The Game of Life (Ayden)

[Adam Helviath]

Adam stood there, hands on his counter as the dissected chimera's litter the table, dead long before their first breaths. Dark circles under his eyes as the buzz of the florecent lights fill the air before the cling clang of instruments being thrown to the floor. Leaning back he runs his hand through his long unkept hair as he leans forward to scratch his 5 o'clock. "Fuck'n hell..." he shakes his head. Picking up the body he moves over to a display of some sort only to put in on there and preserve it. It sinks into a liquid like containment before it moves back to a long line, filling a silent hallway. "Four hundred 'n the past few months...." he groans before running his hand through his hair again and closes the hallway of death. "I need air..." he finally chimes out before walking past constructs chanting, "hello father" in unison with each one passed. Outside he stares at the sun and winces with pained eyes as he pulls up the hood and starts to wander about. "Onn'a them'll be sentient..." he muttered to himself in his stride to the gardens close to his home.

[Ayden Varden]

Ayden had managed to get into Nameless, whether or not Echo quite knew who he was or not was not what Ayden was worried about at the moment. This was the last known place of Adam, so that was where he was going. It didn't take the elf long to find his friend. Ayden waves and walks over to Adam. He wasn't in his normal white clothes but they were all of dark colors now and his eyes were piercing and serious. It was obvious that there was a change in Ayden. "Hey Adam. I need your help. I can't be a pacifist anymore. I'm not changing anything the way I wanted to. The world is worse off than when I started trying to help... I need you to help me. I learned swordsmanship, now I need handguns."

[Adam Helviath]

Adam is taken back at first when he sees his friend approach, and then again at the statment. "Hello to ya too bud... can see ya've been practice'n tha' line since ya left yer house..." he laughed out and pats him on the shoulder, dark robes seemed odd for Adam but the world was a strange place. "So... sides the obv... why ya chang'n all'a sudd'n?" he proceeds to sit down at the bench and looks to the man, out to the gardens, "Gunmanship's someth'n I could teach ya... but..." he turns his gaze back to Ayden once more. "I gotta get the scoop... I've known one other person who was like you 'n their switch from pacifism ta tak'n initiative ended badly..."

[Ayden Varden]

Ayden looks at Adam and shrugs, "I don't want to kill everyone, I don't really want to hurt people." He says sitting next to Adam. "I keep losing everything that means anything to me... even things that don't mean as much to me, I need to protect the city that I run and the people that I love." He says nodding. He knew who he sounded like but there was a difference between them, for all intents and purposes, because of an ex-goddess Ayden was practically incorruptible.

[Adam Helviath]

Adam laughed, "If ya get close ta dame level mad... I'll kill ya myself ta save ya from tha' fate..." he mused as he stood up and extended his hand. "So ya came all da way here fer me ta teach ya ta shoot?" The long robe slide down to his wrist and just hung loosely upon his body. As soon as Ayden's hand got close to grabbing Adam's a gun handle was there instead and Ayden's grip would be upon a gun. "if yer com'n ta me... ya don' have much time..."

Adam steps back and starts to unbutton his robe. "Ya gotta protect... got tha... but wha' happened recently ta make ya finally see this?"

[Ayden Varden]

Ayden stood up and went to take the gun from Adam only to find that he had a gun instead. Ayden nods, "I am a damn good sniper, but the only thing I can use a handgun for is to snipe... they don't make very good rifles." He says with a laugh. When Adam asked what had happened he looks down and lets out a sigh his voice is shaking when he speaks, "I fucked up... I broke up with Fyrann, we weren't working out... Kakeru is missing... I have to be able to protect Rilaran and Kakeru..." There was an unspoken, 'and Fyrann'.

[Adam Helviath]

Adam smiled as he looked at the man, "Sorry..." he said as round escaped his robe and pierced into Ayden's stomach away from any major organs. "Dis beauty's wha' I'm gonna train ya with..." he said as he put a hand on Ayden's shoulder regardless of how he was standing or kneeling, even if he was on the ground. The bullet slowly pulled out of Ayden as Adam had it revolve around his open hand while the other slowly healed the man. "Ya gotta develop a sixth sense fer trouble if yer gonna get anywhere..." he smiled as he stepped away from Ayden, fully healed and without the bullet in him. "Honestly I didn' really care wha the reason was... figur'd was important enough for ya ta come ta me...." he fully took off his robe now to reveal what looked like battle armor littered with guns and gun parts out the wazoo. "Jus wanted ta distract ya so ya felt the full force'a the blast..." he smirked again.

[Ayden Varden]

The moment Ayden felt the bullet enter his stomach he reached forward to deck Adam in the face. "FUCK man!" He says once he is healed, "Maybe this isn't the best way to gain sixth sense? Just sayin'." He says brushing his hair out of his face, "Fuck." His hand lands on the desert eagle on his hip. Unlike Kake who hid his guns, Ayden was at a point where he just kept them on him.

[Adam Helviath]

"Not da point..." he laughed as he pats the man on the shoulder. "Ya let yerself open ta trust people..." Another round found itself in Ayden's leg before it too was removed and healed. Adam's gaze was fixated on Ayden's face. "Yer instincts gotta dictate yer actions... Ya gotta accept tha' some people only learn through pain... ya gotta get calm with yerself tha' hurt'n people may be the only way they learn yer message..." he smiled, "How many years did I try ta get tha' threw yer head but each shot I can see it'n yer body..." Ayden's guns were dismantled and the parts were floating around Ayden's body. Faster and faster they spun. "Ya don' get a crash course.... ya need this knowledge quick... Put it togeth'r quick 'r I'm gonna shoot ya again..." Adam's expression was feral as his eyes shifted between purple and blue.

[Ayden Varden]

Ayden listened to Adam trying to stop from punching him again. The moment he got a chance he grabbed the pieces of his weapon putting it together, his memory helping him to do this, before he points it at Adam's hand and fires into the hand that holds Adam gun. Hopefully being quick enough to do so before he got shot again. Ayden wasn't a huge fan of pain. "I trust you man. You are my friend, why wouldn't I trust you?" He asks

[Adam Helviath]

Adam laughed as he bullet pierced his hand yet the gun still fired, "Because I fight dirty kid." He smiled as the bullet landed in Ayden's other leg. Adam's hand sparked with purple magics as the bullet falls out, his gun still suspended in the air floating around his frame. "Ya did a good job... I would'a gone fer my eye or like neck... someth'n...well...nah, I'm different..." He smiled and put his guns away, "Done shoot'n ya fer now... promise..." Healing Ayden again he smiled, "Wanna know my secret? I shot myself daily... ta get used to da pain... once ya get used ta feel'n it... ya can push through it 'n forget about it... keep yer mind focused.... come up with backups..."

[Ayden Varden]

Ayden didn't trust that Adam was actually done shooting him so he kept a close eye on him, "Kake seems to be used to it, but at the same time he also learned to dodge, you two trained together didn't you?" He asks playing with his fingers.

[Adam Helviath]

Adam nods, "Good..." he noticed the attention Ayden was now giving Adam. Moving away from him he motions for him to follow into his home. "Ya... we trained together... noth'n super fancy... to be honest... was the first time I met someone's fast as me without wings... then we both just kept gett'n fast'r 'n faster..." Inside he didn't go into the lab but instead went to his workbench for guns and gun type things. Part and pieces all over the place. "Take apart your eagle and make it better...." he said before moving to sit down, "Yer pea shooter's nice but no where near done..."

[Ayden Varden]

Ayden puts his gun back at his hip and follows Adam. When they get inside he takes his gun off of his hip and looks it over. "I can't... It's illegal. This was given to me by the military." Sure the united states marines were no longer a thing at the moment but... He'd still respect their laws.

[Adam Helviath]

Adam stares at the man long and hard. "Yer fuck'n kidd'n..." he laughed out as he shook his head, "Tha's where yer gonna get killed... get out..." he points to the door. "If yer gonna let tha' old ways hold ya back 'n not do wha' I ask in every sense... I don' have the time ta teach ya..." He lets his arm go back to a folded position over his chest. "If ya want to learn, then take tha' thing apart... and make it useful..." Pulling out his own gun it glows faintly as it opens up to something out of pure science fiction as embers dance along the extended barrel and fire smolders inside of it. "Ya gotta make it good if yer gonna play with the big boys kid..."