Alphonse was quiet as he left the hangar, long after Greed had disappeared from the building. Even though he could no longer feel cold or heat, he still vaguely remembered how the ice of winter felt, and that's how he felt now. Cold; cold and alone.

He was so tired. It was as if he'd almost climbed a mountain, only to find as he hoisted himself ( Read more... )

Something was changing ( Read more... )

( from hereA huge palace-like structure stretched up to the sky with smaller towers and other little buildings radiated out from the base. From the descriptions, this was Hollow Bastion ( Read more... )

Nightime in the Imaginary World was usually a time of peace and tranquility (unless Suzaku and Byakko had felt the need to throw a party, in which case tranquility was a little too much to hope for). Tonight, however, was an entirely different matter ( Read more... )

Vergil had actually begun to become annoyed with himself for his aimless wandering. It wasn't as if there were really anything specific for him to be doing, aside from gathering information - he wasn't in his own world anymore, the demon world seemed further away than it had ever been, and he hadn't met a sworn enemy of anyone whose heart beat the ( Read more... )

"I'm not his keeper..." Schuldig's voice trailed off as something wrenched inside his chest. It was a sensation he hadn't felt since he was a child, under Rosenkreuz's tender ministries - gut-twisting fear. And not even fear of anything in particular, but some nebulous, animalistic awareness that something, somewhere, had gone horribly wrong ( Read more... )

Sephiroth was about to answer Zack, rather dryly, that if Zack preferred experienced pilots then perhaps he might want to hitch a ride on another ship entirely, when the sensation hit - and with it all the numbness of impossible nostalgia. The unnatural chill, seeming to emanate from his core outwards, even as his blood (or, a more alarming ( Read more... )

continued from hereWith just the hint of a sigh, Xigbar looked up to the sky, watching as the stars dance and die in the sky. He kept his face blank as the show went on ( Read more... )

He stared up in horror, all thought of fighting gone from his mind as the darkness swirled around them. It devoured everything it touched, covering the bodies of those who had yet to die and replicating over and over, more of the creatures with every second ( Read more... )

[ Continued from here]As Chihaya attempted to move, he felt his legs give out as the darkness rolled over him. It was as if he could not hear for a second, could not see...a roar of darkness surrounding his senses as he felt a tug at his heart ( Read more... )