Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2014 23:08:01 GMT -5
Come here…
The fragmented thought was the first sound in a very long time to break the soothing and warm silence of the darkness that encased a thin figure that was curled into a tight ball. The sound was harsh in comparison to the constant hum and gentle thump that usually filled the void that figure resided in. With sharp claws and hisses that thought tore at the safe coocoon around the figure causing the being within to wiggle and attempt to escape the reaches of the claws that wanted to pull it out from its safe and warm home. The figure tried to resisted, but without fail the sharp claws dug into the being’s body causing fresh waves of coldness and fear to sweep through the being that clung onto the darkness with a tight grip…a grip that was slowly slipping as the claws continued to pull and yank at its body.
Then with a silent rip the darkness was tearing beneath the pale fingers that grasped it and those claws began to drag its victim away from the warmth and deeper into coldness and fear. For a long moment the figure tried to swim away from the coldness and back to the warmth it belonged in, but the more it struggled the deeper the claws pulled it into the new and uncomfortable darkness that slowly crept into the figure’s mind and body like water seeking to drown it.
The being was scared and wanted to cry out for help, but it could not find its voice as the darkness pressed upon it making it feel heavy and sleepy. The strength was being drained from the figure. The battle against the heavy darkness slowly slipping from the being’s grasp.
Sleep…blackness…
It swallowed the figure whole and blotted out all awareness the figure had of the world….
Hard.
Cold.
Rough.
The sensations assaulted the figure dressed in a form fitting black suit that had a hole punched through the center leaving a pale spot of scarred skin exposed to the world. Slowly, the darkness that floated around the figure like a gentle spirit began to stitch up the hole covering the spot with black material that meshed and bonded with the rest of the odd suit. The body underneath was not moving as it remained on its side slightly curled upon the brown earth. There were strange metal appendages sticking out from the back, the left set folded under the weight of the body while the right set were limp and slightly broken from disuse and also a heavy impact laid upon them. Much like the cloth the darkness washed over these broken "bones" and mended them knocking off rust, dents, and cracks as it slithered along the sharp metal that gleamed in the light of the rising sun.
A strange mask of metal was weaved across the white face of the figure stained with dirt and something else that could not be defined, but with a gentle hand the darkness wiped the face and mask clean before it moved on to tackle any other damages it saw upon the lifeless figure. When the darkness was satisified with its work, it sighed softly before stretching and settling into the figure upon the ground.
There was silent and stillness for a moment and then with a sharp intake of air and a cough, the figure upon the ground took in its first shuddering breath and began to slowly move as fresh pain and disorientation hit it.
Curling into a ball as one hand grasped at its chest that felt like it was on fire, the figure that was known as Nero, the Sable kept his eyes tightly shut as his body and mind worked to reboot after being dead for so long. Life was being pulled into him with each shuddering breath and prick of pain as he tried to uncurl from his position upon the ground that was dusty and sought to suffocate him with dirt. Forcing his body and uncooperative wings to work with him, Nero managed to roll himself on his back where at least breathing was no longer an issue.
The heavy breathing from the Tsviet began to slow into a steady rhythm as his pounding heart began to slow and his body began to stop its trembling. Slowly, crimson eyes would open closing back only briefly as harsh light hit them and caused a different form of agony to hit him. Letting the wave pass, Nero open his eyes slowly once more letting the light come in slowly as the haze floated from his view and the world around him began to snap into view.
He...remembered as he stared up at the strange mass of orange and odd colors above him, he remembered what had happened back then. Remembered how his brother had been possessed by something that caused the one he loved to actually strike him down. He remembered it all as his hand instinctively drifted to the spot where his brother had punched a hole into him with his bare hand...
The wound was gone and he was somewhere now, but...where was...
"Weiss...?" he called.
The word felt foreign in his mouth as the young man turned his head to the left and then the right searching for his brother, but not finding him or anything familiar for that matter around him. There were no buildings or walls here. No coolness and darkness....No this place was warm...and open surrounded by...
Nero winced slightly as he rolled himself onto his stomach and pushed himself up onto his elbows looking around the area he was in as a gentle wind tug at the messy black mass that was his hair; however, he pay much mind to the sensation as his eyes settled on the stationary giant before him.
Brown, rough, tall...extended structures above...yes...it matches the description of a tree, but...
Nero pushed himself to his feet and after a moment of stumbling, he steadied himself as he shook his head to stop his world from spinning. Squinting to focus once more, Nero looked at the tree before him taking note of the odd picture upon it that was in the shape of some odd bird with a hat. Not sure what that was, Nero looked towards the other trees that surrounded him in a circle like fashion, taking note that each tree had an odd picture upon them.
Hearts and colorful eggs and trees within trees? What is this? Nero wondered as the frown deepened as he tilted head trying to make sense of the nonsensical things. He was...outside...right? This wasn't any simulation he knew of and he didn't think buildings held so many trees...did they?
The thoughts and questions went on giving the young Tsviet a headache in the process. This place it made him a bit concerned that he had truly gone over the edge and now could never return to his somewhat normal self. While he didn't see himself as the hallucinating type or very imaginative for that matter, this place sure was too strange to be a reality....So what was it?
"Mmm.." the sound escaped Nero as his head instinctively went into his hands as he tried to pull himself together and out of whatever new insanity he was in. He didn't want to be here. He wanted to be wherever his brother was, so why was it so hard to just wake up from this werid dream and be where he needed to be?
He shook his head again, before slowly opening his eyes and looking up through his fingers hoping that the scene would change; however, as he peeked through the cracks his fingers created, he felt his whole body slump in defeat as his eyes refocused on a door with some odd picture of something orange with eyes and a strange grin.
Giving up on trying to understand what was happening for the moment, Nero let his hands drop to his sides as he examined the odd picture before him. He still didn't understand it, but that nose...it certainly did seem to poke out of the picture, but why?
A bit curious at the odd find, Nero cautiously approached the door and after hesitating a second, he reached out and tried to push the protusion back into the tree, but it wouldn't budge....and nothing blew up or opened underneath him, so maybe it was safe. Feeling a bit more confident, Nero reached out and wrapped his hand around the strange knot and turned it like a knob.
Click!
"Hm?"
Nero blinked as the picture became loose in his hands.
A door? he wondered as he pulled upon the strange handle and watched as the picture opened and revealed...
The darkness of the inside of the tree....right...Nero thought to himself as his eyes met the darkness within. He stepped forward and peeked into the tree hoping that maybe his first assumption was wrong; however, as he studied the darkness further he shook his head as he slumped against the opening.
Go figure. Nothing.
Disappointed that this strange door was a waste of time, Nero was about to push himself away from the door when unexpectedly a cold wind flew up from the inside of the tree bring with it whispers and dead leaves. Like a hand, that wind grasped Nero and pulled him back towards the hole!
A bit panicked, Nero tried to resist and get away from the wind, but for all his super human strength, Nero was no match for the wind. So before he knew it he was pulled into darkness and a swirl of orange and strange leaves. He fell through this spiraling darkness until with a very painful crack, he was slamming into something that broke under him, but was still hard. He felt his head whack against something cold and unforgiving causing his world to spin once more as his body came to a rest crumpled within something.
Stunned from the whole ordeal, Nero was still for a few seconds before he was once more shaking his head to clear it, discovering as his world came into focus that he was actually folded into a cramped space that felt like a box of stone or something.
Grunting, wincing, and wiggling his way out of the tight hole, Nero eventually tumbled out of his prison and onto hard black earth where he remained for a few moments on his hands and knees as he tried to regain his bearings.
Dark rough earth and...
Nero's eyes drifted upward to examine the new place he was in....and as his eyes traveled over the sight before him, the Tsviet found himself baring his teeth in agitation beneath the mask he wore.
What fresh hell is this? he wondered as his eyes took in the rough cravings around him, recognizing them as tombstones and graves for the dead. Above him was a dark sky and a cold wind drifted through the area bring with it the sounds of rustling dead leaves and strange scent Nero could not place. Ahead was a crooked gate and what appeared to be a twisted lamp post illuminating the empty spot below it.
So am I in purgatory then? Nero wondered as he got to his feet. Was he truly still dead, but thanks to being impure he was forced away from his brother and being sentence to wander a world that threatened to drive him over the edge? Sure, he didn't have the cleanest of records, but did he really have to pay such a heavy price for being what he was and doing what he thought was right to stay with his brother? To survive? The questions continue to come, but without any answers.
Feeling irritated and moody at the bad luck an existence he never wanted brought upon him, Nero got to his feet and began to walk forward into this strange dimension he was in. Even if he couldn't get out maybe he could find some answers as to why he was here and if Weiss had been spared from such a fate. If is his brother was free and safe, then he supposed he could settle with this hell...no matter how much it hurt.
The fragmented thought was the first sound in a very long time to break the soothing and warm silence of the darkness that encased a thin figure that was curled into a tight ball. The sound was harsh in comparison to the constant hum and gentle thump that usually filled the void that figure resided in. With sharp claws and hisses that thought tore at the safe coocoon around the figure causing the being within to wiggle and attempt to escape the reaches of the claws that wanted to pull it out from its safe and warm home. The figure tried to resisted, but without fail the sharp claws dug into the being’s body causing fresh waves of coldness and fear to sweep through the being that clung onto the darkness with a tight grip…a grip that was slowly slipping as the claws continued to pull and yank at its body.
Then with a silent rip the darkness was tearing beneath the pale fingers that grasped it and those claws began to drag its victim away from the warmth and deeper into coldness and fear. For a long moment the figure tried to swim away from the coldness and back to the warmth it belonged in, but the more it struggled the deeper the claws pulled it into the new and uncomfortable darkness that slowly crept into the figure’s mind and body like water seeking to drown it.
The being was scared and wanted to cry out for help, but it could not find its voice as the darkness pressed upon it making it feel heavy and sleepy. The strength was being drained from the figure. The battle against the heavy darkness slowly slipping from the being’s grasp.
Sleep…blackness…
**
It swallowed the figure whole and blotted out all awareness the figure had of the world….
Hard.
Cold.
Rough.
The sensations assaulted the figure dressed in a form fitting black suit that had a hole punched through the center leaving a pale spot of scarred skin exposed to the world. Slowly, the darkness that floated around the figure like a gentle spirit began to stitch up the hole covering the spot with black material that meshed and bonded with the rest of the odd suit. The body underneath was not moving as it remained on its side slightly curled upon the brown earth. There were strange metal appendages sticking out from the back, the left set folded under the weight of the body while the right set were limp and slightly broken from disuse and also a heavy impact laid upon them. Much like the cloth the darkness washed over these broken "bones" and mended them knocking off rust, dents, and cracks as it slithered along the sharp metal that gleamed in the light of the rising sun.
A strange mask of metal was weaved across the white face of the figure stained with dirt and something else that could not be defined, but with a gentle hand the darkness wiped the face and mask clean before it moved on to tackle any other damages it saw upon the lifeless figure. When the darkness was satisified with its work, it sighed softly before stretching and settling into the figure upon the ground.
There was silent and stillness for a moment and then with a sharp intake of air and a cough, the figure upon the ground took in its first shuddering breath and began to slowly move as fresh pain and disorientation hit it.
Curling into a ball as one hand grasped at its chest that felt like it was on fire, the figure that was known as Nero, the Sable kept his eyes tightly shut as his body and mind worked to reboot after being dead for so long. Life was being pulled into him with each shuddering breath and prick of pain as he tried to uncurl from his position upon the ground that was dusty and sought to suffocate him with dirt. Forcing his body and uncooperative wings to work with him, Nero managed to roll himself on his back where at least breathing was no longer an issue.
The heavy breathing from the Tsviet began to slow into a steady rhythm as his pounding heart began to slow and his body began to stop its trembling. Slowly, crimson eyes would open closing back only briefly as harsh light hit them and caused a different form of agony to hit him. Letting the wave pass, Nero open his eyes slowly once more letting the light come in slowly as the haze floated from his view and the world around him began to snap into view.
He...remembered as he stared up at the strange mass of orange and odd colors above him, he remembered what had happened back then. Remembered how his brother had been possessed by something that caused the one he loved to actually strike him down. He remembered it all as his hand instinctively drifted to the spot where his brother had punched a hole into him with his bare hand...
The wound was gone and he was somewhere now, but...where was...
"Weiss...?" he called.
The word felt foreign in his mouth as the young man turned his head to the left and then the right searching for his brother, but not finding him or anything familiar for that matter around him. There were no buildings or walls here. No coolness and darkness....No this place was warm...and open surrounded by...
Nero winced slightly as he rolled himself onto his stomach and pushed himself up onto his elbows looking around the area he was in as a gentle wind tug at the messy black mass that was his hair; however, he pay much mind to the sensation as his eyes settled on the stationary giant before him.
Brown, rough, tall...extended structures above...yes...it matches the description of a tree, but...
Nero pushed himself to his feet and after a moment of stumbling, he steadied himself as he shook his head to stop his world from spinning. Squinting to focus once more, Nero looked at the tree before him taking note of the odd picture upon it that was in the shape of some odd bird with a hat. Not sure what that was, Nero looked towards the other trees that surrounded him in a circle like fashion, taking note that each tree had an odd picture upon them.
Hearts and colorful eggs and trees within trees? What is this? Nero wondered as the frown deepened as he tilted head trying to make sense of the nonsensical things. He was...outside...right? This wasn't any simulation he knew of and he didn't think buildings held so many trees...did they?
The thoughts and questions went on giving the young Tsviet a headache in the process. This place it made him a bit concerned that he had truly gone over the edge and now could never return to his somewhat normal self. While he didn't see himself as the hallucinating type or very imaginative for that matter, this place sure was too strange to be a reality....So what was it?
"Mmm.." the sound escaped Nero as his head instinctively went into his hands as he tried to pull himself together and out of whatever new insanity he was in. He didn't want to be here. He wanted to be wherever his brother was, so why was it so hard to just wake up from this werid dream and be where he needed to be?
He shook his head again, before slowly opening his eyes and looking up through his fingers hoping that the scene would change; however, as he peeked through the cracks his fingers created, he felt his whole body slump in defeat as his eyes refocused on a door with some odd picture of something orange with eyes and a strange grin.
Giving up on trying to understand what was happening for the moment, Nero let his hands drop to his sides as he examined the odd picture before him. He still didn't understand it, but that nose...it certainly did seem to poke out of the picture, but why?
A bit curious at the odd find, Nero cautiously approached the door and after hesitating a second, he reached out and tried to push the protusion back into the tree, but it wouldn't budge....and nothing blew up or opened underneath him, so maybe it was safe. Feeling a bit more confident, Nero reached out and wrapped his hand around the strange knot and turned it like a knob.
Click!
"Hm?"
Nero blinked as the picture became loose in his hands.
A door? he wondered as he pulled upon the strange handle and watched as the picture opened and revealed...
The darkness of the inside of the tree....right...Nero thought to himself as his eyes met the darkness within. He stepped forward and peeked into the tree hoping that maybe his first assumption was wrong; however, as he studied the darkness further he shook his head as he slumped against the opening.
Go figure. Nothing.
Disappointed that this strange door was a waste of time, Nero was about to push himself away from the door when unexpectedly a cold wind flew up from the inside of the tree bring with it whispers and dead leaves. Like a hand, that wind grasped Nero and pulled him back towards the hole!
A bit panicked, Nero tried to resist and get away from the wind, but for all his super human strength, Nero was no match for the wind. So before he knew it he was pulled into darkness and a swirl of orange and strange leaves. He fell through this spiraling darkness until with a very painful crack, he was slamming into something that broke under him, but was still hard. He felt his head whack against something cold and unforgiving causing his world to spin once more as his body came to a rest crumpled within something.
Stunned from the whole ordeal, Nero was still for a few seconds before he was once more shaking his head to clear it, discovering as his world came into focus that he was actually folded into a cramped space that felt like a box of stone or something.
Grunting, wincing, and wiggling his way out of the tight hole, Nero eventually tumbled out of his prison and onto hard black earth where he remained for a few moments on his hands and knees as he tried to regain his bearings.
Dark rough earth and...
Nero's eyes drifted upward to examine the new place he was in....and as his eyes traveled over the sight before him, the Tsviet found himself baring his teeth in agitation beneath the mask he wore.
What fresh hell is this? he wondered as his eyes took in the rough cravings around him, recognizing them as tombstones and graves for the dead. Above him was a dark sky and a cold wind drifted through the area bring with it the sounds of rustling dead leaves and strange scent Nero could not place. Ahead was a crooked gate and what appeared to be a twisted lamp post illuminating the empty spot below it.
So am I in purgatory then? Nero wondered as he got to his feet. Was he truly still dead, but thanks to being impure he was forced away from his brother and being sentence to wander a world that threatened to drive him over the edge? Sure, he didn't have the cleanest of records, but did he really have to pay such a heavy price for being what he was and doing what he thought was right to stay with his brother? To survive? The questions continue to come, but without any answers.
Feeling irritated and moody at the bad luck an existence he never wanted brought upon him, Nero got to his feet and began to walk forward into this strange dimension he was in. Even if he couldn't get out maybe he could find some answers as to why he was here and if Weiss had been spared from such a fate. If is his brother was free and safe, then he supposed he could settle with this hell...no matter how much it hurt.