originally posted in:The New Dojo
[spoiler]Who doesn't like to mentally torture their Guardians? I do.[/spoiler]
[b][u]Nightmare from Ireland[/u][/b]
[i]Dreams of Sarah Grey[/i]
She stood alone, in the Dojo Woods. Words echoed from a mysterious memory she had but couldn't figure out where it was from.
[i]"Everybody's sorry fer somethin, but yer still selfish enough ta do it in the first place."[/i]
"Who's saying that?" She asked.
She slowly turned around. Sarah saw someone behind her. A Hunter, no less. A Hunter, with the hood of his cloak up.
The armor was unrecognizable to her. Literally. It was like what his armor was supposed to be was erased from her mind.
"Who are you?" She demanded, her right hand reaching for her Dark-Drinker, the sword that rested strapped to her back.
"Ya don't... remember me love?" The Hunter asked, an Irish accent was prominent.
He pulled down the hood of his cloak. The Hunter had short, wavy, dark brown hair, and brown eyes. He had two red stripe tattoos running down his left cheek.
Surely, Sarah would remember someone who would stand out like that in a crowd... right? Yet, she still didn't recognize him.
The Hunter spoke again, "Sarah, love? Where's yer ring." He was looking at her right hand. He reached for it, taking her hand, looking at it. Her hand was bare, without glove. She pulled her hand away.
"Why would I have a ring?" She demanded, "I'm not engaged. Or married. Or even dating. I've been single for years!"
"Ya don't remember...?" He asked, "Yer married... ta me. Don't ya remember, Lady Warlock?" The Hunter had called her that, and those words felt.... familiar.
Sarah's hand reached for the Dark-Drinker, again, "What do you mean?! It's been just me and Lunar. And recently Seraph, but that's aside from the point. I don't love you. I don't even [i]know[/i] you! Get away from me!"
"Sarah..." the Hunter begged, weakly.
Her hand wrapped around her sword's handle. Pulling it off her back. She swung it once, and the Dark-Drinker decapitated the Hunter.[spoiler]Stabbed in the heart with the Feels-Lighter.™ Bad spirit Dojo James. Bad Spirit Dojo James. I'll call Ghostbusters on you again.[/spoiler]
[b][u]Waking Moments[/u][/b]
[i]02:54, Dojo Woods, and Coincedently Near where Zavala's Shallow, Unmarked Grave Is.[/i]
The Warlock awoke, sweating. She was breathing heavily.
Lunar appeared, calming her down, "Easy, easy, Sarah. It was just a nightmare."
"Lunar?" She asked, sitting up.
"Yeah?" The Ghost asked.
"For a Ghost that sounds like Nolan North, you know how to calm people down. Thanks."
"Want Seraph to lull you back to sleep again?" He asked.
"No, but I do want to speak to her, Seraph!"
The whitish-grey code replica of the Warlock appeared at her left shoulder, "Yes, Miss Grey?"
"I told you to drop the formalities, geez. I thought your patronizing subroutines were offline. Anyway, have you found any similarities between the memories and the nightmare?" Sarah asked.
"Just your impulsiveness. Nothing else. That Hunter isn't showing up in any of our memories. More information may be needed," Seraph replied.
"Nothing in any of my memories, either," Lunar said.
"This probably isn't a missing piece," Sarah said.
"It could be," Seraph suggested.
"Seraph, it probably isn't," the Guardian argued.
Seraph muttered something, "Tá do stubbornness ag clashing le do instincts arís."
"What?" Sarah asked.
"Nothing...." Seraph replied.
[spoiler]Translation: Your stubbornness is clashing with your instincts again.[/spoiler][spoiler]Open
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[spoiler]>The time I made James die of cuteness overload in pms >Good times[/spoiler] She blushed even more, "I miss getting kisses." Then her grin turned into a frown.
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"Well..." He leaned down and pecked her cheek before casually continuing to clean up. "If you need I can help."
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She smiled again, but it was a more awkward smile. "Maybe one day I'll find Finn..." She muttered.
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"....Sarah?" He sighed, stopping what he was doing. "He...He died a while ago."
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"Oh..." That was her only response. She probably just gained another mental scar. And a cut on her heart. She felt the scars on her torso burn.
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"I'm so sorry, Sarah." He sat back down beside her. "If there's anything I can do to help you cope...I'll do it."
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She sighed, "I know what I need to do. I need to be left alone." Then, poof! She must have pulled off a long distance blink. She was gone. Lunar awoke.
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"Fuuuuu...that can't be good. Ghost person! Uhh....LUNAR! Where'd she go?" Bedlam turned to the Ghost panicking a little. "She okay?"
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"She... just needs some time. She may trust you. But not enough to cry in front of you."
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He sighed again and laid down in the bed. "Well, that sucks. Does that mean I shouldn't help?"
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"She would prefer it if you left her alone..."
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"What she wants isn't always best, but fine." Bedlam sat there, waiting.
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"I honestly hate it when she runs off," Lunar sighed. "But she is the way she is. Free-spirited."
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"Nah, I get it. I'm the same way." Bedlam laughed a little. "The last girl I fell for was also a free spirit. Her name was Iso....She died last week apparently."
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"Man, you two are really bad luck charms," Lunar noted.
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"Thank you, Lunar. That helps." He sarcastically remarked, rolling over in the bed.
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"If you think there's a better way to help her, you do it," Lunar told him, "But that's my two cents. She is very stubborn, I will warn you."
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"I...hmm. Where is she again?" Bedlam got off the bed and stood up. "I'm helping her."
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"Back in the Dojo Woods. She can't hide from us, now. I can track her neural implants. She's on the move."
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"Fun." Bedlam and the Ghost vanished, reappearing at the entrance to the woods. Bedlam instantly began to run in. "Lunar, direct me, will ya?"
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"I don't think I'll need to," Lunar replied. The Ghost was scanning something. It looked like a feather. But it was shimmering with firey colors. The shape of the feather was changing constantly. He flew to another one, which was directly to the Ghost's right.
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Bedlam saw the feathers and started to follow them. "These her's?"
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"Yep," Lunar replied. The trail seemed to spiral on for a while. They went deeper into the forest, as the trees hid the sunlight. The feathers glowed in the grass, easily marking her path.
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Bedlam ran, attempting to catch up to Sarah. "Come on, Lunar! We have an angel to catch."
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Lunar sped up, until he saw it, a clearing. It was a small clearing. And in the middle of it, there were a pile of feathers. They couldn't see her, but they could see the feathers falling. "Stay quiet..." Lunar whispered, "If we're heard, we'll startle her."