Doom and Dispair

by Tyria

Chapter 6: Transformation

Ok, here's the chapter that didn't exist before today. But that's about half my Firebird fic. Y'see, I had ideas writen down, and they all sucked, soooo... to make a long story short, I forgot what I was saying so I'll shut up. Enjoy!

Sage ignores his friends' antics and puts his hand on Cye's hurt shoulder. Cye winces. What does that looney think he's doing?

Sage closes his eyes. He begins to shimmer. After a few minutes, he removes his hand and opens his eyes.

His face looks ashen and his eyes seem to have lost the lavender part and were a mute gray. Sweat runs down his face. He powers down to subarmor and then kneels down.

A tiny piece of black goo tunbles to the ground from where the gash in Cye's shoulder had been. The injury was now fully healed. The hunk of symbiot fades to dust and is blown away in the wind.

"Euk, was that...?"

~Sendo, where are you?~ Sage nods his head in responce to Cye's unfinished question.

"Ewwwwwww...."

~I believe I am stuck beneath BlackBlaze, Mortal. Er, Tyria.~ Sendo replies.

"BlackBlaze, come here, boy." ~At least you're trying to use my name. How'd you get way over there?~

~I do not know. Mortal-Tyria.~ My Extra-terrestrial friend admits. The others were talking but I wasn't paying much attention.

THe big black tiger walks over and sits next to me. He changes back to white tiger form. I scratch him below the ear.

Black ooze seeps out of the flat area of grass the feline had been sitting on. ~Ow, that looks like it hurt.~

~Not really. I am a big puddle of goo, you know, Mortal-Tyria.~

I laugh softly. ~You've been sharing my thoughts too long.~

~Huh?~

~You're starting to talk slang.~

~Huh?~

~Nevermind.~

~Uhn.~

~Sendo, is something wrong?~

~I feel...strange.~

~Duh. You are a big puddle that was just sat upon by a huge tiger. No offense.~

And then, she begins to glow. "Death?" I ask quietly. No response; the glowing continues. "Death!" I yell out.

Everybody turns. Ryo looks to see what's happening but Mia doesn't notice and continues crying onto Ryo's shoulder.

~Mortal-T-t-tyria? I don't now what's...~ Her voice fades.

I don't even know why Mia's crying, I just know that I want to comfort her. If Noi saw me right now, you just KNOW she would kill me. Well, maybe not literarily but she would dump me, and that'd be bad enough.

I whisper just loud enough for the sobbing woman to hear, "Mia, what's wrong?"

Some muffled sounds come through the sobbing as my responce, but nothing understandable. I guess I should just let her cry it out.

I lift up my right hand and begin to try and comfort her. She begins to tremble, I hope she isn't getting cold. What's making her cry so much?

The others are having a coversation, but I'm not paying much attention. Then, I hear Tyria yell out Death's name.

I turn my head to watch. Everyone else is looking as well. Death is glowing and Tyria looks seriously troubled.

Death rises up from the ground and begins to from what looks like a human body. She looks like a very beautiful women, only made entirely of her black substance instead of skin.

She has raptor like talons, still formed of black goo, instead of feet. The back talon holds her up so it sorta looks like she is wearing high-heels.She has four arms with six fingered claws (One of which on each hand was opposable) instead of hands and her face has no duscernable features, it was a perfectly smooth surface.Some of Death's self hangs down to her waist in tendril like perodies of hair.

She changed her claws so that the palms were facing up. She probably says something to Tyria, but I can't tell.

The glow intensifies near her feet and begins to spread up her from.

Eventually, where the symbiot had stood, there was simply a formless blur of light,

"What's happening to her?!" Tyria yells out in anguish. The glow intensifies to be so bright that even Sage is forced to look away.

I turn my attention back to Mia. I think her crying has slowed a bit, but I'm not sure.

I turn back towards Death when I hear Tyria gape. Death is viewable again but instead of looking like she was made of tar, she looked like she was made of liquid mercury. She was silver instead of black. All the other Ronins were also staring in shock.

"Mia, look."

Mia sits up a bit and looks at the silver alien to the side of us. She smiles a little, tears still trailing down her cheeks.

"Death, what...?" The symbiot twirls its neck around and looks at Tyria.

The Lady Stryke nods. They stare at each other for a while. Tyria's eyes well up with tears and a few roll down her cheeks.

"What's happening...?"

"Talking," Mia says quietly, "They're talking."

"What?"

Mia shrugs out of my arms and stands up. I stand up next to her. "Symbiots make psychic links to their mortals."

Death brings one of her claws over and gingerly wipes the tears off of Tyria's face. They continue to stare at each other. Tyria looks shocked, then says aloud. "Really? You would?"

Death seemingly makes no responce. Tyria smiles. Death's body finally turns to face the same direction as her head. They stare again, this time for only a moment.

Death does a one-hundred-eighty and walks backwards. She fades into Tyria. Sage mutters something under his breath.

"Mia," I say quietly, so only she can hear, "Why were you crying? You don't have to tell me..."

"No, it's all right. There are three reasons, really. First, I almost killed you guys, and you're all my friends! Second, I was...linked... to Doom when she... it hurt, I was in her mind as she died. And third..." Mia trails off, then turns to Tyria. "Tyria, come over here, please."

"Sure." Tyria/Death walks over. "What is it?"

"Doom, she.... well, while she was dying, she left me a message for Sendo..."

"We arrre herrre, Mia. You may tell usss at yourrr leisssurrre." Death states.

"I don't really understand it, but here goes. All she said was, 'Run, she comes, run Sendo. You have won and must survive. Run, she comes.' Do you know what it means?"

Death/Tyria makes no responce. Instead, they open their wings, jumo into the air and fly away.

"Tyria, wait!" Sage yells, but to no apeal. She disappears from view. Kento, Cye and Rowen power down.

"Well, that was fun." Cye states sarcastically.

"What's for supper, fighting makes me _hungry_!"

"Kento!" Everyone intones at once (except kento.).

"What? It's true." We all sigh and walk towards the house. "What?" A few seconds later. "Oh, come on..." A little while later...."Damn."

Ok, so it was random, I don't care cuz after the epilogue, I'm done the second fic. And, since I'm behind schedual, I'm gonna go type it now. C&C always welcome. Ta!

Tyria

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