Intervention of the Mind [Sven]

[Soji]

Ren walked into his apartment irritated and tired. Sojiro had gone off for the night with a few of the younger hunters whom they considered her a peer more than anything. However, Ren knew they would learn quick enough if they managed to live through being around her. However, this also left the house to Ren alone, and he wasn't quite sure what to do with himself. He was tired. He could sleep.... but he was irritated also.. for reasons he couldn't begin to explain, and simply put, he couldn't sleep with his mind in that state. This is pissing me off! Ren thought to himself again irritatedly shaking his head. After a moment he walked to the kitchen and started fighting the cabinets to find something to eat.

[pistol]

Sven pounded on the door of Ren and Soji's apartment. He could not believe how Roen was acting towards his boss, Sojiro and himself and it had to stop. "Ren!", he yelled fishing through his key ring to find one he had made for the apartment,"get your ass out here! You have some explaining to do!"

He pounded the door harder hoping that he would at least bother him enough to pull open the door to shoot him.

[Soji]

Son of a.... Ren turned his head from the kitchen toward sthe front door and stared for a moment. He wasn't in the mood to deal with anyone, and yet here Sven was pounding on his door. Ren looked back down at what he was cutting up and didn't speak simply kept chopping up the meat he had just taken out. Through the door, he half shouted. "Go away, Sven," Ren answered back dryly as he continued to cut and ignore the pounding on his door. It had come almost as in inference that Sven would break down his door anyways. "I'm not in the mood to go drinking right now or anything," he commented loud enough to where it could probably be heard through the door.

[pistol]

Sven ignored him and took the key and jamed it in the lock. He struggled with the broken knob and after several painstakingly anoying moments opened the door to hear the thud of a knife on a cutting board. Withlittle thinking involved, Sven walked into the kitchen and grabbed Ren by the collar. "Like I give a damn what you feel like doing right now!," he yelled into Ren's face," This is what you need!"

He pulled a wine bottle off of a wine rack and took off the cork and started poaring in Ren's throat. When Ren started to choke he poared it on his head. Seconds latter the empty bottle was smashed into the back of Ren's head. As the peices scattered on the floor Sven got in a fighting position ready for a full assult.

[Soji]

"The effin hell!" Ren shot back in irritation and a strange dizziness. He hated being drunk. It made his mind even more foggy than it normally was. "Sven have you gone off your effin rocker!" Ren shouted at him before seizing the life that he had been using to cut up the meat in hand. "Don't piss me off, Sven," Ren spat caustically at the green haired man before him. "You can't win, and there's nothing to effin gain from it." Ren flipped the knife up and slid his fingers along the blade easily cutting into his own flesh but only by fractions. "And if you mess with me... I'll kill you." This, despite the feeling that Ren had had, was what left his mouth. Stabbing the end of the knife straight into the cutting board before ripping it out again, Ren continued to glare at Sven as if challenging him to take one more step. One more step towards a fight that Ren was ready to give.

[pistol]

Sven gave him a sly smile and took off his eye patch. He felt the eye take over his brain and link with his limbs and emotions. Wild energy took over him and gave him confidence that if he wanted to, he could kill his best friend. He walked forward and grabbed Ren's wrist and in a death grip twisted it, ripping at least half the muscles in the wrist. "Oh but I think I can," he wispered to Ren as he delivered a blow to his face,"I have everything to gain from this, My best freind's life!"

His head pulsed with a headache but ignored it. He usualy would be out in 7 minutes and would have to make it quick so when he did, Ren wouldn't decide to hang him by his toes outside the window over 5 o'clock traffic.

[Soji]

Flinching for a half second as Sven grabbed his wrist, Ren refused to let go of the knife. "Life?" he half smirked with a strange darkness in his eye. "All there is in the world is Death...." he shot back before head butting Sven sharply as both craniums clashed with one another. Ren flinched again as he took a sided step and forced Sven back again. His calm muscle twitched a fraction even as Ren forced himself forwards and Sven backwards. However, brute strength wasn't enough to deal with Sven's eye. Ren knew it. The strange double bladed power that Sven wielded was not something that one could simply ignore when fighting him. Ren felt a muscle in his neck twitch as he forced his eyes up and stared directly at Sven. "And I'm a master at it," he growled.

[pistol]

Sven shoved a finger in Ren's face. "That shit is the whole reason why I am here!," he shouted pulling a knife out of a drawer. He knew it was futile to even attempt going agenst him with a blade but he would kill him with a gun. "It is shit like that that make me sick!," He yelled swinging the blade,"You don't realize the life you have or the ones you have saved!"

He yelled in pain as the veins near his eyes strained as the blood of the eye mixed with his own. 2 minutes down... he tought to himself as he prepared for another attack.

[Soji]

Blood spattered as Ren's wrist exploded from the sudden slash Sven had given it.He flinched a fraction but didn't release the blade in his own hand. "You don't get anything, Sven!" Ren shot back. "I'll have never killed enough of those f***** beasts to finish them! I have to spend every waking moment looking over my shoulder to make sure that damn creature won't come back after Sojiro! I'm sick of it!" After shouting,. Ren released his breath as his eyes grew and shrank again. "I can't have a life," he breathed out. "I'm not allowed to anymore. This is me!" He forced Sven back and made a sharp slash across Sven's wrist. "An eye for an eye... an arm for an arm...." Ren leered sharply. "Kill me if you think you can....." Blood continued to run down Ren's arm from the slash. "I'll even help you out." Flipping the blade again, Ren slashed straight down his left arm causing an explosion of blood to spatter on the floor.

[pistol]

5 minutes....Sven took his own blade and made an identical slash on his arm. "an eye for an eye..", he muttered as he looked around the kitchen and the horrible image of the night when sojiro was attacked flooded the vision of both eyes. Tears began to stream down his face as he looked again at Ren with a vision of the near massacre that happend that night filled his mind and surrounded them. He pushed Ren back to the point in the kitchen where Sojiro was first attacked and gave a deep cut on his chest near his heart. "This is where she was first jumped," he told him giving him a punch on the wound.

2 minutes....He pushed him into the dining area that lay in ruins that night and dropped the knife. Sven Grabbed his collar and kept punching him. "This is where she got all those glass cuts that made her weaker against that monster!," he shouted punching him with every sylabble.

1 minute..... He finally pushed him agenst the ground in the middle of the living room where blood had forever stained their memory. "And this..," he said as tears fell down his face," This is where you found her! This is where you swore that you would get him! You don't think your life matters! But it does to her! You saved her life you DUMBASS!!! How could you forget her?!? If you don't have your own life you still have hers! Every time you look over your shoulder for that thing you are looking out for her life even if that means you are giving her yours! You talk about eye for an eye right, then how can you give something you don't have up to someone else!"

Time is up he told himself as his vision began to blurr and he rolled over and collasped. He put a hand over his eye and closed it. He wanted to get up and get his eye patch but he couldn't move a muscle out of exagustion.

[Soji]

Ren lay on his back in the living room with his eyes glazed over and his body half arched as if he had landed on something strange. His right arm was arched back while his left was arched forwards, and both were bent at odd angles to both his body and each other. Blood was running out of him from the slash Sven had forced, and he all but looked dead. Damn it..... moved in Ren's mind. He couldn't even move at that point. It was as if his body had simply given up on him completely. MOVE! MOVE! GET UP! GET UP AND FINISH THIS! Ren's thoughts shouted in his mind. It's a double edged sword... the eye's gonna wear off soon if it hasn't..... get up and finish this..... However, his body ceased to move, and instead, Ren found himself falling strangely back into a nothingness in his mind.

There was darkness... everywhere... no matter where he looked, Ren couldn't see anything.. or feel anything.... It was strange... cold and cruel in nature. I'm dead.... Ren sighed to himself. "I'm dead...." he said it aloud into the air as if expecting someone to hear him. However, it appeared as if no one heard him or if someone did, they were intentionally ignoring him. Ren found himself at a strange diagonal position as he floated in nothingness. "Damn... I'm really dead....." Ren said again. "Well...shit I knew it would happen....." He sighed a bit turning his head and staring into the nothingness far off. It seemed as far as he could see, there was nothing more to see. "Man this is gonna be a long eternity if this is it...." Ren sighed to himself turning his head up into the darkness again.

Suddenly a pain wet through Ren's chest causing him to sharply grab at it. However, he could no longer feel his heart beat... all that was there... was pain and more pain...... It irked him... made him want to rip out his heart.....yet he couldn't dig far enough into his flesh for anything but plain suffering to continue in his chest. He wanted to tear it out... rip it from him... this incessant pain...You have no heart.... You're soul is dead.... You're nothing but a killer. Words... like strange needles, pierced through him with sharp hateful intent as though ready to take his life in the blink of an eye. However, they seemed to hit at things that wouldn't kill him just yet... just leave him a slow and painful death into nothing. The pan that ran through him echoed out in Ren's own lungs as he screamed out into nothingness in which none could hear him anyways. Suddenly a fire seemed to run up himself. No soul... Not heart... No being.... burn into nothingness for an eternity.... Ren screamed out more feeling the sharp pain in himself again. He couldn't move now... only feel it... eating away at him... There was nothing he could do... just take it... take it all in his body and scream out into the blackness around him for none to hear. I want to die...... Ren's thoughts echoed in his head and out suddenly into the surroundings as if he had said them aloud.

"You are dead," a voice from the darkness answered back in a dark aura of monotones and nothingness. "This is how it will be for an eternity for you to pay back what you have taken...." Ren's eyes searched through the darkness to find who had stated the words... Was someone there? Could they help him escape? Was there someway out of the pain and the nothingness around him... He flinched trying to shout out words instead of screaming out simple pain.

"Who are you!" Ren managed, feeling his lungs slowly die inside him. He couldn't see them... but the sounds of feet approaching hit his ears.Keeping his eyes searching for it, Ren finally found the form of the person walking towards him with a calm and stride...a stride one may walk up to a wedding with... or more likely a funeral.

"Now you should know who I am...." the person answered back. The figure wore a black coat and hood, and it approached, Ren found the figure had split into several figures now standing around him... surrounding the body that he could not move. "We're here to make you suffer...." the voices all seemed to laugh as the figures began pulling back their hoods and reveling their faces around him. However, the last remained as though not bothering to show face. The first... was Brianna... the first girl he had killed... the one whom had slowly drove him mad.... She had a blank smile woven onto her face as she reached into the large black coat and produced a knife no longer than from her wrist to her elbow.

Stepping forwards, she stabbed him straight in the stomach. Ren flinched feeling the pang of it. Resisting the voice to scream... She seemed to smile back at him... happy to see the pain on his visage. "I'm glad to see you are getting what you deserve...." she smiled. Taking a step back and pulling on her hood once more, the Brianna figure disappeared suddenly into nothingness. The next, pulled his hood off and stared at Ren sharply. it was the face of the black haired boy whom Brinna had said she loved... whom Ren had forced into situation... whom had died.

"Ah... coming to chop my head off for 'killing' you too?" Ren breathed with a snide grin as he understood what was happening. "I can take it...I've been prepared to take it forever..... Take your best shot...."

The boy stepped forwards and produced his own long knife.. the same size as Brianna... and shoved it straight into Ren's chest... only a fraction higher than where Brianna had placed hers. This time, Ren couldn't hold back and let out a pained scream before managing to cut it off. "You've lost your soul..." he commented, and just like the previous, the boy stepped back and returned his hood suddenly fading into the darkness. There were still more... Ren looked at as many as he could... Still more semi hooded figures.

The next that stood up came with a sharp step, and as she took off her hood, Ren noticed it was the face of the girl he had killed as she tried to get into the Hunter HQ. She carried the same fiery expression that she had had before and didn't even freeze before she reached, produced a dagger, and shoved it straight into him still higher than before. "Don't think I forgot your face," she said sharply before backing away and disappearing.

"Damn......" Ren swore. He could barely breathe now... It was painful... on top of the already growing pain in him... Was this going to be eternity? Was this the answer to what he had done. I lost my soul..... Ren thought to himself before a half laugh started to echo from him. "If I lost it... why am I still suffering...."

"You made many suffer...." the next hooded figure commented back as he stepped forwards. Taking off his hood, the previous Ren Saber stared back at his apprentice. "Including my family....." he sighed aloud. Ren recoiled sharply starting to yell.

"You turned me into this!" he shouted bearing his teeth. He couldn't let this fake master harm him in the way he had let the others. "Your death was planned form the beginning! It'd the way of Sector 12!" he shouted angrily. "Don't you dare turn this on me!"

"You could have left...." the master answered back. "You could have simply run and left me to train my daughter instead... I would have lived years longer... and you would not have my blood on your hands.... You chose this way. You chose to kill me.... yet you don't even have anything to show for it now... No honor... no mind... not body... not even an apprentice to pass on to the next generation... you have failed Sector 12."

"Shut up!" Ren screamed feeling his voice crack. "Shut up! You don't even understand. Ren shot a hateful look, but the master appeared not to move forwards but simply crossed his arms and sighed shaking his head and fading into nothingness. It was as if he had been stabbed anyways, and Ren felt himself shout out again in a furry and frustration.

The next hooded figure was up reveling the face of Sven. Ren's eyes grew and then narrowed sharply. Sven stared but made no motion to come forwards. Instead, he simply crossed his arms and disappeared. "SVEN!" Ren found himself shouting in a sudden panic. "Get back here!" he changed his tone but there was still that feeling in it. He couldn't deny it... the want for Sven to come back not for a fight but....

"I can't help you anymore," Sven's voice echoed out before disappearing completely. "You've destroyed your heart...." Ren felt his breathing increase and it only seemed to heighten his pain. Suddenly another hooded figure was making his way up. Ren's eyes shot to the hood sharply, and a growl escaped him. The pain... was growing in him.

"You betrayed them all... you killed them all... you hurt them all.... and now they are taking revenge.... but it is my turn, finally..." the hooded figure that had not shown any signs of taking off his hood until he was already a few feet from Ren. The face could still not be seen through it. However, the hooded figure moved close to Ren and even set his head on Ren's shoulder. "You're a killer without a heart... and your soul is in burning shambles... but it is my time.... to end you." Ren flinched as the figure placed his hand on his shoulder before pushing off again.

"Hah... and just who the hell do you think you are?" Ren challenged back sharply keeping his eye directly on the hooded figure as he backed up and appeared to be taking off his hood. The arms of the being reached up and slowly took off the hood. Ren's eyes grew as he caught sight of his own visage looking straight back at him with a determined eye. The hood was completely removed now, and Ren came face to face with himself.

"I'm you, of course," the figure smiled a bit to himself. "You betrayed me... and turned me into a mindless killer.... you forgot whatwe were fighting for... and used it to make yourself cold... as if it was some sort of excuse.... You don't even care about her anymore do you? You're just using her as an excuse to be cold.... you're a cold killer who's finally been killed. You won't even appear in history..... You're just another dead corpse."

"I don't care!" Ren shouted out. "I don't care! I don't care about anything! I don't care! I'm dead! Just end it all! Enough!" Suddenly, Ren felt a smack hi the side of his face. He froze and stared at his own face again the dark yet determined person staring him down.

"I'm the one who is dead, fool," the mirror shot back at him. "There's no way to repent for what you have done. You've killed them all and you've killed me too....I'll kill you now and end it all." Suddenly the mirror seemed to reach in his coat and pull out a saber. Ren's eyes grew recognizing his own. "Good bye."

Suddenly it hit him. The entire line of things. What he had done. What he couldn't change now. However, something else as well. What he could do... what he could change... there was still one person... that was willing to believe in him. "Sojiro!" he shouted. The sword froze, less than half an inch from Ren's forehead, and all he could do was take a breath in. Looking up the blade, Ren's eye caught Sojiro standing shakily holding the blade as if she were sobbing as she did it. "Ren... don't make me do this... I don't want you to die... please... Nii-san... please...." she begged. "Please... protect em.. don't... don't leave me... please....If I do this... you can't come home... please... Ren... I don't want to say good bye yet....."

Ren breathed out looking back at Sojiro. "I've done things... I've killed humans... Sojiro....." he breathed out.

"I don't care!" Sojiro suddenly shouted shaking her head. "Don't leave... if it makes you hateful I can stand it... just don't.....Just being around... I don't care if.... if...If you kill me.... just....." Sojiro was sobbing now and dropped the blade completely collapsing in front of him. "Don't make me do this, Nii-san.. don't make me kill the person that means.....means...."

"I'm sorry, Sojiro...." Ren sighed suddenly feeling his body be released. There was still pain in him, but it had lessened somehow. Ren forced himself to take several steps forwards towards her, and in half a second more, he had moved down and wrapped his arms around her. "Forgive me... Sojiro... I'll hunt again...... because we're family." It was an answer. Somehow. An answer that seemed to satisfy a feeling in Ren... that had long been asleep... Strange tears ran down his face as Ren found himself sobbing uncontrollably. It hurt.... to cry so hard... and he didn't even know why he was crying... For him self? For others? Or for no one at all? Ren didn't have the answer.

Suddenly everything faded away again, and Ren found himself laying in the living room with a strange amount of tears moving down his face. He breathe din and then breathed out again feeling life enter and exit. Blood still pooled on the floor.... his blood. However, Ren was, for the first time in a long time, strangely at peace. He breathed in, and relaxed again and closd his eyes again. I'm not just a killer... am I..... Ren sighed to himself as he continued to lay on the floor with his arms in strange positions and at odd angles to themselves.

[pistol]

"Do...you...realize...,"Sven gasped for breath as he closed his magical eye," how... of..an...ass..you...have..been?"

He tried to roll over but could not find the strength to do so. "I..know..it's..hard..," he gasped," but.. it's...worth.. it... as...long...as..you have...one person...to..fight..for... and that... believes in.. you.."

He raised a fist into the air and aimed it at Ren's face. He let it fall half heartedly fell and taped Ren in the head. "You know... you're too... hard-headed... for your own... good.." he whispered as he struggled to stay awake.

[Soji]

Ren closed his eyes and breathed outwards saying nothing. He made no motion to move even as Sven got upwards and smacked his face a fraction. Instead, he appeared to be all but asleep right on the floor.... and in fact... Ren slept lightly there on the floor almost instantly asleep.. as though he had not slept in years and was now finally resting for the first time in too long. His body seemed to relaxed outwards and made no motion to get up or even to function. Damn it Sven..... was the only thing that passed through his mind... for Ren Saber was fully and completely asleep.

~*~

The next thing Ren would remember would be waking up to an extremely bad migraine as he lay in a hospital bed. What would go down in the writing would be that both Ren and Sven had gotten drunk and had somewhat of a drunken quarrel, and with no charges pressed, it would go on in peace in the end of things. A day, and now the blond haired man was fighting to try and get out of the hospital that appeared to be waging a war into keeping him there.

Ren sat in bed with his arms crossed over his stomach as he leered at the nurse who was in the room. Sven had ended up in the same room as him, after the incident was finally filed away and what not, and Ren found that he appeared to be the only one wanting out of the hospital.

"Sven... why the hell haven't they let us out yet?" Ren asked looking over at the green haired man in the hospital bed next to his.

[pistol]

"Cause they still havn't given us back our clothes yet," he said to the celing as he wished for a cigarette. He wanted his gun and hat back so bad that he even tried to bribe the nurse for them. "And Idon't think that the kind people in the hospital want to see us leave with such harsh wounds," he told Ren looking at his hands," We really did a number on each other and Sojiro was not to happy about it."

He looked around and put a hand over the heavy bandages that where over his eye. "I heard she is going to visit us this evening so I sugest you chill for once in your life and either watch some tv or the nurses," Sven concluded looking out of the widow at a cute blonde passing by.

[Soji]

Ren resisted the sudden and violent urge to smack his face and just sighed and deflated on the pillows of his bed. "Sven seriously," Ren sighed outwards raising his eyebrow a fraction. "I'm not the guy to...." Ren looked away and turned a strange version of red. He was strangely embarrassed about thinking on girls anymore. It wasn't that he hadn't had his own issues and crushes here and there, but due to the recent pains in his mind, he had drowned all ideas of things of that sort. Shaking his head he sighed and stared at the ceiling. "And I haven't watched TV in years so why should I now?" Ren bit the inside of his mouth and thought more or less to himself on the matters that had sparked his interests... or rather fear in this case. Sojiro was coming into later and would probably beat both men worse then they were already for fighting in the first place. Not to mention the fact she wielded a scythe like no other.