paixaorpg | Us And Them [Completed]

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Us And Them [Completed]

Character(s): Timon and Urd
Content: The usual exchange of information and possible snark.
Setting: Palazzo Townhomes
Time: Week 13, Evening
Warnings: We'll see.

She had tricked him and as much as he hated to admit it, he had walked right into it. It wasn’t exactly a secret, and the goddess had surely noticed, he had been having a difficult time lately. The most recent events to unfold were beginning to show his true character. Everyone was ready to move on while Timon, well, he just quite wasn’t. They were willing to do whatever it took to return home, including march head on into the face of danger. Once he had been the same but now? Things had simply changed too drastically. He had endured enough from his previous attempts at finding away home to pursue the same path. The fact that he had recently lost his powerful body guards did not reign in his favour either. Not only that but his friends too. It was because of this he had decided to meet with Urd. He could not afford to lose anymore friends or anything that came close to it. He was desperate and far too scared to be alone. Let alone make any new enemies.

Of course, that gave him plenty of reason to be mad at the goddess. As far as he was concerned no one used him and for her to take advantage of him in such a state! It was no lower than Organization. He would have of loved to give the woman more than a good piece of his mind for such a sleaze act. However, he was not nearly as brave by himself as he was with Vyers there. The fact that he was hiding while he awaited Urd’s arrival was proof enough. Then again, if the goddess provoked him, he was bound to spit something out he’d regret. Timon had never been the type to think that carefully over his words and easily let his anger get the best of him.

Outside the gates of the little neighbourhood known as the Palazzo Townhomes, the meerkat awaited Urd. He had chosen to hide beneath one of the large statues of a winged lion situated by the gates to keep out of the view of anyone he suspected potentially dangerous. He was unsure how long it would take the goddess to arrive and refused to stand like an open target where anyone could see him.

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Unbeknownst to Timon, Urd had been watching him for a few minutes. He was obnoxious, mouthy and all talk, sure. No one, probably including the meerkat himself, would deny this. Still, she couldn't help but feel a little bad for him. Most of her knowledge of him was, in fact, conjecture, but it was obvious he was more on edge than he normally should be. He'd had a hard time lately. Not that he had any excuse for being such a little jerk. Why did every talking animal she came across have such an attitude problem?

She sighed loudly, making her presence known. Under the lion statue. Which meant she was not her full-size. As she walked toward him, Urd was actually a little bit shorter than Timon, her body and features shrunk to adorable proportions. "A bit skittish, are we?" Hands on her hips, she smirked at him, all her arrogance and confidence compressed into this one miniature version.

Skittish was right. Urd’s sigh alone was enough to send the meerkat flying forward with a cry of surprise. He was so certain he would spot the goddess on the street the last place he had expected her to appear was behind him. So suddenly too! He did not hear so much as her footsteps. Timon frowned and turned to face the woman once he had managed to regain his composure – or at the closest he got to composed. This was the second time she had managed to sneak up on him. Surely at this point she must have known he was not a fan of such surprises. Was she trying to give him a heart attack?

“Well you’re not exactly helping either.” Timon snapped, spitting out the first words that came to mind. He placed one paw on his hip while he pointed the other at the goddess accusingly. “Don’t you know it’s rude to sneak up on guys like that? How long have you been standing there? Cause I gotta say, it definitely looks like-” Mid-sentence, the rodent suddenly paused.

Only now did it occur to him that the woman was at eye-level with him. Eye-level while standing, not kneeling, on the ground. No one was the same size as him, never mind smaller, especially not her. Last he had seen her she was as tall as any other human. Either he had gotten miraculously bigger or Urd had somehow shrunk. He was aiming for the second one. He stared at the goddess, backing away a few paces in horror. “W-what happened to you?!”

Urd watched Timon rage with a bored expression, arms folded. When he finally noticed her size, she lifted an eyebrow, a smirk of amusement barely contained. "Relax," she said, flipping her hair off her shoulder and walking to the edge of the statue's base, gazing out at the street. "For something like this, I don't need my full power. I've got things to do, you know. I'm back at my place right now, dealing with the..." She trailed off, the arrogant expression on her face fading to grim seriousness. She'd almost given away too much, too soon.

She turned suddenly, long hair fanning behind her with the movement and frowned up at the meerkat. "That's not important now. What did you have to talk about?" Despite her currently diminutive size, her attitude was on par with the full-sized version.

Urd sure didn’t explain a lot. If anything, she had only confused Timon further. The way she mentioned it, it was as though she had shrunk herself on purpose. How she managed to do that though was yet another mystery. At least it didn’t sound permanent – not that he particularly cared whether or not it was. Although, the size difference really did rule in his favour. In this state he could easily overpower her, or so he was foolishly led to believe. Though physical force was nowhere his style, he was sure he could still intimidate the goddess somehow another if needed.

Speaking of which, the meerkat shared an equally unsatisfied look with the woman. He was as thrilled as she was to be there. And although he had managed to catch every word she had said, he only succeeded in understanding half of them. He was certain of one thing though: she was hiding something from him. Now there was a surprise.

“Dealing with the what?” he immediately asked. “What were you going to say? And for your information, you were the one who said they’d spill what you knew first. If you don’t talk, I don’t talk. Don’t think I don’t have things to do too!”

"Right, I'd hate to interrupt your busy day of hiding behind things," Urd shot back, more scathing than she intended to be. She chrossed her arms tighter under her chest, unwittingly sulking a bit. Ever since that night in her garden, she was feeling more tense than usual. The last thing she needed was this...this rat to make her angrier. Why did she even come?

"Fine," she finally sighed, abruptly turning again, her back to him. "I'll tell you something and then you tell me something. Then maybe we'll actually get somewhere." Urd loosened up a bit, gazing out into the street as she spoke. "I think the Organization might have an insider giving away their game." She frowned, lowering her gaze to the ground. "I don't have proof, exactly, so don't ask. It's a hunch based on something I experienced recently along with something that happened awhile back."

Arguably he had more than one method of hiding than simply behind something but the redhead kept his mouth shut. Timon had no desire to continue such a degrading subject and was for once more than happy to turn his attention to the Organization. He nodded in agreement to Urd’s terms, regardless of her back being turned. It was fair enough… At least until she explained her information was based on a hunch. An exasperated sigh escaped him.

“So, you only think one of their members is betraying them?” the meerkat repeated in his own words. He sounded sceptical. “That wouldn’t surprise me. They never completely act as an Organization these days, what with all the secrets they keep from each other and acting they do behind each other’s backs all the time.” He wondered if it had been Roxas, especially after he had told the Nobody to turn against his comrades. However, the ‘anonymous’ poster he had spoken with over the message board certainly was not him, as eerily familiar as they seemed. He wondered...

Breaking from his train of thought, Timon shook his head. “Alright, if we’re just going to be talking about hunches, I got one too.” He saucily replied. “I gotta hunch the Organization conducted their little experiments just to see if they could control visitors like they can Heartless and Nobodies. I also gotta hunch it’s going to rain in the next few days. Oh! And that orange will be the new black this season.”

"Ha ha ha, you're hilarious," Urd laughed tonelessly, rolling her eyes. She turned around, scowling at Timon. "I may not have concrete proof -- yet -- but let's look at the facts." She walked towards him, clearly not intimidated despite her smaller size at the moment. "Several weeks back, two powers were clashing around the city. Remember that? You're just a rat --" at this she poked him in his furry chest, "-- so there's no way you'd know this, but those powers had the very distinct signature of a Nobody." She got even closer, getting in his face now, dark purple eyes flashing. "And I know what those powers are like because I just faced off against one last night!"

Urd's eyes widened and she immediately shut her mouth, turning away. Great, she was so on edge and short-tempered today that she gave away too much. Slightly subdued now but going into a full-fledged pout, she crossed her arms again. "They've never had the gall to come after me before. I'm too powerful for them. So something made them step up their game and it's only logical that it would be because one of their own is leveling the playing field."

Scratch that last thought; the goddess didn’t prove any less intimidating than she did her regular size. At her approach he found himself shuffling backward to keep the distance between them. Unfortunately, the meerkat did not get very far before his back collided with one of the statues legs. As a result he found himself corned with the woman able to shout right in his face. He winced and looked up at the lions underbelly as a final attempt to avoid Urd. That was until she said something to catch his attention. Curious, he turned his glance back down at the goddess to see her turn away.

Timon was tempted to ask just what made the woman think she could overpower the Organization so easily but instead decided to keep the question to himself (at least, for now). He had no intent on angering the goddess further, especially after that rather unpleasant reminder of just how scary woman could be. At this point he could easily see Urd tossing him to the ground and placing him in a headlock at the question of her true power. If everyone found out that a girl, his size, had beaten him, they would likely never let him live it down either.

“I’m not a rat.” He corrected the goddess as he brushed off the spot she had poked him. “And just because I’m not as big and powerful as the rest of you that doesn’t mean I can’t recognize a Nobody too without some fancy pants power signal. Why, I bet you didn’t even notice the Org. member at your party last week.”

The real truth of the matter was, Urd wasn't sure she was "too powerful" for the Organization. In this world, where the balance of powers were so chaotic, it was very likely she would be the one overpowered by them. Given how things had gone down the night before, she was starting to suspect the only reason she was standing here now (and back at her apartment, but that was neither here or there) was because whoever it was that attacked her got what they wanted. That unpleasant thought made her tighten her lips into a compressed line.

At the end of his last sentence, she turned slowly to face him, expression devoid of anger, worry or arrogance. "...what?" She could only ask, genuinely shocked. Had there really been one there? With everything that had happened, all the unique and clashing powers, it was possible. Especially since the very mark of a Nobody was the sheer emptiness, the nothingness that permeated from them. It was actually probable that one had slipped in, disguised and unnoticed in the chaos.

Staring at Timon, she asked flatly, "And how do you know? What makes you so sure?"

So she hadn’t noticed. He had expected so much. The way she had practically flown at Hades the moment he had arrived had made it clear that she planned to keep him in properly check for the afternoon. For her to leave the Nobody alone and not Hades though? It only proved that she had failed to recognize him as the threat he truly was. Admittedly though, the Nobody had them quite the disguise. Had it not been for their recognizable scent he would have passed them off as another visitor himself.

“They reek of Darkness.” He explained while giving his nose a light tap. “It’s impossible to miss – if you don’t have a completely useless nose like yours, that is. Why did you think I wouldn’t leave Vyers’ side the whole party? He’s not exactly the kind of guy you wanna be seen with, especially when he tries to pick of girls. The guy was watching us! You, me, everyone. I figure he was out to spy on us. I couldn’t recognize him though, just his scent. It was the young redhead that arrived Hades and definitely not Axel.”

Rather than rising to his insult about her nose, Urd seemed more intent on the information at hand. Was the Organization spying on her, specifically? Possible, but more than likely it was an attempt to keep tabs on everyone, like Timon said. She lowered her hands, now curling into fists, frustration rising within her. Her hair was stirred by a breeze than only seemed to touch her. With her head lowered, electricity crackled around her body.

"Damn it!" she shouted, the power around her concentrating into a lightening bolt that exploded the paw of the lion statue. "This stupid dimension doesn't make any sense!" Too long now had her power been unstable. Now she was missing the obvious? Sure, she'd always been a bit single-minded and reckless, but even she should have sensed the presence of a Nobody, somehow. Then the attack...why was she so weak?

She brooded in dangerous silence, the occasional burst of electricity crackling in the air around her.

Timon continued to carefully watch the goddess before a twinge of worry was felt. She wasn’t blaming herself, was she? More than one rat was bound to wander in, regardless what she did. Besides, no one had gotten hurt. In fact, the Nobody had been on as remarkably good behaviour as Hades. There was no need for her to get upset. He reached out to pat Urd comfortingly on the shoulder.

“Hey,” the meerkat began, sharing an assuring smile with the woman. At least, until the burst of electricity that appeared around her. Timon did not get the chance to complete his sentence, for the scream to escape him, far louder than the explosion behind him, did not give him the chance. “Anyone could have made that-AHHHHHHHHH!”

He flew as fast as lightening itself from the statue, though appeared anything but graceful. He tumbled down from the statues base and onto the ground where he performed a series of somersaults before crawling back onto his feet. The sudden explosion had done more than just startle him, it absolutely terrified him. However, it was not the work of the loud noise alone. It was the electricity itself which Urd had summoned truly to blame. Sirens in his head wail in alarm after perhaps the most haunting thought of all came to mind: Larxene. Whether or not she really was there, he had no intention of finding out. As far as he was concerned, anywhere she was was somewhere he wouldn’t be. He wasted no time in turning back to check on the goddess, though he did look behind him to see if she had followed while he ran from the site.

Of course, it was never wise to look over your shoulder while you were running. Without watching where you were going you were bound to run into something, which was exactly which Timon did. Barely a meter away from the winged lion he had previously been on, the meerkat collided straight into its brotherly statue beside it.

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Urd snapped out of her simmering tantrum, head shooting up in time to see Timon scurry away. She winced as he ran right into another statue. Oops...she'd forgotton how easily frightened he could be. Had he been trying to comfort her before...? No way. He was a selfish little vermin who didn't care about anyone other than himself. He especially couldn't have any compassion for her. Since her first interaction with him, he made his dislike of her quite obvious.

Still...she could have sworn he'd tried to get through to her.

Feeling her own twinge of worry and now guilt as well, Urd floated off the base of the broken statue to fly slowly towards the meerkat. "Timon?" she called quietly, hovering over him. She glanced around, making sure they weren't being watched and lowered herself slightly to gently poke one of his paws. "You alright?"

The meerkat gave a groan in reply. Yeah, he fine. Thankfully he had run into more than enough objects (and animals) in his time to build some sort of tolerance for it. Though, if Timon would easily debate that even the headache alone which he suffered was far too painful. He reached up to sooth his aching head while his eyes slowly opened to gaze at Urd sorely. “Ugh… Yeah, I think so.”

Sitting himself up, the rodent began to retrace his steps in hope to answer the question of as to what he was doing on the ground and why his head hurt so much. He remembered talking with Urd, Urd cornering him, Urd yelling at him, poking him, discussing how his nose reigned superior to hers and- He stopped and gasped. He remembered now. “Larxene!” he suddenly shouted. As fast as Timon had fallen he was back on his feet again. “Is she still here?” the meerkat asked, eyes searching frantically about for any signs of the Nobody. “We have to leave before she comes back. Did she hurt you? Are you okay? How many fingers am I holding up? Can you walk?”

Urd leaned her head back and blinked as Timon held up his paw in front of her face. How hard did he hit his head, anyway? She held out her hands in her most placating gesture. "Whoa, whoa, relax! It's just us!" She shifted her weight guiltily, folding her arms. Avoiding his eyes, she muttered, "I just...lost my temper a bit. I didn't mean to scare you." She knew that last bit wouldn't mean much. The panic pretty much radiated off of him in waves. She wasn't sure she remembered who this Larxene was, but clearly she'd done some real trauma to the poor meerkat.

She sneaked a peek at him now, wondering what would explode out of him next.

Timon gave a sigh of relief. Good. Larxene was definitely the person he wanted to see, especially at a time like this. Knowing his luck though it was entirely possible he would run into the Nobody at some point. Almost every time he found himself alone she had managed to find him. It was though she somehow knew… He shook the thought off and stared blankly at Urd in confusion. If it hadn’t been Larxene though, who had caused the explosion?

“You mean that was you?” he asked in astonishment. “But when did… How… You just…?”

Urd sighed quietly and held her hands out loosely in front of herself. She made a fist with one hand and opened it up. Contained electricity formed into a ball hovered over her hand. She did the same thing wit her other hand, this time fire flickering over her open palm. She looked up at Timon, distinguishing both fire and lightening. "I'm a goddess. This is just part of my power." She dropped one hand to the side, the other coming up to rub the back of her neck. "Look, that doesn't matter now. We need to come up with a plan...maybe there's some way to use the Organization's betrayer."

Doesn’t matter? Doesn’t matter?! Is that what she said, that doesn’t matter? Because Timon was quite certain it did. He might not have known exactly what a goddess was but if she had abilities like these, surely she must have had just as much power as a Nobody, if not more so. After all, they had each controlled different elements outside their bodies too. However, to his knowledge, they could only control one each where as Urd, she had just shown him two. She had an advantage over them. She could beat them!

“It matters completely! I mean, if you’re as powerful as you make it sound, you can beat these guys! How much of a plan could you possibly need? I call ‘em out, you pop ‘em! As easy as that. There, all planned. Besides, we don’t even know who the betrayer is. How could we possibly use them?”

"It's more complicated than that," Urd cut in loudly, growing annoyed once again. "The way this world works and the way my powers work in this world is completely mysterious and complicated to me. I'm not as powerful as I normally would be and..." She trailed off, uncomfortable. How could she make him understand the limitations and statutes of what she was? For the matter, who did this scrawny little vermin think he was anyway? If he thought she didn't see through this little attempt to hide behind someone stronger, he was going to be disappointed!

Pursing her lips in exasperation, she put her hands on her lips. "It's not like I'm some genie that can magically get rid of all your problems. There are so many other things to take into consideration...besides, if I could take out all the bad guys around here, don't you think I would've done so already?" She waved one hand around a bit wildly. "We should take advantage of the chaos in the Organization!" Of course, she had no idea how to do such a thing.

Blah, blah, blah. Now she was making up excuses. He may not have known a lot about the laws of other worlds, or even of their existence before Paixao, but he was sure ones power did not just suddenly decline. There had been no difference for him, or anyone else he knew of that matter. What made her think she would be any exception? The meerkat planted his paws on his hips and eyed Urd sceptically.

So he had been right all along; she wasn’t nearly as powerful as she claimed. It was just a cover-up. He wasn’t surprised, he had seen through her act from the very beginning. However, Timon was in no rush to call the goddess on it. After all, she could still easily set him aflame or worse! “If you say so.” He said and left it at that.

“This problem is yours too.” He reminded Urd. “A problem that you don’t exactly know how to solve either.” The meerkat sighed and began to pace. As usual, it looked like he would have to do the whole ‘thinking of a plan’ part. He hummed softly and brought his paw up to his chin in thought. “We could bribe him into giving information. They want to see the Organization fall anyway, how difficult could it be? Just give ‘em what every Nobody wants and they’ll be happy. They tell us where the Organization is hiding, their weaknesses and then we’re good to go.” Timon paused, looking out into the street lost in thought. “They already don’t trust each other, so if we stirred the pot even more we could easily get them all against each other. We could set them up, make it look like a bunch of them have been leaking information. If they don’t bop each other first, they’ll be so caught up in their conflict we could easily sneak up on them and do it ourselves.”

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She didn't like that skeptical look on his face, not one bit. Narrowing her eyes at him, she exhaled roughly and turned away. What'd this meerkat know anyway? Talking animal he may be, but he obviously had no understanding or aptitude for magic. So his judgment of her was just the most ridiculous thing ever and...

Urd's train of thought was interrupted as Timon outlined his plan. She slowly started to smile as she listened. Well, now. Maybe he did have some shred of cunning. After all, he'd somehow survived this long, hadn't he? "You might not be completely useless after all," she said after he finished, grinning. "That's a great plan, except I have no idea what the Organization wants. I just thought they spent their time terrorizing the villagers and doing creepy experiments." She wiggled her fingers to emphasize this. "Are they so easily bribed? They just seem like hollow shells. How do you tempt something like that?"

Timon glared at the goddess. Who was she to say that he was useless? Useless after more than half the information she had gathered was from him? She may have heard it from a different source, sure. But that source had surely gotten their information from him. It always led back to him. Well, almost always. There was the rare except from time to time where it didn’t, but that was of little importance. He was still the reason so many knew of the Organization and their terrible ways and that was more proof enough of his worth.

“Of course it’s a great plan; I am the one who came up with it. And let me tell you, there’s a lot more where that came from. But let’s get one thing straight here: If I’m gonna have to come up with all the plans here and explain all this stuff to you you’re gonna owe me, and I mean more than just telling me about some ‘hunch’. I don’t just don’t tell this stuff to anyone, you know.”

Urd tilted her head, watching Timon rant with a raised eyebrow. When he was done, she sighed and bowed her head, a bemused smile on her face. She could have easily taken offense at the meerkat's words as she'd already done more than once since she arrived, but honestly...he was right, to a certain extent. Even though her hunches were usually correct, she knew it wasn't enough for anyone else to trust. And it was obvious to her that he needed this, this power play. She'd seen how he alienated himself from everyone he'd allied himself with. Maybe being a bossy, arrogant little weasel was the only way he knew how to connect with people.

"Fine," she said briskly, her head popping back up to smirk at him. "I owe you. In fact..." Urd held out her hand to her side, a nearby pebble the size of the meerkat's paw flying into her hand. "I'll do you one better. A binding contract of sorts." She held out her hand, the small stone hovering over it. She flicked her gaze up at him, eyebrow arched. "You might wanna stand back."

A few seconds later, another crack of lightening split the air and hit the pebble, disappearing almost as soon as it appeared. The stone thrummed with glowing energy briefly before settling into Urd's hand once more, now marked with a strange symbol. "This is my personal rune. I swear on my pride as a goddess, as long as you have this, I owe you one favor, no matter how large." As she spoke, her other hand undid the miniaturized black sash around her waist -- no larger than a small ribbon -- and threaded it through the stone, making an amulet perfectly sized for Timon.

Before he could react, she slipped it over her head, the marked pebble light as a feather and warm to the touch. "So, mighty leader. What now?"

A contract, what was that? And how did she get that rock to fly into her hand, never mind float above it? He tilted his head to the side and watched her curiously. As far as magic went, Timon was still a strong believer that such thing failed to exist. His guess was that the goddess had at some point tied a string to it to enable her to give the illusion that it had ‘magically’ floated into her hand. However, what he could not understand was how she had managed to make it levitate above it. He leaned in to take a closer look but received warning to maintain a distance. Normally he would have questioned the request but the look on Urd’s face was more than enough to assure him that it would be a good idea to heed her words.

As instructed, the meerkat took several steps back. In doing so, he found himself incredibly relieved he’d done so when the burst of lightening returned. The loud crack it made when in contact with the pebble was still enough to make him jump but not nearly as bad as it had previously. When it had all cleared, he cautiously approached the goddess again, staring at the pebble in her hand while she weaved it into a necklace. After a display like that, he wasn’t quite sure what to say until she addressed him as leader. Oddly, he appeared to show more dislike at the title than pride.

“Don’t tell anyone I’m involved in this.” He said, fearful of the Organization ever receiving word of his involvement. He was already in a lot deeper than he ever intended and if they ever found out… Timon dared not think about it.

“Nobodies are created when a strong enough heart is lost to the Darkness.” The rodent explained. “Sometimes the ‘shell’ left behind will continue to go on with an unfeeling will of its own. Their purpose is to regain the hearts they lost. The ones we’re dealing with might be stronger, but they’re still Nobodies. We just have to assure this traitor a heart or two. Of course, we don’t have to be specific as to what kind of heart it is. We just have to make them think it’s the kind of heart they want. They want hearts? We have plenty of hearts, drawings of hearts, that is. Drawings, cookies, whatever works.”

Urd held up a hand, smirking. "I won't tell a soul, believe me. Anyone finds out I'm lackey to a rodent, I'd never show my face around here again." As he continued his explanation, she slowly paced around him, frowning in contemplation. It was all starting to make sense now. The hollow, empty feeling of the Organization members, their manipulation of the Heartless. How had they been created? Surely they couldn't have come into existence all on their own. Someone had to be pulling the strings, obviously.

When Timon mentioned hearts, she held back a laugh. Simple yet effective. And thoroughly sneaky. Urd was starting to suspect just how underhanded the meerkat could be and, frankly, she liked it. "You really think they'll fall for something like that?" she asked, turning around in place to face him once more. Suddenly, she snapped her fingers, a wicked smile curving her lips.

"We can do better than something like a picture. They know I'm powerful -- they sent one of their strongest after me, for whatever reason...it may have been to see what the limits of my power are." Hands on her hips, she stared off into the distance, lost in her own train of thought now. "Chances are, they don't know what I am and am not capable of. I bet they'd think I could give them a heart if we made look convincing enough."

Timon looked anything but amused by Urd’s comment. She may have been right to refer to him as a rodent, opposed to a rat, but that didn’t change the fact she wanted to keep his superiority a secret. What did it matter if people knew he was superior to her? They deserved to know of his cunning, wit, and wisdom. With a reputation like his, he couldn’t afford them not to. It was obvious to him that this goddess was incredibly selfish. Not only that, but also stuck under the impression that she was as powerful as she boasted. He rolled his eyes.

“Oh yeah, you’re powerful alright.” He agreed, ignoring the uncomforting smile to spread across her lips. “And you know exactly who the strongest member is, having dealt with them before, I’m sure. Just out of curiosities sake though, what exactly did this member that attacked you look like, hu? Were they of the tall, dark and old variety? And what about this heart? We don’t even know what they’re supposed to look like. They’re not like actual hearts.”

The smile was quickly soured by Timon's words. Urd put her hands on her hips, frowning up at the meerkat. "It just makes sense they'd send one of their strongest. I'm not just a talking animal, I'm actually capable of some pretty str..." She trailed off, blinking a few times as the rest of his words -- previously ignored by the strength of her indignation -- sunk in. She tilted her head, eyeing him with a mixture of suspicion and curiosity.

"Actually, yeah...he had silver hair, anyway." She straightened her shoulders, flipping her own light-colored hair off her shoulders. "Not that that's a sign of old age," she added with a sniff. Her gaze was narrowed as she stared at him again. "How did you know?"

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He ignored her opening remarks. It was already obvious the goddess was delusional. If she wanted to think of herself as some all powerful being though, he was not about to stop her. It was more amusing to watch her boast as though she truly was phenomenal. To an extent, anyway. The insults she added for injury came off as more annoying than actually wounding. He may not have been as physically powerful as her but, for just a talking animal, he had definitely made it a lot farther than she ever had in the city. His influential power included.

Timon listened with a bored expression on his face. “Whatever. I’m just saying you don’t see me sproutin’ no grey hairs.” Mostly because he pulled every grey hair he found out, but that was beside the point.

“I know a lot of things. You were right though, they must have some sort of special interest you. That wasn’t any old Nobody that paid you a visit last night, that was Xemnas, the leader of Organization Thirteen. What the Superior was looking for is beyond me. Maybe he was testing you… Maybe he thinks you might be useful to the Organization somehow, what with the way you boast about your power and all. I wouldn’t exactly consider that an honour though. Lemme tell you, it ain’t fun. Did he say anything to you, anything that could explain why he paid you a visit?”

"Superior," Urd scoffed, glancing away. Despite her dismissal of the title, she was perturbed. The power she had felt from him, the cold, relentless words. He'd said something important, something she could barely hear when she was aiming her foot for his head. What was it? Narrowing her eyes, she looked back to Timon, frowning. "...it doesn't matter. It's nothing that should concern you."

She slowly rose up into the air. "I think I've had enough. We have the makings of some kind of plan, so let's go with that. I've gotta go." Pointing a commanding finger at the meerkat, or more accurately, the stone around his neck, she added, "That's a one time deal, incidentally. Don't waste it."

“Gotta go?” The meerkat asked. He frowned up at the goddess. “What do you mean, gotta go? Go where? You can’t just show up, steal my plan and tell me details don’t matter, not when I gave you so many of my own! That’s a cheap shot.” Timon then grabbed the amulet around his neck and shook it at Urd. “And I don’t even know how this thing works!”

Where was she going? The information he had given her, what did she plan to use it for? And that plan… Was she really going to go through with it? Timon was surprised by how many questions the goddess had awoken. That hadn’t been part of her plan when meeting him, had it? He was suspicious. The same went for the rock she had given him; the light show had certainly added to the effect, but what was he supposed to do with it? Was there any function to it other than to symbolize her debt? Did he just trade it in when the time came to call in a favour? He would have to take a closer look at it later.

"I have things to do," she replied, arms behind her head as she continued to nonchalantly float away from him. "Buildings to repair, Nobodies to hunt, you know how it is. As for that thing, I don't trust the network right now. That'll help us communicate more...discreetly. When you want your favor, just talk into it." She turned, looking down at him over her shoulder. "You have other things to deal with now too, I think. Like finding a better hiding spot." With that, she flew up and away from the statues, disappearing entirely.

He watched the goddess until she disappeared into the sky then looked down again at the amulet she had given him. She was right; the network really was the least safe of places in the city. Although, he could not think of anything other than the Organization, that they would be forced to discuss discreetly. So, as an alternative, she wanted him to talk into a rock? People were going to think he was nuts! He frowned at the thought and looked up at the sky once again. She was trying to make him look stupid, wasn’t she? Some help.

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