An Owl's Rise

Evelyn grimaced as she heard the man known as Uriah divulge that she had the Aethersphere. Though he had simply called it the divine item since only Evelyn had been privy to its name when she integrated it into her body and soul.

And unfortunately, she was not the only one to have a reaction to this. The handsome man with azure hair that had saved Uriah looked toward Evelyn with glee.

"I must be supremely favored by the heavens in order to have the missing specimen appear before me. After this I will almost certainly be brough into our leader's inner circle."

Rolling her eyes, Evelyn could care less about this man's monologue and instead turned her attention toward Uriah.

Her goal of killing him had not changed, and if her attacks were being blocked, she would simply use something that could not be stopped.

'Even the leader of the Roost could not defend against it, so these guys certainly will not be able to.'

Spreading out her gravity field again, she focused on her target and hit him wit her extreme press ability.

Immediately Uriah collapsed to the ground and the ledge he was on began to crumble under the added pressure.

Blood started to pour out of his mouth as he was crushed into the ground. Unable to circulate enough magical energy to fortify his body due to his injures.

Evelyn smiled as she got close to her goal of avenging her parents. She wanted nothing more than to kill this man who had ruined her life.

But before she could finish the job, the azure haired handsome man got in her way. The jellyfish made of water he was riding on reached out with numerous tendrils and lashed towards Evelyn.

Unable to react fast enough, she had to shut off her increased gravity and instead lessen it around to allow her to move faster and weaken any blow that might hit her.

A few deft aerial maneuvers later and she had moved back out of range of the jellyfish's tendrils with only having taken a few glancing blows.

Still, this was enough for her to know that what she was dealing with was not simple water.

The jellyfish shape was not just for show, and on the tip of each of its tendrils was a pocket of poison.

As soon as she realized what was going on Evelyn pulled out the best antidots she had and downed them in an instant.

This helped to offset the poison's potency, but she still felt a bit numb.

'Damn, it is some sort of tranquilizer and is stronger than the medicine I have. At this rate I will not be able to fight at my full potential.'

Her breathing growing heavier and her wings flapping slower, Evelyn could tell she was in a bad spot.

"You are more resilient than I figured you would be. A normal low tier awaken beast like you would normally have been paralyzed by now. That antidote you have taken most be helping, but I am still surprised. But judging by the items you have on you some sort of organization has taken you in. That means you must be intelligent enough to understand me. I will give you a great chance. Come back with me to the Deamhain Sect and you will be treated properly. The item you have in you originally belonged to us, and even though you took it we will be willing to forgive you if you come back peacefully."

Hearing this, Evelyn nearly opened her beak wide in shook at how shameless this man was.

He was making her out to be some sort of thief, while his sect were forgiving and would welcome her back even after her transgression.

'Yeah right. Like I would ever go back with them. I would rather die than ever be some lab rat again.'

With defiance in her eyes, Evelyn glared right at the man and used wind magic in a way that mimicked a voice.

So far she was not too good at it, but she felt like right now she would be able to get her simple reply out.

"Go fuck yourself!"

A vein began to pop on the azure haired man's forehead as he heard Evelyn crass response. And in return he said, "So be it. You can come back as my captive with your wings and feet removed instead."

After giving her response Evelyn found herself under attack again.

The jellyfish made of water and poison lashed out at her and she had to focus her all of defenses in order to not get hit.

Nearly a half minute went by as she danced around using all of her powers to move her body in impossible ways and blocking what she could with her magic.

'Damn this guy is strong. I assume he must be at the arcanist rank which is equivalent to the tyrant rank for beasts.'

Out matched and pressured, Evelyn was having a difficult time simply not being hit and had no room to counterattack.

Quickly she realized that her only chance was to use the defensive talisman that Melisandre had given her and try to run away as fast as she could.

With one swift motion she pulled the trump card she had been given out and activated its power.

A shimmering blue barrier of magical energy then formed around her.

To test how effective it would be, she allowed it to take a few hits from the jellyfish's tendrils and found that it held up well enough.

'Now for my escape. I really do want to kill that guy, but I am not going to end up captured again to do so. I now know the name of their organization and can find them later when I have gotten stronger.'

Evelyn now feeling protected thanks to the barrier talisman, turned her body straight up and prepared to launch herself out of the gorge at fully speed.

Yet before she could, something she had not anticipated happened.

The azure haired man threw some sort of glowing crystal at her, and when it hit her barrier, it began to fade away into nothing.

"That certainly was a powerful item you had there. But do not think you are the only one with tricks up your sleeve. Now stop resisting and I will make this as painless as possible."