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Post by Caius Dragelion on Jul 20, 2022 16:59:04 GMT -6
The Dragonblades
Vincent hadn't hesitated to attack the creatures, something that Caius agreed with. But despite the pain that the creatures sustained from the Fira, they would soon enough shake off the attack and head straight for Vincent, firing spells of their own with reckless abandon. Fire, Fira, Blizzard, Blizzara, all were shot in unison from multiple directions. Caius moved in front of Vincent and conjured a barrier, to which the spells would hit and explode upon contact. After the first batch though, Caius had to drop the shield. He couldn't hold it up forever before it was broken, and it took a fair amount of magic for it to continue to withstand those blows.
This of course opened up for Vincent to open fire on the ghostly ghouls. Heads and chests were essentially all that the beasts had, being more ghost than human at this point. It would knock them back with more force than the magic did, indicating to Caius that the creatures were resistant to magic, but more prone to physical attacks. In the process of the fight, the child, Desmond, would retreat from his hiding place.
"That man, he tricked me into coming here! Me and all the others that could use magic!" Desmond cried out. "But he bound us, and he experimented on them, and he was going to do it to me next, and now they're... There...!"
Caius wasn't able to hear a fair amount of it, but he couldn't focus on it right away as he would draw his blade and slash through one of the ghouls that had come too close. Another fell, but more continued to swarm on them. Then came Vordun, who would barrel in and attack with claws and teeth, a truly terrifying sight.
"Desmond, out the door! Go find your mom, get the guards!" Caius called to the child, who would nod in affirmative as he dashed out through the opening that Vordun had made. Out of the shadows, a hand would try to grab the child. But seeming to be able to smell it, Vordun would tear the hand from its shadow with its teeth and tear it apart.
"Pity" came the voice that Caius had heard earlier as a bedraggled looking man with pale skin would begin to step down the stairs. "You cost me my last test subject. And I was so close to a breakthrough, too. Though the two of you appear capable of some magic.."
The creatures had their own magic, launching spells towards the two men from all directions. Caius threw up a shield first and once it wavered, Vincent sent up his own from one of the materia glimmering on his armlet. Thankfully, he was fairly well protected from elemental attacks to begin with. Unfortunately, the ghouls seemed to not be too affected by Vincent and Caius’ magic either. Cerberus seemed better at knocking them away and halting their attacks. [break][break]
Vincent continued to aim, taking shot after shot until he had to reload. Vordun the dragon slashed and clawed his way through the creatures nearby. Meanwhile, Vincent saw movement from behind some of the storage containers and the child poked his head out to cry out to the Dragonblades. With the sound of the dragon and his own gun, Vincent could barely hear the words but one caught in his mind. [break][break]
Experimented. A sickening realization started to claw its way up through Vincent’s stomach, threatening to pull him down into an ancient trauma. His jaw clenched and he looked once more at the creatures attacking them. With a more focused eye… maybe they had once been human. Experimented..[break][break]
Vincent vaguely heard Caius yell for the boy to leave. His thoughts were becoming dark and muddled. The word experiment ricocheting through his mind over and over again. Halting memories of needles and mako and chaos and an unending pain and despair clouded his gaze as his shots with Cerberus grew frenzied. And then there was a brief spot of quiet, the ghosts stopping their attacks on a queue from an unseen hand. Then the man appeared, coalescing from the darkness. [break][break]
He looked ill and sickly, pale and bedraggled. Not a powerful wizard or sorcerer. But magic thrummed around him and the ghouls seemed to obey him. Test subject. Experiments. A dark rage bubbled up inside of him. It reminded him of when Chaos would take over long ago. But now, he was still in some control of himself. Enough. Enough to point Cerberus’ three barrels directly at the man and snarl, ”You deserve far worse than death for what you’ve done here. For the lives you’ve ruined.”
Post by Caius Dragelion on Aug 4, 2022 18:27:33 GMT -6
The Dragonblades
Perhaps it was what Vincent said and the surprising amount of venom that came with it, but it was right there that Caius seemed to really think about what the man had meant by experiments. The boy had said he was the last one left. He didn't see any other people around, no screaming, no calls for help...
Just this man and these ghouls.
It hit him like a truck really fast from there. Caius grew quiet as his features grew incredibly sharp. The older man meanwhile, would use magic to block the shots from Vincent's firearm. "Perhaps I do. Playing games with nature. What would the gods say if I Was to approach them now?" the man mused aloud, not sounding all that concerned about their words or their attacks. It reminded Caius far too much of a certain someone, and that only stoked his fires all the more. "Alas, somebody has to do it. Magic has so much hidden potential, and there's only so few who have the power to use it naturally. I hoped to bring out that potential in ways that nobody has ever dreamed. But no matter where I went, Torensten, Provo, Sonora... They all cast me out after hearing of how I intended to accomplish, so I had to find volunteers my own way. Of course, so many young mages are just as happy to help me as the boy wa-"
A shot from Caius' gunblade caught them in the shoulder while they were monologuing. He'd heard enough. The man held his shoulder with a violent seethe. With a flick of his wrist, the remaining ghouls would screech violently, as if they were in pain, before striking at Caius, Vincent and Vordun with increased fervor.
"I had hoped to take you living since you stole away my last subject. But at least dead you won't turn into monsters" he managed out as Caius stepped ahead of Vincent and summoned something from his glaive. "Are you going to kill them, then? They were once people, you know. Can't be fixed. Already tried. But I can still get some research out of them if-"
"I can end this here" Caius whispered to Vincent between clenched teeth. "But doing so will kill them. The ghouls I mean. Hopefully him too. I... Assume there's no other options?"
The man’s monologue, delivered impassionately and without care for the evil he had wrought, struck something deep within Vincent. Maybe it was a holdover of Chaos, maybe it was just a deep, ingrained trigger to words that so terribly mirrored Vincent’s own history. Whatever the cause, he felt unable to fully control himself in the face of this experimenter. [break][break]
Finally, bullets got through the ever present shield the mage kept hiding behind. Caius’ caught him in the shoulder and Vincent’s grazed a thigh. But their brief upper hand only enraged the man and the ghouls--those tragic and violent experimentations--surged forward to attack the two men and the dragon. Vincent activated the materia in his armlet, shielding himself from their attacks while simultaneously slowing the most viscous of the attackers.[break][break]
There would be no saving these creatures. They barely resembled humans anymore, too corrupted and destroyed by foul magic. Any spark of sentience died out long ago, now they were tied only to the magic that kept them bound to the mage. ”End it,” Vincent agreed in a harsh whisper as he stared into the desiccated face of one of the attackers. ”This is no life. There is no coming back from this.” It was painfully tragic, a horrible decision to have to make. But, hopefully, in death they could find some sort of peace.[break][break]
”And he deserves to suffer,” Vincent added with a snarl directed at the mage commanding the ghouls.
Post by Caius Dragelion on Aug 25, 2022 16:16:06 GMT -6
The Dragonblades
Caius gritted his teeth when Vincent confirmed what Caius already knew. He was right. There was no coming back from this. There was only one way to fix it, as much as Caius hated to say it. He took a deep breath to steel himself, pushing all emotion from his mind the best that he could. The mercenary could only utter a half-hearted affirmative.
"Understood."
Caius tossed the object and immediately cast a barrier over their group before it exploded.
KABOOM!
As the explosive wasn't magic, it would quickly wipe out the rest of the ghouls. Caius hated to admit it, but there was nothing they could do except give them peace. The explosion had destroyed the stairs, sending the man toppling into the rest of the explosion, and when the smoke cleared, the warehouse had been thoroughly wrecked. None of the ghouls remained, and the old man had been buried in rubble. Caius dropped the shield as his magic needed to recharge, and his weapons would disappear in a cluster of light. Caius fell back to a sitting position, his whole body shaking as he stared down at the ground. He knew it was necessary, and yet…
"Shit..."
Caius buried his face in his arm, hiding his expression. This was hard. He'd killed those people. Or what was once people. He hadn't been able to get here in time, and those people had suffered for it. He knew deep down that they were likely gone long before he had even taken the job, but the fact he had been too late remained a bitter pill for Caius to swallow.
But then the rubble began to shift. The old researcher would weakly climb out, covered in blood and soot. He would hold out a hand, charging a large blast of fire magic as he pointed it at the group.
"Even if I die, my research will endure... And I will take you with-"
He was cut off mid-sentence, this time with a shot through the vitals with a re-appearing gunblade. Caius furiously seethed, his expression naught but rage mixed with grief. He was able to hold onto the magic long enough to see their foe hit the ground once more. This time he didn't get up.
There were no words left that Caius would spare for the monster. Killing him quickly was almost too good for him. But Caius would eventually breathe and try his best to look at least somewhat composed. But the pressure of all that had happened was written clearly across his face even as he tried with all his might to hide it.
"We need to see if his research is still here. We have to destroy it."
Caius didn’t argue with Vincent’s decision. He seemed grim about it, but it was clear the Dragonblade also knew what needed to be done. An explosion ripped through the warehouse, conjured by some object Caius threw. It incinerated the ghouls, their shrieks suddenly cut short. Vincent gritted his teeth and tensed at the sound, trying to block it out and forget what they had once been. At least now, maybe they could move on and their suffering would end. Wouldn’t he have asked for the same all those years ago? Lucrecia had saved him but at the cost of decades of agony. Even if he’d known he would be free of Chaos and Hojo eventually, would he have ever chosen this life for himself? [break][break]
His thoughts swam in memories and could-haves, lost futures that were stolen from him. Vincent nearly forgot where he was until he heard Caius curse beside him, his voice clearly distraught. He tried to say something encouraging, to empathize. But all that came out was a strangled noise, a wordless sound that managed to convey his own anguish. [break][break]
The researcher, the vile man, wasn’t dead yet. Sooty, bloody arms reached out from the rubble and magic started to pulse around them again. What was sure to be a villainous monologue was cut short by two bullets shot from different guns at the same time. Caius’ gunblade and Cerberus both shot through the old man, now little more than a husk without his ghouls to protect him. Vincent would have preferred a slower death, to make him suffer as he’d made others suffer. But at least he couldn’t hurt anyone else now. [break][break]
His companion mentioned research. Vincent was glad for his leveler head, because the thought truly hadn’t crossed his mind. He’d been too caught up in emotions to think clearly. ”Yes,” he agreed in a low, harsh voice. ”There’s a door back there,” he pointed past the worst of the rubble. It wouldn’t be easy to get to, but it didn’t seem entirely blocked. Hopefully what they were looking for was in there. ”We should search him too,” he added as an afterthought, it case the mage kept any important research or items on his person.
Post by Caius Dragelion on Sept 11, 2022 18:08:53 GMT -6
The Dragonblades
"Hm" was all Caius managed out at first as Vincent would point out the door, and to search the body as well. It was clear that Caius was still trying to process what he had done, and the fact that he hadn't been able to save these people. He kneeled down in front of the body, but soon came back up without searching much. "I'm sorry, I don't think I can touch him" Caius admitted softly as he looked to Vincent. "I'm... Not used to searching bodies of people that I've... Well, that I've killed. And I'm already disgusted as it is just looking at him. I know this is selfish of me to ask, but can you search the body while I check the back?" he inquired softly. "Vordun should be able to help you with sniffing out anything he might be concealing."
Caius knew that it was a selfish request. He knew that it stemmed from his own weakness. Caius didn't kill people unless he had no choice, or if he was thoroughly convinced that they were no longer man, but monster. Those bandits, the enemy commander back at the slave camp... Now this guy. They were monsters more than they were people, and Caius knew that. But they still bore the shapes of men, and Caius was still having difficulties with shedding the blood of men after what had happened with that bandit leader. He could only see Yuna's face, terrified of what he had done... Terrified of what matter of beast had put a blade through another person's head like that. Or at least, that's how he read her expression.
He mumbled a thanks as he darted off and through the door. It wasn't long after though, that Caius called back to Vincent.
"We have a problem."
A pause. A number of curses were uttered.
"I found where he was getting his funding for his experiments. The Original Sin, a crime syndicate we've been warring with. It looks like they were turning to this guy in order to replenish their magical strength after we crippled it."
More guilt. These people hadn't just died by his hands. They had died partly because he and Celes had killed Charon, one of the enemy's officers. And yet... They had to do it, didn't they? How many people would have died if they hadn't?
How much more of trading one set of lives for another did he have to go through before this nightmare was finally over?
"Not just that though... It gets worse. This guy knew we were onto him. Somebody leaked that we were out looking for that missing kid. That means either somebody is intercepting our job assignments... Or somebody's leaking intel."
