What is happening to me?(Open to all.)

[Roy Atenwood]

Tianya, the water elemental, walked through the halls of the Arcane Academy, holding the body of an unconcious Half-elf in her arms.

She had shoulder length aqua blue-green hair, that fell in front of her face, and hid everything but her full-ish lips. She was in human form, but was clearly inhuman. Her long, p;ain green robes hid her body from oogling eyes.

Excuse me, could you tell me where this boy's dorm is? His name is Roy Atenwood. Please?

Everyone seemed to avoid her, and Roy haddn't woken up yet. She was getting worried about him. He was breathing shallowly. Nanashi's flames had done more harm than she thought.

More than Roy's body would lead you to believe. His wounds were more then she could heal, as well. She was starting to panick.

Please! Someone help me find the medical wing!

[Brandon (Tech)]

Tech had just come back from a little trip in Babylos, where he had managed to aquire a few of the things he needed for the moderator on his catalyst gun. For once he wasn't feeling all too grumpy, having had his daily dose of choholate. But that was also where the whole thing ended. He saw some strange non-human being walk through the halls, everybody stepping back from her, keeping out of reach. This was not uncommon Tech was more often than not treated this way, but she was carrieng something in her arms and she was asking for directions to the medical wing.

He approached her to give her an easy route but then he saw what she was actually carrying. "Roy?" He spoke in disbelief, his eyes widening. Moments later he was leading the damaged half-elf and his saviour down the halls, heading for the medical wing

[Roy Atenwood]

Thank you. He was sparring with a friend near a small elf village, when things got...out of hand. I was able to put out the fire, but he's hurt......

She had never felt so helpless before in her life.She couldn't heal him, because the flames had opened old wounds, so to speak.

Roy was still lightly smoking from the flames, and he was hot to the touch. So hot, in fact, that when Tianya's hand came in contact with his bare arm, her hand hissed for a moment and bubbled, steaming.

Aaah! That...hurt? Roy is the one generating the heat! Do you have a lab of some sort? I don't think he needs medical attention...but a biological examination. You bear hte trappings of a scientist, so if you don't have a lab, I could teleport us to one....

[Brandon (Tech)]

How the hell? "Uhh, sure. Its a few stories below us, in a room locked behind a massive steel door that has a ´Biohazard´ sign welded to it" She was the first one to guess that he was a, well sort of a, scientist. Most people thought that he was simply some mad doctors experiment, which was also true. But what did she mean by ´trappings´?

He didn't know what she needed to pinpoint to the location of his room, he had had no opportunity to study how teleportation worked. Maybe... Mek! "There should be a little skull flying around down there too, I can make him emit some sort of signal that you should be able to trap" He hoped, he had no idea what she was although a few opportunities were already being examined. "Would that work?"

[Roy Atenwood]

I......am afraid not. I'm a Water Elemental, not a machine. I apologize for any inconcinvience.

She still cared for Roy, very deeply, and she was worried. He diddn't seem to be responsive, and he was generating enough heat to make her substance boil on contact with his bare skin, even though she desperately wanted to comfort him, somehow.

Improbable tears were flowing from her eyes, and her voice was strained, but her hair still hid her face from Tech, and for that, she was grateful. She was an immortal, and so was Roy, but Roy diddn't seem to love her anymore.

Just...please...lead us there. I.....I'm sorry for being so brash a moment ago. It seems I still have feelings for him.

[Brandon (Tech)]

" 'Is fine, 'is fine, we just need to get him down there" Feelings? Tech couldn't recall Roy ever haven spoken of a past relationship with... whatever this one was, but that far from meant that he hadn't said it. Tech would have deleted that from his mind because of the pain such thoughts revived within him.

Tech lead them down to his hom as fast as he could, hoping that Mek had recieved the message and opened the door by now. He had. "You got the equipment online?" He asked, already knowing the answer. "Of course" Mek responded in his mechanich voice. "It's all up and running" "Lay him there" Tech said to the... being that was holding Roy, indicating his examination table. "Mek, go get a healer from the medical wing. I think we might need one" The computer that was linked to nearly all his equipment had been switched on and his scanning tools were already working. He had no idea what they would find, but he hoped he would be able negate any further harm

[Roy Atenwood]

She set him where Tech had told her, and stood back for a moment, until her need for comfort got the best of her. She walked up to Roy, and started stroking his long, red hair, not caring about her own pain.

What....what has happened to you, Roy? Where is the shy, little half-elf I fell in love with? You were so pained...so agressive. So....frightening.

He couldn't answer, because he couldn't wake up. She leaned in and kissed him, which might shock Tech, but she diddn't care.

If this is the work of some outside force, will you be able to detect and purge it, sir?

[Brandon (Tech)]

"Not good, not good" There was indeed an outside influence, but it did not take kindly to being shut out. There was no point, Tech's experimental fields had no chance of shutting out the influnce. He would have to try some more... direct methods.

He moved from the computer screen and went over to his chemical cabinet. He pulled out a few bottles and one of his syinge gloves, a handy little contraption that allowed him to distribute five different drugs at the same time, and went back to Roy. What he saw almost made him drop that which he carried. They wree kissing. It was not disgust he felt for them, nor was it too great a surprise as he had already heard the apparent elemental hint that they had had a relationship.

The emotion that suddenly flared up in his chest almost made him loose it, but he forced it aside, knowing that there were more important matters at hand than his feelings. He fit on the syringe glove and drained five of the eight small flasks he had brought. He then movd to Roy's side, his mind still in turmoil, but he managed not to shake. "You might wanna close your eyes or squeeze his hand or something" He said, not too happy of what he was about to do, and yet there was a tinge of sick pleasure he hadn't felt for a long time. "Because this is going to hurt him"

[Roy Atenwood]

Roy's body was begining to cool down, so Tianya gripped his hand tightly for a moment, and then let go.

I...I shouldn't have done that....he doesn't exaclty like me anymore....

She laughed slightly, and pushed her hair out of her face. For the first time in two years, she showed her face to someone.

She looked directly into Tech's eyes, and said,

He is no stranger to pain. It will not bother him. Maybe.....I should go and find him something to eat....for when he wakes up. I shall return very shortly.

----------Inside Roy's mind---------------

Yellow eyes.....a shadow, in the form of the one who face it.

Melzas.

Roy stood, holding his staff, and facing the demon. Neither spoke a word, as they simply stared eachother down.

[Brandon (Tech)]

Tech's artificial eye causght a glimpse of what lay beneath her hair and immedieatly came up with a result. "such power, such strength... and yet also such sadness. He let her leave and he let her words be, afraid to open up the wound he had locked away inh his inner for so very long. What was it now, five, six years? No, he didn't want to think about, not only because of the pain but also because then envy might screw up his system. Right, the envy...

What seemed to be going on was that a fire spell had been cast at Roy, only to have been corrupted by some outside source, and Tech didn't need to access his archived files from the day in the game shop to know who and what this outside source was. The problem was that the spell had already melded with Roy, becoming one with him as it tore him apart. That was what Tech had meant when he said it was going to hurt, he would have rip the two apart, using chemical force.

He poked the syringe on his little finger into the vein that ran along Roy's neck, starting with an injection that would clear the way for the ones that would follow. He then stuck the same syringe into Roy's arm and extracted a blood sample. It could come in handy later. He waited few seconds, making sure that the initial injection would have reached the central spots in his brain before he stuck the needle on his thumb in just after Roy's kidney, preventing the drug from being pruged from his blood stream before it had done its job. "I'm sorry Roy" He mumbled before he injected the chemical, hoping that he was too deeply lost in whatever was going on to feel the pain

[Roy Atenwood]

Well, Roy diddn't feel any pain. He was, in fact, lost in his own mind.

Out in the halls of the Academy, Tianya had found her way to the training grounds. She sat on a rock she had found, and burried her head in her hands.

She wept for Roy.

----------------------Inside Roy's mind-------------

"What...are you?"

Eternal Conflct. Chaos. The Eater of Dreams. Melzas.

"I mean, what did you come from?"

Eternity.

"What do you mean? W-what's happening to my staff?"

I am showing you what you need. To end the pain of thy village.

Roy's staff seemed to change in his hadn. Grafted to the top was his knife, and suddenly, it seemed to shoot toward the demon, on a long chain. It stopped several feet short.

"Why are you helping me?"

Your friend injected chemicals into your body, to split you from a spell. I purged them, absorbing them into myself, to keep you in this coma. It split me, so to speak. I'll be normal, in a matter of hours, but a part of me wants to see you triumphant. Nadia is a part of me, now.

Roy stood, and stared at the demon, a new fury filling his heart.

But the dream was already ending.

----------Tech's lab---------------

Roy sat up, slowly. He felt that his hair was damp, for some reason, and then he realized he diddn't know where he was.

"Where....is this? Why is my hair wet?"

[Brandon (Tech)]

"It's fine, you're in my dorm" Tech calmly spoke, using what little knowledge of treating patients he had left. "Just lay still for a little while, while you get your medicine" The initial chemical had hoped far better than he had hoped, apparently Melza's had not had time to establish a solid hold on him.

But Tech was not going to leave it at that, there was a chance that the spell would make a comeback, and he would inject a few more chemicals into Roy before he performed the final analisys. "This is going to hurt a little bit" He said as he brought three of the needles into his thigh, first testing to see if they had hit any veins and then injecting when he found that they hadn't.

Roy had been very lucky, very lucky indeed. These last shots should be painless except for the sting of the needles, due to all the ´rough work´ having been performed by the first drug. And as for the reason Roy's hair was wet, Tech was not going to tell him unless he had no choice.

Outside, Mek had quietly hovered back when he recieved news of Roy's awakening from Tech. He found the apparent female pf indeterminate species outside the door, crying. Mek was not very experienced with emotions, but he knew that a gentle stroke and calming words had a tendency to help. He extended his metallic hand and began running it softly through her hair. "There there, it's all going to be fine" He said, deciding to let her cry a little before he let her inside again. She looked like she needed it

[Roy Atenwood]

Tianya, upon "Feeling" Roy awakening, went back to Tech's dorm.

Roy....are you alright?

Roy was suprised, to say the least. He no longer had feelings for her.....or so he thought. It was confusing.

She had been crying. He could feel it.

"Tianya? What are you doing here? Why aren't you at your river?"

It was paved over. I'm a wandring elemental, now. I was wondering if....you had a place I could stay...for a little while.

Akward, but Roy would let her stay.

"Yeah, as long as you don't mind Oxygen and Hydrogen elementals. Or Werewolves."

She simply smiled. Her hair fell back in front of her face. Roy diddn't hate her, after all, but he was just as confused as ever. She could feel it.

"Thanks, Tech........think you could help me with a weapon I got an idea for, later?"

[Brandon (Tech)]

"Sure" Tech responded, trying not to show what he felt. All that emotion was getting to him, arousing memories that hurt. "Just give me a while to finish up in here and then you can drop by any time" Mek had followed Roy's apparent girlfriend back into the room, wanting them to leave now. He could feel Tech's mind darkening again, and he didn't like the thoughts that had been popping into his head.

"Right this way" The flying skull said, holding open the door metallic door with the hand that he had extended earlier. "We have a lot of work to do in here" Which was almost a lie, but only almost. Tech would indeed need a while for himself, and as soon as Roy and the longhaired being had left he would inject one of the drugs that he had not used on Roy, rendering him blissfully unaware for a little while

[Roy Atenwood]

"Right...sorry for all the crap, Tech."

Roy had accidentaly picked up on some of Tech's thoughts, and felt his mental anguish for a moment. He tried his best to reach out and help ease Tech's mind.

He left, unaware of whether it had worked or not, followed by Tianya.

Roy, I-

Roy inturrupted her, waiting till now to speak his mind, because he diddn't want to anger Tech in his own home.

"Shut it. I don't want to hear your excuses. I caught you sleeping with my goddamned SISTER. I'll let you stay, but we are NOT on good terms."

She let out a sigh, and smiled. She felt his confusion, the way he had felt Tech's anguish.

She knew she could break through the thin shell he had put up.