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I don't feel like saying anything right now, because I am so brain dead from puzzles. I'll just post a section of an RP I'm in at Anime-Eden in a story format.
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Story:
In the future of 2067, Earth has had massive civil wars, involving the whole world. The two sides call themselves the Inter-tetra, which consists of the governments and higher level citizens, and Fir-tetra, which is made up of just normal people. So far, there has been two wars, and each side has won a war. But in the last, and final war in 2063, Inter-tetra broke out with its superior technology and better trained warriors. Now, the Fir-tetra live under the Inter-tetra's rule, but even now, some Rebels are grouping together.
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Characters:
Ryou - One of my characters with a split personality. He's supposed to be the kinder and more polite personality, but in this section that I'm posting, he's not really displayed that way.
Krou - The other personality. He's rude, annoying, and bad-mouthed. Doesn't show up at all here.
Amaryllis - Belongs to christinelennoire, whose known for making long speeches to fill up space. She's a bit naive, but kind and friendly.
Shashika - Belongs to -Inuyasha-, whom I know as "the terrible n00by rper." It's a bit hard to describe her, since I have no idea what the owner is trying to show her as, but I've guessed out that she's extremely naive with a very childish brain, and usually has no clue what's going on (though that might be fault to -Inuyasha). You may notice that I have not posted any of her actions.
Gryffon - An NPC, but only I play him. He's the Rebel leader.
Zack - Same thing. NPC that only I play. He's one of the higher ranking Rebels. Maybe a general or something.
Lawrence - Belongs to christinelennoire. A childhood friend of Amaryllis who has just randomly shown up. Not too sure about his character, but he's just some guy who likes to tease his friend (and show up at random moments).
Zan - Character I created to turn Ryou bad. Very sneaky guy.
General Official Person - Just a random guy. Not important.
Note: Everyone but Zan and the "General Official Person" plus Ryou are on Inter-tetra's side. Everyone else is Fir-tetra.
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I'm going to make long lines of "----" to separate the postings. It's between christinelennoire and I, and we're basically switching off. Ya know, rp-ish. Well, whatever. hopefully you'll get it.
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"How'd it go?"
Zan glanced at the holographic image of an official looking man.
"Quite well actually."
"You get both of them?"
"Unfortunately no. Crimson 666 Chaos is still unwilling to cooperate, but we have Hawk 247 Crisis now."
The man raised an eyebrow, "Chaos, Crisis? Wasn't their ranking Crisis and Knight before?"
Zan smiled grimly, "They've...leveled up quite a bit while with the Rebels." The last word was a spat.
"Well, good job getting one of them. Just keep their personalities in check, and we'll be destroying all rebellion in the Fir-tetra."
The blue-headed man nodded, "Of course."
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'Lawrence, huh?' Gryffon looked faintly amused at the other boy, but he snapped back to the situation.
"For now, just stay low." He bent over, and with a slight sorrowful look on his face, stripped two dead comrades of their yellow-orange phones. "These are how I can reach you, and how you can read me. I'll give you orders through these."
The two girls nodded and took the devices. The man noted with a sigh that Amaryllis still had a disappointed look on her face.
Gryffon leaned over and looked at the girl in the eye. "Don't worry, Zack and his squad will find Ryou and bring him back, 'kay? I'm sure that idiot's just fine. Probably got lost or somethin-"
A movement in the nearby bushes alerted him. Swiftly, he brought out his sword.
"Who's there?!" he growled.
"G-gryffon..." Zack came out, bleeding profusely from various wounds, and left eye shut from a slash. Gryffon dropped his weapon in surprise, but quickly recollected his wits. He dashed forward and steadied the boy. From the way the emerald ring on Zack's finger was warm and dimming, he knew that he had desperately used magic to teleport.
"Zack! What happened to you?! Where are the others?"
"A-all dead..."
"All twenty of them?!" Gryffon's face darkened. "Was it the Inter-tetra?"
Zack was starting to fade out from blood-loss, and the last thing he murmered before blacking out was, "...Hawk..." Gryffon's face paled.
Amaryllis and Shashika were swift to move in to heal the boy, but Gryffon knew that no magic was going to be able to fix his left eye.
"What did he mean by Hawk?" Amaryllis demanded between muttering spells.
Gryffon bit his lip so hard that blood began to stream down his chin, "...It was Ryou's name as an Inter-tetra soldier..."
"You mean to say-"
Suddenly, Gryffon's phone began to buzz, and the man snatched it up. On the screen, the letters "RYOU" could be seen.
"Don't worry, Zack and his squad will find Ryou and bring him back..."
Gryffon's golden eyes narrowed, and he pressed the red button to answer it.
"Hello?" he practically spat into the speaker.
"I'm sure that idiot's just fine."
"Let the hunt begin."
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Amaryllis was shocked to the core. "Hawk..."
"Let the hunt begin." That wasn't Krou... it was Ryou. Amaryllis wanted to scream, but she knew it wouldn't help. Lawrence was in the bush again, shaking violently and Shashika was white as a sheet.
"Are you... saying he's our... enemy?" Amaryllis choked. She had come here to find him and help him, and now it looked likeshe might have to fight him instead.
'Better if we'd never met...'
Lawrence saw her sway and ran to her, steadying her from falling. "Amaryllis! Just forget about him... you were better off without him. Why is this so important to you?"
Amaryllis blinked.
Ryou was so immersed in his thoughts with his other half, that he nearly smacked into a girl when making a turn at the side walk.
It was only pure reflex from training that save him, and he twisted around the other to dodge her.
"Oh! I'm sorry!" he apologized as his senses came back to him.
"He was so nice..."
"Hello!" he replied back cheerfully. He shifted his bag over to his other shoulder, and scratched his head with a nervous laugh. "My boss requested that I send some supplies over to his friend here." Ryou's gloved hand dropped back down to hang at his side. "Amaryllis, huh? What a beautiful name!"
"I never imagined that he'd..."
"Hello-" Ryou's call was cut short by an uneven tile sticking up out of the floor. He stumbled ungracefully, and barely saved the package of food from being bruised by reflexively swinging it out the opposite direction of his falling body. But as result, he banged his head against the hard walls of the house.
"I guess I just got wrapped up in the strangeness of it all..."
At the touch, Krou recoiled away from the girl, as if he had been burnt.
"Agg!" he screeched, and slapped her hand away brutally, "don't touch me you filthy maggot!"
"I'm sorry." She said, feeling like she had offended him somehow. "I don't have the right... I was just worried about you, and..." not realizing that she was crying, she was shocked when she felt a tear fall.
"I'm sorry." She said, apologizing again and frowned. "If I made you mad, then... maybe I can make it up to you." Even after wiping all the tears, they kept coming. It was like she knew something was wrong, but she couldn't help but feel like maybe she had done something to make him mad. "Do... do you... hate... me?" she asked softly.
"Because... I don't hate you. If it makes you feel better, you can hit me again. But afterwards... maybe we can still be friends."
"I won't leave without you. Either we leave together, or we fight together." She smiled, wiping away a tear. Grabbing her sword, she prepared to fight back.
"There are so many memories..."
Lawrence snickered.
"What?"
"It's nothing... just... you like him."
Amaryllis coughed. "What?!"
"Oh come on! I've seen it a million times, you wanna save him so that he finally likes you..."
Amaryllis wanted to hit him. "This isn't some drama show! We're in a war, and he could really die! Stop acting like such a... a child!"
Amaryllis huffed off, beginning to pace. For a second, she wondered... and then stopped. "What should we do?" she asked Gryffon helplessly.
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Gryffon quietly slipped the phone back into his pocket.
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The boy was covered in blood, most of it not his own. Several wounds on his body had made him stagger down to his knees, yet he still kept his relentless hold on Gryffon's clothes.
"Let me join!" Ryou choked, "I want to get revenge. Revenge for my family!"
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Zack had awakened just in time to hear the message.
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"Zack? I'm Ryou! Nice ta meet ch'ya." Zack turned red and nodded his head.
"It's an honor to be greeted by you, Ryou-sama," he muttered quickly.
"Oh really? Don't say my name like that! It makes me uncomfortable. It's Ryou. Ryou!"
Zack looked up at the good-naturely grinning face, and he smiled back, "It's nice to meet you too, Ryou."
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"But...why?!" Zack cried as Rebels around him fell over, spurting blood. He himself had only barely managed to dodge the very quick attack. "Why have you-"
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"Hey, I heard you leveled up to General in the Rebel ranks! You can have your own squad now," Ryou's brightly smiling face made Zack's spirit soar even higher at the praise.
"B-but I'll never become as amazing as you," Zack stammered, "You the strongest Rebel we have, even stronger than Gryffon himself!"
Ryou scratched his head uncomfortably and blushed, "I'm not that great."
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"Just be quiet already." Zack's eyes widened as the figure disappeared. Suddenly, he felt a blinding pain in his left eye. Screaming, he fell over over. Ryou was standing over him with an unsympathetic look on his face, holding a sword dripping in blood. He raised it to finish the boy off.
"D-dire un meclir," Zack gasped, and his emerald ring glowed. He disappeared just as the metal tip of Ryou's weapon dug into the soft ground.
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"Let go of me boy!" Gryffon, annoyed, yanked at his shirt to release it from Ryou's grip.
"I want to become a Rebel!" Ryou's eyes were becoming hazed over from loss of blood. "Let...me..." And then his hand relaxed, and he dropped like a stone. Gryffon sighed, not really willing to let the boy die in the middle of the streets. Especially such an energetic one like him.
An energetic boy desiring revenge for his slain family.
Gryffon sighed and squated down on his knees. Taking his bandana off his arm, he began wiping away blood from the Ryou's face, but then he paused. The boy's cheeks were still glistening from tears he shed for his family.
Gryffon picked him up, "Fine, you win boy. I'll let you join the Rebels."
That was the last day Gryffon or anyone ever saw Ryou cry.
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Gryffon shook his head and blinked rapidly to clear his mind.
"If it's a fight the b*****d wants, it's a fight he's gonna get." He bent over Zack. "Zack, take us to the place you met him."
The boy frowned, snapping out of his thoughts, "Why? He might not even be there now."
Gryffon's face was grim, "No, from his message, he'll still be there, waiting for us."
Zack sighed and struggled to his feet, "You're only asking for death. Ryou's much, much stronger than I- no, anyone, thought he was."
"I know."
Zack turned to Amaryllis, and seeing the look on her face, he couldn't help but try to comfort her. "Amaryllis, Ryou's feelings back then weren't fake." The boy pulled out a smile from his sadness, "Something just suddenly made him change. I don't know what, but believe me, when you knew him, he wasn't acting." Zack placed a comforting hand on her shoulder.
"Let's go," Gryffon urged.
Zack turned back quickly to his leader, and his ring began glowing, "Dire un meclir."
The group was blinded by a brilliant flash of light, but when it faded, they were able to see that they were in a forest....a forest completely smothered in blood. The fresh pine smell had been replaced by the stench of rotten flesh, and the floor was completely littered in the corpses of Rebels. Up ahead, a blood-splattered boy was sitting leisurely on a particularly large pile of bodies. His blue eyes were watching the group as a cat eyes its prey, and his hand was holding a sword covered in crimson liquid with an easy grip. He was wearing his usual black tanktop and pants, with dark gloves, and his goggles, darkened from a blue to a red, were nesting on the top of his head. The only difference in outfit was a black collar, with the blue symbol of the Inter-tetra on it, around his neck.
"Hello," Ryou greeted in an eerily calm way, "I've been waiting for you."
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Quickly aware of everything around her, Amaryllis tensed up. But at the same time, she knew she wanted to just let everything out. Lawrence stared in awe at the frightening man before him, and glanced at Amaryllis wonderingly, wanting to see him the way she did.
The blood-stained forest only brought back memories, and his throne of corpses was like a scene from a nightmare. It was a familiar feeling that brought back bad memories...
"Amaryllis... your parents aren't coming back!"
Young Amaryllis blinked. "Yes they are! They're on the Ceverrinth and-"
"THERE IS NO CEVERRINTH ANYMORE!" Silence. "I wish there was a better way to tell you but... you're on your own now, sweetie."
There had never been enough tears...
Yet, she knew one thing...
"Hey Ryou!" She shouted, throwing her cloak off of her and smiling. "You came back."
Zack said something to give her hope. The boy she met wasn't all a lie. He was in there somewhere, and she had to give it a try.
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Ryou paused, but then leaped off the pile of corpses to land fluidly on the ground. He looked up at Amaryllis and smiled brightly. For a minute there, it seemed like the old Ryou had come back.
"Hi, Amaryllis," he called cheerfully, ignoring Gryffon and the others. "Beautiful scenery, huh?" Ryou laughed and spread his arms out. "I did this all by myself too! I just couldn't stand the ugly trees and the disgusting smell, so I decided to redecorate it...with the corpses of the Rebels."
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Amaryllis shook her head. "No, Shashika... one mistake is not enough to condemn someone for." Looking at Ryou, who was up again, looking a bit startled, but it was quickly thrown away again and his happy face returned.
"Ryou... what are you doing? Why are you doing this? I know this isn't you. Something's wrong, and you can tell me, you know!" Slowly she walked closer and closer, becoming slightly less afraid.
Reaching out her hand for his, she smiled. "It's not too late, you know. We did come here for you... I came here for you. Because I wanted you to come back."
Lawrence gasped, causing everyone to look at him.
"Guys... we're not alone... I don't know if their soldiers or monsters, but there's something out there!"
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"Guys... we're not alone... I don't know if their soldiers or monsters, but there's something out there!"
Ryou took Amaryllis's hands into his and leaned closer to her. "Don't worry," he murmered, "They're just some Inter-tetra soldier to take me away...once I'm done with you all." He raised his head and looked into Amaryllis's eyes, the sapphire orbs were icy and emotionless. "I'm not going back."
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"Just some... WHAT?!" Amaryllis fumed. She looked back at the others with a hopeless frown. "Ryou... please tell me that they're here to take you by force, because... I mean... you're not... one of them... are you?"
No... but he might think he is...
Amaryllis suddenly noticed how close he was and how his hands had been holding her's just a second ago. They had been so warm... nothing like the look his icy blue eyes were giving her now.
"Those people killed my parents... I know you are not like them. There are good people on that planet, but the military... all they care about is winning. I... well... I care about YOU. And I care about my friends and the lives of the people I love..."
Amaryllis frowned. "Even if I have to fight until I DIE I will NEVER give up."
"Either we leave together or we fight together." Amaryllis said, taking his hand and interlacing her fingers within his.
"These were the words I offered you when we fought side by side. Now I offer them to you again... what will you do?"
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"Kill you." Ryou smirked suddenly, his kind smile disappearing into the malicious grin. In a flash, he shoved Amaryllis away from her and had his sword drawn.
"No!" Gryffon ran foward, his own weapon drawn, and the two clashed.
"You're getting past your time, old man," Ryou sneered, the face giving him a remarkable likeness to Krou.
"And your going too far! Why have you joined Inter-tetra?!" Gryffon swung his blade in an arc, but Ryou was swifter, and he neatly ran his sword through the man's throat.
"Just shut up, piece of s**t."
The Rebel leader fell, slain by the one who used to be the Rebel's strongest warrior. Gryffon was dead before he hit the ground.
In the silence that followed, Ryou turned and pointed his bloody sword at Amaryllis's neck.
"Your next."
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Aaand that's as far as we've gotten so far. ^^; Once we get a bit further, I'll post the rest later. Whew, did a TON of color changes there. Lotta work. bleehhh....
~Cold Fire~
 Password Executive · Sat May 19, 2007 @ 09:35pm · 0 Comments |
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