Darkness (episode 50)

[Lovely]

There is a darkness in your heart.
Of course. Wasn’t it obvious?


“Father, you wanted to see me?” A young girl of about 15, with long brown hair entered a lavishly decorated, library like room.

“Lovely.” The man who the girl called “Father” answered in response. “Yes, I have a… concern, about your trip to England.”

“A concern… sir?” Though the girl called the man her “father”, her movements towards him were somewhat awkward and stilted. As if she was trying to her utmost ability to act “proper.”

“Our servants report that you haven’t brought anything of note back.”

“Oh… that,” Lovely replied, “Well… things did not go exactly as I had planned. However, things didn’t go entirely badly either.” Lovely gave a nervous laugh. Her father had always made Lovely nervous, but today Lovely could’t help but sense something odd about him. It made Lovely feel anxious, and when Lovely felt anxious, she had a tendency to forget herself and babble.

“I did mangage to buy a few things, like this poncho. It’s convenient, and… It’s rather cute don’t you think?” Lovely said as she gave her father a nervous smile. “

Her father did not smile in return.

“Is there anything you are omitting from you tale?” her father questioned, “Kato has told us that a Shaman by the name of Diethel was murdered while you were in England.”

Lovely started at this. Kahto? That purple eyed man? “Well… I did go to England to confromt Mr. Diethel. I mean, he was the one who put Gramma in Jail. But… when I got there, his house was burned down.”

“DON’T LIE TO ME!”

Lovely was taken aback; she had never seen her father so angry before. Well, not to say that she ever really saw her father much anyways.

“I-It’s true! I’m not lying! I was just going to yell at the guy. Tell him what happened to Gramma, but… I didn’t want him dead!”

Lovely’s father composed himself and gave an odd look at his daughter. “Kahto also said that a Shaman by the name of Hao was in England at the same time you were. What an incredible coincidence don’t you think?”

“Hao?”

“Still playing?” Her father answered with a sneer.
Lovely felt a presence behind herself and quickly turned around, to meet the eyes of her mother, she was standing calmly with her hands behind her back. “We were told that this Hao person is gathering Shamans.” Her mother stated simply, “Shamans to assist him to kill all humans on earth.”

“W-what? W-wait, do you think I agreed to join him? I’ve never even met him!”

“You can not blame us for being cautious,” her father answered, “I mean me and your mother ARE simple humans after all.”

Lovely turned away from her mother and spun around to meet her fathers gaze.

“I’m telling you, I wouldn’t DO something like tha..!”

A sharp pain erupted on the right side of Lovely body.

“M-mo-ther…” Lovely looked in shock over her shoulder.

“You shouldn’t argue with your parents dear.” Her mother said sweetly as she slowly drove the dirk (a sort of short sword) deeper into the back of her daughter’s body.

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"Hey, that $5.56. You gonna pay or what?"
The sound of the irate waitress snapped the 23 year old Lovely back to reality.

"Ah, sorry" Lovely apologised, as she handed the waitress Alex 10 patch dollars for her meal "my mind was wandering... a bit. Ah, keep the change."

"What? Really? Thanks!" Alex replied with glee, Shamans were often so difficult to get a good tip out of! Alex cast a look at the poncho clad shaman in front of her ".... mind if I say something...erm... "Lovely" wasn't it? "

"Yeah."

"You kind of look like your gonna die."

Lovely was taken aback a bit at the waitresses straight forward attitude but then gave a small chuckle, "To be honest, I haven't been sleeping much lately."

"That makes sense, you do look sleepy, and ussually whenever you see me you start freaking out or something."

"Yeah well..." Lovely replied with a small blush.

"Well, don't push yourself, if you feel badly you should rest!" Alex chided good naturedly.

Lovely chuckled again, "I will ... soon, I have some things I want to see through first."

"What?"

Lovely gave a dark smile as she walked away, "Nyoooorai. "

((OOC: weeee~ Trying to throw my characters backstory out there. I've been hinting at certain things for a while now, so it should be fun *grin*. I'll probably throw in a lot of lil' backstory "ficlets" like the one above (which isn't the FULL story yet. mwahaha...)

Oh, and for the curious, a dirk .))

[Vasuki]

((OOC:That was amazing. A very cinimatic feel to it.

(enter, random comments)

I like how you even made a Hao connection thing with the Poncho. And, I actually like how you connected it with the Shaman King universe, while keeping it seperate from the main plot, very well done.

RP Lovely's parents are really scary really helped to make the mood much clearer...
I liked how you didn't explain everything about her family, and didnt say why exactly she was on the trip, things like that were great.

Reading the first part was awsome. The second part was almost too light hearted by contrast. It still fit together real nicely though...

RP Lovely is becoming such a deep character, I can't wait for more. ^_^))

[Gus]

Stares at the wall. The fire...... darkness was the right word. Deny it as he might, he knew he'd called for that spirit. sighs... I wonder who else she's been doing this to. This memory... he didn't want to remember it. But she'd brought it back, and now he couldn't get it out of his mind... it just kept popping up...

((hm. I've already written some of my 'darkness in your heart backstory in the reflections thread))

[Lovely]

OOC: heh heh... *blush* .... Thanks.

Vasuki said:

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I like how you even made a Hao connection thing with the Poncho.

Woops, the "Shaman in the Poncho" is supposed to be Lovely. That's the one little feature that I haven't really been stressing about my character enough. So I tried sticking it in there. Guess it didn't work out ... heh heh. Lovely ussually wears a pancho because she can hide her weapon and a few theivery items under the fabric. (she's also hiding a certain pendant.)
))

[Vasuki]

((heheh, I knew you were refering to yourself (I remembered your sketch). I just thought the reason Lovely's parents thought she was with Hao was because of the Poncho (failed to remember colour or size of said poncho. ^_^))

[Lovely]

Vasuki said:

((heheh, I knew you were refering to yourself (I remembered your sketch). I just thought the reason Lovely's parents thought she was with Hao was because of the Poncho (failed to remember colour or size of said poncho. ^_^))

((OOC: Ooooooh.....! my bad. *laughs in embarassment*))

[Jr.]

(OOC: You referred to Saturn as "Saturn" instead of Alex. I fixed it though. Jr's story starts from where the Reflections thread leaves off. )

Jr. and Resurie walked away from the lake when Resurie stopped for a moment, "Oh yeah. Lovely gave me this note to give to you Jr. I didn't read I swear. The suspense as to what it says has been killing me though." she hands Jr. the note.

Jr. takes the note and opens it:



Jr. puts the note away very neatly. "Well, I guess....THIS NOTE WON'T BE VERY USEFUL WILL IT!!!"

Resurie just chuckled to herself and looked around, "Hmm. There doesn't seem to be very many people out today does there?"

Jr. noticed the streets were rather empty. "I wonder where everyone is? I'm guessing Lovely is wherever these people are."

And the two continue their search for Lovely.

[resurie]

(OOC: XDDDDDD

That was brilliant Lovely. XDDD)

[Lovely]

Jr. said:

(OOC: You referred to Saturn as "Saturn" instead of Alex. I fixed it though. J

((OOC: Thank you! I realized my mistake when I was stuck at work last night. "Hey... waitasec, her rp name isn't... DANG!!!"
Oh, and concerning the note thing... I had fun sketching that *GRIN*. ))

“SHE NEVER CAME BACK!” exclaimed a VERY tired a VERY grouchy Jr. Resurie gave Jr a reassuring grin, “Don’t feel bad about Jr, It was a good idea to come back to the apartment and wait for Lovely to come back…”

“But she didn’t !”

“Well… yeah…. Your plan did seem to have some flaws.”

Jr groaned, “well, lets go into town and do some detective work then.”

“That’s a good idea, We should check the restaurants” Resurie replied thoughtfully, “Lovely seems kind of obsessive about finding good places to eat.”

Jr nodded, and then paused, “Hey, When did Lovely start acting strangely? Was it right after the karaoke incident.”

Resurie tilted her head to the side as she thought about it, “No… right then… she was just cranky. She was complaining about the message board stuff too, about how Nichrome was “shirking his responsibility” or something. No, she didn’t start acting really odd until about a day later.”

“Hmmmm…” Jr answered in reply. “Well, lets go to Patch Café and see if anybody’s heard anything. Oh, it probably wouldn’t hurt to check the bath house on our way either…”


((OOC: I feel badly… I didn’t show up at all in this section XD ! Kidding. Nah, the real reason I feel badly is because I wrote the lines of two characters that I’m not even with at the time. *feels guilty*. I’m breaking some RP codes or something… I must be…))

[Jr.]

(OOC: No worries Lovely. As you know I've been kind of busy. I'll continue when I get my mind back on this story!! )

Jr. and Resurie reach the Patch Cafe and Resurie immediatly spots Alex across the dining area.

"Hey Alex, have you by any chance seen Lovely today?" Resurie asks.

Alex gave a look of concern to the two shaman as she began, "Yeah. She was here yesterday. She seemed to be lost in thought a bit too."

Jr. yelled, "Do you know where she went?"

"You don't have to yell!! I'm getting to it." the waitress shot back. Jr. just closed his eyes and stomped off. Alex continued, "I don't know exactly where she went, but she did mention something about Nyoorai."

Resurie had no idea who or what Nyoorai was so she thanked Alex and caught up to Jr. who was waiting outside the Cafe.

"You know Jr. You didn't have to snap at her like that. She doesn't know what's going on." Resurie explained.

Jr. just stared ahead and said, "I apologize for my remarks, but......I'm just worried about Lovely. This is just like I feared. I......" he stropped then gavce Resurie the most serious stare she had ever seen on Jr.'s face, "Don't you want to find her Resurie? We haven't seen her in days. What if she is-"

Resurie stopped Jr., "DON'T YOU DARE SAY THAT JR.!! I do not want to hear those words. She isn't!! You understand! Now let's go. We need to find out about Nyoorai."

What's Nyoorai? Jr. wondered. The two continued their search.

[Lovely]

Lovely awoke in a vague daze. She was laying on a sort of rocky overhanging (a small cliff?) Not to far off a crowd of dreamy eyed shamans called forth the name “Nyorai-sama” in a sort of sing-song praise.
It took a moment for Lovely to remember what she was doing out there. It wasn’t uncommon for Lovely to be confused in the morning, but normally she was at least in bed when she tried to reconfigure her thoughts!

That’s right… Nyorai… I came out here because…”

Lovely sat up straight as her thoughts became more organized.

About a week ago, after the karaoke incident Lovely was feeling very, VERY cross. It wasn’t that uncommon for her to loose her temper, but loosing her cool against a child… well… that was just going too far.

I blamed it on stress Lovely thought with a wry grin, and then I blamed it on the message board and Nichrom for GIVING me that stress.

Thinking about it now, Lovely realized that her train of thought back then was actually rather silly.

I did manage to track the brat down though

Tracking down Nichrom had been a pointless endeavor, Nichrom hadn’t ever even spoken more than a few words to Lovely in the past anyways. Just “Here, you run that board.”
Conversation with the boy now had yielded similar results, all he mentioned was the name “Nyorai-sama” and how he “no longer lived for revenge.”

“Not living for revenge” Lovely thought to herself, that was fine and all, but the problem was how… high Nichrom had seemed when he said those words.

That’s when Lovely decided to look into this “Nyorai” person. As a “trickster class” Shaman (a term Lovely was VERY proud to have made up), Lovely felt it was her duty to find out about this Shaman and how she seemed able to control people.

If I couldn’t do something as simple as figuring out someone else’s tricks, could I really call myself… myself?

In theory, it was a good idea. In execution, not so much. Nyorai’s song and words were powerful. And even though Lovely made it a point to not get too close, Lovely found herself “blanking out” and experiencing some painful flashbacks to her past.

Not only that, but….

“I forgot to go home last night.” Lovely remarked aloud and in a sheepish tone.
Her spirit ally Finius appeared beside her and gave Lovely a concerned look.

“Oh, don’t worry Fini,” Lovely said offhandedly “I’m sure Jr and Res are happy to have a vacation from me.”

Finius gave Lovely a sad look, but said nothing.

As Nyorai began singing her song to the crowd, Lovely felt her thoughts drift away yet again…

((OOC: Aaaaannd cue the next flashback! I just didn't want this part to be too long. heh.
As a side note.
I was going to keep Lovely's intentions a secret to be revealed towards the end but... It's hard to do that when you are supposed to be writing from the POV of your own character. *laughs* I'm not that skilled.))

[Jr.]

Jr. and Resurie had continued their search when they found informatino about Nyoorai.

The shaman seemed very our of it when he mentioned where she was. Jr. ran in the direction the shaman pointed.

"Jr.!! Wait for me!" Resurie yelled as she ran after the boy.

Jr. reached the sanctuary and was horrified at what he saw. There were many people there that all appeared to be in awe of this girl at the foot of the cathedral.

"What's this about Resurie? Do you know?" Jr. asked impatiently.

"Umm....... oh what? Resurie had begun to show signs of falling under the spell of Nyoorai. "Hey! Isn't that Nichrom?"

"Yes. But I don't care about him now! Look at these people. They're like zombies!!" Jr. yelled. "C'mon. We have to find Lovely!!"

The two continued to the foot of the sanctuary. "You must be..."

Nyoorai looked down at the red-headed shaman, "Yes. I'm Nyoorai. I see their is darkness in your heart as well."

"Darkness? In me? You have no idea!!!" Jr. laughed to himself.

Nyoorai wasn't laughing though, "The beating.....in the right side of my chest. I can't feel it anymore!!"

Jr. turned white. How did she....NOOO!

Nyooria continued, "I broke the link.....Albedo is......Nigredo!!"

Jr. couldn't take it anymore. Nigredo was bleeding to death. It was all my fault! I couldn't save him...I broke the link...albedo

"NOOOOOOOO!!!!!" Jr. doubled over in pain and Great Joe yelled for everyone to get back. He knew what was coming. Jr. let loose his rage as he performed his ability of Red Dragon Mode. A fiery red aura surrounded the boy as he fought back his emotions.

Lovely.....Nigredo...Albedo......chrom....Ashil......I'm losing everyone I hold dear!! I can't take the pain anymore. It's hurts so bad!!!!

Then a voice from Jr.'s past speaks to him. Don't give up Jr. You still have me!

Jr.'s power subsided. He fell to the earth weakened.

"Jr.!!!" Resurie came running and helped Jr. up. "C'mon. Lovely is here somewhere."

Was that.......Jr. thought.

(OOC: Damn! I have class. I so want to continue this but I'm not sure if Lovely is ready for us to find her yet.)

[Secretofmana]

((OOC: Is this a Lovely team specific thread? Or can other people post their encounters with Nyorai here?))

[Lovely]

((OOC: sure, go ahead and post ^^ . Keep us on our toes *laughs* Just try to keep "reality" and "time" in mind. In other words, if you particiapated in some of the other episode 50 threads. Just make sure you aren't at two places at once.

Jr. said:

(OOC: Damn! I have class. I so want to continue this but I'm not sure if Lovely is ready for us to find her yet.)

Not... QUITE yet... Lemme have another trippy flashback sequence or two *laughs* . ))


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There is Darkness in Your Heart.
Darkness? Like Revenge? Revenge is truly a pointless goal don’t you think?

“Well Fini! We’re finally here! Jolly ole’ England!” The 15 year old Lovely exclaimed to her winged fox guardian happily,

“……” Fini replied, its voice sounded a bit like an unsure musical instrument.

“Yeah, I guess it is kind of gloomy isn’t it?” Lovely giggled good naturedly. “Well, it can’t be helped, this is where that Liam Diethel guy is supposed to live.”

“ ~” The sound of a happy musical note.

“Yeah, that’s the spirit! A walk is good for you regardless of location, destination or determination!’

A hesitating musical note.

“Oh come on, ‘Jolly Ole’ is a fun phrase to use…” *laughs* “Eh, wait a sec, according to the map we’re almost at that detective guys house. Weeeeee~ I can’t WAIT to get my revenge on that Liam bastard! First I’ll yell at him, and then I’ll steal everything from his house. Nyahahaha!!!”
Yet another hesitating musical note came from Fini, and Fini gave her mistress a deep stare.

“Don’t be like that, We’ve come this far and all. And well, Grandma DIED in jail. And even if she didn’t… for people like us… being captured is a fate worse than death.”

Another stare.

“I- I don’t care that it was an accident. She… she’s still dead.” Lovely decided to change the subject, “Man this is taking a while, shouldn’t it be somewhere… around… here? ”

Lovely and Fini halted in their tracks. The lot where the house should of been was completely burned down. But beyond that, there was a feeling of desolateness about the place. The feeling of the leftover bits of a destroyed soul.

“I guess… someone got here first….”

Lovely’s face grew serious, as thoughts of her “revenge” flitted away. She wanted revenge, but she didn’t want anything like this.

“How… pointless.

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Snapping out of this vision was hardly a strain at all. " I wonder why I thought of that all of a sudden." Lovely mused to herself.
Finius looked at her mistress in concern.
"Whats the matter Fini?" Lovely joked, "Little timmy fall in the well?"
Finius was not amused.
"Hey, I was kidding! kidding!" Lovely's stomach growled, and Lovely blushed slightly "Guess, I'm hungry... wanna go back to town and get some food?"
And with that, Lovely began to walk back toward Patch Village proper, not noticing that her teamates were having their own issues amongst Nyorai's throng.

((OOC: I'm evil . I hope jr doesn't hate me because of this *laughs nervously* ))

[Vasuki]

((OOC: hope I don'y mess up was SOM or anyone else was thinking with this, >_<. Just sorta wanted to set up my character in the area ( I guess means I won't be posting in "Confusion" much or at all for a while... ))

"Did we.... lose him yet.... Vasuki?"

Geo was leaping bounds across the landscape severely out of breath,

"What was with that guy?, wasnt he one of the.... uhm, members of the Future Girls?"

"I still never completely understood that myself Master Geo...." Vasuki responded.

"Yah, well, I am sure he is following me, it is getting annoying, he should know better to sneak up on a person while fising you know....could get hooked...."

"You mean spying...."

"Shut up Vas...."

Although Geo had lost Akio several hours ago, he was still a little edgy. In fact, he had not been completely at ease for a while. After the incidents at the last battles, and the lake....he had every right to be a little suspicious.
After giving up on dealing with Zinc (It is not like he was gonna pay for his damages or anything), he decided to continue his.... original quest....

"I must get... what I deserve from her.... "

"Does this guy listen to himself talk?" Vasuki thought, "I mean, I may be an ancient snake-fish-man, but even I think that sounds achkward....."

"I shall reach inside that cloak of hers and grasp it in my fist"

"By the arms of Vishnu, why is he saying these things out loud?...." Vasuki seriously questions his master's social past....

"Master Geo.... what if she does not have it....."

".... then, Vasuki, I will continue my quest for you... I promised you.....I will not go back on my word.
If she does not have it....well, then my sources were wrong!"

Geo chuckles, but puts on a serious face.....

"Vasuki.... I... I don't know, that, if it comes to fighting I would be able to beat them...." Geo stares into the vastness of the sky.....

"Why must you always either fight, or pass it off like you are mighty?, there is no honour in that, and that is not your true spirit... you must be faithful to your soul Geo...."

Geo ignores Vasuki's wisdom, or at least.. doesnt respond to it......

"How do you know she will be here?" Vasuki asked... and in response...

"I gave Silva some change, told him Canadian money was worth 10 times American currency, he said he has a "suspision" she might be here after I passed him the coins."

"You really want the Patch to hate you don't you?" sighed Vasuki.....

"Hmm", Geo pondered..... but as he grew closer to the structure, where a swarm of latent zombies bow, he realized that perhaps, as always, his curiousity, would again, lead him farther away from his true goals.

Geo Finds a perch on a convienently placed rock he looks down on the croud... He sees Lovely's two team mates moving around.... but, not sign of the theif... It seemed as if Lovely was missing not only to him, but to everyone....

"You think you can help these people master?"

"I cannot help people with things I deal with myself, everyone reacts differently, anyways, as I heard a japanese kid say earlier, 'I am sure everything will work out'."

Just then, astonishingly, he saw the red haired shaman glare at him from down below. Geo could see the expression, although not as genuinly scary as the look given by chaos, it was similar... but he felt as if he would not be saved by a smile this time. This time, he had lost Akio, this time... he was in too deep... Geo asked himself if he should hide.... but, in a way, it was too late...

((OOC: Hope you don't mind me expanding on the whole "putting your mind in the gutter" thing Lovely, it actually works well for Geo's character, ^_^))