not doing that anymore..." This is something quite complicated for Sarah, it's like cutting off everything she has been doing so far.
"What do you mean? what are you going to do?!"
"I said I'll help granny with her shop..."
"That rubbish? how much money is it going to give you!?" Mary literally shook her best friend's shoulders.
Has she gone insane?
"... it's not about the money, Mary... I'll see you tomorrow..." Sarah released herself from the grip and wore her jaws, she didn't like it when she called her granny's shop 'rubbish'.
In this new path she's moving towards, it seems no one is supporting her.
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Sarah took an omnibus that flies all the way from central London to High Barnet.
"The authorities have worked extremely hard to deal with one of the headquarters belonging to the red blood gang located in High Barnet, props to Officer Null from the district department for accurately pointing out the location of the hidden organisation, apparently, there are still fugitive members along with the remaining cells of the district of Camden and Homerton... this is Carol from BBC News."
'Red Blood Gang...' she clenched her hand, 'serves them right'.
As she travelled on the bus, the news was being broadcasted.
...
"Do you think you can just leave the turf and nothing will happen, Sarah?"
!!!!
When she heard that voice behind her, the blood in her body went cold.
"Anderson... w-what?" She moved her gaze to the side and at that moment she paled, even more, there weren't many people, ten or fifteen at most but... at least five of them were glaring at her!
'Shit...'
The others, upon hearing the content of the conversation, moved aside... that's not their business.
"Ashton told me about your little idea... you have sold our products for so long... you know where our HQ is, you know everything... and now you just want to say a few words and leave? do you think that's possible?" The man whispered beside her ears, a man at least ten years older than her, the one that has been giving her the merch all this while.
"Anderson, I swear I won't say anything..." As strong as her enhancement might be, not only is it weaker than his, they're outnumbering her!
"It doesn't work like that, sweetheart... you're going to come with us now... or we're going to give your little granny a visit, okay?~"
!!!
"Please, leave my granny out of this, I will go..." She bit her lips and looked at the view outside the window, the stall is not too far away from the bus station.
'Could Morpheus be with granny now? he said he had some things to do... but it has already been long, he might have been back? but what if he's not!'
Her brain and chip worked at a thousand kilometres per hour, what can she do?!
Nothing comes to mind.
She doesn't want to go with them, if she goes with them now after what she just said, getting beaten will be the lightest of treatments.
She will be abused, perhaps even killed and disposed of and the worse thing is that after being disposed of, her granny still won't be out of danger.
'Morpheus... where are you?!'
In the most critical of moments, she could only think of a single person that could save her.
Her cardiac rhythm increased as did her fear, pumping blood through her veins and energy through her bionic arms, producing sweat on her forehead... what is she going to do?!
*THUMB*
*THUMB!*
*THUMB!!!*
"It's good that you're obedient, let's go boys, today we're having fun~" Anderson, a man with rather big scars on his face, grasped the girl's shoulders and took her with him.
No one betrays the Italian Soprano Maffia.
That comment did nothing but to further scare the beauty who could only start thinking of the horrible things that would be done to her before she got killed and disposed of in a rubbish bag or a well.
Her pitiful body, abused, torn apart and disposed of in a well where dozens lay, she was just another one of the bunch.
'M-orpheus... h-help m-e...' Her eyes moistened, how long has it been since she's this scared? Has she become a pussy? she's been through bad ones, she has been stepped on, but right now... Sarah is completely sure she's going to die.
She just got an opportunity to fix things, with her granny, with her own life, why is it going to end so quickly!?
*THUMB!!!*
*THUMB!!!!!!*
*THUMB!!!!!!!!!*
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<Magic Array:Trigger>
<Soul Search>
...
<Elemental Output:Fire>
*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMM-------------------*
The Magic God sat atop a gigantic building that was at least a hundred stories tall, his gaze fixed to the dawning horizon.It's a building in High Barnet, not too far away from Rachel's stall.He had left the cute granny in her stall attending way more customers than usual, apparently, now they even wait for her before she presents herself.Asked her whether she needed help to which she said that he could go about his business, that she'd be alright so long as he came back in the evening.She was lying, with the increase of customers she might likely need another hand, but the old lady didn't want to impose, so far she's blessed that her small business is going so well thanks to him.In truth, it's her own effort, he did but to add a little advertisement, but the cute granny is just like that....Deciding to give her the chance to grow
Sarah ran...She ran with everything she had towards her granny's stall.The thought of what happened just now remained within her bionic circuits, those people are dead... not only the ones that threatened her life and her freedom but also, the ones that had nothing to do with it.And she's the cause, it might be indirect, but she's the cause.The matter is already in the news even though it happened an hour ago."Granny!"When she caught a glimpse of her grandmother, the beauty released a sigh of relief and Rachel too ran to hug her granddaughter.She had received the news in her interface, and she knows that the bus is the one that Sarah takes to come to Barnet from high school... she had been worried the entire time.Today was a splendid day, there were many customers, a total of thirty and many people in need wer
While glancing directly through the window, no conversation between the two took place for a brief while, the vehicle had already activated its camouflage, so they couldn't be recognised any longer."So... where are you from, Morpheus?" Without taking her face away from the 'path', Null asked, perhaps only wanting to get rid of the silence.Is it awkward for her? who knows."I'm from lands you won't ever be able to reach..." He spoke mightily, turning his gaze to the beauty that is now clad in black slick armour with purple neons, just like the first time they met."... from space?" rolling her eyes at the way he spoke, she tried to deduce his existence, there are too many mysteries around him, if she can at least have him utter something useful out of those lips, that's a win."Something like that..." As far as Morpheus is concerned, those questions lack importance, his origins
"We have arrived... activate the camouflage, Morpheus... the darkness one, we don't want your true face to be seen here..." Null took some kind of weird medium-range weapon with a connection, she walked forward through the door, followed by her twenty units.<Darkness Mantle>Using the first tier spell, a mantle of darkness covered Morpheus' body as he followed the V2 platoon.The flying ship came to a stop near the beach's shore, the sky was already about to darken.*RUMBLE!*Flying close to the shore, the compartment opened and gave the corps a view of the entire Brighton's shore, it was a city filled with lights and one could even see lights shining underneath the water surface, indicating the presence of an underwater complex."I don't see anything..." that was the Magic God's first observation, as much as he moved his senses all around, he couldn't
What could only be described as a modern military campaign formed within the plasma barrier, V2's flagship continued to shoot missiles, most of them would be deflected towards the skies while the rest impacted the facility's antennas that were raining hell on them in the form of missiles and beams.*RUMBLE!*'I only have enough magic for a 1st Tier Spell, it seems I'm going to have to go back to the good old times.'After placing a magic array in both Sarah and Rachel, combined with all the spells he had used recently, 2nd Tier and 3rd Tier, this is no doubt the day Morpheus has consumed the most out of his magic core, and even as it actively regenerated he'd have to rely on his Seraphin features, light magic and... several other interesting gimmicks.Null had been falling at a regular pace as she analysed the entire facility with her vision, trying to figure out their objective.
The world in front of Null's bionic eyes seemed to come to a stop when Morpheus did nothing short of teleportation and arrived beside the robot.His palm moved swiftly, like the judgement of the Death God.*RUMBBLEE!!!!***BOOOOOMMMMMM!!!*Sparks flew through the entire place, releasing a blinding light.Morpheus' palm that shone with white lightning, stopped right when it clashed against the robot's forcefield."I have seen your movements, <singularity>..." The Robot's two red 'eyes' shone brightly, moving slowly to regard the cluster of black mass in front of him.It had a lot of difficulties locking its senses over that black darkness mantle that seemed to be sucking light itself."You have seen me? SO WHAT?!"*BAANGG!!!*Still, with his palm clashing against the forc
While Null infiltrated the facility.Outside, what could only be described by the Earth's ancestors as a 'Alien Invasion' took place.Explosions raged through the skies as the battle became more and more intense.His shining eyes moved through the battlefield where he noticed, movements, formations, protocols taking place while he engaged an ever-increasing number of drones, ships and robots.Morpheus hand, coated with Morphenus, impacted against the 'newer' version of the wisdom king's form.*BOOOOOMMMMM!!*But rather than be protected with a layer of plasma, this time it was some kind of highly compressed heat whose purpose wasn't to defend, rather, it was erasing his Morphenus!"You're learning, huh!"*BOOOOOMMMMMM!!!*Still... it didn't serve it to anything, Morpheus still impacted his fist ha
The battle of the aeons raged outside, but inside Null wasn't having it any easier.*WOOSH!!*She performed a roundhouse kick that technically detached the head from one of the robots from its torso, using the momentum to point her plasma gun at another one and shoot.Going to the main data centre she had to use her eighteen units to raid this massive facility, get the information that she wanted but things only became more difficult as time passed.Her corps assisted from behind, everything seemed to be going tell, until she saw 'her'.!!!*FIUSSH!!!*A phantom technically flashed through her peripheric vision and kicked forth!*BAANGG!!!*Their two luscious legs clashed and Null got blasted so hard that she impacted the iron wall and dented it!"UGH!!!" Null staggered, gritt
"You're back! how was your day~?" Rachel smiled warmly and opened the door for them, there was a delightful smell in the house, obviously, she had fun cooking."Granny!""Dear, you look happy..." Both grandmother and granddaughter hugged one another while Morpheus and Hana stood on the side, regarding the warm reunion. They knew that Rachel has seen the new restaurant and wanted to know what she thinks about it."I am... my day was wonderful, what about yours? how was your day." The one tasked to question that was Sarah, she smiled and awaited her grandmother's response."It was... amazing! There is so much I want to say... come and sit, Null and I prepared your dishes." She beaconed for the entire group to enter the kitchen and sit.Morpheus nodded and came in together with the girls, heading straight for the kitchen where Null was with an apron, cooking... said android turned around, a little surprised when he took her by the waist."Null..." He pressed her against his body, and t
The bells resonated across the campus, signifying the end of yet another day of studies, Hana walked peacefully, her friend had already departed on her own; leaving her to wander the halls of the campus by herself, moving to the front where a self-driving vehicle awaited with dark windshields.A majestic Bentley."Did your girl also say that she'd go with Bryce?" Hana entered the Bentley parked at the campus entrance, Sarah was inside having arrived earlier."She did... but Bryce said he's busy" The two of them gave each other a small kiss on the cheeks and Hana slumped on the passenger seat releasing a sigh."When are we going to tell them?" Sarah asked with crossed arms, it's obvious that bastard Bryce is playing around with their friends."I don't know... do we have the right to tell them? we're doing the same." Hana placed her bag on her delicate tights, the two of them had played it nice this time, a competition of sorts.Prior, Sarah had taken the passenger seat while Hana sat i
After telling Sarah that he'd head there to pick them up, Morpheus hung up the call on his phone, quite the useful artefact he believed it to be.On the other side of the city was Sarah, sitting on the rooftop with a heavy blush.Now the connection is cut down for real, signalling the unimpeded eruption."KYAAAA!!" Like a stupid little girl, Sarah swayed back and forth, unable to contain her happiness.'I have the best boyfriend ever!'But then she slumped slightly, 'But I have to share him...'Sighing she remained on the rooftop for a while before preparing to make her way back, but when she opened the door to go downstairs, she found a gruesome vision."Sarah."A voice said softly, a tall boy appeared in front of her, marred with tattoos and a hooligan appearance."...?"She heard a voice just as she was preparing to make her way back to the classroom, a man crept from the stairs, impeding her way forward.The girl regarded a boy... too known to her that it even produced disgust, so
"H-How did you get yourself that car!?" The voice of a frantic girl resonated in the classroom as Sarah made an annoyed expression, still feeling pride inwardly.Sarah sat on her desk with a redhead screaming all over, annoying the entire class until the teaching bot came back to the classroom."Secret." She answered, not paying attention but giggling still, one could tell she was happy."You have a boyfriend!? what about Ashton!?""Secret, and he's not the 'new' boyfriend... he's the love of my life also... fuck Ashton."She answered again, giggling stupidly unaware that she just said the 'secret', not paying attention to the growling fool to the other side of the room."A-And you came out with the school belle as well!?" The girl said, referring to Hana, they were seen coming out of the Bentley together."Secret, definitely a secret!" Telling her friends that she's sharing her boyfriend is a no-no.The class went on normally, they entered the VRworld where she noticed a lot more new
"Oh my dear, t-this place is..." Rachel gasped, looking around after Null took her hands out of her eyes, brightening up the previous darkness that isolated her eyes from seeing the 'marvellous surprise'. It was a shop for sale, one where her store is going to be next, no longer having to move that stall all over, now she can come here early in the morning, and everything will be prepared for her. "This is for you Rachel, actually... we're going to refurbish the house as well." Null smiled, feeling slightly content at the granny's reaction to everything around, the shop was clean, with glass screens and modern flooring, completely different to her humble stall, it was elegant, and obviously, this wouldn't be its last state. Rachel was simply delighted that she had such a shop, a ten-metre square front shop of the same size in the back a kitchen with all the equipment. 'Oh my...' tears were about to come out of her bionic pupils. "B-But that..." "Don't worry Rachel, everything wil
"You seem to be a little surprised, <Sigularity>" Marianne held her fluttering hair, the gales of wind didn't give her a rest; beneath them were the clouds, and the concealed reactor together with an endless expanse of fields and underground facilities, what used to be myriad green colours had turned into a mechanical mess that consumed this planet."..." Morpheus regarded her in her battle pose, wondering what she intends... he has already expected several motherships to be rounding him as they speak, but that doesn't seem to be the case; before he was limited due to his lack of mana, but now... if they wanted to take him down they needed at least a quarter of this planet's weaponry, let alone just her body."Is it because I managed to discover you?" Regarding his awkward silence, Marianne started to float around, analysing his entire profile up and down again and again as if learning his every contour."How did y
Morpheus had camouflaged himself and gone on his way with a phone in his hand, he flew across the skies of England, following V2's signals."I only have the location of another two reactors, one of them within the UK, another one outside... the ones outside are going to be even more difficult to find, but they shine for their absence; overly exaggerated security methods often serve to pinpoint either a reactor, a military base or a secret corporation..." V2 explained along the way, intending to unravel his intentions but also, render support to his fruitful endeavour."I just want to know where they are, when the time comes... no further time shall be wasted." Right now there are too many things in his mind that he believed wouldn't enter his line of thought for a long time; romance... such a void feeling, yet those girls had carved their way in.'I can't allow such things to distract me.'"You said
A short journey afterwards, the Bently arrived in front of the pair's high school in central London; a radian academy brimming with school life; couples and of course, neons.Morpheus visually flinched at the sight of that many lights, turns out Sarah's jaws had been some kind of trending as there were several girls and boys using them; thankfully, his Sarah had already moved through that phase.Several of the students marvelled at the sudden entrance of a pricy vehicle, but the two of them didn't exit straight away or head into class looking for their friends.It's Morpheus' first time seeing the campus, so they decided to stay a little longer; moreover, for once they're not late or anything of the sort, so it's not an issue."We're here." Sarah sighed, another day another class... with the fantastic amount of events though her life at the moment, she felt the least motivated to start going to 'clas
Commander Krashev is an individual not to be trifled with, standing atop a gigantic iron carcass, he casually brushed his hair as the torrents of water crashed against his soaking body and clothes.*SPLASH!!*"We're here commander! there is no presence of the recusants whatsoever!" He heard from his communicator as the maritime vehicle resurfaced from the deepest abyss.His gaze roamed the land in front, the territory of treasures, the United Kingdom."It seems the Wisdom King has been truly disabled, what a surprise, to think there is someone capable of taking it down, we must tread carefully."He gave his orders to the crew as the modern submarine floated in the lands of the destroyed city of Brighton, the underwater facility completely obliterated, the city... decimated, a new lake formed as the prologue of unimpeded destruction."What the fuck happe