Reborn or Rejuvenated?

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(Only join if you can be patient, just ask someone why you need to be if you don't already know.)

Seed's apartment had been raided. Every dresser emptied, his bed flipped over, all in a search for....well whatever could be found. The town had heard whispers of his disappearance and leaving the town but did not believe it until it had been over a month. They jumped on the chance to ransack his place to find whatever they could. But surprise, surprise, Seed put a fail safe in his air vent upon his leave. If the device inside had not picked up a trace of his dark energy from any possible place, it was programmed to release a very poisonous gas once the door had been opened or another energy source had entered by other means.

So people may have found objects and papers with plans and locations but on them. But everything was a fake that only Seed knew where the originals were located, and besides. Everyone who stepped foot in or in his building is either dead or is about to.

"Man! I get absorbed by the realm of Darkness to get my strength and powers a boost and they destroy my place?! Hatters.." Seed mumbled to himself as he emerged from his dark portal looking slightly older and more mature. Being stuck in eternal darkness can be one hell of a vacation if you're a Heartless. The older, but still psychotic Heartless shook his head and began to clean up his place. Well he began to, got bored, shut off the poison device (which stopped the instant Seed's energy flickered in the realm of Darkness) and flew out the building with his magic.

He wandered the streets with the civilians giving him strange looks. He just shrugged it off and kept going, he had TONS of stuff to catch up on. And Elaeus was not going to be happy. Not. One. Bit.

[shinjihirako]

(Salut Seed)

Seth floated upside down nothing supporting him but the wind itself. He had a bit of fun but not much had happened today. The wind was his master in his current state and would remain so lest he switch, and in mid-air that would end badly. Opening an eye he saw some of the townspeople seemed on edge, as if something was amiss. Floating closer to the ground he looked over them.

Seeing nothing amiss he was about to return to resting when he saw a man with green hair that by the civilians looks was the cause of formentioned edginess. Positioning himself nearly upside down he let out a large burst of wind behind him and as he rocketed himself towards the ground he let out a burst of wind at the ground to slow him down as he righted himself and shifted himself upright as he landed. The occuring effect was a large gust of wind going off in all directions.

"God do I love doing that, so tell me newcomer, why are all the others so afraid of just you?" Seth's voice held a joyous tone and his face was graced with a smile. Human, heartless, or nobody he cared not which the man was. The only thing that mattered was if he was a threat to Samael or Darkun.

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Seed's ears perked when he heard a gust of wind behind him. He moved his head slightly to his left to see a person flying towards him, most likely using wind magic. Seed chuckled at that, normally he would have been able to sense a wind disturbance nearby. He had been using the element so long it sorta became his way of detecting people, guess he was jsut having an off day then. Even as the unknown man came to a halt and a large gust of wind blew over Seeds long(er) green hair, though Seed himself was not at all effected by the wind gust, he let out is signature bored sigh and asked,

"Are you quite done? Or do you plan to annoy me further? And first off, to answer youre painfully obvious question, the reason they run is because they're scared of me. Been running this place for so long now I hardly notice it anymore. But I guess my recent departure has caused some false rumors and hope to float around unchecked. A bit of damage control is needed..."

Without even saying goodbye Seed began to walk away, even if he had matured in teh realm of Darkness, nothing would get rid of his urge, his wanting, his need for causing chaos in Twilight Town when he was bored. And several months locked away in Darkness can make one very edgey indeed. But Seed did want to leave a parting gift, he reached into his pocket and pulled out an illusion covered bomb ( the illusion was simply a gift wraped box...with a ticking sound). He tossed it over his shoulder to Seth and said, "Sorry to leave with a short fuse. But I really must leave with a bang. Hahahahehehehe!!" Seed's laughter still shook to towns people nearby to their very core.

[shinjihirako]

Such rudeness, did the man possess no etiquette or formality. As he started to walk off he threw a small package behind him as if he were apologizing for something. Seth narrowed his eyes and an updraft of wind suddenly came from under the gift as it was sent into the air. Quickly pulling out his revolver he pushed at the box from all sides with the wind to keep it in place as he fired at the parcel causing an explosion in the sky.

"Sorry but my mother taught me to never accept presents from strangers." A smile was plastered onto Seth's face at his remark. Such fun already, he wondered how much he could gain from him. Seth started gliding again as he floated behind the man. "You're quite like me when it comes to having fun no matter the cost. Tell me are explosions your only export or do you do other things?" Seth was almost acting like a giddy child at the moment. Though the other three were rather irritated at the man for trying to take away their life Ventulus didn't seem to mind.

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Seed only scoffed at the man as he blew away his ill-received gift. Such rudeness to deny a gift, even if it was going to blow up in your face and kill you. So Seed kept his stroll and smirked at the sense of the man from before now floating behind him, normally people run away from someone who was trying to kill you, well not so much these days but at least the man was persistent. A wrinkle in the Space continuum emitted from the green haired Heartless and what was not walking was an elaborate hoax of Seed and the real one was cloaked under another illusion floating nearby. He covered his scent by using the wind to simply pass over and around him.

”So, you wish to follow me around. Doesn’t bother me as much as it will bother the town’s people. They know what happens when I’m bothered. I either kill off what is bothering me and then go and kill them to calm down. OR,” the fake Seed let the word hang in the air as a whistling sound filled the air as the real Seed pushed air around Seth to try and knock him off balance. Then he made himself visible and struck out with his wooden bo-staff in hand. But Seed knew better then to attack a fellow wind user with just the Aero element alone, fire was thrown into the mix as the whistling sound grew and the wind that was passing through around Seth now caught fire and tried to wrap its deadly flame around him.

[shinjihirako]

”So, you wish to follow me around. Doesn’t bother me as much as it will bother the town’s people. They know what happens when I’m bothered. I either kill off what is bothering me and then go and kill them to calm down. OR,”

As he spoke he felt the wind suddenly push around him but he stayed in place knowing the wind wouldn't hurt him. After all an Elemental was protected from the element they held most dear. What he did not expect was the sudden strike of the bo-staff and the flames that surrounded him afterwards. Seth sighed bringing up the revolver, that he still hadn't holstered, to block the strike of the bo-staff between the barrel and trigger. Seeming to do nothing about the flames they surrounded him and coated him in the burning heat but the hand remained in place. Stretching out his other hand the flames and wind circled around his palm as his face was shown with a look that could kill and his hair and eyes were colored tan.

"Soooo, you wish to play that game huh? FINE!" With that said Seth now half-shifted between wind and flame swung his arm with the ball of flame and wind in his direction with it leaving a trail of 3 meters outward intent on killing him. It may have killed an innocent or two but why should he have cared? This man was a threat to Samael and Darkun and would have to be dealt with as such. And not checking to see if he had survived he reformed an orb of flame and wind and tossed it in the air before jumping high in the air using the wind as propulsion to kick the orb towards the man's original position creating a spiral of wind and flame approximately a meter in diameter to rocket upward.

As he landed again Seth muttered but two words. "Flare Tempest..." This was Seth's true strength. Seth smirked almost evilly from his destruction that had torched and even melted some of the ground.

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A smile crept across Seed’s face as his staff got jammed in the revolver of Seth’s gun. So his suspicion was right after all, this man was a seasoned fighter. Good. But what Seed did not expect was what happened next, the man gathered the wind and fire and formed it into a weapon. The fire melded with the wind and swept across to area towards Seed, but this attack left the man open to flaws. Seed took advantage of this and another wrinkle in the Space continuum flooded out of the Heartless and Seed was gone and a fake left in his place. But with the heat and wind flying around him, Seed couldn’t transport himself far, only a couple meters away. The wind/fire attack swept across the fake Seed and the illusion vanished and an innocent man was decapitated by the burst but who cares. Seed prepared himself for a counter attack but before he could begin, the man was flying in the air and fired a ball of wind and fire and created a fire tornado.

”Oh come on, that is too cliché. Can’t anyone use a unique form of magic? Like so..” Seed laughed as he pulled out three normal grenades, pulled their pins, and tossed them into the fire vortex. The fire instantly made them explode and the occurring reaction snuffed the oxygen in the small vortex and displaced the wind. Simple reasoning; fire needs oxygen to burn, an explosion of any kind inside a fire will cause the oxygen in that area to burn out thus making the fire burning no more. Since the wind magic took the place of the oxygen, the explosion also made snuffed it out too. Better to waste three grenades then be burned to a crisp. To protect himself from the flying shrapnel, Seed used his minor earth manipulation to make a wall in front of him. He lowered it and saw that Seth was still alive, that’s good…kinda.

”Well. You’re more than meets the eye huh? Let me ask ya something; are you familiar with a group called Organization XIII or a man by the name of Marluxia?” Seed began to walk to Seth with an illusionary white flag to single he wanted to talk now. Seed knew power when he saw it and this man before him could be useful to him. If he could convince the man to aid him, Seed wouldn’t tell Elaeus for awhile. Since he is still M.I.A, he could get some of his own goals on the move.

”If you are familiar with any of the two, you and I might have to a little talk. Cause I know a strong person when I see one, and you might be able to do more with your life than you currently are.”

[shinjihirako]

Seth looked generally displeased at the tornado of flames disappearing from the explosion of the grenades. This man was definitely smarter than he looked or would be given credit for from his chaotic nature. With a sudden click in his mind he muttered "Time's up" before his tan hair and eyes changed back to the pale green. "Seems we'll have to practice that some more before we can stay in it longer." He looked around the area and saw the decapitated man but thought nothing of it, it was the mans fault for not fleeing while he could, besides one less human in the universe wouldn't account for much.

So the man had survived, and with no mark or anything, oh well he had kinda gone wild and fought blindly. Future note, anger plus need for fun/chaos equals un-pleasing result. The man was waving a white banner to show he wanted to speak. "Marluxia... were have I heard that name before. Oh yeah, he was the man that helped Samael. So yeah I've heard of him, why he your friend or something. As for Organization XIII, can't say I have. I'm not much for peace talks so I'll allow the guy that is to speak." With that said the wind started to whip up around Seth as he closed his eyes while his hair lengthened and changed to a deep blue and as he opened his eyes they changed to an almost clear blue.

"So you wish to speak, then speak. We are already doing what we wish to with our life, protecting our friends. Which I will say now, if you make any threat towards them or try to bring harm to them, I will rip you limb from limb, understand?" Aquais at first had a mildly cheerful tone but that ended halfway through and was replaced with a voice of biting frost. As he spoke he took the reloader of the gun out and reached into his back pocket taking out two .45 rounds and pulled out the used rounds before reloading it and then re-attatched the barrel and locking it in place before holstering the revolver once more.

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Another smile creped over Seed as the man saw his “flag” and wanted to speak as well. Seed put the flag away and listened to the man as he changed to another person all together. Seemingly the man before Seed was the diplomat as it could be called. Blue hair, blue eyes, water user by the look of it.

”Oh yes I know Marluxia good and well, Ex-Organization Number 11, once called the Graceful Assassin by some. However, I know of no Samael or how he and Marluxia are connected. But I am no friend of that Nobody, more of a “Boss” if will.”

Seed thought of all he knew of Marluxia. He as a Nobody obviously, but what was he really? Master nature control, advance knowledge of Botany and Biology by the sound of things, even more advanced vernacular, clever mind, strong…very strong. Very charismatic as well, given Marluxia has been able to gather up a group of followers even two Keybearers. Not a wise man to cross if you were dumb enough to anyway. What worried Seed the most about this man is his charisma. If he could turn a Keybearer to join is cause, and not just one but two, who else had he gotten involved? Sora? Riku? The Committee? Only time would be able to tell, but Seed would be on pins and needles until then.

Seed continued to speak as he paced back with his arms folded and continued speaking, with more seriousness and admiration, ”Well if you think protecting your friends and having fun is all there is to life than good for you. But have you ever considered there is more going on than meets the eye? Have you ever considered that a war is going on between the Nobodies, Humans, and Heartless? The Heartless are in control as of the moment but those Nobodies have shown that they are more than capable to extract on-the-spot plans. Which is why I am here of sorts.”

Seed stopped pacing and looked at Seth dead in the eye and spoke in a whole new tone, ”I want to make you an offer, to protect your friends from the volition of the Nobodies. I want you to join a group called the Dark XII. It is a group of Heartless like me made of twelve main members and the associates. I myself was the first outside of the original twelve to join them. And they saw fit to allow me to seek out people who can help the cause to destroy the Nobodies, save for Marluxia if he keeps his word.”

Seed snapped his fingers and two dark portals opened up, one to his right and one to his left. He took a step foreword and offered Seth a choice, ”If you wish to know more before you make your choice, enter the portal on your right. If you wish to dive head first into the war, take the one on your left. Or…” Seed let his voice drift off before he turned his back to Seth and continued, ”For safety reasons for you and me alike, along with your friends. If you choose not to and simply walk away from me…I will have to altar your memory. It won’t be pretty and it may not even work. So I advise you chose carefully. For your sake and your friends, but to not take it as a threat to them. I am simply saying what could happen.

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"I would leave those damnable humans to their petty war, though Samael may not agree with me completely I wish all humans to be eradicated for their treatment of my kind. And it is Ventulus that wants to have fun more than any of us, though we all want to be able to go back to Solace to free the rest of our kind." Seth's voice was once more spiteful thinking back about Solace. It did not matter what he knew of him or where he came from though, perhaps he'd even be a useful to help complete his goal.

"So you want me to join an organization I know nothing about other than the fact they consists of Heartless and want the Nobodies destroyed and are looking for others to help destroy them? Even you must realize that offer sounds horrible." Seth spoke calmly again and even chuckled slightly after speaking. It was what he said after that ended his smile.

"Even if you don't want to sound it like a threat it still is... I would like to know more about what I'm getting into before I choose my decision. If I see it as the right course of action I will help. If not then I would have my memory erased even if it painful it will be no more painful than what I've experienced before. So what exactly are these portals and where do they lead? Seth spoke calmly even though he knew that there could be severe reprecussions.

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Seed was now rather intrigued by what this man said, by the sounds of it Seth or whatever he is calling himself now is not a human. But he isn’t a Heartless or Nobody nor is he a shape shifter. Viola! It finally donned upon Seed, he was an elemental. That would explain the personality issues. Seed read in one of Elaeus’ books that an elemental can sometimes develop personalities to match each power they control and over time can control the personalities themselves. This boy must be stronger, not my much Seed assumes, than he looks. How…..interesting.

”Well your dislike for humans does not go unheard, the organization I speak of is indeed made of Heartless, but of Humans willing to help the cause. Like this man named Maverick, he was, by the sound of it, treated like you were. He has a very unique ability to control his skeletal structure and use it as a weapon. His village on the world he grew up in banished him and treated him like an animal. His own mother gave him up so she could be accepted by the others. Does that sound fair? No it doesn’t. He chose to give up a piece of his humanity to make sure no one else gets hurt because they’re different.”

Seed looked at the portals to the sides of him and redirected to where they went, not a hard thing to do, but annoying. The one on the left leads to a battleground while the one on the right lead to the truth. How ironic really, Seed never had a choice in this, he was always apart of it. The image of Seth flickered, in Seeds eyes, as himself a year ago with his battle with Elaeus and his acceptance into the XII. Seed chuckled and turned his attention back to Seth and explained.

”These portals you see are made of pure darkness. They can be made by a powerful Heartless or Nobody and a human or humanlike being that has darkness in their heart. They can lead to wherever the user likes, Traverse Town, here, Radiant Garden, and so and so forth. But to those who cannot control it, it leads them to where they NEED to go. Let’s say an orphaned child is being chased by a murderer and finds it in their hearts to open to any form of escape, the portal will open and get them away and bring them to someone who can help. Like I am doing for you, trying to help you learn the truth about the worlds. The one on the left leads to a world called The World That Never Was, and the one on the right leads to a world called Halloween Town. If you still wish to chose, now is the time.”

[shinjihirako]

"The World That Never Was..." The name held a mysterious feel to it. A sense of wonderment, and though Aquaius was still skeptical Ventus was dying to choose it.

"Fine... I will choose to act, whatever truth there is to show wouldn't offset how i feel anyway. Alls I know is that if I can have vengeance for my kind, I'll follow that path." The frost was coming again and the moisture in the air froze slightly causing small bits of ice to fall to the ground. Finally noticing the body though Aquaius snapped his fingers as the body was frozen solid before it disappeared in tiny little shards.

Aquaius walked towards the portal of darkness on the left the frozen heart set firmly in his chest. "Remember this Seed, if you attempt to harm either of my friends in any way, I'll kill you." With that said Aquaius stepped straight through.

(I am incredibly sorry for all of this Seed. Just show me the next thread that has to be made.)