[Three] Some Say the Devil is Dead... Wait, There He is

[a_new_innovator]

[Anew has resisted falling asleep long enough. Finally she has to succumb to its effects and she sleeps. For three hours, three minutes, and three seconds her dreams are plagued with nightmares. After that time has passed she awakes...]


[Anew awakens in her room on the ship. She is startled and looks around. The room is nearly dark. Slowly she realizes that there are figures lying on the floor. Slowly she inches closer to look. She recoils in horror when she sees. Various members of the Ptolemy lay dead on the floor. Feldt, Lasse, Ian, Sumeragi, Tieria, Allelujah, Setsuna. All of them are dead.]

[Shaking she tries to get up and find Lyle since in all likely he is in danger.]

Going somewhere?

[She spins and suddenly spots two other people, one standing and one sitting in a chair.] Revive! Ribbons!

Expecting someone else?

[Anew stumbles backwards and falls back onto the bed she had woken up on. She sits up, shaking. She speaks again, her voice shaking.] G-get ou-out of here.

Oh I don't think so. We can't let you keep degrading our kind by pretending you are human.

I never claimed I was human!

But you insisted convorting with them, especially that foolish human. Lockon Stratos.

[Anew looks back at the bodies on the floor, which with varying amounts of blood.] Why did you kill them?!

We didn't kill them... You did.

[Anew is visibly startled by that. She puts one hand behind herself to brace herself, but she quickly pulls it away when her hand touches something cold and metallic. She looks down. It's a gun. She looks back at Ribbons and Revive.] But I could have...

[A moment later, Lyle walks in. He looks at the bodies then at her.]

Anew...

Lyle, you need to get out of here!

[Her hand is reaching back towards the gun without her control. Even in the dark, Ribbons' eyes can be seen glowing yellow and hers are as well. The gun is in her hand, but Lyle hasn't moved. After a few moments of struggling, Anew manages to break Ribbons' control.] Lyle! Run! Please!

If you aren't going to do it yourself...

[Lyle starts to move backward out of the room when a gun shot sounds. Anew covers her head in her hands then looks up when something thuds on the floor. Lyle has joined the others on the floor and Healing Care stands just behind where Lyle had been standing.]

No... Lyle...

Good job, Healing.

Thank you, Ribbons~.

Now... to deal with her.

[Anew looks at Ribbons and Revive. Ali Al-Saachez has now joined them, standing behind Ribbons. Anew leaps up and runs toward the door of the suite, pushing Healing out of the way to get there. However, she can't get the door to open. Another shot fires and Anew falls this time.]

[Hallucinate to repeat in 3...2...1...]

Comments

[by-my-will.livejournal.com]

[knows what's going on here, what she's seeing]

Anew!

[a-new-innovator.livejournal.com]

Tieria! But you were just...

[by-my-will.livejournal.com]

It's not real, Anew. They're illusions... you have to get out of the room.

[a-new-innovator.livejournal.com]

[Yes, she knows it is an illusion based on what she has seen, but they are still too real.]

I'm trying.

[by-my-will.livejournal.com]

What's wrong?

[a-new-innovator.livejournal.com]

The door didn't open.

[by-my-will.livejournal.com]

What cabin? [has already started running]

[a-new-innovator.livejournal.com]

Thebe Suite.

[by-my-will.livejournal.com]

I'm on my way.

[a-new-innovator.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[by-my-will.livejournal.com]

[running]

Is anyone else there, yet?

[a-new-innovator.livejournal.com]

Lyle.

[by-my-will.livejournal.com]

That's good. Can he get the door open? I'm almost there.

[not-that-lockon.livejournal.com]

[what the hell is going on there?! He doesn't understand it - even if he can feel some rather unpleasant suspicions resurfacing at the back of his mind - but it's Anew trapped in one of these illusions now, and right now, that's all he needs to know for him to start running in the direction of the suite levels]

Anew! Listen, you've got to get out of there!

[a-new-innovator.livejournal.com]

Lyle! I tried! It didn't open!

[not-that-lockon.livejournal.com]

I'm on my way there, okay?

[a-new-innovator.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Please hurry.

[not-that-lockon.livejournal.com]

[he runs as fast as he can towards her room - once he reaches it he slaps down his hand on the barcode scanner and waits for the door to open, anxiety coursing through him]

Anew, I'm outside the door. Are you still in there? [Are you still alive?, he adds silently.]

[a-new-innovator.livejournal.com]

[Now that the door is open, Anew manages to get past the hallucinations and runs out the door. She immediately throws her arms around him.]

You're alright.

[not-that-lockon.livejournal.com]

[he wraps his arms around her and holds her tight. damn it, but she had him worried there.]

Of course I am. [pause] Are you?

[a-new-innovator.livejournal.com]

[she holds onto him tightly, doesn't want let him go just yet.]

I think I'll be alright.

[not-that-lockon.livejournal.com]

You sure?

[a-new-innovator.livejournal.com]

I think so... Thank you.

[not-that-lockon.livejournal.com]

[smiles sadly, even though she can't see it while they're holding each other like this]

All I did was let you out.

[a-new-innovator.livejournal.com]

But I couldn't get the door open.

[she sighs]

Did you... see what happened?