The Point of a Cat. (Open)

[Zealous]

Zealous was outside tugging at the collar around her neck. She had been so lonely lately. So panicked. The cat was going insane she had created today to the point of wearing out both her cat body and her nekomimi body. She collapses breathing hard and shivering. Zealous had reached the limit of the power the greater gods allowed her to use. The restrictions they had forced Jakyb and Echo to out on her. She felt like she was dying. Her tiny kitten heart thumping in her chest hard enough that one could see it beating.

[Adam Helviath]

Adam sighed as he picked her up, "Wha's wrong Zel?" he cooed softly. Adam had switched gears to knowledge as he no longer wore his leather jacket but instead wore robes like alchemists of old. His guns were no were to be seen, granted they were all hidden under his robe but that is besides the point. Holding her close to his chest he pets her gently. "Lets go 'nside lil one... yer a lil warm..." When they got in his house he smiled and sets her on his bed.

[Zealous]

Zealous looks up at him and mews. When he gets her into bed she curls up as small as her kitten body would let her. "Used... too... much... magic." She mutters the tiny kitten hurt everywhere. "I think I wore out... some parts..."

[Adam Helviath]

Adam sighs as he sits down, "Show me... I will try my best to fix them...." Adam had been studying nonstop for almost a month now and had learned a lot. "If anything I can at least provide some energy for you..." He pets her gently as he spoke to her.

[Zealous]

Z upend her chest, showing a mixture of clockwork pieces, organic pieces, and magical pieces though it seemed to be the clockwork ones that were having a problem. A few simple cogs being replaced seemed to be all she needed but those cogs slipping seemed to be making it hard for her to breath or cool down.

[Adam Helviath]

Adam instantly lifted his hands and his work bench unfolded from the floor boards, granted it was probably one of many but still. "Hold on child... I will help...." Tools and gears started to grind as he watched her chest cavity tick and tock. He honestly starts to sweat a little bit as he tries to focus to make exact copies, every one completed is carefully hovered above the faulting one and then swiftly swapped out. One after the other before it becomes lighting fast quickly changing out every faulty piece that he could feel through her alchemy and metal.

[Zealous]

When everything was replaced she was able to wake up, looking up at Adam obviously exhausted. She yawns and curls up, "Adam...what is the point of my existence?"

[Adam Helviath]

Adam was just as tired as he was sweating bullets, he fans out his robe gently as he pulls the hood back fully. "good..." he said when it was all done and she seemed fine. Upon the question he seemed to think for a long time and then shrug, "No clue...but in da same sense, I dunno my purpose for existin' either... I create it..." he smiled softly and sat next to her. "I'm tryin' ta make another like ya if it matters to ya... so ya won' be the only one..."

[Zealous]

Zealous was confused by his offer, she was much like Echo in the fear of being replaced, "Will... it be better than me?" She asks looking up at him, her body shivers from the exertion. "What will happen to me if Jakyb and Echo love it more than me?"

[Adam Helviath]

He shakes his head and pats her head, "that will not be the case... and if for some reason they were not able to watch you... I would... I want to make you a friend like you.. not replace you..."

[Zealous]

Z looks at him and smiles, "A friend like me, that will be interesting. Thank you Adam."

[Adam Helviath]

Adam nods as he starts to sketch out the inner workings that he noticed inside of Z while working on her. "I know what it feels like to be the only one like me in a world... Hell... I had to hide my guns from the world for centuries until..." he shook his head, "Never mind..." he kept sketching as best as he could, trying to remember everything perfectly.

[Echo]

The incessant hum of electricity made its rounds through the base of Nameless. Minute noise denoted Science's attention to every movement within its walls, vibrations acting like the striking of a spider's web. And like the spider Echo was observant, ceaseless patient, dedicated to his sphere ten times more than any lesser could have dreamed--or so 'he'd' thought.

But there became a time when the patience wore thin and in its place took the vacant feeling of ire. Curiousity. Jealousy even, though the great Machine would never admit to these...especially not when the topic concerned Zealous, the god's most prized discovery.

As Adam's hand drifted on the paper and the ink (or lead) settled in on the parchment, an almost chain-like reaction occurred. A small bird flew in through the open window and landed on the blueprints Adam was so desperately trying to understand. It noted Zealous casually but didn't fear the cat, its chrome-like design more obviously part of New Town across the way. It looked down at the design (and subsequently blocked Adam's hand from going further), then back to Adam. Instead of bothering with words, the little Jay issued a rather beautiful mechanical song as if introducing itself.

[Adam Helviath]

Adam without even thinking of the matter lifted the metal mechanical bird into the air and suspended it, his photographic memory filled in what he saw, it was what he didn't see that he was trying to draw based on what he felt inside of her. The bird did annoy him and it sent him slightly on edge as he tried to give reason to the key components missing in the design he was creating. "Zeal.. I..." he started as he then noticed she was asleep and then he looked at the bird. "The hell?" he chimed before spinning it around and then setting it down. "Sorry lil guy, I was busy..." He looks at the drawing frustrated as he shook his head, "Many holes... but I can always jus' try ta figure it out... "

[Echo]

The bird was lifted into the air against its own surprise...well, not exactly surprise. Somehow it expected the chimera to not listen, and when it finally was allowed back onto its own two feet it landed back down onto Adam's shoulder, steel claws digging into the fabric of his coat. The jay appeared to judge the blueprint rather harshly, finally giving voice to its opinions, in the voice of its god, Echo. "Why do you persist on this endeavor, Adam? I thought you more intelligent than this, yet you waste your time on non repeatable design". Science had the habit of using his own robotics as vessels when he himself was in the middle of critical experiments.