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Topic Started: Apr 4 2010, 10:57 PM (389 Views)
Maldaine
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More than a Ghost on a Shipwreck
The tower’s shadow was swallowing him whole. There was not a single part of his body that was in the sunlight, and at this moment in time it was exactly how he felt. He felt like he was in the dark, all the time. It was becoming more and more difficult for him to hold it together at times. He didn’t want to admit it, but he could feel Eiji’s influence slowly taking hold. It was becoming easier and easier for him to do what he was asked to do, and that almost killed him.

Danny stood at that tower to remember who he was.

It had been years since he had walked the streets of Hyakuji, and each turn caused a different memory to be triggered, but nothing really triggered his love of the city, his love for his inner self more than this building, the Elemancer’s Tower. It was here that he spent a lot of time wondering, thinking, and training. He learned most of his techniques here, and he learned the most about himself here.

“Reiben…” he whispered to himself. Reiben was his teacher, and he was probably the man who helped Danny the most with his own life, yet that man was no longer there to greet him. He just wanted to stand outside, but then at the same time he wanted to walk the different levels of the tower and remember the fights that he had there, and all the things that he learned.

“This is home…” he said to himself quietly. There was no doubt in his mind now that if something went wrong he would come here. It was the place that he felt safest, and it was the place that he wanted to come to when there was any trouble in his life. It was home to him.

This is home.

He just stood outside of the tower for a few more moments, not really sure what he wanted to do now. Just being in this places shadows made him feel like a teenager again, with not a care in the world.
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"Do you know what a dream is..?" A voice said very calmly. Zander stood in the bright sunlight of the top dome of the tower. It's massive height raised above everything in the surroundings. Shadows were Zanders friend but up here there was only the warm glow of the sun to be found. "It's the body's way of collecting and storing information from throughout the day and sorting it out." He approached the edge and placed his hands in his back pockets.

"Danny.. Maldaine." He said in a calm voice. "I knew that name for a long time. When he would come back to america for holidays he would tell me about his roommate. When you vanished he tearfully confessed his lack of confidence in himself. When you reappeared as a photographer he beamed with pride.. And when you were found out to be dead he broke inside.." Zander turned to Danny. "These are the stories he told of you.."

He pulled out a disk, pinching it between two fingers. "And this is the ending to that story.. A tragedy. A dream that Jameson had.. You betrayed him and joined that group after promising you never would. Then you fought him and you both tried to kill each other over the life of a man you never knew.." He sighed. "Jameson rigidly believed in justice... And treasured all lives equally, even those that were important to him. I have different beliefs.."

"Tell me... How DID you come back?" He said in a low voice. A smile flickered onto his features.
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Danny just turned to look at the boy and didn’t say anything as he retold the tale of a friendship long lost. Danny hated hearing it from other people’s perspectives. Every time he did he was always the bad guy. Everything was always his fault. There was no reason to join that group; there was no reason to betray Jameson. That was a funny word to use in this situation, betray. He didn’t betray Jameson, despite what everyone thought…. Everyone told him how it was his fault that Jameson was the way that he was, and that he should be ashamed of who he was. Danny was growing tired of hearing the same story.

He took a deep breath.

“Well aren’t you just the sickest fuck I’ve ever met. You walk up here and tell me a story I already know, but then just pin it all on me. Why does no one ever see it from my side? Do you want to know how I came to life again, asshole? I’ll tell you. I DON’T KNOW! I just woke up. Sure I know that Eiji Ishida found my soul, and then my body that was somehow in perfect shape, perfect, completely perfect. It was like someone had just given it to him all in a pretty build your own person box. All you had to do was slip the soul in and congrats,” Danny just scoffed.

“Do you bastards just follow me around to torment me? I mean, sure I joined Wo Shing. I didn’t really have a choice. I mean the person who saved me was the leader and he told me I had to repay him, and so I am. If you can give me an alternative then let me know. I know you’ll say something like ‘I would have just had him kill me,’ but you don’t know what it was like to be dead. Life is short, and my life was very short, getting it back was important. Jameson’s blind need for justice shrouded the truth from him just like your blind sense of revenge blinds you from the truth.

“You consider me evil, but whatever, now I’m just rambling. I don’t want to talk about this right now. I’ve been dead for a few years, not getting to see home, and then when I wake up I’m in some multiverse. Now that I’m finally back, the first thing that I wanted to see was this place, but now the experienced is marred. Is there anything else you want to ask? Please do, I would really love to hear it!”

Danny smiled a little bit. It was good to get that out, he needed to.
Edited by Maldaine, Apr 5 2010, 09:27 PM.
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Zander smirked a bit at the boy's outburst. This was good, he was mentally and emotionally unstable and because of it he was more easy to read. He kept a perfectly cool head through all of the ranting. "Calm calm.. I never said you were evil.." He said in an derisive laugh. "Trust me, I'm not so black and white as to categorize people as 'good' and 'evil'... You're jumping to far too many conclusions.." He turned away from the boy placing his hands in his pockets.

"I believe in loyalty." He said very firmly. "A person makes an ally and they promise to be each others allies for the rest of their lives then one turns on the other, that is betrayal. But it was an extraordinary situation and Jameson was just too far up his own ass to try to understand your feelings..You betrayed Jameson...But he betrayed oyu as well.." He said soothingly. This was what an agent did. He lied and used half-truths to make a person feel what he wanted them to feel.

"You see I betrayed him too.." Zander said softly. "I lied to his face about my job.. I told him I was an average boy and fed him all this shit when I was nothing more than a two-bit crook.. So when he started feeding me stories of a crime group that operated in Hyakuji my apatite was whetted.. But I'm no murderer and certainly no backstabber, I could never join them.. Until Jameson died."

"Now..." He trailed off looking towards the boy. "Who knows what I can do, now? Murder isn't SO far outside my skillset.. And for a group like this you learn to bend bent morals even further.." He lowered his voice. "It's actually.. on a primal level.. liberating isn't it?"

"I mean I know you're a nice guy but... The power.. the control.. and finally not having to hide behind all that bullshit morality the world forces on you.. It's liberating.."
Edited by Cypriss, Apr 5 2010, 09:41 PM.
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Danny just sat and listened to everything that the boy spewed out. He didn’t really care what he said. He didn’t trust a single word that came from his mouth. The thing was that the things he trusted the least were the things that made the most sense to Danny. The truth of the matter was the day that Danny met up with Jameson was the day that Danny’s spirit died. Before that he had hope that he would make it out of his particular predicament, but when even his friend tried to kill him he lost that hope. There was no way that Danny could say hearing the words ‘Jameson betrayed you’ didn’t make him feel good.

Now Jameson was dead, and he had just learned that. It really hurt him that he wasn’t there to help. He could see it now. Jameson would pull the same shit that he did before. Saying things like he didn’t want help from a murderer, but Danny would just ignore it and help like it was the old days. He would enjoy it and who knows, maybe his faith would have been restored and he would have the power to get away from Eiji. Danny could help but smile when he thought about it.

You big goof…why did you have to die without me?

The one person who would have been able to save him was gone.

That was when the kid started spewing things about murder and how it was just some way to liberate oneself.

“You seem to be jumping to conclusions just like Jameson did. You seem to think that I want to kill because I enjoy it because I feel free doing it. You couldn’t be further from the truth, kid. I hate what I am, but I can’t change it now. Bad things happen to good people everyday. You can say that you understand me all that you want, but the truth is you are just reading from a dossier. You couldn’t understand what I have to do unless you went through what I went through, what I’m still going through. I’m not going to say that what you’ve just remarked on isn’t a little true, but every time I kill someone I die a little bit.

No, not a little bit. I die all over again. You are truly the most despicable person that I have ever met. Sitting here talking to me as though you are just referring to yourself. You’re just trying to get me to give something away. I came here for peace, and you are taking even that away from me. I have nowhere to go except here. I’m back in a world where everyone that I love thinks that I’m dead. Just tell me what you want…”

Danny was so mixed up at the moment. He didn’t know what he wanted to say. He wanted to protect Eiji and not say anything since this kid already knew so much he could only assume that he wanted more information. But then at the same time a dangerous idea sparked in his head.

You could free yourself. If he asks about Wo Shing…all you have to do is tell him everything…

Danny grew nervous, but there was no telling. He just looked straight ahead, worried about the possibilities of where this conversation could go, and whether it was going to take a nasty turn sooner rather than later…
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Zander's smile faded. This guy was.. PATHETIC. Zander couldn't believe this was the friend Jameson felt was worth dying for. "Listen..." He said with a frown. "You want my sympathy or pity?" He looked up at the ceiling. "I know all about how it feels to kill. It's an ugly feeling.. But you chose this life when you abandoned my only friend to die alone in a world he didn't give a shit about.."

"No one is going to save you. No one left in this world gives two shits about you." Zander said with a smirk. "You think Hiro Tsukasa's gonna track you down? Who else from your day is even still here..? Jameson was all that cared about you and now he's dead." Zander laughed. "It's funny, is what it is. He offered it all to you. His money, resources, power, and life.. And you slapped it away. And now you want PITY and cry when people are harsh.. It's pathetic.."

"You aren't.. WORTHY of Jameson's admiration!" Oliver said enraged. If Danny wanted the truth now he was getting it. Under all the lies that comprised Zander one truth existed: Oliver. A 19 year old boy grieving the loss of his friend. He scowled at Danny violently. However after a moment just turned and walked away from the boy. "I don't have any use for you. If what you said is at all true.. if you really suffer there.. then I WANT to leave you there... I want you to suffer.. I HATE you.. If you'd been there.. Maybe he'd still be here. And I HATE YOU for that!"
Edited by Cypriss, Apr 6 2010, 06:52 PM.
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“I am far past sympathy or pity, kid. I don’t ask for sympathy from anyone. I just told you what was on my mind, and you tossed it away like it was nothing because you are incapable of sympathy. No one has sympathy anymore, but then again maybe that isn’t such a bad thing. And I didn’t abandon Jameson. I would have saved him if I could. If I could have been there then I would have fought with him whether he wanted me to or not. And Jameson cares about everything, he cares about the happiness of everyone, saying that he died in a world he didn’t give a shit about is completely false…unless we knew two different Jamesons,”

Danny listened to what Zander had to say next and could only wonder how he could jump to the conclusions that he was jumping to. Everything he said just confused Danny. He didn’t slap away Jameson’s kindness. Did he? He didn’t think so, but obviously this person thought he did. Jameson didn’t offer money, or power, he offered something more important. He offered friendship. There was one thing that was true though.

There was no one left for him.

“I know no one is going to save me. I know that no one cares that I’m alive. But I’m fine with that. I have been by myself for a very long time. But you forget a lot of the story. I’ll tell you something that I didn’t even tell Jameson. I left Hyakuji once and went back to America because of something that I’m not very proud of. Needless to say I was in a lot of trouble, and I left here because I didn’t want Jameson to get involved. The thought of him being killed because of me was the worst thing that I could ever imagine. And then when I came back he helped me out by going to a demon market with me and almost dying. The next time I got to see him after that I was already dead. I was allowed to come back to the living world three times, and each time I came back to protect Evan and Jameson. They were supposed to be visits to say goodbye to the people who didn’t even know that I was dead, but I used them all on Evan and Jameson because they were the only true family I had.”

That was when Zander seemed to switch personalities. It wasn’t subtle so there was a very distinct change.

“You’re right, I didn’t deserve Jameson’s admiration, I never asked for it. But I did admire his drive, his will for justice. But at the same time you can’t blame me for Jameson’s death. As you stand here and yell at me I have no idea if you were there or not. If you were then I apologize that I couldn’t help you, but you can’t hate me for not being there. Well I guess you can, but you shouldn’t. But if you weren’t there then the fault is shared. Whether you tell me if you were actually there is also not to be foreseen, you might just lie to make me feel bad. You’ve been lying a lot so I can’t really trust you.”

“Just realize that I am on your side. Whether you want to believe it or not I am. I’m doing some research of my own, and I’m trying to do my best to take someone out of the picture. No one ever sees my side, and actually that might help me, if you must go then I must admit meeting you here has opened my eyes to a lot of things, so thank you for that. But if you have some more time I wouldn’t mind showing you around the tower if you have never seen it before,” Danny said. He was no longer confused. He smiled and actually felt better about a great deal of things. He remembered what he was told when the multiverse ended, and the reason why Eiji Ishida found his soul. It gave him a reason to stay in Wo Shing, and he was going to see his mission through.

If people thought he was a murderer that was probably to his advantage. It would make his cover easier. His green eye began to grow intense just thinking about it. He didn’t know who this boy was, but he was glad that he met him. He didn’t like him, but he was certainly glad that he met him. Something about him reminded him of Jameson, and it wasn’t the part about him calling Danny a murderer (though that was similar).
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".... Tch. Think whatever you wish if it makes you feel better.." Zander said, reverting to his calm front. It was clear he was still not in the right state of mind to face off with someone whom drug so much emotion out of him. At this rate he'd blow the whole operation on just trying to fight for some needless revenge when it ultimately wasn't this boy's fault anymore that it was Zander's own. Besides, Zander couldn't help but feel a bit of comraderie with the boy.

They were both standing at the precipice of descending to different sorts of darkness. .. Darkness. Is that how he viewed a future in the organization now? How had his idea become so skewed. How had he become so jaded to this sense of foreboding he'd felt for so long. For the filthy darkness of the blood stained into his hands. Part of him wished to go back to being jaded.. But if he denied the obviously wrong things he'd done then he really was going to become someone awful..

He wondered if Jameson knew of some of the missions he'd been assigned would he have reacted so differently than with Danny? He stopped and looked back at the other with a frown. Just because he worked for the government he felt his murders were so justified.. But now he wondered how different they were. Being controlled and ordered around. Being told to kill. Jameson would tell him to leave also, wouldn't he?

But it's not like Jameson was perfect! Jameson had flaws and was so black and white! He HATED that about him...! For Jameson it was all so easy but some people had to make.. hard.. choices..

Zander's eyes opened wider. He was making excuses to rationalize what he'd done just like the other boy had.. Did that mean he felt the same guilt and self-loathing? He placed a hand on his head turning away and rushing to the elevator. What in the world? How long?! How long had he been so unsure of himself? how long has he despised his existence?

He reached the wall placing a hand on it. Zander Winston.... It was possible that .. Oliver hated that person..

Suddenly some of the answers he'd been searching for were before him. But they only raised more questions.. What could he do to change things now..? He had a year in Hyakuji then the military would recall him.. Even if he wanted to abandon Zander Winston eventually he'd be forced to resume that life.

Zander sighed and pressed the button. Leaving this place with more frustration then ever.
Edited by Cypriss, Apr 7 2010, 09:46 PM.
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