The Start of it All

[RyderHakubi]

Ryder looked at Carthrat, and at the cigarette, and replied, "No thanks, too young..."

"It's weird... It's only happened to me once before, and I found out about these..."

He restrapped his guitar and pulled out one of the Gundanium Chairs...

"And now, I black out and I find out I have this..."

[Carthrat]

Carthrat blinked.

"That's Gundanium! Weird.. that stuffs rare.."

Carthrat paused for a moment.

"Then again, if you hang around those two, you'll probably need whatever you can get.. I thought Kwok was bad, but Ace seems just plain vicious.."

[RyderHakubi]

"Wait... you know these whackos?" Ryder said with a bit of surprise as he placed the chair back into subspace...

[Carthrat]

"Eh. We're acquanted. Actually, I know Kwok fairly well.. but I met Ace around the same time you did."

"Kwok's a bit of a weirdo. I've never had any clue what his agenda is, and I doubt I ever will. What I DO know is that he is, his idiotic personality aside, he happens to be the Aspect of Space. Ace over there is the Aspect of Order.. and I'm Carthrat, Guy of Nothing in Particular. Sucks to be normal, sometimes."

"What about you, anyway? What's the first thing you remember?"

[RyderHakubi]

"I remember... a profound night, full of violence and death..." Ryder muttered... and facepalmed...

"No, that ain't it.  That's the opening to Scryed... The first thing I remember is lying in a field... my railgun next to me.  Every once in a while, I'll get flashes... a hideous purple creature or a family of 7 clouded in darkness... but that's all they are... flashes."

[Carthrat]

<-Family of Seven, Carthrat? What were they again? Void, Space, Time, Order, Chaos, Death and Life.. ->

<-Naah, just a coincidence there's seven of them.->

<-Oh. If you say so. Still, there's something different about this guy I just can't put my finger on..->

"Really? Weird. Guess you're going through 'post-traumatic prophecy' state. Don't worry, it'll all make sense later. Maybe.

Nice Railgun, by the way. Did you make it or buy it? And did the shot intensity get shortened by the ammo recreator mechanism?"

[RyderHakubi]

"I don't know... Like I said, it was next to me when I woke up.  But, something tells me it's mine... I just don't know how I know this..."

Ryder muttered while pulling the gun out...

"It hasn't failed me yet though..."

[acetalon]

"Hey!  Leggo!"  Ace tried to squirm out of Kwok's grip, but eventually gave up and let Kwok drag him along.  He was tired anyways.  

"I suppose Ryder has had enough.  I swear he'll pay for my hands though.  Any ideas on where Tomas went off to?"

[RyderHakubi]

Looking at the pair in front of him, Ryder asked, "Hey... who's this Tomas guy you two are talking about?"

Once again... a twinge of deja vu strikes as he says the name, but nothing more...

[Kwokinator]

OOC:  I keep forgetting to post ^_^;;

IC:  "Tomas is our cousin," Kwok answered, looking back at Ryder. "Mine and Ace's anyway.  And right now we have no idea where he's off to.  Any ideas?  You should have some traces of how to find him in whatever's left of your memory or something..."

[RyderHakubi]

"Of course I don't have any ideas... I don't know the guy remember?" Ryder said while kicking a rock along the unbeaten path they were traveling...

On the group's right, a stone gleamed...

[Kwokinator]

"Feh," Kwok remarked casually. "You're useless."

To emphasize the point, he did a back kick at Ryder without turning around.

[Carthrat]

Bright and shiny objects always did have a way of catching 'Rat's attention..

He stepped over to the stone and inspected it for a moment.

"Weird.. wonder what I could make from this..."

Shrugging, he picked it up and stuffed it in his pocket before walking back to the group.

[RyderHakubi]

Ryder hopped back to avoid the kick and stated, "So, I don't remember any of you people... cut me some slack, will you?"  Then adding, "And I'm not useless... I killed that big dragon back there, didn't I?"

[RyderHakubi]

The gem in Carthrat's pocket began to softly pulse a dull red...