the_overseers: (Baron Archibald von Strauss)
the_overseers ([personal profile] the_overseers) wrote2010-09-06 01:17 pm

The ritual

Who: Kyon and Clone Kyonko
What: Body transference ritual

Deep within a hidden facility warded from watchful eyes within Confuto Ordinatio, Archibald prepared for his ritual. On a nearby pedestal was a black jewel of pure onyx, specially prepared to receive a detached soul. A magic circle was drawn around Kyon, who was bound in place, his limbs magically paralyzed. All that was left was for the damned clone to show up so he could get this over with.

[identity profile] sossanity.livejournal.com 2010-09-06 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Kyon's mind was racing; it didn't take a genius to figure out what was going to happen here. Based on what the Man in Red had said, it was fairly safe to deduce that this "ritual" was going to be some sort of possession attempt. Exactly how it worked, however, he wasn't sure, though that jewel nearby didn't look good.

["Okay, stay calm, stay focused. We have a good idea what they're going to do. We just have to figure out a way to make sure they can't DO... whatever it is."] Of course, this was easier said than done; Kyon couldn't think of a time when he was more scared than he was right now. ["He wants to get to Haruhi. But I'm pretty sure he doesn't realize she doesn't listen to a word I say about her powers. That's advantage 1. Advantage 2 is that I have the only phrase in the universe that will wake her up, and he doesn't have THAT either. I don't think, anyway."]

He tested his arms and legs again, with approximately the same result as before. ["I can't move. But my mind's still working, and my mouth's still working. It looks like the only way I'm getting out of this is to talk my way out."] He shut his eyes. ["And if that doesn't work... damnit, I hope I can keep enough of myself in here so that I can do whatever it is they do on TV and stuff where they have to fight their way out internally."]

He looked at the man in red. "Kinky setup. So this is what you get into, huh?" he asked, hoping for a reaction.

[identity profile] the-overseers.livejournal.com 2010-09-06 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
A telekinetic blow strikes Kyon sharply across the mouth. He may or may not be spitting blood.

"Speak when spoken to, boy," the man growls, tapping his foot impatiently.

[identity profile] sossanity.livejournal.com 2010-09-06 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
There is a little blood, yeah. ["Okay, he's touchy. I can work with touchy."] Hoping he doesn't lose any teeth, he speaks again. "Geez, can't take a jibe. You know, if you're really thinking you have a chance in hell of getting to Haruhi by possessing me, you're going to have to learn how to take worse insults than that." He snorts. "She dishes it out to me every day."

[identity profile] the-overseers.livejournal.com 2010-09-06 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
It is fortunate, then, that I have a duplicate of you to do the job for me. A duplicate of the weaker version, naturally, but I suspect giving her the proper gender will do much for her abilities. And tardiness.

[identity profile] sossanity.livejournal.com 2010-09-06 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
["Wait a second, he's using Kyonko to possess me? Or, uh, her clone, anyway. Interesting. Clever. And only mildly disturbing. Really."]

"I wouldn't talk down so much about girls. After all, Haruhi's a girl, and she's the strongest force in our world," Kyon notes. Inwardly, though, he takes note of this. ["Sexist and arrogant. Man, if I wasn't in such a bad position right now, this would be a piece of cake. Now if I know me, his comments aren't going to go down too well. I can use this too."]

A plan is slowly forming. It's a total last ditch effort -- but he's definitely in the last ditch.

[identity profile] the-overseers.livejournal.com 2010-09-06 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
"Bah, the girl has power, certainly, but she has no control. Her weak emotions keep her from even realizing the truth. Once stripped of her abilities and handed to a proper user, so much greater things can be done."

[identity profile] sossanity.livejournal.com 2010-09-06 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Kyon wishes, more than ever, that he can move. Not to escape. To punch this guy's lights out. "So we guys are really that much the better sex to you, huh? I bet you're a hit at parties." He tries to shift again, and fails. "You know, I bet your little clone servant must love your attitude towards her. She's still me, you know. Same way of thinking, same attitude, everything. Just the hormones are different."

[identity profile] the-overseers.livejournal.com 2010-09-07 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
"She's getting the offer of a true body, one that will allow her to live past two months. Plenty enough reason to follow my orders."

[identity profile] sossanity.livejournal.com 2010-09-07 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
["Two months?! These clones only have a lifespan of two months?!"] This little nugget of information made his head spin. ["Okay, I suppose I can understand how she'd want a new body, but still..."]

He closes his eyes again. ["Okay, so we have a clone who wants a body. But she's a clone of ME, which probably makes her solidly heterosexual. So I can't imagine she'd want a guy body that bad. Then we have a guy who obviously thinks women need to be barefoot and pregnant trying to foist her into my body so he can control ANOTHER girl."]

He opens his eyes. ["I. Can. Use. This."]

"If you say so," he replies. Mentally, he's calculating.

[identity profile] kyonko-narrates.livejournal.com 2010-09-07 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
"Hi, Mr. Pedobear. Sorry I'm late. Cover could've gotten blown if I got here sooner," says the clone in a singsong voice as she enters the room. She glances around, hands clasped behind her back as she circles the magic circle.

Guy-her was pretty cute. It would be such a waste to be in that body.

"So, what do you need me to do to get into his skin?"

Mentally, she's calculating. She's had a lot of time to think about this, after all. Now was the time to make her decision.

[identity profile] the-overseers.livejournal.com 2010-09-07 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
Archibald throws a rather familiar-looking knife into the stone ground, where it sticks out. It is the exact same knife used by one Asakura to attempt to assassinate Kyon and Kyonko.

"You will find the diagrams on the table. Carve the top design onto his chest, and the secondary design onto his back. Cut deep enough to mark him properly."

With a gesture, Kyon's shirt falls away. "Be sure not to disrupt the magic circle I am standing in. I am currently holding a great deal of energy, and disturbing it could dismiss the astral form I am using."

[identity profile] sossanity.livejournal.com 2010-09-07 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
["Okay, that's a whole level of wrong,"] he notes of both the knife and the shirt. ["Wait, gotta focus here."]

"Gotta say, you've got one heck of a master there," he says, watching Kyonko with his eyes. "Giving you a whole male body all to yourself. He's really treating you, isn't he?" He shrugs -- or would if he could. "Of course, who needs a FEMALE body, really? Clearly the guy's got his priorities. What can I say?"

[identity profile] kyonko-narrates.livejournal.com 2010-09-07 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
Even the clone had to wince from the faint memories she has of her other self getting a nice long cut to her kidney from that very knife.

"Everyone's got priorities," she says as she picks up the image of the diagrams and walks up to Kyon, glancing between the image and him to figure out the placement of it on him, "Besides, this is a pretty nice body you have there. It's almost a shame I have to mess it up."

The last part was said with an overly flirtatious wink to his face. Really, his ploy was so obvious. Did he think she'd fall for it?

"Hey, Mr. Pedobear. Will it still be on him once this thing's done or will I not have to worry about coming up with another piece of bullshit?"

Yeah, she only had a couple guaranteed months to live. That's her excuse and she's sticking to it.
Edited 2010-09-07 02:40 (UTC)

[identity profile] the-overseers.livejournal.com 2010-09-07 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
"After the transfer, I will regenerate the wounds on the body. Hurry up, I don't have time to dally here."

[identity profile] sossanity.livejournal.com 2010-09-07 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
Kyon is seriously, seriously uncomfortable with getting flirted with by, well, himself. "You can't seriously enjoy working for this douche, can you?" he asks, trying a different tact. "He doesn't even see you as a human being. You're just a thing, you know. And not even a high quality thing, apparently. And if you're really in any way related DNA wise to me, I bet you wanna punch him in the face as much as I do." He keeps following her with his eyes. "Come on. We could do a much better job of finding a way to help you live longer. And you wouldn't have to do what this asshole wants for the rest of your life -- or put up with Haruhi, for that matter." This isn't really going as well as he'd hoped, though...

[identity profile] kyonko-narrates.livejournal.com 2010-09-07 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
She sees the discomfort and approves. Well, that pretty much seals the deal for her.

"Well, technically, I'm not human. I'm not even a week old," she says as she picks up the knife from where it's stuck in the ground. Ow. Why does her body have to have such strong reactions to the thing? It isn't as painful as the memory, but it is enough to tell her that a knife to the back isn't fun at all.

At least not a literal one.

"Hey," she says, approaching Archibald and holding up the image for him to see, "Last question before I get started: Does this thing have a specific point I need to start from or can I just go wild?"

[identity profile] the-overseers.livejournal.com 2010-09-07 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
"No specific point, but the mark must be near-exact."

[identity profile] sossanity.livejournal.com 2010-09-07 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
Kyon's mind is racing. Isn't this sort of thing supposed to work in the movies?

["But you're not IN a movie, dumbass. This is real life."]

"But, but, but..." He watches the knife, sweating. And then just blurts out the first thing he can think of.

"But you'd be serving under such a goddamn CLICHE! I mean, evil, arrogant, asshole wizard wanting power? Come ON!"

["...Wow, I'm screwed."]

[identity profile] kyonko-narrates.livejournal.com 2010-09-07 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
She tilts her head to the side when she hears that, looking up at Archibald for a moment, thinking the words over.

"You know what?" she says as her foot reaches out across the magic circle, "He is."

That said she brought her foot over the intricately painted runes, smearing them into nothing but a smudge.

"Oops. My foot slipped."
Edited 2010-09-07 03:32 (UTC)

[identity profile] the-overseers.livejournal.com 2010-09-07 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
The look on Archibald's face is of unfathomable rage, but it vanishes along with the rest of him in an instant as Kyon is freed of his bindings.

[identity profile] sossanity.livejournal.com 2010-09-07 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
He just sort of... stares for a moment. Then flexes his arms, then his hands.

"Okay, know that I'm thankful for bailing me out? But you're kinda scary," he says, reaching down for his shirt. "But you know, I wasn't kidding when I said that we might be able to help you live longer."

[identity profile] kyonko-narrates.livejournal.com 2010-09-07 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
"Eh, we'll see. I've only been alive less than a week. A couple months seems like a lifetime away," she says as she turns, dropping the knife since, wow, did that thing traumatize other-her, "Right now, you're cute. And entertaining. I wanna see where this leads."

And then she pouts at him picking up the shirt.

"Do you have to put that on? I was enjoying the view!"

[identity profile] sossanity.livejournal.com 2010-09-07 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
"I KNOW." The redness in his face doesn't go away. "Do you know the way out of here? I've gotta get back and let people know what happened." He looks at her. "And I promise I won't let them do anything to you, okay? I mean, you just saved my... life? Soul? All of the above?" He shrugs. "Either way, you helped a lot."

[identity profile] kyonko-narrates.livejournal.com 2010-09-07 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
She's giggling. She won't stop giggling. And she waves him over with one hand towards the way she came in.

"Door's this way. Come on," she says, "I wanna see where all this leads."

Expect a few comments on his behind if he manages to walk in front of her at any point. His overreaction is hilarious.