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Burning Down the Past (Story post)

*one year ago* Six was walking down an old road. The sky was dark, and the streets were barren. She rolled over her mission in her head. Find Five. Tsch. Find Five, she didn’t even know what he looked like.. She didn’t even know if he was actually alive, besides her intuition telling her he was. And the City was huge.. She didn’t even know where to start. “Quite the difficult task you’ve set for yourself, isn’t it Aifos?” A voice said from behind her. Six spun around, and activated her laser scythe. She knew that voice. “Double!” She yelled, staring at the smiling nun. “The jannolor are you doing here!? You’re supposed to be dead!” “So are you. And yet, here we are.” “..What do you want..?” “For my pawns to get themselves back in line.” “I’m not your pawn anymore.” Six sighed. Her scythe deactivated, as she turned away, and started walking. “Go find some other gullible sap to boss around.” “Is that what you think?” A tendril began sprouting from Double’s shoulder, and coiling down her arm. “We’ll have to put you back in your place, then, won’t we?” “Like jannolor you will.” Six calmly snapped her fingers towards the ground, and a large wall of flames appeared between the two. Six took the opportunity to take off in the opposite direction, but didn’t get very far before something grabbed her by the ankle, sending her tumbling to the ground. Turning back towards the flames, she saw a long tendril reaching out, coiling around her foot, and the abomination it was attached to rising out of the fire. It was a hideous thing, with limbs and faces constantly growing out of, and melting back into an amorphous, shifting mass. “Jamblasted..!” Six yelled, pulling out her scythe again, and slicing at the tentacle around her leg, cutting its tip clean from its source. Desperately, she pulled herself to her feet, and tried to scramble away, but quickly found herself grabbed, and restrained by several dozen long, spindly hands reaching out from the monster. They dragged her back to the thing, which held her up to one of it’s many misshapen faces. “A good effort, but futile. No matter how far you run.. No matter how hard you fight..” One of Double’s hands coiled around Six’s body, and gently placed its palm on her face. “No matter who you hide behind.. You. Belong. [b][u]TO ME!”[/b][/u] Six’s eyes shot open, to the sound of a train galloping down a rickety old track. She let out a sigh of relief. “Just a nightmare..” “No kidding..” Sapphire’s voice said, directly into their mind. “You have the freakiest dreams, Six.” “You saw all that, too? That mean we share dreams, now?” “Well, yeah. We share the same body, I thought that’d be pretty obvious.. So.. Who was that?” “Double. Mortal incarnation of Lamia, or something like that. She’s the reason we’re in this situation to begin with.” At that moment the tunnel the train was traveling through gave way to an open plain, and at its edge was the capital, resting on the horizon. “There it is. The City.” Six said. “So Five’s somewhere in there?” “Probably. If I somehow survived being killed, the first place I’d go is either to FlipFlap to let everyone know I was alive, or to the Church of the Trinity, to burn it to the ground so Double can’t do to anyone else what she did to me.” “..The way you said that. We’re not... Are we?” ——— Six, dressed in a head-concealing mask, and heavy white cloak, kicks open the doors to the old church. There was a crowd of people praying in front of a large statue of Lamia, as a nun recited something Six didn’t bother trying to understand. A few other nuns were walking about the building, taking care of various small tasks. Six walked up to the closest one she could find. “Get everyone out of this building, now.” She said, sternly. “Excuse me? What ever for?” The nun asked. “I said, evacuate the building!” Six snapped her fingers, and a large burst of flame shot out from her hand, tearing down a stained glass window of Aeon. The room flew into a panic, and the crowd began clambering out onto the streets. Six began to dance through the halls, weaving fire through every inch of the structure as she did, making sure to avoid catching anyone in the chaos. “Well, that’s that.” She said, standing in the middle of the burning chapel, after everyone got out safely. “Let’s go-“ She stopped, and carefully made her way over to the wall. Outside, there was a voice; mechanical, official. It was hard to make out what it was saying, but it didn’t take long to realize who. “Jamblasted..” Six said, taking a few steps away. “Cobalt soldiers. Probably here to arrest us.” She slipped her backpack off her shoulder, and tossed it onto the ground. Several of its contents, mostly vials of various chemicals, dumped out onto the floor. “What’s this?” Sapphire asked. “A diversion.” She placed her hands together, and then upon the backpack. Blue flashes of lightning shot out from the sack, as it and the contents inside began shifting to take the shape of a human. Six took off her coat, and helmet, placing them upon the lifeless body. “I’ll lead them off our trail, we’ll meet up on Baker Street, alright?” Six said, taking out the SMD, which took the shape of a knife. She jabbed the blade into her shoulder, and everything went black for a moment. The next thing either of them knew, the blade was stabbed into the dummy, which began moving on its own. Sapphire gasped. “I can move! I’m back in control?” “That’s right.” The dummy said, standing up. “Ugh, this body is so stiff.. Don’t keep me waiting, alright?” Six reached over, and pulled Sapphire’s MagiTech glove off her hand. “Hey, wha-“ “I’ll give this back when we meet up again. Now act like you were trapped in the fire, I’ll draw the legion’s attention!” The mechanical soldiers kicked in the door, and immediately began scanning the area. It didn’t take long for them to find the two, and identify the dummy as the culprit from the nun’s description. “Target sighted, proceeding to apprehend!” “Just try and catch me, you jannomapops!” Six yelled, running towards Aeon’s shattered window, and climbing out onto the street. (Continued below)

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