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Feverent Careen - 03

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  1. [15:31:12] It had been a while since he had gotten the virus removed.
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  3. He was ever thankful to his mother for her efforts. If she hadn’t helped him when she did, he would’ve become a mindless monster. She saved his life, and reminded him in spite of his convoluted actions under the influence of the strain that had affected him, he was still good inside. Even then, the faces of those he had hurt haunted him in his sleep.
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  5. He knew.. he knew it wasn’t his fault. It wasn’t him who had hurt those people, it was the voice that had been inside of his head. He wasn’t going to let that happen, ever again!
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  7. Suddenly, he saw Loki aimlessly walking around. What was he going to tell him?
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  9. The child looked visibly tense. He was the one who helped Loki, who held him back when he got out of control, and yet three months prior the young Kien was just a volatile. He had to let it go. He couldn’t let the ghost of his inner antagonist follow him as he stepped back onto the path he was meant to walk.
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  11. "Loki!" He yelled, smiling. There was something different about the child.. his hair was back? At least, for the time being.
  12. (Ennis Kien)
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  15. [15:39:44] Loki begins looking around and walks wondering just where the hell is Ennis. He walked in the castle and surveyed and then walked back out after finding nothing on his quick peeping. As he walks on the steps he looks around still wondering just where the heck was his friend Ennis. He had things to talk to him about, particularly his depraved hand and how it was not affecting him but rather causing different effects.
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  17. It wasn't changing his permanent and normal state of mind. However he actually had a problem with it somehow. He wasn't used to his increased levels of anger, he not only gets more angry and also could get angry easier. However his increased amounts of agression would lead to him wailing on people he doesn't even want to hurt at times.
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  19. It was actually quite sad.
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  21. Suddenly he hears the voice coming to him. He'd turn as he heard his name and actually smile while he comes.
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  23. "Ennis! You look good again, with normal hair!" Clear shots at his former bald self and his master.
  24. (Loki Kyros)
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  26. [15:45:42] Almost immediately, he noticed Loki’s hand.
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  28. It was similar to the strain he had once been cursed with. Frowning, the child pointed towards the blackness. There was a concerned look on his face. No, it was more than that. The way his brows furrowed and his face creased painted his expression a grim one. He wasn’t going to let his friend sink further.
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  30. During his time with the parasite, it had made him completely unrecognizable. A force of walking entropy that wanted nothing more than to kill, to devour, to spread chaos. If Ennis was that bad with a pure disposition prior, Loki was going to be ten times worse thanks to his Oscuri blood.
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  32. "L-Loki.. you need to get rid of that, as soon as possible!" He shouted, his voice grave with a mixture of fear and worry. His squeaky voice boomed like a miniature thunderbolt.
  33. (Ennis Kien)
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  36. [16:02:46] Loki smiled as he looked at Ennis but he looked like he was suffering from some sort of grimace. He was saddened about something, that something happened to be the problem of his arm. His infection that had plagued his mind. Loki seemed to not be badly affected by it due to it being only plagueing his arm and his mind when he gets angry. His anger indeed was more deadly than before, however his overall behaviour was simply that of a normal child.
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  38. Suddenly Ennis spoke up in a squel. Screaming that he should get rid of his arm. He could see it?! Loki looked down and noticed a peek of his iron black arm was showing. It was solid and hardened like armor so it added to his toughness and durability, aswell as his strenght. However indeed it was something that need to be ridden of.
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  40. But..part of Loki was happy to recieve back his avenger emotions. The drive to fight and get stronger! Once he discarded it, he noticed himself getting quite lazy but he did not want that. He was using the arm as a way to get stronger, that and it wasn't much of a problem unless he got angry, aside from the migraines at times and morbid thoughts.
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  42. It was covered by his gauntlett and oversized coat. In an attempt to hide his mild depravity.
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  44. "Shh..I know it's bad. However it's not really affecting me right now..It only makes me feel agression when someone pisses me off..It's kinda worse than my madness caused by my heritage but..It's still not that bad. I will get rid of it when I can..How are you however?!" He switched the topic immediately not wanting to speak of his arm.
  45. (Loki Kyros)
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  48. [16:10:27] No, no, no..
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  50. He didn’t understand what it did people. How it could make them if they were pushed the wrong way. Ennis hated what the virus had done to him, and he hated to see his friend willingly embrace such tainted power. It wasn’t worth it. No amount of power was worth a killer instinct that completely transformed a person. Loki was letting a parasite occupy his body, he was letting the virus use him as a vessel for destruction.
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  52. It seemed to be a very serious topic, and the young Kien would not falter in his attempts to make Loki reconsider.
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  54. "It is that bad, Loki. I know. It happened to me, and when I had it I wasn’t.. I wasn’t me. It turned me into something else entirely, it made me do things I didn’t want to do. I felt like a prisoner in my own body. It even made me.. it made me.." He paused, clearly not wanting to relive some of his darkest moments. The child’s lips quivered, his speech riddled with sadness.
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  56. "It made me kill someone, Loki!"
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  58. "I know you want to get strong, but this.. this isn’t the way to do it."
  59. (Ennis Kien)
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  62. [16:15:34] Caim was totally up for remaining as brain dead and motionless as ever until he heard the knowledge of Ennis killing someone. That was both intriguing and also just made him curious, mainly because he wanted to know -who- Ennis killed! Well not so much who as how.. Like if they were killed through copious amounts of burning, to which Caim would wholeheartedly approve of if said victim was an unjust criminal or something similar.
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  64. Whatever.
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  66. "So who'd ya kill Ennis? You get bad guys and stuff? I missed a lotta things 'cause I got told to stay in the keep and all, and I couldn't sneak out!" He puffed up and placed his hands on his hips, proudly showing off his inability to be stealthy in any sort of situation. Stealth was for whiny weenies who were too afraid to do anything loud and explosion filled.
  67. (Caim Hirano)
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  70. [16:23:15] Loki wouldn't mind. It would be normal actually to be able to lose control sometimes for an Oscuri like him. Maybe for a person like Ennis, it was somewhat a sin and it wasn't normal. Something that shouldn't be done was killing and Loki just argued that fact. However for him, he was already pretty bad and to be able to achieve his goal he'd need to do some killing.
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  72. "Not bad..Your better than me. I haven't killed anyone.."
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  74. He could just imagine how savage Ennis murdered that person, he smiled as he thought of people dieing and dripping blood that was drawn from the savage slashes of his blade.
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  76. "Maybe it will make me find it easier to kill my enemy.." He thought of wicked things as his Rieka circuits began glowing and the green ominous energy seeped out his body making the place filled with a poweful pressure of a young child, mixed with a hint of depravity. He was saying wicked things, something that his friend Ennis would not expect from him either.
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  78. "I will get stronger..This power will bow to me."
  79. (Loki Kyros)
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  82. [16:32:38] Why was everyone so nonchalant?
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  84. They didn’t seem to care. A mere child had robbed someone of the life they had spent years cultivating, and nobody seemed to bat an eye. The world was a dark, broken place. He looked towards Caim. Was that his true nature? He was more curious about who he killed, how he did it? The child grits his teeth, furrowing his brows in blatantly obvious frustration. He didn’t feel like answering the prince. And Loki.. he was a troubled child, who couldn’t see past his own desire of power.
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  86. "Stop, just stop!" He couldn’t take it anymore. He couldn’t watch as a child not much older than him had already begun to fall into the tendrils of depravity. Ennis furrowed his brows, passion oozing through his person as it begun to take a physical form. A sapphire miasma of energy encircled him.
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  88. "I’ll.. I’ll make you remove it if I have to, Loki!" He shouts. Ennis wouldn't be able to live with himself if didn't at least try to stop his friend. The Oscuri's soul was injured, and it only seemed to get worse with each passing day.
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  90. (Ennis Kien)
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  93. [16:41:10] Loki smiled as the young boy began thinking he was ready to challenge him to a rematch already. What he did not understand was that he was not only stronger but he was also far faster and his anger made him far more powerful when that rage was triggered. Loki also managed to pick up a few new techniques on the way and would begin to show Ennis that this depraved powered wasn't all that bad.
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  95. He took off the gauntlett that held back his power and let an ooze of depravity seep out his arm. A veil of dark mana fused with his Rieka as they body seeped out his body, the black oozed swirled around his form and his pure manifestation of his Rieka burst into fruition.
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  97. "You need to understand that theres sacrifice to make for the greater good. Especially when power is needed for that purpose!"
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  99. He held his katana and charged it load of his Rieka. If Ennis was going to battle with him, he'd have to make it painfully clear that his depravity is the fuel to a new age, a fuel to a new generation of power.
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  101. "Come remove it, Ennis!!!" He'd rush off as a large burst of Rieka plunged him in Ennis's direction.
  102. (Loki Kyros)
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  105. [16:51:24] Caim blinked as the conversation between Ennis and Loki took a turned to the violent, the lad moving to rush up the stairs and try to push his way between the two. "NO. FIGHTING!" The young prince commanded, holding up his hands with a pout on his face. "Nostvale's not supposed to fight Nostvale! We fight bad guys and threats and we kill them no matter who they are and what they've done! If you're a part of Nostvale, then you two don't need to be fighting! I'm a Prince so ya gotta listen!"
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  107. Clearly he was trying to moderate through enforcement of not all that enforceable title based authority. It probably wouldn't help, hell the both of them could push the smaller kid out of the way and get back to potential brawling. "Besides! Bast would get really, -really- mad if you two started fighting on the keep and stuff! You shouldn't make Bast mad either, he's really, really nice!"
  108. (Caim Hirano)
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  110. [17:07:37] Was she…Hearing correctly?
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  112. Maybe it was rude to drop in on a conversation, but they spoke of something she knew a little bit about. Ennis was nervous, spoke of something that made him kill. Gala knew EXACTLY what that was. It was the very thing that tormented the girl's mind now. Such 'sweet' voices whispered such dark things. 'Kill this', 'murder them'. Maybe 'carve that open', or sometimes 'eat that guy!' It never stopped, they never let her sleep. If she didn't sleep well, she felt ill and could not eat. It was a roundabout circle that was taking its toll on the child and to hear someone brag about 'controlling' it?
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  114. Something deep inside her just…Snapped.
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  116. The air grew heavy, and before Loki knew it? The gravitational pull of the girl would SLAM him into the wall of the keep. If it missed? It left an indent in the stone wall; a clear sign that she had some violent intent behind that attack. "CONTROL…It? BOW to you…?"
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  118. Tugging on the brim of her hat, the small girl grew closer, walking over slowly as pink eyes glared at the Kyros. She looked tired up close, exhausted and maybe even a little thinner than before. Balling her hands into tight fists, a mean look over took her expression.
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  120. "You think you can control the Virus? You're an idiot!! You do not control the Virus, it controls you. I mean, if becoming a completely BRAINLESS maniac sounds fun? Then sure, what the heck! Go and do it! But let me make it very clear to you. I've had it longer than Ennis, and I've had it worse than him. You will not sleep, you will not eat, you will NEVER feel in control…You are nothing but a slave to it, and trust me! I know how that feels!"
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  122. Ignoring Caim and even shoving Ennis out of her way, the girl gets a little too close to Loki and leans in to sneer at him.
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  124. "You wanna see what it can do? How 'powerful' it can make ya? Why don't we have a little spar, me and you…Maybe getting torn limb from limb might make you listen a little better?"
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  126. It had gotten a little too far gone, that was becoming increasingly apparent. Gala had been trying to keep control of it, but the anger and the hatefulness would not stop. It came in spades now, and Gala showed NO signs of stopping. The worst part was? Neither Ennis, nor even Caim could probably stop her should she choose to pounce.
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  128. "What's say you...?"
  129. (Gala)
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  131. [17:11:53] Shudududu
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  133. Shnk
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  135. The Spine would be drawn in an instant, the serrated, brown marrow weapon would be drawn, stabbing lightly into the ground as he stood before the children. Too many times, it seemed, Bast had to intervene with the idiocy of children. Looking over the sword with a frown on his face, he would seem to glare at Ennis. He was an expert at getting in trouble. Why couldn't these kids just...not?
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  137. "The Prince speaks truth, and I will tell you all now, these last several days have not been ideal. Young Loki, you will lose your hand if you draw that sword against Ennis. I promise you that."
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  139. Children, the Chimera virus, Starox. Ever more, it was slowly irking and annoying the Knight, and he was near his breaking point. Mana, raw and angry, would drift upwards off of his shoulders and gauntlets, a soft blue as his jaw clenched. "I have had a very, very long week. I am at the end of my rope, and it has frayed very much. "
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  141. A single hand would raise, and with a snap of his fingers, guards would collect themselves. Many would rouse around the Knight, a series of soldiers standing with their weapons ready around the stairs, and the keep.
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  143. "So all of you. Take two steps back. A deep breath. All weapons, put aside."
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  145. "And stop."
  146. (Bast)
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  148. Loki smiled as he was pushed off, it would seem that everytime he tries to fight someone, something gets in the way of his fight. It was a little boy, rather the little prince of Clio. He was the brother that Hezekia seems to be talking about. He spoke about things such as killing and now he had a problem with Loki fighting Ennis?! It was as he said, Nostvale and Nostvale weren't to be enemies. They were friends and war was not supposed to be going on amongst them.
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  150. Loki noticed Gala was also affected, he wouldn't even move from her onslaught. He knew that making him angry wasn't the right decisions so even if he was enraged at this moment, he wouldn't have a problem because thats when he could truly lose his mind and fight. Without worrying about hurting others, merciless defeat.
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  152. He stepped back from Ennis but Bast also quickly stepped in. Saying a threat that made him snap.
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  154. "Which hand?! This one?! Will you really rip it off..I thought the man of peace and discipline was not to supposed to use violence especially against children?! Rather do you mean Ehren is going to eat me up..LIKE HE DID MY FATHER?!!" Loki gave a fierce look as his aura burst in all directions and flaring up all over his body, rippling the very air around everyone in his radius.
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  156. "Man...This arm..I can't even control it..if I my fuse gets snipped..this will be a very bad day for all us and especially me..I'd advise to make me get any worse.." He warns them to not set him off. If they truly wanted peace and a calm day, it would best to keep him calm, considering he was an Oscuri, his wrath was ten times worse than all who have been previously afflicted by the virus other than other Oscuri's.
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  158. "I'll stop.." He put his gauntletts over his hand and pulled down his sleeve. He tried to calm down..as best as he could. Sheathing back his blade and loweing his Rieka's pressure and causing his depravity feeling to lessen vastly.
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  160. "Sorry Ennis..Just please....Hold me back. My mentality is not the best right now..It would seem that almost all of us are suffering..Gala too..But I..I have the anger issues the worst.."
  161. (Loki Kyros)
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  163. Gritting his teeth, Ennis felt his body begin to shake slightly. Depravity was oozing off his friend, consuming him in tandem with the virus. He closed his eyes for a moment to regain his composure, promptly opening them as his pale sanguine orbs were fixed forwards. The lifestream, he could feel it beginning to alter.
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  165. The energy around Loki was growing more and more corrupt, contributing to the darkness that threatened the safety of all things pure and good. He summoned the strength to stand his ground, in spite of the overwhelming sense of entropy that encased the child before him. He wouldn’t let him corrupt himself even further. For his own sake, and for the sake of the threatened stream that flowed so gently around the world.
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  167. For a brief moment, a fragment of a tenth of a second, he felt it reaching out to him. An overwhelming sense of raw, unrefined power flew outwards from his person with the intention of crippling the malevolent disposition before him.
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  169. Before he could even remove his training sword from his scabbard, Caim’s voice interrupted whatever little skirmish was seconds away from beginning. Even in spite of Caim’s peculiar interests, he was still the prince. Ennis had promised to become his right hand one day, his Marshal. He was going to change Nostvale for the better. Caim was going to create a never-ended fire, and nobody would ever be cold again.
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  171. The child removed the blunted blade, holding it with both hands as he stabbed it into the ground.
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  173. Of course, Gala had already made her way over to the two. She was beginning to lose control, much like Ennis had. Only she.. She was getting progressively worse. He could see it in her, feel the chaos pulling her strings like a broken marionette. Both her and Loki.. they needed to get better, to be cured of the sickness that had been introduced by the queen. He closed his eyes, the energy around him as strong as the ramparts they stood upon.
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  175. A familiar voice.
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  177. Bast had promptly responded to the scene, his voice booming with its usual authority. Ennis made no effort to continue the fight. He only wanted to help, and perhaps he had been a bit to aggressive. His cause was just and held merit. The child wanted to see his friends cured, that was all.
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  179. Loki’s final threats and remarks didn’t seem to phase the disciple. His brows were furrowed, displaying the fortitude the mentor had passed down onto him. Standing vigil, the child had no intention of removing his criticizing gaze from the Oscuri.
  180. (Ennis Kien)
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