Thread: Shattered Soul (kuro_bara x Alenaeon)

London is a bustling metropolis, one of the largest and most advanced cities across the globe. The city is filled with towering buildings, airships, and all manner of wondrous sights. A constant fog of steam blankets the thickest parts of the city and the lower you go the worse it gets. The rich live high above the steam in garden penthouse suites while the lower classes scrounge for the scraps at the bottom. Recently a new form of clean energy has become popular, spreading like wildfire through the polluted city. Dirigible swept into the city, an unknown company with their brilliant new source of energy and began snapping up the brightest and best in the city as well as any youth with inquisitive open minds. Which is how Elizabeth came to be in their employment. Elizabeth graduated at the top of her class from the School of Advanced Technology. She had shown great promise in alternative energy and a recruiter from Dirigible approached the day of her graduation. She very quickly showed her prowess working with the Ghost Stone that produced the new, clean energy and she moved through the ranks quickly. After participating in an expedition to the mountains to search for more sources of the stone Elizabeth made her very first discovery. A beautiful onyx gem that completely fascinated her. She began to do a series of experiments on the unique stone, hoping that she would discover a similar form of energy to the Ghost Stone. Her research led her to a discovery even more amazing that the benefits of the Ghost Stone. Every bit of data she collected pointed her in a bizarre direction, that the stone held the properties of a sentient being. A dormant one, but still. Her conclusion is that it was some sort of storage device, similar to the device used in the robots through out the city. After several months of tests she accidentally discovered a way to siphon off a bit of the energy within the stone in the form of a purplish black liquid. The scientist in her couldn't resist, not wanting to waste the small amount on an animal test she recklessly injected the fluid into her own body. At the time she had no idea who drastically her life would change with that one simple act. Elizabeth braced herself against the wooden vanity in her small room. Her head felt stuffed full of cotton almost as if she had an illness coming on. Looking at her reflection made her jump in surprise. Her skin was pale, sweating, though she felt incredibly cold. In contract her eyes appeared to be glowing with some inner light. Her reflection made her think of the stories about ghouls her father used to scare her about. Shaking her head, she tried to shake the cobweb feeling from her mind. It felt as though something was pressing against her mind, trying to force its way in. Her eyes drifted down her arm to the spot where she had injected the onyx fluid. The puncture mark was red and inflamed, dark lines extended outwards from it. The lines, she realized with a nauseous feeling, were her veins. Dragging her heavy body to the rumpled bed, she collapsed onto it moments before darkness rolled over her. Her last thought was a vague one about regretting her reckless decision...