Rebirth
THANX TO CREED'S ADDICTIVE MUSIC, THE KEWLIOSO READERS OF FFnet AND MEH KITTY, WINTER AND MEH DOGGIE, DESTINY!
Doo, doo, doo, when you are with me, Im free..lalalalalala, my sacrifice!
...what?
Not rain, sleet, snow, lack of sleep, nor sickness to meh stomach meh stop... meh!
Yesh, I have been inspired to continue this story no matter what to the very... bitter, heartbreaking, angsty, dark end! buahahahhaahh im snerious, I dont even like how this is going to end!
NOTE TO PSYCHODOG: I've been thinking of making a C2 for da characters (I just dont know how...) so that you and others can use them in your stories! So you can help me make a C2 if you want.
(this chapter has been made extra long since I haven't updated in quite a few weeks than necessary!)
WHEW! I am so happy! I had thought I deleted this (since I replaced the NOTE chapter with this, but no one looked because they thought it was still the NOTE chapter!) if you can understand that, I thought that when I replaced it with its rightful chapter (aka. this) That I had permanantly gotten rid of it! (I almost cried... ALMOST! I WAS NOT CRYING! -pouts-) and I thought 'CRAP! I cant re-write this, and now I've let the four ppls down! NOOO!' then I remembered I had right highlighted it and copied before, like I usually do as more of a habit... then now here it is! YAAAY!
- welp, as the french say- jouis le étage! not that im French or anything, lol
Artist: Yaida Hitomi
Title: Innocence
counting the times as I walk, going forward in terror
the wind blowing on me is strong.
I'm looking for something in the world ahead of me.
but I can't find it, so I come to a stop.
beyond that sky continuing far into the distance, people who pity war.
the children who are sad day in and day out.
everyday changes the color of its face, tilting its head laughing
holding its little worries.
no matter how I decieve myself, no matter how much I doubt,
there's nothing reflected there.
What I'm really looking for is a wish that's not just a lie,
and an unfathomable feeling.
"you need never change" "just be yourself"
this wish for peace of mind, right next to me.
If the warmth you gave me is still here with me,
I'll believe here and now that it has the power to change to kindness.
We'll be able to reborn.
once the sadness shoots through our hearts,
the direction of the wind will change.
When we feel the warmth pushing at our backs gently
I wonder if we can be stronger?
Our dreams are limitless.
No matter how I put up fronts, no matter how I struggle
The power I have now doesn't cut it,
The mirror which reflects my heart is you in front of me,
if you understand this now, we can make it.
We knock on this door called tomorrow which shakes me all too familiarly.
and then we get confused again, and surely we take to walking again.
if we start to lose our kindness, and hurt others,
we must try to remember the innocence in our hearts,
and the dreams we had as children,
then surely our passion will return to us
Ch.15- The Greedy Life For Me (I seriously have to find better titles... in fact)
Cross that, its: Ch.15- Between The Lines!
"Finally you get here!" Pride sneered, getting off his leaning place of the abandoned chapel. "Took you long enough to find her, anyways, I found two of them in only two days."
"Shut it, Pride, at least im here... then again, from where im standing there seems to only be one other than yourself," Lust replied. Not a sign of annoyance in her voice.
Envys eye was caught by the church door.She hadn't really entered one before. Shes never believed in only one god. She chose, instead, to expand her horizons for no real meaning in particular, usually changing her beliefs if she doesn't like something like consequence or a rule. She hates rules... her current 'belief' would be wiccan, an ancient nature-like religion that involves occult rituals and allows her to kill, nothing too noteworthy in it against that... plus, when she tries rituals, they usually work.
Her attention, as she wandered around the messy room, the three talked, the taller guy seemed to be just sitting there, ignoring them, towalk inside the darkened lair.She walked along the row of what used to be candles, now puddles of dried wax,green-blue and milky white, until she got to the front pedistal.
There was a large statue of a woman behind it, melted into the wall, her arms held out in front of her in an embracing way. Half her face had been decayed away with time and her eyes shown no emotion. She was made with the same color as the turquoise candles and clad with a flowing toga and long wavy hair flew out from behind her. To the left and right of the pedistal were two columns that rose to the ceiling in curves with metal bars around them that used to hold candles, now covered almost completely with white wax.
She turned, drawing her hand against the silken pedistal that could hold only one speaker. There no longer held a book of any kind as she smoothed her hand against the top surface. Above held looming curtains of fabric, mostly red, and cobwebs. She looked beneath. Only webs.
There only left smaller statues carved into the adjoining walls to the door and long wooden seats. She could see the three people talking where she had left them.
She felta hand on her shoulder.
"Motherfuck!" she turned on the intruder, grabbing her arm she threw her over her shoulder into the pedistal, breaking the rich wood and causing the girl to tumble down the three stairs.
"Ow!" she yelled, practically laughing her ass off as she stood. "Y-hou seriously had to see your face! hahahaha, it was absolutely hilarious!"
The girl was shorter than her, but not by much. Not that Envy is very tall herself. She also had long black hair and big blue eyes that scrunched up as she laughed. Her outfit needed some work, though, she didn't exactly have the taste Envy did. A trenchcoat like the taller guy, pretty normal attire other than that.
"You really shouldn't sneak up on people like that." she warned. Telling by... well, lets say 'intuition', Envy could tell this might be another of her new 'friends'. "You might get hurt."
She just grinned at her.
"Ah, lighten up..." she looked out the door, figuring she was with 'the group' as well, she grinned at her again, "Sooo, whats your name?" she said, taking a few steps closer.
Had it of been anyone else, they might describe this person as 'creepy'. But Envy wasn't exactly role model material either.
"Envy." she said, not exactly bothering with asking hers. She knew it was the missing Wrath they had been babbling about outside the cathedral. She has pretty excellent hearing, but no patience.
"Are we leaving any time soon, or do we have to wait for anyone else any longer?" Envy said, pushing the protesting Wrath out the open twin doors. She couldn't exactly take the feeling of the abandoned chapel any longer and found the cemetary even less of a comfort.
"What, afraid of a little dead bodies?" Wrath asked, finally gaining her bearings. She thought the two could be potential friends, but not if she had to push her around like that.
"Not with childish idiots like you." she muttered, crossing her arms.
Wrath scowled.
"I have a feeling Greed wont be joining us," Lust said, "but we should make efforts to gain her as an accomplish."
"And how would you know that?" Pride questioned.
"The master, unlike you, Pride, trusts with telling me the information needed."
"Hah!" he snorted, "Now what information would that be that he wouldn't tell me?" he asked. "Let alone, why the hell not!"
Lust smirked. "I think you already know the answer to that question."
"AND WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN?" he yelled.
Wrath beamed at Sloth. "Whats your take on this?" She shook his arm.
"Uhm... what do you mean?" he asked, startled as he had almost fallen asleep.
"What do you think? you know, about what she said about Greed."
"To tell you the truth, I think he's tuned out of it. I wasn't even listening," Envy said.
"I didn't ask you!"
"So what, its not like-"
"All of you look at yourselves! your a disgrace! arguing about such pitiful means. Do what the master says now, maggots. Or the consequence will be dire."
"Your one to talk, Pertyn! were doing what the fuck were supposed to, its never been said when." Pride yelled at the sky. "And stop talking inmy head, youslimy bastard!"
"Pertyn?" Sloth asked.
"A chimera. He used to work for the military. Long story short, hes a dumbass who got lucky." Pride seethed, still looking at the sky.
"Lucky?" Wrath seemed intrested.
"Our master kept him alive. He's been very useful several times when it comes to military purposes," Lust said, "Pride doesn't see that."
"Peh! he's a waste of anyones time! and his attitude needs to be chopped off along with his head." Pride spat back.
"Yeah... but when you said get Greed, what are we still standing here for?" Wrath asked. She seemed more enthusiastic about this than anything.
"Pride." Lust said, beginning to walk.
"Yeah, yeah, cooming." he mocked.
"Wrath. Where were you, anyways?" Sloth wondered.
"Oh, uuuhm..." she beamed, "just... taking care of some business... I'll tend to that later, though." He still didn't look convinced, "Dont worry about it!" she grabbed his hand to lead him forward.
MEANWHILE
"Grr! stop tripping!"
"I wouldn't if you just carried me on your back!"
"Dont make me drop you!"
"You wouldn't!"
"Wouldn't I?"
Plop.
"OW! Hey! get back here and pick me up! no man left behind, remembeeer?" Kali yelled.
"Fine, but stop complaining then." she said, slumping her back over her shoulder. "If only you weren't so short, I wouldn't have to bend down so far towards the ground..."
"This is no time for compliments!"
"Whose giving compliments?"
"...Hey! is that light?"
"What, where?" Riley asked.
"Heheheheheh, made ya look- OW!"
Plop.
"THATS NOT FUNNY!"
DEVIL'S NEST
A crooked sign lay above a bar door as three figures enter the pub.
"What. A. Shitty. Place..." Pride scoffed.
"I dunno, It looks like my kind of place." Envy said, smiling.
"Do you have any idea what your saying?" Pride said, almost to a burly guys face. Half passed out at the bar table to the right.
To the left were two couches facing one-another, an old coffee table between the two, and a fire roaring to the left of a man who looked as the most sober person in the place... and he was asleep.
He was resting his feet on the coffee table- two suspicous persons playing pool behind him- but when I say 'was' I mean Envy is impatient when waiting for someone to wake up.
The man rolled to the floor after she barely pushed him, his small round sunglasses falling off of his face and black spiked hair the first thing to hit the floor.
"Heh, nice footwear." Pride sneered, taking a seat in the opposing lounger.
Only Sloth, sitting at the bar three feet away, noticed the pool players had stopped playing and the easy quiet, but fast-paced music had stopped playing. The bartender just looked ghostly pale, he was chubby but with a moustach and large arms twice the size of Sloth's...
He waited to see what happened.
The guy had obviously been awakened and sat up slowly, reaching for his sunglasses...
Which had been stepped on- by none other than Envy, I might add.
(A/N: You need to understand... the sunglasses, like with other anime characters such as Straight Coughar of Scryed and Wolfwood of Trigun, need never be stepped on unless a can of whoop-ass must be spent...)
Envy cant quite remember what happened, or how the hell she managed toCome Tobehind the bar counter, much glass stuck all over her skin at the smell of alcohol she stood up to the sound of much crashing and banging to be tackled and slid across the long bar counter, knocking the passed out man to the floor, she felt a dagger stuck in her stomach and looked angrily into the face of the assailant, most likely confused that she hadn't slumped to the floor by now.
Envy has a keen sense of where to hit the vital spots and takes much pride at how she expertly analyzes how others move, but knowing this girls speed she probably wasn't human- and seeing as how she was attacked by abnormally long arms, she knows she has to attack hand-to-hand, only using speed as an option...
"HEY!" someone yelled as the door burst open. There was a pause before Pride hit the large hammer-weilding monster of a man in the face again.
"PUT ME DOWN! GODDAMN IT, DO YOU MIND, IM WEARING A SKIRT!"
Plop. They dropped her where Pride was previously sitting.
She was wearing an unecessarily large amount of jewelry.
"So, you must either be Greed or have a guilty concience (which is not spelled right...)." Wrath giggled, "Or were you just leaving to get help?"
"Wait, your looking for Greed?" the blonde assailant, knowing now that the intruders were humunculus, asked.
"She was trying to escape." Lust said.
"Escape?" Greed put on an innocent face, "mee? you must be mistaken! I could never leave when the going gets tough."
"Save it. Now, who is he?" Pride asked.
"Hey, you look familiar, pipsqueak." male Greed pointed out.
"Pip... SQUEAK!" his eyes turnedmore black than before, his hands creeping for his neck.
Lust simply grabbed his jacket before he flew off the handle.
"Nevermind. Were taking Greed, by force or not is your decision." She looked at female Greed who flickered her eyes over male Greed and back.
"...where?"
"Our master waits for us. Dont disappoint us, and him,by not cooperating..." she said, leaning agianst the bar table, she tapped her finger in male Greeds direction...
Greed isn't exactly... known for her intelligence, but she can tell that by NOT going it would endanger Greed- not that anything CAN endanger Greed- but when he is found out by them, they may just be in league with these others he was talking about, somehow they would find out where he was and kill the chimera's and seal him back to where he came from... which somehow made her mad.
She looked back at Greed almost helplessly. He always kept his cool, and she knew that underneath that facade he didn't want the others to get hurt... and maybe not her either... but, just like her, he cares a lot about some others but MORE about themselves.
He had his eyes closed, of course, for them not to see his pink slitted eyes.
She could rat him out right nowor just leave... but by choice of elimination-
"Fuuucking heeell, whatever!"
She stood up and left without looking back, yelled: "Its been fun!"
Just like always, Sloth was the ONLY one to read between the lines...
MEANWHILE;AGAIN
"Hmmm, hmmmmn!"
"STOP YOUR HUMMING!"
"Dont yell, were in a cave!"
"Teh! ...I dont even know how you got me to carry you."
"Hah hah hah... I win."
"Dont make me drop you again."
"Heheh... uhm...Riley... you dont hear rumbling, do you?"
"Dont tell me your hungry!" Riley spatback.
"No."
Suddenly the cave started to shake and small dirt rivers flew from the ceiling as Riley pointed the flashlight from one wall to the ceiling.
"I told you your yelling would make it fall!" Kali yelled.
"SHUT UP! somethings moving beneath the floor... look." she moved the flashlight along the floor in front of them, sure enough a fast mound was coming towards them.
"You dont think thats it?" Kali asked, freaked out.
"Whats causing the disappearences." she stepped back, "I do- and its no werewolf!"
"WHAT IS IT?" Kali panicked, struggling to jump off her back. "Run, Riley!"
Riley turned and began to speed away.
"Its beneath u-aah!" she yelped.
Like a wave, it caused her to move with it, backwards, until it dug further than the surface causingthem to crash into a pile of debri.
"Oooah..." Kali groaned, her foot got even more twisted as two tears formed in each eye.
"Kali!"
"Dont worry, im okay."
"Okay? I told you not to panic, idiot! now loo-
...k..." her eye twitched as Kali used the flashlight shakily to look up at the mere long worm-like outline of the creature, reaching the ceiling.
The flashlightwent out.
-Foresters Farm, 20.5 miles away-
-AAAHHHH! AHHH, AHH, ahh, ah..."
"Hey... dad, did you hear that echo? it sounded like a dying donkey!" 10 year old Jack asked.
His pa looked at the distant mountain and wondered,10 hours before (he supposed they weren't done by now, everyone would have made a hugedeal about it)he and the rest of the small country town had watched two women alchemists go do a 'mans' work, in the farmers opinion.
'Could it be...?' He thought.
"...nah." he continued his manuering.
Ch.16 - Master
Artist: Glay
Title: Way of Difference
I want to see you, but I can't
Standing still searching for the light through such a long night.
The one who taught me that everyone needs strength and kindness to live
was you who was leaving me.
We knew from the beginning that we were going to go our seperate ways
but even still, I felt forever in those days I touched you.
How long has it been since we found each other
I was bad at smiling, has it become more natural?
Since then we were always together,
and following that we became adults.
Waiting anxiously, but you haven't come
The memories raining down on this precious season, are mostly of you.
I miss you, I miss you
You've given me so much courage
that I still now keep with me.
Unable to be together without hurting each other,
we healed that pain together.
Now, those days in which everything seemed meaningless,
have become so dear to me.
looking for love, troubled by love, knowing love
In that heart that resembles mine in some way,
I am there, and in a corner is your unyielding dream,
Don't you see, it has changed us into adults even more.
I want to see you, but I can't
Standing still searching for the light through such a long night.
The one who taught me that everyone needs strength and kindness to live
was you who was leaving me.
If we're under the light being cast through the leaves,
it makes even our parting seem beautiful.
By forgetting sadness people, surely, can become stronger.
Soon, even here, the snow will accumulate
and the world will be colored white.
if just for a little longer...
Waiting anxiously, but you haven't come
The memories raining down on this precious time, are mostly of you.
I miss you, I miss you
You've given me so much courage
that I still now keep with me.
I want to see you, but I can't
Standing still searching for the light through such a long night.
The one who taught me that everyone needs strength and kindness to live
was you who was leaving me.
We knew from the beginning that we were going to go our seperate ways.