Chromabloom
Burning Blooms
Previous ChapterNext ChapterBloom felt the dagger plunge through Chroma into her skull. She was forced screaming from her body. Looking somewhere above at the sadistic priest, and her own body that hung there bleeding. She felt an overwhelming rush of emotions. Anger, sadness, confusion, all ran through her until she felt like she'd puke from it all.
"I'm dead?" Her voice echoed like she was in a well. She saw two options floating before her. Revive or Extract, She didn't understand she put her hands on her head. Until the Extract options glowed and she felt like her whole being was sucked through a straw. When suddenly she was back in the orbiter. Chroma was on her back like nothing had happened. But she knew something had happened she could still feel the dagger in her head.
Bloom curled into a tight ball and screamed as she sobbed. Taking raged panicked breaths in between her painful screams as she fought through hiccups. Ordis appeared trying to calm the sobbing filly.
"You are safe now Operator."
"Ordis! What happened *Hic* I was, *Hic* I was dead!" She howled, and Wolfy came up with a whine giving the back of Chroma's hood a worried lick. Chroma lifted off of her and wrapped her in a real hug. One she clung to for a long time before anyone spoke.
"Yes, Bloom we just died." He started, and Bloom stiffened in his arms. "But death in the field is different for Tenno." He spoke softly picking his words carefully. "Those options were to keep fighting or to escape back here."
Bloom didn't speak as her brain processed everything. She looked up at the pelt. "Are we immortal?" She finally asked,
"In a way, yes. But we can only revive four times per mission before being returned to the ship." He explained and she curled a little tighter in his arms.
"I don't like dying." She said small and scared.
"No one does Bloom, no one." He rubbed her back, Chroma could feel her think about the Harrow, he felt something rising in her.
"He called us an abomination," Bloom growled pushing her fear aside. "He killed us in cold blood." Bloom stopped shaking.
"Yes, he did." Chroma confirmed feeling the gears start to pick up speed in her mind. She stood up and wiped her own tears as she walked towards the arsenal node.
"You once told me Mods would make me stronger." Chroma felt the fire grow in her and felt a wave of giddiness at where this was going.
"Yes." He floated over to her as she stepped onto the plate and opened her upgrade tab.
"Show me."
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"Have you seen Chroma Bloom?" Limbo asked Applejack. He and the rest of "Drama Squad" were looking to apologize.
"No, I can't say I have. Bloom took off once her chores were done. Wasn't expecting her till dinner time. Did something happen?" The farm mare asked, and Limbo scratched his head.
"We may have had a misunderstanding. One of us may have accidentally hurt Bloom's feelings, and we're looking to apologize." Limbo explained and Mirage rubbed her arms guiltily. Harrow, however, smile in his Warframe off to the side. Relieving the snipping of a corrupted Bloom.
Search all you want Limbo. He thought when a sudden horde of silver butterflies surrounded and swarmed him. The dark priest swatted at them to no avail.
"Murderer!" A tiny but strong voice shouted at him. When a little warframe flew up to Limbo's face. She looked like a red and teal fairy,
"Titania?" Limbo asked shocked
"Harrow attacked the Chroma in cold blood!" She started to explain when Harrow's chains lashed out chaining the fairy and her butterflies in mid-air. Applejack turned to Harrow with pure fury on her face.
"YOU HURT MAH LIL SISTER?" She howled, and Harrow laughed.
"I did more than that! I struck down that corrupted abomination." He gloated, and Mirage gasped covering her mouth.
"Why would you do that Harrow?" She asked horrified.
Aj's stomach dropped, and she took an unsteady step back. When she noticed a familiar shape and had to let out a relieved laugh. "Partner you might want to get your eyes checked." She chuckled, and Harrow snapped to look at her. "Blooms right there, See she's even heading this...way." She trailed off when she noticed something was different about Bloom. The shape of her head was different like Chroma's hood had been pulled over giving her a more arrow-shaped head. Chroma's pelt looked bulkier too. Not to mention she was on FIRE! She wasn't just heading this way. She was savagely tearing her way towards them with leaps and bounds.
"HARROW!" Bloom roared in a combination of her fury and Chroma's terrifying roar that made Aj's ears drop. She looked at Harrow and chuckled nervously.
"I'd find somewhere to hide if I was you, partner." Aj took a step to the side for good measure. Harrow tried to cast his chains, but Bloom was already on top of him. She speared him just under the chest with a smack that moved Aj's hair. Bloom held onto the frame as they fell and hopped on his chest as they slid through the grass leaving a deep trench. She sat up and wailed on him with both arms. Each swing took large chunks out of his shields as she swiped and punched him in the face. Harrow tried to form a block, but her endless fury ripped him wide open for more beatings.
They finally came to a stop, and Harrow tried to keep his arms up blocking his face from her attacks when she grabbed both of his arms and pulled them apart with a reptilian snarl. Holding them apart she took a deep inhale showing her row of long curved teeth that had no right being in a ponies mouth, and Bloom unleashed a Spectral Scream. The flesh on the sides of her jaw stretched as her mouth opened unnaturally wide to bath Harrow in hellfire. Her Elemental Ward burned Harrow wherever they touched till his whole frame caught fire. Bloom's eyes were covered by Chroma's first set of eyes like a giant pair of orange goggles. His second set of diamond shaped eyes sat behind the first both looked furious.
Harrow managed to aim his pistol shooting her in the head merely making her flinch. But this gave him a chance to pull his leg between them and try and push her off. The flames ended as Bloom's grip on her prey was loosened. She snapped at him like a vicious animal till he flung her a few feet back. She skitted through the grass leaving burning claw marks, she roared renewing her Vex Armor. She started the motion to lung at him again, but he chained her mid-air. Harrow got to his feet with several bleeding claw marks on his mask and hood. He whipped his face and shot Bloom watching the shot ping off her armor. He let out a growl of frustration and fired again and again as he moved forward his other hand reaching for his Dark Dagger.
Mirage started to run forward when a sheathed Nikanna blocked her, and she looked at Teshin.
"You would interfere with another Tenno's fight?" He asked, and Mirage looked between him and Bloom.
"But!" She motioned at Bloom then huffed crossing her arms.
Bloom snarled and hissed like a pissed off crocodile as she struggled with all of her and Chroma's might. She wasn't giving up this time! Harrow kept shooting her only pausing to reload. When Bloom's shields finally dropped, he rushed forward risking the Elemental ward just to get close enough to finish her. He drove the dagger home again, and Bloom went limp. Applejack went pale and covered her hoof with her mouth at the sight of her lil sis bleeding so much. Mirage turned into Limbo's shoulder where he rubbed her shoulder. Teshin's hand gripped his Nikanna till it shook. Octavia, however, threw out a Metronome and twirled dancing to the heavy beat that sounded a bit like Rob Zombies- Never Gonna Stop Me
"Octavia what are you-" Teshin started, but Octavia interrupted
"Every good fight needs a backtrack." You could tell she was smiling as the rough and heavy vocals started.
"What do you mean Octavia? This fight is OVER!" he shouted throwing his arms out, but Bloom lifted her head behind him with a grin. Her blood trickled down her forehead and over her lips, but she grinned showing off her fangs.
"That tickled Mister."
Author's Note
NEVER GONNA STOP ME! ![]()
Decided to split this fight into two chapters so everyone didn't have to wait another day until a update.
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