towerofanimus | Another Loss...

Characters: Hei and OPEN
Setting: Graveyard and Gym
When: April 10th
Format: Prose, but I can do either or.
Summary: Hei is dealing with the loss of Elena in his own way.
Rating: angst, punching the punching bag hard, etc.

[Graveyard]

He hoped after the loss of Lucy, he would never have to come here again. Yet as the body count kept rising, or vanishing in this case, he kept coming here. Minako, Amber, Reno, and now even Elena. No one was being spared, and it frustrated Hei. Even more frustrating was that he could not do a single damn thing but this one simple act. Thus he was here, setting flowers on Elena's tombstone.

"I received your note," he spoke, eyes downcast. "Not sure why out of all the people for this, you chose me for it, but...I'll do my best to keep them safe."

There were no tears, simply sadness hidden by the calmness in his voice. It was already hard enough not to just do something though...

[Gym]

And that anger was hardly being held in check. Wearing only a tanktop, body nearly drenched in sweat, he had been working out the rest of the day. Right now, he was punching and kicking the sandbag, blows fast and hard, not letting up and moving near unpredictably. If it were a human body, bones would probably be broken right now.

And it doesn't take long for it to break, Hei's last punch shattering it. Still, if one looked closely, they would see his hand covered with gravel, earth from the materia he used. With a sigh, he walks away, going to grab another and set it up. Didn't take long before he went back to work, earth from his hand fading at the same time. He couldn't break them all after all.

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No, it doesn't. No matter what has happened, Kirika never wanted to forget. To forget was something worst than her own sinful self.

"Someone's gone?" Was the only explanation she could think of. She didn't want to pry Hei but once again curious lead to her asking. In the meantime, now that Hei paused his punching she would use the time to walk up to him with a cup of water.

"Elena," he answered softly, taking the cup. He stares a bit before drinking it, feeling a bit better.

"The magic I used just now. She was responsible for giving it to me. It even helped against my Shadow last year."

Without that magic, his life might have been cut short.

Materia came into mind when Hei mentioned the magic. Even Kirika wasn't sure how it worked but it has helped saved him no doubt. Has Kirika herself learned something from the people she met? She hasn't thought about it.

Kirika closed her eyes for a moment with the thought of her own existence. No matter how many times she tried to deny her existence as if it was nothing, Hei's face flashed in her mind. It was proven when she appeared in the tower. Hei's facial expression, deluded and lost. In the end, he would get hurt because of her. Each time someone vanished reminded her of the truth.

After a moment in thought, Kirika opened her eyes again. "Even if a person vanishes from your life, they should never be forgotten. She taught you something, right?"

Kirika bit her lip to pause herself for a moment, then looked away and continued, "even a person like me..." Yes, someone like her could vanish too.

That's when he couldn't hold it in, falling to his knees and embracing Kirika. Tears were already down his face. No, he couldn't lose her too. Not Kirika, not his sister! She was the most important person to him within this tower, and refused to allow her to die or just be a toy for Ruana. He lost Lucy five times, he lost Raven, Minako, Harry, Elena, and more, nearly the entire facility.

To lose it all frightened him more than anything, and not even he could hold it back.

"I'm not going to lose you," he spoke as calmly as he could. "I lost so much already, and I refuse to lose my sister again."

You think she would be used to this already, to be close in the arms she cared for the most. Even if she could muster some false words, she couldn't say them out loud. Kirika was no liar. In truth, she didn't want to loose anyone even if it meant for her selfishness. But Hei's word did made her smile, there would be someone to remember her even if she was gone.

"Thanks Hei," she spoke calmly as she could as well. "Try not to leave, okay?"

"I'll try."

It's all he could do, to help protect her and everyone else. He couldn't do it forever, but he would try at least. He owed it to Lucy. He owed it to his friends. And he owed all the pain this tower healed to Kirika.

"If there's one good thing this tower did, is bring you back to me."

Even Hell could be peaceful at times. No matter how many times she heard it from him, it brought her smile again. Not only the tower brought them together, but the tower proved another thing, this Kirika had her own soul. That was enough to prove her own existence. Kirika nodded to that agreement.

"Hei, if we could leave here, where would you go?"

That surprised him. Where he would go?

"Well, I hadn't really thought about that exactly," he answered honestly. "At first I considered the facility to help the others, but odds are they wouldn't need it, so I also considered the world Elena came from, to take up her offer."

Elena's world. At least Hei looked at something positive. She wasn't sure where she'd go. The facility was the last thing in her mind. Anywhere with Hei was fine with her.

"What's her world like?"

"I imagine its dangerous, but they seem more accepting of people like me and Lucy."

He hadn't even heard that much about it. A gamble, but Hei couldn't return to the original Hei's world. There would just be confusion on top of confusion.

It seemed more promising than the world Hei should be. Although Kirika herself wasn't sure if the world of Kirika's was a place for her, not after what she has witnessed from the places she came from. A world so plain, it would miss something. How Hei talked about it, it made her smile.

"Dangerous seems to adapt easily," Kirika commented in a good way.

"Danger is bound to come in one form or another. Might as well take the one with the best possibility to ensure a good life."

She smiles at that in agreement. Already she's remembering the world of Kirika's, a world not engulfed in magic or strange beasts. A 'normal' world in her own view.

He pats her head, getting onto his feet. "For now, let's just try to go on. I should probably be making food for the others with whatever is hunted."

Another Loss...

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