FIGHT!
From within him, from somewhere else, he felt an answer. Fury raged, a distant feeling that hammered into the foreground, answered in kind by the winged creature in the sky. He feels it, all of it, everything, and Felix reached to the heavens.
Adamant Discord!
And brought them crashing down.
Wheel of Fortune.
All Things Turn Upon The Tides.
The Path Continues.
The storm raged, but he was among the clouds. Above them. Apart of them. Felix surges with the winds, with the lightning itself, riding upon it. He remembered, what little there is to recall. Of Pit and Felix and who he was; who he had become. Creatures of smoke and cloud rose against him, monstrous, but his power wiped them away. Others rose in their place, but the power raged to be used, and Felix didn't hesitate.
Gabby! They took her! Why? Because I wasn't there? He had slept through the yacht party, through the violence on deck, and the lightning. The one that had taken him from Earth. But that hadn't happened this time. Felix knew it wasn't real, couldn't be, but everything felt real. Is this what happened when I left? Monsters in Fort Lauderdale? In the sky?
A shape manifested from the storm around him, one formed of smoke and fire and darkness. It was only vaguely humanoid, but it seethed with shapes that changed with every breath. Spines and fines and claws and teeth, eyes that roiled about the storm, fires burning behind veils of shadow. It screamed, and the whole world screamed with it, deafening him. Nearly knocking him from the sky.
His Perception tangled on an object behind him, a door, fashioned out of dim light. Knowledge stuffed into his brain, words not his own: The Path Continues, Felix Nevarre.
He knew he only needed to flee, to run into that doorway. But to do so would be abandoning his home to this...thing. A creature of darkness and jealous endings.
His phone rang, still in his hand somehow. His mother. Felix tried to cancel it, but answered instead, and a tinny voice shouted shrilly over the line. "Where are you? Help! There are things! Bumble, help me! They're coming into the house!"
The beast grinnedgrinned!and spread down, toward the city. Toward his family.
"Bumble! Help me!"
Like tearing out his own heart, Felix hurled himself into the door of light.
Felix landed atop a plush carpet that smelled of dust and stale air. Everything came back, all of who he was and what he had doneor hadn'tin the Path was vivid. He didn't move, not for a while, letting the shame of it all wash over him.
There was nothing I could do. Right? I couldn't stay behind. It wasn't even real! Felix clenched his teeth and fists, straining every muscle as if physical exertion would chase away his self-recriminations. I had to leave!
A soft cooing came from above, along with the scent of almonds and corn chips. A huge, feathered mass laid atop his head, so light he barely felt it, but warm and soft. Their bond shimmered, but Pit said nothing. They simply laid there.
Notifications blinked at the corner of his vision. Eager for the distraction, Felix toggled them open.
+13 AGL
+11 DEX
+9 EVA
+16 WIL
+23 INE
+21 AFI
+15 ALA
System energy surged into him, met by the Dissonance of his core. Colorless power and dual cores coruscating into a fountain of potency that arched Felix's spine. He convulsed, throwing Pit from him and felt his everything burn and freeze, until there was nothing but the struggle to hold onto himself.
You Have Walked The Chosen Path(s)!
Congratulations!
You Have Received An Omen (x3)!