Log:Matt Regent's Grimm Future

2014/11/23 Grimm Matt 1

Sandy Bottoms Island Sandy Bottoms Island sits within the broad curve of Colonial Bay itself. The south of the island is composed of craggy rocks, and here the large historic lighthouse stands; the bridge too ends its great arch on this firmer ground, close by the Oceanarium. On the eastern side of the island, at the end of the rocky outcropping, is the old prison. The majority of the island, to the leeward, is a broad sweep of softer ground, coarse sand and small pebbles. The more secluded of Colonial Bay's beaches are here, as are the ruins of an old fishing village. Sparse sea grass sprouts here and there and many seabirds frequent the island as both nesting grounds and a place to rest between searches for food.

Matt sits on shore, watching the tides, he remembers when he used to enjoy the ocean, his father grew up in Hawaii, and he remembers his father's old days, and the time his father took the new blood team to hawaii. that seemed to be a good time, that's where his other and father really got to know each other. He muses over memories that are not his, as he watches for signs of Ariel.

Grimm is standing further down the shore, on the rocky cliffs near the old prison. She is stretching her abilities and trying to make some giant illusions without scaring the spit out of everyone. In the dark, this side of the island, it's quiet. No tourists or locals come because no attractions are open. So, it seems a good place to practice briefly without attracting too much attention.

She puts on her headphones and taps her feet, then spreads out her hands with her palms up. Her head tilts back to the sky and her eyes darken. And before her, nightmares spring forth. Rising from the waters, a giant, black serpentine beast breaches. Spiraling horns, a reptilian head, long neck, scaly. And wings! The scales shimmer and look solid, water appearing to run down and in between the scales as it rises up. And up. And up. Until a thirty-two meter tall black dragon that stands on its hind legs, then drops down onto all fours, its feet in the water.

With her work complete, Gabrielle sighs. "Always black. Why can't it be something else, like--" and no sooner does she think it than its scales shift and brighten to a brilliant red. "Whoa." Even Grimm looks impressed.

Matt jumps to his feet, he hisses out, "Ariel." with vehemence, immediately he is in the air, flame erupt from his body as he takes to the air, already his hands are enveloped in balls of fire even his eyes change and bleed fire as well, streaking towards the dragon, Even as he approaches he throws 2 fireballs at the giant beast. "I will end you."

The fireballs hit the dragon and explode fire along its scale. It snorts and growls from the hits and winds its head to look at Matt at the same time Grimm turns her head to look. They're a little in sync, her nightmare and her. "Oh, crap. Guess there -was- someone out here." She lowers her hands and the dragon starts to blacken and fades out. She wipes her brow and lets out a breath. "Whew...harder to maintain than I thought..."

Matt scans the waters, "That was too easy!" he shouts his body aflame he scans the water, not the beach, so he doesn't see Grimm below, neither does he hear her with the adrenaline flowing in him. "Where are you!" he challenges..

Grimm plants her hands on her hips as she watches Matt challenge the sea. "Hey! There's nobody...ah, hell." Her shouting won't carry so high over the crashing of the waves without some help. Good thing she can project. Her voice comes out much louder, echoing and a bit eerie sounding from the effect, making her sound more powerful and impressive. "There's nothing there. Come on down." The voice sounds like it's right by Matt, so that when he turns to look to the direction of the voice, he can see Grimm.

Matt turns hand raised ready to hammer whoever just spoke to him, but powers down as he see's Grimm. "Was that you!?" he shouts as he floats down, his body still aflame, although his eyes return to normal..

Grimm nods quietly as she slides her hands in her pockets. She takes a breath to speak again, but thinks better of yelling. She takes a step forward and flickers out of sight, then flickers into sight about 3 meters from him as she finishes taking her step on thin air, just hovering there. "Yes. Sorry. I was testing my limits. I thought I was alone out here."

Matt feels the adrenaline bleed out of him, and the flames die out around him, leaving his body steaming in the cold night air, "It's..it's ok, sorry, I was looking for someone..as I'm sure you figured out."

"I could've figured it out with a few guesses," Grimm smirks slightly. "So who're you looking for?" She bobs up and down slowly in the air casually. She even leans back a bit as if up against a wall and crosses her ankles, looking very relaxed during their mid-air conversation.

Matt relaxes as well..perhaps he doesn't show it as clearly as Grimm is, but he knows she's good people, even if he doesn't know much about her, "I've got a couple of people who..um..want me dead. So, I'm thinking that I can draw them out and end their threat.."

"At least they -only- want you dead," Gabrielle comments oddly, looking out towards the city. "If you've got the power to take them out on your lonesome, more power to you. I tried that method a few times..." she sighs. "Even with all this power, it wasn't enough, though. Got lucky with some good Samaritan heroes though. So, unless you know you're way out of the bad guys league, I wouldn't recommend going it alone."

Matt frowns, "A lot of people have already died, or almost died trying to end this threat. One..I can possibly take down, the other, her father.." he sighs, "He's out of my league..possibly out of the league of everyone I know..combined."

Grimm shrugs her shoulders in a care-free way. "Sounds pretty intense, man. What'd you do, love her and leave her? That why her dad's so pissed?" she muses half-jokingly.

Matt is not in a joking mood..not when he's talking about this, "No...I stripped her of half her soul and most of her power, her dad..Neptune didn't take well to that, to the point that he made war on other gods, fought them to a standstill, shes' still a force to be reckoned with. Her father..he's a force of nature."

Grimm listens to his tale and sighs through her nose. "Sounds to me you're out here looking to die rather than end their threat."

Matt frowns, "Better I die than those I care about." he says..he's 16, his viewpoint is still limited, regardless of the other voices and experiences in his head.

Grimm tilts her head downwards, her eyes overcast with shadows as she asks, "You sure that's better? You sure you -want- that? Careful what you wish for, buddy boy."

Matt raises an eyebrow, "I'm not asking for it, I'm saying If someone has to die, then its better its me than them. Its not their fight."

"You're sure they'd be better off, then?" Grimm asks. "You thought about this fully?"

Matt raises an eyebrow, "If they live and all it takes for that to happen is for me to die, I would make that choice everytime." his tone is confident in his answer.

Grimm just shakes her head and tsks. "That's some seriously heavy stuff for someone your age to be saying. I don't think I'd be so noble. But then, I don't really have anyone to endanger."

"Do you want to see?" Grimm asks enigmatically.

Matt cocks his head to the side, "See what?"

"The fuuuUUUuuuuture," Grimm says while pulling her hands from her pockets, wiggling them about all spookily. More seriously now, she drops her hands to her sides and says, "Well, one future. The future where you do that. And how it affects the ones you leave behind."

Matt raises an eyebrow, "You're a fortune teller?..Go for it." he seems to either have real or false bravado, but there is bravado..he doesn't seem scared to face that.

"Pffft, fortune tellers are hacks. I travel across dimensions. I can pierce the veil of space and time." Grimm claps her hands together and rubs them to get her mojo working. "So I'll give you a little glimpse...of what is coming if you continue on this solo path." Of course, it's mostly going to be fueled by Matt's active imagination, with a nudge in the worst direction from Grimm...

The world falls into darkness for Matt. It just drops away as if he's no longer a part of it. And then the world fades back in. He's on the ground on the beach, laying on his back with Ariel above him, cackling cruelly as she forms a watery lance in her hand and brings it down for a death blow. Matt's memories have constructed what happened before. This feels very real. Him seeing Raven on a date beforehand, then secreting away to hunt down Ariel. Him calling her out and her finally appearing. The battle that led to this point, where alone, he was overwhelmed by her rage, malice, and madness...

It takes some time from Grimm to tap into Matt's inner fears and memories to let his imagination build a scenario of worst possible fears/scenarios for his friends and family caused by his death. But it takes a moment for her to sort through all the other minds. Even with the strong discipline, she manages to break through thanks to him being willing to experience this journey.

The world goes dark and cold, and suddenly he feels himself floating, but it is nothing like flying, it is as if he is weightless, no longer fighting gravity, there is a lightness to his being, and he looks down, his body broken, eyes open, but hollow staring blindly into the ether. Ariel seems to absorb his essence, and she reverts back to the persona she was prior to him stripping her of her powers. She stands on two legs, and has the powers of the Regent. She smiles, as her hand glows red with the power of Pele, "Oh My..you have been a nuisance, I think I will erase you from this world." she says before poring white flames at his now inert body, when she is done, there is the smell of burnt flesh the sand is body laid on is black glass, but there is no sign of his body, so hot and complete was her destruction of his body, that nothing is left.

"I shall punish those who stood in my way...they will all die!" she says and now she has his memories as well. She first seeks out Hunter, catching him unaware, she makes short work of him. He wasn't expecting anything and while he put up a fight, he simply did not have the power to fight a demi-god. She then went after Amelia, Amelia's mage sight gave her a fighting chance, but with the power of the Regent fully infused, Amelia, and her whole family were destroyed, the darkness of the world grew as the Chosen One was annihilated. One by one, his friends were taken down, destroyed, and any who stood with them, and all of their families were all killed. His mother retreated to Undermoon after a near deadly encounter with her.

Particularly cruel was the death of Janet Regent, his grandmother, a game of cat and mouse, but finally she was killed as well, a slow death by drowning, her crime was bringing the regent into this world.

One by one, the planes fell to the combined might of Neptune and Ariel. After a thousand year war, Earth and the other six realms fell to be ruled by The two.

When Matt comes to, his face is tear streaked the ramifications of his death clear..

After triggering the illusion, Grimm monitors his progress and dives into his mind, hovering silently. It's quite a trip. So much riding on this one kid's life. Many young innocents harmed, several realities destroyed. No...this cannot be allowed to happen. After Matt snaps out of the completed vision, Grimm snaps out of it as well, holding her head and staring down towards the earth as she realizes the gravity of what is at stake.

"You...you have to be protected. So many worlds in the balance. If your friends only knew," Grimm mumbles.

Matt seems humbled, "I..I never knew. I thought that regardless of their personal pain..of me leaving them, as my father left my mother in his death, that the fact that they lived because I died.." he pauses wiping his eyes and drying his face with the sleeve of his t-shirt, "That that would be better than them dying for me...or because of me." he seems distraught, "I..I don't save them..they all die because of me...No matter what.."

Grimm looks to Matt, having little idea of exactly what these people mean to him, but she was able to pick up some context from his mind. "If they die to keep you safe, at least it will mean something. Their sacrifices would save countless lives beyond your own." She's quiet for a few moments, then holds a finger up. "But. If you all stand together, you may have a chance of prevailing over your enemy once and for all."

Matt nods slowly. "I was born to be a protector of this plane...and the other planes as well. We must prevail..I have no choice..

Grimm thinks. o O (Well, that went...kind of well.)

Grimm nods in agreement. "So, I'd recommend not tempting fate and coming out here on your own looking to fight someone like that. The risk is just too great."

Matt sighs..."I..guess I better share with the group..most of them do not know anything about what's at stake."

"You mean...you haven't told them?" Grimm asks in surprise.

Of course, Gabrielle hasn't told anyone about her own situation. She looks like she's wrestling with a bit of personal guilt.

Matt shakes his head, "No..not really. I mean, they know that there are some..uh..godly types that want me dead, but not whats at stake."

Grimm nods absently, then pulls herself out of her thoughts. "They should know. They have the right to know and decide what to do."

Matt nods.."Better they take their friendship from me than to die because of it.." but he now knows that's not true at all..

Matt looks Grimm in the eyes, "thank you for the insight..." he says somberly, "I need to think about this for a while, Sorry to have interrupted your practice."

Grimm nods thoughtfully. "I hope you tell your friends. Or at least stop seeking your demise. Be careful."

Matt says, "I'm not seeking..." he starts off but then simply nods, "thank you. I hear what you're saying." he starts to zoom off when he says, "Good night Grimm.""

"Goodnight, Matt," Grimm says quietly, left to ponder about the boy...