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Congratulations!! You. Are. Dead!! Now don’t be surprised, you’re in my house! Well, not mine, but Death’s. Don’t worry. He’s a chill ass dude.. And aye that’s him laughing right now! Yea, he’s been bored lately and we’ve been hard at work documenting all these recent deaths… Hey, wanna come and see what the fuck this dude is doin’? Come down the hall stupid! As you can see on our grand tour through Death’s 50th hall, there are just 120 sections of libraries full of documented deaths of yours formally, humans. I, NIgel Death, was also once a diminutive human, until the current death lord brought me to his lord’s crazy session of human occurrences. Usually, Death is super bored of just staring at what the human world is doing and would in fact die of boredom. Do you fucking believe that?! Haha!!! So here, take this pen because you’re going to be the next Death documentor when I run this shit. Just through this hall of velvet carpet and wonderfully stained glasses sits Death on his magnificent ebony throne with like 100 fluffy pillows! C’mon slow ass!
Alright, here’s the badass part. I’ll let you do it because you’re taking my place in a bit since there’s no action on Earth and Death is bored to shit. Take this totally cool key, stringed with glittering skulls and a tiny, pink ghost keychain Elia stole from Japan for me and slip it in the keyhole. When Death lets us in, the doors will burst open with light and his office, lined with gold and ebony along with banners streaming from every nation will be hung along the circular wall! And the book, that fucking book is what every inherit of Death’s power wants. It’s the book that-it’s a death notebook, I think.. And in 3…2..1.. Perfect! I did this so many times and it’s still exhilarating as fuck!! Let’s go in and..? Light! Gold! Banners! HAHA! Awesome. Oh hey, Elia’s here,
“Ola bitch, what up?”
And as the infamous Mexican jumper and ambassador turns around, she says:
“The fuck do you want Nigel…”
Haha! I’ve heard that about 1853 times now think of something more innovative to say Elia!
“Alright shut up and listen Nigel.”
“Well shit, Lord Death has spoken! Here’s the new guy, girl, whatever. I’m ready to take your se-wait.. What’s this map for?”
“It’s a map I got from the Mercy g-gang for plans to shake things up on Earth.”
“Shut up Elia, let Death talk.”
“She’s right, Mercy Magnolia sent in plans to take out the leaders of every other gang in the on the scale of human behavior and it’s extremely reinvigorating! Haha! I think the Wrath and Pride gang are also on the move!”
Shit.. Death’s not dying anytime soon, but you can still stay to see what happens because you’re caught up in this anyways…Stay and watch!
“Aye Lord, what is the scale of human behavior again, it’s been like 500 years since there was a major shift in it!”
“You really are a dunce aren’t you..”
“Well Elia, I’m not exactly on Earth am I!”
“The blood scale is based off of love and hate appropriating the humans, there were formerly more interests on both sides but as of recent, Magnolia managed to fucking kidnapped Miri, William Tate’s inheritor of a life giving ability.”
“Woah! Chill the fuck out! Since when did Magnolia ever get that strong, since when did the aspect of Hate earn an inheritor, and how the fuck does hate get the life giving ability! Aye, I remember that because of Tate. Tate, hate, get it? Haha.”
“Shut up Nigel, you should kill your thing there, and Death sent me to give Magnolia a soul-splitting ability so he could train rigorously enough just narrowly infiltrate Tate’s palace, get Miri, and get out. I delivered that ability about 10 years ago, or is that not in your petite documentation book?”
“OK, first of all, I’m not killing my friend!” I’m not killing you dude..
“And second of all, how’d I not have this down 10 years ago!! Death man, you got my hopes up that you were gonna die of apathy and give me that throne and that fuckin book!”
“Bitch you thought hahahaha!! And as punishment for wanting me to die, I won’t kill you cause you know, mercy haha. But I guess you and your friend can go to the observation room and see as the human insanity begins once again hahaha!!”
Well, shit. That’s not too terrifying. Come with me, the observation room’s only 24 halls down and we can always go out for some drinks! Lemme remember..Mercy Magnolia is…17 now? And with a soul-split holy shit.. He not only has an exponential potential strength from the ability and from using it for 10 years now, but I wonder what he made his split into, maybe a hot ass girl hahaha!! I have no idea how Death was able to distribute that kinda power but I can’t wait to be able to have the power to create destruction on Earth also haha! And soon you too if I don’t destroy the entire human race haha! OK, we have 14 halls left but lemme get something to drink. This is the dining hall, where all the good ass drinks are! There are even fights here between others on Death’s grand staff! Hey Brimley’s here too! Fuck yea!
“What the fuck is up Nigel!!” Yo this guy is fucking insane!!
“Tell the new guy a story man!”
“You look like a weirdo, is your name weirdo?? Your fucking face is falling off haha! You don’t talk much do you..Well that same obliterated, mortified, confused expression was the exact same feeling I gave to my victims haha!”
“Yea this dude was a trained killer in World War 2! He was a British soldier and killed everything he fucking saw!!”
“Fucking right! I was going to kill all the Nazi fuckers in the world! Sometimes we even kidnapped some during the night just to torture them haha!!” Aye! Don’t throw up, it’s gonna get good!
“Once, we took a captain then hung him by his legs, every single time we dunked him in a bucket of water, we cut another piece of his face off haha! The gore was marvelous and blood was gushing out the side of his head when his ears and eyes were cleaved off! Hahaha!”
Oh shit, yea, I think my thirst is lost too..Let’s go..
“Hey wait! Yall just got here! Leaving so soon without a drink?? I got tons of stories from the London Cage haha!!” I’ll hit him up later, throw up in this bag. Here. I actually never heard that one. Shit.
Alright, here we are and in we go…Throw everything up yet? Good. Lemme just… raise the roof on this shit and.. Bam!! A huge circular planet with every continent, every city, every possible action on Earth can be processed right here!! When you become my documentor, you have access to this magical, mystical shit 24/7. As the roof raises, the hologram planet goes up, and the menu here allows us to take the perspective of any city in any country! Fresh as fuck huh? Now. Magnol was in Chicago the last time I remember him right…and his split should be around him also. Wait, that’s also a weird ass power to ask for from a lord of death. A soul split? You need to train twice as hard to make that thing even practical. Fuck it let’s see..And watch closely, I haven’t seen Death that excited in about 60 years when a tremendous war was occurring..I have no idea how Magnolia might surpass the action of World War 2, but the influx of inorganic powers that humans have recently been provided should make for a fulfilling world development and more action for me and you to see huh? Hahaha! Alright..take a seat on the fashionably cushioned ebony chairs by yours truly, shut the fuck up, and enjoy the show!! This thing could even track the minds that Death has dealt with in the past so we get front row seats huh? There he is! Let’s fucking go-
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Well ain’t this some bullshit. Does the system still work? Hey, check all components of the mechanism! Nah. You can’t do shit, but I can only see him..not see into his mind..the fuck! Whatever, there’s still a nice view of the Chicago River and an abandoned building. Is he looking for someone in there? Aye there’s his split! How’s it hiding inside a wall? And why’s it all bandaged from head to toe? There are guys running at him from every side! What the fuck is going on!! He bares his sword the wrong way and why doesn’t he even use guns!? Imma hook us up with the sound going on in the building hold the fuck up! Tell me what’s going on idiot! You don’t even talk! Fuck! Annnnd a few minutes later, the amazing Nigel gets that sound going! Damn he’s already fighting huh… and he’s getting his fuckin ass beat! Haha!! He didn’t even pull his sword out and his split didn’t even move from inside the wall! Fucking pathetic hahaha!! This guy’s gonna come through Death’s door in any minute!
“Shinobu!!!!”
Wait what the fuck? Damn the split has fucking extra arms coming out of it!!! And now it’s getting bigger! Fucking disgusting haha!! Wait.. aren’t those things..what you call them..dragons right? This kid created a fucking dragon out of half a soul?! Shit! A European styled dragon? Red streaking across its brown body, and three pairs of wings! It’s a fucking monster dude!! It’s eating every single soldier! All 260 of them.The lord really created such a catastrophe haha! So Magnolia just calls out a name and calls for a destroyed building along with 260 deaths. Not very merciful is it… we’re going to be engrossed with work if this keeps up any more haha! There are also other factions on the scale too shit! I heard that Wrath’s General Schooler was fucking eaten recently also by Elisabetta just last year. Fucking disgusting!! Actually, those uniforms of the soldiers…they’re bitten into but that looks a lot like Wrath’s soldiers. And there he is. The man of the minute, Luster Taylor. Or should i say coward of the hour. Who the fuck leads 260 people to go inside an abandoned building to fight the leader of Mercy gang. Well his ass is running the fuck away now and look how scared he is!! And I wonder how our own is doing… Bluer I think it was.. Yea! Velle and her use to always just fuckin fight it was hilarious haha!! You thought Brimley was bad, wait till you meet them! Slaughtering sisters of history! Oh! You have no idea who these people are at all huh.. Well chill and just hear me out. We’ll visit them all through this observatory room don’t worry! It’ll all be a treat for you and me both because I haven’t been in here for a long ass time.
I’m always too consumed with work and the rising death toll as a result of petty shit like driving accidents, strokes, and heart disease. But it’s good to be on break, being locked in here. And I bet I can call for drinks whenever I want haha! Nothing’s happening now anyways. Wait.. Since when did Magnol leave. Where’d he go? Either the machine is fucked up, they have a jumper, or teleported somehow. I’m pretty sure I sent Elia to kill Magnolia’s jumper 20 years ago and it takes forever to even train one of those guys. Lemme just look at the damn machine it’s tweakin hard as fuck.
“I see you, idiot.”
Shit! That came from the machine? And why’s there a big ass vulture on the screen, there’s no fucking vultures in Chicago…Aye! Stop fucking up the invisible camera!! Technology’s fucking stupid man. Unreliable pieces of shit. Fuck using a gold plated, high definition, camouflage camera. Ehh.. it’s used more as a UFO to fuck with people anyways. Aye let’s check out the scene in real life haha! Oh, no. Don’t think I’m a fucking weakling like you. We’ll bust out, we’re just as Death said: went to the observation room, and now we will see how the humans destroy themselves! This building is fucking death proof, which is what all our powers are based around. Huh..smart move Death haha! You do know how holograms work right? All we need is the force to shatter the 25 inch glass that the projection goes through, or if you have a way to circumvent the building’s security? No? Thought so haha! All we have to do is climb the banners of knowledge and make it to the glass. Let’s get it! Lemme just climb those 10 bookcases and…aye you better fucking come, you’re my next documentor! That’s right. You can do it haha! Y’know, you’ll have to go through extensive training to make it to my rank anyways so this is your start. And..here we are! Then..we..just.. Crack! Haha! Light work! Come on and hang on! We are now on top of Death’s residence. I had assigned for those laborers in the ground to find me someone special to become my documentor when I expected Death to die, and as we saw, his ass is well and alive…ugh. Stupid humans bury themselves just to offer them up as laborers for Death’s country anyways..idiots. Actually, let’s climb a little higher, were basically on the tallest part of palace:the observatory.
From up here, we can see the rest of Death’s palace and also the lord’s land. I named it Utopia, fucking Death wanted to name it Deathtopia like a moron and I was able to stop him haha! You can see the dimly lit cities in the distance, all working together to make this place better. Citizens work, mostly as journalists, writers, and train to be jumpers;they all await for the next thing our maligned humans do that drives our people wild with joy! Hahaha! A lot of it is just fake news but still, yall really need to stop killing each other for fun! It’s annoying to document and let Death keep living. Oh yea, you’re no longer a petty human, you’re one of us now haha! See, your skin is already severing and your bones are crumbling! No! You don’t fucking get to look galvanized! You have one tear left to cry out and it’s not worth wasting on this! I’ll bring you to a taylor and we’ll suit you into something marvelous that our antithesis would even envy haha! Oh! Death just found out we’ve liberated ourselves from the room. His soul and mine are kinda connected since I was able to sign the documentor’s contract with him. He continuously uses the ability to tell me jokes that aren’t even fucking funny. Do you have any idea how aggravating that is! Haha!! Anyways, he’s not mad since I just told him that I was doing exactly as he said, but just in a divergent manner. Now let’s get you to Tyler the Taylor! Get it? Haha.
Just 16 miles away…and…we’re fuckin here! As Death’s documentor I can travel fast as fuck thank you very much! And now look at this building! Simply. Fucking. Beautiful! See these walls? They’re built with ebony, along with everything else in this black and white city, but Tyler the Taylor is even more creative than Death’s taylor because this guy’s name is Tyler and it sounds funny!
“OK. You missed it however many times you were here already. My name’s Briar, idiot.”
“Meh, close enough. Death’s taylor is named Maxus. And Maxus the Taylor doesn’t flow in a billion fucking years. Besides, you’re amazing and need to fix my incoming number two something spiffy as fuck! He doesn’t talk much so..let’s hook it up with something in dark blue maybe!”
“Doesn’t talk much? Maybe because his mouth is on the verge collapsing off his face? Haha!”
“Damn, old man, you’re right! Hahahaha!”
“Don’t worry, well throw in a hat along with your blue suit alright? And when we go back to Earth, you’ll have the same body you’re going to form, but just half as weak.”
“Going to Earth, huh? I’ve heard that there was a new slaughter somewhere in Syria haha!”
See? Shit’s crazy up there! Now we can rest up for a bit at my place.
“Good bye old man!”
3
And… times up!! Get the fuck up haha!! It’s been three days and three days too long for your ass to get up! The doc told me to give you a tiny extension of time to let you regain a body and strength. But I know that you’re gonna be badass enough to fuck some humans up! C’mon! Get your suit on and there’s the mirror in the corner with the paintings of the shit you can’t eat because in Utopia, we don’t need to eat, and with that, no famine or need to fight for morsels of food that humans would frantically scuffle for haha! And..as it looks in the mirror..it sees.. An extremely scratched, bruised, and mangled up face with fucked up hair haha!! Don’t worry about the beauty, it’s about all the fuckin power you get when you become my documentor! The doc said that this is an unusual case but aye, since I still can’t tell who or what the fuck you are, I’ll just call you Number Two, alright? No response no retaliation? Perfection. Now come on, we out this bitch! We are now headed to Death’s door, just 274 miles from here and our ticket to Earth. All we have to do is pop there and..there! I’m bomb as fuck aren’t I haha! All we have to do is go through and we should be at Elia’s place without interference..The doors are opening!! This always gets me ecstatic since the gigantic doors slowly creak open as if I was going into an epic arena or some badass shit haha!
See all that white, flashing light Number Two? That’s known as the Jumper’s Flash. All jumpers are insanely fast, but different gangs have tried to kill other jumpers because that’s the primary form of communication in the world between different international members. In fact, Elia is the most skilled jumper and is just one of six left in the world haha! Lucky us! It’s hard as fuck to catch them because there’s always this light guarding them but this is the only time to kill a jumper. I’ve killed three of them myself haha!! But that was only to earn the position of Death’s documentor.. I’m done with killing haha.. And we should be there in 3..2..1.. Aha! Huh..I don’t feel Death in my spirit anymore, and that power cut is coming in now too.. Shit! Aye wait, can you hear it? The music, the people, the drinks! Stand up! We’re in Mexico alright! The fucking vibe of freedom and wonder is here and now! Let’s party!
“No, you won’t.”
“The fuck?”
“So you’re just gonna use my light without my permission and act like you’re going to party? How stupid are you!”
“Damn, chill Elia, it’s just one use, and I brought a friend haha! Lighten up, you have one of the biggest mansions in Mexico and the best party going on downstairs!”
“Shut the fuck up, you have no sense of what you are doing and will kill you if you don’t fuck off right now!”
“Fine, fine, shit. Let’s go Number Two, we can find better parties”
Shit! I can’t even speed travel anymore! Fuck this shit let’s see what other aspects of people we can find right here. DId you see Elia’s face? It was rosy and she was tipsy. A drunk, angry Elia is a ticket back to Utopia. And those eyes.. Shit! Chicago can wait..there should be a lot of gangs right here. Not leaders, but powerful gang captains. We might even spot you a fight haha! That would be fun wouldn’t it?
It’s been about 30 years since I’ve been on Earth anyways so this’ll be great! I can’t wait to examine how people fight now haha! Let’s go to the ally. Shit always goes down in the dimmest alleyways. Don’t get your ass too beat because we have to find every gang still so lets slip through here and..we’re in. Did you get that burst of adrenaline just filling you up? Damn.. I wonder what it’s gonna take to get you to talk haha!! Alright..let’s just walk a little deeper. You know, there’s always an exquisite feeling when you can hear your own footsteps echo as you walk through the pitch-blackness of an ally in the middle of nowhere without Death’s annoying ass puns and the amazing aroma of..peppers..pork..spices..and that soupy smell! It’s pozole haha! I don’t eat food but whenever Elia brought some the taste was incredi-wait did you hear that..? Nah.. just 13 big ass rats going through. We’ve actually been walking for some time now where the fuck are we haha.. It’s been a whole 49 minutes and not a single human to beat! What is this! The times back home continuously stated that Mexico was not only a ginormous drug investor, but an acrimoniously violent country. The fuck! And just what the fuck is that rising ball of glimmering death! Fuck! The sun is so much hotter than when I last felt the light.. You humans really were hard at work to kill yourselves huh… Shit let’s get into this church. It should block the light of the day until I have the time to adjust to this updated shithole. Alright.. Let’s just break this window and… we’re in! Now don’t get shit confused, I’m associated with death, not the devil. Yall are lucky we document your stupid deaths because our 1,000 legislatures get to pick who gets to go to the big man, who’s done enough to stay at Utopia, and even who even go to the pitiful demon that can’t even organize his empire. And that’s why it continuously burns haha! An-wait.. This place isn’t really a church is it..? Oh! This is-
4
“Angel to the Poor! The wings of Glory! A name for the people that go through tribulations every single day of their incredible lives! If these are names we obligate and hopes to fulfill, then how do you perceive it were to look if even a trail of the enemy was to be discovered on our phenomenal planet!?”
“Excuse me mother, but I have extremely important business to attend to on Earth..and you should stop your perpetual monologuing..”
“Well then patently, you’re not listening as mother says… My dear Elia, Earth is not your home. Idyll is. The sooner you can understand that, the sooner you can stop donning whatever is on you and be one of us.”
“You’re the one that doesn’t understand mother, you threw me down to Earth just in time for me to be born with parents and then killed them off just so I could be your ‘perfect little angel’ but on a different world and an entire different life! A life as a jumper teaching and teaching others how to jump in light, just so you wouldn’t kill yourself over the stress!”
“Elia, please do acknowledge that I am the protector of life, of harmony, of every single-”
“That’s bullshit and you know it! You know exactly how one of you dies, and the guilt of you descending your only daughter down to Earth the way you did was just overwhelming you with stress. So now you think that getting me to do all this impossible shit like stopping death is going to relieve your burdens?!”
“I’ll have you escorted out immediately for your twice tongue, watchers!! And on your way out, I’ll say this: you realistically didn’t understand me, I do not detest the flow of death. It is a part in the cycle of life after all. But a manifestation of death itself came out of our building yesterday at the ball. Please see to it urgently and kill him off. Good-bye heiress.”
“Wait.. Wha!!-”
She slammed the doors.. Damn. Does she mean Nigel? I thought I sent him and his ragdoll back to Utopia.. Shit. Was I drunk? An agent of death tends to cause more death around it.. Causing even more misfortune in the world.. And even more stress on mother.. That actually doesn’t sound that bad.. Let me get out of here.. At least I can explore Idyll again before I get called back again. And there are the onlookers, looking off the edges and into ‘magical’ cards, trying to catch a glimpse into anything they’re not afraid of. Absurd. I will credit the aspect of death on one thing:their fearlessness. When people like my mother’s went down to Earth, they were expected to fear death since fear ruled all lands of a pitiful planet. Then, a couple thousand years later, Death’s new warlord, Vellayil Death, killed them all. Killed Aris, killed Aulus, and many more that were able to tame their fears and even be in control of their anxious emotions. But Ever since the monster killed the leaders of the fear family, Death took it upon itself to inherit the trait into his land, turning the tables onto normal humans and even Life. Because what I need to understand is… that as heiress to that horrendous crown is that when anyone from the Life family gets overburdened by stress, they perish. Anyone in my family that dies, just perishes.
Although the same goes for the death family, out throne fluctuates too often. Just 60 years ago was World War 2, causing our last leader, Giselle, to commit suicide. Additionally, even 20 years before that travesty, World War 1 caused the leader before, Marith, to kill herself also. Death’s leader was able to sit on his ebony throne for well over 500 years, while we barely get twenty years of highness. My family is consumed in fear and act like..they can live..long as…the dead. It’s…all just…falling apart. Everything’s just falling apart!!! Shit.. people are looking at a princess cry.. How pathetic.. I should go to the Doleful district, the diamond lake..y-yea… Where was it..again? Down the hill and through th-wait.. what’s with the fresh blood trails.. Oh no..fuck.. I have to go to one don’t I? Shit this is fucked up..and there’s one now!
“Hey!! Hey you! What do you think you’re doing?!”
“Oh please do excuse me heiress, I.. I just don’t want to live here anymore haha!”
“Why in the fuck is that funny?! You will perish to simple, worthless dust! And by your own, blooded nails!”
“Excuse me for correcting you heiress, but are but mere simple, worthless dust already, but just with a brain and heart to weigh us down from floating off as that dust- AHH!!”
No!!! What the fuck is going on!!! This has to be a joke, a dream. This is not happening to my family!! Please no!! I need to get to another person, and quick!! No, no, no, no, no..why can’t I fucking jump?! Hurry up..hurry! Alright..there she is! She’s not dead!
“Hey!!” Good, she sees me!!
“Hey there’s no need to worry! I’m..wait..there..was a blood trail.. What..who was this?!”
“H-Heir-”
“Did you hear me?! What did you do with whoever this was?!!”
“I-I..Heir..ess.”
“What!!”
“I..I..Blugh.”
“WHAT THE FUCK?? You ate your fucking friend?!?!”
“I..she..couldn’t take it.. Anymore…… And I..I was so hungry..”
“You.. You fucking monster!! You will be condemned and trialed for this!!”
I need to get the fuck out of here this shit’s insane!! There was two more fresh blood trails this way.. Perhaps they might be dead already.. Gotta go see! Fuck! And there’s one there!
“Hey!! He only seems to have blood from his mouth! Hopefully this one isn’t gone! Hey! Don’t worry, you’re going to be alright! Huh?! Oh gosh..Oh. Fuck! No!! Your-!”
Too late.. I wonder how long he was even able to live with his mouth slashed.. His head folded ba- fuck! I’m about to throw up!! Everyone..everything..is just..falling apart in front of me!! Ahhhh!!!!!!!!! Wait- there was one more person with a trail!! Hurry up! Oh.. Fuck! This is..not what I think it is right..? Diamonds…FUCK!!! It’s blood run-off!! This.. This is the diamond lake?! The legendary diamond lake of Idyll has turned into a bloody river?! Oh fuck!! I..I.. I have to go.. I can’t save them.. I can’t save my family. I-I have to leave. I have to go. I have.. I have nothing!!! I have nothing left! I have-
“Excuse me..”
“What the fuck do you want!!”
“Oh, please do excuse me heiress… But I was just wondering if you were going to use that diamond in your hand.. There’s barely any that are clean anymore..”
“AHHH!!!!!!”
5
….Hear something? Oh..haha.. Just boiling water. Y’know, the church people were really nice to let us stay and extremely largesse for people that praise a drug-lord. Did you know, in Utopia, we always had misconceptions about one thing and one thing only, and that’s religion cause lemme tell you man, there are only two sources of motivation:hope and fear. As soon as our Velle introduced fear, Death was outlandishly exuberant a couple thousand years ago. So it wasn’t our death that we acknowledge now, but a more ruthless, tyrannical Death that would just want to fucking kill, promoting a motivation for these meager humans to do something with their lives before they came to Utopia. But there was also our opposition: Life. They used to be extremely fucking religious people!
“Aye stop cursing!!”
“Shit, sorry!”
Anyways, Life had a sharp edge against death until we gained fear as a proponent against them. I think that someone in Life’s empire could just fall to Earth and be born again so they could promote the goodness of people haha! That’s why people always say that the tiny babies of the world birth to be naturally good-willed. Life always had something to hope for due to their religious practices. So just think of us as the sides to a coin. But now look at the world. Why are many seemingly negative gangs dominating the good? 500 years ago, the Lord Death we have now was the asshole documentor that decided to kill jumpers so that no news would get into Utopia or whatever the fuck they called it back then and-
“Aye! I have given you two extra chances and you wasted them! Get out!”
“Alright! Shit!”
Let’s go Number Two, the sun’s setting anyways and I feel much better over the last two days.
I think I hear..birds..and a beach! Let’s go! We’ll talk on the way! It should be…ehhhh about 30 miles away haha! It’ll build up our strength anyways. So. Back to my awesome ass monologue.. Oh yea! Death started just fucking slaughtering all the jumpers back then, I don’t know how many but it was just barely enough to stop the flow of messages to death. Then he got bored and just fucking died! Haha! The thing about these gangs is that the leader, especially for life and death, is the cornerstone that results in the pinnacle of success, or the brink of self-destruction. We’re lucky because we have a form of organization, when even low ass laborers can unionize to strike against me and Death, who would just offer them more entertainment with news from the world. I guess you could say that everyone runs off of the intoxication of happiness in a system. Well, ok then, don’t say it haha! Other gangs didn’t have the leadership or even the strength to carry on with their purpose. And that’s why we, Death, have absorbed the aspects of sadness, fear, anxiety, blasphemy, and so many fucking others! But even to some extremist terms, death can carry an aspect of even happiness for these humans. We have a fucking arsenal of aspects that all have their own captains hahaha! And me, as a documentor, getting to have all this power over all those sub-categories of people is fucking insane to think about! On the contrary.. we nor Life have active roles in the fight between different human aspects because evidently, we’re not human. In fact, I do believe the Mercy and Pride gang is constantly gaining strength because Magnolia and his split prove to be a last hope for a lot of positivity out there haha!!
Oh shit..did you feel that..? No? My stomach just squirmed.. Am I.. hungry? Shit! We’re gonna need some food.. And quick! Let’s get uhh.. Oh shit.. I’m starving!! Where the fuck did this come from?! Aye number Two, let’s..get outta here…Fuck! Wait..look there! Corn-corn stand!! Yes!!! Excuse me sir!!
“Huh?”
“Don’t you fucking move!! Elote! Elote puta!!”
“Aye fuck you!”
The fuck? Elia didn’t teach me enough fucking Spanish!
“I can speak English, fucking idiot.”
“Oh! That’s..Haha..awesome. I would like some corn, throw the chile, mayo, and cheese on that too!”
“No man, fuck you!”
“W-what! What the fuck is wrong with you.. I’m dying dude..!”
“Apologize and pay double! Puta!”
“Shit! You think I have money?! I’m broke as fuck and you want me to pay for some yellow seeds!!”
“Where the fuck did you get the fancy ass suit then mr. president.”
“Fuck you! I need my fucking corn!”
“Then pay the fuck up man.” Shit.. I’m gonna die haha..
“How bout this. I show you, a magic trick!”
“I’ve seen everyone of your tricks, black people can’t do fucking magic hahaha! Or swim!”
Alright fuck this. Number Two, and you.
“Aye! Get your hand off of- HUH!? WHAT THE FUCK!!!?”
“Alright, now look at your damn plastic watch old man.”
And you can look at them in the sky Number Two, before pollution covers them. Anyways, neat huh? Oh! There’s a shooting star! I wonder how human circumstances would affect this haha!
“You’re.. Crazy man! Don’t you ever hear the fucking legends?”
“What fucking legends?”
“If you fuck with time, you fuck yourself!”
“Shut up, you’re the one fucking with time, coming out at what…2 A.M. selling corn?? The fuck is up with you!?”
“It’s..for my family! Shut up!”
“Ahh..how cute! You should let us see your fa- shit! The freeze only lasts about 5 minutes.. And double fuck! Can I get that fucking corn!!”
“Whatever man, you’re crazy. Here..”
“Yes!! Thank you man! It’s..so good! Shit! Elia was not playin hahaha!”
“And now you owe me.”
“Fuck you mean I showed you the trick we’re fucking out. C’mon Number Two.”
“Wait! ..please! I need something urgent!”
“And just what the fuck would that be?”
“Your power..could you use it in a fi-”
“Fight! Fight? Yes! Fight is my fucking name old man! Where to?”
“Ok, take this fucking serious. There is a group of people constantly harassing my family for the money I owe them. The threats are getting worse every week and I need you to deal with them someway, somehow! Use your magic! Please!”
“Shit. You were all pissed at me a second ago and look how the tables have turned haha! Sure! I’ll beat their asses for you and maybe even a little mercy rubbed on me ha! Where are they?”
“Yes! They’re just down some alleyways I think! Get those fuckers!”
Awesome. C’mon Number Two, stop looking at the stars we finally have a fight! And down another pitch-black alley we go! Haha! Oh shit I just got the rush of adrenaline again! Hopefully someone did publish the right article back home haha! Alright Number Two! I see 2 of them already in the dark! I don’t think you have the eyes yet but they’re on top of these short buildings. That’s pretty smart. 2 people to jump out and surprise you in a narrow ass alley. Let’s go deeper and find more.. 2 is too weak… Alright! There we go! Up ahead is a whole lot of people! You would see them easily through the window right there if it was day.. Oh! And I hope the hour’s over so I can freeze time again. But that would be too easy huh.. We’ll see haha! And they still don’t see us even though I’m talking loud as fuck!! Come on out boys here’s your fight!!!
“Shit lets go!”
“Aye fuck yall!”
“Mierda esta perra!”
See?? Exciting! Now all we have to do is examine them and.. About 13 of them..knives..we should be good.. And in 3..2..1.. There’s one down already haha! Just a simple jab to the face gets to these guys! And 2..3.. C’mon Number Two, get in on this haha!
“Ahora, ahora!!”
Huh? ..Oh shit..! So.. That’s what a gunshot feels like! They’ve gotten stronger! Almost missed the feeling haha!! Hahahahahaa…
6
“Hey! Hey, hey, hey! Wake up!”
“I told you she was alive! She’s getting up haha!”
“Wha-what the fuck!!! What happened!! There’s blood..everywhere!!”
“How do you mean?”
“You do know..that I’m in a fucking puddle of blood right?!”
“Well of course, you caused it haha!”
“Huh?!” This is insane, this is insane, this is insane
“You were screaming so much..and gathered a crowd of people.. They also began freeing themselves when they saw you doing it.”
“No..no..noo! This isn’t happening! My arms?! Shit! And my fucking legs!!”
“Yes! It was quite the spectacle! People were crying of laughter and seemed happy for the first time! That’s what cowardly Mother should do!”
“No, no it’s not.. She’s quickly losing you guys, who are her subjects!” Who even are these people!
“Heiress, pick your head up..”
“Huhh- Oh shit! How-why, when.. Why would you do such a thing to yourself!!”
“Because I-”
“No! No one carves their eyes out like a fucking pumpkin!!”
“Listen! Look lower, this little girl is Miri-”
“Miri?!” Wait, Tate’s Miri?!
“Yes. Please let me finish heiress..” Fuck..! My mind is just..ugh!!!
“We know how you feel.. Confused, angry, sad, but we’re here to hopefully help you..”
“What do you mean ‘help.’ Everything seemed hopeless since the second I got on this place.”
“Even when you got in the big, shiny castle?”
“Yes. Miri. The queen is-wait.. You said Mother..earlier right? How do you know her name?”
“Heiress, let’s get out of here..me and Miri have a lot to explain..”
“Yea c’mon! It’ll be fun!”
“… And how old are you little Miri?!”
“Little Miri! Haha! Little Miri is 6, Heiress!”
“Holy shit..” She’s just one year older than Tates Miri, what the fuck?
“I there a problem, Heiress?”
“No..not yet anyways..fornication under consent of the king huh.. Or queen in this case.”
“My, you are extremely intelligent!”
“Let’s hurry up to your home.. I’m getting sick of seeing the diamond lake like this.. It’s sunk in blood..” Everything is just so fucked up! And where are these people even taking me? How can he know where he’s going!?
“When Little Miri heard the crowd laughing and crying, it was scary!!”
“Aww..don’t worry..your heiress..is here!”
“Heiresses..”
“Huh?? What..do you mean..and what’s even your name?”
“Oh haha.. My name is Aiden, the original… Heir to the throne. That’s..no way.. And that means..”
“Yuppers! I’m an heiress haha!!” Wait..what! What’s this all even mean?! “We’re at the spot..”
“What spot?!” There’s nothing here and it’s right by the giant hill.. Where even am I??!
“Relax and I’ll show you. But first, please step back!”
“Is that… Light..? In the palm of your hand..?!” Is that magic?!
“Yes, and please be silent.. The onlookers won’t hesitate to kill us.”
“Huh?? Aren’t the onlookers just explorers and guards looking down to Earth?”
“No silly!! Where have you been!”
“Let’s go!”
“Are they look-Woah! When did that happen?” When was there a giant hole in the ground! I would’ve noticed this…
“Come with me, Elia, we have to have a long talk..”
“Talky talks are exciting!! Haha!”
“These corridors.. They’re so..so fuc-”
“Amazingly awesome?! I made them haha!”
“Yea, and I helped shape them..they’re slanted, collapsing, and hard to get through, but we make it home right Miri?”
What is this place.. This makes no sense at all.. Idyll is a floating island. How in the world did they even get under it??
“Everyone that the Mother births gets a special ability of her choosing, didn’t you know?”
“Ability? No! What fucking ability, what’s mine!”
“It’s light silly Ellie!”
“What do you mean? And how do you know my name?!”
“You we’re screaming it outside.. It was that intense..”
“Oh.. Shit. Wouldn’t some want to kill me for being royalty?”
“Not really, you really motivated the people actually, even though everyone knows your face. Some died, and an onlooker caught some to be killed and thrown in the lake. The guards even thought that you were already deceased and left you alone with the other dead waiting to dissipate.”
“I..I escaped the perishing..”
“Indeed you did. And what Miri was talking about earlier. It’s our light that creates our source of power, the ability to manifest it to have a specific purpose.”
“Well.. I most commonly interact with light when I jump.”
“Jump?!! Jump?!?! Haha anyone can jump! I can even do it look!! Jump, jump, jump.”
“Ha..haha yes little Miri, but it’s just a little more complicated than that.. I jump through a wave of light and burst out at the other end as far as my eye can see!”
“It’s pleasant to see you cheering up after all those traumatic experiences, but by any chance did you jump to Idyll?”
“No. Why does that matter at all?”
“Jumpers in the past were able to make it all the way to Idyll with no problem, and if not, then how’d you get here?”
“Mother called me to the palace. When I was young she gave me the light to open a gate to Idyll but I’m always too busy to visit.. It’s really changed..”
“Honestly?”
“Yea.. The diamond lake is just blood, there’s blood all over the stone grounds, and the stench of the perishing bodies is hurting my nose..”
“What’d you see in the past?”
“Well, the onlookers showed me a stunningly beautiful diamond lake, it was sparkling so bright. And-and the grounds were clean along with the animals and the city. The city was simply wondrous! There was markets, and the smiling people, and-and Mother was smiling too!”
“Ohh.. Silly Ellie was dreaming!!”
“What..-”
“Well..not quite Miri, you may have forgotten or been forsaken before you got to see the golden streets of the city upon that hill..”
“Explain the lake then! And the grounds! They were spotless of blood!”
“Hmm.. Does the name Harold sound familiar to you?”
“Harold Life. Yes. He was the one that taught me how to jump when I was little! But he was in Sinaloa with me!”
“Yeppers, but what happened to the oldie?!”
“He uhh.. I don’t remember.. I think he had somewhere to go and just left once I got the jist of the technique..” Why does Harold even have anything to do with this..
“Now, I’m sure you know about the constant altering of queens in Idyll, and I’ll tell you what happened to Harold after we get something to eat.. I’m starving..haha..Miri?”
“On deck captain! There’s applie, orangie, breadie, and for Ellie, maybe would you like some cheese on macaroni?”
“Haha, where’d you learn how to make macaroni Miri??”
“I didn’t silly! I hear you say it a lot and it made the same sound as Ellie hahaha!”
“Wait-what’s going on? Little Miri can cook? And how could she make an orange or even bread down here??”
“Light! Silly Ellie!”
“Yep, Mother gave Miri the light of creation.”
“The light of creation?!?! The light..-”
“Yuppers! Miri is magically magic!! Haha!”
“You..you can create a bridge to Earth, or a monster to kill the onlookers! Or even a weapon to fight with! Aiden! You’re strong! What has been happening all this time!!”
“No!”
“Huh?” There’s so much to do with the power of creation what the fuck has this little fucking girl been doing!!
“Apple please, Miri. Look, Elia, we’re not looking to kill anyone.. Anyways.. Miri couldn’t do any of those things. First, when we were outcasted from the main city, the queen made sure to suppress our powers before having us thrown in the diamond swamp. Second, Miri didn’t have direct contact with those things you requested. For example, she may know what macaroni and cheese could look like from me describing it.. But the taste or smell can’t manifest if she didn’t, in some way experience it..”
“That’s.. Incredibile..” But…still she should be able to learn more.. What the fuck..
“Yuppers!! And here’s your macaroni Ellie!”
“Hmm.. It looks genuine.. But tastes like bread.. Haha! Oh! And Aiden, what’s your ability?”
“Boom! Bang! Pop!”
“Haha Miri, stop it… It’s the light of destruction.”
“Wow.. It’s a shame you refuse to kill.” He would single handedly be able to destroy all of Idyll, and maybe Utopia..
“Well, if it’s justice, then I would be willing to. But then again, there’s a just cause for destroying everything!”
“The responsibility.. For you both is tremendous..-”
“Yup! And, and Aiden, tell her what we did! To get out the lake!”
“Oh, are you sure about that one?”
“Yes!!”
“Huh? Oh yea, you were thrown inside the lake from the hill right? How’d you guys even survive in the blood-if there even was any..”
“You still don’t believe me huh.. Harold was given the light of illusion.. He was tricking you. Probably by order of Mother.”
“Well that doesn’t make any sense. Harold can’t have the gift of a jumper and illusions..”
“Harold worked under a much more fearless queen. But with the fearlessness came a tyrant. She would even kill the older children of the former queen that killed herself at the start of World War 1 because Life thought they were too weak.”
“Harold was Life’s first born then..”
“Only born. She believed that he was the only son she needed and sent him to Earth, being already mastered the ability to jump at the age of 10.. In the midst of the great war.”
“That’s insane.. Was the queen not stressed?” She had a fucking kid but didn’t even seem to care for her only son..
“She wasn’t actually.. She actually spared her resources for everyone in the land. Even though our population was quickly increasing and even land could’ve came into question, the queen briskly asked what Harold was experiencing on Earth. That was a genius decision..”
“Well what happened?!” Why does Aiden seem to be stalling..?
“Tradition says that that the diamond lake is created and replenished whenever God himself grieves.. So the queen didn’t hesitate to break the tradition to keep the land holy in solidarity, and sent Harold with so many diamonds to Earth and was able to make fortunes from Earth for everyone in the city upon the hill. It was immediately distributed for the poor and everyone enjoyed stability in Idyll for a whole year.”
“A year?! That’s all!?!” All that fearlessness and and that generosity for just a fucking year of health..
“Well..you probably have heard that her highness committed to suicide the when the second world war started?”
“Yes, of course. It’s a legendary story about how Mother set her on fire and she jumped off the island altogether!” It’s actually one of Mother’s favorite, most annoying story taught to kids everywhere..
“It’s false.”
“What do you mean?!”
“Harold worked close to someone named Hindenburg. He would always come home with great stories and tell it to everyone he gathered in the main city. He would even tell children from the poorer districts and tell them the tales of war.”
“He seemed extremely noble, but how does that relate to the former queen??” What’s up with the pauses..
“When the second war came, Hindenburg had already passed away and there was a tyrant in Germany instead… The queen learned about the new figure and told Harold to jump her to the battlefield in support of any hurt soldier. Then told the master jumper to stay home to advise the new queen.”
“Then came Mother into power…” But if someone as awesome as Harold advised her, she shouldn’t be so dense..
“Yes..but some say that the former queen is still alive out there! On Earth!”
“Huh.. Mother gave Harold the light of illusion as another hopeful solution to the stress she was suffering from…” What a cowardly decision..
“Exactly. However, Mother doesn’t have any idea how to command a nation, and didn’t listen to Harold.. She, after all, was just a poor, uneducated girl that just stole the queen’s seat over a beauty contest. Our family was utterly lost after the former queen left.. So they created the story of her suicide to bring shame to her name. But now, it’s even worse. Mother’s jumpers bring different people to Idyll to hopefully find a solid solution to the stress. First, it was by tricking people into happiness with illusions, then destruction with my birth, later by having a Jumper after Harold died, which was you-”
“Wait, but I saw Harold, I saw him. How’d he die..?” He was in Sinaloa! He taught me and I was able to hug him! What is this..
“News doesn’t get to Idyll very often because Mother is excruciatingly selfish with her jumpers, wanting just for them to bring people to conference with her. The onlookers are also extremely reserved with their visions of Earth. But when news does manage to get back. It’s true.. So true..”
“So?! What happened!!”
“It was an unknown being.. Onlookers said it was able to apparently just somehow magically stop time and Harold wasn’t even fast enough to get away from that… He was cut down.”
“Stop..time. That’s.. Familiar.” Didn’t I..feel it before?!
“And why were you two thrown out? Doesn’t mother know that the more children she has, the weaker her distributed powers would be? Why would she throw out 2 powerful children?”
“Yes.. I think it’s just to relieve the extreme amount of stress on her already..”
“Wow…” This is seriously going to rest on my weak ass shoulders when Mother perishes?!
“And she threw us out because..well.. I wasn’t born with good enough eyes for her..not wide or gold enough..and I was later thrown off the hill.. The only reason I survived the diamonds in the lake was because I began panicking and destroyed them with all my might to swim out all the blood that was accumulating… I.. felt awful about my eyes and gouged them out… Now I need to focus on my familiarity with the land to travel or on Miri to look for specific things, helping me.”
“That’s… awful.. And what about little Miri-oh, she fell asleep.”
“She.. she had so much knowledge..too much for Mother. She thought it was a birth defect and got her thrown out after her first month I think. The collision between her and the diamonds in the lake made her only only able to think to a certain capacity… She hasn’t changed her childish way of talking ever since I destroyed the diamonds to find her in the lake.”
“What a shame.. Both of you were limited just by the qualities that would’ve made you overwhelmingly powerful.. You can’t see what you destroy, and she can barely think of all the amazing things she can create.” How unlucky is it to be…damn..
”Yes..and it’s worse that Mother has even gone so far as to invite Death into her home..”
“Wait-what?!” What the fuck is Death doing in Idyll?! His lazy ass barely even gets out his room!
“It wasn’t even a month ago when Miri told me about a large figure, donning the black, withered cowl, and dark, ragged sheets covering it. The monster even had the legendary scythe that Death is known for!”
“Oh..haha. That definitely wasn’t Death..” Death takes a shit ton of pride in his tuxedo.. There’s no way he would give it up for some fucking cowl..
“How do you mean?”
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“So you were willing to use our powers, passed down for generations, to build a light gate to Death?!”
“Yes… Nigel helped me set it up with other gates to other parts of Earth. The technology they have is far more impressive than Idyll’s!”
“Breaking tradition and connecting life to death..”
“What do you think?” It’s fucking crazy but it seemed to be the only way to be an insider against Death..
“It’s..phenomenally idiotic..haha!”
“You don’t disapprove? Haha!”
“Look, when Miri created this tunnel to live in, the traditions from the hill don’t even affect us much anymore! When you’re part of all the people struggling to survive on this wretched island, you remember that traditions are just old rules and some aren’t even following.”
“Yes! Haha! We should use technology too and..and get the-”
“Technology?”
“Yea!! Machines and other practically useful things!”
“There is technology..all over Idyll..Elia.. It’s what’s driving us insane.”
“What?! I thought Idyll was just ancient! What do we have?”
“The onlookers… They are all mechanized. They just use detectors to determine what’s around them. Awfully similar looking to us though.. Onlookers are Mother’s guard but they drive fear into people. Also.. There’s a machine near the entire diamond lake that grinds anything shiny into a diamond shape and pushing them in. Onlookers power the machine and Miri said ‘the lookies are digging!’ And we searched around the machine and the jewelries are just stones that onlookers took from the dead.”
“So the tale about God’s tears..-”
“False.. I should’ve told you earlier. The former queen used her resources extremely wisely. “
“But wait..if Mother knew about all the technology, then why didn’t she use it to help the dying?” Idyll is so advanced all ready?? What’s even going on! How did I never know.
“Well, Earth is already a huge burden on Mother and even wanted to push for the extinction of anyone not on top of the shining hill..”
“What?! The population on the hill is not that large! Most the people of Idyll live down here and just kill themselves! Does she not care about us!? “No. She does not..and she threw Miri out at such a young age.. Mother is losing her own sanity and has been ever since she became queen it’s just worsening.”
“But wait.. If mother wanted you guys thrown out.. Why didn’t she just end us right there?”
“The onlookers are mechanized, not mechanical. They still have an intelligence and didn’t want Mother’s children to just die like that..”
“Well what about when they see everyone dying down here? Is there a protection for common people?”
“Not at all.. The citizens here are seen as pieces of trash that just fill the lake with blood..”
“That makes no sense! And she’s the queen! There are subjects to rule over and all the real living is happening on the hill?! Fucking stupid!”
“Please calm down..we’re lucky to be alive right now..and you we’re meant to be trapped here from the start also..”
“What?! Mother threw me down to Earth!”
“You would’ve easily died.. Mother says that because she wants to be partially responsible for her first daughter.”
“And you know this How?!?”
“I..sent for Harold when you were extremely youthful..to save you and bring you to Earth and train you to jump while I was still upon the overprivileged hill.”
“So..you saved me but displaced me from a home..” So everyone just loves lying to me now.. What’s going on!!
“Please understand, Elia, Mother was going to throw you out… Before you were born, Mother had a baby in between the time you and I were born. He was to be given the light of reparation to repair the growing tensions between the people upon the hill and those on the bottom. And as you can guess, it was a disaster. The baby came out deformed.. It had haunting, black eyes with a scar across his entire back. Mother saw it as a sign of a demon invading her son and threw the poor thing out.”
“Wait..you knew the different abilities Mother distributed, then what did she give me! I can’t just be a jumper..” Maybe I was able to inherit an amazing ability like them!!
“Well, you were given the light of homage I believe-”
“Aiden that doesn’t make any sense! What’s that even supposed to mean! I don’t gain respect from anyone here or on Earth!! That’s not an ability of light that’s fucking pointless!!!!!” I’ve never received homage in my entire life what kind of fucking lie is this?!
“Ahh?”
“Oh..sorry Miri.. “
“Sorry for whatsies Ellie?”
“Nothing.. I just woke you haha..”
“Anyways, Elia, whether you appreciate your gift or not, focusing on your jumping ability would be best for you at this time.”
“Yea..maybe.. I need to get back to Earth to stop Nigel and I’m not sure if Mother would send me back since I’ve come here..but I can’t jump in Idyll I don’t know why..”
“That’s strange..has Mother suppressed your powers also?”
“How is it even done? Why the fuck does she have control over our powers..
“I believe she has different code words for whatever she does with her victims. If I remember correctly..she says something about an angel’s wings.. And our powers were suppressed just like that.”
“An angel… of the poor right?!” My power.. is fucking gone?!
“Perhaps.. It’s hard to remember..”
“And and and the wings of glory!! Haha!”
“Little Miri, you seem to know so much!”
“Of course silly Ellie, I’m not stupid!!” Such a poor thing… “Why do you have that weird look on your face Ellie!”
“No reason.. Haha..”
“Anyways.. Your powers are suppressed..not vanished. Calm down. You will, however, need to train extremely hard to regain a fraction of what you just lost.”
“Aiden, how would I ever improve my jumping if I couldn’t even gather a hint of light while I was out there! This is hopeless.. And I need to get back to Earth, deal with Nigel, then come back and deal with Mother. What the fuck! Two overwhelmingly painful things..”
“Nigel, Nigel, Nigel, pie gel! Haha!”
“Well, not exactly little Miri, he spells Nigel but says it like ‘Nigil..’”
“Eww! Haha! Nigel, pie gil!”
“Yup. Just like that haha..”
“Focus.. Miri, you want to come with us?” Huh? “We’re going to take off and find Orion.”
“Yessir! Orion the onion! Let’s goo!” Orion?!?
“Wait-Aiden. Was Orion not banished from here? He had major war crimes! He killed his own and never shared! He-He’s a fucking monster!!!”
“Calm down, Elia. He’s one of the last blessed generals that have been exiled from the castle. Orion’s light is hidden by us so we could someday rally against those on the hill together. He’s our main fighting hope in all of this nonsense!!”
“I refuse to work with someone that has killed a multitude of his own soldiers over his drunken rage! And why would you want to overtake Mother by force! We’re all family here and this is only tearing us apart!! Can’t you see? This is-”
“Stupid Ellie!!!”
“Huh?!” Was that really Miri just now..?
“Giant Onion is part of our family too! He works super duper hard everyday to stop lookies from coming after us and even saved us before when Mother was finding people to throw into the lake! Onion saved the Doleful District so many times while the other lands are being ruined by the kingdom!”
“Miri…” I can’t believe she just.. Supported an extremist..
“It’s true.. Orion has done radical things in the past.. But he now holds and protects the only known surface village in Idyll that is not atop the massive hill.. And he is supporting everyone down here. Whether you like it or not.. Orion actually has an excess of manifested light we could get you to train with..”
“Well if that’s the case.. Why didn’t you just get enough light to destroy the hill?” And what’s with surface villages.. That doesn’t even sound right..
“The manifestation of light is immensely rare and Orion needs to ration it out to power his own onlookers. I’ve used my ration for the year destroying holes for the people to have homes.” Fair enough…
“Onion even has his own lookies!!” Huh..?
“That’s right.. Orion has taken onlookers that supplied the jewelry for the diamond lake and changed their hearts.. And that’s also why barely any diamonds are visible above the blood..” Changed their.. Hearts?
“C’mon Ellie! It’ll be fun!!”
“A-alright..” I guess I’m helping a war criminal now.. I’m way far off haha..
“Good… Let me just destroy some walls so we can get to the main underground village..-” “Boom!!” So much dust…
“Stop coughing and look Silly Ellie!!” Holy shit..
“There’s.. A whole world here!! Ha..haha!!” Who would’ve thought that an illuminated place like this could exist underneath the bloody grounds..! And in the distance there are so many other catacombs!! But.. there is still blood flowing in the stone ground..
“I tried my best to destroy a haven for these people and Miri has created the houses and lights you see thanks to Orion’s manifestation ability. But we don’t have time at the moment. I think Orion might be back from a hunt right now..”
“How would you know that?”
“Well.. Do you hear that perpetual shouting?” No.. I don’t..
“Don’t worry! Little Miri can’t hear it either! No need to be lost haha! Aiden has super good ears!” Might be because he’s blind..
“…Wait.. I hear something now.. But that’s not shouting.. More like vibrations…”
“Silly Ellie haha!! That’s light!”
“That makes no sense! Light doesn’t make sound Miri”
“No, but lasers can.” Lasers.. “It’s his call. Orion can narrow his light into a laser and enable people to actually hear the vibrations caused by the light. He must be selling right now.. But we’re too poor and have nothing to offer right now, though, you can get a ration for being Mother’s daughter.”
“Yess! We’re all family haha!” How is Orion this powerful..
“The shouting is from his patrol. Orion is just making a quick visit here to ration out a bit more light…”
“And there he is!! Onion!! Hahahahaha!”
Holy shit.. It’s him.. The monster of Idyll.
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“I’d recognize that voice anywhere!! Where’s Miri?!”
“I’m right here you fat Onion!!” How could they be so happy together…
“Glad you’re back Orion. We’ve been expecting you..”
“Ahh.. Aiden, it’s wonderful to see you again haha!! And who’s your friend!”
“That’s Silly Ellie!! She wants a new friend and that’s you haha!” Way off Miri..
“Oh my.. Well then what’s with the angry face Ellie! I’m seeking out more friends too! In fact, I-”
“I don’t need your friendship. Monster. I need the light to get to Earth!”
“Ellie! Play nice! He’s our brother!” Huh?!
“Brother..?” Brother?! Who the fuck!
“Oh yea! I forgot to tell you Elia, Orion was Mother’s third born. To a man named Schooler, the head of some other family.” How many fucking kids did she have!!!
“And she is..?”
“Elia is Mother’s daughter.. A jumper and has the light of homage.”
“Homage huh.. Interesting haha!”
“Alright so just give me some of your light so I can jump back to Earth!!”
“Not so fast Elia.. You’ve been disrespectful. I won’t just give you a free ration.. How about a fight. If you beat me, you can get all the manifested light I have in that cart right there! But if you lose, then you’re going to give me all the light you have left haha!!”
“I’m not fucking stupid thank you. I’m not fighting someone that can manifest light and inherits the will of wrath..”
“Then respect the only hope you have to stand up to mother! Idiot!”
“Calm down you two.. Orion, you have to train her to jump further.. She’s your sister and you have to respect her too!”
“Aiden, this sort of light isn’t cheap. I could give it to you since I know you’re using it for good. I have no idea what she’s planning to do.”
“Well haven’t you already done numerous drastic things against the kingdom already?? You killed so many along with so many of your very own men!”
“Necessary sacrifice. Don’t come here talking about something you have no idea about. I can kill you right now and you can just perish, leaving us to have the light of a jumper and the light of homage- whatever that even is.”
“Shut up! You have no idea how much you destroyed on Idyll and you know you don’t belong here! Even your eyes are red and you’re double someone’s height! You’ve always made Mother angry when we were younger! I don’t know why she didn’t throw you out right away! You killed Father and just ran.. Ran away to go on killing sprees!!!”
“Oh shut the fuck up.. You’re lucky you’re my sister.. Aiden, take these.. It’s for you and Miri. I’m too busy for this shit. I have an island to save and don’t have the time to be bickering with someone blinded by ignorance… Maybe we could meet again at a better time… Goodbye everyone.”
“And just like that.. He’s gone..” I don’t give a fuck..
“Oh stupid Ellie! Why’d you have to drive Onion away!?!”
“Did he just call me ignorant…” He just called me ignorant. The man that killed the father I never got to meet just called me ignorant! The next time I see the fucker I will-
“Elia! What are you doing!” Huh?
“Wha-what do you mean..”
“Ellie’s eyes were glowy!!” What..
“We have our light.. Let’s get back before people see this again.. Come on Miri.” Why would we leave the only lit town in the entirety of Idyll..?
“On it! I’ll make the walls as we pass.”
“Why would.. You take me away..?”
“I thought it was strange but didn’t think much of it at first.. Your eyes were shining when you rallied up a group of citizens.. I wouldn’t want people in the town to do the same as earlier and perish so quickly..” Oh.. I’ve never heard of my eyes…glowing..
It’s always been stated. The roar of thunder, the blaze of a flame, to even the spark off a candle. Light never diminishes. On Earth, humans say that it’s life that keeps them going, but it’s really the light in their newly, seemingly meaningless lives after a bit. Just a couple of years and humans get to realize that they’re going to die. With all their disgusting qualities, they decide to strive on with whatever light they have left with all their struggles and get closer to a haven. Even onlookers can see that any ideal haven is simply impossible due to all the flaws humans have. It just sucks that I was caught up in the whole human ideal due to me being sent down to Earth.. But as it shines now.. My light.. Wait… What’s going on…
“Hey!! That’s my light! What the fuck are you doing Aiden!!” He’s.. stealing it..?!
“Relax..Elia..”
“Sorry Silly Ellie! Mommy’s orders! Haha!!” Miri?!
“What are you doing to me?! The light’s all manifesting! Aiden stop this!!” That light.. It’s too bright to see.. Fuck.
I can’t even open my eyes. They burn, knowing that the tremendous luminescence is right in front of me, continuously flowing through me. Maybe I was granted a power? No. Miri and Aiden did something… Mother led them to do this..? How would they know about me.. Didn’t I wander to that lake? This is all so fucked up.. The speed of all this power is insane.. I can’t even think straight and I think I’m moving back to Earth actually.. I’m descending. But if they were working with mother, then why didn’t they just kill me? What the fuck is all this..
9
Situation? Shit’s pitch black. Time? Unknown.. Circumstance? No fuckin clue. Y’know, those three questions were always really weird.. Though i learned them during wartime, I couldn’t seem to connect the three. Why does the question of time automatically switch to the question of circumstance like that? Haha fuck it.. I don’t have time for over convoluting shit again.. Especially in this situation… And where’s Number Two. Everything just seemingly blacked out at the ally. I could be in a fucking crate being shipped to fucking Antarctica or some shit! Haha!! Now let’s see..
“Number Two?! Where the fuck are you!” That rhymes.. Haha!
No answer huh.. How many years has it been. No. Not even years. Time no longer impacts me to such a humanic level Even after all the wars I’ve fought in. Time has just seem to freeze with each passing friend I earn and lose. Now that I think of it.. Was-
“Nope. Wasn’t real at all..” Shit.. Not again! You’re just the voice that keeps coming back huh!
“Don’t blame me. I’m just your thoughts of your loneliness, your idiocy, your confusion over all these years. Your little friend is dead-or never had a mind in the beginning. But at least you were powerful enough to direct a mutilated corpse around and think of i as a ‘friend.’ And to be honest.. Number Two is an awfully sickening name. Can you not honor any of your corpse friends with any real naming scheme Nigil?”
I can remember a conversation like this before.. But I can’t account for it like I normally can for just about everything else! Who the fuck are you and why can’t I ever see you when I hear your voice?!
“Over all these years.. Come now Nigil. But this time I’ll give myself a name alright? Call me Indi. And you should truly deal with your sarcastic narcissism. It makes me cringe knowing that you are, inside, just a confused being of death, coming to the surface once again just to have a sense of fun and passing time as your lord keeps trying at. What you’ll understand is that the balance of power between life and death is just a system humans manipulate for their own fun. And I am the entity that truly indulges in watching this world burn. Not you, Nigil. Your power to freeze time can last an eternity. You know you don’t want that and Death itself gave you this power, knowing that it’s a guilt, a shame to see you have so much power but know you won’t change anything with it. It’s the same with Mercy. It’s the same with your sister. It’s the same with your old self and everyone else with power. You know this and yet refuse to acknowledge such weakness…”
Shut the fuck up! Indi huh.. If you’re a manifestation of my thoughts.. Then I would never think of a shitty name like that! It’s you that doesn’t understand my strategies. These humans are puppets on my fucking strings!! They die for me! They fear me! I still have bullets in me.. Haha. I’m not dead Indi! I just need to.. Find a way out of this dark ass place.. Then I’ll rule this fucking world.. And then eventually Utopia.. Shit.. tryna to mention my sister too. Fuck you..
I just need to dig out of this..place.. A seeming grave? At least those fuckers had the compassion to dig me a grave haha! But I guess Number Two is gone now and I’m alone..again. Haha!
“And yet there’s a reason Death cut off connection with you after you left Utopia..”
No..Shut the fuck up Indi.. I’ll find a gang.. Find an army.. A killer, a-
“An actual friend?”
Hah.. You are pretty smart Indi, I’ll give you it..
“I’m just the anxiety within your lost world.. But I do know where you will remember a friend.. She resides in Sweden, as a doctor.”
Well can I get a fucking name?
“People call her Mother Shine.”
Weird fucking name.. Hope she can speak some English.. But I’ll check out what Mercy is into at the moment. Business is priority and it’ll be fun to see that fucking dragon! Believe me Indi, my time stop will be good for slaying the most powerful monster I’ve ever seen! Hahaha!
“Oh you will know…And don’t treat me like I didn’t see the beast. You put me in with the eyes of your former corpse ‘friend.’ And just to speak to you directly. That wasn’t real. Your imagination runs wild Nigil.”
Oh? Then why the fuck did we see all those soldiers die at the claws of the dragon in the instant? Huh? Tell me why their fresh screams and insane cries weren’t real. Utopia has the best technology in all three of these worlds, yet I saw a fucking lie?! Shut up. I know what I see Indi.
“It’s the scale, Nigil. Mercy is famous for not killing. Especially those that he has the power to so easily kill. It’s been passed down through generations of the Mercy and you’ve lived to witness your third generation right now in the works. How could you not remember.. Mercy is named mercy for a reason. If he so savagely killed a small army, would he not tip in his scale towards the Wrath. There are few differences between the power of the two. The only difference comes in the utilization of that extreme power.”
Ahh shut up Indi.. You and I both know that at the end of the day.. Schooler doesn’t stand a fucking chance against Magnolia. Even if Schooler’s daughter manages to somehow defeat all other opposition and our Bluer for the lead position of the gang, she wouldn’t have the technology to break the merciful.
“Agreed. But a major threat has been rising.” Must be talking about the fucking glut..
“Yes. She’s the real beast you have to worry about. I doubt freezing time will freeze her thirst for blood. It is hard to think that that thing, along with mercy, came from the same place.”
From The Wolves… “Exactly.”
Alright.. I’m finally out.. The surface does feel good.. Even if the sun burns a bit. I’ve gotten used to it.
“Situation?” Free.
“Time?” Seems like noon.
“Circumstance?” The search for the mercy gang begins.
10
..Where.. Where am I..? There’s just..ice. It’s everywhere. But I’m not cold.. The heat from the light is keeping me warm.. But my hair’s all frizzy. Great. At least it’s going to be warm. Have to find someone. Anyone. I guess I should consider myself lucky that it’s not snow storming now? The sun is shining..but shit.. Mother and everyone..traitors? Fuck! The fact that they’re part of my family.. No. It’s the fact that they represent the family of life.. This is not what we were envisioned to be! I should just stick with bullshitting Death and Nigil.. But I’m in too deep with other families.. I’m their supposedly shining piece of hope. In an age where every family just seems to be suffering huh.. Haha.. This is like when – Shit!
What was that! That’s light?! Like a shooting star! It’s a jumper..coming around here?! There’s no way that that jumper didn’t notice me!
“Hey!” Jumping right to that person could be a danger though.. I’ll have to – carefully.. Just jump to that light.. And there’s a.. A fort! Haha! Err.. A fortress? What an elegant ceiling though.. It’s a bit cold for a chandelier roof isn’t it? Haha..
Lemme get a bit closer.. Haha.. Oh shit!!! Those aren’t just shines! Those are -! Fuck! Snipers!?! Oh fuck! OH fuck!! One already hit my leg?! This…..
“Her!! Her!!!” Heyy..
“tage hende i!!” Hel- “Help?”
“Hjælp? du er en joke haha!” Wha….
Wha..what. Where am I..? This room.. It’s so..pretty! The roses on the shelves.. The blue and purple banners hanging from the high ceiling=My leg=it’s… banaged?
“Min..” Who.. Is that.. Where’d she come from? She’s..naked but she’s so.. Beautiful! .. Her blonde curls fall in perfectly..and her body is so nice and slim.. Like many of the prettiest women in Idyll! Yet her muscles are huge.. Her abs are even more defined than mine! But why..does she keep circling the bed though..
“Min…mmm..” She’s..licking my arm..? Ah-! Shit.. I..shouldn’t..let her.. Fuck..is this a dream..? It feels so good though….ahhh…now the other arm..fuck… and my stomach….. Now she’s..sitting on me.. Oh,, those eyes.. Those bright blue eyes!!
“NO!! Get off me!” Fucking..blue eyes..
“Ahh.. English? My..what resistance you do have.” Who the fuck..
“Who the fuck do you think you a-” The fuck?! She wants to just close my mouth all calm about it?!
“My name is Saxi oh beauty..”
“Huh..?”
“You have a dark complexion and lovely, curly hair. They were just too much haha.. Couldn’t hold back my desires..” What a freak..
“My hair was-” Washed? “How long have I been here?!” My hair takes forever to come down!
“My, not long honey..just a few days..I have had more than enough time to wash you and bandage you. Sorry if my soldiers have hurt you badly darling..”
“Uh-huh…can..you get off of me now..?” She probably already raped me in my fucking sleep dammit..
“My..such aggression hmm?” Oh you’re one to fucking speak! Well..at least your putting some clothes on finally..
“Ahh.. Actually you’re really light-you sat on a bullet wound in my thigh?!”
“Darling, you are so strong you didn’t even feel it! Haha! Come. I’ll carry you on my back! I’ll show you around my home.” Home? This place is much bigger and much too guarded to be a simple fucking home…
“Well.. I do have to pay you back for helping me?” Wait- I did not just say that did I..?
“Yes! Come. I’ll just put you down if you are hurt..but I would have rather preferred the sex..haha..” This freak!! “By the way… how did you resist me? Usually I can seduce anyone I want-man or woman.” Huh..? That’s..
“Your eyes.. Blue eyes are hated where I’m from..” Idyll tells of the blue eye’d beast and so many tales tales about enemies with the eyes.. I guess they just caught my fears.
“My..people often propose them as my famous feature.. But you have eyes that are golden! Something to truly..want…. So where are you from? How did you get here lovely?”
“I-I’m not sure.. I-wait! You just tried to rape me! Why should I tell you shit!” I shouldn’t tell her about Idyll either..
“Well..you are in my home…and I do get what I want.” Huh..what a change in tone..she was just cheery a minute ago..
“Uh-yea. Uhm. I fell from- I.. It was warm. There was light-” Shit..
“Hahaaa..you are a sweet little girl!!” The anger in her eyes.. Is gone..? Wait-
“Excuse me..Saxi was it..?”
“Yes my sweet. What is it?” A little bright of a smile for someone that just seemingly threatened me..She’s crazy
“You’ve been carrying me..but not moving..Don’t you want to bring me somewhere..or something..?” And are you not tired?!
“My..forgive me! Haha! I’ve just been thinking. Let’s go.. I will bring you to the banquet hall..how does something to eat sound?” Awfully hospitable for a rapist..ha..but I am starving..Miri’s food doesn’t fill very well at all!
“Yes..please..”
“Haha..while you were resting, you were so hungry..you have been eating in your sleep!” Maybe she’s not so bad afterall haha..
“Haha..well..”
“Like a child calling for its mother! Hahaha..” Well..
“Alright.. We just have to go down this main hall and all the way down is the banquet hall! I’m sure the three wounds you have should need a lot of energy to heal?” Three..?
“I looked around my body..there’s only two, I’m sure..”
“Well, you cannot look see behind your head now can you hahaha!” Don’t fucking laugh at that?!
“How did i survive that shot then?! There’s no way-”
“Yes. When we saw you closer, the bullet didn’t graze you. It was a direct hit. But, somehow, only the very edge of the bullet hit the back of your head! You are very lucky to have survive such a shot! But you were still bleeding horribly from the wound..” One in my right thigh, one in my left leg, and one..in the back of my head..
“Wow..your soldiers are really good shots!”
“Darling, look up. The banners of this main hall, though they are very pretty, yes, they symbolize our will to fight. This is our main base and choose to stay here in our own home until we get attacked-which has not happened in a long time! That’s why we are the attackers..haha! The blue on that banner represents the Atlantic and Arctic oceans around us.. The purple polar bear in the middle is our fierceness, holding up its left paw for its fruit..in the color of royalty… You happen to be on the back of the queen! Haha!” Wow.. But she only described one.. There’s so many others! And…she stopped again..
“Saxi..you’ve stopped.” What’s wrong with her?
“My! Haha..let’s continue to the hall..” What a strange..disability?
“Alle, kommer ud! Forberede masser af mad!! And Greeley! Come with me!!” Who? People seem to laugh at the name..
“My, Greeley is being picked on again haha!” How can she be the queen of this castle with such a motherly attitude..?
“Why do they laugh..?”
“Greeley is just seen as my personal pet, but only the snipers know. He’s a shooter. Similar to you actually..” A wha…
“I’m not a shooter Saxi, I’ve never even held a gun.”
“My..you are a silly one haha! Shooters are those who can use the light for their travels. He’s an extremely quick man. But others would best stay out of his way. Greeley is my personal messenger and assassin. Yes. Here at fort begær, we will be the most powerful of all on the scale-. My, forgive me, I have never had your name!” Her eyes..changed for a second..just like when she was angry earlier. But then they reverted I do should not make her mad! But I’m pretty sure she’s talking about jumpers..and she’s on the scale? What family though.. Maybe kindness? She did just try to rape me though..
“Oh-my name is Elia..and what you’re talking about is a jumper. It’s impressive that you were still able to get me while I was jumping to avoid the snipers haha…” Everyone in the hall..and in the upper levels..just staring at me.. Damn am I famous or something..?
“But of course.. We always train. Preparing for the day we end the Schooler legacy! And we are here! Haha! What a lovely hall huh? And food is still being prepared so take a seat darling.” Schooler.. Just Schooler? Unless she’s that strong, she’s left out other families on the blood scale…
“Let us sit. We will have a great time. The food is good. The people will appreciate their new friend from the outside! Other are already waiting to see the new visitor haha- Alle sammen! Vi har været velsignet med en ny ven! Lad os spise for at fejre Elia!” There’s..so many people..haha. There must be a thousand at least. They mobilize so fast! Are they willing to be my friends?
“My, Elia. Where do you come from?” From? Idyll or Mexico?
“Mexico!” Shit! Why’d her eyes change for a split second there?! Those around us also looked at me with fear..now they’re just staring..
“Og selvom hun kommer fra langt, vi ikke nægte en ven-selvom hun er fra Mexico, delstaten død!” They’re laughing and eating again..how fortunate..haha. That man might’ve saved me..
“Greeley! Haha! Come. This is Elia, another shooter! You two can talk. I will eat haha!” He can speak english..?
“Yes, I can haha.. You don’t have to look at me like that!” He can read my mind?!
“And another look.. No, I cannot read your mind haha…your eyes just say a lot.” Smart ass huh..
“Now don’t look at me like that! You’re our friend! I’m Greeley, the queen’s..joker.” What a cover up for a jumping assassin. But I’ll play along.
“Oh..you already know who I am huh..haha! Saxi talks too much!” How-did he know.. “That was just too wide of a smirk to be innocent. Elia..keep a more composed face next time and you’ll get me I’m sure haha!’
“Well there’s no choice in trying haha..let’s eat!” This place..the atmosphere.. The nice glaces..the hospitality. It already feels like a nice home…
11
“And a toast to that! Hahaha!” Luster Taylor plays. He plays with the high position he should be really training for. A fucking idiot.
“Hey let’s not forget about me guys! I hacked the camera hahaha!” Abel. He talks through a computer software and should be being watched by his government. Is he not hacked by other computer geniuses also? What the fuck.
“Right! Every one of us is gonna kick Tate’s ass! Haha!!” And then there’s my fucking split.. Pathetic. A motivational speaker but a fucking kid.. In fact, I have no fucking clue how he managed to train both of us. He could’ve at least given me a bit more positivity.. Selfish ass brat. Just a depressed little kid trying to make it through his responsibilities.
But do excuse my lack of introduction. My name is Shinobu. As in Shadow… I was not letting someone by the name of fucking Magnolia pick out my name. I’m much more powerful and sensible than that idiot. We all came from The Wolves… No. It’s not some fancy fucking metaphor. It’s a fucking place. Idiot. It used to be a fascination of dog fights. There was a crowd, an announcer, and of course. The dogs. The outlaw didn’t do shit against these insane killers. The poor shits were slaughtered on the daily.. But one day..the dogs just weren’t enough for blood driven humans. Some were so sober that they put their own children in the circle to fight.. Another tragic sight.. And many children often came out just bloody, being supplied with rusted knives and shit weapons you get from the shitshed.. For those who ask: “Who would do such a thing?!” Shut up. Humans are monsters. More murderous than any other being ever.. The children were killing each other and wounds were so easily infected that they would die just several days. But the strongest child would earn the glamour of a child’s hood. And you should be able to tell the rest…or not…. Dammit Indi. Do a better job explaining shit..
The prides of a tournament left two children, who were then titled “wolves:” Magnolia, who was presently not named or even cared for. And there was the bitch. The name was Elisabetta. She was already sixteen fucking years old and trained by some military boot camp or some shit. Her parents just wanted to exploit her abilities for a wishful money prize or some shit.. But seeing as a little seven year old Magnolia had the deathly look in his eyes already, all the watchers thought the fucker was a spawn of Satan..and he kept fighting..killing. The two were matched up as finalists and were given actual wooden stakes to claim their victory by piercing the other. The previous finalists fought to the death and both killed each other, falling at almost the exact same time.. They were just around twelve years old.. But both finalists this time gripped their short, wooden swords with a killer intent and death in their eyes. It does take someone truly fucking heartless to hurt a child..and a fellow child at that…but the fight still commenced. And Elizabetta was clearly on the offensive since the start. Her reach and strength had already given the kid two disgusting scars-one in his arm and one on his cheek while retreating. Magnolia had gone in once, only cutting the opposition with a deeper scar to the stomach before he was pushed to the ground by Elisabetta grasping his face. It was extremely fortunate that Magnolia even survived.. Elisabetta was about to stab his blood-shot eye out and that would’ve been the end of the duel and his life..but the cowardly boy pushed her off with all the strength in his pathetic body. He then stood up and managed to run..run away as fast as he possibly could, cutting anyone that got in the way.
He ran out of energy to cower away from the duel. Exhausted, sweating, and even crying from beforehand fights and the devastation that had just occurred, Magnolia laid down, ready to die. But it was at that point when a searcher found him, smiling at him with the utmost hysterical grin, and asking,
“What is it you need, son?” His voice overly excited for an answer.
Magnolia whispered, with whatever breath he had left, and bleeding out: “Death..” And the man laughed and laughed before Magnolia was faded out.
Now, Indi has informed me that there are 1,000 legislatures in Utopia that determine who ends up in Utopia. Whoever informed anyone of that is a fucking idiot. I would beat whoever said that’s ass if I could.. There’s one-only one way that someone gets into Utopia. That’s through Death’s documentor. I used to be one, until some piece of shit took my role since I was stupid enough to take pity on the boy I just heard about.. I immediately told laborers to let him in since there are only so many seven year olds that come at peace with death.. I asked what he wanted. Again, he just mildly stated:
“Death..” I was shocked. Normally, ironically, I accepted people from life. As in..Idyll. They so often came to peace with death for some reason..but Magnolia didn’t have the golden eyes. They were brown, with a calm, killing intensity in his eyes..he wanted revenge, yet was at peace with dying? So, knowing something was up.. I brought the scarred up kid to death and told him to let me take care of him.. Might’ve been my dumbest choice ever.. Death wrote the event down in his own documentational book and requested for a soul runner to restore the kid’s soul. There was only one of them in Utopia since these cases of salvation are just so rare and the chances of failure were so high.. When we used the light gate to get back to Earth, we resumed the position of death in the undergrounds of England and by then, Magnolia was already buried where he died, and everyone else left the scene of the crime, with Elisabetta crowned the queen of the dogfights..
Before the soul runner placed the soul of the child back into the body, he told me pick parts of his soul to hold with me. They were shaped like bits of glass, all tinted to a definition of black. All except for one shard that was still of a lighter tone, positioned near his tiny heart. That. Ladies and gentlemen, is absurdism. As Mile, or whatever his name was, placed the soul back into Magnolia’s body, the chance that he wouldn’t accept the soul replacement and just stay in Utopia was so high that I was afraid that I couldn’t help him get his revenge on the blonde bitch, or that he wouldn’t ever find peace in life. The operation surprisingly worked though, and as he was waking up, the soul runner asked for a location for displacement that he could quickly travel to. I did think about going back to India, not seeing it for so long after I had died.. But seeing Mye again after so long would’ve been such a fucking catastrophe! The next place I thought of was America due to a book in Death’s library.. There was a story about American freedom and even people at home wanted to go for the work. And my english is amazing, if it wasn’t acknowledged already..haha.. Then the fucker landed us in a lake before disappearing.. It’s fucking weird how the only person trained to fast travel has just one job and he couldn’t even do it well. But it was at that time. I knew. I was no longer Death’s documentor. But the boy’s lack of peace was so interesting.. When one dies at peace, they are either at peace with their life due to the many things that they’ve achieved and are satisfied. Other times.. Those who die at peace come to peace with Death itself, ignoring all of time and circumstance in their current situation. …It’s genius…but this boy was neither. And the way he turned out is… Regretful. Or was it my fault because the food here in Chicago fucking sucks. Whatever biryani I’ve been able to taste is nothing compared to India’s and everything’s so fucking expensive! It gets cold as fuck on random ass days too! And why is it that the buildings are-
“Alright.. That’s enough Shinobu..haha.. I can never let you tell a story for too long. You always end up rambling about some other shit!”
Shit! Your purpose is shit! This whole little get together is your shit.
“The get together is over..and we’ve just marked our next move after, Luster going back to London for special sword training, and after his arranged duel with Justice Schooler in Liverpool. He came here to gain some better connections with his new ally. Me!”
It’s..Justice Schooler..?
“Yea!”
This little alliance is over. He’s fucking dead.
“Have some faith Shinobu!! I fought him just earlier and he beat me haha.”
One. I wasn’t in that fight.. We share strengths idiot. Two. You guys were sword fighting. We both know you can’t fucking fight with a sword..
“Well the important thing is that even though I’m way faster than him. He managed to corner me-”
And i had to patch up that accidental wound on your chest..
“Aye! Their duel is gonna be underwater, in River Mersey. No technological use of Schooler, sword fight, and a fight to the death!”
Why the fuck are you so confident that an unknown kid that only joined Wrath thirty years ago would beat and kill a known killer who has had generations of training, especially in one on one duels. And that river is pretty deep..one of them would also need to have the strength to swim back up after that bloodshed..
“Well..we remember what happened to Shooler. The schooler..haha..”
Don’t you even fucking dare about joking with that fucking topic Magnolia!!! She didn’t even play by a duelist’s rules. She cut the count and tore ever piece of tech he had to pieces before the circlement.. That was even on live television..
“The legend gets cocky..then gets eaten.. Shinobu, you and I know this and have come close to Death so many times..a second time..haha.”
You completely missed the point of my message..ugh..and get the fuck out of my head. You should be asleep idiot.
“Wait-you mentioned Mye earlier.. The girl we inherited from Pain? Is that..why you always showed a strange favoritism to her over every other ally we’ve had? I’ve actually never even knew that! Damn!”
My age froze at seventeen when I died.. I was young a dumb. But who knew it would’ve got me killed huh..her age might’ve already caught up to me too?
“I’m sorry..and no..Mye is still extremely young. She’s just about twenty haha..”
Twenty?! Bitch I’m twenty-seven!! We’re only seven fucking years apart!!
“This isn’t new news to you nor I..are you in your feelings again Shinobu..you do love to talk about the past between you and your connects.”
No..shut up.. Let me get a fucking rest!
“Alright! But then that means I get to visit the empathy counsel first! Haha!”
Fine. That’ll be fine.. Tell Shiva and Indi I said hey..
12
We have separate bodies..of course.. But we share many thoughts and memories. When Shinobu told-er..thought about the time when she took away my negative emotions and thoughts to save my life.. She explicitly told the soul runner to take some of her positive emotions and force them in me. It worked.. This made her awful at inhibiting her thoughts while I get to pick and choose which thoughts she gets to acknowledge.. Chandra was a beautiful name..but she chose to change it to a Japanese based name because she’s really into the culture Especially after reading up on urban myths at Death’s library. She wants to be a symbol of fear also with her own name, and contrasted her new name with her old. It’s smart but stupid at the same time. Shinobu’s worst regret is being unable to grow up with her child, having a maternal death the second that Mye came out. Ironically, though, it was the only shining shard she did have-the happiness of knowing she managed to have a child at all before knowing that she would die..
But it also sucks knowing that Chandra couldn’t get her name out in time before giving out to Death. Her initial name was “Maya” but the neighborhood doctor made out “Mye.” And it’s good that she could even manage that! When Chandra was still Death’s documentor, she would send the jumper at the time-Harold to check on Mye and see how she was doing on Earth. And it was fucking horrific! Harold would go back to Utopia, telling Chandra that Mye was already being bullied at her orphanage and didn’t have the skills to work since she could barely grasp any education. But Shinobu doesn’t know this. Mye is fine for now..the last time I’ve seen her, she was working at a small market in New Delhi. Abel was able to hack security cameras there and I just managed to get a glimpse of her while Abel was sweeping the area. I’ll tell Shinobu when turmoil settles down… Too many people have been making too many moves, and human rights activists have been going insane over the different, smaller events going on. Even the government can’t keep up with their own activities and random people with supernatural powers just start killing each other. Then, on the other hand, everyone has an aspect of that blood scale in themselves – whether they like it or not. Yet, they just aren’t as involved with the grander scheme or human behavior.
And even though no one may recognize it, they are already playing a major role in our lives and who the scales are tipped in favor of.. I have no idea where the scale itself is held..but I know that it is in a physical form… But, yeah.. There’s a reason attributes such as mercy has never been tipped in favor of over revenge.. Revenge is just so simple to use, rather than to be kind to the enemy that hurt the victim. I think that the only reason the Mercy is in such a strong position at all is because I’m in control of force-and an unknown force at that : Shinobu. If she hadn’t existed to save me and then help me get my revenge in the first place, I wouldn’t have learned that it wasn’t the right way, and the soul link between her and I forbid her from transferring over to the Wrath. But at the moment, I’d be willing to bet that either the Wrath, the Pride, or the Gluttony is tipped on the blood scale…they-no. She is just too powerful. For the time being, we need to keep laying low and hoping for a fraction of alliances with other aspects. Luster is the closest ally we have that’s closest to the top of his aspect and if he wins that underwater duel, we can press the issue on teaming up against Elisabetta. There’s also the deal going on with Kov in Russia, a powerful member of the lust, and Abel has also set up a meet between a high ranking member of the pride and myself. Depending on how those meetings go, mercy can gain, hopefully, new friends to place everyone on the same level on that scale. If not, then it looks like people will continue to be sadistic, cocky, and starving people until the scales can be tipped again in a good favor. When I chose to kill the previous mercy, I didn’t mean for this shit to happen… Fuck-
Oh..it seems like Shinobu is falling into her dream now..nice. The empathy counsel should open up for me soon and I can get more views on the insane alliances coming up. Maybe Kov or that stranger from the pride can show up huh? Haha..not likely.. This is where all things meet, and where all things should end. The empathy counsel is the coffee shop of everyone’s subconscious. Even though Shinobu and I both probably used to have subconsciouses, they were probably lost when our souls were split. So now, she’s my subconscious and I’m hers. Usually, she hangs out with someone named Indi since he’s also always frustrated with everything, including his holder too..haha. Shinobu always gets mad when I’m out too late at night or drinking too much, but it’s all to get me stronger I think. The alcohol does have insane effects on fighters, but Luster drinks a ton and still seems fine..hmm.. Anyways.. The lights are flashing and the shop is open! This is always fun since I get to meet someone new and understand more about how people feel. Essentially, this meeting place is the talk point from extremely deep thinkers for extremely specific times:while the mind is extremely zoned out of in a deep sleep. Oh. And before I enter the shop. I forgot to say. The voices love breaking the fourth wall.. So.. Shinobu and I have been laying foundations of information for you to understand so there you go! You get to, literally, read my mind. And here I go haha- oh yea..our bodies switch right about..now. It’s just consciousness though, so I can still speak with my voice. The only real difference is that I’m a bit taller and feel much better walking. My body is usually too sore from training so much that I have a lot of trouble even moving haha!!
Now, the empathy counsel cool as fuck because everyone gets their own little identification badge to wear on their chest and everyone looks funny since they’re in their pajamas most the time, wearing what they wear when they reach the point of subconsciously thinking or dreaming. Shinobu created a little flower that flourishes out a bit, with white petals and a yellow stigma in the middle. Just like a magnolia flower! We use it interchangeably but I tend to come a lot more since Shinobu has tons of nightmares.. It’s also strange in here since many people are often just crying and telling about how their life is going to end, which is so sad.. Others and I try to cheer them up here and hopefully I can tonight.. And that’s why the empathy counsel is more commonly known as “Silence’s Mausoleum.” But inner thoughts actually proliferate here and I can’t wait to get into the guest room. This place is like..a psychologist’s wet dream. If he or she could just truly understand the foundations of how and why someone feels a certain type of way in any situation or circumstance, then they would easily be able to help more clients. As the leader of the mercy, I need this place to help myself learn more about where others are coming from and eventually help everyone be a bit more happy in their current situation. It’s all I’m here for and if I can save a couple of people, that would be even more awesome. Let’s go- oh yea. Welcome desk. Haha..
“Haha.. Don’t worry bout it. Magnolia. I’ve got it. Here.” Good thing he remembers me since I’m in Shinobu’s body haha..
‘Thanks man. How’s today lookin’ Hermes?
“Ahh..you know everyday has something new. Actually..there is a new member of the counsel. She’s quite the cute one too.”
“Oh..? Do tell.” Eyes.. “Got it… Haha thanks again!”
“Have a nice time!!”
The magnolia pin looks nice huh? Six platinum petals, with three more platinum petals on top of them, and a tiny golden stigma in the middle. How pretty.. Shinobu took a long time to find and bend the metals for this… Anyways.. You’re in with me. So you should actually have a subconscious here haha! But at the moment you’re sticking with me. Maybe we’ll find you huh? But it is awfully crowded this time isn’t it.. And no Indi. His holder must be conscious.. Oh well. There’s still someone to look forward to. Hermes pointed at his eyes twice. One tap to the eye:a special case of a normal human. Two taps to the eye:the life has entered the room. And three taps:someone of the death has entered. It’s cool as fuck that we already have a little code game going on and Hermes was always strangely good with the communications.. So the one to look out for is life. A key quality of the life? Golden eyes. Sometimes they even have a nice glint to them. And as you look around, you won’t see much since it’s whatever you think of it. This is Silence’s Mausoleum. This place is whatever you make of it. I see a nice coffee shop with lots of people able to chat and have their own thoughts about what this mysterious place could possibly be in the image of. There are only five similarities between all images and imaginations of this wondrous place: the welcome desk, the bar, the grandiose fireplace that spits the bright, blue flames, the secret rooms, and the stage. Yep. This place that you will imagine. It’s yours. This place is Silence’s Mausoleum. The subconsciouses that make it up are the counsel of empathy. Humans are all related in some kind of way-whether someone is introverted, perverted, or convoluted, we have all felt those emotions in some way at some time, and it’s our subconscious’ job to highlight those moments and bring them here, where they can be comfortably shared. The voices can be standing, sitting, dancing, laughing, whatever you would like for the occasion. But there are always those five similarities in the Mausoleum and without them, I wouldn’t be sure if you were at the right place haha! The stage is where those that are about to die can perform their final thought-usually being that saying.. That moment when people’s life flash before their eyes. That moment is played on the stage by that person in that moment and can be analyzed by the viewers or even skipped over if someone’s subconscious chose to perform As in choosing to come out and share their inner thoughts. Otherwise, the voices can simply head to the secret room to grant their own personal desire if it is not requested to share. Actually..there’s someone headed to the stage right now! Ahh.. And look at those beautiful golden eyes!! Let’s hear her out shall w-
“Everyone?! Oh..too loud?” Shy one eh? Don’t worry. Voices can take a bit to get their thoughts out but they get as much time as they want. We have a while before Shinobu wakes up. She sleeps for insanely long haha.. Imma get a drink. The bar is the center of foods or beverages. It sucks that I always wake up without my physical belly full though.. Shit haha.. Alright. Here we go!
“Shiva!”
“Yo. What do you need?”
“Uhhhh..hook me up with the usual.”
“Again huh? You can try whatever you ever want and you still choose to eat apples and a drink just a glass of water. Why?”
“Don’t hate on these good ass apples haha. I don’t need much more. And lots of other food can taste pretty bad too..”
“That’s just because you haven’t tried much of the good food out the-”
“Uhhmm…” Strange girl..
“Hey. What about that little girl huh? Pretty weird. She’s already developed a deep enough subconsciousness to reach this level..”
“Well..you did too. Chandra prayed that the Mausoleum would be nice to you..haha.”
“Ahh..shut up hahaha..”
“Here’s your 3 fuji apples. And your glass. I will tell you this much though.. Don’t mess with her destructive capabilities. Life has really blessed her.”
“Thanks. And that coming from you..Shiva.”
“I’m just telling you what I see..golden eyes.” Huh..? I can’t even see their glint..
But if she is from the life, her life-given power must be insanely strong..
Alright.. It’s been like.. A long ass while.. But she’s not breaking down or saying anything.. –
“My name. Is Light!” Oh..? “And I hope! I didn’t kill my sister!” What?!
Some shocked voices from the audience..Shiva…seems totally unimpressed.
Great. The gods always seem to know what the fuck is about to happen. It’s aggravating. They seem to know what that girl is capable of. And they most likely know what’s gonna happen in the between me and her.. Is it bad..?
“You will determine that for yourself won’t you?”
“Reading thoughts too now huh..”
“Well..this should fun to watch..haha..” Merciless!
“Now don’t look at me like that. Chandra has my blessing and will continue to. Make sure you don’t-”
“My sister. Elia! She was so pretty and kind! Please be nice to her if you find her!!” What..is she talking about.. A dead sister-or a missing one. Well maybe she’s not on Earth at all. Utopia isn’t on Earth, yet their pitch-black eyes still pop up here. Extremely rare though… And why does the name Elia sound so familiar…Oh!
“Shiva!”
“What do you need?”
“Elia..Elia Harrison..?”
“Ha..” That fucking smirk. Dammit.. And why’s he looking-the chandelier? Oh! Shit!
“I guess this is good-bye for now?” A nightmare?! Why now Shinobu!!
The walls are coming in. It’s..a baby’s arm coming through the ceiling and the other arm through the wall-
“Maaaaa!” Shit. The Mausoleum is fading away.. And Shiva still has that smirk! Damn. Shinobu’s gaining her consciousness back. Along with her body. The soreness is already coming back too… Ugh!!
13
MAYA!! FUCK! Oh..oh shit.. I’m.. I’m so sorry.. Fuck. Please fucking forgive me!!
“You know it wasn’t your fault Shinobu..” Sh-shut the fuck up.. Maya would’ve grown up into an amazing person. The best person ever if I had just..been there. Then I’m forced back to live here and being bound to a fucking kid that wouldn’t have even beat my daughter in a sparring fight alone.
“That might be true. Might not be. But you can’t keep regretting something that you never controlled now can you…” I can. And now I’m stuck in a world where I might have even a fraction of a chance of laying eyes on her.. Oh fuck..and I know…
“Huh..?”
What’s with the confused look? I know you know about Maya. You can hold more thoughts back, but your manipulation of thought just sucks..
“Oh..haha.. I guess-” She grew up as a market clerk? What the fuck! My baby turned into a fucking market clerk?!? Honestly! And why the fuck would you even think about telling me a story so pathetic.. Maybe..she should’ve just died. Along with all those other kids that get left to dry and die. Died so I can search for her file and take her in while I was at Utopia and have a chance of raising her there..instead of becoming such a weak person.
“Hey…come here..it’s alright. Don’t worry. Mye is fine. She has a life. She can handle herself out there.” Without me..
“Yes. Without you. For now. You can visit her sometime later..” No..no. She’s living her life and I might just ruin everything if I go back. She could hate me..she could just be angry! Actually..she probably… doesn’t even fucking remember me..!
“Come on now Shinobu..you’re way stronger than this…” No!!! Don’t you ever fucking think that! I can’t! I’m crying!! Yes, I’ve killed someone in my other life! But that doesn’t make me a monster! I’m no different from any other human on this earth!! And neither are you, Mag!! Your thoughts..we’re both..we both want to die! I can get away from this world!! And you can finally get away from the terrifying responsibility of holding the mercy title! We can fight, we can win, and we can kill, but you choose not to fuck up the enemies we’ve stacked against us! Why!? This makes no sense! You never want to have the true mercy of death upon people! Or-or even the decisiveness to close unneeded allies out! Luster will die in this near duel and you want to stand by, let him die, and not let Schooler have death?! What kinda-
“I saw her!!!” Wha-what..?
“I saw Mye at Silence’s Mausoleum!!” What?!
“While you’re asleep at night here, I’m able to visit the Mausoleum several times when Mye is daydreaming at her job or something..” How didn’t I see her then?!
“I can hold my thoughts back! And I’ve kept these pretty far back for a long ass time!!” Shit.. Tell me! Please! That’s my fucking child!!!
“She would come into the Mausoleum, get on the stage..and tell so many speeches.. Mye was in tears every time. Her body, always with a different injury.. She was trying to end herself every, single, time..” Oh fuck..no. That can’t be fucking true! I should’ve noticed your thought by now at least!
“No. You might’ve been able to..but you’re too afraid to see most the things that has happened to your baby.. Mye would have her throat cut some days, her arms, gushing with blood out of the many cleaves of just a tiny pocket knife… It was only after I made Abel do multiple extensive sweeps over northern India to find her that I realized what you had in your arms just before you died…” Fuck… I- I did this to her.. I should’ve been there for her! What the fuck!!
“Nope- I..mean..-” Don’t think so fucking freely!
“Shit-” The fact of the matter is this: we’re stuck in here..right?
“Right…?” This apartment is shitty. The food here is shitty. The lake proves to be the only nice thing just about ever. Your grades in school suck. And I’m in Silence’s Mausoleum every fucking time you fall asleep at school! We’re not going to raise the money to ever get a better life, let alone make it to India to see Maya…what’s the fucking point..your thoughts are just barely able to hold back what my darling looks like. How fucking dare you…
“The thing is..you’ve most likely already seen her subconsciousness. I just don’t want to risk both of your emotions for something that is not able to be fixed right now, especially when there’s an epic, worldwide duel going to soon commence and when we are sided with the underdog… And you were right..Luster has an extremely slim chance of even getting close to Schooler’s throat in that river. But don’t you get it?! This is who we are! The merciful don’t look for every advantage they can earn. They search for the opportunity to display their willingness to support the unlikeliest to finish, but grasping the ambition to!” Then you seem to be planning to use Luster as an excuse for your power struggling on that scale..
“No! It’s not that! This is about remembering what or who we need to overcome, knowing that everyone is against all odds. Mye is going through the exact same shit!” What.. How..?
“Mye is going against her poverty, her scars, her pain, searching for some kind of- a fucking shred of any peace of mind anywhere! Her subconsciousness reaches our level of the Mausoleum, and is able to get on the center stage to mourn about her life, with a new story each time. It’s not the matter of pinpointing weaknesses in our companions! It’s about seeing their hopes and seeing it flourish to even eventually defy the truths-breaking reality as we know it. You should know..you were able to revive both of us. And if I recall correctly, the process has been attempted, along with procedures and practices of those soul runners. But that procedure has never worked before in the object of salvation. You had mercy on my soul, Shinobu..” -Mag..-
“Why’re you still crying..? I’ve explained this to you before… You are the closest thing to a mother I’ve ever had! And you’re also the my best friend.. We live in such a shitty place because we help raise others out of this mess. We eat shitty food to help those who can barely eat.. We symbolize the hope of all those that have been and still are being stepped on. We have mercy on their souls so they can shine.. And that’s also why we have never separated far from each other physically, even though we can. We need each other and will proceed through Hell together, knowing that we could easily kill Satan, but choosing to have mercy on him since we’ve already helped everyone we could out of that Hell. You know you’re way stronger than me..but you stayed because you knew that I was the closest thing to a child that you could raise to redeem yourself due to the loss of your previous one..” All too true..shit..
But even then..I can’t be optimistic about anything.. I want to find my daughter. even if raising you in her place has a chance of redeeming my maternal exemption.. We need to help her and her situation..no matter the cost..?
“Exactly..even if she ends up breaking under her pressure..we know we’ve done all we can to support Mye when we see her. We are both your children, and in some respect, will owe our lives to you. I guess you have a good tendency of making the most impossible things happen? Especially when we fight..haha..” I guess.. We do synergize well huh..
“Yes..and as our mother, you can’t just quit on your kids, just as we can’t quit on our goals to support all of those with the slightest hope of achieving an insane, common goal.”
“Mag..”
“Huh?”
“I love you.. and my Maya…”
“I love you too, Chandra..Shinobu..Ma.” Haha..all that with the beauty of a sunrise….maybe things could look up afterall….
14
“Day 1
13:04
Yep..it is official. There was a cool ass letter with the seal of Wrath:a horse. Just like the chess piece. To me, it looks pretty ineloquent. The base of the piece is still in the seal and it looks just ugly… Anyways, the letter had certain rules to be checked just before the duel..and I didn’t know the fight would be broadcasted across the world..or that the duel was even that big of a deal..
But it does have pretty fair standards: A choice of one or two swords, any choice of clothing, no extra source of oxygen, no extra weapons, and no resurfacing until the duel has ended.. That’s the tough one. All my cardio should’ve helped me though.. I can hold my breath for up to three minutes now, even with physical activity in the water. It just matters who gets the first hit.
I’ll be documenting these four days before the fight so I can hold the history of success before I live or die after the duel. Justice Schooler is an honorable person. She’s only like thirty-one, and she’s amazing at sword fighting, but in the water..? Schoolers have been known for their clean fights, and I should watch out too..it’s just one wrong move in the water and I’m fucked! Haha..pretty fun to think about..counting the days before I either become grand general of Wrath, or die and sink in the fucking Mersey River. I’m already late for my last days of training. I’ll be hoping all my friends are watching though..
Day 2
00:54
So.. I guess this technically counts as day two already..? Training went well. I’ve practiced how to parry in water all day, and it’s still hard. There’s so many fucking bubbles rising every time I slash, and it’s just annoying. Strength training was easy.. I’ve been able to do this kinda stuff all my life! I wonder how Schooler is training for today..haha. I’m tired as shit now though..the water weighs me down like crazy.. Goodnight..good morning..?
16:17
Shit.. I slept for a long time. It’s alright though.. I knew I was going to be extremely sore for these last few days. But damn..the fucking water was heavy! Tomorrow, I’m going to meet Bluer to help me focus my strikes and then meditate for the upcoming fight in Liverpool. She’s a strange one. She was offered the duel before me, but she never displayed any swordplay, nor have I ever seen her fight. Bluer wears a black and blue mask everywhere, covering just the lower half of her face. It’s an awesome cover, but it creeps the shit out of me..and she looks so young..for someone that has been documented to be well above forty years old! I’ve never even seen her train, even when Schooler and I would work our asses off, she was always just watching over us and always emitted a fear that no one wanted to deal with.. But I guess she wants to help me win the duel, so I’m all for that..
21:01
Just got on the train to Liverpool. This is goodbye London. It’s hard to rest since I’m so sore..but the serene ride would be a nice writing topic won’t it? Something like: the fields grant me my peace of mind in preparation for the fight. No. That’s corny as shit. Something empowering..? The fields and cities of England that shout my name, will give me the strength to defeat Schooler! Haha..sweet ring to it. The elegant architecture and the lands that are still green will be watched over by me! Actually..too narcissistic.. Being honest, I don’t know what comes after if I win the duel. I might have more friends and forces to work with, along with a powerful presence around the world with military might increased. But why couldn’t there be a more calm, noble sense of war..like world leaders committing to these types of duels, rather than deploying their own soldiers to fight and die in the name of someone using their bodies as shields.
That’s what I’ll do! If I have the chance to become Wrath’s leader, I will choose to actually “lead” These soldiers that can’t see the end of the tunnel. Of course they can’t see the end. Their leader is blocking it with a self-narcissistic attitude of their own, selfish plea to survive. Those leaders don’t even see that everyone has that plea to live, and a position of authority shouldn’t change how that plea is structured. Just thoughts…
Day 3
11:09
Schooler has already been waiting and lightly training in Liverpool. There’s going to a a lunch soon to discuss even more logistics for the duel. Just two days away from and early ascendance to Wrath, or a death to be broadcasted around the world..brilliant. This inn is amazing though.. The wood fire, the antique paintings set across the entire place. If I win this duel, I coming back for sure to spend the night in the total comfort of- they’re knocking already..I’ll report later.
15:03
At precisely 12 in two days, the duel begins.. Schooler and everyone else seemed pretty friendly. No one had a care in the world, as if no one at the table was even about to die in two days! It’s been awhile since I’ve seen the higher faculty of Wrath, but I played along to their abnormality so I could gain more info on all of them. And eat more. I was starving. It’s a good thing I’m not too sore anymore. I should be fine by the time of the fight..
I’ll be meeting Bluer in a bit too. At a beautiful park. It has meadows and everything! There’s even the most pretty palm house there, and it’s near the river of the duel. We will meditate and she’ll teach me about sword control underwater. But even then it’s strange since I’ve never seen her hold one still.. Can I trust her with my life on the line? Well I guess I’m about to find out!
21:35
Bluer is actually pretty great. She helped me focus during a training. She wanted me to just sit and calm myself down and the meditation got me to think about all the things I would earn if I won this duel. But Bluer highlighted the major stakes in the duel. It’s important to note that there are no more police in the world. Not in any city. Not in any country. Not even worldly powers have a major military might. It’s all based on how an attribute is on the blood scales. As of now, I’d say that hate, gluttony, and wrath are the most powerful throughout the world.
William Tate is placed under an unknown status but his influence still spreads a madness to everyone that has a brain that can’t run itself. Once, I walked into a local bar, and there was already a fight. The barman definitely had a gun-something to stop the violence..but he didn’t draw it. One of those men died in the fight, and the other got out free, with no one to stop him. Could’ve been the alcohol, could have been the fact that the barman didn’t have any passion for his own life-til the extent that he didn’t care about others’ lives either. But Tate is doing something, something huge.
Gluttony currently holds the strongest individualized power in the world. And that’s not even considering the fact that she was able to kidnap Tate’s daughter, Miri. No idea what Elisabetta would wanna do with a poor, innocent girl, but it’s in everyone’s interest to stay out of her way, out of Italy.
And lastly, wrath. We’re going to have a new leader soon..to replace the one that Elisabetta fucking ate! But I guess this is my time to rise or fall. We’re lucky to have made it to a favor in the scale. We’ve had public fundings since we are a good substitute for police, and thus, societal justice. Some of us aren’t even blood thirsty. We just want a sense of peace, and wrath has become closely correlated with justice nowadays.
Day 4
02:40
I know it’s my last day of full preparation..but it’s not right.. I barely even got any sleep and I’m fucking sweating. It hurts. My mind is racing and writing my thoughts doesn’t much help at all. What’s wrong.. I’ll wash up and try to sleep again…
06:21
Sweat. Again. This is fear.. My palms are sweating even now. I need some fucking tea.. Come on now!! I need this rest for the fucking duel! I’ll try meditating like Bluer showed me..this chaos shouldn’t be overwhelming me. How was I relaxed just yesterday but breaking down now?!
10:58
The fucking sweating wouldn’t stop. I stopped drinking water so I would stop, but that didn’t help. I just got back from a morning swim so I could get used to some of the water pressures. Schooler and I will be continuously going down to the bottom of the river until one falls so the other can rise to the surface. If there is no kill confirmation. If the other duelist manages to rise to the surface after the first has risen, then the second duelist has won, with the first to the surface being a coward for not killing. The swim was great, and I know how to fight in the water. It’s just this overwhelming pressure I feel on my head. I’m not even sure if this is fear anymore. Might be something more fucked up…
13:53
After visiting a local physician, she labeled the sweats as just another case of stress. She did recognize my face though.. I guess I’m getting pretty popular for what’s coming. Her name was Dr. Heine. She was so pretty.. And she had the most beautiful curls in her hair! Just looking at her makes my mind stop spinning about the duel. I really hope she’s hoping for me. Maybe I’ll be able to go and talk to her again if this is all over. She gave me some antidepressants and sent me off. The soreness is gone, and hopefully the fear I have will be good too.. Shit. And this shepard’s pie might be the last I ever have.. I’ll just have the pills after this and take a rest for tomorrow.. Good night.
Thank you.”
15
What is it now..? About 1:05? Luster Taylor has just read out his latest journal entries. He has a pin of a horse. Usually a free spirited animal an amazing runner. How ironic.. I really do wonder if the rest of the world was able to see his performance on the stage, or if it’s just this level My pin is of a cute, little bunny. It’s just too bad that I am truly, and rest assured, the only one to live freely. I work alone, eat alone, sleep alone, and will die alone. There’s nothing that guarantees my freedom more than being the strongest, and not needing to drag around any idiots along.. And there goes Mr. Taylor now. Dragged off the stage now.
He was a wreck.. It was just one stab. It was through his cheek, and went clean through..from one side of the mouth, to the other. The thing wasn’t wearing much equipment, but I guess he still couldn’t make any swimming happen.. There also was water on him-a lot. There was clearly sweat on him though, along with the black eye bags and eyes of death. I wonder how the other one ended up. Justice is, decisively, the new leader of wrath.
Well at least I know who I have to kill now.. Her and that one over there, in the corner, the one that watches me. He is a cute thing though.. Just a black sweater and some black jeans .how boring. Well on this level, of course he knows she’s able to control herself, but why me? Does she have any idea who I am..? Maybe I should head over there and talk to the strange thing.. Yes. I will go.
“Hey!” Got her attention. Well, I’ve seemed to always have it.
“Hey..” What a hateful tone!
“I’m sorry, but have I upset you miss?”
“I know what you are. And I’ve recognized you here many times. And you look ridiculous in cute, bunny pajamas..”
“It is cute! And why are you hating me? Have we met..?” Who even is this?!
“The name’s Shinobu.” Hm..haven’t heard it before.
“Nice name. My name is Eliz-”
“I fucking know.” Hmm..
“Well, maybe we’ll meet again? Shinobu?”
“In this theater of the absurd, I really hope not..”
“It’s a theater for you huh? It’s a club for me. But the poles aren’t really used at all. Haha..”
“I never asked for your thought.” Well, he’s starting to piss me off. He does have an interesting pin though..familiar…
“Alright. I ought to leave, but may I ask about your pin? It’s so pretty!”
“It’s a flower. Relax.” And there goes that.
“Good bye!”
“Bye..”
What a rough thing. But this is Silence’s Mausoleum, and I’m not much better in life either haha! Maybe I should really kill him.. Oh! Right. You’re here! Excuse me, ha! My name is Elisabetta Lupo, and welcome to my mausoleum! Actually. That sounds pretty funny..I’m not exactly dead. And I’m not much of a people person. I’m more of a global terrorist, scary motherfucker type of person. Y’know? The type of person you do not! Want to run into in the alleyway, or the street, or really anywhere actually. I’ll probably kill you! But, oh no, don’t worry. You’re safe here. My killing intent seems to just disappear in this club. The poles aren’t used much, and the music is loud and crazy when someone isn’t performing on stage.
But as of now, I’m the number one most wanted person in the world! Can you believe that! And I’m just chillin’ in my bunny slippers and pajamas. Wrath, with a new definitive leader, will be hunting my beautiful ass, so I might have to move somewhere, most likely somewhere out of Europe. Italy isn’t doing so nicely in the financial area anyways. I should get out while I’m ahead hm? Well.. If I do.. China or Australia look extremely appealing as of now.. I might even find someone I like there haha!
Nah. Not likely. The only people I’ve ever liked were right here, in my club. Now that I think of it. That boy’s pin was the exact same one my favorite person had. Oh, she was the nicest thing! She had on a beautiful black and red dress, with a scarf that swung behind her, and long, flowy hair. I can’t seem to remember the name!! Ah.. Magnolia was it? Maybe that’s pin of the flower! Maybe the two are married! How cute!! I have no idea why the wife would pick such a person though, he looked young, and mean.. While she was more middle aged, and so kind! I might even want to spare her if I ever get the chance to see her in life! There’s also this other one i met here. I believe the name was Leonis. He was an amazing thing. So kind, but I swear I’ve seen him somewhere in the world before.. I think maybe in France.. Dunno. He wears a fancy suit. And I guess he even wears one in his sleep haha! The suit is all green and it just looks stupid, but Leonis always told me little stories about his life, and it sounded great! I hope to meet him and spare him when I do. There’s even- wait..
“Shit!” I hear them. It’s dark. But I can hear them..
…Well I hear something.. It’s like a fucking buzz in my ear. Where’s my gun… Ah! Now.. It’s to the left..? A bit high isnt it.. Alright.. This should be good. And… there it goes!
The noise did stop.. What even was it..
It looks like.. A mini helicopter..? I haven’t seen one of these shits in years! It’s not carrying any weapons like it used to. And it has the emblem on it. Too fucking dark..
“Hey! Nice try bitches!!!” Can Justice know where I am?!
“Ahh.. Scusi !!” Hmm.. Guess not. No ugly accent. And it is kinda funny how English has become the globalized language, even after all the efforts of the Chinese! Ha.
“Cosa vuoi ?!”
“Stavo giocando e la tua sparatoria mi ha spaventato !”
“Il drone ?”
“Sì! Sai dov’è ?” Ha. It’s right between my legs. Hmm.. Am I hungry..? Kinda.. I guess it’s snack time! Haha! Let’s go little drone.
“Questo ?” She seems really happy! Guess it is hers. “Scusate. L’ho distrutta perché mi ha spaventato !” Aww..the poor thing is sad now. “Vuoi risolvere il problema ?”
“Sì, grazie !” What a sweet little thing! “Figurati!”
Maybe it’s the cute, bunny stuff I still have on, but she still somehow doesn’t recognize me. I might finally get a nice meal after a while haha! Or is it because my badass makeup isn’t on-like in the posters. Yup. I’ve become a figure of fear in this world. Not a figure. But the figure of fear! I still have my sniper, but the girl didn’t notice?
“Devi vivere lontano !”
“Ahh..no. Ci siamo quasi !” Phew.. I’m getting hungry. Must be that huge cabin right there! It’s so dark though.. No lights or anything. What was the girl doing out here..
“Qui !” Alright… The door creaks a lot!
“Terribilmente scuro..” Something’s up. I can smell it… Bleach!?! It’s strong!!
“Fuck!!!” And the fucker turned on the lights!! It’s too bright! Fuck! I can see her still. You’re first, little thing!!
“Ah !!! La mia piccola bambina !!!!” And there’s the next one-ahh!!
“Shit!” Need to back out the house.. There has to be at least 3 more. There were 3 shots coming my way..fuck. One shot got me too. My fucking arm!! I might have to turn.. I only have 2 rounds left.
“Ah!!” My fucking back! That’s it..
“È il suo, il lupo !!” It’s time to fucking feast!!!!
16
“Mag… Mag!”
“Eat your food.. I spent hours trying to make that chicken curry and rice!”
“Shinobu, there’s no point in this. Why can’t we just think to each other..”
“Your annoying teacher called me today, and Mrs. Bitch said that you’re too harsh on other kids and need some better communication skills! So shut up.” After what happened..
“You want me to be like a normal ass kid with normal ass strengths and a completely different life from everyone.”
“Mag.. I know that life has been totally sucking for you..especially with Luster dying and what recently happened in Italy..but.. I told you so!” Fuck off! “You’re angry? Haha! Told you so! And based off the bet we made earlier, you’re cooking for the next couple of weeks with a broken rice cooker and whatever is left in the fridge unless you find a job!”
“Can you cut the bullshit!! Luster’s dead! He did what he could. And what happened in Italy shouldn’t be anything better. Elisabetta was found and has killed over twenty people in a secret operatives cabin!!”
“Oh..now you have concerns for the savage of the Earth? Funny. Always wondered why you never wanted to kill her. But now, maybe you have learned?”
“No. I still don’t want to kill her. I don’t know why..”
“Well.. I saw her at the mausoleum yesterday morning, when you were still asleep.”
“What?! How’d you know it was her?”
“Please. She’s the one with the curly brown hair, the huge, brown eyes, and the silly bunny pajamas with the slippers.” Oh shit. “You’ve talked to her huh?”
“She’s really nice though!”
“Welcome to the world of the subconscious, Mag. Two different worlds when our minds are processed in there. And that’s why my empathy levels are so low! I give everyone the resting bitch face in there! I can’t believe you didn’t see this after so many years of going in! Now boil some water!”
“I’ve built a friendship with the one that…killed me..?”
“Yes.. Sucks to be merciful! Haha! The mausoleum does link people up to others doesn’t it. And you didn’t even know it!! Come on. I taught you better!” Shit.
“Well..what do we do now then.”
“That is on you Mag, I decided not to fuck up in the Mausoleum and you did.” Well fuck you too-what was that..
“A knock?” A visitor..did someone find us? It’s far off from rent collection day..
“Again..Shinobu-” She knows. She slipping in..
“Aye! Don’t take so long to open the door will ya?” Who the fuck is that?! And when was even through the door..?
“What’s with the face? Haha! You’re…Magnolia right?” How does he know.. I can’t even fucking move!! “I’ve got two questions for you sir. The first is where is Miri? And where is your split? I thought that one of the strongest on Earth would be living better than a trashy apartment. I mean come the fuck on!” What the fuck are you doing Shinobu! Get him!
You..Cannot move?
No! I can’t. What the fuck did this guy do!? He’s just walking around like nothing!
Mag..he looks so familiar.. I think I know him.. We should wait to see what he does. I can move but I don’t know why.. The fire under the kettle stopped flowing, and the clock has stopped. He did this…
What?! Shinobu! Just fuck him up! He’s looking for you and someone named Miri.. Whoever the fuck that is..
Miri…I know her. Remember that little girl we saw on the news. She went missing from Tate and she was never found? Listen. If Mr. Tuxedo wants her, he cannot be good.
Well then get him!
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