1. Redemption: Ch.5


    Date: 12/13/2015, Categories: Fantasy & Sci-Fi, Author: Levanahyll, Rating: 2, Source: LushStories

    “The fight wasn’t real, Boy,” Lucien was saying again. “It’s a holographic projection.” Lucien stood carefully and lifted his right hand over his shoulder. A clear ring flew into his grasp. Lucien placed it over his head and it disappeared. He lifted it off and it appeared in his hand again. “It’s a neuro-halo. It enhances the holo-training program. If Abdy were to holographically wound me, I’d feel the pain, but I wouldn’t die.” Lucien offered the neuro-halo to Boy. “It’s how we train to kill without actually killing each other.” Boy took a step back. Train to kill? As a battle pet, he was tossed into the arena and it was either kill or be killed, and it was for real. That was the extent of their training. Lucien tossed the clear ring at him and Boy caught it. The warm ring vibrated in his hands. Again, he looked at Lucien who was helping Abdiel up. He helped the reaper off to the side, talking in a low voice. Boy slid the ring around his head and immediately found himself facing the other two reapers who’d been, until now, in the far corners of the vast room. Boy stepped back when a sword materialized almost in front of his nose. He was sure he’d seen Lucien disable the reapers, but there they stood, grinning at him. Boy wrapped his fingers around the hilt of the sword and felt its slight weight. The weapon felt good in his hand. The metal glinted in the light and it made Boy grin, feel powerful. He bared his fangs even more. The death angels moved closer. Before leaping ...
    into action, he wondered if they’d ever fought an animal. Lucien tensed when he saw the reapers engage Boy Rayne. The battle pet was pure, raw, savage, aggression, and though the reapers possessed lethal wings, it soon became clear to Lucien that they did not have any advantage over Boy. Boy had fangs, claws, and an ability to flow around them like water that left Lucien’s mouth gaping. Where he learned to use a sword, Lucien did not know, but the Merulian used it as if it were an extension to his body. Holographic cuts opened on both reapers and each winced and grunted with every cut. Boy Rayne only hissed and snarled whenever one of the reapers connected a blow, and they were far and few in between. Boy Rayne definitely was doing more damage to the reapers, to Lucien’s shock. Reapers were supposed to be undefeatable by normal beings. Again, Lucien used his second sight to gaze upon Boy Rayne’s aura. It flamed around him bright and white, like the corona of a supernova. It was almost blinding, swirling with a few wisps of dark from others who’d tainted him, but pure nonetheless. Had Boy been a supernatural being, his aura would have blinded Lucien, the way Devon’s usually did. Boy Rayne’s white hair was plastered against his body. He had two prominent scars along his back, as if at one time he might have had wings. There was another ugly one low on his back, right over the crack of his buttocks. Did Boy have a tail once? Lucien narrowed his eyes realizing that, yes, he’d had a ...
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