Chapter 4, featuring Helga von Skullbasher. I like her. A few of you may also remember one of these characters from the last version. I restarted this chapter a few times before finally getting it right. Just one of those things, I guess. At first it was told from Brigg's perspective, but that didn't seem quite right. Then I changed it to Midna and started having writer's block. But it eventually disappeared, and the fight scene finally came together, and... well, here ya go.

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I got bored so I compiled a list of my complete music collection. Just because. So I'm posting it here. Just because.

The titles in quotations are individual songs, while the ones without quotes are entire albums

My friend just showed me this radically awesome survey...It wins.

IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE?

So, here's how it works:
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
NO CHEATING

Opening Credits: "Warmness On The Soul" - Avenged Sevenfold
(A nice soft, piano melody. Pretty nice for opening credits.)

Waking Up: "Cabron" - Red Hot Chili Peppers
(Awesome Mexican beat. XD Guess I wake up perky.)

First Day At School: "Dumb" - Nirvana
(XD I must be doing really bad.)

Falling In Love: "Hundred" - The Fray
(Another piano song, very nice and very appropriate.)

Fight Song: "Guitarras De Amor" - P.O.D.
(Mexican guitar intermission. XD Perfect for a showdown tussle.)

Breaking Up: "Hanataro Desu" - Bleach Beat Collection
(A very...happy song. I guess I really didn't like her all that much? o.0

P.S. - Kelly, that's not you.)

Prom: "The Pros and Cons of Breathing" - Fall Out Boy
(Very...emo sounding. Guess I'm still brooding.)

Life's OK: "Natural Life" - Breaking Benjamin
(Grungy rock music. Very nice.)

Mental Breakdown: "Sign" - Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Original Soundtrack
(Creepy piano theme, with some slow choir chanting later on...Again, fitting.)

Driving: "Teenager In Love" - Red Hot Chili Peppers
(This is such a happy sounding song, it makes for a hilarious mental driving image. XD)

Flashback: "Savior" - Red Hot Chili Peppers
(A kind of somber song...It works, though, especially if it's a relationship flashback.)

Getting Back Together: "Go" - blink-182
(Guess it was an eager reunion...must've missed her more than I thought. :P)

Wedding: "Disco" - Crossfade
(Wow. o.0 A very, very, wild wedding...Not sure I want to know.)

Amazing Hot Sex Porno Scene: "Tangled" - Maroon 5
(Again...eerily appropriate. Soft yet upbeat. Even the title...*ahem* But let's not dwell on that.)

Birth of Child: "Masterpiece Conspiracy" - P.O.D.
(My child is really rocking. XD Came out headbanging, I guess.)

Death Scene: "Little Busters" - The Pillows
(This is eerily happy...Wasn't missed much? XD Yeesh.)

Funeral Song: "Doggy Dog" - The Seatbelts
(This is just...very strange. XD This is one of the oddball songs.)

End Credits: "Waltz for Zizi" - The Seatbelts
(A very slow guitar, nice for ending credits...though not sure it's entirely fitting, considering the previous music. The movie must have been rather crazy. XD)

[Extras]

Trailer music: "Kiss And Control" - A.F.I.
(A rather angsty, somber trailer. :P)

"Director's Cut" Deleted Scene Music: "Obvious" - blink-182
(This song sounds like good music for a pointless skateboarding montage. XD Guess it didn't fit into the movie.)

Product Placement $ong: "Chop Suey" - System of a Down
(Another oddball. XD)

That was oddly entertaining.

I haven't posted here in forever...I haven't even done a real entry. So I guess this is the first official one...

I haven't bothered writing here because I usually never keep up blogs like this for very long. But maybe I'll give it another shot.

In today's news...I may finally have a job again! Rejoice! After weeks of pestering Borders every few days they finally have an opening, and I have an interview with them on Monday. Wish me luck! I'm really wanting this job. A job in general would be good, but a job at Borders would be freaking sweet. And they'd want me to close, so I don't have to get up early. Even better!

So...it's like, almost 8 am. I really don't have much else to say. Yay for official late first entries. Peace out, to the two people who read this thing. I shall try to remember to update this thing.

*bamf*

The sound of the large black zipper filled every corner of the room, drowning out the unbearable silence that had once reigned supreme. It liberated him, in a way; if he had to endure anymore of this he was going to go insane. He pulled the zipper up slowly, gradually, until it reached his neck and stopped. His ensemble was now complete. He looked himself over; the midnight black leather boots, pants, and leather gloves, with the long hooded coat worn over everything. The clothes seemed to be created from the shadows themselves. But unless the Heartless could sew, he doubted that they actually were.

The last outfit I’ll ever wear, he thought. Sounded like a cheesy quote from somewhere. But it very well may have been. He looked around at his surroundings; the barren, expansive room composed all of white, walls bare. The door lay behind him, he knew. This was for real. He was really here. Wherever here was.

His old life was gone. Assuming that he’d had an old life. He didn’t even remember it. He knew that there had been something before he’d woken up in that strange town alone, other memories maybe. But they were lost to him. He didn’t know anything about himself, not even his name. He knew he’d had a name. Before…He was positive. But he didn’t remember. The fact should have troubled him, but it didn’t. And that in itself was troubling.

His deep blue eyes drifted to the floor as he recalled what that man had told him. He was…a Nobody. Literally or figuratively?, he had thought. Probably both. His hand reached up to lightly rest on his chest over his heart. Or at least, where his heart should have been. Apparently he didn’t have one. He had lost it, somewhere back during the time he didn’t remember. And now…he was hollow. He couldn’t feel happiness, sadness, or any other sort of emotion. Not truly. Oh, he still knew what they were. He knew when he should be feeling happy, when he should be feeling sad. But he…couldn’t. That, too, should have disturbed him, but it didn’t. That’s probably what happens when you wake up with no memories and no inner self.

But now he was ready. He’d dressed himself in the outfit that had been provided to him. And now he wanted the answers that had been promised to him. His eyes wandered to his hands as he lifted them in front of his face, the gloves obscuring his pale skin. With this outfit on, no part of him could be seen, save for his face. And even that changed, as he ran his hair through spiky blonde hair, reaching back to pull on the hood at the back of his coat and tug it over his head. His face was drenched in shadow. Now he looked like a nobody too. A faceless specter with no real identity. As he thought about it he searched within himself for any hint of emotion, of what he felt about his transformation. Was being a nobody saddening? Frustrating? Invigorating? He didn’t know the answers…All he felt was emptiness.

His eyes a blue void like some vast ocean, he looked around for a few more moments before sighing quietly, cutting through the looming silence like a knife through his heart…butter. A knife through butter. Yeah. Besides, his heart was gone. He shook his head to clear his mind of these depressing thoughts. Now was not the time to be dwelling on this. His face wiped blank beneath his hood, he turned his eyes to a corner of the room, beginning to call upon the power that the dark man had helped him to discover. The power of darkness. Summoning the shadows to his will, they materialized out of thin air, beckoned to the corner where his gaze lay, and swirled and contorted to form a swirling dark portal just his size; an entrance to the abyss beyond. Without hesitation he stepped forward through the ethereal doorway. What was there to fear of the darkness?

His travel through the realm of shadows was brief, barely a few seconds, and then he had reached his destination. He emerged from the other side of the portal into a completely different place. A completely different world. Sand crunched beneath his boots, mingling with the soft sounds of lapping waves on a shore. A beach stretched out before him, darkened under cover of night, rocky outcrops springing from the sand. To his left lay an immense ocean, structures of stone jutting from the water as well and forming a sort of arch near the shoreline. In the horizon over the ocean sat a bright pinpoint of light, not quite a sun but too bright to be a star. In a way the scenery was beautiful, swathed in darkness yet still somehow mesmerizing.

Before him on a blackened rock sat a silent figure: The man who had found him. He stepped towards the seated man in silence, knowing that he was aware of his presence. And indeed, the man turned to look at him, also made faceless by the overshadowing hood he wore. “You have arrived,” he said in a deep, soothing voice. The man’s voice bore hints of charisma, of strength, of knowledge. It was why he had followed the man; it was why he had trusted him. He was the one with the answers. “I’ve been to see him. He looks a lot like you.” Under his hood his blue eyes blinked, the only reaction he visibly displayed. Him? A thousand questions raced through his mind at once; all of the mysteries and vague shadows of his past that he wished to know about. It took him a moment to sort them all out, but at last he finally decided upon his first, a question that he had been dying to ask since his awakening, however long ago it had been. The only question he had that had nothing to do with himself.

“Who are you?”