A Life to Lead ^_^

"We're a sort of ..family, you could say.Reno and Elena are the most exciting ones while Tseng and I are more of the elderly figures." Rude laughed under his breath.It felt good to talk to others outside of Turks or complete strangers."..Erm..how are you and Cloud?"

 

Tifa smiled, then pulled off her gloves, tucking them into a side pocket as she thought of how to answer. "I guess....I don't know. We used to be close, but now he says or does things I don't understand. We are great in fights together, but I just dont' understand him the rest of the time." She sighed. "Aerith knew him better."

 

While it was great to know they weren't together, Rude still felt sorry that the relationship was going so terribly.But then he remembered that Cloud had changed from the strong man he was before ..and working with murderers no doubt."I see ..Reno noticed a change in him as well, and warned us to never associate him." he explained."Though..I'm glad you're still your beautiful self.."

 

Larxene looked at Demyx with some form of curiosity. It was an obscure feeling to know that the boy beside her would give his life to save her from the wrath of their boss. It made the Nymph uncomfortable; she was actually planning to kill him, just a moment before he confessed how much he actually cared. At the same level of what little comfort she had, was the urge to say thankyou. Thankyou, for the fact that his intentions were there to help save her from the darkness she would have faded to.

With her softened features, Larxene touched Demyx's cheek in a minor attempt to bring him out of his thought-consumed mind, and back to where he was and what was happening now, rather than thinking about what had happened with Xemnas.
She wished she could do more, if only she could, but her loyalties to Reno were stopping her somehow. She didn't even know how or where he was at this moment, or even if he was angry with her for leaving him in the restraunt.
A smile formed itself again on her small lips, only a small smile, but it was still visable for the water mage to see. In her mind, the Nymph sought words to speak to him, even if she just said thankyou, at least it was better than nothing. But somehow thankyou didn't seem quite appropriate; nothing really seemed appropriate to say right now.
"...I just don't know what to say..." She whispered, not taking her hand from his cheek. "..That's a first."

 

(OOC: Will add Cloud, Xigbar in next post or may put them in here to edit)

Demyx felt her hand upon his cheek and he let it stay there as long as she wanted to have it there for. She wasn't causing him any pain or any need to get out of there so he let her. Resting in a comfortable postition, he locked eyes with her not saying a word. He appreciated the time of being alone with her and even it is was for like a brief moment in his life, he could tell that tension was no longer there otherwise he wouldn't be resting on her bed like a lazy teenager. For once in his life, the pressure was no longer there to live up to high standards of the organization and to be obligated to do things against his nature. May they be evil to everyone who had hearts, the acts the organization commited was of no consequence to them for how could they tell if it was evil or not when it was just one step to becoming complete themselves? Demyx who he was now as a nobody didn't care about religion and where his soul would go afterwards for all he knew was that nobodies would live forever, unable to age like humans and could only be killed by the keyblade wielder himself and if they exhausated their power to the brink where then they would fade into the darkness of oblivion as if they never were. How could one without a heart be judged whether to go to heaven or hell if for one thing, they didn't have that one thing to guide them and lead them to making those choices? No, the organization members were immortal when it came to aging and getting older, but mortal in other ways such as being able to be killed by the keyblade. He had left his previous life before and was who he was now so he if were to become who he was before, his acts as a nobody could not to be judged being a different entity. In the end, it was how one person percieved it.

All that Demyx assumed that he was in the organization just to do his job regardless how he acted, and follow orders to still be existing. When no other was watching over his shoulder, he would do things that brought him enjoyment like playing his sitar for example, but now he was with another young one like himself whether or not being older or younger than Larxene they were close in age and could enjoy other company once finding common ground. Recently they have, when Larxene amplied his performance for all of Hollow Bastion to hear and gave him suggestions of how to improve. This insight made him curious and he decided to break the silence. "I didn't know you knew about music?" He rose an eyebrow. "If you wanted I wouldn't mind you helping me with my performances. I've been accepted a job afterall and have a contract to sign tomorrow which will bring me so much munny that I won't know what to do with." With his feet kicking in the air, he had a song in his head and was swinging his ankles to it.

 

Larxene laughed a little and shook her head. She only knew very little about actual music, but did know about the electronic systems involved in producing the sound to accompany vocals and such.
"I really don't know much about actual music, Demyx." She explained, looking at him with a mildy amused expression painted upon her facial features. "I just know that your voice would sound good if it was paced a little slower, and accompanied with some low background music rather than all-guns-blazing sort of bass and electronic fusion. That sort of thing is good, but just doesn't accompany your voice as well as other types of music." Finding what she meant hard to explain, Larxene stood up, and appeared on the opposite side of the room. She opened a set of drawers, and rummaged through the innards of the wooden storage compartment, until she came to a small book and an mp3 player.
Smiling in triumph that she was actually able to find the two items, she quickly arrived back to the end of her bed with the device and book in hand.

Once sat down, the Nymph flicked through the pages of the hard-back book in search of the starting page she wanted. Whilst doing so, she threw the music device at Demyx with her free hand. "Put the earphones in your ears.." She grumbled, flicking furiously through writing-devoured pages, before stopping at one. "Here.." She smiled slightly, opening the book fully on the bed infront of the Nocturne. "Now, that music, with these words... Try it." She hit the play button on the small metal stick0like device, and awaited his reaction.

 

Demyx wondered what she was doing as he edged closer to her and caught the device in his hands. Placing the earphones in his ears, he first dusted them off with his hands and then placed them in. Looking at the book in front of him, he listened to the music and then glanced at her. "Not bad, but as a musician you have to play a variety of musical pieces raning from different tempos, bass and sounds to inspire your mind, your voice as well as your body. I don't like to just play the music, I like to feel the music as it is carrying me away into another realm, my creative talent and expression able to express myself through the arts, dance, and song. I know it sounds weird and crazy, but that is how I feel. I appreciate the help though and I still think it would be great if you were to aide me with what you know." He began to flip though the pages, scanning everything with his eyes, absorbing the information and then closed it. "You know we could help each other out here. I'll teach you more about music, dancing the arts and such and you can teach me to be a better more effective fighter and some other things you may know." He brought his attention back to her and grinned.

Xigbar had listened to the whole conversation from Axel and Saix and he knew he was wasting his time not getting the job done. "Yeah whatever Axel. I know you can get carried away at times with your fire too so you better do as Saix wishes and I'll see you later. I have a job to do," he disappeared from viewpoint and began his search for Gex followed by Cloud and Leon.

Cloud ignored everything that was said between Reno dissing Leon in the way that shouldn't be allowed. He didn't want to mess with the guy though and he was glad that he was able to go into the house and get away from them. Talk about annoying. He looked around the house for Tifa not knowing she had gone off with Rude and were talking to one of another clearly talking behind his back, but he had no way of knowing so he decided to talk to Cid to find out any information that was important. "Cid since Reno and the rest of those Turks are not going to help locate Aerith's body like the hypocrtical selfish jerks they are, I need your help with your resources. Together we will find Aerith's body and speaking of her how is Yuffie holding up? I know she is young and emotional, but we need her help to if she can lend us any. Leon and I can't not do this on our own. The turks especially Reno needs to put aside his stupid grudges against me and deal with more important matters, otherwise we're not going to offer any of our assistance to them what so ever." He stood behind the chair Cid was sitting in.

 

With a slight smile, Larxene shook her head swiftly. "I don't do singing or dancing..." She explained, putting her hand over his as she flicked through the book of monotinous lyrics. "I just portray phantom emotions through words... But if you want fighting lessons, I would certainly help you in that department." With a smile, she giggled at the thought of her actually teaching Demyx to fight.. How obscure that sight would be.
She leaned over to Demyx, until the Nymph was right next to him as she listened to the music play. She closed her eyes, and began to mutter along with the tune.
"I love this song." She whispered with a smile, guiding Dmeyx's hand over the words as she muttered them.

 

Cid twirled his hair around and looked at both Leon and Cloud. "No matter what you think of the Turks I think you guys should put off with your past history of distrust. Rufus was very sorry of what had happened to Aerith, but I will find her on our security cameras," He started typing on his keyboard and started scanning through various pictures, but his eyes narrowed a bit as he saw a few of the organization members discussing something. "Yuffie is upstairs crying still, she hasn't come down since she heard the news." He sighed.

Leon's eyes narrowed at what Cid said, but decided maybe it was best to check up on Yuffie as well. "Cloud, I will check on her just give me any information he gives us," He told his friend then dashed upstairs.


Axel frowned slightly as he noticed that Xigbar had just left out of the blink of his eye. "Typical of him to leave like that," He muttered as he gave Saix a very cold look. "They are not a threat to us. It would be the other way around."


"It seems like that, but you and Demyx ended up chasing after the woman and caused this unnecessary turns of events to happen." Saix folded his arms his yellowish eyes piercing deathly in to the flurry's emerald cat like ones. "They might hold information on us, since Larxene that traitorous shrew was with the one guy called Reno. If she had then you know what you must do right excutioner?" To prove his point the Lunar Deviner summoned his claymore and held it right at Axel's neck trapping him against the wall. "If you don't do as I say I will end your existence and memories right here."



Axel remained silent for quite some time as he only nodded his head. Most likely that could be the case. He only knew that Larxene was not with Reno anymore, but had sensed that her scent was gone from this world. He needed to talk with her and find out whose side she was on. She couldn't be on both and even though the flurry himself was trying to befriend Reno he couldn't either. "I will handle it, but first," He whistled and then an assassin came to his side. "Go talk with Raging waters and have her find Demyx this town needs to be flooded out. He is the only one who could do it faster than the people who live here. Tell her that I will not work under these watery conditions and all of this water is to overwhelming for me to dry out this town." He told it. The assassin nodded and left to go find Raging Waters. The flurry called for a few more assassins. He was hesitate at first, but decided it was the best thing to stay loyal to the organization. "Keep an eye on the Turks," the order was in their own language, but it was re grudgingly. The assassins complied and then left to do their own spying game

 

OOC: I may or may not use this bio, but I feel a little DMC-ish

Name: Nero
Gender: Male
Species: Human with Demonic Essence, lets just say : D I've really never played the games, but I've seen the entire walkthroughs so yeah.
Age: Lets say ..19
Powers: Heightened senses and physical attributes.His right arm is wrapped in a cast, concealing his arm, which holds amazing power.
Description: Heard of trouble away from his hometown and grudgingly left his girlfriend to attend to the problems.Nero is now in Hollow Bastion investigating the flood and those who caused it.
Personality: Clever, Cocky, can be short-tempered.He has the 'lets shut up and do it' attitude, and hates the insane religious types who will kill as much as they have to to achieve their goal.Nobodies, Heartless ..they'll all meet the same end by his hands.
Image of the OC if you have one:
Arsenal: One blade, shown in the picture.A single handgun with two barrels.This is what he starts off with ..he might get other things along the way.

There are some things I might change about him, considering ..its a rp. But for now, this is who he'll be.

 

OOC: heya where is Leon and Gex ?

 

(OOC: Character denied until furthur notice, pm desired.)

"So Rufus was here as well? Did you give him any information at all? You're sitting at the computer and I see that the printer light is on so what did you give him? If you won't tell me I will hack into the database and retrace your records of each one that was submitted by the hardware." Cloud was not playing any games, for his arms were crossed and a had a icy look of determination in his eyes. If Cid give Rufus any information he wanted to know what it was? Anything the turks had could be used against him, or his friends like Leon, Cid, Tifa and Yuffie especially with the past Cid had with Rufus at one time. He watched Leon bound up stairs and knew the brunette was better at consoling Yuffie then he was. Cloud typically was a loner, wanting to brood and be himself most of the time, but when he shared a interest with someone, it got him out of his rutt of the tradgies of his past mostly concerning Sephiroth. As he waited for Cid to answer him, he thought of Tifa and where she could be? It was very unlike her to be gone for to long.

Xigbar avoided the water and frowned that Hollow Bastion used to be such a dry wasteland practically. Now it almost appeared to be Atlantica. How on Kingdom Hearts would he find number XV? The guy could be anywhere and had he lost Luxord and Xeol already? They were supposed to accompany him with this mission. "Oh well their loss," he walked across some debree and made it to the rooftops to survey the area.

With another touch from her onto his own hand, he felt more at ease. Listening to her speak, he was discouraged when he heard her say she didn't sing or dance. Well everyone was different, but maybe in a way he could relate his talants to hers? Her voice was soft, his hand being guided over the lyrics as she seemed to enjoy herself. "Yes, let the music guide you," he spoke up observing that her eyes were closed. Chuckling very softly to himself, he thought of a movie he had recalled before he became a nobody. It was one of his favorites and one he had to perform when he performed on stage in a school play when he was only a teen. He played the phantom in Phantom of the Opera being the only one who could memorize all the lines and come as mysterious. With his bipolarness he fit the part perfectly being dark and misunderstood at times.

Thinking back to the time, he rolled off the bed graciously, and walked over to a closet. There he made a void appear and walked through it. While she was distracted he brought with him from his closet where he held a keyboard, a syntheiser, loud steros for his electic guitars, and other various musical devices and instruments. He had saved his munny for a long time aquiring them slowly during his time in the organization and keep them in hiding from the others. Normally if he wanted to play them, he would hook the earphone attachment so the music could not be heard by the others, and only heard by him. Once everything was set up and with the keyboard set to different settings like a slow rock beat, he began to sing a song that came to his mind, one of his guitars playing along that he strummed as he song softly and mysteriously just as he did when he was human. Timing each second of the beat he would switch from the instrument depending on what the beat was.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKuqY__NFKU

Sing once again with me
Our strange duet
My power over you grows stronger yet
And though you turn from me to glance behind
The Phantom of the Opera is there
Inside your mind...

And so he continued to play, not being satisfied with it completly, but hopefully it would come out all right.

Ragingwaters saw an assassin appear before her and she shook her head having been standing there at the Altar of Naught the whole time watching Xemnas stare at the heart no doubt. She nodded listening to it and made her way to find Demyx. Trying to find her master was harder then she thought, until she heard music and singing coming from Larxene's room. Standing there she listened curious by the whole thing.

 

Luxord appeard out of an portal in an alley way he looked around it was flooded like everything else. The Gambler of fate walked out the alley he looked around for his targets but he saw Xigbar instead. The Gambler of Fate got over to his companion by jumping on the roof tops. "sorry about disappearing by your side faithfull free shooter i decided to check somewhere but unfortionatly their presence was not around" Luxord said explaining to Xigbar as he started walking beside the man. "Xeol is off somewhere again that nobody is faithfull to our cause but he is too nosy and his curiosity gets the best of him hopefully he did not run into any unneeded problem" The Gambler of Fate said to the free shooter.

 

Floating through the drenched debis, a body wrapped in black floated. It was the masochist. His was dazed but suprisingly alive. Looking upwards, he stared at the clouds, unwilling to move.

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Rasing his hand, Xemnas attempted to summon the flurry. He said he needed to talk with him, there was something of importace he needed to discuss.

 

Cid wheeled his chair around to face Cloud and he gave him a frown when Cloud had mentioned he would hack into the computer system, but the pilot was already fixing Axel's mess from before when he had destroyed some of their security, the first time the fire wielder had come. " No! Don't you dare do that. I'm dealing with a mess as it is. I only gave him information about the organization because they are nothings and have no reguard to anything that they destroy. Look what they did to our town and speaking of which where have you been all this time?" He rose an eyebrow and took his cigarette out of his mouth, blowing a puff over his shoulder away from Cloud.

Leon knocked on the door and heard Yuffie sobbing. Once he got the news to come in he sat at her side on the bed and listened to her whines and bawling.

Yuffie wiped her eyes, and held her arms against her legs noticing Leon just sitting there. "She didn't have to die so recklessly. I will never forgive the one who killed her!" She pounded the bed.

"Well at least she is at peace and with Zack," he placed his hand behind his head. "I just wanted to see how you were doing, but I'll let you mourn," he placed his hand on her shoulder and then walked out of the room and downstairs where he smelled smoke. "Cid, we have valuable equipment in here so if you're going to smoke do it outside," he opened the door and pointed to it. "I need to check the database as it is so please take a break and smoke all you want out there."

Cid frowned more and grumbled under his breath as he made his way towards the door. "I wasn't hurting anyone. Cloud and I were talking and he was gonna say where ever the hell he has been and then you come downstairs and..." his grumbling was of no interest to Leon as he made his way outside and was smoking up a storm.

Axel was held captive by Saix still until he felt the presence of Xemnas summoning him. "Oh no. What does he want? Sorry Saix, I have to report back to the boss." He disappeared and was glad to be out of harm's way for now. Making his way down the hall in the castle, he walked by and heard music and singing coming from Larxene's room. He frowned knowing Demyx was in there. "Freaking player, bitch," he mumbled to himself as he walked down the hall and up the steps that led to the Altar of Naught. Standing behind Xemnas, Axel wondered why he was summoned. "You summoned me?" He crossed his arms in disatisfaction.

Saix smirked knowing that the fire wielder was in trouble and just to make sure Axel got what he deserved, he conjured a portal himself and appeared before Xemnas right at his side.

 

She smiled a little, then tilted her head. "I wouldn't consider myself beautiful...but thank you." she murmured. "He has changed...but I don't know if it's better or worse." She sighed. "I was thinking of taking Xion back to Midgar, and Roxas if he wanted to come."

 

Hearing this, Rude stopped and looked to her in surprise."You don't give your beauty enough credit Tifa ..I'm appalled that Cloud hasn't told you this on a daily basis." he was honest with this.Maybe Cloud didn't ..like girls after all.Despite the fact that Tifa was with him, Rude would do his best to be formal.She probably didn't want to see the laid back Rude, if such thing existed.

 

OOC: If Roxas replied to Xion, I haven't seen it, fire mage. Just let me know and i"llc heck back when I have more time and less stress.

BIC: Tifa blushed a little, then smiled. "Cloud isn't the type of guy to express affection openly. Doesn't mean he doesn't care, he just....is afraid to show weakness, I suppose." she shrugged. "I mean, Denzel and Marlene know I love them, but I don't tell them every day."

 

As Tifa talked, Rude listened while he occasionally glanced down alleyways and broken shops, seeing people picking up the dead from the attack.This was indeed tragic ..and this was done for Elena's sake.She was a Turk, yes, but since when was catching a Turk worth drowning a town over?Where was the logic in it?

Were Turks really such a threat as to endanger an entire population?

"I see .. hopefully I'll never understand how it feels to lose someone so important to me ..like Reno." heh, him and Reno had been through so much, Rude didn't know what he'd do without him.

 

Tifa smiled. "Yeah, Reno's quite the character. I can't imagine what it would be like without him." She rubbed a finger along her cut, thinking pensively. "I used to want to be a Turk, when I was younger."