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Post by Amnesty Lazuli on Nov 3, 2006 23:28:20 GMT
Rude looked at the Scythe suspiciously, and then over at Lutz. He's our friend... he won't abuse it. I just hope he knows what to do with it.
He handed it over. "Careful, Lutz... you don't want Chaos to come back into your body while you're holding that thing."
He looked ruefully at the remains of the Sacrifice. "Meanwhile, I have a gun to repair." He sighed and dragged it to the cargo bay to see what he could salvage...
Reno kept shaking Ami, trying to make her wake up. "Ami... Ami, come on, don't quit on us..."
She groaned and stirred. "I wanna go home..." she murmured, still semi-conscious.
He blinked. "What?"
"I wanna go home..." Tears were slipping out of her eyes.
His jaw dropped. She's still barely alive... if she had her senses, she wouldn't do this.
She's never cried in front of me before.
He took her to the nearest cot to recover. He didn't quite understand what her problem was, but could sense Squall had something to do with it...
He got up and went back to Squall's room. He started banging on the door. "Squall! Get out here!"
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Post by lutz on Nov 3, 2006 23:31:07 GMT
Rude was right
right when Lutz touched the Sythe more Chaos matter ented Lutz's body.
Lutz: "its ok Rude it was ment to happen..."
Lutz took the Sythe into another room to study it.
Raja might still be stuck in this thing....
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Post by Amnesty Lazuli on Nov 3, 2006 23:37:26 GMT
Rude shrugged. "Whatever you say, Lutz." Like I said, mysticism has never been my cup of tea. He started taking the Sacrifice apart, hoping to make it operational again by the time the next Sin came along.
Reno kept pounding on Squall's door. "Squall, open up, d**n it!" Ami's falling apart in there. He paused. What the h**l do I care? He kept pounding away, telling himself he'd figure it out later. "Squall! Yo!"
He kept thinking of Nikky and how she'd be acting if something like this were happening to her... he could see her being upset, but not CRYING... something bigger than this was going on, he could tell.
Ami squirmed on her cot, still trying to find the light...
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Post by mistervillainman on Nov 3, 2006 23:59:02 GMT
Rufus watched as the final cloning tube was brought down from cold storage, the body inside began to breath as he watched... The experiment had been a success and now he wouldnt have to hide much longer. As soon as his creations were brought to full strength, he would take back this planet in the name of his family once and for all... Things would go back to the way they were...
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Post by Squall on Nov 4, 2006 0:03:57 GMT
What the hell? " What do you want?" Squall straightened himself out and headed towards the door, * Opens it* " Something the matter?"
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Post by Amnesty Lazuli on Nov 4, 2006 0:10:19 GMT
"No kidding, Squall," Reno replied. "Ami's out cold. A demon attacked her... Rude nailed him, but she's having trouble coming around." He looked at Squall closely. "I'm sensing some hesitation on her. She's scared of something... I think if you helped her, she might snap out of it faster. She's not in mortal danger... but she's terrified of SOMETHING, and I can only do so much. I put her in one of the empty cabins." He stood aside to let Squall pass.
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Post by mistervillainman on Nov 4, 2006 0:18:02 GMT
The cloning tubes rotated, letting the fluid drain into the runoff tubes and then righted themselves again. The occupants opened their eyes simultaniously and Rufus grinned darkly, releasing the doors and allowing them to step out... It was time for a test run.
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Post by Squall on Nov 4, 2006 0:19:03 GMT
Squall started at Reno for a moment, not fully absorbing what he had said. Whats she so afraid of?.." Did the demon get to her? What was it on of the seven sins?" Squall didnt wait for an answer, his mood was replaced with worry for Ami and he barged past Reno without asking where she was. Im coming
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Post by Amnesty Lazuli on Nov 4, 2006 0:30:17 GMT
Reno let him by and patiently followed him, waiting for him to realize he didn't know where Ami was. He tapped him on the shoulder. "Yo, Squall... this way, dude." He brought him to the right room, and there Ami lay, still pale and perspiring on the bed, muttering indistinctly.
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Post by Squall on Nov 4, 2006 0:38:32 GMT
"Jesus!" Squall ran over to her and knealt at her side, taking one of her hands and wrapping his around it I just thought he was trying to get me out of my room! " Ami!? I know you can hear me, weve been here before remember?" Squall looked at her for any signs of response but there werent any. " Whats scaring you so much? You afraid of whats down the hole?[/i] * squeezes hand* " Wake up Ami!" Squall ran his hand through his hair and looked back at Reno, " What the hell happened to her?![/i]
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Post by Amnesty Lazuli on Nov 4, 2006 0:46:18 GMT
"Nothing extremely weird, she just got her air cut off for a minute," Reno replied. "She ought to have snapped right out of it... but I think she's..." He tilted his head slightly, his forehead wrinkling. "I think she's hiding in there."
Her eyelids suddenly fluttered open. She saw Squall holding her and her eyes welled up with tears... she embraced him desperately, terrified that this embrace might be their last... "Squall... forgive me..." She began to cry on him as if her heart had broken... which it was in serious danger of doing.
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Post by Amnesty Lazuli on Nov 4, 2006 1:00:35 GMT
Xima slunk through the shadows of the makeshift Shinra genetics lab. She turned to her son near a large computer data bank... "Stay here, my child," she whispered softly. "Don't leave this place, no matter what you see. And don't forget the present I have given you."
He nodded solemnly... and readjusted his grip on his mother's gift to him, his new toy... the Orphan's Curse, a gasoline powered crossbow bolt gun, each bolt packing at least seventy pounds of impact.
Xima kissed her son's cheek and turned away, slipping through the darkness... Fruxas slid the safety off the crossbow and waited for his mother's command...
Xima saw the clones decanting. I was not a moment too soon. She drew nearer still to Rufus, noiselessly approaching him from behind. Had I waited any longer, he would have been surrounded by soldiers... my revenge shall be now... or never.
She drew the Evil Twin and put its blade across Rufus' throat, draping her arms over it and his shoulders so it would take no less than one upward thrust to fatally slice his veins. "Make a sound to alert your troops," she whispered into his ear, "and you will die immediately..." She rubbed her face against the nape of his neck. "...instead of after I have taken what you denied me."
Feel the poison in my touch... and know that when I remove it from you... your death will quickly follow.
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Post by mistervillainman on Nov 4, 2006 1:08:58 GMT
Rufus froze up, he knew this moment would come, he just wish it would have come a few minutes AFTER now...
"Hello... I've been expecting you Xima..." He said, tilting his head up slightly. "I was eager to show you the progress I've made."
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Post by *~Nikkole~* on Nov 4, 2006 1:17:04 GMT
nikky had wandered out and was amusing herself by poking kamen. she giggled when he groaned and stired. ^^
kamen tried to mentally fight her off but he was being drug into the depths of his mind. the more he fought to get out the more he got lost....
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Post by Amnesty Lazuli on Nov 4, 2006 1:19:39 GMT
"I'm sure you have," she said quietly, practically purring. "Incidentally, I've made some progress myself since last we met... but the specifics of that statement will come at the moment I deem appropriate."
She shifted her weight against him, hoping to watch him squirm before she slaughtered him... "If you have any weapons secreted about your person, be sure to remove them now. If I find them later... I will be a very, very unhappy girl." She thought for a moment, a twisted grin crossing her face. "Actually, I think it might be more prudent of me to... check for any weapons you may have myself."
She repositioned her hands, one still holding the blade firmly in place, and the other sliding down Rufus' left side... a bit more slowly than she might have done were it any other victim... her eyes narrowed ferally...
"Call off your clones..." she hissed softly. "I would prefer to think we could bring closure to our affairs... privately." She pressed the sword a little harder to emphasize her point as her hand crossed his back, still slowly searching...
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