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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on May 20, 2007 0:01:30 GMT -5
Suzume seethed pure anger as she glared down at Pendragon, her gray eyes shattered and broken. She couldn't trust Pendragon, she couldn't trust Israfel, she couldn't trust Lucifer and apparently she couldn't trust herself. She whipped around with inhuman flexibility, to be honest she would have broken many bones if this were any normal situation, her hands pushed off of the boulders and she clenched her sharp teeth whilst she sneered, "Are you having fun yet?" she laughed as she continued making her way up the canyon, then over towards the still rugged wall so she could work on getting something to grab onto. The rocks were smaller and fewer the further you left the wall so she gradually got lower and lower again until one hand released the weapon and clutched the wall though it remained in it's rotted, diseased looking form from the weapon. Suzume didn't seem to notice that one detail as she pulled herself up the wall, flinging herself into the air before grasping at the surface again. It seemed almost unnnatural, the movements she made, each handhold predetermined as if she had memorized the wall and had climbed it many times before and her black tails shimmered behind her like black rain. Her back was open as she climed, her image rippled through time and space as she turned in an animal like way, watching Pendragon for a few seconds and continued on her way. The one crucial bit of information which Suzume had never learned was how closely tied to this world's balances she was, each time when she was overtaken by darkness, it was preceded by mass death. The souls rushing through the River Styx would be too much for her and the anger, pain, and frustration of the world around her formed the rise and fall of the tides. She still had a long ways to go before she reached the top, her image flickered again, and again. Honestly looking somewhat odd as she blinked from reality every once in a while and she continued her path skywards. She now seemed to pay little if any attention to Pendragon and she had her own set of plans to follow at the moment.
Suzume wasn't sitting in her bedroom window any longer, she was standing in the street, her best friend Hikazu at her side, each of them carried a bundle of items they had bought for thier homes when they stopped, grimly looking towards the town square. A family of four walked up onto the stage, thier eyes shaded as they were forced to kneel. Thier heads slipped through a hole in a board of wood, on top of the board was a slit, not big enough for much. Hovering ominously above them as a shimmering metal blade, ready to fall and sever brain from body. A guillotine.
A small girl no older than perhaps eight was the youngest one who stood there, bawling something horrible while her older brother of nineteen years of age, fit and well of mind and thier parents were eerily calm and silent. Within seconds all four of them were dead and thier skulls rolled accross the stage, frozen as they had been in the last seconds of thier deaths. Suzume didn't even wince, she had seen these often and she kept her eyes from wandering to the spilled heads and seeping blood.
"Hikazu... I think I'll just be going home..." she muttered, turning around and quietly stepping around the still muddy areas of the dust roads, signs of last night's rain.
The government was seriously messed up around here, it was a dictatorship masquerading as a democratic government. Sure, they got to vote but if Vara didn't like the results- she'd change them and if her superiors didn't like what the results were than they would change it. Simple as that. Suzume was lower than the average working class to be honest, her father had gotten stuck here and it could take generations for her family's name to earn enough trust in order for them to actually move up.
Suzume shook her head, things seemed bad at this moment. They were poor- might as well admit it. They had little money and she needed to help the community bring in the harvest but she was going to be sent away to a school. She was getting out of this rathole and actually going somewhere but still she was frightened. The strangest thing was that she hadn't told anyone of her powers and this school could potentially be a government trap to capture the 'magically gifted' she was going to go anyways, she hoped she wouldn't regret it later... she would of course.
A thin plate of darkness formed around Suzume's body as her fingertips splintered open, small trickles of inky black liquid seeped forth from them, this being the waters of the infamous River Styx. It was already making it's way through Suzume and there was truly nothing to be done about it. She didn't seem to notice, her mind blocking out every pain just to keep her conscious. Her eyes were narrowed and concentrated as she winced slightly, snarling slightly.
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Post by Pendragon on May 20, 2007 3:12:23 GMT -5
"I must admit, I've had more fun." Pendragon yelled, black wings sweeped up and down in a powerful movement, throwing him into the air. His feet connected with the cliff side, and he raced up with the aid of his feathered friends.
It wasn't long before he reached the top, diving over Suzume and landing. His wings folded in behind him, and Pen looked at the girl infront of him. Black liquid was trailing from her fingertips, drifiting over the cliff edge behind her.
"Wait..." The red voice called to Suzume weakly, finally gaining some control.
What are you doing?
Get... Get out of my head!
You still don't get it. I am you. You're not possesed. You're just pissed off.
The red voice ignored the comment, he couldn't believe that this black side was actually him. The thought of it was too much.
"Can't we... Just talk...?"
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on May 20, 2007 10:21:33 GMT -5
As Suzume scaled the wall, images of her flickered like lightning all accross the wall, one... two... maybe seven of them! At this moment it must be remembered that Suzume was an ace illusionist and any of these people could potentially be Suzume at this moment in time. The one that was by far the most solid looked up and glared darkly at Pendragon, "Talk while you try to figure out whether or not you truly want to kill me? I'll pass." The creases in her skin slid accross her fingertips and along her fingers, growing in size as the inky, viscous liquid continued to fall from them, staining the rock which began to almost stop being rock at it's touch. It looked diseased, small cracks were sent through it where it had been stained, the waters of the river Styx was a poison that could kill what wasn't even alive.
She continued up the cliff, launching herself skyward as the earth under her palms crumbled and she placed one hand on the top, the grass shrivveled and turned black. She hoisted her body into the air and she twirled the blade slicing through the air as if it wasn't even there and just before the weapon reached the point where it would slice at Pendragon, it dissapeared, at that very millisecond her true arm and weapon was shown to be on Pendragon's other side, the illusion was there to open up his right side to attack. Her eyes looked as if dark clouds swirled in thier depths, shrouding whatever was actually there in the recesses of her mind.
Suzume now stood in front of this new school, no it wasn't Twilight Moon Academy, it was her first school. This place was an all Girl's school, this was Qui'all's Prepatory School For Girls. Suzume walked towards the headmaster's office, a beak nosed woman sat there, looking over various forms of paperwork with wire rimmed glasses perched on her nose. "May I help you?" she asked, her voice like a razor against glass.
"Oh! I'm Suzume... I got this letter..." Suzume mumbled and she handed the paper to the headmaster, presumably Mrs. Qui'all.
"Ah yes! Miss Itou is it? Indeed. Here are your papers and Mij will show you around the campus." Her movements looked nervous and quick.
"Where's Mij?" Suzume asked, she honestly couldn't see anyone else in the room.
"She's waiting outside the door for you, don't worry. I'm sure you'll fit in fine around here. It was nice meeting you."
Suzume curtsied slightly before turning around to leave the room, Mij was waiting outside the door. She had the oddest ears- almost like an elephant's to be honest and her hands were tipped with claws but she looked generally harmless. "Okay then... where would you like to go first?" she asked. Then the tour of the school began.
Her memory flashed foreward only a few days, she stood in the center of a golden atrium surrounded by mangled bodies and the mingling scents of death and magic stung at her nose and eyes. "Wh-what happened?" she asked to nobody in particular. Mij's clawed hand lay over her foot, the rest of her body burned beyond recognition except her face was still vaguely recognizeable to a degree.
In a burst of movement amidst the silence various people burst into the room, the teachers. They heald thier swords against Suzume's throat, eyes cold and forbidding. "Stand down, you're outnumbered and there's no way you could defeat us all." One of them said though Suzume couldn't figure out who. Black liquid dripped from her fingertips and onto the floor and she looked around with bright, scared turquoise eyes. She was grabbed by the arms and dragged away.
She had killed all those people, the headmaster umong them and she was deemed too dangerous to be allowedback home or to continue through her classes. But still they were curious so they decided to watch her and see how she was effected by the darkness.
Suzume was pulled into a small room, large enough for her to sit if she tried hard enough though it was a little harder to stand up, most of the time she leaned against the crystalline walls, it was dark here and none of her magics could break her free.
"Please let me out! Please! What happened? Why am I in here!" Came the frantic plees as she banged on the glass case that constricted her freedom and she felt it choking her. "Please, please, oh please! Whatever it was I'm sorry!" she screamed again. Her turquoise eyes flashed with the pure animal need for freedom as she banged her already bruised hands against the device of her capture.
The guards gathered around, not daring to say anything though they watched. There eyes were untrusting and they had their hands close to their weapons at all times, a scowl placed on their faces.
"Please! Don't just stand there, I don't want to be in here!" the panicked kitsune wailed frantically as she hit the side of the clear container again, a horrid cracking noise came into existence as the bone in her arm snapped in half from the force she was applying though Suzume barely seemed to notice a bit of it. The room was dark and only provided her inches of room to move.
"Settle down in there!" Shouted one of them and they took a syringe out of thier cloak and thier hands, thier needles went straight through the case and the drug went into Suzume's blood and she fealt her legs weaken, her limbs go numb and she slumped in her box, her eyes drowsy and glazed over, tears began dripping from her eyes and her vision blurred from it, though it continued due to the drugs and she found herself unable to think clearly, everything a mumbled space of things she couldn't make sense of and she couldn't even remember how to use her magic.
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Post by Pendragon on May 20, 2007 10:46:59 GMT -5
((I just had a good idea... but Penny needs to become less skitzo first... ))
Incoming!
It's a fake.
What?
It's a fake! Don't move.
She'll kill us!
I said, don't move!
Pendragon stretched his fingers, watching as Suzume sped towards him. As it turned out, it was a fake. And as it turned out Pen was ready. He whipped out Mystere, his Katana, and blocked the blow solidly locking their weapons in place. Then he stabbed forward with Midnight, aiming straight for Suzume's chest..
Oh god... Oh god...
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on May 20, 2007 11:26:16 GMT -5
The sword peirced Suzume and she dissapeared into the air, a new Suzume now stood behind Pendragon, chuckling slightly. It was impossible to know whether or not this was the real Suzume- one could only guess. She sliced through the air with her weapon once again and she smiled, it certainly had an aura of insanity to it, her black fox ears laid back against her skull and her three black tails thrashed madly behind her from the pain that coursed within her body. Her hands weren't exactly steady either, they shook lightly and she heald the blade of her weapon to Pendragon's throat and placed her free hand on the base of his neck as the black liquid seeped onto him. The same black liquid which had been her tears in thier last meeting, now it was her blood, it was her- it always was.Three months passed. Three long months passed and she was finally found and pulled out of the school, her parents were probably never going to let her attend another school again, she'd be stuck in that town and well... that certainly wasn't a good thing.
She returned home and life went on as normal though over the course of those three months she had developed her three major phobias, darkness, small spaces, and of course- needles. She couldn't walk down the street without horrid memories flashing before her eyes and she hated it, eventually all of it settled and she was capable of living normally again. It was about that time she was working in the feilds, working extra to help her family when like a flood the memories came into the front of her mind and she had a breakdown. She pulled herself low to the ground and clutched her head in her hands as foxfire billowed around her, engulfing a large portion of the feilds. Before it got too out of hand water drenched the feilds and doused the flame. She still sat there, dazed and staring into nothingness when a pair of hands picked her up off the ground. 'Oh shit! No! no! no!' she thought, the word 'no' repeated in her mind over and over again, for sure she was going to be sent away, forced into the military!
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Post by Pendragon on May 20, 2007 11:36:48 GMT -5
The black liquid seeped into Pendragon. As it had done before. It found it's way into his blood stream. As it had done before. It travelled to his brain, to his heart, to his soul. All a route it had taken before. It joined with the other particles of black liquid. And once again, Pendragon's eyes opened as a new man. Those eyes were black as night now, and the dark voice inside his head became more dominant. The black voice was the product of the river styx, slipped into his body by Suzume. It longed to strike Suzume down. Longed to gather the rest of the river inside of her. Longed for it's power. [glow=black,2,300]"This ends now."[/glow] Said a voice that was not Pendragons. His eyes were seething black, glowing with the darkness that beat inside of him. His hand flew forward, summoning with with a small gesture. From down below, The Dagger sped up parralel to the cliff. It raced into the sky, and darted downwards once more. Shooting. Straight. Towards. Suzume's. Back. With. Enough. Power. To. Drive. Through. Her. Heart.
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on May 20, 2007 11:57:42 GMT -5
Suzume whipped around, sliding the weapon accross Pendragon's neck lightly but not enough to kill him and she pulled it in front of her to deflect the dagger. Another thing about the River Styx... ties with it formed a tie to Lucifer, a tie to hell. Suzume couldn't help but laugh. "Ah, so it's the river you want now?" She laughed. She WAS the River Styx, her soul one with it's tides and all thanks to her water nymph blood. Something about Pendragon being swept over by the waters amused this sadistic Suzume, something about it was hilarious, something about it was just how Lucifer had planned it.
Dark fox fire spurred from her hands and feet, flaring with every step and she sent the fire to Pendragon, the flames wouldn't be in his controll, fox fire was a gift given only to the kitsune. To anyone but a fox demon they were an uncontrollable force, everything was perfect. Winds rushed about them, some swirling up from the crevass, bringing dust from the rubble with them and the smell of flowers pulled to them from around them, Suzume's hair whisked in her eyes, her ears and tails dissipated so they wouldn't get in the way. She looked... human.
The man who had found her wasn't with the government, he was a wandering magician and was glad to help Suzume, he carried her home and told her parents what had happened. He left then, not giving a name or accepting any gifts of thanks. He just dissapeared, seemingly forever. It was noted though by Suzume's father that he was shrouding himself with illusions, they looked oddly familiar so it could be guessed it was someone from his past... but they still weren't sure who.
Months later she got a letter from a new school and Suzume timidly opened it up, this one sounded okay 'Twilight Moon Academy', the name had a wonderful ring to it and it certainly sounded good to her. It took a long time to convince her parents to let her go, her mother was still worried about Suzume from the first visit. They didn't know what had driven the school to lock up Suzume like they had, but they did. They found her near death from starvation and Tehara (Suzume's mother) had a complete distrust of magical academies.
Suzume set out with a bag on her back and a smile on her face, she was dressed in a long trenchcoat dress and her feet were covered in tall, knee high boots, her lips like soft pink rose petals creased into a confident smile as she took the first steps out of this place, and to freedom. She had hopes for this school, this new place was a fresh start far away from here, a new world to find.
"So then... Pendragon is it?" Lucifer asked from the confines of Pendragon's mind. He searched his memories, a scheming smile on his face, "Quite an... interesting place you come from, isn't it?" He asked. This newcomer to this world certainly had a past for sure. "Now then for buisness, there are some things about Suzume you need to know- first of all is that you would need her alive, as long as she lives her blood carries the power of the River Styx. That wonderful power you feel at this moment, all could be yours." He said, his words enticing Pendragon to continue the fight, Lucifer certainly had a gift for getting into the heads of people and beginning to find that one place, that one aspect to play upon to make them bend to his will.
After all, he had hundreds of thousands of years to practice.
In his hands he carried a book with a red cover, almost like blood, it was covered in a fabric which honestly resembled Pendragon's jacket. It was his memories. All he had to do was open the book, read it's contents- a summary of Pendragon's being and it was in his hands, he could even change it's contents, change Pendragon's memories just as he had done to Israfel. Things were simple like that when it came to the minds of mortals. Lucifer slid a pair of glasses onto his face, his eyes with a sharpness to then as he opened the book, looking over it's contents as he had before though when he had done so was a mystery, "You've got a lot to learn..." he muttered under his breath, he found several flaws with this person, with his mind. They'd have to be fixed of course. Let the games begin.
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Post by Pendragon on May 20, 2007 12:55:28 GMT -5
Pendragon stepped out of the shadows of his mind, in here he had his signature red coat on, and no wings growing from his back. "Then, you know my name isn't really Pendragon." He said quietly, taking a good look at Lucifer. Pen's eyes shined their usual electric blue. "It's Hayden."
What I want... Is you.. In my arms..
I want... you..
"I want..." Pendragon called, but his final word was lost in the sound of blazing fire. Blood trickled from his neck, another pain to be ignored in the heat of battle. And speaking of heat...
Pendragon summoned up his own flames to contend with Suzume's. His eyes flickered longingly for the stave on her back. Oh, how it would aid him now..
The Dagger clattered uselessly to the side, glowing in it's electric blue way.[/colour]
Pendragon's memories were a mess. He had overwritten time over and over, that he appeared in multiple places. What he had done, what he would have done, and what he eventually did do. All in the same distant dream.
Although there were memories intact. Such as when Pendragon joined the academy, losing his time powers made him constant in the past. And also... Memories of the beggining.
A young boy, his fathers oversized sword strapped to his back. A grave. A legacy. A Dagger.
Above all, a mission.
A towering fortress, hatred in his youthfull eyes. Eyes that had seen too much already.
Soldiers. A fight. Death.
A young boy lying lifeless in a pool of blood.
Twelves grown warriors round the body.
One for every year.
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on May 20, 2007 13:15:56 GMT -5
"Not everyone who goes by a separate name prefers to be reffered to by thier true name- that's why the second is formulated." Lucifer said as his eyes looked over the pages of the book with half intrest. He wasn't even really paying all too much mind to Pendragon at the moment.
Suzume didn't bother with the flames, she let them come and she smirked, an orb of air compacted around her and she sent it out, the flames blazed with extra oxygen to burn but flared to nothing when they came to the vaccum Suzume created but inches from her body and she ignored Pendragon's words, it was a battle and words couldn't strike down an opponent. She narrowed her eyes and she smiled, there was one ability she had gained since she last fought Pendragon and she planned on using it. First she'd need to get this fight where she wanted it. She ran at Pendragon, her weapon tight in her hands, slashing high, slashing low, then she'd slice vertically from the sky down. Fire licked from her weapon's blade and carressed against Pendragon's skin with thier heat, around Suzume's neck a chain hung with a pendant no larger than a marble that shimmered pure azure, swirling with light. It was odd that it hadn't been noticed before but it was there and it seemed to be a calling force, a fairly weak one as well, as if it was dying, and dying fast.
Suzume's mind now went through all that had happened at Twilight Moon Academy, before she was pulled out of course, before this whole nightmare began and she shook her head. Damn things weren't going well right now!
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Post by Pendragon on May 20, 2007 13:30:53 GMT -5
"I'll spare you the trouble of flicking through the pages." Another Pendragon appeared, or rather, the only Pendragon. "I'm Pendragon, that's Hayden." He said, pointing to the other version of him. Seeing them both together you could tell Hayden was alot younger. "My second name wasn't formulated. In fact it's my only one." Pen said, glancing at Hayden. "I was born when Hayden died."
Pendragon spun Midnight in quick, tight, circles. Blocking each of Suzume's blows, then returning with his own heavy uppercut. The necklace caught his eye, but he said nothing of it.
The same boy, once again. Only nowhere, and everywhere. At the same time. A man stood infront of him, body glowing with an electric blue aura. "Sion..." The boy muttered. "No," He realized. "Ranna..."
The god nodded. Once he had been Sion, and he would be once again if things worked out. "Hayden, you have passed on..." Ranna said to the boy.
Brutal screams echoed from the mortal world below. Tables turned on the guards, now they lay dead.
Pendragon sheathed his blade.
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on May 20, 2007 14:14:08 GMT -5
"Well okay then... speak." Lucifer said, his voice was commanding but in the nature of it- it made you want to obey. Persuasion was the essence of his tone of speech. He sat down in a chair that seemed to appear from nowhere, it was sturdy, practically a throne to be honest.
Suzume pulled her weapon to her and blocked the weapon as it sliced through the air, her fingertips peeled away and the liquid continued to fall from them, another break was already forming in her side, pulling through her flesh, dripping into her clothing, she didn't feel these injuries so badly anymore as her body numbed around her and she heald a hand out, sending a bolt of flame into Pendragon's chest, to peirce his heart.
Suzume recovered and came into thought, Lucifer stood there just watching with a calm expression on his face. "Everything you did, you're own choice. You wanted this."
Suzume had seen it, she couldn't deny that she had in fact accepted these powers but she didn't want this all to happen. She closed her eyes tightly, her teeth clenched together and she fealt hot tears prick at her vision. She effed up, she effed up big time.
"Of course though... you won't die just yet." Lucifer said with a contemplative tone, he laughed slightly. "Prophesy ensures it, and so does the other aspects that be."
"What?" Suzume said looking up, "How could you do this to someone? Tell them they're going to die, drive a knife through them and then let them live!"
"Because I know in good time, you'll cease to be alive, but you won't be quite dead either... it's all written out for the future."
Suzume shook her head, "Why won't you shut the f*ck up?" she asked, shaking her head.
"You never asked of course, why don't you give that a try?"
"Could you please shut the hell up?"
"Depends on if I have anything else to say."
Suzume was getting frustrated, when she noticed something. The floor was wet... and sticky. She looked and there it was, the inky black waters and they. just like Lucifer were coming into her place of safety, she looked around her, the walls that heald it back were cracked and close to breaking.
The pendant around Suzume's neck darkened only slightly, the black liquid seemed to pool inside of it, infecting that one small bit of pure Suzume. Something was special about the necklace and pendant but whatever it was seemed to be hidden.
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Post by Pendragon on May 20, 2007 15:09:17 GMT -5
((Dontcha just love it when a plan comes together? Too bad this is only going to cause more problems for Pen... www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRDpi5Gpn3E))Rain...
This was somewhere in the middle... And yet still intact.
There was no reason Pen would ever mess with this..
Well, there was on reason... But to see her again... He'd never be able to carry on... "No need." Pendragon said, grinning for the first time in a long time. "I've kept you here long enough." He raised a hand. "So long." And with that, he dissapeared, and Hayden along with him. One part of Pen remained with Lucifer, and it wasn't really a part of Pen at all. More a combination of Pen and the river...Raining..
Why is it always raining...?
Atleast, in my head...
Whenever I think of her...Pendragon's black eyes widened, as Suzume's fire thrust itself forward. The fierce flames penetrated his body, and made their way into his heart.
Pendragon fell to the floor, dead.
As sometimes happened, a moment settled, and lasted much more than a moment.
All the anger, worry, even that little bit of fear, was gone from Pedragon's face.
He looked more peaceful in death than he had ever done in life.
It was only like this that Pendragon could be seen for what he really was.
Beyond the cocky attitude, the fragile confidence. Beyond the sarcasm, and the defiance.
Pendragon was just another lost boy. Another orphan to join the same fate as his parents.
"It's time to go." Pendragon said calmly, offering a hand to the woman infront of him. Even in such conditions, he couldn't help thinking about how good she looked.
Couldn't stop thinking about how good Suzume looked.
That's right, Pendragon was in Suzume's head.
"A door once opened, can be walked through in either direction." Pen called to Lucifer, then returned his attention to Suzume.
"This isn't a good place to be right now. You may have noticed." He said jokingly.
"This has gone too far... Come with me." The serious tone in his voice reappeared.
Little did Pen know... He had nowhere to go back to.
Pendragon's dead body stained blood all over the grass. All was peaceful.
For a few minutes.
Then the dead body raised feebly to it's feet, head tilted back slightly all the while, chest singed by fire. Eyes like a black hole sun.
Sword in hand, body kept in motion by the styx particles Pen had absorbed. With only one task...
[glow=black,2,300]"Die with me..."[/glow]
Siala...
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on May 21, 2007 17:33:50 GMT -5
Suzume looked up towards Pendragon, "W-what are you doing here?" she asked him, it was unsettling to have someone in her head, let alone two. She whiped the tears that pooled in the corners of her eyes as she stood up, the inky liquid sloshed at her feet.
Lucifer was gone.
He didn't seem to have a set moment when he dissapeared... he just did. Suzume shook her head, everything was falling apart, falling apart all around her. She looked at the massive walls around her, cracks formed in them and it wasn't going to be good. "I'm sorry..." she muttered under her breath as water dripped from above her and onto her shoulder. Unless they did something they'd need one hell of an umbrella really fast. She creased her eyes shut and furrowed her eyebrows as she tried to concentrate on the walls, it was her mind- this small pocket that remained true against all the rest of her. She had to try to stop the overwhelming presence from killing her spirit... and now Pendragon was here too. No pressure. She looked around her for a moment, her mind didn't seem like the most glamorous of place, the most interesting, or the safest- it was kinda a bad moment to be here.
Suzume laughed darkly, "I have my own death within me... as well as yours." Her dark gray eyes showed a vile euphoria that had descended into that wicked recesses of who she was becoming, she heald her hand over her arm and the black water seeped through her skin. She showed none of the pain she fealt from extracting the water from her body and it began to bead and swirl above her palm. She controlled these waters... and these waters controlled Pendragon's body. This might be a little fun. "Come then my little companion." She said snidely as she let the water droplets drop to her palm and she focused more on bending the Pendragon's will through the waters that inhabited him.
A figure stepped from the water, and through the cracking glass. She looked like Suzume, but not exactly. She had more command in her gait and her eyes were a deep mahogany and she had neither fox ears or tails. She stopped and looked at Pendragon, "So you're the one she's so fond of..." she muttered. In the place of the fox ears was a pair of slender horns as well as a pair of deer like ears that honed in on Pendragon, a long reptilian tail swished behind her placidly. Her facial expression was a bored one and she was dressed in form fitting black jacket with a tall collar hiding her mouth and exceedingly long sleeves that hung over her hands, silver buckles around her actual wrists, her lower half clothed in plain black pants, her feet were bare though. All the black in her outfit made her look rather pale though she didn't seem to care much. A small tuft of turquoise fur floated on the tip of her reptile tail and she leaned against the clear walls of Suzume's mental sanctum as she looked towards Pendragon, obviously awaiting an answer. The first Suzume, the kitsune was busy at the moment fortifying her mind again, imagining something to keep the waters back and would be completely unable to speak to anyone for a while lest she lose concentration. "You're Pendragon... right?" she asked. Her lips were snowy white and her eyelashes were lined in shimmering green, her heavy eyelashes were dark and swept accross the frame of her eyes. She brushed a few strands of red hair from her vision and her intense gaze fell upon Pendragon, she certainly was the fighter of this mental community. Her lithe figure walked accross the area, not even disturbing the water at her feet- she seemed to walk on top of it as she approached Suzume. She knelt down and looked at her face for a few moments.
Suzume's lip trembled and her eyes were closed tightly, the water around them pressed tightly on the walls, here and there the signs of her struggles could be seen as light coursed along the fissures in the wall, sealing them. "She's mending her mind right now... now that she doesn't have to worry about Lucifer showing up. That's also why I'm here, to make sure that he doesn't, and to see that you don't get into trouble." She stood up and looked towards Pendragon with a serious expression, "Any questions?" she asked.
((Ack! The color coding is starting to confuse me... how about this... Purple is Suzume's head Green is Penny's head Red is real life Blue is any memories... I think... I coulda sworn the blue was Suzume's head in my posts... oh well...))
((OMG! F*CK THIS!!! XD SKILLET IS THE SHIT, MAN!!! *sings along to Comatose* Okay... hint... a skillet song was this big, planned opening song for the TMA musical... guess it- if you can.))
(Suzume: Siala? Who's Siala? *blink* *blink* Li-Wa: Beats me... I don't think it's his mom's name... but everyone important to him seems to start with an S. Suzume: It's one word... one word! The coding to make it blue is longer than it! What does it mean? *poke* Li-Wa: Maybe he loves this Siala person? Suzume: *sits down and thinks of another excuse for the name showing up*)
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Vampyra's Squishy Student - Pendragon[M:-2035]
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Post by Pendragon on May 22, 2007 6:55:31 GMT -5
((XD I only just noticed the S thing... I shoulda made Pen's real name begin with S... Siala is just another cog in the make Pen emo machine....
By the way, I'm gonna add (if I haven't already) more to that last post. Not enough drama on Pen's death. ))
A kiss in the rain...
"I figured now would be a good time to offer a helping hand."
"I'll love anybody for a hundred coins."
Pendragon watched her carefully. He had a little more strength to offer, but felt that she needed to acomplish this on her own. A personal battle, therfore a personal victory was in order.
"I thought that... "
"I'm part of Pendragon, anyways." He said to the newcomer. "I'm going to go with you're not part of her." Pen said, keeping his eyes on Suzume.
"You thought wrong."
[glow=black,2,300]"Don't waste your time trying to persuade me."[/glow] Pendragon muttered, experimenting with his muscles as he talked. [glow=black,2,300]"I want what you have. But there is sense in an alliance of sorts. Especially with the oncoming storm.."[/glow] He said, thinking he was choosing to join Suzume of free will... Really it was just the styx particles screaming to be one again.
Glittering near the cliff's edge, was Pendragon's Dagger. It glowed with the same electric blue power that Pendragon's eyes had once possesed.
Now it was the only thing that could save him...
((We should let the others flood in soon... ))
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on May 22, 2007 14:40:11 GMT -5
((Okay))
"One of the many different personas, I believe you've already met the nymph." She then looked around at the water, "She's one of the darker ones around here... I'm kinda the newcomer." Every different kind of power, kind of being that was part of Suzume was different. This newcomer possessed the pure blood of the dragons, though not a dragon of European persuasion as is most often thought of at the term. Suzume was the granddaughter of Ryu-Ji, dragon king and lord of the seas- essentially a god. This Suzume of draconic descent was only recently uncovered and was yet to actually get to make attempt at using her abilities which was one moment she looked foreward to.
The one kitsune that knelt on the floor was the dominant out of all of them, she wasn't even fully a kitsune and it was the combination of every single one, every singular thought sorted out and funneled into her. Every emotion and opinion was shared with the others though more strongly in some than others, the mind of this particular person was exceedingly complex in it's system of thought- but having more than one being to organize ideals and analyze situations lead to her instant decisions and added to her quick wit (Which wasn't always too good).
"Why should I be so quick to let you take this from me? Even if only a small portion, more than this water- my trust. What makes me know that you are trustworthy enough for alliance? You've already tried to kill me twice." Her gray eyes looked towards Pendragon flatly, she didn't believe she was really going to ever trust this... thing, but she needed some form of sacrifice to open the portal to Gate Suppression Nine. It was key that she get there- though any of the twelve gate suppressions would work as well, she just wanted the ninth for... nostalgic reasons.
A form drifted through the waters about Suzume's mind, her eyes black and hard as she watched those three, she was the River Styx and she stopped her gaze at Pendragon. She didn't like having this foreign presense around her- it was dangerous to the power scales around here, she enjoyed having the controll and thats why he had to go... she'd just have to find a way to get rid of him.
"Hey, just so things don't get confusing around here," She pointed to herself, "Just call me Tsubame." She said with a slow nod as if she were talking to an idiot. She then looked towards the water, her brown eyes searching for something before she looked back at Pendragon, "And now then, I'd like to suggest that we keep an eye open for anyone else who might feel like dropping in." In reference of course to the nymph Suzume, the spirit of the River Styx that lurked all about them, living even in the water at thier feet. "Uowashi is somewhere... she's watching all right." She narrowed her eyes, a ferocity glimmered in them. Her military tone and powerful eyes certainly let one know of the dragon blood in her veins.
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