Ugh.... Decided to repost this blog. Wanted to sort of avoid too much melodrama but I guess it should be brought to light. This is my version of events from the other night, where as Near had a dream with the parallel being the panther slashing him in the back which I remember from my side. I don't know if all of this happened but.. meh.. 

This wasn't a duel or a training session.

Near has lost it. Lost it as in lost himself, I'm damn sure something else is controlling him now, especially his spirit body / soul. I wasn't even sure if any of this had actually happened until Near told me he had been attacked by a black panther in his dream which I do remember summoning through the yin blade.

Well, this was my version of events from last night if it all really did go down. I went into my cabin thing in my garden which is now finally much more inviting and no longer cold, dark and damp. It has furniture and such and a fireplace now which I try to stay near to as much as possible before I sleep in hoping to transfer the heat down to my physical body. I think I was sitting on the end of a bed when I felt a rather unfamiliar presence behind me. I was waiting for the presence to do something as it felt rather hostile, but wasn't going to outright attack it.

The next thing I know is I have a sword pressing up against my neck and the person says his name is "Sasu" or something and he's threatening to kill me. This guy reeked of dark energy. Then it clicked, and I realized he was Near. He reminded me A LOT of "Rae". Either it was his shadow self controlling his actions in a possession or a separate entity, but whatever it was has Near in a total depression. I bet it's the one feeding him all the suicidal thoughts and such right now. He's not himself and he's not in control of his spirit body.

The guy backed off a bit and confirmed he was Near, but he told me he had killed himself and I actually sat there and cried, because I believed him. He was very convincing.  He told me how he hated everyone and the world, and didn't care what happened to it during this whole ascension - apocalypse thing. Wrong, the entity controlling Near didn't care, but the real Near does. He said now that he was finally dead and all his conscience had been transfered to "up there" he was free to roam around and kill all of us, starting with me.

He walked outside and I just got seriously pissed off, enough so that I challenged him. I don't remember a whole lot other than pulling out the yin blade and summoning that panther for whatever reason and dodging his attacks.  Then I decided it was probably best to render him unconscious with that attack I discovered while fighting that Haruka girl a while ago. The advanced version of my stick's normal internal chakra attack where a lotus flower thing projects a sort of prism around the enemy of energy lines connecting at nodes that then fire needles of the same energy into all chakra points and hubs in the enemy's body. I still don't know the name of damn thing, but the word "Harem" did come to mind like last time.

I looked up Harem on wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harem. 'something forbidden or kept safe', 'to be forbidden; to exclude', 'forbidden place; sacrosanct, sanctum'. Near's body dropped unconscious and I remember picking him up telling him he was an idiot. I think he'll be hard pressed to do any sort of magic for a little while though. Which was the whole idea considering his whole "I'm going to kill you all" campaign.

Near told me he had been clawed in the back by a panther last night in his dream, which I remember it doing in an attempt to distract him while I was doing something else. I think someone took Near off me and took him elsewhere to probably get medical attention. Then I went elsewhere to beat up some cliffs and destroy some things because I was rather pissed off and upset.