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Post by Arias on Apr 28, 2016 13:08:52 GMT
Arias was walking in the Fukurou Forest, thinking quietly to herself and wondering exactly whether this was a good idea. A bit of doubt was nestled in her heart, but if it was for the better of everyone around her, she needed to go to someone that could hopefully fix her. She felt like she was nothing but a psychopathic monster, and flicked her tail in confusion. She was here now, so she shouldn't back down because she got a little weak-kneed.
Searching for Walker's ki energy, she also looked to the sky for the island and the ground for the tree. She kept her guard up, spreading out her ki senses to find Walker. Wondering whether he had telepathy, she didn't have a mental link to send him a message from, as she had NO idea where he was at. She continued to search for Walker's massive ki, wondering how he would even be able to hide a powerful ki that large.
Noticing a large shadow over the ground, she looked up and noticed the island.
@tokoz
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2016 16:39:00 GMT
Sitting in his study, Walker was cross-legged in a rune circle, the lines glowing slightly as he concentrated. He had managed to steal quite a few books from the ruins of Cernunnos's castle, and he was discovering some interesting things that could be done with the knowledge he had obtained. Tapping a finger against his chin, he was just about to add another line to the increasingly complex design, when he felt a familiar nudge against his Ki sense.
Down below, he felt Arias's power. Intriguing. Was she looking for him? If not, this was an odd coincidence. He didn't feel anyone else in the forest, not that he recognized, at least. Well, he shouldn't be rude. With a gesture, two hands met in the air in front of him, fingers digging into the air. There was a twisting, and then the empty space split wide, as though a pair of curtains had been drawn apart. Looking at Arias, Walker nodded. "Hello there. How may I help you on this day?"
He left the hole open for Arias to move through, closing it only once she decided to pass through. It was easier, this close, to connect two points. The farther away it got, and it became less like a doorway, and more like an air-lock. One door had to close before the other opened. Bizarrely, it seemed as though he was folding time to some extent was well. The travel time to other locations was still there, but he felt none of it. It seemed that the farther he went, the more he slowed down relative to outside time. A penalty for the quick jaunt outside of reality, most likely, but the ability to be stealthy about his movements made it entirely worth it.
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Post by Arias on Apr 28, 2016 17:01:48 GMT
Arias looked around, having sensed Walker's Ki. Furrowing her brow curiously, she kept looking. When the space before her ripped apart, she stepped back startled. Again, she wasn't used to Walker ripping holes in dimensions. "Hello Walker. Is it okay if I come in? I need to talk to you." She replied, her voice giving away a sort of concern. Upon him leaving it open, she walked in curiouslyy. She walked forward and felt it close behind her, getting startled again as she traversed the weird rip.
Walking out of the rip, and into the study, she looked around and noticed Walker sitting in a circle of runes. Quirking her brow curiously, the hybrid tilted her head in curiosity but said nothing about it. She then met Walker's eyes with her own, and spoke. "I've heard you were able to help Celmaru.. can you help me? I.." She didn't know exactly how to explain she wasn't mentally right. Standing there, her hands moved around as she tried to gather words to say.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2016 18:20:49 GMT
With a wave of one hand, the rip closed behind her, and the Tree leaned forward to observe the Saiyaness. It was obvious she was trying to get words out, but lacking the correct chain of thought. However, he thought he might be able to guess. It was possible she was asking about training, but what seemed more likely was that she was concerned about her rather erratic and chaotic behavior. He had seen it first hand, and gotten information from Bastion on his encounters with her and her mate. He was also aware that, due to a few messages from Presto, she had gotten in trouble with the Galactic Patrol for some incident or another.
"If I may guess? It has something to do with your difficulties in control, such as the outburst at your house a while ago. I may be able to assist you somewhat, but it would be... invasive, at best. I would have to enter your mind, beholding your memories,and help you unweave the web they have bound you in." He did not say it, but there was another reason as well. Arias had seemed to be talking to someone, in her house. Someone that was not there. He narrowed his eyes slightly. It was faint, but he thought he could feel another noxious presence, hiding within her own Aura. It smacked of the infernal.
If there was a demon or devil connected to this, then he would have his work cut out for him. He could not totally erase Arias's trauma, but he could help her make peace with it, or slightly smooth the memories. He suspected, however, that if he needed to solve this problem, the greatest challenge would not be wholly mundane, but supernatural. Holding out his hand to just above Arias's forehead, he looked at her, voice softening. "I do wish to help, but I understand if you do not wish another in your head." He had to wonder if she would get the implications, or notice that he had failed to indicate that his own entrance would bring the count to multiple people.
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Post by Arias on Apr 28, 2016 18:29:16 GMT
Arias looked at Walker as he looked her over, still trying to get words that would fail to even come to her tongue. She gave up and listened, keeping her eyes locked on his own. "Yes.. if you can do that Walker, please. Help me unweave this web of insanity creeping through my mind and ensnaring me in its deadly trap. If you have to enter my mind, it is fine. I just.. I've tried so much to stop the creeping insanity but it is slowly stemming from something, something in my head..." She sighed, shaking her head. The noxious presence was indeed there, the presence of her dead sister.. who haunted and tortured her every single day.
She looked as Walker raised his hand to just above her forehead, moving her eyes for a moment before nodding slightly. "Help me, Walker." She replied, knowing full well what he implied and exactly what he was saying.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2016 18:47:18 GMT
Nodding, he placed his hand on her head, his eyes closed. "Well then... let us begin." His eyes flew open, and the burning purple light seemed to flare like the sun, drowning out everything else. At least to Arias, anyway. Others outside of the pair would see only Walker, cross-legged, his hand upon Arias's forehead, and the Saiyaness floating slightly, supported by the tree's Remote Manipulation. Walker's eyes were glowing, as were Arias's, a deep light that seemed to pulse and move in unison. -Inside Arias's Mind-scape-
Walker's perception roved, peering around at the inside of her head. It was interesting, to be honest. Massive bubbles contained scenes, moving back and forth as their influence became more or less relevant. Orbs, moving about like a giant game of pool. He was not present there, exactly. It was as if he was reaching in with surgical tools in hand, prepared to nudge and tweak. Peering about, he frowned a bit. Now then, being in here, he felt the presence even more strongly. "Get out here, whatever you are. Saira, yes?" Exerting his will, his current grasp over Arias's mind and memories, he did his utmost to bring Saira to the forefront. Presumably that was her name, anyway. If Arias had been yelling at someone else, and there was a different evil presence parasitically feeding on her sanity, than she had even more problems than he had thought.
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Post by Arias on Apr 28, 2016 19:03:52 GMT
Arias closed her eyes as she felt herself hover slightly off the ground, losing her sense of control and falling into a sort of sleep trance. All of the orbs seemed to contain mostly bad memories, but there was a giant stationary orb, that was of the day her parents and sister died before her eyes. The presence was evil, lacing her very mind with the taint of it. This wasn't natural, far, far from it.
An eerie voice, one laced with venom and darkness sounded. A shadowed all-black female form with glowing red eyes appeared from the depths of her mind, looking just like Arias.. but evil, giving off waves of demonic, dark energy. Saira had come to the forefront of not her own will, forced by Walker to emerge. "What is it that you want, and who are you to invade my sanctuary?" The voice of Saira replied. "I am busy doing my own work, and here you are walking in like you own the place. Speak your reason, so I may get back to my business." Saira was blatant and cruel, feeding energy into the strength of the death of her parents, one of the parts of her brain lighting up, indicating that it triggered sadness and rage.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2016 19:43:42 GMT
The tree chuckled slightly, his faint tendrils of influence floating about. "I see. Well, I am here to help your host. I'm not entirely sure what caused you to be here, or why. However, there's a simple answer on my end." Suddenly, bonds of energy flew outwards, attempting to loop around Saira, every ounce of the tree's significant will and magical might grabbing at the demented spirit. It was coming from every direction, blows of will and grabbing mental traps.
The perception available to the creature that inhabited Arias's head was changing too. Some of Walker's own feelings were leaking through, the barrier between himself and Arias a bit fractured due to the sudden onslaught. It wasn't rage, or annoyance, or hate. Those were far too personal words for the feeling seeping through, curling towards the keystone of the half-Saiyan's madness. It was something far more primal than that.
It was hunger, a ravenous gnawing hunger that was literally tearing at the soul in this metaphorical world of the mind. "The answer is... I don't care. Because you have caused a lot of problems, my friend. Enough that nobody who knows you exist will miss you. I subsist mainly on water and sunlight... it's been so long since I've had a good meal, due to the guilt." The dark chuckle echoed, as it became clear what exactly he was hungering for. "I'm not going to feel guilty about this...."
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Post by Arias on Apr 28, 2016 19:59:14 GMT
Saira snarled softly, suddenly roaring when snared by the energy bonds, struggling aggressively but unable to escape, as Walker was far, FAR stronger than Saira. Regardless, the demonic soul of her dead sister was still struggling angrily. All influence of Saira would soon be removed, the orbs of memory were currently slower, any demonic influence prevalent in blackened parts of her mind, ones that seemed virtually everywhere. All of her good memories were trapped in a dark cage in the far back of her mind, as Saira had been slowly adding more and more of her horrible memories to the mix, while removing good ones. There were few colored areas of her mind, only where the good memories resided.
"Oh go to hell, you weird creature!" Saira roared, trying to get away from Walker's tight bondage, and being a different person, a different soul, Walker would be able to eat Saira with no problems at all as of bad effects on Arias. Her blackened mind was a result of her twisted sister, who loved causing her pain and suffering.. but now, it would soon go away, permanently. No more Saira forever tormenting Arias, and Walker would get a good meal off of Saira.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2016 20:33:09 GMT
At Saira's words, a deep, rumbling laugh echoed through the mind-scape. As it did, the process sped up, until the soul was being pulled fully from Arias's mind. Walker's form stood before her, just within a massive black void, like a maw of terrifying proportions. He was laughing, his shoulders shaking with mirth. As he wiped one eye, a motion that was clearly mere mimicry, he stared at the specter.
"Oh, that's adorable. I should go to Hell? My dear..." The void reached out, grabbing Saira, and the last words she heard before the flames was Walker chuckling again. "I just got back from my vacation there. Just a shame you're not going to get that far." Then, with an almighty tearing, the ghost of Arias's mad sister was consumed. In the real world, Walker's body twitched slightly, then settled.
Returning his focus to his task, Walker exerted his will once more, forcing the cage apart and shattering the lock on Arias's positive memories. Quickly going to work, he began to put things back into place, removing the false connections and placing things in a much more stable order. A few "branches" could be trimmed, but not many. Merely a slight lessening of connections, a more proper order that might allow her, now, to move on. To grow, instead of being mired in the past. Before, she seemed to have been living in a chaotic, uncertain world. Now, her thoughts were quite literally in order once more.
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Post by Arias on Apr 28, 2016 20:50:54 GMT
Saira screamed as she was pulled from Arias' mind, fully losing any connections to her sister's memories. She stood in horror in front of Walker, but growled still struggling against the bonds of Walker. She tried to fight, as the black void loomed over her with Walker's figure in the center. She growled as Walker laughed, laughed at HER. She made a blazing, angry eye contact with Walker's own eyes, narrowing hers into slits.
The only thing Saira could do was watch, She watched as her vision went blank, covered by the dark, black void, and she heard Walker speak one last time, before saying a single sentence of her own. "Go.. fuck yourself..." Was the last thing Saira would ever say in this world, her influence permanently removed from Arias' mind. In the real world, Arias full-body spasmed slightly at the consuming of her sister.
Arias' mind lit up as soon as Walker broke apart the cage containing her positive memories, and removed false connections, putting her mind in order. The very area was lit up with many golden globes of positive memories, but the massive orb of her parent's death still stood, the major cause of her PTSD. However, it seemed to be falling to the back of her mind, shrinking.. as if her mind was moving on from the trauma that had plagued her for 13 years.. her mind picked up on the natural order, moving things about along new connections of old ones that Saira had broken.
Walker had finally helped the woman to move on.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2016 22:31:41 GMT
Nodding in satisfaction, Walker removed his hand from Arias's face, the link slowly severing as he blinked, coming back to reality. That had gone better than he expected, if he was honest. Arias was no longer possessed, which was a step up, and with her memories and thought processes more properly in order, she might finally be able to move on with her life. He had done his best to avoid looking, unless he had to. He had no desire to peep into the girl's past or learn her secrets.
He waited until Arias awoke, hands folded. "Do you feel somewhat better? There was a malevolent spirit in there, altering your memories. I'm not sure why, or how, but it was preventing you from seeing things in anything but the worst light." Hopefully, with this, the problem was at least solvable. He mentally felt the comforting fullness that came from consuming Saira, and chuckled slightly. What a day, what a lovely, lovely day.
[Sorry it's a bit short, heading to bed.]
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Post by Arias on Apr 28, 2016 22:57:19 GMT
Arias slowly came to upon the severed link, blinking open her eyes as she stood where she had been before, no longer hovering in the air slightly. She looked at herself, flicking her tail as she examined her body. She felt.. strange. Like there was a weird peace where a burning flame of confusion had been.. it made her feel.. for once, truly content. Happy, even. She looked at walker, listening to what he was saying, and nodded gently. "Yes.. I feel much better than when I first came to seek your help."
Her aura was pure, and had gone from baby blue to a deep, royal purple. Her eyes went from hazel to a shocking deep blue, and her hair had grown out, falling down to her waist. The loss of Saira returned her to the way she had looked from before her dead sister tortured her. Arias' face was fuller, rather than bony, her cheeks were filled in and her eyes caught the light and glimmered.
"How can I repay you, Walker." She asked, turning to look at the tree once more. Her voice had also turned a lot more.. mellow. Like.. it was unexplicable but yet it was there. Her voice had a friendly, gentle tone along with it. The loss of Saira, for all eternity, was probably going to benefit everyone, and Arias' twins wouldn't have to be raised under a traumatized mother. Arias waited for Walker's response, wanting to thank him in some way shape or form.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2016 9:45:49 GMT
Shaking his head, Walker merely gestured. "I am putting things to right. No thanks is necessary. Although, if you do wish to do something for me..." He gestured at the wide window of his study. The room was atop a high tower in the Cathedral, and outside, the vast blue sky could be seen. It was very wide, and obviously intended to allow for people to fly in and out. A benefit of being built by someone who knew that most he encountered would be capable of flight.
"I imagine Daika would be quite happy to see you, especially one less distressed. I wish you luck, Arias." Bowing, he folded his hands in his lap, and tilted his head slightly. It was intended as a smiling sort of gesture, but that was hard when one does not have a mouth.
As he settled back into his spot, Walker gave no indication of his inner thoughts. Body language was easily controlled when one didn't have a human body. Still, he was pleased with this. Arias already had ties to earth, and he could tell that she was approaching the point where she would unlock the Super Saiyan transformation. It was yet another person who would be able to fight back if the SSE invaded, or anyone else. With this... he had a better chance of risking leaving the planet in Vi-Poi's hands. Wonderful... things were falling into place.
[Exit Thread. Zeni Please]
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Post by Kizuki on May 3, 2016 20:32:39 GMT
Arias: +1,445 Zeni New Total: 9,186 Zeni
Walker: +2,120 Zeni New Total: 6,476 Zeni
(Adding now.)
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