Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2018 18:54:21 GMT -5
Hollow Bastion loomed like an immense monument to the sublimity of madness above where Roxas bled in its shade. It’s haphazard ramparts and twisting towers cast a malformed silhouette through the pale light of morning. Bifurcations of stone and bare pipework that vaguely evoked fleshly organs dully shattered sunlight into patches of bright planes and shadowed crevices of gloom.
A hulking armored figure, its tumorous steel bulk balanced impossibly upon need-like ‘feet,’ flicked Roxas’s blood from its sword with a disdainful gesture. A dozen luminous eyes gleamed from within the umbral recesses of faceless visors as more Heartless knights advanced upon where the keyblader stood several paces beyond a hundred foot drop. Their pointed steps waded without concern through the slowly discorporating bodies of their kindred, sacrificed in wave after wave to maneuver a reckless foe onto the stony ruins of a crumbling balcony. A blockade of broad shoulders cut off escape. The throbbing scarlet of profane emblems swam in Roxas’ vision.
Roxas supposed he should’ve been expecting this in a place haunted far beyond the reach of cleansing. He’d journeyed to the site of his unnatural birth in search of answers, closure maybe? Turned out what he was getting instead was buckets of Heartless, another heavy bill from the healer’s lodge, and maybe a mortal plummet down a yawning azure ravine into meaty Rox-a-bits for good measure.
Yup, sounded like home.
-Six Armored Knights appear-
@zarina
A hulking armored figure, its tumorous steel bulk balanced impossibly upon need-like ‘feet,’ flicked Roxas’s blood from its sword with a disdainful gesture. A dozen luminous eyes gleamed from within the umbral recesses of faceless visors as more Heartless knights advanced upon where the keyblader stood several paces beyond a hundred foot drop. Their pointed steps waded without concern through the slowly discorporating bodies of their kindred, sacrificed in wave after wave to maneuver a reckless foe onto the stony ruins of a crumbling balcony. A blockade of broad shoulders cut off escape. The throbbing scarlet of profane emblems swam in Roxas’ vision.
Roxas supposed he should’ve been expecting this in a place haunted far beyond the reach of cleansing. He’d journeyed to the site of his unnatural birth in search of answers, closure maybe? Turned out what he was getting instead was buckets of Heartless, another heavy bill from the healer’s lodge, and maybe a mortal plummet down a yawning azure ravine into meaty Rox-a-bits for good measure.
Yup, sounded like home.
-Six Armored Knights appear-
@zarina