Roleplay:Parley

This Roleplay is Closed! Sorry!

Overview
War is now on the horizon. With Celia's recent capture, things are beginning to heat up as the Mythic Knights are pressed for time. Not to mention the new concept that Conquest could be pulling the strings for the war and causing both sides to clash against each other. Regardless, the Mythic Knights need to storm Forte City, head into Fort Drakon, find Fey and Celia, and end this nightmare once in for all.

Meanwhile Saren continues a battle for dominance within the realm of madness, proving to himself and to others of what he is truly capable of, and gaining the power to cut through black blood and restore his life.

Lexi learns of what her true destiny is, and gains knowledge and power far more than anyone had expected, with the help of dragons, an ancient book, and two heroes from eons ago, Lexi will discover the true end of Sir Galahad and finally see Sedna in the afterlife once again.

Participants
NeoExlucky

Characters
Zero Evol (Neo)

Knave Veron (Neo)

Echo Radon (Neo)

Leah Dubio (Neo)

Trinity Moon (Neo)

Delta Radon (Neo)

The Deceiver (Neo)

People of the Rebellion (Neo)

Part 1: Return to Hell
The headquarters of the rebellion never cease to leave a looming impression of failed intimidation. The city around it seems to be in a state of recovery after what happened the last time the knights had a mission here.

Eclipse Manor rested on the outskirts of town, close to the headquarters. Knave was quickly writing out a letter, while the others sat around Neo, who had somewhat recovered from before, and was now listening in on what had happened. "We need to hurry and rescue them, what's taking so long?"

"Mostly Knave." Echo shrugged, having recovered from her broken wrist thanks to her regeneration. "Plus, we have to tell you everything."

"We need to get their help as quick as possible!" Neo started.

"We?" Leah asked. "You're not going anywhere. You're still hurt. You can walk around now, but any physical strain on your body could ruin everything, you're staying here."

"What? We need all hands on deck with Saren's disappearance and Kala's letter..."

"Kala left a letter?" Delta asked.

"Yeah, all it said was...'Don't come find me.' I'm not really sure where she went or why she wrote it...did something happen?" Neo asked.

"Yeah...remember Sedna?" Leah asked. "Well...there's a reason you haven't met her..."

Neo let out a sigh and leaned his head back. "Christ...I can't imagine the hell you all went through..."

"Kala tried to save her, but her magic didn't work..." Delta looked down.

Paralogue 3: Karma
The dark room quickly came back into view for Saren as the Deceiver sat back and watched the Lynx with a grin. The feeling of the three orbs in Saren's chest was quite clear, although it was unknown as of now what they did, if Fey's Trust is correct, this could be the turning point of the battle.

"So now you have no gifts left." The Deceiver chuckled apparently unaware of the three remaining orbs as of yet. It may be beneficial to keep them a secret from the Deceiver. "No powers, no gifts, no hope, no chance. Honestly, what did you think was going to happen? Were you drunk when you came in here or just really stupid? Never mind, I'm sure it was a bit of both. I could just kill you here, but we're not done just yet. I want to see you squirm, I wonder how you'd feel about going up against your friends?" The Deceiver raised his hand, and the orbs that Saren had given up all rested on his palm. White puppet strings connected them to the white orb above them, controlling their every move. The Deceiver gave a hearty chuckle as he allowed the orbs to fly into his chest. "Let me show you how powerful true hatred can really be..." His hands were raised and he released a pure white beam of light at Saren.

"Now!" Fey's Trust quickly rushed outwards and took shape, taking part of the blast, while Saren took the rest. It seems that whatever she did, it caused something to change because now Saren was in a pure black room, and standing across from his was Saren's Karma.

No that wasn't quite right, now was it? The pure white beings and different patches of color on his jacket, each one had one of the colors of the stolen gifts. This being was incredibly more powerful than before, since now it seemed to be using Saren's team's hatred as power.

"I'm going to try and free them as they take control." Fey's Trust hummed. "Once they have control, you need to reason with them, this isn't a battle you can win by defeating them with your scythe, you need to talk them. They're being deceived so you need to make them see the truth."

"So I have to talk to them... Well, here goes nothing..?" Saren sighed, tossing his scythe to the side. "Let's talk.."

(Karma - Saren's Truth Theme)

"Nobody really likes this world. They like to hide away from the truth, distracting themselves with whatever little thing they can find." White Saren told his double. "Deceit needs to exist, because people want it to exist. Don't you get that?" White Saren rushed forward, slashing his scythe downwards at Saren's shoulder.

Saren sidestepped the slash before attempting to deliver a palm thrust to White Saren's nose. ".... Eh, can't argue with that really. But like it or not, its the only world we have; so we have to make do with what we got.. Both the good and the bad y'know."

White Saren balanced himself on his scythe, and quickly allowed it to fall backwards so he'd land on his feet. "Good? What good could there possibly be? This is a world where everyone around you dies! A world where no one understands who you truly are!"

An explosion of energy around White Saren caused him to change shape, becoming light blue and taking Trinity's shape. "Everyone around you burns in this world and there is nothing you can do about it!" Her corrutped voice echoed. "How is this world good? DON'T LIE TO ME!" She quickly exploded with darkness, and summoned her daggers out of ice, attempting to stab Saren as fast as she could.

"This is also a world where you can make friends, forge bonds with people and support them as they support you.. You don't have to besr the weight of the world on your shoulders alone." He spoke, crouching down to sweep Trinity's legs out from under her.

"Tragedy can happen, yes, but every tragedy can just as easily be turned into a happy ending if you just try."

"A happy ending?" A HAPPY ENDING?!" Trinity jumped over Saren's leg, and threw one of her daggers at the lynx. "WHERE'S THE HAPPY ENDING FOR THE MYSTIC MAGI? WHERE'S THE HAPPY ENDING FOR SEDNA!? HOW DO YOU MAKE A HAPPY ENDING OUT OF DEATH?"

"The fact that all your trials and tribulations are over, that you can spend eternity with those you cherish in the pearly gates of heaven..? I've died once before so I can confirm there is a heaven and a hell, I can also guarantee Sedna's and the Mystic Magi are in Heaven because if they aren't I will personally go up to god and shove my foot so far up his or her ass that he or she will bur burping out shoe leather."

Saren spoke, rolling to the side to avoid the dagger that was tossed at him.

The darkness around Trinity grew smaller, it seems that Saren was finally getting through to her. "But we failed them. I failed them. I'm just too scared to face what they would think..."

Scared...

"Yes, too scared..." Neo's corrupted voice came and the image of Trinity changed to Neo, wielding Nightmare as he stood against Saren, glaring at the Lynx. "That's what we all are, too scared to face the harsh truth of reality. Why bother living in a world of fear when we can make a world of lies!"

"You and I both know that isnt the answer to anything, because no lie lasts forever; and once it shatters around us we end up left with nothing.. With fear we can atleast replace it with hope.. That's why we fight afterall.. For a better tomorrow, even me I guess.. The traitorous drunk."

"And what happens when we're too scared to fight? There's so much to worry about out there, death, betrayal, Destruction, everything. What happens when we screw up, when one of us dies, and it's all my fault?" Neo fell to his knees and leaned on his sword. "I'm just...I'm scared...scared of the future, of us, of them...of Fey...what will I do if Fey dies, if you all die?"

"Then we die, though death is only permanent if no one remembers.. Death comes for all Neo, even the deathless can die if given a reason.."

"And what if I'm not the thing everyone wants me to be?" Neo asked. "What if I've just been set up for failure, what if, this whole time, we've just been deceived?"

Deceived...

And that brought White Saren back, his shape taking over instead of Neo's. Looking at him though both the orange and aqua patches were gone, so it appeared as though Saren had done something right.

"Do you enjoy being deceived?" White Saren asked. "Does it thrill you to know that you're being fooled? I only ask because of how much you seem to fall for it."

"That's a part of life dude, of course I hate it and try to avoid falling into the machinations of others like the Deceiver; but no one is all knowing, and everyone can be deceived; all you really can do is pick up the pieces and move forward.. If you're me, or even my Karma you should know that shit by now.."

White Saren clapped his hands. "You're finally learning something for once! Good for you." He said in a patronizing voice. "I'm you, and you're me! I'm the embodiment of everything, your sins, your good deeds, your relationships, I'm all of that. See, when the Deceiver took me in, he gave me the gift of 'intelligence', I know, big word. I'm trying to figure out how stupid you could possibly be. Voices in your head, scythes from out of nowhere, a woman who wants to kill you, that suddenly defects to your side because you had a talk with her? Let me remind you that Echo, Delta, and Zapor, all children by the way, were also given the same temptation that you fell for. Two of which were smart enough to realize it was a trick and the other relied on his friend in order to get help. Meanwhile, you greedily accepted any morsel of  'power' thrown at you and even betrayed the people who were on your side from the start."

"Also, guess again on that all knowing bullshit. Destruction, The Deceiver, and Time Spinner all happen to be pretty omnipotent, and Diety's pretty close to it since he can see the destinies of everything around him! Gods you're dumb, no wonder you're the reason Fey is going to die."

Saren just shrugged. "So, I never once claimed to be smart. Just someone only interested in himself, you're just the piece of me that couldn't catch up to bite me in the ass even with help; so.. Anything else you feel like saying..?"

"Where do I start?" White Saren noted. "I mean there's not really much I can say that you don't know, we're the same person we know the same things. I just think this is pretty pathetic of you. I mean, look at where you were two years ago before any of the Mythic Knight bullshit, you were fine back then, and now? Look at all the weaknesses you've developed! Being with those idiots only makes you weak."

"True, but then again, I actually like those idiots."

"Why? What is there to like about those idiots! You're too stupid to see the truth in front of you!" White Saren told his counterpart.

Stupid...

Leah quickly replaced White Saren's form. "We're all too stupid..." Leah noted. "I've seen what Destruction can do first hand, I know there's no way we can make it out of this. We're not smart enough to stand against a god..."

"Yeah we're all stupid.. But we're also smarter in other things as well; we have eachother's back and we cover our weaknesses by working together Leah, unlike destruction we're a family.. And we'll send his raggedy ass back to hell together, sides.. Challenging a god amd winning requires stupidity to pull off, because that allows for the unconventional, the bat shit crazy yet still able to be pulled off..!"

Saren told Leah, he never was capable of expressing how he felt but he found it easier to do here for some reason. "God knows I'm the biggest fucking idiot here, so if anyone has the right to say this it's the biggest damned idiot around.."

"You don't understand, we can't send Destruction back!" Leah shouted. "Not after what I did, not after the seals opened up."

"Then we kill him, and guess what? If it can bleed, it can die."

"But he doesn't bleed. He doesn't even live, he just is! You've never seen him before, but I've gotten close, I've fallen into a seal, I've seen what it's like down there! No one really even knows how to defeat him, I don't know how to defeat him, and if I don't know then what good am I?" Leah said.

"Why not just give up?" Zero's corrupted voice came as the gift took on Zero's shape. "I mean, if we have no hope, why bother right? Better to spend that time with people we care about then to waste it on finding a method that doesn't exist."

"Why give in? If there's no hope than make it.. it's better to die standing then die on your knees." Saren retorted.

"Well, giving in is certainly easier than working towards a bleak future, no?" Zero asked. "And what's it matter how you die? On your knees or standing, it doesn't really matter. Not like we have some honor to follow anyway. Just accept that Destruction is coming and that we're dead."

"Correction, I don't have honor; and its because I have no honor that I refuse to submit even though it would be more honorable to do so.. Also, a bleak future; its always changing so there's no guarantee what the future is gonna be."

"Do you believe in destiny?" Zero asked. "I do. It's destiny that all of these things happened. It's destiny that we wound up here, that we all met each other, and it's destiny that people die. Sedna, Radon, Bravo, my sister, it was predetermined that they would die, so what's the point of trying?

"Because destiny is a load of horse shit? Seriously, if it was destiny that determined how things went then I would've kicked the bucket for a second time a long time ago and you sure as shit know that. We fight it because we have the power to carve out our own destiny, to make it a better one despite what is tossed our way.. Anyone have a bottle of whiskey for this? For old times sake, even though I should kick the habit?"

"You're in a metaphysical state here, you wouldn't even be able to taste it, let alone get drunk." Zero said. "If destiny isn't real then what? Is it all our fault? I can't live with that guilt. Maybe it was destiny that you avoided death? Maybe it was destiny that everything ends? Can you even say anything about it, you came here because of destiny."_

"I came here because I chose to, destiny is nothing more than a cowards rationale and you know it.. So man the fuck up!" Saren snapped. "Zero is a lot stronger than this!"

"Zero is a broken man too helpless to actually do anything for himself." Zero said in third person. "Do you remember the first person you killed? Zero remembers the first person he killed. It was the first time he had ever used Black Blood. His father, one of the best men he had ever known, died because of how uncontrolled Zero's blood was. His mother was able to soothe him enough, enough that she sealed it away for a long time but not before Zero took her life as well. Combine both of those with his sister, who died because of him, and it's clear why he gave up."

"The first person I killed.. Yeah, I remember him.. The fucker had it coming for the longest time.." Saren mumbled. "Aren't we all broken on the inside anyways?"

Zero's melted away to reveal white Saren underneath. "Are we? And how are we broken, Saren?"

"If you're me then you should know this by now.." Saren sighed. "This verbal game of cat and mouse is quite annoying don't you think?"

"I rather enjoy this game." White Saren said. "Humor me for a moment, what makes us as broken as the rest of the 'knights'."

"The fact that I'm a drunk bastard who'd sell out his friends for the far more reliable gold coins and silver dollars..?"

"Because you're a traitor." White Saren gave a wicked smile. "We're a traitor. So the question becomes one last thing. Will you continue to betray them? Once the Deciever's dead, he'll have that Shard of Darkness still left around, you could just pluck it from his corpse, and have all the power that Destruction could give you." The other half of Saren gave a chuckle. "Of course, who knows what that means you'll have to do to your 'friends'."

"Riiiight... Or I could double cross Destruction and take my powers back using that damned shard..? Possibilities are endless you know.." Saren chuckled, though really if push cane to shove he would just try to find a way to destroy it.

"You're so fucking STUPID!" White Saren shouted to his other. "Do you really think you'll have a choice once you take that shard? Newsflash for you jackass, in case you haven't learned anything from this entire ordeal; the Shards of Darkness come at a cost. Control vs power. Once you take that shard, you give yourself to Destruction until the world is destroyed. You won't have a say in anything you do from the moment you come into contact with it!"

White Saren's form melted into a green version of Knave who sat on his knees, leaning against his sword, which was sheathed into the ground. "Of course, I should of known, right? You're a little like me in that regard. Any chance I can get to rise from my position in life, to change the course of my destiny, I'll take it. It doesn't matter what the cost is. You're similar when it comes to power."

".... In that case, fuck the shard, power isn't fun without control." Saren shrugged. "I'm not gonna trust the guy a second time.. I'm tired of this nonsense really."

"And that's the only reason you won't take it?" Knave asked. "Have you learned nothing from this entire experience? Every time you try to gain more power, you only end up hurting yourself and betraying our trust. Does that mean nothing to you?"

"Because I do it for the wrong reasons.. That's why.. Every time that's happened it's because i'm focused on myself and my loathing of all but a few people."

"So why don't you focus on the people you don't loathe?" Knave asked. "Have you not realized that everyone is going to fucking die, and we're the only people in the entire planet who can stop Destruction? For once in your life can you not be some worthless scum?"

"Let me ask you something, do you think I really even care..?" Saren asked. "Caring only leads to an early grave, something I might've learned the first or second time.. I got myself into this mess because I cared about something, granted that something was me but still. If the world dies who gives a damn? I'm scum to the end and that's how I like it.. I don't want to take the damn thing because I don't care.."

Saren paused, as if remembering something. "By the way, my real reason is because I'm not trusting him a second time."

Knave dropped his sword, getting closer to Saren, getting in his face. "Second time? Second time?! Are we not counting all the other times you trusted him? Cut this fucking loner bullshit and look at what is happening around us! The reason you're in this situation now, is because you trusted a voice in your head more than everyone else!"

Knave gave a smirk. "That's it. You're a slave. That's all you fucking are, huh? Just some worthless slave. Why am I even wasting my time..."

Saren snapped, looking for something to toss at him. "Y'know what? I'm sick of it all..." He walked towards the copy. "How about this? Why the hell should I trust you to begin with, the bitch who wrote a fake letter to stop Echo from getting revived..?"

"And why the hell do you care eh? You're kinda me and i'm kinda you..?!"

"Which is my point to begin with!" Knave shouted at Saren. "We are the same person! There's a part of you who actually wants to save the world! If you're not here because it's the right thing to do, then do it because of the people we can save! Do it to prove everyone wrong! Do it because right now, you're a enslaved by society, by fate, by Destruction! Let us help you!"