Path of the Twelve Sephirot
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Chapter 2
" Moonlit Surprise "
Un Hermes ~ 12:18pm
"Keh.. Do you morons honestly believe you can destroy me with those Guns and Gears ?"
"GET HIM!!"
"…no match for Baal.."
"He has disturbed local peace and has harmed the local villagers! ARREST HIM NOW!!"
Several dozen Aveh soldiers clad in casual brown sand protection garb, and Claw Armor gears surrounded a single man in a crimson red shorts slightly above knees length. His long white hair flowing freely in the air behind him, his left hand on the runic sheath, his right on the hilt of the katana.
Open gun fire from the soldiers accompanied by a barrage of grenades pierced the mysterious mans ears in a sharp strike of pain, the sand and carbon tinting his hair. As the smoke and dust clear, and the gun fire stop, not a scratch was left on his silk soft flesh.
"…Rings of Baal .." He mouthed the phrase and his knuckles turned white with his tightening grip on his katana. His eyes, flared from a beautiful aqua to a blood red crimson, and with a shriek of rage he unleashed his katana at full strength. A red aura emitting and spreading away from him in a growing circle, destroying and burning anything to come in contact with this red ring with runic symbols upon it. The blood, and screaming of the soldiers brought a demonic grin to the mans dry lips, as he brought his hatred tainted katana back to it's resting sheath before every living, breathing body fell to the burning sands under the moonlight.
Vision had begun to dull out slightly, as a back up line of Claw and Aegis gears ran to replace the fallen. More open fire at one single target, and several flaming ether spells caused a towering eruption of sand and smoke. The intensity had caused tidal waves of sand flowing away from the shaking pillar of sand, only to be split open and stopped by a shining slash of the same katana which had delivered several dozen deaths, with a single swing. His body had nearly automatically thrown itself in the direction of the group of gears firing at him at full speed.
He struck a violet tinted Aegis Mage Gear with a free arm, and laughed as the bottom half of the mechanism exploded, as it slowly separated from its' top section.
The beast of a human turned around to deliver a roundhouse kick, several hard punches and two more high kicks brought the entire gear possibly 60 times taller then himself, down to its knees. He threw his katana like a tiny dart behind him to immobilize the only other gear standing. To finish his opponents, he brought two clenched fists by his stomach and began to emit a dark and violet energy about them.
He began to strike both gears separately, running from gear to gear, each punch, each kick, destroying each enemy with a powerful explosive shock which nearly atomized his opponents. He retrieved his katana from one of the wrecks and send it back to its home, then got rid of his demonic display of violet hands. He sit on the sands, and quickly slip his hands with fingers spread, through his thick, beautiful white hair, to rid of the sands. A miraculous survivor of the demons deeds crawled from the wreck of one of the gears, unnoticed.
The demon man stood and wiped himself of sand on his legs, before venturing far away from the wreck he had created with such ease, with his own hands, that would have taken a normal man days to do if not weeks.
The sun began to rise, as the survivor tear parts of his clothing to wrap around open wounds after crawling out completely from under the mess.
"There … is no way .. He is human …"
The sun seemed to go out instantly. The sands couldn't be felt. The heat from the sun instantly turned to a measly breeze with the scent of salt. A world of black. Is this what it was like to be dead?
This is what "Death" was like?
"Kaze.."
"…"
"Kaze……"
"…"
"Kaze you asshole get up!!!"
"BLOODY HELL!!" The teenage mechanic rolled off of the bottom bunk, hitting the floor with a loud thud.
"God damnit who the hell woke me up!"
He grabbed the edges of his bottom bunk bed with one hand, while rubbing the sleep from his heavy exhausted aqua gray orbs. They portrayed his love for the sea and technology.
"We've been thrown off course!" explained his wiseass buddy from the deck from earlier.
"What the fuck do you mean we've been thrown off course!?" Kaze scrambled to his feet and stormed out of his room, and directly to the Screw Elevator. Only to climb up to the deck using the channel the passenger lift rides on.
"What…. The hell is going on..?" He stared up into the sky with curiosity as to why everything seemed so dark and gloomy. The Aquavy Islands were nowhere in sight. Only water into the distance, and the moon was visible, directly above them. "I couldn't have possibly slept THIS long…"
"Captain….CAPTAIN!" He reasoned, jumped to conclusions as he raced back to the elevator, making his way up to the control center and storming the door. To his surprise, appear nothing. No one.
The computer systems operating smoothly. "……."
He turned to the side and rushed to the bar to the side. "Captain!" … "HANS!?!?"
Kaze slowly walked to the bar table, and turned to scan the area. Looking towards the door back to the control room, a body slumped down to the floor, gliding on the wall, its blood as it's lubricant.
The kid rushed to the figure, noticing its demi-human dolphin figure. "Hans…"
He quickly rushed back to the control room, and to the deck via the elevator. Kaze ran to the front of the deck in search for anyone. But no luck. As he turn around and jog back to the elevator, a familiar body step from behind a rusted barrel labeled "N.E.T"
"Well, are you looking for this old geezer ?" The silhouette pushing along a dead but another familiar corpse down a few feet in front of him. "Captain…god damnit.."
"And what's the capital to think when he gets the report of events on this vessel hm ? .. One soul survivor ?…" His firearm aimed at the door to the Screw Elevator. The only other man on the ship alive peering from the door, fell back down at the click of a trigger.
"Now you can make that the only survivor, there hasn't been a major catastrophic attack on this ship …. They'll assume it was you.. Right?"
Kaze wiped the sweat off of his forehead while processing what just happened in the past 10, 15 minutes or so. "Who are you ..?" Was all he could get out.
The shadowy figure took several steps from the barrel, closer to Kaze. Even then it was hard to see perfectly considering his black garb, his light violet eagle emblem traced into his shoulder and blonde hair made it slightly easier to see him.
"I assume my men couldn't take out this ship so I had to do it myself .." He folded his arms in front of his chest with a hard cough.
"So you sent those gear pilots here.." He blinked a few times. "So this is an act on revenge ?.. But wait, what's with the moon at this time ? .. And why are there only three dead bodies ?.. What happened to the other passengers!?!?"
"So many questions from one tiny man and so little time. Why don't you find a way off this ship, and to the capital of Kislev, and you might be able to find out eh ?" The figure took his place behind the barrel, completely hidden by rust and darkness. "My name is General Roane Tomavich, pleasures mine I'm most positive"
" To Kislev ?... But we're in the middle of nowhere!" Kaze dug through the pockets of his jeans in search of some type of mini communicating device, but again no luck.
"That's your problem kiddo. Tata, and do try to survive until our next encounter. You look like you're going to be able to keep me well entertained for a long, time"
Kaze rushed to the barrel, knocking it over with a roundhouse kick. "What the hell ... Where did he go ?.." A feral growl escaped his throat and as soon as he turned to head to the control deck to use the GPS system the top deck spontaneously exploded. Slowly sliding away from the entire body of the vessel, the control deck toppled over and into the ocean. "SHIT!"
Kaze ran as hard as he could on the deck, straight up through the center and leaped off, and swam for what he thought was for hours, days possibly weeks. His arms and legs grew tired, and the fish nipping at him were growing tiresome. His eyes grew weary again, and again he saw nothing, but a large sheet of blackness.
Soon later the coldness of the water was replaced by some type of heat source. A pleasant one. One that would kill one with to much exposure. But one he could live with for the time being. With this, he slept.
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" It's up to Baal, wither you live or not.."
"But the ancient scriptures say otherwise! It's not up to some blade from ancient lore of a poor boy, but GOD that determines our fate!"
"Your God lost the war 15 years ago. You place your faith and your trust in an entity that lost to humans?"
"You do not understand, the God the holy Ethos once had us believe in, is eternal! There is no such thing as worldly ruling under a single blade that strikes fear in the people!"
" Not the blade, but the one who wields it, is the one that strikes the fear in your people.. Foolish priest.."
"Gggah.. You ..... Ba.....s........"
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Un Terra ~ 4:29am
Eventually, he could hear boxes and bags being moved, and more half drunk men complaining and negotiating. He slowly opened his eyes, afraid of the sharp light that usually haunted him at first waking up. But it was quite dark. He rolled off of a cot and stood up straight, which even that was a bit difficult for his sore body. He curse to himself as he massage his sore joints.
"The hell happened to my clothes?"..... "Damnit ... So I wasn't just imagining things before.." He walked around the room, finding the room to be more suited for a boy his age. The dresser stocked with various miniature 1/32 gear models such as the Brigandier, and the Heimdal. Several other civilian Claw and Prime Aegis gear models. "Not to many clothes, definitely a guys room" He thought to himself.
He deprive himself of anymore sleep and explored the place around a bit, even though putting much weight on his left leg was beginning to become a nuisance. Before making it to the front "door", a girl his height, with long raven hair, her father, and a few other men were sitting about a fireplace and beer bottles for more warmth. The girl blushed as she tried to avoid looking at the guest as her father stood up in quite a happy mood. "Well boy it's about time ye woke up! ... God ye were soaked to the bone in those rags of yers, so we stripped ya and let ye sleep in my daughters room. Hope ye rested well."
He stare down at himself, wrapped in only black boxer shorts which hung a little tight on him but were surprisingly comfortable. Only to realize why the only girl in the room wouldn't dare look at him.
"I uh, do you um.. Have any .. Clothes I could get into ?"
"Sure kiddo .. There should have been a pair of cloth pants by the bed, and it's quite hot around here at all times of the year so ye do not need to worry about staying nice and covered!"
Kaze nodded and shivered, slightly still cold either from the waters or his imagination as he backtrace back to the room he awoke in, finding the cloth pants he was told of, and put them on with ease.
He tighten the emerald green waist band, and smirked slightly, enjoying the fact that he wasn't getting chubby like distant annoying family members his rough memory reminded him of at some points in time. He resembled nothing of them. With a simple off train of thought, he walk back to the people that were treating him as a guest and sat down by the fire as implied with everyones hand movements.
"Well boy .. What happened to ye to be thrown into the waters of Aveh and washed to on shore?"
The largest of the men, which appeared to be the girls father, sat down and began to interrogate Kaze, but in a kind fashion.
Kaze raise an eyebrow before answering. Needing to think first.
"I am not sure exactly, but my ship was attacked by a single man, and I nearly escaped by jumping and swimming away before I was harmed."
He swallowed hard, almost whispering the last fragment. "No one was on board the ship. The only three that were still on board when I had awaken, where killed when I found them..."
The thoughts and visions of the events struck him hard. The large guy sitting across from him in their little circle had stood up and stretched with a hard yawn. "So ye aren't from around here. So maybe ye should go to bed and we will help you find your way home come mornin'"
They all began to walk to the back of the house like tent.
"Ye can sleep in my daughters room, my companions can sleep in the spare room so they won't bother ye about these tragic accidents at sea."
"Thank you..." Kaze nodded with a slight smile of thanks before following his daughter to her room. He felt rather awkward since doing this where he came from, would result in being shot, kicked, or brutally wounded. He grabbed his wet clothes from by the cot and sit down at a corner of the wall, and sat up straight, his back against the wall and his knees bent up slightly. The raven-haired girl giggled slightly and pointed to the cot.
"You know.. you can sleep there tonight if you'd like, I'm not all that tired"
Kaze slowly shook his head. "Thank you ... but I couldn't, besides I'm really not that tired either.. after all that sleeping i've been doing lately.."
The girl giggled some more and sat down on the floor next to him.
"So what's yer name!?"
"Oh uh, Krillian" He blinked several times
"Kaze Krillian Hyral" He added. "And yours ? ..oh uh, if you don't mind me asking of course...."
"Ariel Bastor .. pleased to meet ya!" She extended her hand and he accepted her friendly hand shake
"Pleasures mine"
"So you're really the tomboy kind of girl huh?" He asked with a slight smirk forming on his lips.
"Yup! .. you can tell because of all the gears right?" She asked, not being able to hold back another giggle
"Uh huh.." He laughed along with her quietly, and yawned slightly, his head falling slowly to his chest.
"Hehe... g'nite Kaze.." Ariel smiled and cuddled closer to the mass of warmth and tilted her head onto his shoulder, closing her eyes.
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