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Path to Immortality Plotline

Prologue

Chapter 2: The Grudge Arc Part 3-Splintered!!

Brief description: Saouri is in shock, she simply cannot comprehend what she has just experienced. Could, it all just have been a dream? What is happening with her, where she is and why she can’t see any form or shape in the plain darkness? Could this all be a dream or perhaps she could be dead… However, with all the probing questions in her head, she realizes there are even more troublesome questions she cannot even answer. She just can’t seem to remember as she remains still in the dark abyss.

Like a fine crafted sculpture, Saouri’s body remains still. She cannot apprehend what has, is and will happen to her. Her eyes are half closed in sorrow for her unanswerable questions,

“Why is it that I can’t remember anything….what am I to make of all that has happened? Could it be that this is all a dream… if so maybe all I should do is wake up?”

Suddenly an all too familiar voice interrupts her track of thought, “No...” A voice she recognizes as her own continues “This is not a dream you can wake up from…” Saouri is startled, for she can’t have even said those words. All of a sudden she starts frantically looking around and she gets onto her feet. Although, she is standing, she cannot feel anything supporting her feet, she feels the floating sensation that she had not been aware of when seated, now evident to the point of making her extremely uneasy. All of a sudden, a face emerges from the darkness. It is like she’s looking at a mirror except the image she sees is inverted and terribly disfigured. The sudden appearance however was enough to make her jump back. She’s now in the seated position and her somewhat distorted image slowly floats towards her.

After initial shock, Saouri notices the rest of the body emerge from the darkness. A scarred, shackled body covered in markings is now fully visible. Her split image suddenly outstretches her limbs and the heavily shackled and chained hand reaches out to touch a horrified Saouri’s face. At that moment many horrific images flood her memory, some from what was her child hood, to a face at which her blood boils with rage, many instances of Saouri being tortured flood her, then horrific scenes of massacre… Saouri overwhelmed with emotion screams,

“No, Noooooo!!!! Stop it! I don’t want to see anymore!”

But her voice calmly responds,

“Why, why should I? This is the life you tried to forget yet at the same time cherished. The moment you got the chance you willingly ran back towards such a life of excitement. Becoming a bounty hunter casually first, then full involved. Choosing more and more daring missions, ever wondered why you got so thrilled at the thought of being in line of danger, you were amazingly good at it too. Why you have mastered difficult sword techniques, why you were always, UNBEATABLE!? Unaware of what you were really doing, every time you would dig deeper into what you had tried so hard to hide. You would eventually encounter something that returns you to your prime...”

Saouri finding it extremely unbearable tries to reject what she knows all too well.

“No! This is not me, none of this is TRUE! I’m not having any of it, I’m NOT!!”

Saouri’s calm voice continues, increasingly getting louder and more aggressive,

“You have been splintered by your own curse! There is NO ESCAPE from what YOU already ACCEPTED! This is what you asked for, vengeance, so what’s the problem? COULD IT BE THAT YOU ARE REALIZING NOW, THAT THIS IS NOT WHAT YOU REALLY WANTED?!”

Saouri’s split image stops and smiles, then she continues…

“Look at you, bound, tortured and disfigured by your own malice. You must be tired… You must be weary, to be tormented to the end of your existence, only for you to simply disappear at the end of it all… Isn’t that all a bit too short-changed?!”

Saouri feels the weight of the chains, she sees her scarred body, it’s all too much for her to handle… She screams as her split image laughs menacingly. She now appears to be the one that is pure, beautiful, untainted and unscarred. Saouri is loses her voice, a frail voice in her mind tries to reassure her,

“This can’t be real, it isn’t. This is all just a terrible nightmare, I must wake up… I can just wake up… Why can’t I just…”

Saouri’s split image looks down on her counterpart with pity, then continues with her calm voice,
“But no matter what happens… I’ll always by your side. I’ll endure all your suffering, that is because I am you, but am the REAL Saouri you thoughtlessly summon all the time, and I will always be there till the end… Here, take my hand….”

Saouri slowly raises her shaking hand, once they touch… the once dark abyss is now flooded with light. Slowly blurred figures begin to take form in front of her… Muffled voices gradually get clearer as they echo in Saouri’s mind.

Voice#1 (female voice): “She’s coming back to us”

Voice#2: “Saouri! It’s me, Gail. Remember me?! I’m here with everyone… We are here to help! SAOURI!”

Voice#3: “Give her time, she’ll come around. You don’t want to freak her out!”

Voice#2: “That’s not funny…”

Saouri recognizes the voices, but does not understand who they are or how she met them. She starts fading again… But the conversation clearly continues as she descends into the now empty darkened abyss once again.

Voice#1: “A bit strange though, the injuries she could have sustained may have been far worse, from the way her body is responding, she is having a fever, which could easily imply the wound was seriously deep enough to cause her to lose a lot of blood. Judging by the size of the bullet and where I found it, it could have easily torn through her or at least been lodged in deeper than it is, fracturing part of her shoulder blade.”

Voice#2: “She’s just amazing like that…”

Voice#1: “Speak for yourself… lover boy. If it was so she wouldn’t be lying here. She was too reckless!”

Voice#3: “Don’t act as if you are not enjoying this…”

Voice#1: “I’m not, this is different from operating farm animals in my childhood!”

Voice#2: “Too bad we couldn’t save the other girl. The two of them died horrifically. The guy was pretty much dead when we found him, Saouri’s communicator must have been destroyed as they pursued her… So her signal is lost, we’ll be alright if we lay low here for a while, couldn’t have planned it better myself. But I wonder what could have attacked those two… That cannot have been Saouri, hell what attacked the man can’t even have been human, and as for the girl, Saouri couldn’t have possibly done that she was unarmed and already injured…”

Voice#3: “Mmmh… well your girlfriend has some explaining to do that’s for sure.”

Voice#2: “SHE’S NOT… IT’S NOT LIKE THAT!!! (at least not yet anyway)”

Voice#1: “Calm down you two!!”

Voice#3: “Hey, have you seen… (SFX beeps and electronic sounds) Sung and Miku...They should not have been active for a long time after Sung was identified and accused of raping and killing civilians countless times… Yet they somehow managed to hack back into the system and have claimed countless missions. The administrative agent did nothing about it, frankly these two had gone rogue yet they were never pursued.”

Voice#1: “Well, that only shows how flawed the system is... and justifies our actions too.

Saouri is back in the dark abyss alone, she is seated still hunched over her knees and deep in thought.

OPTIONAL: Images of Miku and Sung appear. Now labelled deceased.

Description
Path to Immortality Plotline

Prologue

Chapter 2: The Grudge Arc Part 3-Splintered!!

Brief description: Saouri is in shock, she simply cannot comprehend what she has just experienced. Could, it all just have been a dream? What is happening with her, where she is and why she can’t see any form or shape in the plain darkness? Could this all be a dream or perhaps she could be dead… However, with all the probing questions in her head, she realizes there are even more troublesome questions she cannot even answer. She just can’t seem to remember as she remains still in the dark abyss.

Like a fine crafted sculpture, Saouri’s body remains still. She cannot apprehend what has, is and will happen to her. Her eyes are half closed in sorrow for her unanswerable questions,

“Why is it that I can’t remember anything….what am I to make of all that has happened? Could it be that this is all a dream… if so maybe all I should do is wake up?”

Suddenly an all too familiar voice interrupts her track of thought, “No...” A voice she recognizes as her own continues “This is not a dream you can wake up from…” Saouri is startled, for she can’t have even said those words. All of a sudden she starts frantically looking around and she gets onto her feet. Although, she is standing, she cannot feel anything supporting her feet, she feels the floating sensation that she had not been aware of when seated, now evident to the point of making her extremely uneasy. All of a sudden, a face emerges from the darkness. It is like she’s looking at a mirror except the image she sees is inverted and terribly disfigured. The sudden appearance however was enough to make her jump back. She’s now in the seated position and her somewhat distorted image slowly floats towards her.

After initial shock, Saouri notices the rest of the body emerge from the darkness. A scarred, shackled body covered in markings is now fully visible. Her split image suddenly outstretches her limbs and the heavily shackled and chained hand reaches out to touch a horrified Saouri’s face. At that moment many horrific images flood her memory, some from what was her child hood, to a face at which her blood boils with rage, many instances of Saouri being tortured flood her, then horrific scenes of massacre… Saouri overwhelmed with emotion screams,

“No, Noooooo!!!! Stop it! I don’t want to see anymore!”

But her voice calmly responds,

“Why, why should I? This is the life you tried to forget yet at the same time cherished. The moment you got the chance you willingly ran back towards such a life of excitement. Becoming a bounty hunter casually first, then full involved. Choosing more and more daring missions, ever wondered why you got so thrilled at the thought of being in line of danger, you were amazingly good at it too. Why you have mastered difficult sword techniques, why you were always, UNBEATABLE!? Unaware of what you were really doing, every time you would dig deeper into what you had tried so hard to hide. You would eventually encounter something that returns you to your prime...”

Saouri finding it extremely unbearable tries to reject what she knows all too well.

“No! This is not me, none of this is TRUE! I’m not having any of it, I’m NOT!!”

Saouri’s calm voice continues, increasingly getting louder and more aggressive,

“You have been splintered by your own curse! There is NO ESCAPE from what YOU already ACCEPTED! This is what you asked for, vengeance, so what’s the problem? COULD IT BE THAT YOU ARE REALIZING NOW, THAT THIS IS NOT WHAT YOU REALLY WANTED?!”

Saouri’s split image stops and smiles, then she continues…

“Look at you, bound, tortured and disfigured by your own malice. You must be tired… You must be weary, to be tormented to the end of your existence, only for you to simply disappear at the end of it all… Isn’t that all a bit too short-changed?!”

Saouri feels the weight of the chains, she sees her scarred body, it’s all too much for her to handle… She screams as her split image laughs menacingly. She now appears to be the one that is pure, beautiful, untainted and unscarred. Saouri is loses her voice, a frail voice in her mind tries to reassure her,

“This can’t be real, it isn’t. This is all just a terrible nightmare, I must wake up… I can just wake up… Why can’t I just…”

Saouri’s split image looks down on her counterpart with pity, then continues with her calm voice,
“But no matter what happens… I’ll always by your side. I’ll endure all your suffering, that is because I am you, but am the REAL Saouri you thoughtlessly summon all the time, and I will always be there till the end… Here, take my hand….”

Saouri slowly raises her shaking hand, once they touch… the once dark abyss is now flooded with light. Slowly blurred figures begin to take form in front of her… Muffled voices gradually get clearer as they echo in Saouri’s mind.

Voice#1 (female voice): “She’s coming back to us”

Voice#2: “Saouri! It’s me, Gail. Remember me?! I’m here with everyone… We are here to help! SAOURI!”

Voice#3: “Give her time, she’ll come around. You don’t want to freak her out!”

Voice#2: “That’s not funny…”

Saouri recognizes the voices, but does not understand who they are or how she met them. She starts fading again… But the conversation clearly continues as she descends into the now empty darkened abyss once again.

Voice#1: “A bit strange though, the injuries she could have sustained may have been far worse, from the way her body is responding, she is having a fever, which could easily imply the wound was seriously deep enough to cause her to lose a lot of blood. Judging by the size of the bullet and where I found it, it could have easily torn through her or at least been lodged in deeper than it is, fracturing part of her shoulder blade.”

Voice#2: “She’s just amazing like that…”

Voice#1: “Speak for yourself… lover boy. If it was so she wouldn’t be lying here. She was too reckless!”

Voice#3: “Don’t act as if you are not enjoying this…”

Voice#1: “I’m not, this is different from operating farm animals in my childhood!”

Voice#2: “Too bad we couldn’t save the other girl. The two of them died horrifically. The guy was pretty much dead when we found him, Saouri’s communicator must have been destroyed as they pursued her… So her signal is lost, we’ll be alright if we lay low here for a while, couldn’t have planned it better myself. But I wonder what could have attacked those two… That cannot have been Saouri, hell what attacked the man can’t even have been human, and as for the girl, Saouri couldn’t have possibly done that she was unarmed and already injured…”

Voice#3: “Mmmh… well your girlfriend has some explaining to do that’s for sure.”

Voice#2: “SHE’S NOT… IT’S NOT LIKE THAT!!! (at least not yet anyway)”

Voice#1: “Calm down you two!!”

Voice#3: “Hey, have you seen… (SFX beeps and electronic sounds) Sung and Miku...They should not have been active for a long time after Sung was identified and accused of raping and killing civilians countless times… Yet they somehow managed to hack back into the system and have claimed countless missions. The administrative agent did nothing about it, frankly these two had gone rogue yet they were never pursued.”

Voice#1: “Well, that only shows how flawed the system is... and justifies our actions too.

Saouri is back in the dark abyss alone, she is seated still hunched over her knees and deep in thought.

OPTIONAL: Images of Miku and Sung appear. Now labelled deceased.