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Post by nintendonut1 on May 3, 2010 20:59:33 GMT -5
(IMPORTANT NOTE: Takes place AFTER the battle with Him (whenever it'll come XD) and BEFORE "The Evil Will Be Born From You")
Things were gradually slowing down again... which wasn't saying much in this apartment, but any break was welcome. Things were slipping back to normal... all except for one big change.
Returning home from his journeys with Gantz and company, Double D had introduced his family and friends to young Kyle, whom he had been taking care of during their travels. He assumed full responsibility of the child for as long as he chose it.
Of course, one more member of the big happy family never hurt; Kyle was welcomed with open arms. Marion especially seemed to take a liking to him... opening the door for an interesting conversation.
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Post by Firebreath Fishslap on May 3, 2010 21:35:04 GMT -5
Kyle had decided to go to bed after a long day. Double D had brought him to his apartment and introduced him to everyone... Raz, Ed, Eddy, Felix, Marion... it was almost overwhelming the amount of people he'd met. It was probably actually the most fun he'd had in a while. He hadn't had any trouble with Oni in a long time, thanks to Double D. And Kyle had finally managed to break a smile.
There had been a fair bit of chaos earlier, though. Mainly involving Marion. Kyle didn't have a problem with homosexual relationships; not like they were uncommon on this island. Probably more common here than they were on most Earths. The problem had come when he found out who Marion's mother had been.
"Th-This is your daughter?! You're a dad?! You're not even all that much older than I am!"
"Eheheh..."
"But, you guys are both guys! How's she your daughter!"
Nervous looks.
"Oh, she's adopted?"
Even more nervous looks.
"Um..."
"...Surrogate mom? Kid from a previous relationship?"
Even more nervous looks.
"...Sex change?"
Finally someone stepped forward. By the time they were done with their explanation, Kyle's eyes were as wide as saucers. Even with all of the weird things he'd been put through due to growing up on the island, it seemed he was still a bit naive about things like this.
Right now, though, Kyle was asleep on the couch. He'd insisted he take the couch. He didn't want anyone to give up their bed for him. Even if Double D was considering him a new member of the family, he was still an outsider here.
It was only as Kyle was drifting off into sleep that it occurred to him that something was up. By that point, he was already far into sleep and the nightmares that plagued his mind at night. He was shaking in his sleep, like usual, and was sleeping curled up in an almost-ball on the couch, his head resting on the armrest. He wasn't even using a pillow.
It was only after midnight hit did things start going wrong. And of course, like any good horror film, it was a full moon when it happened.
Kyle suddenly started shaking even worse, and pulled himself closer, when the shadows started creeping up his body. He grunted and seized the couch cushion tightly with one hand. He didn't even seem to be waking up, but he still looked like he was in pain. A tail curled out from his hips, several spikes pushed their way out of his back, horns grew from his head, and his ears grew into a pointed shape. Around his wrists and neck were red ringlike markings almost like shackles. Finally, Kyle stopped shaking, and stood up off of the couch. He moved to look out the window, and was staring up at the moon.
"...The moon's beautiful tonight, isn't it," "Kyle" said. "...On nights like this, I just can't help myself."
It wouldn't be immediately clear what had happened to Kyle, due to the shadows in the room. It was like they had arranged themselves to hide what had happened.
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Post by nintendonut1 on May 3, 2010 21:47:34 GMT -5
He couldn't have missed it. Not even in his sleep. It was a dark, dark signature of energy... one he hadn't felt since...
Double D's eyes snapped open. No... why now? With everyone else so vulnerable!?!
Looking down at Felix and Marion beneath him, he remembered his mental training and calmed himself. Do not panic. Do not worry the others. With any luck, he'd be able to force the demon back down like usual. Nothing to worry about.
He kissed his lover and daughter's heads softly, not disturbing them, before slipping out of bed and slowly making his way over to the bedroom door.
Opening and closing it, quietly yet swiftly, he spotted a shadow close to the couch. "...Kyle?" he softly called out. "...are you alright?"
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Post by Firebreath Fishslap on May 3, 2010 21:55:49 GMT -5
The shadow flinched at Double D's voice.
"Kyle?" It turned to face Double D, so that the glowing red rings would be completely visible, and he started stepping toward Double D. There was an evil grin on his face. "Can't say I know anyone named Kyle... oh, you must mean that dreck whose shadow I inhabit. Well, sorry to disappoint you... but Kyle's not here anymore."
Oni licked his lips as he stepped toward Double D. "Don't you know the significance of a full moon? I'd think someone as meticulous and well-researched as yourself would. The word lunatic came from the latin word for 'moon', after all. I just feel so very strange on nights like this... So powerful. So frenzied."
He tilted his head to the side a bit, still grinning. "Wouldn't you agree, Ddwen?" He gave an even deeper smirk as he said this.
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Post by nintendonut1 on May 3, 2010 22:01:58 GMT -5
Double D recoiled as if physically hit.
"Wh....wha..." He was surprised to find himself breathless.. yet not entirely. "W-what'd you...call me...?"
No, no, when did he... why did... immediately, the angel felt ill, his face growing pale. It took all his strength to keep his trembling knees from buckling. After all of the physical training he had gone through, the endurance he had built over time...
...one little word reduced him to a quivering mess.
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Post by Firebreath Fishslap on May 3, 2010 22:10:14 GMT -5
Oni chuckled as he stepped toward Double D, towering over him, and not just due to his careful manipulation of the shadows in the room. The effect on the angel had been just what he'd expected. He had those strings tied now.
"Ddwen... what a stupid name. Just as stupid as your stupid nickname... and your stupid birthname. Obviously your stupid parents were trying to make your name 'unique', but they just make a stupid typo, and here we are," Oni said. He leaned in a little further. "I hate you, Ddwen. You've gotten in my way since the very beginning. You know you can't break this boy's blood pact, and yet you're doing your best to keep me down. To hold back what little freedom I have due to this blood pact. For five years I've been trapped in this boy's shadow. Manipulating him. Had to do it the hard way because I can't tie my strings to anyone in that form. But now..."
He held out one hand over Double D's head.
"I finally can. Your name, it was so obvious," Oni stated. "You wore it on your sleeve, left it out in the open from the moment you met the boy. Your name was the easiest of all of them I've ever gotten. Even the boy's name wasn't that easy.
"I hate you, Ddwen. I've got six hours in control of this body, and I'm going to use them."
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Post by nintendonut1 on May 3, 2010 22:21:21 GMT -5
Double D painfully flinched at every mention of his sacred name... it was supposed to be all his own... all his...
He tried so hard to steel himself... tried so hard to keep his feet... but there was no defense against the deepest of wounds...
"....ohhhhhh...!" Double D moaned piteously, slumping down to his knees. He hunched over, trembling madly, dry sobs escaping his throat. "...stop... please don't..."
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Post by Firebreath Fishslap on May 4, 2010 6:19:59 GMT -5
Oni gave another chuckle as Double D began to beg. Oh, yes. This was the kind of pain, kind of fear he lived for. Once Double D's knees buckled under him, Oni smirked and crouched down, placing one hand against the closed door as he began to speak more quietly.
"That's right... hate me. Hate me with those futile human emotions you were born with. Hate me with the same hate I hate you with." Every now and then, a shadow would flicker in front of Oni's face, showing something more foxlike than human. "What I'm personally looking forward to is the reaction you'll have to the boy when I'm done with you. You won't ever be able to look at him the same way, always knowing that the one who tortured you so is lurking right near him. You can never tell him, but he'll know something is wrong. If you do tell him, you'll just push him further toward that ever present option for him, just to stop the pain he causes others."
Then, he placed his hand on Double D's head, allowing his shadows to enter Double D's body. Several images to flicker through Double D's mind. Several of them featuring Oni's true form, several of them bloody, and all of them painful.
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Post by nintendonut1 on May 4, 2010 17:46:01 GMT -5
Before Double D could work up the strength to response to Oni's cruel, and true, accusations, he inhaled tightly as the shadows woved into his head, passing into a terrible trance and seeing things that terrified him senseless that he could not escape.
Every last one of his enemies, laughing...
Everyone he loved, dying...
The island he grew to love, destroyed...
And then....him.
"...Emotions make you weak. You're easily broken if you can feel."
Double D felt himself stagger back at the giant that towered over him. "...n...no...!!"
"People die. The word is imperfect. But problems like that can be fixed, Eddward..."
"No!.... NO!!"
"Imagine a world without death or war or hatred-- one in which a superior mind acts as the judge and jury for all mankind...
"...you can create this world... Ddwen."
Double D screamed, holding his head in agony. His feet lost their holding (though it didn't look like he was standing on any surface), and he felt himself falling through the endless darkness. He forced his wings out, but they were no help at all, and he finally collided with another invisible surface... HARD.
He moaned heavily, barely have the strength to lift himself back up. His wings limped around him, useless.
(very weird, bear with me XD I know Oni's only begun with this mental torture)
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Post by Firebreath Fishslap on May 4, 2010 19:01:38 GMT -5
Oni was privy to some of the visions he'd given Double D as they began to assault the poor boy's mind, and they amused him. He had only given the small push, he had intended to just give him horrible visions of past deeds, but it seemed Ddwen's mind had filled in for the rest. Some of this boy's thoughts intrigued him. It seemed some side of him wanted to create a perfect world... an emotionless world.
It would be better to kill him where he stood, if that was the case.
But Oni wanted to see how much further he could drive him over the edge. He leaned in closer to Double D's head, whispering into his ear.
"A perfect world, one you alone would control. A perfect, orderly world. A world you could make for your own, if only you'd just give in. The option's always lurking there, in the back of your mind," Oni whispered. "Just... give in."
He really was having too much fun with this.
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Post by nintendonut1 on May 4, 2010 19:17:21 GMT -5
Double D was violently trembling. The voice he heard, from Oni or the Wizard or, oh, what difference did it make!? It wasn't any less frightening.
"...no... no...!" he sobbed, pulling his hat over his eyes. He didn't want to hear anymore. He didn't want to see anymore. He only wanted it all to... "...go away... go away...!"
(don't think you're limited by the Wizard stuff XD I'm curious to see what you come up with)
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Post by Firebreath Fishslap on May 4, 2010 21:36:53 GMT -5
Oni began to chuckle even louder. Oh, this was rich. This was just beautiful. But teasing the boy about his perceived fate was getting boring. He had to think of something else, something...
Oh. Oh yes. Perfect.
Not moving from his previous position, Oni began to speak again.
"They're jealous of you, Eddward. Everyone is. You got the best powers of the set. Oh, Eddy can move super fast and summon fire, and Ed can manipulate something even you barely understand, but you, oh, you had to be judged the best of the bunch. Your powers, made only for protecting yourself and others, were weak for battle. And yet, you turned them into something you could fight with," Oni said. "And then you fell in love with that damn pretty-boy angel. But instead of saying what they really felt about it, they pretended to accept such things. They're teenage boys. They know such relationships are... unnatural. They can't fully accept such things. They say to themselves 'As long as he's happy', but in truth, you just make them uncomfortable."
He stroked Double D's cheek with one clawed finger as he continued. "How does it feel to know you will outlive your friends? A being born a mortal and yet being forced to accept the wings of an angel. You were judged worthy... but in truth it just means you become His dog. You became a guardian angel to stay on Earth, but isn't it more painful that way? You get to watch your friends age, while you stay the exact same. Beautiful, isn't it, this immortality."
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Post by nintendonut1 on May 4, 2010 22:31:24 GMT -5
Double D was weakly shaking his head no, no, he was lying, the demon was a ball-faced liar, they didn't feel that... couldn't feel that way...!
When Oni's clawed hand brought his face up, it was by now drenched in tears. Even then he tried to protest... "N...no... They... they...!"
...but Oni's next words made him choke any other words. And they hit the nail right on the head.
Double D's eyes enlarged; the tears would not stop flowing from them. "I...no...I don't....!" He broke into more sobs, slumping his head forward against, moaning out all the agony his subconscious had held back.
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Post by Firebreath Fishslap on May 5, 2010 18:41:58 GMT -5
Oni gave an even wider smirk as Double D began to sob. It looked like the boy's subconscious had finally given out with just that fact. Oni wouldn't know how that would feel; he'd never been mortal. But he knew it was something mortals and mortals who had become immortal liked angsting about. And it was something that Oni could use to his advantage.
"You'll watch the ages pass by, your friends grow old and die... even your daughter eventually will. She may be a half-angel, but who says she'll ascend like you did? Some day, she'll die too," Oni said. "Though I don't think you'll have to wait that long... you shouldn't have let her get so close to my host..."
While Oni said this, a few shadows wrapped around Double D's wrists...
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Post by nintendonut1 on May 5, 2010 19:30:44 GMT -5
Double D froze. Positively still, froze. Like, as if he had been zapped with Ed's zero-point energy, froze.
"Y...you..." The angel began to tremble again... though this time not out of fear. "You... you... you leave her out of this!!"
When his attempts to swing his arms was met with resistance, he gawked and the trendils of darkness that began to wrap around his limbs. "N...NO!" He pulled and tugged, his wings upright and fluttering again furiously, giving off a shower of dim sparkles. "Rrngh~!"
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