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.
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Heart ... what is exactly a heart? In anatomy it was one of the most important organs of any living being, pumping blood to the rest of the body, but in this world of insanity "Heart" was the source of emotions, the source of existence, the source of darkness ...
The door to the third district was finally open and in the opposite side the trio found what was expected: a deranged man dragging a wounded man, and behind them the foul creatures of darkness, the heartless, acting as nightmarish guards.
Other than the unusual behavior of the heartless and the trail of blood left by the kidnapped man, the third district was pretty much the same as usual.
"Hehehehe ..." The lunatic laugh of the wicked man echoed through the 3rd district. Anyone who looked at his eyes would see that sanity was long lost in the mind of that man.
"Leave that man alone!" Reiho shouted at the deranged man. That insane guy had a knife at hand and the victim had many knife wounds within his body.
The criminal simply smiled back at them and said "Twenty years ... twenty years waiting for her love ... but she stayed with this guy! ..." The heartless grew in number as his heart corrupt with darkness spoke for him. "If i wear his skin ... she will like me ... she will love me"
Reiho could never get angry with the heartless, they were simply the sad shadows of what once was a living being, but for this criminal she felt nothing but anger, for he was willing to kill a fellow human for his delusional selfish dreams and cooperated with the heartless to reach his goal.
Reiho strengthened the grip on her wooden sword and jumped to the plaza, seeking to bring that criminal to justice.
"Caxnon, Kitty ... let's rescue the hostage and punish that criminal."
Shadows, soldiers and air soldiers, three were the type of heartless attracted to the plaza, and the moment Reiho landed on the floor, she found herself was face to face against 8 shadows, the lowest kind of heartless protecting the lowest kind of human scum.
Post by indigoyume on Nov 21, 2009 17:28:21 GMT -4
Kitty nodded and closed her eyes. She felt her power racing through her body like liquid fire in her veins, and she unsheathed the dagger at her side. She focused the power into her hand, through the hilt and into the blade. The blade pulsed with power, and when Kitty opened her eyes, she lunged forward.
"You wanna play with me?"
Kitty lunged at the Heartless and knocked them off of Reiho. She helped the fallen detective stand up and then shot back at the Heartless. As she lunged towards a Heartless, she swung the dagger in a diagonal and a black line hit the Heartless square in their chests. Once the illusion had vanished, Kitty tossed aside her dagger and yanked her sword free. As she was about ready to land on the Heartless, one tackled her to the ground, and her sword was knocked from her hands.
Caxnon didn't wait for Kitty to finish, he quickly killed the heartless with a quick swing of his gunblade. He then helped Kitty up and handed her blade to her.
'' Be careful'' he said to her.
The nobody ran to wards Reiho and quickly slashed the heartless infront of her, he did all this with ease. He side stepped most of thier attacks and countered, and before he knew it there was only 4 heartless left.
Thanks! Reiho stand up and somehow that event triggered a long forgotten memory engraved within the deepest part of her heart.
"Deja vu?" The detective for a second remained static. She couldn't see clearly, but in a long forgotten memory she felt a situation like this already happened once.
" You wanna play with me? " " Be careful " '' Let's hurry up''
Those words ... where did she hear them before? Why they resonated deeply within her heart? Maybe they were a clue which could help to fix the broken chain of memories in her heart.
Nobody knew about it, but Reiho was unable to remember her own past. Not for amnesia nor lack of memories but because her memories were scrambled and lacked any order and links. Many faces, many people, many names, many locations ... yet the links between them were missing. To which man the name Kaizo belonged? Sumaru city was her home or just a place she visited? To make things simple, she simply mixed a few names from her memories and called herself Reiho Kirisame, thus creating the new identity she used since arriving to Traverse Town.
The only sure thing was that her new memories of this universe were real and she wasn't going to lose those newfound memories nor the Town where she acquired them.
She snapped out of her trance just at time to dodge the lunge attack of a shadow and destroyed it with a quick and powerful blow right into it's exposed neck, crushing it between the floor and her wooden sword.
"No ... i can't let my memories go wild now .."
She recovered the posture and finally drew her gun, one of simple design clip feed with a capacity up to 8 bullets.
One bullet, one less heartless. Even for the dark ones a headshot was more than enough to destroy at least the weaker ones of name shadow, and Reiho was quite a good shot.
Post by indigoyume on Nov 22, 2009 10:45:58 GMT -4
"Thanks," Kitty said and then turned to watch as Reiho shot a bullet into a Heartless.
"Nice shot!" Kitty called and then charged to help Caxnon. She swung her blade and a large fire-dragon shot from the blade. She killed the Heartless and then turned back to face Reiho.
That was when things turned bitter. As Kitty turned, she felt a sharp pain in her temple. She dropped her sword and clutchd her head. Her vision was blood-red, and a loud, blood-curdling scream echoed through her head.
"Run, Kitty! Run!"
"Mama, no!"
"Don't look back, just keep running!"
"I don't wanna leave you!"
A sad smile made it's way across blood-stained lips.
"Always trust youself Kitty. GO!"
"MAMA!"
Kitty's knees hit the floor with a sharp thud, and her vision turned to black.
Caxnon was busy fending off the Heartless. Which wasn't too hard, even the air soldiers weren't a challenge. The sudden sound of hard steel hitting the floor got his attention. He saw kitty slowly sink to her knees, it was like she was in slow motion. The nobody quickly put away his weapon, and ran towards Kitty and arrived just in time to stop her from hitting the floor.
Caxnon scanned the area for a while, then noticed that they were too far away from the first district to get away from all these heartless.
The gublader picked up Kitty's weapon and placed it on his sheath. He then used both his free hands to carry the girl.
A single line of music echoed through the air as the Heartless and deranged man fought. It reverberated, and then slowly began to grow in strength. The wind did not waver as the flute's not cut into the air, and a figure stood next to Kitty, who was on the ground.
The Nobody held the flute to his lips, and his fingers flew over the holes as the air began to thicken around it. The magical residue grew to a peak, and the Nobody took it from his lips. With a twirl, he slashed the silver flute at a Heartless, and the creature burst into flames. The Nobody merely turned around and blasted another. The residue around it began to lessen, and it looked to Kitty.
No words were spoken. The Nobody knew no words. But it stood above her, awaiting the Heartless. Its purposes were unknown.
"Kitty!" Reiho saw how Kitty fell in front of her, unconscious and with a wound in her temple. If weren't for Caxnon's lightning-fast reflexes, the fallen girl would have hit her head against the floor.
The Gunblader suggested Reiho to retreat and take Kitty to a safe place. But if they did that, the the kidnapper grocery store owner could die as the deranged man who captured him was slowly dragging him to a corner of the district and his ultimate goal was to skin him alive.
Decisions decisions, a decision had to be taken. Would they abandon the man Reiho was looking for in favor of Kitty, or they would risk Kitty's life and try to save the man before it was too late?
Wondering about what to do, she saw a human-like figure of silver white colored uniform appear next to Kitty, it's arrival announced by the melody of a flute.
Was that thing a heartless? Nobody knew the answer but it was now clear that the figure, apparently male in appearance, was fighting against the dark ones.
His weapon, a flute, sang a requiem of fire and burned one of the fallen ones to crisp, not a single word coming from his ... wait, he had no mouth, how could they expect a mouth-less creature to talk?
That thing was a friend or a foe? Could they trust it not to attack them? Reiho had no answers to those questions, but preparing for the worst she stayed in a defensive stance, ready in case the silver white creature decided to attack them.
"Mister Caxnon, that silver white being ... can we trust him? I can't sense anything from him due his silence and lack of expression ... but he's protecting Kitty, and that's all it matters"
Reiho saw in Caxnon a man with much experience who had many adventures and asked her question wondering if he saw a creature such as the silver white in one of them.
Post by indigoyume on Nov 22, 2009 13:48:16 GMT -4
Kitty's world was full of broken memories: her mother lying dead on the floor; the smell of roasting flesh; broken glass; screams; laughs and horrid white eyes. As she slowly opened her eyes; the memories faded away, but her head still pounded. She glanced around, her eyes trying to become accustomed to the poor lighting. When her hand touched something solid she glanced up. Caxnon's eyes met hers.
'' It doesn't seem harmful. let's just see what it does, and let's try to keep a close eye on it'' Caxnon said to Reiho.
The gunblader suddenly touched his arm. He quickly looked at kitty, she still looked a bit weak. What were they going to do about the man who was being dragged away? He could go after them, but then he couldn't just leave kitty here.
'' You fainted, we have a problem right now. Hang on'' Caxnon said. He then picked up the girl and ran towards one of the buildings, he placed Kitty near one of them, then handed her two potions.
'' Rest and drink those'' added.
The gunblader then drew out his weapon and joined Reiho.
'' I'll go after the man, try and keep the heartless away from Kitty..can you handle it?'' Caxnon said to her.
The nameless Nobody just stood in front of Kitty, its song still echoing around them. Another Heartless pounced, and cinders lit up the air as it burned...
The Nobody looked to the crazy human who was falling away from the group and then looked to the group itself. The flute rose to its blank face, and a series of notes blew out. They resonated in the hearts (and voids) of those around it, and they sensed that it was confused. The notes themselves were jumbled and confused, and the "Nobody" looked to the man, then to the fallen girl. Even though it didn't hold the same conscious level of intellect as the humans, it was asking a question.
Post by indigoyume on Nov 22, 2009 17:43:48 GMT -4
Kitty drank the potions and sighed. Warmth rushed through her body, and she felt her strength returning to her. She stood up on shaky legs and unsheathed her sword. She sucked in a breath and waited for her legs to stop shaking before she said:
"Alright, let's try this again shall we?"
As she headed to rejoin her group, she paused and looked at the Nobody. The music wrapped around her soul and it warmed her blood. She felt like she could handle anything. When she opened her eyes, she slowly walked towards the Nobody and said in a gentle tone:
"It's alright. I'm not going to hurt you." Kitty let her sword fall to the ground. "Thank you for saving me. Can you tell me your name, please? I'd be delighted if you did. I'm Kitty Larkson, the illusionist. Who are you?"
Protect Kitty and let Caxnon go after the man? Sounds like a plan. Reiho continued prepared for combat in a defensive stance, no longer in case of the silver white attacking but to protect Kitty.
"A .. melody?" The air once more was filled with the sound of a flute, it's music resonating within the souls of those hearing it, and what Reiho sensed within the music was a hidden message. That silver white creature, it communicated through music.
She knew about the power of music, many tunes remind her of scenes of her past and all music carried with it a powerful emotional load. That emotionless creature expressed through his music the emotions he lacked.
The creature was asking about Kitty and the kidnapped man, or that's what Reiho thought the musical notes were telling her. However, there was no need to answer that question as the recently awakened girl recovered faster than expected from her state of weakness and the silver white creature seemed to be interested in the young illusionist.
A bond made of music and illusion ... somehow Kitty and the silver white creature made contact and were trying to understand each other. Maybe the silver white creature sensed a kindred soul within Kitty? Maybe Kitty felt in the silver white's music a soothing melody which reminded her about sweet memories of the past? Only they knew what were they feeling at that moment.
"Miss Kitty, Mister Silver White, stay in the back. I want to go with Caxnon" Said that, Reiho decided to trust in the silver white creature and went ahead to join Caxnon and save the hostage from the deranged man and those heartless attracted by that dark heart.
Caxnon wasn't sure about this Nobody, but he there wasn't anytime to have doubts. The gunblader sliced a heartless that tried to attack him, and quickly took several swings at hthe rest. All they had to do was kill the heartless then get the man back..simple right?
After a while the nobody was able to cut through the heartless.
'' Let's make this quick'' Caxnon said as he ran down the alley way that the man was in.
He wanted to get this over with as soon as possible. Partly because he was worried about Kitty, but the real reason was because he wanted to understand why that lesser Nobody was here.
Post by indigoyume on Nov 23, 2009 16:27:38 GMT -4
Kitty nodded at Reiho, but her eyes never left the Nobody's blank face. She felt a surge of courage, and she took a step forward. She could smell cinnamon and sugar--the scent of her long-dead mother, and she could hear her voice in her ear.
"Mama was a good person." Kitty said, and she had to shake away the tears that threatened to fall out of her eyes. "You're a good person, Nobody or not. I know that. Now, will you please tell me your name?"
Kitty focused her power into her hands and brought them to her lips in the imitation that she was holding a flute. She moved her fingers up and down, and a series of notes echoed throughout the room. She had to get the name out of the nobody and ask it what it knew about her mother. Her music was just a poor imitation, but the Nobody was real, and its music yanked at her soul.
