Ark 16 Episode 15: True Colors

Participants

 * Leon Ryoji
 * Damon Yun

Into The Night..
(http://www.listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=M8ZHkbnHNMw&index=53&list=PL8F7CB3282F2AB1BE ) “SHING!-SH-SHI-SHSHSHSHS-SHING!” In the night air of district 2 on the beach near his underground home, Leon positioned him self on the water’s surface in the nighttime air. The moon was high and out, as leon, straddled and glided across the water’s surface, swinging his sword in a vertical & horizontal swipes using two hands. He’d stomp his foot on the water’s surface, his chakra keeping him above it like   it was land, and he’d swipe his sword from his right to his left with a long and swift stride! (http://media3.giphy.com/media/138Ta2UGIsups4/giphy.gif ) The water’s surface would respond by creating a wall of water from his force, that arched in a curve. The droplets of water hitting his face, as his emerald eyes pierced the night though his raven black hair. Leon’s wife beater was perfectly dry, as were his modern hakama jean style pants. Leon would take a couple more swings at the air with one hand, before grabbing his sheath with his opposite hand and twirling his sword around with   his left hand, before placing the sheath behind his back, and letting the sword fall into place. (http://i461.photobucket.com/albums/qq334/zikkilicious/DMC/animgifs/vergil_prol_sheathesword1.gif ) as he did this the droplets of water would finaly fall to the rest of the body of water. Leon would inhale and exhale, turning around and walking back twaords the sand shore. Not wanting to return to the house very quickly, he’d go ahead, and take the long pier side walk into the night air. Cooling himself off in a public bathroom by washing his hair a tid bit, he’d return to the city night air. His sword holstered on his hip, and the streets not as busy as usual.

vMegatron: -(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rV40ypje7o) The moon shines brightly over the second district of Kasaihana, like any given night. The bright lights aluminate the city, leaving only the rooftops of high buildings left in the darkness that is the night. On one of these rooftops, Damon rests with his back up against one of the building’s statues. His knees are bent as if he were in a crouching position with his arms resting softly on his knees. (http://arnoldcam.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/spiderman-black-costume.jpg) Using this time in a weak form of meditation, Damon simply sits here in the silence that is in the upper levels of the city. His mind wonders in nothingness as he sits here. Finally, his eyes slowly open. The bright glowing red color eyes that are signature to Super Soldiers emit a small glowing ray of light on top of the building. His acute senses pick up on a familiar smell not too far in distance from where he is perched up. He takes a big whiff in as he quickly pinpoints the scent of origin and having remembered where this scent had come from, he releases a demonic smile that allows his sharp canine teeth to protrude outwards from his lips. His enhanced vision with his Super Soldier eyes allows him to see down below near the Oceanside, a boy no difference in age than his own. Damon quickly leaps down from the position he is in, beginning to freefall down to the surface! His long black hair extends back towards the sky as the friction of the atmosphere is not enough to slow Damon’s forward vertical motion. Just as it looks like Damon is going to faceplant into the ground, with his right hand he grabs a grappling hook gun that had been resting on his hip. This is one of the many equipment items that he had brought from The Land of Fire for his mission of bringing down the remaining living Yun’s. His grappling hook quickly fires out to a small metal pipe hanging out from the nearside building and his body quickly swings across the city street unnoticed by the civilians below him due to his keen stealth tactics to where he can barely make even the smallest peep in any motion. After his swing, he releases the trigger button on the gun and the hook quickly comes un-latched and returns back to the pistol like a well oiled machine. Damon lands on the building that the boy had went into. Damon quickly concludes that it is a bathroom, with the “Men” sign clearly giving that away. When the boy comes out from the bathroom, Damon’s eyes softly glare at the back of his head as he remains hidden behind the building now. As the boy stands outside of the bathroom, Damon slowly brings his entire body out from hiding, now revealing himself and says-“Well hello there kind stranger…Mind helping a new Kasaihanian find where he is going?....I sure could use the help.”-He says in a polite manor as he gives the boy a bright smile, using his sosiopathic tendencies, Damon can quickly change his personality to fit whatever stealth tactic he needs. With his body language, he would look no different than a normal teenager who had just lost his way in the giant city. Damon looks innocent and kind but inside, he knows exactly who this boy is. He recognized his scent from the party at Pippa’s house. As he observed the people at that party he had come to find out that he has a brother, Connor. And while he may not know much about these brothers, with his watching from within the Pippa House, he saw everything that had happened between them and Daisuke. When he was at the party himself, he never left until Daisuke did. Damon looks to figure out who this boy is and hopes that he may come to aid him in his mission, seeing is how they aren’t much different from each other.-

Leon would walk out and see a man standing in front of him.He gave a polite smile and a pretty…built demeanor. “Sorry, but I don’t know too much about this city myself. Maybe someone else who watches the street signs or something can help you out. Not to be rude, but emerging from dark places in this city is a way to get yourself shot. Take heed, that you should.” Leon would nod, and turn, heading back towards the street. Looking both ways before he crossed it, he’d traverse himself to the left, trailing down the side walk, with a raised eyebrow. “Odd one.” Leon would rest his arm on his sword at his hip, and stuff his other hand in his pocket.

vMegatron: -Damon nods his head, acting as though he is taking what Leon is saying as actual advice that he needs. He gives Leon a polite smile as he carries on with his day, putting Damon down. Inside, Damon thinks to himself-“Damn him…Couldn’t just help a guy out…”-Then as Leon begins to walk towards the sidewalk, Damon does the same only now he is a couple feet behind him. When Leon turns towards the left, Damon slowly turns towards the right. With his face pointed away from Leon, he grows an evil smile as he begins to say-“Thanks for the advice…I guess I should just call Connor then…He is the BETTER Ryoji after all…”-He says this in the hopes to possibly piss off the young Leon to get a guick gauge to see how much he actually hates his brother. If Leon were to respond to this at all, it would mean that he either hates his brother completely or hates the fact that he would be called the “Better Ryoji” in comparison to himself. Damon can relate to the same thing that Leon could possibly feel towards his half-brother as he feels he is personally the BETTER Yun. Having already defeated Daisuke in a fight before, it only aids his ego to that fact. Damon walks down the sidewalk, waiting to see a reaction out of Leon. But if there isn’t any kind of reaction to his statement, it would show that Leon has no issue with his brother or that these little things don’t bother him. If that were the case than Damon would get a quick answer to his question of if Leon would be able to help him on his quest for revenge.-

As Leon would be walking, he’d hear the man’s last few words which made him stop dead in his tracks. Leon would turn around, with a glare in his eyes, his left hand now gripping the sheath of the sword he was carrying. He was not one easily angered, but when it came to connor he was quick to irritate. For someone to insinuate Connor was better….was a pet peeve one didn’t cross with Leon. “. . .You’ve got about 5…..seconds….to tell me, who the   hell you think you are.” Leon now fully turned around and looking at the man from behind. “My brother is of none of your concern. That little half breed, couldn’t direct   his way out of a paper bag, let alone be better than me. Who are you to judge?” Leon’s grip on his sheath would tighten up, as the subtle sound of skin tightening on metal could be heard to good ears. Looking at this man he didn’t know who he was, nor what he even wanted with leon in t he first begotten place. But things weren’t adding up like he’d think. A mysterious man urking his nerves about him and his brother, just doesn’t make any kind of sense to him. none the less, it’s aggravating either way you look at. “Just…who are you.” Leon spoke with a sternness, trying to think rationally, or at least as rationally as he could.

vMegatron: -(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-em9VURVnSk ) Damon nods as the sound of Leon stopping his footing signifies that his little statement was enough to hit a nerve. The sound of his grip around his blade catches Damon’s ears. He smirks a bit, happy to see that Leon may have the temper to assist Damon after all. But for all matters of safety, Damon’s left wrist perks up a bit slowly. As this happens, a black blade slowly begins to extend out of his forearm. This is similar to the mechanism he used to rob the jewelry store; this time instead of a gun coming out, a small hidden blade comes out. To keep it hidden from Leon, only the top half of the blade extends out enough to where it is still behind Damon’s hand. He only brings it out half way just to be safe in case Leon is feeling uppity. He then faces Leon once again and the two quickly face off with each other. A small wind pushes through them, lifting up a bit of leaves and pushing their hair in all kinds of ways. But with this wind, Leon would be able to see the glowing red eyes that Damon has. The signature super soldier glow that could be seen in the darkest netherworlds. (http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130816144458/fairytailfanon/images/d/d3/Uchiha.Madara.full.344010.jpg ) His eyes spin with the one black tomei and if Leon had known the knowledge of his father the same way Connor did when he saw Daisuke’s eyes; Leon would know that Damon was someone closer to his history than he had thought. Damon begins to speak to Leon by saying-“Easy there Ryoji…I come not to fight…Only to see how you felt about your dear halfblooded brother…”-Damon slowly begins to make his way closer to Leon, still keeping his guard up.-“You see…We’re not so different you and I…I have a brother who like yours…isn’t worthy of holding the last name that my father held…But unlike you…I am choosing not to deal with it with any sense of kindness and weakness…I’ve already stuck a javelin through my brother…but yet you live with yours…Why is that?...”-Damon then tries to get inside Leon’s head by saying-“You hate your brother…believe him to be weak and nothing more than a waste of a life form…yet to you live, breath, eat and grow with him…If I was in your position I’d take that shiny blade you got there and teach him what it means to be a Ryoji…But then again…I’m just a heartless Yun…”-He smiles a bit after saying that in hopes that he can help get on equal ground with Leon. He then waits to see what Leon has to say in return.-

(http://www.listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=k9AhBON9fo0&list=PL4A890A3D3AD42D9B&index=6 ) Leon eyed the man down from behind, anticipating that he’d have something to say or something going on. Possibly wanting to retaliate per say, and Leon wasn’t going to take any chances what so ever. As he went on about not wanting to fight, Leon kept his hand in the same place upon his sword, but the more he spoke about the subject the more it seemed like he was offending the way leon did things. While he didn’t like his brother, it wasn’t as if he didn’t want to take him away from this world…Leon’s contemplated it many a time, but he knew the repercussions of it would outweigh the means of it all. That was the only thing holding him back from doing what he wanted to truly do..Leon spoke out. “I’m glad you can reconcile with how I feel about my brother. However do not mistake my tolerance for weakness…repercussions come with death, and as such I won’t take a life that I’m not willing to pay for what so ever. Though driving my sword through his throat would be personally satisfying…I…I can’t. for the sake of my family, I mustn’t. how would your own father feel that his son’s were at each others throats?” Leon began to try and think rationally about the situation, his inner good shining through, past the dark and malicious intent. However…one who’d heard him speak, would   hear a sense of doubt in what he was saying. Leon wanted to succumb to the negativity and the darkness. To kill connor would bring him a sense of Peace within. Like a great purge. “My own brother, carries my name but not my genes…he is of Oni kin..not a day goes by, that I don’t want to eradicate him from this very plane of existence…but…my better sense is telling me that I should be vigilant. Regardless of how I really feel, I am no murder..” Leon’s body language shifted. The air was suddenly uneasy to him, and he didn’t want to admit the mystery man and himself were on the same wave length. Leon’s natural inbred genes permit him to want to kill and do away with all evil, so living with a brother who has an oni, let alone has BEFRIENDED one, is a hell in a hand basket to live through every day.

vMegatron: -(http://www.listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=o0k4HjGuNcc) Damon listens to the way Leon responds to his little speech about how they live with their “brothers.” Damon smirks a bit as he can hear that what Leon is saying is nothing more than a front that he wants…or perhaps someone else…wants him to believe. As the conversation continues, he feels the area around them begin to shift towards the side of less anger and hatred but towards a common ground between the two of them. At that moment, the blade that Damon had ready to fire out in-case this thing got ugly slowly begins to retract back into Damon’s forearm mechanism. Damon’s teeth had already been sunken into Leon’s skin like a snake. Even if Leon was fighting the very words that Damon had said, the Super Soldier knows that the seed has been planted. And with time, like any seed, it will grow. And even though he has the potential to never act on the feelings he has towards his brother, if Damon can find a way into Leon’s life…He may present himself like a fertilizer to help that seed grow faster and much stronger. Like the devil on his shoulder, Damon brings nothing but chaos and destruction into his path. Damon responds back to Leon’s talk about what his father would think if their sons were at each other’s throats. In any other situation this argument would be valid to the point of shutting Damon up. But Leon doesn’t know the anger that Damon holds towards his own father for the actions that he took over ten years ago.-“You bring up a good point…But let me ask you…How would you feel if your father came to your home…told your mother that he loved her….had a baby with her…and left…Not because he didn’t love her…But because he had another family back in Kasaihana…A family with a mother and a son to boot…”-Damon’s hands slowly ball into fists as the anger in his body begins to rise along with the tone of his voice-“And when the son you left grows up and comes to Kasaiahana to confront his father…He finds out died by the hands of his own brother…Already a situation of brother killing brother…And the cherry on the cake being that the uncle…His own brother…took his son and raised him as if he were his own…”-Damon then quickly collects himself back into his cool demeanor, not liking when he shows any kind of REAL emotion and not the FAKE emotion that he dishes out to people.-“Now tell me that wouldn’t make you forget about the REPROCUSIONS of killing your brother…Tell me that if this was your story…you’d throw out all those rules and emotions that you hold onto so dearly...”-His eyes glare down into Leon’s as he waits to hear a response from him, if there even is one.-

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6HXRz23KKw&index=5&list=PL4A890A3D3AD42D9B )Leon listened to his words, and heard the emotion behind them all…the man had generally been hurt it seems. Leon’s posture relaxed….he became less tense. Instead of grabbing his sword, he’d let his arm rest upon the handle of it once again, simply sighing and looking back into the man’s red glare with his own emerald one. “I hear your pain friend. My father also left me, at a very young age. We both know what it’s like…to carve our own paths in the world. What it’s like, to be without of father. What it’s like to have that stripped away from you. Though mine did return, I show him no affection…you’re problems outweigh my own. I just can’t…bring myself to do it. I want to be heartless like you are…but at the same time if I was in your shoes I’d take the life of my brother without a moment’s hesitation.”   Leon would look off, lost in thought for a second before, his darker aura would start to shine through. “Of course….if there was a way to do it….and make it seem as if it was an accident…that’d be something to be compromised.” Leon would turn away, not wanting to look the man in the eye or give him the satisfaction that he was outright right. But he was. It was disheartening by all means, but Leon couldn’t deny his urges or desires. Leon stood there in place for a moment reflecting on his decision. “I’ve never questioned my resolve until this very moment. Where I’m unsure of which direction I want to go in…Damn you.”

vMegatron: Type to chat-(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJvEV5edi7k) The two share a deadlocked look, understand each other completely in how their hatred is dormant within them ready to burst out. Damon feels like he had accomplished the goal he came here to do after Leon says that if it were possible to make it look like an accident, then he would perhaps be able to team up with the Super Soldier in their quest of brotherly love. Damon says to Leon-“I have everything we need to take the fight to our brothers…But I want it to be painful…Physically and emotionally…I want our brothers to suffer in their ends…A quick death is to kind for what they deserve…Together we can rip them apart from the inside out…and enjoy it from the shadows…Together we can bring hell up from the depths of the underworld here onto Kasaihana City…We can turn this place into our own Sin City…”-Damon then extends his right hand out hoping that Leon would shake it. If he were to shake his hand, then the two would become their own legion of doom in the effects to bring chaos to their own blood brothers.-

Leon would look back at him with conviction in his eyes.the truth had escaped his inner feelings and he denyed it no longer…everything this man said, sounded like music to leon’s ears. Leon closed his eyes for a moment. Hesitant about the situation, the entire thing, but he couldn’t deny what his brother was…and what he had to do to him, for it to be cleansed. “I don’t know about hurting others but..” Leon would shake this mystery man’s hand and grip it firmly. “the downfall of my brother, is more than enough satisfaction for me.”