open Happenings in the Everfree RP

[LittleRawr 679]

" Alright, then. Let's-"

 

Suddenly, all around them, screams were heard. It sounded as if the screamer was in horrible, horrible pain. To each, it would sound different. It sounded like one of their loved ones, being tortured.

 

Lyona pressed her hooves to her ears, wanting to drown out the noise. It didn't stop, not even for a second.

 

(Since I have to leave soon, I'm setting this up. If somepony follows the scream, there would be something there to kill them or mentally torture them, something of your choice.)

[Ihei 714]

Minty trotted up ahead with Lyona, completely drowning out the noise by her own screams inside. She didn't care much anymore; she just wanted to crawl in a hole and die. She trotted up to a what-she-assumed-was-a-house in the middle of all the havoc with screaming. She then let out her loudest scream she's ever yelled. It was a small house. With a small.. small.. space. "AAAAAAAH!" she panicked, being trapped in the house. Her worst fears were betrayal and claustrophobia. At least nopony was betraying her..

 

Until the hallucinations came.

[Dark Horn 430]

((Okay, sounds like fun. Anyhow, do you mind if I keep six Impetus clones (as in my previous post) as a semi-reliable one-shot tool for use when someone's about to die?))

 

Impetus is broken out of a dazed reverie. "What?" He turns, hearing a scream and assuming someone's in trouble. He dashes past his friends into a thicker part of the woods, where the screams are coming from. He stops, confused. The screams originating from empty air. Then he sees the hazy outline of a pony, then it wavers, and then it grows features to look exactly like Fireblaze.

 

"Fire? What? Impossible! I saw you back there moping around just now! Either you read the poem too, or you learned to teleport... which is weird. I don't know much about magic, but I could have sworn that your special talent was fire, and that doesn't have much to do with disappearing and then reappearing again somewhere else."

 

The thing that looks like Fireblaze comes closer to Impetus. "Does who I am really matter?" she says in a calm, melodious voice. "What matters is that you're here, and I'm here, and excuse the innuendo, but... we're going to have some fun. Or, at least, I am."

[The Elusive Cinder 1,328]

 

"By the sisters, what is that infernal sound!?" Bellowed Red, swinging wildly into the undergrowth. "Cease this sorcery and face me!"

 

A thousand faceless voices cried out in pain, but at the forefront were a small number he recognized: his parents and family, his meager crew, the few he dared let himself close to.

 

"I am Captain Redwave of the... of... the..." He winced, screwing his eyes closed as tightly as he could. "You can not, nay, will not deceive me! I have faced down the Sirens of the deep! The Windigoes of the far north! You will not..."

 

The voices clarity intensified: he could almost make out the words they were screaming. Screaming directly at him. He froze.

 

"You... you traitorous scoundrel! How dare you accuse me... of abandoning them!"

 

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Cinders mind was quiet, compared to the others. Not that she was spared the pain.

 

"Stop! Stop it! Your not REAL! This isn't REAL!"

 

She had always been distant, disconnected from others. Now her friends screeched as they writhed in agony somewhere she knew she could never reach: yet they sounded so close... Punctuating the yells were the horrible sights and sounds which had embossed themselves onto her memory: Symphony's wing and the sickening crunch as the bone crumpled under the impact she should have stopped, Scribe crying out in agony as the spear pierces his side...

 

"STOP IT!"
 
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Edited July 14, 2013 by Cinderscribe

[Ihei 714]

Minty then saw everypony saying they didn't need her anymore. The strongest insult was from Redwave, saying that she should die in a hole. "Wh-wha!?" Minty screamed sadly, backing into the small space, the walls closing in on her. Minty let out a sad cry as she let her nightmares conquer the best of her.

[Scootalove 10,692]

@@Dark Horn

 

'' Well Impetus if you must know, thanks to Lyona I finished moping and decided to continue my focus on what we have to do. Yeah, my special talent is controlling fire and I learned how to teleport after I learned advanced magic and techniques.''

 

Fireblaze scratches her head in confusion. She starts to giggle at him, in a very odd but funny way.

[Dark Horn 430]

@Scootalove:

 

((First, sorry. Quotes aren't working for me. Secondly, I sort of meant for you to be an illusion, mentally tormenting Impetus, but if you want it to be the real you, I'm perfectly fine with that. So, it's your call - feel free to do whatever.))

 

Impetus' eyebrows raise.

[Scootalove 10,692]

@@Dark Horn

 

( It's okay, if you want it to be an illusion I am definitely okay with that.)

 

'' Well time for me to, try to learn some more magic.'' Fireblaze takes out her magic spell book, scrolling through pages with her hoof looking for the right page. ''Bingo!'' Reading the page that she found in the book.

[The Elusive Cinder 1,328]

Redwaves neck snapped back and forth as he struggled to overcome the voices in his head.

 

"Enough tricks!" He bellowed into the forest.

 

--'Red, Just run! I'll be fine!'--

 

"Witch! Sorcerer! I shall smite you where you stand!" He yelled back at the voices, his best guess was that they were somewhere up ahead, but the forest had a way of twisting the sound as if it was coming from every direction at once.

 

--'Don't worry about us, save yourself.'--

 

--'Stop! Don't go, help me!'--

 

One of the voices have him pause: the voice of his childhood friend... Dawn Dreamer: who had fallen right before his eyes. "D.. Dawn...?" The breaking stallion stammered. "You... No. You fell, I saw it. Cut down right before me. I refuse to play these games!"

 

--'Captain, It hurts!'--

 

--'Why didn't you help us? We were your friends!'--

 

"I couldn't!" He screamed at the ghostly voices. "You locked yourselves in with them! How was I supposed to help you?" Redwave lashed out angrily at the forest itself, pieces of vine and branch falling around him as he raged at the voices which bellowed back at him over the screaming.

 

--'You abandoned us, Redwave! You left us to suffer while you fled like the coward you are! How many more have suffered because of your negligence? How many more have...'--

 

"YOU WOULD INSULT THEIR MEMORY?" The sword flew through the air, uselessly entrenching itself in the wood of a nearby tree. "I will hear no more of your lies, BEGONE!" Tears were beginning to well up from his guild: survivors guild, they called it. Cowardice, he called it.

 

 

 

"AAAAAAAH!"

 

"I said SILENC..."

 

This time when he froze, It wasn't a look of sorrow or regret, not even of anger. Pure terror filled Redwaves face: he was out fighting memories while something horrific was happening!

 

 

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"Go away... Just... go!" Cinder sobbed through the confusion. 

 

Everything she saw was blackness: she didn't know whether it was caused by the enchantment, or if her mind had simply tried to protect her by shutting off her vision.

 

"Leave me alone! Stop!"

 

In the darkness she could just make out the forms of her companions writhing on the ground, most of them anyway. Some lay still: too still. She curled up and simply sobbed. This was too much: after everything else  it was simply too much. She didnt know how much more she could take...
 
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[Ihei 714]

@,

 

Minty was desperate for help. "SOMEPONY!" she tried to push herself out of the small space. She tried to fight the insults she heard while she tried to get out. But the space closed in tighter and tighter until the point where she couldn't breathe properly.

[The Elusive Cinder 1,328]

 

"No! No more! I will NOT..." Redwave spun in pace: he wanted to fell, be rid of the voices, the memories. It had been so long, he had almost convinced himself that they were nothing but bad reams until now. He started to bolt into the forest...

 

"SOMEPONY!"

 

Redwaves senses failed. All he could here was the screaming ringing through his head - all he could see was red.

 

"Minty!"

 

Snatching the sword from the tree as he passed, Redwave hurtled back towards the group. 

 

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Edited July 14, 2013 by Cinderscribe

[Mikestar 346]

Silver Note rushed out into the mist.

 

"Mother? Where are you?"

 

The ghostly image of his mother appeared before him. Silver wanted to run to her, but would she accept him? He's always been such a disappointment to her. Then, she opened up her arms to him as if asking for a hug., galloping forward Silver attempted to embrace his mother but his hooves went right through her.

 

"Did you really think she wanted YOU?" a voice echoed in his head. "All YOU did was let her down" Silver recognized the voice as that of his father. "You're no son of mine!"

 

"Where are you?" Silver asked his voices echoing in the mist.  If only they could recognize all of his achievements in the Royal Guard... maybe they they would be proud of him. Silver spun around looking for his parents... 

 

"This is a dream" he told himself. "It doesn't make sense that they would be here."

 

It was as if the power behind it all could sense his doubt... a new strategy.

 

"Well well well if it isn't Spotty. what's the matter, run out of spot remover?"

 

Silver spun around to see one of his old pony school bullies.

 

"Thunderdome! What are you doing here? You're not in the Royal Guard." Silver glared at his old rival. There were so many things he wished he'd said to him in the past but had held back.

 

"Oh I was sent here to deliver a little message to you...." The image of Thunderdome moved in close to Silver Note and whispered in his ear.... "Cinderblock... is MINE"

 

Silver's eyes flew open wide. "That's a lie!" He said shaking his hoof at the dark blue stallion before him. "You were always a liar, everything you ever said was a Lie!"

 

"Oh is it now?" The image of Thunder said indicating the cloudy mist beside him... from out of it stepped the image of Cinder who snuggled up to Thunder and kissed him. Then she turned to Silver and said...

 

"Did you honestly think I'd want a feather-brained idiot like you?"

 

"I always told you that nopony would ever want YOU." The image of Thunderdome taunted.

 

Voices echoed all around Silver

 

'Nopony wants you, nopony wants you, No pony wants you"

 

Silver wanted to turn and run but he felt frozen on the spot... "This can't be happening" he kept saying to himself... but it felt so REAL.

 

 

 

((OOC so his greatest fear is rejection))

[Ihei 714]

 

 

 

"No! No more! I will NOT..." Redwave spun in pace: he wanted to fell, be rid of the voices, the memories. It had been so long, he had almost convinced himself that they were nothing but bad reams until now. He started to bolt into the forest...

 

 

 

Redwaves senses failed. All he could here was the screaming ringing through his head - all he could see was red.

 

"Minty!"

 

Snatching the sword from the tree as he passed, Redwave hurtled back towards the group.

 

 

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Minty looked out the small window to see Redwave. She banged her hoof against the window panicked, but fainted as she had run out of breath.

 

(( OOC: Filler, filler, filler, filler, don't pay attention to the filler. Filler filler filler filler filler filler. ))

[Dark Horn 430]

"Fire? Come on, let's go back to the rest of the group. I heard some terrible screaming. I hope everyone's alright... Are you okay, Fire?" Impetus says, narrowing his eyes and trotting a few steps back. "You don't look well..." The image of Fire stares at him. "Neither do you."

 

Impetus starts to feel something wrong with himself, a nauseating, sickening feeling. "That might be because your tissue, muscles, organs - they're all about to liquidate." she says slowly, her smile growing with every word as her relentless eyeballs lance straight through him. "And there's nothing you can do about it. You're going to die, and you're going to fail."

[Scootalove 10,692]

'' Oh yeah, your right. I think they are somewhere but, I have no idea where they are. So I guess, we should either get you some medical help or we could go find the others.''

Pointing her horn at Impetus, her horn starts to flash and starts to repair his tissues,muscles, and organs.

 

'' Let's go find the others.'' Holding on to Impetus, transporting us to a dark cave.

[Mikestar 346]

'Nopony wants you, nopony wants you, No pony wants you"

 

The voices kept echoing all around Silver Note, he tried to cover his ears with his hooves and block them out. 

 

"It's not real, it's not real, it's not real" He kept telling himself. Surely he was too smart to fall for a trick of the mind like this.

 

"Quickly Silver Note, over here" he heard a friendlier voice. Looking up he caught sight of his friend and confidant.

 

"Derpy! Thank Celestia you're here. There's something evil at work in the forest tormenting me..." Silver rushed forward to hug his friend, but Derpy backed up several hoof steps away from him. "Derpy?"

 

"Sorry Silver, but I can't be friends with somepony who can't even read or write. And they call ME retarded... sheesh!" Derpy rolled her eyes, which was quite a complicated proceedure considering one rolled one way and one rolled the other. Silver felt dizzy just watching it.

 

"But Derpy... you always said..." Silver Note started to remind her.

 

"Forget what I said" Derpy snapped at him cruelly. "Did you really think I cared? I was just filling in time between deilveries. You were amusing for a while. but that's not what I came here to tell you. I have  letter for you from Princess Celestia herself. And since your so stupid you can't even read it... I'll have to read it for you."

 

Derpy took a scroll out of her mail bag and began to read.

 

"This formal letter is addressed to Silver Note, soldier of the Royal Guard. By order of Shining Armor, leader of the Royal Guard, we here by dishonorably discharge you from our services, as nopony wants a stupid soldier who can't read serving the great Princess Celestia. Your decommission is effective... IMMEDIATELY.

 

Signed,

 

Shining Armor"

 

Then Derpy rolled up the scroll and threw it at Silver Note.

 

"See you around... Loser!" She said nastily before flying off into the clouds.

 

Silver Note watched sadly as she left.

 

"Decommissioned? Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo"

 

((OOC Just had to do the Anakin Skywalker impersonation there. Hee hee. Fun fun.))

Edited July 14, 2013 by Mikestar

[The Elusive Cinder 1,328]

 

 

--'You left us, but you run to save them?'--

 

The loudest voice demanded fiercely.

 

--'You abandoned us, who would lay down our lives, and you rush to save those ungrateful mules?'--

 

"Minty!"

 

Sliding along the ground he plunged the sword into the ground to stop himself in front of the cowering mare. All sound was drown out by the screaming that seemed to echo and reverberate inside his own head. Even his own voice sounded like a distant memory.

 

"Minty, Minty can you hear my words?!"

 

--'Run Redwave! Run like you did before! Leave them like you left us!'--

 

Red winced as the voice spoke over his thoughts, physically hurting him.

 

"Minty, I need you to hear me! You need to hear me!"

 

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The forest started to fade into focus. Nothing moved. Cinder sobbed once more as she struggled to her hooves.

 

"Lyona...?" She asked, quietly.

 

The screams were quieter now: still present, but as if they were coming from every distant location that she couldn't hope to find. 

 

"Silver...?" She asked, a little louder.

 

Something was wrong with the forest, with her, with everything. All the colors had faded, washed out as if watered down.

 

"Minty..? Nightblaze? Impetus?" The panic was rising in her voice, which cracked with fear as she started to try and flee. Every way she tried felt wrong somehow though. "Scribe? Symphony? Anypony?! Where are you?"

 

When she tried to block out the screams, they grew louder. When she tried to stop and listen, they grew silent. She didn't know which was worse.

 

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[Dark Horn 430]

((Oh, Impetus' muscles weren't actually liquidating. I just thought he was in an illusion. [insert facepalm here] ))

 

Impetus looks confused. "Alright then. Wait... why did you just teleport us to a cave? I knew unicorn magic was unreliable, but not this unreliable! I don't see our friends anywhere! What have you done?!"

[Scootalove 10,692]

'' I think they are in the cave but, they aren't able to see us or each other. Instead, they only see illusions and images from their past that continue to haunt them to this day.''

 

Starting to hear screams from inside of the cave, going further into the forest with Impetus. '' Come on!''

 

Starts to hear her name. '' Cinder, is that you?'' The cave starts to separate herself and Impetus. ''No!''

[Ihei 714]

 

 

 

 

--'You left us, but you run to save them?'--

 

The loudest voice demanded fiercely.

 

--'You abandoned us, who would lay down our lives, and you rush to save those ungrateful mules?'--

 

"Minty!"

 

Sliding along the ground he plunged the sword into the ground to stop himself in front of the cowering mare. All sound was drown out by the screaming that seemed to echo and reverberate inside his own head. Even his own voice sounded like a distant memory.

 

"Minty, Minty can you hear my words?!"

 

--'Run Redwave! Run like you did before! Leave them like you left us!'--

 

Red winced as the voice spoke over his thoughts, physically hurting him.

 

"Minty, I need you to hear me! You need to hear me!"

 

 

 

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The forest started to fade into focus. Nothing moved. Cinder sobbed once more as she struggled to her hooves.

 

"Lyona...?" She asked, quietly.

 

The screams were quieter now: still present, but as if they were coming from every distant location that she couldn't hope to find.

 

"Silver...?" She asked, a little louder.

 

Something was wrong with the forest, with her, with everything. All the colors had faded, washed out as if watered down.

 

"Minty..? Nightblaze? Impetus?" The panic was rising in her voice, which cracked with fear as she started to try and flee. Every way she tried felt wrong somehow though. "Scribe? Symphony? Anypony?! Where are you?"

 

When she tried to block out the screams, they grew louder. When she tried to stop and listen, they grew silent. She didn't know which was worse.

 

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Minty started to wince in pain as she felt like she was shot by a mysterious gas. "R-Redwave..! S-save yourself..!" She said, choking out blood as she fainted. She was hardly breathing from the exposure of the gases surrounding her. Her hoof was very well bruised, there was a long cut on her wing, and a scar on her eye. What could be worse?

[Dark Horn 430]

"What?! Where'd you go, Fire? Fire! Fire! Fire?" Impetus feels himself slowly slipping away, as if he's being pulled in the opposite direction, far, far away from Fireblaze. Everything the unicorn says is dulled to a quiet, muffled whisper, as if a glass wall stood between the two ponies. "Pinkwave? Er, Orangewave? Why are you screaming? What are you doing here? Hey, are you alright?"

[Mikestar 346]

((OOC a bit of a sinister post coming up. be warned.))

 

If the other illusions hadn't believable, this one certainly was.

 

"Gotcha" a sinister presence thought to himself.

 

Silver Note hung his head miserably.

 

"Dishonorable discharge... What will my dam and sire think of me now?" Silver Note decided to head back to camp to pack. No sense finishing the mission now. He'd just... go home. Maybe try to make a living as a traveling busker.

 

It was hard to navigate in the mist,but Silver was sure he knew the way. He headed back, retracing his hoof steps.  He did not know it... but a dark force was concentrating all his energies on him.

 

He saw Cinder lying alone on her side in the cave. "I'll miss her the most" he thought. "I want to at least say good bye to her" he trotted over to her. She seemed asleep. Silver Note gently shook her. He hated to wake her but did not want to leave with out saying good bye. She didn't stir. He shook her harder!

 

"Cinderblock, wake up... I'm leaving and I...." Silver's voice was cut off short as he rolled over Cinders limp body to find it covered in blood!

 

"Cinder! What's happened?" He pulled the body of Cinderblock close to him listening for breathing. Nothing. He placed his hoof over her heart. No pulse could be found.

 

"No this can't be... Cinder! You can't be.... dead?" Tears filled Silver Notes eyes and he started to feel a sense of panic rise in him.

 

"This is all your fault... " said an image of Redwave. "You left her alone! I always knew you were an incompetent fool. Truce? I was just humoring you!"

 

"Damn you Redwave! " Silver screamed at the illusion. "LEAVE ME ALONE!" he held tight to the FALSE image of Cinderblock which had somehow solidified as the evil presence threw more energy into it.

 

"You're a failure" The image of Redwave taunted him. "And a coward, too scared to tel her how you feel... Now you will NEVER get the chance! and it's all because... I killed her." The false Redwave laughed evilly and drew his sword galloping at Silver Note.

 

Silver had no weapon, but noticed a rusty knife on the ground. It appeared to be the same one Minty had injured herself on. Something snapped in the normally peaceful colts mind. He grabbed it up and charged with rage at the image of Redwave.

 

"I'll kill you!" He shouted.

Edited July 14, 2013 by Mikestar

[Scootalove 10,692]

'' Where in Celestia am I?.. Oh great, now I'm in a very dark space in the forest. I need to try to escape.''

 

Starts pounding at the dark space, looking around her at the very dark illusion.

 

'' Who is there? Impetus? Silver Note? Anypony!''

 

Looking at a mirror image of herself, Fireblaze starts looking at an evil version of herself.

 

'' Well well, I knew I would see you one day.''

 

'' Who are you?''

 

'' I'm an evil version of you, a corrupt version of yourself. You should have abandoned those worthless losers a long time ago.''

[The Elusive Cinder 1,328]

"R-Redwave..! S-save yourself..!"

 
--'Run! Just go! We can hold them off!'--
 
--'Go! Don't look back!'--
 
--'Why did you leave us behind?'--

 

"Leave her! Face a true challenger you coward!"
 
He dropped to the ground and heaved the pegasus onto his back. As he did, the voices amplified tenfold, their volume becoming a physical force that almost forced him back to the ground.
 
"I'm not leaving here without you! Not you, nor any other! I will not run... LISTEN TO ME!"

 

His world flickered. He felt an impact. When he regained his vision he was standing on the deck of the Dawn Dreamer. The screaming was gone. Minty was gone. He simply felt a sense of loss... and failure.

 

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Cinder's face was frozen in a look of shock: she had felt this way once before - lost, alone and afraid. The inky sky seemed to laugh at her hopelessness.

 

"Anypony? Help me... I need..."

 

She wandered through the forest: the isolation more crushing than anything else, only amplified by the darkness. She wanted to hide away, but her smoke would hide her from the darkness...

 

'... Burn it.'

 

Of course... Burn away her problems. It worked for 'Blaze, and with her Science... 

 

She didn't need anypony else.

 

She could look after herself.

 

She wasn't helpless.

 

Even before she moved, a light started to shine from her location. Some of the fear receded - replaced by total emptiness. She didnt care - anything was better than the oppressive aloneness.

 

A side of Cinder I wanted bring up, but never wanted to go into too much depth with, is Ember - Cinders discorded / mentally broken side (Think Pinkamena, Fluttercruel, Twilights depressed state which I cant think of a name for, ect.) Of course, since she is trapped in her own mind, the real dangers are her own thoughts, so this seems like a perfect opportunity.

 

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Edited July 14, 2013 by Cinderscribe

[Ihei 714]

 

 

 

--'Run! Just go! We can hold them off!'--

 

--'Go! Don't look back!'--

 

--'Why did you leave us behind?'--

 

"Leave her! Face a true challenger you coward!"

 

He dropped to the ground and heaved the pegasus onto his back. As he did, the voices amplified tenfold, their volume becoming a physical force that almost forced him back to the ground.

 

"I'm not leaving here without you! Not you, nor any other! I will not run... LISTEN TO ME!"

 

His world flickered. He felt an impact. When he regained his vision he was standing on the deck of the Dawn Dreamer. The screaming was gone. Minty was gone. He simply felt a sense of loss... and failure.

 

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Cinder's face was frozen in a look of shock: she had felt this way once before - lost, alone and afraid. The inky sky seemed to laugh at her hopelessness.

 

"Anypony? Help me... I need..."

 

She wandered through the forest: the isolation more crushing than anything else, only amplified by the darkness. She wanted to hide away, but her smoke would hide her from the darkness...

 

'... Burn it.'

 

Of course... Burn away her problems. It worked for 'Blaze, and with her Science...

 

She didn't need anypony else.

 

She could look after herself.

 

She wasn't helpless.

 

Even before she moved, a light started to shine from her location. Some of the fear receded - replaced by total emptiness. She didnt care - anything was better than the oppressive aloneness.

 

 

 

A side of Cinder I wanted bring up, but never wanted to go into too much depth with, is Ember - Cinders discorded / mentally broken side (Think Pinkamena, Fluttercruel, Twilights depressed state which I cant think of a name for, ect.) Of course, since she is trapped in her own mind, the real dangers are her own thoughts, so this seems like a perfect opportunity.

 

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Minty continued to cough out blood, trying to fly back to camp. She can't take these vicious gases, she couldn't. She wouldn't. She sha'ant. She can't.

 

(( OOC: A bit of humor for this situation. Soo, Redwave never existed for them? What a plot twist. He can somehow come back, and Minty would have no memory of him. ))

Edited July 15, 2013 by Minty Wintergreen