“Lucci! Lucci, you CAN’T do this!” Kaz’s voice pleaded from behind him. The cry was so desperate. So hoarse and filled with fear. It was so unlike how his friend usually sounded. Lucci turned, pausing just a moment on the long, broken stairway to look back. The Sygnus’ long silver hair swayed with a ghostly [...]
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What is this place? Lucci peered around the strange chamber, taking a cautious step forward. His limbs felt suspended and his motions were sluggish. Light flickered from above through draping veils of various colors, casting twisted and eerie shadows over the walls. The floor was caked with grime and decay, somewhat squishy as he walked [...]
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A dull, pounding numbness filled Zemi’s being. The heaviness of Chaos hung within the back of his mind. His eyes flicked down as a strange pulse rippled from the ground, tremulous through his wavering form. Everything within him responded with a terrible, stricken shock. The realization of what he had just done. AsaHi sat cradling [...]
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AsaHi’s scream was sharp in the air as SoYa felt himself thrown, scattered across the floor. Then he began to slide. The entire Spire was leaning, groaning as the two Arweinydd locked in upon each other in the throws of silent mind-battle. Jolts of energy crackled through the structure, the forms of both Zerom and [...]
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The voice echoed into the dark recesses of TsuYa’s mind, slicing through the thick curtain that obscured his awareness. His body felt heavy, as if it was no longer his own. -TsuYa, open your eyes…- The voice prodded him again, a dull pulse within his internal ear. Every instinct shied away from it, fearing to [...]
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“It felt more real in my dreams…” TsuYa murmured as the door to the chamber fell open to Zazo’s command. There, stretching before him was the room of his nightmares, which was, much to his surprised a place that was locked deep within the lower vaults of the School itself. How TsuYa had known where [...]
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“Hedd-ynad!” SoYa exclaimed for the fifth time in the space of ten minutes. He clung tightly to AsaHi from behind, head ducked down, eyes clamped shut in the howling face of the wind. Their cloaks snapped around them in the frigid air, made all the more cold by the height of their altitude. The motion [...]
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“What are we supposed to be waiting here for again?” TsuYa asked, shivering into the depths of his robes against the bite in the air. His breath clouded out in great puffs of white as he spoke. Everywhere Zento looked, the land drooped under unnatural freeze. The trees, once lush in the summer light now [...]
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‘When people are bored, a little something of their true nature comes out.’ That’s what Father once said, long ago. Maybe that’s why TsuYa rarely allowed himself to become bored if he could help it. He sat on the lower slope of a hill, as far away from JouKa as he could. Every now and [...]
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SoYa and AsaHi sat in silence once Father and Kudako left. The forest around them dripped with twilight mists brought on by strange heat that rose from the mossy floor. The fading sunlight streamed down in small pin-prick patches, dappling the ground around them. His head was growing clearer as the day passed. Still, he [...]
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