Usually characteristic for me to find a post in the morning. Please don't abandon this story guys! There's still so much more to learn!
BIC:
TRUE XINDAO
The Core
Castle
I walk through the halls, beautifully glowing white knight armor standing at attention. I am walking towards the biggest throne, but instead of sitting in it, I walk behind it. Upon the back was a twin throne, and shadow cast upon it. This was our world, where we came from. This place was incarcerated so that the darkness chasing it wouldn't get in and ruin it. The darkness couldn't get in, and instead it used our world's endless energy for it's own metal world. When we drew other planets to us to help, the darkness took some of them and then built it into their world. It scared the Gremlins into helping them, and never guessed Tinkinzar would imprison them in the Shadow Lairs. He finished the job, though more than half of it was done. And we waited here.
Mother started growing sick, and died here in her tower. When it happened, I was supposed to become heir to the throne. But my sister got it instead, and was allowed to be reborn into the outside world. The people grew upset, because she never gave up the throne, and there was no one to give them hope that we might ascend one day. And that's when it happened. I had never known the secret behind the throne, not until the day my Mother rose out of her coffin in the highest tower and told the people of the blasphemy. She said the darkness....was the throne. She spoke of how she had used it to capture us and turn us immortal within this prison. She spoke of how the darkness was our tool. That everything within our land had grpwn hopeless, and our Queen, my sister, would never return from the wonderful world outside.
They questioned as to why would the darkness chase us into captivity. That's when her crazy idea unravelled. "I did it so that this world could become our ultimate power source for a world of our own making! I did it so we could become gods! Our army is waiting in the outside world, mindless until the Queen remembers. And we will march out of the Core and become the rulers of this new world!" And she turned into the darkness, and the subjects willingly followed. She turned them into the monster absorbing the castle, forgetting they would become mindless until my sister remembered. Unbeknownst to them, and my Mother had long forgotten, my true name was Exi↑e, and I didn't have to follow orders like them. I rebirthed a body on the outside world, but something had happened, and a lock made of the same metal as the Core had locked me from using my vessel. I have memories of his life, and what a wonderful life it is. It's not like he'll die once I become him, it'll just be remembering. I am him, and he is me.
I have a beautiful singing voice, and it's actually the heart of me, my sister in the exact same situation as I. She can sing perfectly, as can I. That's the source of our power and long life(as long as no one kills us, we are immortal), along with our gift of purge.
I sit down in the throne behind the bright throne, the throne overcast in shadow. My sister always had a soft spot for me, and I gladly accepted it. I was the older one, and she apologized many times for Mother's choice. I loved my sister very dearly, and I was heartbroken when she left me here. But I can only be happy she has two parents that care about her, whilst I had a parent that couldn't care less about me. I worry about my sister though, because her true name is terrifying enough to strike fear into the hearts that know of the darkness....
She is-
Whoa! I just felt my vessel come up with an idea. Not just any idea...and idea to open the Seal!
As we wait for the Stone to either activate or deny us, I appreciate Sayaka's good detective work. She is extremely accurate in her estimations, and sharp of eye. It's a pity she can't trust me yet. I absently reach upband touch the hem of my mask. I rub my fingers on the thin line where the metal meets skin. It wouldn't appear that way at first, it would take a handy man to feel the small difference as metal blends into skin. I've had everything tried by blacksmiths of all sorts, but it doesn't seem to want to come off. I move my hand to a holes in the back of the mask, two holes to be exact. Nothing seems to be beyond the hole, even though the mask is a part of me. The holes feel like two halves of a broken heart.
I've always wondered if metal isn't the key to those holes, maybe something else. I even tried shocking them with my phone, but to no avail....but what if?
I've never tried this particular blacksmith. And him and his wife seem to hold a broken key of their own.
Sorrow.
"If I could ask, I mean I know we just met, but could you try opening this mask?" My phone holograms.