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Character(s): Luffy and the others at the Hotel
Content: Eating. Recap of the fight?
Setting: Hotel
Time: Tuesday Morning
Warnings: Maybe language (PG-13)

Open on a scene around a large table, the morning sun shinging through the large windows on the sides of the room. Noises from a handful of patrons sounds more like a war than a time for eating. Focus on a boy who looks a little like a monkey the way his ears are low on his head. He squashes a large handful into his mouth, which seems to stretch to fit all the food he stuffed in. Swallowing, the monkey-boy reaches for more food, taking some from the strawberry boy on his right. Yelling most likely insues. Then he steals some from the blond-boy on his left. More yelling.

The waitress barely has anytime to bring out another few plates before they are devourved by the rubber boy. As odd as the scene is, it has become quite normal in a land land that seems far away right now. Every morning aboard this pirate's ship he consumes more food than a Giant. After a while Luffy would be big like a balloon, his body stretching to fit all the food. With a sigh, the pirate waited a few seconds, looking like he was done eating. Then grabbed Roxas' food again.

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Roxas sighed. He really hoped Penny's little purse thing didn't have a limit. They'd be in real trouble if it did. The amount they had spent on food in the last couple of days could have paid the down payment of a house. Well, maybe that was an exaggeration.... but not by much! At this point he was beginning to realize that it didn't do much use yelling any more. He put his elbow on the table and rested his chin on his hand. One of the waitresses gave him a sympathetic look. They'd bring him something else later after Luffy had gotten bored and run off to play with something shiney.

Ichigo was doing better now. The doctor had said he would. He'd done some kind of weird healing proceedure and recommended rest. Now here they were. The last couple of days had actually been really great. No one had tried to hurt him or kill him ~~except Luffy accidentally a few times doing his rubber tricks~~ and he'd even found some people he could consider friends. He was still afraid of Zack a little bit and Ichigo was kind of broody but they had stuck together and recouperated so far.

Of course, they'd probably have to go their own ways soon....

"Hey, Ichigo, Luffy," he said. "Do you guys have any plans after this? I mean... any idea what you're going to do here if we're really stuck here?"

Penny took a long sip of her tea, pondering as she had been for a while now. Still so many unanswered questions... What force had brought them there? Why? More importantly, how had it simply overridden her Awakened will and misdirected her spell?

Totoro was tired. The little Walth spirit had been makign money nonstop the past few days and he needed a well deserved rest. She planned to let the others know that day.

"Good morning, gentleman. I'm afraid my little Totoro is running out of Essence quickly, and with no Penumbra for him to retire to I don't know how to recharge him. He has very little power left and the power he does have will have to be used only in emergencies. So, do we have any plans?"

Ichigo looked up from where he had been blankly stirring the cup of tea that had been given to him. "Plans?" Did he have any? "Uh... I just found that some people I know are here, but besides going to meet them, no."

And he hoped he was going to see them soon. Even if Zaraki was probably one of the last few people he'd ever want to meet again, he couldn't deny that familiar faces would be a welcome sight. "What about the rest of you?"

The food supply was running out?! No! It was bound to occur sooner or later. Luffy was starting to return to normal size, and he let out a belch. Gross.

"I guess I'm just going to hang out 'til I find that evil guy again. I wanna finish what I started!" His face turned to a smile, determined to stop that guy no matter what. He was without his crew, but that didn't mean he would let evil go around hurting people he liked.

"Anyone wanna help?"

"Plans? Uh... I just found that some people I know are here, but besides going to meet them, no," Ichigo said, looking up from his cup.

Roxas sighed inwardly and found himself looking down in his own cup. It must be nice to have people to find here. He'd read in several journals the night before about people finding their friends and families. The more and more he thought about it, the more and more unlikely he found it that he'd find anyone from back in Twilight Town.

"What about the rest of you?"

"I guess I'm just going to hang out 'til I find that evil guy again. I wanna finish what I started!" Luffy exclaimed and then asked, "Anyone wanna help?"

He surprised himself by actually thinking about that. He really didn't want trouble. He was tired of all the fighting he'd already been in and it had only been, what, two days? Maybe three... he wasn't really sure. "I don't really want to go looking for trouble," he answered, slowly. "But... what about Zack's friend? I mean, we can't leave him and Zack ~~can't~~ will have a hard time trying to rescue him on his own... even if we knew where he was..."

"Looking for trouble? I just looking to beat that bastard up! there won't be any trouble." Again Luffy smiled devilishly, with a little laugh added for effect. Now back to his regular size Luffy grabbed his hat off the table, placing it back on his head.

"Zack. I'll help you get your friend back no matter what." the straw hat pirate stood on the table. "Just tell me where he is." Yeah, that's right. Luffy was ready to go fight that guy right now, but had no clue where he was. "Penny, do you know where he is?"

Oh yeah, Zack's friend. That blonde guy with insane hair.

Ichigo knew what it was like, all right; losing someone. That's what the whole thing in Soul Society was about- saving Rukia. I'd went and done crazy things without even stopping to think, he almost died... all to save a friend.

Hell, he wasn't about to let someone go through the same thing without anyone watching his back. What harm could it do? Besides... they probably had to fight their way through. And he knew some people who were just itching to break something...

"... I'll help. I've been through that shit before and I know how it's like. I could let my... friends know, as well." Here he paused; calling someone like Zaraki a friend of his just made him feel plain weird. He tried to shrug it off, and continued, "They'd probably be glad for some action around here, since this looks like it's gonna involve quite a bit of a fight."

Sora yawned, sitting up in his bed. He rubbed his eyes, his mind replaying the events from a few days past. Fainting, meeting Rinoa, then running towards the darkness and finding all the destruction, and with it...

"The keyblade!" he said aloud. Why hadn't he remembered it sooner? He lept out of bed and rushed down towards the dining area, searching for that Roxas kid.

Penny took a pensive sip of her tea. She certainly wanted to extend her aid however she could... But there was only so much she could do in her current state. She hadn't exactly been overflowing with Quintessence before she left. The effort of sustaining Totoro's power, and drawing from M, had taxed all of their magical reserves. The glow in the catboy's eyes was even dimming, the witch made note to herself. He chewed on some eggs, no energy in the action.

"I'd also like to be able to help, especially with such capable companions. I'll need to first devise a way to recharge my batteries, as it were. My powers work on a supernal energy called Quintessence, of which I'm pretty much dry on. If I can't find a way to recharge them I won't be as effective."

Suddenly the brunette who resembled Roxas in a way rushed into the room.

"Oh, good morning."

Zack had been following the conversation while making his way through a pancake breakfast of epic proportions. It was a pity Penny's money supply wasn't inexhaustible. Considering how well their mercenary gig had gone, he and Cloud were going to have to sink to washing dishes or something similarly pathetic if they wanted to keep themselves fed and housed.

If he got Cloud back, that was-- No, when. Zack himself might have been more or less useless a few days ago, but the rest of the group had done pretty well against that creep. Now that they were organized and had an idea of what they were facing, Ansem didn't stand a chance.

"Thanks, you guys," he told the group. "Means a lot that you're willing to risk your lives for some stranger you met two days ago. But I guess we're all a long way from home and in this together, huh?" He poured more syrup onto his plate and grinned at the kid who'd just charged into the room. "Problem is, I have no idea where the hell this Ansem guy took off to, or anything about him but his name."

Roxas saw Sora enter the room and raised his hand hesitantly in greeting. He didn't know why but ever since he had met the other boy he had felt awkward around him. There was just something about him that made Roxas feel like... like less than himself or something. If that made any sense. It didn't really to Roxas but what could he really do. He averted his focus back to Zack instead of thinkg about it too much.

"Problem is, I have no idea where the hell this Ansem guy took off to, or anything about him but his name."

"Maybe he left the city," Roxas suggested. "I mean... I think we'd know if he were still here... he doesn't seem like the kind of person to stay quiet for long. But... Is... is it even possible to leave the city?"

He supposed everything was possible, wasn't it? If Axel could disappear into thin air there was no reason that this Ansem character couldn't do the same.

"Leaving the city?" Ichigo leaned back in his chair, stretching. "You gotta go out the way you came in, I suppose."

According to the map, there was quite a bit of land outside of the city; it'd take them more than a week if they were to comb every bit of it. While it was true that none of them knew for sure where this Ansem character was, one could feel a tell-tale something that he was giving off, probably all that dark energy, and it was enough to point them in the general direction from which it was coming from.

Now that he'd stopped to think about it, Ichigo realised that it's been that way ever since Ansem had teleported away after the fight. That asshole probably set up some sort of camp outside the city...

... and we're gonna storm the bloody place.

"Guys," he spoke up again, "I think I might know where he is. I mean... don't you guys kinda feel it as well?" The same naggy feeling that had annoyed him to no end on the first day, which had eventually led to the little fight and then him being here now. "It isn't as obvious as smack up the face would be, but it's definitely strong enough to be noticeable," Ichigo shrugged, "then again, if I'm the only one aware of it, it's probably just a gut feeling, maybe. Whatever the case... I think I'mma follow it. Dunno about the rest of you guys, though."

Penny nodded to Ichigo's question.

"I got a good sampling of his power when he managed to control me. I can feel it too, but I'm not good at scrying, I wouldn't know how to find it's exact location. It's like seeing the ripples of a pond at only one shore and not knowing where they started from."

Another long sip of tea. Penny was very much wary of being controlled again. She'd have to do something to ensure she wouldn't be affected by his powers... She'd need a ritual, and some Quintessence...

Sora stopped, grinning nervously as he was greeted. They seemed to be discussing something serious (Did he hear the name Ansem? He shivered at the thought) and he didn't have a clue as to how to enter the conversation. Truth was, he wasn't all that keen on drawing any attention to himself, but he just had to talk to that Roxas kid.

Sora shuffled to the side, hoping to end up in Roxas' direct line of vision while being out of the view of the others. He waved at the boy a bit, trying to be inconspicuous (although it did look a bit frantic).

Luffy was getting bored with all the talking and the no-actioning, and so went to find someone to play with. The Sora boy seemed to be doing something odd to attract attention, and managed to garner the straw hat's.

"Hey! What's up?" Out of no where Luffy popped up in front of Sora, blocking Roxas from his view. "Are you going to help kick the Ansem-guy's ass?" With a goofy grin Luffy flexed his arms, showing the future King of the Pirates was up to the challenege.

Just as soon as Sora thought he was getting somewhere, some...somebody jumped up right in his face. The young boy frowned; so much for not gaining unwanted attention.

"Are you going to help kick the Ansem-guy's ass?"

Sora's eyes widened. So he had heard correctly! He stumbled backward, partly to regain some personal space and partly out of shock. "A--Ansem!" he sputtered. "But...how did he get out?"

And if he got out from beyond the door...who else could have?

"I think I might know where he is. I mean... don't you guys kinda feel it as well?"

Roxas shifted uncomfortably in his seat. He'd been picking at what little food Luffy had left for him but now he suddenly just didn't feel hungry. He sat the fork down softly by his plate. The fact of the matter was that he had been feeling it too. He'd been feeling it ever since that night. It had stopped for a little while during or after the fight - he couldn't remember which - and then started up a little while longer. He wasn't sure why. Maybe it meant that where ever he was Ansem was getting stronger again. That'd make sense. But it wasn't strong enough for him to follow. Maybe it would get stronger the closer he got to Ansem. He wasn't sure.

Lost in his thoughts, he almost didn't see Sora trying to wave at him subtly (and failing). Roxas tried to casually look back down at his plate and began to pick at his food again. He'd have to talk to him eventually he assumed but... Why was he avoiding him?

Thankfully Luffy jumped up dividing the two of them. Thank you Monkey-man. "Are you going to help kick the Ansem-guy's ass?"

"A--Ansem!" Roxas heard Sora exclaim in surprise. "But...how did he get out?"

He leaned forward on to the table ot look around Luffy's form. "Do... do you know something about that guy?" she asked. "You mean you know who he is?!"

Sora stood there, mouth agape. "Of course I know who he is! I fought him! I defeated him! He's supposed to be all locked up!"

Suddenly, it all made sense. Who else would have caused such destruction, who else would have emitted such darkness? Sora shook his head.

"I've gotta...I've gotta find my friends," he said, a little more calmly. "I need to check on them, and make sure they're okay." He closed his eyes and ran a hand through his hair. He then opened his eyes and grinned. Finally, he could prove himself useful instead of just tagging along. "So, I guess you guys wanna know all about him, huh?"

"So, I guess you guys wanna know all about him, huh?" said Sora.

"Nope," was the simple answer that came from the pirate. All of sudden his smile had left his face, his coutenance now dark. "What do we need to know? We're going to kick his ass and get Zack's friend back. What is there to know?" Oddly enough, this was not followed by a grin or laugh. Luffy was serious for the first time since he'd arrived in this strange land. If all else failed Luffy still knew he had Second Gear to hit. He was not going to lose.

Penny placed a gentle hand on the pirate boy's shoulder.

"Luffy? You may not need to know much of your opponent in order to fight. You think quickly and are strong and sure, but some of us, such as myself, may only be effective if we know what he's capable of. I need time to think of spells I can do, to wonder at how I will shape my will to fight back, and I need to prepare my mind so that he can't control me again. Please, Sora, continue. I'd like to hear all about him."

Sora smiled at Penny, then closed his eyes and crossed his arms, gathering his thoughts. After a moment, he began. "Okay, so, Ansem used to be an innocent guy, from what I heard. Well, I'm not really sure, but from what people said, it sounded like they respected him. He started off researching the Heartless and darkness and such, but I guess the darkness was too much for him and he became obsessed with it.

"He's got...enormous power. It took everything I had to defeat him, and even that wasn't enough, apparently. He controls darkness itself; he's gotten so strong that he can even unlock the darkness in people's hearts."

He paused, not sure what else to say. "Ummm...he was fond of using lackeys, before, so I can only assume that he's going to do the same again. Oh, and he had some sort of bodyguard-thing, so I'm thinking he's gonna pull that trick again, too."

Sora looked at the group and shrugged. "Come to think of it, I don't really know all that much about the guy, only what I've experienced."

"He's got...enormous power. It took everything I had to defeat him, and even that wasn't enough, apparently. He controls darkness itself; he's gotten so strong that he can even unlock the darkness in people's hearts."

Sora's last few words were especially troubling--if the 'darkness' included the Hollow inside him, all of them were going to be in a hell lot of trouble if Ansem ever managed to release it. While it was true that the Hollow had been successfully subdued the last couple of times before it had completely taken over his body -and his sanity-, Ichigo wasn't so sure that he would be as lucky. That Ansem guy really sounded a handful.

...At least he was defeatable, even if sounded it there was probably going to be one hugeass battle prior to that.

And it was decided, Ichigo's friends would help in the fight as soon as they showed up. Until then, the group was left to decide to spend their day as they wanted, planning to meet at the same hotel later to finalize plans. Waving goodbye, Luffy went to go find some fun.

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Tomorrow Comes Today [ CLOSED ]

To Luffy and Ichigo [Open for Sora, Zack, and Penny if they are still around]

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