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Post by Dark Link on Aug 23, 2007 13:33:35 GMT -5
Dark stepped out of the portal and flinched. The smoke from Death Mountain was doing a good job of aiding the rainclouds in blacking out the sun, but there was still enough heat light from the magma to make Dark feel very uncomfortable. He turned to face away from it, his gaze looking out over the far reaches of Hyrule.
He heard someone step out of the portal, but he didn't even bother turning around. He knew who it was. The portal winked out of existence behind her. The only sound for a long moment was the warm breeze rustling through their clothes.
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Ember
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Post by Ember on Aug 23, 2007 13:38:45 GMT -5
Ember warily approached Dark and looked out over the reaches of Hyrule, the rain was still heavy but she could barely feel it on her skin. She was unsure of what to say to him...it was obvious he knew that those Shadow Warriors were hers despite her inability to control them.
She sighed and looked over at Dark out of the corner of her eye, his expression was the same as always. Distant and cold. Ember anxiously fiddled with one of the heavy silver rings on her finger.
"So...you know where those Shadows came from, don't you?"
Ember stated, not looking at Dark while she spoke.
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Post by Dark Link on Aug 23, 2007 13:48:13 GMT -5
Ember felt sad and a bit tense to Dark. Normally he liked feeling that from people. But now, it simply troubled him.
"I do now. You create them at random times it seems, especially when that Hunter shows up. Is that why he is after you? He simply fears your gifts? Or did your shadows hurt someone dear to him?"
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Post by Ember on Aug 23, 2007 13:54:40 GMT -5
"They react to my emotions and the fear of others as well...their technical name is a Phantasm, a living nightmare."
Ember paused and sighed, her head bowed so her face was mainly hidden by her sweep of blonde hair. She didn't want Dark to see her face right now, she felt weak, pathetic.
"I'm a Dreamscaper and it means I'm cursed, back in Demartes I was to be executed because I lost control and my own Shadows killed my brother. I was to be executed but I ran...Giomanach has been after me ever since. Even if he doesn't get me now...the curse will claim me in the end anyway."
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Dark Link
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Post by Dark Link on Aug 23, 2007 14:02:25 GMT -5
"Living nightmares? We have a lot in common then. I was created to be a living nightmare for someone. I was taken from what little darkness he had in his own heart."
Dark was mostly musing to himself. He didn't really understand what in meant to lose control of your powers or to have a brother, much less kill him.
"That is why there is so much darkness inside of you. I am surprised that it still hasn't been able to touch your heart."
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Ember
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Post by Ember on Aug 23, 2007 14:08:23 GMT -5
Both of Ember's hands clenched into shaking, white knuckled fists at her sides. She and Dark had common ground over Nightmares...he was created to be one and she was an unwilling creator.
"Most Dreamscapers go insane at their awakening...I didn't, just lost control but it means..."
She trailed off, tears pricked her eyes but she tried to force them back. It was pathetic to cry over this, it had been three years to the day since it had happened but it wasn't comforting to know the day you were going to die either.
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Post by Dark Link on Aug 23, 2007 14:13:31 GMT -5
Dark turned to look at her, though his eyes avoided her face. His face was carefully guarded, devoid of all emotions. He spoke slowly, as if wanting to be sure he understood.
"That is the pain of having a good heart. Your powers seem to only be useful for destroying things, yet it burns at your heart when you see things hurt so. You hate the curse that fate has given you, and you stay away from people and try not to care about them for fear that those close to you will be hurt by this curse."
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Post by Ember on Aug 24, 2007 3:20:50 GMT -5
It seemed Dark was more insightful than he gave others reason to believe, what he said was true. Whenever Ember had to watch her Phantasms hurt others it burnt her inside, making her wonder if the world would be better off without her. She cursed the fates for thrusting this upon her.
"You're more insightful than you know, the curse killed my brother so even my own Father rejected me, who would want to get close to me anyway?"
Ember spread both wings to prove a point, most people looked at her like she was some strange creature to be feared or simply stared upon like an animal.
"I wasn't born with these, it's just another part of the curse..."
She trailed off and one of her tears escaped, falling to the ground but she thanked the rain for disguising it.
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Post by Dark Link on Aug 24, 2007 8:32:14 GMT -5
Dark did not blink as the soft rain poured down on the two of them. He listened to her words and the bitter emotions that laced them. There was something very familiar about what she said. Or perhaps it was more the pained emotions behind the words that he could relate to.
"We are more alike then I first thought. Perhaps that is why..."
Dark did not finish. He felt his voice wavering, and he forced his exterior to be calm. This was one problem that he could not blame on Link. No, it seemed that there were others that had suffered as he had. But if he could not blame their sorrows on his lighter half, then who was there to blame.
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Post by Ember on Aug 24, 2007 8:41:51 GMT -5
"Why what?"
Ember questioned, forcing herself to look at Dark. The tears on her face were disguised by the falling rain but her green iris was ringed with red. She had felt his cold exterior waver momentarily and she didn't know why. Maybe he understood the bitterness that she carried with her everywhere? Being hunted down for being alive, being close to no one and truly trusting no one but yourself.
This moment in time was almost surreal and she wondered if this was actually happening or if Giomanach had really slit her throat back in the Graveyard and this was some strange illusion before death but when she lifted her hand to feel the shallow cut her mind reasoned that this was real.
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Post by Dark Link on Aug 24, 2007 8:52:35 GMT -5
Dark did not answer her question at first. He turned his head once again to look out over the land of Hyrule, a kingdom of light and good that could never truly accept him.
"How sad it is to feel these things...to have a heart that can learn to love...is this a new curse that you have placed upon me?"
He was muttering softly to himself. After another long pause, Dark turned back to face Ember. He noticed the redness in her eyes. Even now, she was in pain for things that had happened long ago, and things that had not yet happened to her.
No, that wasn't entirely true. Like Dark, Ember was said because she was alone. They were both so lost in the void of loneliness that there seemed no escape for either of them.
"I don't think I can ever kill you."
To Ember, it may not have been much of a statement. She may have even taken it as little more then a joke. But to Dark, who's first thought was to kill someone, this was a statement that defied his very nature.
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Post by Ember on Aug 24, 2007 9:01:02 GMT -5
Ember understood the meaning behind Dark's statement, when they had first met his first instinct seemed to be to end her life without one guilty thought but since then...something had changed. Maybe because they were both trapped and even Ember who was being of light had darkness within which prevented her being accepted in that world.
"What made you change your mind?"
Maybe they were kindred spirits despite their intentions being different, when you have lonliness thrust upon you and living a life without making choices you either push away a chance to make a connection or you accept it.
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Dark Link
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Post by Dark Link on Aug 24, 2007 9:07:19 GMT -5
"I don't know."
Dark could feel a place in his heart open up towards her. She understood him. She had been through the same kinds of pain and loneliness, even if their circumstances were different.
'No! What am I doing? This isn't right. This isn't me. I can't start having feelings for Ember.
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Post by Ember on Aug 24, 2007 9:17:02 GMT -5
Ember was puzzled by the mixture of emotions that briefly crossed Dark's face and wondered what he could be thinking... The rain was showing no signs of stopping yet but it didn't seem to bother neither Dark nor Ember, this strange situation was becoming more complicated and Ember felt on edge despite not being afraid of Dark. It seemed there was a place for Dark inside the Dreamscaper's heart. She took a breath and turned fully to face him, pulling both wings tight against her back.
"I think you're just as confused about this as I am...maybe we're just alike because we don't fit in."
Ember pointed out over Hyrule to make her point, they didn't fit in anywhere but that was fate chose for them both.
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Dark Link
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Post by Dark Link on Aug 30, 2007 9:20:54 GMT -5
"No where to belong? Only a small hope that we could possibly make such a place for ourselves."
I heaved a great sight. Even though my face was kept neutral, the torrent of emotions inside of me seemed to be finding other ways to express themselves, troublesome things that they were.
"So what then is the solution? Do we stay away from each other so as not to tear each other down? Do we fight each other so that one of us may die and be spared this pain? Do we look together for that one small ray of hope that seems to elude us?"
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