Visionary Tales

"I go by Adam these days."

The words chilled the air and an chaotic sensation diffused into the shinsu in the air.

Tiara froze, feeling a dreadful sensation begin to creep up her spine.

Anxiety suddenly begin to fill her mind. Winston, or better yet, Adam smiled softly at her.

Instantly, her mind cleared.

A spell? Tiara though to herself, not voicing out her inner machinations.

"Adam? Why the sudden change in name?"

"I just deemed it fit for the performance."

"Performance?"

Tiara felt a strange intrigue blossoming in her mind.

Adam's eyes never left her's as he spoke again with his sweet and pleasing voice.

"Enough about that. May I inquire why such a beautiful young lady is here to see me?"

There was something about his words. Something dangerous. Tiara could feel her stomach churn in anticipation of what was to come, yet her brain sent no signals that may warrant such a thing. Adam himself seemed perfectly harmless without a hint of malevolence in his visage.

Tiara snorted with a chuckle.

"You might have heard of me. I am the Princess of the Po Bidau family, Po Bidau Tiara." She said, a dangerous glint in her eye.

Adam bowed a bit, his hand extending to his chest and taking hold of the cross.

"My greetings to you, Princess." Still having his head held at an angle, he looked up to meet her face. "Am I to assume you've come here for... revenge, like the Lo Po Bia have been vying for?"

Adam rang out with a soft chuckle, and holding his head high, he said, "I assure you, you're wouldn't like the end result of that venture."

Tiara inwardly nodded at his speech. It seemed that this Winston fellow was not too bad in manner of speech. At least he appeared to be a finely educated gentleman.

However.

"Hardly. What I came here to do has nothing to do with the happenings of the Workshop Battle. Instead, it has something to do with what happened after."

A subtle glint appeared in Adam's eyes, yet that too failed to reach Tiara. It felt as if all her senses, no matter how trained were purposefully preventing her to gleam any information about this man from his expressions. Not to say his expressions gave away any information in the first place.

"And that is?"

Tiara's smile widened.

"It was a marriage proposal. One that my father suggested. The target of that was none other than you."

Realization seemingly dawned on Adam's face who held his chin in quiet contemplation.

"I see. Then what was your opinion on that?"

Tiara hesitated. It was not for long, but a flicker of hesitation, or perhaps doubt ran through her visage. A momentary pause that didn't go unnoticed by Adam.

And then, a flower bloomed.

Fiiiisssshhhh!

Adam looked to his right.

His right arm had just been cleaved straight through by a red circle which made out of intricate carvings.

"That's a useful spell." Adam chuckled.

Instantly, dozens of such circles began to form all around his body, turning him asunder!

Fisssh!

Spurt!

Splat!

Blood spurted and fell onto the sand below, turning it a shade of red as the previously pristine robes lay dyed crimson on the ground, tattered and torn.

Tiara stopped, in bafflement.

"That's it?" She muttered, more to herself than anyone else. "I was expecting a more beautiful flower to bloom." She smiled, her eyes momentarily glazing over as she looked at the mutilated body of the Irregular.

Her glazed eyes took in the silver cross that shifted the sands with it's weight.

Well... it was better than most rankers at least... She thought with a smile.

"You're quite a psychopath. Can't say I like where this first meeting is going." Suddenly, a hand grasped her shoulder.

Her eyes widened as she jumped back in alarm.

As she did, a spell materialized around her, sending hundreds of circular shinsu blades flying at the voice.

Boom!

Shaaa!

"Yeah. This isn't going well at all." Adam's voice came from the dust cloud. And before long, with measured steps, the man walked out with a smile.

"Quite a predicament we find ourselves in." He said.

"How?" Tiara raised an eyebrow, calmly observing the place where she had just shredded his man.

In that place, no sign of the previous murder lay.

Her eyes narrowed in alarm.

"Aren't you an interesting fighter." She smiled at him and then opened her book. "I dont know what you did and how you did it. But I will continue to personally obliterate you!"

Adam broke into a smile and chuckled.

"Then be my guest and try." He said.

In Tiara's hand, a golden pen materialized out of thin air.

Adam stayed calm, not interfering with the way things were progressing.

Without haste, she wrote into the pages.

Fire fills my stomach and scales lines my body.

I breathe destruction and walk the path of anarchy.

I transform into a Fire Breathing Dragon!

Adam watched in pleasant surprise as her words noted down onto the book, overlapping with reality and turning inside out.

And so...

Roaaaaarrrr!!!

Writing turned into actuality. Fiction descended into the real world.

Adam's growing smile, the only change in expression told volumes about his surprise.

To think there was... such abilities one could manifest through shinsu.

He of course knew it now, since he had transformed himself into the Visionary, but to think others could also manifest the same.

Shinsu, as always, continued to surprise him.

Tue Dragon roared into the sky, announcing it's presence in the desert.

Then, an incinerating flame was released from it's mouth, turning the surrounding sand into glass and scorching the already got landscape with the flames of hell.

Booooom!

Explosions of flame cut through the sand as Visionary Adam again appeared in a different place. This time, he held his arms out and spoke like he was speaking out a holy decree.

"I can do that too you know." He smiled.

And as the dragon once again turned to him, again vying to release it's flames, he opened his mouth.

"I turn the heavens asunder, with electricity in my veins and lights in my eyes; I conquer the the mind through calculations and facts.

"I become, that which I desire. I form structures that harvest the stars."

With the one description, Winston poured out one of his wildest dreams.

"I become a Machine God."

As his voice rang clear into the sky and to the horizons ahead, the Dragon stopped and widened its eyes.

What it saw baffled it.

It saw the image of it's father. The way his writing turned true.

Everything happened in the blink of an eye. And then, it appeared.

It took the form of a large mechanical nightmare. It was large and like a behemoth and had thousands of appendages, made entirely out of mechanical parts with cogs and steam coming out of various places.

It was a Machine God.

She had heard of Machine God. It was one of the old gods of the tower when the Ten Great Fanily heads still climbed the Tower and led the Mechanoids.

But this... this wasn't it. It was something else.

Something different.

Something beautiful.

The Dragon's eyes glistened and gleamed as she saw the beauty in writing she wasn't sure she could see anywhere else other than her father's.

It was breathtaking.

It was glorious.

It was... ineffable.

And then, the machine moved.

It jutted out all of appendages and an omnious light glowed inside them.

Realizing what this meant a little too late, the Dragon fired it's breath nonetheless.

Shaaaaaaaaaaa!

A sea of flames tore through the air to envelop the machine within, yet, as the flames cleared out there it emerged unharmed.

Tiara's eyes couldn't help but widen.

This... was impossible. Her flames were second only to her father's. This couldn't possible be true.

Amid her thought, the machine gathered the shinsu. And it fired.

Booooooooooooooom!!!!!

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As the dust and sand cleared, Visionary Adam walked calmly through the expanse.

He looked ahead, where lay a beautiful woman on the ground. A hole in her stomach.

He had refrained from killing her. Why? Because there was something he found very interesting.

Walking to her barely breathing figure, he spoke.

"You. Are you aware that you are Gustang's writing?" He asked.

Tiara's bloodied eyes widened.

"H-how?" She asked. But then, she chuckled.

Of course he knew. With his strange abilities which were similar to her father's, it would be a miracle if he did not realize it.

But as she quieted down, Adam leaned down and touched the hole in her stomach.

Just a second later, all injuries on her body healed, as if they did not exist.

Tiara laid on the ground, unmoving. In Utter bamboozlement.

"Huh?" She said after a momentary pause.

"You're a bit interesting. Tell me." Adam asked, smiling like the devil.

"Would you like me to give you humanity?"

At this point, Tiara wasn't even surprised he could do such a thing.

"What does that mean?"

"I don't mean you aren't human. You are as human as anyone else. But your personality is determined by Gustang's writing still. It is dominated by it." He said. "Tell me. Do you want me to give you humanity?"

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A/N: This is the way things will be progressing. I don't have any plans for romance, but things will be made up as I go along and hopefully it'll all turn out well.

Throw some stones.

Cheers.