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| Emperor Enoch | Feb 26 2017, 11:47 AM Post #1 |
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"Xiao, i have a favor to ask. You know how you revived me? Well there's somebody else that could use a hand right about now, guy named Tights. We trained together in heaven and after you brought me back he followed suit but got taken down again not long after." Julian had a look of slight bewilderment on his face, talking about reviving people from the dead and all that. "Wait you say he followed suit? You mean he was revived using the dragon's power as well?" "Well no, he got out the other way, said it was kind of a pain actually. Is that going to be a problem?" "Julian you may wish to take a seat for this... I believe your friend is gone, permanently. The power that revived you granted you your whole form returned. Those that escape from heaven against it's will do so as spirits, fragments of their former selves. With a bit of time one can regain their native form and be no worse for wear, but the halo that such individuals possess act as a sort of warning indicator. Once the spirit has reformed the body, that halo vanishes as a sign that the process is complete. Should the person in question die before that however... well one loses their body as sacrifice, without it, fate takes the soul. I'm truly very sorry Julian." The boy's look said enough for me to glean that this Tights person did indeed have his halo. A few days have passed since and Julian seems to have at least shrugged off some of whatever weighed on his mind. "Listen, you have my condolences on what happened during the war, but you need to know that you weren't ready and you'll need to be." "Need to be for what? the war's over and winner or not nobody is in any shape for another fight right now. And at least i tried to do something." There was a venom to his words, not wrong but not right either. "There was no justice in that war, i find it reprehensible that the saiyans would invade based on hearsay and slaughter a peaceful people. There was good in the people that tried to stop it but it only lead to more death. Did you ever stop to think what might have happened if the namekians had simply surrendered and a proper investigation done? A pipe dream perhaps but the alternative was senseless bloodshed and death. Mark my words, whoever sparked that war has only just gotten started and not one person has a clue as to whats coming next." I got up in a hurry, anger hastening my steps out of Julian's home. "I've seen enough pointless blood spilled to be so cavalier about rushing off to kill. Now if you'll excuse me I believe it is high time that I split the scene daddy-o as your turner classic movies has taught me." A few hours had gone by and the sun was low in the sky. I had found a peaceful place, just somewhere where there wasn't anyone else, somewhere a person can escape for a little while without distraction. I pulled out a small locket, normally it hangs far too low into my robes for anyone to see. Contained within it are two pictures, one of my wife Luen and the other of my son, Hong. It isn't often that i have time to look at them anymore, which is for the best i suppose, too many bittersweet memories. "Xiao! There you are, look man i'm sorry about earlier. I get it, it's just my buddy died and i felt angry just at everything and then you told me i wasn't ready and hey look, a bullseye. I didn't mean to imply you didn't help, i'm here because of you so my bad." "Well at least you managed to find me, you're getting more comfortable sensing the flow of Ki and identifying different signatures so that's good. And I too was a bit dramatic with my exit, Bygones?" Julian, holding his cell phone behind his back with a gps app running and Xiao's phone number plugged into it. "Well you know me, i'm a quick study and yeah, bygones, nothing to worry about or look deeper into... at all... Hey whats that you're holding anyway?" Closing the locket before Julian can get a look inside. "Oh this? just a memento from home, something i took with me before my pilgrimage." "Memento of what? You got a lady back home? You've been holding out on me eh?" My thoughts drifted back to before my imprisonment, to the time during the virus. It began as these things often do, with something small and heart full of hatred. To understand how this happened you need to understand something about my kind. Most of us aspire to great deeds of goodness, heroism, generosity, guardianship. I say most for a reason though as when someone with our kind of potential goes a darker route, it cannot be overstated the pain and anguish they can cause. The Makaioshin, Lords of the nether realm and paragons of all things vile and evil. They are not simply a mirror entity to the Shin-Jin, they are Shin-jin in fact. Twisted by negative forces of all stripes, when one of my people succumbs to it, they forever change, but physically and mentally. We still don't know quite how they did it, but the wizard duo Hocus and Pocus had somehow used their magics to create a virus that tapped into those dark emotions. Bringing them to the surface, amplifying them, shutting out reason and compassion, turning us into that which we fear most, ourselves devoid of choice and reduced to monsters. The planet had been under siege and never even knew it until it was an epidemic, symptoms as common as being tired or curt with others became feared indicators of early infection. Spreading like wildfire whole towns were reduced to corpses and rampaging beasts that used to be good people. Quarantines and medical treatment seemed to only slow the progression of things and I had decided to work with some of the elders to try and develop a cure. As the weeks turned into months our situation became desperate. Most people stayed indoors to minimize exposure to others but still the seed of evil had wormed its way deep into our hearts. The only treatment with any chance of success was a forced state of meditation and a grueling mental battle with the knowledge that at least in such a state we could not hurt anyone. Knowing that you won't survive to become like those demons gave us hope for if death is the alternative to damnation, we choose it gladly. As we worked on perfecting the technique reports came in of a disturbance near the facility, guards had been called to a home, to my home because of reports of distress. I hadn't actually been home in days, working tirelessly on the cure with dozens of others we hardly knew the time of day. It never occurred to me that something was amiss right in front of me. Guards outside of my home had surrounded the building. "Sir you can't go in there, not until we handle the situation." "What situation? my wife and child are inside and i demand to know whats happened here!" "You're in no position to demand anything now get back before i have you..." "Enough of your prattling, i'll handle this myself." Instant transmission had it's uses to be sure, but i wish it didn't sometimes. The lights were off and the house looked a wreck, things strewn about and broken as if someone had thrown a fit. "Luen, Luen if you can hear me i'm here to help, just call out to me! I'll stop whoever did this! Please Lu, tell me you and Hong are alright?!" I could hear him crying, poor thing barely a few months old, still in a crib for Kai's sake and probably scared to death. "You can't stop him... it's all his fault... too much time, never any left for me, ugly little glutton... See the shadows? huh? daddy's just like them now! really there but not anything at all... no peace STOP CRYING... me or him? can't stop crying, no rest, needles under my skin so i can't move the way i'm supposed to anymore STOP IT STOP CRYING RIGHT NOW!" "Luen you're scaring me, just come on out from wherever you're at, the elders and me came up with a cure. You me and Hong can go over right now and see, they'll make it all better, they can help you." Frantically i looked around, damn that darkness, I could've lit the room up easily if i was thinking straight. "Don't need help, got him cornered now, tick tock tick tock, feed the baby, change the baby, burp the baby, hold the baby... no more time no more time no more time, need more time need less time, need less... yeah i need less of him. (baby crying in the background) so simple... if i wasn't so tired, so many needles, can't move right, fix it fix it I SAID STOP CRYING!" A deep and terribly dark thought crept into my mind "Luen STOP, STOP THIS RIGHT NOW AND COME OUT, YOU HEAR ME lUEN YOU HAVE TO ST..." (Crying abruptly stops) My aura flared up wildly, throwing enough light around to guide my way and i ran from room to room panicking until i found them. She was huddled in the corner of Hong's room, rocking back and forth holding something bundled in a blanket, blood seeping through the cloth. Barely responding to my presence I knelt down next to her and took the bundle, i wish i hadn't checked, but i had to try and save him. Holy aura only works on the living as it turns out... That's when she finally noticed me. "Did you see? somebody, somebody hurt our baby. you you you did this didn't you, (looking around furiously) it had to be you so why are you crying!? You must have turned into one of them and did this so you don't get to cry! It's only us here so it... so it, had to be... you, unless... me? I'd never do that, i couldn't do that, DON'T LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT!" It's a look i'll never forget, a person coming to the realization that they've done something unspeakable, something they'd never do in their right mind but mindset aside it was her hands that did it. The last bit of Luen that i ever saw was of her seeing herself turn into a monster, seeing her own child killed by her hands and crying as what was left of her soul fell apart. "I SAID DON'T LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT AND STOP CRYING!" She lunged at me... by the time the guards had decided to take the house by force she had already fallen by my side, a beam of energy scorching the wall behind her. There i knelt, my wife and my son and all i had lived for left in the cold dark of death. I must have killed a handful of them, i forget how many they actually said as they pinned me down in the streets. There was nothing left in me but rage and so i did. Eventually they were forced to bring me to the brink of death myself just to capture me but there i was, chained up in the elders hall, screaming and struggling like a lunatic. They pitied me, perhaps if i hadn't been working so diligently on a cure i could have seen the signs in Luen and taken her into custody before all this. As i raged against my bonds roared incoherently Elder Xiao approached. "It has been decided, they wanted to kill for what happened to the guards so I cannot let you go but you've lost everything working on this cure so I hope that at the very least it returns some measure of peace to you. If you awaken from your nightmare, never forget the enemy that did this to you, to us all. Remember them too, the way they were in life, not in their deaths." He placed the locket i treasure so much around my neck, i didn't even know what was inside it at the time. I couldn't even hear what he was saying really, but he looked somber as he put the locket around my neck. "Goodbye my disciple, I am sorry this life took so much from you, may you find peace in your next one." With that my body froze up, i watched i abject horror as flesh became stone and yet my mind raged on, struggling to cope with unbearable loss, endless despair and burning anger. There i sat for over seven hundred years, silently weeping, raging and questioning everything i had believed in until i discovered a peace within that i thought i had lost. The solace of knowing my wife and child were free of this curse, that there was another life for them in the afterlife and that my penance for failing those i loved was to guardian others. that was the day my statue cracked open instead of crumbling to dust. You know it's funny, when i fell to the floor you know what i wanted more than anything? Water, sure i was alive, but imagine being thirsty for 700 years. My life was over, the person that i used to be died that day, so i became a new one. I took their names, my teacher's, my love's and my child's and began my journey. "Hello? Earth to Xiao, come in Xiao, do you read me, over." "Huh? Oh sorry about that Julian, lots of old memories to go through so i guess i sort of daydreamed off. Oh to answer your question no, no ladies back home, just something my mentor gave me so i wouldn't forget my past while out exploring the cosmos and all that. I'm sure you know we mentors can be a sentimental bunch." He had a good laugh at that one and as i tucked the locket away I just smiled at the boy, he didn't need to hear some story about a dead man. Edited by Emperor Enoch, Feb 26 2017, 06:15 PM.
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| Emperor Enoch | Feb 26 2017, 11:55 AM Post #2 |
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14 days of RP as well as 2 for my tf2 quest 340xp 2,000z Idea behind it was a huge bunch of backstory for Xiao and what he's dealt with and had to overcome to regain his peaceful nature and focus. |
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