Ross pov.

I was panicking again. I know I was. After we heard the new that Jess may be near goldenrod city we split up to look around, so far it's been twelve hours and the most that we have found was a few people saying they saw her but were not sure where.

Then we heard news that a dragon was shot down at goldenrod and we all new it was sky. Old fear was rearing its head.
What if there here?i asked myself. They can't be they were still in the desert. I tried to convince them. They said they would come after you and all that you love. It them. I kept thinking until a dark unnatural voice growled in my head. Shut up. Your intolerable babbling will get us no where. I stopped after that, forced to relive the way the voice ended up in my head as a punishment to my "babbling"
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When we were separated me and max ended up splitting ways after we reached a desert like area. We split I went to the desert, he went to civilization. While I was in the desert I kept having hallucinations no matter how much I tried to stop it it didn't work. Most of the time the hallucinations were of me killing off my friends in the most messed up ways. I was stumbling around until I found a small temple dedicated to what looked like a red sun. When I went inside there were about twelve people all chanting. I hadn't made my presence know so I went and hid behind a pillar to listen.
"Oh great red sun" said a man wearing a red cloak coving his face. "Bless us with your mighty power, and bring to us a worthy host." He said prying by an alter while the rest were still changing. Suddenly a red hue erupted from the alter. The odd mist took the form of four red blade looking weapons still attached to the alter. They swung out and sliced the pillers up. The one I was hiding behind crumbled. I yelped and through myself out of the way into the open.

Several people gasped as I fell. The blades went back to the alter and stayed there. The leader took a step forward and then in a very excited voice said "the sun has chosen, let us commence the ritual." I tried to flee but four people walked up and grabbed my arms and my legs.

They carried me over to the side of the alter where an odd pedestal stood the top big enough for me to lay on. They put me on the top of it while chanting. The person who carried my left leg went around and clamped chains onto my ankles, wrist, and neck. "What is happening?!" I yelled while tears started to fall down my face.

"Simple," said the leader "you are becoming a host to the strongest dem- being there is." He said smugly. "Now shall we commence the ritual?" He smirked and walked over to the alter. "Oh great sun, please except this young man as a worthy vessel, use his form as your own to claim the land you lost." He said bowing at the alter. The red mist started to fan out reaching around the room. Many of the people backed up reverently away from me as the mist started to get closer. I screamed and cried scared out of my wits.

The mist got closer and closer until it was under the pedestal. It slowly reached up and almost climes onto the pedestal. I felt fear consume me as the mist started to surround me. It was almost covering me entirely. I sucked in one last breath, scared to breathe it in. I slowly started to lose consensus. Then the leader walked up and slapped me lightly making me gasp out and inhale immediately.

Almost instantly the red mist filled my lungs. Unimaginable pain spread through my body as I felt more mist entering my system. I started bucking around on the table immediately as pain racked my body. At one point I heard ripping noises as my back felt like it was ripped open. My jaw also hurt like my teeth were replacing themselves. My spine and wrist hurt as well as it felt like something was pressing itself out of those points.

When the pain wore off I lied on the table in agony, a spasm of pain racking my body every once and a while.
"It worked" said the leader "it actually worked" awe creeping into his voice. "Help hime up he will have to see his new form for himself." Two people walked forward and lifted me incredibly gently. The first thing I noticed was that I had extra weight on my back. And that something kept poking me from my wrist.

I willed myself to look down at what was poking me, thinking it was a piece of the cuff i broke in my pain, I did not expect to see an odd looking blade infused with my wrist. I sat up straighter and saw in front of me was a mirror.

I was covered in blood. But that's not what caught my attention, it was the two wings sprouting from my back. They were oddly leathery looking, and ripped at the bottom of one. I attempted to will them to raise and to my shock they listed and spread out. That's when i also noticed that I had odd spinel shards poking out of my back. My eyes, I noticed, were also a dark blood red.

"What. Did. You. Do!?" I yelled while whirling around, my new wings spread out behind me, my teeth bared.
"Well," said the leader as he stepped closer. "It seems as if though only so much of the sun was transferred to you." He started to walk around me, examining me like a display. "Only your physical form changed, what a pity." He sounded oddly sad. As if though my suffering was supposed to go worse in a flash I jumped up and lunged at the leader my fingers now looking like claws. I snapped my jaws angrily as my wings go in the way. I still reached out and grabbed the man by the throat.
"You did this to me! I will make you pay intern for this!!" I shrieked and let go of his throat and looked around the room I saw the altar and willed my wings forward, using them to destroy the altar.
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A gentle touch brought me out of my flashback my wings shifting silently under my hoodie. Max was behind me looking concerned. "Hey, you okay?" He asked calmly. "Yeah man, but we have to save sky you know this." He looked sad. "Yeah we should held out now huh?" He asked patiently. I nodded and started to walk forward my mind in a panicked mess again, but oddly calmed all the same.
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Next chapter should continue on with the plot, I felt it necessary to focus on Ross's character in this chapter.