Event || The Revival of King Moggle Mog XIV

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Characters: Undead Heroes and Surviving Heroes of Light participating in the event.
Where: Start in Aqures Ixen; Ends in a Forest East of Aqures.
When: The 31st of October.
Summary: People have died, now they're back with a need to kill those who didn't die. Well, kill them if they have to at the very least. The OOC Post for detailed explanations can be found here.
Warning: Friends killing each other.

Undead Mingle || Living Mingle
Speakers: Yeul and Saori (Aqures Ixen) || Kobato (Forest Entrance)
Support & Bosses: Forest Core
Boss Battles: Sephiroth || Snow Villiers || Shun Aonuma || Tifa Lockhart

Comments

[shinrasfinest]

Which is exactly what they want you to think.

[Really, he couldn't sound more bored in having to explain it like it's the most simplest concept and Zelda is much too naive to get it. It's almost out of character for the always-polite, perfect-SOLDIER who would usually keep his opinions to himself and try not to be so judgmental.]

Biggs. Jessie. Wedge. Even they are pawns in the bigger picture. How can you not see how the crystals have stripped you all back, brought you all to heel?

[gomu_ningen]

"Ib! What's going on?!"

[Confused, lost, and torn over what it is that he should be doing, the aspiring pirate at least knows that the most important thing right now is the safety of his friends. He knew that several of his friends were capable of handling things where they were needed, yet he hadn't seen Ramza or Ib for some time. Bumping into Ib must have been by luck, and it's a chance he won't pass up.

It doesn't take a genius to realize that the man standing before the two women has a hand in what has been happening. Their chance meeting all those weeks ago, bumping into one another, had been a fated meeting of sorts. Normally, Luffy would jump in without so much as a second guess. With the fate of the kingdom at stake, and with the prospect of those he cares for being hurt, a bit of conversation was needed.]

It's you-! What are you doing to Ib-chan and Zelda?! Are you the reason why everyone in town is going crazy?!

[goddessofthesky]

[Zelda turns slightly towards Luffy with a confident smile.]

He hasn't hurt anyone.

[She faces Sephiroth fully though her shoulders are tense. This feels all wrong but how can she make him see that.]

I trust you but you need to trust us too. We can do this together.

[Zelda holds out her hand to him with her chin held high.]

[her_rose_is_red]

[She answers Luffy with a shake of her head.]

I don't know! We came here to try to help the moogles and find a cure for everyone but.... but something weird is going on.

[She honestly has no idea. But Sephiroth seems to, so she turns back to him.]

Why would they lie to us? What's the ritual?

[Zelda isn't the only one with a sinking feeling. Ib can feel this all slipping out of their control, and fast.]

[shinrasfinest]

[It's a very good job that Zelda spoke up for him when Luffy was so quick to assume. And he wasn't wrong yet; Sephiroth had been involved at a great level with the events of the previous weeks and months, yet not so much with spreading the sickness that claimed his 'life'. It couldn't have been real, after all, it couldn't have killed him really or he wouldn't be stood here to tell the tale. Just another fallacy engineered for other purposes.

He has a chance to turn heavy-lashed eyes down at Zelda's outstretched hand, inspecting it for a moment before raising his gaze to her face with a slightly abhorrent tone to his demeanor. Then turns to Ib as again they ask more questions. His patience is wearing thin; why didn't they understand? Were they all so dense as to be problematic? Would he have to make sure they didn't interfere? Or just to stop the questions which had the answers they simply couldn't comprehend?]

The ritual will put all things to rights. As they should have been thousands of years ago. You need to trust me, stay back, and do not interfere with this.

[goddessofthesky]

[Zelda takes another small step forward, her eyes looking up at Sephiroth. It is still unclear but she doesn't think that he was going to explain. Maybe he doesn't want to? No matter the situation she has hope and it shows as she stares up at her friend.]

I'm sorry. I can't do that.

[It sounds to easy. She has seen what happens when darkness takes hold. Its hard to tell the truth from fiction and no matter how much you wish for something to be false; it has to be faced. She doesn't want to run away anymore. Her chest tightens as her mind wanders on thoughts of her sleeping tomb waiting for her in her own world.]

I can't do nothing.

[gomu_ningen]

[He's ignorant to much of everything that was being said, an outsider knowing nothing of rituals or the need for truth. To Luffy this was a matter of safety, a struggle of survival, and it didn't take a genius to see that the silver-haired man was standing in the way of that.

If he were a sage at any one thing, Luffy would gloat that he could tell when some one was genuine and of truly good intention. The women standing before him exemplified the sort of compassion and camaraderie that this city needed in order to survive, and if their position in this confusing exchange was is that of trying to stop Sephiroth? He would gladly stand beside them.

When he looks again to the silver-haired gentleman, Luffy feels the air go still. There's a coolness in the air that's unnatural, and it's a feeling he's felt numerous times before. The taste of blood, the grief and gloom of despair, the telltale signs that death was soon approaching.

Swishing a hand and motioning for her to retreat, Luffy calls to Zelda as well as Ib as his heart begins to race with worry.]

Zel-chan! Get away from him!

[shinrasfinest]

[Luffy's instincts are proved right...]