Oh the mall

[Royahl]

The mall was a pain to navigate for Royahl. His slender frame, long blond hair and crystal blue eyes had people constantly starring at him, the fact he was flying didn't help either. Floating over the food court he looked down and saw people stuffing their faces with pizza and cookies, it disgusted him really. The people of this city were gross and he could see why so many Anti Heroes were deciding to make this there home.

One girl caught his eye she was wearing a thick black leather jacket and was making her way out of a jewelry store. She didn't look like a thief but the expression on her face made it seem like she was doing something she clearly wasn't supposed to. Sure enough before he even started reading her thoughts an alarm from the store went off. He tried to use his powers to grab her but somehow all he got was her purse thats when it happened.

"That boy stole my purse." She shouted which completely through the guards off the fact that she was the one who had stolen from the jewelry store and they were on to him.

"I did not steal your purse you dumb thief. I'm trying to save the jewelry store from a common crook." He dropped her purse in the middle of the two of them and told the guards to open it. Sure enough they did and there was nothing but a necklace and some rings in it. When Royahl looked at were the girl was standing before she was gone.

The guard congradulated him like he had done some major heroic deed by getting back the jewelry he shrugged his shoulders and floated over to a smoothie place in the food court. Nearly landing on the ground he smiled at the cashier when she asked him what he'd like and he said "Mango please. Leave some chunks of Mango if you don't mind." She turned around started mixing his smoothie and he began reading her mind to make sure she didn't spit in it.

"Stupid Hero were was he when the Pizza place was getting destroyed." He heard her thinking.

After she made his smoothie she walked towards him and handed him his Drink, before she could tell him what his total had come to he said this I was battling the only person on the planet I really care about. I ended up having to lock her into a natural prison and burying her under ground but I really wish I could of been there to save your Pizza joint instead of my sisters life." With his final words the Smoothie exploded and he turned around and floated away from the Cashier who had been caught totally off guard and was currently wondering if she was going to be meeting the same fate as that innocent Mango smoothie.

Royahl floated to the second floor and sat down on a safety rail to watch the Humans run back and forth between the stores with the cheapest prices and biggest sales.

[kiya]

A pale frail figure approached the mall, leaning against the doors to peer inside, nose pressed firmly against the glass her face contorted in obvious curiosity and at the same time a touch of fear graced her face, fear of the people inside, she did not have much contact with others but one thing she was sure of, was that she was hungry and from what little she could remember this was the place to get food. She pushed the door open gently and stepped inside a shiver running down her spine as her bare feet felt the chill of the cold tiled floor, she wriggled her toes for a moment staring at her feet before giggling and moving on. Her eyes moved around her rapidly as she gazed at all the stores, and more so at the people who would meet her glance, it seemed they found her strange.

She hummed to herself before shrieking with delight as she saw plants, and she hurried towards the shrubbery used merely for decoration in the mall, merely to brighten it up and add a touch of colour to the darkness of this place.
“Hello, you live in such a dark place, do you not wish for light?” she said touching the plants tenderly, when no reply came she frowned removing her hand and staring confused at the plants, realising that they were not alive.
“They have silenced your voices, why will you not sing for me as you do outside? Pease sing for me". Again no sound came and the girl growled deeply in her throat looking around at the few people that were watching her, she approached a man carrying his shopping stopping him from moving.
“Was it you who silenced them, your silver tongue told them not to speak to me so I would be alone” she shouted. The man moved back a little obviously frightened by her words let alone her mannerisms.

[Royahl]

Swaying back and forth on his safety rail above the crowd of the mall he lent forward and looked down at the people still running back and forth store to store just looking for something to spend there money on.He had over heard people complain about how hard they worked for this money and never understood why the female ones were so eager to spend it on coverings. Roy doesn't even were a shirt he couldn't imagine paying hard earned money for one.

smiling at the people below him and reading there thoughts on occasion just because it was funny to listen to the women think. He saw the girl he exploded Smoothie all over leaving the shop still shaking a little bit clearly scared out of her mind. Thats when he heard it a girl yelling about stealing voices from a Plant or something like that. He stood up on the rail and floated down to the people below being sure not to touch the ground. spinning around slowly looking to see were the argument or yelling was coming from he stopped when a girl in a green dress with no shoes on caught his attention. She was yelling at a man who was terribly frightened.

Flying quickly over he stood between the two of them and faced the young girl, but read the mans thoughts "I knew I should of sent my wife to the mall theres crazy women here." Royahl smiled at the mans thought and spoke to him gently "You've done nothing wrong Sir go ahead and find your car.

Looking at the girls clear angry expression on her face he knew she wouldn't let the man leave quietly so he tried to use a bit of mind control on her just long enough for the man to sneak away. If it worked she wouldn't care about the fact the man was getting away instead she would notice something about Royahl and ask him a question.

To help his cause Roy shed a big pearly white smile and winked an eye at the younger girl.

[kiya]

Kiya continued to shout at the man before falling quiet for a moment her face expressionless, almost as though she were thinking. She moved back a little in surprise as Royahl moved between her and the man she had accused of causing the plants resistance to speak with her, she felt a twinge in the back of her neck and she looked confused suddenly, he was doing something what was he doing? He was trying to make her like the plants, to silence her too was he not. She stood perfectly still her eyes moving from him to the man as he moved away, she followed him with her eyes but made no attempt to follow him, her focus now solely on Royahl.
“You stole the voices didn’t you? You tried to steal mine too I could feel you squirming inside and squishing me, you’re trying to silence me too” she shouted holding her head as she started wailing incoherently.

His smile frightened her and she let out a whimper of discontent, and when he winked it sent her over the edge of what little sanity she had left, sending her into further fits of frustration.
“Deceiver, you try to hide behind your mask, everyone can see, it’s not pretty in your mind, you steal their thoughts” she said holding her head as she swayed back and forth a little, her golden tresses moving in front of her face.
“You won’t have my thoughts, their hidden in the shadows, their only safe in the shadows you know, it’s the only place they can’t get them”. Kiya turned sharply and ran past Royahl screaming, something about poisoning her mind, she ran up the steps to the second floor pushing people over with great force considering how frail she looked.

[Royahl]

Royahl floated backwards a little when the girl started yelling about someone trying to steal her thoughts. Royahl doesn't steal voices or thoughts or lock things up in peoples heads so at first he didn't figure she could possibly be talking about him.

Beginning to float towards the exit of the Mall thats when it hit him that the girl was accusing him of trying to do what ever it was she thought he was trying to do. He shook his head and flew directly upwards and rotated to the right of him and there was the girl running through people and knocking them out of her way.

"Ma' dam, You can't just go running through the Mall pushing people out of your way. Look you made that man drop his roses." Roy pointed to a nicely dressed man bending over to pick up a bouquet of flowers.

Shaking his head he floated in the direction of the girl, floating over peoples head and looking down into the crowd trying to find her.

"You know, whatever it was you said I was trying to do to your thoughts or voice or whatever well your wrong I was just preventing you from accusing that man of doing something he hadn't done." Still trying to find the girl Roy began to get annoyed by the whole thing and decided he would just say one more thing then head out.

"These Plants are fake, they can't talk to you. Other ones maybe outside you may be able to talk to but these ones were created in a Factory." Roy shook his head and slowed his pace. Looking around one last time he couldn't see her so he floated over the railing and back down to the first floor and made his way to the exit.

[kiya]

Kiya ignored his shouts continuing to move through the crowds of people, her speed hindered by the sheer numbers, she started panicking breathing heavily as she was pushed from side to side, bumped and occasionally kicked though she did not understand that this was accidental she actually thought that they were attacking her. Her golden tresses moved over her face as she held her head feeling a headache, feeling a swimming sensation engulf her, she was scared, and like most people in a situation they could not control she lashed out. The ground started shaking a little before vines erupted from the tiles in the floor, knocking over people around her, grabbing a few in their tendrils and hoisting them to the sky, people now ran in all directions panicked, they were the ones who were scared now.

“You attack me with your bodies, germs and disease, all of you carry it, I saw the insides once, they were red” she said swaying back and forth a little her arms raised in the air before she collapsed onto her knees, a look of utter bliss upon her face as she continued sway. “They sing now, can’t you hear them? their voices are sweet”. She didn’t understand what she was doing truthfully, all knowledge of what she was had left her years ago, left her alone, insane and scared, scared of people who she might once have called friend, even scared of her own shadow. Kiya started laughing ecstatic as she stood up dancing in a circle as she stared up at the people who had been unlucky enough to be snared by the vines.

[Royahl]

Just when Royahl thought he was rid of the crazy girl he heard a loud sound. He turned to his right and saw a massive tangle of vines shooting up through the roof of the lawn care store and up into the walk way of the second floor"How Ironic that they would shoot up through a store filled with weed whackers and lawnmowers...." Roy thought to himself.

Something was going to have to be done about this girl and it looked like Royahl was the only person around suited for the job. She didn't seem like the Anti Hero type so he didn't want to throw her about or cause any serious harm but something most definitely needed to be done.

He shot up into the air and stopped just short of the ceiling of the Mall. Quickly assessing the situation he learns that there was a women worrying about her shoes she had just purchased and a child crying something about should of done the yard work like he was asked to. Roy shut off the mind reading part of his brain and moved on to saving the innocent people just standing by.

Taking each of the vines one by one with his powerful telekinetic powers he began to tie a large not. Making sure to remove people from the clutches of the infestation before wrapping it up with it's counterpart. Within a few seconds he had several knots tied several people saved and now it was just him and the girl.

"Those people have done nothing to you. Leave them alone and talk to me about whats going on." He tried to get into her head but he couldn't hear anything she seemed to be spacing out or under control by something else or some strong emotion.

[kiya]

Kiya watched Royahl with intrigue, and oddly seemed to care little that he was disabling the plants she had summoned to rise, but then she hadn’t called them to cause havoc, her inability to cope had caused her to do this, had caused her to hurt people again. She backed off a little when she heard Royahl speak, staring at the tiles on the floor, some had splatters of red upon them, whilst no one had been seriously injured by her conjuration of this vegetation it seemed there had been some minor cuts. “It is red, I thought it was” she said kneeling down wiping her finger through the trail of red before smearing it across her cheek gently, before looking at Royahl again a smile on her lips. She could feel him trying to read her mind, trying to read the blank canvas that was yet to be painted upon, but this time she did not react badly, she just continued to babble somewhat.

“Grandmama said that plants do not bleed, but there is blood, do you know why?” she asked tilting her head to one side in the manner of a confused dog as she approached him, her sapphire eyes sparkling with delight, it seemed that the lack of voices from the plants bothered her little now, for now she could hear the real ones, they sang so beautifully and she could hear their voices resonating around her. She turned away from him and moved to the window on the second floor looking out at the city with a somewhat more serious expression than before, as if some of her sanity was still there. “I am normal, I think there for I am, but I don’t think, I just talk” she whispered running a hand through her hair before sighing deeply.

[Royahl]

Taken back by the poor child's pure insanity Royahl was for once in his life speechless. Obviously there was something deeper then an over protective tendency towards Plants. He floated up towards the girl and looked at the blood beginning to coagulate on her cheek "Allow me." with a sway of his hand the blood was off her cheek and floating in the air next to her.

Looking at the girl he brought the blood around into her line of site and let her take a good look at it "This isn't from those Plants that you brought out of the ground. It's from the People the Plants attacked. I don't think you know what your doing but none the less you attacked those people." Royahl looked down at the girl and let the blood drop to the ground.

Royahl floated forward towards her and tried to lift her head to him with his powers "Stand up for me dear, breathe deeply if you can. I don't know how to talk to you but if you'll let me in I may be able to help." Royahl looked about as all the people had left he felt more comfortable dropping his guard for a while to really try to get into this girls head.

He has never had a problem reading the mind of someone before but he did feel like this girls had very little in there for him to begin with so it would take some searching to find what he was looking for, all he needed was a memory a past experience that was dramatic. He began to attempt to enter her thoughts.

[kiya]

Kiya placed her hand upon her cheek slowly, feeling where the blood had been with her fingertips before staring at it hanging in the air before her, she found it strange that he could do this but thought little else of at as she continued to stare. “So they don’t bleed, but people do, I am hurting people and making them bleed” she whispered looking at her hands for a moment before raising her eyes again. She was human was she not? Did she bleed red too? Yes, somehow she knew she did, but some things were hazy in her mind, covered with the darkness where she hid her thoughts, memories she’d rather not have and memories she wished she still had. “I bleed, or I used to, but they stopped the flow” she said looking more confused than before as she let out another long sigh.

Whilst Royahl’s powers didn’t seem to have much effect on Kiya she felt drawn to Royahl anyway, more through curiosity than anything else, was he trying to help her in some way? He wasn’t like the others it seemed, he wasn’t shunning her, at least not now, did he know something she did not? “I could let you in if I could get out, but it’s dark in here, the shadows consume it all with their appetite” she said cringing as she said it before shivering violently, as one memory began to resurface, she could see the face of her grandmother, and she was teaching her, nurturing her. “Grandmother, we both play with earth and watch it grow, will you let me grow too?”. Kiya suddenly backed off a little from Royahl cradling her head in her hands, whispering something inaudible, it was obviously bothering her greatly to remember things.