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Post by Guinevere on Feb 23, 2009 18:53:30 GMT -5
::The door snaps shut and Kenny's table rises so he can look straight at Guinevere again. But there's something different about her face this time. Whatever posturing and posing she was doing for the heroes, it seems she holds no pleasure for what's going on here now::
I'm sorry about this Kenny. It's out of my hands now. I thought I had my hands on a new power that I kould use, but now I'm trapped into the King's service until it's all through. But there is something I kan do for you. I kan't stop what is going to happen to Lillith. But I kan at least save her life. I just need energy from something very powerful, something she's familiar with.
::She pauses::
Your memories of her.
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Post by Kenny on Feb 23, 2009 19:42:54 GMT -5
:The last thing Kenny remembered was that he was on a table chained up and suddenly he now finds himself in a private room face to face with Gwen as he looks upon her and noticed something was different about her as she explained what was going on. When she told him about how she can save Lillith he was still furious.:
"What do you exactly have in mind."
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Post by Guinevere on Feb 23, 2009 20:35:33 GMT -5
I'm afraid the procedure won't allow you to have any memory of her whatsoever. It'll be as if she never existed. But... I kan replace them with memories of my kreation. I learned it from watching Echidna. They'll be artificial, but they will at least fill the void. Let me... show you how it works. This one is real.
::She reaches up to his face, placing both hands on his cheek. Then everything goes white::
Checkmate. I win again Kenny.
::Gwen smiles as her white bishop takes out Kenny's rook, lining the pieces in perfect formation, and leaving his King with nowhere to go. They're in the orphanage, and it's been a week since these strange women have come to live with him and Iole and Natalia in the same house. So far, the only one who has spoken to him is Gwen. Echidna is too busy with her morbid toys, Nyx is mostly silent, and Lillith seems very shy around him. But Gwen is persistent, if a little intimidating. And she seems to have a thing for games::
Kenny: How do you keep doing that? I never see it coming.
::She points to the piece shaped like a young man astride a valiant horse::
Simple. You're prediktable. You're too straight forward, too much like the Knight. You charge straight ahead. But if you want to win at chess, you have to be a little more like the queen. She's the most powerful piece on the board bekause she works every possible angle. You were so fokused on taking out my pawn, you didn't see my bishop all lined up to take down your rook, leaving your king wide open. Don't worry, with a little praktice you might be good enough to beat little Iole one day.
::She laughs elegantly behind her hand::
::Flashing back to the present, Gwen releases her hold on Kenny's face::
Sometimes we don't realize how precious something is to us until we lose it....... is it that unimaginable that you kould have been happy with me? If nothing about the war had ever happened, if Lillith had not been there, is it that hard to believe?
::And finally that look she's wearing in place of her sinister smile makes sense to Kenny. She wears a face of loneliness. It's the same thing he had felt all those years on the Veldt before he had met Natalia or any of his other friends. Gwen has been as lonely as he was all her years in hiding::
It will save Lillith. What do you have to lose?
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Post by Kenny on Feb 23, 2009 20:50:39 GMT -5
:Kenny realized that he may end up having no memory of Lillith if he goes through with the procedure which scared him a bit as a tear rolled down his face:
"I love her and I can't forget about her, we were meant to be together...But if it means saving her....then" :He lowers his head in sadness
"I'll......do it"
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Post by Guinevere on Feb 23, 2009 21:18:32 GMT -5
::Gwen's hazel eyes narrow as Kenny thinks aloud::
Not for me, but for her. Fine I'll take it. What difference does it make if he won't remember her anyway.
Alright then, klose your eyes.
::The table leans back again until Kenny lies flat. From the shadows of the room, the hag and the wolf that were with Gwen at the garden all those years ago emerge, carrying heavy chunks of black metal. Gwen moves around to his head and places both hands on either side of his face. As she works on his mind, the two demons work on his body, placing each piece of the dark sleek armor on him. It's black with bright red highlights, and the red trim on the gauntlets and leggings look like fiery wings. Meanwhile in his head, Gwen's magic reaches in and pulls out everything to do with Lillith; their first kiss, the time she tended his wounds, the times they laughed, the times they fought, the day he gave her his phoenix pendant, everything leading up to this moment. And in their place, new memories take root. In this new world, he had stayed by Natalia until the very end. He had not left the Coven, because Lillith had not run away. She had never been there. When Natalia had been killed and Iole had left this world, he had been devastated. But Gwen had stayed by his side, and promised to always be there for him. It had been she that he had given the pendant to. There was only her. She was his whole reason for living now::
It's done.
::This new life is reality to him now. He has no recollection of the old one. As Gwen's hands release him, the snake-hag places one final piece of armor on him; a black helmet with a red phoenix with wings spread over the brow. The shackles come undone and walk away. The table tilts back up and Kenny stands before the witch as a knight in black armor::
Wait for me on the ship. We're almost done here.
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Post by Kenny on Feb 23, 2009 21:35:20 GMT -5
:As Kenny stood up he sees the armor that is bestowed upon him as he looks at Gwen and nods slowly in approval and watches her leave as he is now alone and somehow he felt tears coming down on his face as he just realized what he had done to himself:
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