Closeness to Chaos (Quark)
OoC: More or less, this battle is going to set up a few things that have to do with Monroe and my newest idea for his great upgrade. That's going to be a while, but I really need to build this a bit more. ^_^
BiC: A loud click as two buttons were pressed echoed. The rolling of the tape recorder started, recording something as it rolled. A long sigh drew out as the person recording thought back. This person, a man clad in dark clothing, had been thinking for some time as he sat on the bench of the chair in that city during the late hours of twilight. As what remained of the sun vanished into the night, the man uttered his first words:
"I leave this for if I lose myself. I'm too afraid now to speak of this to anyone in person that I'm creating a record of what I've learned and what I am off to do. I want to first leave some thoughts to a special person that may never know how I feel. I love you, is all I want you to know. Odds are, you won't know who you are, even if you hear this tape, but I felt the need to say that."
"I guess I should start at the beginning: I have powers that I can't fully explain that occur from time to time. You see, they first occurred in a cavern when I fought Heishuro and Harvy, two skilled warriors that nearly killed me. When I was cornered and seemed as if I could die, he appeared for the first time. he saved me from death. At that time, I wasn't sure who or what I was dealing with, and merely shrugged it off as my imagination; however, now I know the truth."
"The second time I saw this being's powers was when I was nearly killed while aiding a man named Mark's now deceased sister, Mina. In a moment of desperation and fear, I accepted aid from something I shouldn't have. Although it helped me to conquer this foe that had nearly killed me, it now desires to swallow me up."
"It is called Set."
"By Set, I don't mean any kind of scientific experiment or anything like that, but the actual God of Chaos, Set. Apparently, at some point in my life, he decided to take up residency in my body. After I made my deal with him, I've had times when I am either asleep or simply black out. When I awaken, the town I am in at that moment is destroyed, and everything I can see has been killed. The trauma is horrible, but I'm fighting it now."
"I'm fighting my bodies need the sleep with any number of things, not the least of which being caffeine pills. I'm tired or extremely wired, always feeling extremely awake or like I'm about to pass out. To make matters worse, my body is fighting back whatever I use now, so I'm nearing to agree with the fact that fighting it this way isn't helping. I need a new method, and I sought one out."
"I asked the aid of an old mystic who agreed to help me. He wasn't much more than an old man in strange white garments with long white hair. However, I felt something strong about him. He agreed to give me the secrets to removing my curse if I did something for him. I am off to do my mission now. My orders are to head to some town and locate either a man with no face or someone called the "Dark God" and defeat one. I have to bring something from whichever one I defeat as proof, but that shouldn't be too hard."
"Again, I'm leaving this tape to anyone who finds it if I disappear. Yet again, to that person I haven't said these words to, and don't foresee I ever shall if I'm not careful: I love you."
With those last words, Monroe clicked the stop button. The moonlight shined upon the dark clad man as he put his tape recorder in his jacket and black and orange lightning danced about him as the form of the god, a Jackal head and bright blue eyes, along with an extremely muscular build, formed. Destruction time!
o=)----------Hours Later----------(=o
When Monroe awoke, the deed was done. Another city had been destroyed. He had to get going. He was off to a city where the "Dark God" and "Faceless Man" were both said to have been spotted. If luck had it, the modern fencer would find one of the two. After all, he had to have some manner of luck.