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Post by Situation on Jan 9, 2009 19:45:33 GMT -5
Once Kenny is inside, he can no longer see Iole. The room is entirely dark. But he can hear faint sobbing. A woman is crying somewhere. He can barely make out a slumped over shape in front of him, like a woman cradling something in her arms as she cries.
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Post by Kenny on Jan 9, 2009 19:50:44 GMT -5
:As Kenny made his way through the dark area he can see the woman as she was apparently crying for some reason while cradling something.:
"Hello, are you ok lady? What seems to be the trouble?"
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Post by Situation on Jan 9, 2009 20:31:18 GMT -5
The woman turns her head slowly to look up at him. Her silvery tears seem to glow in the darkness, which is how he is able to see her eyes clearly. Her alluring purple eyes. And that smooth velvety voice is unmistakable.
"If it isn't my 'knight in shining armor.'" Natalia says with disdain. "Come to beg my forgiveness. You should know Demons don't forgive." Though she's choking on her sobs, anger can still be heard in her voice.
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Post by Kenny on Jan 9, 2009 22:36:00 GMT -5
:Kenny was in shock to see that it was none other than Natalia but how could it be as he recognized that voice:
"S.S.S.Sorceress? Wh..Wh.What is going on?."
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Post by Situation on Jan 9, 2009 23:15:03 GMT -5
Natalia laughs a chilling cackle that still somehow sounds sad. "What's going on? What's going on is that you failed." A lantern that Kenny had not seen before lights itself. She rises to her feet. He had never really noticed before, but Natalia stands a head taller than him. She's dressed in that same formfitting black top with the flowing sleeves with violets embroidered on the edges. But its torn and ragged as though she were in a fire. She turns to face him with her tear stained face, and he sees what she has in her arms for the first time. Iole lies with her eyes open and glazed over. Blood spills out the side of her mouth and her neck rests at a wrong angle. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTYwkFoMeYY&feature=PlayList&p=4791198902FB3F55&index=53"Protect those who are precious to me. That was all I asked you to do. What kind of hero are you? I trusted you! Look what you've done!"
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Post by Kenny on Jan 9, 2009 23:25:21 GMT -5
:Kenny now sees what she was carrying and starts to shake even more as he hears what she is saying to him.: "No!!! It's NOT TRUE, ITS NOT REAL!!! I PROTECED HER" :He was close to breaking in tears:
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Post by Situation on Jan 9, 2009 23:33:16 GMT -5
((Scared yet?))
"Really Kenny? Are you really strong enough to protect them all?"
The light from the lantern grows brighter until he can see the rest of the area around Natalia's feet. Other bodies lie twisted and unnatural in pools of their own blood. But their faces are clear; Lillith, Rainii, Dante, Eva, Jas, Crohan, all dead and mangled, their eyes frozen open in terror.
"I trusted you! What have you done?! My sweet little girl, LOOK AT HER!"
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Post by Kenny on Jan 10, 2009 0:02:03 GMT -5
((Uh huh))
:As Kenny saw the light brighter he sees the faces of the people he knew dead and mangled up as the pool of blood flows.:
"NOO!!"
:He then sees the face of Lillith and begans to break down as he is frightened:
"This CAN'T BE REAL..MY FRIENDS ARE NOT DEAD....THEY ARE NOT DEAD"
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Post by Situation on Jan 10, 2009 1:29:47 GMT -5
Natalia sets Iole's limp form down gently and turns to face Kenny again. "They're dead, and it's your fault. You failed. You may as well have killed them yourself. Just look at yourself!"
Kenny glances and to his horror he finds that he's no longer wearing his usual clothes. He is clad in black armor from head to toe, and in his hands is a dark broadsword just like that nightmare all those years ago. The sword is drenched in blood... he couldn't have! How?!
"I will kill you for this!" Natalia raises her hands as Kenny has seen her do before. But it's too quick. He has no time to dodge the shaft of purple lightning that shoots from her hand into his shoulder. It knocks him off his feet to land on his back outside the room. But this isn't the same place he had come from. It's too sunny, to hot. The surroundings are a place he recognizes immediately. He and Natalia are on the Veldt. The sorceress raises her hands again as purple flames begin to dance on her palms, writhing and growing into her twin flame-swords. "Are you ready for this?"
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Post by Kenny on Jan 10, 2009 2:42:40 GMT -5
:Kenny sees his hands as he realizes he was wearing the armor just like in the nightmare when he was recovering from an attack during the war with the coven. His nightmare seem to come true but he is still upset: "I'm Not a Murderer I'm Not" :He is suddenly zapped by Natalia's purple lighting. Suddenly he and Natalia are no longer in the room but back at the Veldt as he sees Natalia bringing up her flame swords as he slowly pick up his sword but is still scared: "I'm Not hurting you Sorceress, This Is Not Real!!!! I'M NO MURDERER!!!!"
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Post by Situation on Jan 10, 2009 19:45:02 GMT -5
Natalia advances and swings her flaming blades at him, forcing him to raise his own sword to defend himself. Thunder rolls across the desert, and the sun is soon hidden behind a billowing thunderstorm that came out of nowhere.
"Kome now Kenny," says a familiar accented voice behind him, "of kourse you are. Look at what you did to me, an unarmed woman." Guinevere has joined them on the Veldt, her scarlet dress tattered and burned at the edges. Her pale neck is stained with her own blood from where a gleaming dagger sticks out of her; one of Kenny's daggers. "Who is she to judge you though? I kan't blame you if you weren't strong enough."
"This should be fun." says a second voice, shrill and menacing. Yersinia stands to the other side, and behind her is none other than Louis Delafonte. The spotted Burmecian woman has her wings out, but they hang from cracked bone and sinew. Louis is missing his arm, his glasses are cracked in two, and his left ear is no more than a bloody glob on the side of his head. As Yersinia speaks, blood falls from her mouth. "I have twenty gil on the demoness."
Louis smirks. "Forty gil says the little pussycat doesn't have the heart to put a scratch on her."
"Fascinating." Just behind Natalia, joining the throng of villains that are now forming a circle around the two of them is August, adjusting his glasses and looking on with intellectual fascination. "The bold knight becomes exactly what he's fought against all his life. I must take some notes on this." He pulls out a small notepad and begins jotting things down.
"Fess up boy." Elias Sands is next to appear in his full suit of imperial armor. He too is bleeding from his throat as crimson spills down his chest. "You did what you did. Now own up to it and face your punishment like a true soldier."
"Come on Kenny." The last to appear is Loci, the bloodiest of them all. His body is covered in gashes and lacerations, some of them probably self inflicted. His blood boils and sizzles along his fur. "You going to be the Witch's whipping boy forever? hit her back. Be a real man." He licks his bloody muzzle, smiling like the devil himself.
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Post by Kenny on Jan 10, 2009 21:41:25 GMT -5
:Kenny saw the people that he encountered before as he was starting to have fear in him. He blocked Natalias blade meanwhile and countered back but not too much because he did not want to hurt her at all. He then finally noticed Loci and was shocked.: "Can't be, IT Can't Be!!!! WHAT IS GOING ON?"
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Post by Situation on Jan 10, 2009 23:29:59 GMT -5
"This is your Magnum Opus boy." Loci says, spreading his arms out in a theatrical motion. "This is the downfall of everything you are, and the descent into what you are becoming." The other villains crowd around, looking on expectantly, but making no lethal movement. "You'll never be able to move on until you're finally rid of her. She manipulated you Kenny. She made you this way. Now do what you must and bring down the axe."
Natalia swings her blades, baring her teeth like a savage animal. "You're holding back Kenny. You're figthing against yourself harder than you're fighting against me. Give in! Kill me!" She swings his blade out of the way, leaving his arm open. She slides in her second blade and cuts through the opening in his armor, slicing across his arm. "Admit it! Coward! Failure! You don't have the will of a hero! You never have!"
Thunder cracks the sky in half again. Somewhere outside the circle of villains, but close enough to be seen, another figure appears. This one is darker than the rest, shrouded in a black cloak. His hood covers most of his face, save for a fanged wolf like snout, and a pair of glowing topaz eyes. Kenny has seen this creature before. He saw him at the show, he saw him at the festival while he danced with Nurse Takano, and he saw him in Echidna's notebook. The King in Yellow. "Sometimes the greatest obstacle is one's self. Are you really going to hold back? This is how it was meant to be. This is how you are meant to be. But you will not reach that level of power, the power that can come from those you see around you, until you cast off your self perception. Now strike her down."
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Post by Natalia on Jan 11, 2009 3:28:19 GMT -5
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIo-BLVKzTY&feature=PlayList&p=4791198902FB3F55&index=86::Just as it seems that Kenny's will is about to be crushed from this waking nightmare, he feels a hand on his shoulder. It turns him around to face its owner. Natalia stands there with that knowing smile, exactly the way he remembers her. Not the twisted being that has attacked him so far:: Kenny, that's not me. ::She places her hand firmly on his chest:: That's not me, and this isn't you. ::She thrusts her palm fiercely into his dark chestplate, cracking it open. The entire suit shatters in a flash of light. Kenny is back in his normal clothes now. His sword is no longer the dark menacing weapon he had been holding. Instead he grasps a shining longsword with a phoenix as its hilt. When he turns to face the other Natalia, her face starts to crack like clay. The cracks spread until the entire shell crumbles away, revealing its true form. Kenny sees himself, and yet it's not himself. It's face and arms are covered in black fur and its hair is bone white. It has claws and fangs the color of blood, and its eyes glow with the color of fire:: That is you. It's your dark side. Everything about you that you fear and hate is in that thing. ::The creature growls and gnashes its teeth and flexes its claws, crouching, ready to pounce:: Don't strike it. Embrace it. It is a part of you. You can't destroy it, but you can control it.
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Post by Kenny on Jan 11, 2009 10:18:04 GMT -5
:Kenny was surprised to see the vision of the real Natalia who somehow managed to remove the dark armor around him. As he returns to his regular clothing he looks at the twisted Natalia cracking up turning into what appear to be a derranged version of his own self.:
"My Dark...Side"
:He closes his eyes as he held his sword down as he thinks about what he can to not hurt the dark form. Suddenly as the form begins to pounce, it stopped as Kenny opened his eyes:
"You can't harm me anymore.....GO NOW"
:The form begins to disappear as Kenny looked at the real Natalia with tears in his eyes and a little smile"
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Post by Natalia on Jan 11, 2009 15:07:26 GMT -5
::The dark beast Kenny stops short of reaching him. It whimpers like a sad dog, licking Kenny's hand and nuzzling his side before he finally vanishes back into his owner. The sands of the desert are whipped up in a wind that sends the Veldt away, slowly returning back to the streets of Lindblum. And with the sands dissappears Guinevere, Yersinia, Louis, August, Elias, and Loci. The King in Yellow lingers for awhile until he too fades from the vision. Natalia and Kenny remain alone::
I'm proud of you Kenny. It's good to see you again. I just wish I could tell you I was staying.
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Post by Kenny on Jan 11, 2009 16:32:59 GMT -5
:Kenny was in tears as Natalia was speaking to him as he choked up a bit and then he started to speak: "Sorceress...I just wish you didn't had to die..I missed you so much."
:He was happy yet sad as he realized he had conquered the nightmarish visions:
"I also never had the chance to...say goodbye in person."
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Post by Natalia on Jan 11, 2009 17:21:26 GMT -5
::Natalia smiles::
I know. No one should have to go through what you have.But not only have you endured it, you've conquered it. There are very dark forces at work here, and they're closing in around you and the others. But I know that you will face them and defeat them, not because you are the strongest or the fastest, but because you are the purest.
::Her being seems to be wavering and she starts to fade in and out of existence::
I have to go now. But the others still need you.
::As her presence grows less and less stable, she places her hand on Kenny's face::
Stiff upper lip.
::And with that, she's gone. The streets around him are no longer the quiet shadowy ones from the nightmare. Kenny is back in the midst of the Lindblum riot and the sky is alight with fire. But in front of him he can see a pair of tracks in the snow that hasn't already melted. One is a pair of paws, clearly Oliver's, and the other is the print from Iole's high-tops. They've headed down the road, probably caught in their own nightmares and completely unaware of the inferno around them::
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Post by Kenny on Jan 11, 2009 20:28:47 GMT -5
:Though the vision was fading, Kenny felt the hand of Natalia on his face as she reminded him about Stiff Upper Lip as the tears roll down while he smiles. As the vision finally fades away, Kenny looked up as his held back his tears.:
"Good bye.........Sorceress"
:When he realizes he is back at Lindblum still in the riots, he then sees the prints made by Iole and Oliver as he followed the prints hoping to find them as soon as possible.:
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Post by Situation on Jan 12, 2009 13:17:10 GMT -5
((Go to New Thread: Caged Birds))
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