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Post by IDEK on Nov 4, 2022 21:09:10 GMT
Isa nodded her head, grinning at him. "Okay!"
Hannah said nothing, her hair moved in the breeze slightly, a few more petals falling from her body, scattering across the water nearby.
The sun was in the sky.
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Post by Master Psychic on Nov 4, 2022 21:17:48 GMT
Mirai looked at Isa, then turned to the rest of the commune and then looked at Hannah.
He took one moment to look at everything around him for one last time, taking a deep breath as he raised his sword.
"...Eye of Time, bring me back-"
"It's funny how fate works."
Mirai caught off guard by that voice that he recognized, turned around.
Noriaki was standing on one of the bridges, wearing his clothes, surrounded by a dark purple aura and wasn't using his rod, facing the group with his hands at his sides.
"...N-Noriaki?" Mirai asked, confused by his appearance.
"...How long was that dude standing there and why is he glowy?" Evangeline asked, rubbing her eyes to make sure she was seeing him and wasn't an illusion.
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Post by IDEK on Nov 4, 2022 21:25:39 GMT
Isa looked straight at Noriaki. "You again." She said.
"Is that the fucking Kouki king, when'd he get here?" Parov asked.
"...Mirai, ignore him." Hannah said, "Continue that sentence, we're not going to have long until Magna comes back."
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Post by Master Psychic on Nov 4, 2022 21:31:29 GMT
Mirai was too distracted by Noriaki's appearance to continue the sentence.
Noriaki looked at his glowing hands even though his eyes were still bandaged.
"...I may not be a guardian nor a maiden, but I happen to have coincidental ties to the three of you. I can copy elements like the rest of my family and share them with others, all thanks to that Akuma ancestor who made it possible for us to do this by getting that fruit from Eurydice's tree with the help of Polyhymnia and I'm also able to go back and forth in time when I took a sample from the time element when I met that young boy, may fortune bless him. And just like you Mirai, I too am not pleased with this outcome either. It's like it was meant to be." Noriaki said, shaking his head off.
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Post by IDEK on Nov 4, 2022 21:40:14 GMT
"... Meant to be? What's that supposed to mean?" Hannah asked.
Chastity turned, facing Noriaki. She had an intrigued expression on her face, about to ask something before Hannah beat her to the punch.
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Post by Master Psychic on Nov 4, 2022 21:59:15 GMT
"...For the four of us to be here at this exact moment, we are the ones who are going against this cruel reality's expectations, desiring to live free without being restrained by our own titles and this forsaken war that took everything from us, including our sanity. But if one person's method to solve problems fails or one doesn't know what to do, a third party must have a alternate solution." Noriaki said.
The aura around him vanished as he lifted his hands, grabbing onto the bandages around his eyes.
"Anesidora and Eve weren't joking when they said that taking even a small fragment of the box's power could have severe consequences, when I obtained a fraction of destruction, I din't think that I would survive, I thought for sure that I was gonna die...but then, I was reminded by the reason I risked my life for: Amaya, my sister who wanted to see that place for herself, begged me to take her to that place and I promised her that I would, but not just her, all the good people who are suffering in this hell and want to live somewhere safe, far away from here, it's because of that I din't give up, fought against my sickness and triumphed against the element. To quote you, Mirai, I continued fighting not just for myself, but for my sister and the innocent aswell." Noriaki explained, as he started to remove his bandages.
"And now that I have full control of this power, all the doubts lingering inside me are gone, now I know that I can turn that dream of our's into reality at last." Noriaki declared.
The bandages collapsed on the ground and Noriaki had his eyes shut.
He opened them, revealing empty sockets which burst with blinding rays of light, acting as a temporary set of eyes.
"Once I gather the remaining ingredients, Hikari will be realized and I will give those who seek refuge a chance to escape from the monsters roaming this planet! And this place has one of the ingredients I will need to restore the lives of those who are lost to us!" Noriaki exclaimed, spreading his arms at both sides with a strong will burning inside Noriaki that cannot be broken.
Transparent strings materialized on Noriaki's fingers through the power of the relationship element, launching them towards Chastity and attached them into her arm in which she injected the elements into.
Life energy was flowing through those strings, being extracted from Chastity and flowing right into Noriaki's fingers. He did not touch any of the elements Chastity had inside her however.
"DUDE, WHAT THE HELL!?" Evangeline exclaimed.
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Post by IDEK on Nov 4, 2022 22:10:58 GMT
For a moment, silence. Chastity's knees buckled slightly as she grabbeed onto a string that appeared on her arm. "... Ah?" Chastity stared.
"That's rather rude of you... At least ask a lady first." She smirked, slightly. The vine growing along that arm beneath her sleeve started to wilt away and die.
Murasaki immediately pulled a blade out, flinging it-
"Mirai!" Hannah yelled, she pointed a finger at Noriaki and he was teleported to the other side of the planet. "Go back in time, now!"
As a result of Hannah warping Noriaki across the globe like that, Murasaki's blade missed completely and pierced a tree on the other side of the marsh.
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Post by Master Psychic on Nov 4, 2022 22:21:47 GMT
When Noriaki got teleported away, the string was cut off and landed on the ground, spilling out a lot of life liquid on the ground. It looks like Hannah was able to disrupt the transfer for Noriaki to complete the duplication.
Mirai raised his sword, aiming it at the sky.
"EYE OF TIME, BRING ME BACK INTO THAT FOREST 6 DAYS AGO, RIGHT WHEN I WOKE UP!" Mirai yelled.
The eye inside the clock opened, with two clock sticks in it's pupil and numbers appeared in the iris, a timer started as the number began going backwards slowly by each number before the timer began going down at a fast rate and time started to reverse as the sun was setting and the moon was back in the sky before it lowered down and the sun back.
Two days were reversed and the damage done to the commune by Chastity and the Balanque Kingdom was undone, it was like it was never destroyed and a lot of people were starting to materialize into the commune, into a reversed order of the last person who died to the first one.
Mirai and Isa's bodies were turning transparent as they started to fade away while people appeared in the commune. Daisuke, Hilda, Anka, Ash and others who perished appeared like they never died.
Edgar would vanish as he would be back on the Rain Kingdom alongside Kyo while Murasaki would be back with Phoebe and Harris.
A pillar of light struck behind Mirai, a hand peered out of the pillar of light to grab him by his shoulder and make him turn around as the second hand grabbed the handle of his sword.
The pillar vanished and Noriaki was standing there, looking down at Mirai as his smile began to widen across his face.
"The two of us have a lot to talk about." Noriaki told him.
Before Mirai could respond or act, he and Noriaki vanished from everyone's sight.
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Post by IDEK on Nov 4, 2022 22:29:26 GMT
Chastity's eyes went to the back of her head- she stumbled forwards and fell as Murasaki ran towards her only to immediately vanish from the scene.
"Mirai!" Isa cried out, as the flowers blooming over Hannah gradually disappeared- the wounds covering Dawntree vanished. Isa completely faded away as Hannah ran forwards, trying to ----
she didn't have that element anymore.
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She reached a hand out, as someone in specific formed into existance not too far away.
Mariam.
Hannah's expression shrunk. She wasn't reaching her hand out anymore.
She wasn't doing that yet.
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Post by Master Psychic on Nov 4, 2022 22:37:21 GMT
Inside a mansion located in the middle of a casino city, standing on the balcony and looking at the sun was a little girl with long wavy black hair reaching the floor, two strands of her hair going down past her cheeks, black eyes with slit pupils, wearing a necklace with a silver key attached to it, a crown of roses on her head, a shoulderless long sleeved white dress with black lock patterns on her dress.
She raised her hand towards the sun as if she wanted to grasp it in her hand to see if it will burn her hand, or if it will feel really hot or it will be like holding an orange. From her perspective, it looked like she could just grab the sun not knowing just how far it was from her reach.
"Jill." A older female voice called out.
Letting out an annoyed sigh, the girl turned around, facing a woman in her 40's with long brown hair reaching the floor, hiding the right half of her face, her purple left eye, wearing a yellow star necklace, a long-sleeved purple robe with a large glowing purple eye in the center of her dress, she had her hands placed together as she looked down at the little girl.
"Hey, Arcadia." Jill greeted.
"It's polite to say 'good morning', first." Arcadia pointed out.
"Whatever. What do you want?" Jill asked, rolling her eyes.
"Mammon asked for your presence, he is curious about Tron's secret projects after he refused to elaborate about their purpose to the rest of the Omnipotents. You've been to the City of Techno recently and likely took a peek into his secrets, din't you?" Arcadia asked.
"...Yeah, but every secret has it's price, I'm not going to just give up them so easily without some form of compensation, you know." Jill pouted, putting her hands on her hips.
"Heh, naturally. If you are done sightseeing, will you join me?" Arcadia asked.
Jill stood there, thinking about it before she looked at Arcadia and answered.
"Okay. I don't want to keep Mammon waiting, I know how grouchy he can get when he doesn't get his answers very quickly." Jill shrugged.
Arcadia nodded as she turned around.
"Let's go." Arcadia said.
Jill walked a few steps forward...and stopped for a moment as she looked up at Arcadia.
"...Hey, Arcadia, did you ever have any weird dreams of your own?" Jill asked.
"...Depends. Are you asking me because you had some odd dreams of your own recently?" Arcadia guessed, turning her head.
"...Well. For about a week now, I kept having these strange dreams, like I was here but like before the Omnipotents have appeared. I was seeing these women who were the original maidens, I was able to see all their adventures and the people they were with, everything was happening so fast, it was hard to keep track of what was going on." Jill muttered, putting her hand on her head.
"...Go on." Arcadia said, actually turning to face Jill as she sounded interested.
"...And, and, there was this little person called Mirai, but what's strange is that I couldn't see him, it's more like...I was seeing through his own eyes instead, but I don't know why though. I'm asking because you were alive during the war and saw everything that happened, are these dreams of mine random or are they connected to them, somehow?" Jill asked.
Arcadia closed her eye for a moment, she was silent.
"...Sometimes, dreams have a strong message to deliver or are so random that you can't exactly figure out their meaning so easily. Perhaps the reason you keep having these dreams may be related to the ones you have dreamt of." Arcadia suggested.
"...Those girls were maiden and I'm a maiden. Do you think it's because we have some sort of connection to each other that I'm not aware of?" Jill asked.
"You may or you may not. But you shouldn't worry yourself over such things, what matters is what you do today, tomorrow and in the future. Your role as a maiden may have a impact on people you know and you will meet in more ways than one. The choices you make in the present will craft the road to the future you are seeking to reach. Whether it will be a good thing or a bad thing for you is up to you." Arcadia said.
Jill lowered her hand, not looking impressed.
"...I already knew that. But, you're not wrong, my future is mine to decide and I will make sure that it will be one worth achieving." Jill said with confidence.
"...I see. You have a iron conviction with a cautious and determined heart. You are a reminder of a certain someone." Arcadia smiled.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Jill asked, tilting her head.
"Ah, my tongue slipped without thinking, but don't think too much about it. Let's get going now." Arcadia said, putting her hand on her mouth as she turned around and walked inside the mansion.
"...Liar." Jill snorted.
Jill looked up at the sun with a smile on her face.
"...My future, huh? I will make sure it will be a bright one, believe it." Jill grinned.
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Standing on the same spot on the balcony of the completely abandoned and ruined mansion in the middle of a city which was now reduced to rubble with pieces of meteors sticking out of them.
A tall slender figure wearing a white cloak with lock patterns and a hood covering their head was standing there with their hand raised to the dark sky, as if they were now this close to grabbing the moon and pull it out of the sky so people wouldn't look at it anymore.
They lowered their hand before turning their attention towards a desert in the distance.
"...After so many years, it's time to take back what was once mine."
The cloaked figure jumped off the balcony, landing on their feet and made their way out of the city, walking slowly towards the desert, not looking back at the city or the ruined land surrounding them or even taking the moment to look at Lakshmi's city that was right next to this city.
(End of Hannah's route for me)
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Post by IDEK on Nov 11, 2022 22:27:03 GMT
...
Proserpina wasn't looking at the moon, rather... her attention had fallen to the reflection of the moon in the waterfall, the stream of water running past the ruined city she had remained in, towards a forest of dead trees and mushrooms. There weren't many stars in the reflection of the water anymore. By now, most of them had gone out.
She couldn't help but wonder 'when' the sun had set. It hadn't been that long ago that they reached the city and the sun was out then...
"It takes longer for the sun to set back home... I guess that means this area's tilted towards the sun, or perhaps the sun itself is just closer... It might not matter, it could be the atmosphere-
... Why am I asking myself these questions. Nobody's listening anymore." She sighed to herself. She wasn't even sure where 'home' was, if it was the building she had been raised in or the endless abyss she gained control over not too long ago.
Her thoughts drifted away from the land she stood at, to a place that could be considered a 'home', maybe.
"... If I bring some food from here to you, will you eat it?" She couldn't help but ask, knowing that she wasn't heard. "... You'll just stay there, I think. Lying in the water, but with whatever food I give you in your hand."
In front of her, where all of the streams led was a large body of murky water surrounded by dead trees, the castle behind her- everything that remained of it anyway, wasn't too far away... but now that she was here.
All of these ruined buildings didn't catch her attention at all. All she found herself thinking about was...
"Ah, Proserpina, there you are." Uriel's voice called out. She turned her head, seeing him leaning on a balcony attached to the castle that somehow survived. Standing near to him was a figure with white hair in a red raincoat. So far away she couldn't see their faces. "Come up here, will you?" He called out to her.
Proserpina shook her head, instead pointing off towards the forest.
"Ah, very well. Minami?" Uriel turned his head to the woman next to him. "Want to come with us?"
"Sure." The woman commented.
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With light hair, brown skin and light blue eyes, wearing a green shirt and skirt beneath a red raincoat. She certainly looked like Minami...
Uriel couldn't help but notice the way she was walking. It was pretty similar to how she used to walk in the past as well. Her arms rarely moving as she looked across the scenery. But one crucial detail was wrong, there wasn't any familiarity in those eyes at all. The woman walking alongside them had never spent any time in this forest at all...
And the way she was looking at him and Proserpina, it was more like pieces of meat than it was the way Minami would ever look at anyone. Even from their brief time within the epilogue: within that small time in which he both had his powers and was connected to her he could gather that much.
But Uriel had to give her one thing, she really did look exactly like he remembered her. Watching as Proserpina walked off ahead of them- stopping in the distance amidst a patch of particularly large mushrooms, where the moonlight illuminated the withered branches of the trees above them.
"... If I may ask, what are you been doing here exactly?" Uriel asked,
"I've been... well, I've been here." 'Minami' answered, looking about. "Ha ha, yeah, it's been weird, being back here. I hardly even recognise it."
"Well, that's understandable." 'Because you've never been here, have you?' He thought, but instead responded "It's been quite a long time here. Longer than it's been for me."
'Minami' let out a laugh, letting Uriel step ahead of her. "Yeah, true..." She commented, looking to the side. "It's not the same without Kita tagging along with me, but I've been exploring all of the dimensions and it's been fun in its own right."
"It has?" Uriel asked.
'Minami' nodded, looking ahead towards Proserpina. "I was there for what you did, you know? Proserpina? Pretty cool stuff."
"... Cool?" Proserpina called out, remaining still so the two of them could catch up to her.
"Yep. I'm pretty sure Ceres would never have been able to do anything like that, even if she was the kind of person to try, I don't think she'd be able to." 'Minami' walked right up to her, crouching down so she was on eye level.
Smiling at her, eye to eye. "You're a fun kid." She told her, ruffling Proserpina's hair a little. Then standing up and walking past her, taking the lead.
"..." Proserpina watched her as she walked ahead of them, the way she craned her hands behind herself, intertwining her fingers together, head tilted up towards the sky for a moment. Proserpina couldn't read her.
" Minami, I have a question." Proserpina said. Uriel cast a concerned look at her, one she couldn't discern the meaning of.
"If you're going to ask me about how I stopped the war or why, then don't. I'm not... here to reflect on those memories." Minami told her, without looking back or even stopping.
Uriel chose this moment to step back into the conversation, "Then why are you here?"
Minami stopped in her tracks, so suddenly that Proserpina and Uriel both found themselves stopping as well. Slowly, oh so slowly she turned her head. Looking Uriel dead in the eyes.
A expression so sincerely annoyed he almost forgot that this person couldn't be Minami. He reflexively held a hand out in front of the young girl, almost forgetting she was a ghost.
"Because of your little cult." Minami told him. "That's why."
She turned on her feet, while her head remained completely motionless. "Using my face and my name like that for your own cause? Not cool.
And stealing my style too? People are going to start thinking that you are speaking for me.
The last thing I want is your opinions on Eurydice and your desire for everything to become 'whole' to overwrite my actual identity, you feel me?"
Uriel stared straight at her, he couldn't help but scowl ever so slightly.
He caught himself, instead smirking right at her. "... Quite bold of you to say that, when you're pretending to be Minami as well."
She caught his smirk and returned it in kind.
Proserpina looked between the two of them, stepping away.
"That obvious?" 'Minami' asked him, folding her arms at her chest. "That's your element that gave it away, I'm assuming? I know you haven't spent enough time actually talking to truly know who she is."
"Oh, I've talked to her." Uriel stated, confidently. "Quite frequently, in fact."
"How long ago? Certainly not recently, right?" She asked, unphased.
At that, Uriel faltered. "-... no, but I felt her emotions, her feelings and her fears while we were all within the epilogue and that wasn't long ago at all." Uriel said. "That understanding is carried with me even today."
"Uh huh." 'Minami' nodded her head sarcastically. The dead branches were rustled by the breeze above them. "How do you know those were hers? They couldn't just been what you interpreted them to be, no?"
"... Even if they weren't." Uriel closed his eyes, sighing. He held his hands out, still on edge and not letting his guard down. "As we are all merely parts of Eurydice, they are still, at least slightly, her own feelings. The way that on some level, they were my own too."
"And my feelings must be parts of Eurydice too, no?" 'Minami' asked him, tilting her head as she stepped closer. "Like the fact I believe you're an idiot?"
"... Yes." Uriel admitted, "Those would be, if they were your true feelings. I'm an Omnipotent, remember? I can tell you're actually quite amused by me."
"Hmm, well, using your powers like that would be cheating." She responded. "But you know it's all bullshit, right? That's just your personal theory. You don't actually know what Eurydice even was, nor do you know how she felt."
She leaned closer, inches away from Uriel's lips. He immediately backed off, balling a hand into a fist, staring at her almost disgusted by the face she was wearing.
"So maybe you should stop talking for her. She's no longer around to feel anything." She suggested. "And even if she is, who are you to claim your feelings are more valid than anyone elses?
Take this as an example: what if she wanted to split into all of these parts in the first place? Your dream would go against that."
As 'Minami' smiled right at Uriel, Proserpina backed away. Keeping her mouth shut as she stepped over a group of mushrooms. Her white eyes scanned the two people in front of her...
She turned around. "I'm done here, for now. We're leaving."
"Are you sure, Proserpina?" Uriel asked, watching 'Minami' from the corner of his eye.
"... I don't want to be in this conversation." Proserpina said.
"Why not? You didn't agree with him, did you?" 'Minami asked', "It's not like your feelings are wrong for yourself, but you couldn't have thought you had any say on what Eurydice felt, did you?"
"... No. I didn't. But I said I didn't want to be a part of this conversation. Uriel?" Proserpina looked to him. "We're going somewhere else now, okay?"
Uriel smiled at Proserpina, side-eying 'Minami' hard. "Oh, trust me... I've got no problems with that at all..."
And 'Minami'...
... kept smiling right back at him.
"Aw, Uri. There's no need to be mad. I'm just asking that you be honest about what is something you want and what something she wanted is, that's all.
... That's all." She repeated, slightly lower in tone. The way her eyes flickered between Proserpina and Uriel, the moon glowing above them... Proserpina's eyes shook wide open as she stepped forwards.
"... Wait-!" Proserpina started, "I do have a question.
How can you see me right now? And who told you my name?"
And 'Minami'... kept smiling.
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On Aaru.
Lynne stared out at the forest in the distance, looking down from the edge of the cliff with a hesitant expression on her face.
At some point, she had zoned out completely. Instead of thinking about what the Gateway had been telling her... she was staring off into the distance, trying to spot footprints in the dirt. A shape that could've been a person near the lake that had formed not too long ago. Anything at all near the flowers that had grown around it. Movement in the trees...
But not seeing any of it. If Leah, Eris, Lance and that other woman- Selene, who was watching over them currently were coming back to the cathedral, they weren't doing it from somewhere she could see.
So she stepped out from the ruins of the cathedral and walked around it, trying to scope her surroundings out as the sun threatened to set behind her.
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Happy 10th Anniversary to The Walking Dead Game 
