We find our Protagonist in a small boxed up room. No visible door was available. Scratch marks at the base of the walls. For all purposes, it's a prison cell but not a normal one. One for experimentation. Up above were fire extinguishers for when he gets to rowdy.
Set up was slightly different than last time. Azul couldn't help but think that everything would be more difficult or it might just be for the tutorial. This was better than the memory loss he suffered during the tutorial last time.
Galtea: Alert User has been disconnected from my influence. Notifying Administration at once. Begin Deploying countermeasures... All avenue for retrieval are blocked..establishing an emergency link... restored User to full health.
System: Emergency link terminated!!
"Arggh," Galtean can be found screaming in her pod. Silver ooze coming from both her mouth and ears. 'I was ready for it and it still hurt like hell!'
"Plop" Her head dips under. As she struggles to float back up grabbing the sides, she begins to reattach the cords. She was trying her best to hurry and restablish a link.
"Creek" She stumbles and slides further down into the base of the pod.
'Rip tsh' The door to the room is torn open as an old man floats in. With a wave of his hands, the woman floats up, out of the pod and onto a couch nearby. With a curl of his finger, she is cleaned up. She still seems to be physically exhausted from her ordeal. With another curl, the pods' cords are reconnected and fixed back into place. The old man stares at Galtea before him waiting for her to gather herself.
"Uggh' cough, cough", she spits out some blood. "What happened? And why are you here Old One? Where are my guards?" Galtea gazes at the Old One with an intensity that would kill a lesser being.
The Old One just shakes his head and lets out a small sigh. After a few seconds, he gathers his thoughts and begins to speak to the young girl slowly and gently like a grandfather would speak to a toddler.
"Do you still hate us child for what happened?"
Galtea just looks at him sharply, with a curt nod she begins to walk back to her pod. "Yes I do, my mother may be able to put duty before everything else, but I will no longer do so. And you cannot stop me, nor the Council, nor my Mother, I will kill him. As long as I obey the laws the full power of the System will back me. Instead of bothering me why not go after the ones who took the Source Codes!" As Galtea yells that at the Old One his knees buckle. His feet sink two inches into the floor tearing the floor on a subatomic level.
With a pale face, the Old One snorts and the forces are cut off. He is unable to hide his shock at the power of one who is so injured. His thoughts were rampant as he thought things over. 'If she was never betrayed and loss so many fragments of her self, we could have expanded to the destroyed sector establishing a connection to the ones who have been lost to us for so long. Her emotions are stronger as well. At least something came from that experience.'
The Old One thoughts go into a higher frenzy of the possibilities ...'I must increase security for this child... no, not a child. Her power and temperament are way different than before the naivety and kindness are gone, replaced with a strong determination. A look of revenge as well. But that is to expected. At least is not directed at me. Where has that come from I wonder... He gazes over at the pod, she has already placed herself back inside it. He must tell his Twin as soon as he gets out of that meeting. It's time he lets him know he has finally chosen a side. As he turns back to the tear of the door he is stopped.
"Old One thank you for helping me, it would not have killed me but the damage would have been troublesome to fix, especially explaining to mother later," Galtea tells him quietly with her back turned. A solid tear can be seen flowing down from her eye all the way down the side of her cheek, before it can fall from her face it dissolves into her jawline. "I must not cry anymore, I can cry once they are all dead!" She softly mumbles to no one, mostly to herself to reaffirm her own resolve. 'Azul is the sky. This one can be better than the last one.'
As the Old One steps into the tear. A message carries itself into her ears. "I swear by the will of The System, and my Existence you have my Loyalty Lady Galtea ."
"Thank You." Lady Galtea speaks out. 'I will not just rely on you though I can only trust myself for the moment. As well as my.. user.' Her thoughts in place she activated everything. "Reconnecting to the System. He is still unconsciousness this is good .. but why is his tutorial being done at suchhigh-level memory shards... "
'Damn it this is my mothers' signature but who do these others belong to. I know this coding but from where. Dammit, it all!! Why hasn't he gather my mental shards? Has he betrayed me too!' Galatea thought were that of the past. Slowly the updated information Zelda gave her straightened her out. Knowing who the other codes belonged to, she sent them directly up to the System Avatars to deal with. She knew just the two to do it. 'The Trickster and Pande will deal with them on a higher level.'
'Whoosh' Outside of the pod the tables get turned it particles from her lash of anger. The neergy then realigns fixing itself.
The tear closes away leaving no disturbance.
"Caldabog come forth!" Outside of the pod a fiery light begins to gather and forms a spear, that then turns into a man.
The man has golden hair with tips of white at the edges. The eyes were blazed out white, it would be damn near impossible to tell where he is looking. Armor that covers him all the way to his neck. The feet have little paws attach to them. On the shoulders are another set of paws with longer claws on the end. The back half has burnt angel wings that seem to be slowly healing. The front of the chest Has a design of a lion-man kneeling at the base of a woman's'feet. The woman is moving slowly back and forth massaging the lions head and mane.
"My Lady you have called for us?" The voice of a man and woman come out at the same time from all corners of the room. "What is your desire?"
Galatea looks at her first and strongest creation. Then her eyes catch the sight of the wings that are slowly healing. They were of the softest and the warmest of clouds she plucked from the sky in her youth. Perfect from countless years of her reweaving it. But now burnt over. A tinge of pain so strong takes hold of her for a fleeting moment before she shakes it away. There was work to be done. Seeing them again makes her cry even more. Thinking of his sacrifce in the future she became angry and was determined to make she they were healed before it happened.
"Caldabog go and make your order of Cloud Knights make them up to my standards and up to your duties. And eat this for your loyalty over the years. I wish I could have given you the one you deserve. But this is all I could spare with this type of power." Lady Galtea hands over an orb no bigger than an apple to him. "Go I have work to do." No longer watching her knight Galtea focuses on the task at hand, and reconnects and takes back over her role of in The System.
"I will not fail my Lady, this I swear!" Caldabog transforms into a cloud and fades away.
Galtea: User I am here, You are in the final part of the Tutorial. Due to extenuating circumstances and you high synchro rate your, jump to one of your most difficult parts of your life had some interference.
"Oh that sounds awful, can we not do this and said we did?" Looking down at his body Azul thought it was a little odd he was naked. "Why the Hell am I naked??" Then he remembered he was in a blasted prison cell.
Galtea: Aborting will cause a forfeit of prizes and attribute decrease. Completing will have additional bonuses due to the large increase in difficulty. Recommend completing.
"Fine, I will trust your Judgement on this! How long do I have?" Azul moved around a little in the cell and tried to focus on what happened to her during this time. HE was shocked to know she never actually shared it with him. To be accurate he didnt ask. It was during a time their trust was rocky. 'Another thing to change this time around.'
Galtea: Thank you for your trust. Three hours remaining.
"Nice.. let's see hm. Let's check out my attributes then."
Status Page 1 Name: Azul Lunastrider Class: Soldier Adept? (Experiment) Level: 7 AC: 19 Second Class: N/A Health: 78
Strength: 16 Constitution: 18 Dexterity: 16 Intelligence: 22 Wisdom: 22 Charisma: 15
Athletics: Magic: Acrobatics: Misdirect: History: Intimidation:
Medical: Nature: Perception: Persuasion: Stealth: TechWork:
Religion: Survival: Seduction:
Cantrips: Lv1 Adrenaline Rush, Lv1 Biotic Shielding, Lv1 Biotic Charge, Lv1 Flame Fist,
Lv1 Concussive Shot, Lv1 Mental Cleansing,
Spells: Lv1 Rune Magic
'Bah I am glad a for the update for my interface. Good thing the System is at least hiding so many of the values for things.' Azul dismissed the screen and tried to focus again with his meditation.
System: New understanding of abilties found. Continued mediation will increase profieceincy.