Need for Loneliness

[Pyre]

Pyran sat on a boulder on the banks of the channell. He was just barely under the shadow of the bridge and no one would be able to see him except for maybe if someone caught the red glow of his eyes or the more subtle white glow of his collar and sword. The sword was resting in his lap, Pyran running his bandaged thumb down the blade. He glanced down at his leg in its cast and scowled, wondering how long it would be before he could take it off. For normal people it took like two or more months. For Pyran's dead body it could take five. He scowled and sheathed his sword, his red eyes glaring up at a passing ferry.

He had changed a lot, that was for sure. He had his bandaged hand, his broken leg, his tattered ear, and the giant scar accross his stomach, as well as a series of cuts accross his upper arm from where he had shown Sonic the color of his blood. His red eyes, glowing collar, and spectral sword drew attention as well. And the half of a cuff around his left wrist still got odd looks every once in a while. There had been a time when Pyran had been able to escape notice with ease but now it was nigh impossible.

He had to stay away from people. He had already jumped and almost killed someone once today. Colt had stopped him there. But he couldn't be there all the time.

[Shukko]|]

Relka jumped down behind Pyran, not even making the slightest little noise that he could hear. She crouched down beside him when she was close enough, you she looked up at his face, a slight smile on her face. She poked him in the shoulder slightly, still smiling. He eyes were still orange, she looked into his glowing red eyes.

"Hey Pyran, how are you?"

[Pyre]

Pyran jumped slighly and snapped his head towards her. He wondered how he hadn't scented her, but the smell of that other girl's blood was still fresh in Pyran's memory and it was no real wonder. "Relka? Heh, havn't seen you in a while," he purred.

"And I'm not great, but thanks for asking. Sorry I ran off again but there were some things I...had to do."

[Shukko]|]

"Pyran, you don't need to be sorry. Everyone has things they need to do..." She moved a little closer to him, and leaned her head on his shoulder, watching the water in the channel. She watched the sunlight gleam in the water, she was still smiling, leaning still her head was on his shoulder still. There shoulders were touching too, but she hadn't even noticed. "Atleast your still... alright..."

[Pyre]

Pyran looked over at her, his ears standing up stiff and straight in slight alarm. He didn't move to pull away from her, but Colt's words were still ringing in his head. 'She seems quite attatched to you. Why die?'

"Um...Relka..." he said slowly. This was gonna be awkward, but he had to know. "Do you um...do you like me?"

[Shukko]|]

She lifted her head up and looked into his red eyes, she smiled. Twirling his fur on his arm with on of her fingers, she looked down towards the channel. "Yeah, I do... Is there something wrong with that?" She said, leaning her head back on his shoulder still looking down towards the channel. She hadn't explained what she meant, but she knew what Pyran meant, so her answer might explain it for him. She closed her eyes while still sitting there with him, she was calm... Unlike the other times before... If you know what I mean...

[Pyre]

Pyran's eyes narrowed just slightly as he tried to understand a sudden clash of emotions, all of them vying to quicken his heart or increase his adrenalin in a certain way. Stupid body, didn't it know it couldn't affect Pyran's thinking any more? It was just annoying.

"Yes...I'm sorry but there is something wrong with that." Pyran tried to keep his voice steady as he spoke. "Relka. Doesn't...bother you at all that I'm dead? That I'm a murderer?" He had to remind himself that she didn't know the whole story; didn't know of Pyran's recent self-revelation in that crazy man's lab.

[Shukko]|]

She still had her eyes closed, relaxed right beside Pyran. She smiled, still remaining calm and relaxed. "Bother me? What'd do I care? Hm, still there are ways that can be changed..." She said, yawning slightly. She sighed abit and then, looked up at him. "I've been around longer than yo have Pyran, I've been killig alot more people. But, it doesn't matter too me. I have you, even if your not always there." She placed her head back on his shoulder.

[Pyre]

"Well you'd think falling for a dead guy might actually turn people off, but somehow you don't even care." He sighed and looked away from her but still didn't move to get her off him. "You do realize don't you...that I can't love? I've been trying to. And there's something there. I like you Relka and I want to protect you, which is just crazy talk because you can protect yourself just fine. But I don't know.... I guess it's not really that I can't love. I just cant' be...attracted, know what I mean?" His ears flattened as he said the words. Colt had no idea how lucky he was that at least his body was in working order with his brain.

[Shukko]|]

"Yeah I know. But justtelling me the obvious is just being mean, Pyran... There's uh something I want to tell you..." She llifted up her head and looked at him. "Remember, how I told you about the lab I was from in the desert?" She said, there was no longer a few centemetres between them, she was completely up beside him. "There's something about it that I want to tell you."

[Pyre]

Pyran's ears perked up again, his eyes fully intent on her. He remembered vividly how when he'd asked her about that she had tried to bite his head off practically. His curiosity was pricked and he was surpised to find that she was so close to him and that his hand hand found hers somewhere in all this but he couldn't let go. "Tell me," he said softly. What was she trying to hide?

[Shukko]|]

She took a pice of hsarp metal from the ground a cut a line on a section of her arm, but no blooddripped from it this time. She pressed a section of the metal with her finger, and a small computer chip came out. "This chip here, has data on reversing and speeding up the effects of the lving body's rotting even after death, when the lab was almost completely destroyed..." She paused, taking in a breath. "There was a machine that could control the process. It wasn't completely destroyed, the only thing it needs is this chip and... lving DNA and dead DNA... So I was wondering, if you wanted to use the machine...?" She stopped, and looked directly into his eyes. She didn't know what he would say or how he would react to her question.

[Pyre]

Pyran found a low growl coming from his throat and he cut it off abruptly, hoping Relka hadn't noticed. "Living DNA? I don't have living DNA Relka," he said calmly. But then a memory came back to him, of being in that shattered restaurant with a little kitsune azekaran girl, white light pulsing from her palms as she had tried to heal Pyran's broken body. He remembered the feeling vividly, the flash of pain. The chaos energy from Iro mixed with Saria's healing energy had been forcing Pyran's dead body back to life in an attempt to get it to produce more cells and close the gaping wound in his stomach. His collar had flared molten red for that split second before Pyran had lashed out at the girl and forced her to stop.

Still...it was a possibility. "I think though...maybe with large concentrations of chaos energy we could force part of my body back to life to get living cells. How exactly does this all work?" He wanted to be alive so bad, wanted to feel Relka. Right now he could feel something but it was distant. Like trying to hold someone's hand through a balloon. He didn't deserve life, he knew. Not real life. But at least then he'd eventually be able to leave this world naturally. Not live through its destruction and beyond.

[Shukko]|]

"I'll explain, first the living DNA doesn't need to be yours, it needs to be someone elses, someone the same species and that you've had contact with before, or recently." She yawned a bit, then raised a brow. "And how it works? It kinda reverses time on the subjects body. For example, if you stabbed a fish in the eye then ripped out it;s heart..." She paused. "When you place it in the machine and turn it on, the wound well heal and the heart well completely grow back. It well bring the thing back to life, but on you, you would start feeling pain, but it would heal faster, making the pain not as worse. So? Would you like to use it?"

[Pyre]

"Er...same species?" he repeated. Well that certainly narrowed it down. He could always bug Colt, if it came to that.

Still he frowned. It seemed like all it really did was heal and cause a lot of pain in the process. Pyran's body could already heal, and even if it took a millenium at least there was no pain. Still...he wanted to know... Would it heal everything? The scar in his stomach, his skeletal arm? Or...even his red eyes? Probably not that. Pyran wasn't even sure why his eyes were red. Probably something to do with his soul being attatched to a dead body.

((Heh, as I mentioned Pyran doesn't know he's braindead. So when this hits he'd get back a lot of memory and probably personality.))

"Is that what you want?" he asked slowly. No, he wasn't saying whether or not it was what he wanted. He was asking her, and only her.