Post by Vespertine on Nov 9, 2022 1:29:03 GMT -5
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(A hooded cloaked figure walks into the hospital room where Vespertine is laying. She is not looking good. She has IV drips in her arms and is on a ventilator. Apparently this round of COVID was worse for her than the first time she had it.)
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(The hooded figure stands at the foot of the bed apparently searching for something on his figure. When he finds it, he brings it out, an urn or jar of some kind. He also removes from around his neck, two pendulums or amulets and puts one in each hand.)
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(The figure whispers a few words and from Vespertine, a strange light emanates from her entire body and her soul, a dark purple orb of light, comes from out of her chest, floats over to the cloaked figure and is captured within the jar that the figure holds.)
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FLAT LINE!!!!
(As soon as this happens, what looks to be a portal opens up on the far side of the room and another figure steps out from the red within. This one is wearing all black, but has horns and dark wings. He takes a step closer to Vespertine on the bed but as soon as he moves, the first figure holds up a hand with an amulet and the new figure cringes and snarls at him through fangs for teeth. The first figure takes this opportunity to put the jar back where he found it upon his body.)
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(A minute later a second portal opens with a blue white light and another figure emerges. This one has no horns but is glowing a white light and has white wings. She takes a step closer to Vespertine on the bed and the first figure holds out his other hand and she too cringes and snarls at the first figure. He looks slowly at both of them as they continue to snarl at him but hungrily look at her. He addresses them.)
F1: You can't have her. She is not for you. She is not done here in this world. In this realm. In this plane of existance. And even if she were dead and I was not here, her soul still can't be yours. She is buddhist and she doesn't believe in either of your masters. Only her own. A god like man who lives a 1000 years before either of your two master's sons ever existed. For her, there is no heaven, there is no hell. There is only purgatoy, reincarnation and enlightenment.
(The angel and demon try to break free but he holds up his hands with the silver symbols in both hands up to them more. They take a step back)
F1: The most you can do for her is help me. You don't need her anyway. Heaven can't help her. Hell can't hold her. She doesn't believe in either. She is doomed forever in her purgatory. She is only useful to us. You (indicates the demon) Slow down the time for them to get here.
(The demon holds up a hand and clicks his finger. There is shimmer in the air.)
F1: And you (indicates the angel) open up a portal for me. I need to get to our master's temple monastery before her soul expires.
(The angel steps forward and puts out a hand and points. The portal reopens behind her and in it we see a beautiful courtyard of a compound. The hooded cloaked figure, goes over to Vespertine, unhooks all her tubes and pipes, lifts her up gently and walks towards the portal. One step before, he stops, turns around and addresses the demon.)
F1: Thank you my friend. One more thing. Make sure her existance and time here is wiped clean.
(The demon snarls but does so. The cloaked figure walks through the portal and the angel closes it behind them. She opens a second portal. snarls at the demon, then walks through the second portal. The demon sighs, opens a portal for himself and walks through. The shimmer happens again, time starts again and a minute later the hospital staff come rushing in. They look around confused as to why they are responding to an empty room. Had it always been empty? What did they rush in for anyway? Was the flatline here or somewhere else?)
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(Vespertine lies on a table, unmoving, unbreathing. She is wrapped in a white sheet. The room has Asian tapestries and an alter on the far side of the room. Candles surround her table and incense lets off smoke on the alter. The hooded figure from before comes in, removes his shoes and then goes to the alter to kneel before it. A second or two later from behind another sliding door another figure comes in, removes his shoes and goes over to the table to where Vespertine lay. The first figure gets up and goes to stand on the other side of the table.)
F2: And this is how you found her?
F1: Yes Master.
F2: And did you collect her soul?
F1: Yes Master.
F2: Very good Takashi. (He looks at Vespertine's peaceful face) She is not done in this world. The Keepers need more of her expertise. She was beautiful.
Takashi: Still is, master.
F2: Yes. Let's see how she comes back this time.
(Takashi hands the jar with Vespertine's soul to the Master. The Master takes it, looks at it, says a few whispered words to it, then opens the lid and the purple orb floats out and down and goes into Vespertine's chest. Her body rises, chest arches, then she lays still. The master smiles.)
Master: She still fights for life. She doesn't want to go either.
Takashi: This is her third time. Will her body be willing to take her soul this time?
Master: We shall see. Hopefully it doesn't reject it. It was close to being rejected last time. She is needed. She knows this. So she fights to stay so she can stay to fight. Let's begin.
(Takashi goes over to the alter and brings an incense stick and waves it over Vespertine's still form. The Master starts chanting in a low tone and touchs her at very places around her body, mostly where her heart is. Not touching her body actually for his hands are several inches above her body. Almost like he is touching her aura. His chanting grows and then he touches her forehead. In an instant, Vespertine lets out a wheezened breath, her upper body comes up trying for all the world to collect air into her lungs. She opens her eyes and we see they are yellow like a serpent's eyes, they go red into cat slits for pupils, finally turning a deep black then slowly they return to her normal color and as she breathes in slower, her upper body goes back down to lay on the table, momentarily stunned by her resurrection. Her eyes dart back and forth between the two figures. Before she can speak though....)
Master: Easy child. You are still needed on this plane of existance. I know, I know you have questions. The Keepers will answer them later. Now, sleep.
(He passes a hand over he eyes, she closes them and instantly falls asleep. Takashi and the Master quietly exit the room leaving her to sleep soundly.)
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::slow faint heartbeat starts up::
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::voices:: One man, one woman
(Eyes partially open. She looks down, she is strapped to a table. She closes her eyes again to concentrate on the words.)
Man: We need to do a reset. And how in all the hells of buddha did she get sick? She was not destined to get sick. Or even die this way.
Woman: You want to do a reset? On her. She needs to finish what she started.
Man: And what do you think she has started? This is her third life since high school.
Woman: There is a target that needs to be taken out near Okinawa. Then a relative of Kim Jung in the Southern province of North Korea needs to be collected. Program her for that. Then we can let her loose back into the world until her skills are needed again.
Man: Do we wipe her memory?
(Here, the voice becomes muffled and goes in and out, as if her hearing or hearing aid is going wonky.)
Man: And her parents? What do we tell her?
(muffled voice again but she catches the last part of the sentence) Tell her, that's how they died. She'll believe.
Man: And what do do about her current.... enfatuation?
Woman: Enfatuation? Of what exactly?
Man: She thinks she is a pro wrestler. Something about being on the roster at UGWC. She has been Cross Hemisphere Champion. Once-
(A third voice pipes up from somewhere.)
Voice: Keeper Hatari. Keeper Yemenle. You might want to take a look at this. This was more than just COVID.
(Eyes open, head turns and we see two people in labcoats walk over to a third person on a computer who is typing furiously. Head turns again and we see the other side of the room. A guard stands there. If he notices her head move and her eyes open, he doesn't show it.)
Keeper Hatari: What am I looking at? Is that-?
voice: It's like she's been hacked into, rewired to destruct herself or shut down in some way. COVID was just an activation.
Keeper Hatari: COVID was just an activation? For what?
Keeper Yemenle: Like I said, we need to do a reset. She's awake anyway.
(Keeper Yemenle walks over to a table, picks up a syringe, does that finger tap thing against it, then walks over to Vespertine who by this time has turned her head to look at him. He goes behind her head, there is a prick. There is a scream. Hers? Someone else's? The guard's? The voice in her head? Keeper Yemenle comes back into view to stand in front of her.)
Keeper Yemenle: There now. Don't be afraid. We need to do some rework on you while we figure out the - (voice gets muffled, eyes get heavy. Sleep comes.)
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(Eyes partially open. Muffled voices again. She looks around and then the voices become clear as if she has to concentrate real hard to make the voices clear. There seems to be some arguement? Dispute? Over her? Or something, someone else?)
Keeper Hatari: And if we keep her in that state too long, we may lose her for good. She passed all tests scoring the highest we have ever seen. Every mission she has been on, there was very little evidence, very little casulties, except for her targets.
Another Keeper: But what was she before all this? In what year did you put her into? Before that COVID hijack link happened? And just how did that hijack happen? She was supposed to be immune from all diseases biological, man made, nature made, space related.
Another keeper: We didn't figure on a human hijacker taking over like that.
Keeper Yemenle: She was a wrestler on the roster of United Global Wrestling Coalition. Year: 2022. Month: November.
Keeper Hatari: I'm wondering, if we keep resetting and rebooting her, will she remember any of this? Or will she go off grid like Alpha did. You know how close they were. Keeper Samneal, we can keep sending her on missions in the Far East but how long can we keep doing that before they realize who the Ghost is and how they can hack into her brain. And what do we do if they hack her to turn against us? Or even if Alpha finds her and does the same.
Keeper Yemenle: On the other side of the coin. Her body is older than it looks, she takes risks in the ring that does not guarantee safety. How long before her body and her soul break down permanently, then we have to give her to the Verse for Enlightment. I don't want that to be what makes her accident prone on her missions.
(A few moments of silence, all lost in thought. Then...)
Keeper Samneal: James was supposed to be her handler. Has someone brought him in yet?
Keeper Hatari: He is in the same hospital. He was looking out for her but someone made an attempt on his life. We think the same person or persons who hijacked her.
(A few moments of muffled voices. Something is wearing off. She strains to hear the last remnants of conversation before she goes under again.)
Keeper Yemenle: Give her another "handler." Send her back to 2022, let her continue whatever she was doing in UGWC. Until we figure out the target and where Kim Jun's relative is in, we have no reason to activate her. Wipe her memory. Make her think she is new to the federation. Install a new martial art as well. When she wakes have Master O-
Keeper Hatari: Wait a minute, given the years she has been in the ring, no one would believe with her skills and talents that she would be new to the business.
Keeper Samneal: What do you suggest?
4th Keeper Unnamed: Actually, at this stage, it's not about remembering who she was or what she was, but more about what she is like when she comes back. Remember between 1st life and second life, for months she was a different person until we figured out what the problem was and had to do a reset.
Keeper Yemenle: Hmmm.... she is awake, alive and her soul is back in her body. Collector Takashi said, the forces of Heaven and Hell tried to take her but he forced them back. Somehow he got them to help get her out of the hospital. So there is that. Maybe more evidence, and more conversation needs to happen before we loose her back into the world.
Keeper Samneal: And maybe, we can write her personality to be more.... (voice goes muffled, sleep comes again)
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(A hooded cloaked figure walks into the hospital room where Vespertine is laying. She is not looking good. She has IV drips in her arms and is on a ventilator. Apparently this round of COVID was worse for her than the first time she had it.)
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(The hooded figure stands at the foot of the bed apparently searching for something on his figure. When he finds it, he brings it out, an urn or jar of some kind. He also removes from around his neck, two pendulums or amulets and puts one in each hand.)
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(The figure whispers a few words and from Vespertine, a strange light emanates from her entire body and her soul, a dark purple orb of light, comes from out of her chest, floats over to the cloaked figure and is captured within the jar that the figure holds.)
::heartbeat slows::
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FLAT LINE!!!!
(As soon as this happens, what looks to be a portal opens up on the far side of the room and another figure steps out from the red within. This one is wearing all black, but has horns and dark wings. He takes a step closer to Vespertine on the bed but as soon as he moves, the first figure holds up a hand with an amulet and the new figure cringes and snarls at him through fangs for teeth. The first figure takes this opportunity to put the jar back where he found it upon his body.)
::Flat line continues::
(A minute later a second portal opens with a blue white light and another figure emerges. This one has no horns but is glowing a white light and has white wings. She takes a step closer to Vespertine on the bed and the first figure holds out his other hand and she too cringes and snarls at the first figure. He looks slowly at both of them as they continue to snarl at him but hungrily look at her. He addresses them.)
F1: You can't have her. She is not for you. She is not done here in this world. In this realm. In this plane of existance. And even if she were dead and I was not here, her soul still can't be yours. She is buddhist and she doesn't believe in either of your masters. Only her own. A god like man who lives a 1000 years before either of your two master's sons ever existed. For her, there is no heaven, there is no hell. There is only purgatoy, reincarnation and enlightenment.
(The angel and demon try to break free but he holds up his hands with the silver symbols in both hands up to them more. They take a step back)
F1: The most you can do for her is help me. You don't need her anyway. Heaven can't help her. Hell can't hold her. She doesn't believe in either. She is doomed forever in her purgatory. She is only useful to us. You (indicates the demon) Slow down the time for them to get here.
(The demon holds up a hand and clicks his finger. There is shimmer in the air.)
F1: And you (indicates the angel) open up a portal for me. I need to get to our master's temple monastery before her soul expires.
(The angel steps forward and puts out a hand and points. The portal reopens behind her and in it we see a beautiful courtyard of a compound. The hooded cloaked figure, goes over to Vespertine, unhooks all her tubes and pipes, lifts her up gently and walks towards the portal. One step before, he stops, turns around and addresses the demon.)
F1: Thank you my friend. One more thing. Make sure her existance and time here is wiped clean.
(The demon snarls but does so. The cloaked figure walks through the portal and the angel closes it behind them. She opens a second portal. snarls at the demon, then walks through the second portal. The demon sighs, opens a portal for himself and walks through. The shimmer happens again, time starts again and a minute later the hospital staff come rushing in. They look around confused as to why they are responding to an empty room. Had it always been empty? What did they rush in for anyway? Was the flatline here or somewhere else?)
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(Vespertine lies on a table, unmoving, unbreathing. She is wrapped in a white sheet. The room has Asian tapestries and an alter on the far side of the room. Candles surround her table and incense lets off smoke on the alter. The hooded figure from before comes in, removes his shoes and then goes to the alter to kneel before it. A second or two later from behind another sliding door another figure comes in, removes his shoes and goes over to the table to where Vespertine lay. The first figure gets up and goes to stand on the other side of the table.)
F2: And this is how you found her?
F1: Yes Master.
F2: And did you collect her soul?
F1: Yes Master.
F2: Very good Takashi. (He looks at Vespertine's peaceful face) She is not done in this world. The Keepers need more of her expertise. She was beautiful.
Takashi: Still is, master.
F2: Yes. Let's see how she comes back this time.
(Takashi hands the jar with Vespertine's soul to the Master. The Master takes it, looks at it, says a few whispered words to it, then opens the lid and the purple orb floats out and down and goes into Vespertine's chest. Her body rises, chest arches, then she lays still. The master smiles.)
Master: She still fights for life. She doesn't want to go either.
Takashi: This is her third time. Will her body be willing to take her soul this time?
Master: We shall see. Hopefully it doesn't reject it. It was close to being rejected last time. She is needed. She knows this. So she fights to stay so she can stay to fight. Let's begin.
(Takashi goes over to the alter and brings an incense stick and waves it over Vespertine's still form. The Master starts chanting in a low tone and touchs her at very places around her body, mostly where her heart is. Not touching her body actually for his hands are several inches above her body. Almost like he is touching her aura. His chanting grows and then he touches her forehead. In an instant, Vespertine lets out a wheezened breath, her upper body comes up trying for all the world to collect air into her lungs. She opens her eyes and we see they are yellow like a serpent's eyes, they go red into cat slits for pupils, finally turning a deep black then slowly they return to her normal color and as she breathes in slower, her upper body goes back down to lay on the table, momentarily stunned by her resurrection. Her eyes dart back and forth between the two figures. Before she can speak though....)
Master: Easy child. You are still needed on this plane of existance. I know, I know you have questions. The Keepers will answer them later. Now, sleep.
(He passes a hand over he eyes, she closes them and instantly falls asleep. Takashi and the Master quietly exit the room leaving her to sleep soundly.)
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::slow faint heartbeat starts up::
::faint heartbeat::
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::voices:: One man, one woman
(Eyes partially open. She looks down, she is strapped to a table. She closes her eyes again to concentrate on the words.)
Man: We need to do a reset. And how in all the hells of buddha did she get sick? She was not destined to get sick. Or even die this way.
Woman: You want to do a reset? On her. She needs to finish what she started.
Man: And what do you think she has started? This is her third life since high school.
Woman: There is a target that needs to be taken out near Okinawa. Then a relative of Kim Jung in the Southern province of North Korea needs to be collected. Program her for that. Then we can let her loose back into the world until her skills are needed again.
Man: Do we wipe her memory?
(Here, the voice becomes muffled and goes in and out, as if her hearing or hearing aid is going wonky.)
Man: And her parents? What do we tell her?
(muffled voice again but she catches the last part of the sentence) Tell her, that's how they died. She'll believe.
Man: And what do do about her current.... enfatuation?
Woman: Enfatuation? Of what exactly?
Man: She thinks she is a pro wrestler. Something about being on the roster at UGWC. She has been Cross Hemisphere Champion. Once-
(A third voice pipes up from somewhere.)
Voice: Keeper Hatari. Keeper Yemenle. You might want to take a look at this. This was more than just COVID.
(Eyes open, head turns and we see two people in labcoats walk over to a third person on a computer who is typing furiously. Head turns again and we see the other side of the room. A guard stands there. If he notices her head move and her eyes open, he doesn't show it.)
Keeper Hatari: What am I looking at? Is that-?
voice: It's like she's been hacked into, rewired to destruct herself or shut down in some way. COVID was just an activation.
Keeper Hatari: COVID was just an activation? For what?
Keeper Yemenle: Like I said, we need to do a reset. She's awake anyway.
(Keeper Yemenle walks over to a table, picks up a syringe, does that finger tap thing against it, then walks over to Vespertine who by this time has turned her head to look at him. He goes behind her head, there is a prick. There is a scream. Hers? Someone else's? The guard's? The voice in her head? Keeper Yemenle comes back into view to stand in front of her.)
Keeper Yemenle: There now. Don't be afraid. We need to do some rework on you while we figure out the - (voice gets muffled, eyes get heavy. Sleep comes.)
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(Eyes partially open. Muffled voices again. She looks around and then the voices become clear as if she has to concentrate real hard to make the voices clear. There seems to be some arguement? Dispute? Over her? Or something, someone else?)
Keeper Hatari: And if we keep her in that state too long, we may lose her for good. She passed all tests scoring the highest we have ever seen. Every mission she has been on, there was very little evidence, very little casulties, except for her targets.
Another Keeper: But what was she before all this? In what year did you put her into? Before that COVID hijack link happened? And just how did that hijack happen? She was supposed to be immune from all diseases biological, man made, nature made, space related.
Another keeper: We didn't figure on a human hijacker taking over like that.
Keeper Yemenle: She was a wrestler on the roster of United Global Wrestling Coalition. Year: 2022. Month: November.
Keeper Hatari: I'm wondering, if we keep resetting and rebooting her, will she remember any of this? Or will she go off grid like Alpha did. You know how close they were. Keeper Samneal, we can keep sending her on missions in the Far East but how long can we keep doing that before they realize who the Ghost is and how they can hack into her brain. And what do we do if they hack her to turn against us? Or even if Alpha finds her and does the same.
Keeper Yemenle: On the other side of the coin. Her body is older than it looks, she takes risks in the ring that does not guarantee safety. How long before her body and her soul break down permanently, then we have to give her to the Verse for Enlightment. I don't want that to be what makes her accident prone on her missions.
(A few moments of silence, all lost in thought. Then...)
Keeper Samneal: James was supposed to be her handler. Has someone brought him in yet?
Keeper Hatari: He is in the same hospital. He was looking out for her but someone made an attempt on his life. We think the same person or persons who hijacked her.
(A few moments of muffled voices. Something is wearing off. She strains to hear the last remnants of conversation before she goes under again.)
Keeper Yemenle: Give her another "handler." Send her back to 2022, let her continue whatever she was doing in UGWC. Until we figure out the target and where Kim Jun's relative is in, we have no reason to activate her. Wipe her memory. Make her think she is new to the federation. Install a new martial art as well. When she wakes have Master O-
Keeper Hatari: Wait a minute, given the years she has been in the ring, no one would believe with her skills and talents that she would be new to the business.
Keeper Samneal: What do you suggest?
4th Keeper Unnamed: Actually, at this stage, it's not about remembering who she was or what she was, but more about what she is like when she comes back. Remember between 1st life and second life, for months she was a different person until we figured out what the problem was and had to do a reset.
Keeper Yemenle: Hmmm.... she is awake, alive and her soul is back in her body. Collector Takashi said, the forces of Heaven and Hell tried to take her but he forced them back. Somehow he got them to help get her out of the hospital. So there is that. Maybe more evidence, and more conversation needs to happen before we loose her back into the world.
Keeper Samneal: And maybe, we can write her personality to be more.... (voice goes muffled, sleep comes again)
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