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paixaorpg2007-06-26 08:36 pm
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The First Step beyond The End [COMPLETE]
Character(s): Monkey D. Luffy
Content: Luffy's start into Paixao
Setting: Niflheim Gates (and slightly beyond)
Time: Morning
Warnings: None! Open to anyone!
"Maybe...I wanted to come here..."
The world, blurred and lost in a indistinguishable sense of haze and blinding white to a curious new traveler, suddenly came into focus as Luffy took his very first infantile step forward into a grand new world. In that very first step, he found himself not standing on the rolling bow of his ship, staring out across the lapping waves of the sea, but instead, in the all-engulfing shadow of the looming and monstrous city gate towering before him. He hadn't the faintest idea how a simple step forward had carried him across entire worlds; he didn't really want to know, either. He had simply felt something pulling him forward, urging him to step into something unseen, something urging him into a world of light.
"Maybe...I need to do something here...?"
"Wow...wow! Wow, look at this place!" he shouted. Gazing up with a sense of awe visible in his features, Luffy began to frantically take in his new surroundings excitedly, and staring forward sharply, he immediately began to run around in place while waving his arms about in the air. It was an odd display, but Luffy's exuberance simply could not be contained. Thinking solely of the inspiring sight stretched out in front of him, any shred of thought towards his arrival instantly vanished. It really didn't matter how he had come here. No, this was simply a new place to explore! A new place for adventure! Isn't that all that counts? Laughing, he held tightly to his treasured hat and dashed straight for the gates ahead, his eyes glued towards the top of the walls, and the city beyond them. He was practically bursting with anticipation, disregarding all sense of everything around him, save for his absolutely rampant imagination.
WHAM.
"Whoa, hold up there, young man!" Luffy had run straight into one of the city gatekeepers, crashed, and fell straight back onto his rear end. The gatekeeper seemed strangely unphased, and extended a hand to help the young man in the straw hat back up to his feet. "Maybe you ought to watch where you're going around here? Don't want you causing too much trouble."
Luffy, dusting himself off with quick brushes of his hands, smiled awkwardly, and gave a quick and apologetic bow. "Sorry!" he gasped. "I just got here, so I really wanted to see what was inside, so I had to come running, and I ran into you, and I'm sorry!"
"It's alright, it's alright..." the guard stammered, caught off guard by the boy's strange nature. He held out his hands calmingly, gesturing for the new arrival to calm himself. "Since you're new here, you'll need this." Extending out a strange little device, the gatekeeper offered Luffy a small, smooth box-like thing, with a polished surface in the front so polished, Luffy could see himself in its window-shaped sheen. "This'll be your new journal. I'm sure you can figure it out...you kids these days are so good with this kind of stuff," the gatekeeper added, chuckling.
Luffy was never one to turn down a gift, although he wasn't so sure exactly what he had just been handed. Curiously, he stared at it with a rather blank look in his eyes, then held it up just beside his ear and shook it sharply, as if listening for something inside. "Uh-huh. Gotcha. Journal." he finally replied, still looking a bit confused, but happy just the same. "Naa, thanks!"
The gatekeeper smiled. "You're very welcome. Enjoy your stay here in Paixao."
"Maybe it's a good thing that I'm here. I think maybe...this is just the right place for me to be right now."
Luffy was never the type to think things through very far. He much preferred to act on instinct, and it was instinct, pure and simple, that led him to take his next steps forward into the city.
Character(s): Monkey D. Luffy
Content: Luffy's start into Paixao
Setting: Niflheim Gates (and slightly beyond)
Time: Morning
Warnings: None! Open to anyone!
"Maybe...I wanted to come here..."
The world, blurred and lost in a indistinguishable sense of haze and blinding white to a curious new traveler, suddenly came into focus as Luffy took his very first infantile step forward into a grand new world. In that very first step, he found himself not standing on the rolling bow of his ship, staring out across the lapping waves of the sea, but instead, in the all-engulfing shadow of the looming and monstrous city gate towering before him. He hadn't the faintest idea how a simple step forward had carried him across entire worlds; he didn't really want to know, either. He had simply felt something pulling him forward, urging him to step into something unseen, something urging him into a world of light.
"Maybe...I need to do something here...?"
"Wow...wow! Wow, look at this place!" he shouted. Gazing up with a sense of awe visible in his features, Luffy began to frantically take in his new surroundings excitedly, and staring forward sharply, he immediately began to run around in place while waving his arms about in the air. It was an odd display, but Luffy's exuberance simply could not be contained. Thinking solely of the inspiring sight stretched out in front of him, any shred of thought towards his arrival instantly vanished. It really didn't matter how he had come here. No, this was simply a new place to explore! A new place for adventure! Isn't that all that counts? Laughing, he held tightly to his treasured hat and dashed straight for the gates ahead, his eyes glued towards the top of the walls, and the city beyond them. He was practically bursting with anticipation, disregarding all sense of everything around him, save for his absolutely rampant imagination.
WHAM.
"Whoa, hold up there, young man!" Luffy had run straight into one of the city gatekeepers, crashed, and fell straight back onto his rear end. The gatekeeper seemed strangely unphased, and extended a hand to help the young man in the straw hat back up to his feet. "Maybe you ought to watch where you're going around here? Don't want you causing too much trouble."
Luffy, dusting himself off with quick brushes of his hands, smiled awkwardly, and gave a quick and apologetic bow. "Sorry!" he gasped. "I just got here, so I really wanted to see what was inside, so I had to come running, and I ran into you, and I'm sorry!"
"It's alright, it's alright..." the guard stammered, caught off guard by the boy's strange nature. He held out his hands calmingly, gesturing for the new arrival to calm himself. "Since you're new here, you'll need this." Extending out a strange little device, the gatekeeper offered Luffy a small, smooth box-like thing, with a polished surface in the front so polished, Luffy could see himself in its window-shaped sheen. "This'll be your new journal. I'm sure you can figure it out...you kids these days are so good with this kind of stuff," the gatekeeper added, chuckling.
Luffy was never one to turn down a gift, although he wasn't so sure exactly what he had just been handed. Curiously, he stared at it with a rather blank look in his eyes, then held it up just beside his ear and shook it sharply, as if listening for something inside. "Uh-huh. Gotcha. Journal." he finally replied, still looking a bit confused, but happy just the same. "Naa, thanks!"
The gatekeeper smiled. "You're very welcome. Enjoy your stay here in Paixao."
"Maybe it's a good thing that I'm here. I think maybe...this is just the right place for me to be right now."
Luffy was never the type to think things through very far. He much preferred to act on instinct, and it was instinct, pure and simple, that led him to take his next steps forward into the city.
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"Let's see... What if you jumped?" she suggested, and the worst part was, she was serious. People just didn't go splat as often where she was from.
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Luffy didn't seem to mind, though. He was still smiling, looking perfectly content as he took every opportunity, every little break in the conversation, to look out over his lordly view of the city and gain an amazed shimmer in his eyes every time without fail.
He laughed immediately at Rikku's suggestion; not that he felt she was joking, but her perfectly frank comment was odd enough to strike his humor. "I don't wanna jump off from way up here. Who knows what might happen?"
No, it seemed he had a different idea in mind. Taking hold of the broad pole in the center of the rooftop, Luffy wrapped both hands around its solid, steady body, lacing his fingers together like an iron vice, then began to back away from it, inching towards the open edge behind him. Step by step, he kept looking back over his shoulder to see how far he had to go.
Amazingly, even after the length of his arms seemed to run out, he kept right on going, actually stepping over the edge, but at the same time, never lost his grip on the pole. His arms were actually stretching out, giving Luffy the range to pull himself further and further away from his own grip! Though it looked as if his limbs were getting tight, he kept right on pulling, until he was leaning completely off of the roof, with his heels braced on the very precipice. His arms had been drawn out nearly five whole feet! Keeping his legs straight, firmly locking them against the edge was the only thing keeping him from snapping violently forward, like a rubber band barely being held tight.
"This will definitely work!" he exclaimed assuringly. "...I think?"
Letting his legs go limp, Luffy shot forward, the tension in his long, lanky arms recoiling. The result? The young man in the straw hat literally exploded into a monumental burst of kinetic energy, one that sent him soaring across the height of the city skyline and into the far distance. Rikku and Stitch would be left there wondering just what in the world had just happened.