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originally posted in:The Roleplay League
12/11/2015 8:42:11 PM
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After pacing briskly through the streets, weaving through the sea of civilians, Switch arrived at the foot of a nearby building and began scaling the outside walls to the roof. There, he linked up with Lakir and indicated to the dark protective field encasing Aries.
"He's trying to summon another one of those... Things. And I have a gut feeling that this one will be worse than the others. Any ideas on how to stop Aries or at least distract him from the process? Have you even encountered him doing this before?"
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" Of course it is. Everything is personal these days. Once I'm finished here, I won't have to live looking over my shoulder. Always expecting to waste energy on a Guardian."
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"But let's get serious here for a moment. What do you even have against guardians if you were one yourself once?"
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" The Light forsakens it's warriors. It left me to die. And then the Darkness picked me up, closed my wounds, fixed my broken bones, and gave peace to my broken mind. All Darkness asks of me is to stop the brutal dictatorship that the Light has over everyone here."
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"The light isn't a dictatorship, it's a gift. It left you becuase you were willing to be taken in by the darkness instead of dying. Such selfish thoughts are not deserving of this gift we have, and thus, your gift was taken from you, leaving in its wake this husk of a person, a shadow of who you once were" "Holy shit I should way too much like Switchy right now"
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" No. I called out to the Light. It left me. I was prepared to die. But I would not die as a forsaken Guardian. So I let the Darkness take me. And I haven't regretted it."
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The hunter paused for a moment, unsure how to react with this ideology he had never though of before, so he just stood there in silence. Instead, another voice spoke to Aries, far more familiar. Switch's host had dematerialises his arm, and he had made his way back to the roof. "You should have let the darkness take you. Not the entity, no. I mean death. You should have let death take you. You would be in a far better place for yourself now if you had died. But no. Instead, you tried to cling to what life you had left by letting the darkness take you in instead. It taints and poisons everything it touches Aries, and you're no exception. That's exactly what has happened to you. You may think that you've been gifted with near immortality and and dark powers and minions, but that's just a cover up for what the darkness really did to you. You've been tainted and trapped rather than uplifted, inside your own body. Sure, the light may have left you, as you put it, but people never really change. Not truly. Therefore, when I look into your eyes I can see that person inside, the person that knows this was a mistake and that he should have died and save his friends rather than accept this far worse fate and endanger them. Now, your inside self has to suffer with what your outside self is doing to the world around you. But, there is a way to escape this bottomless pit you've thrown yourself into"
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" I care not for this. So either fight or run. Because I'll show no mercy here."
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(J = Jaden [the hunter], S = Switch-5) J: "We're not running" S: "But we're not gonna fight either. You haven't shown an ounce of mercy since you arrived on this playing field, so by all means I didn't expect mercy from you. But I think you're lying. I think somewhere inside, you do care for this." J: "don't you see what we're trying to tell you? Look around at this. All this that you have done. None of this is good in any way whatsoever to you or us or anyone. This is just pointless destruction" S: "Pointless revenge. That's what this is. Revenge for what the light did to you. But you shouldn't have taken it out on innocent people that never even knew you or had any part in your fate. And you know they're innocents, because you've called them that yourself"
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Aries chuckled. " Do you believe this is revenge? No! This is just a step in the grand plan of the Darkness. In fact, I don't bore any hatred towards the Light. I have it to thank for letting me see the truth of the world. The Light is what led me to the Darkness, and for that, I am grateful."
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Edited by Moot: 12/12/2015 5:22:32 PMJ: "Wait. This is how you repay the light? By burning everyone and everything that holds it sacred?" S: "Face it Aries, you're not serving the darkness' grand plan. That's Erik's job, and if I recall, you two didn't exactly hit it off very well. No, this is just personal. But it's always been personal, hasn't it?"
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" Believe what you will. It still won't change anything. The Light is old and on the verge of collapse. And as for Erik. He serves Oryx. Not the Darkness. Not the true Darkness."
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S: "[u]true[/u] darkness? There's only one darkness. Unless there's something you're not telling us..."
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" Oryx is a dissenter. He does not follow the Darkness. He wishes to become an all new God. Something above the real one. The Darkness let's him live because it's amusing, but both groups are not fighting together, but against one another."
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Edited by Moot: 12/12/2015 5:44:19 PMS: "Don't you see a connection there? Between you and Oryx? If you ask me, your two seem to be in pretty similar positions. You were both fragile and vulnerable, so you both called to the darkness to be saved, and in return, it uplifted you. Now you both stand tall, with armies at your fingertips and powers that can quake entire worlds. And yet you say the darkness keeps Oryx in power for amusement..." J: "Sooner or later, it doesn't take long to realise that the darkness is probably getting swathes of amusement from you too" S: "Perhaps this is a big game after all. Perhaps it's like a board game being played by one person alone, with all the power. You and Oryx are the Darkness' pawns. It's playthings. And this whole time you thought it actually saw value in you" J: "you keep serving the darkness Aries, and it will simply chew you up and spit you out like weak poison once it's done with amusement"
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" I know. That's the beauty of it. The Darkness does have its pawns. And I am one of them. But it uses its pawns much better than the Light ever has. Tell me. Just how many Guardians have died here today? And how close have you come to beating me? You think I have power? This is nothing compared to the true champions of the Darkness. The pieces of value. Because in the end. That's all we are. Pieces, to be used and discarded."
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S: "well that's the beauty of the light. It doesn't have pawns. It only throws away the ones that think of such things" J: "We might just be a bunch of throw-outs, but why does that mean the throw-outs have to fight each other like this?"
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"Because those are the rules of the game. In chess, the pieces aren't meant to question. They are meant to fight. And accept that existence."
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Edited by Moot: 12/13/2015 12:46:12 AMJ: "...Was kinda hoping that James' light sword would show up any moment now..." S: "Aries, there's no need to play by the rules like some slave. And that goes for all of us. We're giving you a chance to drop everything that you don't need and walk away"
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Aries looked in the direction of the fight between Hunger, and Romii and Lake. " It seems that one of your comrades has fallen. How many more will die before you accept your defeat?"
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Switch rushed to the edge of the roof, looking in horror as Lake was flung about like a dog's chew toy and thrown lifelessly into a nearby building. He didn't know what to say or how to react. In the midst of the confusion, Jaden had disappeared from sight.
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" He's not dead yet. He will be soon. But it's not like you have time to worry about that." Aries disappeared and reappeared above Switch, bringing his elbow down onto his neck.
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Switch smashed into the roof tiles face first from the impact, but he didn't let it sway him. He had tried to convince Aries that what he was doing was unnecessary and wrong, hoping that whatever shimmer of light that remained within him had heard his reasoning. But it wasn't working, Aries was too thick and blind with darkness to listen to such arguments. Play time was over. He blinked off his front and straight through Aries, passing across him like a sudden breeze. Switch rematerialized right behind him and swung his arm around, connecting his bare hand with Aries' face and grasping it tightly. Searing hot with solar light, it felt like having your head wrapped around in a 200°C metal boiling radiator. Switch threw Aries' head back in an arcing motion, smashed the back of it into his knee.
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Aries shot out a pulse of thin Darkness. But it was powerful enough to clear out the entire room. The blast shot Switch out of the building and through a wall.
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Edited by Moot: 12/12/2015 7:01:18 PMSwitch's fall was broken just before the ground by the fabric rain cover of another deserted market stand. He rolled onto the ground as rubble and dust descended onto the surrounding cobbles. He had ideas, but not enough time to see them come to fruition. He just needed to engage Aries for long enough.
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Aries blasted out in force. He kneed Switch in the gut, connected a right hook into his face, and summoned another sword to lop off one of Switch's legs.
