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Post by ±Witchcraft± on Jul 7, 2009 21:44:37 GMT -5
Rhyme sighed as he walked around and around the top rung of the Lighthouse. As he walked his sad eyes stared out onto the sea and the surrounding grounds. He remembered all the fun times he had with Rei as the sound of crashing waves far far below filled his ears. His eyes if looked into showed much sadness and stress from Rei randomly disappeared as well as the further breakdown in his family. Prison gates won't open up for me On these hands and knees I'm crawlin' Oh, I reach for you The music began soft but slowly gained strength fueled by Rhyme’s depression as clouds slowly rolled in darkening the horizon. The wind could not carry the music far but it could carry the emotion. Within the nearby forest creatures ran to their dens to cuddle in safely with any family they had. Rhyme leaned out over a banister and held his arm out on the last line. Reaching out for the non-existent Rei. Well I'm terrified of these four walls These iron bars can't hold my soul in All I need is you Come please I'm callin' And oh I scream for you Hurry I'm fallin', I'm fallin' He turned and fell backward to his butt as he leaned backward against the railing and sang. Show me what it's like To be the last one standing And teach me wrong from right And I'll show you what I can be Say it for me Say it to me And I'll leave this life behind me Say it if it's worth saving me
Heaven's gates won't open up for me With these broken wings I'm fallin' And all I see is you These city walls ain't got no love for me I'm on the ledge of the eighteenth story And oh I scream for you Come please I'm callin' And all I need from you Hurry I'm fallin', I'm fallin' On the line about the 18th story the lighthouse seemed to elongated, getting even taller to fulfill what the song described. Show me what it's like To be the last one standing And teach me wrong from right And I'll show you what I can be Say it for me Say it to me And I'll leave this life behind me Say it if it's worth saving me
Hurry I'm fallin'
All I need is you Come please I'm callin' And oh, I scream for you Hurry I'm fallin', I'm fallin', I'm fallin' His mind continued to fill with the loving thoughts of Rei which just seemed to make her absence feel even worse. On the last “I’m fallin’” the railing he was leaning against broke and he tumbled backwards. He looked up with sad eyes, knowing he could save himself, a ribbon thrown up could easily catch something. But he didn’t want to. He just let himself be carried by the wind beneath him toward the hard ground far below. As he fell though, his mind held only one thing very clearly and it sent it flying out in all directions. Rei…It was odd, the music kept playing though it felt like time was slowing down. Everything was serreal, peaceful. Maybe this is what people who head near death experiences meant when they said it didn’t feel bad. He felt totally at peace. And oddly, as he fell he continued to sing. Show me what it's like To be the last one standing And teach me wrong from right And I'll show you what I can be Say it for me Say it to me And I'll leave this life behind me Say it if it's worth saving me Is this it? he thought to himself as he watched the brick of the lighthouse wizzing past him. Odd, I figured to die by the neglectful hand of my father. Oh well…
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Post by [red].Raven on Jul 7, 2009 22:28:00 GMT -5
A lone figure wandered aimlessly through the dense forest, scarlet eyes narrowed onto the ground. Rei had finally made it back... twelve months, and here she was again. Everything was so... familiar. The land, the creatures, the building itself... but what of the people? Her mind filled with names and faces of the ones she had once held so dearly. 'Estrik, Damon, Rain...' A chill ran up her spine and she paused, wrapping her arms around her torso. 'Rhyme' Prison gates won't open up for me On these hands and knees I'm crawlin' Oh, I reach for you [/i][/color] Clouds drifted across the sky overhead. She watched them gathered, the different shades of gray swirling and melding together like one, living organism. A chilled wind pushed past her, throwing her long auburn hair out behind her and drying her glistening eyes. What was she doing here? She didn't belong here... she never belonged here... how could she ever believe that things would be different? It was the people- the person- she loved and longed for, not the place. Well I'm terrified of these four walls These iron bars can't hold my soul in All I need is you Come please I'm callin' And oh I scream for you Hurry I'm fallin', I'm fallin' [/i][/size][/color] "What am I doing," she thought aloud, running her cold fingers back through her hair. "No one misses me. No one will even remember... it was right for me to leave them in peace." but as much as she tried to convince herself that what she had done was the right thing to do, the ache in her chest refused to stand down. Show me what it's like To be the last one standing And teach me wrong from right And I'll show you what I can be Say it for me Say it to me And I'll leave this life behind me Say it if it's worth saving me
Heaven's gates won't open up for me With these broken wings I'm fallin' And all I see is you These city walls ain't got no love for me I'm on the ledge of the eighteenth story And oh I scream for you Come please I'm callin' And all I need from you Hurry I'm fallin', I'm fallin' [/size][/center] She couldn't stop them, the tears. They fell, and they fell hard. But she fought them, biting back the pain. "No, stop it..." she whispered for her own sake, her own convincing. Jaw set, Rei began to run, intent on escaping. Show me what it's like To be the last one standing And teach me wrong from right And I'll show you what I can be Say it for me Say it to me And I'll leave this life behind me Say it if it's worth saving me
Hurry I'm fallin'
All I need is you Come please I'm callin' And oh, I scream for you Hurry I'm fallin', I'm fallin', I'm fallin' [/i][/size] Her stomach lurched, her heart leaping for her throat. She needed... she needed to go the other way. Her bare feet flew over the rough forest floor, destination set solidly in her mind. She didn't bother trying to figure out why she redirected herself; did it matter? The rushing wind dried her eyes, blurred her thoughts away. Hell, she even thought she could hear music. It took only moments for her to break free of the dense foliage to find herself standing before the grandeur of the lighthouse; she must have been close already. Mind in a haze, it took her too long to realize she did indeed hear music... Show me what it's like To be the last one standing And teach me wrong from right And I'll show you what I can be Say it for me Say it to me And I'll leave this life behind me Say it if it's worth saving me [/i][/size] Her eyes widened and she darted forward, only to skid to a halt after only a few steps. What was that... falling from the lighthou- "Rhyme..." This time, she actually felt her heart break. She was moving too slowly... time was rushing on without her... the world around her changed. There were mere yards, only fractional seconds, left for him. Hurry, I'm fallin' [/color][/i] Talons, with a grip like a vice, wrapped themselves securely around Rhyme's shoulders. The downward force of his body continued even when two great wings spread above him. There wasn't enough time... but like a gift from a Divine, a gust of wind was all it took for the bird to pull up and away from the ground. Its feathers were all varieties of scarlet, eyes a rich gold. With a slow spiral downward, the great creature- as gently as it could- released Rhyme from its grip so that he may land safely on the ground. The crimson bird landed a few meters away, staring at him with pained eyes; it near matched him in height. What sounded like a great sigh escaped the creature, and it softly began to glow and change. In mere moments, Rei had taken its place, longing to embrace the man she'd abandoned but terrified he might push her away. And say it for me Say it to me And I'll leave this life behind me Say it if it's worth savin' me [/color][/i][/size]
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Post by ±Witchcraft± on Jul 9, 2009 17:28:20 GMT -5
He stomach lurched when he felt the talons of the bird grab hold of him and saving him from a horrible death. He wondered who was around to save him. He didn’t know many of the shapeshifters at the school and the one he did know was long gone.
As Rei wrapped her arms around Rhyme so did he. Burying his face in the crook of her neck as tears began to flood from his eyes. It was the first time he cried since he left home. This time all the emotions that were pent up and locked safely away came flooding back. It was ultimately having his family around that did it. When they were gone he could ignore most of the pain and lock it away safely. With them so near he had to look most of his mistakes in the face. Every day he had to look as his younger sister stuck in the mind of a six year old because of what he did.
“Rei, I missed you so much.” He sobbed into her shoulder as he shuddered hard, letting all emotions out.
He stood there weeping like a small child. The dam holding everything back now ruptured would not be put back until everything was let out.
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Post by [red].Raven on Jul 9, 2009 17:55:51 GMT -5
She couldn't fight it anymore.
The pain, the tears that Rei had for so long been suppressing broke free and ran rampant throughout her body. Her deep scarlet eyes closed tightly as salty liquid streamed from their corners. She held him... held onto Rhyme as if it were the last thing she'd ever do.
She held him like she should have held him the day she left, and all those days before.
"Rhyme..." Her voice was faint and muffled, her throat constricted with ensuing sobs. It's been too long since she'd said that name out loud. "I'm... I'm so, so sorry..." she whispered. My god... how had she ever been able to walk away from this? Rei took in everything; the way his arms felt around her, the feel of his own tears on her neck, the way he made her feel so very warm despite the natural chill of her skin. Tears staining her cheeks, Rei inhaled deeply, both in an attempt to calm herself and to take in even more of him. She pulled away just slightly- just enough to look him in the eyes.
There was a change there, more pain-filled and distant than how she remembered. Standing there before him, after such long time... she felt small, ready to crumple beneath his gaze, shatter in his embrace. She needed to ask if he would forgive her. She needed to explain why she had done what she'd done.
She needed to tell him that it had hurt her, too.
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Post by ±Witchcraft± on Jul 14, 2009 18:33:00 GMT -5
Rhyme looked into Rei’s eyes as she looked into his. He saw a much older Rei who has seen much more then a normal person would in a year. He was never good at reading eyes; his mother could do it easily, his father not at all. When he looked into Rei’s eyes though, he saw something more and something gone. Something that always haunted Rei was gone, replaced with something else.
He slowly put two fingers to her lips when she was about to speak. Then, he slowly lowered the fingers and leaned in and kissed Rei. Letting the kiss tell her that all was forgiven and that he was just glad she was back. He would understand if she didn’t tell him all of her tales from the year. He had demons of his own he didn’t like to talk about, though he suspected hers to be more of the literal sense then the figurative.
After a time, he could not keep track of it, he broke the kiss. When he did he wiped the tears from his eyes and from hers with the back of his shirt. His eyes previously filled with sadness were not covered with a layer of happiness. The happiness was just of being in her presence.
(Not sure how to describe the kiss well. More then a peck on the lips to a mother but no real tongue.)
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Post by [red].Raven on Jul 17, 2009 23:20:24 GMT -5
((Sorry for the delay. I had company for a week :3))
The world around Rei fell apart. Her heart fluttered and faltered and danced in nerve wracking patterns, her mind overflowing with emotion. She felt a surge of adrenaline and an intense need to escape, but also overly compelled to stay right as she was. Blood flowered along her cheeks in an elegant blush, and suddenly everything just felt... right.
Needless to say, Rei had never been kissed before.
Her hands were quivering with tension and nerves by the time Rhyme pulled away, and she could barely bring herself to meet his gaze, but also found it impossible to look away. As he wiped her tears away, Rei only wanted to break down and cry even more. She had so much to tell him, so much to ask, so much to explain, but, of course, with her mind in the state of havoc that it was at the current time, Rei voiced a rather uninsightful inquiry. Her words were shaky.
"What were you doing...?" And by this, of course, she meant what was Rhyme doing falling from a monstrously high lighthouse...
Overcome by a sudden, irrational fear that she might somehow lose him, Rei laced her fingers with Rhyme's and silently vowed to never again let go.
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Post by ±Witchcraft± on Jul 26, 2009 16:10:10 GMT -5
“I was trying to get away from the Academy for a while. Since most of my family moved in it has been hard to find personal time.”
What he told was true, but he left out another reason why he came up here. He was having issues staring at Sam who he accidentally changed and Alina who took so much abuse from their father. Having them all there was dragging back up old memories he repressed since joining the school. All the pain he went through and had to watch the others go through as well.
“Then I don’t really know. I was just staring out at the sea and it got really depressed. The song pretty much started on its own. I just remember falling, and staring up at the fragments of the banister. I could have stopped myself, I just didn’t.”
His voice was sad with a bit of confusion. It was obvious that he was in a bad place at the time but now that Rei was back, he had a hard time remembering why. He was content now, just being with her. He was fine with her hand laced in his and relished the contact.
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Post by [red].Raven on Aug 3, 2009 19:07:26 GMT -5
Inquisition flashed behind Rei's deep scarlet eyes. 'His family...' She remembered meeting them. His mother- so beautiful and so very kind to her, treating her like she was her own daughter. Sam- the young girl who loved her brother, and so full of innocent energy. Alina- the strong one. And his father... Rei's chest burned at the memory she had of Rhyme's father. He was so sinister, so... so wrong for such a family; they deserved better.
But, why were they all here at the Academy, she wondered? However, one painful string of words pulled Rei from her thoughts. "I could have stopped myself, I just didn’t.”[/b]
The girl stared deeply into Rhyme's eyes; she saw the man he was before, but something... so many things... had changed. "Please," she began, voice soft as her eyes glistened, not entirely knowing what to say. "If... If I had come here, and found you-" Throat constricted, Rei cut herself off and averted her gaze. 'Dead,' she thought. If she had reacted any differently, any second later than she had... the school might have had two dead bodies to deal with.
Pushing the unthinkable visions from her mind, Rei leaned forward and rest her head against Rhyme's shoulder. She exhaled slowly, calming her still-racing nerves. It was okay. Everything was okay. She was back, Rhyme was safe and didn't hate her... Upon inhaling, Rei's senses tingled. 'He smells like...' She paused in her thoughts, breathing in once again. Her eyes opened wide when the familiar scent pulled forth dull memories. She leaned back enough to look up at him once again, searching his eyes for the hundredth time. '...like Death.'
"Rhyme..." she began faintly. "Did you... why..." Her words wouldn't make sense. "Where... did you go?" She doubted her question would make any sense to him, but... she herself wasn't even sure what she was asking of him. Afterall, that scent... that scent was a rare one, indeed.
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Post by ±Witchcraft± on Aug 4, 2009 14:33:12 GMT -5
“Oh?” he said confused for a moment at the sudden change of conversation. “Well, mostly I did the common things, went shopping with my family, explored the grounds, saw some concerts. Oh!” he said suddenly remembering. He couldn’t believe he almost forgot about the previous month. “Suzume got her memory back. Israfel got sent down to hell and I had to bring Suzume down to transfer the memories back to her. I never thought I would use Thanks for the Memories so literally. That was one wild ride but I think we all made it back okay. Israfel and Suzume seem okay. Wait, why don‘t I just show you.” As he leaned into Rei as they stood there he pulled an arm free to make a wavering gesture in the air in front of them. As he did first slow song he could think of began to play. It was a modern version of Hallelujah; it was slower but still somewhat biblical. ( Song RP) As the song played it gave a somewhat fast motion version of his trip to hell. It was without sound sadly but it got the picture across pretty well. At the end of the song the picture faded. He didn’t think of his trip to hell as that special. That was odd to most but the school had so many weird thing going on that it was easy to be a bit jaded with cool events like that. He was starting to notice that his life seemed to be getting worse and worse since he declined Lucifer’s offer at a job in hell. It seemed like he was getting bi-polar or manic depressive. It wasn’t all the time but he would get sudden bouts of depression.
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Post by [red].Raven on Aug 15, 2009 18:35:43 GMT -5
((Ah, sorry! D: I suddenly became very busy ... but no longer!! )) Rei looked on in silent awe as the scenes played out before her in time to the music. 'Wow...' she thought. He really had been to Hell, and clearly he wasn't the only one. Her scarlet eyes widened slightly as she watched Suzume throughout the 'story'. "She's..." Rei held off speaking until the music had ended, and then she continued. "Suzume... she's older. Or... she was just younger, and then became as she was meant to be...?" The whole scenario was most confusing. Rei vividly remembered the boisterous, lovable young girl who made a friend of any stranger she came across. she had accidentally come to Rei's dorm once in search of somebody. With the memory, Rei smiled and sighed. Her arms slipped around Rhyme's shoulders in yet another embrace and then she pulled back to meet his gaze. What if something had happened to Rhyme in Hell? That's certainly the worst place imaginable to sustain any serious injury or to enter into a life-threatening situation. A chill ran up Rei's spine, but none the less she smiled for him. "I'm just... I'm relieved that you're still..." Here? Alive? What word did she want? She blinked the confusion away, changing the subject. "Do you think... that I'll be allowed to return, after disappearing like that?"
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Post by ±Witchcraft± on Aug 20, 2009 1:55:09 GMT -5
“Oh course I do Rei.” he said, with his voice oddly cracking on the last word.
He snuggled up next to her keeping his face pointing outward. If she could see his eyes, she would notice an inky blackness enveloping them. Its hard to leave Hell without picking up at least one souvenir. This was especially true for Rhyme whose style of magic meshes well enough with the style itself of Hell to leave him open for possession.
What the demon inside of Rhyme wanted was more power. He figured that if Suzume had such strong powers then where she came from should be the same. He couldn’t take Rhyme’s power, they were too abstract to random to really be of use to him. This new person though, she was on record for having something inside her, something strong.
In Rhyme’s hand with a puff of black smoke a solid black obsidian dagger appeared. It had runes on it that would steal whatever was within Rei and kill her in the process. Though if it came in contact with anyone else it would do nothing, its attack was on another plane. While hugging close to Rei he went and took the dagger and tried to stab it into her side.
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