Astral's Rise Part 6: Recovery

"Time is up, we have our contestants we want." the gods would speak as Titan slowly floated back to the moon. "We have a special announcement to pair with this as well. Astral made a deal with us and was successful in fulfilling his end. Now the change. He will take on all the remaining people in a gauntlet. One versus two for most fights. Lets see if he can put on a show for everyone. You all have three hours to gather yourselves." Astral through his hands up as the gods displayed the kill counts. Astral finished with three more kills than Titan, with some mysterious man named Lone in third place. In fourth was just a black blob and fifth held a man called Diddler. Astral looked at the list and smiled. Only about thirty people survived. Astrals suit depressurized as all the hot steam left his suit, Jaimie ran and hugged him as he dropped to the ground. It is too much for a human to handle.

Astral looked like a plastic dummy doll, being limp. Jaimie held him close, the heat from his suit searing her slowly. "Hey, you did it. Alexa, put the suit into off mode."

Alexa appeared in front of her as everyone slowly walked closer. "He is in critical condition. His suit is the thing keeping him alive right now, without the slow healing apparatus running he will die. I do wish we had more than three hours. I don't know if he will be functional by then."

Adam saw this as folly and child's play. "Alexa, can we take off his helmet?"

"Yes, his breathing will slow down but he needs time." Alexa responded.

"Adam, you can't do what I think you are gonna do. We have no clue if your drawings are edible, or if they provide the same abilities as normal." Anders took a second to try and reason with him.

"No doc, I wasn't planning that. Is it possible to give him a cocktail of many different chemicals chased with booze and painkillers?"

Jaimie slapped him. "Are you nuts? If his body is already on the verge of death why should we put him closer to it!" Anders already had a full collection of pills for Astral to digest. Astrid pulled out a spare bottle of vodka that she had, booze filtered her liquids and lasts longer than water. James and Angel both stood watching wondering why it takes so long for them to heal. Anders grabbed the bottle and shoved the pills down his throat before Jaimie turned back around. Seeing half of the bottle of booze gone down Astrals throat she grabbed it, throwing it on the ground.

"You know I still could have utilized those liquids Jaimie?" Astrid looks up with her crunched up face. Astrals eyes pop open and he looks up at his creation.

"Aww, my poor thing, isssss okay, just stay still for the three of your heads." He popped up and carefully walked over and held Astrids skull, taking off her eye lens revealing the mechanical eye beneath the metal. "The metal will warp burp back into place slowly or you can use suck, heh." Looking straight at Jaimie, "There is something you can suck. I got the most kills." turning back around handing Astrid a tool from his pocket dimension. "This helps with that. Itll grab on and warp back the original frame of your face." falling backwards he looks up at Adam. "Hah, your faces are all wearing glasses." Astrid was too busy fixing herself to pay attention after that.

Adam looked down at Astral. "Well, Alexa can you work with this heap of human?

"I could work with twigs and a thin frame if I wanted too. This brat is no more than a meat puppet." Alexa hoisted him upwards and standing using the suit. "With his suit, no one will know the difference."

Jaimie covered her face with her hands. "Well expert, how long till his body either collapses from all of his wounds or he is stable enough to be himself."

"I shall assume that if we face someone with the ability to heal themselves early, it may save his life. As for now, the healing pod will only sustain his life, his will is keeping him going but that attack did a large number on him." Alexa spoke.

"Uh wait, did you mention healing yourselves?" James looked at the rest of them.

"Yeah, unlike Zeta and Astrid with their nano tech that replaces itself, we have no real way to heal." Adam spoke.

"We can heal ourselves using our ability. And our natural life aura acts like a shield?" Angel looked at them as they looked back confused. "Just us?"

"Hey Astral, can you explain your powers, using them on these two? For your sake." Jaimie spoke really intrigued. Astral with the help of Alexa piloting the suit stood next to the twins.

"Now listen here kiddos. I'm Mr. Special, or in bed the doctor of love." causing everyone to gag outside of the twins. Who stand around listening. "If I lay my bare hand on you guys, I can pretty much copy your souls into mine, meaning that I get all of your goodies." He giggles a little bit as his ice cold hands touch both of their necks, causing them to jump backwards and Astral to fall flat on his face.

"If you let us explain, we could help you out more." James spoke

"Rather than just boldly assuming everything." Angel followed up her brother.

"Have you awaken aura before? I have, its fun to mess with humans that think they have a chance." James chuckled at the end

"Yeah, I use it on high affinity people back home. But this is home for us now." Angel smiled tilting her head to Jaimie. Who reached out and scratched Angel getting a soft little coo out of the owl.

"Quit the sappy talk and explain a little bit more to us, I am curious, the more hits you landed and took the stronger you guys got." Adam spoke.

James put his hand onto Astral and a soft cyan glow appeared around him. "If his insides are liquid this will help slightly, he has a large amount of energy bursting from him. All three of you do. Outside of you, sorry." looking over to Anders who is watching Astral carefully.

"None taken, I am just a doctor, these three are the talented ones." Anders spoke as a green glow sparked from Jaimie, the bird getting head scratches was able to activate it through thought. James went over to Adam. Astral's silence turned into quiet groans and quivers.

"Is there anything else that we can get from our natural aura's or no?" Adam asked.

"If you are born with aura already activated you have some sort of ability, us as twins have the same one luckily enough. But if it is unlocked this way, you cannot gain any ability, it does boost your stats allowing for minor wounds to be healed."

"James has survived being impaled in three spots before because of this ability of ours." Angel stepped closer to Jaimie. "It truly is a miracle that he is still alive." The others looked at him in shock. "Not a scar stuck to his body."