Hope is Our Recourse

[Illigitimate God]

The train came to a screeching halt at the broken down station. Helsinki was nothing. Helsinki had been made a smoking crater. Everyone knew why. No one wanted to speak of it. It was so very fitting and ironic for someone to lose their memory in a place that was shoved into the back of so many more people's memories. No tears cried over something forgotten. No tears shed for the silence. No tears shed for the frozen frame of destruction and misery, like so many of those memories themselves. A portrait of a bygone thing, that was erased by making it cleansed. Helsinki, by fire. Memory, by ephemeral happiness that was in turn forgotten along with what it forced to be for forgot. A long time ago never happened here, a long time ago would end for Kaieka here.

Zephyr stepped off the train. He had come so far in realizing himself. He had come so far, even though he was such a broken man. Man? He was not a man... he was a machine. A machine so reviled. A machine so imperfect and flawed. A machine with what he was made to avoid. Emotion. It had broken him. Torn the teeth off of his gears. Thrown his rotor into bad timing. Thrown his motor into sputtering. Thrown his mind into obsession. Kaieka. She would forget him here. He had no doubts. He had few regrets. He seemed forgotten by her in the present, but it would be best if he was entirely forgotten. She helped him feel, but he know knew he simply felt too much. To what extent would he go for some love that was a lie? To what extent would he go for a falsified sense of goodness... it was simply masked simple pleasure. She did not care. All he accomplished was to become a blade for her to wield. There could be nothing else... no bonding... no empathy... no love... it was a lie perpetuated to allow him to feel good. Too many days had been spent wandering in a dream. Too many days had passed thinking up new lies and new means to get to a miraged end.

'No more,' Said Zephyr, his voice bled relief. He had freed himself. 'Today, I will no longer be a slave to false love... I stand freed.'

Something was not right. It felt all wrong. He felt as if his lies had become lies, the truths had become more than lies. There was no truth but what he could begin to unravel here and now. He would see her. He would ask for her love. Too much pain and too much suffering had been invested for him to be wrong. He was too alone in this world, and had spent too long in the numbing cold. He would open his eyes for true, and through truth he would be set free. Not by any other means.

He squinted into the distance. Helsinki was a maze of those dead memories. Kaieka was here, she was here to purify herself. He wanted to be part of her. He wanted to be by her side. He wanted to walk by her for all time, and he longed for nothing more. To see her face was all the sustainance he needed.

He would go to her... one, last time

[Peter "The Owl"]

"Your right." He stands, flexing his fingers a little. "Let's finish getting ready."

[NiHato/Red Dove]

Nihato steps behide Turks.She seemed different,more saddend."Turks..."Nihato says and puts her hand on her shoulder.Turks turns around and steps away from NiHato."Who..."Turks starts but Nihato starts talking to Trent."I'm sorry for what happened to you...its all my fault....lots of things are my fault..."Nihato says."Okay...do you mind,we're in the middle of a fight?!"Says Turks.Nihato steps back and starts walking away."Well,that was odd...."Turks says looking after her while ice shards form in her hand.

[Spike]

Spite wanders the streets of Paris. She loved big cities, there were so many unhappy, spiteful people. It was so much fun.

She's been out of the game for a long time so she wants to make up for lost time. Where would be a great place to find some really angry young people? Young people were so much more forward in their spite.

"Why, the University of course! So many angry little students, overworked teachers, this will be great fun."

[Calithin]

* I teleport in front of Misery blocking the door to thier apartment.*

" Misery...I have a device, that can destroy him...I trust you enough to tell you this. So I will ask you once and only once, are you an allay, or should I just go ahead and kill you where you stand."

[Omadon]

Omadon leans back, laughing. "She'll help but she wants to 'feel'? Ah ha ha, the girl is as naive as I thought."

Standing Omadon turns towards his lab, his cape fluttering as he sweeps out of the room.

"She can help, if she wishes. Still, I imagian she'll come around sooner or later. Unless her sweet Kaschei uses her as a human sacrific first. Either way, she'll be mine in the end. Death is not an issue I am forced to deal with."

The Necromancer moves deeper into his icy castle, deep below the surface outside, down in the permafrost where it is frozen even at the height of summer.

"My council will be fine without her for now." Omadon pushes open a heavy wooden door, stepping into a large room, carved from the ice itself, blue light, reflected from magical touches at gave no light, shinning against the glassy walls. Cold did not effect those who gathered here after all. Omadon seats himself at the head of the table, looking around the table.

Two chairs are occupied, Omadon's fellow rulers of this frozen kindgom. Three others stand empty, in cluding the one on Omadon's left, the chair for his true partner, his Lich Queen. He still had to find someone to fill that chair.

Still, this would do for now. Quan Xu should be returning with the items soon enough. Until then...

"Good to see you both again. I think we should begin by discussing our next step. Jareth has declined a position among us but I do not think that will prove a problem in the long run. Now, to begin..."

The other two lean back, listening as Omadon begins to convey his plan. One smiles, his hands folded infront of his chin. The other listens carefully, a guantleted fist resting in the stone table.

[Flask: Lord of Fire]

Flask reachs into his pocket and takes out an apple. Shinning the fruit on his cloths he looks at the arrow in the cabin.

"Nice. Odd skill for a tree in my opinion but that's just me."

He holds out his hand palm up. A pillar of flame errupts from his flesh, a fire burning in his hand.

"I got my own skills to make use of. Then again," he snaps his hand shut, closing on the fire. It burst outwards, arching out of his hand. Suddenly the line of fire washes away, revealing Flask's sword, flashing brightly in the light. "Personal combat has it's own beauty and skill. Don't you think?"

He takes a bite of the apple.

[Misery]

"I am not your ally. I work for Red Infinity. I am a terrorist. I'm not looking for friends or allies. I just want Fate gone from this world forever..."

I glance at the device. Although I have not seen this man before, I assume he is Calithin. Who else would be so invested in Fate's demise?

"If you give me that, we can go on with our lives...without that psycho android. I want the pleasure of shutting him down myself, but if you dont trust me enough to give me the device, so be it. I am too apathetic to care either way."

[Lady Violet]

I return to work, and see that Cheshire and Jareth are waiting outside of my office.

"Excelent job Cheshire, you completed the task."
I pet Cheshire's head.

"Your next mission, dear Cheshire, is to investigate the appearance of two goddesses, Nihato and Yohko. If you find them, I want you to bannish them from this planet, by any means possible."

I turn to Jareth and shake her hand.

"Welcome to the International Head Quarters, dear Jareth. Step into my office, we have much to discuss."

I open the door to my office, and she steps inside. I sit down at my desk, and smile pleasantly.

"You need not fear me, though I intend not to send you back to Moscow for some time...."

[Valodya Bassarov]

Bassarov walks into the small living room of the cottage.
He faces everyone and announces..

"Listen, I am planning on leaving here with some rebels, since it is quite crowded. I want to leave Ookami in charge around here. So we need to decide who will stay here, and who will join me and the new cell of rebels. We also need to decide where we should locate this new cell of rebels. Ideally, those more enviromentally concious should stay here with Toivo, since he is the leader of the Green Party. Now then, does anyone have any ideas or suggestions?"

[Kaschei]

Kaschei goes to Jareth's room to order her on a mission. When he gets there he sees that she is gone. He is infuriated. He assumes that she must have left him and Red Infinity.

"I will teach that traitor to cross me!"
He begins to chant a spell which summons forth a fire spirit. He instructs the spirit to hunt and kill Jareth. The being made of fire bows and leaves to complete the given assignment.

[Moira]

I see that Fascia and Kakashi are all lovey dovey now. Well, isn't that just cute. Puke. I guess I am not needed around here now that the man is back. Hmmf. I leave for work and try my hardest not to hate Kakashi. Today I have a meeting at the League's Head Quarters in St Petersburg. I used to hate boring old meetings, but now that Keitoleinen is the head of them, I kind of like them.
I take my helicoptor to St Petersburg and head into the white building of the League's HQ.
I nearly slip on the slick white marble floor inside. I head to the meeting room and wait for it to start.

[Keitoleinen]

Keitoleinen prepares for a meeting. No one but Moira has arrive. He considers that Moira is a friend of Fascia's.

"Moira, you should have Fascia join the League of the Godless. I would love to have her serve me here...."

[NiHato/Red Dove]

NiHato sits in a tree.There was nothing to do like always....

Luna:
Luna stands infrount of a desk."Your in my department and you'd better stop talking back!"Yells the man behide the desk.Luna slams her hands on the desk."I'll talk back is I want to!"Luna yells at him."Thats it!You piece of junk are fired!"He yells."You can't fire me if I quite!!!"Yells Luna back before storming out of the room and building.

[Moira]

"She isn't in to Red Infinity like I am, so she would make crappy help. She does like to hurt people, so I guess she might do alright...."

I wonder why Keitoleinen is interested in Fascia. Don't I work hard? I work my a'ss off for the League.

"I could as'sist you, if you wanted..."