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Post by Jack of Blades on Aug 5, 2012 19:20:08 GMT -5
Jack, Itami, Otar, N, Link.
They all stood in the amphitheatre in a circle shape, with N stood in the middle. He was too weak for Jack still, he was of no use at the current moment. He was hesitant and his reasons for following Jack were weak. Itami followed him out of blind hatred and list for power, Otar followed him out of fanaticism, and Link followed him for his blood. But N followed him for his love for Kiara, his link to Jack could break oh so easily, and that was no good. Hate was powerful, Jack knew that all to well, so he had arranged something with Itami. Nodding at Otar, the elderly priest left the circle for a moment, before returning with a body bag, which he tossed into the circle at N's feet. Next, Jack motioned to Itami, who moved forwards and opened the bag, revealing...
N's Father.
Jack had simply murdered someone and used magic to create them in the mans image, but it would be enough. The Jack had interrupted the mans soul on the way to The Void, and as of now, held it on his person. If the soul had been worth anything, Jack would have got the big man himself on him, but this was just some no-good thug. Jack stepped forward as Itami stepped back, and released the mans soul into his corpse, bringing him back from death. Jack now also stepped back as the corpse rose from the bag.
"Your father hated you." Jack said bluntly, staring at N. He was in his demon lord form, red cloak, mask and steel armour. "He had no time for you whatsoever. If he could have gotten rid of you..? He would have. You were nothing to him. I on the other hand, need you. You are integral to my plans and when all is said and done? You will be all but a god. You will have all the power to protect those you care of. You will have the power of a Demon Lord, but that stems from one thing only... Hate... Just like how your father hated you..." His eyes narrowed.
"Strike down the man who hates you so, take the first step to power."
Jack hoped N would consent at the early stage, he glanced at Itami. If the boy didn't comply, the Halfers eyes would grant them all the leverage they need...
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Post by N on Aug 5, 2012 20:31:00 GMT -5
((For the record, I feel like writing third-person. So I am.))
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N had stared in shock at the corpse sitting in front of him. The corpse had risen, reanimated. Hate. Jack kept using that word. "Hate." Hate. Hate. Hate.
His father hated him... It would explain the lack of him being there. But how would Jack know that? And why would his father hate him? What did he ever do? And if hate made his father the way he was, why did Jack want N to hate as well? And what was hate to begin with? But... strangely, it was a little bit better to hear Jack tell him that he was needed. It almost made the impact of being hated much better.
"I..." N steps back, nervous. "I can't... He didn't do anything... He's not hurting anyone! I don't want to kill him!" His voice echoed in the nearly-empty black stadium. His body was already tensing and uncomfortable as he took another step back.
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Post by Jack of Blades on Aug 5, 2012 21:14:30 GMT -5
Jac had feared that this would happen, but he had been prepared just the same for such an occurrence. Looking across at Itami he gave one small nod which the Kodoku didn't even return, he just raised one hand to get N's attention, and then locked his red and black eyes onto the boys.
"Sharingan; Genjutsu."
N was suddenly alone with the corpse... Which now looked significantly more like the man it was supposed to, a pair of huge red and black eyes hovered behind the figure, as if dictating events. The figure looked across at it's 'son' and sneered as if it had found N on the bottom of his shoe.
"What is this..?" He snarled at the boy. "I've been brought back from death, for this?" He made a dismissive hand movement, waving away N like a child who had done wrong. "I wanted nothing to do with you in life, what on earth would I want to do with you in death?! Why can't you just leave me in peace, you ungrateful little runt... Why did I even let you live?!" The figure of N's father took a few steps towards him, locking eyes with him, his spittle leaping onto N's face as he spat his venomous words.
"You're no son of mine. Get out of my sight, now. You're of no use to me, and you're of no use to anyone! You're weak! You're a coward! Do everyone a favour, boy..." He narrowed his eye for the final blow.
"Go and kill yourself."
In the real world, the corpse had awkwardly shuffled towards N, and now stood there making the odd grunt. Jack looked across at his Halfer companion and raised an eyebrow in question, he wanted to know how it was working. Itami simply nodded, maintaining eye contact with the boy currently under his illusion...
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Post by N on Aug 5, 2012 21:23:44 GMT -5
N was already in tears. The vision of his father before him, spewing such hurtful words... N was about ready to kill himself, like his father had said. But what he said was probably more than all the things his father had ever said to him. Maybe... Jack was right. He collapses to his knees in a burst of sorrow. "Stop it! Stop it now! You don't mean that! I'm not weak... And Jack! Jack needs me! Kiara-chan, too! But... You never needed me, did you?! DID YOU?!" N was feeling something now... something he didn't know prior to this meeting.
It would have bothered him that he didn't know it, had he not been dealing with his 'father.' He weeps a moment before rising again. "Why should I... Why should I even CARE what you think?! You were never there! What kind of father ARE you?! You just left me with that weird scientist! He raised me more than you did! You were too busy working!" N clenched his fists. Anger. He was feeling anger. Strangely, it felt worse than that, though. He still didn't know it. "You... YOU CAN JUST GO BACK TO BEING DEAD! I'M ALIVE! I HAVE A LIFE NOW, AND PEOPLE TO CARE FOR! AND YOU'RE NOT ONE OF THEM!" N raised one of those fists and collided it with a rage-fueled punch to the chest of the reanimated corpse.
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Post by Jack of Blades on Aug 6, 2012 10:03:10 GMT -5
The corpse shambled backwards slightly and fell onto it's rear as it gave out a small grunt of pain. It picked itself up however and started to shamble forwards once again, reaching out one hand to the one who had struck it with such power. Itami's Sharingan narrowed as he refocused his genjutsu in order to increase it's potency over N.
N's father stumbled to the floor before picking himself up with a growl. He started walking back towards his son with a scowl drawn across his face, his hand outstretched before him. "See?!" He growled through gritted teeth "You don't even have you in it to kill me! What sort of punch was that, you're weak child... Weaker than you've ever been!" His hand stretched further as he reached for his sons face.
"I'm going to rip that stupid face off of your skull!"
The Jack looked across at Itami. "How is it going?" He asked. The Kodoku smirked slightly, the corner of his mouth pulling up.
"He's trapped in my genjutsu. He's seeing everything that I want him to. He doesn't even realize that whilst he's locked in there, I'm raiding his mind... His thoughts... Everything that he knows, I know. He didn't even anticipate a mental assault, I don't even think he knew it was possible, he had absolutely no defenses prepared against me. He's at my mercy." The Jack nodded slightly, smiling behind his mask.
"Keep it light, I don't want you scarring him too much... We only need him to realize what true power really is..."
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Post by N on Aug 7, 2012 9:12:14 GMT -5
"No! Back off!" N reached up and instinctively grabbed each side of his head, pulling on the hair to keep himself from attacking. "I'm way strong now... And Mr. Jack is making me even stronger!" He swatted the man's hand away to continue. "And I'll show you wrong! I'll be able to protect Kiara-chan! And Zatch! And Link, too! Even Ginta!" He screamed at the vision of his father. It took everything he had not to launch an all-out attack. N just wished for nothing more than his father to return to death.
To return to Death...
Death...
'Right. Mr. Jack told me... to protect, I can kill...' He thought to himself, accompanied by other thoughts like, 'Could I really kill my own father?' 'He's already dead...' His entire being was disturbed. "Ngh... JUST STOP! GO AWAY! OR I'LL KILL YOU! I WILL!"
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Post by Jack of Blades on Aug 8, 2012 4:43:02 GMT -5
Jack had his right arm held across his chest, his left elbow rested atop it and he held onto his chin with his left hand. His yellow eyes burning as he smiled slightly behind his mask, it seems that his plan was working... Between his own plans which he had fed through to Itami and then the young halfer's genjutsu, they were managing to manipulate N's feelings at will... It wouldn't be long before he served the Jack with the utmost faith.
"Go away?" N's father burst out into raucous laughter as he came ever closer to his son. "Why the hell would I do that?! I'm going to do this whole world a favor, and get rid of the burden that I brought into this world... Maybe then I can actually be at peace! Maybe I can rest when I wipe the scum that is you and your friends off of this earth!"
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Post by N on Aug 8, 2012 11:03:41 GMT -5
Like someone finally hit the switch, N's eyebrows drop and furrow into an angry state as he stares down his "father" with tear-filled eyes. The ground itself began shaking as he threw his clenched fists to his side. "NO! You won't touch my friends! They're all I have now!" The earth's quaking stopped suddenly. His eyes narrowed as he punched the man one more time. The body fell to the ground and rolled a few feet before a sudden tree rose up from the ground. It stopped him, his back slamming into the trunk.
The area around N and his father became quickly closed off. Trees surrounded them in a circle. The trees were think and strong. It would take a dragon to break through. "Why are you even doing this...? It's ridiculous! It's mean! And I won't let you near my friends..." His voice was instantly flat and somber. "I hate you. I hate you for never being there. I hate you for putting work first. I hate you for hiring that creepy man to teach me things. If you KNEW what he did to me... I hate you because you want to hurt me. Because you want to hurt my friends. And... I hate you because you're alive. That you exist angers me! I... I HATE IT! And I'm fixing that now!"
N cracks his knuckles. He decided that with his bare hands... That was how it would be done. With his bare hands, he'd kill his father.
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Post by Jack of Blades on Aug 9, 2012 8:19:02 GMT -5
"Damn it!" Itami growled, as the trees burst up around N and the corpse. If he broke the forced eye contact, then his genjutsu would fade, and that was something that they couldn't afford right now! Rushing forwards, he managed to jump atop one of the trees and slip down to the other side before they completely engulfed the arena and became impossible to pass. Landing silently on the floor, he maintained his eye contact with N, letting out a small sigh of thanks that he was able to make it in time.
N's Father gave a huge raucous laugh at the prospect of N killing him, before raising his hands before him with a snarl smeared across his face, he looked every bit ready to kill the boy. "You speak such strong words, boy!" He growled as he shuffled that ever bit closer. "But let's see if you can follow through with them, hm?!"
Jack tightened a fist, crushing the corpse's soul slightly, sending it into a blind frenzy, it burst towards N, it's arms flailing as it let out a roar, aiming to rip the young boy to pieces.
N's father sprinted towards his son, his hands held out in front of him, aiming to gouge out his eyes, rip skin from bone, wipe his own child off the face of the earth.
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Post by N on Aug 11, 2012 21:52:18 GMT -5
"NO! Get away!" N screams, the sound of cracking, splitting bark filling his ears. Each turns to slivers of splinted wood and shooting at Ghetsis from every direction. Most missed, but plenty stabbed into Ghetsis' arm. N grabs the collar of the larger man's shirt, easily tackling him into a barkless tree. "I told you I'd KILL YOU! And I WILL!"From where Jack and Link were standing, the sound of skulls smashing against the tree were almost as loud as N's screams of rage. And after a few moments, the trees slowly crumbled to a mass of grey, dead wood. N was crouched over a corpse, his shoulders moving up and down for seemingly no reason. And then N looks up, fingers locked in his hair. Blood stained parts of his face, finding its way onto his hands and wrist. The knuckles were almost showing the bone with the fury of his punches. His laugh was twisted, like a cliche'd villain. He had accomplished his revenge on his father. He had killed him... If someone were to look closely at the corpse... well, one might not have even recognized this thing had a head to begin with. The corpse's blood stained the dead trees that were now nothing but piles of grey twigs scattered all around them. N could only laugh. "Was that good, Mr. Jack...? AM I STRONG YET?! STRONG ENOUGH TO PROTECT EVERYONE?!"
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Post by Jack of Blades on Aug 12, 2012 13:57:01 GMT -5
Itami had leaped away from the trees and landed next to Jack. Now that the corpse no longer had a discernible face, it was safe for him to break the genjutsu without N ever having really known he was under it. He closed his eyes and allowed his mental grip over the boy break before he opened his eyes again, they were no longer black and red, and instead had returned to their normal onyx colour, he had drained a lot of energy using that genjutsu.
Jack's arms remained crossed against his chest, and his body language spoke the utmost calm that he felt, it seems that N would have what it takes to be of use to him, which pleased him somewhat, the fact that he wouldn't have to worry about him turning against him meant that the boy could be trusted with a certain level of responsibility when they retook The Void.
"You've taken the first step." He said bluntly, before motioning the boy over. "It is time. We are ready. It is time that we discussed a battle plan."
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Post by N on Aug 12, 2012 15:12:08 GMT -5
N was like a statue, stuck with his hands in his hair, eyes empty of expression. Their normally vibrant blue now seemed almost black. Link ran over quickly with a rag and began cleaning off his petrified friend.
"Yes, father. Please go on..." Link replies respectfully, taking care of N's face first. He'd have to shower to clean the blood from his hair, but Link decides to just take care of his skin.
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Post by Jack of Blades on Aug 12, 2012 18:07:51 GMT -5
Jack motioned for everyone to gather closer before he began speaking.
"The Void will have heavy defences, as well as an army of minions at it's back... Well, we'll counter that with ours. My Blades will go in as the main force... Itami, I want you to summon Demon Lord Manda as well as the three boa's to act as a Vanguard force to the Minions. Otar will stay back and act as support, he'll be supplementing our army with his golems and will no doubt prove useful. N and Link, I want you to lead an ambush division, N, you'll be using your trees to lock off sections of the enemies army and then Link will lead a group of minions in to kill them off. I'll personally be leading from the front lines."
He looked around at the others. "Any questions?"
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