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Post by Twilight Path on Oct 23, 2010 18:13:04 GMT -5
Sarah's body slowly rose up, noticing that she was at what looked like the stained glass image she had seen in her dream before. It looked different now, the piccolo a silver color. She stood, confused, since there seemed to be nothing important around her. Why? Why would this power take her to the strange sanctum that seemed to be telling her nothing but of strange tales?
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Post by Atticus the Fallen on Oct 23, 2010 18:19:42 GMT -5
Strange tales indeed. As she looked off in one direction, a familiar shape would fade into existance behind her, his back to her and his head tilted upward to the skies, as though seeking something unobtainable. His raven wings fluttered lightly once he was properly solid, alerting the girl to his presence. He stood there... silent... unaware of her presence or maybe just unconcerned. His right arm was massive and contorted into a nightmarish, twisted mess of claw and muscular structures. The lengthy middle claw dripped a crimson substance onto the ground, fresh from a kill that would haunt the universe forever...
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Post by Twilight Path on Oct 23, 2010 18:22:43 GMT -5
"You...would kill Acteur like that as well?" Her voice trembled, confidence in her posture as she waited for him to answer. Her body remained still, having trouble taking a step toward what looked to be the blood of something sacred. Had that not been what the teddy bear was talking about? "Answer me! Isn't Acteur loyal to you?! Would you do that to someone loyal to you?!"
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Post by Atticus the Fallen on Oct 23, 2010 18:29:55 GMT -5
"Loyal...?" the image spoke, then slowly turned around. Those hellish eyes bore straight into the girl, as though able to see her every secret, her every thought, her every desire. He was the proverbial demon that hides in one's mind... eating away at them. Once he fully faced her, that claw still dripping, he'd speak again while raising it to point at her.
"How loyal? You still have something that belongs to us... he hasn't taken it. My patience runs only so far... and those without the stomach to do what is necessary for our race to grow..."
He paused, then lifted the claw so that it was inches from the feathers that outlined that black void that hid his face, "...have no place in our ranks..."
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Post by Twilight Path on Oct 23, 2010 18:51:04 GMT -5
Sarah's eyes narrowed, coming closer to the fallen despite the fear inside her. Acteur had feelings for her and she knew that they had agreed on that hard path together. She moved a hand to grasp his clothing, knowing he could easily kill her. Her mind could remember the fear inside her trying to rule over her. "You're wrong! Acteur and I understand how to live outside of your twisted ways!" She couldn't remember why she was calling Atticus the Fallen such names, but it became hard to recall when she had an animosity towards him. "He said himself that he didn't want me to become a heartless!"
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Post by Atticus the Fallen on Oct 23, 2010 18:58:30 GMT -5
The Fallen bent lightly to look at this girl closer, his claw coming up to tilt her chin upward dangerously, the tip able to pierce through her very skull with a flick of his wrist. His eyes stared into hers, the judgement and terror of the lord of all darkness pouring into her as he spoke.
"As long as his heart remains in darkness... He will obey or be obliterated. I created him for the soul purpose of taking hearts... and the moment he rebels... is the moment I take away the life I gave him... In the end... not even his heart is real..."
That said, the creature turned into a strange, black mist... and whisked away from her as immaterial as air. It formed on the other side of the platform, this time taking the shape of the silver-garbed mage she met before, also with his back to her and staring upward at a starless sky. His pose indicated a man seeking a resolution, an ending to madness...
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Post by Twilight Path on Oct 23, 2010 19:13:13 GMT -5
Sarah's body had become quite stiff, feeling the Fallen's dark power in person. Normally she had been shielded from the full force of his influence. However, his actions were deliberately a certain way for people. Being alone and enforcing his will with no limits made her mind hold back what it was going to say. "I-" Her eyes began to fill with tears. "What do I do? I don't want... I don't want Acteur to die!" Her gloved hands formed fists, bent over a purple part of the stained glass.
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Post by Sai on Oct 23, 2010 19:36:56 GMT -5
"That... may be an unavoidable conclusion..." a softer voice, though strangely similar in many ways would come from the other figure, though he didn't turn away from whatever was distracting him. He continued, though his eyes were drawn away from Sarah for whatever reason.
"Logically speaking, the longer your Prince protects you the more danger he puts himself in. Because his heart is artificial, the Fallen has it within his power to completely obliterate it, forever, and fully. It will be as though Acteur de la Noir never existed..." pausing, the studious silver-garbed mage thought a moment, his hand lifting to the chin hidden behind the red scarf he wore.
"But should his heart be liberated by the Keyblade... perhaps it can make its way to Kingdom Hearts... so that in the next life he might be full and true... Of course this is only a theory..."
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Post by Twilight Path on Oct 23, 2010 19:45:07 GMT -5
"I promised myself I'd follow what my heart decided. If there's even a fragment of a chance to save him, I'll take it. I'll follow the path I made for myself!" She wiped the tears under her glasses with one of her gloved hands. She turned towards the mage who stood behind her. Though she probably knew his name, right now it seemed to escape her. "Tell me how I can create that path here." Her body was still shaking from what the Fallen had done earlier, but there was certainly determination inside her. She would not waver, not now, after all this time.
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Post by Sai on Oct 23, 2010 19:47:42 GMT -5
The figure turned to face her almost the same way that of the Fallen had. Except instead of a sense of inner destruction, she could just tell that this person just didn't care. He was incapable of caring. In fact, if anything, she might feel a strange sense of emptiness coming from him... as though nothing mattered. Ever.
"How should I know?" the man asked, one eye looking to her past whispy blue hair. It was yellow, but in a more damaged sort of way, like he was hurting more than anyone could know, because he never let on.
"It is your path to forge, not mine..." he reasoned, watching her.
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Post by Twilight Path on Oct 23, 2010 19:57:51 GMT -5
Sarah moved forward, past the person who seemed not to help her within this place. Even though he was in pain, part of her didn't understand why. She pushed towards what looked to be a dead end, knowing that she could indeed fall. If she could forge the path herself, then she would do so.
Holding her heart, the one Acteur protected the most, she took one step out in the void between light and dark.
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Post by Sai on Oct 23, 2010 22:32:49 GMT -5
Lo and behold, a red line would streak from under her feet, spreading into the path that only she could follow. The phantom of Sai would simply watch, seeming both unimpressed and uninterested (much like the real Sai).
"If you tread that way..." he whispered, slowly looking away as he began to fade. "...You may not like what you must do at the end of the path..."
Then he was gone. The path twisted off into the distance, where a wrecked, albiet familiar, spacecraft hung in the darkness...
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Post by Twilight Path on Oct 23, 2010 22:40:31 GMT -5
Sarah ignored Sai's warning, understanding from the beginning she was taking a risk. A strange ship seemed to be in front of her, a strange memory beginning to come back to her.
"Welcome earth-human!" The weird alien creature talking from awhile. Quite awhile ago, since it had been uncertain how much time she had spent with Acteur. "Space vessel is ready for take-off, for eager to explore human type. Please to be inputting destination?"
Her body slowly reacted, one hand reaching her forehead as if to retrieve something.
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Post by Secondary Characters on Oct 23, 2010 22:50:02 GMT -5
Memories. They sometimes come back at you at the strangest of times, bringing along things you thought you didn't have time to process the first time around. As Sarah stood there, she'd be watching a spectral form of her former self looking over those papers, which now, very clearly read: Keyblade Notes.
"But should his heart be liberated by the Keyblade... " Sai's voice echoed in her mind, "perhaps it can make its way to Kingdom Hearts... so that in the next life he might be full and true... Of course this is only a theory..."
Maybe... Acteur could be saved by the information on these papers? But where were they now?
Another memory, this time one so buried in her subconscious that no other way exists she could have retreived it. She was only half-aware of her surroundings, the spectral Sarah, laying her head to rest in the Castle of Naught. Sarah would see a green-garbed woman snatch the notes from her and take them for herself before leaving...
Those notes... where were they now? Did the green girl give them to queen Maleficent, now MeadowSong? Did she keep them? Did she destroy them? There was only one way to really find out, wasn't there... but that would have to wait for Sarah to...
"Wake up!"
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