Everyone has different...forms. Kind of like (don't kill me) Pokemon. Except you don't have to "evolve" to take these other forms. I'm not sure how you unlock the other forms that are within you, but there are three OTHER forms everyone could take if they only knew how: 1) mind form 2) heart form and (most powerful of all) 3) soul form (has wings. everyone's soul form has wings. Some people's heart form has wings, but ALL soul forms have wings of some kind. any form that has wings allows you to fly, but you may need some practice to get the hang of it) *pauses as a new idea comes to her* maybe it's simply a matter of finding the right...key. Your keys could be anything, absolutely anything. A phrase. A toy. An actual damn key. A car. A person. A place. An element. ANYTHING. And it could be anywhere on Earth, and if you don't know to look for it and if you don't know how to use it to unlock your different forms, then you're never going to change your form (the form we all walk around in right now is, of course, body form, which doesn't need a key. You can revert to body form at any time you want, generally) And of course your other forms have various powers to go with them, certain powers for each form. Probably nifty transformation sequences (with 1.6 seconds of nudity if this were anime -_-') while we're at it. Any powers you have in lower forms, you maintain as you move into higher forms. So if you can read minds in mind form, then you can still read minds in heart and soul form. --------------------------------- --------------------------------- Bad Guys = Dragon Enclave - secretest of all secret societies. Think Illuminati wannabes. If everyone knew about their other forms, they'd be too much for the Enclave to control. They could throw off the rule of the Enclave easily. The Enclave, of course, know all about the other forms, and as soon as you learn how to activate your other forms, you can be a member of the Enclave. But the rules go like this: you unlock your other forms, you either join the Enclave or die. That simple. A member of the Enclave goes rogue. In his soul form, one of his abilities is to see the potential forms of others. He decides to travel and try to find the most powerful of the Locked and unlock them. He claims he's doing it for the Enclave, but in reality he wants to use these most powerful Locked to overthrow the Enclave and let humanity guide themselves. The Enclave has orchestrated all the most significant events in history, and its ranks have included madmen, geniuses, and prophets. The Enclave rogue, Donovan Haverford, finds five powerful Locked to use against the Enclave: 1) Maddox Phillips - 22, California, USA 2) Taylor Vernon - 19, Indiana, USA 3) Fujikage Isamu - 20, Tokyo, Japan 4) Juanita Morales - 21, Barcelona, Spain 5) Aidan O'Bannon - 18, Dublin, Ireland At beginning of story, he has picked up everyone but Taylor. The trick is that maybe it's better for humanity not to know all their forms. Some unscrupulous people could use the power of their locked forms to evil ends. This is part of the Enclave's point of view. Donovan, being one of the youngest members of the Enclave, doesn't agree with this. The problem is his lover is one of the Head Council. And doing what he thinks is right means an effective separation from his love. [Donovan's gay. So is Isamu by the way, and no they do NOT wind up together...although Isamu does end up falling for one of the Dragons. So does Maddox (but he's straight)] Forms/Keys: Donovan Haverford: Mind form: like body form but with red eyes instead of navy blue ones. Can tell if someone is lying or telling the truth, along with other forms of deception. Mind key: eating candy, strangely enough. This form was discovered early on, when he was a child. Candy, any kind of candy, will trigger mind form. Heart form: like mind form but with longer hair, about midway down his back. This was Councilman Jennings's favorite form of Donovan's (Donovan's lover - Preston Jennings). In this form, Donovan can feel the emotions of whoever he touches. This is involuntary and happens at all skin-to-skin contact. Voluntary powers are the ability to temporarily absorb and store those emotions and to be able to relay them to another person via touch. Heart key: smoking cigarettes Soul form: like heart form but with pale blue feathered wings. He's stronger and faster in soul form - but he's also a bit cold-hearted. He can look at those who are Locked and see their potential forms and the power of them. Soul key: ironically, spicy food. It gives him heartburn and that, strangely enough, is what really triggers the soul form - the heartburn. Most efficient ways to trigger Donovan's soul form are bad Mexican food (Taco Hell, anyone?) and Thai food (which he unfortunately loves). ---------------------------------------------------------- Maddox Phillips: Mind form: like body form but he actually bulks up - more muscle, slightly taller. So he's stronger, faster, that sort of thing. He can read daydreams if he chooses to. Mind key: cough medicine. he prefers the grape kiddie kind, but any kind of cough medicine'll do. Heart form: like mind form but he grows wings that seem to fade from dark gray to white as you go from the top downwards. He can read minds. Anyone's mind he wants, anytime he wants. He can go through their mind and find memories they've hidden from even themselves. Heart key: the phrase "c'est la vie" but he has to say it. Good thing he never took French. Soul form: like heart form, but his wings become pure white. In soul form, he can fly up into sub-lunar orbit and back, no problem. He can see in the dark like normal people can see in the light, and he can shoot damaging blasts of light from his hands. Soul key: a kiss from a girl. I kid you not. Any sort of kiss on the lips. Maddox's soul form, like Donovan's mind form, was found earlier on in his life (although not quite as early as Donovan's). His parents were killed trying to hide him from the Enclave, but they did succeed for awhile. Maddox has spent most of the rest of his time running from them. He was the first to join up with Donovan. ------------------------------------------------------------- Taylor Vernon: Mind form: like body form but her hair turns red. not her eyes, her hair. Red like a crayon. In mind form, she can see into the past and, on a limited basis, into the future. She has a tendency to get premonitions a few seconds before something happens though, which usually isn't enough time to warn anyone. And, on the "seeing into the past" thing...she needs something to focus on. For example, she'd have to be looking at or holding an object to be able to see where it's been in the past. Ditto a person. She technically could look anywhere into the past at any time for anything but her mind is caught up on technicalities. She thinks that she has to be looking at or touching something to use the power, so she does. Mind key: smacking Maddox. No, really. Okay, well it's actually smacking someone who's pissed her off, but since Maddox seems to be able to do this on a regular basis... Heart form: like mind form but her hair gets really long. almost to her feet long. She gets prettier, instead of her usual "cute" self. She gains super sight - she can see damn near forever in every direction. Not through buildings or people or anything, but...she can read things at great distances, and she'd be the perfect sniper in this form. She also gains incredible swordsman (swordswoman?) abilities. Give her a sword, she will slice and dice just about anything. Or, er, well, she COULD. Heart key: cherry pie a la mode - with french vanilla bean ice cream. and yes, it has to be french vanilla bean ice cream. Soul form: like heart form but she sprouts white leathery wings. Yes, white bat wings, with red tips that fade into the white as they move in towards her body. her eyes get almost cat-like. she grows in beauty to damn near drop-dead gorgeous levels. she now can hover silently and fly like the wind - no really, she's the fastest damn flier in the group in soul form. she can hear like it's nobody's business too. doesn't matter how loud it is around her, how thick the walls are, none of that. And she can conjure a blindingly white sword with a cold blade, like it was made of out of light shining through frozen liquid nitrogen. It's huge and beautiful and deadly to damn near everything. Soul key: -Unknown- In actuality, she takes Soul Form as a Last Resort, when all the chips are down and there just is NO other way - and she'll stay in Soul Form until the danger is past. Once it's safe again, she'll drop back immediately into body form and sleep for at least a day, maybe more depending on how much energy she expended before and during Soul Form. --------------------------------------------------------------- Fujikage Isamu: Mind form: like body form except his hair gets longer. (see a pattern? I can't help making them prettier as they advance through the forms...) He can now understand all languages and dialects, spoken, written, etc. and speak/write them as well. Wow, go Isamu-kun. Mind key: reading haiku - he carries a book of it around with him. Heart form: like mind form except his eyes turn white. I mean, like no pupil, no iris, his entire eye just goes a sort of shiny, almost irridescent, white. kinda scary. he can now heal most injuries - can't bring people back from the dead though, and anything that would be fatal in less than...oh...10 minutes he can't heal. Sorry. He can also generate heat, as much or as little as he wants. Warming heat, not enough to burn people. Heart key: looking into mirrors when in mind form. Seriously. Unlike most of the others, he has to go to mind form to go to heart form. He has to go to heart form to go to soul form too...his mind is just too linear. Soul form: his soul form is an actual dragon, black and shiny and frickin' huge. As a dragon, he can heal ANYTHING and he can bring anyone who's been dead less than 3 days back to life, good as new. He is nigh invulnerable in Dragon form. Dragon's senses are heightened too: better hearing, better sight, incredible sense of smell. And, of course, Dragons can breathe fire, have giant teeth and claws...good thing Isamu's still a nice guy in Dragon form. Soul key: tears. Anyone's. Someone has to cry in his immediate vicinity, and shed real tears, not crocodile ones. So it's fairly hard to activate his soul form. -------------------------------------------------------------- Juanita Morales: Mind form: like body form. No really, she actually does not appear to physically change when she takes mind form. She does suddenly have the ability to be able to walk through walls, floors, you name it. If she wants to, of course, or else she'd fall through the earth ^_^'. Mind key: a pair of earrings her father bought her - they're gold posts with gold-and-turquoise loops dangling from them. She always wears them, so she's almost always in mind form instead of body form. Heart form: she's invisible. that's the change and the power. Heart key: sneezing when in mind form. once she sneezes, she's invisible until she reverts to mind form. Soul form: like heart form except now she can voluntarily make herself intangible and inaudible and she sprouts what would be fairy like wings if they were visible ^_^ She can manifest a bow and quiver, also invisible, but not intangible. The arrows are created from her own energy - and she can get more of them if she's really pissed off. They pierce damn near anything. Soul key: she has to say her father's last words to her(he passed on a couple of years ago) out loud. Her father's last words were, "Mija, eres especial en este mundo y en mi corazon." [My daughter, you are special in this world and in my heart.] --------------------------------------------------------------- Aidan O'Bannon: Mind form: like body form except his freckles disappear. It's the only indicator that he's switched. You want indicators. Trust me. In mind form, Aidan can look at someone and see their deepest desire at that moment. If you're just dying for strawberry ice cream, he can tell that, along with whether you want it with whipped cream and nuts or not. If what you want most in all the world is revenge, he can tell that, who you want revenge for, why you want revenge for them, and who you want it ON. Mind key: darkness. turn out the lights, find a shadowed place, wait until nightfall. Heart form: like mind form except his eyes change colors depending on his mood. He gains incredible prowess with all forms of firearms. Which is nice, except that he also tends to get a little more...aggressive. The normally sweet quiet Aidan suddenly has a short fuse. Heart key: drinking alcohol - at all. Even a sip. God help us all if he gets drunk... Soul form: like heart form except - no, he actually does NOT grow wings. He can fly. But he doesn't have wings. Physically, his eyes change to black permanently. His aggression and belligerence are at all time highs - he's constantly itching for a fight and with his sudden ability to manipulate fire, water, earth and air, he's not the guy to fight with. Soul key: bleeding.