The Start of it All

[acetalon]

OOC:  Err...SoulTaker?  Sorry, I'm pretty much braindead on the FFX world.  If there's a problem, please tell me.

IC:Ace sliced upward with the kodachi in his left hand to knock the hand towards the sky as he ran towards Meros with the blade in his right.  

"Heathen!  HEATHEN?!  I never ASKED to be a part of your religion, you sick freak!"  Ace shouted.  "You better damn well care, because their blood is on YOUR hands!"

He ran past past Meros, slashing him through his neck as he past, then pivoted on his foot, turning 180 degrees while he reversed his grip on the blade and slammed the blade into Meros' backbone.

[Shuten]

OOC: SoulTaker isn't from FFX. It's from the thirteen episode series being released by Pioneer. Just picture a humanoid batdemon and you get a pretty good idea of what he looks like.

IC: "Impo... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!" Fanatic Meros screamed as streams of energy began to flow from his body. More and more flowed away until nothing was left of the body.


Shuten

[acetalon]

Ace sheathed his blades and closed his eyes, muttering a short prayer for the poor man/beast.  May he find sanity and peace in the next life.

Finished, he stood up and spotted the hooded figure.

"Hey, you alright?"  He called out, sliding down the hill.  As he moved closer, he felt a growing sense of...what, dread?

As he untied the bindings, he couldn't help himself as he tried to move the hood aside to get a better view of her face...

[Kwokinator]

Kwok paled and sweatdropped as the demonic tone of Angela's normally melodic voice reached his ears.

"Umm..." his thoughts raced as he tried to think up an excuse. "To... investigate... of course... like Carthrat's doing..."

[Shuten]

Sakura did not respond. She simply lay there unseeing.


Shuten

[acetalon]

Ace shook his head as he drew back.  It was rude of him to do something like that.  Especially to someone out cold.  Maybe there was a reason she was hiding her face or something.  Instead, he finished removing the chains that bound her and,  thinking she was out cold, picked her up and carried her over his shoulder.  

"Why am I doing this?  "Where thel hell am I going?  What am I doing?""  He asked himself, resisting the urge to walk up to the nearest stone structure and slam his head into the wall.

[Shuten]

"I don't know, Spira, and you're carrying me." Sakura muttered sleepily having been awoken mere minutes into her impromptu ride. "Now be quiet... sleep...." Sakura trailed off as she quickly succumbed once again to the Sandman's spell.


Shuten

[acetalon]

Ace really wanted to smash his head into the wall after that.  His face had turned a scarlet red at her words.  Instead, though, he kept walking.  He couldn't help but wonder again who it was that he was carrying over his shoulder.

Spira?  Is that where they were?  Ace pondered this as he wandered around town, knocking religious zealots unconscious as he passed with a blue chain whip.

Oh well.  The girl sounded cute, and Ace certainly didn't mind carrying cute ladies around.  Not to mention she had a nice, curvy figure that her clothes failed to hide...

He shook his head and tried to dispel such thoughts, but failed miserably.

[RyderHakubi]

Yamiko walked through the town, noting the burning bodies on the ground.  From her communicator, Keril's voice rung out, "Such a waste... see Yamiko, this is the corruption and war the masses must live with..."

"Which is why Lord Keril-sama should rule all of them!" Yamiko shouted out, somewhat ruining the moment...

"Yes Yamiko, that is why BESIDE must unite the people... but first, perform the last rites on these people, please..." Keril asked, with an uncharacteristic somber tone to his voice...

Yamiko nodded and began to spin, waving her arms in a unique, beautiful pattern...

[RyderHakubi]

Angela looked at Kwok, with an angry highlight to her beautiful face, and replied, "I don't believe you... You have that same look on your face that you had when you would go after my counterpart..."

[RyderHakubi]

Ryder looked at the pair arguing, and interrupted, "Listen, I doubt this is the time for a lover's spat.  We lost Ace and Rat..."

With that, he started off in the direction of the billowing smoke...

[Carthrat]

"Masaka..."

Carthrat gave up trailing Yamiko secretly and just... stared.

He bent down to look at a corpse, and muttered to himself,

"Is it that people enjoy dying, or that people enjoy killing? Or both..."

Standing up, he raised his voice. "Is there anyone here left alive?"

[acetalon]

Ace stepped out of the dust clouds still carying the silent girl and looked at Rat.

"...This town is still under attack,"  he said simply.  "Need I say more?"

Ace turned around and walked back towards the inside of the town.  Whether Carthrat wanted to help save those who still lived or not was up to him.

[Carthrat]

Carthrat walked after Ace.

OOC: ...and there's nothing more to say.

[Kwokinator]

Kwok sweatdropped.

"Yeah, what Ryder said!" he said hurriedly, avoiding Angela's accusation completely. "We have to find Ace and Carthrat!  And that girl!"

"... to tail her, of course..." he added a second later.