Parasite Eve: Aftermath (remake)

[Xx.Ayreth.Kirigashi.xX]

♦X-Meggie.Aurelius-X♦
The worst foe lies within the self...

Meggie's eyes watched her brother as he pulled out one of the hairs from his ear. She noticed the nub where his tail was forming, and let her eyes widen only slightly as she watched the scientist. Well, it was certain now, Mizuki was in fact more welcoming than Dr. Klamp. If Meggie had ever met that man, there was no way that she'd have brought her younger brother to this guy. So I guess it's a good thing this hadn't been New York, 1999, eh?

Dr. Mizuki stepped over and took the single hair from the boy and nodded, "This will do just fine." he said, before going over to his microscope, placing the hair under.
"Hmm..." was all he said, wondering something, standing back up he looked to the others, "Hmm..?" Meaghan asked, unimpressed by that being all he said. She folded her arms and stared at him waiting. "Is that all you have to say? Hmm?" she asked, "No no..." He went to get samples from Milla as well but she insisted she did it herself...
"What sort of troubles..?" he asked her, taking what she'd gotten for him, once she sat down, and took it over to a microscope right next to the other. "Very... interesting."

"What?! What's interesting? Are you going to tell us?" she was protective, remember? She wanted--no--she needed to know what was wrong with her brother. He sighed and looked to Meggie, shaking his head, "The cells are reacting to a electro current through the nucleus and are rapidly multiplying. I'd say this current of electricity is caused by the Mitochondrial Electro Pulse, but is much more severe than that. It's the same in both of your cells... If you like, the two of you may come and see for yourself. It's becoming more and more common these days an--" That's where he was cut off though, "So there's some weird stuff going on with their cells... So what? Doesn't it happen to everyone?" "Yes, but--" "Then why such a fuss?" "if you would listen!" his voice raised, causing Meaghan to finally back down, her eyes glaring at him.

"The neural path of the mitochondria seem fine, but when you look closer, they are putting out too much energy for the nucleus to handle, and are thus, in a way, taking over." Here we go again, a power cell taking over a brain. "That's impossible. It's like the heart taking over the brain." "That's precisely what it is, Miss."
She frowned, "Then just say it. What are they?" "Neo-Mitochondrians of sorts, I'd say. The legend returns. I'm sorry to say, but there's nothing else that could explain it."

Meaghan frowned a bit more and shook her head, "I don't believe it...." she muttered, rolling her eyes, waiting to see what the other two had to say...

[Millabones]

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"So it's true?" She said in a more confident voice "Are you telling me that everything people have been telling me is true?" She started to get agitated and held her head, digging in her claws. fingernails. "I'm a Neo-Mitochondrain? NO I CAN'T BE!! I HAVE CONTROL!!!" She was by this point, no longer a six year old girl, but a 19 year old girl with way too many problems. She took out her pills and showed them to the doctor "Could these be causing the problem? Should I stop taking them?"

[Xx.Ayreth.Kirigashi.xX]

♦X-Dr. Mizuki-X♦

He looked to her, and shook his head, "Those were prescribed by a doctor... I'm guessing because of hot-flashes and headaches?" he asked, nodding to her once, "They would be speeding up the process, yes." he said to her, thinking a moment, looking to Meaghan. Something about her set him off, like he knew she was like them too, just from her pure resistant atittude towards the Neo-Mitochondrians.
He looked back to Milla, "Many NMCs have great control over themselves. Don't worry." he said softly, gesturing towards the microscope with her DNA under it. "If you like, you can see for yourself, what exactly is happening to your cells, here." he explained, hoping to calm her down just a little by saying that not all NMCs went completely whack-job crazy on everything...

[Millabones]

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Milla took a really deep breath and held it. She looked at the microscope, to see her cells. She looked back quickly. "So if I continue taking these, It'll be quicker...? I'm taking these ones for head aches and hot flushes, and other ones for depression, and other ones for mania, and I have an medication that I inject for my sickness."

She felt calmer, but, what would become of her? She looked to Meaghan "I'm so sorry for making you take me, I realize you wanted to spend time with your brother..."

[AlyssMajere]

Alyss walk on her way to the church when she felt something in her body start to heat up, she couldn't explain in..it felt like something was calling her. She kept walking as her body got hotter and hotter, she didn't realize that she had stopped in front of the museum.....she asked herself why...unless..EVE was the only answer in her mind. She had read the reports of Aya and her first encounter with EVE..her body was hot when close to EVE and her mitochondria was calling her to that opera house...could her mitochondria be calling her to the museum? She didn't know why and how but all she could do, was walk up the step of the museum and begin to prepare herself for something big to happen.

[Reverend Vayne]

Fyeren peaked into the microscope and gasped at what he saw. But he also saw something else, like an extra wall around the cell. "Dr. Mizuki, what's this thing?" He asked. What it was of course, though not exactly named, was an adaptation caused by the selfish gene. It was fighting back to a degree, giving him control of himself.

"It looks weird." He muttered. He took off his gloves and looked at his hands. even if they were fighting back, whatever it was was still affecting him. For better or worse, he could not tell. He hugged his sister, no longer acting tough, but being the scared nine year old who used to come into her room complaining about nightmares. He was about to speak again when he heard a crash from outside. "W-what was that?" ((Stray NMC's that are attracted to Eve! WHOOO!!!!)) He pulled away from his sister and walked out. As he did so, he felt a wave of heat pass through him. He knew what taht was supposed to mean if Dr. Mizuki was right. His cells were communicating. He groaned and stumbled on, eyes shut type. not noticing the oversized, rat NMC scrambling along from a broken window.

[Xx.Ayreth.Kirigashi.xX]

♦X-Meggie.Aurelius-X♦
The worst foe lies within the self...

Meaghan wasn't too pleased with the scientist there. But she'd only come really, because of Fyeren and Milla. When Fyeren opened the door she too felt that heat. Her body became insanely hot and she reached for her pocket and pulled out the container of pills. Two dropped into her hand in a very short amount of time, then went into her mouth, as she closed her eyes tightly. "Fyeren..." she said, softly, looking out into the hall from the office-lab and shook her head, "It's nothing I... I think we should go home though." she said, nodding once, and with that leaving the room and heading down the stairs quickly, her hand leaving a hot trail on the railing, which smoked slightly.

She went into the main foyer area and looked around, swallowing hard and catching a sight of a girl, Alyss, just coming in, seeming to look for something. Her eyes locked on the girl, and without a thought, approached her. Digging around in her pocket, she took out a small piece of paper, "H-here..." she said, "I just felt... in my mind that you'd like to have this." and with that she shoved it towards the girl. A front-row ticket for her consert that night. Then she turned and ran off quickly, through the doors, hopping off the side of the stairs, she ran down the road a little ways, stopping only to look back. She'd left Fyeren there... But... She just didn't feel she could stay there. Forgive me, Fyeren. she said in thought, then kept going, towards their home.

In a few minutes she was back to the house. She ran up the stairs and into the washroom, stripping down and turning on just the cold water fairly high, pulling up the tab to turn it onto the shower head and stepped in. It was cold water... purely cold water, yet steam still rose off her skin... The young woman closed her eyes as she let out a sigh, putting her hands against the wall, tears forming in her eyes slowly. 'I just... hope I make it through this night...' she thought, opening her eyes and looking down to the water sinking through the drain...

Soon after, she stepped out, a little cooler now, dried herself off and went to her room, laying on her bed, keeping herself in the towel though, her eyes gazing at the wall... She reached down to the floor where she'd dropped her clothes and pulled out the notebook and pen from her coat pocket, and turned herself up and sat in the dead center of her bed.
'Here we go again... Damn... I've never experienced anything quite like this before. It was so much hotter than usual, and my eyes... My sight seems a little better than usual, and my hearing so much more clear. I can't seem to keep down my temperature... I guess I'll double my meds...
The consert is tonight, and I really don't want it to go badly for the others. And my brother... He looks up to me as a musician, so I can't get caught up in this stupid illness if I'm gonna make a good first impression, right?
I just don't know what to do anymore. Tripple? Quadruple meds? I'll be falling all over the stage if I do that... But I will double them, for sure... This is all I want. Please dear God, if you're listening to my plea now, please answer in some way, help me through this night... Help me through this sickness, and help my little brother to not be scared for either of us. Amen.
Maybe it's all in my head... Dr. Mizuki sure seemed odd. I don't trust him, anyways. He's just another loony that's on about the reign of the Mitochondria. Neo-Mitochondrians don't exist, and I know it. There's no way it's possible... Is there..?'

Her pen stopped, and she looked at that last question she'd writen, then looked out the window, as tears formed in her eyes again and she shook her head, "There isn't!!" she screamed and threw her book and pen at the opposite wall, quickly getting into her bed, under the covers, burrying her face in her pillows, "A nap, that's all I need before the show." she muttered to herself, closing her eyes...

[Millabones]

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OOC: ((Heyy~ Uh, Meaghan, I noticed you keep saying 'the two younger teens', but actually, Milla came back to re-do this year in a normal school))

Character: Milla, Ft Dr Mizuki.




Milla sat in the chair, still feeling faint. She watched the 2 of them leave the room one by one, but she was dipping in and out of conciousness, so she didn't really know why. When the door was opened, she felt an overwhelming rush of heat and she thought she felt the fake leather of the old chair see was sitting in melt a little. 'Oh my god... I just took meds before coming in... There is no way I can take more... Just breathe... Ask for some water' She thought to herself, and the second time it was opened, she said: "Er... Dr, could I get a glass of water?" and when he gave it to her she tipped it on her scalp, and revealed her green streaks of hair. After that, she did feel better, so she went to leave. "Miss..?" Said Dr Mizuki. Milla turned around swiftly. 'I don't move that quick!' She thought. "What?" she said rather angrily. "It seems to me that your pills are not working? Am I correct?" Milla's eyes widened slightly, and became more humid. "That would be correct, Dr. ..." Dr. Mizuki looked at the pills in her hand. "May I...?" She passed them to him: "Hmm..." He said and gave them back to her. She looked at him sternly for a few seconds. 'What! What is it!?' She wanted to say, but she didn't. she gave a disgusted-at-him sigh and opened the door. As she left the room, she felt it. The overwhelming heat sensation that the other had felt. she started to breathe fast and cry, but every tear she shed disappeared into steam. It must have looked like her eyes were on fire, and the steam was smoke. She took a deep breath, close her eyes, and pushed her way through all the people, who now looked like they were attracted to someones house. She ran as fast as she could, trying not to touch anyone, because every slight touch she had had with someone, was a scorch mark on her body. She ran out of the museum and down the street, as far away from the storm of those-- She hadn't actually looked at them. She didn't want to see what horrors they might be. The further from them she got, the less the heat affected her. after a while, she was fine, aside from the trauma and the burn marks, so she went back to her house and jumped in the shower. The running water turned to steam when in contact with her burns.

[Reverend Vayne]

Fye, left to fend for himself, just barely noticed the oversized thing scurrying towards him. He had never been in a fight in his life, but it came to him naturally. He dropped low and did what looked like a break dance move of sorts, legs flying out from under him and tripping the NMC. He was back up in an instant, running in a zig-zag path down the hall. He nearly fell down the stairs, but slowed down just in time. He looked back at the thing. It was still coming at him. He wouldn't have time to make it down the stairs walking. But he felt it inside him, like a guiding hand, something almost commanded him, jump. he followed the now fully awakened instincts and jumped over the rails. He grapped the ledge for just a moment, then dropped. He fell in a heap on the ground, but it didn't hurt as bad as it should. As a matter of fact, he just got back up and kept running is awkward path. But the thing was faster than him. It came down to a faceoff in the foyer. He stood facing it and let out a feral growl. He had no idea wher it came from. He felt every cell in his body communicate with him, he grew hot. Very hot. He let out another growl, followed by a howling noise and released all the energy pent up. ((My favorite thing from PE...Liberation. And the only NMC skill Fye has besides increases senses, speed and weak pyrokineses. hes not all suped up like the most of them are. And, he can only USE pyrokineses WHILE liberated.)) He found himself moving at a blinding speed, delivering kicks and punches from one side, and within the second on the other side, jumping around like a madman, and fighting like the most feral and vicious animal you could ever find. After a while of merciless beating, He held out his hand and ignited the air in a direct line in front of him. It could only go about three feet, but it was all it took. It made its mark and seared the rat. ((phew, long post.))

[Millabones]

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OCC: ((I just read the novel summary of parasite Eve on Wikipedia, sounds great.
(*1) Her memory was heightened ))

Characters: Milla, Dr Mizuki

Milla, in incredible pain, got out of the shower. she dried herself and rubbed cooling gel on her burns. she then wrapped herself in a clean white dressing gown and picked up her retro gray telephone, and dialed the number of Dr Mizuki that she had seen on a card on his desk(*1). She stood up, waiting for him to answer, with tears in her eyes. The phone beeped. "Hello Dr Mizuki, it's Milla Lyn, from earlier... You know the... Cell girl. I need to talk to someone." She said, all in one breath. "When I left the room earlier, I felt so hot. I closed my eyes and came home, but now, I seem to have burn marks on my body, like I was running through fire, and, my depression is getting worse, I never manage to get out of bed in the mornings, I am hardly ever in class, I..." Dr Mizuki stopped her. "Milla, slow down. Calm down. Take a deep breath" Milla did so "I know, about Neo-Mitochondria, yes. It seems to me that the heat you felt was to do with other Neo-Mitochondrians being near you, your cells reacted to theirs, and I think I know why they were at the museum. Your depression, may be nothing to with your cells, but on the other hand, may have everything to do with them." Milla cut him off "I need to see you." She said with a broken voice. "I know. Stop by the museum tomorrow, any time." Milla nodded, made a funny sound that was meant to be a 'yes' and out the phone down. She stood their for a few seconds, holding the massive phone in her hands, then she put it down, and went to the mirror. She stared into it and thought about Fyeren. She touched her ear softly and her eyes widened. She vigorously tucked her hair behind her ear and stared at it in the mirror. It was pointed. The process was speeding up. She ran into her kitchen, sorted though a load of books and magazines, and found a phone directory. "Aurelius..." she thought aloud, while flicking through the A's. "Ah..." she said as she picked up her phone. She didn't know what she was going to say, but at least Fyeren was going through the same thing she was, he would know how she felt. "Fyeren. Hi. I need to talk to you... My ears are..." She thought about what she was going to say. "Do you want to meat me somewhere tomorrow? there are no classes." She would meet him after talking with Mizuki, and maybe she could help him by telling him what Dr Mizuki had said. She really wanted to get to know him.

[Reverend Vayne]

Fyeren had no clue why his cell was in the phone book, but it was. perhaps it was because he had no house phone. Regardless, he picked up the phone. "H-hello?" He said, gasping for breath seeing as he was tired out from what he had just been through. "Y-yeah...we can meet up...and tomorrow's fine." He smiled to himself, someone he could talk to besides his unbelieving sister. But suddenly, he felt them near again, NMC's, many more of them. "Hey, I have to go. Meet me at the museum." and he hung up abrubtly. He saw them now, more rats. the building must have had a nest in it. He backed into the wall and still in a liberated form, burned several of the approaching, but there were many, many more. He was soon overwhelmed by them. He backed into a corner and awaited his fate.

[Millabones]

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OCC

Character: Milla

Milla put down the phone. She should have been happy. She had sensed something wrong with that last sentence. He had said it quickly, like he was rushing. She went over it in her head. 'I'm paranoid' She said to herself, but she knew she wasn't. She felt really weird about this... If only she knew where he lived.

She walked aimlessly down the street, after getting dressed. Maybe she would know which one was his house? 'maybe not...'
After a while of walking down the street, she felt really hot. She fiddled around in her pocket. Her meds were at home. She wanted to go home, but... 'Maybe I'm reacting to Fyeren' She said to herself. She started to walk faster, squinting to withstand the heat, sweating and making fists with her hands, she saw what looked like a massive snake slither into a house, so she ran towards it. She saw through a broken window, that was no snake. It was an overgrown rat tail.

[Reverend Vayne]

One of Fyeren's friends, Luneth, was at the museum as well, He locked himself in the closet to avoid the strange animals that had taken to chasing after him. He shut himself up in a closet as they scratched at the door, they would get in soon. He cried for help and backed farther into the janitorial closet. ((introducing Luneth))