Torn Past - Icisia and Tsumi's Return!

Fire rages all around the once green forest our young hero is placed in. Screams can be heard in the distance. Blood is on the ground where a kunoichi lie. Icisia looks around frantically to find the perpetrator for all of this destruction. Her vision is blurred, shadows being the only thing she can see for a few seconds. Her legs are cut up, small lines of blood dripping towards the earth, and her arms were burned from the battle she was just involved in. Not just involved a few minutes earlier, but a battle still raging on between two titans. Icisia painfully gets to her feet, ears ringing from a blast that knocked her over a moment earlier. She takes off what is left of her black cloak and lets it fall to the ground at her feet. The rest of her clothing is torn to shreds from numerous strikes of a blade and fire. Icisia breathes heavily and painfully as she looks around for her attacker. "I need to end this... now..." The smoke is so thick her lungs scream in agony with every breath she draws in, but she knows she must press forward. Every step becomes more painful than the one before, and as she limps along, the ringing in her ears dull just enough that she can hear a sinister laugh. She can tell it is a man's voice. He is laughing at her, mocking her. Who does he think he is?

Icisia finds her Tezamai blade on the ground while limping along to safety. She grabs it and holds it at her side, ready for anything. Blood is pouring out of the wounds on her legs and dripping even more, leaving a red trail as she moves forward, and the heat of the fires all around her is nearly unbearable. Bloodied up and dangerously low on chakra, the kunoichi knows she has to escape before the lack of oxygen bests her. She coughs, wishing she had the energy to use another jutsu. Just one more jutsu to push back the smoke and put some of these fires out would help. The sinister laugh again rips through the night air.

"XzenIcisia... I finally have the upper hand... Prepare to die..."

Icisia catches a glimpse of a black figure running towards her. She tries raising her sword, but her arms seem to have failed her. "Not now!" she grumbles in a state of panic. She can't see his face, but his laugh echoes through her mind as he draws nearer, raising his blade towards her heart. Thirty meters... Twenty meters.... Ten... "Not like this, not like this..." Icisia whispers.

Another laugh, more evil than before erupts from the man as he and his blade are nearly on top of Icisia. He raises his blade towards Icisia's heart, and when he strikes, Icisia's world goes black.

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This can’t be the end… It just… can’t…

“Ssshe’sss been held up in that cccell for monthsss now, sssirrrr… Her body hasss grown weak, there’sss no way ssshe’ll essscape…”
“Keep it that way, demon. Or it’ll be your head on a platter.”

Am I dreaming? Or am I… alive? Icisia opens her eyes slowly. Well, if I were dead I am sure I wouldn’t be here… She moves her eyes around the room slowly, looking down at her clothing to see they are still tattered and torn, but she notices her wounds have slowly healed over time. “I’ve been here a while then.” Her eyes continue around the room making out where she could possibly be. She then drops her head in defeat. “Shit. Oblivion.”

Icisia tries pulling away from the wall, but hears a clank and looks to see the blood red restraints on her wrists. Having lost much feeling in parts of her body over these past months, she has to look down to see if any restraints are on her feet too. Yep. Neck? She moves her head forward and feels it press against her skin. Yep. Icisia rolls her eyes. “Soul Shackles. Of course. No wonder I have been out for a while.”
A noise at the door catches her attention, and she listens intentively.

“Yesss sssir… I will make sssure ssshe sssurvivesss…” She hears footsteps walk away from the door, but to her surprise, it opens.

At first the immense light pouring on her from the outside is too much to bear and Icisia is blinded in pain, but once her eyes adjust, she can see just who has walked into her prison. A ferocious demon wielding a hammer has stepped into her space, his red eyes bearing down on her.

“You’re awake!” it exclaims. “We’ll sssee about that!” It swings its hammer towards Icisia in an attempt to knock her unconscious, but she moves her head to the right, and the demon ends up striking the chain holding Icisia’s right arm. Feeling freedom in a limb, Icisia coils her arm up, and just before a second blow from the demon, she reaches out and punches it in the face, sending it flying backwards towards the wall. She gathers energy in her free hand and fires a blast of molten lightning at each shackle holding her to the wall.

With freedom on her mind, Icisia limps out of her prison room and down a long hallway in search for her Tezamai blade.

It had been a cold morning in Aurora, and Ryuu was walking his daughter Kimiko to her first day at the academy. It was a long walk, since they lived on the other side of the village but they got their on time. "See you later Kimi I'll meet you here after school." He said with a smile, his daughter nodded and ran off to meet her class.

After watching to make sure his daughter got into the academy safely, he started his long trek home. Walking calmly, he waved to many of the shop keepers on his path and even stopped to have a short few conversations with them.

About half way home Ryuu was approached by a woman he hadn't seen in years. She was just as beautiful as always, her long black hair looked like it hadn't been cut in several years, her eyes where an unnatural beautiful gray color.

"It's been such a long time my dear Tsumi..." She whispered as she leaned in carefully placing a quick kiss on his right cheek. "I'll see you in oblivion soon my dearest..."

Then following the orders of the genjutsu she had placed him under he silently returned to his home writing down his will and then off he went to the tallest glacier in all of Aurora, and continued to leap off.

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Tsumi had been sitting in his cage for just about a year, many things had happened but he had finally been broken, he no longer tried to escape, and he was no longer chained up. He just quietly sat in his cage, what he had finally accepted as his new home. Watching all the anti's walk around his left eye was in over drive, he could see each and every one of there aura's. This curse doubled as a gift, he could see the power levels of every person around him.

Their was one person that had been brought in a few months ago, and she had been out for the entire time...until just now, once she finally awoke he could tell she was in fact not only a Xzeno, but one he knew very well. "Its...Icisia...." He whispered, with her here he had a renewed hope of being able to escape, but he knew it wasn't time to act on it yet.

((OCC: Just a note...don't you think we should move this to the actuall forum? XD that way it effects what we do??))

(OOC: Yeah but where to?)

Icisia rounds a corner and comes face to face with a small demon. "Tsk, bring it on weakling..." she whispers. Before the demon can turn and run for reinforcements, Icisia grabs it and pins it against the wall with her right arm. "Where is my sword?" she growls. Being held captive for so long has deeply weakened her body, and the burning in her arm increases as she holds the demon up, but she doesn't care. Letting it go means even bigger baddies closing in and she definitely didn't need that happening in her current state.

"I--it'sss down the corridor, in that sssealed room!" it exclaims, squirming for freedom against her cold-blooded grasp.

"Heh, thanks," she says while lowering it towards the ground slowly. Was she going to let this creature escape? Hell no. Just before it's feet touch the floor, she brings her left arm up and grabs it by the head and twists it to the side violently, snapping it's neck swiftly and silently. Icisia rolls her shoulder back due to her lack of energy and limps down the hall towards the door her sword is sealed in.

I must get my blade... it's the only way I can get back...

Tsumi smiled, Icisia had escaped her prison and it was time he did so as well. Now was the perfect time to try out the weapon he had been working on the past few months since Icisia had arrived. "Cross...Awaken" He growled as his left arm began to glow, as a few seconds past his arm transformed into a monstrous adamantine claw with a supernatural glow at his scapula-joint(shoulder blade). Then a half a second later his arm tripled in size and he quickly ripped the cage door off of his prison.

Then quietly he released one of the three chakra seals he has placed on his body, over time his chakra had been drained to the point of exhaustion, and that very point was one of the reason he kept most of his chakra sealed away. As he quietly speed walked through the halls he avoided detection of the demons and any of the anti's using the power of his eye.

After a few moments he had caught up to Icisia, "Icisia....what are you doing here too?" He said in a quiet whisper after he had approached her left side, his arm still activated but it had returned to a normal size. He could tell her chakra levels were even lower then his own and calmly placed his right hand on her left shoulder, and similer to how people push their chakra into another person's body in order to break a genjutsu he released a portion of his chakra straight into her chakra system, as long as his chakra wasn't rejected it should mix with her own allowing her to be able to fight a bit longer without falling to exhaustion.

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Icisia's senses were so dulled she never even noticed Tsumi slip next to her. Only did she know he was next to her was when he spoke to her, and even then she jumped sky high because she thought she was alone. In a state of panic she slams here arm against Tsumi, knocking him up against a wall.

Only then did she actually recognize who she just pinned. "Tsumi? How are you here?" she exclaims, letting him down. "I-- I am here because I lost a big battle. Truthfully I am not sure whether I am dead or just a captive though." She watches as he places his hand on her shoulder and gives her a little bit of chakra to function on. "Thank you..." she takes a deep breath and looks ahead, her eyes seeming devoid of the life they once had. Prison did not treat Icisia well, and she knew it. Never had she felt so weak than at that battle, and here now trying to escape.

Tsumi laughed slightly being slammed into the wall, "Come on Icisia...we need to be quieter if you want to get out of here..." He said a small smirk on his face as he brushed some dust of his clothes. "So what are you looking for?" He asked, as he deactivated his left arm watching as it returns to its black and slightly dis-formed appearance.

"And your welcome....you looked like you needed it more then I do..." He said with a small smile, it was obvious that the time in his cell had gone over better then Icisia's had.

"I am trying to find Tezamai. My sword. It's our only means of escape because it has a special seal encrypted on the blade to make a rift to get back," she says, starting to walk forward.

Tsumi nodded fallowing Icisia silently, only opening his mouth to whisper, 'activate...' and after a small release of aura around his left eye it changed from its regular appearance to a black and red ringed state. Utilizing his 'curse' he could literally see the aura pulling off of Icisia's sword.

"Your sword is just passed that door..." He said pointing towards the door at the end of the hall, about a dozen or so steps ahead of them. "Shall we-" He began to say before being cut off, another being was on their way fast. This time though, it wasn't just one of those weak demonic beings Icisia had taken out momments before.

"Company...coming in from the left, it will be here in about 15 or so seconds Ici, You ready? I'll handle it until you can get to your sword." He whispered, just loud enough for Icisia to hear.

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