In a cataclysm known as the Nightfall, the worlds were almost completely destroyed by a harrowing surge of darkness.
In the shadows of the ensuing chaos a new group has taken shape. Led by an Aegyl named Kalos, the 11th Hour touts an esoteric knowledge of how to combat the darkness and restore the worlds. They might be the worlds’ best chance at survival; but nobody really knows enough about them to confirm or deny their claims.
On the brink of collapse, the universe holds its breath in anticipation. Of restoration? Of destruction? It is up to individuals like yourself to decide.
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She had finally lost it. After the encounter with Yuri, Lyon and Kuja she no longer knew what was darkness, what was evil, what was goodness and what was light, all she knew was that something was wrong with her, very wrong.
A powerful anger and frustration drove her to abandon the safety of the first district and rush forward the second district, and such was her anger for the unknown situation that she thrashed against the heartless in the area and gunned down a few blue rhapsody.
*Pant, pant*
A Nearby soldier heartless attempted to attack the agitated and disturbed girl with its trademark spinning kick attack. Alas, it found itself one leg short due a well timed fierce slash, courtesy of a strange energy saber which appeared engulfing Reiho's right arm.
"No, go away, this isn't mine!"
She waved her arm to get rid of the strange energy foreign to her. Something was manifesting within her and the thought of losing her identity was maddening. Nothing could explain what was happening to her and why those new powers were appearing since that neo-shadow tampered with her heart.
In that state of confusion and anguish, she by chance ended up entering inside the caverns beyond the waterways of the second district. The cold and moist atmosphere and the lack of heartless helped her to calm a little as she looked at the entrance to the caverns she just entered in and the strange energy blade vanishes.
"Antique .. Caxnon ..."
She calmed down and sit on the rocky ground of the cavern, although confusion and mistrust in everything, even her own beliefs, still clouded her mind.
The student from another world had been searching for his first friend, he hadn't slept in ages. He wasn't able to since he couldn't find Reiho, she was the one who saved him. He wasn't going to let her keep hiding.
It was only till he reached the second district that he finally saw her. Without hesitaion, he ran to wards his friend.
She tried to calm down and think in the good friends she made, but something else was entering in the cavern, the sounds of steps walking on the rocky and moist were maddening and each step made the unknown creature be closer and closer. That thing, it had to be an enemy, it came to kill her!
"Stop, go away, go away!!"
Reiho, now victim of paranoid and still having troubles thinking well and recognizing friend and foe, picked her gun and randomly shot at the source of that shadow that was appearing near the entrance. It had to die, die for her own safety.
"No .. that shadow on the ground looked like ..."
Then she dropped her gun and fell on her knees, realizing that the shadow that appeared looked like the shadow of a human, and that she could've killed an innocent bystander who out of curiosity entered in the cavern. In that moment she felt like a monster, that something within her was slowly eating away her sanity and she was slowly feeling that not even Antique nor Caxnon could help her now
Kyriu was quite alarmed when Reiho shot at him. He was actually surprised at what he did, because it was a quick reflex. He quickly drew his blade and managed to deflect the bullet. This shocked him, how was he able to move that fast?
He pushed the thought out of his mind. He wanted to help Reiho, who seemed to be troubled.
The student walked over to the girl's side, he bent down and put his hand on her shoulder.
Shocked by the revelation the creature she shot at was really a human, she refused to look at the victim. The voice she heard from it was of a male, and it sounded familiar ...
"Mister ... Kiryu?"
The voice was like Kiru's but what if her mind was playing some tricks and he wasn't Kiryu, or if he was Kiryu he died for the gunshots and she was imagining things?
"No, you can't be Kiryu, I killed the person in the cave!!"
She grabbed her head with both of her hands and closed her eyes, twitching for the identity crisis and delusions she was having. And the voices, they weren't shutting off and were even louder and talkative than before, telling her to give up hope and kill, kill and make sure no witness saw her killing.
Refusing to let her dark side make her commit atrocious acts like murder her friends, she picked the gun she dropped previous and holding it with both hands, she put the barrel of the gun right below her head and was ready to pull the trigger.
"I'm not going to become somebody else!"
Completely ignoring that other presence in the cave which she considered product of her imagination, she pulled the trigger of her gun, tears flowing on her cheeks. Silence filled the cave after the empty shell of the used bullet fell and made a small noise ...
Everything happened so fast. The student tried his best to stop Reiho, but in the same instant that she was going to pull the trigger, Kyriu knew what he had to do. He was certain that he could do this, this stress wasn't helping either, though for some reason he could think easier with it.
As the sound of the bullet hit the cave, the only that could be seen was the student holding the barrel of the gun...with a hole blown through his hand.
She was ready to die. The past two weeks pure insanity: Meeting Caxnon and discovering the existence of nobodies, Kitty's comma state, the incident with Kousei, Kiryu's despair and lack of will to live, Lyon's dark heart, and now her own inability to cope with the insane reality she was living, filled with confusing, dark sides and murderous voices. She was at her limit and simply wanted to end it all.
All she needed to do was to pull the trigger, but something or somebody robed her of her death and deviated the aim of her gun to an angle which the bullet failed to hit it's target.
She opened her eyes, knowing that something interrupted her death wish and saw with horror in her face that the young man she helped before, Kiryu, was next to her and one of his hands was bleeding profusely. It was penetrated by the bullet and now it had an hole, putting in danger his career as swordsman.
"Noo ... Mister Kiryu!"
The shock finally snapped her out of her state of absolute despair and confusion. She desperately tried to get some bandages from her shoulder bag, but in her haste all the she managed was to drop on the floor the very objects she wanted to use.
"Mister Kiryu, why you had to stop me? Now you will be unable to wield a sword anymore!"
She dropped her bag and gun and felt completely miserable, for his friend now was suffering of a terrible pain and his days as a swordsman might be over. She cried a bit as she hugged the injured Kiryu and pressed her face on his chest. This was easily the worst day of her life.
Kyriu was glad that Reiho snapped back to reality, but then the pain of the bullet started to sink in. He returned Reiho's hug with his uninjured hand. He didn't mind getting hurt, even though the pain was agonizing...he had been trained to ignore it..hm, it was like his farther knew something like this would happen.
'' You don't have to die...I won't let you...'' Kyriu said.
He didn't even look at his hand, there wasn't much he could do about it. '' Why would you shoot yourself?'' he added.
The young man was a real friend she could trust even her life. He sacrificed his hand for the sake of the life she was going to throw away and she finally decided to share with somebody the ultimate truth of what was happening to her.
"A few weeks ago ... a heartless almost transformed me into one of them and tainted my heart. Since then ... I've been blacking out and feeling how something ... or somebody controlled me, and I heard constantly voices in my mind, telling me to do things and tehre was even a room with many doors and .."
She stopped. She wasn't sure if he was going to believe her tale. It was too weird and nonsensical, like a cheap low budget horror movie.
"And lately I've been feeling headaches and heartaches. I feel something wants to control me ... and the last meeting I had with some bad guy and a human-like heartless I ... I was possessed by somebody, and I was conscious of that this time. I could feel how that something was controlling me, how it talked about darkness .... and then I recovered control of myself and ran away, towards this cavern."
As she spoke, she started to feel again pain in her chest and her vision was starting to get blurry as her head ached, but she insisted in continuing.
"I was confused .. scared ... paranoiac. I felt everything wanted to get me .. and then I saw your shadow and attacked you and tried to kill myself ... It would be better if you let me die. I'm afraid I'll become something else and stop being myself .."
Kyriu simply rapped his injured hand in a bandage. Then he thought about what she said. She had went through a lot..why didn't she talk to anyone? How could someone keep all this to themselves? It just wasn't right.
'' You won't become someone else...your always going to be you. Whatever's happening to you, you can beat it..as long as you remember who your friends are. They will give you the strength to carry on'' Kyriu said.
She couldn't even finish the sentence. The pain in her chest was growing stronger and she felt she was about to black out as it happened every time she was controlled by that "something else". Her consciousness was fading away as she only managed to grab Kiryu with all her strength in an attempt to stay conscious.
"Don't give up, come with me!"
It was again that voice within her head, not the ones telling her to cause chaos in the world but the voice of that girl who looked like her at age 10. Somehow that voice made her feel a bit more at peace and nostalgic and this this she was hearing it while she was conscious. The Reiho within her soul walked near the younger version of herself and talked with her.
"Why I feel like we have a special relationship?"
"Because ... you better learn it by yourself."
Once more she found inside that world within her soul, completely surrounded by doors, and this time a new door appeared in the middle of the room. It was connected to no wall, and had a very plain and simple design.
"Follow me and rest in your special place, where nothing can disturb you"
"... I'm sorry everybody ..."
Meanwhile, in the real world, Reiho was still clinging to the clothes of Kiryu, and her expression of pain changed for one of peaceful acceptance for her unavoidable fate.
"Kiryu ... please have this"
With her last strength, she untied the ribbon around her wrist and gave it to Kiryu, calling him per first time as Kiryu instead of adding "Mister" as she always did.
"Please take it ... I don't think i'll be needing it. If you find somebody called Caxnon or Antique, they will understand, but please, use it for me"
Inside her soul and heart space, her other self finally stepped near the door leading to the room known as "The cradle", where she could finally rest and awaken from that nightmare known as life.
"I'm ready. Let's go"
"Seal your heart and rest, together we'll fix that mess"
The moment that Reiho crossed the door, the real Reiho stopped moving and fell in a deep sleep, one which nobody could awake her from, and so, she slept with a face full of tranquility. With her soul and heart sealed, she was safe from becoming a monster, yet she also sealed her own future ...
Kyriu couldn''t believe what was happening. He did as he was told and took the ribbon, but the moment he did so Reiho completely passed out. The student did his best to revive her, but nothing seemed to work. He sat in that cave for several hours, just hugging his first friend.
A few minutes later he admitted her into the town's healing hospital.
Kyriu tied the ribbon around his finger, then threw away the case he had always carried. He used the rope around it to tie his Katana to his back, so he could easily reach it.
After exiting the hospital, he simply sat down in the place where it all began, where he first arrived.
'' I'll...find..them...I promise'' was all Kyriu manged to say. And despite his best efforts, he couldn't stop tears from running down his face.
