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The First Step beyond The End [COMPLETE]

Character(s): Monkey D. Luffy
Content: Luffy's start into Paixao
Setting: Niflheim Gates (and slightly beyond)
Time: Morning
Warnings: None! Open to anyone!

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Aimless, with no real sense of direction to claim, Luffy began to wander about wherever seemed the best direction to follow at the moment. To the sails of his soul, going by feeling alone was the wind that carried him forward. Still, he seemed perfectly happy, smiling a big, eager smile and marveling aloud at all the new sights to be seen

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"Gomu gomu no... Suddenly reaching both of his arms back behind him, Luffy thrust both limbs out sharply over his head, reaching towards the impossible height of the building directly in front of him. Though twenty feet over his head, Luffy's arms amazingly began to stretch and grow until his hands were high enough to take a hard grip of the stone roof surface. His long and lanky arms, quivering and taut, suddenly recoiled, pulling him straight up into the air like a rubber band snapping back after being pulled tight. "ROCKET!Luffy shot straight up, overshooting the edge of the rooftop by a massive margin. Instead, he sailed up and up, embracing the open air with a raucous cheer as he took in a much more spacious view of the city's landscape. Paixao lay out before him, with all the twists and turns of its streets and corners outlined like a maze. The higher he soared, the more he could take in, until he could finally understand just what a daunting task exploring every inch of the city would be; for all he had walked, he could see

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Well, so much for that Balthier guy. He'd been in an awful hurry to find his friends. Which Rikku could totally understand, since she was looking for her friends, too, but he wasn't even interested in making new ones in the meantime. What a party pooper

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Stitch followed the small fairy, Rikku, was what she called herself, as she flew towards the building and then up the side of it. He started to climb the side of the building, still following the small fairy.

Reaching the top, he flopped over the side and sat on the roof. Looking up, he saw the fairy, and a man.

"Hi!" He said, waving a paw.

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"Ahhh...ahh...whew..."

Panting heavily, Luffy had just scaled his way back up the side of the towering structure from a very dubious position, using only his bare, dirt-caked hands to latch hold of brick after brick. Distracted earlier by the 'journal' the gatekeeper had given him upon entry to the city, Luffy had been amazed to hear a voice actually reply to him, after he had tried to use the odd little box to call for help after getting stuck at the dizzying height he had propelled himself up to. A moment of distraction went a long way; a long way down. Luffy had tumbled off the edge, caught hold of something, then lost his grip and fell again

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Rikku giggled. "Of course not, silly!" How he could think she was stuck when she was still floating several feet above the roof was beyond her, and same went for Stitch, since apparently he was a really good climber. Actually, she couldn't think why he thought he was stuck, either. She had seen him fly up here, after all.

Unless, it occurred to her, maybe he'd been thrown, in which case yeah, he might have a teensy problem. "Why, are you stuck?" she asked, curiously floating over to and around him to get a closer look. Since he wasn't flying right this second, she was starting to reevaluate her first snap judgment of his abilities.

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Luffy watched, his curiosity visibly spiking, as the grinning little blonde circled airily around him, unhindered by a need for solid ground beneath her feet. Luffy was more used to soaring across the waves than soaring in the sky, so the way she was able effortlessly glide about was clearly very exciting to the young man in the straw hat.

"Ehhh, you can fly! That's how you got up here." he exclaimed, laughing heartily. "Man, that's really cool."

Sheepishly, Luffy leaned out closer to the edge of the steep roof and peered over the side, his eyes bright and studying, as if he were trying to gauge the distance to the ground far below.

"Yeah, I'm stuck. I didn't mean to go so high, I just wanted a better look of this place." he replied, nodding his head lightly. "Maybe I could just shoot myself back down again...?"