News, both good and badHaving caught the attack on the display screen overseeing the Olympic events, Nissa broke away from several competitors and headed to where Dragon, Nogard, Ette, and Nate were.
"Where do you think you're going!?" someone said, grabbing Nissa's arm and attempting to pull her back. "You need to help us win!"
Throwing the person off--which sent him flying through the air--Nissa made her way over to where the others were. Picking both Dragon and Nogard up, Nissa forced her way through the thickening crowd with Ette and Nate on her heels. Once clear, Nissa quickly made her way home where she lay Dragon and Nogard on the porch.
Ignoring Dragon's pleas and the twins trying to explain what had happened, Nissa knelt next to Nogard and placed her hands on the woman's temples. Closing her eyes, Nissa allowed the nanobots that ran through her system to enter into Nogard's to report any vital signs.
OOC Note
Because I'm having an
Andromeda moment here and there's no way in HELL I can draw what Nissa is seeing, I'll explain it in in this OOC note.
The best way to think about what Nissa is seeing as she's checking to see if Nogard is alive or dead is imagine a very long hall with doors or branching off hallways. At first glance of this hall, you immediately know it should be engulfed in flames--also your random fire sprite running around cackling madly as it creates smaller fires--but the hall has none of this. Walls are scorched and bowed from the intense inferno, wall paper has peeled and flaked away, and rafters in the ceiling are exposed.
Now, imagine Nissa walking down this ruined hall looking about with a neutral expression. Though you know androids cannot feel anything, you sense that Nissa is awed by her surroundings, if not a little frightened. You see as Nissa randomly inspects any rooms off the main hall but turns up nothing. Her expressionless face slowly begins to show some form of concern as her inspections continue to turn up nothing.
The door at the end of the hallway is slightly ajar. Through the crack between the door and the jamb, there's a small flicker of light--almost too faint to see. Nissa approaches the door and pushes it open. In the furthest corner of the room--
Opening her eyes, Nissa looked at Dragon and said, "She's alive, but barely. If they had taken any more, she'd be dead."
"We have to get her home," Dragon said. Some strength was obviously returning to her as she was able to push herself into a sitting position. "Maybe Ikkit can--"
"No," Nissa said, having consulted her files back home already. "There's nothing Ikkit can do. We have to rekindle Nogard's fire to save her."
"But--"
"I have access and override codes to all of Ikkit's files," Nissa said. "I
know what I'm talking about. Best we can do is to get Nogard home and place her in stasis while we contemplate our next move."
"Question," Nate said. "They took as much mana out of Dragon as they did Nogard. Why weren't they affected the same way?"
"Because
the human body is about 55%-60% water," Ette replied. "And with Dragon having been a water element in the first place, it did not take as much toll on her as it did Nogard who was a fire element."
"Where's Xangord?" Dragon asked, her eye twitching a little.
Closing her eyes and wirelessly hacking to the Gaia database, Nissa replied after a moment, "She and Xink not registered on any of Gaia's security networks or in within range of it's orbiting satellites."
"They're probably after her too," Dragon said. "If Xangord gets turned into a human, we won't have any way to restore Nogard's inner flame."
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OOC here for a moment, I've noticed that every time I type the word "dragon" I have to capitalize the "D".