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 Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 11:24 pm
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[With permission from solar, this is a "in the future" plot where Ruria has been kidnapped/stockholmed by Valerian and is already at the point where she doesn't want to leave her captor.]
How long had it been since she was on this side? Weeks? Months? It was the first time Valerian had let her out of his vice-like clutches on her own, but she knew, and he knew, she would return on her own. The Witch Eater Sage had successfully made her into his little doll that he could feed upon whenever he liked, put his hands upon her and possess and invade her body whenever he liked. For all purposes, at this moment, Ruria belonged to him.
Why, why didn't she ever try to flee before? Why didn't she flee now? It was simple. He wanted her. He claimed her, even if it was in a rather possessive, violent way, even if he would often torment her into submission, and deep down, she believed he was making her stronger. Every time his magic wrapped itself around her heart, threatening to tear it from her chest while his fingers gripped her softest flesh roughly, she felt as if it was being honed, sharpened, growing, and indeed, through whatever strange reasons, she was able to control it far better than before.
The battle she waged with her magic had left her skin and hair paler, her heart darker and her intentions divided. Still, she was still herself deep inside, and that part of her breathed in the familiarity of Makai's town as she stood on an outlook point, viewing it as if for the first time, one of her own "missing" ads in her hand. How amusing, she thought. They think I want to be saved.
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Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 11:33 pm
Rajih had come back to Makai a changed Majin. He had spent a long time with the witch eater sages Remiel and Sariel, in their hidden town in the forest where he learned many things.
It broke his heart that he had left the day after he had made love with his girlfriend Ruria for the first and last time. He remembered her shy and sweet gentle touches, and their quiet carasses.
And the horrible fight with Sibelius had caused the young Majin to run away, fearing that he would take Ruria's heart for his own.
But he had come back different. A edgier tone to the teal's, a forboding that his darker magic had been well...exposed to his more natural water. His eye's were not light and cheerful, but a broody bored expression.
It was that way because of Sariel the most, He had tried to ignore her but....she was the queen of the hive and well he....a minor bug in the grand scheme.
His hands clutched a poster with the picture of his love, Ruria as he stared it. How long had she been missing? How long had she been gone while he had been living safely away in Sariel's fortress?
His sources had told him that another Witch eater Sage had appeared, taking the girl as his hostage. Rajih sincerely hoped that he wasn't too late. As if drawn by a sense of familiarity, he looked to the cape of a overlooking outlook point and saw a pale haired maiden.
"Ruria?" Was all he whispered as he blinked. Could thoughts transcend to each other even after so long?
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Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 11:46 pm
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It had been a long time she she had heard someone besides Valerian say her name, and with such a familiar voice.... She straightened, angling her head slightly so she could see who called her, and as her eyes fell upon the very person who spoke those words, her heart stilled, as if it had suddenly petrified into stone.
Fate was a cruel mistress, and if she could, Ruria would strangle the very breath from fate for putting her in this position, as she met her gaze with that of Rajih.
Many things swelled up in her at the same time. Joy, quickly replaced by despair. Love, quickly replaced by a seething rage that burned in her chest. Yearning, which was quickly replaced by bitterness. Her heart was beating faster than what she thought was healthy, thrumming in her head as she struggled with herself.
"Rajih." she murmured, her voice wavering but cold. Her wide-eyed expression returned to a blunt gaze as she turned to face him entirely. Her magic seethed and roiled within her at the sight of him. It had, afterall, been his disappearance that had made it nearly consume her, and now it lapped at her reserves. "..Y..you.." she couldn't quite get out her words. Tears stung her eyes, as much as she willed them to stay dry, and she chewed her bottom lip almsot voraciously.
Finally, she growled out the condemning words. "...You said...you would...always...be there." An expression akin to anger manifested on her face. "But I suppose in the end, I frightened you more than i did myself, didn't I?" Oh, her voice was so cold and chilled, her eyes emulating the same feeling. If she didn't react with such coldness, she would melt into a sobbing pile of Ruria, incoherent and disastrous.
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Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 12:21 am
Rajih could barely hold his cool as he took his time to come to her. Standing in front of her now as he studied her. Gone was the pink haired and bouncy girlfriend and lover, replaced with the fraying white of her skin and hair.
She was still breath takingly beautiful and his heart ached as he looked at her. Romance scenes aside, the Majin had never forgotten once what Ruria did to him.
He stared, long and gently at her as she held back the tears, the emotions until it was so much....he forced himself forward, cradling her in his arms. "I'm sorry Ruria...I am so sorry." He repeated as she struck at him with cold words and anger.
he had expected this, it hurt him to see her in pain. His face fell into a frown before he looked away.
"It will not be a comfort to tell you that I left because I feared for you from myself..." Rajih had dropped the missing poster and let it drift with the wind. "I suppose Sibelius didn't tell you of his enlightening chat...."
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Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 12:35 am
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Ruria's harsh words were suddenly suffocated into Rajih's chest as she found herself grabbed into his arms. Oh, it was so warm, so solid...for a moment her old self emerged, but was quickly drowned out by the lessons she had learned. She wanted to pull away, to lash out at him with violence. How could he embrace her like this after so much time, after everything that had transpired, like nothing had changed?
Yet she didn't move, though her hands hung limp at her sides, fingers twitching slightly.
"He told me." she replied with a small voice. "And he loathed himself for it. I didn't care. You left because you're a Majin? Can't protect me from yourself? I have spent the last months of my life living in the lap of a sage-level witch eater who has on more than one occasion gripped my entire heart from the inside. He has killed many, many in the past, so much I can smell the blood on his fingertips every time he cradles my face with them as he is about to consume more of my heart. Yet here. I. am." Her brows furrowed together. Why, gods, why was this so painful? It was a mistake to leave Valerian's side, even for a day. If she knew this would happen... "I am a monster, Rajih. Not you. That's why a monster such as the one who took me doesn't kill me, and keeps me by his side. Mutual company. You were not afraid you would hurt me. You were afraid of me."
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Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 12:55 am
Rajih took each of her comments like a blow to his heart. How could she possibly understand that he had wanted to give in to nothing more then his cruel desires, to feed off her and take her as completely his. A witch eater forever more. What's worst, how could he tell her that Sibelius had scared him as well. He was no match for the man, and to keep her safe...he had left.
His expression became pained, troubled and angry.
"I didn't realize that you'd find escape from my hunger in the arms of another..." He looked away, wondering who the witch eater was that had been able to eat from HIS Ruria. "He toys with you, that is different from me Ruria." Couldn't you see? Rajih didn't have the self control to stop himself like the witch eater did. He couldn't PLAY with his meals, torturing them.
He could never do that.
"I do not know what transpired between you and this witch eater....what he has done to make you believe that you are a monster....because all I will ever see is Ruria that I love." Rajih reached out to brush her cheek, his expression still flat. "And do not speak to me about you changing, I can see that. It is evident." Rajih growled, "I missed you..." he whispered, sounding broken in that moment. "There wasn't a day when I was stuck in the hell hole of that forest, wondering what you were doing, how you were....Of holding you close to me." He laughed sadly, "I thought of you ever day my fake Majin heart broke every hour I dulled away without you. You think I was afraid of you, Then why would I be willing to accept the pain my heart caused me."
He looked away, "I stayed with Witch eaters too Ruria, and learned to control myself. Learned to curb the hunger...If I wanted..." He laughed again, "I could take a human's heart, turn into that monster....And then I would be the same as the one who holds you captive."
"Don't you fear him Ruria? What he does to you?" Or did she not care anymore? Would Rajih coming back be meaningless? he laughed at himself. He was still thinking that she would fall back in his arms, smile up at him, kiss and share that tender moment of reunited love.
Such fanciful dreams were not meant for the majin who had come to accept that nothing like that exsisted. Love was harsh and it hurt, ripped at the soul.
It was a shame that he hadn't been more powerful to step up to Sibelius back then. Another regret on his list of regrets now.
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Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 1:55 am
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Her heart twisted in agony as she stared up into his face. "I didn't escape into his arms," she mumbled, shifting her eyes downward again. "After you left, I gave in to despair. My own magic tried to consume me, and many times, it nearly did. Even if you did it to protect me...I couldn't...have known. All I knew...was that...I was alone again."
Oh, she knew very well that Valerian toyed with her. Afterall, he did make her into a little doll for his own purposes, and dolls by nature were toys.
"It wasn't he who made me a monster, Rajih. I have always been one, and will always be one. Even if you love me, even if I love you. That is all I can and ever will be, a creature of shadow and darkness who does not belong in the world of men and light." His words pained her, and it was everything she could do not to cave into them, latch to him tightly and cry for hours. There wasn't fear, but dread...dread that if she did this, he would once more disappear from her life, and reset all she had suffered through in order to simply exist.
"I'm not afraid." she murmured. Finally, her arms raised, and wrapped around his middle in a comforting embrace. "If he wanted to kill me, he would have already. He outclasses me in every way, so there would be nothing I could do in order to save myself. He took me when..." she paused, thinking back on it. "...when I was struggling with my magic, and it was consuming me. I found him by accident, and he simply... took me. I was never truly afraid...even though I should have been. Either I would become stronger and gain a purpose, or I would die and things would not change much from how they already had been. He wanted me, to an extent I was needed. It made me feel...good. He tormented me, but he has made me so much stronger, and has been the only reason I was not consumed by my own magic. It used to be that I was held captive, but I don't..see it like that anymore. I want to go back to him. I don't love him, Rajih. But I need him. Even if the things he does are unspeakable... I know that...when I return to him, he will be there."
Her bangs shadowed her face from him. She was on the verge of tears, her body trembling lightly. "I would have..rathered you take my heart for yourself... and keep it forever, than be left alone without you. It was hell...It was always so dark, and the colors were gone, and I felt .....I felt nothing!"
The air around her seemed to give off a feel of despair and gloom, icy fingers that clutched flesh as if they attempted to drag one down into the underworld.
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