Kingdom Heartless [Begins]

[ChobiChibi]

~Dawn~

“Now what do we do?” Gavin asked, glancing over at Silver.

“I’m not sure… As long as the door remains closed, there isn’t much we can do.” He replied.

“Find the Chosen.”

Why?

“They need you. You need them.”

Shouldn’t I be asking the boy-?

“Find the Chosen.”

“Silver… You said there were other Chosen…” Dawn began to carry out the voice’s request. She didn’t understand why she trusted it. In fact, she didn’t understand why most things were happening at the moment. “Shouldn’t we find them?”

“You’re really asking for trouble today.” Silver sighed, obviously frustrated by the burden he had laid up on himself, namely Dawn. “You may try. However, I don’t know where you’d begin to look and I can’t accompany you.”

“He can. He just doesn’t want to.”

Dawn frowned. Her gut instinct was to ask him why. She knew that if she were to ask him that he’d get even more irritated.

“You shouldn’t go anywhere. I don’t want to see you get hurt again…” Gavin said. She gazed into his eyes; they were full of guilt, pain and anger. She watched them overflow with love as she drew closer to him, placing her lips carefully on his, kissing him softly.

“Come with me.” She said after they had parted. “Did you really think I’d go without you?”

“I’m coming too.” Kimi stated. “I can’t let you go alone.”

“I’ll remain here.” Silver finished, his voice emotionless.

“His Masters won’t let him go.”

That’s okay…

“They would kill him if they knew.”

Who are his Masters?

“He’s Heartless, Dawn. Heartless.”

“You’re not supposed to be on our side, are you Silver?” She asked, changing the subject of conversation.

He frowned. “No. I’m not.” He answered simply.

“Then why haven’t you killed us yet?”

He glared at her but his expression soon changed to something that might be described as confusion. He had obviously been thinking about it. “I… I don’t know.”

“It’s okay; you don’t have to know everything.” She reassured him. Who was she to be giving him advice? “What’s the harm in coming with us? I’m sure your Masters won’t find out…”

“How did you know about them?” He was angry. He must have been very confused at how she’d known about it too.

“Well, you don’t seem like the ultimate bad-guy type…”

“Dawn…” She turned back to Gavin. He gave her a look that said ‘don’t push it’.

“Sorry… I don’t know what got into me…” She stared down at the floor. Why was she being this way? She would have never normally said anything like that before… Although, she had never been in a situation like this before…

“Shall we go?” Kimi asked. Both Gavin and Dawn nodded and headed towards the door.

“Wait!” Silver called. There was almost a sense of desperation in his voice. They turned to face him. Dawn noticed that he was looking longingly at Kimi. They waited for him to explain his sudden outcry. “I’m coming too…”

They exited the building out onto the streets. It was morning now and the rush of people trying to get to places was gradually rising.

“Where do we start?” Gavin asked.

“Follow the Shadows.”

“Follow the Shadows…” Dawn whispered, glancing up and down the street for one of those creatures.

“Look harder.”

Her eyes continued to dart from one thing to another. She didn’t even know the other Chosen, yet she felt it was her duty to go and find them.

There! She told the voice in her head. The Shadow’s yellow eyes stared straight into her own from across the street. She met its gaze.

“There’s a Shadow over there.” Dawn stated, her eyes remaining connected to it. She nodded in its direction. “It will probably take us to the others if we follow it.”

“I didn’t summon it…” Silver thought aloud.

It only took Dawn one blink for the Shadow to move. She grabbed Gavin’s hand with her good one and ran after the Shadow, hoping that Kimi, and maybe even Silver, were not too far behind.

Diddley dee... That post took longer than it should have O_o

[Erandi Brazul]

... Doesn't look like my group is joining anytime soon...


Milo Tisevich
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The three of them ran on, Milo leading the way. He kept praying as his feet hit the pavement. Please, PLEASE let them be all right...
He turned his head, looking behind him at Sorrow, only to notice that the giant sword he once had was gone. Sorrow didn't seem too disappointed at this, however. Then again, he never really looked pleased at just about anything.

They were panting hard when Milo slowed them to the junction. The only problem? No one was there. Milo furrowed his brow for a moment, confusion tracing his face.
"Wha...but..." he stammered, while Sorrow took a few steps forward and gazed around, Sheena close behind him. "They were here a little bit ago..." he said at last.
"Well, they're gone now," Sheena replied, her face a mask hiding emotions. Whether she was talking about his friends being gone or the shadows, Milo couldn't be sure.

They sat silent for a moment, Sorrow still glancing around as if scenting something, always with that face that reminded you of your older brother at a funeral. It was a bit of a drag, being with these two.
"You know, it probably didn't turn out so bad," Milo said at last, perking up and becoming the person he was famed to be. "Those creatures probably turned tail and ran when Gavin and Dawn drew those swords, just like our shadow creatures did when you pulled out yours, Mister...er..."
"My name is Sorrow," he said blandly, not bothering to look at Milo when addressing him.
"Oh," he said, "well, it's a pleasure. And thanks for the help back there! I had a feeling that if I ran that way I'd find someone that could help. I was drawn there. Totally felt that one--"

"Just like you felt your friends' presence here?" the girl finally spoke up, not harshly but with enough vehemence to make Milo understand.
"Okay, okay," he muttered, reaching with his right hand to scratch the back of his neck in shame. "So I was off on this one. I'm sorry. I'm Milo, by the way, in case you were wondering. Milo Tisevich."
"Sheena," the girl replied, and that was all he got from her. He nodded, swallowed, and opened his mouth to talk again when Sorrow interrupted.

"Found it," he said, and motioned the other two towards a path leading towards the center of downtown, in the grundgy area of the city.
"It?" Milo asked. "What is 'it' exactly?"
"I...I don't know," Sorrow replied, "Maybe it's the same sense you had before when you found us."
"All right, all right," the little man said loudly, putting his hands up in the air and shaking his head. "Look, I said I'm sorry for that, okay? Yeah, I made it up. That doesn't mean you have to poke fun at the little guy, 'kay?"

Sorrow didn't reply. He started walking, and Sheena, after one look at Milo--once again, emotionless--she followed suit, stepping in behind the man.
Milo sighed. "Well, I guess another adventure can't hurt. Not like I'm in the mood to go home anytime soon..." and ran to catch up to the quickly fading pair in the distance.

OOC: Okay! Don't know what's going on, but we should definitely start bashing soon! Oh, and I played Kingdom Hearts for the first time EVER (actually it was KH2 but whatever) and it ROCKS, and now I got a better idea of what we're doing, so let's go KICK SOME HEARTLESS BUTT!!

[Mystic_clown]

Sorry for taking so long. I really had no idea what to do.

Sorrow
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He didn't know where this sense was leading him, or rather THEM, to, but Sorrow saw no reason to resist it.

He had mentioned his friends having swords similar to mine. Maybe that's where I'm going. Perhaps the swords are connected somehow.

He looked ove his shoulder to see Sheena walking close behimnd him and Milo running to catch up with them. He didn't know why, but Sheena seemed to intrigue him. Noone seemed to notice him, let alone ask him why he wa always crying. It was like this girl actually cared for him.

To be cared about. That was something Sorrow seemed almost foreign to. He could vaguely remember the love his parents gave him before they died. If course, he could barely remember his parents at all, not even what they looked like.

Milo seemed like your average boy. He ran tothem looking for help. But now htat he was helped, shouldn't he be going home? Why was he following him? Why was Sheena following him?

He pondered these questions in his mind, though decided to kep quiet about them.

[Crystal Tears]

[color=#CCCCCC][font=franklin gothic medium]Silver

Silver was frowning inside his mind, why were they chasing after a heartless? Surely it wasn’t that stupid… His thoughts were interrupted when they all set eyes upon the three others.

“There they are!” The lively boy yelped, running over a short distance before seeing Silver standing there. “Hey! You’re the guy who tried to kill them!”

Goodbye…

A dark voice rumbled in his head, but he wasn’t really paying any mind to it. The ground was rippling, and soon it began to twist and turn, shaping into a horribly thin body with six lanky arms that ended in clawed hands. The face was un-natural, four black eyes placed on the side of its head; it slightly resembled a horse’s, only the jaws opened into four separated sections as it screeched. It’s body resembled a horse’s as well. But it bared eight muscular legs and three long snake tails instead.

“Oh my god..” Gavin gawked.

“Silver.” Kimi gulped, looking over at the confused heartless boy. “Did you…”

“No…”

“But they couldn’t be here… Not until the door…”

“MOVE!” Dawn screamed, as Sheena and Sorrow quickly ran over to them, ignoring Silver’s presence, Milo was frozen; the creature was glaring right at him. It’s body powered forward, ready to tear Milo into bits.

Silver leapt, slamming his right shoulder and upper body into the boys. As he tumbled out of the way Silver was faced with the coming onslaught. The mutant Heartless opened its jaws that split into fore once more and clamped down, bringing his keyblade up into the vertical position, the Jaws that were barely connected by loose, bloody flesh halted, unable to break the blade.

The horrible screech emitted once more and two of the hands grabbed Silver and tossed him away like a rag doll.

“Stupid Child!” the creature hissed, turning away from Silver as it focused on the group. “Defending those who have what you lack. Mother will not be pleased with you.”

Silver huffed, his body slightly aching from being thrown into the concrete; he rose to his feet once more. Raising his keyblade into fighting posture, he watched the others (assuming they all had keyblades) summon theirs as well.

“Oh… You are think you’re so clever hmm?” The horse was laughing. “Well I can play like that too!”

With a stomp of what Silver presumed was ‘her’ hoof, many larger Shadow’s pierced from the ground, and the walls.

Silver had many thoughts run through his mind, and many of them cruel. He was separated from the group, as because he chose to save the kid. Snapping his fingers, smaller shadows, appeared around him, he was lucky they had stayed loyal.

“What ever you do!” Silver called to the group. “Don’t attack the smaller shadows!”

- - - -

If you don't have your keyblade. Nows the time to get it.

[Samchu]

Gavin
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We stared in horror at the sight that befell us. The deformed arachno-horse summoned an army of shadows that Silver countered with a small shadow army of his own. “Whatever you do! Don’t attack the smaller shadows!” He called to us as those of us already possessing our keyblades summoned them to our hands.

“I’m gonna help Silver,” I called, still surprised that the words were actually escaping my lips. Tightening my grip upon my keyblade, I leapt past the colliding shadow armies and charged at our opponent, who was already locked in a deadly battle with our previous enemy. Ducking one of the clawed hands that swung towards me, I took to the air, bringing my blade down upon the creatures head. “Ah ha!” I shouted to it, convinced of my abilities to take it down. I could only stare as it aimlessly shook of my attack and struck me to the side with one of its lanky arms. With a heavy groan, I lifted myself back on to my feet. “Damn…that hurt…”

I shook myself back to my senses and charged back into the fray. I must have been bloody crazy to run so eagerly back into battle. My body seethed from the blow, my back throbbing at the various cuts and scratches it now adorned. I pitied my own body, it had taken such a beaten already today. The battles with Silver, two fires, and now this? How the hell I was still able to stand was beyond me let alone having the ability to fight. I parried one of the claws with my blade only to get tripped by one of its three snake tails. I looked up just in time to see a claw crashing down towards my head and with a speed that I didn’t even know I possess, I managed to block the claw with my keyblade. The creature howled in annoyance, granting Silver a few precious moments with which to unleash hell upon our opponent.

Looking back I saw Dawn and the others swiftly cutting through the ranks of the enemy shadows. I joined Silver once again in knocking back the horse-thing until both of us were thrown back, crashing to the ground unceremoniously.

“Urgh! Silver I don’t think this is working!” I called to him.

“You think?”

We rose to our feet slowly. “This isn’t the time for sarcasm,” I muttered, just loud enough for him to hear. “We need a plan but I doubt you happen to have one of those lying around do you?”

“I’m working on it!” he snapped.

I parried several attempts to knock my head clean off my shoulders. “Well work faster!”

“Hey!” Kimi yelled at us. “Focus!”

I rolled my eyes and together Silver and I pushed against our opponent. We switched turns, one attacking whilst the other defended him. It wasn’t the most effective method but we were holding our own. Though we both knew we couldn’t hold out much longer. The day had taken its toll on us both and we didn’t have the strength to hold our position as long as we could have. Needless to say, we were starting to have trouble.

“Well?” I asked Silver, “Do you have a plan yet or do we need to ask the others for help?”

[Hyperness is a Good Thing]

Kimi Michiko Gin ~ F

[color=#cc99cc]Kimi twisted and spun around, slashing at the larger Heartless and avoiding the smaller ones. Since it was very light, she could move Sincerity Seal very fast, and though they looked large and menacing, these dark shadows weren’t all too hard to deal with, just that their numbers were overwhelming.

She wanted nothing more than to move to Silver’s side and fight by him, but there were all these new ones to take care of – she had not seen so many Chosen Ones in ages. Dawn was already quite competent with her keyblade, though still a little unsure; but no worries, experience would come with time. The rest were gaining skill the longer they battled – Kimi could see that.

Unfortunately, there seemed to be no end to this horde of Heartless. Gavin and Silver seemed to be trying to discuss something, and it was obvious that they were distracted. After watching Gavin almost get slashed on his head a few times, Kimi yelled out, “Focus!” to them, and took her own advice, parrying and slashing, and helping out the new people whenever she saw that they were about to falter.

There was a brief lull in battle, and she stopped, catching her breath. She had not fought like this in ages…and surprisingly, it felt good. Wielding the Keyblade and fighting – this seemed perfectly natural to her.

As her quick movements slowly became almost instinctive, she allowed herself to think more, trying to figure a way out of their current situation.

[Erandi Brazul]

Milo Tisevich
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It was strange, Milo knew, but he could have sworn that he felt the same willingness, the same drive, to move with Sorrow in that direction, to follow closely behind Sheena. He couldn't explain it, nor could he pinpoint where the feeling was coming from. It wasn't a gut feeling, or a sense of direction. He felt...compelled to travel. No, he didn't want to go home, but not just because he felt no need to. He knew his parents were, by now, worried sick over him. It was much too long and too late for him to be out with friends without letting them know where he was going!

Milo's thoughts consumed him, his little body hunched over, his arms crossed, and his brow furrowed. His whole body language was wrong for his kind of personality, as was his way of thinking, he had decided.
C'mon, Milo, get ahold of yourself, he thought. What happened to looking at the brighter side of things? Being the happier version of life?
Life had become so dark, dark enough to cloud his usually bright and cheery thoughts.
This isn't you. Things can't be helped sometimes. They definitely escaped. Yep. Don't worry about those two. They'll show up eventually.

And show up they did.

He couldn't tell how long they had been walking, since his thoughts diverted his attention from the outside world. When he looked up, however, he surprisingly saw his companions, hustling around a bend, perhaps in search of him.
“There they are!” he shouted, though it was apparent that neither Sorrow nor Sheena needed to be told that. They had already stopped, and, with eyes narrowed, were staring at the group. "What? What's wrong?" he said cheerfully, and began to point them out: "It's my friends: Dawn, Gavin, some other friendly girl, an--" his last words cut short as his eyes finally registered who the last member was.

“Hey! You’re the guy who tried to kill them!” he shouted, his words barely making sense as to who "them" really was to Sorrow and Sheena, but they caught on quickly. Sorrow's blade was out, and Sheena merely stared.
As soon as his words had finished echoing off of the houses around them, Milo felt a rumble beneath his feet, but he didn't care. His mental capacity was all on Silver now, and all about ripping his body apart, piece by tiny piece.

His violent nature is not exactly what his parents call, "controlled."

Milo spoke slowly, each word seemingly trying to seeth pain into Silver, even though the man couldn't hear Milo speaking. "I am going to kill you, you son of a bi--"
Once again, his words were cut short, as a tremendous shadow seemed to appear and fill Milo's vision. His crazed state, however, allowed his eyes to decieve him. The creature formed, and it's eyes swivelled to face him. Pangs of fear hit him as someone screamed, but he dared not move. This creature, in his mind, was Silver, grown to finish him off just like he finished off his friends from before. Anger and hate bubbled inside of him, and somewhere in the back of his mind, a faint TING! was heard. Something was now dangling from his neck.

He didn't have time to figure it out, though. He continued to stare at the monster, hating it, knowing that he couldn't beat it and avenge his fellows. The next few moments, however, went by quite rapidly. First, he was hit hard from the side; whether it was the creature or a human he did not know.

He stayed down a moment, rubbing his arm as he heard noises of a battle beginning. When he finally got up, the shock of the sneak attack gone, he looked to see Gavin and Silver working together, side by side. His eyes widened, his upper lip trembled.
He's brainwashed them...

SNAP.

The thing on his neck flashed brilliantly as he charged at the fighting Silver, and the glow instantly flashed to his hand the moment his fist collided into a surprised Silver. Silver hit the ground hard, spraying rocks as he flew a couple of yards. The light faded, and the shock of what was now in his hand prevented Milo from thinking about continuing the assualt for a moment.

A keyblade. Black in color, all the way to the top. Not only that, but waves and swirls of what appeared to be red and white string--magicked metal, he learned later-- swirled around the blade, to make it thick. His hand held the black handle while more of the red and green danced around his hand, providing protection to his grasp. The teeth were the strangest bit: It very much resembled a hammer. A rectangular block jutted out of the blade, followed by a small ball-shaped connector, and yet another oddly shaped rectangle at the other end. It looked precisely like a large hammer head! The end of the hammer head was slightly pointed, if only to recognize that it was a sharp blade.

Five seconds it took, for Milo to stare at his weapon. Then, he smiled sickeningly at Silver. "You. Die. Now," he said. He wanted to say more, but one of the tails of the shadow creature smacked him full force, and sent him flying.


OOC: Whew...long, I know. But it works, I guess! Have fun trying to calm him down lol.

[Crystal Tears]

[font=franklin gothic medium][color=#CCCCCC]Silver

The pain, who had hit him? It wasn’t a heartless, they certain don’t hurt that much, five of his minions gathered around him, helping him up. Grumbling as the pain subsided, he looked at Milo; his eyes seemed twisted with this uncontrollable rage.

“You. Die. Now.”

Shocked at what had just happened, Silver was forced to accept Milo’s challenge, at least it would’ve been a challenge if the rather foolish wielder had seen the horse creature lash out with its tails. Milo was sent sprawling, head over heels, until he came to rest up against a city wall.
Though without hesitating the insane boy got back up; gripping his keyblade tight.

“You have to be joking…” Silver murmured in his lowered voice, walking slowly up to the crazed boy.

With a cry of rage the boy sprinted forward, Silver frowned, easily side stepping the attack and thwacking the boy easily with her keyblades shaft in the back. The boy tumbled, but miraculously did some sort of spin, and recovered quickly, slashing threw a heartless before whipping his keyblade like a boomerang at Silver.

“That’s new.” Silver observed, bringing his own weapon upwards to knock the keyblade away, though the hilt still managed to whack his shoulder.

The boy charged for it. Silver took his chance, slamming his keyblade onto the boys back; he heard a cry of pain, before the boy collapsed.

“I’m not your enemy.” Silver snarled. “If you haven’t realised, I’m not attacking anyone. The only reason I’m fighting you is because you attacked first.”

“You’re. Going. To. DIE!”

A desperate attempt to get up was met with a horrible cracking noise. Silver smirked. Watching one of his own heartless crawl onto Milo’s back, before disappearing.

“We will fight later.” Silver purposed. “For now, that heartless will take the pain of your back wound away, making you have the ability to defend yourself. Fight the horse creature, not me.” Pausing before returning to the battle, Silver smiled. “Try to attack me in this battle, and that heartless will cause you more pain then you can imagine.”

Kimi ran up to Silver as he trotted away. “You’re going to leave him like… Like that?”

“For now Yes… I don’t need another enemy in this battle.” Silver snarled, swiping away a larger shadow. “Now. Fight.” He commanded, bounding away to attack the mutant heartless.

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X.x So many enemies for poor Silver. Sorry if it seems one sided, but Milo will have all the time in the word to assault Silver after the horsey thingy.. >_>

[Mystic_clown]

Sorrow
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This was quite an interesting turn of events. It seemed the heartless were now turning on eachother. His eyes fell on hte larger heartless, the mutant abomination.

"I know your pain," he spoke softly, tightning his grip on his sword. He pointed the blade at the beast, who was now looking in his direction.

"I will moarn your passing," he spoke. At those words, the heartless headed straight for him.

"Sorrow!!" Milo cried out.

Just as one of the heartless' legs almost came down on him, he leaped to the side in a display of great agility. He slashed at the leg, causing a shallow cut. The heartless bellowed inrag as it tried to crush im with another leg. Sorrow once again dove to the side and struck it.

The heartless' frustration rose as its almost futil attempts to crush the nimble youth drew its attention away from the others.

Sorry for the crapiness.

[ChobiChibi]

~Dawn~
~ White Shadows- Coldplay ~

She couldn’t help but glance over at the events happening around her as she fought. Milo, a kid from her school, had challenged Silver. She knew it was foolish of him, but Silver soon taught him a lesson. She smiled a little to herself as she noticed that Gavin had been watching too; it made her feel less guilty about being nosy.

However, she could afford to be nosy. She was only dealing with the Shadows. Gavin, on the other hand, had been stood right in front of the horse-like creature at the time. Taking his eyes off it was a mistake as they both found out.

Dawn watched silently as the huge, demented creature’s claw glided through the air and ripped flesh from Gavin’s bare chest. She wanted to scream, cry and get revenge, but her whole body and emotions felt numb. All she could do was stand there and watch as the shadows pushed him to the floor, leaving Silver to deal with the monster alone.

There was quite some distance between her and Gavin but she knew she had to get there. She attempted to run through a small gap in the shadows, only to find that more appeared to block her path.

“Fine… You want to play it the hard way…” She muttered at the shadows. “Kimi!” She called. “Gavin’s down! Help Silver!”

She saw Kimi return to Silver’s side out of the corner of her eye as she kept her gaze on where Gavin now lay. She knew it was risky to leave those with less experience to deal with the shadows by themselves, but they had to learn somehow. She held her Keyblade horizontally in front of her.

“If you won’t move, I’ll make you.” She warned them. She didn’t know why she took the time to do so as she knew she was going to kill them anyway. She hacked and slashed her way through the crowd of shadows. It reminded her of the time she had played Lord of the Rings with her brother. She felt like the hero, risking their life just to save another. However, she soon realised that she wasn’t as strong as Aragorn when she was just a few feet away from Gavin.

The shadows had left a circle around him and stood around watching. Even though he was well tanned, Dawn could see that he was quite pale. There was a large amount of blood which formed a puddle around him. She felt her stomach churn. She now knew that she couldn’t stand large amounts of blood. She had never been in a situation with it before. After all, her father would never let her see anything that would make her upset…

A sword crossed her path as she attempted to get closer. She followed it along until she came across who was holding it. A shadow, the same one that had attacked her in her dream, seemed to be smirking at her.

“Your blood.” It whispered, bringing the tip of the sword into her vision. The blood trickled down the blade towards the hilt. Her arm seemed to throb with pain as she saw it. “More blood to spill…”

With one fast, unexpected movement, Dawn brought her Keyblade down upon the Shadow. “No more blood will be spilt today.” She said as it disappeared into a black mist.

She dashed to Gavin’s side, kneeling on the cold concrete. She shook him gently, attempting to wake him up.

“Come on… I’m not losing you too…” She told him, a small amount of panic escaping in her voice. She withdrew her hand from the floor, realising she had put it straight into the puddle of blood. His blood. She went to wipe it off on her shirt. “What the hell am I doing?” She questioned herself, unbuttoning her shirt quickly to reveal her black strap top. She pulled her shirt off, folded it untidily and put it on Gavin’s chest, applying pressure.

“Heal him.”

Dawn frowned at the voice. What do you mean? I can’t heal him…

“Heal him. Just do it.”

How?

“Hold your Keyblade. Take the shirt off his chest; put your other hand over his wounds. I’ll help you with the rest.”

She removed her shirt from his chest. It seemed to have mopped up quite a lot of the blood and slowed the bleeding a little. She picked up her Keyblade, gripping it tightly. She placed her other hand gently over the wound.

Now what?

“Concentrate hard… Tell the Keyblade what you want it to do…”

“Heal him…” She muttered, a tear escaping from her eyes. “Please heal him…”

She felt a warm sensation creep up from the arm that was holding her Keyblade, across her back and down her other arm. Her hand glowed a pale green as she watched Gavin’s wounds disappear, including the burns he had acquired earlier. She felt extremely light headed as the green light faded and attempted to steady herself. Giving up, she flopped onto the floor and stared up at the clouds.

“Dawn…” Gavin’s face suddenly appeared in front of her line of vision. The colour was slowly returning to his cheeks. His piercing blue eyes were full of worry as they gazed into her own. “What happened? I was injured…”

“I fixed you… I healed you…” She let a small giggle escape before a tear slid down her face. “I didn’t want to lose you. My Keyblade must be magic or something… It was a green light… A beautiful green light… It made me heal you…”

Gavin gently lifted her from the floor, cradling her in his arms. “Thank you so much…” He kissed her forehead lightly, causing another giggle from her. He frowned. “Are you sure you’re okay?”

“I’m just a little light headed, that’s all…” Dawn replied, not knowing how much of an understatement that was. “I just need to rest for a little while. I’ll be fine.”

“I’ll stay-”

“No!” She yelped. He looked very hurt by her sudden outburst. “I don’t mean it like that… You need to go back and fight… Right now, they need you more than I do… I’ll be fine… Just leave me here. I’m not going anywhere.”

“I don’t like that idea… I can’t leave you.” Gavin protested.

“I know you’ll come back for me… Go… Go kick some Shadow butt for me…” She raised her arm slowly and touched his cheek. “Do it for me?”

“Okay…” He lowered her gently to the ground. “Be careful…”

“You be more careful…” She muttered, rolling onto her side and using her arm as a pillow.

Dawn just about saw him summon his Keyblade again and charge back into battle before she drifted off to sleep.

She'll probably be asleep for the rest of the battle... I'll post her dream soon... Mwahahaha... *cough*

[Samchu]

Gavin
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Summoning my keyblade to my hand I looked back to see Dawn drifting to sleep on the hard concrete. I nodded to myself. I'll be careful Dawn. Promise. I looked back at the deformed beast facing off against Silver and Kimi. The new arrivals seemed to be handling the shadows, keeping their attention on Dawn. I snuck round the back of our attacker, keeping out of reach of its three tails. Kimi saw me and I quickly montioned for her to keep the horse-thing distracted, last thing I needed was to get caught again.

Taking my keyblade in both hands I stood silent, waiting for the right moment. As one of the tails landed against the ground I tightened my grip on my blade and brought it crashing straight down. It tore easily with the thick flesh and muscle, severing the tail instantly and staining the ground with blood.

It turned to face me, screaching so loudly my ears stung. "No one takes a piece out of me!" I shouted at it. I waved my keyblade menacingly at it. "Like to see ya try that again," I taunted. "Silver! Can you get your shadows to guard Dawn? She's out of action."

He nodded and I saw the shadows move over to guard Dawn. As long as she was safe there was nothing for me to worry about. I looked up to see one of the creature's claws heading towards my head. I ducked quickly, rolling beneath the creature until I joined Silver and Kimi. The creature spun round to us, still seething from the damage I'd done to one of its three tails.

"Three must be better than one right?" I asked the two of them, making sure not to take my eyes off of the monster before me. "Let's take this thing down once and for all."

[Crystal Tears]

[font=franklin gothic medium][color=#CCCCCC]Silver

He was ignoring Gavin, his inexperienced comments were only a slightly annoyance, the true annoyance was standing right in front of him. A Heartless mutant, something that wasn’t supposed to exist until the door was open, but here it was, staring at them all.

Silver could see Sorrow was busy keeping the shadows off their backs, he was thankful, though he’d never admit it. Never, thanks, and gratitude is for the weak, it was something that showed you couldn’t handle it yourself, and Silver could… He knew he could… Or was it he’d rather think he could?

“Silver…”

Kimi’s soft voice, it snapped him out of this trance. He glanced over at her, his face emotionless but he knew she could see right through it; her eyes were like the bullet that pierces through the flesh, the Soft flesh that tries to hide the inside, the real weak points.

He nodded, and she returned the motion, his keyblade vanished as both his hands clasped together as he kneeled, forming a sort of step catapult, of which when Kimi was ‘on’, he stood up, forcing his arms the most he sent Kimi upwards, high above the monster.

Summoning his keyblade back, both him and Gavin acted, Silver’s keyblade slicing easily into the flesh of the neck that splattered black blood all over the ground. Gavin’s swung and took two arms off before hitting the put shoulder, causing a deep wound that oozed blood instead of it splattering.

Kimi was coming down, her keyblade broke easily into the monster’s back, and hooked, so she could swing herself into a loop until he ripped her keyblade free and landed fine. Some blood on her face.

Sorrow came in now, slicing another shadow before doing an upper cut with his blade, taking off three legs that made the body uneven on one side, so the creature couldn’t stand. It toppled; unable to fight completely back, Silver stood back and watched the others make quick work of it. They couldn’t hear it, but it was screaming, hollering in pain as its ‘comrade’ stood back and watched.

The others were disappearing, the smaller shadows teaming up on the larger until they all were gone. Vanished; back to the safety of their home.

“We did it!” Gavin smiled, looking at Dawn to see that she was still being guarded by the small shadows, who disappeared when he neared. “Heh…”

“Silver?” Kimi questioned, grabbing on his arm, Silver tugged it away, dispersing his keyblade he turned, and leaped up onto a high ledge of a window, before leaping once more onto the roof, disappearing from their sight.

“They don’t understand…” He hissed to himself, sitting hunched against a corner. “They can’t hear the creature scream…” He buried his face into his palms. “They couldn’t hear it say how it was betrayed…”

[Hyperness is a Good Thing]

Kimi Michiko Gin ~ F

[color=#cc99cc]Leaping through the air, Kimi slashed down her keyblade in a hooking motion that tore the dark creature open, landing lithely on her feet. Blood splattered on her face, her clothes and almost everywhere else, but she did not even pause to wipe it off before moving away. Silver had already gone in, and she could see that the monster would be destroyed without any further intervention from her anyway. Then and only then did she stop, relax a little, and wipe off the sticky fluid. It felt different from human blood, and her skin tingled a little where it had been. She remembered hoping that it wasn’t poisonous, when Silver stood next to her, his eyes shaded, but his mouth twisted ever so slightly in a way that was familiar to her. Silver was… unhappy.

“Silver?” she queried, holding on to his arm with her free hand. Silver pulled away, twisting his wrist to disperse his keyblade, and he leapt onto the window ledge and out of sight.

Dispersing her own keyblade, Kimi leapt up after him, figuring that the newbies would be able to handle themselves fine for now – anyway Silver was more important to her. Infinitely more so.

“They can’t hear the creatures scream….” She heard the faint whispering of Silver’s voice. “They couldn’t hear it say how it was betrayed….”

Kimi turned to see Silver sitting in a corner, the gap between the higher and lower roofs of two houses, his face buried in his hands, his body still and unmoving and curled up in a fetal position. She sat down next the him, close, but they were not in contact, knowing that he might repel her right now, in the state that he was in.

They sat in total silence for a while, and Kimi’s mind was barraged by memories of the times she and Silver had sat alone together, both never speaking, but always communing, and never bored, because there had always been a special communication and understanding between them…but this was different. There was a barrier between them now, and she could never know the pain that he was feeling.

“You betrayed the dark ones for us,” Kimi said, trying to speak, to break this uncomfortable tension. “For…me?”

Silver sat still and unmoving, his face still hidden.

“I don’t know what you’re going through, only that that creature was destroyed by he who it had thought was an ally… You betrayed those whom you serve…” Her words sounded stilted and uncomfortable even to her. “You turn against them, and ally yourself with Chosen Ones…” Her hand reached out tentatively to touch his shoulder, and she was glad that he did not flinch away. “Thank you.”

He still did not speak, and she wondered if she was bothering him.

“I’ll leave you alone now if you want…” she said, about to get up and go, but Silver’s hand suddenly covered hers, and though she still could not see his face, in some way she knew that he was calling out desperately to her.

“Silver?” she asked, her eyes fixed on him.

“It was worth it,” he said, lifting up his face to look at her with his piercing, beautiful eyes meeting hers. “It was worth meeting you again,” and he smiled, a small gentle smile, his special smile, one that transfigured his face so amazingly that it took her breath away every time she saw it, a smile that he had kept only for her.

[Mystic_clown]

Sorrow
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Sorrow watched as the body of hte giant heartless vanished in a smog of black smoke. Despite his blank expression, tears began rolling down his face.

"Rest, in peace," he spoke softly in his usual calm tone.

He looked over and noticed that the heartless boy had gone over to a distance corner. It seems he was right afterall. The heartless did feel misery, they did feel sadness.

I know you're pain. You're not alone in your misery.

The girl who was with him went to his side, as if to comfort him. He could see that her attempts were clearly working, as the boy smiled.

A tinge of jealousy went through Sorrow's mind. No people had ever had hte time to try and comfort him in his sorrow. But then again, his was a sorrow which noone can comfort him. It was the sorrow of evry living thing, human and heartless.

"Hey Sorrow," came a voice, "What's wrong?"

The white haired boy turned to see Milo standing behind him. He must have noticed the tears coming down his face.

"Nothing," he replied, looking over to where the heartless once was, "Just moarning.

[ChobiChibi]

~Dawn~
~Imaginary- Evanescence~

Dawn sat up slowly in her dream world, rubbing her temples as she opened her eyes. She gasped as she noticed that almost the whole room had been lit up. It was a huge room, almost like a hallway as it was longer than it was wide. The stone floor was checked with black and white slabs like a giant chess board. Between each of the stone pillars set in the walls were photographs of people. She noticed that on the left hand side of her hung portraits of guys whereas on the right hung girls.

She followed the left hand side, reading the names of the guys in the portraits. She soon figured out that they were all Keyblade wielders as she noticed the names of Keyblades written underneath their own. Each had a different blade, most likely to suit their individual needs. As she walked, she noticed the dates underneath their names getting closer and closer to the present day.

“Died… Killed… Murdered…” She muttered as she continued along the line. “Heartless?”

She looked up at the photo. Silver looked back at her but he seemed different. It was almost as though she was staring at his old self; full of emotions and certainly not Heartless. She looked across at the other wall and sure enough the photo opposite was of Kimi.

She walked past the next pillar, smiling as she saw whose photo was next. Gavin was smiling back at her, his now infamous shovel in his hand. The two photos next to his were of Sorrow and Milo.

She crossed over to the other side of the room. Next to Kimi’s photo was an empty frame, and the one down from that contained a photo of Sheena, the other Keyblade wielder. She frowned at the middle one and read the label aloud.

“Dawn Edwards, The Golden Hour, Lost?” She questioned. “Why am I lost?”

“Because you’re in here.”

Dawn turned to face the way she had came and smiled slightly as she saw the boy. He was sat a long way down the corridor from where she was currently, no Shadows surrounded him and he was holding what looked like a piece of paper.

“What do you mean by that?” She asked, walking towards him. She only realised just how large the room was as she made her way back.

“When you’re asleep and in this world, you are lost in your world. Nobody can wake you up.” He answered, his voice carried by the echo in the room.

“So why is there no photo in the frame?”

“It’s only because you’re in here.” He averted his gaze from her and stared at the floor. “There’s always a photo there when you’re not…”

Her pace quickened as she saw the boy’s appearance. He was badly injured in most visible places on his body. She sat down next to him, taking out her key from her pocket. “Hold still, I’ll heal-”

“No no, don’t waste your energy on me in here.” He pushed her hand away. “The more you use, the longer it will take for you to wake up.” Dawn noticed that he still had a disappointed expression on his face. It made her wonder why as she hadn’t done anything. “I’ll be back to normal soon.”

Silence followed. He wouldn’t look at her and she didn’t understand why. However, she did not let this bother her too much as she had more important questions to ask.

“Why am I here? Why are you in my dreams?”

“It’s because something bad is going to happen. The door will be opened.”

“Where is the door?”

He pointed into the darkness just behind him. “In that shadow. I haven’t seen it for a long time; it may have changed appearances since I last saw it. It has been so dark in here until the Shadow creatures went to fight.” He glanced up at her. Catching her gaze, he swiftly looked down again. “It almost seems lonely in here without them.”

“Who will open the door?”

“You.” He looked her straight in the eye, his expression more serious than she had ever seen before. “You will open the door.”

A small sharp gasp escaped her lips. Silver had warned her not to open the door. “Surely now that I know, I won’t open it?”

“No. You are destined to open it. Your situation means that you are the only one able to open the door and you will do it.” He put the piece of paper, which she noticed was about the size of a photograph, into his pocket. “Even the strongest of people, once chosen, will not be able to resist the fate of the door.”

Dawn was beginning to panic slightly. Why was she the one, out of all the others, that would do this? She already felt the guilt of what she would end up doing.

“So, if I never came back here again…”

“You will come back here again.” There was almost a sense of happiness in his voice as he said this. “You will not be able to go without sleep, especially at the rate you are learning magic.”

“Maybe I should have died in that fire…”

“What makes you say that?”

“Then none of this would ever have to happen.”

“Things happen for a reason, Dawn.” He assured her, a warm comforting smile on his face. “Just think of what you wouldn’t have if you were dead.”

Her thoughts shot straight to Gavin. How could she have been so selfish? He was the best thing that ever happened to her. Without him, she would have a huge part of her that didn’t feel complete. Something told her that he probably felt the same way.

“I see what you mean…” She said finally. “Hold on… I feel myself waking up…”

The boy’s expression soon turned back to its sad, lonely self. “Come back soon.”

She smiled weakly, not sure if she really wanted to. “Wait! What’s your name? You have never told me your name.”

He pulled the photograph from his pocket and gazed at it longingly. It was turned away from her, so it was obvious to Dawn that he didn’t want her to see. A small smile crept across his lips. “My name…” He paused, holding the photograph closer to him. “My name is Rain.”

Dun dun duuuuuuun! She'll wake up now. *skips off*

[Samchu]

Gavin
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As we stood by and watched Kimi and Silver together on the building, I heard the muffled groans of Dawn waking from her mysterious slumber. Rushing to her side, I gentle helped her upwards until she was sitting upright. "Are you alright?"

She looked at me blankly for a moment, blinking until I saw the complete essence of herself return fully. In a flash, she had thrown her arms around me and pressed her lips firmly against my own. I didn't know what to think.

"Did I do something?" I asked, her actions confusing but far from disappointing.

"You saved me."

"I thought you already thanked me for that."

She smiled, "I guess I've only just realised how much I would miss out on."

I pushed my nose against hers. "Hey, you saved me too remember. Everything's even."

Her expression saddned. "I'm sorry Gavin..."

I frowned, confused by her words. "What? Dawn what have you to be sorry for?"

But she didn't answer me. I only noticed then that her gaze had drifted from me and was now set firmly upon the bizzare couple that had dragged up into this mess in the first place. "He's feeling..." she whispered quietly.

"What? Who's feeling? Dawn? Dawn speak to me, you're not making any sense." What the hell is going on here?

"It's nothing." She stood up and followed quickly after. I wnated to press her for answers but she didn't weant to seem to give them. It was so unlike Dawn. Keeping secrets? She told me everything. Why wouldn't she tell me this?

"I think we have to leave," I said bluntly, directing it more towards the group in general than Dawn. "If we stay here more Heartless will come and with so many civilians..." I left the rest to their imagination.

Dawn looked at me sternly. "I have to take Hannah some place safe."

"Then I'm going with you."

"No Gavin. It'll be safer if only one of us goes."

"That word seems to be directed at me a hell of a lot lately. Why do you keep pushing me away?" I regretted the words the instant I spoke them. I felt even worse when I saw hurt Dawn was.

"You have to understand. That's the last thing I want. I don't want you to get hurt Gavin. I almost lost you today and I..."

I hugged her, quick before the emotions could overpower her. "I know," I whispered softly to her. "But I can't lose you either."

"You'll never lose me. I promise. No matter what happens, I'll always find my way back to you. Just promise me you'll wait for me."

"I promise."

I kissed her like it would be the last time, even though I knew it wouldn't be. I didn't want to let her go. It was too soon. But she had to do this. She would never be able to let go of this place unless she knew her sister was safe. As I watched her disappear down the road I knew in my heart I'd see her again. This was just the start, we still had a long way to go.

I looked at the others, just as new and unprepared as we were. I guess we would have to learn to get along. "So..." I began, swinging my arms absent-mindedly, "pretty exciting stuff huh?"

[Erandi Brazul]

Finally, my arms are strong enough to post again!!! Now, were to begin...

Milo Tisevich
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The pain in his skull had been so...so...well, painful wasn't the word for it. It was worse than that. Not only was he physically injured, but mentally he was unstable. His friends were under the spell of that Silver guy, and he couldn't do anymore than bruise the man's face, if he even did that.

By the time the blackness washed away from his eyes, and the swirls of unconsciousness floated away, the creature was pummelled into nothingness, and the shadows were just finishing beating on each other. Even more confusion filled Milo's mind as he watched this event.

"We did it!" Gavin shouted, a big grin accompanying the blotches of black junk on his face. But Silver was still there. And he wasn't hurt at all, it seemed.
Before he even had the chance to find his keyblade, however, the white-haired boy leapt away, jumping over buildings out of sight, and making Milo wonder if he would be able to replicate that feat of strength some day. The buzzing of rage in his head settled down, allowing sense to regain control.

The others...what about them? Milo quickly turned about to look for them, and didn't exactly have to look too far. Sorrow was standing off to the side of where the creature had been, tears rolling down his face. At this point, there was so much confusion about this situation running around Milo's brain that if he didn't get answers quickly, he was sure to pass out from the stress.
"Hey, Sorrow," he called to the man, still curious as to his name. Sorrow? His mother must not have loved him. "What's wrong?"
"Nothing," came the reply, "Just moarning."

Milo walked over to where Sorrow was standing, his short body now completely shadowed by the tall being on his side. Sorrow was looking at the big, open space where the shadow creature once was. He decided that something nice was in order of being said.
"Aww, cheer up there big guy," Milo said, and patted Sorrow on the back. This gesture was met with a strange response: Sorrow jumped a little, and looked at him as though Milo had done something completely foreign. "I'm sure it went somewhere nice," he continued, trying to ignore the shocked glare. "Somewhere where it doesn't have to fight people or something." The words would have been better, would have been nicer, but quite frankly Milo was not in the best of moods either.

"I think we have to leave," Milo and Sorrow turned to see Gavin, now speaking to the group. "If we stay here more Heartless will come and with so many civilians..." he trailed off, leaving Milo something not-so-fun to think about. When Gavin looked at him directly though, he blushed in embarrasment and hung his head. He missed the kissing, and didn't worry about Dawn as she silently walked off.

So..." Gavin continued, now apparently bored since there were no shadows to swing at. "Pretty exciting stuff huh?"
Milo only kept his head down. He was ashamed. Now that his head was clear, he could think back on the actions that occured. He couldn't look Gavin in the face.
"I'm sorry, Gavin," he finally muttered under his breath, after a few moments of silence.
"What was that?" Gavin replied, and the group turned to glance his way. The atmosphere, for Milo, suddenly turned thick.
"I'm sorry for...for..." What was he sorry for? His words? His actions? His decisions?

Milo let his breath out. "I'm sorry you guys had to see me like that. It doesn't happen often. Only when I see my friends hurting. I..." he paused, still unsure of what to say. He felt a hand go on his shoulder, and he glanced up to see Gavin in front of him. Gavin's eyes were soft, and easy to look back at.
"You have no idea what's going on, do you?" his voice was soft as well, like talking to a very young child.
Milo closed his eyes and shook his hanging head. "I thought you guys were under his spell. Like my other friends are."

He didn't have to look to know that Gavin frowned at this. "Huh?"

"Silver. His spell. I mean, his sword. It..." Milo stopped, and took another deep breath. He hated thinking about it. "A while back two friends of mine were running with me through some alleys when we found a weird looking sword. I didn't know who owned the sword until now." He looked up at Gavin. "It was Silver's sword. They grabbed it, and...well...it..." Tears began to well up in his eyes as the images of flesh melting from their skin erupted in his mind. "They're...slaves...to that...monster...I can't let him live..."

He could feel the rage building back up inside him, but his body was too weak and beaten up to use it. The rage settled for distraught.

Gavin nodded his head, a serious expression etched on his face. "Well, that's a good reason to clock Silver if I ever heard one," he said.
"Yeah. Didn't seem to phase him though." The somberness Milo had was somehow disappearing quite quickly. It happened often to Milo; he was generally always in a good mood when he lived a normallife.
"I dunno," Gavin replied, a small grin playing across his face, "When I attacked him, I couldn't touch him. You sent him flying a couple yards."

The joke amused him a little, and Milo had to choke on a chuckle filled with tears. Gavin's good mood on the whole situation was really helping Milo come out of his sad reverie. Wonder if it would work for Sorrow?

There was more, but Milo put his troubles aside. "Thank you, Gavin," he said with a smile, "And thank goodness you're not under that guy's spell."
"You do know that he's technically on our side right now, right?" the girl that had hung around with Sorrow spoke behind him, and Milo turned to stare.
"What?"
"He's on our side."
Pause. "What?"
"It's not that hard to figure out."
Pause.
Pause. "What?"

Gavin sighed. "Okay, this will take some explaining. First, we need to get out of here before those things come back. Agreed?"
They all agreed.

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Hope I got everything right...

[ChobiChibi]

~Dawn~
~AFI- Silver and Cold~

Dawn headed towards Gavin’s house, her head held high and ignoring the stares she was receiving about her appearance. As she glanced from person to person, she realised just how many people would be affected by what she was going to end up doing.

I’ll protect these people, she thought, no matter what happens to me.

However, the most guilt she felt as she strolled the familiar streets was towards Gavin. She couldn’t tell him about this. He would become too worried about her and do everything that he could do to stop her from returning to that world. Part of her, in fact most of her would appreciate it greatly. It was the more curious side of her that wanted to return, not to open the door, but to see the boy again, Rain. She wanted nothing to do with the door; the only thing that concerned her was its existence and that it was going to be opened. No, she wasn’t curious about it, she just wanted to see Rain again.

She didn’t fully understand her connection with Rain, but she felt like she had one. It wasn’t purely the fact that she was a wielder and in his world, it was something much more deep than that, yet she couldn’t put her finger on it. She knew that whatever it was, Rain knew everything about it.

Before she knew it, she found herself at the gate to Gavin’s farm. It was exactly how they had left it, the way it always was. She wished then that she had taken Gavin with her as if felt strange being here without him. She entered the farm, closing the gate swiftly behind her and made her way towards the house.

The door creaked as she pushed it open, peering into the empty room. It seemed a lot darker and colder than it was before. As she entered the bedroom, she found Hannah curled up on the bed just as she had left her. Dawn smiled to herself. Maybe she had worried a little too much about her sister’s safety? It didn’t matter now; she would just take her to a safe place and be done with it.

Taking her bag from the floor, she pulled out a clean shirt and put it on; frowning at her bandages, she decided she would need to dress her wound again later. Making her way back into the kitchen, she gathered some food for when she returned to the others. They would be hungry after destroying those shadows.

“Hannah…” Dawn said softly, shaking her gently. “Hannah, it’s Dawn. I’ve come to take you somewhere safe.”

Hannah stirred slowly, smiling as she saw who it was. “I thought you’d abandoned me… Run off with Gavin…”

“Of course not.” She reassured her. “I just need to get you out of here. A lot of stuff has happened and it isn’t safe. Come on.”

Helping her out of bed, Dawn noticed that Hannah was rather cold which was strange as she had just gotten out of bed. Choosing to ignore this, she led her sister out of the house, taking her belongings with her.

“Wait a second. I’m just going to grab some apples from the tree.” Dawn said, making her way over. “I’m sure the others would like some.”

As she picked the apples, she remembered doing this with Aaron. He’d climb up on her shoulders and reach towards the sky, waving his arms frantically in an attempt to grab an apple as she ran around underneath the tree. She’d enjoyed that. She was almost as close with Aaron in some ways as she was with Gavin.

Being careless for a second, she dropped one of the apples. Bending down to pick it up, she noticed words scratched into the dirt. As she thought about it, she realised that this was where Gavin had writing before she had joined him.

“I love you.” She read, a smile crossing her lips. She began to trace the words with her finger when a boot slammed into them, causing her to recoil.

She followed the line of the person’s body as she stood up. He was extremely pale and her eyes paused at his neck for a second; a heart was carved into his skin, a line of what looked like thorns divided it in half. She continued upwards until her eyes met his.

“Will… I thought you were… Where did you go?”

He wore a smirk, the same ice cold smirk she had seen in her dream. She knew that something wasn’t right when her father also appeared in her vision; he was hunched over, his hair a greasy black with the same heart and thorn motif enlarged on his cheek.

“We’ve come to collect you.” Her father stated, his voice husky and unfamiliar.

“We need the key.” Will’s voice sent a shudder down her spine.

“Dawn! I’m so sorry!” Hannah sobbed as she was restrained by Will. “I tried to fight it… I tried so hard…” Dawn caught a glimpse of the heart on her arm. It must have been a recent wound as blood dripped slowly from it. “I’m sorry…”

“Fight them.”

Dawn stood in silence, gripping her key tightly. I can’t fight them.

“Fight them. Stop them. Kill them before they kill you.”

No…

“Use your Keyblade.”

No!

“Well at least use it to get out of here!”

She summoned her Keyblade quickly into her hand, blocking her brother’s attack as he lunged forwards. Keeping a firm grip on her belongings, she held her blade out horizontally in front of her.

“You did this in your dream. Tell it where you want to go.”

She took a deep breath as if she were about to speak. I want to be with Gavin.

The white light surrounded her again, dancing in beautiful patterns. The remainder of her immediate family stood back, shielding their eyes from the bright, holy light. The wind picked up, kicking dust into the dry air. She felt a tingling sensation as she warped from one place to another.

She didn’t take note of where she had ended up other than that Gavin was stood a few feet in front of her with her back to her. Her Keyblade shrank to its more compact size and she dropped her bag, sending apples tumbling along the street.

“Wait.” Gavin said before stopping suddenly. He turned to face her. “Dawn? Where did you come from? What happened?”

She couldn’t look at him. She stared at her feet instead, almost ashamed of herself. “They’re gone… I’ve lost them all…” She looked up into Gavin’s eyes. “You’re the only one I have left…”

He stepped forward, taking hold of her shoulders gently and holding her still. “Who have you lost?”

“My… My family…” She stuttered, finally coming into realisation of what she had witnessed. “Heartless.” She swallowed hard, determined to stay strong. “My family are all Heartless.”

[Samchu]

Gavin
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I held her steady as she trembled violently in my hands. She was trying so hard to be strong, to not let herself be overcome by her conflicting emotions, but I knew all she wanted to do was cry. “My family are all Heartless.” I pulled her towards me, holding her tight against my body. There was complete silence for a moment, and then the floodgates opened. Tears ran thick and fast, I could feel them running down my shoulder. I rocked her gently, trying to comfort her in the only way I knew how. I knew how she felt, losing family is the hardest thing anyone could possibly go through.

"What's going on here?" Silver asked, coming down to see what had halted our departure.

"Dawn's family are heartless."

His expression was stern. "We have to leave," he stated calmly. "Now."

"Can't you give her a minute -"

"There's no time. It will not be long before they come looking for her and then we're all in trouble. We have to move."

I glared at him. As much as I hated to admit it, he was right. Staying here put all of us in danger. But Dawn... "And where do you suggest we go?"

"We need to leave the city. Now stop talking and follow me." He returned to Kimi's side, the two of them seeming to have rekindled whatever spark had existed between them in the past.

"Milo, carry Dawn's things and salvage whatever food you can," I wasn't one to give orders but at time like this you have to take initiative if you're going to protect the things you care about. "Sorry about this," I whispered to Dawn as I wrapped my arms under her legs and hoisted her up so she was cradled in my arms.

We walked quickly, eager to leave behind a city that seemed plagued by darkness but not wanting to draw any unnecessary attention to ourselves. All the while Dawn continued to sob silently. I wished there was something I could do. I wanted so badly to show her the same uspport she'd shown me after my parents had died but I couldn't. Not yet. This place wasn't safe for us.

It felt starnge leaving the city, leaving behind our homes and - for some of us - our families. It was the first time I'd ever stepped outside the city walls. It was so refreshing, so freeing. Part of me didn't every want to go back to that place. There was nothing left for me there anywhere; Aaron was missing and Dawn was here. Going back just seemed like another way of saying 'giving up'.

A little way on, I begged Silver to let us rest long enough for me to consol Dawn. I asked Milo to share the food amongst the group but took an apple for Dawn. I sat her down next to me and she leant against me. Her tears had dried but her body still shook and her breaths were laboured and raspy. I held the apple out to her, "Eat it."

"I'm not hungry..."

"You need to eat. Your body can't handle all this strain without some." I forced the apple closer. "Eat," I ordered her.

She took it, nimbling half-heartedly on the fruit. It was less than I had hoped but at last it was something.

"There's no one left..." I head her whisper, "...they're all..."

I shifted in front of her, "Don't say that. Heartless can come back. You've seen Silver, look how much he's changed in the last day. It can happen for your family too; Hannah, Will, we can bring them back. They're not dead, so it's not over. There's still a chance. We'll think of something. You and me, we make a great team don't we? We've never come across anything we couldn't handle and its the same with this." I took her hands and squeezed them gently. "I promise you, I'm going to do everything I can to get you back your family.

[Mystic_clown]

Sorrow
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The white haired youth watched as Gavin tried to comfort Dawn. Sorrow understood her pain. He too had lost his family to the heartless.

He overheard what Gavin said and began thinking. Can Heartless really come back? Was it even possible?

He looked over at Silver. Even though he was no longer trying to kill them, he could still feel the coldness and misery inside of him. Despite his change in personality, he was still a Heartless.

He turned back to Dawn. The sight of other's in pain hurt him deeply. He wished he could just take her pain from her, to take everyone's pain from them and carry it as his own.

Tears began treakling down his calm face once again.

Do not cry Dawn. I shall cry for you.

Sorry for the shortness.

[EVme15]

...
First off... I am SO SORRY for my recent inactivity. I could go on and on justifying myself, but I'll sum it all up in one word: "school".
And as I was reading over what I have to catch up on, I found myself thanking whatever power compelled me to create a character that fades into the background easily.
So hopefully this doesn't mess anything up.
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Sheena Misagura

I followed behind the group, a few paces back. What compelled me to trail them was a mystery. They seemed to attract danger. And all of them had those weapons, those... keyblades? I think. I was probably useless. All I could do during that fight was stay away, hiding and watching. I hadn't helped out at all. Even now, they probably barely noticed me. Especially not with the commotion caused by Dawn's reappearance.

They had stopped for a few minutes when Milo suddenly turned to me. "Oh, Sheena! I thought we'd left you behind!" He said it with a grin, in what I assumed to be a joking manner. Most of the others turned to me now, finally taking notice. Behind the stares, I saw worry, regret, and uncertainty.

"I probably shouldn't have followed..." I said softly, eyes lowering. "I can't fight those creatures..."

"You can't? But I saw..." Dawn trailed off, looking at me with a confused expression. Slowly her gaze drifted back to the apple in her hands. "... never mind... it doesn't..." her voice broke, "it doesn't matter..."

"Dawn..." Gavin tried to console her as fresh tears streamed down her face. I almost wanted to ask her what she was talking about, but quickly decided against it.

Maybe I'd just tag along and stay out of the way. I'd followed them this far, after all...

[Mystic_clown]

Sorrow
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"Sheena."

Sheena gaped when she noticed Sorrow standing beside her.

"Is something the matter?" he asked. Sheena just looked down at her feet.

"Nothing."

"If you want to, you don't have to come with us."

"No, it's alright. I've stuck by you guys so far."

She looked up and finally noticed the tears on Sorrow's face.

"What's wrong?"

Sorrow looked over at Dawn.

"I'm crying, because she's crying."

Sheena looked over at Dawn and then back at Sorrow.

"You must really care about her."

"I barely even know her."

sheena was amazed.

"Then why are you...?"

"I cry for those who feel misery," Sorrow cut her off, "I want to take their pain and make to my own. I do not wish of others to be sad. If that means giving up my own happiness, then so be it."

"Sorrow..." was all Sheena could say as she took in this new information.

TAG Evme15...if yu want to.

[Hyperness is a Good Thing]

*peeps in to say hello* *posties* Now CT you evil person, you can post too.

Kimi Michiko Gin ~ F

Kimi watched as Dawn cried and Gavin comforted her…

She stood silent by Silver’s side, watching and waiting, her heart crying out in sympathy, but she did not know what words to offer. She had never been too good with people anyway.. It was only Silver whom she felt wholly comfortable with.

This was a decidedly odd group of people that they had gathered… These Chosen Ones were undoubtedly different… Sorrow was his entire own oddity, and the rest.. though they seemed to be “normal” on the outside, who knew what they concealed beneath their separate facades?

“What a motley crew,” she muttered out loud, her tone amused. Where these the people who would one day overcome the Heartless and chase away the dark shadows?

However, she didn’t let this concern her too much. Why care? This..all this.. it was out of her control. Looking out of the side of her eyes, she could see Silver standing there, his gaze still rather subdued. She could tell – he wasn’t happy. And if he was feeling down, she would do what she could to support him, to help him, in whatever way she could, just like he would do for her.

She was tired, it had been too long, or at least, it felt like it. She longed to be able to return to the past, to return to that fateful day when the events had torn her and Silver apart – Silver who was her only love and her only family. He was all she had, and he was everything to her… Her eyes grew hard as she went back, recollecting, and her fist clenched, and she thought if only if only a million times over, as she had many times before that.. if only all those things had not happened… only to be jolted back to the present with a slight touch to her hand by Silver.

“What is it?” she asked, her eyes immediately moving to his, her tone low. She wondered what did he have to say.



TAG CT!

[Crystal Tears]

damn you HiaTG... Damn you...

*posts*

[color=#CCCCCC]Silver

“What is it?”

That’s a good question… Silver thought amused, wondering himself what exactly was bugging him. Maybe it was all these damned emotions.. He wasn’t going to lie to himself, being an empty shell is much easier than being filled with these cursed, un-explanatory things or feelings call emotions.

“You…” He didn’t exactly know how to tell her, truth is he should listen to the words echoing inside his numb mind, but it was hard to fallow your own advice compared to another. “Shouldn’t dwell on what happened before…”

This seemed to strike something, and Kimi gave a weak smile. Now, this confused Silver. Why on earth would she be smiling? Of all things she could’ve done, she did the least likely of them all. She had smiled.

“You’re smiling…” Silver muttered.

“You talked.” She joked, overcoming whatever barriers held him back before, Silver gave a small smile, before it faded. “And since when were you one to give advice?”

“Since I realised you were such a newbie to things.”

It was a light punch that greeted Silver’s smart remark. She giggled, covering her mouth as she did. He smirked playfully, but it faded, as she stood there, cutely covering up her face he was thrown from his usually defensive nature towards people. He frowned mentally, wondering how she could’ve broken it so easily, and with just one pose as well.

“Should we keep going?” Kimi questioned, breaking the moment.

Silver looked around, they weren’t in the city, and that meant they were in no immediate danger.

“No…” Silver murmured, glancing at Dawn. “Some need rest…” He silently thanked his cold heart for not making him as emotional as the weeping girl, that would be… To him… Embarassing.

[ChobiChibi]

~Dawn~
~You belong to me- Jason Wade~

Over the past couple of days, crying had become something much easier for Dawn to do. She had never had so much loss before that the only way she felt she could express it was through her tears. She knew that the others were watching her. Maybe some of them felt pity towards her? She didn’t particularly want their sympathy, but she guessed it was their way of supporting her.

“Stop feeling sorry for yourself.”

She frowned, burying her head further into Gavin’s chest. But I want to...

“That’s not going to get you anywhere, is it? Come on Dawn, Gavin wasn’t like this when he lost his family.”

“Dawn… It’s okay…” He whispered. His simple words seemed to fill her with relief.

She wriggled herself free and sat facing Gavin. She stared at the apple in her hands, avoiding eye contact with him. She knew he was right and that they could bring her family back under any normal circumstances, but something told her that it wasn’t possible anymore. Rain had said that her situation was the reason she would be able to open the door. Maybe this was it? Losing her family to the Heartless?

She had a feeling that this change was a permanent one, yet she didn’t want to let Gavin down. “Thank you so much.” She said, returning to leaning against him. He moved his arm around her shoulder and her head slipped gently onto his. “I’ll still help you find Aaron too.”

“What’s more important is that we get as far away from the city as possible.” Gavin said, a small sigh escaping is mouth.

She freed herself from his comforting hold and turned to face the city. Compared to the field in which they sat, the city seemed like a black and white photograph with no point of interest. However, this didn’t mean that the view wasn’t stunning. Buildings poked the sky, lights flashed advertisements in random colours and small people-like dots mingled in clusters like static on a television.

“I’ve never been this far out of the city before…” She said, her worries lost in the view before her. “Well, not by myself.”

“I used to come out here a lot. The view is more amazing from the top of this hill.” He commented.

She looked him straight in the eye. She didn’t understand how he could be so strong for her even after all that had happened to him. She still saw pain in his eyes; it hurt him to see her in pain. She had to show him that he was the most important thing to her and that he could rely on her too. She couldn’t live in the past anymore, nor think towards the future; she had to stay in the present and make the most of the things she had.

She decided to take advantage of this rare moment of peace. She stood up suddenly, much to everyone’s surprise and began to make her way up the hill.

“Dawn! Where are you going?” Gavin called, rising to his feet.

“Oh I don’t know! I’ve never been here before, I want to explore!” She replied, smiling properly for the first time in a while. She held out her hand to him. “Explore with me?”

He looked around at the others before looking back to her. “I don’t think it’s such a good idea…”

“I just want to see the city from up there.” She said, turning to face up the hill. “I’ll be okay if you don’t want to come.”

She gasped lightly as she felt Gavin’s arms wrap around her waist from behind. She relaxed into his arms; she truly felt safe at that moment.

“Lets go then?”

“Race ya!”

He was forced to let her go as she took off up the hill. She only turned around once to see that he was close behind her. Once at the top, Dawn fell to her knees, panting for breath and laughing quietly. Gavin soon joined her, tackling her to the ground in a playful manner. He hovered above her as she lay in the long grass, his nose millimetres away from her own.

“Gavin… Promise me something?”

He kissed her lips softly, like a question. She did not hesitate to answer. She felt his heart race faster, thumping in his chest. She felt like herself again. Everything else seemed to fade away and for that short moment it was all about the two of them together.

“Promise you what?” He looked straight into her eyes.

“That no matter what happens to me, no matter what I do, no matter how much I change you’ll still hold onto who I am now and never give up hope that I’m still the same person inside.”

[EVme15]

'Tis short... sorry.
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Sheena Misagura

"Sorrow..." How could someone pain himself like that? It didn't make any sense. It was a noble idea, sure, but...

"Even if you take their pain on yourself, it doesn't mean they stop feeling it." I realized how cold that had sounded the moment it left my mouth, true though it may have been. "Even though you want to bear their sadness, you can't, really. It won't do any good."

I turned to Dawn, almost startling. She'd cheered up quite a bit, and was now saying something to Gavin that I couldn't make out. Suddenly they took off. "What are they...?"

I looked back at Sorrow, who did nothing but lower his eyes.

[Mystic_clown]

Sorrow
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Sorrow looked down to the ground as he heard Sheena's words. She had a point, how could he take everyone's misery? They'd still feel it no matter what he felt.

But then again, there was no reason for him to be happy. He had lost everything.

A small tear ran down his face.

"Sorrow," Sheena said softly, noticing this, "I'm sorry, I..."

"It's alright," he replied, "You're right. I can't take everyone's sadness. I'm powerless to do anything about that."

He looked up at her.

"But at least they've have someone to share their pain with." A look of sadness came across Sheena's face.

"But that isn't fair," she said, "Why can eveyone else be happy but you?"

Sorrow sighed and looked up at the sky.

"There's nothing left for me to be happy about."

[Erandi Brazul]

Milo Tisevich
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For the moment, it seemed as if Milo had taken the place of Sheena, now being the one who silently fell in step behind Sorrow, carrying the supplies. When he was told to gather things up, Milo wanted to go back home. He wanted to let his parents know what was going on, and perhaps stock up on some things.

But no, that wouldn't have made any sense, he decided. If he went home, those shadows would have certainly followed him there. And then his family would have been in danger. And that's saying they don't know where he lives already...

The talk with Gavin and the walk out of the city was refreshing, and severely brightened his mood. He had gone outside of the city plenty of times, and knew exactly were they were when they stopped to rest. The only thing that bugged him was the somber atmosphere of the group. Once they stopped, Milo set the bag of food on the ground and began to ration it up.
Let's see...there's me, Gavin, Sorrow, Dawn, Sheena, that strange woman...and Silver...that's seven of us...well, make that six, he huffed to himself in his mind, Silver doesn't get any food from me. No way. Milo was thinking about what Sheena had said, about Silver on their side, and it seemed apparent that that was the case. The strange woman appeared to have him under control or something. Wait until later to ask about my friends...

“Dawn! Where are you going?” Gavin suddenly called out, and Milo looked up to see Dawn up and moving up the hill. Milo's mouth cracked into a large small, and his heart gave a little leap of joy. Adventure! Excitement! And, more importantly, someone else was trying to be happy! Unlike Sorrow there, who was crying for a long time, he noticed.

He started to get up, to join Dawn as she ran off, Gavin in pursuit, but then decided against it. They needed to be alone, he knew that, and although he considered Gavin and Dawn friends, he had just met them. Leave the boy and girl alone, give them their privacy. Besides, there were plenty of apples...

"Ah," he said, finding interest in something to do. He picked up three of the apples, and began to juggle them, still sitting down. He noticed Sheena looking at him, and he smiled brightly. "It doesn't really matter if I stand or sit while juggling really. I'm short either way," he joked to her, and lost his concentration, which sent two apples landing on his head.
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Sorry it took awhile to post again guys!! But I'm here!!

[Samchu]

Gavin
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“That no matter what happens to me, no matter what I do, no matter how much I change you’ll still hold onto who I am now and never give up hope that I’m still the same person inside.”

I frowned slightly, cocking my head to one side. Why would she ask me such a thing? My thoughts drifted to Silver for a moment, about how he had been heartless and was now slowly regaining himself - mostly because of Kimi's determination to hold on to the person that he was. Was that what this was about? Was she scared that because she had lost her family to them she was cursed to become one as well?

I leaned in, our cheeks brushing against one another. "You have nothing to worry about. I'll never let anything happen to you."

She grabbed my head, holding it above her own as she hit me with a stern gaze. "Gavin please, promise me this."

I frowned again. "You're really serious about this."

Dawn nodded faintly.

"Dawn...what's going on? What is it that you're not telling me?"

"Nothing. Gavin please...please promise me this. I've never asked anything of you before." Her eyes sparkled with the appearance of fresh tears.

I gently brushed them away with my hand before kissing her softly. "I promise."

The smile that followed melted my heart. She wrapped her arms about my neck and held me close to her, as if nothing in the world should ever be able to tear a space between them.

"Let's play a game!" she said suddenly, giggling like the old Dawn I'd fallen in love with.

I smirked, holding myself up on my elbows. "What do you wanna play?"

She gigled again, looking down at the rest of our group. "Chosen bowling! The one who knocks the most of them over wins. But you have to roll down the hill sideways so you can't cheat."

"We can't play that."

"Awww you're no fun! Fine. I know a better game!"

I rose my eyebrow.

"Twister!"

I stared at her blankly. "We have no mat."

"We don't need a mat. See? We have grass, rocks, plants and leaves."

She'd lost her mind. "we have no spinner."

"I'll say the first thing that comes into my head. Come on! It'll be fun!"

I wasn't gonna argue with her. "Alright, I'll play."

[Mystic_clown]

Sorrow
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Sorrow had sat down a fair distance away from the group, his sad blue eyes watching Milos little juggling act and Sheena's lift in mood. One would think Sorrow would be envious of everyone's happiness, being someone who appeared to be incapable of it. It was quite the opposite. Sorrow wanted to see others happy. He gave up his so that everyone else can have theirs.

Milo looked up to see Sorrow sitting on his own.

"Hey!" he called, "Come on over!" Sheena nodded in agreement and waved for Sorrow to come over. The white haired youth simply shook his head, not wanting to disturb their fun.

Sheena said something to Milo before standing up and walking over to him.

"Come on Sorrow," she said, "Come join us."

Again, Sorrow refused.

"I'd just ruin your fun," he spoke softly, "just go on and be happy."

Sheena crossed her arms.

"And we want you to be happy too. Remember our little talk? You can't take everyone's sadness so dont even bother to try and just be happy."

Sorrow's eyes fell to the ground.

"I have no reason to be happy. I told you."

He was surprised when Sheena grabbed his arm.

"Well then I'll give you a reason to be happy. Now come on," she asid, no, ordered as she pulled Sorrow to his feet and pulled him over to Milo.

Who says Sorrow and comedy don't mix?

[ChobiChibi]

~Dawn~
~Two idiots playing Twister - Accidentally in Love- Counting Crows~

After gathering some materials, Dawn quickly set out her own version of a Twister mat, measuring the distance between each item carefully. Due to the limited amount of materials, it was quite a lot smaller than a real Twister mat, but she didn’t care.

“Ready?” She asked, setting down the last of the rocks. He nodded. “I’ll go first.” She placed her right foot down on a pile of grass. “Okay, you do right hand leaf.”

She watched as he crouched down and reached across to the leaf. She noticed his shirt slide along his body as he stretched, revealing his lower back.

“Right hand plant.”

For once, she did not question the voice in her head. It would surely make this game more random. She placed her hand down on the plant above where Gavin’s hand lay. Her hair brushed his skin lightly causing him to shudder and his elbow to give way slightly.

“That’s cheating.” He said, turning his head to face her. “You can’t use parts of your body to make the other person fall over.” His eyes widened as she drew closer, rubbing her nose against his cheek. “Or for distractions, for that matter.”

She giggled. “Right foot grass.” She said, repeating the voice in her head.

He placed his right foot next to hers causing his head to move back away from hers. A strong gust of wind interrupted their game, sending most of the ‘Twister mat’ flying off into the crops surrounding them.

“Damn! The wind broke our mat!” Gavin complained.

“Don’t worry! Lets play with the ones we have left!” Dawn said, smiling sweetly.

He gave her a suspicious look as she moved her left hand onto the leaf next to his, leaning over the top of his back. “Are you fixing this game?”

She smirked. “Left hand rock.”

He found himself underneath her, her chest inches away from his face. “However, if you are fixing it, I’m not complaining…”

“Right hand leaf.”

She glanced around the mat, finding that there was only one leaf that had not blown away and was past her other hand. She leaned further over, convinced that she could reach it. As the tip of her fingers brushed the leaf, her foot slipped causing her to fall, taking Gavin down with her.

Realising that her chest was in his face, Dawn rolled over onto her back, her body diagonally across Gavin’s with her head on his shoulder. They looked at each other with little childish grins on their faces and proceeded to giggle.

Dawn’s eyes began to feel heavy. She sighed, kissed Gavin gently on the cheek and whispered “I’m sorry…”

“Dawn? Not again…” He grumbled, sitting up slowly and allowing her to snuggle up to him as she drifted off to sleep.

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She found herself sat on the cold hard floor, a place that was becoming to be far too familiar for her liking. She stood up, a new photograph immediately catching her eye. It was next to Sheena’s so she assumed that this was a new wielder. She drew closer to it to read the label.

“Scieszka Ohmsted, Crystalline Spirit, in danger.” She read a loud. “I’d better go back and find her if she’s in danger…”

“It’s okay, she can wait.” Dawn jumped as Rain spoke suddenly, standing right next to her. He couldn’t be that much younger than her as he was nearly her height.

“But… What’s more important than that? Surely it would be very bad thing if a chosen died?” She reasoned, turning to face him.

“How will you find her though?”

“I’m sure my Keyblade will show me.” She replied, pulling it out of her pocket. “After all, it hasn’t… failed me… yet…” Her voice trailed off. She had glanced over his shoulder for just a split second and had instantly regretted it. She was hooked on the sight before her, unable to take her eyes away. “… Is that…?”

“The Dreaded Door of Doom and Destruction?” He said sarcastically. She took her eyes off it long enough to see his little smirk before they darted back. “Yes, the door. It appeared a few hours ago. I suppose it coincided with your father, brother and sister turning Heartless…”

Dawn snapped back from her trance-like state and focused on Rain. “How did you know about that?”

“Does it matter? It happened. Just like you’re going to open the door.”

“Not if I wake up first.”

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“Gavin…”

“Dawn? You’re awake? What happened?” He questioned her, sitting her up slowly.

“I saw…” She stopped herself. He didn’t need to know about the door yet. The thing that concerned her most was the safety of the new chosen. “I saw that there’s a new chosen. We have to find her; she’s in danger by herself.”

He sighed. “That was the longest I’m ever going to get alone with you for a while, wasn’t it?”

“I guess so… I’m sorry…”

“We’ll just have to make the most of them.” He said, smiling to show that it didn’t matter all that much. “Come on, lets go Chosen hunting with a bit of Heartless fighting thrown in for free.”

It's Tony-time X3 *runs off*

[Fai D. Flowright]

Hey, y'all! I'm gonna be joining you in this RPG! (JJ approved) But it won't be immediate... Unfortunately, I can't stay at the computer longer than 10 or 15 minutes due to a cyst on my tailbone, but as soon as I can, I'll be nice and active here! ^__^

Anyway, here is my sign-up for my character. Everything I've said in it has been approved by Jenn herself, so no worries.

[color=#00BB99]Name: Scieszka (Shehz-kah) Ohmsted
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Appearance: Scieszka is a rather cute girl all around. Even for being at the blossoming age of 16, her height is rather short, only being around five feet tall. Her skin is a natural Caucasian color and her eyes are wide and a beautiful shade of teal. Her hair is a lighter tone of her teal eyes and is styled rather adorably. Naturally parted down the center, her bangs rise high and drop down just above her brow. The rest of her hair falls down to about the height of the nape of her neck and frames the sides of her slightly long face, with the hair near her ears being gently flared outward. Around her neck is a thin, white choker with a small crystal star that dangles from it. As a shirt, Scieszka wears a tank top-style shirt that cuts across the top of her chest with two thin straps that go over each shoulder. The bulk of the shirt is composed of several (5 or 6) layers of ruffles. This top also cuts off short across stomach, ending just barely above her navel. Her pants are a pair of low-rise Capri-cut jeans held up by a wide black leather belt with large holes all the way around, each bound by silver-plated metal and the same metal makes up the buckle. For shoes, she wears a simple pair of white tennis shoes.
Personality: While her appearance gives way to a very cute and attractive look, her personality, for the most part, can have the same said of it. Very pleasant to be around and normally quite cheerful, Scieszka is the person that will bring life and entertainment to anything she is part of; your typical social butterfly and “friend-to-all” kind of deal. But, as to all things, there is a dark side to every light. She has a sort of split personality, in which a notable impact with her skull causes a ‘switch’ to turn on. During these periods, Scieszka becomes an unruly, terrifying ball of feral rage that no one should try their luck against. Usually causing her to act on instincts and impulses, she can’t help but unleash that fury upon whatever may cross her path. People that have seen this side of her are, or quickly grow, afraid of her. As a result of this, her normal self has a horrible fear of her alternate self, causing her to be highly conscious as to the happenings around her head. (The same type of impact will cause her to revert as well.)
Relationship: Openness...muchly?
History: Long in Scieszka’s past was an event that resulted in her awkward personality. To her, the event is unknown, dissolved across her brain to endure the trauma of the accident. To others, its occurrence has been forgotten and pushed aside in order to avoid remembering it at any cost. Doing so could result in an even more detrimental form to Scieszka’s mind. All this is, and continues to be, a precaution to suppress the memories which transposed that day and protect her well-being. Whether these memories are returned and brought forth or stifled and left in the past, only Scieszka’s will can determine that...
Other: My name iz Pierre Szechwan! I put ze ducks in Creestal Pond!!
Keyblade Appearance: The hilt of the blade is a large golden ring with six orbs evenly around it. The orbs alternate, going from a smaller golden orb to a larger emerald green orb with a slight tail on the outside edge. The handle inside the ring is the handle of an obsidian sword that continues outward as the keyblade’s shaft. The handle is wrapped in a red leathering and the sword extends out to a long point with intricate carvings and markings along both sides of the blade. The ‘teeth’ of the key design is a burst of five ice shards in the shape of a fan. The keychain that dangles from the hilt is similar in shape to an upside-down, capital Q with a dot in the center of the circle. *see the piccy attached*
Sample Post: A dramatic little battle post from my own RPG, Only A Fairy Tale (Revisited).

Keyblade Stats:
Crystalline Spirit
Strength: Over powering
Weight: Heavy
*Speed: Slow
Break Point: Armoured
*Design: Excellent
Magic: Extremely Low
Block: Slow
*Reflect: Ok
*Reflex: Poor

[Mystic_clown]

Um, where is everyone?

[Erandi Brazul]

Yes, this was going so good...main characters! We need you to push the plot further!! Milo doesn't even have a clue as to what is going on right now, but I don't know what else to write!!

[Samchu]

How about Dawn running down a hill shouting "we've found a new chosen!"...

Gavin
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So that was that. The presious few moments I'd get to spend with Dawn were over and we had a new chosen to go rescue. She took off down the hill towards the others and I followed behind her slowly, trying to store as much as I could of what had happened between us.

"Guys! We have to go back to town! There's a new chosen!"

Milo sat forward, muching on some food. "Another one?" You could barely make out the words his mouth was crammed so full of food.

"Yes and she's in trouble so we have to go help her!" she looked at Silver with pleading eyes. "We can't leave her to fend for herself can we?"

"You want us to go back to town? Back to the heartless?" that cold, emotionless bite to his voice had returned.

"Yes. We have to stick together, don't we Kimi?"

Kimi looked to Silver. If anyone could convince him of anything it was Kimi. "You've helped this many of us. On more won't hurt."

He stood up slowly. "You'd be surprised..." he grumbled.

With Silver ready to go, the rest of our messed up group was soon prepared to follow. I didn't actually join them until they were ready to go, I'd been enjoying my stroll.

"So you are coming?" Silver asked me.

I pulled my key from my pocket and summoned it to full size. I stretched it behind my head and smirked. "Like i'd want to miss this." I swung my keyblade through teh grass, severing the heads off a few blades of grass that happened to be standing there. "We should get moving. A little girl needs our help."

[Erandi Brazul]

WHO HOO! HUZZAH FOR REVIVAL! I WANNA KILL STUFF WITH MY PATHETIC KEYBLADE! LET'S GOOOO!!

Milo Tisevich
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"Another one?" he found himself saying, as Dawn came roaring unexpectedly from the hill, and soon was coughing and choking the food that was only halfway down his windpipe.

Yes and she's in trouble so we have to go help her!" she looked at the little guy as though he had said something wrong, and then turned to Silver, the anti-hero who seemed, for the moment, to be on their side. Milo still didn't trust him.

That could be because he still wasn't sure what the hell was going on.

"We can't leave her to fend for herself can we?" she pleaded with his cold heart.
"You want us to go back to town? Back to the heartless?" he practically sneered, but Milo agreed. Go back to...what did he call it? Heartless? He wanted to speak up, but he was still choking. Sheena patted him on the back. Sheena...the quiet and caring...

Gavin arrived, too, from the hill. His face was a little covered in red. Milo didn't supress the chuckle.

The group was off, leaving it up to him again to carry the food and other items. His keychain dangled a bit as he hunched over, the bag now slightly less full. He was near the back, moving slower than the rest.

Okay Milo, slow down your thoughts. That Silver guy is a good guy now, but not forever, and we are...uh...what'd she say? Chosen? That's why these keys keep growing and stuff...and the creatures...they're...uh...crap, what are they called again?

"Hey," a voice came from beside him, and Milo refocused his attention to his right. Gavin was there.
"You're slowin' up," he said with a smile. "You need some help there?"

Milo blushed in embarrasement. "No no," he said quickly, grinning back, "I'm fine, really. Just...thinking..."
"Whatever you say," Gavin replied, then suddenly grabbed the bag from Milo's back.
"Hey!" he began to protest, but gave up with a sigh. "Oh, all right. It was a bit heavy."
"Thought so."

A few moments later, and Milo's thoughts began surfacing.
"Gavin?"
"Huh?"
"What's a chosen?"

The question stopped him for a second. "What?"
"What's a chosen?"
Gavin was slightly baffled. "Oh man, you have no idea what's going on, do you?"
Milo hung his head. "Not. One. Bit."
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I'll stop there to allow more people to jump in the band wagon. Oh, and Samchu, feel free to sort of speed up time, so you don't actually write out everything. ^-^ I'm so glad we are starting up again. Quick! More bad guys and special places to go to! WOOT!

[Crystal Tears]

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Oh lookie I'm back.

[color=#CCCCCC]Silver

Another chosen... Another one to baby-sit until they were able to defend themselves… Silver thought cruelly to himself as they all started their way back to the city. Which seemed rather redundant, hadn't they of just escaped that place? The city without a name? Yeessss.... They had. But for some reason that eluded Silver, he was leading them back to the city to save some pretty princess from her own misguided judgement.

"Silver?"

He turned, raising an eyebrow as he was surprised the certain woman had approached him. Her name was Sheena, quiet, and caring. She had secrets, probably dark ones; she seemed timid, and afraid of him. Could he blame her? He had been hunting them all, though she probably would've been last, she doesn't try to attract attention to herself. This is a welcomed trait in this group where getting attention seems to be the damn goal.

"Hmm?" He queried, twirling his keychain in his hand.

"You seem very disapproving of us..." She looked away from him for a moment. "Have we... Have I done something wrong?"

"No." Silver snapped, rolling his eyes at himself. Trying to be nice was alot harder then he had imagined it was. "In fact, you, Sorrow and Kimi are the only ones who have successfully not pissed me off."

"What have the others done?"

He motioned her look at the group, Dawn, Gavin, and Milo...? Were being rather active, energy flowed from them, happiness, though maybe they couldn't feel it.

"Their happy attitudes attract Heartless... When we get to the city, you can expect attention from many people, not all of them terribly obviously... But they are all heartless."

She nodded, and faded back into the group. Silver bit his lip, before he turned around to look at the group.

Gavin, Dawn, that kid who had attacked him, Sheena, Sorrow… Everyone was there… But…

Kimi…

“Kimi?” Silver voice had drifted from being cold, and rather cruel to worried. Everyone seemed to stop as he scanned the group. “Where’s Kimi?” He question, a snap of impatience in his tone.

”She was right behind me.” Dawn chirped; Silver shot her a glare.

”Keep going.” He snarled, but stopped from Gavin grabbed his arm.

”Where the hell are you going?”

Silver tugged his arm away and pointed towards the smog skies ahead. “See the smog smart ass? Go that way; I’m going to find Kimi.”

”You’re expecting us to fend for ourselves?”

”Then stay here.” Silver hissed, summoning his keyblade. “I don’t care what you decide to do. Just keep everyone together okay?” He smirked. “You want to be a hero right Gavin? Then protect them.”

Silver turned, travelling back down the path. It wasn’t long before he found her, she was just standing there. Starring blankly at a small flower that lined the path, he quietly walked up behind her.

”What’s wrong?” He questioned, concern noted in his voice.

”Why are we babysitting them?” She snapped, gripping her keyblade tightly.

”Because we must, until he returns…” Silver wisped away his keyblade, before placing his hands on her hips.

”But will he be heartless or hero?”

“Who cares?” Silver smirked evilly, turning Kimi around so they faced each other. “It will be over then, and we won’t have to look after them anymore…” He kissed her forehead lightly.

”Her heart is belongs to another… He will be… Angry…” Kimi gulped at this, and leaned against him.

Silver paused: thoughts and ideas wandering through his conscious mind. What was he to say? No doubt he would return, and fall for the one that he left so long ago, but would… Would the other chosen make him fall? Fall to the things he had hounded and fought so long ago before he was forced to leave? Silver stayed silent, he remembered the hero, and how he had defeated Silver’s lord before… The battle had lasted for an extreme long awhile, and Silver’s master, and trainer, had become over confident, with a sly smile, the ‘hero’ had used Silver’s master’s own weapons against him. Ending his life brutally.

”Whether he is hero or heartless… He will end this god forsaken war…” Silver held Kimi close. “And we can stop fighting… For good…”

[Samchu]

Gavin
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My hand tightened around my keybalde. "Asshole," I muttered as Silver ran off to look for Kimi. I wished he'd just make up his mind already. Did he love her enough to protect her or what? You just couldn't tell with that weirdo. "Let's go," I said at last, noticing everyone's gaze had fallen on me. Thanks Silver. I thought bitterly, what the hell are they going to expect from me? We keep looking to you for what we do next and now you've stuck all the responsibility on me. I don't want it. I don't wanna play the hero. All I want is to be with Dawn. Dammit Silver what have you gotten me into!?

We marched off towards the menacing fog that loomed above the city. I couldn't believe that after all the hell we went through to get out of the city, we now had to go back in. We didn't even know if we were going to find this 'new chosen'. Silver had always been able to track them down, Kimi too, how were we supposed to find...whoever this person was, on our own?

"We follow the shadows," Dawn answered, as if reading my mind.

Like that made any sense to me. We ended up following Dawn through the streets. She was the only one who seemed to have any idea of what to do. I kept looking behind us, wondering when - and if - Silver was going to show up. I wouldn't have been surprised if he'd just abandoned us. Left us to fend for ourselves. Kimi too. I had no reason to trust her. Sure she'd saved my life at the beginning...but when Silver was kicking my ass she didn't do anything...she didn't stop him taking Dawn either...

"There she is!"

We looked ahead to see the girl fending off a group of heartless. Thankfully for us, she already had her keyblade. Purple in colour, with icicles for teeth.

"Guess we better help her," I mumbled.

Keyblades at the ready, we charged at the heartless and began tearing through their ranks. Our inexperience as weilders was obvious from the begin, and we had to keep covering each others backs because someone would get overpowered from time to time. What was worse, was the fact that our efforts didn't actually seem to be doing anything. Everytime we cut one down, more would rise up to fight in its place. There were times when you couldn't see the pavement, just a sea of black and yellow.

I felt the rush of wind as a keyblade sliced past my head, severing the heartless jumping up behind me. I paused from the battle to turn my head and see Silver and Kimi. "You took your dear sweet time," I said.

"Figure you mind benefit from someone who actually knows what they're doing."

"Just shut up and fight," and answered coldly, cutting through the nearest heartless.

"I'm curious Gavin. Why do I piss you off so much?"

"Where do I start? You try to kill me, kidnap my girlfriend, think you know me-"

"Shouldn't you be concentrating on the heartless? Remember what happened last time?"

I pushed away the attacking heartless with my keyblade. "You see? That's what I mean! You're always sticking your goddamn nose in where it don't belong! I was fine before you came! Before this whole mess started!"

"You're so pigheadded! Dawn's life would have been in danger regardless. If I hadn't been sent to deal with her some one else would have."

I swung my keyblade at his head but he blocked it easily.

"What's your problem Gavin? You wanted to be a hero, you wanted responsibility, I gave that to you."

"I wanted none of it!" I swung at him again but again he blocked it. "All I want, all I've ever wanted is to be with Dawn." I luged at him and he brought his keyblade up to meet my own. We stood, unmoving, our weights pressed tightly against our weapons.

"So what do you want from me Gavin?"

"I need to know I can beat you," I growled.

"You can't. So don't try."

I pushed away from him, swinging my keyblade round to deal with a few heartless that seemed eager to butt in on our conflict. "We're doing this Silver. Right here, right now."

He cocked his head to the side slightly and sighed. "This is how it has to be?"

"Yes. Don't ask me why because I don't know, I just have to do this."

Silver swung his keyblade about his palm as he moved into an attacking stance. "Alright then, let's go."

[ChobiChibi]

~Dawn~
~Letter from the Lost Days- Akira Yamaoka- Silent Hill 3 OST~

Dawn made sure to stay near to Scieszka as they fought back the Heartless, after all, she was new to this. The others seemed to be holding up well too, although the Heartless didn’t seem to stop coming.

“Scieszka! Watch out!” She called, pushing her gently to the side with her Keyblade before bringing it down upon the Heartless.

“Dawn…”

“How did you know my name?” Scieszka asked, her head tilted to one side in curiosity.

“I’ll tell you later, we’ve got to stop the Heartless!” She replied, her Keyblade catching the light as she swung for another.

“Come and find me, Dawn…”

Although she kept fighting, her thoughts still remained with the door. Every time she closed her eyes, even for a brief second to blink, she saw its twisted framework as though it had become imprinted into her eyelids. She secretly prayed for this to all be some horrible dream, despite the interludes of happiness with Gavin, and that she would wake up in her bed with no regrets. However much she prayed, she knew it wasn’t true. She lived inside her dreams when she slept, whether she liked it or not.

A quick glance in Gavin’s direction told her that he had challenged Silver to a fight. Why did he have to do this now? She understood how angry he was with Silver after he left them alone to fend for themselves, but now wasn’t the time to be fighting with someone on their side.

“Dawny, just leave them there…”

It wasn’t the normal voice that was calling her. The normal voice sounded very feminine, and quite a lot like her. This voice was deeper, more masculine and very intriguing. She looked around for its source, her Keyblade lowered to her side. The Heartless ceased to attack her as her eyes set upon an alleyway.

“That’s right, this way.”

She looked over her shoulder to Gavin. Her most inner thoughts pleaded for him to stop battling, to come and stop her from leaving, but most of her thoughts were fixated upon this new voice. Before she knew what she was doing, she found herself walking towards the alleyway, the Heartless paying her no mind.

“Hey, eh… I don’t know your name… Girl who helped me? Where are you going?” Scieszka called out, causing Dawn to turn around once more.

“Please tell Gavin I’m sorry.” She stated before turning back to her destination. She smiled as she set eyes upon what looked like Rain’s silhouette.

“You’re coming?” It asked as she reached it. She nodded slowly. “Good, step this way.”

The shadow took her free hand and lead her towards a dark portal in the wall that looked very similar to one she had seen Silver use before. She took one last glance at her fellow wielders before stepping through without any further hesitation.

For the short time she was in there, the darkness felt extremely cold. She didn’t understand what had happened, but she found herself in the corridor that she dreamed of every time she closed her eyes. This time, though, it wasn’t a dream. She was really here, and the door was only a few feet away from her.

“Go on then, you know what you have to do.” Rain spoke softly, standing behind her. “It’s not as bad as it seems.”

Stepping forward, her Keyblade glowed brightly in her grip as she ran her hand along the metal patterns of thorns and hearts. It was only when she took hold of the handle when she realised what she was doing.

“Rain! You tricked me!” She yelped as she attempted to release her grip. “Why do you want to set the Heartless upon the world? Didn’t you fight to stop them?”

“I want to be free again.” He whispered, his mouth millimetres away from her ear and his breath tickling her. “It doesn’t matter about the Heartless, I just want to live in the real world, and you’re the only one who can help me.”

Before he could finish his sentence, Dawn already found that her Keyblade was in the keyhole. It turned once and she flinched at the loud sound of the lock clicking. The door jolted free from its closed position, causing her to stumble backwards, still tightly gripping the handle, almost tripping as she expected to crash into Rain.

As her Keyblade returned to her hand, the remaining Heartless rushed towards the open door. She clung to it desperately, determined not to be pulled along with them. Her eyes widened with shock and terror as she tried to take in just how many there were and the sheer size of some of them.

“Dawn!” She heard him call, yet she couldn’t see him amongst the crowd.

“I’ll find you!” She called back to him, removing herself from the safety of the door and attacking the Heartless closest to her. The others seemed undeterred by her attack, their focus simply on getting free. Finding her effort to be futile, she held onto the door for dear life, afraid of being dragged along with them.

The numbers slowly began to decrease, yet there was still a constant stream of them leaving. She peered around the door, shocked at what she saw. Rain stood amongst the Heartless, except he had changed. He was taller, for a start, but he seemed older and more mature. Despite the rush of Heartless, he remained firmly in his place.

“Come, Dawn, I’ll take you back to the world you left.” His voice remained calm, but was slightly deeper than before.

Returning her Keyblade to its smaller size, Dawn braved the crowds of Heartless and walked towards him. As she drew closer, one knocked into her, she almost went tumbling over the edge if it hadn’t been for Rain who caught her.

As she straightened up, his hands ran down the sides of her body where they rested on her hips. Under any other circumstances, she would never let anyone do this other than Gavin, but she couldn’t shake off the feeling that she knew him. What’s more, she wanted him to. He reached up, placing his hand upon her cheek before leaning closer and gently kissing her. Although part of her was screaming for her to pull away, she remained still, allowing him to continue as flashes of memory passed through her mind. She didn’t understand; they were memories of her with Rain yet she had never seen him before now other than in her dreams.

“Thank you for setting me free.” He whispered after he pulled away. She gazed up into his bright blue eyes and nodded, unable to speak. He smiled at her. “Lets go.”

[Crystal Tears]

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Yay! *huggles Becki* finally! Mwahahahaha!! Now for more plotness!

Name: Rain Taylor
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Appearance: Rain hasn’t changed much for the first time he had to fight heartless. He’s grown quite a lot, now standing at a 6’1. He still has a lean, agile build, but you can see the muscles even more now that he’s spent god knows how long behind that door. His hair is a tad darker then before, and his eyes are still a too blue-blue. His fair-skin, and cute face makes him quite the catch, and that’s not even including his smile. Despite having grown quite a lot, his clothes seemed to still fit him perfectly, a black hoodie with a zipper that’s never done up, and the sleeves only go down to his elbows. His over large shirt is still overly large, and covers up the studded belt that keeps his black, fairly lose jeans on. Despite being fairly lose though, he CANNOT be ‘pantsed’. Numerous studded and spiked bracelets adorn his wrists, and a white dog collar with a silver tag inscribed ‘Rain’ decorates his neck.
Personality: Before when he lacked being a hero, and wanting responsibility, Rain now pushes to be the best leader he can be. He was passive before, and that seemed to lead to numerous complications, so now, he’s quite headstrong, and extremely vengeful. He adores combat, as it keeps his mind off of the past. He can be quite and reserved, but also out-going and fun loving.
Relationship: Loves Dawn, Knows Silver and Kimi. Hates Gavin with a passion.
History: The Original Key wielder to defeat the heartless, Rain went through bloody hell locking the heartless up once, leaving the world and the one he loved behind. He doesn’t like to talk about the past, but he is surprised three of his former friends are still around.
Other: Not much…
Keyblade Appearance: Much like the simple kingdom key, only it seems to be totally made of dark blue to black glass. The Teeth of the key however, are sharp and unforgiving, much like broken glass.

The (original, one of a kind) Keyblade or The Crystal Key
Strength- Average
Weight - Feathery
*Speed – Extremely Fast
Break Point - Medium
*Design - Exceptional
Magic - Poor
Block - Fast
*Reflect - Ok
*Reflex- Extremely Fast

Rain

“Let’s go.” His voice was soft, kindness flowing through it like a fountain. He hand longed to see her again, longed to hold her like he was now, even as those words escaped his mouth, he didn’t want to move, only wanted to stay there, holding her for eternity. He softly grasped her hand and tugged her along, leading to over sized entry doors that the heartless simply leapt through, he and her on the other hands, must find another way around.

So long trapped behind that door, only to be faced by another… He scowled mentally, frowning as he free hand summoned his black keyblade. He pointed it at the door, and a small white beam emitted from the keys tip lightly hit the large handles. Making a rather loud clicking noise that echoed throughout the hallways as the doors creaked open, revealing a staircase that only went down about two feet, before there was a sheer drop. Rain was somewhat peeved, before, he had leapt off this particular cliff in a dream, which wasn’t difficult, because of what it had been. Unless this was all just a sick dream, concocted by the heartless to torture him, he actually did need to jump and same with Dawn.

“How are we supposed to get down?” Dawn queried, carefully peering over the edge. “It’s quite a long drop.”

Rain was silently; rather mindlessly he sat down at the edge, and hung his feet over the sheer drop. Tapping his keyblade lightly on the surface of which he was sitting on. Truly, he had no idea, he could jump, but he didn’t know if he could survive… He raised an eyebrow as some of the clouds cleared, revealing that the castle was looming above a battle.

“Friends of yours?”

“Yeah…” Dawn murmured. “They need your help.”

“Hmm...” Was his only reply. “Well then, I guess we can only do one thing.” He carefully stood back up and tugged Dawn to the edge of the castle. ‘Jump.”

“I think not.” Dawn snapped.

“Just hold onto me. I promise not to do anything heroic.”

“So you pick suicidal instead?”

Rain smiled slyly and pulled her close to him. “Yes.”

“Wait! Oh god! NOOOOO!”


[color=#CCCCCC]Silver

A fight? It that was he wanted? The rather hating boy was happy to obliged, and as the heartless tried to interfere, Silver easy struck them down, nearing Gavin. While plotting his rival’s death, he swung his keyblade, slamming its shaft into the teeth of his opponent’s own weapon, immediately sending Gavin’s blade spiralling out of his hands and flying through one of the random store windows.

“Oh shit.” Gavin gulped, leaping over many of the shadows towards the window.

“Idiot…” Silver snarled, summoning some of his own heartless to clear a small path. He calmly approached the window, and was slightly surprised when Gavin came out the door, enraged.

“I have to pay for those broken items!”

“Better you then me.”

He looked much like a frenzied animal, arms over his head, gripping his keyblade in a mad attempt to strike the Silver eyed boy. A poor defence, taking direct advantage, Silver swung his keyblade as hard as he could. Striking Gavin in the abdomen so hard that his keyblade vanished, and his was sent toppling over.

He was groaning, clutching his stomach in vain as he barely managed to summon his keyblade back to his side.

“God… D-damn you… Silver…” He moaned, blood dripping from his mouth. “Y-you, you did that purposely…”

“Not to kill you.” Silver smirked, twirling his blade about. “Only to cause you a great amount of pain…”

“B-bastard!” Gavin gasped, spitting a small amount of blood as he rushed Silver. Who, being who he was, side stepped, and struck Gavin hard in the back, at a high angle though, allowing the teeth of his blade to bury into Gavin’s shoulder. “Gaaah!”

A small yelp, and then an incredibly loud ‘smash’ caught the two warrior’s attention. Silver carelessly ripped his blade from the shoulder of his rather pathetic opponent, and stared at the smoke rising from the crater.

“You could’ve just landed on the building!”

“Where’s the fun in that!?”

“ARGG!”

A deranged looking Dawn scrambled from the Crater, gasping as everyone: even the heartless, stared in awe.

“That voice…” Silver snarled, inching closer to the hole.

”Never turn your back on you- ARGGGG!!” Frenzied screams erupted from Gavin as Silver easy kicked him down and then smashed his stomach, once again, with his keyblade.

“Shut up.” Silver snarled, lifting his blade to deal the finishing blow.

A mass amount of pain spawned in Silver’s lower back, and with the combined cry of Kimi, he didn’t know what was going on. He was sent to the ground, and as he turned his falling into a roll, he flipped around to see Rain standing there, smirking.

“Picking on kids again?”

“Hardly a kid.” Silver snarled, as Kimi help him up.

He watched Rain look at the beaten Gavin, who managed to stand up and shoot a glare at Silver.

“Hey… Wait a minute.” Rain said, pointing slightly at Gavin. "I killed you."