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02 - Pull Yourself Together

A - Venture Park, closed to Eiji Hino

This city was one strange, dangerous place. If it wasn't one thing keeping him from finding that blasted hobo, it was another. (Mostly, he was choosing to blame that weird purple Greeed for making messes and getting in his way.) But today he was determined to find Eiji Hino. He had reached the limits of how far he could grow while nesting at Joji Yuki's lab, or while huddled shamefully at the bottom of Hina Izumi's purse.

Mind you, Ankh has absolutely no patience left. There is no room for subtlety and stealth in his plans today. "EIJI! HEY! EIJI!!!" So there is now a very noisy floating hand rushing through Venture Park at inappropriate speeds. One that cares not for who he bothers or how much attention he's drawing.

B - Venture City in general

When you're more than just a floating hand, there are more things that you can do. Like actually go into an ice cream shop, purchase multiple ice cream bars (with money that was gotten via earlier pickpocketing, but let's not go there), and sit down to eat them all. Even if they don't taste like anything. Even if they don't feel like anything. They're supposed to taste sweet and feel cold, and maybe if he eats enough of them, he'll get something out of it.

But so far, it's just serving to tick him off, for obvious reasons and for reasons that feel just a few inches outside of his grasp. He looks very, very grumpy, for a man with that much ice cream stacked in front of him.

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Ankh's shouting was certainly getting a lot of people's attentions with his loudness. Though in the long run that might have been a good thing since Eiji heard his name being yelled and started looking around.

"Ankh?"

Edited 2014-09-11 03:38 (UTC)

Ankh had gone into this fully expecting an answer to his shouting. What he hadn't expected was for it to feel so suddenly... something. Familiar? No, that wasn't the word. But what? What, then? He stopped short and recoiled, until he was simply floating there in the air, stunned.

This lasted for all of five seconds because Eiji obviously wasn't in front of him yet, and thus the search wasn't over. "...Eiji! OVER HERE!!!" And now he's charging boldly over bushes and around trees, in the direction of the voice that he'd heard.

Eiji starts moving to where he heard Ankh's voice coming from. It doesn't take long for the two to find each other, though some people shouting in surprise at a disembodied arm flying around helped.

All the shouting people can go take a flying leap. Venture City is weird. They need to start getting used to this stuff.

Ankh's charge doesn't stop once Eiji's in sight, oh no. This is the most important person in existence, as far as he's aware, and he's not just going to settle for lingering near him. Once he's close enough he grabs for Eiji's shirt as though to hold him in place. "...where the heck have you been?!"

Way to ruin the moment, Ankh.

Ankh had grabbed him while he was in mid-step so Eiji had to put his foot down to center his balance. Regardless of Ankh being able to ruin the moment with one sentence it didn't keep Eiji from feeling happy at seeing him. Sure, he was just an arm right now but he was alive, that was the important part.

"I've been around."

Edited 2014-09-11 18:19 (UTC)

"Tch! Around..." Ankh's grip on Eiji remains firm. Now that he's finally found him, the man with the king's driver, the man he'd remembered following, he couldn't just let him go. He didn't want to. And he didn't tend to question impulses like that.

"You're going to help me find the rest of my Core Medals!" This is not a request. This is a demand. That's what this man is for, right?

Right, the Core Medals. Of course Ankh would bring them up. On the plus side, Eiji had them. On the downside, there were only three of them; the three that had not been destroyed/sucked into that black hole.

"I have them with me."

So simmer down, they're not going anywhere anytime soon.

If Eiji thought that saying that would get the hand to let go of him, he had another thing coming. Ankh lets out a noise that is pretty much a gasp, and then starts trying to shake the man back and forth, as though that would dislodge those long-desired medals. "Then give them to me! HAND THEM OVER!"

He'll be reaching up to grab Ankh in order to get him to stop shaking, "All right, give me a moment."

When he's made sure the Greed won't be trying to shake him he'll bring out the medal case and open it up. Picking up the Kujaku and Condor Medals, he holds them out to the other, "Here."

He's doing it. He's listening. He can ease up for a moment, then. Just as long as he keeps providing what he wants. Once the medals are offered he releases Eiji's collar, then dives for them, grasps them, and absorbs them into himself. And then he recoils as a sudden flash of memory hits him.

He's on a rocky, sandy shoreline, fighting with Eiji Hino. Fighting desperately, knowing that it's for survival. Eiji Hino needs to be ended, or he'll keep him from what he wants most. They struggle wildly, stumble into the water, and Eiji throws him down into it. He tastes salt. He's chilled to his core. "What is it you want, anyway?! To become human?"

"It's much simpler than that!" He struggles to sit, he gasps for breath. "The one thing that'll let me taste the world! Life!" And that gives Eiji pause. Long enough for him to lash out, kick the man, throw him into the water. "Greeed aren't really alive. We're just things." He rises slowly, dripping wet. "And yet we've got more desire than humans. So much that no matter what we do, it's never enough! Can you understand what that's like?!"

"I do." No hesitation on Eiji's part. None. "I mean it. I really do. But I'm still going to stop you." And on they fight, harder, more violently, shouting about desire, about life, about everything that matters between them, until Ankh backhands him, shouting that he should want something for a damn change, then jumps him and straddles him and pulls him up by the collar.

"I wanted...." He's crying? "There was something I wanted once, but... I gave up on it. I tried to focus on just what was in front of me." There's something terrible behind Eiji eyes, something he can't identify. "The power to help people, no matter how far off they are! More, and more.... and then I got it." His voice catches. "You gave it to me."

His fingers clutch at the air as he remembers it all. And when memory and feeling stop overwhelming him, he jerks, spins in the air, and regards Eiji with nothing more to say.

"Thank you." He said, with utter sincerity.

Ankh recoiling as he did after absorbing the two medals was cause for concern. He hadn't been expecting a reaction like that.

"Ankh?"

Greeed are strange creatures. Greeed that have been reassembled by questionable mad science are even stranger. But now that Ankh isn't completely overwhelmed by memory, he can do something that's a little more normal. He forces himself apart, into a mass of Cell Medals floating around those three cores of his, and then forces them into a human shape. Then they solidify, and there stands Ankh in all his lanky glory, with an uncharacteristically soft expression upon his face.

"...this is better." Which vanishes almost immediately. He rolls his shoulders, strides forwards, and then reaches out to grasp at Eiji's shoulder. It seems as though he might say more, but then he releases the man and turns away. "Where are the rest of them?"

Ah, right... the rest of the Core Medals. Had Ankh still had his memories he would know what exactly had happened to the rest.

"These are the only ones left. The rest were destroyed."

He looks down at the open case in his hands. The one other Taka Medal, with three green, three blue, three yellow, and three grey medals were all arranged neatly inside. Although that was a small lie what with Maki being back, thus the Purple Cores were also still intact.

"Destroyed?!" Whatever meaningful, emotional moment that they could have shared was now over. It was back to business as usual between them, with Ankh whirling around and grabbing at Eiji far more roughly. "What do you mean, destroyed?!"

His eyes flit down to the open medal case, then. There were sets of three, yes, and one left there because.... "Hey!" No time to think. Just grab. Ankh snatches for the remaining Taka Medal.

Getting grabbed jostles him and he has to tighten his grip on the case so he doesn't drop it.

"Well, they were. At least the ones that weren't--ah...."

He sees Ankh grab the last Taka Medal. There goes Tatoba along with Tajador... unless he can convince Ankh to let him have it.

The Taka Medal is grabbed, but not yet absorbed. Though he springs back a few steps to ensure that Eiji doesn't try to snatch it back, he's still holding it in his hand. Because something seems off. His eyes flit back to the medal case, to the colors there, then back to Eiji's face....

"What happened to the rest?! And where did you get them in the first place?!"

"The rest that weren't destroyed were lost when I--when we--stopped Dr. Maki."

And you had died after that. That is left unspoken.

"Your Core Medal, and the ones in here, were the only ones that weren't lost."

The rest that weren't destroyed. Ankh's eyes narrow, he looks down to the medal case, and then back up to Eiji. "Dr. Maki. The Purple Greeed." He sneers as he says it. Even given his limited exposure to the man, he had no love of him whatsoever. "And the others? The rest? Did you 'stop' them?"

If those Medals are all that's left, and his core had needed restoration, then did the others meet the same fate? He'd never gotten a proper answer.

The others. He was most likely referring to the rest of the Greeed.

"They're all gone too."

"Hmmph." He rolls his eyes and tosses his head and angles himself away, looking both displeased and uncomfortable with it all. So it's just him and that Dr. Maki. And there were only four of his Core Medals still left in existence. How the hell was this stupid hobo going to help him, now? In what possible way could he be of use?

"...what are you even doing with that belt? With all that power?"

"I've been helping people."

The last three years he had spent wandering the world once more he had used the power of OOO to help protect people. But it hadn't been the sole reason; Ankh had been a big driving force behind his traveling and now here he was.

"...you would." Hadn't he remembered as much? He'd gone and given the king's power to this hobo, and... something enormous had come from it. They'd worked together and they'd done more than either of them would have been capable of apart. He flicks his wrist and finally absorbs that last red Core Medal into himself, then turns himself fully about to face Eiji once more.

"You need a medal keeper. Don't you?" Of course he did. He'd have to.

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