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 Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 12:56 pm
Chapter 2: The Disappearance of the Light Brings him Upon Us
~I'm fine. They're fine. Since you've had a warmup, I want you to join me. I feel as though I'm being followed....~ Nephilis quickly returned to Plague, his eyes shifting to his left. He could feel another signature of aura trailing him, but moving to slow to catch up. ~It's important that this mission is not failed. I have to find Alastor immediately. This night probably won't be spent resting...I'm letting you know this early.~
Nephilis began to see in the distance a small lake the glistened in the moonlight and a man standing before it dressed in an attire similar to his. The only difference was that his hair contained long crimson streaks and his style of hair was much longer. "I've been looking for you." Nephilis greeted. Landing on the sand from a tree branch, he takes off his shoes, feeling the sand beneath his feet. In actuality, if Alastor were to move, he'd feel it first.
"I know." responds Alastor calmly. "You're a perceptive one. I had no doubt that eventually you'd seek me."
"Then I guess that you can also infer that I'm here to interrogate you on why you need the four residues."
"Indeed." Alastor turns and faces Nephilis, holding a small collection of water. "You see.." he says, letting the water run through his fingers and onto his shoes,"I too am perceptive. Even more so than you, great detective."
"Is that right?"
"Yes. Also, I've also mapped that if I don't give you the truth, or more specifically, the info you want to hear, then I'll end up like Nas."
"What is that supposed to mean?" asks Nephilis in a slightly perturbed voice.
"Dead. Or at least you think. That's far beyond the point though my friend. What is the point here is that you want info, right? I'll give you information on other things before I give you information on me. Sound fair?"
"If you want to be labeled a snitch by whom ever you're working for, fine by me." Nephilis crosses his arms waiting for anything the mysterious man had to say.
"I work alone, Evermore." Alastor reassures with a odd smirk. "Always have...always will."
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 2:44 pm
Azrael walked with the group of kids, keeping to himself. He didn't like being away from his brother, but Raziel said it would help him get out of his shell. He didn't know he was ever in one though, so it was confusing. He just kept silent and walked, not one to make conversation to past the time.
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 4:05 pm
~Sir we are fully capable of helping you, we will be there shortly.~ Plague said as he looked at Leon. " We are needed...let's go. " He made both of them sink into darkness and shot off each one a shadow version of their formerselves running on the ground and walls, well anything tangable. They made their way to Nephilis but he had to hold out for a few minutes while the two of them headed off towards Nephilis's location.
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 5:35 pm
Alyss looked through the pages and sighed. "Who is this Alastor, Marcove?! You left nothing for me!" She tossed the pages and they went everywhere. "Out!" She yelled to the servants, sending them running. "That thing is out there... and I need to know who Alastor is... Marcove, you left me nothing." She sat on the throne, rubbing her temples. "Please..."
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 6:16 pm
"Yeah, great. Talk Aurnon." Nephilis demands, looking Alastor dead in the eyes. Any false moves and two beams of aura would bore through his skull turning his mind into something unpleasant.
"The thing in Alloy? That you hear at night before...well you don't sleep. That is indeed a weapon."
"That runs on Bind." adds Nephilis.
"Yes. It does. It's not done yet though. They plan to use it as an anti-air gun."
"Take down Noroa."
"Yes."
Nephilis looks to Alastor, puzzled. "What is Bind exactly?"
"Ahh. That's the right question my friend." Alastor begins to walk along the edge of the lake bed, picking cattails as he went. "Bind. It's a material used to absorb aura. If it hits something, depending on the amount, it will kill it them through complete aura absorbtion. Much like your celestial friends from long ago."
"Hmm."
"In a plasma form, it's much more volatile. If it touches the Earth, it will do the same, but for only where it hits. Instant desentegration. Think of your Shining Saturday just much, much stronger."
"Is this for the good of us or..."
"I don't know. I just came up with the idea."
"Why?"
"Because, like you, I was tired of the injustice brought on by Noroa and Silicia. There are two ways to stop this. One is for me to collect the four residues of the four forces, or make a weapon strong enough to finish it all."
"I'm afraid I can't let you do that. I love justice as much as you, but there are different ways of acheiving it. You have to see that. You're a smart kid, Alastor. Don't go and get yourself killed out here."
"...Peace is all I want. For reason and cannot divulge, peace is all I want..."
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 6:21 pm
Kendal sighed he had yet to leave for Alloy again. He noticed alot of servants leaving a room he wondered what was causing it. He knocked on the door and opened it to see Alyss. "...Alyss is somthing wrong?" He asked. He wanted to make sure she was alright.
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 6:30 pm
"Everything... Everything..." Alyss said softly, standing up and walking to the window. She watched the sleeping lands and sighed. "Ten years ago this place was in ruins... now it's thriving again. But yet... yet I can't find something on a stupid kid!" Alyss growled, turning from the window and starting to pick up the papers. "Why can't we have peace for once in our lives?" She didn't look him in the face, face was seriously focused. "Shouldn't you be in Alloy, darling?"
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 6:32 pm
Samara turned over in the bed, reaching out for Nephilis. Her eyes opened, though, when she realized he wasn't there...not to mention the fact that she was in a bed. Neph must have teleported her to his room. Sitting up, she pushed the hair out of her face, looking around for Nephilis. "Neph?" she called out, looking around for him.
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 6:34 pm
"At least think for a minute, Alastor. You were saved by Marcove as a kid. Why did he do it? He wanted you to know peace. Not to know peace through war."
Alastor looked at him. His eyes met his and his were of the irregular shade of blue and had a pattern of stars in them. Each corner contained one. "In a world littered with disdain and misfortune, chaos is the only legitamate path to enlightenment. You should know that better than all of us, Evermore."
"What makes you say that?"
"What did you do when you lost Daphne the first time? You went mad. You killed a quarter of the people in your city trying to find one answer. Why did it happen? Was it destiny, or was it because of my weakness?"
Nephilis didn't take to kind to the remark, but he remained calm in the face of this beast of a human. "It was because of both. But I've become stronger now. I'm in control of my destiny."
"But not others." Alastor quickly adds, crushing the cattail to dust. "You want to control it all don't you? A dictator of sorts. I mean, why not let the Noids continue to get captured?"
"Because freedom is a right of all people."
"If that were so, then why did you try to take Nas' freedom? If you would've let things continue, the weapon would've killed him. Freedom vs. Freedom never amounts to anything. Freedom vs. Bondage does. I told you, in a world littered with disdain, chaos is a legitamate path to enlightenment. I may sound evil, maybe like an anarchist, but I know the way to salvation, and it's not a middleman like yourself. It's through war. Isn't that what you told Vanda once?"
"True."
"Then why change now? Because you have a life? Samara? Tenshi? Lunia? They are you life, I'll give you that, but they are also things you need to protect now. If they died, you'd do the same thing you did in L'eausis."
"How can you tell that?"
"How about we see."
Nephilis lifts his hand and crushes Alastor, throwing his body into the lake behind him afterwards. "Crazy sonofabitch. I'm going home."
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 6:39 pm
Kendal frowned "I know I should be getting back soon...." He said. He walked over to her "but I can't just leave you like this" He said as he hugged her. "...and for what it's worth you deserve some peace in your life and I don't know how but I promise somehow I'm going to get it for you" He said.
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 6:44 pm
"Peace is peace, Kendal. I'll get it when I'm dead." Alyss said softly, getting out of his arms and picking up the last paper, putting it on her throne. She walked back to him and put her hand on the side of his face. "You need to rule your nation... don't worry about me... I can live for a while... if I need help I'll ask. Please..." She kissed him on the lips softly, breaking it and whispering against his lips, "Worry about the people of Alloy." She let go and started walking to her throne, wanting to get back to those papers.
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 6:51 pm
Samara frowned a bit, seeing Nephilis wasn't there. She put on her robe and went for a late night stroll through the halls of the palace. Making her way to the kitchen, she poured herself a glass of milk, leaning against the counter as she began to sip it slowly.
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 7:30 pm
"Not going to be that easy, Evermore." Alastor emerged from the waters, his body dripping with a mixture of blood and water. Bones protuded his skin giving him a torn and mangled look, but slowly he began to reform.
"Healing." Nephilis said, unsurprised.
"No. Just good at what I do."
"You know I'm going to stop you what way I can."
"Go ahead. I've nothing to lose."
Nephilis narrows his eyes into viper-like slits before disappearing. His mastery of his superspeed exceeded anyone else. He was matched only by Samara and Tezukya now. With his speed, he comes across Alastor's face with a punch so forceful, he's thrown through the base of a tree, stopping on the one behind it.
"That all you've got?" Alastor asks, rising from the bark. He stood, his body cracking loudly. The shards of bark also fell from his back onto the ground beneath him as if he shedded brown feathers.
"You just want to die, don't you kid. I'm not at half my power..." Nephilis began to raise his aura levels to a bit below half. "I'll give forty-five..."
"Give me all of it." yells Alastor. He had the power of limited telekinesis, meaning he could limit it to either internal usage, or external usage. Either couldn't go very far. He vanishes, nearly matching Nephilis and speed and attempts to strike with an aura-made blade. Nephilis counters simply with a finger. "Gotcha!" Alastor teleports them both to the center of Tenshu. It was still night.
"You really think you're going to do something to this city and Samara, don't you?" Nephilis releases a pulse of aura that knocks Alastor back onto the ground.
"No, I want her to see what I'm going to do to you. You're at half and beating me easily. I'm only at ten percent..."
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 7:36 pm
Samara dropped her glass when she heard a ruckus outside. Ignoring the broken glass and milk all over the floor, she immediately ran out and saw Nephilis standing as though he had just hit someone. She emerged from the building hesitantly, seeing Alastor across the quad. ~Neph...is everything alright?~ she projected to him, not wanting to alert Alastor to her presence if he wasn't already.
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