Fear:Part 1

Twisting and turning in his bed, Gao stared upwards. He looked at the time. 1:00 in the morning. He blinked for a moment, before sighing. He got up, and dressed himself properly for a work out. As he swung open the door, flashes of the store he had been to only a few nights before flashed through his mind. He grunted, before dashing down the corridor. He started to remember the smell of everything in there, intoxicating even in a memory, and the unnerving grin of the man with the prosthetic arm. He brushed those thoughts aside, instead choosing to recollect as he ran, the feeling of running up to the edge of the building, before releasing his feet from the coils of gravity, blasting into the cold, fresh air, his heart feeling a great concoction of emotions, with an intense mix of joy and fear fighting inside of him, each trying to consume the other. How it felt to be seemingly snatched from the sky, with his foot clipping the edge of the building, making him smash his face into the top of the building, his head being drained of blood. But yet, such an intense feeling of relief by being able to survive.

Roshi woke up to the sight of Gao leaving the room. He smiled, disregarding the time, and jumped down, quickly changed and followed after Gao. He heard a loud noise, and looked into the window of the door of which he thought it originated from. Seeing nothing, he continued after Gao.

Yue yawned, as she looked through the TFL website, finding more about the basic knowledge that everyone had in the society. "Adrenaline helps absorb resonance huh." She scribbled the information into her notepad. " The liquid in this syringe will activate the adrenaline in your blood for one hour, which will increase the amount of resonance you can absorb while training"

Yue looked down to the small text at the bottom of the page, saying " We are not responsible for any unsavory or downright immoral actions taken by those in the state induced by this drug- The Psyche Guild." Yue chuckled and said, " Sales marketing will never change." she said, as she picked up the map of the guild building and her notepad and headed out.

Into his feet, 1,2,3,4,5, blast throughout the body.1,2,3,4 "OWWW!" Gao looked up, from his current position of face to the floor, to see Roshi smiling, after he kicked him in the back, knocking him over.

"Now what are you doing up at a time like this? I'd like to say that you had a great burst of dedication to getting stronger, but I don't have that much faith in yoUUUUU" Roshi shouted, as Gao twirled on the floor, knocking Roshi's feet out from under him.

"No faith huh???"

" It seems you're itching for a fight," Roshi stated as he stood. "I'LL GIVE YOU ONE!"

A few voices could be heard mumbling with annoyance as a fight raged on in the training room.

Yue stepped out of the lift as it opened on the floor - 4. She walked forward for a while, before turning to see a room with the placard "Chemical Research" on the door. A faint light flowed from the room to the window. Yue knocked before entering.

A woman looked up from her current slumped position over some vials and syringes. Her eyes had deep grey bags under them, and her eyes themselves looked completely out of it. She opened her mouth to speak before blinking, putting her fingers on her nose and rubbing it continuously. She gestured to come over.

As she walked forward she started saying " I'm currently researching adrenaline boosters that I have been led to believe are able to boost the intake of resonance when increasing potential. Would it be possible to," she said before she was interrupted.

"Isn't it wonderful. I've been sitting here for hours looking at this. The chemical reaction is at its peak. A great fight isn't it."

As Yue pondered what to say, a figure appeared behind her. "HELLO!" the figure shouted.

Yue's eyes sharpened, and she jumped to the left, then got into a more compact back stance, one arm at a ninety degree to her stomach, another with the hand pointing up to the sun, with her feet bouncing upwards and downwards.

"Oh I'm sorry," The figure said. "I'm part of the guild. Names Natasha, and this sorry excuse for a sister and a human is,"

"Katlyn. We are the chemical researchers here."

Yue looked between the both of them, and one thought came into her mind. How could these two be sisters at all.

Huff huff huff. The two friends sat opposite each other, hands behind them, looking at the ceiling.

"Haven't," Roshi pauses, " Had a good tussle… in a while. Even though…. we just joined this place….. a few weeks ago… it already feels like it's been forever."

"Why are you pausing so much? It's as though… you're tired!"

"How dare you accuse me of such a disgusting feat!"

Just as they were going to start brawling once more, someone came into the training room.

Gao opened his mouth to say hello, before a swirling chaos of feelings washed over his body. The greatest one being fear. But unlike before, there was nothing to fight against it. Gao and Roshi jumped backwards, just as the figure disappeared from its current spot. It reappeared just a few metres in front of them, with its hand in the spot.... right where Gao's heart was a few moments ago.