Read The Bridge
 
X’s brow twitched as balls of condensed plasma started to flicker several centimeters away from his face, barely the size of a water droplet. The sensation of trying to further condense and manage it could only be compared favorably to trying to ball up a handful of smoke and throw it out. Straining, and just when he was beginning to have some success, overwhelming.
 
The energy charge skyrocketed up and down in flux. Monster X visibly started wincing in pain from fruitless efforts to control it, a difficult effort when someone else was trying to fight for the controls. Emotions and visions hit him like a ton of bricks. Hatred, anguish, and unending rage murdered any sense of calm he was trying to maintain. He’d sought to use his powers, and in the process loosened the lock on someone else’s cage. The energy flows flew out of control and X grabbed at his face in a reflexive attempt to shut it off, snarling in pain.
 
Aria Blaze’s eyes slowly widened at the sight of a familiar terror when she spotted the changes. All she needed was a glimpse of Monster X’s ivory white hair morphing and growing a burned black and gold fringe to know what was coming. Taking a step back with her necklace pulsing in alarm, the siren frantically dug through her memory. She remembered a night past and an action done, the only hurdle was reciting the lyrics to a song she hadn’t ever sung before that night.
 
Just before the glowing mass of energy in front of X’s face showed signs of exploding again like it did at the hospital, a soft melody carried itself across the stirred air. Monster X felt the hateful chokehold on him weaken, the waves of anger ebbing away slowly over time. He kept his eyes shut to avoid firing off the energy mass at whatever was in front of him, taking advantage of the calm settling in to slowly siphon it off into the surroundings. Aria carefully continued reciting a siren song completely alien to her. A normal siren call was meant to rile the listeners up, and then drain away energy from the ensuing adoration towards them and discourse towards everyone else. It could be shaped into a number of tunes and songs, but the undertone remained the same. This one however took that weave of anger and slowly unraveled it, pulling it apart string by string. Aria never had been one to try out completely new songs, that was Adagio’s field, but something told her this was a different ball game entirely. Still just as haunting, but in a distinct manner. If the red smoke she was pulling out of X in such large quantities didn’t make her feel so energized, she probably have cut it out long ago based off how weird it felt. As much as she hated the creature, he made for a good power source.
 
Regaining his focus, X let out a slow breath and retraced his steps. Now lacking the sudden emotional and power surge to disrupt him, he went back to basics. Gripping all the nearby gravitons around him as he levitated a meter into the air, he threw out his arm with a spread hand and gave a simple command to the surrounding snow.
 
Stop.
 
On cue, every snowflake around him in a two meter radius halted its descent and suspended in the air. A wave of gravity hit the packed snow beneath him, erupting it in a frozen explosion. Pulling half of the snow into a single spot, Monster X aimed the nexus of gravitons to just above his upwards facing palm, before crushing his fingers in somewhat. He finally opened his eyes when the song stopped. Aria Blaze and X looked up and down at each other, surrounded by red smoke and suspended snow, siren heart and a ball of packed ice in hands. Each one of them could practically smell the energy coming off the other even as X levitated back down to the ground and Aria absorbed all of the red smog.
 
X blankly dropped the ice ball to the ground, eyes focused on Aria’s gem as it glowed its brightest. Aria herself looked a tad different. Her hair and skin seemed to be slightly darker than then norm and the red in her irises was even more obvious than before. X didn’t even feel the need to guess as to where that singing came from.
 
“What did you just do to me?”
 
Aria Blaze snorted, flicking one of her pigtails back.  
“Kept you from flipping out. I like to keep my neck unbroken.”