Light, meanwhile, was sadistically emptying photons at a Garanz, sniping the propulsion points on it's rockets to send them back. She quickly found herself met with two Gilchics on either side of her afterwards. In retalition she crossed her arms and let loose the specials of her two guns, Ruby Bullet and Heaven's Punisher.
"Wow... That was boring." Nyreal pushed some purple hair from his eyes and lowered his headband downward into a necklace.
"Your tellin' me." Light holstered the sacred guns and repaired her blonde hair-do.
"So, wanna spar?" Nyreal twirled his blade around in his fingers before sheathing it.
"No, not really. Wanna kill this VR interrupter?" Light pointed toward a now noticed man behind her friend. He was average heigth, and standard anime features (black hair and built figure). But... there was something interesting about him... His shirt had the same arcane, mystic circle on it that Nyreal's headband had.
"If he tries to hit on me, then yes. Dude!" Nyreal now adressed the stranger, "That symbol... Were you a student of Arcanjyutsu?" The unknown only smiled and unencapsulated a forgery of the Orotiagito. "I see." Nyreal materialized his Red Saber.
The stranger, a FOnewm at a perfunctory glance, charged at Nyreal with a burning cut towards his chest. Nyreal dodged and stabbed at the other FO on one foot, this was parried and returned with an uppercut and a roundhouse to the gut. Nyr shot out a fast moving Foie and used it as camoflauge. Once the fireball hit, Nyreal followed it up with several rapid slashes at the Newm that were hardly blocked.
"Are you SURE you took any kind of battle training?"
The FOme tossed his weapon to the ground and started to create a blue ball of mana in his hands. Nyreal took the hint and charged his own creation of black and red. The FO with blue let his loose first, the energy spiking out somewhat like a Barta; Nyreal soon after with a fireball as fast as a Foie, but the look of a Megid. The blasts collided and struggled, but the blue shot overtook Nyreal's and jetted towards him.
Falling back down to earth after he jumped over the blue burst, Nyreal wondered, "What was that called again? Oh yah, HADOKEN!" My hero shot out a stream of blue energy that connected with his opponent uncontestedly. "I leave the school and this is what happens? Damn."
The FOme as bad as MOME was battered and fried. He then set a Ryuker and disappeared into P2.
"You know what that was about Nyr, baby?" Light looked around with wide open eyes and mentally slapped herself for that last part. It went unnoticed however.
"Not really. Hmm, I guess we'll have to see."
Meanwhile.
Sye sat sprawled over a couch while LabTea scanned over the Newm's plans and schematics of the Central Dome.
"See? If we enter through here," Sye traced out a line through the hidden escape system. The Central Dome was originally designed like a fortress, and the only way to get inside unnoticed was to go through the emergency escape systems.
Labyrinth had to protest, "Do you honestly believe Zionus is stupid enough to rebuild the Dome in the same exact way it was originally?"
"He may not be stupid enough, but he's sure as hell arrogant enough. Ours was the closest system of perfection that was ever designed, he's the type to trust in his little barrier more than the true defenses of the place anyway."
"And if what you said was correct, those swords can slice that barrier with no issue."
"Precisely. But we'll need to empower them with my dark and light to make them effective enough to do so."
"Then we will, of course."
Nyreal and Light were walking back towards the well hidden entrance to Resist HQ through the "Glamorous" neon hues and flashes of the city in space when Nyreal's stomach growled.
"I'm hungry."
"I could tell." She giggled.
"That's an... Odd side of you."
"HEY! You saying i'm odd?"
"Not at all... Of course not." Nyreal smiled and dashed towards the nearest fast-food establishment with Light close by, wok in hand.
Nyreal's favorite flavor is Pistachio. Light's is Cheesecake. Nyreal eats it as fast as he can; Light licks slowly around the sides in the patented "Lick Around the Damn Sides" maneuver.
Nyreal wonders about the possible innuendo the previous paragraph may be construed as, and Light is suprisingly good with that Akiko's Wok.
Nyreal wonders why his Hadoken didn't suck up the partiality of himself and the blonde across the torturous space of a table. Light wanders off into the zone of thought about how well the table might hold up under certain forms of, ahem, stress.
Nyreal says Light's hot. Light says Nyreal's good enough to chain to a bed.
Nyreal is afraid of what Moon would do to him if she read this post. Light is afraid of what Moon would do to her if she read this post.
Nyreal wonders when the author will stop turning this fic into a trashy romance fantasy; Light wholeheartedly agrees.
After the previous travesty that I dared to call creative prose, Nyr and Light both had an ice cream burping contest. Light won by a landslide.
"No fair! You must've snuck Coke into your ice cream!" Nyreal stood up and threw the table to his side.
"What? Jealous 'cuz a girl can burp better than you?" Light taunted with sarcastic flames of anger in her eyes, kicking her chair into the Raskin-Bobbins patrons behind her.
Nyreal flushed red, "No! It's 'cuz you're a cheater!"
"REALLY!"
"YES DAMMIT!"
Suddenly, as if their screams triggered it, a huge explosion ripped through the ice cream building, killing a lesser being in a single stroke. Two dark figures walked out from a back alley to inspect the rubble of the once-tasty establishment. One was the short FOnewm Nyreal had fought earlier, the other had smoking gloves on his hands and was built like a hunter, but had the traditional newm elf-ears.
"Are they... dead?" The short FO asked impishly while glancing about nervously.
"Probably." The HUnewm refitted his gloves and walked off with the smaller Newman in tow.
iUnbeknownst to the Attempted Man Oners/i
Nyreal layed under a holy shield created by Light's unclassical ability to use Grants related techs.
"Let's kick their ass."
"Damn Light. Chill little girl."
"I'm 24 jerk-off."
"We should tail them first. Who were they? Why did they want to kill us in the first place?"
"It was that kid you fought in VR Spaceship, you didn't see him lurking around?"
Nyreal batted his eyes to the left and right nervously, "Ummm... No?"
Light shifted around in the cramped light-shield they were still sharing and sighed, "How about we get out of here first," She let up on her shield and let loose a Grants attack to free them from their cell.
Nyreal, still on the floor, stood up sheepishly and surveyed his surroundings. Apparently, Light's blast flung all of the debris from the building into the nearby shops.
"Ninja Vanish!"
Of course, neither of 'em went anywhere. Light knocked him out and dragged his petrifyed husk of a body away with chagrin.
Nyreal awoke in among softly painted walls and inside of an even softer bed. It didn't take him long to get redressed - thanks to his Guard Wave and robe on an ironing board next to him - and waltz out into the other room. Light was sitting boredly with a holographic computer screen in her hands, constantly flashing and scrolling with blue and green windows of useless data.
"Oh, you're up. I've been searching for data on that Newm you fought the other day."
"How? We didn't have anything to go by."
"He had to register himself into the VR world to reach us, right? After that it was a simple matter of checking the database for recent users." Nyreal took some adsprin, partly from a wok-related injury, the other 70 being Light's speech, "I haven't found much on the guy."
"Tell me what you have found."
"Fine," She lifted up her hand and opened up another window that read:
iVeil Blur FOnewm Age 15 Equivalent True Age: Unknown Specialties: Recombinant Techs and Katana-type Weapons/i
He is a registered master of the "Arcanjyutsu" school of battle and is wanted for the systematic murders of students of that craft.
"What the hell!" Nyreal spat out his shot glass, "Why the flaming would someone do that?"
"Dunno," Her screen flickered once more,
Veil is often seen with this man:
The screen showed a picture of a rare HUnewm with dark features.
"So, get anything on that guy?"
"Nope. The screen fried when that happened."
Nyreal staggered to the window in a daze, "Why... Why would someone kill all of my brothers like that?"
i"Hey there, WIMP." an ape of a child pushed a much younger Nyreal onto the cold floor of Coral. "Psssh, why would anyone want to become a FOrce? It just makes you a gaylord who can't swing a sword." The bully taunted and kicked Nyreal in the gut... with steel-toed shoes.
"You son of a bitch!" Nyreal then fainted after further beatings from the bully and his followers.
A bolt of lightning zapped the ring-leader's behind.
"Hey! Leave our friend alone bitch!" A kid about Nyreal's age and three others stepped up bodly and charged their respective favorite spells.
As if stupidity ran in the genes of all neandrethals, the mob of bullies all stepped up to the FOrces to get respectively zapped, burned, and frost-bitten.
"You okay?" one of the bully-slayers asked.
"Uh... Yah! Thanks to you guys," Nyreal gladly accepted a monofluid and mate. "Where'd you guys get those techs from?"
"From our sensai, Fate." A random FO child burst in.
"Really! Cool!Can I... um... y'now... Stick around with you guys for a while?"
"Of course! I'm Mint, welcome to the school of Arcanjyutsu!"
Time doesn't flow, it can only disappear. The past exists only in your memories and your heart.
"Wow! This kid has some serious potential!
"Dude, Nyreal." "Yah Mint?" "I REALLY like this girl, what should I do?"
"Nyreal Destiny.
Mint Yum.
Abyss Abaddon.
I hereby award you three the treasured swords of the Arcanjyutsu style!
The Masamune, sword of light.
The Shiva Edge, wakizashi of balance.
The Murasame, katana of darkness."/i
Nyreal snapped out of his flashback, "Light! Tell me the whereabouts of Mint Yum!"
"But... Wh-"
"NOW!"
The fireflies in her hand danced nervously, "He's still alive. Weirdly enough his tag's coming from the bottom of this building."
"Cool!"
"But... the tracker for that Veil guys is down there as well."
None but the insane understand the actions of their kind. Such was the same when Nyreal was driven to run down the side of Light's apartment building.
Wind whipped him and whipped around him, and his legs were moving faster than your average hedgehog.
"CRAP! I left my Gravity tech disk at home!" He finally remembered and yelled over the weakly whistling wind.
Mint Yum chomped on an apple while fixing the large, single braid of blue hair on the back of his head.
"Damn it's weird saying 'yum' while eating food... But then again... 'Magically Delicious' tastes like leprechaun." He continued his oh so important musings until he saw some burning idiot running down the side of a building.
"Save the freaking leprechauns!"
Mint looked up, "Nyreal! What the flaming are you doing there?"
"I'm having tea with the queen of Scotland... I'M FALLING YOU DUMBASS!"
"Chill man, chill." Mint got into his ready stance, Shiva in hand, "On three..." The blade glowed ice-blue and the glow leaked out through the sheath, "Two, one, THREE! Diamond Dust!" Mint cut the air with his blade as a snowy parachute formed around Nyreal's body, gently dropping him off before melting.
"Thanks."
"No prob pal."
"So, have you noticed your little entourage yet?"
"Yah."
The Newm's FO and HU hopped out from their barrel hiding place, swords and spells drawn.
Nyreal: "Let's -"
Mint: "Dance"
bSomewhere Else, this happened.../b
"I need those disks." The soldiers in front of Sye laughed, "If you fail to comply with my demands, your demise will be eternal and utterly gruesome." Sye ran his - now - purple irises and black pupils over the laughing primates of Zionus's military. Sye's hands cackled with dark clouds of purple and black energy. "Last Warning. I need that data. You don't want eternal damnation purely because of your glaring stupidity, do you?"
The lapdog only threw the disks to the side and began emptying his clip at Sye.
"Then you have chosen imprisonment inside of an ever-burning twinky." Sye literally pulled out a twinky and chanted a curse,
"Thil nan teah isiride iternaln, eht shall eb sidai Sey countress," dark puffs of smoke rose from the men's bodies and those bodies fell dead to the ground. The puffs of smoke converged on the twinky; Sye - now Sey - threw it into the air and pyrokinetically set the object aflame.
bThil nan teah isiride iternaln, eht shall eb sidai Sey countress/b
Light and Dark reside within, it shall be said; Sey controls.
-
The voices of God and the Devil are released through the frail waves of humankind.
What was known as "Sye" was overpowered and supressed along with the one known as "Eys". Respective Neutral and Good were jolted downward into the spiraling black tide into the reign of purple and black that was the Profound Darkness.
bIt's so much easier to succumb to the darkness and rot with the other waltzing corpses. White is a lie and Gray is impossible; the only true fact for humanity and the very fabric of time is black.b
"That's not true!" Sye fought his battle with inward color-techs as he slipped downward into nothingness, the fabric of reality melting and passing him by. His existance was a catalyst to turn the world of his psyche into sand then, peacefully, his masked self slipped downward into the abyss.
"Hubris," The HUnewm muttered laconically as he drew a Berdysh from a capsule.
"Wha?" Nyreal aghastly widened his eyes, leaving his arm to hang loosely off the sword sheathed across his back.
"Excessive pride. He's saying that we're idiots to fight them." Mint held his hand at the hilt of his wakizashi.
"Precisely," The Fome let magical energy crackle in his fist.
"Stop hogging all the ugly and get to fighting!"
Nyreal dashed up the HUnewm and feinted a slash - only to jump and spin around mid-air to fire off a mini Hadoken. The HU fell on his back and was pushed several feet. Nyreal took this chance and appeared behind the HUnewm when he got up, pulling his ears and taunting him. The HU, let's just call him Hu, did a spin cut with his partisan and caught Nyreal with the blade as he was gliding out of range. Nyr sprung into the air and cut the Berdysh into a metal pole. Hu attacked with a Zonde bolt that was blocked by one from Nyr going ground up. Nyreal quickly fused some mana and blasted the red ice line before jumping onto the wall of a nearby building. While Hu was distracted by the recombinant tech, Nyr kicked off the building and cut his opponent as he rocketed downward.
-
I realized something, being around my parents fuels suicide lust.
The hara-kiri of the masses lies within the average idiocy of the common man. TV, though fun, belies our view of society and truth. Books are your only salvation, go blind on 'em for all I care- you'll still be smarter than a TV junkie who can see.
Veil let loose a small beam of light to blast apart Mint's apple, "I'm Mint, chosen of Shiva, bringer of icy black death and gum for minty fresh breath. You didn't eat your daily apple, and i'm a dentist."
"Shut up and fight!" The one-who-is-a-hated-class-online let loose another, larger beam of laser from his fingertip.
Shiva-Mint twirled his blade around to parry, and countered with his Hadoken, "Fusion Burst!" Mint's voice burned through the ship like the burning shards of yellow light did to his opponent's blade. Veil ripped out a custom Double Saber and began his dance of blades.
Mint blocked the first strike, the second, the third, all the way past the sixth without effort; he stabbed at Veil, who dodged and countered with a spin and a backwards stab, and then kicked his jaw into the stratosphere (body following soon after). Mint flew into the air, with some thanks to a red-boxed tech disk named RaSonnil lvl 26, and made several deathblows at the spinning Veil. He murdered his - stolen - Aura Field and held his blade like the knife from Psycho, "Nami Yumi - Tzen!" Mint held the Shiva across his face as the blade from his edge evaporated and shot out in a vicious rip-tide of 37 degree water. To finish his god-moding, Mint equipped an Angry Fist to his free hand and punched Veil downward into the pavement.
Veil and his special friend, somehow living, laughed.
iNow, where the hell is Light/i
Celestial, golden light radiated from the outline of her body, and her twin guns were exuding some sort of vibration. A harbringer of evil, perhaps? Precisely, RB and HP. Light sensed a purple darkness approaching her on an ethereal plane. Sey then appeared next to Light, his body still somewhat translucent from wrinkling space to get there.
bWell hello, my friend.b Sye's previous body was nothing like Sey's. He had fully been overtaken by darkness. His hair was black, his back had two red, edgy wings sprouting symmetrically. His body was shifting with neon, like any of the Del creatures; His eyes were still transformed, purple pupils and the rest as black as his irises. bAre you here to vanquish me? The Great Light has failed time and time again. What chance might you have/b It appeared that Sye's once mature tone had faded into gritty onyx as well.
bI am here to free my friend. But I cannot let your machinations go rampant. Let Sye go Sey, you are fully aware that you cannot win. You are only a small manifestation of Sye's darkness and of the Profound Darkness after all.b
Somehow, there was wind whipping against them as they stood on top of that building. Also, Nyreal should've been finishing his HUnewm opponent off on the other side of town by now.
Wasting no time, Light charged up her gun and loosed an amplified Grants beam that Sey easily absorbed.
bQuaternary doesn't work. I suppose I should be suprised that a beast like you could channel Sye's power while he is lost in darkness.b
bLight, what an unimaginative name. You'd think that H-./b Sey was cut off by an intense blast of Tertiary.
I'll be freed after this shot, thank god. Half Pain. Light fired multiple Grants from her gun simultaneously ripped through the blackness of night. Needless to say, Sey was jettisoned backwards like a missile into a tall, empty, sky(maybe roof?)scraper with the logo of a company. Something about "Sonic Team". Light lost her golden aura and watched for movement inside the building. "That really shoulda killed him. Or exorcised. Gah, what's the word, 'circumcised'?"
bYou little bitch/b The building exploded into multiple gratifying pieces. God, seeing that would've been better than fireworks. Even the sex after them.
Sey floated upwards from the rubble, a black miasma meandering from his body to several yards away. He. Was. PISSED!
bNow that you are weakened, I will crush you with the full power of my being/b
"Heh. You're an idiot, Sey." Light bit into a twinky that he left behind, "I'm shwongor whuehn i'm," she swallowed, "My true self."
Light aimed her gun and screamed, "PENULTIMATE!" Sey dropped out of the sky like a fly vs. Raid then onomatopoeically thudded against the ground.
Light stared off into the distance for a second, "Now it's his time to fight for his own freedom."
Wow, these final battle places always seem to take place in the open field with the crappy ass seal known as the Pandora's Box. Except, that field is from Red Ring Rico's memories. Minus the Pandora's Box, it was a romantic field in a secluded clearing of Ragol. It's where Sye proposed... Scratch that, it was really propositioned. Do you think that Sye would choose to get married? Thought not. He was shot down there as well. This is also where Flowen met Rico and all romantic story hell broke loose.
Long story short, Rico has a power fetish and Sye burned up Heathcliff's power.
Sye awoke in that very field. He was laying against a tall tree with a shrine on it, "It's probably there to pass off as a non-sequitur to the old standard of the PB." Sye said aloud. Wait a sec, aloud? "What the crap! I'm alive again!" Sye ran around joyfully. Until that hack-bastard Sey appeared next to him of course.
bI am the Profound Darkness! The Profound Darkness shall rule you, mind and body/b
"Wow, speaking in the third person. Brilliant. Now will all my base belong to you'se? You're a mindless parasite when you don't have a host, huh?"
bI have the power of the darkness in every heart/b
"Ripping off Kingdom Hearts now? Amazing. You could've been slightly terrifying with that sentence too."
bI will deafeat you/b
" 'Defeat', Such a big word, and you even misspelled it! Lemme pat you on the back... With flames!"
Sye floated into the air, and suddenly the whole room turned pure black. There was nothing existing anymore, all that was in Sye's mind was solely on this fight. Three dimensions of darkness and nothingness up, down, left, and right.
That didn't phase him. With a literal fireball, Sye began his assault!
Sey launched it aside with a jolt of his hand when he realized it was a diversion, Sye's arms were outstretched and his hands met and the end. "Blazing Time Bomb!" Several red, compacted balls of fire surrounded Sey. Sye snapped his fingers and the great balls of fire (Goodness Gracious!) exploded like a triple charged Rafoie. Sey braced himself and when the explosions ceased he emerged scathed, but otherwise OK. In retalliation, he formed a large rifle out of the neon black material that you see on the Del family and fired off rounds at a machine gun pace. Sye managed to bat a few off with his Elysion before throwing the saber at his opponent.
Sye chanted a curse, and similar symbols to a photon blast started to form and twirl around him. One of the symbols stuck in place, followed by one more, and so on. The symbols began to metamorphose into a mirror image of Sye, each chanting the same curse. "Mirage Holy Blade!"
A white beam of light extended from the right palm of each of the Syes hands, and soon solidified into an enourmous, white, silhouette of a common sword. Though triple the size and much more powerful. They each supported their right with their opposite hand and flew forward!
Sey had prepared for this, damnably, he ripped off a small lock of his hair and threw it into the air with a grandiose gesture. 30ish tiny Seys and the twice-as-tall original then began to turn their arms into machine guns, each charging a round of shots with devious grins. The Seys let loose a volley of electric fury, beams of Zonde, that ran over the faction of Syes and left them numb, their muscles denying the pain they felt. Another volley, a mirage was exposed for a fake. A Volley of Barta, Sye 1 and 2 were bleeding pretty badly. Foie Volley, Sye got the bare shirt power bonus. And it was proven...
The Sye army was a farse. They were all really holograms that were good actors, with low salaries to boot. Sye crouched onto a floating disk of ice. His shirt was gone and his nose was bleeding, along with several other cuts around his chest.
bI suppose that you really can't defeat the darkness within your soul./b
"Are you kidding? Not to turn this into a sermon, but you have no power over me. Darkness feeds only if you let it; only if you're too insecure to accept your shortcomings. It feeds off the hate and pain that you let linger in your heart. You can always forgive, always try to improve yourself and your lot in life. We may be insignificant, but us intelligent lifeforms have the wondrous ability to expand our beings past the base, and onto something much greater..."
The Profound Darkness stood aghast and mortified, his own weakness exposed. Now it was the torturer's turn to feel the whip.
Sye raised his arm into the air, and summoned his Mirage Holy Blade yet again, sans Sye clones. He let his arm dangle freely into the void, and prepared the one of his true techniques. The art of Techniques and the way of the Force does not end and lie in finding a maxed level technique disk...
"Requiem delle fiamme," He muttered peacefully in a suave tone. Pure fire pooled in Sye's fist. That which has escaped human comprehension throughout the ages coexisted with Sye and symbiotically mingled over his whole body now, draining energy and preparing to help it's friend.
The Darkness snapped out of his trance, though still in disbelief of the power that this mere mortal could summon to his side. Ha-How can you.. you summon so much power? Heh, Death itself was afraid now.
Laughing in Death's face, Sye replied only with ki yells and a statement in Italian: "Simbiosi della fiamma." Soon, a single Sey monkey couldn't stand watching it's doom continue to grow in power; it charged blindly and was quickly incinerated by mere nearness to Sye. Enraged by the loss of their strand brother, the rest charged blindly in a primal rage. Sye merely looked towards them and focused his gaze. Incineration. Wreathed in flames, he then approached the Darkness with the calmness and candor of a hero... Or was it a conqueror? "Li commetto al diavolo," He held his Mirage up again (It was burning as well), his arm supporting it once more.
With a look of sheer determination, and blatant disregard for being covered in fire, Sye slashed at Sey, spinning with momentum from missing. Sey shot several volleys of ice from his arm-gun. Each was more ineffective than the last. Panicking, Darkness created a sword from it's arm and cut at Sye with an exasperated en guarde that was held mute by a slight shift in sword position. Sye focused his gaze on the blade arm, and it burst into flames too. Sey went on to punch at Sye, trying to override being unequipped by being faster, but the newm moved his head to the left and impaled Darkness through the stomach and chest.
"Goodbye. If you ever get near any of my friends or myself again, i'll be overjoyed to gorily slaughter you." Darkness could only reply with hacked up blood as he fell further onto the sword, it burned further through his internal organs and commited him to the devil.
Sye was still lost in the void of his mind, drained beyond any reasonable point. The 'Symbiosis of Flames' was one of his ultimate five abilities, and it usually drained him to a negative well of mana. Even though he was superpowered by his consciousness during the fight, he was still exhausted.
Letting his blade disappate, he was suddenly inside of a church. It had a short dais in the middle of it, with holy-looking light filtering downward to it. It seemed like a place that could lead you to truth about life itself. Eight monlithic, stony pillars surrounded the dais and Sye was standing in a small break in the pillar circle that acted as a hallway to the dais. It was flat and filled the area of the circle of pillars. He slowly walked into the middle of the dais and layed downward, facing into the sunlight
iGod, I wonder if i've done the right things through life? Has all my reincarnation been a cosmic joke; sheer amusement to a holy being that enjoys watching a cavalcade of cadavers? I didn't want to end up this way. I wanted to live a peaceful life, raising kids and growing old with the woman I loved. I've done what i've had to do, killing when necessary and the like. I've never considered an alternate solution to all the world's troubles, we all seem to cycle through life and death. Alot like Falz, actually. I wonder when it's all gonna end. With a hero somehow saving us all and letting the universe live happily ever after? No. We all, as a race and people, have to kill the Darkness our own way. We all have to reject it and create a ground for ourselves; walking forward to peace./i
Before Sye could get even preachier, he awakened from it all. He was lying on the cold concrete of P2. His body was as exhausted and beat up from the fight as his mind was, strangely. Either way, it was time to get going.