From the prompt: "Now your power is mine..."
"The Awakening: Jade"
Jade sat in the
middle of the cold cement floor, gazing balefully at the binding circle around him, the blue
energy a glowing, throbbing pulse. He had no idea how long he'd been sitting there in the eerie
semi-darkness. He glanced up at the one-way mirrors and frowned, running a hand over his curls.
Christian had said they'd grow back, but so soon? He pouted at his
reflection. He was only nineteen years old.
"You couldn't have waited until I was twenty-one, could you?" he muttered. "I have this
Isis-forsaken baby-face, and when I'm two-hundred years old I'll never get into a bar." He
tugged at his curls absently, thinking. The Awakening ceremony had been short and sweet.
Christian had drawn a circle around him, said a few words and then called up a lot of power to
set the circle aglow. Then he had left. For all he knew, Christian had gone up the stairs to
the rest of the house leaving him in the basement for...a long time.
A chill passed over his bare skin, and Jade wrapped his arms around himself with a shiver.
No, Christian was still there; maybe the others were, too. He could feel them watching.
"Why don't you leave the circle?"
Jade's head snapped up at the sound of the disembodied voice. He cast a glance around the
room nervously, searching the shadows.
"Christian? Are you there? Let me out."
A small breeze caused the blue flames of the circle to dip and sway. Jade recoiled.
Christian shimmered into being on the edge of the light, an amused smile on his face. "Come
on, Jade," he taunted. "Leave the circle. You're an Awakened Quislai now. You can do it."
Jade's eyebrows went up. "You mean I've been sitting here for the past eternity and I could
just step out of the circle like that?" He snapped his fingers, in disbelief.
Christian nodded, grinning. "Yup."
Jade rose to his feet in one fluid movement, startled by his sudden strength and control
over his body. He frowned down at himself, dusting off his jeans. He felt strange, powerful.
For the longest time he'd been a gangly kid, all long limbs and too-big hands. Now he was...
strong. Too strong, almost. Squaring his shoulders, he took a step across the fire
and...
" Ow! " followed by a string of expletives exploded across the basement.
Christian fell back against the door, clutching his stomach and laughing hard.
Jade scowled up at him from the floor. He was sitting in the middle of his circle, a blue
mark glowing on his forehead. Christian straightened up, drawing his wrist across his brow.
For a moment, his own power signature glowed before vanishing as if it had never been there.
"Come on, Jade, you're a Quislai, use your power!" Christian taunted. "You can do it."
Jade glared. "I used to be a human, okay? I've only been an immortal for...I dunno how
long. Let me get the hang of this."
Christian smiled gently. "Jade, I awakened you. You're a Quislai, a regular old Robin
Goodfellow. All the pretty powers I have, you have them too."
"So...now your power is mine?" Jade asked tentatively.
Christian chuckled. "Not exactly. We're the same kind, so we have the same type of power. I have mine, and you have yours. So come on. Remember what I told you about Quislai? We're air elementals. Reach out and harness the power, and step outside the circle."
Jade frowned. Reach out? Reach out how? But suddenly...suddenly he knew . The
flames were calling to him, beckoning. And his mind - pulled . He could feel the power
and began to draw it in; there was a place inside of him that was empty and aching to be filled.
Jade shut his eyes and gasped. It was painful, a burning in his chest. But then his eyes flew
open and the basement was pitch black. Christian was smiling at him, blue eyes and Blue Mark
glowing.
Jade smirked. He could see his own eyes and Mark glowing in the mirror. Taking a step
forward, he was out of the circle.
Christian threw a brotherly arm around his shoulders. "Nifty spell, eh baby Quislai?"
Jade laughed. "Now your power is mine." And they strode out of the room.
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