Board Thread:Off-topic/@comment-25908355-20160101162757/@comment-26566521-20160102032555

The gem was lead to a room with a couple of pods. The room was insanely advanced. He was lead into a pod, and he literally just phased through the glass. A small, green line of energy floated down and attached to his gem. His pupils shrunk severely, and his skin paled. The pod began to fill with a blue liquid, and all the lights in the room deactivated. The energy wire and pod liquid shined brightly as the only lighting in the room aside from a couple of screens.

He went blind. He heard a soft, celestial droning sound. Then everything turned into bright blue light around him. He was floating in an endless world of blue light. For a moment, he remembered what he saw when he was born, but forgot it immediately as the lights dimmed.

Everything was black....

He heard this play gently in the background.

A whirring sound was heard, and then he was on a beautiful strawberry field at sunset. He looked in awe at its beauty. The orange glow in the sky, he could even see some stars! Wait. He can see stars?

A figure formed out of pastel green light. It was a generic angelic gem in a white dress, white heels, and long periwinkle blue hair with a near-pale white skin color. She had a patient look in her eyes.

"Welcome to Ara Borys Sterilis. You are a Gem! Gems are a race of intergalactic magical beings. You were just born from one of our Kindergartens, an area in which Gems are incubated in the ground and then pop into existance. I am Aryis (Ahr-ee-us), the mascot of Angel-Tech. I must say, you are adorable!"

Yes, Aryis, an AI is smart enough to have opinions. Although Corundums were actually pretty cute, they definitely did not look like adults. They were kind of...anime? They looked very, very young.

"Now. You are a Corundum gem. They specialize in the elements. Literally, the elements. Every Corundum is born special!" Aryis held her hands together and smiled. "Each one is born with a random kinetic power. Frigokinesis, pyrokinesis, and even rarely, telekinesis!"

This little Corundum hoped he had telekinesis. Oooooh, that sounds cool! He tried to maybe comment, but he couldn't speak.

Aryis: "Now sweetie, we must see what power you have. Are you ready?" She floats up into the air. "Concentrate on these strawberries. What is it that you can do to them? Aside from eating them, of course!" She chuckled. "Oh, and another thing. Here at Angeltech we like to give our gems special names for identification. You seem to be particularly cute, so..."

The Corundum blushed.

"I'll call you...Arty. Sounds good?" She says with a very gentle and angelic voice. There was a particular...sincerity to it. Being an AI...how was she so sincere...and living? Arty nods. "Arty it is. Now, back to figuring out your power..." Aryis' eyes began to glow an angelic white, and the sun shifted to align behind her. Arty was awed at this sight. Everything was so...amazing! Then he felt his senses shutting off.... and the same pastel green lights surrounded him.

"Corundums like you as well as many other gems that have kinetic powers have the ability to transfer energy through their bodies! Now...I've shut off all of your senses except for sight AND your energetic locationing! Can you feel it?" Now that she mentioned it, Arty could feel something flowing through him.

"Focus on your hand, and think about moving the energy to it!" She said. Corundum nodded..and that flowing feeling rushed to his hand. He could feel it all...some undescrible feeling of incredible power!

"Now...think about it transferring into the air. This may not work, depending on your power." Aryis said, and Arty nodded. He thought about it. He could feel the energy pressing at the tips of his fingers, but it didn't leave his fingers...Arty shoke his head and was disappointed.

Aryis spoke immediately. "Don't worry! This only means you don't have an elemental kinesis. It could be something else, such as Magnokinesis!"

After about 14 minutes of tests, they didn't find anything.

"Well...there's only a few more things we can try. Instead of all of that...move it to your mind, and think about something you've seen recently. Think about it happening again somehow...." Aryis said, still maintaining her patient and gentle tone.

And suddenly, there was the hole around him, and the Pearl in a labcoat motioning at him. Aryis was in the picture however, and was floating above. She snapped and it went back to the green light. "Wow! You have....drum roll please...." She made silly drumroll sounds.

..........

"Hallucikinesis! You are a master of illusions! You can use this power to make your fellow construction workers feel like the temperature is less harsh, or you can use it to make blueprints more accurate by visualizing the finished product!" Then...her tone became stern.

"But there are many horrible things you can do with this. Cheating. Deceit. Murder. Torture....Promise me Arty, you will only use this power for good!" He nodded, shocked by this. Aryis saw his shocked tone and confusion, and she gave him a tight hug.

Her gentle tone returned. "There's only one last thing I need to do, and that's to teach you how to speak!"