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Twists of Fate [Part 10]
Fandom: Noblesse
Summary: Nakida’s a hacker in the middle of a job to find some information. Except they’re not the only one breaking into the building that night - there’s a silver-haired guy walking around like cameras don’t exist. If he wants to get caught, it’s not their problem.
Huian’s on guard duty to protect the information they’re after. Usually it’s quiet - all she has to do is enter the system, keep an eye on the camera feeds and patrol around the clusters of data to make sure no-one gets to them.
Their pasts connect them, even if they don’t remember. And the past does tend to come back.
Rating: PG-13
Contains: Body horror
Notes: Reincarnation fic! :D Written for nano! So expect some weirdness as I churn this out, haha.
Genre: General.
Word count: 2,447
Total word count: 22,459
Status: Work in progress
Until the scream turned into a wheezing choke, a gargle.
The energy Dark Spear was going towards still beat strong, not flickering as the man's body died around it. Dark Spear was taking the body in chunk by chunk and Huian's hunger faded, like she'd been fed, the persistent lightheadedness at the back of her eyes disappearing as well. Because of what Dark Spear was doing?
Was her body being helped because Dark Spear was eating the man?
She was connected to Dark Spear; where else was what it was taking into itself supposed to go?
Dark Spear reached its destination, looped itself around over and over until there wasn't anything uncovered. It squeezed, absorbing it.
Memories.
They slammed into Huian, worse than when Dark Spear showed her Takeo's. This was a flood with no filter, crushing her on all sides, filling her with panic. The man's panic.
She was seeing Min-chul's last moments. Feeling what he did as Dark Spear latched onto him and ate him alive.
As well as his entire life. Why he'd done things, his opinions, everything. It was tearing at her, screaming at her to watch. This was him, this was his memories and since she could see it, that meant she should be the same-
And then he was gone, whisked away into Dark Spear.
...Into the growing non-physical mass of Dark Spear.
It stretched, satisfied at its meal, filling more space than last time.
All those people... She was sweating, her arm feeling like she was the one who had been stabbed over and over.
Are people we've eaten, Dark Spear finished without remorse. They became part of our power.
That's what she would become if she'd agreed. Or let it eat her.
Yes. An impression of many sharp teeth spread wide. You would have all this power, and more. The more we eat, the more powerful we become.
No.
Fine. Dark Spear was stretching down her body again, coiling down her arms. It was fire in her veins, and it didn't matter with her left, her arm already throbbing from absorbing the man, but her right-
Scree-snickt! Clang!
Huian sucked in a breath at finding her wrists free, and her fists thumped back onto the table, not expecting to move them.
We're not staying here, Dark Spear growled.
No, they weren't. Huian pushed herself up into a sitting position.
Or she tried to, her arms not listening to her, trembling from exertion. She could feel her arms healing the damage but that didn't stop her crashing back onto the table, slamming her head back. The world brightened for a couple of seconds as she tried to keep blinking to clear her vision.
They didn't have a lot of time for her to recover, so she tried again, this time going slower, easing herself up onto her elbows first and then her hands. It worked, the world still spinning as she tried to look at her legs. The restraints that had been around her wrists were in pieces, looking like someone had cut them to pieces with a flurry of blows.
She was still seeing flickers of Min-chul's memories as she looked at things, what he'd been doing with objects, certain memories attached to them and she shook her head, trying to get rid of them.
It didn't help, the memories prodding at her, but she reached forward to the cuffs on her ankles.
The metal wasn't as cold as she'd expected, warmed by her skin under it.
How was she supposed to-?
Takeo's memories were there, showing her how to draw out the Dark Spear to her hand, how to manage some of the pain.
She braced herself for the pain, her hand shaking as Dark Spear answered her call, snaking to her fingertips, spiderwebbing over the restraint. She had to control it, not let it run wild. Huian pictured the tentacles like a knife (a spear) and it became that, one sharp edge that sliced through the metal like air.
She did the same with the other restrained and pulled her legs away from them.
The restraints crashed to the ground.
Dammit-! She should have thought about that.
Someone might have already been wanting to investigate that; she had to hurry.
Huian swung her legs over the edge of the table, then winced as her blood started rushing around again, jabbing at where it passed.
No time.
She pushed herself off the table, using it as a support while her legs got used to being used again. With each breath, her head cleared that little bit more. While her circulation got moving again, Huian eased the needle in her arm.
And. How was she going to get out? She didn't know-
Min-chul did.
A relieved breath exploded from her mouth, her shoulders sagging. She knew the way out.
Now if she could follow that path without bumping into anyone...
It would be good if we did, Dark Spear said as Huian started to walk towards the doors.
Why. She didn't want to talk to him; she wanted to concentrate on getting out, but she couldn't stop her question coming out. The throbbing headache was back, far too many memories crowding her head, and Huian was starting to feel like her sense of self was getting picked apart at the edges as the memories tried to integrate themselves to her.
Then we'll be able to consume more. Get more power.
Shit.
No. She was not dealing with more memories in her head.
We'll take them in, like just now.
It hadn't been fast enough.
The door hissed opened, revealing an empty corridor. Left and right looked the same but Min-chul's memories told her to go right.
See? The memories are useful.
Huian couldn't deny that as she made her way down the corridor, too aware of how much noise she was making, each drag of breath, every single footstep. She wanted to jog, to move faster, but her body was rebelling, wanting to take things at a slower pace or else she'd collapse.
You're not getting my soul. Why it hadn't tried to eat her yet, she didn't know, not after it had gone straight for Min-chul and the rat without trying to convince first. There was no point wasting time trying to think of explanations when she only had enough energy to stand up and walk.
Not yet. It was muttered, the threat in an undertone.
After this, Huian would be glad if she could find a way to remove or block Dark Spear.
A chuckle, the sound of it echoing in Huian's head. Do you think it will be that easy?
Yes. Dark Spear had been blocked off before, so there could be a way to do it again.
Naïve, Dark Spear scoffed, We can't be held back once we've been awakened.
She would see about that. Huian just wanted to be alone in her head again.
"Wha-? Hey!"
She'd been so immersed in arguing with Dark Spear she had almost walked right into someone. Someone with brown hair. And a lab coat.
"Wait, are you supposed to-?" The woman's eyes widened and she started to back away, glancing in different directions.
Shit. If she alerted the guards-! Huian lunged at her just as the woman turned to flee.
They crashed to the ground together and Huian was conscious of glee that wasn't her own right before Dark Spear pounced.
This time, because more of her was closer (to their prey) Dark Spear had more places to grab straight away. Consuming her was faster and so was the wave of memories that came with it.
Huian's head pounded, trying to crack her skull open as more information shoved itself into an already small space. She wanted to help it, to rip her skull open if that would give her relief.
She needed for it to stop.
It didn't, the information continuing to slam into her. Ga-young's family (mother and two brothers), her job (to take care of the modified humans in tanks), what she had for dinner (saengchae with bibimbap and some of Ji-ae's dessert).
Memories all about Ga-young's life, crowding her, trying to make Huian their new home.
She tried to get away but Ga-young's memories followed her. There were no walls here; trying to cover her 'eyes' or 'ears' did nothing to block them out and she couldn't stop seeing them.
Huian was being crushed under it all and she curled up into a ball , trying to protect as much of herself as possible so she wasn't picked apart. If the other memories were overwhelming her then maybe if she tried to bolster her own sense of self with her own memories, that could be her protection against it.
Or she was presenting herself to be ripped to shreds against the onslaught, but at least she was doing something than allowing it to happen.
Memories. Memories. She was an only child, who'd grown up with two parents. She'd been working at Ye Ran for about a year as a security guard (she wasn't going back if she could help it). She liked going on jogs to clear her mind if the weather was good.
The pressure was gone, Dark Spear taking the memories and soul into itself.
Huian's vision cleared and she was curled up on the floor, sweating and trembling, feeling both energised and aching, her muscles locked up. She wanted to be sick but there was nothing to empty.
The silence in her head was deafening, like there was too much space there after being squeezed right to the bone. Dark Spear was still there, sated, lounging and happy at being filled.
Nice that one of them felt good.
You will soon.
How many times do I- Fuck it, she gave up trying to communicate with it.
Ga-young's memories had been filled of dinner, people finishing up. If she didn't hurry, she would be seeing a lot more people.
Fierce pleasure. Let them come. We'll eat them all too. And then they would have even more power.
Huian ignored it, lumbering to her feet and following the way to the exit. Balancing was...hard to say the least, and she used the wall for the times she tilted in one direction too much.
One step after another, she could do this. She didn't know what she would do once she was outside, but she would be outside. Away from this fucking place, where it was - underneath her work, were those fucking memories - shit! She was never coming back!
Set the place on fire as she left. That's what she should do. This had been going on right under her feet and she hadn't known. Fuck. She'd been watching those feeds for months and this is what she'd been protecting?
Her anger fueled her, making her move as she gritted her teeth, determined to get out of there.
The way the lab was made, Huian could hear voices approaching from behind her and fuck, she was going to get caught.
Turn back. We can-
Shut. Up.
It would be much easier to-
I said shut up.
So many teeth bared in her direction. Mocking her. Fine. We'll be fed soon.
It would if she didn't get her ass moving.
The voices were getting closer, the footsteps sounding like they were right behind her and Huian put an extra burst of speed on, trying to ignore how hard her heart was hammering, how much her muscles were trembling under the exertion.
She could rest once she'd escaped.
And there was the exit. Hope made her faster, no longer trying to put one foot in front of the other. The distance between her and exit got smaller and smaller and there was a passcode needed to open the door, but Huian knew it, the knowledge coming to her without her even trying. Dark Spear's smug amusement in the back of her head was ignored.
She fumbled with the pad for a few seconds, having to repeat the code a few times as she leaned on the door for support but she got it, and her breath exploded from her throat as she felt the door click under her.
Huian almost fell over as she shoved the door open, feeling the burst of fresh air sweep over her, making goosebumps raise, but she didn't care she was fucking -
Her breath caught in her throat as she stared at the three sharply dressed people standing on the other side of the door, waiting for her.
They were all wearing sunglasses, not that they needed it, not when the sky was dark above their heads, street lights already on.
And Huian knew who they were, why they were there. She didn't know their names, Min-chul's and Ga-young's memories blank here, but they had known the important details.
They weren't carrying any weapons; they didn't need them.
The people standing in front of her were modified humans.
She wasn't getting away.
"F-fuck…" Huian sank against the door frame, the strength in her legs gone. She had been so close; she was right there, right on the edge of freedom!
"Ms. Cheung," the closest one to her said, approaching her. Sunglasses, male, bald head and the same height as her. "Turn back around."
She was too spent to try anything, not when she would only have the chance to take one out if she was lucky (she wasn't fast enough; she was just a regular human). By the time she regained her senses, the other two would have dragged her in again.
He placed his hand on her shoulder and hadn't he been told not to touch her?
Huian's sight flickered with the familiar purple and black as Dark Spear snapped at the hand.
And then the hand was gone from her sight.
Too slow, dammit.
"Inside," he demanded, two steps away from where Huian had seen him a second go.
They were going have to carry her. Her strength was spent as she slid down the door frame, gravity stronger than her legs.
A shadow passed overhead but Huian only blinked at it, unable to move.
There was a crash in front of her followed by a cut off yell.
When Huian's eyes focused, her sight tilting to the side, there was a flurry of shorn fabric whipping about in the air. Behind it was someone with silver hair fighting with the modified humans.
…She knew that hair. Those claws. The placement of fur stripes.
She let out a sigh of relief, a smile spreading over her face. "21…" she murmured as she lost consciousness.
Her comrade.
Summary: Nakida’s a hacker in the middle of a job to find some information. Except they’re not the only one breaking into the building that night - there’s a silver-haired guy walking around like cameras don’t exist. If he wants to get caught, it’s not their problem.
Huian’s on guard duty to protect the information they’re after. Usually it’s quiet - all she has to do is enter the system, keep an eye on the camera feeds and patrol around the clusters of data to make sure no-one gets to them.
Their pasts connect them, even if they don’t remember. And the past does tend to come back.
Rating: PG-13
Contains: Body horror
Notes: Reincarnation fic! :D Written for nano! So expect some weirdness as I churn this out, haha.
Genre: General.
Word count: 2,447
Total word count: 22,459
Status: Work in progress
Until the scream turned into a wheezing choke, a gargle.
The energy Dark Spear was going towards still beat strong, not flickering as the man's body died around it. Dark Spear was taking the body in chunk by chunk and Huian's hunger faded, like she'd been fed, the persistent lightheadedness at the back of her eyes disappearing as well. Because of what Dark Spear was doing?
Was her body being helped because Dark Spear was eating the man?
She was connected to Dark Spear; where else was what it was taking into itself supposed to go?
Dark Spear reached its destination, looped itself around over and over until there wasn't anything uncovered. It squeezed, absorbing it.
Memories.
They slammed into Huian, worse than when Dark Spear showed her Takeo's. This was a flood with no filter, crushing her on all sides, filling her with panic. The man's panic.
She was seeing Min-chul's last moments. Feeling what he did as Dark Spear latched onto him and ate him alive.
As well as his entire life. Why he'd done things, his opinions, everything. It was tearing at her, screaming at her to watch. This was him, this was his memories and since she could see it, that meant she should be the same-
And then he was gone, whisked away into Dark Spear.
...Into the growing non-physical mass of Dark Spear.
It stretched, satisfied at its meal, filling more space than last time.
All those people... She was sweating, her arm feeling like she was the one who had been stabbed over and over.
Are people we've eaten, Dark Spear finished without remorse. They became part of our power.
That's what she would become if she'd agreed. Or let it eat her.
Yes. An impression of many sharp teeth spread wide. You would have all this power, and more. The more we eat, the more powerful we become.
No.
Fine. Dark Spear was stretching down her body again, coiling down her arms. It was fire in her veins, and it didn't matter with her left, her arm already throbbing from absorbing the man, but her right-
Scree-snickt! Clang!
Huian sucked in a breath at finding her wrists free, and her fists thumped back onto the table, not expecting to move them.
We're not staying here, Dark Spear growled.
No, they weren't. Huian pushed herself up into a sitting position.
Or she tried to, her arms not listening to her, trembling from exertion. She could feel her arms healing the damage but that didn't stop her crashing back onto the table, slamming her head back. The world brightened for a couple of seconds as she tried to keep blinking to clear her vision.
They didn't have a lot of time for her to recover, so she tried again, this time going slower, easing herself up onto her elbows first and then her hands. It worked, the world still spinning as she tried to look at her legs. The restraints that had been around her wrists were in pieces, looking like someone had cut them to pieces with a flurry of blows.
She was still seeing flickers of Min-chul's memories as she looked at things, what he'd been doing with objects, certain memories attached to them and she shook her head, trying to get rid of them.
It didn't help, the memories prodding at her, but she reached forward to the cuffs on her ankles.
The metal wasn't as cold as she'd expected, warmed by her skin under it.
How was she supposed to-?
Takeo's memories were there, showing her how to draw out the Dark Spear to her hand, how to manage some of the pain.
She braced herself for the pain, her hand shaking as Dark Spear answered her call, snaking to her fingertips, spiderwebbing over the restraint. She had to control it, not let it run wild. Huian pictured the tentacles like a knife (a spear) and it became that, one sharp edge that sliced through the metal like air.
She did the same with the other restrained and pulled her legs away from them.
The restraints crashed to the ground.
Dammit-! She should have thought about that.
Someone might have already been wanting to investigate that; she had to hurry.
Huian swung her legs over the edge of the table, then winced as her blood started rushing around again, jabbing at where it passed.
No time.
She pushed herself off the table, using it as a support while her legs got used to being used again. With each breath, her head cleared that little bit more. While her circulation got moving again, Huian eased the needle in her arm.
And. How was she going to get out? She didn't know-
Min-chul did.
A relieved breath exploded from her mouth, her shoulders sagging. She knew the way out.
Now if she could follow that path without bumping into anyone...
It would be good if we did, Dark Spear said as Huian started to walk towards the doors.
Why. She didn't want to talk to him; she wanted to concentrate on getting out, but she couldn't stop her question coming out. The throbbing headache was back, far too many memories crowding her head, and Huian was starting to feel like her sense of self was getting picked apart at the edges as the memories tried to integrate themselves to her.
Then we'll be able to consume more. Get more power.
Shit.
No. She was not dealing with more memories in her head.
We'll take them in, like just now.
It hadn't been fast enough.
The door hissed opened, revealing an empty corridor. Left and right looked the same but Min-chul's memories told her to go right.
See? The memories are useful.
Huian couldn't deny that as she made her way down the corridor, too aware of how much noise she was making, each drag of breath, every single footstep. She wanted to jog, to move faster, but her body was rebelling, wanting to take things at a slower pace or else she'd collapse.
You're not getting my soul. Why it hadn't tried to eat her yet, she didn't know, not after it had gone straight for Min-chul and the rat without trying to convince first. There was no point wasting time trying to think of explanations when she only had enough energy to stand up and walk.
Not yet. It was muttered, the threat in an undertone.
After this, Huian would be glad if she could find a way to remove or block Dark Spear.
A chuckle, the sound of it echoing in Huian's head. Do you think it will be that easy?
Yes. Dark Spear had been blocked off before, so there could be a way to do it again.
Naïve, Dark Spear scoffed, We can't be held back once we've been awakened.
She would see about that. Huian just wanted to be alone in her head again.
"Wha-? Hey!"
She'd been so immersed in arguing with Dark Spear she had almost walked right into someone. Someone with brown hair. And a lab coat.
"Wait, are you supposed to-?" The woman's eyes widened and she started to back away, glancing in different directions.
Shit. If she alerted the guards-! Huian lunged at her just as the woman turned to flee.
They crashed to the ground together and Huian was conscious of glee that wasn't her own right before Dark Spear pounced.
This time, because more of her was closer (to their prey) Dark Spear had more places to grab straight away. Consuming her was faster and so was the wave of memories that came with it.
Huian's head pounded, trying to crack her skull open as more information shoved itself into an already small space. She wanted to help it, to rip her skull open if that would give her relief.
She needed for it to stop.
It didn't, the information continuing to slam into her. Ga-young's family (mother and two brothers), her job (to take care of the modified humans in tanks), what she had for dinner (saengchae with bibimbap and some of Ji-ae's dessert).
Memories all about Ga-young's life, crowding her, trying to make Huian their new home.
She tried to get away but Ga-young's memories followed her. There were no walls here; trying to cover her 'eyes' or 'ears' did nothing to block them out and she couldn't stop seeing them.
Huian was being crushed under it all and she curled up into a ball , trying to protect as much of herself as possible so she wasn't picked apart. If the other memories were overwhelming her then maybe if she tried to bolster her own sense of self with her own memories, that could be her protection against it.
Or she was presenting herself to be ripped to shreds against the onslaught, but at least she was doing something than allowing it to happen.
Memories. Memories. She was an only child, who'd grown up with two parents. She'd been working at Ye Ran for about a year as a security guard (she wasn't going back if she could help it). She liked going on jogs to clear her mind if the weather was good.
The pressure was gone, Dark Spear taking the memories and soul into itself.
Huian's vision cleared and she was curled up on the floor, sweating and trembling, feeling both energised and aching, her muscles locked up. She wanted to be sick but there was nothing to empty.
The silence in her head was deafening, like there was too much space there after being squeezed right to the bone. Dark Spear was still there, sated, lounging and happy at being filled.
Nice that one of them felt good.
You will soon.
How many times do I- Fuck it, she gave up trying to communicate with it.
Ga-young's memories had been filled of dinner, people finishing up. If she didn't hurry, she would be seeing a lot more people.
Fierce pleasure. Let them come. We'll eat them all too. And then they would have even more power.
Huian ignored it, lumbering to her feet and following the way to the exit. Balancing was...hard to say the least, and she used the wall for the times she tilted in one direction too much.
One step after another, she could do this. She didn't know what she would do once she was outside, but she would be outside. Away from this fucking place, where it was - underneath her work, were those fucking memories - shit! She was never coming back!
Set the place on fire as she left. That's what she should do. This had been going on right under her feet and she hadn't known. Fuck. She'd been watching those feeds for months and this is what she'd been protecting?
Her anger fueled her, making her move as she gritted her teeth, determined to get out of there.
The way the lab was made, Huian could hear voices approaching from behind her and fuck, she was going to get caught.
Turn back. We can-
Shut. Up.
It would be much easier to-
I said shut up.
So many teeth bared in her direction. Mocking her. Fine. We'll be fed soon.
It would if she didn't get her ass moving.
The voices were getting closer, the footsteps sounding like they were right behind her and Huian put an extra burst of speed on, trying to ignore how hard her heart was hammering, how much her muscles were trembling under the exertion.
She could rest once she'd escaped.
And there was the exit. Hope made her faster, no longer trying to put one foot in front of the other. The distance between her and exit got smaller and smaller and there was a passcode needed to open the door, but Huian knew it, the knowledge coming to her without her even trying. Dark Spear's smug amusement in the back of her head was ignored.
She fumbled with the pad for a few seconds, having to repeat the code a few times as she leaned on the door for support but she got it, and her breath exploded from her throat as she felt the door click under her.
Huian almost fell over as she shoved the door open, feeling the burst of fresh air sweep over her, making goosebumps raise, but she didn't care she was fucking -
Her breath caught in her throat as she stared at the three sharply dressed people standing on the other side of the door, waiting for her.
They were all wearing sunglasses, not that they needed it, not when the sky was dark above their heads, street lights already on.
And Huian knew who they were, why they were there. She didn't know their names, Min-chul's and Ga-young's memories blank here, but they had known the important details.
They weren't carrying any weapons; they didn't need them.
The people standing in front of her were modified humans.
She wasn't getting away.
"F-fuck…" Huian sank against the door frame, the strength in her legs gone. She had been so close; she was right there, right on the edge of freedom!
"Ms. Cheung," the closest one to her said, approaching her. Sunglasses, male, bald head and the same height as her. "Turn back around."
She was too spent to try anything, not when she would only have the chance to take one out if she was lucky (she wasn't fast enough; she was just a regular human). By the time she regained her senses, the other two would have dragged her in again.
He placed his hand on her shoulder and hadn't he been told not to touch her?
Huian's sight flickered with the familiar purple and black as Dark Spear snapped at the hand.
And then the hand was gone from her sight.
Too slow, dammit.
"Inside," he demanded, two steps away from where Huian had seen him a second go.
They were going have to carry her. Her strength was spent as she slid down the door frame, gravity stronger than her legs.
A shadow passed overhead but Huian only blinked at it, unable to move.
There was a crash in front of her followed by a cut off yell.
When Huian's eyes focused, her sight tilting to the side, there was a flurry of shorn fabric whipping about in the air. Behind it was someone with silver hair fighting with the modified humans.
…She knew that hair. Those claws. The placement of fur stripes.
She let out a sigh of relief, a smile spreading over her face. "21…" she murmured as she lost consciousness.
Her comrade.