Author Topic: Melody (Read 2882 times)

K2 · « **on:** November 07, 2010, 06:56:33 PM »

A portal roughly the size of a ball opened in Era Valley, made completely of darkness. A moment later, C2323 was spit rather harshly from the portal to the Era Valley.

Queen Bright · « **Reply #1 on:** November 07, 2010, 07:19:00 PM »

Hikaru fell from the portal of darkness, rather roughly, into the grass. Pulling herself up right after, she looked around to survey they area. It seemed like mostly empty grassland, devoid of life... Wait a minute... This place looked familiar... Closing her eyes, Hikaru focused, sensing many different magical signatures, in several places throughout the lands they were in. That confirmed it. The Sage Dimension.

"So much for being stranded two-thousand years..." Hikaru mumbled aloud. "I knew that person lied."

Gaserlake · « **Reply #2 on:** November 07, 2010, 07:50:31 PM »

Gaserlake landed hard onto the ground. He got up. He then realized something. He can connect to the Aralang Linking System, and the ASF are on their way. Why? Because the beacons attached to Hikaru have successfully sent signals to the ASF every since they went to the Sage Dimension. Gaserlake tried to tell them that everything was fine, but it was too late, the ASF were already on their way. "Uh... Hikaru?" Gaserlake said. "We've got company."

And a few seconds later, four Elite Keepers came.

K2 · « **Reply #3 on:** November 07, 2010, 08:03:34 PM »

The moment technology had entered the realm, magic users all over had come to realize this and had prepared defenses as a massive blast of fire was sent up to the enemy ships.

But before anything really could happen, someone else arrived.

It was the boy from the church... He was there in the air, floating. A cold wind blew upon his arrival as the entire realm seemed to freeze over, the ice black.

Queen Bright · « **Reply #4 on:** November 07, 2010, 08:09:19 PM »

"God dammit!" Hikaru screamed at the sudden revelation. "Don't you people ever know when to leave well enough alone? The Sage Dimension?! OF all places to have the nerve to go to! If I ever get these bracelets off, I'm going to strangle you with them!" Before her threat against Gaserlake could go any further, Hikaru's attention was caught on the boy that had appeared, holy fire immediately surrounding her to block off the effect from the cold winds.

"I think it would be a good idea to get the hell out of here..."

Gaserlake · « **Reply #5 on:** November 07, 2010, 08:35:46 PM »

One of the Elite Keepers effortlessly sent back the blast of fire back to its original source at a much faster speed by 'throwing' it with the tractor beam.

"Nothing's wrong, here! Hikaru did nothing wrong!" Gaserlake telepathically told the Elite Keepers.

"Then explain your absence. Why did you neglect to tell us until it was too late?" one Elite Keeper replied, unconvinced.

"It's a long story, but trust me, I know what she's doing, and she did no harm!"

"... Alright, fine! Not worth the time right now, I suppose."

The Elite Keepers then left, and Gaserlake watched as the place started to turn into black ice. He knew by how Hikaru reacted that this wasn't a good thing.

K2 · « **Reply #6 on:** November 07, 2010, 08:43:18 PM »

"We should... uh... get out of here," C2323 said, nodding. "That sounds like a good id-"

"WHERE IS THE ONE NAMED KOTY!?" the little boy demanded, his voice causing the ground to shake. The black ice suddenly began to sprout ice-trees, also black, with dark blue apples on them all over the place.

Queen Bright · « **Reply #7 on:** November 07, 2010, 08:51:12 PM »

Hikaru ignored C2323, instead she continued to look up at the boy. "Depends! Who are you and what do you want with him?!" She shouted up to the kid.

K2 · « **Reply #8 on:** November 07, 2010, 09:04:05 PM »

"I... am... hungry!"

The boy's eyes, black as night, locked right onto Hikaru. "Eternal death..."

Thousands of little, black birds came from the ice trees and began to fly right through Hikaru as if she were not even there. Everytime they passed by her, they flooded her body with all kinds of emotions and feelings. Fear, hate, corruption, chaos. All these things existed in Hikaru... And they tore at her very psych, tore at her very being.

Queen Bright · « **Reply #9 on:** November 07, 2010, 09:19:46 PM »

"Grr... no.. dammit!" Hikaru nearly fell to her knees, her hands going immediately to her head and clutching the sides of it. However, she didn't fall completely, and instead remained in a near standing position with her knees bent forward.The flames around her started to die out. "Not.. happening, again." She said through gritted teeth. Had this attack been directed at her in the past, Hikaru would have fallen instantly, and probably have snapped in the process. But it wouldn't work, now. She had things she cared about. Her family, though she would never admit. Her kids, and Koty... These were things she had come to see as things to care for, things she wanted to protect!

"You'll have to do better then that!" Hikaru shouted, forcing herself through sheer will to stand back up, the flames flaring up into a brilliant gold, brighter than before. "You're NOT getting Koty! He's my partner, and anyone who wants him, will have to get through me first!"

K2 · « **Reply #10 on:** November 07, 2010, 09:25:30 PM »

The weight of the crows continued. Suddenly, the boy vanished. In that same moment, the crows came together to form the shape of... Koty!? It sounded like Koty and looked like Koty. But it leaned to Hikaru's ear and whispered, "I killed Koty."

Queen Bright · « **Reply #11 on:** November 07, 2010, 09:34:30 PM »

"Killed Koty? Something as weak as you?" Hikaru smirked tantalizingly. She held up her hand and plunged it through the form of 'Koty,' setting the form ablaze with god fire from within. "I think not."

K2 · « **Reply #12 on:** November 07, 2010, 09:41:06 PM »

The form of 'Koty' grinned, wincing in pain... No. Wincing in pleasure. Blood. He coughed up blood which splattered all over Hikaru's face. The blood was black and began to burn into Hikaru's skin, spreading itself into her body as the form of 'Koty' burned to ash. That ash suddenly was picked up by a wind and blown into the ice trees.

A dark blue apple dropped to the ground. As soon as it hit the ground, spikes of black ice began to rise all around C2323, Gaserlake, and Hikaru. C2323, not wanting to get stabbed, hopped into the ground and levitated there, but the ice spikes rose higher up towards him. He was doing good dodging them until one stabbed him in the foot. The moment that happened, his eyes turned black. Pure black....

And he fell into the spikes, unconscious.

Queen Bright · « **Reply #13 on:** November 07, 2010, 09:57:14 PM »

Hikaru used magic to isolate and block off the blood from spreading through her body, holding it off as long as it took for the rapid healing of her Phoenix blood to cure it. "Is that the best you've got?!" Hikaru called out, jumping side to side to avoid the ice, the fire around her, attempting to melt the pieces she nearly hit. "If so, you'll never be a match for Koty! Not now, not in the future, not ever!"

Gaserlake · « **Reply #14 on:** November 07, 2010, 10:42:26 PM »

Gaserlake dodged the spikes rather easily by jumping, moving left, right, whichever was best for the current situations. His fast reflexes also helps.

Orph · « **Reply #15 on:** November 07, 2010, 11:31:58 PM »

Drums.

The sounds of drums filled the air, the sound of music, calls to war, calls for blood and action! It was time that Koty met the one who Fate determined would bring about his death. Koty was no longer Koty, he was no longer Ararus, he was no longer human. He was Destruction, if not only for a little while. His four sons, his trump cards. Conquest, Famine, War, and Death. The Heralds of Destruction, they weren't just agents of his will. They were the keys to his power, working in tandem they could be used as an medium to channel the forces of Destruction through the seal, not breaking it, not by a long shot. But they cracked open the door that was once locked, and the flood of power behind it did just that. It flooded.

Appearing as if he was always there in the first place the entity smiled, or at least appeared to be smiling. It had no physical form, it was now just a force, a will grafted onto a power so simple and yet so far beyond your understanding. But within an instant there stood a violet child, an army of forces, minds, magic, and muscle followed in his wake. Mortals, immortals, embodiments, undead, alive, holy, and unholy. Nothing was left out, and everyone was welcome.

"Bird, please release the seal fully. Otherwise this abomination here will kill me and my army. It hasn't even started to attack you yet, and look at you, already resorting to that small fragment of my power." The child said, it's violet skin seemingly absorbing the light, yet giving off the color anyway. Destruction was entirely violet, it's skin, eyes, hair, even it's breath seemed to be violet. Except for four different runes that seemed to be etched into it's formed, one black, one brown, one red, and one white.

Queen Bright · « **Reply #16 on:** November 08, 2010, 12:08:30 AM »

Had Hikaru had time she would have froze in place, shocked at what had just appeared and the power that radiated from it all. The ice, however, seemed as if it wasn't going to let her. Finally, fed up with it, Hikaru jumped up higher, and held out her hand, calling to it, the staff from before, the one she had formed in the tournament. Both Revelation and Genesis magic flowed to her hand, and in it, the same entwined staff, took shape. Genesis magic wrapped around Revelation magic, tightly woven in a solidified form, the magic its self embodied into the object, which was the staff.

Staff in hand, Hikaru swung it in front of her and twirled it in her hands, wave after wave of Genesis-Revelation magic mixed, aimed at the ice. All the while she assessed the situation. Was that Koty? It didn't seem like him. And yet, the magic signature was still the same, albeit higher, yet there was still something off... Release the seal? That was dangerous, and with what would happen, Hikaru was pretty sure the normal Koty she knew wouldn't ask it in the way this kid had asked. No, something was definitely up.

Once the waves of mixed magic started to break enough of the ice away, Hikaru shouted down to Gaserlake. "You're out of your league here. If you really do have magic, either start fighting like a mage, or take C2323 and get the hell out of here! Things aren't going to get any better, and you're in the damn way!" Though it may have looked like she cared for the enemies life, Hikaru knew better. If Gaserlake died, she knew she'd suffer the repercussions of such. The special forces showing up, re-confirmed that. "I'll find you after I'm done here. It's not like I really have a choice, they'll follow me wherever I go, right?"

Without waiting for an answer as it really wasn't a question but more of an assumption, Hikaru turned and glanced back to 'Destruction.' "I'm not releasing the seal. Where's Koty?"

Orph · « **Reply #17 on:** November 08, 2010, 12:14:27 AM »

A smirk appeared on the child's face, raising his hand what appeared to be an image of Koty in his youth appeared. "Koty doesn't exist. He's a side-effect of the seal placed on me, an artificial moral system created as a way to limit my own personality. You fell in love with nothing more then a spell, and a sloppy one at that." Destruction responded, clenching his fist as the image blinked out of existence, even the energy used to create it no longer existed, utterly Destroyed.

Queen Bright · « **Reply #18 on:** November 08, 2010, 12:34:16 AM »

Hikaru faltered, nearly falling out of the air. Was it real? It couldn't be... He had to be lying! "I don't believe it!" She shouted, catching her balance, and staying afloat. "I won't believe it! Koty was here! He was real! He was alive! He was......" She choked, looking down for a moment before tears started to stream from her eyes, water falling, and joining the ice below. "He was like me.... He had sin, things he did... A past of regrets! HE COULD FEEL!"

With a rush of agonizing emotions, Hikaru jerked her head back up and stared Destruction in the eyes, the teas blowing across her face in the chilled wind, staining her skin with the water that burned to the touch. "HE HAD EMOTIONS! He felt guilt, remorse for being you. We were alike... We both had pasts we wanted for forget! We faced our regret together! You're lying! The Orion rituals, the state of Avenger when he died, our kids! Those were real! Not some spell of Revelation magic! They were real things that happened! Our kids, Kotah, and Ezael, they are living proof of that bond!"

Gaserlake · « **Reply #19 on:** November 08, 2010, 04:02:31 AM »

Gaserlake rolled his eyes at Hikaru's order. However, he did walk over to where the body of C2 lay. "Well, Aralia's in trouble, so that's not a good place to bring him to," he said. "They aren't necessarily following you right now, but they're watching you."

Gaserlake saw her cry. He has seen it happen before in Aralia. But with what he heard, it a very important part of her life has been a lie, and that's because it was a lie.

Orph · « **Reply #20 on:** November 08, 2010, 11:29:48 PM »

"That child is not something Koty or you can handle, it's a weapon. A living weapon designed to kill me, and all those like me. It's a God-Killer. I'm at least his equal. And even then I may still require assistance. The prophecy foretold of MY death, but I'm just one side of the coin, unseal me, and I'll die, but I can at least make sure that Koty lives." Destruction offered, holding out his hand towards the great phoenix. "This story is the death of Destruction, not the death of Koty." Destruction reassured, hoping she would just do it already. He wouldn't be able to hold back Plex even in his loosened-seal state. Not for long anyway.

K2 · « **Reply #21 on:** November 10, 2010, 04:32:12 PM »

OOC: Unlocked.

Hikaru's phoenix abilities had done an okay job at healing her, but those phoenix abilities -- her very DNA -- was now being threatened. The dark blood had wrapped itself around her soul, her spirit, and anything in her body which had to do with her Phoenix abilities in the first place. He was infecting those Phoenix abilities. To remove it would be to remove those Phoenix abilities themselves... Even if it meant loosing part of her very being in the process.

As the black ice melted to black water, it'd put itself back together again, more powerful each time it reformed. It was multiplying, too, filling up large amounts of the field at a time so it'd be near impossible to dodge the spikes. Even as it battled charge over charge of magic, it just kept coming back. Better. Stronger. Faster... Like a virus would do.

As soon as Destruction had arrived, the ice had gone wild, multiplying especially around him, trying to block him inside the black ice. Black residue like that which was attacking Hikaru now began to coat this ice. It seemed to be everywhere. Destruction was a magnet to the force of this ice. It was a natural attraction... No. A natural hunger. It went after the most appeasing magic signature -- that which it had been told to kill. Koty. One of the Incomplete.

The ice seemed to call out to Destruction in the voice of 'Plex'.

"It is not time. I... Am only... A fraction... Of My MASTER!"

It was only a spawn of Plex. But it, and all the ice, exploded in a great, icy blast, sending the black residue all across the battlefield.

Queen Bright · « **Reply #22 on:** November 11, 2010, 02:59:44 AM »

"YOU'RE LYING!" Hikaru shouted again in repeat. The tears continued to pour and her body trembled violently as she started to lose composure. Hikaru could feel every inch of her being start to come undone. Outwardly she was a wreck, and inside, inside her magic was doing its best to fight against the blood from Plex.

But Hikaru did not care. Let it consume her, let it take her powers. If it didn't, the heartbreak coupled with the loss and despair now felt, would. Maybe both together could just swallow her up, and never let go.

It was as if her whole world had been torn away. Everything she had started to believe in, the things she had come to care for. They had been there, right within her grasp, at the tips of her fingers. And now? They were gone. Just like that, they had been completely ripped away. Just like her freedom, her pride, her dignity, all of it was now, GONE!

This being, Destruction. He had to be lying! First he had claimed Koty not real, just merely a spell. And now he had claimed he could be saved? If both were true, then what was there to save? And her kids? Were they nothing but mere product of a spell as well? Were they even real?

Was anything that had happened in the past years between sealing the being before her and now, real? Had all of it been a false reality, something she had deluded herself to in hopes of atoning for her past and starting over? Was it all a deceptive illusion to cover up the truth? One she hadn't seen till now, when it was too late?

What really was truth? And what did she seek to obtain anymore?

When these questions were finally out;
Hikaru had lost herself.

Her blood boiled as her phoenix powers fought the infection to her DNA. Heat rose within her, caused from the battle between the healing properties of the phoenix flame, and the blood of Plex.

She had abandoned her herself. Given herself to the very emotions she had kept locked away for so many years. She had let herself fall into the weakness of the mortal kind, and she had fallen to the delusions of family, of love.

Love
Hah, what was that, but a mere myth? A deception given for a short lived facade of happiness, if not but for a little a while.

It wasn't true, not for the Tyris family at least. One grandfather was pure Chaos, the other in his wrong time. Their parents? One attempted to kill his own kids, and the other didn't even try to make contact.

Maybe it was a curse. Originating from the joining of Phoenix and Dragon, or perhaps inherited, taken from that damn royal bastard that had started this legacy of bloodshed and heart break. Whatever it was, the Sage Three had inherited it full force.

One brother couldn't keep a girl to save his life, the other lost two wives and turned to the path of perversion with several illegitimate children left in his stead. And Hikaru? She had fallen in love with an illusion from the start.

It was fact, The Tyris family was not meant to love.

Now as her phoenix abilities reinforced themselves with her magic in order to fight off what plagued her, the magic came rushing out of Hikaru in waves, spreading around her as every type she had come to possess mixed into one full forced aura around her.

One last glance at 'Koty,' or Destruction, whoever he was now, and Hikaru choked on her own tears, her voice cracking, "Koty... Whether you're real or not, or can even hear me. Know that I- ...I TRULY DID LOVE YOU!"

All of the emotional pain, the loss, the despair, and the mental exhaustion from the match as well as the events following, all of it, all was released in that last moment of declaration. Joining the flared up magic and accompanying her shout, the aura spread like a beacon as it was released the same exact time as the ice from Plex shattered, creating an explosion of an array of multiple colors.

When the air had cleared, all that remained of Hikaru was an unconscious five-year-old child that fell from the sky.

Gaserlake · « **Reply #23 on:** November 11, 2010, 05:02:08 AM »

Gaserlake looked in both shock and surprise when he saw burn up and fall to the ground, even more so when he noticed that she was an unconscious five-year-old. He carried C2 on his right shoulder, then ran over to the unconscious five-year-old. He pulled out a device and activated it, and moments later, a portal appeared. He picked up the device and put it away. He then picked up Hikaru and went through the portal, which closed behind him.

Orph · « **Reply #24 on:** November 13, 2010, 09:47:58 PM »

But Destruction didn't seem phased, apathetic to the happenings around him. The Black Ice surrounding him only to be burnt away to nothingness as it touched his violet skin, he was an entity that embodied Destruction, and in truth it is what gave him physical shape. He was a force given corporeal form, even though he was still sealed away.

"No choice left then. Bring me the Phoenix." He called out to his army, the massive amount of creatures shot forth, mercenaries, soldiers, generals, creatures, so-called gods and goddess, things that shouldn't exist, and things that never did. They all charged forth, intent on following their master's whim.

They stopped when the portal closed, only for it to open as what appeared to be nothing but a floating eye glanced in it's direction. It was an All-Eye, an entity from a rather obscure dimension. Only known for it's ability to see Space and Time in perfect harmony. Once that portal's closed rip was detected it was only a quick work of magic to reopen it.

Within moments the army charged forth, following them.

As for Destruction, he waited, giving a small amount of his power to increase the portal's size, allowing for more of the army to pass through for every second that went by. "The battle is between us Apostle, no one more, no one less." The great king of half the world said, raising his hand and letting loose what could only be described as a wave of Destruction, taking the form of a light mirage, although everything it touched seemed to be ripped atom from atom, and then quark by quark, and bit by bit, and so on. Till it was nothing but such a far gone piece of matter that it didn't even register on the most sensitive of sensors.