The Winds of Change Ch8

From: "Dracahl Nailo"
Date: Tue Feb 4, 2003 10:09 am
Subject: I figure since I still have time....

(ooc) Good post Chys you really cleared things up....

(Vash) I had gotten the not left by some loser, he had grabbed Fuko weird seeing I had just got up to kick my brother out and she was gone.

I grabbed my gun and some clips, my keys, and headed to the garage I wouldn't be able to get there in time without some wheels. I press the beeper button for the alarm, and unlocked the doors I started it up and headed towards the meeting place it was 11:30 and I decided to be early. I pulled up and entered the building.

"Show yourself, and wears Fuko!" I yelled. There was no answer. "Are you the one responsible for those creaters at the Kinky Kitty."

"Yes, your a clever one, Deus will be pleased."

"What, Show yourself."

Then a man dressed in a black cloak with Fuko in arms.

(Just a little bit to know... Kai Katanas the Millanial for Vash was a assasin in his life time working for both good and bad)

"Let her go scum." I said pulling out my gun(This gun is specialy made it shoot 22 shells instead of 9mm the barrel is about 30cm long)

"You won't hit her will you."

I realized that I couldn't shoot her. Then the man dropped a bottle onto the ground (Fieren I needed to use a bottle to BRING out Kai) Then a big beast appeared looked like a Giant Reptile (Basilisk) I started to unleash shots at it but they wearn't doing anything. Then the beast's eyes started to glow and a beam shot out of them I dodged the beam and when the beam hit the wall it turned to stone. I ran up close to it jumped onto its back and started to pump it full of lead I had just penetrated its skin when the beast beat me away with its tail. I flew and crashed into the wall, I staggered to get up when I heard a voice in my head.

"I am Kai Katanas let me have control and I will save the girl." He said I thus let him take control of my mind

(Kai) I was awaken from long years of silence I looked around my body and found it my sword (I think I can still have Masamune) I drew it and ran at the beast, I jumped over it Stone shot and cleaved its head open. I looked back at the girls capture.

"Who are you and release the girl."

All he did was throw a little bottle at me, I was caught by surprise and was sent to another dimention.

(To Be continued Class is starting.)

- From: "Fieren Lochan"
Date: Tue Feb 4, 2003 3:03 pm
Subject: Another Discovery

Mission accomplished. Kai/Vash had been captured and now we had no use for this girl.

"You may leave now, your part has been played." we said, shoving her aside.

"What? Just like that? You don't need me anymore?" Fuko asked.

"You can leave now!" we said.

"Fine, but you know, I'm gonna get the cops after you!" Fuko yelled.

"Feel free, they're welcome to try." we said again.

Fuko climbed down off of the roof, she was welcome to sick the police on us, they would never find us. Slowly we walked to the edge of the roof and looked down at a payphone. True to her word, Fuko was calling the police, or somebody. We leapt off of the roof and landed on the next one. Jumping from rooftop to rooftop until eventually we arrived at our dorm room, why it was called a dorm was beyond us. We changed our garmants and hid our robes in a chest in our closet. We were very tired and now it was time to sleep.

In the morning, we awoke to a sunbeam in the eyes. Even 3301 years into the future, they still hadn't found a cure for that. We got up and ate some food and then received a psucyic message from the Master.

Carl is Lucien, eh? He should be easy enough to capture. We lacked Mist Bottles now though, we needed to find more Mist, hopefully the Master had plans to send another creature soon enough...

- From: "Delith"
Date: Tue Feb 4, 2003 3:57 pm
Subject: Rules and a Post.

Okay, I would first like to say thank you for clearing everything up. Second, the rule on continuity will stand. Three strikes, your gone. One of the main reason's I put this rule in was because of TARPG. Have you ever tried to figure out some parts? Too hard. If something happens, like a battle with a dragon, then have it mentioned, okay? Had that been done, we wouldn't have had such a problem. And please remember your spelling folks.

Also, any character at the fight with the dragon that actively participated would now have their Millenial powers. Transformation is shaky still, and on impulse.

ic: I stood in my room, looking at my amulet. It wasn't the same one that it had been before I had changed. Now, it was silver, with the image of a wolf so real you could expect it to run away any moment. I heard the echo of a ghostly voice in my head, saying that all it was was a channel. A channel of what? I knew Marick had gone through the same thing.

It was then I realized a problem.

Mist.

Everywhere.

I spun, reaching for my guns, when out of the mist came a huge beast. it slammed me, unarmed, through the window of my house, and I slammed down on the street outside.

The creature, huge and imposing, looked like a small dragon, (think FFIX's Bahamut in a man-form) and I could see no eyes. I stretched out it's claws, and attacked.

I rolled away, and slammed into something. I spun, and saw a man robed in black. He smiled, and touched me....

***PALACE OF ETERNAL HATE - THRONE ROOM***

I hit the ground hard, stood, and saw a man sitting on a raised golden throne.

A mind in my voice hissed, -Deus...-

"Welcome, Carl Minsa, to my umble home." he said in a clear tenor voice. he stood, and walked forward, a perfectly developed body. His face was beyond beautiful, and he had a light, pleasant demeanor.

"Who are you?" I asked.

"I am Deus Soulbringer. You must have heard of me."

I grabbed the amulet at my neck, and felt a surge of power. Lucien's power rolled through me, and then it was he who faced deus.

***LUCIEN POV***

I drew Excalibur. "Deus Soulreaver."

Deus smiled slightly, and drew his sword, Cthrek Goru, Blade of Night. "Lucien Nightblade." he said with a slight smile, "May I introduce to you, Kai Katanas."

Kai walked out of the shadows, Masamune in hand. In a choked voice, he said, "Mist blood..."

I knew what he meant instantly. Deus could infect us instantly, just with a touch. It meant he would turn our blood to mist.

I leveled Excalibur. "Deus, let's dance you and I..."

From" Chys Lattes"

Marick Pov:

Sometime later, At Ryu's Place

"Ryu, you moron, why didn't you tell me we needed more money?" I asked the idiot who sat on his couch tuning his guitar with an electronic tuner. He shrugged and seemed to blush a bit. His sister slapped him on the back with a grin then walked from the room, presumably heading to the 'Witches Hall' and her own dorm. Lisa was no longer staying with her, the girl having found a friend to room with and not wanting any more to do with Ran ever again, as she'd been visiting Issean all too often for comfort. The girl spent more time in my dorm than in her friend's, I assumed. I just locked up my valuables and ignored her. Too bad Ran was still hanging around Ryu's place though, as the quarantine was still in effect with a bunch of mindless morons called police officers patrolling the campus all day and night.

"I didn't think to make it an issue, man." he returned, still not looking up from the device in his hand. I let it drop as I sunk onto the couch beside him and picked up the clicker to check the local news. No more real big monster sightings had happened since the gig at the Kitty, and that seemed to be good for us. But then, it did leave me watching my back all the more closely. Someone on a street not to far from here had had his house robbed, a local mall or shop's night officer had been murdered, clothes had been stolen, and something about it being an ongoing investigation, blamed on the histeria created by the sudden mist monster's appearance just some days ago...

Funny, that was about the time Domoen and Bakura showed up...wasn't it? I wasn't quite sure, so much shit had been going on lately, What with Carl becoming Lucien, then there was still 'Yami Eien' to deal with...

**

After Practice, before;

Carl had been standing on the roof. I don't know quite what had brought on the impulse for me to follow him, but the whole while I was feeling kind of funny... odd, really not quite myself. When I got to the roof, he had this glazed look on his face, and I turned to see the mist all around, but it was hard to see through the dizzying whiteness blinding my eyes so suddenly.

I watched, confused and kinda in awe as Carl walked off the roof. I thought the ass was trying to kill himself or something. I ran ahead to try and catch him then stopped as I saw he was walking on the fucking air! People JUST DON'T do that! I rubbed my eyes, yes, I was definitly not plugged in when I checked, and watched him reach a hand into his pocket to retrieve that mysterious amulet. It glowed white, per usual.

"What the hell are you... doing?" I asked, still rubbing at my eyes. He didn't hear me. He held the jeweled amulet up then slammed it into his chest. I couldn't see quite what was going on from behind him, but I didn't think I would have wanted to had I been able to get a better view. The light from the amulet continued to shine, even brighter, all around him, though it blended with the white light in my eyes.

Then another awesome thing happened. He changed! I mean, muscles appeared over where he'd had some good ones, but man, this was like monstrous in comparison. Like they just bulged out of nowhere. His hair got long and glossy, a pretty blonde color like the sun. Then his clothes changed to something very different than before, armor, uniform and a cape? What the hell was up with this? He even got a new sword, but damn if it didn't look cool from a distance.

I heard a voice calling from beyond where he was floating. "LUCIEN NIGHTBLADE!" The voice was so loud, the speaker must have been enormous! I couldn't see a thing, though, what the hell was it!

"Vanchron." I heard him say quietly. Who was that??

I saw him draw the sword and rush forward, striking at something in the air before him. Something I couldn't see at all, but I heard the impact from the sword and some kind of flesh. That was when the world around me disappeared. It grew dark, and I heard several overlapping voices chanting, one after and over another, echoing in this world of blackness... I think I fell to my knees, but I don't remember much of it, just a hand on my face and someone picking me up gently.

- Ethereal Existance

Marick/Yami POV:

The darkness was still there, not a trace of the white light, and the sound of voices were beginning to fade, as had the sound of Lucien... no, Carl, Marick thought, as he'd fought that invisible thing out on the roof... the roof... where was ' here'? Yami didn't even know.

Someone had picked me up when I had fallen, but... "Who? ...Meriko?" I opened my eyes, to darkness all around. That was all right, I knew this. I was supposed to be 'Darkness Eternal'...

"No." What a strange, softly hissing voice, whose? My eyes still couldn't focus yet.

"Jena?" No...she'd died... I saw her blood, and Meriko's scar that night in the rain, the rain I had caused...

"No. Try again." Came the voice once more, the voice of the one who had touched my face in the dark.

"I...who?"

"Are you awake yet, Yami?"

Laughter filled my ears. I tried to move but a pair of strong arms were holding me tight against someone's chest. A woman's chest. But not one of my friends. How could a woman be so strong!? "Agh!" She laughed at me as I tried to fight her, but it felt as if I couldn't move at all.

Perhaps it was a spell she had cast?

I was getting angry. I didn't understand. Where was Meriko, I had just been with her! We had fought Deus, had we not? What had happened? "Who the hell are you?"

"Wake up, it's no fun if you don't wake for me!" Taunting, that voice... I recognized it as I had no other, a woman, no a monster, from the past. "You stupid mortal mind, be gone! I want HIM back! NOW!" She didn't know I/Yami was already awake?

Then two hands I could feel had ran along my back as the other pair continued to hold me tight..."What the fuck!" She giggled, not like a woman would, but like a possessed fiend of some sort. The kind of sound you'd hear in a horror flick, from the throat of a glowing eyed child or something like that, Merick thought. But I/Yami knew the sound, had heard it right before going in with Lucien, I'd said I could handle it, no, her, and that it was my duty, and Lucien had accepted it at that, leading the way to the final battle as I/Yami stayed behind for some quick revenge... He, no, I- Yami, Yami Eien, I had killed this woman beast, had I not? Or was she only injured back then? I had thrown her into a volcano, or something to that extent, hadn't I? Meriko would remember. She had helped me.

"No, no nonononono, little darling, wake up now. Don't close your eyes, that's no fun for me. I want you. Wake for me now." She said. I hadn't been aware I had closed my eyes again, but then, she could see better than me at the moment. Actually, as I recalled, she always could... How had I killed her? "Not with water." Marick heard Yami say. I said. We were in the same place at the same time, it was wrong, only one mind, person, soul, existance, only one can be in here at a time! That's the unspoken rule! One at a time! Why were we the same? Yami puzzled over this, I puzzled over it too, not knowing what it was that was wrong but that the feeling was right. Somehow or another, the minds couldn't focus on why, we knew it was different for Lucien and Carl, they did it one at a time. Something about fighting a massive Dragon, in the air above TechStar... Not requesting help, but being there, fighting, and broadcasting the fact mentally, somehow. And wasn't I on the roof, my vision gone, and fallen to my knees? No, the woman held me in the dark, in a groundless reality, laughing over my helplessness in my confusion.

"Not with water? You want to try to beat me? Well, you can't use your old tricks on me, SirenBanshee, you deformed, demonic little angel. Old Naga has learned a few magikz of her own over the years... Now let me play, take out your feathery black wings, pretty thing. I will pluck them clean, and your dark hair too! I want it weaved with tiny soft feathers as a necklace. I will pull them hard and break them fast and you will scream for me!"

"Naga, you..." She laughed at me again as I tried to break away. My water magic was useless against her, she also could breath under the water, and it didn't slow her down in the least. My newly acquired ability though... perhaps that would be her downfall?

After the battle with Deus, well, more like during the battle and out of nescessity, I had learned to channel the waters with the winds into Ice, blending the elements nicely. It helped a lot, when I had frozen the bastard in place long enough for us to get a few good swings at him. Maybe it would work on Naga as well? I thought to distract her from my magic a moment. Anger is a good distraction most of the time.

"Heard your brother died. So sorry." I said to her, my eyes were adjusting finally and I could see her green skinned face in the darkness, her yellow eyes flashing, the pupils wide and black, and her several pairs of arms waving in the air behind her big head as her snakelike tail began to coil around my legs. I kicked at her and she hissed in my ear.

"He died because of your ugly, scarred up bitch. If it weren't for that Meriko's Lightning, then none of this would have happened!" She grinned evilly, her voice was angered and I/Marick flinched, she knew I could see her. What an ugly thing she was! Grossness beyond grossnes, her breath I meant...

"Your brother killed her sister, it was well deserved." I/Yami said. Where was my sword, the Shiroi? I could feel the weight on my belt. It was there. I couldn't reach it though, she held my arms tight at my sides. I called on the water and she could feel it all around her. She laughed in bubbles as it surrounded us and held me still, we floated in the water and then she said that it was futile, whatever I thought I was trying to do. I focused mostly all of the water on her then froze it, causing her to drop me and let me fall to the bubble of water behind me, still floating in this nothingness surrounding. Her mouth was gaping wide. I had caught her. I drew my sword and sliced through the ice to stab her heart and take out an arm or two in the process. After that, I sliced her head off and the thing fell apart before me, her head falling one way, her body another, and her arms somewhat floating around in the blackness.

Her spell fell apart and then with it, she and the blackness vanished. I/Marick was on the roof, once more, but this time it was different. My body had changed to that of Yami Eien, my black hair flew in my face as a slight wind surrounded me. I looked up to see Lucien was fighting a great dragon, I could see it now, clearly. Marick was utterly confused, I had placed him in a safe place in my mind where he could watch, but not interfere...being in charge again was a blessing. I/Yami read his memories and realized I had been reborn.

But why?

I stood on the roof, hand on my sword, which I had sheathed, and let my wings out once more, they grew from my back, my clothing had been specially designed not to interfere with them. I was smiling, feeling again my sharp Banshee's teeth, reaching my free hand up to brush the long dark hair behind my pointed Siren's ears as I watched the man fight the dragon in the air, curiously. I wasn't going to help. He had it under control.

I heard a voice below, one I recognized as Ran, saying that he was heading to the store for something, Domoen had taken off, and that Ryu and Yuri had gone out. That suited me just fine. Just myself and Lucien/Carl now. Man, would he have some explaining to do, Marick thought...

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