~Perspective: Unknown~
~Location: Castle of Two Sisters, in a hiding spot listening in on Kaito’s and Discord’s conversation~
A wry smile grew on my lips. So, the dark hero has arrived, well then, it may be time for the light to enter the fray as well. I quietly left the area, planning on how to face Kaito when the time arrived.
~Perspective: Kamui~
~Location: Garden in the Castle of The Two Sisters~
It had been a few days since arriving, when it dawned on me that I knew next to nothing about everyone else. In all honesty, I doubted anyone else would come forward and simply share their past…no matter the good or the bad it bore. I sighed knowing someone would have to go first before anyone else would share. Well, might as well suck it up. Doctor’s always said it would be better to talk about it…
I head back into the castle from roaming the gardens when I bump into Twilight.
“Oh, hey Twilight!” A cheery grin on my face.
“Oh, Kamui, sorry about that. He he…I should watch where I’m going better, honestly.” An apologetic grin spread on her face.
“Oh you’re fine Twilight. Besides, I was looking for you anyways!”
Cocking her head to the side a bit in confusion. “Oh? What about?”
I smile. “Can you round everyone up, and bring them to the library?”
“Uh…yeah, I guess so. What’s this about?” She gave me a look split between suspicion and curiosity.
“Ah, I realized us humans, and of course you all, know next to nothing about each other’s pasts.” She nods in agreement.
“In honesty, I thought it was just a touchy subject, so I decided to leave it alone after I tried with Luka.” I nod this time in agreement.
“Well, in war. The squad that knows each other well, and knows what the other members will do shall always triumph against a squad who are strangers to one another. Twilight, being who she is, understood exactly what I meant.
“So you’re acting as the sacrificial lamb then?” I nod in confirmation. “Alright, I’ll have everyone rounded up, see you in a few!” She trots off down the hall, while I head towards the library, like a lamb to the slaughter, how fittingly coincidental we would both think the same.
~Ten Minutes Later~
~Location: Library of the Castle of The Two Sisters~
I sat on a desk in the library, looking down with my arms crossed and my legs bouncing in nervous anticipation of what’s to happen. I look up to see Twilight in the front with everyone else trailing closely behind, murmuring in curiosity of why I off all people would summon them. They semi-circle around me, as I look at each of them. I then stand up.
“Alright, first thing is, do not interrupt until I say the words I’m finished speaking. I dislike being interrupted during my few moments of seriousness. Second, I decided that I would share my history so you know me better.” I look around with everyone giving a bit of a shocked expression, that I am actually being serious. With a confirmation of looks that they wouldn’t interrupt me I started.
“First things I’ll start with are basic’s. We all took the names of who we looked like, but back on Earth my name was Akira Higurashi. I am sixteen, nearly seventeen now. I was born on October twelfth at around eight at night, I have type O blood and I worked for the Sledgehammer, as a game designer for the new and upcoming game, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. My talents of course include game design and programming based on my profession. However-” I then move to my kimono and open it a bit, taking out a Muramasa-style katana. “-I am also a master swordsman, and I am considered if not the best, one of the best with a katana. I am trained in several styles, including the Tendo, Oda, and the Nagubashi, if memory serves me on names.” Kaito looks towards me in surprise, not realizing I had skill with a blade, let alone I had one.
Luka then interjects. “When did you get a sword? You never had one before if I recall.”
I glare a bit at Luka for interrupting my telling. “First, I am trained in the way of the sword, this include techniques ninjas as well as samurai’s used to hide weapons from captors or anyone else. Second, I’ve had it since the beginning. It was actually transported with me; I simply didn’t want to show any of my cards.” Of them all, only Kaito caught on, even minorly, of the hidden threat laced with within the statement. “Anyways, if there are no more interruptions, I grew up in Richmond Virginia, in the United States of America. Richmond is the capital of the state, if you didn’t know already. I grew up poor, and weak. My family lived in a very bad ghetto, one where a murder occurred as almost a weekly event. When, I was four, I had a three-year-old sister that was…killed by a guy who barged in our home in a fit of drunken rage. He took my sister and…snapped her neck thinking it was someone else. My father shot him as he attempted to go for me next. We held the funeral a few weeks later for my sister. When I was six, my father got a huge promotion, and we were moved out to California for his work. I was simply happy to get out of there. I was weak, so I was a pushover. I rarely went without a black eye or some new Injury of some sort. I was simply an escape for everyone trapped there, for they were forced with the fate of their parents, their grandparents, and so on. I understood, but I hated them anyways, for the things they caused and the pain they scarred inside me. It was a wonder my insanity hadn’t started there…” I have a faraway look in my eyes, as the occasional tears runs down my face. “We have been in California ever since. Life was good. I went to school and all that. When I was fifteen, I met a girl.” Rin shifted in place, knowing I referred to the girl from our meeting on the balcony. “Her name was Stephanie Hughes; she was the most beautiful girl I had ever seen.” My eyes give a look of remembrance; I was in in the middle of happier times, while still communicating in the present. “She had long blonde, wavy hair her eyes were a beautiful black that seemed be filled with an unseen fire of passion. She had light tan skin, for she lived on a farm, and she had the most wonderful smile and dimples that could stop your heart. It wasn’t long after we met for us to realize we were in love with each other.” A warm smile spreads across my face. “The people around us swore we would get married straight out of school, and I quote a friend of mine when I say, have like...twenty babies and a dog named Bob. In honesty, we just may have done so.” My smile fades, and a deep sadness and regret spreads across my facial features. “Until the night of December tenth, 2012 that is…we had just got out of a movie, The Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn Part Two. She was a fan of the series, so I took her to it on a date. If I had known what would come next, I would have waited till the next day. We had to walk down an alleyway due to construction on the main roads that night occurring. When we got half way down the alley…we were jumped…I was held down and mugged by the first of three guys. Stephanie was grabbed by the other two and they…raped her in front of me.” I begin tearing up. “I wasn’t able to do anything as they…ravaged her…over and over again…she screamed so loud…yet I…was powerless…I had no way to move…I couldn’t…” I pause for a moment to regain my composure. “After they finished…they shot her point blank range. I was let go for ‘being a good sport’ they said. I lost it…I walked up to them, a knife I had in my pocket, but was unable to use, and slit the throats of two of them. The other was in shock. I quickly took chains I found and tied him to a fence, he screamed in both anger and fear. I looked into his eyes, and whispered ‘roses are red, violets are blue, I’ve got a knife, so now I’ll kill you! I took my knife and plunged it into his upper forearm area, right above the elbow on his right side and slowly pulled down his arm to just before his wrist. I wanted him to scream I wanted to hear him suffer and I enjoyed everything I did. I then did the same to his left arm and I took his stomach and cut it open, watching his guts spill out to the ground. He was just barely alive when I whispered into his ear ‘night, night’ and slit his throat. This is where I became a madman, though I made a vow never to take another life again, for I would end my own if I did so. I’ve been able to channel my madness into simple craziness and erratic behavior ever since, thankfully…I was depressed for a long time after her death though, I was destroyed, a shell of a man. I simply went through the motions of life for a little more than a year. Eventually, I came back out of the shell, but I wasn’t the same. I was crazy, and confusing. No one cared about my thoughts thinking, ‘he’s but a broken toy who’ll snap in a moment’s notice. I often thought of Stephanie when I felt lonely. After a while, however, I had decided to be a force of good since Stephanie’s dream of being a lawyer of justice died alongside her.” I sigh in the end of my remembering. I look to the fearful faces at the hearing of my sin, I simply chuckle in response, however. “Don’t worry; I’ve never been able to become angry since, it’s the only time I ever lose control. So if I do ever lose control, kill me on a moment’s notice.” I sigh. “I don’t want to be something that would cause Stephanie to hate if she still lived…I would rather die if I did.” Everyone relaxes, especially Applejack, since she could tell I told no lies. “Alright, I’m done talking, any questions?”
Instead of questions, everyone simply comes up and hugs me, I chuckle from the sentiment. “Thanks everyone.” I then realized maybe I could finally stop living in the past, Stephanie wouldn’t mind right? I look up and simply smile, and the broken man called Akira disappeared into the void of nothingness.