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A Night Raid Nightmare - Lubbock - 10-08-2015
Lubbock's viridian eyes could do nothing but gaze up at the sadistic General, whose weapon was skewered through his throat. His eyes quivered in fear as he felt blood pooling in his throat. I... I c-can't die again... He denied his fate, but his body had escaped his control moments ago. Not a limb would move, and his eyes went rogue, forcing him to lay eyes upon his new nightmare... the cold steel left his throat, relinquishing the assassin and allowing him to fall to the snow, painting the alabaster ground with a coat of crimson... his vision became colourless as his mind faded... but one thing stood out as he spoke his parting words to Gin; a woman, with hair as white as the snow girting his dying body, stood behind the red haired boy and stared down at him, as if disappointed. A tear escape his eye as they began to ease shut, his last breath pushing into the scarlet snow.
Najenda... I failed again...
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Lubbock awoke with a start, gasping for air. A shaky hand grasped at his throat, finding no bleeding wound. The assassin released a sigh of relief, before taking a gander at his surroundings. Where was he? It was the first time he had properly died; in Dante's Abyss, he resurrected almost instantly in a room... but this was different. The world was black around him; a sure sign he wasn't in the Nexus. Maybe it was some kind of spirit realm...
The verdant haired assassin pulled himself up into a standing position and began strolling in a forwards direction in hopes something would happen. Alas, the space was vast, dark, and contained nothing but naught. Lubbock came to a halt, and his heart began to beat. What did Omni want him to do to escape the never ending abyss? His thoughts drifted to Syura... surely the cocky voice would assist him...
It was then that an obscure shape in the darkness began to form... but Lubbock could not describe it in the slightest. It was as if he recognised the shape, but was unable to form a word for it. It was something far from human, but also far from anything else... the figure consisted of no conventional shapes...
But the voice that emerged from the mass was awfully, and scarily, familiar.
"You died again, did you?" Syura inquired, laughing mockingly. "You surely are useless. No wonder Omni only took you from your team... he knew they'd be better off without you." He scorned the assassin, and Lubbock made a start.
"Like hell he did!" He shouted back, a scowl across his expression, and spreading across his body language. "I know those guys! They wouldn't ever ask for another one of us to leave!" His body began trembling and he clenched his fist, staring down at it. "I... I just know they wouldn't..."
"Then why were you brought to the Omniverse and none of the others were?" Syura mused over the question, still mocking the boy in green. In rage and without uttering a word, Lubbock lunged at the echoing mass, only to have an ice cold palm meet his knuckles. A female voice replaced Syura's. "Because you were weak. They knew you would only hinder them, and end with them all being slain." Esdeath's voice continued to tear a hole in his heart. "Either way, they were all slain... One. By. One." She teased, pushing the assassin back.
"No... Night Raid... They're stronger than you! I know they are! Akame would have kicked your ass into next week!" Lubbock retorted, saliva now flinging from his mouth in his fit of anger. "And Najenda... She has the whole Revolutionary Army at her back... There's no way-" He began to deny the General further, but was cut off by a sharp slap to the face.
"Your so-called 'army' was entirely massacred during a large-scale raid. Those worthless specimens were no match for the Jaegers and their troops." She informed Lubbock sadistically, before licking her lips. "And speaking of Najenda... I left the love of your life for last. I thoroughly enjoyed making her scream... I only wish you were there." Esdeath taunted, laughing maniacally at this rate.
Lubbock dropped to the pitch black floor, covering his head with his arms, but to no avail; the piercing cackle would not stop, and the assassin began grinding his teeth.
No... This couldn't have happened... She's lying... No... No... No... No...
Re: A Night Raid Nightmare - Lubbock - 10-10-2015
Lubbock felt a weight upon the back of his skull as Esdeath pressed the assassin's head to the ground, eliciting a victorious cackle. "What are you going to do, Lubbock of Night Raid? You have no one to save you..." She pressed down further on the head of green hair. "No one for you to drag down..." She placed the sharp heel of her shoe against Lubbock's forehead. "No one that has to worry about you... you're alone!" She shouted, pressed firmly into Lubbock's head... but the sadistic General exhaled a gasp of surprise when her prey grasped her ankle with one hand.
"I might be alone..." He muttered, pulling his knee up. "But that doesn't mean I'm helpless... or worthless... or weak..." His voice transformed into a growl as he stood up, still holding Esdeatg's leg, forcing her to have to balance. "In this world... the Omniverse... things like I never could have imagined to happen, can happen. And that includes kicking you out of my head!" He shouted, giving the General a shove sending her sprawling across the black floor. "You're not the real Esdeath, I know that... you're a figment of my imagination... a nightmare... the real Esdeath sent me here." He fit the pieces together, staring at his hands as if the answers were forming there for him to read.
The fake Esdeath cackled maniacally. "You really thought I was attempting to trick you?" She asked. "Your discovery means nothing; I wasn't trying to hide it from you." Her laughter had stopped entirely, and Lubbock's head hung. "What's the matter? Defeated?" She inquired, striding towards him. Without warning, her voice changed to one somewhat deeper, but still nonetheless that of a woman. "You've failed, Lubbock. I watched Night Raid die before my very own eyes. You left that night, and Danger Beasts swarmed the base, led by Esdeath in the end. They were all sl-" She began to give him the gruesome details, before Lubbock muttered something under his breath. "I beg your pardon?" She inquired, seemingly amused.
"I said... how can you tell me this, then?" He repeated, breathing heavily. "As Esdeath, you mentioned that Night Raid was slain, including Najenda... now you're acting as if she lived to tell the tale." He caught the figment redhanded. He said no more as the fake Najenda stood there, dumbstruck at her own stupidity. Lubbock's heavy breathing filled the silent atmosphere, and he bore holes into the woman with his verdant eyes. He knew that Night Raid was still alive... They had to be..