Night 59: M-A Block Hallway
Renji walked with purpose down the hall, though he wasn't in enough of a hurry to flashstep yet. He had to have somewhere he wanted to go first. Of course the idea that sprang instantly to mind was easily summed up as an equation: INSTITUTE + HIHIOU ZABIMARU = BOOM = :-DHowever, that would need to wait until, for example, there weren't people he
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He was halfway through calling a light of his own when one appeared, which was convenient. He rested his hand on Zabimaru's hilt and waited, ready to draw if...
"Daemon?"
He felt a little like he'd been punched in the gut. There was too much there to sort through, not when he'd thought he wouldn't see the man again. All that really mattered was that Daemon recognized him, and he knew that it was Daemon because he could feel it for once.
He closed the distance between them in the blink of an eye, though still stayed just out of arm's reach when he stopped. Giving the man a toothy grin, he said, "Ready to fuck some shit up?"
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"Hell's Fire, Mother Night, and May the Darkness be merciful."
He stared at the redhead a moment longer before he stepped closer and reached out, dragging the Shinigami into a tight hug, whether the snarly male liked it or not.
"I thought you were dead," Daemon stated, his voice thick with emotions he wasn't going to think about too deeply at the moment. "If you ever fucking do that to me again, I will rip your balls off and feed them to you."
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Something was odd, certainly, but Tolten couldn't tell just what had happened. There was a feel in the air, a sort of...energy. It tingled along his skin and inside his nerves. It was like when mages practiced their craft, that same off buzzing. Like a lightning storm gathering on a hot still day.
But what on earth did that mean? Was it that elekricity stuff everyone was always trying to explain to him as if he couldn't grasp energy currents? He likened it to magical energy as the principal was the same, but would a great build up of it feel like this?
It made him think of Grand Staff, suddenly, and he was very glad he hadn't had to go far to reach the meeting space. He faltered to a stop in the center of the hallway and shone his torch up and down, looking for any manner of threat.
He hoped Locke was alright. And the others he had come to know and share his life with since coming here. It still didn't look as though anything horrific had happened....
[For Locke!]
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Keeping his flashlight low, Locke rushed into the next hall, looking around for his friend. When he finally saw the other man, his face lit up as he came up to him. Although he wasn't obvious about it, Locke made a quick visual check to make sure Tolten looked all right. He wasn't sure what he was checking for, but he knew something had happened and it might not be as good as it seemed.
"Glad to see you braved the halls. Dunno about you, but something definitely happened just now, felt it before the alarm went off. I don't suppose anything changed with you, did it?"
He had a feeling this...whatever it was hadn't just effected him.
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"I know what you mean," he admitted, nodding. "It's hard to put my finger on, but...the air seems charged. There's energy, power. It's building or something." He ran a hand through his hair and his smile widened. "And look at that! Nothing ominous or threatening! It is gone!"
Even through dinner he'd had to suffer the hallucinations. But true to what he'd been told, they were gone. And that wasn't the only reason he was grinning.
"I have a map and directions to the kitchen where I think they keep the blades," he went on, reaching into the pocket of his uniform jacket. "Lady Rose - a woman I know - informed me of the upstairs kitchen, and warned me the downstairs has no knives. I asked on the public notice and someone was kind enough to give explicit ( ... )
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Tolten's excitement was contagious and Locke found himself grinning right along with his friend. "Excellent! We'll go there and nothing'll stop us this time." Maybe it was the extra power, but Locke was definitely feeling energized an confident now.
"Guess it's a good thing we didn't actually get to the kitchen, there wouldn't have been anything to find." He still felt bad for that whole thing, but he wasn't about to let that show or let it dampen the fact they had a much better chance at success this time.
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There were already people out of their rooms before him, Vino noticed. No matter. He slipped past them without a glance. They weren't what he was looking for and they definitely weren't responsible for this atmosphere. Couldn't they feel it? They could, couldn't they?
This buzzing. The air was charged with it, as if just the addition of this flooding of pink light had permeated the space with dangerous energy. Vino expected something was going to happen. Something was out there and it was exciting and it was waiting for him.
A small thought occurred to him for a moment. He'd said he would meet with Firo earlier, right? Had some questions and explanations and story-telling to do, if he remembered correctly? But no, that wasn't important! All that was good and well, but that could happen later. He passed that thought by and erased it for the time being.
Moving on, moving on...
[to here]
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Hakkai came around the corner, into the hall at the end of the room doors. He could see the way out to the main corridors at the end, under the beam of his flashlight. It was, however, getting harder to ignore what sounded like movement behind him. Not human footsteps, but something smaller. He turned around, quickly scanning the hallway with his flashlight. A bundle of grey fur dodged back into the darkness back up the hallway, and he relaxed a little. Just a rat. A rather large rat, but rats weren't dangerous. Right?
He turned around, and headed out into the main hallways.
[To here]
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While the halls were all the same, Sora was different. He felt like he could race through these areas with even more ease than before, and he was eager to get going. He knew that they needed to think logically about this, though, instead of just rushing into things. This might be their only chance.
He only paid a very brief amount of attention to the two older men in the hall as he led Riku toward the door. "So... Mr. Kratos is going to be waiting for us, probably! We have to find him, at least. And what about Kairi? Do you think she'll be looking for us?"
Would Kairi even know what was going on? Would she feel anything the way that he and Riku had? She didn't have the same level of power, but she had wielded a Keyblade at one point. It was one Riku had given to her, but still...
If they couldn't find her or if they missed her somehow, that would be a real problem. Sora glanced to his friend, waiting for his reaction.
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It was somewhat strange to walk down the hall and feel his usual trepidation melt away in the face of something similar to boredom, sprung from the knowledge of what he could do now. The mana bubbled almost directly underneath his skin now; all he had to do was say a word and it would leap out, destroying what might have taken him half the night any other day in a matter of mere seconds. Rather than inspire excitement, though, the return of his power had only brought back with it the usual haze of apathy.
--And there was Sora. It was easy to spot the boy's hair in the hallway, and perhaps fortuitous that they had met up so early. There was another boy with him, this one much taller and white-haired. That would be Riku, then, the other person mentioned in the bulletin post.
How good at handling himself is this Kratos? The question floated up to his ears, picked out from the other conversations going on in the hall merely because his name had been mentioned. Kratos allowed himself a small smile--of all the nights to ask ( ... )
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