"IT'S YOU, IT'S REALLY YOU!!!" Ethan shouted as the world seemed to still for the first time in a hundred years. "Where have you been?" he asked, stepping closer. But something was off. Deeply off.
Her pulse flickered like it couldn't remember its own rhythm—jagged, desperate. The orb that floated beside her twisted, glowing violently, like a fragment rejecting its host. Emma sat still, locked in silence, her aura intensifying as if sound wasn't welcome anymore.
"Emma… do you feel alright?"
She didn't respond. Her head turned slowly, like a machine restarting. Then—foam. Mouth trembling. Muscles convulsing. Her spine arched sharply, and Ethan watched in horror as her frame distorted—not like possession… like escape.
Something inside her was trying to claw its way out. Or maybe… something was trying to return.
She was not the message.She was the consequence.
Ethan stumbled backward, his body pulsing with tension, The glow from her orb split—cracked like glass under pressure. One shard flickered a memory he didn't recognize. A sound loop he never created.
This wasn't Emma. This was what he left when he failed to go look for her.
Then she started to expand to soccer ball size to becoming a yoga ball sized orb, Ethan freaked trying to figure out what is happening "Is this Emma It has to be her… right" Ethan says frantically has panic spread across his face like an infection. As the panic spreads to Haruy also staring at Emma "Ethan do You know her" Haruy asks
"Yea, but it's a long story" Ethan answers
Then a centipede bolts out of her mouth with a grotesque mouth spewing out green ooze with thousands of arms and the green, about a foot in width and hundreds of feet long coming out of Emma that grew to four yoga balls. As the centipede is still trying to get out of Emma it goes for Ethan's mouth, a tear streams down Emma's face still with horror of what is escaping her. Just before it reaches Ethan, Haruy jumps off a table to counter with a slash from his sword, He gets flung into the wall behind him shooting him through the wooden Wall of the guild. The only damage to the centipede is a small cut but he did deflect the attack luckily, then the the people around finally got grip of what is happening around them, they start screaming and shouting, seeing the terrifying centipede, One Guild member Vomits on the Guilds floor as another on prays but one doesn't drop just watches with excitement, "Come on You guy's got it you have dealt with worse" Glinda shouts the ten years not doing her justice but has just as much enthusiasm, when the meet.
Ethan sees the button on his Evolution screen, He presses the big button his body glowing and fogging up the guild. getting the centipede's attention, then a little Dark elf like creature with large Eyes gray skin and dark blue hair and about a foot tall. It slowly Takes Ethan's spot Evolution complete. Stage three: Harrow Sprite," Ethan's screen whispered in a voice older than language—spoken to him alone.
He doesn't think about it much as he goes for the first blow to the centipede head the centipede couldn't even react in time one tiny Punch Send the centipede across the guild as people cheer, Ethan grabs Haruy's sword, raises it above the squealing centipede's neck then CHOP it stops squirming and looks at Glinda "How much could I sell this to you guys for" Ethan ask with smirk across his small head.