Q and A: Hikaru

[Forger]

"Well, Hikaru, I'll try to make this brief since I get the feeling that you're sick of being asked so many questions.  You can take a seat if you like; I'll be sitting here regardless."

John, standing in his t-shirt and green boxers, takes a seat set up across from another now empty seat.  Sitting with his legs slightly parted, John tried to make eye contact with Hikaru, but decided not to at the last minute.

"Uhh, Hikaru...would you say you have a...uhh...short temper?"

[Queen Bright]

Hikaru eyed John distastefully. Taking her seat across from him she glared daggers at the poor guy, her golden eyes narrowed in such a way it made her look perpetually pissed off. "Depends on who I'm dealing with. Let's see if you make the good list."

[Forger]

"Heh...right..."

John was becoming more and more nervous by the second, this girl was obviously not in the mood to even be here now.  Clearing his throat, John continued to his next question.

"Well, Hikaru, it's obvious that you're very skilled with your abilities.  Do you like having these abilities?"

[Queen Bright]

"To a sage, their magic is everything. It is existence. To take away magic, would be to disgrace life." Hikaru growled just barely at the thought. "That's why the technology users need to die them and their anti-magic fields!" Golden flames erupted around her once more for a split second as Hikaru made that declaration before settling down. "That answer your question?"

[Forger]

Jumping from his chair again, John stayed standing even after the flames settled down around Hikaru.  Despite his fear that the next question might just kill him, John felt he had to ask it anyways.

"Where does your hatred for technology users come from?"

[Queen Bright]

"Didn't I already answer that?" Hikaru growled. "Magic is existence, one form of it. That makes it part of our life. The technology users went and built those fields that negate and destroy magic thus disgracing it and disgracing the ones that use it. The Sages and other such magic users. It forced magic users to have to resort to technology themselves in order to defend even if they did not want to. But that's not all!" Hikaru curled her hand into a fist and continued on, keeping her anger for now at bay.

"My brothers and I once ruled the mortal dimension. Unlike now where each empire has their own laws for what land they owned, it was ruled by  only the three of us and our empires, we were the dictators. What laws existed were the laws we chose. But then those incompetent fools the Alliance came in with their technology and anti-magic fields and started to take over, this resulted in the First Sage War headed by my brother K2323. The fool eventually surrendered instead of fighting and took to technology disgracing his own magical roots. Myself? I refuse!" Another eruption of flames this time golden but painted scarlet.

"The Alliance sought to take over everything and force the magic users under them. From then on, technology took over the dimension and became the majority where magic users were now the minority and driven from our rightful place. But not for long." At that Hikaru went silent.

[Forger]

"Well...alright.  I guess we could move on to the next question then..."

John believed he was making progress with some of these questions, which lead to him plunging into a question about Hikaru's brother.

"Do you still see any of your brothers?  Even K2323?"

[Queen Bright]

"Of course." Hikaru grumbled in answer. "More than I would like. Where Kai is hardly around, K2323 has the very unsavory habit of appearing when I don't wish him to. But as long as he doesn't off himself again, that's fine. After all, we still have a rematch to be fought."

[Forger]

"Who would you say your closest friend is?"

John was now more curious than ever to find out more about Hikaru.  She didn't seem to have strong ties to her family, so maybe there was someone out there who was at least attempting to keep her sane.

[Queen Bright]

"Friendship is for the weak." Hikaru rolled her eyes. "I have people I use, such as Celestie and her friiends and I did have a significant other..." Hikaru trailed off and looked to the side for a moment as her tone changed, "But he is now out of the picture after he revealed something..."

[Forger]

"Well, alright then..."

John sat in silence for a moment, his hands held together and his eyes darting around the room.  Hikaru was definitely not the type to open up easily, and she seemed reluctant to let anything slip passed a guard she had up seemingly all the time.  Standing from his chair, John decided on one last thing he could possibly do.

"...well, sorry for wasting your time then.  It was nice talking to you while it lasted, though..."  And with this, John held out his hand to Hikaru, hoping she'd take it for at least a very brief shake.