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Post by Brandon Skyblade on Nov 4, 2010 17:01:41 GMT -8
"Uh, before we run any further...can I ask something?" Brianna said. "...Go ahead." Brandon said, wondering what she could possibly want to know now. "WHY HAVE THEY NEVER ATTACKED SAVE FOR THAT ONE REJECTION!?" Brianna shouted. "Like Brandon said, Lazarus is probably weakened, so maybe his capability to command them has weakened too. They'll probably only try to counter what we do, unless Brandon's decides to go berserk again." Twili said. "Wonderful...it's the Mime Gogo fight from FF5. DO NOTHING AND YOU WIN!" Brianna said, disappointed. "Would you rather they beat us senseless?" Brandon jokingly asked, getting a glare from his sister. "...Oh, shut up." Brianna replied.
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Post by Darth Pichu on Nov 4, 2010 17:55:53 GMT -8
Lazarus sunk his claws in deeper, starting to touch bone. He squeezed down, and was rewarded with a light crunching sound. He smiled an unsavory smile.
"Sakura!" Clefina cried, "Use this. Stab him with this!" he tossed the illusion sword to her. She closed her eyes, weaving a sheilding spell around Sakura. She knew it wouldn't be the spell that saved the girl, but it would at least hold off Lazarus for a few seconds. Any amount of time could save the girl from losing a limb, and that was all she really wanted right now.
She wanted to step forward, but now her hands were occupied with another problem. Even though Wyatt had only been stabbed with a fake sword, the wound seemed real enough to his mind. He'd lost enough blood by now to make any grown man begin to shut down, and that was just what his body was doing. Shutting down. Wyatt was slowly being killed by his own mind.
"Come on, Wyatt." Clefina urged, layering spell after spell over his body. The gesture was all she really wanted. She knew that she couldn't actually heal anything. There was nothing to heal, "You have to breathe now, Wyatt. Come on, don't give up on me."
Lazarus snarled. His Taloned hand was forced away from Sakura's flesh by Clefina's sheilding spell. He knew she couldn't hold it forever. As soon as she dropped the sheild, he would destroy her. For now he appeased himself by turning on Ardent. The boy had stopped short when Averis called his name. Pitiful little child. he snorted, unable to devote much energy towards him. He was preoccupied with Sakura, so he simply let one of his tendrils grab the boy and toss him aside, violently enough to at least break a few bones. He'd have to be content with that. After all, he could play with the boy later.
Averis felt a cold twinge in her gut. Lazarus had cut her off from Yuri. Ye gods. she bit her lip, Things must be bad out there. she thought, I have to get through this somehow. Somehow..
At once she darted healong into the spirit, closing her eyes, It's just an illusion. she told herself. All at once she bumped into something hard. She'd run smack into the specter. Averis's eyes went wide. It had blocked her path, and was now taking out its brand. It pressed the hot iron into Averis's chest. She could feel it now, searing her flesh, pressing down hard enough to break ribs.
"Just an illusion." she gritted her teeth against the pain, "It's just an illusion! I need to get to Yuri! It's just an illusion." She pressed in against the brand now, fighting to push through the spirit in front of her. The pain intensified, "It's not actually hurting me. It's just an illusion." She was starting to feel faint. She was sure she couldn't breathe. It was like the brand was burning a hole in her lungs.
"It's not real!" tears streamed down her face, "It isn't..."
All of a sudden she burst through. The brand went right through her gut as did the entire specter. Averis never even looked back. She never even let her mind compute what had just happened to her. She rushed up to Lazarus, putting a hand against his back, pulling Yuri out and reconnecting with the boy. She couldn't afford to lose him now.
"We have to end this, now!" Averis cried, trying to move as fast as possible. She didn't want to give herself enough time to think about the illusion, fearing it would come back as soon as she let her guard down, "Quick, think, what other tricks do you have up your sleeve?"
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Post by Brandon Skyblade on Nov 4, 2010 18:27:08 GMT -8
"While we're all calm about this, what do you think is happening with everyone else?" Brianna asked. "Considering Lazarus didn't particularly care for us...I'd imagine everyone else would have to be putting up quite a fight just to survive against his magic." Brandon said, giving his two cents. "I'd go with that. Wait, what exactly had he been planning for us?" Twili asked. "Probably something along the lines of 'suffering by fighting yourselves', which makes no sense in that we're fighting mindless clones and that even if he did make us fight each other, we know it's a goddamn illusion." Brianna answered. "The trick would be to know how to get out of it...but we don't right now, so technically speaking, he still has us right where he wants us. Totally out of the way." Brandon added. "So...what was the point of the clones if they're only standing there like total retards!?" Brianna shouted. "He thought we'd fight them, remember? Geez, now who's the one with the short-term memory loss, sis..." Brandon countered. "You'd think they'd have done something by now...these clones are useless, aren't they?" Twili said. "Got that right. Yeah, that's one HELLUVA way to make us suffer! Make clones of us that can't do A DAMN THING!" Brandon shouted to the heavens. "Leave the insults to me." Brianna said, prepping to do the same. "Hey, total novice! Way to make one failure of a spell! You got an illusionary teleportation bit going, WHOOPIE! Good for you! You might want to work on clones that can't even graduate from the Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy!!"
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Post by bluedemonhybrid on Nov 4, 2010 18:36:47 GMT -8
Sakura cried out as she felt him crunch on bone, but she managed to catch the sword with her left hand. With the precision of a surgeon, she stabbed at Lazerus, right through the man's rib cage and where she knew his spleen would be. She removed it and stabbed again, this time aiming for a lung. She then swung the sword at his shoulder as hard as she could.
Yuri could only try to escape the cocoon to make him let go, he hated being so helpless as to protect her.
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Post by Darth Pichu on Nov 4, 2010 18:42:14 GMT -8
Lazarus smirked a little. The Skyblades were having a bit of trouble trying to figure out what to do with their illusion. They were easily being kept out of the way. Kept quiet, that was the important part. They weren't figuring out how to get out any time fast though.
Perhaps I should help them out a bit.
The girl, Brianna was talking again. She did that a lot. It was annoying. Annoying enough that the wonderful silence that followed after a second clone appeared behind her and stabbed her through the back seemed to ring like music to Lazarus's ears. This one wasn't faceless now. She stared at Brandon, grinning eerily. Now that he'd gathered enough at least about their personalities, he could start to have some fun.
"Sorry about that, bro."she grinned, "I guess I got a little caught up in the moment." she turned around, readying her sword, "This ought to be fun, won't it?"
Lazarus staggered back, letting go of the girl's arm at once and grabbing onto the sword that was now embedded into his gut. Being dead he didn't quite have to breathe, but it still hurt terribly.
"Y-..y e.. gods..." he choked, falling to the pain of his own illusions. His own sword was the only one that could kill him, and now it was. He was suffering the pains of death all over again. Dying.
With a wave of his hand he dispelled the illusions, unable to keep them any longer at the risk of his own life. He fell to his knees. Bested... he trembled, Bested at my own game.
All at once something caught him around the middle, binding him in place. Wyatt was standing again, knees obviously threatening to buckle beneath him, but quite upright none the less. A binding charm dropped from his hand.
"I thought y- you'd have remembered." Wyatt gasped, "You can't kill someone with an illusion sword. Especially not when they have a real one." he staggered forward towards Lazarus, and stabbed him through the ribcage, right where Sakura's illusion sword had once been. He promptly collapsed on shaking hands, obviously still rather weakened and pale.
"You're bested Lazarus." Wyatt breathed.
"Not entirely."
There was one illusion he'd kept. The one that held the three skyblades imprisoned. They were so ensnared in their new reality it seemed as if they'd forgotten the old one. That had happened to them once before, it seemed. He smirked, Now for some real fun
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Post by Brandon Skyblade on Nov 4, 2010 18:50:06 GMT -8
"And another thing about-GWAH!" Brianna cried out, suddenly feeling the blow. She collapsed to her knees, falling to the ground shortly after, completely out of it. "SIS!?" Brandon said, wondering how the hell that had happened. He saw another clone of Brianna, ironic as that statement already is. "Oh...damn it..." He said to himself as the new clone spoke just as Brianna would. Twili picked up the true Brianna, hoisting Brianna over her shoulder as she grabbed Brandon's hand. "Let's move! NOW!" "G-good idea. FALL BACK!" Brandon said as he ran with Twili.
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Post by Darth Pichu on Nov 4, 2010 19:18:01 GMT -8
"There's more of us too, Brandon." The mock Brianna smiled, "But, I don't think you need to see the other clones. After all, that's what I am isn't it? Your clone?"
The rest of the surroundings faded out, and all of a sudden Brandon was left isolated from the rest of his surroundings.
"I was your clone before I was anything else. You tell everyone I'm your sister, your twin. That isn't true, is it." their surroundings were starting to shift, "Truth be told you don't have a sister do you? Not in your real world you don't. You have a brother, two parents, and a mundane life spent in front of a screen." the world began to turn. They were in Brandon's living room. the original Brandon, before he'd become any of the things he was today, "You wanted something more than that, but instead of trying to better the life you had before you, you turned to something else. A better, second life presented itself to you and you grabbed it at the first chance you got. You surrounded yourself with the stuff of dreams, immersing yourself in this new reality that you called home. Because it was reality. It was you."
The world stopped spinning now, "But it's not, is it? In your desperate grab to keep your new identity you've thrown yourself into whatever you could find, looking for anything, anything to escape your mundane life." The specter of Brianna no longer looked like her anymore. She had perverted into an image of Brandon himself, "And you've taken your friends and yourself and hurled them into danger, just so that you could go on living your dreams, avoiding your old, drab existence." Brandon looked himself in the eye, "And what do you seek to gain from your selfish escapades? What do you seek to gain by endangering yourself and your friends for the sake of staying away from your old life. What do you say to that? Explain yourself."
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Post by bluedemonhybrid on Nov 4, 2010 19:34:16 GMT -8
Sakura yelped as she was let go, before she smiled when she saw Wyatt. "Wyatt, it's so wonderful to see you alive! I'd hug you, but my arm..." She smiled weakly. "How are we going to save the Skyblades?"
(what about the cocoon on Yuri?)
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Post by Darth Pichu on Nov 4, 2010 19:46:57 GMT -8
((Averis reconnected with him and drew him back.))
Wyatt offered a shaky smile, "G-.. glad to be here." he said. His smile faded when he saw the girl's arm, "Ye gods, what did he do to you?"
"If... if the three of them want to get out of there." Averis staggered over to the group of them, "He.. he's going to have to break the illusion himself." she focused on Lazarus, "In the mean time." she closed her eyes, retaking control of the runes she'd lain on the floor before. She changed around a few rules of the pact and locked it in place.
"This should stop him from using any more magic. Now all we have to do is clear up what he's already made." she bit her lip, "But that's going to be up to them."
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Post by bluedemonhybrid on Nov 4, 2010 19:58:31 GMT -8
((ok))
"Lazerus tried to rip it out." Sakura told him. She nodded at Averis. "I see."
Yuri came out in front of the group. "I'm so sorry I couldn't stop him from hurting you." He said, before a ghostly smile was on his face. "Did you enjoy my little show?" The spirit asked as he screwed his head back on.
'Yuri?" Sakura said upon seeing him. "It's wonderful to see you again. That was you?" She smiled weakly. "You always could make me laugh. I do hope you're not an illusion."
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Post by samedi on Nov 4, 2010 21:00:22 GMT -8
Ardent hit the wall with a sickening crunch and bounced off. There was another pop from his chest as he hit the floor and the boy knew no more.
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Post by bluedemonhybrid on Nov 4, 2010 21:09:38 GMT -8
Sakura turned and looked over at Ardent. "Ardent!" Sakura ran over, ignoring the pain in her arm and shoulder. She put a finger to the kid's neck.
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Post by Darth Pichu on Nov 5, 2010 3:42:09 GMT -8
"He tried to what?" Wyatt stared at Sakura, "Ye gods, are you alright?" he tried to stand again, but without the force of adrenaline behind him he stumbled back to his knees. After all, he'd spent the better part of the last hour dead, or at least close to it. It was no small wonder he wasn't feeling his best.
"I thought you did wonderfully, Yuri." Clefina smiled, "You helped us take down Lazarus. If we didn't have that diversion, we might have never been able to get the upper hand."
Averis nodded, "I'm glad I found him." she noted, glancing cheekily at Lazarus, "You see, even as a demon your illusions can't hurt us."
"Perhaps not all of you." Lazarus admitted, glancing over at the place where Ardent had fallen.
"What are you talking a-.." Averis began. She stopped when she saw Ardent, "Oh ye gods..." he breathed, standing up and rushing over to the boy. He'd hit the wall rather hard. Averis put her fingers against his chest. He'd probably broken a few ribs at least. Her first instinct was to try to use magic on him. She stopped herself in mid chant. Can't use magic on Ardent. she bit her lip, Ye gods, then what do I do?
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Post by samedi on Nov 5, 2010 3:54:53 GMT -8
Ardent yelped weakly when Averis touched his chest, the pain bringing him back into consciousness.
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Post by Darth Pichu on Nov 5, 2010 4:02:39 GMT -8
"Ah.. A-.. Ardent!" Averis cried. The boy was starting to pull himself back into consciousness. She looked around. What did you do with broken ribs if you couldn't mend them magically. You couldn't splint a rib, could you? Averis was confused.
"Clefina, do you know how to treat broken ribs?" Averis cried, glancing over her shoulder.
"What?" Clefina blinked, "I... I'm not sure. I... I don't know if..."
"Ye merciful gods!" Averis cried, "Of all the things you could be naturally resistant to, why did it have to be magic. It would be so much simpler if you didn't have this problem."
She lay him down gently, trying to slip his shirt off to examine the extent of the damage. She stopped when she spied the mark on his chest. It wasn't just a little mark any more, the thing had swollen up like an infected wound and burst. It looked as if it had been infected.
"Y-.. ye gods." Averis murmured, "What.. what is that?"
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Post by samedi on Nov 5, 2010 5:29:20 GMT -8
Ardent was a sorry sight. Clothes ragged and worn, his skin covered in cuts, burns and bruises. Not least of all the long line of stitches visible right underneath his ribcage.
"Resistance?" The boy managed to murmur, the pain subsiding as he stopped moving.
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Post by Brandon Skyblade on Nov 5, 2010 5:42:35 GMT -8
As Brandon's surroundings faded to darkness again, he hoped his friends would be with him...but they weren't. It was just him and the mock Brianna floating around in darkness. Shit...not again!
He heard her speak of his true life, his true family, and how Brianna was never a part of it. That's true...but how did she...I mean, Lazarus, know that? Great, now I'm dealing with Psycho Mantis, only on a much more personal level.
When he saw his true self in his own home, he gasped in horror. She can't...even if she does, it's only an illusion! She can't really hurt him!
Now what the mock Brianna said started to hit home, literally and metaphorically. It's true...these games are my escape from the real world. So? Even I can admit that!
He hadn't even noticed when the mock Brianna started to become a mock Brandon. As soon as she...or he at this point, questioned why he kept continuing what was essentially a charade, he could barely figure out what to counter with. Physically, he just seemed a bit rattled, but mentally, Lazarus's minion had cut him deep the more he thought about its words.
"I...I can't go back. Even if I could, there's too much that can go wrong if I even attempt to go home." Brandon started. "But...you don't want that, do you? You want to know why I so easily accepted this? That, I can't explain...it had nothing to do with disliking my original life. I never did dislike it. I just let myself be taken away, as if I wasn't afraid of what could happen. I don't care if I reference something else, but I was exactly like Riku. Not afraid to see the outside worlds, yet completely and totally vulnerable." He paused for a moment.
"Do I regret my decision? I still don't know...mainly because shortly after this all started, I found out that I was still there, in my own home, despite already being in the actual game. I took that opportunity and ran it into the ground that I wanted to take this new life. I should have thought about it more, I'll admit...but I always love seeing bits of my old life in my new one. My own clone, for example, is practically a mirror of my brother. You'd know that, since you can read my damn mind, apparently."
Now, Brandon stared at himself, his mock self instead of his true self this time. "But, don't you DARE make that regretting decision for me. I'll decide for myself if this is right or wrong. And apparently, you really had no idea how much I don't want my friends to get hurt. That's why I went to this new world first. That's why I took Shane's attack. It's not so I can see the new world and have adventures before them, hell no. It's so I can give them advice on how to survive here, if I could at least give that much. They deserve that much with all that they've done for me. They deserve to be protected, and no, that's not chivalry talking. For Twili...she's still home, and for Brianna, she might be me, but she always reminds me of myself and my original life. Me? I'm just the idiot that jumped at the first chance of escape, even though I never needed it."
He stopped for a moment after his explanation was finished. "You know, Lazarus, you really know how to make a person talk. Maybe you're not as much of a failure as Brianna claimed you were. And I knew that I was merely questioning myself, and I can't even get all the answers for it. I even did that when I first came to this new world, so I'm not permanently disconnected from my original self. But, it'll take more than just reminding me of what I left behind and what I'm doing now to fully break me. You did come close though." He then showed just how much "close" was, by showing a tiny gap between two of his fingers. "But, just a little."
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Post by bluedemonhybrid on Nov 5, 2010 7:01:52 GMT -8
Yuri smiled at Clefina. "Thank you. I didn't want this guy to hurt Sakura or any of her friends." He then turned to Sakura, helping her up by her uninjured arm. "Until that's healed, go easy, ok? I think the bone will need to be set, for starters." Sakura nodded.
Gingkyo stared at the spirit, wide-eyed as she clutched the kittens close to her, stroking Kitty for comfort. Yuri turned to the little girl and smiled. "Hello, there, little one."
Sakura smiled at both. "Yuri, this is Gingkyo. Sorry you didn't get to meet her when you were alive."
"I'm meeting her now, aren't I?" He said.
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Post by Brandon Skyblade on Nov 5, 2010 8:08:45 GMT -8
Twili's hand suddenly felt like her hand wasn't pulling anything. When she turned around, Brandon wasn't there at all. "What the...where did he go!? Oh no, Lazarus must have separated him from us!" She said. Her shoulder then felt a bit of movement on it. "Brianna, are you alright?" Brianna could barely open her eyes, and even then, her vision was impaired from the pain. "Twi...li? What...happened?" She could barely speak, her voice sounding like a whisper. "Lazarus made another clone of you and backstabbed you. He must have teleported Brandon away from us, cause he was holding on to me just now!" Twili replied. "Damn...where...could he...possibly...take him?" Brianna said, stabilizing her breath a bit more, but still not able to talk much. "I don't know...but try to keep quiet for now. Save your strength." Twili replied again. I'm gonna...totally kill...Lazarus...when we get back. Brianna thought.
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Post by Darth Pichu on Nov 5, 2010 14:02:06 GMT -8
Averis frowned. "Y-... you think so?" she asked hesitantly as she looked over Ardent's battered body. Honestly. Averis was afraid that the boy would crumble if she so much as touched him.
"Here, lets try this." Averis said, taking hold of the bedsheets again. They'd already been torn to shreds. A couple more tears wasn't going to hurt them. She ripped the cloth in half longways and stooped down next to Ardent, winding the makeshift bandage around his chest. She lifted his head up, trying to move the boy as gently as possible.
"Tell me if I'm hurting you." she said, "I'm.. I'm afraid I don't do much work setting bones without using magic to do it."
"You were never that gentle with me." Wyatt pouted.
"I can fix you with magic." Averis pointed out.
"Still." Wyatt said,
Averis rolled her eyes. She glanced at Lazarus. He was still bound but now he seemed rather detached. It didn't look as if he was paying attention to anything that was going on around him.
Wyatt approached Sakura, laying a hand on her arm, "Here, hold still." he said, "I can fix that." he started chanting a spell to mend the bone in her arm.
"You can't go back?" Brandon's double asked, "Or do you not want to go back?" the double smiled, "Look around you, the people you're surrounding yourself with are copies. They're no more real than I am. You use your new sister as a replacement for your brother, but is that any justification for what you're allowing to happen. You've forgotten yourself, Brandon. I don't need to make any illusions for you. You're living in one of your own." He backed up, revealing to Brandon the images of his parents and his brother all gathered in the living room. All without him.
"Have you even thought about them once. What about the life you left behind. Don't you ever wonder what you're missing while you're off living a dream? After all, your friends, your family, they won't be around forever." he smirked, "What if something happens to you like it almost did with Shane? Would you regret it? Would you regret the fact that you'll never see the ones you care for again? Or worse, what if something happened to them?" he cocked his head to the side, smirking, "It would be a tragedy, that."
He snapped his fingers and suddenly Brandon's mother stood up, looking around.
"Does anyone here smell smoke?"
Brandon's copy smiled, "Ironic, isn't it?" he asked, a twisted smile on his face.
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Post by bluedemonhybrid on Nov 5, 2010 14:30:42 GMT -8
"Ok." Sakura said as she kept still. She whimpered as Wyatt touched her arm, but listened to the spell. Her arm started to hurt less as the spell took effect.
Gingkyo looked up at Yuri. "I'm not going to hurt you, sweetie." The spirit said to her as he floated closer to the floor, his lower body through the floor. "Did you like what I made that mean guy do?"
Gingkyo giggled. "That was you?" She asked, green eyes staring into transparent brown. She let the kittens down, as they didn't seem to mind Yuri's presence so much, keeping their distances, but otherwise they were silent.
"Yeah." Yuri nodded. "I was trying to help Sakura."
"And you did." She smiled. "Thank you for helping my sister."
"You're both so welcome. I really loved her. I still do, but I want her to be happy and for her life to be as full as possible." Yuri looked on as Sakura was being healed. "It would be cruel and selfish if I let her die, especially in such a way. She's not ready to die. I know your parents and I know that my death destroyed my parents. I don't want to put yours through that."
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Post by Brandon Skyblade on Nov 5, 2010 14:35:00 GMT -8
As soon as the image without him appeared, Brandon felt like coming close to lashing out at himself. "Now, I know what I left behind. If anything, I regret not thinking about it back then. Because I saw myself way back when, I threw all my cares away right then and there. I KNOW I regret that! Leaving behind the first and best years of my life for some silly adventure...if I wouldn't regret it, I'd be more heartless THAN the Heartless themselves!" Tears were starting to form as his combination of rage and sadness grew. "Don't you EVER think for a second I never cared about them! I made one careless mistake, and now I might not ever see them again, not counting your little sick trick! I've had to do quite a lot to my personality to hide that, but no more! I miss all of it! More than you might think I give two shits about! My family, friends, everyone I grew up with...if I could, I would go back in a heartbeat! But, here's the one thing besides my new friends that are keeping me from it." He looked the duplicate straight in the eye, indicating that he stopped screwing around long ago. "My new responsibility. Ever since this all started, threats of all kinds have started to leak into Twili's town and certain other areas of the world. That's why I came here. That's why I can't go back. Because I have a never-ending job to do, and by the gods, I'm gonna do it. Go ahead, call that a petty excuse, I DARE YOU. But, I owe it to this world that allowed me to exist at least that much." He turned to his family, knowing they weren't able to see him nor hear him. "Don't you think for a second that I believe what I'm seeing right in front of me. The only illusion that you know is working is whatever is driving out my true feelings. Well, there you have it, Mission Accomplished there. What are you gonna do now? I know that the scenery is all a trick, nothing will stop that fact. I dare you, make them able to see me as if I had gone missing for years. Make some kind of fire that they would normally die in. I know what's real and what isn't, my parents taught me that much at a very early age. And I know for a fact that what I see before me is just as imaginary as every damn video game I've ever owned. And don't you say that this is my real family when it's all part of a horrible charade of your own creation. My real family is missing something. THE TRUE ME. And I know that I'm no longer that 'true me'. And even if you insert him in there...it's only an illusion, as I'll keep stating."
Brandon was heavily panting when his rant finished again. "So, now what? Conjure more fake images? Or actually doing something productive and reveal my true feelings like you already were doing. I'm quite ENJOYING that, to be honest.
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Post by Darth Pichu on Nov 5, 2010 17:06:55 GMT -8
The mock Brandon smirked a bit, "I'm glad you've come to terms with that. I'm glad you're learning about yourself." he said, "But I wouldn't enjoy it too much if I were you."
"Everyone get out of here!" Brandon's father was calling out behind him, "Somebody call the fire department."
"But you see, that's the whole irony behind this situation." mock Brandon went on, "That's not part of the illusion. I had nothing to do with that. Trust me, when I'm going for shock I'm never quite that subtle." he shrugged, "Hmm.. it's a pity, isn't it?"
"I'm sorry if I hurt you." Wyatt apologized, "Are you alright? It's one thing to lose blood to an illusion sword, but that was real. Are you feeling okay?"
Clefina approached Lazarus, being cautious to stay well outside the field that was limiting his magic.
"Anyone in there, Lazarus?" she asked.
Lazarus gave a snorting laugh, "The boy's house is on fire."
"What?" Clefina frowned.
"I didn't plan it that way." Lazarus chuckled, "It just happened. Funny how those things work, aren't they?"
"What in the five hells are you going on about?"
"Nothing much my dear." Lazarus smiled at Clefina. Clefina looked away.
"You don't have room to talk, you just tried to kill three of our men." she crossed her arms.
"You sound like Ratio." Lazarus snickered, "You sound more like him every day."
"Maybe that's for the better. I'd rather sound like him than sound like you." Clefina spat.
"I'll be sure to tell him you said that." Lazarus smirked.
"You know where he is?" Clefina asked.
Lazarus shrugged, "For all I know he could be dead by now. For all I care. He and Seven were running into some trouble."
"T-.. trouble?" Clefina murmured, "Demons?"
"The demons were hardly the trouble." Lazarus smirked, "After all, it's hard to fight demons when you're freezing to death in an eternal winter."
"Eternal..." Clefina gasped, "By the gods, where is he?"
"I'm afraid I can't help you." Lazarus pursed his lips, "I'm quite tied up at the moment."
"Damn you to hell, Lazarus, tell me where he is!" Clefina cried.
Lazarus only laughed, "It wouldn't do you any good, now would it?" he said, "If he can't get to you then you certainly can't get to him." he smiled, "I wouldn't want to put another worry on your shoulders."
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Post by bluedemonhybrid on Nov 5, 2010 17:39:25 GMT -8
Yuri went to Averis. "Is it possible to have me phase into this one's mind and see what I can find out?" He asked.
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Post by Darth Pichu on Nov 5, 2010 17:48:01 GMT -8
Averis blinked, "You... you could do that?" she asked.
Wyatt frowned, "I suppose it'd be worth a shot." he said staring at Yuri, "Do you... do you think you'd be alright. This is Lazarus we're talking about. I don't know if I want to know what goes on in his mind."
"We need the information." Clefina said softly, "If there's anything you could do... please..."
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Post by bluedemonhybrid on Nov 5, 2010 18:00:17 GMT -8
"I took over his body all right while he was in full power." Yuri shrugged. "One good thing about being dead; there's not much anyone else can do to me. Besides, I want to help Sakura and her friends in any way I can."
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Post by Darth Pichu on Nov 5, 2010 18:12:59 GMT -8
"He could bind you up for one thing." Averis replied, "Remember, Lazarus is technically already dead too. I bound up his magic, so he probably can't now, but if he broke free he could imprison you." she shrugged, "Just pointing out. I'll make sure he can't." she smiled.
Lazarus glared at the girl, "And I'll do everything in my power to make sure you don't."
"You don't have any power left." Clefina snorted, "don't try to bluff."
Lazarus shrugged, "I might always be bluffing. You never know, do you?"
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Post by bluedemonhybrid on Nov 5, 2010 18:19:03 GMT -8
Yuri looked at Averis. "He's dead too? Well, still, other than binding me, there isn't much he can do. I trust you. Let me know when you're ready."
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Post by Darth Pichu on Nov 5, 2010 18:35:09 GMT -8
Averis nodded. She closed her eyes, saying a quick chant to enable Yuri to bridge into Lazarus's mind.
"Just try to focus on him." Averis said, "Tell me what you see."
Lazarus's mind was a medely of mayhem. On the outside there were, of course, the workings of his present, his conversations with Brandon and what had happened just before, and from within there was a bit of the near future too. Lazarus's thoughts resonated through his mind. All of what he was going to say, all of the planning was open to Yuri, all he had to do was touch it. The past was there too, lingering just out of reach.
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Post by bluedemonhybrid on Nov 5, 2010 18:41:51 GMT -8
"I'm going in. Yuri nodded his head. "Please, take care of Sakura. Especially if I don't make it." With that, he crossed the bridge as he kept his head on. "His mind is a mess." Yuri told them as he flew through. "Hang on, I can see some of the near future, what's happening with your friend and maybe some bits of the past. I see all of his plans too. I don't know if I should touch anything, though."
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