Blue pov: <champion>-<pilot>

A orange light hissed across the bedsheets , I opened my eyes , to find no one around, a room full of empty beds, with all the covers aligned, they mustn't have woken me up, I sighed bobbing my head down on the pillow mustering up strength to get out of bed, I looked out past the huge upside down window , past the pointed roof was orange clouds and vast arrays of sunlight, mocking of birds probably from my laziness, the chirps and laughter of children and birds alike were delightful but I had to get up,

I let out another sigh and lifted my body up'

Looks like I skipped breakfast maybe I can go grab some toast, I'll ask mother, slowly I made my way down the large hall past the bedroom doors where I was just at and into the dining room of the sinister orphanage, to find a lady picking up some cardboard plates that had been used before my arrival,

"Hey mother is it alright if I quickly grab a piece of toast from the kitchen"? I asked

"I slept through breakfast"

"Blue, not this again stop staying up so late you need more sleep," she lectured "heh" I rubbed my head looking to parallel from her sight, no can do.

"fine but grab some soup leftovers with it so you don't go hungry mister" a demanding voice came out as I have her a firm nod and walked past to the kitchen,

I started Heating up bread and last nights leftovers then ate it,

I couldn't help but admire how well I had life compared to others in the sticks, the window I was staring at blankly in the seat that I had been eating in, held my reflection staring straight back at me,

getting into the orphanage the only funded place by royalty is a dream for people around here. While intrusive thoughts can be quite disturbing, at times like this I can't help but be glad I have them because they make me appreciate all I've been given.

I started to lead myself outside And walked out on all the house's kids playing tag sharing smiles with one another, tiko was the first to recognize my presence

The only other teenager around my age, "good morning sleepy head" he said whilst winding a grin and rubbing my hair into waves of catastrophe,

He was really bright, smart and basically taught me everything I know. if anyone here were to get to be regular folk and out of these slums someday, everyone assumed he would do it,

Knowing his past it was hard to tell how he could stay so happy,

I gave a good morning to him whilst walking past all the children running around, he seemed to be heading back into the building,

I have the ideal of going for a walk right about now, clear my head it's still hard to see right from these past few late nights,

Maybe meet up with some people outside the orphanage,

The gravel path leading to the gate soon became the road between houses, I look around sending some greetings to familiar faces, ,

I'm not very talented, I'm not smart but I have some education more then the regular people around here, I know how to read and write fluently and have a great personality in my opinion, which is great traits ,I assume that's why I have so many friends, in the orphanage out here there's people I know but no one I could really call my friend.

Which is why I was confused when the 'rat' kid came looking for me,

He was about my age and a garbage guy, he looks for trash and often where-ever he goes rats follow,

With a recognisable stutter he said "you-ou 'wanna know what I found do ya?"

He's eyes fidgeting on every person that walks past,

"Listen I'll tell 'ya yeah??"

"All you gotta d-oo do do is"

"Help me sell this maybe?"

He's eyes still wide open scanning around he held his cloak in antipastion on opening it, I replied casually rolling my eyes "sell what..?"

He opened his cloak to reveal a gold shiny artifact, a symbol of electricity covering the front, reacting fast I pinned him on the wall closing his cloak covering it looking around to see who saw this artifacts, I looked seemingly around, "Do you wanna die,?why the hell would you pull something like that out here!"

Angrily I looked him in the eye but he seemed focused on something to my left, following his sight I looked to see 4 guys,

One in the front twisting his head cracking it, revealing a fully tattooed neck, "what ya got there " "huh?"

The other 3 were mere figures from the packs of clouds they were blowing out, the rat kid stumbled back behind me with a terrified look,

He was younger then me so that is expected,

"Let's make it simple, hand over the shiny and we won't turn you black and blue", a guy behind mouth moved in his figurine, a deep scary voice coming out.

I stood heavy in denial as they approached us with a few feet distance,

,my legs shook at the thought and I knew it was a simple ,what to do, a way out,

Tilting my head a tiny bit back to rat so my voice carried to him,

"okay rat just hand it over and we will be fi-"

"R-rut-RUN" rats stutter and cluster of steps in waste caused a domino effect as the 4 adults started swearing profanity like ripping my head off.

I started sweating and with no time to react followed rats lead,

We took a left past a dozen people through a few road set up shops,

And down a few different roads the sounds of footsteps on our trails began lowering.

hoping to finally lose them we then took a left into a ally way, and then a right.

Gasping for breathe I asked "di- did we lost them" heh ha

"I think s-s-so" rat stumbled down as I correspondingly fell leaning on the brick wall,

I looked at rat dead in the eye griping his shoulders rocking him back and forth "THEY SAW OUR FACE WHAT THE HELL DO WE DO?"

"calm down" he replied "th-the-they don't know where we live , they won't get us dodo-do you know how to sell it?"

"NO" I exclaimed my voice coming out more tender then expected, I took another glance around making sure there was no sign of them.

"Just where in the heck did you find something like that?"

Rats voice carried a story about how he had been digging in garbage and saw something shiny, he picked it up to reveal a artifact of sorts from a beast.

It was clear this was valuable , thousands of gold worth atleast but finding someone to sell it to who has that much money and won't ask questions isn't something we can do, it's sad but we agreed just having this is a nusiance who knows how much trouble we would be in if we get caught with something this valuable who would believe rat had just 'found it'.

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Artifacts are materials that have the ability to harness a beasts core, and steal the techniques they use, some of the highest quality can even grant non born mages with elemental abilities, which is a pipe dream to get, and even if someone finds one's of the highest quality, there's not many people that can use it,

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"Do-o-do you wanna try blue?"

Huh did he ask what I think he did, humbling myself I said "no it's not possible a kid from the boonies to match"

Rat handed me the artifact from his coat saying "it's dangerous for me to have it, plus I've already tried heh, it didn't work maybe you'll have more luck , here try it, try it"

Worrily I accepted the gift, "worth a try I guess"

Rat surprisingly thanked me for taking thousands of gold of his hands before stumbling off further down the allyway looking back and around duoble checking for the men that followed us.

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To try and harness a artifacts ability it's accustom to carry it around just to see if you notice any changes or take the risk of breaking the artifact and hoping it's abilities don't dissipate and sync with you,which for such a valuable item is stupid to do,

to match you need to have similar abilities to the beast it came from, for example a running athlete might have more chance to sync with a beasts artifact that moves swiftly, me with no bloodline, genes or skills it's a pipe dream, but I might carry it around for a while and try for it.

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As I thought about how many consequences that having this artifact on me could hold the first one came to path ,I heard footsteps around hoping I was alone I looked around only to see someone,

one of the 4 men from before turned the corner "there 'ya are kid" , "wanna hand over that now?"

This was the one with the neck tattoos I had saw ealier, he started appproaching me rapidly while I held the items behind my back. Scared for losing it but also scared for the giant men in front of me beating me to death,

Deciding between the two stunned me and before I knew it he was right in front of me, face to face he stared before releasing a wide right hook into my spine sending blood gashing my throat ,

'blough'

blood gushed from my mouth onto the floor while my lack of breathe sent me into a panic trying to cough out all of the blood blocking my wind pipes, the sound of metal boots scratching onto my back had started blending in with my ears, I didn't even realized how much rips of skin hes shoes where causing because of being winded from the attack before hand.

as the world started spinning I looked up to see the men have a wide grin showing his metal teeth, he softly lifted he's foot turning into a kick sending me flying a few feet straight into another guy, "is this the same kid boss" a hand clenched onto my hair lifting me off the ground to eye height with a puff of white clouding my eyes, before reacting, another voice showed, "yeah this is him".

A few footsteps approached me but with my vision blurred I can't tell how many, Astrange tingling sensation hit my left rib cage with no time to react another foot hit my back, another fist hit my stomach with a sharp ring object piercing my skin, I scrambled out screams of pain as blood gashed throughout my body, I then dropped onto the ground letting go of the object,

A loud 'ding' sound started resonanting, louder and more sinister then regular, glass, the clash of golden glass dissolved into the atmosphere as my half open eyes stared blankly at the men realising what had happened,

"Shit thats a artifact!?" Panic sent angar flying

Dropping the artifact is one thing, breaking it is another, but breaking in front of people who know what it is and are trying to take it from me is not something I want to do,

I knew what was about to happen even in my half unconscious state

I tried getting up but fell back down to my knees, and scrambled trying to lift my hand and legs in coordination to crawl away, "just where the hell do you think your going"?

"You just broke my artifact, that requires some punishment 'ya know?"

3 men scrambled behind the biggest men who grabbed both of my legs holding me upside down ,"you just made this a lot worse for yourself" a voice in the back stated,

Suddenly the guy widening a punch up started slowing down, he put his hand back turning his chest to generate power, his fingers twitched into a fist as he clenched his hand and started jolting into my stomach, every movement became apparent as I realised what was about to happen

I lifted my hand up to the front of my face covering the spot about to be hit, I got sent flying from the impact slowly trendsending into a wall, my arm dangled down as it ached and felt like I lost my ability to even use it, I noticed the wall had a brick sticking out and redirected my body pulling my weight down as I crouched then lifted back off onto the ground regaining my composure I could see the tattooed boys face turning into suprise, rushing blindly at me he kicked my left which I swiftly ducked under , I was leaping under his foot so low my only working hand caught a nail in the ground , over swinging his kick left me time to jolt the long nail where he's groin had set,

In a slow motion reaction he fell to the ground with 3 other people rushing to his aid,

noticing there unreliable attention span I ran out of the situation jolting faster then I had ever ran even in my clearly hurt state mustering up every muscle and all the strength I have, just to kick the ground and launch myself off, taking a single step felt like I was slowly breaking , my hand dangled down from where I had blocked his punched the relash broke it, and my mouth still tasted like blood with mud mixed in somehow

blood gashs dripped liquids as time began reinstating itself with what felt like normality, everything moved faster to its originality.

The distance between me and the orphanage was as vast as fog clouding the bottom of a mountain , taking the risk to jump down could have mutiple consequences, death being the easiest thought up , but there could always be water to dive into assuming the water won't resonate and crush you, one option is not jumping and finding a way around but in these spots no one else would really be any help,

mother knows some health care I have to make it to the orphanage'.

With a goal set

I ran past the foot of the mountain, up past the houses and shops, toward the orphanage , I didn't once look back , although it felt like everything happened so fast the sun was already right above me insinuating it being midday ,as I reached the foot step of the orphanage I heard a kid cry out strictly before passing unconscious.