Rugal
Rugal gave Teri a thankful nod before he set off after the Drow, feeling a little better with each step.
Despite his efforts to reach out to her, she still hid her pain.
"And I heard you the first time, but I'm not leaving you like this." He said as he helped her up again after she tripped.
But she just resumed her march.
"Slindis, Listen to me, I know you are not okay. I'm not exactly an expert on this topic, but I do know this: You need help, Slindis."
Thus he kept shadowing her movements down the passage.
Digital Hell: Victory?
Viscus proceeded though the Logic Bombs, no-selling any damage they might have done to him as he began to rev up his minigun.
then:
"Executive Command 1099: User: Rugal Bernstein: Access Code: Genocide Cutter."
The killer AI froze dead in it's tracks.
Code:
"...No...Negative...Impossible...Out of the question..."
Viscus began to list Synonyms of the word no as the Command began to take effect.
The individual pieces of armour began to dissolve into small streams of code which then faded from existence.
It was as if a fine woven scarf was being undone in a process that clearly looked painful.
Little by little, his nigh unbreakable armour began to disappear, revealing his true form underneath.
Code:
"...Not going to happen...A pipe dr
eam...you can't do this is me! I am VISCUS! I AM VISCUS! I...[sub]am....[sub]Viscus[/sub][/sub]..."
Once the armour was gone, what stood before them was a avatar of the AI's former self: Albert Wesker.
He took shaky steps before he finally fell down from the toll his disablement took on his being.
"Only 2: Think fast."
A Samurai Edge handgun quickly formed in AI Wesker's hand and he swiftly shot Vermilion in the knee before rolling backwards to avoid the BAN Hammer.
Rising to his feet, he stared at his rivals and said "You foolish puppets! You believe that *I* am the evil one? You let a man that, even by my standards, is completely morally bankrupt live? You don't know anything of what I good could have done with AIM at my command!" He held his hands out and a pair of Sunglasses formed. "You think you've won? No, this hasn't ended yet, even stripped back to my base form, I am far more advanced!" He warned before he put the sunglasses on.
He then ran to cover as he fired at the AI's.
"I can imagine those people to be displeased with whatever answers you could manage. However, keep in mind a good few people survived, many if not all of which were some of the most spiritually clean there were on Eberron. While Kalastryn will be one such person to answer to, I don't doubt she will be forgiving. Who knows, she might vouch for you when your judgement day comes, as it does for all. By the way, I forgot to mention before but if you have any injuries I could heal those for you." she asks devon. of course, her healing abilities were far better than most clerics. She could not only cure physical injuries, but even get rid of insanity and other mental scarring as well.
It was then that Kalastryn began to stir once more still slightly afraid of the cleric holding her she struggles out of her hands and sets her fingers on fire just in case, but of course that was not necessary. "That won't be necessary Kala, I understand you are afraid of facing your parents again when you join them in death eventually, but, to put your mind at ease, they forgive you. Actually they never blamed you in the first place. They are in a much better place now, one where they are working to rescue you from your eventual fate."
there was a long pause of silence after Kalastryn put out her hands... there were very few things that could make her cry... but this was one of them. She fell to her knees sobbing, finally finding her worst mental scar healed, after 10 years... she finally found comfort from her parent's deaths.
She eventually triggered a pitfall trap, falling into it when Rugal heard the drow stab harshly into the sides with two knives to start the slow climb back up. He could look down to see that the pit was at least 70 feet deep and saw that she was lucky to catch herself when she did. It would be a long climb back up, though.
Melethia made her way back to the main hall with Teri's help and looked at the unconscious David. "Miss Teri, it looks like he got messed up real bad. But from one punch?"
Kalastryn | Devon
Devon went over to Kalastryn with a good deal of caution still, mainly because he knew that she had every reason to beat the crap out of him for his part in Eberron's destruction. "If you could help me and Kalastryn get a rest, that would be much appreciated." The cleric obliged, and with her magic aiding the two, they were ready to go after a fifteen minute rest.
After the two mentally prepared themselves, Devon turned to the shade of Kalastryn's mother. "While you're in here, could you focus on Kalastryn first? I'd hope that I'm more durable, and I'm sure that Kalastryn woud appreciate it much more."
Slindis
"SLINDIS!" Rugal shouted as the ground beneath the Drow pulled away and she fell into the trap.
He attempted to grab her hand or whatever he could get she fell too deep, but he couldn't.
However, he left out a sigh of relief as she managed to use 2 knifes as climbing hooks and began to make her way back up.
"Jesus, that was close. Okay, Come on Slin, Just keep climbing, I'm right here." He said, urging her on, half thinking of lowering himself down and climbing down to get her.
David West
David began to stir, some what shakily after that KO punch from Slindis.
He had a huge black bruise across his jaw where she connected.
"Whhhhhhhooooaaaayyyy shhhhiiiittt....She some kind of boxing champion or something?..." He said as he picked himself up, wobbling from the effort.
Before he asked what was going on, he ran his tongue around his mouth.
"...Where are they?..." He then said as he looked around and found 3 teeth on the ground next to where he was standing.
"Here they are...Hey, kid, Pray to god you don't ever get spanked by your mother..." He said to Melethia before picking them up.
"How long was I out?"
"Of course. None I can think of are more deserving of a rest, and there are a few things about... your situation... that I think I could say without causing her to become to angered. Other than that all her major injuries were healed earlier with the hole in her chest incident."
during a good 5 minutes of their rest, Kalastryn's mother pulled aside Kala and explained the situation with the writers, and that Devon, without the slightest knowledge of doing harm had control over a good portion of events that happened in Ebberon... and of course what happened when this control was lost.
Kalastryn goes over to Devon, and gives him a firm and very strong slap across the face, but does nothing more than say. "That's all the revenge I'll wreak upon you... after all, you knew not what you had done. Might I ask a question though? Are you the one who wrote me into existence? If such is the case you have my thanks for creating me as a respectable person. Still, though it's going to take more than all this to make the millions of inhabitants of a now perished world to forgive you... that's all the payback I need. Especially since I'm better than killing you, and death would just be an easy way out of what you've done."
Her mother stayed silent for what Kala needed to say, but then said to the two of them. "Now that Kala has gotten out what she needs to, and is fully recuperated, what about you Devon?"
Slindis took a good 5 minutes to climb up the pit and eventually looked Rugal in the eye. [color=c20000]"See? I can handle myself. Now let's get the orb of light so we can hand it off to two children and start this whole cycle again..."[/color]
Teri, Melethia, David
Melethia looked at the large bruise and whistled. "Wow! You can see the exact spot where she hit you! Now if ya wanna come with us, just know that there's lotsa traps in here, so let me take point. 'Kay?" It crossed David's mind that he didn't exactly know all that much about Slindis or her supposed daughter.
Kalastryn | Devon
He rubbed his cheek before speaking up. "Kalastryn, mind if I say something? I'm not quite sure who made you. I'm not passing off the blame, but you have run into two of the people I introduced to Eberron. As a matter of fact, you already know the quite well: Slindis and Melethia. Now, before you hit me again, I just created them. Every experience they had was their own, and honestly? I wish I was half as good as you are. And if I die before you, I'll try talking to Lucifer to see if you can go to the place that you rightfully deserve instead of the depths of hell."
Dimitri dodged around the shots, The_NINE_IRON ready in his hands as he leaped and brought the weapon down on the defense Viscus brought up; which was followed through with PRINCIPALITY beginning to convert the data around Dimitri's weapon into friendly particles, and thus began to move away from where it's master struck. This distraction allowed for YAMATA-NO-OROCHI, SEIRYU and CERBERUS to charge in past their master to attack. Viscus could already feel the dragon's (SEIRYU) deceleration effect in his data; slowly making his processes lose efficiency. It was as if he was made of flesh again, and his blood was coagulating in his body. Hissing heads reared back, and virtual smoke emanated from a trio of slobbering maws as the beasts were upon him.
David | Melethia | Teri
Teri shrugged and said, [color=0E59E4]
Code:
"They went their own way. Mel and I were sent to warn everyone about a fear effect that's been dropped on this place. Essentially, your worst fears come to life, or some variation thereof. Here..."
[/color]
She took the teeth and gingerly put them in his face, casting a minor cure spell to re-attach them to his gums. [color=0E59E4]
Code:
"Now, make sure to fact check what you do or I won't fix your teeth again if they get punched out. Kay?"
[/color]
She flashed him a bright smile of her own, and motioned to the inner depths of the Temple, [color=0E59E4]
Code:
"Now, we need to warn the others of what's going on around here. You coming or not?"
Once she was up high enough, Rugal offered Slindis a hand up, one she denied.
Then she went back into the same state she was in before the trap went off, much to his displeasure.
"...Fine...*I'll* take point..." He said as the pair continued on their way.
Then something came to mind.
"...Slin...Back with the others, that Other you said something about something you haven't told me...Mind if I ask what that is?..."
Teri, Melethia, David
"Yeah, sure, why not?..." David said in a somewhat bitter mood as Teri reattached his teeth, though he opted out of having the bruise treated, it wasn't enough to warrant a spell.
"Hey, I acted on a lead. Sure, It's all swell and dandy to tell me what I should have done after the time has passed, but keep in mind: We both know who Rugal is and what he is known for. Because he was innocent this time doesn't make up for the 100's of times he was guilty. Teammate or not, That man WILL answer for what he's done once this is all over.." He said afterwards.
He knew he was wrong, but if it meant letting Rugal get away scot free, he didn't want to be right.
"Right, lead the way you two." he finished before giving his M500 a spin.
Digital Hell: Round 3
Viscus quickly began to flee from the Programs Dimitri summoned upon him, using his Handgun to stall them.
He was starting to realise he wasn't going to get out of this one, but that was what the back-up copies were for.
So he set about doing as much damage to the Ship's system before he was deleted.
He began to sprint towards the central CPU with the intent on disabling it, crashing the entire system in the process.
The ship would stay in the air above the jungle, but his enemies would be among the data that would be lost in the process.
Kalastryn smiles at Devon. "Thanks for the kindness, not many people show me such. However, I overheard a bit of an angel-tech AI aboard the airship a while back... they were going to try to kill Teri for allying herself with me, being a Tiefling and all. I think that more than enough sums up just about how much the people upstairs think of me, so I doubt a fallen angel's good word will do much for me... though I guess it's better than nothing. Thank you, and sorry about hitting you... by the way what makes you so certain you'd be seeing someone like him when you die? I mean I admit I'm one to talk on saying that what happens to a person after death is never certain... but still, how can you be so sure?"
She was hoping their cases were nothing similar at all. She knew how it felt to have the constant sinking feeling of knowing your going to hell, and she definitely didn't want such a thing for Devon. I mean, he's done some screwed up things, but she fancied herself a testament to there being at least one respectable person on all walks of life, and the belief that no one is beyond redemption until they are dead.
The cleric, with her knowledge on the situation almost opened her mouth to tell her about Devon's training... but it'd probably best come from Devon's mouth at another time. "regardless, I think it's right about time we get moving... also Devon... I was equipped with Knowledge of Kalastryn's fears and story, not so much of the two you created. However, one of them seems to be in a great deal of distress, their fear already destroyed. Would you know anything they could have said to cause such a thing? Or which one? This place has been reluctant to communicate with me since I made myself a "traitor."
She spoke up as Rugal led the way. [color=c20000]"It's nothing to concern yourself with...."[/color] The drow's stubbornness to not admit her problems would be infuriating to anyone, and it seemed that the only reason she kept moving was because it was the only thing she knew how to do.
[color=c20000]No matter what you do, you'll always be seen as a tainted outcast by everyone around you...[/color] That last taunt was solely in the paladin's head, and it was the final straw as the paladin stopped walking.
Teri, Melethia, David
Melethia glared harshly at the man, making it quite clear that she wasn't happy at all with working with David. "I'm gonna be keeping an eye on you..." As they started moving through, Melethia halted the group a few times for traps, disabling what she could and marking what couldn't be disabled.
Rugal was clearly starting to get annoyed by Slindis's lack of a answer and her overall attitude in light of what happened.
Now it'd be one thing if it wasn't affecting her, but it clearly was, given she nearly died in a pit trap.
On top of him really wanting to know what she was afraid of letting him know, He decided to act.
He stood in her way with his arms folded.
"Well if it concerned you enough to nearly break you like that, I think I have every right to know."
She didn't answer.
"....Slindis?...." He asked, starting to grow concerned.
She seemed to be in a daze.
"Slin? Come on, Tell me, What is so important you are afraid to tell me?" He asked as he grabbed her by the arms and shook her gently, nothing.
"GODDAMN IT SLINDIS!" ......Forgive me...
He let out a sigh and slapped her across the face, hard enough for her to feel it, hoping it'd be enough to snap her out it.
After the slap, she muttered something. [sub][color=c20000]"...leave me alone, I can handle myself...[/color][/sub] Since he couldn't hear it, he asked for her to speak up. Seeming to stare right through him, she shouted at the man with tears forming in her eyes.
[color=c20000]"I don't need your help! I can handle this by myself, and I know that none of you wanted me around anyway! I can see it in your eyes, constantly judging me and waiting for the time when the tainted knight, the aberration finally gives the rest of the people a good reason to shunt her off again! Sure, you want me around when it comes to matters of death like that slaughter at the village earlier; oh they love that! But the moment it all finishes up, I'm thrown to the side and you completely forget that I'm even there!"[/color] By the end of that rant, she was crying fully and went down on her knees.
[color=c20000]"...Now go, like everyone else does, and find someone that hasn't lived their lives shedding blood and picking up the bodies..."[/color] The dam had finally burst, and the knight looked down at the small pool of tears that was forming on the ground below her.
...Oh...god...
Rugal felt a wave of regret flush over him, sure, he'd killed more then he'd ever know, but this act of evil was on a much more personal level and was much harder to ignore.
He told himself that this release was probably for the best, though he didn't feel any better about it.
As the Drow wept, he knelled down and hugged her as she did.
"That's it...let it all out...I'm sorry..." He said as she cried into his chest, her sobs echoing though out the dark passages.
He lost track of how much time passed from there and he also moved them out of the centre of the passage to sitting at the base the wall at the side, Holding Slindis as he would Melethia as she let out decades of bottled emotions. Rugal Bernstein, The man who killed an Angel... He reminded himself.
Kyre left the two alone and bounded through the dark hall. Her null-magic field gave her vision of the various magical traps and devices, of which there were not many on this floor. Her own intuition let her drop in and disarm a few of the more obvious traps along the route, but her main objective, something that had been ingrained into her mind by it's brother.
Destroy the Stone of Light.
She moved carefully along the walls and roofs, and then the floor fell out from underneath her, and the young Anti-Mage tumbled intot he great hall, the temple proper.
[HEADING=3]Dimension: Avatar Adventures Universe[/HEADING] Location: Corrupted Forest | Corrupted Temple of Light | South America Time: Nighttime | January 1st
Corrupted Temple of Light: Aftan | Altea | Akane | Angelus | Cadolbolg | Caim | David | Devon | Ella | Gabrielle | Jake | Kalastryn | Kurumu | Kud | Kyre | Melethia | Puce | Riki | Rugal | Slindis | Tajuh | Teri | Ton Ton
Jake shook his head a little as most of the crew entered into the temple. He chose not to, staying outside with Tajuh and the few others. Finding a comfy spot just inside the door, he sat down cradling his rifle again and pulled his hat low. "Oi, shout out if ya's need me, touch me and I'll react to knock ya back and attack, fair warnin' given. Now, I'm gonna try and nab some sleep whilst everyone else is playin' Dora the fuckin' Explorer."
[hr]
"K-K-K-Kokoa! Wha! Your eyes are different! GET OFF MY AFTAN YOU FAKE!"
Akane panicked, and threw a desperate left hook at the vampire's face. Had she of checked the spirit of the vampire, she wouldn't have panicked. But she could only see the loss of her beloved Aftan yet again. Then she saw the burns, the horrible horrible burns on her Kokoa...
The punch stopped right in front of Kokoa. "I! I! I CAN'T DO THIS! NO MORE HURTING NO MORE NO MORE!" the kitsune screamed before she grabbed both of them in a hug. She kissed Kokoa's forehead even as the little vampire fed.
The story of the temple was written on the walls just like Egyptian hieroglyphics except with more detail and graphic images. The temple was old but angel tech was running the whole place for centuries, considering how old the technology is, it should teach everyone how powerful the dark angel fleet is in the terms of technology and power.
Though the two Tomoya which entered this place were different. One was a confident hero who devoted his life to serving good and the other was a corrupted body who was devoting his life to destroying his counterpart's work. The group will soon learn the truth about the two Archangels of Lightning.
And the stone was the key to everything.
Even though the Stone of Light choses it's most purest user, it changes everything around it.
Even the most holy warrior might not be chosen to wield it over someone unstained of death and blood.
The Temple of Light is ever changing. In the slight chance where unauthorized people will enter, the traps will activate.
Dark Tomoya only turned the power back on by introducing it's power source back. The stone.
Suddenly but slowly the temple began to change, the walls opened and closed, making new passages and closing other ones. Also the main entrance hallway slammed shut, closing off the opening to the outside world, the only way was down to the stone. In every room which the group of heroes lurked the walls began to close of them like some adventure movie. The worst part is that it looked like the temple wanted to direct them all to somewhere.
The worst was yet to happen as deep inside the temple, one of the guardians awoke with it's dark purple eyes. It was corrupted and wondered the halls for the temple's intruders.
The innocent young couple were behind the group of Slindis & Rugal and in-front of the Teri, Melethia and David group, the three groups were traveling in one of the many hallways of the temple. No one was disturbing the couple after the event that had just witnessed. The kidnapping fell heavily on Kud and revived her fears of losing her loved ones which included Riki, she was silent ever since she last talked and only the look of sadness was covering her.
Riki on the other hand was keeping silent but kept his arm over Kud so that she could calm down, but the vibrations of the temple kicked into gear. Suddenly the hallway that the three groups were within began to move slowly, the entrance and exit were covered by stone doors and the ground began to split. As the middle slowly parted, the sudden change shocked the couple and they were separated. Riki was on the left wall and Kud was on the right. "Riki!" She yelled after him as the ground was slowly opening up into darkness. The others began to know their situation.
Dark Tomoya.
Location: Mexico | Airport.
Time: Evening | January 1st.
Weather: Cloudy.
Tomoya was standing in a long line to get to the main desk, he waited as he was almost to the front and started to fidget. Suddenly a fat american pushed in front of him, "Hey thanks for saving my *munch* spot man!" He like he knew Tomoya or something. The fat American held a KFC bucket and looked like someone who liked their American football too much. "Hahaha, I'm sorry friend... but do I know you?" Tomoya lightly chuckled as he some how surpassed the urge to gut the man and play skip rope with his entrails.
"Oh you know me, you covered my spot while I got some food." The man said with a assertive attitude, "No fucking idea what you are talking about" Tomoya said with a smile. The man became angry and shoved Tomoya, "Hey, who the FUCK do you think you are?!" The fat man yelled. "I'm a pissed off Archangel~" Tomoya said with a now sadistic smile as he summoned his dark katana and wings. The red lightning in his eyes began to shine with killing intent and the black lightning came out of him, whipping any sources of electricity.
"WHAT THE FU-BWWIAWEFFSF" The man tried to say but was immediately cut in half, the torso went flying at the main desk and the legs stood still. Tomoya pulled out one of his guns and shot it up into the air. "Okay you a oblivious humans, I need a damn helicopter... so I'm going to take one, does anyone else want to cut in line?" He smiled whilst pointing to the reception with his katana equipped hand.
Everyone was scared, Tomoya smiled as he walked up to the main desk and saw a cowering woman. Simply dinging a bell Tomoya just looked at the woman. "Excuse me miss, may you direct me to the pilot's lounge." He said in a nice tone. The lady quickly pointed to an elevator, "Thanks you... oh and... " Tomoya said as he pulled out a axe (Which was from the truck) and throw it at the receptionist. "That was for the service... I give it one axe out of five." He chuckled as he left the main entrance in the elevator. As the elevator began to ascend the only thing Tomoya could say was, "Oh right... I did save that guy a spot. Silly me... hehe".
The atmosphere of the Blackhawke was less dense since Tomoya was not on board, but the second in command spartan Storm-178 was overlooking the universe the fleet laid within. The Storm universe was a separate universe which housed suns and planets entirely out of lightning. The many colors of lightning danced along the ships like a ballroom party. "How beautiful..." Storm said whilst touching his suit. He did not forget the attack which Dark Tomoya laid upon him, he roasted Storm alive in his suit with black lightning. That is how he was corrupted.
A soldier working on the bridge ran up to Storm with some information, "Hmm... we have an intrusion." Storm smiled within the suit. "Should we notify the Lord?" The soldier commented, "If you want to die, sure. I'm sure he already knows though, I'll lead a squad myself to deal with these people. Prepare it for me please." Storm said as he left the CIC to get ready.
In between wracked sobs, she choked out, [color=c20000]"Tell me, why do you stay near me even though all I'm good for is war? it's all I was taught, all I know, all that I am! Even when I got a daughter, I ended up pushing her away and almost killed her..."[/color] As she kept on, Rugal knew why the knight hadn't ever gone into the town when she was in that place. She had thought that the ponies there wouldn't want someone so used to killing there, and Rugal could tell that the killing never got any easier for her.
"...You see yourself as nothing but a warmonger?..." Rugal asked as she took a few gasps to fuel more desperate sobbing.
"Believe me, I've seen the eyes of men who burn entire nations to the ground for personal gain and glory." M. Bison...
"I've seen acts of compete and utter depravity preformed for nothing other then personal enjoyment." ...Bruiser...
"I've seen those who believed their cause was just and would trample anything that got in their way." ...Wesker...
"I've even seen those who bet and control them all, using them as pawns in his own personal scheme for power and profit, ending countless lives in the process..." ...Yours truly
"And the fact that you would compare yourself to the likes of them, these compete monsters? Compete nonsense. You see yourself as covered in blood, Whether that is true or not is for you to decide, I know for a matter of fact that you are nothing like them. You kill, they slaughter, you fight, they overwhelm, you fight for those who can't, they....merely fight for the sake of it." But enough about me...
"If all you were good for was war, Melethia wouldn't be the woman she is today, She would have spent her childhood mugging and killing bystanders on the street for scraps in a vain attempt to build a life for herself. You've made mistakes, but who doesn't? We fall so we can pick ourselves up again..."
He paused to let what he said sink in, hoping it'd turn her away from the brink of despair.
She slowly stopped the cries as she spoke up. [color=c20000]"You know, besides the few people I could call friends back home, I was never really liked. No matter what I did, the credit would always go to someone else. It was hard to get mad about it considering the results but it still hurt. And now it seems that the gods themselves don't want my aid, even going as far as to to grant to completely green schoolchildren their abilities rather than someone that has dedicated her entire life. What sense does that make? Even when I finally got some recognition back home, I still heard numerous rumors that I'd slept around in order to get that title which ultimately didn't mean a thing."[/color]
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