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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 6:14 pm
Paradox would let out a small chuckle. "And I thought I was strong." The words were strangely remorseful. The general chanced a double take towards the city borders, before returning his unfaltering gaze towards the swordsman. It was really a lack of a gaze, because of that hood that shaded his face. "I can make many things, and that is one of them. I even have an item that may help with such attacks, too." Paradox told the swordsman. He still remembered the cube.
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 6:18 pm
"I.. disliked the feel of being powerless." He would let his gaze travel in the same direction that Paradox seems to be paying attention to. "I felt as though I could usually deflect, or defeat an attack like that without worrying.. Like I was unused to losing a fight. But.. I dislike killing.. I can't imagine having had to worry about that before." He would watch Paradox a moment more before continuing. "Is there something of importance at the moment, General?"
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 6:25 pm
Paradox merely looked back at the swordsman. "I dislike killing. . . too. It's not important to anybody, except me, yet it is more important to everything than it is to me." The general seemed to think for a moment, looking slowly at everything around him. "Tell me. Would you cut off your own arm if it sometimes didn't do what you wanted it to do?" Paradox asked, his arms crossed. The general was thinking.
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 6:28 pm
"I.." He would halt a moment as he remembers a bit.. "Have cut my arm off.. before.. In the past.. I'm not sure.. exactly why.. It had something to do with demonic types.." He would just shake his head then. "Yeah.. I'd cut my arm off it was stuck in a monster's.. mouth.. or if it no longer functioned, in order to survive."
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 6:33 pm
Paradox sighed. "What if it still worked perfectly well? What if it just had a mind of it's own? Would you still cut it off?" Paradox asked again after rephrasing the question. it was something he was sereosly considering, but it would be a huge hit to the general.
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 6:35 pm
..."I once had the arm of the element of fire attached to my left shoulder when I had my arm cut off.." He would shake his head slowly. "It was one of the worst idea's ever.. It did whatever it wanted in battle, and burned down many buildings.. I suggest getting rid of it, if it does things you do not want it to." This was ancient history.. There was no such thing as laser surgery to fix nerve problems and the like.
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 6:41 pm
Paradox watched the man with interest, "That's interesting. I will consider it, I suppose. I have been all this time, after the debacle the last few days, but I don't think I can deal with the side effects. One was hard enough to get rid of." Paradox mused to himself, lost in his own thought. The general slumped, and the armor creaked and bent with the uncharacteristic change in posture of the Giant.
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 6:44 pm
A small girl watched from the highest part of the castle, the parapets high enough to see the entire capital. her eyes didn't wander though. They were glued to the two figures speaking by the eastern wall. Both giants in their own respects. The girl could hear every word they said, but the hearing was one sided. There was a barrier around her that amplified voices one way, and diminished them the other. "There they are. The monster has been taken care of, but what to do with the swordsman?" she asked herself, letting her feet sway back and forth.
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 6:45 pm
He would tap the general in the armored chest with a knuckle before answering. "Then don't. It's as easy as that. I look at it in this manner; If I cannot fight, I do what I have to in order to make myself able. Whether it means burning myself out emotionally, mentally, or physically. If you removing your arm affects your position as General, and your life as a Warrior, then do not. Unless you have a way of overcoming it." He would turn his back to the General. Grabbing a boulder-sized chunk of rock in one hand, he would walk towards the large debris pile, tossing it into it as though he were throwing a football.
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 6:52 pm
Paradox watched him in the impressive show of strength. "It's an arm I've never had to flex as a general, but I'm going to put into more restraint then they've ever known before." He picked up a boulder much like the swordsman did, and moved it with just as much ease. Paradox had more strength than any other normal man, and could do things no mortal man could, yet he was more limited then they ever were. "It's the kind of thing that will never help me in battle, but wins the war in the end."
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 6:56 pm
"I am remembering as time goes by, I am remembering things.." He would let his hands rest upon his hips as he continues. "The touch of women from my past, the many years of solitude I spent learning how to do no more than kill using whatever means possible. A piece of hair is a weapon. My bare hands, the cup one would drink out of in the morning.. A piece of bone like a femur, or a skull.. Instances where I have done so." He nods at this. "Yet we are not like other people.. We are no allowed to live belligerently like other mortals.. I am sure that you can restrain your arm, I know you have will power, I feel your abilities by being about you."
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 6:59 pm
Zypher had spent all day sleeping for some reason. It seems the power and knowledge of the earth needed to settle in his body. The cloak wasn't on right now showing all of the dark blue tunic he was wearing. He had some bad dreams while he slept. And the earth around him ws afraid of something sinister. Zypher would have to ask the queen what happened today since the dream had Katherine, Mitachi and Sekain all in it. It could be a premanition for all he knew. Holding this new power was very different and he would have to learned all the new aspects of this gift. Tempest never spoke about such things publicly unless it was something that indangered people so he was sure she felt such things but didn't speak of them since she didn't like talking about sad or touchy topics.
At the moment hwalked the hallways thinking things through. He told the queen he might know a way to remove the two souls. Thing was they needed to weaken the dominating soul to a point where the magic can work.
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 7:03 pm
Paradox licked his lips. A cup would be so nice in the morning, but he just never had the time anymore. "There are many more ways to kill that you haven't explored. A word, a drop of water, and something as simple as the emotion of love." Paradox added in. He was what somebody would call an expert in death, more than most other people. The number of people he killed, at the very least numbered the days he had been alive. "It's hard to restrain something that knows how to get out when your not looking. Either way, I will make that armor for you."
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 7:05 pm
"I am unable to attain the ability to destroy in any other direction than whatever is straight-forward. I will kill physically, as it seems it is what I do.. I will do so in no other way." Subterfuge was not something he could attempt, it was just not in his nature, and that was a weakness he would always carry. ( Gotta go, I'll be back in a half hour. )
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 7:06 pm
Serenity felt the other presence through the material of the roof. It seemed that Zypher was back, and far more different than before. As fast as the little girl could, she was down in the hallways, turning the corner to meet Zypher. "Hya!" She jumped out from behind the corner with her hands waving about like a lunatic.
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