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Post by Arual on Nov 6, 2008 0:41:05 GMT -5
Cecil went through. "Keyne- if this wasn't a trial- you know none of that would even be /thought/ of let alone spoken to anyone about, right? Also, I rather you keep it to yourself. Too soft and Gerro might try to make me one of his accomplice pimps or something...." he told her, a small laugh towards the end- though being sincere in his favor.
He took his wheelbarrel through a few more trials....and he neared the end of them when he looked around to find one person he didn't expect this of at all.....
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Nov 6, 2008 22:00:49 GMT -5
"Well?" Came the musical voice of Akira, a bit of pleased laughter in her tone as she sat down, "You've been through quite a bit, haven't you?" she seemed rather happy with Cecil's progress. "I hope it's been worthwhile." She sat down smoothly and motioned for Cecil to sit in the seat opposite of her, it was strange, anyone could have sworn that the room was completely blank and empty moments ago but there was no conscience moment where the room had changed to this homey sitting room, looking as if it was some quaint little getaway in the countryside. Akira had a smile on her face, obviously pleased to deliver her trial and all that was needed to get started was for Cecil to sit down.
The Blue Jay flitted over to the staircase that seemed to have taken shape and life in the room's transformation. It preened it's feathers tirelessly. The bird was still attentive while it was fixing it's feathers, but it seemed to have decided best to watch this trial from a distance, the fish didn't seem to mind anything though and hey, if the fish was fine then what problem could there be? No seriously, I'm not trying to trick you here, Cecil just needs to sit his butt down to get this trial started, and no- I'm not putting the wheelbarrow in danger.
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Post by Arual on Nov 6, 2008 22:28:58 GMT -5
Cecil sat, and having to see Akira made him a bit nervous. She wasn't exactly thrilled about all this from the beginning- and as much as he respected her; he feared her too. "I suppose so..."
(sorry- blank right naow)
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Nov 6, 2008 22:36:31 GMT -5
When Cecil sat down (assuming that he did) Akira placed a hand on the youth's forehead, "Words can lie, can't they?" she asked, it was obvious that if Cecil wanted to make it through this trial he should best not move away from the hand on his forehead. Akira's vulpine ears were placed flat against her skull in hostility and she closed her eyes, her eyebrows brought together in a concentrated frown. "So Cecil? Are you going to let me in, or are you going to resist?" the calm voice was heard inside Cecil's thoughts, Akira intended to go through Cecil's memories and judge whether or not Cecil was true with all of this- Cecil himself couldn't affect how this one turned out, everything that Cecil and Suzume had been through and done together would soon be known to Akira. God, that was a frightening idea.
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Post by Arual on Nov 6, 2008 22:40:54 GMT -5
((Those two moments were OOC, so it won't matter! =D))
Cecil sat still, not a flinch of movement. I've nothing to hide.... he told her in response. His crimson eyes went to the floor because of how Akira held his forehead against her hand- looking up was a bit painful- and his black spikes flopped every which way. He had nothing, that he knew of to lie about to Suzume's relative.
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Nov 7, 2008 7:08:32 GMT -5
Akira's consciousness tore through Cecil's mind, it could be felt like a bad headache. Her eyes were closed still and she sifted silently through the memories, no doubt Cecil was likely uncomfortable because Akira seemed to observe memories without reguard if they had anything to do with Suzume, travelling into those hidden things of events before Twilight Moon, those private memories. She systematically found every detail, even perhaps things that Cecil might have believed were forgotten. Akira must have had some practice at this. She let time pass in a slow current before she found that she was satisfied with her search, she stood up and gave her verdict, "You fail." she said simply, her hands now folded in her lap and her facial expression businesslike. This was a time when you'd expect Makashi to show up and persuade Akira to change her answer but nothing like that happened, she didn't even waver in her expression, she was utterly serious, terribly, terribly serious.
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Post by Arual on Nov 7, 2008 9:25:18 GMT -5
Cecil held his head in pain after Akira let go, but he stood up in some shock ad tried to see straight and process the news. What was left to do, was give Akira a bit of what he wants to say. It was over, wasn't it?
No. He wouldn't give up after all this! "Akira, I don't care what you tell me, or Suzume. We love each other, and that's the important part! Who cares what a person did in the past if in the now, they're a better person- someone they've strived to be!" Cecil said to her, his crimson eyes deepening their red. "I've gone through a lot, sure. I'm not perfect- and honestly, Suzume's one of the few people stuck by me even when it hurt....when she knew I wasn't a good person! She saw through what I was....and saw what I could be when I was blind to it. There no words that can describe how thankful I am to her for it- even if she never knew she had done such a thing."
"I know you weren't exactly for this whole wedding from the start, and that's fine. But if what you've looked through for is just a bunch of crap for reasons for me not to marry her, then that's sad. I want Suzume to be happy, and I know Makashi and you both do as well!" Cecil had one thumb pressed into his forehead, still a little woozy from the whole memory surge. Things he never wanted to remember were put back after they were purpously sealed with magic to never rise again. That didn't hurt the young man as much; however, as seeing Suzume in God knows what kind of emotion if she saw him fail. He'd never be able to look at her without feeling guilty and worse, but if that's so....the least he could do was say something he's wanted to after the many looks of disapproval from the woman throughout the time span of the blessing question- and now.
"No disrespect, Akira, but whether you like it or not...blessing or no blessing......If Suzume still would have me, we'll go somewheres else to marry. It may be years from now or six months from today, it doesn't matter. All I know is that she'd want you to be there for it, because you're more important to her than anything else. You're her family! I don't know much more then what I had growing up," Cecil added, taking a breath for a second as he steadied.
"Maybe I would have been a better person, more perfect for Suzume....but the way I see it, is that throughout all the curses in my life, the greatest blessing I've had is having known Suzume. If I was asked to trade it in for my family, now long dead, to come back- or keep things this way......as much as I love my family, I would keep that heartache in my chest if it meant having Suzume as a friend, a girlfriend, or a wife...whatever it is she would have or will become to me or any other guy. In my eyes; as blinded as they are, your granddaughter is worth fighting and working and striving for! Hell, if but without her I don't know what I would do with my life...where I'd be. When I see her, I can't stop smiling, when we talk she always finds a way to make me laugh like I never thought I would. I found someone worth more than my soul to protect; and I would gladly give it up, if I knew it'd one day save her from harm. I can't tell you what she feels, because I never went through her thoughts. I wouldn't know if she'd be sad- or if she'd be unhappy. Anyhow, this wedding isn't about me, or the ceremony. It's about two people who love each other so much they'd die trying to keep the other safe. And that's why I love Suzume. She's selfless- couragous- even though I think she is absolutly terrified about what she's going to get into. She's willing to risk it all to help people, something I think is a very rare quality in people anymore. And she's lucky to have come out so strong after all that's happened to her. I doubt I could say the same in my case...."
Cecil then made a small nod and turned around and began to leave. He had unleashed everything that the barrier around his heart had couped up and let it out.
(this was a really hard post for me to do- so just take it as Cecil is upset- because he wants to make Suzume happy- and now he can't......not to mention that this is true Ceecee moment here. OH! Yeah...I didnm't know how else to answer that. xD Sorry))
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Nov 7, 2008 15:00:44 GMT -5
Akira looked thoughtfully towards Cecil, her mind possibly wandering over this or that that Cecil had said, but she didn't look like she had been swayed to let Cecil marry Suzume. She shook her head and stepped through the doorway of the room, if one were to ask where this entire place came from or was, it would be impossible to answer- the grass outside was too vibrantly green and the sunset on the horizon was too vividly doused in color for the place to be real. This failed task had been staged in some fantasy world. "You didn't pass, there's nothing more that I can say to you about that." she said, not sounding too terribly sorry for Cecil. "You can tell Suzume yourself or you can let Makashi or Neko do it." she instructed, leaning against the door frame. Her bright aqua green eyes were identical to her granddaughters if it wasn't for the fact that you could see she was more wise of the world and the evils it could hold in her gaze. She looked over the lawn, watching a pair of geese that were there in the grass and moving quietly up towards the porch.
"Sorry about your loss, honestly- I am." Israfel sat on the stairs, twirling a blue feather between his fingers, looking a bit sad as he watched Cecil, "Didn't think you'd make it this far, but I didn't want to see you fail." Israfel looked as if he might have been the one who failed, it was odd how much this was affecting him but he knew how much sadness this would hearken and it wasn't something at all to look forward to.
"Israfel, this isn't a matter for you to worry yourself about." Akira shot a glance to Israfel, Akira seemed to be getting colder and colder the more thought she had to put into the matter of the wedding. The more Cecil pushed, the less likely he was to convince Akira.
"I have to worry about it when-" Israfel stopped short, his expression showing that he was angry with Akira and frustrated with the situation in general, he then looked towards Cecil, "He doesn't know yet...?" he asked, his voice becoming sorry and his expression twisted to one of pity. Something was wrong, it was obvious now and seemingly everyone knew except for Cecil. Israfel seemed affected by this rather alot, "Akira, this is wrong..." he trailed off, "If Suzume-"
"Suzume doesn't and I'm sure she'd understand." Akira interrupted, snapping at Israfel, it was almost as if Cecil wasn't here- he was of course and he would be able to listen to everything Akira and Israfel were saying.
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Post by Arual on Nov 9, 2008 21:49:28 GMT -5
"I'm still here, Akira! Please don't act like I'm some dead kid who wasn't worth more than dirt, or like I'm invisible- because I am obviously not! Now I don't know what you're talking about- but if there's something wrong with Suzume, don't leave me out of this! Even if I'm not marrying her, I'm still her friend!" Cecil said his body swiveling to face them. A part of him began to panic.
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Nov 9, 2008 22:09:32 GMT -5
"There's nothing wrong with Suzume... yet" Akira obviously didn't feel too compelled to explain every detail to Cecil, but from the exasperated sigh she released you could tell she rationalized that she would have to explain, "If this marriage were to go through you will grow old and Suzume will stay young, she'd outlast you and there's nothing that anyone could do to change that." Akira explained, "It would be hard on Suzume and it would devastate her, she has hundreds of years left to live and you'd be lucky to last one hundred years."
"Suzume'll react dramatically to your aging and eventual death." Israfel added on, "Most likely Ouwashi would be able to take control again and nobody's sure if we'll be able to stop it." He shook his head, "Still, I would have enjoyed seeing you both happy for the time it would have lasted." Israfel seemed to be more on Cecil's side than Akira, "Sometimes though, a short while of happiness is worth all the sadness." he thought aloud, obviously sounding as if some experience accompanied the thought.
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Post by Arual on Nov 9, 2008 22:26:45 GMT -5
Cecil was not new to the news that his girlfriend/fiance/almost-wife would outlast him. But like Israfel said. So what? They were happy, and if she died- he'd be as upset as anything- probably even as much as to die himself.....a little extreme- but he knew the feeling. "That's an assumption though," he returned. "There's the chance it wouldn't matter...."
"But no one can say a thing about what she'd do other than the obvious. We're not Suzume. What if there was a way for us to further suppress Owashi, though?" he thought to himself.
Cecil's distant crimson eyes looked to the ground, and he turned away to leave. He was grateful; even though the pittied look made him a little on the agitated side, Israfel was on his side- and he meant it in a different way than to belittle him. "I'm going to talk to Suzume....."
Suddenly he was gone.
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Nov 10, 2008 5:02:53 GMT -5
"Shit!" Israfel was obviously agitated at the dissapearance of Cecil, a frown on his face and obviously rather displeased. "Look what you did, Akira!" He said, blaming Akira for the unfavorable events. He hadn't accounted for this when he thought up the trial in the first place, it appeared as a glimmer of forethought when he asked for Akira's assistance but other than that glimmer of forethought he didn't think something this out of line could happen. "He is rather extreme, isn't he? And a little on the dramatic side." Akira noted, her expression capable of being read as one of it-figures,-doesn't-it? "Yeah, but he's going to be Suzume's husband, so obviously there's more than just the drama." Israfel was really really pissed now, of course Cecil would go awol on THE LAST FUCKING TRIAL! Israfel slipped his knuckledusters on and angrily kicked the air, noticeably close to the abandoned wheelbarrow of water but not actually kicking it, as if Israfel was using the wheelbarrow as a representation of Cecil- someone he direly wanted to kick right now. "Cecil's a good kid, I'm happy Suzume chose him." Akira had a smile on her face, "Now go get him before he talks to Suzume so they don't have to wait another twelve days, I don't think either of them would benefit from this whole ordeal restarting." there was a bit of a laugh here, and go figure- Akira didn't dissaprove at all, it was simply created as a part of Israfel's rather cruel final trial. Kinda made Israfel look like an asshole right now, actually. Israfel dissapeared from the room in pursuit of Cecil and upon his dissapearance the glamour placed over the building and it's surroundings fell and Akira looked around quietly. The place was rather sad without the illusions that Akira had held over them, the scent of death over the place and dust forming over every space to preserve it. Outside there was no greenery, just grey dead plants and inside it wasn't at all warm or inviting, all fabrics were in tatters and it was obvious nobody had lived here for quite some time. They needed a house in which to stage the final trial and Akira offered this one, even if it wasn't hers to offer. This was the house Akira had grown up in and it was obvious that the family that had lived here was now dead. -------------------- "Cecil!" Israfel appeared in the hallway outside Suzume's dorm room, "Don't go in there if you want to get married today!" Israfel warned, his tone commanding and irritated with the boy. "If you want to wait twelve more days though, feel free to speak with your bride before you pass the final trial." Israfel had his arms crossed over his chest and an expression showing that he was agitated and even a bit worried. "If you mess this up now then you'll have to start back at the beginning in twelve days, wheelbarrow and all." Israfel figured, Cecil didn't want to bother with the wheelbarrow ever again. **Note: awol is an acronym A.W.O.L. means, "Absent Without Official Leave" in other words, desertion. I thought it fit Cecil's poofing from the final trial rather well. And yes, Cecil hasn't failed the trial, it wasn't Akira's trial to pass judgement on, she was merely a voulinteer to help stage the whole thing. Congratulations.
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Post by Arual on Nov 10, 2008 15:25:22 GMT -5
(Well, I'm sorry. What I had BEFORE wasn't good enough- and I couldn't think of much. I wont be on a lot today because of homework- but I ll try))
Cecil hadn't really tried to be or look like an idiot, but it wasn't intentional. It wasn't being over dramatic, it's kind of the way he thought- walking. It cleared his head- he tread out his frustration or whatever he was feeling at the time. But he stopped in the middle of the transfer from place to place. (I was thinking...or not, either way) Cecil didn't do a thing. "I don't particularly like being tugged in circles.....couldn't you have told me five minutes ago?" he thought to himself.
"Sorry, I think I'm able to be just a little confused after all this, don't you think?" Cecil sighed- not about to start all over again. "I don't want to start over- but after being told I failed, I didn't exactly think I'd be moving on anywhere......What am I supposed to do, because I've stopped trying to figure it out after that conversation..." The young man tried to keep his cool with Israfel, but the point inside his head was whether to scream at him for that- or slide down the wall and try to clear his head and forget about what happened; though not literally, and focus on what the prize still seemed to be placed at in front of him....a slight bit literally.
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Nov 10, 2008 17:27:35 GMT -5
"So... anything else you'd like to say, declare defiantly, or anything along those lines?" Israfel asked, obviously figuring that Cecil wouldn't be quite done yet. He had a bit of a smile on his face since the crisis had been averted. "So would you like to know what your last trial is or what?" he inquired. He still had the bladed knuckledusters on his hands, odd- wasn't it? He either wasn't sure if Cecil would be completely convinced that this was just another trial and would continue his attempt to see Suzume, or perhaps the weapons had something to do with the final trial. Israfel was looking forward to getting this over with, of course he had said it earlier and meant it when he had said that he wanted Cecil to make it through the trials. There would be more to this post but a writer's block has developed, so this is pretty much it. Yush.
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Post by Arual on Nov 10, 2008 17:35:40 GMT -5
"I'm done," he said flatly, "What is it?" Feeling a bit more composed then a moment before, Cecil's eyes went to Israfel.
(yeah, blocked)
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