eleventh pact ❖ {my apocalypse}

[pactum]

[Emil (or is it?) appears on the Plane suddenly and without warning, surrounded by four big black wolves. They all have shreds of cloth in their mouths, and Emil's sawlike sword is covered in blood. If he's aware of his surroundings, he doesn't... seem like it.

In fact, he seems anything but lucid.]

I'll kill them I'll kill them I'll kill them I'

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[oncemarauder]

[he should probably just back away and disappear; he has no idea what's happening, he doesn't even know the boy

but he knows about losing control, he knows about vengeance and despair, and he can't turn his back on someone suffering through it all

so he murmurs a shield charm, and slowly approaches]

I can try.

((Anything short of death is fine!))

[pactum]

[Awww, Remus, you bleeding heart. Emil doesn't see him at first, he's too busy staring at his own hands, mortified.]

Wake up... wake up... wake up... please, Marta...

[oncemarauder]

[it's a miracle it hasn't killed him yet, really

he stops a short distance away - not quite in striking distance - and speaks softly]

Is Marta a friend?

[pactum]

Marta was... I-I swore to help her. To protect her.

And I f... failed.

[oncemarauder]

[softly] I've failed, too. A lot of people have.

Why not tell me what happened?

[pactum]

They came. They found the Cores and they came, and then they overwhelmed us.

T-there's a Core in her forehead. But she wouldn't give it up. S-she... she died protecting me. Not the other way around.

I was just... too weak...

[oncemarauder]

[gently] You weren't ready for them. Sometimes - we're all surprised, sometimes.

...If she died for you, I don't think - she'd want you to lose yourself because of it.

[pactum]

No. I swore. I SWORE.

Useless... useless... I'm-

[Suddenly he lurches to his feet, madness in his eyes.]

USELESS!

[oncemarauder]

[he almost flinches, but instead, his hand tightens on the wand beneath his robes, and he raises his voice]

Have you failed to save everyone you've ever helped?

[pactum]

Tell me, human. What's the point of helping people if they just turn around and destroy what you're trying to protect?!

[oncemarauder]

[he's shouting back before he realises it] Because if you give up, you're just proving them right! You are useless, and everything you've done, everything you've lost, is for nothing! You're just...tragic, and dangerous. Something to be pitied and cast aside.

[pactum]

I will NOT be cast aside!

[The black aura fires up again.]

I WILL NOT BE FORGOTTEN!

[oncemarauder]

[his eyes are burning as his lips part again, but he shakes his head; no more outbursts]

How would she want you to be remembered?

[pactum]

Shut up! It doesn't matter. You hear me? It doesn't matter. She's gone, and this world's going to HELL.

[oncemarauder]

For what? It won't bring her back. It won't make you feel better, not in the end. It won't make it all worth it.

[takes a breath; he's so tense, almost trembling, he knows this can get very bad very quickly] She's gone. That doesn't mean you can't keep fighting for her.

[pactum]

There's nothing to fight for. The world needs me. Needs her. Needs us, the Cores. But the only one left is me and that's not enough.

It's my job to put humans out of their misery. Humans and half-elves- filthy people that drove me to this in the FIRST place.