A Thread without A Hero and Requiem

[Trish]

"Ooh Virgil..."







((Say, Virg, If you ever think of it, get on your Instant Messanger account sometime. I wish to speak to you.))

[Chastity]

A shrill sound from the train whistle brings me out of my fitfull sleep. I can still hear the clicking of the train's wheels over the tracks. My eyes take awhile to adjust to the darkness of the compartment, and my mind takes awhile to place where it is that I am.

I finally get them both sorted out and see a shadowy figure sitting by the window. I know that it is Peter. I feel a sense of relief knowing that it is him. I feel very safe when I am around him.

I yawn and pull the thin blue blanket tighter around me, it has gotten chill in here. I can see that Peter is looking in my direction.

"A penny for your thoughts."

[Peter "The Owl"]

Peter stands up, taking off his long coat. He steps across the cabin and lays the coat over Chastity. "You look cold," he says, sounding almost like he's trying to avoid the subject of his thoughts at the moment. "You should be warm or you might catch a cold."

[Chastity]

I accept Peter's jacket gladly. I smile. I am no stranger to cold, what happens to this physical form of mine has little bearing on reality or eternity. I pull the jacket around me.

"Thank you. I have been sick before, all passes in time."

[Peter "The Owl"]

"Well time is something I hope we have alot of." Peter sits down in his seat once more and continues to watch Chastity. "I hope that the government will leave us alone for a time. I told the Minister of Defense all that I knew and he seemed at accept that. So, I think Red Infinity will leave us. And Virgil said I was free to go... It's almost too much to hope for you know? I was just sifting through some of my memories... comparing the new ones with the old..."

[Chastity]

"I would like to hear some of your memories."

I sit up on the thin train cot mattress, the blanket and Peter's coat wrapped about me.

[Peter "The Owl"]

"What it comes down to is I have two groups of memories. Seven years of kills and information from LIF, and about fifiteen years from before that, that I can remember. This thing in my head," he taps his temple, "Makes all the LIF ones last forever. My own memories are... normal. They fade and sharpen over time, sometimes at random."

He tilts his head slightly, still watching Chastity through the dark. The moonlight from the window shines across his face, lighting one side and throwing the other into darkness.

"I was thinking about college. About what a outcast I was for six years. Studying the supernatural, traveling the world but never fitting in anywhere perfectly. I studied in a dozen different countries, learned their languages, their traditions, and their legends, but I was never one of them. And when I got home and saw my own people, I would realize that I wasn't one of them either. I was without purpose.

LIF changed that. For a time, I had a place. A horrible one, but one that put to use what I had learned. I can remember every life I saved, every life I took. Their all hard wired into my brain.

And now, here I am again, even more of a misfit than before. I have no one." He stops, straightening his head, staring into Chastity's eyes.

"Except you. You've never pushed me away Chastity. You accepted me, even after you knew who and what I was. I haven't the words for that."

He falls silent for a time. Then, after an eternity of silence he speaks again:

"I think I love you Chastity."

[Jade]

Jade sits on the train. Just why he was there, no one would ever know. Infact, his mind was almost unreadable. Even Jade didn't understand himself some times.

Jade could hear two people talking. A male and a girl. Jade grins to himself in the dark. They were in the next compartment. "It's so sweet, it makes me just wanna kill some one."

Jade says to himself quietly and laughs to himself making sure the people in the other compartment couldn't hear him.

[Richie Dollar]

( It isn't Richie, it's his butler Jeeves. would you like me to put away the shotgun and just be like the butler from Tomb Raider? )

Jeeves :

Master Richie isn't here right now sir. He's driving with Master Dinari and Master Alex.

I put away the shotgun and I offer the general a drink.

[Surma]

Gregory- said:

"For ages past Angels were servents of the gods. I have corrected that rather long standing problem by giving them a home of their own. Earth is perfect for all sorts. Humans want to keep it for themselves of course." Gregory glances upwards again then sighs and rubs his eyes, "Something I can help you with, Surma? Or perhaps you'd like to easedrop in peace?"

Surma smiled."Finally.I thought you wouldn't recognize me.There was nothing for me to do.So I came here for a visit."Surma floated back down to the level were Gregory and the white haired man were."Angels being the servents of Gods?That was the first mistake made in this world.Sure I have an angel that serves me,his name is Mortis.But he is more than a servent to me.He is my best friend.The Gods besides me must learn that the angels that serve them are also there friends."

[Gregory: The Storm Raven]

"Learning to enjoy servitude is not the same as being liberated from it Surma." Gregory's wings flutter slightly, betraying his emotion, though his voice does not, "Now what do you need? It must be something for you to come all the way to Chi-kage to find it."

[Kai]

Kai looked at the construction going on. He walked to the nearest hardware shop, and bought some metal supports, and huge titanium plates. Kai then teleported it all near the church area. He took help from some people and started to put together a quarter of a watch tower.

[Talice 'Black Widow']

((I'm not sure how we proceed with things since our charge Seppo can no longer be with us. I only hope that he will someday return.))

Talice and Darith walk the halls of the ministry of terror and come upon the young children Vaara and Seppo.

"Darith there is the boy goddess. Perhaps we should take our charge and his friend and find them some living quarters. I am sure that it is time to start their training."

She then looks to Darith with alost a sadness in her eyes. She knew she would have to leave him soon for missions. She wanted to try and sniff out LIF so they could once and for all crush them under Red Infinity's boot.

"Darith i might have to leave soon. And evertime i leave i may not be coming back. Not like it is important or anything," She lied. "But i just wanted you to know my submissive."

She forced a smile to him and the children.

[Ookami]

Ookami moved the debris from the construction in a massive bulk. He wasn't unaccustomed to hard work, he use to do more in his pack. He continued to work alongside his comrades but a nagging fear had surfaced. He had changed when the egg was inside of him.

He had become evil.

Even now he could still feel the darkness course through him. Did everyone look at him differently? Was anyone disgusted with his change? Where was Zeek. He needed to find her and speak with her. She needed to know the truth about Jareth. He shook his head and continued on with work.

[Dmitri]

As soon as he left Jareth and Omadon he changed back to himself. There was no way in hades he was going after Kaieka alone. She was too strong for just him. Let 'Morrighan' deal with the reprecussions. He had a power to break and steal. He would too all he needed was time. If he could get her to trust him perhaps....

He walked back into the ministry and back to the room which was now his.

"Kallen forgive my rude exit. I only wished to placate the phantom woman before she had to depart from us forever. Now i believe we were in the middle of a discussion."

He sits on the chair by the bed and leans back a bit. His crosses his legs with ankle at knee and smiles at her.