Post by Sephiroth du Lac on Jul 10, 2010 21:31:18 GMT -6
“...Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
-Stephen King
Part 1: Do you love me?
-Stephen King
Part 1: Do you love me?
*The camera falls once more on a hotel in Paris, France deep in the heart of the city. The rainy dusk casting the place in shadowed dim light as the camera pans around the room. Silently we look about, the presents showered upon two loving people seem like twisted mangled mounds in the darkness. No candles lit nor lights turned on. It is dark, silent as a tomb as the lightning flashes from the storm outside. There is an eerie calm in this moment filling the viewer with a sudden sense of quiet urgency and anticipation. Finally they're patience is rewarded as the camera pans to a single light in the dark. A figure clad in a dress of beautiful scarlet red. Diamonds dangle from her ears, long since gone are the casual look she wore before. Her eyes adorned in make up and her lips painted a deep burgundy red the color of wine. She is every bit the look of a noble woman though she came from humble origins. She is Maria Reyes du Lac, known to us as Maria de la Rosa and she is a woman ready for a new life. Daintily she paints her eyes with shadows of deep sapphire blue. She softly smiles, her innocent grin lighting the darkened halls behind her. A shadowy figure moves behind her cutting off our view for a moment before stepping away. Unaware of such intrusion she continues. Her focus solely on the figure in the mirror. To the lady she barely recognizes. With that she places her brush down and looks into the mirror mockingly kissing forward to see how beautiful she is before calling out to someone, unseen to us.*
Maria: Mi amor, I am almost ready! Where did you want to go tonight?! I was thinking we could try that one place again. You seemed to like it there and I was just thinking we could have one last dinner there! I'm starting to get hungry again! What do you think?!
*Silence was the answer, deafening silence in the dark. No sound save for the rolling of thunder accompanying the flash of lightning. She flinched from the skies response then turned to face the darkness of the other room. It seemed even darker when compared to the light of the bathroom so to remedy her own fears she turned out the light. Slowly she walked forward searching the dimly lit room as her eyes adjusted in the dark.*
Maria: Querido?
*She stepped forward a bit and searched the darkened room her eyes taking in the shadowy forms of inanimate mounds of objects. All was still and silent with no reply. At length the lightning flashed and the thunder roared like a hungry lion and she jumped afraid of the storm outside. Quietly however when no harm came she chuckled to herself.*
Maria: No sea tonto, Maria, it's just the storm. Mi amor?!
*Silently she continued on eventually tripping over something with a loud crash with a sudden start she screamed before sighing in frustration.*
Maria: Caja estúpida!
*With that she kicked the box at her feet with a frustrated grunt but as she was distracted the lightning flashed again revealing a silhouette standing by the window. A man, his back to her, staring at the rain outside in silence. Se glanced over and saw him and with a voice of trepidation called out to him.*
Maria: Sephiroth, mi amor? Is that you?
*Without turning the shadowed figure spoke. Clearly it was his voice but it seemed distant, filled with regret and pain.*
Seph: Yes, my love, it is I.
*Slowly she approached slightly relieved of what fears she had but unnerved at his stillness.*
Maria: Thank goodness. What are you doing standing here in the dark?
*He did not answer her question instead only asked her a question himself.*
Seph: Do you love me, Maria?
*She scoffed at the question as she responded.*
Maria: Of course I do.
Seph: Do you trust me?
*She was unnerved by this. Why was he facing away from her? Why the sudden questions of her loyalty? She knew him. She knew a test when she saw it and she would answer in kind.*
Maria: You know I do. What is with all the...
Seph: How far are you willing to go to be with me, Maria? To be at my side forever?
*Maria stood unsure of what all this was. She stumbled for the right words to say to soothe him when suddenly he erupted in a quick impatient call.*
Seph: How far, Maria?!
*She jumped from the hint of his voice. Never had she seen him in such a state. She felt a twinge of fear in her heart as she answered.*
Maria: Mi amor, I love you. I would follow you no matter what it takes. I'm your wife. Nothing will change that.
*Slowly she approached and placed a reassuring hand upon his shoulder. Slowly he dropped his head a sigh of relief resounding from him. Maria smiled as he slowly turned but her smile slowly shifted to a look of true terror and fear.*
Seph: You don't know how glad I am to hear you say that.
*Slowly he turned his eyes were different, shifted to catlike eyes with glowing green inflections. His fangs were out locked into a dark grin at her. Suddenly a low growl escaped his lips as she stepped back tripping herself upon the bed they shared, falling back on it as lightning flashed. As fast as the lightning he pounced and she cried out as a mixture of pain and pleasure jetted through her body. Savagely he dug in and she cried aloud her arms reaching up to the ceiling as if searching for some help but no help came. Suddenly darkness overtook her sight and drifted her into sweet oblivion...
... suddenly she awoke her mouth tainted with the flowing of sweet liquid in her throat. She knew not it's source nor cared save to taste that which was given. Her eyes remained closed as sweet liquid life poured down her throat. Sweeter than any nectar or ambrosia she could know. It was a rusty taste, unpleasant at first but as she supped upon it it deepened in flavor causing her to delight in it's intense pleasure. Finally in ecstasies agony she opened her eyes and beheld her husband before her. His arm she held in her mouth and the slow realization hit her that what she drank was no simple meal but that of his own blood. In both delight and horror she drank as he only smiled down at her. His eyes shining in the dark. Slowly he pulled away and her face begat a look of disappointment then the pain started and she screamed... *
Part 2: Judgment
*Seph stumbled in the doorway of the bedroom, his lovers screams of pain and agony behind him. Slowly he leaned on the door frame and sunk down to the floor. His eyes seemed distant, wild like a rabid animal. Slowly he breathed deep then his breath increased mixed with emotion as he grabbed at his own long blond locks. He tugged at them as a man in the fit of insanity. His eyes glazed over with the general malaise of the inflicted. Slowly he dropped his head turning his body as he leaned against the frame of the door. Then with sudden vested interest he gazed into the camera and with a look of fiery defiance and anger stated a simple statement.*
Seph: Don't judge me!
*With a superior rage he spit venom into the words, mixing it with his own vaunted condemnation.*
Seph: For you would do the same as I. Who among you would hold the keys to eternity themselves? Do you Karras keep the key to everlasting life a secret? No, you preach it to the masses. Do you Tempestad keep the keys to heaven quiet? No, you speak of God's love like an old friend. No, don't you dare judge me. Stay such words about my actions because I am sickened by your words.
*Slowly he found his feet and rose weakened but shifting like a shambling lifeless corpse suddenly rose from the grave. Slowly he walked forward his eyes still filled with hatred and pain as the screams of Maria resounded in the dark. Lightning flashed for a moment illuminating the pale flesh of the Fallen One casting him as a real monster in the darkness of his environment. *
Seph: Cowards! Hypocrites! The lot of you! Who among you is so selfish to keep the gift of eternal life a secret? Would you not share it with the ones you loved? Would you not...
*Suddenly he stops and puts his hands upon his face. For a brief moment we hear the sounds of sobbing from him as if crying in deepest sorrow until at length the low sob slowly twists into tortured dark laughter emanating from his throat. Mixing with the cries resounding from the other room. Like a madman he laughed as the lightning flashed and thunder rolled. Till at length he regarded the camera once more.*
Seph: You! You did this! Forced my hand! I didn't want this! I had to do it! You had to push me didn't you, Tempestad? Had to make me keep my promise! Do you recall what I said? The warning I said unto you during our first battle? I told you what would happen... what would happen if you f***ed with me!
*Once more the lightning flashed and Seph stepped slowly forward walking with purpose toward the camera as thunder covered his footsteps.*
Seph: I told you I'd take from you the ones you loved the most! The ones you cared for most! But... why did it have to be her?! Why did you make me do this to her?! You son of a b****! You made this happen! You did this to her! Did this to me! I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU!
*With that he suddenly lunged and grabbed the camera an arm lashes out from behind it as Seph with wild and crazed eyes grips it close to himself. It falls to the floor and Seph sits above it like a scavenger crouched over dead prey.*
Seph: I'LL KILL YOU! DO YOU HEAR ME, TEMPESTAD?! I'LL KILL YOU!!!
*He picks up the camera and lashes it around. With a slam it lands nearby and sits as the cameraman lies motionless on the floor. Seph looks at him in fury.*
Seph: Pick it up! I SAID PICK IT UP!!!
*The man quickly runs to his feet and runs out of the screens sight. In a moment the camera view rises and Seph grabs the dining room table lifting it up and flipping it wear it sits. His face locked in a rage that no one has ever seen before. He punches the wall nearby and pierces a huge hole with his fist. He grabs a nearby vase then and smashes it to the floor into pieces. He paces and froths at the mouth like a madman and before long punches a nearby hanging mirror as thunder rolls in the distance and lightning once more flashes. He stares into the mirror and suddenly laughs once more. His face like that of a lunatic in his cell.*
Seph: You speak to me of judgment! Of God's divine will! You speak of living scripture! Of being what I preach! WELL I AM, PRIEST! I AM A MONSTER! AND YOU HAVE YET TO WITNESS JUST HOW MUCH OF A MONSTER I AM!!! You say that I am false! Who are you to say such things?! Liar! Deceiver! FALSE PROPHET! What I have done is no more than what you have done to that woman you keep at your side! You want to see a monster, Father Karras? LOOK IN THE F***ING MIRROR!!!
*He slams his hand repeatedly into his own reflection as if trying to destroy the face he sees there. The whole scene is surreal. The thunder, the lightning, Maria's screams of pain and damnation and his raging punches on broken glass fills the viewer with a sense of fear. As if watching some madman open and alive before them. Slowly he stops and gazes in the mirror. His eyes filled with pain and sorrow as he stares forward with a dead feeling in his soul.*
Seph: Just... ju...st... look in the mirror. Why? Why does it have to be this way? Maria, I'm sorry. I'm so so sorry. My love... so sorry... so sorry.
*He leans on the wall and slides down his hands in his face. His knees in his chest as he grips himself quietly. He pulls his hands away for a brief moment and rocks back into the wall silently he sits staring off into the darkness around him the camera moves toward him but he acknowledges it not. Slowly it moves around him till at length he starts to speak.*
Seph: You don't understand... you never understood... my intentions. My emotions. You two never understood me. None of them did but her. What choice did I have? Lose her to the ravages of time? To the hands of my adversary, death? No, not today. Not ever. You never understood. But we, ah yes, we will make you understand.
*Seph then tilted his head and listened in the dark as the sound of only thunder perked his ears.*
Seph: Wait! Do you hear that?
*He looked about as silence fell upon the room. Slowly he turned his head to and fro as he listened intently to the darkness.*
Seph: Silence... she stirs. My love... I am here.
*With that he turns to the camera and stares at it.*
Seph: Go. I need attend to my wife.
*With that the camera makes for the door quickly leaving Seph behind as it tears down the hallway, the only sound that of the cameraman's frantic panting and a door shutting behind him.*
Part 3: All is well
*Slowly the camera stirs as if looking through another's eyes, a red dress lying upon a bed, filled with the body of a young woman. Slowly it looks around as if we ourselves were the eyes of this figure as Sephiroth leans in the doorway at the far part of the room.*
Seph: My love, are you alright?
*With that we hear the sweet voice of Maria but something is wrong. It is her voice and yet it isn't something dark inflects upon it and in it we hear a bit of the sensual, a bit of the alluring in her voice as she speaks.*
Maria: Sí, mi amor. I am fine... now.
*Seph sighs relieved his face downcast as he looks up at her. A smile gently gracing his face.*
Maria: Mi amor, I am hungry.
*Seph just looks at the camera that is her eyes and smiles down at her and nods.*
Seph: Yes, why don't we go out and grab a bite, my love?
*The camera nods as he leans in and strokes toward the eyes as if he were stroking the viewers hair and with that he simply lowers his hand over the camera and all we hear is the sound of the thunder rolling in the distance as they kiss as the scene fades to black.*