FFF Crisis II: Goddess of Death - Page 4

July 9, 2008, 4:08 PM

Goddamit, why do I always end up locked up

Bust me out please Faith, I am claustrafuckingphobic you know

Anyway, good stuff haha you're turning into a right little minx

July 9, 2008, 7:52 PM

Awesome work, Faithy! The twist with Faith losing her memory was a complete sensation for the Red Rose Movement.
Oh and vampires...you put vampires!!!
I...lurbble...vampires...

July 10, 2008, 9:34 PM

Heh heh just wanted to commend you on the fact that you're making the parallel RRM sound like Torchwood Cardiff

July 29, 2008, 7:57 PM

It took a long time, but the next chapter is finally up. Enjoy!

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Chapter Three

Realisation

Sat down in the lonely base of the Red Rose Movement proved to be a challenge too difficult for Faith. She couldn’t understand how she was on the beach for one moment and then was at that club the next being taken back here by her own crew. Well, she wouldn’t exactly call them a “crew” for one, but … well, did it really matter now? Now she felt like the werewolf that they had pulled in for questioning last week. It wasn’t just the whole questioning, but it was also the beating up. Would her own co-workers beat her up? In her mind, Faith thought that escaping would be her best option.

“Wow, this is actually the first time we have a criminal offense for you in this world,” joked Rydia, as she came to join her and Contra, who had been watching her all this time. Faith thought that Contra watching her made it look like she was being checked just in case she’d committed suicide. “Assault, eh? We should be able to handle it and the security guard is sure to drop the charges.”

But Faith didn’t dare say anything. She felt vulnerable right now. She even hated the clock ticking away on the wall. It was almost as if it was close to killing her with each tick that it made. She gulped loudly, which went didn’t go unnoticed by her two companions. Mercurial arrived no sooner, as he crossed his arms and glanced down at her.

“You kept on saying you were doing the best that you could,” he said, sighing sadly. “But I’m afraid to say that you can’t work here anymore if you really think you can just go around and hurt people whenever you feel like it –”

“I DID NOT HURT ANYONE!” yelled Faith, rising to her feet and her eyes turned crimson immediately.

Contra and Rydia did their best to hold her back.

“The penalty for attacking a security guard could be prison, you know,” said Mercurial, as he sat down in his computer chair and spun around, trying to figure out this situation. “But you don’t remember anything? So tell me one thing! What IS the last thing that you can remember, Faith?”

Faith sat down on a chair. She buried her hands in her face, groaned and shook her head. “I really DON’T remember!” she said, then looking at him. “I think it was on the beach with you … and … I blacked out. These things have been happening to me for the past few months now.” She looked horrified. “I don’t even know what I’m doing anymore. If I don’t know what I’m doing, then what the hell is going on? I can’t even remember last night!”

She watched as Rydia hurried towards the vault as if something was going on.

“What's up with Rydia?” asked Faith.

“She’s a bit … um, what’s the word?” wondered Mercurial. But before he knew it, Faith had risen to her feet and ran off to the vault. “Hey! Stop! You can’t go in there! I’m ordering you to stop, Faith Crest!”

When Faith ran into the vault, she shoved Rydia to the side and then stopped at what she saw. Frisk was in the sleep chamber frozen in time and she had been oblivious to all of this!

“Faith –” began Mercurial. “It was best that you didn’t know …”

“You LIED to me?” Faith raised her voice. “Don’t say sorry! You’ve had my best friend locked up in that sleep chamber for nearly a year and you didn’t BOTHER to tell me?”

The anger was seen in her eyes and there was nothing that the RRM team could do to hold back what was about to explode. Mercurial stared into her eyes and noticed something she hadn’t seen before. The crimson colour in those eyes was so angry and hungry for violence. It was like an uncontrollable rage that had only just been discovered. He instantly backed away and motioned to the others to do so at the same time.

“There’s the reason why she couldn’t remember,” he whispered quietly, so that only Hera, Contra and Rydia could hear. “Something’s happened to her and we couldn’t be there to stop it. She said that this had been going on for months.” What kind of a monster has she turned into?

*

Ever since Patricia Musso’s death, Rene Herrod had often found himself on the brink of breaking down. Patricia had been like a second mother to him. Now she was gone and he kept on finding himself going to her old house. He had lived her now since she died. There had been no official documentation of her death. Many people had died on Doomsday, but many more went missing. And Patricia just happened to be on the list of the missing, so it was presumed that she was dead. However, it still wasn’t official.

He sat outside in the back garden looking up at the stars and wondered how SHE was. Faith was so many miles away from home, possibly even several universes away. Rene thought she was noble for going in the portal to save Frisk, but never knew in the first place of how the portal would close itself off for good this time. It saddened him that she’d never know of how much he loved her. At least there was someone who could comfort him, who also knew Faith as much as he did.

“I see you like coming here a lot,” Riku observed, as he jumped down from the fence and joined him, sitting on the trimmed grass. “But I suppose Earth is full of surprises that you don’t see in Gaia.” Rene didn’t respond at this point, so Riku continued to speak. “What’s bothering you, Rene? You know as well as I do that there is no way reaching her.”

“I want to reach her because I have to tell her how I feel!” exclaimed Rene angrily, as he rose to his feet. “I keep coming here because … this place, it’s where I feel at home. My mum hasn’t asked what’s been eating me. I haven’t even bothered telling her that I’m part of an organisation that’s quite literally out of this world. Even my friends are starting to think that I’m crazy. But I’m glad some people actually think I’m not.”

Riku stood up next to him as if something in the atmosphere had changed.

“Something is coming,” he murmured.

Rene turned to face him. “What is it?” he asked curiously.

The dark warrior shook his head and sighed. “Death,” he uttered the one single word.

“Someone else is going to die?” Rene’s eyes widened. They had been unable to foresee Patricia’s death, but now there would be another death? The anniversary of Doomsday was fast approaching. He couldn’t let anyone else die. He wanted this supposed death be his burden alone. “That’s only more motivation for me to get into that parallel world that Faith’s trapped in.” He turned to walk to the back door, but then turned back to face Riku. “I’ll find her, Riku, don’t worry about that. I just want you to …” He paused for a moment. If he couldn’t come back, then he wanted to say this right now. “You’ve been like a brother to me in the past year. I want you to know that just in case I find myself trapped there, too.”

“So you’d really try getting there, even when it means you could be trapped as well?” Riku called out to him. It was a question that had been bugging him since Rene had confessed his love for Faith and when he said goodbye to Faith when no one knew he had done so. “If you really love her, Rene, then I think you should do it. Find a way into the other world and tell her how you feel. Maybe bring her back if you could! But if she can’t come back willingly, don’t force it on her. Remember one thing.” He walked to his comrade. “It’s been an entire year since Doomsday. For all we know, she might have moved on from the past.”

*

“Unlock her out of there now,” Faith glared coldly at the Red Rose Movement team, particularly at Mercurial. When no one answered, she walked to the vault herself. When Contra dashed forward to shoot the stun gun at her, she simply clicked her fingers and a telekinetic prison held her and the others back from doing so. “Allowing my powers to fully consume me have had their … side effects, shall I say?” She neared the vault and sighed sadly. “The spawn of the devil himself is inside with the host. I do wonder what kind of power the child will have.”

“Faith, you have to snap out of this now!” pleaded Hera. He wasn’t one for begging or pleading, but right now he seemed quite afraid of what she had turned into. “You can’t ignore us! You can’t free Frisk either! It’s too dangerous!”

“There’s no stopping her now,” admitted Mercurial, who had already admitted defeat. “This must have dated back to several months ago. Think about it, everyone! All these disappearances only started months ago and they’ve become so recent. That’s not Faith Crest anymore.” He turned to face Faith, or whatever was controlling her, and raised his voice. “I demand you tell me who you are!”

But he didn’t get his answer. The vault was unlocking itself up, thanks to Faith and her powers, plus there was nothing that they could do, considering that they were trapped in a telekinetic prison and all. The vault, as shiny and powerful as it appeared to be, was actually breakable. The seal was slowly lifting itself into the air and the pressure of the water was beginning to sink. Faith tossed the vault seal towards where Mercurial was and it hit him straight in the gut, which only caused her to laugh in his defeat.

“I have to give you some credit for taking this much so far,” she said, her voice now becoming apparently darker. “But this is where the line must be drawn, Mercurial. You and your team don’t have to take it anymore because I am officially leaving.” She chuckled. “Or at least Faith is, anyway.”

I can’t let her unleash Frisk! The risks are high, thought Mercurial, as he was freed from the telekinetic prison after being hit by the seal. He was coughing up blood, but managed to muster the strength to reach for the stun gun that Contra had dropped earlier. I have to … stop her! And with that, he grabbed the gun and shot it at her back.

Faith fell at this point, admitting defeat at last. She fell to her knees feeling the electricity shock her entire body, although it was not enough to kill her. She finally collapsed moments later.

“Our problems aren’t over yet,” Rydia pointed out.

She was quite right, considering that the vault was now open. The oxygen mask that had been on Frisk’s face had been thrown into the wall angrily. Mercurial now stood on his feet, still holding the stun gun, and walked towards Frisk, who was slowly emerging from the vault. Rydia was quite right indeed. There was almost no force in the universe that could stop what was about to come. Frisk, her eyes emotionless, stared blankly at her hands and then at the Red Rose Movement team. And judging by the look on her face, things were just about to get ugly …

Several energy balls burst out of her hands unwillingly and each one shot at each member. The first one to fall was Rydia, as she went flying back to one of the glass prisons. The glass smashed and she landed harshly, blacking out in the meantime and her arm began bleeding heavily. The next one up was Contra, who had tried to attack her before she was hit, but was too late. She hit the wall hard and was left sliding down the wall moaning in pain, but still conscious. Hera was taken by surprise as well, as he was hit straight on in the chest and went rolling on to the floor. Mercurial was the final one to fall. He not only got hit by one of the energy balls, but by lightning as well. This lightning spurted out of Frisk’s fingertips and caused him to scream out in pain.

Frisk held her stomach. She was clearly in some kind of pain by using the baby’s power to hurt them. “I don’t understand. I was frozen in time … why did they do this to me?” She walked back to the main area of the base and slammed her fist into the table, not caring how much pain would come afterwards. “I’m their leader! I’m on their side!” Turning around, she glanced at her fallen comrades and a dark smile crept upon her face. “But not anymore. Never again will I trust these fools.” Her eyes turned black, as if some entity – or perhaps even the baby itself – was taking control of her. She walked to where Faith was unconscious on the floor, having been struck by the stun gun by Mercurial earlier. “What I would give to have a little more power … but of course, you’re not even the real Faith Crest, are you?”

And at that point, Faith’s eyes snapped open. But they were still the same crimson colour that they possessed whenever she used her powers. “Ok then, I accept that,” she said, as she jumped to her feet and glanced at the mess that Frisk had created. “But of course, you’re not really Frisk, are you?” She cracked her neck, growling in the process. “The real Frisk that Faith knows would fight off whatever was controlling her. The baby, I assume?”

But even before she got a chance to react, Frisk electrocuted Faith and she was sent flying through several walls.

“It’s time that I got some real fish to fry,” she hissed under her breath and shimmered away from the base.

*

Filden Gurito was one not to be messed with. He sat alone on his rooftop glancing out at the sky. Although he was wearing a long jacket in the warm summer weather, he didn’t really care. He stood up immediately when he saw his longtime friend, Rene Herrod, heading over to his house. Well, it didn’t matter much to him, anyway. Despite the fact that Rene was like a brother to him, he had been really secretive lately. But then again, so had Filden.

“Hey, Fil!” Rene waved, as he climbed up the ladder to the rooftop. “Parents out tonight?”

“Yeah,” Filden nodded and spoke quietly, “because it’s too easy to get rid of them.”

“What? Are you really that down you asked them to leave you alone for the night?”

“No, Rene. Something’s been bothering me too much lately and … no one can help me.”

“Well, maybe I can.” Rene sat next to him and looked up at the sun, which was now setting. “You see, I know I’ve been secretive and all with you, but I have my reasons. And whatever your problem is and you still can’t tell me, then I’ll understand that, too.” He patted Filden’s shoulder. “You’ll be fine, Filden. You always do turn out to be fine.”

“But I’m not!” protested Filden, who rose to his feet and careful to keep his coat on. “I’m not like most people, Rene! I don’t even know if I’m human at all!”

But Rene just burst out laughing. “Come on! Are you taking Johnny’s comment seriously? He was an idiot in school and he will always be a jerk. You know that better than anyone, especially when you saw how he was cheating on his girlfriend and –” At this point, however, he stopped speaking. It pained him since he kept on thinking about Faith and he’d want to break down at any minute.

“I mean it, Rene, I am NOT normal.” Filden turned to face him. “And you know what? You’ll be the first person that I tell, or rather, show.” He looked extremely nervous and closed his eyes. “What you see may discomfort you, but I hope you can accept it.”

He looks like he is going to throw himself off the building, thought Rene, as he stood up alarmingly.

All was revealed when Filden removed his coat. He wasn’t wearing a jumper or a t-shirt, but the truth was revealed when Rene witnessed what had emerged. White angel wings spread out from Filden’s back and his eyes kept on widening, noticing this.

“Please say something,” Filden said quietly, gulping.

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And there is Filden's introduction as an angel and Frisk's real introduction to the dark side as well as Faith perhaps, too.

July 29, 2008, 9:33 PM

Good chapter...I wouldn't wanna mess with Faith...or Bambi XD

Yay! Filden's an angel!

More soon please!

July 30, 2008, 12:51 AM

Fil's an angel huh? Interesting... Moar please.

July 30, 2008, 10:03 AM

Good stuff Faith, can't wait to actually see Frisk be able to be in control of herself though instead of someone else doing the controlling

Interested to find out what's going on with Faith there aswel

Hope to see the next one soon

**Battle Royale: Profiles** · August 14, 2008, 9:50 PM

I feel so bad for not commenting on this sooner! Great new chapters! Although...I'm not sure if it was accidental, but I think you refer to me as a 'he.' Uhm...I'm a girl. xD! My avatar is a picture of me. ^^;

I really like my character in this though, male or not. xD The chapters are very interesting as well. I look forward to the next ones! =)