First Journey // Video

[lockandkeyblade]

[Sora looks like he’s had a fist fight with a loaded paintbrush. White smears of paint are streaked down his cheek, all over his jacket and gloves. One of those paint-smudged fingers happens to be tapping the screen experimentally-probably what triggered the message to start.]

So all I gotta do is turn this thing on and ask everybody if they’ve seen

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[Video]

[meteor_heart]

Sora! [Tifa's smiling in pleasant surprise into the NV. Him being here had been hard on Roxas, but she was pretty sure they'd started to work it out...pretty sure.]

Welcome back...er...do you remember anything about Siren's Port?

[Video]

[lockandkeyblade]

Tifa! [Oh man. Another familiar face. How many of his friends have been pulled here?] You too?

[He shakes his head.] Not a thing. But all these people keep telling me I've been here before.

[Video]

[meteor_heart]

Me too. [I've been here for over a year now in fact. But I'm trying not to dwell, really.]

Wait...you don't remember being here but you remember me?

[Video]

[lockandkeyblade]

Why wouldn't I? We fought together.

Radiant Garden, remember?

[Video]

[meteor_heart]

I...[Wait, she's been to Sora's world? What about any of the others? The confusion registers plainly on her face, settling into a kind of pained sheepishness.] ...I don't remember, I'm sorry. What did we fight? Where's Radiant Garden?

[Video]

[lockandkeyblade]

We were trying to protect everybody from the Heartless. Last I saw, you and Cloud were fighting Sephiroth and then you three disappeared.

You really don't remember anything?

[Video]

[meteor_heart]

I remember lots about Sephiroth. [She mutters the name like it's a curse.] But...he's one of the Heartless?

[Video]

[lockandkeyblade]

We don't really know what he is, actually. He and Cloud said something about him being the dark part of Cloud's Heart.

Did you ever find him? Cloud I mean.

[Video]

[meteor_heart]

...a Dark part. [The scariest thing about that statement is how plausible it seems. Everywhere they go it seems they can't escape the shadow of Sephiroth...could he really be linked to Cloud like that?]

He's been here sometimes...

[Video] ahhh how did I miss this?

[lockandkeyblade]

[A slow nod.] Yeah. I've seen his messages on the network sometimes.

Well... as long as you're here, he'll be okay.

You're his light. Right?

[Video] Sorry I'm so late ^^;;

[meteor_heart]

His light? Well, I don't know if I'd go that far...[She is smiling though, it's a pleasant little fantasy at the very least.]

[Video] it's a-okay!

[lockandkeyblade]

But it's true, isn't it? Without you and Aerith, he never would'a lasted this long. Guy needs you.

[A pause.]

You're not hurt are you?

[Video]

[meteor_heart]

Me? No, I'm fine. I don't know...Cloud's a tough guy, I think he'd have made it this far with just himself and Aerith really. [The smile wavers a little but she keeps it on her face.]

[Video]

[lockandkeyblade]

[Oh Tifa, both you and he know Cloud's all squishy inside. He needs his intrepid bartender buddy!]

Well yeah, but let's face it. Cloud's a magnet for trouble.

You're really good in a fight. Plus I saw the way you handled Sephiroth! Who wouldn't want somebody like you around?

[Video]

[meteor_heart]

-I- handled Sephiroth? [That was surprising to hear...surprising and pleasant. She'd spent two years training for that eventuality, that someday they might have to do it again. To hear she did well...]

Aww, that's sweet of you to say Sora.

[Video]

[lockandkeyblade]

Well yeah. You and Sephiroth went at it for a while before you guys disappeared.

He's tough. I had a hard enough time going toe to toe with Sephiroth when Donald and Goofy with me. And he still didn't go down when it was over.