paixaorpg | Anybody get the license number of that bike that hit me?

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Anybody get the license number of that bike that hit me?

Character(s): Cloud, Hope and Tidus
Content: Cloud makes a… smashing entrance?
Setting: Joutenheim
Time: Early Morning
Warnings: Minor violence? Possibly?

It was a routine delivery. There shouldn't have been any major problems or delays or anything of that sort. In fact, Cloud was so used to this particular route that getting lost was simply impossible. So, imagine Cloud's surprise when that's exactly what happened.

There was no explaining how he got lost, though. One moment he was on the road to Kalm, and the next he was in the middle of an unfamiliar path. A path that, unfortunately, had people on it. Though, thankfully, being early in the morning, the path was a lot emptier than it could have been.

He avoided them as best he could, but he ended up getting dangerously close to one of them. He tried to swerve out of the way,ended up losing control of Fenrir and went careening into the elaborate gate.

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The last thing Hope was expecting was the sound of a motorcycle. ...No, wait, that wasn't the last thing. the LAST thing was almost getting hit by a motorcycle. He barely had time to throw himself to the ground, and felt the weight of the vehicle slam into his leg as he fell, spinning him like a top and making the landing less than graceful. His shout, more of surprise than pain, echoed around the area near the gate.

He lay there, trying to catch the breath he'd lost in the suddenness of it all, and just looked up at the sky. The sound of the bike crashing made him jump to his feet and stare in the direction of the wreck. The sight was an all too familiar one, though the setting was definitely new.

Tidus was, shockingly enough, often an early riser. Sneaking out in the morning for some fresh air was nothing new to him. He had done it back in his Zanarkand, during his time in Spira, and he had taken up the habit again in Paixao. So, in the morning, he knew what to expect - peace and quiet.

Not out-of-control motorcycles speeding through gates.

Especially not out-of-control motorcycles speeding through gates that almost hit him.

Thankfully, the guy, whoever he was, did a decent job at swerving just in time, possibly helped by Tidus flinging himself backwards, out of harm's way. He recovered quickly enough, quickly regaining his footing, and heard a shout. It wasn't long before he saw the damage - the guy on the bike had crashed, and there was a kid standing nearby. Had the shout been from him, or from the driver? Either way, Tidus wasn't going to walk away without taking a look.

"Is, um...everyone okay, over here?" he said, getting a little bit closer to the damage.

Cloud was okay, mostly. After routinely taking massive fireballs and explosions at point blank range and shrugging it off, shrugging off a crash like this was nothing.

"I'm fine," But what about the other one? He knew the blond boy wasn't the only one he nearly ran over. Cloud quickly scanned the area and noticed a younger boy with slivery looking hair. He dismounted his bike, and ran over to where the boy was.

"Are you alright?" He asked, trying, and hopefully not failing, to be soothing.

"What is wrong with you?" Hope had tried, at least at first, to not be angry, but he'd come close to almost getting run over by this guy. "Who drives their motorcycle around like that?!"

He clenched his fists tight and gestured toward the wreck that was the remains of the motorcycle and the gate that it had just careened into. "Why weren't you looking where you were going?"

He was definitely glad that the driver was okay - the crash hadn't looked too terrible, but between all the noise and the rushing it had been hard to tell. So, with that taken care of, Tidus didn't hesitate to also turn toward the kid, who hadn't answered yet.

It was his angry reply that encouraged Tidus to speak up...because, honestly, he couldn't blame him for reacting like that - he didn't like nearly getting hit, either - but it didn't really look to him like the driver was to blame.

"Woah, wait. Maybe it was just an accident." Honestly, Tidus would be pretty upset himself...if he hadn't thought of where they were. But this was the gate where he had entered the city, which made him think that maybe the guy hadn't seen the gate coming because it shouldn't have been coming. Guess the only thing he could do, he realized, was ask. "Seriously, though, what were you doing?" he said, turning back to the blonde guy.

While Cloud was taken aback by the boy's sudden outburst, he didn't blame him for being mad. And Tidus was spot on, really. There were no major cities between Edge and Kalm, that gate shouldn't have been there. This city shouldn't have been there.

"I was," Cloud replied. "This place just came out of nowhere." Yeah, it was a completely worthless excuse, but it was true, logic be dammed.

"Just...came out of nowhere?" Hope stood staring for a second, then remembered how he'd just suddenly woke up. What kind of crazy person would get a guy in the middle of a ride on a motorcycle though? He shook his head.

"All right...fine. Makes as much sense as anything else here does."

"Got that right." Tidus replied, looking back toward the city. Nothing much made sense, in this place. Heck, if a guy who shouldn't even exist anymore could magically appear in the middle of this mess, why couldn't someone get derailed on a motorcycle ride? That was, by far, the least insane option of the two.

Well, it seemed the two boys weren't that much worse for wear, that was good. Cloud did feel horrible for nearly running them over, though.

"What is this place, anyway?" He asked as he walked over to the remains of the gate to survey the damage done to Fenrir. He wasn't really mechanically inclined, but as far as he could tell the damage could have been worse? There appeared to be more damage to the gate than the bike, Fenrir was built rather like a tank after all. But he still should probably get it looked at.

"Paixao," Hope answered. He was over being angry, but he was still a bit shaken up. "You would've known that if you hadn't crashed through the gate. You should probably ask the guy over there for a journal, too. If you have any friends here, it'll help you find them."

"Yeah, you should go ask them about it." He gave the guy with the journals a glance - there was no line right now, which wasn't a surprise. It was still pretty early.

Tidus wasn't really used to being the information guy, but there was one detail that he thought now would be a good time to share...the guy may have just crashed his bike, but that didn't mean holding off on the bad news was going to help - somebody had to tell him what was going on sooner or later.

"Then, after that...you might want to look for your friends and get comfortable, because we're all stuck here."

As the boys were explaining the situation, Cloud unlatched one of the caddies on Fenrir, and retrieved a sword that was longer than Hope was tall and put it in the sheath strapped to his back. He paused as Tidus was talking, and spun around to face him.

"Stuck here?"

"The only way out is to get to the top of this castle." Hope would answer the "what castle" question once it was asked. It was really weird to almost run into two people for one thing, then being told all this stuff about being stuck in a castle would be a little hard to take in.

Tidus stared straight at Cloud when he spun around, not at all surprised by the reaction. Who wouldn't jump after hearing something like that, right?

And personally, as happy as Tidus was to be somewhere - especially with the people he cared about most - at all, he wasn't a big fan of the fact that they were stuck, either.

"Right, because some mysterious group of weirdos has us trapped. The Organization, or something."

"Castle?"

This was both suspicious and a little hard to take in. How could anyone have the power suddenly kidnap people like this? Cloud gave the boys the benefit of the doubt though. They looked as out of place as he did in this city, so the same thing probably happened to them.

"What's this 'organization' after, anyway?"

"Nobody knows," Hope answered. "None of us even really know that much about them to start with." He kicked at a bit of rubble that had landed near his feet.

"...My name's Hope."

"Whoever they are, they aren't all that interested in making public appearances." Tidus looked at Hope when he spoke, making a mental note of his name - they had never met, before, either.

"I'm Tidus." he said, also introducing himself. He glanced at Hope as well, since they had never met before, either, but didn't move.

"Cloud"

Barely a moment had passed after Cloud introduced himself when several blue creatures suddenly appeared around the group, as if the universe wasn't done toying with them today.

"Nice to meet you guys," Hope answered with a smile. But right those creatures started appearing right around them, out of nowhere, and the smile was quickly replaced with a look of concern.

"What are those things?!" He pulled out his boomerang, and cast Protect on himself, then Tidus, then Cloud, before anything could happen.

"Beats me!" Tidus said, trying to take a good look at the blue creatures. They weren't like anything he had ever seen before...but, if they way they were approaching the group said anything, they weren't friendly.

"I'm all for making sure they don't stick around, though." he said. Without even thinking about it, he cast Hastega on the group as he drew Brotherhood. Sure, the creatures didn't look too powerful, or too fast...but better to be safe than sorry.

He blinked as the buffs were casted on him, not expecting them at all. He hadn't really seen magic like that in years, since Materia was supposed to have fallen out of use. Cloud pulled his sword while unlocking the blade so it would spring open.

The blue creatures didn't look like that much of a threat, he'd seen worse, far worse. Not that Cloud was the type to underestimate something, though. He took two powerful swings at one of the creatures, hitting it faster than normal and it disappeared in a puff of smoke.

"These things aren't that tough..."

Hope took a moment to concentrate on his Ravager abilities, and quickly threw Fire spells in rapid succession at the blue creatures--faster than normal, thanks to being Hasted. The flames exploded across the surfaces of the monsters, eventually incinerating one, but doing little to the others.

Tidus was also moving much faster than normal. He didn't try anything fancy - a few hits was enough to take care of one of the weird blue things, and another right next to it went just as easily.

"These guys are nothing!" he said, brimming with confidence. At this rate, and with the three of them working together, the...whatever-they-were's would be gone in no time.

Cloud decided that the best way of dealing with these things would be to get them all at once. They were little more than an annoyance, and dealing them with individually was a waste of time.

He concentrated for a moment as a blue aura of energy flared up around him. Then he hit the crowd of blue creatures with three very powerful, and very wide sword slashes, leaving behind gold after effects that faded a moment after the blue creatures faded into darkness.

That was the last of them. Hope looked around to double check, and then flipped his boomerang closed and put it back into his pocket. These guys were really strong.

"What were those things, anyway?" he asked, walking back over to Cloud and Tidus.

Well, that took care of that. Tidus smiled, cheerfully putting away Brotherhood. He shrugged when Hope asked his question, though Tidus was wondering the same thing himself. They looked kind of like the Heartless, but something was different. He just couldn't quite put his finger on what.

"Who knows?" he replied. "But they won't be showing up here again if they know what's good for them."

"Let's hope they won't show up again."

Because Cloud had more important things to worry about. Like getting his bike out of the rubble that was the gate and getting it fixed. He walked over to sight of the destruction and tried to size up the situation.

"Yeah." Hope watched Cloud walk over to the wreckage, and could see the bike sitting under a huge pile of broken masonry.

"Uh...you want some help with that?"

Tidus, too, looked over at the bike; it was definitely a mess, and it would be easy for one guy to dig it out by himself. Between the three of them, though, it'd probably be an easy job.

"It would probably be a lot easier to get it out with all three of us." he added to Hope's question.

"Probably..."

He started to dig the bike out of the rubble, focusing on the smallest rocks first, after those were out of the way, they could deal with the larger ones.

"Don't worry guys, I can handle this." Hope stood back a little from the other two, and held out his left arm. The brand on his wrist started glowing yellow, and with his right hand he lifted the crystal from it, letting it float between his palms. He threw it into the sky gently.

"Alexander!" he called softly as the crystal shattered itself over his head. The massive Eidolon rocketed out of the sky and crashed into the ground right next to Hope. "Hey big guy, think you could help Cloud with his bike?"

The Eidolon unceremoniously lifted the bike out of the wreckage, though just enough care was taken that his grip wouldn't do any further damage to the vehicle. "Just carry it with us, okay?"

There wasn't much of a need for Hope to step back, since Tidus jumped and backed up plenty when the huge summon burst out of the sky. It wasn't the first time Tidus had seen a summon, of course...but he definitely wasn't expecting to see one here.

So, that kid...he was some kind of summoner?

"I...guess that's one way to do it." he commented, still keeping his distance.

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Anybody get the license number of that bike that hit me?

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