Sonata of the Storm in its entirety, future chapters

Continuation of the first post.

Part of a future chapter I planned after chapter ten in which the news about Matsuo Keiji

(Insert chapter beginning here, probably after Yamamoto forms a meeting about the orders they are given to handle the Matsuo Keiji situation -although I don't remember if I was going to have him break into Seireitei or not. But the point is, I was not going to add this right after that part as I wanted this to take place near the climax of the story, and you will find out why in a bit)

The troubled look on his face showed countless sleepless nights he'd spent worrying. The frown lines on his face were deep set, revealing the intense amount of pain the captain had been feeling. Matsuo Keiji... Just what did he intend on doing with Sayuri? He couldn't let her face him. It was exactly what Matsuo wanted. The moment Sayuri found Matsuo, he would have her in the palm of his hand, right where he wanted her. Toshiro knew all of this, but Sayuri, being brash, illogical, and stubborn, would not believe it until it actually happened –maybe even at the cost of her own life. Toshiro cringed at the thought of living without her. His thoughts became preoccupied with trying to find a way to prevent it from happening. When his restless mind finally brought him to the point of exhaustion, he came to the conclusion that there was only one way to keep his greatest fear from coming true.

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“I forbid you from fighting in the upcoming battle.”

Sayuri sneered and felt the anger begin to well up inside her. “You WHAT?!”

“You heard me,” Toshiro said, a forlorn expression spreading its way across his face. “I forbid you to fight.”

And with that, the sparks began to fly. Anger, disbelief, confusion, betrayal –no amount of words could begin to express the intensity of the mix of emotions Sayuri felt at that moment. The same words plagued her mind over and over, the little voice at the back of her mind nagging at her and making the feelings well up inside of her. “He thinks you're weak,” she repeated to herself. “He doesn't believe in you. He doesn't trust your ability. He thinks you're pathetic.”

Sayuri clenched her fists until her fingernails cut into the palms of her hands. She looked down at her feet to keep him from seeing the tears that began to form in her chocolate brown eyes, and her shoulders tensed.

From there it was going to lead into a big fight that Sayuri and Toshiro had, where it made Sayuri be quite rash and willingly leave to go fight (or possibly just confront?) Matsuo himself. Which inevitably leads to her "capture." And then to Yamamoto branding her a traitor and ordering her execution. (Think of it as similar to Hitsugaya's conflict in The Diamond Dust Rebellion) Since Yamamoto knows of Matsuo's zanpakuto, I doubt I would have made Matsuo frame Sayuri after acquiring her, but it would have been a bit so that Yamamoto could not tell the difference between their attacks.

The big quote I was intending on putting in that particular part was "Kurosaki Sayuri must be executed." Or something to that extent. And then to the ending of the plot outline I posted in the previous post.

And onto this epilogue.

    "Mommy! Mommy, Kyo hit me!" a small, orange-haired boy cried. Sayuri looked up from her paperwork at the small child.
    "Come here, Kosuke," she said. The boy quickly jumped in his mother's lap. Sayuri wiped the tears from his cheeks and took his small shoulders in his hands. "You can't start crying every time Kyoko hits you." Kosuke saw his older, white-haired sister pull down her eyelid and stick her tongue out at him. Sayuri turned her attention to her and chuckled. "You shouldn't beat up on your brother either, Kyo. How would you like it if he beat you up all the time?"
    Kyoko crossed her arms and frowned. "He could beat me up if he wasn't so small!" Then she felt two warm hands wrap around her arms and hoist her up into the air.
    "And what's so bad about being small, Little Miss Snow White?" Toshiro chuckled.
    "Daddy!" she cried with joy and flung her arms around his neck. Kosuke also squealed in delight before jumping off Sayuri's lap and clinging to his father's waist. Sayuri laughed at the two children hanging on Toshiro. The young man hugged them both before setting them back on the ground and bending over to kiss his wife.
    "Eww!! Mommy and Daddy are kissing again!" Kosuke said. The two captains just laughed.
    "Matsumoto gave me this." Toshiro held out a white slip of paper with sloppy handwriting. It smelled strongly of sake and read, "Happy 5th anniversary, Taichou! This coupon is worth one night of free babysitting service. Go have fun tonight! -Matsumoto ♥"
    "That was really nice of her," Sayuri said. "Why don't you two get your coats on and we'll drop you off at Aunt Rangiku's and Uncle Shuuhei's house."
    Toshiro handed them both their winter coats and little snow boots. Kyoko hurried to get her winter gear on, while Kosuke made a face at the thought of going out in the freezing cold. "I don't wanna go outside! It's too cold!" he tugged on Sayuri's sleeve. His sister hit him upside the head and glared at him with her big, turquoise eyes.
    "That's just stupid! The snow is fun to play in, but you don't even like getting your feet cold," she said. Kosuke's chocolate brown eyes began to water, but before he could say anything, Toshiro bent down to his eye level and hushed him.
    "You won't have to be outside for that long, buddy. You'll be at Aunt Rangiku's soon enough," he said. The small boy giggled and quickly finished putting his coat and boots on. Both Shinigami kneeled down and let the kids climb onto their backs, then shunpoed to Matsumoto's. The busty Shinigami opened the door with a big grin on her face.
    "Chibi-suke! Kyo-chan!" she squealed and embraced the two in suffocating hugs. She paid no mind to them flailing their arms about in panic. [1]
    "Matsumoto! Don't kill my children!" Toshiro said. She immediately obeyed and let them go.
    "I'm sorry, Taichou! I didn't mean to!" she said frantically. Sayuri shook her head and prayed that she didn't come home to two strangled kids.
    "Is Shuuhei here to supervise?" she said. It would have been preferable if Matsumoto's more responsible boyfriend had been around to help her.
    "He's finishing up some paperwork right now, but he said he'd be home from his office in a couple hours," Matsumoto said cheerfully. "I'm guessing you're going to stay out late tonight, so the little runts can just stay here tonight."
    "Thanks a bunch, Matsumoto," Sayuri said.
    "No problem, Sayu-chan!"
    After they said their goodbyes, Toshiro put his arm around his wife's waist and his chin on the top of her head. "Did you have anywhere specific you wanted to go tonight?" he said.
    Sayuri hugged him back and said, "Let's go to our spot."
    The young captain picked her up, shunpoed to the garden of cherry blossom trees, and sat her down in the gazebo he proposed to in her five years ago. Toshiro sat down next to her and pulled her in his lap. "Happy anniversary, Sayuri. I love you," he said. He moved her hair out of her eyes and caressed her cheek.
    "I love you, too. Happy anniversary." Their faces inched closer together, and the couple closed their eyes as their lips brushed against each other. Sayuri melted in his arms and forgot all her troubles. Nothing else in the world mattered except that moment.

Ending Theme: Halo by Beyoncé

Credits.

Sayuri, Mitsuki, Tatsuya, Kanai, Nariko, Matsuo, Kosuke, and Kyoko are my creations and are not part of the actual Bleach universe.
1. Chibi-suke- I don't have the literal translation, but "chibi" means small, and "suke" is a masculine ending, so it roughly translates to "little man."

I was planning on editing that, but had not got around to it. I was probably going to enhance the ending scene more.

I believe there were some back stories I wanted to create for Mitsuki, Tatsuya, and their former captain (was his name Akira? I don't remember.)

I might post more about this later. Sorry for the inconveniences I've caused you all, in redirecting you to so many more places...

Sonata of the Storm in its entirety.

Well, here it is. Character backgrounds, story plots, what I wanted to write and to achieve, the epilogue. Everything. It will most likely take place over the course of one or more entries. Although I was a bit concerned that revealing all of this might give someone incentive to take the finishing of the story into their own hands, but since then I do not care as much as I did before. I don't want to be credited with it anymore, even though it was my idea. I'm not necessarily encouraging it, and would rather prefer that people did not take it and try to finish it, but there is nothing that I can do about it.

For your appetizer, the biography of the main villain. (written before the plot summary, has yet to be edited so do not pay attention for contradictions it may have with the rest of these posts. things had not been organized when I decided to delete)

Matsuo Keiji- exiled Shinigami from 100 years ago.

zanpakuto: Raijin

Powers stripped by Yamamoto and sealed. some young boy with high reiatsu touches the tree that Matsuo was sealed in. sealed in Zaraki district. the boy takes off the barrier slips that immobilized Matsuo. he wants revenge.  (Still has Raijin, but no shikai) Master swordsman, goes on a killing spree in Rukongai and ends up obtaining the "seal of Raidon" (seal of the thunder god) from murdering an authority from one of the four noble families of Soul Society. Attacks Soul Society in the fourteenth division, and takes Sayuri. Threatens her with killing Toshiro and Ichigo. She struggled against him, but he threatened her and told her not to resist. Takes Sayuri to an abandoned cave like the one Yamamoto was in when Muramasa looked into his memories. Toshiro Ichigo and Mitsuki go to find her against Yamamoto's orders. (He told anyone who finds her to kill her- see trailer of DDR) Sayuri's bankai will be the trigger to activating the seal; power starts to unleash from it and restores Matsuo's powers to a greater extent. Becomes huge and jacked from the power of the seal of Raidon. Seireitei becomes enveloped in a web of electricity. Goes on a rampage killing Shinigami with single lightning strike. Sayuri and Toshiro work together (her bankai rains, the water helps Toshiro). Toshiro uses the really strong attack he used on Halibel on Matsuo. Freezes Matsuo in ryuusenka and Sayuri shatters him with a huge shockwave or lightning strike. (When Sayuri goes bankai, Toshiro can't get into the hurricane thing, but Sayuri lets him in through an opening and closes it.)

For the main course, the plot summary and motives

Matsuo's motives:

Matsuo had a lover, Sasaki Kaede. Kaede had bright green eyes, long brown hair, a low voice, and a crooked grin.

When Matsuo was a young Shinigami 3^rd seat in the 8^th division under Kyoraku, before Aizen yet still while the Vizard were there, Kaede was vice-captain of the 14^th division under Erizawa Akira, the former captain who was in charge of the division prior to Sayuri. Erizawa-taichou was a very loving person, much like Ukitake. He had mid-length, dull blonde hair (almost a tannish color), wore round glasses (I would call them spectacles almost), he was very observant, however he was very quiet about his observations. A very tactful captain. Older, kind to his subordinates, and very powerful, however he always refrained from violence if possible. [The present 14^th division members, Mitsuki and Tatsuya, absolutely adored him for the way he always joked around with them. He was very father-like and kept the squad together in the worst possible times.]

Kaede was Erizawa-taichou's vice-captain. Erizawa-taichou looked like Soubi from Loveless, for future reference.

Erizawa, unlike the rest of the Soul Society, trusted Kaede completely. He believed she was neither a threat nor capable of causing such harm to Soul Society. Kaede was a very smart girl in the academy, and her battle skills were exceptional. Soul Society saw Kaede as a threat, more like -Yamamoto saw Kaede as a threat, and that is why Matsuo hates him the most out of all of the people in Soul Society. So Kaede started to become shunned by some of her cohorts, and it made her more distant. Aizen used that to his advantage, so he started killing people (not when Shinji and them were banished from Soul Society) and made Yamamoto assume it was her, so Yamamoto had to strip her of her powers and locked her away in a chamber in Inuzuri (unbeknownst to Matsuo, but that is where he has been looking for her because he can sense extremely faint traces of her reiatsu) where she could slowly decay.

Matsuo retaliated against Yamamoto and directly attacked him. Even for a third seat he was incredibly strong, and no one besides Kaede ever knew that he had his bankai achieved. Very advanced in kidou, and not quite but close to par with Yamamoto's powers. And then Yamamoto locked away Matsuo in Zaraki to purposely keep him away from Kaede. Some little boy with intense reiatsu touched the tree that he was sealed away in, and Matsuo was freed. He would have aided in the destruction of Aizen, but by the time he was freed, Aizen was already dead, and Matsuo would have not been able to help because he spent the time from between the end of Breaking Through the Storm and the time up until the beginning of Sonata of the Storm recovering his powers. He found Kanai and Nariko slightly after he was unsealed from the tree, as Kanai is the one who touched it to unseal it. He took the two children in and became very attached to them. (Side note: Kanai and Nari are like brother and sister to each other, like Rukia and Renji's relationship)

Now that Sayuri is in Soul Society, and he is now aware of her zanpakuto's nature, he by chance found the person that is the other part to the “gift of life” (name pending), which is Sayuri. He wasn't planning on finding her and wasn't aware of her, but while he was killing the people in Zaraki at first but went unnoticed because -well, obviously, it's Zaraki. Then to Kusajishi, and then moving his way toward Inuzuri, gradually. He didn't start killing mass amounts of souls until he got more of his powers back and got to Inuzuri, where he found a special ops team and slaughtered them and got more powerful, giving some of the energy to Kanai and Nari. (This special ops team was the one that Tatsuya and Mitsuki were supposed to find) That is where he felt the faint traces of Kaede's reiatsu. Before he was just wandering around, not quite remembering what had happened to him, but remembering there was something very important he was forgetting and feeling very angry still, hence the killing, and then he remembered his hatred for Yamamoto. So he tried to find Aizen, and then thanks to Kanai's power of being able to “read minds” he was able to find out from a Shinigami he murdered that Aizen had been killed. Then he found out from an elder in Inuzuri about the “gift of life,” which is basically if the two twin zanpakuto of Raidon have their spirits reunited, by legend the power was said to be strong enough to undo even the worst damage possibly done to a soul. It won't restore Shinigami powers, but it can bring a soul back to life from near death. (Picturing Kaede as a wrinkled old woman now, even though she would still look quite young if it weren't for being sealed away) The elder told him if he had Raijin, then the other zanpakuto would most certainly be named Rai-Joshin. Matsuo spent months trying to find out who was the holder of the zanpakuto Rai-Joshin (Sayuri), and when he finally found out it was her, he plotted to get her to come to him so he could take her zanpakuto from her.

That's when Mitsuki and Tatsuya come into Inuzuri and the Hollow is crying out, looking for Sayuri. Then Matsuo retreats to the hideout he'd been staying in near the edge of Inuzuri since he remembered about Kaede. And then he goes to Zaraki to see if he can find any clues in the place where he was sealed as to how to free Kaede. But then the covert ops team came to Zaraki to investigate the intense amount of reiatsu and spiritual pressure disturbances in Zaraki, and they were heading closer and closer to the spot where he was sealed, so to keep them from seeing it so they wouldn't know it was him just yet, he slaughtered them all, which is where Ichigo and Toshiro's mission comes in. He finds out from Kanai about Yamamoto's current plans to have Ichigo and Toshiro go to Zaraki, where he was sealed but he doesn't want them to find out about him being freed. He does not kill either of them because he found out from Sayuri's memories of Toshiro that he can use them both as leverage.

Eventually, since he does not know exactly where in Inuzuri Kaede is located, Matsuo will eventually have to come to Seireitei and Kanai will have to “read his mind” to find the location of Kaede. Also, Matsuo also discovered Sayuri's location recently, seeing as Kanai was able to find her and invade her dreams.

Then the Soul Society finds out about Matsuo's sealing place being empty, and puts the entire Soul Society on alert. They are still unaware that Kaede was framed and that Matsuo was trying to get Sayuri for her zanpakuto, not just for no particular reason.

And then that's when the action kind of starts to kick in, because Matsuo comes to Seireitei and creeps into Sayuri's bedroom in the middle of the night and gives her 5 days to make up her mind whether she will come with him or not. About two chapters take place over those five days where the decision haunts her, and she becomes unreasonably distant from Toshiro. Her and Toshiro get into a big fight, and that's when Sayuri makes the mistake of going with Matsuo, not only because she is hurt that Toshiro would yell at her like that but she also wants to protect Toshiro and Ichigo at the same time. Then Yamamoto goes on with something about Sayuri being a traitor when they discover her missing, and since there was no sign of forced entry in her bed room, so she's wanted by the Soul Society, and it conflicts with Toshiro because he doesn't want to break the rules right then and there by ignoring Yamamoto's orders to find and execute Sayuri himself, but eventually his love for Sayuri is so much stronger than his compliance with the rules so he goes to find Sayuri giving Yamamoto the impression that he will kill her, but he in reality really won't.

Meanwhile Matsuo is trying to extract Sayuri's zanpakuto spirit, who has gone dormant to protect herself and Sayuri. He did not kill Sayuri or threaten to when he came to get her because that would have been useless to him as Rai-Joshin would have died if Sayuri had died. So he is trying to get Rai-Joshin to come out of her dormant state where he can reunite the two zanpakuto. When Toshiro comes and Sayuri sees that he is unharmed, Toshiro convinces her that she can take care of it in a way where she does not have to aid Matsuo, and she starts to help Toshiro who had started to attack Matsuo. But unfortunately when she releases her bankai, and strikes Matsuo with lightning while his own bankai is released, her zanpakuto gets reunited with Raijin, and she sees Rai-Joshin being, like, sucked out of her zanpakuto, and she loses her bankai ability. Just when Matsuo finds Kaede, he has her body laying on the ground and before he can put the small gold pebble like thing that is the “gift of life” that Raijin and Rai-Joshin formed, Sayuri tackles him to the ground and forces it into him, which since it reverses any effects done, it drains him of all his powers. The stone/pebble once forced into him, it shoots out of his body because his soul can't handle the amount of power it has on him. A ray of light shoots at him and drains all of his powers, but once it is finished draining him of his entire life, it splits apart because Raijin's half into the stone fades because his Shinigami is dead. Rai-Joshin returns to Sayuri's empty katana, which you can tell because it has a spark in it again.

[Yay we did it! ending chapters Yada yada yada....]

Ends with Toshiro holding Sayuri and he says how when Sayuri was gone and ordered to be executed, it made him realize just how important she was to him, and then proposes to her.

Then the epilogue I had planned.

(Give Ichigo a minor scene where he is horrified about having to kill his own twin sister)

CHAPTER 10: FLUFF CHAPTER

CHAPTER 11: TURN BACK THE PENDULUM, SONATA OF THE STORM STYLE (matsuo's past)

why do I have to do this? >:L

Hate to give things away, but I don't think anyone reads this anyways. A penpal convinced me to write a SasukexOC story. I'm only half hearted on this project, but since she insists..... sigh. I'll do it. :/ Don't want to, but she's been nagging me about it every night for the past week.

I hate writing things for other people.

Got the prologue written, but that's all I feel like writing for now. Not going to post it on FFN until I get the first two chapters written, and the penpal I mentioned wants me to combine the first chapter with the prologue, but I say no and what I say goes. :v The chapter ends better if I don't add more to it than I already have, and I'm going to do this my way, no offense.

Here it is... Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I don't want to do this. I don't want to do this. I don't want to do this. I don't want to do this. I feel like she stalks every internet profile I have as it is. 8S

Monochrome Devotion, chapter 1:
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    No time for goodbyes, no time for tears –fight until the end. Fight until you breathe your last breath. War is deception, yet war is candour. “Anger is the enemy of non-violence, and pride is a monster that swallows it up.” [1] A warrior must appreciate life at its fullest as to prepare himself to stare death in the face without fear. Death is inevitable, and power is everything. One of the most natural instincts for man is to gain strength. Strength is power, and power is pride. The moment a man senses that his power is in jeopardy of being overcome by one stronger than he, he strikes. He attacks to defend and protect his pride. Thus is the basis of war.
    Blood stains covered the walls, outlining where bodies once stood –it was the artistic work of a cold-blooded killer. A young man lay helpless on the ground and reached a shaky hand out to his wife and unborn child, only to watch the two of them be slaughtered like the rest of the clan. His heart shattered in agony. Unable to bear the pain of witnessing the tragedy before him, he breathed his last breath and fell into a permanent slumber. A tall, dark figure wiped the blood of the woman and countless before her off his cheek and turned back toward the man to stomp on his limp, outstretched hand.
    There was no one.
    Not a single soul was left. The entire Uchiha clan had been massacred, save a small ten year old boy –the youngest son of the clan head, Uchiha Fugaku. His eyes teared up at the sight of his dead mother and father. Fierce emotions tangled themselves in the young boy's heart. The intensity of his emotions ripped him apart, and he cried in agony for his dead family.
    Uchiha Itachi hid from his younger brother in the shadows of a nearby building. While watching Sasuke mourn for their parents, the numbness began to take over. He –the future of the Uchiha clan, the pride and joy of his father– had committed the most unthinkable of acts. It was an act of betrayal, yet he had been so obedient. The Konoha elders would surely be satisfied now that their biggest threat had been taken care of. What they would never realize is that the young Uchiha secretly disobeyed their orders by refusing to take the life of his precious little brother.
    Itachi turned and ran from the mess he created. While he hid himself in the shadows of the night, the same thought plagued his mind over and over: “It's for the best that Sasuke thinks I'm dead.” He picked up the pace of his feet, effectively causing him to plow over an unsuspecting person. He furrowed his eyebrows as he picked himself up from the ground and brushed himself off.
    “W-what are you...?” he stuttered.
    “Making sure you're doing your job,” a young girl said gravely. “The elders sent me here to clean up your mistakes, if any.” Her ebony, straight-cut bangs hid her large, blue eyes, and her shoulder length hair framed her small, childish face. The ruthlessness of her personality was evident from the cold tone of her voice.
    “I can assure you, the job has been taken care of,” Itachi said with false assertiveness.
    “I'll be the judge of that.” With that, the girl stepped into the light toward the center of the Uchiha estate. The silver pendant around her neck gleamed in the moonlight, catching the young Uchiha's eye. Itachi watched her as she walked away feeling a slight sense of awe.
    The short girl weaved in and out of the piles of bodies as she scanned her eyes over the premises for any signs of survivors. Just as she was about to decide that Itachi had indeed done his job properly, she heard a soft sob coming from around the corner. A young, dark-haired boy about her age kneeled over the bodies of two adults. The hurt look in his eyes showed a swirl of emotions –betrayal, anger, sadness. She drew a knife and held it behind her back as she inched nearer to the boy, but he looked up and noticed her before she had the chance to assassinate him along with the rest of his family.
    She felt like she had seen those eyes before –those dark, tearful eyes. She could hear his thoughts clearly: “What is going on? Who did this? Mother, father? This can't be true! Itachi?! Brother, where are you? Who is this girl?”
    Then he saw the knife held behind her back.
    “It was you! You killed them! How could you do this?!” he screamed. “How dare you! You'll pay for this, you treacherous witch! It's all because of you! This is all your fault!” He darted for her, fist clenched into a ball. Just before his fist could make contact with her apathetic face, she caught it and twisted his arm behind his back. She would have broken it if it were not for the sense of familiarity she felt toward the boy, almost like she identified with him. She glared at Sasuke and watched him kick and scream bloody murder for her to let go of him.
    Her patience grew thin. “Shut up,” she demanded. “Shut up or you'll end up just like them. Do you want to live?” He nodded fearfully. “Then follow me.”
    The boy hesitated, but before he agreed he began to feel dizzy. He became overwhelmed by everything and collapsed. The girl sighed but then picked his small body up and put him over her back.
    She knew she shouldn't. She knew it was wrong. She knew what could happen, but she could not bring herself to kill this boy. There was something about him that set him apart from the rest. Leave no survivors: she lived by that motto, but not this time. For the first time in her life she broke the promise she made to her beloved master long ago.

But after all, what good is a promise when promises are made to be broken?
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1. Quote is by Mohandas Gandhi.

the wrath of adelais

I'm still into the whole Russian post-apocalyptic stuff. For a little bit, I actually thought about making Katerina a ballerina because I like those old books about ballerinas that are set in Europe (usually France or Russia). I was thinking about making a dark ballet-type story once, but I never did. Especially after Black Swan came out, I was afraid I'd make it too much like that.

But here are my notes for TWOA. I have yet to make more revisions, especially because I feel like the writing is too formal in many aspects. It's like it doesn't flow correctly to me. This is the first chapter, but I've revised it many times and am still looking for that "Eureka Seven" type feel mixed with a cyberpunk Russia. At least, it will be a cyber punk Russia. This one doesn't really convey that because I had more of a vision of 1800's Russia in my head at the time. But cyberpunk... That's a good idea now that I think about it. =D I wrote this first chapter back last April, so please excuse my writing. My beta reader has never seen it.

Commence lire: The Wrath of Adelais: Katerina's Story**

Power: it's the one thing that all of humanity strives to maintain. We fear that which we do not know and destroy that which we fear. By ensuring reign over the Earth above all other creatures, we feel at ease. The defensive manner in which we treat potential threats to our power has only led to our downfall. The forces that we don't understand may just be the key to our existence, yet we continue time and time again to crush said forces.
Did we ever stop to think about the consequences of not attempting to understand the unknown? If we had, the world would not be in its current state. I entrust the following account of past mistakes to the future of this world, the Earth's youth, in hopes that the same mistakes will not be repeated by future generations.
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I grew up in a small village just east of Peterhof, Russia. I was born in 2994 to Anya Vasiliyevna Chmakova and Grigory Illyovich Sokolov. My mother passed away when I was very young, leaving my older brother and I to live with my father. By the time I was old enough to understand what was going on in the country, chaos already began reigning over the world.
The day of my 17th birthday, May 12, 3011, a disaster struck the world. Skyscrapers caved in, bridges collapsed, power outages swept throughout the world, and earthquakes killed millions. Everyone was so concerned with what was happening that they didn't realize what had caused the whole mess.
In my own country, people were left in poverty, cities were left in ruins, and children, especially those who had been orphaned by the massacre, were forced to quit school to help rebuild them. The Russian government named the event Nibiru to keep from frightening the public by the use of the word "apocalypse." A few weeks after Nibiru, a large group of rebels staged a coup and overthrew the government. The country was left in chaos.
Russia wasn't the only country to be affected by Nibiru. Even strong countries like the United States had become barbaric empires. A few months after, the states declared war against each other, separating the large country into fifty small ones.
Scientists and researchers went mad. Some were thrown into an alternate state of mind, living in a vegetable-like state. Many clung to precious or valuable belongings that truly meant something before the disaster. Even a few of the citizens and military officers had contracted the illness. After witnessing the first breakouts of the disease, doctors were quick to diagnose patients with schizophrenia, but their irrational diagnosis was proven wrong due to differing symptoms further into the progression of the illness.
The illness began with hallucinations and sometimes paranoia. Those affected became attached to something valuable to them, whether it be an object, a person, or an animal. Upon entering the second stage, the patient ceases all social interaction. They begin to enter the vegetative state, living in constant fear. What they feared was unknown to psychiatrists and researchers. The main hypotheses were that an unknown force was affecting the people, or they were just extremely paranoid.
The third and final stage began with the patient losing all appetite. Some couldn't keep food in their stomachs if they tried. Doctors were never able to find a cure, so every person diagnosed with the disease would be put into a coma. The illness took a course of four or five years before slipping into an eternal comatose, but even so, sometimes I thought those people forced themselves into unconsciousness, as if it were a coping mechanism to preserve the health of their minds.
After the earliest cases had progressed into the final stages, the schizophrenia diagnosis was quickly repealed and renamed tristis. The epidemic quickly turned into a pandemic.

As for my own family, my father worked for. By the time we were forced to quit school, I was almost eighteen, my brother Rurik, nineteen. We were put to work running errands for a nearby landlord. My father always tried to give us the best life we could have, and--in my opinion--we were given more than we deserved.
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[ca c'est fin de chapitre un (comme ci, comme ca)]
I think I'm more into the Russian thing because I like their names. Also, artwork I made last year for it:

Yes, the background is Validilene from Benoit Sokal's Syberia for pc. I don't know who the people are in real life, but on the left is Katerina, and the right is Rurik. The figure head floating in the sky is yet to be determined, but he is one of the "control cluster" type things like the scub coral in E7.
Yes, very much so based off of Eureka Seven, but I have a feeling that will change after I change the setting to a cyberpunk world.

**The story is subtitled "Katerina's Story" because I wanted to make a counter-story that fits in with this one using a character that will eventually show up in it. Katerina, and her American counterpart, Nora, will eventually meet and that is what would cross the two stories mostly, but as I have developed this story very little, I am not sure as to whether or not I will actually make a counter-story, but as with most of my work (Especially BTtS and SOTS), everything that happens is to set up for future events or sequels that I am sure I want to happen.

SR: Second Semester

Every time I think of "second semester" I think of School Rumble season 2. haha [/random]

Organizing my work a bit/projects I've started on and have yet to finish:

ONESHOT REQUESTS!!!
-I opened oneshot requests in December and still have yet to actually finish one. [/unsmiley] I have a Shuuhei oneshot to write for a fellow Quizillian, then someone sent me 3 requests. I don't remember what all they were but I believe one was for Byakuya.. But I opened them for the Quotes for the Lovers challenge (which I started over a year ago! LOL) and a new "lyric" challenge." The only oneshot I've written for the lyrics challenge was a TYL Lambo oneshot as a Christmas present to myself, but even then I omitted one of the lyrics to the challenge and put in one from a song that I wanted.

Sonata of the Storm 7
I've actually been working on this, but I'm stuck. I need a way to relay new information into the story without it being written so monotonously.

A Cruel Angel's Thesis:
Although I've dropped this story, I think I'm going to take the basic plot and turn it into a TorixRenji story instead of a TorixIchigo story. It's just so hard for me to picture IchixOC stories, and I've never written a Renji fic before, so I'll have to write one at some point or another.

Quotes for the Lovers challenge:
Oh my GAWWWWDDDD.
This challenge is a menace. (But a challenge is a challenge for a reason, right?) I'd like to write something OTHER than pairing fics with it, but the quote prompts don't allow for any of that. All I can think of for those oneshots are things that I've already written and it's such a pain.

Winter Wonderland:
My own challenge and I've still only written for like 3 or 4 chapters of it. Jeez, I made the challenge myself over a year ago and I still can't bring myself to finish it!

As Daylight Dies:
No ideas for the next chapter. All I know is that it's from Simmons' POV

Disturbia:
I lost myself in this story. I got too caught up in the Twilight bashing that I ended up not following the main points I set for myself. I may have to rewrite the four chapters I have written, but I keep getting so many happy reviews from my reviewers that I can't bring myself to do it. That is the only story I keep getting constant reviews/favorites/author alerts for. Not even SOTS gets that much attention.

Speaking of SOTS, someone asked me the other day why I made 14 court guard squads instead of keeping the normal 13. The answer is that when I first started writing for Sayuri, I was 16 and wanted to make her a captain in the end. Essentially, all of Breaking Through the Storm was written to set up for her captaincy and the rest of her life in Sonata of the Storm. I didn't want her to be captain of the 3rd, 5th, or 9th squads because I feel like the 3rd is cursed, I wanted the 5th to belong to Ichigo (yes, I determined they would be twins from the start), and 9th seems SOOOOOOOOOO cliché in HitsuxOC stories where the OC is a captain. I also wanted to give her a vice-captain of my own making (originally would have been Mitsuki, but ended up being Tatsuya), and I could not do that if I put her in an existing squad because all I would be hearing about it would be a bunch of bitching and moaning from the extreme canon fans. I also think my favorite HitsuxOC fic at the time was xoxoskittles' Wish Upon A Star, and her OC (Yuki, was it?) was the captain of the 14th squad. I think that story had a big impact on what I was doing.

[/end rant -back to organizing]

The Wrath of Adelais:
My only original story and I still haven't gotten any further than the first chapter. I think it's because I want to make it all philosophical sounding and futuristic with an Eureka Seven tendency. I haven't spent much time on it, but the time I have spent has been reorganizing my ideas and rewording the first chapter to be "perfect."

Hmmm haven't updated SP in a long time. I just might do that by critiquing some more of "Forbidden Kiss" *rolls eyes* manhwa... jeez.

Ciaosu! :)