Darkness (episode 50)

[Secretofmana]

It was early in the afternoon. Biggs left the house where his team lived just to admire the scenary. He spied a big hill, with a song being heard from it. Biggs decided to go check it out. He cleched his new blue pendant in his hand and went up.

Upon reaching the top, Biggs had only one comment.

"Woah." He said in a tone of pure awe. There was a crowd of people staring at this one girl. She was young, and had her own set of bodyguards.

"Excuse me. Pardon me. Sorry." said Biggs as he pressed through the crowd. They didn't even seem to notice him push them in the first place.

"Um, who are you?" asked Biggs.

"I am Nyorai. I sense darkness in people's hearts. I sense a lot in yours." replied the girl.

"Huh?" asked Biggs.

"My brother doesn't care about me. I want him dead. But I need a cover-up."

Biggs turned white and tried to talk, but couldn't.

" I'll use his up coming match as cover."

Biggs started to get this weird feeling in his throat.

"NO!!! I didn't kill my brother! It was Marco!"

"But I'll convince myself I didn't do it."

"No..........NO!!!!!! STOP IT!!!!!!!!!" Biggs screamed as he burst into tears.

"I can help you repent, Biggs." replied Nyorai.

"NO!!!!! LEAVE ME ALONE!!!!!!!!!! NANO, INTO PENDANT!!" Biggs cried as he turned his pendant into a sword. But the three bodyguards knocked him away. Not knowing what to do, Biggs ran off, a tearful mess.

At the lake, Biggs was staring at his reflection.

"I..........killed my brother............. I know I did. B-but......... why? I HATE MYSELF!!!!!!!!!!!" Biggs started attacking his reflection, wanting it to dissapear. He knew it was his evil personality that did it, leaving his other personalitys unaware.((OOC: So you do remember what you did in real life, but I needed something))

5 hours later, Biggs returned home. Yurri and Yari were worried sick. He made an excuse, saying he had a long conversation with another shaman. But deep down, he would never forgive himself. He put on his usual happy-go-lucky attitude.

[Lovely]

((OOC: dammit Geo, you and your inuendo, when Lovely gets back to normal she WILL have to hurt you! *laughs*
SoM:I liked your addition as well. It was wonderfully spooky with the whole "cover up" part .))

Lovely munched quietly on her small breakfast conisting of an english muffin and a lowfat vanilla capicino.

She had the eerie feeling that someone was talking about her (multiple someone's actually,) but she shook the feeling off. It was doubtfull that anyone really cared.
The "Nyorai Problem" was still heavy on Lovely's mind. The problem of discovering the trick itself, and those pesky little detours her mind seem to be going lately.

When was it that she started challenging herself with odd things like this? ....

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There is a darkness in your heart.
What you call “darkness”, I call determination.

The man with blonde hair and violet eyes turned around slowly and smiled, “Ah, so you’ve found me.”

Lovely, now 17, lifted her gun towards the man and gave him a vicious grin “Hello there Kahto.”

The man remained calm and seemed unafraid of the young girl “So you’ve come for your revenge I see.”

Lovely laughed good naturedly and lowered her weapon “Hardly. I’ve come to the conclusion long ago that “revenge” is a silly aim” , she smirked, “well, unless it’s done right away.”

Kahto lifted an eyebrow, but said nothing in response to this.

“Besides, as we both know, you didn’t kill them. As you said back then, you merely ‘stated the facts.’.”

“I did say that didn’t I?” Kahto replied stoically, “well then, did you come here to simply frighten me?”

“No, to be honest, YOU rather terrify me.”

Kahto’s normally emotionless face looked slightly… confused… “If you fear me, and If not for Revenge, then…”

“Pride.”

“Pride?”

Lovely smiled sadly, “There are some things a person can do in their lives that define who they are. Me? I’m the information gathering sort. Seeing as you’re the one who changed my life rather drastically, well… I felt rather like it was a challenge to find you. I suppose that doing odd things like that is just my personality”

Kahto appeared to be in deep thought, “So, a total disregard for the people in one’s past, and a strong desire to prove one’s own self worth.” The odd man smiled, “That’s a rather cold hearted way of looking at things.”

“Is it?” Lovely titled her head to the side, “Well, I suppose so, but I like to think I’m just realistic.”

Kahto once again smiled softly, “Well, you found me, now what do you intend to do.”

Lovely smiled good naturedly, “Oh. I just wanted to tell you two things. One, I would like to thank you. If you hadn’t called the hospital, I’m sure I’d be dead right now. And I’m assuming you used some healing power as well?”

Kahto gave a small nod, “And two?”

Lovely’s smiled turned almost feral, “Oh, two is simple. If I ever see you again, I’ll kill you.”

“I thought you said you didn’t believe in revenge.” Kahto replied calmly.

“It wouldn’t be revenge. I have no trouble getting rid of annoyances.” Lovely replied with a wide grin.

Kahto laughed out right at this, “Yes indeed,” he said as he began to walk away, “In the Shaman Fight… If you can win, I truly DO wonder what kind world you’ll create.”


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Lovely quickly snapped back to reality. The cappincino was really good!


But besides that, a thought occured to Lovely, Nyorai was able to controll peoples minds through her song and realistic illusions...
Could the "trick" really be that easy?
Lovely hurredly got up, payed for her meal, and headed back to Nyorai's cathedral.
Part of Lovely was confident, but another part of Lovely was borderline terrified. So far, the realistic visions she had due to Nyorai's song was merely things that she happened to think about due to a stray comment here and there. Lovely nodded to herself, she would confirm her suspicians about Nyorai and then leave. Any longer and...
Lovely shivered. There was one memory she did NOT want to re-live.




((OOC: One more flashback and then we meet Jr ^_~ . Is that o.k?
Oh yeah, and the next section AFTER that, I PLAN to involve plot point of the Team the Ren beating Nyorai's team. Kind of breaking my own rules ^^; . Is this o.k with everybody? ))

[Pinkechidna]

(OOC: Only if I can hug Manta. Just joking! *runs from spray of bullets* I'd love to see how it plays out.)

[resurie]

Lovely hurredly got up, payed for her meal, and headed back to Nyorai's cathedral.

(OOC: It's a cathedral? o_O ...Nevermind...ignore me...

Mwahaha! I'm hijacking your somewhat thread Lovely! O_O XD Beware of spelling mistakes! I don't feel like proof-reading.

Also, because I barely write anything >> << >>)

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resurie and Jr. were still in the presense of Nyorai. Jr. was trying his best to look for Lovely, while at the same time, he was trying to keep Nyorai's mind games away from him. (Does that even make sense...?)

resurie on the other hand was having her own trouble, she started feeling strangely dizzy and soon collapsed to the floor.

"resurie?!" Jr. yelled. "resurie, are you alright??! Wake up!"

He began to shake her, but no answer. Damn! Not only is Lovely still missing, but now Nyorai is getting to resurie!

Jr. felt a pain in his head. He started having flashbacks again. He fell to his knees and tried to sustain from remembering anything. (I would go into more detail, but I don't remember jack-squat from Xeno >>;;)

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A young girl wearing a school uniform was busy cooking inside a kitchen (no doubt). She placed a hot pan onto the counter and cursed to herself as she tried to avoid the sparks of burning oil.

"Dammit! It's supposed to be Ivan's turn to cook! And I'm stuck here making him food because he's to lazy to get off his ass and do it himself!"

This girl, was obviously resurie. She placed the food onto a plate and grabbed a fork and knife from a random drawer. She hurried out of the kitchen and was soon walking down a flight of stairs. She reached a door at the bottom, which was her brother's room.

"Oi! Ivan! Your food is ready! Open the door!"

No answer.

"Ivan! I'm serious! This plate is hot!"

Still nothing.

"Argh! He's going to get it now!" resurie exclaimed. She placed the plate on the bottom step and opened the door.

"Didn't you hear me?! I said your fo---" she stopped. Her eyes widened. She started to tremble as she backed away.

There on the floor of the room, was her brother. His eyes were rolled to the back of head, they were also blood red. A streak of blood ran down from his mouth. And his arm was red with puncture marks.

The room was silent for more than anyone noticed. Until it was broken by resurie's scream.

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"resurie! resurie, wake up!"

resurie slowly opened her eyes, everything was blurry, she didn't see anything. "Wha...what.."

"resurie, it's Jr.! Are you alright??"

resurie sat up holding her head, she felt a trickle of water fall to the ground.

"You're crying! What happened?!" Jr. exclaimed.

"I...I..."

Jr. stopped her. "No time! Let's get out of here and find Lovely!"

The two began to walk out, but were stopped in their tracks by...

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(OOC: HAHA! o_O Cliffhanger!! I don't know what to write next...I simply wanted to write out my flashback, as to the fact this is the only one I might have. >>

Sorry if I may have...messed up on some plot...>> << >> BAH! I don't ever write anything anyways! ><

Oh...and...w00t! I suck at writing! XD

Ah...I should explain some things for the confused. o_O resurie's brother died of a drug overdose. And she thinks it's her fault, because she knew, but never did anything about it. >> << >>)

[Lovely]

((OOC: Resurie's story= awwwwwww... so sad. I thought you wrote it well Res! *smile*.
Oh, and uh... I don't think the place is a cathedral. I just... I don't know why I used that word 0_o ... ))

[Dessa]

((OOC: if you're gonna break the rules sorta... can I have Kon run into Ryu? Technically it's still not my "character," and Kon and Ryu would really get along. Nothing plot-related, just Ryu crying on Kon's shoulder, so to speak (stupid perverted plushie).))

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Dessa looked up from her search for Kon. She felt weird. Well, weirder. She'd been feeling kinda weird since that strange song started to be heard, but chaos had long ago taught her to block out unwanted songs.

"Hen na uta?" Van had asked, when she asked him if he had heard anything. Dessa figured that their apartment was so far on the edge of town, and since the song was mainly in the contestants' part of town, it didn't make it that far. She had wanted to ask Tyrell, but, as usual, he was nowhere to be found.

Snapping back to the present, Dessa thought about this new weird feeling. It couldn't be the song, unless something major had happened with it. This just didn't feel right.

"chaos," she called, knowing her ally would find her. When he didn't show, she used a simple Ether he had taught her to find him. He was off on the far side of the village, near where that stupid song was coming from.

Why would he be there? Dessa thought. There's only a few possibilities... I mean, he can't be under the song's influence. With all that stuff he taught me about blocking songs, and the Song of Nephilim, and stuff... He could be investigating... but why wouldn't he bring me? Then... JR! Jr. could be there! Wait, didn't chaos tell me that when Jr. got really mad, he gave off a powerful aura? Is THAT what I'm feeling?

Dessa ran towards the cathedral where all the music had been coming from.

((OOC: it would make sense for chaos to feel Jr's power, and to go to try to stop him from unleashing it))

[Lovely]

Dessa said:

((OOC: if you're gonna break the rules sorta... can I have Kon run into Ryu? Technically it's still not my "character," and Kon and Ryu would really get along. Nothing plot-related, just Ryu crying on Kon's shoulder, so to speak (stupid perverted plushie).))

((OOC: Erm... now, wait a minute, the only rule I might break is speeding up time a bit ^^; . I've never even had much interaction with Nichrome (nor do I intend to). I'm CERTAIN Kon and Ryu would get along, but I think that would be intereacting with the main chraracters a bit too much. Sorry ^^;.))

[Jr.]

(OOC: Don't worry about it Lovely. I have more ideas for this and I do have an ending written, I am already starting to modify it since it was written in a hurry. )

Jr. and resurie were stopped by chaos.

chaos looked at Jr. who was still a bit shaken, "Jr.? What's going on?"

Nyooria butted in, "I'm only revealing the darkness in his heart."

Jr. just mumbled to himself, "Darkness......"

Resurie and chaos looked concerned at Jr. A small glow seemed to eminate from Jr.'s pocket but nobody noticed it yet.

Nyoorai continued, "He seems to be very powerful. His heart should be cleansed." Nyoorai began to sing. resurie fell to the floor screaming and chaos just looked confused at Nyoorai. Jr. just looked at her as well.

"Why doesn't my song affect you?" Nyoorai wondered.

chaos wouldn't answer. Jr. however did, "It's not your song that has me on edge. How do you know those things about me?"

chaos shouted, "No Jr! Don't!!"

But it was too late, Nyoorai had him right where she wanted him, "It' my fault! I had the chance to go with him and I turned my back on him!! If only I wasn't a coward.... he might be here today!

Jr. fought back the tears for as long as he could, but then realized that it was futile. It was for the good of my mission. I couldn't be associated with Hao!

"But you lied to him. You threw your friednship away!" Nyoorai continued.

Jr. was cowering on the ground, "NO! Shut up! STOP IT!!!"

Nyoorai went on to another subject Where else is their darkness?

Jr. knew where she was heading, Not there! Please....

Nyoorai didn't stop, "She's probably dead.. Just like everyone else I get close to. There's no use looking for her anymore."

Jr. slowly raised his head. His rage was building again.

Nyoorai didn't notice and kept going, "I'm too weak to protect anybody. I'm just a coward. I couldn't save Sakura and I won't be able to save Lo-"

Nyoorai's word were cut off by Jr.'s summonging of the Red Dragon again. This time the aura didn't appear though. The light from Jr.'s pocket grew.
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Jr. was laying in the hospital bed. He had sustained several burns from his last encounter. He remembers sensing some one in the room.

How did I get here? I was alone. There's no way any of them would bring me to a hospital. Not even... Jr. felt faint again. He slowly opened his eyes but could only see blurry images.

He thought he saw the figure of a girl and a fox spirit looking over him, but he thought it was the drugs. He passed out again. When he awoke for real the room was empty. The window was opened and Jr. thought he heard the sound of a musical instrument in the distance.

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chaos had enough, "That's enough Nyoorai!" chaos helped Jr. to fhis feet.

A voice echoed in Jr.'s head, Don't give up Jr. I believe in you!!

Jr. snapped out of it. What the hell is happening to me. He looked down at resurie and he helped her to her feet.

"Jr.......we need to get away from here." she began, "This place is too much for us to take."

Jr. was not yet ready to admit defeat, but he couldn't put himself or more importantly, he didn't want to put resurie through this anymore. The song has really taken it's toll on her.

chaos helped the group to the edge of the cliff that was the entrance to the cathedral area.

"chaos!!!" Dessa came running up. "JR.!! and Resurie? What's going on?"

(OOC: And CUT! Beautiful. Umm I hope I didn't ruin your past Lovely. I know you shoudl have taken something from me, but if you can think of something then go ahead and add it in. I just hope you don't mind me writing you into my past. )

[Vasuki]

((OOC: Jr. That was awesome. Im still confused with all this Xeno-Mankin things, but it was still a blast to read. It had such amazing build up it wasnt even funny. I actually felt some sort of powerful music playing, and heard it keep getting stronger in my head. Everything sped up at a really nice level aswell. ))

[Pinkechidna]

Alicia watched the entire ordeal from a crag in the canyon.

"Jeez, does every shaman here have some sort of 'Dark, Torturous Past' to deal with? It's a wonder Nyorai hasn't mentally destroyed everyone and won by default!"

"Wow, you're so understanding." Suzaku mumbled.

[Vasuki]

After the thret of Lovely's team mates had seemed to pass, Geo began more causual observing when......

Vasuki: "Master Geo! look!, another spy who thinks out loud!"

Geo:
> "YOU AGAIN?!?!"
Ali:

Geo began to blush, he didn't have a speech this time.... and in an area of such pressure, not to mention the pressure of a female, not to mention one who he had openly, "warned", not to mention one who's team mate seemed to stalk him with a annoying degree of variance.... needless to say he was worried....

Geo: "Think, Geo think!, what have you learned about girls in the past....."

***Flashback***

Geo: "Ah, it is such a nice feeling to finnaly arrive at patch village"

Miruna: "Hey you!" *frightening grin*

Geo: O_O......

*The following flashback has been supressed in Geo's mind due to deep fear, we are sorry for any inconvience*

***End Flashback***

Geo: "Lot of good that was....hell if I am trying that again, flashbacks are over-rated......."

Vasuki: "remember... don't fight this time, please, I am tired ..." -_-

Geo: "Right..."

Geo faced the adjacent crag....

Geo: "You there, Alicia!, uhm, Tr..(*mumbles*no not tremble.....) Uhm... uhm..." (Geo's blusing increased...)

"Hello, I, uhm, hope you will not give me a reason to act on my challenge and pursue you further!!"

(There, that sounded good enough, Geo thought... note to self... write scripts for emergencies such as this one.)#nosmileys

[Lovely]

((OOC: Jr: Nah, the adding me into your past thing was cool. Though I had to read it a few times to understand what happened there.
Kind of wish you wouldn't make such big scenes with Nyourai though *laughs*.
Now... I'm going to move something that I was planning which MAY mess up what you were writting ^^;. Sorry.

As a random side note to everyone, it's the flashbacks I have prewritten, everything else... I come up with on the fly *nervous laugh*))

The worst thing about trying to NOT think about something is that it tends to be the ONLY thing you think about.
As Lovely realised, that too was part of Nyorai's illusion.

Lovely's head hurt. In trying to distract herself Lovely tried to go over her thoughts on Nyourai.

....However, those pesky hidden thoughts kept on rising to the surface. And as Lovely stumbled through... Lovely wasn't even sure where she was at this point, once again her mind drifted to the one thing she had been trying so desperatly to keep out of her mind.

No one likes you.
You're not even all that powerful
You're too scheeming for ANYONE to like you.
Even your parents hated you.

....And you hated them.
Is that why you hardly even hesitated?

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There is a darkness in your heart.
Of course, It’s the only way to survive.


*CRACK*
The Poncho really did come in handy, how could Lovely’s parents of known that their daughter was hiding her oversoul weapon underneath its folds of fabric?

Lovely, with her gun muzzle still smoking in her hand and a long dagger still thrust into her body, cast cold eyes up at her father from her position on the floor. Her mother dead beside her, shot through by a bullet fired by her own daughter.

“Don’t” Lovely rasped, as she looked upon the man who had started all this.

“M-maria…” Her father stuttered in shock, as he gazed upon the scene in a combination of horror and indignation. “You… You… BITCH!” He screamed as he charged his daughter in crazed rage.

“Devine… Justice…”

*CRACK!*

With a thump, her father fell lifeless to the floor. Another victim of Lovely’s most powerful attack.

Lovely attempted to stand, but then fell to the floor in exhaustion due to both the knife wound and the massive Furyoku loss.

As Lovely could feel herself slip into unconsciousness, a man walked casually into the room.

“K…Kah…to…?”

He was a tall man with bright blonde hair and startling violet eyes. He looked down at the collapsed Lovely, and after a moment, “So, this was their decision eh?”

“Y-you…”

“Not really. I just mentioned the facts to them. I never said you would betray them or any such thing. That was merely their own paranoid minds coming into play.”

“…..”

Kahto smiled, “In the Shaman Fight… If you can win, I wonder what kind world you’ll create?”

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The group of Jr, Resurie, chaos and Dessa walked somewhat slowly away from the area of Nyorai cathedral (?). It came as quite a shock to the group to see the person who they had been searching for in the first place come walking into view.

"LOVELY!" Jr and Resurie cried out as the ran toward the slowly walking figure.

Dessa was about to run after them when a hand on her shoulder gently held her back.

"Let's give them their moment, shall we?" chaos said with a kind smile. "There might be some noise though..."




"Lovely! Where were..."
Lovely interupted, "Nyourai. Trickster Class Shaman. Group name 'Di ra Dohl" Though she doesn't seem seem to be actually a part of that group."

"Lovely?" Resurie asked with concern. Lovely was acting strangely, she had that odd look in her eyes again.

Lovely continued, "Her main power is a strong control of illusions, her secondary power is slight mind reading. By claiming to 'save' people from the darkness in their souls, it causes people to have said dark thoughts on the forefront of their minds." Lovely gave a feral grin, "her 'teamates' are probably just illusions too."
Lovely gave a somewhat crazed laugh, "Pretty damned simple huh??"
"Tch! 'saving' people from their 'darkness', that would be nice huh?"

Lovely began to push past her teamates and walk towards Nyorai's area, "Well, figuring out things like that is only natural for a 'sneaky' person like me huh? Heh. Well see ya later at the apartment guys, sorry your vacation from me has to be cut short, right?"

((OOC: Go for it Jr and Res XD !!! ))

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((OOC: EDIT: God I love Geo's character XD ! ))

[Pinkechidna]

"Oh, so you're the little punk that threatened me! With all that 'Spirit is unsafe in your care' stuff." Alicia rose up to face the boy. Due to the time of day her hair was not tied; it fell along her shoulders.

She giggled, though not in a friendly way. "You must not know me very well. See, I do LOVE to fight. And I've been looking for a way to take out some agression..."

[Jr.]

(OOC: I have such a great ending for this but I don't have time now.)

[resurie]

Jr. said:

(OOC: I have such a great ending for this but I don't have time now.)

(OOC: I do have time, but I don't have an ending for this. XD Or anything to write...XD;; )