Nocturne's Light...
A Fiction By OperationJonny
Paranoia.
One word.
Many emotions.
- The beginning to a story written in stone, in memory of Nocturne's hero.
My name's Rue. I was captured so long ago, I've lost count of the days. I've been in this god-forsaken prison for real long, I'm surprised I haven't gone insane in here. They capture you; they throw you in this pitch-black prison, along with all kinds of other low-life's, murderers, and assassins. How have I managed to survive this long, you ask? Heh, it's a long story. Let's just say, I'm no normal person. Some people suffer from insanity and paranoia. I benefit from them. How? That's up for you to figure out. But what I've been trying to figure out is a way to escape this place, this place that I swear that people are always watching you, even when you're alone. They think this is a game, watching people fight in the dark, watching in amusement at those who are afraid, those who try to thrive, survive, but sooner or later, fall victim to the darkness. I never thought I'd dream of a way to escape this place, until a certain someone made got captured and was thrown into here.
Rue sat in a corner, blindfold across his eyes. He then stood up, and walked to the center of the dark room, but he still wore a blindfold, for some strange reason. Then, suddenly, from a corner, a man ran at him, and Rue merely back flipped over him, ran at him, and drove a fist into his spine, shattering it. Rue seemed shaken by the kill he had just made. He heard footsteps running around him, in every direction, he couldn't hear the specific direction of the noise, but the fact that he didn't know where it was, where it was coming from, or where they would rush at them from, fueled him all the more.
"Some people fear the dark." Rue said out loud. "Some people find themselves helpless by the darkness, feeling as though they have no way to defend themselves." He said. "But it's the darkness I fear, and with that fear, comes a power in return. Paranoia gives me the sharp senses I need to survive. Its hopelessness it induces drives me insane with the feeling I don't have control, giving me strength to survive even more." He said, and then an assassin appeared out of nowhere, above him, and came down silently with two blades, aimed for Rue.
He sidestepped as the assassin silently slashed at him " How could you hear me?" The assassin called out in disbelief, and Rue yelled at him. "It's the darkness that I have to fear to make my way out of here! I have to live!" He yelled, as he took his blade from him, and drove it into his throat, and twisted it, and then wrenched it out.
Rue let out a shaky breath, and sat back down. "I've got it to make it out of here, I need to see the light of day again, I need to see the sky, I need to see her once more…" He said, and then a chute in the ceiling opened and light poured through. Light only appeared when a new prisoner had been captured, and Rue took of the blindfold, and in the light, you could see his deep green eyes and chin-length messy white hair. The time he had spent in this prison exposed to high degrees of paranoia and insanity and life threatening situations had caused his hair to got from the his natural color of deep red to white. A man in a green tunic and a hat with a sword and shield fell through, and landed on his feet. His blond hair was sticking out from the sides of his hat, and he looked around.
"Where the hell am I?" he asked Rue being the nearest person. He merely stood there, arms resting at his sides, as if anticipating something. The light disappeared, and Rue put his blindfold on again. "Where am !" He yelled, just a little louder than last time. Rue grinned shrewdly. "Welcome to Nocturne, Prison of Darkness." And a fairy flew out of his hat. "Where are we Link?" She asked, and he merely shrugged. The fairy was giving off a faint amount of light, and Rue heard faint hissing. He decided at last this 'Link' person wasn't any enemy, Rue ran up to him silently, and grabbed him by the wrist and dragged him away, through the darkness. "Put your fairy away, you're attracting attention. " Rue whispered to Link, and he nodded, and nodded to his fairy.
"Go on inside, Navi. I'll call ya if I need ya." And she nodded, and flew into his hood. The darkness began to lighten, but not as much. Rue spotted a figure wit ha key, shoving the key into the lock, but he never got to turn it, for Rue put his long sword through his neck, mutilating him. He then turned the key, opened the door, and entered. "That's the 5th key this week!" he said cheerfully. Link stared at this strange man, about his age, of 18 years. "How did you kill him without using your eyes?" And Rue smiled. "I used my hearing. Things get really quiet in Nocturne. You have to be quiet, you have to be the shadows as long as you want to survive and thrive to another day and maybe meet the opportunity to escape " And link raised his eyebrow. "You've got a pretty one-track mind." Link said.
"You would too, after a year in this hell-hole." He said with a grin. Link pat his hood and Navi floated out, illuminating the both. " That's the only reason why I'm still sane enough to live, the desire to get out of here and see the world I had rudely snatched away from me, he said, sitting down in the corner, clutching his knees close to his chest.
"You're fresh meat. They'll be after you, so I suggest you stick with me." He said, and Link glared at him through the shadows. "And what If you don't want to help, but you just want to kill me like all the others, you talk about?" And Rue grinned. "If I wanted to kill you, trust me I already would've. Some people here don't mind it too much, they can kill and get away with it and not have a worry in the world, but I say we organize, break out. They'd never expect some two random guys to team up, people in this place have no trust for each other. It's a dog-eat-dog world. But with two of us working together, we should get out." Rue said, and Link sat down too.
"Don't mind my opinion, but you are a very shady guy." And Rue nodded. "Another side affect of this place." And Link stared at his blind-folded friend. "So, how did you end up in here?" And Rue stared at the ceiling. " Well, I was on my way to my love's house… and along the way as I was walking through the forest, I just zoned out and ended up here. That's when the paranoia set in. I don't like the dark." And Link grinned at him. "Eighteen year old afraid of the dark? " Rue took off his blindfold to stare at him with his cold emerald eyes. " Yes, you should be afraid of the dark, or you will die very quickly." Rue said, and Link coughed. "Oh, really?" He said, and Rue nodded.
"So how'd you get here, Link?" And Link pulled his boots on a little tighter as they both sat in the small dorm room. "I was off to visit … a friend, when I was knocked off my horse." And Rue chuckled. " Well, you're leaving some info out, but I don't need to know everything. All I need to know is… can I trust you?" He asked Link. Link nodded." Of course. I don't see why not, I'm pretty screwed without you, your kinda screwed without me." And Rue nodded. "It's set then. Well, rest up, sleep on the bed over there, I'll lock the door, and keep watch tonight. Sleep tight." He said, and Link went to sleep on the bed, and drifted into slumber quickly. Rue looked at him. "He's very trusting of people. Hopefully he chooses his friends right…" And he sat down, a few feet away from the door, thinking up plans to break out now adding in Link as his assistant.