Re: Chapter 5 Home is where the Heart is (Ubberific) GMed by ranger
Rikke rushed forward, her steps seemingly slowing down as she looked on the sight... she'd not make! No matter how hard she'd try she wasn't fast enough! Time seemed to slow as the dark creatures blade neared Ellas resting body, Yennas eyes subtly widening as she recognised the rogue from the distance and called out to her for aid...
The girl tensed her body as her slowed footstep echoed out, the blade drawing nearer! She couldn't let him! Rikke seemed to feel every single wail and cry of the poor adventurers that met their demises here... hundreds, thousands of voices echoed out in sheer fear as the darkness was to consume them... Rikke, Ella, Yenna, even the grumpy angels and mixed townsfolk... Jessicas family, everyone "Don't do it!" Rikke cried out in desperation as she reached out! She had to... she... she... needed help...
As if reverbing throughout in a far distant location, two voices echoed out all around Rikke although she couldn't comprehend them. It was the first time she'd hear the two stranger tones, though somehow they felt a kin to a mothers and a fathers.
She may had not been an ideal knight, she may have darker thoughts in her, she may have even danced with shadows a number of times... but throughout her journey the rogue was always... a heroine. It was then Rikke felt sudden warmth rush over her, as if she'd been hugged by a dearly loving mother... a warmth that was quickly followed by brilliant pure light.
*CLASH!* A sudden slash of light sent the dark creatures sword arm backwards, as before him stood a divine warrior. Her position resting post attack, the created trail of lightly slowly dispersed as the dark creature recoiled from the figure with wide frightful eyes.
Before him stood not an angel, nor a rouge or brave hero, but a goddess! Complete inner warmth and calm washed over Rikke, she knew she'd be able to save everyone. The girl looked over her hand in wonder, she'd be clad in brilliant gleaming silver armor, her blade still familiar, but all the more augmented rested in her hands.
Everything all around her seemed to have changed, even from here the girl could sense each and every angel, each of their emotions, their struggle, their heroism. Though Rikke could also sense someone far more familiar, who cried out near her... Yenna. The goddess turned to the angel with a kind smile, she heard beyond her current cries, beyond her current fright... there was a deeper distant cry of help in her.
With an effortlessly motion suddenly Yenna would be struck by brilliant light! Her whole body gleaming once, before the girls dark hair and wings seemed to flake and fall off her. Her brilliant pure white wings bursting through the dark raven shell, her hair seemingly washing away the corruptive colors.
However one being here was far different than the others, Rikkes brilliant gaze turned to the creature who rushed at her... But he was so slow... so dark... So desperate. As what once was Sigmund lashed out at her, Rikke could see past what he wished others to see, past what the man thought he was.
The black shadows previously acting as if the wicked creatures cloak and armor, dispersed with each failed attack against the goddess, the dark tendrils falling off only to burn up and dispersing in the radiant light all around them.
The girl looked at the foul beast before her with pity, it's mad wailing and flailing only adding to it's grotesque nature. The outer beauty so carefully sculpted by him had all, but evaporated leaving a his putrid appearance bare.
With another booming slash Rikke once more struck at the incoming blade, instantly shattering on the spot and completely sending the creature off it's balance as it looked on helplessly at the heroine as she grasped her blade with two hands.
May the foul soul find peace and be remade in the goddess light. Rikkes attack seemed almost mute, far too swift for the creature to even realise it was already over. As the huge gash of light seared across his body, the creature would not cry in anger or shout in dismay, but look on to the brilliant light in silent and peaceful awe... moments before his figure shattered into brilliant specks of light.
With that, the ruling darkness of this place had been vanquished. Closing her eyes in harmony, soon enough several of the girls clones appeared and rushed out, each one ending any and all ensuing conflict in an instant.
Rikke would step closer to Ella, looking over her duo auras with a gentle warming smile. Duo auras indeed... though not both were her own, as the small speck of life inside the girl already had a glowing brilliant presence. The girl smiled at the subtle light and formed a small brilliant crystal, a blessing or shard of the powers that surrounded the small girl now. With a single notion the blessing would disperse and fly to the aura, coloring in a brilliant light briefly, before it returned to normal.
Still there was one last thing felt compelled to do, turning to the crystal the girl approached as her emitted light seemed to curve and sink inside the prism. Once again the voices would appear "The Crystal of Life is connected to all almost all living beings." "It is a tool of the gods, those that do not understand it should stray back..."
Rikke looked to it and somehow she knew exactly what the object was... it was a creation of immense power, left here by far greater beings. Yet here it stood before her at her most powerful and brilliant. With it, the rogue could alter aspects of the world otherwise impossible! "If you use it, the cost will be great." Rikke peered into the crystal with sparkling blue eyes, although the burden was heavy and the events infolded all too quickly... she still remained calm.
A chance to change things she couldn't have before... Closing her eyes and smiling Rikke reached out as the crystal roared into life, the heroines brilliant aura sweeping into it!.....
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An echo of a breaking bucket suddenly reached Yunas ear "Waaaah~!" quickly followed by a sudden cry? "Sylphie?" the girl blinked and rushed to her mothers cabin where the slime girl rested and slammed the door open to see what was wrong! "S-sylphie?" Yuna blinked as sitting there in disbelief looking over herself was a blue haired human girl "Y-Yuna?" she'd carefully look up to her.
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Jessica sat restlessly near her sisters, who each seemed busy discussing how they'd split their inn and brothel, instead of focusing on their search! By now Jessica herself wasn't sure where Rikke had disappeared to... only to suddenly a gust of warm wind to slowly enter inside, though Jessica was certain it was her mind playing tricks... the wind seemed to carry her lovers perfume? "Rikke?"
Suddenly the nearby chairs echoed out as each of the sisters seemed to fall to the floor coughing?! Though shocked at first, Jessicas eyes widened as her sisters stopped their coughs and stood up looking at each other, appearing just as they had before the dark events in their life.
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"Rhea! Rhea!" Rune called out to her mother as she rushed down the hallway, muchfoir the wolven Kitsune to turn curiously at the sudden rush "What is it?" she'd blink, a bit annoyed as she'd expected it to be yet another strange butterfly Rune had caught... though this was far bigger "You've got to see this!"
As Rhea was quickly taken by her hand she'd be lead to a balcony and blinked at the sight indeed... she had been used to overlooking the ruined part of Endus every so often. A somber reminder of what they were fighting... though as she looked upon the ruined city now, for the first time in what seemed forever brilliant sunlight shined upon the ruins. As the Kitsune could see lush flora, not of weeds, but of fresh and pure grass and flowers grow rapidly across the ruined city, a surge of pure water rushing to fillout the previous huge crater. Life had fully returned to the desolate city.
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All throughout, from the people Rikke met from the lands she visited were healed. From restored speech to prosperous crops... the warm winds swept across valleys and cities, healing and mending those it encountered, even shifting those of darker heart just enough. In some parts of the world, this day would be marked as a celebration of Spring Goddess.
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The Crystal hummed silently inside the darkened room as two figures loomed over an unconscious girl, one of a man and one of a female. The female approached the girl and gently picked her up, bearing a kind smile "You've done well, my dearest knight." she'd look over the girl, who appeared to finally rest after a very long journey "Where shall you take her?" the man asked, keeping distant as the female leaned closed to the girls ear "Rikke, where do you wish to go?"
There would be a brief silent pause as the female would smile mutely "Taking her back to her home?" the man broke the silence and approached as well, spurring a wider smile from the female "Yes... but there's only one place, this one feels at home." the man looked to the female silently "A wandering spirit to her core." the female giggled warmly, as the three disappeared.
