trans_9 | Is It Okay To Leave It Like That? (Open)

Negi sat in the middle of a field, the cool wind blowing around him. It was dark, with the dimmest of light as he stood there, his naked, blotted out form darkening with every moment. His eyes were dim and his head bowed as he tried to remember what he was doing. He sighed softly at that.

“Hey,” said a male voice from behind him. “You sure you don’t need to go?”

“Go…? Where do I have to go?” asked Negi dimly.

“What, you’ve forgotten that? Man, you’re just helpless.” Retorted the male voice.

Lifting a hand to his face, seeing the darkness pour over his fingertips, Negi tried to remember. “Yes… that’s right… I… I get the feeling there’s… some place… I have to go…”

“But, no matter where I try to go… this blackness is heavy, and I can’t move my body. And it hurts very much.” The dark markings on his arms spiraled angrily, flickering with heavy black energy. “I’m sure… anyone I tough, will be hurt…”

“Is that so… Well then, I guess it just can’t be helped.” Sighed the male voice. “True… This is good enough for a ten-year-old-brat… you did damn well. There’s nothing for you to be ashamed about.”

The voice grew smug at that. “If you move from here, you’ll die, or at best, you’ll become a monster. And if you try to move anyway, recklessly, then you’ll hurt someone, break something. It’s just not worth it…”

Negi nodded, the darkness creeping up his body even faster now.

“… but, hey.” The owner of said voice caused Negi to vaguely realize who this was speaking to him as his face came into view. “Is it okay, to leave it like that? Negi.”

Outside, sitting next to the comatose Negi, Chamo lowered his head. “Please Aniki, be okay.”

The picture book in front of him showed the entire conversation; the darkening Negi, and the features of the man who called himself the Thousand Master.

Nagi Springfield.

(ooc: keep it to one thread please.)

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"C'mon, baka Negi...! Don't you dare leave us like this!" Asuna stared down at Negi, hand placed against his shoulder.

Kaya approached Negi, looking at him with concern and care, and brought a hand to his other shoulder. She didn't know if her healing could help any, but it was part of the Pactio she made with Negi. It was worth a shot.

"ADEAT." The card came out and she was clothed in a white robe, her hair adorned with a green and yellow crown of flowers. Well. That was new.

She brought her hand back on his shoulder and concentrated, hoping this might do something.

Comrades...

Someone I've...

Been Chasing After...?

"Fa... ther..."

Nagi grinned and the expression was clear on the book. "Or not huh? No, not just that - it's sounding more like, you're following in my footsteps, and looking to surpass me."

"T-that's..." protested Negi but a "Heh" from Evangeline made him pause. "That's right boy. There is a path that he did not walk... one that only you can walk. Set out on the grey path."

"Master..." Negi stood, and his form began to change, changing from stained black to pure white, the angry marks on his arms starting to recede.

"Become one who would move forward, even after being stained with mud. Was this what you meant?"

In the real world, Negi began to stir. His body began to move as his hand began to rise up, the sound of cracking stone predominant in the motion. He could feel it -- everyone was helping him. Professor Lupin. Aqua. Sasami. Asuna. Chamo. Kaya. Hit Girl. All of them.

Go on, my disciple.

Sasami let out a gasp as Negi began to stir, his body moving and releasing the stone of his body.

"Negi-kun... Negi-kun, we're here! " Sasami called out, tears running down her eyes. "Please, just a little more...!"

Kaya said nothing, just kept concentrating on helping Negi. Even as she felt the crack, she stayed on him, hoping that if he did come to, he wouldn't be as injured.

Hear me Negi, she said, almost forgetting that only Billy really heard her thought project because of their Bond. Find us. We're here.

Crack. Crack crackcrackrackcrack--!

The combined force of everyone's efforts finally broke through, as with Negi's resolve. In a explosion of shattered stone which flaked into nothing, the young boy lay there, breathing heavily for a moment.

He was shirtless as his outfit had been wrestled off in an attempt to re-seal the gaping hole in his chest. But oddly enough, his entire body was smooth, unmarked, like it had shed its own skin in the process. The scar on his cheek, the line across his arm and the angry looking marks where blades and stone had pierced through it -- all gone.

Life came back into those hazel eyes of his and he looked up at everyone. And in a soft voice, he croaked out, "I saw him. Father. He'll be waiting for me in the end."

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"...You baka Negi! Always worrying about others first before yourself!" Asuna allowed a smile to appear while pulling the student-teacher into a hug. For all intents and purposes, she was glad that Negi was going to make it.

Hit Girl stared. She couldn't believe it, but she was strangely choked up right now. She had known Negi would be able to take this thing down, and that he had made her think of Overlord Zetta when he saw his apprentices. So lucky for her, how she was emotional that moment passed by peaceably.

"Welcome back Negs," she said, grinning. "Heard you busted yourself up pretty good."

"Negi-kun...!" Sasami whispered, choking up as she hugged her dear friend.

Kaya waited until the others were done. She had only arrived recently, and at the moment her heart wasn't just here, but at the room down the hall, where Zuko was still recovering from his burns. In any case, seeing Negi com back, her eyes were swimming with tears, and she reached over, once Sasami was done, and hugged the boy herself.

"You had us worried, Negi-kun," she said softly, reverting back to the name she called him when she was around the W.I.T.C.H. bus more.

He felt no need to contibute to the hugging and whatnot, but there were other matters that still needed attending.

Lupin produced from his robes a large bar of chocolate, tapped it with his wand, then repocketed the original bar. "Eat this," he advised Negi as he offered up the traditional cure for a injury to the soul.

Aqua breathed a sigh of relief when all their efforts had worked. Her eyes were a little teary; while she didn't know Negi well, it was the first time she or anyone else had successfully brought someone back from the dark, at least to her knowledge.

"Welcome back," she said.

Accepting the chocolate with one hand and letting the girls hug him, Negi smiled at them. "I... thanks, everyone. For bringing me back."

He looked at his hand which had once been curled and clawed, and he clenched it, a line of tattoos running across his hands briefly. "Everyone, I mean it."

"Aniki," said Chamo softly. "You're... not human anymore, are you?"

Negi blinked and shook his head. "No, I'm not."

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