Author Topic: Insanus (Read 9986 times)

Queen Bright · « **Reply #25 on:** October 02, 2012, 07:24:17 AM »

"Hmph," Hikaru merely rolled her eyes. "Thanks to my counterpart here and the words Time spoke to me, I know nothing I face here can bring about that permanent death I fear. So whoever you are, you are wasting your time."

"Such is the blessing of being ingrounded."

"Indeed..." Hikaru ignored the new scenery and walked into the hallway, carefully avoiding looking at the mirrors. Mirrors in magic were gateways, illusions, and mediums for all kinds of spells. It was thing to avoid entirely.

Admiral Regis Hermitage · « **Reply #26 on:** October 02, 2012, 07:33:23 AM »

This did not help her though. Simply being inside the building would cause the effect on the mirrors. The first few she passed were simply memories of her childhood. They progressed to her moments of pain and sadness. Every single horrible moment that she had ever experienced was being played before her eyes. upon hitting its climax, a scene of Koty's death, and Antonio's face laughing at her shook the building.

Queen Bright · « **Reply #27 on:** October 02, 2012, 07:51:14 AM »

The first few memories were nothing, Hikaru simply ignored them as she had been through them countless times now. As she reached her later memories after first destroying the village she grew up in, and the countless massacres afterwards through manipulation of Zere, she started to slow her pace, the memories very easily getting to her.

She had already suffered the guilt of these several times now. Back when she had been first captured by the Aralangs, the seal around her mind had conscience had broken and she had felt the guilt of them all. Added to that was when the Aralang leader had threatened her into unsealing the rest of the memories, and she had ended up in a coma through the guilt, only able to get through it when she had accepted it and the memories subsided, repressing themselves.

Now however? Yet another dose? Hikaru started to become unnerved. She had no magic this time, not even internal. Whatever guilt her memories brought up would be entirely a psychological battle she knew she could not win. Not with how many she had killed as just a child. A grown adult would not even be able to handle things like this. But Hikaru? She had committed these acts from the age of five-years-old and up. It was not until she had chased her brothers to the mortal dimension did the acts top being so tragic.

By the time Hikaru had made it through even half her childhood memories, she had already clenched her eyes shut, walking forward guided by sound only. When she made it a little over half way, she slowly dropped to her knees holding her head, willing it to go away. The guilt of her past deeds was so strong it kept her frozen in shock.

But even then.. she had to keep going. Right? If she let this get to her now, she would never get out of here and in the end, never get her soul back. She had to find some way. "Gr... t-t-take over...now" The words were barely muttered before she collapsed.

Seconds later, she stood up, ignoring the memories completely. "It is about time. Lucky for you, I did not experience changing my ways. So these are not going to affect me as harshly." It was the 'other' Hikaru. In her desperate attempt to not fail here, Hikaru had switched places with the other personality, the one of the former Ingrounded!Hikaru in order to pass through. Her counterpart was right. She hadn't gone through the years the current Hikaru had had to change. She hadn't gained friends, and love, she hadn't had reason to feel guilt over all the wrongs committed. That is where their experiences caused them to fight each other mentally. Where Hikaru had changed and cared about people finally, her counterpart was still living in the 'past' so to speak.

Looking rather bored, the other Hikaru walked through the hallway easily as the current Hikaru retreated to the depths of her subconscious, allowing her counterpart to lead for now.

Admiral Regis Hermitage · « **Reply #28 on:** October 02, 2012, 07:58:55 AM »

Save for those who developed Multiple Personality Disorder, this had never happened. The building began to shake furiously as the planet recognized the IG Hikaru as a new entity... A cheat to the system. This only upset the planet even more, as the walls and ceiling began to collapse around her. A loud roar could be heard as the dragon from before had returned. The game was resetting itself for its new contender.

Queen Bright · « **Reply #29 on:** October 02, 2012, 08:09:34 AM »

At hearing the dragon, the other Hikaru growled, "Damn! I guess this is not going to work. Not unless we want to end up fighting." She quickly skidded to a stop and then retreated back to her subconscious to bring the current Hikaru out of it. "This is not going to work! Just get out there and run for it. If we run fast enough, the memories should not bother you.

"Grr.. r-r-right..." The current Hikaru took back control and managed to remain standing, though hardly. "I just have to remember all of it has already passed.. You work on fighting the guilt then!" Hikaru

Admiral Regis Hermitage · « **Reply #30 on:** October 02, 2012, 08:16:56 AM »

The shaking stopped, and the building reformed itself. The dragon had stopped briefly to confirm what the system was doing, and retreated.

A wall came before her, and words were engraved upon it. "You wish to cheat, and will not play In this place is where you stay. Till you face, what you will fear. What a shame. The end was near."

The wall slid back beneath the surface and the mirrors continued.

Queen Bright · « **Reply #31 on:** October 02, 2012, 08:22:33 AM »

"Grrr.. IT WAS NOT A CHEAT!" Hikaru's eyes narrowed as she shouted. Her former fear gone, replaced with her usual pissed off mood. She had had enough of these 'games' and was no longer in the mood to play along. "We are ALMOST the same person. The same spirit anyways!" With a glare towards the rest of the mirrors, Hikaru clenched her fists, and snapped, "We are going."

At that, she stroke passed the mirrors without looking at even one of them, her complete focus on her anger at this place and its games, which fought back the guilt.

Admiral Regis Hermitage · « **Reply #32 on:** October 02, 2012, 08:28:45 AM »

She now entered a large arena. There before her stood none other than General Antonio Stradivari and her soul or what seemed like it. "Ah, you made it." he said. "I was beginning to think that you weren't going to arrive." he said to her in his usual mocking tone.

Queen Bright · « **Reply #33 on:** October 02, 2012, 08:38:44 AM »

Without a word, Hikaru willed the Elite Energy to reblock the connection to her soul that she had unblocked to even teleport here. "There he is..." she muttered. "Now I just have to beat that damn fool. Get my magic back, and then just because I am already pissed off. I am blowing this entire place up. But first... I need to focus on beating him..Without magic or weapon, this will prove difficult.. perhaps I can fool him... " More loudly, Hikaru spoke up, "First chance. Return my soul or die... Your choice. If you return it, I may let you live."

Admiral Regis Hermitage · « **Reply #34 on:** October 02, 2012, 08:45:03 AM »

"How cute... you are ordering me around. You silly little bitch, do you forget who i am?" he said. "I have single-handedly been able to fuck with you this entire time, and you havent even realized it. You arent the smartest of the sage three, are you." he mocked her. Instea of taking a defensive stance, he simply sat down in a chair next to him.

Queen Bright · « **Reply #35 on:** October 02, 2012, 08:52:01 AM »

Hikaru simply glared, "You are only able to do that because I do not have my magic. If I had it, you would be running about now. So where does your 'power' come from? Simply by taunting someone who is currently mortal. You do not have the guts to face me with magic, so you resort to this. Make all the insults you want!" She walked forward towards him, her eyes on his, "I WILL be taking my soul back! And as for that move you did last time? It will not work now. Go ahead and try."

Admiral Regis Hermitage · « **Reply #36 on:** October 02, 2012, 08:56:47 AM »

"IF you had it... which you dont." he said. As Hikaru converged upon him, she would find that he would get further away, and her position unchanged. "Oh, right. I forgot to mention that you are in an infinity band. The more and more you want to get to me, the further you get." he said as he yawned and sat back in relaxation.

"If you truly want it back, then you will have to try harder than this... i mean come on. I though you would have been more fun, but you are truly starting to bore me."

Queen Bright · « **Reply #37 on:** October 02, 2012, 05:08:23 PM »

"And you call me the stupid one?" Hikaru gave a short laugh, "You know nothing of sages. The moment you revealed the soul out in the open, you lost this little battle. Why do you think you were able to affect me with it and not so much now?" Hikaru smirked as she answered her own question. "Because a sages soul is spiritually linked to them, that is why it can be used as a medium. I blocked that connection temporarily.. However, if I were to unblock it, it works both ways, I can either teleport to it, which was how I got here in the first place, or use that connection which is contagion in nature, to channel spells remotely."

Hikaru then unblocked the connection and attempted to focus on the connection to her soul, willingly Spirit Energy to cause it to burn searing hot like that of Holy Fire.

Admiral Regis Hermitage · « **Reply #38 on:** October 02, 2012, 07:15:38 PM »

The connection would not be made to her "Soul" however. "I have my own cards to play in this game..." the illusion said. "I own you, Ms. Tyris."

With that, the illusion disappeared, and she was set free from the infinity band. She now found herself in an empty arena. A small podium rose from the floor, and was illuminated by a single light from above. It seemed to have a very shinny object resting on it.

Queen Bright · « **Reply #39 on:** October 02, 2012, 08:20:42 PM »

At the word 'own', Hikaru blasted a thin beam of Spirit Fire at him before the illusion disappeared, her eyes narrowed further into an even darker glare. It didn't matter to her that it made her weaker and consumed more of her spirit energy, at this point she was far more than just pissed off. "I have had about enough of this.." she snapped before focusing her attention on the object as she walked forward. May as well get whatever was going to happen next over with.

K2 · « **Reply #40 on:** October 03, 2012, 08:26:08 PM »

Appearing at the start of the massive maze, Vincent Hearts, Satya (who was passed out on Vincent's shoulder), and Keith would appear. Vincent looked around, confused. "I don't understand," he said, "This should have brought us straight to that guy. Where is he?"

@Pokemon Master Red · « **Reply #41 on:** October 03, 2012, 08:38:32 PM »

"A trick created by one too scared to fight his battles. Can you sense in which direction we should proceed, which direction he would be found?" Keith? said, looking around himself. He could feel it...Madness, insanity, byproducts of the Chaos he was born from and growing to control himself. It didn't affect him at all(for how could it? He was not alive, nor dead, nor somewhere in between; sanity and madness held very little meaning to one such as he whose mind may itself be a figment of imagination), but he could still sense its presence. There was something...Strange about this place. Not exactly wrong...Just peculiar.

K2 · « **Reply #42 on:** October 03, 2012, 08:53:23 PM »

"I can't sense him," Vincent replied, "This place does [i[reek[/i] of one particular embodiment, though. I can feel the very force of Insanity in the air here. It makes sense. This is something he would do. I had the unfortunate pleasure of meeting him once, actually. Radical and he quite often associated with one another."

He glared around the planet, dully. "Whatever you are right now, neither of us are strong enough to penetrate an embodiment's domain forcefully. Even if we were, I'm not quite sure where his domain is. What he has to do with this Antonio guy, I'm not sure, but he can probably give us answers. Why else would we be brought here instead of straight to the guy?"

Admiral Regis Hermitage · « **Reply #43 on:** October 04, 2012, 04:21:51 AM »

On the podium was a small mirror along with a note attached. "Mirror, mirror, on the wall. Who am i after all? A question right, a question wrong, but no less needs resolve. Look upon its silver face, and take your time. Do not make haste."

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Meanwhile, at the labyrinth, Kieth and Vincent would notice the scenery start to melt, as they now stood at the foot of a large staircase leading up to a large monastery. The powers that be had judged them worthy. Or had it. In front of them stood a single pillar with writing etched into it.

"What is the key to the lock that is your mind?" was the only visible thing written.

Queen Bright · « **Reply #44 on:** October 04, 2012, 09:02:18 AM »

Having had enough of what she perceived as games and getting rather annoyed of it all, Hikaru in her rage simply picked up the mirror and threw it at the nearest wall, which added to the strength boost she got from the Elite Energy, was pretty damn hard. "I do not think so!" She shouted aloud at the entire room. "I am playing no more of these damn games, demon! Either come out and fight me fair and square, or you will eventually wish you had!"

"About time!

"SHUT UP!"

Meanwhile, Satya began to stir. As she opened her eyes which were now a strange blue color and not the white from before, she gasped in surprise at the surroundings, and then in realization that she was being carried, started to act fearful. "W-w-where am I? Who are you?" She questioned to Keith and Vincent.

Admiral Regis Hermitage · « **Reply #45 on:** October 04, 2012, 09:20:35 AM »

The mirror simply reappeared on the podium with the note.

Queen Bright · « **Reply #46 on:** October 04, 2012, 09:23:45 AM »

When it had reappeared, Hikaru simply picked it up and threw it AGAIN. And if it reappeared? She threw it again, and again, and would continue that cycle over and over till she eventually regained composure if she did... as by now through her anger and annoyance, she had completely lost it.

Admiral Regis Hermitage · « **Reply #47 on:** October 04, 2012, 09:32:33 AM »

Immediately, thousand upon thousands of them appeared around her. A pile of the notes were dropped upon her as well.

Queen Bright · « **Reply #48 on:** October 04, 2012, 09:42:21 AM »

"ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!" About now Hikaru had had it. Picking one up after the other, she started to throw every single one she could get her hands on. And when that still got her nowhere, it just served to piss her off more. "I WANT THIS ENDED DAMMIT! YOU HEAR ME?!! END IT AND FIGHT ME!!

With a scream of rage, Hikaru blasted the ceiling with a beam of Spirit Energy, passed the mark of caring whether she was getting dangerously close too using too much or not. Eventually when she had used more than she should have, she fell to her knees, weak with barely enough left to live.

"Stop being stupid!

"SHUT UP!" Hikaru snapped in repeat as she struggled to catch her breath, too weak to stand at the moment. "I HAVE HAD IT WITH THIS!"

Admiral Regis Hermitage · « **Reply #49 on:** October 04, 2012, 09:44:36 AM »

In the hole created by her beam, scrolls of notes began to rain down on her head. Oddly enough, a cloud slipped in and simply hovered over Hikaru, pouring down rain.