toku matsudaira, geezermancer (giri) wrote in emillion,
Vivan & Hashmal - Toku/Lex/Jareth/Peony/Lavitz
On the second day of seeing Vivian Xi, Sage, poised on the shoulder of an earth-rendering beast and raining destruction on the city, the word nightmare no longer seemed to fit the situation. Nightmares were horrors to awake from, but here there would be no awakening. Not for Toku, whose heart already mourned the loss of the woman he had admired above everyone else even as her body remained before him. Certainly not for Vivian, who had answered every one of his pleas the day before with high-level offensive magicks, and would continue her assault until she was defeated.
And so on the second day, Toku offered no entreaties, did not plead with her to see reason. He was so exhausted he no longer felt it, but he knew what he needed to do. To put the woman before him down, before she could destroy everything in sight, before she could warp further the name and image of the Sage they had all looked up to.
"This is where it ends," he said, and called himself back to another time, a younger Toku, katana and magicks wielded against a mighty Cactuar, imagined the thorns blooming on his own skin, and cast 1000 Needles on the woman atop the monster.