After the Fall RPG

Her mind was at peace, her own will was in control and freedom at it's best, never again would she let another violate her mind. Her mind transverse back to the horror of which took place during the modern historic battle in Olympus. It flashes back and forth, she saw herself fighting againt Umbra and the uncontrollable actions she had caused as well as the long lasting reprecussion that she had inflicted onto a god by the name of Victor Grey as well as Hercules and Apollo. She saw the way she drilled her mind into their's and brutally tore them apart, but the worse of the three to suffer from Sayomi's assault was Victor. She completely warped his mind, erasing and instilling new memories, doubting himself of his past experience while left with the new haunting ones. Her eyes squinted in pain as she tried to block out the details that lingered onto her mind, it sticks onto her and continued to remain attached. A voice from the palace interupted her moment of battling peace in the garden, "My princess, the empress awaits you at the throne room, it's urgent." a servant spoke, "I understand, now leave." she said abbrasively, fustrated by her duties, title, and the constant remind of grim memories. "We are to head off any mystical protection for our borders to expand it, psychic and magic shutdown." the empress spoke, informing every body within the palace that all psychic and magical protective spells were to be dismiss for them to reestablish them later to expand it to the other nations under the Nakumura empire.

This meant during the mean time, Japan would be vulnerable to any invasion through those means, but did not mean it was for the taking. There were still officials and others who awaited for so to strike, to defend their beloved nation, and vast majority of witches and psychics within the imperial palace monitoring the activities within Japan to prevent any intrusion. She made her way back to the garden of Okuni. A place she find inspiring for the image and scenery it displayed, the area itself was named after a famed Kobuki dancer, which Sayomi was excelled quite good at. Her long draping kimono hid her feet and added a depth of mystery underneath them. Her multilateral nicely ornamental and long flowing patterns of floral design added with a transparent pink scarf to match the kimono, she gently bent down to her knees to touched a withering flower. "Ahhh, a god before my presence." she said quietly, marking the arrival of Alceus the true Olympian champion, the 'Golden Hero'. "Charmix, I know we're not on the best of terms. But I need your help", he said with multi-expressed emotions behind them. She felt the winds of his landing from the flocking of birds that sent her modern tradition hairdo flowing, the top wrapped up in a bun with assorted butterfly pins and her longer layer remaining free from constriction. A soft vibrant aura appeared in her palm, her faint voice whispered something as ancient as the pyramids or before man's time, the voice of magic. Renewing the plant's very celluar structure to a degree that would give it a second chance of living just a little longer along with it's companion.

She got up from her half knee like posture, "Pathetic, a god showing before me asking for help, the very beings that used me in their game as pawns." a hatred of flames ignited inside her, just then her own personal guards arrived, the magic priestess known as the Amaterasu aka the Lumen Clan, who all wore identitical silk garments and the samurais known as the Tsukuyomi aka the Umbra Clan, who wore traditonal samurai armor with the added new updates that provided efficient durability and twin blade katana as well as their unique ability to merge and travel within the darkness. All crowding and standing in front of the princess, readying themselves for a fight that was not to come, a gesture from her hands and a word to follow "Hault, leave us." she commanded, "My princess this is not wise, are you sure?" a member from the male Tsukiyomi division spoke, "Do you really think I'm that stupid? Asked another question like that and I'll be sure to have your head hanging on the palace like a trophy, or better yet send it back to your parents. Now all of you, leave!" all of them bowed before her and left the scene, but not to far just enough for them to not hear the princess and her new guest tongue's speak.

"Funny, correct? The way you found me." she said as she gave off a devious smile, "The magical wards protectinig this land are down, the very thing that allowed you to track me, if it were up you had no hopes of entering and no chance of meeting me face to face. Ooh opps look like I gave a weakness for the moment." she said as she insuated a sarcastic remark due her explaining how he was able to make ground in the land of the Rising Sun. "Wait I know why your here, its a fight am I correct, seeking retribution for the actions I caused on your brothers, tell me has Athena found the cure for the sill brain dead Apollo. Has the wise one not yet found a remedy? Of course what was done can be ridden but it looks like she's out of the picture, all wise one are truly the fools. What of Helena and her former love interest, Closure, he seems to be in the picture quite a lot, how are you handling that problem? So many problem so very few solutions." Sayomi began taunting Alceus, but hid her own feelings, she felt the need to let no one know of regrets she had in her, but continue to flaunt around with false projections. "I can feel confusion, you thought that and Athena had cleansed them all along with the renewed Apollo, but tell me how is Victor today?" she was striking for nerves this time instead of her physical route she went for emotional ones, knowing he would feel some sort of pain in knowing that the magic Athena had performed failed and was short relief.

She walked around him in circles, the dragging silk behind her followed her trail and gave her movement to that of a venomous snake. The Mistress of Magic also known as the Grand Illuionist, a witch by many title circled the god, attacking every corner of his esteem and psyche. "Tell me, ever since the battle for the throne, did you experience change?" she questioned, change not physically but change in other ways: spiritually, "I can feel something inside you, not there when I last met you but here now. Not through psychic means, but through magical means, theres a spark inside you, awaiting for full ignition.... Everything catching on now, you've come here for help, in hopes I would help you spark a wildfire for you to learn the craft. Am I correct?" she laughed, insuring him no hopes of her help after all. The cold heart witch laughed in symphony with the whistles of the winds, "You've lost so much and gain so little, Alceus. Now why are you here? Are you hoping I would fight you for vengeance to ease yourself of all the pains of your fallen brothers and sisters, for Victor, or better yet for Park? Sadly he had to die, maybe it was better this way, to ease him of what the future had to offer, the weak never last long any ways. Or were you hoping that, I was seeking charity, begging for mercy and solace for my crimes?" in truth she was seeking the latter, but she couldn't admit it, even the Mistress of Magic was in self conflict. She knew why he was here, but she needed to hear his explanation to move her, which she wanted to do so bad, but refuse to give up her false stance.

"Are you finished?", he asked, his voice carrying a sarcastic tone like she once had, "You are just like Clara. You both think so highly of yourselves, somebody ought to knock both of you off those pedestals", "Aww is that anger or jealousy I sense? Or maybe both, of course you wouldn't know the feeling your nothing but a rug to Olympus." she responded stopping her tracks to stare at his profile. "You're right on one thing though. I did come here to learn something from you. And I think you'll accept", he said, Sayomi allowed him to finish through, she wanted to hear what he had to say. "After all, you do seem different since last I saw you. Although I'm surprised you harbor no guilt over what you've done. That's pretty inhuman of you", he finished, and he was right, she was not the same, more angry and more brassy, maybe leading her down the road of insanity. "What you did to Victor's mind, Athena and Apollo were only able to lessen the effects. Victor is still mentally unhealed", Alceus said, he was rather calmed even though it killed him to see his brother in that condition, "Now I don't know if you have a heart, but if you do, I'm sure you feel guilty about what you did, any decent person would. Either you really don't care, or you're hiding your true feelings really well. Which is it? Why am I even asking, you'll probably lie to me anyway", a soft chuckled left his mouth, before continuing, "I would have come here with Victor just so you could see how he is, but he'd likely try and kill you considering how pissed off at you he is". She didn't want to care, but something inside her was killing her to do so, her true inner nature.

"If you weren't gonna help me, you wouldn't have given me the time of the day. You would've ordered your guards to fight me or something. Yet you dismissed them all. There's a reason behind that. Either you've considered accepting my request or you have some other objective in mind", he said, "Either way, I need to learn healing magic". "And I must learn it from the best of the best. Unfortunately, the best of the best is you", she was speechless after so much she has caused him, he rather remained faithful towards her and calm, something she envied, his vision and eyes to see past through her and harbor some sort of trust, honesty, ...friendship. "I know that someone like you wouldn't accept my request without wanting something in return. What's the price I have to pay for your help in this?", he was half right but she had to do it, to rid herself of the guilt she had attached to her, "Flattery will get you anywhere my Golden Hero, but I love the enthusiasm you display and I'm willing to help you." she said, twirling her hair through her fingers, "You've got one main importance of magic down, the rules of equivalence. As for my compensation I rather cash out when the time is right, but you'll know when." she finished.

"The magic your seeking has rules and one main definition to the extent of what you can and cannot do that is like any other magic. You cannot in anyway resurrect the dead, doing so will kill you." she said bluntly, knowing full well that the kind of magic and energy required to do so will drain a witch of their own life force and accomplish nothing but the end of their own life to meet their beloved decease ones. "I hope your taking notes, this is rather important especially the golden main rules in magic." she said before continuing on, "You being a god can channel your own source of magic, but using to much will once again kill you, just because your a god doesn't make you an infinite pool of energy, your just as limited to any other human or natural witch, but with more reserves." so far she told him three main rules in magic and the level of magic he can do and not do. She moved away and walked towards an area in the garden with frail flowers, insulating for him to follow her. "See this, flowers, those on the verge of dying. You can heal them, bring them back from their death because their connected to magic in the sense magic is drawn from the world and nature around, but to do so with a human is different. Partly to play with the components of a human person or the fact that doing so will go against the balance of nature. Whatever you do, never disrupt the balance of nature, you will set and release dire consequences. Magic is about balance, what you do has a price to be filled in to keep the scale in equality. Tipping the scale will adversely cause some sort of harm that you do not want to experience." her understanding of magic was vast and she was telling him on nature and importance of the mystical force.

She kneeled down but not enough to touched the ground and place her hands on some of the old flowers, the same aura of light glowed when she healed a flower from before reemerged. Speaking in a soft voice, she healed the flowers and restored them, "Nature and human have one thing in common, they're both alive, but also have one thing not in common, one is part of a stronger force while the other is a servant." her comparison might of been a little off but she knew he would understand. "Magic is a force much more superior but is almost similar to science and chemistry. There are things that need to be stimulated to work some effort into magic." she cups one of her hand in a way to show both two viewers, instantly it began to spark and emit electrical energy that danced on her palms and fingers, "The science of this is ionizing the air and charging the electrons." the dancing sparks of energy then shifted into pure flames that erupted from her palm, "One who works and is skilled to a high degree would see the similarity to the two force, the structure of it being plasma as the mundane scientist would call it. Just as I superheated the electrons I could shift the air pressure around it and as well to coalesces the electrons to shift the plasmid energy, thus bring life into this open flame." this skill of relations between the two elements was one no witch could have done, but her skill and mastery in the forces allowed her just that.

There was no doubt that she was the Mistress of Magic for no reason, she was displaying them and her knowledge gave her the perfect candidate for Alceus to approached her from the beginning and dismissing all other witches around the world. She mentally disperse the flames, "Come, one more field study before we move on to another friend I'd like you to meet again." she meant that he was going to meet another person whom he was definitely quite familiar with but she lead him to the near by pond with many fishes swimming peacefully. The water then began to move and rise, she was manipulating a small portion of water enough to form a goblet on top of her open palm that remained still. "This is how every novice's witch or those unable to grasp the concept of magic is." she said as the perfect sphere of water began to move in a fluid like motion with no real definition of shape, "Magic is quite fluid, it is about understanding and patience to influencing the force, once you do you get a sturdy grasp of it. Turning it into something beautiful, control." the moving unshaped water then formed into a perfect diamond sphere, pure diamond, the hardest mineral substance on Earth. She could see the astonished look in his eyes, similar to a kid witnessing fire works for the first time. With her concentration cease the diamond transmuted back into water that fell through her fingers and on top of her hand to make it's way to the pond.

"Now that you know the bits and pieces of it, there's someone we have to see, someone you know quite well that will benefit you into unlocking this spark.... the hard way. I like to see you pit against her, see if you can use your already mastery of energy in a new form...." she said as she then used the winds of nature to lift them fly them to the city, Kyoto. The winds took them at fast paste, "Do you feel that? The winds?" she asked, "Open yourself to them, breathe it in, taste it, the infinite element that is everywhere today. Try to connect to it, it may sound absurd and hard but your latent gifts should allow you a small connection. Once you feel the tingle in your body from the connection, pull onto to it, and don't let go. Open yourself to it, and hold on to it." she instructed, giving him baby steps in unlocking his potential, though she knew he wasn't going to get it now, but she at least had to let him know what he was doing and trying to accomplice which he couldn't as of right now. After several minutes they arrive in Kyoto, "You could stop now, you'll get it later. Were here." the two arrived in the prestigious Zeraz Industry, Japan's section of the corporation, "So tell me where is Victor now?" she questioned, wanting to know how he was and his current conditions. As the two entered the building they were greeted by the front office, "I bet you can't wait to see her again." Sayomi said and smiled as the two entered the complex and was directed towards the one and only Clara Mass. The two women met eyes and greeted each others with bees kiss, kissing both cheeks on one another's face. "Clara, I need your help with something, help our Golden Hero unlock something hidden, pull the strings and kill him." she finished, the area around the three then changed and they were brought to an open field, no doubt it was Clara's power, warping the fields of reality. The battle between the two was now going to start and she stood a couple feet away, watching as the two engage in a battle that was never to be finished.

She could hear the murmers that left Alcues mouth "So I'm supposed to fight Clarice huh?" in response, Sayomi's remained quiet as she watched from the sides of the two opposing positions. As oppose to Clarice's response "Yes, you're suppose to fight me." who seemed thrilled to do so as she gestured a flirtatious lick to her red cherry lips. "Well, we both knew this day would eventually come. I just didn't think it would be this soon.", he finished as he prepared to battle Clara. The two then were in the midst of childish bickering, "You planned on fighting me? Now, now I wouldn't want Vasilias to know his eventual enemy is already planning horrid things.", Clarice taunted before the actual physical side got into play, "You're not as trustworthy as you make it seem. Nobody can really be too careful around you, Clarice. I had no choice but to anticipate something like this." unbrushed by whatever words spilled from the red head, Alcues wanted to smash her head and what not, luckily today was the day he would do so. Clarice refused to put any effort in this frozen matched, "I thought this was a private session." acting as usual like a premadonna, "Don't make me regret ever teaching you things, if you want to further your study with me Clara I advise you to do as I say." she said harshly, not wanting to tolerate any bull that came from the red head's mouth, who else would train her? There was no other witch in the world that matched Sayomi's level of knowledge and experise.

"I came to you because well.. you're the best there is when it comes to magic. And I can't question your training methods since you know what you're doing. I can't say the same for Clarice though. She's not even putting her maximum effort into this." Alceus said as he chuckled. "But if this is really what you think will help me ignite that spark, then I guess I'll just have to get her attention myself.", a sigh released from his body through his mouth, she watched as he diverted his attention from the enchantress back to Clarice. "Alright red, let's do this thing. You should be pleased though", he smirked, "This is the first and probably the last time I'll ever fight for your full attention", taunting her to provoke the battle's life and excitement from both parties. Thrusting his left palm, a colossal energy rippled through the air and bended the visible light seen through it, aiming towards Clarice. The magnetic pulse if landed towards her body would violently rip out the ferrous elements within her bodily tissues, which would then result in immense unbearable pain. Sayomi knew Clarice could handle herself, this match between her two students was one that would benefit the both. Already Clarice was learning from Sayomi just as Alceus was, but she still knew little, which was why this battle was needed, so Sayomi could analyze the two in greater perspective.

"Come on Clarice, I know that cute little plant trick of yours isn't the best thing you can do.", Alceus taunted, waiting for the red head to strike back, but Sayomi knew what Clarice was capable of, her own gifts gave her vast capabilities. She could see the magic force around Clarice into play, baby magic, uncontrolled but managable. Clarice began pulling the actions of probability around Alcues, since it was not time consuming as they usually were, Sayomi predicted it was a random hex. Causing the air to speed up around Alceus and imploding the molecules around his body, creating an explosion that shook the battle field. "Good girl." the princess whispered to herself, commenting Clarice's efficient use of her powers, something her training with Sayomi allowed. Both girls shared almost identical gifts but worked in different ways, Clarice was still in the stepping stones, while Sayomi was proficient. Using her magic on a subtle level, she altered the grounds, the soft greens began to protrude long savage vines that moved on their own, she was putting pressue on both sides. She was testing her student's capacity to work in dire situations, seeing if they would handle themselves well, of course both warriors would, but with the enchantments place on the vines, their standard physical combatant skills would be useless, their powers how ever would prove effective. But it was the use and how they improvised that would end the threat, and again resuming to the two to battle alone. Awaiting for the right time to intervene herself, she smiles in hope one of the two knew of the proper way to disable to vines, surely one of them knew about magic.

Both failed to understand the goal in disabling the Vine, Clara proved too reckless and writhed them down into flames, but they had to rid themselves of the danger one way. In truth she was hoping for one them to break forth the connection within mother nature and command it to cease, returning the vines back into their natural state, or cause a turn over on it's cells. Her training provided to the red head prove successful, Clara used the knowledge of power to pull the strings of reality and play it into her own hands. Understanding what she wanted to infect and achieve, her goals were surely to put on a play and win, glory to her. But Alcues reluctance was more to prove his worthiness, she felt it, the flames were growing inside Alceus the second he manipulated the electrical sphere that Clara sent towards him.

"Good job." she commented, speaking in a soft tone that no one would hear. He manage to subdue Clara in a magnetic trap, which he then learned of the feelings of the mystical force, attempting to heal a new by flower he failed, the magic was not in his control, it would be similar to a child who starts a fire but had no control over what it burned. Stretching her right arm in front of her, her hands shot off a focus blast of air that turned into a sonic wave, it was used to disrupt the flow of the magnetic fields that was surrounding Clara, freeing her of Alceus attack. "Enough! I say it was a job well done." she said to the two, "The goal was to see how you guys would operate under the form constant danger, Clara to say had full grasp, your understanding of your magic has grown, but you have much to learn. While you Alcues played by the principles I mentioned earlier, brilliant." she said as she clapped her hands like a royal princess, "The flames of magic burns inside you, but you lack control and finesse to utilize them correctly. Anymore attempts on trying to sway the force of magic it will vary well turn on you, killing you." she stared at the terrain as it shifted back to Clara's office, she herself was amazed at Clara's level of improvement, her ability to manipulate reality was quite awed and formidable.

"Alceus, I know you've been aching to help one person, Victor it is..." she said as she gave a quick pause "Why not experiment along the way? I can both transcend us into his mind, together I can show you the ropes, once were done I can guide you to properly use the energy and 'heal' Victor. What do you say?" she asked. Healing victor was never her goal but she needed Alcues along with Clara in Victor's mind, she needed to find that one special person whom she wanted revenge against, and what better else than to use the connection three players had with Olympus. Of course she hid everything, undetectably, giving off false sincere emotions, thinking and manipulating Alcues into actually having thought of her reform even the last time he met her she was in possession by another great mind. "I mean I've been trying to find Victor all along, knowing deep down, I truly am sorry. But something is blocking me it's as if he doesn't exist any more, of course you know his true location don't you? Bring me to him.... and I'll fix everything I've done." lies and deceit played skillfully, the sad crocodile tears in her eyes only hid her true nature of sadistic intentions, of course Alceus would buy this off and she knew it, not knowing what she really wanted. "You can trust me can you? I'm only my true self, I've just been really sour towards gods after the incident. If you want to help Victor allow me to repair his mind, after all the crafter knows how to undo her works properly...".