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towerofanimus2013-10-03 10:44 pm
warriorscribe) wrote in towerofanimus2013-10-03 10:44 pm
Put an End to This False World
Characters: Enoch and wide open
Setting: Graveyard, morning, slightly forward-dated to when the drops in question are processed.
Format: I'm starting in prose but it doesn't matter.
Summary: A small handful of names show up in the graveyard, and they prove there just might be a right way to break.
Warnings: Hostility will be met with violence right now.
Enoch didn't know how he'd let the graveyard's significance die. He didn't know how the names on the headstones had become a blur. He didn't know how he'd become numb to this job that was once so painful. He even missed Yu's headstone until the moment it came into abrupt clarity for no apparent reason. While he wondered how he could have missed it, wished him and his guardian strength, another nearby caught his eye. He could swear his heart stopped for a moment.
He walked swiftly through the row of tombstones, turning for another pass, in disbelief.
Tohko Amano.
Raphael.
Yotsuba Koiwai.
Tohko. She'd been getting on his nerves and Lucifel's both lately, but she only ever meant the best. He'd never finished writing her his story. At least, books did not crumble on the destroyed worlds. She may not need to eat but she could take comfort in her stories.
Raphael. The first person he recognized from home. Someone he'd been able to confide his suspicion in. Trapped on a dead world with a dead God.
Yotsuba. Such a bright light in such a hostile place. Like so many children before her she'd endeared herself to him immediately. It was always easy to talk to her, even with Eleven's screaming in his mind. Having earned a place in Lucifel's heart and spending time with the both of them, it had begun to feel like a family.
He had promised her he would restore the worlds. Now she herself would fall victim to Ruana if he failed too. Someone so young...someone who had begun to feel like family.
For a moment, it seemed to nearly echo a moment from his near future on Earth, where he would encounter Belial. His fists clenched and his shoulders tightened. Anyone who could see the flaming aura at the back of his neck would see it was flaring out. Eleven screamed shrill in his mind, the only sound he could hear.
Until he screamed back.
His voice rose to drown out the one in his mind, a roar that echoed in the solemn floor. He drew another breath, and screamed again, not in fear but in anger. The third scream found words involved.
"RUANA! I WON'T LET YOU HAVE THEM!" Every word he spoke, he shouted over Eleven, his eyes alight with something dangerous. His Arch found itself in his hands, open and raised. It buzzed as he slashed at the air in front of him.
"YOU WON'T TAKE THEM, DO YOU HEAR ME?"
Setting: Graveyard, morning, slightly forward-dated to when the drops in question are processed.
Format: I'm starting in prose but it doesn't matter.
Summary: A small handful of names show up in the graveyard, and they prove there just might be a right way to break.
Warnings: Hostility will be met with violence right now.
Enoch didn't know how he'd let the graveyard's significance die. He didn't know how the names on the headstones had become a blur. He didn't know how he'd become numb to this job that was once so painful. He even missed Yu's headstone until the moment it came into abrupt clarity for no apparent reason. While he wondered how he could have missed it, wished him and his guardian strength, another nearby caught his eye. He could swear his heart stopped for a moment.
He walked swiftly through the row of tombstones, turning for another pass, in disbelief.
Tohko Amano.
Raphael.
Yotsuba Koiwai.
Tohko. She'd been getting on his nerves and Lucifel's both lately, but she only ever meant the best. He'd never finished writing her his story. At least, books did not crumble on the destroyed worlds. She may not need to eat but she could take comfort in her stories.
Raphael. The first person he recognized from home. Someone he'd been able to confide his suspicion in. Trapped on a dead world with a dead God.
Yotsuba. Such a bright light in such a hostile place. Like so many children before her she'd endeared herself to him immediately. It was always easy to talk to her, even with Eleven's screaming in his mind. Having earned a place in Lucifel's heart and spending time with the both of them, it had begun to feel like a family.
He had promised her he would restore the worlds. Now she herself would fall victim to Ruana if he failed too. Someone so young...someone who had begun to feel like family.
For a moment, it seemed to nearly echo a moment from his near future on Earth, where he would encounter Belial. His fists clenched and his shoulders tightened. Anyone who could see the flaming aura at the back of his neck would see it was flaring out. Eleven screamed shrill in his mind, the only sound he could hear.
Until he screamed back.
His voice rose to drown out the one in his mind, a roar that echoed in the solemn floor. He drew another breath, and screamed again, not in fear but in anger. The third scream found words involved.
"RUANA! I WON'T LET YOU HAVE THEM!" Every word he spoke, he shouted over Eleven, his eyes alight with something dangerous. His Arch found itself in his hands, open and raised. It buzzed as he slashed at the air in front of him.
"YOU WON'T TAKE THEM, DO YOU HEAR ME?"
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Zett seems to get it, or at least seems to think he gets it. He's still 'smiling' only in name.
"Ruana- I'll rend her flesh and break her bones before that happens. I will destroy her."
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Zett gets it.
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Zett's not quite crazy enough to think he can do it alone anyway.
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"She's as vileness personified."
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Zett isn't exactly familiar with vileness and how it works, but calling her worse than demons is something he can say.
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"If she drains the souls here of their energy...is it the same as devouring them?"
He doesn't know if he's angrier or terrified at that...
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That these two ideas had been right next to one another...they had to be related. Would she feed on them if they blocked her from draining off the destroyed worlds?
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Somebody hasn't been told about the screaming Eleven.
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After a moment, Zett reaches up, stretching up on his toes to try to cover Enoch's ears with his hands.
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Now that he wants people to know...why is it still so hard to just say it? He's only ever managed it drunk.
Does he even want Zett to know? Well, it's too late to say everything's fine, isn't it?
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Ha, as if anything was ever that easy.
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He will have this story out of you yet.
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Not that him not knowing was his fault, but he still appreciates what it must be doing to Enoch.
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He just didn't want to make anyone think he was unfit to help them.
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Which was probably 'not very happy'.
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"I...appreciate it." All the same, he couldn't just tell Zett he didn't think anyone up here could help...
"...I should start looking for weapons."
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Now that he thought of it, finding a monster with a weapon was relatively rare...
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At least he really hoped he could handle this much.