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The Final Step (SL); Closed, but ask me if you want to post
Topic Started: Sep 3 2004, 09:26 PM (1,294 Views)
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The courtyard was quiet now, most of the dorm's lights were off and more than half were sleeping, others staying up doing other things. It was dark, and the only source of light was a lit room on the third floor. Phineas sighed, staring right at the window. He knew exactly who's room it was, and knew that he'd have to do something terrible to the girl inside. Bad part was, she was his sister.

"I don't wanna do this. This is horrible..."

"FINNY!!"

Lumina dropped from the trees, making Phineas jump a mile high. She had a huge grin on her face as she hung upside down from her knees on the limb. She knew he was unhappy about this, but this was her vendetta, not his. He was just a pawn, and pawns were fun to torture and then get rid of, right? She thought for a moment, 'Maybe that's why I chew on the pawns in chess...'

"So, Finny, you gonna do this sometime this year? I have a timetable to keep and you're not helping one bit."

Phineas glared at her deeply, glancing from the window, to Lumina, and back to the window. He had a slim chance to do something, anything to stop what was going to happen from happening. But, Lumina again killed that chance.

"So, Phineas, let's get on with the show, I don't have all weekend..."

She threw a rock at the window on the third floor, and jumped behind some bushes, pulling Phineas with her. Cliche, yes. But effective, yes. Aaiiry opened her window, staring blankly at where she thought the rock had come from. She sighed, and walked out to the courtyard, dragging Ashlyn behind her.

"Aaiiry, wha-happened?" Ashlyn rubbed her eye, gripped onto the hem of Aaiiry's shirt. Aaiiry turned around to shush her, staring darkly at the bushes. She was pretty sure something was there, but she didn't want to find something other than someone playing a prank on her, so she wasn't all to ready to find out what it was. She wouldn't have found anything in the bush anyway, Lumina had already dragged Phineas off into 'position', and was safely away from anyone seeing them.

"Nothin' Ashlyn. Probably a squirrell or something..." She knew something was wrong, or was going to be wrong... a squirrell couldn't make that big a noise, and hoped that her explanation would work with the girl's logic.

"Okay. I wanna go insid-*thunk*" Ashlyn turned toward the window again, more rocks being thrown at the window. Aaiiry looked at the window with a confused look, not particularly wanting to go back inside anymore. She had a feeling that someone was in her room, and she shook off the feeling she wasn't safe anywhere before it got to her. She sat on a bench in the courtyard, trying to calm down a bit before she went inside.
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Sakura couldn't sleep at all this night and she didn't know why. She had all of her guns with her while she was still wearing her pajamas. The only thing that was a part of her normal day wear is her sunglasses. Even with practicing her weapons, she still felt very restless. Man, I can't sleep at all tonight. I hope there isn't something wrong with me she thought to herself. Her saphirre blue eyes noticed that there were not really a lot of people out. More than likely they were asleep. "Those people are lucky. They get to sleep while I can't get comfortable at all," she said low under her breath. Her eyes then noticed that there was someone on the benches. She saw that child before, it was Ashlyn. She walked up to her slowly and sat down next to her, nodding at the other girl that was there. "Hey Ashlyn, how have you been?"
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Recently Linis had been keeping an 'eye' on Aaiiry's room. He different feel like she was safe at AHS for the time being, and that was his way of making sure she was. Any movemenet outside of the dorm walls would be noticed, even more so if the movement went in or out of the dorm. When the rock hit the window Linis was outside in a flash, his protection on the dorm stopping as he saw Aaiiry outside already. Linis felt 3 energys in the courtyard, and two other lingering traces of some. The three there he came to realize were Aaiiry, who he knew was out there, Ashlyn, and Sakura.

He stepped out into the dim light and towards Aaiiry on the bench.

'I heard something by your dorm.. Whats up? Why are you out here so late?'

He said, his eyes watching Sakura and Ashlyn.
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Ashlyn smiled brightly at Sakura, as brightly as a sleep deprived four year old could. She leaned against Aaiiry's side and closed her eyes, seemingly asleep. Aaiiry smiled at Linis as he walked up, rubbing her eye while he spoke. She shrugged, and pointed at the little nicks in her window that were clearly visible from where she sat.

"Someone was throwing rocks at my window. It was getting annoying, so I came out to yell at whoever it was. But they're not here anymore..."

She reached behind her back, trying to pull her hair into a ponytail to keep it out of her face.
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Sakura blinked a couple times and looked at Linis. From what she learned about throwing rocks at a window would be something that boyfriend and girlfriend would do. However, by the look of things, it would seem that this is not the case. A yawn escaped her mouth and began to stretch out a little. She looked at the seemingly sleeping Ashlyn and then at Linis with a raised eyebrow. Her saphirre blue eyes darted back and forth until they fell onto Linis one more time. "Um, I know this is not my business, but is Ashlyn related to you in any way?"
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'You could say that... Its a long story, but Ashlyn is my daughter, so to speak. Though she is not even born yet in this time... Like I said, its a long story... '

Linis said, then looking up at the window.. Putting two and two together he figure that the two energys that had lingered had done it. But it wasn't enough to find out who it was... He was guessing Lu ina only becuase what had happened...

'Would you like me to watch the courtyard so that you may get some rest, Aaiiry?"
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Sakura was more or less surprised that Ashlyn was Linis' daughter. But then again, most people don't even know that Cyrus is her father. However, when he said that she was not from this time, she looked at Ashlyn again. She sort of recalled Ashlyn saying something about that. Just as Sakura removed her sunglasses, she smelled something familiar. She didn't want to alarm Aairy either, so she kept quiet.
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"Um... no... I don't really want to go back up right now, so I'll just wait out here for a few more minutes..." She sighed heavily, looking back up to her window. "I have a feeling that I'll be jumped by Lumina if I go back up there. She'll probably wanna go get coffee or something..." She smiled, hoping the excuse would make up for her fear of going back to her dorm.

Her head dipped back behind her, her hand absently running through Ashlyn's hair as she glanced sideways at her dorm. She yawned, and pulled her head back up.

"I'm not all that tired anyway."
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Sakura pushed up her sunglasses and nodded her head. "Then I insist in staying here with you then," she said with a smile on her face. She didn't say it to either of them, but Andrew had a gut feeling about Lumina that wasn't really good. She looked at Ashlyn and then at Linis with a smile on her face. "You know, I always thought that I had the only father that was going to classes." A sweatdrop fell from her head and she began to giggle a little bit. "Of course, I know she is from the future. But still...it is a little interesting if you think about it."
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'I will stay too...'

Linis said..
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Aaiiry smiled at Linis, then turned to Sakura with a nod.

"It's weird though. Whenever I mention Linis around her or if I have Koede watch her, she's almost always either in tears or throwing things at me or Koede by the time I remember she gets mad and stop talking..." She glanced over at Ashlyn, and smiled a little. "She's a weird little kid... but she acts like me when I was little, so I know how to handle her somewhat."

She sighed, and hung her head behind the bench again. "I just wanna know exactly why she's here."
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Sakura listened to Aairy as she looked at Ashlyn. "Well, I do know that Ashlyn isn't exactly from this time from what she told me. So, maybe she knows a different Koede," she said with a shrug. She began to stretch one more time and looked up at the night sky. Her nose still caught the scent of Lumina, and she lowered her head again. She didn't want to alarm Aairy though.
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She'd finally had enough. Ashlyn's eyes snapped open, glaring darkly at Sakura, then shifting to Aaiiry.

"No! I don't know another Koede! You people are all different from mama and daddy and Koede! I don't know ANY of you!" She got up off the bench, and walked slowly over to Linis. Her glare was darker, darker than a four year old's should be.

"You are NOT my daddy. My daddy never called me Ashlyn..!" She put her head down, crying, and swung her leg out, kicking Linis in the lower leg before running off out of the courtyard. Aaiiry stood up, a look of shock on her face for a moment before she ran after her.
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Sakura watched as Ashlyn kicked Linis in the leg and ran off. "Ashlyn, come back!" She ran after her as well and stopped dead in her tracks. She sniffed the air around her to try and get Ashlyn's scent. She got a lock on her scent and ran faster. By what Ashlyn told me is that the people she's talking about are probably different she thought to herself. At least when she was going after her it made her forget about her lack of sleep.
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Linis sighed, he knew this was a possibility snice Ashlyn was not from his time, and he really wasn't the father she knew. He rubbed his leg from the kick, which was preatty strong for a child, normally a childs kick wouldn't even regester as pain in Linis, but there was a dull pain there... He shook his head and rose intot he air following Aaiiry and Ashlyn...

'Wait up!"

Linis called after them, catching up with Aaiiry fairly quickly and scanning for Ashlyn...

'We need to find out what happened, and try and get her back to her time...Its not right for her to be here.."
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Sakura had ran a pretty good distance from Linis and Aairy and continued to smell the air. "Man Ashlyn can move. Who would have thought that such a young girl could be able to run so fast." She still had a pretty strong lock on her smell, but she could be anywhere. Sakura brushed her blonde hair back with a sigh coming out of her lips. She wasn't going to let Ashlyn get away from her. After she had got her breath, she ran as hard as she could to find her.
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Ashlyn had stopped to catch her breath, and had run quite a bit away from Aaiiry, Linis and Sakura, and would be hard to catch at the present. Aaiiry looked at Linis after he called after them. She stoped short in her tracks, already having lost Ashlyn's trail. She leaned over with her hands on her knees, trying to speak though already short of breath.

"I don't think she should even be outside right now. It doesn't feel right."
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"I know what you mean... There is just something off..''

As Linis said that, a voice that sounded much like his own, but wiser spoke in his mind...

'Call her Ash-Ash... When you find her I will guide you with what to say....'

Linis blinked in confusion as the voice stopped. Who was it that was telling him this? It was not Matthew... He shook his head clear and pointed towards where Ashlyn was, though she was still far off. Linis would not lose track of her energy, even if he was scanning for other enegrys as well. The dust off the ground flew up as Linis traveled towards Ashlyn, still not believing the voice in his head...
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Sakura continued to walk through the courtyard while calling out Ashlyn's name, hoping that she would hear her. "This place is too big, I need some kind of GPS to find where...wait a minute. Of course, duh Nova you could have been able to use that." Her eyes dialated and her enhanced sight had kicked in. This made her search for Ashlyn a lot less difficult since she was able now to see things a lot more clearly from a greater distance. She continued her search at a walker's speed while still calling out for Ashlyn.
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Aaiiry pushed herself up off her knees, and looked up to try and find Linis, mainly to try and follow him, knowing she probably wouldn't be able to keep up well. She started to follow, but quickly lost his trail, and took a wrong turn.

She quickly stopped in her tracks as soon as she turned the corner. The place looked a little weird, and it was screaming at her that this was all wrong. She slowly turned back around to try and find Linis again, but the way she came was sealed off... she turned back and walked down the path a few feet, but was hit with a bat in the back of the head by a figure in a black shirt, grey vest, and a blue tie.

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Aaiiry's eyes opened slowly, but they seemed all to quick for her, letting light in a little too soon for her to bear. Her hands flew up to the sides of her head, fingers twisting into her hair, as she looked up through the light, seeing a barely visible figure... She opened her mouth to speak... her voice was heard, but it was not the tone, nor the words she wanted.

"YOU BITCH!"

Her eyes were now suddenly filled with hate and anger, not what Aaiiry felt at the moment, as she was made to stare forcibly into the light at the faded silhouette. The figure faintly turned it’s head away, in a scoff, and walked closer to her. It came closer, the face still lingering in the shadows behind the light. It came in to the shape of an very young woman... maybe only Aaiiry’s age. She looked so familiar... but Aaiiry knew one thing for certain. This was Francesca.

"Aaiiry... or are you Katie now..?"

The woman scoffed quietly again, walking still closer to Aaiiry, and knocked her to the ground.

"The way you screamed at me would suggest the latter." The voice was so familiar...

"You’re still a bitch, you bitch."

Aaiiry felt her face turn into a smirk, which she did NOT want to do. She mentally kicked herself a few hundred times, waiting for what she knew would happen.

"What did you say..?"

Francesca walked back over from where she had been walking to, giving Aaiiry a hard glare.

"You do not call me that again."

"What? I didn’t understand that. I don’t speak bitch!"

Aaiiry was still kicking herself for what she had no control over, and finally realized... Katie was doing this. She hadn’t heard Francesca say it earlier, and was now mentally kicking herself harder. Francesca’s hands went to her neck, picking her up. It was surprising for such a seemingly frail person. Katie was pumping through the air, kicking her legs, and Aaiiry was still kicking herself.

"I told you..."

"I know." The murder left Aaiiry’s eyes. Her legs stopped kicking at Francesca, and her hands loosened from Francesca’s wrist. The woman’s hands let go of Aaiiry’s neck, and she fell more or less limply to the ground, slowly crawling back to her knees.

"Now... I might as well finally get rid of you for good."

She said, one finger held out from her left hand. She moved close to Aaiiry, face still hid by shadows even this close to her face, and touched the finger to her neck, where it was red from being strangled. "Shall we use your curse, or would you rather a less humane method...?" She said, with an almost insane smile...

"Neither. Please, I don’t wanna die."

Aaiiry’s eyes fell, completely blue, no trace of Katie anywhere in Aaiiry’s mind. She laid on the floor, completely still. The only time she moved was for the small shivers from her crying, and the temperature of the black place they were in. She lifted her head slowly, Francesca grabbing her wrist tightly as soon as her face was able to be seen.

"Don’t wanna die, huh...?"

Francesca looked at her, eyes narrowed, trying to find some ulterior motive in asking so sincerely. It was almost too sincere, almost an act... "What would you do to for me not to kill you?"

"Anything. Anything at all. Just don’t kill me, I need to live."

"Okay... Okay. That sounds like fun. I can work with this."

Francesca sighed, almost sounding relieved. Her host body had a weird effect on her mind, and Francesca really didn’t like it. But it was there and had to be there if Francesca wanted to be on the physical plane. She lifted Aaiiry back up by her arm, back to eye level.

"You have no name. No family. No relationships."

Francesca’s eyes hardened, still boring straight into Aaiiry’s. "No life before or beyond the point I say, no control of your actions unless I grant you permission."

"Aaiiry Bluderaine no longer exists. You’re a no name, faceless servant that will work for me..."

A flash of amber, a glare, and a smirk appeared. But not for long. Aaiiry’s eyes faded into an almost pure blue, pupils no longer visible. She slowly pulled the girl into the shadows and was gone.
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Sakura stopped dead in her tracks and found herself at the memorial in the courtyard. She had never noticed this before. Her saphirre eyes began to examine the area and a smile formed. It was a beautiful place. "Wait a minute, I can't just stay here. I got to find Ashlyn!" She continued to run through the courtyard before her voice began to get hoarse. She found a drinking fountain and began to drink some water. Ashlyn, where are you she thought to herself.
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Linis stopped dead in his tracks as he felt something go missing... Within second he knew what it was that went missing... Aaiiry...

'fuck'

It was all that Linis could say... He realized the mistake he had made when he started to speed ahead trying to find Ashlyn and left Aaiiry behind... He had been an idiot, he had left who he knew was in danger behind to try and find someone that he was unsure was in danger, and then the voice came back...

'There is nothing you can do right now, you must find Ashlyn, call her name as Ash-Ash... Trust me Linis, I am you! She will come to the name Ash-Ash!'

The voice stopped and Linis was upset, it had jusat told him two things that could not possibly be true. One, that he could not do anything, and two, that the voice was himself... He refused to believe those, but he had no choice at the moment. He could not sense Aaiiry anywhere, so he must find Ashlyn... Before calling out to her, he twinged. Something had just gone terribly wrong, and peices of his mind seemed to dissappear before him... Suddenly he only had a fw memories of Aaiiry. Those that occured before she dissappered the first time, so long ago. And those that he had gained after her tear spilled into his eye. A tear fell from his eye and he knew what he must do...

'Ash-Ash! Menke naa lle? Daddy's here!" ((Where are you?))
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Ashlyn heard him, and stood up slowly, looking around the wall she was hiding behind. She stared at Linis, walking over to him slowly. She put a small doll in her skirt pocket that looked eerily like Aaiiry, but with blonde hair and big glasses, and looked up at Linis.

"I'm sorry I kicked you daddy..." She said, on the verge of tears...
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Sakura finished drinking and caught Ashlyn's scent again. It looked like that she was on the move now. She ran from the fountain and saw her with Linis. Sakura breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the young girl. "I'm glad that you are safe Ashlyn," Sakura said with a smile on her face. She then looked up at Linis and nodded her head. Her best bet was that he found her first.
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Linis didn't even notice the doll she held..

"Amin sentia...'

Linis said waiting for the voice to come so he would not make her run away again... He rubbed her cheek with his thumb lightly..

'Don't worry about it Ash-Ash... '

Linis smiled, still waiting for the voice to come back.. He put out his arms so Ashlyn could climb onto his side so he could carry her. Looking up to Sakura he nodded.
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She walked over to him, and put her arms around his neck, and her head on her shoulder, falling asleep almost instantly. The doll slipped from her pocket, but she didn't notice.
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Linis held Ashlyn close and stood up looking at Sakura...

'Aaiiry is gone.. Her energy dissappeared while we were looking... We need to go see Danny, or Koede, but Ashlyn is scared of Koede for some reason, so lets see Danny...'

Ashlyn moved her head a bit in her sleep, but did not wake as Linis spoke.
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Sakura nodded her head and had a determined look on her face. "Okay Linis, you lead the way." She adjusted the sunglasses on her face so that they were now back on her face. I wonder why Aairy is gone. I hope that nothing bad has happened to her she thought to herself.
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Linis nodded and started walking, though something caught the corner of his eye. The doll that Ashlyn had dropped was laying on the ground by where he was standing... He closed his eyes in concentration and soon the doll rasied into the air and over to Linis, he grabbed it the best he could wihtout dropping or disturbing Ashlyn, and then continued walking towards the dorms.


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