[attr="class","mainbox"] steel crashes upon storms of white, his fingers twisting around the hilt of his blades as he crashes down with all the vengeance of a man breaking. when the admin's feet hit the floor, they land upon sheets of ice.
[break][break] wind whips viciously around him, eyes bleeding violet — his breathing labors as he stares at the creature that is causing him all this pain. all this
destruction. [break][break] finally.
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"i will not let you destroy," he hisses, gritting his teeth.
"everything we've worked so hard to build."[break][break] he readies his blade for another swing. only to falter.
[break][break] before
CHIEN PAO, the countenance of all of rocket's traitors manifest in front of him. the people who taunted him in his dreams. the reflections of
Remiel Calcifet and
Raziel Beckett, of
CIAN MAHER and
Rowan Wrynn.
the league. [break][break] betrayal squeezes his heart, as if someone had reached into his chest and grabbed onto it with bleeding claws.
[break][break] the familiar shapes warp and twist before him, a wall of shadow soldiers pushed between him and the paralyzed chien-pao.
[break][break] one body sits out among them.
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Ashley Shepard?[break][break] before he can catch his breath, though, the bodies are swept by clouds of ice. suddenly, the faces of his old friends are no longer in front of him. suddenly, it is burning amber and feral teeth, the shape of a man that could only be —
[break][break]
"MATIAS SILPH."[break][break] the shadow morphs into substance and a hand fearlessly grips the curve of his blades, shoving jayden backwards. the admin stumbles against the ice, wincing, at the forceful pressure to retreat.
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"tch," the voice snarls.
"you think you can beat me?" [break][break] overwhelming and relentless, the emotional storm threatens to overwhelm jayden. it chokes him.
[break][break]
"idiot."[break][break] even though his hands are bleeding,
MATIAS SILPH only expands in size. shadows whip around him, flaming hot fire burning in eyes of mocking amber.
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"do you want to know why everyone ignored you? because you're weak. why would they ever listen to you? it's a shame, really, because you're right. i am the biggest threat to rocket.[break][break] somewhere, in the back of his mind, jayden knows that this isn't real. that this has to be fake. there's no way that a member of the elite four could have broken into sootopolis, into their chambers. not even
MATIAS SILPH held the power of the heavens to be able to —
[break][break] somewhere, the sound of something awful roars and jayden's gaze flicks away to see the sight of shadows coalescing in front of
Naomi Sato.
is that...? his heart stutters. it clenches, gripping around the hilt of his blade. he should move. he should go. he needs to save his sister —
[break][break] the hesitation allows
MATIAS SILPH to grip the blades tighter, tearing the weapon away from him. the duoblades clatter to the ground with a terrifying ring.
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"i've killed your underboss, i've taken some fucker's ear, but i don't have to kill you because what are you?"[break][break] it is like being in a pilfering cloud of smoke, a maze that he cannot find his way out of. the cold is nothing, the shouts over the sound of whipping wind and crystal ice are nothing.
[break][break] he sees nothing, he feels nothing.
[break][break] but it is
MATIAS SILPH snarling at him that burns the hole in his chest.
[break][break] he glares furiously up at the elite four member. resentment boils in his stomach at the words that lash him stronger than the storm.
MATIAS SILPH was right. no one had listened to him — they all said that there were bigger things to worry about than
MATIAS SILPH. every meeting before this had been the same. he was a rocket, born and raised, and yet louder voices had always overtaken him. even when he was a beast, even when he'd ascended to admin.
[break][break] beside him, hands curl into fists at his side. nails dig into his palms, hard enough to bleed.
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they didn't understand. [break][break] they didn't hear him.
MATIAS SILPH did. of
all people,
MATIAS SILPH was the only one who understood.
[break][break]
"you're nothing."[break][break] an ugly laugh rips from
MATIAS SILPH's throat.
[break][break]
'i don't even remember your name.'[break][break]
THEO BECKETT's
AROMATHERAPY wafts through the air, reaching him. it both triggers a traumatic beating of his heart, and pulls him from the deluge of hatred, just enough for him to control himself.
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bryan delarosa's healing, too, fills him with renewed vigor. though that only erases the pain to allow more hate to flow freely through.
[break][break] with sudden aggression, jayden leaps to his feet. hatred coils around his chest as the admin calls for his blades. they rise in the snow, before a coordinated plunge cuts through
MATIAS SILPH's left shoulder on their way back to their owner's hands. the movement is hasty, blood smearing around the hilt of his blades.
[break][break] they are matching now, festering wounds brought upon by vitriol and violence.
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"you don't remember it?"[break][break] undulated rage morphs the admin's expression, his face matching
MATIAS SILPH's rotten look. he wants, more than anything, to wipe that arrogant expression off his face. suddenly, jayden no longer cares about the people around him, around rocket. all he can see is the smug grin on
MATIAS SILPH face, the one that he must have worn when he killed
Chu-e Choi, when he tore
fern delaney's ear right from him.
[break][break]
"you will." [break][break] malicious winds tear apart the air in front of him, his duoblade whipping up a vicious
SPRINGTIDE STORM.
[break][break] the split second before howling hate lashes out into the air, spiraling towards both elite four and ruinous beast,
MATIAS SILPH's feral grin is replaced by dmitri's sinister smile.
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tldr;
• jayden attacks, using his duoblade's
SPRINGTIDE STORM (on matias and towards chien pao)
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• outfit [attr="class","tag"]