"IT'S YOU, IT'S REALLY YOU!!!" Seido 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 Seido 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.
Seido 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 become a yoga ball sized orb, Seido
"What's happening" Seido yelled, at the thought of her dying as, he was trying to figure out what was happening "Is this Emma? It has to be her… right" Seido says frantically as panic spreads across his face like an infection. As the panic spreads to Haruy also staring at Emma "Seido do You know her" Haruy asks
"Yea, but it's a long story" Seido answers
Then her cheeks started to move then her body started to twitch as as her mouth slowly opens "Are you okay Emma" Seido asks, suddenly something a poll bolted out of her mouth.
But it wasn't a poll, "It-it's a centipede" Ethan shouts, the centipede spits 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 it is still trying to get out of Emma it goes for Seido, while a tear streams down Emma's face still with horror of what is escaping her. Just before it reaches Seido, 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 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 they met.
Seido 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 Seido's spot Evolution complete. Stage three: Harrow Sprite," Seido'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, Seido 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?" Seido asks with a smirk across his small head. "You could sell it for... hmmmmm!" Glinda shouted, eyes gleaming with exhilaration. She barely glanced at Emma's motionless form—her focus locked on the artifact, the moment, the possibilities.
"How about ten gold and four silver coins?" she offered, voice bubbling with excitement.
Seido didn't respond right away. His gaze hadn't left Emma.
"Sounds good," he said finally, his tone clipped. "Just give me one moment."
He rushed to Emma's side, dropping to one knee.
"Emma... are you okay?" he whispered, voice cracking.
Her body twitched. A sharp crack echoed through the air—bone or something deeper.
"Emma?" Seido's voice rose, panic blooming. "Emma!"
"Sei...do... d-don't... let him... take... me..." Emma using her last breath for help
"Emma? Emma! I won't let him take you. Not again. Not like this. I promise." Seido shouts with agony, As a pain long forgotten, the memory of the day he died all of his emotions erupted as one
"how could this happen" Seido continues his voice filled with pain, he scavenges for anything a spark of hope, as he opens his spell window he might have a spell to fix her to bring her back, from her slumber, he keeps scrolling, until he closes his eyes and remembers one late night on a quest he saw one of the criminals use divine heal on their leader when he was on the brink of death…
"Divine Heal—it can bring her back. But someone has to pay." Seido yells, as a masked women steps forward from the crowed,