towerofanimus

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Characters: Jin Uzuki (AU2

wasjustascratch) and OPEN
Setting: Room 1-16, Floor 12, Floor 3 library
Format: starting prose but with change
Summary: Jin is new in the tower and explores
Warnings: Angry sister alert?

Room 1-16

Waking in this room, unable to move. For a moment, Jin thought he was dead again but once he died again, he couldn’t come back… could he? It reminded him of when Wihelm had first appeared to him and offered this chance to him, the chance to become a Testament and help him, help Shion. He’d leapt at it. But Wilhelm wasn’t here. He confirmed that when he found his body under his control and sat up, looking confused over his garment and the collar. A collar he attempted to remove before eyeing the letters.

Letter that ended up in a crumbled mess on the floor before burning with from a fire ether. He typically didn’t use fire ethers but this was fitting. So very fitting. He couldn’t believe it. How could he still live if the universe was destroyed? It was ridiculous. Save someone more worth saving. Like Shion…

Going to his trunk, he changed quickly into a black suit and long jacket sans the gloves. A moment later, he quickly hung his katana in his belt after a quick inspection to ensure that it wasn’t damaged. And then he left. For now he was just a regular man exploring the tower, not a Testament.

Floor 12

Jin found himself simply standing on this floor, looking at the stars as they die, watching color vanish and lights explode from dying planets. Studying the phenomenon. He didn’t expect the Lower Domains collapse to be anything like that. Imagining it as death in an instant, everything and everyone ceasing to exist in the same moment. Not even the time to wonder what was happening.

Floor 3

Well now, this was a place he could be comfortable. He’d often browsed through his grandfathers old collection of printed books. Jin had, oddly, always found the past far more interesting that anything his own time had to offer. His family found it strange. He didn’t change anything for them but he didn’t let himself become lost in the past, that was the difference they never seemed to comprehend.

Now he was comfortably seated in the library with several books around him and one opened on his lap, already about a third of the way through it.

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He'd never played it but some of his studying into the past had revealed the game concept to him. He was sure chaos, of all people, would have understood it. And he was glad to be right, it made the subject of dying slightly more bearable.

"I guess the Jin you know wasn't quite so careless as I had been. You're right though, I did. He made me an offer I couldn't refuse." Shion was in danger. He had to save her.

"Perhaps..but whether he was or was not, that is what happened to you. I suppose it's a little sad..but even though you're in a different form and from a different universe, it is good to see you. I don't know what our relationship was like in your universe..but if it's possible, I would like to be friends with you, ignoring any personal business that we may have to deal with down the road."

After all, he had managed to be friends with the Allen here. It may be possible to be friends with this Jin too.

"We helped each other on Miltia, that was the first and last time we actually interacted. Though I'm sure you knew whenever I visited the Elsa to check on Shion."

He smiled, just a bit. He can't help but feel a pang of regret in his chest at the idea of being friends with chaos. It sounded as though they had been so in the universe that chaos knew.

"I wouldn't object."

chaos nodded. "In my universe, that was the only time we interacted, as far as I know. However, we may have interacted more in the future. And I probably did know, in your universe. I would not have mentioned it though."

chaos returned the smile. "I am glad to hear that. I know it may be rather awkward..but hopefully we can be good friends. I'll help you out whenever I can..if you'll even need my help."

"Whether or not your my chaos, I appreciate that."

Caring for Shion when she was unconscious was one of the only things he could do for her after Miltia.

"I'm sure that I will." HELP ME HIDE FROM SHION. "And you can call on me if you need anything, of course."

"Well, if you will, you can always turn to me." chaos smiled. He'd help hide him from Shion..the girl was pretty emotionally distressed right now. Seeing the Allen here might hurt her, not to mention this version of her brother. It would tear her apart.

"I will. Hopefully I won't have to call on you too often, but I will if I have to."

That need for help might come sooner than either of them could have thought. Jin hates seeing his sister hurt or being one of the people to hurt her.

"As will I." Perhaps not asking help for him personally. He'd place Shion ahead in priorities.

Not that chaos would object to protecting Shion. He would do that even if Jin didn't ask. While Shion didn't remember, chaos couldn't forget the things they had been through in the past when she was Mary's Maid. chaos nodded.

"I am glad to hear that. Now..as for helping you, I suppose I could start by telling you about this Tower. How much do you know about it already?"

He'd still ask because it's Shion. He knows chaos would protect her though, even though they hardly know each other.

"Very little. Only that those that brought us here claim to have saved us."

chaos nodded. "And, obviously, those claims are false. Otherwise, I would not be here to talk to you or worry about you. However, I shall give you what I have managed to figure out.

This Tower is called Animus. As far as I know, it is run by four people: Dax, who seems like a kind man and acts as PR, Riki, who is in charge of the records and is very secretive, Jason, who is responsible fore the current temperature drop, and Ruana, who acts childlike, but is thousands of years old and seems to want friends.

She and Jason both put the residents through horrible experiments and tortures. Not even children are spared. I do not know why Jason does it, but Ruana seems to think that it is all a game for people to have fun with.

Monsters roam the hallways at night. You should not have any problems with them, but being aware of them is better than not being aware. And that, sadly, is all I know."

"Not even children? Disgusting!"

He can't help but imagine little Shion, as she was on Old Miltia, getting stuck here. He knows that she's not that young here in the tower but the thought gets in there.

"We can't allow them to hurt people senselessly. What we can do though... I have no idea."

And that was something Jin didn't like most of all. A lack of power of their part.

"I'm not happy knowing that they put children into their twisted games either. However, no one knows where they are holed up for the moment, and it is impossible to plan without them knowing about it."

chaos sighed. "However..I have gotten an idea that may help. I shall have to wait until next month to see if that idea will hold any water though. So..until then, we shall just have to hold out as best we can."

While helping others, of course. But for chaos, that went without saying.

Edited 2012-12-06 05:03 (UTC)

"Almost like Wilhelm." Sighing and pinching the bridge of his nose in irritation. Jin suddenly felt the need to blow off some steam and preferably somewhere that nobody would bother him. Or rather, somewhere that he wouldn't bother others.

"If you need any help, I will make myself available."

And that sentence stung. chaos looked a little bit more melancholy than he did a moment before.

"I am sorry..I don't like talking around it and hiding it any more than you do. But..if the Administrators are monitoring us, then speaking openly about it will only give them an edge over us, even on an unfinished plan. And there are no lemons around, and I am not quite familiar with the chemicals in the research lab, so I cannot send secret messages to people. I do not enjoy this at all though."

chaos sighed and nodded. "Thank you..and the same goes for you as well."

"No, it's alright. I understand. I'm afraid I won't be any help in finding a way to pass along secret messages. I imagine even telepathy isn't safe either."

That's a rather disturbing thought, actually. Even thoughts having a danger to them. Although, if they weren't safe, then there was no safe way of doing anything.

"You're welcome, chaos."

"Actually..I think telepathy might be the only form of communication that they can't monitor. However, since so few people can communicate like that, it makes it hard to use it as an alternative communication tool."

After all, if they could read minds, they would have stopped that group from even planning their attack on the drones. And they would have nipped his idea in the bud as well. chaos smiled at the welcome, but said nothing more about it.

"It does, yes. It would be one of the few ways to keep anything quiet that you might plan. Even if others can't respond to you in the same way."

If only they had been able to. Alas, it was no meant to be. ~~Wilhelm probably knew.~~

Wilhelm, for better or worse, knows all. The eye of Wilhelm sees all.

"However, if the other person could hear you and respond, if their response was easy to see through, even with codes, the Administrators would know about what you were planning. It really is quite a bother."

"They wouldn't have to say anything out loud though, or speak in code. Just make sure that they heard you. I'm sure you'll figure something out that will work though. You haven't been around this long without learning a thing or two, after all."

"That is true. Just simple nods or the following of commands would be enough. I shall figure out something after awhile. If I was able to survive a similar situation in the past, I can help others survive it now. I just need to adapt my strategies a little bit."

After all, chaos had evaded Wilhelm, and even though his friends had been killed, some had survived. He could survive this with the other residents too. It wasn't like he was giving up..just thinking over the situation.

And that was quite impressive, since Wilhelm had eyes just about everywhere in any given time period. So there were no doubts in Jin's mind that chaos could figure something out. Hopefully Wilhelm wouldn't make Jin interfere but he didn't see why he would.

"And that will take time, learning things here."

Wilhelm probably wouldn't make Jin or Allen interfere, but if he did, chaos wouldn't hold it against them. He understood how it worked. chaos smiled and nodded.

"A little bit of time, but I have been here a little while. I have been able to find out quite a few things, and the things I don't know shan't remain hidden for long. Even if I make a small mistake here and there, I'll find out a way to get by them."

"Well, nobody is perfect. I wish you the best of luck, chaos. I know you'll find something out, find something to do."

Maybe Jin and Allen could resist. This wasn't their Wilhelm after all.

"Right. That is why I say that we all need a little help sometimes. You need it, I need it, everyone does. And..thank you, Jin. We'll both find something out, some way to get by the Administrators."

If they wanted to resist, chaos would gladly help them in that area as well.

"We will, yes."

Hopefully soon. Not that it would matter much for Jin, so close to the end as he was. If everything went back to normal when they escaped, there would be maybe an hour or two before Shion activated Zarathustra.

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