Outcasts and Outlaws Volume 3

by Halogod97

Team Kalos returns from their lengthy mission with news that Damien is headed for Beacon, but what they don't know is that his intentions might no be what they think. There is a worse evil at play, a merciless mastermind who must he stopped at any cost and Connor and his allies are the ones for the job. How will they fare against the most powerful enemies they've faced yet?

36. Chapter 36- Forgiveness

Outcasts and Outlaws

Volume 3, Chapter 36

Forgiveness

Second to last chapter, here we go. Volume 4, my favourite one so far, is just around the corner.

Opening Music: https/youtu.be/KSLG_oeD1yw [Attention Question- Tohka]

! Means a beat in the music

Music Starts

(Shows Daryl standing in Dust Valley, holding a gun. He raises his arm and points the gun whilst flashbacks of his team and his past appear behind him)

Music stops for about a split second then starts again

(Shows Connor standing in Dust Valley, looking at the ground with hair covering his eyes. He looks up as flashbacks of Team Kalos and the rest of his friends appear behind him)

(Connor runs at Daryl and aims a punch)

(Daryl fires his gun)

OUTCASTS AND OUTLAWS!

Are kore kakaekonde omoeba iranai mono made

(Shows Connor sitting with his head between his legs)

Umaku naru iiwake to myou

(Shows Ruby sitting inside of Connor's head with her legs drawn up to her chest)

na PURIADO!

(Shows Kalos sitting on top of the stone wall)

Jibun wo tana ni agete (Shows Jim, Yang, Kane, Irileth, Mars, and Stephane standing in Dust Valley, their hair and clothesflapping in the wind)

hito no koto aadakouda!

(Shows Murlough standing on the naval platform amongst the dead bodies of the generals)

Iu tsumori mo nai kedo!

(Zooms in on Murlough's face as he punches his hand and grins evilly)

Mukishitsuni

(Shows Daryl towards someone) Mawaru Tic and Tac!

(Shows Damien walking towards Daryl)

Ganbaru tte

(Connor and Kane approach Daryl from either side)

nandarou!

(Connor and Kane charge at Daryl) Attention! Question! Nantonaku nagasateru socchi no mizu wa (Shows Connor and Kane fighting Daryl with their semblances)

amai desuka!

(They hit Daryl's air current barrier with their golden light and black clouds)

YES/NO!

(Shows Isabella in tattered clothes with purple energy around her) YES/NO!

(Shows Mars with green energy around him)

Atari mimawashita totan ni!

(They shoot their energy blasts at each other)

Koko dake

(Connor goes into Dragon State and launches himself off a rock face)

toki ga tomaru

(He flies out and hits Daryl) COLOUR!

(Shows a massive light in Dust Valley)

(Shows Connor on the naval platform)

(Shows Murlough on the naval platform)

(Shows Murlough and Connor looking at each other from afar, Murlough with black clouds trailing from him, Connor with golden light trailing from one hand and black clouds trailing from the other) (They charge at each other)

END

Connor's fist had punched through the steel exterior of Murlough's chest and smashed out of the back. In his hand, he tightly gripped the robotic core of Murlough's body that sent aura to all his metal limbs. He clung onto it, squeezing it a little in his grip as Murlough's mouth hung open as if he couldn't breathe. "I've seen it all." Connor said, catching Murlough's hazy gaze. "Thanks to Kane, he went inside your mind and took a peek, when he had enough time." Connor then stopped for a second, looking up to stare Murlough right in the eyes. "He saw your past, your darkness, and now I'm gonna pull you out of that darkness, with my light."

"What are you going on about?!" Murlough responded croakily, gasping as Connor gripped his core a little harder.

"Kane used the Kalos Crystal as a medium, he saw inside your head, the heart of your darkness." Connor continued, talking over the end of Murlough's sentence as he looked down at the ground solemnly. "He saw what's troubling you, why you're like this, why you pretty much went insane. I saw it too, he told me everything."

"I don't know what you're talking about, you-!" Murlough snarled back, before falling into wheezes as he caught his breath, his core in Connor's hand beginning to leak fluids.

"My parents."

When Murlough heard that he stopped wheezing, his breathing suddenly stabilising. He raised his head back up, having hunched over in his sorry state, staring at Connor with fear in his eyes for the first time in years. Connor returned the stare, but with one of seriousness. "It all started when you killed my parents." He repeated.

Connor could see that Murlough was affected by that, his eyes dilated, perhaps in shock, and what was left of his damaged body was shaking slightly. His stare never left Connor's face, a look of fright, fear for his life. "You were working for Damien at the time, this was back when he was a bad egg." Connor started to explain, although he knew Murlough already knew all of the story, he wanted to clarify that he knew it too. "He had forced you to do some pretty bad things, kidnapping, theft, arson on unoccupied buildings, light torture, but never murder. He never told you to kill anyone."

"Stop it..." Murlough practically begged, his body trembling in fear of what he thought Connor knew. It was the first time in so many years he had felt fear, the first time since then. "Shut up...I don't want to hear this...shut up!"

"It was the night Kane had run away with the Kalos Crystal, you had been ordered to go after him and retrieve it." Connor continued, ignoring Murlough's cries. "You found a village, knew Kane had gone through it, you couldn't go around. You went in, through one of the huts, two people were in there. My mother and father."

"Shut up!" Came another shout.

"They knew who you were, even out there the Outlaws were famous criminals. They told you to leave, wouldn't let you past into the village centre. There was no other way in, it was walled off." Connor kept going. "You considered what might happen to you if Damien heard you failed to retrieve the Kalos Crystal, you tried to push past, they didn't let you. You were scared to death of Damien back then, you thought he'd kill you if you failed. Out of desperation, you struck out at my mother and father, you brutally slaughtered them in their own home while I was in the fields meeting Kane for the first time."

"SHUT UP!"

"They were dead in front of you, their bodies were at your feet. You looked at what you had done, it was way worse than any of your other crimes." Connor grimly went on. "You had killed to avoid the possibility of being killed. When you still didn't get the Kalos Crystal, Damien didn't kill you. He had you beaten to within an inch of your life, but he didn't kill you. You felt regret, my parents hadn't needed to die. You begged the gods for forgiveness."

"SHUT THE HELL UP, YOU SON OF A BITCH!" Murlough then screamed and cut off Connor, shaking uncontrollably. He raised his one remaining arm and lashed out at Connor, but he simply brushed it with his hand, golden light just touching it. The arm melted away into pieces of black dust, which floated away in the wind, leaving Murlough with no hands.

"The aura in your body is all but gone, a slight tap on the head with my semblance would kill you." Connor warned him, deterring him from any other attacks, then continued on with the same solemn tone of voice. "After that incident, Damien got worse. He started asking you to attack people, not specifically kill them, but he didn't care either way. You thought it didn't matter anymore, you had already killed once so you couldn't be saved. You killed again and again and again until the darkness swallowed you whole, it drove you mad. You became someone who didn't care about murder, but deep down, there's still that little shred of decency wishing for forgiveness."

Murlough was now completely silent, staring at his enemy, who had just recounted the life story of his heart and pains. He had gotten to the core of him, uncovered what had caused his darkness unlike anybody else. He didn't know what to say. "Damien said to me, before he died, that I should use my light to drag people out of the darkness." Connor recalled. "The way I see the world, there's a whole of of darkness, but an equal amount of light. There are those who spend their days recruiting more and more to the darkness, so someone has to do the same for the light to keep the balance. I came into this battle to use my light to drag you out of your darkness, so you can at least die with a smile on your face, knowing your on the light side, so here goes."

"I forgive you, I forgive you for killing my parents."

Without another word, Connor then pulled his arm back and tore Murlough's robotic core from his chest. Murlough gasped, with mouth wide open in shock as he felt his aura leaving him. Connor tossed the core to the side, Murlough fell backwards, his wreck of a body hitting the ground with a thump.

A drop of rain. Another. More dropping all at once. Quickly came showering rain, as if nature itself wanted to set the mood or maybe even pay tribute to the moment. Connor stared down at Murlough as he breathed some of his last breaths, so glad for it to be over, a weight lifting from his heart. Murlough felt a similar weight lifting. After all the time he had spent secretly regretting his first kill and being dragged down into the abyss of darkness and insanity, he had finally been forgiven by the person he had probably hurt the most. He smiled weakly to himself as he lay there, dying, feeling the light dispel his darkness. "You're...one crazy guy..." He muttered to Connor, secretly thanking him in his head.

A flash of purple. Kane appeared kneeling beside his brothers dying form, looking down on the mess he had become because of that one regret. Rain fell on his hair and clothes, but he cared not. It was the first time he had been able to sit aside his brother since he had left the Outlaws, he wanted to savour it, rain be damned. "You went through a phase huh?" He said to his older sibling, trying to lighten the situation but still looking glum. Connor had never seen such an expression on Kane's face before.

"A phase? I killed about ninety people." Murlough responded jokingly, coughing as he tried to let out a chuckle. The two stared at each other for a moment after that, unsure of what to say. It was the first time in so long they'd seen each other as brothers rather than traitorous scum.

"Hey brother..." Murlough then said in a more serious tone, giving Kane tears around his eyes just by calling him brother in such a way. "Have a good life...don't do what I did, don't be swallowed by the darkness. Our semblance is pretty much the embodiment of it, but I'm pretty sure with light boy by your side, you'll be just fine."

"I'll be fine." Kane replied, tearing up a little bit, much to Connor's surprise. "I...I'm sorry it came to this, big bro."

Murlough seemed happy to hear that confession from his brother. "Me too..." He said as his eyes shut, his last grain of life leaving his body, for good this time. Kane and Connor stood in the rain and stared at his body solemnly, neither of them saying a word. It didn't need to be said, they both knew what the phase they were thinking was.

Forgiveness

Ending Music: http/youtu.be/YRLW-llroVw [Fuyugyaku Replace]

! Means a beat in the music

Wake in loneliness! Loneliness!

(Shows Connor standing on the naval platform)

Falling inside your story!

(Shows Murlough standing opposite him)

Walking after you! After you! (Zooms in Connor's face)

I will share my time!

(Shows naval platform)

(Shows Connor in Dragon State) OUTCASTS AND OUTLAWS Maykoinda sekai de!

(Shows young Connor in front of his parents bodies)

Boku no kage to kasanatte

(Shows Murlough in Connor's hometown)

Ima! I can't go back!

(Shows Connor losing control of the dark clouds in his hometown) Ketteiteki no boku shoumei wa! (Shows Connor in his original outfit) Jidai wo ima koete monogataru! (Shows Ruby reach out in front of her)

I will be the brand new age!

(Shows Team Kalos and Allies) Yeah! From this day!

(Shows young Connor and Murlough walking)

I will save myself!

(Shows Connor with Kane's shadow behind him)

And the time is now!

(Connor opens his eyes, one is black, one is gold)

Kill my weakness!

(Shows Connor in his original outfit running towards volume 2 Murlough)

Weakness!

(They change to their volume 3 versions)

Kanarazu koete naite satte!

(Shows a flashback of the Murlough VS Connor fight from volume 2)

And I stay alive!

(Their semblances hit each other) Alive!

(Shows the naval base in a fiery explosion)

Saigo wo shinjitaku wa nakute! (Shows Connor's village being destroyed by black clouds)

Kill my weakness! Weakness! (Shows Murlough summoning dark clouds all around him)

Itsuka kidsuita to shita mo!

(Shows Connor going into Dragon State)

I will prove myself that I have lived today!

(Shows Connor and Murlough fighting in their most powerful states)

Starting now!

(They both hit each other's fists and let off their semblances)

END