Flawed

Aisling

"Jaspar," Aisling repeated after him. "You may stay in my quarters, step right outside I will be with you in a moment."

Jaspar walked out of the shop, and Jay immedeatly pounced on Aisling.

"What the hell are you doing?" he demanded, grabbing her shoulder. "You can't just let him stay! Where are you going to put him? He can't come down into the tunnels."

Aisling pushed him away. "Don't be ridiculous. I'll keep him in one of the old cabins. He'll never know any different."

Jay shook his head. "If you weren't second in command..." he muttered.

Ignoring Jay's discontent, Aisling walked out of the shop to meet Jaspar. He was standing patiently a few feet away from the shop, looking at the front of another of the sores in the settlement.

"Follow me," she said. She led him back to where the old cabins were located. This is where the flawed in the settlement had lived before moving underground. "You may stay here, it isn't furnished very well but it will do you fine."

*I will now try and bring all the characters together. ^-^*

The Assembly-

Duncan surveyed the room coldly. The ambassadors from the different City-states, were debating how to deal with the latest outbreak of Flawed. He could hear a faint buzzing, so at least some of them were plotting telepathically.

At last, he judged that time had dragged on long enough. He raised his hand, and the room fell instantly quiet. "I know that this is a difficult desision. What we are contemplating is something that could easily be turned against our rule. But if the Flawed are allowed to live, and worse Breed. They will eventually infect the rest of our race with their defect. We will lose four hundred years of progress. In order to stop this from happening, the bad stock must be culled out. Are we agreed?"

Their was a faint buzzing as the vote was tallyed. In the end it was a mere formality, the vote was unanimous, as Duncan had known it would be when he had proposed the plan.

Aridos(Ari)-

The girl was taking too long to judge him, Ari didn't have time for this. Not if they were to survive. He glared at her, "Look I know you don't trust me. And even if I am Flawed I would still be a threat to your group. But we don't have time for this." Desperation tinged ruby eyes as he stared at the girl, willing her to understand how urgent it was.

Confused, the girl cocked her head, studying his face. Night was falling and it was getting difficult to see. "What do you mean we don't have time?" She asked.

Ari cast a nervous glance up at the darkening sky, the clock was ticking he had left things too late. He looked back at the girl, cold dread coiled in his gut. "You need to contact any other Flawed camps you know of. Pull up stakes, and get as far from civilisation as possible. The Assembly has lost patience, to many of the Silent are Turning. They have called for a Purge. They are going to seize the information they need from the Silent, and wipe out the Flawed. You need to leave, fast. The Purge begins at midnight tonight."

The girls eyes widened in horror. She opened her mouth to speak, but at that moment the first screams cut through the air. She Ari whipped around, staring towards the east, the forest entire forest was burning.

"No." The girl whispered softly. She started to fade away her mind echoing in Ari's head. "Meet at Spire Rock, it's where all the Flawed in this province meet up. Warn the others please." The directions were pressed into Ari's mind, the path to follow.

Ari swore bitterly, "Think I'm going to leave you behind?" He shouted to the empty air. "Like hell." He focused his TK into a blade and took off. Running far faster then any Avarri could. Following the path so many of the Flawed had taken before him, the past showed him the way.

Ari ran for what felt like hours but was only minutes. His stride eating up the miles. When he at last burst from the cover of the forest and into the Flawed camp, a scene from hell met his eyes.

*Come on poeple, post guys, POST!!!*

I'm tied up until someone else posts...I guess I could think of something though.

Can I join?

Sorry, I've had a frantic few days but I can post now! Ben, that would be awesome, we could really use some more characters

Jaspar

"It will do just fine, thank you very much. I hope I'm not causing trouble?" Following the young woman, Jaspar wondered what she'd been talking to the other guy about. He wondered why he wouldn't want a handy man staying around. Jaspar was useful. He was usually welcomed wherever he went, how very strange. Not that it mattered. He was staying, just for a day or two, and then he'd be on his way.

"No, there isn't any trouble. Maybe you could take a look at a few things in the morning? We have some pipes that leak..." It was strange how her eyes flickered to the ground. Maybe she meant they were underground. That was the normal place for pipes afterall.

"Sure thing," Jaspar agreed. They were there now. He followed her inside and looked around curiously. The building was small and stark but serviceable so Jaspar didn't mind. Dropping his bag on the floor he sat down on a log that had been placed as a bench. It was actually rather homely. What use were simple decorations anyway? "This will do nicely," Jaspar commented. "Will you stay for a drink?" The sky was growing dark and though he didn't like to admit it, the dark made him feel uncomfotable. Always had. He thought it had something to do with the emotions the race no longer possessed as there was certainly no solid reason for it.

Idahlia

Too late Idahlia realised she could trust him, that he was only trying to help. She felt frustration rise in her mind, why hadn't he explained before? Had he believed she wouldn't see reason, wouldn't help if she had known it was urgent? But now... now she could see her home burning and felt the touch of a rough, panicked hand on her shoulder. It was too late to save them all now but she would do what she could for her home. Maybe some of them would survive. Maybe she would save some lives.

Weak as her telepathy was, Lia concentrated carefully to implant the message and directions into the boy's head. She felt sad to be leaving him but if he could help other settlements, other people then it would be for the best. Then she was jerking awake and her mouth flooded with smoke so that she coughed heavily. Her eyes lifted to the frightened face of a small boy and her hand latched into his arm.

"They said I should wake you and that you would-"

"Hush, hush," Idahlia soothed. She knew what they wanted her to do. She was their only telepath, weak though she was and when she concentrated she could feel the minds of the frightened children and locate them. She barely needed to concentrate now. Standing hurriedly, Idahlia snatched up a bow that was propped against her bed and grabbed her arrows. She tied her scarf over her mouth after a moment's thought. "Stay close to me, Brett." Hurrying out of the house, Idahlia froze outside. Everywhere was burning. There were screams. There was fighting.

It wasn't necessary to concentrate hard to feel the children's emotions. To feel anyone's emotions. They were all so terrified, the trouble was honing in on each one but somehow she managed it and as she ran in and out of houses, Idahlia nocked arrows to her bow and fired them into the night. She had to find Suki. If she could find the little red haired girl, all might be saved because Suki was a teleporter. Closing her eyes, Idahlia concentrated on that tiny bundle of emotions. North. Suki was slightly to the North, probably at the school.

name- Delse (Dede for short)

age- 16 turning 17

gender- Female

appearance- Long golden brown hair that cascades to her waist in a mass of wavy curls and ringlets. The only thing straight in her hair is her fringe which comes just below her arched eyebrows.Her driftwood brown eyes usually change shades during the period of the day, from a moss green tinted brown to a red mud brown. She has a small oval face with a button nose and small light pink lips. She is tall for her age having really long legs and a slim build.

history- Delse's mother was foretold to be barren when she was younger meaning that she couldn't have children. Once she hit fifty Delse's mother was pregnant with twins a girl and a boy. When Delse was five her mother began to watch over her more intently. Delse hadn't known why till she was elven when she realised she was being stalked.

When she was twelve discovered she was flawed as with her whole family who was trying to hide from the avarri. On her thirteenth brithday the Avarri some how discovered that her family was flawed. They broke in killing everyone and anyone even if they were just human friends.

Delse had ran off with her twin brother trying to escape, it was only than did she realise that she had supernatural powers. Her brother couldn't work his own becoming jealous that he turned Delse over to the Avarri. The Avarri had used her brother as a tool to find her killing him once she was found.

Delse managed to escape though she unlocked the extent of her powers whihc were to strong for her to control fully. In result Delse has a large scar on her shoudler leading down to her spine. Delse now has no family and is forced to live on the streets trying to make a living whilst playing like a clueless human.

personality- Delse hides her real personality which was changed into a sad, aloofish and quiet when her family died. Placing on an extatic, childish and bubbly personality to trick people into thinking everything is okay when inside she is still grieving. She only shows her true personality to the people she trully loves.

abilities-

Aura Reading: This is the ability for a psychic to see in and around a subjects Aura. We all have an electromagnetic energy field around us. Some see this energy field as colors some psychics will feel the energy.

Medium: A psychic who connects with and acts as a communication conduit for spirits in the after life and/or guiding entities such as angels.

Telekinesis: The ability to move objects with your mind.

other- Those three abilities are the one she uses though once someone she loves gets hurt they all work together to make a power which is life threatening to everyone around her. Acting as a child Delse can get through anything and having knowledge about living on the streets she can fight. Delse never finished school though she is exceptionally smart for her age.

*Umm... Ben10, this is a world where there are no humans, everyone is Avarri, everyone is psychic.*

Aridos(Ari)-

Swearing Ari scanned the horizon, most of the houses were on fire. Everyone was running around trying to save others. He flinched as their panniced thoughts hit him, Ari didn't know how to deal with other flawed.

Screams tore across the psychic plane, Ari spun around to stare at a tall building with a clock tower. A meeting hall or a school. The screams were coming from children. At the corner of his eye, he saw the girl, Idahlia running towards the school. She wasn't going to make it. The roof was already starting to collapse.

"Oh, no you don't." Ari snarled and pushed a clenched fist. The burning timbers of the school shot upward, the entire roof tearing off in one great pull. Flinching, Ari put a hand to his temple, he knew his nose was bleeding. But he ignored the backlash, one by one he reached out and began to draw the flames that were consuming the village towards him.

It was to much. Using his ability so recklessly was suicide. But then again, Ari thought to himself, maybe if he died doing something good, it would make up for all the blood on his hands.

*Ari could use someone to pull him back from the brink. And I said all the settlements are being attacked, that includes the one where Aisling and Jaspar are.*

Name: Tyler Dray

Age: 24

Gender: Male

Appearane: Short brown hair, brown eyes. He wears jeans and a jean jacket (over a black tank top). Generally fit build.

History: Tyler grew up with only his sister, Annie, and his parents on a small farm. He never left the farm, never knew about anything outside of it, but he never was curious about it. He was homeschooled about what he needed to know about the farm, and how to use his pyrokenisis and healing abilities.

When he was 10 (and his sister was 3), their parents just disappeared. He had no idea why, but he didn't concern himself with his parents-he just woried about Annie. He started raising Annie himself, running the farm to get his food and water, and teaching Annie everything he could, especially how to use her telekenisis.

For the most part, they were happy. Annie, like Tyler, was never too curious about where their parents went. They could use their powers impressively and were happy. Then came the trouble.

Tyler woke up one morning, and Annie was gone. Like his parents, she was just gone. He had no idea what to do at first, but just decided to go off and find her. He started walking away. He kept walking until he found a town, and started looking for her. He explored the whole town and moved to another.

As he moved, he learned about the world. He learned that his emotions made him a little different, but he didn't care much. He never wanted any trouble, he just wanted his sister back, and if he could, his parents, and he'd fight through anything to get them.

Simply enough, he kept on moving, and he's been moving now for about 3 years now. He barely makes any friends, and you can't usually tell he has emotions. But he usually sheds one tear every night, when he thinks about why he's moving.

Powers: Pyrokenesis (9)
Healing (7)

Other: None.

Tyler tackled one of the burning walls down. Nothing, again. He'd been looking around this town for so long, for no reason. He felt so close, yet had no reason to. He kept on walking through the burning buildings like it was the field back home, thinking that Annie'd be here.

He checked everywhere he could think of in the burning mess, and finally gave up. She wasn't here. She never was there. He collapsed to his knees and hit the ground once more. More fire burst up around him. He kept pounding the ground as angrily as it could, and made the fire around him larger and larger.

He gave off one last raging scream and closed his eyes. He sat down on the ground, trying to calm himself down, but he couldn't. His anger grew to tears, and he sat perfectly still. He never even thought to try and give up, but for once he thought that he may have to. He couldn't continue this the rest of his life, could he? Highest chance, she'd be dead, and all he'd be looking for is a murderer to blame.

Tyler layed down on the ground, still crying, and the flames continued. For the first time in his search, he stopped. He didn't know what to do next, and he didn't want to continue. He didn't want to do anything. His head just kept on telling him "You lost", "You failed", and he didn't do anything about it. He relaxed his still closed eyes, and despite the heat and destruction around him, he tried to sleep.

Aisling

"Aisling!" Jay's voice broke through the silence outside the cabin. "Aisling, where are you?"

There was fear in his voice. That was something Jay would never let happen. He would never reveal an emotion with a non-flawed so nearby.

"Excuse me," Aisling told Jaspar. She stepped outside to see Jay running towards her, the settlement in flames behind him. "What happened?" she demanded.

"They're burning the settlement! We have to leave now!" Jay shouted.

Aisling looked from him to the direction of a hidden entrance to the underground settlement.

"No, Aisling!" he shouted. "We have to go, now. They'll be fine!"

She didn't listen, though. The only flawed higher than her in the settlement, a powerful man called Shane, had been away from the settlement for weeks. "There is no one to help them!" she shouted, running in the direction of the entrance.

"Aisling!" Jay shouted, his voice lost quickly behind her.

The entrance was nearby. Luckily, the fire hadn't spread down below yet. At least not at this end. She climbed down quickly, trying to listen for screams of others in the settlement.

*I think I'm going to add Jay as my second character. I feel like bringing him along. I'll post his profile in a bit.*

name- Elijah "Jay"

age- 19

gender- male

appearance- interesting blue hair (think of a blue jay). Tall and well muscled, but thin. Dresses rather plainly and doesn't fuss much over his appearance. Is called Jay by Aisling for his blue hair.

history- Elijah's father was flawed, and taken by the Shadows long ago. His family got word that he broke under insanity caused by his emotions. The knowledge killed Elijah's mother and left him all alone at the age of eleven. He swore to never allow his emotions to take hold of him (his family was all flawed). He fought them for two years before he was found by Aisling and taken to her settlement. They became friends quickly, and he resolved to live as a flawed hoping he was stronger than his father.

personality- Elijah isn't the most sociable person. Aisling is his only true friend. He is very careful of his emotions around humans. He is cautious by nature and resentful to his father who he now believes is very weak.

abilities-
Telepathy (Cardinal) - comes with the basic mind reading, but his ability is so advanced he can sense when a being of higher thought is nearby.

Astral Projection (level 2) - not very advanced. He can only hold it for a few minutes, and can't project himself to great distances. He hopes to advance this skill.

other- up for love

*****
Jay

Jaspar stepped out from the cabin and looked at Jay, who had stopped to watch Aisling run off.

"You'll want to be on your way too," Jay warned him. "You have no business in this."

He didn't care if emotions passed through in his voice. The Shadows were already here, burning the settlement. If Jaspar were to turn them in now, it would be useless.

Tyler-

Tyler felt a kick to his back, but was still too deep in his shock to move. He felt another few kicks. Each of them got harder and harder.

"Get the hell away from me", said Tyler. He didn't know or care who this kick was coming from, just that he wanted him to stop.

Another kick. Tyler wanted to ignore it, but somehow, he couldn't. His tears dried up and stopped shaking.

"Where's Annie Dray?", asked Tyler. He could've asked who this person was, or what he was doing, but no. Annie was the only thing on his mind. It was all he could focus on, and all that kept him from killing himself that instant.

He heard nothing. Just another kick. Tyler looked directly into one of the flames, and started moving it. The flames gathered, and with one blink, the flames lunged at whatever was kicking Tyler. He still layed still, but heard whoever he hit fly through a wall.

Tyler jumped up to his feet. He walked toward the kicker, and knew immediately what it was.

A Shadow.

Tyler asked again, "Where is she?", and waited again. He counted down. "3...2...1...", and gathered the flames again. This time, he lifted his right arm, and the flames consumed the Shadow. He lifted his other arm, and started healing the Shadow. He trapped this Shadow in a deathless pain.

"Where is she?", he asked again. Still nothing. He didn't let go. He just kept the fire going, kept the healing going, and after every few seconds, asked again. He couldn't give up. He couldn't stop trying. He could only keep going until he found an answer.

"One last time. Where. Is. Annie. Dray."

Nothing.

Tyler dropped his arms and gathered the fire behind him in a giant ball. He ducked down and punched in the direction of the Shadow, and the entire fireball flew right at it. The Shadow broke through another wall to the outside, hitting some other person.

He walked through the hole he made. He felt a relief of fresh air. He looked at the person the shadow hit.

Have Tyler head either in the direction of the trading post or the small settlement. Unfortunately my characters are rather tied up there and your description of a burned town doesn't fit either...

Idahlia

The roof was falling. The roof was going to fall. Idahlia didn't have time to find Brett somewhere to hide, it was going to have to be all or nothing. She had to got to those children, if she could only reach Suki she could calm the girl enough to teleport. Suki. Suki was her only option and she burned in there then at least she had tried to help them, at least she had tried to help the true flawed. Suki! Idahlia called out with her mind as she neared the school and then the roof was moving even more except that it wasn't falling, it was rising. Idahlia could feel a huge burst of power but she didn't let her mind dwell on it for the moment.

Suki, you need to concentrate, Idahlia coaxed as she gathered the children. Most of them were there, the children were always sent to the school as a meeting point. She ddin't understand where the adults were. The adults normally gathered around the school to protect it but on her way she had seen them all scattered, fighting with Shadows in the dark, shadows that could barely be seen and were even more wisp like and strange. Suki. Idahlia had found the girl now. She was huddled into herself, rocking back and forth, the brown of her hair tinged red by the flames. Her eyes slowly opened and found Idahlia's. Her face went numb as she felt her presence.

"I... I can't," the little girl whimpered.

"Everyone hold hands," Idahlia instructed, taking up Suki's hand and that of another child's. She brought the two little hands together, pressing their fingers together. "Wait for me," she said. Digging carefully into Suki's mind, Idahlia used her telepathy to touch into the girl's gift. They'd practiced this before. It only worked when Suki put her full trust in Idahlia but it was so hard to get the child to concentrate. At last it worked. Idahlia watched as the children vanished and she felt their minds move to the East.

Then she wondered why the building hadn't collapsed on her and now that she considered it she could feel the heat shrinking and a huge power. The boy. "Hey... hey you!" Lia called as she ran from the building. She could feel his power. It was crazy. It was insane and she was running toward it? "Don't be such an idiot. I thought I told you to warnt he others. Well if you're not going to listen to me, you could at least be useful and help fight the shadows instead of the fire. Hey!" It was like he wasn't listening to her. Shouldering her bow she reached out and shook him roughly. "If you're any good with a sword, take one from a dead man and come help me." Idahlia turned around at the sound of movement and hurriedly released an arrow. She thought she got it in the leg but wasn't sure.

Jaspar

"I'll decide what's my business," Jaspar said with an emotionless tone. "Why don't you tell me what's going on here?" He turned around to follow the girl, moving quickly and wasn't surprised when the man - Jay she had called him - tried to prevent him.

"This doesn't involve you," Jay snarled. Jaspar wondered what it was like to have all those emotions. Poor lad. It couldn't be nice. The girl was probably similarily afflicted but that was no reason to kill them. The Flawed were to be pitied, not killed.

"I'm going to help," Jaspar informed him. "If you show me where there's some technology I can create you a weapon." Pushing the boy aside gently, Jaspar hurried down the ladder and found himself in what was clearly the real settlement. No wonder her house had been so bare when there were so many houses and buildings down here.

"And why would you help us?" Jay demanded as he caught up. "I'm pretty sure you're not Flawed." He eyes Jaspar quizzically, irritation on his face. So many emotions, so strange so strange,

"I'm not," Jaspar agree. "I don't like shadows though. I don't see why we can't all just live our lives. It is understood that your emotions will kill you but that seems no reason for us not to live in peace."

*Damnit! I don't even know why I said town in the first place. I've gotta watch my words closer. I managed to completely seperate my character, accidentaly! Well, I'll just have roll with this, I suppose.*

Tyler

The person under the Shadow nudged it off. Tyler just kept walking. It wasn't anyone important. Besides, the chance that this random person knew anything about Annie was far too low for him to care.

"Thank you" said the person. A little girl, from the sound of it. Tyler still kept walking. He just ignored the girl and continued. He knew where he was going to look next. He knew of a town east that used to be a prison. Towns like that were the strangest, and usually had plenty of trouble inside, good chances for finding someone who was stolen.

But then Tyler heard something else from the little girl. A sort of fwoosh. He looked behind him. The girl was levitating. She started rising and rising, and then she started slowly flying south.

The girl was a complete stranger, had nothing to do with anything, and yet, Tyler was compelled to follow her. He figured that he couldn't check every individual town, or else he'd be looking for another many years. If Annie wasn't dead yet, she probably would be if he wasn't looking fast enough.

Tyler turned right and started walking in the direction of the girl. She was very young, and chances are, not that powerful with her flight. If she was flying somewhere, it wasn't too far. Besides, if she had somewhere to go, then the people she'd be with might have an idea where he could look.

Perhaps it's time to try and get some help, he thought to himself. He took one last glance at the Shadow, and started walking.