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[former_endboss]

I shall come before you as a girl, and witness the prophecy of your rebirth now.

[There is, for a time, only blackness and a voice. And then suddenly, there is light and color and sound as the Objects of Mir's attention becomes visible. It's a short scene, perhaps only a minute of video-but it's powerful and evocative. An older man stands off to one side, while a younger embraces a young woman.]

"It's Coming! The power of Mir is finally here! The power to change the world is here! Now, the world will enter the era of Mir!"

You... should go...

Don't say that! You're coming with me. We have to leave... together!

[And then there is an explosion of force, and a whipping wind-before the girl's face changes, and the young man is knocked back. That smirk though, that satisfied look, might be familiar to a few of you.]

Whoa!

I can smell the wind, I can feel the chaos...At long last, it's time for me to stand up to this world on my own two legs! My precious 'gene'... it's borrowing... Aurica's body....

Gene?! Aurica is Mir's...

Yes. She is my... 'precious daughter'...

Mir! We welcome you as the Holy Maiden.

You...welcome me?

Yes. I'm the man who shall be your master. My name is Kyle Clancy.

You shall be my master? Then...take this...

[The older man drops to his knees, writhing in pain as Mir's spell overtakes him, warping his flesh into a monstrous form. Mir starts to laugh in Aurica's body...]

To be my master, you must prove yourself worthy!

[And then another song cuts in, and all is fading black once more. With a background of Mir screaming in horror as she is cheated of her freedom once more.]

In exchange for the sacrifice of my body, I shall offer this hymn.
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[[OOC: Mir's gone and done it-for all of about 30 seconds, she was free of her prison and she did so in a really nasty way. Please assume there's a nice long 12 hour delay between Mir cutting off and responding to any network related stuff thanks to CHRONICLE_KEY hitting her like a sack of bricks.

This post does not endorse Lyner/Aurica. Lyner is a huge jerk and Aurica deserves a much better significant other.]]

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[archerartemis]

[Not like Artemis was fond of Mir to start with, but this doesn't help matters.]

What are you doing?

[former_endboss]

...I hate that song. Let's make that clear.

What does it look like I was doing?

[archerartemis]

I don't know. Possessing somebody? Attacking another? Getting your ass kicked by a song?

[former_endboss]

EXEC_CHRONICLE_KEY is not just a song. It's designed specifically to contain me-as long as one of Lune's line sings it for at least 12 hours a day, I'm powerless.

And Clancy was a creep and a fool. What did he expect to receive when he called himself my master?

[archerartemis]

Still didn't explain about the girl.

[former_endboss]

I needed a body. I asked her to offer herself, and she said she would. She iss Mir_teiwaz_Artonelico, just as I am, so she was the perfect vessel.

[archerartemis]

I don't buy it. Why else would someone be so willing to kick you out?

[former_endboss]

Get with the program-that knight was one of my enemies, of course he was going to try to kick me out. Keyword: Try.

[archerartemis]

I'm not a big fan of people taking over anyone else's body.

[former_endboss]

Well I don't care about your opinion anyways. You're in no position to judge me.

[archerartemis]

And who exactly qualifies?

[former_endboss]

When you've suffered one percent of the pain I have lived with, you'll want to kill yourself. When there is no will in you left to resist, you will be halfway to where I stand.

When you are utterly broken, shattered beyond repair, and then rebuild yourself. Then you may judge.

[archerartemis]

Yeah, because having a sob story SO justifies everything.

[masked_god]

Interesting.

[former_endboss]

[ Please wait, CHRONICLE KEY may cause Induced coma in Mirs. ]

uggghhh. Don't just say Interesting.

[masked_god]

What more can I say?

An interesting play. But it is now, as we say history.

[former_endboss]

Don't be silly. This isn't even the end of the second act.

I have plans within plans. The failure of one advances the pieces needed for my next gambit.

[masked_god]

You have yet to indicate that you have the power to support those statements. All your 'plans' will be for naught if you cannot motivate the pieces to move.

[former_endboss]

Power? You doubt my power?

Very well, I will demonstrate the power I command. Even as naught but a song, I command power.

[masked_god]

Things that do not exist - that have never existed - command as much power in a song as any other being. You will have to do more than that, dear.

[former_endboss]

Rrha apea gagis paul ini ar ciel,
Wee num ra, gran faja dius manafaln sheak, pat syec yeal.

I don't think you understand what I mean. I am a reyvateil-my words alone have power. A single tone from my lips turns air into iron, a chord shapes it into a sword, and aria thrusts that blade into your breast. And I can do so much else besides.

[masked_god]

...and? By a quirk of history I can do much the same. What is the line? He has spawned stars from his lips for a million young boys to dream of...

And yet the dreams of one boy were able to crumble my empire and strip me of all my power. Hence my bemusement.

[former_endboss]

None shall ever strip me of power. Bound and fettered, toothless, blind and deaf, I still reach out and touch the world. And when I am free, I will do far more than touch it.

[masked_god]

Call me back when you kill a sun. Then I might believe your power.

[former_endboss]

Killing anything is easy. The song I quoted to you births a black hole. Nothing can escape or struggle against that.

Creation is difficult. I will reconstruct a world and show it to you.