Worst Nightmare - Group 12

[heavenslament]

Characters: Terra, Cecil, Basch
Progress: Ongoing.
Summary: My Worst Nightmare
Location: Memoria
Date: March
Warnings: Violence, trauma.

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[trinitycrusades]

Aside from the first memory he'd experienced, Memoria had not been too unkind to Cecil yet. But with each hour that passed and the exit coming no closer to being discovered, he was troubled. Rosa had contacted him to say she couldn't reach Ceodore, and though he'd been quick to reassure her, there was still worry at the back of his mind for what Ceodore might be going through. And so soon after his and Ursula's ordeals in the mines, as well...

As they found themselves in the Old Chaos Shrine, Cecil looked around again, recognition flitting across his face at the familiar surroundings. Yet if he held any significant memories here from all those years ago, he had yet to recall them, so he was just as ignorant as Terra as to whose past they'd experience here.

"We'd best steel ourselves for more memories," he said, from behind her. "As long as we keep pressing forwards, we'll make it through."

[bearitproudly]

Another place Basch did not recognize. Though the looks on both Terra's and Cecil's faces seem to mimic what he should feel. They didn't look too happy here.

"What is left for them to show us?" But Cecil was right. They needed to press forward, to keep their mind on the goal.

[heavenslament]

Basch's question was answered a moment later as Terra stepped forward. Suddenly, the Onion Knight was with her, though a few paces away.

Terra glanced around warily. "It's here. Something powerful is close by."

The Onion Knight frowned in thought as he peered around as well. "I don't see anything unusual. Let me go take a look around and--"

His sentence was interrupted by a whimper--Terra's. He turned to his companion, alarmed. "Terra?"

Terra didn't reply to him, her eyes closed tight as she clutched her head with one hand. The other drew into a tight fist and her whole frame trembled. A blue glow began to emanate from her, and she shook her head, her voice high and panicked. "What is...this voice...in my head!?

"No! What is this... Aaagh!"

The Onion Knight started forward at that last shriek, obviously out of his depth and having no idea what to do. "Terra! What's going on!?"

[trinitycrusades]

"Terra!" Cecil echoed the smaller knight, starting forward as an instinctive reaction. But of course, like on the other occasions, she was deaf and blind to anyone not belonging to the memory.

Deeply uncomfortable at what he was seeing, he stepped back to Basch's side, just wishing there was something he could do to stop the memory.