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 Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 10:26 pm
Staring up through the leaves, Rhia's view was blocked by the descent of her seven butterflies. They whisked above her, trying to decide if they should bother keeping her on task.
She grinned at them, raising an arm for one to perch on. The sleeve of her captain's robe slid past her elbow, exposing the long pink scars that shone against her tanned skin. She pressed her lips together, examining the jagged lines more closely.
Feiy mumbled something nearby, clearly talking to herself, but the words echoed Rhia's thoughts. What's wrong with me.... With a huff, she pulled her sleeve down. That was sure to ruin the mood, and Rhia didn't want Feiy to start brooding.
She angled her arm so that her sleeve wouldn't slip and let a butterfly light upon her hand. Kasaiel. He always burned like a little coal, warmer than the sun. Rhia let him crawl over her fingers as she waited for Feiy to regain her equilibrium.
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Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 10:40 pm
"Ahh... you know..." She said, rolling to her stomach. She crawled over to Rhia, her body just barely over Rhia's. She gave her a quick kiss.
"I want to thank you, Rhia. I've been through hell for practically my whole life, especially these past few years. I'm happy that I ran into that one day you offered to spar with me. I was happy to run into you when I had returned, though I wasn't particularly excited about you being the 4th Squad captain... and though I don't show really show it, you made me a better person. I can honestly say that... I love you, Rhia..." She said, lowering herself against Rhia.
"I'll happily be yours for as long as you want me, I'm yours to do with as you see fit..." She hugged her tightly.
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Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 11:06 pm
Rhia wrapped her arms around Feiy, holding her close as she spoke, tone thoughtful, and maybe a little sad. "I-- You know I loved someone in my previous life. And it was my love for him that drove me to my death."
"But, I couldn't find him when I came here. I searched and searched, but it was as though he had never existed. I used to see him in my dreams, and when I was wounded, he would come for an instant. And I would search for these moments, hurt myself, if it meant finding him for that short time.
"When I achieved bankai, I found him again. But, it wasn't what I expected ... He had become a very different part of me. Because of ... what I am ... he was never supposed to fall in love with me. And it hurt more than anything.
"If ... If I had not met you ... If you hadn't," Her lips twitched in a smile that brightened her face considerably. "Tackled me in my office or -- or kissed me, I don't know what would have happened,"
She squeezed Feiy against her. "It took me a while, but the minute I realized it, it overshadowed everything else. Because I did love him. With everything I was. But, it's you I love--with everything I am,"
Rhia kissed Feiy, covering her embarassment.
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Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 11:24 pm
She let Rhia kiss her, it feeling more blessed than usual. Most likely that they both admitted something that they have been hiding for quite a long time. She broke the kiss briefly to say something.
"Ah... I don't want this to end. That was the sweetest thing I remember anyone ever saying to me. I feel like a massive weight has beenn lifted off my chest. If it were possible I'd marry you, Rhia. But a life of a warrior would make such a thing a sad one. I don't want to put a burden like that on you..." She looked into Rhia's eyes, feeling as if she was growing lost in them.
"But I just don't want this moment to ever die, I wish the war would just end already... I swear to you, that one day, somehow, I'll make an alliance between the hollow and the shinigami. Just so that we can actually be together without having to fight in between.
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Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 11:31 pm
Rhia watched Feiy pensively. She had named the one real barrier between them: their natures. She a shinigami, an angel, no less, and Feiy a vaizard, branded as a traitor to Soul Society.
She scowled. A senseless barrier, but, nevertheless, seemingly insurmountable. She bit her lip, wondering how to breach a topic she knew little of. "What's it like?" She asked quietly. "Being a vaizard? What was it like to become one?"
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Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 12:00 am
"I was still technically, human then. I still had my life and was only a few months after I had first attained and mastered the first stage of my bankai. I had pretty much abandoned my old to become a shinigami, that which you've already known I had come to regret. I was actually pretty docile until one I just snapped. Why I don't exactly remember, but something in me just clicked." She said all of this while resting against Rhia's chest. The sound of her heartbeat was calming.
"I just ignored it at first, thinking it was nothing until I would wake up in the middle of the night around corpses, human corpses... I only thought I was in a night mare until I saw, Yeif Yasmine in a dream. At least, thats what she called herself. She was the mirror me, so I called her Ableob instead of Yasmine for some reason, that just seemed to piss her off.
Anyways, it soon came to the point where I began to fully realize her existence, that of a grotesque looking, white, winged monster. If memory serves me correctly when I regained my release you did get a glimpse of what she had looked like. It would constantly challenge me in dreams; one of the many reasons why I used to not be able to sleep well, but I would always decline.
I knew that something had to be done, but I didn't know who to ask for help. The library didn't have any information on it. Even my old captain had no clue what was going on. Though, I wish I could thank he for not telling Central 46 because I could of been killed on the spot. Not even my mentor, Jan could help me... I felt alone.
But I soon enough summoned up the courage, after the murderous intent I felt growing inside of me was becoming too much to bear. The next time I saw it in my dream and it had challenged me, I took it on bravely and completely dominated it. However, that was what Yeif wanted, as she wanted me to no longer hold back on my power without discretion or hesitation. That made me a more wicked person than I already was. Thinking that becoming a shinigami could help atone only lead me to go back to the way I was... a ruthless murderer.
But... I have mastered her, I'm in control again. Though I still get the urges once in awhile, mainly when someone gets me mad. But, as long as I'm with you... I know I can stay calm. I know there is more to life then just fighting. I can be more than just a tool for war, I can be... someone who can actually love another."
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Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 12:28 am
"Well then Yomi...I suppose we should go then...But there is a problem...We need somewhere to train...Any were you know? At the moment I have no idea were to train since the whole leaving Soul Society."
Drift then looks up to the sky and thinks on were they could to train.
(Sorry for the short post very tired.)
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Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 12:40 am
A shadow clone of KEvin emerged from the Sofa's shadow catching drift saying something about needing somewhere to train. "Go in my Garganta, you can use it to your delight." Kevin's shadow said as it headed for the fridge to fetch the real Kevin some food.
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Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 2:07 pm
Rhia mulled over Feiy's words, trying to identify those moments where she had actually encounted Yasmine. Her sparring match with Feiy had been memorable-- the hollow had gone berserk when Rhia struck her. And... There was one more time. A memory half-clouded by torment.
"She was there when you tore my wing off," She mused, remembered the look of Feiy's eyes--the characteristic yellow on black-- and the telltale hand that had hovered over her face.
She fell silent, eyes darkening. That was the one ordeal the two of them never spoke of. She returned to the more pressing issue, though she skirted the true intent of her inquiry. "Then... can anyone become a vaizard? How do you initiate the transformation?"
Does it hurt? What if there's no one there to hold me back? Would I become a senseless monster? How many would I kill? What happens if you lose to your inner hollow? So many questions whirled in her head. She tried to ask them only a few at a time, affecting nonchalance.
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Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 2:54 pm
"It tends to happen to people who have done many wrongs in their past life, or have amassed alot of fear... that eventually gains a physical existence, balancing an individual plus with a minus... its a neutral, I guess that kinda makes sense..." She quickly said in reply, ignoring the mentioning about Rhia's wings.
"You don't exactly initiate it per se. Besides, its different for every person. You just really need a strong mind is all. If it ever happened to you, I'm sure you'd make it no problem." She rubbed Rhia's stomach with her hand as she laid down beside her.
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Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 9:58 pm
Just after Kevin had offered the use of his garganta, Drift's eyes suddenly widened with some joy.
"That's it! I almost forgot about that place...This shall prove useful and quite appropriate as well..."
Drift then extended out both oh his arms and with his hands laid out flat. Then a gray flame started to circle out around his arms, then the gray flame shot out in front of him, and grew until it was a house hold door size.
"Do not be afraid Yomi...This is a safe place not many people know how to enter it...So let us go and do battle...Oh and when you enter the portal will close behind you but do not worry...You are able to leave when ever you wish..."
Drift then waved for Yomiko to follow as he entered the gray flaming portal.
(Exit to The Realm of The Twilight.)
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 4:18 pm
Rhia closed her eyes, appearing to drowse in the warm sun. The light shone a rosey pink through her eyelids, but she ignored the inclination to nap. Instead, she focused on her thoughts. She cycled past the snippets of light and sound that her senses registered, instead digging deeper.
Into her memories: she sifted through recent events, drifting down into the past. She searched for some feeling or event that might trigger an 'inner hollow' reaction. There were bright patches that she ignored, focusing on the brief feelings of despair or anger or sadness. But she unconsciously skirted a dark corner in her mind, the proverbial well in which she dropped her most painful memories. She couldn't bring herself to explore its dark waters.
Her concentration was broken by Feiy running her hand over her stomach. It elicited a wave of heat that rolled outward to her fingertips and toes. "You're making it very difficult to think," She murmured, eyes still closed.
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 4:27 pm
Feiy pulled back her hand quickly as if to not upset her.
"Ahh...sorry." Was all she mustered up to say. She laid her down on her stomach after inching herself down. A slight sigh escaped her lips as her body seemed to act on its own. She didn't mean any harm towards touching Rhia, it wasn't often that she could actually touch her and not be sated to her more... 'darker' appetite.
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 4:37 pm
Rhia smiled, eyes remaining closed as she reached out to catch Feiy's hand before she pull it back entirely. She drew their clasped hands a bit closer to her.
"It's ok. I wasn't thinking about anything important," She couldn't decide whether that was a lie or not, so she continued. "Does absolutely everyone have an inner hollow?"
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 5:41 pm
Feiy blushed as Rhia grabbed her hand. Her skin felt very smooth as it the first time she had actually touched it. She looked the other way as her own hands were actually quite rough. A telltale sign of her past and ongoing life.
"I'm not too sure to be honest. Though when someone does turn out to have, they tend to search us out... so who knows really."
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