Solace of Nirvana

"The knights?" Emma asked confused. She then remebered hearing about them. Her face showing a look of shock, fear, anger, and sorrow; none because of herself but of others. She was brought back to reality by her statement of taking her heart.

"My heart?! What do you need with my heart?" Emma asked backing up away and keeping the struggle bat hidden.

"I suppose you'd like to do what you did to thousands of innocent people, light knights, hah more like knight from darkness if you ask me." Emma said knowing her stories and hearing other stories.

 

"Ouch that hurts. Don't insult me like that." A voice spoke in Emma's room. Darkness began collecting to take the shape of an individual. "The darkness isn't bad. If that were the case, I'd be bad." The figure began to vanish. It was struggling to keep its shape. "Little girl," The figure spoke to Emma, "Get out of here. I don't have much power in the Realm of Light, but I can keep this individual occupied while you get away. Now go."

The sun was beginning to set on the world Gerik was on. He was surrounded by his practice targets, all of them cut up by his weapon. He wound it up and hooked it to his belt. He was drenched in his sweat. "Alright." He smiled. "And not a single scratch on me." He walked away from the area, heading into the town he lived in. He had a small place he stayed at. He entered the place, drank a glass of water, and lied down on his bed.

 

Emma nodded at the figure. She quickly ran past the other girl and out of her house. She kept running and ran into the underground passages leading to multiple places in town.

Emma stopped out of breath after arriving at the mansion. She leaned against the gate, too tired to climb it.

"What's going on?" Emma asked aloud. She slid to the ground and rested her head on the wall. She could smell smoke which was sort of weird. She ignored it though.

 

Finch's detector went from pulsing to being fully on in the presence of Voltair. She grinned a fiendish grin, ignoring her assigned quarry for a much bigger prey.

"Oooh, you're a dark one, ain'tcha?" She cooed, summoning more blue mana to fire. "Why, you could say that to meet you I'm blushing. . . INDIGO!"

The witch forced the energy into another lance and fired at the apparition, intending to kill him. "You'll make a nice feather in my cap!" She cried while leaping after the lance, intending to strike with the blade.

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Raiga stood there for a moment, door in face, before he realized what happened. He stumbled backwards, rubbing his nose that was so rudely slammed on by the door.

"How-How dare they?!" He snarled, his hands crackling with none other than electrival energy. He blasted a Thundaga at the door, shattering it to pieces. The tawny-haired man's hands began firing branching waves of electricity at the floor as he grimly stomped back towards the room.

"I don't know who the hell you are, but if you think you're getting away from me, you're in for a SHOCKING experience!" Raiga shouted, directing the Branching Lightning at the trio.

 

Finch and her lance went right through Voltair's body. "You honestly think I'd let you pluck a feather from one of my wings? If you want, I could gather up the strength to bring you into the dark realm and let you try. For now I'm kinda restricted of my actions here in the light realm." He looked at his left hand. It was beginning to fade away, very slowly. "I hope I bought her enough time. I've got one shot, then the rest is up to you Raven." With his hand that wasn't fading away, Voltair held it up towards Finch. "Dark Firaga." His body, or at least the darkness he was using to give himself shape in this realm, turned into the dark blast and shot straight at Finch.

 

Raiga sighed, wiping off a bloody sword with what appeared to be a rag torn off a dress. He flipped open what appeared to be a cell phone, pressing a button.

"Hey, uh. . . Central? We've got a slight problem. Two evaders of the law, in fact. Yeah, I eliminated the parents and got the hearts. This is going to come out of my pay, isn't it?"

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Finch, completely unprepared for such an occasion, was blasted through the wall and into the next room by the Dark Firaga. Thankfully, her mana shielded her from any harm, save a few third-degree burns on her waist and a concussion from hitting her head on the wall. She muttered something unintelligible before falling unconscious.

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The door to Gerik's home opened, no sign of the doorknob being used. In the doorway stood a white-haired man with pale eyes, holding what appeared to be a detector of some sort in one hand and what looked like a screwdriver on crack in another.

"Greetings. You are the one known as Gerik, yes? My name is Ghira Ksiki. I have come on business to elminate you." The man said in a soft voice, setting his equipment down on a nearby table and drawing out a sword from his side.

 

Emma looked at the time on her watch and sighed.

"I can probably head back now." Emma thought to herself and stood up. She looked backat the mansion still smelling smoke. She shrugged it off and started walking off. She she left sitting and resting against the wall there was burn marks.

Slowly Emma walked back into town and heard the 12:00 bell ring. People doing some shopping, hanging out with friends, or going for lunch. She smiled but knowing the time she was suppose to be in school at the moment.

"Huh?" Emma stopped and noticed two girls with a lost look on their face. Emma stopped and looked at them. 'I've never seen them around before.' She thought to herself. Emma looked at the one girl 'she seems different, like me almost.' She thought to herself and shrugged it away.

"Hey!" She called to them and waved running over to them. "You two look lost." Emma stated.

 

Gerik looked up at the newcomer. He sat up from his bed. "Gerik?" He asked. "My roommate isn't around right now. I'd be happy to take a message though." Gerik grabbed his weapon, which was lying nearby. He still had his pouch of explosives hanging from his belt. "Can we talk outside? There's more fresh air out there." Gerik looked at Ghira's device. "I'm gonna go ahead and guess that this person found me with that thing. I'm curious as to how he knew my name though. I've never seen him before, and I'm not really social anyways."

From the dark realm, Voltair was all alone as he sensed events in the realm of light. "At least the fourth one can defend himself. I'd feel better if Raven could get to him quick. I won't be able to step in this time. Not for a while."

 

Ghira shook his head in disapproval.

"Whether you are Gerik or not is not a problem. You are the one that I shall eliminate, for you are the one with darkness Proportionately half, to be exact." He told the warrior, readying his sword. "While under any other circumstance, I would challenge you to honorable combat, this is the one circumstance that I can't take risks on. Good-day."

And he lunged forward with a horizontal slash.


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Kavi breathed heavily. Since he had gotten to this island, he had miraculously managed to avoid getting caught by one of those. . . human fledgelings. Of course, it helped that he had found a cave whose entrance was tiny and covered with fronds. He rested in here, leaving at night to find food.

"Why am I here? Why am I a human?" He asked to himself aloud while roasting a fish over a fire pit he made.

 

"And here I was hoping he'd believe me. Oh well. Guess it's time to move to another area. Can't let my surroundings stop me." Gerik thought to himself as he dropped to the ground to dodge Ghira's attack. Gerik threw the blade part of his weapon like a dart. Not at Ghira, but at the equipment he set down. The blade easily cut through the device. "Killing somebody because they're different. Sounds a little like genocide." While still on the ground, Gerik stuck a leg between Ghira's legs and kicked one of them away in an attempt to cause Ghira to fall. Gerik quickly pulled his blade back, not risking a chance for him to be open to a counter attack.

 

Emma nodded and smiled.

"Well, with Twilight Town you got to be careful, it's like a giant maze. If you're new to the town you easily get lost in." Emma explained. Emma began to walk but stopped when the girl began to ask her something. She turned back around.

Emma looked at the girl when she was asking about her name.

"My name is Emma. Well I'll see you both around I got to go see if the people who broke in my house left yet or not." Emma stated. "See ya." she said before walking away. She saw a woman, very young in appearence. The woman was carrying some weird device which caused Emma to stop.

'That person who attacked me, they had the same device.' Emma stated. She could only hope she was going to be attacked again and if she were she could really use that other guy.

 

Interesting. Ghira thought as his opponent's blade sliced apart his tools. Very interesting. With the kick that followed up, Ghira let himself drop. Once he was about to hit the ground, he curled his back and used his downward momentum on impace to roll himself backwards and away from the fighter. Once he was on his toes, he stood up and thrust his sword into the floorboard, getting it stuck.He's quick. I have got to see what he is capable of.

"You. You're far too interesting to kill at this time. I will let you live for the time being. Now, if you'll excuse me, I will be going to report on an escaped Dark that managed to overpower me in combat and is now on the loose." He cooly told Gerik, standing up and brushing himself off before pulling the sword out of the ground. Out of his pocket, he tossed a small, ornate device that was not unlike a Christmas bauble, though it was like a metal wicker orb with a button on top. "That portal device will take you where you need to go. I hope you stay alive, for I want to see what happens."

With those parting words, Ghira left the home, pulling a comms device from another pocket.

"This is Ksiki. My quarry overpowered me and escaped."

 

After Ghira left, Gerik stood still, kinda dumbstruck. "First impression? Bad guy. Second impression? Somebody who enjoys fighting people. Third impression? Working for somebody." He looked at the device in his hand. "Ironic. My first true means of escape since I was abandoned on this world. Given to me by somebody who tried to kill me. But can they find me if I use this thing?" Gerik quickly walked over to a desk in his room, grabbed some paper and a pencil, and started to scribble some things down.

Random person finds me. Has strange equipment used to find me. Probably part of some larger organization. Called me a Dark, said I was proportionally 50/50 darkness. Darkness doesn't exist. Not in this world. Probably others like me.

Gerik thought he was a little crazy as he wrote these things down. "I know I'm a chronic liar, but even this is too much of a stretch. Now I'm just guessing here." Gerik stopped, took a deep breath, and calmed himself down. "I gotta leave. They know I live here. Even though that guy said I escaped, more might come here. I guess they can track me." Gerik ran through the rooms, looking through the mess of stuff. He found a burlap bag. He ran back to the destroyed device. It was too damaged for him to take with him and maybe get it repaired. Gerik then ran to a different room and put some food in the bag. Along with the food, he put another bag in the larger bag. "I'm gonna need to be able to make some more if I end up using what I have right now." Gerik then started to leave the building. As he did, he took his weapon and started spinning it around. He began randomly destroying things, making it appear like there was more of a struggle here than there really was. Once his living space was damaged enough, Gerik pressed the button on the device. It opened up a portal and he walked through it.

>The second bag he put in the other bag alongside the food is basically materials for the small bombs he uses.<

 

The new world opened itself up to Gerik. He looked around. This world was nothing like the world Gerik was on beforehand. It was a massive metropolis. The silver buildings towered above everybody's heads, shining in the sunlight. Vehicles were flying throughout the sky, moving like little insects.

Gerik walked around, marvelling at his surroudnings. There were floating signs, all broadcasting a single event.

"Are you here for the race?" A man asked Gerik from behind the counter of an outdoor shop.

"Race?" Gerik asked.

"Yeah. The race that's been promoted for weeks now. It's on every sign floating throughout the city. It's our biggest race of the year."

"Sounds cool. How does work."

The person chuckled. "I'm guessing you're a traveler. We have this race every year, in celebration of the defeat of the darkness."

"Defeat of the darkness?"

"Yeah. Didn't anybody teach you anything about history?"

"I probably fell asleep." Gerik smiled and lied, rubbing the back of his head.

"Well, some time ago, long long ago darkness made another attempt to control the worlds. Another group of heroes from Destiny Islands rose up to defeat the darkness. In the end, they defeated the dark tyrant. An individual, with wings dark as night. They sealed him and all the darkness in the dark realm, never to be seen again. And ever since then, we've had a race. Contestants fly throughout the city and the outskirts on flying vehicles. The winner gets a very nice prize."

Gerik thought about it. "Sure, why not? Sign me up for the race."

"Just sign here." The person said, pushing towards a clipboard and pen."

Gerik paused before signing. "Probably shouldn't use my real name. Not if there are others hunting me." Gerik put the pen to the paper on the clipboard and scribbled a name. Calvin Bell.

>Yes, things happened differently in the previous RP. But I figured that somebody would've messed with history to make the dark seem more evil.<

 

Quickly Emma walked and knew she escaped. She sighed and fell onto a seat in the train station waiting for the train to come from sunset Terrance to see what damage could have been done.

Emma closed her eyes and part of her wanted to go back to the two girls an the other lady. She closed her eyes and saw one of her dreams flash in her mind. She opened her eyes realizing something.

"That one girl and that lady! They were in my dreams!" Emma exclaimed aloud with her discovery.