With Heart, I sit there. She's dead. Madeleine is dead. I fought with her for so long, and she's gone. Its not fair, she was a good person, she always tried to help people. Its not fair that she died. Its not fair, none of this is fair.
"Its a conflict between the sovereigns, yet here we are doing the fighting."
Holly doesn't even react to Archie's words. He laughs, it slowly turns into crying.
"She's actually gone. She's gone"
I don't say anything, what can I say. I'm angry. I'm actually angry. Its his, no its their fault! Fighting a war for what? Power? How self centered can they be! How many people have died for their goals? How many have been personally killed by them just for power? Too many. Too damn many.
With Sun I latch onto the side of the ship. This reminds me of something.... maybe the battle with the ivory and war armies. It was me who fought it, but not me. It was from storm onwards. I jump onto the deck and I slash the back of countless people in the back, some a large cut others a small nick. Thats all thats needed with this dagger i doubt I'll need to deliver a larger wound. Oh and thanks to dark dancer. She goes right through the ship as I jump off. It feels weird to know what i become, without becoming it. God i hate the ocean. Dark dancer grabs the back of my armor and off we are.
With Beast, I watch the conflict with the mirror, the puppeteer really is something else. I look up at seer of the infinite
"Something has happened."
I nod
"I'll assume its not this attack"
She laughs, its... at creeky and frankly terrible to hear, reminds me of singer, then she stares at me
"Song of the fallen has been captured. But you already know that right? What you don't know, is that the puppeteer as you call her, has made up her mind on you"
I lean forward
"To kill me?"
She shakes her head
"No to keep you alive, as a weapon against the dreamspawn."
Nephis? I mean my aspect is good ag-
"Oh right, you don't know about him. Oh, if i say the wrong thing then I fear you won't come back from it. But the last of the 3 sovereigns, and one who has been trapped on the moon"
I slowly put down the mirror
"How do you know that?"
She laughs yet again
"Sonng of the fallen and my aspects seem similar, but hers is far different then you'd think. Mine is purely to see into fate, and to be mad by what I see."
She walks forward putting her hands on the table "■■■■ you must understand, I know everything i shouldn't, yet i know nothing of you. Is that not drama?"
With Heart, no. I won't let it happen, not again. I grab holly and Archie and I run.
"I order you-!"
Archie scoffs
"Holly. What's the point? We'll die in that fight and our dead bodies will be just another damn puppet."
Familiar. Is this what they went through? No. The original lost everything, all three of their friends. Maybe that's why storm acts like a fool, to not let anyone close enough to hurt them again. I'm starting to understand it now. Oh but what good is it in the end? If changing star doesnt succeed then, I'll lose everything.
With Storm, I dont follow along. I'll be the one to take vanishing lake. I wonder, what will the houndmasters face look like? Oh it doesn't matter. I flip a small crown in my hands. Minion looks it over
"What is it?"
I laugh
"The crown of snow"
I hand it to him
"If I fall, if changing star can not become the heir to the snow crown, as my only subject you'll be the next in line"
His eyes go wide
"But-"
I shake my head
"No no, we both know this body is a puppet I'm controlling. The original however, their doing something dangerous, its don't know what is strong enough to keep them away from this battle, but I suspect they'll be personally fighting it soon."
I then shrug
"Well, not like they'll tell us. I suspect its in fear of anyone finding out their location."
He nods
"Hey, you dont have to be there. I can take you to the waking world."
He shakes his head
"No I want to help. I want to be like those awakened that saved me. I want to force the world to be kinder"
I stare at him with empty eyes for a while
"If it is your will, who dares stop you?"
With Heart I walk on the white bone. Some times I look up at the ivory island, I want to laugh.
"Its almost over."
So close. So very close. Achie let's out a dry chuckle
"What do you want to take a long bath, i know i do."
I glance at him, his face is tired.
"No sex jokes today it seems"
He looks over at me with a frown
"We are all marching to our deaths, a little morbid for that. But if you want one I'm sure I'll find a few. Maybe about that master sunless, didn't you go to his café a lot?"
I nod a small smile on my face
"Yeah with my boss. Normally i stay inside all day but I couldn't let her wither away, so id drag her outside and we ended up going to that Cafe a lot. Weird isnt it?"
With Sun I lift my dagger saint dark dancer looks at the little group still left
"Weird. All of the special unit is alive"
He tilts his head responding to the saint
"yes. I do believe i picked well"
I shrug
"Well. Let's get a move on, we have a group of sword followers to stall."
Knox scoffs
"I'm going to die today...."
P elbows him
"You speak foolishness! Even if three sees the future the stone has yet to be set!"
I hear a huff from the old ascended
"I should have retired but here we go"
I look back at the water, at the lights approaching.
With Heart I stare out at the white bone. At the song army and I laugh.
"Oh this is so stupid. All of this. We are all going to die aren't we? He claims its for someone who didn't even want it."
Achie elbows me
"Shut up"
I lift my hands putting them over my face
"And there's not even a god to pray to as well. Their all dead. Come to think of it, didnt they die due to a massive war as well?"
Holly stands next to me. She sighs
"Yeah. They did."
I shrug
"Oh well. Maybe today is the day a miracle will happen"
two figures walk out from the mass of soldiers. The puppeteer and the houndmaster. Those... are stupid names.
With Sun I slowly stand up. I walk calmly to my removed arm, I grab it putting it back in its place after a few seconds it thrashes as I get control over it once again.
"So. How long have you known?"
I look at the mostly dead leader of the special units
"A... long time"
I nod summoning commanders authority. I heal him enough to survive.
"I'll get you to the waking world from there you are on your own."
With the sound of shattering all of the puppets break into small pieces of ice. I am one of the most effective people when dealing with the puppets, when using cold film it at least slows, if not stops things from healing, and it has a massive upgrade against the dead. I pick him up
"A self sacrifice? How foolish, you are more useful alive. But it was effective, all other special unit members lived."
And I start walking to the gate to steal it.
With Beast, ice creeps up into the citadel, countless people go about their very important business. Theres a sense of grim to them, not like it matters, this citadel won't be under the queen for much longer after all. I slowly go across the walls to get to the gate
With Storm I walk through the halls of the citadel, awakened and masters a like stare at me. But they make no attempt to stop me. I dont think anyone really cares much anymore, hard to with everything we've all seen. I dig into my bag and I toss out a few cold water bottles.
"Here for your troubles, on the... citadel heh..."
I keep walking to the gate.
With Death, I finally resummon the creators gift and I put down my citadel in its new location, a temporary one for this conflict. Countless sailor dolls move along the walls loading the siege engines. I look out into the distance as two figures land next to me. One a woman who looks like she froze to death on the coldest of nights and the other a moving beautiful ice statue in a silk like robe that had been pulled over his shoulders. I look out at the long dimmed volcano, its quite familiar mostly because no awakened forgets their first nightmare, and something massive moves. Flames come alight as the titan looks down at us set, as the fire lights up the night sky. Countless smaller figures lift their heads looking at the castle of snow. A small monocle in my pocket comes to life
[True name: ruined heir to the ash.]
[Rank: Great]
[Class: Titan]