towerofanimus | Don't make a sound...

Characters: Luke and everyone~
Setting: All around the Tower, any day from Sunday to Wednesday.
Format: Starting action, will match you.
Summary: Luke died and came back wrong. Now heaven forbid you make a sound...
Warnings: Potential character death.

[Luke died.]

[It took him some time to realize that was the case after he woke up in his room, even though he had intentionally confronted Yu with the knowledge he was going to die. By the time he could move, his head felt impossibly heavy, to the point where he couldn't even really lift it right. Feeling around gave him the answer why: his helmet had swollen to a ridiculous size. If that wasn't bad enough, every little sound was making him jump, wanted to follow after it...]

[On every day from Sunday to Wednesday, Luke is going to be wandering around the Tower, pursuing every little sound he comes across. Make a noise? Yeah, he'll be there. Look threatening? He can attack with that noise you just made.]

[Good luck with that, especially since all sound made comes in distorted for him. Memories of pods? Yeah, that's enough to drive anyone a little crazy. He'll be at his most dangerous on Wednesday, but if you're lucky you might get enough sanity out of him to get some candy.]

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[There was something wrong with Saber. Anyone in the Tower that knew her would easily be able to tell from the full plate armor with glowing red lines and her expression (maid headdress still on), that something was wrong with her. Had she died and come back wrong?

Oh, no, Saber was still very much in the candy hunt. But something terrible had happened a few days prior. Something that had caused her to survive instead of another.

She hadn't gone looking for Luke, but the way her sword was already brandished, no longer hidden by the Invisible Wind, did not bode well for him.]

[It didn't matter that she didn't come looking for him; with all the clanking that armor made, Luke couldn't help but be drawn to the noise she was making. Still, it wasn't helpful for him; every little creak and clang hurt, to the point where he felt like he was going to go insane from all the noise.]

[He let out a pained cry, gathering those particles of sound to blast at her, trying to get her to stop.]

[Driven by her Instinct skill, Saber -knew- the attack was coming, feeling it close in on her, even though it was sound and not something that most would be able to predict. She pivoted and stepped to the side to let the blast go right past her.

There she stopped and her gaze bore even more into Luke. She flipped her sword around, holding it in one hand with the blade pointing behind her. The black knight then raised her other hand out before her and beckoned Luke to come at her.]

[Creak, creak, creeeeeeak.]

[The noise, the noise, the noise, the noise. Every little movement she made resulted in noise, and it was driving him mad. Little blasts around Saber went off as he clutched at his head. Dammit, dammit, dammit; Saber, stop moving.]

[Unfortunately, Saber did not know about what was ailing him. To be honest, in her state of mind, she might not have cared if she knew.

The black knight waited a moment longer, eyes shifting from side to side as she tracked those blasts, then began to advance steadily upon him. She wasn't hurrying, but she was not hesitating.]

[Oh god, the noise, the noise... he couldn't stand it!]

STOP IT!

[...but his scream came out as distorted as what he was hearing, and all he could really do was respond with more blasts of hyperresonance.]

[Saber didn't stop her advancement, but her upper body did jerk at one particular blast. A cut opened up under her eye and blood trickled down.

She paused then, within sword range of Luke, and narrowed her eyes. Still, she kept her blade reversed, but she spoke.]

You have become an abomination like her.

[She meant to kill him.]

[Not only would she not stop making noise, but she was going to kill him as well. He already died once; he knew it happened, though he couldn't quite remember how thanks to Yu and his powers. But he had died, and she intended for him to die again.]

[He wasn't going to stand for that.]

[With a blood curdling cry, every bit of sound seemed to gather at one point in front of him, just daring Saber to try and avoid the blast that was to come.]

[She meant to end the existence of the abomination before her with the thought that death would lead to Luke reviving as himself. The fact that she currently lacked compassion made it easy.

And dare Luke might as he built up his attack, but dodging the blast would be unnecessary in Saber's eyes. Quickly - inhuman with its speed - Excalibur came up with a single sure cut as the knight intended to take Luke's head off in one strike.]

Don't make a sound...

Floor eleven - Monday

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