Remi-chan's Writing Snippets~

[Remi-chan]

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Nine-Tails Terminus

It was so long ago now... When that wicked child appeared on the doorstep of our kingdom. Even when I first met her, I could sense that malice in her. I felt allowing her shelter was going to bring bad things, but I felt I had to push aside my initial judgements and be the noble speaker of my people. I didn't want to exclude someone who appeared so down on their luck.

But the one I showed mercy to that day... was a spider. Pulling at threads that would lead to the consumption of her prey: The Noble. Those like me. She didn't even act all that differently to how she did after her betrayal, but only assured me with hollow words that she was on my side.

Then I remember those words, vivid now as the day trillions of years ago when they verbally played the part of the knife.

"Y o u ' r e . a . f o o l .  =)"

In that moment of betrayal, all of my quieted fears and hushed skepticism came back in full force. I underwent some kind of primal transformation, a rage and sadness awoke in me that I'd never felt. I had been lied to, played with, taken advantage of, manipulated, and then-- when I was no longer of use: discarded like I was nothing. And to her, I was nothing. A plaything at best, a cheap bauble.

It wasn't the disrespect that angered me, it was the complete disgrace of my trust that shook me to the degree that I allowed anger to cloud my judgement. She was ever a malefic child with nothing but sadism lining her black heart like thorns around a bramble.

Mask off: Xali is everything anyone with a moral compass would vehemently despise. We had done nothing to her, our crime was that merely of existing and being nobly-intentioned moral creatures. But to one like her, that is weakness, and possibly seen as sickness in her bizarre sado-hedonistic culture. There is nothing we could have done. Once she had found us, there was no way we could have combatted her. That's what hurts the most, we were doomed the moment she landed on our world. She is a creature who lives for the suffering of those with any indulgence of good will.

It was then, in that malaise of violence that I met her... The one they call the Insidious Architect. The only being even Xali knows well enough to fear. She pulled me back from the brink of despair and taught me how to balance myself, a duality of light and dark amdist a storm of arcane and lightning. I am a Nine-Tails, one of very few Kitsune who command multiple elemental attributions. My counterpart was the only other as far as I knew. The Insidious Architect saw my potential both as a friend and a fearsome weapon against the Imperian, and enlisted me and any who showed that same spark of primal rage during times of desperation into the order of the Witch Hunter. Among which, I was the first. I was to be the one leading the charge against the Glitch of Shadow and commanding an army of high skilled individuals against a cosmic enemy.

But I am noble, and I cannot combat something that has no honor or even pretense of nobility. To do so would be playing right into her hands, and allowing myself to become exactly as dangerous as her.

Then, the only comfort I had, that the Insidious Architect was a saving grace when that child showed up... was also recently shattered.

I felt my soul go dark, the blade of that maggot's scythe cut straight through the Architect's shields and fatally wounded her abdomen. Seeing her, my friend of trillions of years-- bleed the same red blood we do. It made her feel like one of us, she felt in that fleeting moment, as mortal as anyone else. While it's impossible to physically harm the Insidious Architect in such a way, the damage was never meant to be physical, but emotional. My friend, Yi-- she will recover in next to no time from such a wound, but from such a dethroning of her status... That might take more than some Bey0ndian regeneration. It has unsettled her that mortals who previously posed absolutely zero threat to her, are now on her level... And with erasure retired as a means of dealing with such risky creatures, it's evidently put her on edge.

Of course, Xali reveled in the misery she had caused not just Yi, but all of us as well. She knew we'd become dependant on Yi's protection, and now this had removed even that fleeting sense of security.

"Hm~ Somehow I don't think this "First Guardian" will have much luck protecting you now... Not from me~"

From behind that cruel grin, this statement of all should have broken me. It was an act of direct evil, and a reveal that evil had triumphed, and possibly always would. But instead I found peace in it. We no longer had our get out of jail free card. We no longer had someone we had to rely on, from now on- this game was set and match between Xali and us. The First Guardian had been kind to us, but I did not wish this child to be her burden to bear and our protection her purpose to suffer for.

Yi has changed, and so have we. I have changed, I've come to realize that no world can rely exclusively on benefactors from beyond reality or hide behind crutches. Just like Yi had to alter her approach when the commands she had become dependant on no longer did as advertised, I have had to adapt to face that which has always been a predator of my people.

I am the Terminus of her ridiculous Final Round. For her awaits only death with Tails Nine. When next she and I cross blades, I will not hold anything back. I will fight with honor, and as like water: torrential and yet calm. Xali is driven by the desperation of her foes, but I will not give her lease to feel satisfied. I know now that this battle against her can be won! Because contrary to what I thought, she is one of us. A mortal.

And a mortal... can bleed. A mortal can still die. She may have god-eclipsing power, but she has a limit. She is not omnipotent, she is not insurmountable... She's just a pain, both to kill, and to tolerate.

And ironic as this might be coming from a female fox, I'm going to ruin that bitch's shit.

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