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You were not there, living in fear... [active]
Character(s): Riku, Sora, Kairi, Rosette (anyone else?)
Content: Shortly after Roxas departs, and the three are left apparently alone.
Setting: General Niflheim area
Time: Late evening
Warnings: Riku's annoyed, so possibly some of that. Otherwise, noes?
Truly this was exhausting.
Riku sighed deeply when the final Samurai was gone, letting his Keyblade disapear in swirling darkness, before he looked to where Roxas had fled. He heard the words, just barely. You make a good Other. So, the familiarity with his movements, although more ... organized then Sora's... He was right, or at least his feeling had to be. If it wasn't, well. The platinum haired teen had been wrong in the past before.
Shaking his head he looked to Kairi now, despite the fact his eyes were that bright amber like Ansem's own, he didn't doubt that Sora wouldn't tell her about it. Then they both would get stubborn and promise to find a way to fix everything. That was just how they were, and how they always would be. It wasn't going to ever change, he figured.
"Are you all right, Kairi?" he asked after a moment, as he moved his hand to his arm where the Samurai's blade had fallen when he had poorly blocked the swing in his worry about Sora. It stung badly, but to his surprise, as his fingers skimmed across the wound to inspect it, it began to heal with that same swirling darkness.
This was just strange, but the only thing this 'healing' did was exhaust him even more, orange eyes falling half-shut as he stood there. He felt... weak. And he didn't exactly like it all that much. Looking up to where Sora was, he frowned deeply for a moment with worry for him as well now.
Content: Shortly after Roxas departs, and the three are left apparently alone.
Setting: General Niflheim area
Time: Late evening
Warnings: Riku's annoyed, so possibly some of that. Otherwise, noes?
Truly this was exhausting.
Riku sighed deeply when the final Samurai was gone, letting his Keyblade disapear in swirling darkness, before he looked to where Roxas had fled. He heard the words, just barely. You make a good Other. So, the familiarity with his movements, although more ... organized then Sora's... He was right, or at least his feeling had to be. If it wasn't, well. The platinum haired teen had been wrong in the past before.
Shaking his head he looked to Kairi now, despite the fact his eyes were that bright amber like Ansem's own, he didn't doubt that Sora wouldn't tell her about it. Then they both would get stubborn and promise to find a way to fix everything. That was just how they were, and how they always would be. It wasn't going to ever change, he figured.
"Are you all right, Kairi?" he asked after a moment, as he moved his hand to his arm where the Samurai's blade had fallen when he had poorly blocked the swing in his worry about Sora. It stung badly, but to his surprise, as his fingers skimmed across the wound to inspect it, it began to heal with that same swirling darkness.
This was just strange, but the only thing this 'healing' did was exhaust him even more, orange eyes falling half-shut as he stood there. He felt... weak. And he didn't exactly like it all that much. Looking up to where Sora was, he frowned deeply for a moment with worry for him as well now.
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Kairi let out a breath of air. Good. Things were... ok now. As much as 'ok' as ok can be after being attacked by 'Nobodies' and being cut off from Sora and Riku tiring herself out. Kairi couldn't help feeling a bit useless, having to be protected by Riku. He probably could have fought better if she didn't have to cling towards him for safety...
She smiled to him, finding his eyes surprising, but she hid it well. Maybe Paixao had changed something - the city was seeming strange enough for that, anyway. She was worried about other things that seemed much more important than the
really addictiveeye color."I'm fine, Riku!" she exclaimed, more worried about him than herself. She quickly reached out to him, trying to steady him and was batting his hands away to look at his injuries and not caring that he was already trying to heal them. She frowned and looked away back towards Sora. At least he looked to be holding up. "Hey Sora, if you're ok, Riku needs healing too!" she called back to him, not letting Riku away from the touch of her hands. No time for macho-boy-toughness! She just wanted everyone to be ok.
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In fact, she was so wrapped up in being angry that she almost didn't notice the group of people in front of her. She stopped several feet away from one of them - My God is that the grey-haired guy from before? - and ducked quickly into a side street. Something was not right there.
She peeked around the corner to take another look. That was it. The two boys had weapons. Swords again, why is it always swords? The grey-haired one was hurt - she could see the wound on his arm. They still stood ready for action, and the tension of a recently-ended battle still hung thick in the air.
She ducked back behind the corner, her situation finally sinking in. She didn't know where she was. She didn't know where to go. Hell, she didn't even know where there was to go.
Chrno wasn't here. If he were, he would have found her by now. After half a day of wandering around the city looking for anybody she knew, she finally had to face the fact that she was alone here - wherever here was.
There were enemies here. There had just been a fight, she was sure of that. But what was there to fight? Were there demons? Would her bullets even work on the monsters in this strange city? She didn't know, and she didn't really want to find out.
And to top it all off, it was getting dark and she had no place to stay the night. The alley, quite frankly, was none too appetizing.
It was all she could do to keep from collapsing and saying "uncle" to the world. What the hell was she supposed to do now?
Well, you could always go ask them for help...
Sometimes, she really hated it when common sense was right. But right it was...after all, what was the worst that could happen?
I could die...
She pushed that thought to the back of her mind (where it needs to stay if I'm going to do anything around here) and rounded the corner. Mustering as much courage as she could, she strode towards the group - "Hey!" - and suddenly remembered what manners she had. "Excuse me! Do you know where we are?"
[OOC: Wow, that was long. XD; Thanks for letting me in the thread!]
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It took a moment for Kairi's request to sink in past his churning thoughts. "Huh...? Oh!" With a lingering glance around, he hesitantly turned and jogged over to his pair of friends with concern in his blue eyes.
"Are you okay, Riku?" he asked worriedly, eyes also glancing to Kairi questioningly wondering if she was also okay.
His gaze then snapped away from his friends as a fourth voice spoke up. A female voice. Sora blinked, tongue-tied. That was something they didn't really quite have the answer for either. Rubbing the back of his neck, he awkwardly gave the girl a reply, "Paixao?"
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"Paixao, yeah..." he paused, though, and frowned. He had a lot of things he had to explain to Sora and Kairi, but did he want someone else hearing them?
Maybe he did. Maybe if he told someone else, they would tell another, and it would grapevine until whatever the Organization was doing could be stopped by mere fact that word was traveling about them and what they were. Smart boy, Ansem murmered in his head, and he would've swatted at the air as though to dismiss him, if it weren't for the fact he'd rather not worry the two more then he already was.
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She nodded slowly, but it was accepting. She could live with that, but if he got himself hurt, or in some sort of more trouble, he was going to get it even worse from her! There was a look in her eyes that distinctly showed that point.
Kairi glanced over at the girl. "Oh, hi there." And then she agreed with her friends. Paixao was right; wherever Paixao in itself was. She wondered how much Riku really knew about what could be going on... how much he would, hopefully, share...
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"Never heard of it," she replied flatly.
Well, these people seemed pretty nice - they hadn't tried to kill her yet, at least. She decided she might as well try find out what she wanted to know - everything. Where this city was, why there were so many creepy blond people everywhere, what the little blue rectangle they'd handed her at the gate even was...
But there were more pressing questions than that at the moment. She turned her attention to the grey-haired one, since the other two seemed to be waiting for him to act. She was sorely tempted to ask him why he'd blown her off earlier today, but there was something else she wanted to know first.
"So. What were you just fighting?"
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Glancing briefly back to Riku and Kairi, he let his keyblade, that he realized he still had in his grasp, vanish in a flash of light and sparkles.
"Uh, yeah, so Riku... What were we just fighting? Were those "Nobodies"?" Sora asked, his questioning gaze resting on his silver-haired friend.
"And you don't know who that guy was do you? He... looked kind of like me." Not to mention the one he'd fought in a similar style to him AND had TWO keyblades, the later fact still befuddling Sora.
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"Well, Paixao is the name of this place. They told me the name at the gate I came through..." he turned and gave his two friends a brief glance each, then looked around again. Deciding it really didn't matter, he took a step away from Kairi before heading over towards a bench. He still spoke on the way there, however.
"Yes, those were Nobodies. They're the opposites of Heartless. They're the shells left behind when the Heartless are made, and are seeking hearts to become whole..." Riku continued his way over towards the bench, before plopping down and leaning up against the back of it tiredly. Today was going to be a very, very long day. "I don't know who he is, exactly, except..."
He tilted his head forwards from against the bench top, narrowing orange eyes a little in thought. He was far too tired to try and force it down to the turquoise.
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After a moment, Kairi followed slowly after Riku, listening to him fully. So Nobodies were the opposites of Heartless? She looked wearily between her two friends, lingering a bit on Sora nervously and then back to Riku talking. Well... no. She shook her head. That couldn't be right at all. She was... she was just over thinking things.
She couldn't help but glance at Sora again, silently. She remembered, almost on the edge of her mind, the feel of fuzzy darkness - that really didn't have any one sort of feel that she could explain - but it was... something... strange. Different.
Kairi was worried.
Again.
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The silver-haired man also said the city was Paixao (that is the weirdest name for a city I've ever heard, and for the love of God I've been to Birmingham). After that, she didn't understand a single word that was said. Heartless? Nobodies? Some strange person who looked like the brown-haired boy? Long dramatic pauses? Where was she, inside some bad fantasy novel?
Well, nothing she could do about that particular issue.
"Say that again," she said to the silver-haired man - what had the brunet boy called him? Riku? Well, she wasn't one to complain about strange names, was she. "Except in English this time."
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He cast a glance to Kairi, and caught her also looking at him. He had little doubt what she was thinking of, it had just passed through his mind too. His brows furrowed noticing the worried look appear on her face, and he gave her a small smile, attempting to comfort her a little... he hoped.
Dragging his gaze back to Riku, he lifted his eyebrows hopefully. "Except for what...?" he wondered, casting a glance over to the tag-along blonde as she spoke. Oops. It seemed they'd lost her already.
"Well... A Heartless is the embodiment of darkness," he attempted to explain to her, "Heartless attempt to steal the hearts of others, and when they do the darkness in that heart is reborn as another Heartless."
(ooc: Had no one to check this past... but I knew I'd get lynched if I didn't post soon. *eyes certain someone ;D* I'll twiddle it more if it's bad. T_T *so not trusting her Sora-ness yet lol*)
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"That's right... sorry about that, a lot of worlds got hit by Heartless, I just assume everyone knows about them now..." Riku rested his arms against his legs, leaning forwards and remaining on that bench. Well, felt better then standing and waiting to topple over like an idiot who wasted too much energy with these things. He tilted his head up to look at Sora, and frowned. It wasn't a slight frown, it was more of an obvious frown and somewhat along the lines of feeling at fault.
"A Heartless is made when the heart is taken, by another Heartless or by other means... you gave up your heart for Kairi, right?" he looked down at the ground now, because he still felt this was his fault. If he hadn't been so stupid...
Nonetheless, he had to continue. "When a Heartless is made, a Nobody is made."
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Even though it seemed that they all were reaching the same conclusion fairly fast. But Kairi didn't think there was any blame to put to any of them. She blamed people like Ansem, and Maleficent for those sorts of things. And as far as she knew, both of them were gone.
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It just didn't make any sense.
She had just opened her mouth to point this out when she finally noticed that the dynamic had changed. The secondhand post-battle tension had finally worn off, leaving in its place a weary seriousness. It seemed as though the truths of the universe were being spoken by one exhausted silver-haired boy, and even though his two compatriots seemed to have understood, Rosette was still very much lost.
Well, if that was going to be the case, why was she still here?
Because you don't want to be alone in a strange city at night, that's why.
She shut her mouth and decided to listen - at least for now.
[OOC: I need to chat with you guys about my participation in this thread. IM me OOCly?]
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Sora's face then went blank for a moment, before the colour almost seemed to drain from his face as understanding dawned on him too. It took a long moment for him to find his voice again, "T-Then... you mean..."
He paused then pointed back towards where the fight had happened, "That was my Nobody?"
The brown-haired boy wasn't sure how he felt about this, beyond shocked, but if anything, it did make sense. "You make a good other." ... So that's what he'd meant.
Sora remained unusually quiet, as he glanced to the side, letting all this sink in. It was a lot to take in at once, but he'd have thought he'd have been used to it now. These things always seemed to come in large, hard to swallow, chunks.
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He looked at Sora, and gave a frown. "Fight that, and look human. That's the Organization XIII, they command the other Nobodies. I don't know if he was yours or not, but I think he might've been... I can't remember a lot more than that..." he rubbed at the side of his head somewhat, frowning even more before sitting back against the bench again from leaning forwards.
"They're somehow involved in this."
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"Every light casts a shadow, the greater it is just means a bigger shadow."
...
Kairi's eyes gazed away from the group at the various shadows littering the ground. There were no Heartless pooling out of them or lurking, waiting. Not here anyway. She was thankful for that, except now they had Nobodies and Organization XIII to deal with. She turned her head back suddenly, quickly to Riku. "But if that was Sora's Nobody, wouldn't he have just finished him off? If he was probably a part of Organization XIII..." It confused her.
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"So," she said slowly. "These Heartless will...eat," she flinched "anybody with a heart? And when they eat the heart, the thing that's left makes a Nobody?"
"But then..." Her brain slowly clicked pieces of the puzzle into place, one after another. "You said he-" she pointed to Sora "has a Nobody?"
She turned to look at Sora. "Does that make you a Heartless?"
She really, really didn't understand this at all.
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Sora turned his gaze back to Rosette noticing her gaze rest on him as she questioned him. He found himself rubbing the back of his neck again awkwardly, "Well, you see... er that's kind of... complicated." It was a lame reply, but to explain it in anyway that would make sense to the, already confused girl would take a lot of work.
"Er, but no, I'm not a heartless," he said, simply.
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"Because if you did, it's probably true that he is your Nobody, and you are his Other." He sighed a little, and rubbed at his neck. Biting at his lip, he thought for a minute before giving a slight nod. "I haven't... Well..." he stopped, staring down at the ground and frowning even more. "Ansem hasn't felt any Heartless. I think if either of us did, we would be able to tell." Sora already knew, and while Kairi didn't, there would be no use in hiding it anymore.
"This Paixao place... it should be safe from the Heartless, but why are the Nobody here?"
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Ansem.
Ansem.
Ansem...?
Kairi stared at Riku with wide eyes, then they sunk down to looking confused. Just how much did Sora and Riku know that she didn't? It was... hard to know. They hadn't really had much time to talk. At least about... other things.
But Kairi knew they would tell her. So she would wait until then.
... why was it getting cold? She felt tickled by a cold drop. What's this? Kairi glanced up, then was surprised. For a moment, the discussion about Heartless and Nobodies and Ansem were forgotten as her eyes lit up with amazement about some falling white that she had never seen before. She started to voice her curiousity, but all that she got out was a small, "...What..."
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Not that Rosette really understood what exactly Heartless were. She'd definitely picked up on the "evil" part, though. If she ever ran into one, she figured she'd just shoot first and ask questions later.
Except that the grey-haired boy - no, Riku, she had to keep reminding herself - had said there weren't any Heartless here. There were, however, Nobodies...
But they were two halves of a whole, right? How could you have one without the other?
This made absolutely no sense.
"So, what?" she asked. "We're not gonna get our hearts stolen, but we might die anyway? That's great." The sarcasm on the last word was impossible to miss. And why shouldn't it be there? She was tired, she was cold, she didn't understand a damn thing that was being said, and she certainly wasn't out of questions. "And-"
Wait, she was cold?
The words who's Ansem died in her throat as she watched white flurries float lazily to the ground. It was snowing. In a city. With a roof.
Brain thoroughly broken, she lamely picked up the fragment of her question and finished it. "And why the hell is it snowing?"
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He snapped his head back to Riku as he was questioned. Missing something? "Y-yeah... yeah... I do feel... like something's missing, then when I was fighting him.. You're right," he replied softly. So, that kid was part of him? A missing piece...
No Heartless. That was almost music to his ears, but why the Nobodies were here baffled him as well. Why were the Nobodies here? In fact why... "... Why are any of us here?" Sora added, speaking his thought aloud.
The thought was lost as he also felt something cold hit his nose. Huh? He tilted his head upwards, eyes widening at the snow starting to float down around them. It... was snowing? It was snowing in a domed city. He didn't, for some odd reason, feel particularly cold, but he could tell it was. He glanced to Rosette, "... Uh... That's a good question."
((OOC: Sora's magic clothes prolly keep him warm eh? Since he was fiiiiiine in Christmas Town and on the mountain in Mulan and stuff. XD; I donno... Lemme know if this post sucks as usual. ^.^; ))
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Riku would've continued, but then there was... what was this? He shifted to stand, despite how tired he felt, and stared up at the sky for a brief moment. A frown creased across his lips again, and he scrunched his face thoughtfully. Why was it snowing? In a domed city. "We have to move. I don't know what's going on, but we need to get back to Actua Are. How can it snow in a domed city?" He suddenly regretted leaving his coat behind with the others... in the very least, he could've given it to Kairi.
Speaking of the girl, he looked over towards her and gave her an apologetic look, one that he tried make say 'I promise I'll explain later' before looking ahead again. "The best way... would be a portal. Walking in snow might not be a very good idea..." And he left out the fact he was willing to lose more energy to make sure they'd be fine.
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Ah... snow. Kairi was realizing how much more her friends had seen than her. They still needed to tell her so much; she had been on the island, waiting for them to come back. "Snow" wasn't something she could remember ever seeing before. Not... like this. It was so strange. It seemed peaceful, until Riku's words sunk into her head.
"...How can it snow in a domed city?"
Her eyes immediately shot up to stare at the domes. We have to move. Kairi was starting to quickly agree, and it wasn't just because of the cold numbing the skin on her arms and face. She crossed them over her body and looked to be huddling around herself.
...and then wind started to pick up.
The Actua Are seemed like a very good idea. She forgot to worry about Riku's energy. He didn't seem so well off earlier... but maybe he had recovered enough? She had to have confidence in him. She smiled at him with both her eyes and the rest of her. Of course he would explain. She knew well enough. "We really should go," she told them, "I think it's starting to get worse..."
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She looked up at Riku's words. "What do you mean, a portal? And where the heck is Actua Are?"
She shivered suddenly as another gust of wind tore through the street. Winters in New York - or even in Michigan, for that matter - had never been this cold.
"And how soon can you get us there?"
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"Yeah... we definitely can't stay here," he replied, glancing in worry to Kairi, who was the thinest dressed of them all. Descreetly he moved in the path of the wind, attempting to at least block a little of it from her.
Turning his worried gaze then to Riku. He'd seemed so exhausted, could he really handle making another portal? Well, Sora, like Kairi, would put his trust in Riku too. Riku knew his limits best after all.
"Oh, Actua Are is a hotel," he then quickly noted to Rosette, not trying to explain what a portal was. She'd see soon enough after all.
((Waah, I suspect this sucks... but Rosette-mun was close to coming after me with pointy objects again... gomen ne...))
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Despite the creeping feeling from the pit of his stomach.
"Actua Are is a hotel, I have a room there." He held himself steady, despite the weak feeling in his legs. Once they got back to the room, he was going to collapse on the bed and from there they could figure things out. He didn't care if it showed weakness, he had the remnants of Xehanort's Heartless mocking him in his own head, and his energy being sapped only made it worse. "Oh."
Turning to Rosette, he tilted his head somewhat towards her. "My name's Riku. This is Sora, and Kairi. We've been talking, and you're free to come with us, but none of us knew each other. Now we do." It was quick and simple, and Rosette seemed like she could handle herself well enough.
[Sorry about the wait, and the repost. I made a few typos I didn't like.]
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She waited patiently, lingering between her two friends and smiling to Rosette. "It's nice meeting you. Don't worry, between Riku and Sora, we'd all be safe." Because she knew that for a fact. They always helped her and came back for her, except this time she found them.
Weather was starting to drive her crazy.
Kairi was slightly hesitant when she saw the portal open near Riku. It was strange... not like anything she had really noticed or picked up on in the past. She cast a sidelong glance to Riku - that thirst for knowledge on what happened to him growing - and then focused on the darkness ahead. She wouldn't wait. This time, she would take the first step.
She disappeared through.
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But Kairi seemed to trust them. She'd walked into the portal like it was nothing.
She shivered again. Well, if it was between going in that portal or spending the night outside in wet clothes...
She took a deep breath and entered the portal.
After all, if things got too bad, she always had her gun.
[OOC: Works fine. ^^ Let's get this finished up!]
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He moved to follow pausing just before entering Riku's portal to give him one more quick glance. There was much he too wanted to hear concerning what had happened to Riku. Hopefully he'd hear soon.
Sora then stepped into the portal, disapearing into the inky darkness.