[center][img]http://i.imgur.com/3DHrDpJ.png[/img][/center] [center][h3][color=a2d39c]Miyu, [s]Traitor Angel[/s] Honorless Blade[/color][/h3][/center] Miyu blinked. [color=a2d39c]"Thanks Deva. That was exactly as helpful as I should have expected from you at this point. At least Iona will solve everything for you."[/color] Miyu walked through the portal, not bothering to stay with Zeruel's team. It wasn't like they had been worth a damn last time, and it's not like they could defend against a mental threat. Eventually she found herself walking through her old factory. [color=a2d39c]"Really, do you think putting me in an environment I'm familiar with and feel safe with is going to throw me off guard?"[/color] [color=a2d39c]"Really, do you think putting me in an environment I'm familiar with and feel safe with is going to throw me off guard?"[/color] Miyu turned and looked at herself. [color=a2d39c]"Oh, the doppelganger approach, real original."[/color] [color=a2d39c]"Oh, the doppelganger approach, real original."[/color] Miyu glared at herself. [color=a2d39c]"Well, ok, this is gonna get confusing, I'll be Miyu1, then."[/color] [color=a2d39c]"Fine, Miyu1, then I get to be Miyu0."[/color] Miyu0 stuck out her tongue. [color=a2d39c]"Well played, anyway, just joshing you, we're not gonna do the 'which one is real' joke. I'm just a manifestation of your snarky criticism."[/color] Miyu1 continued, leading Miyu0 forward. [color=a2d39c]"Seriously?"[/color] Miyu0 raised an eyebrow disbelievingly. [color=a2d39c]"Seriously?"[/color] Miyu1 mimicked in perfect time. Miyu0 glared even further at Miyu1, who smiled sickly sweet. [color=a2d39c]"If you're wondering why I can always predict what you'll say, it's because I'm your dominant personality trait. Though, occasionally things like her slip in and come up with names like 'Mantle of Unconquerable Sun'. Like what? That technique is anything but unconquerable? We sound like a kid trying to sound cool."[/color] Miyu1 pointed Miyu0 towards a version of herself bedecked in overblown eyeshadow and black lace and leather. [color=a2d39c]"You're taunting me with my goth phase to try and embarass me? Is that the best you've got"[/color] Miyu dispassionately added. Miyu0 turned and faced what looked like a child version of herself [color=a2d39c]"What's next, is Minime here childhood memories of bedwetting?"[/color] The tiny, childlike version of her responded innocently. [color=a2d39c]"I'm your relationships with your fellow angels. That's why I'm so underdeveloped."[/color] She grabbed her chest, not so innocently. [color=a2d39c]"Nnnrrgh.."[/color] Miyu growled. [color=a2d39c]"Wait, wait, at least it's better than this poor gal.."[/color] Miyu1 dragged out a decaying skeleton of herself, with both of her swords impaled through her chest from behind. Miyu0 waited for the punchline, teeth gritted, arms crossed and fingers impatiently tapping. [color=a2d39c]"Alas, it was a case of suicide that ended poor Love-Life here."[/color] GothMiyu draped her form melodramatically across the skeleton's lap, pricking two fingers on the swords to drag blood across her face and down into her lips. There was a grating as Miyu0's teeth ground across each other, [color=a2d39c]"Could you guys be quiet for five fucking minutes while I find the stuff I came for, whatever it was, this is giving me a headache."[/color] [color=a2d39c]"No, those guys are giving you a headache."[/color] Miyu1 turned Miyu0's head to face another scene. [color=a2d39c]"Whuh?"[/color] [color=a2d39c]"ROBOTS!"[/color] [color=a2d39c]"MAGIC!"[/color] [color=a2d39c]"ROBOTS!"[/color] [color=a2d39c]"MAGIC!"[/color] [color=a2d39c]"ROBOTS!"[/color] Two smaller versions of herself, seated at a chair, were fighting, one younger and squinting hard with a tome of angelic spells, the very one she had learned Mantle of Unconquerable Sun from, and the other, slightly older and with glasses, with a figurine of the Daimyo. The fight was basically mashing the book and robot against each other blindly as they shouted their favorite. [color=a2d39c]"Ah, the different ways you thought you could get strong enough to make a difference. Tell me, how did that pan out for you?"[/color] Miyu1 taunted as Miyu0's eye twitched. [color=a2d39c]"MAGIC!"[/color] [color=a2d39c]"ROBOTS!"[/color] [color=a2d39c]"Hand outs from Deva!"[/color] [color=a2d39c]"Demonic robo-dog!"[/color] Two more girls suddenly sprung up behind the others, full sized Miyu's, one carrying a toy sized version of the shield granted by deva, and the other a figure of BEAST. The two girls who had been fighting before looked at the new ones, before back to each other, nodding, and teaming up on the new ones. [color=a2d39c]"Of course, when you finally did get offered some REAL power, you threw it away because you're too proud. All that talk about pride being for archangels and dragons, and yet you were too proud to take what was given to you, you had to feel like you were taking it for yourself."[/color] Miyu1 stared down at Miyu0, and Miyu0 felt smaller and smaller. [color=a2d39c]"That's.. Not.. I just didn't want to fight anymore.. There was no reason to seek more power.."[/color] Miyu1 smiled a smile far too wide, with teeth far too sharp. [color=a2d39c]"Oh? But you continued to whine about not having it? Talk about having your cake and wanting it too. And if that's so, what's with all the dreams of power? World as One? Daimyo x20 Shield? Traitor's Blade? Real creative name there, btw. Mantle of Indivisible Mind? Unity of Time? You can't stop imagining ways that maybe you could become stronger, because you so desire it. But you're too proud to take what is given you, even as much as you decry pride. You're just another angel born without real power who refuses to adapt to the changing of the world."[/color] Miyu1 looked less and less angelic, seething blue mist between fanged teeth, as Miyu1 fell to her knees, clutching her head. [color=a2d39c]"Just!.. JUST SHUT UP! I DON'T NEED YOU! I DON'T NEED ANY OF YOU!"[/color] [color=a2d39c]"Heh, bye then.."[/color] All the other Miyus faded from sight, leaving Miyu alone with only herself. ~~ [color=a2d39c]"Huh.. What was I doing here?"[/color] Miyu asked herself, as she overlooked a fragment of a river, a short wooden pier extending into it, with a boat lashed to its side. [color=a2d39c]"Well, I came to a river, so maybe I was going to fish. That sounds like a plan."[/color] Miyu walked over to the boat and began untethering it, eventually paddling out into the river and casting out a line. [color=a2d39c]"Well, still feels like I'm missing something, or someone.. But eh, it'll come to me, now, come here fishy fishy fishy."[/color] She spoke softly. [@TheWindel]