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[attr="class","lyrics"] he was something to lean against [break]
something violent and fierce [break]
and unmoving [break]
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The moment that he has them in his arms, it feels as if all is right with the world.
[break][break] As if the weeks of coldness, of bittersweet disdain and unbelievable rejection, no longer mattered. Nothing mattered anymore, now that they were
alive and safe.
[break][break] His throat is thick with emotion.
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"I couldn't - I couldn't speak until I knew you were safe," he murmured, a kiss pressed to their brow, even their mere touch had the natural effect of pain seeping off his body, of the wounds that embraced his flesh to be healed as if though by magic. Later, he might wonder what that was — if it was merely a result of the love that had been rewarded to him as a result of Chien Pao's absence, or if it was something new. Something
different.[break][break] His eyes meet theirs, and in them, he does not see the icy coldness of weeks past that he has come to know. Come to
expect even. The self-hatred reflected back at him, the rejection.
[break][break] He sees the love that he knows is there, deep-down, that they have been denying all this time.
[break][break] He shudders at the touch of their fingers on his brow, and he feels the desire to close his eyes, to get lost in their touch forevermore.
[break][break] The irony of being able to embrace in a wartorn cityscape is not lost on him, however.
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"We should."[break][break] Much to his regret, he untangles them. After all, duty calls. The very thing that tied them together in the first place — the shared memory of their
home — is threatening being ripped apart at the seams. It reminded Jayden of all those months ago when they had laid siege to Sootopolis in the first place, as
PALKIA laid waste to the city in favor of Rocket's triumph.
[break][break] His eyes rise to the sky, where gunshots and fire streak across the summer air like the once blood-red seas of Cinnabar.
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"I’ll come to the tree shortly, if you go ahead. I promise."[break][break] Something in him wills him to respond in kind. Of course, he should go to the tree. It is where
CHIEN PAO is after all. But once again,
jayden cross defies his fate. The very nature that had called him to this house to begin with.
[break][break] Within his mind, the
TRUMPETS of ruination echoed, heralding the relentless hoofbeats of inevitable change.
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"NO," he says, and his voice rings with unbridled hatred for the situation, for this place, for the days and weeks and months like it feels like they've been apart — his hand reaches for their wrist, inexplicably. He stared at them for a heartbeat, before ice beneath his boots propelled him upwards to his beloved, and to allow him to climb across Meraxes back. Softer, he said,
"I have been without you long enough. I'm not leaving you again."[break][break] Because
promises, he'd learned, meant nothing in a life time of war and attrition.
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Ashley Shepard had taught him that.
[break][break] A rumble of disagreement echoes from the Roaring Moon, but either it's because of hours spent alongside Vodnik, or perhaps
fern delaney is also atop their back that they do not throw
jayden cross to the seas.
[break][break] But this is something that Jayden bets on. That he knows will happen.
[break][break] And so they go — together — towards the call for war.
[break][break] Towards
annalise henderson.
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CHIEN PAO growls with approval as hatred laps at the ground beneath their feet like the rising sea of
SOOTOPOLIS CITY. Perhaps
Aurelie Lefevre does not have as much potential as
jayden cross, but it is just enough, for this moment at least. It knows, inherantly, that it will not find anything when it's captor is in the hands of their foolish lover. So it bides it's time, for now, until the moment comes.
[break][break] It is used to doing so, after all, after all this time.
[break][break] It bares it's teeth, allows the unrelenting
HATRED to wash over it and
Aurelie Lefevre both, even as the sky tears open and
Zev Harcourt comes with it. It's eyes gleam a bright wintry wrath, enthralled,
adoring even as those unfamiliar fingers tangle into it's fur. More slender, gentler than the rough, calloused hands of a child assassin, but dutiful all the same.
[break][break] It takes but a moment for the hatred to wash over this new child — for it to show
Aurelie Lefevre visions of the things that she undoubtedly abhors. To take advantage of the strings that all humans have, because
all humans are weak. And it takes only but a minute for it to drag
Aurelie Lefevre towards their new victims with the
POWER of scorn and dislike, providing them a weapon to wield in the form of an icy blade.
[break][break] And as they barrel towards
Aurelie Lefevre's chosen victims, whoever they may be, it's tail lashes out — a caterwaul echoes through the air, just as a
RUINATION descends.
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They barrel towards their destiny, he and
fern delaney.
HATRED froths his blood, baked into his very make, as they approach the sight of bubbled pink energy and the sight of a roaring Kyogre in the distance.
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'Stop the rat,' Admin
fern delaney says, but
jayden cross's gaze is focused on
one demon-rat that has been in his nightmares from that day in the Cave of Origin. Of the jeweled amber-lit arrogance of
MATIAS SILPH eyes, as he smugly remarks to
annalise henderson:
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'They hate you more than me.'[break][break]
"WRONG," the Cursed suddenly snarls, hatred rippling out from him like waves, even from where he sits behind
fern delaney, like the good partner he is. Perhaps it is the result of their touch, their presence, or the months of training aside self-made demons like
THEO BECKETT and
Elisabeth Fiorelli — the
HATRED ripples like ice across the space before them, but not enough to make him fly into a rage of fury, even upon seeing
MATIAS SILPH.
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DESOLATE LAND crackles beneath them, the furious heat intensifying amidst the gunfire and barrage of attacks. Immediately, a
HATEFUL BLIZZARD surges around him and everyone nearby, for better or worse. Ice blasts from his palms in perfect sync, aiming to shatter the spikes threatening his family.
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"WE HATE YOU BOTH. YOU ARE A CANCER TO THIS REGION MATIAS SILPH, AND ANYONE THAT YOU ASSOCIATE WITH. A CANCER THAT MUST BE CUT."[break][break] He thinks of his conversation with
ameena abadi, not so long atop the burnt embers of Mt. Pyre. Over the remains of the
kyle lopez's grave.
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"YOU ALREADY KILLED kyle lopez, AND TRIED TO DESTROY HOENN ONCE BEFORE."[break][break]
"YOU ARE AN ENEMY OF THE REGION. AN ENEMY OF US."[break][break] His eyes briefly flicker to
Hitoshi Inoue and
Alba Evovae. His voice resonates through the comms with authority.
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"DESTROY THEM."[break][break] From where he sits calmly on Meraxes' back, his hands gently placed on
fern delaney's waist, several Ice Glaives materialize in the air. After a brief pause, they slice toward their target—not
annalise henderson, but her Mew.
[break][break] Childhood memories of
illeana reyes briefly surface, only to be buried beneath the unrelenting blizzard of hatred that engulfs them.
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[attr="class","icon-rocket"] location: F2 NEAR
annalise henderson (matias, hitoshi, and alba also close) [break][break]
jayfern moment x2 :CATTO: and also FEATURING JAYDEN BEING A GOOD MALEWIFE <3 [break][break]
JAYFERN > MANNAL DAY (SORRY SPACE)
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tldr — jayden arrives on F2 alongside fern. he first uses
ICE CONSTRUCTS to attempt to defend
Hitoshi Inoue,
Alba Evovae and
fern delaney from harm (emphasis more on himself and fern though). the presence of
MATIAS SILPH ignites a
HATEFUL BLIZZARD and he attempts to pierce
MEW with several blades of ice (
LIKE THIS)
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CHIEN PAO (D4, or wherever
Aurelie Lefevre is) embodies
Aurelie Lefevre with
HATRED, a temporary symbiote while jayden reunites with his lover. as aurelie runs to attack rayaquaza, it uses
RUINATION.
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