Ah, Deception, How Rewarding.
A/N: READ MY REVIEW IF YOU HAVE READ THIS STORY ON OR BEFORE DEC.9(10) 2003
Hey lookie here, a SCII story! This game is kickass, and of course I am only talking about the GCN version. NINTENDO RULES! WHOOP WHOOP!
Oh yeah, this story is a slight AU. Heheheh. . . "slight". . .
KK, now I will not describe what the characters are wearing unless it is an OC, but I doubt I shall need those.
Name: outfit/weapon
Talim: Pink white and blue outfit/Double Crescent Blade
Yunsung: Red haired version/White Storm
Cassandra: Blue version/Red Crystal Rod
Link: Green (why change a good thing?)/Master Sword
Sophitia: Pink version/Synval
Raphael: Blue coated version/Schweizer
Ivy: George Washington Style (The one where she does NOT look like a concubine)/Alraune
Xianghua: Blue Style/Krita Yuga
Maxi: Blond Version/Chained Kozuka
Taki: Armoured Style/Silent Edge
Nightmare: Shirtless(=3)/Soul Edge
Others: Whatever comes to mind (But no weird animal suits or whatnot! Just what they actually are seen in!)
ON WITH THE STUFF!
"talking"
"~device speaking~"
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Chapter One, Goodbye
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"Goodbye."
Goodbye. A strange word, no? It could mean 'so long' in a sorrowful sense, like when you are sayin last words to a dear departed. Or it could mean 'see you' in a slightly happy sense, like when you are seeing your friend off somewhere, rejoicing in the fact that you will play another day.
In this case, it was unknown what sense 'goodbye' was used in. I was leaving on a journey to end the Terror. The Terror that had claimed the lives of many, including the many people of our village. It had swept across the winds we had for so long worshipped and taken many of our family and friends. And now my father had fallen ill, and without him, our village would become dilapidated. That is why I am leaving. To save my father and my village. To destroy the foresaken swqord that had caused us many a misery. To forever abolish the Soul Edge.
"Goodbye," repeated my father, "Take great caution Talim." He waved me off and then went back to rest. He was very weak, and could not hold himself up. I got up from my kneeling position and walked out of his chambers, nodding to the guards at the door. I was then greeted by the rest of the village, the elders telling me to stay back and the young ones telling me to go for it. I listened to neither of the group and kept my mind on my goal. I was going to defeat the vile blade no matter what anyone else said. I had to. I walked out of the gates and these guards began to close them, but then a little girl ran between them, accompanied by two boys and a woman. The girl stepped to me and handed me a parcel. It was a finely crafted doll.
"Mama made this. I asked her to. I said you needed to have a piece of home. And you need a piece of luck. So she made you a doll of your papa, she said that he would keep your thoughts good and give you stremgth. She said to tell you to take care."
I kneeled down and patted the girl on the head. "Thank you very much. This doll is very beautiful and bears great resemblance to my father. Tell your mother I said thank you alright Sati?"
Sati nodded and ran back to her family. The gates closed. I turned and studied the doll. I grasped it firmly and placed it to my chest.
"For you father, and for everyone, I will succeed."
And with that I began my journey.
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"Goodbye."
I glared back at my now ex-fiancee. I wanted to help our people and rid our country of the Terror, but she was against it and she made her feelings known with everything she could. "NO!" she had said. "Become a farmer and let us live peacefully!" she demanded. "IF YOU GO, WE ARE FINISHED! THE WEDDING WILL BE OFF!" she finally shrieked. Well you know what? By that time, I was fed up. I mean, if we had one fight like that and I felt like I was in h*ll, then marriage would be h*ll every hour of every day of every week of every month of every year as long as we were living (in this country, you could not divorce)! So I left. I went on my journey. Women, ha! Who needs 'em? They just cook and clean while you pay for their every need and desire. Besides, I am 18! I have a looooooooooong life to live and will NOT spend the majority of it tied down!
"Goodbye Mina," I replied with no emotion. Under my breath and muttered "b*tch" and continued out the door.
"Yunsung! One more thing! DO NOT COME BACK UNLESS YOU WISH TO DIE!"
I froze in shock. How could she do that? And why, because I disobeyed her? I no longer had any time to think for the Lizardman Guards were lumbering toward me, ready to chop me in two. I ran to the city wall, a tall border seperating our city from the rest of the world. I hesitated a bit, and then spied a Lizardman guarding the gates with his back turned. I ran and bounded off of him over the wall, successfully evading Mina's vile minions. I ran and heard a voice behind me.
"Yo, Sung man, where ya goin'?"
I turned my head over my shoulder and gave a small salute. "To obtain the Soul Edge! Goodbye my friend!"
With that I continued running, not once looking back again.
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"Goodbye."
I looked at my bedridden sister with sorrowful eyes. She had fallen ill with an unknown sickness at the same time the Terror appeared. Raphael (her fiance) and I had worried to our extent, and now we were to do something about it. We wanted to end the Terror, and through further studies, found that we needed to destroy the Soul Edge. We were leaving tonight and at this moment we knelt by her bedside.
"Cassandra, my sister, take care," she whispered. She gave me a feeble smile and I nodded. I then stood and walked outside, where I was met with a great surprise.
Link.
We stood, our eyes never leaving the other. For a long time nothing moved, and the stillness was broken by him kissing my hand, placing something inside it and then running off. I was stunned. When I recovered, I was about to study the object when the door creaked open. I stuffed it in one of my pouches and spun around to greet my sister's fiance, dismayed that I had not gotten to say goodbye to my own love.
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"Goodbye."
My love cautioned her sister, who then turned and left the cabin. I was alone with my fiancee once again. I stood over her and leaned down, kissing her hand. "Sophitia, my dear, I-" I was interrupted by her finger upon my lips.
"No Raphael, you need not to apologize. I will be fine, and I have faith in you and my sister to succeed. Y-"
Now I interrupted her, this time placing a kiss upon her lips.
"Y-you musn't dawdle now. . . " she faintly breathed, mesmerized. I bowed and straightened.
"Goodbye my love, and wait for me, for I shall return." With that, I walked out of the cabin and was greeted by Cassandra.
"Are you ready to go Raphael?" she asked.
I thought back to my Sophitia, laying in bed, tired and sick. "More ready than I will ever be."
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"Goodbye."
I knelt down beside my father's corpse, not weeping, but mourning. My father, with whom I had grown up, trained, fought and adventured with, was dead. Killed by the soul-sucking sword Soul Edge weilded by the mutant menace Nightmare. We were hiking and spotted an old abandoned chapel in which we decided to rest. Suddenly, the floor began to quake and we were standing on a barren wasteland, with molten lava spurting out of cracks in the coarse ground. Nightmare had then appeared and my father's eyes immediately narrowed. "Stay away and out of this Ivy," he had said. I backed up and watched in terror the fight and the death of my father. Nightmare had impaled him and then threw him on the ground. "Cervantes," Nightmare had growled, "Your much awaited end has come here. Now, GIVE ME YOUR SOUL!" The Soul Edge's eye had opened and radiated much dark energy. My father paled and plaed until, alas, he was no more. And then Nightmare and the battlefield disappeared, leaving us in the chapel once again.
I held my late father's hand, recoiling inside at its lack of warmth. It was freezing, more than a normal dead body's and believe me, I have seen and felt many dead bodies.
Just then, the ground began to rumble and I saw a sillohuete of Nightmare appear behind a window.
"You had better run onna, or else you shall join Cervantes!" he roared. I knew at my present state that I was no match for him, so I said to my fathert's body, "I promise you, I will avenge your death and end the Terror!" and ran. I ran as fast as I could, deep into the surrounding woods, thinking that I would never see my father again. "Goodbye. . .goobye father. . . goodbye. . . "
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"Goodbye."
I knelt before my widowed queen, Xianghua. I was at the country border and she had asked to have a word with me before I left. I was leaving to end the Terror, defeat my rival and for something else. . . to see my beloved once again. . . Taki. I was venturing to her cabin first, before doing anything else. We had not had much contact these past few years and after some persuasion, the Queen allowed me to venture out and, well this was only what she knew, destroy the Terror. She had made me promise to return right after I had completed my task and I would. I was itching to leave and see Taki, but Xianghua was lecturing me. Now, I had finally grown weary of her ramblings and said goodbye.
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"Goodbye."
I stopped talking. Maxi had said goodbye. I knew he would, but I wanted to avoid the inevitable. I sighed and knew that he, my one true love, was leaving. I had married the King, Hwang, but he had been killed. His daughter was left in charge of one city and I of the country. I did not love Hwang, I merely wished for his status and power. So a few months of withstanding his idle chitchat, I killed him. Swift and undetectable. I was to be out of the city on that day, so I was unsuspected. But then I met Maxi, Hwang's top knight. And I fell in love. And, though I did not want him to leave, his perpetual insisting caused me to snap. I let him go, but before doing so, I lectured him about taking care and not straying of to women and other things.
"Goodbye, Queen Xianghua," he said again.
I sighed again heavily, defeated. "Goodbye Maxi. Goodbye."
And then he was gone.
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A/N: I hope you liked it and please R&R!
I got Sati from The Matrix: Revoloutions. I just named her that becaused she reminded me of her. I do not own neither movie nor game.
Whew, my hands are tired of typing. I made like, 300 typos already LPL!
Lol. . . yea. . .
Thankies to those who reviewed recently!
Ciao 4 Now!
THe Amazing Sponge
A/N: READ MY REVIEW IF YOU HAVE READ THIS STORY ON OR BEFORE DEC.9(10) 2003
Hey lookie here, a SCII story! This game is kickass, and of course I am only talking about the GCN version. NINTENDO RULES! WHOOP WHOOP!
Oh yeah, this story is a slight AU. Heheheh. . . "slight". . .
KK, now I will not describe what the characters are wearing unless it is an OC, but I doubt I shall need those.
Name: outfit/weapon
Talim: Pink white and blue outfit/Double Crescent Blade
Yunsung: Red haired version/White Storm
Cassandra: Blue version/Red Crystal Rod
Link: Green (why change a good thing?)/Master Sword
Sophitia: Pink version/Synval
Raphael: Blue coated version/Schweizer
Ivy: George Washington Style (The one where she does NOT look like a concubine)/Alraune
Xianghua: Blue Style/Krita Yuga
Maxi: Blond Version/Chained Kozuka
Taki: Armoured Style/Silent Edge
Nightmare: Shirtless(=3)/Soul Edge
Others: Whatever comes to mind (But no weird animal suits or whatnot! Just what they actually are seen in!)
ON WITH THE STUFF!
"talking"
"~device speaking~"
¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤
Chapter One, Goodbye
¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤
"Goodbye."
Goodbye. A strange word, no? It could mean 'so long' in a sorrowful sense, like when you are sayin last words to a dear departed. Or it could mean 'see you' in a slightly happy sense, like when you are seeing your friend off somewhere, rejoicing in the fact that you will play another day.
In this case, it was unknown what sense 'goodbye' was used in. I was leaving on a journey to end the Terror. The Terror that had claimed the lives of many, including the many people of our village. It had swept across the winds we had for so long worshipped and taken many of our family and friends. And now my father had fallen ill, and without him, our village would become dilapidated. That is why I am leaving. To save my father and my village. To destroy the foresaken swqord that had caused us many a misery. To forever abolish the Soul Edge.
"Goodbye," repeated my father, "Take great caution Talim." He waved me off and then went back to rest. He was very weak, and could not hold himself up. I got up from my kneeling position and walked out of his chambers, nodding to the guards at the door. I was then greeted by the rest of the village, the elders telling me to stay back and the young ones telling me to go for it. I listened to neither of the group and kept my mind on my goal. I was going to defeat the vile blade no matter what anyone else said. I had to. I walked out of the gates and these guards began to close them, but then a little girl ran between them, accompanied by two boys and a woman. The girl stepped to me and handed me a parcel. It was a finely crafted doll.
"Mama made this. I asked her to. I said you needed to have a piece of home. And you need a piece of luck. So she made you a doll of your papa, she said that he would keep your thoughts good and give you stremgth. She said to tell you to take care."
I kneeled down and patted the girl on the head. "Thank you very much. This doll is very beautiful and bears great resemblance to my father. Tell your mother I said thank you alright Sati?"
Sati nodded and ran back to her family. The gates closed. I turned and studied the doll. I grasped it firmly and placed it to my chest.
"For you father, and for everyone, I will succeed."
And with that I began my journey.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
"Goodbye."
I glared back at my now ex-fiancee. I wanted to help our people and rid our country of the Terror, but she was against it and she made her feelings known with everything she could. "NO!" she had said. "Become a farmer and let us live peacefully!" she demanded. "IF YOU GO, WE ARE FINISHED! THE WEDDING WILL BE OFF!" she finally shrieked. Well you know what? By that time, I was fed up. I mean, if we had one fight like that and I felt like I was in h*ll, then marriage would be h*ll every hour of every day of every week of every month of every year as long as we were living (in this country, you could not divorce)! So I left. I went on my journey. Women, ha! Who needs 'em? They just cook and clean while you pay for their every need and desire. Besides, I am 18! I have a looooooooooong life to live and will NOT spend the majority of it tied down!
"Goodbye Mina," I replied with no emotion. Under my breath and muttered "b*tch" and continued out the door.
"Yunsung! One more thing! DO NOT COME BACK UNLESS YOU WISH TO DIE!"
I froze in shock. How could she do that? And why, because I disobeyed her? I no longer had any time to think for the Lizardman Guards were lumbering toward me, ready to chop me in two. I ran to the city wall, a tall border seperating our city from the rest of the world. I hesitated a bit, and then spied a Lizardman guarding the gates with his back turned. I ran and bounded off of him over the wall, successfully evading Mina's vile minions. I ran and heard a voice behind me.
"Yo, Sung man, where ya goin'?"
I turned my head over my shoulder and gave a small salute. "To obtain the Soul Edge! Goodbye my friend!"
With that I continued running, not once looking back again.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
"Goodbye."
I looked at my bedridden sister with sorrowful eyes. She had fallen ill with an unknown sickness at the same time the Terror appeared. Raphael (her fiance) and I had worried to our extent, and now we were to do something about it. We wanted to end the Terror, and through further studies, found that we needed to destroy the Soul Edge. We were leaving tonight and at this moment we knelt by her bedside.
"Cassandra, my sister, take care," she whispered. She gave me a feeble smile and I nodded. I then stood and walked outside, where I was met with a great surprise.
Link.
We stood, our eyes never leaving the other. For a long time nothing moved, and the stillness was broken by him kissing my hand, placing something inside it and then running off. I was stunned. When I recovered, I was about to study the object when the door creaked open. I stuffed it in one of my pouches and spun around to greet my sister's fiance, dismayed that I had not gotten to say goodbye to my own love.
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"Goodbye."
My love cautioned her sister, who then turned and left the cabin. I was alone with my fiancee once again. I stood over her and leaned down, kissing her hand. "Sophitia, my dear, I-" I was interrupted by her finger upon my lips.
"No Raphael, you need not to apologize. I will be fine, and I have faith in you and my sister to succeed. Y-"
Now I interrupted her, this time placing a kiss upon her lips.
"Y-you musn't dawdle now. . . " she faintly breathed, mesmerized. I bowed and straightened.
"Goodbye my love, and wait for me, for I shall return." With that, I walked out of the cabin and was greeted by Cassandra.
"Are you ready to go Raphael?" she asked.
I thought back to my Sophitia, laying in bed, tired and sick. "More ready than I will ever be."
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
"Goodbye."
I knelt down beside my father's corpse, not weeping, but mourning. My father, with whom I had grown up, trained, fought and adventured with, was dead. Killed by the soul-sucking sword Soul Edge weilded by the mutant menace Nightmare. We were hiking and spotted an old abandoned chapel in which we decided to rest. Suddenly, the floor began to quake and we were standing on a barren wasteland, with molten lava spurting out of cracks in the coarse ground. Nightmare had then appeared and my father's eyes immediately narrowed. "Stay away and out of this Ivy," he had said. I backed up and watched in terror the fight and the death of my father. Nightmare had impaled him and then threw him on the ground. "Cervantes," Nightmare had growled, "Your much awaited end has come here. Now, GIVE ME YOUR SOUL!" The Soul Edge's eye had opened and radiated much dark energy. My father paled and plaed until, alas, he was no more. And then Nightmare and the battlefield disappeared, leaving us in the chapel once again.
I held my late father's hand, recoiling inside at its lack of warmth. It was freezing, more than a normal dead body's and believe me, I have seen and felt many dead bodies.
Just then, the ground began to rumble and I saw a sillohuete of Nightmare appear behind a window.
"You had better run onna, or else you shall join Cervantes!" he roared. I knew at my present state that I was no match for him, so I said to my fathert's body, "I promise you, I will avenge your death and end the Terror!" and ran. I ran as fast as I could, deep into the surrounding woods, thinking that I would never see my father again. "Goodbye. . .goobye father. . . goodbye. . . "
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
"Goodbye."
I knelt before my widowed queen, Xianghua. I was at the country border and she had asked to have a word with me before I left. I was leaving to end the Terror, defeat my rival and for something else. . . to see my beloved once again. . . Taki. I was venturing to her cabin first, before doing anything else. We had not had much contact these past few years and after some persuasion, the Queen allowed me to venture out and, well this was only what she knew, destroy the Terror. She had made me promise to return right after I had completed my task and I would. I was itching to leave and see Taki, but Xianghua was lecturing me. Now, I had finally grown weary of her ramblings and said goodbye.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
"Goodbye."
I stopped talking. Maxi had said goodbye. I knew he would, but I wanted to avoid the inevitable. I sighed and knew that he, my one true love, was leaving. I had married the King, Hwang, but he had been killed. His daughter was left in charge of one city and I of the country. I did not love Hwang, I merely wished for his status and power. So a few months of withstanding his idle chitchat, I killed him. Swift and undetectable. I was to be out of the city on that day, so I was unsuspected. But then I met Maxi, Hwang's top knight. And I fell in love. And, though I did not want him to leave, his perpetual insisting caused me to snap. I let him go, but before doing so, I lectured him about taking care and not straying of to women and other things.
"Goodbye, Queen Xianghua," he said again.
I sighed again heavily, defeated. "Goodbye Maxi. Goodbye."
And then he was gone.
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A/N: I hope you liked it and please R&R!
I got Sati from The Matrix: Revoloutions. I just named her that becaused she reminded me of her. I do not own neither movie nor game.
Whew, my hands are tired of typing. I made like, 300 typos already LPL!
Lol. . . yea. . .
Thankies to those who reviewed recently!
Ciao 4 Now!
THe Amazing Sponge