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[pale_night]

It seemed to be one thing after another recently; too many strange events and not enough time to think them over. V2 had taken him to the seashore, which he'd never seen; he'd thought he may have found one possibly way out of this living corpse, if only he could remember

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[not_a_shadow]

"This is not your fault and no one is blaming you," Enzan said firmly. "What's happened happened. What we need now is a plan to get him back."

[pale_night]

"He --"

Blues' hands tightened convulsively into fists, and he shook again.

"... He will want to take him apart, rebuild him into something else. That's what Master Blaze does -- tears away everything he doesn't want in a navi. Like his daemons ..."

"He calls it 'building the perfect beast'."

[not_a_shadow]

Enzan hissed under his breath. "Then we'll stop him. I don't understand, though - why did he take V2? He did... That's what he did to you?"

[pale_night]

"It -- it was easier, to take me away ..."

"But, yes. It was the same."

"I don't know why -- because we're the same, maybe. I wasn't the first ..."

Blues crushed Enzan closer instinctively.

"... I failed him. He would want another --"

[not_a_shadow]

"You're not..." Enzan choked again, this time trying to pry some space between them. "H-how many?"

[pale_night]

With a soft, distressed sound -- apparently he didn't completely change his nature when he transformed -- Blues loosened his grip and moved away from Enzan, avoiding his gaze.

"... I .. don't know."

"He mentioned others -- there was one there, then."

".. only saw him once .."

"Dark hair. That one had dark hair. I think ..."

[not_a_shadow]

Enzan was starting to shake, ever so slightly. "Where they a-all... Blueses? D-did he steal them all?"

[pale_night]

"He makes cyber-beasts -- daemons, he calls them -- not navis, not virii."

"But the others ..."

Blues squeezed his eyes shut.

".. Yes. Yes, I -- I think so .."

[not_a_shadow]

For a moment, all he felt like doing was to scream. He almost thought he was screaming; it echoed in his ears, throughout his head.

He took them all and broke them. The lucky ones escaped. The unlucky ones... The scarred Blues, the one he hoped had made it home... Did he take him too? Did he take them all?

With a sharp whimper, Enzan collasped against Blues, unable to stand any longer.

[pale_night]

Startled, the armoured wings chiming discordantly, Blues caught Enzan before he slumped to the floor and half-cradled him.

"Master -- no --!"

Blues ground his teeth, eyes like burning ice.

No.

I will be the last --