Infinity: Rising of the Soul Weavers

* Krewella - Alive *

"Do you have a mental issue there, buddy?" Raven asked seriously. The boy was just screaming out of fear, but now he\'s asking to die by her hands?

"Um, nothing that I know of," he said.

\'Hm, I shouldn\'t do this, but after summoning Calcer and Keith I lost quite a bit of mana, which means it\'s less likely for me to turn into psycho mode…\' she said while activating her special skill: True Sight.

Looking into the boy\'s brain and realised that some areas were damaged, \'aw I screwed up…\' she muttered, realising that she\'d caused some internal brain damage to the boy.

Looking into her golden eyes being surrounded by crimson rings of light made the boy back away from her, slightly.

\'Hyperactivation of the amygdala and prefrontal cortex, slight inhibition of the hippocampus, and a lot of inhibition in the thalamus… that\'s not good.\' she muttered.

"So, hear me out kid," she said as the boy straightened up instantly without realising. "What\'s happening is that your brain is functioning in high stress conditions.

"It won\'t become a permanent condition if I treat it now. But you\'re basically afraid of me without remembering why exactly. And those random memory flashes by inconsistent activation of the hippocampus are not helping.

"In a sense, your brain is trying to protect you, even though it\'s only making things worse. Anyway, I\'ll need to touch you."

"..."

"Err, your head I mean... I need to touch your head" she added. "So, don\'t panic, ok?"

"Yes!" The boy answered instantly.

*Sigh* 

\'This is going to be troublesome…\' she said while activating her True Sight once again. She couldn\'t keep the skill up for too long so she needed to be swift.

That, and she didn\'t want to use a lot of mana. \'Even though healing may be fine?\' she questioned herself.

Looking at the veins slightly throbbing at the sides of her eyes made the kid quieter than how he\'d normally be. But it was better for Raven so she didn\'t complain.

Activating her Angelic Touch next, she started pulsing mana into regions while leaving some with a lack of mana. 

In a sense, she was trying to control the blood flow using mana equilibrium, in order to artificially inhibit or activate specific regions as required.

"My mistress," Keith interrupted with a bow, "May I help? I have some control over blood."

Being as focused as she was, a few words were enough to startle her. Widening her eyes in surprise caused her eyes to revert back to normal. \'Ouch…\'

"You do?" She\'d never heard of someone controlling blood before, but again, she was not that educated when it came to powers anyway.

"Correct."

"Ok, just amplify my effect if possible. This way, I will be able to focus more on healing the tissue itself."

"As you wish, my mistress."

"Are you good by the way? You can speak, it helps to know that I\'m not accidentally turning you into a zombie…" she said to the boy who gulped loudly and started to speak back.

The process didn\'t take that long. But after they finished, the boy seemed more relaxed and unlike earlier, he had normal responses…

"Thank you for saving me," he said while standing up and dusting himself off of the dirt.

Since he was aware of the fact that they saved him, he assumed they were good people. And whatever nightmares he had seen before of the beautiful girl were just that: nightmares.

"Do you have a name?" Raven asked with a smile.

"Yes," answered the boy, "my name is Noah."

"Nice to meet you, Noah," Raven said with a smile. "My name is Raven. This is Calcer, and that\'s Keith."

"Nice to meet you all," Noah said.

"Ok so let\'s get straight to the point," Raven said with a serious expression. "What happened here?"

"Well, you see," Noah scratched the back of his head in embarrassment. "To cut the chase… I\'ve recently discovered that I have some sort of powers. I can condense my mana into energy balls and fire them at high velocities."

He said with a quick demonstration. Firing an energy ball towards a tree, he left a medium sized hole in it.

"I realize it\'s not the most impressive…" he seemed disappointed that none of the three said a word. "But I usually use this to fight the monsters hiding in the forest."

"Oh no, your powers are not bad, don\'t say they\'re not impressive," Raven said with a smile. "I\'m sorry, I was just thinking about the applications of such powers." She said as she condensed her own golden mana in a similar sized ball.

Seeing that, Noah widened his eyes. Hers was, by far, more stable than his, and seemed to be radiating more power.

"See, what you did was good and all," she said, "but for maximum effect, you need to give it a small spin and a final push before you let it go. The initial angular and forward velocities you give it will determine the increase in power level, considering that other variables are still the same." She said as Noah watched the golden ball spin in her small palm.

\'Watching the baseball team train near us after school wasn\'t a waste after all,\' Raven thought with a smirk. 

Of course she could just fire it using mana repulsion, but where was the fun in that?

Adopting a pitching position, she kept the ball close to her heart, focused on the tree target, and threw with all her might. 

Just as the ball was about to be released from her grasp, she used her mana control to spin it and then give it a last push.

BOOOMM!!!

Instead of passing through the tree bark, the mana ball took the tree down and proceeded to hit some other trees in the way. After hitting a couple of trees, it eventually exploded with a small area of effect.

\'Good job…\' Tu said in her mind. 

\'Eh… whoops?\' 

"My mistress, you\'re the best!" Calcer cheered happily.

"Quite impressive, my mistress," Keith followed.. Even though his face stayed neutral, one could tell he was proud.