The Will to Fight: Conclusion

[voidtreckermods]

The battles rage loud and ferocious at the gates of the city and off in the ruined wastelands of Erda, and on the walls a struggle of a different kind occurs. The team who stayed behind at the towers are small but determined as they move stoically across the walls to right the stones that have become misaligned, even as their friends battle not too far away.

The city begins to hum. It's a quiet hum, not loud enough to be heard out where the others are fighting but it vibrates even through stone. The recovering monks assure them that it is done, the wards are back up and no demon will be able to enter the city.

Eventually the battle is won, all three battles. The demons fought back and killed, a major blow to their gate system that will keep them back for hopefully a long time. Those waiting in the caverns return to the city and by the time they get there the illusions are gone. Everyone can see the world for what it really is.

But despite the ruins of their world the people are relieved, the adrenaline of the fight coursing through their veins and the mood is one of hope. They will build again, their people will survive.

All Voidtreckers please return to the Voidtrecker Express. Departure will be in a few hours

It has landed not too far from the city, cloaked to make it unnoticeable to the citizens, for all the good that does. No one has been particularly subtle this last week. People can begin regrouping, packing up the camp and getting any wounded not already healed to the train.

However roughly half an hour later another message appears on their SCA.

Passenger Persephone has requested we remain on system System #86525656412355 for an additional day to further assist the people of Erda. The Voidtrecker Express will depart on the morning of Day Fifteen of the month of Kazoo.

The train remains where it is, so the voidtreckers can use its facilities. There is definitely a lot that can be done to assist those of this world and the citizens will welcome any helping hands.

After an extra day they finally depart, returning to the void once more.

(OOC Note: Once the wards are up any characters who are demonic in nature will not be able to enter the city either!)

Comments

[melodiouspacifist]

"Maybe I should, I have terrible aim." Demyx joked but instead tossed it up underhanded. Hopefully Soldat could catch!

[worthallthis]

They definitely can, leaning out a little further to snatch it out of the air with metal fingers. "Thanks!" There's three sharp pounds from the hammer, then they collect another nail to line up. "You just passing by, or looking for something to do?"

[melodiouspacifist]

"Uh, well kinda but..." He glanced around briefly. "I could probably help if you uh, need it or something. But I don't know what I'm doing."

[worthallthis]

"That's okay. I'll tell you things to hold and things to hand me," Soldat says, roping him right in since he didn't say he didn't want to help. "It'll be easy, and then you'll be helping. There's a ladder around the right side of the building to get up here with."

[melodiouspacifist]

"I guess even I can do that." Demyx said, and instead of climbing up onto the roof, he portalled up, giving Vexen grey hairs somewhere.

He landed on the roof easily and smiled. "Just tell me what you want me to do."

[worthallthis]

Soldat looks somewhere between amused and resigned at the display of magic. "Show-off," they comment, but it's teasing. "Sit, hold this plank in place," they add, tapping the plank of wood they're fitting into the supports.

[melodiouspacifist]

"Oh, I'm pretty sure I can handle that." Demyx said, crouching down on one knee and placed his hand on the plank, glancing up at them.

"You're not gonna hit me with the hammer are you?"

[worthallthis]

"After you kindly not hitting me with it? Of course not," Soldat says lightly. "I have very good aim, I'll have you know."

They fit a nail in place and hammer it down with three deft strikes. "Never helped put a house up, I take it."

[melodiouspacifist]

"Uhhh, not that I remember?" Demyx said with a bit of a head tilt. "I mean...not really the kind of thing a Nobody does."

[worthallthis]

Soldat looks up again. Nobody. They give Demyx a look over, frowning. There's only been one other person on the train who's mentioned Nobodies-- Kairi is from the same world, of course, but this is clearly not Kairi. They saw her earlier, anyway. "Stupid question, but were you the boy who flooded the car, when we were all kids?" they guess.

[melodiouspacifist]

"Oh yeah." Demyx chuckled softly. "That was me, but uh, I'm not gonna do that now." He grinned.

"I'm in control of my magic again."

[worthallthis]

"I figured as much," Soldat agrees with half a smile. "You know, you still don't strike me as a Nobody type, even all grown up." He's fucking grinning! How is that somebody with their heart removed? Or whatever a Nobody really is?

[melodiouspacifist]

"You know, I kinda get that a lot." Demyx was a bit of an oddball as far as Nobodies went.

"But I'm a Nobody and everything, promise." He chuckled lightly.

[worthallthis]

"It's not that I don't believe you," Soldat assures him. "I'll admit I've never met a Nobody. Just going off of what a friend told me."

[melodiouspacifist]

"Oh, a friend?" Demyx asked, blinking a little bit. Who could Soldat know?

"Nobodies are...well I don't have a heart." Demyx said with a sheepish little grin. "Lost it."

[worthallthis]

Soldat nods, glad they'd remembered that right. Sora's experience had been... fragmented, a bit, but apparently he'd been right about that much. They considers a moment, unsure now if the experience really does equate to what they went through with HYDRA. Then they ask, "Do you know someone named Sora?"

[melodiouspacifist]

"Oh yeah, him." Demyx nodded. "Well I mean, I don't know him. Like, we never talked or anything. He killed me once. He's kinda important to the whole light side thing." He waved his hand, although he wasn't terribly upset about that?

No, in fact, what really pissed Demyx off was being dragged back into the mess and discarded. That had been more than enough.

[worthallthis]

Soldat's brows go right up. "Really. Huh." Well, Sora did say for a while he wasn't as forgiving as he got later on. "He was a good friend for a long time. Back in my last place. He explained heartless and Nobodies and. All that. Just not very well."

They shift over, motion for Demyx to move with them, and line up a second plank. "I was like the heartless for a long time. Still am, a little bit."

[melodiouspacifist]

He had no problem moving and helping at least, as long as he didn't have to know how to do things.

"Like a..heartless?" His brow furrowed. "No, I don't think so." He shook his head. "Heartless aren't really- I mean, they don't have much going on in their heads. They can't think of stuff. They rely on instinct." That instinct just happened to be to rip someone else's heart away from them and steal it for themselves.

[worthallthis]

"I didn't have much going on in my head, either," Soldat says with a little shrug, lining up a nail while Demyx holds the plank in place, and hammering it down. "I just followed my orders so they'd put me back in storage." It's maybe not exactly the same, but it had been helpful in explaining their time under HYDRA to Sora. "Not exactly the same. But similar. And heartless can recover, too, you know."

[melodiouspacifist]

"Yeah I know." Demyx chuckled a bit, shrugging. "Nah, you sound more like a Nobody then. Maybe not the same as me, but there were also lesser Nobodies. I used to have minions, you know?"

[worthallthis]

"You didn't see me a year and a half ago," Soldat says with half a smile. "But I'll admit I've never actually seen either one, until you. I'm only going off of what Sora told me. But I can tell you I was nothing like you are now, back then."

[melodiouspacifist]

"All of the Nobodies like me have their own personalities and stuff. We, well, we're still linked to our original selves somehow." Demyx knew that much. "The lesser Nobodies just did what we said." He was sort of nice to his, but that probably wasn't the same all around.

[worthallthis]

"What makes them different from you?" Soldat asks. "What makes them. Just do what you say?" Sora didn't have a lot of details on Nobodies, and frankly Soldat hadn't asked for much either. They'd fastened onto the idea of Heartless pretty quickly, especially since they knew it was possible to recover from being a Heartless.

[melodiouspacifist]

"You know, I don't know? Just...maybe they didn't keep enough of themselves." Demyx was guessing.

"I'm probably pretty much in the middle. I don't remember who I was but my head still works."