Fake Motives

Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow. OOOWWW. The pain kept going. He was barely consious. The second his leg went snap he passed out. He would have a dream... He would wake up in a black void. Suddenly Vinidictus, Shinra, Gin... Even his own sister. They all hated on him, throwing stones at him, hitting and kicking him. It was a dream but it all felt too real. Suddenly, Vinidictus would shove a blade through him. And he woke up gasping. Something was off. His vision was odd, his depth preception was... What the hell was this? He felt his left eye. Either it was numb, or nothing was there. He felt under his eye socket and pulled his hand away finding blood. Suddenly he would notice that he was covered on it too.

That's when he started to feel it... The pain was unbareable! He almost shouted in pain rolling over in pain. How could this be?! How long was he asleep!? He pulled himself together and crawled over so he could hide by a a little area. Once again passing out. He woke up groggy this time, the pain in his leg was mostly subsided... "Great, I pass out twice and I have no idea for how long..." He said to himself carefully getting up. Suddenly he realize he was really hungry. He groaned and spotted a near by rabbit. He waved his hand at it and it would instantly be cooked to a crisp, all fur would fall off. He quickly pounced over to it devouring the rabbit.... Samuel was still hungry!

He sighed knowing that, that would fill him for the time being... HE needed to find his sister... After restless searching in wychwood he would go over to the cavern... He would suddenly spot his sister... And another beautiful young lady as well. Samuel wasn't exactly in the mood to hit on anyone obviously so he didn't bother. He slowly trembled as he came up to them. "Sophia... Ehehe... Making friends without me?-" just then he collapsed to his knees. He cursed under his breath then allowing his aegis to surround him. Stabilizing him and nuetralizing at least some of the pain. Slowly healing him as it always did. "I need a bit of help..." He said looking up at them. His left eye. The eye of redemption would be gone. Missing...

...Taken...
(Samuel Ryozo)
Sophia was about to take her leave when she spotted someone approaching them or was it more like wobbling before collapsing onto their knees. despite her will to ignore it she still approached them and stared at the person before hearing and recognizing the voice. She stared with her eyes narrowing just before grinding her teeth and soon addressing Samuel.

"What happened to you? Wheres your eye and who did it to you? Speak, who did this to you Samuel!?" she nearly escalimed with clear anger building up within her, just as she saw that someone touched her twin before her. She kept staring at him with her eyes narrowed behind a mask, waiting for his response just as her blood began to boil, reflecting her anger.
(Sophia Ryozo)
As the new person would arrive, she would notice that there would seem to be blood coming from his eye. And of course as she had suspectied, it was the same eye that corresponded with Sophia's eye. Finally knowing the Ryozo's first name. But she guessed that this was the infamous Sam Ryozo that was spoken about and as such Stella would speak, her true voice not known to either of them:

"Sorry about that Sophia. I am also sorry for your loss, but at the very least you can be assured that I won't be trying to convert you or anything any time soon. But as for your brother, it seems someone might have beaten you to it."

It wasn't much but she'd simply watch, her eyes dimly lit with interest as she wondered what might happen to him in the future. Perhaps he'd live to fight another day, or perhaps he'd be taken now. Nevertheless, the awe effect would possibly start to affect Sam the longer he stayed here, though it's not like many others ever really noticed it anyway. A shame.
(Stella Solaris)
[11:37:58] He groaned getting up and smiling at Sophia. He was about to respond when he heard the other one speak. She was very nice apparently. Huh, maybe he could do with this until he got revenge on Shinra for what they had done. "Shinra... Shinra did it to me... They got pissed at me for aiming to teach one of her followers a lesson, which to be fair. He wants to kill me, that bastard Vinidictus... I bet he wants my head on his wall, despite what I did being fair game... I don't get how some people could be so damn evil..." Samuel said. His single eye was watering. Everything looked flat, his lack of depth perception made everything sooo hard.

"Wait... Ugh... My head... Geez, why does everyone hate me? All I do is try and even the playing field and suddenly everyone wants me dead?!" He would suddenly turn to Stella. "He's basically the cause of me having no eye now. Damn it..." would say shaking his head. How would he ever figure this out?!
(Samuel Ryozo)

[11:50:46] Sophia removed her mask and hood, revealing her face twisted in clear maddened scowl with her fists tightened around her mask, feeling envious towards Shinr and Vindictus for taking what was supposed to be hers, with her depravity exploding out of her, revealing how heavily she was depraved. She growled loudly with mask cracking and breaking in her hands just as she continued to think of what Shinra did.

Samuels eye was hers, she was going to beat her twin and take it, Shinra didn't deserve it and that brought her to utter rage, resulting with her body starting to cover in sparks and discharges as she suddenly let out a beastial roar, shattering her mask before moving to grab Samuel by his collar and soon lift him up into the air

"The eye was supposed to be taken by me as punishement for you for all of the running and lying to me, for all of the growth in power, for all the nerves, problems and stress you gave me and you tell me you allowed some damned yokai to steal it from me!?"" she kept screaming, her voice vibrating with power as she felt the envy filling her mind with hateful thoughts towards Shinra, Vindictus and Samuel, bringing out the urge to kill him and steal the possiblity for any of them of deciding of his life.

Why they were to make the choice, why anyone else if not her was supposed to dare and chose what was going to happen to her twin if not her alone. She had him before herself with possibility to kill him, all she had to do was to just use her magic.

"They want to kill you? They want to take you frm me, no...thats my job, no one will steal it from me...No...one will steal this from me, you hear me Samuel!?" she screamed, slowly moving her hands towards his neck, trying to grab and start squeezing it.
(Sophia Ryozo)
Protect those under the sky who can't protect themselves.

One of the Goddess's-er her, own sayings. It was awful, yet this was no way for someone to have their life ended. So, internally Stella groaned as she got up and with a gust of wind, she'd be holding Sam in one arm preventing him from falling as she hit two small points in the hand that would cause the reflex reaction to open. These things were never easy but nevertheless as much as she hated to interviene she sure as hell wasn't going to let this happen.

"Sorry Sophia, but as much as you are interesting, I can't simply have you killing Sam here without a proper fight. Even if it is something that is family related, I have to protect those who cannot protect themselves."

She hated being that one person but it was her duty. Regardless, at least she'd be able to get both sides of the story this way, but what might happen next would not be too much of a mystery. There were only two options really. Fight, or not. And it was pretty obvious with Sophia's rage, that they were going to fight.
(Stella Solaris)
Samuel would look to Stella and then turn to mist getting out of Sophia's grip. "Sophia... I hope you'll learn your lesson after this..." he said apologizing. He was weaker than normal at the moment, but he was still powerful enough to hold his own against his sister. Now Stella was helping him... He would look to her at his side. "I owe you big time for this. In the future tell me how I can repay you." He would say smiling then nodding. He looked back to his sister with a grim expression.

He would sigh then slowly take out his daylight wand. "Man, Shinra's little mind control tecnique is not helping me focus... My head still hurts like hell... So Sophia, I suggest you don't fight us, especially since I'm in a bad mood." He would warn her. Suddenly his skurn would appear behind him. It was three versus one. Would Sophia stupidly fight anyway? Or would she be smart?
(Samuel Ryozo)
Sophia moved her hand towards the hilt of her blade just before pulling it out and allowing the edge to rest against the gorund, growling with her eye flashing from rage. She lowered herself and licked her lips before forcing the sparks to appear just as she observed the two before deciding to force the blood around her arms.

With loud growl she began to gather her energy and for now obseved her opponents, preparing to face them and deciding who to target first. She took a deep breath before finally deciding to dash, for now in general direction not to give out who she was going to take on first.

She had to imrpvoise and make sure that she was going to be able to bring them down, which would be challenging task.
(Sophia Ryozo)
A battle it was indeed. Blistering, and pushing powers all together pushing down on Sophia. Stella would be knocked down, before Sophia could do anything to harm Stella though, "Don't you touch her Sophia!!!" He yelled shooting a blast of steam at her knocking her back into a tree. He ran over, almost falling on his face from the sudden jut of pain in his leg. "ANNNDDD THERE'S THE PAIN!" He said falling down and rolling over. He got up slowly helping Stella up. He would be visably wounded from the fight, he would look at her with a tired eye and panting. "A-are you okay? My sister didn't hurt you to bad did she?"

As he spoke Sophia would be completely knocked out because of her impact with the tree his blast had sent her to. He looked to her, saddened...
(Samuel Ryozo)
A sigh came from Stella as she would fight, she wasn't going to fight her hardest, close but not there, but even so there was such a pain when it came to fighting with Sophia. It was the same reason that she didn't like fighting Vin. With the types of magic that there was to be dealt with, there was a lot of areas that she would have to be careful. And that was only the tip of the iceberg.

Of course there was the sheer lack of visibility, which was fine for the most part, she was used to things not being entirely visible all the time but having to track Sophia through all the stuff that was happening. That was just awful. Tree roots in the way, large rocks or flowers perfect to trip you up even if you are flying, it was insane. Stella hated fighting in places like this. But nevertheless she would have to endure it for a while longer.

As the fight began to close, Stella was beginning to feel drained. It was a pain that the fight had to drag on for this long but nevertheless, she'd be the one clashing with Sophia in the end, and right as she was about to go down herself, a perfectly landed punch would knock her down as well. The battle was over, and Sano was balistic, rapidly fireing beams of energy to heal her and get her back to her regular self again. Luckily the mask stayed on and her identity was safe but had she lost, things might not have gone so well.

Stella simply laid there for a bit but it wasn't too long before Sam would come over and literally blast Sophia into a tree. On one hand, she found the scene extremely comical and resisted the urge to smirk because of just how randomly goofy it was, but on the other hand she was worried. Stella simiply wanted to stop Sam's death, not all this. Nevertheless, she'd speak now, her own magic coming and healing Sam properly of his wounds considering that he had been fighting in such a condition.

"Easy. You're getting the healing you need now, but I'm fine. I've defintely been in worse conditions so this is nothing. Nevertheless, you need to relax otherwise you won't be fine."

After the healing was done, she'd get up to go heal Sophia, at least when she would wake up in the end, she wouldn't be feeling bad at all, laying her flat on her back so that way she wouldn't heal improperly as well. Though when that was done in the end, she'd stand between them. She had definitely overstayed her welcome and she figured that word was going to get from here to Vin and that would be a problem likely. But nevertheless she'd sit on a tree stump and allow them to recover properly before she'd say:

"Alright, now we're going to be grown up, and speak. I don't want to leave here with something even worse happening. We are civilized enough to not only settle things by fighting."
(Stella Solaris)
Thats not how it was supposed to go, with both Stella and Samuel instead of her twin alone resulting that she struggled against both of them, she found herself cornered in most of the time, not managing to keep up with both, despite sending blows against both, with her lightning striking both of them, but in most of situations targetting Stella.

She wanted to bring her down first before going after her brother, reversing any wounds she could while cutting through their magic and sending her water and blood whips against the older woman who decided to interfer with her plan, watching as she slowly broke through her defences before sending Stella against the ground, trying to ensure she was going to stay down before turning towards Samuel.

Next thing she remembered was flying in the air until feeling inhuman pain with her counsciess fading with sound of wood cracking and breaking as she passed out. She woke up, on the gorund with Stella on the stump, sitting and speaking something to as she believed to her and Samuel. She stared at Stella with her original rage fading, just as she went after triyng to fix her own bones which remaned broken, rewiding the damage made to them with loud growl as she was about to pass out again from the pain.

With her body partly healed she looked towards the two before getting up and soon trying to take her leave, "I am hoping...you are proud of yourself...I cannot trust anyone as it...appears...they will kill him anyway, " she mumbled out while limping.
(Sophia Ryozo)
Samuel sighed and stretched. Ow. "Sophia. If you really hate me so much. Then leave me, leave the family. Family is supposed to watch out for each other, not kill each other..." Samuel said sighing. He put his hands in his pockets, he didn't know what to say at this point... he would turn over to Stella. "Really, thank you for helping me. I can't thank you enough... Say could you help me with something else as well?"

he was uneasy. He hated the situation as it was...
(Samuel Ryozo)
Despite Sam's attempts to figure out who she was, Stella would simply remain silent, she wasn't going to interfere as long as anyone's life was in danger but even if she was seen as the bad guy she'd only have this to say for her defense.

"If the roles were switche and you were about to die Sophia I would have done the same thing. I protect those who can't protect themselves. But I am sorry that I've seemed to have proven untrustworthy towards you."

Her words, Sophia's of course, were noted. Of course Stella was once again left with a wanted criminal likely. But perhaps it was not as high as Raion. She figured he was dead already, perhaps had been for quite some time, but she had come to terms with it. It's not like she could do anything about it now anyway. But as Sophia would leave, Stella would be asked a favor. Of course she promptly responded with a fist on his head, causing some pain as she'd shake her head, the only way Sam would be able to tell aside from a sigh that he had done something wrong.

"One should not simply say things like that to family. They are the only one that you have. If you are to stick to me for now, you'll have a lot to learn but nevertheless, what is it that you wish to be helped with?"

Her voice wouldn't be mean but it definitely wouldn't be happy either. It was almost, neutral. She didn't particularly care about it for now but nevertheless she'd wait for his answer.
(Stella Solaris)
Sophia turned herself towards Stella and Samuel just before snorting loudly and soon responding to Samuel, with clearly frustrated expression and exhusted voice while holding her side for whatever reason.,

"You are the one who should leave family Samuel...you were the one who left ME behind and then lied when I tried to help you...so watch after each other wen you left me and then broke my trust? I don't know what you did exactly but people hate you. You ruin our familys name and grow stronger than me, I hate it...I would have forgiven you if you didn't lie to me back then...but no, you left me to wander like an idiot through the Caverns." she growled out before falling to her knees and hissing loudly.

She spent a good moment catching her breath before deciding to speak once more. "You on other hand Stella, pushed yourself into matters which were between family members. My family was meant to protect Valmasia from threats and Samuel apparently became one of them, alot of people said he did unacceptable things, promising to find and kill him... He as well left our lifes at risk when he left the Dawn, who began to consider him as deserter and traitor..." she then fell silent and focused on catching her breath.
(Sophia Ryozo)