LABYRINTH

[animusmods]

Characters: Participants in the Labyrinth event
Setting: The Labyrinth
Format: Any; party style
Summary: Characters are told to fight to the death over eight days.
Warnings: violence/gore/horror; this is a free-for-all fight to the death after all

Labyrinth starting positions, events, ring colors, and other information.

SUBTHREADS:
Please specify your location in your header, and if the thread is open or closed.
Day One
Day Two
Day Three
Day Four
Day Five
Day Six
Day Seven
Day Eight

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[swordofzero]

"It's exactly the fact we are stuck in a corner that means we should fight against it." Hypocrisy? Maybe since Suzaku had spent years fighting for those who had invaded and oppressed his country, in an attempt to change them from the inside. But here there was no such thing, working with them would not convince them to send them back. They were elusive and cruel.

Suzaku had killed, he had killed millions of people under orders. But never for absolutely no reason and the fact they would just come back wasn't reassuring, it was insulting. That there lives, multiple lives, were worth nothing, could just be thrown away.

"Even if it's useless we can't take this without a fight, because then," he was shouting too, "what is the point of anything?"

If they just let themselves become things to be experimented on, to be killed and resurrected because they had given up...

It wasn't so much optimism as desperation.

[morituramfides]

"And what if we can't fight against it?!" God, he was so sick of these can-do attitudes. "There is no point in anything! You're just like those other self-righteous assholes, talking like you're working for some greater good or some big cause, but everyone's gonna die, and eventually no one'll even give a shit who you were or what you did."

Jin pushed himself off the wall, standing up as straight as he could with all of his aches and pains and the pounding in his head god his head hurt. "Sure, don't go down without a fight--"

And that was as far as he could get, cutting himself off with a grunt of pain. If he didn't let it out now, Moros would just force his way out and do his best to kill both of them. He brought the Evoker to his temple and pulled the trigger, releasing Moros in a shattering of blue light. Moros' body parts spun and released a blaze of fire on Suzaku, as Jin brought his hand up, half-holding the evoker and half pushing against his temple.

[swordofzero]

But everyone's gonna die, and eventually no one'll even give a shit who you were or what you did."

Jin didn't know how lucky he was that he could say things with such certainty. That he would be allowed to die, he would be allowed to be forgotten, to pass into obscurity and no one remember his name.

If the worlds weren't gone, if they managed to get back, then death wasn't something that would be granted to him. He had accepted that his punishment was to live on, unknown to everyone. Serving anonymously while the world would remember him for his crimes.

Still, despite accepting that, death and anonymity were a luxury, something out of Suzaku's grasp. He let out a bitter laugh and dived out the way of the fire. He was exhausted but he gripped his sickle, slashing out at the creature.

[morituramfides]

"Don't you fucking laugh at me--!" Jin was fully shouting at this point-- with Moros free he was loosing his grip even more, and all he could distinguish and feel right now were indignation and rage.

Moros moved through the air, away from the sickle. Its body was no longer spinning, and it reached forward with its hand, making a grab for Suzaku to try and crush him under its palm.

[swordofzero]

Suzaku ignored Jin, he hadn't really been laughing at him more at the entire messed up situation that had landed them in a labyrinth fighting to the death.

So Suzaku fought, because he had to. Because he couldn't die even if he wanted to and at this point the only other option was to fight back, to try and kill...

He brought his sickle up trying to block the hand that was descending on him, kicking out to try and kick the machine thing away from him.

[morituramfides]

Moros was stopped by the sickle, but it the kick it received from Suzaku didn't seem to bother it at all. Jin on the other hand-- he felt a minor pang of pain in the back of his head, but it was hardly anything compared to the throbbing headache and aching he was already experiencing, and all it served to do was piss Moros off even more.

Moros withdrew its hand and spun some more, this time unleashing a flurry of wind towards Suzaku.

[swordofzero]

Suzaku spared a glance for Jin but concentrated on the monster as it span. The wind took him by surprise and he went flying, crashing against one of the labyrinth walls. Gritting his teeth and gripping his sickle he struggled to his feet and rushed at Moros again, slashing at its side once more.

[morituramfides]

Moros took the full brunt of the sickle's attack, falling to the side a bit from the force. But beyond the force, Moros didn't seem to be terribly bothered by it; burdened yes, but not injured. Instead, Jin was the one who let out a grunt of pain, dropping his Evoker to the ground and grabbing his side with his remaining appendage.

"--Fuck!" He outcried mostly in hopes that it would make the pain subside. Once Moros has righted itself, it wound up again and brought down a bolt of electricity.

[swordofzero]

At Jin's cry Suzaku froze, realisation crashing down on him. Jin was feeling the pain of this monster. He let his sickle drop to his side, the only reason he had been fighting, despite not wishing to was because it hadn't been Jin he was fighting...

His eyes flashed red as he rolled out the way of the electricity and he stood still, not attacking this time. "I'm sorry..." he gasped as he hooked the sickle back onto his belt. He would not harm Jin, he had promised that he wouldn't, that he would get through this without hurting other prisoners.

He turned to face Moros once more.

[morituramfides]

His head was pounding, his vision was swimming, and about every part of his body was aching. If he wasn't such a mess, Jin might have had the sense to wonder and even ask what the hell was going through Suzaku's head when he returned his weapon, and even stay Moros himself. But right now all he noticed was that Suzaku had stopped-- he hadn't even caught whatever the guy had said-- and for some reason that just served to feed his paranoia.

"What...the hell are you doing?!" He continued shouting against his better judgment, Moros stopping for only a moment due to Jin's own confusion, before unleashing another fire spell.

[swordofzero]

Suzaku didn't answer the question, just dodged again, not before the fire had grazed himself. Fighting the Geass as much as he could, when the red faded from his eyes he faced Moros again, slower now, his side burned, pain.

But he could live with pain, "You didn't tell me..." He said through gritted teeth, "That you felt... this things... pain."

[morituramfides]

"This thing is me!" He yelled, releasing his grip on his side thanks to the new adrenaline rush and making a sweeping motion with his arm. Jin wasn't even trying to fight Moros at this point; and the Persona kept attacking, opting to return to a physical front and batting at Suzaku with its arm.

"This thing is my Persona-- a manifestation of my psyche that I can use to defend myself and attack and in case you didn't fucking notice one that I can't fucking control!!" There was an odd quality to his voice at the tail end of his outburst; it was almost as if Moros was talking at the same time, even though it had no mouth.

"He and I are a forecast of doom and all I want you to do now is rot and die."

[swordofzero]

That thing... was him... Suzaku was confused and wasn't even fighting back now, letting Moros knock him into the wall again. He couldn't control it? Well that was even less reason to fight it, if fighting it would only hurt him.

He pushed himself up from the wall and laughed, bitterly and emptily, "If only you could kill me, just by wanting to..."

[morituramfides]

"Oh will you shut up with your self-pitying bullshit?!"

Moros continued its physical assault as Jin winced at the mental strain; but how pissed he was at Suzaku plus the new adrenaline seemed to be able to help him at least keep Moros from using spells, though his speech was a bit slurred and starting to sound...unsound, even without the extra Persona reverb.

"You whine and bitch about all your fucking problems, and you don't realize there are people out there worse stuff going on than the inability to die. Get over yourself."

[swordofzero]

Suzaku just looked at him with eyes that held very little emotion. He slumped against the wall again as the creature hit him, crumbling under its blows but not fighting back because...

It was probably utterly stupid trying to grasp onto any reserves of humanity in this place but he had started this and what he had said he would stick to, he would not fight Jin. Jin who was sounding stranger, he couldn't control this thing...

"I know." Was all he said as he let Moros hit him again, the pain was bad but he deserved it and so it didn't matter.

[morituramfides]

"I said STOP THAT!" The passivity, the resignation was just pissing him off. Passive and mindless just like all of the other kids and all of the other people that you could find roaming Tatsumi Port at night.

"Just--augh--!"

Jin was angry enough to just let Moros keep going, he was beyond caring-- he just wanted this guy to go away so that Moros would stop and he could move on from this whole stupid situation--

"JUST GET OUT!"

Moros spun again, raising its hand not to strike at Suzaku, but to release a volley of what seemed to be arrows made out of thing air.

[swordofzero]

Suzaku glared at Jin again, making a sound of pain as one of the arrows hit him in his shoulder. His eyes flashed red as his Geass kicked in and he dodged the rest of the arrows, running round the corner, not being able to stop until he was a safe distance from Jin and Moros. He slumped against the wall, dizzy from pain. That... had not gone well...