[GM PRP] A peculiar dream [Shun/???]

[Blade Kuroda]

When he saw the other Shun on the ground, he tilted his head, not certain why--

Everything clicked once the other voice spoke up again, and he found himself going very still. This version of him had not joined the police force.

Slowly, his hands clenched into fists as he was reminded of several personal memories of his father. He pushed the door open to step in.

Ashdown Whaler

 

[Ashdown Whaler]

The man that stood in front of the other Shun, and the other Shun himself, did not notice that they were joined in the room.

"Do you know how much it costs to cover up something like this with the police? Do you?" the standing man hissed out.

There was still no response from Shun, though his fingers continued to tighten against his trouser leg.

"Let me be entirely clear that no response is completely and utterly unacceptable. Is that clear? Do you understand? Or are you as stupid as your moth-" It was near instantaneous that the other Shun moved, a blur of shadow, and he was gripping the man by the collar.

"Don't talk about her." The voice was barely above a whisper and for all that there was not much tone to it, he was clearly angry.

Blade Kuroda

 

[Blade Kuroda]

They didn't see him. He was just a spectator to all of this. To this memory. And such he found himself glaring at the man who was his father. He looked a little different, being a different era and all, but it was unmistakably him. The way he spoke was all too familiar as well.

Though, when Kaitou brought up his mother, he tilted his head.

It didn't rise that much of a reaction out of him, personally. He had no memories of her. It still bothered him, but not nearly on the same level as the other Shun in the room.

His gaze flicked between the two, watching them carefully.

Ashdown Whaler

 

[Ashdown Whaler]

"Or what?" The voice was sneering, dripping in condescension. "You don't have th-"

A flicker of darkness and it was a shadowed blade held against his throat, other Shun's eyes narrowed. "Or you will find out just what you have turned your son into."

It almost seemed as if the lights flickered in response to the threat, shadows lengthening in the room. Though they were not sentient, not like the ones in other ashdown, they came to heel at Shun's feet in the same way they did his doppelganger.

Blade Kuroda

 

[Blade Kuroda]

There was no doubt in his mind that Kaitou would have turned him into something like this if given the chance. Hell, he was probably already halfway there.

His good eye shifted around as he saw the shadows in the room begin to move. Some of them pooled around the other Shun, while others came to him. It seemed his counterpart was somewhat more magically inclined in the 'normal' world than himself.

Tentatively, he held his own hand out to see if he could garner any control over the ones by his feet.

Ashdown Whaler

 

[Ashdown Whaler]

It looked, for a moment, as if they were not going to respond but - as they continually raced towards his double - they suddenly surged upwards and covered Shun.

The phoropter was visible briefly again, still in the chair in other ashdown, but it faded away in the absolute darkness.

He was caught within the shadows, though these were nothing like the ones that Gloom spoke of and was made of. No, these were simple shadows, darkness that existed only to be commanded.

Blade Kuroda

 

[Blade Kuroda]

Shun jerked a bit as he was suddenly enveloped. And then there his vision went again, flickering between his surroundings.

Now the was in total darkness. He blinked a few times.

There were shadows all around, though he wasn't really able to see much else. It was something he hadn't experienced in awhile. Maybe there was nothing else in this darkness.

He tried to exert his will to reveal anything that was around here with him.

Ashdown Whaler

 

[Ashdown Whaler]

The shadows surged away from him the moment that he tried to do something with them. Familiar streets were there, ones that were so clearly Ashdown, and his double was there once more.

This time he was walking down a street, an angry, fresh red scar across his eye that was held shut. A little bit of dried blood was at the corner, though it was ignored.

He turned a corner, disappearing around it.

Blade Kuroda

 

[Blade Kuroda]

Shun tilted his head as he found himself in Ashdown now. Not too far off, he could see himself walking down the street. He was missing his eye as well, complete with his own scar. Granted, he personally got his scar and missing eye in two different instances.

He quickly moved, shadowstepping to the corner where he saw himself go around, looking to keep up this time around.

Ashdown Whaler

 

[Ashdown Whaler]

The world spins as he looks around it and he's back within other ashdown. His other self is there, speaking with ... the shadows? Except that there's something within the shadows, something that cannot be seen no matter what.

Shun cannot but there are words being spoken and they are static noise in his ears.

Blade Kuroda

 

[Blade Kuroda]

Shun came to a halt as he found himself again. His double was talking to something within the shadows, but he couldn't tell what it was, no matter how hard he tried to peer into them.

He was also straining to hear what was being said, but it wasn't coming clearly.

Furrowing his brow, he slowly began to come closer.

Ashdown Whaler

 

[Ashdown Whaler]

The closer Shun got, the louder the static became. Even right upon them, the voices could barely be heard.

Yet he could see things just fine and whatever conversation was occurring came to an end as the shadows surged forward and into his double. He doubled over, clutching at his face before he clawed briefly at his eye.

Where there had been no eye, there was now one. If it could be called that ...

Blade Kuroda

 

[Blade Kuroda]

The static was incredibly distracting. Though Shun still pressed on as he was trying to discern what was happening here. Unfortunately the static was getting worse the closer he got, rather than becoming more clear like he had hoped.

He stopped in his tracks as he saw the shadows rush into his other self. Had something just attacked him?

While he was trying to see, he managed to spot the change. It was no normal eye that he saw on the left side of his double's face. It was inky black with a single white bead at its center. Shadows seemed to pool out and drift away from it.

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Ashdown Whaler

[Ashdown Whaler]

The world spun again - rather shadows spun around Shun and pulled him along once more. For a moment it was a flash of images that flickered through the phoropter while he sat in the chair.

Like it was an old fashioned view-master.

Chelsea was there, talking with his double and looking at him like they were about to cause trouble. Jeremiah a moment later, though the meeting did not get off on the right foot if the hand cuffs said anything. Other people flickered, other encounters, and other ashdown was involved in a lot of it.

"I was on the run," the voice said quietly, "because of what I did, so why not try and hide where I could not be found and gain power at the same time?"

Blade Kuroda

 

[Blade Kuroda]

There were a lot of images being flashed before him now. Some of them were fairly unexpected. Then again, perhaps he shouldn't have been surprised, seeing how this version of him was on the other side of the law. The version that remained under Kaitou's control for sometime.

"Is that how you were killed in the end, then? Unable to run any longer?" he asked.

Shun did not have that many friends, but it seemed that this one had more enemies.

Either way, it also seemed that the price of failure remained the same.

Ashdown Whaler