First Awakening || Birth of a God

[Power Fragment has Detected the Presence of Her Sister's Fragment.]

A faint pulse of light blinked deep beneath the cracked ground.

From deep inside the crater.

From deep inside Xavier.

[Initiating contact.]

[Contact failed. No response from the sister fragment.]

[Initiating Synchronization.]

[No sign of life from the host. Synchronization failed.]

[Merging with the host to connect to the sister fragment.]

[Connection lost. No contact with the host.]

[Power Fragment is confused. It doesn't know what to do. Performing a scan of the host.]

[Subject is too far to perform a scan. Waiting for the contact.]

Xavier's blood slowly slid down the broken edges of the crater, tracing the path of ruin, threading through dust and ash and burnt bones, filling the cracks like ink on a shattered canvas. It moved unnaturally, like it was being pulled. Pulled by something ancient.

And then it reached it.