The Ice Maiden's Sun-Bathed Gift (H Spirit 'Hunt') (Solo)
Apr 11, 2016 17:14:11 GMT
Post by Alicia Westfield on Apr 11, 2016 17:14:11 GMT
"Kid! Kid! Snap of it! Oi! Aliciaaaa! Wake up already! Do you even know where you are right now!?" To say his mental voice was hoarse at this point was quite an understatement. Much to his surprise, only a day after acquiring Mercurialdramon Alicia was heading out again. There was no ping on her D-Scanner to imply she had something to hunt for, and to the Steel Spirit's knowledge she had no other pressing matters in the Digital World to attend to. Further more he was certain she'd wanted to rest a bit when it came to digital affairs as it was anyways.
Then he realized that no matter how much he shouted, she wasn't listening to him at all. In fact she was just whispering some kind of tune under her breath, almost too lightly for him to hear. It sounded strangely familiar though, but he just couldn't place it. So he'd taken to doing what he could to try and snap Alicia out of whatever trance the woman seemed to be in. The fact that he was still screaming his head off, as it were, proved that this was less successful then he would've liked.
At first it was merely a simple annoyance. Something or someone had managed to enchant Alicia and draw her out from her home and into a trip to the Digital World. Then it had been worrying, what if she was being drawn into a trap? Would he be able to snap her out of the trance in time to take up arms in the event of a fight? That had then faded into out right panic at this point. Why, one might ask?
Alicia had been walked right into a raging blizzard without the appropriate gear to even consider braving the elements. And yet the entranced Spirit User trudged onward without a care for her own safety. That certainly made a lot of sense considering someone else was making the calls for her. So the Steel Spirit had grown increasingly more frantic as each minute ticked by. He was certain that if he couldn't manage something to wake her up, this accursed blizzard would claim her life and no one would be any wiser to her disappearance until the snow had long since covered the body up.
"Oh for crying out loud... Alicia! Wake up! I'm not losing you to some crazy weather after all you've already been through! Snap out of it!" Yet again, the Steel Spirit's voice goes unheard. And the day was not yet done with surprises yet. Fortunately, this one was a good one, a mansion deep in the tundra was on the path Alicia had been taking subconsciously this whole time. One that was very familiar to the Steel Spirit.
"... That... that's not possible..." Sol mused in shock, even as his host pulled open the door, watching as it opened up to her freely. Alicia slipped inside, still whispering under her breath. Despite the building's obviously insubstantial presence in the world, Sol realized that being in here was blocking the cold out. That was convenient at least. Alicia wouldn't freeze to death as long as she was in here.
"Come now, dear, do you really think I'd do that to your precious host...?" There was a phantom here, and she'd just announced her presence with her spectral voice. It was one that Sol was quite intimately familiar with, leaving the Steel Spirit to gasp in surprise. He hadn't heard her voice for what seemed like eons.
"... Kisa..." Sol breathed softly, as the phantom woman phased into the living room of this mansion Alicia had been lead to. Dressed in icy blue robes that helped her blend in, if her skin were actually pale she'd be a good fit for a stereotypical Japanese spirit. Specifically, her dress choice made her appear like a Yuki-Onna or snow woman. The phantom brushed a few purple locks out of her face as she stood face to face with Alicia, only a few inches taller then her.
"Aren't you happy to see me, Sol...?" the phantom asked with a soft smirk. "You're awfully shy for meeting someone you cared for so much again." 'Kisa' laughed softly, taking Alicia's hand and leading her through the house to a bed, laying the Spirit User down.
Sol shook his head, grumbling a bit. "I should've known from the start... You never do follow through on the entirety of my wishes. Even in something as life changing as this." The Steel Spirit's tone was something resembling irritated, surprisingly enough. Given how familiar the two spirits were it was an odd reaction to have. "I can't believe I couldn't make out the song Alicia was whispering... you were trying to clue me in about it being you..."
"You know me so well, sweet heart. Yes, I was using our song as a hint. But for all your insights you never could catch me pulling a fast one on you until I revealed my ploy." Kisa answered back with a smile. "Now then, aren't you going to make your projection? So that I can actually speak to you face-to-face once more?"
With an invitation like that, the Steel Spirit sighed softly and followed through, emerald motes of light flaked off from Alicia's body before condensing at Kisa's side as an eight-foot tall draconic humanoid with three lashing tails. The icy phantom giggled and hugged Sol's projected form, closing her eyes and resting her head on his chest. "How amusing... you were born human, became a dragon, and now serve to fuel Digimon forms for Alicia, and your most comfortable with the form you were cursed with? You always were a strange one."
"Well... what do you expect? I'd lived for a good fifty years thinking I'd never reclaim my old self, to the point that I'd given up and accepted that this draconic beast would be 'me' for the rest of my life." the dragon phantom replied, wrapping his scaled arms around Kisa. "But I have to ask, Kisara... why did you go and do this? You know I'd wished for you to rest in peace while I carried on until my power was no longer needed. Why double back like this and subject yourself to the same fate?"
"I know you, Sol... I know that even after you overcame the curse you leaned heavily towards darkness. It was I who focused your light. And now I reprise my role, making sure an equal number of light-aligned spirit totems were spawned to match those that would be steeped in darkness." Kisara replied, smirking. "I set my power to awaken a few days after your host first awakened a dark Steel Spirit, so that I could call the one who'd inherit your power to gift the equivalent light Steel Spirit to. Also, don't you remember that our oath was a bit... different from normal oaths?"
Sol balked a bit, looking away with the beginnings of a blush on his cheeks. "I-I... uh... perhaps the details have slipped my mind over the years...?" he offered weakly, flashing a nervous but toothy smile. It seemed to pain him to admit that he might have forgotten something.
"Then allow me to refresh your memory. 'For we, to whom death is not the end, shall willing join our very spirits together. Bound companions shall we be till time itself ceases to flow.' That was our oath, Sol, and I keep to my end even now." The ice phantom smiled softly and held one hand out. A small whirlwind of ice formed in her palm, blocking something from view, and has it dissipated, the light sided Human Steel Spirit rested in her hand. "I have ensured the totem would bathe in the sun's magnificent rays endlessly until it was time to awaken, ensuring it would be suffussed with light where your nature might otherwise push it towards darkness."
With a gesture, Kisara sent the Steel Totem flying toward Alicia's D-Scanner, loading it into the device so that it would be available when ever she wished to weild it's power. "I wish we could spend a little more time projected like this, maybe have one last dance before allowing the little one to wake up and return home, but alas, I can sense your power will not hold out much longer like this and neither can mine."
"It is quite a pity. But I will make it up to you. Go and rest, I will explain things to Alicia on the way back." Sol assured. Each of their phantom forms broke down, Sol's back in to green and Kisara's to purple, before coming to rest with Alicia. Almost as if she had been suffering a nightmare, the Spirit User snapped awake with a yelp, looking around in shock.
"W-Where am I!?" she understandably screamed. All around her she was in an unfamiliar spectral building, which was starting to break down around her. "Sol!? A little heads up on what's going on here!?"
"Long story kid, shift to a Digimon form and follow my lead. I'll get you back to somewhere not so blisteringly cold. I'll explain things on the way." her Steel Spirit replied. Alicia just shook her head and sighed, evolving to Mercurialdramon because of mercury's ridiculously low freezing temperature. The blizzard had died down as the phantom building finished dissolving, so the cold hadn't hit a point that could actually freeze her currently liquid metal body.
Making a dash back to something resembling civilization, Alicia could only groan as Sol recounted what had gone on while she was entranced. "Great, now I've got two voices in my head!?" the liquid dragon screeched, seeing as she was so far away from anyone. Sol confirmed it, and Alicia let out another, louder groan, before falling quiet the rest of the way.
Then he realized that no matter how much he shouted, she wasn't listening to him at all. In fact she was just whispering some kind of tune under her breath, almost too lightly for him to hear. It sounded strangely familiar though, but he just couldn't place it. So he'd taken to doing what he could to try and snap Alicia out of whatever trance the woman seemed to be in. The fact that he was still screaming his head off, as it were, proved that this was less successful then he would've liked.
At first it was merely a simple annoyance. Something or someone had managed to enchant Alicia and draw her out from her home and into a trip to the Digital World. Then it had been worrying, what if she was being drawn into a trap? Would he be able to snap her out of the trance in time to take up arms in the event of a fight? That had then faded into out right panic at this point. Why, one might ask?
Alicia had been walked right into a raging blizzard without the appropriate gear to even consider braving the elements. And yet the entranced Spirit User trudged onward without a care for her own safety. That certainly made a lot of sense considering someone else was making the calls for her. So the Steel Spirit had grown increasingly more frantic as each minute ticked by. He was certain that if he couldn't manage something to wake her up, this accursed blizzard would claim her life and no one would be any wiser to her disappearance until the snow had long since covered the body up.
"Oh for crying out loud... Alicia! Wake up! I'm not losing you to some crazy weather after all you've already been through! Snap out of it!" Yet again, the Steel Spirit's voice goes unheard. And the day was not yet done with surprises yet. Fortunately, this one was a good one, a mansion deep in the tundra was on the path Alicia had been taking subconsciously this whole time. One that was very familiar to the Steel Spirit.
"... That... that's not possible..." Sol mused in shock, even as his host pulled open the door, watching as it opened up to her freely. Alicia slipped inside, still whispering under her breath. Despite the building's obviously insubstantial presence in the world, Sol realized that being in here was blocking the cold out. That was convenient at least. Alicia wouldn't freeze to death as long as she was in here.
"Come now, dear, do you really think I'd do that to your precious host...?" There was a phantom here, and she'd just announced her presence with her spectral voice. It was one that Sol was quite intimately familiar with, leaving the Steel Spirit to gasp in surprise. He hadn't heard her voice for what seemed like eons.
"... Kisa..." Sol breathed softly, as the phantom woman phased into the living room of this mansion Alicia had been lead to. Dressed in icy blue robes that helped her blend in, if her skin were actually pale she'd be a good fit for a stereotypical Japanese spirit. Specifically, her dress choice made her appear like a Yuki-Onna or snow woman. The phantom brushed a few purple locks out of her face as she stood face to face with Alicia, only a few inches taller then her.
"Aren't you happy to see me, Sol...?" the phantom asked with a soft smirk. "You're awfully shy for meeting someone you cared for so much again." 'Kisa' laughed softly, taking Alicia's hand and leading her through the house to a bed, laying the Spirit User down.
Sol shook his head, grumbling a bit. "I should've known from the start... You never do follow through on the entirety of my wishes. Even in something as life changing as this." The Steel Spirit's tone was something resembling irritated, surprisingly enough. Given how familiar the two spirits were it was an odd reaction to have. "I can't believe I couldn't make out the song Alicia was whispering... you were trying to clue me in about it being you..."
"You know me so well, sweet heart. Yes, I was using our song as a hint. But for all your insights you never could catch me pulling a fast one on you until I revealed my ploy." Kisa answered back with a smile. "Now then, aren't you going to make your projection? So that I can actually speak to you face-to-face once more?"
With an invitation like that, the Steel Spirit sighed softly and followed through, emerald motes of light flaked off from Alicia's body before condensing at Kisa's side as an eight-foot tall draconic humanoid with three lashing tails. The icy phantom giggled and hugged Sol's projected form, closing her eyes and resting her head on his chest. "How amusing... you were born human, became a dragon, and now serve to fuel Digimon forms for Alicia, and your most comfortable with the form you were cursed with? You always were a strange one."
"Well... what do you expect? I'd lived for a good fifty years thinking I'd never reclaim my old self, to the point that I'd given up and accepted that this draconic beast would be 'me' for the rest of my life." the dragon phantom replied, wrapping his scaled arms around Kisa. "But I have to ask, Kisara... why did you go and do this? You know I'd wished for you to rest in peace while I carried on until my power was no longer needed. Why double back like this and subject yourself to the same fate?"
"I know you, Sol... I know that even after you overcame the curse you leaned heavily towards darkness. It was I who focused your light. And now I reprise my role, making sure an equal number of light-aligned spirit totems were spawned to match those that would be steeped in darkness." Kisara replied, smirking. "I set my power to awaken a few days after your host first awakened a dark Steel Spirit, so that I could call the one who'd inherit your power to gift the equivalent light Steel Spirit to. Also, don't you remember that our oath was a bit... different from normal oaths?"
Sol balked a bit, looking away with the beginnings of a blush on his cheeks. "I-I... uh... perhaps the details have slipped my mind over the years...?" he offered weakly, flashing a nervous but toothy smile. It seemed to pain him to admit that he might have forgotten something.
"Then allow me to refresh your memory. 'For we, to whom death is not the end, shall willing join our very spirits together. Bound companions shall we be till time itself ceases to flow.' That was our oath, Sol, and I keep to my end even now." The ice phantom smiled softly and held one hand out. A small whirlwind of ice formed in her palm, blocking something from view, and has it dissipated, the light sided Human Steel Spirit rested in her hand. "I have ensured the totem would bathe in the sun's magnificent rays endlessly until it was time to awaken, ensuring it would be suffussed with light where your nature might otherwise push it towards darkness."
With a gesture, Kisara sent the Steel Totem flying toward Alicia's D-Scanner, loading it into the device so that it would be available when ever she wished to weild it's power. "I wish we could spend a little more time projected like this, maybe have one last dance before allowing the little one to wake up and return home, but alas, I can sense your power will not hold out much longer like this and neither can mine."
"It is quite a pity. But I will make it up to you. Go and rest, I will explain things to Alicia on the way back." Sol assured. Each of their phantom forms broke down, Sol's back in to green and Kisara's to purple, before coming to rest with Alicia. Almost as if she had been suffering a nightmare, the Spirit User snapped awake with a yelp, looking around in shock.
"W-Where am I!?" she understandably screamed. All around her she was in an unfamiliar spectral building, which was starting to break down around her. "Sol!? A little heads up on what's going on here!?"
"Long story kid, shift to a Digimon form and follow my lead. I'll get you back to somewhere not so blisteringly cold. I'll explain things on the way." her Steel Spirit replied. Alicia just shook her head and sighed, evolving to Mercurialdramon because of mercury's ridiculously low freezing temperature. The blizzard had died down as the phantom building finished dissolving, so the cold hadn't hit a point that could actually freeze her currently liquid metal body.
Making a dash back to something resembling civilization, Alicia could only groan as Sol recounted what had gone on while she was entranced. "Great, now I've got two voices in my head!?" the liquid dragon screeched, seeing as she was so far away from anyone. Sol confirmed it, and Alicia let out another, louder groan, before falling quiet the rest of the way.