Chapter 16 - Forty Six & 2

Chapter 16: Forty Six & 2

Ashley woke up from a nightmare. It wa a realtime flashback sort of. She felt his whip sting her as she, bound with rope, begged for mercy. He delivered harder and harder strikes after she begged, hoping for an end to the pain. She saw she was picking at her skin again, bleeding now, and tried to patch it up with some medical tape. She was laying in her King size bed, the red standing out from the pink princess walls and golden dressers. She started to clean it up with a towel. She started having the nightmares 3 days ago, after she had sex with Adam. She looked in the mirror and saw to her horror, that her back was shining in darkness just as Adam's scar did when he felt great emotions. She was turning into him, or atleast his kind. "Good morning Ashley, I...." Dr. Connors stopped when he saw her shining back. He saw in horror that what he had fought had became his daughter. He grew from shock to anger, when he realized how she got it. The diesase that causes 48s is sexually transmitted. Unlike naturally born 48s, she was much more powerful, and the only other diesased 48 he could think of nearby was... he shuttered to the truth. He started to speak. "your one of them.... those freaks that I've been protecting you from.... you got the diesase... you whore.... you slept with one of those animals, didn't you? You fracked him, like the little whore I raised, didn't you?" Dr. Connors began to yell, as Ashley began to cry, while backing away from him. "He's a nice boy, just he's different... Please give him a chance! PLEASE!" She started sobbing uncontrolably as her dad began to raise his belt as a whip. "Just tell me, my little slut, who did you sleep with?" Dr. Connors said as he raised his belt. "His name is Adam, Adam Willams..." "WHAT! YOU DISGRACE ME BY LOSING YOUR VIRGINITY TO THAT GOD DAMNED LUNATIC! HE IS WHY WE'VE BEEN frackING MOVING FOR SO frackING LONG! HE IS A MURDERER AND A BASTARD CHILD! And... your the worst slut piece of trash it has ever been my disgrace to know... your dead to me, you hear me, dead you hoe. You... you probably sold yourself to other men first to buy a skirt for him to soil with his bad seed, didn't you? You fracking whore..." Suddenly, Dr. Connors pulled out a pistol. "I won't kill you right away, my dog, I'll shoot you right where he shot up you, and watch you bleed to death very slowly..." He stuck the gun up her skirt and into her vagina. She was crying incessively, while his anger was fueling his rage of insanity. "5...4...3..." "No, please don't Dad" "2....1........." Suddenly, a dark figure burst through Ashley's window. A figure wearing a cloak that made him look like death himself. A sleek black suit around his body, and a metal mask covering his face, save his scarred eye. "LET GO OF YOUR DAUGHTER, DR. CONNORS. FACE YOUR FEARS, in its real form." he said as he removed his mask. "Familiar face, Dr. Connors? I see you have not changed your wrathful ways since I met you at the asylum. Also, I love your daughter Dr. Connors, she offered herself to me. I did not force her upon me, though you can respect that right? You aren't really going to kill your only family because you want to kill me? If you are, that's stupid. I'm fairly calm right now, and I'd like to keep it that way. Don't shoot, and I dont chop your fracking head into 20000 pieces! YOU HEAR?" he put back on his mask and began to speak as a demon again. "I GIVE YOU A CHOICE, LIVE OR DIE, YOUR DECISION." Adam said as Dr. Connors struggled to decide. He saw the fear in his daughter's eyes, and made a descision. He slowly pulled the gun out of her body. "GOOD," Adam answered, knowing what was going to happen next. "See you in hell, Adam!" As he suddenly jerked the rest of the gun out of his daughter and shot it at Adam. He had perfect aim, it would have killed anyone else instantly. Though this was Adam. He phased through the ground through a shadowy portal. "BUT NOT GOOD ENOUGH!" He said as he reappered and sliced his swords near Dr. Connors neck. He would have followed through, if it had not been for a certain girl. "Stop Adam, not now. He is evil and corrupt, though it is not his time. This will no doubt also put a big villan mark on your entire reputation. Dad, we are going, to never return. I do not need you, or this home, or any services you may provide me with. All I need is Adam. We love each other. Don't ruin that Adam. Do not scare me away." she finished as Adam only made a small blunt strike to make him forget the last moments. Ashley wrote a false suicide note saying she threw herself into a woodchipper. They then threw some meat into a woodchipper and Adam and Ashley flew off into the sun.

"I want to learn Adam. I'm not sure if I can. My fears have grown. My pain has grown." Ashley said as they were sitting in their apartment. It had became much better quality since they had 2 sets of income comming in. Ashley, still hiding from her abusive father, wanted to learn how to control her powers, if she had any. She had the scars, she had the diesase, she just needed the control. "Here's a song that helped me when I needed to learn my powers." (Get the song 46 & 2 by Tool for the best experience)
He began to play, dDdCDdEDdCDdBC
As she listened, she noticed that it was diferent the 4th time he played it, like the change in chromosomes that they had. "Face your fears, they are only hold you back. Step through them, accept them and walk through them." She concentrated really hard, but still nothing. She felt too much fear, too much pain to enter the darkness. The music continued, entrancing her mind. She couldn't give up her fear though, her fear was in the way. Her darkness was blocking her from stepping through. Adam seemed to expect this, as without pausing, he continued, DCEDdDCEdDCEDdDCEDdBC
He then smiled lightly, as he returned to the original rift, and began singing, to guide her through

My Shadow's Shedding Skin
She saw her own shadow, coming to life before her very eyes, becoming a being. It was a part of her, but it now had a mind of it's own.

I've been picking scabs again
She saw her bleeding arms, suddenly healed by the shadowy creature, helping her through her torment and nightmares.

Up & Down, digging through
She began scraping her skin, in disbelief, wondering what was to happen to her.

My own muscles looking looking for a clue
She realized that this clawing was her disbelief that she was not human. Her realization of this conquered her first fear.

I've been crawling on my belly
Figuring out what could have been
She remembered her days of suffering, wondering how to escape. Her realization that the prizon holds everyone yet has no bars conquered her second fear.

I've been wallowing in my own confused and insecure delusions.
She remembered the dreams she was having, her dark nightmares. She realized that it was her time to rise above the nightmares, fight the chains that hold her, and be free. Her last fear was conquered.

I want a piece to cross me over.
She realized without fear, she needed the power of the shadow, she wanted it. She felt deservant of it, so she became concentrated again, the shadow passing over her body, her falling into it.

Or a word to guide me in
She still would need help to manuver this shadowy realm, from her love. Adam would help her through the darkness.

I want to feel the shivers coming down
She stepped into the shadow door, and came out the other end, though this time, she was consumed by the shadow, just as Adam was many a time before. This sense of power, yet weakness, grew on her, and made her want her full potential...

I want to know what I've been hiding
She said as Adam sung it, him, seeing her shadow form, now fully absorbed in it. Her back lit just as his eyes did when he was enfuled with the shadow. His pupil was great in skill.

(If you have the song, this is the chorus)
"Now, use your energy to generate a power. Mine was to consume my enemies, and later it being controled allowed my to control my swords to do so. Your first attack will determine your weapon, and your ablilties. She concentrated with all her might.

I've been crawling on my belly
She said, recalling her moments of sorrow

Clearing out what could have been
She then said, reclaming her past fears into her power.

I've been wallowing in my own chaotic, insecure delusions.
Recalling her nightmare of a father

I want to feel the change consume me
Showing her concentration of all her power's into one attack.

Feel the outside turning in
She said, refering to how she wanted her inner soul to be in control, not her

I wanna feel the metamorphosis
She said, accepting her body change, for the dark power she had

And cleansing i've endured within
She wanted to feel her inner pureness work with her outer body

Suddenly, Adam jumped into his own shadow form next to Ashley.

My Shadow
Change is coming
Now is your time
Listen to my muscle memory
Contemplate what I've been clinging to
Forty Six and 2 ahead of me

At that moment, Ashley blasted a beam of pure dark energy through the wall, discinigrating part of it. She lost almost all of her shadow energy at that moment. Though she would gain more, for she had entered the shadow. It would grow. As she said after that, no longer in shadow form, but still with that head rush from it:

I chose to live and to
Grow, take and give and to
Move, learn love and to
Cry, kill die and to
Be paranoid and to
Lie, hate and fear and to
Do what it takes to step through...

"Good," Adam said as she got up from her knees. "well get you guns tommorow. After school, well find you stuff to start. You are ready, and possibly may be stronger than me one day. Though you need practice, and with Jenny's sudden dissaperance, I think the city needs all the help it can get." Ashley smiled when she heard this.

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