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Post by Kain Angelo on Apr 11, 2012 15:38:15 GMT -5
One could not express the fear that was felt, the village was tense and fearful. Not just in the village and the Crepusculum army that waited here, but in the leader of the Saints: Kain Highwind.
Kain sat motionless on a gate that sat on top of a hill, overlooking the village. The fear resonated in the pit of his stomach, tight and twisted he felt like throwing up. He couldn't escape the thoughts that haunted his head, the memories of the first time he witnessed his brother's treachery: watching the little girl be speared and then watching the cold emotionless reaction from his generals.
Her eyes are what Kain remembered most... they were a light, almost pale blue, a stunning young lady whose life was cut short by the vile acts of the army, it was ultimately his own fault for letting it happen and it would haunt him for the rest of his life.
The only person who knew of the events is Sonorc, Kain had requested him to keep it a secret, he wouldn't be able to face the Saints if they knew what he had done.
He glanced at the necklace that hung on his neck, the prayer necklace asking for the protection from the Saints. Kain looked onto the village, watching as soldiers trained and prepared to what was most certainly going to be a bloodbath on both sides.
"What am I doing...?" Kain asked himself, feeling the fear of the coming battle rise up, "I can't command these armies, I'll just get them all killed!" He yelled while ripping the necklace off and throwing it at the dirt path, "This entire world is damned!" Kain yelled out, letting the words echo throughout the area.
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Post by King Roxa Hiaten on Apr 11, 2012 15:44:43 GMT -5
A gloved hand caught the necklace before looking up to the gate. Roxa Sairen frowned, he had never seen Kain look so edgy or nervous, although he'd be lying if he said that he didn't feel the same way at all. He had only ever fought bandits and brigands his entire life, today he'd be going up against properly trained and properly armed soldiers, but he supposed he did have one advantage and those were the people at his back. He trusted the Saints with his life, he wasn't going to just give in, lay down and then die when he knew that so many people would refuse to do the same.
With a small puff of exalted air, Roxa jumped up onto the gate beside Kain. He sat down beside his friend and leader and looked out over the village, at the armies that they had assembled. It was quite scary to realize how many of those men and women were going to die for a dream that even they themselves barely believed. He was just hoping that the forces from Santo-Luce and Nerezza would be here soon to back them up.
"Y'know..." He started "If the leader of an army suddenly starts spouting that everyone's doomed and that we're all going to die... The people within it lose heart pretty damn quickly!" He looked down at the necklace he held in his hand, before placing it on his right hand side, in between the two of them, before his gaze once again wandered out onto the village below them.
"You dropped this..."
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Post by Kain Angelo on Apr 11, 2012 15:56:40 GMT -5
Kain looked over at Roxa, his eyes trailing down at the necklace, he had no words for what he felt, no single expression could explain what he was feeling... fear, failure, regret, disgust with himself... the list went on.
He didn't take the necklace back, instead he just turned away from the young Saint, "It's just a dream, that's all it represents... a unattainable dream of a society that's free from scum like myself."
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Post by King Roxa Hiaten on Apr 11, 2012 17:55:00 GMT -5
"Oh great, if the leader of this great movement is scum, then what the hell does that make me?!" He joked, glancing across at Kain, he had never seen him like this. And it sort of freaked him out to see him so shaky before such a monumental event, so he decided to take decisive action. Looking down at the necklace he scooped it up in his hand with a small smile, whatever it was, it clearly meant something to the leader of the Saints.
"So, this represents a dream, huh?" He fastened the necklace around his throat "Well, I'm going to take your dream, and prove you wrong. I'm going to rid society of Duo and then I'm gonna' come back and hand this over to you." His hand brushed against the piece of jewelry. "I'm going to take your dream and make it a reality, then show you the world we can make." He looked across at Kain, a grin on his face "Deal?"
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Post by Kain Angelo on Apr 11, 2012 18:08:22 GMT -5
Kain was stunned by Roxa, despite the what was going on Roxa remained hopeful and confident... he clearly had no idea how many lives would be lost, or if he did, perhaps he was better at shielding his emotions then Kain was.
"...Deal..." Kain nodded, he didn't feel weakened by this entire thing, he had a strange feeling of hope that he was feeding off the young Saint, "We'll need to start making preparations if our reinforcements do not arrive..."
There had been three plans made, one if they were lucky and managed to get both, and the other two were if they only got one of the two other armies.
"Roxa, you know your job." At this point his job was simply to warn the Saints about the current situation, then they would be assigned to separate areas of the army. Spreading out the Saints power wasn't a wise idea, but at this point if none of the two armies arrived they needed to retain the line.
Kain began to walk away, he had his own job to contend with. "Roxa," he said as he walked away, glancing back at him, "Protect that dream no matter what happens. I may have failed it but something tells me you'll succeed."
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Post by King Roxa Hiaten on Apr 11, 2012 18:14:03 GMT -5
Roxa closed a fist and held it against his chest, over the necklace before holding it out to Kain in a form of salute. "My dream is yours, boss." With that he also jumped from the gate and started stretching, preparing to move out to his position. He was ready for whatever was to come. Running a hand through his blonde spikes he nodded to himself. He was definitely ready, he would face whatever danger would come, not without fear, but he would definitely have courage. Nothing would deter him now.
Someone cleared their throat behind him.
"Roxa?"
Okay. Maybe that would deter him.
Quickly pulling his hood up he twisted round to look at Alessia, putting on a deliberately deep voice (admittedly one completely different from every other time he had spoken to her) and spoke.
"Wh-what? Roxa? No... My name's Sago!"
Again, a different name from the one he'd been using.
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Post by Alessia on Apr 11, 2012 18:33:37 GMT -5
Alessia leaned in close to looking under his hood, she smiled before speaking again, "It is you, isn't it?"
She grabbed his hood and gently pushed over, revealing his face. "Roxa!" She gasped, not sure if she should hug him or smack him for hiding himself from her. She decided to smack him, or try: as she lifted her hand up to smack she took a step forward... and instead tripped right onto him, ending in a hug. Only Alessia could turn an attempt to smack into a hug successfully.
Oh well, it's what she really wanted to do in the first place.
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Post by King Roxa Hiaten on Apr 11, 2012 18:43:35 GMT -5
Roxa spread his arms out and caught Alessia with a small chuckle, he wouldn't defend the fact that he'd been hiding from her for at least a few months, if anything he deserved whatever extreme acts of violence that she'd originally been planning to implement on him. But now he had to face the music, at the end of the day he'd still slaughtered a group of bandits outside her village like he was some sort of wild animal.
"So..." He said with a small sigh, not quite having let go of her yet.
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Post by Alessia on Apr 11, 2012 18:58:29 GMT -5
"So!?" She said, not breaking from the hug but she seemed kinda pissed, "That's all you have to say?! I thought you were dead or something, you didn't even say goodbye to me!"
She paused for a moment before speaking again, "JERK!" She yelled while tightening the hug to the point where it might've been hard for him to breath.
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Post by King Roxa Hiaten on Apr 11, 2012 19:03:58 GMT -5
"Ahh... tssk...gggh...haaaa..." He managed to loosen her grip slightly and gasp in a quick breath of air before speaking. "Well, you see, here's the thing, those men had families and I don't think it would have been difficult to put two and two together. 'Oh! My brother and co. went out into the lava fields, that kid followed them! Oh, he's back! Oh! My brother and co. are dead!' Y'know what I mean?" He looked down at her.
"I didn't want people putting that four and then another two together and get six. AKA; realizing that you knew me and that I'd killed those guys and that therefore they should not be at all happy with you!"
He hadn't even for a moment considered that Alessia might not even know that he'd killed those bandits.
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Post by Alessia on Apr 11, 2012 19:13:09 GMT -5
She honestly didn't follow half of what he was saying, something about him going out to the lava fields with a bunch of other men... and then Alessia started to put it together:
In the lava fields there are a large amount of hot springs where people love to go relax, so if Roxa left her alone and decided to leave with a bunch of men to said hot springs then there was only one explanation: HE TOOK A DIP IN THE HOT SPRINGS WITH OTHER MEN!
"Oh- I see, I had no idea..." She let him go, shyly taking a step back, "I had no idea you liked THAT type of thing, well I suppose it only makes sense; I mean you're nice, good looking and I should've caught on by what you were wearing, totally gave it away.... It's alright Roxa, I understand, you can be my best gay friend if you'd like!"
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Post by King Roxa Hiaten on Apr 12, 2012 9:47:02 GMT -5
Well, it seems that she'd completely missed the fact that he'd just said that he'd killed people in the past... But what was even worse was that she'd put two and two together and got homosexuality! His arms dropped to his side as he stared at her slack-jawed, before babbling, trying to explain himself.
"Wh-what?! N-no! I don't like... No! I mean, I'd never want to say, share a bedroll with a man. Well okay, I would with Kain or Grey maybe but that's a military thing! Y'know, when you don't have enough bedrolls! I wouldn't be uncomfortable... But I mean.. W-well, I'd be uncomfortable if I had to share a bedroll with Kain naked. I mean, I'd much rather share a bedroll with, well, well with you naked, but Kain says we're all brothers and sisters... And you don't sleep naked with your sister... Th-that's weird!"
He let out a sigh, giving up. Throwing his head back he cried.
"I LIKE BOOBS. OKAY?!
It was more an admission to the world, rather than Alessia.
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Post by Alessia on Apr 12, 2012 10:40:14 GMT -5
There was an awkward silence that hung over the surrounding area, Roxa's outburst had caused everyone around them to look their way. The only person who said anything was Grey who was somewhere in the crowd, "That kid is preaching the word of god!"
Alessia glanced from Roxa to the crowd nervously, "O-oh, um, I see!" She blushed while everyone continued to stare at them, "I understand what you mean, like, I suppose it would be weird because we're family now..." Alessia was beginning to ramble, she not able to focus with everyone staring and Grey continuing to spout nonsense.
"Can we go somewhere private?"
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Post by King Roxa Hiaten on Apr 12, 2012 13:16:15 GMT -5
Roxa on the other hand, did not seem at all embarrassed. He had spent entire weeks of his life begging on the street for coin to get him around the world, people staring was nothing new to him, so he was obviously somewhat confused as to why Alessia wanted to speak in private. Oh god. She was going to shout at him wasn't she? Or even worse... Hit him?! He'd seen her cast her light magic, and looking up at the sky, he guessed she'd be pretty juiced up today. Ah crap. He made his peace with the gods.
"Um... Okay..." He motioned for her to lead the way.
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Post by Alessia on Apr 12, 2012 14:04:45 GMT -5
Alessia pulled him away from the crowd, they walked until they reached the outskirts of the town. She looked up at the sun for a moment, letting it bath her face in the warm glow before turning back to Roxa.
"Did you know my village was destroyed?" Alessia spoke in a cold, saddened voice, "Duo has taken over everything, I thought for sure they had killed you... well, I guess what I really want to just say to you is this: I'm glad you're here with us, Roxa."
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