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 Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2015 6:18 am
Hana pushed Joch's chin up with a smirk. "You think the wall rebuilding itself is weird, just you wait and see what other things this castle has in store." She looked to the wall as it had finished rebuilding itself. "I read up on the enchantments Dante was using while planning the rebuild of this castle. It's now more of a fortress than anything, its made to withstand the harshest of attacks. Including its fare share of traps laid for intruders and everything." Kiiro frowned slightly. "I didn't know you did outside readings Hana." She turned her attention to the wall also. "But it's true. That's not the whole story though. In order for a castle to have self replenishing abilities it needs to have a consciousness. A purpose to rebuild. So Dante approached a spirit of Diligence to bind to the castle walls. It has a purpose because it wishes to stay strong and loyal to Dante, and so rebuilds itself to make him proud." Hana rose an eyebrow. "My twin actually has a brain in his head sometimes I see." She grinned. "You need to be careful with binding spirits to things though. If lead astray and the spirit gets the wrong idea... this spirit of Diligence will turn into a demon of Vigor... I heard they're rather dangerous." Kiiro frowned more. "Dante is careful." She attended to Conor again who didn't seem to notice the wall fall down and instead was inserting the icing into his mouth rather than on the cookies.
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Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2015 1:41 pm
Ameillea giggled, "smart kid, straight to the point." She patted his head and looked to Kirro, "soooo do we get to talk now, or not till later?" Joch on the other hand blinked, "wait sprits, demons, tied to the king. I thought that was that green haired ladys thing, not the king of yokai's. He actually seemed alittle interested... just alittle.
Meanwhile Keria was confronted outside the castle by none other then Eve herself. "I don't care if you have time, duty calls. Follow me. I've been sent here for you." She motioned Keria to drop anything she was doing and follow her out of the city and into the forrest, then soon out the other side, all without a word. FInally when they came out and she spun around they were in the dusty wastleand left by the dementional war. Eve finally looked to Keria. "Stop there." She took a breath, "by the way, it's good to see you... I met Hana earlier... so I'm alittle... off right now so forgive me. Rest asure though for this part, i'll be usral me." She smirked and crossed her arms.
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Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2015 2:23 pm
Kiiro shook her head. "Th-" "There's a difference between spirits and demons, dude." Hana grinned back to Kiiro before looking back to Joch, sitting on the counter with her legs crossed. "When a person dies they become a spirit. A regular old spirit of limbo. If they were especially naughty in their life they get cast down into Hell, and if they're lucky enough they're chosen by the Demon queen to become a Demon themselves and vice versa with Heaven and the angels. Now with the spirits that are left in limbo they have a choice. Those that spend a particularly long time in there become a product of their strongest emotions or vices. If they died under unique circumstances then they may become a vice of the product. For example if someone betrayed and murdered them then as a spirit they may become engulfed in the feeling of vengeance. And so by default become a very powerful Vice demon. A demon of Vengeance. The same applies to virtues. So if someone died in sacrifice for someone else they may be consumed by the emotion of charity. And so become a Virtuous spirit of Charity. A demon or spirit attached to a vice or virtue is much more powerful than those without. But they have no autonomy. They are completely consumed by the emotion they have spent so much time brooding over." She looked to the walls once more. "This spirit of Diligence Dante has found must have spent a long time in limbo consumed in its sense of purpose and trustworthiness to a person in their life. They must have been a steadfast person." She looked back to Joch with a grin. "However tales reign of Virtuous spirits that go astray and forget their purpose. They become too consumed in themselves and so in their virtuous actions they unwillingly become a vice demon, a creature that believes it is doing good but in truth it is doing evil. Kind of sad when you think about it." Conor had been staring at Hana all this time, lost in her story. "It's true Dante has no connection with demons apart from Kiiro. Kiiro is tied to him. But spirits have no ties to the Demon realm or Hell. Dante would not want to bind a Demon to his home anyway, I'm sure." She giggled.
Kiiro during this story had led Amelia out of the room and into the corridor where she concernedly turned to her. "Now is as good a time as any." She rubbed her arm. "I'm sorry if I seem anxious. And I'm sorry that I didn't get to you earlier. In truth.. I am scared for my own life."
Kiera scowled at Eve and crossed her arms over her chest. "What is it Eve? I need to see someone. Urgently." She grit her teeth together. "God bless the person that pisses me off. ******** knows they'll need it with how mad I am."
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Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2015 2:46 pm
Ameillea put an arm around kirro, "why? From who? I want to know everything! I'm not a kid anymore, I'm sure I can handle it!"
Joch nodded, "interesting. And I suspect it doesn't matter by the previous race of the spirit either. One in the same, depending on inner emotion and reasoning." He thought about it a few minuets as Silvia went back to work on those cookies board of the conversation hana was having. She didn't understand it anyways. But next Joch turned to the kids then back to Hana, " I have heard rumors such things were also possible with weapons... like... the one your brother carrys. That true?"
Meanwhile Eve smirked more, "oh well in that case good. I need you pissed off, makes this more possible. I've been sent here to challenge you in battle. A full on battle to test your streigth and will to fight and possably kill one of your own. This is a test, part of your Arch training, directed by my Arch, Calob of Vality." She held up her fist, "all I ask is that you fight as honorable as you can. Because if you don't, you will fail at beating me."
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Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2015 3:20 pm
Kiiro rubbed her forehead nervously and reduced herself to a whisper. "We can't talk here. Not now. I can't leave Conor for too long by himself." She seemed more than a little nervous. "Meet me behind the blacksmiths tonight, is that all right? I'll be safe to talk and tell you everything you need to know then. God knows I need the confidence to tell someone." She looked to Amelia urgently. "Can I trust you with this?"
Hana tilted her head slightly and looked away. "His claymore? Yeah I heard that too. It's perfectly possible." She stood up and went back over to the cookies. "Spirits can be bound to almost anything in the real world. Objects, animals, even people. Although when spirits are bound to people it tends to get a lot more dangerous. Binding something with no autonomy to something with autonomy tends to never end well. Either the spirit is completely consumed by the person, making the person ill, or the person is completely consumed by the spirit, turning them into a vessel of righteousness or evilness." She snickered and helped Conor to decorate the cookie instead of squirting the icing into his mouth. He didn't really appreciate a stranger touching him, and jumped away with a confused frown. "Considering Dante's sword it's just as possible as with anything. Although I don't know much. Brother doesn't like to let me into his business."
Kiera pulled a face and took one steady step back with a cautious stance. "Fighting you? To test me." She sighed and brought her hand to her face. "Sometimes I would like to question the lords will in certain subjects." She swept her hand aside. "But I guess it can't be helped." She tilted her head back slightly. "I'm to duel you then? I'm assuming that I cannot do any proper harm to you." She smiled slightly. "After all, becoming an archangel hasn't let me lose my niche."
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Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2015 3:30 pm
Ameallia looked to Kirro with a conserned face, serious even. "Do you really have to ask me that? Of course. I'll be there." She went back to her giggly self, "so how old is Conner anyways? I've lost track." She changed the subject of course to make things less ackword for the moment. Before realzing Rose over heard. She then looked to Rose, "you should... take a vacation for a few hours. Go on and have some you time." Rose shook her head, "No thankyou. Last time I did that, I burnt down a city while I was asleep. I rather not chance it." Ameillea pointed towrods the door, "It wasn't a option. Sooner or later you have to get off my shoulder. It gets sore." Rose shied and leaped off, "i'll still be near." Ameillea chanted, "you better not be~" With that Rose trotted out the castle as Ameillea giggled, "what can I say she's my best friend, but I'm sure she wont be a problem." She assure her.
Meanwhile Eve nodded, "actually they want to see the true nature. You are able to strike me with a deathblow if need be. A serious test Keria. I'm ging to give it my all, so you better aswell no matter what it may do. I expect harm, or it wont be a proper fight." She took her distance from keria by stepping back to put space between them, "besides. I've always wanted to see what you can really do when you get into a fight that lasts more then five minets." She waved her fingers towards herself, as if saying, "bring it on."
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Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2015 3:52 pm
Kiiro sighed with a small attempt at a smile. "I understand." She looked back to Amelia with a smile. "Conor is only a few years old. It is hard to tell sometimes. He bounces between growing states." She sighed. "As a baby he grew very quickly into a toddler, although has remained that way for quite a while now. Kyle could sympathise, growing quickly like he did, however Kyle never stopped growing quickly. It has slowed since he looked to be a young adult, although he still looks twice his actual age. Reminding myself sometimes that he is still only a year or two older than the twins." She rubbed her forehead again. "I regret leaving Conor in Kyle's responsibility for so long, but it couldn't be helped. Kyle's nature is reserved from everyone so Conor couldn't help but be separate from all of you. However now I hope to introduce him as part of the family again." She walked over to the doorway where she watched Hana try to coerce Conor into sitting back on the chair. "He's an odd child though. He seldom ever speaks, even to me and Kyle. He has an obvious attachment to us, but as a result of this he seems to dislike anyone else who tries to get close to him. So much about him is uncertain. But I sense.." She stopped herself suddenly with a small giggled. "There I go babbling again. Someone ought to put a muzzle on me."
Kiera grinned a little while stretching her arms over her head, before cracking her fingers and knuckles in front of her. "This'll be a nice work out then." Her white eyes flashed bright orange a moment before her hair set fire in some sort of holy glaze. Much like her old fire used to be, however much lighter and purer. "Remember that you face an archangel of time. Any challenge set against me will be done so in the eyes of our transcendent lord." She held her hand out beside her and in it formed her massive claymore which looked a lot more heavenly than it used to. "And my blade." She took it in both her hands and readied herself to pounce in for a direct attack against Eve.
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Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2015 4:08 pm
Ameillea shook her head, "nah I always sensed something odd about him too. But I figure it's not my place. At least, not yet." She giggled, "also your not a dog thingy..." she pointed at hana, "we have enough of them around here. And if they don't have to ware a muzzle, you should never have to worry about it." She looked out, "have you seen Yuji yet?"
Eve gave a nod, "being that you face me as and angel, you are already giving permission as an Arch. But don't think I will treat you like one, your always be my little sister, regardless of ranking over me." She however didn't summon her blade yet. She felt no need for it and streached out her wings before bringing them in again. As soon as Keria went in for the pounce, Eve dashed forword with a new speed she hadn't shown before! She appeared behind keria in the blink of an eye and reached into the flameing hair, taking a handful of the hair and using it to wip keria into the ground. However, after that she quickly leaped back. And waited for Keria to get up. The first strike, was of course going to work, Keria wasn't serious yet. Eve knew that, she panned that. But already it was shown, Eve was a lot smaller now then keria, and had less weight in height and her chest. She was faster, she was more athletic, and she held out her hand in which was in the flaming hair. It wasn't burned, "you know this is a test for me too. I'm so used to being a Reciver, and having lava to support me. Now without the nanomites and the lava... my stiles alittle different then It was. And I havn't had time to practice."
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Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2015 5:53 pm
((it deleted everything I wrote ;___; I'll post tomorrow xDD))
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Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2015 5:58 pm
Pre-Damned ((it deleted everything I wrote ;___; I'll post tomorrow xDD))
((Yea I noticed nothing was here. Alright, I don't know if your be on, but for the first half of the day I have to fix my car, so I wont be on till alittle later, mid ish maybe alittle later. Defently before my usaral time when I get home from work, being that I will be home. Look forword to it what she does next though owo))
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Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2015 6:21 am
Kiiro turned away from the doorway and slowly shook her head. "No.. I have not." She brought her hand up to her own cheek and let out an exhausted sigh. "Another thing I would rather not talk about in this castle unfortunately. The walls... have ears. I promise when we meet you will understand. My actions will.. make sense." She looked back to the doorway. "For now I need to get through this day so that I'm able to drop Conor off with Kyle and Nate this evening." She frowned. "I hope Conor doesn't do that disappearing thing he likes to do sometimes. Being blind does not help my guardianship over him.."
Hana sighed and put her hands on her hips. "You can't eat all the icing, it's for the cookies." Conor didn't seem bothered by that as he continued to squirt the icing into his mouth. Hana rose an eyebrow. "If you don't stop you're not getting any cookies." Conor this time looked to Hana with what looked to be concern. Hana then finally had the chance to notice the colour of Conor's eyes. One a strange golden colour and the other a dull blue. She figured it was some sort of defect in his genes from Hikari and Yuji's eyes. But still it intrigued her. She hadn't noticed it before because it was impossible to unless the boy was looking directly at you. As opposed to everyone else in this family who's eyes shone bright as a highlight of their power Conor's were dull much like Kiiro's. Conor slowly put down the icing as Hana smiled. "Good boy."
Kiera slowly brought herself to her feet and wiped her mouth with a snicker. "So you don't want me playing dirty but you definitely are." She grinned and tied her hair back into a ponytail so that it was out of her face. The fire remained however, slowly changing to a darker shade as her eyes flashed again. "You really want me to be serious about this." She stuck her claymore into the ground and placed her hand on the floor behind it, summoning a bright red incantation that circled her in a pure white fire. Power began to concentrate in this circle and her body started to glow. "What is it then, you're scared that Hana will turn out to be a better Receiver than you were?" She snickered, her sheer dress and loose rocks floated around her. "I've been watching her closely. Her mastery of the lava you've given her is a commendable achievement."
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Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2015 9:09 am
amelliea nodded, " okay well if you need eyes just let ne know," she giggled. she looked to conner but this time said nothing. she couldnt waite till later came.
eve chukkled, " its not dishonarable to use ones hair to bring you down. and i needed to get you fired up. i want a real fight. that real urge from within you." she watched kerias neat circle appear and her power up. eve walked to the white fire and grabed some, " an appentice will never be as good as the origanal teaher.. hana will have a long time to make her mark." eve leaped back to give more space between them. " now show me what you got!!!" she yelled wonding wht this incantation would do for her.
( i just wanted you to know ive been alittle better since i vented and to pretend it never happened. thx))
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Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2015 1:21 pm
Evening came and so did the time which Kiiro was to meet Amelia behind the blacksmiths. It had just turned dusk and the last of the blue sky was fading over the horizon. A liminal time Kiiro tried to avoid, but in this case it couldn't be helped. She waited there anxiously until she saw Amelia and a wash of relief fell over her. She pulled Amelia behind the building and kept her voice under hushed tones. "Shh." She seemed to assess the area around her before nodding to herself and grabbing Amelia's hand. "Trust me." They both suddenly disappeared from their spot, reappearing in a dark part of Kyle's endless void. There were in a darkened room which had spots of realistic looking stars all over it, no doubt Kyle's effort to appeal to Conor. It was a simple but beautiful place, like they lived in the night sky. A few doors laid on the other side of the room, through one of them a computer light shone, and they could hear Nate laughing about something as he was eating some chips at his desk which held several computer screens. Kyle stood near the door with a small smile on his face and even let out a small laugh, which was unlike him. "I'm not kidding." He looked around to smile at Kiiro and Amelia's arrival. "Welcome home." He held some documents in his arms. Kiiro smiled to Kyle while then turning back to Amelia. "I'm sorry for the secrecy. Someone was watching us out there." She smiled more. "Kyle offered to use his void as a secure talking place for us. Feel privileged, he is very careful about who he lets in here for fear of his secrets being shown." Kyle smiled with a comfortable laugh. "It's never wise to keep secrets out of your own head, they're to be exploited otherwise." He nodded. "Please, take as long as you need." He then slowly slipped into Nate's computer room with him and shut the door behind them, accompanied by more laughter, including Conor's. Kiiro sighed. "Living with a bunch of boys is exhausting." She nodded. "Now then.. where do I start..." She looked nervous to begin.
Kiera smirked. "The time may come around sooner than you think." She shut her eyes a moment and dipped her head. "Be careful and watch the years roll by." She opened her eyes again and suddenly disappeared, the circle that had withheld her exploded, and her sword remained in its spot. She blinked in and out of existence as she jumped towards Eve before punching her square in the face sending her flying back a few hundred yards. Kiera hopped onto her feet and began bouncing back and forth like a boxer. "Ooo I missed this." As she hopped her body was releasing more and more heat.
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Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2015 2:58 pm
Ameillea gulped, "I would admit I never expected to be here of all places..." she shrugged, "but take your time." She smiled and waited for kirro to start.
Meanwhile Eve was somewhat supprize of keria's blinking bit. she wasn't sure if it was time releated of speed. The hit sent her flying, and of the first time since she died, she felt pain. But as she hit the ground, she flipped up backwords and skidded on her feet. As Keria would swing at her, she would find eve's wings doing all the work blocking, like a super metal of something, like a unbrackable sheld that moved on it's own to protect Eve herself. But as they would continue this Eve laughed, "your not underestimating me yet are you?" She suddenly waved a hand and keria's fire became her own. "Remember that I was a elemental long before I was a reciver dear sister!~" she would need to slow keria down in order to hit her. Eve had power and straigh, but only if she could actually hit keria.
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Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2015 3:32 pm
Kiiro nodded and sat with her legs crossed. "I suppose it starts before I died." She rubbed her forehead. "I started having suspicions years ago about how a certain person has been avoiding talking about things that had been discarded as part of the past but now I believe them to be of the present and future." She frowned. "Even here I am scared to speak their name." She sighed and shut her eyes. "Because... I am a being that can sense people's emotions I am able to see a persons true intentions whether I would like to or not. That is how I am able to choose my friends sometimes, and the people that I like are the people who tend to be open about how they feel with me about people." She rubbed her eye. "This person knows I found out about their true intentions. Dying let me fall of the radar for a little while however coming back would have meant that I would have been killed by this person. I came back to the family so inconspicuously this time that if the person killed me now it would be more risky for them... however... that does not mean that they won't." She turned her head to the door. "I tried to approach Kyle with this problem however in doing so I made him powerless and put him in danger too. He is not bothered by the threat himself and the person knows that, so they're threatening me and the people closest to him." She let out a sad sigh. "Me and Kyle are stuck in a position of fear. He won't admit it like that but he is scared. He's lost too many people close to him to let it happen again. If we ever make any move then it's either my life gone or someone close to him. I would approach Yuji about this as a trusted friend however I fear even he has gone corrupt under the power he has been given. I fear for him and Hikari. They used to be such pure souls."
Kiera grinned. "You're Yuji's child aren't you?" She put her hand on her chest and shut her eyes, concentrating her power once more. "Us children of Phoenix's will always have a fire burning in our hearts, even after death." As her hand parted with her chest a thick string of fire followed after it, connecting her chest and her hand still. She ripped the string of fire out and used it to lasso her claymore back into her hand. The sword didn't seem to play and part in weighing her down, however she did need it if she were going to be able to inflict anything on Eve. Her strength was always in tricks with her abilities and her speed, her strength never came from what her actual power was, but rather with what her abilities gave her.
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