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Post by Amy Sorel on Jun 10, 2014 18:57:30 GMT
Still uncertain of her revenge or not. Setsuka went back to Japan. She thought she left it for good when she left last time since her master was dead and she knew no one else but she realized that she missed her country. She may be seen as a stranger by the native who were getting even more hostile to westerners since some years but it was still the place where she grew up, the place she knew best. And the place where Mitsurugi was seen last time.
After having visited her sensei’s grave one last time, cried on it and remembered his words to not get revenge, Setsuka felt bad to not be able to let go of her anger and wish to make Mitsurugi pay. It was too strong, she had to do it. Or maybe hear Mitsurugi say he was sorry or something like that. But she could not forget it and do nothing. Asking for forgiveness from her sensei, she left the tranquil graveyard and went in search of the fearsome fighter.
The blond woman who had dyed her hair black once more to more easily pass as a native and not be shunned too fast since she had to socialize to know about Mitsurugi, had heard some rumours about a ninja who was frequently meeting with Mitsurugi but she didn’t learn very much more. Yet she also learned of a ninja clan some miles away from here and she decided to ask them about Mitsurugi. If she could find the clan… A ninja village must be well hidden… Completely invisible to normal eyes by some ninja means or hidden as an ordinary peasant village…
Yet as she was walking on the road, Setsuka noticed something in the air. Some kind of… Was it a human? Somebody flying with some flag and… something that was turning very fast? What was that? How strange… Intrigued, she began to run after it, to see where it would land.
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Post by khajita9000 on Jun 11, 2014 5:48:11 GMT
The man garbed in dark cloak and hood with his right arm hidden beneath the cape of the cloak stood waiting for the man who he had contacted. It was unclear how the man had come from Rome to a hidden clearing in the forest. The man's posture showed he was slightly stiff as his posture was stuck leaning against a tree his face covered by a black mask that showed only one eye hole. The crossbow he had used to shoot the assailant hooked onto a holster attached to his good left arm. The mans name had never been uttered by anyone and very little was known of him. However the sound of air being cut very quickly over head was heard.
Yoshimitsu landed very quickly as he had reached his destination dropping down with a spin then landing lightly on one straw sandled foot in a strange stance. "Nomu ye be the sender of the winged message yes?" The eccentric ninja took a habit to looking more like a samurai then a ninja. However this was neither the time no place to argue semantics about how things appeared. "Sooo you have found the Key have ye..." Yoshimitsu's mask opened in the center as he leaned in close tapping his chin. "And you say this key is some valuable item that may...or may not hold the key so to speak to unlocking the secret of the hidden last treasure of thouse who created the two swords yes...but I have to wonder what is this hidden last treasure and what is it meant to accomplish?"
The dark cloaked man remained quiet throughout the strange mans ranting calmly he would wait for the man to stop speaking for a moment. "I know that the Anima Mirror has been lost to the ages and that the key to its hidden location was said to have...vanished but now a boy has been seen carrying the key with him and knows not what it unlocks."
Yoshimitsu listens the sound of the name Anima Mirror caught his attention most. "The Anima Mirror and what do you know of this Mirror you speak of and what makes you believe this boy truly has the key to the treasure."
The cloaked man had to only say the words "For the Dark Sabers would not be sending out their assassins after something that was not proven to be of value." Yoshimitsu blinks "You say the Dark Sabers are on the move?" The cloaked man gave a small nod "And they are willing to do what is needed to take that key or destroy it."
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Post by Amy Sorel on Jun 11, 2014 21:15:43 GMT
Setsuka kept running toward where she saw the strange man landing. As she approached with more caution since she didn’t know what that man was, she heard people speaking. She crept even more silently while trying to not get noticed since her kimono was quite colorful.
Once near enough she noticed that it was two men, the flying samurai and a mysterious hooded man. Dark sabers? On the move? The key? What key? Who are those? Wondered Setsuka who only heard the last words of the conversation. They seem to prepare something… good or bad? Against who? Not daring to move more, Setsuka kept listening in hope to learn more.
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Post by khajita9000 on Jun 12, 2014 5:21:30 GMT
A slender metallic scaled snake slithered up along the grass. The serpent slithering near the woman's leg it slowly began to slither up through the opening in her kimono. The snake slithering up higher and higher the woman seemed so caught up in the conversation the men were having that the snake had moved up quite abit without grabbing the woman's attention yet.
The hooded man looked to the eccentric ninja and began to look around having thought he heard movement but leaving that up to whatever could be said about their conversation the words began to flow "As you know the members of that very organization are of course others like me as you might have heard or not." The hooded man began to speak.
The eccentric ninja began looking around with the hooded man "Ye need not worry Legion you being a shard of one soul spread between many ye should be able to keep track of the Dark Sabers after all are they not also just dead bodies from Pompeii possessed by the soul shard that shattered among-st the population that day many many years back." Legion the hooded man with the crossbow on his arm lowered his hood and took off his mask the only part of the body had any noticable sign of flesh were the eye that was visible and the arm with the crossbow.
The rest of him was just like one would see of the thousands of dead found in Pompeii. "If you know of what I am I ask you to keep watch out for any of the darker halves of the Legion soul from getting out of Asia the boy is still in Europe as I know from the information shared between my other half in Europe seems one of the Dark Sabers blew himself up to try and take the boy and the key with him after a struggle."
As a pause broke out the sound of rustling in the bushes came about as what looked like many versions of the once hooded man rising out from the shadows. The Dark Blades had already been here and were still here as the dozen of cloaked figures came in various shapes and sizes only one moved forward however while the rest stayed in the darkness of the cover. This was the Dark Saber Lead in the area and his blade was drawn ready to fight.
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Post by Amy Sorel on Jun 13, 2014 5:37:42 GMT
Still listening and trying to understand who these were, Setsuka slightly felt something but thought it was the grass on her skin or the fabric of her kimono. She was too preoccupied to worry about that.
"As you know the members of that very orginization are of course others like me as you might have heard or not." "Ye need not worry Legion you being a shard of one soul spread between many ye should be able to keep track of the Dark Sabers after all are they not also just dead bodies from Pompeii possessed by the soul shard that shattered amongst the population that day many many years back."
A shard of one soul? Dead bodies? The Dark Sabers are undeads? The soul shard, is it Soul Edge? Setsuka kept staring at the mysterious and strange man with some horror and interest as he lowered his hood and took off his mask. He seemed so… strange… a dead body…
"If you know of what I am I ask you to keep watch out for any of the darker halves of the Legion soul from getting out of Asia the boy is still in Europe as I know from the information shared between my other half in Europe seems one of the Dark Sabers blew himself up to try and take the boy and the key with him after a struggle."
Darker halves? They are in Asia? But a boy in Europe seems to be very important… I’m into something worse than mere brigands… It’s good that I didn’t kill Mitsurugi yet, he will protect people if those Dark Sabers roam in Asia. Setsuka had some respect for the formidable samurai even if she hated him as well and knew that he would fight against any danger he would see, maybe for a challenge and not first and foremost to protect the people like her kind sensei would have done but he would still protect anyway. And Setsuka felt slightly reassured by that.
But then a dozen of hooded creature appeared from the bushes. One of them moved forward with his blade drawn. The dark sabers? Wondered Setsuka as she noticed all the hooded figures. She was still slightly confused by all this but she kept ready to unsheathe her blade since there seem there would be a fight… The newcomers must be the darker halves, the probably evil ones… Have they already noticed her?
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Post by khajita9000 on Jun 13, 2014 6:49:18 GMT
The Dark Saber that stepped forward spoke "You should never have interfered in Europe Lost One we felt your presence there and are here to put a stop to your meddling in our affairs." The one part of Legion with the eccentric looking Ninja didn't draw his weapon. Though the ninja seemed startled by the mass of corpse like men the man with him through up a hand and bayed him to stand down.
The ninja re sheathing his weapon the once hooded man stepped up to face the approaching Dark Saber the Dark Sabers blade was bound in a mass of linen wrappings and didn't look to deadly as it was now but as Legion stepped forward the linen wrap around the blade unfolded revealing a gruesome looking saw like toothed blade that would have befitted a mad mans taste. "You are going to turn to dust here now half of no virtue."
Legion sighs and sees that avoiding this fight was not happening he whistles for something. Soon the screech of an Eagle and the roar of a Lion could be heard as soon as the man whistled the snake that had been hiding in the geisha's kimono slithered towards Legion and soon bounding from somewhere in the woodlands came the beast that had roared, from above came the bird that had screeched.
The animals took their place near the one named Legion and he reached out his good hand to touch each one of the beasts as he touched them the beasts would glow and then disappear putting a part of them upon the mans body, from the Eagle the man gained wings and a talon pair of feet and right hand, from the Lion the body and head of a lion, and finally from the snake his dead arm became the snake the body moving around while attached to his shoulder.
"Like you I have learned to forgo myself for the sake of my own survival." The man named Legion was now a chimera and he appeared quite ready for a fight whatever black art he performed to obtain the form he took now was unknown it was clear however that as soon as he took this form all of the Dark Sabers moved in to attack.
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Post by Amy Sorel on Jun 13, 2014 17:05:24 GMT
Setsuka kept observing the scene while her hand still rested on her blade’s hilt. It seemed the ‘Lost One’ stopped his friend from fighting already… He didn’t seem too hostile… The other one’s blade definitely seemed more evil than the ‘Lost One’s…’ thought the geisha-looking woman.
When the strange man whistled and a screech and roar could be heard, Setsuka was confused but she suddenly gasped in surprise and fear as she noticed the snake sliding out of her kimono to go to the Lost One. She now was certain that with her scared gasp and the sudden move she made, she was detected.
Quickly brushing her kimono once to get rid of any other undesirable little beasts as she got up, Setsuka then unsheathed her blade from her umbrella, ready to fight. But she stayed surprised for a second as she noticed what the man called Legion or Lost One had become. What was that? The snake was part of him? He knew she was here and sent it purposely?
Setsuka was still confused as she didn’t know the intentions of all those people and the fact that the snake was on the side of the two previous people made her more distrustful of them but she still had the feeling they must be the least evil here… and they were disloyally outnumbered even if the man named Legion seemed to be a strong beast now. So she quickly went to their help by launching at one of the hooded ones. She would see who they all really were later.
"If it's a fight you want… You shall have it!"
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Post by khajita9000 on Jun 13, 2014 18:45:57 GMT
With the girl jumping up Beast Legion looked towards where the snake had come "Sorry for letting my little friend snuggle in there he likes his women well built it seems." This was true of the snakes nature for being close to women. The serpent arm of his then rose up in a position ready to strike.
The wings on the beasts back were not meant for flight as the body of the beast was to heavy to attain flight with the wings instead they were used to sail the beast man forward. His talon claw swipping out as he is assailed forward using the powerful beast legs granted from his Soul and Body share technique. The serpant struck out as the man tried to bring the blade into the beast mans side wrapping its jaws about the blade biting into it as it then split into multiple heads.
Soon the tallest of the legion stood behind the Geisha and had a huge mallet and was trying to use the element of surprise the variant body of the Legion behind her was a heavy body thus its shadow caste twice as much as the others. The ninja was also fighting cutting down several of the weaker ones. The ones killed left only a pile of dust and bones once killed as once their bond to the legion soul was cut they were merely a corpse once again.
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Post by Amy Sorel on Jun 14, 2014 19:02:28 GMT
Noticing the giant shadow behind her, Setsuka quickly turned toward the tall adversary and while evading his huge weapon, she swiftly thrust her blade into his side. While fighting she answered the one called Legion or Lost One.
"Well, tell your little friend that if he comes once more in my kimono, I’ll cut his head!"
She was used to being stared at for both the fact that she was Caucasian and that she was quite attractive for many men, even for those who scorned her, yet it didn’t gave the snake the right to come into her clothes like this. Not only was it a creepy snake like all snakes but also a perverted snake…
But as her sensei taught her, she pushed those thoughts aside and concentrated only on the fighting for now. She also could not let herself be horrified by what the enemies where turning into, only concentrate on the fight. After her strike she quickly backed away to evade the monster and quickly came back to charge.
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Post by khajita9000 on Jun 14, 2014 19:53:08 GMT
The fighting continued the big man behind the woman missed his swing down and got cut in the belly by her swift sword work the big man became nothing but ash and bone like the rest falling into a pile of ash the skull and bones lay as the hammer remained stuck in the ground.
Leigon was fighting with the other as the swift sword work of the other was keeping in time with the powerful talon swing with the left arm and firing a bolt off at the man but the other part of Legion was swift the Dark Saber Legion was a skilled fighter though dodging most attacks with ease. Then as Yoshimitsu had killed the last on his end Legion gazed at the both of them his snake arm rising up and hissing as the 8 heads it now had rose up in unison.
Then Legion bashed into the Dark Saber Legion with a shoulder tackle knocking the other down he then lunged atop him and pressed his full weight into the other he swiped the blade from the others hand with a sweep of his powerful left arm as he then leaned in with the lions maw he brings his teeth down around the mans skull. Crunching it between the lions mighty jaws. With not even a scream the Dark Blade was dead and then Legion reverts to his normal self the rest of the Dark Blades retreating back.
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Post by Amy Sorel on Jun 15, 2014 3:48:49 GMT
Setsuka wondered if she should run after them since she didn’t like to let evil creatures running around yet she wasn’t even certain who they were. So she sheathed her blade back and turned to Legion and his ally.
"It seems it has been a rude introduction with all this fighting. My name is Setsuka. Who are you and may I know what is going on?"
She couldn't help but look at the strange remains of those creatures. So they were already corpses?
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Post by khajita9000 on Jun 15, 2014 4:32:02 GMT
Legion looked at the woman his companions that had become one with him split from his body and went off into the wild once again. He coughs a little and pulls up his hood and puts his cloak back on till he was fully covered like before and clears his throat "So you were the presence I sensed before and I am simply called Legion..."
He looks at the woman carefully his one good eye piercing in its stare "You seem curious and theres alot to swallow yet unfortunately I have little time to do so...." Yoshimitsu had slipped away in the darkness and under the cover of the commotion once the commotion ended he was gone. "So how much did you hear from before?" For a man who was a corpse holding a soul that was part of many he had a clear voice he sounded like if he werent a corpse he would be rather handsome.
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Post by Amy Sorel on Jun 16, 2014 20:50:24 GMT
Setsuka noticed that the other man had gone, she wondered if he was part of the ninjas she was looking for prior to those events, to disappear so fast. Yet now her search for those ninja was somehow put aside as something more important seemed to be going on.
"You seem curious and theres alot to swallow yet unfortunately I have little time to do so.... So how much did you hear from before?"
Setsuka still wasn’t certain of who he was and if he was evil or not so she didn’t know if she should tell him all she knew yet she thought that it would cost nothing to tell him. She probably knew almost nothing and if she knew too much, she didn't fear him. So she could only know more, if he had the time and wish to tell her since he said he didn't have much time.
"Some group named Dark sabers would be on the move, here in Asia and are looking for a key and a boy in Europe. You apparently were in that group but for some reason you left. You… all seem to be undead maybe because of Soul Edge, well I guess it was a shard of Soul Edge. Somehow it ties you all together. I guess you are more than malfested… You also talked about your other half… Maybe you are two who left the organisation?" Setsuka then recapitulated what she knew.
"So what I get the feeling of is that you were all members of an ancient cult with some Soul Edge shard, something happened and you all became undead. Two of you wanted nothing to do with that anymore and left but the others are still in the cult and looking for a key and a boy who have that key for I have no idea the reason but certainly for no good. Something important seems to go on and that boy seems in danger. Your magical form came from that cult or you learned it after to fight them better I do not know. They called you Lost one because you left the faith of that cult I guess."
After a moment she added in a lower tone:
"And I am normally not that curious. I guess right now it is because I am… confused or looking for something in my life. I could be called lost one as well…"
Setsuka kept oscillating between her desire for revenge, her mourning for losing her beloved sensei and a wish to be at peace. She kept remembering her sensei’s words to not get revenge but kept fighting it as well since she was so angry at the killer for taking away the only person she ever loved and who ever loved her and she was lost without her beloved sensei. Unable to cope with the loss,she realized that she was running away all this time into all those countries to look for something that she still didn’t really know what it was. Somehow those adventures happening along her travels helped her forget about these dilemmas and it was one of the reasons she ran after the flying samurai or ninja and listened to what was going on.
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Post by khajita9000 on Jun 17, 2014 5:45:05 GMT
Legion listened as the woman explained what she had heard and he nods every so often at her various handling of the situation. "Yes you are right on most of what you have perceived from me and the rest of me....I am one of the many one soul who was shattered as punishment for gazing into the Mirror that Venus doth dropped to the plane of man...the mirror fell into the mouth of the mountain that laid waste to the once great city of Pompeii...."
He took a breath and leans against a tree the part of the Legion soul he contained was exhausted from the forceful soul and body sharing he did with the beasts just before. His breathing heavy and it could be seen that the ash that covered his body was starting to fall away revealing what was left of the remains of the body beneath the ash that was notably covering the bodies that remained in the streets of Pompeii.
"It is said only that the mirror that was dropped by the goddess reveals the one true form the heart of the gazer has taken...the man who gazed upon the mirror entombed within the mountain....caused it to shatter...when the mirror shattered the mans soul did as well...the shard of soul edge that had been in the mans possession angered the mirror...and caused the mountain to blow its very self apart."
"The people burned and buried without ever really knowing what was happening..from the greatest of sinner to the holiest of saint...to every man woman and child....the angered artifact...brought the mountain down around the city..." He would continue to speak the devastation of Pompeii happened in 74 AD which meant that whoever this man was had been around for a long time.
He continued on "From the anger the souls of those who died as sacrificed an unrighteous death with no last rights payed to any of them they merged into the shard of soul edge and combined with the very soul that had wrought the destruction thus the mans soul and that of every man woman and child merged into one..."
Legion gazed up at her and spoke "From this the souls seperated and claimed a body often times the first body they found on the streets...the bodies covered in ash and soot burned beneath beyond recognition...and that one soul that claimed many of the dead bodies itself is what you see before you and dead upon the ground there..." He pointed out
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Post by Amy Sorel on Jun 20, 2014 19:46:35 GMT
Setsuka listened to Legion speaking yet she had never heard of that great city of Pompeii but it seemed destroyed so it may be normal. And it seemed to be in Europe so she knew very few about that continent from where her parents may have come from and where she may or may not have been born.
At least, she knew Venus was a planet and the name of a love goddess as Hideko Shiori, an Oiran who was very well educated, had told her. As a bodyguard Setsuka was assigned to protect Hideko many years ago under the guise of an apprentice Oiran even if she was not one herself.
The Oiran was so satisfied with her work that she hired her many more times and Setsuka had learned many Oiran skills and scholarly matters from that woman. It was with her that she learned how to take care of her appearance since her sensei was not very good at it himself since he always looked neglected and he was training her like a boy, all her time devoted to fighting lessons and not her appearance. She remembered how he looked surprised when she came back from that mission all combed with make-up and all…
Her sensei knew she had to disguise herself but never thought she would look so stunning as he told her. Setsuka had appreciated the compliment and liked to look sophisticated and since then had always took care of her appearance as much as she could even if they had not too much money to buy clothes as nice as when she disguised herself for those missions. It would only be when he was about to die that her sensei gave her that beautiful kimono that he had bought with the money he could manage to save to make her a surprise.
Seeing that the man’s breathing was heavy and the ash that covering his body was starting to fall away Setsuka looked concerned. She wondered if he would crumble and die like the others… But he kept explaining.
A volcano… That man was holding a Soul Edge shard and the evilness of the shard was too much for the mirror… Setsuka then questionned him again.
"So… if I understand… the shattered soul is yours and is your enemies’ as well? They are all those dead people from the city? You were the one gazing into the mirror with a shard of Soul Edge? So… that means all the dead people from that city want revenge and can claim and kill anyone to take their body? They want revenge on you? Shouldn’t they get some ceremony to put their soul at peace? Or is Soul Edge forbidding such way? You seem to have had much time to research this and try to find some solution… What do you intend to do?"
Seeing that the man had difficulties to remain alright, Setsuka also wondered if he would try to take her body now as she understood he could do… Yet she knew she would resist if he did, beside he didn’t seem evil even if that calamity may have been triggered by him… She had to know more to stop that, by helping him or by herself if she had to.
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