That Empty Feeling

[Lt. hello II]

The sun was harsh, making the reflective white sand hot. But Cruelty did not notice, he still felt cold as stood facing the ominous sea. In comparison to its power he was nothing. The calming breeze moved his robes slightly; the only movement noticeable on the otherwise still figure. This was an odd place to find the Sins, but he knew she was here, and so were the answers he needed. He'd been gone a while, he had only pieced parts of his memory together, but he'd heard stories, that seemed to hold many truths to them.
What a terribly warm place...why are we here? To stain these white sands with blood? To turn the sea itself RED!? Rico was impatient, it had been a while since the duo had slain anyone.
Cruelty ignored the psychotic hyena as he knelt in the sand, placing his hands on his knees. There were many voices here, but he searched for one, Vengeance.
However he couldn't focus, single out any of the beings he sensed, his powers certainly seemed weaker. He stopped his meditation, and stood, his dark figure very noticeable against the bright beach.
Find her?
No... His demonic voice echoed in Rico's mind. He did not continue, simply starring out into the mighty waves, though he could not see them, he could sense only the emptiness.
So, now what? Rico questioned, hoping they'd get off the beach. Do we go search the island?
The Sin did not answer, he just stood, this was a quiet place for him to, the emptiness of the ocean, much like himself.

ooc: anyone free to post since no one knows he's here, lets see where this goes!

[Zee ♥]

Ooc: Gea just left the mess hall after breakfast. Will be joining you here. CRAZEH THOUGHTS AND TURMOIL-O'-EMOTIONS FTW.

"Fancy meeting you here, old pal."

She had left the main hall in a huff, not being able to tolerate Terror's childish behavior for too long and was not keen on dealing with peacocking men. Sure, show off your powers at breakfast! she thought. Everyone else is tired, pissed at the gong banging, the last thing they want to see are more freak magic shows. Maybe if they performed during lunch time or spar time, it wouldn't have been so unbearable to watch. She laughed darkly to herself.

It was a hot day, as everyday is. But she revel in sticking her bare feet in the white hot sand, feeling the texture and the heat. Let them burn, she thought darkly. But they never do. In an act of amusing herself, she sat by the shore line and played with the water, creating shapes and faces she missed and knew. Gea rubbed her face tiredly, the enthusiasm from this morning evaporating. There were still chunks of her memory missing, and she had nagging feelings that she had forgotten a few important people.

Like.. like.. Envy. Who was Envy? She was sure there were more people, they had been important to her. She was sure of it. It was then she felt the familiar yet out-of-the-place aura. Someone long lost in her memories. As old as she and Deception were. Vengeance caught hold of the aura, and followed it, slowly remembering, until she reached the out-of-place dark figure standing on the white sands. A wry smile played on her lips, and she waved and called out to him.

"Where the hell have you been after all these years?"

[Sean]

Murder had left the Sins home a little while ago. Following the Empresses trail to where ever it went. When he saw her finally he thought of calling out to her. But then he saw the figure of a man. So Murder went to the cover of a tree. He opened his ears to the echos through shadow. He then looked back at the two people and called himself an idiot. There weren't any shadows around them.

He then thought about what he should do. He came to the conclusion that he had to go down there. But he couldn't walk down there. It would make him look like a bigger idiot. So he decided to shadow walk to them. Then he took a step into shadow and came out in the Empresses shadow.

He gave a deep bow to the man. "I am sorry if I am disturbing anything. But. . . Gea here needs something of me." Murder looked back at Gea. He didn't know why he was calling her that. Maby it was better for her. "You said that you wanted to ask me some questions after breakfast. And I believe it is over."

[Lt. hello II]

A presence broke the emptiness, a very familiar one. It was followed by a less familiar one.
A pleasure to be back in your presence friend. he spoke in Gea's mind so as the other person he sensed could not hear. He turned away from the ocean to face her, he may not have been able to see her, but it would seem more polite to at least face her. It had been a while since he'd been with someone he felt he should be polite with.
I think you've been followed here his demonic voice echoed in her mind before Murder appeared to address her.

[~Pain And Panic~]

Pain looked out into the endless sea. Waves splashed against her exposed feet, and it stung. Stung like the pain she felt in her heart.
"Why have you left me again..." she whispered, and a single tear ran down her cheek to land in the sand below, joining the tears of many more that made up the sea. More soon followed, and Pain had to crouch down to avoid falling over. Suna simply stood by her side, not speaking, but purring a soothing sound.
Manipulation was gone again... Pain had been with him the whole time, but they had gotten separated in the turmoil. She'd had his hand in hers, and felt it slip away. She'd looked for hours, but he was nowhere.
"And I'm stuck on this stupid island when my brother could be out there hurt or dead!" She pulled out her sword and stabbed it into the sand, anger overthrowing her sadness for a moment. She screamed to the sky in sorrow. A few moments later, she fell backwards into a slumped position, exhausted, and stared at the sword, the tears flowing again from her beautiful eyes.
"It looks like a monument for a soldier," she said, and Suna crawled into her lap, saying:
"Your right it does, but a monument is to someone you'll never see again, and this is not the case here."
Pain looked down at Suna, and Suna gave a hopeful smile.
"We'll keep looking Pain, we'll find him. We just have to keep looking."
Pain looked up out into the sea, not wanting to feel hopeful, not wanting to feel the pain of lose and being forgotten. She had gotten rid of that pain when she'd met her brother.
'Or maybe it was simply masked by happiness...'
She pulled her arms up and hugged Suna tight, feeling the warmth of her favourite summon in the whole world pressed against her cold chest.
"It's ok to cry, let's cry together..." Suna said, the sound of her own swelling tears coming out in her words.
And they did, for the lose of their brothers Manipulation and Esemono, who they'd come to trust and believe would always be there.
But they weren't there, and the two girls were alone in a loveless world.

[Libi]

Hey so I don't know what colours have been claimed and what not so let me know if i need to change it this is Faults introduction

A calm, cooling feeling washed over Faults body, soothing parts of her skin that had been burned in the fire. She sighed, wincing afterward when it began to sting.

What? She wondered her eyes still closed. She didn't want to move, she was content and could repress the stinging. It was pain she could handle. The calm cool feeling washed over her body and soaked her face, she coughed as it flushed up her nose and into her lungs. Sitting up suddenly Fault became dazed. She brushed her dark wet hair that stuck to her face away and rubbed her eyes, they began to sting too. Letting out one last cough she opened her eyes, vision blurred, to see where she was.

The shore came into focus, the salt water waves beating on her legs. Fault felt pain shoot across her right leg that was covered with a dark red patches, the evidence of the house fire, the evidence of her failure. Scenes of the fire flashed back into her memories, her dad's shocked face imprinted permanently into her mind's eye. He was so oblivious to it all. She was only trying to help.

Not only did I hurt me, I hurt him...Fault began to sob. She thought of her father burning away with the house, all her memories. Everything was gone. Tears streamed down her face as she tried to remember what had happened, what her father's last words were. Wiping her eyes, she felt the scab of wounded flesh on her cheek and neck, soon realizing that this mark covered her one arm and stomach and drifted down onto her leg. It was a disgusting scar on her naked body. She shivered her thoughts jumped back to the present, and she comprehended that she was a naked burned body sitting on the shore of a salted ocean. Why was she here again?

"Are you cold?" A voice drifted from behind Fault. She turned expecting another person to be the one talking to her, and in spite of that she covered herself as best she could. She faced not a human, but a lizard, it's neck looking as if it was stretched and pulled too much. Fault looked at it stupidly.

Did this thing just talk to me? The lizard turned its head and blinked. There was an awkward silence that was broken when it opened it's mouth again.

"You're shivering." The lizard looked concerned. Fault yelped. It was definitely the lizard that talked to her. "Hey, it's ok. You may be freaked out but I'm here for you." Reborn? What was it talking about? Images of the fire dwindled into her subconscious once more. Fault didn't know why she was there or what she was but she didn't care about the small details. She screamed again.

"My father's dead and it's all my fault! And now I'm naked on a beach in the middle of god knows where and there's a scaley thing talking to me!! I should have died in that fire and stayed dead!!! Only that would be the acceptable punishment for my horrid crimes!!!" Noticing a small knife beside the creature, Fault grabbed at it and tried to cut her wrists. That would end all this madness and finally put her at peace for killing her father. She felt the blade sink into her skin and through the burns. She bleed; it felt relieving.

"No! Stop!" The lizard jumped at her trying to get the knife away, but Fault continued to slice at her bare chest, trying to rip her heart out. "Someone help her! Help!"

[Zee ♥]

Ooc: I'm very behind on posting. Egads. And how did Fault get to Kham'hur? Its pretty faaaaaaar from Desarith, you'll only reach there by the boat. Not sure how to respond to Pain yet.

She gave him a vague grin that he could not see, and spun around to face Murder sharply. "Yes, I do believe I've said that, but I believe I've assigned Terror to you. I think you'd better go back, he should be waiting for you. This is Cruelty, by the way. He's an old friend. Cruelty, this is Murder. He's new," Gea said, and nodded apologetically towards Murder.

"Are you here to stay, Cruelty? We have lots of rooms, and you're free to claim any that is unoccupied as your own." Vengeance said. She usually never did bothered with being too polite, but here was an old friend, far older than she was, and haven't been seen in a while. He was part of her missing memories, brought back suddenly with such force that she wasn't sure what to do about it. What does a person do when this happens?

Her thoughts were cut short by an inhuman cry for help, startling her. She knew Cruelty had heard it, but she murmured something about needing to see what it was about to him anyway. Breaking away from Cruelty and Murder in a jog, she soon spotted pale naked figure by the shore, and a frantic looking lizard that was the source of the cry for help.

She rushed over quickly, and Eliade appeared by the lizard, took a look at the curled figure of the girl and disappeared again, only to reappear in less than a few seconds with a spare bathrobe (nicked from the staff cupboard, no doubt). Vengeance hastily threw the bathrobe on her, for modesty's sake (in case the boys caught up with her) and wrenched the blade away from the girl, tossing it into the sea. All this was done so quickly, so fluidly, you'd have thought Vengeance had dealt with many naked girls on the verge of killing themselves before this. (she probably has.)

She scrutinized the girl haughtily, and poked the girl's wrists and chest lightly with her forefinger. The newly inflicted wounds sealed up and the scabs fell off, the wound mending itself, but it didn't do a lot for the burn marks. When she was done with her ministrations, she stared at the girl, and held out her hand. "Welcome to Kham'hur, newbie. Whats her name?" Vengeance glanced towards the girl's new summon questioningly. She didn't expect the girl to know her new name so soon, and expected the summon to answer that for her instead.

[Sean]

Murder scoffed a the thought of being guided by to boy Terror. "So you want me to be guided around by a child that gives me the impression that he wants to ruin my life. Also have a man who's for his life profession basically sells peoples souls?" He gave her an 'are you serious look'. He my be older than most but he can still see the evil of things easily.

Then Murder heard an echo through shadow. It was the sound of a blade through flesh. quickly Murder turned and started running twords where the sound originated from. He was then surprised by Gea running past him a an even faster pace. But when he saw the girl he knew that he shouldn't look at her directly.

But what he did do was take the dagger in mid flight before it hit the ocean. Murder examined it. It wasn't special in any way. It didn't even look like a very good dagger in the first place. So then he looked around to make sure that no one else was close by. So all that ruled out the theory of some one trying to kill her.

Murder looked back at the girl. And all of her wounds were healed. He was in awe. Then he felt Tarna climb off of him. Then he saw her crawl over to the girl and climb to her shoulder. Then her started to hum to her to have the girl calm down.

[Lt. hello II]

Cruelty stood as the 2 presences in front of him quickly darted off towards another one. He sensed this soul was distrought, and filled with pain, as he started walking towards the commotion he sensed yet another pained individual.
Perhaps now isn't the time for 'catching up.' his words were in Vengeance's mind although he still hadn't made his way to the three Sins. He then focused his thoughts to Rico I sense another Sin on this beach, also in some pain, go to them and bring them to Vengeance, the sooner we have these problems resolved, the sooner I can get my answers..
Rico nodded, although he wasn't pleased with helping people, he prefered dealing with problems more aggressively.

Rico ran ahead of his master who slowly walked along the beach, and bolted past the others. Then he saw her, a young girl by the water, with a cat. He noticed her sword stabbed into the ground, then glanced back to see his master stop beside Vengeance, then he looked behind them at Murder, and over to the girl who'd tried to kill herself, then turned all the back to this other girl. No one would notice, nobody knows she was here. Except master Cruelty, but he's killed for less reason then time saving. as he weighed the situation in his head he remembered the last time he killed someone against his masters wishes, and the reasons why he earned his name. A shiver ran down his spine, as psychotic as he was, his violent streak was nothing compared to his master's. I guess I'll do this the boring way
He trotted up behind the girl Hey, you, what'cha doing here? he said in his best attempt at being friendly. It didn't feel right to him, so he changed tactics. Look, don't answer, I don't actually care, my master sensed you were in pain, blah blah, and anyways, there's a big meeting for newbies over there he gestured with his head. the theme today seems to be pain. he said with a grin.

As Cruelty stood by Vengeance, waiting to see if she needed him to help, he could hear Rico's words in his mind although the hyena was not within ear shot, and regretted sending him, he had no social grace, and although Cruelty himself didn't either, he'd at leas learned to fake it. He crossed his arms and stood silently. He sensed the loss of this girl near him, her thoughts of the fire, her father, were on the surface of her mind, easy to read. This was why she was upset? He felt almost disappointed in her, but for that reason he kept his thoughts to himself, he didn't want to make matters worse.

[Libi]

Ooc: To Gea- Seya sent me a link to start here so XD
To: Sean- Did you throw my weapon away?? XD That's Fault's weapon of choice btw XD

Lol okies here it goes (again)

Fault's eyes moved quickly between bodies, she couldn't tell how many there were, her vision blurred.

"What are you people?? Where am I?? What's going on??" She glanced at the lizard. "And what in God's name is this thing?" She flicked the spider that was humming in her ear away so his body stumbled across the sand. She curled up into a ball with her knees pulled in closer to her chest after something had poked her. Her skin may have been covered by the cloth the first figure threw on her but she still felt exposed.

It was a girl. She looked tall from where Fault was sitting, almost looming over her, although she was pretty and didn't seem like she was ready to attack her. Fault let her shoulders drop a bit with a long exhaled breath. The girl had asked her who she was, called her a newbie of Camera of something. She didn't look surprised when the "thing" had answered for her.

"She has been named Fault, and I'm Taavi." He spoke softly nodding his head at the other figures. Taavi glanced over toward her to see her reaction at hearing her new name. "I apologize for the scare. I was told she was prone to outbursts, but I had never consciously predicted she would try something like this. I thank you for your concern though."

So polite...She paused and then spoke in a whisper. "Fault." She tried the word out, tasting how it felt in her mouth, as if it had almost rolled off her tongue and slopped on the sand in front of her. It was a disgusting name. It reminded her of what she had done.

Another figure stood next to the girl. He had no animal standing beside him, arms crossed, he seemed more irritated that she was there than concerned. Another one stood patiently beside the girl. The spider must be his. The girl had an animal too, an otter. With a sleek figure, the otter was graceful to gaze at, she imagined how it looked while it swam. Fault found herself staring and shook her head. She had some questions she needed answered.

"Ok so not only do i know why I'm here, I don't know where I am. Why are you people here? Why does Tacky follow me around like I'm his master or something, and why am i naked??" Fault glanced down, noticing her chest and arms no longer bared the cuts and slashes she had made, as if they never had been made. "And this!" She said loudly pointing at her body. "What? Can I regenerate now? Are we superheros or something? Are we protectors in the land of Campers?? Do you mind letting me in on your joke because personally I don't find this very funny!" She tried to take a swing at the people before, misjudging the depth perception and struck only the air between them. Fault felt like a moron. Taavi groaned

"First of all it's Taavi, not Tacky." He shot her a look. Fault felt awkward, she was still getting over a talking lizard and now he was shooting her looks. "And second, I apologize again. I assure you it is ONLY HER that acts like this. Thank goodness all personality traits don't pass through to the summon." He nodded politely again and turned to the girl with the otter. "If I may ask a favour, do you mind talking some sense into my companion here? It seems likely that she won't believe a talking lizard." He winced as he called himself that and awaited the girl for her explanation.

Ooc: I had a mini freak out there when my computer crashed on me ; stupid laptop...If i ever do a major lame post it's because my net/computer crashed on me and was mad I had to type it out again. Ug...well w/e I shalt wait for a response!

P.s. This has been fixed...I think XD sorry for the crappy rp XD

[Sean]

ooc: Murder got the weapon before Gea could throw it into the ocean.

And is Fault ignoring the spider that is huming into her ear?

[Libi]

Ooc: Oops XD le fixed Sorry bout that XD

[~Pain And Panic~]

Pain looked up from her stare as someone started talking to her.
She turned to see a hyena staring her in the face. She only half listened to what he said. Whatever it was, it didn't sound polite. She heard the words 'hey', 'master', 'don't care', 'meeting', 'newbie', or some combination of them. She wasn't sure.
"Hello, whoever you are. I'm sorry if I seem...pathetic. I promise I'm not. Lead the way." She got up off the beach, brushing herself off from the sand and dirt that clung to her pants. Suna jumped off as she got up, landing with a soft thud in the hot sand. She didn't notice it though.
"This is Suna, my summon," she explained to the hyena, who didn't seem too interested.
"And this," she grabbed the sword out from the ground and brought it before her face, "Is Narhethi." She swung the sword, the feeling of its soothing cut giving her the power to walk again. Her legs stiff, she began to walk.
"Lead the way."

OOC. Narhethi means revenge fyi

[Zee ♥]

Ooc: It IS my turn now, isn't it? X,D Ooh, revenge. Gea would like the sword.

Gea noticed the girl staring wondrously at Eliade, who sat by her feet, licking her paws contently. She nudged Eliade's sides, and said otter glared back at Gea with much annoyance, but understood what she wanted. Eliade trotted over and curled up by Fault's feet, a look of deep patience (looks can be deceiving, but whatever) on her otter face.

My name is Eliade. I am Empress Vengeance's summon. She said proudly, tail flicking. She raised one paw up towards Taavi, blinking and looking for all the world like a cute, fluffy otter. Taavi, is your summon. He will be with you a lot from now on, just like I will always be with Vengeance. She concluded. Thats all you're saying? Gea wondered, raising an eyebrow at Eliade, but picked up where she left anyway.

"To put this bluntly, you died. And came back to life. All of us, Sins and virtues alike, died and are given a second chance at life to solve our unfinished business, whatever it may be." She said, crossing her arms. The wind picked up, gently blowing the salty scent of the warm ocean in their direction. She continued explaining, but this time it was also for Murder and Cruelty. Too bad Greed wasn't here to hear it. "This place, these islands, make up Kham'hur. We are currently on the Invydi Isle of Kham'hur, where majority of the Sins stay. Our presence here is highly welcomed by the natives of Kham'hur, so I hope all of us," She paused, directing this towards Murder and Cruelty, "Behave."

"The Kham'mans believe us deities of some sort, and highly respect us. They made us a Retreat, so I don't suggest we spill any blood unless under threat. This place is a temporary sanctuary for us; Soon, we will have to return to mainland Tevaio. AND. You did not regenerate." Vengeance said, a smirk tugging at the corners of her lips. "Okay, so we probably heal faster than humans, but I helped. Call them super powers if you'd like, but we all have our own abilities. We don't protect this land, but circumstances may change. They did give us a place to stay when we needed it most." She said, her eyes growing a bit distant as she remembered the war three years ago. The war that drove everyone apart.

She snapped back to the present in a start, and rubbed her eyes gingerly with her palm. "If you have any other questions, you may ask."

Ooc: Holy crap, this post took me all morning. Distractions are bad e-e

[Sean]

Murder thought about what Gea said. Then remembered a question that he has been wanting to ask ever sense he became an immortal. "Why are we here?" He shook his head. "Better yet. Why are we immortal? If we had horrible lives then why would we want another life of remembering it?"

He looked a Cruelty. "What made you into an immortal?"

sorry short post