Rivalry

[Jade]

" Yes we can..." he frowned shutting his eyes.

Tifa crawled up onto him resting her head on his chest " Rina said she was working on soemthing... a way to figure out why he wont die... if anyone can find out why its her..."

[Reno]

Dagmir laided next to them and sighed. "is sure hope so."

[Jade]

Josh sighed shutting his eyes... but kept a small smile on his face... he could really get used to this..

[Reno]

Dagmir nuzzled against him and sighed.

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"damn it there has to be a way!" Rina hissed. biting on a pencil and staring at notes she had made. it was padt midnight and she hadn;t come out of the basement since she entered, not to eat or sleep or anything. in fact, if she looked back on it, she hadn;t been eating or sleeping well sicne Red had reappeared and she began this process to discover deathseige's weakness. if anything, just to save her husband.

"argh!" She tugged on her hair, the pencil hanging from her lips and she hefted herself to her feet, looking at the rows of sata and books she had collected over the years. God damn it she had found out how to go into the 5th deminsion once why was this so HARD?!

ok, he canlt be killed in heaven or hell and gradd, raichu and josh canlt be his only weakness. if he gathers maleki's energy, hell he;d probably be unstoppable and it won;t even matter about the three anymore... what about Earth though? demons, angels humans. anyone can die there... thats a high risk... there just has to be something better!

[Jade]

" Its been done already, earth was the first place I... thought I killed him." Raichu was walking down the stairs as he glanced over in Rina's direction. " So its true... your really trying to figure this whole thing out?" he came to a stop at the bottom of the stairs " Why dont you take some samples of my blood and his to see what you can do?" He laughed slightly " I mean I dont like needles and all but... I think I can bare with it if it can help..."

Raichu took few more steps forward and handed Rina a sack lunch " Diana asked me to give this too you, she said you havent eaten for days."

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Josh sighed staring out into the distance from the same cliff where he had tried to kill himself those many years ago... often this was the one place he had always come to ponder about life. He frowned shaking his head... he stared down at his hand the Archon armor surrounding his entire body... he believed that if he was going to be able to fight DeathSiege... he would have to learn to control the armor so no pain would come from it, so that he could stay using it as long as he wanted...

He put his hand to the side and the dragonsblade burst into flames apearing in his hand. " Your a prison... for demons... my blade of destruction... show me the path that I must take in order to protect my family..."

[Reno]

Rina turned to look at Raichu and smiled a bitr. "thanks." she took the sack and then glanced at him. "taking some of your blood... could be helpful but this is a bit of a confusing process to learn how to totally destroy this demon. it doesn;t lie in blood its lies in the soul." Rina sighed snpping the pencil in her hand

[Jade]

Raichu blinked staring at her oddly " My soul? Well mines complicated..." he folded his arms " Josh thinks were the same but were not..." he sighed shaking his had " but I think you already know that."

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" I was meant to kill DeathSiege... when I let went back in time to let my mother live... that has to be it... the creation of both mine and Raichu's souls..." he gripped onto the dragonsblade tightly " That must have been why he didnt die!"

[Reno]

Rina waved her hand. "yes yes i get that but..." shje groaned bowing her head. "i have to find a way..."

[Jade]

Raichu nodded slightly " A long time ago there was a great warrior... thousands of years before either Josh or the God head even thought about creating the warrior we know as Gradd..." he smiled staring upwards " This warriors power was said to be so strong... that he could rival that of even the gods... but his heart was so pure... and full of light... he brought a smile to even the lowest of peoples faces " slowly he glanced over in Rina's direction " As much as Josh thinks our souls are the exact same souls... the god head decided not to recreate Josh's soul... but in fact replace it with that warrior..."

Raichu gripped his fist tightly lifting up his hand " Do you get it Rina? I dont understand it myself... but..."

[Reno]

Rina rasied an eyebrow. "soul of a man with a heart of pure?" she chuckled. "i'm sorry but Josh is anything but pure, its hard to believe but of course i;ve heard crazier things." she stood. "yes i understand." her eyes shuit momentarily. "power that rivaled the gods? if deathseiege gets maleki he;ll be in the same positoon... if theres some sort of hidden power in josh we have to bring it out."

[Jade]

" Actually I was talking about me!" Raichu said laughing slightly " The only problem is I dont really know how to use this power... the god head only told me about it once... they told me that when the time comes... and when all of existence is in grave danger... it will be released..." he scratched the back of his head " So in all reality im not Gradd at all"

[Reno]

Rina sweatdropped, looking embarressed then hit him in the shoulder. "i'm a scientist speak clearly or don;t at all!" she groaned leaning backwards onto the table. ":so tired... so hungry. ok ok i see. well then, just wait for this grave danger to happen and it should realease itself right?"

[Jade]

He laughed slightly " yea I wish!" He just sat there staring at her oddly " Besides you know me im not the smartest person in the world! Anyways... the reason I came here... what have you got so far on this thing?"

[Reno]

She motioned around the room. "i've got throies books papers everything strewn around the room. i'm still puzzling out why deathseige had so willing detahced my and my family's other sides... its all very... puzzling."

[Jade]

" Yea... I guess so... I just want him dead... as much as I hate killing people... I know how badlhe has to die..."