Shattered Planes Archives (Seasons 4 & 5)
Beyond => Aralang Dimensions => Aralang Reinforcement Outpost Dimension => Topic started by: Gaserlake on July 28, 2010, 07:36:11 PM
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K2, Leserlake, and the other Aralangs went through the portal. Gaserlake, Inari, and Echo were the last to come through. The portal closed behind them.
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"AH! AH! AH! AH! AH! AH! AH!" exclaimed K2323, running in circles in terror.
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Inari was kicking at Gaserlake the whole way of being dragged, and Echo was whacking him on the head with her staff. They didn't agree with being dragged, and he STILL hadn't agreed to save Hikaru.
"Save my teacher, save my teacher, save my teacher!" Inari shouted over and over again, each time she kicked at him.
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"AH! AH! AH! AH! AH!" K2323 yelled, running up to Inari and shaking her senselessly. "AHHH!"
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Gaserlake let the two go. The beating didn't hurt him, and he even ignored it. "Okay. Now, we'll talk about Hikaru."
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Inari ducked out of K2s grip, as her and Echo finally shut up and looked over to Gaserlake with defiant yet stubborn expressions.
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"AH! AH! AH! A- Oh, right. Hikaru. Your special force dogs have captured her," K2323 explained.
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"And they're gonna kill her!" Inari shouted. "Do something!"
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"Also, what was that thing back there? It was a little scary," K2323 commented.
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"So, she's in trouble with the Special Forces, huh? Well, that's a real problem," Gaserlake said, after Leserlake telepathically told him everything. "K2, is that why you came here?" he asked.
"It's the Garelang Virus," Leserlake said.
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"Why is it a problem?!" Inari pleaded. "You'll help her right?! They said you would! You have to! T..they're gonna kill her spirit!"
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"Well, the Special Forces were with us just, now, so I think they know where I am," Gaserlake said. "Anyway, I'll try to help. I don't want an unnecessary war."
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"So you'll get them to release her?!" Inari asked
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"That's good news," K2323 replied, "The helping part. Not... that virus thing."
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"Yes. I'll try," Gaserlake said with confidence.
Two Elite Keepers hurried into the dimension. They beamed down several troops into the area. "Gaserlake," one of them said, very nervous. "I have urgent news. The Garelang Virus is spreading across many dimensions."
Gaserlake was terrified. "Umm... well, yes. Get everyone that's not infected in the contaminated dimensions out of there. And by the way. You know Hikaru Tyris?"
"Yes. She's the one that we just recently captured."
"Release her," Gaserlake said.
"Yes, sir. I didn't expect her release to be so quick. Anyway, where do you want us to release her? Here?"
Gaserlake turned to Inari and Echo. "Where do you want her to be released?"
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"Wait? That's all we had to get done?" K2323 asked, astonished.
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"The Outerverse." Both Inari and Echo said at once.
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"Are you sure, sir?" the soldier asked. "We took all the trouble with the dimension and the Outerverse, and now we're just giving her up?"
"Well, unfortunately, yes."
"This has been a complete waste of time!" the solder exclaimed, very angry. "We risked a war against what seems to be the entire dimension for nothing! There has to be a condition on her release!"
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"Mistress Hikaru better still be alive you bastards!" Inari shouted at the SF soldier as Echo held her back from doing anything else unwise.
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"She is still alive. You're lucky we didn't kill her!" the solder shouted back at her. He then sneered. "Anyone heard of blood contracts? Hikaru's a great teacher."
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"That's because you can't!" Inari shouted once again. "Technology can't do what you're trying! Mistress Hikaru even said that!" She paused and looked confused. Why was he asking about blood contracts? That was a type of binding magic. And how did they know about them? "Where'd you find out about that?! Mistress Hikaru would NEVER teach her enemies something like that! Or anything about magic! So why should I tell you what they are? She wouldn't!"
Echo stayed silent, still holding Inari from tackling the soldier.
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At the same time, the soldier told all the other Aralangs via Aralang Linking about blood contracts.
The soldier laughed. "Telepathy, my friend. A very useful tool. She doesn't have to say anything. You don't have to explain anything to me. I know all about it." He turned to Gaserlake. "So, would you accept the conditions?"
Gaserlake crossed his arms. "What would the conditions be?"
"Well, nothing short than a 200-year detention at any place of your choice. She is sorta a prisoner, still, but has much more rights than an average prisoner."
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"The Aralangs probed her mind, a type of invasive mind reading." A voice announced as it appeared next to Inari, Abel walking out of a portal eating a bagel. "But that's against the point.. I hear you have a virus on the loose?" Abel asked as he took a bite of his bagel, holding out his skeletal arm. "I'm an expert on sentient viruses capable of annihilating entire parallel universes, in fact I am slightly one." Abel informed when he had swallowed the food in his mouth.
"A small contingency of Aralangs rescued me when a virus had destroyed my home universe, sadly you guys couldn't exactly quarantine it effectively, you destroyed my universe, the only uninfected entity that left that universe was me.. Although a single particle of the virus had ended up on the ship, infected and destroying it while we were trans-versing the border between universes, the ship was destroyed and I was infected," Abel stopped to take a breathe, his bagel disappearing as he could bored with it. "My arm was reduced to energy and the virus was nearly dead at that point, as it was sentient it knew that it couldn't exist without me, so it saved me, but the effort put it in some sort of coma. Been like this for decades." Abel finished.
"And no Aralang, any imprisonment of Hikaru will result in a war. She has no control of this as it's the united decision of the magic users of this universe."
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Inari shut up. Telepathy? That explained everything! Inari pouted a bit. Hikaru had always told her to learn how to shield her mind. But Inari found it a useless spell as she didn't have anything to hide. Now she saw why Hikaru taught her that. Now she needed the spell, because the enemy had telepathy. "You can't do that!" Inari shouted. "Mistress Hikaru can't be forced! She doesn't take orders from anyone!"
Echo finally let Inari go, but Inari didn't tackle him and instead just glared. Her teachers favorite habit.
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"Either she accepts the deal, and wait for 200 years, and she goes off the hook, or stays confined for as long as it takes for us to find a way to kill her spirit," he said, glaring back at Inari while grinning.
"Unless she has our permission to get off the planet, right?" Gaserlake added.
"Well, yes. That too," the soldier said, keeping his eyes on Inari.
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"You guys are such jerks!" Inari exclaimed, promptly flipping him off before finally shutting up. It wasn't hers or Echo's or even K2s choice to make. It was Hikaru's, and even if Inari said yes, Hikaru might say no.
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The soldier rolled his eyes are Inari's offense.
"Have her dropped off here first for the blood contract, though," Gaserlake said.
"Alright," the soldier said. "Bring her in," he said telepathically to the others. He then said to the rest, "She's coming in a few moments."
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"Jerks! Jerks, jerks, jerks, jerks, JERKS! All of you are jerks!" Inari continued. "Now I see why Mistress Hikaru refers to you as infidels and purposely does things against you! The mind is like someones privacy! You're not supposed to invade that! People have thoughts, secrets, hidden things about their past! You're not supposed to read it like a book! There should be a law against that or something. But not a law by you guys! You guys make sucky laws! Who died and made you boss? You don't OWN the dimension!"
"She's right." Echo added in defense of her friend and her friends teacher. "Why do you get to chase people to other dimensions that you don't even own? On your own property you can. But they should have amnesty when they're on their own or neutral land!"
"Would you have chased her to the sage dimension too?" Inari accused. "If you would, THAT'S NOT RIGHT!"
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"Then don't mess with us if you don't like it," the soldier concluded. "Oh, she's here."
An Elite Prison Ship came. It deactivated her stasis, and beamed her unconscious body into the station, still shackled.
"It'll take a moment to have her awake," the soldier stated.
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"You think you're all that!" Inari continued her rant. "But Mistress Hikaru could have beat you if she wanted to! And the rest of the magic users in the meeting! You're weak compared to her and them! Weak, weak, weak, weak, WEA-" Inari paused as her rant was cut off to see Hikaru appear. "MISTRESS HIKARU!" With with an expression of joy that basically said she wanted to go jump on and hug Hikaru, Inari stopped herself. Something was wrong... why wasn't Hikaru breathing?
Spinning around, she faced the SF soldier again. "What did you do to my teacher? You bastards!!" Inari then snapped her fingers and above the SF soldiers, buckets of chocolate pudding appeared, pouring it down upon them. Well she was a student of Hikaru, and did learn all of Hikaru's not so powerful tricks.. Echo couldn't help but laugh as then marshmallows also sprinkled down.
Hikaru, however, was slowly coming to. Barely opening her eyes, she could barely register light pouring in as she lay there in confusion. She was alive? Then Inari made it! Or wait... was she just awake for them to laugh at her and inform her before killing her? With these thoughts racing through her mind, she quickly jolted awake attempting to jump up but finding it difficult. Glancing down, she sighed. Shackles. She wasn't free. Then what was happening?
After pulling herself up best she could manage, Hikaru's eyes began to dart around as she observed what was happening. The sight just making her all the more confused. Her brother was there, along with Inari and her friend. The leader she had 'taken hostage,' and someone else. Then more fucking soldiers. With that kind of setup, all she could really manage to ask was. "Is this Hell?"
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"No, though you probably would think its worse than that. Welcome to the Aralang... Dimension.. Of... What do you guys call this place, anyway?" K2323 greeted his sister. "How have you been, sis?"
He looked over at Inari. "What is it with Hikaru and her students and.. pudding?"
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Hikaru finally registered enough of what was going on to at least hear K2. "Oh you know, Attacking inferior races, getting arrested, and escaping death.." She shrugged and laughed, a sure sign of insanity. "The usual."
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Inaru is getting on his nerves. He shook off the chocolate and the marshmallows. Gaserlake and Leserlake laughed. When the SF soldier made a furious look at at two growling with his eyes twitching, Gaserlake and Leserlake stopped laughing with worried looks. He looked back at Inari, still growling. "Why you little!" He walked up to Inari. He lifted up Inari by the neck with his left hand, he raised his right hand to punch her.
He was about to punch her until Gaserlake yelled, "Stop!" He said it just in time. The soldier turned his head towards Gaserlake, then turned back at Inari. He grudgingly dropped Inari to the floor.
"Not so fast, though," the soldier said, appearing to forget that Inari and Echo are right in front of him. He smiled. "Hikaru, you have a blood contract to sign."
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"Or we could, you know, just leave. Right?" K2323 asked hopefully.
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"Hell, no," the soldier said. "We've been through too much trouble to just let her go."
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"You wouldn't have had so much trouble if you didn't chase her in the first place!" Inari shouted, kicking the same soldier in the nuts, before grabbing Echo and running to hide behind K2.
Finally gaining her senses back and realizing what was going on, Hikaru ignored the soldier. Judging by the fact Inari was over there causing them trouble with pudding, magic wasn't disabled. Knowing this, she held her hand out to the shackles around her ankles and focused a thin beam of Revelation magic, breaking the chain. Then she did the same with the ones around her wrists and stood up.
So far from what she could tell, she was free... But not free. Blood contract? Just what were they trying..."I demand an explanation before I sign anything." Hikaru stated. "Just because I'm still alive, you expect me to give in to your demands like some child that just learned to respect authority? I don't think so. Especially to people I have a firm dislike of."
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He winced at the ...pain... when he got hit in the balls, but he only buckled over a bit. He punched Inari at the right side of the head very hard like it's nothing. He got over the pain very quickly. "Well, war's not fair, is it?" he asked rhetorically as he stood straight. "Basically, if you want to get off our hook, you would have to be in parole. You will serve 200 years of, uh, planet arrest."
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Inari fell to the ground from the hit, Echo running to her.
"Don't tell me what I will and won't do, Aralang." Hikaru narrowed her golden eyes at him as she spoke. "And that's my apprentice you're hitting. Only I AM allowed to hit her." Hikaru then snapped her fingers and more pudding fell on him, but this time it didn't stop. She had created an enchanted cloud of never-ending pudding. A hex. It would continue to fall and fall until the hex was removed. Or at least until they used an AM field to get rid of it, which she suspected it would. "Now. If I refuse?"
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"They'll arrest you," K2323 replied.
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"Arrest?!" the soldier exclaimed, ignoring the pudding. "More like kill! Now, turn the shit on!" seconds later, an IAM field has been activated, covering the area except for where the illusion of K2 is in. The cloud has stopped pouring pudding and has disappeared. The soldier shook off the pudding. He then quickly pulled out his pistol and shot at Hikaru at the ground where Hikaru is standing. "Dance, bitch! Dance!"
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"Too slow." Hikaru laughed and jumped into the air at the first pulse of laser, using Revelation Spirit Magic, which practically makes an IAM Field completely useless, to float there. Then she waved her index finger and the gun quickly levitated out of the soldiers hand into the air where it just stayed, right above his head. It was funny, really. They could attack, but since they hadn't gotten serious so far, it was obvious something was holding them back. But what?
Observing the others standing below, Hikaru's eyes focused on the one Aralang she didn't know, other than the soldiers. Was that the other leader? Gaserlake? That must have been the reason they weren't getting serious. Well that was amusing, now she could do whatever she wanted to this idiot, in payback. And it wouldn't count against her. At least, as long as she didn't actually attack.
"What are the conditions of your deal?" Hikaru called down from the air as she twirled her finger causing the gun to point down on him.. "You can't just make it vague, or the both of us could exploit it. What's your specifications? And what planet, per se?" She flicked her middle finger of the same hand in a trigger motion as she talked. This caused pulses of lasers to shoot down at the soldier. "Oh, and to the dancing thing. Sorry, but you first."
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K2323 looked over at Gaserlake. "You let your soldiers act like this? I ought to teach him a lesson myself to disrespect with royalty. I don't care if Hikaru's your prisoner, or whatever. You STILL respect royalty!"
He held out his hand, balled up in a fist. As he began to raise it, the Aralang soldier began to lift in the air.
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"MY soldiers? These aren't my guys," said Gaserlake. The soldier, however, didn't lift in the air, as despite that the illusion of K2 is outside of the IAM field, the soldier is in it. The soldier hardly flinched to Hikaru's laser pulses.
"Heh. No thanks. Ladies first, anyway." He grabbed the gun that was above his head. Instead of shooting at Hikaru, he put the gun away.
"The specifics?" Gaserlake said, as he turned to Hikaru. "You'll be in Aralia for 200 years. Not in jail, but, more like a planet arrest, like he said. You'll be able to walk around the planet and such, but you aren't allowed to leave the planet."
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"Will there be pumpkin pie?" K2323 chirped in, "I mean 200 years on a planet with pumpkin pie wouldn't be that bad."
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"Good dog." Hikaru mocked in reply to the soldier since he had given up on attacking her. Making the taunt all the more fun.
She lingered in the air for a moment before dropping back to the ground, all the while analyzing the deal in her mind. "I can't agree to that. You can even ask my brother there for confirmation. We're participants in the tournament in Hell. If I don't turn up for my match, I'll be disqualified. "
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"Woah! I forgot all about that!" K2323 exclaimed.
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"Why, you sonuvabitch!" the soldier said after he heard her call him a dog. He took out a combat knife as he walked towards Hikaru.
"What would be the consequences of disqualification?" Gaserlake asked as he watched the SF soldier walk menacingly towards Hikaru.
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"Death." Hikaru replied. "Well at least that's what I think. I broke some deals with Lucifer, and now he basically wants to pull me to Hell because of it. I was in the tournament to be free of those." She warily watched the soldier come closer, flicking her hand, the knife flew out of his hands and straight up, not stopping. "I thought you read my mind? Wouldn't you have already known this?"
To the soldier, she grinned. "What's wrong? Don't like it when those you try to kill, get away, mock, and basically ridicule you? Good!"
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A soon as the knife went out of his hands, he ran at Hikaru and tackled her down, grabbing her by the neck and punching in the head while pushing her to the ground... head first. At the same time, he kicked her in the shin. After the beating, he got up, and kicked her in the back. He then spat at her face. "Don't fuck with me!"
"Is that right, K2?" Gaserlake asked. "Disqualification means death?"
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"For her, absolutely!" K2323 replied.
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Hikaru had, had it. If he was gonna go hostile, so could she! As soon as he grabbed her neck, she lit herself on fire bursting into crimson flames. Because of being a phoenix, she had a natural immunity to fire, and even though she was under an IAM field, mixing Revelation magic with it, let it be used. However it was only regular fire as she didn't intend on killing him, for fear of what that might lead to. Then throwing him off, and kicking him in the nuts in the process, she took to the air again.
"Nice try, but you lose." She grumbled. "You proved your immaturity by responding to my taunts and mocking. Just like a child. And I thought you were supposed to be a soldier, hah. Should have juuuuuuust ignored."
Inari and Echo couldn't help but laugh from their positions. Inari was still rubbing her head where she got hit.
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Seeing that HIkaru planned it, the SF soldier read that part of the mind and saw it coming. Right after she had burst into flames, he went off of her fast enough to not catch on fire. He still received some burns. "You're immature for causing it to happen," he said as he backed away. "You're lucky we don't know how to kill spirits... YET." He made sure Hikaru would notice the 'yet'. He then laughed. "Besides. You're still ours, not Gaser's, so we can take you back if we want. Anything else to make me angry, and you're back in the brig."
Gaserlake thought for a moment. "What kind of death is it?" he asked K2.
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That did it. "I don't belong to anyone." Hikaru growled. "And you'd be wise to remember that. You only caught me because I surrendered. Otherwise, I could have had you chasing dimension to dimension forever. Or have just hid out in Hell the whole time. You only won, because I greatly dislike the fact that you trespassed on sacred land and insulted magic. So, if you would kindly, fuck off, that would be nice." She flicked her hand and the levitating knife fell back down on him with increased speed because she released her hold on the levitation.
"Go Mistress Hikaru!" Inari shouted out when Hikaru had finished her speech.
Glancing back down to Gaserlake, Hikaru answered the question before her brother could. "Permanently dead in Hell."
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"Yeah, that about covers it," K2323 nodded.
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"We would of had you whether you surrendered or not in Aralia," the soldier said. "Your loss in Aralia led you to this moment. If it weren't for us to get involved, you wouldn't have surrendered yourself in the Outerverse. Don't mess with us."
"Alright. I'll take note of that," Gaserlake said to K2. Even though he appeared to ignore Hikaru's answer, he did listen to it. "So, Hikaru. Are you going to accept the deal, or not? You can leave the planet with Leserlake's or my permission, though they would most likely have conditions."
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"You're right on that, I'll have to admit.." Hikaru solemnly replied. "But I made your prison look like a playhouse with how easy it was to break out. I made your AM Fields completely worthless. I levitated your own attacks right back at you. And... I made whatever that barrier was that I hit when ripping the dimension....look like paper with how easy it was to rip through. So you think you have power? Something to fear? You're nothing compared to the Sage Three. And never will be. My brother and I, who stand before you, have your amount of power in one damn finger. Our other brother as well. Together? If we could agree to work together long enough, we'd be unstoppable. So respect who you're talking to and learn your place, you damn dog. " She watched as the knife hit. Seeing as he hadn't bothered to block it.
"Anyways..." She rolled her eyes at the soldier before continuing. "As I asked before. What happens if I do leave? Oh sure, you'll kill me, I get that part. But a blood contract isn't binding for what YOU'LL do. It, its self has to have conditions."
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Why did K2323 take the idea of his sister dying so lightly, anyway? Truth was, he didn't take it lightly. He did not want his sister to die. And yet, at the same time, deep down, sometimes he swore that it was exactly what he wanted. It was fucked up. He didn't understand it himself.
Hikaru, after all, was fucking batshit crazy. Well, she was, right? But then there was K2323, who was probably equally as crazy, if not more. It took a really crazy family like the Tyris family, though, to understand the kind of crazy that they were. And to understand why they were so crazy in the first place.
Starting with the apparent-grandfather-of-the-Sage-Three-who-K2323-had-never-heard-of-until-recently, the very embodiment of anarchy, chaos, and all that jazz. Pretty evil, right? Chaos and death and all that in flesh? That was crazy. Really crazy.
His son, named CHAOS of all things, was probably just as crazy as grandpa. Chaos was a Keeper of Erebus once, right? Then he lived as a loner in a dark forest, in a hut, for the longest time. And then he started a village, and was living a happy life. But then he turned evil? Greed had infested him, and he had been bent on retreaving treasures and riches to fill the void that his wife, K2323's mom, had apparently left.
That is, up until recently, when dad had found out that mother dearest was alive and well outside the flow of time, going on with her life in the village dad had helped found as if nothing had happened. That was really fucked up, and even K2323 knew it. Why had she not let anyone know of the village being safe? Hikaru was no excuse. It was a village full of sages, after all.
Speaking of Hikaru... Her kind of crazy was no different from all the others in the family, though she'd swear that it was, just to be different from the lineage she came from. Hikaru had destroyed the Era Village, or so everyone (including her) had believed up until a few days ago when it was revealed that the village was alive and well outside the spacetime continuum – At least the time part. She had killed all those in the Guardian HQ which K2323 and Kai had called home. And then she said... sorry, just, what, yesterday?
Kai, the brother of the two sages, was crazy too. K2323 swore that he had some kind of bi-polar disorder sometimes. He came back and forth, here and there every so often. He was incredibly strong and incredibly weak, depending on when you caught him. He even seemed, as of late, to have some kind of multi-personality disorder. K2323 really didn't understand it. It didn't make sense.
So, yeah. The Tyris family was pretty fucked up, and that was that. What K2323 didn't understand about this basic principle was why K2323 just couldn't live a normal life, no matter how hard he tried. He just wanted to be able to relax in a recliner, watch a K Entertainment System, and drink a cold beer. Or perhaps sit in the peaceful Era Valley, drink from spring-water, and then retire to a loving family.
K2323 had tried over and over. He tried to live on Japan all those years ago (or Japae as it was apparently called now days), but he found that the royal life wasn't all for him. He managed to live for the longest time with her... His beautiful wife. He even had a son with her. But then... He shuddered, thinking about the fate of his deceased wife, and a tear formed at his eye.
It was a curse, he found, and this instance here only confirmed it. K2323 Tyris could not live a normal, comfortable life like he wanted. Even after he gave away all the glory and fame of the K Empire to his most loyal of generals, he had to go and 'die' in battle with that Zirridian man. Not that he really died, of course, but he wouldn't tell anyone that. He didn't want anyone knowing what he'd been doing for the past decade.
And now, here he was, standing in the same room as the sister he so desperately wanted to kill for fucking up that chance at a normal life... And yet he found he wanted to protect her from death. Because Hikaru was his sister. And she (and Kai) was as close to normal as he knew. As close to normal as those who were alive, anyway. He didn't dare let his mind go back to the thought he'd had moments ago of his wife and his home in the Era Valley.
“Gaserlake,†K2323 spoke up. “The Tyris family is madly insane. Let us go or we may have to use our SUPERPOWERS on this guy here,†he said, pointing to the elite soldier. “But seriously. This is getting old, playing prisoner. You have the power to end the game, and no, not with some stupid planet arrest idea. Let Hikaru go free. We have more pressing matters to deal with like... that THING you're keeping in the Guardian Headquarters.â€
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The knife bounced right off the SF soldier's bullet-proof armor. He watched as the knife fell to the ground. He laughed and pointed at Hikaru. "You just failed, right there!" he mocked. He went down to pick up the knife and put it away. "I had enough fun for now."
"Are you sure you want her to be free?" Gaserlake asked K2, uncertain. "Hikaru has thought of USING the bloody Virus, which was that 'thing' back there. We shouldn't let her do that."
"Not death," The SF soldier said to Hikaru, sneering. "Something worse. You guys are insane? Hah! You might call us insane, too! If you leave the planet without permission, your body and spirit would be incompatible with magic. Your spirit will only serve you to keep you alive. Your enchantment will only keep you from dying within a day from the age. In other words, mortal! Just like us!"
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With K2s last statement, Hikaru glanced down at him. Guardian Dimension? Thing? Was that what she thought it was? She ignored the soldier. "Oh? So you released whatever these idiots were afraid of in that place? How sad. You did it before me, brother. Well. I'll just find it when I'm finished here." She then nearly fell out of the air when she heard the conditions, landing quite rapidly and full of rage. The full conditions of this deal had just dawned on her.
"Just wait one damn minute! You seriously expect me to stay 200 years on YOUR damn planet, stuck with your idiotic and self righteous culture and surrounded by technology and AM fields? Hell. Fucking. No! And if you force such a thing, I'll just destroy the damn planet. That should invalidate it."
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"We'll be able to control your magic. Anything that we don't want you to do with magic won't happen," the soldier replied. "Same thing with your spirit energy." He then frowned. "But, if you don't want to do it, you don't have to. But I'm afraid we'll have to put you back in stasis, if that's the case."
"Don't worry, though," Gaserlake said. "We won't be following you around or anything."
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Hikaru looekd positively furious. Clenching her fists she growled before searching her mind for everything she remembered on blood contracts. Because blood was sacred this meant in magic it was binding. Reason most of her powerful spells were blood based. But blood contracts? Those were the worst. There were only three sure ways to break them. Either use some other persons blood...Destroy the contract, or find loophole... In this case they'd probably be watching for a blood switch. And would most likely guard the damn contract with everything they had. That just left a loophole.
Crossing her arms, Hikaru took a moment to think about it, scanning all he conditions they had given. Would clones fall under magic they don't want? What about contacting someone to 'kidnap,' her? Wait...didn't they have the ability to read minds... -FUCK! "Doesn't seem like I have a damn choice, does it?!" Hikaru glowered looking resentful. "Fine. But I get to to recast the shield around my mind. That's a damn invasion of privacy, and I don't want you fuckers in it."
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"We can't allow you to do that. We don't know what you're trying to do to get out of this." the soldier said after passively reading her mind. "Clones? It's something we wouldn't like from you, for obvious reasons. You can contact with the outside world, but we would monitor it. If someone came, we would be ready." Aralangs don't need to concentrate to read minds. It's like an everyday thing. They can still be able to choose who the read and what they read.
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Hikaru simply shook her head. "And again I say. You people wonder why we hate you...."
She went over all the conditions once again in thought. She didn't like it, that was for damn sure. But did she really have any choice? Finally with a last sigh, Hikaru turned to Gaserlake looking him directly in the eyes. "Fine. But mark my words, Aralang. After 200 years is over, you and your whole race will pay. Remember this. Because I'm making my vow of revenge, here and now." After that she went silent.
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Gaserlake turned to one of his men. "Get the contract printed out." One of the soldiers went to another room to print out a contract.
"In 200 years, we would be able to kill spirits easily like a standard issue weapon," the soldier said, grinning.
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"And by that time, you will have been wiped out..." Hikaru replied.
Since she had to wait for the contract anyways, it was time to get all things handled and dealt with before she was forced to sign. "Well it looks like due to this, we'll only get our re-match in the tournament." Hikaru muttered casually, glancing to K2323. She was ignoring the soldier and other Aralangs now. "So try not to die or lose before we have our match. And...I need to have a word with you alone, when there's a chance."
Then in a telepathic message sent only to him, Inari, and Echo, she added, ""You can let the other empires know that there's still a war. They still disrespect us, they still trespassed on the Outerverse, and they still deny us our divine right in magic being the center of all existence. They are denying life, and that cannot be forgiven or looked over. What happens when another magic user does something of little criminality? They send their special forces after their life? Are we going to allow them to make the rules? They have no right to chase someone on dimensions they do not own. When on their own land, that person should be safe. It's basic rights. And they refuse to acknowledge such."
Hikaru knew the Aralangs were probably listening in, but she didn't care. Let them. She hadn't signed yet.
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Indeed, the Aralangs read the message. The SF soldier rolled his eyes and shook his head. "Not my problem."
The soldier came back with a contract on a clipboard. The contract contains the conditions that have been mentioned. There's a line at the bottom for Hikaru to sign her signature in blood. The Aralang handed the contract to Hikaru. "Don't bother tearing it up," the Aralang said. "We can always copy another one."
"Need a knife or anything like that?" Gaserlake asked Hikaru.
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Hikaru's hand twitched as she reached out to take the contract, after hearing the soldiers statement. Without saying another word she simply dropped the clipboard and kicked it with as much force as she possibly could at him. Which when you put magic behind it... would be a pretty damn hard kick. Then she followed it.
"NOT YOUR PROBLEM?!" Hikaru angrily exclaimed in shouting, Revelation magic sparking around her as she marched over to him, throwing out a hand in gesture. "EVERYTHING is your damn problem! Every planet, every land someone owns. They have their own damn laws. There are NO Dimensional laws that everyone must follow. Therefore when you're on that persons land you're under their laws. Sure! I may have broke your laws. But once I was off your damn land, you had no right to give chase, NO FUCKING RIGHT AT ALL!
"You pressured those protecting me, you chased me to places you didn't own or have a right over. And you broke every one of their laws to do so! You want to hold crimes against me? Then how about we hold your crimes against you?! Invasion of privacy, breaking into the mind of others, their own sanctuary no doubt! Trespassing! Murdering! Assault! Harassment! Invasion! Destruction of Property! Stalking! The list could go on forever, you elitist bastard! "
She was now standing right in front of him, the Revelation Spirit Magic dangerously cracking around her, an angry darkened red aura as she narrowed her eyes to almost slits. "The dimensional plane isn't some damn city you own and you make all the rules and if we don't follow, we die. Trying to do that to planets is one thing, one dimension. But you even go so damn far as to do this to other dimensions as well. Hell! If I went to the sage dimension, you'd have gone there. Our own damn home and origins. And THAT would have really been the last straw.
"So let's continue shall we? You push your own laws on us like you own everything! Which you DO NOT! You expect us to follow. And in the end even expect us not to resist?" She laughed aloud in a mocking tone. "That's a real laugh. But you know what? Those aren't even the worst. The worst damn crime you're guilty of? THIEVERY! My brothers and I owned this damn dimension, and at that time there were dimensional laws. But then YOU and your fucking allies of the Alliance moved in with your damn technology and acted like you owned the place! Once again. Pushing your unwanted laws onto us.
"So you want to hold my crimes against me? THEN FESS UP TO YOUR OWN, YOU FUCKING DOG!" When finished she flicked her hand without thinking about it and threw him across the room with magic. Because she was already mad, the magic was already at its full power, which made the throw all the more fast, hard, and painful.
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The SF soldier yelled in pain. After a few moments, he got back up. "You fucking bitch!" he yelled at Hikaru, pointing at her. "You don't deserve ANY rights AT ALL with the way you're acting!"
Suddenly, a tractor beam grabbed hold of Hikaru and slammed her against the wall that the SF soldier slammed against, with extreme force. Hikaru was then lying on the ground right by the SF soldier. The tractor beam let go of Hikaru.
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Crying out in pain, Hikaru ignored it best she could as she slowly got back her feet, glaring at him all the way. This pain was nothing compared to battles. It was more of what he said that got to her. "And who the hell are you to decide that, GOD?! That's apparently what you bastards think you are. Well SORRY! But I have a different god!" She flicked her hand again, this time setting fire to his clothes before taking to the air again.
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"Alright, you mother fucker!" K2323 exclaimed, glancing at the elite soldier. "This has gone far enough! You fucking treat my sister like dirt!? That's MY fucking job, you son of a bitch!"
He walked up to the Aralang, reaching out to grab him by the throat, despite the fire, while glancing at Gaserlake. "Gaserlake, my friend. Lower the AM Field so I can settle my score with this son of a bitch, and then maybe we can have a civilized talk about the immediate release of my sister from Aralang custody and law."
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The SF soldier howled as he went up in flames. Fire-response systems have been activated, and some gas poured down to the SF soldier, dowsing the flames, offering him some relief. The AM fields went down for K2.
"K2! Whatever you do, don't kill him!" Gaserlake exclaimed as K2 walked to the SF soldier. "You'd be in the same position as Hikaru!"
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"He's not even here. You fools!" Hikaru snapped from the air. "It's an illusion. Anyways..." She glanced down to K2. "Encase your magic in spirit energy. Their fields are useless then. The spirit energy blocks the field from killing the magic and in turn the magic makes sure the spirit energy is replenished. That's the secret I found out in breaking out of prison. They're no threat to us any longer."
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K2323 glanced up at Hikaru, amazed. "I see! So, that's how you did it! The Sage Three is victorious again, then, thanks to you."
He sighed. "No killing, then? A good beating will teach him, though."
He picked the man up by his throat and began to walk, carrying the man with him. He drew back his hand and suddenly, with a great toss, through the man with enough force that he crashlanded... A hall away from the area the group was currently in, having him slam into the wall a few yards away, down the hall.
He turned back to Gaserlake. "You know as well as I do that she won't be able to unlock it. Even if she got past the Guardian Security System, which is now, no doubt, keeping it inside the base even if it can't defeat it, she would die before that thing let her get close enough. Let my sister go free. This doesn't have to end on a sour note."
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The SF soldier had it. He laughed psychotically. He ignored the pain that he received. He looked straight at K2. "Say goodbye to your lover!" he said. The Prison Ship beamed Hikaru aboard, into one of the stasis pods, in shackles. The stasis field was then turned on.
"Damn, you!" said Gaserlake, now angry and walking towards the SF soldier. "You let her go!"
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Only, Hikaru vanished as soon as she was in the field.
The signed clipboard fell to the ground with a clatter, back in the room.
Hikaru wasn't stupid. As soon as her brother had begun his attack, she knew it had gone to far. Especially with the warning the soldier had given. Therefore, during the time of the attack, she had levitated the clipboard to her, bit her finger and signed it before he could change his mind. If she had to choose between stasis and the contract? Even she wouldn't go far s to choose the former.
Thus due to the nature of blood contracts being literal and binding. As soon as she signed it, she was force teleported to Aralia. Just like the Outerverse being able to force through AT Fields, so could binding magic.
Echo and Inari jumped from there positions, blinking from what just happened. Then Inari spotted the clipboard and grabbed it glancing down at the signature. "She's safe!" Inari exclaimed. "Mistress Hikaru made it!"
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"She's a lucky bitch," the SF soldier said, still smiling while lying on the ground. The Prison Ship then beamed him aboard and gave him medical attention as the Prison Ship left the dimension.
The contract and the paperclip has been beamed out of Inari's hands and into another part of the station.
"Well," Gaserlake said to K2. "Looks like I'll be meeting her in Aralia. Want to come?"
The inter-dimensional portal device opened up an inter-dimensional portal to the SP dimension, in Aralia. Leserlake stepped through, into Aralia.
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"Hey!" Inari shouted. "I was gonna rip that!"
"Maybe we can still find it," Echo whispered under her breath. "They don't seem to really be paying attention to us."
"Right!"
Both started to walk towards the door.
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"Hey!" Gaserlake called after the two. "You two gonna come with us, or what? You can't roam around the place. Aralangs here don't like it."
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Inari and Echo stopped. Busted. Both turned around. "Um Inari needs to go to the bathroom." Echo quickly said. Which caused Inari to blink at her and then quickly nod.
"Right! Yeah! Really baaadly!"
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Gaserlake smiled as he read the two's minds. He would suspect them anyway, whether he read their minds or not. "You have to do better than that. No way you're getting the blood contract."
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Echo and Inari sighed but then looked at each other. This one seemed to be not as strict as the others. Then just maybe.... "Then will you rip it?" Inari finally asked.
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Gaserlake thought for a moment. "Eh... I might. I'm... I'm not so sure, yet," Gaserlake finally said.
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Inari was about to burst into argument, Echo along with her, when both stopped. ...Wait a minute. Did he just say he might?! Both held confused expressions stood speechless for a few seconds. Didn't Hikaru say that they were infidels? That they didn't listen, didn't respect magic, and intruded on rights? As well as the rest of her long speech? Then how come this one just said maybe when they were expecting a fast no?
"What has to happen for you to rip it?!" Inari demanded.
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"It has probably already happened. I just have to think this over," Gaserlake said. "So, you gonna come?"
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Inari and Echo grudingly followed, still watching him. Inari learned from Hikaru not to trust so easily, and Echo followed Inari, so both were still wary with caution for what he had just said. Hikaru was always right! So then why did it seem like she was wrong? This question lingered in there minds the whole time they walked.
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"You all have fun.. I've got to get going," K2323 said as his illusion faded.
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"Alright. Goodbye," Gaserlake said, before the illusion of K2 faded.
A copy of the contract has been made, but the copy is so precise, it looks real. The copy has then beamed into Gaserlake's hand. Gaserlake went through the portal. After Inari and Echo went through, the portal closed.