Lucerious: That's true, Two's a G. Sad that I'm gonna be relentless with Two though when it gets to her section of the story :\
Raximus: Riku will as soon as die than let the flower escape
Anon: Of course not, Four is pure and chaste as always. Yeah, I remember that movie too lol, I see the parallels. Personally, Three's always been my favorite Intoner behind Zero, but I see why Two's so popular. I just love the grumpy/optimistic person dynamic so I'm kinda partial to Zero/Riku as well but there's no way that would ever last. Dito's the type of guy anyone would hate, Riku especially. And yes, the gold chains Riku use are the same chains that Aqua and Terra use but I couldn't find an official move so I just went with Bind. A fragment of Four's flower embedded itself within Riku, basically.
Tantei Ringo: That's a good dialogue exchange right there. Not surprised about Mikhail, but Four is #2? And Zero is behind fucking DECADUS? That guy literally has one personality trait. What the hell...
Keybladelight: He's not the first male Intoner technically. I could probably work in a nightmare sequence with ansem, sounds good. By the time I finish this story, kingdom hearts 4's gonna be announced, bet.
Taromaru: Yeah basically, and if not Riku killing himself then possibly Zero will kill him when she finds out his secret:/
"The Day Midgard Stood Still"
*sometime during 999 AD*
Experiment Notes #07 (I lost the other ones...oops)
Demons
Month X / Day X
I don't usually like to keep track of these things….frankly they're bothersome. But something astounding happened today that made me want to record my thoughts. It all started when I dragged Octa along with me to do "field work" for my newly enhanced soldiers.
The Land of Forests was home to many oddities, every fantastical race from elves to faeries thrived within the densely wooded lands, but no one was odder than the ruler herself; Three. She had peculiar habits and a way of carrying herself that made her off-putting at times to her other sisters, though she was hardly concerned with them. The only thing at the forefront of the Intoner's mind was her dolls and in her world, anything and anyone could become one.
Three's latest creations were enhanced soldiers that she decided to experimentally test before deploying them out to the regular forces. Tonight, she was on her way to the field site with her insatiable disciple, Octa, by her side to gauge their progress.
"Lady Three, if I may ask, why did you decide to depart from the shrine at such an ungodly hour? It's important to sleep a healthy amount in order to have peak performance. Oh ho ho- of course I always have peak performance, no matter the hour, but a young lady yourself should prioritize rest. Especially after a long night of, ahem, doing the devil's dance," Octa said.
She shrugged. "I was awake at this hour... I wanted to check on Edward and Alphonse."
Eventually, Three stopped at a forest clearing. "Here." She gestured to the two bulky soldiers duking it out under the moonlight. Then she smiled at Octa in a way that always sent shivers to his groin. "Look. Their development is coming along nicely."
"Uh, yes, they're certainly fighting each other, my lady. What's different about these soldiers than the ones you made for Lady One?"
"I've made some slight...modifications to their frontal lobes so they'll be more obedient." Three took out her journal and was about to take a closer look at them when several black creatures clawed themselves out from the darkness.
There was something about the yellow, beady eyes of the heartless and their shadowy presence that held Three's attention hostage. "They're...cute." She wanted to go pet one of them, but Octa stood in front of her with his arms stretched out.
"Move."
"Oh heavens no my lady, we have no business messing with these demons. We should just head back to the shrine where it's safe...and the only demon is the one in my trousers, eh?"
But it was already too late, Three was wholeheartedly fixated on the heartless and would stop at nothing to fulfill her desires. Shoving Octa out of the way, she was on her way to the creatures of darkness when she heard her disciple calling out for her.
" —Watch out Lady Three!"
Out of all of her sisters, Three was the most susceptible to tunnel vision when it came to something that piqued her interest. She didn't even realize that she accidentally walked in between her soldiers as they were dueling and now there was a giant axe swinging towards her head.
In a split second reaction, Three snapped her head back so the blade would fly over her rather than lodge into her head. It was a surprising feat considering her lazy disposition, but she was determined to not let anything stop her from reaching the heartless.
Unfortunately, despite her best efforts, the heartless jumped away from her just as she was approaching them and it stole the heart of one of her soldiers. Right before Three's eyes, the soldier began the process of turning into a heartless.
The moment Three saw her once proud soldier—her Alphonse—become shrouded in a veil of darkness and slowly morph into nothing more than a beast, that's when she became obsessed.
'Whatever those demons are, I want to dissect a hundred- no a thousand of them!'
The newborn heartless reared its ugly head and snarled its sharp fangs at Three, hungry to tear her body to shreds, but all she did was stand there in awe of its presence. Her ever twisted mind was practically exploding at the endless possibilities this new demon species would afford. At the other end of the spectrum, Octa was scrambling to get to Three.
"Lady Three!" He flung his chakram at the heartless, which did little more than cut its head off, then grabbed Three by the hand so he could forcibly drag her out of her harm's way.
"...Let me go, Octa."
"Oh ho, that I can't do. Trust me, this is for your own good."
Three was too lazy to put up a decent fight, so she let Octa take her away and she watched the heartless slowly disappear into the horizon.
Octa took me away from those little demons. I don't know why. It was just when I was starting to really like them too. I was sad when I came back to my shrine because I thought I'd never see them again. But when I came down to my lab I wasn't sad anymore. The demons followed me all the way back to my lab and I was really happy to see them. I like to think they were just waiting for me to experiment on them ^_^
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Experiment Notes #082 (uh, what number was I on again? I don't remember…)
Love
Month X / Day X
I've been having a lot of fun tinkering with the demons. There's all sorts of things you can do with them. For example, when I used my Intoner song, they changed their physical appearance and behavior. But they still madly crave the life force of living creatures. I tried to get Octa to play with my demons too. But he's deathly afraid of them. Weirdo. They're cute and obedient. They're my little dolls. What's to be afraid of?
Um...what else? Oh yeah, I was having a problem a few days ago. Then I fixed it.
Unlike her other sisters, Three's shrine had a built-in underground laboratory where she was cooped up for long spans of time. It wasn't unusual for Octa to find her snoring on her operating table rather than on her bed, and today's affairs were no different. She was knee deep in her heartless research and had already accumulated dozens of different species to experiment on to her disposal.
"Heh heh...it'll only hurt more if you keep squirming..." Three was in the middle of slicing open the stomach of a large body heartless when she heard pounding at her door. 'I don't want to get up. Maybe if I ignore it, it'll go away.'
*knock- Knock-KNock
"Lady Three- this is General Ravus- there's something very important I must discuss with you at this instant!"
'He can wait a few more minutes. I'm not done yet.'
*KNOck-KNOCk-KNOCK
"Lady Three! Lady Three, this is urgent!"
Annoyed at his persistence, she snapped her fingers and one of her heartless opened the door so her bumbling soldier could enter in. Normally, Octa would've handled the door opening responsibilities, but lately, he'd been spending less and less time around her while she got more invested with the heartless. Not that she cared, after all, her love belonged to her obsessions.
Three stood up and dragged her feet to Ravus. "What?"
Ravus bowed down to her. "I apologize for the intrusion, but something devastating happened to my unit that I need to address with you.
"...What?"
"Well, you see..." He motioned to all the heartless locked inside the glass containers she had stacked around her lab. "Those...demons...that you've taken a liking to, unfortunately, they turned all of my men into demons as well, and I've lost control of my region."
"That's...too bad."
"I was wondering if you had some sort of remedy to turn them back."
She shrugged. "The thought hadn't occurred to me."
"Ah I see, that's a shame." He tapped his foot on the ground. "If only there was some way us soldiers could command the demons like you then we'd be an unstoppable force! No one would dare lay their hands on our Lady Three!"
She thought to herself for a moment. 'Where my soldiers lack in strength, the demons make up for, but demons aren't capable of any sort of higher intelligence. It's not like I can have one without the other.'
"A-And Lady Three, might I add...I hope this doesn't come across as rude but you appear different." He rubbed the back of his head. "Maybe it's because I don't get a chance to look at your beautiful face often, but I don't recall you ever having yellow eyes before."
"Yellow? Strange." Her yellow eyes wandered back to the large body heartless still strapped to her operating table. 'Seems I've taken after my beloved demons. That opens up a world of possibilities.' "General...there's nothing lost, that may be found, if sought."
"Ah, that's very poetic, you always did have a way with words! So what you're saying is that you can help my men after all?"
"Yes." A smile spread across her face. "When I'm done...the soldiers will have no reason to fear the demons. Return tomorrow. Early. I want to show you my...experimental steps."
"Y-Yes ma'am! I'll return here at once! Bright and early!"
The next day, Ravus returned to Three's lab as promised. Although this time he wore light armor that was unbefitting of a general and didn't even bother to bring his helmet just to show off that he was quite handsome in the face. "Hello Lady Three, so what are these experimental steps you wanted to show me?"
Three directed him to the operating table. "Sit."
"Yeah, no problem. Want me to take my armor off too?"
"No."
"Aw, we aren't going to be having too much fun like this! Unless you like a guy in uniform~"
"Lay down."
"Heh heh, no problem."
She strapped him down to the operating table, which stirred worry in Ravus' heart.
"Uh...what're you doing exactly, my lady?"
"Making you stronger."
"Of course- for better to serve you!"
Three summoned several heartless that slithered from the ground to his body.
"H-how is this- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!"
"You talk too much." Three's face was the last thing Ravus saw before she sang a lullaby to put him into a permanent sleep.
Verse 1-3
Sleep. I shall give thee death.
After the song's end, Ravus was no longer a man. The heartless fused together with his body in a disgusting amalgamation of human flesh and darkness that made him stuck in the limbo between human and monster. Before his mind could go gentle into that good night, he stumbled towards Three, trying to reach out to her one last time, so she put her hand on his head and forced him to bow down to her. "Good boy, Ravus."
"W̴̳̝͔͗̈́͘͝h̵͓̜͍͌y̷͍̟̎͜ ̷̬̹̽́̐̉L̷̘̼͠ȃ̷͕̓̿̊d̶̛͖̥̣͌̌ͅŷ̷͇͕͉̱̊̃͘ ̵̡̱͗͜T̴̪̂̂̚͘h̷̪̭̜̀̈́͘͝r̴͉͒̔͌ͅe̸̜̅̑̊é̶͍.̶̨͓̊̒̓͐.̸̡̨̦̰͛̕.̶̫͒̄I̶͎̾͝ ̴̤͋̂͝a̸͙̺̋̅̌d̵̖̝͕͕̐̿̒̈́o̸̩͑r̸̡̽͗é̸̖͖̩̽͠d̵̛̻̂̐̑ ̷̺̪̿̽̕̚ỳ̶̧̼̭͓̑ǫ̴̒̎͑̕ͅû̵̙͎͇͊͑͘"
"You will have no fear of what's already a part of you."
I decided to fuse together one of my soldiers with my demons. It was pretty ingenious actually. Now my soldiers don't ever have to worry about getting turned into demons or dying—or feeling sad— or anything bad really since they're dolls now. Kind of makes me envious of them a little bit...
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Experiment Notes #358 (I lost count)
Sisters...annoy me
Month X / Day X
It turns out most of my sisters really hate the demons. One wants nothing to do with them and doesn't want us to mess with them either. Two's still...gone...but her disciple said that he wants them eradicated. Four incorrectly said they basically eat people, but that's not true at all. I've studied them myself. They eat the life force of their host. Then it turns them into demons as well. It's pretty cool, but they don't understand.
Well, that's not true I guess. Five likes the demons too. Not for the reason I like them, but she's always been that way. She's actually coming to my shrine today because she wants to learn how to control the demons like I do. She never visits...
For once, Three was in her room today because Octa offered to cut her hair in preparation for Five's visit. She hadn't realized how long it gotten, it was practically dragging across the floor like in one of the fairy tale stories she used to read as a child.
"I do hope Lady Five encourages you to go outside, you've been getting a bit sickly looking."
"Guess I forgot."
"Seems like you've forgotten a lot since you rarely leave that lab of yours. My trouser snake is growing weary of the constant self-pleasuring I've had to endure, you know."
"Not my problem."
He shook his head. "Oh, you're the sadistic one, aren't you? Thankfully the company you're bringing today won't disappoint my rod of, erm, pleasure."
"...Just say your penis, Octa."
"Oh ho ho, but where's the fun in that?" After cutting her purple locs down to shoulder length, he went to her door. "Are you ready? I believe Lady Five should be here."
"Okay."
Three and Octa headed down the long, winding staircase to the entrance where Five was wasting outside. Once the doors opened, it was Five's cue to hug Three as hard as she could and squeal in excitement as if they hadn't seen each other just a few days ago.
"I'm ...going to ...suffocate... Five."
"Oh sorry, I'm just so happy to see you!" She clasped her hands together. "We're gonna have so much fun together big sister! Especially since you nag at me the least- by the way, I love the new look! The yellow eyes and white roots look gives you all the more creepy girl sex appeal, don't you think?"
She shrugged. "So ...shall we get started now or would you rather have dinner prepared first?"
"We can start with dinner! I hate working on an empty stomach, but I'll be the one to cook since you practically served raw food the last time."
"Works for me."
Octa cleared his throat. "-Ahem, let's not forget about our nightly activities either."
"What, so you can break your back again? No way, I swore off old, feeble people after my experience with you." She walked past him.
"Wait-wait-wait! Now hold on, first off, I'm not old, I'm 22 years young aaaand she's gone."
"That's rough, gramps. Believe me, I'd trade places with you in a heartbeat," Dito said.
"Let's not keep Five waiting," Three said, turning away.
Since Five was a downright lunatic with her cooking, most passed up on whatever abomination she would serve as a meal, but Three always ate her food up without question. Even today Three had no problem finishing off the 'ogre-soup surprise' Five made while their disciples were damn near close to passing out from disgust.
Five beamed at Three's empty bowl. "I'm so glad you liked dinner today Three. I even made enough for leftovers!"
"Good. No cooking tomorrow."
"Dear lord..." Octa groaned.
She stood up from the table. "Let's go. Follow me, Five."
"Right behind you! And why don't you two boys clean up for me while I'm gone, okay~"
Five followed Three to a secluded field behind her shrine. "Mmm, this place is perfect for all sorts of naughty things."
"Focus." Three walked into the center, then summoned a few shadow heartless from the depths of darkness. "They rise like the moon from the horizon."
"Uh-huh, but how'd you do that exactly?"
"It's like..."
"Yes, sis?"
"It's like...I feel a dark energy coursing through my veins that wills me to summon creatures of the night from a world outside of our own. I've been connected, tied to the darkness that ravages our lands and won't stop until everything and everyone is destroyed."
"Uuuuuhh-huuuuuh. Say that again, but in a way that makes sense."
"Think of all the negative emotions you have, then channel it into your own powers."
"That sounds easy enough." Five tried her hand at summoning heartless, but she still wasn't able to properly channel her darkness. "Or maybe not. Hmm did I mess something up?"
"Don't restrain yourself. You're good at that."
Five let her overwhelming greed fuel the darkness festering in her heart and she was finally able to draw the heartless into the world of light. "Yes!" She jumped up in the air, then immediately ran over to Three to squeeze the life out of her again. "You're the best, Three. Now I can have them do all of my dirty work!"
"...Just be cautious."
"Hm, why's that?"
"Those demons take no prisoners. They will destroy you if you let them..."
I apologize One. You didn't want us to use the demons, but I'm far too gone to turn back. Maybe I'll become a demon next. I wouldn't be surprised. I'm already half of one.
No one knows why the heartless came to Midgard.
Perhaps it was by chance.
Or perhaps, it was because of the darkness the Intoners possessed.
A darkness so powerful, nothing could withstand its path of destruction
Until everything and everyone is destroyed.
Flowers for the Dead
A/N: Check out Ao3 for some art I posted
