Akio Part 2 Character Introduction
By, Justin O’Neal
Lights flickering, wires dangling from the ceiling tops. Desks, chairs, and papers were scattered throughout the entire bunker. Untamed corpses lay lifeless beneath the rubble. Many cells with doors ripped from the hinges. A mystery left the research lab empty and abandoned for years to come. Until…
“W-what could have happened here?” Akio stumbles upon the entrance. Not yet seeing what had happened to the inside of the shell that use to have a sort of meaning. That yet hasn’t been discovered. The enclosement was torn from the cement slab which held its place. Looking straight ahead, you could tell the entrance was at a downward sloop. Well sealed though to stop the rainfall from leaking in. Ivy helped support what was left of the top half of the door, keeping it suspended in the air, so it didn’t fall to the ground. Creeping its way to the other side of the bunker. That was left outside the ground. It was all completely covered by the vine.
Akio slowly makes his way to the gateway. His head just in the door way. Little droplets begin to fall and slip through his greasy hair, from the water that marched on the ceiling in a zigzag passion. Not able to see the reality of the place yet. Akio has trouble deciphering the long drawn out, metallic halls. His vision just couldn’t seem to grasp the fact it began to rot.
In the distance he sees lights stung together with wires dancing alongside the gusts of wind. That seep through the no longer tightly sealed door. Almost as if the bunker still had a life of its own.
“W-what went on here?” Akio thought as he made way to the main room. “This… This is inhuman.” His eyes widen with fear, while he begins to tremble. Only thinking of what may have happened. Cells that looked like they may have been used to contain humans. Humans that were traded as a slave to something.
“Why would there have been slaves if there was no intent in using them? There must be something I am missing. Why would there need to be cages for humans here in the first place?” Anything and everything came to mind for Akio except the fact they could have very well been test subjects. But what was being tested? Throughout the room many capsules were lodged in many different directions. Some lay on the floor and desks. Others were even bolted into the side of the think metallic walls and ceiling. A bright icy blue liquid glows and lays thick in the capsules.
Akio gets close to the center. Stepping over many files skimming over one he reads the letters, “Test Subject, Elyna”.
“S-someone, get in here, now!”
“What is it sir?”
“Look!”
The men look over to a cage. The bars have been bent outward as if they were made of thin wood easy to snap.
“W-where could she have gone sir?”
“I—I don’t know.” Though the others could tell it was a lie. His face grew a sickly pale white. As worry struck him when he knew what had happened. “Izumi” He muttered.
“What was that sir?”
“Nothing” His tone change to a calm voice acting as if nothing terrible happened at all.
“We must get her back now!” Though this time the tone was reassuring.
Just as that was mentioned it was if others were already on the search. Deep in the distance Sebastian heard someone yell “I FOUND HER.” Surely enough it really was her too.
Her hair was down to her shoulder on one side while the other was just above her breast. The icy blue hair match her drawn out wings. Still delusional from the capsule with the glowing liquid being injected to her vessels several days earlier. Before her “accidental” escape. She doesn’t understand the fact she’d been freed. Nor did she even understand or remembered she had been a prisoner in Sebastian’s test facility for that matter.
“Excellent” Sebastian said with a half crooked smile. “Let’s lore her back in here, then the training must start tomorrow!”
“On it sir.”
Not even a month had gone by, Elyna was a mighty fast learner. She learned to fly within the day she first started training. Later to find out, flying wasn’t the only ability she posset, and flying soon then became much more bearable for Sebastian. He enjoyed the other abilities that came with the flying nonetheless.
Elyna also had a great sense of strategic moves. She would called them allowed during her training in a calm voice, you almost couldn’t be sure she meant it. Her left eye turned into a monocle, but not just any monocle. This one was tended a teal color that had shapes in it. It was a square shape with rounded off corners. A circle the size of her eye, with lines symmetrically center on all four sides. Last but not least there was a dot the size of her pupil. Making her eye a scope.
She soon realize though that wasn’t the last of her abilities, nor was it her most important. Placing her hands out in front of her she noticed weapons would begin to appear out of thin air. With Elyna being only the second of the facilities test subjects this was new to them. Though it had widen their minds. It was a strange selection of weapons though they had thought together. They had not seen her summon anything other than bows. They on the other hand found this a bit neater due to the fact of a quiver full of arrows appearing on her back as well.
“Ah, I believe she is ready is she not?”
“Ready for what sir?”
“Her first mission of course.”
“You don’t mean?”
“Yes, Yes I do indeed. Once we get rid of him.” An evil laughter echoed throughout the lab while the other members continued to join in. Sebastian excited he contacts Elyna as soon as he could.
“Elyna, do you have the target acquired?”
“Not just yet sir, I do not.”
“Well, what the hell is taking you so long Elyna? We need you on the target NOW!”
“Sir, you do realize, this is the first you have contact me about this. Right?”
“Yes? What a stupid question. What remains though is why you still don’t have the target in sight.”
“Sir, you have not given my any of that information.” Elyna states in a half-wine.
“Oh, yes, yes. I had forgotten.”
“Okay, so who is he?”
Elyna lifts to the sky relaxed. Her shoulder blades began to go out words. The back of her legs bind up into a point. Wings are drawn. She darts, to get ready for the information, Sebastian is about to give. Faster than a missile. Elyna’s right eye turns into a scope while out of her left hand a bow appears from the sky. This bow was shaped with metal spikes at the start and end of a half circle bows possess. Being a midnight purple with a chrome color pink streaking the sides that were deeper in the shell of the bow.
“Elyna, are you ready?” Told in a voice ready for war.
“Yes, equipment is almost all drawn.”
What more could this woman do? Well she draws out an arrow as she places her right hand behind her back. As she did that, a quiver was then visible on her back. Full of arrows, they had the ability to hom. Elyna then pulls the bow string towards her placing the arrow in position.
“Sir, everything is ready.”
“Nicely done, our target’s name is “Akio”.”
“Background?”
“He is the one.”
Elyna’s eyes widen. As she thinks to herself. “He can’t be, it is just too soon for this.”
“Okay sir, getting him in sight now.”
Using her eye, Elyna was able to find Akio without knowing his location.
“Now get on with it.”
“Will do sir”
Elyna soars across the sky, finding Akio with no problem. Slicing through every bit of air the arrow also has no problem getting to Akio. Unfortunately the arrow misses?
“Huh? How you this be?”
Again Elyna draws an arrow from the quiver, draws the bow string back and allows it slide through her fingers once the string is at its maximum. The same thing happened. This time she carefully looks around thinking there may be an interference. With no luck, there wasn’t anything to pin point.
“Sir, are you there still? Sir, this is argent. Sir?”
Unable to get ahold of Sebastian, Elyna rushes back to the lab where Sebastian stays stationed while hunting. She nears the entrance with a terrible chill down her spine. Slamming the door open, the whole place is nothing but a mess, left behind like a child’s room. Files and papers scattered every which way you look. Desks flipped with broken glass and shrapnel from the metal everything is made with scattered within the room. Before this the lab look of nothing but metal with a blue glow to cover up the cracks left where the first metal slab ending and the new one began.
“Sebastian, are you here? Hello, sir.”
“I’m afraid he just left. Do you wish to leave me with a message?”
“And who are you exactly?”
“Oh, that? That isn’t for you to know. Again, do you wish to leave a message?”
“To hell with that, why would I leave you a message? I don’t know you plus the lab is now a mess.”
“Yes, your lab is a mess but you don’t know the reason behind why it is.”
“You did it didn’t you?”
“Perhaps, but why would I do this?”
“I don’t know you tell me.”
“Actually, I won’t be telling you why. I got what I was after. I am on my way now.” The mysterious man leaves with nothing more than a cup of water.
“Ah, so she is after Akio huh? Thankfully I was there to misdirect those arrows. Akio, huh?
The mysterious man sets back to the location of Akio’s vicinity, hiding out in a cave near the town called Aldipine.
“W-what was that all about? Sebastian, are you around here anywhere?”
Elyna, skims the lab over once more, this time she hears a moan under some of the shrapnel.
“Sir! Are you “okay”?”
“Y-Yes, I am. Don’t mind me though, we have more important things that need care right now.”
“What is it sir?”
“Than man who was here, you must” Slowly his voice begins to fade.
“I must was sir?”
“You must.” It was too late. The words stay trapped within his mouth at this time.
“Sir?” Crying Elyna still tries to hear the rest of what he had to say. “Sir please! What must I do?” Elyna’s muscles in her hand tighten while tears fall timeless down her cheek.
Rage growing by the minute, Elyna only has but one thing on her mind that she must do, and that is to seek revenge. “God damnit” Hands still clinched “Who the hell was that man. What was he after? Sebastian didn’t have to die. Not this way.”
Elyna, again raises to the sky, this time not relaxed, draws her weapon and sets forth for revenge. Not having a clue who he was or knowing his name only made it harder to find him. Tears falling from the sky she knows there is no way to find out who the mysterious man was. Her only hope was Sebastian, and now there is no hope left for her.
A devas smile grows wide. “I have what I want, now all is doom. Akio is safe, and that is all that was needed. Well, I mean I guess I should still go back to the lab and collect their research when all is clear.” The mysterious man works his way out of the cave. There sets Elyna. “W-well Hel-hello again. What might bring you here?”
Elyna’s face covered in a look of evil. “You!” she replied with force.
“Me? Well what did I ever do?”
“Sebastian. He died, because of YOU!
“What do you mean? I was only there for a cup of water. I knocked a few times no one answered so I let myself in. As I entered the place was already the way it was as we both saw it earlier. I looked around to see if anyone was injured, but there wasn’t anyone to be found. I am sorry for the loss you hold today, but I’m not the one you should be blaming.”
“If it wasn’t you then who? Who did such a thing?”
“I’m not sure. I would love to help but I must be on my way now.”
“No! It was you, how stupid do you think I am?”
“Miss, please just listen to me, it wasn’t me! I have to go now.”
“Fine, but I swear, if I find out it really was you, there will be no holding back next time. I am sorry for the inconvenience. I will leave now.”
The man’s face grew wide again.
“That was almost too easy, the research will be mine at last!”
Akio began to feel sick, finding out that he had been targeted. Still puzzled though as to why these humans were being used. He begins to search through the files even more finding more test subjects, he descends into a ghost like figure once more only instead of gazing upon Elyna’s story it was of but another subject named Azure.
