melodiesoflife | Event || In Your Worst Memory

Event || In Your Worst Memory

Characters: All Heroes of Light. Only those who signed-up can start a memory.
Where: Interdimensional Rift
When: May 27th - May 30th
Summary: The Heroes of Light relive some of their worst memories, with a twist. All characters participating in this will be physically missing from Crystallis for the duration of the event.
Warning: It depends on the memory.

Where you were or what you were doing— It does not really matter. Not any more. Everything around you freezes, nearly as if time itself stopped, as if the world was frozen in time. And before you have a chance to understand what is happening, you can hear a voice right behind you.

"Kali Shashidhwaja."

Should you turn around, you may see a child who seems to be the only one aside from you unaffected by what is happening. And as she stares right at you, it makes no doubt these strange words are aimed at you. But before you can reply to her, the world around you collapses. Reality twists and shatters... Or maybe you are the one who is collapsing and shattering away from reality as you know it. No matter what the answer is, it will only take a few seconds for you to find yourself sinking into a void, Crystallis vanishing into the distance. There is nothing but darkness as far as the eye can see.

And once again you feel different: all the powers from your Jobs are fading. Not only that, but you might find that your Crystal is gone and your clothes back to what they were before you woke up in Crystallis. It is silent, cold and before long it feels as though life itself is slipping out of you... And yet, slowly the world reforms around you. The darkness fades away and a new world appears, yet at the same time this is not a world.

This is a memory. The question is, is it yours or that of someone else?

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Terra found herself looking at Sephiroth's back as he removed her from her father's gaze. It helped, somehow seeing his back was comforting but it wasn't enough to clear the situation from her mind. She slowly moved as he instructed her footsteps almost silent as they walk backwards. When he stepped forward she remained in place behind him, her eyes moving back towards the monster that came into view.

That was her father. That was the man who passed down the power she had within her. Her thoughts were slowly circling in her mind when she heard Sephiroth speak. She stopped thinking, watching his back with a mixture of surprise and admiration. He wanted to help her even though she couldn't help him. Her hand moved over her heart and she felt warmth growing in her chest. She didn't have to do this alone either.

She was snapped out of her thoughts as Sephiroth directed her to move. "I can't-" She had wanted to say that she didn't want to leave him alone but her words were cut short.

It was as if Maduin's power called out to Terra and even in this memory she felt it press against her senses. Her nerves screamed in pain and she fell to her knees with her eyes clamped shut. She couldn't understand what was going on feeling only pain and power swell from within her. She hugged herself as purple-ish claws slowly began to replace her delicate fingers.

The soldiers around them readied their weapons. Their sights were trained on Maduin having had orders to kill every single Esper. Men in armor lined up and began firing missiles at him tearing into his back and sides as he continued to charge. His body was taking a beating from the soldiers but he released his spell sending lighting through their ranks and killing those to weak to handle the jolt.

For less than a fraction of a second Sephiroth was irritated by the fact that Terra would refuse to do as he bid but the abrupt cut-off of her speech alerted him and then he did dare to glance back over his shoulder at her - a great risk, considering.

"Terra."

Not really being able to see her Sephiroth then turned more of his body so that he could see where she had crumpled to the floor. He could feel the power in the air still charging even if Maduin's growls were now more in the background and quickly he looked over her as if looking for the answer. Sephiroth couldn't see anything wrong with her...until a few seconds later he fancied he saw how her fingers were starting to change.

It could be his imagination? He remembered Terra the Esper from a previous dream and quickly made the logical connection as he turned more back to face the monster.

Who then launched a sweep of highly-charged lightning outwards from himself, sweeping many soldiers around them to the floor like a strong gust would move the trees. With a grunt, Sephiroth made to turn himself completely around and face Terra - guarding her position from the blast as much as he was able to with his own frame as a shield. The electrical current ripped through him and even though Sephiroth -being mako-infused- would survive the attack, its potency made him smell his own singed nose hairs, taste how the energy threatened to cook him from the inside out...he could feel the lightning dissipate acutely, as it frayed out in all the threads of his silver hair and then finally the charge was gone.

He fell to one knee in front of Terra, Masamune limp at his left-side. In the silence that followed, that rung in his ears, Sephiroth breathed deeply for a few repetitions before planting a fist into the dirt on his one side and hauling himself back upright. He turned and dragged his sword back up into a battle stance; taking a longer moment to survey the scene as it was left before deciding what to do.

She didn't think it would hurt and she prayed for the pain to end. Everything going on around her faded until there was only a few sickening pops to accompany the pain that coursed through her during the change. She couldn't control it because she never learned how. She had her powers back and they were now trying to take control. Terra's back arched as her transformation continued, covering her arms and then her abdomen. Her feet slowly began to change as well, moving up her legs until all that was left was the beast that Sephiroth had seen in the dream. Her scream was chilling as the transformation completed itself, power rippling from her with no way for her to control it properly.

She couldn't say anything even as Sephiroth turned and protected her from the blast. Bright red eyes were trained on him before she jumped up into the air. She floated for a moment feeling her powers press against her sense. She had to release them or she feared they would over take what sense she had left.

As each soldier fell more rose to meet Maduin as if the dream knew that he would kill so many. Bullets riddled his sides but he disregarded them attacking the soldiers with a flick of his tail. His gaze was on Terra who remained floating in the sky looking down on the battle with detachment.

This isn't my father.

Her father would have protected her, he would have taught her to control the powers that he passed on to her.

Edited 2015-06-11 16:55 (UTC)

Perhaps it had been a result of the electricity which had dulled out a lot of Sephiroth's senses at the time, that he hadn't been able to fully take in Terra's transformation in the moments he'd been stuck on one knee before her but he couldn't ignore the predatory red eyes that fixed on him in the moments before he made his move. It turned out, that she ascended into the air as he succeeded in stretching out his battle stance once more in front of Maduin - quickly noting the holes that were riddling his sides and the powerful tail which dismissed his attackers as if batting away insects.

The mako that had ensured Sephiroth's survival from that attack now pounded fiercely beneath his skin, within all the fibers of the muscles that worked to keep him standing let alone battle-ready. The silver warrior took a breath as the last tingling of the shock receded and he fixated his attention on that tail which was being used to swat away Imperial troops. His eyes and his focus both charged with the borrowed energy of his own Planet.

A breath exhaled and he dashed forwards as if on the very air itself, only touching the ground again once he was well within range and then planting both feet firmly and powerfully bringing his overlong sword down and around to deliver the most momentum possible in a single slash.

"Argh!"

Sephiroth pulled Masamune up in a great slash, aimed for the meat of the tail as close to the base of Maduin's form as he could call it. Not hesitating with the follow through he launched himself from a deep squat and made to use his own weight to ensure the tail would break entirely whilst at the same time using it as a step to propel himself higher up the body of the monster; better to get a chance to deal a lethal strike next.

Terra watched as Sephiroth moved into battle. She couldn't feel anything as she looked down at him. He was the soldier that she knew and trusted but that was it. The beast didn't understand all of Terra's thoughts and the contradiction inside of her caused chaos. Her claws gripped her head and she screamed with all her might as power around her surged to dangerous levels.

Below her the fight raged on.

Sephiroth's attack was enough to send Maduin into a fierce, blinding rage. He was fighting a loosing battle but he was fighting for his home and that made him stronger. He swiped a large claw at Sephiroth making no motions to protect himself. Lighting jumped and pulsed within his palm as he searched for something to connect with.

The force of his strike and the magic would both be released the moment that he found something. Blood dripped from his body as he was torn apart bit by bit with every attack. Before his claw could land on Sephrioth or the soldiers around him Maduin began to become encased in crystal. It was dark blue hue and it was indestructible. Slowly his tail reformed as if knowing that he'd need the solid part of him in his stasis. Bit by bit the battle ended and yet Terra stayed hovering in the air above the soldiers.

He only had a very vague awareness of Terra's Esper-form charging still somewhere above their heads yet off behind him as well. Sephiroth's concentration was on the next sword strike, how he landed from that, how he'd dodge and counter further - soon matching the bullet holes riddling Maduin with precise and productive long red marks where Masamune cut him. Though clearly self-regeneration was an ability of the creature, it seemed it as if the sheer amount of injury being inflicted was eventually winning out.

Sephiroth had paused for only a hair of a second before enacting his latest flurry of attacks, and it had been all that the monster needed for his claw to find the leather-clad side of Sephiroth's back. Raw energy pulsated outwards in the same instant as the connection as if exploding it's current all through his body once more, there was the sensation of being propelled-

Next thing he knew, Sephiroth pulled his face up out of the mud and with a groan rubbed the back of his glove over his chin to wipe some of the muck away. Everything still hummed with the remembered charge though he imagined his adrenaline was still holding back the pain.

From a good few feet behind where Terra was hovering, the silver warrior looked up and over her form again before lowering his gaze to what was Maduin; now mostly dark blue crystal and hardly moving. Some of the soldiers were still firing on it, and Sephiroth imagined he could hear the bullets ricocheting off.

She felt her fathers energy slowly slip away even though his soul remained trapped in the dark blue crystal. Her claws gripped her head as an unseen force scrapped against her nerves. She screamed, the shout containing her pain, anger and confusion as her magic was released into the empty sky.

A deep rumble echoed from Maduin as the crystal fully encased him. "You think you have won." His gaze shifted to Terra as if finally seeing his daughter. Slowly the light faded from his gaze and his prison was sealed.

A few soldiers continued to shoot the dark blue form, their bullets hitting allies as they bounce off the impenetrable blue surface. A moment later it was quiet and every looked up at the sky at Terra. She looked down at Sephiroth as if seeing him for the first time and then flew off, running from the battle and her memories.

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