A/N: This is the Prelude to Season II. This is twenty years after the first ToD. That means this is after legacy.
Backstage Content
Logan's PoV
I don't like setting high expectations but for my return back into the studio... I kinda of wanted a big welcome home sign, or someone at least to care. I mean somebody besides my family, because its not everyday that a person goes off to take care of a new ability that was planted inside of him and can destroy a planet. Just saying. Then again It has been twenty years since that training and I did blow up a world…
I landed outside the Gates. Deactivated my armor and glider and took the chance to revel in the old place. There sure were some crazy moments here, yeah… its good to be back. I'm about to head into the studio when I hear some music emitting from somewhere. I walk out of the room and find that the place has changed a little bit, and when I say a little bit I mean a lot… design wise.
The old hallway texture is replace by a tan color on the walls with dark wood on the bottom. The carpet has a black texture with little spots of gold and the built-in lights are replaced by chandeliers. There's some new flowers and cool designs with metals built into the wall. Not gonna lie… I like this better than what we had before. Anyways, I focused back to the topic at hand and looked to find the source of that music. It seemed to be coming south of me and I found that was weird because… there's nothing in the south wing that would create that noise, not without it coming through the intercom…
I keep on moving until the source grows louder and it leads me to a set of wooden double doors. I open them and the music hits my ears like a guitar to the head. Even though that happened... I'm still wondering when in the hell did we get a freaking library?!
I look around the huge establishment and see that a person is sitting next to a fireplace. I try to yell over the music but the person doesn't move. I decide to get his attention by walking up to him when I greeted by the sight of an old friend.
"Jouji!" I yell but he doesn't acknowledge me. Curse this majestic music... that and the fact that he asleep does not help at all. I decide to tap his shoulder but he still doesn't wakes up so I take the chance to use my newest abilities to wake up him. I place my hand on his forearm and raise the temperature of my hand and the reaction is instantaneous. Jouji jumps from his seat, rubbing his arm in the process before he looks up to see who disturbed him.
"Logan? When did you get back?" He ask as he reaches for a remote and turns down the music.
"A couple of seconds ago actually, but I believe the bigger question is... what the heck happened while I was gone?" I ask as he stands and we both walk out of the library.
"Well… a lot of stuff. We had to make some adjustments and we needed to fix the Room of Terror," he says and I hear thunder off in the distance. Well at least that hasn't changed.
"What kind of adjustments?" I say when I see a bunch of flying drones fly past us, "What are those?"
"Oh, they're the new cameras me and Tech built. They're gonna record what happens from now on," he explains when a another one flies by.
"What, got tired of carrying the camera all the time?" I ask.
"I still have to control them. Now I just don't have to go everywhere you people want me to go." He explains and I laugh.
"Sound like laziness to me."
"Shut up."
"So where's everybody else?" I ask him when we both hear what sounds like booming when the wall right next to us explodes. What appears from the smoke is a golden, mechanical bull pinning a man with shaggy brown hair, wearing a leather jacket, black pants and a shirt to the wall next to us. Its when the dust settles when I finally recognize who the man is
"Dom?!" I shout and he turns his head to me.
"Oh Logan. Sup man, how ya been?" He says when the bull screeches and tries to push him further but Dom grabs the large horns and pushes back. The bull growls and opens its mouth. I expect it to try and bite him, but instead magma emits from it, covering Dom from head to toe. I'm about to jump in when Jouji puts his arm in front of me.
"Wait for it," he says and I look back to Dom. I see the magma start to slide off him for some odd reason. It keeps going until it sinks into the ground, burning the carpet and leaving Dom in an unphased state.
"Now that wasn't nice now was it," Dom says when the bull charges again except this time Dom delivers a hard knee to the bull's chin. He pushes the bull back then rips off one of its horns and shoves it down the bull's throat. Causing steam and mechanical noises to emit from it. Dom grabs the bull by its one horn and start to spin and spin until he gets a good speed and send the bull through the other side of the wall. Its a matter of seconds when we all hear an explosion from where the bull was tossed and pieces of the bull fly out in front of Dom.
"Bite that," Dom says when a woman with brown hair comes from the other hole and runs up to Dom.
"Did you get it?" She asks.
"Yeah... its gone. That was the worse bull ride I've ever been on," Dom says then spits out a some magma that sizzles into the carpet.
"Fang? Is that you?" I say and she turns to me.
"Oh, Logan. Nice to have you back. Just in the nick of time too," Fang says.
"I had everything under control," Dom says and Fang scoffs.
"So I guess being rammed through three walls is a sign of containment?" She says when she gets scooped up in Dom's arms and she's brought to his level.
"Like I said before... everything under control. Adaptation, remember?" He says and I start to feel very uncomfortable.
"That's becoming your motto now isn't?" Fang says and Dom chuckles.
"Yep and I'm sticking with it."
"One day that adaptation of yours is gonna be your downfall," Fangs says as she wraps her arms around Dom's neck. Etro, why me?
"Well then I might as well die a happy man," he says before kissing her on the lips. I hear her sigh when I see the kiss starting to intensify.
"Hey, take that somewhere else." Jouji says and Dom flips him off without looking. Jouji scoffs and he walks through the hole as I follow him. Leaving the lovers in their embrace.
"Nice to know they haven't changed." I say as I walk through.
"You mean besides their sexual desire, then no they haven't." Jouji says and I laugh.
"So what about everybody else?" I ask him.
"Well... we had to give their memories back from the last time they were here. It was Tech's decision, not mine." Jouji explains.
"What?! Who died and made him king?"
"He knew you were gonna act like that so he told me that he's your superior and he doesn't have time to be debating over who gets to be player one. Those were his exact words," Jouji explains as we go through the last hole and what I see is pandemonium.
There's all type of monsters in every shape and size and my whole cast, including the guests, are trying to contain them the best way they can, "Where did all these things come from?!" I shout out as I summon my keyblade and pull out my gunsword, ready to join the battle.
"You see, turns out that the portal Xain and Price used had some after effects on the Room of Terror while it was malfunctioned. Allowed these things to come through. Oh yeah, Tech wanted me to tell you to not intervene. He has everything under control," Jouji says as I see Myde getting thrown somewhere.
"Myde?" I ask but continue before anyone can respond, "So some of the 'guests' are already here. Also why am I the only one not allowed to help? He thinks I don't have control over my stigma doesn't he?"
"He never said anything about that. All he told me was to keep you out of any sort of contact with the undeaities. He's calling them that," Jouji says when I hear a screech.
"Why can't I come in contact with them?" I ask.
"Because I said so," I hear Tech's voice over the intercom, "Its nothing personal I just don't wanna see this world burn just yet. Oh yeah… welcome back Logan."
"Good to be back. Also good to be in my body again, I was stuck in the stigma form for twenty years. I just hope that Desdemona doesn't summon me again," I shout to Tech, "Not that she isn't nice but she just has bad timing."
"Very touchy moment, now could you do us a favor and... well I don't know, help us!" I hear Braig.
"I don't remember that being the deal," Tech says again, "You know the terms. Now you just need to carry it out."
"I wish I could help you out Braig, but Tech won't let me, and he could probably vaporise me if he wanted to so i'm not planning on giving him a reason to," I explain to him as I dispel my keyblade and sheathe my sword, "You know during those twenty years I didn't blow up at all and the one time I did it was to protect my family," I shout to tech.
"Whatever, the only thing I care about is not dying," Braig says as he shoots one of the undeaities in the head, "Your buddy promised me a spot."
"A spot? A spot in what?" I ask a little confused.
"Tech promised them a spot in the show if they didn't die. He called it his version of the hunger games without the stupid broad to add the attention to," Jouji explains.
I then shout to Tech, "You realize the arena is based off of that right?"
"I'm trying to cut down the size of our guests. Some of them we'll miss , others we won't. For example, that mullet fellow. The one with the black coat, no one will miss him," Tech says and I stand mortified.
"Why are us cast members having to fight them off if it is just to lower the number of guests?" I hear Nox shout but I don't give tech time to respond.
"How many have fallen?" I ask hoping for the numbers to be low, and to only include people who, like Demyx, were just clones of people who for some reason or another couldn't be here this season or last… mostly the reason was death…
"Right now, five. I'm honestly disappointed, I predicted there would be more," Tech replies.
"Who?"
"One of the doctors, Aeleus, Rould and that elf guy. Including the mullet boy it totals up."
"That means only two people actually died. That is fortunate. Jouji activate security system tactic beta-827" I say and he nods.
"What's that?" I hear someone shout when the turrets pop out and start to shoot at the Undeaities. It takes nearly all of them out except a big one in the middle and a small one that was smart and got behind the defeated brain's remains.
"Hmph, missed one." Tech says.
"But if it move to attack the machine guns will obliterate it," I say. The creature actually looks afraid, "I don't think we need to worry about it." After I finish I hear something or someone screaming off in the distance. Its when the sound gets closer when I depict what it says.
"Pavik Knee!" It shouts and a black blur goes past me and towards the large Undeaitie. The crunch of a jaw lets me conclude what's happened. Then the sudden sound of a blade slicing meat rings and I cringe. I see that a person is now standing over the body of the Undeaitie. I don't see his face but the jacket he wears is what triggers my memory.
"Daemon?"
"Woo, that adrenaline is amazing!" He says and twirls his blade.
"With your yelling I thought you were one of Desdemona's friends," I say and when I see his confused expression I explain, "My stigma happened to match the description of a summonable creature in the land where I ended up after I caused that huge explosion, it was called Tamriel, and Demona somehow found a way to bind my stigma form to a spell."
"Who's this person who's name is so similar to mine?" Daemon puts his sword on his shoulders as he ask.
"Huh… I never noticed that… well she is a breton mage, a breton is a race in Tamriel that is naturally able to use magic… well they all are but the bretons are the most powerful human race when it comes to magic. She is also able to use the powers of dragons by sho…" I start then hear a familiar voice.
"By doing this," The scratchy voice says then, "Krii Lun aus" A purple flame comes from the hall opposite the one Daemon came through and hits the small Undeaitie, killing it, after it wails in pain for about 30 seconds. I look down the hall and see a woman wearing a black and red, tight suit with black leather shoulder pads and wrist braces. Along with a black hood and a bow made of bones on her back.
"Hello, J'innia," I say with a scowl. This Khajiit assassin is the last thing I need here.
"Hello, Khajiit did not expect there to be so many people here," She says, "Who are you anyway?" I sigh, enter my stigma form then return to my human form, "Oh Logan! Haven't seen you in a month. Thought that backstabbing [censored] would never release you, but now…" She starts moving towards me and I summon my keyblade.
"Don't even try," I say as stab at her throat, stopping just before it would hit her. As I do I think I see something black but it is probably just a shadow, "Or I will kill you."
"Got it," She says, "There are plenty of others ar…"
"They are not food for your hunger," I say, "They are guests."
"You sure invite the wrong crowd Logan," I hear a new person say. I look to see that Tech has finally appeared. I think that I see the black figure again but when I blink it is gone
"I didn't invite her. She must have followed me here," I say to him.
"Invite, follow. What's the difference? Now since you're here J'innia... we'll have to set some ground rules, okay?" He says to her.
"No breton is going to tell Khajiit what she can and can't do," She snarls at him.
"You see thats gonna be problem. I don't want you going on a rampage and killing everybody in this room, so here's rule one," Tech says and splashes something in her face, causing her to scream in pain and fall to her knees.
"You will not feed on anyone. Rule Two..." He pulls out two bottles and pops their caps off before pouring the liquid over J'innia's back. Making it sizzle and smoke.
"You will not turn anyone into what you are, and rule three..." Tech gets a bucket from who knows where and pours it all on her. Her screams now turn into whimpers and she twitches a little bit. Not to mention that her whole body is literally smoking.
"You'll shall only be given blood by the brains. If we find any other blood with you thats not prescribed by us... well I think you know what happens then," Tech says and I see him pull out a lighter. That's where I step in.
"Tech, I think you have gotten your point across. I don't like her that much either but she doesn't need to be tortured this much… yet," I say.
"Have I? I didn't hear it from her lips now I did," Tech replies and lowers himself down to her level. He flips the lighter on just mere inches away from her face. "Do you understand me? Know your place and I won't burn your face. Clear?"
"C-Clear, Khajiit understands," She says, "I won't break the rules," I look up and I think I see Daisuke's eyes as wide as they can be before he walks away.
"Good to know," Tech pats her head before getting and switching the lighter off, "I believe the same goes for you too, Daisuke. Do you?" Daisuke freezes in his tracks and slowly turns to Tech.
"Y-Yes. I d-don't even drink blood unless i-it is n-necessary," He says, "You-You'll have no trouble from me."
"Good, now that everybody's alive and acquainted for. I think we can get this show on the road, everybody head to the studio," Tech says and everybody starts to move except me. I see the black figure from earlier sneak towards Tech and when he gets close to me I see that it is J'innia's brother, J'aero. I smirk when I see him tie a coin pouch around Tech's back belt loop without him noticing.
I walk over to him and say, "Nice to see you J'aero. And nice job on paying Tech."
He jumps when I speak to him, "Hello Logan, You have always had keen eyes," He says.
"I didn't need keen eyesight to see you though, You walked right in front of me." I say to him then start to go to the studio, "Come on. I need you to help us keep your sister in check," He smirks then follows. We catch up with the group but they stop at the entrance. Me and Tech walk past them and I'm shocked by who I see is there.
"Aqua, Dyce, EMP, Roque, Wreckers, Xain, Demona!" I shout in excitement.
"And?" I hear a voice come from inside and I groan.
"Price," I say and the voices sounds off his approval. I see Price laying upside down on my chair while his brother stands in front of... when did we get those big speakers? Anyway, Dyce is talking to Demona. EMP is on his little device, Roque is meditating, The Wreckers are... when did a plasma screen Television get in the studio? That and Aqua... oh my Aqua. I run straight up to her, although her back is to me... either way I pick her up and twirl her in my arms. She yelps her surprisement but it soon turns to laughter.
"Logan! When did you get back?" She says as I put her down.
"Just now, and I have to say… out of all the people I missed, you were the one I missed the most," I say as I turn her around.
"Oh stop. I know it was really Nox who you missed," Aqua says and I scoff.
"He can go to hell for all I care. I missed you. Talking to you, holding you... kissing you," I say as I lean in and kiss her. Finally after all that time, I can kiss my wife once again! Unfortunately, someone breaks it up and I see that its Dyce.
"Okay, enough of that. Anyways, glad to see that you haven't imploded again. How's it going dude?" Dyce says and we do a quick hug.
"Interesting to say the least," I start, "Tech tried to dwindle down our guests by summoning some weird creatures he called Undeaities. Fortunately I stopped it before there were too many casualties. Only two people actually died. The rest were clones. Speaking of people dying, how are you here Jouji?" I ask remembering about how he died not long after last season was over.
"I didn't die. Just suffered a heavy amount of blood loss. Lucky enough for me Tech found a donator to get… eh… blood back," Jouji says.
"Huh… I'm sure Jet will be surprised to see you're alive," I say then turn to Dyce and ask, "Did you know that Tech was killing off people just to lower the number of 'guests?' Not that I expect that you would have let him but I also don't believe he could have done that without your knowledge."
"Oh I knew. I just prefer to stay out of his little games," Dyce says.
"Why didn't you stop him?! He ended up killing Mobius' clone, Dark link, who was already technically dead, Demyx, who was obliterated, Rould and Aeleus!" I shout then realize that they actually did pretty good… especially since Mobius's Robo-Scorpions shut down with him, "Wait was Rould one of the Xehanorts? If so then we actually only lost one person… wow… Maybe I should just use this crew when we need to enter a big fight…"
"Next time you shouldn't be quick to judge my methods," Tech says behind me. As he walks past me I notice the coin pouch is still there.
"Hey Tech…" I say to get his attention.
"What?"
"A friend of mine gave you something earlier. You may want to check your back belt loop," I say.
"Oh-ho, looks like Tech got a tip," Price jokes.
"Not that kind of tip, you dumbass," Tech says then rips the pouch off, "Tell your friend this, never put anything near my bottom half again or I'll make his or her life a living hell!"
"What did you want khajiit to do? Khajiit was trying to see if you would notice me. Thieves always practice…" I hear J'aero say but even when we look to where the voice came from we don't see him.
"Brother… Why are you here?" I hear J'innia ask with a noise that sounds like a mix between a hiss and a growl.
"To make sure you don't feed on anyone."
"I think I laid down the rules for her. Unless... she didn't hear me clearly and I have to repeat myself," Tech says and I see he has another bottle in his hand.
"You go out of line with it. He has other ways to deal with her, such as his calm shout," I say, "Not as cruel and still just as effective," I explain.
"Sometimes the peaceful tactics don't work, and you have to resort to more aggressive things. Thats where I come in, to put them in line. That goes for you too J'aero, if I hear any shit from you... i show you the real meaning of being burned at the stake," Tech says.
"Khajiit is no vampire, actually quite the opposite," He says, "Khajiit is a member of the dawnguard, a group of warriors that protects people from the bloodthirsty vampires. Their are some vampires who have learned to peacefully live with-"
"Boring! Make it stop!" I hear EMP shout. As soon as he does a crossbow bolt hits the wall, millimeters away from his ear.
"Don't interrupt me again," J'aero says as he walks into view, revealing that he has two swords made of dragonbone at his sides, a white ancient bow, the same kind of arrows that J'innia has, a dwarven crossbow, and dwarven bolts. He is holding out the Crossbow and has it pointed towards EMP
"Oh no, I'm scared for my…" he starts then I realize that the bolt is one of the explosive bolts. I quickly run over and pull EMP away from the wall just before it blows.
"I didn't drop my phone. I'm alright," EMP says then refocuses back on his phone. He almost makes me wish I didn't save him but now I need to refocus on what is going on.
"So what brings you here Demona?" I ask, "Did you join ?"
"I never join anyone. I just so happened to cross paths with them and I gained a new accomplice," She says.
"You never liked being in a group. I am surprised you stayed with the mages college to tell the truth, but anyway how long until we start the show Dyce?"
"Well not everybody is here. We're still missing Slip, Lightning, Vanille, those two pinkheads, Rikimaru, Kairu and Riko. So I guess we could move on for now," Dyce says then I hear two voices in the hall. They don't sound like anyone I recognize and it isn't in english.
"I think this is where Galadriel said I would find my brother but I haven't found him anywhere," The first voice sounds feminine but since I don't know the language it is hard to be sure.
"I am sure she had her reasons to send you here even if your brother isn't here," The other voice seems like it is a man. I start to walk towards them to figure out who it is.
As soon as I turn the corner I see a young woman with long blue hair with two braids on the side. She has dark green armor on with a bow on and sword strapped on her side. The man next to he wears the same except he has light blonde hair also with a bow strapped on his back.
"Who are you?" I ask, knowing I may sound rude but I think that the others' safety is currently more important than being kind.
Upon hearing my voice the woman brightens up and asks, "Father?"
"Father? I doubt you're my daughter, I haven't seen her in years and the chances of her just walking in here are slim to none," I say.
"Let me handle this," The man says in the language they were speaking earlier, "Sir, I am Legolas," He says with a bow, "And if you are her father then your name should be Logan Tristar, are you Logan Tristar?"
"Y-yes… I am Logan Tristar," I say surprised the turn to the woman, "Is that you Emily?"
"Dad!" She shouts running up to me and she hugs me, "I-I thought you were dead…" I hug her back as she starts to tear up, I think I might be tearing up a little as well.
"I've missed you too Emily, And there was good reason for you to think I was dead…" I say holding back the tears.
"W-what do you mean?" she asks confused.
"The stigma, one of my powers, overloaded, but it wasn't on accident. You, your brother, and your mother were in danger so I overloaded it to give you three time to escape," I say and she hugs me tighter.
"Hehehehehe, nice reunion Emily," I hear a sinister voice ring out and I feel Emily's body freeze in my arms.
I recognize the voice myself and growl out, "Kairu."
"Nice to see you too, Logan... alive that is. I can't tell you all the fun me and your daughter have had," I now hear his voice behind me but when I turn around he isn't there.
Emily pulls out of the hug and draws her sword. Legolas draws both of his and I summon my keyblade, "Show yourself Kairu!" I shout.
"Believe me I would if I could, but unfortunately I can only speak to you in your minds. So enjoy your time together, you never know when it might be your last. Kufufufu, goodbye my doves," he says then he goes quiet, so we put away our weapons.
"Who are you talking to?" I hear J'aero ask.
"You really need to stop sneaking around like that J'aero," I say and he stands up and walks out of the shadows with a smirk, "This is my daughter Emily," I point to her then to Legolas, "A friend of hers, Legolas."
Emily speaks up and says, "He's actually my husband dad," She says.
This catches me off guard but I regain my composure before saying, "I'm sorry I hadn't been able to even hear about the wedding," I say and she smiles a little. I turn to J'aero and say, "And the person we were talking to was Kairu who apparently can't show himself…"
"Khajiit not think this Kairu is a friend of yours," He says.
"Who's Khajiit? I thought Logan said your name was J'aero," Legolas says scratching his head.
"Khajiit are a race of people from the land of Tamriel. Instead of saying I or me, the Khajiit tend to say the name of their race," I explain.
"J'aero, Kairu is definitely not a friend of ours," My daughter says.
"But I am right?" A new voice enters and I see its Rikimaru.
"Yes Rikimaru, You and Riko are friends. Just not Kairu," I say to him.
"Yet he's a part of me. So if you hate him then technically you hate a part of me also," he says.
"Yes but we like you and Riko more that we hate Kairu," I say and then notice that the other three are confused, "He basically has three different personalities," I say and they all seem to understand.
"So who is Riko?" Legolas asks, "Is he…
"She," I correct.
"Wait, wait, wait," J'aero says, "His main personality is male, His evil one is male, but his good is female? Khajiit confused."
"It is confusing," I say.
"Riko and Kairu are a part of me. Each one represents my Light and my Darkness. When one is overpowering the other disappears. There's a balance needed or I'll go insane," Rikimaru says.
"Yeah… and we definitely don't want your dark self to take control, but even Riko can get a little crazy at times," I explain.
"So as I was going to ask earlier," Legolas starts, "Riko is your good personality and Kairu is your bad so… Do you remember what Kairu did?"
"Did what?" He says.
"Hmm… do you want the whole list or just a few examples?" My daughter asks.
"A list? My god is it that bad?"
"Yes it is," Legolas says.
"Well... since its Kairu, then give me a few examples," he says.
"He was one of the lieutenants in Sauron's horde which allowed him to use the darkness to upgrade the orcs, uruk-hai, goblins, and wargs, He led raid on many villages in the plains of Rohan and…" Emily falls silent before looking at me worried.
"He caused the destruction of Rivendell one of the two safe havens in Rivendell," Legolas finishes for her and she gives a sigh of relief.
"Wow, but you wanna know what is weird... from what you said I felt very sad a lot when I was younger. Did anything happen with Kairu that could've caused it?" He asks Legolas.
"He had lost someone he held dear, she fell at the battle of the Black Gate," Emily starts to tear up a little, "She… was a person who was… good but was corrupted… by him. She was also…" Emily falls silent and runs off in tears.
"Don't say it! Don't you dare say it! You don't deserve to say it!" Rikimaru says but it doesn't sound like him at all. I notice how his eyes turn black like Kairu's.
"Rikimaru!" I shout, "Don't let Kairu take control!"
"Never mention her again! Or I'll kill you all!" Rikimaru says again and his eyes return to normal. I think I see tears starting to emerge from his eyes also.
"Woah, that was weird. It was like past emotions that were bottled up inside of me just came rushing back in. Very weird," He says and wipes his eyes. I see them flash again but it quickly returns back to normal.
"That was Kairu speaking. And I know who he was talking about but out of respect for my wife and her father I will not mention it, unless Kairu speaks in the forbidden language again," Legolas says then rushes of after Emily.
"How is it out of respect to me?" I ask but he is too far away to hear, "Do you know what he was talking about Rikimaru, or do you still not have access to Kairu's memories?"
"No I don't. Seems like Kairu doesn't want anyone talking about this woman. Whoever she... she's... she's the only person he ever cared about," Riku explains.
"Huh… That is interesting. I also wonder why even before Kairu came out Emily ran off," I say, "I'm going to check on her," I say and start walking towards where she want off to.
"Don't," J'aero says to me, "Khajiit could tell that she was trying to tell you something but wasn't ready to. Khajiit thinks you should give her some time."
I stop and lean on the wall, "Oh… Alright. I'll let her have some alone time then," I say. I just found my daughter… well technically she found me, and I can't even spend time with her. I sigh before sliding into a sitting position, "So is there any way that you can have Kairu speak but not take control?" I ask Rikimaru.
"Even if I could, Kairu isn't responding. In other words, he doesn't wanna speak," He explains.
"Alright. Well if he does let me know," I say as I stand back up, "Let's let everyone know you are here," I start to walk towards the main studio.
"Ay look who is, The Master of Terror," I hear Price say as we walk in. I notice Aqua looking worried for a second then she smiles at me.
I smile back at her then say to Price, "Yes Rikimaru is here, and so is Emily and her husband. Though I didn't she was married till just a few moments ago, nor had she known I was alive," As soon as I mention Emily I see… a look of guilt on Aqua's face, "Give me a second," I say and walk over to Aqua, "What's wrong Aqua?"
"N-nothing is wrong Logan," She says then fakes a smile.
"I can tell you're lying Aqua," I say to her crossing my arms.
"I know," she says, knowing that I'm right. Like always. "Its just... its something that happened to me."
"You can tell me Aqua, you don't need to hide anything from me," I say to her.
"I know... but for this one... it should be locked away. You don't need to know what happened to me or Emily," she says.
That pieces it together for me, "You're the one Kairu corrupted… aren't you?" I ask.
She hesitates before saying the word that confirms my fears, "Yes."
"Damn him!" I shout as I punch the wall. I summon my keyblade and am about to charge at Rikimaru when someone cuts on the pacification field. I look over and see… Lightning who activated it. So instead of attacking I walk over to Rikimaru and say three words, "Bring out Kairu," He doesn't respond so I yell, "Bring him out! Now!"
"Whoa, whats with the hostility? I didn't do anything." He says.
"No you didn't. But he did!"
"He... oh no. What did you do Kairu?" He says and rubs his temple.
"Bring him out. Now! I…" I start.
"Dad, Please calm down," I hear Emily start.
"I learned who Kairu's 'close friend' was and i need to 'talk' to him," I say.
"It's not ful-" I hear aqua start to say.
"Don't tell me that. That is the last thing I want to hear. I am going to act like you weren't about to say that anything that would give you blame," I say interrupting her then shout at Rikimaru, "Now bring out Kairu!"
"Be careful what you wish for," I hear someone say when I see Rikimaru except his eyes are black and his pupils are a primal yellow. Kairu.
"What did you do to her?! Tell me what you did to Aqua! And don't act like you did whatever you did out of the kin…"
"Lis Slen Nus" I hear J'aero shout the ice form shout before I black out.
Dyce's PoV
I don't know what that Khajoot or Kanzai or... whatever the hell he called himself did, but whatever he said sure packs a punch. As soon as he said that both Kairu or Rikimaru, whoever is in charge there and Logan are now frozen solid.
"Was that... necessary?" I ask Jaquce or Jameel or... whatever his name is the question. Jeeze, why do these guys have complicated names. Couldn't their parents just named them Jake or Shane or something.
"It is the only immobilizing shout Khajiit knows. But we can easily break them out whenever we need to. It also doesn't hurt them that much," He tells me with that scratchy voice of his.
Before I can say anything the I feel the explosion of ice near me, one of them almost hit my head and I see that Rikimaru or Kairu is now standing along with Logan… wait logan isn't standing he is still unconscious. I wait to see Riku's reaction.
"Okay look, just because Kairu and Logan have beef doesn't mean that my body is gonna be a punching bag. Understand?" Yep. Thats Rikimaru.
"Whoops… Khajiit forgot about his ice weakness," The cat-man says.
"How do you forget something like that? Its the only element that can kill him," I hear Xain says from afar.
"No. Water can as well," Aqua says, "But still how did you forget that?"
"Khajiit just was trying to prevent a fight. If Demona had used her calm spell I wouldn't have had to do that!" The cat man remarks.
"The pacification field was activated by Mrs. Dramuid over there. So its not like a fight was gonna break out anyway," EMP says while still playing on his phone.
"The what?" He asks and looks confused.
"My point exactly." EMP says and I see the J-he, I'm calling him that, growling while his sister is laughing.
"Stop laughing!" He shouts at his sister.
"Why should I? It is funny!" She says laughing even harder.
"I said stop!" He yell, "Fus Ro Dah" A blue flame comes out of his mouth and sends his sister flying though she seems unharmed. I look over at the switch for the pacification field and see that a certain pink haired pair have cut it off.
"You will pay for that!" The cat girl yell as she pulls out her bow, "Rii Vaaz Zol" A dark purple flame comes from her mouth.
"Xain!" I shout for Xain and he groans and summons his staff. He points it at them as the sphere starts to glow.
"Time! Shift," He shouts and both of the cats are frozen in time.
"Thank you. Now I keep this short, because you have very little oxygen to work with. I believe you two are gonna be nuisance so for now on," I place my hands on their necks and send my own energy into theirs, "You'll be under my watch. Xain."
"Shift," He says and both the cats fall on the ground, gasping for air. The purple fireball hits the wall and disappears.
I then hear a grunt from behind me and turn and see Logan start to stand then almost fall over caught by his daughter.
"Dad… Are you ok?" She asks him.
"Yeah I'm fine…" He says then looks around and sees the dent in the wall where the cat woman hit, "Did J'aero and J'innia get in a shout fight again?" He asks.
"A what fight? Do you mean where oddly colored flames come out of there mouths after they speak in a foreign language?" His daughter asks him.
"Yes that is what I am talking about," He stands all the way up and walks over to j-he, "Stand up," The cat does so and as soon as he does Logan punches him right in the jaw sending him back to the ground, "Stop fighting with your sister. This is probably the twentieth time I have said this but you are family! No matter what families should never fight each other. Even if a [censored]ed up idiot corrupts one of them they should never fight," He then walks over to the other one and steps on her snout, "And you, The sister of a werewolf Khajiit. You became a vampire and ended up Isolating yourself from your brother. I saw you go blood crazy once. Even under those effects you never attacked a khajiit except for your own brother. If I had already been bound by Demona at that point you would have ended up killing him!" He steps off her snout, "Does family mean nothing to either of you two?!" He shouts this last sentence.
J-he snaps his lower jaw back into place with a very loud snap before saying, "Sorry, but when your own sister is trying to destroy the sun, you kind of have to…" He is interrupted by a second punch by Logan, this time to the gut. Damn.
"I said that family should never fight. Even when they are corrupted," he says but I don't think that j-he will be responding anytime soon since logan knocked him out.
"My only family lives in Castle Volkihar," She says. obviously not the answer Logan was looking for as he draws one of J-he's swords and I notice it flames in the same way as Logan's Keyblade. He puts both the sword and his keyblade so close to her neck that they could already be touching it. This is when I notice the dark aura around Logan's body.
"Slip!" I shout and a shadow wraps around Logan's neck and drags him to the wall. Its then that Slip's upper body comes out of the shadow and places his sword across Logan's body.
"Please don't make me do anything unnesscary . I prefer to not hurt one of my own." Slip says.
"Slip, Hold him there. I can bring him back," Aqua says and walks over to Logan, "Logan, it is me, Aqua. Listen to me. You need to not let the darkness be your master. Take back control."
The dark aura fades from around Logan's body and when Slip releases him, he collapses in Aqua's arms.
"Hang on," I hear Rikimaru say and he walks up to Logan and places his hand on Logan's head. I notice what looks like dark chains wrap around his body until it sinks into his skin.
"What did you do? And what will it cause?" Aqua asks.
"I just contained his darkness with my own. He won't have any bursts as long as I'm alive," He says then takes Logan's body and brings it back to the middle.
"Oh… wow… now I kinda wish you did that in season one… but no harm done with that," Aqua says, "He still will need to rest for a bit so I guess he won't be in the first episode. Would you mind taking leadership on this episode Riku?"
"Of course I wouldn't," I hear a girl with goggles around her neck say as she walks in with a blue haired man, another beast man, a woman in a black dress with at least a hundred belts on, a boy with a hooked sword that looks like it is made of water, a man with a something that resembles a volleyball combined with a mace, and another huge sword guy.
"Do I need to ask who you are?" Tech says.
"Can't you see dude? They're the Fresh Beat Band. Coming to perform live in a secluded area near you," Price jokes and EMP chuckles a little.
"Tidus! Wakka!" I hear Sora, well technically his clone, shout.
"You actually know people?" EMP says without looking.
"Who are ya? An' how do ya know our names?" The one with the volleyball-mace asks sora and his smile turns to a scowl.
"Hey look Deux, someone who speaks your language. Maybe you can translate," I hear Royce say.
"[censored] you, first of all an' secondly, Ain't no way in hell that I could be related to the squirt," Deux says and Royce scoffs.
"Hey cut that out you two," I say to stop their rambles.
"I know your just messing with me Wakka. It's me, Sora. You recognize me right Tidus?"
"Sorry, but neither of us know who you are," the one with the water sword says.
"But…" Sora doesn't pick back up his sentence.
"Sora," Riku, and I mean Riku not Rikimaru and not the girl who just walked in, says, "I don't think these two are the same Tidus and Wakka we grew up with."
"Oh…" Sora says and sits back down.
"Forever alone, here lies Sora. His only friends were an annoying duck... and a suicidal dog. May he forever be in hearts... for five seconds," Price jokes and some of the, less kind, people laugh. Riku, again not Rikimaru or the girl, rips off his blindfold revealing his burned eyes and glares straight at Price.
"In the name of Ra, what the [censored] happened to your eyes?!" Price exclaims, nearly falling out of his chair.
"They were burned off when the World That Never was turned into a supernova," He says tying the blindfold back on. I start laughing when I hear this and suddenly everybody that I know start to laugh too. Except, Slip and Roque, who's still meditating by the way.
"I'm sorry, I just find that too ironic," I say.
"At least now you have a reason to wear the blindfold," Tech says.
"I did before too. If I took it off before when Ansem seeker of darkness was in my body then he would have taken control of me," He says.
"So you had to blind yourself, to keep a man from getting inside of you?" Royce says before busting out laughing, "You people find new ways to make simple shit so [censored]ing stupid. Yah ha ha hah, what are you gonna do next make a bloody apple into a grape?"
"Yeah? Be happy you don't have all thirteen of them inside of you," I hear Akio say to Royce. Damn I almost forgot that he was here, well… again, a clone.
"Yah ha ha hah! I am so glad I don't. I prefer thirteen women on my junk than thirteen men, thank you very much. It seems everybody from your bloody universe likes to have men inside of other men," Royce jokes again, though he might be taking it a little too far, especially with one of the thirteen having been Fang. Then again Dom and Fang are probably not even going to show up the whole episode.
"So how about we start the show off before anything else happens," I hear someone say.
"Agreed. Cue the music!" I shout and For Whom the Bell Tolls by Metallica starts to play, "Jouji get the drones ready and Tech find a way to wake up Logan. Its Showtime baby!"
"What is that song and why is it so loud?" I hear Sora say.
"Its Metallica, its gotta be loud! Now commence the entrance video!"
"What entrance video and who are you staring at?"
"Commence the video!"