The Guardians of Leech, Ground and Corruption
"No...?" Liro answered Cyra.
"No, obviously not, I'm just a little figment of your imagination biting your finger and speaking to your mind. Oh, and hi Cyra."
Cyra turned and glared at Liro. "No, not you. Shush." Talking to two creatures at the same time is just a bit confusing. "Uh hello, who are you?"
"Voices in your head?"
"You remember Remillia, right? Well, I'm the demon that originally possessed her and then merged with her...? I'm not really entirely sure myself." The leech, seeming to wiggle around a little uncomfortably. "Someone's possessed Remillia that isn't me."
"I think it might be the leech?"
"Tell the boy over there he's an idiot."
"-and they say you're an idiot."
Cyra then turned back to the leech in her hand. "Who has possessed her now?" But wasn't Remilia dead?
"She's what ghosts consider dead; a really, really deep sleep. However, if someone were to do it right, they could stir her out of her slumber if they had the right magic. And the guy that did it also has the ability to possess her."
"How are you talking to it?" Liro shifted forward and then saw a bloody hole in Cyra's hand. "O-oh..."
Cyra nearly leapt up in surprise and possibly... joy? Remilia can return to life? But with possession? "Wh- Who possessed her?"
Syndre scrunched up a little, with mixed feelings of fear and confusion. She accidentally swallowed another mouthful of blood as she said "I'm... not entirely sure. I mean, I know who he is; I know him very well, in fact! He used to be my old... boss? Ruler? I'm not entirely sure. I'm pretty sure he's a guardian and I'm pretty sure he doesn't have a good aspect, though." "Some of us refer to him as 'Chaos', but it's unlikely he is actually that aspect."
"A Guardian of Chaos? That's possible, haven't met one yet though. Do you know if he recently awaken?"
"No... I don't." The leech replied slowly, wiggling a little as the she thought."It's quite likely though that he's going to try and kill me. I need to hide."
"Why is he going to kill you if he's your boss?" Cyra stared at the leech in confusion.
"I'm actually rebelling against him. I don't agree with his motives anymore." She stated flatly.
Liro sat still next to Cyra, listening to her one sided conversation. She was talking to the leech about a Guardian of Chaos and Remilia.
"Motives? If he is called Chaos and might possibly be the Guardian of Chaos, does he even have a motive? Or is it just plain destruction and chaos?" This is a bit ironic, now that she thought of it. The Guardian of Corruption? They would have made a good team perhaps. Except that Cyra wasn't sure what to do with herself anymore.
"No one really knows. I really need to hide, however. Could I hide in the idiot's pocket?" The leech asked, sounding a little panicked.
"Oh uh," Cyra started then turned to Liro. "Hey, the leech has to hide, can they hide in your pocket?"
"Uh... Sure I guess..."
"Okay, here you go." Cyra lifted her hand and dropped the leech in Liro's pocket. "But now what?"
Liro felt the leech crawl around in his pocket. "What happened? What's up with this leech?"
"Apparently they're the demon that was merged with Remilia but then this other dude named Chaos kicked them out and possessed Remilia?" Cyra looked in the direction of the trail. Remilia. Alive? "Then the leech felt that Chaos will kill them and needed to hide."
"Alright." Liro dug into the ground and shaped a small dirt cube, he then put it in his pocket. "Crawl around in that I guess."
The leech unhappily wriggled around in the dirt, seeming nervous.
"I don't get why you need a dirt box inside a pocket."
"I thought it needed something to crawl around in." Liro threw his hands in the air. Maybe it was a stupid idea. He turned to Cyra. "How do I communicate with it?"
Cyra looked at Liro with an extremely sarcastic expression and showed him her bloody hand.
"Oh... Well that explains that I guess. Well you can dig into my leg if you need me little leech..."
"That 'little leech' was a demon, just saying"
The leech squirms a little, seeming to decide against talking to the idiotic boy.
"Okay, now that we're done with your useless earth box, now what?"
"Aren't you gonna cover up that wound?" He asked Cyra.
Cyra looked at her hand. "...Maybe."
"Tear a piece of cloth off of your cloak and bandage it."
Cyra grumbled and tore a piece of cloth off her awesome cloak and bandaged the hand. "I don't get why I need to bandage my hand. Well now that we're done with that too, now what?"
"So that you don't bleed to death. Let's go to the origin point of the leech tunnel now?" Liro said and slowly stood up.
Cyra nearly facepalmed. "Liro. The leech was leaving that place. Now you're suggesting we go back?"
"Maybe the leech was right suggesting you're an idiot." She grinned.
"Ok." Liro sighed. "Should we just sit here forever then?"
"Do you want to sit here forever?"
"No, that's why I suggested we go to the origin point." Liro replied to Cyra.
"But the leech came from that point. They probably wanted to get /away/ from that point."
"But don't you want to meet the Guardian of Chaos?"
"I prefer to make sure this demon leech is safe." Especially since they were part of Remilia, she thought to herself.
The leech bit through Liro's pocket and attatched itself to his skin. "He's probably gone from that area now, so it should be safe."
"Besides, he wouldn't expect us to be such idiots as to go to the place where he nearly killed me."
Liro's suddenly turned numb as he yelped out a scream of pain. He then heard a voice in his head. "The leech says it'll be safe."
"Well then let's go, unless you really want to stand around forever. In that case, you can enjoy doing that."