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 Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 3:24 pm
As the chanting reached it's finale, Rezo's eyes finally opened, pure red and glowing with an unearthly light. In the dark, they seemed to fill the whole space with that terrible glow. Shapes began to form in his vision, blurry at first but quickly gaining definition. "I can see!" He screamed in twisted delight. "I can see!" His mouth contorted open into the widest smile ever to be on his face. Throwing his head back, Rezo laughed wildly as he saw the stars wheeling overhead. Stars! He knew what a star looked like now!
His moment of joy choked short, his joy turning to shriveling horror. Along with his sight came back the feeling of... something. There was something inside him, something not himself. Something that tasted like dead flesh and now looked out of his blood red eyes. "No... no..." he whimpered. He staggered sideways a few steps and clamped his eyes shut as the onslaught of memories began.
He remembered meat sliding down his throat. He remembered a searing burning as someone branded a symbol into his flank. He wretched dryly, eyes opening again and rolling back. There was something he wasn't supposed to remember. Something the angeni had told him never to remember again. Something that the people who had done this to him had wanted him to remember those many years ago.
"I am Ruby Eyes," he whispered hollowly, the last gasp of his former self as the madness that the angeni had sealed away came flooding back. He laughed again, but this time it was with a deep and rasping voice that sounded nothing like his own.
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Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 3:30 pm
As the last incantation died in their throats, Xellas knew that it was now or never. It was time to see whether their labor of years would bear fruit. Now was the time when Lord Ruby Eyes would return to them, if his spirit still existed. A shiver of excitement ran through her when she saw those first glimmers of red. When his eyes opened completely she could no longer restrain herself. She let out a triumphant howl that shook the sleeping birds from the trees, her voice adding a terrifying background to Rezo's deranged cackling.
When Rezo began to look shaken and disturbed she grew still. He seemed to be fighting the process. Could it be possible that his mind was stronger than the spirit of Ruby Eyes that slept within him? She bared her teeth and took one step forward, not knowing what she could even do in the current situation. Fortunately, she didn't have to. There could be no mistaking the change that came over Rezo.
Lord Ruby Eyes had returned.
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Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 9:44 am
Phibrizzo watched anxiously with a wide grin as the transformation took hold of Rezo. The priests eyes opened but he was still the priest and then...Phibrizzo's smile faltered. No? What did he mean no? This was meant to be a triumphant moment, was he fighting the process? The mazoku lord's eyes narrowed dangerously and his wings flared. For a brief moment he thought they had actually failed, it appeared that Xellas shared his concerns, and he thought he might have to kill the priest. Then everything was okay. I am Ruby Eyes. Phibrizzo relaxed and he smiled like the demon he was, they had succeeded, Lord Ruby Eyes walked with them once again.
"My Lord." He said stepping forward before giving a low bow with his wings fanned out at his side, flickering and glowing in the dark. Lord Ruby Eyes was the leader of the mazoku and while Phibrizzo was high up the food chain he could never compare with Ruby Eyed Shabranigdu. This was the lord that all mazoku bowed to as they were all his to command. His generals. His priests. His servants.
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Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 6:02 pm
Xellas followed Hellmaster's lead. She, the largest and most bestial of all mazoku leaders, even if she was not the most powerful, bowed low before her reborn master. Ruby Eyes had returned, he whose dark spirit had last ridden in the body of an elder purewalker. To give him anything but obedience was unthinkable to her, so ingrained was the way of their kind.
"My lord," she growled deeply. Behind her she could hear someone else approaching. It could be no one else but Xelloss. She took pride in his bearing. She had trained him well.
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Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 6:08 pm
Xellas was right. It was Xelloss approaching to pay his respects to their resurrected lord. He gave a bow of his own, even lower than Hellmaster and Beastmaster. He was lower in rank than the other two and would not dare act otherwise in front of Ruby Eyes. He still remembered the days when Ruby Eyes wore his previous purewalker form. Humans and soquili alike had thrown themselves to the ground in terror at his passing. Some of them had even lived.
Though his head was down-turned, Xelloss couldn't hold back his irreverent curiosity. He looked up to the glowing red eyes that were the mark of their lord. It still struck him as a great strangeness to now be serving a unicorn, one of the gentler and kinder of breeds.
As it turned out, his irreverence would get him into trouble that night.
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Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 6:21 pm
Laughter dying away, Ruby Eyes Rezo inhaled deeply, feeling like he was breathing again for the first time. The world stretched out before him and his newly regained sight, more beautiful than he ever could have imagined. I want this world, he thought with his newly corrupted inner voice. And I will have it.
He was struck by the rightness of the monsters kneeling before him. He marveled at their sleek and dangerous forms. It was all new to him, and yet at the same time it was familiar. He could only remember the most tattered fragmented memories of his vision as a foal, but this scene before him was not strange at all. There was only one thing that stood out. The kalona Xelloss. Rezo had spent many days traveling with him and had for a long time detected the taunting undertone of his words. Now, with his opened eyes he saw Xelloss watching him. Rezo was still unused to his eyes and couldn't have identified the expression he saw on Xelloss' face, but it galled at him nonetheless.
"That will not do," he murmured softly. He spoke again, but with the harsh grating tones in which he had laughed in. "That will not do at all!" He did something then he had never before done in his life. He pointed his horn downwards at Xelloss, stabbing at him with all his force.
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Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 1:49 pm
Phibrizzo’s ears flicked ever so slightly as his master spoke. What wouldn’t do? He lifted his head to see what was going on, he had shown his respect to the lord of all mazoku and he couldn’t be expected to stand around bowing all day. Nothing would ever get done. What he saw when he looked up honestly surprised him, their lord was attacking Xelloss. Phibrizzo made absolutely no move to interfere; if Xelloss had upset their lord then a lesson was in order and from the looks of things it wasn’t going to be one he would easily forgot. It was only surprising because Xelloss had always seemed somewhat favored by their lord because of his skill. What had Xelloss done exactly? Perhaps Phibrizzo would need to act against Xelloss himself later.
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