We Are Our Avatars V (Closed)

[TilMorrow]

"I'm sorry to say that the plane you current stand in is not your Earth but rather your own mind." The voice said to Valvatorez. "I'm not a would be assassin seeking your blood but rather someone who wishes to help you and offer you a peace that only I can provide."

[hr]

The hooded girl neither moved nor spoke as Bryce approached her.

[hr]

"Are you certain? You clung to that animal there who had the kindness to assist you in a life that aims to torment you endless but I digress. You are distraught are not? And carry the burden of hatred, rage, regret and especially loss. But I can help you remove these pains, these worries that hurt you and weight you down every day. I can offer you peace."

[hr]

The girl that Caius turns into a series of shadows and smoke that slowly dissipates as a short distance away stands the hooded girl again. A voice then calmly begins talking to him. "In truth this is less of a illusion that what you were experiencing a moment ago as this is your own memory of reality. The truth of your existence. But I can truly release into peace, if you so do want."

[hr]

The hooded girl didn't move as Yeul approached her. A voice began speaking to Yeul calmly from the air. "I am the Disciple, a presenter of peace and an releaser of pains."

[hr]

As Rozalin(?)'s lightning bolt strikes where the hooded girl stands, she bursts into swirls of smoke and shadows which slowly disappear as the girl stands a short distance away seemingly unharmed. The voice replys calmly. "I do not see you as a fool but I see you as someone who suffers what life has forced upon you. My peace is not of the grave but of preservation from that which existence and life strikes and ails us with and chooses to kill our dreams for. The peace I offer allows you to exist without your pains. You may call this a prison but it is your own mind."

 

[Furioso]

"My own mind? You sure are a strange one, but you wish to ally yourself with me? Very well lass, you may do so."

Fenrich looked at the girl staring at him "Why do you keep looking over here, what the hell do you want?"

 

[FPSfanatic]

"So. I think I'm hallucinating. And you don't belong in this memory. so. mind explaining?"
[hr]
eventually, the beating stopped, and Zachariah's father left. Zachariah stood, with difficulty, and leaned against the bed frame, looking at the purple cloaked lady.

OoC: so, at what point should I start worrying about a slashing wound? just cut a finger open using a saw on a wooden car, you see. Just a heads up if my writing becomes more nonsensical, though I'm fine (Probably[in fact, pretty much entirely certain here.])
seriously now, would Zachariah be aware of himself, or would he still feel like a child? Also, would Caesar be able to interact with this?

 

[DotSlash]

@FPS: I'd say yeah, I had both Erica and Skye intervene within these sequences.

Rex looks the hooded girl, his voice calm. [color=008888] "All you're saying is that life's a *****. I'm more than aware of that. And honestly, I don't care how much life will try to break me, I'm going to rise above it. That's what I told myself a few days after I did... that and I'm not about to stop." [/color] Rex simply turns back to the girl and walks up to her, grabbing her by the hood, still speaking to her with a calm voice. [color=008888] "Miss, get the hell out of my head so I can thrash you." [/color]

[hr]

Skye looks down at Yukino, who stopped sniveling enough to look up at her. Her eyes were bloodshot and she was still shivering. Despite this, Yukino slowly shakes her head toward the virus, speaking in an uncharacteristcally small voice. [color=bb66bb] [small] "Please.... don't. I know... I haven't been the best host... but please.... don't let me die yet..." [/small] [/color] The virus looks over at the hooded girl and shrugs. [color=330033] "You misunderstood me. My host doesn't wish to take your offer... but maybe it would be in her best interests. Explain more about it." [/color]

 

[Furioso]

OoC: @FPS, disinfect it, keep an eye on it to see if it starts to look funny, or if it gets really red around the wound/red streaks appear, or puss, then go to a doctor

 

[Demonjazz]

"Get rid of my all of that... And forget about my quest, forget about why I became a Pokemon trainer. Forget about my mother"

 

[Chungus]

Caius moved his hand wich he used to grab the girl and watch as the shadowy smoke flowed through his hingers. Lowering his hand, Caius listened to the girl speak, and once she was finished, he too vanished in streams of shadow, shadows that then manifested infront of the girl. From these, Caius reemerged. "Do not twist my words. I know this trick well enough. You are warping my perception, making me relive the memory that is most prominent in my mind. So I will repeat myself - Release me from this ilusion. Alow to return to reality." Caius demanded, then paused and clenched his fist. "I have an oath to uphold. I cannot have peace until it is fulfilled."
[hr]
"What do you mean by that?" Yeul, walking infront of the Desciple, briefly wondering why it is her mouth didn't move as she spoke. "Are you the one responsible for showing me these visions of the past?"

 

[Drakmorg]

Rozalin(?) scoffs at what the Disciple tells her. "I already had such a peace, you clueless fool. For years I slumbered, blissfully unaware of the outside world." She turns her head towards where the Disciple now stood, not needing to look around for where she had moved to as she easily sensed her position. She looked at the purple hooded girl with a gaze that carried slightly more contempt than before. "That is, until your careless magics broke the seal. You are utterly bloated with hypocrisy. You claim to bring peace, and yet you have broken that peace which I have made for myself. Such worthless incompetence, I've hardly seen anything like it." She brought her free hand out in front of her face and clenched it into a fist. Dark energy began to swirl around her fist until it began palpable, causing her fist to appear to be draped in impenetrable shadows. The world of her battlefield memory began to quake and shudder all around her and the Disciple. "If this is truly my own mind, then this place is a prison I can break free of on my own. But I will give you a second chance. Release me, and once I am free of this prison, I will grant you 'peace', as painlessly as I can."

 

[Furioso]

OoC: So... what's going on?

 

[CmmdrRosh99]

Since Riven and Ratsel were both asleep their pleasant dreams...

Spoiler: Riven

"Riven The Exile... Step forward." Boomed a man's voice as I stepped towards him and dropped to one knee, looking down. Whoever this was... I felt compiled to do so.

"Do you... Solemnly swear to up hold the will of Noxus? Our believe that it is Strength above all else? A new Noxus... That your band of allies and I have forged anew?"

No... Could it be?... This one moment that I had waited for so long?

"I do." I raised my head to the man seeing

Spoiler: Jericho Swain and his Right-Hand man Darius

Jericho Swain

Darius

Swain then presented to me... My blade, reforged and lit a strong shimmering green glow.

"May I present the Returned Champion of Noxus... You title is no longer 'The Exile'... Welcome back, Riven The Reforged!"

I turned and suddenly faced a crowd of Noxian soldiers and citizens raising their hands and cheering. For me. Darius suddenly patted one of his massive hands on my shoulder.

"Welcome back... Hope you aren't jumping at my position. Or else..."

"I'd have to kill ya." I grinned back at him.

Spoiler: Ratsel

It's been.... such a long time for a really happy memory. The Metero-3 strike such North of New Zealand recovered by Tabane Shinonono. Ichika's disappearance. The repeal of the Alaska Treaty and the production of more Mass Producted IS mechs, now referred to as 'Personal Troopers'. The Shuttle Incident. Charlotte received some brain damage. She became... rather happy and 'bouncy'. All this within a short several months. We personal Infinite Stratos owners had to move on in our lives.

Perhaps I should be angry that Ichika never really resolved the sexual tension between us all but... Without him disappearing, I would have never seen...

"Miss Alco.... Ahem, I mean Miss Blackett. It's time." Cecilia smiled. It's time!

[hr]

"Do you, Cecilia Alcott, take him, Ethan Blackett as you lawfully beloved husband?

"I do."

"You may kiss the Bride..."

[hr]However, things aren't always meant to be.....

Spoiler: Riven

A damp fog yawned across the valley floor sheepishly, as though reluctant to conceal the horrors of the day. The gagging stench would have betrayed its effort, had not the smell so thoroughly permeated the Ionian countryside. Death was now a permanent resident of the somber isle, and its purchase grew with every passing hour. After so many similar fields, I no longer took account of it. This sight is all just too... lifeless.

Dusk was settling as the company marched on, the stamp of their boots thick and dull crossing the grimy stretch.

Fury Company had trudged for days to catch up with the rest of the 42nd Standard, and the dreary trail through the Zaunite Melters' aftermath was... messy. War was all about casualties, but the rising number of civilian losses was staggering. The High Command had expected the peace-loving Ionians to roll over and surrender in the face of Noxus' military juggernaut. Instead the resistance was fierce and unrelenting. For a society that preached pacifism, the Ionians didn't hesitate to get their hands dirty.

Impressive

This was a particularly grim scene. The Coeur Valley was one of the few passageways through which the Melters could cross the foothills of northern Shon-Xan. The Ionians had made a desperate stand there that morning, hoping to stem or slow the pace of Zaun's death machines. It was a telling failure for Ionia. They hadn't even managed to scramble half the forces Noxian Intelligence had predicted, and ample countermeasures were taken long before the Melters attempted the pass.

And yet here we are, as the clean up crew.

My attention was drawn to the path by the sound of advancing footsteps. Someone was approaching the group from the front. I raised my blade high, halting the company and eclipsing herself beneath it.

The figure emerged from the fog. It was a girl, a couple years older than I, stumbling as she walked. Her clothes were torn and matted with blood. When she saw the company, her eyes went wide.

"No no no no no," she muttered. "No more, please." She fell to her knees and started weeping.

With a heavy sigh, I ordered two men to retrieve the girl. Handling civilians was a chore that had wearied the men over the past several weeks. We aren't here for commoners. We are here for soldiers.

The two soldiers reached the girl and stood to either side, each silently hoping the other would take the lead. The two soldiers instantly crumpled, dead before they hit the ground.

No wait this..!"Ambush!" On all sides of the company, corpses were rising, weapons in hand, and charging into their ranks. Except they weren't dead. Not by Noxian necromancy or some abomination of Zaun. No their eyes were very much alive with hateful resolve. Already the rear guard was overtaken. "SHIELDS UP! FORM THE SHELL NOW!" I bellowed as the company started to crumble. The army needed to be warned. I drew a distress flare from my belt and fired into the darkening sky. Pale green light illuminated the entire valley.

One of the Ionians leapt out at me as I easily slashed upward, bisecting him lengthwise. The Ionians had the advantage. If they could best me in combat, they deserved this victory. The strong would prevail. The remaining Noxian soldiers tightened their ranks, backs to each other. Nearly half the company was already dead or dying. The Ionians were taking their time now, savoring the growing Noxian despair.

They were surrounded and outnumbered. My men were tired, demoralized. The Ionians, by contrast, were fueled by their hate. One way or another, I will end this.

A blinding ball of light erupted thirty feet in front of her, sending Ionians flying. It was....
[hr]
I shifted my head to the left as I saw my soldiers faces contort unnaturally. Jaws fused to the chest, their gauntlets clawing at their eyes as they try and numb themselves against this. Turning back to the Ionians, I saw they claw at each other as their bodies imploded and morphed into sludge, the bone no longer there. Their heads violently twisted to the side threatening to snap as their armor and weapons melted as if they were in a Noxian Master Furnace.

Screams. Many screams. Men women.... I think I even heard some Ionian Children too.

NO! I need to... Stumbling away from the battlefield, I slung my sword over my shoulder, my steps already going in hectic directions as I tried not to collapse over my own two feet or soldiers. Or at least what remained of what human flesh it was, a puddle of something.

My vision started growing fuzzy, flashes of colored dots appearing and disappearing before me as I shove my way through the antagonizing noise. I feel my soul.... As if its been violated, being inspected and persecuted. the scene... [sub]It's[sub]just...

[sub][sub]To much to bear...[/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub]

Spoiler: Ratsel (Cecilia Alcott)

How did it happen like this? It was just an ordinary business trip. Nothing major and now... This... I can't possibly...

"So we are at your wits end, Ms. Alcott."

Cecilia gripped the trigger of her relic Starlight Mark III rifle, the "Blue Pierce". There was no way she can catch up with her now. "There are two ways with can end Ms. Alcott. Its either the colony gets gassed and everybody dies... Or you shoot your husband who is located at the source of the gasses. Ohh rapture... But I'm not done yet! Have a few nice words before you make your choice, m'kay?"

"Ce...Ce... Is that... you?"

"Ethan! Just hold on! I'm going to..."

"Cecilia... My love, there is no other way... Please... Take the shot."

"NO! There has to be a third opinion, there just just has to be a-"

"Dear... My sweet... I... There's much to save at this point. The gases, its been released and filteri-"

Cecilia boosted up in space, her old Blue Tears IS was modified, just like any other IS now. For space. Taking aim, tears bursted from her eyes.

[HEADING=2]EEETHAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!![/HEADING]​

The faithful blue beam sliced through the bulk-head in that one small section of the Space Colony. Where the gasses were stored and releasing. And where Ethan Blackett was.
[hr]

Cecilia stood a distance back from the grave as crowds of men and woman paid their condolences. With the crowd swarming around it, there was trouble getting even a side of the grave visible. Off to the side were two women. One was Chelsea Blackett and the other was Shizune Takatsuki. Shizune had been Cecilia's friend ever since they both were in the same class. Chelsea was Cecilia's maid and then step-sister. With a scowl over her face, Chelsea looked at the grave and back at Shizune.

"This... I will NEVER forgive Cecilia to shooting Ethan. I won't!"

Cecilia continued to look at the grave from a sullen face. No tears could be shed, because there were no more tears to be shed. A piece of her hair slid down over her eyes, as Cecilia bowed her head slightly again.

[sub][sub]I... I'm sorry Ethan...[/sub][/sub]

[hr]
Due to Madlax's nature... Nothing really happens to her. She continues to sleep in bliss.
[hr]
"Someone is trying to open the gate... But without the Words of Truth or the Books, they can't. Thank you..."

 

[TilMorrow]

OOC: @FPS: If it's not too serious, make sure the wound has been cleaned and bandaged and make sure to keep it clean and that you keep an eye on it. If it seems to worsen get it checked out. If it's serious, get it checked out.

"So you permit me to remove you of all your worries and take your fears and pains and allow you to exist in a blissful peace?" The voice asked Valvatorez as the hooded girl looked up slightly.

[hr]

The hooded girl didn't react as Fenrich spoke to her but a voice began calmly speaking to him. "I'm simply watching but I wish to help you."

[hr]

A voice began speaking to Bryce. "In truth you're not truly hallucinating but vividly remembering the truths of your existence. What you are seeing again is that which life has chosen to govern you as it ever drives you towards the ground but I wish to offer you something else. Peace."

[hr]

The girl breaks apart into smoke and shadows as Rex grabs her hood and as it dissipates she stands unharmed in another corner of the room. "Although I wouldn't word my description as eloquently as you have but that is the truth in basics. But the peace I offer you does exactly what you want, raises you above life and in addition removes all that may harm or pain you so that you can exist in peace. Truthfully I am not in your head, this is but a projection that has formed to offer you a painless path to peace as that is what your mind truly wishes which is why you have trapped yourself here in your memories. If you were to force yourself from this place without acceptance of my offer than I will give you peace all the same yet the gifting will not be as painless as had your conscious been willing to accept it."

[hr]

The voice then begins to give Skye an explanation. "My offer of peace removes you from this life stripping you of all that burdens you including your pain, suffering, regret and loss whilst allowing you to exist and live on in a blissful existence in which you shall never been harmed again and your dreams would be made real."

[hr]

The voice continues to speak to Ethan. "Yes that is what my offer does. However you would not forget your memories only the pain and suffering and damage linked to them and instead your happier times would be made more prevalent as you exist in peace and see your dreams become achievable.

[hr]

The hooded girl does not react as Caius appears in front of her. "I'm am doing no such thing. This is the reality that your mind has locked your conscious in as it desires peace, the memory you are reliving is one produced by your own merit from your own past. This Oath is a burden that has been forced upon you to carry out but my offer of peace can release from it and your own illusion as well as let you exist in bliss."

[hr]

The voice continued to speak to Yeul. "I mean exactly what I say. I am here to offer you peace, freedom from all that pains you. These visions are of your own merit, your mind conjured them up to show you the truths of life."

[hr]

"Are you so certain that is true?" The voice calmly asks Rozalin(?). "You may say that you have slumbered peace but you were never truly free or at peace. You state that it was my magicks broke you from your peace but if something as simple as your own mind broke your seal than there was always the risk that it would break at anytime and I assure you had it not been here where you are restricted from others then you would have created more pains and misery for yourself as life would have orchestrated. You may see that as hypocrisy or incompetence but it was you yourself who was afflicted by it due to your existence and the peace I still offer will rid you of it all. There is a reason why your mind trapped yourself here but breaking through it would be paramount to destroying yourself and by extension killing your being, something even my peace cannot save you from. I cannot free you from your own prison and I can never know peace as you can."

[hr]

A girl in a purple hood stood in the middle of the Battlefield as the Ionian Citizens and Noxian soldiers died around her as she watched Riven attempting to flee the scene.

[hr]

A girl in a purple hood stood amongst the graves as she watched as Cecilia stood in front of the gravestone of her lover/fiance.

 

[Furioso]

"Well... no, I don't permit that, but you CAN help me strike terror into the hearts of humans!" said Valvatorez enthusiastically

Fenrich scoffed at the girl "I need no help from the likes of you."

 

[DotSlash]

Rex just smiles to himself and lifts his gauntlet up a bit, ignoring a majority of what the Disciple said. He'd heard enough to know what he was doing.
[color=008888] "That so? In that case, see you on the other side, Miss Disciple. Erica... do it." [/color]
[color=bb1100] "Understood." [/color]

The gauntlet around Rex's arm suddenly spurts out blood all over the walls of the room and Rex's arm bleeds considerably as he slowly phases out of the illusion, giving off white sparks similar to Erica's.

[hr]

Yukino stops shivering and forces herself out of Skye's hold, landing on the ground. The foxgirl keeps her head down but walks up to the hooded girl. [color=bb66bb] "Then that's just a false existence. It'll be nice to live my dreams for a while, but eventually living the dream becomes boring. I refuse to live in such a vegetative state... Disappear." [/color] Skye grumbles a bit as she looks over at Yukino slash at the figure of the girl horizontally. [color=330033] Well.... It wasn't like I'd actually let this girl do what she wanted with Yukino... But does she have to be so quick to use violence? [/color]

 

[Demonjazz]

"No, I'm going to stay the way I am. My dreams will be worthless if I don't have any reason for them. I want out of this world and back to where I was" Ethan said firmly

 

[FPSfanatic]

"oh FUCK, its Jehovah's witness! Quick, pretend we aren't home!" Caesar commented. Bryce chuckled, and said "Yeah, I'm aware life's screwed me over. I remember my buddies dying. But there's no need. I'll live with, like I lived with all my mistakes. So, I believe there are people who need my set of skills to survive. Would you mind releasing me?"
[hr]
Zachariah spoke to the hooded woman. "FUCK YOU! You don't have the right to just shove yourself in my head and attack me like that! Get the fuck out, before I beat you one handed."

 

[CmmdrRosh99]

I made it... Finally. Out of the battlefield but... With a clear hill's view of the battlefield. I turned and faced what was left. It was all just radiating green stuff. Instinctively I was going to throw up, but now... Now I just don't know what to feel.
[hr]
Cecilia turned away from the grave as she saw the purple hooded girl as she looked back at the grave. This is... strange. Wait a second...
[hr]
[sub][sub]"...Pasta...."[/sub][/sub]

 

[Chungus]

OoC @Nile: Lulz. "darkblack" is a colour, is it?

"You are correct in saying that I relive this memory occasionally. Not a day goes by where I do not think on it, the oath I swore, and failed to uphold time and again. The deaths of the seeresses, all carved into my heart. I can remember them all..." Caius remarked, then, for a moment, trailed off. "But that is besides the point. What matters is that I have never relived them this vividly. Not until you interference. No matter how you twist it, no matter that these memories are a truth, the fact remains that my consciousness is trapped in this moment by your doing. Were it so that I could return at will, I would have done so already." he continued, then looked away from the Disciple, towards the palace. "My oath, a burden as it may be, one who's weight increased by certain events, is not one who I will break. No matter the circumstances, I will persist." Turning back to the Desciple, Caius balled up his fists. "If I wished a release from the pain my long life has has brought--the guilt, I would have attempted to free myself of it long ago. But one wish granted is another wish dream shattered. Even should I be free of this burden, the burden of someone else would only increase. That is why I go on, no matter the cost. I do not live for myself, but so that I may see to it that someone else gains the happiness she so deserves."
[hr]
Hearing the Disciple's explaination, Yeul was silent for a moment. "It is true, life is full is pain. Mine is because I am to watch the fate of others, be they good or ill. However, it is not all about anguish. There is just as much joy to be had as there is pain. No matter what one's life may bring, one can always find some happiness, if only one looks carefully enough.
Plus, a life where only bliss exsist, that is not life. That is but a dream. To discard one aspect of life only because the other is unpleasant, that is not what it means to live. Without sorrow, there can be no joy. Without contrast, there is nothing that gives meaning to bliss. A fate where one would only know bliss--that would not be living, that would onl be exsisting."

 

[Drakmorg]

Rozalin(?) scoffs at the Disciple once again. "Your peace is something I am not interested in, plain and simple. I wish to make my own peace. That is what power is truly about. Not accepting it from some pathetic whelp attempting to justify their desire to enact pointless genocide." She held out her shadow-wrapped hand at the Disciple, then quickly clenched it back it a fist as she bent her arm at the elbow and upwards. Shadows wrapped around the projection of the Disciple, utterly constricting it and preventing any sort of movement or escape. "Though you are correct on one thing, surprisingly. My mind keeps me here so that I can remove the annoying pest that is your presence. Now begone!" The Disciple would feel her projection and presence being forcible removed from Rozalin's mind as the shadows completely engulfed the projection, then shrank until they, and the projection, no longer existed. "As for whether or not it is true that you can know the peace of the grave...I will simply have to find if that is true first-hand."

 

[TilMorrow]

OOC: @FPS:
@Nail: Apparently so and congratulations forum coding, you just broke on me. *Adds to his bug list*

"No I cannot do that." The voice replied to Valvatorez. "My role is bring the offer of peace to those who suffer life."

[hr]

"Are you so sure? A moment ago you were crying out in anguish at what life had presented to you. The unfair folly that it forced upon you. However I can offer you a peace that would rid you of it and allow you to exist in bliss."

[hr]

The Disciple in Rex's illusion sighs before saying "So be it."

[hr]

The girl disperses into shadows and smoke as Yukino slashes at her however she appears a short distance away, unharmed, as the voice speaks. "It would be your existence meaning it would be false only if you said it was. Your dreams would also evolve with how you wished them too. However I do not understand what you mean by it being a vegetative state. Additionally you cannot harm me as I'm but a mere projection presenting a painless offer of peace."

[hr]

"Your dreams would only be worthless if that was what you made of them. Alas I can not free you from a prison created by your own mind and if you were to return to reality I would still give you the peace that I offer however in a it would not be as painless had your consciousness been willing." The voice said to Ethan.

[hr]

The voice replys to Bryce. "I cannot release you from a prison created by your own mind and if you did return to reality I would still give you the peace that I offer although it won't be as painless as had your consciousness been willing."

[hr]

The hooded girl did not react as Zach yelled at her nor spoke at the moment.

[hr]

The voice then states a single question to Caius. "But what if you ultimately fail in that endeavor and never have the chance again to achieve that?"

[hr]

The voice didn't speak to Yeul this time and her whole memory seemed to freeze a moment except for herself and the girl. The girl's mouth moved but no sound or words came out but Yeul still heard inside her head "I beg to differ." The memory then unfroze.

[hr]

Before the Disciple's projection disappeared from Rozalin's vision, the voice said "I do not do genocide. That is done by monsters."

 

[Furioso]

"Hmm, well then I'd have to decline your offer. I don't really suffer life, in fact I rather enjoy it."

Fenrich laughed at the girl "Listen here whelp. We may have suffered a rather large setback, but it is nothing my Lord cannot overcome. Go annoy someone else."