Tools, Together

Tools, Together

Dialogue

Tartarus: It appears all are now present.

Volk: That's rich, comin' from the one who just decided to show up.

Ciella: *sigh* What hopeless hypocrisy.

Tartarus: I should be thanked for not rebuking those who recklessly ignore orders.

Kai Yan: Orders? Idiocy. We have not the type of relationship in which commands are either given or received.

Ayaha: Yeah, we're free! Isn't that right, Oto?

Otoha: That's right, Aya. Just because we agree with the things HE says doesn't mean we've become his minions.

Tartarus: Of course. That's how we've always been. If each of us accomplishes what must be done, there will be no interference.

Tartarus: But what of...them?

Ayaha: What's there to say? They're puppets who know nothing of freedom.

Otoha: That's right! Puppets with no idea if they even have free will or not!

Ciella: The little puppets playing in their little delusions... It's almost adorable!

Kai Yan: They are weak. Nothing more. And weakness must be culled.

Volk: Yeah, they're a pathetic bunch, all right.

Tartarus: It would appear we are in agreement: they possess strength enough that we ought to be wary of them.

Ciella: Were you even listening?

Tartarus: None here can ever find agreement, yet now you all steadfastly hold to the same belief. I find this most abnormal.

Tartarus: I suspect something has occurred to give you pause—perhaps a battle with a foe who proved to be your equals?

Everyone: ......

Ciella: You have the right of it: They are strong. It is hopeless to pretend otherwise.

Volk: And they're blessed with talent, fortune, and friendships...which I find irremissible!

Kai Yan: It merely means that the six of us—having attained the height of power—now have foes actually worth the slaughter.

Ayaha: Yeah, it's all the same in the end. We'll just go and rip 'em up.

Tartarus: Good. I see it was wise to trust you to act on your own. Your vigilance will not go to waste in the battle to come.

Tartarus: But from this point forward, I cannot have you simply doing as you please. Bear that in mind.

Ciella: Do you still not get it? Not one of us is above or below the other; we neither give nor obey the others' orders.

Otoha: We won't let anyone interfere with our freedom—not even HIM.

Tartarus: We have no common ideology. We have no single connection.

Kai Yan: Pathless. Licentious. Free. Aberrant. We are a group that is not a group, which is why we are gathered.

Tartarus: But we all seek the same thing. I trust I am not mistaken in this?

Volk: Rebellion against the world.

Ayaha: The world rejected us...

Otoha: So WE will reject the world!

Tartarus: And we are all in agreement as to what is needed for that goal.

Everyone: ......

???: The Dawnshard.

Everyone: ?!

Nedrick: The treasure of treasures—one with the power to unwind fate itself.

Nedrick: We shall rebel, shatter destiny itself, and eliminate this world. And to accomplish this, we must have the Dawnshard.

Tartarus: So you have come as well, Nedrick.

Nedrick: I'm not looking to serve as your leader, but we are all here to use each other as tools. I will have you live up to the power I bestowed upon you.

Everyone: ......

Nedrick: I shall permit no turning away. You need not obey me, nor bend the knee—but I'll not see you veer from our objective.

Nedrick: Move ever towards it, without erring. This is what I gathered you for.

Kai Yan: Your concerns are unnecessary; our souls were loosed from this world long ago.

Ayaha: We'll turn away from nothing! Right, Oto?

Otoha: That's right, Aya. Our sights are set FIRMLY on our world.

Nedrick: Very well. Then let us be off, so we might unmake this world with our own hands.

Volk: We're rebels against the world.

Ciella: And we will awaken the world.

Tartarus: We...

Everyone: ...are Agito!