DeathMatch: Tournament of Blood

[Entaru]

Y couldn't focus through the bloodlust.  Wraith was in full control of his body, though Y still had the mind.  Y's wrists were bleeding from the chains rubbing against his flesh.  He couldn't see Chrono or Ryn....only enemies.

[Shenzii]

Ryn knew what was wrong with Y but it hurt her too much to think about how much he wanted to tear her to shreds. She kept her gaze from his and stayed focused on the wolf that was pursuing her at the moment.

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Chrono looked at both of them and scratched his head. Y was still trying to kill, and Ryn was running from something that was probably fabricated from something she never bothered to tell anyone about, like the mansion or the apparently hidden vault of guns, vehicles, and personal army of guards. He made a mental note about her owing him an explanation before he touched her shoulder, and in some weird form of clairvoyance, saw the entity that Ryn was afriad of and distracted it by making a whistling sound to 'call out' his own personal demon to keep it occupied. Have fun with your new playmate Just remember I'm doing this to see you two get at it... it 'replied' before Chono shook Ryn away from her current focus and towards himself. "Y is busy playing prisoner, and your demon is pre-occupied, how about we spend this time to enjoy our apparent insanity?" he said with a rather calm smile.

[Shenzii]

Ryn had calmed herself. Her eyes were locked on Y's. "We're both insane. That's quite clear." She didn't look at Chrono when she spoke. Her eyes were glowing purple. "His mind is like a maze. Unable to be solved simply like ones mind. He's lost. Just as I was once. He is in a maze of thorns." She stayed focused on Y. The curiosity burned inside of her, wanting know more about Y, almost as if he were a bomb. Ryn wanted to know what made him tick and what made him explode.

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Chrono cast a gaze at Y, and muffled a growl before looking back at Ryn. "Right now hes hit a wall, and is currently suffering the consenquences, if he can't stop himself... what hopes do you have of getting him out of the maze that his mind is?"

[Shenzii]

"There are certain things that the mind hides. But my mind is special. I can find all of the hidden trap doors, as you may put it. It's a fragile puzzle. Something that you must go deep within to find. Why do you think people meditate? It's to find a state of mind where all in clear, peaceful. Well I can bring that out in people in the most chaotic of times." Her eyes did not move, nor did she blink. "I usually tame Blade with such actions... But he has grown too powerful. He puts up walls that I have yet to conquer."

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Chrono looked where his own inner monster had knocked blade off and smirked. "So Blade is its name; well I really can't do anything to someone I can't see, and only your link can make that happen without me touching you." The joking tone in his voice was gone as he blocked her vision of Y in order to stare right at her eyes. "But I can tell you cut me off even though I can only read thoughts you send to me. So if you really can help Y, then let me see what your mind fabricated, and I'll keep Blade busy whilst you fix the fox I imprisoned; deal?"

[Shenzii]

"Fair enough." She looked straight into his eyes. It was almost like a head rush as she traveled through his mind. His too was a maze, but not trouble at the moment. She had finally found the nerves that provoked a clear mind, meditation. Her eyes faded from purple and she kept a connection with Chrono. Now, Listen to my voice. Blade is not one to mess with. You may be powerful... but he runs in the mazes of my mind. A place where no one has been.

[Chrono Blackwyng]

His physical body and mental one parted ways at the point where she put him in meditation, and the physical kissed her once on the lips before a wordless fare-well and following the physical form of his inner demon to keep Blade's tangible form away from Ryn. His mental form stood at the bridge between their minds, and his form seemed much more demonic, and was also followed by his two previous forms that were now dressed as a knight in crimson-black armor, and a rogue whose arms, legs, and eyes were all that could be seen under cloak and cowl. Well, the point is to keep him at bay; but I guess you'd rather want him gone for good rather than just pre-occupied. I'll see what I can do... he 'said' before crossing the rather long and constantly shifting bridge towards her mental maze.

[Shenzii]

Ryn could only keep the bridge open for a moment more. You're maze is not as complicated as I thought. Yes you have you're road blocks and hurdles, but once you know what you want... well then you can figure it out. Her eyes disconnected and reconnected with Y's.

[Chrono Blackwyng]

He crossed the rest of the way and saw the bridge fall behind him, and he felt somewhat uncomfortable at being seperated from his body. But he kept those emotions down when Ryn seemed surprised at how he could have such a small mental maze.

Actually, theres alot of hidden passages, but I guess thats only when I'm reading is when they open. He soon approached the first set of directions, and noticed about five different paths he could  take, which seemed rather numerous for just the first turn.

Is your life really this complicated, that you have five different entrances to the maze?

[Entaru]

Y's mind was less a maze, and closer to a death trap.  If one were to get enough height they would see and endless field of steel briars with a spire of the same brambles at the center.  Ryn could hear voices screaming where the spire sat, echoing across the silent landscape of his mind.  There was a stale smell in the air...like the inside of a mausoleum.

This would be more difficult than she thought...

[Shenzii]

You will soon learn that my mind is more than I can even handle. There are dead ends, traps and demons that are hidden. And each entrance leads a different path. Never coming together as one. So choose wisely. That was all she could give him. She had to keep her link with Y strong so she could try to figure out the maze that had consumed his mind.

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Chrono sat down at the cross-roads and started to do what would, in theory, be called an 'aural divination'. He searched down each path for a feeling similar to Blaire, Ryn, and this new 'Blade'. He could feel two of the three 'auras' as fires of different color spectrums, and sent the warrior down to the gray flame while the rogue went to the red fire. Chrono himself was now splitting into two copies and one original, all three taking the non-aural paths in case the other two leads were false.

Blaire might not be 'alive' or entirely 'there', but her help would be appreciated since Ryn was pre-occupied with other matters.

[Shenzii]

Chrono was zoo to realize that Ryn's mind as constantly changing. Walls forming and crumbling. New paths and dead ends. Her mind was constantly in motion.