Hmm, I was thinking of a random dump today... and well I guess nothing would be more random than treating you guys to Chapter Eleven of my current piece Lunatic Moon. Without further delay, I present:
She ran on, not knowing where she was going. Her legs moved, carrying her forward at their own will.
Panting, she kept on running until her legs gave way, sending her crumpling into an unceremonious heap on the ground. Panting, she struggled to her feet. It was night now, she had been sprinting for the whole day and her legs had brought her into the middle of a forest clearing.
I killed him… I killed an innocent person… with these hands… with them… I killed him!
Her heart beating wildly in her throat, she slowly walked through the clearing. Her trained nose suddenly picked up the faint odor of death and decay.
Strange… what would be rotting somewhere nearby?
The stench led her toward a tree in the forest. Skewered to the tree by two spears was the rotting corpse of a dwarf, maggots gnawing hungrily at his decomposing flesh. Twisted remains of what used to be a rifle lay beneath his feet, covered in dry cakes of blood.
Why would a dwarf be skewered to a tree rotting here? But more importantly… those spears… they seem familiar. Her curiosity took her mind temporarily off her confusion.
I remember now. Demon Dinner Forks… Yes, mistress Remilia… no, Balanar… that bastard was here.
Her fingers trembled as they wrapped themselves around the spears pinning the corpse to the tree. The dwarf slid to the ground with a dull thud.
Mistress Remilia… you’re nearby aren’t you? Just where are you?
“I believe that now is not the time to be worrying about a dead dwarf.” An emotionless voice spoke from behind her.
She turned around.
Blue tentacles quivered slowly, framing a face which consisted of only two slits serving as eyes. Inside them, she saw emptiness.
“Dark… terror…” she choked.
“Indeed. What, are you surprised?”
“Didn’t I… didn’t I… kill you?”
“Yes, you might have. I guess I was just lucky, before you killed the real me, my instincts kicked me slightly back through time. Of course, you had totally destroyed my body upon my return, so I had to spend some time rebuilding everything from scratch.”
“So… I didn’t kill you?”
“No, but that was certainly a painful episode. You’ll have to take responsibility for dissecting me. So…”
Sakuya’s eyes narrowed. Her eyes flashed teal as she drew her knife. Darkterror let loose a gurgling laugh, not finishing his sentence.
In unison, they charged, Darkterror whipping out a spiked mace from the folds of his clothing, Sakuya’s knife swinging toward the line across his throat.
He is weak now. Much of his energy has been squandered to rebuild his body. The way he is now, another cutting of his lines is what it’ll take to completely erase him from this world. He can’t step back through time anymore.
Her slash missed as Darkterror crouched low. In a flash, he who was lower than her aimed for her neck and drove his mace upward. Sakuya parried it. She retreated, putting some distance between them.
Her movement of retreating without moving her legs really resembles a spider, Darkterror thought. But, even so, does she know what good are legs if they can’t move?
“Ansuz, Fier, Dist!” Darkterror chanted as he continued to parry Sakuya’s vicious onslaught of slashes, invoking one of his most powerful spells, one that literally stopped the progress of time within a given radius.
A blue dome blanketed the area as he completed his incantation, specks of light rising slowly from the ground toward the skies. Darkterror laughed in mirth as Sakuya was frozen solid, locked by time in the midst of her attack.
As he sauntered forward, ready to bring his mace crashing onto her head, he noticed Sakuya’s eye twitch slightly. A split second later, her knife was already bearing down onto his unprotected forehead.
Had he missed that little twitch, she would’ve literally cut his head apart like a carving knife would a turkey.
Standing up after his unceremonious barrel roll backward, he glared at Sakuya.
“How could you have been able to move within my Chronosphere?”
“I don’t know,” Sakuya replied calmly as she walked forward. “I just learned how to toy with the flow of time to minimize the time I took doing my jobs at the mansion.
“So… die here.”
The moment she said that, the curtains descended upon the stage. She raised her knife-bearing arm.
She’ll definitely throw her knife, Darkterror predicted and readied his body for her assault.
They both had only one weapon. If he deflected it, she would lose her weapon. And he would kill her.
“Cruel Blood…”
She came like a banshee. The tucked arm moved to his side instantly in anticipation of her advance.
Preparing herself for the death blow, she turned her back to him.
Swoosh! She turned like a top.
Woosh! The glimmer of the knife as it cut through the air. Darkterror watched it with his eyes and judged that he could repel the blade. As he raised his mace, she came into his vision.
What kind of trick is this? As if swayed by the moonlight, she had taken off into the air, her back still toward him. At the peak of her leap, she flipped, her head moving down. At a nightmarish speed, along with the knife she threw, she came.
When Darkterror realized it, he was already in a pinch. If he hit her, the lower half of his body would be cleanly cut away. If he didn’t, then it would be death.
Everything happened too fast. Instinctively, he had parried the knife and the impact shook his entire body. As he reeled, she grabbed his head. With a sickening crunch, the bones in his neck gave way.
“…Izayoi.”
She said, landing deftly on her feet without a sound, her hands lifting up the hem of her skirt elegantly, her figure hunched in a slight bow, signaling the end of her miraculous dance beneath the moon.
Darkterror stood, his head torqued backwards, his body still not realizing its death.
Beneath the silver moon, a maid calmly took apart the same body she had dismantled earlier, a faint smile playing on her beautiful face.
... Yep, that's what I have in store for my readers at the DA forums. Though for a clearer idea of Sakuya's attack, I had my friend Robin Larsson make me a video.
Yes, as you can see, it's based in Nanaya's Last Arc, which is one of my favourite Last Arc Drives. I really think I should include Ryougi's Last Arc too next time =)
Oh yes, and we all love you, Lily Chong <3
Friday 26 March 2010
Thursday 18 March 2010
19/03/2010
Wow, it's nearly been a month since I last came back to this little retreat of mine. Hmm, let's see.... pages set... music...
.... set?
All right, now that the music has been selected, let the waltz begin.
Now really, what's bothering me this morning? I'm supposed to have a microbiology class later, but something in me tells me I have to be here, that this is the place to be. I must admit, my life has been quite a roller coaster since I came back from vacation. And NO I'm not talking about CoalGuys dropping Qwaser and me having to switch to Chibi-Doki and then SubDESU.
Anyways I was wondering what to write for today (well to be honest I was itching to write this Chinese love story thingy which had been circling in my mind for a long long time, I mean, writing a mushy love story in Chinese DOES really sound like my kind of thing, but the thought of typing it out sorta turned me off so...) and I accidentally leaked this thought to a CERTAIN SOMEONE, who promptly threw herself into this post.
So, who is this CERTAIN SOMEONE? この謎の美少女は誰(that roughly translates to who is this mysterious *ahem* beauty)？
She goes by the name Lily Chong. Yea, Lily as in the flower, 百合 in Japanese (this was what I learned from my first Kara no Kyoukai DVD).
I wonder myself, since when did I actually start talking to her?
Let's see.... after some sifting through my chat logs... here we have the result.
Date was January 20,2010, a Wednesday.
"(3:31 PM) Lilia: oi
(3:31 PM) 両義 志貴- 直視の魔眼: ohai
(3:31 PM) Lilia: the visa thingy right...
(3:31 PM) 両義 志貴- 直視の魔眼: yep
(3:31 PM) Lilia: we have to do it fast!! "
Now I remember, we were supposed to leave Volgograd for winter holidays on the same train. And when I was in England, I always clicked on her for conversations, because she was one of those who were online and actually replied.
Before the trip,
"(3:44 PM) Lilia: ull do fine
n go off to UK happily "
I was really scared that time, I mean it was one or two days before my histology exam and I still had so much left to cover! But she was totally calm and even gave me a confidence boost.
Well I know it's kind of weird, but we actually started talking like 2 years after our first encounter. That time I was still in my pre-med course, and she was in her first year. Yeah you know, the funny thing was, there was this Malay guy in MY batch who was after her.
Well being the nosy one I was, I went upstairs and asked a buddy of mine, "so who is this Lily Chong girl? She hot?" and promptly gained access to a couple of photos.
To be honest, my first impression of her was that she was one of those お嬢様 or 女王様 type of girls, a.k.a. those extra arrogant girls, but I guess I was wrong eh?
But she turned out to be the exact opposite, and as the way I put it to her the other night, she was no arrogant girl. On the opposite, she's quite modest, and that actually goes for both her ex-roommates Min Xin and Sheh Yi. Well, in my words, I'd put it like:
"(4:05 PM) Liliakonu.: but many ppl say their first impression of me is - lansi
(4:05 PM) 両義 志貴: how you guys treated the new padfak people
no lies
(4:05 PM) 両義 志貴: my first impression of you, sheh yi and min xin
lansi
=O
(4:06 PM) Liliakonu.: hahaha
cool
but why
:S
(4:06 PM) 両義 志貴: but well
(4:06 PM) 両義 志貴: I reached out to you people
and you guys reached out to me
and I was like
"hey that's cool, I could get used to this"?
(4:06 PM) Liliakonu.: lol yea n u eventually fell in love
"
I'd scratch that last part, but I'm just lazy. Hmm, since we're already here... I guess it really wouldn't hurt to dedicate this song to her, would it?
.... set?
All right, now that the music has been selected, let the waltz begin.
Now really, what's bothering me this morning? I'm supposed to have a microbiology class later, but something in me tells me I have to be here, that this is the place to be. I must admit, my life has been quite a roller coaster since I came back from vacation. And NO I'm not talking about CoalGuys dropping Qwaser and me having to switch to Chibi-Doki and then SubDESU.
Anyways I was wondering what to write for today (well to be honest I was itching to write this Chinese love story thingy which had been circling in my mind for a long long time, I mean, writing a mushy love story in Chinese DOES really sound like my kind of thing, but the thought of typing it out sorta turned me off so...) and I accidentally leaked this thought to a CERTAIN SOMEONE, who promptly threw herself into this post.
So, who is this CERTAIN SOMEONE? この謎の美少女は誰(that roughly translates to who is this mysterious *ahem* beauty)？
She goes by the name Lily Chong. Yea, Lily as in the flower, 百合 in Japanese (this was what I learned from my first Kara no Kyoukai DVD).
I wonder myself, since when did I actually start talking to her?
Let's see.... after some sifting through my chat logs... here we have the result.
Date was January 20,2010, a Wednesday.
"(3:31 PM) Lilia: oi
(3:31 PM) 両義 志貴- 直視の魔眼: ohai
(3:31 PM) Lilia: the visa thingy right...
(3:31 PM) 両義 志貴- 直視の魔眼: yep
(3:31 PM) Lilia: we have to do it fast!! "
Now I remember, we were supposed to leave Volgograd for winter holidays on the same train. And when I was in England, I always clicked on her for conversations, because she was one of those who were online and actually replied.
Before the trip,
"(3:44 PM) Lilia: ull do fine
n go off to UK happily "
I was really scared that time, I mean it was one or two days before my histology exam and I still had so much left to cover! But she was totally calm and even gave me a confidence boost.
Well I know it's kind of weird, but we actually started talking like 2 years after our first encounter. That time I was still in my pre-med course, and she was in her first year. Yeah you know, the funny thing was, there was this Malay guy in MY batch who was after her.
Well being the nosy one I was, I went upstairs and asked a buddy of mine, "so who is this Lily Chong girl? She hot?" and promptly gained access to a couple of photos.
To be honest, my first impression of her was that she was one of those お嬢様 or 女王様 type of girls, a.k.a. those extra arrogant girls, but I guess I was wrong eh?
But she turned out to be the exact opposite, and as the way I put it to her the other night, she was no arrogant girl. On the opposite, she's quite modest, and that actually goes for both her ex-roommates Min Xin and Sheh Yi. Well, in my words, I'd put it like:
"(4:05 PM) Liliakonu.: but many ppl say their first impression of me is - lansi
(4:05 PM) 両義 志貴: how you guys treated the new padfak people
no lies
(4:05 PM) 両義 志貴: my first impression of you, sheh yi and min xin
lansi
=O
(4:06 PM) Liliakonu.: hahaha
cool
but why
:S
(4:06 PM) 両義 志貴: but well
(4:06 PM) 両義 志貴: I reached out to you people
and you guys reached out to me
and I was like
"hey that's cool, I could get used to this"?
(4:06 PM) Liliakonu.: lol yea n u eventually fell in love
"
I'd scratch that last part, but I'm just lazy. Hmm, since we're already here... I guess it really wouldn't hurt to dedicate this song to her, would it?
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