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Post by adorablesleep on May 5, 2016 21:00:13 GMT -8
Nora looks the spirit back in the eyes, fire in them. "I. Call. Bullshit." She wasn't backing down, and she knew the Null knew that as well. "And I am going to live this battle if you so want it to happen." She was so embroiled in this that she hardly noticed Thoren leave.
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Post by metreu on May 5, 2016 21:30:40 GMT -8
The spirit looks hardly amused.
"All I speak is the truth. The one known as Micha is gone forever. I don't know what else to tell you. Do you think I can do the same thing the old man tried to do? Will you make me? Will you do what he did and sacrifice hundreds to bring back a soul that is no longer here? How can you bring back someone back who had no soul to begin with? Do you have her body?"
He laughs.
"Her body. Oh how foolish of me."
The spirit smacks himself in the head and grins widely.
"You can love her dead body all you want. But I'd dare say it wouldn't be the same... or maybe it would be. She was kind of a dead beat."
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Post by adorablesleep on May 5, 2016 23:58:51 GMT -8
A smile started to form on Nora's lips. "You think you're so funny don't you?" She backs up some and a bit of blood drips on the ground. It seemed to be steaming too. She points her sword of blood at the Null. "I'm not Mike. Just who the HELL do you think I am? I'm not going to stop for some impossibility. I'm not going to sacrifice anyone for my cause. You may think I think the unthinkable, but I WILL do the undoable. I will make the impossible possible for my selfish reasons. She believed in me. So I will not back down to something like you. I will not back down to this impossibility. She had a soul. She HAS a soul. And you are going to give it to me. She saved ALL of us multiple times over. Like hell she doesn't deserve to live. Girlfriend or not." Nora brandishes her weapon, giggling a bit. "Maybe if you make this fast, I can go help my friends down there too."
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Post by metreu on May 6, 2016 5:13:03 GMT -8
The spirit looks at her and the sword before jumping off of the door and landing down right in front of Nora.
He swipes his bandaged hand through the blade which collapses it into regular blood that falls through the floor with a sound like glass breaking.
"I think you're forgetting something my dear..."
He turns his head at her with an unnatural crack.
"What makes you think I can bring her back? All I can do is destroy."
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Post by adorablesleep on May 6, 2016 6:20:46 GMT -8
Nora bites the tip of her thumb, some blood dripping out. "Then you're not trying hard enough." The blood dripping from her thumb reforms into another sword that she holds readily. "You need to believe in yourself more. I bet you could do things no one ever imagined." Nora pauses, she wasn't afraid. "She did. She did much more than everyone else for someone with no 'soul.'"
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Post by raz on May 6, 2016 6:55:04 GMT -8
"Look up to God in heaven, raised high on his laurels. His, or hers. And what do you do? Lift your grubby hands to the skies and cry out 'Save me!'"
The figure lifts its hand to the sky, then both, as if grasping for something beyond reach. Head turned upward, a smile teasing at its mouth.
"What do you find? Salvation? Denial? No, the answer has always been silence. God rises, death with high pride, and nothing but an empty throne remains. Nothing more was ever there. Beg your lords and masters, and find your words only shackle yourself to a false ideal. A hypocrisy? Or a mistake. An illusion, or a shell."
The figure throws its hands down, hands cupped at its sides as it turns its eyes down to look at Nora. Smiling an assured smile.
"Girl. You speak and act of determination, and beg me for salvation. I am... I am not your God. I am not your salvation. I cannot, or will not grant your wishes. Miracles are not such an easy thing to create. Realize the hypocrisy of your determination in asking of another, and then perhaps reflect on your next actions and words. Combat? I could end you with ease. But I have no interest in putting you in your place. I have no interest.
I am P o w e r. Power has never had will of its own, only that of those who use it. I am L o g i c. I set to zero, the natural, the origin. The genesis of a miracle... such things will not come from me. They cannot. Asking them of me... just what do you think a selfish wish out of your own power will do? Out of your own self? Girl."
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Post by adorablesleep on May 6, 2016 11:15:48 GMT -8
"Combat you say? I'm a non factor. I'm not special. But I can tell you that I'll defeat you." She waves her sword, smiling still. "Null, your words make no sense to me. But how about this?" She reaches out to the recesses of her mind and closes her eyes, clutching her bond with Micha. She may be "gone" right now, but that bond was still there. Nora reaches out as far as she can to try to reach Micha's smile, love, strength. She opens her eyes. "You may say she's gone now. But wasn't she technically always gone? Nothing? It doesn't matter." Nora charges the Null, lunging her sword at it.
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Post by metreu on May 6, 2016 11:32:31 GMT -8
The null stands there as the sword plunges deep into it's chest, a silver blade coming out the other side where the blood sword would be.
The spirit looks down and clutches the sword as it turns into a real blade.
It's eyes look back up at Nora before it sinks to its knees.
"See...? That wasn't so hard was it...?"
The null spirit collapses on to the ground, fading away.
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Post by adorablesleep on May 6, 2016 11:39:32 GMT -8
"Bah. Gross." Nora pushes lifts her sword and looks at the door, then closes her eyes and presses her hands to her chest. "Micha... He's right. I will bring you back with my own two hands. But first..." She opens her eyes and looks at the silver blade. She starts floating and rushes herself to the Dream Dome, holding the cold metal of the strange blade.
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Post by frozenlake on May 6, 2016 17:24:52 GMT -8
FLord bursts out of the side of the dome, smacking into the stone slab... and vanishes?
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Post by metreu on May 6, 2016 20:48:54 GMT -8
The tower of Gospel trembles and begins to sink into the breaking planet below. It's slow descent shaking the door and the big rig with the dome.
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Post by frozenlake on May 7, 2016 8:08:44 GMT -8
"Well this scenario seems to be going to shit quickly."
"I'd honestly help out in there... but I'm not exactly suited for combat."
"Although, the person who was just ejected unceremoniously from that dome looked... familiar."
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Post by flightlessicarus on May 8, 2016 13:50:25 GMT -8
A junkbox car with a peeling paintjob, a duct taped bumper, and a magnet on the door is making its way towards the tower. A prospitian wearing a yellow dress shirt is behind the wheel. www.dropbox.com/s/ua41mt223vaxen6/prospitdancer.png?dl=1How exactly he got a car, let alone a job at pizza hut in the middle of nowhere, is a complete mystery. But he's on his way, anyhow. |
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Post by metreu on May 8, 2016 20:29:52 GMT -8
Gospel sinks further into the collapsing planet below... half of it already now consumed.
The quakes get worse and the already damaged parts start to fall away, the structure losing it's integrity.
The top of the tower shifts again, the rig and dome sliding slowly to the side. The knob of the door rolls slowly down the incline...
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Post by metreu on May 8, 2016 20:47:46 GMT -8
The woman in white stands atop the falling tower of Gospel, watching the sun overhead flicker with flares. The "stars" in the sky also begin to blink out of existence, returning the void to how it used to be.
She floats to the door of the dream dome and lays her hand on it.
"All her friends are in there... and she needs to be with them."
The woman in white opens her eyes... her white irises glow softly and the White Wall console appears next to her.
"M.A.S.S., please initiate SOL.PERSONA files."
The screen lights up and rolls through a process quickly, moving data around.
The woman in white gives a wave to the others behind her.
"I'll head in first... see you on the other side..."
With that, the woman in white steps into the dream dome with a flash of blue in her right eye...
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