EEK! I forgot this for the first while! Zoids isn't mine, of course!
... However much I wish. *sulk.*
However! THIS story is! ^^ However bad it must be! -verdandi
*So cold... It's so cold being alone, out here. And the only thing I can do now is mull over my sorry past, counting each and every wrong turn I've made during this life. You know, I've made so many. I don't think I could ever atone for all of my terrible sins. Where has my humanity gone? Dare I ask, though? Because I have the bitter taste of hate, as the ancient feeling of overwhelming... sadness. And those are human. This whole time, I've been killing and hurting, and Nicholo... you still remember who I was before that time. I'm so ashamed that I could've blemished that image of innocent... perfection, that you set me in. You were a wonderful friend, though.. though I knew you for such a short time. And though you knew me for such a small time, you died for me. It seems that thousands of people have died in my wake, and I feel terrible when I say.. Yours was the only one that counts, my friend. Children.. we were so clean, innocent. I miss that innocence. I miss having clean hands. You'll forever be a child, forever innocent. Every time I look at Raven, I see you, deep down in his face. Despite his personality, I know you're the same.. Even though he is also like myself, no longer innocent. Raven is his own person, I know: but I see you in him. Raven won't ever die, but just in case.. I'll be his 'guardian angel', Nicholo. Just like you were mine.*
Ryss was sitting noiselessly at the edge of a sleek drop into oblivion, a boomingly high plateau that seemed to be the bridge between worlds, it stretched for the atmosphere. The wind there was violent and freezing, as unforgiving as the searing hot down on the deserts of Zi, below. Both Specula and the Geno-Saurer were not to be found, making her presence there a small miracle. She let her head drift to the side, leaning back in such a manner that she could push her shoulder up to support it. Almost radioactive-bright blue eyes were hidden behind relaxed eyelids, the tines of eyelashes resting placatedly on each cheek. A ghost of a smile was stirring on her lips. She could see an unpainted Helcat sprinting below, throwing up sand, and disappearing behind clouds occasionally. Specula gurgled quietly, and Ryss's eyes lifted open. She could see the Genobreaker tearing across below, throwing up waves of sand, and disappearing behind clouds occasionally. Ryss kicked up to her feet, and gazed down on the sight through the eyes of a god for a bit longer, before folding her arms and falling back to the blue organoid, which promptly split its chest cavity, coiled the girl in living wire, and folded up around her. Specular took a few launching steps, and shot off of the edge of the plateau, diving toward the distant ground as a blur of radiant energy.
*So cold... It's so cold being alone, out here. And the only thing I can do now is mull over my sorry past, counting each and every wrong turn I've made during this life. You know, I've made so many. I don't think I could ever atone for all of my terrible sins. Where has my humanity gone? Dare I ask, though? Because I have the bitter taste of hate, as the ancient feeling of overwhelming... sadness. And those are human. This whole time, I've been killing and hurting, and Nicholo... you still remember who I was before that time. I'm so ashamed that I could've blemished that image of innocent... perfection, that you set me in. You were a wonderful friend, though.. though I knew you for such a short time. And though you knew me for such a small time, you died for me. It seems that thousands of people have died in my wake, and I feel terrible when I say.. Yours was the only one that counts, my friend. Children.. we were so clean, innocent. I miss that innocence. I miss having clean hands. You'll forever be a child, forever innocent. Every time I look at Raven, I see you, deep down in his face. Despite his personality, I know you're the same.. Even though he is also like myself, no longer innocent. Raven is his own person, I know: but I see you in him. Raven won't ever die, but just in case.. I'll be his 'guardian angel', Nicholo. Just like you were mine.*
Ryss was sitting noiselessly at the edge of a sleek drop into oblivion, a boomingly high plateau that seemed to be the bridge between worlds, it stretched for the atmosphere. The wind there was violent and freezing, as unforgiving as the searing hot down on the deserts of Zi, below. Both Specula and the Geno-Saurer were not to be found, making her presence there a small miracle. She let her head drift to the side, leaning back in such a manner that she could push her shoulder up to support it. Almost radioactive-bright blue eyes were hidden behind relaxed eyelids, the tines of eyelashes resting placatedly on each cheek. A ghost of a smile was stirring on her lips. She could see an unpainted Helcat sprinting below, throwing up sand, and disappearing behind clouds occasionally. Specula gurgled quietly, and Ryss's eyes lifted open. She could see the Genobreaker tearing across below, throwing up waves of sand, and disappearing behind clouds occasionally. Ryss kicked up to her feet, and gazed down on the sight through the eyes of a god for a bit longer, before folding her arms and falling back to the blue organoid, which promptly split its chest cavity, coiled the girl in living wire, and folded up around her. Specular took a few launching steps, and shot off of the edge of the plateau, diving toward the distant ground as a blur of radiant energy.