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Post by Pendragon on May 16, 2007 15:01:11 GMT -5
(Le musique: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjAeJNL2VcU&mode=related&search= ) ((Reserved for Li-Wa)) A single step.
I know what your thinking.
One step never mattered to anyone, right?
Wrong
Or maybe right. Depends on if you consider me a somebody or not.
You probably don't.This was what Pendragon's thoughts sounded like, a step away from writing the end to his own story. You've always wondered what would happen in the last chapter
Never thought I'd write it myself...His right foot hovered over the cliff edge, hanging above the abyss. A simple weight change, would change all. You've never had to work for anything in your life.
Now that you need to, you can't cope.Pen peered over the edge, spotting his coat lying at the bottom. Soon his body would join it. You're giving up.
You always enjoyed overcoming challenges.
Why won't you face this the same way?
He closed his eyes, he didn't want to see the ground rushing to meet him. You're pathetic.
With no other distractions left to worry about, there was merely the matter of stepping forward. She did this to you. You don't even have the courage to take your own life.
Don't you want to get at her? "Yes." Pendragon said aloud, eyes opening quickly. Their colour had darkened, more black than grey now. Then do it. Save yourself by taking her down. One act of strength could snowball you back to you.
Pen stepped back from the edge. A change had taken place, he had purpose now. Step after step, he walked backwards away from the cliff. Now go. Came that voice inside his head. And go he did, racing forwards, gaining speed with every step. Until he reached the cliff side. Until he dived off. Into free fall.
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on May 16, 2007 15:14:47 GMT -5
Suzume seemed to come out of nowhere and her form was a blur of movement, her hands wrapped around Pendragon and her dark gray eyes glimmered with darkness even as she attempted to save this man's life. Her lips were a hard crease on her face, not a smile, not a frown- actually more determined than anything. She carried Pendragon through the air till she reached the side of the cliff and she gripped the wall with one hand, "You're not going to fall to your death..." she muttered, ghasping lightly at the sudden strain to hold both her and his weight with but only one hand, her fingers scraping against the harsh, rough walls. Her arm around Pendragon was trembling, though not from strain, it seemed almost as if Suzume had no clue as to what she was going to do or why she had done what she already had done. She was looking for Darius, she wanted to start her training and open the portal to Gate Suppression Nine- but when she saw Pendragon falling it all dissapeared and without her own thoughts fueling her actions she lunged from the cliffside and snatched him from his freefall, only when she reached the wall had she come to her senses. 'What's happening to me?'
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Post by Pendragon on May 16, 2007 15:25:05 GMT -5
"Thought that might make you show." Pendragon said coldly, venom coming through in his voice. Everything that was Pen, everything that Pen felt, that Pen wanted, was locked up inside his head. The only thing that was left was the part of him that did what needed to be done.
Kill her. It told him.
Kill her, and all will be right again.
You will be able to breathe freely again.
Pendragon grapsed at the cliff with one hand, slipping out of Suzume's grip to hang by the side of her. His free hand reached for the Dagger, which was strapped just above his knee...
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on May 16, 2007 16:20:38 GMT -5
Suzume's expression flashed through several stages, from shock to confusion to anger and she swung against the wall, her hands gripping it and her back to the hard, unforgiving surface and with a quick glance down towards the weapon Pendragon was reaching for she hoisted herself up and her foot went at Pendragon's chest level before crashing down to release his grip on the dagger and she flipped herself into the air to make her way accross the wall. She seemed to almost growl as she looked toward her opponent, "I don't want to have to fight you again..." she muttered under her breath, she seemed confident enough and eyes glowering in the shadows of the canyon and her sharp, ivory, canine teeth showed as she gritted her teeth in an almost primal fashion. Her mind raced with exceeding speed as all different kinds of chemicals were released into her bloodstream, adrenaline speeding her actions and thoughts as well as several others unique to kitsunes. She released her handholds and she dropped a few feet before landing on an outcrop, behind her now was a cave and she stood there, a ripple seemed to pass through time and reality and her eyes flickered with a slight sense of triumph before she clenched her fists, the Ketsuiki and the Ame appearing in her hands and her feet spread apart and she awaited Pendragon to follow. Down, all those miles at the bottom of the dry ocean was another Suzume who gathered the red jacket and the stave in her arms, eyes pools of pure lapiz lazuli, not a single shard of the darkness, pain, hatred, and evil that clenched and clouded the eyes of the Suzume who stood, battle ready before Pendragon now, she looked more... tired with the large, dark bags that hung under her eyes which made it look as if she had honestly been punched in the face, a solemn aura about her which made her look happy amidst her pain. At the bottom of the canyon stood a Suzume who looked peaceful as the cool breeze of spring's first warm day and she began walking away with the items, the stave now strapped to her back and the jacket folded tenderly, resting in her arms. She dissapeared into the cliffside, no sign she fealt any pain or her being unsure of herself melting into the stone, away from sight- maybe forever, yet still she didn't care. The real Suzume who stood there, weapons pulled out and snarling to reveal her sharp canine teeth in all thier glimmering, animal-like sheen, but yet didn't seem to notice the odd occurance at the bottom of the cliff but it was all an event which had happened due to where she was exactly, she didn't need Darius after all. Even from this spot, Gate Suppression Nine had been able to effect the world where they were now- even without the portal being opened, it could only be imagined the odd changes once the portal was opened and she stood in that strange realm, ready to destroy it. 'Kill this fool now and get on with your orders.' Lucifer's commands, straight from his lips panged in Suzume's mind like a migrane headache though she didn't notice the pain she should have, her body was numbed to pain nowadays and it was all thanks to Lucifer who took away the pain and now she was free. 'Then what is this I feel?' She shook her head as doubt came through her mind and she narrowed her eyes at Pendragon, 'It doesn't matter, all will feel better once the Gaia Beast is released...' she looked up into Pendragon's eyes, her gaze was really like a pair of steel knives, though it was projected that this wasn't her intention "everything will be gone." was the last bit of her thoughts she uttered solemnly, her own words seemed to scour at her mind and she shook her head. She knew this wasn't her, but there was some kind of need, some kind of lust to be this way, to take action, to kill, to fight and it was unresistable to her, even though the thoughts seeping through her mind and the words dripping from her mouth disguisted her- she couldn't make sense of the emotions. They were only coming through to her with a force like dull beats to her skull and she couldn't understand what they meant, this couldn't be her- never. Still she was ready for combat, ready to fight to the death if need be, ready to kill the one she possibly loved in her clouded heart- wait? what was that? Suzume's eyes bursted open wide at the thought and she fealt a sense of fear began sweeping over herself, it couldn't be like that if it was then nothing good would come from it and she would fail her purpose, she'd be worthless, killing Pendragon would make everything better, but yet... 'Kill Pendragon, before he kills you and then you'll never gain vengeance on all those who've hurt you. Everything will be gone afterwards, but with this you'll finally be happy.' The same words Suzume had said, 'everything will be gone.' She looked behind her towards the cave, it would take a large amount of magic to open the portal and she didn't feel like she was able to open the portal at this moment, she... she didn't want to. She wasn't sure whether it was her own thoughts or Lucifer's. 'Don't let this fool mess with you like this, follow what you know is truth - do what you're told.' The controlling presense altered her mindset and all seemed to melt away, she smirked as she leaped off the outcrop, sailing straight towards Pendragon with a new sense and darkness spilled forth from her body as her conscience was being overwhelmed by it all. It seemed almost ironic that every moment passed seemed to do to her exactly what had happened to Pendragon, only she progressed much faster with a little push and 'reassurance' from Lucifer of course. Suzume's hands were tight around the weapon and numb, she couldn't feel it as the blood pulled away from her knuckles , neither how her mind was no longer her own. The real her was practically brain dead and she was pulled into the thick of the fight in and all her thoughts really centered on was to end the battle in Pendragon's death so she could move on from all the lies, all the while she was losing who she was inside and wandering from truth, writing all her own lies. Her mind no longer her own and her will long taken and beaten, her spirit was broken like her bleeding heart, the bullet Pendragon had shot in thier last encounter frozen in time, inches from it's target and her soul lost to hellfire .
Inside, where the smallest faction of her true self which was made strong by the feeling that she was longed for, cared for, worth something which had been something she hadn't experience the latter of her life, she grew peacefull with all the emotion that flowed from Pendragon's eyes, the Suzume which fought him now honestly couldn't give a crap , but she- the real her retretted what she had said and she was now dying, losing hope that she was not seen as some worthless kitsune but to be worth saving to anyone, it was a need, a somewhere to take herself that drove her foreward but now that there was no one waiting for her, was it really worth it? No, it would never be worth it if you were alone and such an idea was frightening to her, the battle unveiled around her eyes and the ruthless monster seemed to take over her body, imprisoning this bit which remained to hold fast and true to her former ideals and morals, wishing she was free to express her true feelings for him. She mentally shook her head disbelieving that it was possible and things couldn't end this way, things never ended this way- she always made it though, escaping from imprisonment, escaping the oppressive landscape of her old homeland, she couldn't escape this... this... feeling gouging out her innards and it brought such a feeling of remorse and despair to her that she couldn't shake. She wanted it gone, to take the place of the hope that had deserted her, what happened to the Pendragon before who seemed to want to help her, she stopped. This wasn't some story where the ending was plotted and planned, this was life and in life you had to take from others in order to make it- that was what Pendragon was doing. Suzume wasn't a person any longer, she was a disease. She came to this realization with utter shock though none of the thoughts that fired accross her cranium were visible to the outside world, only within herself where she was the small force amidst a tsunami sweeping accross with devastating force, threatening to destroy her. __________________________________________ She seemed confident and happy but all in all she was disguisted with herself, the truth being Suzume couldn't feel how dead she really was inside her broken heart and soul. Inside, her true self longed for Pendragon, but she was no longer worth saving to him.
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Post by Pendragon on May 17, 2007 13:50:30 GMT -5
As Pendragon touched the Dagger, his eyes flickered back to their usual electric blue, for just a second. Then Suzume's foot came crashing down, at the Dagger was sent flying. Pendragon's eyes turned back to black, and the Dagger landed near the entrance of the cave, point buried into the ground.
The force of the blow had caused Pendragon's grip to slip, and he fell a few feet before managing to grasp at the cliff face again.
She saved me...
It doesn't change anything
No.
It changes everything.
She's just messing with you.
Again.[/color]
I just don't know...
I do.
Trust me.[/color]
Trust... you?
Kill her.[/color]
Why?
The question was so simple, so obvious, that it angered the other voice.
You'll feel better.[/color]
But... Why?
Trust me.[/color]
I don't- Trust me.
You keep saying that, but who are you?
I'm you.[/color]
But... I'm me?
Lets go.
Pendragon leapt down to the ledge where Suzume was, blocking the way to the cave. Inbetween them was the Dagger, with it's usual electric blue glow.
You like her?[/color]
There was a pause before the answer.
Yes.
And that's why she beat you.
You know...
She likes you too.
And this is why we shall bury her body later.[/color]
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on May 17, 2007 15:00:32 GMT -5
Suzume didn't reach for the dagger- she didn't want it. Her mind was muddled and blurred, her actions like some slowed down video footage in her mind to the point where things no longer seemed real, details came to her like beacons and everything about her was surreal while still her mind didn't want to comprehend what everything around her was, she didn't want to know. The darkness compelled all that was there, exposed to it and drove it with synthesized blood lust and her confused emotions, 'One battle, the beginning of many- finish it.' Lucifer commanded and while the small, enclosed space in her mind still clung to the reality and purity of how things used to be- she was losing it as well, nervous and scared from the enclosed space. Harmful memories enclosed her mind of her past, the darkness, the needles, she was penned up, sedated, and all but forgotten. The same thing had happened at the previous school she attended, and they locked her up for it, deeming her too dangerous long before she managed to brutally gut the headmaster. She hadn't meant to do it and she snapped from it all quickly, but now she was afraid it was too late for her to dig her way out of this one alone, no- never alone. She never was able to get out from under Lucifer's thumb on her own, she was always given a little push... there was no consistency, no level of equalibrium to which she found such things. Some times they were simple, others they were deep and meaningful, Suzume wasn't sure if there was such a vice now- it was the worse one yet. Over her three hundred years of life the same problem had arisen eighteen times, this time being the grand eighteenth and normally they were but a series of days when she was abnormally dark, or a strike of exceedingly bad luck- she had only killed someone the last time and she would never remember those times untill another arose, it was like a curse to her and a thought passed through her mind, at the end of every course of these spells, when every trace of them were whiped away she would forget... she would forget Pendragon. Suzume shook her head, for that one moment her guard dropped limply to the ground and she pressed her hand to her head, the Ame still gripped in it so the hard wood pressed against her skull as well, she took a step back. Even the part of her who could think clearly let her guard slip, but only slightly and her thinking blurred as well, neither of them wanted to forget Pendragon, something about it just seemed wrong.
She gripped her hand, dark magic spiked from it in an instant and the Ame was engulfed by it, she narrowed her eyes as she looked towards Pendragon and she began running forewards, jumping off of the dagger's pommel and flicking it back, into the cave with a quick ankle movement, why she did this though remained a mystery. The darkness engulfed her entire form and she seethed through her teeth, weapons glistened, taking every bit of light around them and destroying it. The tip of the Ame landed into the face of the wall and in an instant a massive shockwave was sent accross it's surface and the rock shattered, crumbling under Pendragon's hand and nothing was left in it's place but a smooth surface, the tip of the Ame slipped from the earth and even the outcrop was gone and the crumbling walls above and below them left nowhere to cling to, the cave was still there but too much had fallen away and one would have to go inwards to the cliff quite a ways, the face curved inward around it, the dagger still glistened safely there, Pendragon's dagger was unharmed by anything Suzume had done, the only one who had done anything to the weapon, it's sharp edge slightly nicked from the ground when Pendragon had thrown it.
Her true self inside whispered softly to herself, "Pendragon.... Pendragon... such a name..." She sighed, "I'm sorry for the pain I've caused you." Pendragon's name sweet on her tongue, she was huddled up in fetal position in the corners of her mind, eyes shut from what was going on outside- she didn't want to watch. "Lucifer... you're doing this to me... why?" she asked, from between her teeth.
"Why, I haven't done anything to you. Everything that's happened you let happen."
"No... I wouldn't..."
"Ah, but you did."
The inner Suzume looked up and Lucifer stood there, somehow he had broken through to the sanctum and stood there now, dressed in a dark red cloak and his long, raven black hair flowed down his back and covered his right eye which was white as newly harvested ivory and his skin like silver, almost glowing- one of the few things which remained from his more... heavenly days. He had a predatorial grace to him, and edge in his stride as if he could break into violence at any moment, from the folds of his cloak a weapon was drawn, it's hilt like gold but the blade looked sickening and vile, black liquid dripped from his tip, "But now I think it's time we end this little annoyance..." he muttered and Suzume drew back, eyes open wide.
This was her sanctum, her place of safety and it had been breached so easily, it was going to be destroyed so easily... she'd never forget Pendragon... but she'd never remember the love, or she would never know the feel of it- one factor determined how this twist would occur. It was a sickening choice she knew she'd have to make at some point and she fealt the weight all begin to buckle and threaten to fall and crush her. She locked eyes with Lucifer, "I will not fall to your blade. I will stay strong, I need to... for Pendragon" she said in a firm voice.
Lucifer chuckled, "Heheheh, impertinent child.... you will die, as will he." The gateway to Gate Suppression Nine was found, and Suzume was useless to him now.
"No, you're lying." She said, her eyebrows furrowed. It was odd she was having these small conversations within her mind, and with Lucifer none else but it honestly couldn't be helped.
"Not this time."
"No."
Out of the plain of mind Suzume was in freefall- as would Pendragon, her feet landed on larger boulders which fell around her, the walls above still crumbling and causing more debris to shave off of the surface which was suprisingly unstable for how it looked. Her slender, black boots made only the slightest noise as they touched against the stone and a vile, sadistic smile spread on her lips, there wasn't a large amount of available hope on getting some handhold on the wall unless it be far down the cliffside or they made thier way accross the wide crevasse to the still fairly rough wall with plenty of holds. The wind rushed around Suzume and she knew things would get interesting, a sadistic smirk on her face, she still hadn't really tried to harm him yet and the fact she didn't have the mindset to actually do so made her angry, made her frustrated, made her continue the fight- even if she knew it was for nothing, she knew that Lucifer was going to kill her, and that's why SHE needed to be the one to open the portal to Gate Suppression Nine and release the Gaia Beast. Even if it would end this battle and this plain of existance, Pendragon would be no more.
Something about that scared her.
He was getting to her, breaking her down just by living, she knew it would happen and that was why she had said it, 'just go die..' it was this uneasiness, the dull throbbing in her body and the loss of meaning of everything. It was strange, different, scary, exhilerating. She didn't like it, not at all and she wanted to escape this all, the thought of letting herself hit the ground passed through her mind, she'd be buried by stone in the matter of minutes after impact but the feeling took that away from her, Lucifer's mocking laugh. He was moving the chess peices and controlling everything for his own pleasure, in the end he'd get exactly what he wanted- his power back. She had a large portion of it and Lucifer could get it back with her death and with defiance she refused to let Lucifer win like this.
"Even in your own mind you're unable to defeat me- you know that."
"What I know is that you're going to get your ass kicked."
"Naive, aren't you?" He began walking towards Suzume, the knife shimmered with malice and he bore a calm expression on his face, once this small resistance is eliminated, there would be no problem and Suzume would eventually be torn apart. All was going well.
Suzume backed up but was soon halted by the hard, cold wall behind her, this wasn't the Suzume with powers over darkness and had no fear of killing an opponent, that Suzume was fighting Pendragon and she was here, powers long past disabled to her own will, unmanageable and crazed like a wildfire spreading accross dry bushlands. Everything was spiraling out of controll and she wanted to blame somebody but the only one she saw at fault was herself, she couldn't blame Pendragon, she couldn't blame Renjiro, she couldn't blame her mother, or Neko, she was the one wo had accepted these powers that tortured her now, and she was the one who let love's sweet poison eat away at her, corrosive, burning. She couldn't stand this at all, none of her thoughts made sense to her anymore, the need to live, the need to hide, the need to be alone, the need to be with people, the need to love, the need to reject, conflicting needs and feelings clashed within her head and made every decision impossible.
Lucifer was still there, the gap between them halved in size and the knife in his grip still sharp and deadly. Suzume shivvered at the thought of such a vile thing peircing her skin and she clenched her hand tightly and fire spurted from it, she wouldn't lose this battle, it couldn't be afforded at all. The flame came unsteadily and it wavered slightly, sparking this way and that. "You won't touch me." she hissed, taking a step foreward and the fox fire coughed in her hand.
"You can't win the battle, your weakness is stronger than mine and you controll such a small portion of this space."
Suzume peered at Pendragon out of the corner of her eyes before dissapearing behind a rock as it fell and she slipped over the surface and then behind a large boulder, constantly changing her hiding place, creeping closer and closer with her weapons in hand. The canyon was hundreds of miles deep and it would be a few minutes before the ground was coming at them, close and deadly.
(Yeah, if you want Pen can use his pistols... lots of rocks to hide behind and lots of wind to alter the course of the bullet! *wink* I know I'm clever! *slight sarcasm*)
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Post by Pendragon on May 18, 2007 4:38:47 GMT -5
((I'm... confused. Who's fighting who? Are there two Suzumes now?))
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on May 18, 2007 6:59:05 GMT -5
(*innocent smile* Well there's a Suzume inside her head- fighting Lucifer, and there's the real SUzume fighting Pendragon... I'll make the one fighting Pendragon be... some color and inside Suzume's head will be... another color... figure it out! *wink*
nvm... the blue on is... *forgot and has to check again* inside Suzume's head.
The red is in real life. All you HAVE to read is the red, but the blue is just interesting.
aand, sorry for the confusing post... though I kinda liked it... *printed a version for herself to show to her best friend* It's four pages long with size eleven arial font... tis long.)
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Post by Pendragon on May 18, 2007 10:33:02 GMT -5
((It is a very good post, it just needed the colour coding to make stuff easy for easily confused people. Myself included. Just to clarify one more thing, Pen and Suzume are both in free fall at the end of that post?))
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on May 18, 2007 11:10:36 GMT -5
(Yes. Although Suzume is kinda crawling accross the rocks right now while they're falling... but yeah!)
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Post by Pendragon on May 18, 2007 13:54:25 GMT -5
As he fell Pendragon spun around to face downwards. His arms folded in, making himself like a bullet in shape. Waves ran down his white button down shirt in the wind, and his black jeans hugged his tight body. What he wouldn't give for his coat right now... Exposed to the air, his pistols slid from their holsters at his side and fell. Pendragon managed to grab one, but the other fell passed his grip.
Taking aim, he fired a few shots. The black voice was in control now, subjecting Pen to it's every whim. The bullets impacted harmlessly with various rocks, drawn off course by the wind. It was no use, conditions were too extreme...
Our back hurts.... Why...?
Forget the pain. Focus on her.
This was a bad idea,,,
You're doing the right thing.
Sion would be proud.
Something about that struck the red voice as wrong, it took awhile for it to realize the black voice was him, and would also know about Sion.
I don't understand, why would he be proud...?
You're doing what you have to do. Whatever the cost.
That's what Sion was all about, right?
No...[/colour] You're.... twisting it.[/i][/colour][/size]
I'm merely offering the truth.
I don't know...
I don't care. This is what we need to do.
It's not what I want to do.
It's not what we should do...
What we should do...
That's what Sion was about.
Have you forgotten? We need to kill her, to be strong again...
Argue as much as he may, the black voice was in the driving seat. It swung around looking up at the cave above, and aimed with the pistol.
The firearm glowed red for a split second, before blasting out a plume of fire. This attack shattered even more of the cliff side, sending down fresh rocks. However, it also knocked the Dagger down.
Pendragon reached out with his hand, ready to grab the electric blue Dagger as it fell towards him.
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on May 18, 2007 14:17:58 GMT -5
A rock behind Pendragon shattered dangerously as a massive shockwave bursted into the air, thanks to the tip of the infamous Ame. The weapon's other power came in handy as the blade pulled it's way to Pendragon's vitals and Suzume smirked poisonously, her blood red hair whipped around her face and her black fox tails were forced this way and that to act as rudders in the swift current of air rushing about them. The blade went toward Pendragon's spine, ready to slice it in half and halt his mind from speaking to his body, ready to paralyze him. Her large black fox ears flat against her skull and she pushed off of another boulder, sending her directly at Pendragon with deadly speed.
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Post by Pendragon on May 18, 2007 14:30:39 GMT -5
I see you noticed our scars.
On our back... Where did I get these...?
They aren't yours.[/colour]
They're mine.[/i][/colour][/size]
At that moment, huge black wings exploded from Pen's back, cutting through his one and only shirt. The remains of this fell away from his body, revealing a rather muscular chest.
The wings expanded violently to their full length, knocking Suzume's weapon aside. With one powerful sweep of his new friends, Pen was sent up and away from the rock's remains. However, he was also brought away from the Dagger, which now fell freely.
Pendragon flipped backwards in a graceful arc, soaring downwards with a heavy heel drop towards the point Suzume's shoulder met her neck.
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on May 18, 2007 14:55:12 GMT -5
(Listen to this puppy!: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp6UndkapDUNo, it's not a real puppy! It's a song. -.-) Suzume honestly hadn't expected the wings to appear- that was a new development that put her at a disadvantage. She hissed as the foot reeled towards her neck, she raised the Ketsuiki and a thin, impenetrable ice sheild formed to protect her, she was somewhat curious as to where the wings came from in the first place, things like that don't normally just happen, not even around here. The ground was close behind her and she quickly turned her attention to getting more distance from it, she began jumping from boulder to boulder to buy herself more time, the progress was slow and somewhat an annoyance but she pressed onward despite that and she frowned, Kitsunes couldn't fly. Damn that one issue.Suzume inched along the wall, trying to slip away from Lucifer, next thing she knew a sharp pain echoed up her arm and her wrist fealt cold. Her eyes shut tightly and she creased them open, the knife had sunk it's way into her wrist, pinning it to the wall and her crimson blood dripped down the wall. An icy stillness fell over the area and she just looked at the wound, she didn't think Lucifer would truly hurt her- there was always some doubt in her mind that she'd actually be injured, that she could talk her way out of it. Se reached for the dagger and pulled it from her skin, wincing slightly as it stuck painfully to her flesh. The black, viscous liquid from it's tip mixed with her blood and seemed to burn away at her like black acid.
"You've long outlasted your purpose, I have my predecessor in line and you have no place in the coming of demons- you've certainly proved that." His voice like serpents, pulling through Suzume, contorting and pulling at her own thoughts sickeningly. She shook her head to block it out but like wave after wave of arrows, the effects of it on her mind was crippling. This losing battle within her mind would be seen to the outside world soon enough. "You lack the resiliance of the Kitsune, as well as the power of a Dragon, your gift is the Nymph blood that flows now to the floor, and you are cursed with a lacking ability to controll the gift of the River Styx. You are too weak to controll it- even now it's tearing you apart."
Suzume had nothing to say in response to that, she was growing confused, first of all not having a clue about what he was talking about and second of all she was suffering terribly from the coursing pains which ebbed through her mind. The truth of the situation being that she couldn't hold back the destructive currents of the River Styx, the river she was granted dominion over with her water nymph bloodline. Lucifer was the only one who dammed it up, kept it from sweeping her away and now that barrier was falling, brick by brick it was weakened and it was nigh soon to breaking point.
"It'll try to make it's way through you, but you won't be able to and it'll break through and beging bursting forth from your body, tearing it's way through your flesh." Lucifer began describing the vile process of how Suzume was going to die, the waters from the River Styx passing through her body and pulling through muscle and bone. It was painful to listen to, Lucifer's words making it so she could almost feel the haunting pain before it shattered her like a pane of glass.
"Stop it!" She screamed, for one of the first times in her life, she screamed. Her hands grasped her skull and her blood pulled accross her face and her legs fell limp beneath her and she fell to her knees before Lucifer with her face buried in her hands as the River Styx made it's way through her mind, and her body. "Please... no more..." she whimpered, it fealt like knives were dragged through her flesh and her body shuddered.Suzume stopped in the middle of the fight, her pupils shrunk and her eyes stared into space momentarily, agonizing pain swept through her body and she honestly had no clue where it came from, she shook her head and tried to come back, but the pain was too much to ignore and her movement in the air shifted slightly and she came short of her target, falling towards the ground, her eyes rolled back slightly and she struggled against her body that tried to drift into a pain induced coma. This part of her, she wanted to win, she couldn't lose- this game was going to end one of three ways and only one would benefit her."So now you have the ground and the means to command me? Perhaps you'd like the same power over the waters of death." His words were calm, steady as a snake's hiss and he knelt down and gripped Suzume's chin with his fingers, forcing her gaze to look up, "Or perhaps you'd like to avert thier flow back to me."
"No... you won't win."
"There's no other way this could end, you're going to lose this game."
Suzume found his statement insulting, it was a game to Lucifer, only is was a game when you play with the lives of people, seeing how far they can be pushed, how long they could last- and it seemed like it was game over. She could forfeit the power to Lucifer and enable him to come and open Gate Suppression Nine and kill Pendragon herself, and Suzume would be trapped in the sulfurous pits of hell, forever, for all eternity. If she kept it away from him then she'd die, torn apart and to be honest, neither of them seemed to be pretty nice. She had to find another end, there had to be a third door- or she could just make her own. How she could do such a thing wasn't apparent to her but she knew there had to be a way out, some escape.Suzume drifted downwards before she stumbled onto a rock, she was fighting two opponents, her true self fighting Lucifer while this... whatever this was fought Pendragon. She pushed off of another boulder, though instead of attempting to land an attack on Pendragon she went sailing past him, skywards. She glared down at Pendragon and she heald both the Ketsuiki and the Ame, she placed them next to each other and they molded together into a single weapon. The normally short wooden handles were now joined into one long hilt, crystalline in material and the blade was omniscent black metal that seemed to absorb every bit of life around it. Suzume's hands against the crystal looked as if they were made of bone with skin rotting from the surface, her wrists even. The weapon was death and one of the many possibilities which could be birthed from the Ketsuiki and the Ame."Stop trying, you'll only prolong it." Lucifer laughed, releasing Suzume's chin from his grasp and Suzume's head fell down, her neck lifeless and she looked towards the ground, staring blankly.
Her breathing was rhaspy and her windpipe fealt as if it was battered by sand laden desert wind and she couldn't speak which proved that Lucifer was either gonna really get to enjoy hearing himself talk or something else was going to happen... and that something else wasn't going to be good for anyone.
She attempted to stand, her feet slid accross the floor and she hunched over terribly, teetering slightly before she crumbled to the floor again, "Let me go..." she rhasped, her voice scratchy and weak.
"Then I'll release you to your memories... for now." It was another round of the game, another level- and this one was going to be gruesome. Everything around Suzume melted away, even Lucifer who dissipated in a cascading fashion as if he was merely an image caught in the ripples of a waterfall. She found herself home, the fragrant crops wafted thier sweet scent about her and she smiled, looking up at the sunshine. Her rose red hair was longer at this time, flowing down to her mid back whilst pulled back in a loose ponytail and her turquoise eyes glimmered in the light.
A hard knock came at the door to her home and she ran out of her bedroom to the top of the stairs and she stopped as her parents opened the door. A pair of soldiers stood there, thier shimmering chainmail was covered by black fabric, a blue dragon's footprint in the center, thier faces marked with swirled with scar like tattoos. The men served Vara, the warlord's servant to controll this province. She didn't know what they were doing here but she knew it couldn't be good and one thought itched at her mind. The two men stepped aside though to reveal Vara herself and Suzume's suspicions were confirmed, someone was found out. It was illegal to have magical powers without being registered but once you're registered you are taken away and trained harshly, either put into line or killed. The tattoos were signs that they had in fact been one of those whom had spent long, hard years in training. Someone had been caught and it wasn't so much that it was them- it could have been anyone they knew and it was mandatory that they be inspected to see if they in fact had magical abilities like those whom had been found out. Of course they did but it was never good to have Vara knocking at your door.
"Please, come in. What would be the meaning of your visit?" Suzume's father said, dipping his head with a slight bow.
"The Ladislavs have been found to be hiding those with... abilities, they've been sentanced to death. As thier neighbors you'll need to be questioned, if you confess to any crimes you have committed then you will be shown leniance."
Suzume froze, the Ladislavs were some of the closest family friends of thiers and they were gone now. One of the few humans who wouldn't turn in any magic person for a few shards of gold. Her expression didn't show her thoughts but Vara snapped her dark purple eyes up and she looked at Suzume, her eyes boring into her.
"Do you know anything?" she asked, her voice was a powerful one that had the strange sensation in it that perhaps every word she said had some separate meaning to it. She wasn't one many trusted.
"No, nothing at all..." Suzume muttered as she turned around and headed back to her room. She looked out her window again and at the town below with it's dust streets , it was a quaint place to live though the government was oppressive. People in the street looked up into the window with sympathetic eyes, they wouldn't dare do anything though, that could be dangerous. Her eyes could see their true selves, some of them cast illusions over themselves but kitsunes were keen to finding such things, which is why they were often considered an especially grand find for Vara.
"Thank you for your compliance." came Vara's voice from downstairs and she started walking down the street and away from thier home, away from thier lives. Haluet was the name of the warlord over where they lived, he had three sons, all of which were fighting to prove themselves worthy for thier father's place over the country, Vara had sworn her service to Urrion whom was the youngest of the three at twenty two years of age.(I've been getting alot of comments on how I RP Lucifer... and well... thanks I guess. It comes with alot of help from my characters, a few of them acting out the dialogue and stuff for me to help me describe them (You should see Akira's Lucifer impression. You see, Lucifer refuses to act out the posts for me so I have to get someone else to- and Israfel just makes Lucifer look like a fool.)... 'sall good! ^^ Thanks for the nice words!)
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Pendragon
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Vampyra's Squishy Student - Pendragon[M:-2035]
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Post by Pendragon on May 19, 2007 5:03:56 GMT -5
Pendragon's foot bounced off Suzume's shield, throwing him into a backwards flip away from his opponent. He threw open his wings, stopping the spin when he was upright once again. Seconds away from launching a second attack, but Suzume was gone. Falling...
Falling....
Watch carefully.
She's falling...
Our work is done.
She'll die...
Yes!
No!
What do you mean!? This is what we wanted!
This is what you wanted.
Save her.
What?
Save her!
We've worked too hard.
She'll DIE! DO SOMETHING!
No, We...
THIS ISN'T RIGHT. SAVE HER!.
NO
Though the red voice screamed inside his head, he made no move to save her. The black voice was truly in control.... The object that had kept it in control before, was lost somewhere in falling debris...
A few minutes later, Suzume found her footing and launched up into the air.
No!.
YES!
Pendragon spun his body as Suzume passed, so he was flying upside down and staring up at her. His hand went straight for the sword at his hilt, Celestial. Drawing it up in a graceful circle. Or atleast, it had been Celestial last time Pen had checked. Now the blade he held in one hand in front of him, read 'Midnight' on it's side.
This is a real sword... Not that twig of yours.
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